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Thursday, July 19, 2012

19 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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U N News

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

  • Obama Eligibility Lawsuit Reaches Supreme Court
    Of the dozens of lawsuits questioning the constitutional eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama to be President of the United States, one has finally reached the docket of the Supreme Court. Should the Court accept the case for review, it will be the first upon which the justices will issue a s ...
  • Mexico's Elections... The Best ‘Democracy’ U.S ...
    The newly-elected Mexican president, Enrique Pena Nieto, has started his term by announcing a number of reforms, such as opening the energy sector to private investments. However, a court still has to rule on the legitimacy of the election results. ~ Adrian Salbuchi read more
  • Warning... New 15% Ethanol-Blend Fuel Can Dama ...
    A new blend of gasoline comprising 15 percent ethanol, approved by the Environmental Protection Agency last month and now available in Kansas, could damage automobile engines, the Kansas Petroleum Council is warning. read more
  • 'Obama Birth Certificate National Security Iss ...
    Today the long awaited press conference by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office took place at 5:30pm EST. Its goal was to bring forth new evidence that provides indisputable evidence that the birth certificate of Barack Hussein Obama is in fact a forgery. ~ Clark Kent read more
  • Breaking... Assassination Attempt Of Hillary C ...
    Iran’s Al-Alam News  reports an assassination attempt of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her visit to Israel Sunday. read more

Tarpley

  • NATO Activates Ben Rhodes Plan for Coup and Ge ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV July 18, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
  • Tarpley to Speak at New World Fair Event
    The Unisphere commissioned for the 1964-65 New York’s World Fair Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net July 18, 2012 Webster Tarpley will address The New World Fair event in the Queens Art Museum Building ar the Unisphere at Flushing Meadow, Queens, between 1 and 4pm during the afternoon ...
  • 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]

Modern Survivalism

  • When The Water Stops Flowing
    There will be… Looting of all the grocery stores by the second or third day Minor outbreaks of violence during the looting. Shop owners, for example, may attempt to defend their shops with firearms Mass exodus of residents from the city in search of water Ransacking of any houses or farms ...
  • Living in a Tiny Home – With No Mortgage
    Here is an interesting video about a family that downsized in a major way.  While so many people today feel they must have that BIG HOUSE, the one that will consume most of their take-home pay, there are others who settle for less while knowing that the sooner it’s paid off, the more &#821 ...
  • Cape Cod ‘Shakedown’ Trip
    The MSB crew (me, the Mrs. and Sampson) have been enjoying a few days R&R on Cape Cod. We’ve recently picked up a ’5th-wheel’ and plan to do a fair amount of off-and-on traveling around the country during the next 12 months (or longer?) – which should prove interesti ...
  • 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 ...

Fast Company

  • Your Life As A Mini-Movie, Powered By DreamWorks
    The Instagram for video movement just got a little more interesting with social 60-second video sharing platform Ptch.Ptch picks up where your static photo feeds on Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter, Viddy, Facebook, and Google+ leave off. Dreamworks, the animation studio behind Ice Age, is backing the ...
  • To Make Big Plans A Reality, Be Clear--Crystal ...
    You have a world-changing idea. Great. So what are its component parts? Who's going to do them? When? And what if there's conflict? So often when I work with CEOs and their leadership teams, they tell me: this is not a new idea, we just need to make it stick this time. Why is it so hard to ge ...
  • "Media Manipulator" Ryan Holiday Proves His Po ...
    "Trust Me, I'm Lying" author Ryan Holiday has made a career out of making his clients (in)famous. Here, we play into his hand by sharing his devious tricks for getting the pageview-ravenous media machine rolling for your brand. "I posted something but nobody responded. What does it mean?" It's a ...
  • Nokia Reports Billion Dollar Loss In Quarterly ...
    News updates all day from Fast Company.Nokia's finances for the second quarter of 2012 have just been reported: On €7.5 billion in sales (approx $9.2 billion), a figure that represents a slip of €500 million on the previous quarter, the company managed to convert the money into a quarterly loss ...
  • How Innovation Is More Poetry Than Science
    Practical lessons from 35 years of writing poetry to help individuals and teams deliver more innovative products, processes, and services.In a recent conversation with Phil McKinney, former HP Chief Innovation Officer and author of Beyond the Obvious: Killer Questions That Spark Game-C ...

Jadaliyya

  • War Against Activists: Coopting "Justice" and ...
    As speculation continues about what potential opportunities and challenges the death of Prince Nayif has delivered to Saudi Arabia, it is worth examining the significant changes already underway, particularly in the Interior Ministry. As delineated in an earlier article, Nayif’s Interior Ministr ...
  • On the 60th Anniversary of the Coup
    The inauguration of the country’s first elected president on 30 June was meant to mark the final step in the country’s so-called “transition,” with a long-heralded handover of power from the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to a civilian government, complete with an elected parliament and ...
  • 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 ...
  • Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (July 17)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ...
  • Beyond US Exceptionalism: Stephen Walt and Ame ...
    In a recent post entitled “What’s going on in Israel,” Stephen M. Walt effectively undermines the “claim that Israel has always been interested in a fair and just peace.” Walt, like many others, notes the persistence of this “pernicious narrative.” On Israeli policy, he concludes the following: ...

mediagazer

  • Tribune may use LA Times to lure bidders for o ...
    New York Post: Tribune may use LA Times to lure bidders for other papers  —  The new owners of Tribune Co. may dangle the Los Angeles Times as bait to lure bidders for its other papers when it exits bankruptcy, expected within weeks, The Post has learned.  —  Wit ...
  • Nate Weiner raises $5M Series B funding for Po ...
    Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: Nate Weiner raises $5M Series B funding for Pocket (formerly Read It Later)  —  Pocket, formerly known as Read It Later, an app that formats and bookmarks articles and web pages for future consumption, has raised a second round of funding.  &m ...
  • DirecTV says sticking point in Viacom talks is ...
    Daniel Frankel / paidContent: DirecTV says sticking point in Viacom talks is ... Epix?  —  They've been negotiating a multi-billion-dollar deal for some of the most widely viewed channels in the cable universe.  —  But according to DirecTV, the sticking point in ...
  • Operation Tuleta: Sun journalist arrested in h ...
    Guardian: Operation Tuleta: Sun journalist arrested in hacking investigation  —  A journalist at the Sun has been arrested in north London by police from Scotland Yard's Operation Tuleta, which is investigating breaches of privacy including computer hacking.  He is understo ...
  • Vimeo: AuteurTube - YouTube can make amateurs ...
    Alissa Quart / CJR: Vimeo: AuteurTube  —  YouTube can make amateurs rich, but the video pros are congregating elsewhere  —  The Times mag the other week noticed that amateur star “YouTubers” could make six figures through the site's comedy channels.&n ...

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

  • Drought Puts Food at Risk, U.S. Warns
    The Obama administration warned Wednesday that food supplies were at risk from the worsening drought afflicting more than half of the country and called on Congress to revive lapsed disaster aid programs. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @NYTNational for breaking news and headlines. Twitter ...
  • Nelson Mandela celebrates quiet 94th birt ...
    ANTI-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela has celebrated his 94th birthday in "good" spirits as millions of South Africans joined in the global praise for the much-loved statesman. Mandela, whose 1990 release from an apartheid prison put South Africa on the path to democracy and reconcili ...
  • Assad's top three aides killed in blast
    SHARE AND DISCUSS Tweet BEIRUT: A bomb ripped through a high-level security meeting on Wednesday in Damascus , killing three top regime officials — including President Bashar al-Assad's brother-in-law — in the harshest blow to Syria's ruling family dynasty and the rebels' boldest attack...
  • Qantas to provide passengers with iPads
    Qantas passengers on the airline's 767 planes will be provided with iPads for their inflight entertainment, following a successful trial of new in-air streaming technology. The airline announced today that passengers in both business and economy classes would be given iPads on board which th ...
  • Romney: Obama worried about own job, not ...
    WASHINGTON: White House hopeful Mitt Romney on Wednesday accused President Barack Obama of looking out for number one instead of fixing the plight of America’s unemployed, as he bashed his rival for not convening his jobs council for six months. In the midst of a campaign slathered with pe ...

no frakking consensus

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

  • Wealth & Compassion
    As riches grow, empathy for others seems to decline Daisy Grewal Who is more likely to lie, cheat, and steal—the poor person or the rich one? It’s temping to think that the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to act fairly. After all, if you already have enough for yourself, it’s easier t ...
  • Mapping Intelligence in the Brain
    A new study found that specific structures, primarily on the left side of the brain, are vital to general intelligence and executive function (the ability to regulate and control behavior). Brain regions that are associated with general intelligence and executive function are shown in color, wit ...
  • Dodos Solitaires
    This classic Marginalia on the dodo’s disappearance was first published in 1954 G. Evelyn Hutchinson The progress of Man in civilization, no less than his numerical increase, continually extends the geographical domain of Art by trenching on the territories of Nature, and hence the Zoologi ...
  • What’s the big idea?
    Dostoevsky tackled free will, Tolstoy the meaning of life – but is it still possible to write philosophical novels? Jennie Erdal At St Andrews University in the early 1970s, philosophy was still a required subject for entry into an honours course. To leave the way clear for reading modern langua ...
  • Rise of the Fictional Lecherous Prof.
    Stephanie Bernhard He’s crusty, grumpy, aging, and set in his outdated ways. He’s a he. Mortality is on his mind, and his will to bed women a fraction of his age increases in direct proportion to his fear of aging and death. He is, of course, the Humanities Professor archetype, and he is everywh ...

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 2
    Part 2 of Free speech in Australia under threat
  • 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 ...
  • Celebrating year zero of the eco-technic dicta ...
    To mark the introduction into Australia of the most barbaric, pointless and deceptive tax ever conjured up by a phony democracy, we bring you a replay of an interview with Christopher Monckton which dates back to January 2010. At that time Lord Monckton was touring Australia to talk about clim ...
  • 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 ...

Beacon

  • And the 2012 Ocean Heroes Are…
    James Hemphill and Captain Don Voss, our 2012 Ocean Heroes You’ve been waiting with bated breath to find out who this year’s Ocean Heroes are, and the time has finally come to announce our winners! We received over 400 fantastic nominations this year, and narrowed it down to six adult finali ...
  • Creature Feature: Seahorse
    Camouflaging in coral ©Wikimedia Commons Though you won’t see them saddled and ready to ride anytime soon, seahorses are pretty fascinating little sea creatures. Named for their resemblance to the horses that we’re used to seeing on land, the seahorse is one of the slowest moving fish in the ...
  • 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 ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The Roman Emperors Weren’t Warring With ...
      In the first century AD politics roiled hotly through Rome. Around 42 BC, the Roman Senate, the wake of the murder of Julius Caesar, declared that Caesar had been a God; and so it was partly by divine imprimatur that Octavian, Caesar’s adopted son, and Mark Anthony and Marcus Aemilius Lep ...
  • 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 ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Michele Bachmann Owes Huma Abedin a Public Apo ...
    MICHELE BACHMANN’S McCARTHYISM and the despicably racist and bigoted attacks against Human Abedin inspired Sen. John McCain to take to the floor of the Senate to denounce them. Her former presidential campaign manager Ed Rollins unloaded: Her unsubstantiated charge against Abedin, a widely ...
  • Free Syrian Army ‘Goes for the Jugular,’ Kills ...
    **Updated Below** Syria’s defence minister and Interior minister are among those who were killed after an explosion struck the National Security building in Damascus during a meeting of cabinet ministers and senior security officials, state media reported. Defence minister General Rajha an ...
  • Netanyahu Blames Iran for Israelis Murdered in ...
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed Iran for the bombing of a bus which killed at least seven Israelis in a Bulgarian resort. He said “all signs point to Iran” and said Israel would “respond with force”. – Israelis killed in Bulgaria bus suicide bom ...
  • Queer Talk: Boy Scouts Announce They’ll Keep D ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Yesterday the Boy Scouts of America announced the results of a previously unknown two year “evaluation” regarding the BSA membership standards and policy. As you read the excerpt, note how carefully it’s worded, avoid ...
  • Seeking Redemption, A Democrat Worth Forgiving
    “It took a lot of work to get to where are are today, but I want people to know we’re a normal family,” says Abedin, 37. “Anthony has spent every day since [the scandal] trying to be the best dad and husband he can be,” she says of her husband, who does all the laun ...

Hudson New York

  • The Holders of Absolute Truth
    A few days ago, en route to the south of Italy, where the cultural climate is less influenced by Europe than it is by the Mediterranean, there was a row even before the plane took off, a heated exchange between the Italian chief steward and two Egyptian
  • Monetizing Debt: Historically Disastrous
    As European nations seek economic lifelines, the Germans have a financial history lesson for Europe, America and the rest of the world. It's found in a revealing self-critical painting, "Eclipse of the Sun," created by a 1920s Berlin artist, George
  • Anti-Semitism Sweeping France
    Early this month, the French weekly magazine Le Nouvel Observateur devoted a cover article and several other articles to the phenomenon of the rising anti-Semitism in France. The magazine referred to several incidents of anti-Jewish violence during the
  • Jihadi Tourism Hits Europe
    Increasing numbers of Muslims in Europe are travelling to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and other conflict zones to obtain training in terrorist methods. Although intelligence agencies have been following the trend since the July 2005 bombings of the
  • Honor Violence in America
    Aiya Altemeemi, aged 19, suffered a punishment last February that none of her schoolmates in Phoenix, Arizona could have imagined: her father cut her throat with a kitchen knife. When she escaped to her bedroom, her mother and sisters followed, tied her

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

  • China Environmental News Alert
    Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental governance and public participation, and gre ...
  • The Congressional Red Tape Act - bad for the b ...
    Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C. The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote next week on the “Red Tape Reduction and Small Business Job Creation Act" (H.R. 4078) – a bill that, among other things, imposes a morato ...
  • How sprawl worsens the impacts of drought and ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   If you live in the US and have been outside lately, chances are you don’t need to be reminded that this is the hottest summer many of us can remember, and also one of th ...
  • Anatomy of a Man-made Drought in the San Franc ...
    Tina Swanson, Director, Science Center, San Francisco I grew up next to San Francisco Bay and these days I commute to my NRDC office by boat, riding the ferry past the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island.   Most people know the Bay as the ...
  • A Gripe with Global Warming
    Tiffany Traynum, Program Assistant, San Francisco There are many reasons why I love living in Northern California. From the scenic landscapes, to the great food, to the cultural diversity amongst us; the Bay Area is by all accounts a wonderful place ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 stories of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, July 17: Saugus, Massachusetts: A state police officer, who admitted that prosecutors had enough on him to prove he was guilty of leading other Saugus officers on a late-night … Continue reading →National Police Miscon ...
  • Police Union to Police Chief: ‘We’re just goin ...
    From the Oregonian: In the past three decades, Portland police chiefs have fired officers who were convicted of driving drunk off duty, leaving dead animals outside a black-owned business, and selling “Smoke ‘Em, Don’t Choke ‘Em” T-shirts to officers after … C ...
  • 10 Days in the Police Academy, 14 Years on Dis ...
    From the Chicago Sun-Times: Barnes is one of two officers collecting disability because of injuries sustained while still in the police academy. The other, Michael Terrano, injured a knee 17 years ago, underwent surgery, then refused to return to work … Continue reading →10 Days in t ...
  • Roadblocks and Checkpoints
    It’s a common police trick–fudge a statement so the citizen thinks he just heard a police command, but, technically, it was only a request.  Here the police say “Do me a favor … and go over to secondary screening.”  Most … Continue reading →Roa ...
  • 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 ...

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 – Microsoft&#8217 ...
    Microsoft says up to 28 million computers didn’t get the choice to select a different browser. Apple appears to be shipping a thinner iPhone this year. Skype rolls out an...
  • 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...

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 )

  • Struggling to conserve seed biodiversity: the ...
    Biodiversity conservation is huge field, but at its heart we find something very small: the seed. From seeds come the plants we need and food for the animals we hope to conserve as well. Knowledge of seed dispersal, or how seeds are generated and move through the landscape, is essential if we ar ...
  • Borneo's forests face dire future from global ...
    Already wracked by extensive deforestation and forest degradation, the future looks grim for Borneo's tropical rainforests, reports a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences.
  • Better conservation requires better communication
    Conservation science, though mission driven, often achieves only 'tenuous relevance' to conservation policy, asserts a recent commentary in Biological Conservation.
  • Scientists: iron fertilization could be a big ...
    For a long time, oceanic iron fertilization was seen as a promising mechanism to combat global climate change. But then in 2009 a well-publicized study found that iron fertilization stored 80 times less carbon than expected, dampening enthusiasm and support around the geoengineering scheme. Now, ...
  • NASA statellite reveals iceberg twice the size ...
    A 119-square-kilometer (46-square-mile) iceberg twice the size of Manhattan has broken off Greenland's Petermann Glacier, report researchers from the the University of Delaware and the Canadian Ice Service.

Sierra Express

  • SLPP’s Democratic Model is Unique…Says Hon Ber ...
    Leading to the official launching ceremony of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) manifesto on June 17 this year, Honorable, Dr. Bernadette Lahai (in photo) has revealed to people of this country that her party is a model of unique democracy. The Hon. Dr. Lahai, who also doubles as a member o ...
  • Education Ministry to Checkmate Unapproved Ins ...
    The Deputy Minister of Education, John Kamara has issued a statement threatening to shut-down all unapproved institutions operating within the country. The Deputy Minister made this statement on July 16, pointing that his Ministry has unearthed quite a considerable number of institutions ranging ...
  • Over 200 Police Officers for Darfur
    Addressing a press conference at the Police Headquarters on George Street, Freetown past Tuesday July 10th this year, the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of operations AIG Al-Sheik Kamara, disclosed that on or after November 2012, over 200 police personnel will be leaving the sho ...
  • RSLAF Navy Rescues Eight!
    On Sunday July 15 a boat called “TARAWUNIE” sailing from Brushra Port in the Republic of Guinea to Rokupr Wharf developed engine problem at about 1700 hrs around Salatoke Senegal area towards Yeliboya Island in Port Loko district. This was made known by Capt (N) Daniel Sao Mansaray, commanding o ...
  • As New Nigerian Judge Jets In…More Foreign Jud ...
    The judiciary of Sierra Leone has welcomed the services of a new Nigerian judge to Sierra Leone, Hon. Justice Paul to help strengthen the justice delivery sector in the country. The Nigerian judge, Hon. Justice Paul arrived in Sierra Leone on Monday July 16 with the object of working and arrangi ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Fonterra drops to fourth on world list
    Fonterra has dropped from third to fourth place in Rabobank's latest survey of the world's top 20 dairy companies.The dairy co-operative, which is the world's largest exporter of dairy products, has been overtaken by French company...
  • World dairy prices dip in overnight auction
    Whole milk powder, the biggest-volume dairy product sold through Fonterra's GlobalDairyTrade platform, led the third month of declines, pushing the benchmark composite price further below its long-term average.The GDT-TWI...
  • 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...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Truth in Trials Act (H.R. 6134) to Protect Med ...
    California Rep. Sam Farr (D), along with familiar anti-drug war friends Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) have teamed up to push the Truth in Trials Act (H.R. 6134) through the House of Representatives. The Act, a version of which was previously attempted in 2003, ...
  • "The New New York": De Niro's Least Convincing ...
    New York's Empire State Development Corporation has enlisted the Oscar®-caliber talents of Robert De Niro to provide voiceover for a new commercial claiming the state is back in business. Over scenes of the kind of businesses (energy "highways," high-tech "centers") we now know for ...
  • Gov. Jerry Brown, Signing High-Speed Rail Bill ...
    Read it and weep, you fearful declinists! Via the San Jose Mercury News: With his most public cheerleading yet for California's bullet train, Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday signed the $8 billion bill to kick off high-speed rail construction and showed no sign he was worried a ...
  • Condoleezza Rice Top Romney VP Choice For Vote ...
    A new Fox News poll shows 30% of voters preferring Condoleezza Rice to be Mitt Romney’s vice presidential pick. That number is the same whether looking at all voters or just Republicans. Behind her in the poll was Marco Rubio, the choice of 19 percent of Republicans and 12 percen ...
  • YouTube Face Blurring Tech Latest Google Thwar ...
    Google, which last month announced it was informing users who appeared to be being targeted by state-sponsored hackers, today unveiled a new face blurring technology for YouTube, which it owns. Amanda Conway, a YouTube policy analyst, explained on the video service’s blog: Accor ...

Mercury Rising

  • Conservatism = Mental Illness: Meat Industry A ...
    – The United States mainland is in the grip of a terrible drought; in many places, such as Texas, the drought has been around for years. So, rather than say “Gee, maybe those scientists are right after all about global warming”, what do the conservatives that run meat-industry ...
  • No one will care if a few kids get buggered, s ...
    Chris Hayes has a new book, Twilight of the Elites, whose title he calls “aspirational,” and I think he’s sold me a copy. The point of the book is that people who can get away with things are doing so at an alarming rate. There’s a word for this which we learned from Hond ...
  • No one will care that a federal agency has a m ...
    So what will the FDA do if you get in the way of GE marketing an unsafe colonscopy device? You can read the full megillah here (or in the NYT), or get the executive review from DemocracyNow: STEPHEN KOHN: Yeah. What they did was they put spyware into the computers. We’re not sure how far [...]
  • No one will care if President Romney got his c ...
    (Image of Adelson from Propublica. Image of Mitt from Obama’s Dog) A new report from Matt Isaacs, Lowell Bergman, and Stephen Engelberg of Propublica shows that Willard Romney’s main campaign donor, Sheldon Adelson, was rescued from potential bankruptcy (or at least the closure of hi ...
  • Happy Birthday, Henry!
    Just because.

Reality Sandwich

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
    • US, Israel talk attack on Syria: Report
      The US and Israeli officials have held talks about whether the Tel Aviv regime would carry out an attack on Syria’s weapons facilities or not, a report says.
    • Syrians condemn Damascus bombing
      Syrians have held a demonstration in Damascus to condemn a recent terrorist attack in the capital that targeted senior officials, Press TV reports.
    • UN chief condemns bomb attack in Syria
      United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has condemned Wednesday’s terrorist bomb attack in Damascus that killed four top Syrian officials.
    • ‘Hezbollah will surprise Israeli army’
      Marking the sixth anniversary of Israel’s war against Lebanon in the summer of 2006, Hezbollah says the resistance movement will surprise Tel Aviv in any future war.
    • Obama, Putin fail to agree on Syria
      Russian President Vladimir Putin has held talks with US President Barack Obama over the recent developments in Syria, but the two sides failed to resolve differences.

    CUNY SPS Community Blog

    • Are We Becoming Flattened by Technology?
      Are you an optimist or pessimist? There’s only one way to find out. I find it amazing that so much has progressed in our society—medical, education, economics, and even in technology.  The experience I’ve had thus far has surprisingly helped me.  I say surprisingly because with knowl ...
    • 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 ...

    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

    • BPA no longer allowed in baby bottles…(b ...
      We’ve all seen the “BPA-free” labels affixed prominently to new plastic products. And many of us have fallen for the ruse, purchasing these new water bottles and food storage containers thinking we can still enjoy the convenience of plastics without the hormone-altering BPA. But what manufacture ...
    • More Americans on Government Dole Than Found Jobs
      Between April and June, according to statistics released by the Senate Budget Committee, more Americans went on Social Security disability than found jobs. According to figures released by the committee, a total of 246,000 people enrolled in the Social Security Disability Insurance program wh ...
    • More Americans on Government Dole Than Found Jobs
      Between April and June, according to statistics released by the Senate Budget Committee, more Americans went on Social Security disability than found jobs. According to figures released by the committee, a total of 246,000 people enrolled in the Social Security Disability Insurance program wh ...
    • For the First Time, Canadians Now Richer Than ...
      While Americans might enjoy throwing politically-charged barbs at their neighbors to the north, Canadians now have at least one reason to be smug. For the first time in recent history, the average Canadian is richer than the average American, according to a report cited in Toronto's Globe and ...
    • For the First Time, Canadians Now Richer Than ...
      While Americans might enjoy throwing politically-charged barbs at their neighbors to the north, Canadians now have at least one reason to be smug. For the first time in recent history, the average Canadian is richer than the average American, according to a report cited in Toronto's Globe and ...

    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

    • 67 Minutes of Shame on African Icon Nelson Man ...
      Wendy Hlophe* is still visibly grieving for her long-term friend, 28-year-old Sanna Supa, who was shot and killed outside her home in Braamficherville, a South African township, two weeks ago. Tragically, Hlophe blames herself for Supa’s untimely death. Supa, a lesbian who come out about her gen ...
    • Côte d’Ivoire Law Offers Battered Women ...
      A shiver ran down Habiba Kanaté’s* spine when she read about a policeman shooting and killing his wife in Abidjan, the economic capital of Côte d’Ivoire. “That could have been me,” she said. IPS met the 28-year-old at a social centre in the south Abidjan neighbourhood of ...
    • Families of U.S. Victims of Drone Attacks Sue ...
      Family members of three U.S. citizens killed last year in drone strikes in Yemen filed a lawsuit here Wednesday accusing U.S. intelligence and military officials of violating the victims’ rights under the U.S. constitution and international law. Prepared by the American Civil Liberties Uni ...
    • To Reduce Teen Pregnancies, Start with Educati ...
      Each year, 16 million girls aged 15-19 give birth. 50,000 of them die from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. And 95 percent of those births occur in developing countries. Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa lead the world in this department, with 80 and 120 births, respectively ...
    • South Korea Offers Marine Technology to Develo ...
      When South Korea inaugurated a U.N. Office for Sustainable Development last October, the new research and training facility was designed to help the world’s poorer nations “accelerate economic growth, improve quality of life and protect the environment”. And nine months later, ...

    My AntiWar

    CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

    • US to Build New Missile Defense System in Qatar
      Summary: The Pentagon is building a missile defense radar station at a covert location in Qatar as part of a larger plan to beef up US military presence and activity in the Middle East and further threaten Iran by militarizing its neighbors. source: Anti War.comread more
    • Clinton in Israel: Iranian Concessions are ‘No ...
      Summary: In her meeting with the Israeli PM, Natanyahu, in Israel on 16 July, Clinton denied Iran's legitimate concessions in meetings with the P5+1 and made clear Washington is not interested in a viable diplomatic settlement. source: Anti War.comread more
    • At the Precipice of War? - U.S. Military Build ...
      Summary: A growing sense of Iran war fever can also be seen mounting in Washington. For instance, in an effort to foil ongoing nuclear negotiations between Iran and the so-called P5+1 (the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany), a bipartisan group of 44 U.S. Senator ...
    • 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 ...
    • CNN on the Iran threat
      Summary: Late last week, CNN’s The Situation Room, starring Wolf Blitzer, reported on what Blitzer described as “an ominous new warning coming in from the Pentagon: Iran’s missiles are getting more accurate, apparently getting more deadly as well.” He then called on CNN’s Pentagon correspond ...

    The Daily Galaxy

    • Nearby Mars-Sized Exo-Planet Discovered Orbiti ...
      The University of Central Florida has detected what could be its first planet, only two-thirds the size of Earth and located right around the corner, cosmically speaking, at a mere 33 light- years away. The exoplanet candidate called UCF 1.01,...
    • "Pillars of Creation" --An 'Illusion' Vaporize ...
      In early 2007, scientists using the Spitzer discovered evidence that potentially indicates the famed three Pillars of Creation photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1995 in the Eagle Nebula were destroyed by a nearby supernova explosion about 6,000 years...
    • "The Electric Universe" --A New NASA Mission
      Beyond Earth's protective atmosphere and extending all the way through interplanetary space, electrified particles dominate the scene. Indeed, 99% of the universe is made of this electrified gas, known as plasma. Two giant donuts of this plasma surround Earth, trapped...
    • New Observatory Technology --"Puts the Shadow ...
      Astronomers connected APEX, in Chile, to the Submillimeter Array in Hawaii, USA, and the Submillimeter Telescope (SMT)in Arizona, were able to make the sharpest direct observation ever, of the center of a distant galaxy, the bright quasar 3C 279, which...
    • EcoAlert: Less than 1% of Earth's Mass Water
      With large swaths of oceans, rivers that snake for hundreds of miles, and behemoth glaciers near the north and south poles, Earth doesn't seem to have a water shortage. And yet, less than one percent of our planet's mass is...

    Natural News

    • Alternative media blows the lid on Big Pharma' ...
      Two of the most influential alternative media organizations on the 'net -- InfoWars.com and NaturalNews.com -- have blown the lid wide open on Big Pharma's massive bribery network. Through exclusive interviews with pharma insiders, InfoWars and NaturalNews have done...
    • Study finds new weapon in the fight against di ...
      Researchers from the Missouri University of Science and Technology say that they may have found a way to re-sensitize cells to the effects of insulin. Sterculic oil, found in a wild species of almond called Sterculia foetida, may help people in whom the ability to supply...
    • Four easy ways to live healthier, save money, ...
      As anyone who has shifted their paradigm and gone down the path of real, natural health in any area of their lives can attest, change not only can be difficult, but expensive as well. Sure, it's worth it long-term, but there is often a cost to every change we make, and...
    • Five easy steps to a more alkaline diet
      Let's go over some pH basic background before getting into how to maintain a neutral (7.0) or slightly alkaline (7.4) pH blood reading for optimum health. The term pH literally means power Hydrogen. It's a measurement of the concentration of hydrogen ions. Each number...
    • Chow down to reverse severe heart disease and ...
      "Chow Down," aptly tagged as "a film with heart," has become available on Premium NaturalNews TV. It is a tenacious documentary about three real people with serious heart disease and diabetes who have been told by their doctors they "can't get better." This film takes...

    Threat Level

    • Justice Department Sues Telecom for Challengin ...
      Last year, when a telecommunications company received an ultra-secret demand letter from the FBI seeking information about a customer or customers, the telecom took an extraordinary step -- it challenged the underlying authority of the FBI's National Security Letter, as well as the legitimacy of ...
    • Megaupload Judge Steps Down After Declaring U. ...
      The New Zealand judge overseeing the extradition proceedings of accused file-sharing kingpin and Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is recusing himself from the case after remarking that the United States was "the enemy."
    • YouTube Offers Face-Blurring Tool to Protect D ...
      Google is offering YouTube users a way to blur the faces in videos, calling it a way to protect dissidents and kids.
    • Pentagon, CIA Sued for Lethal Drone Attacks on ...
      Survivors of three Americans killed by targeted drone attacks in Yemen last year sued top-ranking members of the United States, alleging Wednesday they illegally killed the three, one 16 years old, in violation of international human rights law and the U.S. Constitution.
    • AT&T Charging for FaceTime Would Breach Net Ne ...
      AT&T "would almost certainly" violate net neutrality rules if it begins charging for using FaceTime over its cellular network when Apple's newest mobile operating system debuts in September, the digital rights group Free Press said Tuesday.

    PERRspectives : Blog

    • Romney: My Tax Rate is "Really Closer to 45 or ...
      As he continues to stonewall requests to release more of his tax returns, Mitt Romney is quickly turning the 2012 presidential campaign into a game of "Hide and Seek." Americans are left to speculate what dark secrets or advantages unattainable for most people lurk in those papers. Did Romney ...
    • Romney Insists GOP Not "the Party of the Rich"
      At a $1.7 million fundraiser in Jackson, Mississippi, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney declared that the GOP is not "the party of the rich," insisting instead that "we're the party of people who want to get rich." Sadly for Romney, there are two small problems with his assessment. F ...
    • 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 ...

    Blackspot News Feed

    • How About This for Supporting the Troops: Help ...
      There are 55,000 homeless women vets in the U.S. and that number is only getting bigger. What are we going to do about it?
    • GOP Voter Suppression ID Laws May Affect Milli ...
      The Brennan Center's report doubles its estimated impact from last fall as 2012 voting rights litigation heats up.
    • We Have Less Maternity Leave Than Pakistan? 5 ...
      Everyone's talking about work-life balance, but here are some concrete ways we might actually achieve it.
    • Twilight of the Elites: Chris Hayes on How the ...
      Amidst a series of recent scandals that have rocked the global banking system, journalist Chris Hayes joins us to discuss his new book, "Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy." The book examines how Wall Street and other major institutions, from Congress to the Catholic Church to Maj ...
    • 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 ...

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    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

    • New Lightest Material — Aerographite
        There’s a new lightest material in town. Aerographite, the new material, is a staggering 75 times lighter than Styrofoam. Aerographite is composed of a network of porous carbon tubes that are three-dimensionally interwoven at the nano and micro level. The wonder material weighs just ...
    • Huge Greenland Glacier Ice Sheet Breaks Off… A ...
        I’m sure this is not what global warming naysayers want to hear, but an iceberg about twice the size of Manhattan has just broken off of a Greenland glacier, Petermann Glacier. This was actually predicted by scientists last Fall, but as you should well know by now, scientists are ju ...
    • Whales Can Ignore Human Noise
        Underwater human noise is a great threat to whales. It disrupts their communication, mating, navigation, and more. Unfortunately, this threatens whale species that are already on the brink of extinction due to whaling. The good news is that whales seem to have the ability to “plug t ...
    • Iceberg Nearly Twice The Size Of Manhattan Jus ...
        An iceberg nearly twice the size of Manhattan has just broken away from the floating end of Petermann Glacier in Greenland. This event was predicted last autumn by researchers. The massive floating ice island is 46 square miles, and just separated from the terminus of one of Greenland&#82 ...
    • NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity, Glitch In Aging M ...
        The Mars rover Curiosity is only 20 days away from landing, but a newly discovered glitch in an aging Mars orbiter means mission controllers may have to wait a little longer than expected to learn whether the landing succeeds or not. The 1-ton Curiosity rover, the centerpiece of the Mars ...

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    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

    • Fighting for Fairness in the Foothills
      By @KYYellowDog Yes, Richmond, Kentucky, is a college town, but EKU is deserted for the summer, leaving this city in the Appalachian foothills far less populated and far more conservative than during the semesters. So it's all the more encouraging that even in the dog days Richmond progressives ...
    • Nightowl Newswrap
      By@KYYellowDog Of course they're still around - true evil never dies "Hungarian authorities have detained, grilled and put under house arrest a 97-year-old who tops the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's dwindling wanted list of surviving suspected Nazi war criminals. Laszlo Csatary, accused by the Wiese ...
    • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By - "The Popula ...
      By @KYYellowDog The Grand Industrial Band: an old iww song by t-bone slim. played on april 30th 2009 live at the Connetion in Cologne-Ehrenfeld (Germany).
    • Anti-Obamacare Stupidity in Kentucky
      By @ KYYellowDog No surprise: all the state house members are up for re-election, but Beshear is not, so all the morons are running against That Ni**er in the White House. Jack Brammer at the Herald: Gov. Steve Beshear signed an executive order Tuesday to create an online marketplace offering he ...
    • Nightowl Newswrap
      By@KYYellowDog Seriously, there is no crime these finance fuckers won't aid and abet. "HSBC had routinely acted as a financier to clients routing funds from the world's most dangerous corners, including Mexico, Iran and Syria. Lax controls at the bank allowed Mexican drug cartels to launder bill ...

    Care 2

    • $1 Donation for Pet Rescue for Each Facebook ' ...
      The donated money will go towards the spaying and neutering of the organizations rescued pets, who so deserve a second chance. Submitted by Elizabeth O. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • Boy Scouts: We're keeping policy banning gays
      The announcement comes amid a stepped-up campaign from activist groups urging an end to the membership standards. Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • Limbaugh Totally Freaking Out About Batman Fli ...
      While movie & comic book fans on all points of the political spectrum get jazzed up for new Batman installment "The Dark Knight Rises" one conservative commentator is not particularly pleased with the fact that this sequel's primary villain is named Bane. Submitted by Carrie B. to Offbeat &nbsp ...
    • SAVE THE HARLAN BEAGLES
      The company owns several UK-based sites, two of which house beagles. Their Cambridgeshire site breeds beagles for sale to laboratories and universities whilst their Loughborough site keeps 'donor beagles' (these dogs have their blood regularly drained... Submitted by Buffy F. to Animals  | ...
    • Help Protect America's Waterways ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
      Our nation's waterways are a vital resource, providing drinking water, economic benefits such as the commercial seafood industry, and recreational activities such as swimming and fishing. Clean water--whether it comes from the Great Lakes, a gulf, Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |&nb ...

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    No Quarter

    • Michelle Obama Lauded Bain-Created Child Care ...
      Imagine this: First Lady Michelle Obama effusively praising a nationwide corporate daycare company originally funded by Mitt Romney and Bain when it was merely an idea at a kitchen table in the 1980s. In a 2011 speech for her “Let’s Move! Child Care” campaign, the First Lady touted Bright Horizo ...
    • Gulf of Tonkin Syria Style
      The war drums are really blasting in Washington and wishful thinking has replaced reason and logic. The Obama Administration, with the full-throated cheerleading of neo-cons like Charles Krauthammer, are celebrating the terrorist attack on the Government of Bashir Assad and hoping that Assad fol ...
    • Yes, Obama is Not a Genuine American
      John Sununu raised a bit of a stink yesterday with his remark that the President needs to learn to be an American: Sununu has apologized, but I think he had it exactly right. Barack Obama is not a genuine American. This has nothing to do with where he was born. I will reiterate again–I bel ...
    • “I’m the one who supports Obama’s freaking pro ...
      First things first: The Hill‘s “Romney: Obama remarks anti-business.” Do listen since it is a more complete video than you hear on TV: Then there’s Buzzfeed’s “How The Romney Campaign Decided To Take The Gloves Off: Surrogates will bring up cocaine, Fast and F ...
    • The Most Honest Video on YouTube? (+ Open Thread)
      WHOAAA! What do you thnk? Are we still the best? Ay what? What do we need to do to get back up there? This clip comes from the new HBO series written by Aaron Sorkin of West Wing fame. The character is a politically conservative network news anchor.

    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

    • Closer Look at Health Effect of Mountaintop Re ...
      Closer Look at Health Effect of Mountaintop Removal weku In the latest paper, USGS researchers gathered samples of particular matter deposited in communities near mountaintop removal operations and compared the chemical composition to similar material collected in other Southern West Virginia lo ...
    • Obama's August Surprise for Coal Country: Moun ...
      EnergyBoom Obama's August Surprise for Coal Country: Mountaintop Removal Moratorium ... Huffington Post (blog) Obama should keep his 2008 campaign promise, travel to Appalachia and publicly announce a timeline to enact a mountaintop removal moratorium and launch a green jobs coalfield regene ...
    • Coalition Acts to Protect Waterways from Pollu ...
      Coalition Acts to Protect Waterways from Pollution at 9 Alpha Natural ... Equities.com The mines, located in Logan, McDowell, Boone, and Kanawha counties, all violate key protections in the Clean Water Act and Surface Mining laws regarding selenium pollution from mountaintop removal or tradition ...
    • 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 »

    Memeorandum

    • DNC Regrets Offending Ann Romney, No More Hors ...
      Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS: DNC Regrets Offending Ann Romney, No More Horse Videos  —  It seemed like a good idea at the time, but now the Democratic National Committee is offering an apology of sorts to Ann Romney.  —  At issue is a DNC video featuring footage of A ...
    • John McCain defends Huma Abedin against accusa ...
      Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post: John McCain defends Huma Abedin against accusations she's part of conspiracy  —  Huma Abedin, photographed with her husband, then-Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), in January 2011.  (Charles Dharapak) Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) struck back hard at ...
    • Apple Must Publish Notice That Samsung Didn'T ...
      Kit Chellel / Bloomberg: Apple Must Publish Notice That Samsung Didn'T Copy IPad In U.K.  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL) was ordered by a judge to publish a notice on its U.K. website and in British newspapers alerting people to a ruling that Samsung Electronics Co. didn't copy designs fo ...
    • Bachmann's former campaign chief - shame on yo ...
      Edward Rollins / Fox News: Bachmann's former campaign chief — shame on you, Michele  —  I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades.  There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.  I have to say that Congresswoman Michele Bachmann ...
    • Governor Brown signs California high-speed rai ...
      Mike Rosenberg / Mercury News: Governor Brown signs California high-speed rail bill, calls critics ‘NIMBYs,’ ‘fearful men’  —  SAN FRANCISCO — With his most public cheerleading yet for California's bullet train, Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday signed ...

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    China Dialogue

    • Shifang: a crisis of local rule
      China’s feeble public participation system is forcing people onto the streets to protect their environmental interests, as the latest demonstrations in the south-west show. Tang Hao reports.China has been engrossed in the mass protests in Shifang, Sichuan province, where on the morning of ...
    • China's overseas food footprint
      Rising Chinese demand for imported foods is raising local concerns about pollution and disease, from the farms of the United States to the sea lochs of Scotland, finds Isabel Hilton.For the last three decades, China’s factories have turned out goods for export markets, while Chinese citize ...
    • 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 ...

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    Threat Level

    • Justice Department Sues Telecom for Challengin ...
      Last year, when a telecommunications company received an ultra-secret demand letter from the FBI seeking information about a customer or customers, the telecom took an extraordinary step -- it challenged the underlying authority of the FBI's National Security Letter, as well as the legitimacy of ...
    • Megaupload Judge Steps Down After Declaring U. ...
      The New Zealand judge overseeing the extradition proceedings of accused file-sharing kingpin and Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is recusing himself from the case after remarking that the United States was "the enemy."
    • YouTube Offers Face-Blurring Tool to Protect D ...
      Google is offering YouTube users a way to blur the faces in videos, calling it a way to protect dissidents and kids.
    • Pentagon, CIA Sued for Lethal Drone Attacks on ...
      Survivors of three Americans killed by targeted drone attacks in Yemen last year sued top-ranking members of the United States, alleging Wednesday they illegally killed the three, one 16 years old, in violation of international human rights law and the U.S. Constitution.
    • AT&T Charging for FaceTime Would Breach Net Ne ...
      AT&T "would almost certainly" violate net neutrality rules if it begins charging for using FaceTime over its cellular network when Apple's newest mobile operating system debuts in September, the digital rights group Free Press said Tuesday.

    Equality Trust

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

    PDA AMERICA

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

    Marler Blog

    • The steady drip of romaine lettuce E. coli inf ...
      Prying information out of California and Canadian public health officals should not be how the public is informed about and E. coli O157:H7 outbreak. Coral Beach (what a great name) of the Packer continued the work of Food Safety News and eFoodert when she reported this moring that California h ...
    • Germantown E. coli Outbreak: Now, 68 ill with ...
      As a result of eating food at a picnic at Neff’s Lawn Care in Germantown, at least 68 individuals have become ill. Of those, 14 have been hospitalized. Public Health – Dayton & Montgomery County is continuing an investigation into the cause of the foodborne outbreak. Estimates a ...
    • 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 ...

    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

    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!

    • Watch Interview with Maldives Ex-President Nas ...
      Above, we revisit part 1 of our interview with Madlives Ex-President Mohamed Nasheed . We also speak with Jon Shenk, director of The Island President, a new documentary about Nashee’s climate activism. As we reported Tuesday, prosecutors in the Indian Ocean state of Maldives have orde ...
    • Pt. 2: Chris Hayes on "Twilight of the Elites: ...
      Amidst a series of recent scandals that have rocked the global banking system, journalist Chris Hayes joins us to discuss his new book, "Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy." The book examines how Wall Street and other major institutions, from Congress to the Catholic Ch ...
    • 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. ...

    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

    • Insights From Ingo Swann
      Ingo Swan “It’s unkind to point out the Obvious To those who don’t want to see it. But it’s worse to point out the Invisible To those convinced it doesn’t exist.” “What, When, and Who are important, of course, but Meaning is only achieved by understa ...
    • A Day Made of Glass
      YouTube 7 February 2012 Watch “A Day Made of Glass” and take a look at Corning’s vision for the future with specialty glass at the heart of it.
    • U.S. Drought Worst Since Mid-’50s
      The Seattle Times 17 July 2012 By Jim Suhr and Steve Karnowski The Associated Press The nation’s widest drought in decades is spreading, with more than half of the continental United States in some stage of drought and most of the rest enduring abnormally dry conditions. In its monthly d ...
    • Transcript of Catherine’s Interview of D ...
      A transcript of Catherine’s 7.05.12 interview of Dale Dougherty of the Maker Movement available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: So why don’t we just dive in and tell us what – who are the makers? What is a maker? How do you become a maker? How did this all get started? Dale ...
    • Dozens of Genetically Modified Babies Already ...
      By Dr. Mercola When I first read that genetically modified humans have already been born, I could hardly believe it. However, further research into this story featured in the UK’s Daily Mail1 proved it to be true. They’ve really done it… they’ve created humans that natur ...

    Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

    AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

    Sideways News

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

    Fabius Maximus

    • Affordable Care Act down the mindshaft: asking ...
      Summary:  Why do Americans oppose the the Affordable Care Act (ACA, Obamacare) while supporting so many of its provisions? What does this tell us about America? Today Chet Richards “asks the mineshaft”  for answers. It’s a community exercise, from the German Gemeinschaft (see Wikipedia).  ...
    • Hegemon at work on Iran, doing what hegemonic ...
      Summary: As the sanctions tighten like a noose around Iran, the US deploys its power on Iran’s borders to discourage resistance.  It’s a simple plan to slowly break their will, with Iran’s nukes as a pretext.  So far it’s working. Only China or Russia can save Iran. They ...
    • 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 ...

    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

    • IRGC Claims U.S. Unable to Overcome Iranian Mines
      As tensions escalate in the Persian Gulf waters between the United States and Iran over the potential closure of the Strait of Hormuz as well as the United States’ growing military presence in the Gulf, both sides have begun to ramp up their rhetoric and their military operations. The putative f ...
    • After the Battle: Winning Back Hearts and Minds
      Tom Preece is a combat veteran and veterans advocate, a thirty year VA retiree, and author of The Last Lost Warrior a forthcoming novel based on his Vietnam and post-Vietnam experiences. The American military is in a war with itself, and US society can't afford it.  Fewer soldiers have been ki ...
    • Lebanon’s Salafi scare
      Editor’s note: This article first appeared on foreignpolicy.com. Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir, a self-proclaimed religious authority with a bushy long beard, is no stranger on the Lebanese scene. His latest incarnation, from his mosque in the coastal town of Sidon, is as a firebrand political Salafist ...
    • Syria: How the Blast in Damascus May Affect Di ...
      News is coming quickly from Syria. What we know so far is that 1) four top Syrian officials were killed in the bomb attack on Assad’s inner circle. 2) Syrian rebels have claimed credit for it. These developments in Damascus come as the Security Council has been mired in tense and intense n ...
    • Strategic Engagement with Russia 2013-17
      Russia remains, in ‘Churchillian’ terms, an enigmatic mystery. In its post-Communist transition to a modern state, Russia has shed most of the impedimenta of Communism and begun to search for new directions. But the old conflict between “Slavophiles” and “Westernize ...

    TAPPED - The American Prospect

    • If Only They Knew
      For a long time now, Mitt Romney and the people who work for him have seemed like the reasonable people in the Republican party. That isn't to say that Romney's policies or rhetoric were particularly reasonable, but we all accepted that when he started breathing fire, it was an act. Buffeted by ...
    • What About the Vice Presidential Tax Returns?
      At this point, I’m actually a little impressed that Mitt Romney has managed to resist the growing calls to release his tax returns. Romney is under a tremendous amount of pressure from conservatives—including prominent supporters—to reveal his finances, and his continued refusal is a sign of im ...
    • Can Rick Perry's Playbook Work in the Texas Se ...
      Texas Governor Rick Perry is famous for delivering negative ads that send his opponents' campaigns reeling; they tend to contain such wild, over-the-top accusations that responding to them is tricky business. In the 2002 gubernatorial race, when he was fending off Democratic billionaire Tony Sa ...
    • What Poor Women Need Is ... Marriage?
      For several years, sociologists and demographers have been discussing a new socioeconomic division in this country: the widening family divide between the highly educated and everyone else. On one side are those who get at least a bachelor's degree—or wait even longer—before they marry and have ...
    • Obama's Successful Play for Latino Votes
      President Obama can’t win re-election without high support and turnout from Latino voters, and to that end he has aggressively targeted them with ads, speeches, and one bold attempt to unilaterally reform immigration policy as it applies to the children of undocumented immigrants. If the latest ...

    Buzzflash

    • The GOP Is So Used to Throwing Punches, It Doe ...
      WILLIAM RIVERS PITT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT For years and years and years, it seems like Democrats, liberals, progressives (or however one chooses to be defined), have been on the defensive, and for one reason: the message makers who have defined the GOP for decades, from Lee Atwater to Karl R ...
    • Suppressing Democracy by Stealing the Right to ...
      MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT We've seen it all before. Passing laws to keep certain groups of people from voting, when they are entitled to do in a democracy under the Constitution. It used to be a "poll tax" in the South, where blacks were kept from voting because they didn't pa ...
    • McCain on Romney: ‘Palin Was the Better Candid ...
      WILLIAM RIVERS PITT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Truth be told, a very, very small part of me has actually been feeling a swell of pity for GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney as these last weeks have unfolded. This poor sad sack has been getting battered at every turn: the Supreme Court turned ...
    • Mr. Romney: If You're Listed as the Owner of a ...
      MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Am I missing something here, such as common sense? Here is Mitt Romney who is listed as CEO, president and sole stock owner of Bain Capital with the chief regulatory agency (Security and Exchange Commission (SEC)) responsible for financial firms, but ...
    • Since When is Focusing On Romney's Business Re ...
      DEE EVANS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Over the weekend, the Obama campaign put out a pretty clever campaign video of Mitt Romney singing "America the Beautiful" while displaying various news headlines of Romney/Bain outsourcing claims. I guess because the spot received such notice, the Romney cam ...

    Glenn Greenwald - Salon

    The BiPartisan Report

    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

    • The State of Women of Color in the United States
      Yesterday, CAP's Progress 2050 and FIRE Initiative released an issue brief on “The State of Women of Color in the United States” at an event with Tina Tchen, chief of staff to the first lady and executive director of the White House Council on Women and girls; The Root’s Je ...
    • Court Upholds Stronger Clean Air Health Standards
      The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit yesterday rejected industry attacks against health protections that limit nitrogen dioxide air pollution emitted by refineries, power plants, factories, and motor vehicles.read more
    • On the Heels of DISCLOSE Act, Members of Congr ...
      Today, in the wake of a Republican filibuster of the DISCLOSE Act, small business owners joined forces with Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and the Coalition for Accountability of Political Spending (CAPS), the bipartisan group of state official ...
    • Rights Groups File Challenge To Killings of Th ...
      The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) today filed a lawsuit charging that senior CIA and military officials violated the Constitution and international law when they authorized and directed drone strikes that resulted in the deaths of three U.S. ...
    • Study: 500,000 Americans Could Face Significan ...
      Nearly 500,000 eligible voters in 10 states with restrictive voter ID laws live in households without vehicles and reside at least 10 miles from an ID-issuing office open more than two days a week, a new Brennan Center for Justice study found.read more

    Common Dreams-Views

    • Four Spending Myths That Could Wreck Our World
      Mattea Kramer We’re at the edge of the cliff of deficit disaster!  National security spending is being, or will soon be, slashed to the bone!  Obamacare will sink the ship of state!  Each of these claims has grabbed nat ...
    • CNN Expert’s Civilian Drone Death Numbers Don’ ...
      Chris Woods CNN’s national security expert Peter Bergen speaking at a recent event (Miller Center/ Flickr) Following recent revelations by the New York Times that all military-aged males in Waziristan are considered fair game by the CIA in ...
    • Obama's August Surprise on Mountaintop Removal?
      Jeff Biggers As the ravages of mountaintop removal coal mining--including the re-emerging scandal of reckless black lung policies on strip miners--continue to mount despite the shift of coal production to the heartland and western Power Riv ...
    • With Needed Defense Cuts on the Horizon, Indus ...
      Robert Greenwald You know it's a big moment for defenders of the United States' bloated military budget when some of the all-time superstars of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex descend on Capitol Hill to fight for thei ...
    • Across the Gonad Divide
      Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez I’m getting tired of seeing the gender card being played as a veiled excuse for ideological dominance. Conservative critic David Brooks predictably pines for the good ol’ days when boys were boys and ...

    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 Israel preparing to annex most of West Bank?
      Jonathan Cook Nazareth 18 July 2012 Despite its laughable conclusion that Israel is not occupying the West Bank, downplaying the significance of a recently published report by an Israeli judge may prove unwise.
    • New documentary inadvertently demonstrates fai ...
      Asa Winstanley 18 July 2012 My Neighborhood purportedly tells the story of Sheikh Jarrah in occupied East Jerusalem. But beyond the fact that Palestinians are being kicked out, we learn little of their story.
    • Why is critic of Islam advising Britain's mili ...
      Ben White London 17 July 2012 A “cultural advisor” to UK troops in Afghanistan suggests that Islam is a “danger facing the West.”
    • 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.

    The Wonk Room

    • Marvel To Focus on Red She-Hulk
      Jeff Parker, who writes Hulk for Marvel, reports that the book will switch focus and tell the story of Red She-Hulk, the super-powered version of Betty Ross-Banner, Bruce’s love interest. And his take on it, and on the book as an opportunity to bring in new female audiences for comics, sou ...
    • The Morning Pride: July 19, 2012
      Welcome to The Morning Pride, ThinkProgress LGBT’s daily round-up of the latest in LGBT policy, politics, and some culture too! Here’s what we’re reading this morning, but please let us know what stories you’re following as well. Follow us all day on Twitter at @TPEquality. - Will the Democratic ...
    • Initial Jobless Claims Jump By 34,000
      According to the Labor Department, initial jobless claims rose to 386,000 this week, from an adjusted number of 352,000 last week. Analysts had expected claims to rise to 365,000. Last week’s unexpectedly low number of claims is attributed to fewer auto industry layoffs.
    • July 19 News: Severe Drought May Increase Odds ...
      Droughts such as the one currently gripping a majority of the U.S. may dramatically increase the odds of extremely hot days, a new study found. [Climate Central] The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, explores a dynamic that is playing out right now across the c ...
    • Econ 101: July 19, 2012
      Welcome to ThinkProgress Economy’s morning link roundup. This is what we’re reading. Have you seen any interesting news? Let us know in the comments section. You can also follow ThinkProgress Economy on Twitter. The risk of foreclosure for Americans over 50 is on the rise. [New York Times] A fun ...

    thwap's schoolyard

    • More About Canada in Afghanistan
      Yesterday's post really didn't capture my disgust with the loons who got Canada into that mess and the ignoramuses who commented on those stories in the Toronto Star. So, here we go again. If you're going to put the Canadian military into a military mission, you have to do it with your eyes ope ...
    • Paul Watson's Article About Canadian Aid to Af ...
      The Toronto Star has been running some lengthy articles by Paul Watson about Canada's aid to Afghanistan. I almost didn't read them. We went in there in 2001 and now it's 2012. I've been complaining about this atrocity for over a decade. It doesn't come as any surprise to me that our aid was mos ...
    • 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 ...

    on Government Oversight

    Digital Journal

    • Soccer: Chelsea v Paris wealth-derby all set f ...
      Wealthy French outfit Paris St. Germain take on wealthy west Londoners Chelsea on Sunday evening in New York. The Parisian giants' £150 million spending spree has even raised the bushy eyebrows of Chelsea manager, Roberto Di Matteo.
    • Toronto teen slashed with machete after refusi ...
      The 17-year-old was rushed to hospital in critical condition after he was repeatedly attacked with a machete after he refused to give a man his cellphone.
    • 2 Seattle men held at US border over illegal c ...
      Two Seattle men, returning home from a holiday in Canada, were seized at the U.S. border and held for two-and-a-half hours, for trying to bring in Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs.
    • Spike Lee: Michael Jackson documentary 'a grea ...
      'Bad' is finished and according to Spike Lee, the man who made the documentary on Michael Jackson and the making of his album of the same name, it's a rare look into Jackson and his art. This year marks the 25-year anniversary of the album.
    • Iceberg breaks off in Greenland
      According to scientists, an iceberg twice the size of Manhattan broke off Greenland's Petermann Glacier, The Associated Press reports.

    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

    • Concern Over National Defense Resources Prepar ...
      March 30, 2012 Info Wars By Kurt Nimmo Asawin Suebsaeng, who is an editorial fellow at Mother Jones, seems to have a problem understanding the Constitution and the national security state. He takes the political “right” to task for warning about the National Defense Resources Preparedness execut ...
    • Gold Juniors to Explode?
      March 30, 2012 321 Gold By Scott Wright Over the course of gold’s bull, the companies that explore for and mine this metal have greatly prospered. The gold-stock sector has thus been one of the top-performing in all the markets over the last 10+ years, and its investors have been richly re ...
    • Amalgam Fillings Leach Mercury Vapor Into The ...
      March 30, 2012 Activist Post By AP “If you have mercury fillings, you should seriously consider having them removed.” –KTRN Why is it that what one government department considers an environmental travesty, another department deems completely safe for the human body? Simple ans ...
    • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-31-12
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    • Ventura County On Raw Milk Rampage
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