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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 III

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook roundup: stock price and customer sat ...
    Facebook stock again below $30 - Amid concerns that Facebook will report lackluster Q2 earnings, the company’s stock closed at $28.76 today. Not even news that Facebook will begin testing search-based ads could bring the share price above $30 where … Continue reading →
  • Custom tabs, Ghosts of Mistwood, Jewel Kingdom ...
    Topping our list of emerging applications by monthly active users this week was Custom Tab | Arrow #3, a page tab application builder from Woobox. The rest of our list was made up mostly of games, though sports social reader … Continue reading →
  • Facebook careers: natural language processing, ...
    Facebook added a number of interesting new job listings to its recently redesigned careers page this week, including a natural language processing engineer and a privacy program manager, among others. The natural language processing engineer job calls for a candidate to help the … Continue ...
  • Facebook hires: technology partners, analysts, ...
    Facebook hired a number of technology partners and analysts this week, based on job listings removed from its Careers page. The company also appeared to hire a principal of global small business growth in Hyderabad and a client partner in Singapore. As we … Continue reading →
  • Facebook adds iOS and Mac development studio A ...
    Facebook has hired the team behind Acrylic, a development studio that makes iOS and Mac software, including news reader Pulp and secure database app Wallet. The social network did not acquire Acrylic’s products or services, according to a blog post on Acrylic’s website. Acrylic &#823 ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • The last days of Syrian butcher Assad's regime ...
    We are witnessing the last days of Bashar "The Butcher" Assad, the Alawite sectarian dictator ruling Syria. Slowly but surely, the revolutionaries of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) are closing in on his vipers’ nests... Yet, here in the West, lurking in the darkest corners of ignorance – on the in ...
  • Israel paves way for annexation of Palestinian ...
    Jonathan Cook sees a report recently published by Israeli Supreme Court judge Levy, which stated that Israel is not in fact occupying Palestinian territories, as a step towards the formal annexation of a large chunk of the West Bank - the 62 per cent of the occupied Palestinian territory dubbed ...
  • Donor dollars aiding political repression in E ...
    Graham Peebles looks at how the mixed motives for the aid given by Western donor countries to Ethiopia mean that these countries - in effect, US, British and other European taxpayers - are funding a deeply repressive and violent regime that uses aid as a political weapon to control the populatio ...
  • Nationalism versus capitalism in USA: guess wh ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers the essence of capitalism and how its corollary in the age of the free market - outsourcing of production to countries with cheap labour, no or weak trade unions and minimal regulation - is impoverishing Americans who nonetheless continue to believe that the system co ...
  • Storming the Bastille in Syria
    Henry Lowi calls on progressives with a conscience to declare their solidarity with the oppressed people of Syria, to make every effort "to reach out to the pro-democracy grassroots organizations" there and to "support and strengthen the hand of the pro-democracy and working class currents in th ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Fighting 21st Century "Evil" in American Politics
    Article examines political "evil" in terms of core American values such as political democracy, community of purpose and equal opportunity. It touches on being represented instead of being ruled by an economic and power elite. It touches on caring for the most unfortuanate Americans and the weal ...
  • Citizens Protest PA Prison Expansion at Grater ...
    The Governor of Pennsylvania and others in the state are keen on building new prisons and expanding prisons like the one at Graterford outside Philadelphia. It's a really bad idea, and 50 citizens took to the street near Graterford Prison to say so. The State Police were waiting for them.
  • The Freeh Report and Joe Paterno
    The Philadelphia Inquirer continued its record of shoddy journalism with its coverage of the Freeh Report
  • Occupy the Tea Party
    Taking America Back for the People requires more than the Left can manage to organize, given its long history of being unable to unify and work together. This article describes how Citizens United and the corruption of the US electoral system could be the issues that unify Left and Right in t ...
  • Say It Ain't So, Joe: Another Sports Legend Bi ...
    Unfortunately, Joe was not a man of his word. Winning football games did matter to Joe Paterno, and, it has come to light that winning obviously, and distressingly, mattered more to Paterno than the welfare of kids. Winning mattered so much that Joe Paterno, that great and honorable man, was wil ...

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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • The Problem of the 21st Century
    Bill McKibben lays it out for us–climate change is the greatest problem of the 21st century by enormous levels of magnitude. If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven’t convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers about climat ...
  • Cynicism
    Glad to see Andrew Cuomo take advantage of the Colorado tragedy to release a long-awaited letter about his ties to the casino industry. That’s the kind of politician cynicism that just warms the heart. Via
  • Aurora
    Adding to the cacophony at this point seems pointless. Deepest condolences from everyone at LGM to the victims of the shooting. Update: (PC) Adding to the cacaphony.
  • Will Nevada’s Culinary Union Sit Out the ...
    The Culinary Union in Nevada has threatened to sit out the 2012 election. This could be a big deal. The most powerful labor union in Nevada, with deep roots in the Las Vegas Latino community, the Culinary Union could really threaten Obama’s ability to win the state. Why is the union doing ...
  • “HBO is paying him millions to dramatize ...
    Emily Nussbaum’s instant-classic review of The Newsroom said something really terrifying: it claimed the show got worse in its 3rd and 4th episodes. Sadly, she was right. The third episode, in particular, was everything the least optimistic Sorkin critic could have imagined — consist ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • Two Maoist Cadres Arrested in Assam
    The nabbed woman cadre was identified as Gitanjali Dihingia who came from Dhemaji district.
  • Cast And Crew OF 'The Odd Couple' Attend Press ...
    Western actors, and crew members, attend press conference in Beijing, China on July 18, 2012. They represented an all Mandarin version of The Odd Couple. Its premiere to be on July 25th. Gu Wei is the production's director.
  • Will Russia and China Stop Protecting Assad?
    It invoked Chapter VII to make more binding on the parties their obligation to implement the Joint Special Envoy's six-point plan and effect the political transition plan agreed by the Action Group in Geneva on June 30, Ms. Rice explained.
  • Economic Collapse Could Be Imminent
    Those automatic cuts in federal spending may result in the loss of over two million jobs ranging from teachers to defense contractors and border security.
  • Is Assad Regime At The Beginning of a Painful End?
    Ms. Clinton notes that Assad regime must cooperate with the international community to assist in a managed transition that keeps the institutions of the Syrian state intact, which ceases the violence, saves lives,

environment 360

  • Iron-Seeding Experiment Shows Ability to Trap ...
    An eight-year German research effort has shown that under the right conditions seeding the ocean with iron can trigger phytoplankton blooms that suck carbon out of the air and trap it deep in the ocean, a potentially important breakthrough in the nascent field of climate geoengineering. Reportin ...
  • Linking Twin Extinctions Of Species and Languages
    A recent study noted that most of the 6,900 languages spoken on Earth occur in regions of high biodiversity. These findings point to a strong correlation between biological and linguistic diversity, with languages closely connected to the habitats where they are found. BY VERLYN KLINKENBORG
  • Warmer Ocean Waters Lead to a Lobster Glut in ...
    Warmer Atlantic Ocean temperatures off the coast of Maine have caused the state’s bountiful supply of lobsters to shed their shells and come onto the market six weeks earlier than normal, creating a glut that has driven prices sharply down. The state’s 5,000 lobster fishermen are receiving less ...
  • Beetle's Rapid Evolution Helps Control Invasiv ...
    Scientists say that a species of beetle has rapidly altered its life cycle to more efficiently devour the invasive tamarisk tree in the southern United States. UCSB Tamarisk leaf beetle In a decade-long study, researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) found that ...
  • Cooling a Warming Planet: A Global Air Conditi ...
    The U.S. has long used more energy for air conditioning than all other nations combined. But as demand increases in the world’s warmer regions, global energy consumption for air conditioning is expected to continue to rise dramatically and could have a major impact on climate change. BY STAN COX

Red Ice Creations

  • Obama Seizes Control of All Communications Sys ...
    President Obama has usurped all available forms of communication for use and discretion of the US government. Under an Executive Order (June 6, 2012) entitled Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions, Obama has enabled the executive branch to control co ...
  • Leaked: Bin Laden not buried at sea, body move ...
    The body of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was not buried at sea, according to leaked emails of intelligence firm Stratfor, as revealed by WikiLeaks. Stratfor’s vice-president for intelligence, Fred Burton, believes the body was “bound for Dover, [Delaware] on [a] CIA plane” and then “onward to ...
  • Scientist Finds Hidden Portals in Earth’s Magn ...
    According to NASA, a researcher at the University of Iowa has found "hidden portals on Earth’s magnetic field that open and close dozens of times each day." Some of them are open for long periods of time. These portals "create an uninterrupted path leading from our own planet to the sun’s atmosp ...
  • Preconceptions: Arizona bill declares women pr ...
    A new bill up for vote in the state of Arizona would ban abortions for some expectant mothers, but that’s only the start of what lawmakers have in store. If the legislation passes, the state will consider a child to exist even before conception. Under Arizona’s H.B. 2036, the state would recogni ...
  • London 2012: Olympic missile tenants in terror ...
    Council tenants have argued a plan to place surface-to-air missiles on their tower block during the Olympics could make them a terrorism target. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) rejected the claim, saying missile deployment as part of security measures for the Games was legitimate and proportionate ...

Russia Today

  • DEFCON 4! US spy chief to make splash at hacke ...
    Computer geeks planning to attend the world's largest annual hacking party in Las Vegas next week will have a rare chance to talk to the head of the US National Security Agency – the first such high-ranking official to... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Wild Wild West...Bank? American tourists take ...
    Hundreds of American adventure-seekers have found a new buzz at a West Bank firing range, shooting pictures of Arab-looking targets and learning a new version of Israeli patriotism. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Pyongyang threats to “reexamine” nuclear Capab ...
    North Korea has threatened to “reexamine” its nuclear capabilities after perceiving a new, threatening agenda from its southern neighbor and United States. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Pussy Riot custody extension sparks new public ...
    The decision to add another six months in custody for the members of Russian punk group Pussy Riot has sparked a new wave of public outrage. The girls' lawyers are now seeking President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Bahraini police fire tear gas on thousands of ...
    Violent clashes erupted in Bahrain as thousands protested the government’s move to limit political marches. Police used tear gas and, reportedly, rubber bullets to disperse the crowd, which responded with firebombs. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Egypt’s head torturer under Mubarak, Oma ...
    What I really love about the US, is that even though I am an RN I have the absolute worst time along with zillions of other Americans getting any decent medical care for me or my family. Yet foreign torturers and thugs can come over here, and Hey! …it’s no problem! Barak Obama is suc ...
  • Syrian Situation Worsens coverage
    Press Tv has an excellent discussion that can’t be found elsewhere about the main issues in regards to what’s being done to Syria by the US government. Check it out. Press TV- Syrian Situation worsens
  • Somebody’s stabbing homeless people in t ...
    Hey, in the US the job of stabbing homeless people in the back is normally left up to America’s municipal governments, like the lickspittle police loving one we have in Colorado Springs. However, some other mentally deranged jerk is now doing it in PERSONALLY in the LA area… No wonde ...
  • How ’bout a nice word for them Southern ...
    Andy Griffith, the Southern liberal cop! Back growing up we all down in North Texas wanted to watch the fantasy land constructed around this lovely concept. The TV story might have taken place in North Carolina, but we imagined it, too, taking place in rural Texas. The truth was something else t ...
  • Code Pink thinking with its vagina, our apolog ...
    Just kidding, about the anatomical reference giving offense. Not kidding about Code Pink “Women for Peace” thinking with their vaginas, making it the theme to their callout for the Tampa RNC in August. Agreed, men thinking with their reproductive organ is far more common, and general ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • FAQ #8: What Is Nanothermite? Could It Have Be ...
    Written by Adam Taylor In order to understand what nanothermite is, we first must understand what ordinary commercial thermite is. Thermite is a mixture of a metal and the oxide of another metal, usually aluminum (Al) and iron oxide (Fe2O3), in a granular or powder form. When ignited, the ener ...
  • Fire, Steel, & WTC 7
    Published on Jul 12, 2012 by ofmay We look at the fire that NIST claims took down WTC building 7 as well as 5 other steel frame high rise fires. Debunking the Debunkers blog contributor and author of, "Other Collapses in Perspective: An Examination of Other Steel Structures Collapsing due ...
  • 9/11 Free Fall 6/22/12 (Wayne Coste Interview)
    Published on Jun 23, 2012 by Free Fall Hosted by Bernie Suarez and Andrew Steele. In this episode Bernie and Andy talk about the Scientific Method and NIST's disregard for it in favor "computer model science". The guest this week is engineer Wayne Coste, who talks about 9/11 science and cens ...
  • MIT Physics vs. 9/11 Conspiracy - Jeff King 19 ...
    David Chandler relays some sad news at 911blogger.com: Jeff King, an early scientific voice in the 9/11 Truth Movement, died on June 19 after a lengthy battle with amyloidosis and multple myeloma. He studied physics and engineering at MIT, left for a number of years, then re-enrolled, finished ...
  • Update to Blog Published 2/5/12
    My 2/5/12 blog, "What Does it Mean for the 9/11 Truth Movement if James R. Millette Proves Nano-thermite Wasn't Used to Take down the WTC Towers on 9/11?," outlines what steps must be taken to conclusively debunk nano-thermite as the culprit in our minds here. It's argued that the cas ...

Fooducate

  • No Bake Lemon Balls: Healthy, Fast, & Yummy
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl and originally appeared here. One of the biggest hits on Snack Girl has been the No Bake Brownie Balls. They are simple to make, nutritious, and taste ...
  • The Pink Slime Saga – Epilogue
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! You may remember several months ago, nutrition headlines were all pink. What started as a petition by a Houston mommy blogger, to get a highly processed meat by-product out ...
  • More Shoppers Seeking Nutrition, But are They ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! A recent consumer survey, Shopping for Health, conducted by the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and Prevention magazine indicates that nutrition continues to be a driving for ...
  • Five Healthy Bread Ideas
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Walking through the bread aisle at the grocery store can be EXTREMELY daunting.  Shelves and shelves worth of different brands of bread with slightly different packaging can ...
  • Almond Calories Are Now 20% Lower. How Awesome ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Great news folks! Recent advances in calorie measurements have shown that the actual calories in almonds may be lower than what we think. The study, published in the A ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Indian expulsion of armed forces in Colombia t ...
    The Nasa Indians have been caught in the crossfire of Colombia's civil war between the army and illegal armed groups © Francisco Pedro Nasa Indians in southwest Colombia are at the centre of a violent standoff between the army and left-wing guerrilla army the FARC (Revolutionary Armed ...
  • Brazil arrests 18 over high profile execution ...
    Indian leader Nísio Gomes was executed by masked gunmen last year. © Survival Brazilian authorities have arrested 18 people in connection with the high profile killing of an indigenous leader by masked gunmen. Religious leader Nísio Gomes was murdered in front of his Guarani community in t ...
  • Police arrest illegal goldminers in Brazil’s Y ...
    Brazil's Yanomami have protested for years about the devastating impact of mining. © Hutukara/ Survival A year long investigation into criminal activities in the territory of Brazil’s Yanomami tribe has led to the arrest of 26 goldminers. Gold, motor boats, dredging equipment, firearm ...
  • Ads target Machu Picchu tourists in row over u ...
    Uncontacted tribes share the same 'Sacred Valley' as Machu Picchu. The ancient site attracts up to 1 million tourists each year. © Icelight/Wikicommons Visitors to Peru’s most iconic tourist attraction, Machu Picchu, are being targeted by a new online ad campaign, in a row over a ...
  • Vietnam buys into Peru’s controversial oil fields
    PetroVietnam has taken on oil blocks in an area inhabited by uncontacted tribes © Survival Vietnamese oil company PetroVietnam has bought a stake in two Peruvian oil blocks in a region known to be inhabited by uncontacted tribes. The company has bought a 52.6% stake in Anglo-French Perenc ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • The Truth Behind The Lies Play By Play from IA ...
    By LJ Goes “Just more BS…some guy says good luck…no way Congress is giving more money…” “What now? I’m dying here.” “…Geri (Dawson) now. Liked her intro statements” This is my friend, and fellow Co-Founder of The Thinking Moms’ Revolution,...
  • Autism Speaks Sued for Discriminatory Treatmen ...
    Note: Below is a legal complaint filed by Simone Greggs against Autism Speaks. "...Over the course of two months, Plaintiff was given five different interviews with various officials of the Defendant and was finally told that they wanted to hire...
  • Tics and Toxins: New Evidence Raises Pesticide ...
    By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill One Thursday last September, a crop-dusting plane swooped down over a cornfield in Western New York and dipped below the tree line, spraying an insecticide engineered to paralyze the nervous system of agricultural pests...
  • For Want of a Nail: School Abuse and the Debat ...
    By Adriana Gamondes In our district school, right down the hall from the cinder block scream room, there’s a ten foot statue of Lincoln with the usual engraved quote about liberty, equality and honesty. We think the school should take...
  • Don't Do Anything You Wouldn't Want to See on ...
    By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. Did your mother ever say things to you like that when you were growing up? My mother did. I couldn't help thinking of my mother's admonition when I saw the headline from the July 14, 2012...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Look Who Supports GMO Labeling – Infographic
    The following infographic from Voters Edge shows just how much money is being spent by both sides, for and against GMO labeling in California. "See who's spending money against our right to know labeling bill in CA and refuse to buy their products!"
  • Through the Eyes of a Goose
    Whether it is big or small, complex or simple, all life is precious, right down to one little baby gosling, fresh from the egg. And as I discovered during my journey on the road to raising Little E.D. the Endurance Goose, there is a wealth of knowledge to be had just from the simple task of lear ...
  • Danish Farmer Reverses Illnesses in pigs by re ...
    A Danish farmer has gained huge public recognition for publishing his simple method for ridding his pigs of illness- removing genetically modified (GM) ingredients from their diet.
  • Did Rand Paul even read the GMO labeling amend ...
    Text of SA 2310. Read what it really says instead of what they tell you it says.
  • Nuclear Shutdown Now or Never
    Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Peter Saunders Institute of Science in Society “We lost Japan,” said Rie Inomata, who works as an interpreter [1]. “I feel guilty and sorry for the children. They did not choose nuclear power plants, they did not choose to be born; but it is them that have to suffer in [ ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • European regulators back first gene therapy drug
    Reuters – European regulators have recommended approval of the Western world’s first gene therapy drug — after rejecting it on three previous occasions — in a significant advance for the novel medical technology. More than 20 years since the first experiments with the gro ...
  • Colombian police clash with tribe occupying ar ...
    BBC – Early on Wednesday, police used tear gas to remove the indigenous group from Cerro Berlin, some two hours from the town of Toribio. Local official Jose Miller Correa said 24 people had been injured in the police operation, three of them seriously. Anti-riot police were sent to Cerro ...
  • China to launch interbank gold market
    Financial Times – China is set to launch interbank gold trading at the end of next month amid a broader set of banking reforms, in a move that has the potential to boost demand for bullion in the world’s largest consumer. A spokesman for the Shanghai Gold Exchange confirmed that the exchan ...
  • Texas executes Yokamon Hearn with pentobarbitol
    BBC – The US state of Texas has executed its first death row inmate with a single lethal injection of the sedative pentobarbital. Yokamon Hearn, 33, was convicted for the carjacking and murder of a Dallas stockbroker in 1998. Hearn is the sixth inmate to be killed this year in Texas, but t ...
  • Team tackling contraception myths in northern ...
    BBC – A big international meeting in London has raised £3bn to help couples in the world’s poorest countries plan the size of their families. I went to a clinic in Nassarawa in the south of Nigeria, to see what this sort of aid looks like on the ground. Nigeria is Africa’s most ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

  • Two Maoist Cadres Arrested in Assam
    The nabbed woman cadre was identified as Gitanjali Dihingia who came from Dhemaji district.
  • Cast And Crew OF 'The Odd Couple' Attend Press ...
    Western actors, and crew members, attend press conference in Beijing, China on July 18, 2012. They represented an all Mandarin version of The Odd Couple. Its premiere to be on July 25th. Gu Wei is the production's director.
  • Will Russia and China Stop Protecting Assad?
    It invoked Chapter VII to make more binding on the parties their obligation to implement the Joint Special Envoy's six-point plan and effect the political transition plan agreed by the Action Group in Geneva on June 30, Ms. Rice explained.
  • Economic Collapse Could Be Imminent
    Those automatic cuts in federal spending may result in the loss of over two million jobs ranging from teachers to defense contractors and border security.
  • Is Assad Regime At The Beginning of a Painful End?
    Ms. Clinton notes that Assad regime must cooperate with the international community to assist in a managed transition that keeps the institutions of the Syrian state intact, which ceases the violence, saves lives,

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

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

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Spoiling for Another Lebanon War
    by Stephen Lendman Lebanon has the misfortune of bordering Israel. The IDF attacked its northern neighbor in 1978, 1982, 1996, and 2006. More on the most recent war below. Israel still illegally occupies Sheba Farms and Ghajar Lebanese territory. Since at least the 1960s, it conducted ...
  • LIBORGATE REVEALS GLOBAL FINANCIAL GAME IS RIGGED
    Allen L Roland Pete Bagley / Salt Lake TribuneTo the global banking elite it’s always heads they win and tails you lose but the recent LIBOR scandal moves that rigged financial game to a global scale which could and should result in multibillion dollar fines ~ unless Obama continues to ...
  • Rupert Watch, Murdoch Faces Shareholder Rebell ...
    By Michael Collins News Corporation is facing an investor rebellion in Great Britain that parallels a similar rebellion occurring in the United States. (Image) "A consortium of 18 heavyweight investors is calling for Mr Murdoch to stand down as chairman in the interests of good corporate gov ...
  • Border Collies TGIF
    By Robert Singer All five of my border collies have access to my bedroom. Some sleep on the bed, others on the floor and Bart always sleeps outside. They have a morning routine that begins at a different time every day. Therefore either they don’t know how to tell time or their routine ...
  • US Cities Going Bankrupt
    by Stephen Lendman In past decades, many US municipalities declared bankruptcy. Since 1981, 42 cases were filed. Ten came in the past four years. Given hard times getting harder, what's happening now is unprecedented since the Great Depression. Cities occasionally declare bankruptc ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Saturday
    Japan probes under-reporting of Fukushima radiation dosage (Reuters) – Japan’s health ministry said it would investigate reports that workers at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant were urged by a subcontractor to place lead around radiation detection devices in order to stay ...
  • Bradley Manning barred from citing evidence du ...
    From telegraph.co.uk – In a major blow to Manning’s defence, Judge Denise Lind said what happened after the classified files were disclosed is irrelevant as to whether the US soldier committed the crime of leaking sensitive information knowing that it “could” cause damage ...
  • WORLD’S OLDEST KNOWN BRA FOUND
    From (Beatrix Nutz),uibk.ac.at – Up until now there was nothing to indicate the existence of bras with clearly visible cups before the 19th century. Textiles found in a castle in Eastern Tyrol now prove that there already was clothing similar to modern bras in the 15th century – a di ...
  • Why Are Working People Invisible in the Mainst ...
    By Amy Dean, Truthout | Interview – Best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich – probably best known for her 2001 book “Nickel and Dimed” – has long been on the forefront of promoting stories about working people in an often hostile media environment. Recently, she ...
  • Hippie Trivia Question Win Free Gear!
    A Worldwide Hippies  A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 6:00 pm (EST). Trivia is open all week so enter often. You do not have to be correct, even a comment gets you in… Winner is chosen by random.   Post your answer in the comments section.   Answer to last question ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Investment Opportunities in Natural Gas
    In this week’s Energy Trends Insider our featured stories were The Navy’s Biofuels Program and the Great Green Fleet, Investment Opportunities in Natural Gas, and the Short Term Oil Price Investment Outlook. As we did last week, we would like to share one of those stories with regula ...
  • Midwestern Drought, Ethanol, & Renewable Fuel ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I discuss the implications of the current drought in the Midwest, how that may impact the ethanol market, and whether the Renewable Fuel Standard is likely to be modified. Readers who have specific questions can send them to ask [at] consumere ...
  • Environmentalism is a Profitable Business
    Global Experiment With the Climate I want to preface this column by saying that I am very concerned about climate change. The rapid growth of atmospheric carbon dioxide shows no sign of abating, and I have concerns over what this will ultimately mean for the climate. The fact is that we are cond ...
  • Poor Corn Crop Will Have Major Impact on Ethan ...
    One of the biggest threats to the U.S. ethanol industry is a major drought/crop failure in the heart of corn country, says Robert Rapier. This year we may be experiencing such an event.
  • Enough Oil to Fry the Planet? — R-Squared Ener ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I discuss the recently released paper by former Eni executive Leonardo Maugeri — in which he suggests global oil supplies will increase by 17 million barrels per day by the end of the decade — as well as George Monbiot’s high ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • The Nickel Pincher: Wasp-Proof Your Backyard
    Wasps, hornets, and yellow jacket can put a serious crimp in your outdoor fun. And since populations peak in late summer, now's the time of year when you either deal with them or risk ruining a perfectly good afternoon nursing a seriously nasty welt. I've got a few ideas on how to kill wasps, y ...
  • The Crazy Reason You're Depressed
    Your coworker's perfume, that lingering smell of someone's overpowering fabric softener, the secondhand smoke floating through a crowded concert hall—for most of us, those are just annoyances that could put a damper on a fun night out or make your workday temporarily unpleasant. But for others, ...
  • 3 Secrets About Your Sunless Tan
    Summer is in full swing, and the battle to be bronze is going full force—except it's not enough to have a back-from-the-beach glow that fades after a few weeks anymore. Women—and men—want to retain that golden hue long after their last beach visit, and they're going to great, and sometimes dang ...
  • Why a BPA Ban Won't Protect You
    The federal government says baby bottle and sippy cup manufacturers will no longer be allowed to make products containing bisphenol A, or BPA, a move that offers some protection to children but comes short of offering serious BPA protection to the general public, according to some experts. The ...
  • Here's Who's Most Afraid of Fracking
    Drilling for natural gas using the unconventional hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, technique has been blamed for manmade earthquakes, toxic water contamination, and destroyed air quality. But it's not just homeowners and environmental activists who recognize the threats, anymore. Nationwide I ...

big think

  • Why Doctors and AIDS Advocates Oppose the FDA' ...
    What's the Latest Development? The FDA has approved the first pill ever designed to prevent HIV infection after a series of tests, performed mostly in Africa, suggested that daily doses greatly reduce the risk of transmitting the virus. Called Truvada, the pill performed especially well ...
  • Stem Cells to Help Create Personalized Parkins ...
    What's the Latest Development? A nationwide team of scientists, led by a member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), have successfully used stem cells to further the goal of creating personalized medical treatments for Parkinson's disease. "The team of scientists created induced .. ...
  • Would you like a side of Christianity with tha ...
    Don’t you just hate it when people that you fundamentally disagree with say something that you know to be true? Back in March, Brian Brown, president of the National Organization For Marriage (NOM), said “Corporations should not take sides in a culture war that pits a company against the majorit ...
  • Making Secular Sense of a Massacre
    A gunman opened fire during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises. Most of us, after hearing about this, are probably feeling sickened and disturbed. No doubt preachers of all stripes will come crawling out the woodwork to align their loving god with the massacre in Aurora, Colorado, or t ...
  • Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Has It All. Can You?
    Yahoo wants to have it all. The company's board has tasked new CEO Marissa Mayer with the mandate to compete with her former company, the cash register that is known as Google, as well as to take on her former Google colleague Sheryl Sandberg's new company, Facebook.  Mayer certainly has ...

Information Liberation

  • Denver Dark Knight Rises shooting: Amateur vid ...
    Mobile phone footage has been released showing crowds fleeing an attack on a Dark Knight Rises showing in Denver, Colorado. Report by Sam Datta-Paulin. ...
  • 'Dark Knight' Shooting Leaves at Least 12 Kill ...
    At least 12 people were killed and as many as 50 injured when a gunman in a gas mask opened fire about 12:30 a.m. in a theater showing the new Batman (TWX) movie in Aurora, near Denver, Colorado. Police found explosives in the home of a 24-year-o...
  • Presumed Guilty in Florida: Drug "Crimes" with ...
    Thanks to a state Supreme Court ruling effectively disposing of the need for prosecutors to prove criminal intent, the Florida state government can continue imprisoning people for possessing substances they didn't know were illegal. Florida is one...
  • Obamacare and the Revenge of the "Secret Const ...
    *[T]he majority has at all times a right to govern the minority, and to bind the latter to obedience to the will of the former*. In a general sense the will of the majority of the people is absolute and sovereign, limited only by its means and power ...
  • Minneapolis SWAT team leader faces first-degre ...
    Minneapolis police Sgt. David Clifford, a SWAT team leader once lauded by the United Nations for the "highest level of dedication and professionalism," was charged with first-degree assault Tuesday in an off-duty incident last month that left a Ramse...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

  • From Living Room to Lily Pad: Is the Fatal Amp ...
    My pet frog Gunther is clamped inside a latex-covered fist. His skinny leg sticks out the side and flails helplessly. Another gloved hand moves in and slips a cotton swab over his leg and between his toes; Gunther does not appear to be enjoying this. He wriggles free and splashes into a tub of w ...
  • Gilt-Trip: Scientists Add Gold to Boost Lithiu ...
    A rechargeable, air-breathing battery that can store up to 10 times the energy of today's conventional lithium ion batteries could be just the breakthrough that makes electric cars practical--if it ever leaves the laboratory. Scientists worldwide are searching for the right combination of ...
  • Triple Whammy Led to High Rate of Bottlenose D ...
    From Nature magazineBottlenose dolphins in the northern Gulf of Mexico were hit by a triple whammy of events, leading to an unusually high death rate in early 2011, a paper published in PLoS ONE suggests. [More]
  • Sequencing of Single Sperm Could Reveal New In ...
    Less than a decade after the first full human genome was mapped, technology has arrived to decode the full genome of a single sex cell . The ability promises to offer new insight into the causes of infertility , the development of mutations and the diversity of the human genome. [More] ...
  • Primordial Pinwheel: Astronomers Spot Oldest P ...
    The early universe was a rough-and-tumble place. Galaxies smashed together with much more regularity than they do today, and the insides of galaxies were chaotic, clumpy pods of stars. It was no place for an orderly, delicate swirl of a galaxy like the Milky Way or Andromeda. [More] ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Montreal rallies in support of Algonquin of Ba ...
    Hundreds protest unsanctioned clear-cutting on unceded territory by Resolute Forest Products In an event that at least one organizer has called unprecedented, some 200 people marched through the streets of Montreal on Wednesday in support o ...
  • Elizabeth Fry Workers "Lead by Example" in Strike
    Advocates for women say they need to stand up for their own rights Halifax - Despite the beautiful sunny day on the Halifax waterfront, Heather McKenzie says she’d much rather be at work than walking the picket line. “We didn&rs ...
  • Canadian Mining Project in Bolivia to Undergo ...
    CKUT's Off the Hour interviews Jamie Kneen of MiningWatch Canada Indigenous protesters in Bolivia stand up to Canadian mining company. South American Silver Corporation is being nationalized by the Bolivian government. The corporation ...
  • Manif de casseroles en solidarité avec les Alg ...
    For more coverage: Barriere Lake Stands Against Resolute
  • A tribute to Kyle Scanlon
    Toronto mourns the loss of trans activist and community leader Originally posted on http://transpulseproject.ca It is with tremendous sadness that we learned of the death of Kyle Scanlon, our dear friend and one of our treasured Trans PULSE ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Friday Cat Blogging - 20 July 2012
    On the left, this has been Domino's favorite new snoozing spot for the past couple of weeks. I don't get it. What's so special about that exact patch of carpet in front of the sofa? And it's a pain in the ass, too. We have to be mighty careful these days not to step on a cat that's quietly tak ...
  • Time for Brian Ross to Find a New Job
    Earlier this morning, ABC's Brian Ross reported that some guy named Jim Holmes who belonged to the Colorado Tea Party might be the same James Holmes who murdered a dozen people in a theater in Aurora last night. "Now, we don't know if this is the same Jim Holmes," Ross said "but it's Jim Holmes ...
  • Is Science the Answer to Global Warming?
    Like me, Ryan Avent is pretty discouraged about the likelihood that we'll do anything about global warming in time to prevent the earth from becoming an "alien place." This is because climate change has always been the public policy problem from hell, the kind of thing a graduate seminar would ...
  • Why Pot Is Still Illegal Everywhere in the Wor ...
    Are international treaties preventing the United States from fully legalizing marijuana? Yes, but Mark Kleiman adds some nuance: If a state were to tax and regulate, and the feds were to mind their own business (i.e., prevent interstate commerce but not mess with strictly intra-state productio ...
  • Microsoft Finally Admits Defeat
    Matt Yglesias notes that investors are shrugging their collective shoulders at Microsoft's news that it lost money last quarter for the first time in its history: Interestingly, markets aren't freaking out and Microsoft's stock isn't tanking. That's because investors seem happy to accept Micro ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

  • Society must respond 50 times faster to meet l ...
    Using climate-society feedbacks Andrew Jarvis and colleagues from Lancaster University, UK, predict that the world is on course for 6°C of warming, but this could be much lower with even a slightly stronger response, if we make it quickly
  • Rich versus poor obstructs climate progress
    Though the 45,000 strong international Rio+20 meeting last month seemingly did little for climate change and the environment, social and economic issues must be resolved for such negotiations to be successful in future.
  • Beefing down farming could cut carbon
    Changing our meat consumption habits, including switching from cow to pig farming, will be necessary to feed the world and allow plant-based biofuels and carbon capture to reduce CO2 emissions say Tom Powell and Tim Lenton at the University of Exeter.
  • Climate change brings landscapes to their last ...
    Nature’s beauty means different things to each of us – but undoubtedly it burns some images onto our souls. Our favourite scenery is less constant than we sometimes suppose,  changing from day to day and season to season. But the slowest changes can be the most heartbreaking, eventua ...
  • Hope from a surprising source that we can cont ...
    While the optimism of the first Rio 'Earth Summit' seems misplaced 20 years later, the world's scientists have outlined the challenges we need to tackle from consumption and population, and I found hope from an unlikely place that there's some chance we might be able to.

e!Science News

  • Radiation damage bigger problem in microelectr ...
    The amount of damage that radiation causes in electronic materials may be at least ten times greater than previously thought. read more
  • Solar corona revealed in super-high-definition
    Astronomers have just released the highest-resolution images ever taken of the Sun's corona, or million-degree outer atmosphere, in an extreme-ultraviolet wavelength of light. The 16-megapixel images were captured by NASA's High Resolution Coronal Imager, or Hi-C, which was launched on a soundin ...
  • UCLA researchers create highly transparent sol ...
    UCLA researchers have developed a new transparent solar cell that is an advance toward giving windows in homes and other buildings the ability to generate electricity while still allowing people to see outside. Their study appears in the journal ACS Nano. read more
  • Hot nuclear matter
    A review article appearing in the July 20, 2012, issue of the journal Science describes groundbreaking discoveries that have emerged from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, synergies with the heavy-ion program at the Larg ...
  • River networks on Titan point to a puzzling ge ...
    New findings suggest the surface of Saturn's largest moon may have undergone a recent transformation. For many years, Titan's thick, methane- and nitrogen-rich atmosphere kept astronomers from seeing what lies beneath. Saturn's largest moon appeared through telescopes as a hazy orange orb, in co ...

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Is the Olympic Dam mine a special case?
    Here is an Op Ed published by Geoff Russell and me in the The Adelaide Advertiser newspaper this week. It was in response to this piece by Jim Green. ———— OLYMPIC Dam uranium can power Australia four times over and close all our coal mines, write Geoff Russell and Barry B ...
  • Does energy efficiency reduce emissions and pe ...
    Guest Post by Graham Palmer. Graham is an industrial engineer and energy commenter from Melbourne. For another BNC post featuring his work, see Coal dependence and the renewables paradox. This post summarises the findings of a paper just published in the peer-reviewed journal Sustainability by G ...
  • Radio debate on nuclear power for addressing c ...
    Yesterday I debated nuclear energy and climate change on 891 ABC radio with Greens Senator Scott Ludlum, on the afternoon show hosted by Sonya Feldhoff. (It was a studio interview, so the audio quality is quite good.) We had a decent amount of time to cover off on issues, including answering cal ...
  • Notes from the US of A
    I’ve been travelling internationally for the last few weeks. It’s been a productive time – I’ve drafted a complete paper intended for The Breakthrough Journal (more on this in a later post), increased and enhanced my network of professional connections and friendships, go ...
  • Time for a reckoning, time for an apology
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was: Dietary Guidelines Committee ignores climate change. What’s the difference between the fear ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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  • Netanyahu quick to lay blame for Bulgaria atta ...
    The investigation into the Burgas terror attack barely got underway when Prime Minister Netanyahu already announced that it was carried out by Iran through its proxy Hezbollah. Whether or not it in fact was, it is the public’s duty to refuse to accept the government’s claims, until t ...
  • Visualizing Occupation: Divide and Conquer
    Despite sharing a national identity, the Palestinian people are parceled into differential categories along geographical, socioeconomic, humanitarian, political and civilian lines determined by Israel: Palestinians holding Israeli citizenship, residents of East Jerusalem, those living in the Wes ...
  • Moshe Silman’s flames should not die wit ...
    A week after setting himself on fire in front of the government office in Tel Aviv, J14 activist Moshe Sliman died at Tel Ha-Shomer hospital In the midst of a dark day, full of hard news coming from both Syria and Colorado, Moshe Silman passed away. Silman is the Israeli demostrator who set hims ...
  • On lowering the moral standards for the other ...
    Larry Derfner gets dangerously close to blaming Israel for the Burgas attack. When Israel assassinated Hezbollah’s Imad Mughniyeh and five Iranian nuclear scientists, it was picking a fight, and the payback – or part of it – was Wednesday’s bus bombing. I agree that when Israeli leaders decided ...
  • The cost of Israeli recklessness: Six dead in ...
    When Israel assassinated Hezbollah’s Imad Mughniyeh and five Iranian nuclear scientists, it was picking a fight, and the payback – or part of it – was Wednesday’s bus bombing.   It says something about Israeli society’s fear of facing hard truths when the only publi ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

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

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The Parallel Parliament

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

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Lost in the Maize
    Last September, I started posting my reflections on the weirdness of  academia – amongst other things – every Friday, under the title Lost in the Maize.  In part this was to document the shift from being a pseudo-academic to a real one.  But it was also to provide some motivation to ...
  • NOVA Making Stuff, nanomaterials and a web-lac ...
    Next week sees the debut of the PBS science program NOVA’s new series Making Stuff – a four part special “exploring the materials that will shape our future”, hosted by NY Times technology columnist David Pogue. You may recall that I expressed some reservations over the p ...
  • Obama’s 21st century regulatory system will de ...
    Cross posted from the Risk Science Center Blog: There’s a lot to like in President Obama’s perspective on 21st century regulation. Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, Obama outlines his thinking behind his new executive order to review and revise a convoluted and potentiall ...
  • Building a sustainable future: World Economic ...
    “Technology doesn’t just happen” – people must be sick of hearing me say this.  Yet as chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies, it’s something I seem to end up saying rather a lot as we strive to help decision-leaders maximiz ...
  • Nanotechnology – what web resources do you fin ...
    Over at the Risk Science Center blog, I have posted a request for help on web-based nanotechnology resources. Given that 2020 Science has such a nano-savvy readership, I thought I would cross-post the request here. If you have any suggestions on useful websites dealing with nanotechnology &#8211 ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • No, Best Buy Employee, I Won’t Come To Y ...
    Just because you hand over your phone to a Best Buy employee does not mean they're allowed to pilfer your photo collection and burn said pictures onto a CD. A Virginia woman claims an employee promised to help her transfer her iPhone's contents onto a newer model, and after stealing her racy pho ...
  • Advice To Marketers: You Should Really Researc ...
    You know that thing about there being no such thing as bad publicity? Well, it's not true. Just ask the online retailer that is on the receiving end of Internet hatred after it posted a Tweet that made it look like the site was crassly trying to cash in on the deadly shooting rampage at [...]
  • Disabled Vet Says United Employees Kicked His ...
    The founder of a group that places service dogs with disabled vets says he went through a 48-hour ordeal at Dulles airport outside Washington, D.C., this week and that not only did United Airlines employees kick his service dog twice, but one staffer actually insulted him in public. In a detaile ...
  • Since Doing Away With Sales Didn’t Work, ...
    If it works for grocery stores, why not try it at a department store? JCPenney is doing away with human checkout clerks and turning to self-service stands instead. You never know, perhaps the lure of a new experience will bring in customers to the struggling retail chain, since doing away with s ...
  • NBA Opens The Door To Ads On Jerseys
    While fans of sports like soccer, golf, tennis and NASCAR are used to the sight of corporate logos on competitors' uniforms, the major professional team sports in the U.S. -- baseball, football, hockey, and basketball -- have generally resisted allowing sponsors to slap their brand on a players' ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Eileen Foster Talks Whistleblowing and Financi ...
    Eileen Foster accepting her 2012 Ridenhour Prize for Truth-TellingAlterNet: The Whistleblower’s Tale – Countrywide Investigator Fired for Doing Her Job While Rampant Fraud Was Concealed Summary: This long-form article talks about the experiences of Countrywide Financial/Bank of America wh ...
  • UN Judge Asks Secretary-General to Reassure Wh ...
    Last week, a United Nations Dispute Tribunal (UNDT) judge issued another extraordinary decision that demonstrates the Tribunal’s respect for whistleblowers. Like last month’s Wasserstrom decision, this judgment shows that UNDT - the court of first instance of the two-tier internal justice system ...
  • FDA Surveillance of Whistleblowers ‘Unacceptable’
    ‘Chilling Effect’ Far-Reaching if Congress Fails to Act (Washington, D.C.) – Today, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) is publicly denouncing the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) implementation of an invasive and potentially illegal surveillance system instituted against employees ...
  • WikiLeaks Finds New Funding Source: Daily Whis ...
    Associated Press: WikiLeaks Claims New Funding Channel Opened in France Could Help Beat Credit Card Blockade Summary: WikiLeaks is now accepting donations from a French nonprofit in an attempt to garner much-needed funds since the credit card blockade from Visa and MasterCard. The payment ...
  • "Brand Spain" Questioned Following Corruption ...
    *Este blog está en español debajo de la versión ingles. On July 12th, the occasion of the swearing into office of the High Commissioner for Marca España (“Brand Spain”), Spain’s President Mariano Rajoy underlined his determination to strengthen Spain’s image abroad. The international reputation ...

UK Progressive

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

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Denialists will soon run the show? Not at all. ...
    O woe betide those who are losing. Graham Readfearn moans and laments the Green-Labor losses that are likely to come nationally in the near future. Readfern packs the whole kit-and-kaboodle of fallacies, misnomers, and confounded reasoning into one article. “Anyone who places any stock in ...
  • Medieval Warm Period found in 120 proxies. Plu ...
    Two major proxy studies, larger than ever, were released in April and June 2012. They show that the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) existed, and was similar to current temperatures. These comprehensive studies suggest current temperatures are not unusual, and that itself is not all that surprising &# ...
  • Vote to get Gillard to answer questions that m ...
    “Hangout with the Prime Minister“ There are only hours to go before the three winning questions that Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard must answer are decided. Andrew Bolt noticed that the author of one question got US voters involved. (From BOLT: It seems the author has got US ...
  • Carbon prices fall to new record low — $ ...
    So much for that global “free” market. Scott the trader writes to explain that the EU “CER” credits are the ones people can buy and exchange for Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) but they have sunk to $4. The more expensive $9 EUA units that most commentators mention ...
  • Topher is doing another video — just hou ...
    Topher did the brilliant “Forbidden History” video, which has hit 50,000 views and he wants to make two more to remind people of the importance of free speech. There are only hours to help him to reach the tally. Pledges are only processed if the total hits $35k and I hear that there ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • DIY Cosmic Ray Detector
    I’ve read a lot about cosmic rays over the years, written about them, and even hypothesized that the Great Pyramid is a cosmic ray shelter. But I always presumed that detecting cosmic rays was something that only top-level scientists could achieve. To my surprise, turns out that high schoo ...
  • Solar Power Generator / Survival Properties Fo ...
    It looks like a photocopier… But it is a generator. It’s just missing a fuel tank, motor, fumes and noise. According to Hammacher Schlemmer this $2000 unit is silent and emission free. It is powered a 1250-watt battery, fed by two 30-watt solar panels. Additional panels cost $240 ea ...
  • Expert Opinion #5: Carl Johan Calleman
    Recently I reached out to some of the most-read authors in the 2012 space, regardless of whether they agree with my doom’n'gloom mentality. I simply asked for a brief overview of what they think will happen in 2012 (if anything), and optionally, where they will be on Dec 21. Here’s t ...
  • Expert Opinion #4: Bob Waxman
    Recently I reached out to some of the most-read authors in the 2012 space, regardless of whether they agree with my doom’n'gloom mentality. I simply asked for a brief overview of what they think will happen in 2012 (if anything), and optionally, where they will be on Dec 21. Here’s t ...
  • Newt Gingrich on Vulnerable Power Grid
    Newt Gingrich, a former speaker of the House, has written an opinion piece for the Washington Post. It’s a great reminder of how perilous modern society can be: Callista and I live in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, and, like many in the region, we lost power in the recent storms. The  ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

  • Actors should forget health issues while shoot ...
    Salman Khan, who has been battling health issues and even underwent surgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia, a facial nerve disorder, says it is important for actors to forget such problems while shooting. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
  • Why is Maruti expanding Manesar factory?
    Maruti Suzuki will continue to operate at the troubled Manesar factory, and will build its third plant at the site by the middle of next year Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
  • South Africa fight back against England on sec ...
    South Africa fought back against England on the second day of the first test on Friday, first with the ball and then the bat, to close on 86 for one after bowling England out for 385. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
  • 10-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 now in India at R ...
    The newest tablets offer a 1 GHz dual core processor and Android ICS onboard with a wholesome 10-inch display. Reported by Rediff.com 2 hours ago
  • I'm the Joker, 'Batman' shooting suspect tells ...
    As authorities investigate the rampant shooting incident at a movie hall during a showing of the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises in Denver, Colorado, psychologists have said that James Holmes, one of the two masked gunmen, who stalked the aisles at the theatre with a rifle, may ... Repo ...

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

  • What Grade Would You Give Your Life?
    [Editor's Note: We all had ideas growing up of what we thought our life and careers would be. Surely life sends us in different directions. Yet, if you were to take an honest look at your life personally and professionally right now, what grade would you give it? - Paula G] How Would You Grade ...
  • Dear Marissa Mayer: Two Steps Forward, Let's M ...
    My Facebook newsfeed is alight with lively celebration of Marissa Mayer, both because she is a young, talented woman and because she announced her pregnancy on the same day as the Yahoo CEO news. As the post below notes, she is giving Yahoo a whole new meaning for women looking for relatable, or ...
  • HealthMinder Day Interviews: Why This Is a Gre ...
    As of today, HealthMinder Day is one week and six days away. Don't panic! I thought since HealthMinder Day is new to our pre-conference agenda, it would help all of us -- those already attending and those who can't decide -- to ask some of the committee members a question. Maybe it will help cal ...
  • Hard Math for Girls: Only a Big Deal If You Sa ...
    Yesterday, I shared a link on Twitter and Facebook to Julia Magnusson's post about the latest Land's End catalog gaffe. And lo and behold! The power of social media! Land's End responded and asked if they could email me some background from their creative team. Sure! Please do explain why your c ...
  • Nie Asks: Who Do You LOVE Today?
    Who do you LOVE today? I love baby Lottie!! Charlotte Christiansdatter Nielson was born April 3, 2012 -- what I call "my life A.C. (after crash)." Isn't she lovely? Your turn: Who are you thinking of today? I want to know!

Health Freedom Alliance

  • World’s First GM Babies Born
    The world’s first genetically modified humans have been created, it was revealed last night. The disclosure that 30 healthy babies were born after a series of experiments in the United States provoked another furious debate about ...
  • Smart Meters: Correcting the Gross Misinformation
    Quebec-based magazine La Maison du 21e siecle asked physician David O. Carpenter, former founding dean of the University at Albany (NY)’s School of Public Health, to comment on a letter published in the Montreal daily Le Devoir last May 24. ...
  • Scientists Sue Merck: Allege Fraud, Mislabelin ...
    Vaccinationists tell us we don’t understand science. Well maybe they are right. “Science” in the world of vaccines could mean, throwing out results that don’t fit the desired outcome, throwing out the evidence before the ...
  • How Big Pharma and Dr. Drew Made a Fortune Dec ...
    By now you’ve likely heard that drug maker GlaxoSmithKline must shell out $3 billion for the fraudulent sale and marketing of drugs including the popular antidepressant Wellbutrin (also sold as the smoking cessation drug Zyban). ...
  • Frail, Older Adults with High Blood Pressure M ...
    A new study suggests that higher blood pressure is associated with lower mortality in extremely frail, elderly adults. The study, published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association’s (JAMA)Archives of Internal Medicine, looked at ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, July 20, 2012
    Robert Dinsmore Project Designer for Chapman Technical Group gets his first look up close before the granite is lifted into place for a memorial honoring 29 miners killed in the 2010 explosion of the Upper Big Branch mine in Whitesville, W.Va., Tuesday July 17, 2012.   Silhouettes of the 29 mine ...
  • MSHA data: Mining deaths on the rise in 2012
    Here’s a mid-year 2012 fatality report from the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today released a midyear summary of mining deaths across the country. During the first half of 2012, 19 miners died in work-re ...
  • Report: Mountaintop removal coal exports rising
    As House Republicans this morning begin another in a series of their hearings trying to somehow turn the federal Office of Surface Mining’s somewhat bumbling efforts to rewrite the stream “buffer zone” rule into an attack on jobs as part of the Obama administration’s alle ...
  • The Republican ‘war on coal miners&#8217 ...
    Rep. John Kline, a Minnesota Republican who chairs the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, has consistently raised some good questions about the failed performance of the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration — and this blog has repeatedly highlighted those efforts (see he ...
  • Mitt Romney, Murray Energy and coal criminals
    We’ve written before here on Coal Tattoo about the fact that renegade coal operator Bob Murray played a major role recently in a campaign fundraiser in Wheeling, W.Va., for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.  Readers of this blog know well the record of Mr. Murray’s compa ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Dinesh D’Souza Doing a Movie About Obama
    Oh Jesus. Related ContentBike Parkour‪Java TrailerCultivating Gratefulness | TEDObama Blasts GOP Candidates on Booing of Gay Soldier at DebateMagnet Through Copper Pipe
  • On the Vim Path
    I just uninstalled TextMate. I also just revamped my git workflow, and am going full-on Vim everywhere. That’s MacVim, Janus, using git within Vim, posting to WordPress from Vim, using Vimium in Chrome… Everything. I’m going to consume a massive number of tutorials, screencasts ...
  • “We thought Sarah Palin was the better candida ...
    People are saying he came to this conclusion after seeing Romney’s tax returns, although that doesn’t need to be true to make the statement hilarious. This is going to be a major joke in the future. It’s top of the list when it comes to ways to identify that you’re no lon ...
  • From San Bruno Mountain
    Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentFlash Mob Idea4S FlowerA Mountain ShadowStudent FailFlowers and Stone
  • Does Modern Philosophy Fetishize The Classical ...
    It seems to me that every time I come across real philosophers they have an extremely pompous view of non-academic, amateur, or overly modern or political thinkers. In short, they relate everything to the greats: Kant, Plato, Aristotle, Hume, etc., and they seem to dismiss modern thought that&#8 ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Saturday
    Japan probes under-reporting of Fukushima radiation dosage (Reuters) – Japan’s health ministry said it would investigate reports that workers at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant were urged by a subcontractor to place lead around radiation detection devices in order to stay ...
  • Bradley Manning barred from citing evidence du ...
    From telegraph.co.uk – In a major blow to Manning’s defence, Judge Denise Lind said what happened after the classified files were disclosed is irrelevant as to whether the US soldier committed the crime of leaking sensitive information knowing that it “could” cause damage ...
  • WORLD’S OLDEST KNOWN BRA FOUND
    From (Beatrix Nutz),uibk.ac.at – Up until now there was nothing to indicate the existence of bras with clearly visible cups before the 19th century. Textiles found in a castle in Eastern Tyrol now prove that there already was clothing similar to modern bras in the 15th century – a di ...
  • Why Are Working People Invisible in the Mainst ...
    By Amy Dean, Truthout | Interview – Best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich – probably best known for her 2001 book “Nickel and Dimed” – has long been on the forefront of promoting stories about working people in an often hostile media environment. Recently, she ...
  • Hippie Trivia Question Win Free Gear!
    A Worldwide Hippies  A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 6:00 pm (EST). Trivia is open all week so enter often. You do not have to be correct, even a comment gets you in… Winner is chosen by random.   Post your answer in the comments section.   Answer to last question ...

reference frame

  • Mostly good news on the Fermi \(130\GeV\) line
    Dark matter may be starting to shine in front of our eyes Someone at the Physics Stack Exchange asked about the recent status of the \(130\GeV\) line located in the Fermi gamma-ray data by Christoph Weniger in April 2012 (a confirmation). It's one of the most exciting and potentiall ...
  • Global spam dropped 50% in two days
    Grum has been demolished, Lethic harmed I've never considered spam to be one of the greatest problems. Even when my primary e-mail account belonged to the domain of a countryside university that just didn't have resources to protect the HEP physics users against spam – I think it was cal ...
  • Diphoton Higgs enhancement as a proof of natur ...
    The first hep-ph preprint today is a paper I've known about since the July 4th Higgsfest and I've been looking forward to see it. The title is 2:1 for Naturalness at the LHC?The score "2:1" has a double meaning: it either refers to a soccer match in which the home team won (Plzeň defeated R ...
  • Generation X not concerned about AGW
    People come in different shapes and ages. Concerning the latter quantity, they may be categorized into sucklings teenagers on crack and anyone below 30, for that matter Generation X baby boomers who are getting senile the good oldest generation, the dominant TRF readers, who will never ...
  • Confirmation of sensible theories is never sad
    Brian Greene, Stephen Wolfram, Martinus Veltman, and Sabine Hossenfelder were among the numerous folks who have expressed their frustration in the wake of the discovery of the Higgs boson. She's been looking for the Higgs for many years and she's been the spokeswoman of the cult th ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Florists stock up on roses
    Florists all over Norway have stocked up on extra fresh flowers, especially roses, in advance of memorial ceremonies this weekend for the victims and survivors of last year’s terrorist attacks on July 22. They were careful, though, not to appear they were profiting on the tragedy. “T ...
  • Police ‘prepared’ for July 22 crowds
    Police claimed they were prepared to handle the huge crowds expected in Oslo and other cities around the country on Sunday, when Norwegians will gather to honor the victims and survivors of last summer’s terrorist attacks on July 22. They advised all attending to leave their cars at home a ...
  • Meet Norway’s newest world champ
    Olav Lundanes comes from a family hooked on orienteering, and has spent years running through the woods in search of posts in record time. Now he’s made his family really proud, after winning the Orienteering World Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland this week. The pure joy Lundanes sho ...
  • Norway unhappy with Russia and China over Syria
    The Norwegian government is holding Russia and China “especially” responsible for preventing the UN Security Council from making serious attempts to halt the violence and killings in Syria. The Norwegian military expert who’s been leading UN forces in Syria, meanwhile, felt for ...
  • Airlines brace for more delays
    Airlines serving Norwegian airports, especially the country’s main gateway at Gardermoen north of Oslo, were warning of another weekend of delays because of inadequate staffing among air traffic controllers. Norwegian Air is especially unhappy, after claiming it has lost millions on airpor ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • What is a Transition Town?
    The ‘Transition Town’ movement burst onto the scene merely six years ago in Ireland, and yet already there are almost two thousand Transition Towns around the world. There are dozens right here in Australia. Given that some people are saying this is one of the most promising and impo ...
  • “And Why Are You Doing This ‘Permaculture’ Thing?”
    Over the weekend, my wife and I were discussing my last article (Permaculture, a Step by Step Change), and someone asked: And why are you doing this Permaculture thing? The answer somehow is quite difficult to address, but one has to have his thoughts and motivations clear in order to respond i ...
  • Gorgeous Gardens From Garbage: How to Build a ...
    One of the first projects for anyone who wants to garden is building a garden bed. There are some pretty cost effective means for making a fast, aerated and high nutrient garden bed with no digging! This particular method I’d like to share with you has been practiced and written about by m ...
  • A New Fundraising Tool for Permaculture
    WeTheTrees.com has just officially launched their permaculture crowd funding platform, bringing a new and exciting tool to the permaculture world, and an ability to easily and creatively raise funds. This platform helps organizations and individuals around the globe gather the resources needed t ...
  • It’s Time to Re-Ruralise
    We’ve mentioned the re-ruralisation movement happening in debt-ridden Greece before, and here’s a video by Dutch TV on the topic. For decades people, worldwide, have been flowing from the countryside in to the cities. In 1800, only 3 percent of the world’s population li ...

Pointman's

  • The decline of popular science journals.
    We are creatures of habit and pleasure. When we find something of pleasure, we tend to revisit it with regularity. Despite what a large part of the mainstream media might have you believe, not all pleasure starts at the gullet and ends at the genitalia, though eating well and making love, are of ...
  • Is climate science just a belief?
    The alarmists in the climate debate have what they think of as this magic ace of trumps card, called peer review. If they actually knew something about the peer review process, perhaps they’d realise it isn’t a guarantee of anything much. It really isn’t. In brief, the process ...
  • Worried about climate change? Meh.
    Climate alarmism pushes a blinding variety of scares at the general public; Polar bears going extinct, droughts of biblical proportions, massive Noah’s ark type flooding, glaciers melting, sea levels rising, sea levels dropping, the polar ice caps melting, your Granny’s knicker elast ...
  • The Nigger Word.
    There’s been a bit of a furore recently about a supposedly prestigious science journal running a paper that was peppered with the word nigger. The editor, of what can only be referred to as a rag now, even came up with a fatuous reply to the resultant criticism, which when stripped of the ...
  • Mullering the data.
    There is this new sort of creature who’s emerged in the climate debate in the last year or two. Unsurprisingly, they all seem to spring from the alarmist side, but they all have one of those comfortably recognisable patterns of behaviour that I quite like. I’ll freely admit I’v ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    If the Jewish "Messiah" comes... he'll probably start complaining about: the room service at the hotel his bottle of water wasn't properly chilled the maid that "didn't" bend over they number of "goyim" in the room the smell in the air some itch on his back a ...
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    iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwuJh7wMWkY iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9aVMfYR8toStatistics: Posted by Christopher Marlowe — Sat Jul 21, 2012 2:26 am
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    This is a tragic event. Like the likely False Flag bombing in Bulgaria, I blame the young man's "craziness" on J-Tribers with their steady diet of non-stop Jew-culture for probably most of his life. Looks like he lost his mind on a steady diet of Jew movies and comic books. Sad to see ...
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    Timothy_Fitzpatrick wrote: If Fagan is correct, perhaps it was Theodore Herzl who penned Mein Kampf. Tim list it all 1 to XX. Here I'll start it a bit: 1. Hitler was a secret Jew? (not true) 2. The Brownshirts were all Homos? (not true, but you seem to be really interested in this for ...
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    SPECTEC wrote: Video by Thirdeyewise... iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGLhhHu1Kig If Fagan is correct, perhaps it was Theodore Herzl who penned Mein Kampf.Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Sat Jul 21, 2012 12:44 am

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Iron-Seeding Experiment Shows Ability to Trap ...
    An eight-year German research effort has shown that under the right conditions seeding the ocean with iron can trigger phytoplankton blooms that suck carbon out of the air and trap it deep in the ocean, a potentially important breakthrough in the nascent field of climate geoengineering. Reportin ...
  • Linking Twin Extinctions Of Species and Languages
    A recent study noted that most of the 6,900 languages spoken on Earth occur in regions of high biodiversity. These findings point to a strong correlation between biological and linguistic diversity, with languages closely connected to the habitats where they are found. BY VERLYN KLINKENBORG
  • Warmer Ocean Waters Lead to a Lobster Glut in ...
    Warmer Atlantic Ocean temperatures off the coast of Maine have caused the state’s bountiful supply of lobsters to shed their shells and come onto the market six weeks earlier than normal, creating a glut that has driven prices sharply down. The state’s 5,000 lobster fishermen are receiving less ...
  • Beetle's Rapid Evolution Helps Control Invasiv ...
    Scientists say that a species of beetle has rapidly altered its life cycle to more efficiently devour the invasive tamarisk tree in the southern United States. UCSB Tamarisk leaf beetle In a decade-long study, researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) found that ...
  • Cooling a Warming Planet: A Global Air Conditi ...
    The U.S. has long used more energy for air conditioning than all other nations combined. But as demand increases in the world’s warmer regions, global energy consumption for air conditioning is expected to continue to rise dramatically and could have a major impact on climate change. BY STAN COX

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backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

  • The Trattorias of Prince Edward County
    In my column for the National Post, I talk about the changes taking place in Wellington, Ontario as it steps awkwardly into the 21st Century. (Wellington is where I spend the summer every year.)
  • The Week’s Best Reads
    The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the Web this week. By David Sessions.
  • What the NRA Wants
    Every time there’s a senseless shooting, politicians piously declare we should ensure it never happens again. But don’t bet on it. This is the shoot-‘em-up America we live in now.
  • The Town Shaken by Tragedy
    What is Aurora really like? Kevin Fallon reports on the city that was once one of the safest in America.
  • Who’s Minding the Planes?
    The needles found in sandwiches on Delta Air Lines prove the serious vulnerabilities in how airplanes, cargo, and service employees are guarded and screened. William McGee on the most worrying lapses in airport security.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Tokyo Tower shrinks as quake-bent spire is rep ...
    Tokyo Tower is standing a bit shorter than its listed 333-meter height because an antenna at the top is being replaced after being bent by the Great East Japan Earthquake. According to Nippon Television City Corp., which manages the iconic landmark, the tip had been trimmed to about 315 meters ...
  • China gets third Pocari Sweat plant
    Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. said Thursday it has built a Pocari Sweat plant in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province, its third manufacturing base in China after Tianjin and Jiangmen. The company will use the new plant, capable of producing 200 million 500-ml bottles of the electrolytes drink per year, t ...
  • A telling tale of two Koreas
    What has been happening in North Korea recently is straight out of the "Hereditary Dictatorship for Dummies" handbook. Kim Jong Un, the pudgy young heir to the leadership of one of the world's last communist states, is removing powerful people who were loyal to his father and replacing them with ...
  • Sham hearings on nuclear power
    The government on July 14 began a series of public hearings on the future weight of nuclear power in Japan's electricity generation. They are being held in 11 cities and the last hearing will take place on Aug. 4. Although the government says the hearings are a chance for it to hear what the peo ...
  • Osaka-area quake-tsunami exhibition slated
    The Osaka Museum of History in Chuo Ward is hosting an exhibition from Wednesday to Aug. 26 of records of earthquakes and tsunami that have occurred in the Osaka area. The exhibit showcases records of disasters, pictures and other historical evidence dating to the ancient Jomon Period, and is ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Saskatchewan’s Rising Cost of Living
    Today’s Consumer Price Index provides further evidence of Saskatchewan’s rising cost of living. Among the provinces, Saskatchewan is tied for the second-highest annual inflation rate: 2.0%. Consumer prices decreased in June from May in nine provinces (all except Alberta). But Saskatchewan was ti ...
  • Baskin-Robbins and the Walmartization of Ice Cream
    It’s been an unusually hot summer, and soaring temperatures have boosted sales of that quintessential summer food, ice cream. But Baskin-Robbins has decided to shut its production facility in Peterborough, Ont., and lay off 80 workers because of…wait for it… increased demand! F ...
  • Labour Losing to Capital
    The just-released OECD Employment Outlook – full text not available on line – has an interesting chapter on the sharp decline of labour’s share of national income in virtually all OECD countries over the past 30 years, and especially the last twenty years. The median labour sha ...
  • EI Lags Unemployment
    Today, Statistics Canada reported that 3,400 more Canadians received Employment Insurance (EI) benefits in May. It previously reported that unemployment rose by 8,000 that month. In other words, even more workers are now unemployed without EI benefits. In total, just 37% of unemployed Canadians ...
  • Unions, Equality and Democracy
    Unions are an important force for a more democratic society, and a major reason why Canada is still a more equal country than the United States. That is why it is profoundly disturbing that Canadian conservatives have recently embraced the extreme anti union agenda of the American right. Indepen ...

ReDress

  • The last days of Syrian butcher Assad's regime ...
    We are witnessing the last days of Bashar "The Butcher" Assad, the Alawite sectarian dictator ruling Syria. Slowly but surely, the revolutionaries of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) are closing in on his vipers’ nests... Yet, here in the West, lurking in the darkest corners of ignorance – on the in ...
  • Israel paves way for annexation of Palestinian ...
    Jonathan Cook sees a report recently published by Israeli Supreme Court judge Levy, which stated that Israel is not in fact occupying Palestinian territories, as a step towards the formal annexation of a large chunk of the West Bank - the 62 per cent of the occupied Palestinian territory dubbed ...
  • Donor dollars aiding political repression in E ...
    Graham Peebles looks at how the mixed motives for the aid given by Western donor countries to Ethiopia mean that these countries - in effect, US, British and other European taxpayers - are funding a deeply repressive and violent regime that uses aid as a political weapon to control the populatio ...
  • Nationalism versus capitalism in USA: guess wh ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers the essence of capitalism and how its corollary in the age of the free market - outsourcing of production to countries with cheap labour, no or weak trade unions and minimal regulation - is impoverishing Americans who nonetheless continue to believe that the system co ...
  • Storming the Bastille in Syria
    Henry Lowi calls on progressives with a conscience to declare their solidarity with the oppressed people of Syria, to make every effort "to reach out to the pro-democracy grassroots organizations" there and to "support and strengthen the hand of the pro-democracy and working class currents in th ...

Physics Today

  • Graphene offers clear window on liquids
    BBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...
  • Rival teams shared in Nobel celebration
    Science: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
  • No title
    Talking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
  • Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sector
    Earth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
  • Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...
    Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • Divvying Up California’s Water
    “Construction of the State Water Project in the 1960s increased the flow of water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, and the steadier supply allowed the planting of orchards. Agriculture takes an environmental toll in both parts of the San Joaquin Valley, with polluted runoff and ...
  • Massive Iceberg Breaks Off Greenland Glacier
    “A massive iceberg twice the size of Manhattan has broken away from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier, scientists have said. “The floating extension (of the glacier) is breaking apart,” Eric Rignot of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a statement on Thursday. &#8 ...
  • Waldo Canyon Fire: 20 Percent Of Soil So Sever ...
    “The Waldo Canyon Fire, the most destructive wildfire in state history, burned so hot that wildfire experts say that nearly 20 percent of the total 18,247 acres (29 square miles) consumed by the blaze was burned so severely that no living vegetation was left on the surface nor root systems ...
  • Drought Parches Much of the U.S.
    “A fish out of water surveys the scene at old Bluffton, a Texas town that was flooded in 1937-38 during the creation of  Lake Buchanan. As lakes across the Lone Star State have shrunk in the current drought, they’ve left some wildlife high and dry but also revealed ruins, gravestones ...
  • Study Shows Underground Paths Boost Risk of Fr ...
      “Researchers found it was unlikely that shale gas drilling had caused higher levels of salinity in some of the water wells sampled, since the briny wells were either not near drilling operations or showed higher salinity prior to drilling. However, the examination also suggested tha ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Wins Good Government Victory
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today scored a victory for common sense on Capitol Hill with an amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Bill to prevent those who have defrauded the federal government from being able to receive government contracts. According to the Congressiona ...
  • America: Out of Many, One - A Land that Celebr ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released a video on YouTube celebrating the freedom and diversity of America. In the video, Rep. Kucinich notes the discriminatory experiences that some Iranian-Americans have been subjected to. ...
  • Kucinich Doubles Funding for Research to Find ...
    In a rare moment of bipartisan legislating, an amendment from Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) to increase funding for research into treatments for Gulf War Illness received the support of Rep. C.W. Bill Young (R-FL) and Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA). Kucinich also secured a commitment from Reps. You ...
  • Kucinich Joins Japanese People in Calling for ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to YouTube to join Japanese citizens taking to the streets in opposition to nuclear energy. As many as 170,000 Japanese citizens in Tokyo called upon the government not to restart nuclear reactors idled after the Fukushima disaster. Congressman Kucin ...
  • “China is Eating our Lunch.” Kucinich Defends ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today defended American businesses in their efforts to compete with foreign competitors to produce green technologies such as solar panels and called for Congressional action on trade manipulation. That manipulation has allowed China to flood the domestic U.S. ...

Authentically Wired

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    …Mon$anto Creed … you will eat what we tell you to eat … got it … and besides our stuff is USDA sanctioned and tested by academic institution we own … Hey Monsanto — I Want My Tomatoes From Nature, Not Your Labs   The biotech industry is willing to tamper with our food supply, [...]
  • WHO ARE ARIZONA’S WATER WISEMEN
    … Rattle your cage … a perspective from outside in …         WHO ARE ARIZONA’S WATER WISEMEN …?     A brilliant sun pierces what moments earlier hosted a dim Arizona landscape of soaring mountains, towering Ponderosa pines, exquisite configurations of Saguaro c ...
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    "I was never a skeptic" - Richard Muller, 2011 Richard Muller has never been a skeptic, at best he had a moment of intellectual honesty towards skeptics when he acknowledged Steve McIntyre's debunking of Mann's Hockey Stick, only to later dismiss this as irrelevant to the global warming debate ...
  • The Truth about Judith Curry
    Judith Curry is not a skeptic but a hurricane alarmist who had an alleged epiphany after Climategate and now seeks to be some sort of arbiter of scientific integrity. Her history of trust building includes accusing world leading hurricane expert, Dr. William Gray of "brain fossilization" and t ...
  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
  • Mastering the Firefox Search Bar
    As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...
  • The Truth about SourceWatch
    SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • 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 ...
  • Building indigenous resilience in the face of ...
    In the 1980s images of loincloth-clad tribesmen blockading blocking logging roads in Malaysian Borneo shocked the world. But while their protests captured the spotlight momentarily, Borneo's forests continued to be destroyed at rapid rates, undermining traditional communities that are dependent ...
  • In pictures: Rainforests to palm oil
    In late May I had the opportunity to fly from Kota Kinabalu in Malaysian Borneo to Imbak Canyon and back. These are some of my photos. Historically Borneo was covered by a range of habitats, including dense tropical rainforests, swampy peatlands, and natural grasslands. But its lowland forests h ...
  • Saving Indonesia's monkey with a heart-shaped ...
    North Sulawesi is one of the world's most beautiful places. Verdant forests and stunning coral reefs, combined with high levels of species endemism, make it a top biodiversity hotspot. But pressure on the region's natural resources is mounting. Mining projects, conversion of forests for plantati ...
  • The rarest rhino's last stand
    Trekking through deep mud and sawgrass we find a stinking wallow. The elite rangers, dressed completely in black despite the tropical heat, mark the site with the GPS unit, measure the mucky puddle's depth, and move on. This is the first sign of one of the planet's rarest animals—the Javan ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Quakes raise Tongariro alert
    Mt Tongariro's volcanic risk has been upgraded for the first time but scientists and locals have dismissed immediate chances of a large eruption.Yesterday scientists at GeoNet upgraded the alert level for the volcano after recording...
  • Fracking safe, claims UK science body
    The controversial oil and gas extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking", is capable of being managed sustainably and without serious risk of groundwater contamination or inducing damaging earthquakes, the Royal...
  • Tongariro volcano alert at new high
    A "sudden rise" in volcanic activity at Mt Tongariro has prompted scientists to lift its volcanic alert status for the first time.But local businesses and conservation authorities remain unconcerned as they seek to reassure visitors...
  • Science is cool for ambitious students
    Science has never been cooler for a group of students at Tangaroa College, who dream of achieving big things in the world of medicine.Sitting round a classroom table at their school in Otara, they are happy to reveal what each of...
  • Meet the latest Martian mystery
    What created this unusual hole in Mars? The hole was discovered by chance on images of the dusty slopes of Mars' Pavonis Mons volcano taken by the HiRISE instrument aboard the robotic Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter currently circling...

The Bovine

  • U.S. drought triggers “cowmageddon”
    American farmers who can’t afford to feed their animals because of drought related crop failures, are sending them to the slaughterhouse in droves.
  • At issue in allowing an appeal — is the ...
    Lawyer Karen Selick argues that it is. In court documents made public yesterday she argues that that the court should allow an appeal in part because of widespread public interest in the case. According to the documents, there are at least … Continue reading →
  • At issue in allowing an appeal — is the ...
    Lawyer Karen Selick argues that it is. In court documents made public yesterday she argues that that the court should allow an appeal in part because of widespread public interest in the case. According to the documents, there are at least … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt court date July 26
    From lawyer Karen Selick: The court date for Michael’s motion for leave has changed to July 26, not July 25.  The place is the Ontario Court of Appeal, Osgoode Hall, 130 Queen Street West (at University), Toronto.  Court will start … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt court date July 26
    From lawyer Karen Selick: The court date for Michael’s motion for leave has changed to July 26, not July 25.  The place is the Ontario Court of Appeal, Osgoode Hall, 130 Queen Street West (at University), Toronto.  Court will start … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Expect Strikes and Protests to Spread to Italy ...
    Anti-euro sentiment in Italy is already very strong and about to get stronger. Eurointellihence has come interesting comments today regarding Italy. The demonstrations and protests [in Spain] are very likely now to spread  to Italy. The country’s largest union, CGIL, said there ...
  • Demand for Spanish Bonds Collapses; "No Money ...
    On yet another Friday, Europe is overlooking a gigantic bond-market precipice. Yield on the Spanish two-year government bond is up a whopping 60 basis points to 5.76% Yield on the Spanish 10-year bond is up 26 basis points to 7.27%. Italy is participating in the bond debacle as well. ...
  • S&P Revises Pennsylvania's Outlook to Negative ...
    As part of a growing trend, Compton California is on the verge of bankruptcy. When it files (and it will eventually), it will become California's 4th city to do so. The Huffington Post reports Compton Will Run Out Of Funds By September 1 Compton, Calif. could be the fourth city in the Gold ...
  • Tech Sector Layoffs Surge to Three-Year High
    I am starting to think the next jobs report is going to be downright miserable. New orders have plunged and mass layoffs are on the rise. Please consider Tech sector layoffs surge to three-year high During the first half of the year, 51,529 planned job cuts were announced across the tech ...
  • Job Losses and Unemployment Skyrocketing in Ch ...
    In the video below Jefferies Managing Director Peter Misek discusses the coming iPhone 5 with Emily Chang on Bloomberg TV. Misek reports the iPhone will be significantly thinner and taller because of new technology he did not expect to be available for at least another year. What reall ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Dry Bulk Shippers Will Likely Have to Wait a B ...
    (Bloomberg) — Rates for ships that carry dry-bulk commodities will recover later than previously estimated as demand for cargoes slows, according to Fearnley Securities. Daily earnings for Capesizes, the largest ships [...]
  • Star Bulk May Have a Cursed Ship
    The Star Polaris, a 173k DWT Capsize bulk carrier owned by Star Bulk is well on its way to being a cursed ship and she’s not even two years old [...]
  • Pentagon: Iran Has Plans to Attack Oil Platfor ...
    By Julian E. Barnes, The Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON — U.S. government officials, citing new intelligence, said Iran has developed plans to disrupt international oil trade, including through attacks on [...]
  • Stranded Seafarers Sent Home
    The last of the Moroccan seafarers left stranded off the coast of Spain for more than six months after the ferry company they were working for ran into financial trouble [...]
  • South Korean Shipbuilders Tapping Bond Market ...
    (Bloomberg) — Sales of won-denominated bonds more than tripled this week as South Korean shipbuilders took advantage of record-low yields to raise funds amid slumping new orders and overseas deliveries. [...]

Press TV

  • UK special forces train armed rebels
    The British media have admitted that that former Special Air Service (SAS) soldiers are training leaders of armed rebels in Syria as reports said Britain has placed more than 600 troops on standby over the unrest in Syria.
  • London Olympic hotel prices ‘up 300%’
    A recent research study has shown that hotels in London are charging premiums of up to 300% to families that travel to London during the 2012 Olympic Games.
  • 'Majlis pursues Myanmar Muslim killings'
    An Iranian lawmaker has censured the ethnic cleansing of minority Muslims in Myanmar, saying Iran’s Majlis seriously pursues the case through relevant bodies.
  • Spaniards stage anti-austerity protest
    Spanish protesters have once again poured into streets in the capital Madrid to voice their opposition to the latest round of austerity measures.
  • ‘US gun tragedies, increasingly common’
    The “all too familiar” gun tragedies in the United States are a result of the US constitutional right to keep and bear arms, says an American practicing attorney.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Thinking cap makes impossible problem soluble
    A small dose of electrical current passed across their heads enabled a group of volunteers to immediately solve a puzzle they had previously found to be impossible. This surprising result is the work...
  • Eyes vote no to space travel
    Head scans of astronauts have shown signs of raised intracranial pressure affecting their eyes and pituitary glands, new research has revealed. Writing in the journal Radiology, University of Texas ...
  • Happiness is in your Right Hand
    How you type a word could change the way you emotionally respond to it, and words typed with mainly the right hand seem to make people happier. In fact, the layout of letters on a keyboard may e...
  • Gut Bugs Promote Blood Vessel Growth
    The bacteria that live in your intestines change the way that blood vessels form inside your gut. New research, published in the journal Nature, identifies how this happens and offers potential ...
  • Corals that can clone
    Mass mating spawnings aren't the only means of coral reproduction: these reef-building organisms have a clever way of cloning themselves too, Australian scientists have shown. Writing in Science, A...

Nick Turse

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    nwkarchivist: The Cars
  • pulitzercenter:A Closer Look at TOMS, from P ...
    pulitzercenter: A Closer Look at TOMS, from Public Radio International. publicradiointernational: A closer look at TOMS Shoes raises questions: Does it hurt the communities it tries to help? How closely does it work with religious organizations? (Photo: Blake Mycoskie, the founder of TOMS Sho ...
  • "A government outfit few of us knew existed, t ...
    “A government outfit few of us knew existed, the Information Security Oversight Office or...
  • That plan to archive every tweet in the Librar ...
    That plan to archive every tweet in the Library of Congress? Definitely still happening » Nieman Journalism Lab Library spokeswoman Jennifer Gavin told Nieman Journalism Lab that the archive will eventually be available to anyone with a library card, but only at the library in Washington. “My u ...
  • Journalist in Belarus arrested for publishing ...
    Journalist in Belarus arrested for publishing pictures of teddy bears Roy Greenslade of the BBC reports that Anton Suryapin, who runs a website called Belarusian News Photos, was arrested by the KGB for publishing photos of teddy bears pinned with press freedom messages.  The bears were air ...
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