14 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Scenes from this American life
  In January 2011, Joe Paterno learned prosecutors were investigating his longtime assistant coach Jerry Sandusky for sexually assaulting young boys. Soon, Mr. Paterno had testified before a grand jury, and the rough outlines of what would become a giant scandal had been published in a local newsp ...
• Do We Have a Term Like Aesthetic Stalinism to ...
  In the rich conservative tradition of declaring Bryce Harper a conservative hero because he plays hard unlike those black Democrats like Jason Heyward, I bring you the brilliant Conservapedia entry on “Overrated Sports Stars.” Although please note that given the nature of the website ...
• The Mexican Election
  The following is a guest post by Colin Snider of Americas South and North. While the US media is understandably focused on its own presidential elections this year, they are not the only elections taking place that will have a direct impact on the hemisphere more generally. At the beginning of O ...
• A Plea To Bill James: Please Stop Writing Nons ...
  For whatever reason, the great Bill James has from the beginning of the Sandusky case going public been an apologist for Joe Paterno and his role in covering up the crimes of the serial child rapist who was his former defensive coordinator. Since many of its assertions have been clearly disprove ...
• Hapless Factchucker of the Day
  Glenn Kessler. See also. Kessler, you may remember, also endorsed the decision of the most useless website in the known universe to make perfectly defensible claims about Paul Ryan’s plans for (effectively eliminating) Medicare the “lie of the year.” The factchuck industry cert ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Keep Cool And Carry On: Energy Efficient Windo ...
• NYC Ranks 4th On Global List Of Smart Cities
• Innovation, Efficiency Will Keep America Globa ...
• Drayson B12/69EV Electric Racer Smokes A New R ...
• Apple Admits Ditching EPEAT Was A Mistake

National Law Journal | U.S.

• The 2012 APPELLATE HOT LIST
  We asked our readers to nominate firms with at least one significant appellate win between May 2011 and May 2012 and that had an impressive track record overall. We supplemented the results with our own research to arrive at the list of 16 firms you'll find here.
• THE CONNECTED LAWYER: How to get hit by lightning
  Bringing in big deals, new litigation or the highly coveted anchor client is kind of like being struck by lightning. How do you increase the probability of ­getting struck?
• OPINION: New voting restrictions: solution to ...
  Despite a dearth of cases of ineligible people trying to vote, one-third of the states have limited ballot access.
• OPINION: The Brady problem: Time to face reality
  Nothing less than changes in the discovery rules in criminal cases will ensure that exculpatory evidence is consistently produced to defendants.
• THE PRACTICE: Update on the forum battle in Ch ...
  The environmental human rights litigation goes beyond transnational, as two more countries become involved.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• France Celebrates Its National Day
  In DC today, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sent her best wishes to the people of France as they celebrate Bastille Day this July 14.
• Three NDFB Militants Killed in Assam Encounter
  Three hardcore cadres of anti-talk faction group of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) were killed in a gun battle with security forces in Assam's Goalpara district on Friday, police said.
• 'Killer Shrimp' Restaurant a New Hot Spot in M ...
  The restaurant has a view of the bay. There's also a huge convention area upstairs for special events and there's Killer Shrimp Cafe next door, serving breakfast until 1pm everyday.
• Free and Equal 'Elections' Speaks on Internet ...
  Free and Equal Elections has been outspoken in removing corporate and special interest influence from a political system that it deems, 'biased.'
• Assam Government Appoints Inquiry Commission t ...
  Meanwhile, Assam government appointed a one-member inquiry commission under Additional Chief Secretary of Government of Assam Amili Choudhury on the incident on Friday.

environment 360

• Majority of Americans Believe Climate is Warmi ...
  The majority of Americans believe the climate is getting warmer and that global weather patterns are becoming more unstable, according to a new poll. In a poll conducted by the Washington Post and Stanford University last month, six in 10 respondents said that weather patterns have been more uns ...
• Urban Noise May Increase Mortality of Songbird ...
  A new study says that urban noise may cause an increase in mortality among young sparrows, suggesting that adult birds are less able to hear their hungry offspring above the clamor of their surrounding environment. In a long-term study conducted on a small, remote island off the UK coast, scient ...
• Increase in Mountain Roads Causing Environment ...
  The rapid expansion of roads across the rural mountains of Southeast Asia often triggers unintended environmental consequences that in many cases Roy C. Sidle Logging roads in Myanmar undermine the socioeconomic benefits, according to an article in the journal Nature Geoscience. While interna ...
• The Dead Sea is Dying: Can A Controversial Pla ...
  The Dead Sea — the lowest terrestrial point on the planet — is dropping at an alarming rate, falling more than 1 meter a year. A $10 billion proposal to pipe water from the Red Sea is being opposed by conservationists, who point to alternatives that could help save one of the world’s great natur ...
• New Technique ‘Sees Through’ Clouds to Measure ...
  U.S. scientists say they have developed a technique to measure atmospheric levels of pollution, including soot, with satellite technology even when skies are cloud-covered. While clouds typically impair a remote-sensing NASA Clouds over the coastline of Chile and Peru satellite’s ability to d ...

Red Ice Creations

• Why Mexico’s election doesn’t matter
  The winner of Sunday’s Mexican presidential election is unlikely to change course on US trade and the drug war. Something remarkable happened, or rather, didn’t happen, in the middle of Mexico’s June 10 presidential debate when the three leading candidates were asked to share their views on fore ...
• Government by the Banks, for the Banks: The ES ...
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel (pictured at the 2007 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland) capitulated to changes to a permanent Eurozone bailout fund on Friday, June 29. (Photo: Severin Nowacki / World Economic Forum) On Friday, June 29th, German Chancellor Angela Merkel acquiesced to ch ...
• Rockefeller and Rothschild Dynasties Join Forces
  Two of the world’s best-known banking families are combining forces after RIT Capital Partners, the investment trust led by Jacob Rothschild, said on Wednesday that it was buying a minority stake in the investment and wealth management firm Rockefeller Financial Services. Under the terms of the ...
• Pyramids: Cosmic Antennas (Secrets of Stalin’s ...
  Click "CC" in the player to enable English subtitles. Click "CC" in the player to enable English subtitles. It is believed that the pyramids -are not the tombs of the pharaohs, but they are high-tech devices to communicate with other planets. All information relating to pyramids rise the questio ...
• Bernard Madoff brother pleads guilty in Ponzi case
  Bernard Madoff’s younger brother pleaded guilty to criminal charges that he helped advance the multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, but denied knowing about the epic, decades-long fraud. With his guilty plea in Manhattan federal court on Friday, Peter Madoff is the first of Bernard Madoff’s family ...

Russia Today

• Summer of discontent 2012? Thousands hold soci ...
  Thousands of people have taken part in rallies throughout Israel to mark the anniversary of the beginning of last year’s massive sit-in protests against social injustice. Marches were held in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Bahraini protesters clash with police after ra ...
  Anti-government protesters have hurled fire bombs and clashed with police in Bahrain, as the country was gripped by demonstrations against the recently imposed ban on rallies. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Surviving a storm: Palestinian refugees caught ...
  Palestinian refugees who fled the long struggle in their own region now wearily watch the Syrian civil war unfold. Despite efforts to stay out of the conflict, they still get caught in crossfire, with 17 Palestinians... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Lucky miss: Russian man dodges death at gas st ...
  A Russian man has barely managed to escape death in a massive traffic accident involving five vehicles at a gas station. What’s also a miracle is that there were no explosions, and only one person was slightly injured. Read Full Article at RT.com
• At least 12 killed as 11-story dwelling collap ...
  At least 12 people died, as an 11-story building collapsed in Egypt’s second-largest city of Alexandria, reports Al-Arabiya. The building also caused three more nearby houses to tumble with it. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• How to testify at a grand jury: David House &# ...
  Bradley Manning supporter David House was called last year before the grand jury preparing charges against Julian Assange, in the event Assange is successfully remanded to Sweden. Despite being told a transcript was forbidden, House took notes which have now found themselves (A)nonymously online ...
• Madagascar needs special protection from capit ...
  Madagascar is a special part of the world, and its ecological destruction is going to mean the extinction of life for many species if the world continues to allow that to happen. Instead of spending all that money on war, wouldn’t it be wonderful if the US and Western European countries wo ...
• The Los Angeles Chalk Wars
  Has the US Police State ever gotten down to such a base level of Stupid before? The Los Angeles cops and Occupy are now battling it out over the Occupy practice of chalking side walks and walls with political messages. It’s like any level of Free Speech actually practiced is just too much ...
• Fifty Shades of bad romance gone over to soft ...
  With 20,000,000 copies sold, with almost every single buyer being a woman, what is the secret pheromone behind the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy? And just what is the message to women that makes these newest examples of bad current ‘lit’ so HOT HOT HOT for so very many many women? The ...
• US Military established American caste system ...
  If you participate in the Pentagon imperialist military in the US, you get 10% off, special loans on houses and cars, a military pension, health care for all soldiers and their families, univeristy grants, preferential hiring privileges, and a get out of jail card free card or two in many cases, ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Barry Jennings - Explosion or Collapse?
  For Barry Jennings' testimony, see: http://blip.tv/i-am-dylan-avery/barry-jennings-uncut-1071126 For a transcript of Jennings' testimony, see: http://s1.zetaboards.com/LooseChangeForums/single/?p=108750&t=451652 Main videos used from "WTC7 and the British Brainwashing Conspiracy." ...
• Andy Griffith VS the PATRIOT ACT
  Published on Jul 5, 2012 by Cincinnati911Truth Rest in Peace Andy Samuel Griffith (June 1, 1926 -- July 3, 2012) Related: The Patriot Act was planned before 9/11: Major Wars and Suppression of American Freedoms Planned BEFORE 9/11
• Why False Flag Terrorism Works. 911 Truth and ...
• And they say I'm paranoid!
  Ground to air missiles are to be deployed in London, ready defend the skies from a terrorist attack during the Olympics. Anyone who thinks this is justified needs to admit themselves to an asylum for people more delusional and paranoid than even the most stereotypical tinfoil hat-wearing conspi ...
• 6 more "insane" conspiracies that actually hap ...
  One popular humour website I enjoy reading is Cracked.com. I like learning about terrifying insects and fish and reasons why my sci-fi fantasies will probably never come true. Every now and then though they do articles on conspiracy theories and make them out to be insane. Two weeks ago, they pu ...

Fooducate

• Top 10 French Contributions to World Gastronom ...
  New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! July 14 marks Bastille Day, or French Independence Day. Joyeux Quatorze Juillet!! We appreciate French food culture so much, that we decided to list a few contributions the ...
• National French Fries Day Today. Here’s A Heal ...
  New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Today is National French Fries Day, another made up holiday by the food industry to get us to eat more.  Fries originated in Belgium, but it was our third President, T ...
• That Taurine in Your Energy Drink: 10 Things t ...
  New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! If you have read the ingredient list of your favorite energy drink, you may have noticed an ingredient by the name of taurine. Here are 10 things you need to know: 1. ...
• Avocado Love: Infographic + Recipe
  New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! We are slightly (and by slightly we mean completely!) obsessed with avocados. This “fruit” is high in protein, has a bizarre etymology, and is extremely sc ...
• The OMG Diet – Motivating Teens to be Skinnier ...
  New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Want to lose 20 pounds in 6 weeks?  There is a big hoopla around a new book – Six Weeks to OMG: Get Skinnier Than All Your Friends – which touts cold baths ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• Vietnam buys into Peru’s controversial oil fields
  PetroVietnam has taken on oil blocks in an area inhabited by uncontacted tribes © Survival Vietnamese oil company PetroVietnam has bought a stake in two Peruvian oil blocks in a region known to be inhabited by uncontacted tribes. The company has bought a 52.6% stake in Anglo-French Perenc ...
• Outrage as World Bank funds power lines linked ...
  The Gibe III dam threatens the livelihoods of 200,000 Lower Omo tribal people, including the Karo. © Survival Human rights organizations, including Survival and Human Rights Watch, have fiercely criticized a decision by the World Bank to fund power lines in Ethiopia linked to the controvers ...
• Anoushka Shankar backs Survival
  Anoushka Shankar supports Survival International and the need to 'protect all cultures'. © Survival British Indian sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar shows her support for Survival International and tribal peoples by modelling an exclusive new limited edition T-shirt desig ...
• Hunger - Ethiopia’s new weapon to force tribes ...
  Suri boy from Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley. Violent land grabs are devastating the tribe. © Survival Survival has received disturbing reports from members of several tribes in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley, which describe how the government is destroying their crops to force them to move ...
• Guarani leader killed in road accident in Brazil
  Many Guarani face huge risks after being forced to live in makeshift camps on the roadside. © Sarah Shenker/Survival One of the Guarani tribe’s most respected spokesmen, José de Almeida Barbosa, has died in a road accident in Brazil. Zezinho, as he was generally known, had just retur ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Matt Carey Replaces Kevin Leitch
  Matt Carey Owns Leftbrain/Rightbrain! Well, almost... By Jake Crosby Hours after my videotaped public comment to the federal Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) was posted on Age of Autism – calling out Leftbrain/Rightbrain blogger Matt Carey for qualifying for his...
• A Time for Prayer
  By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. I just finished reading "The President, the Pope and the Prime Minister" by John O'Sullivan about the Cold War partnership between Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, and Margaret Thatcher against the Soviet Union and couldn't...
• Video Presentations Challenging IACC "Results"
  Here are four videos of the public comments about IACC presented on Tuesday in Washington, DC. Each presenter summarized in his/her own fashion the utter failure of the IACC to address - let alone act - on their mission, which...
• Ohio Newspaper Suggests Fines/Incarceration fo ...
  Interesting read on the lack of teeth in monetary fines for Pharma from the Youngstown (Ohio) "Vindy.com" Opinion page: Fines Hurt But There May Be Stronger Medicine. Thanks to AK for sending it to us. "There’s no question that $3...
• The IACC (I Am Completely Clueless) Meets Again
  By Dan Olmsted Bernadine Healy must be barfing in her grave. At least the former National Institutes of Health director, who told the self-evident truth that vaccines could not be ruled out as a cause of autism, because the research...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

• Through the Eyes of a Goose
  Whether it is big or small, complex or simple, all life is precious, right down to one little baby gosling, fresh from the egg. And as I discovered during my journey on the road to raising Little E.D. the Endurance Goose, there is a wealth of knowledge to be had just from the simple task of lear ...
• Danish Farmer Reverses Illnesses in pigs by re ...
  A Danish farmer has gained huge public recognition for publishing his simple method for ridding his pigs of illness- removing genetically modified (GM) ingredients from their diet.
• Did Rand Paul even read the GMO labeling amend ...
  Text of SA 2310. Read what it really says instead of what they tell you it says.
• Nuclear Shutdown Now or Never
  Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Peter Saunders Institute of Science in Society “We lost Japan,” said Rie Inomata, who works as an interpreter [1]. “I feel guilty and sorry for the children. They did not choose nuclear power plants, they did not choose to be born; but it is them that have to suffer in [ ...
• Rand Paul Votes NO on GMO Labeling
  Thought that endorsing Romney was bad enough? In another turn of events that exposes the corporatist leanings of Rand Paul, Senator from Kentucky, he has voted NO on a GMO labeling amendment to the farm bill "to permit States to require that any food, beverage, or other edible product offered fo ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Chile’s Pinera signs hate crime law afte ...
  Reuters – Chile on Thursday became one of the last Latin American nations to pass an anti-discrimination law, after a brutal beating that led to a young gay man’s death put pressure on conservative president Sebastian Pinera’s government to act. The hate-crime bill, which was o ...
• US tightens sanctions over Iran nuclear programme
  BBC – The US Treasury said it had blacklisted several companies and individuals that it believes are contributing to efforts to acquire nuclear weapons. It also said it had identified several companies and banks acting as front organisations helping Iran to evade existing sanctions. Read a ...
• Syria unrest: ‘Massacre leaves 200 dead& ...
  BBC – Some 200 people have been killed in an attack on the Syrian village of Tremseh, opposition activists say. If confirmed, it would be the bloodiest single event in the Syrian conflict. Residents said the village, in Hama province, was attacked with helicopter gunships and tanks, and la ...
• News Archive In Focus – Humanitarian Crisis (3 ...
  Whether it’s an ongoing or lingering pandemic, a natural disaster, or conflict, a humanitarian crisis is an event or series of events which represents a critical threat to the wellbeing of a community or other large group of people. Recent examples of Humanitarian Crisis include the case of bird ...
• Climate Fact Of The Day – Satellite Stud ...
  Soren Dreier – ‘Huge glaciers in the area between Pakistan and China are puzzling scientists – and disproving the doom-laden predictions of some climate experts. The glaciers in the Karakoram Range between northern Pakistan and western China have actually grown, rather than shrinking ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
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• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
  arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
• "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
  Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
  uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
  Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
• Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
  In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

• France Celebrates Its National Day
  In DC today, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sent her best wishes to the people of France as they celebrate Bastille Day this July 14.
• Three NDFB Militants Killed in Assam Encounter
  Three hardcore cadres of anti-talk faction group of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) were killed in a gun battle with security forces in Assam's Goalpara district on Friday, police said.
• 'Killer Shrimp' Restaurant a New Hot Spot in M ...
  The restaurant has a view of the bay. There's also a huge convention area upstairs for special events and there's Killer Shrimp Cafe next door, serving breakfast until 1pm everyday.
• Free and Equal 'Elections' Speaks on Internet ...
  Free and Equal Elections has been outspoken in removing corporate and special interest influence from a political system that it deems, 'biased.'
• Assam Government Appoints Inquiry Commission t ...
  Meanwhile, Assam government appointed a one-member inquiry commission under Additional Chief Secretary of Government of Assam Amili Choudhury on the incident on Friday.

Worldnews

• 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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Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

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

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Opinion: Serving the People h ...
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• ExamineReligion: Compare Amos, Amaziah, and us ...
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• ExamineReligion: That guy: Sean Whalen http:/ ...
  ExamineReligion: That guy: Sean Whalen http://t.co/kLM04R2X
• ExamineReligion: Is evil necessary to apprecia ...
  ExamineReligion: Is evil necessary to appreciate good? http://t.co/cdRB5aug
• ExamineReligion: Confidence in organized relig ...
  ExamineReligion: Confidence in organized religion at an all time low http://t.co/RBl8GHWJ

Energy Collective

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

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

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

• We The People - What Does That Really Mean Today
  Larry Pinkney "Tell no lies, claim no easy victories." - Amilcar Cabral The U.S. Declaration of Independence (including its Preamble) and the U.S. Constitution, though egregiously deficient with regards to the rights of Indigenous Native people, Black people, and women, etc., were importa ...
• International Law Revisionism
  by Stephen Lendman In January 2012, Netanyahu appointed a three-member committee headed by former Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy. Included were former Foreign Ministry legal adviser Alan Baker and former Tel Aviv District Court president Tchia Shapira. They examined three issues: ...
• Before the Collapse
  By Timothy v. Gatto A few observations: 1. The Media is controlled by the government and most of what you see and hear from it is a lie. 2. The United States is engaged in wars all over the planet for resources. 3. Sociopaths run our government. 4. The U.S. governmen ...
• Hillary Clinton, Queen of Hearts
  By Michael Collins (Washington, DC 7/11/12) Hillary Clinton has a very serious problem. She thinks that she runs the world and that those who disobey her must be punished, China and Russia in particular. Our chief diplomat behaves like a drunken bully, makes rash demands, and spoils for a fi ...
• Modern crusade against Muslims
  Kourosh Ziabari Despite constituting a significant minority in the western countries, Muslims around the world are subject to disproportionate, unjustifiable bias. Such attitudes distance them from their most fundamental social rights by portraying them as extremists and fanatics. The group is ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

• UN experts on enforced disappearances…
  Worldwide Hippiess/CJE,United Nations – Independent United Nations human rights experts on enforced or involuntary disappearances reviewed more than 200 cases concerning over 30 countries during the session that ended today. The five-member UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearan ...
• Revolution 99 Updates: Rush to Sensationalize ...
  Rush to Sensationalize “Occupy Murder Link” Leads to Major Media Mistakes; Where are Retractions?Despite dubious, anonymous sourcing and the total lack of evidence to implicate Occupy Wall Street protesters, the media jumped on the would-be scandal. Media outlets scrambled over thems ...
• Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Saturday
  5-mile-long landslide in Alaska national park; warming eyed as possible culpA massive landslide sent tons of rock and debris tumbling more than five miles down a glacier in Alaska, the National Park Service reported in an event that could be yet another sign of a warming world. Located in a remo ...
• X-class solar flare eruption could make for da ...
  By Joe McEvoy,Worldwide Hippies/CJE – The strongest solar storm of the summer so far will send a huge wave of charged particles toward the earth that could supercharge northern lights displays, NASA scientists say. Pretty lights aside: The strength and head on direction toward earth presen ...
• Brutal Gestapo Tactics Are Being Used Against ...
  By Michael Snyder, Activist Post - Property rights are being absolutely shredded all over America. Buying a piece of land and enjoying it with your family has always been a big part of the American Dream. Unfortunately, in the United States today you don’t actually own your own home. If yo ...

FourWinds10

• Scientists discover oil-containing dirty blizz ...
  Herald Tribune by Kate Spinner, May 26, 2011: A mixture of oil and dead organic particles may still be falling to the deep bottom of the northern Gulf of Mexico, potentially harming the base of a food web that supports all kinds of sea life, from giant whales and blue-fin tuna to grouper and sna ...
• Millions of tons of Fukushima debris expected ...
  (NaturalNews) The 9.0+ mega earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan back in March caused millions of tons of debris to wash into the Pacific Ocean. And for the first time, some of that debris has been spotted drifting between Russia and Hawaii, where officials expect it to hit Hawaiian shores m ...
• 'STAGE TWO' OF THE BP GULF OF MEXICO ENVIRONME ...
• Massive oyster die-offs in Chesapeake Bay leav ...
  (NaturalNews) Tack it on to the growing list of mysterious animal die-offs. Watermen working the oyster fishing business in the Maryland portion of Chesapeake Bay say the massive die-off of oysters in the area this year is due to recent hurricanes and tropical storms that have swept fresh water ...
• TEXAS GULF ALERT TO SAY AWAY, 4.2 MILLION POIS ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Poor Corn Crop Will Have Major Impact on Ethan ...
  One of the biggest threats to the U.S. ethanol industry is a major drought/crop failure in the heart of corn country, says Robert Rapier. This year we may be experiencing such an event.
• Enough Oil to Fry the Planet? — R-Squared Ener ...
  In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I discuss the recently released paper by former Eni executive Leonardo Maugeri — in which he suggests global oil supplies will increase by 17 million barrels per day by the end of the decade — as well as George Monbiot’s high ...
• Renewable Energy — Facts and Figures
  Today’s article is the 5th and final installment of my graphical look at the recently released 2012 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Previous installments were: How Much Oil is Left in the World? How Much Oil Does the World Produce? World Energy Consumption Facts, Figures, and Shocke ...
• Announcing Energy Trends Insider
  Consumer Energy Report covers a wide variety of energy topics, and is targeted at a broad audience. Our columns tend to identify risks and opportunities, but we generally stop short of providing specific financial advice that may be better suited for a narrower subset of our audience. Of course ...
• Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions — Facts and Fi ...
  Robert Rapier looks at the growth of global carbon dioxide emissions since 1965. A great deal has changed over the past 46 years.

Discovery Educator Network

• VitaminCM.com – How to Create an Interactive Y ...
  Comments:Tutorial on how to create interactive links within a YouTube video.  - Dean MantzTags: howto, interactivelinks, youtube, video, tutorialby: Dean Mantz
• Splash Page | Zimmer Twins
  Comments:Via http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/07/10-ways-to-create-videos-without.html - Fred DelventhalTags: animation, storytelling, education, elementary, studentsby: Fred Delventhal
• MapBox | Fast and beautiful maps
  Tags: maps, mapping, opensource, tools, visualization, software, cloud, geographyby: Dean Mantz
• One-bit Internet: The iPad is/isn't a content ...
  Comments:This article will get you thinking about the iPad as or not as a creation device.  The author does provide points that make you think twice.  - Dean MantzTags: internet, ipad, content, creation, deviceby: Dean Mantz
• tracking shot
  Comments:No need to learn the aesthetics of movie making or wade through a complicated user interface. Tracking shot will create a movie instantly and automatically by grouping photos into scenes and shots, creating transitions, synchronizing with the music, and more. All you need to do is uploa ...

Rodale News

• 6 Surprising Benefits of Meditation
  Think meditation is just for former Beatles and people with too much time on their hands? Think again. This underrated practice could be one of the most valuable medical devices you're not using. Research has shown that it can help with everything from getting over a stressful day to staving of ...
• Dogs Help People Breathe Easier
  Dander particles, fuzzy fur, hairballs accumulating in household corners…Everything about owning a pet suggests breathing problems. In fact, it's quite the opposite. A new study out of Finland discovered another one of the benefits of owning a dog. Researchers found that babies living in a home ...
• 5 Disturbing Facts about Plastic
  Take a quick look around you and inventory all the plastic products you see. Your computer monitor and keyboard, your pens, even the carpet under your feet—all are made possible by plastic. The American Chemistry Council likes to throw out its old adage, "Plastic makes it possible." A ...
• The Natural Ingredient That's Wrecking Your Gut
  A completely unnecessary food additive used in conventional, natural, and even some organic food and drink products could be causing digestive problems and even cancer, according to a new report from the organic watchdog group the Cornucopia Institute. The compound in question is carrageenan, ...
• Can You Be Allergic to Wine?!
  Yes it's heart healthy, full of cancer-fighting antioxidants, and a great accompaniment to that grilled chicken or fish—but wine is not for everyone. If a glass of red makes your skin start to flush, or gives you a runny nose or an extremely upset stomach, you fall into a group of people that's ...

big think

• Can Human Biology Break a 9-Second 100-Meter R ...
  What's the Latest Development? This year's summer Olympics are approaching and in sprinter Usain Bolt, the world has its best opportunity yet to test the limits of human biology with respect to speed. In just over a year, Bolt shaved 0.16 seconds off the 100 meter sprinting world record ...
• "Targeted Therapy Cocktail" Could Control, Per ...
  What's the Latest Development? By changing how clinicians battle cancer, Harvard medical researchers believe the disease could become manageable, if not curable. While cancer treatment has entered a relatively new stage of "targeted therapy", as opposed to chemotherapy, most treatments l ...
• Turn Off the Election Coverage
  Sometimes what political science tells us is that we should pay less attention to politics. It’s easy to get caught up in the horse race aspect of the presidential election, especially since the news media has an incentive to exaggerate the importance of every gaffe and every piece of preliminar ...
• Protein Found to Protect Against Alzheimer's
  What's the Latest Development? In a study of 1,795 Icelanders and 400,000 more Scandinavians, scientists have found a genetic mutation whose presence helps protect against contracting Alzheimer's disease. "The mutation—the first ever found to protect against the disease—lies in a gene th ...
• Why Eugenics Will Never Work
  What's the Latest Development? As the availability and popularity of genetic testing increases, ethical questions about the sanctity of nature also arise in which a dystopian future of eugenics figures prominently. As it turns out, not only is eugenics (the active selection for certain . ...

Information Liberation

• Video: Cops Tase Man For Refusing To ID
  A Florida man was repeatedly tased by police officers and arrested for refusing to identify himself, but instead of apologizing, the Casselberry Police Department insisted it would use footage of the incident for training purposes. The video beg...
• 'Civil Asset Forfeiture' in D.C.: Cops Steal Y ...
  Here's how the institutionalized theft called "civil asset forfeiture" works in Washington, D.C.: If the police steal your car, you may eventually get it back -- if you're willing to pay ransom for the privilege of letting a judge decide if the thiev...
• Woman Convicted Of Battery For Pat Down Of TSA ...
  59-year-old Carol Jean Price has been found guilty of battery for conducting what thousands of Americans are subjected to every day * a TSA-style pat down. ...
• Obama's War On Medical Marijuana Just Got Even ...
  One month ago, Eric Holder testified before Congress that the Dept. of Justice is only targeting medical marijuana businesses that violate their state's laws. Anyone who didn't realize it was a lie should be getting the message right about now. The ...
• They Wrecked Wiper Fluid Too
  Driving into work the other morning, I reached over and gave my windshield a quick spritz. Nothing. Oh, sure, the wiper fluid came out just fine, the blades slid across my windshield as they should, but it was to no effect. So I sprayed again and aga...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• The 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 ...
• 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 ...

RFF Library

• Geochemical Evidence for Possible Natural Migr ...
  PNAS  (published online before print July 9, 2012, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1121181109) / by Nathaniel R. Warner, Robert B. Jackson, Thomas H. Darrah, Stephen G. Osborn, Adrian Down, Kaiguang Zhao, Alissa White and Avner Vengosha http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/07/03/1121181109 [Abstract] The de ...
• Economic Impacts of National Monument Designat ...
  BBC Research and Consulting for the National Trust for Historic Preservation http://bit.ly/P31zZf [From Sen. Michael Bennet's website] A new report released today determines that national monument designation for the Chimney Rock Archaeological Area would double the economic impact Chimney Rock ...
• Highway Projects: Some Federal and State Pract ...
  US Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-593 [From a Greenwire article by Jason Plautz, sub. req'd] Provisions in a 2005 transportation law that allow construction in certain circumstances on protected public lands, exclusions from environmental review for some proj ...
• Water Quality Index Aggregation and Cost Benef ...
  US EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics / by Patrick J. Walsh and William Wheeler http://yosemite.epa.gov/EE/epa/eed.nsf/WPNumber/2012-05 The water quality index (WQI) has emerged as a central way to convey water quality information to policy makers and the general public and is regu ...
• What is the Optimal Offsets Discount under a S ...
  US EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics / by Heather Klemick http://yosemite.epa.gov/EE/epa/eed.nsf/WPNumber/2012-04 Despite concerns about additionality, leakage, permanence, and verification, carbon offsets have been proposed as a core component of recent cap-and-trade proposals in ...

Scientific American - News

• Japan and Vietnam Join Forces to Exploit Rare- ...
  From Nature magazine [More]
• Most of Amazon Rainforest's Species Extinction ...
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• Bottom Line: Ocean Floor Sediments May Be Wind ...
  Digging into our planet's past could help us prepare for a hot future. One dramatic spike in historical temperatures, the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), occurred around 55.9 million years ago. That time was marked by changes in ocean productivity, the water cycle, ocean acidi ...
• New Moon for Pluto: Hubble Telescope Spots a 5 ...
  As humankind's first robotic visitor to Pluto approaches its destination, astronomers working to understand what it will find there have uncovered a tiny moon orbiting the dwarf planet. [More]
• 'Improved' Cookstoves May Do Little to Reduce ...
  TOTORABAMBA, Peru – Smoke swirls around the hearth and hangs in the sunny doorway of the adobe kitchen where Espirita Lima Bautista crouches by an open fire, toasting barley grains. Soot dangles from the thatch roof in six-inch stalactites, a grim reminder of the particles she inhales when ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• Student Solidarity Speaking Tour: Ottawa
  Student Solidarity Speaking Tour  July 12th, 2012 The University of Ottawa  Resistance. For many of us it has become a part of our lives. We refuse to accept inequality and inefficiency. There is an opportunity to shape our world and yet too often we simply write the wrongs. Hosted by ...
• Rally to Save Kitpu - July 12, 2012
  K'jipuktuk (Halifax) - About 150 people gathered on the evening of July 12th to protest against the federal government's decision to freeze funding to the Cultural Connections for Aboriginal Youth (CCAY) programs. Locally ...
• The Co-op Covers Council
  July 10: World Trade & Convention Centre Gets the Green Light, and Solar City is Saved — For Now That’s right. The Halifax Media Co-op has decided to enter the shady, confusing, frustrating and often boring world of municipal poli ...
• What's In a Drum?
  Not just a beat, but the heartbeat of Mother Earth. K'jipuktuk (Halifax) - I had the good fortune of meeting Al Carter, drum maker, at "Experience Native Culture and Traditions" ceremonies at Victoria Park in Halifax on July ...
• Provincial police threatens Algonquins of Bar ...
  Native Solidarity News - Interview with Michel Husky

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Friday Cat Blogging - 13 July 2012
  On the left, Inkblot is conked out on a scratching pad that's recently been recharged with fresh catnip. On the right, Domino wants someone to let her in the front door. I never get tired of this routine of hers. (Inkblot has never been bright enough to figure this out, though. He'll wander a ...
• Nobody Cares About Mitt Romney's Cartoonishly ...
  I'm going to argue with Bob Somerby some more today. I was a bit astounded at the first of three reasons he gave for believing that the Democratic focus on Mitt Romney's Swiss bank account is a bad idea: First, we’re unconvinced that these character attacks will work. Although of cour ...
• Four Point Six
  Somebody fed BuzzFeed a recording of a stemwinding speech Condoleezza Rice gave at a Romney fundraiser in June, and apparently her criticism of President Obama's "narrative" has conservatives everywhere cheering: It is a narrative that is being pushed by our current president, that "I'm doi ...
• San Bernardino Was Ground Zero for the Housing ...
  Did you hear that the city of San Bernardino recently followed the city of Stockton into bankruptcy? Did you also hear that it was mostly because of skyrocketing pension costs doled out to union workers in years past? I've been meaning to write about this, but it's local stuff and I never got ...
• Modern Elites: Not So Bad After All?
  David Brooks writes about the problem with today's leaders: Christopher Hayes of MSNBC and The Nation believes that the problem is inherent in the nature of meritocracies. In his book, “Twilight of the Elites,” he argues that meritocratic elites may rise on the basis of grades, ...

Insanity Report

• IC 334: We’re Getting Soft
  Topics: Work sucks Dream Team The need to compare Each generation gets a little softer The Dark Knight Rises The 3 Titties Live ON Fat sex Sharks still ain’t shit Kriss’ religious rant Share with your friends:
• IC 333: Fuck Summer
  Topics: Summer is Horrible Summer was more fun as a kid UFC 148 recap People hating athletes Team loyalty Team BlowJob for the champs? The blow job orgy…the worst orgy Booty pop videos with 6 year olds? We gotta do better Acknowledging privileged != you’re a racist The Dark Knight Ri ...
• IC 332: Return of Great Moments In White Privilege
  Topics: FUCK PEPCO Could Sony & Marvel Studios/Disney work together? Cap Cod has great white sharks Bullsharks are like modded Xboxes Great Moments in White Privilege: White folks mad at Chris Rock Slavery was a long time ago….so what? Admitting and recognizing mistakes doesn’t ...
• IC 331: Pants Down, Man Down
  Topics: Tyler Perry as Alex Cross Tyler Perry wants to branch out Every Black man wants to play Black Panther Don’t fuck up Black Panther Chris Nolan to be on the walk of fame Bad Internet music How to shoot a music video while at work Obama Care survives Mark Jackson gets blackmailed Fear ...
• IC 330: The Chitlin Circus
  Topics: Rod & the Summer of Bron The irrational sports fan The unfortunate Chris Bosh video Sometimes shit is just funny Dredd trailer Taken 2….sold Need 4 Speed The Movie Gym bans skinny people Fat People live the good life Getting bullied by middle school kids Kids are assholes Rape ...

Simple Climate

• Rich versus poor obstructs climate progress
  Though the 45,000 strong international Rio+20 meeting last month seemingly did little for climate change and the environment, social and economic issues must be resolved for such negotiations to be successful in future.
• Beefing down farming could cut carbon
  Changing our meat consumption habits, including switching from cow to pig farming, will be necessary to feed the world and allow plant-based biofuels and carbon capture to reduce CO2 emissions say Tom Powell and Tim Lenton at the University of Exeter.
• Climate change brings landscapes to their last ...
  Nature’s beauty means different things to each of us – but undoubtedly it burns some images onto our souls. Our favourite scenery is less constant than we sometimes suppose,  changing from day to day and season to season. But the slowest changes can be the most heartbreaking, eventua ...
• Hope from a surprising source that we can cont ...
  While the optimism of the first Rio 'Earth Summit' seems misplaced 20 years later, the world's scientists have outlined the challenges we need to tackle from consumption and population, and I found hope from an unlikely place that there's some chance we might be able to.
• Weather watching hits home with powerful warmi ...
  From hurricanes to heatwaves, Simple Climate has regularly reported on extreme weather events linked to global warming. This week I bring pictures from previous entries showing how these events and other more gradual changes are spread across the world, giving reasons close to home for all of us ...

e!Science News

• Poisons on public lands put wildlife at risk
  Rat poison used on illegal marijuana farms may be sickening and killing the fisher, a rare forest carnivore that makes its home in some of the most remote areas of California, according to a team of researchers led by University of California, Davis, veterinary scientists. read more
• How to make global fisheries worth 5 times mor ...
  Rebuilding global fisheries would make them five times more valuable while improving ecology, according to a new University of British Columbia study, published July 13 in the online journal PLoS ONE. read more
• Mutation in gene IDH a possible target for AML ...
  Many patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) share a mutation in a gene called IDH. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published this week in the journal Leukemia & Lymphoma shows that this IDH mutation may be the first domino in a chain that leads to a more aggressive form of t ...
• Getting amped
  Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have developed a new type of amplifier for boosting electrical signals. The device can be used for everything from studying stars, galaxies, and black holes to exploring the quantum world a ...
• UMD creates new tech for complex micro structu ...
  University of Maryland Chemistry Professor John Fourkas and his research group have developed new materials and nanofabrication techniques for building miniaturized versions of components needed for medical diagnostics, sensors and other applications. These miniaturized components -- many imposs ...

unEarthed

• Shell's Promise To Protect Arctic Lost At Sea
  Drilling proposals foreshadow larger struggle over Arctic Shell Oil’s Arctic drilling plans are premised on a growing legacy of broken promises regarding the company’s ability to protect the fragile Arctic from drilling ...
• Moapa vs. NV Energy or David vs. Goliath
  News report investigates coal ash pollution in Moapa For years, white ash has been blowing across the desert from the Reid Gardner Power Plant right into the homes on the Moapa Paiute Indian Reservation. The Paiutes claim that this ...
• U.S. Coal Industry Eyes Overseas Market
  Shifting economic realities push drive for West Coast coal export terminals Longview, Washington. (Editor's Note: This is the second blog in an ongoing series ...
• Friday Finds: Fracking Causes Ice Cream Headaches
  Plus: Toxic ships, seed wars and dirty produce (Shutterstock) Extreme gas drilling fracks up ice cream ingredient Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, may cau ...
• Unplugged: EnergyGuide Program Mysteries Unveiled
  In game of hide-and-seek online, consumers are winning When the Federal Trade Commission looked into energy efficiency labeling online, it found that retailer after retailer was failing to provide consumers with required informatio ...

Brave New Climate

• Does energy efficiency reduce emissions and pe ...
  Guest Post by Graham Palmer. Graham is an industrial engineer and energy commenter from Melbourne. For another BNC post featuring his work, see Coal dependence and the renewables paradox. This post summarises the findings of a paper just published in the peer-reviewed journal Sustainability by G ...
• Radio debate on nuclear power for addressing c ...
  Yesterday I debated nuclear energy and climate change on 891 ABC radio with Greens Senator Scott Ludlum, on the afternoon show hosted by Sonya Feldhoff. (It was a studio interview, so the audio quality is quite good.) We had a decent amount of time to cover off on issues, including answering cal ...
• Notes from the US of A
  I’ve been travelling internationally for the last few weeks. It’s been a productive time – I’ve drafted a complete paper intended for The Breakthrough Journal (more on this in a later post), increased and enhanced my network of professional connections and friendships, go ...
• Time for a reckoning, time for an apology
  Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was: Dietary Guidelines Committee ignores climate change. What’s the difference between the fear ...
• Small(ish) is beautiful
  This a new article written by Ben Heard and me in the SA Mines & Energy Journal (issue 23, pg 22-23), about the potential for small modular nuclear reactors. (Ben should get the primary authoring credit here — my job was to ‘enhance’ this one rather than lead the writing.) ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

• Man sets himself on fire at the end of Tel Avi ...
  An Israeli man was rushed to the hospital this evening (Saturday) after he set himself on fire at the end of a march calling for social justice in central Tel Aviv. According to police estimates, some 10,000 people marched, marking the first anniversary of the J14 movement’s inception. Aft ...
• The Wall, 10 years on / part 11: Security for ...
  The immediate trigger to start building the wall was the security of Israeli citizens. Ten years later, with all the known accumulated effects on Palestinians, nature, economy and political affairs – has the barrier fulfilled its stated goal for Israelis? Project photography: Oren Ziv / Activest ...
• NYTimes reporter among arrestees in West Bank ...
  In what seems to be an orchestrated campaign of detaining and deporting internationals, the IDF conducted targeted arrests during Friday demonstrations across the West Bank. By the Popular Struggle Committee Coordination Committee Four Israeli activists and six foreign citizens, including a New ...
• Why did progressive U.S. Jewish groups oppose ...
  Despite having an explicit anti-settlement position, J Street and Americans for Peace Now actively opposed the Presbyterian Church’s efforts to divest from companies that profit from the occupation. By doing so, they are standing in the way of the Palestinian stride for freedom. By Naftali ...
• Is the IDF the world’s most liberal inst ...
  If you read the international press and watch the images of female and gay soldiers, it can sometimes seem that way. Yet an institution cannot be separated from its main function. Our company’s staff sergeant at basic training was a short bald man, who used to terrorize us in our first day ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

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

Matt Weidner Blog

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

abelard - news

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

The Parallel Parliament

• Perhaps George Washington Was Right
  The following is my recent Huffington Post piece on the use of negative ads and their unintended consequences. It was …Continue reading »
• Humanity In An Image
  You can see why I was so affected immediately upon focusing your eyes on the picture. It’s from south Sudan …Continue reading »
• While the Sun Is Above Us
  Over the years, a lot has been made of the work Jane and I have undertaken in Sudan. Repeatedly the …Continue reading »
• Fox In The Henhouse
  My Huffington Post piece on Julian Fantino’s appointment as the new minister for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) created …Continue reading »
• Troubles Ahead For CIDA
  The following is my Huffington Post piece for today on the appointment of a new minister for the Canadian International …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

• Lost in the Maize
  Last September, I started posting my reflections on the weirdness of  academia – amongst other things – every Friday, under the title Lost in the Maize.  In part this was to document the shift from being a pseudo-academic to a real one.  But it was also to provide some motivation to ...
• NOVA Making Stuff, nanomaterials and a web-lac ...
  Next week sees the debut of the PBS science program NOVA’s new series Making Stuff – a four part special “exploring the materials that will shape our future”, hosted by NY Times technology columnist David Pogue. You may recall that I expressed some reservations over the p ...
• Obama’s 21st century regulatory system will de ...
  Cross posted from the Risk Science Center Blog: There’s a lot to like in President Obama’s perspective on 21st century regulation. Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, Obama outlines his thinking behind his new executive order to review and revise a convoluted and potentiall ...
• Building a sustainable future: World Economic ...
  “Technology doesn’t just happen” – people must be sick of hearing me say this.  Yet as chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies, it’s something I seem to end up saying rather a lot as we strive to help decision-leaders maximiz ...
• Nanotechnology – what web resources do you fin ...
  Over at the Risk Science Center blog, I have posted a request for help on web-based nanotechnology resources. Given that 2020 Science has such a nano-savvy readership, I thought I would cross-post the request here. If you have any suggestions on useful websites dealing with nanotechnology &#8211 ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

• Breaking weather records from a century ago on ...
  When weather records from a hundred years ago are broken it only proves that it was hotter/colder/stormier/wetter/drier or whatever long before man-made carbon dioxide emissions had even been though of.
• Spain to tax renewable energy
  Shares in most Spanish companies with large clean energy interests fell today as the Government announced plans to raise cash from renewable energy for the first time, a blow to an industry already struggling with subsidy cuts.
• Higgs Boson may not have been found after all. ...
  CERN may not have found the Higgs Boson after all.
• Apple dumps “green” certification ...
  Apple has removed its 39 products which were certified "green" in favour of design freedom. They said that their design direction was "no longer consistent" with the requirements.
• Solar influence confirmed by new high-res reco ...
  Solar insolation changes, resulting from long-term oscillations of orbital configurations, are an important driver of Holocene climate.

Left Foot Forward

• Look Left – Lords reform, the last PMQs before ...
  Shamik Das looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
• Look Left going out shortly – sign up to recei ...
  Look Left, our round up of the week’s politics, will be going out shortly.
• Pennycook: The ‘squeezed middle’ h ...
  All parties now agree that meeting the socio-economic challenges faced by Britain's low to middle income families is paramount. But how?
• Fox News: Fair and balanced (occasional series)
  Republican efforts to kill Obamacare with repeal bills are amounting to nothing, but it's not for want of support from America's most strident news outlet.
• New BBC DG has a great opportunity for change
  If new BBC Director General Entwistle succeeds in making the BBC more open, diverse and fair, questions about the justification for the licence fee should end.

Consumerist

• Visa, MasterCard Agree To Let Merchants Add Su ...
  Earlier this week, we told you that a settlement in a huge lawsuit between merchants and Visa and MasterCard was in the offing and that it could open the door to retailers tacking on surcharges to credit card customers. Well, that proposed settlement has come to pass, meaning you may soon be pay ...
• Shortages Force Paramedics To Use Expired Drugs
  Many of us have probably popped a pill or two that we knew had passed its expiration date. But when you get medical care from professionals, there is usually the expectation that you're getting the freshest stuff available. But a conspiracy of conditions has led to some emergency responders stoc ...
• Residents Cook Hot Dogs In Front Of Borough Ha ...
  If you live in Bellevue, PA, and want to do some grilling outside this summer, you'd better have a deep backyard, as a recently passed ordinance bans the use of grills within five feet of a house, porch or any other combustible material. Unhappy with the new rules, a few hundred people decided t ...
• TripAdvisor Smacked With $80K Fine For Violati ...
  TripAdvisor has fallen afoul of the U.S. Department of Transportation's rule about fare advertising, resulting in a fine of $80,000. The rule went into effect in January, and stated that ticket agents and airlines must display fares as the total of what a consumer will pay, taxes and fees includ ...
• Colorado Family Kept Out Of Own Home For 8 Mon ...
  Imagine coming home after being out of town for a few months only to find that your house has been taken over by squatters who claim they now own the property. Now imagine waiting eight months for a court to finally kick those squatters out. One family in Colorado doesn't have to imagine this ho ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Olympic Whistleblower Warns of Lax Security: D ...
  The Week UK: G4S Whistleblower – 50 Percent Chance of Olympics Bomb Summary: An expert who was employed by the 2012 London Olympics to train security staff has alleged that guards have missed mock bombs and weapons and says there is a “50 percent chance” of a bomb being carried into an Ol ...
• A Microfinance Whistleblower Tells the Painful ...
  *Note: GAP Legal Director Tom Devine and Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic author High Sinclair will be speaking tomorrow (Friday, July 13) at Politics and Prose. Both Confessions and Devine's book The Corporate Whistleblower's Survival Guide: A Handbook for Committing the Truth&nb ...
• Hip Hop Artist Pharrell Names EP 'Pink Slime': ...
  Hip Hop Artist Pharrell Names EP 'Pink Slime' After Ammoniated Beef Filler Summary: Hip hop singer and record producer Pharrell Williams titled his new record "Pink Slime" after the controversial ammoniated beef product. According to Pharrell's collaborator on the record, rapper Mac Mille ...
• More Coverage of Wall Street Wrongdoing Survey ...
  The New York Times: Wall Street Short on Ethics, Report Finds Summary: More coverage of the recent Labaton Sucharow (a law firm that works with investors and whistleblowers) survey that showed 26 percent of Wall Street workers surveyed had observed wrongdoing in the workplace. More than t ...
• Assange Asylum Bid Could Discredit Ecuador in ...
  ABC News (Australia): Assange Asylum Could Discredit Ecuador – Envoy Summary: The Ecuadorian ambassador in Washington, DC is concerned that if Ecuador decides to grant political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the decision “could be used to discredit Ecuador in the United Stat ...

UK Progressive

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

NewsAlert

• Oh great, yet another new EPA regulation makin ...
  Hot Air
• Why the Obama Campaign is Doing Worse Than It ...
  The New Republic reports:it’s not too early to say that Obama’s vital signs look dicey. Over the past 33 months, his job approval has been lower than George W. Bush’s at a comparable time in his presidency for all but one week. Bush averaged above 50 percent in the quarter before his successful ...
• Senator Harry Reid’s Part in Green-Energy Cron ...
  Townhall
• What Successful People Know About Weekends
  CBS Moneywatch
• Flashback: Jesse Jackson Jr. Paid By Mob-Linke ...
  Flashback to The Chicago Tribune November 10, 1995:A union plagued by allegations of mob ties paid the salary of 2nd Congressional District candidate Jesse Jackson Jr. for the last two years through a political partnership with the National Rainbow Coalition founded by his father, Jackson acknow ...

JoNova

• Monckton: The Counter-strategies to logic deni ...
  Two biology and environmental academics from Schenactady and Rensselaer Polytech New York were apparently concerned that their young prodigy might be lost from the religion of global warming (and misled by “Deniers”) so they put together together a guide to help others facing the ons ...
• NZ Scientists “stunned”, “sh ...
  The NZ Herald reports a new study showing that since 1988 there has been a sudden increase in the absorption of CO2 over land. It’s in the order of a billion tons of CO2 a year and amounts to 10% of all human emissions. As usual, the spinmeisters frame it in terms of our guilt instead of t ...
• My reply to Paul Bain: The name-caller is hurt ...
  Dear Paul, Thank you most sincerely for writing to reply to my email. Thank you for taking the time to contact Nature, and thank you for the recognition that the term “denier” causes offense. Do we also agree that the term denier fails basic English, and cannot be defined as a scient ...
• Queensland science is a mental construction
  I’m impressed (really quite surprised) that this made it to the top story of the front page of The Australian. The syllabus for Years 10 -12 science students in Queensland contains this nonsense. What is good about it though (see below) is how it forces influential science leaders in the c ...
• Dr Paul Bain replies about the use of the term ...
  Dr Paul Bain has replied to my second email to him which I do most appreciate. (For reference, see the letter he is replying to here: “My reply to Dr Paul Bain — on rational deniers and gullible believers” ). He deserves kudos for replying (it’s easier to ignore inconvenient em ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• Expert Opinion #1: Robert Sitler
  Recently I reached out to some of the most-read authors in the 2012 space, regardless of whether they agree with my doom’n'gloom mentality. I simply asked for a brief overview of what they think will happen in 2012 (if anything), and optionally, where they will be on Dec 21. First up, I&#8 ...
• Meteor Cluster Hits Murshidabad
  Meteors hit the ground like bullets, said local observers Balls of fire shooting from the sky accompanied by huge blast-like sounds The meteor shower was accompanied by earth tremors measuring 2.1 on the Richter Scale The pieces belong to a huge mass of around 30 metres in diameter which could h ...
• Why Would A Survival Group Want You?
  Across my websites, and from emails I receive, it is clear that there are thousands of people out there that would love to join a survival group. Most of them don’t seem to have much to offer, and typically fall into these categories: no money no specialized skills willing to “help ...
• How To Tell People The Sky Is Falling?
  Asteroids and comets represent, in the long-term, very serious threats to modern civilization. And little is being done about it. NASA spends a tiny amount of money looking for Near Earth Objects. A couple of non-government organizations are researching the best ways to prevent a collision. A th ...
• I’m Not Keen On Guns…
  In Australia, semi-automatic weapons are rare and unusual (and illegal). So I consider them to be beyond my reach – which is fine seeing as I can’t see me using a gun in the every day world. But if the SHTF, I might need to become gun savvy quick smart. If I were in America, and I ch ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

• Nepal parties draw roadmap to promulgate const ...
  A `mini Parliament` attended by representatives from all political parties and ethnic groups, has recommended a roadmap to promulgate the Constitution by reinstating the c for a 'brief period'. Reported by Zee News 3 hours ago
• SP cadres behind deteriorating law and order: BJP
  BJP alleged that law and order can`t improve in the state without reining in the SP workers. Reported by Zee News 3 hours ago
• Overburdened state transport drivers unfit to ...
  Post-Mane madness, Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation had conducted medical check-up of its entire staff. Reported by DNA 8 hours ago
• Kerry Kennedy held for driving under influence ...
  Kerry Kennedy, the ex-wife of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and a daughter of Robert F Kennedy, was arrested after a traffic accident on Friday on charges of driving while impaired by drugs, the state police said Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
• Will Paresh Rawal be the face of evil yet again?
  The veteran actor dons a menacing look for his forthcoming film, Table No 21Paresh Rawal made an entry into Bollywood as a baddie in the Sunny Deol-starrer Arjun. Reported by Bollywood Life 3 hours ago

Global Research TV

• Arms & Cash Flow to Syria Rebels Must Stop to ...
• Lost Lightning: The Missing Secrets Of Nikola ...
• Syria 'Friends' Fuel Murder with Promises of W ...
• UN Should Investigate Arms Smuggling into Syria
• Clinton: Russia and China "will pay" for Suppo ...

Daily Tech

• NVIDIA: We've Been Hacked, User Records Lost
  Fortunately passwords appear to have been strongly hashed
• MIT Enhances LCD 3D TV Experience Without Glasses
  The system is called a Tensor Display, and it uses many layers of liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) to create a better 3D image
• Virgin Galactic Announces "LauncherOne" Rocket ...
  Four private companies have paid deposits in order to use the LauncherOne in the future
• FCC, DOJ Worried About Verizon's "Noncompete" ...
  Federal agency says collusive agreement could sink otherwise acceptable sale of LTE spectrum
• Apple Retreats, Admits That Pulling EPEAT Cert ...
  Apple's Bob Mansfield takes the blame for EPEAT SNAFU

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

• San Antonio-style Crispy Dogs with Bacon-Jalap ...
  [Editor's Note: One of my favorite aspects of travel is learning new regional food specialties, whether they're high-falutin' dishes or fantastic street food. I had never heard of these San Antonio crispy dogs, but they sound great to me, particularly late at night. (Heartburn? What heartburn?) ...
• How Do We Trust Others in a Virtual World?
  At Emergent by Design a fascinating essay about independence from money, trust, culture, social DNA, and language will give you a quick look at some ideas that are becoming more important as our social lives are conducted more and more in a virtual environment. Writer Venessa Miemis explains, If ...
• BlogHer '12 New Sponsor Announcements!
  We have so many amazing new sponsors for BlogHer '12 that we want to share with you! Our annual conference wouldn't be possible without these awesome sponsors. Read on to hear a little bit from this week's new sponsors. Best Buy Best Buy -- Making Technology Work for You Best Buy, a leading m ...
• Are Weddings Natural Disasters?
  Editor's Note: In an effort to stay relevant, the CDC has been trying various methods of getting the public's attention. Their most successful to date is last year's zombie apocalypse preparedness plan, which used the scenario to get important points across to the zombie-loving web. Looking to t ...
• Depression and Drugs: A Trend in Beauty Blogging?
  Editor's Note: xoJane -- a site created by the founder of Sassy magazine and targeted to young women -- has been the subject of controversy time and again, mostly due to the antics of its health and beauty editor, Cat Marnell. When Marnell and the site parted ways, it was speculated that this ha ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Friday roundup, July 13, 2012
  A miner sings during the coal miners march to the Minister of Industry building in Madrid, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Coal miners angered by cuts in subsidies converged on Madrid Tuesday for protest rallies, after walking nearly three weeks under a blazing sun from the pits where they eke out a l ...
• Black lung is back: Where is the outrage?
  A marcher holds a grim message during a black lung rally. Photographer and date unknown, courtesy of West Virginia and Regional History Collection, West Virginia University Libraries. Earlier this week, when I heard that Sen. Joe Manchin was heading to the floor for what his office said would be ...
• Power lines: Will W.Va. PSC step up on reliabi ...
  We published a story in today’s Gazette print edition (it’s online here) about an issue that’s been mostly ignored by other mainstream media, despite the endless amounts of coverage devoted to the June 29 “derecho” storm and its lingering power outage impacts across ...
• Special report: The new face of black lung
  A marcher holds a grim message during a black lung rally. Photographer and date unknown, courtesy of West Virginia and Regional History Collection, West Virginia University Libraries. Anybody who cares about worker health and safety issues is following the fantastic series of articles being prod ...
• Tuesday roundup, July 3, 2012
  I’m still catching up on the news following some time off, and obviously here in West Virginia the big story remains the aftermath of last Friday’s terrible “dereche” storm that hit our state and some neighboring areas.  Thousands of residents remain without power. The st ...

Daniel Miessler

• Preparing to Build Burp Extensions | Console C ...
  This quick blog post will document getting started with developing Burp extensions using java. Burp provides interfaces for developers to hook into the Burp application and extend the application or integrate with other tools, this interface is documented on the following site - http://port ...
• Fewer Nicer Things | Allen Tucker
  Overpaying means getting exactly what you need, often custom made to your specs, not some imaginary average person. At the end of the day you end up with a very few items that you deeply love, rather than a house stuffed with junk that is worthless to you a year later.  Life is simpler. via ...
• Hitchens Speaking About Death Towards the End ...
  via youtube.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related Content‪Hitchens on the Catholic ChurchNeil deGrasse Tyson on the Death of American DreamsHow Not to Do a PresentationSoul Food | Key & Peele‘The Star Wars That I Used To Know’
• Some of Sam Harris’ Best Points
  via youtube.com Harris is the new Russell. Mine anyway. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentSam Harris on Free WillSam Harris Answers Reddit’s QuestionsHarris Gives The Single Best Summary of Why Religious Belief is HarmfulWicked Table Tennis Points fro ...
• Flirting With Android Again: Galaxy S III
  I am demoing a Samsung Galaxy S III. It’s the new flagship Android device, and I like a lot about it. The screen is stunning and call quality actually seems better on it. It’s also on AT&T’s 4G network, which I’ve honestly noticed when using a speed test app, actually ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• Worldwide Hippies Digest Saturday
• UN experts on enforced disappearances…
  Worldwide Hippiess/CJE,United Nations – Independent United Nations human rights experts on enforced or involuntary disappearances reviewed more than 200 cases concerning over 30 countries during the session that ended today. The five-member UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearan ...
• Revolution 99 Updates: Rush to Sensationalize ...
  Rush to Sensationalize “Occupy Murder Link” Leads to Major Media Mistakes; Where are Retractions?Despite dubious, anonymous sourcing and the total lack of evidence to implicate Occupy Wall Street protesters, the media jumped on the would-be scandal. Media outlets scrambled over thems ...
• Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Saturday
  5-mile-long landslide in Alaska national park; warming eyed as possible culpA massive landslide sent tons of rock and debris tumbling more than five miles down a glacier in Alaska, the National Park Service reported in an event that could be yet another sign of a warming world. Located in a remo ...
• X-class solar flare eruption could make for da ...
  By Joe McEvoy,Worldwide Hippies/CJE – The strongest solar storm of the summer so far will send a huge wave of charged particles toward the earth that could supercharge northern lights displays, NASA scientists say. Pretty lights aside: The strength and head on direction toward earth presen ...

reference frame

• Sheldon Glashow on apocalypse
  Promoting hysteria during a visit of the skeptical nation of Czechia Nobel laureate Sheldon Glashow whom I know pretty well from various parties (and from Sidneyfest where I took his picture used at Wikipedia: the fingers standing on the shoulder of the giant belong to Kenneth Lane) – a ...
• ATLAS: a 2.5-sigma stop squark excess
  A week ago, I discussed an intriguing excess of events in the CMS' search for top partners. Some graphs showed clear excesses that were not discussed in the paper and unusual arguments to ignore parts of the parameter space were employed. What about the CMS' competitors, ATLAS? Do they s ...
• Have we observed the Higgs imposter?
  Dozens of outlets including The Daily Mail were attracted by an interesting paper with a catchy title, Have We Observed the Higgs (Imposter)?by Ian Low, Joseph Lykken, and Gabe Shaughnessy. Having had the office next to Ian for quite some time, I know him rather well. ;-) Ian Low ...
• Land biosphere's absorption of CO2 skyrockets
  The Global Warming Policy Foundation has pointed out seemingly sensational news reports that are however confined to New Zealand (you should ask why), to media outlets such as The New Zealand Herald. A landscape in New Zealand. You should rotate your LCD panel by 180 degrees to hav ...
• Should experimenters bet on their own experiments?
  Tommaso Dorigo of CMS indirectly tells us that his ex-wife he recently divorced has a pretty good lawyer: The SM Rules: Four Bets Won, $1200 ClaimedSo one of the things he urgently needs is $1,200. He would like to declare victory in two or four of his 2006 bets. And no, they're not Higgs b ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

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

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

• Study shows fracking can pollute
  By Alex Formuzis, VP for Media Relations A new water quality study near gas drilling operations in northeastern Pennsylvania counters natural gas industry claims that gas and hydraulic fracturing chemicals can't seep into the drinking water of nearby... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
• Hill politics churns small streams
  By T.J. Pepping, EWG Safe Drinking Water Intern Are smaller, upstream water bodies such as intermittent streams covered by the federal Clean Water Act? This is not an insignificant question: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has determined that... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
• Pick the best sunscreen for kids
  By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Analyst I have happy memories of long summer days spent outdoors, largely unencumbered by sun hats, sunglasses and sunscreen. Now we know that one blistering burn during childhood can increase a child's risk of developing... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
• EWG's 2012 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Pr ...
  Well, as we do each year, EWG released (on June 19) the latest Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce and as we suspected, eaters around the country are still concerned about high levels of toxic pesticide residue on their fruits... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
• Peanut Butter, Pajamas and Power
  By Heather White, chief of staff, Environmental Working Group My kids eat more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches than I'd like to admit. And in my line of work I hear about toxic chemicals daily so it takes a lot... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• 'Universal 100': A history of troubled outside ...
• Yayoi Kusama's fascinating obsessions
• A Republican retirement from the State Senate ...
• 'That's not Peyton Manning back there'
• Remember when Eli Manning panicked?

Views & News from Norway

• More football players face charges
  Police in Oslo charged another player for the Follo football club on Friday, plus a player for the Asker club. Both young men were brought in for questioning on suspicions they were involved in match-fixing and receiving money for results believed to have been manipulated. The arrests follow tha ...
• Local wolf wandered far
  A wolf that was spotted several times in the Oslo area last winter and spring has since wandered several hundred kilometers to the north, according to a newsletter from Rovdata, which monitors predators in Norway. The wolf was spotted by several people in the forest on Oslo’s east side kno ...
• Most new residents come from elsewhere in Europe
  Nearly 25,000 citizens from countries within the European Economic Area (the EU plus Iceland and Liechtenstein) registered themselves as resident in Norway during the first half of this year. Another 17,500 persons from outside the European area received residence permission as well. The numbers ...
• Reindeer plagued by darts
  Someone apparently started using some wandering reindeer in northern Norway as a dart board last week. Police have been called in to investigate after two male reindeer started acting unusually aggressive towards children, reports newspaper Finnmark Dagblad. The mayor of Hammerfest himself, Alf ...
• Norwegian workers work a lot
  Most Norwegians enjoy relatively short workdays, at least five paid weeks of holiday a year and generous provisions for paid leave because of illness, family issues or professional training and education. Nonetheless, a new survey shows they’re among those working more than most of their c ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• The Rise and Fall and Rise of Great Public Spaces
  Why we need parks, streetlife, squares, markets, trails, community gardens and other hang-outs more than ever. by Jay Walljasper, On the Commons All photographs © Craig Mackintosh It’s a dark and wintry night in Copenhagen, and the streets are bustling. The temperature stands ...
• Permaculture, a Step by Step Change
  To me, the simple idea of changing from an energy guzzling, water polluting, fertilizer junkie to a full ecological ‘Permie’ was just bogus. So far, it has proven impossible to make the full change in the last three years. I want to share with you some of my thoughts, ideas and frus ...
• I Am (Video)
  I think you’ll find this documentary highly watchable. At least, I did. So, be warned — if you click play ten minutes before heading off to work, you may well be late… I am, written and directed by Tom Shadyac, stands in stark contrast to his previous productions. Tom is w ...
• Upcoming Jordan Courses with Geoff and Nadia L ...
  If you live in the northern hemisphere and want to take a course with Geoff and Nadia Lawton, but don’t want the expense and carbon footprint of travelling to Australia to do so, then consider heading to Jordan, site of the last International Permaculture Conference (IPC10), instead. H ...
• Compost Teas and Extracts: Brewin’ and Bubblin ...
  by Rob Avis Permaculturists everywhere are crazy about their compost teas and extracts. They have turned building compost tea brewers into a science and concocting the perfect tea recipe into an art. We love our compost brews too, and since we’re always getting questions about the compost ...

Pointman's

• Is climate science just a belief?
  The alarmists in the climate debate have what they think of as this magic ace of trumps card, called peer review. If they actually knew something about the peer review process, perhaps they’d realise it isn’t a guarantee of anything much. It really isn’t. In brief, the process ...
• Worried about climate change? Meh.
  Climate alarmism pushes a blinding variety of scares at the general public; Polar bears going extinct, droughts of biblical proportions, massive Noah’s ark type flooding, glaciers melting, sea levels rising, sea levels dropping, the polar ice caps melting, your Granny’s knicker elast ...
• The Nigger Word.
  There’s been a bit of a furore recently about a supposedly prestigious science journal running a paper that was peppered with the word nigger. The editor, of what can only be referred to as a rag now, even came up with a fatuous reply to the resultant criticism, which when stripped of the ...
• The Nigger Word.
  There’s been a bit of a furore recently about a supposedly prestigious science journal running a paper that was peppered with the word nigger. The editor, of what can only be referred to as a rag now, even came up with a fatuous reply to the resultant criticism, which when stripped of the ...
• Mullering the data.
  There is this new sort of creature who’s emerged in the climate debate in the last year or two. Unsurprisingly, they all seem to spring from the alarmist side, but they all have one of those comfortably recognisable patterns of behaviour that I quite like. I’ll freely admit I’v ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Homelessness, Displacement, Evictions . . . Th ...
  There are a number of obvious parallels between housing needs in New Orleans after the 2005 hurricanes and housing needs in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. In both disasters, large regions lost the majority of their affordable housing stock, resulting in massive spikes in homelessness and ...
• Junebug Productions Welcomes Stephanie McKee a ...
  From our friends at Junebug Productions: The Board of Directors of Junebug Productions, Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Stephanie V. McKee to the position of Artistic Director, effective July 1, 2012.  Junebug Productions, founded by John O'Neal in 1980, is the organizati ...
• Beasts of the Southern Wild, A Hollywood Film ...
  Earlier versions of this article originally were distributed via Agence France Presse, and in Louisiana Weekly. The Gulf Coast loses a football field of land every 45 minutes, and much of that loss happens in the bayous of Southern Louisiana, where roads disappear into canals, winding their way ...
• Backlash Mounts as the Louisiana Supreme Court ...
  From a press release sent out today: Justice Bernette Joshua Johnson, who has served as an Associate Justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court for nearly two decades, is poised to assume the office of Chief Justice in February 1, 2013, upon the retirement of the current chief justice. She fol ...
• Structurally Unemployed Workers Deliver Junete ...
  From our friends at the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice: Stand with Dignity Commemorated Juneteenth by delivering a proclamation to New Orleans City Council and Mayor. "The 20 people who arrived at City Hall today with Stand were there to deliver a message to our city that we a ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Rabbi: "After a long day of selling kidneys, I need something to help me relax...."Statistics: Posted by Christopher Marlowe — Sat Jul 14, 2012 12:27 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  yes but duke is using universalism in his material. it removes the moral ground from the jew. if he doesnt support israel did 911 he should however....but my above point is still valid. the jew must not be allowed anywhere left to run.Statistics: Posted by mgt23 — Sat Jul 14, 2012 11:41 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Thanks, that's really funny Statistics: Posted by bluejelly — Sat Jul 14, 2012 11:39 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Who's an agent? Duke is soft on too many issues, he does not acknowledge Israel did 911.Statistics: Posted by bluejelly — Sat Jul 14, 2012 11:33 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  .......now contrast him say with David Duke. Given a choice I would support Duke anyday. While Herzl claimed that the establishment of a "Jewish" state would cure anti-Semitism, he also promoted anti-Semitism to further his cause. Herzl stated in his diary: “It is essential that the ...

TVNZ

• Romney demands Obama apologise over attacks
  Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has struck back against attacks over his business record that are pulling him further away from his campaign message that the White House is mishandling the economy
• Suicide bomber kills 22 at Afghan wedding
  A suicide bomber blew himself up at a wedding reception in northern Afghanistan today.
• Trayvon Martin's killer seeks new judge
  The man charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin asked for a new judge in his case today.
• JPMorgan claws back pay from dismissed traders
  JPMorgan Chase said it has dismissed without severance pay or 2012 bonuses the three managers in its London office.
• Syria quietly moves chemical weapons, US says
  Syria appears to be quietly shifting some chemical weapons from storage sites, but it is not clear why.

environment 360

• Majority of Americans Believe Climate is Warmi ...
  The majority of Americans believe the climate is getting warmer and that global weather patterns are becoming more unstable, according to a new poll. In a poll conducted by the Washington Post and Stanford University last month, six in 10 respondents said that weather patterns have been more uns ...
• Urban Noise May Increase Mortality of Songbird ...
  A new study says that urban noise may cause an increase in mortality among young sparrows, suggesting that adult birds are less able to hear their hungry offspring above the clamor of their surrounding environment. In a long-term study conducted on a small, remote island off the UK coast, scient ...
• Increase in Mountain Roads Causing Environment ...
  The rapid expansion of roads across the rural mountains of Southeast Asia often triggers unintended environmental consequences that in many cases Roy C. Sidle Logging roads in Myanmar undermine the socioeconomic benefits, according to an article in the journal Nature Geoscience. While interna ...
• The Dead Sea is Dying: Can A Controversial Pla ...
  The Dead Sea — the lowest terrestrial point on the planet — is dropping at an alarming rate, falling more than 1 meter a year. A $10 billion proposal to pipe water from the Red Sea is being opposed by conservationists, who point to alternatives that could help save one of the world’s great natur ...
• New Technique ‘Sees Through’ Clouds to Measure ...
  U.S. scientists say they have developed a technique to measure atmospheric levels of pollution, including soot, with satellite technology even when skies are cloud-covered. While clouds typically impair a remote-sensing NASA Clouds over the coastline of Chile and Peru satellite’s ability to d ...

oldephartte/Diigo

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

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

• Citizens United’s Newest Critic
  Richard Posner is the most influential conservative judge outside the Supreme Court. And he thinks its campaign-finance ruling encourages bribery. James Warren on Posner's latest shot—and Scalia's gun love.
• Spain's Austerity Fat Cats
  As Spaniards suffer under austerity measures, the country's leaders are raking in lavish salaries and perks.
• Socialized Medicine in Action
  Obamacare has its critics on the left too, waiting to emerge.
• Bain: The Debate You Have When You Don't Have ...
  In my column for the National Post, I explain my frustration with attacking Romney for his time at Bain Capital:
• Freida Pinto Can’t Stop Smiling
  India’s first bona fide Hollywood star in ages tells Jacob Bernstein about never saying ‘no’ in ‘Trishna.’

Loonwatch

• 79 Percent of Muslims say Christianity Should ...
  The results suggested that people of different religions would rather there is some kind of faith-based framework to life in Britain, even if it is not based on their own religion.
• Islamophobia: Orwellian ‘Doublespeak&#82 ...
  Islamophobia is only unclear to those who seek to obfuscate its meaning. It ‎is the tendency to reify Islam.
• James Bloodworth’s Problem with Islamophobia
  Bloodworth's article is a little late: "Islamophobia" as a term to describe anti-Muslim prejudice and irrational fears about Islam is mainstream.
• Rep. Mike Rogers, House GOP Intel Chair Endors ...
  Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) appeared to endorse Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) paranoid quest to root out the Muslim Brotherhood’s alleged infiltration of the U.S. government.
• Owen Jones: Islamophobia – For Muslims, ...
  It's time for Muslims and non-Muslims alike to join forces against the most widespread – and most acceptable – form of bigotry of our times.

Energy News

• Physician: I’ve surfed all over the world and ...
• Analyst on Fukushima Reactors: What’s happenin ...
• Family 100 km from Fukushima Daiichi: 4, 7, an ...
• NHK: Gov’t experts suggest suppression chamber ...
• Nuclear Expert: Melted nuclear core could go u ...

Japan Times

• Downward trend in drinking
  When Japanese men cut spending on drinking, something is wrong. A recent survey of male workers aged 20 to 59 by Shinsei Financial Co. found that spending on alcohol has fallen to its lowest level since the survey started in 1999. Of course, that drop has more to do with a change in the outloo ...
• Life up in the treetops
  Imagine strolling through a forest and coming across a hut supported by four trees 8 meters off the ground. With its triangular roof, stained-glass door panels and timber decking, at first sight it's like something in a fairyland. This is, however, the latest lofty abode built by Takashi Kobay ...
• "The Future of Earth! Urgent Coverage!"; Heroi ...
  Monday is a holiday, and Nippon TV will air a 90-minute special in the afternoon about sustainability called "Chikyu no Mirai! Kinkyu Shuzai!" ("The Future of Earth! Urgent Coverage!"; 2:55 p.m.), hosted by popular announcer Seiji Miyane. The special looks at secrets to future survival for the ...
• Japan targets ASEAN ties amid Chinese friction
  Japan, still mired in the economic doldrums, is trying more than ever to strengthen ties with ASEAN members, counting on their rapid economic expansion and growing clout as it faces an increasingly assertive China. Friction over competing claims in the South China Sea was the hot-button issue ...
• Vissel earn tie against Ardija
  Vissel Kobe continued their revival under manager Akira Nishino as substitute Yuzo Tashiro pounced to claim a 2-2 draw with Omiya Ardija on Saturday. Vissel arrived at Nack5 Stadium looking for their fourth win in five games after hiring former J.League and Asian Champions League title-winning ...

Alexander Higgins

• DHS Warns Hackers Targeting Millions Of Machin ...
  DHS says hackers are now targeting software used to manage millions of machines and electronic devices, including home security, fire and energy systems.
• Disgusting Transcipt Reveals FED Assisted Bank ...
  A disgusting NY Fed transcript reveals the Federal Reserve was helping the global banking cartel run a key interest rate manipulation scam.
• Congress Now Trying To Outlaw Reporting On Gov ...
  Lawmakers are pushing legislation through Congress that will criminalize reporting on illegal activities and corruption in the US government.
• US Syria, Israel Hypocrisy Exposed By AP Reporter
  An AP reporter calls out the Feds for engaging in the selective use of Human Rights reports to push Imperialistic foreign policy.
• The most honest three and a half minutes of te ...
  Beginning scene of the new HBO series The Newsroom explaining why America's Not the Greatest Country Any Longer... But It Can Be.

Macleans - Central

• Red hot summer
  While the honouring of Norman Bethune continues to cause a minor fuss, Elizabeth May...
• Breaking: The 2011 election was maybe a real t ...
  The CBC investigates. After the last federal election some observers felt the NDP had...
• The cheapest detached houses in Canada’s 7 big ...
  Bargain hunters, take note. Here are a few fixer-uppers.
• The shouting continues
  Bal Gosal was interrupted again this morning. See previously: Another news conference crashed, Bal...
• The federal government appeals BC’s assi ...
  Justice Minister Rob Nicholson announces an appeal of the British Columbia Supreme Court’s ruling...

Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

• 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 ...

Physics Today

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

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Peakwater

• Zimbabwe: As Piped Water Dries Up, City Dwelle ...
  “Bulawayo — Samukeliso Tshuma, a 33-year old mother of four, lives in one of Bulaway’s teeming high density urban townships, but these days gets her water the same way rural dwellers do – from a borehole well. This is “something I never imagined I would be doing,” s ...
• Dead Zone Pollution Is Growing Despite Decades ...
    “Washing off farms and yards, nitrate is largely responsible for the Gulf of Mexico’s infamous “dead zone.” Nitrate and other nutrients from the vast Mississippi River basin funnel into the Gulf, sucking oxygen out of the water and killing almost everything in their path. The pollut ...
• China Brings Dams Back To Africa
  “Mike Muller is a South African water expert, engineer and writer on development issues. He is also commissioner at South Africa’s National Planning Commission and a visiting professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg; a member of the Global Water Partnership’s Techni ...
• Tourism Impacts Gambian Water Supply
  “Unregulated water consumption at tourist resorts in Gambia threatens water access and livelihoods of the country’s residents, according to a report released Monday by the U.K.-based group Tourism Concern. “Rachel Noble, the organization’s head of policy and research, said one of the ...
• Let civic agency manage Delhi’s water supply
  “At a time when the national capital is reeling under a water crisis, mayor of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation Meera Aggarwal Friday said the civic agency should be given back its task of managing water supply in the city. “The Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled corporation strongly ...

D. Kucinich

• New York Fed Aware of Libor Manipulation
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after documents released by the New York Federal Reserve Bank, at the request of the Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, revealed that the Fed knew that the London Interba ...
• Kucinich Asks Ohio Secretary of State to Help ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today wrote to Ohio Secretary of State John Husted strongly encouraging the Secretary to “vote for democracy in the matter of whether or not the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections follows precedent in keeping polls open the final two weekends” before the Novemb ...
• Kucinich Explains “LIBOR”
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released a video on YouTube explaining the “LIBOR scandal” and why it is important to everyone who participates in the economy. Kucinich explained in easily understandable language what the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is, how it affects world ma ...
• On 11th Anniversary of Department Of Peace Kuc ...
  On the 11th anniversary of initial introduction of H.R. 808, to create a Cabinet-level Department of Peace, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today challenged our nation’s reliance on violence and encouraged all Americans to live a personal commitment to peace. See the video here. The full te ...
• Kucinich Calls Health Care Debate Political Th ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today called the latest in the more than 30 votes so far in this Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act as nothing more than political theater. See the video here. The full text of Congressman Kucinich’s remarks follow. “Before the Affordable Care Act was ...

Authentically Wired

• call me a “doubting-thomas” where& ...
  …if this is not just smoke and mirrors and will not harm my body in any way … I’m all for it … but call me a “doubting-thomas” where’s the proof New chemical makes teeth ‘cavity proof’ – and could do away with dentist visits forever The chemical could even be added to foo ...
• ”the” Donald like all good story t ...
  …”the” Donald like all good story tellers only gives you those portion of the story which highlight and accentuate him leaving the efforts of others who prop him up and bailed his butt out never mentioned … like you and me ..   Exposing How Donald Trump Really Made His Fortune: Inheri ...
• OUR ELECTIONS ARE NO MORE FAIR THAN THE ONE ME ...
  … HOW MANY COMPUTER EXPERTS NEED TO TESTIFY BEFORE “WE” DEMAND THOSE WE ELECTED TO SERVE AND TO PROTECT US ACTULLY DO JUST THAT … YES … UTILIZING COMPUTERS ONLY OUR ELECTIONS ARE NO MORE FAIR THAN THE ONE MEXICO JUST CONCLUDED …   Not Again! How Our Voting System Is Ripe For Theft and ...
• EMBARASSMENT TO ARIZONA
  …IT’S NOT JUST GOP TEA PARTY GOVERNOR JAN BREWER WHO IS AN EMBARASSMENT TO ARIZONA IT’S OUR REPUBLICAN TEA-PARTY CONGRESSMEN LIKE TRENT FRANKS … WHERE’S THE PROOF, DUDE …? Arizona Representative Trent Franks Accuses Obama Administration of Being Infiltrated by Muslim Brotherhood   &#1 ...
• we keep electing the same dopes
  …OK … but when we keep electing the same dopes to represent us over and over and over again … Einstein noted that doing the same thing over and over and over again expecting different results is INSANITY … and our actions would suggest we are insane …. 92% of Americans want GMO labels on [...]

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• Building indigenous resilience in the face of ...
  In the 1980s images of loincloth-clad tribesmen blockading blocking logging roads in Malaysian Borneo shocked the world. But while their protests captured the spotlight momentarily, Borneo's forests continued to be destroyed at rapid rates, undermining traditional communities that are dependent ...
• In pictures: Rainforests to palm oil
  In late May I had the opportunity to fly from Kota Kinabalu in Malaysian Borneo to Imbak Canyon and back. These are some of my photos. Historically Borneo was covered by a range of habitats, including dense tropical rainforests, swampy peatlands, and natural grasslands. But its lowland forests h ...
• Saving Indonesia's monkey with a heart-shaped ...
  North Sulawesi is one of the world's most beautiful places. Verdant forests and stunning coral reefs, combined with high levels of species endemism, make it a top biodiversity hotspot. But pressure on the region's natural resources is mounting. Mining projects, conversion of forests for plantati ...
• The rarest rhino's last stand
  Trekking through deep mud and sawgrass we find a stinking wallow. The elite rangers, dressed completely in black despite the tropical heat, mark the site with the GPS unit, measure the mucky puddle's depth, and move on. This is the first sign of one of the planet's rarest animals—the Javan ...
• Indonesia revises moratorium map; makes contes ...
  Indonesia is making 'encouraging' progress on its push to reduce deforestation by improving governance over its forests and peatlands, but still needs to do more to enforce environmental laws, said the head of the country's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) task force ...

Science - NZ Herald

• South American eruption reveals lessons for NZ
  New Zealand could learn vital lessons from how Chile and Argentina dealt with the volcanic eruption of Puyehue-Cordon Caulle last year, scientists say.After a field trip to South America, researchers found that a volcanic eruption...
• Kiwis share their Mars experience
  After 14 days wearing spacesuits in a simulated mission, the first Kiwis sent to live on "Mars" have spoken of their experiences in an alien environment.The six-person crew of three men and three women entered a simulated spacecraft...
• Pushing high-value growth
  The Government flagship innovation body, the Advanced Technology Institute, will get off to a slow start unless businesses get on board, says the Employers and Manufacturers Association.The Government announced the structure of...
• Meet Bob Marley the ocean parasite
  A tiny blood-sucking parasite that infests fish on Caribbean coral reefs has been named after Jamaican reggae star Bob Marley.The parasite was discovered a decade ago off the US Virgin Islands but it was only recently unveiled as...
• Smallest moon yet seen around ex-planet Pluto
  Pluto may have been kicked out of the planet club, but it has gained yet another companion.Scientists announced Wednesday the discovery of the smallest moon yet around the icy orb, bringing the count of its known moons to five."We're...

The Bovine

• Did the ancient Africans milk cows?
  From Thomas H. Maugh II, in the Los Angeles Times: “Residues of milk fat on pottery indicate that Africans in what is now the Sahara desert were milking cows and processing the milk into cheese, yogurt and other products 7,000 years ago, European researchers reported … Continue readi ...
• How the NY Times went too far…
  From Tom Philpott, on Mother Jones: “In a much-discussed feature that led the Sunday New York Times business section, Stephanie Strom reignites the long-simmering debate about whether the organic label has been essentially bought out and drained of meaning by gigantic corporations. She par ...
• The very model of a post-modern raw milk dairy ...
  From David E. Gumpert on The Complete Patient blog: “Sally Fallon has long been the whipping girl of raw milk opponents, portrayed as uncaring of victims of illness from raw dairy and an advocate of crazy safety ideas, like the … Continue reading →
• One big step for big city farming
  From Colleen Kimmett in The Tyee: “Nearly 3,000 rectangular planter boxes, which stand out in varying shades of green and brown against a concrete parking lot, make for an impressive sight when viewed from high above on the Georgia Street … Continue reading →
• FTCLDF: Big hearts for small farms
  From Kimberly Hartke on her “Hartke is Online” blog: “This week, The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund is celebrating its 5th Anniversary. Tomorrow, Geoffrey and Sally Morell will host a lovely ‘Birthday” party for the Fund at their P.A. Bowen Farmstead, … Continue read ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Extreme Drought Hits Much of US; 1000 Counties ...
  Corn, soybean and wheat prices have soared lately due to poor crop estimates amid extreme drought conditions in 26 states. Let's take a look at those conditions, followed by charts of agricultural commodities The Atlantic Wire reports U.S. Declares the Largest Natural Disaster Area Eve ...
• Notes From Steve Keen on "Lending Reserves" an ...
  In response to Can Bernanke Force Banks to Lend by Halting Interest on Excess Reserves?, Australian economist Steve Keen pinged me with the following ...  Cheers Mate That "increase reserves to increase lending" argument is so hard to shake, but reserves can't be lent from simply ...
• Can Bernanke Force Banks to Lend by Halting In ...
  Several readers have ask me to comment on a King World interview of Michael Pento. Before I offer my comments on Pento's thoughts, let me say upfront that Eric King is a world-class interviewer. King lets his interviewees have their say, no matter what it is. It is up to listeners to d ...
• Demographic Time Bomb in Pictures and Dollar A ...
  Here is a chart from reader Tim Wallace showing social security and disability stats for June of 2012 compared to June in prior years. click on chart for sharper image Chart shows those receiving benefits. Those not in the labor force claiming a disability is much higher. N ...
• Car Maker Peugeot to Cut 8,000 Jobs, Close Pla ...
  Citing a plunge in auto sales, Peugeot to Cut 8,000 Jobs, Close Plant  French carmaker Peugeot Citroen has set out plans to cut 8,000 jobs and close an assembly plant outside Paris as losses mount.  Last week, Peugeot said its first-half sales had fallen 13% amid a "profound c ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• Insubordinate Fairstar Board Members Are About ...
  The board members at Fairstar Heavy Transport had better start polishing up their resumes because Dockwise is about to kick them all out on to the street. Today, Dockwise announced [...]
• “Maneuvering Error” Caused Alaskan Ferry Slam
  The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT&PF) and the Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) found that the May 7, 2012 allision of the M/V Matanuska with the Ocean [...]
• Damen Launches Wind Farm Service Vessels for S ...
  Last week, two twin axe catamarans of the successful Damen FCS 2610 type have been launched at Damen’s newbuilding yard in Singapore. Both vessels will be completed in the coming [...]
• Maritime Salaries Rise Despite Industry Woes [ ...
  Maritime and offshore industry recruitment group, Faststream, has released their annual Maritime Salary Review, looking at salary trends across a number maritime and offshore sectors. The report, based on responses [...]
• Too Much Dry Bulk Tonnage, Capesize Rates Cont ...
  (Bloomberg) — Daily rates for the largest commodity carriers fell for a fourth session amid a surplus of available ships to haul cargoes. Returns for Capesizes, the largest ships hauling [...]

Press TV

• Saudis fear Bahrain revolution spillover
  Tension in Bahrain has escalated as the al-Khalifa regime has implemented a ban on opposition rallies to exclude the street from being used as an avenue to demand democracy.
• 'Suu Kyi's anti-Muslims stance shocking'
  Myanmar's democracy icon Ang San Suu Kyi and Nobel Peace prize winner has not spoken out against atrocities and ethnic cleansing proposal against the Rohingya people.
• N Korea ready to restart nuclear talks
  Cambodian Foreign Ministry says that North Korea has confirmed its readiness to rejoin the stalled six-party talks, aimed at denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.
• Iran to hold Shahriar intl. congress
  Iran is planning to hold an international congress on contemporary poet Shahriar, hosting Iranian and international literary figures in the capital city of Tehran.
• Spain riot police clash with protesters
  Spain’s riot police have clashed with hundreds of people who protested against new austerity measures that include wage cuts and tax increases.

SciDev.net

• Climate change 'may lead to collapse of Pacifi ...
  Scientists have warned that climatic trends could lead to the collapse of Pacific coral reefs, threatening 500 million people's livelihoods.
• From Higgs to humanity: discoveries for the co ...
  Big scientific discoveries, such as the God particle, can have great Earthly potential that must be shared by the world's poor.
• Islam Analysis: Overcoming barriers to innovation
  Islamic countries need to shake up their scientific establishments to commercialise technology and promote innovation, says Athar Osama.
• Terrorist attacks in Kenya impeding scientific ...
  Scientists are having to reduce or cancel marine research along Kenya's coastline, due to fears of terrorist or pirate raids.
• Innovation and R&D 'key to meeting rising food ...
  Research, innovation and training will be crucial to meet rising food demands, says an OECD-FAO report on the future of agriculture.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

• Life's building blocks found in a ring around ...
  Complex carbon-based molecules, including many that are important for life on Earth, could have formed in the early solar system. That's according to a paper by Fred Ciesla and Scott Sandford in this ...
• Pint sized rocket
  A rocket has been developed that could get a spaceprobe to the moon on just 100g of fuel Some tasks can only be done by a large satellite, but there are many others which can be done as well if not b...
• Seeing Around the Corner
  Using a laser, a super fast camera and a clever algorithm, researchers at MIT have developed the ability to see, in 3D, around a corner. Writing in the journal Nature Communications, Andreas Velten a...
• Drugs in sewage
  Drug use in populations, both legal and illegal, is important to know about for health and law and order reasons. Whilst it is relatively easy to keep tabs on the amount of legal drug use by asking ph...
• Messages from Mercury
  The MESSENGER spacecraft completed one Earth year of orbiting Mercury this month, and two papers published in the journal Science highlight some of the surprising scientific results from our solar sys...

Nick Turse

• pulitzercenter:Would you risk death to write ...
  pulitzercenter: Would you risk death to write poetry? The women of Kabul’s Ladies’ Literary Society do just that – meeting secretly and often risking their lives to write poems. Pictured, Lima Niaza, age 15, joined the society two years ago. She addressed her latest poem to the Taliban: You wo ...
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• globalpost:HONG KONG — The time may finally ...
  globalpost: HONG KONG — The time may finally be near for the Chinese government to back away from one of its most famous — and controversial — laws. Enacted in the 1980s, the “one-child policy” has successfully suppressed population growth by up to 400 million in China, according to government ...
• boston:Advocates, families fight jail phone ...
  boston: Advocates, families fight jail phone fees Inmate advocates, public defenders, prisoners, and their families say outside vendors charge astronomical costs for calls, in some cases $10 for just a few minutes.
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