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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, July 21, 2012

21 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Veterans Today

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

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO: Digest for July 13-July 21
    Stop NATO: Digest for July 13-July 21 Why NATO States’ Syria Resolution Failed Again Rebel “Storm” In Damascus: Reality Or A Show? U.S. Plans To Act Against Syria Outside UN Troubling: Russian Diplomat Russian Envoy On Syria: More Western Geopolitics Than Humanitarianism Syria and Bulgaria: U.S. ...
  • Why NATO States’ Syria Resolution Failed ...
    Xinhua News Agency July 20, 2012 Why Western-backed Syria draft resolution fails again      By Wei Wei ==== During intensive negotiations in the past several days, the Security Council’s consultation room has turned into a fierce diplomatic battle zone and the core disagreem ...
  • Rebel “Storm” In Damascus: Reality ...
    Voice of Russia July 21, 2012 “Storm of Damascus” – a reality or a show? Andrei Ontikov ==== It is well-known that the generous financing of the rebels also comes from some of the Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf. Besides, according to some experts, the Syrian revolution is paid for with the ...
  • U.S. Plans To Act Against Syria Outside UN Tro ...
    Interfax July 20, 2012 U.S. plans to act on Syria bypassing UN send troubling signal – Russian diplomat MOSCOW: Russia is concerned over plans announced by the United States to influence Damascus bypassing the UN Security Council. “If such statements and such plans are elements of re ...
  • Russian Envoy On Syria: More Western Geopoliti ...
    RT July 20, 2012 ‘Don’t be duped by Western humanitarian rhetoric on Syria’ – Russia’s UN ambassador ==== [H]umanitarian intervention unfortunately only sounds humane, but the fact of the matter is that any military intervention for whatever reason is inevitably going to cause more bloodsh ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Death-Obsessed Culture, Not Gun Rights, To Bla ...
    Political opportunists seize upon tragedy to attack second amendment Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Friday, July 20, 2012 Within hours of the tragic ‘Batman’ shooting in Aurora, Colorado, political opportunists have seized upon the incident to push for gun control, with New York Mayor Michael B ...
  • Russia and China Slap Down Yet Another Western ...
    By Madison Ruppert theintelhub.com July 20, 2012 As I have pointed out in the past, Russia and China have been providing a pretty significant stumbling block for the Western nations which have so clearly been attempting to ratchet up the United Nations sanctions against Syria, likely in an effor ...
  • IARPA’s Great Horned Owl Program: Collecting I ...
    By Madison Ruppert theintelhub.com July 20, 2012 The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA), the intelligence community’s equivalent of the mad scientist-like Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is seeking to develop silent drones inspired by owls. For those who ar ...
  • Syria Roulette
    By Stephen Lendman, Contributor theintelhub.com July 20, 2012 In Las Vegas, the house seldom loses. Rarely are dirty Washington schemes foiled. It’s playing hardball against Syria. Its dirty hands are all over months of violence. In a July 18 press briefing, State Department spokesman Patr ...
  • Israel Likely Behind Bulgaria False Flag
    By Stephen Lendman, Contributor theintelhub.com July 20, 2012 Israel’s history is odious. State terror is policy. It’s a dagger pointed at humanity’s heart. False flags and targeted assassinations are specialties. Mossad and Shin Bet (Israel’s Security Agency) have notori ...

FRS

  • India: Press Statement by Maruti Suzuki Worke ...
    The Maruti Suzuki Workers Union (MSWU) is anguished at the recent developments in Maruti Suzuki plant, IMT Manesar where the management has resorted to anti-worker and anti-Union activities in a pre-planned manner leading to violence and the closure of the factory yesterday. We have had a long t ...
  • India: Saturday, July 21, Delhi–Solidari ...
  • The US hand in which Egyptian glove? — M ...
    [When the people rose up against the Mubarak compradarchy, some said the US-Mubarak relationship would not be broken.  But soon, the US imperial hegemonists decided to unhinge their prospects from Mubarak, and focus efforts on sidelining the popular revolt by encouraging the Egyptian military to ...
  • The US hand in which Egyptian glove? — M ...
    [When the people rose up against the Mubarak compradarchy, some said the US-Mubarak relationship would not be broken.  But soon, the US imperial hegemonists decided to unhinge their prospects from Mubarak, and focus efforts on sidelining the popular revolt by encouraging the Egyptian military to ...
  • NYPD Posts ‘Wanted’ Flyer Targeting Couple Tha ...
    By Aviva Shen, ThinkProgress, July 3, 2012 The New York Police Department has put out a “police advisory” flyer warning cops and residents to look out for two “professional agitators,” a Harlem couple who film officers stopping and frisking young New Yorkers of color. DNAinfo reports that Matthe ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, J ...
    This week's roundup of the most amazing images we've seen this week zooms in, to see these stinkbug eggs up close--and then zooms out, to see an exoplanet, 33 light-years away. We go to the present, with the leg that'll help a double-amputee compete in the Olympic Games, and to the future, with ...
  • Archive Gallery: A Century of Weather Control
    Fighting hail with chemicals, combatting tornadoes with computers, and other weather-battling techniques from the PopSci archive Ever since we left prayers to the rain gods behind, we've been looking to science to solve our weather dilemmas. Not just to discover where a storm will hit, but how ...
  • Images of the Week, July 16-20, 2012
  • Researchers Build First Complete Computer Mode ...
    To conduct experiments, researchers can change a variable in an organism and watch the results unfold. But life is messy, and it's difficult to understand the underlying processes that explain the data. Digitizing the process could help, and now we're starting small: researchers have successful ...
  • Archive Gallery: A Century of Weather Control

Veterans Today

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

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • The Dark Knight Rises: American Life Imitates Art
    Nobody really doubts that Americans have an exceptional penchant for violence. Over the years, they have spent far more than any other nation building up an unparalleled capability to destroy human life. Despite various massacres like the current one, it remains exceptionally easy to acquire wea ...
  • Yale, Money Lust, Academic Freedom & Singapore
    There's much talk about how American academia differs from British academia. Separated by a common language and all that as applied to the ivory towers. To me, nowhere is this more evident than in views about revenue generation in academia. Unlike in the US, nearly all quality UK institutions of ...
  • Priceless: Mastercard/Visa Win at WTO vs China
    Yours truly has long noted that the PRC has not been too forthcoming about allowing foreign financial services providers to do business in China. As it turns out, not only is it difficult for foreign banks to set up branches in the mainland, but it is also difficult for American credit card firm ...
  • Doesn't Guanxi Work in the US for Chinee Firms?
    Let us begin by defining "guanxi" [關係], or forming relationships crucial to doing business in China:  “Guanxi” literally means "relationships", stands for any type of relationship. In the Chinese business world, however, it is also understood as the network of relationships among various ...
  • Catholic Church on Finance and Financial Crises
    I once again came upon the pre-Benedict XVI Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church (2004) while looking for something else. While Marginal Revolution's all-purpose commentator Tyler Cowen may be no fan of Caritas in veritate, he does state that "our versions of capitalism and democracy ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Unholy Silence of Church leaders
    Last week a documentary titled Unholy Silence was aired in Australia. It detailed Australian church leaders covering up child sex offences by their priests, and examined two suicides resulting directly from a priest’s abuse, and the callous re-abuse of his victims by church leaders. The Australi ...
  • Anything Less Than A Royal Commission Is Just ...
    For far too long Australians have been happy to turn their backs on the untold suffering of thousands of victims of church-enabled sexual predators. But ignoring the problem simply ensures it continues, and gives rapists the message that they have a right to destroy as many innocent lives as the ...
  • Historic Inquiry to Provide First Taste of Jus ...
    I have just received notification that in a few minutes the first official investigation into the Australian catholic church’s enabling and coverup of widespread child sexual assault will be announced. I congratulate the Victorian state government on being the first government in Australia ...
  • Why does the catholic church continue to abuse ...
    Every now and then I come across a summary of the catholic church’s exploitation and abandonment of children that pulls it all together so accurately, or captures the horror of honest, ordinary people at the atrocities committed by the Church of Child Rape. When I respond to a piece of wri ...
  • Just Like in Hunger Games the Church is killin ...
    The catholic church, when faced with the choice of protecting itself or preventing children from being raped, has consistently chosen to sacrifice the children. Usually without a second thought. This is not a claim without evidence. There is ample proof. In recent years there have been official, ...

WL Central

  • 2012-07-21 WikiLeaks News Update: Manning pre- ...
    WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 595 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 592 days. - 32 days at the Ecuadorian Embassy. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 789 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. with ...
  • 2012-07-18 WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE: WikiLeaks ...
    After almost two years of fighting an unlawful banking blockade by U.S financial giants VISA and MasterCard, WikiLeaks has announced it is back open for donations. After WikiLeaks' publications revealing U.S. war crimes and statecraft in 2010, U.S. financial institutions erected a banking blocka ...
  • 2012-07-18 WikiLeaks News Update: WikiLeaks op ...
    WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 592 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 589 days. - 29 days at the Ecuadorian Embassy. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 786 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. with ...
  • 2012-07-17 Condi and Hillary's "Tug of War" wi ...
    For isolated and impoverished countries, it can sometimes prove difficult to pursue an independent foreign policy which challenges Washington's traditional sphere of influence. Take, for example, tiny Paraguay which has recently been convulsed in political instability. Four years ago, Fernando L ...
  • 2012-07-15 Après Assange, Le Déluge
    King Louis XV is widely credited with the phrase “Après moi, le déluge” (after me, the deluge), although it may have been spoken by Madame de Pompadour, his official mistress (the title was by appointment at the time: she divorced her husband after assuming the position). In any case, it was pro ...

U N News

  • UN expert urges US authorities to stop executi ...
    An independent United Nations human rights expert has urged United States authorities to stop the execution of two people with psychosocial disabilities who are scheduled to be put to death tomorrow in the states of Georgia and Texas.
  • UN voices concern over thousands of Haitians f ...
    The United Nations refugee agency today voiced concern over the number of people from Haiti and other Caribbean countries who have risked their lives trying to escape by sea from difficult living situations in their homelands.
  • Feature: UN official sees first-hand New York ...
    Upper Manhattan is not the usual stomping ground for the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the part of the UN charged with helping in global efforts against illicit drugs, crime and terrorism.
  • Historic forts on Panama's coastline placed on ...
    Citing environmental factors, lack of maintenance and uncontrollable urban developments, the World Heritage Committee today placed an historic Panamanian property on its list of endangered world heritage.
  • Ban urges peaceful resolution of differences w ...
    Ahead of a regional meeting on Paraguay, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on all concerned to "work in the days ahead to ensure the peaceful resolution of differences" which led to the removal of the South American country's president.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • The Great Olive Oil Scam!
    You thought you were making an informed health choice by using extra-virgin olive oil in place of cheaper, low-quality cooking oils, right? You probably never thought that a tiny, expensive bottle of EVOO might be cut with crap or doctored with chlorophyll to make it taste like olive oil -- ...
  • WARNING!... MASSIVE FDA RECALL!... Glass Par ...
    Having to deal with the mental and physical pains of cancer is bad enough, but it's worse when you have to fear the medicine used to treat it.~ JD Heyes read more
  • Obama vs. Romney... The Founding Fathers Would ...
    It is not exactly a confrontation for the ages. This November sees Barack Obama, a failed and empty liberal who scorns the Democrat machine, up against the Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, a man whose entire life has been spent accumulating money. ~ Walter Ellis read more
  • The Real Bill Gates And Warren Buffett
    Bill Gates asks Warren Buffett how to run the world...~ Jon Rappoport - Video read more
  • Rockefeller’s Depopulation Dreams Published by ...
    What is most interesting about the eugenics based Rockefeller Foundation’s ideology (an ideology which shined brightly in a recent 2010 publication) is the fact that it essentially forecasts future events but claims that it is not a forecast in anyway, thus leaving the doors wide open for th ...

Tarpley

  • NATO Activates Ben Rhodes Plan for Coup and Ge ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV July 18, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
  • Tarpley to Speak at New World Fair Event
    The Unisphere commissioned for the 1964-65 New York’s World Fair Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net July 18, 2012 Webster Tarpley will address The New World Fair event in the Queens Art Museum Building ar the Unisphere at Flushing Meadow, Queens, between 1 and 4pm during the afternoon ...
  • Charlie Skelton of The Guardian Exposes the NA ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV July 13, 2012 [download video] [download audio] PressTV talks with Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley, author and historian from Washington, regarding the issue. Below is an approximate transcript of the interview. Press TV: We recently saw a massacre take place in th ...
  • World Crisis Radio
    New programs posted weekly on Saturday evenings Listen now or download to your mp3 player. World Crisis Radio Ad-Free RSS Feed! Select Year 2012 2011 2010 Select Program July 14, 2012 July 7, 2012 June 30, 2012 June 23, 2012 June 16, 2012 June 9, 2012 June 2, 2012 May 26, 2012 [...]
  • Racism and Secessionism: The Nineteenth-Centur ...
    Webster G. Tarpley on the Jeff Rense Program rense.com July 11, 2012 [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

  • We Are In An Invisible Depression
    “We are in a depression, but you can’t see it”, says Al Lewis a business columnist, while recently speaking with the Wall Street Journal’s News Hub. You know how Ben Bernanke said that he averted a Great Recession? What he really did was he blinded us to the fact that we ...
  • By Any Means Necessary?
    Warning: Conspiracy Content – may provoke unexpected emotional response – reader caution advised ‘Some’ believe that ‘they’ need a 2nd term of ‘their man’ in the WH to finish the implementation plan. ‘Some’ are those who stretch their h ...
  • When The Water Stops Flowing
    There will be… Looting of all the grocery stores by the second or third day Minor outbreaks of violence during the looting. Shop owners, for example, may attempt to defend their shops with firearms Mass exodus of residents from the city in search of water Ransacking of any houses or farms ...
  • Living in a Tiny Home – With No Mortgage
    Here is an interesting video about a family that downsized in a major way.  While so many people today feel they must have that BIG HOUSE, the one that will consume most of their take-home pay, there are others who settle for less while knowing that the sooner it’s paid off, the more &#821 ...
  • Cape Cod ‘Shakedown’ Trip
    The MSB crew (me, the Mrs. and Sampson) have been enjoying a few days R&R on Cape Cod. We’ve recently picked up a ’5th-wheel’ and plan to do a fair amount of off-and-on traveling around the country during the next 12 months (or longer?) – which should prove interesti ...

Fast Company

  • After A Two-Year Delay, Kayak's IPO Soars On I ...
    News updates all day from Fast Company.After shaky market conditions that held up Kayak's IPO for two years, the online travel company--which debuted on the NASDAQ today at an initial price of $26 a share--hit a soaring $35 high before closing at $33.48. The good news has been a long time coming ...
  • The Thread: What Are Your "Principles of Innov ...
    What do you do to foster innovation in your organization?One of the most popular stories on Fast Company this week was published in 2008. Chuck Salter's piece, "Marissa Mayer's 9 Principles of Innovation", enjoyed a traffic resurgence upon the news of Mayer's appointment as CEO of Yahoo!&nb ...
  • Good News For Gmail: Google Captures Sparrow
    News updates all day from Fast Company.Gmail's notoriously limited iOS app is about to get some help from the creators of a popular alternative email app called Sparrow. Sparrow's developers, who also developed a similar email client for Mac, announced on Friday that their company has been acqui ...
  • Betaworks' News.Me Team Is Rebuilding An All-N ...
    News updates from Fast Company.The team at News.me, a mobile news app from NYC tech incubator Betaworks, says we'll see a completely rebuilt version of Digg on August 1, built out in just six weeks by their team of 10. We already knew Betaworks was going to put the News.me team to work on Digg w ...
  • This Week In Bots: Will Robots Cause Even More ...
    Bot Vid: NASA's Moon ProbeNASA, the Automaton blog tells us, is busy testing a new device called the Regolith and Environment Science and Oxygen and Lunar Volatiles Extraction, destined to one day be used by robots on the Moon. The device, RESOLVE for short, is designed to drill and sample the l ...

Jadaliyya

  • العمال المصريون، من الإتهام بالفئوية إلى الإته ...
    محاولات ضرب العمال  ”كلاكيت تانى مرة“، فقد كانت المرة الأولى عقب تنحي مبارك مباشرة، حيث وجدنا بعض القوى السياسية، وفي المقدمة منها الإخوان المسلمون يقودون حملة إعلامية ضد العمال وإضراباتهم، متهمينهم بتعطيل الإنتاج، وبمحاولة ركوب الثورة التي لم يشاركوا فيها، ووصموا مطالبهم بالفئوية، ثم يأتي ...
  • Beyond Libya's Election
    On July 7, 2012, 1.7 million citizens participated in Libya’s first democratic election with multiple parties in nearly half a century, marking a historic achievement. Approximately 60 percent of Libya’s registered voters cast their votes to elect a 200-member national assembly that will replace ...
  • Syrian Refugees: Lessons from Other Conflicts ...
    As the violence and conflict intensifies in Syria, it is important to remember the growing movement of displaced persons and refugees. The recent experiences of Iraqis, Libyans, and Palestinians offer lessons on how to address the needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees and how ...
  • فلسطينيو سورية والثورة السورية
      بعد قيام إسرائيل (١٩٤٨)، بوسائل القوّة، واستيلائها على ٧٧ بالمئة من أرض فلسطين، تمّ تهجير حوالي ٨٥٠ ألفاً من الفلسطينيين من أراضيهم وممتلكاتهم، وتشريدهم في البلدان المجاورة (إضافة إلى الضفة والقطاع)، وقد وفد إلى سورية منهم، حوالي ٩٠ ألفاً، مانسبته ٢ بالمئة من مجموع السوريين.  &nbsp ...
  • Maghreb Media Roundup (July 19)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@jadali ...

mediagazer

  • Michael Caruso, Smithsonian's new editor, sees ...
    Ellen McCarthy / Washington Post: Michael Caruso, Smithsonian's new editor, sees a livelier future for magazine  —  Michael Caruso announced his arrival at Smithsonian Magazine with a cover image of a 50-foot snake poised to bite off the heads of unsuspecting readers.  &mda ...
  • What the Colorado shooting says about us (Jack ...
    Jack Shafer: What the Colorado shooting says about us  —  The Colorado movie massacre imposes on us once again the temptation to extrapolate lessons from a demented act of violence.  Depending on the lens through which the massacre is viewed, it has encouraged some to resta ...
  • When Tragedy Hits, Photojournalists Balance Re ...
    Jakob Schiller / Wired: When Tragedy Hits, Photojournalists Balance Reporting and Emotion  —  “He was screaming at the top his lungs, ‘Have you seen my son?’” says Barry Gutierrez, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who has been covering today's shooti ...
  • Are news bureaus good for breaking news? (Erik ...
    Erik Wemple: Are news bureaus good for breaking news?  —  In November 2009, the Washington Post announced that it was closing its remaining domestic bureaus in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.  Howard Kurtz, The Post's media reporter at the time, noted in a news story tha ...
  • NPR hires lobbyists as GOP targets public broa ...
    Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley: NPR hires lobbyists as GOP targets public broadcasting funds  —  National Public Radio has hired lobbying firm Navigators Global, according to disclosure forms filed Thursday.  —  NPR has come under fire from some Republican lawma ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Bolton's Muamba to carry Olympic torch
    LONDON (Reuters) -- Bolton Wanderers player Fabrice Muamba, who almost died after suffering cardiac arrest in an FA Cup tie this year, will carry the Olympic torch on Saturday, organizers said. Muamba, who moved to the London borough of Waltham Forest from the Democratic Republic of Congo wh ...
  • Wiggins nears title; Cavendish wins stage
    BRIVE-LA-GAILLARDE, FRANCE â For...
  • Cristiano Ronaldo: I try to be romantic b ...
    The Portuguese has always dated beautiful women but he insists that what matters most to him is what is on the inside, claiming that the heart is the most important...
  • Obama Urges Americans to Honor Victims of ...
    President Barack Obama has returned to Washington after suspending political campaigning in response to the shootings at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. The president has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff to honor the victims of the tragedy. Obama arrived after the flight on Air F ...
  • Obama has strong case, wrong strategy
    REAL DIVIDE: Issues on America's future are lost in the heat of the Obama-Romney battle President Barack Obama speaking during a fundraising event in San Antonio, Texas, on Tuesday. Obama has a broader economic strategy than Republican candidate Mitt Romney. AP pic 1 / 1 THE United States pr ...

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Anna's News

  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
  • Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...
    For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |& ...
  • South Sudan becomes an independent nation
    South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • News of the World staff shocked at closure
    Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Fans garner signatures in support of Kings XI ...
    CHANDIGARH - Dejected over the ouster of Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) from the Indian Premier League (IPL), fans of the team here have started a signature campaign to garner public support against the decision. They have constituted a group called Fans of Kings XI Punjab, consisting of students and ...
  • Even turtles and wasps need a little play time
    WASHINGTON - Watching kids and dogs play is not an alien sight. However, what about a turtle or even a wasp? Well, it seems they play, too. Gordon Burghardt, a psychology professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has discovered that many animals-not just dogs, cats, and monkeys-need ...
  • Oz PM Gillard says trade union official?s 9/11 ...
    CANBERRA - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed as “stupid and wrong” a senior union official’s belief that the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy, but refused to discipline him. Kevin Bracken, the president of the Victorian Trades Hall and secretary of the Mari ...
  • Turmeric boosts effect of chemo drug in head a ...
    WASHINGTON - Researchers with UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center have found that curcumin, the major component in the spice turmeric, when combined with the drug Cisplatin enhances the chemotherapy’s suppression of head and neck cancer cell growth. In India, women for years have been usi ...
  • Neanderthal children were ?large, sturdy and t ...
    WASHINGTON - Remains of the youngest Neanderthal ever found suggest that those who made it to the ‘terrible two’s’ were large, sturdy and toothy. The remains of this infant - a lower jaw and teeth unearthed in a Belgian cave - are that of the youngest Neanderthal ever found i ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Free speech in Australia under threat - Part 1
    DISCLAIMER: This article is NOT an advertisement for "black salve", nor should it be construed as promoting the use of "black salve". We tend to believe that in Australia, despite excessive taxation, nanny state legislation, over-regulation and a spiralling cost of living, we at least have fre ...
  • World Roundup with George Georgios - Part 1
    Today we bring you a show which covers a wide range of stories from around the world, including news on all the latest annoying Nanny State measures which our listeners have come to expect from TNRA. Some topics covered include the introduction of high tech surveillance drones in Queensland, f ...
  • News roundup and an interview with Frank Legge
    NOTE: Due to major commitments, I am currently unable to remove ads from TNRA podcasts. I welcome any offers of assistance in this regard. In this week's show we begin with a roundup of breaking news within Australia and around the world. Some of the topics covered include Julian Assange's b ...
  • David Chandler and John Bursill address the fr ...
    Today John Bursill takes the helm as guest host. John is joined by two excellent guests who have become known within the 9/11 Truth Movement as two of it's most wise and reasonable voices. We warmly welcome Ken Jenkins in the first hour and David Chandler in the second. Also we are very lucky ...
  • The ancient pyramidal structure of human socie ...
    Part 2 of The ancient pyramidal structure of human society and its psychology

Beacon

  • Victory in Spain! National Park Saved from Oil ...
    Many birds make their homes in the wetlands of Doñana National Park ©Wikimedia Commons We’re pleased to announce that the Spanish government has put an end to proposed oil industry development that would have threatened the Doñana National Park, a World Heritage Site, after campaigning by Oce ...
  • And the 2012 Ocean Heroes Are…
    James Hemphill and Captain Don Voss, our 2012 Ocean Heroes You’ve been waiting with bated breath to find out who this year’s Ocean Heroes are, and the time has finally come to announce our winners! We received over 400 fantastic nominations this year, and narrowed it down to six adult finali ...
  • Creature Feature: Seahorse
    Camouflaging in coral ©Wikimedia Commons Though you won’t see them saddled and ready to ride anytime soon, seahorses are pretty fascinating little sea creatures. Named for their resemblance to the horses that we’re used to seeing on land, the seahorse is one of the slowest moving fish in the ...
  • Victory for Mediterranean Sharks and Rays
    Hammerheads are one of ten species that are now protected ©Wikimedia Commons Sharks and rays in the Mediterranean have something to be happy about this week—10 species now have special protections under the Barcelona Convention. These 10 species—including hammerheads and shortfin makos—have ...
  • And the Winner is…to be Announced July 18!
    Volunteer Group at World Oceans Day 2012 ©Oceana Voting for the 2012 Ocean Heroes Awards closed yesterday and thanks to your status updates, tweets, retweets and emails, we received over 8,000 votes that will determine this year’s winners. In six days, we’ll reveal those winners (oh, the su ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Viking Shields.
    Viking Shields were mostly wood. Literature tells us that Linden wood was used but archeological evidence suggests fur, alder and poplar were used. These did not split and had fibers that resisted penetration. Viking shields ranged in size on the large end at 48 inches across and on the short en ...
  • 43 Years Ago Today, We Went To The Moon.
      It seems so amazing that we actually made it to and from another heavenly body. It seems even stranger to be making this post on a computer with tens of millions times more processing power than the onboard flight computer of the Saturn Rocket that made it there. Yet, we could no more go ...
  • Napoleon’s Mistress.
      The Battle of Eylau was one of those victories for the Grande Armee that a commander might prefer not to boast about. Rules of engagement for the 15th through the 19th centuries generally gave the win to who ever stayed on the battlefield, a call not unlike a tie that goes to the runner [...]
  • The Roman Emperors Weren’t Warring With ...
      In the first century AD politics roiled hotly through Rome. Around 42 BC, the Roman Senate, the wake of the murder of Julius Caesar, declared that Caesar had been a God; and so it was partly by divine imprimatur that Octavian, Caesar’s adopted son, and Mark Anthony and Marcus Aemilius Lep ...
  • The Astonishing Casualty Count Of The Firebomb ...
      March 9th, 1945, wave after wave of US B-29 Super Fortress bombers lay down 2000 tons of incendiary ordinance on Tokyo over the next two days. Some 16 square miles in and around the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Launchig out of Saipan and Tinian Islands in the Marriannas, the B-29s would be s ...

Taylor Marsh

  • A Moment of Zen… and Something To Watch
    SIT BACK and listen to the best selling jazz song of the 20th century… Then watch the full episode of “Political Animals.” Sigourney Weaver plays Secretary of State Elaine Barrish, with a family of misfits, in a world that’s always on boil, in an age where the media is lo ...
  • Queer Talk: Lesbian PAC & Young Conservatives ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. In signs of election year politics the Lesbian PAC and Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry were recently launched. For a bit of LGBT related political context, see Gay Rights Supplants Abortion as Major Platf ...
  • Pat Sajak, The Right’s New Buckley
    Watch More News Videos at ABC 2012 Presidential Election Entertainment & Celebrity News OVER AT POWERLINE, Paul Mirengoff is quoting Pat Sajak. Oh, how far the once Grand Old Party has fallen. From citing William F. Buckley to quoting a game show host, though that he’s from the &#8220 ...
  • Colorado Shooting Rampage at Theater Showing ‘ ...
    Witnesses told KUSA that the gunman kicked in an emergency exit door and threw a smoke bomb into the darkened theater before opening fire. One movie-goer, who was not identified, told KUSA the gunman was wearing a gas mask. Some people in the audience thought the thick smoke and gunfire was a sp ...
  • Ann Romney is Wrong: 54-37% People Want Mitt T ...
    “We’ve given all… [you].. people need to know and understand about our financial situation and how we live our life.” – Ann Romney on “Good Morning America” [Politico] IT’S NOT REALLY what Ann Romney said, as much as how her interview came off, which is why &# ...

Hudson New York

  • Wheat at record is the worst thing that could ...
    The price of wheat on the active futures contract shot up to $943 a bushel from only $625 a bushel just a month ago, due to the drought in the US Midwest and other factors. That is a further blow to stability in Egypt, the world's largest wheat importer,
  • Intel for the FSA
    C.L Chivers' piece on the bomb skills of Syrian rebels July 18 got a lot of attention. The New York Times reporter noted, Improvised bombs have steadily become the most punishing weapon in the otherwise underequipped rebels' arsenal, repeatedly
  • Who Will Save the Christians in the Gaza Strip?
    Are Palestinian Christians living in the Gaza Strip being kidnapped by Muslims who force them to convert to Islam? This is a story that is considered taboo among many Palestinians, who prefer to lay all the blame only on Israel. According to the Greek
  • Mega-Mosques: "Building a French Islam"
    The Socialist government in France has inaugurated a new mega-mosque in Paris as a first step towards "progressively building a French Islam." The new mosque, located in the northern Paris suburb of Cergy-Pontoise, is not only vast in its dimensions
  • The Holders of Absolute Truth
    A few days ago, en route to the south of Italy, where the cultural climate is less influenced by Europe than it is by the Mediterranean, there was a row even before the plane took off, a heated exchange between the Italian chief steward and two Egyptian

Urban Survival

  • Gunman Goes Batty!
    CNN was reporting earlier this morning that 14 people have been killed and 50 wounded at a theater’s early run overnight of the newe Batman movie.  What makes this story particularly bizarre is that it takes place less than 15-miles … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Radiation Readings
    Earlier this week I got to wondering how the radiation readings in the US today compare with the fallout that was dumped on the US in the wake of the Soviet air blasts of the Cold War.  Since it turns … Continue reading →
  • Post Office Default Coming?
    Unless something happens in Washington, the Post Office might miss an August 1 payment into a healthcare fund for future retirees.  As jawboning continues in Washington, we’re left to wonder why the federal government doesn’t do the obvious:  Auction off … Continue re ...
  • Coping: Is We Cooked?
    (San Juan Islands, WA)  At the risk of being a Johnny-come-lately (a term that has to keep Johnny’s lawyers busy with slander actions) I’m starting to get half interested in doing some home science involving the amount of radiation floating … Continue reading →
  • The Biggest Problem in the World
    May not be financial…   I don’t claim to be a geologist but there is something going on which is just below the public perception level and it has to do with global cataclysm which may be coming to our earthly … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile Given the dramatic decrease in costs and increasing efficiency of solar modules, it is becoming increasingly viable to finance and build competitive solar projects in Chile. This is one r ...
  • "Super Greenhouse Gas" Update: Will China and ...
    David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. I’ve just arrived in Bangkok, where negotiators from around the world will convene next week for the mid-year meeting of the Montreal Protocol, the world&rsqu ...
  • The City of LA wants to hear from YOU!
    Kristin Eberhard, Legal Director, Western Energy and Climate Projects, Santa Monica Would you like your neighborhood streets and sidewalks to be safer so that your kids can walk or bike to school, or you can walk or bike to the store?  Do you w ...
  • Closer Than You Think: Downward Trend in U.S. ...
    Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. Carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels in the United States have fallen by almost 9 percent since 2005, while the economy expanded by more than 5 percent. The foreca ...
  • See How Your State Is Putting Transportation D ...
    Rob Perks, Transportation Advocacy Director, Washington, D.C. Last month Congress avoided "transpoggedon" -- the expiration of the federal transportation program -- by finally enacting new authorizing legislation. That's good new ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • Now Ignorance of Foreign Law Is, Apparently, N ...
    From the Wall Street Journal: Without warning, 30 federal agents with guns and bulletproof vests stormed our guitar factories in Tennessee. They shut down production, sent workers home, seized boxes of raw materials and nearly 100 guitars, and ultimately cost … Continue reading →Now ...
  • If You Haven’t Done Anything Wrong, You Have N ...
    From the Baltimore Sun: Mary and Michael Major’s 18-year-old son, Miles, was roused from slumber and arrested at home early on the morning of Friday, April 27. He and another young man from the neighborhood were charged with first- and … Continue reading →If You Haven’t D ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 12 reports of police misconduct tracked July, 19 2012 Los Angeles, California: A lawsuit was filed against DA Steve Cooley and Sheriff Lee Baca that alleges the pair concealed evidence that potentially affects verdicts and pleas in … Continue reading →National Police Mis ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, July 18 2012: Savannah, Georgia: Sheriff’s deputies deactivated a device that controls a man’s Tourette’s syndrome and allegedly beat him as “a form of amusement” when he could no … Continue rea ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 stories of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, July 17: Saugus, Massachusetts: A state police officer, who admitted that prosecutors had enough on him to prove he was guilty of leading other Saugus officers on a late-night … Continue reading →National Police Miscon ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Sparrow goes to ...
    Google acquires Sparrow for the Gmail team. Apple’s iPad launches in China, without chaos. Kayak becomes a billion-dollar company on its second day of trading. You can catch The Daily...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Nokia’s Q ...
    More and better Google Maps roll out. Nokia’s financials flopped in Q2. Apple and Samsung have met, but Samsung doesn’t want you to know that. You can catch The Daily...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Microsoft&#8217 ...
    Microsoft says up to 28 million computers didn’t get the choice to select a different browser. Apple appears to be shipping a thinner iPhone this year. Skype rolls out an...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Digg buried its ...
    Betaworks buys Digg for $500k. Hackers bypass Apple’s in-app purchase charges. Streaming is 89% of digital music profit in Sweden. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose — Yahoo’s t ...
    Yahoo confirms it has released 400,000+ plain text emails and passwords. Tap Tap Revenge returns. TNW’s Latin America startup awards announced. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through...

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Experts: sustainable logging in rainforests im ...
    Industrial logging in primary tropical forests that is both sustainable and profitable is impossible, argues a new study in Bioscience, which finds that the ecology of tropical hardwoods makes logging with truly sustainable practices not only impractical, but completely unprofitable. Given this, ...
  • Pictures of the day: sea turtle and whale shar ...
    Earlier this month, Sea Turtles 911, a conservation organization in China, released two green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) and a juvenile whale shark (Rhincodon typus) back into the wild.
  • Brazil cripples illegal gold mining operations ...
    Brazilian police have arrested 26 people and confiscated gold and aircraft in a coordinated effort to tackle illegal gold-mining in the Yanomami Indigenous Reserve, reports the BBC. Along with illegal miners the year-long investigation also arrested complicit airplane pilots, engineers, and busi ...
  • First snow leopards collared in Afghanistan as ...
    Scientists have captured and collared two snow leopards (Panthera uncia), arguably one of the world's most elusive predators, in Afghanistan for the first time. Undertaken by researchers with Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Afghani vets, the successful operation was conducted as a new st ...
  • Industrial logging leaves a poor legacy in Bor ...
    For most people "Borneo" conjures up an image of a wild and distant land of rainforests, exotic beasts, and nomadic tribes. But that place increasingly exists only in one's imagination, for the forests of world's third largest island have been rapidly and relentlessly logged, burned, and bulldoz ...

Sierra Express

  • NRA in Big Mess
    Director of Finance, NRA, Abdulai Conteh why this gross indiscipline…? Sierra Express Media has been monitoring the latest happenings at the country’s income cradler, the National Revenue Authority (NRA).  The latest outburst of the country’s Director of Finance, Abdulai Conteh justifies our app ...
  • Anfield Awaits for Sierra Leone Starlets
    Two of Sierra Leone’s brightest footballing prospects are preparing themselves to take the field for one of the world’s most famous and successful football clubs.  (Picture: Mustapha Bundu, left, and Sulaiman Samura, right) In less than 2 weeks, Mustapha Bundu and Sulaiman Samura, both of whom a ...
  • PMDC in Disarray
    Six national executive members of the People’s Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) have expressed interest to contest a legal battle at the Appeals Court of Sierra Leone following Charles Margai’s legal row against two PMDC members. According to the Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and ...
  • Chief Justice Launches Electoral Offences Court
    The Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, Umu Hawa Tejan Jalloh last Thursday, July 12th, launched the Electoral Offences Court. Acting Director of Public Prosecutions, Chairman of the National Electoral Commission, UNDP Country Director, representative from PPRC, Human Rights Commission, National Elec ...
  • Police Boss Blamed over Okada Lawlessness
    The Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of operation and police spokesman (AIG) Al Sheik Kamara (in photo) has been blamed by the general public for lawlessness in the country. Several people whom this press spoke to expressed their dissatisfaction with AIG Al Sheik because they reca ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Fonterra drops to fourth on world list
    Fonterra has dropped from third to fourth place in Rabobank's latest survey of the world's top 20 dairy companies.The dairy co-operative, which is the world's largest exporter of dairy products, has been overtaken by French company...
  • World dairy prices dip in overnight auction
    Whole milk powder, the biggest-volume dairy product sold through Fonterra's GlobalDairyTrade platform, led the third month of declines, pushing the benchmark composite price further below its long-term average.The GDT-TWI...
  • Economy reflected in traffic flows
    ANZ's Truckometer indicator is suggesting the economy will regain momentum by the end of the year after a mid-year dip.The Truckometer is based on traffic flows on carefully selected roads which have provided a good pointer to economic...
  • Success: Helping hand for farmers
    Put aside your cornflakes, please, because this morning you're going to read about mastitis in cows' udders.It's an expensive problem, costing the country $280 million a year in lost production and treatment costs, according to...
  • Dairy prices bode ill for Fonterra payout - ec ...
    It's early days, but Fonterra will need to revise down its dairy payout for 2012/13 if the weaker prices evident in today's dairy auction are anything to go by, rural economists say.The price of dairy product fell in Fonterra's...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • More on Batman Shooter: Joker Referenced, Fand ...
    After surrendering, James Holmes is no longer talking to investigators. His apartment was booby trapped with jars of chemicals connected to wires. (It’s not clear how or even whether these traps would actually work) New York City’s police commissioner claims Holmes had painted h ...
  • J.D. Tuccille on Economic Freedom and Shadow E ...
    Reduced, if only figuratively, to shaking the dust from their piggy banks, government financial types from California to Copenhagen have turned their eyes to that ever-elusive dream: Dragging those who have fled into the shadow economy back out into the open where they can be induced ...
  • Spain Stumbles, GSA Blows More Cash, Regulatio ...
    Stock markets dipped and the value of the euro slid after Spain's Valencia region called for financial help. The move raised fears that Spain as a whole will need a rescue. France's President Hollande is pushing a state-jobs plan that seeks to keep the lid on troubles rather th ...
  • California Parks System Hid $54 Million Surplu ...
    Your Sacramento scandal du jour: California’s State Parks Deparment has millions of dollars in surplus that they did not report to the state, even as budget cuts threatened park closures. Via The Sacramento Bee: State Parks Director Ruth Coleman resigned this morning and her s ...
  • Cop Took Cell Phone Used to Film Him, Lawsuit ...
    The war on cameras continues in Point Marion, Pennsylvania, with a federal lawsuit filed by a man whose cell phone police confiscated. Gregory Rizer says he was at a friend’s house, filming a police officer he felt was being aggressive in his questioning of his quadriplegic frie ...

Mercury Rising

  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • MN FOX Affiliate Blames Kiffmeyer Hire On Mark ...
    Somebody really needs to send the folks at the local Murdoch Media outlet a working calendar. They might then know, as Sally Jo Sorensen points out, that the person they want to hang around current Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie’s neck was actually hired by his predecessor, vote ...
  • Bachmann Supporter: John McCain = Henri Petain
    How can you tell the increasingly-rare occasions when John McCain says or does something decent and principled? When the nutcase base of the GOP launches viciously stupid and brain-dead attacks against him. Ken Avidor has the deets: Bachmann does have at least one defender – Walid Shoebat ...
  • Conservatism = Mental Illness: Meat Industry A ...
    – The United States mainland is in the grip of a terrible drought; in many places, such as Texas, the drought has been around for years. So, rather than say “Gee, maybe those scientists are right after all about global warming”, what do the conservatives that run meat-industry ...
  • No one will care if a few kids get buggered, s ...
    Chris Hayes has a new book, Twilight of the Elites, whose title he calls “aspirational,” and I think he’s sold me a copy. The point of the book is that people who can get away with things are doing so at an alarming rate. There’s a word for this which we learned from Hond ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Catharsis, Cacophony, and Creativity
      The following is an excerpt from Aquarius Dawns by VerDarLuz. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges....Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. ...
  • Sex in the News
    In this week's Sex in the News: Kim Jong-un's love scandal, rape jokes, Jane Fonda is having the best sex of her life, The Snuggery, and Mick Jagger's bisexuality.  read more
  • The Heart of the Matter
    The following is an excerpt from Transforming the Nature of Health: A Holistic Vision of Healing That Honors Our Connection to the Earth, Others, and Ourselves, by Marcey Shapiro, M.D., released in physical and electronic form by North Atlantic Books. read more
  • VISIONARIES: The Art of the Fantastic
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  • Empowering Public Wisdom: Chapter 1, A Practic ...
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Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

  • Prince William, Kate Middleton: More Than $80, ...
    The average British working household income is less than $40,000 U.S. That is why I have no use for those who are so privileged by birth. It is sickening. Probably Kate and William rented the whole airplane. Read more here. Kate Middleton: The gold-digger. Interesting video.
  • Canada Day and #DenounceHarper
    “#DenounceHarper is trending on Twitter in Canada, just behind #HappyCanadaDay. Users are using the hashtag to voice dissatisfaction with the Harper government, or just the man himself.” Read more about #DenounceHarper
  • TVO's The Agenda: The New McCarthyism
    There is no worse cancer in a free society than the thuggish impulse to equate dissent as disloyalty... The greatest patriot is the person with the courage to be the lone voice in the crowd crying out that the Emperor has no clothes. The test of our society's democratic nature is our instinct ...
  • Harper's Canada Day message loudly booed at Ja ...
  • U.S. Healthcare Legislation
    Fuxs News’ take on the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on Healthcare. Repugs are apparently very upset by the decision. Repugs spin machine is going hard at it. Sarah Palin gives her gyrations. “Obama lies, freedom dies” Sarah Palin. Watch the latest video at Press TV - Middle East
    • ‘Any Syria plan outside UNSC to fail’
      Russia has strongly warned against any unilateral action on Syria that fails to get the authorization of the UN Security Council.
    • Army retakes Damascus Sayyida Zainab
      Syrian troops have regained control of most parts of the Damascus neighborhood of Sayyida Zainab after government forces launched an all-out offensive against the armed rebels in the capital, Press TV reports.
    • Syrians warned of ‘fake TV channel’
      The Syrian Information Ministry has cautioned the nation against a “fake” satellite channel which carries the logo of the country’s national TV but has actually been set up to broadcast anti-government reports.
    • ‘Israel to raid Syria if arms transferred’
      Israel says it will launch a military operation against Syria if Damascus transfers missiles or chemical weapons to the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah.
    • Bahraini forces break up demo, 1 injured
      Saudi-backed Bahraini forces have clashed with anti-regime demonstrators in the north of the country and injured at least one protester, Press TV reports.

    CUNY SPS Community Blog

    • Are We Becoming Flattened by Technology?
      Are you an optimist or pessimist? There’s only one way to find out. I find it amazing that so much has progressed in our society—medical, education, economics, and even in technology.  The experience I’ve had thus far has surprisingly helped me.  I say surprisingly because with knowl ...
    • Five Questions for Our 1000th Facebook Fan
      We recently surpassed 1000 “likes” on our Facebook page, so to commemorate this milestone we asked our 1000th fan, Susan Punturieri, to tell us a little about herself. How did you learn about SPS? A co-worker referred the program to me. She said she really enjoyed it. I was looking i ...
    • SPS Governing Council Representative Nominatio ...
      We are accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and an alternate are needed to serve on the Cou ...
    • Follow-Back: The Power of Twitter
      Twitter, a social micro-blogging website has burst onto the scene and become embedded into the fabric of society and more importantly has become one of society’s methods of staying ‘in touch.’ Twitter has attracted users from all walks of life, be they mainstream corporations, governmental organ ...
    • Solicitation of Nominations for SPS Governing ...
      We are now accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and two alternates are needed to serve on t ...

    Dissident Voice

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

    Destructionist

    • Seattle woman weds corporation (PHOTOS)
      Seattle resident Angela Vogel was given state permission to proceed with a planned wedding after officials in King County, Washington this week signed off on a marriage license between the beautiful bride-to-be and one Mr. Corporate Person: a one-and-a-half-month-old corporation established earl ...
    • BPA no longer allowed in baby bottles…(b ...
      We’ve all seen the “BPA-free” labels affixed prominently to new plastic products. And many of us have fallen for the ruse, purchasing these new water bottles and food storage containers thinking we can still enjoy the convenience of plastics without the hormone-altering BPA. But what manufacture ...
    • More Americans on Government Dole Than Found Jobs
      Between April and June, according to statistics released by the Senate Budget Committee, more Americans went on Social Security disability than found jobs. According to figures released by the committee, a total of 246,000 people enrolled in the Social Security Disability Insurance program wh ...
    • More Americans on Government Dole Than Found Jobs
      Between April and June, according to statistics released by the Senate Budget Committee, more Americans went on Social Security disability than found jobs. According to figures released by the committee, a total of 246,000 people enrolled in the Social Security Disability Insurance program wh ...
    • For the First Time, Canadians Now Richer Than ...
      While Americans might enjoy throwing politically-charged barbs at their neighbors to the north, Canadians now have at least one reason to be smug. For the first time in recent history, the average Canadian is richer than the average American, according to a report cited in Toronto's Globe and ...

    Yeti Betty

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

      IPS - Inter Press Services

    • U.N. Urged to Take Lead in Aiding Cholera-Stri ...
      U.S. legislators are appealing to the United Nations to take a greater role in addressing Haiti’s cholera outbreak, now in its third year and which has has left thousands dead. In a letter addressed to U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Susan Rice, 104 U.S. members of Cong ...
    • “Famine May Have Ended, But For Us Hunger Has Not”
      One-year-old Miriam Jama is a symbol of life in Somalia after the famine. Born just as the United Nations World Food Programme declared famine in this Horn of Africa nation a year ago on Jul. 20, Miriam has known no other life than the one in the Badbaado refugee camp, situated 10 kilometres out ...
    • Israel Walls Itself In
      As Israel continues to build walls and fences along virtually each of its borders, analysts say the country’s isolationist policies and unwillingness to deal with the Palestinians and other Arab neighbours through anything other than forceful means spells disaster. “On the one hand we’re walling ...
    • Athletes Wither Under Government Apathy
      He dreamed of one day running on international athletic tracks and worked hard for seven long years to make this a reality. But today, despite Tanveer Hussain becoming the top athlete in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, his dream is quickly vanishing in the face of government apathy towards sport ...
    • U.S.: Right-Wing Hawks, Arms Industry Rally Ag ...
      While Iran, Russia, and China are all pretty scary, the ominous word “sequestration” is what is keeping right-wing hawks and their friends in the defence industry up at night. While they have been rallying their forces for most of the past year, their campaign to avoid the “spe ...

    My AntiWar

    CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

    • US faces sanctions dilemma in East Asia
      Summary: The ongoing struggle between the United States and Iran over Tehran's nuclear program continues to affect countries in East Asia. Reinforced sanctions from the US, initiated at the end of June, threaten to punish countries that have deviated from Washington's efforts to completely i ...
    • Con Coughlin making up stuff about Iran and th ...
      Summary: Con Coughlin of the Daily Telegraph reports that the Revolutionary Guard are overseeing a "huge expansion of Iran's nuclear program" -- and as proof he cites the NCRI which he fails to mention is one of the many pseudonyms of the MKO/MEK terrorists. source: Iran Affairsread more
    • New York Times Blames Iran For Bulgaria Bombin ...
      Summary: There are two major items of concern in the July 19, 2012 New York Times story "Hezbollah Is Blamed in Attack on Israeli Tourists in Bulgaria." First, the article states "The bombing comes at a time of heightened tensions over Iran’s nuclear program, which Tehran says is for pea ...
    • Netanyahu and Iran:Tough Statements, But No Ex ...
      Summary: The perception that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is threatening to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities unless sanctions and diplomacy succeed in shutting them down has been the driving force in the Iran crisis. But although Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak have m ...
    • Iranian bomb in Bulgaria: Cui Bono?
      Summary: So a bomb exploded on a bus in Bulgaria killing a certain number of people who were apparently visitors from Israel. About 20 minutes later, Israeli PM Netanyahu is accusing Iran of carrying out the bombing. Speculation is rife. Pundits feel a need to opine, even though they didn't ...

    The Daily Galaxy

    • 'Seeds' of Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole ...
      A research team at Keio University, led by Tomoharu Oka, has discovered intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) candidates at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, about 30,000 light-years our solar system in the direction of Sagittarius. IMBH candidates are considered...
    • Image of the Day --"The Kepler 5" --NASA's Sho ...
      New data suggest the confirmation of the exoplanet Gliese 581g and the best candidate so far of a potential habitable exoplanet. The nearby star Gliese 581 is well known for having four planets with the outermost planet, Gliese 581d, already...
    • New Singularity in Space-Time Found
      Einstein’s theory of general relativity explains gravity as a curvature in space-time. But the theory starts from the assumption that any local patch of space-time looks flat, Temple said. But mathematicians at UC Davis "...show that space-time cannot be locally...
    • 1st Known Spiral Galaxy in Universe Discovered ...
      Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a spiral galaxy in the early universe, billions of years before many other spiral galaxies formed. In findings reported July 19 in the journal Nature, the astronomers said they discovered it while using...
    • World's 1st Free Course on "Astrobiology and t ...
      Edinburgh University’s upcoming free course, “Introduction to Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life” will open up an exciting new era in the study of extraterrestrial life. According to Jeff Haywood, vice principal of the University of Edinburgh, the number...

    Natural News

    • 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...
    • Batman movie massacre a reflection of violent ...
      Medical student James Holmes of Aurora, Colorado reportedly opened fire on moviegoers who had filled a theater late last night to watch the newly-released "Batman" movie -- an orgy of violence and Big Brother propaganda. Dressed in riot gear and wearing a gas mask that...
    • Healing Naturally: Our changed diet (opinion)
      One of the basic concepts of natural therapy can be expressed in that old saying, "You are what you eat". To a large extent, our diet has determined the diseases we suffer from. Over the past 100 to 150 years our basic diet has changed drastically. We have gone...
    • Earthing is essential for optimal health
      Walking barefoot on the earth has been a staple part of human and animal life since the beginning of time. In the past couple of generations, humans have made shoes, sandals and boots that insulate us from the natural energies of the Earth. Although these shoes protect...
    • Cannabinoids, like those found in marijuana, o ...
      Woven into the fabric of the human body is an intricate system of proteins known as cannabinoid receptors that are specifically designed to process cannabinoids such as tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), one of the primary active components of marijuana. And it turns out, based...

    Threat Level

    • California Starts Up a Privacy Enforcement Unit
      Watch out, Silicon Valley, there's a new startup in town and its gunning for you. California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced Thursday she's created a unit intended to actually enforce federal and state privacy laws.
    • Judge OKs Nudity at TSA Checkpoint
      An Oregon man was cleared of indecent exposure charges Wednesday when a local judge said his protest of Transportation Security Administration screening procedures was constitutionally protected speech under state law.
    • Justice Department Sues Telecom for Challengin ...
      Last year, when a telecommunications company received an ultra-secret demand letter from the FBI seeking information about a customer or customers, the telecom took an extraordinary step -- it challenged the underlying authority of the FBI's National Security Letter, as well as the legitimacy of ...
    • Megaupload Judge Steps Down After Declaring U. ...
      The New Zealand judge overseeing the extradition proceedings of accused file-sharing kingpin and Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is recusing himself from the case after remarking that the United States was "the enemy."
    • YouTube Offers Face-Blurring Tool to Protect D ...
      Google is offering YouTube users a way to blur the faces in videos, calling it a way to protect dissidents and kids.

    PERRspectives : Blog

    • The Authentic Mrs. Romney
      For months, fawning press accounts with titles like "Romney Using Wife's Story to Connect with Voters", "Ann Romney Adds Personal Touch to Mitt's Campaign", "The Ann Romney Advantage" and "Ann Romney Emerging as Husband's Political Weapon" have glowingly portrayed the would-be First Lady as a wo ...
    • Romney: My Tax Rate is "Really Closer to 45 or ...
      As he continues to stonewall requests to release more of his tax returns, Mitt Romney is quickly turning the 2012 presidential campaign into a game of "Hide and Seek." Americans are left to speculate what dark secrets or advantages unattainable for most people lurk in those papers. Did Romney ...
    • Romney Insists GOP Not "the Party of the Rich"
      At a $1.7 million fundraiser in Jackson, Mississippi, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney declared that the GOP is not "the party of the rich," insisting instead that "we're the party of people who want to get rich." Sadly for Romney, there are two small problems with his assessment. F ...
    • When Mitt Swift-Boated Jane
      If nothing else, the growing imbroglio over Mitt Romney's Bain Capital connections past, present and retroactive is rich in irony. After all, while most attention is focused on whether Romney was literally at the helm of the post-1999 Bain that reaped millions in fees and dividends from firms t ...
    • The Republicans' Killer Lies on Health Care
      This week, the GOP-controlled House of Representatives voted for the 33rd time in 18 months to repeal the Affordable Care Act. But even if that act of political theater is over for now, Republicans will keep repeating their favorite parts of the right-wing script well past Election Day in Novem ...

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

    Planetsave

    • Rhino Crisis Round Up: Game Farmers Allegedly ...
      This week, the South African media reported that some game farmers and reserve owners have allegedly been killing their own rhinos and claiming the rhinos were “poached” — and then selling the horns on the black market. Of course, game farmer Dawie Groenewald was mentioned in t ...
    • Compound Derived from Sea Sponge ‘Virtually El ...
      A collaborative research team at the Scripps Research Institute in Florida have successfully concluded experiments on HIV infected cell cultures using a derivative of a natural compound called Cortistatin A which was isolated in 2006 from a sea sponge called Corticium simplex that was first iden ...
    • Antarctica at Risk from Human Activities
      A new study has found that Antarctica is at great risk from human activities and other forces, and that environmental management is vital to protect the continent from human interests. The report showed that one of the longer-term concerns that could very well be the greatest threat to Antarctic ...
    • The Idea of Nature in Revolt — Revisiting Alfr ...
      A shocking number of bird species are becoming endangered and/or going extinct all over the world. Next to amphibians, our feathered friends (often viewed as agricultural “pests”) are perhaps suffering most from an existential triple threat: climate change impacts, land use changes and habitat d ...
    • Lemurs Are The World’s Most Threatened Mammal, ...
        Lemurs are the world’s most endangered mammals, an International Union for Conservation of Nature conference has found. Lemurs are a very diverse group of primates endemic to Madagascar. An IUCN workshop met this week in Madagascar in order to discuss the Earth’s 103 remaining ...

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    Axis of Logic

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

    They Gave Us a Republic

    • Nightowl Newswrap
      By@KYYellowDog No, Assad is a long way from done. "Syrian troops and tanks on Friday drove rebels from a Damascus neighborhood where some of the heaviest of this week's fighting in the capital left cars gutted and fighters' bodies in the streets." "Against a regime almost as vicious as Assad's, ...
    • If it isn't one thing, it's another
      Wedge issue politics on billboards along a U.S. highway in eastern New Mexico.
    • Best Dem to Beat McConnell Bows Out
      By @KYYellowDog Crit taking on Mitch was always a pipe dream, but now she's finally ruled it out. Kenny Colston, KPR-Frankfort: Former Auditor Crit Luallen says she will not challenge Republican U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell in 2014. Luallen has long been considered to be among the best-situated ...
    • GOP: "The party of intolerance and hate"
      By @TedFrier Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's scurrilous (John McCain's word, not mine) accusation that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Islamic, American-born aide used her position to secretly support the Muslim Brotherhood was the straw that finally broke the camel's back for one-time Bac ...
    • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By - "All Used Up"
      By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by rocinante2011, who kindly includes the lyrics at the link. IWW Songs to fan the flames of discontent

    Care 2

    • Tell MetroPCS to Stop Promoting Ringling's Cru ...
      Despite being informed about Ringling's lengthy history of animal abuse and neglect, MetroPCS continues to promote this notorious circus to its customers by offering free circus tickets. Ringling was recently fined $270,000 by the U.S. Department of Submitted by CherAway atNiagaraFalls to Anima ...
    • 2,000 Bornean orangutans need our help ACTION
      Big cash or orangutans what is more important? This is the question an Indonesian court has to answer right now. A British conglomerate called Churchill Mining is planning to exploit a multi-billion dollar coal deposit in the national park Kutai in... Submitted by Nancy C. to Animals  |&n ...
    • ACTION ALERT: Mass, Don't Let Developers Kill ...
      Massachusetts has an enviable state endangered species act (MESA) which protects 176 animal and 256 native plant species, according to a recent article in Metro West Daily News. Now developers want to disembowel that act. Submitted by Simone D. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it! &n ...
    • Harper: Don't Cut Funding to Search and Rescue ...
      Tell Conservatives that they must not dissolve a "national resource" like the HUSAR teams. Submitted by CherAway atNiagaraFalls to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • There's Poop in Our Chicken Meat!
      I've known for a long time that chicken can be toxic, but an April article in the New York Times showed that almost half of the chicken in grocery stores is contaminated by E coli, which researchers say is an indicator of fecal contamination. Submitted by Carrie B. to Health & Wellness  |& ...

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    No Quarter

    • “The Internet Photoshops Mitt Romney Into Batm ...
      I have nothing to say except that you really ought to take a look. That image is but one of dozens and dozens more “original” Photoshop images featured at Buzzflash (“posted Jul 19, 2012 11:27am EDT” … just to point out that Buzzflash printed its article before the ...
    • Bullshit Politics, Crocodile Tears and Mass Sh ...
      * Bumped Up * The political boohooing and cable news spectacle surrounding the mass shooting early this morning at the start of a new Batman movie in Aurora, Colorado, is shameful. I am not insensitive to the loss suffered by the families and friends of those who died or are fighting in an ICU t ...
    • [Update re military casualties] Must Romney an ...
      Breaking Update: The U.S. Department of Defense has issued a statement that “two sailors and one airman wounded, and one sailor unaccounted for” in the mass shooting. [But hey, sailors, airmen and soldiers die all the time, right? It's part of their job description ... more to come f ...
    • Occupy Wall Street Carries Out Colorado Attack?
      Try this one on for size, and I’m serious. Because the new Batman movie featured the villain as an Occupy Wall Street type, I would not be surprised if police discover that the shooter, now identified as James Holmes, had ties to OWS. Why? Because the movie portrays the OWS crowd in a nega ...
    • Mass shooting at Aurora, Colorado
      At the midnight premiere of the new Batman “The Dark Night Rises” movie, one or more gunmen reportedly stood up just after the previews and began shooting everyone, using tear gas (a smoke bomb?) to disable patrons, many who’d brought their children to the premiere. Early repor ...

    Futurismic

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

    Therapy News

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

    Mountaintop Removal

    • Activists to Occupy toxic strip mine after gro ...
      Examiner.com Activists to Occupy toxic strip mine after groundbreaking health report Examiner.com “One dead West Virginian for one mountaintop-removal operation every year. I think that's too steep a price to pay.” Rights activists wait no longer to defend humanity and Earth. Human and Earth ...
    • Mountaintop removal exports on the rise - Char ...
      FuelFix Mountaintop removal exports on the rise Charleston Gazette As U.S. coal demand continues to drop, the share of mountaintop removal-produced coal that is exported overseas is on the rise, according to a new report issued by Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee. Exports still ...
    • Closer Look at Health Effect of Mountaintop Re ...
      Closer Look at Health Effect of Mountaintop Removal weku In the latest paper, USGS researchers gathered samples of particular matter deposited in communities near mountaintop removal operations and compared the chemical composition to similar material collected in other Southern West Virginia lo ...
    • Obama's August Surprise for Coal Country: Moun ...
      EnergyBoom Obama's August Surprise for Coal Country: Mountaintop Removal Moratorium ... Huffington Post (blog) Obama should keep his 2008 campaign promise, travel to Appalachia and publicly announce a timeline to enact a mountaintop removal moratorium and launch a green jobs coalfield regene ...
    • Coalition Acts to Protect Waterways from Pollu ...
      Coalition Acts to Protect Waterways from Pollution at 9 Alpha Natural ... Equities.com The mines, located in Logan, McDowell, Boone, and Kanawha counties, all violate key protections in the Clean Water Act and Surface Mining laws regarding selenium pollution from mountaintop removal or tradition ...

    Memeorandum

    • Obama Spends the Most, but Romney Raises More ...
      New York Times: Obama Spends the Most, but Romney Raises More  —  President Obama outspent Mitt Romney 2 to 1 in June even as Mr. Romney far outraised him, according to campaign reports filed on Friday with the Federal Election Commission, leaving Mr. Obama and the Democratic Pa ...
    • Could A Brave Citizen With a Concealed Weapon ...
      David Weigel / Slate: Could A Brave Citizen With a Concealed Weapon Have Prevented the Aurora Shootings? … - Weigel: Three Rules for Anyone Trying To Politicize the Colorado Shooting  — Why the Internet Won't Tell Us Anything About the Alleged Dark Knight Shooter - The H ...
    • IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Statement from George Litt ...
      defense.gov: IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  Statement from George Little on Defense Initiatives to Limit Unauthorized Disclosures of Classified Information  —  Today Secretary Panetta, Chairman Dempsey and General Counsel Johnson testified before the House Armed Services ...
    • We've Seen This Movie Before - JAMES HOLMES, w ...
      Roger Ebert / New York Times: We've Seen This Movie Before  —  JAMES HOLMES, who opened fire before the midnight premiere of “The Dark Knight Rises,” could not have seen the movie.  Like many whose misery is reflected in violence, he may simply have been drawn t ...
    • Blow to George Osborne as borrowing rises (Jam ...
      Jamie Grierson / The Independent: Blow to George Osborne as borrowing rises  —  NOTE: WE DO NOT STORE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS(ES) BUT YOUR IP ADDRESS WILL BE LOGGED TO PREVENT ABUSE OF THIS FEATURE.  PLEASE READ OUR LEGAL TERMS & POLICIES  —  Chancellor Georg ...

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    China Dialogue

    • Dongjiang overloaded
      The eastern tributary of the Pearl River is the lifeblood of Hong Kong and the regions that surround it in south China. But its precious resources are being misused, writes Liu Su, and there is no sustainable plan for its future.The Dongjiang, or Dong River, the eastern tributary of the Pearl Ri ...
    • Public fears check Chinese nuclear
      A new nuclear safety plan for China has been treated as a signal the sector is returning to favour. But old problems still plague the industry, writes Cui Zheng.In mid-June, following a 15-month moratorium on construction of new nuclear facilities, China published the results of a nuclear safety ...
    • Shifang: a crisis of local rule
      China’s feeble public participation system is forcing people onto the streets to protect their environmental interests, as the latest demonstrations in the south-west show. Tang Hao reports.China has been engrossed in the mass protests in Shifang, Sichuan province, where on the morning of ...
    • China's overseas food footprint
      Rising Chinese demand for imported foods is raising local concerns about pollution and disease, from the farms of the United States to the sea lochs of Scotland, finds Isabel Hilton.For the last three decades, China’s factories have turned out goods for export markets, while Chinese citize ...
    • Don’t ditch sustainability yet
      A new discipline from Harvard Business School can help corporations work for the planet, its creators say. But John Elkington thinks they’ve missed some key truths about capitalism. The second Shared Value Leadership Summit in Cambridge, Massachusetts, left me a little unsettled. At e ...

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    Threat Level

    • California Starts Up a Privacy Enforcement Unit
      Watch out, Silicon Valley, there's a new startup in town and its gunning for you. California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced Thursday she's created a unit intended to actually enforce federal and state privacy laws.
    • Judge OKs Nudity at TSA Checkpoint
      An Oregon man was cleared of indecent exposure charges Wednesday when a local judge said his protest of Transportation Security Administration screening procedures was constitutionally protected speech under state law.
    • Justice Department Sues Telecom for Challengin ...
      Last year, when a telecommunications company received an ultra-secret demand letter from the FBI seeking information about a customer or customers, the telecom took an extraordinary step -- it challenged the underlying authority of the FBI's National Security Letter, as well as the legitimacy of ...
    • Megaupload Judge Steps Down After Declaring U. ...
      The New Zealand judge overseeing the extradition proceedings of accused file-sharing kingpin and Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is recusing himself from the case after remarking that the United States was "the enemy."
    • YouTube Offers Face-Blurring Tool to Protect D ...
      Google is offering YouTube users a way to blur the faces in videos, calling it a way to protect dissidents and kids.

    Equality Trust

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

    PDA AMERICA

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

    Marler Blog

    • E. coli O145 Outbreak Remains a Mystery - 17 S ...
      A total of 18 persons infected with the outbreak strain of STEC O145 infection were identified in 9 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state was as follows: Alabama (2), California (1), Florida (1), Georgia (5), Kentucky (1), Louisiana (5), Maryland (1), Tennessee (1), and Vir ...
    • The Silence of the Salad - Unnamed Orange Coun ...
      Romaine lettuce grown in California linked to Canadian outbreak too. Food Safety News reports that the nine Californian E. coli O157:H7 infections connected to an April romaine lettuce outbreak in Canada all occurred in Orange County, a spokesman for the California Department of Public Health c ...
    • Profiles in Public Health Law: CDC Interview w ...
      CDC Public Health Law News: Do you see yourself as working in the area of public health law? Marler: I do. The civil justice system is the last, if not the only, bastion of Justice available to a person who becomes ill with a foodborne illness after eating contaminated food. I see my practice a ...
    • The steady drip of romaine lettuce E. coli inf ...
      Prying information out of California and Canadian public health officals should not be how the public is informed about and E. coli O157:H7 outbreak. Coral Beach (what a great name) of the Packer continued the work of Food Safety News and eFoodert when she reported this moring that California h ...
    • Germantown E. coli Outbreak: Now, 68 ill with ...
      As a result of eating food at a picnic at Neff’s Lawn Care in Germantown, at least 68 individuals have become ill. Of those, 14 have been hospitalized. Public Health – Dayton & Montgomery County is continuing an investigation into the cause of the foodborne outbreak. Estimates a ...

    AutoblogGreen

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

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    Camera Obscura

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    • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
    • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
    • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
    • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

    Democracy Now!

    • Amy Goodman on MSNBC's "UP w/ Chris Hayes" on ...
      Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on MSNBC’s "UP w/ Chris Hayes" on Sunday, July 22nd at 8-10 am ET.
    • Arctic Voices Slideshow: Resistance at the Tip ...
      [ View the story "Arctic Voices Slideshow: Resistance at the Tipping Point" on Storify ] See photographs by our guest on Friday, Subhankar Banerjee, which are featured in the new book, Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point (7 Stories Press). Banerjee, a renowned phot ...
    • 75 Years Later, the Lessons of Guernica
      By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Seventy-five years ago, the Spanish town of Guernica was bombed into rubble. The brutal act propelled one of the world’s greatest artists into a three-week painting frenzy. Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” starkly depicts the horrors of war, etched into the faces ...
    • Watch Interview with Maldives Ex-President Nas ...
      Above, we revisit part 1 of our interview with Madlives Ex-President Mohamed Nasheed . We also speak with Jon Shenk, director of The Island President, a new documentary about Nashee’s climate activism. As we reported Tuesday, prosecutors in the Indian Ocean state of Maldives have orde ...
    • Pt. 2: Chris Hayes on "Twilight of the Elites: ...
      Amidst a series of recent scandals that have rocked the global banking system, journalist Chris Hayes joins us to discuss his new book, "Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy." The book examines how Wall Street and other major institutions, from Congress to the Catholic Ch ...

    Suzie-Q

    • James Holmes Identified As Alleged Aurora, Col ...
      AP |     By THOMAS PEIPERT and P. SOLOMON BANDA Posted: 07/20/2012  8:36 am Updated: 07/20/2012  4:00 pm AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Police say 71 people were shot in a suburban Denver movie theater early Friday during midnight shows of the new Batman movie. Twelve people were killed, ten of ...
    • Bain Capital Started With Help Of Offshore Inv ...
      Mitt Romney’s firm raised more than a third of its first investment fund from wealthy foreigners — who mostly used companies in Panama, then known for tax advantages and banking secrecy. Los Angeles Times By Joseph Tanfani, Melanie Mason and Matea Gold July 19, 2012, 3:00 a.m. Washington B ...
    • First Lady Michelle Obama: “It Takes One ...
      Published on Jul 19, 2012 by     BarackObamadotcom It starts with you: http://OFA.BO/xJQfHT First Lady Michelle Obama announces the launch of “It Takes One”. “It Takes One” is a new effort that asks you to inspire one more person to join you every time you take an action ...
    • Mitt Romney Stayed At Bain 3 Years Longer Than ...
      Nine SEC filings submitted by four different business entities after February 1999 describe Romney as Bain boss. Firm’s 2002 filings identify him as CEO, though he said he left in 1999 By Callum Borchers and Christopher Rowland |  Globe Correspondent | Globe Staff July 12, 2012 Governm ...
    • Ben Labolt: Mitt Romney’s Offshore Bank ...
      Published on Jul  8, 2012 by     BarackObamadotcom Ben Labolt, National Press Secretary, has some questions concerning Mitt Romney’s offshore bank accounts and tax returns.

    Solari

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    • A Sneaky Way to Control Guns
      By John Bolton, July 18th Gun-control advocates and the Obama administration are rushing to complete negotiations in New York on a proposed international agreement called the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty. They hope to finish the drafting within weeks, perhaps having a document ready for sig ...
    • Transcript of the 7.12.12 Precious Metals Mark ...
      A transcript of the July 12, 2012 Precious Metals Market Report is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Franklin: Well, I have to admit that last week we got a big jump in both gold and silver, and I really thought, “All right, that’s probably it. That’s probably where they’re brea ...
    • The Singapore Dollar
      Our favorite substitute for the euro while we ride out the storm in the Eurozone is the Singapore dollar. While commodity currencies might be prime beneficiaries of the increased trigger friendliness at major central banks, such currencies are historically rather volatile. The Monetary Authorit ...
    • Insights From Ingo Swann
      Ingo Swan “It’s unkind to point out the Obvious To those who don’t want to see it. But it’s worse to point out the Invisible To those convinced it doesn’t exist.” “What, When, and Who are important, of course, but Meaning is only achieved by understa ...

    Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

    AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

    Sideways News

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

    Fabius Maximus

    • Question time on the FM website (& a review of ...
      Summary: It’s “ask a question” time. In the comments “ask the mineshaft”:  post questions about geopolitics — and your answers to other people’s questions.  This is a community exercise, from the German “Gemeinschaft” (see Wikipedia). Questio ...
    • Romney back on top. More evidence that the cam ...
      Summary:  Romney edges ahead of Obama in the latest poll, despite a horrific week in the news.  Why will Romney win in November? First, the economy. Second, Americans pay little attention to the election. They vote first on their partisan leanings (quite strong for most people). Second, the deci ...
    • Affordable Care Act down the mindshaft: asking ...
      Summary:  Why do Americans oppose the the Affordable Care Act (ACA, Obamacare) while supporting so many of its provisions? What does this tell us about America? Today Chet Richards “asks the mineshaft”  for answers. It’s a community exercise, from the German Gemeinschaft (see Wikipedia).  ...
    • Hegemon at work on Iran, doing what hegemonic ...
      Summary: As the sanctions tighten like a noose around Iran, the US deploys its power on Iran’s borders to discourage resistance.  It’s a simple plan to slowly break their will, with Iran’s nukes as a pretext.  So far it’s working. Only China or Russia can save Iran. They ...
    • They need not use force to take over
      Summary:   This is a follow-up to yesterday’s post More evidence that the military is slowly cutting itself off from civilian control about the public’s high esteem of the military — and the military’s low esteem of the civilian government. It does not imply tanks in the ...

    Open Your Eyes News

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

    The Progressive Realist

    • Debating the All Volunteer Military: Things Ch ...
      [A]n all-volunteer military is not expected to differ significantly from the present mixed force in its size, composition, and relations with civilian society. Its subordination to the nation's political leaders will change not at all. The belief that volunteers will be more aggressive, will hav ...
    • Before Taking on Syria, US Should Heed Lesson ...
      On June 6, 1982, Israel, seeking to relieve pressure on its northern borders by dismantling the Palestine Liberation Organization's base of operation, invaded Lebanon, a country beset by civil war and Syrian occupation. Soon thereafter, France, Italy and the United States formed a multinational ...
    • North Korean Gulag Story Gains Traction -- and ...
      Where did the down-votes that inundated Reddit's North Korean gulag post come from? “Dead bodies storage -- because rats eat the eyeballs first, most corpses don’t have eyes.”  –  Caption to drawing, translated from the original Korean  So begins a gruesome visual accounting of the methods o ...
    • You Might Have Missed: Invading Syria, Arming ...
      Government Accountability Office, “Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Use in the National Airspace and the Role of the Department of Homeland Security,” July 19, 2012. GAO’s ongoing work has identified several UAS issues that, although not new, are emerging as areas of further consideration in light of ...
    • Top of the Morning: Iran Blamed for Bulgaria B ...
      Top stories from DAWNS Digest. Hezbollah and Iran Blamed For Bulgaria Bus Bomb The Iran-backed Lebanese militant group is believed by Israel and the USA to be behind this week’s attack on Israeli tourists in Bulgaria. “A senior American official confirmed Israel’s assertions on Thursday that the ...

    TAPPED - The American Prospect

    • Friday Music Break
      Today we're continuing with the '80s nostalgia, for no particular reason. So for this edition of Songs By Scottish Bands With Titles That Include the Band's Name, we have Big Country, with "In a Big Country." As they say in the song, "Ha!"
    • Yes, We Should Keep Talking about Our Gun Laws
      When an event like the mass shooting in Colorado happens, it's a fair bet that people on every side will take the opportunity to say, "See? This just reinforces what we've been telling you all along." But that's easier for some than others. I looked around some conservative web sites today to s ...
    • Your Guide to "Ending Medicare As We Know It"
      Yesterday, President Obama went to Florida and told seniors that Mitt Romney wants to end Medicare as we know it, and it appears that this argument (and some related ones) will be a central feature of the Obama campaign's message in the coming days. It's entirely possible, as Jonathan Chait has ...
    • More on the Boy Scouts
      While I'm in shock over the Batman shootings (check out Garance Franke-Ruta's painfully accurate outline of how this will play out in public discourse), here are some further thoughts from around the web on the Boy Scouts' decision to keep out the homos: The must-read, of course, is our own Gab ...
    • Romney's Counterproductive European Tour
      Next week, the Washington Post reports, Mitt Romney is taking a break from the campaign at home to meet with leaders abroad: Mitt Romney plans to depart next week for a visit to Britain, Israel and Poland, and the Republican presidential candidate hopes the trip will help him project the aura o ...

    Buzzflash

    • Gun Violence and Our Dark Underside: 12 More D ...
      MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT America has a fascination with guns and gun violence that is a deadly pathology. It happened again in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado - the home state of the Columbine massacre (one of the few mass shootings that still is remembered) -- during, in ...
    • Time to Expedite Renewable Energy
      STEFHANIE PENN SPEAR FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT 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 ...
    • Class Warfare Gone Wild: Billionaire Fights Mi ...
      BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT From his early days in the securities industry to his involvement with junk bonds, from serial bankruptcies to multiple violations of environmental standards, from polluting coal mines and steel mills to war profiteering, the Brooklyn, New York-born Ira L ...
    • Ann Romney Goes Full Marie Antoinette on America
      MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Apparently, according to some pundits, Mitt and Ann Romney went ballistic when an Obama aide pointed out that if Mitt was not the CEO, President and sole stockholder of Bain Capital from 1999-2002, then he lied on the Security and Exchange Commission ...
    • Thom Hartmann and Greg Palast Ask You to Suppo ...
      THOM HARTMANN AND GREG PALAST FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Donate by clicking here. In an election year, it's rare to find a news organization that not only follows the election closely, but also maintains a deep focus on the real issues facing Americans on a daily basis - the issues that motiv ...

    Glenn Greenwald - Salon

    The BiPartisan Report

    Sciencebase

    • Shakespeare’s Sonnets on the iPad
      TouchPress has done it again giving us an aesthetically pleasing collision of art and technology – akin to the Leonardo Anatomy app I mentioned a while back. This time The Sonnets by William Shakespeare gets the modern treatment with videos and readings featuring Patrick Stewart (always a ...
    • Differential gears explained, 1930s style
      A surprisingly compelling explanation of differential gearing from the 1930s. Fast Forward to 1:50 if you want to skip the introduction…jump to 8:50 for the acrobatics! Differential gears explained, 1930s style is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogDifferential gears explained, 1930s sty ...
    • Be wary of miracles too good to be true
      Not for the first time I’ve suspected that lyricist and drummer with the Canadian rock band Rush, Neil Peart has been reading my blog. First time was having written about the concept of earthshine, the band’s next album featured a song on that very concept, the reflected light from t ...
    • The Darwin Lost Weekend
      A man tries to convince his friend that Charles Darwin conceived his book ‘Origin of Species’ on the concept of evolution in the town of Cromer, Norfolk, England and not in the Galapagos Islands. This video was premiered at the first Science Online conference back in 2009 but has onl ...
    • Who do you follow back on Twitter?
      There is almost no limit to the number of people you could follow on Twitter, but when someone follows you, how do you decide whether to follow back or not? I’ve updated my handy cut-out-and-keep Twitter Decision Flowchart for the scientific age. You may wish to add your own block words, s ...

    Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

    • “In the U.S., It Happens Again and Again”
      YESHUA MOSER-PUANGSUWAN, yeshua at nonviolenceinternational.netread more
    • ACLU and PUBPAT Argue Against Patents on Breas ...
      Patents for two genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer should be invalidated, attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) told a federal appeals court today. The patents allow a Utah company, Myriad Genetics, to stop all other l ...
    • Amnesty International Implores Russia to Relea ...
      A Moscow court has ruled that three members of the female punk group Pussy Riot must remain in custody for six months, prompting Amnesty International to reiterate its call for their immediate release.read more
    • We Don't Want Sympathy From The President Or O ...
      “On behalf of the Brady Campaign, I send our deepest sympathies to the families of the victims and survivors of the mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado.  This tragedy is another grim reminder that guns are the enablers of mass killers and that our nation pays an unacceptable price fo ...
    • Yemen Food Crisis: People Left Without Aid as ...
      Tens of thousands of people will be left without aid in Yemen’s hunger crisis unless more money is urgently given to the aid effort, Oxfam and Islamic Relief warned today. Nearly a quarter of the population are in need of emergency aid to survive because they do not have enough food to eat ...

    Common Dreams-Views

    • America Needs to Talk About Gun Control in the ...
      Gary Younge The chorus of empathetic responses to the tragic shootings at the Aurora movie theater, near Denver, Colorado early Friday morning marks a stubborn refrain in a perennial American elegy.read more
    • Cracks in the Foundation: New Fracking Informa ...
      Kate Sinding It looks like every day more and more cracks are appearing in the stock oil and gas industry argument about fracking-related water contamination.  For those who haven’t heard it before, the standard line goes somethi ...
    • Health Law's Flaws Will Spur Drive for Single- ...
      David Himmelstein Steffie Woolhandler It’s good the Supreme Court decided to follow the Constitution rather than play politics. But, from a medical point of view, there’s little to cele ...
    • Penn State, Democracy, and Modern Workplace Cu ...
      John Buell Pundits will draw many lessons from the Penn State scandal, but the role and predicament of the janitor strikes me as in need of more attention. According to Louis Freeh’s detailed report on the university’s handling ...
    • We Give and We Get
      Rosa Gonzalez When we hear about Arizona these days, what we hear is increasingly disturbing. We hear about extreme anti-immigrant laws. Racial profiling. Mass detention centers where people are subjected to bizarre and humiliating punishme ...

    Newshoggers - AfPak

    Water Wars

    • PHOTO: Water wars
      Amy Pellhum blasts Waylon Madden with a shot of cold water from a garden hose during a water fight Wednesday with family and friends in Jacksonville.
    • Opinion: A way forward in California’s water wars
      Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the July 8, 2012, Los Angeles Times Southern California’s most important lake is located in a distant part of the state and has a name most of us wouldn’t recognize. Clifton Court Forebay, between Oakland and Stockton, forms the manufactured headwaters of ...
    • Beat the heat at Shell Factory Fun Park
      You can beat the heat by visiting the Shell Factory Fun Park this summer. There are bumper boats with water guns, shaded spots on the miniature golf course and the popular "Water Wars" where you can shoot water balloons at friends and family.
    • Green Building Consultant Releases “Water Wars ...
      Sustainability planning, green building and water efficiency consultant, Jerry Yudelson, released a three-part video series aimed at preventing future urban water crises through public education.Tucson, Ariz. (PRWEB) July 10, 2012 Noted green building expert, author, water crisis guru and sustai ...
    • July 4 'water wars' let loose at Dana ...
      Dana Point Harbor's informal Independence Day tradition, "water wars," in which hundreds of participants of all ages celebrate by fighting one another with water cannons, fire hoses and buckets, served as the wilder, wetter alternative Wednesday to...

    WordPress | Economics

    Electronic Intifada

    The Wonk Room

    • Connecticut School Board Agrees To Stop Holdin ...
      In a settlement with the American Civil Liberties Union last week, the Enfield Board of Education in Bloomfield, Connecticut, agreed to stop holding high school graduation ceremonies in a church. The settlement culminates in a victory for the group of organizations which sued the board in May 20 ...
    • Colorado Cakeshop Refuses To Bake A Wedding Ca ...
      Yesterday afternoon, Dave Mullins and Charlie Craig headed to Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado to order their wedding cake. The couple — who will take their official vows in Massachusetts — wanted a Masterpiece cake for a celebration with family and friends in October. But ...
    • New Arkansas Study Says Medicaid Expansion Wou ...
      The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities today pointed out a new study from Arkansas’ Department of Human Services, which found the expansion of Medicaid in health reform would save the state $350 million between 2014 and 2025. This stands in stark contrast to an earlier estimate from th ...
    • Me at the Television Critics Association Press ...
      I’m headed out tonight to the Television Critics Association Press Tour in Los Angeles, and I’ll be there until August 5. Posting will proceed as usual, though Breaking Bad open threads may be a little sporadic depending on what I can catch in between events, and I may be a little sl ...
    • DOJ Analyzing Presidential Clemency Requests A ...
      A new review of Alabama federal inmate Clarence Aaron’s clemency request is being undertaken. Aaron’s original request was denied by President George W. Bush, but recent reports by ProPublica and The Washington Post revealing a racial disparity in pardons has brought renewed attentio ...

    thwap's schoolyard

    • No Reward For Hard Work in Canada - Part II
      I kinda blogged about this before. But I've been riding through Forest Hill these days, and I see houses like this: And, I gotta say, it's frustrating. And it isn't class envy. Up into my late-thirties I didn't care that some people were really, really rich. Personally, I don't want a mansion ...
    • Gun Violence in Toronto
      So Rob "fuck-head" Ford has decided to "declare WAR on gangs" in response to the tragic Scarborough shooting last weekend. You know what that means don't you? Absolutely nothing. The stupid fat piece of shit has the begging bowl out to the province for "resources" (although the imbecile hasn't c ...
    • More About Canada in Afghanistan
      Yesterday's post really didn't capture my disgust with the loons who got Canada into that mess and the ignoramuses who commented on those stories in the Toronto Star. So, here we go again. If you're going to put the Canadian military into a military mission, you have to do it with your eyes ope ...
    • Paul Watson's Article About Canadian Aid to Af ...
      The Toronto Star has been running some lengthy articles by Paul Watson about Canada's aid to Afghanistan. I almost didn't read them. We went in there in 2001 and now it's 2012. I've been complaining about this atrocity for over a decade. It doesn't come as any surprise to me that our aid was mos ...
    • Latest Reads
      More of my WWII reading: North Atlantic Run by Marc Milner. Highly detailed account of how hard it was for Canada to produce a respectable navy out of almost nothing in 1939. Operation Husky by Mark Zuehlke. Comprehensive account of the Canadian contribution to the invasion of Sicily. Vasily ...

    on Government Oversight

    Digital Journal

    • Baskin-Robbins to close Peterborough plant as ...
      The hot summer has increased demand for the ice cream products of Baskin-Robbins. Nevertheless the company plans to close a plant in Peterborough Ontario that will result in 80 workers being laid off.
    • Million Dollar Quartet Rocks On
      Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins made history when they gathered at Sun Studios on December 4, 1956. The musical based on that evening offers a powerful reminder of the magic that emanated from a small Memphis studio.
    • Vancouver Whitecaps trade giant forward Eric H ...
      He scored the first ever goal for the Vancouver Whitecaps of the MLS but French striker Eric Hassli appears to have scored his last for the club. The latest in a series of moves for the Caps sees them send Hassli to rival Toronto FC.
    • Soccer: Chelsea v Paris wealth-derby all set f ...
      Wealthy French outfit Paris St. Germain take on wealthy west Londoners Chelsea on Sunday evening in New York. The Parisian giants' £150 million spending spree has even raised the bushy eyebrows of Chelsea manager, Roberto Di Matteo.
    • Toronto teen slashed with machete after refusi ...
      The 17-year-old was rushed to hospital in critical condition after he was repeatedly attacked with a machete after he refused to give a man his cellphone.

    End Homelessness | Change.org

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

    Ceasefire.ca

    • Veterans’ benefits still withheld
      Despite Defence Minister Peter MacKay’s pledge to uphold a court ruling reinstating disabled veterans' access to clawed-back long-term disability benefits, many of the most severely injured former Canadian Forces soldiers have yet to see their payments resumed.
    • Keep on truckin’?
      No new trucks for the military.
    • Is Canada serious about small arms control?
      Why is the government trying to water down a global small arms control treaty?
    • Job cuts affect disabled veteran
      Among the thousands of federal public service workers affected by the most recent round of job cuts in late June were nearly 500 civilian workers at the Department of National Defence. Laurel Jones, an ex-soldier with 20 years’ experience in the Canadian Forces, was informed she may be one of 88 ...
    • Peter MacKay keeps his job
      How did he do it?

    Kevin Trudeau Show

    • Concern Over National Defense Resources Prepar ...
      March 30, 2012 Info Wars By Kurt Nimmo Asawin Suebsaeng, who is an editorial fellow at Mother Jones, seems to have a problem understanding the Constitution and the national security state. He takes the political “right” to task for warning about the National Defense Resources Preparedness execut ...
    • Gold Juniors to Explode?
      March 30, 2012 321 Gold By Scott Wright Over the course of gold’s bull, the companies that explore for and mine this metal have greatly prospered. The gold-stock sector has thus been one of the top-performing in all the markets over the last 10+ years, and its investors have been richly re ...
    • Amalgam Fillings Leach Mercury Vapor Into The ...
      March 30, 2012 Activist Post By AP “If you have mercury fillings, you should seriously consider having them removed.” –KTRN Why is it that what one government department considers an environmental travesty, another department deems completely safe for the human body? Simple ans ...
    • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-31-12
      America no longer has a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. KT tells you what went wrong and how we can fix it. Plus, Dr. Josh Axe, author of The Real Food Diet Cookbook, stops by to talk with Kevin about eating real, healthy food. Self Help: Global Information Network Your Wish Is Your ...
    • Ventura County On Raw Milk Rampage
      April 2, 2012 Natural News By Mike Adams “If raw milk is so dangerous, why are people still drinking it all over the world and not getting sick?”  –KTRN Perhaps the best investigative reporter covering the raw milk industry today is David Gumpert, writing for www.TheCompletePat ...

    Armies of Liberation

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

    Dark Politricks

    • Archaeologists believe the Mediterranean diet ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Iron Age Britons were importing olives from the Mediterranean a century before the Romans arrived with their exotic tastes in food, say archaeologists who have discovered a single olive stone from an exc ...
    • Failing to Break Up the Big Banks is Destroyin ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comFailing to Break Up the Big Banks is Destroying America By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com The Size of the Big Banks Is – Literally – Destroying the Rule of Law Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Ron Suskin ...
    • Researchers find car-sharers are practical, no ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   We all grew up being told that being willing to share our toys with others was a virtue, and none of us was ever completely convinced. Now it seems that the real secret to getting people to share may be ...
    • Missing three year old rescued from undergroun ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com Little Jeampier Silvera Arteta had been missing for 24 hours when rescue workers in the Colombian city of Barranquilla found the three year old in a sewer under the street, desperately holding on to keep fro ...
    • Titanic Banks Hit LIBOR Iceberg
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Ellen Hodgson Brown At one time, calling the large multinational banks a cartel branded you as a conspiracy theorist. Today the banking giants are being called that and worse, ...

    Dandelion Salad

    • Moyers and Company: Chris Hedges: Greed’s Path ...
      with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 20, 2012 http://billmoyers.com/ July 20, 2012 There are forgotten corners of this country where Americans are trapped in endless cycles of poverty, powerlessness, and despair as a direct result of capitalistic greed. Journalist Chris Hedges ...
    • Chris Hedges: Systems of Power Want to Control ...
      with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 20, 2012 Jul 20, 2012 by wearechange At an Occupy event in Philadelphia, Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange runs into Pulitzer Prize journalist Chris Hedges and gets his take on the state of journalism today. Chris Hedges on the State of Journali ...
    • The Story of Change
      Dandelion Salad Jul 16, 2012 by storyofstuffproject http://storyofchange.org — Can shopping save the world? The Story of Change urges viewers to put down their credit cards and start exercising their citizen muscles to build a more sustainable, just and fulfilling world. The Story of Change see ...
    • The Battle of Blair Mountain by Chris Hedges
      by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig July 16, 2012 Joe Sacco and I, one afternoon when we were working in southern West Virginia on our book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt,” parked our car on the side of a road. We walked with Kenny King into the woods covering the slop ...
    • Michael Parenti: Privatization by Bombing, int ...
      by Carl Boggs with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org July 13, 2012 Noted political scientist Michael Parenti was recently interviewed by another noted political scientist, Carl Boggs. The interview originally appeared in the academic jour ...

    Your New Reality

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

    Wired - Science

    • 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.

    Israeli Occupation Archive

    • Jonathan Cook: Israel’s annexation plan
      Under international law, Israel’s rule in the West Bank and Gaza is considered “belligerent occupation” and, therefore, its actions must be justified by military necessity only. If there is no... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
    • Amira Hass: The anti-Semitism that goes unreported
      Day after day, tens of thousands of people live in the shadow of terror. Will there be an attack today on the homes at the edge of the village? Will we be able to get to the well, to the orchard, to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
    • Defense Ministry hires architect to resume con ...
      The Defense Ministry recently contracted an architect to resume construction of the Givat Sal'it outpost in the Jordan Valley, in what is seen as a step toward legitimizing the outpost. Givat Sal'it... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
    • Moshé Machover: Israelis and Palestinians – co ...
      Moshé Machover pre-launched his recently published book, Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and resolution at a London event (podcast). The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much mor ...
    • Disney family member renounces her investments ...
      Abigail Disney: "Recent evidence from the Israeli Civil Administration documents that Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories sources mud used in its products from the occupied shores of the Dead Sea, which is... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

    Ria Novosti - Military

    • Russian Arms Ship Offloads Syria Helicopters
      A Russian cargo ship carrying a batch of Mi-25 attack helicopters and air defense systems for Syria has offloaded the aircraft in the Russian port of Baltiysk in the Kaliningrad region, a security source said on Friday.
    • U.S. Lawmakers Cut Pentagon Ties with Russian ...
      U.S. lawmakers passed on Thursday a bill breaking contracts between the Pentagon and Russian state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport, which they claim is "arming the oppressive Syrian regime,” the House of Representatives said on its web site.
    • U.S. Lawmakers Cut Pentagon Ties with Russian ...
      U.S. lawmakers passed on Thursday a bill breaking contracts between the Pentagon and Russian state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport, which they claim is "arming the oppressive Syrian regime,” the House of Representatives said on its website.
    • Israel on Alert for Syria Weapons
      Tel Aviv is concerned that the Lebanese Hezbollah movement will try to get hold of Syrian army arsenals, including missiles and chemical weapons, Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Thursday.
    • Iran's nuclear program

    NewsWise

    Natural Health News

    Climategate

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

    Opinio Juris

    • Weekend Roundup: July 14-20, 2012
      by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, Julian Ku discussed how the announcement by two US Senators of their position against ratification of the UNCLOS, has effectively sunk ratification for this year, and argued that the next administration should seek out bilateral agreemen ...
    • PTC: Information Regarding an Admissibility Ch ...
      by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller This may be a bit inside baseball for most, but the Pre-Trial Chamber issued an interesting decision yesterday regarding the Office of Public Counsel for the Defence’s formal response to Libya’s admissibility challenge.  According to the PTC, ...
    • Are Democracies Less Corrupt? The Answer May ...
      by Roger Alford by Roger Alford As part of my research on international corruption in a forthcoming article in the Ohio State Law Journal, I came across some interesting studies on the relationship between corruption and democracies. One would think that democratic regimes are less corrupt tha ...
    • Are Democracies Less Corrupt? The Answer May ...
      by Roger Alford by Roger Alford As part of my research on international corruption in a forthcoming article in the Ohio State Law Journal, I came across some interesting studies on the relationship between corruption and democracies. One would think that democratic regimes are less corrupt tha ...
    • Weekday News Wrap: Friday, July 20, 2012
      by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey As we reported earlier this week, today the ICJ will deliver its judgment in the Obligation to Prosecute or Extradite (Belgium v. Senegal) at 3:00 p.m. in The Hague (CET). The reading of the decision will be broadcast live on the Court’s website. Franc ...

    Public News Service

    • Backyard Chickens Can Mean Backyard Bears
      Backyard Chickens Can Mean Backyard Bears PHOENIX – Free, fast food is an irresistible lure for bears, and education campaigns have long been in place in Arizona to encourage people to keep trash, and even bird feeders, away from bears. But there's a new backyard attraction for bears, as m ...
    • Just One Blistering Sunburn = A Double Risk of ...
      Just One Blistering Sunburn = A Double Risk of Developing Skin Cancer PHOENIX - With the Arizona desert sun at its most intense this time of year, a warning to those out and about in the sunshine. Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States, according to the CDC, killing some 400 ...
    • RoboCops Needed for Political Robocalls?
      RoboCops Needed for Political Robocalls? PHOENIX - Hold the phone! Robo-call season is under way in Arizona, along with election season. Political robo-calls are exempted from National Do Not Call Registry regulations, and some families have been targeted for several calls a day. ...(Read More)
    • Transportation Bill Recognizes that Traffic is ...
      Transportation Bill Recognizes that Traffic is Sometimes a Zoo PHOENIX, Ariz. - Driving on Arizona highways sometimes feels like a zoo, with the state's abundant wildlife traveling along - and across - roads. The new federal transportation bill approved over the weekend recognizes the dangers fo ...
    • Is Your Kid A Bully?
      Is Your Kid A Bully? PHOENIX - Arizona parents who have seen the YouTube video of seventh-grade boys harassing a 68-year-old school bus monitor may wonder if their children could do such a thing. Christy Buck, director of the Mental Health Foundation, says parents who don't want their children ...

    Center for Food Safety

    • EPA to Beekeepers: Buzz Off
      Agency denies “imminent hazard” exists, fails to take immediate steps to protect bees from pesticides Earlier today the Environmental Protection Agency announced it formally refused to recognize that honey bees face an “imminent hazard” and denied a request by beekeepers to immediately suspend t ...
    • Statement by Center for Food Safety at Nationa ...
      The Center for Food Safety (‘The Center’) joined a collection of top public interest groups today at the National Press Club to voice collective concern over the recently passed House Agriculture Committee 2012 farm bill, which reported out of committee with several agricultural biotech industry ...
    • New York Times’ Oversized Argument: Organic Ca ...
      by Lisa J. Bunin, Ph.D., Organic Policy Coordinator There is no disputing the claim that organic has become “a wildly lucrative business for Big Food,” as discussed at length in the recent New York Times article: “Has ‘Organic’ Been Oversized?” But what reporter Stephanie Strom has noticeably om ...
    • The Center’s Statement on House Agriculture Co ...
      Riders attacking GE crop safeguards and USDA review process remain amid growing concerns over risk to nation’s food supply The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture completed the markup of its Farm Bill yesterday evening.  Buried in the bill reported out of committee are a suite ...
    • House Farm Bill’s ‘Backdoor Biotech Riders’ En ...
      Sweeping pro-chemical industry provisions attack GE crop safeguards and USDA review process, set controversial allowance for transgenic contamination of the nation’s food supply The Center for Food Safety (CFS) and a group of 40 food businesses and retailers, and farm, food safety, environmental ...

    Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

    Pensieve

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

    Green Times

    • Mass consumption is killing the environment...
      Abundance (glossary/categories/wildlife/abundance.html), mass consumption, capitalism (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q= esrc=s source=web cd=1 ved=0CIoBEBYwAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCapitalism ei=Wd6xT9bLMqKLmQXDyoi3CQ usg=AFQjCNEs9weTxH-ZiwZr_DR6I1eSy9IHpA sig2=3F5nMo ...
    • Environmental News 17/05/2012
      Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Richmond Valley says no to new coal seam gas The Richmond Valley Council is reconsidering its position on the coal-seam industry. It was the only far north coast council to speak in favour of the industry when a parliamentary inquiry visited the regi ...
    • Glocalisation: A better way for a better devel ...
      Around 6% of clothes bought in Australia are made in Australia ... Think global, act LOCAL (lifestyle/glocalisation.html) to protect the environment!   Photo by Olga Lednichenko (http://www.flickr.com/people/olga-lednichenko-photos-albums-images/) via Flickr Creative Commons  
    • Environmental News 16/05/2012
      Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Ocean temperature made Queensland floods worse: study Abnormally high ocean temperatures off the coast of northern Australia contributed to the extreme rainfall that flooded three-quarters of Queensland over the summer of 2010-11, scientists report. ...
    • Methane emissions in Agriculture
      A team of Australian and international scientists have teamed up with CSIRO's Sustainable Agriculture Flagship to help address one of the key contributors of methane emissions - burping livestock.

    The Briefing Room | Investigate

    Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

    • Susya
      June 22, 2012: Susya I doubt if Palestinian Susya has ever seen so many people. Some 500, maybe more, have arrived from Jerusalem (including a large Palestinian delegation from East Jerusalem), Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva, and various sites in the occupied territories: Beit Umar, Mufagara, and the ...
    • My Home is Everything: the People of Susiya Sp ...
      Dear Friends and supporters, The latest news from Qamar, the lawyer from Rabbis for Human Rights representing Palestinian Susiya: the occupation’s “Civil Administration” agreed to extend the period for the submission of the juridical objections to the demolition orders issued f ...
    • Urgent alert to save Susya village from destru ...
      Dear Friends, Please have a look at the announcement below. For the last twelve years we have worked closely with our Palestinian friends in Susya, protected them to the best of our abilities from continuous violent harassment by Israeli settlers and by the army, fought the legal battle to keep ...
    • “Civil Administration” and Settler ...
      In March, we reported here about an unusual Israel High Court petition by Israeli settler-run groups, demanding that the (fraudulently named) “Civil Administration” carry out demolition orders in Palestinian Susya. Settler pressure upon the government to make Palestinian life more di ...
    • Protest around the world today for Ziad Jilani
      I have written early in an attempt to draw parallels between Trayvon Martin and the killing of Palestinian youths by settler vigilantes. Today we are protesting a killing done by “Border Police” in Israel. The name suggest an obvious link to police brutality in the United States: wit ...

    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 ...

    Coteret

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

    Deadline Live

    • Shooting at Colorado movie theater leaves 14 d ...
      Fourteen people are dead and 50 others wounded after a gunman in a suburb outside Denver opened fire during a midnight showing of the Batman movie the “Dark Knight Rises,” the police chief said at a press conference. The suspect is in custody, Aurora police chief Daniel J. Oates told ...
    • This Day In History – July 20
      1871 – British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada. 1932 – In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans, part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force, who attempt to march to the White House. 1934 – Labor unrest in the U.S.: as police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck ...
    • This Day In History – July 19
      64 – Great Fire of Rome: a fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control. According to a popular, but untrue legend, Nero fiddled as the city burned. 1553 – Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after only [...]
    • Blast Kills Top Security Aides to Assad
      BEIRUT, Lebanon — President Bashar al-Assad’s brother-in-law and Syria’s defense minister were killed on Wednesday when a suicide bomber attacked a crisis group of senior ministers and security chiefs meeting in central Damascus, according to state television and activists. Full Article
    • Ariz. sheriff says Obama birth certificate is fake
      PHOENIX (CBS5) - The lead Cold Case Posse investigator looking into the authenticity of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate claims that Hawaiian regulation for obtaining the document is so lax, it would cast doubt on any birth records from Hawaii. “Considering the fact that Ha ...

    The Air Vent

    • Why Back-Radiation is not a Source of Surface ...
      A guest post by Leonard Weinstein.  The original document is here and has more legible equations. Leonard Weinstein July 18, 2012 The argument is frequently made that back radiation from optically absorbing gases heats a surface more than it would be heated without back radiation, and this is th ...
    • Police Reveal Climatehack details.
      Steve McIntyre has a post up on an interview with the Norfolk Police regarding the conclusions on the Climategate hack. Apparently, there was a sophisticated effort to break in to the mail server and access was available for an extended period of time. This document is very interesting in partic ...
    • Climategate Investigation Pauses, No Suspects& ...
      It seems appropriate that I put this up here also. Andrew Montford, CA and others have reported that the Norfolk Police have ended their investigation into the hacking of online data from CRU. It turns out that none of us climate bloggers (previously popular or otherwise) have been implicated an ...
    • Obama – Honesty in Politics
      if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let [...]
    • Putting the K back in Skeptic
      I received this email today.   It’s kind of humorous except that I do agree with a common sense approach to energy that has a lot less government involvement. — Jeff. —- Dear Sceptic,  (I think he means me. It could be one of you guys though   ) due to your high profile interes ...

    Focal Point

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