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Thomas Paine

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

Thursday, July 19, 2012

19 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

The Spymaster - Meir Dagan on Iran's threat - ...The Spymaster - Meir Dagan on Iran's threat - CBS 60 Minutes (Photo credit: k-ideas)

Politics in the Zeros

  • We Need Freaks. Barry Hyman
    My friend Barry Hyman just finished recording a new CD. In the meantime, until it’s released, listen to We Need Freaks, which is a fun, Beat, spoken semi-rant about politics and why we need an opposition.The post We Need Freaks. Barry Hyman appeared first on Politics in the Zeros.
  • Several key Syria officials killed by bomb
    #Syria the bomb was inside a water cooler in the room which was packed with 25 top thugs and was remote detonated from a distance— riad al asaad (@fsa_hq_syria) July 18, 2012The government of Syria is crumbling. They swore Damascus would always be safe and now several key and irreplaceable ...
  • Social media. Bodybuilding.com and MaxMuscle g ...
    Bodybuilding.com and Max Muscle use social media to create interactive sites that build community while Active.com limps along, unable to do even the obvious.I’m back into training for half marathons now. Active.com lists races across the country, allowing you to sign up on their site. But ...
  • Putin’s geopolitical realism on Syria
    The comparison of statecraft between Russia and the United States is unflattering. Russia has vastly fewer cards to play, but because Putin has grounded his policy in an assessment the realities of power, has limited his objectives to those within Russia’s means and related those to a larger dip ...
  • Why do so many blogs have no contact information?
    The purpose of blogs is to communicate but too many bloggers ignore one of the most obvious ways, email. Comments are great but email is also a time-honored and effective method for getting conversations going. Yet many blogs don’t list an email address.I’ve been slogging through blo ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • This Day In History – July 19
    64 – Great Fire of Rome: a fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control. According to a popular, but untrue legend, Nero fiddled as the city burned. 1553 – Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after only [...]
  • Blast Kills Top Security Aides to Assad
    BEIRUT, Lebanon — President Bashar al-Assad’s brother-in-law and Syria’s defense minister were killed on Wednesday when a suicide bomber attacked a crisis group of senior ministers and security chiefs meeting in central Damascus, according to state television and activists. Full Article
  • Ariz. sheriff says Obama birth certificate is fake
    PHOENIX (CBS5) - The lead Cold Case Posse investigator looking into the authenticity of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate claims that Hawaiian regulation for obtaining the document is so lax, it would cast doubt on any birth records from Hawaii. “Considering the fact that Ha ...
  • This Day In History – July 18
    1290 – King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England; this was Tisha B’Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities. 1870 – The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility. 18 ...
  • US Security Agents ‘At Heathrow For Olym ...
    US security agents are to be based at Heathrow and some other UK airports for the duration of the ‪Olympic‬ Games, according to Sky sources. The Department for Transport has reached an agreement with the US Transportation Security Administration for specialist agents to be work at several UK air ...

The Air Vent

  • Climategate Investigation Pauses, No Suspects& ...
    It seems appropriate that I put this up here also. Andrew Montford, CA and others have reported that the Norfolk Police have ended their investigation into the hacking of online data from CRU. It turns out that none of us climate bloggers (previously popular or otherwise) have been implicated an ...
  • Obama – Honesty in Politics
    if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let [...]
  • Putting the K back in Skeptic
    I received this email today.   It’s kind of humorous except that I do agree with a common sense approach to energy that has a lot less government involvement. — Jeff. —- Dear Sceptic,  (I think he means me. It could be one of you guys though   ) due to your high profile interes ...
  • Are Climate Models Spatially Consistent?
    An interesting link left by Curious on the open thread. I will read later. –Jeff h/t Curious, HR at Watts Up tips and notes: http://www.clim-past-discuss.net/8/2409/2012/cpd-8-2409-2012.pdf Climate of the last millennium:ensemble consistency of simulations and reconstructions O. Bothe, J. ...
  • Descent
    Today’s supreme court “health sickness care” ruling is an enormous blow to Americans. Our past successes have been created by a governmental philosophy of ‘the people know best’. Today we are told that in fact, ‘government knows best’. They flat stated, ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook ads in desktop and mobile News Feed o ...
    Sponsored Stories in the Facebook mobile and desktop feed are averaging significantly higher clickthrough rates than Twitter in-stream ads, according to a report released today by ad optimization company TBG Digital. Since Facebook began allowing advertisers to choose whether they … Contin ...
  • Facebook platform industry hires: Conversocial ...
    If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please let us know. Email mail (at) insidefacebook (dot) com, and we’ll get it into our next post. Also, please note that information about most new hires, below, … Continue reading →
  • Viralheat launches free conversation managemen ...
    Social media measurement platform Viralheat expands further into the page management and publishing space with its new Viralheat Free product announced today. The tool is among the most comprehensive free offerings for cross-platform posting, conversation management and analytics. Viralheat co-f ...
  • Facebook brings activity log to mobile devices ...
    Facebook recently added an activity log feature to some mobile devices, allowing users to see all their recent activity, verify their privacy settings and delete individual stories. Activity log was a key new feature that came with the introduction of … Continue reading →
  • Extole creates new marketing apps that promote ...
    Social marketing platform Extole has released a number of new products to integrate Open Graph publishing features and expand its analytics offering. Extole has enabled Open Graph sharing for its “Social Referrers” and “Social Promotions” apps to amplify the word … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Israel paves way for annexation of Palestinian ...
    Jonathan Cook sees a report recently published by Israeli Supreme Court judge Levy, which stated that Israel is not in fact occupying Palestinian territories, as a step towards the formal annexation of a large chunk of the West Bank - the 62 per cent of the occupied Palestinian territory dubbed ...
  • Donor dollars aiding political repression in E ...
    Graham Peebles looks at how the mixed motives for the aid given by Western donor countries to Ethiopia mean that these countries - in effect, US, British and other European taxpayers - are funding a deeply repressive and violent regime that uses aid as a political weapon to control the populatio ...
  • Nationalism versus capitalism in USA: guess wh ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers the essence of capitalism and how its corollary in the age of the free market - outsourcing of production to countries with cheap labour, no or weak trade unions and minimal regulation - is impoverishing Americans who nonetheless continue to believe that the system co ...
  • Storming the Bastille in Syria
    Henry Lowi calls on progressives with a conscience to declare their solidarity with the oppressed people of Syria, to make every effort "to reach out to the pro-democracy grassroots organizations" there and to "support and strengthen the hand of the pro-democracy and working class currents in th ...
  • Accusations of Jewish self-hatred and anti-Sem ...
    Richard Forer explains why so many Jews support Israel's blatant injustice towards the Palestinians, arguing that an honest self-examination by Israel's Jewish supporters of the premises behind their demonization of Israel's critics, and debunking the idealistic false image of Israel that they s ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Podcast Show #88- Karzai Cartel & Its Washingt ...
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Michael Hughes Michael Hughes joins us to discuss his investigative article exposing President Hamid Karzai’s mob boss brother Qayum Karzai, and the subsequent legal threats issued against him and his exposé by the family’s business partners in Washington. He explains ...
  • Libya: New AFRICOM & NATO Beachhead in Africa
    Africa vs. the offensive by the axis of AFRICOM, EUCOM, NATO and the European Union, with assistance from the Arab monarchies By Rick Rozoff On June 15 the news agency of the U.S. Defense Department, American Forces Press Service, ran a story on commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) Army Ge ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 14, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that ’tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,’ like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. W ...
  • Pentagon’s Last Frontier: Battle-Hardened Troo ...
    Africa’s Hour has Arrived By Rick Rozoff As the U.S. begins to wind down more than ten consecutive years of combat, mainly counterinsurgency, operations in what has variously been labeled the Broader, Greater and New Middle East, war-tested troops are being prepared for redeployment to Africa an ...

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Harassing the Whistleblowers
    Food and Drug Administration officials reacted to suspected whistleblowing by some of its scientists, about excessive radiation from medical imaging devices, by spying on several. But the larger issue is the need to alert the public to unnecessary risks.
  • Technology doesn't cause inequality -- deliber ...
    When a government adopts a one-sided approach to enforcing labor laws, so that courts intervene to benefit management and weakens unions, it will reduce workers' bargaining power. This will mean lower pay for ordinary workers and higher corporate profits and pay for those at the top. It was done ...
  • Hidden Anti-Teacher Agenda: Former DC Schools ...
    Former DC schools head Michelle Rhee is still scamming progressives with her hidden anti-teacher political organization, StudentsFirst, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
  • Shameless Tax Loopholes
    Money pretty much controls both parties, and money isn't howling for reform. If you seek change, voting surely can help get things rolling. But as Emma Goldman put it, "If voting could change things, they wouldn't let us do it."
  • Clinton in Cairo
    Throughout her trip, Clinton was met with angry supporters of the military and Mubarak's remnants, who accused the US of supporting the MB. The US strategy is to give the Islamic rising powers a chance to govern as long as they agree to: keep the Americans in, the Chinese and Russians out, the I ...

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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Ideas for Increased Millennial Engagement on E ...
    Grace Gill, Program Assistant, CMI/India/Climate Center, New York Last week I took to wearing a lace headband—60’s flower child style—to prevent my hair from sticking to my forehead in this blistering East Coast heat. Suffice it to ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Why Bane? No, why Bain?
    By now, you’ve already heard too much about this ridiculous story: Have you heard this new movie, the Batman movie, what is it, The Dark Knight Lights Up or whatever the name is. That’s right, Dark Knight Rises. Lights Up, same thing. Do you know the name of the villain in this movie ...
  • Personal Experience and Environmental Change
    As we see during most heat waves, the number of people who believe climate change is happening peaking. During cold spells in the winter, the number dives. This reminds me of one of the biggest problem in creating long-term environmental reform–everybody believes their personal experience ...
  • The Original Sin
    At least because of fanatical Republican devotion to opposing any tax increases Erskine Bowles and the various other pain caucus scolds who don’t care about unemployment can’t damage the economy in the short-term. The Republican Daddy who chairs the Federal Reserve and doesn’t ...
  • “An Apology? I’m Sorry for the R ...
    The Obama campaign’s response to Romney’s whining was indeed appropriate.
  • Leverage
    Normally, legislators who actually care about improving things are at an inherent disadvantage when negotiating with conservatives or venal “centrists.” Joe Lieberman can get his “get rid of something because it will piss off liberals this week even if it’s what I favored ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Health Care and the High Court
    The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the centerpiece of the nation's new health care law — the individual mandate to buy insurance — as a constitutional exercise of Congress' taxing authority. Led by veteran reporters Tony Mauro and Marcia Coyle, NLJ wraps up its coverage of the week's hi ...
  • Blockbuster Supreme Court term included some s ...
    The latest U.S. Supreme Court term was a little like Oscar season: The last-minute release of the Affordable Care Act decision stole the spotlight from some earlier attractions.
  • Judge tosses Florida agency's trademark suit, ...
    A federal judge has dismissed a Florida agency's trademark infringement case, ruling that the state itself, not the agency, is the exclusive owner under the Lanham Act of the marks at issue.
  • Law professors endorse undocumented candidate' ...
    A group of 50 immigration law professors have signed on to an amicus brief in support of an undocumented immigrant's attempt to win admission to the State Bar of California.
  • Los Angeles sues U.S. Bank over foreclosure blight
    The Los Angeles City Attorney's office has sued U.S. Bank, accusing it of becoming "one of the largest slumlords in the city" by allowing 158 properties to fall into disrepair since the start of the recession.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • How Roshmi Goswami Entered The World of Femini ...
    I don't know the precise moment, but the UN Women's Conference mobilisation in Beijing in 1993 brought about a permanent change and clear direction...
  • Milk and Nutrition Economics Can Save You and ...
    'We're all watching our budgets these days,' says Michelle Dudash, registered dietitian and author of the upcoming,Clean Eating for Busy Families. 'But there are important health and nutrition trade-offs that we need to consider.'
  • Fans Mourn Death of Country Singer Kitty Wells
    Kitty Wells, a country singer, dies at 92 at her home in Madison, Tennessee on Monday July 16, 2012. She died from complications of a stroke.
  • Pasta Galore At 'Pasta Factory'
    We started our dining journey to Italy. Beginning with the appetizers, we ordered Bruschetta Al Pomodoro, consisting of chopped tomatoes, basil and garlic on toasted Ciabattabread. We also ordered a Classic Caesar Salad with chicken and shrimp.
  • Is Singapore Making Progrees in Upholding Dign ...
    Singapore prides itself on being a first world country. If that is really the case, it is time that it should also work towards complying with international treaties, like the Convention on Domestic Workers,

environment 360

  • Linking Twin Extinctions Of Species and Languages
    A recent study noted that most of the 6,900 languages spoken on Earth occur in regions of high biodiversity. These findings point to a strong correlation between biological and linguistic diversity, with languages closely connected to the habitats where they are found. BY VERLYN KLINKENBORG
  • Warmer Ocean Waters Lead to a Lobster Glut in ...
    Warmer Atlantic Ocean temperatures off the coast of Maine have caused the state’s bountiful supply of lobsters to shed their shells and come onto the market six weeks earlier than normal, creating a glut that has driven prices sharply down. The state’s 5,000 lobster fishermen are receiving less ...
  • Beetle's Rapid Evolution Helps Control Invasiv ...
    Scientists say that a species of beetle has rapidly altered its life cycle to more efficiently devour the invasive tamarisk tree in the southern United States. UCSB Tamarisk leaf beetle In a decade-long study, researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) found that ...
  • Cooling a Warming Planet: A Global Air Conditi ...
    The U.S. has long used more energy for air conditioning than all other nations combined. But as demand increases in the world’s warmer regions, global energy consumption for air conditioning is expected to continue to rise dramatically and could have a major impact on climate change. BY STAN COX
  • Aquaculture Output To Rise 33 Percent Over Nex ...
    The global aquaculture sector could produce 33 percent more fish for human consumption over the next decade, an increase in production that will help feed a growing world population even as fisheries are overexploited, a new UN report predicts. More than 79 million tons of farmed fish, crustacea ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Soap bubble screen is ’the world’s thinnest di ...
    Viewers may soon be able to watch films on soap bubbles - after researchers developed a technology to project images on a screen made of soap film. An international team produced a display that uses ultrasonic sound waves to alter film’s properties and create either a flat or a 3D image. The bub ...
  • Muse’s "Survival" Chosen as Official Song of 2 ...
    It has been announced that a song by English alternative rock bank Muse has been chosen as the ’official song’ for the 2012 Olympics in London. "Survival" was written and recorded by Muse at the request of Olympic Staff. Video from: YouTube.com There has been mixed reception to the song: The Ass ...
  • ACTA : Internet Censorship Treaty Overwhelming ...
    The global Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), arguably the most draconian internet control legislation penned thus far, has been overwhelmingly rejected by European lawmakers following months of protests and activism undertaken by thousands across the continent. In January of this year, ...
  • British police get battlefield weapons
    The British police will be for the first time armed with the same advanced weapons as British soldiers use in conflict zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Ministry of Defense has put the contracts for 30,000 modern assault rifles out to tender to major arms producers around the world to supply th ...
  • WikiLeaks Announces Massive Release With The ’ ...
    WikiLeaks said Thursday it was publishing over two million emails from Syrian political figures dating back to 2006 but also covering the period of the crackdown on dissent by Syria’s regime. "Just now... WikiLeaks began publishing the Syria files, more than two million emails from Syrian politi ...

Russia Today

  • iSorry! UK judge orders Apple to issue Samsung ...
    A UK judge has ordered Apple Inc. to place an ad for its bitter rival Samsung on the company’s British website and in several UK newspapers informing the public that Samsung did not copy the famed iPad design. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Israeli tourist attack: A pretext for war with ...
    Israel has accused Iran of masterminding a terror attack in Bulgaria just hours after the tragedy claimed the lives of several Israeli tourists. The incident could be used as a pretext for a legitimate strike against... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Indian surgeons carve up women in insurance fr ...
    Indian doctors, in a move to claim large sums from a national insurance scheme, have been illegally removing uteruses from poor women, making them unable to bear children. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • UN vote delayed as top Syrian military brass d ...
    Western powers condemned a blast that killed top Syrian military officials, calling for a vote on a United Nations Chapter 7 resolution, which could allow measures from sanctions to military action. The vote has been... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Wikileaks saved? French ally to the rescue of ...
    WikiLeaks has enlisted the help of a French non-profit to avoid the payment blockade that has made it almost impossible for ordinary sympathizers to donate. The move comes as the whistleblower website nears financial... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • War memorial to Global War On Terror, aka War ...
    By now you’ve read elsewhere that many of the wounded soldiers being medivac’d to the US surgery hub in Germany are coming from parts unknown more specifically not-known to be US-declared war zones. Their flight origin is only revealed as “Horn of Africa”, but it’s ...
  • Hardees, Carls Jr, like you mean it
    TRUTH IN ADVERTISING DEPT.– Critics of the latest Hardees & Carls Jr ad campaign don’t think the supermodel actually means to eat that egg & bacon cheeseburger, sandwiched between buns of mortarboard. Obviously she’s neither eating that burger, nor blowing it. But don ...
  • Tarek Mehanna vs. Sgt. Robert Bales and what t ...
    First, Tarek is a Muslim who got sentenced for his non-crimes of exercising his Right to Free Speech and being a Muslim who also happens to hate US militarism, while Sgt Robert Bales is a soldier murderer who the Pentagon refuses to bring to trial in a timely manner for his war crimes of killing ...
  • US wars: You win some, you win some
    JULY 18– Syrian rebels led by CIA and US special forces were able to assassinate three senior officials of President Bashar Assad’s regime, targeted by NATO and the UN for Obama’s TM Change, which we now can believe means “Regime Change”. But news headlines today al ...
  • Do the 2012 London Olympics need extra securit ...
    Organizers are worried about inadequate security for the Olympic Games set to begin next month in London. What security threat are they anticipating exactly? It’s true the Olympics have become a bullseye for globalization critics. More and more, both athletes and groupies represent the jet ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Fire, Steel, & WTC 7
    Published on Jul 12, 2012 by ofmay We look at the fire that NIST claims took down WTC building 7 as well as 5 other steel frame high rise fires. Debunking the Debunkers blog contributor and author of, "Other Collapses in Perspective: An Examination of Other Steel Structures Collapsing due ...
  • 9/11 Free Fall 6/22/12 (Wayne Coste Interview)
    Published on Jun 23, 2012 by Free Fall Hosted by Bernie Suarez and Andrew Steele. In this episode Bernie and Andy talk about the Scientific Method and NIST's disregard for it in favor "computer model science". The guest this week is engineer Wayne Coste, who talks about 9/11 science and cens ...
  • MIT Physics vs. 9/11 Conspiracy - Jeff King 19 ...
    David Chandler relays some sad news at 911blogger.com: Jeff King, an early scientific voice in the 9/11 Truth Movement, died on June 19 after a lengthy battle with amyloidosis and multple myeloma. He studied physics and engineering at MIT, left for a number of years, then re-enrolled, finished ...
  • Update to Blog Published 2/5/12
    My 2/5/12 blog, "What Does it Mean for the 9/11 Truth Movement if James R. Millette Proves Nano-thermite Wasn't Used to Take down the WTC Towers on 9/11?," outlines what steps must be taken to conclusively debunk nano-thermite as the culprit in our minds here. It's argued that the cas ...
  • Conspiracy Theorists
    Larger image: http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/1240/conspiracytheorists.jpg Hat tip to Scootle for the hilariously true picture. Related: Debunking Myths on Conspiracy Theories Conspiracy Theories Conspiracy Theorists NWO Conspiracy Bullsh!t Conspiracies - 9/11 and The New World Orde ...

Fooducate

  • Five Healthy Bread Ideas
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Walking through the bread aisle at the grocery store can be EXTREMELY daunting.  Shelves and shelves worth of different brands of bread with slightly different packaging can ...
  • Almond Calories Are Now 20% Lower. How Awesome ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Great news folks! Recent advances in calorie measurements have shown that the actual calories in almonds may be lower than what we think. The study, published in the A ...
  • Milk – The Pros and Cons
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Milk was in the news last week, following an opinion piece by well respected cookbook author and journalist Mark Bittman. Got Milk? Don’t Need It generated a liv ...
  • Nutrition Advice in Exactly 3 Words – #foodtri ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Election season is near, and short catchy slogans will surely be adorning TV screens, bumper stickers, and Twitter. We’re voting for healthy food, and to that end, are ...
  • Top 10 French Contributions to World Gastronom ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! July 14 marks Bastille Day, or French Independence Day. Joyeux Quatorze Juillet!! We appreciate French food culture so much, that we decided to list a few contributions the ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Police arrest illegal goldminers in Brazil’s Y ...
    Brazil's Yanomami have protested for years about the devastating impact of mining. © Hutukara/ Survival A year long investigation into criminal activities in the territory of Brazil’s Yanomami tribe has led to the arrest of 26 goldminers. Gold, motor boats, dredging equipment, firearm ...
  • Ads target Machu Picchu tourists in row over u ...
    Uncontacted tribes share the same 'Sacred Valley' as Machu Picchu. The ancient site attracts up to 1 million tourists each year. © Icelight/Wikicommons Visitors to Peru’s most iconic tourist attraction, Machu Picchu, are being targeted by a new online ad campaign, in a row over a ...
  • Vietnam buys into Peru’s controversial oil fields
    PetroVietnam has taken on oil blocks in an area inhabited by uncontacted tribes © Survival Vietnamese oil company PetroVietnam has bought a stake in two Peruvian oil blocks in a region known to be inhabited by uncontacted tribes. The company has bought a 52.6% stake in Anglo-French Perenc ...
  • Outrage as World Bank funds power lines linked ...
    The Gibe III dam threatens the livelihoods of 200,000 Lower Omo tribal people, including the Karo. © Survival Human rights organizations, including Survival and Human Rights Watch, have fiercely criticized a decision by the World Bank to fund power lines in Ethiopia linked to the controvers ...
  • Anoushka Shankar backs Survival
    Anoushka Shankar supports Survival International and the need to 'protect all cultures'. © Survival British Indian sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar shows her support for Survival International and tribal peoples by modelling an exclusive new limited edition T-shirt desig ...

Greg Palast

  • Congo Vultures Bagged
    Vulture fund's $100m DR Congo claim blocked By Meirion Jones BBC Newsnight Bid to block $100m 'vulture' debt The Privy Council has ruled that a "vulture fund" cannot collect $100m from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The award was against Congo's state-owned mining company Gecamines who su ...
  • Can we list your Group in our Election Guide?A ...
    We need you to join Operation PUSH, Rock the Vote, People for the American Way, League of United Latin American Citizens, Bobby Kennedy Jr., Thom Hartmann Show, Occupy.com and 150 other organizations.  Add your group's name to our book, website and film, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to ...
  • Fracking in Ireland and BeingDependent on Hall ...
    by Greg Palast for No Fracking Ireland No Fracking Ireland presents Greg Palast in Dublin, Today 3. July Connolly Books, Temple Bar - 1pm The Ireland Institute - 7.30pm Full info here On the 20th of April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oilrig blew out in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven men insta ...
  • Wall Street, a Farce in Three Acts
    The Medicine Show Theater presents: Wall Street, a Farce in Three Acts Written in 1819 by William Holmes NEW YORK CITY July 5th – 8th 8pm With a special guests appearance by Greg Palast on July 7th & 8th for a talk-back with the audience about the parallels between the Panic of 1819 dep ...
  • Warren Ellis: "Money is Fictional"
    Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan, Crooked Little Vein and yet to be released Gun Machine gave the opening remarks for me last night in London for my UK release of Vultures' Picnic. Thankfully he posted them this morning, here's a bit of them, the full text can be found on his website ww ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Autism Speaks Sued for Discriminatory Treatmen ...
    Note: Below is a legal complaint filed by Simone Greggs against Autism Speaks. "...Over the course of two months, Plaintiff was given five different interviews with various officials of the Defendant and was finally told that they wanted to hire...
  • Tics and Toxins: New Evidence Raises Pesticide ...
    By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill One Thursday last September, a crop-dusting plane swooped down over a cornfield in Western New York and dipped below the tree line, spraying an insecticide engineered to paralyze the nervous system of agricultural pests...
  • For Want of a Nail: School Abuse and the Debat ...
    By Adriana Gamondes In our district school, right down the hall from the cinder block scream room, there’s a ten foot statue of Lincoln with the usual engraved quote about liberty, equality and honesty. We think the school should take...
  • Don't Do Anything You Wouldn't Want to See on ...
    By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. Did your mother ever say things to you like that when you were growing up? My mother did. I couldn't help thinking of my mother's admonition when I saw the headline from the July 14, 2012...
  • In This Day and Age: Abuse, Deaths and Injurie ...
    By Adriana Gamondes According to a 2008 study performed in Denmark, the mortality rate for individuals with autism is twice that of the general population. A more recent Swedish study found the rate 5.6 fold higher than expected. Whichever is...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Israel blames Iran for Bulgaria bus bomb that ...
    Reuters – Six people were killed in a bomb attack on a bus carrying Israeli tourists at a Bulgarian airport on Wednesday and Israel accused Tehran of carrying out the attack, promising a strong response to “Iranian terror”. Body parts were strewn across the ground and mangled m ...
  • BofA Profit Rebound Marred by $22.7 Billion in ...
    Bloomberg – Bank of America Corp.’s second- quarter profit report was marred by record demands for refunds on faulty mortgages, casting doubt on whether improvements in the company’s real estate operations will last. Net income was $2.46 billion, or 19 cents a share, compared with the year ...
  • IMF: eurozone in critical danger, ECB should l ...
    The Telegraph – The eurozone is in “critical” danger and the European Central Bank should play a bigger role in fighting the debt crisis through more rate cuts, QE and further liquidity provision, the International Monetary Fund has said. “The euro area crisis has reached ...
  • Obama Campaign Calls Ohio Early Vote Law Uncon ...
    Bloomberg – Obama for America, the U.S. president’s re-election campaign committee, sued two Ohio officials over changes to state law that limit in-person early voting for some people and not others. Under the law, families of armed forces members and civilians overseas can vote through th ...
  • Human Rights Watch attacks ‘abuse of pow ...
    BBC – The abuse of power by the Venezuelan government under President Hugo Chavez has increased over the past four years, according to Human Rights Watch. Legislation limiting free speech and the removal of institutional safeguards give the government free rein to censor and intimidate cri ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

  • Collecting Water in Majidpur
    A family collects drinking water from a newly installed submersible pump water supply system in the Majidpur slum of Savar in India. The water system was installed through the assistance of DSK and Water.org's WaterCredit program. At present, 19 poor households are using this water system.
  • Learning About Sanitation
    Mrs. Bhagya Shrinivas is a resident of Karthikere village & panchayath Chikamagaluru district in India. She has recently married Mr. Shrinivas who is a small businessman with a small petty shop in Karthikere. They have their own house and live there alone.
  • Toilets Bring Dignity
    Imagine for a moment what it might be like for a boy like Shipon and his family to lack access to a toilet. Then imagine how their lives would change when they were able to have one they could all use nearby to their home. Shipon is 10 years old and his family has just gained access to a toilet. ...
  • Water in Adina Faso, Ethiopia
    The residents of Adina Faso used to walk four hours each day to gather unclean water, but after working together with Water.org, they now have twenty-four-hour access to clean water, right in the middle of their village.
  • Kids Spreading the Word
    To celebrate World Water Day, two rallies were organized in the communities of Savar-Aminbazar in India through children's group members and DSK, one of Water.org's program partners. The theme of the rally was “Everybody should drink safe water to lead a healthy and happy life, and have to acces ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
  • Tibetan singer detained and tortured
    25-year-old singer, Ugyen Tenzin, was detained last month soon after the release of his album titled, An Unending Flow of My Hearts Blood,.Unconfirmed reports said that Ugyen Tenzin has been beaten in custody and disabled a month after album released Submitted by Red Thorvenkiold to World &nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

  • How Roshmi Goswami Entered The World of Femini ...
    I don't know the precise moment, but the UN Women's Conference mobilisation in Beijing in 1993 brought about a permanent change and clear direction...
  • Milk and Nutrition Economics Can Save You and ...
    'We're all watching our budgets these days,' says Michelle Dudash, registered dietitian and author of the upcoming,Clean Eating for Busy Families. 'But there are important health and nutrition trade-offs that we need to consider.'
  • Fans Mourn Death of Country Singer Kitty Wells
    Kitty Wells, a country singer, dies at 92 at her home in Madison, Tennessee on Monday July 16, 2012. She died from complications of a stroke.
  • Pasta Galore At 'Pasta Factory'
    We started our dining journey to Italy. Beginning with the appetizers, we ordered Bruschetta Al Pomodoro, consisting of chopped tomatoes, basil and garlic on toasted Ciabattabread. We also ordered a Classic Caesar Salad with chicken and shrimp.
  • Is Singapore Making Progrees in Upholding Dign ...
    Singapore prides itself on being a first world country. If that is really the case, it is time that it should also work towards complying with international treaties, like the Convention on Domestic Workers,

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

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Common Dreams

  • Disenfranchised: Report Looks at How Voter ID ...
    Restrictive voter ID laws now in effect in ten states are putting the right to vote of at least half a million eligible voters at risk, a new report from the Brennan Center shows. read more
  • US Families of Drone Victims, Rights Groups Fi ...
    The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) alongside family members of three US citizens who were killed in US drone strikes last year filed a lawsuit Wednesday against senior CIA and military officials. The lawsuit contends that the authorization of ...
  • Israel Accuses Iran In Bulgarian Bus Bombing
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday blamed Iran for a bomb blast which killed at least six Israeli tourists in the Bulgarian resort of Burgas. The Israeli response, Netanyahu promised, will be powerful. "All the signs lead to Iran. Only in the past few months we have seen ...
  • Republicans Join Mounting Calls for Romney to ...
    Pressure on Mitt Romney to release his tax returns has reached a critical point as a stampede of Republican voices are now joining the call. So far Romney has released just his 2010 return and an estimate of his 2011 return. As the negative attention over the issue grows, Pema Leva wonders at TP ...
  • WikiLeaks Breaks Banking Blockade, Dares US Co ...
    Governmental transparency organization WikiLeaks took one more step towards accessing credit card donations on Wednesday after an 18 month banking blockade by US companies. The organization has announced that it has found a new gateway for receiving credit card funds through a French donation &# ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • The Real Bain Capital Story
    By Numerian posted by Michael Collins Originally published in The Agonist Is the Bloomberg news service turning into The Agonist? Or at least The Agonist, circa 2005, when what was written here was so out of the mainstream that most writers had to hide behind pseudonyms if they wanted to keep ...
  • The Great Transformation: From the Welfare Sta ...
    James Petras Introduction The United States has experienced the biggest political upheaval in its recent history: the transformation of a burgeoning welfare state into a rapidly expanding, highly intrusive and deeply entrenched police state, linked to the most developed technological innova ...
  • Who is the winner of sanctions game?
    Kourosh Ziabari Less than a week ago, the European Union put into effect its comprehensive oil embargo against Iran upon which the member states had reached an agreement on January 23. The EU's unilateral sanctions come after the United States targeted Iran with a set of sanctions against the ...
  • World Economies on Life Support
    by Stephen Lendman Since crisis economic conditions erupted in fall 2007, resolution has been sorely lacking. US corporations and America's super-rich benefitted from over $3 trillion in tax cuts. Anywhere from $9 trillion to double or triple that amount went to bankers that caused ...
  • Is Syria Worth World War III?
    By Timothy V. Gatto The question of Syria’s problems resulting in a nuclear holocaust is real, not imagined. According to the NATO treaty the treaty states that an attack on a NATO member is regarded as an attack on all NATO members. “By joining NATO you receive the protecti ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies Digest
  • ‘The Unapologetic Hippie’ The Prob ...
    To contact Phil or find out more: check out his website and blog For a copy of HUNGA DUNGA Phil Polizatto – Worldwide Hippies Bureau Chief – West Coast USA, is a graduate of The School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He was a feature writer for the overseas division of UPI ...
  • New online education partnership addresses emp ...
    By Denis Wolcott,newsroom.ucla.edu – College – not retirement – is in the future of millions of baby boomers who are either being forced to extend their careers or are looking to transition to more rewarding endeavors. The challenges for many boomers are how to figure out the right path, h ...
  • Gravity and Levity
    By David Schmaltz,WWH/CJE – Peter Pan might have been the most honest of my childhood archetypes. He endlessly proclaimed that he’d never grow up, insisting that he’d always be a boy. The rest of us have had to pretend that we would, could, and eventually did grow up, though our claims som ...
  • Flower Children on the North Shore of Kauai
    From smithsonianmag.com -  You have to drive the north coast of Kauai—Hawaii’s Garden Island—past Kilaueu Falls, the condominium metropolis of Princeville and funky old Hanalei to find Taylor Camp. Once you get to Ha’ena State Park, where the Na Pali Cliffs guard the island’s impregnable west co ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Midwestern Drought, Ethanol, & Renewable Fuel ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I discuss the implications of the current drought in the Midwest, how that may impact the ethanol market, and whether the Renewable Fuel Standard is likely to be modified. Readers who have specific questions can send them to ask [at] consumere ...
  • Environmentalism is a Profitable Business
    Global Experiment With the Climate I want to preface this column by saying that I am very concerned about climate change. The rapid growth of atmospheric carbon dioxide shows no sign of abating, and I have concerns over what this will ultimately mean for the climate. The fact is that we are cond ...
  • Poor Corn Crop Will Have Major Impact on Ethan ...
    One of the biggest threats to the U.S. ethanol industry is a major drought/crop failure in the heart of corn country, says Robert Rapier. This year we may be experiencing such an event.
  • Enough Oil to Fry the Planet? — R-Squared Ener ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I discuss the recently released paper by former Eni executive Leonardo Maugeri — in which he suggests global oil supplies will increase by 17 million barrels per day by the end of the decade — as well as George Monbiot’s high ...
  • Renewable Energy — Facts and Figures
    Today’s article is the 5th and final installment of my graphical look at the recently released 2012 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Previous installments were: How Much Oil is Left in the World? How Much Oil Does the World Produce? World Energy Consumption Facts, Figures, and Shocke ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Why a BPA Ban Won't Protect You
    The federal government says baby bottle and sippy cup manufacturers will no longer be allowed to make products containing bisphenol A, or BPA, a move that offers some protection to children but comes short of offering serious BPA protection to the general public, according to some experts. The ...
  • Here's Who's Most Afraid of Fracking
    Drilling for natural gas using the unconventional hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, technique has been blamed for manmade earthquakes, toxic water contamination, and destroyed air quality. But it's not just homeowners and environmental activists who recognize the threats, anymore. Nationwide I ...
  • Do You Really Need That Filling?
    We've known for some time now that silver amalgam fillings containing the neurotoxin mercury are harmful. But what about the alternative? The results of a newly released study suggest some white composite fillings could be dangerous, too. Researchers at New England Research Institutes and the ...
  • Move Over Disney World: Americans Prefer Natur ...
    In a controversial election year, countless debates fly back and forth from both political parties, particularly about environmental issues—be they climate change or controversial natural gas drilling. But there appears to be one environmental issue on which all Americans agree, and that's envi ...
  • 6 Surprising Benefits of Meditation
    Think meditation is just for former Beatles and people with too much time on their hands? Think again. This underrated practice could be one of the most valuable medical devices you're not using. Research has shown that it can help with everything from getting over a stressful day to staving of ...

big think

  • Why We Make Bad Decisions About Money (And Wha ...
    What's the Big Idea? Why does it feel better to be paid hourly than to receive a salary? Why are we willing to gamble, even when we know there's a house advantage? Why would anyone buy stock in Blockbuster or Borders? (Respected financier Bill Ackman owned 10.6 million shares of the latt ...
  • Know Your Internal Labor Market
    What’s the Big Idea?  In the end, it’s not the vision that makes the business – it’s the people. Yet the hiring and managing of employees is the achilles heel of many an otherwise tightly-run organization. Why? Because human beings come with many more variables than do widgets – we’re tr ...
  • Is Your Soul an Information Field in Another D ...
    [Author's Note: In keeping with the tradition that whenever you have a blog post whose title is a question, the answer is always "no"...] Of all the essays I've written, my favorite is "A Ghost in the Machine", presenting the evidence that our personality traits and sense of self arise f ...
  • Want To Feel Less Pressed For Time? Try Giving ...
    In his superb essay about his years as a Mormon (one of the best pieces about faith I have read in a long time) Walter Kirn notes that he said he fell away from the LDS because he didn't believe. But it was really because he didn't want to give up so much time. It was, he writes, "[t]oo much ... ...
  • As “All” As It Gets: Confessions of Someone Wh ...
    The new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is pregnant, and not planning on taking maternity leave. This has stirred renewed conversation about “having it all,” and women’s lives. I’ve written before in defense of having it all as a noble and achievable dream. The most-read Atlantic article of all ...

Information Liberation

  • Ohio Police Claim 17-Yr-Old Pot Dealing High S ...
    First off, if what police claim in this case is true, this young man is a brilliant entrepreneur who should be celebrated. Second, if police consider finding a high school student who amassed a measly $6,000 in cash a drug "kingpin," they're a compl...
  • Police Chase Over Drugs Ends With Man Crashing ...
    A Shreveport man who fled from police, ended up crashing his vehicle into a bus full of homeless children, fortunately the children all survived with only minor injuries. The man says he is innocent, which is a bit ridiculous if you watch the video,...
  • The Noose Continues to Tighten But No Governme ...
    Voluntaryists have a unique outlook on government. They view the State as an invasive institution. It imposes a coercive monopoly over defense services and collects its revenues via compulsory taxation. Theodore Lowi, a professor of political scie...
  • Friend of man killed by Lake deputies said he ...
    A 26-year-old pizza deliveryman shot and killed by a Lake County deputy was a "happy*go-lucky guy" who likely was simply trying to protect himself when deputies knocked on his door, his boss and friend said Monday. [...]Scott worked for two years ...
  • Foie Gras Goes Underground at California 'Duck ...
    On July 15, about a dozen people walked into a cozy San Francisco restaurant with a window sign reading *private event* to savor foie gras, California*s newest forbidden fruit. They paid $100 apiece for *a 10-course tasting of quasi- legal goodnes...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • More Of The Shiny Stuff
    A few random jottings on gold while I’m out on the road; back in a week. The other day, I came across this article in the Mises Daily, taken from Joseph T. Salerno’s testimony submitted to the U.S. House Subcommittee … Continue reading →
  • Meet The Asylum’s New Management
    The iron ore town of Whyalla on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is one of the places most threatened by Labor’s Carbon Tax – the tax that Gillard promised before the last Federal election she would never introduce, and which came … Continue reading →
  • Gunwalker – What The Hell???
    I don’t know much about this whole Gunwalker episode, beyond the little I’ve read in the news. But it’s now meant the United States’ chief executive law officer has just been held in contempt of Congress. Pretty serious stuff. I … Continue reading →
  • Daily Telegraph Delingpole Refugee Camp
    G’day Folks, The DT blogs are down for maintenance for an unusually long period of time. So all regular readers of James Delingpole’s blog are welcome to continue the discussion here. Even the trolls can come in, just to make … Continue reading →
  • Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VI – Wha ...
    Well, it’s finally happened. The scandal surrounding corruption in the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s, which LibertyGibbert covered last August, has now been formally raised in Federal Parliament. To refresh your memory, the story regards the activities of one … Continu ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Differential gears explained, 1930s style
    A surprisingly compelling explanation of differential gearing from the 1930s. Fast Forward to 1:50 if you want to skip the introduction…jump to 8:50 for the acrobatics! Differential gears explained, 1930s style is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogDifferential gears explained, 1930s sty ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Le Canada un paradis pour les minières
    Intervention de Alain Deneault auteur de Noir Canada Intervention lors du Colloque Plan Nord Plan Sud le 27 avril 2012 de la Coalition québécoise sur les impacts socio-environementaux des trannationales en amérique latine QUISETAL.ORG
  • To Use Discretion or Follow Procedure and Guid ...
    The Margaree Environmental Association appears for the second (and last) day in court to appeal the environment minister’s decision to allow oil drilling near Lake Ainslie Determining appropriate levels of vague terms such as “adequac ...
  • Embracing Voices, Creating Personal Landscapes
    New restaurant brings spoken-word to its space   “I wanted this place to be a cultural centre for things going on in the community,” says Jeff Stewart, owner of the new sandwich restaurant/cafe, Pressed. Open to the Ottawa ...
  • Tired of Rats and Demolition Disaster, DTES Co ...
    July 16 2012   Tired of rats & demolition disaster DTES community challenges city hall to act UNCEDED COAST SALISH TERRITORIES – On Monday July 16 Downtown Eastside (DTES) residents gathered outside the Pantages demolition site to draw attention to rats and rubble disaster that fe ...
  • Fighting Police Impunity in the Courts
    Police Notes, the Law, and the Murders of Levi Shaeffer and Douglas Minty by the OPP An update from the ongoing Justice For Levi campaign by Peterborough based cook, gardener and agitator Rachelle Sauve.  Click here for more informatio ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • What exactly is the USA?
    David Seaton's News LinksRight now the question would have to be: what exactly is the USA?? The people? The system? The economy? Whose economy? What exactly is the USA? This is really important in America's case, more so than in other countries, because "American" isn't an ethnic grou ...
  • Globalization: King and country
    David Seaton's News Links We are white mice participating in a great historical experiment.The idea of completely untrammeled, frictionless capitalism has only been a theoretical construct till now, but we are almost there today.There are basically two -- untried -- theories of how this would p ...
  • The World Economy: into the Wild Blue Yonder
    David Seaton's News Links  It would be comforting for many to imagine that our globalized economy is a conspiracy,  a murky cabal, directed from the shadows by some Bilderberger-ish, ecumenical-protocol, of sinister "elders", who are pulling all the strings.I say comforting because pre ...
  • India holds up a mirror for the American right ...
      "Evil requires the sanction of the victim." Ayn Rand" David Seaton's News Links The other day in my perusings I stumbled upon this troubling jewelNot only do Indians perform more Google searches for (Ayn) Rand than citizens of any country in the world except the United States, but ...
  • Why is the American left so useless? - II
    David Seaton's News Links On April 4th, 1968, the day when Martin Luther King Jr. was shot down in Memphis Tennessee, the American left lost its way. Less than a year before he was murdered, King set out to channel the energy and power of the Civil Rights movement toward ending poverty amon ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Do Swing Voters Care About Mitt Romney's Tax R ...
    Ezra Klein takes to Twitter to write a blog post about Mitt Romney's tax returns: The Republicans telling Mitt Romney to release his tax returns appear to me to be giving him very bad advice. Consider:  1) Mitt Romney has much more information than they do about his tax returns. And h ...
  • Typo of the Day: Reveille at the Olympics
    Today's award goes to the Washington Post. But I wish it weren't an error. I think a battle of the bugles might make for a pretty interesting opening ceremony.
  • Medicaid Expansion May Turn Out to Be an Offer ...
    Should states sign up for Obamacare's expansion of Medicaid, even though the Supreme Court says they don't have to? The answer depends a lot on how much it will cost them. On the downside, states would have to pay part of the cost of covering new enrollees. On the upside, they'd save some mone ...
  • Operation "Piss Off Mitt" Seems to be Working
    McKay Coppins: "[Romney] has said Obama's a nice fellow, he's just in over his head," the adviser said. "But I think the governor himself believes this latest round of attacks that have impugned his integrity and accused him of being a felon go so far beyond that pale that he's really disap ...
  • Diplomacy Now Officially Being Carried Out Via ...
    Yesterday a suicide bomber attacked a meeting of high-level Syrian officials, killing both the defense minister and the military's deputy chief-of-staff, who was also President Bashar al-Assad’s brother-in-law. Several paragraphs down in the NYT story, we get this: In Moscow ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 335: Homophobia Tastes Like Chicken
    Topics: *Bonus* The first 15 minis is the pre-show with Kriss & Rod talking about the George Zimmerman/Sean Hannity Interview*Bonus* Kev Sees Spider-Man 2 Marvel wins San Diego Comic Con Nerds Ruin Everything Trolling The Dark Knight Rises Critics don’t love watching movies anymore Ru ...
  • IC 334: We’re Getting Soft
    Topics: Work sucks Dream Team The need to compare Each generation gets a little softer The Dark Knight Rises The 3 Titties Live ON Fat sex Sharks still ain’t shit Kriss’ religious rant Share with your friends:
  • IC 333: Fuck Summer
    Topics: Summer is Horrible Summer was more fun as a kid UFC 148 recap People hating athletes Team loyalty Team BlowJob for the champs? The blow job orgy…the worst orgy Booty pop videos with 6 year olds? We gotta do better Acknowledging privileged != you’re a racist The Dark Knight Ri ...
  • IC 332: Return of Great Moments In White Privilege
    Topics: FUCK PEPCO Could Sony & Marvel Studios/Disney work together? Cap Cod has great white sharks Bullsharks are like modded Xboxes Great Moments in White Privilege: White folks mad at Chris Rock Slavery was a long time ago….so what? Admitting and recognizing mistakes doesn’t ...
  • IC 331: Pants Down, Man Down
    Topics: Tyler Perry as Alex Cross Tyler Perry wants to branch out Every Black man wants to play Black Panther Don’t fuck up Black Panther Chris Nolan to be on the walk of fame Bad Internet music How to shoot a music video while at work Obama Care survives Mark Jackson gets blackmailed Fear ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Study shows colon and rectal tumors constitute ...
    The pattern of genomic alterations in colon and rectal tissues is the same regardless of anatomic location or origin within the colon or the rectum, leading researchers to conclude that these two cancer types can be grouped as one, according to The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project's large-scal ...
  • Study reveals Neanderthals at El Sidron, North ...
    An international team of researchers, led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the University of York, has provided the first molecular evidence that Neanderthals not only ate a range of cooked plant foods, but also understood its nutritional and medicinal qualities. read more
  • Primate behavior: Chimps select smart tools, m ...
    Chimpanzees use weight to pick the best tool, and monkeys beg more when they're paid attention to, as reported in two independent research reports published July 18 in the open access journal PLoS ONE. read more
  • Unique Neandertal arm morphology due to scrapi ...
    Unique arm morphology in Neandertals was likely caused by scraping activities such as hide preparation, not spear thrusting as previously theorized, according to research published July 18 in the open access journal PLoS ONE. read more
  • Friends with benefits
    Harvard researchers are unlocking the evolutionary secrets of one of the world's most recognizable groups of mushrooms, and to do it, they're using one of the most comprehensive fungal "family trees" ever created. read more

unEarthed

  • What Happens Next to Shell's Ship that Ran Ashore?
    Shell’s latest Arctic blunder Noble Discoverer being towed away from land on July 14. (Photo courtesy of Kristjan Laxfoss) U.S. Coast Guard divers are now on ...
  • Shell's Promise To Protect Arctic Lost At Sea
    Drilling proposals foreshadow larger struggle over Arctic Shell Oil’s Arctic drilling plans are premised on a growing legacy of broken promises regarding the company’s ability to protect the fragile Arctic from drilling ...
  • Moapa vs. NV Energy or David vs. Goliath
    News report investigates coal ash pollution in Moapa For years, white ash has been blowing across the desert from the Reid Gardner Power Plant right into the homes on the Moapa Paiute Indian Reservation. The Paiutes claim that this ...
  • U.S. Coal Industry Eyes Overseas Market
    Shifting economic realities push drive for West Coast coal export terminals Longview, Washington. (Editor's Note: This is the second blog in an ongoing series ...
  • Friday Finds: Fracking Causes Ice Cream Headaches
    Plus: Toxic ships, seed wars and dirty produce (Shutterstock) Extreme gas drilling fracks up ice cream ingredient Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, may cau ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

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  • According to BBC, Israel has no capital &#8211 ...
    If you go onto the BBC’s website to read about the countries participating in the upcoming London Olympics, you’ll get some interesting information on Israel and Palestine. According to the BBC sports page’s profile on Israel, it simply has no capital, whereas Palestine does ha ...
  • WATCH: MK Tibi tears picture of Meir Kahane ov ...
    Two days ago, National Union MK Michael Ben-Ari was photographed in his chambers tearing up a copy of the New Testament. Yeterday, MK Ahmad Tibi responded. I’m quite tired of MK Tibi’s gimmicks and theatrics and what seems to be a constant need to get a headline. I agree with Speaker ...
  • National unity gov’t splits; Netanyahu l ...
    After only 70 days, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s mega-coalition shrank back to 66 members of Knesset yesterday. Kadima, the Knesset’s biggest party, decided to leave the government over the failure to reach an agreement on national draft reform. A few takeaways: 1.    The enti ...
  • Abbas: Israel’s man in Ramallah
    Since his bid for statehood ended at the UN last September, Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, has become strictly an enforcer of the occupation. If Mahmoud Abbas had resigned as president of the Palestinian Authority last September, after the U.S. did Israel’s work and ...
  • University accreditation for West Bank college ...
    Blithely ignoring a bitter academic and political controversy, the Committee for Higher Education (CHE) in Judea and Samaria voted Tuesday evening to grant the Ariel University Center of Samaria (also referred to as Ariel College) the status of a fully accredited university. After a few more for ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

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

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Neil Barofsky’s New Book, “Bailout ...
    We are all anxiously awaiting the newest autopsy of the delusion of American finance…this one coming from the last public official who seemed to have justice and integrity in mind, Neil Barofsky.  Read what one side had to say about the book: Neil Barofsky, former Special Inspector General ...
  • The GAO Reports on The Servicemember’s C ...
    Certain protections under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) only apply to those servicemembers who obtained mortgages prior to becoming active duty, but at least 15,000 instances of financial institutions failing to properly reduce servicemembers’ mortgage interest rates and over 300 im ...
  • America 2000, A Bloodless, Bloody Coup D&#8217 ...
    Think back to the year 2000. Bill Clinton was leaving office and Bush II was campaigning against Al Gore.  But think about how you felt, how your family felt, how your friends felt.  This nation, this world was not nearly on the razor’s edge like we are today, like we have been for the las ...
  • The Banks And Their Foreclosure Review…. ...
    I don’t know about you, but I’m certainly exhausted and befuddled by all the government’s failed attempts to do anything about fraudclosure…. Clients ask me all the time whether they should jump through the hoops and my thoughts are….. SURE, HAVE AT IT….BANG Y ...
  • Rebuilding America’s Defenses- The Neo C ...
    Let me first assert that I am a passionate defender of the men and women who serve the United States of America in uniform. Those of us on the civilian side owe to all of them a debt of gratitude we can never repay.  Part of that responsibility must be to take care of our [...]

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The Parallel Parliament

  • No Mere Dream Date
    Thirteen years of marriage is a very brief time to fill with all the adventures we have had over the …Continue reading »
  • Perhaps George Washington Was Right
    The following is my recent Huffington Post piece on the use of negative ads and their unintended consequences. It was …Continue reading »
  • Humanity In An Image
    You can see why I was so affected immediately upon focusing your eyes on the picture. It’s from south Sudan …Continue reading »
  • While the Sun Is Above Us
    Over the years, a lot has been made of the work Jane and I have undertaken in Sudan. Repeatedly the …Continue reading »
  • Fox In The Henhouse
    My Huffington Post piece on Julian Fantino’s appointment as the new minister for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) created …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
    Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
  • Basic research and personal responsibility
    Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
  • Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
    Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

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Consumerist

  • Apple Has To Post Note On Its Locker Saying Sa ...
    As a result of a UK court's ruling that Samsung hadn't copied Apple's designs of products like the iPad and iPhone, a judge is now ordering Apple to explain to everyone that said ruling exists. Apple shouldn't be too upset, though. After all, that judge also said Apple's designs were way cooler ...
  • “No Deal In Sight” To End Viacom B ...
    It's been a week since DirecTV and Viacom's contract dispute resulted in nearly 20 million satellite customers staring at blank screens instead of MTV, Comedy Central, Vh1, Nickelodeon and several other Viacom-owned stations. Now the broadcaster is telling viewers not to get their hopes up for a ...
  • McDonald’s Denies There Was A Physical A ...
    Yesterday the Internet world was abuzz when a scientist known as the "father of wearable computing" accused employees at a French McDonald's of physically assaulting him because of his special glasses. At the time, McDonald's said on its France Facebook page that it was investigating the matter. ...
  • “Amazon Yesterday” Shipping Bends ...
    Last week, we talked about Amazon's plans to speed up its delivery times and increase the number of items it offers for same-day delivery. But no matter how many warehouses Amazon builds or how many trucks it leases, it will never be as awesome as the purely theoretical "Amazon Yesterday" shippi ...
  • Your Skullcandy Lifetime Warranty Is No Good I ...
    The phrase "limited lifetime warranty" is about as open to interpretation as "all you can eat." Just ask one Consumerist reader who found that he was up a creek sans paddle because his Skullcandy headphones crapped out after he moved out of the country. Two and a half years ago, Steve purchased ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • "Brand Spain" Questioned Following Corruption ...
    *Este blog está en español debajo de la versión ingles. On July 12th, the occasion of the swearing into office of the High Commissioner for Marca España (“Brand Spain”), Spain’s President Mariano Rajoy underlined his determination to strengthen Spain’s image abroad. The international reputation ...
  • Problems Emerge in NC Chicken Plants: Daily Wh ...
    WSOC-TV: USDA Considering Changing the Way Chicken is Inspected Summary: GAP's Food Integrity Campaign Director Amanda Hitt is featured in this report involving USDA's planned changes to poultry inspection (which includes expansion of a pilot program known as HIMP that increases ...
  • World Bank Put Whistleblower Under Surveillanc ...
    Over the past weekend, the New York Times broke the story about electronic surveillance of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) whistleblowers by the agency itself. The Washington Post followed up today with the news that FDA lawyers approved the surveillance, which included: …confidential letter ...
  • Vast FDA Surveillance Program Tracked Employee ...
    RT: Government Is Tightening Its Grip on Whistleblowers Summary: The Food and Drug Administration is under fire for its major surveillance operation of its own employees. An explosive article in the New York Times this past Sunday revealed that the agency was monitorin ...
  • FDAgate Worsens: FDA Attorneys "Authorized" Spying
    The Washington Post expanded on this weekend's blockbuster New York Times article revealing the FDA's invasive surveillance on employees, reporters, and congressional staffers in an attempt to target several scientist-whistleblowers who raised concerns about ex ...

UK Progressive

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

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Vote to get Gillard to answer questions that m ...
    “Hangout with the Prime Minister“ There are only hours to go before the three winning questions that Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard must answer are decided. Andrew Bolt noticed that the author of one question got US voters involved. (From BOLT: It seems the author has got US ...
  • Carbon prices fall to new record low — $ ...
    So much for that global “free” market. Scott the trader writes to explain that the EU “CER” credits are the ones people can buy and exchange for Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) but they have sunk to $4. The more expensive $9 EUA units that most commentators mention ...
  • Topher is doing another video — just hou ...
    Topher did the brilliant “Forbidden History” video, which has hit 50,000 views and he wants to make two more to remind people of the importance of free speech. There are only hours to help him to reach the tally. Pledges are only processed if the total hits $35k and I hear that there ...
  • BOMs new data set, ACORN, so bad it should be ...
    When independent auditors found errors, gaps and deep questions about the HQ (High Quality) dataset for the official record of Australian temperatures, the BOM responded by producing a completely new set called ACORN in March 2012. But this set is also plagued with errors. One of the independen ...
  • Charles Sturt’s time: so hot that thermo ...
    Australia’s hottest day? Not 2010, but 1828 at a blistering 53.9 °C Back before man-made climate change was frying Australia, when CO2 was around 300ppm, the continent savoured an ideal preindustrial climate, right? (This is the kind of climate we are spending $10bn per annum to get back too?) W ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Solar Power Generator / Survival Properties Fo ...
    It looks like a photocopier… But it is a generator. It’s just missing a fuel tank, motor, fumes and noise. According to Hammacher Schlemmer this $2000 unit is silent and emission free. It is powered a 1250-watt battery, fed by two 30-watt solar panels. Additional panels cost $240 ea ...
  • Expert Opinion #5: Carl Johan Calleman
    Recently I reached out to some of the most-read authors in the 2012 space, regardless of whether they agree with my doom’n'gloom mentality. I simply asked for a brief overview of what they think will happen in 2012 (if anything), and optionally, where they will be on Dec 21. Here’s t ...
  • Expert Opinion #4: Bob Waxman
    Recently I reached out to some of the most-read authors in the 2012 space, regardless of whether they agree with my doom’n'gloom mentality. I simply asked for a brief overview of what they think will happen in 2012 (if anything), and optionally, where they will be on Dec 21. Here’s t ...
  • Newt Gingrich on Vulnerable Power Grid
    Newt Gingrich, a former speaker of the House, has written an opinion piece for the Washington Post. It’s a great reminder of how perilous modern society can be: Callista and I live in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, and, like many in the region, we lost power in the recent storms. The  ...
  • Expert Opinion #3: John Lash
    Recently I reached out to some of the most-read authors in the 2012 space, regardless of whether they agree with my doom’n'gloom mentality. I simply asked for a brief overview of what they think will happen in 2012 (if anything), and optionally, where they will be on Dec 21. Next up is Joh ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

  • Fans bid final goodbye to veteran actor Rajesh ...
    19 Jul 2012 5:44PM Millions of fans from across the nation today bade a tearful adieu to the original superstar of Hindi Cinema -- actor Rajesh Khanna.The legendary actors son-in-law Akshay Kumar and grandson Aarav performed his last rites at the Vile Parle crematorium in Mumbai today. Repor ...
  • In Washington, voters can register on Facebook
    Washington will become the first US state to allow eligible residents to register to vote through Facebook, in an initiative due to launch this month, Brian Zylstra, a spokesman for the secretary of state's office, said on Wednesday. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
  • 4 mn Lumia sales fail to save Nokia from €1.53 ...
    Nokia reported a second-quarter net loss of 1.53 billion euros, or 8 euro cents a share when adjusted for one-off items, compared with the market's average forecast for a loss of 9 euro cents a share. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
  • ‘Obama and Putin did not discuss asylum for Assad’
    Reportedly, the possibility of Moscow providing asylum for embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was not discussed during a conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Barack Obama. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
  • No. 1 CM Modi has the lowest average assembly ...
    Under Narendra Modi as CM, assembly has met for an average of 30 days a year, as against 49 during Keshubhais tenure. Reported by DNA 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

  • How to Convert a Coat Closet Into an Entry Nook
    Editors Note: I wish I had enough closet space in my house that I could spare one to convert into an entry nook.  A special place to sit down and take off shoes, hang my purse and store a dog leash right when I walked in the door would be dreamy.  When Tonya from Love of Family and Hom ...
  • Awareness, Examples and Fun: My Gateway to Hea ...
    When Elisa Camahort Page announced that Martha Stewart was going to be a keynote speaker at BlogHer '12, a woman-centric blogging conference, and asked if we had any questions we wanted to ask her, the first thing I thought about was how being seen as an icon by so many affected the decisions Ma ...
  • As Tough As Long Division? Is Lands' End the N ...
    Twenty years after Mattel debuted the ill-fated Teen Talk Barbie, Lands' End continues to tell girls that math is hard... for girls. Teen Talk Barbie, you may recall, is the talking Barbie who said, among other things, "Math class is tough!" Backlash led Mattel to essentially recall the dolls ...
  • Stranger Scorn: What To Do When Strangers Attack
    [Editor's Note: Have you ever been the victim of a stranger's scorn? Of course you have! We all have at one time or another, especially when it comes to parenting. Amy at Carriage Before Marriage recently had to console her husband who had his first run in with an overly opinionated stranger. Sh ...
  • Facebook Impersonation: Funny Prank or Serious ...
    Someone I love is being impersonated on Facebook.In order to limit further exposure, I’m going to call my friend Sally. An “impostor” has set up a Facebook account using Sally’s name and her personal photos. This impostor makes regular updates by posting pictures of Sally’s children (and other p ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Smart Meters: Correcting the Gross Misinformation
    Quebec-based magazine La Maison du 21e siecle asked physician David O. Carpenter, former founding dean of the University at Albany (NY)’s School of Public Health, to comment on a letter published in the Montreal daily Le Devoir last May 24. ...
  • How Big Pharma and Dr. Drew Made a Fortune Dec ...
    By now you’ve likely heard that drug maker GlaxoSmithKline must shell out $3 billion for the fraudulent sale and marketing of drugs including the popular antidepressant Wellbutrin (also sold as the smoking cessation drug Zyban). ...
  • Frail, Older Adults with High Blood Pressure M ...
    A new study suggests that higher blood pressure is associated with lower mortality in extremely frail, elderly adults. The study, published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association’s (JAMA)Archives of Internal Medicine, looked at ...
  • 6 Evidence-Based Ways To Burn Belly Fat AND Ex ...
    The ongoing battle of the bulge, while once considered primarily a matter of vanity, may actually be one of the best ways to reduce your risk of dying from a multitude of causes (i.e. all-cause ...
  • The Remarkable Healing Properties of Pumpkin Seed
    Pumpkin seeds, like all edible seeds, pack an immense nutritional and medicinal punch. After all, they contain future worlds within their compact structure. As Emerson said, “the creation of a thousand forests is within one acorn.” In ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Mitt Romney, Murray Energy and coal criminals
    We’ve written before here on Coal Tattoo about the fact that renegade coal operator Bob Murray played a major role recently in a campaign fundraiser in Wheeling, W.Va., for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.  Readers of this blog know well the record of Mr. Murray’s compa ...
  • Studies start to answer mining-health link que ...
    Photo by Vivian Stockman, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition. I haven’t had a chance yet to blog about a story we published yesterday in the Gazette. Here’s what it reported: Three new scientific reports (See here, here and here) have begun to answer questions about how mountaintop ...
  • Aracoma widows’ case against MSHA moves ...
    The widows of coal miners Don Bragg and Elvis Hatfield, who died in the January 2006 fire at Massey Energy’s Aracoma Alma No. 1 Mine, got some good news this morning from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court allowed the widows to move forward — even if only slightly &#821 ...
  • House GOP wants to keep block on black lung rules
    A marcher holds a grim message during a black lung rally. Photographer and date unknown, courtesy of West Virginia and Regional History Collection, West Virginia University Libraries. Language was released this morning for the Republican House leadership’s proposed budget for the next year ...
  • Sen. Rockefeller: ‘I’ve just had i ...
    Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., was making the rounds in West Virginia last week, and as you can imagine he was being asked a lot of questions about his recent speech calling out our state’s mining industry for its “war on coal” rhetoric against President Obama. The Gazette&#821 ...

Daniel Miessler

  • On the Vim Path
    I just uninstalled TextMate. I also just revamped my git workflow, and am going full-on Vim everywhere. That’s MacVim, Janus, using git within Vim, posting to WordPress from Vim, using Vimium in Chrome… Everything. I’m going to consume a massive number of tutorials, screencasts ...
  • “We thought Sarah Palin was the better candida ...
    People are saying he came to this conclusion after seeing Romney’s tax returns, although that doesn’t need to be true to make the statement hilarious. This is going to be a major joke in the future. It’s top of the list when it comes to ways to identify that you’re no lon ...
  • From San Bruno Mountain
    Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentFlash Mob Idea4S FlowerA Mountain ShadowStudent FailFlowers and Stone
  • Does Modern Philosophy Fetishize The Classical ...
    It seems to me that every time I come across real philosophers they have an extremely pompous view of non-academic, amateur, or overly modern or political thinkers. In short, they relate everything to the greats: Kant, Plato, Aristotle, Hume, etc., and they seem to dismiss modern thought that&#8 ...
  • Technology + Crime + Time | Marc Goodman
    Related ContentWhen Ideas Have Sex | TEDA Happiness FrameworkSam Harris Destroys Moral Relativism in Single TED TalkTED: SixthSense TechnologyTED: How Bacteria Communicate

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies Digest
  • ‘The Unapologetic Hippie’ The Prob ...
    To contact Phil or find out more: check out his website and blog For a copy of HUNGA DUNGA Phil Polizatto – Worldwide Hippies Bureau Chief – West Coast USA, is a graduate of The School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He was a feature writer for the overseas division of UPI ...
  • New online education partnership addresses emp ...
    By Denis Wolcott,newsroom.ucla.edu – College – not retirement – is in the future of millions of baby boomers who are either being forced to extend their careers or are looking to transition to more rewarding endeavors. The challenges for many boomers are how to figure out the right path, h ...
  • Gravity and Levity
    By David Schmaltz,WWH/CJE – Peter Pan might have been the most honest of my childhood archetypes. He endlessly proclaimed that he’d never grow up, insisting that he’d always be a boy. The rest of us have had to pretend that we would, could, and eventually did grow up, though our claims som ...
  • Flower Children on the North Shore of Kauai
    From smithsonianmag.com -  You have to drive the north coast of Kauai—Hawaii’s Garden Island—past Kilaueu Falls, the condominium metropolis of Princeville and funky old Hanalei to find Taylor Camp. Once you get to Ha’ena State Park, where the Na Pali Cliffs guard the island’s impregnable west co ...

reference frame

  • Comparisons of the Higgs boson and global warming
    Bob Ryan, a concerned weatherman with a weather blog, did something we've done many times: he compared particle physics and the climate science. Global Warming and the Higgs BosonThe only difference is that he reached the opposite conclusions than the conclusions that may be reached by rati ...
  • Why there had to be a Higgs boson
    Looking at the history of the weak force from a more inevitable viewpoint The Atlantic published an article (plus an audio interview) trying to explain why some physicists such as Stephen Hawking made bets against the Higgs boson. I haven't really understood the answer. The st ...
  • Why the Standard Model isn't the whole story
    The Standard Model is an impressive achievement of science. Numerous anti-scientific crackpots – all those Shmoits Lite, not to mention the Hardcore Shmoits themselves – often misrepresent the relationship between top phenomenologists and theorists and the Standard Model. Competent ...
  • Diversity of observables in quantum mechanics
    A question at the Physics Stack Exchange has reminded me about a philosophical preconception that "helps" to prevent many people – including people such as Brian Greene – from appreciating and understanding the foundations of quantum mechanics and the wonderful ways in which they radically di ...
  • Poincaré disk
    Almost everyone knows the sphere. However, the fame of a close cousin of the spherical geometry, the hyperbolic geometry, is much more limited. How many people know what is the Poincaré disk, for example? Using the politically correct speech, people are discriminating against geometries ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential

Enviroblog

  • BPA substitute found on store receipts
    By Paul Pestano, EWG research analyst Nearly two years after EWG published a study documenting high concentrations of the toxic plastics chemical bisphenol A in cash register receipts, scientists are finding that manufacturers have substituted bisphenol... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Study shows fracking can pollute
    By Alex Formuzis, VP for Media Relations A new water quality study near gas drilling operations in northeastern Pennsylvania counters natural gas industry claims that gas and hydraulic fracturing chemicals can't seep into the drinking water of nearby... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Hill politics churns small streams
    By T.J. Pepping, EWG Safe Drinking Water Intern Are smaller, upstream water bodies such as intermittent streams covered by the federal Clean Water Act? This is not an insignificant question: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has determined that... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
  • Pick the best sunscreen for kids
    By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Analyst I have happy memories of long summer days spent outdoors, largely unencumbered by sun hats, sunglasses and sunscreen. Now we know that one blistering burn during childhood can increase a child's risk of developing... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • EWG's 2012 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Pr ...
    Well, as we do each year, EWG released (on June 19) the latest Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce and as we suspected, eaters around the country are still concerned about high levels of toxic pesticide residue on their fruits... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • ATM and payment scams abound
    Dozens of automated teller machines (ATMs) known as “minibanks” in Norway have been hit by various criminal scams again this summer, while several merchants have failed to recover payments made through allegedly fraudulent bank card terminals. They’re furious that the state&#82 ...
  • BASE jumper’s body recovered
    The body of a 30-year-old Brazilian who hurled himself off a mountain in Norway’s Romsdalen district Wednesday morning was recovered later that evening by search and rescue crews. The man was killed when his parachute failed to open while taking part in the sport of BASE jumping.  Police n ...
  • Norwegians most proud of their ‘fjords og fjell’
    Norway’s fjords and mountains (fjell) remain the best things the country has to offer its visitors, according to a new survey of Norwegians. Nearly 80 percent gave the highest marks to the fjords and mountains as the country’s single biggest tourist attraction. The survey was conduct ...
  • Trade surplus hits new high
    Norway’s trade surplus was higher than ever before during the first half of this year, even though the price of oil and the amount of oil exported fell. One local economist noted that the growth shows what a “privileged” economic position Norway is in, at least for now. Newspap ...
  • Encouraging words as Utøya memorials loom
    Just a few hundred meters away from the scene of Norway’s worst attacks since World War II is a well-preserved message from the war itself. The message may encourage those venturing towards the island of Utøya, either during the first anniversary this weekend of last summer’s terrori ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Sacred Economics (video)
    The precariousness of the economy is becoming increasingly apparent to the masses. Indeed, every day more and more people are falling below the bread line, or are spending sleepless nights wondering how to extricate themselves from the situations they find themselves in. In some ways, this i ...
  • VEG Design Solutions, Part II: The Magical Chi ...
    by Dan Palmer, Very Edible Gardens Introduction In late 2009 we were engaged to complete a design for a ¼ acre block in the Melbourne suburbs. It was for a family of four and the husband in particular was keen to grow lots of food. The Site-Specific Design Problem Most of the backyard ...
  • Life is Simple When You Live Simply
    My husband Tom and I live with my 11 year old son in a small Queenslander on Australia’s Sunshine Coast. Our property is 34 acres, which we have converted to a permaculture demonstration site. We now run permaculture and self-reliance courses on the property. Geese and chickens in the r ...
  • Throwaway Economy Headed for Junk Heap of History
    by Lester R. Brown , Earth Policy Institute In their book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, American architect William McDonough and German chemist Michael Braungart conclude that waste and pollution are to be avoided entirely. “Pollution,” says McDonough, “is ...
  • Australian Researchers Look into Alternative F ...
    Browsing (feeding on vegetation other than grasses) may be an important aspect of the equine diet that is often overlooked, yet it may play an important role in the digestive health and the natural behaviour of horses. Scientists at the University of New England (NSW, Australia) are embarking on ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Creating Excellent Schools is not the Same as ...
    Republished from Diane Ravitch's blog: Charter schools that perform better by recruiting and retaining better students don’t exist in a vacuum: skimming the best and most profitable students affects other schools, though it is hard to detect in systems with few charters.  The systemic ef ...
  • Homelessness, Displacement, Evictions . . . Th ...
    There are a number of obvious parallels between housing needs in New Orleans after the 2005 hurricanes and housing needs in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. In both disasters, large regions lost the majority of their affordable housing stock, resulting in massive spikes in homelessness and ...
  • Junebug Productions Welcomes Stephanie McKee a ...
    From our friends at Junebug Productions: The Board of Directors of Junebug Productions, Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Stephanie V. McKee to the position of Artistic Director, effective July 1, 2012.  Junebug Productions, founded by John O'Neal in 1980, is the organizati ...
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild, A Hollywood Film ...
    Earlier versions of this article originally were distributed via Agence France Presse, and in Louisiana Weekly. The Gulf Coast loses a football field of land every 45 minutes, and much of that loss happens in the bayous of Southern Louisiana, where roads disappear into canals, winding their way ...
  • Backlash Mounts as the Louisiana Supreme Court ...
    From a press release sent out today: Justice Bernette Joshua Johnson, who has served as an Associate Justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court for nearly two decades, is poised to assume the office of Chief Justice in February 1, 2013, upon the retirement of the current chief justice. She fol ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Thank you PAS. Gentle Rambo.......................I appreciate your enthusiasm to rid this world of all things Jewish. However, I think it is very important for us "Soldiers of Truth" to literally know truth and to best distribute that truth. Please channel some of your energy into ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Since the new millenium began, we have been drowning (no pun intended) in disaster movies. The internet is rife with speculation - aliens, solar flares, asteroids, earthquakes, super-volcanos, take your pick. And when it all comes down to the old nitty-gritty, one of the above-mentioned would pe ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Gentlerambo wrote: Well, as far as I'm concerned, you can believe whatever you want. I agree as long if it doesn't hurt anybody else. But as long as human beings choose to believe the Jewish Nazi/Holocaust lie, they will be the slaves of the Jews. I couldn't agree more but the problem is ...
  • Formal Introductions & Welcomes • Re: Free ...
    gentlerambo wrote: we would have a good shot at bringing back freedom and democracy! Statistics: Posted by bluejelly — Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:40 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Well, as far as I'm concerned, you can believe whatever you want. But as long as human beings choose to believe the Jewish Nazi/Holocaust lie, they will be the slaves of the Jews. By the way, just out of curiosity - I don't suppose you've ever heard of "The Jewish Brigade" either? Thi ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Linking Twin Extinctions Of Species and Languages
    A recent study noted that most of the 6,900 languages spoken on Earth occur in regions of high biodiversity. These findings point to a strong correlation between biological and linguistic diversity, with languages closely connected to the habitats where they are found. BY VERLYN KLINKENBORG
  • Warmer Ocean Waters Lead to a Lobster Glut in ...
    Warmer Atlantic Ocean temperatures off the coast of Maine have caused the state’s bountiful supply of lobsters to shed their shells and come onto the market six weeks earlier than normal, creating a glut that has driven prices sharply down. The state’s 5,000 lobster fishermen are receiving less ...
  • Beetle's Rapid Evolution Helps Control Invasiv ...
    Scientists say that a species of beetle has rapidly altered its life cycle to more efficiently devour the invasive tamarisk tree in the southern United States. UCSB Tamarisk leaf beetle In a decade-long study, researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) found that ...
  • Cooling a Warming Planet: A Global Air Conditi ...
    The U.S. has long used more energy for air conditioning than all other nations combined. But as demand increases in the world’s warmer regions, global energy consumption for air conditioning is expected to continue to rise dramatically and could have a major impact on climate change. BY STAN COX
  • Aquaculture Output To Rise 33 Percent Over Nex ...
    The global aquaculture sector could produce 33 percent more fish for human consumption over the next decade, an increase in production that will help feed a growing world population even as fisheries are overexploited, a new UN report predicts. More than 79 million tons of farmed fish, crustacea ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • The Plan
    By Frank Moher As we enjoy, if that’s the word, the second summer of the Harper majority, I’m pleased to say The Plan is working. The Plan, of course, is the one I hatched back when I was working at Alberta Report in the 1980s. AR, some of you will know, was the conservative newsweek ...
  • McDonald’s: Some secrets should be kept
    By Mark Leiren-Young Did McDonald’s have to tell us what they put in their special sauce? Couldn’t they have just said, “May contain nuts, chlorine and anything else that may set off your allergies” and keep us guessing? Unless someone posted the recipe on Wikileaks, did they have to tell us abo ...
  • A Modest Opinion – Nathaniel Moher&#8217 ...
    By Nathaniel Moher Welcome to part three of Nathaniel Moher’s Guide to Fixing the World! As any good trilogy does, Nathaniel Moher’s Guide to Fixing the World will have six parts . . . three of which will be completely unreadable and will mostly be done as a money grab. (Well, if we’re being hon ...
  • Friendly Canadian input on the US election
    By David Taub Bancroft The sun is shining. The flowers are blooming. We are in a year that is divisible by four. I think we all know what that means. In a matter of months, our American friends will once again start hanging chads or whatever it is they do to hold a presidential election, [...]
  • Chip bandits and Nic Cage: Canada’s very ...
    It’s been a very good week for Canadian students on the internet. Or perhaps a very bad one. First, York University student Vanessa Hojda went viral after she accidentally attached a picture of actor Nicolas Cage to a job application, rather than her resumé. It wasn’t so much the fac ...

Daily Beast

  • Is Van der Sloot Getting Married?
    The Dutchman is asking Peruvian authorities to set aside his sentence for murder—amid reports he will tie the knot in prison. By Andrea Zarate.
  • Right Rips Romney on Taxes
    Mitt’s position looks untenable as even conservatives urge him to release his returns. By Howard Kurtz.
  • Graveyard of the ‘Speed-Freak Killers’
    A serial killer on death row offers to lead police to the bodies of victims. Christine Pelisek reports.
  • Is Voter Fraud a Fraud?
    States pushing voter-ID laws say they need to crack down on fraud. But how often does someone impersonate a voter or cast multiple ballots? Almost never.
  • Why New Diet Drugs Are Just In Time
    The FDA’s approval of the Qsymia and Belviq pills comes as the number of obese people rises to more than one-third of the U.S. population. Kent Sepkowitz reports.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Votto surgery gives Reds headache
    The Reds are still trying to figure out how to cope with the loss of first baseman Joey Votto, who had surgery Tuesday for torn cartilage in his left knee and will be sidelined for three to four weeks. Their initial move was to replace him with a pitcher, giving themselves a backup plan in cas ...
  • Knicks pass; Lin joins Rockets
    Say goodbye to Linsanity, New York. Jeremy Lin is taking his game off Broadway — way off — to Houston after the Knicks announced Tuesday night they would not match the Rockets' three-year, $25 million offer for the restricted free agent.
  • Scientist eyes 'iPS Stock' through tieup with ...
    A Kyoto University professor who developed a technology to manufacture artificially derived stem cells said Tuesday he intends to team up with the Japanese Red Cross Society to create a system to stockpile induced pluripotent stem cells for regenerative medicine. The "iPS Stock," expected to l ...
  • Agencies issue heatstroke warnings
    As more people succumb to heatstroke in the sweltering summer, government agencies are calling on the public, especially children and the elderly, to keep the thermostat set below 28 degrees and drink plenty of water. The Meteorological Agency expects this summer to be hotter than normal thank ...
  • Tourists flock to Tanegashima for rocket launch
    Tourists are flocking to Tanegashima island in Kagoshima Prefecture for Saturday's launch of an H-IIB rocket. The H-IIB Launch Vehicle No. 3, carrying the Konotori-3 cargo spacecraft, is scheduled to be launched from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tanegashima Space Center on Saturday ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Unions, Equality and Democracy
    Unions are an important force for a more democratic society, and a major reason why Canada is still a more equal country than the United States. That is why it is profoundly disturbing that Canadian conservatives have recently embraced the extreme anti union agenda of the American right. Indepen ...
  • Mosaic Profit Argues for Higher Royalties
    Today’s Mosaic quarterly report provides further evidence that the Government of Saskatchewan should improve its royalty and tax structure to collect a better return on the province’s non-renewable resources like potash. Quarterly Comparison Despite higher potash prices, Mosaic paid lower royalt ...
  • Medicare’s 50th Anniversary Sets Important Con ...
    July 1 of this year marks the 50th anniversary of Medicare in Canada. On June 29, Nova Scotia’s Minister of Health and Wellness released for public input proposed new legislation to replace the outdated Health Services and Insurance Act. Are these two events related? Probably not, but I think th ...
  • The Death of Evidence or 2 + 2 = 5
    The scientific community is sad to report the death of evidence, which passed away June 18th, 2012, after an over six year battle with Harper government policies. Objective and honest, evidence was heavily involved in all aspects of Canadian prosperity and will be sorely missed by all Canadians, ...
  • Stuffing Solar City where the sun don’t shine?
    The Halifax Regional Municipality’s Solar City project has been widely heralded as visionary and pioneering, an inspiration not only to other municipalities in Nova Scotia, but across the country. The plan is to bring solar hot water to a 1,000 homes in the city, allowing homeowners to rep ...

ReDress

  • Israel paves way for annexation of Palestinian ...
    Jonathan Cook sees a report recently published by Israeli Supreme Court judge Levy, which stated that Israel is not in fact occupying Palestinian territories, as a step towards the formal annexation of a large chunk of the West Bank - the 62 per cent of the occupied Palestinian territory dubbed ...
  • Donor dollars aiding political repression in E ...
    Graham Peebles looks at how the mixed motives for the aid given by Western donor countries to Ethiopia mean that these countries - in effect, US, British and other European taxpayers - are funding a deeply repressive and violent regime that uses aid as a political weapon to control the populatio ...
  • Nationalism versus capitalism in USA: guess wh ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers the essence of capitalism and how its corollary in the age of the free market - outsourcing of production to countries with cheap labour, no or weak trade unions and minimal regulation - is impoverishing Americans who nonetheless continue to believe that the system co ...
  • Storming the Bastille in Syria
    Henry Lowi calls on progressives with a conscience to declare their solidarity with the oppressed people of Syria, to make every effort "to reach out to the pro-democracy grassroots organizations" there and to "support and strengthen the hand of the pro-democracy and working class currents in th ...
  • Accusations of Jewish self-hatred and anti-Sem ...
    Richard Forer explains why so many Jews support Israel's blatant injustice towards the Palestinians, arguing that an honest self-examination by Israel's Jewish supporters of the premises behind their demonization of Israel's critics, and debunking the idealistic false image of Israel that they s ...

Physics Today

  • Graphene offers clear window on liquids
    BBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...
  • Rival teams shared in Nobel celebration
    Science: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
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    Talking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
  • Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sector
    Earth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
  • Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...
    Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...

Revolutionary Politics

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  • The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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Peakwater

  • Drought Parches Much of the U.S.
    “A fish out of water surveys the scene at old Bluffton, a Texas town that was flooded in 1937-38 during the creation of  Lake Buchanan. As lakes across the Lone Star State have shrunk in the current drought, they’ve left some wildlife high and dry but also revealed ruins, gravestones ...
  • Study Shows Underground Paths Boost Risk of Fr ...
      “Researchers found it was unlikely that shale gas drilling had caused higher levels of salinity in some of the water wells sampled, since the briny wells were either not near drilling operations or showed higher salinity prior to drilling. However, the examination also suggested tha ...
  • Researchers Consider Graphene as a Cure for De ...
    “The earth harbors about 1.4 billion cubic kilometers of water. Unfortunately, the vast majority of that water comes from the sea and is not potable unless treated by expensive, energy-hungry desalination plants. Those problems stem largely from inefficiency in the way salt ions are separa ...
  • ZIMBABWE DIAMOND FIRMS SUSPECTED OF WATER POLL ...
    “Zimbabwe scientists are investigating the possibility that diamond companies operating in the country’s Marange region may have contributed to water pollution, Rough and Polished reports. At the urging of the Zimbabwe Environmental Lawyers Association (ZELA), scientists from the Uni ...
  • Bottled-Water Habit Keeps Tight Grip on Mexicans
    “In Iztapalapa and in many communities across Mexico, talk of tap water is a constant — whether there is any, how it smells, what color it is, or whether it carries sand, mud or unspecified insect life. Despite reassurances from the authorities that municipal plants pump clean water into t ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Joins Japanese People in Calling for ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to YouTube to join Japanese citizens taking to the streets in opposition to nuclear energy. As many as 170,000 Japanese citizens in Tokyo called upon the government not to restart nuclear reactors idled after the Fukushima disaster. Congressman Kucin ...
  • “China is Eating our Lunch.” Kucinich Defends ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today defended American businesses in their efforts to compete with foreign competitors to produce green technologies such as solar panels and called for Congressional action on trade manipulation. That manipulation has allowed China to flood the domestic U.S. ...
  • Gulf War Illness: Kucinich Remembers Those Who ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has successfully advocated for the one out four veterans of the first Gulf War who suffer from Gulf War Illness (GWI), securing $36 million for research into a cure for GWI in recent years. Exciting discoveries have been made, but much more is needed to help th ...
  • If you lived down wind from this power plant, ...
    If an airline pilot failed an annual exam, and the Federal Aviation Administration simply lowered its standards to allow that pilot to continue to fly, would you board the flight? If a surgeon failed a licensing exam, and the medical board simply lowered its standards and allowed the surgeon to ...
  • Kucinich Explains Latest Developments in Libor ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released a video explaining in easily understandable language the latest developments in the expanding Libor scandal. Last week, Congressman Kucinich released another video explaining what the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) is, how it affects wor ...

Authentically Wired

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    …Mon$anto Creed … you will eat what we tell you to eat … got it … and besides our stuff is USDA sanctioned and tested by academic institution we own … Hey Monsanto — I Want My Tomatoes From Nature, Not Your Labs   The biotech industry is willing to tamper with our food supply, [...]
  • WHO ARE ARIZONA’S WATER WISEMEN
    … Rattle your cage … a perspective from outside in …         WHO ARE ARIZONA’S WATER WISEMEN …?     A brilliant sun pierces what moments earlier hosted a dim Arizona landscape of soaring mountains, towering Ponderosa pines, exquisite configurations of Saguaro c ...
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Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Indonesia revises moratorium map; makes contes ...
    Indonesia is making 'encouraging' progress on its push to reduce deforestation by improving governance over its forests and peatlands, but still needs to do more to enforce environmental laws, said the head of the country's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) task force ...
  • Can loggers be conservationists?
    Last year researchers took the first ever publicly-released video of an African golden cat (Profelis aurata) in a Gabon rainforest. This beautiful, but elusive, feline was filmed sitting docilely for the camera and chasing a bat. The least-known of Africa's wild cat species, the African golden c ...
  • The month in environmental news for April 2012
    Mongabay.com provides a quick review of forest-related news for April 2012.
  • Does the Tasmanian tiger exist? Is the saola e ...
    The use of remote camera traps, which photograph animals as they pass, has revolutionized research on endangered and cryptic species. The tool has even allowed scientists to document animals new to science or feared extinct. But as important as camera traps have become, they are still prohibitiv ...
  • New reptile discovered in world's strangest ar ...
    Few people have ever heard of the Socotra Archipelago even though, biologically-speaking, it is among the world's most wondrous set of islands. Over one third of Socotra's plants are found no-where else on Earth, i.e. endemic, while 90 percent of its reptiles are also endemic. Adding to its list ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Meet the latest Martian mystery
    What created this unusual hole in Mars? The hole was discovered by chance on images of the dusty slopes of Mars' Pavonis Mons volcano taken by the HiRISE instrument aboard the robotic Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter currently circling...
  • Kiwi helps design camera to detect melanoma
    A New Zealand-designed camera with advanced photographic technology has been created to help win the fight against the potentially deadly melanoma.Skin cancer detection company MoleMap has developed a camera specifically designed...
  • Team chews over Mars menu options
    Through a labyrinth of hallways deep inside a 1950s-era building that has housed research that dates back to the origins of United States space travel, scientists in white coats are stirring, mixing, measuring, brushing and, most...
  • Iceberg twice the size of Manhattan breaks off ...
    An iceberg twice the size of Manhattan tore off one of Greenland's largest glaciers.For several years, scientists had been watching a long crack in the floating ice shelf of the northerly Petermann Glacier. On Monday, Nasa satellites...
  • Niwa breaching its duties with figures - scept ...
    Climate research organisation Niwa breached its duties by misleading the public over climate warming, a group of global warming sceptics has told the High Court.New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust, a branch of the NZ Climate...

The Bovine

  • At issue in allowing an appeal — is the ...
    Lawyer Karen Selick argues that it is. In court documents made public yesterday she argues that that the court should allow an appeal in part because of widespread public interest in the case. According to the documents, there are at least … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt court date July 26
    From lawyer Karen Selick: The court date for Michael’s motion for leave has changed to July 26, not July 25.  The place is the Ontario Court of Appeal, Osgoode Hall, 130 Queen Street West (at University), Toronto.  Court will start … Continue reading →
  • The “Placebo” and “Nocebo&#8 ...
    It’s long been know that “set and setting” affects the experience of those using psychotropic drugs. “Users who are in a poor mental state or a highly structured environment are more likely to have a bad trip, which is when you … Continue reading →
  • BC fruit growers opposed to GMO apple
    From Lucy Sharratt, at Commonground.ca: “….BC and Washington apple growers, both conventional and organic, have already rejected the GM “non-browning” apple and opposition from orchardists has not wavered for over 10 years. The BC Fruit Growers Association opposes the GM … Cont ...
  • Why won’t they look at the evidence?
    David E. Gumpert, who lawyer Bill Marler likes to cast as “the pope of raw milk”, has posted a fascinating think piece on the seeming impossibility of convincing organizational opponents of raw milk of the benefits of said raw milk, … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • U.S. Treasuries a Buy or a Short?
    I had a nice conversation the other day with Lacy Hunt at Hoisington Investments. We agree on many aspects of the global economy and I have a few excerpts of Hoisington's latest forecast below. First, let me state that if you are looking for someone who has called the US treasury market cor ...
  • "China Rebalancing Has Begun"; What are the Gl ...
    Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets has some interesting comments via email regarding much needed China rebalancing and a timeframe for a possible Spain exit from euro. Pettis On Spain Exit ... How will Spanish households react to a default on preferred shares and subordinated bon ...
  • Voters From Both Parties Overwhelmingly Suppor ...
    Mitt Romney needs to wake up to this simple political reality: Voters Overwhelmingly Want Big Defense Cuts Americans of all stripes have had enough of massive Pentagon budgets and want significant cuts in defense spending, according to new survey data released on Monday. In Republican ...
  • Wealthy Flee France Top Tax Rate of 75%; Camer ...
    The higher the tax rate, the greater the length people will go to avoid it. France is a case in point. An 'Exodus' of Wealthy is underway even before French parliament has passed Hollande's proposed top tax rate of 75%. The latest estate agency figures have shown large numbers of France's ...
  • Medicine is Killing the Patient; Increasing th ...
    Nigel Farage is once again making common sense arguments in European parliament while blasting the absence of European commission president Herman Van Rompuy and EC commissioner José Manuel Barroso, noting the medicine is killing the patient. Select Quotes The medicine is ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • A New Front: Myanmar’s Role in the Geopolitics ...
    Myanmar has been gripped by abhorrent ethnic violence in recent weeks – violence which has begun to cast doubt on the democratic future of the country. The sectarian and religious bloodletting between the Buddhist Rakhine people and the Muslim minority known as the Rohingya, has led to an intern ...
  • The EyeOpener- Just Be Evil: The Unauthorized ...
    Google Inc. is back in the news this week, with a fresh round of headlines about the search giant and government censorship. Ironically–though perhaps not surprisingly for the corporate media–the stories are not about Google’s admitted but classified relationship with governmen ...
  • Heritage Tourism A La Israel
    Hitler’s Youth-Israel’s Youth: And the Difference? This morning I came across the article below. It made me sick- as a human, as a mother of a four-year old … I felt nauseated; disgusted. I can go on and list even more adjectives, but I’ll let you read the article and come up with your own ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 18, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. “ –Thomas Jefferson International Newsworthy Iran will Sell Three-Step Strategy in Moscow Talks Iran Ready to Negotiate over 20% Uranium Enrichment Israel: ...
  • Podcast Show #88- Karzai Cartel & Its Washingt ...
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Michael Hughes Michael Hughes joins us to discuss his investigative article exposing President Hamid Karzai’s mob boss brother Qayum Karzai, and the subsequent legal threats issued against him and his exposé by the family’s business partners in Washington. He explains ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Wärtsilä Falls Short of Estimates as Engine De ...
    (Bloomberg) — Wärtsilä Oyj, the world’s biggest maker of ship motors and power plants, fell the most in a year as customers postponed deliveries during the second quarter amid a [...]
  • Nearly Broke, Italy Looks to Restart Economy B ...
    (Bloomberg) — Mario Monti’s government is trying to attract as much as $18 billion in investment to Italy by relaxing a ban on offshore oil and natural-gas exploration imposed by Silvio Berlusconi after [...]
  • India’s ONGC Will Continue to Explore Offshore ...
    NEW DELHI–India’s state-run Oil & Natural Gas Corp. (500312.BY) will continue to explore for oil and gas offshore Vietnam in the South China Sea, ignoring objections from China. ONGC Videsh Ltd., [...]
  • Crushed By Debt, Torm Responds to Latest Claim ...
    COPENHAGEN–Financially-troubled Danish shipper Torm A/S (TORM.KO) said Thursday it is still in talks to seal a long-term debt refinancing deal that will allow it to stay afloat, responding to media reports claiming [...]
  • Exxon Valdez Still Fighting on Death Row
    The M/V Oriental Nicety, aka the Exxon Valdez, is due to appear in front of India’s Supreme Court on Thursday to determine whether or not the vessel is clean enough [...]

Press TV

  • 'Media fabricates events in Syria'
    A number of news channels serving Western interests have been complicit in the lies and terrorism taking place in Syria, fabricating and exaggerating events since the beginning of the conflict, an analyst says.
  • UK PM sees no end to austerity
    British Prime Minister David Cameron has said he “can’t see any time soon” when Britain’s austerity program will be over while the program was initially planned to take five years.
  • 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.
  • West slammed for silence on Myanmar
    Iran's Basij Organization has denounced the silence of human rights bodies and international organizations on Myanmar’s violence against the Muslim community in the country.
  • Obama approval dips on economic fears
    A new survey shows that more Americans are disappointed with the pace of the economic recovery and President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

Nick Turse

  • life:Richard and Mildred Loving never asked ...
    life: Richard and Mildred Loving never asked to be heroes of the Civil Rights Movement. But when the state of Virginia had their interracial marriage in its crosshairs, the unassuming, intensely private couple fought back. And on June 12, 1967, they won. Here, on the 45th anniversary of the Ju ...
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    pulitzercenter: In a stunning image collection, photographer Brigitte Gringet explores one of the most remote, undisturbed areas of the Patagonia – walking the path of proposed power lines that could forever alter the landscape. newyorker: “At the end of the world,” the photographer ...
  • theatlantic:A Glimpse Into New York’s Lovely ...
    theatlantic: A Glimpse Into New York’s Lovely Abandoned Subway Station The forgotten City Hall station was the original terminal of New York’s subway system. It opened on the evening of October 27, 1904, along with 27 other Interborough Rapid Transit (I.R.T.) stations up to 145th Street o ...
  • reuters:Syria’s defense minister and Preside ...
    reuters: Syria’s defense minister and President Bashar al-Assad’s brother-in-law were killed in a Damascus suicide bomb attack carried out by a bodyguard on Wednesday, the most serious blow to Assad’s high command in the country’s 16-month-old rebellion. The bomber, said by a security source t ...
  • Critic Faces Death Threats over Bad ‘Dark Knig ...
    Critic Faces Death Threats over Bad ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Review | TIME.com: “Hell hath no fury...

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