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Friday, July 27, 2012

27 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Green Energy Renewable Solutions Clarifies Stock Dividend Dates
Sacramento Bee
LAS VEGAS, July 26, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Green Energy Renewable Solutions, Inc. (OTCQB: EWRL) today provided clarification of important dates in regards to its recently announced one additional share for every outstanding share held stock dividend.
China Leads The World In Renewable Energy Investment
Forbes
According to a recently released United Nations report, global investment in renewable energy reached a record $257 billion in 2011, a 17 percent increase from the amount invested in 2010. Globally, renewable energy covers approximately 16.7 percent of ...
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Poland proposes less help for biomass, onshore wind
Reuters
Renewables aid to drop by $2.9 bln in 2013-2020: draft. * Proposal sees support shifting away from biomass. * Greater emphasis on solar and offshore wind. By Maciej Onoszko. WARSAW, July 27 (Reuters) - Poland's economy ministry on Friday proposed ...
No Renewables? No Problem. Data Centers Can Clean Up Emissions Today
Forbes
But perhaps they should focus on the real issue determining competitive advantage: With no reliable, cheap renewable energy source in sight, how will they sustainably power massive data centers (using 2% of U.S. electricity) needed for this growing ...
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Ecology Center renovation underway at Alexander Hamilton School
Morristown Green
By Layston Badham. A hidden-away Ecology Center at the Alexander Hamilton Elementary School has taken the interest of environmentally friendly organizations in helping to renew the outdoor classroom to its former glory. After a storm in October 2011 ...
Tropical Ecology 101: Leaf-Cutter Ants
GreenAnswers (blog)
Continue to follow Tropical Ecology 101 and learn about a variety of different organisms, people, and conservation projects focused in the Neotropics. You will be so amazed you will probably find yourself online checking out airfare to a tropical ...
Moose, fire and forest ecology
Kenai Peninsula Online
Robert Frost quotes the 17th Century proverb “good fences make good neighbors” in his Mending Wall poem. He questions why fences make good neighbors, asking what he was walling in or walling out, and to whom he may be giving offence by building a ...
Research makes possible rapid assessment of plant drought tolerance
Phys.Org
Credit: Megan Bartlett/ UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. (Phys.org) -- UCLA life scientists, working with colleagues in China, have discovered a new method to quickly assess plants' drought tolerance. The method works for many ...
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US water polo veterans ready to claim Olympic gold
The Associated Press
By BARBARA SURK, Associated Press – 1 minute ago. LONDON (AP) — The surprise silver medalists of Beijing are hoping for the title this time around. The United States brought an experienced men's water polo team to London that's determined to improve ...
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Dan Walters: Gov. Jerry Brown once again faces Delta water fight
San Jose Mercury News
One of the few issues that he did pursue was a "peripheral canal" to carry Sacramento River water around the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to the California Aqueduct near Tracy, and thence southward. The canal would complete the water plan that ...
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California Water Service Group's CEO Discusses Q2 2012 Results - Earnings ...
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Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome to the California Water Service Group second quarter 2012 earnings results conference call. Today's call is being recorded. I would now like to turn the meeting over to Mr. Martin Kropelnicki, Vice President ...
Water conservation still needed despite cooler temps and rain, official says
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This week's call for water conservation from Des Moines Water Works likely will remain in effect through August, despite recent rainfall and cooler temperatures, an official said Friday. Randy Beavers, CEO and general manager of the water works, said ...
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Scoop - NZ

  • Farewell Alexander Cockburn
    Our friend and comrade Alexander Cockburn died last night in Germany, after a fierce two-year long battle against cancer. His daughter Daisy was at his bedside. Alex kept his illness a tightly guarded secret. Only a handful of us knew how terribly sick he truly was. He didn’t want the disease ...
  • Chomsky: From Magna Carta to Minor Carta ..
    The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. It was not an easy task. There was no good text available. As he wrote, "the body of the charter has been unfortunately gnawn by rats" – a comment that carries grim symbolism today, as we take up t ...
  • Princess Joins the Saudi Opposition
    Princess Sarah Bint Talal Bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud is adamant about resisting attempts to dissuade her from seeking political asylum in Britain. In an interview with Al-Akhbar, she reiterates her refusal to compromise over her demand that corrupt individuals in the Kingdom be held accountable, par ...
  • Damascus Bombing: The Aftermath
    The sources said that investigations had already led to the identity of the person who installed the explosive device inside the room. The device was camouflaged to look like a dossier holding several papers. Explosives, in the shape of broad flat panels, were transported into the building succe ...
  • Lies, Damn Lies and LIBOR
    What I suspect is that this is not a flaw but a feature of modern financial markets. And if it was happening in LIBOR for between 5 and 15 years, then the business model has been profitably replicated to many other quotation-based reference prices. Price discovery is not a sexy function of ma ...

Independent - London

  • Halt Aleppo massacre, leaders urge Syria
    World leaders tonight called on President Bashar Assad to stop the massacre of civilians in Syria's second city. Related StoriesFormer golden boy emerges as contender to lead SyriaFormer golden boy Manaf Tlass emerges as contender to lead SyriaSyria: United Nations says assault on Aleppo is 'im ...
  • Ivory Coast president heckled by protesters ah ...
    The Ivory Coast president Alassane Ouattara, who is in Britain for the Olympics opening ceremony, was heckled by protesters as he met diplomats in central London earlier today.
  • Stop attack on Aleppo, Syria told
    Syria should stop its assault on Aleppo, Ban Ki-Moon said during a visit to London today. Related StoriesFormer golden boy emerges as contender to lead SyriaFormer golden boy Manaf Tlass emerges as contender to lead SyriaSyria: United Nations says assault on Aleppo is 'imminent'UN expert 'alarm ...
  • UN expert 'alarmed' by imminent wave of execut ...
    A UN human rights expert is calling on the Iraqi government to halt what he says is the possible imminent execution of up to 196 death row inmates in Anbar province. Related StoriesFormer golden boy emerges as contender to lead SyriaFormer golden boy Manaf Tlass emerges as contender to lead Syri ...
  • Nato says Afghan militant attacks are up 11%
    Insurgent attacks in Afghanistan during the past three months were up 11 per cent, compared to the same period last year, according to the latest statistics on monthly violence released by the US-led coalition. Related StoriesFormer Chinese politician Bo Xilai's wife charged with murder of Neil ...

Rogue Government.com

  • Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
    Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...
    European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 

Innovation Canada

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

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    Patrocínio, Minas Gerais, Brazil - 07-19-12
  • Centaurs and Satyrs and Mutant Hares, Oh My!
    Fairies are so 'yesterday'. What about the more exotic fauna from the forests of the imagination? Let's start with the mutant hare at Windsor! I remember Lilian, Countess of Cromartie, telling me of a strange incident that once happened to her. She was walking alone one bright summer morning ...
  • Why Society Doesn't Change: The System Justifi ...
    "Society's tendency is to maintain what has been. Rebellion is only an occasional reaction to suffering in human history: we have infinitely more instances of forbearance to exploitation, and submission to authority, than we have examples of revolt." (Zinn, 1968) Have you ever wondered why soci ...
  • The Plight of Low Wage Workers
    This past week had many New Yorkers indulging an amused horror over a curated set of images on the social-media site Tumblr titled "Rich Kids of Instagram." Photographs, outlined in gilded frames, depict the summer-holiday excesses of young people for whom Y.M.C.A. camp was apparently never on t ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Air Harper
    Ugh. Harper wants his Air Force One. But here's the thing: The United States has a fleet of presidential and executive aircraft specifically designed and equipped to fly their high ranking states-people around the world and their country. Air Force One, the heavily customised Boeing 747 airframe ...
  • Banksy’s Latest . . .
    ACCORDING TO TAXI, "London Officials To Erase Banksy’s Latest ‘Olympic’ Street Art". The Nanny State at its intrusive worst.
  • Pole-dancing pedestrians . . .
    REALLY. ACCORDING TO THE TELEGRAPH, "Traffic signs in New Zealand destroyed by prostitutes performing stunts". Dozens of traffic signs have been destroyed by prostitutes performing pole-dances in the street to attract clients, officials in New Zealand's biggest city have revealed, and ac ...
  • Surviving society's psychopaths . . .
    WHEN THE POLICE CAN'T PROTECT YOU, WHAT DO YOU DO? If you're a politically-correct, 'progressive', you probably die, because guns are nasty. Everybody should know guns are nasty — but so are some people. When you live in a would-be, could-be, should-be world spun for you by those you foll ...
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Media Matters for America

  • Local News Outlets Help Push Bogus "Bu ...
    Local news outlets have helped push the dishonest narrative that President Obama's "you didn't build that" comments were an attack on small business owners while promoting Mitt Romney's resulting "We Did Build This" events. Local outlets also repeatedly failed to play the crucial missing contex ...
  • "Damage Control"? Fox Still Pushing Its Discre ...
    Fox News is characterizing President Obama's response to the Fox-manufactured "you didn't build that" controversy as "damage control." This comes after Fox promoted its deceptively edited clip for days -- and after independent fact-checkers have discredited attacks on Obama based on the decepti ...
  • Conservative Media Defend Bachmann's Muslim Br ...
    Conservative media are defending charges leveled by Representative Michele Bachmann that the Muslim Brotherhood is attempting to infiltrate the U.S. government. However, Bachmann's attacks, including one directed at Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, have received significant bipartisan condemna ...
  • Fox Hides Lack Of Voter Fraud And Political Mo ...
    Fox's Patti-Ann Brown adopted the discredited right-wing claim that voter ID laws like one recently passed in Pennsylvania are an "attempt to fight voter fraud." But experts have said that voter fraud is not an issue in the state, and a state lawmaker behind the push has acknowledged that ...
  • Fox's Ingraham Suggests Obama Is Trying To Buy ...
    Fox's Laura Ingraham dismissed a recent rule change regarding welfare work requirements as an attempt by the Obama administration to buy votes, a charge right-wing media have frequently leveled at Obama after his attempts to improve antipoverty programs. But the rule change was reportedly reque ...

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  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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  • ERCOT prepares for first summer heat wave of 2012
    With the passing of the Summer solstice and temperatures expected to hit triple digits several days next week in the Lone Star State, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the electric grid operator for most of the state, is looking closely at anticipated electric use and available ...
  • NOAA Report – Global warming has made 2011 Tex ...
    According to a story on MSNBC, scientists can’t blame any single weather event on global warming, but they now believe they can assess how climate change has altered the odds of such events happening,   Click here to read the AP story, Global warming tied to risk of weather extremes.  Clic ...
  • We are now in energy emergency season as a hea ...
    The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT), system operator for the state’s bulk transmission grid, is asking consumers and businesses to reduce their electricity use during peak electricity hours from 3 to 7 p.m. today. Consumers can help by shutting off unnecessary lights and elec ...
  • KEFFER LISTENS INTENTLY TO TAR SANDS CONCERNS: ...
    The following story on testimony provided to the Texas House Energy Resources Committee about the threat the proposed Tar Sands pipeline poses for the state was reprinted with the permission of the Texas Energy Report. House Energy Resources Committee Chairman Jim Keffer on Tuesday promised envi ...
  • WCS – A potential bailout without any authoriz ...
    We’ve recently realized that TCEQ allowed stock from Waste Control Specialists (WCS) sister company, Titanium Metals Corp to be put up as the financial assurance for their radioactive waste dump and that stock isn’t performing well right now. So we want to know, where does that leave ...

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  • Court Rejects a Ban on Local Fracking Limits
    (Green) A Pennsylvania court on Thursday struck down a provision of a state law that forbade municipalities to limit where natural gas drilling could take place within their boundaries. read more
  • Pulling Carbon From Air Should Be Pursued Desp ...
    (Yale Environment 360) Columbia University scientists say that technologies to extract carbon dioxide from the air will likely become a critical part of any strategy to stabilize the global climate and should not be abandoned because o ...
  • Electric Cars Become Tougher to Sell
    (USA Today) The glow appears to be wearing off electric cars. The percentage of buyers willing to consider an all-electric model has deteriorated since January from a bit over 5% to about 4.5% as of last month, CNW Research says. That ...
  • Political Clout of Japan's Anti-Nuke Movement ...
    (Wall Street Journal) Two events Sunday will test the political influence of Japan's growing antinuclear power movement: a regional election featuring one of the country's most prominent industry critics, and a 1960s-style surround-the ...
  • Refinery Developer Hyperion Wants Fast Action ...
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Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Sane Politicians Don't Do This
    There's an article in The Hill about Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's recent change in strategy which involves less obstruction and more reliance on John Boehner's House of Representatives for stalling or blocking the president's agenda. One example of this is the recent vote to extend ...
  • Romney's Disastrous Foreign Adventure
    I don't know exactly why Mitt Romney decided to travel abroad in the lead-up to the Republican National Convention next month. I suppose it's a box that a prospective nominee is supposed to check. But, if he wanted to reassure Americans that he has the diplomatic skills to be president, he's a ...
  • Romney's Failure is Complete
    The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, just mocked Mitt Romney in front of more than 50,000 people attending the Olympic torch-lighting ceremony in Hyde Park. The Epic Fail is complete. He can do whatever he likes for the rest of his tour, but all anyone is going to remember is that he made himse ...
  • Severe Storms Linked to Ozone Loss over US
    And you thought we only had to worry about CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) destroying the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere (e.g., the Arctic and Antarctic ozone "holes") that protects all life on the planet from dangerous ultraviolet light emissions. Guess again. For the first time, a study by H ...
  • Romney Has Imploded
    Even though some of the Olympic competitions have already started, the opening ceremony is scheduled for 6pm local time tomorrow. Mitt Romney's itinerary says he'll be there, but he'd probably like to be anywhere else. All anyone in the U.K. is talking about is how stupid and obnoxious Mitt Ro ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Shard London Bridge: The European Union's ...
    Thanks to its global outlook and political stability, London has a new addition to an already iconic skyline. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Attack on Pearl Harbor in Pictures
    The infamous attack on Pearl Harbor will forever be remembered for its casualties, as well as for its role in bringing the US fully into WWII This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Dizzying Perspectives from the Top of New York ...
    Here's a different way to look at the New York skyline – from its rooftops. It certainly gives you a new perspective on the city – if you don't get too dizzy, that is! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Firearms Which Changed the Course of History
    From the flintlock musket to the AK-47, certain firearms have given one side the edge in wars through the ages. Here are 10 Firearms Which Changed the Course of History. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Breathtaking Beauty of Milford Sound
    Majestic and breathtakingly beautiful, Milford Sound was, surprisingly, relatively unexplored until quite recently. Mind-blowing photos of this Fiordland wonder follow. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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  • #FreeHammond - 23 July 2012 statement from acc ...
    Worth throwing up there as an example of how to keep perspective when they try to throw the book at you. Things like this crystallize the hypocrisy of conspiracy charges, cyber-fear-blather, terrorism and of course the laundering of drug money through the banking system. Till the walls tumble, J ...
  • The Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies - for ...
    Reposting this as it's a much more handy summary than I could give. Neato! I think we're seeing this get more and more privatized as well -- I have a couple flagrant sockpuppets I know and love, they are like a handy little COINTELPRO weathervane. When talking Information Operations (not to ment ...
  • Crib notes & URLs for today's discussion on Al ...
    All right I gotta be a bit raw in the formatting here... Just had a good talk for an hour with Alex Jones on the afternoon radio show. Also some good news, Zuccotti Park is reoccupied today - see http://globalrevolution.tv for live feed mixes! //// UPDATE 8PM: I forgot COINTELPRO GOTHIC 1 & ...
  • Found older manual on Civil Disturbance Operat ...
    Fortunately the MP manual which I wrote a post on last Thursday night has been circulating & spurred a lot of discussion on domestic military operations. I will be going on the Alex Jones Show at 1PM tomorrow (Central) to discuss this and other trends in domestic militarization. Please tune ...
  • "Warning shot will not be fired" by MPs traine ...
    b. Use of Deadly and Non-deadly Force (4) (b) Warning shot will not be fired. or better yet: (3) In an occupied building, when the dissident's/sniper's location is unknown, all suspected rooms must be searched. The action element should try to have occupants submit voluntarily to the search of ...

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  • Canadian spy compromised Australian, British i ...
    Back in May, when it was disclosed that the United States helped Canadian counterintelligence investigators build their case against Jeffrey Paul Delisle, a Royal Canadian Navy Sub-Lieutenant, who is accused of spying for Russia, we warned that “an important subject concerns the degree in which ...
  • News you may have missed #768
    'CIA could get bin Laden but can't get a gym'. Israel convinced Hezbollah behind Bulgaria bombing. Hezbollah silent on reports of Israel spy arrests.
  • Analysis: Bandar’s return affirms hawkish turn ...
    To those who remember Prince Bandar bin Sultan from his Washington days, which were filled with drinking and partying, it may seem incredible that the “peasant prince”, whose mother was one of Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud’s countless underage concubines, is now heading Saudi intelligence, in wha ...
  • News you may have missed #767
    Aussie spy chief warns of 'digital footprints'. India arrests alleged Pakistani spy. Egypt spies try to repair image as ex-Director dies.
  • US spy agencies turn to Israel, Turkey, for he ...
    Just days after a senior United States defense official admitted Pentagon intelligence analysts missed early signs of the Arab Spring, a new report claims that Washington is still “struggling to understand” the Syrian situation, sixteen months into the uprising. As a result, US intelligence age ...

War is a Crime.org

  • Top 10 Reasons Michele Bachmann Should Be Kick ...
    Enter here: http://facebook.com/rootsaction
  • Bahrain: Repression intensifies as Revolution ...
    Since the beginning of the holy month of Ramadhan the Bahraini Revolution has escalated dramatically. At least 25 demonstrations have taken place every day and night with one clear message: The people want regime change. Chanting like “Down with Hamad” has become the standard slogan uttered by t ...
  • A federal court finally steps up by Wendy Thomson
    Finally. That’s all I can say. Finally, a federal court ruled that it does, indeed, have jurisdiction over at least some TSA procedures.  It's about time. READ THE REST HERE.
  • Guilty Conscience or Cynical Ploy? Architect o ...
      By Dave Lindorff Imagine for a moment what would happen if former President George W. Bush were to give an interview on television and declare that his invasion of Iraq, and the ensuing nine years of death and mayhem that resulted from that war, had been the wrong thing to do. Imagine i ...
  • Games Played on Poor at London 2012 Olympics
      By Linn Washington London resident Zita Holbourne plans to participate in the Friday July 27th Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games held at the gleaming new stadium located not far from her community of Newham. However, Holbourne, a trade union activist and poet, is not participa ...

Grist - News

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

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  • Yours is the Truth and Everything that’s ...
    By Les Visible I did not set out with any of this in mind. I had no preconceived notions about the players and the game. The fact of the matter was that I knew very little about the reality of these things, until I set sail on the internet. I am the product of the [...]
  • Israel implosion imminent: Iran lawmaker
    Iran’s Majlis (parliament) representative for the Iranian Jews says rampant domestic injustices in Israel have rendered the recent self-immolations inevitable and the regime’s implosion imminent. “Given the injustices that exist even with regard to the settlers inside the occupied territories, e ...
  • Mexican Official: CIA ‘Manages’ Drug Trade
    Aljazeera.com July 25, 2012 The US Central Intelligence Agency and other international security forces “don’t fight drug traffickers”, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state government in northern Mexico has told Al Jazeera, instead “they try to manage the drug trade”. Allegations about official co ...
  • Facebook’s Privacy Issues Are Even Deepe ...
    By Chunka Mui | Forbes – Mon, Aug 8, 2011 Questions about what social networks mean for personal privacy and security have been brought to a head by research at Carnegie Mellon University that shows that Facebook has essentially become a worldwide photo identification database. Paired with ...
  • Harvard Study Finds Fluoride Lowers IQ – ...
    NEW YORK, July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Harvard University researchers’ review of fluoride/brain studies concludes “our results support the possibility of adverse effects of fluoride exposures on children’s neurodevelopment.” It was published online July 2 ...

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

Inhabitat

  • BMW C Evolution is a Stylish Electric Scooter ...
    BMW is giving the world a glimpse of its future electric scooter with the BMW C evolution. The BMW C evolution scooter is a near-production prototype that BMW says may soon be released. The electric scooter was conceived as a future electric scooter that would be perfect for an urban environment ...
  • Hungarian Student Designs a More Efficient and ...
    Read the rest of Hungarian Student Designs a More Efficient and Greener Egg Carton Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Cardboard Design, cardboard egg box, Egg Box, egg carton, envrionmentally friendly design, Moholy-Nagy University, Otília Erdélyi, ReDesign, simple design
  • Coca-Cola’s Beatbox Pavilion Will Inspire Olym ...
    Read the rest of Coca-Cola’s Beatbox Pavilion Will Inspire Olympic Visitors to ‘Move to the Beat of London 2012′ Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Architecture, Art, green lighting, LED Beatbox, Olympic Beatbox, pavilion beatbox, pavilion light show, Pe ...
  • cARTon muebles ecologicos Transforms Recycled ...
    Cardboard continues to show us that it knows no bounds, and this cute little treasure chest by cARTón muebles ecológicosis another great example of how with the right amount of creativity, the corrugated material can be transformed into a coveted piece of decor. Led by Zafra Miriam, cARTón muebl ...
  • Berlin’s Effizienzhaus Plus Home Generates Mor ...
    Germany has built a home that produces so much clean energy it can charge the family cars as well. Efficiency House Plus with Electric Mobility designed by a collaborative team lead by Professor Werner Sobek is a 130 square meter experiment that was built in December 2011. Commissioned by German ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • New Genetic Test Reveals Your Cat’s Ancestry
    Ever wondered whether your feline hails from eastern Asia or the eastern Mediterranean? No need to rack your brain anymore -- a geneticist has developed a cat ancestry test that will reveal your pet's lineage.
  • Watch the American Landscape Change as Seen Fr ...
    To celebrate the launch of the first Landsat satellite on July 23, 1972, the USGS and NASA asked the public to nominate landscapes that have undergone a lot of environmental change for a closer look. The Landsat team chose these six submissions and created customized chronicles of the change in ...
  • Simulations Will Help Keep Track of Remote Spa ...
    New efforts will help avoid space junk collisions in low- and high-Earth orbit. But many problems still remain, such as the amount of computer power that will be needed to monitor all the space junk and eventual solutions to cleaning up Earth's orbit.
  • New Robot Can Jump on Water
    If you thought walking on water was impressive, try jumping. Researchers have built a robot that can jump on water just like a real water strider. While it’s not the first robot to mimic the water-gliding insect’s skating motion, it’s the first that can actually bounce on water.
  • Chemical Helps Blind Mice See Again
    Injections of a recently discovered chemical into the eyes of blind lab mice has restored at least part of the rodents' vision. The chemical, called AAQ -- short for acrylamide-azobenzene-quaternary ammonium -- was not tested in humans, nor is it a cure for blindness. But researchers who treated ...

PakAlert

  • US Military and Local Police Working Together ...
    The US military is being used to protect civilian events, like the 2012 Democratic and Republican Party National Conventions in Tampa, Florida and Charlotte, North Carolina. USNORTHCOM and Leon Panetta, US Secretary of Defense, has readily admitted that US armed forces will collaborate with l ...
  • Economic Crises Set Stage for World War 2: It’ ...
    The Illuminati set the stage for WW2 from 1925 -1931 with a program of economic warfare. The program was designed to destroy the world economic system beyond repair. It included two seismic events - the Wall Street crash of 1929 and the British gold default in 1931. The Bank of England wa ...
  • Syria: Washington’s Latest War Crime
    One wonders what Syrians are thinking as “rebels” vowing to “free Syria” take the country down the same road to destruction as “rebels” in Libya. Libya, under Gaddafi a well run country whose oil revenues were shared with the Libyan people instead of monopolized by a princely class as in Saudi A ...
  • Obama’s Leaks and Their Catastrophic Consequences
    The White House was on the receiving end of some well-earned criticism regarding national security leaks from both sides of the aisle. On Monday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, criticized White House operatives for the leaks. “I think the White Hou ...
  • James Holmes’ “Mentor” Admits To Mind Manipulation
    John Jacobson, the person James Holmes named as his “mentor” during his science camp presentation on “temporal illusions” and “subjective experience” [1], can be seen in a video discussing the manipulation of a subject’s order of time perception. [2]

Andy Worthington

  • I’m Off to WOMAD, Back on Monday: Please ...
    Every year, on the last weekend in July, WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance), the world music festival, takes place in the UK — for the last few years, in Wiltshire, on a wonderful site in Charlton Park — and this year is its 30th anniversary. My wife has been running children&#82 ...
  • The Olympics Minus One Day: Photos from the Fr ...
    The Olympics Minus One Day: Photos from the Frontline in Stratford, a set on Flickr. So the Games are nearly upon us! I won’t be here in London, as I’ll be at the WOMAD festival in Wiltshire; that’s World of Music and Dance, the celebrated world music festival celebrating its 3 ...
  • Real Life in South London: Photos of a Journey ...
    Real Life in South London: A Journey through Nunhead, Peckham, Walworth and Borough, a set on Flickr. Since I began my project, ten weeks ago, to cycle the whole of London by bike, armed only with a camera, I have managed to become quite familiar with the whole of south east London, Canary Wharf ...
  • At Guantánamo, Another Bleak Ramadan for 87 Cl ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...
  • Photos: The Olympic Torch in Lewisham, and Som ...
    The Olympic Torch in Lewisham, a set on Flickr. So the time is nearly upon us. The Olympic Games — corporate, militarised, jingoistic — begin on Friday, and, after a plague of disasters in recent weeks, everything appears to be running relatively smoothly on the last lap. This mornin ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • White Mississippi Church to Black Couple: You ...
    It’s been more than 50 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously called Sunday morning at 11 “the most segregated hour of Christian America.” Although many congregations have since integrated – or at least no longer actively oppose the idea – some still haven’t gotten the message. Just ask ...
  • Anarchist Pleads Guilty in Terrorist Plot to B ...
    One of five self-proclaimed anarchists has pleaded guilty to three federal “weapons of mass destruction” charges in a conspiracy to blow up a bridge, a Ku Klux Klan gathering spot and a Federal Reserve Bank in Ohio. Anthony M. Hayne, 35, of Cleveland, pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to us ...
  • Nebraska Police Not Ruling Out Hoax in Attack ...
    Police investigators in Lincoln, Neb., have not ruled out the possibility that a 33-year-old lesbian allegedly attacked last weekend because of her sexual orientation might have staged the hate crime. But they’re also not ready to call her story, which has ignited interest across the country, a ...
  • ‘Sovereign’ Money Launderer Convicted After Tw ...
    Federal prosecutors in Las Vegas have obtained the second conviction in a case involving  two “sovereign citizen” extremists who laundered $1.3 million provided by undercover FBI agents investigating a network of sovereigns. After a two-day nonjury trial that ended yesterday, Shawn Talbot Rice, ...
  • Report: Minuteman Leader Knew Killer-to-Be Yea ...
    In mid-2009, nativist leaders scrambled to distance themselves from Minuteman American Defense (MAD) founder Shawna Forde, after the immigrant-bashing former child prostitute was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the slaying of an Arizona man and his 9-year old da ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Protesters Blockade Mexico's Largest TV Station
    Thousands of protesters gathered on Thursday in Mexico City to blockade Mexico's largest television station, Televisa, over accusations of corruption and biased news coverage surrounding the country's July 1st presidential elections. Protesters, including student groups and unions, block ...
  • Dow Chemical's Agent Orange Shadow Over Olympics
    HANOI, Vietnam - Agent Orange (AO), often called the ‘last legacy’ of the United States war in Vietnam (1955-1975), has popped up again thanks to its manufacturer Dow Chemical’s controversial sponsorship of the Olympic Games. ...
  • Survey: "Climate Skeptics" More Likely to Embr ...
    A new survey of so-called "climate skeptics" -- those who reject the global scientific community's broad consensus that global warming and climate change are being driven by modern society's emission of greenhouse gasses -- concludes that individuals who hold such views are als ...
  • Increase in Extreme Storms Causing 'Rapid Ozon ...
    Extreme summer thunderstorms are likely causing accelerated damage to the ozone layer over the United States, as the frequency and strength of storms continue to increase, according to a study released Thursday by the journal Science at Harvard University. ...
  • Drought in US Intensifying to 'Historic Propor ...
    The drought in the U.S. is intensifying and shows little signs of abating, according the most recent Drought Monitor issued Thursday. read more

Lifehacker

  • Is your ISP giving you the speed they promised ...
    There is never a shortage of wonderful discussions here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Add your two ce ...
  • The Wrap Is a Cable Organizer for Your iPhone ...
    The Wrap is a tiny attachment that clips onto your iPhone charger to keep your USB cable tangle-free and connected to the charger at all times. More »
  • Can I Freeze It? How to Extend the Life of Fru ...
    Can you freeze cabbage to preserve it for later use? Yes. How about gravy? Maybe. Wine? Not if you plan on drinking it. The chefs at Stack Exchange let you know what's good to store and what you must consume fresh. More » ...
  • This Week’s Most Popular Posts: July 21st to 2 ...
    This week we celebrated the DIY versatility of the binder clip, found cheaper stuff on eBay, dove head first into OS X Mountain Lion, and more. Here's a look back. More »
  • Use a Sandwich Bag as a Makeshift Funnel [Clev ...
    Out of all the household tools people have, funnels are among the least common. Next time you need to pour anything into a small spout, then, make your own simple funnel out of a plastic sandwich bag. More »

Water Privatization

  • City to submit position paper on privatization
    ZAMBOANGA City Mayor Celso Lobregat has expressed reservations on some provisions of the bill that seeks to privatize water districts in the country, as he said that the City Government is currently preparing its position for submission to the bill’s sponsor.
  • American States Water Company to Report Second ...
    American States Water Company announced today that the Company will release its financial results for the second quarter on Monday, August 6, 2012, followed by a conference call at 2:00 p.m.
  • Guelph councillors oppose privatization of wat ...
    Though it’s not likely to be a local issue any time soon, city councillors this week endorsed a resolution opposing privatization of water and wastewater treatment services.
  • Anti-SONA 2012 protests in regions against pri ...
    Protests against the “true state of the nation” were held simultaneously across the country. By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO em Bulatlat.com MANILA — It was not only in the National Capital Region (NCR) where protests erupted against President Benigno Aquino III’s third Station of the Nation Address ( ...
  • Top Stories
    KUALA LUMPUR: Putrajaya’s admission that water rationing was not necessary in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur has proven that the issue was a political gimmick to discredit the Selangor government, state executive council member Elizabeth Wong said today.

Guardian

  • When school is out: gay-friendly education in ...
    Around half the students at one pioneering Wisconsin high school are gay, many of them dropouts from mainstream education. But is this just a new kind of sexual segregation?In the first graduating class at Milwaukee's Alliance High School, the valedictorian – the year's most distinguished studen ...
  • Columbine families ready to help Aurora surviv ...
    Having dealt with tragedy, victims' families hope to share all they've learned about 'high-profile grieving in a fish bowl'Relatives of the victims of the Columbine school shooting in Colorado are planning to reach out to those who lost loved ones in the Aurora cinema rampage in the hope of supp ...
  • Michael Gove tells academies they can hire unq ...
    Move brings academies into line with private schools, but unions fear it will devalue status of professionAcademies will be allowed to employ people with no formal teaching qualifications in a move that could sideline both the unions and the established teacher training colleges.Education secret ...
  • Angela Merkel and François Hollande pledge to ...
    German chancellor and French president act to ease fears that Spain's economic woes could threaten European single currencyAngela Merkel and François Hollande on Friday pledged a joint determination to save the euro as they sought to quash fears in the world's financial markets that the deepenin ...
  • UK blocks £16m aid to Rwanda
    UK move follows measures by the US and Netherlands after a UN report accused Rwanda of arming rebels in the Congo Britain has frozen £16m of aid to Rwanda pending an investigation into its alleged role in fuelling a deadly regional conflict, the most significant blow yet to a country that has lo ...

McClatchey

  • Women face their own challenges in fighting HI ...
    As the International AIDS Conference took place this week in Washington, many advocates said that governments and the medical community still had far to go to address women?s needs amid…Click to Continue »
  • Behind dispute over military service, two very ...
    Shmuel Aharon kept one hand on his prayer book and another on the shoulder of his 17-year-old son as they navigated the streets of Jerusalem?s Mea Shearim neighborhood one recent…Click to Continue »
  • Dave Barry: A bit of outrage in the 'Isles of ...
    The Olympics officially got under way Friday with the much-anticipated opening ceremony, titled "Isles of Wonder." The complex and imaginative show went off without a hitch, except for one unfortunate…Click to Continue »
  • Fort Worth shelters report rise in women fleei ...
    For nearly six years, Mary's husband cursed her, beat her, stole her money and threatened to kill her. So when she decided to leave him for good last month, she…Click to Continue »
  • Dottie Sandusky says convicted husband Jerry i ...
    Dottie Sandusky says she still loves her husband. The wife of convicted pedophile Jerry Sandusky remains loyal to and supportive of the man who is now housed in the Centre…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • NATO says militant attacks in Afghanistan up 1 ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan - Insurgent attacks in Afghanistan during the past three months were up 11 percent, compared to the same period last year, according to the latest statistics on monthly violence ...
  • Militant attacks in Afghanistan rise by 11 pc ...
    The number of insurgent attacks in Afghanistan during the past three months has risen by 11 percent, compared to the same period last year, according to the U.S.-led coalition. According to The Wall ...
  • Tajikistan seals Afghan border NATO trucks can ...
    DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Tajikistan has closed all border-crossing points with Afghanistan due to a military operation to capture a former warlord, but NATO trucks carrying supplies to their forces are ...
  • Afghan President Issues Decree to Curb Corruption
    The Afghan president has issued an ambitious list of proposed reforms aimed at fighting graft, bribery and nepotism. The move follows pressure from donor nations. President Hamid Karzai's ...
  • NATO condemns Paks cross-border shelling into ...
    NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan has condemned the cross-border shelling from Pakistan, after Kabul warned that it could significantly harm relations between the ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • British MP Julian Smith visits NWC
    British Member of Parliament Julian Smith (second from left) today visited (from left) Lindsey Williams (Advocacy Director of the National Whistleblowers Center), Estelle Kohn (Deputy Director) and Stephen Kohn (Executive Director). Mr. Smith asked for the meeting to discuss how the United Kingd ...
  • ATF's Orwellian Warning to Whistleblowers
    "There Will Be Consequences" (Uh Oh, Did I Say That Out Loud?) By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash (and former chief compliance and ethics officer at two leading multinationals) In Washington, ...
  • This Week on Honesty Without Fear
    Tune in today at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. In the first half, Lindsey Williams interviews attorney David White and his whistleblower client, Beverly Landis. Ms. Landis, a former Hospice Care of Kansas nurse, blew the whistle on Hospice Care and its parent ...
  • ATF attempts to stifle "outside" whistleblowing
    John Solomon, writing in the Washington Guardian, is reporting today that B. Todd Jones, the Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), released a video last week to all employees. In the video, Jones warns that there would be “consequences” fo ...
  • Senator Grassley Hammers the FDA on the Senate ...
    Once again Senator Grassley has proven himself to be a champion of whistleblowers and government oversight. The NWC applauds Senator Grassley's floor statement today and we hope that the FDA heard him. Please take a few minutes to read the Senator's statement reproduced in its entirety below. ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Swizz Beatz Defends Megaupload: Says It Was Ta ...
    One of the oddities concerning the Megaupload shutdown and indictment was the fact that the company had named famed producer (and husband to recording star Alicia Keys) Swizz Beatz as CEO just a few months prior. Beatz is extremely well known in the industry, and widely respected. After the sh ...
  • Norwegian Court Rules Blog Posts Are Not 'Made ...
    It's something of a truism that the courts take time to catch up with technology, especially in the fast-moving world of the Internet, but Thomas Steen points us to a recent court decision in Norway where the gulf between law and life is particularly wide. The case concerns a blogger called Eiv ...
  • NZ Copyright Industry Claims New 'Three Strike ...
    The implicit justification for various new copyright enforcement laws, such as the "three strikes" approach, is that they will encourage people to buy more authorized digital goods and thus support artists and their works. Naturally, those in favor of this logic like to produce figures that purp ...
  • Canadian Cities Looking To Opt-Out Of CETA Rat ...
    Though the specific process differs from country to country, international agreements are generally negotiated and signed at the highest levels of government, with input from everyone else filtering up (in theory) through the hierarchy—at least until you get something like ACTA, where the ...
  • Are The Courts Finally Trying To Bring Some Ba ...
    One of the recurrent themes here on Techdirt is the increasing lack of balance in copyright, which is now heavily weighted in favor of creators and their proxies, and against the public. That bias has come about thanks to the rise of the Internet, which has turned the traditionally rather speci ...

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BroadSnark

  • Activism and the Unbearable Dissonance
    I’ve been thinking a lot about why more people don’t get involved in activism. Which means I have been thinking a lot about what compelled me to get involved. I’ve known that things were fucked up since I was a tween. I may have more data and a different analysis now, but the s ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Just back from LA this morning where I learned far too much about Aaron Sorkin’s proclivities. I also learned that you can get a tequila shot and a beer for $4. Both kinda gave me a headache, but the tequila shots were way more fun. Related to the above in ways that will make no [...]
  • Communication. Understanding. Action.
    One of my most deeply held beliefs is that people shouldn’t just jump into things without spending a lot of time understanding the situation. And that goes a bazillion times more when we are talking about the actions of activists who are working on issues that affect others more than thems ...
  • Dear Reformists, You’re Welcome
    The problem with people who focus on reform is that they don’t seem to understand how reform actually happens. They want to focus on influencing the people in power by gaining access. That almost never leads to change, or at least not the kind of change that we need. Reform happens in one ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    That piñata is so great. If only I had a kids party to go to. What is inside, do you think? P.S. If you are ever bored at work, googling “BDSM Piñata” is hours of entertainment. Three quarters of the world’s inhabitants now have mobile phones. That’s amazing. My tweet of ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

Watts Up With That?

  • WUWT publishing suspended – major announ ...
    Something’s happened. From now until Sunday July 29th, around Noon PST, WUWT will be suspending publishing. At that time, there will be a major announcement that I’m sure will attract a broad global interest due to its controversial and unprecedented … Continue reading →
  • New paper on the quality of USHCN station siting
    Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. draws attention today to a new study that cites Fall et al. 2011 aka the “Surfacestations Paper” that I co-authored, which was a follow up to my original surveys published in Watts 2009. The new paper … Continue reading →
  • Wild Speculation on Climate and Polar Bears
    By Dr. Pat Michaels at World Climate Report, reposted with permission. Here is another big one from PNAS. For those who don’t know, PNAS stands for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and it has gained the unfortunate … Continue reading →
  • How Green Was My Bankruptcy? “Roadmap for Sola ...
    The agency has already approved 17 large-scale solar energy projects on public lands that are expected to produce nearly 6,000 megawatts of electricity, enough to power about 1.8 million homes. The department estimated the resource potential of the newly identified … Continue reading →
  • Climate change – off in the ozone
    From the Harvard University  news service and the what are they smoking department, comes this suggestion that apparently it never was ozone damaging CFC refrigerants at all, it was those nasty thunderstorms wot done it.  They say: “Recent studies have … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • ‘Brake gene’ turned off in pancrea ...
    Aggressive pancreatic tumours may be treatable with a new class of drugs, according to Cancer Research UK Less than one in five people with this form of cancer are still alive a year after being diagnosed. A study, published in the journal Nature, showed that a gene was being switched off in the ...
  • Eating more berries may reduce cognitive decli ...
    Blueberries and strawberries, which are high in flavonoids, appear to reduce cognitive decline in older adults according to a new study published today in Annals of Neurology, a journal of the American Neurological Association and Child Neurology Society. The study results suggest that cognitive ...
  • Researchers Discover Particularly Dangerous Sa ...
    UC Santa Barbara researchers have discovered Salmonella bacteria that are up to 100 times more capable of causing disease. Their findings may help prevent food poisoning outbreaks that continue to plague public health and the food industry. These “hypervirulent” bugs can override vac ...
  • Will we ever correct diseases before birth?
    Every year, millions of people are born with debilitating genetic disorders, a result of inheriting just one faulty gene from their parents. They may have been dealt a dud genetic hand, but they do not have to stick with it. With the power of modern genetics, scientists are developing ways of ed ...
  • Anti-inflammatory Factors Fight Bugs
    Specialized compounds that naturally reduce inflammation in mice also help clear bacterial infections. A combination of these inflammation-resolving factors and antibiotics lowers the antibiotic dose needed to clear E. coli and Staphylococcus, according to a new paper in Nature. The finding sugg ...

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Two-Headed Pig Born in Russia
    A two-headed, four-eyed pig was born at a farm in central Russia, the Bryansk regional veterinary service said on Wednesday.
  • Another Progress Freighter Re-Docking Attempt ...
    Another attempt to re-dock the Russian Progress M-15M space freighter to the International Space Station (ISS) will be made on Sunday, July 29, a spokesman for the Russian Mission Control Center said on Tuesday, after the spacecraft failed to re-dock with the ISS earlier in the day.
  • Russia’s Soyuz-FG Rocket with Five Satellites ...
    Russia’s Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with a group of five satellites on board will blast off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan early on Sunday, a spokesman for the Russian space agency Roscosmos said.
  • Japanese Rocket Sends Cargo to ISS
    An unmanned Japanese rocket on Saturday blasted off to deliver more than five tons of cargo to the International Space Station according to live images released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
  • Russian Piloted Spaceship Delayed Two More Years
    Russia's projected manned spacecraft capable of flights to the moon will not fly until 2018, the head of Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, said on Wednesday, at least two years later than its previous projected flight date of 2015-16.

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • USDA Prepares To Greenlight Gnarliest GMO Soy Yet
    In early July, on the sleepy Friday after Independence Day, the USDA quietly signaled its intention to greenlight a new genetically engineered soybean seed from Dow AgroSciences. The product is designed to produce soy plants that withstand 2,4-D, a highly toxic herbicide (and, famously, the less ...
  • Ex-McDonald's Exec Opens a Healthy Fast Food R ...
    Mike Roberts, former president and CEO of McDonald's, understands how fast food works. He just doesn't think you should eat it. That's why Roberts co-founded Lyfe Kitchen, a restaurant that aims to do healthy food on a fast-food scale.Click here to read this article
  • Greener Cleaning
    You'll be appalled when you discover what's turning up in your clothes, towels and sheets, freshly laundered in your at-home washing machine or local laundromat. What's more, you may not be able to smell it, see it, or feel it. But it's there, and it threatens your and your family's health in a ...
  • The World is Closer to a Food Crisis Than Most ...
    In the early spring this year, US farmers were on their way to planting some 96m acres in corn, the most in 75 years. A warm early spring got the crop off to a great start. Analysts were predicting the largest corn harvest on record. Click here to read this article
  • Heavy Metal Fish: How Mercury Ends Up on Your ...
    Look at any seafood guide and you're bound to come across the occasional red flag with an ominous warning: "High in Mercury." Scary enough, but what exactly does that mean? Just how is mercury winding up in the fish on your plate?Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Esri 2012: Exciting New Uses for ArcGIS
    The projects I heard about at the conference have inspired me to think about how I can incorporate elements from them into our Food System Map.
  • From Burlington to Baltimore, the Bronx, and B ...
    Although Vermont’s short growing season and mountainous terrain make agriculture tougher, it turns out they’re a blessing in disguise. There’s minimal “big ag” influence in Vermont, so politicians aren’t beholden to any Cargills or Monsantos.
  • 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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Zelda Medley- Lindsey Stirling
    I was surfing around a Skyrim combo - and thought of the community when I saw and heard this Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • New Research Casts Doubt on Pasteurization Tec ...
    This story reminds me of posts on The Bovine ( CowBoss http://www.care2.com/c2c/people/profile.html?pid=457840906 who is no longer active on Care2 ) and notes about effects of use of growth hormone in US dairy cattle Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   N ...
  • Fraud and Reputation - The Climate Wars
    Verifying the climate caper as an initiative in the Energy Wars Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Derecho Windstorm
    Reflecting on Preparativeness: 10 things the recent D.C. power outage taught us about a real, large-scale collapse Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • coming soon to a canadian town near you: the fbi
    The Integrated Cross Border Law Enforcement Operations Act now makes it possible for American officers to cross the border into Canada ( from Canadian Broadcasting. wmtc is short for we move to canada - US expatriates and activist/bloggers ) Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture &n ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • The Lost American Dream: Living Off The Land
    Barb and Tink have found a way to survive and minimize all of their expenses by growing their own food, bartering with neighbors and extreme budgeting with their small income.
  • 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!"

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Maryland man found with dozens of weapons, say ...
    ShareThisMaryland man found with dozens of weapons, says he's the Joker --Police: 'I am the real Joker, and I'm going to blow everyone up,' suspect said. 27 Jul 2012 Police detained a Maryland man and recovered numerous guns from a home Thursday night after he allegedly made threats referri ...
  • Ecuadorean officials invite Swedish authoritie ...
    ShareThisEcuadorean officials invite Swedish authorities to London to interview Julian Assange 26 Jul 2012 The Wikileaks founder Julian Assange could yet avoid extradition for questioning over sexual assault allegations after Ecuadorean government officials invited the Swedish authorities to Lon ...
  • US report says Iraq 'rebuilders' died by hundreds
    ShareThisUS report says Iraq 'rebuilders' died by hundreds --'Reconstruction' effort in Iraq cost US taxpayers about $62 billion 27 Jul 2012 In the first tally of its kind, a federal investigative agency has calculated that at least 719 people, nearly half of them Americans, were killed working ...
  • Conn. Man Rescues 80-Year-Old Lobster From Res ...
    ShareThisConn. Man Rescues 80-Year-Old Lobster From Restaurant Menu 26 Jul 2012 A 17-pound lobster on a restaurant menu would be a delicious dinner option for most people but not for one Connecticut man who saw it as a humanitarian mission. Don MacKenzie of Niantic, Conn., purchased the lobster ...
  • Alabama asks court to back GOP-backed redistri ...
    ShareThisAlabama asks court to back GOP-backed redistricting plan 26 Jul 2012 Alabama's attorney general filed a lawsuit Thursday asking a federal court to approve a redistricting plan for his Legislature without requiring the plan to go through the U.S. Justice Department for approval to make s ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Best Soldiers for the worst days: Medevac crew ...
    July 20, 2012 By: Sgt. 1st Class Eric Pahon KHOWST PROVINCE, Afghanistan (July 17, 2012) -- They're the crew no one wants to see take off. "A perfect deployment would be no missions," said Spc. Bryan Heaston, 30, of Lusby, Md. Nearly every time Heaston, a medevac crew chief serving on Forward ...
  • Military Professionals Discussing the MEDEVAC ...
    18 July 2012 Increasing numbers of high-ranking military officers and veterans agree that the time has come for change.  Support from lawmakers continues to grow.  Army helicopter medical evacuation (Dustoff) polices are outdated and costing lives.  Our current polices even viola ...
  • We Are Still #1 (somehow)
    11 July 2012 Thank you for the tremendous support through the years.  We are just getting warmed up, though I am in a transition stage while completing a book.  I remain serious about potentially transitioning over to US/Mexico focused work. Meanwhile, this military blog rank came ac ...
  • Carl Prine, Bombs, Brain Damage, and our Respo ...
    10 July 2012 These wars have left us with thousands of troops and civilians who may have sustained brain damage from explosions.  Recently, my friend Carl Prine, a military combat veteran of Iraq, terminated his writing on Line of Departure due to apparent brain damage.  Carl believes ...
  • More Army Red Cross Lies Exposed
    04 June 2012 Click here to download PDF.

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Ninth Circuit reinstates no-fly list challenge
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Thursday reinstated [opinion, PDF] a challenge brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] over the no-fly list maintained by the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) [official website] ...
  • Kenya urged to investigate 2007 post-election ...
    [JURIST] The UN Human Rights Committee (OHCHR) [official website] on Thursday urged Kenya to investigate all cases related to the 2007 post-election violence [JURIST news archive] in order to avoid impunity. The OHCHR expressed concern [Reuters Africa report] that the proceedings against the per ...
  • Madoff trustee asks court to release over $2.5 ...
    [JURIST] Madoff trustee Irving Picard has asked a bankruptcy court to approve the release of between $2.5 and $3.5 billion in recovered assets so that it can be distributed to victims of the Bernard Madoff [JURIST news archive] Ponzi scheme. Picard has recovered over $9 billion in assets on beha ...
  • South Africa court convicts extremist group le ...
    [JURIST] The North Gauteng High Court at Pretoria in South Africa on Thursday convicted of high treason the leader of an extremist group responsible for nine bombings in Johannesburg's Soweto township in 2002. Mike du Toit, leader of the white supremacist group Boeremag [backgrounder], has been ...
  • UN releases additional funds for victims of Ir ...
    [JURIST] The UN Compensation Commission (UNCC) [official website] on Thursday made available additional funds [press release, PDF] for the government of Kuwait [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] in an amount of around $1.3 billion for losses suffered during 1990-1991 Iraqi invasion [BBC bac ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Shin Bet Detains Irish Woman at Dublin Airport ...
    Ynet reports (Hebrew) that the Shin Bet detained a 26 year-old Irish woman at Dublin airport when she arrived three hours prior to flight time (in order to go through the security check). She’d hoped to fly to Israel for a romantic reunion with her Israeli boyfriend, Alon, who she’d ...
  • Jerusalem Police Commander Placed on Leave, Su ...
    Jerusalem police commander Niso Shaham has been placed on leave by his boss, as has been Shaham’s deputy. The unofficial Israeli police forum Hashotrim reports that he’s been charged with raping a woman. He responded to the charges by claiming that the sex act was consensual. Another ...
  • Michele Bachmann’s Crusade Against Islam
    Former Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, has declared a crusade against American Muslims in public life with her attacks on State Department aide, Huma Abedin and now, fellow Rep. Keith Ellison.  She accused Ellison, without any proof whatsoever, of having longstanding ti ...
  • Kadima Fiddles and Folds While Rome Burns
    UPDATE: Haaretz reports that while Tzahi Hanegbi has deserted Kadima and returned to Likud, he has not yet succeeded in persuading any colleagues to jump ship. Mofaz is trying to invoke Knesset sanctions against four of the rebels, which indicates that they will probably be joining the Likud soo ...
  • El Al Flight Recalled to Israel After Security ...
    The father of a passenger on an El Al flight from Ben Gurion to Hong Kong reported some strange goings-on last night. Here is what he wrote me: Last night July 21st 2012 ELAL flight LY75 from Tel Aviv to Hong Kong turned back one hour after leaving Ben Gurion airport. The passengers were told [...]

If Americans Knew

  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...
  • Ethan Bronner's Conflict With Impartiality
    Ethan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Israel-Palestine. It is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesn't; what goes in a story and what gets cut.
  • Beware of the BBC
    Stuart Littlewood highlights the BBC's chronic pro-Israel bias, from allowing untruths about Israel's onslaught on Gaza in 2008-09 to go unchallenged, to its failure to provide accurate context about the Israeli township of Sderot, to its routine willingness to give disproportionate airtime to I ...
  • Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
    And there is another aspect of Israel's growing high tech sector that he understandably chose to ignore because it is extremely sleazy. That is the significant advantage that Israel has gained by systematically stealing American technology with both military and civilian applications. The US dev ...
  • New Booklet: Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
    International security and counterterrorism expert Philip Giraldi argues that Israel's flourishing high tech industry is built on widespread theft of American research. This has undermined American companies and endangered American security.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • How SahelResponse.org Used TileMill, Open Data ...
    To bring key aid agencies together and help drive international response, the SahelResponse.org data-sharing initiative maps information about the ongoing food crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa. More than 18 million people across the Sahel are at risk and in need of food assistance in th ...
  • Why Code in the Newsroom? New York Times, ProP ...
    As the deadline to apply to become a 2013 Knight-Mozilla Fellow approaches, there’s one question often comes up: Why would I want to work as a developer in the newsroom? There are all sorts of reasons—from being in the room when news breaks, to working with a community of people ...
  • A Look Back at News Hack Day SF
    This is a guest column by ScraperWiki's Thomas Levine, an awesome data scientist who spends his time roaming the globe finding interesting data and doing stuff with it. Blogging about News Hack Day SF, which brought together journalists, developers and designers for several days of creative n ...
  • How TileMill Is Mapping Support of the Interna ...
    Amnesty International's latest campaign features a map front and center. The Campaign for Global Justice, launched this week on International Justice Day, which celebrates the creation of the International Criminal Court 10 years ago, asks people to demand justice for the victims of war crimes, ...
  • SocMap.com Debuts Map App PublicConsultation
    As we mentioned in a previous post, this spring we at SocMap.com discovered the best path for further development -- namely, by creating small, specialized map apps. The first application of this kind was our HotBills app, which allowed journalists to reach 2% of the population for their investi ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Race for EVs - Ecarconnectors Rolls Out El ...
    Ecarconnectors, the UK’s specialist supplier of electric vehicle charging products and connectors, announces the introduction of a range of 63 amp fast charging plugs and sockets and the latest ‘Type 2’ connectors to suit Europe’s electric vehicles.Alan Cook, Managing Director of Ecarcon ...
  • The New Egypt - No Illusions About Egypt
    The government of Israel is making all the right noises and appropriate statements expressing hope that the new government of Egypt will maintain the cold peace.But we should be under no illusions. Even the greatest optimists cannot gloss over the reality that the Islamic forces of the Muslim Br ...
  • Border Wars - Obama Administration Conceals Se ...
    The Obama Administration is deceiving Americans by underreporting serious crime along the Mexican border, according to the Texas lawmaker who chairs a congressional Homeland Security committee.The Obama Administration “is not giving the American people a complete picture of security on our bor ...
  • The Medical Edge - Judging DNA by Its Cover
    Stem cells hold great promise for the medicine of the future, but they can also be a cause of disease. When these self-renewing, unspecialized cells fail to differentiate into diverse cell types, they can start dividing uncontrollably, leading to cancer. Several decades ago, Weizmann Institute s ...
  • Broken Elections - Million-dollar Donation in ...
    The RGA Right Direction PAC is a Washington, D.C.-based super PAC, registered with federal regulators to make independent expenditures supporting or opposing candidates. So what is it doing giving $1 million directly to the Republican running for governor of Indiana?The donation to Mike Pence, t ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Barack Obama's Creepy Connection To Judaism's ...
    This Saturday evening begins Tisha B' Av (the 9th of the Jewish month of Av). Since the time of Moses and the exodus-through modern times, horrible things have happened to the Jewish people on or around the 9th day of Av. Generally not recognized is the fact that the President of the U ...
  • Jay Carney REFUSES To Deny WH Involvement In S ...
     Those of you on the mailing list may not be able to see the two videos below.  Please Click Here and watch the videos on my web site. Boy Oh Boy, can Jay Carney dance.  At today's press briefing twice the White House Press Secretary couldn’t explain conflicting answers – ...
  • Rep Allen West Endorses Sandy Adams in Fla 7th ...
    Regular readers of this site know that I hold Florida Congressman Allen West in very high regard.  Congressman Mench (as I call him) is the most honorable politician I have ever met, a no BS--look you in the eyes type of guy. So when Lt. Col. West endorses someone, as he did yesterd ...
  • The True Lesson of The Batman Movie Shooting
    By Barry Rubin I really thought there was nothing to say or write about the shootings at the Aurora, Colorado, movie theatre. The prattling, smug, and often unsubstantiated talk filling the airwaves and print pages really added nothing. But then I realized that there is indeed somethin ...
  • Romney Aide's Anglo-Saxon Quote a FRAUD
    According to Jon Swaine of the British newspaper The Telegraph an anonymous Romney adviser told him:  that he [Romney] would abandon Mr Obama’s “Left-wing” coolness towards London. “We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, and he feels that the specia ...

The Real Agenda

  • Spain’s Unemployment surpasses 24 percent
    CNBC | JULY 27, 2012 Spanish unemployment hit its highest level in the second quarter since the country’s return to democracy in the mid-1970s, as firms shed more staff, driven by fears of prolonged recession and a crisis of confidence among consumers. The jobless rate rose to 24.6 pe ...
  • Russia Negotiating with Cuba to Open Naval Base
    REUTERS | JULY 27, 2012 Russia hopes to establish its first naval base abroad since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and is looking at Cuba, Vietnam and the Seychelles as possible locations, state-run RIA news agency quoted the navy chief as saying on Friday. Russia has been increasing ...
  • New Bio Hazard ‘Hot Spot’ in Latin ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JULY 27, 2012 No one can ever be too cautious when dealing with a bio threat, and there is not such a thing as an absolutely safe facility when dealing with dangerous pathogens. The fact that a laboratory is built and given a certain safety level in ...
  • UN Arms Trade Treaty Text Confirms Call to Ban ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JULY 26, 2012 As The Real Agenda informed readers last July 20, the United Nations is continuously seeking for ways to destroy individual rights. One of the most important of those rights is the one that allows people to own and bear arms. This right ...
  • Obama implies Second Ammendment is for Hunting
    Obama spoke publicly of his intention to curb the possession of firearms and implied dissenters are potential mentally ill people. By PAUL J. WATSON | INFOWARS.com | JULY 26, 2012 President Barack Obama has caved to pressure from his supporters and finally exploited last week’s Aurora ...

Wind Watch

  • Grothman: ‘Good chance’ town can s ...
    Despite state rules that eliminate virtually all local control from the application process, state Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) said Thursday he thinks there’s “a fairly good chance” that Town of Sherman officials can stave off development of a wind farm in their community that seems almost ...
  • Opposition strong at proposed wind farm meeting
    TOWN OF SHERMAN — About 150 people showed up to learn more about a proposed wind farm in the Town of Sherman and most of them didn’t like what they heard. “Looking at the number of people who are here tonight, the question the board should be asking is, ‘How do we stop it?’” said Jim Bertram, of ...
  • Sheffield Wind files for bat permit, conducts ...
    A Vermont wind project is applying for the first-ever Endangered and Threatened Species Taking Permit for bats from the Agency of Natural Resources. Sheffield Wind, whose 16-turbine 40 megawatt utility scale project in the Northeast Kingdom went online last fall, has filed for the permit because ...
  • In the tug of war over wind power, Steens Moun ...
    A rancher from birth, Stacy Davies came to Eastern Oregon for the wide-open spaces and solitude. Davies, who runs the 200,000-acre plus Roaring Springs Ranch near Burns, said he was essentially driven from his native Utah by oil and gas development on the east side of the state. The boom economy ...
  • Awash in complaints, Ocotillo residents seek p ...
    On Friday the 13th of July, foaming floodwaters rushed through the town of Ocotillo, leaving a white chemical residue behind on lawns, streets, and the surrounding desert floor. Despite numerous complaints to federal, state and local officials, however, nothing has been done to test the residue ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Economy Slowed in 2nd Quarter
    “The United States economy grew by a tepid 1.5 percent annual rate in the second quarter, losing the momentum it had appeared to be gaining earlier this year, the government reported Friday.” (New York Times) If they haven’t gotten the message by now, maybe they don’t want to. FEE Ti ...
  • Head Start Would Lose Money in Budget Cut
    “Tens of thousands of young children from low-income families could be dropped from Head Start programs if Congress cannot find a way to prevent automatic cuts to the federal budget in 2013.” (New York Times) Now there’s a program with an unearned glowing reputation. FEE Timely Class ...
  • Obama’s Controversial Remark
    If Obama is really concerned that successful people pay too little for the benefits they enjoy, radically freeing the market is just the ticket.
  • Fed Audit Bill Passes in House
    “The U.S. House overwhelmingly approved a bill by Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, that would expand congressional authority to oversee deliberations at the Federal Reserve. The vote was 327-98. The legislation is the culmination of more than three decades of activism by Paul, who has pushed for gr ...
  • Regulation Freeze Has Fateful Typo
    “A Republican-backed bill in the House is designed to freeze major government regulations until the unemployment rate reaches 6 percent or below. But the bill debated on Wednesday says the freeze should stay on until the employment rate equals 6 percent or less. That means there would be a ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Police
    Some scattered thoughts on cops, particularly cops in the US. Police exist primarily to protect property arrangements.  The war on drugs have paramilitarized police, with a heavy emphasis on overwhelming force.  While police have always considered themselves above the common herd, and have alway ...
  • The best news this year is the Court of Justic ...
    Software, once sold, can be resold.  The person selling it cannot keep using it, but the original publisher has no right to stop the sale. This is a big deal.  A really big deal, and really good news.  It allows brokers, it allows you to sell your software once done.  It allows you to treat [...]
  • I wonder how much Ashley Fantz of CNN gets pai ...
    Beautiful: Assange claimed that various institutions and corporations had hit the site with a financial blockage. Claimed?  It’s not a claim, it’s a fact.  How much it cost Wikileaks might be a claim, but that’s not what Ms. Fantz wrote. This is one reason why we can’t ha ...
  • To point out the obvious on today’s Supreme Co ...
    Roberts voted how he did because health insurance companies are absolutely desperate for the money they will get from the mandate.  All of the legitimacy arguments are bullshit, about 70% of Americans want Obamacare repealed.  This is more similar to TARP than anything else: it is a massive corp ...
  • Greek election consequences and the shape of t ...
    will be more years of austerity, people winding up on the street, suicides and outright starvation.  In this fertile ground, the neo-nazi right will rise.  The left will most likely not compete, because they will refuse to create an enforcer class to protect their own people.  The police in Gree ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Public School Parent Trigger Laws: Something’s ...
    In the mid-1950s, the McGuire Sisters’ version of Johnny Mercer’s song about what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object made it to number five on the record charts. Their prediction, that “Something’s Gotta Give,” provides an apt description of the outcome of today’s b ...
  • The Rise of The 1099 Economy: More Americans A ...
    While the economy has been miserable for small business, and many larger ones as well, the ranks of the self-employed have been growing. According to research by Economic Modeling Specialists International, the number of people who primarily work on their own has swelled by 1.3 million since ...
  • The Tribal Election: Barack Obama Turns to the ...
    Move over, Iraq. Tribal politics have arrived at home. It’s not like our tribes will arm themselves, but American politics is developing a disturbing resemblance to Mesopotamia’s ever-feuding Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds as the 2012 election rapidly devolves into a power strug ...
  • London's Olympic Whingers
    Busted. "Even in the best of times, whinging, as Britons call the persistent low-grade grousing that is their default response to life’s challenges, is part of the national condition", Sarah Lyall writes in the New York Times, about Londoners’ failure to embrace the Olympic Spirit. If a British ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: London
    The 2011 census results show that London (the Greater London Authority, which is Inner and Outer London) experienced its greatest percentage population growth in more than 100 years (1891 to 1901). London added nearly 1,000,000 new residents since 2001. That growth, however, is not an indicat ...

GM Watch

  • State wants 'exploitative' firms to fund GM re ...
    1.State wants 'exploitative' firms to fund research for non-Bt seeds 2.Maharashtra cotton farmers urge PM to sack Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar --- --- 1.State wants 'exploitative' firms to fund research for non-Bt seeds Indian Express, July 25 2012 http://www.indianexpress.com/news/state-wa ...
  • Farmer becomes disillusioned with GMOs
    Farmer becomes disillusioned with GMOs, switches to non-GMO Ken Roseboro The Organic & Non-GMO Report, July/August 2012 http://www.non-gmoreport.com/articles/july2012/farmerswitchestonon-gmo.php *Weed resistance to Roundup, high seed costs, and doubts about GMO safety spur switch to non-GMO We ...
  • GM companies threaten food security and sovere ...
    1. How GM seed companies threaten food security and food sovereignty - call to action by soy industry leader 2. Speech delivered by Pierre Patriat, President of APROSMAT, the association of seed producers of Mato Grosso --- --- 1. How GM seed companies threaten food security and food soverei ...
  • Brazilian farmers battle Monsanto
    1. Monsanto meeting resistance to royalties for Intacta soybeans 2. Brazil, Monsanto and a dispute over royalties worth 6.2 billion euros 3. Monsanto faces $7.5 billion payout to Brazilian farmers NOTE: Since GM soy was legalised for cultivation in Brazil, Monsanto has charged Brazilian fa ...
  • USDA prepares to green-light 2,4-D soy
    NOTE: Dow's 2,4-D GM corn (maize) is projected to increase the use of the toxic pesticide 2,4-D from 3.3 million pounds today in the US, to over 100 million pounds, much of it being sprayed directly onto a crop used for food for the first time.  http://t.co/WWVYkoKq 2,4-D has been linked to can ...

spiked

  • How liberals fall into the fairness trap
    Political philospher John Tomasi’s insightful critique of the thought of John Rawls and the failings of modern liberalism fails to recognise that ‘fairness’ is antithetical to equality proper.
  • Park Slope parents behaving badly
    Amy Sohn’s sequel to Prospect Park West turns an excited but acute eye on parents who, racked with midlife crises, seem intent on acting like children.
  • Deepak Lal vs the meddling state
    Not everything said by free-market economist Lal in this new collection of essays adds up. But his suspicion of state intervention into our lives is refreshing.
  • What if Anne Frank were still alive…?
    Comic novel Hope: A Tragedy, featuring an old, foul-mouthed Anne Frank living in upstate New York, makes serious points about the Holocaust.
  • Rescuing literature from literary theory
    Terry Eagleton’s attempt to define literature is impressive, but he fails to recognise that this definition is not merely descriptive – it’s also evaluative.

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 17 Reasons Why Those Hoping For A Recession In ...
    If you were hoping for a recession in 2012, then you are going to be very happy with the numbers you are about to see.  The U.S. economy is heading downhill just in time for the 2012 election.  Retail sales have fallen for three months in a row for the first time since 2008, manu ...
  • The Audit The Fed Bill Gets Passed By The Hous ...
    On Wednesday, Ron Paul's bill to audit the Federal Reserve was overwhelmingly passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.  The vote was 327 to 98.  You would think that a bill with such overwhelming support would easily become law.  But it won't, because Barack Obama and the Dem ...
  • 100 Million Poor People In America And 39 Othe ...
    Every single day more Americans fall into poverty.  This should deeply alarm you no matter what political party you belong to and no matter what your personal economic philosophy is.  Right now, approximately 100 million Americans are either "poor" or "near poor".  For a lot of p ...
  • 12 Signs That Spain Is Shifting Gears From Rec ...
    Where have we seen this before?  Bond yields soar above the 7 percent danger level.  Check.  The stock market crashes to new lows.  Check.  Industrial activity plummets like a rock and the economy contracts.  Check.  The unemployment rate skyrockets to more than 20 percent.  Chec ...
  • James Holmes Is Not Alone – 20 More Exam ...
    There is much more to the collapse of America than just our economic problems.  The truth is that the United States is like a beautiful house that may still look great on the outside but that has rotted and decayed very badly on the inside.  In fact, the foundations of our countr ...

Desertification

  • Identifying desertification zones using optica ...
    Read at : http://www.un-spider.org/about-us/news/en/5897/2012-07-26t160200/regional-support-offices-igac-conducts-desertification Regional Support Offices: IGAC conducts desertification analyses The Colombian Agustin Codazzi Geographic Institute – IGAC and their Center of Research and Deve ...
  • Bottle towers on a pallet (You Tube Video)
    I proudly announce the uploading of my newest video : http://youtu.be/5JbvcH_xHAo Bottle towers on a pallet This video shows how one can fix bottle towers on a pallet.  Such a vertical bottle garden on pallets can be installed against the … Continue reading →
  • Deadly clashes over water and pasture in Kenya ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95957/KENYA-Early-drought-prompts-conflict KENYA: Early drought prompts conflict WAJIR, 26 July 2012 (IRIN) – Parts of northeastern Kenya, which are experiencing an early drought after poor March-May long rains, have seen deadly clashes over water a ...
  • The Great Green Wall designed to stop encroach ...
    Read at : http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/12/senegal-great-green-wall Senegal begins planting the Great Green Wall against climate change Africa’s proposed 4,000-mile wall of trees stretching from Senegal to Djibouti is designed to stop encroaching desertification Bobby Basc ...
  • The economics of desertification (YOU TUBE)
    VIDEO SEEN AT : http://youtu.be/79R79L4rFtw Putting a Price on Land Degradation with Ephraim Nkonya Ephraim Nkonya, Senior Research Fellow and the International Food Policy Research Institute, speaks to Farming First about a new study that will put a price on … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • Parts of Pa. law favored by frackers overturned
    Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court overturned parts of the state’s controversial Act 13 on Thursday, returning zoning authority over natural gas drilling to the municipalities and townships that had contested the five-month-old law. The Center for Public Integrity reported last month that local g ...
  • Landmark worker death case continues against U ...
    LOS ANGELES — Sheri Sangji is on fire.The 23-year-old research associate, a Pomona College graduate raised in Pakistan, has accidentally pulled the plunger out of a syringe while conducting an experiment in the Molecular Sciences Building at UCLA. The syringe contains a solution that combusts up ...
  • Tragic lab accident kills young worker
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  • Tragedy at UCLA
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  • Daily Disclosure: U.S. Chamber drops $5.9 mill ...
    In an unprecedented ad blitz, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce spent $5.9 million on a series of attack ads against seven Democratic candidates and one independent candidate in key Senate races, according to its disclosures to the Federal Election Commission Thursday.These included:$1.7 million for ...

backofthebook.ca

  • The Plan, Part Deux
    By Frank Moher Previously on The Plan, I explained why, despite the depredations of the current federal government, the Canadian political universe is unfolding as it should — or at least as I’d hoped it might when I was a young journalist lost in the conservative wilderness in the 1 ...
  • 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, [...]

libcom

  • Cleaners strike protest near Olympic site
    cleaners.png Cleaners strike over pay and conditions on London Underground and Docklands Light Railway. This morning saw the beginning of a 48-hour strike by cleaners on London ...
  • Anti-SONA protest in the Philipines
    An account of anarchists in the Philipines demonstrating at SONA - state of the nation address by the president. A group of anarchist demonstrators wearing mask, around 30 individuals, (with black clothes tied on in their face) unpre ...
  • Nazi military survival camps in Poland
    an i nry.JPG Military camps in southern Poland organized by the far-right organisations are not anything new in this country. The most dramatic result of existence of such camp ...
  • From cyber vigilantes to corporate thugs: Anon ...
    anonymous.jpg The owners of Restaurant Vejlegaarden in Vejle in Denmark have received support from an unlikely quarter as hackers from across the world have organised to attack the restaurant's o ...
  • Remploy workers strike against factory closures
    Remploy Strike 1 (SWNS).jpg Workers at Remploy factories struck on Thursday over government plans to close factories. The coalition government plans to shut down 36 of the 54 Re ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • The Culture of Reverence – The Louis Fre ...
    The Culture of Reverence America’s Pedophilia Hypocrisy By A. True Ott, Phd The “Freeh Report” is concluded.  Released to public eyes Thursday, July 12, 2012, the 267-page report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh and his select team of investigators has exposed in a most accurate manner, what i ...
  • Willard Mittens (Mitt) Romney – the FACE ...
    Willard Mittens Romney has been anointed by the elite for a special purpose.  He has the support of the Bilderberg cabal.  He gives keynote speeches at MOSSAD conventions in Israel.  What does all this mean? The answer is here in this amazing video presentation.  Watch and learn.  
  • Willard Mittens (Mitt) Romney – the FACE ...
    Willard Mittens Romney has been anointed by the elite for a special purpose.  He has the support of the Bilderberg cabal.  He gives keynote speeches at MOSSAD conventions in Israel.  What does all this mean? The answer is here in this amazing video presentation.  Watch and learn.  
  • The LDS (Mormon) Agenda on Immunizations &#821 ...
    Utah leads the nation in AUTISM amongst its children.  Utah is ranked No. 1 in autism diagnoses in the country. The statistics are striking: One in 32 Utah boys has autism. The rate for girls is one in 85, and that represents a 1,200 percent increase between 2002 and 2008. Overall, Utah’s rate i ...
  • The LDS (Mormon) Agenda on Immunizations &#821 ...
    Utah leads the nation in AUTISM amongst its children.  Utah is ranked No. 1 in autism diagnoses in the country. The statistics are striking: One in 32 Utah boys has autism. The rate for girls is one in 85, and that represents a 1,200 percent increase between 2002 and 2008. Overall, Utah’s rate i ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Unlikely Folk Hero Releases New Hit
    If video won’t play go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MokNvbiRqCM Kim Dotcom, the multimillionaire who is awaiting extradition from New Zealand on alleged Internet piracy charges (see Unlikely Folk Hero) has just released his long-awaited new song ‘Mr. President’, directed ...
  • US Citizen Journalism Killing the Mainstream News
    RT reports on a recent Gallup poll showing that only 20% of the public trusts the mainstream news, owing to bias and bungled reporting and the rise of citizen journalism (i.e blogs like this). They quote one viewer who says something's terribly wrong when there are major revolutions occurring a ...
  • Drone Warrior Obama Tries to Explain Mass Shooting
    From our friends at We Are Change  [Owing to extremely slow connection speed in rural New Zealand, I'm unable to insert embed code.] If video fails to play go to We Are Change Share and Enjoy:
  • The Drought, Skyrocketing Food Prices and Grow ...
    A GROW BIOINTENSIVE Garden How to Grow More Vegetables (and fruits, nuts, berries, grains, and other crops) than you ever thought possible on less land than you can imagine By John Jeavons 2002 Edition Ten Speed Press Book Review - Part II (See Part I for the theory of biointensive farming) ...
  • Farming Without Machines: A Revolutionary Agri ...
    How to Grow More Vegetables (and fruits, nuts, berries, grains, and other crops) than you ever thought possible on less land than you can imagine By John Jeavons 2002 Edition Ten Speed Press Book Review – Part I (Part I summarizes the theory of biotensive farming and Part II practical t ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Climate change and capitalism
  • How Secure Are Green Jobs?
  • The Facts About Canada’s Oil Sands and Climate ...
    Motivated ReasoningThis week I was reading an article from the Associated Press called Some fracking critics use bad science. The gist of the article is that Gasland director Josh Fox used false information in his new film, The Sky is Pink. Among other things, he claimed that cancer rates were h ...
  • Solar Trade War With China Goes Global
    Its mission statement doesn’t mention China, but there’s no doubt as to what brought together the 20 or so companies that comprise the new trade group EU ProSun: The flood of Chinese solar products into Europe that has pushed a growing number of companies to and over the financial brink.
  • Support for UK Onshore Wind to be reduced by 10%
    Financial support for onshore wind farms in the UK is to be reduced by 10% from 2013 it was announced by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) yesterday.The change to the value of the renewable obligation certificate (ROC) will mean every megawatt hour of electricity generated by on ...

EU Times

  • Spanish unemployment rate reaches record high ...
    Spain says its unemployment rate for the second quarter of the current year has reached the record high of 24.63 percent. According to the new figures released by the government of Friday, nearly 5.7 million Spaniards are now out of work. The country also says that almost 53,500 people lost thei ...
  • China Horrified after man finds Baby Girl in G ...
    An abandoned newborn baby is recovering in hospital after having her throat cut, being put in a plastic bag and thrown into a garbage bin in China’s Liaoning province. The female baby – so newborn that her placenta and umbilical cord were still attached – was discovered by a ma ...
  • Putin pushes nuclear, space defense reform
    President Putin has said Russia is not planning to enter a new arms race, but urged senior officials to develop the nuclear arsenal further, along with Russia’s own air and space defenses, so that no one in the world doubts their effectiveness. Putin was speaking at a special meeting on the stat ...
  • Nokia Is Finnished: Prepare For Bankruptcy
    Yes, Nokia (NOK) the Finnish mobile device maker as we know it, is doomed for bankruptcy and reorganization. Many of us, of course, still refuse to see the writing on the wall and invest accordingly. Nokia, a one-time story stock, has been shockingly bludgeoned from $40 to today’s meager $ ...
  • US birthrate plummets to lowest in 25 years
    The U.S. birth rate has plummeted to its lowest point in 25 years as would-be parents postpone having babies due to the poor economy. The average number of births per woman has fallen 12 per cent from a peak of 2.12 in 2007, when the economy began to falter. Now the rate is predicted to [...]

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Stephen Strasburg Beans Marco Scutaro, Win Str ...
    On Monday, the Washington Nationals opened a four-game set against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. The Nats had ace Stephen Strasburg on the hill gunning for his 10th win of the season and his seventh straight start ending with a "W" next to his name. Unfortunately, Washington was unable t ...
  • Liriano, Twins top White Sox 4-1 in Youkilis debut
    MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â Francisco Liriano faced runners at the corners with only one out in the seventh. This was precisely the type of situation where he's faltered so many times before, but Twins manager Ron Gardenhire didn't budge. "I just have a lot of confidence in him," Gardenhire said
  • Netanyahu says Russia and Israel on same page ...
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said he and visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin see eye to eye on the dangers of Iranâs nuclear weapons program. The two leaders met for over an hour in Jerusalem and discussed Iran, Syria, Egypt and bilateral ties. âWe agree that nuclear weapon ...
  • Apple, Microsoft, now Google: I/O 2012 closes ...
    First Apple , then Microsoft , and now it’s Google ‘s turn: three weeks of back-to-back mobile strategy with each of the big three companies laying out their stalls for smartphones and tablets. It’s arguably never been such an interesting time in mobility, but nor has there ever been so much at ...
  • Google appears to aim low with new 7-inch Andr ...
    If the rumors are true, Google's Nexus 7 tablet will compete with the low-end Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire, not Apple's iPad. If the stories from Gizmodo Australia are true, Google and Asus will be releasing a new 7-inch Android-powered tablet, Nexus 7 , at this week’s Google I/O Conference. We ...

Groklaw

  • Oracle Bows to Watchdog Over Misleading IBM Claims
    "IBM is pleased the National Advertising Division recommended that Oracle discontinue the use of what it described as an 'overly broad claim' in the ad," said IBM vice president Jeff Cross. "We believed Oracle made false, misleading and deceptive claims in violation of advertising law." - Caleb ...
  • Smartphones power record Samsung profit of $5. ...
    Samsung Electronics Co , the world's top technology firm by revenue, reported on Friday a record operating profit of $5.9 billion for the June quarter, as rampant Galaxy S handset sales helped stretch its lead over Apple Inc. - Reuters
  • No credit for Uncle Sam in creating Net? Vint ...
    Q: In his Wall Street Journal column, Gordon Crovitz writes that the federal government's involvement in the creation of the Internet was modest. Does that jibe with your recollection? Vint Cerf: No. The United States government via ARPA started the project. (Bob Kahn initiated the Internetting ...
  • Google launches Kansas City fiber net, intros ...
    Google launched its 1-gigabit-per-second broadband service in Kansas City today and also unveiled a new interactive television service called Google Fiber TV, in a move it hopes will push the broadband and paid TV industries to deploy speedier networks at a lower cost. Google Fiber TV is a serv ...
  • Apple digs in to protect app store name
    At a time when Amazon poses a growing threat to its dominant iTunes service, Apple is doubling down on efforts to drive its rival away from the term "appstore." In court filings last week, Apple demanded that Amazon provide an executive to testify why the company decided to remove the words "fo ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Mitt Romney does not disappoint, declares self ...
    Comedy writers are of course praising the heavens as they now have a national political figure who is both deeply clueless and hugely arrogant.Mitt Romney has emphasised his English ancestry after a gaffe-filled day in London, declaring himself to be “a guy from Great Britain” who is “married to ...
  • Detroit by quadrocopter drone. View the ruins
    The post Detroit by quadrocopter drone. View the ruins appeared first on Politics in the Zeros.
  • Germany gets 26% of power from renewable energy
    During the first half of 2012, the share of renewable energy sources in the electricity supply has risen significantly in Germany, rising to a sensational 25.97%The US was at 14% renewable energy in first half of 2011, with the largest segment being hydro power. Yes, hydro.California doesn&#8217 ...
  • Mitt Romney is the new Sarah Palin!
    Mitt Romney has made a stunningly bad mess of his visit to Britain. People are openly disgusted with his arrogant, clueless demeanor and the Mayor of London, who is a conservative, attacked Romney at a rally of 60,000.From James Chappers, Political Editor of the Daily MailCan this get any worse ...
  • Public pension crisis is worse than you thought
    Based on government accounting rules, public pensions were underfunded by about $885 billion in 2011, which certainly indicates a major public pension crisis. But the real numbers are much worse than that. Public pensions are allowed to use far laxer rules in determining future liabilities than ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • 'New' Egypt and the Camp David accords
    Despite many setbacks and roadblocks along the way in Egypt, the political situation there is still one of the most hopeful-- and certainly, the most momentous-- phenomena in the region. Egypt, remember, really does carry the strategic ballast of the whole Arab world. How things turn out there i ...
  • July 2006, lest we forget
    In these days six years ago, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert and his team were battering much of Lebanon to smithereens in the "Dahiyeh War"-- designed, as we remember, to break Hizbullah once and for all, primarily by battering Lebanese civilians and their infrastructure so harshly that they would turn ...
  • Sarajevo, 1914; Damascus 2012?
    The killing, in Damascus today, of at least three powerful members of the Baathist regime in Syria, will almost certainly plunge that whole country-- and quite likely also much of the rest of the Greater Middle East-- into a maelstrom of inter-group violence far worse than any it has seen until ...
  • West Point military historian denies the net v ...
    The NYT has a very important piece today reporting that the head of the military history program at West Point has openly stated that the United States gained "not much" from 10.5 years of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The program head, Col. Gian Gentile, concluded-- presumably in light of the c ...
  • Jewish-Israeli public lurches yet further right
    I just read Yossi Gurvitz's chilling account of the attack that a right-wing mob in South Tel Aviv unleashed against his girlfriend Galina, and him, during the anti-African-refugees demonstration held there Tuesday. The main speaker at the demo was Michael Ben-Ari, an elected MK. Gurvitz writes ...

frogblog

  • Making the most of GE Free NZ – Tour
    I am bringing over two Australian farmers with first-hand experience of Genetically Engineered (GE) crops in their communities to tour New Zealand, share their stories and warn New Zealand farmers about the risks of GE crops. The last Green Party GE tour was in 1999, during the time of the Royal ...
  • More, not fewer bicycles will reduce fatalities
    Forgive me for thinking that the Coroner’s goal is to reduce cycle deaths by reducing the number of people willing to travel by bicycle. New safety rules to avoid cycle deaths mooted during the Coroner’s inquest include innovative ideas such as mandatory high-vis clothing and compulsory use of c ...
  • Fracking without consents in Waikato
    Last night the Green Party revealed that state-owned coal miner Solid Energy in 2007 used the controversial fracking process in its Waikato coal seam gas operations without a consent. Waikato Regional Council has since said it should have been consented.
  • Fonterra sellout
    Yesterday afternoon was darkened by the passing of the Dairy Industry Restructuring Amendment (DIRA) Bill. The Greens have a vision of a government that cares for family farmers. That sort of government would not have pushed the Dairy Industry Restructuring Amendment Bill through Parliament. Bel ...
  • Goodbye Margaret Mahy
    Margaret Mahy once told a group of kids how, when she was young, she loved stories so much she started writing to “squeeze myself right into the stories”. And in the process, she squeezed generations of us into her stories too. I grew up with Mahy’s characters – the Lion in the meadow, the nutty ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • The Myth of a Safer Hospital Birth for Low-Ris ...
    By Dr. Mercola Do you believe that a hospital is the safest place to give birth to a baby? Society certainly paints the picture this way, portraying the hospital as the savior of sorts where women must rush off to in the middle of the night at the first sign of labor. However, a growing numb ...
  • First Statewide Ban of Plastic Bags
    By Dr. Mercola In a first-of-its-kind move in the United States, the residents of Hawaii have collectively said "No!" to plastic bags. Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle penned the crowning achievement when he signed a bill banning the bags beginning July 1, 2015. While Honolulu's new law does ...
  • Did You Have ANY Idea this Happens at Fast Foo ...
    By Dr. Mercola Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes at fast food restaurants?  Fast-food insiders (i.e. former employees) reveal a slew of nasty secrets that may make you think twice about ever eating in one of these restaurants again … Black Oil, Blood and “Melted” Chicken T ...
  • Top Ten Reasons to Avoid Your Doctor
    By Dr. Mercola I've long said that the best strategy for achieving health is avoiding a visit to your doctor in the first place. Why? Because in many cases you will simply leave the office with a prescription or two, which will rarely solve your health problem. Most doctor visits re ...
  • Pharmaceutical Drugs are 62,000 Times More Lik ...
    By Dr. Mercola The UK-based, international campaign group, the Alliance for Natural Health International (ANH-Intl) recently revealed data1 showing that compared to supplements, an individual is: Around 900 times more likely to die from food poisoning Nearly 300,000 times more li ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Train terror as mining giant endangers Earth’s ...
    The lives of Earth’s most threatened tribe will be in immediate danger if Vale’s new project succeeds. © Survival Plans by a giant mining company to expand a controversial railway line that has already opened up parts of Brazil’s Amazon to invaders, are now putting Earth’s most threatened t ...
  • Brazilian Indians fear ‘absurd’ setback over l ...
    The Guarani and other Indians are contesting a new decree which weakens control over their lands © F. Watson/Survival Brazilian Indians have expressed their anger and dismay as a new directive threatens to weaken their control over their lands. The directive, signed by Brazil’s Solicitor-G ...
  • Indian islands challenge Supreme Court move to ...
    India’s ‘human safari’ row exposed the exploitation of the Andamans’ Jarawa tribe. © Survival A ruling by India’s Supreme Court which would have drastically curtailed the notorious ‘human safaris’ in the Andaman Islands is being ignored by the islands’ authorities. Earlier this month India ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • #BingeAndPurge: Labels, Dummies, Hazards and more
    Battle Over Genetically Engineered Food Heading to Voters* Video: 'War on Health: FDAs Cult of Tyranny' (Full Film)* Video: Agenda 21 For Dummies* Video: The Dangers of Trans Fats* Video: The Hazards of Bleached Flour* Video: Taking Back History - Levees.org app brings real sto ...
  • Fukushima’s Uncertainty Problem
    from fukushimaupdate.com: It’s been well over a year since multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan sparked the worst nuclear crisis in 25 years — and it is remarkable how little we still know about its impact. I was reminded of this fact by a paper published yesterday that ...
  • #Olympics: Rain May Need To Be Faked For Openi ...
    from telegraph.co.uk: Danny Boyle may after all have to use his fake clouds to engineer some rainfall over the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony. The first detailed weather forecast for Friday evening suggests it could remain dry in the Olympic Park in east London, when the filmmaker will ...
  • Learned helplessness: The war on you
    from brasschecktv.com: Learned helplessness is a technical term that refers to the condition of a human or animal that has learned to behave helplessly, failing to respond even though there are opportunities for it to help itself by avoiding unpleasant circumstances or by gaining positive reward ...
  • Pain is in Your Brain and How to Fix It
    from mercola.com: If you've ever wondered how your body's aches and pains tie in to brain processes, and how your attitude and emotions can affect them, watch this video. It's a complex process that's still being unraveled, but what is known is that your brain, and consequently your thoughts and ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 17 Reasons Why Those Hoping For A Recession In ...
    If you were hoping for a recession in 2012, then you are going to be very happy with the numbers you are about to see.  The U.S. economy is heading downhill just in time for the 2012 election.  Retail sales have fallen for three months in a row for the first time since 2008, manu ...
  • The Audit The Fed Bill Gets Passed By The Hous ...
    On Wednesday, Ron Paul's bill to audit the Federal Reserve was overwhelmingly passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.  The vote was 327 to 98.  You would think that a bill with such overwhelming support would easily become law.  But it won't, because Barack Obama and the Dem ...
  • 100 Million Poor People In America And 39 Othe ...
    Every single day more Americans fall into poverty.  This should deeply alarm you no matter what political party you belong to and no matter what your personal economic philosophy is.  Right now, approximately 100 million Americans are either "poor" or "near poor".  For a lot of p ...
  • 12 Signs That Spain Is Shifting Gears From Rec ...
    Where have we seen this before?  Bond yields soar above the 7 percent danger level.  Check.  The stock market crashes to new lows.  Check.  Industrial activity plummets like a rock and the economy contracts.  Check.  The unemployment rate skyrockets to more than 20 percent.  Chec ...
  • James Holmes Is Not Alone – 20 More Exam ...
    There is much more to the collapse of America than just our economic problems.  The truth is that the United States is like a beautiful house that may still look great on the outside but that has rotted and decayed very badly on the inside.  In fact, the foundations of our countr ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • When you're next accused of being a xenophobic ...
    Let's play a little guessing game. From which newspaper in which country is the following quote taken from? Here's the quote: "This alternative is not only undemocratic, but also violates the Maastricht Treaty. The ECB turns out to be a Trojan horse. The trust is gone, leaving the capital ...
  • Good luck at the sporting event which shall re ...
    We can fully understand why the people of Cornwall might look at the decline and loss of heritage in the rest of the country, how they might shake their heads and conclude they want nothing to do with the rest of us. Fully understand it, fully support them in celebrating and preserving their ...
  • Quote of the Day: 26th July 2012
    "Spying, snooping and informing on your neighbours are the institutionalised paranoia which is the natural accompaniment of totalitarianism. That’s the way we’re going in the EU in general and in Britain in particular: Eastern Europe pre-1989." - The Rev Dr Peter Mullen on The Telegraph No ...
  • Look at the German Constitutional Court with e ...
    Reuters is reporting that the German Constitutional Court has ruled that Germany's electoral system is unconstitutional. The ruling is a major headache for Angela Merkel. While we'll leave the deliberations of the German court to those with an interest, the observation we'd make is about the ...
  • Quote of the Day: 'Here's how everyone in the ...
    "I know that our Europhile government – Cast-Iron Cameron, Claptrap Clegg and the rest of the useless gang – will dispute my number. The policy-making establishment has been lying about Europe ever since the early 1970s, but the truth will out." - UKIP's highly respected economist Tim Cong ...

Facing South

  • Will the Duke Energy scandal hurt the Democrat ...
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    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
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CenterLine

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  • Today’s Terrorism News
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  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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    Negative publicity around Ubuntu Unity and GNOME Shell is proving to be a real blessing in disguise for a bunch of smaller, lightweight distros like Xubuntu, Lubuntu et al. As much as I like Unity and GNOME Shell, they are not really the ideal choice for under-powered devices like netbooks. ...
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    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" is proving everyone wrong. It is perhaps the most loved Ubuntu release since "Lucid Lynx". Unity is now an almost-finished product. The rock solid nature of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS along with bold moves such as the introduction of features like HUD is winning the h ...
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    Some people say that smart phones are slowly killing televisions as a source of viewing content, but we believe that the two go hand in hand. After all, you don't have to choose one over the other. Being the nice folks we are, we decided to find you the very best Android apps that will ...
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Case About Bird Flu

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Invisible Opportunity

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    By Les Visible I did not set out with any of this in mind. I had no preconceived notions about the players and the game. The fact of the matter was that I knew very little about the reality of these things, until I set sail on the internet. I am the product of the [...]
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 The Romney campaign had at time of writing on Friday sent out two separate e-mail press releases chiding the Obama administration for its “refusal to say whether Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.” 

Progressive Conservative Party leader Joe Clark pledged during the 1979 federal election campaign to move Canada’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.  However, once in office, Clark was forced by pressure from the business community, Arab countries and senior Canadian bureaucrats to rescind the embassy transfer.  Clark’s successors have shown no inclination to move the embassy.

Canada’s Israel Lobby.

Jimmy Carter, in making an exceptional effort to bring peace to the Middle East, angered Israel and its American Lobby. As a result, Carter lost almost half his Jewish vote between 1976 and 1980, a loss which contributed to his defeat in the 1980 election. Sydney Spivak, chairman of the Canadian Lobby’s 1998 policy conference, threatened a similar outcome when Joe Clark, then Secretary of State for External Affairs, criticized Israel’s suppression of Palestinian rights.

External Affairs Minister Joe Clark was vigorously criticizing the Jewish state’s handling of the Intifada, charging that Israeli soldiers had instituted a policy of collective punishment against the Palestinians, including withholding food and medical supplies from refugee camps.  Clark also implied that Israel was the stumbling block to Middle East peace. 

 The Trudeau Years

Canadians in turn were angered by the lack of American action on acid rain, which was destroying Canadian lakes and forests. The Carter administration had agreed to negotiate a bilateral agreement on controlling acid rain, but Reagan reneged. The Americans blatantly manipulated scientific research and even classified two National Film Board productions on the topic as political propaganda that had to be registered. 

 

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