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Saturday, July 21, 2012

21 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Corn v. Cattle: Renewable fuels mandate taking heat during drought
Daily Republic
This week, the Nebraska Cattlemen called on the Environmental Protection Agency to grant a waiver to Renewable Fuels Standard requirements, claiming the drought is driving corn prices too high while cattle prices plummet. “We're already starting to see ...
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Storage, Not Generation, is the Challenge to Renewable Energy
Forbes
If you read newspapers, blogs and other popular reports on renewable energy, you are very likely hearing almost exclusively about power generation advances in solar cell or wind turbine efficiency or ways to reduce production costs. But exciting as ...
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Renewable Energy: Not Easy Going Green
Hartford Courant
When he took office in 2008, President Obama set a goal of achieving 25 percent of U.S. energy from renewable sources. Gov. Dannel Malloy, like many of his fellow governors, shares that desire. If they mean it, and we hope they do, they would be well ...
Congress: Expedite Renewable Energy
Huffington Post (blog)
In 2009 it seemed as though Congress was finally going to pass legislation that would transition our country to a renewable energy future. The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, also known as the Waxman-Markey Bill, would have created a ...
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Reuniting Economics and Ecology for a Sustainable Future
Huffington Post (blog)
Nature and people are being brutally lambasted all over the planet. Recent torrential rains forced the evacuation of 400000 Japanese citizens, and the severity of the U.S. drought, which has not only laid waste to millions of bushels of corn and ...
An Ecology of Love
Huffington Post (blog)
There have been some splendid books recently on philosophy as a way of life, among them Oliver Burkeman's "The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking," and Jules Evans' "Philosophy for Life." Readable and engaging, they ...
Crown Resources to appeal Wash. fine over mine
The Seattle Times
The penalty, which is among the largest assessed by the Washington state Department of Ecology over water quality violations, is likely to raise questions about the Canadian company's plans to explore further for ore in the neighboring mountains.
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Ecology invites comments on draft documents for cleanup site on Bremerton ...
Access Washington
The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) will accept public comments from July 23 to Aug. 24, 2012, on these draft documents: A second legal agreement, called an agreed order, between Ecology and the city of Bremerton, which owns the site.
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Water-filled bunkers turn into a real hazard
San Francisco Chronicle
Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland sweeps hair back as he puts on his hat at Royal Lytham & St Annes golf club during the first round of the British Open Golf Championship, Lytham St Annes, England, Thursday, July 19, 2012. Photo: Tim Hales / AP ...
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Sauk Village residents: Is the water safe?
Chicago Tribune
Sauk Village, a working-class, farm-lined suburb near the Indiana border, was mandated by the state late last week to provide free bottled water to residents who want it — a highly unusual move — because the toxic chemical vinyl chloride was recorded ...
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Documents reveal details of Lejeune's toxic water
Jacksonville Daily News
RALEIGH — Thousands of newly released documents about water contamination at Camp Lejeune add to the evidence that the military long knew about tainted tap water blamed for deaths and illnesses among Marines and their families, and that officials ...
BP spill, cold water tied to dolphin deaths, study finds
msnbc.com
"The oil spill and cold water of 2010 had already put significant stress on their food resources. … It appears the high volumes of cold freshwater coming from snowmelt water that pushed through Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound in 2011 was the final blow.
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  • Damascus bombs and other mysteries
    There are many questions about the meeting in question. At a time when the rebels were fighting the regime around Damascus, who in his right security mind would assemble the key elements of the security services in one room? And the president of Syria usually presides over such meetings, and ...
  • Israeli certainties crumble with Arab Spring
    .. the Arab spring has pushed Israel deeper into a defensive "bunker mentality" in the face of events it perceives as existential threats rather than as circumstances that have been created partly by itself, especially by continuing to build illegal settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
  • Preview of an Olympic-Sized Fiasco
    London and the Olympic Games are clearly not made for each other. Visitors will need determination and, most of all, patience to reach the venues at all. And, for the locals, it all can't end soon enough.
  • Flow of global jihad activists into Syria ..
    Kochavi said "the probability of a conflict between Israel and Syria as a last resort for Assad is low." He warned that "radical Islam" was gaining ground in Syria, saying the country was undergoing a process of "Iraqisation," with militant and tribal factions controlling different sectors of ...
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Independent - London

  • Aurora massacre 'an argument for more guns' sa ...
    The head of an American firearms lobbying group has said the shooting at a cinema in Denver, Colorado is an opportunity to "loosen up gun laws".Related StoriesA dark night in Denver as Batman movie screening ends in bloodbathThe heat is on in the Sunshine StateA victim's story: Blogger who witne ...
  • Deadly virus forces closure of schools across ...
    Health officials in several countries across South East Asia are on alert over a deadly virus that has killed more 50 young children and which the authorities fear could spread further.Related StoriesCameron admits Taliban just waiting for troops to leaveChinese court upholds Ai Weiwei tax fineC ...
  • The killer: 'Loner' medical student who opened ...
    James Holmes described himself as “a quiet and easy-going medical student” on the application form he filled out last May before renting a third-floor apartment in a brick-walled building a stone's throw from the University of Colorado's sprawling hospital campus.Related StoriesA dark night in ...
  • A dark night in Denver as Batman movie screeni ...
    As they filed into the cinema, film-goers took to Twitter to share their excitement. “It's going to be a good night!” wrote one young woman, as she waited for the curtain to rise on a midnight screening of the new Batman film The Dark Knight Rises.Related StoriesThe heat is on in the Sunshine S ...
  • 'Pussy Riot' punk band left to languish in jai ...
    Three members of a feminist punk band arrested for singing a protest song in Moscow's main Orthodox church must remain in custody, a court ruled yesterday.Related StoriesHuge payout for family of Costa Concordia's youngest victimEconomic jolts cut short Hollande's honeymoon39 injured in Madrid ...

Rogue Government.com

  • ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...
    The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
  • Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
    For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
  • China aims high with space program ambitions
    As the U.S. winds down its space shuttle program, and with the International Space Station set to shut down in 2020, eyes are turning to China and its ambitious yet mysterious plans for the final frontier.
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.
  • Geo-engineering: green versus greed in the ra ...
    The alert on the Climate Ark website in January 2009 was marked urgent: "Take action: A rogue science ship is poised to carry out risky experimental fertilisation of the Southern Ocean. This is likely [to be] the first of many coming attempts to begin geo-engineering the biosphere as a solution ...

Innovation Canada

  • Safety haven
    If Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
  • Small tools, big impact
    Cancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...
  • Innovative, naturally
    For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
  • A very gourd idea
    It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
  • Johne’s happens
    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...

Signs of the times

  • War Against Paleo People: Global Warming Fasci ...
    More than 50,000 U.N. officials, scientists, environmental advocates and a few heads of state will gather this coming week in Rio de Janeiro for a conference on sustainable development. They're assembling 20 years after the first Earth Summit was held in the same city, and the goal now, as it wa ...
  • Psychopaths and Mass Violence: The Ideological ...
    There's going to be a lot of finger-pointing and hand-wringing in the coming days as we begin to process the awful tragedy that unfolded early this morning in Aurora, Colorado. In particular, it seems that right-wingers are eager to point fingers and are being hypersensitive about any suggestio ...
  • Tornado downed trees near Locustville, Virginia
    The Accomack County Department of Public Safety said its investigation found signs of tornado damage after a tornado reportedly touched down near Locustville on Saturday afternoon. Newly hired Deputy Emergency Management Coordinator Doug Jones told the Board of Supervisors DOS personnel found d ...
  • British Police Arrest Street Performers for Hi ...
    Former Games commissioner says 25 officers took performers away in handcuffs at demonstration against sponsorship The former London 2012 "ethics tsar" Meredith Alexander has accused police of an "Olympic-sized overreaction", saying they broke up a theatre performance designed to highlight the p ...
  • Propaganda Alert! London 2012 is 'greenest Oly ...
    Despite failing on its renewable targets, the London 2012 games are being hailed as the most ecologically sustainable modern Olympics ever held. A report by WWF-UK and BioRegional, called Towards a One Planet Olympics Revisited, concludes that London 2012 has succeeded in being the most sustain ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Chris Hedges on Moyers & Company . . . .
    Commentary from me is unnecessary. Suffice to say:  Moyers' questions are pointed, and Hedges' responses are powerful. Watch. Think. Act . . . .
  • Rotor-heads
    There's a serious problem in the military these days. The evidence is mounting that they simply have no idea what they're doing and how it might be perceived by the public who signs their paycheques. It starts with helicopters and fishing trips and goes all the way to Afghanistan. I read thi ...
  • Here Comes the Bride . . . .
    From Seattle/Tacoma's NPR  KPLU.org Wednesday: Angela Marie Vogel, a local activist with ties to #MicCheckWallSteet and a initiative campaign to nullify Citizens United’s effects in Seattle, used a figure from an art installation in a downtown Seattle park to marry “Corporate Person.” ...
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  • So it's the courts...
    Vic Toews thinks the courts are to blame for the Toronto shooting. "We are very concerned about the courts doing that, because illegal firearms — especially those smuggled in from the United States … minimum prison sentences are absolutely essential to create a strong deterrent against ...

Media Matters for America

  • Hannity Blames Obama For Shift In U.S. ...
    Sean Hannity suggested President Obama is to blame for a shift in household net wealth that has made the average Canadian richer than the average American. But Hannity is ignoring the main cause of the wealth disparity, which has nothing to do with Obama: the 2008 economic crisis and the collap ...
  • Conservative Media Cover Up Support For Contra ...
    Conservative media have continued to cover up the fact that many Catholic and other religious institutions have come out in support of the Obama administration's policy that ensures women have access to affordable insurance coverage for birth control while making sure no religious organiza ...
  • How Fox Fact-Checks A Misleading Romney Ad: "B ...
    Fact-checkers have said that nearly every claim made in the latest Romney ad attacking green energy investments and the stimulus is misleading or false. Yet on The O'Reilly Factor, Lou Dobbs said "Basically [the ad is] true," and he and O'Reilly went on to amplify several of the misleading atta ...
  • Still True: Obama Plan Won't Raise Taxes On 97 ...
    Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen falsely claimed that 90 percent of small businesses would face a tax hike under President Obama's tax plan. Official estimates and independent analysts agree that Thiessen is wrong, and thatonly about 3 percent of busine ...
  • Las Vegas Review-Journal Ignores Bene ...
    In two editorials over the past week, the Las Vegas Review-Journal argued that Nevada should opt-out of the Medicaid provision in the Affordable Care Act. The paper's arguments completely ignored the potential benefits Medicaid expansion would have to the citizens and economy of Nevada.Experts ...

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TPM Cafe

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

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Mona Lisa's skeleton found ?
    A complete skeleton discovered beneath a nunnery in Italy could belong to the Mona Lisa herself. The bones were unearthed below an altar within the de...
  • Universities offering 'alien search' course
    Edinburgh University is to become the latest to offer an online course on the search for alien life. The course is being provided as part of the Cours...
  • Exoplanet covered in magma discovered
    Astronomers have found an alien world that could be the closest known planet smaller than the Earth. At two-thirds the size of our own planet and just...
  • Did a Sputnik really crash in Scotland ?
    Details have emerged of a mountain rescue team that came across alleged Sputnik debris in 1962. Sputnik was the name given to a series of satellites l...
  • Young gorillas seen dismantling traps
    The juveniles have been observed locating and disabling poacher traps after one of their own was killed. Bush-meat hunters in Rwanda set up thousands ...

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  • Germany Mulls Solar Panel Anti-Dumping Suit Vs ...
    (Reuters) Germany's environment ministry is considering launching anti-dumping proceedings against China over its financial support for solar power firms amid a bitter price war in the industry that has left many German panel producers ...
  • China to Investigate U.S., South Korean Solar ...
    (Reuters) China will open investigations into imported U.S. and South Korean solar-grade polysilicon, the country's trade ministry said on Friday, in the latest instance of growing tensions between major solar manufacturers. The Minis ...
  • GOP Hopes Solyndra Rebellion Is Over
    (Politico) A behind-the-scenes fight among House Republicans over the Energy Department's loan guarantee program appears to be largely squashed after some GOP lawmakers took fire from conservatives for straying from the national party’ ...
  • Fracking Safe, Claims UK Science Body
    (The New Zealand Herald) The controversial oil and gas extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking", is capable of being managed sustainably and without serious risk of groundwater contamination or inducing damaging ...
  • Canada Energy Industry Must Improve Green Record
    (Reuters) Canada will not be able to fully benefit from huge resources of oil and natural gas unless the energy industry improves its environmental record, a Senate report concluded on Thursday. The report, from the Energy Committee o ...

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Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • The Guy Wanted to be The Joker
    I've been abiding by the "today-is-not-a-day-for-politics' creed because I want to show a proper respect for the dead and injured and not try to enlist them to win any preexisting political argument. That's how I roll; your mileage may differ. In any case, I have never used this blog to argue ...
  • One Victim Had Survived Previous Shooting
    One of the saddest and weirdest things to come out of the Aurora Shooting so far is that one young woman who lost her life had recently narrowly avoided being killed in a mall shooting in Toronto while she was on vacation. She wrote about it pseudonymously on her blog on June 5th. She had gone ...
  • Recriminations Begin in Aurora Shooting
    Some 24 year-old with Tennessee roots walked into an Aurora, Colorado movie theater with some guns, a gas mask, a bullet-proof vest, and some smoke (or, maybe, tear gas) canisters, and then opened fire on the audience. It was the midnight premiere showing of the new Batman movie, "The Dark Knig ...
  • Sorkin's Problem
    Alex Pareene's take down of Aaron Sorkin seems unnecessarily harsh. I've watched the first three episodes of The Newsroom and I don't think it is awful. However, Pareene did a service by explaining to me exactly why I could never embrace The West Wing. I honestly didn't know. [Sorkin] ha ...
  • Why Doesn't the Left Do These Things?
    It's interesting to me that we don't see corollaries on the left of a lot of the stuff that we see on the right. I'm talking about from elected officials, not some-dudes on the internet. Why, for example, don't we see relatively obscure backbenchers in the House calling for investigations of R ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Downpours and Drought Make For An Unusual Summer
    The weather in the UK and in the USA has been out of synch this year, which shows that there is more to climate change than simple global trends. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Rare Photographs of 12 Extinct Birds
    We’ve looked at rare photographs of extinct animals like the Thylacine. Now it’s time to peruse some equally scarce snapshots of extinct birds. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Most Memorable Accountants in Movies
    The following article proves that the people balancing the books needn't always be boring. An interesting list of the 10 Most Memorable Accountants in Movies. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Underwater Volcano is Caribbean's Looming Tsun ...
    An underwater volcano in the Eastern Caribbean known as Kick 'em Jenny has a 50% chance of causing a significant tsunami over the next half century. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Mysterious Engravings of Ireland's 5,000-Y ...
    Described as "one of the most beautiful and powerful sites in Ireland," the megaliths at Loughcrew form a burial site filled with intrigue and fascination. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • The Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies - for ...
    Reposting this as it's a much more handy summary than I could give. Neato! I think we're seeing this get more and more privatized as well -- I have a couple flagrant sockpuppets I know and love, they are like a handy little COINTELPRO weathervane. When talking Information Operations (not to ment ...
  • Crib notes & URLs for today's discussion on Al ...
    All right I gotta be a bit raw in the formatting here... Just had a good talk for an hour with Alex Jones on the afternoon radio show. Also some good news, Zuccotti Park is reoccupied today - see http://globalrevolution.tv for live feed mixes! //// UPDATE 8PM: I forgot COINTELPRO GOTHIC 1 & ...
  • Found older manual on Civil Disturbance Operat ...
    Fortunately the MP manual which I wrote a post on last Thursday night has been circulating & spurred a lot of discussion on domestic military operations. I will be going on the Alex Jones Show at 1PM tomorrow (Central) to discuss this and other trends in domestic militarization. Please tune ...
  • "Warning shot will not be fired" by MPs traine ...
    b. Use of Deadly and Non-deadly Force (4) (b) Warning shot will not be fired. or better yet: (3) In an occupied building, when the dissident's/sniper's location is unknown, all suspected rooms must be searched. The action element should try to have occupants submit voluntarily to the search of ...
  • TRAILBLAZERs unite! Q2 & Turnkey Dictatorship, ...
    TRAILBLAZER related NSA workstation privatization schema in FOUO document --- SOURCE WayneMadsenReport.com - http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/downloads/20110322_2/download - March 22-23, 2011 -- SPECIAL REPORT. NSA, DOJ, and courts conspire to cover-up NSA fraud, waste, abuse, and crimina ...

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    US government agency spied on whistleblower scientists. UK lawmaker tells MI6 chief to 'stop bragging'. German domestic intel agency gets new director.
  • The mysterious case of Glenn Souther, US defec ...
    This past June marked 23 years from the death of Glenn Michael Souther, a United States Navy photographer who defected to the Soviet Union in 1986. Despite the passage of time, a thick veil of mystery remains over the life and works of Souther, an ideological defector to the USSR, who was one of ...
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    Taiwan ex-colonel nabbed for spying for China. Russian law brands foreign-funded NGOs 'foreign agents'. Turkish hackers release names of police informants.
  • Mossad gave us no terror warning before blast, ...
    Bulgarian authorities received no warning from Israeli intelligence prior to yesterday’s bombing in eastern Bulgaria, which killed at least seven and injured over 30 Israeli tourists.
  • News you may have missed #762
    British spy agencies failed to predict Arab Spring. Ex-Mossad chief urges Israel to prepare for military action in Syria. Italy postpones court decision on wanted CIA operatives.

War is a Crime.org

  • Bahrain: British arms used to crush peaceful d ...
    As efforts to ban the notorious torturer, Nasser bin Ahmad from attending the London Olympics continue, it has transpired that the UK Government has ignored several requests and pleas supported by irrefutable evidence against him. Despite the Foreign Secretary’s assertion that anyone proven to h ...
  • Syria News - July 20
      Putin warns against action on Syria outside UN - Now Lebanon Romney: Obama has abdicated leadership and subcontracted US policy to Kofi Annan and the United Nations on Syria - AFP McCain: US should form 'coalition of the willing' outside the UN to aid Syrian rebels - The Hill Boehner Side ...
  • Disabled elderly man detained by TSA, made to ...
    There’s been so much abuse by the TSA over the past several days it’s hard to keep up. read more
  • Protest Obama and On-Going Wars - Oakland, CA, ...
     Protest Obama and On-Going Wars   7.23.2012 -  3:00 - 9:00 PM   Starting at Oscar Grant Park & Going to Fox Theater, Oakland, CA. read more
  • Nonviolent Direct Action in Nine Steps
    By David R. Weyeneth, Sr. To accompany Gene Sharp's "From Dictatorship to Democracy" (PDF). One: Focus on a problem or issue which needs change. Two: Hold hearings and conduct research, including taking statements and affidavits of witnesses. The research may reveal a history of previous social ...

Grist - News

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

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  • Lights, Smoking Mirrors and Misdirection
    By Les Visible It’s never the appearance of what is in front of you that is important, it’s what’s behind the scenes. It’s never what the magician appears to be doing, it’s what he’s actually doing, while you are engaged in observing the former. That’s h ...
  • Quote of the Day – Our race is the Maste ...
    Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the ...
  • IPCC Admits Its Past Reports Were Junk
    By Joseph L. Bast On June 27, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a statement saying it had “complete[d] the process of implementation of a set of recommendations issued in August 2010 by the InterAcademy Council (IAC), the group created by the world’s science ...
  • That’s No Phone. That’s My Tracker
    by Peter Maass and Megha Rajagopalan The device in your purse or jeans that you think is a cellphone — guess again. It is a tracking device that happens to make calls. Let’s stop calling them phones. They are trackers. Most doubts about the principal function of these devices were erased when it ...
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  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Tutukaka Beach House Features Moveable Shutter ...
    Read the rest of Tutukaka Beach House Features Moveable Shutters To Bring In Natural Daylight Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", beach house, crosson clarke carnachan, Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects, Daylighting, eco design, eco house, gre ...
  • A Firsthand Look at the Magnolia 2300 Yurt – t ...
    Read the rest of A Firsthand Look at the Magnolia 2300 Yurt – the First Energy Star Home in British Columbia Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: build your own green home, building green, diy yurt, Eco Architecture, eco homes, eco yurts, energy star homes, green design, gr ...
  • London 2012: The Greenest Olympic Games in His ...
    Photo from Wikimedia Commons With less than a week to go until the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony on July 27th, excitement is building. Hundreds of workers are putting the finishing touches on the massive project that is the 2012 Summer Olympics, but as preparations continue so too do the ...
  • Studio Eggpicnic’s Curvaceous Seat Amalia is H ...
    Located 90 miles away from Santiago, Chile, the city of Chimbarongo has managed economic growth since the beginning of the century thanks to its mimbre tradition. However, this craft is steadily disappearing as young people turn to work in the fields searching for better working conditions and h ...
  • Dieter Roth’s ‘Gartenskulptur’ Is an Ever-Grow ...
    Read the rest of Dieter Roth’s ‘Gartenskulptur’ Is an Ever-Growing Art Installation Celebrating Recycled and Decaying Materials Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Bjorn Roth, cycle of decay, Dieter Roth, eco design, found objects, Garden Sculpture, Garte ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Watch an Asteroid Fly by Earth Live on Sunday
    Watch live this weekend as an asteroid the size of a city block flies past the Earth.
  • Mesmerizing Videos of Northern and Southern Li ...
    The billowing radiance of the northern and southern lights is among the most beautiful sights known to humanity -- and that's when seen from the ground. In these videos captured through the International Space Station's windows, 200 miles above Earth's surface, the auroras borealis and australis ...
  • An Electric Car That Actually Goes Far?
    Researchers have long had high hopes for lithium-air batteries, a device that has the potential to store 10 times more energy than the best lithium-ion batteries on the market today. So far, lithium-air batteries have been unstable, falling apart after a few charges -- but researchers now report ...
  • Unlock Your Inner Rain Man by Electrically Zap ...
    Neuroscientist Allan Snyder believes we all possess untapped powers of cognition, normally seen only in rare individuals called savants, and accessing them might take just a few jolts of electricity to the brain. Using brain stimulation, he thinks it’s possible to temporarily remove that mental ...
  • Sun’s Temperature Painted in Amazing Colorful ...
    A new technique depicts the 12-hour history of cooling and heating at a particular spot on the sun. In addition to being scientifically useful, the images produced are visually striking, reminiscent of a Van Gogh painting.

PakAlert

  • North Korea threats to ‘reexamine’ nuclear сap ...
    Pyongyang has threatened to “reexamine” its nuclear capabilities after perceiving a new, threatening agenda from its southern neighbor and United States.
  • Sheriff Joe calls on Congress to investigate Obama
    Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., says probably the only way the American public will get to the bottom of the mysteries surrounding Barack Obama’s birth records – including why a birth document was forged – is for Congress to investigate.
  • Colorado Batman shooting shows obvious signs o ...
    James Holmes, the Aurora, Colorado shooter who reportedly opened fire at a Batman movie premiere, was a medical student at the University of Colorado, pursuing a PhD in neuroscience, reports ABC News. (http://abcnews.go.com/US/mass-shooting-colorado-movie-theater-14-peop...)
  • Scientists Propose Dumping Hundreds of Tons of ...
    In an attempt to ‘stop global warming’, scientists have been experimenting with dumping several tons of iron into the Antarctic ocean in order to potentially fertilize the development of plankton. Despite raising a multitude of red flags raised from leading scientific organizations and health wa ...
  • The Price Of Corn Hits A Record High As A Glob ...
    Are you ready for the next major global food crisis? The price of corn hit an all-time record high on Thursday. So did the price of soybeans. The price of corn is up about 50 percent since the middle of last month, and the price of wheat has risen by about 50 percent over the past five weeks. ...

Andy Worthington

  • Bagram: Still a Black Hole for Foreign Prisoners
    Back in March 2009, three foreign prisoners seized in other countries and rendered to the main US prison in Afghanistan, at Bagram airbase, where they had been held for up to seven years, secured a legal victory in the District Court in Washington D.C., when Judge John D. Bates ruled that they h ...
  • Docks, Wharves and Water: Photos of a Journey ...
    Docks, Wharves and Water: A Journey Along the Thames from Deptford to Tower Bridge, a set on Flickr. Back in May, when the sun started shining again after long weeks of relentless rain, I found myself unable to stay in my apartment chained to my computer, and took to the roads of London on my [...]
  • Families of US Citizens Killed in Drone Attack ...
    Yesterday, in New York, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit (PDF) accusing US defense secretary Leon Panetta, CIA director David Petraeus, and William McRaven and Joseph Votel, the commanders of Special Operations Command (SOCO ...
  • Green London: Photos of Nunhead, Dulwich and B ...
    Green London: Nunhead, Dulwich and Blythe Hill, a set on Flickr. As part of my ongoing project to travel the whole of London by bike, taking photos of whatever interests me, and whatever I think reflects the state of London at this particular time in its history — the ongoing manifestation ...
  • Six Years without Charge or Trial: An Evening ...
    On Thursday, I’ll be taking part in an event in London to raise awareness of the plight of Talha Ahsan, a British citizen, and a poet who suffers from Asberger’s Syndrome. Talha, who also gained a first class honours degree in Arabic from SOAS (the School of Oriental and African Stud ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Gohmert Blames ‘Attacks on Judeo-Christian Bel ...
    U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said last night’s shooting in a Colorado movie theater is linked to “attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs,” the Huffington Post reports. Speaking this morning with radio host Ernest Istook, a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation and former Colorado congr ...
  • Ann Coulter: Loss of White Majority ‘Destroyed ...
    That attack-dog author Ann Coulter is not too bright — and that she is perfectly happy to slime any and all people she doesn’t like — is well known. What’s not such common knowledge is that she is a racist. Of course, there were early hints. The starkest came in 2009, when her latest rabid tome, ...
  • Conspiracists Adopt NRA Talking Points on UN A ...
    Nothing spooks antigovernment conspiracy theorists like the United Nations and its international treaties – particularly when it comes to perceived threats to their right to bear arms. So naturally, far-right paranoiacs really have their panties in a twist over the proposed Arms Trade Treaty (AT ...
  • The Astonishing Bigotry and Paranoia of Russel ...
    Former Arizona state Senate President Russell Pearce, the author of his state’s draconian anti-immigrant law, S.B. 1070, is notorious for making outrageous claims about the supposed dangers posed by immigrants – both documented and not. In major speeches at least, Pearce usually tries to maintai ...
  • Iowa Senate Candidate Drops Out, Becomes ‘Sena ...
    A state Senate candidate in eastern Iowa has abandoned her campaign and released an astounding statement that she has become a “U.S. Senator” in the Republic for the united States of America (RuSA), the largest antigovernment “sovereign citizens” group in the country. “Let me now announce to eve ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Three Million Afghans Face Displacement
    Three million Afghans could be displaced at the end of the year if Pakistan follows through with its plan to invalidate the refugee status of and expel the world's biggest cluster of refugees from its country, the Guardian reports. rea ...
  • Court Battle: Corporate Power Vs. Human Genes
    A company can't own genes, said groups fighting to release patents held by Myriad Genetics Inc. at a U.S. appeals court Friday. The Salt Lake City-based Myriad has patents on two genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer creating a monopoly on genetic tests for them, which p ...
  • Ex-Prime Minister Joins Anti-Nuclear Rally in ...
    Yukio Hatoyama, an ex-prime minster of Japan, joined a weekly anti-nuclear protest outside current Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's office on Friday. The action takes place during a week in which a second nuclear reactor was restarted, despite concerns that it sits on an active fault line. ...
  • Russian Punks 'Pussy Riot' Jailed Additional S ...
    Three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot were ordered to stay in pre-trial detention an additional six months on Friday highlighting the crackdown on dissent of the Putin regime. The trio was arrested in February after performing an anti-Putin song in Christ the Saviour Cathedral, and news ...
  • American Tourists Flock to Israeli Settlement ...
    In an Israeli West Bank settlement bloc known as Gush Etzion, American tourists are flocking to Caliber 3 shooting school, a training camp for Israeli 'security professionals including soldiers and bodyguards', which has recently opened its services to Israeli and American civilians. The ...

Lifehacker

  • Make an Awesome, Portable Retro Gaming System ...
    If you're looking to relive the nostalgic games of your childhood, there are many options available. You can hack an existing piece of hardware or even build one yourself. This weekend, put together the ultimate retro gaming system of your c ...
  • Remains of the Day: Fringe and The West Wing S ...
    Warner Bros. TV shows are coming to Amazon Prime Instant Video, Quicksilver updates with Mountain Lion support, Google Fiber is coming July 26th, and 20th Century Fox films are finally available on iCloud. More » ...
  • Are we the first generation of cyborgs? [Discu ...
    Are we the first generation of cyborgs? What are your thoughts on Google acquiring Sparrow? How do you think about the value of your non-work hours? Should I use a screen protector? Use a light mist of water to help apply screen protec ...
  • Search for Misspelled Items on eBay to Score G ...
    You can already find some amazing deals on eBay, but to score even more awesome deals, you can search specifically for misspelled listings. More »
  • Repeat a Song on Pandora by Pressing Pause at ...
    If you're one of those people that likes to listen to a song over and over again after you hear it, Redditor Nolanoscopy discovers a little trick for repeating a song in Pandora. More »

Water Privatization

  • Aquino urged to stop privatization of water sector
    “While countries abroad are reversing their privatization schemes, we are selling these services at a bargain despite its inimical costs to our people.” By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – For six months now, an urban poor community in Navotas finally has access to potable water. But th ...
  • Group slams Aquino’s privatization drive
    By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Greed for profit, not goals of efficiency. Groups under the banner of the Stop Privatization Alliance and the Confederation for the Unity, Recognition, and Advancement of Government Employees (COURAGE) held a protest last July 18 at the foot of Men ...
  • SYABAS: A Threat to National Security
    Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (SYABAS) has become a threat to our national security by threatening 7 million consumers in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya with water rationing where there is no shortage of water.
  • Pawlowski releases details of plan to fund pen ...
    Mayor calls for leasing water and sewer plants to avert bankruptcy. Striking a somber tone, Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski on Wednesday painted a dire fiscal picture of his city as he unveiled a proposal to lease the water and sewer plants for $100 million or more, a plan he said could very well b ...
  • SYABAS Has Become A Threat To Our National Sec ...
    Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (SYABAS) has become a threat to our national security by threatening 7 million consumers in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya with water rationing where there is no shortage of water.

Guardian

  • Frank Ocean: the most talked-about man in music
    His new album Channel Orange was rushed out a week early to rave reviews, then he made headlines worldwide by blogging about his sexuality. 'I wanted to wake up without this freakin' boulder on my chest,' he says in this Guardian exclusiveFrank Ocean has had quite the week. "Yes," he says, smili ...
  • Aurora shooting: 12 dead as gunman opens fire ...
    • Suspect named as James Holmes, 24, former medical student • Holmes's apartment booby-trapped with 'incendiary devices' • 71 people shot during attack and 10 died at the scene • Barack Obama: 'This is a day for prayer and reflection' • Twelve shot dead during Batman screening in Denver • Jess ...
  • Colorado theater shooting: a deadly attack del ...
    Moviegoers at Aurora multiplex describe sheer terror as James Holmes used three guns to shoot 71 people in two minutes • Twelve dead as gunman opens fire in Colorado theater • Shooting suspect James Holmes was doctoral studentIt took James Holmes just two minutes to kill 12 people, injure 59 an ...
  • China in talks to build UK nuclear power plants
    British officials talking to Chinese about plan that could see up to five reactors being built at cost of £35bn, sources sayChina is poised to make a dramatic intervention in Britain's energy future by offering to invest billions of pounds in building a series of new nuclear power stations.Offic ...
  • Euro crisis deepens as time starts to run out ...
    Spain drags the eurozone closer to the edge of collapse despite winning the backing of finance ministers from the single currency's major economies for a €100bn bank rescue fundSpain dragged the eurozone closer to the edge of collapse despite winning the backing of finance ministers from the sin ...

McClatchey

  • To win in U.S., Romney heads to Europe, Israel
    Mitt Romney, looking for a boost after being battered recently by President Barack Obama, heads abroad next week in a bid to portray himself as a wise statesman.Click to Continue »
  • London Olympics will be big business across th ...
    SAN JOSE, Calif. - The London Summer Olympics have yet to start, but the windfall from the global economic sports behemoth has already been felt more than 5,000 miles away…Click to Continue »
  • Obama, Romney suspend campaigning in wake of C ...
    President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney suspended their increasingly bitter presidential campaign Friday in the wake of the shootings at a movie theater in Colorado.Click to Continue »
  • Experts: Judge’s ruling could hurt Brad ...
    Legal experts say WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning?s lawyers might have lost a key element of their defense because of a military judge?s ruling this week that would prevent his lawyers…Click to Continue »
  • Syria’s rebels gaining momentum, but U. ...
    As rebels rack up important victories that could hasten the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad, U.S. officials are still struggling to identify a credible opposition authority to keep fragile…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Pakistans double game in Afghanistan may compe ...
    Pakistan's 'duality' on the Afghan issue may instigate the U.S. to abandon the country and withdraw all support, including the critical economic support it currently provides to the country, ...
  • Taliban lash men in public in Afghanistan official
    Afghanistan: Taliban militants lashed two men in public on Saturday, witnesses and officials said, just weeks after a video surfaced of a woman being executed for adultery before a crowd of cheering ...
  • 6 insurgents killed in Afghan operations
    Six insurgents had been killed and three others detained in military operations within the past 24 hours, the Afghan Interior Ministry said Saturday. "Afghan police, army and coalition forces ...
  • U.S. Military Deaths in Afghanistan
    The Department of Defense has identified 2,032 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans ...
  • Pakistan takes hard line against Afghan refugees
    Saeed Shah in IslamabadPAKISTAN PLANS to cancel refugee status for all Afghans living in the country at the end of this year, leaving some 3 million displaced people – the world’s biggest ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • ATF attempts to stifle "outside" whistleblowing
    John Solomon, writing in the Washington Guardian, is reporting today that B. Todd Jones, the Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), released a video last week to all employees. In the video, Jones warns that there would be “consequences” fo ...
  • Senator Grassley Hammers the FDA on the Senate ...
    Once again Senator Grassley has proven himself to be a champion of whistleblowers and government oversight. The NWC applauds Senator Grassley's floor statement today and we hope that the FDA heard him. Please take a few minutes to read the Senator's statement reproduced in its entirety below. ...
  • CBS Evening News: FDA spying on their own scie ...
    NWC Executive Director Stephen Kohn spoke to CBS Evening News tonight about the chilling effect the FDA's illegal whistleblower surveillance program has on employees' willingness to report serious health and safety issues. You can TAKE ACTION to stop the government's highly intrusive and ha ...
  • NWC Response to Article Documenting Illegal FD ...
    Today, the New York Times released a groundbreaking story on the government's secret spying program on a group of whistleblowers employed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).  Stephen M. Kohn, the Executive Director of the National Whistleblower Center and the lead attorney for ...
  • Twenty Years Later, DOJ Finally Admits Mistakes
    Readers of The Washington Post found out this morning that the FBI and DOJ are launching the largest post-conviction case review in American history. Readers of the Whistleblower Protection Blog know that this review should have begun twenty years ago when Dr. Frederic Whitehurst first exposed ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • New Research Shows How Copyright Law Is Keepin ...
    The Atlantic has an interesting article about some forthcoming research from MIT PhD student Abhishek Nagaraj (though, oddly, the article never introduces him, never mentions his first name, and just refers to him throughout by his last name only). It's the latest in an increasingly long line o ...
  • The Internet Wins Again! Writer Gets Rapper Pi ...
    Ah, the internet. Also: ah, social media. Powerful tools, which in the right hands, can turn unknowns into legends and overstepping entities into Wikipedia entries. However, in the fumbling hands of mega-corporations, these same tools become about as unwieldy as a screwdriver being used to hamme ...
  • Australia Wants To Join The Snooper's Club: Wh ...
    They say that a lie is halfway around the world before the truth has got its boots on, and the same seems to be true about Internet policy: the bad ideas spread like wildfire, while the good ones languish in obscurity. Snooping on the Net activity of an entire population is the latest example: ...
  • DailyDirt: Space Food
    Most people's idea of astronaut food is freeze-dried ice cream -- which astronauts don't actually eat anymore. But with all the commercial space ventures that are trying to create a space tourism industry, maybe there should be more culinary options for zero gravity meals. Here are just a few ex ...
  • Google To Help Take On Mexican Drug Cartels
    Normally when we talk about Google 'round these parts, it's to discuss issues of privacy and piracy. But, according to an ABC News report, Google is going on the offensive to help take down Mexican drug cartels. "Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman, has taken a keen interest in Mexico, ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

  • Dear Reformists, You’re Welcome
    The problem with people who focus on reform is that they don’t seem to understand how reform actually happens. They want to focus on influencing the people in power by gaining access. That almost never leads to change, or at least not the kind of change that we need. Reform happens in one ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    That piñata is so great. If only I had a kids party to go to. What is inside, do you think? P.S. If you are ever bored at work, googling “BDSM Piñata” is hours of entertainment. Three quarters of the world’s inhabitants now have mobile phones. That’s amazing. My tweet of ...
  • Tosh and the Problem with “Rape Culture& ...
    By now you have no doubt heard that Daniel Tosh suggested it would be funny if a woman in his audience was gang raped and the internets are ablaze with talk of rape culture. I wasn’t planning on weighing in on this. Frankly, I just wasn’t that interested in the controversy. But since ...
  • Encouraging (in)Visibility
    I am one of those people who would rather be in the coffin than delivering the eulogy.  I am also one of those people who takes a while to get to know someone, especially when I’m thrown into a whole group of new people. The result of those two things is that I am often [...]
  • Hellllooooooooooooo
    Anybody still out there? I keep trying to get back to this blog and life keeps conspiring against me. But if I don’t do it soon, my new roommate is likely to walk in on me ranting out loud in a way that may compel her to have me institutionalized. You really have to introduce [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • What did Ahmadinejad just say?
    Soon after the Burgas bombing, the Times of Israel was quick to jump on a story first appearing in Bulgarian media claiming that the culprit was a former Guantanamo detainee and Swedish citizen. It didn’t take long before that story was shown to be false, so, I’m not sure how much we ...
  • New York Times falsely claims Bulgaria bomber’ ...
    Readers of the New York Times may mistakenly get the impression that the Obama administration has confirmed Benjamin Netanyahu’s assertion that Wednesday’s attack on Israeli tourists was conducted by Hezbollah. American officials on Thursday identified the suicide bomber responsible ...
  • Where’s Assad? As grip on Syria weakens, his w ...
    Christian Science Monitor reports: With his capital in open revolt and his regime shaken by the brazen assassination of several key advisers in a bomb attack, Bashar al-Assad’s grip on power has not looked less certain since the uprising against his rule began 17 months ago. Even his whereabouts ...
  • How Morocco handled the Arab Spring
    Nicholas Pelham writes: Since the Tunisian street vendor Mohammed Bouazizi set himself and the Arab world aflame in December 2010, young men all over the Middle East have tried to imitate him. In no country have they done so more often than in Morocco, where some twenty men, with many of the sam ...
  • Israel’s old certainties crumble in Arab sprin ...
    Ian Black writes: On a ridge high above the Golan plateau, the telltale antennae and golfball radomes of an Israeli surveillance station point north-east towards Damascus. In the valley below, minefields, barbed wire fences and a blue UN flag mark the frontline between the two most powerful armi ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Dr. Michael Mann invokes the Streisand effect
    https://www.facebook.com/MichaelMannScientist/posts/267470906700950 Now that Dr. Mann has drawn attention to it, even more people will want to read the National Review article “Football and Hockey” to find out what he’s so upset about. I didn’t even know about this articl ...
  • Solar corona revealed in super-high-definition
    From the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Today, astronomers are releasing the highest-resolution images ever taken of the Sun’s corona, or million-degree outer atmosphere, in an extreme-ultraviolet wavelength of light. The 16-megapixel images were captured by NASA’s High ...
  • Sea Ice News – Volume 3 Number 8 – ...
    WUWT commenter Caleb writes on 2012/07/20 at 7:53 am Check out the “North Pole Camera” on the WUWT “Sea Ice Page.” Both Camera #1 and Camera #2 show lovely summer weather, and patches of melt-water atop the ice. One problem … Continue reading →
  • More on Koutsoyiannis and the homogenization o ...
    First, correcting an error that originated with the blog The Hockey Schtick about not giving appropriate credit. Marcel Crok writes on De staat van het klimaat One of the basic principles of blogging is to give credit when credit is … Continue reading →
  • Media Questions and Answers from the Norfolk P ...
    Operation Cabin Q&As (from the Norfolk Police here PDF) The following questions and answers are an abridged version of Norfolk Constabulary’s Operation Cabin media briefing held on Thursday 19 July 2012. How do you know it was an external hack? … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • The Benefits of Daydreaming
    Does your mind wander? During a class or meeting, do you find yourself staring out the window and thinking about what you’ll do tomorrow or next week? As a child, were you constantly reminded by teachers to stop daydreaming? Well, psychological research is beginning to reveal that daydreaming is ...
  • How Genes Organize the Surface of the Brain
    The first atlas of the surface of the human brain based upon genetic information has been produced by a national team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the VA San Diego Healthcare System. The work is published in the March 30 issu ...
  • 3D medical animation about acne
  • Stand up: Your life could depend on it
    Standing up more often may reduce your chances of dying within three years, even if you are already physically active, a study of more than 200,000 people published in Archives of Internal Medicine today shows. The study found that adults who sat 11 or more hours per day had a 40% increased risk ...
  • Fatty Diet Leads To Fat-loving Brain Cells
    Cheeseburgers pack on the pounds, but in mice a high-fat diet also packs on new nerve cells in the brain. More brain cells may seem like a good thing, but these newly sprouted cells appear to trigger weight gain in the animals, a new study finds. The results offer insight into how the brain cont ...

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Russian Piloted Spaceship Delayed Two More Years
    Russia's projected manned spacecraft capable of flights to the moon will not fly until 2018, the head of Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, said on Wednesday, at least two years later than its previous projected flight date of 2015-16.
  • Russia’s ‘Floating University’ Traces Gulf Stream
    Russia’s Arctic Floating University has possibly discovered a new branch of the Gulf Stream in the Barents Sea during its inaugural trip this summer, program managers said on Tuesday.
  • Russian Soyuz Docks with Space Station
    Russia’s Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, Mission Control said.
  • Russian Space Lab Launch Delayed Again
    The launch of Russia's "Nauka" (Science) multirole laboratory module (MLM) for the International Space Station has been set back from the end of this year to the end of next year due to technological and organizational problems at the Khrunichev Space Center, the head of Russia's Energia space c ...
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Pruning Shears

  • Quantifying the impact of the Republican agenda
    I attended a local government meeting earlier this month in order to keep up with the latest on fracking in our town. Something else interesting happened as well. The meeting began with a budget review. Budget reviews are long and drawn out affairs even when they’re not, if you know wha ...
  • The view of fracking from San Pablo Bay
    Marvin Patten is an environmental health science student at Kent State University. The following letter was presented to the Kent city council earlier this year. The recent struggle over the disposal of fracking fluid sent to Warren’s Patriot Water System treatment plant gives renewed im ...
  • 'Nuns on the Bus' passes through Cleveland
    On June 17th the Catholic social justice lobbying group NETWORK launched a 15 day Nuns on the Bus tour. (As befits their budding rock star status, they are selling a tour shirt as well.) They are speaking out against the House Republican budget because, as they write: “When the federal g ...
  • "No Justice, No Pizza!" - A Call to Action
    Workers at the Palermo’s Pizza factory in Milwaukee, Wis., went on strike May 30 after the company retaliated with threats of termination and deportation against the workers’ attempts to organize a union.  The workers have been on the picket line eight hours a day, six days a we ...
  • Palermo's Pizza Workers Strike in Milwaukee
    Workers at a Palermo’s Pizza factory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin went on strike May 30 after the company retaliated with threats of termination and deportation against the workers’ attempts to organize a union.  The workers have been on the picket line six days a week for two weeks, ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Battle over Genetically Engineered Food Headin ...
    California could become the first state to require labels on genetically modified, or GMO, food products. Firms on both sides are gearing up for campaigns.Click here to read this article
  • GMO Free Idaho Protesters Gather at Sen. Mike ...
    Genetically modified foods are detrimental to human health and should carry clear labeling that warns consumers, argued protesters with GMO Free Idaho, standing outside U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo's office on July 18.Click here to read this article
  • Cultivating Influence: The 2008 Farm Bill Lobb ...
    As Congress navigates its way through the 2012 Farm Bill process, Food & Water Watch today released a report that delineates the special interest lobbying efforts that shaped the 2008 Farm Bill.Click here to read this article
  • FDA to Ban BPA from Baby Bottles; Plan Falls S ...
    WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that baby bottles and children's drinking cups could no longer contain bisphenol A, or BPA, an estrogen-mimicking industrial chemical used in some plastic bottles and food packaging. Click here to read this article
  • Genetically Modified Bt Corn Affects Livestock ...
    With the support of local prosecutors, Mr. Gloeckner, a German farmer who had 65 cows die after he fed them genetically modified Bt corn has filed criminal charges against the manufacturer, alleging that the company not only knew the corn could be lethal to livestock, but was covering up deaths ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Fraud and Reputation - The Climate Wars
    Verifying the climate caper as an initiative in the Energy Wars Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Derecho Windstorm
    Reflecting on Preparativeness: 10 things the recent D.C. power outage taught us about a real, large-scale collapse Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • coming soon to a canadian town near you: the fbi
    The Integrated Cross Border Law Enforcement Operations Act now makes it possible for American officers to cross the border into Canada ( from Canadian Broadcasting. wmtc is short for we move to canada - US expatriates and activist/bloggers ) Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture &n ...
  • Monckton's Reply to Eos on Climate Denial
    Reply to smørgasbord of the shop-worn logical fallacies of argument ad populum, ad verecundiam, and ad hominem. They four times brand us as climate change deniers a hate-speech comparison with Holocaust denial. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |  ...
  • 26 Ethical Flaws of Propagandists
    Ethical considerations arise from the activities of propagandists when: they seek to howl down any form of questioning or dissent, use threatening vilification as a propagandist tool,suppress contra-indicative data,subvert peer review Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech &nbsp ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Look Who Supports GMO Labeling – Infographic
    The following infographic from Voters Edge shows just how much money is being spent by both sides, for and against GMO labeling in California. "See who's spending money against our right to know labeling bill in CA and refuse to buy their products!"
  • 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 [ ...

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Japan probes under-reporting of Fukushima radi ...
    ShareThisJapan probes under-reporting of Fukushima radiation dosage 21 Jul 2012 Japan's health ministry said it would investigate reports that workers at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant were urged by a subcontractor to place lead around radiation detection devices in order to stay und ...
  • Gunmen Attack UN Polio Doctor in Pakistan
    ShareThisGunmen Attack UN Polio Doctor in Pakistan 17 Jul 2012 Gunmen opened fire on a United Nations vehicle in the southern port city of Karachi on Tuesday, seriously wounding a Ghanaian doctor who was part of an urgent campaign to eradicate spread polio from Pakistan. The attack was a fu ...
  • Colo. shooter's father, Robert M. Holmes, auth ...
    ShareThisColo. shooter's father, Robert M. Holmes, authored US Navy, military reports Posted by Lori Price, www.legitgov.org, 20 Jul 2012 [See also: Aurora, Colorado Shooting 'Oddities' --'Oddities' compiled as they emerge By LRP 20 Jul 2012.]
  • Colorado Movie Theater Shooting: 71 Victims Th ...
    ShareThisColorado Movie Theater Shooting: 71 Victims The Largest Mass Shooting 20 Jul 2012 Twelve people were killed and 59 were injured in Aurora, Colo., during a sold-out midnight premier of the new Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" when 24-year-old James Holmes unloaded four weapons' full ...
  • Air Force instructor convicted of rape, assault
    ShareThisAir Force instructor convicted of rape, assault 20 Jul 2012 A military jury has convicted an Air Force instructor of rape, sexual assault and all other counts he faced as part of a sweeping sex scandal at the Texas base where all U.S. airmen go through basic training. Staff Sgt. Luis Wa ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Best Soldiers for the worst days: Medevac crew ...
    July 20, 2012 By: Sgt. 1st Class Eric Pahon KHOWST PROVINCE, Afghanistan (July 17, 2012) -- They're the crew no one wants to see take off. "A perfect deployment would be no missions," said Spc. Bryan Heaston, 30, of Lusby, Md. Nearly every time Heaston, a medevac crew chief serving on Forward ...
  • Military Professionals Discussing the MEDEVAC ...
    18 July 2012 Increasing numbers of high-ranking military officers and veterans agree that the time has come for change.  Support from lawmakers continues to grow.  Army helicopter medical evacuation (Dustoff) polices are outdated and costing lives.  Our current polices even viola ...
  • We Are Still #1 (somehow)
    11 July 2012 Thank you for the tremendous support through the years.  We are just getting warmed up, though I am in a transition stage while completing a book.  I remain serious about potentially transitioning over to US/Mexico focused work. Meanwhile, this military blog rank came ac ...
  • Carl Prine, Bombs, Brain Damage, and our Respo ...
    10 July 2012 These wars have left us with thousands of troops and civilians who may have sustained brain damage from explosions.  Recently, my friend Carl Prine, a military combat veteran of Iraq, terminated his writing on Line of Departure due to apparent brain damage.  Carl believes ...
  • Not I
    19 June 2012 Through the years there has been a constant barrage of people misquoting me.  They might say, “Last week on CNN you said…”  And I was in some war zone at the time and nowhere near a television interview.  But then it gets picked up, and bloggers do the he-said, she-s ...

The Killing Train

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

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Jurist - Legal Research

  • Myanmar minorities victims of sectarian violen ...
    [JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] on Thursday stated [press release] that the violence against minority Rohingyas [BBC backgrounder] and other Muslim has increased since a state of emergency was declared [NYT report] in the western Myanmar State Rakhine. Benjamin Zawacki, Am ...
  • ICJ rules Senegal must try or extradite former ...
    [JURIST] The International Court of Justice (ICJ) [official website] ruled [judgment, PDF] Friday that Senegal must promptly either put on trial or extradite to Belgium Chadian ex-president Hissene Habre [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. The court's legally binding order also noted that Senega ...
  • Security Council extends UN mandate for Syria
    [JURIST] The UN Security Council [official website] on Friday extended the UN monitoring mission in Syria for an additional 30 days. The mandate for the UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) [official website], deployed as part of the peace plan of UN Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan [official ...
  • Liberia senate passes anti-same-sex marriage bill
    [JURIST] The Liberian Senate [official website] on Thursday approved a bill that prohibits same-sex marriage [JURIST backgrounder] in the West African nation. The bill, sponsored by Senator Jewel Howard Taylor [official profile], makes same-sex marriage a second degree felony [New Dawn report] s ...
  • Egypt president releases 572 prisoners convict ...
    [JURIST] Newly elected Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] on Thursday ordered the release of 572 people who had been convicted by the military. Morsi, Egypt's first elected civilian president, had formed a committee to review all the cases of prisoners who had b ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

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Tikun Olam

  • FBI Documents Confirm Involvement of Hollywood ...
    This story sort of snuck up on me.  I admit I read Grant Smith’s original story at Antiwar.com and at first it seemed so outlandish that it was hard to credit.  But now Israeli media is picking up on the story and that lends it much more credibility.  The gist is this: in the 1970s, [...]
  • Bibi’s Twofer: Bulgaria Bombing Allows Him to ...
    Anonymous U.S. officials are quoted by the NY Times stating explicitly that a Hezbollah suicide bomber attacked the Israeli tourist bus yesterday.  While this is entirely possible, I think we should remember the bizarre bombing plot of a few months ago in which a small-time Iranian drug dealer w ...
  • Al Qaeda Likely Source of Bulgarian Suicide Attack
    UPDATE: No sooner do I publish a post than I have to update and temper what I’ve written! Swedish officials are denying that the suicide bomber was the suspect I named below.  It’s not clear on what basis they’re doing that, though since the U.S. released him from Guantanamo in ...
  • Israeli Tourists Attacked in Bulgaria, 7 Dead, ...
    An Israeli tourist bus was bombed at the airport of the Bulgarian resort of Burgas today.  Haaretz reports that seven are dead.  Bibi Netanyahu has blamed Iran for the attack.  Pres. Obama has condemned it as “barbaric” terrorism.  Before I get into the meat of what I want to say, I ...
  • Shin Bet Goes on Palestinian Arrest Spree
    The Shin Bet appears to have gone on a tear in arresting Israeli Palestinians over the past few weeks.  There are now at least four who’ve been arrested, the last three under gag.  I reported on the first arrest, of Dr. Eyad Jawhari of Majdal Shams earlier this month.  He is still imprison ...

If Americans Knew

  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
  • Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
    Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
  • International law is clear: Israeli settlement ...
    Eric Rozenman's Dec. 11 Op-Ed article, "Israeli settlements are more than legitimate," is legal nonsense that disregards history. He is correct in his observation that Article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine permitted "close settlement by Jews on the land, including state lands and waste lands no ...
  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • A Look Back at News Hack Day SF
    This is a guest column by ScraperWiki's Thomas Levine, an awesome data scientist who spends his time roaming the globe finding interesting data and doing stuff with it. Blogging about News Hack Day SF, which brought together journalists, developers and designers for several days of creative n ...
  • How TileMill Is Mapping Support of the Interna ...
    Amnesty International's latest campaign features a map front and center. The Campaign for Global Justice, launched this week on International Justice Day, which celebrates the creation of the International Criminal Court 10 years ago, asks people to demand justice for the victims of war crimes, ...
  • SocMap.com Debuts Map App PublicConsultation
    As we mentioned in a previous post, this spring we at SocMap.com discovered the best path for further development -- namely, by creating small, specialized map apps. The first application of this kind was our HotBills app, which allowed journalists to reach 2% of the population for their investi ...
  • DocumentCloud Hiring a Developer to Work on It ...
    We have a lot of projects going on at DocumentCloud, and to serve those goals, we're looking for others to join us! For those who may be unfamiliar with our project, we've included the full details below. DocumentCloud is a web-based platform allowing journalists to upload, analyze, annot ...
  • Watchup's 'Lasagna Design' Creates a Newsreel ...
    It's 7 a.m. You want to catch up with the news on your iPad, but you don't want to jump from one app to another -- tap here, tap there. You just want to discover the best and latest news videos in a snap. Meet Watchup. Available in Apple's App Store, Watchup lets you create your newscast in s ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Edge of Medicine - 'Guided-Missles' Are Enlist ...
    “Monoclonal antibodies� may sound like a great name for a heavy-metal band, but actually they’re the basis of best-selling pharmaceuticals raking in about $50 billion dollars a year.The two-year-old Israeli company Immune Pharmaceuticals is fast emerging as a leader in developing new ways ...
  • Skin and Bone - Global Trade of Human Parts— ...
    The Kentucky man died in an off-road vehicle accident last year. His liver and kidneys helped save three dying patients in his home state. Musculoskeletal grafts taken from his heart, skin and bones were used in medical products used to improve the lives of 15 people around the country.But soon ...
  • The War on Drugs - Bolivia Struggles to Turn t ...
    Foreign Minister of Colombia María Angela Holguín announced on June 7 that she has intelligence regarding the presence of Colombian drug cartels in Bolivia, to which Bolivian President Evo Morales pleaded ignorance. The increasing pressure from international drug cartels throughout Bolivia has ...
  • The Edge of Crime - Batman Movie-Goers Killed ...
    A casual night at the movies turned deadly at a theater outside the western U.S. city of Denver, Colorado early Friday morning Police say man opened fire during the premiere of the latest Batman movie, The Dark Night Rises, killing at least 14 people and wounding 50 others. A large audience was ...
  • Oil Addiction - Pipelines are Slowly Making th ...
    One hundred years ago this week, five Italian torpedo boats conducted a raid in the Straits of Dardanelles, a long, narrow body of water connecting the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara -- then the world's most important shipping passage. It was the height of the Italo-Turkish War, a precursor to ...

High Country News

  • Following Dad down the road
  • Floods, fire ... are locusts next?
    First floods, then fire -- natural disasters pound a small Montana community.
  • Black Sunday, 30 years later
    The author attends a peculiar reunion, a meeting with the former Exxon executives who pulled the plug on oil shale three decades ago.
  • The West, in pictures
    High Country News showcases a selection of photos submitted to SAGE Magazine, a student-run environmental magazine at the Yale Forestry School. The images include beautiful wildlife photography and poignant illustrations of humans' relationship to the natural world.
  • Beyond the politics of no
    The Sonoran Institute's departing founder, Luther Propst, reflects on 20 years of collaborative conservation.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Why Not A Government Mandate To Purchase Guns?
    What happened last night was a horrible, horrible tragedy. There are no adequate words to describe how awful the "Batman shooting" in Colorado was---twelve dead---dozens wounded--many of them children: "I don't know how else to explain it, it's horrific," said Tracy Lauzon, director of EMS an ...
  • Newsbusted: Obama Plans To Stay In White House ...
    As President, Barack Obama has a nasty habit of trashing the Constitution whether it be making recess appointments when Congress is not in recess, trashing the welfare reform laws legally passed by Congress and signed by a previous (Democratic Party) President, or ignoring the First Amendment by ...
  • Pelosi Changes Mind About Romney's Taxes When ...
    Politics can be a fun sport, especially when an arrogant progressive gets caught in their own web. Former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi who, according to her latest financial disclosure has a net worth of just short of $200 million dollars, has been beating up on Mitt Romney for not ...
  • Conservative Bloggers' Poll-Who (What) Conserv ...
    My friend John Hawkins who runs RightWingNews always finds the most intriguing things to poll his fellow conservative bloggers about.  His latest effort is really fun, it asks conservative bloggers (such as me) about our favorite/and least favorite conservative sites, politicians, pundits ...
  • U.S. Weekly Jobless Claims Climb 34,000 to 386,000
    Yesterday we learned that the President hasn't met with his Jobs Council since Mid-January. Instead of working on the economy Obama spent the first two years of his presidency ramming Obamacare down our throats.  Ever since he has been working on; raising money for his re-election bid, ...

The Real Agenda

  • U.S. Media and Law Enforcement Merging Reality ...
    New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has acted out his role as ‘Gotham’s Police Commissioner’ using mind control techniques to merge reality with movie type speech. Pay attention to his quotes. CBS NEWS | JULY 20, 2012 New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the ...
  • The United Nations Plan to Disarm You and Arm ...
    This is the Treaty that no citizen of any country should allow public servants to introduce, adopt or vote in favor of; neither in part nor in full. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JULY 20, 2012 Everyone knows the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or at least has heard about s ...
  • Spanish People Take it to the Streets of Madrid
    Citizens protesting against harsh austerity measures were met with violence from the police. AFP | JULY 20, 2012 Spanish police fired rubber bullets and charged protestors in central Madrid early Friday at the end of a huge demonstration against economic crisis measures. The protest was one ...
  • “They want to ruin Spain – and we have to stop ...
    TOUCH STONE | JULY 19, 2012 Ignacio Fernandez Toxo, Secretary General of one of the two main Spanish trade union confederations, explains why the CCOO and UGT have called another day of action against austerity in Spain on Thursday 19 July. The new austerity plan presented on 11 July by the ...
  • Big Oil Companies Behind Global Warming Fraud
    ACTIVIST POST | JULY 19, 2012 There was once a company named “Glori Oil” based in Houston, Texas, according to its website, it was: A Delaware corporation founded in 2005 to commercialize technology developed by ‘The Energy and Resources Institute’ (known a ...

Wind Watch

  • PSC staff: time to throw out Galloo Island win ...
    In a strongly worded statement, the staff of the state Public Service Commission says it’s time to end the Galloo Island wind farm. The staff is asking that Galloo Island’s case before the Public Service Commission be dismissed. Technically, the staff refers to the power line that wo ...
  • Protesters stop Lowell turbine truck
    LOWELL — Though it was billed as just a “rally” and an opportunity for opponents of the Lowell Mountain wind project to “greet the turbines” as they arrived, Monday’s confrontation here turned into a brief but intense exercise in civil disobedience. Gathering across Route 100 from the gate to th ...
  • Neighbors plead with Board of Health to order ...
    Falmouth Board of Health announced last night that there has been some minor progress in the attempt to get a state assessment of health effects of wind turbines. Chairman Gail A. Harkness said she has an appointment to talk to Suzanne Condon, Massachusetts Department of Public Health associate ...
  • Antrim to fight for control of subdivisions
    ANTRIM — The town’s planning board does not agree that a state panel has the jurisdiction to subdivide land on Tuttle Hill for a proposed wind farm. Board members say determining land use regulations in Antrim is their job, and if the N.H. Site Evaluation Committee rules otherwise, it could crea ...
  • AWEA increases political donations in PTC push
    The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) is stepping up its election year political donations as it works to stave off expiration of the $0.022/kWh production tax credit (PTC) at the end of this year, with close to half going to Republican candidates so far this year. According to documents f ...

Tippers News

  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From ...
    Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help v ...
    EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Judge Continues Prohibition on Samsung Tablet ...
    “A U.S. appeals court denied Samsung on Thursday a stay on a preliminary injunction by a District Court on the sale of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, in a patent dispute with Apple. . . . The Judge said the court had previously found the Galaxy Tab 10.1 to be substantially similar ‘in the eye ...
  • Bad Risks Got Student Loans
    “Risky lending caused private student loan debt to balloon in the past decade, leaving many Americans struggling to pay off loans that they can’t afford, a government study says.” (USA Today) Sounds familiar. FEE Timely Classic “Why on Earth Do We Have a Student Loan Cris ...
  • Made Everywhere
    There are no exports and imports. There is only what I make and what everyone else makes.
  • Pressure on to Tax Internet Sales
    “Online retailers are coming under fire from Washington and state governments for not collecting sales tax from customers who purchase goods and services through websites such as Amazon and eBay.” (Washington Times) If it moves, tax it. If it doesn’t move, tax it. FEE Timely Cl ...
  • Fed Chairman Claims Credit for Economy
    “Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke told lawmakers Wednesday that the Fed’s efforts to bolster growth have helped lift the U.S. economy out of the Great Recession.” (Washington Times) Yeah, yeah. FEE Timely Classic “Faith in the Fed” by Hans F. Sennholz

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • State of Chicago: The New Century Struggle
    This is the second installment in my “State of Chicago” series. Read part one here. Last time I looked at Chicago’s 70s and early 80s horrible struggles followed by rebirth and robust out-performance during the 1990s. Today we turn our attention to the first decade of the 21 ...
  • The New Geography Of Success In The U.S. And T ...
    This year’s presidential election is fast becoming an ode to diminished expectations. Neither candidate is advancing a reasonable refutation of the conventional wisdom that America is in the grips of a “new normal” — an era of low growth, persistently high unemployment an ...
  • Housing Affordability Protests Occurring in "L ...
    The Economist has published another in its city rating series, under the headline "The Best city in the World." This one was the result of a contest examining ways to elaborate on its rating system. The winner, Filippo Lovato, added a spatial dimension to the ratings, which include ...
  • State of Chicago: The Decline and Rise
    I’ve had it in my head for over a year now to do an in-depth exploration of Chicago, a project I’ve called “State of Chicago.” This is the first a series of pieces that expand on the themes in my recent article “The Second-Rate City?” First, I’d l ...
  • Are Millennials the Screwed Generation?
    Today’s youth, both here and abroad, have been screwed by their parents’ fiscal profligacy and economic mismanagement. Neil Howe, a leading generational theorist, cites the “greed, shortsightedness, and blind partisanship” of the boomers, of whom he is one, for having “brought the global ...

GM Watch

  • Coming your way: a toxic cloud of 2,4-D
    1.Herbicide-resistant weeds mean harsher chemicals 2.Drift Happens 3.Bad idea: Dow's 2,4-D seeds --- --- 1.Herbicide-resistant weeds mean harsher chemicals Rachel Swick Mavity Cape Gazette, July 11 2012 [extracts] http://capegazette.villagesoup.com/capelife/story/herbicide-resistant-weeds-mean-h ...
  • Coming your way: a toxic cloud of 2,4-D
    1.Herbicide-resistant weeds mean harsher chemicals 2.Drift Happens 3.Bad idea: Dow's 2,4-D seeds --- --- 1.Herbicide-resistant weeds mean harsher chemicals Rachel Swick Mavity Cape Gazette, July 11 2012 [extracts] http://capegazette.villagesoup.com/capelife/story/herbicide-resistant-weeds-mean-h ...
  • Stand-off looms over US plans to cut GM plant ...
    Stand-off looms over US plans to cut GMO crop oversight Charles Abbott and Carey Gillam Reuters, July 17 2012  http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL2E8IHEXE20120717?sp=true * Provisions would ease path to market for GMO crops * Foes see "Monsanto Rider" weakening regulation * Fo ...
  • Stand-off looms over US plans to cut GM plant ...
    Stand-off looms over US plans to cut GMO crop oversight Charles Abbott and Carey Gillam Reuters, July 17 2012  http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL2E8IHEXE20120717?sp=true * Provisions would ease path to market for GMO crops * Foes see "Monsanto Rider" weakening regulation * Fo ...
  • Bill Gates should forget GM crops
    EXTRACT: The scientists receiving this grant have themselves admitted that this research will not yield any results for at least 10 years. Other research into this area suggests it may require 20 years. But given the evidence that exists from GM research over the past 15 years one really must qu ...

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Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Price Of Corn Hits A Record High As A Glob ...
    Are you ready for the next major global food crisis?  The price of corn hit an all-time record high on Thursday.  So did the price of soybeans.  The price of corn is up about 50 percent since the middle of last month, and the price of wheat has risen by about 50 percent over the ...
  • 20 Signs That All Point To The Exact Same Thin ...
    The U.S. economy is in a massive amount of trouble.  There aren't enough jobs.  There isn't enough money to go around.  Business activity is slowing down again.  Household wealth has been falling.  Food prices have been rising.  Many state and local governments all over the count ...
  • 11 International Agreements That Are Nails In ...
    Is the petrodollar dead?  Well, not yet, but the nails are being hammered into the coffin even as you read this.  For decades, most of the nations of the world have used the U.S. dollar to buy oil and to trade with each other.  In essence, the U.S. dollar has been acting as a tru ...
  • These 12 Hellholes Are Examples Of What The Re ...
    Do you want to see where this country is headed?  If so, don't focus on the few areas that are still very prosperous.  New York City has Wall Street, Washington D.C. has the federal government and Silicon Valley has Google and Facebook.  Those are the exceptions.  The reality is ...
  • 27 Things That Every American Should Know Abou ...
    The U.S. government has stolen $15,876,457,645,132.66 from future generations of Americans, and we continue to add well over a hundred million dollars to that total every single day day.  The 15 trillion dollar binge that we have been on over the past 30 years has fueled the grea ...

Desertification

  • VIDEO : Sustainable food aid at home – P ...
    Please have a look at my newest video (the English version of the former in Spanish) : Sustainable food aid at home – PART 1 http://youtu.be/zj6Vx5sAI6w    
  • Midwest Drought (The Permaculture Project)
    Read at : http://www.permacultureproject.com/midwest-drought-threatens-crops-livelihoods-and-food-prices/ Midwest Drought Threatens Crops, Livelihoods and Food Prices How in the world does this get translated into “food” prices? They are not growing food, are they? Yes, livelihoods. Are they thr ...
  • HUERTA VERTICAL DE BOTELLAS DE PLASTICO (Wille ...
    VIDEO : This video was prepared as a document with photos by a Spanish-speaking friend of which I lost his email-message.  Hoping to locate him again.   COMO HACER LA HUERTA VERTICAL DE BOTELLAS DE PLASTICO   http://youtu.be/2mx-lzPz2DM
  • Reclamation of desertified, sandified land in ...
    Read at : http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/07/china-battles-desertification/ China Battles Desertification By Manipadma Jena Reclamation of desertified, sandified land on either side of the Sudu desert road in Wengniute County, China, is well under way. CHIFENG, Inner Mongolia, China, Jul 5 2012 (IPS ...
  • Drylands, Deserts & Desertification Conference ...
    Read at : http://twittercounter.com/tweet/MzE4NjEwMjg CONFERENCES: 4th International Drylands, Deserts & Desertification Conference at BGU From “Patricia Golan” @exchange.bgu.ac.il> ========================================== November 12-15, 2012 Sede Boqer Campus (Ben Gurion ...

The Paper Trail

  • Study finds toxins from mountaintop coal minin ...
    The U.S. Geological Survey has found high levels of toxic compounds in soil and water around mountaintop-removal mining sites in central Appalachia, a potentially groundbreaking finding with human health consequences.After a year of testing air, water and soil, researchers concluded that people ...
  • Los Angeles school police chief rethinking dis ...
    In response to controversy over court citations to students as young as 10, the police chief of Los Angeles’ largest school district said he’s working with school officials to reduce such tickets and establish, by mid-August, more out-of-court counseling options for kids who are cited. But Chief ...
  • State Integrity supporter back on ballot in So ...
     South Carolina State Sen. Mike Rose is a lucky man. The Republican lawmaker from Summerville known for championing ethics reform lost his primary bid, with his opponent winning 60 percent of the vote — but he can still stay in office. How is that possible? Rose is an incumbent in an e ...
  • GOP seeks to kill black lung reform
    House Republicans inserted language in a budget bill unveiled Tuesday that would kill a proposed rule to protect coal miners from dust that causes black lung.Democrats on the House Committee on Appropriations objected, saying in a statement, “Recent reporting by NPR and the Center ...
  • Michigan Dems cite Integrity Investigation in ...
    Michigan House Democrats have cited the state’s failing grade from the State Integrity Investigation in a resolution calling for investigation of alleged election irregularities.“A recent report by the State Integrity Investigation ranked Michigan’s government 43rd in the country in terms of acc ...

backofthebook.ca

  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Strike and Lockout at Chung Hong Electronics ...
    05_chunghong.resized2.jpg In the past few months, a struggle of dozens of workers has taken place at the Chinese Chung Hong Electronics factory, a supplier of LG in a Polish Special Economic Zone in K ...
  • Genoa 2001: two of the activists sentenced las ...
    181342_365332586871726_949436502_n.jpg Francesco Puglisi and Vincenzo Vecchi, the two of the’Genoa 10′ to receive the most severe sentences for crimes of “devastation and looting” – 15 and 13 years – ...
  • Two anti-fascists remanded 4th of July, after ...
    4th of July, at Presnenski district court of Moscow, judge Dmitry Dolgopolov fulfilled request of the police to imprison two of the six anti-fascists, who were remanded in night of second of July, not far from club "Barrikada". 23 year old Irin ...
  • Verdicts in for the Genoa 10: guilty
    314755_361569740580957_275302870_n.jpg The Italian High Court confirmed on Friday 13th July the sentences for the 10 activists on trial for crimes of “devastation and looting” during the G8 summit in ...
  • Turkish Airlines Strike: workers up against bo ...
    29may.jpg An article by the section of the International Communist Current in Turkey about the recent Turkish Airlines strike. The world economic crisis is getting more on more ...

Free Range International

  • Band On The Run
    Editors Note:  It is important for first time readers to start this story from the beginning.  This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother, Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to living a normal life back in the states.   Any donations received by the FRI bl ...
  • Dead Man Walking
    Dalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change.  Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton.  For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can&#8217 ...
  • King for a Day
    Note from Baba T – It is important to start the Dalton Thomas series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) or it will not make much sense.   For those of you who are enjoying the series and have the means hitting the donation button would be much appreciated.  All proceeds from the ...
  • Great Idea #1: A Vacation in the Khyber Pass
    It turns out that my buddy Dr. John Ryan had spent five years in the army as a properly tabbed Special Forces medic.  And all this time we had thought he was a heterosexual.  I had to say that as Marine Corps bushido demands such things.  After John and I traded more inter-service insults Elisa, ...
  • Mexican Radio
    Dalton is back on stride and his next post will set the standard for crazy.  I’ll lean on him to get it out in a few days.  Enjoy. Mrs. Firelake took me to Sherriff Ron’s house where I linked up with Dr. John and Deputy Jimmy.  John was in the midst of a serious conversation with [...]

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Ken Dryden, NHL Hall of Famer (Jan 7, 2012)
    Hockey and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the present, takes on tho ...
  • NAGUIB SAWIRIS
    Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
  • Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...
    In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.
  • Alison Redford, Premier of Alberta (Nov. 19)
    Premier of Alberta, Alison Redford discusses her hopes for the province's future and the challenges she faces in the Keystone pipeline project.
  • Robbie Robertson, Musician and former member o ...
    Rock icon Robbie Robertson talks with Peter about life in the industry, his decision to stop touring 25 years ago and how his Jewish and Aboriginal roots drove his music career.

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Farming Without Machines: A Revolutionary Agri ...
    How to Grow More Vegetables (and fruits, nuts, berries, grains, and other crops) than you ever thought possible on less land than you can imagine By John Jeavons 2002 Edition Ten Speed Press Book Review – Part I (Part I summarizes the theory of biotensive farming and Part II practical t ...
  • The Multinationals Behind the Civil War in Syria
    In my opinion, a brilliant analysis by Tony Cartalucci at Land Destroyer Report is a must-read: chiefly because it identifies the corporate interests behind creating, funding and arming the Free Syrian Army, the Syrian National Council and other rebel groups that have taken up arms against the A ...
  • The Plot Thickens: ALEC and the IRS
    According to Brendan Fischer of PR Watch, Marcus Owens, former chief of the Internal Revenue’s non-profit division has just filed a complaint with the IRS that the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has violated the terms of its nonprofit status by lobbying on behalf of its corpo ...
  • Russia’s New Muscle
    The Russian PAK-FA (T50) Below an interesting article from the Australian Business Spectator provides an intriguing analysis of the global positioning behind Russia’s stand on Syria. One Americans won’t find in the US business press. Among the issues highlighted is the fact that Rus ...
  • Homeless Indian Kids Start Their Own Bank
    In a shelter for homeless runaway teens in New Delhi, the residents have created an unlikely society where everything from healthcare to banking has been initiated, implemented and executed by the kids themselves.     If video fails to play, go to: http://www.rt.com/news/ ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE: WikiLeaks opens path ...
    After almost two years of fighting an unlawful banking blockade by US financial giants VISA and MasterCard, WikiLeaks has announced it is back open for donations. After WikiLeaks' publications revealing US war crimes and statecraft in 2010, US financial institutions erected a banking blockade a ...
  • 'No Going Back': Michael Moore on the Last Wor ...
  • Letter From Prominent Americans, Delivered to ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 25, 2012 Media Contacts: (London) Robert Naiman, US 217-979-2857 (US) Megan Iorio, US 908-400-9480 Letter signed by Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Wolf, Daniel Ellsberg, Danny Glover, Oliver Stone, Patch Adams, MD, Mark Weisbrot and other promine ...
  • 'The Man Who Killed Vincent Chin' by Michael M ...
    The below article appeared in the Detroit Free Press Sunday Magazine on August 30, 1987. Click each page to view larger versions.
  • Michael Moore to Headline 5th Anniversary Even ...
    Media Advisory, Contact -- Francesca Lo Basso for more information (610-417-5288) Michael Moore to Headline 5th Anniversary Event in Philadelphia on June 30 Philadelphia—Five years after his award-winning film on the U.S. healthcare system premiered around the world, Michael Moore return ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Japan's culture and Fukushima
    Personal accountability trumps organizational loyalty
  • Infographic: How Big is Your Pile of Coal?
    We all know that when we flip a light switch on the wall, illuminating a lamp on the ceiling as if by magic, it's not magic. There's a long and extremely complex series of events that makes that little action possible, and, for many of us across the country, it begins in a coal fired power plant ...
  • A European Perspective on the U.S. Shale Energ ...
    The Economist has an interesting set of articles in a recent special report on U.S. energy and in particular, energy from shale. Though the primary audience is European, the report makes a number of important points about shale energy and the hydraulic fracturing methods used to collect it.Natur ...
  • Report: Efficient Homes Are Key To Strong Hous ...
    When the housing crisis hit, California took it on the chin. At the end of 2011, one out of every three homes in the Golden State were underwater, and on it’s own the state accounted for 26 percent of the nation’s negative equity. At first glance, the task of rebuilding the housing market a ...
  • How much oil growth do we need to support worl ...
    A few days ago, I showed the close relationship between growth in world oil consumption and growth in world GDP. In this post, I will extend that analysis by building a model that shows how much of an increase in world oil supply is need for a given increase in world GDP. This model indicates th ...

EU Times

  • US Military Reveals Coup Plan To Topple Obama
    A shocking Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (MTC) report red-lined to President Putin this morning warns that “various elements” within the US Military establishment are “actively planning” for the overthrow of President Barack Obama prior to the November elections. According t ...
  • 14 killed at Dark Knight Rises shooting in Col ...
    At least 14 moviegoers were killed and 50 injured at a cinema in the Colorado city of Aurora in the Denver suburbs. They were attending a midnight showing of the new Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises. The theater was packed with a lot of people, many of them young fans, at the time the [...]
  • Israel to deport all African immigrants from H ...
    Israel has initiated the first stage of a controversial “emergency plan” aimed at interning and deporting an estimated 60,000 African immigrants. Officials believe the presence of the Africans poses a threat to the “Jewish character” of the state. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who b ...
  • Russian Church stands up for Brits who were fi ...
    The Russian Orthodox Church have involved themselves in the case of helping two British women who lost their jobs for wearing religious symbols at work to the European Court of Human Rights. British Airways check-in clerk Naida Eweida and Nurse Shirley Chaplin were both sacked after wearing a cr ...
  • HSBC exposed: Drug money banking, terror dealings
    One of the biggest high street banks, London based HSBC, have been caught up in funding terrorism and money laundering for the Mexican drug cartels. HSBC’s activities in Saudi Arabia were brought into question in a report, which specifically refers to banking with Al Rajhi Bank. The investigatio ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Google TV Webpage Updated â Site Redesign, App ...
    Google TV is about to blow up this year (or at least get an extra big boost from Google) and while we wait around to see what Google has planned for the TV OS at Google I/O this week, there’s been a silent update of sorts to their webpage, adding new content and a fresh new design. Google is gi ...
  • Microsoft and Yammer: Collaboration and Enterp ...
    via microsoft.comMicrosoft Corp. and Yammer Inc. have announced Yammer, a leading provider of enterprise social networks is to be acquired for $1.2 billion in cash. Yammer will join the Microsoft Office Division, led by division President Kurt DelBene, and the team will continue to report to cu ...
  • Brewer: Obama admin launched 'assault' on Arizona
    (CNN) – Republican Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona had some biting words for the Obama administration Monday after it announced it was rescinding agreements that allow some local law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration laws. "They arbitrarily singled out Arizona and sent a bomb, if y ...
  • Google Alert - Barack Obama
    News 7 new results for Barack Obama   President Barack Obama's response to ruling on the Arizona ... Washington Post WASHINGTON â President Barack Obama's statement reacting to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on the Arizona immigration law: See all stories on this topic » President Obama blasts ...
  • Miami Heat Parade: Team Goes All Out To Celebr ...
    The Miami Heat celebrated in grand fashion with an enormous parade through the streets of Miami on Monday morning, allowing the fans to join in on the celebration and commemorate their 2012 NBA Championship. Hundred’s of thousands of people filled the streets as players rolled by in double-deck ...

Groklaw

  • Federal Circuit Weighs New Precedent in Human ...
    ACLU senior attorney Christopher Hansen argued for the plaintiffs. The organization has argued that allowing patents on the genetic material at issue puts up a barrier to testing and research on breast and ovarian cancer. The ACLU argued that Mayo does apply to the Myriad case because the high c ...
  • Judges Hold the Line on Gene Patents
    A federal appeals court suggested Friday that it may not retreat from its ruling last year that isolated human genes can be patented.... Judge Moore again noted that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has allowed patents on DNA sequences for decades, and she said that disturbing the industry's ...
  • Groklaw member writes a parody patent applica ...
    [PJ: Groklaw's stegu has written a hilarious bogus patent application on the ASCII table, titled "Method and apparatus for representing numero-alphabetics in an analytical engine: encoding, storage, processing and retrieval." The sad part is it's no worse than many of the stupid software patent ...
  • Can the U.S. patent system be saved?
    Overall, the situation is more complex -- and more expensive -- for the tech field than it is for most others. "Some of these IT companies have more patents individually than do entire industries," says Erin-Michael Gill, a former USPTO examiner who served as an adviser to the Obama administrati ...
  • Making Pre-Grant Submissions More Efffective
    The America Invents Act (AIA) expands the opportunity for third-party pre-issuance submissions in patent cases. Beginning September 16 of this year (2012), anyone will be permitted to submit published documents ('printed publications') that are relevant to the examination of a pending applicatio ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Abound Solar fails, blames China
    Apparently it’s ok for the US to subsidize solar but if another country does so on a bigger scale, then it is so totally wrong, says Abound Solar CEOChinese competition was backed, [Abound CEO Craig] Witsoe said, by “over $30 billion in reported government subsidies” and was t ...
  • Caifornia park system cynically scammed the public
    The California park system secretly hid $54 million as it cut services and begged for money from private donors, which is certainly some kind of new low in bottom-dwelling, cynical, manipulative, politics.The announcement means the department has plenty of cash, even though it’s been solic ...
  • Our coming automatic, freaky, contextual world
    Robert Scoble and Shel Israel are writing a book about it. I can’t wait.The trends. We’re seeing something new happen because of: 1. Proliferation of always-connected sensors. 2. New kinds of cloud-based databases. 3. New kinds of contextual SDKs. 4. A maturing in social data that nearly e ...
  • CalPERS, others may sue big banks on Libor rat ...
    Credit: bloomberg.comThe California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), the largest public pension in the country, is considering legal action against banks that fraudulently fixed the Libor rate. Quite a few other large, deep pocket firms, pension funds, brokerages, and municipalitie ...
  • California open primary leads to Democratic sl ...
    Credit: burbankleader.comThe new California open primary is, as expected, producing some unusual, tumultuous races. In the newly- drawn 30th Congressional District, the race is between two incumbent Democrats, Howard Berman and Brad Sherman. Because this is a new seat, only one can win. In the C ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Sarajevo, 1914; Damascus 2012?
    The killing, in Damascus today, of at least three powerful members of the Baathist regime in Syria, will almost certainly plunge that whole country-- and quite likely also much of the rest of the Greater Middle East-- into a maelstrom of inter-group violence far worse than any it has seen until ...
  • West Point military historian denies the net v ...
    The NYT has a very important piece today reporting that the head of the military history program at West Point has openly stated that the United States gained "not much" from 10.5 years of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The program head, Col. Gian Gentile, concluded-- presumably in light of the c ...
  • Jewish-Israeli public lurches yet further right
    I just read Yossi Gurvitz's chilling account of the attack that a right-wing mob in South Tel Aviv unleashed against his girlfriend Galina, and him, during the anti-African-refugees demonstration held there Tuesday. The main speaker at the demo was Michael Ben-Ari, an elected MK. Gurvitz writes ...
  • The rhythms of blogging and other work
    I had a great, though short, get-together with Josh Foust today. Josh is a top-notch analyst of the United States' various interventions(!) in Afghanistan and the other 'Stans over the past ten years. His work first came to my notice back in my old 'heavy-blogging' days-- let's say, in around 20 ...
  • The vulnerability of Palestinian refugees, rev ...
    I'm looking forward to seeing my old friend-- and now Just World Books's latest author-- Jonathan Randal, who'll be flying in to DC from Paris on Saturday. We've arranged for a bunch of public and less-public events for him next week, in both DC and New York. You can find the schedule for the pu ...

frogblog

  • Addressing the global crises with purpose and ...
    This is the first of a series of blogs reflecting on the Rio+20 conference of June 2012. It is a question of the cognitive framework we adopt, as individuals or governments. -          Do we regard the environmental problems we face today as in the nature of other problems human society has face ...
  • Unacceptable abuse of children in care
    CYFS is not keeping national records of the numbers of children abused in its care. Meanwhile the Government could be supporting a simple initiative that would help to improve the experiences of children and young people in care through an independent support network.
  • GE research innovation.
    U.S consumers are getting the chance to comment on a new GE crop. And what is this exciting new crop that will feed the starving poor and revolutionise horticulture? Just what we’ve always wanted: it’s an apple that doesn’t go brown when you cut it in half.
  • UN focus on NZ women
    The Government will be in front of the U.N Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination tomorrow our time, and all expectations are they will not be given any gold stars. NGOs and the Human Rights Commission have already presented and raised some serious concerns ...
  • Protecting the Mokihinui
    At its July meeting the West Coast Conservation Board decided unanimously to request the New Zealand Conservation Authority to use its powers under section 8 of the National Parks Act to investigate adding the Mokihinui River catchment to Kahurangi National Park. I have written to Conservation M ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Pain is in Your Brain and How to Fix It
    By Dr. Mercola Did you know that meditation provides greater reductions in pain intensity and pain unpleasantness than medications like morphine?1 This is because pain stems from your brain ... and retraining your brain is often one of the best pain-relieving solutions there is. As mention ...
  • This Nightly Activity Can Have a Profound Infl ...
    By Dr. Mercola A new study of 1,800 pairs of twins found that even if you're genetically predisposed to being overweight, there is one easy thing you can do to put yourself in control of how much weight you gain. As reported by CNN, researchers found that genes accounted for 70 percent of t ...
  • Known to Kill Cows, Castrate Wildlife, Induce ...
    By Dr. Mercola With the support of local prosecutors, Mr. Gloeckner, a German farmer who had 65 cows die after he fed them genetically modified Bt corn has filed criminal charges against the manufacturer, alleging that the company not only knew the corn could be lethal to livestock, but was c ...
  • This Life-Saving Mineral Found to Actually Inc ...
    By Dr. Mercola Iron is essential for virtually every life form, including humans, where it is a key part of various proteins and enzymes, involved in the transport of oxygen and the regulation of cell growth and differentiation, among other uses. One of the most important roles of iron is to ...
  • Break Out the Champagne! EFT One Step Closer t ...
    By Dr. Mercola A historic moment in the era of emotional freedom techniques (EFT) has arrived, with the finding that EFT is closer to meeting the criteria for evidence-based treatments proposed by the American Psychological Association (APA). In a critical review scheduled to appear in the ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Indian expulsion of armed forces in Colombia t ...
    The Nasa Indians have been caught in the crossfire of Colombia's civil war between the army and illegal armed groups © Francisco Pedro Nasa Indians in southwest Colombia are at the centre of a violent standoff between the army and left-wing guerrilla army the FARC (Revolutionary Armed ...
  • Brazil arrests 18 over high profile execution ...
    Indian leader Nísio Gomes was executed by masked gunmen last year. © Survival Brazilian authorities have arrested 18 people in connection with the high profile killing of an indigenous leader by masked gunmen. Religious leader Nísio Gomes was murdered in front of his Guarani community in t ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • Portugal: Number of Drug Addicts Halved a Deca ...
    from cryptogon.com: Via: Global Post: On July 1, 2001, Portugal decriminalized every imaginable drug, from marijuana, to cocaine, to heroin. Some thought Lisbon would become a drug tourist haven, others predicted usage rates among youths to surge. Eleven years later, it turns out they were bo ...
  • #BingeAndPurge: Soft-Kill, Kept Secret and more
    19 Ways Cancer Becomes the Ultimate Soft-Kill Operation* We Spend $20 Billion a Year to Fight Illegal Drugs, Yet Cocaine Is Cheaper Than It Was 30yrs Ago* Video: Obama's 2nd erm plan for 'war on drugs'* Special K for Depression Renews Hope in Hallucinogens* Video: The Opium Origi ...
  • Texas Republican Party calls for mandatory GMO ...
    from naturalnews.com: Delegates from the Texas Republican Party recently gathered in Fort Worth to iron out their party's official 2012 platform. And in the official platform document, it is spelled out that the Texas Republican Party is in full support of mandatory labeling of genetically-mod ...
  • US geoengineers to spray sun-reflecting chemic ...
    from guardian.co.uk: Two Harvard engineers are to spray sun-reflecting chemical particles into the atmosphere to artificially cool the planet, using a balloon flying 80,000 feet over Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The field experiment in solar geoengineering aims to ultimately create a technology to ...
  • EU agency lifts lid on drug data secrets
    from chicagotribune.com: Europe's medicines regulator, criticized in the past for excessive secrecy, is opening its data vaults to systematic scrutiny in a move that will let independent researchers trawl through millions of pages of clinical trial information. The change is a landmark in tra ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Price Of Corn Hits A Record High As A Glob ...
    Are you ready for the next major global food crisis?  The price of corn hit an all-time record high on Thursday.  So did the price of soybeans.  The price of corn is up about 50 percent since the middle of last month, and the price of wheat has risen by about 50 percent over the ...
  • 20 Signs That All Point To The Exact Same Thin ...
    The U.S. economy is in a massive amount of trouble.  There aren't enough jobs.  There isn't enough money to go around.  Business activity is slowing down again.  Household wealth has been falling.  Food prices have been rising.  Many state and local governments all over the count ...
  • 11 International Agreements That Are Nails In ...
    Is the petrodollar dead?  Well, not yet, but the nails are being hammered into the coffin even as you read this.  For decades, most of the nations of the world have used the U.S. dollar to buy oil and to trade with each other.  In essence, the U.S. dollar has been acting as a tru ...
  • These 12 Hellholes Are Examples Of What The Re ...
    Do you want to see where this country is headed?  If so, don't focus on the few areas that are still very prosperous.  New York City has Wall Street, Washington D.C. has the federal government and Silicon Valley has Google and Facebook.  Those are the exceptions.  The reality is ...
  • 27 Things That Every American Should Know Abou ...
    The U.S. government has stolen $15,876,457,645,132.66 from future generations of Americans, and we continue to add well over a hundred million dollars to that total every single day day.  The 15 trillion dollar binge that we have been on over the past 30 years has fueled the grea ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Cinema shooter: Something not right here...
    It would be foolish to rush to conjure up incredible conspiracy theories in light of the horrific events at the cinema in Colorado where people lost their lives and many were injured. However, we do have to raise an eyebrow as something here sounds a little strange. This is taken from a re ...
  • Spain "becoming ungovernable" as violence brea ...
    Over the last couple of weeks, we've covered Spain more than enough times - particularly in relation to the defiant protests by Asturian miners. Yesterday, over a million people took to the streets to protest at austerity and diminishing living standards with violent clashes breaking out in M ...
  • The majority can't kill off Nick Clegg's "UK B ...
    The thinly veiled attempt to subvert the constitution, known as the consultation on a "UK Bill Of Rights", is back. As this country already has a Bill of Rights, we will not accept any EU-Nick Clegg-Common Purpose propelled piece of trash with the same name. Yet in another example of how t ...
  • Dave, The Great Dictator and His Conservative ...
    On the day the Daily Express places the UK's greater trade with the non-EU world front page and claims that our trade data has "sent a defiant message to Europe", the Conservative Party have followed in the well worn path set by their former Prime Minister, the hated traitor Edward Heath - stick ...
  • Quote of the Day: (Hopefully) Goodbye European ...
    "THE EU is no longer the UK’s main export market, according to research published today by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR)." - Ben Southwood report for the highly respected City A.M. ...especially stark considering so many of our 'exports' to the EU are fiddled by cou ...

Facing South

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • How to Upgrade to Fireox 14.0.1 in Ubuntu 12.0 ...
    Firefox 14.0.1 has just been released and since it is a major release, updates will be coming to official Ubuntu repositories soon. But for the impatient folks among you, here is how you upgrade to Firefox 14.0.1 from Firefox 13.0.1 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin". Insta ...
  • Xubuntu 12.04 LTS Review: Perfect Alternative ...
    Negative publicity around Ubuntu Unity and GNOME Shell is proving to be a real blessing in disguise for a bunch of smaller, lightweight distros like Xubuntu, Lubuntu et al. As much as I like Unity and GNOME Shell, they are not really the ideal choice for under-powered devices like netbooks. ...
  • 25 Things I did After Installing Ubuntu 12.04 ...
    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" is proving everyone wrong. It is perhaps the most loved Ubuntu release since "Lucid Lynx". Unity is now an almost-finished product. The rock solid nature of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS along with bold moves such as the introduction of features like HUD is winning the h ...
  • Best Free Android Apps for TV and Film Buffs
    Some people say that smart phones are slowly killing televisions as a source of viewing content, but we believe that the two go hand in hand. After all, you don't have to choose one over the other. Being the nice folks we are, we decided to find you the very best Android apps that will ...
  • How to Connect Blackberry Playbook with Ubuntu ...
    I bought a Blackberry Playbook recently, primarily because of its rock-bottom pricing which suddenly made it an excellent value-for-money Tablet. It was the base 16 GB version and when I tried connecting it to my Ubuntu via USB, Playbook was just not being automatically detected as a USB d ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • On the 68th anniversary of Stauffenberg’ ...
    Today, on the 68th anniversary of the failed attempt by Claus von Stauffenberg to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime, Germany — and Europe and the USA — is once more threatened by dictatorship, a puppet parliament and a police state. http://www.iol.co.za/news/worl ...
  • ALARM OVER NEW POLISH FORCED VACCINATION MEASURES
    The Polish government is ramming through new pandemic forced vaccination laws at top speed. Check out Ryszard Wiercinski’s petition in Polish: http://www.petycjeonline.pl/petycja/stop-przymusowi-szczepien/912 The measures approved by the Polish Sejm on June 15th 2012 give a clue as what co ...
  • Irish mother goes into hiding to prevent vacci ...
    Claire O’Sullivan from Waterford, Ireland, has gone into hiding to protect her son from forced vaccination. Claire is preparing to fight the next round of her legal battle to be allowed not to give her child vaccines against the wishes of the natural father at the Irish High Court in October. ht ...
  • People to be given “pre-pandemic” ...
    Governments are now planning to give people pandemic vaccines  when there is no pandemic, Reuters admits. This latest wheeze goes under the name of “pre-pandemic” vaccination. As Dr Rebecca Carley pointed out, the only way a pandemic will start is if people are foolish enough to take ...
  • US drug regulator spied on — and fired & ...
    FDA Lawyers Getting Heat Over Agency Spying on Scientists, Doctors From Blog of Legal Times The Food and Drug Administration’s top lawyers are under fire from Congress for apparently explicitly authorizing, in writing, a program to conduct surveillance on agency scientists who expressed sa ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Lights, Smoking Mirrors and Misdirection
    By Les Visible It’s never the appearance of what is in front of you that is important, it’s what’s behind the scenes. It’s never what the magician appears to be doing, it’s what he’s actually doing, while you are engaged in observing the former. That’s h ...
  • Quote of the Day – Our race is the Maste ...
    Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the ...
  • IPCC Admits Its Past Reports Were Junk
    By Joseph L. Bast On June 27, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a statement saying it had “complete[d] the process of implementation of a set of recommendations issued in August 2010 by the InterAcademy Council (IAC), the group created by the world’s science ...
  • That’s No Phone. That’s My Tracker
    by Peter Maass and Megha Rajagopalan The device in your purse or jeans that you think is a cellphone — guess again. It is a tracking device that happens to make calls. Let’s stop calling them phones. They are trackers. Most doubts about the principal function of these devices were erased when it ...
  • $3.5 Billion was spent on corporate lobbying i ...
        Refreshing News: $3.5 Billion was spent on corporate lobbying in 2010 — What did it buy? The return on investment of corporate lobbying [Graphic].
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