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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, July 14, 2012

14 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

The BBC coat of armsThe BBC coat of arms (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Big Sur, CaliforniaBig Sur, California (Photo credit: the_tahoe_guy)Secretary Sebelius at Gates Foundation Polio M...Secretary Sebelius at Gates Foundation Polio Meeting (Photo credit: Wikipedia)LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 11: Melinda Gat...LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 11: Melinda Gates, co-founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, applauds during the London Summit on Family Planning on July 11, 2012 in London, England. The London Summit on Family Planning is organised by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with the UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) to mobilise global policy and to support the rights of women across the world with contraceptive information and services. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

Case About Bird Flu

  • Is the mysterious “zombie disease” ...
    *Listen to expert Dr Rebecca Carley discuss the latest pandemic hype surrounding a “zombie disease” on Sunday, 15th July, with myself as a guest *Symptoms of children in Uganda and Tanzania similar to narcolepsy caused by Pandemrix pandemic vaccine *Vaccine tweaked with rabies virus ...
  • Guest on radio show of Len Horowitz and Sherri ...
    Whistleblowers Burgermeister, Horowitz and Kane Unite to Expose COINTELPRO, Alex Jones, and Others From: www.Healthyworldstore.com . Vaccination Opponents Protest Alex Jones’s and “‘True’ Ott’s” Propaganda >> for BigPharma.  Honolulu–Exposing how ...
  • Canada: Swine flu vaccine linked to increased ...
    By Sharon Kirkey, Postmedia News July 10, 2012 The 2009 human “swine flu” vaccine given to millions of Canadians was associated with twice the normal risk of developing Guillain-Barre syndrome — a rare but potentially paralyzing nerve disorder, Quebec researchers are reporting. http: ...
  • Libor interest scandal could be “biggest ...
    LIBOR scandal set to rock U.S. as experts warn it could be ‘the biggest consumer fraud in history’ By James Nye, Daily Mail PUBLISHED: 06:25 GMT, 12 July 2012 | UPDATED: 07:43 GMT, 12 July 2012 As the investigation into the LIBOR interest rate-rigging in the United Kingdom becom ...
  • Germans reject compulsory souveriegn bond purc ...
    A plan floated by the German government to force citizens to buy state debt bonds to pay international super rich creditor, skinning coutnry’s through the debt as money system , could well be the final straw. Read this comment in German on Jenny’s Blog: http://jennyger.blog.de/2012/07/13/e ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Quote of the Day – To reach the very hig ...
    To reach the very highest levels of power, you must have some dark secret with which control of you can be assured to the financial interests whose money shapes politics. Michael Rivero
  • 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 ...
  • Merck Teams With Gates Foundation to Further W ...
    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 ...
  • I Want The Earth: Plus Five Percent
  • California cities ‘may cease to exist&#8 ...
    In a phenomenon that seems to be worsening with each and every hour, a widespread fiscal crisis in California is quickly propelling the state into bankruptcy, city by city. Within a matter of only one month, three cities in California have officially sought bankruptcy protection, with a request ...

Veterans Today

electric politics

  • Things That Go Bump In the Night
    To be at one with ourselves we cannot escape the night. What we do, what we don't do, what we dream — who we are — at night, shapes and informs us during the day. Nighttime, then, must necessarily contain diverse social meanings. It's not quite clear to me how far one might push this ...
  • Damascus Burning
    To be honest, Bashar al-Assad looks — and acts — like one of those stereotypical dictators who crop up occasionally in Doonesbury cartoons. If only it would be so easy to figure out what to do with him. But Syria, ultimately, involves the stability of the entire region, from Iran to ...
  • UFOs, What Are They?
    For 'something a little different' I turned to Col. John B. Alexander, Ph.D. (U.S. Army, Ret.), to talk about UFOs. John has had a unique experience looking into the UFO question from a government insider's point of view and has a lot of extremely helpful, and extremely thoughtful, things to say ...
  • "Age of Ignorance"
    By any reasonable reckoning idiocy in America has reached alarming proportions. Or, in the words of former U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, "[t]he ideal citizen of a politically corrupt state, such as the one we now have, is a gullible dolt unable to tell truth from bullshit." That's clear enou ...
  • Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder, Explained
    Here's an extra, in-between show, in-between our regular Friday shows. Two reasons for this: it's a very short conversation and the sound quality is less than optimal (from a cell phone on the street). Still, it's an extremely important subject, one we should all be aware of and well worth ponde ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

  • Leaving Afghanistan
    Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
  • Raging at Rawalpindi
    American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
  • The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
    An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
  • Crazy Like a Fox
    In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
  • Addicted to Contractors
    The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • U.S. Intervention Not Conducive To Asia-Pacifi ...
    Xinhua News Agency July 14, 2012 U.S. intervention not conducive to Asia-Pacific stability ==== Many facts have proved that major changes have taken place in regard to the South China Sea since Washington made a military and economic “pivot” toward Asia, a strategy many interpret as ...
  • Another Congo War
    Southern Times (Namibia) July 2, 2012 Another DRC War Mabasa Sasa US blocking UN report on Rwanda involvement ==== There are genuine fears that widespread DRC instability will give America the pretext it needs to establish its military presence in Southern Africa. The US already has found excuse ...
  • Paraguay: Velvet Coup
    Frontline July 14-27 Velvet coup John Cherian Ousted President Fernando Lugo in the capital, Asuncion, on June 12. The recent violence over land disputes triggered his impeachment. The ouster of the Paraguayan President, Fernando Lugo, in a legislative coup in the third week of June came as a su ...
  • NGOs On Steroids: U.S.’s “Victory ...
    RT July 13, 2012 West’s battle for Russian ‘hearts and minds’: NGOs on steroids ­Veronika Krasheninnikova, Director General of the Institute for Foreign Policy Research and Initiatives in Moscow ==== In addition to building a loyal infrastructure, it aimed at “winning hearts and minds” – a ...
  • August War? U.S. Deploys Fourth Aircraft Carri ...
    RT July 13, 2012 War in August? US sends fourth aircraft carrier and dozens of underwater drones towards Iran The US Navy has unexpectedly dispatched a fourth aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf, along with a fleet of underwater drones in what is being considered just the latest move in a serie ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • False Flag Alert: US Claims Syria “Movin ...
    Tony Cartalucci | 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 Syrian government is taking chemical weapons out of storage for possible use "agai ...
  • Is London Getting Screwed by the Olympics – Li ...
    Zen Gardner | When I saw this it threw me! I saw a very small version of the Olympic logo on a website and it just jumped out. The right side of the logo appears to be having sex with the left half.
  • Almost All Homeland Security Grants Go to Jewi ...
    Jewish Daily | Jewish institutions throughout the United States will receive $9.7 million in federal anti-terrorism grants this year out of a total of $10 million allocated to not-for-profit institutions by the Department of Homeland Security.
  • No-Fly Zone Established in London for Olympics
    theintelhub.com | An Olympic No-Fly Zone has been established over 100's of square kilometers as the military runs terror scenarios in preparation for the Olympic games. The government admits people love their safety. This is a prime example of the ramping up of the police state.
  • LIBOR Scandal Set to Rock U.S. as Experts Warn ...
    Daily Mail | the LIBOR interest rate-rigging in the United Kingdom becomes a financial scandal of tsunami-like proportions

FRS

  • Syria: at least 200 killed in Hama province ma ...
    If confirmed, killings in village of Tremseh would represent single biggest massacre since uprising began Julian Borger, The Guardian, Thursday 12 July 2012 [Syria: government troops participate in a live fire exercise. Activists say more than 200 people have been killed in a massacre in Hama pr ...
  • Israel’s “Chosen People” &#8 ...
    “The Jews of Our Time?”: Israel’s Deportation of the South Sudanese” Jul 11 2012 by Mimi Kirk, Jadaliyya Planeloads of South Sudanese refugees from Israel have been landing in South Sudan’s capital of Juba over the past few weeks. Many of them had been living in the poor ...
  • Northern Ireland: Here Comes Trouble(s) &#8212 ...
    [Typically, bourgeois Brit media characterize rebellious violence in Northern Ireland as nonsensical and anarchistic, without good or understandable cause.  This is especially true since the highly touted peace deals were consummated years ago.  But today, conditions in Northern Ireland continue ...
  • Egypt: Walls of breaking news-views
    by Mona Abaza, Jadalliyya [Half-Mubarak/Half-Tantawi mural repainted with Amr Mousa and Ahmed Shafiq appearing in the background. Photo by Mona Abaza] The Mohammed Mahmud wall remains alive and kicking through its graffiti, which is getting altered by the hour. The walls continue to be whitened ...
  • Committee to Stop FBI Repression condemns Seat ...
    Statement by Committee to Stop FBI Repression | July 11, 2012 source: Fight Back News Service We have received reports, that this morning, July 10 2012 , the Seattle Police Department raided an apartment – targeting well known activists from Occupy Seattle and the Red Spark Collective ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Coming soon – ‘The Age of Responsi ...
    'The Age of Responsibility' At what point do we as people take responsibility for the actions of the governments we outnumber tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands to one? At what point do we take responsibility for the governments we pay our blood money to in the form of taxes? At wh ...
  • Coming soon – ‘The Age of Responsi ...
    'The Age of Responsibility' At what point do we as people take responsibility for the actions of the governments we outnumber tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands to one? At what point do we take responsibility for the governments we pay our blood money to in the form of taxes? At wh ...
  • Interview with Mark Glenn on ‘The Ugly T ...
    We shall discuss this and more; “When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy…You shall destroy their alta ...
  • Interview with Mark Glenn on ‘The Ugly T ...
    We shall discuss this and more; “When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy…You shall destroy their alta ...
  • Enemies Within the Gate – Police Corruption &# ...
    Police Aiding & Abetting in the Theft of Trade Not Aid Vehicles, Donated Goods & Money Moving on, in August of last year I made a complaint to the police about the Trade Not Aid vehicles (18-ton Renault Truck Reg. #V97 DBA & Optare Metrorider Minibus Reg. # P420 VRG) being stolen by ...

StillSmallVoice

  • Life is change and change is life
    And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
  • Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
    "Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
  • De-pinkifying breast cancer
    There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
  • Why the occupation?
    You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
  • Cleansing after Yom Kippur
    Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo

Associated Content

  • Nieto Brings PRI Back into the Spotlight as Ne ...
    Enrique Pena Nieto of the PRI party has been named Mexico's new president, following the results of the national elections on Sunday.Contributor: Vanessa Evans Published: Jul 02, 2012
  • Iconic Big Ben to Become Elizabeth Tower
    Members of Parliament, along with the Prime Minister, proposed to rename Big Ben or the Clock Tower by honoring Queen Elizabeth’s recent Diamond Jubilee. Its new name would be the Elizabeth Tower. According to a poll many Britons are not in favor.Contributor: Maxine Nelson Published: Jun 27, 2012
  • Supreme Court Defends Constitution on Immigrat ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-3 to uphold the federal government's authority to set immigration policy.Contributor: William Browning Published: Jun 26, 2012
  • The Sandusky Case: From the Eyes of a Juror
    One Juror's View of the Trial that Shook Penn State to It's CoreContributor: Robert Watkins Published: Jun 24, 2012
  • Robots Found Titanic, Will They Find Amelia Ea ...
    In July, a new team will go underwater to search for Amelia Earhart's lost plane. But, this time, it will consist of robots instead of people, the same way that the Titanic wreckage was found.Contributor: Jean Kelly Published: Jun 23, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • Archive Gallery: Man's Best Friend
    What we learned from, and about, our domesticated friends in the last century We've spent thousands of years living side by side with dogs, and yet we're still constantly seeing what we can teach them--or, sometimes, it's them doing the teaching. Click here to enter the gallery So it's no surpr ...
  • The Most Amazing Images Of The Week, July 9-13 ...
    This week's roundup of the best science images fits in a wide range. Above, we have a striking (non-Photoshopped!) look at the results of a toxic red spill in Hungary. But we've also included the first photo ever put on the Web -- which has aged just about as poorly as you'd expect. Plus electr ...
  • At Last, a Breed of Fruit Flies That Can Count ...
    Evolution, as ever, hard at work Geneticists in Canada have finally succeeded in an experiment that lasted for 40 generations. Generations of fruit flies, I mean. The flies were kept in containers, and lights were repeatedly flashed on them. When the number of flashes was two or four, the conta ...
  • Physicists Propose Building a Crystal of Space ...
    One of the simplest and most common physical objects is your average crystal, a collection of atoms arranged in an orderly, repeating three-dimensional pattern. Salt, snowflakes, and the quartz in your watch are all crystals. Earlier this year, the Nobel laureate and MIT physicist Frank Wilczek ...
  • The Most Amazing Images Of The Week, July 9-13 ...

Veterans Today

  • Mark Zuckerberg Awarded CIA Surveillance Medal
    - CIA - Facebook Contributed More to Monitoring Americans than All Other Sources Combined
  • Media and the 9/11 cover-up: BBC accused of br ...
    The media have been utterly complicit in the deception since the first moments after the North Tower was hit. Take BBC - please!
  • U.S. Recruitment, Killing of Children
    Leah Bolger, President of Veterans For Peace, applauded a United Nations Committee this week for raising concerns about the recruitment of children into the U.S. military, the U.S. killing of children in Afghanistan, the U.S. detention and torture of children labeled "combatants," and the provis ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – July ...
    Read about one woman’s journey to take her life into her own hands and how she’s inspiring other athletes at the National Veterans Wheelchair Games.
  • Israel and Russia, New “Best Friends”
    When opportunity knocks… …Israel disses US while seeking ‘bi-lateral alliance’ with Russia   By Franklin Lamb Beirut    Two interpretations by the participants themselves, of what significant international meetings achieved, the first on 6/25/12 and the second five days later, remind us about su ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • What's causing our extreme weather? Is it unpr ...
    The awful weather which continues to affect the UK led yesterday to the Great Yorkshire show being cancelled (because of the weather) for the first time in its 154 year history. And on Monday, serious flash flooding devastated parts of the Calder valley for the second time in as many weeks. ...
  • Parts of UK at risk of renewed flooding
    UPDATE at 6.30pm Lastest information from American GFS model shifts emphasis for heavy rain towards the earlier ECMWF solution detailed below, i.e with much of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire at risk of some of the highest rainfall totals. ENDS Amber alerts are in force for parts of the UK tomorro ...
  • Poor summer weather to continue well into July
    UPDATE at 5PM According to the Met Office, averaged across the UK, June 2012 has been the wettest since records began in 1910, the coolest since 1991, and the second dullest since records began (record for lowest sunshine in June is still 1987). ENDS It will come as no surprise that June in Y ...
  • Blame the jet stream for return of heavy rain
    After a short spell of fine and warm weather in the last few days, Atlantic weather fronts are once again expected to spread wind and rain across the country tonight and tomorrow, leading us into a fourth successive weekend washout. According to Philip Eden, writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the ...
  • 'Flaming' June washout set to continue
    The very unsettled weather which has plagued June so far looks set to continue. Rainfall totals at the weekend were again in excess of an inch (25mm) across parts of North Yorkshire; this followed a very wet and cool Jubilee weekend. With another area of low pressure set to spoil things this ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • SE Asia Proxies: Philippines/US vs Cambodia/PRC
    I guess it's ARF-ARF: Because the current rotating chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is none other than Cambodia, it is no surprise that it has been more partial to China. To the disappointment of the Philippines and Vietnam, Cambodia has been unwilling to bring up the South Ch ...
  • Huawei to Hell: PRC Threatens Trade Spat w/ EU
    There's so much controversy over Chinese-made and -designed telecommunications gear: While the American solution to denying market access to budding Chinese telecoms giants / national champions Huawei and ZTE is to treat them as security threats--their investment is not welcome in the "Land of t ...
  • South Sudan Cuts Off Its Oil To Spite Its Economy
    It seems like only yesterday that we were wishing the new nation of South Sudan all the best after it voted to create a new, independent republic. However, it probably wasn't long in coming that the tensions with Sudan (call it the old, "North" Sudan) resurfaced. You see, while many of the oil-r ...
  • Success Stories: Philippines, the Next Indonesia?
    In contrast to the America #1 cheerleaders I am duty-bound to debunk day in and day out, I am actually rather guarded about my home nation's economic prospects. This despite it growing at rates that make the United States look lethargic by comparison. Indonesia has somewhat surprisingly become o ...
  • Why China's Communist Party Will Endure, AEI
    There's a much-read contribution by Michael Auslin of the American Enterprise Institute on why "China's Party is About to End" from (surprise!) the WSJ op-ed pages. This coming from the libertarian AEI, you pretty much know how their story goes in following the classic American narrative: Politi ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

  • UN voices concern over thousands of Haitians f ...
    The United Nations refugee agency today voiced concern over the number of people from Haiti and other Caribbean countries who have risked their lives trying to escape by sea from difficult living situations in their homelands.
  • Feature: UN official sees first-hand New York ...
    Upper Manhattan is not the usual stomping ground for the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the part of the UN charged with helping in global efforts against illicit drugs, crime and terrorism.
  • Historic forts on Panama's coastline placed on ...
    Citing environmental factors, lack of maintenance and uncontrollable urban developments, the World Heritage Committee today placed an historic Panamanian property on its list of endangered world heritage.
  • Ban urges peaceful resolution of differences w ...
    Ahead of a regional meeting on Paraguay, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on all concerned to "work in the days ahead to ensure the peaceful resolution of differences" which led to the removal of the South American country's president.
  • Ban pays tribute to late scholar, friend and U ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced sadness at the death of Dr. J. Michael Adams, President of the International Association of University Presidents, paying tribute to the late scholar who was also a friend of the United Nations and its chief.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • The Cremation Registry?... Obama Stoops To A N ...
    Just when one thinks that Barack Obama, the idiot in chief, could not stoop any lower, he does... Remember a few weeks ago when he suggested to donors to not purchase wedding, birthday or anniversary gifts and rather donate to his campaign, then set up as registry to do so on his website? ~ K ...
  • Big Pharma Merck Has Teamed Up With Bill and M ...
    At the London Summit on Family Planning (LSFP), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) pledged $560 million to their campaign to depopulate under-developed nations. World leaders, private-sector corporations, UN representatives and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) attended the LS ...
  • Agenda 21... Stuffing the Poor Into "Pack ‘Em ...
    The globalist design for micro-apartments is being championed by New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg. These “studio and one-bedroom apartments” will be no bigger than 275 to 300 sq ft. ~ Susanne Posel - Videos read more
  • ALERT!... United Nations Wants To Take Away Yo ...
      Important information for all gun owners. ~ Video read more
  • President Richard Nixon... Bohemian Grove Was ...
    President Nixon was no “Angel”; however we see a consistent method of control, by the “Global Elites”. When someone “gets out of line”, they are either Discredited, Vilified, or Murdered. We know that The Rothschild Family, murdered President Abraham Lincoln, because he wanted to get rid of ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Finishing Touches on U.N. Anti-Gun Treaty
    From INVESTORS.com, The United Nations is putting the finishing touches on an Arms Trade Treaty that transcends borders and may even trample our Constitutional right to bear arms. Every indication is that the president will sign it. Like the New Start and Law of the Sea treaties before it, as we ...
  • 60 Percent of USA in Drought
    In the 18 primary corn-growing states, 30 percent of the crop is now in poor or very poor condition. In addition, fully half of the nation’s pastures and ranges are in poor or very poor condition. The hot, dry conditions have also allowed for a dramatic increase in wildfire activity. During the ...
  • 2nd Solar X-Flare In A Week Hurtling Towards Earth
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Approximate Flare Start : 12-07-2012 1616 UT Approximate Flare Maximum: 12-07-2012 1653 UT at Flux X 1.4 Approximate Flare End : 12-07-2012 2027 UT LOCATION OF HF FADEOUT: South America/Central America/USA/Canada/North Atlantic/ ++ ...
  • Survival Retreat Population Density
    Population density and survival retreat location are inversely proportional. That is, most survival retreat locations will tend to be located in low population density areas. A survival retreat, whether you live there full time or as a 2nd ‘home’ or BOL, is a location outside and awa ...
  • Top 15 Prep Items, Amazon, first half 2012
    You may be curious to know which Amazon.com products are being purchased the most by folks who read Modern Survival Blog. We occasionally highlight or include various Amazon products from time to time which compliment the articles of this blog, and the following 15 items have been the most popul ...

Fast Company

  • The Thread: Tackling The To-Do List
    When it comes to conquering the daily to-do list, what works for you? One of the first things I do each morning is write a list of all the things I hope to accomplish that day--work tasks, meetings, and personal errands. I dream of reaching a point when my to-do list is so well managed that I ha ...
  • Apple Reverses EPEAT "Mistake"
    News updates all day from Fast Company.In a rare reversal, Apple has decided to opt back into the EPEAT environmental certification program. Bob Mansfield, senior VP of hardware engineering, published a letter today explaining that the company would heed the Apple customers--notably the city of ...
  • This Week In Bots: Google's Driverless Cars, S ...
    Bot Vid: Skippy The Robot Stone SkipperSkipping stones is a wonderful, happy pursuit. If you're of a certain technical bent you may even remember the smarts of Barnes Wallis and the invention of the bouncing bomb while you skip a pebble between the waves. Wallis would certainly have been amazed ...
  • Smartphone Sales On The Rise In The U.S., Half ...
    News updates all day from Fast Company.Android phones now account for 51% of the U.S. smartphone market, and versions of Apple's iOS account for 34.3%. Those are the results from a new study of mobile phone sellers and buyers from those keepers of score at Nielsen. (These numbers roughly match t ...
  • Why Millennials Don't Want To Buy Stuff
    The concept of shopping has shifted from owning stuff to buying into new ideas.Compared to previous generations, Millennials seem to have some very different habits that have taken both established companies and small businesses by surprise. One of these is that Generation Y doesn't seem to enjo ...

Jadaliyya

  • أي تحالف اجتماعي يحكم مصر ما بعد الثورة؟
    السيناريوهات المطروحة فاز الإخوان المسلمون بأكثرية واضحة في انتخابات مجلس الشعب الذي تلا ثورة يناير ثم نجحوا في إنجاح مرشحهم للرئاسة بأغلبية طفيفة بعدها بعدة شهور. وأمسى واضحاً أن الإخوان المسلمين سيكونون القوة السياسية الكبرى والمرشحة للهيمنة على المجال السياسي المنفتح بعد سقوط نظام مبارك. ...
  • The Magic Of Your Eyes: Rima Khcheich Pays Tri ...
    After Warda’s sad passing in May, fans of traditional Arabic music were left counting the few precious giants that remain from the era where Arabic music flourished—around the middle of the previous century. Fortunately, on the Lebanese front, Fairouz and Wadih Al-Safi are still performing, and ...
  • مناف طلاس ... إنشقاق أم هروب!
    ثمة فرق شاسع بين الانشقاق وبين الهروب. ويبقى استخدام مفردة بدل الأخرى، مجرد خيار سياسي يخصّ المحطات الإعلامية وأقطاب المعارضة السورية في الداخل وفي الخارج، كما يخصّ النظام السوري والإعلام المتحدث باسمه. المحطات الإعلامية المعارضة للنظام السوري، قالت إن العميد المحيّد منذ أكثر من سنة، قائد الفرقة ...
  • J Street and Americans for Peace Now Biggest L ...
      The outcome of the 220th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA), which considered a number of overtures related to Palestinian rights and nonviolent economic pressure in support thereof, was not what anyone expected.  In a majority victory for supporters of Palestini ...
  • The Pendulum Swings & A New Era Has Begun: Pre ...
    There is a moment, just before a pendulum changes direction, when it is perfectly still. It is precisely that moment that marks the end of an old way and the beginning of a new one. That is what happened for divestment at the 2012 Presbyterian Church USA (PC(USA)) General Assembly in Pittsburgh. ...

mediagazer

  • That Was Fast: Big Media Investors Are Okay Wi ...
    Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: That Was Fast: Big Media Investors Are Okay With Aereo, After All  —  Remember Thursday?  When investors in big TV companies freaked out a bit about Aereo?  —  That's all old news now: All the big media companies that took hits yest ...
  • The Lessons For Facebook, Twitter And Reddit I ...
    Jeff Bercovici / Forbes Real Time: The Lessons For Facebook, Twitter And Reddit In Digg's Demise  —  If you're Mark Zuckerberg or Dick Costolo or David Karp, what happened to Digg is the kind of thing that messes with your sleep.  If one virtual community can go from being ...
  • Chicago Tribune suspends work with Journatic ( ...
    Julie Moos / Poynter: Chicago Tribune suspends work with Journatic  —  In a letter to readers published late Friday evening, Chicago Tribune President Vince Casanova announced the paper would suspend its relationship with Journatic, the outsourcing company it invested in and was ...
  • Battle Royale Between DirecTV, Viacom, Dish an ...
    Paul Tassi / Forbes Real Time: Battle Royale Between DirecTV, Viacom, Dish and AMC Pushes TV Closer to Irrelevancy  —  If you've been keeping track of the drama surrounding cable TV lately, chances are you have a headache.  First it was Dish upsetting Breaking Bad fans by d ...
  • Judge OKs Tribune Co. exit from bankruptcy (Mi ...
    Michael Oneal / Chicago Tribune: Judge OKs Tribune Co. exit from bankruptcy  —  After more than 3 1/2 years of bitter legal conflict, the judge in Tribune Co.'s bankruptcy case said Friday he will approve a plan that will transfer ownership of the iconic Chicago-based media comp ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • FA continue Terry probe after court verdi ...
    LONDON: England’s governing Football Association (FA) said it would seek to “conclude its own inquiries” after former England captain John Terry was cleared by a London court Friday of charges he racially abused...
  • Auto companies, including Maruti Suzuki, ...
    Tweet NEW DELHI: Automobile manufacturers on Friday asked the government to expedite implementation of "one country one fuel" policy by speeding up the notification of more cities under BS-IV fuel coverage. At present , BS-IV norms are applicable only in 13 cities and the government has kept ...
  • Used car market growth to more than doubl ...
    Tweet CHENNAI: The slowdown sentiment may have hit new car sales, but the used car market is still in top gear. According to a top industry official, India's used car market, roughly the same size as the new car market, will grow 10-11 per cent this year compared to 3-4 per cent growth expec ...
  • PTSD screening urged for troops annually
    Washington -- The Institute of Medicine recommended Friday that military service members 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 working. Of the 2.6 million service m ...
  • Indian village bans "love marriages"
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Anna's News

  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
  • Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...
    For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |& ...
  • South Sudan becomes an independent nation
    South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • News of the World staff shocked at closure
    Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Kiwi keeper McCullum set for move down batting ...
    WELLINGTON - New Zealand cricket captain Daniel Vettori and batting coach Mark Greatbatch have reportedly decided to push batsman-wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum down the order to change the fortunes of the team after its 4-0 loss to Bangladesh in a one-day international series. McCullum is expe ...
  • Katie Holmes
    more images Katie Holmes shelters underneath an umbrella as she returns to her trailer wrapped in a white dressing gown on the set of latest movie ?Jack And Jill?. Los Angeles, California. .... Source  : Gaea News Network.
  • Ava Sambora Walks The Runway
    more images LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com)- It seems that the celebrity children are making headlines now a days. Just few days back Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s daughter Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” went viral online, its time for Ava Sambora, the 13 year old daugh ...
  • Tylenol Recall Ghost Haunts Johnson & Johnson
    more images FORT WASHINGTON (GaeaTimes.com)- Johnson & Johnson the diversified pharmaceutical and health care company is back in news though for the wrong reasons. Tylenol is a product made by the company that is being recalled now in USA and Puerto Rico. This is not the first time that the ...
  • VHP seers meet in Ayodhya to decide on road ahead
    AYODHYA - The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has convened a meeting of leading seers here Wednesday to decide on the road ahead after the verdict on the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. The 41-member central committee of seers will assemble at the Karsewak Puram camp. Amongst those participat ...

TruthNews Australia

  • World Roundup with George Georgios - Part 2
    Part 2 of World Roundup with George Georgios
  • World Roundup with George Georgios - Part 1
    Today we bring you a show which covers a wide range of stories from around the world, including news on all the latest annoying Nanny State measures which our listeners have come to expect from TNRA. Some topics covered include the introduction of high tech surveillance drones in Queensland, f ...
  • News roundup and an interview with Frank Legge
    NOTE: Due to major commitments, I am currently unable to remove ads from TNRA podcasts. I welcome any offers of assistance in this regard. In this week's show we begin with a roundup of breaking news within Australia and around the world. Some of the topics covered include Julian Assange's b ...
  • David Chandler and John Bursill address the fr ...
    Today John Bursill takes the helm as guest host. John is joined by two excellent guests who have become known within the 9/11 Truth Movement as two of it's most wise and reasonable voices. We warmly welcome Ken Jenkins in the first hour and David Chandler in the second. Also we are very lucky ...
  • The ancient pyramidal structure of human socie ...
    Part 2 of The ancient pyramidal structure of human society and its psychology

Beacon

  • Victory for Mediterranean Sharks and Rays
    Hammerheads are one of ten species that are now protected ©Wikimedia Commons Sharks and rays in the Mediterranean have something to be happy about this week—10 species now have special protections under the Barcelona Convention. These 10 species—including hammerheads and shortfin makos—have ...
  • And the Winner is…to be Announced July 18!
    Volunteer Group at World Oceans Day 2012 ©Oceana Voting for the 2012 Ocean Heroes Awards closed yesterday and thanks to your status updates, tweets, retweets and emails, we received over 8,000 votes that will determine this year’s winners. In six days, we’ll reveal those winners (oh, the su ...
  • If You Were President...
    We asked our Ocean Heroes finalists: If you were elected President, what would be the first thing on your agenda? They gave us some pretty great answers, check them out below, and don’t forget to vote for your favorite finalist! Who knows, maybe one of our finalists will be running for Presid ...
  • What Motivates You?
    To be an Ocean Hero, you have to have a strong commitment to your work—so what keeps our finalists going when the going gets tough? The voting is open for our 2012 Ocean Heroes Awards, but if you're having a hard time deciding who your favorite finalist is, here's a chance to get to know ...
  • Need a Beach Soundtrack? We’ve Got You Covered.
    Heading out of town for the fourth of July? As with any trip, you need a great destination and some tunes for the ride. Our Ocean Heroes finalists have spent time on the beach and on the water, learning to appreciate and protect all the ocean has to offer. Each shoreline has its own unique qu ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Capitalism Midwifed The Boer War.
      By the end of the 19th century, European powers some ascendant and some on the wane, all made a mad dash to occupy or otherwise replevin some significant holding in Africa. By the end of the 19th century there was hardly any space left to plant another European flag. Portugal had already ...
  • Nazis Funded War Effort With Stolen Jewish Money.
      “Nearly 120 billion Reich marks – over £12 billion at the time – was plundered from German Jews by laws and looting….The official study commissioned by the ministry examined the years from 1933 to 1945. Hans-Peter Ullmann, a Cologne history professor, said the tax authorities under ...
  • The Three Waves. Why Ninth And Tenth Century E ...
    There are some stubborn romantic notions of Kings ensconced in cozy castles, in repose by vast fireplaces, the air thick with the scents and sounds of feasts warming in brick ovens tucked near ornate halls. Chicken fat spitting and roiling on hot coals, minstrels strumming ancient tunes, and win ...
  • Before He Was In McHale’s Navy, He Was I ...
      Ernest Borgnine, (January 24, 1917 – July 8, 2012) a graduate of James Hillhouse High School in New Haven Connecticutt, 18  year old Ernest Borgnine joined the United States Navy six years before Pearl Harbor. He served as a Gunners Mate 1st class aboard the destroyer USS Lamberton (DD-11 ...
  • More Flying Car Concept From Paleofuture.
         

Taylor Marsh

  • Queer Talk: Romney ‘Dodges’ LGBT Question, Oba ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Just another week in presidential election year marketing, and though probably only an all but unnoticed blip in their “how are we doing this week” tracking, both Republican and Democrat received some negatives for th ...
  • Romney Under Siege
    The adviser added: “We aren’t reacting to what the Obama campaign does. … We aren’t reacting to what Republican strategists do. We’ve got a plan to win. We know what it takes and that’s what we’re going to do. All of this hew and cry, you know, from the bedwetters who get to sit on [...]
  • ‘We the Electorate’ Are Seen as Numbers, Not P ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. One reason I started thinking in terms of “We the Electorate,” though “We the People” is much more appealing, is because we aren’t actually seen as people, with real lives and perspectives. We aren’t seen as individua ...
  • Freeh Report: Paterno ‘Made Aware” of 1998 San ...
    The evidence shows that these four men also knew about a 1998 criminal investigation of Sandusky relating to suspected sexual misconduct with a young boy in a Penn State football locker room shower. Again, they showed no concern about that victim. The evidence shows that Mr. Paterno was made awa ...
  • New Romney Ad Slams Obama, Says He’s Lying on ...
    **UPDATED** “Just like he did against Hillary Clinton, President Obama now continues to spread dishonest attacks about Mitt Romney to distract from his failed record. Even though fact check after fact check have found his claims to be false, he continues to mislead the American people. It ...

Hudson New York

  • European Armies Recruiting Muslim Soldiers
    Germany is seeking to recruit more Muslims into its army: it cannot find enough native Germans to fill its ranks after it abolished the draft. German Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière announced his intention to "multiculturalize" the German Bundeswehr
  • Does Freezing Settlements Help Peace?
    The current US administration has been advocating the freezing of Israeli settlement activity in Judea and Samaria, and so have several global players involved in the peace process. Evidence on the ground, however, seems to suggest that freezing
  • Thoughts on the Muslim Mind
    Forty years ago, one of the subjects offered for a Masters degree in law was Islamic Jurisprudence -- a massive, purely human endeavour, whose founder, the Grand Imam Abu Hanifa al-No'man, defined it as the science of extracting practical rulings from
  • Why Abbas Will Never Make Peace With Israel
    What are the chances that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas would ever sign a peace agreement with Israel? The answer: zero. Abbas, who is in his late 70s, has been in power since 2005 even though his term in office formally ended in January
  • France Penalizes Boycott of Israeli Products
    Last May, the Cour de Cassation, the Supreme Court of France, ruled that calls for a boycott of Israeli products constitute discrimination and as such are illegal under French law. The verdict was the final ruling in a legal battle that went on for years

Urban Survival

  • The “Free Market” Joke
    It’s a bitch being a bear.  That is to say, when someone like Ures truly looks at markets and comes to a reasoned judgment that stocks are over-valued and goes short, should such deliberations have to be colored by Federal … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With RoboWaiters vs. Old Humans
    (Tukwilla, WA)  So here we are, having flown way more than halfway across America for meetings, eye surgery, and research and for some reason, it wasn’t until last night that it gob-smacked me that several whole industries are about to … Continue reading →
  • Cratering Interest Rates
    The story of “Yield record in US Treasury Sale” should be deeply bothersome, especially for gold bugs.  World in the FOMC minutes Wednesday that more stimulus may be needed should also flash warning signs all over the place that inflation … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Neutered Labor & the Bling Fling
    If you want a peek at what an up and coming country looks like, our Bureau Chief down in Indonesia is living in one.  Not only is Indo-land doing well on several fronts, but they have also been going through … Continue reading →
  • Consumers Loosen Up
    Something huge just happened in the economy:  Consumers started to get “off their wallets” and they are ready to start spending again, in a huge way.  That is the gist of the Consumer Debt report released yesterday by the Federal … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Fuel-Efficient Dodge Dart Means 6,000 More Job ...
    Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, San Francisco There’s a great story in Bloomberg News about how the new fuel-efficient Dodge Dart is bringing 6,000 jobs to Belvidere, IL.  However, a key point missing from the sto ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile Two months after opening a public tender to study nine alternative transmission line pathways in the Aysén region of Patagonia, the government announced this week that it will not ...
  • Dysfunction at Enbridge goes far beyond Kalama ...
    Anthony Swift, Attorney, International Program, Washington, DC The National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) searing indictment of Enbridge has implications that go well beyond that controversial Canadian pipeline company’s responsib ...
  • Public outpouring calling on FDA to stop the m ...
    Avinash Kar, Staff Attorney, San Francisco Over two hundred thousand Americans have written to the FDA to demand a better solution for antibiotic misuse in livestock. They were responding to the toothless new guidelines—mere recommendatio ...
  • Smoking Causes Cancer. Carbon Pollution Causes ...
    Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. Smoking Causes Cancer. Carbon Pollution Causes Extreme Weather. It really doesn’t have to be more complicated than that. We dump billions of tons of carbon pollution i ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • Witnesses Dispute Police Story About a Shooting
    From the Houston Chronicle: A man killed by a Houston police officer had his hands in the air when he was fatally shot, witnesses said, disputing the official account of the incident. Houston Police Department officials said Rufino Lara refused … Continue reading →Witnesses Dispute P ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, July 12, 2012: Update: Fullerton, California: A police officer was charged with the murder of mentally ill homeless man. He left the department, after receiving a letter stating that … Continue reading →National Polic ...
  • When “Just Following Procedure” is a Crime Und ...
    From the Orlando Sentinel: Officials stood by two Casselberry officers who tased a man three times after he refused to show them his identification. “They followed procedure. They followed the law,” spokeswoman Sara Brady said Thursday. Zikomo Peurifoy, 25, of … Continue readin ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, July 11, 2012: Springdale, Utah: Speed trap officers have been accused of collecting $11,460 from overseas travelers, and pocketing the money. The audit is currently underway to determine what … Continue reading →Nat ...
  • Shakedown in Utah
    From the Wall Street Journal: Small-town speed traps are legendary among travelers, who often suspect police of targeting tourists from other parts of the country to help fill local coffers. But officers in tiny Springdale, Utah, may have used their … Continue reading →Shakedown in U ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Digg buried its ...
    Betaworks buys Digg for $500k. Hackers bypass Apple’s in-app purchase charges. Streaming is 89% of digital music profit in Sweden. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose — Yahoo’s t ...
    Yahoo confirms it has released 400,000+ plain text emails and passwords. Tap Tap Revenge returns. TNW’s Latin America startup awards announced. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Ouya games console is ...
    The Ouya games console has raised more than $2m in its first 24 hours on Kickstarter, Twitter partners with Mediatek, and Amazon launches its own version of Apple’s Game Center....
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – “Record&# ...
    “Record” FTC fine imposed on Google. Extradition of Kim Dotcom pushed back to 2013. Total TV shipments are falling in 2012. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Windows 8 on track for ...
    Windows 8 will be released to manufacturers next month ahead of a late October launch, Microsoft Office is now on one billion machines worldwide, and Facebook’s App Center rolls out...

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Google Earth used to discover unknown forest i ...
    An expedition, followed up by some computer hunting on Google Earth, has discovered large remnants of old growth forest, including thriving bird communities, in the mountains of Angola. The Namba Mountains in Angola were expected to contain around 100 hectares of forest, but an on-the-ground sur ...
  • Marijuana farms poisoning carnivorous fishers ...
    An illegal pesticide used by marijuana growers to kill rodents is poisoning weasel-like fishers in California, reports a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE.
  • KFC-Indonesia suspends purchases from Asia Pul ...
    The Indonesian arm of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has suspended purchases from Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) due to concerns over deforestation, says Greenpeace, which is campaigning to reform the paper giant's forestry practices and fiber sourcing policy.
  • 91% of Madagascar's lemurs threatened with ext ...
    94 of the world's 103 lemur species are at risk of extinction according to a new assessment by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released by the group's Species Survival Commission during a workshop this week. Lemurs, a group of primates that is endemic to the island of M ...
  • Guilty pleas in NYC ivory bust
    Two ivory dealers pled guilty to trafficking some $2 million worth of elephant ivory.

Sierra Express

  • Introducing Global Innovation Institute (GII)
    Global Innovation Institute (GII) (A joint venture by Lam-Tech Consulting Enterprises, http://www.lamtechconsult.com Hostech Institute of Technology, http://www.hostechsl.com ) GII is dedicated to providing modern professional courses in Computer Science, Electronics, Engineering, Technology, an ...
  • Usman Boie Kamara visits Romando Village and e ...
    9-10 July, 2012, Romando Community, Sierra Leone – Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara paid a courtesy visit to the people of Romando Village, Kasiri, Rokupr and Kambia town in the Manbolo, Samu and Magbema Chiefdoms to inspect a self supported school project and rice mill, as requested by the people ...
  • Sierra Leone Bottling company doles prizes out ...
    The Sierra Leone Bottling Company yesterday 12th July doled out prizes to lucky winners at their head office. Winner of the motor bike, Josephine Jabati (in photo), of Femi Turner Drive, Goderich, Freetown expressed her happiness for being the lucky winner pointing out that she was quite surpris ...
  • JB Dauda attends African Union Executive Counc ...
    Sierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hon. Joseph Bandabla Dauda (in photo) is attending the Twenty-First Ordinary Session of the African Union’s Executive Council meeting with his peers which is currently underway in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The meeting which c ...
  • As Airtel Rising Stars tournament attracts lar ...
    Hundreds of people turned out at the Koidu Town field decorated with the Airtel red and white colours to witness the open matches of the 2nd  Under-17 Airtel Rising Stars tournament for boys and girls Kono version on Thursday. Twelve boys teams and eight girls teams from three districts in the e ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Economy reflected in traffic flows
    ANZ's Truckometer indicator is suggesting the economy will regain momentum by the end of the year after a mid-year dip.The Truckometer is based on traffic flows on carefully selected roads which have provided a good pointer to economic...
  • Success: Helping hand for farmers
    Put aside your cornflakes, please, because this morning you're going to read about mastitis in cows' udders.It's an expensive problem, costing the country $280 million a year in lost production and treatment costs, according to...
  • Dairy prices bode ill for Fonterra payout - ec ...
    It's early days, but Fonterra will need to revise down its dairy payout for 2012/13 if the weaker prices evident in today's dairy auction are anything to go by, rural economists say.The price of dairy product fell in Fonterra's...
  • Dairy prices fall 5.9pc in overnight auction
    Prices of dairy products fell in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, mirroring a broader decline in New Zealand's primary sector exports in the face of doubts about the strength of the world's economic recovery.The...
  • Europe's troubles hit core exports
    Heightened concern over Europe's sovereign debt crisis pushed the prices of New Zealand's core exports to their lowest level in more than two years last month.ANZ's commodity price index dropped 2.4 per cent in June, marking the...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Ed Regis on Resilience
    A new book attempts to show how individuals, institutions, communities, economies, and ecosystems can attain resilience and bounce back from adversity. But as Ed Regis points out, there's no theory, schema, principle, or set of principles here that explains resilience. Instead we get ...
  • Baylen Linnekin on Fighting for the Right to F ...
    In the United States many regulations and policies steer people toward certain dietary practices and away from others—nearly always with the backing of some powerful, entrenched, monied interest and nearly always for no good reason whatsoever. For instance, writes Baylen Linnekin, gov ...
  • TSA Denies Deaf Man's Stolen Candy Claim; Deaf ...
    The Transporation Security Administration claims that security camera footage from the Louisville airport refutes claims made by a deaf man that he was mocked and made to give up candy in his bag while flying out of Louisville after a National Association of the Deaf conference.  T ...
  • Houston Police Kill Unarmed Man, Allegedly Too ...
    On July 9, Houston police fatally shot Rufino Lara. Police are asking media and citizens to hold onto their opinions until the investigation is completed, but in the meantime we do know that two witnesses (one of whom, a 14-year-old boy, didn't know Lara) are disputing police office ...
  • Mike Riggs on Kentucky's Marijuana Outlaws
    James Higdon's The Cornbread Mafia is a rarity, reports Mike Riggs: It's a book about the drug trade that avoids the handwringing and tearjerking that has come to define modern drug reporting. If anything, Higdon goes too far in praising the outlaws who built the flourishing pot ind ...

Mercury Rising

  • Tony Sutton Can Run, But He Can’t Hide F ...
    Sally Jo Sorensen once again shows why she’s worth five ordinary journalists and fifty hack stenographers: As early as December 3, 2010, Bluestem posted about the troubles the Republican Party was having paying counties for recount costs. And while other bloggers pointed the finger at unsu ...
  • Why You Should Support Bluestem Prairie
    Sally Jo Sorensen over at Bluestem Prairie is having a fundraiser. She’s definitely worth whatever shekels you can send her way. She’s broken a number of stories, both of local and national import, over the years. Her most famous recent scoop, done in conjunction with Ken Avidor, has ...
  • I give Fox Business a chance of survival
    “No self-respecting man should ever be seen in a beret” –Mandy Drury, CNBC Thing is, Mandy and especially her partner, Brian Sullivan, make brainless comments like this all the time. But since those comments have to do with finance and the economy, their audience (minus myself) ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Cheaters prosper: survey of finance professionals
    Via La Jornada, this gem from law firm Labaton Sucharow: Labaton Sucharow LLP today announced the results of its survey of 500 financial services professionals across the United States and United Kingdom. … According to the survey, 24 percent of respondents reported a belief that financial ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Post-Prometheus
    "NASA and the Vatican agree that [it] is almost mathematically impossible that we can be where we are today without there being a little help along the way.” --Ridley Scott, Director of Prometheus read more
  • The Media Ecosystem
      This article is excerpted from The Media Ecosystem: What Ecology Can Teach Us About Responsible Media Practice, recently released by Evolver Editions/North Atlantic Books.    Media as Environmental Education read more
  • Sex in the News
      In this week's sex in the news, Barney Frank gets married, Frank Ocean makes waves, the appropriate appetizers for a sex party, funny thing about the penis, and aren't college sex classes supposed to be electives? read more
  • Psi Lens, Please
    Silence is our psi lens. Only in inner silence can the source of consciousness be realized. This ultimate source is the key to understanding reality. Our current form of science lacks this key. We must create a true and complete psience in place of our defective materialist object-centric scie ...
  • Time Keeps on Slipping
      Professor Jose Senovilla, Marc Mars and Raul Vera from the University of the Basque Country and the University of Salamanca set out to explore the accelerating expansion of the universe.  The commonly accepted theory suggests that dark energy is the force responsible for this growth, bu ...

Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

  • Prince William, Kate Middleton: More Than $80, ...
    The average British working household income is less than $40,000 U.S. That is why I have no use for those who are so privileged by birth. It is sickening. Probably Kate and William rented the whole airplane. Read more here. Kate Middleton: The gold-digger. Interesting video.
  • Canada Day and #DenounceHarper
    “#DenounceHarper is trending on Twitter in Canada, just behind #HappyCanadaDay. Users are using the hashtag to voice dissatisfaction with the Harper government, or just the man himself.” Read more about #DenounceHarper
  • TVO's The Agenda: The New McCarthyism
    There is no worse cancer in a free society than the thuggish impulse to equate dissent as disloyalty... The greatest patriot is the person with the courage to be the lone voice in the crowd crying out that the Emperor has no clothes. The test of our society's democratic nature is our instinct ...
  • Harper's Canada Day message loudly booed at Ja ...
  • U.S. Healthcare Legislation
    Fuxs News’ take on the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on Healthcare. Repugs are apparently very upset by the decision. Repugs spin machine is going hard at it. Sarah Palin gives her gyrations. “Obama lies, freedom dies” Sarah Palin. Watch the latest video at Press TV - Middle East
    • ‘Gaddafi spy chief helped kidnap Sadr’
      Former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi’s head of protocol has implicated the ex-intelligence chief, Abdullah al-Senussi, in the abduction of senior Lebanese cleric Imam Musa Sadr.
    • Turkish police clash with protesters
      Turkish police have used water cannon and tear gas against Kurdish protesters in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir.
    • Saudis stage anti-regime demo
      Angry Saudi protesters have held a demonstration against the repressive regime of Al Saud in a city near the capital Riyadh as popular uprising continues to rock the Kingdom.
    • Turks to hold demo against Saudi regime
      A demonstration against the oppressive regime of Al Saud and in solidarity with anti-regime protesters in the kingdom is scheduled to be held in the Turkish city of Istanbul.
    • Iraqis hold demo for missing pilgrims
      Iraqi protesters have held a demonstration in the central province of Babil following the disappearing of 55 Iraqi pilgrims in Saudi Arabia.

    CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

    Dissident Voice

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

    Destructionist

    • THE EVOLUTION OF REVOLUTION
      After President Kennedy's statement and the secret organizations he was supposedly referring to in this video, can anyone now really question why he was assassinated? WAKE UP YOUNG AMERICA!
    • THE EVOLUTION OF REVOLUTION
      After President Kennedy's statement and the secret organizations he was supposedly referring to in this video, can anyone now really question why he was assassinated? WAKE UP YOUNG AMERICA!
    • Are Biotech Companies About to Gain Immunity f ...
      While many Americans were firing up barbecues and breaking out the sparklers to celebrate Independence Day, biotech industry executives were more likely chilling champagne to celebrate another kind of independence: immunity from federal law. A so-called “Monsanto rider,” quietly slipped into ...
    • Are Biotech Companies About to Gain Immunity f ...
      While many Americans were firing up barbecues and breaking out the sparklers to celebrate Independence Day, biotech industry executives were more likely chilling champagne to celebrate another kind of independence: immunity from federal law. A so-called “Monsanto rider,” quietly slipped into ...
    • Former Afghanistan Commander Calls for Draftin ...
      Stanley McChrystal, the former commander in occupied Afghanistan, wants to bring back forced conscription. He believes sending 18 year olds into warzones designed by the global elite will “instill a sense of shared civic duty among young Americans,” the AFP reports. McChrystal admitted that a ...

      IPS - Inter Press Services

    • Human Rights Worse After Gaddafi
      “The human rights situation in Libya now is far worse than under the late dictator Muammar Gaddafi,” Nasser al-Hawary, researcher with the Libyan Observatory for Human Rights tells IPS. Hawary showed IPS testimonies from families whose loved ones have been beaten to death in the custody of the m ...
    • World Bank Approves Contentious Ethiopia-Kenya ...
      The World Bank has voted to approve funding credit for a major transmission line that would link Kenya to the controversial Gilgel Gibe III dam site in southern Ethiopia, pushing back against months of calls by local and international rights and environmental groups to keep out of the project. F ...
    • After Turtle Hatchlings Destroyed, Trinidad Go ...
      Ordinarily they live for at least half a century. But at least 20,000 leatherback sea turtle hatchlings never made it past their nesting ground at Grand Riviere, a stretch of shoreline along Trinidad’s north coast, in what’s been described as “an engineering disaster” las ...
    • Local Control Revives Depleted Fisheries
      It takes a village to protect a reef and sustain a local fishery, more than two decades of experience now shows. And even well-intentioned governments can do more harm than good, community-based conservation experts reported here at the 12th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS) in Cairns, A ...
    • U.S.: Being Young and Homeless Could Get Even ...
      Amber, 24, who’s been living on the streets half her life, was sitting on a sunny sidewalk in downtown Berkeley last week, cuddling her three-month-old puppy and talking to a friend. But if voters approve a measure the city council placed on the November ballot, sitting on the sidewalk – after a ...

    My AntiWar

    CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

    • Parchin Allegations Further Refuted
      Summary: Gareth Porter discusses the anti-Iran propagandists in the press and the IAEA, and his article on the Parchin facility, “How a Nonexistent Bomb Cylinder Distorts the Iran Nuclear Issue.” source: Scott Horton Show read more
    • As Iran Talks Peter Out, A New Push for Even H ...
      Summary: After weeks of international negotiations with Iran over their nuclear program produced no silver bullet, there is another bipartisan push in Congress to increase the already crushing economic sanctions on Iran. source: antiwar.comread more
    • MI6 'claims to have foiled Iran nuclear weapon ...
      Summary: Everyone knows that the RAF won the Second World War on its own. What we didn't know until now was that our men and women at MI6 also won the secret war with Iran without any help from Johnny Foreigner. But we have been put straight by a Daily Telegraph story today in which John Sa ...
    • Oklahoma City billboards call for ‘No War on Iran’
      Summary: OKC BillboardA news conference was held Tuesday morning, July 10, in Oklahoma City, to announce the billboards, their metro locations, and present the coalition of churches, organizations and individuals cosponsoring, endorsing and funding the project. Speakers at the news conferenc ...
    • Don't Plan for a Short War with Iran
      Summary: Amid all the hysterical rhetoric surrounding Iran and its nuclear program (some of which The Buzz has previously highlighted), it is refreshing to see a sober, historically grounded look at the subject. This is precisely what Brookings’ Bruce Riedel provides in a sharp piece at ...

    The Daily Galaxy

    • "Cosmism" --The Emerging Religion 2.0
      Cosmism, an emerging “religion 2.0” that is part of a radical futurist conception of the future development of humanity, can give us the positive optimism and “strenuous mood” to overcome our current problems and embark on our cosmic journey, according...
    • Image of the Day: The Coldest Star in the Univ ...
      This past March, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, uncovered the coldest brown dwarf known so far (green dot in very center of this infrared image). Called WISE 1828+2650, located in the constellation Lyra, this chilly star-like body isn't...
    • "Some Black Holes Existed Prior to the Big Ban ...
      Cosmologists have begun to think seriously about processes that occurred before the Big Bang. Alan Coley from Canada's Dalhousie University and Bernard Carr from Queen Mary University in London, have theorized that some so-called primordial black holes might have been...
    • Image of the Day: Glowing Black-Hole Illuminat ...
      A supermassive black hole is the prime suspect behind the glowing appearance of galaxy 3C 305, located about 600 million light years away in the constellation Draco. Composite data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes suggests that the...
    • "Big Bang or the Big Bounce?" --New Science P ...
      The big bang may not have been the beginning of the universe, but merely the beginning of one of an infinite series of universes. Two fundamental concepts in physics, both of which explain the nature of the Universe in many...

    Natural News

    • Healing Naturally 3 (Opinion)
      (NaturalNews)In part 1 we talked about acute disease, which is the result of nature's efforts to eliminate waste matter or poisons from the body to repair injured tissues. In part 2 we talked about what puts us in this condition to begin with. But what happens if we ignore the...
    • Treat non-alcoholic fatty liver disease naturally
      Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is surging throughout the Western industrial world to become the most common liver disease. In the USA alone, over 30 million are afflicted with NAFLD. It can lead to cirrhosis, liver cancer, and even liver failure. NAFLD...
    • Using passion flower for anxiety, pain relief ...
      Passion flower is not only known as a religiously symbolic and easily grown plant. Many varieties of the passion flower's "passiflora" genus have also been used medicinally for centuries first by Native Americans then by other cultures. The most common medicinal uses...
    • UK patient needlessly dies of dehydration due ...
      Patients admitted under the care of the U.K.'s National Health Service (NHS) are at serious risk of falling victim to the nationalized health system's "backdoor euthanasia" program, which is responsible for inducing death in tens of thousands of patients every single...
    • Less time sitting can add two healthy years to ...
      Many people believe they must engage in strenuous physical activity to achieve optimal fitness and prevent illness. While exercise is certainly important to health, new research provides a different perspective about the negative effects of sitting for extended periods...

    Threat Level

    • Par:AnoIA: Anonymous Launches WikiLeaks-esque ...
      Anonymous has launched its own version of WikiLeaks. It's looking to rely less on the secret-spilling site and to actually get people to make sense of the gigabytes of data Anonymous dumps on the world. But that's easier said than done.
    • Millions Will Flow to Privacy Groups Supportin ...
      Privacy and consumer rights groups are getting $10 million thanks to the settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook's 'Sponsored Stories' ads. But groups not getting any money in the deal are crying foul, saying the settlement doesn't help Facebook's 850 million users.
    • FBI Investigating Major Chinese Firm for Selli ...
      The Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched an investigation into allegations that a top Chinese maker of phone equipment supplied Iran with U.S.-made hardware and software, including a powerful surveillance system, in violation federal laws and a trade embargo.
    • WikiLeaks Wins Icelandic Court Battle Against ...
      A district court in Iceland has ruled that the local Visa company violated contract laws when it imposed a block against credit card donations to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks.
    • Report: Half a Million Yahoo User Accounts Exp ...
      Hackers have published half a million login credentials for what appear to be Yahoo Voices user accounts that were stolen from a server.

    PERRspectives : Blog

    • Why Romney Flip-Flopped on Bain Departure Date
      Thursday's revelations in the Boston Globe that Mitt Romney did not in fact leave Bain Capital in February 1999 have put the GOP standard bearer in hot water. At best, the contention if true would mean Romney lied to the American people to avoid paternity for job-killing deals that nevertheless ...
    • GOP Recycles Debunked Talking Points on Taxes ...
      The GOP response to the President's call for higher tax rates on upper income Americans came fast and furious. His proposal, Republicans warned, was "class warfare" and a "job killer" which will "kill the current recovery and put us back in a recession" and still "not give you deficit reduction ...
    • You Know Mitt Romney Is Out of Touch When...
      For months, Mitt Romney like John McCain before him has tried to compare President Obama to Marie Antoinette, an Ivy League educated elitist who is out of touch with the American people. Of course, that task is a daunting one for the $250 million man who insists his personal finances remain a m ...
    • 10 Things the GOP Doesn't Want You to Know abo ...
      With the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 once again set to expire at the end of this year, President Obama on Monday once again proposed temporarily extending them only for families earning less than $250,000 annually. Predictably, his Republican rival Mitt Romney called the return of upper-inco ...
    • The Discovery of Mitt's Boson
      Even with four months to go until Election Day, Mitt Romney's shameless lying has already become one of the defining storylines of the 2012 campaign. Theories abound as to why Romney has emerged as a reverse George Washington, a man who cannot tell the truth. Jonathan Chait turned to Freud, expl ...

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    • There's No Hiding It: Citizens United Wasn't A ...
      Three things don’t go together: Money. Secrecy. Democracy. That’s the nub of the matter.
    • 5 Ways Republicans Have Sabotaged Job Growth
      Republican intransigence on economic policy has been a key contributor to the sluggish recovery.
    • Feds' Threat to Shut Down World's Largest Disp ...
      The drug war is Obama's war.
    • This Week
      Joss, on Friday at San Diego: Whedon also said he is going straight from Comic-Con to London to meet with Warren Ellis about another project. Yes.  This week I am in London, working with Joss on this damn thing again.  You want to know how good a friend I consider him?  I have to ...
    • Green Party Members Worldwide Join U.S. Counte ...
      Green Party members from around the world have joined people from across the United States for the organization's 2012 national convention in Baltimore. We discuss the Green Party's global reach with Dr. Joachim Denkinger, deputy secretary general of the Greens Group in the European Parliament, ...

    Consortium News

    TruthOut

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

    Planetsave

    • The Total Guide: Green Home Buying
        By Zach Richard, Content Writer at Total Mortgage Services As the dominant species on this planet, human beings owe a duty of care to future generations to preserve and protect our environment to the best of our ability. We understand that it’s tough to make time to save the environment w ...
    • Health Crisis in Texas as Long-Elusive “Stupid ...
        Scientists across the United States today reacted with alarm at the discovery of the long-assumed, but previously undetected “Stupid Virus.” The discovery came after analyzing tissue samples from members of the official Texas Republican Party, who, earlier this week, released ...
    • Sounds Of The Northern Lights (VIDEO)
      For the first time, researchers have located where the sounds made by the aurora borealis are created. The sounds that accompany the Northern Lights have long been described in folktales and by wilderness wanderers, but confirmation of their existence has been hard to come by. Researchers from A ...
    • Extreme Weather Linked To Climate Change
      On the global scale, 2011 was the coolest year since 2008, but temperatures were still considerably above the 30 year average, according to the 2011 State of the Climate report released online today by NOAA. “The peer-reviewed report, issued in coordination with the American Meteorological ...
    • Ocean Acidity Is Posing A MAJOR Threat to Cora ...
        The rising acidity of the oceans has emerged as one of the greatest threats to the continued existence of coral reefs. The acidity acts as the “osteoporosis of the sea” and threatens many things humans take for granted, ranging from food security, to tourism, to livelihoods. T ...

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    Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

    Axis of Logic

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

    They Gave Us a Republic

    • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: Woody Guthri ...
      By @KYYellowDog If the only songs you had with which to fight the plutocracy were Woody Guthrie's songs, you would be well armed. Peter Rothburg at The Nation: (Today), the legendary populist troubadour Woody Guthrie would have turned 100. Guthrie, best known for his iconic song "This Land Is Y ...
    • "Let's just do the right thing for the people ...
      By @KYYellowDog Just say it, Mr. President: "How can anyone who is not obscenely wealthy vote for a candidate who votes against a middle-class tax cut?" Full transcript here.
    • A Story to Start Your Weekend Off Right
      This Kentucky man knew who deserves the rewards in this world. Cheryl Truman at the Herald: Even after his death, Aaron Collins gives on. The technician at Computers Plus Repair died July 7. He was 30. His family wanted to honor his last request, which was to go to a restaurant for pizza and giv ...
    • Fascism Is As Fascism Does #2
      Returning to Ms. Lewis: GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF A (MODERN ERA) FASCIST COUNTRY: 1. (Today's version of) Fascism is commonly defined as an open terror-based dictatorship which is: Reactionary: makes policy based upon current circumstances rather than creating policies to prevent problems; pil ...
    • The Nightowl Newswrap
      By @BGinKC Obama plays streetball, Rmoney -- doesn't. I played sports all through school, and even though I had decent skills, I was only taller, faster or stronger than about half of the people I played against, but I still managed to put a hell of a lot more hashmarks in the win column than t ...

    Care 2

    • Bank of America: Don't bail out Patriot Coal's ...
      Bank of America is among the banks providing bankruptcy filing services for Patriot Coal, the third largest mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining company in the US. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • Bank of America: Don't bail out Patriot Coal's ...
      This is a real opportunity for BofA to use its influence and environmental ambition to work with Patriot to close and clean up its MTR mines and transition the Appalachian region to produce clean, renewable energy. Submitted by Nancy C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |&n ...
    • Pink Kitten Discovered in Cement Factory
      A litter of kittens were discovered abandoned under some pallets in an English cement factory. The red dust used in the cement dyed this little girl's fur pink! They were taken to the vet and washed, but it may have to grow out. I'm just glad they're okay Submitted by Kim O. to Animals  |& ...
    • Felon or Just a Liar?
      See 1st Comment Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • Santa Cruz Becomes 50th City in California to ...
      On July 10 the city of Santa Cruz, California became the 50th city to live plastic bag free. Submitted by Stefanie S. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

    Smirking Chimp

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    No Quarter

    • Is Tim Geithner a Fraudster?
      When it comes to hurling accusations of breaking laws, the Obama Team may want to stop and think before they stupidly suggest that Mitt Romney is a felon because of his ties to Bain Capital. Why? Well, there is concrete evidence that Obama’s Secretary of the Treasury, Tim Geithner, failed ...
    • Top Romney Aide: Obama campaign is “unraveling”
      It strikes me as significant that The Hill chose to feature a Fox News video yesterday. The reserved publication’s article is featured at Memeorandum. I’d hand-written a reminder to hunt down the video during the live interview of top Romney aide Gail Gitcho. It’s a must-view: ...
    • Wolf Blitzer Scolds President Obama for Skippi ...
      CNN’s chief anchor Wolf Blitzer ripped the President a new one for his decision not to bother showing up at the NAACP Convention, sending VP Biden and a video in his place. Take a look: Mr. Blitzer is correct that Mitt Romney did the right thing by showing up to address the NAACP, even tho ...
    • Harbingers … and a tGif open thread
      “A recent poll by Quinnipiac showed that President Obama’s support among Latinos has eroded. It’s down from a high of 67% to 59%.” – Geraldo Rivera on Fox & Friends, July 13, 2012, 8+ a.m. ET Of course, the second I heard Rivera bring up that poll result, I had ...
    • Obama Economic Delusions Part Deux
      Thank God for the entertainment value of the ass clowns who love them some Obama. As predicted, LOLA828 aka PPAA came thru like the chump he is. Here is his latest delusional diatribe in response to my post, OBOT ECONOMIC DELUSIONS: I have only ever comment that your comments that Obama has made ...

    Futurismic

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

    Therapy News

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

    Mountaintop Removal

    • Mountaintop Removal Aerial Surveillance: Coal ...
      State-Journal.com Mountaintop Removal Aerial Surveillance: Coal Operations Have Been Watched ... Huffington Post FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Government inspectors have been keeping a close eye on coal operators through aerial surveillance in central Appalachia, a region that's been the center of d ...
    • Another Mountaintop Removal Company Goes Bankr ...
      Another Mountaintop Removal Company Goes Bankrupt Care2.com (blog) Big news this week in the coal industry: Patriot Coal, the third-largest Mountaintop Removal (MTR) coal mining company, is filing for bankruptcy. and more »
    • Judge weighing decision on Alpha mine permit - ...
      Judge weighing decision on Alpha mine permit Charleston Gazette Citizen groups lawyers on Thursday urged a federal judge to block a Logan County mountaintop removal coal mine, saying unqualified government permit reviewers wrongly ignored scientific findings that clearly show growing damage to w ...
    • Acting Against Their Own Interests: Appalachia ...
      Acting Against Their Own Interests: Appalachian Coal Miners Huffington Post (blog) Despite the evidence, the coal industry and its allies in Washington have persuaded the majority of their constituents to ignore such environmental consequences, recasting mountaintop removal as an economic boon f ...
    • Why Are You Proud to Be An American? - unEARTH ...
      Why Are You Proud to Be An American? unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) Over our years of working to stop mountaintop removal mining, we at Earthjustice have met so many brave and dedicated people fighting for their commun... by Liz Judge: Spruce Court Decision: A Sad Day in West Virginia &midd ...

    Memeorandum

    • Obama uses the 'tax' word to describe mandate ...
      Reid J. Epstein / Politico: Obama uses the ‘tax’ word to describe mandate  —  RICHMOND, Va. - President Obama used the word “tax” to describe the health care mandate under his reforms, a departure from his prior etymological stance that it is a penalty.&n ...
    • Mitt's Political Vortex (Gail Collins/New York ...
      Gail Collins / New York Times: Mitt's Political Vortex  —  Do you think it's a coincidence that ever since the world's physicists announced that they had discovered a possible breakthrough in the study of mass and energy last week, our politics has taken on a kind of black-hole ...
    • Romney's 'Free Stuff' Speech Is a New Low (Rol ...
      Rolling Stone: Romney's ‘Free Stuff’ Speech Is a New Low  —  Wow.  If you live long enough, you'll see some truly gross things in politics, but Mitt Romney's work this past week “courting black support” was enough to turn even the strongest stomach.& ...
    • Romney: I left all management of Bain in 1999 ...
      msnbc.com: Romney: I left all management of Bain in 1999  —  Mitt Romney says in an interview with NBC News that despite reports that his name appeared on government documents on behalf of Bain Capital until 2002, he had absolutely no working relationship with the company after ...
    • Quebec Muslim activist becomes first woman cha ...
      Stewart Bell / National Post: Quebec Muslim activist becomes first woman charged under 9/11 terror laws over Hezbollah gun-running plot  —  A Quebec activist who fought the stereotyping of Muslims was charged with supporting terrorism on Friday after an RCMP investigation linked ...

    Energy & Environment News

    5+ quakes - 7 days

    • M 5.6, Myanmar-India border region
      Saturday, July 14, 2012 19:55:12 UTC Sunday, July 15, 2012 01:25:12 AM at epicenterDepth: 6.50 km (4.04 mi)
    • M 5.0, Kuril Islands
      Saturday, July 14, 2012 17:36:25 UTC Sunday, July 15, 2012 05:36:25 AM at epicenterDepth: 21.40 km (13.30 mi)
    • M 5.0, western Indian-Antarctic Ridge
      Saturday, July 14, 2012 14:22:22 UTC Saturday, July 14, 2012 10:22:22 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
    • M 5.1, Kuril Islands
      Saturday, July 14, 2012 04:31:04 UTC Saturday, July 14, 2012 04:31:04 PM at epicenterDepth: 48.00 km (29.83 mi)
    • M 5.2, Kuril Islands
      Saturday, July 14, 2012 03:44:03 UTC Saturday, July 14, 2012 03:44:03 PM at epicenterDepth: 48.40 km (30.07 mi)

    China Dialogue

    • Tragedy for traditional herders
      Local dairy herders are losing their livelihoods as industrial farming booms in Inner Mongolia. Good news for big companies; bad news for local economies and the environment. Shu Ni reports.Herder Gereltuya’s home in Inner Mongolia’s East Ujimqin banner is about a kilometre from the ...
    • Appropriating nature?
      Putting a value on nature once seemed at the forefront of progressive thinking, but in an interview with the Transnational Institute, Melissa Leach argues that it has instead turned into a wave of land grabbing.Transnational Institute (TNI): What is green grabbing? Melissa Leach (ML): I thi ...
    • Why big dams don’t work
      Yesterday, Mike Muller argued on chinadialogue that China’s investment in dams is good news for Africa. Here, Lori Pottinger writes that large dams are costly and destructive, but Chinese experience in renewables still has a lot to offer.The record of Africa’s large dams is one of wi ...
    • China brings dams back to Africa
      Chinese investors have broken a boycott on investment in African dams – and loosened the grip of the environment lobby. This is good news for the continent, water expert Mike Muller tells Olivia Boyd.Mike Muller is a South African water expert, engineer and writer on development issues. He ...
    • Beijing seeks to kill coal with gas
      Public anger over air pollution has helped drive plans, once thought fanciful, to make a wholesale shift away from coal. But can other cities follow suit? An Geng and Xu Nan report.For Beijing, a wholesale switch from coal to natural gas was once considered a pipe dream. But today, a gas-powered ...

    AlterNet Top Stories

    Threat Level

    • Par:AnoIA: Anonymous Launches WikiLeaks-esque ...
      Anonymous has launched its own version of WikiLeaks. It's looking to rely less on the secret-spilling site and to actually get people to make sense of the gigabytes of data Anonymous dumps on the world. But that's easier said than done.
    • Millions Will Flow to Privacy Groups Supportin ...
      Privacy and consumer rights groups are getting $10 million thanks to the settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook's 'Sponsored Stories' ads. But groups not getting any money in the deal are crying foul, saying the settlement doesn't help Facebook's 850 million users.
    • FBI Investigating Major Chinese Firm for Selli ...
      The Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched an investigation into allegations that a top Chinese maker of phone equipment supplied Iran with U.S.-made hardware and software, including a powerful surveillance system, in violation federal laws and a trade embargo.
    • WikiLeaks Wins Icelandic Court Battle Against ...
      A district court in Iceland has ruled that the local Visa company violated contract laws when it imposed a block against credit card donations to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks.
    • Report: Half a Million Yahoo User Accounts Exp ...
      Hackers have published half a million login credentials for what appear to be Yahoo Voices user accounts that were stolen from a server.

    Equality Trust

    • The Spirit Level Documentary Film
      We're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...    
    • Act Local = Reduce the Gap
      Find out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
    • We work in partnership with One Society
      Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
    • Among Equals: read our newsletter
      Read the latest edition of our supporter newsletter  
    • Action for Happiness
      Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...

    PDA AMERICA

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

    Marler Blog

    • President Obama, tell your kids not to eat the ...
      A food safety program started by Bush to be killed by Obama at end of July. President Obama, you probably do not remember my three daughters, Morgan, Olivia and Sydney, hanging out with Sasha and Malia and Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers backstage before one of the inaugural parties, but $5 ...
    • Denny's Link to Salmonella Illnesses in Minnesota
      According to Jill Jensen of the Post-Bulletin in Rochester Minnesota, the first Salmonella outbreak in years is linked to Denny's Restaurant in Rochester.  Three confirmed cases and one suspected case of Salmonella montevideo are being investigated by Olmsted County Public Health Services a ...
    • Here is to Frances Mostiller Gilbert - She lik ...
      For those who are touting Colorado cantaloupe today being back on store shelves, take some time to remember one of your (former) customers. In working on this case, I got a note from the family on one of the last few days of Frances's life.  Here is one of the hardest parts: The focus n ...
    • Germantown Ohio E. coli Victim Develops Hemoly ...
      According to the Dayton & Montgomery County Health Department, as a result of eating food at a picnic at Neff’s Lawn Care in Germantown, at least 62 individuals have become ill. Of those, 13 have been hospitalized. Public Health – Dayton & Montgomery County is continuing an i ...
    • Colorado Cantaloupe Back on Store Shelves and ...
      As the press gushed over the last few days over cantaloupes grown in Colorado making it back on to store shelves, I thought the above headline might well be more appropriate.  And, for those who have forgotten, on December 8, 2011, the CDC determined that deadliest foodborne illness outbrea ...

    AutoblogGreen

    • Official: Nissan Leaf gets badged for police d ...
      Filed under: Europe, Government/Legal, Hatchback, Nissan, Electric Plug-in vehicles perform police duties for Scotland Yard (Vauxhall Ampera) and the NYPD (Chevrolet Volt) and we've all seen the little EV parking-enforcement vehicles, so today's announcement that the Nissan Leaf will be used ...
    • Official: EPA officially approves E15 for sale ...
      Filed under: Government/Legal Putting E15 (a mix of 15 percent ethanol and 85 percent gasoline) on sale in the U.S. has been all but official since April, when the Environmental Protection Agency approved the first applications to make E15. Now, "all but official" has become official, with th ...
    • Official: Mitsubishi promises Outlander plug-i ...
      Filed under: Hybrid, Paris Motor Show, Crossover, Mitsubishi, Electric We've been waiting since the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show - when Mitsubishi first talked about the PX-MiEV, a plug-in CUV concept - for some sort of real-world plug-in Outlander. It looks like we're finally going to get our wish ...
    • Video: Translogic checks out the made-for-whee ...
      Filed under: Videos, Hatchback, Specialty, Electric The people behind the subway-friendly, all-electric Kenguru have experienced many of the ups and downs that other start-up EV companies are all too familiar with. In fact, when you first go to the Kenguru website, it doesn't ask if you want ...
    • Rumormill: Next-gen Chevy Volt to ditch 1.4-li ...
      Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Hatchback, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GM, Electric No one at General Motors is talking publicly about a rumor post over at InsideEVs that claims the 83-horsepower, 1.4-liter range-extending gas engine currently used in the Chevrolet Volt will "definitely not" be the engi ...

    Rafe's Radar

    • Flying drones getting smaller, smarter, cheape ...
      A little more than a year ago, we did a Roundtable episode on aerial drones and UAVs. The discussion mostly focused on how remote-controlled and robotic vehicles were getting bigger, more capable, and more scary. Since then, a funny thing happened. The drone revolution downsized. Today we're ...
    • Unbreakable: Mesh networks are in your smartph ...
      It's not that we're running out of mobile bandwidth. It's just that it's poorly distributed. If you're in your home next to a Wi-Fi router, you might have a clean signal and access to a 12-megabit connection. Meanwhile, someone outside your door could have a smartphone that's struggling to ...
    • How Next Issue can rescue magazine publishing
      The all-you-can-eat magazine-reading app and service Next Issue is now on the iPad. It's really worth a read. Origin ...
    • Solariat's plan to fix Facebook's ads
      Beyond demographics and psychographics, Solariat CEO says he knows the perfect time to send ad messages to social-ne ...
    • News360 news reader app massively improved, bu ...
      A new front-end on top of a strong news-scanning algorithm makes all the difference. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...

    Camera Obscura

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    • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
    • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
    • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
    • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

    Democracy Now!

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

    Suzie-Q

    • Mitt Romney Stayed At Bain 3 Years Longer Than ...
      Nine SEC filings submitted by four different business entities after February 1999 describe Romney as Bain boss. Firm’s 2002 filings identify him as CEO, though he said he left in 1999 By Callum Borchers and Christopher Rowland |  Globe Correspondent | Globe Staff July 12, 2012 Governm ...
    • Ben Labolt: Mitt Romney’s Offshore Bank ...
      Published on Jul  8, 2012 by     BarackObamadotcom Ben Labolt, National Press Secretary, has some questions concerning Mitt Romney’s offshore bank accounts and tax returns.
    • Where the Money Lives
      © Ruth Tomlinson/Robert Harding World Imagery/Corbis (beach); by Justin Sullivan/Getty images (inset). BURIED TREASURE Grand Cayman, where Bain Capital maintains at least 138 funds. Inset, Mitt Romney tries to spot his La Jolla home from the campaign plane Vanity Fair August 2012 For all Mitt Ro ...
    • These Five People Just Saved Millions Of Ameri ...
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    • Supreme Court Health Care Decision: Individual ...
      HuffPost By- Mike Sacks Posted: 06/28/2012 10:10 am Updated: 06/28/2012 11:16 am WASHINGTON — The individual health insurance mandate is constitutional, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday, upholding the central provision of President Barack Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act. The co ...

    Solari

    • Seeds of Freedom
      The story of seed has become one of loss, control, dependence and debt. It’s been written by those who want to make vast profit from our food system, no matter what the true cost.  It’s time to change the story. Narrated by Jeremy Irons. Continue reading the article . . .
    • Libor Rigging: The Tip of the Iceberg
      By Rob Kirby GATA was born in the late 1990’s – primarily on the back of fundamental research by Frank Veneroso regarding Central Bank Gold Leasing. Veneroso’s intellectual curiosity was aroused after being fed detailed data re: gold leasing by the Bank of England’s Terry Smeeton. The fac ...
    • “Frightening Factoid”
      Wal-Mart now sells to the citizens of the United States more than one-fifth of their food, which is more than the combined sales of its three largest competitors. Related reading: Walmart From Wikipedia GMO From Wikipedia
    • UFOs Over The UK
      (CAF Note: Is the LIBOR scandal sufficiently frustrating that the UK Defense establishment thought we needed some light reading for the weekend?) By Ed Krayewski The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense released 6,700 pages worth of UFO related documents today. The documents span a period of 43 ...
    • Lloyds Could Face £1.5bn Claim Over Libor
      Lloyds Banking Group could have to pay out more than £1bn over claims it was involved in the manipulation of Libor, according to City analysts. By Harry Wilson, Banking Correspondent Lloyds Banking Group could have to pay out more than £1bn over claims it was involved in the manipulation of Lib ...

    Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

    AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

    Sideways News

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

    Fabius Maximus

    • A look at forecasts for peak oil – and t ...
      Summary:  A common concern in the comments expresses fear of resource exhaustion, perhaps even leading to collapse of civilization. Here we examine the theory, evaluate the risks, and point to sources of more information. Such one to a Question Time:  “how do you think the US will cope wit ...
    • Europe has a political crisis. The economics a ...
      Summary: The Euro-crisis is at root a political one. Like all such, there are several levels to it.  All different.  Mostly invisible in the analysis featured by the general media, which prefer to describe this in bogus fashion as a morality play. The economics are exhaustively covered; here we ...
    • Europe has a political crisis. The economics a ...
      Summary: The Euro-crisis is at root a political one. Like all such, there are several levels to it.  All different.  Mostly invisible in the analysis featured by the general media, which prefer to describe this in bogus fashion as a morality play. The economics are exhaustively covered; here we ...
    • Ignorance and propaganda about extreme climate ...
      Summary: Another post showing that we’re ignorant because we listen to journalists.  Why do these people get airtime when the US has thousands of articulate experts on every subject? Today we look at the nattering that too often passes for debate about the important topic of climate change ...
    • Ignorance and propaganda about extreme cliamte ...
      Summary: Another post showing that we’re ignorant because we listen to journalists.  Why do these people get airtime when the US has thousands of articulate experts on every subject? Today we look at the nattering that too often passes for debate about the important topic of climate change ...

    Open Your Eyes News

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

    The Progressive Realist

    • About Time: Bill to Enhance Nuclear Security M ...
      House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX). Legislation necessary to ratify two international treaties that improve nuclear security and strengthen measures to prevent nuclear terrorism finally passed the House of Representatives on June 28 after multiple failed attempts to bring U. ...
    • This Week In Threat Mongering - The Debt Version
      In the world of hysterical threat-mongering about US national security, there are few issues that produce more solemn and serious head-nods than the issue of America's growing national debt. Ever since then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen declared two years ago that the natio ...
    • You Might Have Missed: Drone Strikes, Threat I ...
      Rebecca Hamilton, “Special Report: The Wonks Who Sold Washington on South Sudan,” Reuters, July 11, 2012. They called themselves the Council and gave each other clannish nicknames: the Emperor, the Deputy Emperor, the Spear Carrier. The unlikely fellowship included an Ethiopian refugee to Americ ...
    • EMP Troof!
      Fred Hiatt sees fit to give the EMP nutjobs (no less a statesman than Newt!) a platform: I write this now because of my concern for national security and our power grid, which are susceptible to doomsday-level damage if hit by an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) strike or a major solar storm. It is a ...
    • Top of the Morning: New Syria Massacre; Milita ...
      Top stories from DAWNS Digest.  Word of A New Massacre in Syria An activist group is reporting that some 200 people were killed in the central Hama region in an attack on a town called Tremseh. The town was shelled by government forces, then raided by pro-Assad militias from his Alawite ethnic g ...

    TAPPED - The American Prospect

    • Wag the Veep
      Yesterday, as the Romney campaign was drowning in revelations and nagging questions about his time (and maybe-time) at Bain Capital, mysterious “sources” apparently decided it was an excellent time to call Matt Drudge and dangle a shiny pseudo-scoop in front of him. Former Secretary of State Co ...
    • 2012 Is about the Past and the Future
      One ongoing theme in this election is the extent to which political observers are simply bored with it. Last month, Politico’s Maggie Haberman and Alexander Burns expressed frustration with the “small scale” of the election, and today, The New York Times’ Peter Baker echoes the concern, with a ...
    • Friday Fiction Break
      As a kid I consumed fiction like a ravenous beast. I swallowed whole whatever came my way, from Tolstoy to Heinlein, Michener to Eugene O'Neill. My fiction addiction kept up for years, dragging me through Trollope, Muriel Spark, Colson Whitehead, Dickens, Murakami, Russell Banks, Christina Stea ...
    • Friday Music Break
      For today's edition of Pretty Songs About Schoolyard Massacres Sung By An Irish Guy Inexplicably Wearing a Bolo Tie, we have the Boomtown Rats with 1979's "I Don't Like Mondays." It may be the only #1 U.K. hit to mention a telex machine, which for you kids out there was basically halfway betwee ...
    • Ted Cruz's Texas Tea
      It wasn't supposed to work this way. Much as Mitt Romney was supposed to cruise into the GOP presidential nomination, Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst was supposed to have an easy path to the U.S. Senate. Dewhurst, after all, has a been a loyal soldier to Governor Rick Perry for the bet ...

    Buzzflash

    • The Big Lie, the Gestapo, and the Governor of ...
      GERALD SCORSE FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The "big lie" is a propaganda technique linked to the Third Reich under Joseph Goebbels. The phrase itself was coined by Hitler in Mein Kampf; it was amplified years later by Goebbels, who generally gets credit for it (if credit is the right word). Goebbel ...
    • Progressives Team up With the Tea Party in Georgia
      MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT On July 5, BuzzFlash wrote a commentary on the possibility of occasionally finding common ground with groups that are normally oppositional. It was entitled, "Don't Laugh: There Are a Few Little Ledges of Common Ground with the Right Wing and Gun Zea ...
    • Sen. Bernie Sanders Calls US Olympic Uniforms ...
      SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT WASHINGTON, July 12 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today on reports that the uniforms to be worn by U.S. Olympic athletes during the opening ceremony for the summer games were made in China: "The Olympics are a time w ...
    • Romney Caught Lying by SEC Forms: He was CEO, ...
      MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT If running a successful campaign is largely keeping your opponent on the defensive, then Mitt Romney is in the political dog house - and it's his own fault, because he lied. Let's step back up a second. The Obama campaign ran ads a short time ago and ...
    • The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): An Extrem ...
      MARK VORPAHL FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT During the week of July 1st - 7th an international cabal of corporate lobbyists met behind closed doors in San Diego. Their aim is moving the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) towards completion. For over two years TPP negotiations have been in process, yet t ...

    Glenn Greenwald - Salon

    The BiPartisan Report

    Sciencebase

    • The Darwin Lost Weekend
      A man tries to convince his friend that Charles Darwin conceived his book ‘Origin of Species’ on the concept of evolution in the town of Cromer, Norfolk, England and not in the Galapagos Islands. This video was premiered at the first Science Online conference back in 2009 but has onl ...
    • Who do you follow back on Twitter?
      There is almost no limit to the number of people you could follow on Twitter, but when someone follows you, how do you decide whether to follow back or not? I’ve updated my handy cut-out-and-keep Twitter Decision Flowchart for the scientific age. You may wish to add your own block words, s ...
    • The truth about lying and NLP
      As a follow up to that item on eye movements and lying, here’s a quote from the Skeptics’ Dictionary about the pseudoscientific nonsense with the fancy name, Neuro Linguistic Programming, NLP: “It seems that NLP develops models which can’t be verified, from which it devel ...
    • Liar, liar, pants on fire
      There’s a weird piece of Deceived Wisdom that emerged from so-called Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) that suggested that one could somehow tell whether a person was lying by looking at their eye movements. Turns out, unsurprisingly, that it’s nonsense. All that guff about looking ...
    • Vocal cords and asthma
      A diagnosis of exercise-induced bronchospasm – asthma – is commonly given to patients who present with cough, breathlessness and wheeziness after exertion despite being otherwise physically fit. An alternative explanation to bronchial (airways) constriction was discussed on BBC Radio ...

    Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

    • Student Groups and Civil Rights Organizations ...
      A settlement agreement terminating a federal lawsuit against UC Berkeley is a victory for free speech, say civil rights advocates and student groups Students for Justice in Palestine (Cal SJP), the Muslim Student Association (Cal MSA), the Asian Law Caucus (ALC), the National Lawyers Guild San F ...
    • D.C. Circuit Court to Hear Oral Arguments on D ...
      On Monday, the D.C. Circuit Court will hear oral arguments in a landmark case seeking to establish the right of detainees held indefinitely without trial by the United States in Afghanistan to challenge their detention in a United States federal court.  Human Rights First submitted an exper ...
    • Down the Tubes: San Onofre's Steam Generators ...
      The problems with the steam generators at the San Onofre nuclear reactors are the most severe found in comparable generators across the U.S. nuclear industry, according to a new report commissioned by Friends of the Earth.read more
    • House Bill Approves Provisions Harmful to Huma ...
      Today the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture approved several dangerous Farm Bill provisions that seek to skirt environmental protections for our waters, wildlife and forests. These provisions include allowing more pesticides to be sprayed directly onto our waters, exempting ...
    • OECD Strikes Out in Explanation of the Causes ...
      The rise in inequality around the world is a hot topic of political debate in the United States and other wealthy nations. Responding to this rise, the OECD recently published a book examining trends in inequality. But while the OECD work contains a great deal of useful data and analysis, a new ...

    Common Dreams-Views

    • Freedom = Censorship?
      Tim Karr Think you have the right to speak freely via cellphones, websites and social media? Well, the companies that provide you with access to the Internet don’t. The framers drafted the First Amendment as a check on government auth ...
    • Iran Sanctions: War by Other Means
      Conn Hallinan Now that the talks with Iran on its nuclear program appear to be on the ropes, are we on the road to war? The Israelis threaten it almost weekly, and the Obama administration has reportedly drawn up an attack plan. But in a se ...
    • United Nations, Olympics Accused of Using “Una ...
      Pratap Chatterjee Two global institutions – the United Nations and the Olympic Games – face charges that they are using “unaccountable and out of control” private security contractors. One of the companies at the hea ...
    • The Changeable Mr. Romney
      Christopher Brauchli Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose. — Claude Bernard, An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Mediciner ...
    • Romney's 'Free Stuff' Speech Is a New Low
      Matt Taibbi Wow. If you live long enough, you’ll see some truly gross things in politics, but Mitt Romney’s work this past week "courting black support" was enough to turn even the strongest stomach.read more

    Newshoggers - AfPak

    Water Wars

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

    WordPress | Economics

    Electronic Intifada

    • Reclaiming the PLO: an urgent call to unite al ...
      Tayseer Nasrallah Nablus 14 July 2012 A landmark initiative directed toward all Palestinians — in Palestine and in exile — to participate in a civic voter registration drive is intended to reclaim the Palestine Liberation Organization.
    • Uncertain fate for Palestinians in Syria
      Anaheed Al-Hardan 12 July 2012 In the worst-case scenario, the fate of the Palestinians in Syria could echo some facets of the fate of the approximately 30,000 Palestinian refugees from Iraq following the US occupation of that country.
    • Book review: Finkelstein airbrushes Palestinia ...
      Asa Winstanley 11 July 2012 In his latest book, Norman Finkelstein superbly criticizes Zionist revisionist historians but ignores Palestinian agency.
    • How obsession with "nonviolence" harms the Pal ...
      Linah Alsaafin Ramallah 10 July 2012 Is it really “popular resistance” when Palestinians are sometimes outnumbered by Israeli activists at weekly demonstrations?
    • Exhibition review: when lemons have more freed ...
      Sarah Irving 9 July 2012 An exhibition at Amman’s Darat al Funun explores varying responses to decades of conflict in the Middle East, in which the Palestinian people have often played an involuntary and tragic role.

    The Wonk Room

    • Aetna Shareholders ‘Dismayed’ Over ...
      A group of Aetna shareholders is challenging the health insurer for donating to the American Action Network and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — two organizations dedicated to undermining Obamacare. Aetna donated over $7 million to the two groups during the Democrats’ effort to enact h ...
    • Smoking Causes Cancer. Carbon Pollution Causes ...
      by Dan Lashof, via NRDC’s Switchboard We dump billions of tons of carbon pollution into the atmosphere each year. As a result, the concentration of carbon dioxide has increased by 40%. Excess carbon dioxide traps excess heat in the atmosphere. Excess heat causes extreme heat waves, drought ...
    • Global Warming Deniers Are Getting Burned: Ope ...
      A penny for your cyberthoughts. Global Warming Deniers Are Getting Burned By Clay Bennett via the Cartoonist Group Plus a bonus cartoon Mike Smith via the Cartoonist Group
    • Romney Interview Directly Contradicts His Prev ...
      Mitt Romney told CBS News‘s Jan Crawford Friday evening that he did not attend Bain Capital meetings after he left the company in February of 1999 to run the Winter Olympics. But this answer appears to contradict sworn testimony he delivered in 2002 “as part of a hearing to determine ...
    • Romney Demands Obama ‘Apologize’ F ...
      Mitt Romney granted a round of television interviews Friday evening to respond to accusations that he stayed at Bain Capital past February of 1999, just as newly-uncovered Bain company documents from July of that year reveal that the former Massachusetts governor had taken a “part-time lea ...

    thwap's schoolyard

    • The Enemy
      Some people might take offence at the title of this post. I'm referring to some of the people who have different political viewpoints from my own. These are people who will, through their stupid political choices, contribute to the continued decline in my quality-of-life. So the idiotic though ...
    • Three Shit Songs
      I was on the road today, and I didn't finish the post I started this morning, so to keep my posting level up, I've decided to quickly blog about three songs that have re-intruded upon my consciousness in the past week. I first encountered these horrid tunes when I worked at a textile plant. The ...
    • What Can the Supreme Court Possibly be Debatin ...
      Seriously! Ted Opitz's case is essentially that just because "clerical errors" mean that 79 voters are unaccounted for (with Elections Canada now claiming at the last minute that they can maybe account for 44 of them) in an election won by 26 votes, that this is no reason to invalidate his elect ...
    • Tuesday News Round-Up
      There's three things I'm just aching to write about today, so I'll dump 'em all out in a dog's breakfast of a post. First of all, this CBC report from Brian Stewart: "Canada in Kandahar, some allies weren't impressed." It's based on a recent series of books and reports, some written by US or Br ...
    • Opitz's "Argument" (So to Speak)
      So, the party that screamed blue murder about "illegal polls" in Etobicoke-Centre and in Guelph, and which (shamefully with the NDP) was having hysterics about veiled Muslim women voting (although people voting through the mail from overseas somehow never appeared on their radar), has now argued ...

    on Government Oversight

    Digital Journal

    • Report: More Canadians leaving the country to ...
      Are more and more Canadians leaving the country to seek medical in the United States or somewhere else? A new report from the right-wing think tank the Fraser Institute suggests that thousands of Canadians went somewhere else in 2011 for healthcare.
    • Is downtown Toronto a suitable place to raise ...
      We originally thought yes, but our kids convinced us no. Much as I love downtown Toronto, it is not a place we will be raising our children.
    • Families attend six month memorial to Costa Co ...
      A memorial to mark the six-month anniversary of the Costa Concordia tragedy, and pay tribute to the 32 who died, was conducted at the site on the Italian island of Giglio July 13. Family members of victims came to the island to honor their loved ones.
    • Devil Cam Janssen steps up to apologize for ho ...
      Sometimes we go along with things, with actions we may not normally embrace but we let the circumstance take control. And sometimes when others do that, you gotta let them off the hook. In Cam Janssen's case, you even have to admire the guy.
    • Mikael Samuelsson criticizes Alex Burrows - bu ...
      Great fans think alike, a hypothesis that makes it certain Vancouver Canuck fans will agree Mikael Samuelsson owes Alexander Burrows an apology. Why? Because he blew it when he said Burrows was a reason the Canucks lost the 2011 Stanley Cup final.

    End Homelessness | Change.org

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

    Ceasefire.ca

    Kevin Trudeau Show

    • The Correct, Easy Way To Make Green Smoothies ...
      April 3, 2012 Natural News By Paul Fassa “Adding green super food smoothies to your diet is a great thing to do for your health. There are many amazing benefits of adding more green vegetables in your diet and making smoothies is an easy way to get them in your tummy.” –KTRN Du ...
    • Pfizer Execs To Stand Trial For Cover-Up Of Dr ...
      April 3, 2012 Natural News By Ethan A. Huff “Here is more proof that drug companies are evil to the core.”  –KTRN Four former executives at Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drug company. — Henry McKinnell, John LaMattina, Karen Katen, Joseph Feczko — as well a ...
    • Three Benefits Of Dark Chocolate That Will Hel ...
      April 3, 2012 Natural News By Celeste M. Smucker, MPH, PhD “More evidence that chocolate is quite healthy. But don’t confuse real chocolate over the garbage called Hershey’s.” –KTRN The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that 68 percent of adults over the age ...
    • McDonald’s Stock Slides As More Consumers Turn ...
      April 3, 2012 The Onion By The Onion “Even though this is satire, The Onion nailed it – McDonald’s does not serve real food.” –KTRN The McDonald’s Corporation announced Tuesday that it will close 175 restaurants and cut nearly 600 corporate jobs, responding to ...
    • Ron Paul Is Trying To Save GOP From Themselves
      April 3, 2012 RT By RT “Ron Paul may be the only one who can save the GOP. The party is in complete turmoil these days.” –KTRN Presidential hopeful Ron Paul might not represent what his Republican rivals are touting this election year, but the Texas congressman says that he won ...

    Armies of Liberation

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

    Dark Politricks

    • How Stupid is the Current Democratic Party?
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Peter Breschard Following the strategy of Bill Clinton, the Democrats who came to power in 2008 have become the moderate Republicans of Bob Doles day. They believe that if the ...
    • Scranton, Pennsylvania: where even the mayor i ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   With shrinking tax revenues, industrial decline and a political stand-off, the town is a symbol of a nation’s crisis ” some of it self-inflicted. Paul Harris reports Scranton is the setting f ...
    • The Great Transformation: From the Welfare Sta ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy James Petras The United States has experienced the biggest political upheaval in its recent history: the transformation of a burgeoning welfare state into a rapidly expanding, ...
    • Obama pumps $80 million into Everglades as som ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Region’s restoration is a popular topic during election years, some say, but more money and attention is still needed Senior loyalists in the Obama administration seized a valuable election-year op ...
    • The Max Keiser Report: Fraud Race (E314)
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMax Keiser youtube.com In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss the mainstream media joining the ‘hang bankers’ bandwagon, as it becomes increasingly obvious that the space race has bee ...

    Dandelion Salad

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

    Your New Reality

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

    Wired - Science

    • 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 ...

    Israeli Occupation Archive

    • Attacks on Palestinians continue, but police o ...
      Military police and soldiers arrest left-wing protesters for painting over racist graffiti. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
    • Abir Kopty: Israel’s civil service bill distor ...
      A new bill is being debated in the Israeli Knesset: compulsory civil service for all citizens, including Palestinians and ultra-Orthodox Jews, the two groups that have been exempt. If passed, the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
    • Jonathan Cook: Israeli eradication of history ...
      The discovery of a rare aerial photo of Jerusalem in the 1930s, taken by a Zeppelin, has provided the long-sought after proof that when Israel occupied the Old City in 1967 it secretly destroyed an... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
    • Lia Tarachansky: Thousands of Israelis Join “C ...
      On Friday, June 22 Daphnie Leef, the symbolic leader of the J14 social justice movement in Israel was violently arrested while trying to set up a protest tent. The action was meant to reinvigorate... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
    • Lia Tarachansky: Israel’s J14 Movement and the ...
      On June 2nd, Wafa Tiara, a Palestinian agricultural worker organized under the Ma’an union was supposed to address Israel’s J14 social justice movement. The protest was meant to serve as an indicator... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

    Ria Novosti - Military

    NewsWise

    • Mayo Clinic Maps Brain, Finds Alzheimer's Pati ...
      Activity lingers longer in certain areas of the brain in those with Alzheimer's than it does in healthy people, Mayo Clinic researchers who created a map of the brain found. The results suggest varying brain activity may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease. The study, "Non-stationarity in the ...
    • Hip Reconstruction Technique Provides Good Out ...
      A common, painful hip condition in elite athletes may be able to be repaired with an improved surgical technique, according to researchers presenting their work at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland today.
    • Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy a Safe Option for ...
      When it comes to treating cartilage tears in athletes, Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) therapy is a safe and effective method of treatment, according to research presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) Annual Meeting in Baltimore.
    • Study Suggests Changes in Rotator Cuff Surgery ...
      A new Hospital for Special Surgery study suggests that the current rehabilitation used for patients undergoing tendon-bone repairs such as rotator cuff repair may be partially to blame for the high rates of failed healing after surgery.
    • Research and Philanthropy Leaders Focus Agenda ...
      Leaders of prominent, international philanthropic and research organizations are convening in Seattle July 14-16 to address the global crisis of preterm birth and develop an action roadmap of research priorities and opportunities.

    Natural Health News

    Climategate

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

    Opinio Juris

    • Weekend Roundup: July 7-13, 2012
      by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey This week, Opinio Juris was a bit lighter on the blogging due to the Fourth of July holiday in the US, but we did feature a post from Peggy McGuinness that pointed out a discussion on the St. John’s Center for Law and Religion Forum around the question ...
    • “American” Samoans Want US Citizenship
      by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro “Non-citizen nationals” – a very small group of “Americans”. Anyone born in a state of the United States is a citizen under the 14th Amendment. Almost everyone else born in sovereign US territory (Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam) ha ...
    • “American” Samoans Want US Citizenship
      by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro “Non-citizen nationals” – a very small group of “Americans”. Anyone born in a state of the United States is a citizen under the 14th Amendment. Almost everyone else born in sovereign US territory (Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam) ha ...
    • The Absurd Military Commissions
      by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller A recurring criticism of the ICC is that it has little to show for its first 10 years — just one conviction — and has cost an inordinate amount of money.  Here, for example, are the opening paragraphs of Eric Posner’s recent attack on t ...
    • The Absurd Military Commissions
      by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller A recurring criticism of the ICC is that it has little to show for its first 10 years — just one conviction — and has cost an inordinate amount of money.  Here, for example, are the opening paragraphs of Eric Posner’s recent attack on t ...

    Public News Service

    • Just One Blistering Sunburn = A Double Risk of ...
      Just One Blistering Sunburn = A Double Risk of Developing Skin Cancer PHOENIX - With the Arizona desert sun at its most intense this time of year, a warning to those out and about in the sunshine. Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States, according to the CDC, killing some 400 ...
    • RoboCops Needed for Political Robocalls?
      RoboCops Needed for Political Robocalls? PHOENIX - Hold the phone! Robo-call season is under way in Arizona, along with election season. Political robo-calls are exempted from National Do Not Call Registry regulations, and some families have been targeted for several calls a day. ...(Read More)
    • Transportation Bill Recognizes that Traffic is ...
      Transportation Bill Recognizes that Traffic is Sometimes a Zoo PHOENIX, Ariz. - Driving on Arizona highways sometimes feels like a zoo, with the state's abundant wildlife traveling along - and across - roads. The new federal transportation bill approved over the weekend recognizes the dangers fo ...
    • Ain't No Cure for the Summertime Blues – ...
      Ain't No Cure for the Summertime Blues – Or Is There? PHOENIX - The school doors close and Arizona children joyfully embrace a summer of fun and frolic. That's an idyllic - and outdated - notion for many families with working parents, limited incomes and local summer programs for youths cu ...
    • Rocky Future Predicted for What's Left of SB 1070
      Rocky Future Predicted for What's Left of SB 1070 PHOENIX - Opponents of Arizona's SB1070 law say Monday's Supreme Court ruling is a first step in defeating the entire law. Director Juanita Molina of Tucson-based Border Action Network says the fight against the controversial immigration law is ...

    Center for Food Safety

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

    Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

    Pensieve

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

    Green Times

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

    The Briefing Room | Investigate

    Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

    Politics in the Zeros

    • 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.

    Coteret

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

    Deadline Live

    • Latest Syria “Massacre” – Go ...
      Claim “UN blames regime forces for Syria massacre ,” admits “neither activists’ claims nor the videos could be independently verified.”  by Tony Cartalucci July 14, 2012 -  Surely if nothing “activists” have so far said about latest so-called “mass ...
    • White House: Asking for Obama’s College Record ...
          CNS News White House Press Secretary Jay Carney dismissed a reporter’s question about President Barack Obama’s college transcript as “preposterous,” even comparing it to questions about the long form birth certificate raised by some Obama detractors. Obama has yet to release colleg ...
    • Supremes asked: Who is ‘natural born cit ...
      Decision whether Georgia case will be accepted expected in fall   WND An announcement is expected sometime in the fall on whether the U.S. Supreme Court will decide just exactly who is a “natural born citizen” as required by the U.S. Constitution for all those who would be president. Offici ...
    • Live Stream – Nebraska Republican Conven ...
      Ron Paul MUST win this contest to get time at the RNC convention and Challenge Mitt for the Nomination. (Yeah maybe Mitt is a shoe in, but we would love to hear what Dr Paul has to say. Could be a historic speech!) More info on chicanery and results HERE   LIBERTY LIVE STREAM TEAM [...]
    • Solar storm incoming: Federal agencies provide ...
          Visualization of a solar flare and wave of charged particles known as a coronal mass ejection (NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory) Washington Post Update, 9:53 p.m.: NASA has responded to questions about its forecast and differences with NOAA. Scroll down to the bottom of this post. M ...

    The Air Vent

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

    Focal Point

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

    Inside Facebook

    • Facebook roundup: homepage ads, Android update ...
      Facebook makes homepage ads available through API – Facebook today officially opened its homepage ad units to Ads API partners and users of the Power Editor tool. This will allow other companies to buy and sell premium ad placement, freeing … Continue reading →
    • CSR Racing, Ghosts of Mistwood, The Ville, Gif ...
      Mobile app CSR Racing led our list of emerging applications by monthly active users, nearly doubling its total MAU this week. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past week. This week’s top apps … Continue reading →
    • Votigo moves beyond promotions to provide conv ...
      Social marketing and promotions software company Votigo recently expanded its platform to provide a full cross-network publisher, conversation manager and analytics tools. Votigo co-founder and CEO Mike La Rotonda tells us it has long been part of the company’s vision … Continue read ...
    • Facebook begins rotating ads on static pages i ...
      Facebook has begun rotating ads in the right sidebar if users remain on the same page for a while. “We recently made a change to some pages that show ads on Facebook that allows ads to be replaced with others … Continue reading →
    • Facebook tests ‘start now’ option to allow use ...
      Some Facebook canvas games are testing a new “start now” function to let users begin playing games immediately without the roadblock of a permissions dialog. Game developers Zynga, Kixeye and EA have signed contracts with Facebook similar to deals the … Continue reading →

    Truthout - Tweets

    ReDress News

    • Two faces of Israel: honest terrorist and corr ...
      Uri Avnery views two former Israeli prime ministers, Yitzhak Shamir, the recently-deceased terrorist leader, and Ehud Olmert, architect of the 2006 Lebanon war and the 2008/09 Gaza massacre, noting that whereas Shamir, "the dead honest fanatic, has many followers" Olmert, "the living corrupt pra ...
    • Poisoning Arafat: Ariel Sharon and the Jewish ...
      Uri Avnery recalls Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's journey from national liberation fighter to peace warrior and argues that Arafat's quest for peace, which if successful would have posed a mortal danger to the Jewish settlements, is what led the Israelis to poison him.
    • The voting dilemma facing Americans in the pre ...
      Lawrence Davidson considers the hard choices facing American voters as they ponder who to cast their ballot in the upcoming presidential elections, and offers some guidelines on how potential but wavering voters might make up their minds.
    • Palestinians, beware false friends
      Stuart Littlewood assesses whether UK Labour leader Ed Miliband is worthy of the praise heaped upon him by the Palestinian Authority's UK representative, Manuel Hassassian, and urges Palestinians to beware of false "friends", such as the Miliband brothers and other Labour leaders, who are uncond ...
    • Migrant nightmares: Ethiopian domestic workers ...
      Graham Peebles charts the horrendous abuse faced by Ethiopian migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states and Lebanon where they are traded by unscrupulous traffickers - "not brokers/agents in any recognizable, legitimate sense of the word, but common criminals engaged in human trafficking ...

    Amazon Rainforest

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

    Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

    • Podcast Show #88- Karzai Cartel & Its Washingt ...
      The Boiling Frogs Presents Michael Hughes Michael Hughes joins us to discuss his investigative article exposing President Hamid Karzai’s mob boss brother Qayum Karzai, and the subsequent legal threats issued against him and his exposé by the family’s business partners in Washington. He explains ...
    • Libya: New AFRICOM & NATO Beachhead in Africa
      Africa vs. the offensive by the axis of AFRICOM, EUCOM, NATO and the European Union, with assistance from the Arab monarchies By Rick Rozoff On June 15 the news agency of the U.S. Defense Department, American Forces Press Service, ran a story on commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) Army Ge ...
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      BFP Nightly Quote “War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that ’tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,’ like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. W ...
    • Pentagon’s Last Frontier: Battle-Hardened Troo ...
      Africa’s Hour has Arrived By Rick Rozoff As the U.S. begins to wind down more than ten consecutive years of combat, mainly counterinsurgency, operations in what has variously been labeled the Broader, Greater and New Middle East, war-tested troops are being prepared for redeployment to Africa an ...

    Afro Spear

    Expose the BNP

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

    Ode Magazine

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

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    • Fuel-Efficient Dodge Dart Means 6,000 More Job ...
      Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, San Francisco There’s a great story in Bloomberg News about how the new fuel-efficient Dodge Dart is bringing 6,000 jobs to Belvidere, IL.  However, a key point missing from the sto ...
    • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
      Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile Two months after opening a public tender to study nine alternative transmission line pathways in the Aysén region of Patagonia, the government announced this week that it will not ...
    • Dysfunction at Enbridge goes far beyond Kalama ...
      Anthony Swift, Attorney, International Program, Washington, DC The National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) searing indictment of Enbridge has implications that go well beyond that controversial Canadian pipeline company’s responsib ...
    • Public outpouring calling on FDA to stop the m ...
      Avinash Kar, Staff Attorney, San Francisco Over two hundred thousand Americans have written to the FDA to demand a better solution for antibiotic misuse in livestock. They were responding to the toothless new guidelines—mere recommendatio ...
    • Smoking Causes Cancer. Carbon Pollution Causes ...
      Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. Smoking Causes Cancer. Carbon Pollution Causes Extreme Weather. It really doesn’t have to be more complicated than that. We dump billions of tons of carbon pollution i ...

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