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Thomas Paine

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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

17 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Reefs in the Anthropocene – Zombie Ecology?
New York Times (blog)
Like Bradbury and Olson, I also see a need to recognize that the ecology of the Anthropocene is stunningly different than what preceded the dawn of this era in which humans are the dominant force shaping that thing once called “nature.” In an exchange ...
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The core of his argument is a theory called population ecology or organizational ecology. Organizational ecologists assert that the executives of a company don't have nearly as much impact on the company's success or failure as do the larger effects of ...
Wildfires damaging ecology in the West
Boston Globe
The worst wildfire season in decades is not only blackening tens of thousands of acres in Western states; it is also creating significant environmental damage. Water quality, for example, is being compromised up to 100 miles from burn sites. Although ...
Shipping Canal Threatens Culture, Ecology, Livelihoods
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Shipping Canal Threatens Culture, Ecology, Livelihoods - One hundred and fifty years ago, the British colonial administration in India proposed a ship.
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Knicks' Kidd in hot water; Lin is in limbo; Carmelo chimes in
Boston Herald
It was just Thursday afternoon that Jason Kidd sat on a makeshift stage at the Knicks' practice facility talking about being a leader. At 39 years old, joining a team where he was anticipating helping Jeremy Lin in the backcourt, he even raved,
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Emergency Water Purification Taught by Special Report, Says Absolute Rights Article The online article said that people now have an expert guide to cleaning water in Absolute Rights' new Special Report, 170 Gallons a Day: There have been initiatives ...
In London's pools, fast waters run deep
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  • Portugal: Please turn the lights of when you leave
    The recent decision by the Portuguese constitutional court to unwind public sector salary cuts included by the government in its austerity measures has once more given rise to speculation the country may not meet it’s 4.5% deficit target for 2012. The court - which ruled the non-payment of the ...

Independent - London

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Rogue Government.com

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    The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
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    As the U.S. winds down its space shuttle program, and with the International Space Station set to shut down in 2020, eyes are turning to China and its ambitious yet mysterious plans for the final frontier.
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    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.
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    The alert on the Climate Ark website in January 2009 was marked urgent: "Take action: A rogue science ship is poised to carry out risky experimental fertilisation of the Southern Ocean. This is likely [to be] the first of many coming attempts to begin geo-engineering the biosphere as a solution ...

Innovation Canada

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    If Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
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    For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
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    It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
  • Johne’s happens
    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...

Signs of the times

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    Ice cold, hard and emotionless. Such is the psychopath -- we think. Until we get a glimpse behind the mask. Researchers have for decades been almost unanimous in their accord with the popular perception that psychopaths are made in a certain way, and will forever remain that way. But Aina Gullh ...
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    Almost 300 "brand police" are soon to hit the streets of the UK, working to protect the advertising rights of major corporate Olympic sponsors, including McDonald's, Coca-Cola, BP Oil, General Electric, Adidas, Dow Chemical, Procter & Gamble and others, the Independent reports. Protesters are d ...
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    Fifteen years of work by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF) team paid off on July 5 with a historic record-breaking laser shot. The NIF laser system of 192 beams delivered more than 500 trillion watts (terawatts or TW) of peak power and 1.85 megajoules ...
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The Galloping Beaver

  • The Vickie Problem . . .
    VICKIE'S AT IT AGAIN. Thanks to DAWG'S BLOG, this is brought to your attention: CSIS wants to sit on your PC, Bill Blair's G-20 police are "carding" over a million brown people in Toronto, and Ontario's security forces are swapping data about people their orcs encounter. You should know ...
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    80 YEARS AGO, HANS THILO-SCHMIDT needed money to keep his love-nest going. Seeing as Hans was working at the German Armed Forces' cryptographic headquarters, the Cipher Office, he had some secrets to sell. The German army and navy had adopted an improved Enigma cipher machine after the revel ...
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    This photo of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty with Canada's last penny cost taxpayers $56,000.  That is more than many rank and file public servants make in a year. That is the annual salary of a nurse or government clerk or soldier. So, the next time you get pissed off about how long you ...
  • MLVW 4ever!
    Wow. No tanks. No planes. No helicopters. No subs. Now, no trucks. Those trucks are important. The Army cannot move without them. Just watch what happens when we have another Ice Storm and there's no transport. And by my read, this is the second cancellation. The first one was buggered last D ...
  • Rapacious Oligarchy, Indeed . . . .
    The second segment of yesterday's The Current is a Chris Hedges interview which is excellent.  Take 24 minutes out of your day and listen to the audio here. The man nails it once again using terms to describe "the people who essentially hold power in the US" as those "with unchecked c ...

Media Matters for America

  • STUDY: Media Silent As GOP Obstruction Threate ...
    Major news networks have largely ignored Republican obstruction of a regulation addressing the recent resurgence of black lung, a disease caused by coal mine dust. By contrast, media coverage of the Republican narrative about "job-killing regulations" has been abundant, indicating that news out ...
  • Conservative Media Freak Out Over Improvement ...
    In response to requests from Republican-led states, the Department of Health and Human Services announced it will consider allowing states to create more efficient ways to report on the work requirement for recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The conservative media hav ...
  • Fox Manufactures Heavy Tax Burden For The Weal ...
    Fox News' chief national correspondent Jim Angle attacked President Obama's call for a fairer tax code, claiming that the wealthiest Americans shoulder most of the federal tax burden, while the rest pay very little. However, the rich pay a larger portion of federal taxes because their income ha ...
  • Fox Bashes Insurance Mandate As Middle-Class T ...
    Fox News has spent years complaining that roughly half of all Americans "don't pay taxes" and calling for tax hikes on working Americans. Now Fox is decrying the insurance mandate in the Affordable Care Act as a tax hike on the middle class -- even though it will affect only a small amount of p ...
  • Right Wing Tries To Move Goal Posts By Redefin ...
    After Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion upholding health care reform, the right-wing media have attacked his conservative credentials. Despite experts' statements that the opinion might have cleared the way for more rulings restricting federal power and progressive legislation, media ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

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

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  • Better Place Launches Commercial Electric Cars
    (Jerusalem Post) Israel announced the launch of its Renault Fluence electric vehicles on Sunday, almost six months after the first EVs hit the road on the company's fourth anniversary in January. A television, newspaper and Internet a ...
  • Governments Pledge Better Oil Sands Monitoring
    (The Globe and Mail) Peter Kent's helicopter passes over the vast oil sands development that spreads across this corner of northern Alberta, before settling on the banks of the Ells River. read more
  • Shell Hits Snags in Path to Arctic Drilling
    (Houston Chronicle) Shell’s plans to launch exploratory oil drilling in Arctic waters this summer have been hit by a series of setbacks in recent days, with one of the company’s drillships drifting out of control and the firm separatel ...
  • NW Tribes Examine Climate Change as Threat to ...
    (NY Daily News) Members of four Washington coastal Indian tribes will host a conference in Washington, D.C., this week on how climate change is threatening coastal Native-American populations from Maine to Guam. The conference, which ...
  • In Wake of Fukushima, Japanese Village Goes Al ...
    (MSNBC) A small village in Japan has become the first in the country to provide for its power needs entirely through renewable energy, after a number of factors convinced villagers to build a large solar installation. read more

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Casual Observation
    When I think Las Vegas, I think The Mob. Sheldon Adelson is just the latest in a long line of crooks who have bought off politicians to avoid prosecution. Never underestimate these folks. However, what has changed is that when Nixon took Mob money, people were outraged and passed laws to prev ...
  • No One Cares, Romney
    I wonder if Mitt Romney knows that when he appears on Fox News the rest of us can't hear him. Oh, yes, we can read about his appearance if he says anything noteworthy, but the people who he needs to vote for him do not watch Fox News. Going on Fox and complaining about Solyndra is a little lik ...
  • We Have Them Over a Barrel
    Hopefully you know about what DC insiders are calling the fiscal cliff. It's kind of boring and labor-intensive to write about, so I haven't been writing about it too much. Essentially, we have two things that will happen on New Year's Day if Congress doesn't do something to prevent them from ...
  • Serious Question
    Maybe I'm just a happy warrior, but politics seem fun again for the first time in about two years. Do you feel the same way? Discuss
  • Circling the Bowl
    In 2004, John Kerry released two years of tax returns. If you wanted to see more, it was pretty easy because Sen. Kerry had already released 18 years of tax returns during his time in the Senate. So, in total, voters had 20 years of Kerry tax returns to peruse as they made their decision about ...

Environmental Graffiti

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    Although probably best known for the ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban, there is much more to the Afghan town of Bamiyan than this one blot on its history. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Is There an Alternative to California's High-S ...
    High-speed rail is considered a popular public transport solution, but such rail routes come with an environmental cost. Is there a better way to connect cities? This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
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    Perhaps the only thing more claustrophobic than regular caving is cave diving. Yet as these amazing images of this giant underwater cave show, the rewards are also great. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 10 Famous Musicians Who Started Their Careers ...
    Screaming kids or screaming fans? Some relatively recent history for you here: check out this article on 10 Famous Musicians Who Started Their Careers as Teachers. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How Some Thrips are Destructive While Others H ...
    There are too many species of thrips to consider them all as insect pests. Indeed, some of these tiny bugs benefit us by eating other harmful insects. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

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Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • The Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies - for ...
    Reposting this as it's a much more handy summary than I could give. Neato! I think we're seeing this get more and more privatized as well -- I have a couple flagrant sockpuppets I know and love, they are like a handy little COINTELPRO weathervane. When talking Information Operations (not to ment ...
  • Crib notes & URLs for today's discussion on Al ...
    All right I gotta be a bit raw in the formatting here... Just had a good talk for an hour with Alex Jones on the afternoon radio show. Also some good news, Zuccotti Park is reoccupied today - see http://globalrevolution.tv for live feed mixes! //// UPDATE 8PM: I forgot COINTELPRO GOTHIC 1 & ...
  • Found older manual on Civil Disturbance Operat ...
    Fortunately the MP manual which I wrote a post on last Thursday night has been circulating & spurred a lot of discussion on domestic military operations. I will be going on the Alex Jones Show at 1PM tomorrow (Central) to discuss this and other trends in domestic militarization. Please tune ...
  • "Warning shot will not be fired" by MPs traine ...
    b. Use of Deadly and Non-deadly Force (4) (b) Warning shot will not be fired. or better yet: (3) In an occupied building, when the dissident's/sniper's location is unknown, all suspected rooms must be searched. The action element should try to have occupants submit voluntarily to the search of ...
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    Check out the July - August appearances and protests of war criminals around the country. See who's coming to your area. On the list, click on a date to find out the details. We're happy to help you plan and publicize your demonstation. Get in touch with us at  www.warcrimina ...
  • Human Rights Worse After Gaddafi
    By Mel Frykberg TRIPOLI, Jul 14 2012 (IPS) - “The human rights situation in Libya now is far worse than under the late dictator Muammar Gaddafi,” Nasser al-Hawary, researcher with the Libyan Observatory for Human Rights tells IPS. Hawary showed IPS testimonies from families whose loved ones have ...
  • Syria News - July 16
      Russia Says It Will Not Back UN resolution on Syria Sanctions, It invokes Chapter 7 which allows military action - NYTimes.com Lavrov: Russia Cannot Force Assad to Resign, This is simply "unrealistic" because Assad will not leave - Kanal PIK TV -------------------------------------------- ...
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Grist - News

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

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  • Was the petrol price rigged too?
    Of course…. By Rowena Mason, Emma Rowley 9:00PM BST 15 Jul 2012 Concerns are growing about the reliability of oil prices, after a report for the G20 found the market is wide open to “manipulation or distortion”. Traders from banks, oil companies or hedge funds have an “incentive” to distor ...
  • Hillary Clinton Must Resign For Nuremberg Offenses
    Tony Cartalucci, Contributor Activist Post The unhinged state of US foreign policy is exemplified best by this week’s Tremseh, Syria “massacre.” Before any confirmations could be made, and based solely on “activist” accounts, Hillary Clinton penned a US State Depart ...
  • Hillary Clinton Is Today’s Joseph Goebbe ...
    BBC even went as far as literally admitting, after offering up another “Houla-style” narrative, that (emphasis added): …later, activists told the AFP news agency that rebel fighters had attacked an army convoy, but were beaten back and many were killed in a counter-attack. &#82 ...
  • India: Paralysis cases soar after oral polio v ...
    Elliott By Elliott Freeman A new report by two Delhi pediatricians suggests that the sharp rise in childhood paralysis in India is due to the increased usage of the oral polio vaccine, a drug that was banned in the U.S. over a decade ago. Dr. Neetu Vashisht and Dr. Jacob Puliyel of St. Stephens ...
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Global Insights

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    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
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    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Inhabitat

  • Ex-Google Engineering Chief Joins Lunar Freigh ...
    Half Moon Image by Shutterstock From online books to interplanetary space travel—it’s quite the career change, but that is exactly what Google Books alum Jimi Crawford is doing. Crawford used to work as an engineering chief for the Mountain View tech giant, but now he has transferred to Mo ...
  • Absalon’s Cellule Dwellings Provide All the Es ...
    Read the rest of Absalon’s Cellule Dwellings Provide All the Essentials of Living in Just 26 Square Feet Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Absalon, Cellule living, eco design, green design, Hamburger Bahnoff, minimalist living, prefab dwelling, sustainable design, ...
  • Book Forest: Berlin Turns Fallen Tree Trunks I ...
    Read the rest of Book Forest: Berlin Turns Fallen Tree Trunks Into a Free Book Exchange! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: BauFachFrau, berlin, book exchange, Book Forest, book swap kiosk, BookCrossing, eco design, green design, Prenzlauer Berg, sustainable design
  • Scientists Fire World’s Most Powerful Laser an ...
    Scientists in California fired up 192 laser beams simultaneously onto a single, tiny, two-millimeter target, producing and unbelievable 500 trillion watts of energy. To put it into context, that’s about 1,000 times more power than the entire United States uses at any given time. Scientists ...
  • Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni Salt Flat is the Worl ...
    Salar de Uyuni photo from Shutterstock Read the rest of Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni Salt Flat is the World’s Largest Mirror Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: andes mountains, bolivia, eco design, green design, lithium source, salar de uyuni, salt flats, salt min ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Record-breaking Laser Hits 500 Trillion Watts
    Laser physicists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have broken the record for the highest-power laser shot with a collection of beams delivering more than 500 trillion watts of peak power.
  • Kinect Game Lets You Land NASA’s New Rover on Mars
    A new free Xbox game gives anyone the chance to steer through seven minutes of terror and attempt to safely land NASA's newest rover, the Mars Science Laboratory.
  • What It’s Like to Be an Astronaut: Amazing Vid ...
    If you're the sort of person who enjoys looking out of airplane windows, watching landscapes pass and Earth unfold, then take a look at these videos from the International Space Station. Assembled from photographic sequences captured in April and May, the videos show Earth from an orbital perspe ...
  • Geoengineering Could Backfire, Make Climate Ch ...
    Deploying giant space mirrors and spraying particles from stadium-sized balloons may sound like an engineer's wild fantasy, but climate models suggest that the potential of geoengineering to offset rising atmospheric carbon dioxide may be significantly overstated.
  • When Galaxies Collide: Beautiful Images of Cos ...
    Galactic collisions are one of the most ferocious and most stunning events in our universe. In this gallery, Wired takes a look at some of the most amazing images ever taken of these cosmic pile-ups.

PakAlert

  • U.S. Navy Fires on Boat in Persian Gulf
    A security team aboard the oil supply ship U.S.N.S. Rappahannock fired on a boat in the Persian Gulf today, killing one and injuring three others. The Navy’s 5th Fleet, based in nearby Bahrain, said the U.S. ship fired a .50 caliber machine gun at a “small motor vessel after it disregarded wa ...
  • Red Alert: U.N. Small Arms Treaty Aims to Even ...
    The United Nations is currently attempting to pass a large scale small arms treaty that many believe would lead to an attempt on an eventual ban of the 2nd amendment. A report published on Forbes by Larry Bell has gone ultra viral, with many finally coming to the conclusion that, despite atte ...
  • Iran prepares to shut down Strait of Hormuz
    Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces Major General Hassan Firouzabali said that military plans have been drawn up to close the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, but added Iranian forces won’t shut it down until they receive the go-ahead from Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamen ...
  • These 12 Hellholes Are Examples Of What The Re ...
    Do you want to see where this country is headed? If so, don't focus on the few areas that are still very prosperous. New York City has Wall Street, Washington D.C. has the federal government and Silicon Valley has Google and Facebook. Those are the exceptions. The reality is that most of the ...
  • Occupy Bohemian Grove 2012 Heats Up This Weekend
    If the Bilderberg Group is the geopolitical tentacle of the New World Order, Bohemian Grove is slippery underbelly of occultism that is the ultimate expression of the misanthropy inherent at the highest levels of global elitist thought. Similar to Bilderberg, Bohemian Grove was flatly denounc ...

Andy Worthington

  • Street Art, Sunshine and the River: Photos of ...
    Street Art, Sunshine and the River: Deptford and Greenwich, a set on Flickr. Three weeks ago, I posted my first set of photos of my journeys around London on my new Flickr account — a set I took on May 11, cycling around Greenwich and Deptford, down the hill from my home in Brockley, south ...
  • Olympics Disaster: The G4S Security Scandal an ...
    As the cracks in the Tory-led coalition government grow more and more obvious, the biggest question may be whether it is incompetence or corruption that will depose the clowns who have been pretending to run the country for the last two years. In terms of the Olympics, which, two months ago, I d ...
  • Free Omar Khadr from Guantánamo! Please Suppor ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...
  • Rivers at Dusk: Photos of My Journey from Stra ...
    Rivers at Dusk: My Journey from Stratford to Canary Wharf, a set on Flickr. This eighth set of my photos of London, on the Flickr account that I set up last month, is part of my ongoing mission to travel the whole of London by bike, taking photos of everything that appeals to me — [...]
  • US Honors Deal to Release Convicted Bin Laden ...
    Getting out of Guantánamo is such a feat these days (with just three men released in the last 18 months) that it is remarkable that Ibrahim al-Qosi, a Sudanese prisoner who agreed to a plea deal at his war crimes trial in Guantánamo in July 2010, guaranteeing that he would be freed after two yea ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • FRC Appoints Islamophobic Ex-General as Execut ...
    The Family Research Council (FRC), an anti-gay hate group that claims LGBT rights advocates want to “recognize pedophiles as the ‘prophets’ of a new sexual order,” announced on Friday the appointment of retired Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin as its new executive vice president. The press releas ...
  • Anti-LGBT Activist Targets ‘Gay Fascism’ Ordin ...
    Scott Lively, the anti-gay activist behind Abiding Truth Ministries, has been engaged in a decades-long, international campaign to demonize the LGBT community. He has lobbied on behalf of a law in Uganda to make homosexuality punishable by death and has worked hard to propagate the myth that gay ...
  • FAIR Misleads Sheriffs, Says ‘Border School’ O ...
    The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the anti-immigrant hate group behind draconian immigration enforcement laws in Arizona, Alabama and elsewhere, appears to have misled law enforcement officers about a training program it’s sponsoring in Texas, Hatewatch has learned. In an in ...
  • Convicted Alaska Militia Leader Fires Attorney
    Alaska militia leader Francis Schaeffer Cox has fired his attorney, likely laying the groundwork for an appeal of his nine convictions, which include conspiring to kill a judge and law enforcement officials. In a two-sentence document filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Anchorage, the 28-year ...
  • Farah: If Obama Re-Elected, ‘We Will Be Hunted ...
    Certain things should not be mixed together. Bleach and ammonia. White wine and red meat. Alex Jones and Joseph Farah. Proof of the latter mixture’s toxicity came last week, when Jones, the gravelly voiced Internet personality best known for his obsession with “truther” theories about the govern ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • US Drought Disaster Worst In Over 50 Years
    Boats sit on the bottom in a dry cove at Morse Reservoir in Noblesville, Ind., July 16, 2012. (AP Photo) The 2012 drought disaster is now the largest in over 50 years, and among the ten largest of the past century, according to a new report released by the National Climatic Data Center today.rea ...
  • Shell Loses Control Of Arctic Drilling Rig In ...
    Royal Dutch Shell’s preparedness to drill offshore in the harsh and remote Arctic Ocean this summer has been called into question by a series of recent events. read more
  • US Navy Fires at Boat in Persian Gulf, Killing One
    USNS Rappahannock A US military fuel supply ship fired at a small boat in the Persian Gulf on Monday killing one person and injuring three on board, according to US officials. read more
  • Britain Flooded with 'Brand Police' to Protect ...
    Almost 300 "brand police" are soon to hit the streets of the UK, working to protect the advertising rights of major corporate Olympic sponsors, including McDonald's, Coke, BP oil, General Electric, Adidas, Dow Chemical, Procter & Gamble and others, the Independent reports. ...
  • Over 100,000 Protest Nuclear Restart in Tokyo
    Over 100,000 protesters took to the streets in central Tokyo on Monday to protest the country's return to nuclear power. The demonstration was one of the largest of its kind since Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda announced that the country would restart its nuclear reactors last month. ...

Lifehacker

  • TowelMate Ultimate Beach Towel Hides Your Stuf ...
    TowelMate's Ultimate Beach Towel does a little more than keep you dry and give you a clean spot on the sand. It includes pockets for a removable pillow to make you more comfortable and places to store your gadgets, sunscreen, or whatever else ...
  • Microsoft Office 2013 Consumer Preview Availab ...
    Windows: Want to try out the latest version of Microsoft Office for free? Microsoft just released a consumer preview so you can check out what's new with Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and more. The new version is optimized for Windows 8 and offer ...
  • Music, Work, and Entertainment: A Simple Studi ...
    Simplicity in color and design can make for a very striking home office, but one of the particularly effective choices in today's featured workspace is the area separation. The desk sits in the middle, but on each side of the room is a differ ...
  • Intro to 3D Modeling: The Complete Guide [Nigh ...
    We spent last week learning about the basics of 3D modeling using an application called Rhino 3D. Here's the complete guide that will teach you everything you need to know to get started. More »
  • Ask the Experts: Debt [Ask The Experts]
    We're kicking off a new Lifehacker series today! It's called "Ask the Experts" and it works like this: every Monday, we'll have a special guest join us to answer your questions on topics like finance, law, design, food, app development, and ma ...

Water Privatization

  • Major Power Markets in Eastern Europe to 2020 ...
    NEW YORK, July 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Major Power Markets in Eastern Europe to 2020 - Renewable Resources, ...
  • Guelph committee takes no action on request fo ...
    — While the city supports a reduction in use of bottled water, it is not ready to ban them from municipal facilities, a council committee decided Monday.
  • Top Stories
    KUALA LUMPUR: The Selangor government has decided to take over the management of Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor (Syabas) within 14 days after it was claimed that it was incapable of providing satisfactory water supply to consumers.
  • EPA: Iowa must fix regulation of livestock farms
    DES MOINES (AP) – Federal environmental regulators have sharply criticized the state of Iowa for failure to enforce the Clean Water Act and gave the state 60 days to come up with a written plan to fix
  • City denies rumors of more privatization
    Rumors that privatization of city departments is taking place are untrue according to City Manager Brenda Samford. She says that while the city did privatize trash service, she does not believe that a similar plan would be viable for the street or water department.

Guardian

  • Syria crisis: Damascus clashes continue - live ...
    • Fighting in Damascus enters third day • Senior defector accuses regime of working with al-Qaida • Ban Ki-moon travels to China ahead of UNSC vote9.55am: Syria: The conflict within Syria is being played out far beyond the country's borders, not only at the UN but also on the internet where it i ...
  • Nuclear weapon safety hindered by cuts, says M ...
    Head of armed forces nuclear watchdog says reduction in number of expert staff will affect submarines and silosThe safety of Britain's nuclear weapons and nuclear-powered submarines is being increasingly jeopardised by spending cutbacks and staff shortages, according to a new report from the Min ...
  • Blair-Bush Iraq war transcript may be suppressed
    Government may block information tribunal ruling that ordered record of phone conversation to be released, sources confirmAn explosive transcript of one of Tony Blair's final conversations with George Bush before the invasion of Iraq may be suppressed by the coalition government, Whitehall sourc ...
  • BBC to review pay procedures after tax claims
    Corporation to examine tax affairs of presenters after claims one was 'bullied' into staying off the payroll to dodge taxThe BBC is to review the way hundreds of TV and radio presenters are paid after hearing claims that at least one was "bullied" into staying off the payroll and told it would h ...
  • Eurozone crisis live: Mervyn King faces MPs on ...
    MPs will ask Bank of England governor about his role in the Libor rate-fixing scandal, and how the eurozone crisis is hitting the UKGraeme Wearden

McClatchey

  • NASA aims for Mars rover landing in early August
    In the early morning hours of Aug. 6, NASA and space enthusiasts across the world will be able to monitor the Mars landing of the most advanced robot ever to…Click to Continue »
  • Condi Rice for VP – inspired choice or ...
    For Republicans, there?s something about former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that makes her an inspirational choice to be Mitt Romney?s running mate ? or an unmitigated disaster.Click to Continue »
  • Bagram detainees want to use U.S. Constitution ...
    Prisoners held without trial for years at an American air base in Afghanistan shouldnt be able to challenge their indefinite detention with the help of the U.S. Constitution, Obama administration…Click to Continue »
  • Obama aims to define Romney as rich, out of touch
    President Barack Obama?s campaign so far is convincing a lot of independent voters that Mitt Romney is a cold-hearted, out-of-touch rich guy.Click to Continue »
  • Foxconn, maker of iPads, is emblematic of Chin ...
    The company is a marker for the gap between Beijing?s aspirations to increase quality of life and household spending, and a labor market rooted in tough conditions and wages that…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Afghan Soldier Sentenced to Death for Killing ...
    MOSCOW, July 17 (RIA Novosti) - A military tribunal in Afghanistan has sentenced an Afghan soldier to death over a deadly gun attack on French soldiers he was serving with, the Afghan Defense ...
  • Afghan soldier gets death for killing 4 French ...
    An Afghan soldier has been sentenced to death for killing four French soldiers during a joint training and operation earlier this year in eastern Afghanistan. Afghan Ministry of Defence spokesman ...
  • Afghan forces ready to secure country after 20 ...
    The Afghan security forces are ready to ensure security for their own country after NATO-led forces hand over security charge to Afghan side by the end of 2014, President Hamid Karzai said on ...
  • Afghan soldier sentenced to death
    An Afghan soldier has been sentenced to death for killing four French soldiers during a joint training and operation in eastern Afghanistan.A military court in Kabul ordered the soldier, Abdul Sabor, ...
  • British dead and wounded in Afghanistan month ...
    What is the human cost of the war in Afghanistan for British forces? As British troop deaths reach 422, these are the latest figures - including the most recent wounded and amputation ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • CBS Evening News: FDA spying on their own scie ...
    NWC Executive Director Stephen Kohn spoke to CBS Evening News tonight about the chilling effect the FDA's illegal whistleblower surveillance program has on employees' willingness to report serious health and safety issues. You can TAKE ACTION to stop the government's highly intrusive and ha ...
  • NWC Response to Article Documenting Illegal FD ...
    Today, the New York Times released a groundbreaking story on the government's secret spying program on a group of whistleblowers employed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).  Stephen M. Kohn, the Executive Director of the National Whistleblower Center and the lead attorney for ...
  • Twenty Years Later, DOJ Finally Admits Mistakes
    Readers of The Washington Post found out this morning that the FBI and DOJ are launching the largest post-conviction case review in American history. Readers of the Whistleblower Protection Blog know that this review should have begun twenty years ago when Dr. Frederic Whitehurst first exposed ...
  • NWC Files Amicus Brief in Major Tax Whistleblo ...
    The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) has filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief in a precedent-setting whistleblower tax case pending before the U.S. Tax Court. The case, Insinga v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, alleged that the IRS delay in ruling on whistlebl ...
  • DOL issues final regulations for consumer prod ...
    The Department of Labor today issued final regulations for handling whistleblower complaints under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), 15 U.S.C. § 2087. On behalf of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), I submitted comments on the proposed regulations in 2010.  To ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • German Supreme Court Suggests Cyber Lockers Ne ...
    A few years back, Megapuload and Rapidshare were often discussed in the same breath as the "big" cyberlockers for sharing content. However, over the last couple years or so, Rapidshare has made a concerted effort to make it clear that its service is not designed for sharing infringing works, an ...
  • UK Court Says You Can't Be Defamed If The Arti ...
    We've had plenty of posts in the past about the insane broadness of UK defamation law, which often effectively puts the burden on the accused to prove they didn't defame the accuser. However, sometimes, at least, they seem to get things right. A lawyer, Robin Tilbrook, who is also the chair of ...
  • Dilbert Takes On Patent Trolls; Will Congress?
    Last summer, we were pleasantly surprised to see Scott Adams use Dilbert to highlight some of the absurdity of the patent system. It looks like Scott Adams has decided to tackle the subject again, with a specific focus on the rise of patent troll firms. Considering how frequently we see inform ...
  • UK Plans To Make All Government-Funded Researc ...
    We've discussed the fight in the US over open access to government-funded research in the past. Currently, the NIH requires any NIH-funded paper to be publicly & freely available one-year after it's been published. That gives journals one-year of exclusivity to profit off of the work befo ...
  • Patent Troll Sues Facebook, Amazon, Oracle, Li ...
    Via Jeff Roberts at Gigaom, we learn of yet another patent trolling operation: Parallel Iron, which has sued a bunch of tech companies and banks because of the file systems they use. It filed a few lawsuits in April, most of which were refiled in June, and then it just filed a bunch of new ones ...

VacTruth

  • U.S. Government & Whistleblowers Sue Merck Abo ...
    Why didn’t the media and press report the 2010 complaint filed against Merck’s fraudulent mumps vaccine? Isn’t it about time the U.S. healthcare consumer found out that it apparently cannot trust the CDC or FDA or Big Pharma when it comes to vaccines and vaccinations, the ‘Sacred Cow’ of modern ...
  • 7 Shameful Examples of Big Pharma Fraud
    Over the last few months many drugs companies have hit the headlines for allegedly committing fraud.
  • Why Isn’t the U.S. ‘Free’ Press Reporting Vacc ...
    Feel encouraged to take action. What do you say?
  • How Doctors Try to Take the Pain Out of Vaccin ...
    If you’re hesitant to have your baby vaccinated because of the pain caused by the injections, you’ll be happy to know that there is a new method that will significantly reduce your baby’s pain and lessen your anxiety.
  • Proof Armed Forces are Given Untested and Expe ...
    In October 2000 a letter was written to the editor of The Journal of the American Medical Association discussing the introduction of the MMR vaccination containing the Schwarz measles, Urabe Am9 mumps and Wistar RA27/3 rubella strains, as mandatory in 1998 to examine the vaccine's efficiency. On ...

BroadSnark

  • Tosh and the Problem with “Rape Culture& ...
    By now you have no doubt heard that Daniel Tosh suggested it would be funny if a woman in his audience was gang raped and the internets are ablaze with talk of rape culture. I wasn’t planning on weighing in on this. Frankly, I just wasn’t that interested in the controversy. But since ...
  • Encouraging (in)Visibility
    I am one of those people who would rather be in the coffin than delivering the eulogy.  I am also one of those people who takes a while to get to know someone, especially when I’m thrown into a whole group of new people. The result of those two things is that I am often [...]
  • Hellllooooooooooooo
    Anybody still out there? I keep trying to get back to this blog and life keeps conspiring against me. But if I don’t do it soon, my new roommate is likely to walk in on me ranting out loud in a way that may compel her to have me institutionalized. You really have to introduce [...]
  • Interview on KDVS
    Still trying to get back on my regular posting schedule, hopefully this coming week. In the meantime, Richard Estes was kind enough to invite me on his show Speaking in Tongues. You can listen here.
  • Book Review – Sex at the Margins
    Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry by Laura Maria Agustin My rating: 4 of 5 stars Laura Agustin has a remarkable ability to turn things on their head.If you read her blog, you’ll be familiar with the narratives that she contests. But the book really bring ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Blanket thinkers
    Robin Yassin-Kassab has written an important piece that deserves to be widely read — especially by those who struggle to understand why anyone who is pro-Palestinian should also be pro-Syrian or for anyone who is confused about what being pro-Syrian actually means. PW Blanket thinkers By R ...
  • Second day of fierce clashes in Damascus
    BBC News reports: Armoured personnel carriers have been deployed in areas of Damascus, Syrian activists say, with clashes spreading on a second day of fighting. The activists said troops backed by armoured vehicles had entered the Midan district to try to dislodge rebels. Witnesses say this appe ...
  • Syrian pilot’s defection signals trouble for r ...
    C.J.Chivers reports: To escape the government he served until it gave him an order he could not obey, Capt. Akhmed Trad, a pilot in Syria’s air force, needed a plan: how to spirit himself over a border quickly, and leave no family behind. In hurried meetings between the pilot and his parents, an ...
  • Nuclear-armed Iran would bring ‘stability’ but ...
    John Mearsheimer and Dov Zakheim discuss the conclusion of Kenneth N. Waltz’s Foreign Affairs article, “Why Iran should get the bomb.” Watch Nuclear-Armed Iran Would Bring ‘Stability’ But Risks on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.
  • Bagram: Obama’s legal black hole
    The Daily Beast reports: Guantanamo Bay is still often in the public eye, especially now that a military commission is pursuing the 9/11 case there against alleged terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. But there’s a site where the United States is holding detainees overseas in even more r ...

Watts Up With That?

  • By its actions, the IPCC Admits Its Past Repor ...
    Foreword: Readers may recall that we covered the InterAcademy Council finding here on WUWT, in IAC slams IPCC process, suggests removal of top officials followed by IPCC’s Pachauri should resign for “failures of leadership” Now, with virtually no notice, the … Continue reading →
  • Tornado Season Statistics Update – &#821 ...
    Guest post by Paul Homewood It does not seem long since the February outbreak of tornadoes had Joe Romm noting :- The unexpectedly fierce and fast tornado outbreak so early in the season has folks asking again about a possible … Continue reading →
  • Tisdale: How Does the Evolution of the 2012/13 ...
    Guest post by Bob Tisdale In addition to the title discussion, this post will serve as the Mid-July 2012 Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Update. It also includes a status update on my book about El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). COMPARISON OF … Continue reading →
  • WUWT smeared by Scientific American’s Bo ...
    This tiff started because of this story by Tom Nelson yesterday, followed by this today. This post is my first involvement as all this happened without my involvement or comment until now. I don’t even care that I wasn’t mentioned, … Continue reading →
  • Caution needed with new greenhouse gas emissio ...
    From the University of Calgary New model provides lifecycle analysis of ‘well-to-wheel’ oil sands emissions Policy makers need to be cautious in setting new ‘low-carbon’ standards for greenhouse gas emissions for oil sands-derived fuels as well as fuels from conventional ...

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Biosingularity

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

CFACT

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Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Stopping Research on Monsanto's Roundup: KIlli ...
    An Illinois beekeeper whose bee hives were stolen and allegedly destroyed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture has stirred up a hornet's nest with his questions on why the state did this, and most importantly, what they did with his bees. The state claims the bees were destroyed because th ...
  • Ellen Brown on the Drug Industry's Health Politics
    Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney who has written 11 books on health and the politics of health, including the Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System (which focuses on the money and banking system itself), and Forbidden MedicineClick here to read this article
  • In Its Mad and Hopeless War on Cocaine, the US ...
    Imagine for a moment that China, in an effort to reduce cigarette smoking and associated health costs among its population, declared war on U.S. tobacco production.Click here to read this article
  • British GM Crop Scientists Win $10m Grant from ...
    A team of British plant scientists has won a $10m grant from the Gates Foundation to develop GM cereal crops. Click here to read this article
  • Monsanto Linked to Coup that Ousted Paraguayan ...
    The political system in Paraguay is undergoing some major turmoil right now following the forced impeachment of former President Fernando Lugo, a "left-of-center" politician democratically voted into office by the people of Paraguay back in 2008. Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

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

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

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

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • US Security Agents 'At Heathrow For Olympics'
    ShareThisUS Security Agents 'At Heathrow For Olympics' --Foreign officials have been drafted to bolster security at UK airports in the run-up to the Olympics. 17 Jul 2012 US security agents are to be based at Heathrow and some other UK airports for the duration of the ‪Olympic Games, according t ...
  • New York and Connecticut look into Libor rate- ...
    ShareThisNew York and Connecticut look into Libor rate-fixing allegations 16 Jul 2012 New York and Connecticut attorneys general have joined forces to investigate alleged manipulation of the Libor interest rates. The scandal is already being investigated by the US justice department and financia ...
  • Egyptians pelt Clinton motorcade with tomatoes
    ShareThisEgyptians pelt Clinton motorcade with tomatoes 15 Jul 2012 Protesters threw tomatoes and shoes at Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's motorcade on Sunday during her first visit to Egypt since the election of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. A tomato struck an Egyptian official in the ...
  • Goldman Employees Join Bain as Top Donors to R ...
    ShareThisGoldman Employees Join Bain as Top Donors to Romney Group 16 Jul 2012 Employees of Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., the biggest source of donations directly to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, are also the top givers to the joint fundraising committee he has set up with the Republican Par ...
  • South Wales Police drafted in to help with Oly ...
    ShareThisSouth Wales Police drafted in to help with Olympics security crisis 16 Jul 2012 South Wales Police officers have been drafted to London to help with the Olympics security crisis. Hundreds of officers from nine police forces, including South Wales, are being drafted in to fill the gaps i ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Taliban Calls Murder of Woman Idiotic and Horrific
    12 July 2012 A recent video surfaced in Afghanistan showing an unarmed woman being murdered by gunfire.  There has been much speculation about why the murder occurred, and who is responsible. I asked the Taliban for a statement:  "Does the Taliban agree with the execution that was on ...
  • Mexico AAR July 2012
    07 July 2012
  • Study: 25% of war deaths medically preventable ...
    03 July 2012 Study: 25% of war deaths medically preventable Army Times, By Patricia Kime - Staff writer Thursday Jun 28, 2012 16:04:10 EDT A new study finds that nearly a quarter of the 4,596 combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2001 and 2011 were “potentially survivable,” meaning th ...
  • Not I
    19 June 2012 Through the years there has been a constant barrage of people misquoting me.  They might say, “Last week on CNN you said…”  And I was in some war zone at the time and nowhere near a television interview.  But then it gets picked up, and bloggers do the he-said, she-s ...
  • More Army Red Cross Lies Exposed
    04 June 2012 Click here to download PDF.

The Killing Train

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

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Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • UAE activist deported to Thailand
    [JURIST] A political activist of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] on Monday was deported to Thailand after a two-month detention. Ahmed Abdul Khaleq [AlJazeera backgrounder] has called for the rights of the stateless people in the UAE, and was one of the fiv ...
  • New Zealand to ban legal substances unless pro ...
    [JURIST] New Zealand Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne [official website] on Monday announced [press release] a plan to ban the use of drugs providing legal highs unless manufactures of such drugs can prove that they are clinically safe. The scientific evidence required for approval is expec ...
  • Tokyo protestors demonstrate against Japan nuc ...
    [JURIST] Tens of thousands of protestors rallied in Tokyo on Monday as Japan moves to restart the country's nuclear reactors that were shut down following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster [IAEA backgrounder] last year. The peaceful antinuclear demonstration in Yoyogi park took place on Jap ...
  • Hong Kong court allows lawsuit against Deutsch ...
    [JURIST] A Hong Kong judge on Monday ruled against Deutsche Bank AG [corporate website] on a motion to dismiss a developer's rental fraud lawsuit. Judge A.T. Reyes for the Court of First Instance of the High Court [official website] held [Bloomberg report] that the claims brought by the develope ...
  • US Jewish leaders request Israel reject report ...
    [JURIST] More than 40 prominent American Jewish leaders and scholars sent an appeal letter [AP report] to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [official website], it was reported Monday, urging Netanyahu to reject a recent report advocating legitimizing Israeli settlements in the West Bank ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

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Tikun Olam

  • Knesset Exempts Shin Bet from Recording Interr ...
    Israel has a law that requires police and security officials to record their interrogations of suspects who are charged with crimes carrying a sentence of ten years or more.  That sounds great, right?  Just the way a democracy should work.  But hold on.  There’s a hole in the law big enoug ...
  • Obama Seeks to Criminalize Linking to Online P ...
    At first blush, this story may not appear terribly relevant to national security blogs, democracy or human rights, but here me out.  It concerns a 24 year-old British citizen whose website has acted as a go-between for other sites which allegedly infringe music and movie copyrights of U.S. enter ...
  • Israeli Military Intelligence Officer “Outs” E ...
    Over the past few years, I followed a strange, convoluted, but fascinating battle between two Israeli intelligence titans.  Usually, these sorts of battles are fought behind closed doors and are veiled from the public by military censorship.  But in this case, one of the titans decided to go pub ...
  • Social Justice Demonstrator Immolates Self
    At today’s Tel Aviv J14 social justice protest, one of the demonstrators, Moshe Silman, immolated himself to protest injustices done to him by the State.  He is now in serious condition in a local hospital.  With the help of Dena Shunra, I’ve put together some of the tragic circumsta ...
  • Moment Magazine Pockets Pearl Foundation Funds ...
    The assistant editor of my local Jewish newspaper, JTNews, received a $5,000 Daniel Pearl Foundation grant (pdf) from Moment Magazine to publish an investigative piece that would explore “modern manifestations of anti-Semitism and other deeply-ingrained prejudices.  After she wrote An Olym ...

If Americans Knew

  • VIDEO: AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Acti ...
    Janet McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across America? Why don't any claim affiliation to their creator or use descriptive names? Shouldn't the ...
  • Israel Lobby Dominates Congress, Media Covers ...
    You might think that 20 percent of the American Congress going on all-expenses-paid, week-long junkets to a foreign country -- paid for by a lobby for that country -- would be newsworthy, especially when the top congressional leaders of both parties are leading the trips. You would be wrong.
  • Israeli video games in Gaza: "Minimal collater ...
    He looks at the camera with bright eyes and the beginning of a smile, wearing a miniature dark blue zipper sweatshirt, the cuffs folded up a bit to make it fit. I can imagine his mother dressing him that morning, making sure he would be warm enough. I wonder if she's the one who took the picture ...
  • American Taxpayers Pay and Pay: Subsidizing Is ...
    Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper recently published an article calling Israel "The New Golden Country" for young people from around the world. It reports that Israel boasts "an ever-increasing GDP, a strong currency, and a lower unemployment rate than the US."
  • Spinning the Egyptian Anti-Israel Protest
    Today's New York Times front-page story on Egyptian protests against the Israeli embassy largely neglects a primary cause of the anger: Israeli forces' killing of five Egyptian policemen. Egyptian anger over these deaths grew even greater when Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak refused to apol ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Obama and Israel - Clinton Meets Israeli, Pale ...
    U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is wrapping up a 12-day, nine-country tour with a stop in Jerusalem, where on Monday she discussed a broad range of issues with senior Israeli and Palestinian officials. Secretary Clinton held a day of talks with Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister B ...
  • The Edge of Islam - European Armies Recruit Mu ...
    Germany is seeking to recruit more Muslims into its army: it cannot find enough native Germans to fill its ranks after it abolished the draft. German Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière announced his intention to "multiculturalize" the German Bundeswehr (Federal Defense Force) during a June 20 ...
  • The Edge of Physics - Star Trek-like Tractor B ...
    “Beam me up, Scotty. There’s no intelligent life here,� a line long attributed to the 1960s Star Trek series might soon become a reality as a “tractor beam� may harness the energy of light to move physical objects in space. It was already known that light indeed pushes on objects, even ...
  • The New Egypt - The Struggle and Fate of Egypt ...
    Egypt's Coptic Christian minority fears that the restoration of parliament, which will grant greater power to Islamists, will be used to institute Sharia law and stifle religious freedom. In defiance of Egypt's top generals and highest court, Muslim Brotherhood President-elect Mohammed Morsi reo ...
  • The Battle for Syria - Russia Says Push For Sy ...
    Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused Western countries of trying to "blackmail" Russia to secure a new UN Security Council resolution that would threaten sanctions against Syria. Speaking at the start of talks with international envoy Kofi Annan, Lavrov told reporters in Moscow tha ...

High Country News

  • The West, in pictures
    High Country News showcases a selection of photos submitted to SAGE Magazine, a student-run environmental magazine at the Yale Forestry School. The images include beautiful wildlife photography and poignant illustrations of humans' relationship to the natural world.
  • Beyond the politics of no
    The Sonoran Institute's departing founder, Luther Propst, reflects on 20 years of collaborative conservation.
  • The Forest Service faces a test in Arizona
    Will Forest Service efforts under the 4FRI program to reduce fuels in Arizona pay off? This summer will tell.
  • Watch out for those fake Canadians
    Denny Rehberg's proposed law to protect the U.S-Canadian border would give border patrol agents ability to supersede environmental protection laws
  • "Tiananmen Sid" shakes up a small town
    When Paonia hairdresser Sid Lewis protested billionaire Bill Koch's land swap deal in Paonia's July 4 parade; the resulting shakeup shone a light on small town and national tensions.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Olympic Comittee On Moment of Silence Refusal: ...
    Ankie Spitzer whose husband was murdered by Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Munich Olympics has been fighting to have a minute of silence at the London Games to remember the eleven murdered victims.  Her efforts have been supported by the governments of much of the western wo ...
  • Mainstream Media Can't Understand Why Obama Fa ...
    by Barry Rubin The Washington Post published a detailed article by Scott Wilson on why President Barack Obama failed to make progress on Israeli-Palestinian peace. It still stands as the best mainstream media effort to explain Obama’s policy. Wilson did a lot of work, conducted many in ...
  • Romney Goes on The Attack-Hits Obama's Cronyism
    This morning we called for GOP Candidate Mitt Romney to attack Obama more aggressively. To match and top each one of Obama's reelection team's Chicago politics-style attacks.  The only difference we suggested was to fight the president's lies with some truth about Obama. Today on Fox a ...
  • Romney Needs To Learn "The Chicago Way." No Mo ...
    You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. *That’s* the *Chicago* way! And that’s how you get Capone. Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that? I’m offering you a deal. Do y ...
  • Perhaps This “Arab Spring” Thing In Egypt Isn’ ...
    by Barry Rubin Well, now at least the debate is in the open and we can see just how questionable are the talking points of those who claim the United States has nothing to fear from Islamists. The New York Times publishes an article with the promising title of “Fast-Changing Arab World is Upe ...

The Real Agenda

  • The United Nations and its Agenda 21 are Unsus ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JULY 16, 2012 If the whole story about how the United Nations wants to control the world, impose limits over human development and transform current standards of living into a thing of the past seems far fetched or too complicated to understand, I do ...
  • Gene-swapping vaccines spawn lethal poultry virus
    REUTERS | JULY 16, 2012 Three vaccines used to prevent respiratory disease in chickens have swapped genes, producing two lethal new strains that have killed tens of thousands of fowl across two states in Australia, scientists reported on Friday. The creation of the deadly new variant was on ...
  • Like your Privacy? Fool that Smart Meter
    By AURORA GEIB | NATURAL NEWS | JULY 16, 2012 The recent roll out of smart meters has brought about mixed reactions from consumers. On one hand, there are activist groups broadcasting the health and privacy concerns that smart meters may potentially have. On the other, the utility comp ...
  • Monsanto to operate under its own Rules in the ...
    JONATHAN BENSON | NATURAL NEWS | JULY 15, 2012 While millions of Americans were busy celebrating freedom from tyranny during the recent Independence Day festivities, Monsanto was actively trying to thwart that freedom with new attacks on health freedom. It turns out that the most evil ...
  • O planeta Terra tem estado esfriando por 2000 anos
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 14 JULHO 2012 Um estudo divulgado 09 de julho pelo Professor Dr. Jan Esper da Universidade Johannes Gutenberg em Mainz concluiu que a Terra, apesar do alarmismo climático tem esta esfriando pelo menos desde 138BC, a data desde quando o Professor Esp ...

Wind Watch

  • Fairfield residents given noise generators to ...
    Fairfield resident James Salamone says he hasn’t slept well since a number of windmills went up right near his home on Davis Road in Fairfield about a year and a half ago. Salamone said, “It’s torture. You cannot sleep with this frequency of noise. It’s just torture, I ca ...
  • Lowell wind protestors arrested
    LOWELL, Vt. – Protesters are trying to block wind tower parts from arriving in Lowell — and some are being arrested. Green Mountain Power is in the process of putting up 21 turbines on 400 foot towers. Critics say the project will destroy views of the rural region and lower property ...
  • Windfall for the environment, downfall for health?
    Imagine the low, constant lull of a clothes dryer tossing around a pair of tennis shoes. Then, try to fathom the sound of a train going over a bridge, or a jet engine propeller slicing through the air. Now, imagine a bumblebee stuck inside your ear. These are the descriptions given by residents ...
  • Photo trickery makes wind farms smaller
    Wind farm developers have been accused of deceiving local councils and the public by using computer-generated images in planning applications that make the turbines seem smaller than they are in reality. The claim is contained in a new book, Windfarm Visualisation: Perspective or Perception, by ...
  • Taxpayers hit with £1m bill for turbines
    The cost of resisting the spread of wind turbines across Perth and Kinross has now reached a staggering £1 million. The council has repeatedly attempted to block the proliferation of windfarm developments, which it believes threatens the landscape and its vital tourism industry. But time and aga ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Ice and Economics
    In 1806 Frederic Tudor sailed a ship full of ice from Boston to the Bahamas--then he did it at a profit.
  • FEE’s Take: Making It on Your Own
    The other day President Obama said:  [L]ook, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. . . . If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that w ...
  • Pessimism Hits Business Economists
    “Economists say the sales and profit gains of early this year are disappearing, and they are increasingly pessimistic about short-term growth.” (USA Today) Government is like a big roadblock to prosperity. FEE Timely Classic “Why Economies Grow” by Aaron Schavey
  • Bureaucracy Takes Time with New Food Inspectio ...
    “Last year President Obama signed a law hailed as the most sweeping overhaul of food safety in 70 years. Fast forward 17 months, and major portions have yet to be implemented.” (USA Today) The freed market would do it better. FEE Timely Classic “Safe Food at Any Cost” by ...
  • “Piracy” Student Loses US Extradit ...
    “Richard O’Dwyer, a computing student at Sheffield Hallam University, faces a potential 10-year term in a US jail despite never having been to America or using web servers based in the country. When still a teenager O’Dwyer set up a website, TVShack, which posted links to pirated mat ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • State of Chicago: The Decline and Rise
    I’ve had it in my head for over a year now to do an in-depth exploration of Chicago, a project I’ve called “State of Chicago.” This is the first a series of pieces that expand on the themes in my recent article “The Second-Rate City?” First, I’d l ...
  • Are Millennials the Screwed Generation?
    Today’s youth, both here and abroad, have been screwed by their parents’ fiscal profligacy and economic mismanagement. Neil Howe, a leading generational theorist, cites the “greed, shortsightedness, and blind partisanship” of the boomers, of whom he is one, for having “brought the global ...
  • China's French Connection
    No two countries would appear more divergent than France and China, especially in the age of Eurozone collapse. One country represents the Asian future, while the other is the capital of the failed, if diverting, old world. The French recently elected a socialist president and assembly on the ...
  • How Fossil-Fuel Democrats Became An Endangered ...
    In an election pivoting on jobs, energy could be the issue that comes back to haunt Barack Obama and the Democratic Party as the cultural and ideological schism between energy-producing Republican states and energy-dependent Democratic ones widens. As the economy has sputtered since 2008, ...
  • High Speed Rail Advocates Discredit Their Caus ...
    Is there any high speed rail boondoggle big enough to make rail transport advocates reject it?  Sadly, for all too many of them, the answer is No, as two recent developments make clear. The first is in California, where the state continues to press forward on a high speed rail plan for the ...

GM Watch

  • Researcher admits highly speculative nature of ...
    NOTE: This is the only article we have seen which makes clear the very speculative and lengthy nature of the the work required for the GM nitrogen-fixation that the Gates Foundation is funding. Most of the media coverage makes no reference to how long this research may take, or at most refers o ...
  • Toxic biotech provisions of the Farm Bill
    Toxic Biotech Provisions of the Farm Bill Deniza Gertsberg GMO Journal, July 16 2012  http://gmo-journal.com/index.php/2012/07/16/toxic-biotech-provisions-of-the-farm-bill/ If you thought that the regulatory framework for regulating genetically engineered crops in the United States was weak bef ...
  • Taking lessons from Dr Goebbels?
    NOTE: Good to see PCU's condemnation of the media manipulation designed to downplay governmental support and funding for an unpopular and potentially dangerous technology while the claim is repeatedly made that the public is gradually finding the growing and consumption of GM crops more acceptab ...
  • Anger after Gates gives millions to British lab
    1.Anger after Bill Gates gives GBP6m to British lab to develop GM crops 2.GBP6.4m grant awarded for GM cereals EXTRACTS: Dr Michael Antoniou, a molecular geneticist from King's College London's medical school [said]: "There are safer, proven technologies, so I'm afraid the Gateses have been gro ...
  • Anger after Gates gives millions to British lab
    1.Anger after Bill Gates gives GBP6m to British lab to develop GM crops 2.GBP6.4m grant awarded for GM cereals EXTRACTS: Dr Michael Antoniou, a molecular geneticist from King's College London's medical school [said]: "There are safer, proven technologies, so I'm afraid the Gateses have been gro ...

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Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • These 12 Hellholes Are Examples Of What The Re ...
    Do you want to see where this country is headed?  If so, don't focus on the few areas that are still very prosperous.  New York City has Wall Street, Washington D.C. has the federal government and Silicon Valley has Google and Facebook.  Those are the exceptions.  The reality is ...
  • 27 Things That Every American Should Know Abou ...
    The U.S. government has stolen $15,876,457,645,132.66 from future generations of Americans, and we continue to add well over a hundred million dollars to that total every single day day.  The 15 trillion dollar binge that we have been on over the past 30 years has fueled the grea ...
  • Four Reasons To Be Even Less Optimistic About ...
    The cracks in the ice are getting bigger.  At this point it is really hard to have much confidence in the global financial system at all.  They told us that MF Global was an isolated incident.  Well, the horrific financial scandal over at PFGBest is essentially MF Global all over ...
  • Scenes Of Despair
    Sometimes it can be easy to forget that behind all of the horrible economic numbers that we hear about are millions of real people that have had their lives absolutely devastated by this economy.  Elderly couples are being brutally evicted from their homes, young families are liv ...
  • The Corn Is Dying All Over America
    All over America the corn is dying.  If drought conditions persist in the middle part of the country, wheat and soybeans will be next.  Weeks of intense heat combined with extraordinarily dry conditions have brought many U.S. corn farmers to the brink of total disaster.  If there ...

Desertification

  • Reclamation of desertified, sandified land in ...
    Read at : http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/07/china-battles-desertification/ China Battles Desertification By Manipadma Jena Reclamation of desertified, sandified land on either side of the Sudu desert road in Wengniute County, China, is well under way. CHIFENG, Inner Mongolia, China, Jul 5 2012 (IPS ...
  • Drylands, Deserts & Desertification Conference ...
    Read at : http://twittercounter.com/tweet/MzE4NjEwMjg CONFERENCES: 4th International Drylands, Deserts & Desertification Conference at BGU From “Patricia Golan” @exchange.bgu.ac.il> ========================================== November 12-15, 2012 Sede Boqer Campus (Ben Gurion ...
  • The “Million Tree Project”, a local initiative ...
    Read at : http://www.sca.com/en/media/news-features/archive/sca-news-2012/sca-fights-desertification-in-china/ SCA fights desertification in China In Inner Mongolia SCA is taking an active part in the fight against desertification, with donating and planting trees to support “Million Tree Projec ...
  • Desertification in Thar (Pakistan) – (Da ...
    Read at : http://dawn.com/2012/07/15/thar-the-3d-effect/ Thar: The 3D effect By A.B.Arisar | From InpaperMagzine | Hanif 70, has decided to migrate with his family and livestock to canal-irrigated areas in search of food, fodder and water. “If it was n’t a … Continue reading →
  • To turn barren desert into useful and arable l ...
    Read at : http://israel21c.org/environment/top-10-ways-israel-fights-desertification/ Top 10 ways Israel fights desertification   Israel has gained a worldwide reputation for its ability to turn barren desert into useful and arable land. ISRAEL21c takes a look at the country’s top 10 eco-st ...

The Paper Trail

  • U.S. official says government wasted $6-8 bill ...
    The official in charge of monitoring America’s $51 billion effort to reconstruct Iraq has estimated that $6 billion to $8 billion of that amount was lost to waste, fraud and abuse. Stuart Bowen, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) for the past eight years, gave th ...
  • Human corpses are prize in global drive for pr ...
    On Feb. 24, Ukrainian authorities made an alarming discovery: bones and other human tissues crammed into coolers in a grimy white minibus.Investigators grew even more intrigued when they found, amid the body parts, envelopes stuffed with cash and autopsy results written in English.   What t ...
  • The shadowy trade in human body parts
    HASH(0x3e2ae30)
  • Child sex abuse: A North Dakota agent shines c ...
    The Penn State child sexual-abuse scandal suggests, once again, that institutions intoxicated by power and celebrity will go to great lengths to protect their own — even at the risk of grave harm to children.You can read the independent task-force report on the university’s assistant football co ...
  • IMPACT: Labor Dept. assembling expert team on ...
    Federal regulators are assembling a team of lawyers and other experts to consider how to bolster coal mine dust enforcement given systemic weaknesses revealed by an investigation into the resurgence of black lung by the Center for Public Integrity and NPR, according to an internal Labor Departme ...

backofthebook.ca

  • McDonald’s: Some secrets should be kept
    By Mark Leiren-Young Did McDonald’s have to tell us what they put in their special sauce? Couldn’t they have just said, “May contain nuts, chlorine and anything else that may set off your allergies” and keep us guessing? Unless someone posted the recipe on Wikileaks, did they have to tell us abo ...
  • A Modest Opinion – Nathaniel Moher&#8217 ...
    By Nathaniel Moher Welcome to part three of Nathaniel Moher’s Guide to Fixing the World! As any good trilogy does, Nathaniel Moher’s Guide to Fixing the World will have six parts . . . three of which will be completely unreadable and will mostly be done as a money grab. (Well, if we’re being hon ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Verdicts in for the Genoa 10: guilty
    314755_361569740580957_275302870_n.jpg The Italian High Court confirmed on Friday 13th July the sentences for the 10 activists on trial for crimes of “devastation and looting” during the G8 summit in ...
  • Turkish Airlines Strike: workers up against bo ...
    29may.jpg An article by the section of the International Communist Current in Turkey about the recent Turkish Airlines strike. The world economic crisis is getting more on more ...
  • Balfour Beatty construction workers win swift ...
    Balfour_Beatty_GreedyPigs.jpg Balfour Beatty construction workers - the majority non-union - take successful unofficial strike action after management failed to keep their promises about time off for ...
  • Workers at Mining Industry factory in Northern ...
    2.jpg Statement from workers at a mining industry factory in Greece announcing their decision to take over their factory under workers' self-management. “You can’t? We can! ...
  • Huge protests force Chinese government retreat ...
    shifang.jpg Adam Ford discusses the mass protests which forced a defeat on the Chinese state. Locals are celebrating in the Chinese city of Shifang today, following the governme ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Official: US ship fires on boat off Dubai, 1 dead
    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—The U.S. Navy says a security team aboard one of its ships fired on a small boat after it disregarded warnings and raced toward the vessel near the Dubai port of Jebel Ali.. Lt Greg Raelson, a spokesman for the Navy's Bahrain-based 5th Fleet, says sailors aboard the U ...
  • At the Precipice of War
    The nuclear issue, though, is but a pretext used to veil U.S. imperial designs in the region. As a senior U.S. Defense Department official recently let slip to the New York Times: “This is not only about Iranian nuclear ambitions, but about Iran’s regional hegemonic ambitions.” In other words ...
  • Iran parliamentary committee approves construc ...
    A Iranian parliamentary committee has approved a bill requiring the government to design nuclear-powered merchant ships and provide them with nuclear fuel, an Iranian news agency reported Sunday. read more
  • امام جمعه تهران: تحریم‌ها الطاف خفیه خداست، در ...
    خطیب نمازجمعه تهران با انکار فقر در جامعه ایران، تحریم‌ها را "الطاف خفیه خدا" دانست. این اظهارات همسو با آیت‌الله خامنه‌ای است که گفت "تحریم‌ها ملت ایران را واکسینه کرده است.»      
  • فعالیت ۶۰۰ کارگر چینی در ساخت آزادراه تهران - ...
    خبرگزاری‌های ایران از فعالیت صدها کارگر چینی در ساخت آزادراه تهران ‌- شمال خبر می‌دهند و عکس کارگران چینی را نیز منتشر کرده‌اند. پیش‌تر وزیر کار خبر حضور کارگران چینی در ایران را "کذب محض" خوانده بود.read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Plot Thickens: ALEC and the IRS
    According to Brendan Fischer of PR Watch, Marcus Owens, former chief of the Internal Revenue’s non-profit division has just filed a complaint with the IRS that the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has violated the terms of its nonprofit status by lobbying on behalf of its corpo ...
  • Russia’s New Muscle
    The Russian PAK-FA (T50) Below an interesting article from the Australian Business Spectator provides an intriguing analysis of the global positioning behind Russia’s stand on Syria. One Americans won’t find in the US business press. Among the issues highlighted is the fact that Rus ...
  • Homeless Indian Kids Start Their Own Bank
    In a shelter for homeless runaway teens in New Delhi, the residents have created an unlikely society where everything from healthcare to banking has been initiated, implemented and executed by the kids themselves.     If video fails to play, go to: http://www.rt.com/news/ ...
  • An Unlikely Folk Hero
    Multimillionaire Kim Dotcom Last March, I blogged about Kim Dotcom [1], the Internet multimillionaire the FBI is trying to extradite to the US on Internet piracy charges. In brief the FBI is accusing the founder of Mega Upload of illegal file sharing and copyright violation. Dotcom, much of the ...
  • Britain Cuts Defense Force by 20%
    Britain's Secretary of State for Defence Philip Hammond In an effort to reduce its debt burden, Britain plans to cut its defense force by 20% by 2020. In announcing the UK’s plans to cut 102,000 to 82,000 military personnel, Secretary of State for Defence Philip Hammon signaled his int ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • West tries to blackmail Russia into accepting ...
    Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that the West has been trying to blackmail Moscow into accepting a military intervention in Syria. On Monday, Lavrov said the Western threats to discontinue the UN unarmed observer mission to Syria if Russia does not agree to allow the West to use ...
  • Spanish unions mull general strike over auster ...
    A Spanish trade union leader has warned that unions were considering a general strike against the government’s new austerity measures. Secretary General of Comisiones Obreras trade union (CCOO) Ignacio Fernandez Toxo said on Monday that the strike was “unavoidable” if the gover ...
  • US Navy ship opens fire in Gulf killing one
    Rising tension in the Gulf has claimed a victim as a civilian boat came under fire from a US Navy ship after getting too close to an American tanker. One person was killed and three others wounded in the incident, say US officials. ­The security watch of the US fleet tanker USNS Rappahannock spo ...
  • Brazil police arrest illegal gold miners in Ya ...
    Brazilian police have arrested at least 26 people in a major operation against illegal gold miners in an Amazon reserve near the border with Venezuela. The operation was carried out in the Yanomami indigenous reserve, where illegal gold miners were causing serious damage to the environment, poli ...
  • 9/11 By Way of Deception
    The following is an exclusive excerpt from the new book “Official Stories” by Liam Scheff, from Chapter 4: “9/11 – A Perfect Tuesday Morning.” The countdown of the top five hits of 9/11 brings us to number three on your hit parade: Mossad with “White Van!” Mossad, the Israeli intelligence force, ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Google TV Webpage Updated â Site Redesign, App ...
    Google TV is about to blow up this year (or at least get an extra big boost from Google) and while we wait around to see what Google has planned for the TV OS at Google I/O this week, there’s been a silent update of sorts to their webpage, adding new content and a fresh new design. Google is gi ...
  • Stephen Strasburg Beans Marco Scutaro, Win Str ...
    On Monday, the Washington Nationals opened a four-game set against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. The Nats had ace Stephen Strasburg on the hill gunning for his 10th win of the season and his seventh straight start ending with a "W" next to his name. Unfortunately, Washington was unable t ...
  • Liriano, Twins top White Sox 4-1 in Youkilis debut
    MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â Francisco Liriano faced runners at the corners with only one out in the seventh. This was precisely the type of situation where he's faltered so many times before, but Twins manager Ron Gardenhire didn't budge. "I just have a lot of confidence in him," Gardenhire said
  • Microsoft and Yammer: Collaboration and Enterp ...
    via microsoft.comMicrosoft Corp. and Yammer Inc. have announced Yammer, a leading provider of enterprise social networks is to be acquired for $1.2 billion in cash. Yammer will join the Microsoft Office Division, led by division President Kurt DelBene, and the team will continue to report to cu ...
  • Brewer: Obama admin launched 'assault' on Arizona
    (CNN) – Republican Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona had some biting words for the Obama administration Monday after it announced it was rescinding agreements that allow some local law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration laws. "They arbitrarily singled out Arizona and sent a bomb, if y ...

Groklaw

  • New Yahoo CEO Mayer is pregnant
    Mayer told Fortune exclusively that her first child is due October 7. It's a boy! "He's super-active," Mayer told me in a phone call tonight, three hours after Yahoo announced her appointment. "He moves around a lot. My doctor says that he takes after his parents." - Patricia Sellers, Fortune
  • MeeGo Startup Jolla Signs Deal With China's D. ...
    Mobile company Jolla signed its first sales deal today, with D.Phone, China's largest smartphone retail chain. The newly formed Finnish company, comprised of ex-Nokia employees and MeeGo developers, will have its devices featured in D.Phone's 2,000 stores. - Stephanie Mlot, PC Magazine
  • Study: Legal Software Does Not Make GCs More E ...
    General counsel can now consider data on how matter and contract management software relates to staffing and spending benchmarks. Counterintuitively, departments with the software show worse attorney-to-paralegal staffing ratios and higher spending than those without the software. This article d ...
  • Introducing Article One Partners
    As you may have noticed over the past several days, IPWatchdog.com has a new Super Sponsor - Article One Partners. Long time readers of IPWatchdog are likely familiar with Article One Partners, or AOP as they are sometimes called, because I have written about their endeavors on many occasions i ...
  • Office 2013: Half Of A Good Thing
    Over the weekend I was given the chance to try out the newly-released preview edition of Office 2013. I liked what I saw, but I see the same problem with Office 2013 that I see with Windows 8 generally. Its biggest changes are aimed at people who might never use Office in the first place -- name ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Babylon’s Burning. Max Romeo
    Seems appropriate for our current times, as the corrupt institutions begin to collapse.Babylon burning, Babylon burning, Babylon burning They have no waterFire fire, fire fire, fire fire They have no waterWhere you gonna run to? Where will you run to? Where will you run to? Days without mercyI s ...
  • On the extremist racism in Europe and Britain
    Andy Carling of Nueurope continues his series on the extremist racism of the English Defense league, Andre Breivik and his defenders in the European Parliamant, and their panties-in-a-twist horror that Muslims are inhabiting Angloland. He skewers their derangement with deft humor.My family migra ...
  • California cities may seize mortgages by emine ...
    Vulture funds, like vultures, can perform needed services. Credit: commons.wikimedia .orgTwo cities in San Bernardino County and the county itself are considering using eminent domain to seize mortgages on troubled homes, sell them to investors at “market value” who would then create new mortgag ...
  • The devastation of IED blasts
    Photos taken one second apart. Credit: zenpundit.comThe road is peaceful then literally one second later the IED explodes and all is blood, shattered buildings, and chaos over a very wide area indeed. I had no idea IEDs could do so much damage. Zenpundit assembled the photos from a video made to ...
  • All your communications are belong to us
    Obama gives DHS authority to seize all US communicationsDespite Obama’s reassurances that the order will only be invoked in “emergency” situations the fact that “emergency” remains undefined and can be invoked in cases of “threats.”When it comes to civil liber ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Public servants go on scrapheap while consulta ...
    Tough financial times? Not if you’re a consultant working for the National Government on one of its poor priority pet projects. Today’s revelation that the Government has spent $200 million in the past three years for transport consultants to work on its roads of national significance reveal a s ...
  • Judge Becroft and the role of schools
    Senior Youth Court Judge Andrew Becroft has put out a challenge to Boards of Trustees to stop expelling students because it help creates youth crime. He says schools should be social service hubs where we do everything we can to keep students engaged. His speech highlights the way in which inequ ...
  • History (sometimes) repeats – Saving Fio ...
    Some 40 years ago the Save Manapouri campaign began with a meeting in Te Anau. Protecting Lake Manapouri from being raised and operated as a hydro lake and the lake shore forest inundated involved the biggest public mobilisation for the environment New Zealand had ever seen. Lakes Manapouri and ...
  • General debate, July 14, 2012
    Happy Bastille Day!
  • Fishy figures from fisheries
    The Ministry of Primary Industries and our commercial fishing industry, which is largely reliant on the honesty of its fishers, are known for gilding the lily when it comes to sustainability of fisheries. The commentary we are seeing around the latest UN Food and Agriculture (FAO) report on the ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Governments Exist to Further the Interests of ...
    Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored group.
  • The History of Knowledge: Darkness in the Acadamy
    Knowledge does not always prevail or even endure. When the Roman Empire fell, the Justinian Code was replaced by Canon Law. The augustness of knowledge was transformed into heresy and mankind's curiosity was virtually extinguished. The age became dark. In the 11th century, people began to st ...
  • Vendor ArithmeticUnderhanded Capitalism
    Why does the nation exist? The truth is revealed when one realizes that merchant theft is protected by the legal system whose justices have enshrined an economic bias into law, having subverted the Constitution from the goals the founding fathers wrote into it to the almost exclusive promoti ...
  • Treacherous Treaties
    Is American imperialism a Bilderberger plot? Are the American bankers, diplomats, and members of the Council on Foreign Relations all traitors, having turned America into merely an instrument to carry out their Bilderberger maniacal aims? Does America as a sovereign nation even exist anymore ...
  • Is Adam Smith's a Pickpocket
    Economists use the law of supply and demand merely to provide suppliers with an excuse for raising prices and picking consumer's pockets.

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Factory Fed Fish: Monsanto's and Cargill's Pla ...
    By Dr. Mercola The mass cultivation of genetically modified (GM) soybeans has a hugely detrimental environmental and health impact worldwide. As it stands, soy is widely used in our diets, in processed foods and found in most meat, as soy is fed to animals on CAFOs (concentrated animal feedi ...
  • Dozens of Genetically Modified Babies Already ...
    By Dr. Mercola When I first read that genetically modified humans have already been born, I could hardly believe it. However, further research into this story featured in the UK's Daily Mail1 proved it to be true. They've really done it... they've created humans that nature could never all ...
  • GlaxoSmithKline: GUILTY in Largest Health Frau ...
    By Dr. Mercola One of the biggest news stories relating to health right now is the finalization of the biggest lawsuit yet by the American government against a pharmaceutical company. On July 2, the British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline plead guilty to three counts of criminal misdemeanor and ...
  • So Inherently Dangerous that Only Two Countrie ...
    By Dr. Mercola Mood swings, weight gain, joint pain, tummy problems―you name the ailment, there's a pill for it. And you, the American consumer, are helping Big Pharma sell it. Don't believe it? Well, it's happening right before your eyes, and believe it or not, the United States is one of on ...
  • Surprising Links: How Big Banks Manipulate and ...
    By Dr. Mercola Ellen Brown is a civil litigation attorney who has written 11 books on health and the politics of health, including the Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System (which focuses on the money and banking system itself), and Forbidden Medicine, which traces the suppre ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Ads target Machu Picchu tourists in row over u ...
    Uncontacted tribes share the same 'Sacred Valley' as Machu Picchu. The ancient site attracts up to 1 million tourists each year. © Icelight/Wikicommons Visitors to Peru’s most iconic tourist attraction, Machu Picchu, are being targeted by a new online ad campaign, in a row over a ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • EU agency lifts lid on drug data secrets
    from chicagotribune.com: Europe's medicines regulator, criticized in the past for excessive secrecy, is opening its data vaults to systematic scrutiny in a move that will let independent researchers trawl through millions of pages of clinical trial information. The change is a landmark in tra ...
  • A World Without Fences: A Review of Will Allen ...
    from civileats.com: When his mother left their sharecropping land in South Carolina, there were 900,000 farms in the U.S. operated by African Americans. Now here he was, about to become one of the 18,000 that do so today. That 98 percent drop, he seems to have concluded, might be a part of th ...
  • Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore: 'Than ...
    from climatedepot.com: Greenpeace Co-Founder Dr. Patrick Moore commented a new study trying to explain the lack of global warming: The new study claims: 'Abrupt increase' in CO2 absorption slowed global warming: Excerpt: 'The earth would have warmed faster in the last two decades had there no ...
  • War on Health: FDAs Cult of Tyranny
    from therealfoodchannel.com: In the US, the FDA wants to control everything you put in your body. They walk hand-in-hand with Big Pharma to approve drugs that not only don't work, but are deadly. They shut down small organic farmers. They threaten produce growers who link to medical sites offeri ...
  • Florida Keys Residents Resist Release of Dengu ...
    from guardian.co.uk: A British company that has developed a genetically modified mosquito to resist the spread of dengue fever is coming up against growing opposition to a plan to release the insects into the Florida Keys. A Change.org petition started by a woman in Key West opposing the rele ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • These 12 Hellholes Are Examples Of What The Re ...
    Do you want to see where this country is headed?  If so, don't focus on the few areas that are still very prosperous.  New York City has Wall Street, Washington D.C. has the federal government and Silicon Valley has Google and Facebook.  Those are the exceptions.  The reality is ...
  • 27 Things That Every American Should Know Abou ...
    The U.S. government has stolen $15,876,457,645,132.66 from future generations of Americans, and we continue to add well over a hundred million dollars to that total every single day day.  The 15 trillion dollar binge that we have been on over the past 30 years has fueled the grea ...
  • Four Reasons To Be Even Less Optimistic About ...
    The cracks in the ice are getting bigger.  At this point it is really hard to have much confidence in the global financial system at all.  They told us that MF Global was an isolated incident.  Well, the horrific financial scandal over at PFGBest is essentially MF Global all over ...
  • Scenes Of Despair
    Sometimes it can be easy to forget that behind all of the horrible economic numbers that we hear about are millions of real people that have had their lives absolutely devastated by this economy.  Elderly couples are being brutally evicted from their homes, young families are liv ...
  • The Corn Is Dying All Over America
    All over America the corn is dying.  If drought conditions persist in the middle part of the country, wheat and soybeans will be next.  Weeks of intense heat combined with extraordinarily dry conditions have brought many U.S. corn farmers to the brink of total disaster.  If there ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Cowardly Custard Cameron Fearful of Facing Farage?
    Yesterday, UKIP leader Nigel Farage went to Downing Street to present a letter challenging Prime Minister David Cameron to a public debate on the UK's membership of the hated European Union. It is a challenge that was thrown down by Nigel Farage several weeks ago but thus far, the can-kicking ...
  • 2 Faced: The Observer takes the money and...
    The Observer launches into a left-right paradigm flurry of talcum powder today, aiming all it's traditional despising of 'Big Oil' and the American 'Tea Party' at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC, the report tells us, are - thankfully in our view - seeking to intervene o ...
  • The truly insane global elite are about to be ...
    As a political blog, we cover some weird stuff sometimes, boldly daring to post what other political blogs are too fearful for their credibility to risk. It is for that reason that we were very thrilled this year to see the Bilderberg Group blown wide open and irretrievably. No longer is that ...
  • Quote of the Day: 13th July 2012
    "This is a genuinely chilling development. For centuries, habeas corpus has been the ultimate safeguard against wrongful imprisonment by the state. Should these proceedings be pushed into secret courts, the possibility emerges that citizens could be detained without the government having to p ...
  • Nigel Farage: The EU is like a weird cult...
    So there you have it. The European 'Parliament' is like the epicentre of a weird cult. That's C-U-L-T. Not the same as most of the people in it, who are C-U-N... never mind.

Facing South

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Was the petrol price rigged too?
    Of course…. By Rowena Mason, Emma Rowley 9:00PM BST 15 Jul 2012 Concerns are growing about the reliability of oil prices, after a report for the G20 found the market is wide open to “manipulation or distortion”. Traders from banks, oil companies or hedge funds have an “incentive” to distor ...
  • Hillary Clinton Must Resign For Nuremberg Offenses
    Tony Cartalucci, Contributor Activist Post The unhinged state of US foreign policy is exemplified best by this week’s Tremseh, Syria “massacre.” Before any confirmations could be made, and based solely on “activist” accounts, Hillary Clinton penned a US State Depart ...
  • Hillary Clinton Is Today’s Joseph Goebbe ...
    BBC even went as far as literally admitting, after offering up another “Houla-style” narrative, that (emphasis added): …later, activists told the AFP news agency that rebel fighters had attacked an army convoy, but were beaten back and many were killed in a counter-attack. &#82 ...
  • India: Paralysis cases soar after oral polio v ...
    Elliott By Elliott Freeman A new report by two Delhi pediatricians suggests that the sharp rise in childhood paralysis in India is due to the increased usage of the oral polio vaccine, a drug that was banned in the U.S. over a decade ago. Dr. Neetu Vashisht and Dr. Jacob Puliyel of St. Stephens ...
  • 911 Truth ~Ed Asner the Architects and WTC 7

Veterans Today

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

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Pentagon Accelerates Carrier Group Deployment ...
    Xinhua News Agency July 17, 2012 Pentagon accelerates carrier group deployment to Gulf USS John C. Stennis WASHINGTON: U.S. Navy will deploy the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis and its strike group four months earlier than previously scheduled and shift its destination to the Gulf region, m ...
  • U.S. Drones Recognize No Miranda Rights
    Voice of Russia July 16, 2012 Do drones know Miranda rights? Dmitry Babich ==== Under Obama, American drones reportedly killed hundreds of suspects, destroying in the process thousands of civilians, with only ONE MORE PERSON being put in the infamous Guantanamo camp, which “humanistic” candidate ...
  • Strategically Timed Syrian Massacre
    SteveLendmanBlog July 15, 2012 Strategically Timed Syrian Massacre By Stephen Lendman Insurgents are enlisted, armed, funded, trained, and directed by Western and regional special forces. They decide strategy, targets, and timing. Armies need leadership to operate effectively. So do killer gangs ...
  • Afghan Endgame: The Dilemma
    The Nation July 15, 2012 Afghan endgame – the dilemma By Imran Malik ==== The US would like to see a self-serving conducive environment prevail over the South Central Asian Region (SCAR) and APR (Afghanistan-Pakistan Region)…It would also like to ensure that Russia and China remain c ...
  • NATO Supplies And The Common Man
    Pakistan Observer July 15, 2012 Nato supplies and the common man! ==== The first tangible manifestation of what our ambassador was pleased to call a historic turn in Pakistan-US relations was the devastating and deadly drone attacks a day after the resumption of the NATO supplies. These attacks ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • The Largest Natural Disaster In U.S. History: ...
    The End of the American Dream Blog July 16, 2012 Why is the heartland of the United States experiencing such a horrific drought right now? At the moment, approximately 61 percent of the entire nation is experiencing drought conditions, and this is absolutely devastating farmers and ranchers all ...
  • U.S. Declares the Largest Natural Disaster Are ...
    By Dashiell Bennett The Atlantic Wire July 16, 2012 The blistering summer and ongoing drought conditions have the prompted the U.S. Agriculture Department to declare a federal disaster area in more than 1,000 counties covering 26 states. That’s almost one-third of all the counties in the U ...
  • New Planet Found in Our Solar System?
    Richard A. Lovett | An as yet undiscovered planet might be orbiting at the dark fringes of the solar system, according to new research.
  • Mysterious Currency Transfers Before 9-11
    9/11 Blogger | An interesting interview with Bill Bergman who worked at the Chicago Federal Reserve for over 13 years.
  • Christians United For Israel: Building an Evan ...
    By Susanne Posel theintelhub.com July 16, 2012 Pastor John Hagee, founder of Christians United For Israel (CUFI), has been at the forefront of pro-Zionist propaganda and integral in the building of an evangelical army ready to defend the agenda of the Zionist movement. Beginning today, CUFI is h ...

FRS

  • India: Suppression of cultural activists expos ...
    18 Maoist cultural wing members held in city Mahesh Buddi, Times of India | July 17, 2012 HYDERABAD: Police have picked up 18 members of Chetna Natya Manch (CNM), a Maoist cultural outfit, when they arrived in the city from Khammam on Monday. After interrogation, police arrested seven CNM m ...
  • The Government of Violence : A Massacre In Dan ...
    By Kamal K.M, Countercurrents.org, 16 July, 2012 ‘Dandakaranya’ is a stretch of forest in India that runs through the states of Chattisgarh, Orissa, Maharashtra , and Andhra Pradesh. Roughly translated in Sanskrit, the word means `Jungle of Punishment’. When you enter the villa ...
  • The Government of Violence : A Massacre In Dan ...
    By Kamal K.M, Countercurrents.org, 16 July, 2012 ‘Dandakaranya’ is a stretch of forest in India that runs through the states of Chattisgarh, Orissa, Maharashtra , and Andhra Pradesh. Roughly translated in Sanskrit, the word means `Jungle of Punishment’. When you enter the villa ...
  • India: Revolutionaries honor the memory of fa ...
    COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST) DANDAKARANYA SPECIAL ZONAL COMMITTEE June 10, 2012 Observe Martyrs Week From July 28 to August 3! Red Homage to Our Party’s Fore-founders and Beloved Teachers Comrades Charu Mazumdar and Kanhai Chatterjee! Let’s rededicate ourselves to fulfill the ch ...
  • India: Revolutionaries honor the memory of fa ...
    COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST) DANDAKARANYA SPECIAL ZONAL COMMITTEE June 10, 2012 Observe Martyrs Week From July 28 to August 3! Red Homage to Our Party’s Fore-founders and Beloved Teachers Comrades Charu Mazumdar and Kanhai Chatterjee! Let’s rededicate ourselves to fulfill the ch ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Zimmerman Surrenders to Authorities
    George Zimmerman is back behind bars.Contributor: TJ Larson Published: Jun 03, 2012
  • Why Does Florida Have Repeated Election Problems?
    Florida is having voter controversies this year and the general election isn't even here yet.Contributor: William Browning Published: Jun 03, 2012
  • Texas Teacher of the Year Arrested for Sexting ...
    John McDaniel, 32, days after being named Teacher of the Year, is arrested for inappropriate relationship with student. Recent cases like this have prompted Texas to re-examine its policy on social media.Contributor: Dori Starnes Published: Jun 01, 2012
  • Hold onto Your Fountain Drinks, New Yorkers!
    Bloomberg's administration propose a ban on sugary drinks in order to combat rising obesity in NYC.Contributor: Brianna Peterson Published: May 31, 2012
  • Defense of Marriage Act Ruled Unconstitutional ...
    The Defense of Marriage Act (DoMA) has been ruled unconstitutional yet again. Coming on the heels of two California federal judges ruling DoMA unconstitutional, the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals has now also issued a rulingContributor: Christopher Beheler Published: May 31, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • FDA Approves First HIV-Prevention Drug
    In a milestone announcement, today the FDA approved the use of Truvada, the first drug to be used for HIV prevention in the 30-plus year battle against the virus. To be used as part of safe sex practices and continued testing, the drug, which was first approved in 2004, has already shown promis ...
  • Powerful Lasers Could Be Fired Into the Clouds ...
    We're further along in using science to manually force the weather's hand than many people suspect. In 2009, for example, the Chinese government used weather manipulation to bring a snowstorm to Beijing, and they aren't the only nation giving it a try. But using so-called "cloud seeding" techni ...
  • Using DNA to Track the Spread of Bedbugs
    New research from two international teams will help unravel the origins of infestations Independent research teams from the U.S. and the U.K. are developing genetic techniques similar to those used in forensics labs to trace the ancestry of the bedbug. The work may help map the spread of the pe ...
  • Archive Gallery: Man's Best Friend
    What we learned from, and about, our domesticated friends in the last century We've spent thousands of years living side by side with dogs, and yet we're still constantly seeing what we can teach them--or, sometimes, it's them doing the teaching. Click here to enter the gallery So it's no surpr ...
  • The Most Amazing Images Of The Week, July 9-13 ...
    This week's roundup of the best science images fits in a wide range. Above, we have a striking (non-Photoshopped!) look at the results of a toxic red spill in Hungary. But we've also included the first photo ever put on the Web -- which has aged just about as poorly as you'd expect. Plus electr ...

Veterans Today

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

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Catholic Church on Finance and Financial Crises
    I once again came upon the pre-Benedict XVI Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church (2004) while looking for something else. While Marginal Revolution's all-purpose commentator Tyler Cowen may be no fan of Caritas in veritate, he does state that "our versions of capitalism and democracy ...
  • SE Asia Proxies: Philippines/US vs Cambodia/PRC
    I guess it's ARF-ARF: Because the current rotating chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is none other than Cambodia, it is no surprise that it has been more partial to China. To the disappointment of the Philippines and Vietnam, Cambodia has been unwilling to bring up the South Ch ...
  • Huawei to Hell: PRC Threatens Trade Spat w/ EU
    There's so much controversy over Chinese-made and -designed telecommunications gear: While the American solution to denying market access to budding Chinese telecoms giants / national champions Huawei and ZTE is to treat them as security threats--their investment is not welcome in the "Land of t ...
  • South Sudan Cuts Off Its Oil To Spite Its Economy
    It seems like only yesterday that we were wishing the new nation of South Sudan all the best after it voted to create a new, independent republic. However, it probably wasn't long in coming that the tensions with Sudan (call it the old, "North" Sudan) resurfaced. You see, while many of the oil-r ...
  • Success Stories: Philippines, the Next Indonesia?
    In contrast to the America #1 cheerleaders I am duty-bound to debunk day in and day out, I am actually rather guarded about my home nation's economic prospects. This despite it growing at rates that make the United States look lethargic by comparison. Indonesia has somewhat surprisingly become o ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • These 12 Hellholes Are Examples Of What The Re ...
    Do you want to see where this country is headed?  If so, don't focus on the few areas that are still very prosperous.  New York City has Wall Street, Washington D.C. has the federal government and Silicon Valley has Google and Facebook.  Those are the exceptions.  The reality is ...
  • 27 Things That Every American Should Know Abou ...
    The U.S. government has stolen $15,876,457,645,132.66 from future generations of Americans, and we continue to add well over a hundred million dollars to that total every single day day.  The 15 trillion dollar binge that we have been on over the past 30 years has fueled the grea ...
  • Four Reasons To Be Even Less Optimistic About ...
    The cracks in the ice are getting bigger.  At this point it is really hard to have much confidence in the global financial system at all.  They told us that MF Global was an isolated incident.  Well, the horrific financial scandal over at PFGBest is essentially MF Global all over ...
  • Scenes Of Despair
    Sometimes it can be easy to forget that behind all of the horrible economic numbers that we hear about are millions of real people that have had their lives absolutely devastated by this economy.  Elderly couples are being brutally evicted from their homes, young families are liv ...
  • The Corn Is Dying All Over America
    All over America the corn is dying.  If drought conditions persist in the middle part of the country, wheat and soybeans will be next.  Weeks of intense heat combined with extraordinarily dry conditions have brought many U.S. corn farmers to the brink of total disaster.  If there ...

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