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Thomas Paine

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

Friday, July 27, 2012

27 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • How the shift to mobile is hurting Facebook’s ...
    More users are accessing Facebook from their phones than ever before, but during Thursday’s earnings call the company blamed a slowdown in both payments and ad sales on the shift to mobile. Facebook’s revenues from payments increased by a scant … Continue reading →
  • Facebook users are sharing 1B stories from Ope ...
    Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today that more than 1 billion stories are being shared from Open Graph apps per day. Open Graph apps are those that share users’ actions, such as reading, watching, listening and other custom activities to … Continue reading →
  • Zuckerberg tight-lipped about lack of progress ...
    It’s been over three months since Facebook announced it would buy mobile photo sharing application and social network Instagram for a combination of cash and shares worth up to $1 billion, but nothing has come of it yet. When asked about … Continue reading →
  • Zuckerberg says building a phone ‘wouldn’t rea ...
    Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on today’s investor call that building a phone “wouldn’t really make much sense for us to do,” addressing rumors that the company was working on its own mobile device. On Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Facebook … Continue readin ...
  • Despite meeting expectations, Facebook shares ...
    Facebook announced its first earnings results as a publicly traded company today, but despite reporting numbers right in line with analysts’ predictions, shares have fallen by more than 11 percent in after-hours trading to $23.84. Facebook’s shares also took a hit before … Cont ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • RUSSIA’S MOTIVES IN SYRIA: Another Side ...
    Moscow’s 30-year struggle against encroachment into its sphere of influence by militant Islam By Joe Lauria Russia’s unyielding support for Damascus throughout the 16 months of Syria’s escalating crisis has earned Moscow strong condemnation from Washington and other Western gov ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    U2- “Angel of Harlem” Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen make up the fabulous U2 and are always a great group to listen to whether live or in the studio. Picking out one of their songs for this week’s BFP/Jamiol Soothing the Beast wasn’t easy with so many incredible songs to pic ...
  • Saudi Arabia: Persian Gulf of Strategic Intere ...
    NATO Promotes Lethal Mixture of Militarism, Monarchism & Theocracy in the Arab World On June 18 Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen met with Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Nizar Madani at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. The ...
  • Mourning New Zealand’s New Chosen Path to Dest ...
    Going Down Under the Devil’s Spell My friends and those of you who have read my book know a bit about my fondness for New Zealand. I have been there more than once and not in the distant past. I have referred to several exemplary characteristics of its government more than a few times in [...]
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 20, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “If… the machine of government… is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law” – Henry David Thoreau International Newsworthy Will the BRICS Rescue Iran? China & Japan Secure Iran O ...

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Wanted: Graphic Images Depicting the Duopoly a ...
    Can you create graphics or cool photos that illustrate the duopoly? We'd like your help.
  • Left-Right Terminology Doesn't Work, Time for ...
    As a number of people have pointed out, the left-right terms no longer work. This article proposes alternate terminology that better fits today's reality.
  • Are Bluedogs Just Pre-Lobbyists?
    Democrats-Turned-Corporate-Lobbyists Hold Event Complaining About "Vanishing Moderate Democrats'
  • The Bizzarolies
    A bizzaroli is a real event or interpretation so bizarre and idiotic that it can only be either laughed at or cried at depending on who reads about it and what consequences he/she forecasts. Be my guests:
  • Obama/Romney: Start Debating the Prison-Indust ...
    One in four U.S. prisoners are behind bars for nonviolent drug offenses--the majority arrested for mere possession, not production or sale. Instead of wanting more prisoners and treating them in such ways that when they get out they are too unskilled and damaged to overcome the society's exclusi ...

Switchboard

  • Rit Aggarwala on why cities are more environme ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC    Rohit “Rit” Aggarwala leads the environmental program at Bloomberg Philanthropies.  Previously, he was chief advisor to New York City mayor Michael Blo ...
  • Obama Administration Set to Finalize Historic ...
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City It's been a long, hot, and largely unproductive summer in Washington. Members of Congress head home this month, leaving behind plenty of unfinished business and an ideological divide that remains a ...
  • Victory in PA! - Court Declares Zoning Provisi ...
    Daniel Raichel, Legal Fellow, New York Municipalities across Pennsylvania can breathe a big collective sigh of relief today.  That’s because, this morning, a panel of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court - in response to a lawsuit brought ...
  • Eat your vegetables. No, wait, don't. USDA pub ...
    Sasha Lyutse, Policy Analyst, New York If a government agency shamelessly caves to industry pressure but everyone is around to see—and Tweet—about it as it happens, do Americans win or lose? Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Agr ...
  • Are Mermaids in Chicago's Future?
    Josh Mogerman, Deputy Director, National Media, Chicago   Seen any mermaids in Lake Michigan? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration took the odd step of announcing that there is no such thing as the mythical half-fish, half-human ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • The Post-Accountability Era
    I’m pretty dubious about David Post’s argument that the NCAA levied against Penn State is unfair to Pennsylvania taxpayers, for the reasons I discussed earlier in the week: it proves to much. Presumably, this would also apply to a civil suit — when state institutions make actio ...
  • The Chick-Fil-A Problem
    I explain why denying them a permit based solely on the political beliefs of their president is wrong at much greater length. In particular, the argument advanced by some commenters that the actions of Chicago’s government are acceptable because Cathy’s beliefs cause real harm run in ...
  • How Corporations Intimidate Workers
    The definition of bravery is a worker who organizes a union or speaks out about bad conditions in the workplace. That’s because companies come down like a ton of bricks on these workers. See for instance Elvia Bahena, a housekeeper who works for a company Hyatt Hotels uses to subcontract i ...
  • Violating the First Amendment in Defense of Ga ...
    I think Glenn is completely right about this.  If a business is unwilling to comply with local and state civil rights laws, that’s a different matter.  Boycotts of Chick-Fil-A are perfectly defensible, and indeed if you must have fast-food chicken I would urge you to go to Popeye’s f ...
  • Mitt Romney, Diplomat
    Most of us have seen this, but I still find it fantastic that Romney wasn’t adequately prepared for his trip to London.  Let’s see, travel to London on the literal eve of the 2012 Olympic games hosted by the same, and make some disparaging remarks about a Great Britain’s abilit ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI attaining renewable energy power sources f ...
    Significant progress has been made on two renewable energy projects that is not only cost effective, but ultimately will contribute to the long-term efforts in sustainability by reducing the amount of electricity the Desert Research Institute needs from the utility grid.
  • Hallar Named Regents' Rising Researcher
    The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents presented Gannet Hallar, Ph.D. of the Desert Research Institute (DRI) with the 2012 Rising Researcher Award in acknowledgment of her contributions to the field of atmospheric science and her potential for future accomplishments.  
  • DRI scientists conduct climate change research ...
    Dr. Eric Wilcox and graduate student Nic Beres research pollution’s effects on clouds in the island nation most threatened by climate change.
  • Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
    Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.
  • Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
    Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Powerful Storms Linked to Depletion of Ozone L ...
    A new study warns that a surge in powerful storms, perhaps linked to a warming climate, could be causing a depletion of the planet’s protective ozone layer. Writing in the journal Science, Harvard researchers explain that water vapor inserted into the normally dry stratosphere by strong thunders ...
  • Pulling Carbon From Air Should Be Pursued Desp ...
    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 of high costs. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the re ...
  • Maya Lin’s Memorial to a Vanishing Natural World
    The woman who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is now focused on the mass extinction of species, a threat she is highlighting on a dynamic interactive Web site. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Maya Lin talks about the origins of her What is Missing? project, the media ...
  • Melting Glaciers May Worsen Northwest China’s ...
    In China’s sprawling Xinjiang region, where the population is growing and cotton farming is booming, a key river has been running dry in summer. Now a team of international scientists is grappling with a problem facing the Tarim River basin and other mountainous regions — how to secure water sup ...
  • U.S. Identifies Zones for Solar Development on ...
    The Obama administration has identified 17 sites on public lands across six Southwestern states that officials say are most suitable for utility-scale solar projects. In a report, federal officials vowed to expedite applications for solar projects on these sites — located in Arizona, California, ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Blame Games: The Olympics security debacle (pe ...
    The head of private security firm G4S said on Saturday his firm only realized just over a week ago it would not be able to supply enough venue guards for this month’s London Olympics, as he publicly apologized for the embarrassing failure. The day after G4S said it would incur a loss of up to 50 ...
  • Greatest Hopes, Worst Fears: Tragedy of the Mu ...
    The Munich massacre is an informal name for events that occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Bavaria in southern West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed by the Palestinian group Black September. Shortly after the crisis began ...
  • Visit Sunny Chernobyl: Author Says Nuclear Mel ...
    Featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, author and environmentalist Andrew Blackwell heralded the beauty of Chernobyl, a man-made disaster, now a wasteland, where he found a shining desolate place that humans had vacated, and now returned to nature. Part of a ‘love letter to pollution,’ Blackwe ...
  • Britain flooded with ’brand police’ to protect ...
    Hundreds of uniformed Olympics officers will begin touring the country today enforcing sponsors’ multimillion-pound marketing deals, in a highly organised mission that contrasts with the scramble to find enough staff to secure Olympic sites. Almost 300 enforcement officers will be seen across th ...
  • Egyptians pelt Hillary Clinton’s motorcade wit ...
    Protesters threw tomatoes and shoes at U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s motorcade on Sunday during her first visit to Egypt since the election of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. A tomato struck an Egyptian official in the face, and shoes and a water bottle landed near the armoured car ...

Russia Today

  • Medical mystery over discarded embryos: Stem-c ...
    Medical experts and investigators are pondering the origins of more than 200 human embryos found disposed in the Urals. Speculation ranges from illegal abortions to illegal stem-cell research. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Dirty Deeds: Iranian nuclear program hit by 'A ...
    Iranian nuclear facilities have been reportedly attacked by a “musical” virus, turning personal computers in laboratories on at nighttime and starting playing AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” out loud. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Typhoon Vincente slams Hong Kong (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
    The strongest storm in 10 years has hit Hong Kong, with dozens in hospitals and hundreds seeking refuge in shelters. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Top US Commander accused of stalling Afghanist ...
    A Congressional hearing on a delayed probe into a US-funded Afghan military hospital has aroused concerns that rampant corruption hampers the NATO occupation. An official cited “Auschwitz-like conditions” at the... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • ‘Fall of EU could help a new Hitler come to power’
    The political and economical crisis of the EU might help a new European Hitler to emerge, warns historian Geoffrey Roberts. He believes the current rise of ultra-nationalism in Europe resembles that one of 1930s as... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • So Aurora shooter James Holmes has “lawy ...
    If law enforcement spokespeople are to be believed, James Holmes has “lawyered up”, EXCEPT that he turned up at his arraignment alone, with a public defender. Does “lawyered up” mean something else, like invoking your right not to be interrogated without advice of a lawye ...
  • That’s no mystery woman, that’s my ...
    Curious the class distinction made with media persons of interest. The character of Mrs Kim Jong Un is appointed an air of notoriety by nature of having been previously unidentifiable to the West. A retroactive mystery is all the less so. But what about every other North Korean? Mystique surely ...
  • Steve Bass to get his day in court, but he can ...
    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.– Municipal Court Judge Spottswood W. F. Williams heard a final motion today before the AUGUST 10 trial of Occupier Steve Bass, charged with violating the city’s camping ban. The prosecution motioned to forbid from trial, “discussion of political, economi ...
  • Dissident Catholic Archbishop Desmond Tutu spe ...
    Why couldn’t the rotten world Catholic Church have had the sense to have made Desmond Tutu its ‘Pope’ instead of that Nazi rat they put into the Vatican top office? Tutu calls for end to gay stigma to help tackle HIV
  • Obama care is about saving the government mone ...
    ‘US auditors say the Supreme Court ruling upholding President Barack Obama’s health law will save the government $84bn over 11 years. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says most of the savings come from the Supreme Court’s decision that states do not have to expand Medicaid ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Cowardly AIA Panders to Political Correctness
    One thing I have absolutely zero respect for is when people critique a book or documentary film without even reading or watching it. A recent article in Architect Magazine seems like a clear example of this, except the author supposedly did watch the film he's critiquing. You wouldn't think it t ...
  • Reply: Gage's Architects & Engineers for 9/11 ...
    Published on Jul 20, 2012 by RepresentativePress Reply: Photographs and video footage have vindicated Gage, as they show the same phenomenon of negative low air pressure occurred with WTC 1 after the collapse of WTC 2 making it appear as if the entire building was on fire. Skip to 10:2 ...
  • FAQ #8: What Is Nanothermite? Could It Have Be ...
    Written by Adam Taylor In order to understand what nanothermite is, we first must understand what ordinary commercial thermite is. Thermite is a mixture of a metal and the oxide of another metal, usually aluminum (Al) and iron oxide (Fe2O3), in a granular or powder form. When ignited, the ener ...
  • The DC 9/11 Truth 4th of July Parade
    DC 9/11 Truth in the 2012 Takoma Park 4th of July Parade For more information on the parade see www.TakomaPark4th.org Here is a report on some of their past events. 9/11 Truth Float in 4th of July Parade 9/11 Blogger | July 7, 2008 dc911truth.org first participated in the Takoma Park Mary ...
  • Fire, Steel, & WTC 7
    Published on Jul 12, 2012 by ofmay We look at the fire that NIST claims took down WTC building 7 as well as 5 other steel frame high rise fires. Debunking the Debunkers blog contributor and author of, "Other Collapses in Perspective: An Examination of Other Steel Structures Collapsing due ...

Fooducate

  • Clean Eating – What is It?
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Are you familiar with the term Clean Eating? We’re beginning to hear more and more people talk about the clean eating movement and decided to take a minute to take a look. Clean eating is all about eati ...
  • An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away. Two Apples…?
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! The famous adage, coined by Benjamin Franklin, has done good for the apple industry. And science has long backed the health benefits of apple consumption. Aside from the nutrient rich profile (vitamins, miner ...
  • Just Gotta Have Another Big Mac And Coke Befor ...
      The Olympics are starting tomorrow and being sponsored by McDonald’s and Coca Cola. Do you think it’s right? Get Fooducated: iPhone App Android AppWeb App  RSS or  Email Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/fooducate on facebook: facebook.com/fooducate
  • New Study: Soft Drink Consumption Leads to Fla ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Doing our part to help “promote” the healthy sponsors of the Olympics starting this weekend, we bring you the results of  an interesting study published by the European Journal of Nutrition. Resea ...
  • Will You Take the “NO SODA” Pledge?
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest post by Katie Sullivan Morford, MS, RD and was originally published here. A month or so ago I went on a bit of a diatribe over soda consumption, rattling on about its contribution to the obesi ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • The Amazing Spider-Man: The Animal Farm of the ...
    By Gayle DeLong with Jonathan Rose My almost-recovered 15-year-old daughter dragged me to the movie The Amazing Spider-Man, and I was indeed amazed. Spider-Man, it seems, may be conveying our vaccine safety message without ever mentioning the V-word. Early in...
  • Barbara Loe Fisher Calls for an Independent Ag ...
    By Anne Dachel I listened to an interesting conversation between Barbara Loe Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Center and family medicine osteopathic physician, Dr. Joseph Mercola, that was released July 10, 2012. The topic was “Merck Accused of Lying...
  • What if the Consumer Protection Safety Commiss ...
    By Beth Clay Consumer product safety is one of the themes utilized in Washington as a reason to pass new regulatory authorities and to increase budgets of regulatory agencies. In recent years Congress passed a massive food safety bill and...
  • Katie Wright on IACC 2012
    By Katie Wright Secretary Sebelius came to address the 2012 Inaugural Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee. Over and over again Sebelius has failed to connect with the concerns affecting the 2 million American families affected by autism, and this time was...
  • MSNBC's Starschmucks Morning NO.
    By Kim Stagliano Joe Scarborough, the host of the MSNBC program "Morning Joe," put forth the brazen suggestion that James Holmes, the shooter (OK, "alleged" shooter) in the Aurora, Colorado, midnight showing of the The Dark night last week is...

Global BDS Movement

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!"

Open Your Eyes News

  • Gene fusion is behind deadly brain cancer
    New Scientist – Treatment for a lethal form of brain cancer could be on the horizon after the discovery that the cancer can be formed by two genes fusing together. People with the disease could potentially benefit from drugs that block the activity of a protein produced by this wayward fus ...
  • Palestinian economic growth unsustainable &#82 ...
    BBC – The World Bank has said the recent economic growth in the Palestinian Territories is unsustainable because of its heavy reliance on foreign aid. The Palestinian Authority had begun establishing institutions for a future state, but the economy was not strong enough to support it, a re ...
  • Asian Arms Race: Philippines, Vietnam blast Ch ...
    Agence France Presse – The Philippines and Vietnam on Tuesday lashed out at China’s moves to establish a military garrison in the South China Sea, amid escalating tensions in the disputed waters. The Philippines summoned the Chinese ambassador to Manila, while Hanoi filed a formal pr ...
  • US warns drought will push up food prices in 2013
    BBC – Food prices are likely to rise in the US next year due to a drought gripping large parts of the Midwest, the US department for agriculture has warned. It forecasted that the price of milk, eggs and meat would all rise above the normal rate of inflation as the dry weather increased an ...
  • New Orleans hotel demolished in ten seconds &# ...
    New Orleans Hotel 2012 Building 7 World Trade Centre 11th September 2012 (NB: This was the skyscraper that collapsed that day but that wasn’t struck by any plane)

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

  • A Lighter Load in Ethiopia
    Letebrehan Gerezgiher is 24 years old and has three kids; Maytsada village is living in this small village. She says,”I used to travel two hours in the dry season in search of water and then, without taking a rest, prepare food for my children and husband, clean the house yard, and wash the chil ...
  • Collecting Water in Majidpur
    A family collects drinking water from a newly installed submersible pump water supply system in the Majidpur slum of Savar in India. The water system was installed through the assistance of DSK and Water.org's WaterCredit program. At present, 19 poor households are using this water system.
  • Learning About Sanitation
    Mrs. Bhagya Shrinivas is a resident of Karthikere village & panchayath Chikamagaluru district in India. She has recently married Mr. Shrinivas who is a small businessman with a small petty shop in Karthikere. They have their own house and live there alone.
  • Toilets Bring Dignity
    Imagine for a moment what it might be like for a boy like Shipon and his family to lack access to a toilet. Then imagine how their lives would change when they were able to have one they could all use nearby to their home. Shipon is 10 years old and his family has just gained access to a toilet. ...
  • Water in Adina Faso, Ethiopia
    The residents of Adina Faso used to walk four hours each day to gather unclean water, but after working together with Water.org, they now have twenty-four-hour access to clean water, right in the middle of their village.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
  • Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
    In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Obama has developed fantastic working rel ...
    US President Barack Obama has developed a "fantastic working relationship" with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a senior administration official has said, asserting that the US recognises "importance" of India as a key regional and global power. "President Obama developed a...
  • Japan slips past Spain
    GLASGOW, Scotland -- Japan forward Yuki Otsu scored in the first half in a 1-0 win over 10-man Spain on Thursday in men's Olympic soccer, hurting the Spaniards' chances of winning a gold medal. Otsu broke away from his marker during a corner kick and tapped a shot past goalkeeper David de Ge ...
  • Pennsylvania's smoking law effects debate ...
    Pennsylvania's no-smoking law has too many loopholes that should be eliminated to protect more workers from the dangers of second-hand smoke, leaders of anti-tobacco groups told state legislators at a hearing in Pittsburgh Thursday. Members of the House Democratic Policy Committee were ...
  • Barack Obama a Muslim: the myth that pers ...
    MORE than one in three conservative Republican voters still thinks US President Barack Obama is a Muslim, nearly four years after he won power, according to a new survey. “The number of Americans who say Obama is a Muslim is up since 2008, similar to 2010,” said Greg Smith, a sen ...
  • Senegal pulls soccer shocker vs. Great Br ...
    By Associated Press Comments Senegal's Moussa Konate celebrates after scoring the tying goal against Great Britain. The game ended 1-1. (Jon Super/Associated Press) Manchester, Englandâ Moussa Konate scored late in the second half to lift Senegal to a 1-1 tie against host Britain in Olympic ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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 ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • War Without Mercy on Syria
    by Stephen Lendman Western media misreport what's happening in Syria and why. Propaganda substitutes for truth and full disclosure. Syrians are struggling to prevent Western conquest, exploitation, and control. They're fighting for their lives to stay free. At issue isn't whether Ass ...
  • Greenland ice sheet undergoes worst surface me ...
    from Ecological Internet Given dramatic Greenland ice sheet melt and historic U.S. drought's threat to global food supply, Ecological Internet renews calls for urgent measures to avoid global ecosystem collapse, achieve sustainable development, and sustain global ecosystems and the biosphere ...
  • Weill, separate banking from investment bankin ...
    The Godfather unregulated banking, Sanford I Weill, just endorsed restoring the most fundamental provision of the Glass-Steagal Act - separating banks from risky investment activity, a cardinal principal of banking regulation from the Great Depression through the end of the Clinton administrat ...
  • The Rise of the Police State and the Absence o ...
    James Petras and Robin Eastman Abaya Introduction One of the most significant political developments in recent US history has been the virtually unchallenged rise of the police state. Despite the vast expansion of the police powers of the Executive Branch of government, the extraordinary gr ...
  • Austerity, Adjustment, and Social Genocide: Po ...
    By: Andrew Gavin Marshall Angela Merkel, Jose Manuel Barroso, and Mario Monti: Europe’s champions of austerity and adjustmentThe following is a sample analysis from my upcoming book on the global economic crisis and global resistance movements. Please consider donating to The People&# ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • WikiLeaks and the War on Drugs
    Blanche Petrich Moreno ,thenation.com – In September 2006, just days before Felipe Calderón was declared president of Mexico in a disputed election fraught with fraud and corruption, the US Embassy sent a secret report to Washington titled “Strengthening Calderon’s weak hand.” Mexico’s new ...
  • Human Rights Violations In Police Response To ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Friday
    SUSPECT IN HEPATITIS C OUTBREAK WAS FIRED IN ARIZ. CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A dozen hospitals in seven states are scrambling to identify people who might have been infected with hepatitis C by a traveling medical technician who was charged a week ago with causing an outbreak in New Hampshire. ...
  • Hippie Health Digest
    Get in touch with your inner hippie northernstar.com.au – LOOKING for another way to live longer? Meditation was hip in the ’60s and today it’s popular among baby boomers who want to slow the aging clock. Research proves meditation lowers your biological age by more than a deca ...
  • A LITTLE COMFORT
    By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE – With all the bad news and the crazies loose in D.C. YOU, yes, you Michele B. and your bigoted obsession with the Muslim faith- I thought that a little comfort was in order. What better way than with oatmeal cookies fresh from the oven like Gramma used to mak ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The Facts About Canada’s Oil Sands and Climate ...
    Misinformation is hard to stamp out, because it tends to be repeated - so Robert Rapier goes in depth to examine Climate Change claims around the Keystone XL pipeline.
  • The Contribution of U.S. Oil Consumption to Gl ...
    Financial Dependence Can Cause Bias Generally when I find myself having to clarify my position from a previous column, I find that I did not explain myself as well as I should have. Such is the case with last week’s column Environmentalism is a Profitable Business. There were several ways ...
  • Investment Opportunities in Natural Gas
    In this week’s Energy Trends Insider our featured stories were The Navy’s Biofuels Program and the Great Green Fleet, Investment Opportunities in Natural Gas, and the Short Term Oil Price Investment Outlook. As we did last week, we would like to share one of those stories with regula ...
  • Midwestern Drought, Ethanol, & Renewable Fuel ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I discuss the implications of the current drought in the Midwest, how that may impact the ethanol market, and whether the Renewable Fuel Standard is likely to be modified. Readers who have specific questions can send them to ask [at] consumere ...
  • Environmentalism is a Profitable Business
    Global Experiment With the Climate I want to preface this column by saying that I am very concerned about climate change. The rapid growth of atmospheric carbon dioxide shows no sign of abating, and I have concerns over what this will ultimately mean for the climate. The fact is that we are cond ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • More Positive News for Pork Lovers
    Although a little fashionably late to the party, Sysco, the world's largest catering company and food distributor, has announced its decision to stop buying pork from distributors whose pigs are housed in gestation crate facilities. For those who are a little rusty on animal welfare for pigs li ...
  • 7 Appalling Meat Facts You Need to Know
    Germaphobia is in full swing. News reports of nasty microorganisms lurking on remote controls, doorknobs, and in public restrooms have many of us reaching for hand sanitizer. Sure, those tales are unappetizing, but chew on this: The real germs you need to worry about and avoid—the new-breed, po ...
  • The Ultimate Food System Hero
    There's an unlikely person out to save the food system—and possibly your life. Will Witherspoon, a pro football player for the Tennessee Titans, is spending his final days before grueling NFL training camp begins lobbying Congress to end antibiotic abuse in farming. "It's important. I wouldn't ...
  • Why You Should Never Buy a Yellow Purse
    You probably don't associate your purse with major health problems—unless you're talking about those shoulder pains you get from loading it up with everything but the kitchen sink. But a new report from environmental health scientists in California may give you pause the next time you gravitate ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: Wasp-Proof Your Backyard
    Wasps, hornets, and yellow jacket can put a serious crimp in your outdoor fun. And since populations peak in late summer, now's the time of year when you either deal with them or risk ruining a perfectly good afternoon nursing a seriously nasty welt. I've got a few ideas on how to kill wasps, y ...

big think

  • Life Is a Marathon. Bring Olympic-Level Excell ...
    I'm not sure if you've ever heard of an American runner named Billy Mills. Mills was the surprise winner of the gold medal in the 10k at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics. And guess what? When he speaks to groups about his victory and keys to success, Mills admits that (among his many thoughts duri ...
  • Writing is Acting
    Writers can spend days, weeks holed up in a room, churning out words, not knowing if their work is any good—engaging, or just shallow “busy work.” Actors, on the other hand, have the benefit of the mirror, studying recordings of themselves, or the reaction of any sized audience to immediately kn ...
  • 2012 Summer Olympics: The Virtues of Contradiction
    What's the Latest Development? When the summer Olympics open tonight, the ceremony will be a considered celebration of humanity's positive qualities: unity, friendship, compassion and equality. But the spirit of togetherness with which the games will begin can be expected to end sharply ...
  • The Best For Sale Sign… Ever
    Elle Zober’s husband left her for a 22-year old “yoga girl,” and Elle didn’t take it with a whimper. Instead she channeled her heartache and disappointment into crafting what has got to be the most wonderful, kick-ass For Sale by Owner real estate sign ever:   I ...
  • What We Mean When We Say "That's Not Fair"
    What's the Latest Development? What do we mean when we say something is unfair? And how far will we go to punish the wrongdoer? A pair of experimental psychologists sought to answer those questions by rigging a game in which a pair of individuals could steal money from each other. An imp ...

Information Liberation

  • TSA: Filming Checkpoints is "Terrorism"
    Evidently, TSA isn*t looking for press coverage in its new roll out of checkpoints at train stations. Citizen journalist Julio Rausseo, a roaming correspondent for WeAreChange.org, was labeled a *terrorist* and threatened with arrest for filming a...
  • One Day After DC Police Told Not To Interfere ...
    So, yesterday, everyone was feeling warm and fuzzy about the very clear statement by Washington DC's police chief Cathy Lanier pushing out a very explicit policy to all DC police concerning mobile phone cameras. The policy was straightforward: polic...
  • Time To De-Bloombergize New York City
    In response to the Aurora movie theater killings, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg issued an extraordinary statement. A longtime opponent of the right to self-defense, Bloomberg told a CNN interviewer that police have a moral duty to rebel ...
  • Do I Want Poor People To Die?
    Some people are going insane because they think I said welfare should be banned because people may use the money to murder people. Let's look at what I actually said: All over TV they're saying we need to ban guns as they enabled his attack, but wh...
  • The Post-Aurora "Rampage" Few Have Heard About
    One day after a lethal shooting rampage in Aurora, Colorado left twelve people dead and scores injured, another eruption of criminal violence left one dead and several others injured in Anaheim, California. The perpetrators of the second assault were...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • One More Five-Ring Circus
    The Games of the XXX Olympiad kick off in a few hours, and I for one won’t be watching. In another age, another millemium, the Modern Olympic Games were conceived by an aristocratic Frenchman, Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, … Continue reading →
  • More Of The Shiny Stuff
    A few random jottings on gold while I’m out on the road; back in a week. The other day, I came across this article in the Mises Daily, taken from Joseph T. Salerno’s testimony submitted to the U.S. House Subcommittee … Continue reading →
  • Meet The Asylum’s New Management
    The iron ore town of Whyalla on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is one of the places most threatened by Labor’s Carbon Tax – the tax that Gillard promised before the last Federal election she would never introduce, and which came … Continue reading →
  • Gunwalker – What The Hell???
    I don’t know much about this whole Gunwalker episode, beyond the little I’ve read in the news. But it’s now meant the United States’ chief executive law officer has just been held in contempt of Congress. Pretty serious stuff. I … Continue reading →
  • Daily Telegraph Delingpole Refugee Camp
    G’day Folks, The DT blogs are down for maintenance for an unusually long period of time. So all regular readers of James Delingpole’s blog are welcome to continue the discussion here. Even the trolls can come in, just to make … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Attenborough: Twitter is not trivial
    “Twitter may sound trivial, it’s not. It’s hugely important.” It will transform the way that people talk to one another. Surely, if we can put a man on the moon, we can put our own house in order. The inimitable Sir David Attenborough OM on population growth, communicatio ...
  • Multitasking and listening to mood music
    When you’re feeling blue, put on a sad song. Getting in the party spirit, turn up the dance music. We are all well aware that music can fit our mood and even reinforce certain emotions. Now, researchers at Philips Research in The Netherlands have demonstrated that background music can affe ...
  • It’s an ant’s life
    I relocated a planter in our back garden and inadvertently exposed an ants’ nest. I needed the tub elsewhere in the garden so these creatures had to undertake frenzied remedial action in the face of a man-made disaster. In the name of science, I videoed their efforts, Needless to say, the ...
  • Shakespeare’s Sonnets on the iPad
    TouchPress has done it again giving us an aesthetically pleasing collision of art and technology – akin to the Leonardo Anatomy app I mentioned a while back. This time The Sonnets by William Shakespeare gets the modern treatment with videos and readings featuring Patrick Stewart (always a ...
  • Shakespeare’s Sonnets on the iPad
    TouchPress has done it again giving us an aesthetically pleasing collision of art and technology – akin to the Leonardo Anatomy app I mentioned a while back. This time The Sonnets by William Shakespeare gets the modern treatment with videos and readings featuring Patrick Stewart (always a ...

RFF Library

  • A Technology-Led Climate Change Policy for Canada
    Institute for Research on Public Policy / by Isabel Galiana, Jeremy Leonard and Christopher Green http://www.irpp.org/pubs/IRPPstudy/IRPP_Study_no34.pdf [From Summary]  As Canada has formally withdrawn from the Kyoto Accord, what can we do to contribute meaningfully to reducing global greenhouse ...
  • Preliminary Assessment of the Drought’s Impact ...
    Iowa State Univ., Center for Agricultural and Rural Development / by Bruce Babcock http://www.card.iastate.edu/policy_briefs/display.aspx?id=1167 [Renewable Fuels Association] New analysis from the Center for Agriculture and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University suggests that calls f ...
  • National Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Proje ...
    National Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Project via SSRN http://bit.ly/Pm3tDE Technical Analysis Report http://bit.ly/MHj3cZ  Policy Design Recommendations [From Green Car Congress]  The National Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Project has released two major reports that synthesize its findings ...
  • Making the Grade (Almost): The BLM’s Progress ...
    Wilderness Society http://bit.ly/MWpIwv [Public News Service]  The report, “Making the Grade (Almost),” looks at how leasing decisions are balanced with other land uses such as recreation and wildlife. Nada Culver, director of The Wilderness Society’s BLM Action Center, which i ...
  • Economic Implications of Reducing Carbon Emiss ...
    World Bank / by Y.-H. Henry Chen, and Govinda R. Timilsina http://bit.ly/NtjclP [Abstract] The overall impacts on the Brazilian economy of reducing CO2 emissions from energy use and industrial processes can be assessed using a recursive dynamic general equilibrium model and a hypothetical carbon ...

Scientific American - News

  • Early HIV Treatment Might Save Livelihoods as ...
    People can work more when their ailments are treated. And HIV is no exception. Adults who tested positive for HIV in Uganda but had a less severe infection were able to work more hours per week, and their kids were more likely to be in school, according to findings presented July 26 at the 2012 ...
  • Social Scientists Might Gain Access to Faceboo ...
    From Nature magazine [More]
  • Tropical Parks Fail to Protect Animals and Pla ...
    India's Supreme Court has temporarily banned tourism in tiger reserves . The problem? All those hotels and shops built within the protected areas for the tourists are cutting down on actual forest habitat for the endangered big cats. In addition, local governments have failed to create buff ...
  • Drought Devastates U.S. Maize and Soya Crops
    From Nature magazine [More]
  • Why Is Everyone on the Internet So Angry?
    With a presidential campaign, health care and the gun control debate in the news these days, one can't help getting sucked into the flame wars that are Internet comment threads. But psychologists say this addictive form of vitriolic back and forth should be avoided -- or simply censored by o ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Re-visioning the Everyday
    A found object sculpture exhibition ReVISION is an eclectic group exhibit that offers viewers a chance to reimagine the everyday.  The show successfully balances individual artists' personal obsessions against the larger theme of r ...
  • How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Ra ...
    We’re right in the dirty middle of Pride here in Halifax, NS. Hearts are racing, pulses are beating, our breathe comes heavy, and we’re all about to reach our collective Rainbow Climax. This will be my fourth year “workin ...
  • Footloose and Fancy Free
    Barefoot ecstatic dancing is for all kinds of feet! HALIFAX — If you gaze into the sky and spin, that is, truly spin, round and around, do you feel you can fly? And if you feel that you can, do the clouds carry you away into the blue ...
  • CKUT's Off the Hour: Manuel Sanchez Speaks Out ...
    Interview with Ed Lee, part of Manuel's support committee Thursday, July 26th the Canadian government will be proceeding with the deportation of Manuel Sanchez, even though persecution, violence and threats to his life await him in Me ...
  • CKUT's Off the Hour: Manuel Sanchez Speaks Out ...
    Interview with Ed Lee, part of Manuel's support committee Thursday, July 26th the Canadian government will be proceeding with the deportation of Manuel Sanchez, even though persecution, violence and threats to his life await him in Me ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • The pain in Spain and America's iron jaw
    David Seaton's News LinksThis remobilisation of Spanish society, lulled into comfort and complacency during the boom years, in some senses recalls the fevered political and street activity of the transition to democracy after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco in 1975. Yet it is more amo ...
  • James Holmes: a budding neuroscientist runs amok
    David Seaton's News Links So this is just what one of America's many faces is going to be a bitterly divided, hatefully cynical country where insane people have easy access to semi-automatic weapons, and occasionally use them to commit senseless atrocities. We will continue to see more and mo ...
  • What exactly is the USA?
    David Seaton's News LinksRight now the question would have to be: what exactly is the USA?? The people? The system? The economy? Whose economy? What exactly is the USA? This is really important in America's case, more so than in other countries, because "American" isn't an ethnic grou ...
  • Globalization: King and country
    David Seaton's News Links We are white mice participating in a great historical experiment.The idea of completely untrammeled, frictionless capitalism has only been a theoretical construct till now, but we are almost there today.There are basically two -- untried -- theories of how this would p ...
  • The World Economy: into the Wild Blue Yonder
    David Seaton's News Links  It would be comforting for many to imagine that our globalized economy is a conspiracy,  a murky cabal, directed from the shadows by some Bilderberger-ish, ecumenical-protocol, of sinister "elders", who are pulling all the strings.I say comforting because pre ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Presidential Race is Too Close to Call
    Earlier this morning I predicted that it wouldn't be long before political scientists began plugging second-quarter GDP numbers into the election models to figure out who's going to win in November. I predicted correctly! First out of the gate — first that I've run across so far, anyway & ...
  • Yesterday's Romney Gaffe Was Real, Not Fabricated
    Mitt Romney's verbal stumbles in London yesterday probably won't have much long-term impact on the presidential campaign. Still, Dave Weigel points out something interesting about them. The best-known gaffes of the past few months have been mostly fabricated by the opposing campaign trying to m ...
  • Later Today We'll Finally Know Who's Going to ...
    GDP was up 1.5% last quarter. That's not so good. On the other hand, it's better than expected. And first quarter GDP was revised upward. Later today people will all start diving into the numbers and trying to build detailed narratives around the housing sector or the tradeable sector or t ...
  • New Study Shows That Medicaid Expansion Really ...
    Most of the recent conversation about Medicaid expansion has been about costs. If states decide not to participate in Obamacare's expansion of Medicaid, how much will it save the federal government? If they do decide to participate, how much will it cost the states? But what about the benefits? ...
  • Antonin Scalia Doesn't Think the American Publ ...
    C-SPAN's Brian Lamb recently asked Antonin Scalia why he opposed televising Supreme Court proceedings: I'm against it because I do not believe [...] that the purpose of televising our hearings would be to educate the American people. That's not what it would end up doing. If I really thought i ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 337: But He Smoked Crack
    Topics: Bigotry is delicious Being a nerdy isn’t trendy Comic Book Fans going too hard? “But He smoked crack…” Having Kristen Stewart Cheat on you Jerry Sandusky is creepy Penis thieves Share with your friends:
  • IC 336: Bad Parenting 101
    Topics: The Dark Knight Rises was awesome The Cunt Muffins who spoil movies on opening weekend Calling an Avengers Initiative on The Dark Knight Rises Politicizing Tragedies Gun control laws won’t stop evil people Regulation is a safety net and deterrent for for the casuals Kriss gives an ...
  • IC 335: Homophobia Tastes Like Chicken
    Topics: *Bonus* The first 15 minis is the pre-show with Kriss & Rod talking about the George Zimmerman/Sean Hannity Interview*Bonus* Kev Sees Spider-Man 2 Marvel wins San Diego Comic Con Nerds Ruin Everything Trolling The Dark Knight Rises Critics don’t love watching movies anymore Ru ...
  • IC 334: We’re Getting Soft
    Topics: Work sucks Dream Team The need to compare Each generation gets a little softer The Dark Knight Rises The 3 Titties Live ON Fat sex Sharks still ain’t shit Kriss’ religious rant Share with your friends:
  • IC 333: Fuck Summer
    Topics: Summer is Horrible Summer was more fun as a kid UFC 148 recap People hating athletes Team loyalty Team BlowJob for the champs? The blow job orgy…the worst orgy Booty pop videos with 6 year olds? We gotta do better Acknowledging privileged != you’re a racist The Dark Knight Ri ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • MRSA cases in academic hospitals double in 5 y ...
    Infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) doubled at academic medical centers in the U.S. between 2003 and 2008, according to a report published in the August issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiolog ...
  • Big horns trump smooth pickup lines every time
    Elk and rhinoceros beetles aren't diabetic, but to grow big horns and attract mates it appears that the males are insulin-dependent. read more
  • SFU duo's protein discovery links to cancer re ...
    A Simon Fraser University graduate student's collaboration with her thesis supervisor on how a particular type of protein controls the growth of another protein could advance cancer research. read more
  • The modeling of new enzymes helps develop ther ...
    Researchers from the University of Kentucky have designed and discovered a series of highly efficient enzymes that effectively metabolize cocaine. These high-activity cocaine-metabolizing enzymes could potentially prevent cocaine from producing physiological effects, and could aid in the treatme ...
  • NASA X-ray concept inspired from a roll of Sco ...
    The inspiration behind NASA scientist Maxim Markevitch's quest to build a highly specialized X-ray mirror using a never-before-tried technique comes from an unusual source: a roll of Scotch® tape. read more

unEarthed

  • Friday Finds: Greenland’s Meltdown
    Plus: London smog, EPA’s petrified politics, grocery bill blues Greenland's ice melt from July 8th (left image) to July 12 (right image). Photo courtesy of Nasa ...
  • Toxic Law's "Unsafe" Flaw
    Chemicals aren't dangerous unless proven so Firefighters are often exposed to a “chemical cocktail” of emissions from flame retardant chemicals. (BLS) At ...
  • A Law That Turns Safe Into Sorry
    Chemicals aren't dangerous unless proven so Firefighters are often exposed to a “chemical cocktail” of emissions from flame retardant chemicals. (BLS) At ...
  • The New Math
    Bill McKibben takes us to school—and nominates Public Enemy #1 Bill McKibben Bill McKibben,  who first alerted the non-scientific world to global cl ...
  • Daryl Hannah Making Splash For Mountain Heroes
    Star adds her face and message to stop mountaintop removal mining Daryl Hannah speaks out against mountaintop removal mining. (Pake Salmon) Daryl Hannah ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

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  • Why is the Western left so obsessed with Israel?
    It ain’t anti-Semitism.  There’s no question – the evil perpetrated by Bashar Assad on the Syrians for the last year and a half makes the evils of the occupation during this time seem mild. So why does the Western left still seem so much more preoccupied with Israel, not to say ...
  • Institutionalizing occupation: the ‘Univ ...
    In the U.S. slavery was an accepted, normal institution for the first 140 years of the country’s existence. While American universities are now trying to come to terms with their historical corroboration with slavery, Israel is just beginning to institutionalize its system of oppression th ...
  • Jewish Democrats use far-right tactics to atta ...
    Missing on some facts and leaving all shame behind it, the NJDC takes issue with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for her alleged support of Palestinians’ civil rights, and with President George W Bush for brokering a cease fire between Israel and Hezbollah Mitt Romney’s vi ...
  • Is Israeli annexation of Area C of the West Ba ...
    I started to think that a formal, unilateral annexation of Israeli-controlled Area C is imminent in May, when I saw this video (Hebrew) advocating the move. A public relations ploy designed to convince Israelis that annexing Area C is good for their future—and that giving the Palestinians who li ...
  • Lesson from George Washington on dangers of Sh ...
    What would George Washington think of would-be kingmaker Sheldon Adelson’s ambition regarding Israel? Conor Friedersdorf has an interesting column in The Atlantic in which he claims that, when it comes to Israel, Obama’s actions and sentiments are much more in tune with George Washin ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • TARP, Bank Foreclosures and the Looting of Ame ...
    Most Americans have a sense TARP was a badly managed program that bailed out “fat cat” bankers at the expense of U.S. taxpayers. Well, it’s even worse than you think, according to Neil Barofsky, former special inspector general for TARP (SIGTARP). Officials in both the Bush and ...
  • ATTENTION: Important Republican National Conve ...
      IMPORTANT REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION BULLETIN! ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA- As all of America is aware, the cities of St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida were given the profound honor and privilege of hosting the 2012 Republican National Convention during the week of August 23-27, 2012, wit ...
  • VIDEO: Neil Barofsky, We Need To See Banksters ...
    NEIL BAROFSKY ON HANDCUFFS   Scridb filter
  • Amerika 2012- Slouching Toward Nurenburg, Amer ...
    Most people will not have the courage it takes to read this article all the way through.  It is painful and scary so most people will fade off after a few paragraphs.  But Amerikans must wake up and realize this is not the nation the propaganda ministers in your elementary school or high school ...
  • LEAKED DOCUMENT (Congressional Thuggery)- Hous ...
    I know, I know….you still think your vote matters..you’re one of them. You also think you vote for those folks, send them up to vote for you in The Capitol, Don’t you? Well, listen to how things really operate in the den of lies, fraud and deceit that is “our” natio ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • The Myth of Neutrality
    “Do you hear what you’re saying? You’re talking about parity here – in this *?&%@& place?” The words were uttered …Continue reading »
  • The Myth of the Silent Majority
    Listening in on a radio panel discussion to the pros and cons of citizen engagement was something of an education. …Continue reading »
  • Binding From Mischief
    One of the clear signs of the demise of modern democracy is the penchant for politicians to put partisanship over …Continue reading »
  • No Mere Dream Date
    Thirteen years of marriage is a very brief time to fill with all the adventures we have had over the …Continue reading »
  • Perhaps George Washington Was Right
    The following is my recent Huffington Post piece on the use of negative ads and their unintended consequences. It was …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Davos 2011: Desperately seeking Google
    It’s that time of year again – 2000+ of the worlds top movers and shakers are beginning to descend on the Swiss ski town of Davos for this year’s Annual World Economic Forum meeting.  Political heavyweights like Clinton, Annan, Sarkozy and Cameron will be intermingling with the ...
  • Obama spotlights innovation, but how do we get ...
    Technology innovation was front and center of Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight.  This is extremely good news for those of us who believe more needs to be done, and done better, to ensure science and technology translate into effective solutions that enable economic and social grow ...
  • Asking smart people dumb questions – the new r ...
    Cross-posted at ForumBlog.org – the World Economic Forum blog My high school physics teacher used to tell me there’s no such think as a dumb question.  It’s a lesson I’ve carried with me through my professional career as a scientist.  But it’s a philosophy that might be just about to come ...
  • Davos 2011 – physics superstar meets music sup ...
    I don’t usually write about personal interactions here, but this is one I couldn’t resist – physics superstar Lawrence Krauss talking cosmology with music superstar Peter Gabriel. I was with Lawrence at a World Economic Forum dinner when he bumped into Peter – as one does ...
  • Davos 2011: Global Risks permeate conversation ...
    Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. Take a metaphorical slice through this year’s annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, and Global Risk would be writ large through every part of it.  Hot on the heels of the sixth Global Risk report, this year’s meeting saw the launch of ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

  • The Unfinished Story of Iraq’s Oil Law: ...
    [Originally published on July 24th, 2012 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa “No Blood For Oil” was a slogan featured on many a sign in demonstrations during the run up to the US-led invasion of Iraq, and throughout the early years … Continue reading →
  • Saying No To Tear Gas
    [An excerpt from an article of the same name by Frida Berrigan, originally published on Waging Nonviolence, June 22nd, 2012.] I have an assignment for you. Have you ever been tear gassed? I have not. It does not sound like … Continue reading →
  • Peace and Global Justice Groups: “End St ...
    On Father’s Day, June 17th , Peace and Global Justice groups walk together with New Yorkers in a Silent March to End Stop & Frisk We are a diverse gathering of groups working for global justice and peace around the … Continue reading →
  • On the Ground in Basra: An Interview with Hash ...
    Originally published on May 2nd, 2012 on Jadaliyya. by Ali Issa Iraqi unions demonstrated yesterday on May Day 2012 at a difficult historical moment. Still operating without a labor law that sanctions their organizing, and under the consolidation of Prime … Continue reading →
  • “You Can’t Take What’s All o ...
    To mark the upcoming NATO summit to be held in May 2012 in Chicago and the simultaneous G8 summit to be held in Camp David, Maryland, War Resisters League and the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance release a new popular education … Continue reading →

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 ...

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Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Should There Be A Limit On Items At The Self-C ...
    Self-checkout lanes have become a topic of debate in the retail world in recent years. Does it speed up the process and cut down on labor costs, or are they high-maintenance money pits that put people out of work? Are they intended to be used for small purchases of just a few items -- or [...]
  • Saucony Wins Dedicated Customer By Replacing W ...
    It's Friday, the Olympics are starting, the sun is shining (though maybe a bit too much for some folks) and well... like we said, it's Friday. So let's start the weekend off with a story of a company that looked at a customer's complaint, dealt with it quickly and without hassle, and earned a lo ...
  • Delta Air Lines Announces Its Shuttering Regio ...
    Customers used to flying with Delta Air Lines' regional carrier Comair, beware — the airline is shutting down the Cincinnati-based subsidiary at the end of September, as it's switching to bigger jets that aren't as expensive to fly. Most of Comair's employees are in Cincinnati and Northern Kentu ...
  • Wait To Buy An Olympic Torch If You Don’ ...
    Any minute now -- or several hours from now if you wait for tonight's NBC broadcast, the Olympic flame will make its way into the opening ceremony in London, and pass from the 8,000th torch in the Athens-London relay to the big cauldron. It's easy to get swept up in all the pageantry and traditi ...
  • San Francisco’s Transit Escalators Plagu ...
    If I learned anything from reading books as a child, it's that everybody poops. Unfortunately for those commuters utilizing the BART in San Francisco, homeless people are treating the transit system's escalators as late-night lavatories and severely gumming up the works. That's creating quite a ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • OSC Handling Record Number of Whistleblower Co ...
    Government Executive: OSC on Pace for Record Number of Whistleblower Disclosures Summary: The Office of Special Counsel is on track to receive a record number of whistleblower reports this fiscal year. If this pace keeps up, this would mark a 22 percent increase from fiscal year 2011, whi ...
  • Congress Seeks to Plug the Leaks That Are Not ...
    Adding to the leak hysteria in Washington, the Senate Intelligence Committee advanced legislation purportedly to limit "leaks." WaPo reports: The legislation, which has yet to be considered by the full Senate or House, would require the White House to notify Congress whenever it plans to s ...
  • Ecuador Delays Assange Decision Until After Ol ...
    Dow Jones Newswires: Ecuador Delays Decision on WikiLeaks’ Assange Summary: Ecuador’s Foreign Minister is now saying that the country likely won’t decide on whether to grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange political asylum until after the 2012 London Olympics, which will end on August 12 ...
  • War on Intelligence Whistleblowers Bad for Jou ...
    Accusing "leaker" John KiriakouRT: US Insist on Extradition of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange? War on Whistleblowers Is Heating Up Summary: GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack talks to RT about former CIA agent John Kiriakou’s case and how the “war on in ...
  • Grassley Wants IRS Whistleblower Law Enforced/ ...
    Earlier this month, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) – a longtime supporter of whistleblower rights – objected to two Treasury Department nominees due to his concerns about the implementation (or lack thereof) of the IRS whistleblower reward program in the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. Grassle ...

UK Progressive

  • The Austerity Olympic Games Begin in Just 5 Ho ...
    By Denis G. Campbell Seven years ago, LOCOG (London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games) under former Olympian Lord Sebastian Coe promised that London could deliver a spectacular XXX Modern Olympic Games for just £9 billion pounds (or $13 billion dollars). This was despite the Chinese spe ...
  • R&B Star Frank Ocean Comes Out
    And exemplifies the community’s rejection of  a “gay identity” by Rev. Irene Monroe R&B and Hip-Hop songwriter Frank Ocean has come out. Although it will [be] hotly contested in African American circles, some say Ocean is the first major artist to come out in both industries. For some time t ...
  • Suddenly Homeless – Homeless Teens Have Double ...
    By Charley James Teenagers have it tough enough under the usual-and-customary circumstances of being 13-to-19 years old. Beyond the horrors of enduring puberty, there is everything from peer pressure to conform and anxiety over getting good grades to worrying about who Trevor or Tricia really li ...
  • Tonight ExPat Americans ‘Welcome’ Romney and B ...
    The e-mail call to action said: gather this evening at The Treasury, 1 Horse Guard Parade London, between 17:00 and 18:30, protest there, then march on Mitt Romney’s secret London banker dinner. Mitt Romney will raise $75,000 a plate tonight as disgraced Barclays former CEO Bob Diamond, hi ...
  • Expanding Waistlines: Shrinking Sodas is a Start
    by Tina Dupuy Freedom is under attack! In the largest city of our giant country—the liberty to drink over 16 ounces of sugar syrup is in the crosshairs of the gubmint. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed (and will most likely implement) the nation’s first prohibition on over-sized soda ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Local weather affects about 1% of people in po ...
    For every three degrees F warmer (or cooler), about 1 % of respondents in surveys think there is more (or less) evidence that the Earth has been getting warmer (3 F = 1.6 C). Alarmists will use this survey to tell us how dumb the punters are, but remember that even if temperatures are 10 degrees ...
  • Climate Institute Poll finds we are all stupid ...
    We know the answer is always that they are smart, and that if we don’t “get their vision” they just need to explain it better. “Australians have limited understanding of climate change, Climate Institute finds” A new survey by the Climate Institute on attitudes to ...
  • Spinning more bad news to pretend it answers s ...
    Believers really do have trouble with numbers. Today 400 is apparently a lot like zero. Since when was 400 years a gap that anyone called “close”? Especially when we are talking about a molecular effect that works in microseconds (or hey, even less). Newspapers today are full of the ...
  • Storm trends in Australia and New Zealand? No ...
    Get ready — for all the fears of extreme weather coming our way — studies of Queensland, Victoria, the whole of SE Australia, New Zealand, and Perth show that either nothing is changing (there have always been bad storms) or possibly, the weather is better now than it used to be. Whe ...
  • Sugar cane ethanol biofuel produces 10 times t ...
    Indur Goklany calculated that biofuels policies killed nearly 200,000 people in 2010 alone. That was before this study showed things may be worse than we suspected. Brazil is the largest sugar cane ethanol producer in the world, but people are burning four times the area of sugar cane plantation ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • US Govt. Says Space Weather is Serious
    “Space weather is a serious matter that can affect human economies around the world,” Tamara Dickinson, a senior policy analyst with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), told attendees at the 2012 Space Weather Enterprise Forum, held 5 June in Washington, D. C. … ...
  • Looking Like the Aurora Shooting = False Flag
    While I suspect that mind control does exist, and some killers are programmed (I even wrote a movie treatment on this very topic back in the 90s, Told), it is mostly likely that the majority of mass murders are genuinely the result of a disturbed loner. However there are some cases in which I su ...
  • Bargain Bunker Purchase in Switzerland
    I’m skeptical, but stranger things have happened… First drool over the property: The unique hotel is a conversion of an underground artillery fort at the heart of the Gotthard. Some 250 metres underground, the stunningly situated luxury hotel consists of 17 rooms, a restaurant, libr ...
  • Rapidly Evolving Cushion Stars
    A small group of the short-legged sea stars (known as “cushion stars”) have rapidly evolved, and unlike their cousins, they don’t need a mate to reproduce. Their evolution into live-bearing hermaphrodites is one of the fastest known examples of speciation among marine animals, ...
  • Expert Opinions #6 + #7: Bob Thiel & Whitley S ...
    Two experts today (or not, see below). First is Bob Thiel, Ph.D., a highly regarded researcher, biblical scholar, and one of the world’s foremost authorities on end time prophecies. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of LaVerne, a Master’s degree from the Univers ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

  • 'What he couldn't do when alive, he did with h ...
    For fisherman A Sekar's grieving parents in a coastal village in Tamil Nadu, no answers are forthcoming as to why their son's tiny fishing boat was fired upon by the US navy off Dubai. A Ganesh Nadar reports from Thoppuvalasai on the tragedy Reported by Rediff.com 1 hour ago
  • Indian contingent ready for boxing thriller
    Beijing Olympics bronze-winner Vijender Singh (75kg) will aim for a medal of different hue in his record third Olympic appearance when the boxing competition kicks off here on Saturday. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
  • `ISI distributed Rs 140 mn to buy 1990 election`
    Former ISI chief Asad Durrani said he had received the funds from then Army chief Gen (retired) Mirza Aslam Beg. Reported by Zee News 2 hours ago
  • Mayawati statue vandalisation case: 3 more held
    Three more persons, including the main accused, were arrested today in connection with the vandalisation of the statue of former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati. Reported by Zee News 2 hours ago
  • Archery: Korea break world record; India end last
    Korea have set a team world record of 2087 points, with Dong Hyun Im setting an individual world record with a score of 699/720, at the Men's Individual and Team Ranking Rounds of the Archery event at the London 2012 Olympics in which Tarundeep Rai was the highest-placed Indian but at a ... Rep ...

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

  • Have I Lost My Mom? Is It Too Late?
    It came all of a sudden. Watching my mom drawing her blood to check her glucose level every morning before breakfast starts my everyday. She would then unfold a piece of paper where she normally notes down her numbers and would visibly relax, indicating that no insulin injection was needed. She ...
  • Moroccan Couscous and Orange Salad
    I just love fresh delicious summer salads that sing with taste. So wonderful to use fresh fruits and vegetables to add interest and color. I enjoy all different types of food and I especially like to use seasoning from all over the world to punch up the flavor of a salad. I started experimenting ...
  • Hot Topic: What To Wear To BlogHer? I'll Tell You!
    It's that time of year: We are one week away from the annual BlogHer conference, and Twitter is atwitter with the all-important question: What are you wearing to BlogHer? Credit Image: Liz Henry on Flickr Well, let me tell you: I have opinions on the matter. Don't sweat it; I'm no Fashionista d ...
  • "Relax, Mom," Said My Wise Seven-Year-Old
    The other night, my seven-year-old son looked up at me and said, “Mom, you should really relax.” What? Me -- not relaxed? I mean, how could I not be relaxed? We were sitting on the couch watching a movie, as I aimlessly surfed the Internet, reading status updates and deleting an endless stream ...
  • Everyone's Talking About the Latino Vote, But ...
    The Latino vote has been a hot topic this election season, but is this really translating into more clout for actual Latino voters? Not necessarily, explains political expert Viviana Hurtado, who has been advocating for more mainstream news coverage of this growing demographic. As Viviana explai ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Harvard Study Finds Fluoride Lowers IQ – ...
    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 20 in Environmental Health Perspectives, a US National In ...
  • Glaxo Agrees to Pay $3 Billion in Fraud Settlement
    In the largest settlement involving a pharmaceutical company, the British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay $3 billion in fines for promoting its best-selling antidepressants for unapproved uses and failing to report ...
  • Vaccine Genetically Engineers People to Stop S ...
    An upcoming vaccine contains a genetically engineered virus designed to infect the liver, forcing it to make antibodies against nicotine. In other words, its purpose is to genetically engineer humans to control behavior. They’re already talking ...
  • Anemia Drugs Made Billions, But At What Cost?
    On the day Jim Lenox got his last injection, the frail 54-year-old cancer patient was waiting to be discharged from the Baltimore Washington Medical Center. He’d put on his black leather coat. Then a nurse ...
  • Kids’ Cholesterol Tests: Doctors At Odds ...
    Should all U.S. children get tested for high cholesterol? Doctors are still debating that question months after a government-appointed panel recommended widespread screening that would lead to prescribing medicine for some kids. Fresh criticism was published ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, July 27, 2012
    Liu Yunqing, the first miner rescued, is carried out on a stretcher from the flooded pit of Qielichong colliery in Sandu Township of Leiyang City, central China’s Hunan Province, on Sunday, July 8, 2012.  Chinese rescuers pulled to safety the first three of about a dozen miners trapped und ...
  • Coal plant retirements expected to continue
    Here’s the latest from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration: Plant owners and operators report to EIA that they expect to retire almost 27 gigawatts (GW) of capacity from 175 coal-fired generators between 2012 and 2016. In 2011, there were 1,387 coal-fire ...
  • War is war: Why not call coal debate something ...
    When I read Mike Harman’s op-ed commentary in today’s Gazette, I really wasn’t sure what to make of it. Headlined, ‘War on coal’ is not a war at all,” the piece makes some good points. But I was worried readers would see it as some sort of violence “call ...
  • Another W.Va. coal miner dies on the job
    Bad news this morning here in West Virginia. Here’s all the information we have right now, from the state Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training: A move crew employee died this morning at approximately 4 a.m. from crushing injuries he received at Coal River Mining LLC Fork Cre ...
  • How many mountains can we mine?
    Photo by Vivian Stockman, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition There’s a new study about mountaintop removal’s damage to Appalachian water quality out in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science and Technology. Sara Peach has a story about it in Chemical and Engineering news, r ...

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Daycare Scares & Parental Responsibility.
    By Diana May-Waldman,WWH/CJE- I’m a grandmother. But, before I was a grandmother, I was a mother. I was one of the fortunate women who was able to stay home with her children when they were little. We weren’t rich and we didn’t have a lot, but we made it work. Now, I realize th ...
  • WikiLeaks and the War on Drugs
    Blanche Petrich Moreno ,thenation.com – In September 2006, just days before Felipe Calderón was declared president of Mexico in a disputed election fraught with fraud and corruption, the US Embassy sent a secret report to Washington titled “Strengthening Calderon’s weak hand.” Mexico’s new ...
  • Human Rights Violations In Police Response To ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Friday
    SUSPECT IN HEPATITIS C OUTBREAK WAS FIRED IN ARIZ. CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A dozen hospitals in seven states are scrambling to identify people who might have been infected with hepatitis C by a traveling medical technician who was charged a week ago with causing an outbreak in New Hampshire. ...
  • Hippie Health Digest
    Get in touch with your inner hippie northernstar.com.au – LOOKING for another way to live longer? Meditation was hip in the ’60s and today it’s popular among baby boomers who want to slow the aging clock. Research proves meditation lowers your biological age by more than a deca ...

reference frame

  • Anthony Watts' major announcement: what is it?
    The world's most visited climate blog, Watts Up With That, just interrupted the publishing of new posts for two days. On Sunday, we are told to expect a major announcement, one that led him to cancel vacation plans, will arguably attract the attention of the planet, overshadow the Olympic gam ...
  • Greek triple jumper and political correctness
    Voula Papachristou is the hottest among the top Greek athletes who defended her 2009 European gold a year ago (July 2011) in Ostrava, Czechia. She also has a Twitter account where she showed that she isn't just a pile of protein; she is apparently rather creative and intelligent. ...
  • Strings 2012, a few words
    Strings 2012, the annual conference which has been taking place at the LM University in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, is ending today. To get the access to all the talks, see Speakers, titles, talks. All of the videos will ultimately be posted, too. I have substantial doubts whether there wo ...
  • Euler characteristic
    Topology is an important branch of mathematics that studies all the "qualitative" or "discrete" properties of continuous objects such as manifolds, i.e. all the properties that aren't changed by any continuous transformations. In this sense, topology is a vital arbiter in the "disc ...
  • CO2 may lag temperature just by 400 years or so
    Phys.ORG is among the most science-oriented outlets that inform about the new paper Tightened constraints on the time-lag between Antarctic temperature and CO2 during the last deglaciation (full text PDF)by Pedro, Rasmussen, and Ommen published in Climate of the Past. The content of th ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
    CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation
  • Why Qualcomm Has Its Wallet Out
    The Elata and Flarion acquisitions reflect the outfit's need to keep abreast of tech's latest trends. Expect more of the same

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Royals in place as ‘OL’ begins
    Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit are in London this weekend to lead the cheering sections for Norwegian athletes as the Summer Olympics gets underway. Norway has a team of 64 local sports stars taking part in what the Norwegians simply call “OL,” but ...
  • Roma groups win some reprieves
    Police in Oslo decided not to raid a large camp on Friday that’s been set up illegally by migrant poor Roma near the lake Sognsvann. Roma in Trondheim also found a new place to camp, but both situations are temporary. The migrant poor, who mostly come from Romania and Bulgaria to beg on th ...
  • Politician-turned-diplomat finally gets visa t ...
    Abid Raja, a lawyer and former reserve Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party, can finally take up a new job at the Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi after encountering a lengthy delay in obtaining a visa from India. Raja, who started working for Norway’s Foreign Ministry last year, was s ...
  • Estonians killed in mysterious car accident
    Two young men from Estonia have been identified as the victims of a dramatic and, police note, mysterious car accident earlier this week. Their car crashed into a river northeast of Oslo, but apparently flew around 90 meters through the air before hitting the water. The accident late Tuesday nig ...
  • Police appeal extremist’s release
    Police in western Norway are appealing Thursday’s court-ordered release of an extremist Norwegian blogger, whom prosecutors contend has urged violence and issued death threats against the police themselves. Norway’s Supreme Court must now determine whether statements blogger Eivind B ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Sinking the Lifeboats: Reflections on a Visit ...
    It was on the second week of the PermaNegev course that I arranged a visit to the small village of Herbaiet a Nabi in the south Hebron Hills. We were going to inspect the renewable energy installations put in place there by the Israeli NGO Comet-ME (www.comet-me.org), and to gain a better under ...
  • Six Week Intensive Permaculture Courses in the ...
    We will be offering another Permaculture Course at the Bustan EcoKhan this summer. Sign up now to study permaculture in the Negev Desert! Intensive Permaculture, Arabic and Middle Eastern program at the Bedouin village of Qasr A-Sir. The 6-week intensive permaculture course allows participants ...
  • Intermediate Edible Forest Gardens Workshop, L ...
    Join author and educator Eric Toensmeier and friends for a hands-on and fun-filled weekend of Edible Forest Gardening (EFG) – gardens which mimic the structures and functions of natural ecosystems while producing food and other products, with an emphasis on low-maintenance perennial crops. ...
  • Woody Agriculture – On the Road to a New Paradigm
    by Philip A. Rutter, B L. Rutter-Daywater, and S.J. Wiegrefe, originally published on the Oil Drum. In any attempt to comprehend a puzzle, or choose a new path forward, the first requirement is to see and comprehend each of the possibilities. We wish to bring to the attention of the energy comm ...
  • Lead Soldiers
    A new front opens up in the war against nature. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. I have long seen the Countryside Alliance as a neo-feudal organisation, run by the landowning class and resentful of the intrusions of democ ...

Pointman's

  • So, was climategate a hack after all?
    This is going to be one of those difficult articles to write, just to make it easy to read. It’s going to get technical at points, because it has to, so there’s going to be more than a few detours to explain things, but bear with me. It’s Sunday afternoon, I’m wearing sun ...
  • The decline of popular science journals.
    We are creatures of habit and pleasure. When we find something of pleasure, we tend to revisit it with regularity. Despite what a large part of the mainstream media might have you believe, not all pleasure starts at the gullet and ends at the genitalia, though eating well and making love, are of ...
  • Is climate science just a belief?
    The alarmists in the climate debate have what they think of as this magic ace of trumps card, called peer review. If they actually knew something about the peer review process, perhaps they’d realise it isn’t a guarantee of anything much. It really isn’t. In brief, the process ...
  • Worried about climate change? Meh.
    Climate alarmism pushes a blinding variety of scares at the general public; Polar bears going extinct, droughts of biblical proportions, massive Noah’s ark type flooding, glaciers melting, sea levels rising, sea levels dropping, the polar ice caps melting, your Granny’s knicker elast ...
  • The Nigger Word.
    There’s been a bit of a furore recently about a supposedly prestigious science journal running a paper that was peppered with the word nigger. The editor, of what can only be referred to as a rag now, even came up with a fatuous reply to the resultant criticism, which when stripped of the ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Community Profile: Brenda Williams of VOTE
    After attending an “outstanding” presentation that VOTE sponsored at Ashé Cultural Arts Center in Central City, Miss Brenda Williams was inspired to get “involved to make a difference in the lives of those who suffer injustice at the hands of lawmakers, judges and others involved in the criminal ...
  • Creating Excellent Schools is not the Same as ...
    Republished from Diane Ravitch's blog: Charter schools that perform better by recruiting and retaining better students don’t exist in a vacuum: skimming the best and most profitable students affects other schools, though it is hard to detect in systems with few charters.  The systemic ef ...
  • Homelessness, Displacement, Evictions . . . Th ...
    There are a number of obvious parallels between housing needs in New Orleans after the 2005 hurricanes and housing needs in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. In both disasters, large regions lost the majority of their affordable housing stock, resulting in massive spikes in homelessness and ...
  • Junebug Productions Welcomes Stephanie McKee a ...
    From our friends at Junebug Productions: The Board of Directors of Junebug Productions, Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Stephanie V. McKee to the position of Artistic Director, effective July 1, 2012.  Junebug Productions, founded by John O'Neal in 1980, is the organizati ...
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild, A Hollywood Film ...
    Earlier versions of this article originally were distributed via Agence France Presse, and in Louisiana Weekly. The Gulf Coast loses a football field of land every 45 minutes, and much of that loss happens in the bayous of Southern Louisiana, where roads disappear into canals, winding their way ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    MGT23 wrote: interesting that you two cretins chase me up Cause you're posting disinfo and you make stuff up, nothing interesting about it. what made you think i supported him when i offered no opinion? You support anybody who maintains the narrative of the ''evil Nazi's'' it seems.Hajo ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    ...........not holocaust survivor.......concentration camp survivor thats why Travis, i corrected him about the holohoax claim in my original OP. Seems a couple of previous posters jumped to conclusions about my post.Statistics: Posted by mgt23 — Fri Jul 27, 2012 4:27 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Like Lamp shades and soap, it's bullshit! Statistics: Posted by Travis — Fri Jul 27, 2012 4:19 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    The 6th Army was a designation for a German field army that saw action in World War II. The 6th Army is best known for fighting in the Battle of Stalingrad, during which it became the first entire German field army to be completely destroyed. After the battle of Stalingrad, approximately 107,80 ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    It was the Wehrmacht who put the pressure on Hitler to get rid of the SA.They assured Hitler if he would do just that, he would succeed Hindenburg so it's the other way around.Hitler had no choice. ......correct as the SA was pushing the socialist elements. However where does forcing the army ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Powerful Storms Linked to Depletion of Ozone L ...
    A new study warns that a surge in powerful storms, perhaps linked to a warming climate, could be causing a depletion of the planet’s protective ozone layer. Writing in the journal Science, Harvard researchers explain that water vapor inserted into the normally dry stratosphere by strong thunders ...
  • Pulling Carbon From Air Should Be Pursued Desp ...
    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 of high costs. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the re ...
  • Maya Lin’s Memorial to a Vanishing Natural World
    The woman who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is now focused on the mass extinction of species, a threat she is highlighting on a dynamic interactive Web site. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Maya Lin talks about the origins of her What is Missing? project, the media ...
  • Melting Glaciers May Worsen Northwest China’s ...
    In China’s sprawling Xinjiang region, where the population is growing and cotton farming is booming, a key river has been running dry in summer. Now a team of international scientists is grappling with a problem facing the Tarim River basin and other mountainous regions — how to secure water sup ...
  • U.S. Identifies Zones for Solar Development on ...
    The Obama administration has identified 17 sites on public lands across six Southwestern states that officials say are most suitable for utility-scale solar projects. In a report, federal officials vowed to expedite applications for solar projects on these sites — located in Arizona, California, ...

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backofthebook

  • 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, [...]

Daily Beast

  • Iran's Excuses, Excuses
    In the New York Review of Books, Roger Cohen is way too credulous of Christopher de Bellaigue's claims that Iran might have evolved into a liberal democracy but for US and British intervention against Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953:
  • Sandy Weill Gets Religion
    A long-time reader writes in to comment on Sandy Weill's comments about the need to re-separate commercial from investment banking:
  • Photos of Northeast’s Derecho
    A super storm known as derecho hit the Northeast Thursday. See photos, tweets and more from the storm.
  • The Mormon Problem That Never Was
    A Pew poll suggests Mitt Romney’s religion was never an issue for evangelical voters. By David Sessions.
  • Still Cuckoo After All These Years
    Everyone says ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ is about nonconformity, but what about war and PTSD? By Nathaniel Rich.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Suns president Casper steps down
    The Phoenix Suns say Brad Casper has resigned as president of the NBA team to focus on outside business ventures. They say chief operating officer Jason Rowley will assume responsibility for the club's business operations as president and Lon Babby will continue serving as president of basketb ...
  • Mitsubishi eyes U.S. securities JV
    Major trading house Mitsubishi Corp. plans to launch a commercial mortgage-backed securities business in the United States through a joint venture. The 50-50 venture involves a U.S. subsidiary of the trader and U.S. asset management company Five Mile Capital Partners LLC. The venture will gene ...
  • Small lives changed through the power of a photo
    For over five years now, The Japan Times has run a weekly photo box featuring a cat or dog in need of a home, as well as success stories of animals that have been adopted. Many of the pets have been rescued from horrific situations in which they had suffered abandonment, starvation, abuse, neg ...
  • Nagai taking over as Nomura CEO signals global ...
    Nomura Holdings Inc.'s appointment of domestic brokerage head Koji Nagai as the new chief signals a retrenchment into its home market as Japan's biggest investment bank reels from the insider-trading scandal and losses abroad. Nagai, 53, will succeed Chief Executive Officer Kenichi Watanabe, 5 ...
  • Peacekeeping law change shelved
    The government will forego trying to ease the law on taking part in U.N. peacekeeping operations during this legislative session, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura suggested Friday. Under envisaged bills to revise the International Peace Cooperation Law, the Self-Defense Forces would be a ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • California’s Jerry Brown: Water Tunnel
    “Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown and U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a new $23.7 billion proposal that would build a twin tunnel system to carry water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta over to the southern part of the state. Water in Southern California has become an intrac ...
  • Regions where water disputes are fuelling tensions
    “Disputes over water are common around the world, exacerbated by climate change, growing populations, rapid urbanisation, increased irrigation and a rising demand for alternative energy sources such as hydroelectricity. Following are a few of the regions where competition for water from ma ...
  • Damming the future? Livelihoods at stake on Me ...
    “NONGKHAI PROVINCE, Thailand and XAYABURI PROVINCE, Laos — Although his family has lived for generations beside the Mekong River, Itthapon Kamsuk thinks he might soon have to move. During the dry season, from March to May, Kamsuk’s village in Nongkhai province in northeastern Thailand rout ...
  • Melting Glaciers May Worsen Northwest China’s ...
    “During four of the last 10 summers, more than half of the 800-mile Tarim River in northwestern China ran dry. Landscape ecologist Niels Thevs has been there conducting fieldwork and has watched water shortages take the heaviest toll on downstream cotton farmers, who irrigate six or seven ...
  • The Battle For Water – “Good Water Neigh ...
    “For more than a decade though, Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) – the only joint Jordanian, Palestinian, and Israeli NGO – has been promoting cooperation and a regional vision for managing water resources. “PARTNERING MAYORS” The pioneering methodology of FoEME’s &#822 ...

D. Kucinich

  • House Plays Politics with the Safety of Nuclea ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today questioned how anyone could vote to prevent the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from enacting safety regulations, particularly in the light of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima and the poor safety record of a major nuclear plant in Ohio. H.R. 4078, the Reg ...
  • Kucinich Amendment Protects Consumers from Rai ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today offered an amendment to H.R. 4078 that would exempt the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) from legislation meant to prevent the federal government from taking “significant regulatory actions.” “If you look at a gas pump, it has that nozzle; i ...
  • Kucinich: Put Americans Back to Work AND Ensur ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today opposed on the House Floor H.R. 4078, the Regulatory Freeze for Jobs Act of 2012 which would prohibit any federal agency from taking any “significant regulatory action” until the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s average of monthly unemployment rates for any qu ...
  • Kucinich Cheers Passage of Bill to Audit the F ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), cosponsor of H.R. 459, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, today congratulated the bill’s author, Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), and the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have worked together to support the legislation. Kucinich has supported efforts to ...
  • Kucinich: “Congress left in the Dark -- Bring ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today rallied support for H.R. 459, Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2012 on the House Floor. Today marks a historic milestone after years of bipartisan efforts by Congressman Kucinich and Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) to secure a thorough investigation of the Federa ...

Authentically Wired

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  • you will eat what we tell you to eat
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  • WHO ARE ARIZONA’S WATER WISEMEN
    … Rattle your cage … a perspective from outside in …         WHO ARE ARIZONA’S WATER WISEMEN …?     A brilliant sun pierces what moments earlier hosted a dim Arizona landscape of soaring mountains, towering Ponderosa pines, exquisite configurations of Saguaro c ...
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Popular Technology

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    Judith Curry is not a skeptic but a hurricane alarmist who had an alleged epiphany after Climategate and now seeks to be some sort of arbiter of scientific integrity. Her history of trust building includes accusing world leading hurricane expert, Dr. William Gray of "brain fossilization" and t ...
  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
  • Mastering the Firefox Search Bar
    As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...
  • The Truth about SourceWatch
    SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • 40 years of stunning Earth photos
    Landsat, the world's longest-running Earth-observing satellite programme, has marked 40 years of recording the world's changing landscape.The satellite programme, run by NASA and the United States Geological Survey, has captured...
  • Scientists create jellyfish using rat cells (+ ...
    US scientists have bioengineered a "jellyfish" that can swim, using rat heart cells and silicone polymers.However rather than being simply a freak of science, the researchers say the creature replicates the human heart and is a...
  • Quakes raise Tongariro alert
    Mt Tongariro's volcanic risk has been upgraded for the first time but scientists and locals have dismissed immediate chances of a large eruption.Yesterday scientists at GeoNet upgraded the alert level for the volcano after recording...
  • Fracking safe, claims UK science body
    The controversial oil and gas extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking", is capable of being managed sustainably and without serious risk of groundwater contamination or inducing damaging earthquakes, the Royal...
  • Tongariro volcano alert at new high
    A "sudden rise" in volcanic activity at Mt Tongariro has prompted scientists to lift its volcanic alert status for the first time.But local businesses and conservation authorities remain unconcerned as they seek to reassure visitors...

The Bovine

  • Michael Schmidt wins leave to appeal raw milk ...
    Leading American raw milk journalist David E. Gumpert, contrasts the Michael Schmidt story to the messy aftermath of the Rawsome food club raids in California. Here’s an excerpt from his The Complete Patient blog: “It is never a simple matter for a … Continue reading →
  • Schmidt wins right to appeal — the Star
    From Katherine Fernandez-Blance in the Toronto Star: “He’s been fighting for his right to distribute unpasteurized milk for almost two decades, but a Thursday court decision leaves Michael Schmidt one step closer to a resolution. The 58-year-old Durham, Ont. dairy farmer … Continue r ...
  • Another day in court for raw milk crusader Mic ...
    From the Toronto Sun:  “TORONTO — These hallowed walls of Ontario’s highest court have heard arguments about murders and embezzlements, bitter divorces and ugly assaults. But the Court of Appeal has never before been asked to rule on the legality … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk appeal breaking news in TO
    From CP24 news: “TORONTO — An Ontario dairy farmer convicted of producing, selling and distributing raw milk has won the right to appeal. Karen Selick, a lawyer for Michael Schmidt, said the Ontario Court of Appeal granted the leave to … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt today at Osgoode Hall in Toron ...
    Michael Schmidt’s appeal to go ahead: David E. Gumpert reports: ”Important win for Michael Schmidt today as the Ontario appeals court agreed to review his case, over govt objections. The judge agreed that inconsistencies in previous rulings and lack of legal … Continue reading ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Sharp Decline in Earnings and Revenue Estimate ...
    For the first time in three years, US Quarterly Earnings are Poised to Drop. Third-quarter earnings of Standard & Poor's 500 companies are now expected to fall 0.1 percent from a year ago, a sharp revision from the July 1 forecast of 3.1 percent growth, Thomson Reuters data showed on Thu ...
  • Housing Headwinds: US Birthrate Lowest in 25 Y ...
    Boomer demographics and postponement of marriage on account of student debt and poor finances are two of the key reasons that I long-ago stated the housing recovery would be slow for a decade. Declining birthrates now show that is indeed what is happening. First, please consider a shor ...
  • Results, Results, Results
    The word of the day today quite obviously is "results". When the second-in-command of top-ranking eurocrats threatens Greece with expulsion unless results are produced, it's long past the time to consider the Troika is not only ready to pull the plug, but hoping to do so. The top-ranki ...
  • Is Global Trade About To Collapse? Where are O ...
    Last week, I agreed to do an interview on OilPrice.Com. The initial interview was conducted over the phone, with follow-up emails. The interview first appeared on OilPrice and is repeated below. Introduction: As markets continue to yo-yo and commentators deliver mixed forecasts, in ...
  • Market Soars on "Whatever It Takes" Mush From ...
    ECB President Mario Draghi commented in a speech today that the ECB was "ready to do whatever it takes" within its mandate to preserve the single currency. I have to ask, is that even news? Apparently it it to the stock market which has gapped up over a percent. Bond yields in Spain also r ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 20, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “If… the machine of government… is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law” – Henry David Thoreau International Newsworthy Will the BRICS Rescue Iran? China & Japan Secure Iran O ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    The Causes & Consequences of the European Debt Crisis What created the European debt crisis? Was it the “welfare states” as repeated by the mainstream (and even many in the alternative) media, or was it the European Union itself? Was it the euro, the trade policies, or perhaps t ...
  • A New Front: Myanmar’s Role in the Geopolitics ...
    Myanmar has been gripped by abhorrent ethnic violence in recent weeks – violence which has begun to cast doubt on the democratic future of the country. The sectarian and religious bloodletting between the Buddhist Rakhine people and the Muslim minority known as the Rohingya, has led to an intern ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 19, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the Deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilise savage and senile an ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 13, ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” – Voltaire International Newsworthy Iranians Beheaded in Saudi Arabia Iran Tanker Firm Says it Insured despite Sanctions Afghanistan ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • OSX Brasil Positioning Itself to Compete for B ...
    RIO DE JANEIRO–Brazilian shipbuilder and oil-field-services company OSX Brasil SA (OSXB3.BR), part of billionaire businessman Eike Batista’s industrial empire, is targeting state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PBR, PETR4.BR), or [...]
  • Bunga Alpinia Death Toll Rises to Three
    The death toll in the chemical tanker fire in Malaysia has risen to three after two more bodies were recovered from the water not far from the burning tanker. Two [...]
  • Tsakos Energy Navigation Scores $14.5 Million ...
    Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited (TEN) announced a new two-year time charter extension today for their 2008 built, 105,392 dwt, double hull aframax tanker, Nippon Princess, with the same charterer, a [...]
  • Reload of LNG Cargo Canceled at Spanish Port, ...
    (Bloomberg) — A cargo of liquefied natural gas due to reload at an import terminal in Spain next week has been canceled, said Enagas SA, the country’s gas-network manager. A [...]
  • Evergreen Launches 8,452-TEU Containership Bui ...
    Ever Lambent, the first L-type containership in the Evergreen Line fleet, was christened by Evergreen Group Chairman and founder Dr. Chang Yung-fa at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard. The ceremonial [...]

Press TV

  • Damascus calm, clashes in Homs, Aleppo
    Syrian security forces and armed gangs are currently fighting in some parts of Syria, while calm has been restored in Damascus, Press TV reports.
  • Indian PM invited to Pakistan
    Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has formally invited Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to visit his country.
  • US growth slowed in second quarter
    The United States’ economic growth has slowed down to a marked 1.5 percent in the second quarter of 2012, as the result of the country’s economic uncertainty.
  • 'Collapse of Al Saud becomes imminent'
    Saudi security forces have opened fire on anti-regime demonstrations in the eastern city of Qatif, injuring several protesters.
  • Syrian forces, rebels clash in Homs
    Clashes have erupted between Syrian security forces and armed groups fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad in the restive western city of Homs.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Life's building blocks found in a ring around ...
    Complex carbon-based molecules, including many that are important for life on Earth, could have formed in the early solar system. That's according to a paper by Fred Ciesla and Scott Sandford in this ...
  • Pint sized rocket
    A rocket has been developed that could get a spaceprobe to the moon on just 100g of fuel Some tasks can only be done by a large satellite, but there are many others which can be done as well if not b...
  • Seeing Around the Corner
    Using a laser, a super fast camera and a clever algorithm, researchers at MIT have developed the ability to see, in 3D, around a corner. Writing in the journal Nature Communications, Andreas Velten a...
  • Drugs in sewage
    Drug use in populations, both legal and illegal, is important to know about for health and law and order reasons. Whilst it is relatively easy to keep tabs on the amount of legal drug use by asking ph...
  • Messages from Mercury
    The MESSENGER spacecraft completed one Earth year of orbiting Mercury this month, and two papers published in the journal Science highlight some of the surprising scientific results from our solar sys...

Nick Turse

  • The Dark Side Of The Obama White House The al ...
    The Dark Side Of The Obama White House The always insightful Dan Froomkin at The Huffington Post pulls no punches in his new review essay on New York Times reporter David E. Sanger’s Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power and Newsweek reporter Daniel Kla ...
  • Pop Music Too Loud and All Sounds the Same, Sc ...
    Pop Music Too Loud and All Sounds the Same, Scientists Confirm: Reuters offers up comforting news...
  • The week before last, I published my latest ex ...
    The week before last, I published my latest exposé on U.S. military operations in Africa: “Obama’s Scramble for Africa: Secret Wars, Secret Bases, and the Pentagon’s “New Spice Route” in Africa” at the Nation Institute’s TomDispatch.com.  In it, I broke some news and tried to offer up the most ...
  • cjchivers:Have Syria’s Opposition Fighters O ...
    cjchivers: Have Syria’s Opposition Fighters Obtained MANPADS? On the NYT’s At War blog, an analysis of the video evidence to date related to the question of whether fighters seeking to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad have acquired heat-seeking, shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles.   It l ...
  • theatlantic:The 17th-Century Paper Social Ne ...
    theatlantic: The 17th-Century Paper Social Network  Is this a 17th-century Twitter? Maybe. (Even before this scrap came to light, the promotional material for the play Brief Lives called Aubrey “the world’s oldest blogger.”) The scrap both does and doesn’t mirror a tweet — or a status update, ...

Wayne Madsen

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