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Thomas Paine

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

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

17 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

IDF Chief of Staff Honors Outgoing Mossad Dire...IDF Chief of Staff Honors Outgoing Mossad Director, Jan 2011 (Photo credit: Israel Defense Forces)Julia Gillard speaking at the lanch of the Aus...Julia Gillard speaking at the lanch of the Australian Multicultural Council (AMC) and a new local ambassadors program to champion inclusion and highlight the benefits of Australia’s diversity. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)English: Demonstration in front of Sydney Town...English: Demonstration in front of Sydney Town Hall in support of Julian Assange, 2010, December 10 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 16: Australian...CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 16: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard speaks to United States President Barack Obama before a parliamentary dinner on the first day of his 2-day visit to Australia, on November 16, 2011 in Canberra, Australia. The President will today receive a Cermeonial Welcome, attend a bi-lateral meeting and hold a joint media conference with Julia Gillard, and attend a Parliamentary Dinner this evening, before addressing Parliament and heading to Darwin tomorrow. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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, ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2012-07-15 Après Assange, Le Déluge
    King Louis XV is widely credited with the phrase “Après moi, le déluge” (after me, the deluge), although it may have been spoken by Madame de Pompadour, his official mistress (the title was by appointment at the time: she divorced her husband after assuming the position). In any case, it was pro ...
  • 2012-07-10 Julia Gillard comes clean on WikiLeaks
    I bumped into Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on the train yesterday. I mean, literally bumped. I was lurching towards the last available seat on the 4:45 pm from Central when I tripped and collapsed over the armrest beside her, momentarily dislodging the blonde wig she was wearing as a ...
  • 2012-07-10 Fear of U.S. backlash further justi ...
    Julian Assange arrived at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on June 19 in order to seek political asylum. His application is based on concern of U.S. extradition and prosecution. Since the announcement of his decision to seek asylum, there has been discussion of possible U.S. rebuttal if Ecuador ...
  • 2012-07-08 WikiLeaks News Update: Syria Files ...
    WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 582 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 579 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 776 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 662 days. read more
  • 2012-07-07 Sweden's 'reinterpretation' of MLA law
    Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) is a common legal practice in the European Union. It is an agreement between two countries to help cooperation during investigation of alleged crimes. The EU's website states "mutual legal assistance and agreements on extradition are essential for the EU in order to ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • ObamaCare... Seniors Must Submit To Counseling ...
    Washington Post confirms Grandma faces Euthanasia under Obamacare! read more
  • Is Coal Dirty?... The Real Facts on Coal Combu ...
    To describe carbon dioxide as a "lethal air pollutant" is an irresponsible lie. We are winning the war about Man-made Global Warming. About half of the population still think that the carbon tax will do some good! Why??? It is all about “cleaning up dirty coal energy”. ~ Viv Forbes read more
  • Stop Agenda 21 Action Kit
    Tom DeWeese, President of the American Policy Center discusses his important "Stop Agenda 21 Action Kit" and how to effectively use it to educate yourself and others about the serious dangers of Agenda 21 and convince elected officials to ban it. ~ Video - Info links read more
  • Are Americans Really This Stupid?
    "Nature gave man two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then, man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most."  Lecturer George R. Kirkpatrick (1867-1937) ~ Devvy Kid read more
  • Total Gun Ban Is Coming!!!
    Today on this LIVE Sunday edition, Alex Jones takes aim at the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, part of a larger effort to sabotage the 2nd Amendment with international firearms regulations. ~ Video - related article read more

Tarpley

  • Charlie Skelton of The Guardian Exposes the NA ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV July 13, 2012 [download video] [download audio] PressTV talks with Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley, author and historian from Washington, regarding the issue. Below is an approximate transcript of the interview. Press TV: We recently saw a massacre take place in th ...
  • World Crisis Radio
    New programs posted weekly on Saturday evenings Listen now or download to your mp3 player. World Crisis Radio Ad-Free RSS Feed! Select Year 2012 2011 2010 Select Program July 14, 2012 July 7, 2012 June 30, 2012 June 23, 2012 June 16, 2012 June 9, 2012 June 2, 2012 May 26, 2012 [...]
  • Racism and Secessionism: The Nineteenth-Centur ...
    Webster G. Tarpley on the Jeff Rense Program rense.com July 11, 2012 [download audio]
  • Hillary Clinton Threatens Syria with “Ca ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV July 9, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
  • Time to Organize a US National Anti-Austerity ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. Progressive Radio News Hour with Stephen Lendman July 8, 2012 [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

  • LED Lantern technology for Survival Preparedness
    Being a bit of a geek for things like LED technology (which is now being designed into flashlights, lanterns, and other lighting products), I know that it is a perfect technology fit for anyone’s survival preparedness kit, emergency lighting situations, or any general purpose lighting appl ...
  • New Campaign Font, Conspiracy or Coincidence?
    I came across this observation from TheBlaze.com, which may be a stretch, but is curious enough for me to post as food for thought. The question… Is this new campaign font coincidentally nearly identical to other ‘Commie’ fonts? or is there subliminal messaging afoot via a cons ...
  • Is A City Going Bankrupt Near You?
    Cities And counties are now seeing their finances collapse. Many are on the verge of bankruptcy or in bankruptcy. During the ‘hay day’ of good times, city governments overspent (as did nearly everyone else), and now the loans are coming due. The problem always is… governments ( ...
  • How They Will Take Your Guns
    You may be under a false notion that should society collapse in to chaos (for whatever reason – major natural disaster or man-made collapse), that you will be able to protect yourself by the fact that you have a gun or guns. Think again. The likelihood of confiscation or attempted confisca ...
  • Finishing Touches on U.N. Anti-Gun Treaty
    From INVESTORS.com, The United Nations is putting the finishing touches on an Arms Trade Treaty that transcends borders and may even trample our Constitutional right to bear arms. Every indication is that the president will sign it. Like the New Start and Law of the Sea treaties before it, as we ...

Fast Company

  • The Long Hot Uber Ice Cream Truck Fiasco Of 2012
    Uber is a car service. So why was it promising to deliver ice cream? By the way, WHERE'S THE ICE CREAM WE ORDERED? When the techie car service Uber announced it was sending a fleet of on-demand ice cream trucks to serve the urban-dwelling masses in New York, San Franc ...
  • Google's Marissa Mayer Is Named CEO Of Yahoo
    News updates all day from Fast Company.Via NYT: Marissa Mayer, a top executive at Google and one of the public faces of the company, has been named the new CEO of Yahoo. Mayer, who is one of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley, has spent the past 13 years at Google and is responsible for s ...
  • 5 Tips On Working Remotely From A Guy Who Work ...
    Darius A. Monsef IV, the Waimea, Hawaii-based CEO of COLOURLovers.com, offers advice on building a successful startup, whether employees are spread across one time zone, or six. WHY YOU SHOULD START A COMPANY IN... New Ideas, New Markets, New Insights It used to be, if you were serious ...
  • Office 15: Microsoft's Best Bet For Beating Dr ...
    With one billion Office users worldwide, the newest upgrade to Microsoft's productivity suite could give the company a significant hold on the cloud, which Gartner estimates will become a $149 billion industry by 2015.Microsoft is blasting Office into the cloud. And it wants one billion worldwid ...
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Jadaliyya

  • What is Settler Colonialism?
    Almost every year, for the week of the fourth of July, my family makes the twelve hour drive from their homes in Michigan to what they call their “farm.” The land has been in my family since the 1854 treaty between the Ojibwe and the United States created the Bad River Tribe Reservation on Lake ...
  • Symbolism in Peril
    Recently, The Economist covered the major changes occurring in Egyptian national politics that are establishing the foundation for the country’s future. The cover photo used features the pyramids as volcanoes. After some initial joking amongst ourselves at the expense of Economist editors about ...
  • Last Week on Jadaliyya (July 9-15)
      This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes the most recent Videos and the most read articles. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series.     Asad ...
  • Egypt Media Roundup (July 16)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sund ...
  • Reflections on a Lifetime of Engagement with Z ...
    In the following interview conducted for Journal of Palestine Studies by Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani, Noam Chomsky reflects on a lifetime of engagement with the Palestine Question. He reflects on his early engagement, and how it developed over the course of his lifetime. He also consi ...

mediagazer

  • DirecTV CEO: "Viacom is forcing this bundle on ...
    Daniel Frankel / GigaOM: DirecTV CEO: “Viacom is forcing this bundle on you, not us”  —  Does DirecTV CEO Mike White really support a TV distribution model in which consumers get to make a la carte choices on the channels they receive?  —  With DirecT ...
  • The Marissa Mayer Yahoo Show, Brought to You b ...
    Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: The Marissa Mayer Yahoo Show, Brought to You by Daniel Loeb  —  The appointment of Marissa Mayer as CEO of Yahoo earlier today was a definitively splashy move by the board of the troubled Internet giant.  —  And a key impresario of the ...
  • 21,000 journalists swarm into London for Olymp ...
    Anne-Laure Mondesert / AFP: 21,000 journalists swarm into London for Olympics  —  With less than two weeks to go before the Olympic Games, hordes of competitors are pouring into London from across the globe and limbering up — but they're not athletes.  —  P ...
  • The Bookless Library - Don't deny the change. ...
    David A. Bell / The New Republic: The Bookless Library  —  Don't deny the change.  Direct it wisely.  —  I.  —  THEY ARE, in their very different ways, monuments of American civilization.  The first is a building: a grand, beautiful Beau ...
  • Why Murdoch's The Daily Doesn't Fly (Fr&eacute ...
    Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note: Why Murdoch's The Daily Doesn't Fly  —  Is there a future for The Daily?  According to last week's reports by The New York Observer and The New York Times, News Corp's “tablet newspaper” is on probation: Rupert Murdo ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Cristiano Ronaldo & Messi among the 32 no ...
    A panel of journalists has chosen the players who will be in contention for the prize, which was created in 2011, with the names of the three finalists to be unveiled next month By Luis Mira More On : Arsenal, Atletico...
  • Santos send representatives to AC Milan t ...
    Goalkeeper Rafael could be included as part of a deal to bring the idol back permanently to his boyhood home, with the Rossoneri unwilling to negotiate a loan move By Daniel...
  • Federer is new No. 1 king
    Roger Federer set another record on Monday when he began his 287th week as world No. 1. The 17-time Grand Slam champion surpassed American great Pete Sampras for...
  • US STOCKS-Shares edge down after retail s ...
    * Retail sales unexpectedly fall in June * Glaxo to buy Human Genome after sweetened $3 billion offer * Visa at all-time high, Mastercard rises on lawsuit settlement * Indexes down: Dow 0.2 pct, S&P 0.1 pct, Nasdaq 0.3 pct By Edward Krudy NEW YORK, July 16 (Reuters) - A surprise decline in J ...
  • Stocks edge lower after consumer spending ...
    NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are heading for their seventh drop in eight days after a report that U.S. consumers cut their spending. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 25 points, or 0.2 percent, to 12,752 in late afternoon trading Monday. The Commerce Department said retail sales fell 0.5 perce ...

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Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
  • Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
    Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...

Medical Marijuana

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Free speech in Australia under threat - Part 1
    DISCLAIMER: This article is NOT an advertisement for "black salve", nor should it be construed as promoting the use of "black salve". We tend to believe that in Australia, despite excessive taxation, nanny state legislation, over-regulation and a spiralling cost of living, we at least have fre ...
  • World Roundup with George Georgios - Part 1
    Today we bring you a show which covers a wide range of stories from around the world, including news on all the latest annoying Nanny State measures which our listeners have come to expect from TNRA. Some topics covered include the introduction of high tech surveillance drones in Queensland, f ...
  • News roundup and an interview with Frank Legge
    NOTE: Due to major commitments, I am currently unable to remove ads from TNRA podcasts. I welcome any offers of assistance in this regard. In this week's show we begin with a roundup of breaking news within Australia and around the world. Some of the topics covered include Julian Assange's b ...
  • David Chandler and John Bursill address the fr ...
    Today John Bursill takes the helm as guest host. John is joined by two excellent guests who have become known within the 9/11 Truth Movement as two of it's most wise and reasonable voices. We warmly welcome Ken Jenkins in the first hour and David Chandler in the second. Also we are very lucky ...
  • The ancient pyramidal structure of human socie ...
    In today's show we come to grips with the psychology behind the power structure. What kind of people become "leaders" in the type of system in which we live? What are the traits that enhance a person's potential to move up the ladder in organisational hierarchies? My guests today are Dan Colli ...

Beacon

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

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The Astonishing Casualty Count Of The Firebomb ...
      March 9th, 1945, wave after wave of US B-29 Super Fortress bombers lay down 2000 tons of incendiary ordinance on Tokyo over the next two days. Some 16 square miles in and around the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Launchig out of Saipan and Tinian Islands in the Marriannas, the B-29s would be s ...
  • Military Hydrofoil Development.
      In the 1960’s, suddenly the hydrofoil seemed like a fertile area to explore in naval technology. Seafaring nations across the world began development on the hydrofoils all at the same time. Boeing and the United States Navy developed Patrol Hydrofoil Missileship (PHM). Or as the writer of ...
  • Did The Germans Fly A Manned Rocket In The 1930s?
      October 29th, 1933, the London Sunday Referee reported that in Rugen, a small Baltic coastal town near Germany, a man landed safely after flying in a rocket six miles into the atmosphere. This of course would make Germany the first successful testing agent of manned rocket powered flight. ...
  • Capitalism Midwifed The Boer War.
      By the end of the 19th century, European powers some ascendant and some on the wane, all made a mad dash to occupy or otherwise replevin some significant holding in Africa. By the end of the 19th century there was hardly any space left to plant another European flag. Portugal had already ...
  • Nazis Funded War Effort With Stolen Jewish Money.
      “Nearly 120 billion Reich marks – over £12 billion at the time – was plundered from German Jews by laws and looting….The official study commissioned by the ministry examined the years from 1933 to 1945. Hans-Peter Ullmann, a Cologne history professor, said the tax authorities under ...

Taylor Marsh

  • CNN’s Erin Burnett Slams Romney on Taxes
    CNN IS DYING for ratings, but they’re purposed with a “newsroom” template, so making cheap political points is out. But former CNBC anchor Erin Burnett decides to step out and tell the truth to political power, getting in the middle of the Romney campaign’s business. Tran ...
  • Team Romney Loses the Singing Ad War to Team Obama
    *UPDATED* THERE IS just no contest. Obama’s ad, with Mitt Romney singing off key against a backdrop of his outsourcing records, is devastating. Romney’s ad simply doesn’t work nearly as well; Obama’s singing is terrific and reading the compiled data isn’t timed very ...
  • From Labor Unions: A ‘Workers Stand for Americ ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Though with a bi-partisan tone, the Workers Stand For America Rally (August 11) is more about the Democratic than Republican Party. This action is clearly within the Two Corporate Party system, and at least in what I’ ...
  • Mitt Romney’s Palin Problem Is a Republican Wo ...
    “I’m sure I’m not the only one accepting consequences for calling out both sides of the aisle for spending too much money, putting us on the road to bankruptcy, and engaging in crony capitalism.” … “In accepting those consequences,” [Sarah Palin] added, “one must remember this ...
  • Secy. Clinton Greeted in Egypt with ‘Monica, M ...
    An embarrassed Egyptian security official said they were chanting “Monica, Monica” and “Irhal, Clinton” (Get out, Clinton.) Tomatoes, shoes and a water bottle were thrown at part of Clinton’s motorcade as it pulled up, protected by riot police, although a US officia ...

Hudson New York

  • Now They Are Slaughtering Palestinians
    The world has become used to hearing and watching stories about massacres against civilians in Syria. But until recently, almost all the victims were Syrian citizens. Last week, however, it turned out that in Syria, they are also massacring Palestinians.
  • Islam's Threat to Diversity
    Egyptian identity, like so many others, made up of several layers, begins in Ancient Egypt, a civilization that flourished for nearly thirty centuries. Further layers derive from the Coptic Age, when Egypt in its entirety was an Eastern Christian society
  • The Three-State Solution
    The future is already here, but people refuse to see it. Why? Because the world's politicians and journalists froze their minds decades ago about how to deal with the Arab-Israeli conflict. Every speech by Western leaders, and every pontification by a
  • The Call: A New Blog
    This week we are proud to present the inaugural episode of "The Call," an unconventional foreign policy round-table that will be posted regularly on Monday afternoons. Each "Call" will focus on a single subject to which panelists will bring insights
  • How Political Correctness Is Transforming Brit ...
    In Cheshire, two students at the Alsager High School were punished by their teacher for refusing to pray to Allah as part of their religious education class. In Scotland, 30 non-Muslim children from the Parkview Primary School recently were required to

Urban Survival

  • The Biggest Problem in the World
    May not be financial…   I don’t claim to be a geologist but there is something going on which is just below the public perception level and it has to do with global cataclysm which may be coming to our earthly … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Tuesday at the WuJo
    OK, here’s a strange one for you: “Evening George,   Had a vivid dream/vision this morning. Large black letters appeared on a white background, “USS Kuantimiatsu.” Then a voice that said, “Remember this.” That was it. Very odd name for a … Cont ...
  • Retail: A Monday Muddle
    The markets are set to pause this morning after the big run-up on Friday while presumably, smarter people than us try to figure out what the heck is going on with retail sales figures.  The problem is that the most … Continue reading →
  • Coping: The Professional Liar’s Association
    (Tacoma, WA)  Several people wrote to me over the weekend asking what I thought about military dependents being briefed on “Niburu’s arrival.” Needless to say when I get emails quoting a duck (or drake or mallard, or somesuch) I figure … Continue reading →
  • The “Free Market” Joke
    It’s a bitch being a bear.  That is to say, when someone like Ures truly looks at markets and comes to a reasoned judgment that stocks are over-valued and goes short, should such deliberations have to be colored by Federal … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Sue and settle legislation: a cure in search o ...
    Ann Alexander, Senior Attorney, Chicago Certain segments of Congress of late have built their careers on loudly decrying government waste, endless bureaucratic delay, disregard of the law by public officials, and excessive litigation.  Their so ...
  • NRDC in the News 7/16: Beach report best five ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Oprah.com’s “LifeLift” blog featured NRDC’s annual beach report,“Testing the Waters,” highlighting the dozen beaches that received a 5-star rating for good water q ...
  • India Environmental News Compilation, July 2nd ...
    Amrita Batra, Program Assistant, India Initiative and Food and Agriculture, San Francisco Energy A Tool that Educates Consumers on Energy Efficiency “The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), which provides the legal framework for the Union Pow ...
  • Take Local Opposition National By Saying No to ...
    Joel Reynolds, Director of NRDC's Urban Program, the Marine Mammal Protection and So. California Ecosystem projects, Santa Monica, CA In May, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a draft scientific assessment of the potential impacts of ...
  • Why Wild Places Matter: Because they Keep Us H ...
    Andrew Wetzler, Director, Land & Wildlife Program, Chicago So why do wild places with abundant and diverse wildlife matter?  Well, one reason is that they literally keep us from getting sick.  No, I don't mean that wild places offer us rec ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Saturday, July 14 to Monday, July 16, 2012: Clinton, New Jersey: A former patrolman was sentenced to 5 years in prison for selling police equipment. The equipment was bought for … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct Ne ...
  • After Knocking on the Wrong Door, Police Shoot ...
    From WESH.com: Lake County Sheriff’s Office deputies shot and killed a man they assumed was an attempted murder suspect on Sunday, but they now know they shot the wrong man.  In the early morning hours, deputies knocked on 26-year-old Andrew … Continue reading →After Knock ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, July 13: Phoenix, Arizona: A high speed chase led to  several homes being put on lock down while the police searched for the man they were chasing – who they … Continue reading →National Police Misconduc ...
  • ‘She was more afraid of the police’
    Opinion column from the New York Times: I MET her at 2 a.m. on a cold and windy morning in Washington, when she ran over to the outreach van to get a warm cup of coffee. Volunteers were offering condoms … Continue reading →‘She was more afraid of the police’ is a post fro ...
  • Can an Officer’s Misconduct Record Possibly Be ...
    Blog post from Jamie Kalven: A drama is unfolding in Illinois courts that has profound implications for police accountability and governmental transparency. At the center of this drama is Kilroy Watkins, a prisoner serving a 55-year sentence for first-degree murder … Continue reading &#859 ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

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

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Laggard to Leader launches - Melbourne, Sydney ...
    Are you sick of hearing? Australia is only a small part of the climate problem We shouldn’t act before the rest of the world Our actions won’t make a difference, anyway BZE’s new report, Laggard to Leader, will challenge these excuses, expose the true extent of Australia’s contribution to the ...
  • Germany’s solar panels would provide 25% of Au ...
    If you took all the solar panels in Germany and put them in Australia, they would supply a quarter of our electricity demand. In the first six months of 2012, 4.5% of total electricity demand in Germany was met by solar power. Put ...
  • Half-price Stationary Energy Plans now on sale
    Beyond Zero Emissions' award-winning Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan is now on sale for $15 + postage. That's 50% off! Perfect for showing your friends, family and workmates how Australia can get to 100% renewable energy within a decade. To order your copy email our General Manager ...
  • Solar Thermal Models Built
    Another four of our famous solar thermal models have been built in NSW, thanks to the efforts of Beyond Zero Emissions volunteers, the Paramatta Climate Action Network, and the Granville Men’s Shed. The models are of a concentrated solar thermal plant with a molten salt storage (CST+) power stat ...
  • WME leaders list 2012: GOVERNMENT + NGO LEADER
    The idealistic realist Matthew Wright Outfit: Beyond Zero Emissions Position: Executive Director Completely decarbonising our coal-rich nation by 2020 might be seen as an idealistic notion, but not to Matthew Wright. As co-founder of the NGO Beyond Zero Emissions, he has provided insight in ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Innovative conservation: bandanas to promote n ...
    American artist, Roger Peet—a member of the art cooperative, Justseeds, and known for his print images of vanishing species—is headed off to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to help survey a new protected area, Lomami National Park. With him, he'll be bringing 400 bandanas ...
  • Strangest island in the Caribbean may be a san ...
    Don't feel bad if you‘ve never heard of Navassa Island, even though it's actually part of the U.S. according to the Guano Islands Act of 1856. This uninhabited speck between Haiti and Jamaica, barely bigger than New York City’s Central Park, has a bizarre and bloody history—and ...
  • Scientists propose a new way forward on orangu ...
    Orangutans are in dire need of a revised conservation approach, according to a new study in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. While the plight of the species is widely recognized within the conservation community—receiving international attention in the form of scientific res ...
  • Cute animal picture of the day: baby bamboo lemur
    Greater bamboo lemurs (Prolemur simus) are one of over a hundred lemur species found only on the island of Madagascar. Listed as Critically Endangered, there are only around 500 individuals known in the wild, making them one of the world's most imperiled primate species. A new baby was recently ...
  • Indonesia green news: 70% of Indonesia’s ...
    70 percent of Indonesia’s coral reefs have some degree of damage found an assessment by the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia or LIPI). Coral reef monitoring carried out in 77 regions across Indonesia found only 30 percent of the archipelago’s coral ...

Sierra Express

  • Foulah Town Association USA extend condolences ...
    Foulah Town Association USA extend their condolences to His Excellency President Ernest Bai Koroma and family.  . . People who looked at this item also looked at… Prince Waleans extend condolences to President Ernest Bai Koroma and family Our take on police highhandedness Human Rights Comm ...
  • Missing the darling mother of our dear president
    The value of a shade is never known until it is chopped off. The departure of Madam Alice R. Koroma, the mother of our dear president, went a long way to support and prove beyond all reasonable doubt – the truth of this age-old proverb.  (Photo: The late Alice Rosaline Koroma) It implies that Si ...
  • Our take on police highhandedness
    The recent daylight firing done by some delta police on armless civilians at Elk street has sent wrong signals in the mindsets of people at these elixirs of days closer to the November 17 elections. The argument in place has been on the position of the delta police whose gun was wanted away by t ...
  • Disabled International Foundation –Sierra Leon ...
    The founder and Director of Disabled International – Sierra Leone, Imambay Kadie Kamara and her organization have send deepest condolences to the family of the president, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma for the irreparable loss of their mother Madam Alice R. Koroma (in photo). Speaking on a personal note ...
  • Vacancies – Drivers, Light Vehicle
    Cluff Gold SL is looking for drivers. Position: Driver, Light vehicle Reports to: Admin Officer Duty Station: Baomahun, Valunia Chiefdom, Bo District Duties Transport staff of CLUFF GOLD as may be assigned. Ensures the assigned vehicle is in good operational condition at all times. Ensures the v ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Brickbat: This Bud's for You
    Andrew Rausa and some friends were sitting on the steps of a New York City brownstone drinking beer and soda and celebrating July 4 when some cops pulled up. They cited the group for drinking in public. Rausa, a law student, quickly pulled up the state code on his iPhone and showed t ...
  • Detroit Police Unions Seriously Wonder Why The ...
    It’s like a competition now. Who will destroy itself first: Detroit or California (or, you know, Greece)? Via Reuters: Detroit's police union will file an appeal with Michigan courts to keep the city from cutting officers' pay by 10 percent, the Detroit Police Officers Associa ...
  • Newark's Mayor Calls the Drug War 'Big Overgro ...
    In a Reddit chat yesterday, Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Cory Booker reiterated his objections to the war on drugs: The so called War on Drugs has not succeeded in making significant reductions in drug use, drug arrests or violence. We are pouring huge amounts of our public reso ...
  • Ron Paul: Lost Nebraska, But Can He Still Spea ...
    Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) failed to pull a delegate strategy last-minute save of his GOP presidential run in Nebraska over the weekend---failed big, with Paul pulling just two of the state's 35 delegates. Thus, as media all over the world are reporting, this means Paul do ...
  • Does It Matter When Mitt Romney Left Bain?
    The best evidence right now suggests that GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney took a leave of absence from Bain Capital in February of 1999 to help run the Salt Lake City Olympics in Utah. During his leave of absence, Romney continued to sign documents submitted by Bain to the Sec ...

Mercury Rising

  • Romney’s Chappaquiddick
    Because to not speculate would be irresponsible. Here’s the rap. No clue whether it has any merit to it.
  • Same GOP/Media Complex That Freaked Over Hilla ...
    Dave Johnson at Seeing the Forest makes a good point: Back when Bill Clinton was President there was a huge media-swarm controversy because a decade before her husband was elected Hillary Clinton had made $100,000 over ten months by investing in cattle futures. Now, skip forward to 2012. Report ...
  • Tony Sutton Can Run, But He Can’t Hide F ...
    Sally Jo Sorensen once again shows why she’s worth five ordinary journalists and fifty hack stenographers: As early as December 3, 2010, Bluestem posted about the troubles the Republican Party was having paying counties for recount costs. And while other bloggers pointed the finger at unsu ...
  • Why You Should Support Bluestem Prairie
    Sally Jo Sorensen over at Bluestem Prairie is having a fundraiser. She’s definitely worth whatever shekels you can send her way. She’s broken a number of stories, both of local and national import, over the years. Her most famous recent scoop, done in conjunction with Ken Avidor, has ...
  • I give Fox Business a chance of survival
    “No self-respecting man should ever be seen in a beret” –Mandy Drury, CNBC Thing is, Mandy and especially her partner, Brian Sullivan, make brainless comments like this all the time. But since those comments have to do with finance and the economy, their audience (minus myself) ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Download the Information from the Cosmos
      The following is an excerpt from Yanatin and Masintin in the Andean World: Complementary Dualism in Modern Peru by Hilary S. Webb, published by University of Mexico Press. read more
  • Awakening Imagination for Transformation
    Evolver is a proud co-sponsor of Awakening Imagination for Transformation, a gathering of Creation Spirituality communities. Co-hosts Evolve Chesapeake Creation Spirituality Community and the Creation Spirituality Communities network invite visionaries, activists, mystics, healers, artists, dr ...
  • Post-Prometheus
    "NASA and the Vatican agree that [it] is almost mathematically impossible that we can be where we are today without there being a little help along the way.” --Ridley Scott, Director of Prometheus read more
  • The Media Ecosystem
      This article is excerpted from The Media Ecosystem: What Ecology Can Teach Us About Responsible Media Practice, recently released by Evolver Editions/North Atlantic Books.    Media as Environmental Education read more
  • Sex in the News
      In this week's sex in the news, Barney Frank gets married, Frank Ocean makes waves, the appropriate appetizers for a sex party, funny thing about the penis, and aren't college sex classes supposed to be electives? read more

Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

  • Prince William, Kate Middleton: More Than $80, ...
    The average British working household income is less than $40,000 U.S. That is why I have no use for those who are so privileged by birth. It is sickening. Probably Kate and William rented the whole airplane. Read more here. Kate Middleton: The gold-digger. Interesting video.
  • Canada Day and #DenounceHarper
    “#DenounceHarper is trending on Twitter in Canada, just behind #HappyCanadaDay. Users are using the hashtag to voice dissatisfaction with the Harper government, or just the man himself.” Read more about #DenounceHarper
  • TVO's The Agenda: The New McCarthyism
    There is no worse cancer in a free society than the thuggish impulse to equate dissent as disloyalty... The greatest patriot is the person with the courage to be the lone voice in the crowd crying out that the Emperor has no clothes. The test of our society's democratic nature is our instinct ...
  • Harper's Canada Day message loudly booed at Ja ...
  • U.S. Healthcare Legislation
    Fuxs News’ take on the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on Healthcare. Repugs are apparently very upset by the decision. Repugs spin machine is going hard at it. Sarah Palin gives her gyrations. “Obama lies, freedom dies” Sarah Palin. Watch the latest video at Press TV - Middle East
    • Heavy blast hits Syrian capital
      A heavy explosion has rattled the Midan neighborhood in the Syrian capital, Damascus, with no immediate reports of casualties, according to Syrian media.
    • Israeli forces steal 1k goats in Lebanon
      Israeli military forces have stolen 1000 goats from Shebaa farms in southern Lebanon following their failure to abduct two shepherds.
    • ‘US should return Iraqi artifacts’
      The United States should return Iraqi antiques and archaeological treasures to the Middle Eastern country, a former US official says.
    • Syria security chief denies defection
      The Damascus province’s security chief General Rustum Ghazala has denied false reports of his defection from the Syrian Army, saying the Syrian military is united and strong as before.
    • US again nixes Russia solution for Syria
      Tensions have taken a hike between the US and Russia over the Syrian crisis as Washington renews its call for regime change in Damascus, despite Moscow’s assertions against any foreign interference in Syria.

    CUNY SPS Community Blog

    • Five Questions for Our 1000th Facebook Fan
      We recently surpassed 1000 “likes” on our Facebook page, so to commemorate this milestone we asked our 1000th fan, Susan Punturieri, to tell us a little about herself. How did you learn about SPS? A co-worker referred the program to me. She said she really enjoyed it. I was looking i ...
    • SPS Governing Council Representative Nominatio ...
      We are accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and an alternate are needed to serve on the Cou ...
    • Follow-Back: The Power of Twitter
      Twitter, a social micro-blogging website has burst onto the scene and become embedded into the fabric of society and more importantly has become one of society’s methods of staying ‘in touch.’ Twitter has attracted users from all walks of life, be they mainstream corporations, governmental organ ...
    • Solicitation of Nominations for SPS Governing ...
      We are now accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and two alternates are needed to serve on t ...
    • Smarmy Prince, Contemptible Hypocrite, Ayatoll ...
      What a group. What a choice. The remaining field of Republican presidential candidates is one of the weakest in history. It is not just the liberal media that thinks so. Former Republican Congressman and current MSNBC host Joe Scarborough believes it and right wing pundit Charles Krauthammer cal ...

    Dissident Voice

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

    Destructionist

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

    Yeti Betty

    • Earthquake Prediction - Prediksi Gempa - Lindo ...
      Recent Earthquake Lists Area Of Higher Earthquake Danger! If You Can See Your Lands, It Is Under The Moon - Beware of Earthquakes. If it is in Sunlight Aswell Be Doubly Aware.. Eclipse Times Eclipses don't always mean earthquakes in the same way as getting run over by a Mack ...
    • Opera Low (zero) Kb (x6 million)
      O My Opera          Self Help          Community          Opera ISN'T IT TIME OPERA RELEASED THEIR OWN FONT!! ...
    • Educating Pita - Alan's Psychadelic BreakFasts
      I'll endeavour to keep a daily record of my simple inexpensive vegetarian eats here - just to answer the ever present carnivore's question: "What do you find to eat?"... ...
    • Help Yourself, it's all free...
      Best Viewed With:  Welcome Looking back at a previous blog of mine about earthquakes, a fair proportion of it turned out to be about common sense life tips. I've been through almost everything a life can throw at a person, and hopefully outlining a few useful things may help som ...
    • Website SEO Help
       B  Warning! As the web reaches into nearly every little village on the planet, the number of websites are currently expanding, and the number of people needing help are providing a tasty pool of minnows to the ever circling sharks. From blatant extorionism with threatening phonecall ...

      IPS - Inter Press Services

    • Russia Says West Using “Blackmail” ...
      Russia has said it would block moves at the U.N. Security Council to extend a U.N. monitoring mission in Syria if Western powers did not stop resorting to “blackmail” by threatening sanctions against Damascus. Sergei Lavrov, Russian foreign minister, staked out a tough position on Mo ...
    • Pacific Coastal Fisheries in Dire Need of Prot ...
      Coastal fisheries in Papua New Guinea, used primarily by local subsistence fisher folk, will face increasing pressure from climate change, compounding the twin problems of population growth and overfishing. Regional organisations like the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), along with lo ...
    • Teaching Madagascar’s Mothers to Combat ...
      Every Friday, mothers and their children gather at the community nutrition centre in the little village of Rantolava, 450 kilometres north east of Antananarivo, the Malagasy capital, to learn more about a healthy diet. The day begins with a weigh-in, to assess the children’s development, f ...
    • To Aid Afghanistan, Offer Less Aid
      It is customary to focus on the amount of money the international community offers Afghanistan: the higher the sum and the longer the commitment, the lower the risk of further destabilisation. And so the 16 billion dollars pledged by the donors for the next four years at the Tokyo conference ear ...
    • Shipping Canal Threatens Culture, Ecology, Liv ...
      One hundred and fifty years ago, the British colonial administration in India proposed a shipping canal project that would allow cargo vessels, commercial liners and large ships to cut through the Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park in the Palk Straits between India and Sri Lanka, thereby slashi ...

    My AntiWar

    CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

    • How Britain's top spy is beating the drums for ...
      Summary: Five nuclear scientists have been murdered in as many years in a campaign of state terror directed against Iran. One, Darioush Rezaeinejad, was shot dead outside his daughter’s nursery. Israel is the most likely suspect, possibly with the support of Britain or America. Certainly neit ...
    • Eight Reasons Why Waltz Theory On Nuclear Iran ...
      Summary: In a recent influential article in Foreign Affairs, Kenneth Waltz has challenged the conventional wisdom on Iran’s nuclear program and asserted that Iran “should get the bomb.” source: Al-Monitorread more
    • Doorway to Persia: "There is no way to peace, ...
      Summary: 'A Doorway To Persia' was made to educate, inform, inspire, motivate and enlighten those who seek more knowledge about Iran and her people. source: Fellowship of Reconciliationread more
    • Worldwide opposition to the next war against Iran
      Summary: The West wages a war of sanctions, sabotage and assassinations against the Iranian people. The sanctions are not “smart” but murderous. There is also a psychological and cyber war going on against the country’s nuclear scientists and installations, led by the US Empire and its clien ...
    • Spies Against Armageddon–and towards a Moral M ...
      Summary: Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel’s Secret Wars, a real life “thriller” about the exploits of Israel’s intelligence agencies, has been making headlines since its publication on July 9. Not only do its authors, CBS News’ Dan Raviv and Israeli journalist Yossi Melman, confirm wi ...

    The Daily Galaxy

    • "Evidence of Alien Life Expected Within 21st C ...
      Jocelyn Bell Burnell, a British astrophysicist at Oxford University who discovered the first radio pulsars with her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish, for which Hewish shared the Nobel Prize in Physics, Speaking at the Euroscience Open Forum conference in Dublin, said:...
    • Asteroid Mining Takes A Giant Leap Forward --" ...
      Planetary Resources, Inc., the asteroid mining company, has announced an agreement with Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic's "LauncherOne” (above) to provide launch capability for the Arkyd series of robotic low-Earth orbit (LEO) space telescopes for the exploration and commercial development ...
    • Giant Leap in Space Technology: For Galaxies, ...
      A new type of amplifier for boosting electrical signals that can be used for everything from studying stars, galaxies, and black holes to exploring the quantum world and developing quantum computers has been developed by researchers at the California Institute...
    • "The Missing 96%" --Higgs Boson Will Help Unra ...
      Physicists hope that the "new physics" will provide a more straightforward explanation for the characteristics of the Higgs boson than that derived from the current Standard Model. This new physics is sorely needed to find solutions to a series of...
    • Image of the Day: Glowing Black-Hole Illuminat ...
      A supermassive black hole is the prime suspect behind the glowing appearance of galaxy 3C 305, located about 600 million light years away in the constellation Draco. Composite data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes suggests that the...

    Natural News

    • Why you can't trust politicians (opinion)
      Truth in advertising doesn't hold true for political ads. Democracy takes effort and with it brings easy questions but hard answers. Question: Say I want to run a political television commercial; do I have to tell the truth? Let's say there's a guy running for...
    • Science proves that cranberries stop urinary t ...
      A fresh review of previously compiled literature on the healing power of cranberries once again affirms that drinking cranberry juice or taking cranberry supplements is a great way to prevent urinary tract infections (UTIs). Published in the journal Archives of Internal...
    • Starving for vitamin D
      A study published in the journal Pediatrics found that 70 percent of U.S. children have low levels of vitamin D. "We expected the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency would be high, but the magnitude of the problem nationwide was shocking" says Dr. Juhi Kumar of Children's...
    • Radiation - How to protect yourself from its e ...
      Whether concern stems from the possible exposure to drifting radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan or from every day sources of non-ionizing radiation (i.e., cell phones, computers, Wi-Fi, smart meters, etc.), exposure to radiation is a reality...
    • Six natural remedies to help relieve migraines
      For everyone who has had a migraine, you know how extremely painful they are. You know what the first symptoms are, such as vision loss or pins and needle feeling, and you dread what is to come. There are many that depend on over-the-counter or prescription medication...

    Threat Level

    • TSA Fails to Comply With Year-Old ‘Nude’ Body- ...
      It's been a year following a federal appeals court decision setting aside a constitutional challenge trying to stop the government from using intrusive body scanners across U.S. airports.
    • Oil Companies Spring a Leak, Courtesy of Anonymous
      Five top multinational oil companies have been targeted by members of Anonymous, who published about 1,000 email credentials taken from accounts belonging to the companies, as well as hashed and unencrypted passwords.
    • Par:AnoIA: Anonymous Launches WikiLeaks-esque ...
      Anonymous has launched its own version of WikiLeaks. It's looking to rely less on the secret-spilling site and to actually get people to make sense of the gigabytes of data Anonymous dumps on the world. But that's easier said than done.
    • Millions Will Flow to Privacy Groups Supportin ...
      Privacy and consumer rights groups are getting $10 million thanks to the settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook's 'Sponsored Stories' ads. But groups not getting any money in the deal are crying foul, saying the settlement doesn't help Facebook's 850 million users.
    • FBI Investigating Major Chinese Firm for Selli ...
      The Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched an investigation into allegations that a top Chinese maker of phone equipment supplied Iran with U.S.-made hardware and software, including a powerful surveillance system, in violation federal laws and a trade embargo.

    PERRspectives : Blog

    • When Mitt Swift-Boated Jane
      If nothing else, the growing imbroglio over Mitt Romney's Bain Capital connections past, present and retroactive is rich in irony. After all, while most attention is focused on whether Romney was literally at the helm of the post-1999 Bain that reaped millions in fees and dividends from firms t ...
    • The Republicans' Killer Lies on Health Care
      This week, the GOP-controlled House of Representatives voted for the 33rd time in 18 months to repeal the Affordable Care Act. But even if that act of political theater is over for now, Republicans will keep repeating their favorite parts of the right-wing script well past Election Day in Novem ...
    • Taxpayers and Patriots
      Four years ago, then vice presidential candidate Joe Biden was pilloried by Republican politicians and their media water carriers (for example, here and here) for telling wealthier Americans "it's time to be patriotic" by paying the slightly higher tax rates of the Clinton boom years. But with ...
    • Whorehouse Morals and Business Ethics
      In May, Mitt Romney suggested a new eligibility test in the U.S. Constitution requiring that the President first "spend at least three years working in business." It was bad enough that America's would-be second Harvard MBA President forgot the disastrous record of the first. Now, Mitt has cho ...
    • Why Romney Flip-Flopped on Bain Departure Date
      Thursday's revelations in the Boston Globe that Mitt Romney did not in fact leave Bain Capital in February 1999 have put the GOP standard bearer in hot water. At best, the contention if true would mean Romney lied to the American people to avoid paternity for job-killing deals that nevertheless ...

    Blackspot News Feed

    • Report on the Greek Left
      Leo Panitch: Recently returned from Greece, a report on Syriza, the left party that could win the next election
    • Is Mindfulness the Key to Curbing Over-Eating?
      Obesity has become a public health issue. New research suggests moment-to-moment awareness does a better job of helping people control their weight than any diet.
    • Why Do Gen Xers Care So Little About Climate C ...
      Pre-occupied with careers and families, the Gen Xers -- adults in their 30s and 40s -- remain almost as indifferent to climate change impacts as their parents.
    • The Facebook Cortex
      Robert Scoble is a well-known internet writer and videomaker whose chief skill appears to be the almost childlike, obsessive early-adoption of new services.  He was bitching for months about not being on Twitter’s suggested-users list because he followed tens of thousands of people, and cur ...
    • Rebuilding the Village: What Our Schools, and ...
      How can we we improve our public schools? By rebuilding the rest of our society.

    Consortium News

    TruthOut

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

    Planetsave

    • Nope, Mermaids Aren’t Extinct… No Evidence The ...
        Apparently, an Animal Planet program – ‘Mermaids: The Body Found’ — has confused a number of people and convinced them that mermaids once existed. I haven’t seen the program from the Discovery Network branch, but apparently it got so much attention that the National Ocea ...
    • Trigger for Past Rapid Sea Level Rise Discovered
      Scientists have discovered the cause for rapid sea level rise in two specific historic events using climate and ice sheet models. The process, known as saddle-collapse, was at the heart of two specific sea level rise events: the Meltwater pulse 1a (MWP1a) around 14,600 years ago and the ‘8,200 y ...
    • X-Class Solar Flare Released A CME Headed Towa ...
      The strongest solar flare of the summer, an X1.4-class flare, just erupted on July 12th. It was the second X-class solar flare in just one week. It peaked at 12:52 p.m. EDT (1652 GMT) on the 12th. The massive X-class flare included a powerful coronal mass ejection. The CME, a mass of charged sol ...
    • New Moon Discovered Around Pluto
      The recent discovery of a new moon around Pluto has now raised the number of confirmed moons up to five. The newly discovered moon is estimated to be around 6 to 15 miles across, and of an irregular shape. It follows a circular orbit with a 58,000-mile-diameter around Pluto. And it is thought to ...
    • Snow Leopard Mother And Cubs Seen In Den For F ...
        The dens of two female snow leopards and their cubs have been located for the first time in Mongolia’s Tost Mountains. This is the first known video taken of a mother and cubs. The research was done by scientists from Panthera, a wild cat conservation organization, and the Snow Leop ...

    Water Quality - WordPress

    Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

    Axis of Logic

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

    They Gave Us a Republic

    • GOP Insanity
    • How to Make an Unspeakably Bad Farm Bill Infin ...
      By @KYYellowDog Worse than slashing $16 billion from food stamps? Worse than taking that money from hungry children to lavish more billions in egregious subsidies to Big Ag monsters like Archer Daniels Midland? Worse than promoting destructive, family-farm-killing, obesity-promoting, animal-tort ...
    • Wall Street propaganda debunked
      By @TedFrier I figured out a long time ago that one of the best ways to chart the decline and fall of conservative intellectual integrity was to read Arthur C. Brooks, president of the right wing American Enterprise Institute. And in his most recent Washington Post contribution - "Five Myths of ...
    • Canadian Socialism vs U.S. Fascism
      By @TomBales1  Remember how our politicians used to brag that the average American was better off than any citizen of any other country in the world?  It was all part of that "Were Number One" thing we had going that has, in the past thirty wears, gone from being a statement of nationa ...
    • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Pie in the Sky"
      By @KYYellowDog 195 songs later, we're back where we started. We've landed a few blows, but the plutocracy is still standing, still corrupting democracy. So we fight on. Originally titled "Long-Haired Preachers," this is Joe Hill's most famous song. Like many of his songs, it uses the tune of a ...

    Care 2

    • OUTRAGEOUS! Annual Namibia seal cull to s ...
      Namibia's commercial seal hunt is the second-biggest in the world after Canada, and this year hunters hope to club 80,000 pups and shoot 6,000 bulls. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • Ripping off the Public of Billions of Dollars ...
      It's like the big lie. The bigger and more preposterous the political lie told by a president - and the more it is echoed by administration officials and the corporate media - the more it is considered fact. Submitted by Carrie B. to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...
    • Hope rewarded: Tortured Texas dog adopted
      Hope, the dog found brutally tortured in Texas last week, has a new home. According to the Parker County Sheriff's Office, the pug mix has been adopted by the family whose ranch she was first spotted wandering on.Charlie and Kit Moncrief have agreed to a Submitted by Suzybell H. to Animals &nbs ...
    • Africa: What Works - Rebuilding Degraded Ecosy ...
      According to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) some 60 percent of the world's ecosystems have been degraded over the past 50 years Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • URGENT! SIGN! DOG WRONGFULLY ACCUSED BY BOARD ...
      THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF MY BUILDING IS SUING ME TO REMOVE MY DOG GHOST FROM MY BUILDING. THEY ALLEGE HE IS AGGRESSIVE AND HAS BITTEN "SOMEONE." ANYONE WHO KNOWS GHOST WILL SAY HE IS ABOUT AS AGGRESSIVE AS A BABY BIRD AND HAS NEVER BITTEN ANYONE! HELP! Submitted by Michelle S. to Animals &nbs ...

    Smirking Chimp

    Paul Krugman

    No Quarter

    • Bawee, Tell Us A Stowee!!
      President Obama told CBS interviewer Charlie Rose that his biggest mistake as president was that he spent too much time working on policy and not enough time storytelling. Say what? Yes, he thinks he didn’t focus enough on telling us a story.  Four years of his omnipresent blathering on every me ...
    • Barack Obama, Socialist Fool
      Talk about a Socialist/Marxist mentality. Barack Obama believes that there are no self-made men and women. He must be projecting from his own Equal Opportunity supported lifestyle. Obama goes on to press the socialist vision: If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. Th ...
    • Somebody please help Joe Klein + weekend open ...
      It pained me to read “Bained.” That’s Joe Klein’s latest drivel written for Time magazine. Back in June of 1988, Lee Atwater took me aside and showed me some stuff that Bush the Elder’s campaign had developed against Michael Dukakis, who was then enjoying a 17-point advan ...
    • Is Tim Geithner a Fraudster?
      When it comes to hurling accusations of breaking laws, the Obama Team may want to stop and think before they stupidly suggest that Mitt Romney is a felon because of his ties to Bain Capital. Why? Well, there is concrete evidence that Obama’s Secretary of the Treasury, Tim Geithner, failed ...
    • Top Romney Aide: Obama campaign is “unraveling”
      It strikes me as significant that The Hill chose to feature a Fox News video yesterday. The reserved publication’s article is featured at Memeorandum. I’d hand-written a reminder to hunt down the video during the live interview of top Romney aide Gail Gitcho. It’s a must-view: ...

    Futurismic

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

    Therapy News

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

    Mountaintop Removal

    • New studies begin to answer questions about mi ...
      New studies begin to answer questions about mining, health Charleston Gazette Three new scientific reports have begun to answer questions about how mountaintop removal mining could play a role in higher levels of illnesses among residents in the Appalachian coalfields. Researchers have found hig ...
    • Sierra Club targeting nine Alpha mines in WV - ...
      Sierra Club targeting nine Alpha mines in WV State Journal National and regional environmental groups are acting to stop selenium pollution from mountaintop removal coal mining they claim is a violation of the Clean Water Act and surface mining laws. and more »
    • WV gas industry hosts 'community education day ...
      WV gas industry hosts 'community education day' State Journal National and regional environmental groups are acting to stop selenium pollution from mountaintop removal coal mining they claim is a violation of the Clean Water Act and surface mining laws. A release. National and regional e ...
    • Protect Appalachia from mountaintop removal - ...
      Protect Appalachia from mountaintop removal TriCities.com Dear Appalachia, end your civil war and take up a revolution. Protect these mountains from destructive greed and keep them as our ancestors knew them, as God created them. and more »
    • Mountaintop Removal Aerial Surveillance -Coal ...
      Mountaintop Removal Aerial Surveillance -Coal Operations Have Been Watched ... SteelGuru 273609 - 2012-07-15 - AP reported that government inspectors have been keeping a close eye on coal operators through aerial surveillance in central Appalachia, a region that's been the center of debate o ...

    Memeorandum

    • Timbuktu man gets 40 lashes for drinking (Agen ...
      Agence France Presse: Timbuktu man gets 40 lashes for drinking  —  BAMAKO — A Timbuktu man accused of drinking alcohol was given 40 lashes Monday by members of an Islamist group that has seized the north Malian city and imposed Islamic law there, witnesses said.  &mda ...
    • Early VP selection would break with history (F ...
      First Read / msnbc.com: Early VP selection would break with history  —  By NBC's Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Brooke Brower  —  *** Don't bet on an early VP pick: While we're bracing for Mitt Romney to make his VP pick as soon as this week, here is someth ...
    • The Incredible Bain Jobs Machine (Andy Kessler ...
      Andy Kessler / Wall Street Journal: The Incredible Bain Jobs Machine  —  In a competitive economy, $5,000 computers become $500 tablets.  Consumers get to spend the difference elsewhere in the economy.  —  Did Mitt Romney and Bain Capital help office-supply ...
    • Could one word take down Obamacare? (Sarah Kli ...
      Sarah Kliff / Washington Post: Could one word take down Obamacare?  —  Section 1401 of the Affordable Care Act is, on the surface, just as exciting as it sounds.  It outlines in excruciating detail the eligibility requirements for an American to receive a tax subsidy to ass ...
    • What the Surprise Retail Sales Drop Is Telling ...
      Kelly Evans / CNBC: What the Surprise Retail Sales Drop Is Telling Markets  —  It's the last thing the global economy needs right now: evidence that the U.S., too, is slowing.  —  And yet the latest retail sales data point in exactly that direction.  Sales a ...

    Energy & Environment News

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    China Dialogue

    • Don’t ditch sustainability yet
      A new discipline from Harvard Business School can help corporations work for the planet, its creators say. But John Elkington thinks they’ve missed some key truths about capitalism. The second Shared Value Leadership Summit in Cambridge, Massachusetts, left me a little unsettled. At e ...
    • Tragedy for traditional herders
      Local dairy herders are losing their livelihoods as industrial farming booms in Inner Mongolia. Good news for big companies; bad news for local economies and the environment. Shu Ni reports.Herder Gereltuya’s home in Inner Mongolia’s East Ujimqin banner is about a kilometre from the ...
    • Appropriating nature?
      Putting a value on nature once seemed at the forefront of progressive thinking, but in an interview with the Transnational Institute, Melissa Leach argues that it has instead turned into a wave of land grabbing.Transnational Institute (TNI): What is green grabbing? Melissa Leach (ML): I thi ...
    • Why big dams don’t work
      Yesterday, Mike Muller argued on chinadialogue that China’s investment in dams is good news for Africa. Here, Lori Pottinger writes that large dams are costly and destructive, but Chinese experience in renewables still has a lot to offer.The record of Africa’s large dams is one of wi ...
    • China brings dams back to Africa
      Chinese investors have broken a boycott on investment in African dams – and loosened the grip of the environment lobby. This is good news for the continent, water expert Mike Muller tells Olivia Boyd.Mike Muller is a South African water expert, engineer and writer on development issues. He ...

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    Threat Level

    • TSA Fails to Comply With Year-Old ‘Nude’ Body- ...
      It's been a year following a federal appeals court decision setting aside a constitutional challenge trying to stop the government from using intrusive body scanners across U.S. airports.
    • Oil Companies Spring a Leak, Courtesy of Anonymous
      Five top multinational oil companies have been targeted by members of Anonymous, who published about 1,000 email credentials taken from accounts belonging to the companies, as well as hashed and unencrypted passwords.
    • Par:AnoIA: Anonymous Launches WikiLeaks-esque ...
      Anonymous has launched its own version of WikiLeaks. It's looking to rely less on the secret-spilling site and to actually get people to make sense of the gigabytes of data Anonymous dumps on the world. But that's easier said than done.
    • Millions Will Flow to Privacy Groups Supportin ...
      Privacy and consumer rights groups are getting $10 million thanks to the settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook's 'Sponsored Stories' ads. But groups not getting any money in the deal are crying foul, saying the settlement doesn't help Facebook's 850 million users.
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      The Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched an investigation into allegations that a top Chinese maker of phone equipment supplied Iran with U.S.-made hardware and software, including a powerful surveillance system, in violation federal laws and a trade embargo.

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    • The Spirit Level Documentary Film
      We're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...    
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    PDA AMERICA

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

    Marler Blog

    • California Romaine Linked to U.S. and Canada I ...
      On June 30 I posted “What is California link to Canadian E. coli cases linked to Romaine Lettuce?” And, now slowly – very slowly – information is coming out – sort of. On July 13 Food Safety News reported: That in late April, at least 30 people fell ill with E. co ...
    • President Obama, tell your kids not to eat the ...
      A food safety program started by Bush to be killed by Obama at end of July. President Obama, you probably do not remember my three daughters, Morgan, Olivia and Sydney, hanging out with Sasha and Malia and Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers backstage before one of the inaugural parties, but $5 ...
    • Denny's Link to Salmonella Illnesses in Minnesota
      According to Jill Jensen of the Post-Bulletin in Rochester Minnesota, the first Salmonella outbreak in years is linked to Denny's Restaurant in Rochester.  Three confirmed cases and one suspected case of Salmonella montevideo are being investigated by Olmsted County Public Health Services a ...
    • Here is to Frances Mostiller Gilbert - She lik ...
      For those who are touting Colorado cantaloupe today being back on store shelves, take some time to remember one of your (former) customers. In working on this case, I got a note from the family on one of the last few days of Frances's life.  Here is one of the hardest parts: The focus n ...
    • Germantown Ohio E. coli Victim Develops Hemoly ...
      According to the Dayton & Montgomery County Health Department, as a result of eating food at a picnic at Neff’s Lawn Care in Germantown, at least 62 individuals have become ill. Of those, 13 have been hospitalized. Public Health – Dayton & Montgomery County is continuing an i ...

    AutoblogGreen

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

    Rafe's Radar

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

    Camera Obscura

    • No title
    • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
    • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
    • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
    • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

    Democracy Now!

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

    Suzie-Q

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

    Solari

    • Quote du Jour
      “When a lot of money has a negative return on investment, there is never enough money. The last expenditure has created the need for more money. It is like an addiction to poison. However, if the investment is engineered to a positive return on investment, then there is plenty of money. Th ...
    • 2nd Quarter Wrap-up & Equities Markets Overview
      By Catherine Austin Fitts This Thursday is our second quarter wrap-up of the primary trends and important stories year to date. Critical to investor short-term thinking is how the central banks manage sovereign government debt and monetary policy in a slowing economy coming into a US presidenti ...
    • 2012: Pain Killers Outperform Precious Metals
      Source: Yahoo Finance click on the image for a larger version Continue reading the article . . .
    • Quote du Jour
      America is locked in deflation.  The Fed has ballooned the M2 money supply by 9.3% in the last year and M1 is up a whopping 16% (June to June)  and we’ve gotten a lousy 2%-range GDP growth rate.  Or, in other words, systemic deflation is probably somewhere between 7.3 and 14%. ~ [...]
    • The Real Deal on Outsourcing
      By Peter Morici No issue is more misunderstood, or been more purposefully confused by the Romney and Obama campaigns, than outsourcing. Outsourcing is merely the importing side of international trade — purchasing abroad goods and services and components to assemble final products in the ...

    Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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    Sideways News

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

    Fabius Maximus

    • They need not use force to take over
      Summary:   This is a follow-up to yesterday’s post More evidence that the military is slowly cutting itself off from civilian control about the public’s high esteem of the military — and the military’s low esteem of the civilian government. It does not imply tanks in the ...
    • More evidence that the military is slowly cutt ...
      Summary: Michael Cohen draws our attention to this chilling quote from Chandrasekaran’s new book. It’s a natural development, still in its early stages, and long predicted on the FM website (and elsewhere). For more information see the links to previous posts at the end. {A}s I stood ...
    • Today’s we have an open thread: comment ...
      Summary: There are several powerful posts in the pipeline for the FM website, but none ready to go. So it’s an open thread day!  Post your comments and questions about geopolitics — and the FM website, too.   Als0, here are the posts that readers voted the best (ie, got the most hits ...
    • A look at forecasts for peak oil – and t ...
      Summary:  A common concern in the comments expresses fear of resource exhaustion, perhaps even leading to collapse of civilization. Here we examine the theory, evaluate the risks, and point to sources of more information. Such one to a Question Time:  “how do you think the US will cope wit ...
    • Europe has a political crisis. The economics a ...
      Summary: The Euro-crisis is at root a political one. Like all such, there are several levels to it.  All different.  Mostly invisible in the analysis featured by the general media, which prefer to describe this in bogus fashion as a morality play. The economics are exhaustively covered; here we ...

    Open Your Eyes News

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

    The Progressive Realist

    • Ghosts of History 2, Asian Security (Still) 0: ...
      Never mind that Japan has recalled its Ambassador to China. You can bet the mortgage that nary a word was said at the series of high-level ASEAN and East Asia Summit (EAS) security meetings attended by Secretary of State Clinton last week about the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands dispute between China an ...
    • The Decision of Hormuz Closure Rests in Khamen ...
      General Hassan Firouzabadi, the chairman of Iran’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced on Sunday that Iran has a contingency plan to close the Strait of Hormuz, but the decision to implement this plan rests with the country’s Supreme Leader. According to Fars News, a news agency affiliated wi ...
    • Flawed Logic, Bad Policy Underpin Washington P ...
      Last week, Michael O’Hanlon of the Brookings Institution wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post arguing that the US should “pick the winner” in the next Afghan presidential election slated for 2014. In addition to his job at Brookings, O’Hanlon serves as an external adviso ...
    • Targeted Killings and Signature Strikes
      In his memoir My American Journey, Colin Powell recollects his tours in Vietnam, first as a U.S. Army captain in 1962 and 1963, and later as a major in 1968 and 1969. Due to the length of the war, Powell notes that many officers and noncommissioned officers deployed to Vietnam were wholly unprep ...
    • Pentagon Claims Increase in Strength and Accur ...
      According to a recently declassified Pentagon report sent out to four congressional defense groups, Iran has significantly improved its missile capabilities and may soon be capable of developing a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile that could reach the United States. CNN reported that ...

    TAPPED - The American Prospect

    • Good Ads and Bad Ads
      By now you've probably seen the Obama ad that juxtaposes Mitt Romney's tender rendition of "America the Beautiful" against information about Romney's extra-national financial activities, including Bain Capital's involvement in outsourcing and the worldwide distribution of Romney's personal acco ...
    • Why "Knowing How the Economy Works" Is Not Enough
      This week will see the release of The 4% Solution: Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs, a collection of essays from the George W. Bush Institute with a forward by the former president himself. It's true that annual GDP growth never actually reached 4 percent during Bush's two terms in ...
    • Woody, Harry, and Irving
        This past weekend, American journalism commemorated the 100th birthday of one the nation’s greatest songwriters, Woody Guthrie. Many of the articles noted that Guthrie’s universally known national counter-anthem, “This Land is Your Land,” was written as a rebuttal of sorts to Irving Berlin’s ...
    • How Bain Undercuts Romney's Narrative
      Is Bain a problem for Mitt Romney’s narrative? Andrew Sullivan says yes: Romney, in other words, doesn’t have a leg to stand on. He has been running a campaign against the “Obama economy” insisting that the president own every single month he has been in office in order to condemn his economic ...
    • Mitt Romney Is Not a Weak Candidate
      Former Bush official and conservative pundit David Frum has a harsh and critical take on Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign: The hope for many of us was that a Republican president could do a better job constraining them than Barack Obama has been able to do - especially if (as I personally al ...

    Buzzflash

    • Five Reasons the Super-Rich Need Government Mo ...
      PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Wealthy individuals and corporations want us to believe they've made it on their own, without the help of government or the American people. Billionaire financier Sanford Weill blustered, "We didn't rely on somebody else to build what we built." He was ech ...
    • Ripping off the Public of Billions of Dollars ...
      MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It's like the big lie. The bigger and more preposterous the political lie told by a president - and the more it is echoed by administration officials and the corporate media - the more it is considered fact. The George W. Bush administration was a m ...
    • The Big Lie, the Gestapo, and the Governor of ...
      GERALD SCORSE FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The "big lie" is a propaganda technique linked to the Third Reich under Joseph Goebbels. The phrase itself was coined by Hitler in Mein Kampf; it was amplified years later by Goebbels, who generally gets credit for it (if credit is the right word). Goebbel ...
    • Progressives Team up With the Tea Party in Georgia
      MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT On July 5, BuzzFlash wrote a commentary on the possibility of occasionally finding common ground with groups that are normally oppositional. It was entitled, "Don't Laugh: There Are a Few Little Ledges of Common Ground with the Right Wing and Gun Zea ...
    • Sen. Bernie Sanders Calls US Olympic Uniforms ...
      SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT WASHINGTON, July 12 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today on reports that the uniforms to be worn by U.S. Olympic athletes during the opening ceremony for the summer games were made in China: "The Olympics are a time w ...

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    Sciencebase

    • Be wary of miracles too good to be true
      Not for the first time I’ve suspected that lyricist and drummer with the Canadian rock band Rush, Neil Peart has been reading my blog. First time was having written about the concept of earthshine, the band’s next album featured a song on that very concept, the reflected light from t ...
    • The Darwin Lost Weekend
      A man tries to convince his friend that Charles Darwin conceived his book ‘Origin of Species’ on the concept of evolution in the town of Cromer, Norfolk, England and not in the Galapagos Islands. This video was premiered at the first Science Online conference back in 2009 but has onl ...
    • Who do you follow back on Twitter?
      There is almost no limit to the number of people you could follow on Twitter, but when someone follows you, how do you decide whether to follow back or not? I’ve updated my handy cut-out-and-keep Twitter Decision Flowchart for the scientific age. You may wish to add your own block words, s ...
    • The truth about lying and NLP
      As a follow up to that item on eye movements and lying, here’s a quote from the Skeptics’ Dictionary about the pseudoscientific nonsense with the fancy name, Neuro Linguistic Programming, NLP: “It seems that NLP develops models which can’t be verified, from which it devel ...
    • Liar, liar, pants on fire
      There’s a weird piece of Deceived Wisdom that emerged from so-called Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) that suggested that one could somehow tell whether a person was lying by looking at their eye movements. Turns out, unsurprisingly, that it’s nonsense. All that guff about looking ...

    Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

    • Cultivating Influence: The 2008 Farm Bill Lobb ...
      As Congress navigates its way through the 2012 Farm Bill process, Food & Water Watch today released a report that delineates the special interest lobbying efforts that shaped the 2008 Farm Bill. Food & Water Watch estimates that $173.5 million was spent by agribusinesses, commodity group ...
    • Nation's Largest Corporate Dairy Sues Organic ...
      The nation’s two biggest suppliers of organic milk are embroiled in a lawsuit. An employee responsible for milk procurement with Horizon Organics (a part of WhiteWave Foods, owned by the $13-billion dairy giant Dean Foods) quit his job in May 2012 and took a similar position with Organic V ...
    • EFF to Testify at Senate Hearing on Risks of F ...
      Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Staff Attorney Jennifer Lynch will testify this week at a Senate hearing on facial recognition technology and the privacy and civil liberties risks associated with rapidly growing biometric databases. The hearing is set for Wednesday, July 18, at 2:30 p.m.rea ...
    • Houston Strike to Spread to Eight Cities as Ci ...
      Tomorrow, the Houston janitors' unfair labor practices strike will spread to eight cities across the United States. Janitors, who are members of SEIU Local 1, will fan out across the country to establish picket lines against their janitorial contractors in Washington, Minneapolis, Seattle, B ...
    • Senate Choice on DISCLOSE Act Is Clear: Transp ...
      Public Citizen today urged the U.S. Senate to pass the DISCLOSE Act (S. 3369) so Americans can learn who is paying for elections. In a letter to senators, Public Citizen urged them to show independence and leadership and “provide the type of full disclosure of independent electioneering th ...

    Common Dreams-Views

    • How the Pentagon Is Quietly Transforming Its O ...
      David Vine The first thing I saw last month when I walked into the belly of the dark grey C-17 Air Force cargo plane was a void -- something missing. A missing left arm, to be exact, severed at the shoulder, temporarily patched and held tog ...
    • A Coup Over Land: The Resource War Behind Para ...
      Benjamin Dangl Each bullet hole on the downtown Asunción, Paraguay light posts tells a story. Some of them are from civil wars decades ago, some from successful and unsuccessful coups, others from police crackdowns. The size of the h ...
    • After 800 Years, the Barons are Back in Contr ...
      George Monbiot Hounded by police and bailiffs, evicted wherever they stopped, they did not mean to settle here. They had walked out of London to occupy disused farmland on the Queen's estates surrounding Windsor Castle. Perha ...
    • Hot Enough for You? Time to Teach Against Foss ...
      Bill Bigelow Here in the Pacific Northwest, we’ve been spared most of the brutal weather experienced in the rest of the country. Throughout the United States, in the month of June alone, 3,200 daytime high temperature records were bro ...
    • America’s Drones Are Homeward Bound
      Ann Wright Americans have been protesting and getting arrested at U.S. drone bases and research institutions for years, and some members of Congress are starting to respond to the pressure. But it’s not that drones are being used to e ...

    Newshoggers - AfPak

    Water Wars

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

    WordPress | Economics

    Electronic Intifada

    • Is Palestine going mainstream in British politics?
      Asa Winstanley London 17 July 2012 Major politicians in the UK are increasingly unafraid to talk critically of Israeli policies, and some are even advocating a national ban on products made in illegal Israeli settlements.
    • US university chiefs' shameful embrace of Israel
      Terri Ginsberg New York 16 July 2012 The underlying objectives to schemes inviting US university officials on a tour of Israel are to dissimulate legitimate criticism of Israeli policy and to discourage Palestinian solidarity on campuses.
    • Book review: "BDS provides a way to break our ...
      Rod Such 14 July 2012 The Case for Sanctions Against Israel offers background not only for boycott, divestment and sanctions activists, but also for those new to the issue.
    • Reclaiming the PLO: an urgent call to unite al ...
      Tayseer Nasrallah Nablus 14 July 2012 A landmark initiative directed toward all Palestinians — in Palestine and in exile — to participate in a civic voter registration drive is intended to reclaim the Palestine Liberation Organization.
    • Uncertain fate for Palestinians in Syria
      Anaheed Al-Hardan 12 July 2012 In the worst-case scenario, the fate of the Palestinians in Syria could echo some facets of the fate of the approximately 30,000 Palestinian refugees from Iraq following the US occupation of that country.

    The Wonk Room

    • Senate Republicans Filibuster DISCLOSE Act
      Two years after filibustering the DISCLOSE Act of 2010 to death and blocking any disclosure for who is funding the the independent expenditures enabled by the Supreme Court’s 5-4 Citizens United ruling, Republicans have again blocked transparency. While the 2010 version included other camp ...
    • New Yorkers Cut Trans Fat Consumption Under Fa ...
      A new report confirms that New York City’s ban on trans fat in restaurant food did help decrease city residents’ consumption of the artery-clogging substance, as opposed to concerns that consumers would simply replace trans fat with a different kind of fatty substance. New York City& ...
    • VICTORY: Olympic Weightlifter Sarah Robles Get ...
      On July 9, ThinkProgress launched a petition to get Olympic-bound weightlifter Sarah Robles a sponsorship. One week later, Solve Media, an Internet advertising company, has risen to the challenge, announcing their new partnership with Robles today. Solve Media CEO Ari Jacoby was inspired by the ...
    • Glacial Change Ain’t What It Used To Be: ...
      Petermann Glacier has calved another gigantic ice island, larger than twice the size of Manhattan, not quite as large as the calving of two years ago. A study this month found that the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is nearing a critical “tipping point.” by Neven, via the Arctic ...
    • Advocacy Groups Call On Insurance Companies To ...
      Along with a coalition of other advocacy groups, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is calling on the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the organization that regulates the insurance industry, to require insurance companies to more transparently disc ...

    thwap's schoolyard

    • Latest Reads
      More of my WWII reading: North Atlantic Run by Marc Milner. Highly detailed account of how hard it was for Canada to produce a respectable navy out of almost nothing in 1939. Operation Husky by Mark Zuehlke. Comprehensive account of the Canadian contribution to the invasion of Sicily. Vasily ...
    • No Need For Austerity
      The Progressive Economics Forum has an excellent post about public debt in Canada and why neither the self-inflicted federal deficits, nor the self-inflicted provincial deficits, justify slashing yet more needed services and general austerity. That's why harper and Flaherty's masters really ar ...
    • The Enemy
      Some people might take offence at the title of this post. I'm referring to some of the people who have different political viewpoints from my own. These are people who will, through their stupid political choices, contribute to the continued decline in my quality-of-life. So the idiotic though ...
    • Three Shit Songs
      I was on the road today, and I didn't finish the post I started this morning, so to keep my posting level up, I've decided to quickly blog about three songs that have re-intruded upon my consciousness in the past week. I first encountered these horrid tunes when I worked at a textile plant. The ...
    • What Can the Supreme Court Possibly be Debatin ...
      Seriously! Ted Opitz's case is essentially that just because "clerical errors" mean that 79 voters are unaccounted for (with Elections Canada now claiming at the last minute that they can maybe account for 44 of them) in an election won by 26 votes, that this is no reason to invalidate his elect ...

    on Government Oversight

    Digital Journal

    • Video of landslide nearly engulfing boat
      The landslide which ultimately claimed at least two lives, nearly caught passengers on a boat as well. The lucky escape was caught on video.
    • Ford recalls 2013 Escape SUVs, over 10,000 in ...
      Ford Motor Co. is recalling over 10,000 recently launched 2013 Escape compact SUVs in connection with a carpeting flaw. All of the vehicles being recalled were reportedly sold in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
    • Classical music fest isn't just for snobs
      The Toronto Summer Music Festival is growing in popularity amidst an ever-expanding roster of international and Canadian artists. It’s quickly becoming a summertime "must" for culture vultures interested in a myriad of musical expressions.
    • Drought conditions worry producers in Central ...
      As in parts of the United States drought conditions exacerbated by heat waves worry farmers in Canada. Producers in parts of Central Canada and Eastern Canada may see yields reduced because of drought.
    • Nova Scotia government to invest $16.5 million ...
      In order to create jobs in the province, the Nova Scotia government announced that it will invest $16.5 million in Jazz Aviation. The subsidy is expected to generate 150 jobs in a province that has one of the highest unemployment rates in Canada.

    End Homelessness | Change.org

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

    Ceasefire.ca

    Kevin Trudeau Show

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

    Armies of Liberation

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

    Dark Politricks

    • Jon Stewart mocks Romney: ‘Retroactive retirem ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com The Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Monday night express his disappointment with Mitt Romney for not going back in time and killing Adolf Hitler. Stewart was poking fun at a senior adviser for Mitt Romney, wh ...
    • NASA’s Mars rover two weeks from landing
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   WASHINGTON ” NASA’s Curiosity rover is on target to arrive on Mars on August 6 for a two-year mission to find out whether microbial life once existed on the Red Planet, the US space agency sa ...
    • Senate Democrats blast GOP for voting against ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Senate Democrats on Monday blasted their Republican colleagues for voting against the DISCLOSE Act and plan to give speeches late into the night during a “midnight vigil.” Democrats sought to ...
    • Regulators Sleep With Industry Prostitutes … W ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRegulators Sleep With Industry Prostitutes … While They Pimp Out the American People By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Government Employees are Prostitutes for the Big Banks Instead of using taxpayer-generated ...
    • US Security Agents ‘At Heathrow For Olympics’
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMark White Sky News July 16, 2012 US security agents are to be based at Heathrow and some other UK airports for the duration of the ‪Olympic‬ Games, according to Sky sources. The Department for Transport has reached an a ...

    Dandelion Salad

    • The Story of Change
      Dandelion Salad Jul 16, 2012 by storyofstuffproject http://storyofchange.org — Can shopping save the world? The Story of Change urges viewers to put down their credit cards and start exercising their citizen muscles to build a more sustainable, just and fulfilling world. The Story of Change see ...
    • The Battle of Blair Mountain by Chris Hedges
      by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig July 16, 2012 Joe Sacco and I, one afternoon when we were working in southern West Virginia on our book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt,” parked our car on the side of a road. We walked with Kenny King into the woods covering the slop ...
    • Michael Parenti: Privatization by Bombing, int ...
      by Carl Boggs with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org July 13, 2012 Noted political scientist Michael Parenti was recently interviewed by another noted political scientist, Carl Boggs. The interview originally appeared in the academic jour ...
    • Mother Energy and Hemp: Part 1 by Rand Clifford
      by Rand Clifford Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 12, 2012 An all-pervasive energy is fundamental to the Cosmos. Not “empty”, vacuum space itself is an ocean of energy, the essence of nature. Tesla called this universal force, “Free energy”. Inventors who have also found the key have added t ...
    • Capitalism’s disastrous priorities by Ch ...
      Dandelion Salad Chris Williams, author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis, reports on an independent investigation into Japan’s nuclear nightmare. SocialistWorker.org July 12, 2012 THEY MAY not live in castles anymore, but the glass-plated skyscrapers that ...

    Your New Reality

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

    Wired - Science

    • 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.

    Israeli Occupation Archive

    • Disney family member renounces her investments ...
      Abigail Disney: "Recent evidence from the Israeli Civil Administration documents that Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories sources mud used in its products from the occupied shores of the Dead Sea, which is... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
    • Munir Atalla: What if the Arab Spring won’t re ...
      If anything can be said about the inhabitants of the many refugee camps in Jordan it is that they have shown remarkable resilience in the face of unspeakable injustice. The people at Gaza camp are... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
    • Attacks on Palestinians continue, but police o ...
      Military police and soldiers arrest left-wing protesters for painting over racist graffiti. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
    • Abir Kopty: Israel’s civil service bill distor ...
      A new bill is being debated in the Israeli Knesset: compulsory civil service for all citizens, including Palestinians and ultra-Orthodox Jews, the two groups that have been exempt. If passed, the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
    • Jonathan Cook: Israeli eradication of history ...
      The discovery of a rare aerial photo of Jerusalem in the 1930s, taken by a Zeppelin, has provided the long-sought after proof that when Israel occupied the Old City in 1967 it secretly destroyed an... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

    Ria Novosti - Military

    • Russian Military to Form 26 New Brigades by 2020
      Russia’ Defense Ministry will form 26 additional brigades by 2020 without increasing the overall number of personnel in the Armed Forces, Commander of Ground Forces Col. Gen. Vladimir Chirkin said on Monday.
    • Russian Army to Switch to Wheeled Armored Vehicles
      The Russian Defense Ministry has decided to equip the Ground Forces mostly with wheeled rather than tracked armored vehicles, GF commander Col. Gen. Vladimir Chirkin said on Monday.
    • Indian Aircraft Carrier Heads For Second Sea T ...
      The Indian Navy's newest aircraft carrier, the Vikramaditya, has headed into the Barents Sea for second-stage sea trials, as part of its refit by Russia's Sevmash shipyard, Captain Vadim Serga of Russia's Northern Fleet information service said on Monday.
    • Ukraine to Create European-like Armed Forces – ...
      Ukraine will carry out a military reform to make its armed forces “modern” and “European-like,” first deputy chief of the country’s General Staff of the Armed Forces, Vice Adm. Ihor Kabanenko, said on Monday.
    • Syria Arms Ship En Route to St. Petersburg
      A Russian ship purportedly carrying helicopter gunships to Syria will arrive in the port of St. Petersburg by the end of the month, the ship’s owner, Femco, said on Monday.

    NewsWise

    • UPenn Professor Elected President of the Ameri ...
      Annette Lareau, Stanley I. Sheerr Professor of Social Sciences in the University of Pennsylvania's sociology department, has been elected President of the American Sociological Association (ASA) and Mary Romero, Professor of Justice Studies and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University, has bee ...
    • Study to Address Potential Retail Losses Assoc ...
      While consumers may look forward to mobile coupons and touch-less payment, researchers at the University of Arkansas are examining these new technologies to address the potential for theft and fraud. The Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas has partnered with the leading reta ...
    • Communicating Support for Educational Success: ...
      Members of The National Communication Association who study family communication and the impact of positive messaging to encourage success in college can provide insight on the following: What are the most effective and supportive messages parents can share with their children? How do messages f ...
    • Modified Citrus Pectin Boosts Effectivenesso ...
      Natural agent makes safer, lower chemotherapy doses possible.
    • Hospital for Special Surgery Again Ranked No. ...
      For the third consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report named Hospital for Special Surgery the top hospital in the country for orthopedics in its 2012 "America's Best Hospitals" survey.

    Natural Health News

    Climategate

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

    Opinio Juris

    • US Will Not Join the Law of the Sea Treaty (At ...
      by Julian Ku by Julian Ku It’s official. US ratification of UNCLOS is dead (at least for this year).  And, perhaps more significantly, the treaty was sunk by two senators, Robert Portman and Kelly Ayotte, both of whom appear to be on Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s vice-presidenti ...
    • New International Law Resources: The 2011 US D ...
      by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis Two quick research-related items.  First, I’m pleased to report that the 2011 Digest of United States Practice is now available on the State Department website.  Here’s the description from today’s press release: The digest provides the publi ...
    • Weekday News Wrap: Monday, July 16, 2012
      by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The sudden announcement that North Korea’s military chief was relieved of his duties for health reasons has spurred rumors about a possible power struggle. Cambodia and Thailand have announced that they will redeploy some of the troops stationed at the ...
    • Upcoming Events: July 15, 2012
      by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Conferences & events The Brookings Institution will host Translating Human Rights into Practice: A Conversation on the United Nations Human Rights Council: Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 2:00 — 3:30 pm in Washington, D.C. Washington College of Law Center for ...
    • Upcoming Events: July 15, 2012
      by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Conferences & events The Brookings Institution will host Translating Human Rights into Practice: A Conversation on the United Nations Human Rights Council: Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 2:00 — 3:30 pm in Washington, D.C. Washington College of Law Center for ...

    Public News Service

    • Are Health-Conscious Arizonans Ready to Embrac ...
      Are Health-Conscious Arizonans Ready to Embrace “Hug Your Kids” Movement? PHOENIX - Today is Global Hug Your Kids Day, an observance started in 2008 by Michelle Nichols on the 10th anniversary of the death of her 8-year-old son, Mark. He died 11 days after being diagnosed with brain ...
    • Rural Arizona Concerns in Farm Bill
      Rural Arizona Concerns in Farm Bill PHOENIX – Concerns are being raised on a number of fronts as the U.S. House Agriculture Committee has approved its own version of the national Farm Bill. Chuck Hassebrook, executive director on Fellowship with the Center for Rural Affairs, says he's tro ...
    • Celebrity Chefs: Protect SNAP for Kids
      Celebrity Chefs: Protect SNAP for Kids PHOENIX, Ariz. - Some of the biggest names on the food scene are using their celebrity clout to ask Congress to keep the recipe for SNAP strong. SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) is the food assistance program formerly known as food stamp ...
    • Discovering the Truth about Health Reform
      Discovering the Truth about Health Reform PHOENIX - Republican leaders in the House plan to vote today on a repeal of the Affordable Care Act because they say it's not good for the nation. Experts say Americans are still confused about whether the law will help or hurt them. That's why Craig Ei ...
    • Group Working to Undo Citizens United
      Group Working to Undo Citizens United PHOENIX - According to people working to undo Citizens United, that Supreme Court decision giving corporations the right to make unlimited political contributions is so unpopular it won't be the law of the land much longer. The group Move to Amend says corpo ...

    Center for Food Safety

    • New York Times’ Oversized Argument: Organic Ca ...
      by Lisa J. Bunin, Ph.D., Organic Policy Coordinator There is no disputing the claim that organic has become “a wildly lucrative business for Big Food,” as discussed at length in the recent New York Times article: “Has ‘Organic’ Been Oversized?” But what reporter Stephanie Strom has noticeably om ...
    • The Center’s Statement on House Agriculture Co ...
      Riders attacking GE crop safeguards and USDA review process remain amid growing concerns over risk to nation’s food supply The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture completed the markup of its Farm Bill yesterday evening.  Buried in the bill reported out of committee are a suite ...
    • House Farm Bill’s ‘Backdoor Biotech Riders’ En ...
      Sweeping pro-chemical industry provisions attack GE crop safeguards and USDA review process, set controversial allowance for transgenic contamination of the nation’s food supply The Center for Food Safety (CFS) and a group of 40 food businesses and retailers, and farm, food safety, environmental ...
    • This is Your Meat on Drugs. CFS Joins Consumer ...
      The Center for Food Safety has joined Consumers Union and Fix Food for the launch of “Meat Without Drugs,” a campaign urging supermarkets to only sell meat raised without antibiotics. The campaign’s first target is Trader Joe’s, one of the leading national supermarket chains best poised to make ...
    • 250,000+ to EPA: Time for Emergency Action on ...
      Beekeepers, Environmental Groups Still on Hold for Agency Response to Legal Petition Citing “Imminent” Harm to Bees A coalition of environmental groups and beekeepers submitted over 250,000 petitions to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today, urging immediate suspension of a pesticide l ...

    Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

    Pensieve

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

    Green Times

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

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    Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

    • Susya
      June 22, 2012: Susya I doubt if Palestinian Susya has ever seen so many people. Some 500, maybe more, have arrived from Jerusalem (including a large Palestinian delegation from East Jerusalem), Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva, and various sites in the occupied territories: Beit Umar, Mufagara, and the ...
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      Dear Friends, Please have a look at the announcement below. For the last twelve years we have worked closely with our Palestinian friends in Susya, protected them to the best of our abilities from continuous violent harassment by Israeli settlers and by the army, fought the legal battle to keep ...
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      In March, we reported here about an unusual Israel High Court petition by Israeli settler-run groups, demanding that the (fraudulently named) “Civil Administration” carry out demolition orders in Palestinian Susya. Settler pressure upon the government to make Palestinian life more di ...
    • Protest around the world today for Ziad Jilani
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    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 ...
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      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 ...

    Coteret

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

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    The Air Vent

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

    Focal Point

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

    Inside Facebook

    • Facebook adds new duplicate page finder tool f ...
      Some Facebook page owners are seeing a new “Report Duplicates” module that allows them to search for pages related to their own and report those that are unofficial. Facebook will review the duplicates and then recategorize them as community pages that … Continue reading →
    • New mobile ‘action links’ allow users to take ...
      Facebook appears to be testing its “action links” feature on mobile, making it easy for users to engage with third-party apps without leaving Facebook. For example, when a user sees a friend’s story about checking into a location on Foursquare, … Continue reading →
    • Facebook hires team behind mobile bookmarking ...
      Facebook has hired the small team behind Spool, a social bookmarking service that makes web content available for offline viewing on mobile devices, the company confirmed this weekend. According to All Things D, this was not a traditional acquisition but … Continue reading →
    • Less than 10 percent of traffic to Facebook pa ...
      About 5 to 10 percent of traffic to Facebook pages comes from external sources rather than from within Facebook, according to data from PageLever. The Facebook analytics company looked at 500 Facebook pages each with more than 100,000 fans and … Continue reading →
    • Facebook roundup: homepage ads, Android update ...
      Facebook makes homepage ads available through API – Facebook today officially opened its homepage ad units to Ads API partners and users of the Power Editor tool. This will allow other companies to buy and sell premium ad placement, freeing … Continue reading →

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