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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.

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

24 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

Popsci - Science

  • Don't Look to the Paleolithic for Diet Tips--L ...
    Paleo diets, in which people attempt to eat like they imagine cavemen ate (mostly meats, supplemented with occasional wild fruits), were trendy a few years back, and still have their adherents. The idea is that modern humans are healthier when eating what our bodies evolved to eat. And that's a ...
  • Unique Chemical Bond Only Seen In Dwarf Stars ...
    Stars are responsible for forging every heavy element in the universe when they fuse hydrogen and when they explode at the ends of their lives. But they also create a strange third type of chemical bond between atoms, caused by their incredible magnetic fields. This previously unknown type of b ...
  • Sequenced for the First Time: the Genome of Hu ...
    Scientists have sequenced the full genomes of 91 sperm from one man, the first complete sequencing of a human gamete cell. It demonstrates the vast genetic variation in one person, according to genetic researchers at Stanford. The 40-year-old sperm donor has healthy kids and his semen sample wa ...
  • Scientists Read Monkeys' Minds, See What They' ...
    Neurologists working with monkeys at Washington University in St. Louis to decode brain activity have stumbled upon a rather surprising result. While working to demonstrate that multiple parameters can be seen in the firing rate of a single neuron (and that certain parameters are embedded in ne ...
  • Video: Jellyfish Made From Silicone and Rat's ...
    Despite being one of the most alien-looking things on Earth, the mechanism jellyfish use to swim is similar in some ways to the beating human heart. That inspired researchers to build a sort of cyborg jellyfish from the ground up, using heart muscle cells from a rat and silicone polymer. And it ...

Veterans Today

  • A War Israel is Just Begging for an Excuse to ...
    the Jewish state and its pro-war lobbies are the ultimate threat to world peace. This threat must be taken care of immediately.
  • Hakim: Peace Needs a Chance
    I am grateful that the U.S. officials at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore considered my visa re-application in the light of the surprising write-in campaign on my behalf, and have kindly granted me a U.S. visit visa.
  • Syria Roulette
    In Las Vegas, the house seldom loses. Rarely are dirty Washington schemes foiled. It's playing hardball against Syria.
  • Scalia: “Mob Boss” Judge Brags Ab ...
    - Why was America's budget to fight white collar crime cut 80%, two illegal wars were started, 9/11 fairy tales, and our freedoms disappeared so quickly man makes it obvious. Do only this: Watch him talk. I diagnose him as a malignant narcissist. He thinks he owns the courts, our courts ...
  • Iran: Qara Kelisa, St. Thaddeus Church: Day of ...
    Iran’s Qara Kelisa will honor the memory of Saint Thaddeus and his faithful followers during a ceremony in the northern province of West Azarbaijan. Scores of Armenians, Assyrians and Catholics from Iran and other countries will attend the annual event as part of their pilgrimage on the Day of S ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Jet stream set to spoil summer again
    After a fine and warm weekend across much of the country, temperatures today have reached 80 degrees Fahrenheit in Bridlington in East Yorkshire for the first time this summer - although similar values were reached in places for a time during late May. It's certainly come as a welcome relief af ...
  • What's causing our extreme weather? Is it unpr ...
    The awful weather which continues to affect the UK led yesterday to the Great Yorkshire show being cancelled (because of the weather) for the first time in its 154 year history. And on Monday, serious flash flooding devastated parts of the Calder valley for the second time in as many weeks. ...
  • Parts of UK at risk of renewed flooding
    UPDATE at 6.30pm Lastest information from American GFS model shifts emphasis for heavy rain towards the earlier ECMWF solution detailed below, i.e with much of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire at risk of some of the highest rainfall totals. ENDS Amber alerts are in force for parts of the UK tomorro ...
  • Poor summer weather to continue well into July
    UPDATE at 5PM According to the Met Office, averaged across the UK, June 2012 has been the wettest since records began in 1910, the coolest since 1991, and the second dullest since records began (record for lowest sunshine in June is still 1987). ENDS It will come as no surprise that June in Y ...
  • Blame the jet stream for return of heavy rain
    After a short spell of fine and warm weather in the last few days, Atlantic weather fronts are once again expected to spread wind and rain across the country tonight and tomorrow, leading us into a fourth successive weekend washout. According to Philip Eden, writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the ...

Internat'l Political Economy

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

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 12 Signs That Spain Is Shifting Gears From Rec ...
    Where have we seen this before?  Bond yields soar above the 7 percent danger level.  Check.  The stock market crashes to new lows.  Check.  Industrial activity plummets like a rock and the economy contracts.  Check.  The unemployment rate skyrockets to more than 20 percent.  Chec ...
  • James Holmes Is Not Alone – 20 More Exam ...
    There is much more to the collapse of America than just our economic problems.  The truth is that the United States is like a beautiful house that may still look great on the outside but that has rotted and decayed very badly on the inside.  In fact, the foundations of our countr ...
  • The Price Of Corn Hits A Record High As A Glob ...
    Are you ready for the next major global food crisis?  The price of corn hit an all-time record high on Thursday.  So did the price of soybeans.  The price of corn is up about 50 percent since the middle of last month, and the price of wheat has risen by about 50 percent over the ...
  • 20 Signs That All Point To The Exact Same Thin ...
    The U.S. economy is in a massive amount of trouble.  There aren't enough jobs.  There isn't enough money to go around.  Business activity is slowing down again.  Household wealth has been falling.  Food prices have been rising.  Many state and local governments all over the count ...
  • 11 International Agreements That Are Nails In ...
    Is the petrodollar dead?  Well, not yet, but the nails are being hammered into the coffin even as you read this.  For decades, most of the nations of the world have used the U.S. dollar to buy oil and to trade with each other.  In essence, the U.S. dollar has been acting as a tru ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Syria warns will use chemical weapons in case ...
    Syria says it will only use its chemical and biological arsenal against “external aggression,” and never against own population. The US has warned the Arab country against using the arsenal under any circumstances. ­Torn by a 16-month civil conflict, Syria will not use the weapons against its ow ...
  • Sweden to give illegal immigrants healthcare
    Here’s another news brief from the backlog that accumulated while I was in Brussels. It’s from our Swedish correspondent PMP, and concerns a recent decision by the Swedish government to extend “free” healthcare to all illegal immigrants. As with similar decisions by the American government conce ...
  • US claims Syria possesses and intends to use c ...
    In a new media offensive against Damascus, Washington has claimed that the Syrian government possesses and intends to use chemical weapons. “We believe Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile remains under Syrian government control,” said White House spokesman Tommy Vietor in a press conference in Wa ...
  • Anaheim police filmed firing on women & childr ...
    A second case of deadly police-involved shooting is reported in Anaheim over the weekend. It comes just a day after police shot a 24-year-old man, sparking chaotic protests. Police shot dead a handcuffed man in the Guinida neighborhood of the city, reports OC Weekly, citing eyewitness accounts. ...
  • Another Israeli protester self-immolates in Ye ...
    Another Israeli man has set himself on fire in the city of Yehud, two days after an Israeli protester died of burns sustained in self-immolation. The 45-year-old disabled man self-immolated at a bus stop in Yehud, about 15 kilometers (9 miles) east of Tel Aviv. Medical sources said the man had b ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2012-07-23 A Short Chat With Christine Assange
    WikiLeaks supporters around the globe are informed, talented, and wonderfully passionate people. But supporting WikiLeaks day after day, week after week, month after month, can be an emotional roller coaster. We all have our highs and lows, and surely nobody knows that better than Julian Assange ...
  • 2012-07-21 WikiLeaks News Update: Manning pre- ...
    WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 595 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 592 days. - 32 days at the Ecuadorian Embassy. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 789 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. with ...
  • 2012-07-18 WikiLeaks News Update: WikiLeaks op ...
    WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 592 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 589 days. - 29 days at the Ecuadorian Embassy. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 786 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. with ...
  • 2012-07-15 Après Assange, Le Déluge
    King Louis XV is widely credited with the phrase “Après moi, le déluge” (after me, the deluge), although it may have been spoken by Madame de Pompadour, his official mistress (the title was by appointment at the time: she divorced her husband after assuming the position). In any case, it was pro ...
  • 2012-07-10 Julia Gillard comes clean on WikiLeaks
    I bumped into Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on the train yesterday. I mean, literally bumped. I was lurching towards the last available seat on the 4:45 pm from Central when I tripped and collapsed over the armrest beside her, momentarily dislodging the blonde wig she was wearing as a ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • PROOF... Government Stages Mass Shootings... ...
    This important video report is just a small sampling of on-the-record cases where government staged shootings and other bloody acts to pose as heroes, take freedoms, and launch wars. ~ Video read more
  • ALARMING!... Anaheim Police Open Fire on Unarm ...
    The video below marks a new low in police conduct. The final horrific incident on display allegedly was sparked by the suspicious killing of a man who witnesses say did nothing more than turn to run from police. ~ Videos read more
  • 55 PERCENT of Americans will be VERY Disappoin ...
    If a major emergency happened in the United States, do you have faith that the government would take care of you? Amazingly, even after all of the examples to the contrary that we have seen in recent years, a solid majority of all Americans actually believe that the government will be there ...
  • Martial Law... US Army Preparing To Invade America
      9/11 is to the American government as the Reichstag fire was to the Nazi government, i.e. an opportunity to strip people from their basic rights and instill an authoritarian regime , This is only the tip of the iceberg... read more
  • Missing... Michael Jackson's Mother - Katherin ...
    A nephew of Katherine Jackson reported the Jackson family matriarch missing late Saturday night after her grandchildren were unable to reach  her for a week. read more

Tarpley

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

Modern Survivalism

  • UN Arms Treaty Will Bind US Despite Majority S ...
    This may affect your security; your 2nd Amendment Rights. According to Dick Morris, when Hillary signs the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty on July 27, there will be no requirement for the U.S. Senate to ratify it, because the United States (Americans) will be bound to the treaty via a technical ...
  • Addictions After TSHTF
    There are addictions in life that we don’t necessarily recognize as such, because we take them for granted that they will always be there and available. Plus we may not see them as addictions. Things like coffee (caffeine), sugar, soda, chocolate, candy, chips and junk food. Prescription d ...
  • 2012 Olympic Disaster Subliminal Warning?
    There is a very bizarre TV commercial video circulating the Internet, which is being taken down as fast as they are put up. The commercial originated from ‘now TV’, a 24-hour pay TV service provider in Hong Kong, affiliated with ‘PCCW Limited’, a holding company of a Chin ...
  • Disinformation Continues as U.N. Arms Treaty T ...
    In New York this week, the U.N. Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty continued trying to draft a treaty to impose worldwide controls on small arms, including civilian-owned firearms. U.N. conferees are working to regulate not only civilian small arms, but also ammunition and firearm parts. Anti-g ...
  • We Are In An Invisible Depression
    “We are in a depression, but you can’t see it”, says Al Lewis a business columnist, while recently speaking with the Wall Street Journal’s News Hub. You know how Ben Bernanke said that he averted a Great Recession? What he really did was he blinded us to the fact that we ...

Fast Company

  • Push Paws: "Game For Cats" iPad App Makers Sto ...
    After four-legged gamers racked up charges on their masters' MasterCards, the makers of iPad apps for pets unleash new controls. Who's LOLing now, cats? Everything was going purrfect. Until Fluffy found the iTunes store. The aptly named app development firm Hiccup has finally fixed a major meow ...
  • Retail's Future: Facebook Loyalty Cards And To ...
    Supermarkets using customers' Facebook accounts as simultaneous discount/surveillance platforms? Vending machines where you can pay by iPhone? Ordering luxury cars and private jets via iPad-like interfaces and sidestepping the salesman? They're all here.Over in Europe, commercial brands are quie ...
  • Is Amazon Making A 10-inch Tablet?
    News updates all day from Fast Company.Amazon is getting ready to introduce new tablets, Staples' president of U.S. retail, Demos Parneros, told Reuters Monday.Parneros said the online retailer will introduce five or six new tablet SKUs, or stock-keeping units, including those for a 10-inch tabl ...
  • Hate Your Boss? Use Hipmunk's "Spite" Feature ...
    Why the travel search engine is targeting frustrated assistants in its bid to become the go-to source for business bookings.A new feature on travel search engine Hipmunk gives business travelers the worst possible experience. On purpose.  The Kayak competitor's main mission is to ...
  • Marissa Mayer. Pregnant CEO. Big Whoop
    Yahoo's new CEO won't have it tougher than men in similar leadership roles just because she's pregnant, says another CEO, mother, and the first governor ever to give birth while in office--to twins.No Big Deal. That’s my reaction to the news that Marissa Mayer is assuming the helm of Yahoo s ...

Jadaliyya

  • Apache
    “Crazy Horse” was not a horse. He was an Apache child who ran as fast as the wind. So his mother called him “Crazy Horse.” He rushed the seasons to grow up and defend the Apache. At night he dreamed of one thing: Being a strong bird and soaring into the belly of the sky to nest in one of its cl ...
  • Roundtable on the Language of Revolution in Egypt
    [The following series of articles is part of a Jadaliyya roundtable on “The Language of Revolution in Egypt.” It features contributions by Paul Sedra, Robert Springborg, and Joshua Stacher.]   Paul Sedra, “Why the Language of Revolution Matters” Robert Springborg, “Why the Language of Tr ...
  • The Language of Revolution in Egypt: A Respons ...
    [This article is part of a Jadaliyya roundtable on “The Language of Revolution in Egypt.” The roundtable, which can be accessed in full by clicking here, features contributions by Paul Sedra, Robert Springborg, and Joshua Stacher.] I am indebted to Professors Stacher and Springborg for their tr ...
  • عرائس الموت في اليمن
    بدلاً من أن تشتري عروساً لتلهو بها، كعادة الفتيات الصغيرات في كلّ أصقاع الأرض، تتحوّل هي إلى واحدة. بدلاً من أن تحلم بأميرٍ وتنتظر قبلةً تمنحها الحياة، تقتصّ منها شفتان غلاظ ورجولةٌ حمقاء.في كلّ مرّة تموت فيها الضحية يلتفت العالم التفاتة بسيطة لما يحدث هناك. شجبٌ واستنكارٌ ثم نسيان، لتتكرر بعدها ...
  • Transnational Discourses of Power, Revolutions ...
    [This article is part of a Jadaliyya roundtable on “The Language of Revolution in Egypt.” The roundtable, which can be accessed in full by clicking here, features contributions by Paul Sedra, Robert Springborg, and Joshua Stacher.] My friend and colleague Paul Sedra raises important points ...

mediagazer

  • Why the WikiLeaks Grand Jury is So Dangerous: ...
    Trevor Timm / Electronic Frontier Foundation: Why the WikiLeaks Grand Jury is So Dangerous: Members of Congress Now Want to Prosecute New York Times Journalists Too  —  For more than a year now, EFF has encouraged mainstream press publications like the New York Times to aggressi ...
  • A helping hand - The Ford Foundation reaches o ...
    CJR: A helping hand  —  The Ford Foundation reaches out to broaden minority coverage  —  Anyone who cares about the future of newsrooms is on the lookout for omens.  And there have been plenty of bad ones lately.  Newspaper vital signs, for example, are ...
  • Detroit Free Press, News offer buyouts to staf ...
    Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter: Detroit Free Press, News offer buyouts to staffers  —  The Detroit Free Press and Detroit News are offering buyouts, Poynter has confirmed.  The offer was made to 31 News staffers and 40 Free Press staffers, including managers, Deadline Detroi ...
  • Globe publisher announces work-force reduction ...
    Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: Globe publisher announces work-force reductions  —  The Boston Globe and its affiliated media properties are downsizing again, according to an internal memo from Globe publisher Christopher Mayer that was obtained by Media Nation earlier today.  ...
  • Dow Jones to sell newswires through WSJ.com - ...
    Jennifer Saba / Reuters: Dow Jones to sell newswires through WSJ.com - CEO  —  (Reuters) - When Lex Fenwick started his job as CEO of Dow Jones & Co more than five months ago, he found it strange that one of Wall Street's most historic and well-known brands did not have a di ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Oil price falls on renewed concerns about ...
    The price of oil is falling on concerns increase about Europe's debt-ridden economies. Borrowing costs soared for Spain and Italy Monday, reaching levels that are considered unsustainable for more than a few months. Spain and about a...
  • Toyota Aurion: Another big shot steps up ...
    Toyota's having another go at the large-car market, but has the second-generation Aurion got what it takes to tear sales from Holden and Ford? And more to the point, is it worth bothering as the New Zealand market retreats from the large-car sector to embrace mid-size and small cars? From To ...
  • Mamata slams petrol price hike, demands r ...
    Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Sunday slammed the latest hike of petrol price "without consulting allies" and demanded its immediate rollback till a long-term...
  • Minella through to second round
    Luxembourg's Mandy Minella was victorious in her first round clash against Qiang Wang at the Baku Cup....
  • Global Water Issues Fuel Tensions In Regi ...
    July 23 (AlertNet) - Disputes over water are common around the world, exacerbated by climate change, growing populations, rapid urbanisation, increased irrigation and a rising demand for alternative energy sources such as hydroelectricity. Following are a few of the regions where competition ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 7/23/12 - 82 Books Citing ProCon.org
    www.procon.org - - 82 Books Citing ProCon.org – See how 82 authors including Glenn Beck, Newt Gingrich, Dick Morris, Michael J. Schmoker, and Tavis Smiley have cited ProCon.org research in their books.
  • 7/20/12 - Differences in Conservative and Libe ...
    2012election.procon.org - Differences in Conservative and Liberal Brains – Researchers in seven different studies found that liberals and conservatives not only have different brain structures and different physiological responses to stimuli, but they also activate different neural mechanisms wh ...
  • 7/20/12 - Violent Video Game Players Feel Need ...
    videogames.procon.org - Violent Video Game Players Feel Need to Cleanse, Study Shows
  • 7/20/12 - Jill Stein
    2012election.procon.org - Jill Stein, the Green Party's official nominee for US president and a former Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, now has her biography and pro and con positions on our issues available at ProCon.org.
  • 7/19/12 - Voter Registration Soon Available vi ...
    socialnetworking.procon.org - Voter Registration Soon Available via Facebook in Washington State

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Excessive Endurance Training Can Be Deadly
    Micah True, legendary ultra-marathoner, died suddenly while on a routine 12-mile training run March 27, 2012. The mythic Caballo Blanco in the best-selling book, Born to Run, True would run as far as 100 miles in a day. On autopsy his heart was enlarged and scarred; he died of a lethal arrhythmi ...
  • Exercise and the Brain
    The effects of exercise are different on memory as well as on the brain, depending on whether the exerciser is an adolescent or an adult. A gene has been identified which seems to mediate the degree to which exercise has a beneficial effect. This has implications for the potential use of exercis ...
  • TESTOSTERONE ON MY MIND …
    Simon Baron – Cohen This is a hormone that has fascinated me. It’s a small molecule that seems to be doing remarkable things. The variation we see in this hormone comes from a number of different sources. One of those sources is genes; many different genes can influence how much testostero ...
  • Origins of the Arts
    Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the evolution of culture Edward O. Wilson RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about reality external to our bodies, is ...
  • Middle Age
    Evolution has given humans a huge advantage over most other animals David Bainbridge As a 42-year-old man born in England, I can expect to live for about another 38 years. In other words, I can no longer claim to be young. I am, without doubt, middle-aged. To some people that is a depressing rea ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Fans garner signatures in support of Kings XI ...
    CHANDIGARH - Dejected over the ouster of Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) from the Indian Premier League (IPL), fans of the team here have started a signature campaign to garner public support against the decision. They have constituted a group called Fans of Kings XI Punjab, consisting of students and ...
  • Even turtles and wasps need a little play time
    WASHINGTON - Watching kids and dogs play is not an alien sight. However, what about a turtle or even a wasp? Well, it seems they play, too. Gordon Burghardt, a psychology professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has discovered that many animals-not just dogs, cats, and monkeys-need ...
  • Oz PM Gillard says trade union official?s 9/11 ...
    CANBERRA - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed as “stupid and wrong” a senior union official’s belief that the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy, but refused to discipline him. Kevin Bracken, the president of the Victorian Trades Hall and secretary of the Mari ...
  • Turmeric boosts effect of chemo drug in head a ...
    WASHINGTON - Researchers with UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center have found that curcumin, the major component in the spice turmeric, when combined with the drug Cisplatin enhances the chemotherapy’s suppression of head and neck cancer cell growth. In India, women for years have been usi ...
  • Pakistan panel to review criminal case rulings ...
    ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is going to set up a commission that will allow people to file appeals on cases decided by courts since 1947, the year the country was born. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will announce the setting up of the commission which will review criminal cases and determine poss ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Meryl Dorey on vaccine safety - Part 2
    Part 2 of Meryl Dorey on vaccine safety
  • Meryl Dorey on vaccine safety - Part 1
    Our guest today for the 2nd hour is Meryl Dorey, who runs the Australian Vaccination Network, a non-profit organisation which sets out to inform people about the hidden facts regarding both the efficacy and safety of vaccines. As noted in last week's show, Meryl has been investigated by the He ...
  • Free speech in Australia under threat - Part 1
    DISCLAIMER: This article is NOT an advertisement for "black salve", nor should it be construed as promoting the use of "black salve". We tend to believe that in Australia, despite excessive taxation, nanny state legislation, over-regulation and a spiralling cost of living, we at least have fre ...
  • Celebrating year zero of the eco-technic dicta ...
    Part 2 of Celebrating year zero of the eco-technic dictatorship
  • Celebrating year zero of the eco-technic dicta ...
    To mark the introduction into Australia of the most barbaric, pointless and deceptive tax ever conjured up by a phony democracy, we bring you a replay of an interview with Christopher Monckton which dates back to January 2010. At that time Lord Monckton was touring Australia to talk about clim ...

Beacon

  • New Report: Seafood Fraud in South Florida
    58% of samples from sushi vendors in South Florida were mislabeled ©Wikimedia Commons How would you feel if you found out the red snapper on your plate wasn’t red snapper at all, but instead something illegally fished or potentially unhealthy? A new Oceana study found that 31% of seafood we t ...
  • Victory in Spain! National Park Saved from Oil ...
    Many birds make their homes in the wetlands of Doñana National Park ©Wikimedia Commons We’re pleased to announce that the Spanish government has put an end to proposed oil industry development that would have threatened the Doñana National Park, a World Heritage Site, after campaigning by Oce ...
  • And the 2012 Ocean Heroes Are…
    James Hemphill and Captain Don Voss, our 2012 Ocean Heroes You’ve been waiting with bated breath to find out who this year’s Ocean Heroes are, and the time has finally come to announce our winners! We received over 400 fantastic nominations this year, and narrowed it down to six adult finali ...
  • Creature Feature: Seahorse
    Camouflaging in coral ©Wikimedia Commons Though you won’t see them saddled and ready to ride anytime soon, seahorses are pretty fascinating little sea creatures. Named for their resemblance to the horses that we’re used to seeing on land, the seahorse is one of the slowest moving fish in the ...
  • Victory for Mediterranean Sharks and Rays
    Hammerheads are one of ten species that are now protected ©Wikimedia Commons Sharks and rays in the Mediterranean have something to be happy about this week—10 species now have special protections under the Barcelona Convention. These 10 species—including hammerheads and shortfin makos—have ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The Apollo Goodwill Disc.
        I found this on Flickr and on Boingboing. The US flag that was planted on the moon was on a base that contained a silicon disc filled with information. A calling card as it were in case someone else ever came across us. It was designed to last thousands of years, perhaps after [...]
  • The Sanders Roe SR.A1 Or “Squirt”. ...
        The SR.A1 was a prototype jet powered sea plane/fighter. The idea was to use the ocean itself around British military assets, particularly in the Pacific, as away to launch air defense or reconnaissance flights when carriers were unavailable. In May of 1944 the three prototypes wer ...
  • Viking Shields.
    Viking Shields were mostly wood. Literature tells us that Linden wood was used but archeological evidence suggests fur, alder and poplar were used. These did not split and had fibers that resisted penetration. Viking shields ranged in size on the large end at 48 inches across and on the short en ...
  • 43 Years Ago Today, We Went To The Moon.
      It seems so amazing that we actually made it to and from another heavenly body. It seems even stranger to be making this post on a computer with tens of millions times more processing power than the onboard flight computer of the Saturn Rocket that made it there. Yet, we could no more go ...
  • Napoleon’s Mistress.
      The Battle of Eylau was one of those victories for the Grande Armee that a commander might prefer not to boast about. Rules of engagement for the 15th through the 19th centuries generally gave the win to who ever stayed on the battlefield, a call not unlike a tie that goes to the runner [...]

Taylor Marsh

  • Obama Team Challenges Mitt Romney on ‘One Long ...
    TEAM OBAMA CONDUCTED a foreign policy conference call earlier today with Robert Gibbs, Senior Advisor, Obama for America; Michele Flournoy, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; and Colin Kahl, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East. On the call, it was clear th ...
  • If All We’re Paying Attention to is the 2012 C ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. It’s been a while since I’ve said this, so here goes, in two parts. First, the Occupy movement is helping create space for vital public conversations. Second, the Two Party Front for the Oligarchy becomes more powerfu ...
  • Romney to Olympians: ‘You Didn’t Get Here On Y ...
    Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy You Olympians, however, know you didn’t get here solely on your own power. For most of you, loving parents, sisters or brothers, encouraged your hopes, coaches guided, communities built venues in order to organize compet ...
  • The Smoking Gun in Aurora
    “His answering machine message was incoherent, just bizarre, really bizarre — slurring words, but he didn’t sound drunk, just strange — I could make out “James” somewhere in it,” Glenn Rotkovich, of the Lead Valley Range, in Byers, Colo., told FoxNews.com. “I told my staff, here’s th ...
  • NCAA Fines Penn State $60 Million, Bans Penn S ...
    “The NCAA just crushed Penn State football.” – Bruce Feldman, CBS Sports [on "Daily Rundown," with Chuck Todd] JOE PATERNO’S STATUE has been removed from the college campus, the beginning of penalties that should resound throughout college sports, but also beyond, in acti ...

Hudson New York

  • Turkey's Humiliation in Syria
    My Asia Times colleague MK Bhadrakumar writes of "The Rise and fall of Turkey's Erdogan" in Asia Times today. Per our July 22 discussion just posted, Turkey got the short end of the stick in the Syrian stalemate. Ambassador Bhadrakumar writes: Someone is
  • The Call for July 22, 2012: "Russian Ambitions ...
    The Gate conducts regular conference calls with a group of journalists and invited experts. An edited transcript of a July 22 roundtable is below Russia will maintain its presence in Syria at all costs in order to prevent a repeat of the NATO Libya
  • Germany Debates Male Circumcision
    During the past decade, life has become more difficult for Jews in Europe. They are not only the victims of a rise in anti-Semitic violence and intimidation, mostly as a result of the growing numbers of radical Muslim immigrants in Europe. They are also
  • Israeli Settlements an Obstacle to Peace?
    One does not have to be an apologist for Israeli settlements in disputed areas to recognize that the constant criticism that has developed around them is unproductive in reaching a peace settlement between Israel and its Arab neighbors. The settlements
  • Azawad Calls for International Support Against ...
    Note by Anna Mahjar-Barducci: Azawad is a new country in North Africa that just seceded from Mali. It borders Algeria and was declared independent by a Touareg movement, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad [MNLA], which is secular. Shortly

Urban Survival

  • Poetic Injustice: Another Week in Crookadise
    “Quackery, crookery, theft, the weight of crimes with heft.  The cops struck none, the deeds are done, with plenty of daring and deft.”   Simple, ain’t it?  You’re expected to roll out of the rack, put on the yoke of … Continue reading →
  • Coping: On WX Averages and Experts
    (San Juan Islands, WA)  Our work sessions continued on Sunday as Survivalwoman and I plot out the longer term plans of the www.strategic-living.net web site.  Should see some changes there once we get back to Texas. That is, if the … Continue reading →
  • Gunman Goes Batty!
    CNN was reporting earlier this morning that 14 people have been killed and 50 wounded at a theater’s early run overnight of the newe Batman movie.  What makes this story particularly bizarre is that it takes place less than 15-miles … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Radiation Readings
    Earlier this week I got to wondering how the radiation readings in the US today compare with the fallout that was dumped on the US in the wake of the Soviet air blasts of the Cold War.  Since it turns … Continue reading →
  • Post Office Default Coming?
    Unless something happens in Washington, the Post Office might miss an August 1 payment into a healthcare fund for future retirees.  As jawboning continues in Washington, we’re left to wonder why the federal government doesn’t do the obvious:  Auction off … Continue re ...

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • NRDC in the News 7/20: Improving flammability ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide The Sacramento Bee published an op-ed from Sarah Janssen, urging California to make sure new flammability standards improve fire safety and eliminate use of toxic chemicals; Sarah also called for Con ...
  • New Polls Show Public Support for Chemical Ref ...
    Daniel Rosenberg, Senior Attorney, Washington DC The Senate is showing some signs of life on the subject of chemical reform, with two hearings on the flame retardant scandal exposed by the Chicago Tribune and, finally, a mark-up of the Safe Chemic ...
  • Canadians are saying no to tar sands pipelines ...
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. We have long heard threats from the tar sands oil interests that if America won’t allow tar sands pipelines to cross our communities, they’ll just send the oil acr ...
  • Striving to Perform: Sports and Sustainability
    Dylan Gasperik, Program Assistant, Communications, Santa Monica, California The Roman Colosseum: Most sustainable stadium ever? (Photo by DAVID ILIFF. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0) White House hosts “Sports and Sustainability” conference La ...
  • North Dakota: more felonies, spills, road dama ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. The Washington Post recently published an in-depth investigation into the impacts of the oil boom in North Dakota. Some excerpts: A state legislator says "There is just not enough money to deal wi ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct Newsfeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 12 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, July 20, 2012: Poland, Pennsylvania: A man who was involved in a police chase after officers tried to pull him over for speeding and a broken tail light died … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct Newsfeed Daily ...
  • Anaheim Shooting Brings Protests, Which, In Tu ...
    From the Washington Post: As officers were investigating what happened at the scene, Dunn said an angry group of people began yelling and throwing bottles at them. He said that as officers detained several people, the crowd advanced on the … Continue reading →Anaheim Shooting Brings ...
  • Growing Evidence of Citizen Resistance to Mari ...
    Ron Bailey blog post: In Charlottesville, Va. (where I spend most of my time) a jury just found Philip Cobbs not guilty of marijuana possession. As the superb local weekly The Hook reports: Cobbs, a 54-year-old who takes care of … Continue reading →Growing Evidence of Citizen Resista ...
  • Now Ignorance of Foreign Law Is, Apparently, N ...
    From the Wall Street Journal: Without warning, 30 federal agents with guns and bulletproof vests stormed our guitar factories in Tennessee. They shut down production, sent workers home, seized boxes of raw materials and nearly 100 guitars, and ultimately cost … Continue reading →Now ...
  • If You Haven’t Done Anything Wrong, You Have N ...
    From the Baltimore Sun: Mary and Michael Major’s 18-year-old son, Miles, was roused from slumber and arrested at home early on the morning of Friday, April 27. He and another young man from the neighborhood were charged with first- and … Continue reading →If You Haven’t D ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

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

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Laggard to Leader launches - Melbourne, Sydney ...
    Are you sick of hearing? Australia is only a small part of the climate problem We shouldn’t act before the rest of the world Our actions won’t make a difference, anyway BZE’s new report, Laggard to Leader, will challenge these excuses, expose the true extent of Australia’s contribution to the ...
  • Laggard to Leader - Report Launch Melbourne Sy ...
        Are you sick of hearing? Australia is only a small part of the climate problem We shouldn’t act before the rest of the world Our actions won’t make a difference, anyway BZE’s new report, Laggard to Leader, will challenge these excuses, expose the true extent of Australia’s ...
  • Germany’s solar panels would provide 25% of Au ...
    If you took all the solar panels in Germany and put them in Australia, they would supply a quarter of our electricity demand. In the first six months of 2012, 4.5% of total electricity demand in Germany was met by solar power. Put ...
  • Solar Thermal Models Built
    Another four of our famous solar thermal models have been built in NSW, thanks to the efforts of Beyond Zero Emissions volunteers, the Paramatta Climate Action Network, and the Granville Men’s Shed. The models are of a concentrated solar thermal plant with a molten salt storage (CST+) power stat ...
  • WME leaders list 2012: GOVERNMENT + NGO LEADER
    The idealistic realist Matthew Wright Outfit: Beyond Zero Emissions Position: Executive Director Completely decarbonising our coal-rich nation by 2020 might be seen as an idealistic notion, but not to Matthew Wright. As co-founder of the NGO Beyond Zero Emissions, he has provided insight in ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • U.S. drought could set in motion global food c ...
    The U.S. is suffering drought levels not seen in over 50 years—and drawing comparisons to the Dust Bowl—with 56 percent of the contiguous U.S. in moderate to extreme drought. Some experts fear that the drought, and resulting hikes in food prices, could propel another global food cris ...
  • Cute animal picture of the day: baby Yemen cha ...
    Ten Yemen chameleons (Chamaeleo calyptratus) were recently born at the Zoological Society of London's (ZSL) Whipsnade Zoo. A popular pet species, the chameleons, also known as veiled chameleons, still thrive in the mountainous wilds of Yemen and Saudi Arabia. It is listed as Least Concern by the ...
  • Indonesia to investigate palm oil company's al ...
    Indonesia's top official charged with implementing the country's moratorium on new concessions in peatlands and primary forest areas is calling for an investigation into alleged violations by a palm oil company operating in Central Kalimantan, reports the REDD+ Task Force.
  • Despite moratorium, Indonesia failing to take ...
    Indonesian authorities are failing to take action against a palm oil company that is operating illegally in Central Kalimantan, alleges a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Telapak.
  • Chart: Indonesia's forest moratorium
    Indonesia’s moratorium on new forestry concessions was proposed in 2010 under an agreement with Norway to reduce emissions from deforestation and peatlands degradation. Set to begin Jan 1, 2011, the moratorium was not defined until May 2011 due to battles over what lands would be included. ...

Sierra Express

  • “I am prepared to put Salone on the map’’ – Ol ...
    Ahead of the Olympic Games, the first athlete in Sierra Leone’s history to qualify for the Olympic Games, Ola Sesay, said that she is “prepared to put Sierra Leone on the map,” in this year’s Olympic Games in London slated for 27th July -12th August 2012.  (Ola Sesay duri ...
  • What Dr Thorpe said at the Electoral Offence C ...
    The Electoral Offence Court was officially launched by the Honorable Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, Umu Hawa Tejan Jalloh on Thursday 19 July 2012. Dr. Christiana Thorpe said, “Mr. Chairman, My Lady Chief Justice, Honorable Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Members of the Judiciary ...
  • SFC to be dragged to court for Le 66M
    Latest reports reaching this press have indicated that one of Sierra Fishing Company (SFC) vessel’s named West Africa 7 and 8 damaged a shark net belonging to Pa Alhaji Kargbo in Tombo. The incident happened on December 4th 2003 at about 3.30 am in the Banana Area when West Africa 7 and 8 ...
  • Vacant positions – UNICEF, Freetown, Finance a ...
    UNICEF FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE: VACANCY NOTICE VB/12-001 If you are a committed and creative individual and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights organization would like to hear from you.  For 60 years, UNICEF has been wor ...
  • Eastern Police declare cleaning
    Chief Superintendent, Ibrahim Koroma of the Eastern Police Division at a meeting held at the station’s conference room on Friday July 20th 2012 with the Local Police Partnership Board declared general cleaning of Hagan Street Market, Bombay Market, Abache Street, and Fourah Road respective ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Primary sector revenue dips
    A solid season for production in the dairy and meat sectors was not enough to prevent a fall in overall primary sector earnings in the first quarter of 2012, according to figures out today. The Ministry for Primary Industries today...
  • Fonterra drops to fourth on world list
    Fonterra has dropped from third to fourth place in Rabobank's latest survey of the world's top 20 dairy companies.The dairy co-operative, which is the world's largest exporter of dairy products, has been overtaken by French company...
  • World dairy prices dip in overnight auction
    Whole milk powder, the biggest-volume dairy product sold through Fonterra's GlobalDairyTrade platform, led the third month of declines, pushing the benchmark composite price further below its long-term average.The GDT-TWI...
  • Economy reflected in traffic flows
    ANZ's Truckometer indicator is suggesting the economy will regain momentum by the end of the year after a mid-year dip.The Truckometer is based on traffic flows on carefully selected roads which have provided a good pointer to economic...
  • Success: Helping hand for farmers
    Put aside your cornflakes, please, because this morning you're going to read about mastitis in cows' udders.It's an expensive problem, costing the country $280 million a year in lost production and treatment costs, according to...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Reason Writers on Russia Today: Scott Shackfor ...
    Reason.com 24/7 News Associate Editor Scott Shackford appeared on Russia Today Monday afternoon to talk about the Anaheim police’s weekend shooting and violent response to community protest. Also under discussion: the importance of citizen recordings to hold not just the police acc ...
  • D.C. Police Officially Declare Photography Is ...
    Last week, two years after Washington, D.C., cops told Jerome Vorus to stop taking pictures of a traffic stop in Georgetown and to stop recording his encounter with them, the Metropolitan Police Department issued a general order against such illegal interference with citizens' exer ...
  • Libertarian Gary Johnson: In the Debates, Maybe?
    Janet Brown of the Commission on Presidential Debates gives some frustratingly vague promises of possibilities for Gary Johnson in the debates her group hosts to U.S. News and World Report's "Washington Whispers" column:   Brown told Whispers no decisions on candidate selecti ...
  • Rand Paul: "We’re compromising all the time to ...
    David Weigel at Slate on Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) complaining about his party's attitude toward military spending cuts, the day after Dick Cheney tried to talk Republicans' into dumping a looming $700 billion in military spending cuts called for by a past "sequestering" deal:   ...
  • Yet Another Reason to End the War on Drugs: It ...
    Politicians, activists, scientists, and at least one Rocket Man are flocking to D.C. this week for the 19th International AIDS Conference. The biannual conference, hosted in the US for the first time in 22 years, will surely bring about countless speeches, tons of scienctific repo ...

Mercury Rising

  • Flying the Jolly Roger: wealthy stash trillion ...
    Via Robert Frank, CNBC, the Tax Justice Network issues a report that alleges that trillions of dollars of the world economy is beyond the supervision of any nation: A significant fraction of global private financial wealth — by our estimates, at least $21 to $32 trillion as of 2010 — ...
  • In the “Are you sure this is a good idea ...
    Owen Bowcott and Maya Wolfe-Robinson, Da Guardian: Tricky legal dispute in Central America? Sort it out in the London courts. Honduras, the state with the highest homicide rate in the world, is preparing to send appeal cases to the judicial committee of the privy council (JCPC) in Westminster. T ...
  • Kiffmeyer-Allied Voter ID Group Minnesota Majo ...
    In case you’re wondering to what depths Mary Kiffmeyer and the group she used to head, Minnesota Majority, will sink in order to make a political attack, wonder no more — they are actually blaming Mark Ritchie for fraud committed by a woman Kiffmeye ...
  • Hypocritical NOM Praises Chick-fil-A’s A ...
    Alvin McEwen of Pam’s House Blend has the deets: You may remember that a while back, NOM was demanding that companies in Minnesota adopt a neutral stance on the amendment the state will be voting on in regards to gay marriage. It sent the following letter to 50 Minnesota companies: As a cu ...
  • Operation Salvage Murdoch continues
    Via ceebs, DK, the Beeb: Mr Murdoch, 81, quit directorships at NI Group Ltd, NewsCorp Investments and Times Newspaper Holdings on Friday. News Corp plans to split into two firms, separating its newspaper and book publishing interests from its now dominant TV and film enterprises. This is pretty ...

Reality Sandwich

  • This Week in Tech
    In This Week in Tech we celebrate the birthdays of Bucky Fuller and St Tesla, Edge releases their 2012 Summer reading list, designer beehives for urban environments,  Ron Paul releases The Technology Revolution Manifesto, A Nobel laureate talks physics on the street, Neil DeGrasse Tyson vs summe ...
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  • Catharsis, Cacophony, and Creativity
      The following is an excerpt from Aquarius Dawns by VerDarLuz. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges....Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. ...
  • Sex in the News
    In this week's Sex in the News: Kim Jong-un's love scandal, rape jokes, Jane Fonda is having the best sex of her life, The Snuggery, and Mick Jagger's bisexuality.  read more
  • The Heart of the Matter
    The following is an excerpt from Transforming the Nature of Health: A Holistic Vision of Healing That Honors Our Connection to the Earth, Others, and Ourselves, by Marcey Shapiro, M.D., released in physical and electronic form by North Atlantic Books. read more

Desertification

  • Crops Failing as U.S. Simmers in Record Heat Wave
    The United States is suffering one of its most severe droughts in decades, leading to both widespread crop failures and increased public concern about the impacts of climate change. According to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climatic Data Center, th ...
  • China Battles Desertification
    As scientists increasingly label desertification as one of the most burning challenges facing the world today, a small village in China’s semi-arid Northeastern region of Inner Mongolia is fighting back. Chifeng City’s dry climate and sparse vegetation have given way to severe surface erosion an ...
  • RIO+20: Promised Green Economy Was a Fake, Say ...
    When the Rio+20 summit on sustainable development ended Friday, there were winners and losers – mostly losers. The United Nations and the host country Brazil – along with big business – put a positive spin on the outcome of the conference, a follow-up to the 1992 Earth Summit. It was another his ...
  • Rio Outcome Bleak With No New Funding*
    Amidst recrimination, anger and charges of “strong arm tactics”, negotiators eventually endorsed a global plan of action for sustainable development following marathon sessions lasting over six weary days. A proposal for a 30-billion-dollar global fund for sustainable development – initiated by ...
  • New Set of Sustainable Development Goals Looks ...
    When world leaders from over 100 countries wind up their three-day Rio+20 summit in Brazil next week, they will leave behind the shattered remains of a slew of proposals that never got off the ground. A 30-billion-dollar Global Fund for Sustainable Development? A Financial Transactions Tax? A Su ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Prince William, Kate Middleton: More Than $80, ...
    The average British working household income is less than $40,000 U.S. That is why I have no use for those who are so privileged by birth. It is sickening. Probably Kate and William rented the whole airplane. Read more here. Kate Middleton: The gold-digger. Interesting video.
  • Canada Day and #DenounceHarper
    “#DenounceHarper is trending on Twitter in Canada, just behind #HappyCanadaDay. Users are using the hashtag to voice dissatisfaction with the Harper government, or just the man himself.” Read more about #DenounceHarper
  • TVO's The Agenda: The New McCarthyism
    There is no worse cancer in a free society than the thuggish impulse to equate dissent as disloyalty... The greatest patriot is the person with the courage to be the lone voice in the crowd crying out that the Emperor has no clothes. The test of our society's democratic nature is our instinct ...
  • Harper's Canada Day message loudly booed at Ja ...
  • U.S. Healthcare Legislation
    Fuxs News’ take on the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on Healthcare. Repugs are apparently very upset by the decision. Repugs spin machine is going hard at it. Sarah Palin gives her gyrations. “Obama lies, freedom dies” Sarah Palin. Watch the latest video at Press TV - Middle East
    • Israeli soldiers patrol Golan Heights
      Israeli forces are patrolling the occupied Golan Heights located between Syria and Israel after two mortar shells landed inside the area.
    • Iraq rejects AL call for Assad to resign
      Iraq has rejected a recent Arab League call for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to resign, describing it as interference in the country’s internal affairs.
    • Qatari official defects to Venezuela
      A Qatari official who has recently defected to Venezuela says his country is fully aware that armed groups cannot topple the Syrian government, but it is helping them because Israel has tasked Doha with provoking violence in pro-Palestine countries.
    • ‘Saudi forces wear Bahraini uniforms’
      The leader of Bahrain's main opposition party, Al Wefaq National Islamic Society, says Saudi forces wear Bahraini police uniforms in their crackdown on anti-regime protesters in Bahrain.
    • Turkey interior minister urged to resign
      Turkish scholars have petitioned for the resignation of Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin over his tough and aggressive stance against the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP).

    CUNY SPS Community Blog

    • Reflections on Project Rwanda
      For the past three years, faculty and students in the M.A. in Applied Theatre program at CUNY’s School of Professional Studies have traveled to Rwanda to implement the project “Drama and Theatre Education in Schools for Reconciliation and Development in Rwanda.” The twin goals of Project R ...
    • Are We Becoming Flattened by Technology?
      Are you an optimist or pessimist? There’s only one way to find out. I find it amazing that so much has progressed in our society—medical, education, economics, and even in technology.  The experience I’ve had thus far has surprisingly helped me.  I say surprisingly because with knowl ...
    • Five Questions for Our 1000th Facebook Fan
      We recently surpassed 1000 “likes” on our Facebook page, so to commemorate this milestone we asked our 1000th fan, Susan Punturieri, to tell us a little about herself. How did you learn about SPS? A co-worker referred the program to me. She said she really enjoyed it. I was looking i ...
    • SPS Governing Council Representative Nominatio ...
      We are accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and an alternate are needed to serve on the Cou ...
    • Follow-Back: The Power of Twitter
      Twitter, a social micro-blogging website has burst onto the scene and become embedded into the fabric of society and more importantly has become one of society’s methods of staying ‘in touch.’ Twitter has attracted users from all walks of life, be they mainstream corporations, governmental organ ...

    Dissident Voice

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

    Destructionist

    • Eerie Coincidence: Colorado University Had Ide ...
      A Colorado university just 16 miles away from the site of Friday morning’s deadly ‘Batman’ massacre staged an identical exercise the very same day in which students were trained how to react to a gunman firing at people in a movie theater. In another shocking coincidence, a trailer that prece ...
    • Fukushima contractor forced workers to fake ra ...
      A company charged with decontaminating the devastated Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant encouraged its workers to falsely lower their radiation dosimeter readings by covering the devices with lead, according to a leaked tape of an internal meeting. Nuclear plant workers are not allowed to be expose ...
    • Fukushima contractor forced workers to fake ra ...
      A company charged with decontaminating the devastated Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant encouraged its workers to falsely lower their radiation dosimeter readings by covering the devices with lead, according to a leaked tape of an internal meeting. Nuclear plant workers are not allowed to be expose ...
    • FBI theater attack warning issued on May 17, 2012
      DHS Warned About Threats In Movie Theaters The Department of Homeland Security in a May 17, 2012 memo, warned that American movie theaters were increasingly likely targets for terrorist attacks, primarily because they packed many people into one tightly confined place. An early April 2012 sui ...
    • FBI theater attack warning issued on May 17, 2012
      DHS Warned About Threats In Movie Theaters The Department of Homeland Security in a May 17, 2012 memo, warned that American movie theaters were increasingly likely targets for terrorist attacks, primarily because they packed many people into one tightly confined place. An early April 2012 sui ...

    Yeti Betty

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

      IPS - Inter Press Services

    • Deck Stacked Against Women’s Land Rights ...
      Women across Asia are being shut out from prosperous forestland because of a paradigm geared towards male ownership, according to a new report by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), an environmental non-governmental organisation. “Women continue to be excluded from property rights and the ...
    • U.S. Aims for AIDS-Free Generation Amid Fundin ...
      As more than 20,000 health workers, scholars and activists from around the world gather here this week for a major biannual AIDS conference, observers are warning that U.S. government proposals to cut HIV/AIDS-related funding could undermine the significant potential to deal a decisive blow to t ...
    • A Divided Security Council Leads Syria into U. ...
      Just before the Western-inspired resolution against Syria was vetoed in the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was quoted as saying the United Nations was trying to support a revolutionary movement inside the country – which happens to have stron ...
    • Obama Pressed on Syrian End-Game
      With the Bashar Al-Assad regime badly bloodied by last week’s assassination of its top security officials and fierce fighting over the weekend in both Damascus and Aleppo, the administration of President Barack Obama is being pressed on the U.S. role in the presumed end-game. On one side, ...
    • Child Rape on the Rise in Sri Lanka
      A spate of child rape cases in Sri Lanka has angered child rights activists and moved the government to consider tightening the relevant laws and making the offence punishable with the death sentence. A government statement released in parliament in May said that of the 1,450 female rape cases r ...

    My AntiWar

    CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

    • Syria’s Developments and Iran's National Secur ...
      Summary: What has been going on in Syria, especially during the past week, represents a kind of borderline situation. The dominant view on the Syrian situation in Western circles is that the game is near the end: the incumbent President Bashar al-Assad will step down or will be forced to do ...
    • Why the Buenos Aires bombing is a False Indica ...
      Summary: Immediately after the terror bombing of a busload of Israeli youth in Burgas, Bulgaria, both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a “senior U.S. official” expressed certainty about Iran’s responsibility. Since then, the White House has backed away from that position, after ...
    • Iran war will devastate US economy: Brzezinski
      Summary: Former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski has warned that a US military confrontation with Iran could be devastating for the American economy. “A war in the Middle East, in the present context, may last for years,” Brzezinski said in an interview with Newsmax.TV publi ...
    • The Insanity of Anti-Iran Propaganda
      Summary: A new ad released by the Mitt Romney campaign takes a quote from Barack Obama about the collectivism of progress and success so out of context as to be laughable. This morning's Up With Chris does an excellent job setting the record straight (watch here): source: Wide Asleep in A ...
    • A War Israel is Just Begging for an Excuse to ...
      Summary: Barak and Netanyahu are begging for a pretext to launch a global conflict. The meaning of it is totally is clear: the Jewish state and its pro-war lobbies are the ultimate threat to world peace. This threat must be taken care of immediately. source: Dissident Voiceread more

    The Daily Galaxy

    • Sally Ride --NASA Pioneer Dies: 1st American W ...
      Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger in 1983, died Monday at 61 after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, her company said. "Sally lived her life to the fullest, with boundless...
    • "Hacking the Universe"--Stephen Hawking Launch ...
      Stephen Hawking has launched the most powerful shared-memory supercomputer in Europe, the COSMOS supercomputer, manufactured by SGI and the first system of its kind. Hawking says will open up new windows on the universe. During the launch, which is part...
    • New CERN Tests Attack the Existence of Dark Ma ...
      New results have come in from the Xenon100 experiment, a tub of cryogenically cooled liquid xenon buried 1400 metres down a mine at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory near L'Aquila, Italy that show no sign of WIMPs, or weakly interacting...
    • Image of the Day: 'Festival of Lights' --The O ...
      The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning cluster of stars known as Messier 107. The star cluster is not a fleeting phenomenon, at least by human reckoning of time — these ancient stars have gleamed for many billions...
    • "Milky Way Danger Zone" --Solar-System Devouri ...
      Could the galaxies of the Universe be stalked by rogue, all-devouring black holes? It looks that way. A 2011 simulation of black holes merger revealed that there could be literally hundreds of rogue black holes scattered across the Milky Way...

    Natural News

    • Australian woman wins multi-million dollar pay ...
      A woman in Australia won a multi-million dollar settlement recently from a British Big Pharma firm, Diageo Plc., a local distributor for the drug Thalidomide, which caused birth defects in thousands of babies around the world in the 1960s, according to her attorneys...
    • Sugar, Inflammation and Longevity
      (NaturalNews)Ancient Roman and Indian doctors used sugar topically to treat infections and internally to sweeten less palatable medicines. It was, however, fairly unknown in the common marketplace. The tropical conditions required to grow sugar and the labor intensive difficulty...
    • Why virgin coconut oil is superior to highly r ...
      Many people in the natural health community have been well aware of the health benefits of coconut oil and other coconut products for decades. More recently, "clean eaters" and people following an ancestral diet have been replacing canola oil and other cooking oils with...
    • Does drinking coffee reduce the risk of skin c ...
      A recent study published in the journal Cancer Research claims that coffee drinkers may be at a reduced risk of developing basal cell carcinoma, one of the most common types of skin cancer. According to the research, individuals that drink at least three cups of coffee...
    • Do your children play outside? You need to kno ...
      It has been over a year since the devastating earthquake and tsunami that slammed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant in Japan. Countless lives have been forever affected, but sadly it's the lives of the children that will never be the same. Children and infants...

    Threat Level

    • Kim Dotcom Goes on Mega-Offense Against U.S. C ...
      Kim Dotcom, the founder of the now-shutdown Megaupload, is firing back at the U.S. for shutting down his business and seizing his domains. And he's trying to recruit an online army to join him.
    • Nearly 5 Million People Have Government Securi ...
      The number of U.S. government employees and contractors holding security clearances jumped to 4.86 million people last year from 4.7 million the year prior, according to the 2011 Report on Security Clearance Determinations, which the Director of National Intelligence has forwarded to Congress. I ...
    • Russia’s Top Cyber Sleuth Foils US Spies, Help ...
      It’s early February in Cancun, Mexico. A group of 60 or so financial analysts, reporters, diplomats, and cybersecurity specialists shake off the previous night’s tequila and file into a ballroom at the Ritz-Carlton hotel. At the front of the room, a giant screen shows a globe targete ...
    • California Starts Up a Privacy Enforcement Unit
      Watch out, Silicon Valley, there's a new startup in town and its gunning for you. California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced Thursday she's created a unit intended to actually enforce federal and state privacy laws.
    • Judge OKs Nudity at TSA Checkpoint
      An Oregon man was cleared of indecent exposure charges Wednesday when a local judge said his protest of Transportation Security Administration screening procedures was constitutionally protected speech under state law.

    PERRspectives : Blog

    • Foreign Policy Extraordinarily Foreign to Romney
      On Wednesday, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will kick-off a six day swing through the UK, Israel and Poland. Like any challenger, Romney wants to burnish his foreign policy credentials while pandering to key voting blocs back home. But for the former Massachusetts governor, those ...
    • Dude, Where's My $10 Trillion?
      With the year-end expiration of the Bush tax cuts and the looming "sequestration" of $1.2 trillion they agreed to during their debt ceiling hostage-taking last summer, the message from Republican leaders is the same as it ever was. Taxes (especially for the rich) must not go up, defense spendin ...
    • Democrats Crush Republicans as Capitalists in ...
      During Mitt Romney's first run for the White House four years ago, his GOP rival Mike Huckabee warned that the former private equity CEO reminded voters of "the guy who laid them off." Now, with the growing imbroglio over his secret tax returns, labyrinthine overseas accounts and "I win even wh ...
    • Romney Will Put Walmart in the White House
      Even at a time of record income inequality, the lowest federal tax burden in 60 years and plummeting effective tax rates for the top one percent of earners, it is often difficult to put a face on the yawning chasm between the super-rich and everyone else. But now we have six. New data from the ...
    • The Authentic Mrs. Romney
      For months, fawning press accounts with titles like "Romney Using Wife's Story to Connect with Voters", "Ann Romney Adds Personal Touch to Mitt's Campaign", "The Ann Romney Advantage" and "Ann Romney Emerging as Husband's Political Weapon" have glowingly portrayed the would-be First Lady as a wo ...

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    TruthOut

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

    Planetsave

    • A ‘Living’, Artificial Jellyfish Engineered fr ...
      Bioengineering takes another big leap forward with the creation of an artificial jellyfish — called a  ”medusoid” — that undulates and swims just like the real thing. The medusa-like “cyborg” is modeled after the umbrella-shaped Moon jellyfish Aurelia aurita a ...
    • New Solar Panel Designs Make Installation Cheaper
        New solar panel designs that are intended to reduce the installation time and cost of solar power systems hae been created by a German and a Chinese partnership. Installation Cost The cost of installing solar panels can exceed the cost of the solar panels themselves, including the cost of ...
    • Solar Corona, Highest Resolution Images Ever T ...
      The highest-resolution images ever taken of the Sun’s corona were just released by NASA. The solar corona is the million-degree or so outer atmosphere. The 16-megapixel images, taken in the extreme-ultraviolet wavelength of light, were captured by NASA’s High Resolution Coronal Image ...
    • Solar-Power-Generating Windows
      Researchers from UCLA have developed a new transparent solar cell that is a significant step towards giving the windows in homes and other buildings the ability to generate electricity while still being transparent. The research team “describes a new kind of polymer solar cell (PSC) that p ...
    • First Complete Computer Model Of An Organism C ...
      There has been a significant breakthrough in computational biology, a complete computer model of an organism has been created for the first time. A research team led by Markus Covert, an assistant professor of bioengineering, “used data from more than 900 scientific papers to account for e ...

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    Axis of Logic

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

    They Gave Us a Republic

    • Romney lies and doesn't care if he gets caught
      By @TedFrier It's not just that Mitt Romney is a habitual liar, says Salon's Jonathan Bernstein. It's that he's so incredibly bad at it -- and doesn't seem to care if he gets caught. Take the Romney campaign's very first negative ad against President Obama, which ran last November in New Hampshi ...
    • Campaign Signs: 'tis the season
    • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "Casey Jones ...
      By @KYYellowDog Joe Hill wrote this one 100 years ago to remind everyone that scabs get no reward from the bosses. Uploaded by buckyhalker: Johnsburg 3: Bucky Halker, "Mandolin Red" Stiernberg, and Pickles Piekarski perform the 100-year old IWW, labor song by Joe Hill entitled "Casey Jones, t ...
    • If You Can't Stop 'Em, Sue Their Murdering Asses
      By @KYYellowDog This is why giant corporations want "tort reform" that excludes citizens from the court system: because once corporations have bought our legislators, trial courts are the only place left where we can hold corporate criminals accountable.
    • Nightowl Newswrap
      By@KYYellowDog Now, can we concentrate on the facts and for once eschew speculation? "US police have defused the "major remaining threats" in the booby-trapped apartment of the gunman accused of killing 12 people in a shooting rampage at a Denver-area screening of the new "Batman" film." Sounds ...

    Care 2

    • Trillions in Tax Havens
      See 1st comment Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • Homeless Animals on your Mind? PLEASE SIGN PLE ...
      Hundreds of thousands of cats and dogs enter animal shelters in the UK every year, and many of them must be euthanised because there simply aren't enough good homes for them. The ones who end up in animal shelters are the lucky ones many homeless dogs Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |&nb ...
    • Urge 99 Cents Only Stores to Stop Selling Glue ...
      Despite now knowing the disease risks and extreme cruelty inherent in glue traps, 99 Cents Only continues to sell them. Please contact 99 Cents Only today! Politely ask the company to do the right thing and join the countless retailers Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it ...
    • I'm Alive by Celine Dion with Photos
      This is not about animals, but wanted to post this for all of my special and dear friends, look at the words and hope you enjoy! This is my gift to you! Mm Submitted by Mm M. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • SRI LANKA: When the Rains Dont Fall
      For many Sri Lankans, the effects of climate change can be summed up in one word: rainfall. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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    No Quarter

    • Obama Still Doesn’t Get It on Syria
      The Obama Administration’s disconnect on its policy in Iraq and it policy in Syria is stunning. Barack was celebrating the fact that he got us out of Iraq: “When you’re commander in chief, you owe the troops a plan,” Obama said. On Afghanistan, Obama needled Romney for op ...
    • Obama: Free to Fail (+ hk2′s open thread)
      There’s a funny thing about you and free enterprise, Mr. Obama. You freely got your chance to lead the nation’s enterprise, and the nation’s stockholders gave you carte blanche to fill them with hope and to initiate all the change you could. But you twiddled your thumbs, fantas ...
    • How they do drone on, er do drones
      “If you’re concerned about it, maybe there’s a reason we should be flying over you, right?” So says a top executive of a U.S. drone company. Here’s what’s a surprise, at least to me: This isn’t even hot “new news.” Heck, in 2009, the Universi ...
    • “Why did Obama speak such gibberish?”
      [Bronwyn's Note: If you don't read this, I'll never forgive you.] “You didn’t build that.” Four common words spoken by Candidate Obama in rhetorical cadence in Roanoke, Virginia, in front of a most-friendly home team crowd, are now the center of a campaign argument more than a ...
    • HelenK2′s Weekend Open Thread (Pat’s too)
      Larry Johnson once wrote, “I don’t know who this guy is, but he is compelling. …” Craig Della Penna sent us this new video by Pat Condell today. Larry wrote his commentary … … in his 2011 post, “Bed Bugs and Islam (Updated). Later, Larry wrote another: “ ...

    Futurismic

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

    Therapy News

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

    Mountaintop Removal

    • Festival sees activists, artists join forces i ...
      Martinsburg Journal Festival sees activists, artists join forces in protest Martinsburg Journal Proceeds from the event will be split between the Radical Action for Mountain People's Survival (RAMPS) campaign of southern West Virginia, whose members use nonviolent direct action in their effo ...
    • Stop the Kaboom - Martinsburg Journal
      Martinsburg Journal Stop the Kaboom Martinsburg Journal Proceeds from the event will be split between the Radical Action for Mountain People's Survival (RAMPS) campaign of southern West Virginia, whose members use nonviolent direct action in their efforts to stop mountaintop removal, and Mor ...
    • Terry Tempest Williams Joins Mountain Hero Cam ...
      Terry Tempest Williams Joins Mountain Hero Campaign unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) Related Blog Entries. by Liz Judge: Stand With Donna And All the People of Appalachia. To date, mountaintop removal coal mining has buried more than 2500 miles of streams and leveled an area of Appalachia big ...
    • Activists to Occupy toxic strip mine after gro ...
      Examiner.com Activists to Occupy toxic strip mine after groundbreaking health report Examiner.com “One dead West Virginian for one mountaintop-removal operation every year. I think that's too steep a price to pay.” Rights activists wait no longer to defend humanity and Earth. Human and Earth ...
    • Mountaintop removal exports on the rise - Char ...
      FuelFix Mountaintop removal exports on the rise Charleston Gazette As U.S. coal demand continues to drop, the share of mountaintop removal-produced coal that is exported overseas is on the rise, according to a new report issued by Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee. Exports still ...

    Memeorandum

    • Alleged Colorado Gunman's Family Stands by Son ...
      Russell Goldman / ABCNEWS: Alleged Colorado Gunman's Family Stands by Son  —  The family of suspected gunman James Holmes said they will support the Ph.D student accused of entering a movie theatre last Friday and not leaving until he had killed 12 people and wounded another 58. ...
    • The Latest News on Tax Fairness (Ari Fleischer ...
      Ari Fleischer / Wall Street Journal: The Latest News on Tax Fairness  —  A new Congressional Budget Office reports shows the share of taxes paid by the top 20% has gone up over the last 30 years, while the share of taxes paid by everyone else has gone down.  —  I ...
    • Federal Government's Debt Jumps More Than $1T ...
      Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews: Federal Government's Debt Jumps More Than $1T for 5th Straight Fiscal Year  —  (CNSNews.com) - By the end of the third quarter of fiscal 2012, the new debt accumulated in this fiscal year by the federal government had already exceeded $1 trillion, m ...
    • First Female U.S. Astronaut, Sally Ride, Comes ...
      BuzzFeed: First Female U.S. Astronaut, Sally Ride, Comes Out In Obituary  —  “I hope it makes it easier for kids growing up gay that they know that another one of their heroes was like them,” Sally Ride's sister, Bear Ride, said.  —  Astronaut Sally R ...
    • OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Lobbyists, GOP get cracking ...
      E2-Wire: OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Lobbyists, GOP get cracking on ‘embryonic’ energy platform  —  State of Play: GOP lawmakers, aides and an array of energy industry lobbyists huddled at Republican National Committee (RNC) headquarters Monday to lay the groundwork for the pa ...

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    China Dialogue

    • Guangzhou’s rubbish charge struggle
      The idea of paying for the collection of household waste is a controversial one in China. This summer, Guangzhou became the first mainland city to trial charges for this service. Wang Haotong reports.Like many of China’s rapidly growing cities, Guangzhou is under siege from landfill. The s ...
    • Dongjiang overloaded
      The eastern tributary of the Pearl River is the lifeblood of Hong Kong and the regions that surround it in south China. But its precious resources are being misused, writes Liu Su, and there is no sustainable plan for its future.The Dongjiang, or Dong River, the eastern tributary of the Pearl Ri ...
    • Public fears check Chinese nuclear
      A new nuclear safety plan for China has been treated as a signal the sector is returning to favour. But old problems still plague the industry, writes Cui Zheng.In mid-June, following a 15-month moratorium on construction of new nuclear facilities, China published the results of a nuclear safety ...
    • Shifang: a crisis of local rule
      China’s feeble public participation system is forcing people onto the streets to protect their environmental interests, as the latest demonstrations in the south-west show. Tang Hao reports.China has been engrossed in the mass protests in Shifang, Sichuan province, where on the morning of ...
    • China's overseas food footprint
      Rising Chinese demand for imported foods is raising local concerns about pollution and disease, from the farms of the United States to the sea lochs of Scotland, finds Isabel Hilton.For the last three decades, China’s factories have turned out goods for export markets, while Chinese citize ...

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    Threat Level

    • Kim Dotcom Goes on Mega-Offense Against U.S. C ...
      Kim Dotcom, the founder of the now-shutdown Megaupload, is firing back at the U.S. for shutting down his business and seizing his domains. And he's trying to recruit an online army to join him.
    • Nearly 5 Million People Have Government Securi ...
      The number of U.S. government employees and contractors holding security clearances jumped to 4.86 million people last year from 4.7 million the year prior, according to the 2011 Report on Security Clearance Determinations, which the Director of National Intelligence has forwarded to Congress. I ...
    • Russia’s Top Cyber Sleuth Foils US Spies, Help ...
      It’s early February in Cancun, Mexico. A group of 60 or so financial analysts, reporters, diplomats, and cybersecurity specialists shake off the previous night’s tequila and file into a ballroom at the Ritz-Carlton hotel. At the front of the room, a giant screen shows a globe targete ...
    • California Starts Up a Privacy Enforcement Unit
      Watch out, Silicon Valley, there's a new startup in town and its gunning for you. California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced Thursday she's created a unit intended to actually enforce federal and state privacy laws.
    • Judge OKs Nudity at TSA Checkpoint
      An Oregon man was cleared of indecent exposure charges Wednesday when a local judge said his protest of Transportation Security Administration screening procedures was constitutionally protected speech under state law.

    Equality Trust

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

    PDA AMERICA

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

    Marler Blog

    • Cargill and Hannaford Ground Beef Linked to Sa ...
      The CDC reports that a total of 33 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Enteritidis have been reported from 7 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Maine (1), Massachusetts (3), New Hampshire (2), New York (14), Rhode Island (1), Virginia (2 ...
    • Neff's Lawn Care Picnic Ohio E. coli Outbreak ...
      Dayton & Montgomery County Public Health is continuing to gather information. Investigators are also looking at food sources, food handling and storage practices, food temperature controls, and the potential of cross contamination of the food. As a result of eating food at a picnic at Ne ...
    • Cargill - A Decade of E. coli and Salmonella O ...
      Cargill Meat Solutions Ground Turkey 2011 The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a public health alert, on July 29, due to concerns about illnesses caused by Salmonella Heidelberg that associated with the use and the consumption of ground turkey &h ...
    • Cargill Sickens 33 with Salmonella in Massachu ...
      Cargill Meat Solutions, a Wyalusing, Pa., establishment, is recalling 29,339 pounds of fresh ground beef products that may be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced this evening. The products subje ...
    • Cargill Recalls Salmonella - Tainted Beef - Ag ...
      Cargill Beef, a business unit of Wichita-based Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation, today announced an immediate Class I voluntary recall of approximately 29,339 pounds of 85-percent-lean, fresh, ground beef produced at the company's Wyalusing, Penn., facility on May 25, 2012, due to possible con ...

    AutoblogGreen

    • Official: Honda delivers first Fit EV in Calif ...
      Filed under: Car Buying, Hatchback, Honda, Electric Honda has made good on its promise to deliver its first Fit EV, and that delivery took place in California on Friday. Matt and Becky Walton, of Ventura County, can now claim they have the first example of Honda's all-electric car, which cost ...
    • Official: Ford C-Max Energi will have 20-mile ...
      Ford's marketing strategy for its plug-in vehicles is coming into Focus (pun intended): compare, compare, compare. When announcing the Focus Electric's 105 miles per gallon equivalent, for example, Ford made sure to note that it beats the "Nissan Leaf by 6 MPGe while also offering more mot ...
    • Official: Nissan Leaf gets badged for police d ...
      Filed under: Europe, Government/Legal, Hatchback, Nissan, Electric Plug-in vehicles perform police duties for Scotland Yard (Vauxhall Ampera) and the NYPD (Chevrolet Volt) and we've all seen the little EV parking-enforcement vehicles, so today's announcement that the Nissan Leaf will be used ...
    • Official: EPA officially approves E15 for sale ...
      Filed under: Government/Legal Putting E15 (a mix of 15 percent ethanol and 85 percent gasoline) on sale in the U.S. has been all but official since April, when the Environmental Protection Agency approved the first applications to make E15. Now, "all but official" has become official, with th ...
    • Official: Mitsubishi promises Outlander plug-i ...
      Filed under: Hybrid, Paris Motor Show, Crossover, Mitsubishi, Electric We've been waiting since the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show - when Mitsubishi first talked about the PX-MiEV, a plug-in CUV concept - for some sort of real-world plug-in Outlander. It looks like we're finally going to get our wish ...

    Rafe's Radar

    Camera Obscura

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

    Democracy Now!

    • Radical Journalist, Media Critic Alexander Coc ...
      Alexander Cockburn, the longtime journalist, columnist and publisher of the progressive website of news and analysis Counterpunch, has died at the age of 71. Cockburn was a prolific writer who authored columns over the years for the Village Voice, the Wall Street Journal and The Nation ma ...
    • From the Archives: Michael Moore on Gun Violen ...
      In October 2002 filmmaker Michael Moore visited the Democracy Now! firehouse studios to talk about his latest film, "Bowling for Columbine" about the Columbine High School massacre and violence in the United States. Following last week’s mass shooting in Aurora, Colorad ...
    • Amy Goodman on MSNBC's "UP w/ Chris Hayes" on ...
      Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on MSNBC’s "UP w/ Chris Hayes" on Sunday, July 22nd at 8-10 am ET.
    • Arctic Voices Slideshow: Resistance at the Tip ...
      [ View the story "Arctic Voices Slideshow: Resistance at the Tipping Point" on Storify ] See photographs by our guest on Friday, Subhankar Banerjee, which are featured in the new book, Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point (7 Stories Press). Banerjee, a renowned phot ...
    • 75 Years Later, the Lessons of Guernica
      By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Seventy-five years ago, the Spanish town of Guernica was bombed into rubble. The brutal act propelled one of the world’s greatest artists into a three-week painting frenzy. Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” starkly depicts the horrors of war, etched into the faces ...

    Suzie-Q

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

    Solari

    • Posted Audio: Inside the Medical Matrix with J ...
      By Catherine Austin Fitts This is REALLY, REALLY BIG! – the very first Jon Rappoport monthly exclusive for the Solari Report. I am delighted that Jon will be joining us with a pre-recorded show at the end of each month. This week, Jon takes us “Inside the Medical Matrix.” I ho ...
    • DARPA: Biofuel From Algae Could Cost Only $1 P ...
      By Michael Hoven The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an office of the US Department of Defense, will soon be producing jet fuel made from algae at a price comparable to that of petroleum-based fuel, the UK Guardian reported on Saturday. DARPA could be months, not years, from ...
    • Money & Markets – Week of 7.22.12
      Ann Romney: We’ve Given ‘All You People Need To Know’ About Family Finances Huffington Post 19 July 2012 Mitt Romney’s wife is reinforcing her husband’s refusal to make public several years of tax returns. . . . Romney, Shell Companies & Offshore Accounts: A ...
    • Precious Metals – Week of 7.22.12
    • Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 7.22.12
      Homeowner Bill Of Rights For ‘Flawed System’ NPR 12 July 2012 Guest Host Maria Hinojosa talks with Kamala Harris, California’s Attorney General about the state’s newly passed “Homeowner Bill of Rights.” Banksters Breaking Into US Homes And Stealing Possessio ...

    Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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    Sideways News

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

    Fabius Maximus

    • The Founders talk to us about guns for a well- ...
      Summary:  The debate about the right to bear arms is a black comedy. It takes place amidst casualties like that of a war, the names of the annual crop of the dead endlessly scrolling by into the dustbin of history. The guns supposedly defending our liberty remain quiet while we throw away our ri ...
    • A Europe review, with pictures of the process
      Summary:  Reading the news today brings to mind the great question — why does each step in the disintegration of Europe surprise so many people? For those that would like to see the story, without the obscuring fog, here is a recap of the posts about Europe from the FM website. With some d ...
    • A Europe review, with pictures of the process
      Summary:  Reading the news today brings to mind the great question — why does each step in the disintegration of Europe surprise so many people? For those that would like to see the story, without the obscuring fog, here is a recap of the posts about Europe from the FM website. With some d ...
    • The Great Charter. Its Fate, and Ours.
      Summary:  The past decade has seen us stripped of civil liberties dating back to the signing of Magna Carta in 1215, and won through centuries of struggle since then.  As the Founders feared might happen.  Today Noam Chomsky explains how this happened and what it means for us. The next few years ...
    • The Great Charter. Its Fate, and Ours.
      Summary:  The past decade has seen us stripped of civil liberties dating back to the signing of Magna Carta in 1215, and won through centuries of struggle since then.  As the Founders feared might happen.  Today Noam Chomsky explains how this happened and what it means for us. The next few years ...

    Open Your Eyes News

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

    The Progressive Realist

    • The 800-Page Afghanistan War Report You’ll Pro ...
      In October of 2010, I wrote about the perils of conflict mapping in Afghanistan. Back then, I was hopeful that the the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission’s six-year research and documentation project would initiate the long overdue national discussion about transitional justic ...
    • National Security Leaks and Iranian Revenge
      On June 1, 2012, the New York Times featured a remarkable work of journalism by David Sanger that opened with the following revelation: “From his first months in office, President Obama ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment fac ...
    • Boehner Sides with Obama Over McCain on Syria ...
      In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner (OH) said his positions on whether or not to intervene militarily in Syria were closer to the Obama administration’s than to fellow Congressional Republicans. While the Obama administration has repo ...
    • National Security Brief: US Boosts Aid to Syri ...
      – The Obama administration has reportedly abandoned efforts for a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Syria and is instead increasing aid to rebels, “scrambling spies and diplomats to block arms and oil shipments from Iran and passing intelligence to front-line allies.” &#8 ...
    • Iran Navy Reassures West It Won't Block Strait ...
      Moqawama, the official Hezbollah site (as linked to by Robert Johnson at Business Insider) recently featured a graphic on how Iran might retaliate for the sanctions imposed on it by the West. It depicts seven different missiles that could cripple an American aircraft carrier the Strait of Hormuz ...

    TAPPED - The American Prospect

    • Creating a Countercyclical Welfare System
      Welfare systems exist to reduce the worst excesses of poverty. When poverty increases during recessions, the welfare state is supposed to rush into countercyclical action, providing a firewall against a growth in destitution. That’s the theory, anyway. In practice, it’s never been the case. In ...
    • The Power of Shame
      Last week, The New York Times revealed that "quote approval" has become standard practice when reporters deal with both the Obama and Romney campaigns as well as with the Obama administration. The way it works is that a reporter interviews an official, then submits the quotes she intends to use ...
    • While You Were Distracted, Romney Won the Batt ...
      Any time a politician faces pressure to do something he doesn't want to do, there's a calculation involved about the arc of the story and the cumulative effect of the two courses he could take. I can take the slings and arrows of the moment and hold out, in the hopes that the story will go away ...
    • Batman: Gotham's Reformer
      My colleague Tom Carson makes an excellent point about The Dark Knight Rises, the final chapter in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy: The real joke, as Rush [Limbaugh] might have learned if he’d crammed his posterior into a theater seat before venting, is that The Dark Knight Rises is one of t ...
    • This American Darkness
      If there’s anything that illustrates the term “kneejerk liberal,” it would be the immediate assumption, this weekend, that the Batman shootings required a national debate about gun control. As has been reported elsewhere, Friday’s “assailant” (I profoundly respect Steve Erickson’s refusal to do ...

    Buzzflash

    • Three Big Lies Perpetuated by the Rich
      PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT When it comes to the economy, too many Americans continue to be numbed by the soothing sounds of conservative spin in the media. Here are three of their more inventive claims: 1. Higher taxes on the rich will hurt small businesses and discourage job creato ...
    • The Bain of Romney's Electoral Existence
      WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT You might say it was a turbulent week for Mitt Romney. You could also say a light lemon sugar wash makes for ineffective mosquito repellent. He claims to have totally left Bain Capital to run the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics even though his company han ...
    • Phillips and D'Souza: The Eternal Loopiness of ...
      BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In a world where Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is hands-down the champion of wackiness, two new contenders are challenging her for the title: Judson Phillips, president of the for-profit Tea Party Nation, and veteran conservative Dinesh D'Souza, author a ...
    • America's Perverse Titillation With Violence: ...
      MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT I wrote last week about the Aurora, Colorado, shooting and America's responsibility for starting to look at our culture of violence - and our glorification of the gun and the "right" of people who feel victimized to use it to avenge themselves. This i ...
    • As in Honduras, US Does Not Object to Kicking ...
      NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT For isolated and impoverished countries, it can sometimes prove difficult to pursue an independent foreign policy which challenges Washington's traditional sphere of influence. Take, for example, tiny Paraguay which has recently been convulsed in politi ...

    Glenn Greenwald - Salon

    The BiPartisan Report

    Sciencebase

    • It’s an ant’s life
      I relocated a planter in our back garden and inadvertently exposed an ants’ nest. I needed the tub elsewhere in the garden so these creatures had to undertake frenzied remedial action in the face of a man-made disaster. In the name of science, I videoed their efforts, Needless to say, the ...
    • Shakespeare’s Sonnets on the iPad
      TouchPress has done it again giving us an aesthetically pleasing collision of art and technology – akin to the Leonardo Anatomy app I mentioned a while back. This time The Sonnets by William Shakespeare gets the modern treatment with videos and readings featuring Patrick Stewart (always a ...
    • Differential gears explained, 1930s style
      A surprisingly compelling explanation of differential gearing from the 1930s. Fast Forward to 1:50 if you want to skip the introduction…jump to 8:50 for the acrobatics! Differential gears explained, 1930s style is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogDifferential gears explained, 1930s sty ...
    • Be wary of miracles too good to be true
      Not for the first time I’ve suspected that lyricist and drummer with the Canadian rock band Rush, Neil Peart has been reading my blog. First time was having written about the concept of earthshine, the band’s next album featured a song on that very concept, the reflected light from t ...
    • The Darwin Lost Weekend
      A man tries to convince his friend that Charles Darwin conceived his book ‘Origin of Species’ on the concept of evolution in the town of Cromer, Norfolk, England and not in the Galapagos Islands. This video was premiered at the first Science Online conference back in 2009 but has onl ...

    Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

    • Lawsuit Filed to Clean Up Caloosahatchee River ...
      On behalf of Florida Wildlife Federation, Conservancy of Southwest Florida and the Environmental Confederation of Southwest Florida, Earthjustice filed suit today in federal court against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers because the agency is repeatedly violating water protection laws in Southwe ...
    • Federal Appeals Court Rules That Wisconsin Pub ...
      Americans United for Separation of Church and State welcomed a decision today by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that a Wisconsin school district violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution when it held its graduation ceremonies in a church.read more
    • Empty Anniversary: Minimum Wage Stuck as Pover ...
      July 24 is the anniversary of the last federal minimum wage increase to $7.25 in 2009. The minimum had been increased on July 24 on 2007, 2008 and 2009 and not since. Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa and Rep. George Miller of California have proposed raising the minimum wage to $9.80 by 2014 in three ...
    • National Rifle Association-Backed Law Made Pos ...
      Changes in federal law that allow virtually anyone to purchase ammunition over the Internet in bulk quantities without any recordkeeping are the direct result of the National Rifle Association's flagship bill of the 1980s--The Firearms Owners’ Protection Act, commonly known as "Mc ...
    • Medical Marijuana Patients to Rally TODAY at ...
      Hundreds of medical marijuana patients and advocates will stage a rally today in downtown Oakland at a fundraiser for President Obama's re-election campaign. The president's visit to Oakland follows a recent forfeiture action aimed at shutting down Harborside Health Center, a city-permit ...

    Common Dreams-Views

    • The NRA's War at Home
      Ladd Everitt When 24-year-old James Holmes walked into the Century Aurora 16 movie theater last week, he was prepared for war. For starters, he was armored. He wore a ballistic helmet, a gas mask, body armor, metal shin guards, ballistic le ...
    • Turning Towards Nonviolence and Away from 'Dar ...
      Rev. John Dear As we grieve for the dead and injured in last week’s movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colorado, and join with others to demand handgun reform, we are reminded once again of a greater, more fundamental change that needs ...
    • Turning Towards Nonviolence and Away from 'Dar ...
      Rev. John Dear As we grieve for the dead and injured in last week’s movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colorado, and join with others to demand handgun reform, we are reminded once again of a greater, more fundamental change that needs ...
    • Don't Regulate the Banks, Nationalize Them
      Gar Alperovitz The Barclays interest-rate scandal, HSBC’s openness to money laundering by Mexican drug traffickers, the epic blunders at JPMorgan Chase — at this point, four years after Wall Street wrecked the global economy, do ...
    • Don't Regulate the Banks, Nationalize Them
      Gar Alperovitz The Barclays interest-rate scandal, HSBC’s openness to money laundering by Mexican drug traffickers, the epic blunders at JPMorgan Chase — at this point, four years after Wall Street wrecked the global economy, do ...

    Newshoggers - AfPak

    Water Wars

    • River rifts threaten ‘water wars’ in South Asia
      INDIA-PAKISTAN Line of Control: As the silver waters of the Kishanganga rush through this north Kashmir valley, Indian laborers are hard at work on a hydropower project that will dam the river just before it flows across one of the world’s most heavily militarised borders into Pakistan.
    • Thirsty South Asia's river rifts threaten ...
      KANZALWAN, India-Pakistan Line of Control, July 23 (AlertNet) - As the silver waters of the Kishanganga rush through this north Kashmir valley, Indian laborers are hard at work on a hydropower project that will dam the river just before it flows across one of the world's most heavily militar ...
    • State and federal officials to reveal water plans
      FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown is set to reignite the state's water wars when he makes the long-awaited announcement next week about plans to build a massive twin tunnel system to carry water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to farmland and cities. Already the $ ...
    • Calif., federal officials set to announce cont ...
      California Gov. Jerry Brown is set to reignite the state's water wars when he makes the long-awaited announcement next week about plans to build a massive twin tunnel system to carry water from ...
    • Calif., federal officials to reveal water plans
      California Gov. Jerry Brown is set to reignite the state's water wars when he makes the long-awaited announcement next week about plans to build a massive twin tunnel system to carry water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to farmland and cities.

    WordPress | Economics

    Electronic Intifada

    The Wonk Room

    • McKibben Must-Read: ‘Global Warming&#821 ...
      “Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe — and that make clear who the real enemy is” CO2 emissions by fossil fuels [1 ppm CO2 ~ 2.12 GtC, where ppm is parts per million of CO2 in air and GtC isgigatons of carbon] via Hansen. Significantly exceeding 450 ppm risks ...
    • GOP Senator Blasts Obama For Talking ‘In ...
      President Obama’s plan to allow the Bush tax cuts for incomes above $250,000 to expire at the end of the year has revived the Republican talking point that he is waging “class warfare” against the wealthy, a point Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl (R) drove home in an entirely new fashion t ...
    • Romney Adviser Bolton Appears On ‘Birthe ...
      Mitt Romney’s foreign policy adviser Amb. John Bolton has a knack for grabbing headlines for his unbridled hawkishness. On Sunday, Bolton rehashed his usual attacks on President Obama for not being supportive of Israel (those charges are spurious). The only thing that might be notable abou ...
    • Department Of Justice Opens Formal Investigati ...
      The Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department has requested state data from Pennsylvania officials, the first step of a formal investigation into the state’s new voter ID laws, according to a report in Talking Points Memo. Earlier this month, ThinkProgress reported that more than 750 ...
    • Romney’s ‘You Didn’t Build T ...
      After the conservative blogosphere used a selectively edited Obama campaign speech to suggest that the president belittled the achievements of small business owners, the Romney campaign released an attack ad featuring New Hampshire small business owner Jack Gilchrist as a counterpoint. In &#8220 ...

    thwap's schoolyard

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    • $21-35 TRILLION
      That's what the Tax Justice Network says is sitting in offshore tax havens around the world. We need genuine democracy and we need it internationally. That's all.
    • The July Crisis
      Just in case you're a non-historian for whom that phrase means nothing: US militarism, nuclear weapons, the holocaust, .... all of them the result of World War II. What was the cause of World War II? World War I. Why did World War I start? The July Crisis. Here's the Wikipedia entry. Here ...
    • No Reward For Hard Work in Canada - Part II
      I kinda blogged about this before. But I've been riding through Forest Hill these days, and I see houses like this: And, I gotta say, it's frustrating. And it isn't class envy. Up into my late-thirties I didn't care that some people were really, really rich. Personally, I don't want a mansion ...
    • Gun Violence in Toronto
      So Rob "fuck-head" Ford has decided to "declare WAR on gangs" in response to the tragic Scarborough shooting last weekend. You know what that means don't you? Absolutely nothing. The stupid fat piece of shit has the begging bowl out to the province for "resources" (although the imbecile hasn't c ...

    on Government Oversight

    Digital Journal

    • A look at the increased appearance of rare mul ...
      In recent months there have been numerous reports of fishermen finding a variety of colored lobsters in their nets. According to subject matter experts, many of these colored lobsters are rare.
    • Ontario's Stratford a scenic city for memorabl ...
      Home to the legendary Stratford Shakespeare Festival, the quaint city of Stratford, Ontario shines with idyllic riverside walks, intriguing culinary creations and outdoor music shows.
    • Report: Visa ban leads Canadian strip clubs to ...
      Will high school students be willing to take off their clothes for men in order to afford college tuition? Some might, especially since Canadian strip clubs are now recruiting at high schools due to a new foreign workers ban.
    • McDonald's releases Q2 results; hit by slowing ...
      In a surprise among all of the corporations reporting their second quarter figures, the world's largest hamburger chain McDonald's saw its net income fall by approximately four percent with much of the blame falling on foreign exchange rates.
    • Luongo traded - Massimo Luongo, that is, and s ...
      There are a great many hockey fans in Canada and the U.S. trolling the internet each day for news of Luongo, Roberto Luongo that is, an NHL goalie with the Vancouver Canucks, for now. On Monday the sports world saw a Luongo switch teams.

    End Homelessness | Change.org

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

    Ceasefire.ca

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

    Kevin Trudeau Show

    • The Correct, Easy Way To Make Green Smoothies ...
      April 3, 2012 Natural News By Paul Fassa “Adding green super food smoothies to your diet is a great thing to do for your health. There are many amazing benefits of adding more green vegetables in your diet and making smoothies is an easy way to get them in your tummy.” –KTRN Du ...
    • Pfizer Execs To Stand Trial For Cover-Up Of Dr ...
      April 3, 2012 Natural News By Ethan A. Huff “Here is more proof that drug companies are evil to the core.”  –KTRN Four former executives at Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drug company. — Henry McKinnell, John LaMattina, Karen Katen, Joseph Feczko — as well a ...
    • Three Benefits Of Dark Chocolate That Will Hel ...
      April 3, 2012 Natural News By Celeste M. Smucker, MPH, PhD “More evidence that chocolate is quite healthy. But don’t confuse real chocolate over the garbage called Hershey’s.” –KTRN The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that 68 percent of adults over the age ...
    • McDonald’s Stock Slides As More Consumers Turn ...
      April 3, 2012 The Onion By The Onion “Even though this is satire, The Onion nailed it – McDonald’s does not serve real food.” –KTRN The McDonald’s Corporation announced Tuesday that it will close 175 restaurants and cut nearly 600 corporate jobs, responding to ...
    • Ron Paul Is Trying To Save GOP From Themselves
      April 3, 2012 RT By RT “Ron Paul may be the only one who can save the GOP. The party is in complete turmoil these days.” –KTRN Presidential hopeful Ron Paul might not represent what his Republican rivals are touting this election year, but the Texas congressman says that he won ...

    Armies of Liberation

    • State Department ends Yemen arms embargo
      Without much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
    • Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...
      Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
    • Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostages
      Al Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...
    • Obama’s strategic blunder in Yemen may shield ...
      A law passed by Yemen’s cabinet on Sunday provides blanket immunity to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and all those who served in his governments over the last 33 years. One unintended consequence may be to also immunize those al Qaeda operatives on the payroll of the Yemeni military and se ...
    • Former Yemen president’s intended US tri ...
      As pressure builds on the Obama administration to deny a diplomatic visa to ousted Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, the family of a sailor killed in the al Qaeda attack on the USS Cole urged that Saleh be denied entry to the United States. In a public plea, Gary and Deborah Swenchonis are c ...

    Dark Politricks

    • Time Magazine Slams Obama For Not Exploiting ‘ ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comColumnist laments fact tragedy not hijacked for gun control Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, July 23, 2012 Time Magazine’s Alex Altman writes that Barack Obama has ‘missed an opportunity’ in ...
    • Tossing Around the R-Word Just Means They’re D ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story Topics: feminists ♦ Mark Aplet ♦ rape culture   Angry woman at computer via Mark Aplet / Shutterstock When feminists talk about rape culture, we’re generally speaking about a culture that ...
    • The Right Kind Of Terror
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Media Lens When is an act of terrorism not terrorism? When the victims are officially sanctioned state enemies. This was clear from the political and media response to the ass ...
    • Why You Pay Too Much In Taxes: Because Everyon ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comWhy You Pay Too Much In Taxes: Because Everyone from the Ultra-Rich to Illegal Immigrants Pay Nothing … Or Get Tax Refunds By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Illegal Aliens Scam Tax Refunds For years, American t ...
    • WATCH LIVE: Obama speaks to veterans
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com President Barack Obama addressed the 113th national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Reno, Nevada on Monday. Watch live, broadcast on MSNBC on July 23. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world n ...

    Dandelion Salad

    • FDA Allows Pet Deaths to Mount While Awaiting ...
      Dandelion Salad by Dennis Kucinich Washington, Jul 23, 2012 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement criticizing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for failing to adequately protect domestic pets. “After a weeks-long investigative trip to China and thousands o ...
    • The greatest crimes of human history are made ...
      by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig July 23, 2012 The greatest crimes of human history are made possible by the most colorless human beings. They are the careerists. The bureaucrats. The cynics. They do the little chores that make vast, complicated systems of exploitation an ...
    • Raj Patel on Changing the Global Food System b ...
      Dandelion Salad by David Bollier www.bollier.org July 13, 2012 Raj Patel has been tracking the pathologies of the global food system for many years.  An activist and academic who teaches at the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies, Patel has just published a second, updated edition of his 2008 ...
    • Don Tipping: Permaculture: Follow the Water System
      Dandelion Salad Jul 18, 2012 by amillison Permaculture seed wizard Don Tipping takes us on a 10 minute animated tour of the epic Seven Seeds Farm in the Siskiyou Mountains of Southern Oregon, USA. The farm was designed using Permaculture Principles and Keyline patterning. We follow the water sys ...
    • Earthrise: Earthships + North Aral Sea Revival
      Dandelion Salad Jul 21, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish The arid New Mexico desert is home to a cluster of unusual buildings called ‘Earthships’ — environmentally-sustainable, self-sufficient homes made using recycled and natural materials. Plus, the revival of the North Aral sea, tha ...

    Your New Reality

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

    Wired - Science

    Israeli Occupation Archive

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

    Ria Novosti - Military

    • Medvedev Calls for Faster Rearmament
      Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called for an increase in the pace of Russian rearmament on Monday during a visit to an arms-making plant.
    • Jets Make First Landing on Indian Carrier
      A MiG-29KUB two-seat naval fighter jet made the first touch-and-go landings last week on the Indian Navy aircraft carrier Vikramaditya, Sevmash shipyard said on Monday.
    • U.S. F-16 Fighter Crashes in Pacific near Kuri ...
      A U.S. F-16 Falcon fighter crashed into the Pacific Ocean near Russia’s Kuril Islands on Sunday, a spokesman for the Russian Border Guard Service in the Far East said.
    • Medvedev to Discuss Iskander Missile Productio ...
      Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will hold a meeting in Kolomna in the Moscow Region on Monday to discuss modernizing production facilities for Iskander tactical missile launchers, the government’s press office reported on Sunday.
    • Russian Arms Ship Offloads Syria Helicopters
      A Russian cargo ship carrying a batch of Mi-25 attack helicopters and air defense systems for Syria has offloaded the aircraft in the Russian port of Baltiysk in the Kaliningrad region, a security source said on Friday.

    NewsWise

    Natural Health News

    Climategate

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

    Opinio Juris

    • Opinio Juris’ Readers’ Survey – June/July 2012
      by An Hertogen Unless you have just started reading Opinio Juris or have been on a field trip in North Korea, you will have noticed that we recently held our first Readers’ Survey. We are very grateful to all 274 respondents who took the time to complete our questionnaire. Many also entered th ...
    • Weekday News Wrap: Monday, July 23, 2012
      by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The Syrian army has launched fierce attacks against rebel forces, who had made a stronghold in Damascus. Fighting has also spread to Aleppo. The UN has extended its monitoring mission in Syria another 30 days. The Arab League has called for Syrian President ...
    • Upcoming Events: July 22, 2012
      by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Conferences & Events The University of Leiden will host a conference: International Humanitarian Assistance and International Law, January 24-25, 2013. The aim of the conference is to bring experts in the field of international humanitarian assistance to ...
    • Weekend Roundup: July 14-20, 2012
      by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, Julian Ku discussed how the announcement by two US Senators of their position against ratification of the UNCLOS, has effectively sunk ratification for this year, and argued that the next administration should seek out bilateral agreemen ...
    • Weekend Roundup: July 14-20, 2012
      by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, Julian Ku discussed how the announcement by two US Senators of their position against ratification of the UNCLOS, has effectively sunk ratification for this year, and argued that the next administration should seek out bilateral agreemen ...

    Public News Service

    • Phone Company Fights FBI to Protect Customers' ...
      Phone Company Fights FBI to Protect Customers' Records PHOENIX - A telephone company is taking the rare step of challenging a request for customer records, saying the FBI is overreaching. It's a story that's hard to tell. Matt Zimmerman, an Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer, is representin ...
    • Arizona Latinos Say "Si" to Affordable Care Act
      Arizona Latinos Say "Si" to Affordable Care Act PHOENIX – For better or worse, implementation of the Affordable Care Act is moving ahead, with full expansion slated for January of 2014. About one-third of Latinos in Arizona are uninsured, which is more than double the uninsured rate of t ...
    • Latino Advocate: Arpaio Civil Trial Bigger Tha ...
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    Pensieve

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