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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 III

AURORA, CO - JULY 20: A sign hangs on the door...AURORA, CO - JULY 20: A sign hangs on the door leading into the AMC Arapahoe Crossing 16 movie theater July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colorado. The AMC Arapahoe Crossing 16 lies 15 miles away from the Century 16 Theater where a gunman killed 12 people and injured 59 during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises. Police say they have a suspect, James Holmes, 24, of North Aurora, in custody. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)NEW YORK, NY - JULY 20: An NYPD car is statio...NEW YORK, NY - JULY 20: An NYPD car is stationed in front of an AMC move theater where the film 'The Dark Knight Rises' is playing in Times Square on July 20, 2012 in New York City. NYPD is maintaining security around city movie theaters following the deadly rampage by a gunman inside a Colorado screening of 'The Dark Knight Rises' early this morning. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)The first issue of Batman: The Dark Knight Ret...The first issue of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, which redefined Batman in the 1980s. Cover art by Frank Miller. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Image representing Rupert Murdoch as depicted ...Image via CrunchBase

Politics in the Zeros

  • European Parliament head fears “social explosi ...
    “I was born too soon. We could only wet our beaks from local stores. These banksters do it with entire countries!” European Parliament president Martin Schulz said the economic crisis in Spain could spark a “social explosion” across the continent.When unemployment in coun ...
  • Rupert Murdoch supports increased gun control
    We have to do something about gun controls. Police license okay for hunting rifle or pistol for anyone without crim or pscho record. No more— Rupert Murdoch(@rupertmurdoch) July 22, 2012The post Rupert Murdoch supports increased gun control appeared first on Politics in the Zeros.
  • Quote of the Day
    Those who dream of cowboy justice wake up to the reality of mass murder at the movies – Progressive PopulistThe post Quote of the Day appeared first on Politics in the Zeros.
  • Something Broken In the Promised Land. Wayne K ...
    Some motherfucker is pissing on my grave How much irrigation can I stand? Kids down the street are playing with machine guns Something broken in the promised landSo where’s Lee Oswald now that we need him I’ve seen all the lone gunmen I can stand There’s a self improvement tape ...
  • HBSC failed to monitor “trillions”
    A US Senate Homeland Security sub-committee.. claims HSBC failed to monitor £38 trillion moving across borders from risky areas including the Cayman Islands.If high levels execs at HBSC don’t go to prison on this then we no longer have rule of law.(More later, I’m on a deadline)The p ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • The Fantasy of Government Protection
    “How can an otherwise sane individual become so enamored of a fantasy, an imposture, that even after it’s exposed in the bright light of day, he still clings to it – indeed, clings to it all the harder? No amount of logic can shatter a faith consciously based on a lie.” – Lamar ...
  • Predictive programming: Batman movie shooting ...
    Predictive programming and ritual stagecraft   The Batman movie shooting synchronicity Revisionist Review “The horrific shooting at the screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Colorado late last night bears eerie similarities to a scene in the 1986 comic Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. In t ...
  • DHS Warned of “theater attacks” in ...
    ROLL CALL RELEASE I n C o l l a b o r a t i o n w i t h t h e I T A C G PDF HERE (U) Prepared by the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A), Cyber, Infrastructure, and Science Division. Coordinated with the I&A Homeland Counterterrorism Division, the [...]
  • Comprehensive timeline: Aurora Massacre
    (self.news)   AURORA MASSACRE: THE COMPREHENSIVE TIMELINE All information here has been independently gathered and aggregated. Accuracy, clarity, and transparency have been the main goals – but any postings (unless official police or hospital releases) should be taken at your own disc ...
  • Not just UN and Dems calling for Gun CONTROL & ...
      Via RAW Story Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol on Sunday broke with fellow conservatives and backed restrictions the sales of “assault weapons” like the AR-15 that was allegedly used to kill at least 12 people and wound 58 others in Aurora, Colorado last week. “People have a right to h ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • The Ville, SimCity Social, SongPop, Voxer and ...
    Zynga’s The Ville comes in at the No. 1 spot on our list of top growing Facebook apps by monthly active users this week. The game’s 2,629 percent gain suggests Zynga recently began an advertising campaign or some other promotion to support … Continue reading →
  • A few page tab apps begin to recover losses fo ...
    With the removal of Facebook’s default landing tab feature in March, most page tab applications have seen a significant drop in users, and many people in the industry predict the end for what had been a big business. But now, … Continue reading →
  • Facebook roundup: stock price and customer sat ...
    Facebook stock again below $30 - Amid concerns that Facebook will report lackluster Q2 earnings, the company’s stock closed at $28.76 today. Not even news that Facebook will begin testing search-based ads could bring the share price above $30 where … Continue reading →
  • Custom tabs, Ghosts of Mistwood, Jewel Kingdom ...
    Topping our list of emerging applications by monthly active users this week was Custom Tab | Arrow #3, a page tab application builder from Woobox. The rest of our list was made up mostly of games, though sports social reader … Continue reading →
  • Facebook careers: natural language processing, ...
    Facebook added a number of interesting new job listings to its recently redesigned careers page this week, including a natural language processing engineer and a privacy program manager, among others. The natural language processing engineer job calls for a candidate to help the … Continue ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • An American motto: free, armed and stupid
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the Colorado massacre highlights the poisonous influence of lobby groups on US politics, in this case the gun lobby but also, in foreign policy, the Zionist lobby. He calls for a rational rethinking of the meaning of "freedom", so that, in essence, it does not mean ...
  • A war Israel is just begging for an excuse to ...
    Gilad Atzmon warns that Israel's eagerness to attack Iran in "retaliation" for the unsubstantiated claim that Iran is behind the attack on Israeli tourists in Bulgaria is driven by a collective self-annihilation complex that is inherent in Israeli culture and threatens to engulf the world in war.
  • The last days of Syrian butcher Assad's regime ...
    We are witnessing the last days of Bashar "The Butcher" Assad, the Alawite sectarian dictator ruling Syria. Slowly but surely, the revolutionaries of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) are closing in on his vipers’ nests... Yet, here in the West, lurking in the darkest corners of ignorance – on the in ...
  • Israel paves way for annexation of Palestinian ...
    Jonathan Cook sees a report recently published by Israeli Supreme Court judge Levy, which stated that Israel is not in fact occupying Palestinian territories, as a step towards the formal annexation of a large chunk of the West Bank - the 62 per cent of the occupied Palestinian territory dubbed ...
  • Donor dollars aiding political repression in E ...
    Graham Peebles looks at how the mixed motives for the aid given by Western donor countries to Ethiopia mean that these countries - in effect, US, British and other European taxpayers - are funding a deeply repressive and violent regime that uses aid as a political weapon to control the populatio ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Stop Imperialism Podcast – The Escalatin ...
    Eric Draitser Presents Pakistani Journalist Atif K Butt Eric discusses with Pakistani journalist Atif K Butt the latest news regarding the order by Pakistan’s Supreme Court to dismiss Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani from office and the escalating power struggle that has diminished the go ...
  • Podcast Show #88- Karzai Cartel & Its Washingt ...
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Michael Hughes Michael Hughes joins us to discuss his investigative article exposing President Hamid Karzai’s mob boss brother Qayum Karzai, and the subsequent legal threats issued against him and his exposé by the family’s business partners in Washington. He explains ...
  • Libya: New AFRICOM & NATO Beachhead in Africa
    Africa vs. the offensive by the axis of AFRICOM, EUCOM, NATO and the European Union, with assistance from the Arab monarchies By Rick Rozoff On June 15 the news agency of the U.S. Defense Department, American Forces Press Service, ran a story on commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) Army Ge ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 14, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that ’tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,’ like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. W ...

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • It Takes a Village, and Some ... The Attack Ag ...
    When it comes to Israel's political agenda, no sacrifice is too great. A move against Iran will reverberate throughout the world. It is important for political leaders around the globe to understand that it may take a village to implement a political agenda -- but it is up to them to make sure t ...
  • Labor and Wages
    The wage system, what it means, and how it divides labor.
  • Obama Calls Shooting People "Evil Senseless" R ...
    Astoundingly Obama, speaking of the Colorado movie house massacre said"We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings like this. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason." By these words Obama shows that he is not insane and can recognize ri ...
  • Poverty and Extreme Wealth on Long Island
    Poverty and extreme wealth on Long Island have been in the national spotlight -- with the airing of an HBO documentary "Hard Times: Lost on Long Island" and a series of lavish fundraisers in the Hamptons for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The lunch tab at one was $50,000-a-plate. ...
  • Greece: Promises to Renegotiate Already Forgot ...
    StopCartel TV broadcasts live from Athens, Greece weeknights @ 6pm Athens time. The following post is a loose transcript of the July 19, 2012 broadcas

Switchboard

  • 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 Chemical ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • And the Winner of Miss Conservative Goes to&#8 ...
    Because liberal fascists have taken over our beauty pageants, conservatives have decided to start their own Miss Conservative Pageant. Never mind that many liberals are more or less disgusted by such events and how they objectify women. Or that…oh why even bother pointing out how ridiculou ...
  • “So, professor: Would you say it’s ...
    Yes I would, Kent. When the rat-muscled cyborg jellyfish rise up and devour your loved ones, you can thank me for at least trying to sound the alarm.
  • Sally Ride
    Sally Ride indeed blasted through the space ceiling for women. Her death is a sad day. It’s made even sadder by the fact that despite her pioneering past, she couldn’t crack another ceiling–the one allowing same-sex partners to receive the same death benefits from the governmen ...
  • Initial verdict on The Dark Knight Rises:
    Very Return of the Jedi. It’s not nearly as dark or accomplished as its predecessor, and it descends into maddening silliness at times, e.g. every time Bane “opens” his “mouth.” More on the politics, as well as some general comments of the spoiling variety, from som ...
  • Ichiro!
    Will be hard to watch him in a Yankees uniform, although it would hurt more if he could still play.  And since it’s pretty clear that I will be winning my hedge bet with Howard as the Yankees have a commanding lead, I can’t even root that he’ll continue to have a bad year and [...]

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • OPINION: You get what you pay for in legal edu ...
    Although everyone wants legal education to be less expensive, Brian Tamanaha proposes a model that is economically impossible without dramatically decreasing the quality of legal education.
  • Class action alleges dangerous fuel leaks in M ...
    A lawsuit filed by a class of consumers alleges that Mercedes-Benz USA LLC failed to repair the gasoline tanks and related components in its E-Class models that have caused fuel to leak or vapors to spread inside the cars' cabins.
  • Judge bows out of U.S. attorney's personal spa ...
    A federal judge has recused himself from a lawsuit brought by the U.S. attorney for South Carolina, who is suing a law firm over fees he claimed he earned while in private practice.
  • Law school defeats fraud suit by graduates
    A federal judge in Michigan on July 20 dismissed a suit against the Thomas M. Cooley Law School the attorneys brought on behalf of 12 graduates who claimed that the school misrepresented its employment statistics to lure students.
  • The 2012 APPELLATE HOT LIST
    We asked our readers to nominate firms with at least one significant appellate win between May 2011 and May 2012 and that had an impressive track record overall. We supplemented the results with our own research to arrive at the list of 16 firms you'll find here.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • Death Toll From Assam's Ethnic Clashes Rises to 14
    The incident took place at Fakiragram area, when a mob attacked the convoy of Assam police where Assam police DIG Surendra Kumar, Kokrajhar district Additional SP Amar Choudhury and two others were injured.
  • Aid Worker Murdered in Pakistan
    Media reports say polio immunization activities were suspended in the area of Karachi after a shooting incident injured two WHO staff members who were supporting the implementation of the vaccination campaign.
  • Two DNRF Mlitants Apprehended in Assam
    The nabbed militants were identified as Sonjondeep Haflongbar and Parajeet Kemprai.
  • SFF Announces Somalia's General Daa'uud Cup Sc ...
    Somali Football Federation secretary General Abdi Qani Said Arab said in his press statement that the annual General Daa'uud cup is a great priority for the entire Somali Football Family members for it honors
  • Communial Clash Kills Nine People in Assam
    Reports say an army and para military forces have been deployed in the district and the district administration have imposed curfew from 6 pm to 6 am.

environment 360

  • Iron-Seeding Experiment Shows Ability to Trap ...
    An eight-year German research effort has shown that under the right conditions seeding the ocean with iron can trigger phytoplankton blooms that suck carbon out of the air and trap it deep in the ocean, a potentially important breakthrough in the nascent field of climate geoengineering. Reportin ...
  • `Great Green Fleet’ Trial Launched by U.S. Nav ...
    The U.S. Navy this week held military exercises in the Pacific Ocean that used an expensive blend of biofuels and conventional fuels to power 71 aircraft and three warships, part of an ongoing effort by the Navy to develop alternative fuels for its global operations. The so-called “Great Green F ...
  • Linking Twin Extinctions Of Species and Languages
    A recent study noted that most of the 6,900 languages spoken on Earth occur in regions of high biodiversity. These findings point to a strong correlation between biological and linguistic diversity, with languages closely connected to the habitats where they are found. BY VERLYN KLINKENBORG
  • Warmer Ocean Waters Lead to a Lobster Glut in ...
    Warmer Atlantic Ocean temperatures off the coast of Maine have caused the state’s bountiful supply of lobsters to shed their shells and come onto the market six weeks earlier than normal, creating a glut that has driven prices sharply down. The state’s 5,000 lobster fishermen are receiving less ...
  • Beetle's Rapid Evolution Helps Control Invasiv ...
    Scientists say that a species of beetle has rapidly altered its life cycle to more efficiently devour the invasive tamarisk tree in the southern United States. UCSB Tamarisk leaf beetle In a decade-long study, researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) found that ...

Red Ice Creations

  • The ’Monsanto Rider’: Are Biotech Companies Ab ...
    The Secretary of Agriculture would be required to grant a permit for the planting or cultivation of a genetically engineered crop, regardless of environmental impact. While many Americans were firing up barbecues and breaking out the sparklers to celebrate Independence Day, biotech industry exec ...
  • World’s first GM babies born
    The world’s first geneticallymodified humans have been created, it was revealed last night. The disclosure that 30 healthy babies were born after a series of experiments in the United States provoked another furious debate about ethics. So far, two of the babies have been tested and have been fo ...
  • Obama Seizes Control of All Communications Sys ...
    President Obama has usurped all available forms of communication for use and discretion of the US government. Under an Executive Order (June 6, 2012) entitled Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions, Obama has enabled the executive branch to control co ...
  • Leaked: Bin Laden not buried at sea, body move ...
    The body of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was not buried at sea, according to leaked emails of intelligence firm Stratfor, as revealed by WikiLeaks. Stratfor’s vice-president for intelligence, Fred Burton, believes the body was “bound for Dover, [Delaware] on [a] CIA plane” and then “onward to ...
  • Scientist Finds Hidden Portals in Earth’s Magn ...
    According to NASA, a researcher at the University of Iowa has found "hidden portals on Earth’s magnetic field that open and close dozens of times each day." Some of them are open for long periods of time. These portals "create an uninterrupted path leading from our own planet to the sun’s atmosp ...

Russia Today

  • Egypt lifts 5-year blockade of Gaza, allowing ...
    With an Islamist president in power, Egypt has eased longtime visa restrictions on Palestinians traveling from Gaza, ending its longtime assistance in Israel’s siege of the area. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Shock discovery: 248 human embryos found trash ...
    A fishing trip in Russia's Urals ended with cries of horror as a man found canisters filled with human embryos, some already shaped to baby bodies. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • 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. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Israel orders demolition of eight Palestinian ...
    Israel’s Defense Ministry has ordered eight Palestinian villages in the West Bank to be razed, claiming the land is needed for military training. Hundreds of Palestinians are to be displaced despite evidence that the... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Iraq opens ‘all’ borders to Syrian refugees – ...
    Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has formally authorized Syrian refugees to enter Iraq. No details were given following the announcement that was broadcast on Iraqi state TV. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • President Obama tells Aurora survivers he has ...
    Barack Obama explained that his role as president is limited to the authority to offer the nation’s condolences and voice the common desire to see the accused feel the “full force of American justice.” Aurora police were to blame, apparently, because if James Holmes had not bee ...
  • Heads kept down in Colorado Springs as profess ...
    COLO. SPRINGS– The CSGT morning headline described Aurora shooter: GUNMAN WAS LIKE ASSASSIN GOING TO WAR, but the next news cycle warned of a pro this time, an Army Ranger cruising the city, who’d flown from Fort Lewis, Washington with the intention of killing his ex-fiance, her new ...
  • ‘I am Number 132′ demonstrations s ...
    Here are links to some youtube videos of these large and persistent demonstrations… Mexico City- Mega Marcha Anti-Fraude. Paseo de la Reforma 22/Julio/2012 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=282amcR9YMg&feature=related. Monterrey had their march as well… Megamarcha en Monterrey Y ...
  • Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi opens t ...
    Hurray, President Morsi! You continue to defy low expectations and continue to push the limits of the constraints that the US government has tried to put on you. Morsi has opened Gaza so that the Palestinians held prisoner there can perhaps now begin to leave! Israel will continue to try to ensl ...
  • More gun fetishist news
    Because of the incredible militarization of the US, much of the male population, and a huge group of women too, simply have a gun fetish. To have this fetish is to often times experience heartbreak or to give it out to others. The latest news item about this is Cop shoots and kills son after [...]

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Cowardly AIA Panders to Political Correctness
    One thing I have absolutely zero respect for is when people critique a book or documentary film without even reading or watching it. A recent article in Architect Magazine seems like a clear example of this, except the author supposedly did watch the film he's critiquing. You wouldn't think it t ...
  • Reply: Gage's Architects & Engineers for 9/11 ...
    Published on Jul 20, 2012 by RepresentativePress Reply: Photographs and video footage have vindicated Gage, as they show the same phenomenon of negative low air pressure occurred with WTC 1 after the collapse of WTC 2 making it appear as if the entire building was on fire. Skip to 10:2 ...
  • FAQ #8: What Is Nanothermite? Could It Have Be ...
    Written by Adam Taylor In order to understand what nanothermite is, we first must understand what ordinary commercial thermite is. Thermite is a mixture of a metal and the oxide of another metal, usually aluminum (Al) and iron oxide (Fe2O3), in a granular or powder form. When ignited, the ener ...
  • Fire, Steel, & WTC 7
    Published on Jul 12, 2012 by ofmay We look at the fire that NIST claims took down WTC building 7 as well as 5 other steel frame high rise fires. Debunking the Debunkers blog contributor and author of, "Other Collapses in Perspective: An Examination of Other Steel Structures Collapsing due ...
  • 9/11 Free Fall 6/22/12 (Wayne Coste Interview)
    Published on Jun 23, 2012 by Free Fall Hosted by Bernie Suarez and Andrew Steele. In this episode Bernie and Andy talk about the Scientific Method and NIST's disregard for it in favor "computer model science". The guest this week is engineer Wayne Coste, who talks about 9/11 science and cens ...

Fooducate

  • Veggie Stress – 10 Tips to Win the Race Agains ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Do you suffer from veggie stress? You know, veggies you bought at the grocer’s with every good intention to prepare and eat, yet somehow haven’t gotten to before they started to rot? Raise your ha ...
  • Chia Seeds: Why We Love ‘Em
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! A member of the mint family, the chia seed is a “nutrient and protein packed powerhouse” that boasts an interesting history and many useful nutritional applications. Here is ...
  • No Bake Lemon Balls: Healthy, Fast, & Yummy
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl and originally appeared here. One of the biggest hits on Snack Girl has been the No Bake Brownie Balls. They are simple to make, nutritious, and taste ...
  • The Pink Slime Saga – Epilogue
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! You may remember several months ago, nutrition headlines were all pink. What started as a petition by a Houston mommy blogger, to get a highly processed meat by-product out ...
  • More Shoppers Seeking Nutrition, But are They ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! A recent consumer survey, Shopping for Health, conducted by the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and Prevention magazine indicates that nutrition continues to be a driving for ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Alison Singer Hand Picked Matt Carey For IACC, ...
    By Jake Crosby Who picked Matt Carey of the UK blog Leftbrain/Rightbrain to serve on the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, commonly known as IACC? Answer: Alison Singer of Autism “Science” Foundation, the vaccine industry front group and so-called autism charity...
  • Best of AofA: The Others. Siblings and Autism
    Managing Editor's Note: Cathy is on a summer sabbatical with her five kids. This post is from May of 2009. Enjoy. By Cathy Jameson Once a week, I try to watch one of my husband’s ‘must see’ television shows with...
  • HHS Secretary Sebelius' Disconnect With Realit ...
    By Anne Dachel from AnneDachel.com. Here are HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius’s opening words at IACC on July 10, 2012 HERE In her remarks there was no crisis. She praised IACC for all their accomplishments. What followed in the comments by...
  • The Truth Behind The Lies Play By Play from IA ...
    By LJ Goes “Just more BS…some guy says good luck…no way Congress is giving more money…” “What now? I’m dying here.” “…Geri (Dawson) now. Liked her intro statements” This is my friend, and fellow Co-Founder of The Thinking Moms’ Revolution,...
  • Autism Speaks Sued for Discriminatory Treatmen ...
    Note: Below is a legal complaint filed by Simone Greggs against Autism Speaks. "...Over the course of two months, Plaintiff was given five different interviews with various officials of the Defendant and was finally told that they wanted to hire...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • WHY in the World are They Spraying? Video Cont ...
    WHY in the World are They Spraying? Video contest in which the winner will receive $1000.00 via Paypal or if in the United States, airfare, Hotel, and a free 3 day pass to the premier and Consciousness Beyond Chemtrails event up to $1000 in value.
  • The Day ‘Our America with Lisa Ling’ Came to F ...
    I am happy to announce that an opportunity to extend the Farm Wars food independence and survival message to a wider audience came when Darcy Dennett contacted me about filming an episode of Our America with Lisa Ling titled Lost American Dream on the OWN network. Well, that’s right up our alley ...
  • We Won’t Get Fooled Again (Part 1)
    I find it interesting that a starving graduate student, living in a modest apartment, could afford very expensive weaponry, a bulletproof vest, a modern gas mask, groin and neck protectors, complicated bombs and tear gas. This was a well-funded operation and there doesn't seem to be any plausibl ...
  • Look Who Supports GMO Labeling – Infographic
    The following infographic from Voters Edge shows just how much money is being spent by both sides, for and against GMO labeling in California. "See who's spending money against our right to know labeling bill in CA and refuse to buy their products!"
  • Through the Eyes of a Goose
    Whether it is big or small, complex or simple, all life is precious, right down to one little baby gosling, fresh from the egg. And as I discovered during my journey on the road to raising Little E.D. the Endurance Goose, there is a wealth of knowledge to be had just from the simple task of lear ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Spate of attacks kills 107 across Iraq
    Reuters – At least 107 people were killed in bomb and gun attacks in Iraq on Monday, a day after 20 died in explosions, in a coordinated surge of violence against mostly Shi’ite Muslim targets. The bloodshed, which coincided with an intensifying of the conflict in neighbouring Syria, ...
  • Madagascar army quells mutiny, kills rebel leader
    Reuters – Madagascar’s army stormed a military barracks near the island country’s main airport in order to quell a mutiny, killing the corporal who led it and arresting a number of mutineers, the army said on Sunday. The soldiers had seized the barracks located 10km (6.2 miles) ...
  • Spain bans short-selling of shares as markets fall
    BBC – Spain has banned short-selling of shares to try to limit price moves after markets fell sharply on fears the country may need a full bailout. Spain’s market regulator blocked the practice for three months to try to restore order after sharp falls in bonds and shares. “Sho ...
  • UK firms pay record $36 billion in second-quar ...
    Reuters – UK companies paid a record 22.6 billion pounds ($35.50 billion) in dividends in the second quarter as many firms baulked at spending bumper cash piles on deal making or other forms of capital expenditure in the face of the global economic slowdown. The quarter, which usually sees ...
  • Famed Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya dead in car ...
    Reuters – One of Cuba’s best-known dissidents, Oswaldo Paya, leader of the Christian Liberation Movement, died on Sunday in a car crash, government and opposition sources said. Paya, 60, was travelling in eastern Granma province at the time of the accident, the details of which are n ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

  • Death Toll From Assam's Ethnic Clashes Rises to 14
    The incident took place at Fakiragram area, when a mob attacked the convoy of Assam police where Assam police DIG Surendra Kumar, Kokrajhar district Additional SP Amar Choudhury and two others were injured.
  • Aid Worker Murdered in Pakistan
    Media reports say polio immunization activities were suspended in the area of Karachi after a shooting incident injured two WHO staff members who were supporting the implementation of the vaccination campaign.
  • Two DNRF Mlitants Apprehended in Assam
    The nabbed militants were identified as Sonjondeep Haflongbar and Parajeet Kemprai.
  • SFF Announces Somalia's General Daa'uud Cup Sc ...
    Somali Football Federation secretary General Abdi Qani Said Arab said in his press statement that the annual General Daa'uud cup is a great priority for the entire Somali Football Family members for it honors
  • Communial Clash Kills Nine People in Assam
    Reports say an army and para military forces have been deployed in the district and the district administration have imposed curfew from 6 pm to 6 am.

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Tens of Thousands in Mexico March Against Vote ...
    Tens of thousands took to the streets across Mexico on Sunday to protest what they see as a president elected through corruption and fraud. Protesters marched in 18 Mexican cities including the capital of Mexico City to renounce the electoral win of Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional ...
  • Fukushima Report Blasts TEPCO's On-Going Failures
    The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear power plant is still stumbling in its handling of the disaster 16 months later, by dragging its feet in investigations and trying to understate the true damage at the complex, investigators said Monday. The Japanese government-appointed inquiry into t ...
  • With Drug Resistant AIDS on Rise, Health Advoc ...
    A Lancet study released over the weekend, backed by data from the World Health Organization, shows that strains of HIV/AIDS that exhibit resistance to prominent treatments are on the rise. read more
  • Will Libor Indictments Fit the Scale of the Ra ...
    US prosecutors and European regulators are close to arresting individual traders and charging them with colluding to manipulate global benchmark interest rates, according to Reuters. read more
  • US Poverty Rate Reaching 50-Year High
    Poverty in the U.S. is on track to be at its highest level in 50 years, according to analysis collected by the Associated Press.  Meanwhile, social safety nets are being pulled out from under those in need, leaving them in a spiral downward with little hope of escape. ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Welcome to the New Syria
    By Michael Collins The assault on Damascus by Syrian rebels and terrorist murder of the Syrian Defense Minister occurred just as the Red Cross announced that the fighting in Syria was officially a civil war. This is an odd reward system for military action by the Free Syria Army. Commit enoug ...
  • Dying for Justice in Israel
    by Stephen Lendman Among developed countries, Israel is one of the world's most socially, politically, and economically unjust. It mocks democratic values and social justice. It's run of, for, and by privileged elites. Ordinary people don't matter. Extreme wealth disparities, eroding so ...
  • Spoiling for Another Lebanon War
    by Stephen Lendman Lebanon has the misfortune of bordering Israel. The IDF attacked its northern neighbor in 1978, 1982, 1996, and 2006. More on the most recent war below. Israel still illegally occupies Sheba Farms and Ghajar Lebanese territory. Since at least the 1960s, it conducted ...
  • LIBORGATE REVEALS GLOBAL FINANCIAL GAME IS RIGGED
    Allen L Roland Pete Bagley / Salt Lake TribuneTo the global banking elite it’s always heads they win and tails you lose but the recent LIBOR scandal moves that rigged financial game to a global scale which could and should result in multibillion dollar fines ~ unless Obama continues to ...
  • Rupert Watch, Murdoch Faces Shareholder Rebell ...
    By Michael Collins News Corporation is facing an investor rebellion in Great Britain that parallels a similar rebellion occurring in the United States. (Image) "A consortium of 18 heavyweight investors is calling for Mr Murdoch to stand down as chairman in the interests of good corporate gov ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • They Took Down THAT Statue And I am GLAD!
    By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE – Yes, Jopa’s statue was draped with a blue plastic tarp and hauled away to an undisclosed storage unit. Some people are sad. Some are happy. Some are outraged and I fall into the happy category. I could not fathom the young men who camped out to protect it. I ...
  • “Free Speech” Truth, Lies and Just Commo ...
    By Brian McDonagh,WWH/CJE – As a Canadian I watch American Politics, sometimes in horror that the insanity may creep across the border into our peaceful little Country. I say little, not because of our land mass, which is larger than that of the United States, but because our population is ...
  • How not to help a woman cope
    By Jona Johns,WWH/CJE- I’ll start with sharing some of the stats that I’ve shared before, but just in case you missed it… They say the stats are one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage.  One in four.  So 75% of the time, a mother gets to take her baby home to the nursery that she’s [...]
  • The Post-Aurora “Rampage” Few Have Heard About
    By William Grigg lewrockwell.com - One day after a lethal shooting rampage in Aurora, Colorado left twelve people dead and scores injured, another eruption of criminal violence left one dead and several others injured in Anaheim, California. The perpetrators of the second assault were officers f ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Monday
    Forest fires in northeast Spain kill 4 MADRID (Reuters) – Two big forest fires raging in the border area between France and northern Catalonia in Spain since Sunday have killed a fourth person, local authorities said on Monday, as strong winds hindered efforts to control the blaze. All fou ...

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Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The Contribution of U.S. Oil Consumption to Gl ...
    Financial Dependence Can Cause Bias Generally when I find myself having to clarify my position from a previous column, I find that I did not explain myself as well as I should have. Such is the case with last week’s column Environmentalism is a Profitable Business. There were several ways ...
  • Investment Opportunities in Natural Gas
    In this week’s Energy Trends Insider our featured stories were The Navy’s Biofuels Program and the Great Green Fleet, Investment Opportunities in Natural Gas, and the Short Term Oil Price Investment Outlook. As we did last week, we would like to share one of those stories with regula ...
  • Midwestern Drought, Ethanol, & Renewable Fuel ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I discuss the implications of the current drought in the Midwest, how that may impact the ethanol market, and whether the Renewable Fuel Standard is likely to be modified. Readers who have specific questions can send them to ask [at] consumere ...
  • Environmentalism is a Profitable Business
    Global Experiment With the Climate I want to preface this column by saying that I am very concerned about climate change. The rapid growth of atmospheric carbon dioxide shows no sign of abating, and I have concerns over what this will ultimately mean for the climate. The fact is that we are cond ...
  • Poor Corn Crop Will Have Major Impact on Ethan ...
    One of the biggest threats to the U.S. ethanol industry is a major drought/crop failure in the heart of corn country, says Robert Rapier. This year we may be experiencing such an event.

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Why You Should Never Buy a Yellow Purse
    You probably don't associate your purse with major health problems—unless you're talking about those shoulder pains you get from loading it up with everything but the kitchen sink. But a new report from environmental health scientists in California may give you pause the next time you gravitate ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: Wasp-Proof Your Backyard
    Wasps, hornets, and yellow jacket can put a serious crimp in your outdoor fun. And since populations peak in late summer, now's the time of year when you either deal with them or risk ruining a perfectly good afternoon nursing a seriously nasty welt. I've got a few ideas on how to kill wasps, y ...
  • The Crazy Reason You're Depressed
    Your coworker's perfume, that lingering smell of someone's overpowering fabric softener, the secondhand smoke floating through a crowded concert hall—for most of us, those are just annoyances that could put a damper on a fun night out or make your workday temporarily unpleasant. But for others, ...
  • 3 Secrets About Your Sunless Tan
    Summer is in full swing, and the battle to be bronze is going full force—except it's not enough to have a back-from-the-beach glow that fades after a few weeks anymore. Women—and men—want to retain that golden hue long after their last beach visit, and they're going to great, and sometimes dang ...
  • Why a BPA Ban Won't Protect You
    The federal government says baby bottle and sippy cup manufacturers will no longer be allowed to make products containing bisphenol A, or BPA, a move that offers some protection to children but comes short of offering serious BPA protection to the general public, according to some experts. The ...

big think

  • What Are the Best Poems of the Past 25 Years?
    In 2006 the New York Times asked a select group of literary sages: “What’s the best work of American fiction of the last 25 years?” The results of the poll stirred chatter, passions, and healthy controversy. Toni Morrison’s Beloved emerged as the clear winner, followed by Don DeLillo’s Underworl ...
  • John Maeda: Overcoming Fear – What Batman's Re ...
    Editor’s Note: We interviewed John Maeda back in June before the release of The Dark Knight Rises, at a time when no one’s mind (except perhaps the killer’s) entertained the possibility of the horrific movie theater massacre that later occurred in Aurora, Colorado.  In spite of the fact ...
  • When You Think Atheist, Think Daylight Atheism
    Just a quick note: I've been interviewed for the latest episode of Think Atheist Radio, which is now available for download and podcasting. In the interview, we chat about the arguments against God's existence, the basis for godless morality, the importance of the secular community - and, of cou ...
  • Freedom of Expression is More Important than D ...
    I wrote a short post on why freedom of expression must and should always trump dignity. Ideas can remain, locked in place as true or good, even if they are actually terrible ones, by virtue of being unchallenged, whether through ignorance or censoring alternative ideas. We do not ...
  • Psychologists Assume It's Possible to Know A P ...
    Science rests on the assumption that the world can be known: that causes have effects, and logic applied on Thursday in Katmandu is valid still on Friday in Geneva. Psychology, and its claims to be a science, rest on the assumption that people can be known, in the same way we know about chemical ...

Information Liberation

  • James Holmes Appears In Court -- Has He Been F ...
    It's been "83.5" hours since the shooting took place, so any drugs alleged Dark Knight shooter James Holmes was on should have worn off by now. Yet, in his appearance here in court he looked drugged out of his mind. The shooter of Gabriel Gifford...
  • Protesters storm Anaheim police station in wak ...
    A group of protesters stormed the lobby of the Anaheim police station Sunday, about half an hour before Police Chief John Welter was scheduled to reveal more details about a fatal officer-involved shooting the night before that sparked a confrontatio...
  • Art*s Sale Value? Zero. The Tax Bill? $29 Million.
    What is the fair market value of an object that cannot be sold? The question may sound like a Zen koan, but it is one that lawyers for the heirs of the New York art dealer Ileana Sonnabend and the Internal Revenue Service are set to debate when th...
  • Why Jason Alexander's Anti-Gun Twitter Rant Is ...
    Actor Jason Alexander of Seinfeld fame penned an anti-gun rant on his twitter account earlier today. The post made the front page of Reddit and it's getting a lot of circulation. It's an interesting read if not just to see the hypocrisy supporters...
  • Drone-Striker-In-Chief to Visit Colorado Over ...
    Drone-Striker-In-Chief Barack Obama is taking a trip to Colorado to exploit the Dark Knight tragedy. I can't help but laugh at the idea a man who kills as many people as James Holmes did in "the worst shooting in US history" every week by drone ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 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 ...
  • Shakespeare’s Sonnets on the iPad
    TouchPress has done it again giving us an aesthetically pleasing collision of art and technology – akin to the Leonardo Anatomy app I mentioned a while back. This time The Sonnets by William Shakespeare gets the modern treatment with videos and readings featuring Patrick Stewart (always a ...
  • Differential gears explained, 1930s style
    A surprisingly compelling explanation of differential gearing from the 1930s. Fast Forward to 1:50 if you want to skip the introduction…jump to 8:50 for the acrobatics! Differential gears explained, 1930s style is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogDifferential gears explained, 1930s sty ...
  • Differential gears explained, 1930s style
    A surprisingly compelling explanation of differential gearing from the 1930s. Fast Forward to 1:50 if you want to skip the introduction…jump to 8:50 for the acrobatics! Differential gears explained, 1930s style is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogDifferential gears explained, 1930s sty ...

RFF Library

  • Going Green: Market Reaction to CSR Newswire R ...
    Forthcoming in the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy / by Paul A. Griffin and Yuan Sun http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1995132 [Forbes] Can voluntary disclosure increase shareholder value? Maybe it can, according to a recent, independent study conducted by two management ...
  • Ethanol Production and Gasoline Prices: A Spur ...
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research/ by Christopher R. Knittel and Aaron Smith http://web.mit.edu/ceepr/www/publications/workingpapers/2012-006.pdf [Abstract] Ethanol made from corn comprises 10% of US gasoline, up from 3% in 2003. This dram ...
  • Climate Change and Transportation: Summary of ...
    Transportation Research Board http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/circulars/ec164.pdf [From a Climate Wire article by Julia Pyper, sub. req'd] From polluting exhaust spewed from tailpipes to caved-in roadways due to extreme weather, transportation and climate change have an intimate and insidio ...
  • Geochemical Evidence for Possible Natural Migr ...
    PNAS  (published online before print July 9, 2012, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1121181109) / by Nathaniel R. Warner, Robert B. Jackson, Thomas H. Darrah, Stephen G. Osborn, Adrian Down, Kaiguang Zhao, Alissa White and Avner Vengosha http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/07/03/1121181109 [Abstract] The de ...
  • Economic Impacts of National Monument Designat ...
    BBC Research and Consulting for the National Trust for Historic Preservation http://bit.ly/P31zZf [From Sen. Michael Bennet's website] A new report released today determines that national monument designation for the Chimney Rock Archaeological Area would double the economic impact Chimney Rock ...

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First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Digging Deeper: Submit your Investigative Stor ...
    Next round of pitching for Media Co-op Investigative Fund open The Media Co-op has broken critical stories and probed issues glossed by the mainstream media.  We've published exposés of Israeli and Canadian military collusion, unch ...
  • Manifestation Montreal 22 Juillet 2012
  • The [This Could Be Your Headline] Newsletter!
    An update from your friendly neighbourhood VMC Dear VMC readers, supporters, ninjas… Summer's finally here. Kind of. Beyond the vitamin D, it also means that more people can hit the town with a camera and notebook without worryin ...
  • Fish Tales
    Aquaculture Association of Nova Scotia can explain away all your farmed salmon concerns K'jipuktuk (Halifax) - The Aquaculture Association of Nova Scotia (AANS) represents a mixed bag of smaller-time suppliers, consultants, producers an ...
  • OWS Anarchism in Action at Spartacus Books
    Occupy Wall Street organizers and activists Marisa Holmes and Matt Presto come to Spartacus Books in Vancouver, BC for a talk on Anarchist principles and methods in Occupy.

David Seaton's News Links

  • James Holmes: a budding neuroscientist runs amok
    David Seaton's News Links So this is just what one of America's many faces is going to be a bitterly divided, hatefully cynical country where insane people have easy access to semi-automatic weapons, and occasionally use them to commit senseless atrocities. We will continue to see more and mo ...
  • What exactly is the USA?
    David Seaton's News LinksRight now the question would have to be: what exactly is the USA?? The people? The system? The economy? Whose economy? What exactly is the USA? This is really important in America's case, more so than in other countries, because "American" isn't an ethnic grou ...
  • Globalization: King and country
    David Seaton's News Links We are white mice participating in a great historical experiment.The idea of completely untrammeled, frictionless capitalism has only been a theoretical construct till now, but we are almost there today.There are basically two -- untried -- theories of how this would p ...
  • The World Economy: into the Wild Blue Yonder
    David Seaton's News Links  It would be comforting for many to imagine that our globalized economy is a conspiracy,  a murky cabal, directed from the shadows by some Bilderberger-ish, ecumenical-protocol, of sinister "elders", who are pulling all the strings.I say comforting because pre ...
  • India holds up a mirror for the American right ...
      "Evil requires the sanction of the victim." Ayn Rand" David Seaton's News Links The other day in my perusings I stumbled upon this troubling jewelNot only do Indians perform more Google searches for (Ayn) Rand than citizens of any country in the world except the United States, but ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Ethanol Subsidies: Even Stupider Than We Thought
    Why do we import 4 million gallons of ethanol to Brazil every year and then export 2 million gallons of it right back? Because U.S. ethanol regulations require us to use a certain amount of "advanced" ethanol — i.e., ethanol that produces less carbon than gasoline, which corn ethanol most ...
  • Chart of the Day: Voter ID and Racial Resentment
    Who supports voter ID laws? Obviously, Republicans support them more than Democrats. Since voter ID laws are mostly aimed at suppressing the Democratic-leaning vote, that makes sense. But there are differences even among voters who identify as either Republican or Democratic. Accordin ...
  • Our Financial System is Still Broken
    Riffing off a post by John Kay, Felix Salmon points out that a big part of the problem with our financial system is the way that derivatives have corrupted aspects of banking that used to be have an actual, concrete purpose: Barclays’ Libor lies, for instance, started life as a way for i ...
  • The Case Against Terror
    Germany's vice chancellor says that a possible Greek exit from the euro has "lost its terror." Paul Krugman isn't happy about that: I find their lack of terror ... disturbing. I’m not saying that Greece should be kept in the euro; ultimately, it’s hard to see how that can work. But ...
  • Merit Pay Works Better if You Fear a Loss Rath ...
    Dylan Matthews describes a recent field test in paying teachers if they get higher-than-average test score improvements from their students: The authors split teachers in the study into a control group, who were not offered any rewards, a “gain” group, which was promised rewards of ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 336: Bad Parenting 101
    Topics: The Dark Knight Rises was awesome The Cunt Muffins who spoil movies on opening weekend Calling an Avengers Initiative on The Dark Knight Rises Politicizing Tragedies Gun control laws won’t stop evil people Regulation is a safety net and deterrent for for the casuals Kriss gives an ...
  • IC 335: Homophobia Tastes Like Chicken
    Topics: *Bonus* The first 15 minis is the pre-show with Kriss & Rod talking about the George Zimmerman/Sean Hannity Interview*Bonus* Kev Sees Spider-Man 2 Marvel wins San Diego Comic Con Nerds Ruin Everything Trolling The Dark Knight Rises Critics don’t love watching movies anymore Ru ...
  • IC 334: We’re Getting Soft
    Topics: Work sucks Dream Team The need to compare Each generation gets a little softer The Dark Knight Rises The 3 Titties Live ON Fat sex Sharks still ain’t shit Kriss’ religious rant Share with your friends:
  • IC 333: Fuck Summer
    Topics: Summer is Horrible Summer was more fun as a kid UFC 148 recap People hating athletes Team loyalty Team BlowJob for the champs? The blow job orgy…the worst orgy Booty pop videos with 6 year olds? We gotta do better Acknowledging privileged != you’re a racist The Dark Knight Ri ...
  • IC 332: Return of Great Moments In White Privilege
    Topics: FUCK PEPCO Could Sony & Marvel Studios/Disney work together? Cap Cod has great white sharks Bullsharks are like modded Xboxes Great Moments in White Privilege: White folks mad at Chris Rock Slavery was a long time ago….so what? Admitting and recognizing mistakes doesn’t ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Study shows why some types of multitasking are ...
    In a new study that has implications for distracted drivers, researchers found that people are better at juggling some types of multitasking than they are at others. read more
  • Ancient alteration of seawater chemistry linke ...
    Scientists have discovered a potential cause of Earth's "icehouse climate" cooling trend of the past 45 million years. It has everything to do with the chemistry of the world's oceans. read more
  • Rise in temperatures and CO2 follow each other ...
    The greatest climate change the world has seen in the last 100,000 years was the transition from the ice age to the warm interglacial period. New research from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen indicates that, contrary to previous opinion, the rise in temperature and the r ...
  • Synthetic stimulants called 'bath salts' act i ...
    The use of the synthetic stimulants collectively known as "bath salts" have gained popularity among recreational drug users over the last five years, largely because they were readily available and unrestricted via the Internet and at convenience stores, and were virtually unregulated. ...
  • New species of ancient rodents hint at what co ...
    A paleontological team that includes scientists from the American Museum of Natural History; University of California, Santa Barbara; and Case Western Reserve University has described two ancient species of South American rodents, including the oldest chinchilla, a discovery that substantiates w ...

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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  • .:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism ...
    .:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism and Media in the New Libya:.: Journalism and media witnessed huge expansion in Libya since the first spark in the February 17 revolution. There are now around 200 printed newspapers in Tripoli and Benghazi alone, and around 18 satellite channels thro ...
  • GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “L ...
    GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “Latinos: Turn Off Your TV, Co�o!”: GUEST POST BY Jazmin Chavez & Julia Ahumada Grob of "East WillyB" By the time of this publication, we should all be familiar with the recent controversy regarding ABC sitcom, “Work It,” in which Puerto Rican act ...
  • A Brief look at the Censorship of Human Rights ...
    China must abandon censorship | APNS Article 35 of China's constitution as adopted in 1982 clearly states that: "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration." For 28 years this article has stood ...
  • The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy
    The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy [Black Star News Editorial] Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and front-runner Mitt Romney have all played the race-card to varying degrees in this election cycle, while Ron Paul's campaign is weighed down by the race b ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

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  • Israeli human rights lawyer: Levy Report shows ...
    The recent government-sanctioned Levy Report on settlement outposts unmasks the comfortable lie that Israeli government lawyers have told the courts and the rest of the world for decades, namely that Israel’s presence in the West Bank is temporary and measures designating Palestinian land and na ...
  • Re-thinking the role of international law in t ...
    The fact that international law supports the two-state paradigm is not sufficient reason to preserve its current role, if at present, international law serves to perpetuate the conflict.  International law is increasingly being applied when deemed relevant to an ideological agenda, and therefore ...
  • Chronic uncertainty: The trauma of childhood u ...
    Fear of night raids and imprisonment loom large in the imagination of almost every Palestinian child. Reports on specific cases of violence and abuse fail to capture the epidemic of instability Palestinian children face daily. By Vicky Hosker Days after a team of British jurists published a repo ...
  • NYTimes’ due fear for Israeli democracy ...
    The New York Times published a laudable, bold editorial this weekend that highlights a number of creeping threats to Israeli democracy. The article is vital for reaching audiences who really care about Israel’s future. After three years of onslaught on Israel’s democratic foundations ...
  • No happy ending: My Neighborhood, a documentar ...
    Just Vision‘s latest film is a moving snapshot of the Palestinian plight with Israeli settlement policies in an East Jerusalem neighborhood –  and the Israeli Jews that raised awareness about the issue by protesting there. While there is no happy ending, the movie introduces audience ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

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

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Binding From Mischief
    One of the clear signs of the demise of modern democracy is the penchant for politicians to put partisanship over …Continue reading »
  • No Mere Dream Date
    Thirteen years of marriage is a very brief time to fill with all the adventures we have had over the …Continue reading »
  • Perhaps George Washington Was Right
    The following is my recent Huffington Post piece on the use of negative ads and their unintended consequences. It was …Continue reading »
  • Humanity In An Image
    You can see why I was so affected immediately upon focusing your eyes on the picture. It’s from south Sudan …Continue reading »
  • While the Sun Is Above Us
    Over the years, a lot has been made of the work Jane and I have undertaken in Sudan. Repeatedly the …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

  • Further confirmation that carbon dioxide lags ...
    Temperature leads CO2 concentration. I find it more plausible that increasing CO2 concentration may well have contributed to neutralising the temperature increase which caused the CO2 emission in the first place.
  • Breivik and Holmes and guns and massacres
    Banning the sale of guns would not have stopped Breivik and Holmes.
  • A Geographical quiz
    A prize for the first correct answer/explanation of this table
  • Breaking weather records from a century ago on ...
    When weather records from a hundred years ago are broken it only proves that it was hotter/colder/stormier/wetter/drier or whatever long before man-made carbon dioxide emissions had even been though of.
  • Spain to tax renewable energy
    Shares in most Spanish companies with large clean energy interests fell today as the Government announced plans to raise cash from renewable energy for the first time, a blow to an industry already struggling with subsidy cuts.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Contest Winner Says 1-800-Flowers Won’t ...
    Several months ago, the folks at 1-800-Flowers held a photo contest, wherein dog owners submitted pics of their pooches wearing bunny ears and then stumped for votes. The person who submitted the winning photo was to win, among other things, a year's supply of dog food. But, says the winner, whe ...
  • Sears Might Need Customers But Bears Are Not T ...
    Struggling retailer Sears should be cheered by the fact that it still has customers who want to check out its electronics — even if said customers happen to be fuzzy, 150 pounds and well, bears. A young brown bear wandered into a Sears over the weekend at a mall in Pittsburgh, but wasn't even al ...
  • Survey: 13% Of Adults Have Already Given Into ...
    It's July 23. Have you begun your holiday shopping yet? According to a new survey, it's likely that more than 1 out of every 8 of you is answering yes to that question. Yes, as we've reported for years, this is about the time of year when the Christmas Creep rears his ugly head, attempting [...]
  • EA Settles Price-Fixing Lawsuit But Apparently ...
    Electronic Arts (aka our Worst Company In America winner) has settled a lawsuit alleging that it was overcharging for some of its most popular sports titles, including Madden NFL as well as NCAA Football and Arena Football games. But while the settlement restricts EA's ability to sign exclusive ...
  • United Passenger Tries To Reunite Lost iPad Wi ...
    If some people found an ownerless iPad on a plane, they would just figure "finders keepers." But not Consumerist reader Jeffrey, who has tried several times to provide relevant information bout the device's likely owner to United Airlines, but who just keeps getting the same useless auto-reply. ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • US Classification System Is 'Dysfunctional': D ...
    Washington Post: Ex-Federal Official Calls US Classification System ‘Dysfunctional’ Summary: The Washington Post, through a FOIA request, has obtained a federal document that bolsters criticism of the Espionage Act case against NSA whistleblower and GAP client Thomas Drake. The memo ...
  • "Classified" Document from Drake Case Containe ...
    The Washington Post used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain one of the documents that formed the Espionage Act case against National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Thomas Drake. Former classification czar under G.W. Bush, J William Leonard, was slated to tes ...
  • Eileen Foster Talks Whistleblowing and Financi ...
    Eileen Foster accepting her 2012 Ridenhour Prize for Truth-TellingAlterNet: The Whistleblower’s Tale – Countrywide Investigator Fired for Doing Her Job While Rampant Fraud Was Concealed Summary: This long-form article talks about the experiences of Countrywide Financial/Bank of America wh ...
  • UN Judge Asks Secretary-General to Reassure Wh ...
    Last week, a United Nations Dispute Tribunal (UNDT) judge issued another extraordinary decision that demonstrates the Tribunal’s respect for whistleblowers. Like last month’s Wasserstrom decision, this judgment shows that UNDT - the court of first instance of the two-tier internal justice system ...
  • FDA Surveillance of Whistleblowers ‘Unacceptable’
    ‘Chilling Effect’ Far-Reaching if Congress Fails to Act (Washington, D.C.) – Today, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) is publicly denouncing the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) implementation of an invasive and potentially illegal surveillance system instituted against employees ...

UK Progressive

  • HR 4078 – Legally Disabling the Government
    by Robert Hunziker The “GOP right wing is serious about disabling government.” This is the chilling byline from The Hill’s Congress Blog, July 19, 2012 by Former Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) referencing:  H.R. 4078- Red Tape Reduction and Small Business Job Creation Act. H.R. 4078 will be consi ...
  • Homelessness: Cheaper To Fix Than To Let Fester
    By Charley James Many of the social, economic and political ills facing the United States will cost tens of billions to fix, from updating the power grid and building a high speed rail network to dealing with climate change and revitalizing public education. Solving the problem of homelessness s ...
  • New Study: Fluids From Marcellus Shale Likely ...
    by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica New research has concluded that salty, mineral-rich fluids deep beneath Pennsylvania’s natural gas fields are likely seeping upward thousands of feet into drinking water supplies. Though the fluids were natural and not the byproduct of drilling or hydraulic ...
  • The Monday Line: 21,000,000,000,000 (Trillion) ...
    by Denis G. Campbell At first glance you think to yourself it has to be a typo. The Observer headline was, without zeroes, reduced to a benign looking £13trn – hardly the stuff of outrage if just glancing. It should though hit every reader like the sledgehammer to the forehead it is. Those £13 t ...
  • Just Call Mitt Gatsby!
    The rich truly are different than the rest of us, as Dorothy Parker observed many decades ago, and they proved it Sunday afternoon at a trio of Mitt Romney fundraising events in The Hamptons on Long Island. Revlon chairman Ronald O. Perelman, Clifford Sobel who is a former US ambassador to Brazi ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Sugar cane ethanol biofuel produces 10 times t ...
    Indur Goklany calculated that biofuels policies killed nearly 200,000 people in 2010 alone. That was before this study showed things may be worse than we suspected. Brazil is the largest sugar cane ethanol producer in the world, but people are burning four times the area of sugar cane plantation ...
  • Denialists will soon run the show? Not at all. ...
    O woe betide those who are losing. Graham Readfearn moans and laments the Green-Labor losses that are likely to come nationally in the near future. Readfern packs the whole kit-and-kaboodle of fallacies, misnomers, and confounded reasoning into one article. “Anyone who places any stock in ...
  • Medieval Warm Period found in 120 proxies. Plu ...
    Two major proxy studies, larger than ever, were released in April and June 2012. They show that the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) existed, and was similar to current temperatures. These comprehensive studies suggest current temperatures are not unusual, and that itself is not all that surprising &# ...
  • Vote to get Gillard to answer questions that m ...
    “Hangout with the Prime Minister“ There are only hours to go before the three winning questions that Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard must answer are decided. Andrew Bolt noticed that the author of one question got US voters involved. (From BOLT: It seems the author has got US ...
  • Carbon prices fall to new record low — $ ...
    So much for that global “free” market. Scott the trader writes to explain that the EU “CER” credits are the ones people can buy and exchange for Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) but they have sunk to $4. The more expensive $9 EUA units that most commentators mention ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Rapidly Evolving Cushion Stars
    A small group of the short-legged sea stars (known as “cushion stars”) have rapidly evolved, and unlike their cousins, they don’t need a mate to reproduce. Their evolution into live-bearing hermaphrodites is one of the fastest known examples of speciation among marine animals, ...
  • Expert Opinions #6 + #7: Bob Thiel & Whitley S ...
    Two experts today (or not, see below). First is Bob Thiel, Ph.D., a highly regarded researcher, biblical scholar, and one of the world’s foremost authorities on end time prophecies. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of LaVerne, a Master’s degree from the Univers ...
  • DIY Cosmic Ray Detector
    I’ve read a lot about cosmic rays over the years, written about them, and even hypothesized that the Great Pyramid is a cosmic ray shelter. But I always presumed that detecting cosmic rays was something that only top-level scientists could achieve. To my surprise, turns out that high schoo ...
  • Solar Power Generator / Survival Properties Fo ...
    It looks like a photocopier… But it is a generator. It’s just missing a fuel tank, motor, fumes and noise. According to Hammacher Schlemmer this $2000 unit is silent and emission free. It is powered a 1250-watt battery, fed by two 30-watt solar panels. Additional panels cost $240 ea ...
  • Expert Opinion #5: Carl Johan Calleman
    Recently I reached out to some of the most-read authors in the 2012 space, regardless of whether they agree with my doom’n'gloom mentality. I simply asked for a brief overview of what they think will happen in 2012 (if anything), and optionally, where they will be on Dec 21. Here’s t ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

  • Bikers race near India Gate, injure policeman
    An Assistant Sub-Inspector was injured while trying to stop motorcycle riders from performing dangerous stunts near India Gate, past midnight on Sunday. Reported by Indian Express 2 hours ago
  • Khari Baoli traders go on strike
    The future of kaju katlis and badaam barfis seems uncertain this festival season with the shopkeepers at Asias largest dry fruits market in Khari Baoli downing shutters in protest. Reported by Indian Express 2 hours ago
  • CNOOC to buy Nexen for $15.1 bln in China’s la ...
    HONG KONG/CALGARY (Reuters) - State-controlled CNOOC Ltd ( 0883.HK ) launched China's richest foreign takeover bid yet on Monday by agreeing to buy Canadian oil producer Nexen Inc ( NXY.TO ) for $15.1 billion, forcing Ottawa to decide whether security concerns outweigh its desire for foreign ... ...
  • News Corp promotes Rice, Hill in shake-up befo ...
    REUTERS - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp ( NWSA.O ) said on Monday it had promoted Peter Rice to chairman and chief executive of its Fox Networks Group in the first step of an expected executive shake-up ahead of the company's split into two separate entertainment and news companies next year. Repo ...
  • Mariah Carey to join 'American Idol' judges panel
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop star Mariah Carey will join Fox television's 'American Idol' singing competition as a new judge next season, network executive Kevin Reilly said on Monday. Reported by Reuters India 3 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

  • 3 DIY Kitchen Ideas
    [Editor's Note: According to Tanya from The Sunday Baker everything is better in threes, including DIY kitchen projects. Her recent post about kitchen sprucing has several fun projects that I’d gladly incorporate into my home. First she adds floral contact paper to all her drawers, something I h ...
  • Sally Ride, First American Woman in Space, Die ...
    America's first woman in space, physicist Sally Ride, died today at her home in California at the age of 61 after a bout with pancreatic cancer, according to news reports. President Obama expressed sadness and admiration for "a national hero and a powerful role model" in a brief statement. NASA ...
  • The Internet and Motherhood
    [Editor's Note: Is there any way to do it right? Mothering, that is? Does the Internet add some extra stress to the whole "doing it wrong" mindset? Yes? No? How do you handle it? What do you let go and what do you argue? Lara at Pocket Full of Prose is struggling with some binky related issues a ...
  • So You Think You Can Dance Recap: They All Da ...
    Welcome to week #2 of #SYTYCD, and I think I'm getting how this season will work, with no results show, but America still getting to vote. Each week everyone will dance, even though the votes are already in on who the bottom folks are.After all the dancing, they'll announce the bottom folks. At ...
  • Which Olympic Events Will You Be Watching This ...
    The 2012 Summer Olympics will kick off this Friday, July 27, with the opening ceremony on NBC. Will you be watching? The Olympics are in London this time, and I'm sure our friends across the pond will be putting on a spectacular show. The opening ceremonies provide the host country with an oppor ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Is the PSC telegraphing inaction on power reli ...
    As reported in the Saturday Gazette-Mail, the West Virginia Public Service Commission has started a review of how the state’s public utilities responded to the June 29 “derecho” and its aftermath: The state Public Service Commission on Friday ordered 12 West Virginia utilities ...
  • Despite continued problems, Alpha touts safety
    There’s a news release out from Alpha Natural Resources this morning: Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE: ANR), a leading U.S. coal company, today announced that seven affiliated operations have been recognized for their safety achievements in 2011. The Virginia Coal Mine Safety Board and Depar ...
  • Friday roundup, July 20, 2012
    Robert Dinsmore Project Designer for Chapman Technical Group gets his first look up close before the granite is lifted into place for a memorial honoring 29 miners killed in the 2010 explosion of the Upper Big Branch mine in Whitesville, W.Va., Tuesday July 17, 2012.   Silhouettes of the 29 mine ...
  • MSHA data: Mining deaths on the rise in 2012
    Here’s a mid-year 2012 fatality report from the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today released a midyear summary of mining deaths across the country. During the first half of 2012, 19 miners died in work-re ...
  • Report: Mountaintop removal coal exports rising
    As House Republicans this morning begin another in a series of their hearings trying to somehow turn the federal Office of Surface Mining’s somewhat bumbling efforts to rewrite the stream “buffer zone” rule into an attack on jobs as part of the Obama administration’s alle ...

Daniel Miessler

  • How the Norwegians Reacted to Terrorism | Schneier
    An antidote to the American cycle of threat, fear, and overspending in response to terrorism is this, about Norway on the first anniversary of its terrorist massacre: And at the political level, the Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg pledged to do everything to ensure the country’s core value ...
  • Dinesh D’Souza Doing a Movie About Obama
    Oh Jesus. Related ContentBike Parkour‪Java TrailerCultivating Gratefulness | TEDObama Blasts GOP Candidates on Booing of Gay Soldier at DebateMagnet Through Copper Pipe
  • On the Vim Path
    I just uninstalled TextMate. I also just revamped my git workflow, and am going full-on Vim everywhere. That’s MacVim, Janus, using git within Vim, posting to WordPress from Vim, using Vimium in Chrome… Everything. I’m going to consume a massive number of tutorials, screencasts ...
  • “We thought Sarah Palin was the better candida ...
    People are saying he came to this conclusion after seeing Romney’s tax returns, although that doesn’t need to be true to make the statement hilarious. This is going to be a major joke in the future. It’s top of the list when it comes to ways to identify that you’re no lon ...
  • From San Bruno Mountain
    Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentFlash Mob Idea4S FlowerA Mountain ShadowStudent FailFlowers and Stone

Fitwatch

  • The Most Dangerous Armed Gang in the Country
    A mini-rant from a few FITwatchers - not necessarily representative of the views of the organisation as whole. On Thursday, 19th July, killer cop PC Simon Harwood was acquitted of manslaughter at Southwark Crown Court for his role in the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests in 2009. Despit ...
  • A call to kettle FIT and Police Liaison in Bri ...
    Fitwatch are heading to the Smash EDO demo in Brighton on Monday 16th July, and we'd love you to join us. Smash EDO protests have historically been heavily hit by snoopers from the FIT, Police Liaison and the National Domestic Extremism Unit. These are all dangerous, vindictive and untrustworthy ...
  • Sussex police unleash new weapon – crowd ...
    Sussex police have recently started to use new forms of repressive tactics for policing demonstrations. They seem to have taken a break from head cracking to trial what they have termed 'Police Liaison Officers' or PLOs at the recent Smash EDO demonstration on June 4th. This may not be simply a ...
  • A call to FITWATCH at Smash EDO demo, Monday 4 ...
    The high court has decided that it is perfectly ok for the cops to gather as much intel about anyone they like who is in any way connected to the Smash EDO campaign - or any other that uses direct action or civil disobedience. Yesterday they announced that the domestic extremism unit, in holding ...
  • FITwatch beneFIT: Weds 30th May.
    Come and join us in one of South London's finest boozers and live music venues, and help us raise some much-needed money! See you there. FW Crew x

Worldwide Hippies

  • Sally Ride, first U.S. woman in space, dies at ...
    WWH/CJE – Sally Ride, the first U.S. woman to travel into space, died on Monday after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, according to her organization, Sally Ride Science. She was 61. Ride broke new ground for American women in 1983 when at the age of 32 she and four crewmates blast ...
  • They Took Down THAT Statue And I am GLAD!
    By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE – Yes, Jopa’s statue was draped with a blue plastic tarp and hauled away to an undisclosed storage unit. Some people are sad. Some are happy. Some are outraged and I fall into the happy category. I could not fathom the young men who camped out to protect it. I ...
  • “Free Speech” Truth, Lies and Just Commo ...
    By Brian McDonagh,WWH/CJE – As a Canadian I watch American Politics, sometimes in horror that the insanity may creep across the border into our peaceful little Country. I say little, not because of our land mass, which is larger than that of the United States, but because our population is ...
  • How not to help a woman cope
    By Jona Johns,WWH/CJE- I’ll start with sharing some of the stats that I’ve shared before, but just in case you missed it… They say the stats are one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage.  One in four.  So 75% of the time, a mother gets to take her baby home to the nursery that she’s [...]
  • The Post-Aurora “Rampage” Few Have Heard About
    By William Grigg lewrockwell.com - One day after a lethal shooting rampage in Aurora, Colorado left twelve people dead and scores injured, another eruption of criminal violence left one dead and several others injured in Anaheim, California. The perpetrators of the second assault were officers f ...

reference frame

  • Calabi-Yau tree of life and XY chromosomes cut ...
    Today, there are several very interesting papers but I am maximally fascinated by the first hep-th paper, An Abundance of K3 Fibrations from Polyhedra with Interchangeable Parts (by Philip Candelas, Andrei Constantin, Harald Skarke), which is purely mathematical – it is a paper about high ...
  • New York Times: We are all climate change idiots
    The leading U.S. left-leaning daily has finally made a confession that many of us have eagerly expected for years: We’re All Climate-Change Idiots (The New York Times, Beth Gardiner)Well, yes, you are. And if some readers were still feeling uncertain about the proof of the proposition in th ...
  • Relative strength of HEP experiments, phenomen ...
    A few years ago, the experiments at the LHC were getting started. Decades of thirst for the new experimental data – started especially by the sour 1994 U.S. Congress' decision to abolish the 40 TeV Superconducting Supercollider – were superseded by a new era producing lots of data. The 1 ...
  • Mostly good news on the Fermi \(130\GeV\) line
    Dark matter may be starting to shine in front of our eyes Someone at the Physics Stack Exchange asked about the recent status of the \(130\GeV\) line located in the Fermi gamma-ray data by Christoph Weniger in April 2012 (a confirmation). It's one of the most exciting and potentiall ...
  • Global spam dropped 50% in two days
    Grum has been demolished, Lethic harmed I've never considered spam to be one of the greatest problems. Even when my primary e-mail account belonged to the domain of a countryside university that just didn't have resources to protect the HEP physics users against spam – I think it was cal ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

  • Why I decided to cut back on processed meat, g ...
    By Altelisha Taylor, EWG food and nutrition intern As a kid, I was taught that a decent meal has carbs, veggies and meat. Tacos and burgers were my favorites. I have absolutely no interest in becoming a vegetarian. I'm pretty... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full l ...
  • BPA substitute found on store receipts
    By Paul Pestano, EWG research analyst Nearly two years after EWG published a study documenting high concentrations of the toxic plastics chemical bisphenol A in cash register receipts, scientists are finding that manufacturers have substituted bisphenol... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Study shows fracking can pollute
    By Alex Formuzis, VP for Media Relations A new water quality study near gas drilling operations in northeastern Pennsylvania counters natural gas industry claims that gas and hydraulic fracturing chemicals can't seep into the drinking water of nearby... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Hill politics churns small streams
    By T.J. Pepping, EWG Safe Drinking Water Intern Are smaller, upstream water bodies such as intermittent streams covered by the federal Clean Water Act? This is not an insignificant question: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has determined that... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
  • Pick the best sunscreen for kids
    By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Analyst I have happy memories of long summer days spent outdoors, largely unencumbered by sun hats, sunglasses and sunscreen. Now we know that one blistering burn during childhood can increase a child's risk of developing... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Ambitious AUF boss keen to move on
    Eskil Pedersen has had more publicity, both good and bad, and been closer to government powers-that-be than any other young, aspiring Norwegian politician his age. Now, with the first year of tragedy behind him following the attacks on the Labour Party youth group he heads, AUF, Pedersen wants t ...
  • ‘Normal’ day in prison for Breivik
    While most of his fellow Norwegians were honouring the memory of all the people he killed on July 22 a year ago, confessed right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik reportedly was spending “a normal Sunday” at the prison where’s being held west of Oslo. Breivik’s defens ...
  • A summer’s night in Krokskogen
    There’s been a lot of heavy rain all over southern Norway this summer, making it somewhat less appealing to head into the local hills and woods after work and go on a hike. But every now and then there’s been a break in the seemingly constant downpours, and then the still-long summer ...
  • Euro sinks to new low against krone
    More bad economic news from Spain sent the value of the Euro to its lowest levels against the Norwegian krone for nearly 10 years on Monday. Industrial exporters in Norway are once again viewing their own strong Norwegian currency as a threat. One euro amounted to just NOK 7.36 on Monday, down f ...
  • Springsteen: ‘We shall overcome’
    SEE THE VIDEO: American rock legend Bruce Springsteen turned up as predicted at Sunday night’s memorial concert in Oslo for the victims and survivors of attacks on Norway one year ago. He had a clear message for his Norwegian audience in the song he chose to perform along with band partner ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • The Australian National Food Plan – Have Your Say!
    National Food Plan, Green Paper 3.75mb PDF The Australian federal government has issued a green paper on a National Food Plan for public consultation, which will include a series of public meetings in various places over the next several weeks, [...]
  • Not In Our Name (Video)
    I’ve often seen people sign off their emails with "Peace, love and permaculture". Central to permaculture concepts is an anti-war message. Sustainable prosperity can equal peace. This video, complete with cameo appearances from Geoff Lawton and snippets of our DVDs, tells us that m ...
  • Soil Creation on the Edge!
    by Frank Gapinski A couple of years ago whilst shooting the Food Forest DVD with Geoff Lawton he remarked how “only on edges do we get fertility” or words to that effect. At the time that phrase didn’t really make much sense to me but when you stop and think for a moment how n ...
  • Zaytuna Farm Permaculture Internship April-Jun ...
    One of the students put together this nice little photo collage of the last Internship at the PRI’s Zaytuna Farm in northern NSW, Australia.
  • What is a Transition Town?
    The ‘Transition Town’ movement burst onto the scene merely six years ago in Ireland, and yet already there are almost two thousand Transition Towns around the world. There are dozens right here in Australia. Given that some people are saying this is one of the most promising and impo ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    I'm reposting below an email sent out by Dave Hodges (I posted this separately under "Aurora massacre..." but should have just posted it here to keep things together). I think Hodges raises lots of good points/questions. Also, I was scanning comments over at Wayne Madsen's site and so ...
  • Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
    Found this posted over at Wayne Madsen's front page. His comment was: "Justice Department drops biggest human trafficking case ever brought. U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division attorney Daniel H. Weiss signs order dropping case against Global Horizons and its Israeli CEO, Morde ...
  • Social Engineering • Re: Israeli ZIONIST Nazi' ...
    I spent too long commenting, and now Ada has already said it all. ------------------------- This is what I wrote: How dare you call Ben Cartwright a nazi! BTW: Ben Cartwright: Lorne Greene - Jewish Little Joe Cartwight: Michael Landon - Jewish This is an interesting example because the p ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ca0_1343059659 Batman Colorado shooting: James Holmes was a cannabis smoker The first video footage of the suspect showed him as an awkward, nervous 18-year-old giving a talk at a science summer camp in San Diego on "temporal illusions". It also emerg ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Real life shooting imitates training exercise at Parker medical school 07/21/2012 12:43:24 AM MDT By Nancy Lofholm http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_21126 ... -at-parker The tragedy that played out in an Aurora movie theater Friday was ironically paralleled as a classroom learning experienc ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Iron-Seeding Experiment Shows Ability to Trap ...
    An eight-year German research effort has shown that under the right conditions seeding the ocean with iron can trigger phytoplankton blooms that suck carbon out of the air and trap it deep in the ocean, a potentially important breakthrough in the nascent field of climate geoengineering. Reportin ...
  • `Great Green Fleet’ Trial Launched by U.S. Nav ...
    The U.S. Navy this week held military exercises in the Pacific Ocean that used an expensive blend of biofuels and conventional fuels to power 71 aircraft and three warships, part of an ongoing effort by the Navy to develop alternative fuels for its global operations. The so-called “Great Green F ...
  • Linking Twin Extinctions Of Species and Languages
    A recent study noted that most of the 6,900 languages spoken on Earth occur in regions of high biodiversity. These findings point to a strong correlation between biological and linguistic diversity, with languages closely connected to the habitats where they are found. BY VERLYN KLINKENBORG
  • Warmer Ocean Waters Lead to a Lobster Glut in ...
    Warmer Atlantic Ocean temperatures off the coast of Maine have caused the state’s bountiful supply of lobsters to shed their shells and come onto the market six weeks earlier than normal, creating a glut that has driven prices sharply down. The state’s 5,000 lobster fishermen are receiving less ...
  • Beetle's Rapid Evolution Helps Control Invasiv ...
    Scientists say that a species of beetle has rapidly altered its life cycle to more efficiently devour the invasive tamarisk tree in the southern United States. UCSB Tamarisk leaf beetle In a decade-long study, researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) found that ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

  • The Real Alexander Cockburn
    Ron Radosh begins the process of bringing the judgment of history to bear on the sorry life and work of Alexander Cockburn.
  • Casper Meets HAL
    The Daily Pic: Robert Breer's fantom machines
  • Saudi’s New Top Spy
    King Abdullah reached for a familiar face in shuffling his foreign-intelligence service, naming Prince Bandar as chief. Bruce Riedel on the return of the Middle East’s storied troubleshooter.
  • I Can't Get No...
    In my synagogue back home this weekend, my Rabbi, intentionally or not, echoed the message of historian Deborah Lipstadt’s piece in Tablet: The real reason the International Olympic Committee refused to commemorate the Israeli athletes murdered in Munich in 1972 is because, well, in the eyes of ...
  • Less Fear, Fewer Guns
    In my column for CNN, I give one explanation for why Americans are averse to gun control:

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Adapting to climate change in the Asia-Pacific
    Rising, warming and increasingly acidic seas threaten the very survival of Pacific island countries. The retreat of glaciers and snowfields in the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau jeopardize the "water towers" on which 1 billion Asians depend for dry season and drought year flows. More than 450 mi ...
  • Guidebook to Japanese colleges makes way to bo ...
    A guidebook on Japanese universities hit the shelves of bookstores in major Chinese cities earlier this month to attract more students amid declining enrollment. The book provides details on about 600 public and private universities in Japan and tips on how to find jobs as well.
  • How I learned to stop worrying and embrace the ...
    Like millions of other people in Japan, I watched the events of March 2011 unfurl with shock and trepidation. The massive earthquake, the terrible tsunami and then what seemed to be a dreadful nuclear disaster. Yet now I wonder at my naivety, because the nuclear accident at the Fukushima No. 1 ...
  • NCAA to punish Penn St. program
    Shortly after Penn State tore down its famed statue of coach Joe Paterno, the NCAA announced Sunday it would impose "corrective and punitive" sanctions against the university in the wake of a devastating report that asserted top university officials buried child sex abuse allegations against a r ...
  • Durant stars as U.S. tops Argentina in exhibition
    Dressed like the Dream Team, tested like its predecessor never was. The U.S. Olympic men's basketball team held on for an 86-80 exhibition victory over Argentina on Sunday, insisting it didn't expect an easy game and not believing there's benefit to one, anyway.

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

  • An American motto: free, armed and stupid
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the Colorado massacre highlights the poisonous influence of lobby groups on US politics, in this case the gun lobby but also, in foreign policy, the Zionist lobby. He calls for a rational rethinking of the meaning of "freedom", so that, in essence, it does not mean ...
  • A war Israel is just begging for an excuse to ...
    Gilad Atzmon warns that Israel's eagerness to attack Iran in "retaliation" for the unsubstantiated claim that Iran is behind the attack on Israeli tourists in Bulgaria is driven by a collective self-annihilation complex that is inherent in Israeli culture and threatens to engulf the world in war.
  • The last days of Syrian butcher Assad's regime ...
    We are witnessing the last days of Bashar "The Butcher" Assad, the Alawite sectarian dictator ruling Syria. Slowly but surely, the revolutionaries of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) are closing in on his vipers’ nests... Yet, here in the West, lurking in the darkest corners of ignorance – on the in ...
  • Israel paves way for annexation of Palestinian ...
    Jonathan Cook sees a report recently published by Israeli Supreme Court judge Levy, which stated that Israel is not in fact occupying Palestinian territories, as a step towards the formal annexation of a large chunk of the West Bank - the 62 per cent of the occupied Palestinian territory dubbed ...
  • Donor dollars aiding political repression in E ...
    Graham Peebles looks at how the mixed motives for the aid given by Western donor countries to Ethiopia mean that these countries - in effect, US, British and other European taxpayers - are funding a deeply repressive and violent regime that uses aid as a political weapon to control the populatio ...

Physics Today

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

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Peakwater

  • Why the time for a China-India water treaty is now
    “China and India need to reach agreement on how they will manage water from one of the world’s great rivers — the Yarlung-Zangbo-Brahmaputra — before it becomes another serious impediment to relations between the two Asian heavyweights. “Water scarcity already affec ...
  • California Water Plans: Jerry Brown’s Tu ...
    “FRESNO, Calif. — 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. Alr ...
  • Untapped resource: Safe drinking tap water sti ...
    “Beijing’s municipal government last month unveiled its ambitious plan to build two world-class water treatment plants as part of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, which aims to divert water from the Yangtze River valley to the reaches of Yellow River, Huaihe River and Haih ...
  • Energy & Water are Closely Related
    “For the greater part of energy production water comes in as a very important input. It is necessary for oil fields development not only for drilling but to maintain production later and more is needed when enhanced oil recovery is practised. The World Energy Council (WEC) estimates an ave ...
  • US West Coast to receive dangerous levels of F ...
    “Researchers have released the findings of an intense study into the aftermath of last year’s Fukushima nuclear disaster and warn that the United States isn’t exactly spared just yet. In fact, scientists now fear that incredibly contaminated ocean waters could be reaching the West Coast of ...

D. Kucinich

  • FDA Allows Pet Deaths to Mount While Awaiting ...
    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 of reports of sick and dying dogs, the FDA still has no answ ...
  • Beyond DISCLOSE, Rescue Our Democracy
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released a video noting the Senate’s inability to pass The DISCLOSE Act, which would increase disclosure of groups working to influence elections. In the video, Kucinich renewed his call for a constitutional amendment to ban all private money in federal e ...
  • Kucinich Wins Good Government Victory
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today scored a victory for common sense on Capitol Hill with an amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Bill to prevent those who have defrauded the federal government from being able to receive government contracts. According to the Congressiona ...
  • America: Out of Many, One - A Land that Celebr ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released a video on YouTube celebrating the freedom and diversity of America. In the video, Rep. Kucinich notes the discriminatory experiences that some Iranian-Americans have been subjected to. ...
  • Kucinich Doubles Funding for Research to Find ...
    In a rare moment of bipartisan legislating, an amendment from Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) to increase funding for research into treatments for Gulf War Illness received the support of Rep. C.W. Bill Young (R-FL) and Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA). Kucinich also secured a commitment from Reps. You ...

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Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • Scientists create jellyfish using rat cells (+ ...
    US scientists have bioengineered a "jellyfish" that can swim, using rat heart cells and silicone polymers.However rather than being simply a freak of science, the researchers say the creature replicates the human heart and is a...
  • Quakes raise Tongariro alert
    Mt Tongariro's volcanic risk has been upgraded for the first time but scientists and locals have dismissed immediate chances of a large eruption.Yesterday scientists at GeoNet upgraded the alert level for the volcano after recording...
  • Fracking safe, claims UK science body
    The controversial oil and gas extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking", is capable of being managed sustainably and without serious risk of groundwater contamination or inducing damaging earthquakes, the Royal...
  • Tongariro volcano alert at new high
    A "sudden rise" in volcanic activity at Mt Tongariro has prompted scientists to lift its volcanic alert status for the first time.But local businesses and conservation authorities remain unconcerned as they seek to reassure visitors...
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    Science has never been cooler for a group of students at Tangaroa College, who dream of achieving big things in the world of medicine.Sitting round a classroom table at their school in Otara, they are happy to reveal what each of...

The Bovine

  • Media advisory — Michael Schmidt at Cour ...
    From the Canadian Constitution Foundation: TORONTO: Dairy farmer Michael Schmidt will return to court on Thursday, July 26, 2012 seeking leave from the Ontario Court of Appeal to appeal his convictions on 13 counts relating to the sale and distribution … Continue reading →
  • 2. Were the contracts between Michael Schmidt ...
    Part 2 of The Bovine’s countdown to Michael Schmidt court appearance this Thursday July 26th at Osgoode Hall, in Toronto. From the applicant’s factum: 47. Justice Tetley concluded in paragraph 51 of his decision that the contract between Michael Schmidt … Continue reading →
  • License to sell raw milk products — Icel ...
    Iceland has lately been world famous for the way in which they held their bankers to account for the financial crisis. Now, it would seem, they’re setting an example for recognizing the value of making raw milk available through legally-approved … Continue reading →
  • 1. Did Justice Tetley usurp the role of prosec ...
    Justice Tetley was the last judge to rule in the Michael Schmidt raw milk case. He found Michael guilty on several counts and sentenced him to pay a fine.  Michael Schmidt will be at Osgoode Hall July 26th seeking leave … Continue reading →
  • U.S. drought triggers “cowmageddon”
    American farmers who can’t afford to feed their animals because of drought related crop failures, are sending them to the slaughterhouse in droves.

Mish's Global Economic Trends

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  • Spanish Finance Minister in Germany Pleads for ...
    Spain faces a bond rollover of €28 Billion in October and is rightfully scared about 2-year bond rates of 6.5%. El Economista notes the Spanish economy minister is at a meeting in Berlin to discuss Government Request for a Credit Line to Save the Year and forestall an imminent financial co ...
  • Austerity Hits Cisco Systems as 1,300 Layoffs ...
    For the second consecutive year, Cisco Systems is in Austerity Mode, looking to shed 1,300 employees. Cisco Systems is to lay off around 1,300 workers, as part of the company's ongoing austerity programme aimed at saving $1bn a year. The firm said the cuts were being implemented to simpli ...
  • Social Media Panic in Italy: "Enough of this A ...
    Black Monday messages on Facebook and Twitter have gone viral in Italy as people have had enough of austerity, job losses, and uncertainty. La Stampa reports on Panic in the Network. What follows is a Mish-revised translation of select ideas and quotes from the article. My specific comments ...
  • Ten Major Italian Cities On Verge of Financial ...
    The economic situation in Italy has reached a critical phase as Ten major cities face risk of crash The word "crash" implies bankruptcy. Milan, Naples, and Turin are among the cities. The Association of Municipalities plans to demonstrate in Rome against new cuts, hoping to sends a clear me ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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  • Classified Woman at FireDogLake Book Salon Tonight
    I will be at FireDogLake Book Salon this evening (Saturday, June 30, 2012). The two-hour session will be hosted and moderated by Kevin Gosztola. We’ll be discussing and taking your questions and comments on my memoir Classified Woman, the persecution and prosecution of government whistleblowers, ...
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bloody crossroads

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

  • Ship Photo of The Day – Pirate Defenders Unite!
    On July 18th in the Gulf of Aden, the three Head Honchos’ of international piracy deterrence met face-to-face to swap sea stories and discuss some pirate-fighting strategies. The meeting marks [...]
  • US: Offshore Drillers Focus on Wrong Safety Data
    HOUSTON–A federal safety agency has determined that the offshore-drilling industry is relying on the wrong data in its quest to prevent major accidents like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout. Offshore [...]
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    Representing nearly 80% of the world’s merchant fleet, the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) on Monday called on the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to hurry up with a critical study [...]
  • Arsonist to Blame in $400 Million US Navy Subm ...
    The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) has made an arrest in connection with a shipyard fire that devastated the Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine, USS Miami, in Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on [...]
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Press TV

  • US stocks fall on eurozone worries
    US stock markets have dropped amid concerns about the eurozone debt crisis, renewed fears that Spain may be unable to avoid a costly bailout, and talk of a possible Greek exit from the eurozone.
  • Moody's cuts German outlook to negative
    Moody's Investors Service has changed the outlook for the ratings of Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands to negative from stable, citing the uncertainty about the eurozone’s ongoing debt crisis.
  • Zanzibar ferry death toll rises to 78
    At least 78 people have been confirmed dead and 66 others are still missing from last week's Tanzanian ferry disaster, raising fears that some 144 passengers may have died.
  • Protesters storm police station in Calif.
    US demonstrators have stormed a police department in Orange County in the state of California to protest the controversial shooting death of an unarmed Latino man by a police officer.
  • 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.

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Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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