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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

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Tokyo's Renewable Hopes Fall Short
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Fresh incentives to provide renewable energy for Japan are drawing private companies into the sector—but experts say the new measures will do little to lift electricity production.
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THE government and the Greens are on a political collision course over the first major policy milestone of the new carbon pricing scheme - a review of the renewable energy target blamed by some regulators for rising power costs.
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More than 200 attended Thursday night's state Department of Ecology open house, presentation and public hearing on a rule that would set minimum in-stream flows for the Dungeness River and its neighboring streams. If approved, the rule would create a ...
Beyond Rio: Pursuing 'Ecological Citizenship'
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A philosopher explores a possible role for the United Nations in fostering "ecological citizenship."
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Ecology teams across the Pacific Northwest are bracing for the onslaught of tsunami debris headed for our shores. - and a cleanup effort unlike anything we have ever seen.
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Boil water advisory lifted for 18 of 22 Monmouth County towns
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The outdoor water ban remains in effect for all 22 towns serviced by New Jersey American Water.
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  • Syria: Many Agendas at Work
    Much has been written about the barbarous massacre in the Syrian administrative area of Al-Houla on 25 May 2012, in which 108 persons are known to have died including 49 children. Absent a definitive report from the UN observer mission we are left with media and cyber speculation, much of which ...
  • The New Cold War
    Determined to maintain a strong presence in Africa, in 2006 the US established military relations with 54 African nations. Dubbed AFRICOM (or USAFRICOM), it's the newest of nine unified combatant commands the US armed forces have set up worldwide. AFRICOM was established as a not-so-subtle messa ...
  • Wozniak Rides To Rescue DotCom
    "When crimes occur through the mail, you don't shut the post office down," Wozniak wrote. "When governments dream up charges of 'racketeering' for a typical IT guy who is just operating a file-sharing service, or accuse him of mail fraud because he said he had removed files [to alleged infringin ...
  • NATO Loses Plane Violating Syrian Airspace
    The F-4 fighter jet, the newest of which are already around 30 years old, has a top speed of mach 2.2, or 1,600 mph/2,500 kph. That means in one minute it can travel 26 miles - or nearly one mile ever 2 seconds. Any anti-aircraft weapon fired against Turkey's admittedly "off course" fighter a ...
  • Debka: British Forces in Syria
    The reported British incursion, if confirmed, occurred at the tail end of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 24-hour visit to Israel Tuesday morning and would have posed a direct challenge to his repeated warning that Moscow would not tolerate Western military intervention in Syria and actively ...

Independent - London

  • Border police filmed kicking Palestinian boy i ...
    Israel's Border Police opened an official investigation yesterday in response to video footage showing an officer kicking a Palestinian boy while he is being held by a colleague. Related StoriesAssad would be excluded from transitional Syrian government says William HagueQE2 to transformed into ...
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  • Ex-Israeli PM Shamir buried in state ceremony
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  • Four dead in crash of fire-fighting plane
    A US military cargo plane crashed while fighting one of several wildfires ravaging the West, and the family of one crew member said today that military officers told them just two of the six people on board survived.Related StoriesSevered head linked to 'cannibal' porn actorNervous US calls for ...
  • Severed head linked to 'cannibal' porn actor
    Police have found what appears to be a human head in a park in Montreal and are investigating whether it is the last missing remains of a Chinese student they believe was dismembered by a Canadian porn actor.Related StoriesFour dead in crash of fire-fighting planeNervous US calls for no let-up i ...

Rogue Government.com

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    Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
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    European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.
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    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 

Innovation Canada

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    If Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
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    For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
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    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...

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  • Possible Head of Chinese Student Found in Mont ...
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  • Mammoth Lakes, California Files for Bankruptcy ...
    The High Sierra town of Mammoth Lakes says it is filing for bankruptcy because it cannot afford to pay a breach-of-contract judgment won by a developer. In a prepared statement, Mammoth Lakes officials said "bankruptcy, unfortunately, is the only option left" for the town, whose largest credito ...
  • Meteorologist Goes Viral with Phony Apocalypti ...
    This summer's heat waves could be exponentially worse. What if we were dealing with volcanoes and tidal waves at the same time? Or if Godzilla was our only chance of survival against a superstorm? In response to the Fake NBC12 Twitter account, meteorologist Aaron Justus of CBS 6 in Richmond, ...
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    Gauhati - The worst monsoon floods in a decade to hit a remote northeastern Indian state have killed more than 80 people and forced around 2 million to leave their homes. Nearly half a million people are living in relief camps that have been set up across Assam state, Prime Minister Manmohan ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Blair FAIL . . .
    — Billy ponders a river in Egypt — BILLY, YA DONE GONE AND SCREWED THE POOCH. According to the Toronto Star, "G20 aftermath: Civilian police board barely asked any questions in leadup to summit", Captain Billy was less than efficient: The report blames the federal government — ...
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    Go. Read today's Adbusters post. He was right.  We won't recognize Canada when he's through with it . . . .

Media Matters for America

  • O'Reilly And The Enduring Threat Of Uncertainty
    Fox News' Bill O'Reilly is still blaming health care reform legislation for "uncertainty" that he warned is harming jobs growth - even after the Supreme Court issued a final ruling that the law is constitutional. Economists and small business owners have said that lack of demand, not uncertaint ...
  • Dobbs Helps Cover Up Romney's Support For Heal ...
    Fox Business host Lou Dobbs covered up the fact that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney previously supported the same kind of financial penalties on individuals who refuse to purchase health insurance that are in the Affordable Care Act, penalties Romney now criticizes. In fact, even the ar ...
  • Right-Wing Media Attacks SNAP Outreach To Elde ...
    Right-wing media are attacking a program designed to increase awareness of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) among the elderly, saying they hope the effort "come to a quick end." But SNAP outreach programs have been crafted and employed by previous administrations, hunger is ...
  • Right-Wing Media Lament Supreme Court Decision ...
    Right-wing media have reacted to the Supreme Court's ruling upholding President Obama's health care law by claiming it is "a dark day for freedom" and "the end of America as we know it." But the decision allows the health care law to implement reforms that will protect and extend affordable ins ...
  • Fox's Special Report Ignores EPA News ...
    After hosting claims that the EPA acted "lawless[ly]" by regulating greenhouse gas emissions, Fox News' flagship "straight news" program Special Report has ignored an important court ruling that undermines Fox's narrative.After Shedding Doubt On EPA's Legal Authority, Special Report Ignores Rul ...

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  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
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    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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  • KEFFER LISTENS INTENTLY TO TAR SANDS CONCERNS: ...
    The following story on testimony provided to the Texas House Energy Resources Committee about the threat the proposed Tar Sands pipeline poses for the state was reprinted with the permission of the Texas Energy Report. House Energy Resources Committee Chairman Jim Keffer on Tuesday promised envi ...
  • WCS – A potential bailout without any authoriz ...
    We’ve recently realized that TCEQ allowed stock from Waste Control Specialists (WCS) sister company, Titanium Metals Corp to be put up as the financial assurance for their radioactive waste dump and that stock isn’t performing well right now. So we want to know, where does that leave ...
  • GROUP WARNS OF TEXAS OIL SANDS PIPELINE THREAT
    The following story on the threat the proposed Tar Sands pipeline poses for the state was reprinted with the permission of the Texas Energy Report. GROUP WARNS OF TEXAS OIL SANDS PIPELINE THREAT Enbridge says public data don’t back up spill concerns As the Environmental Protection Agency announc ...
  • At Energy Future Holdings, Failure Pays Well f ...
    If you think that bonuses are supposed to reward success, you’re not alone, but the reality is more bizarre.  While Energy Future Holdings, formerly TXU, of Dallas continues its downward spiral toward bankruptcy, it’s handing out millions in bonuses to its executives. The bonuses are called rete ...

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    6583016675_1b765dda49_n.jpg The Separation Wall is now 10 years old. The Israeli government has not reversed course despite protests, a UN General Assembly resolution (ES-10/13), an International Court of Justice (ICJ) advisory opinion, and ...
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    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
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Environmental Graffiti

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  • TRAILBLAZERs unite! Q2 & Turnkey Dictatorship, ...
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    The plan to convert America, and the world, into a hellish dystopia patrolled by killer flying robots continues apace with a fine fanciful scheme for flying more drones around North Dakota. It is apparently controlled by the FAA Minneapolis office to some extent. PublicIntelligence.net reported ...
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    US government Pollard video declassified. Senior CIA officer accused of being Mafia hitman. Colombian pleads guilty to spy charges in Nicaragua.
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    On June 27, In-Q-Tel, the venture arm of the CIA, announced a strategic partnership with Looxcie, makers of the first ever “wear and share” video cam recorders. Surveillance and video reconnaissance technologies have been a mainstay of espionage and intelligence collection efforts for some time ...
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  • Lynne Stewart Loses Appeal
      Lynne Stewart Loses Appeal   by Stephen Lendman   For 30 years, Lynne heroically defended America's poor, underprivileged, unwanted, and forgotten. Without advocates like her, they never have a chance for due process and judicial fairness.   Lynne championed equity and ...
  • Yitzhak Shamir's Criminal Legacy
      Yitzhak Shamir's Criminal Legacy   by Stephen Lendman   Shamir reflected the worst of what Joel Kovel calls "imperialist expansion and militarism (with) signs of the fascist malignancy."   read more
  • Iran War Weekly - July 2, 2012
    IranWar Weekly July 2, 2012 Hello All – It seems now that negotiations to resolve the conflicts in/around both Iran and Syria will be put on hold until more “facts on the ground” alter the relative power of the contending forces.  Regarding Iran, the failure of the recent negotiations in Mo ...
  • Syria News - July 2
      Syrian opposition to discuss transition in Cairo meeting, boycotted by FSA - Morocco World News Russia to hold talks with Syrian opposition, Annan - Yahoo! News UN supervision mission to continue tasks once violence halted by all parties: official - Xinhua - English.news.cn Al-Qaeda affil ...
  • Palestinian Authority Police Brutalize Peacefu ...
      Palestinian Authority Police Brutalize Peaceful Protesters   by Stephen Lendman   President Mahoud Abbas is a longstanding Israeli collaborator. He and unelected Prime Minister Salam Fayyad serve illegitimately.   read more

Grist - News

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

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  • Kali Yuga and the Brotherhood of the Golden Calf
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  • Obamacare, the Great Swindle
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) Now that Obamacare has been ruled a tax by the U.S. Supreme Court, reality is starting to sink in for all those who emotionally supported it. Promoted as a way to provide either free health care or low-cost health care to the masses, the sobering re ...
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    Egypt’s new President Mohammed Morsi doesn’t believe the official story of 9/11. And he apparently also doubts the official story of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. According to ABC News, President Morsi recently said: “”I see banners for Omar Abdel Rahman’s fa ...

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  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • The Best Green Designs From Barcelona’s FADfes ...
    Read the rest of The Best Green Designs From Barcelona’s FADfest Design Festival! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: barcelona design festival, eco design, FADexpo, FADfest, Green Design Events, industrial design, spanish design, sustainable design
  • FLOAT Beijing Monitors Air Quality With High-F ...
    FLOAT Beijing is an interactive, community driven art project that uses kite making and kite flying to activate dialogue, map and record air quality in Beijing, China. Urban air quality is a serious issue that affects rapidly industrializing cities globally, and it is an issue kept quiet by the ...
  • Spain’s Crumbling Sant Francesc Church Gets a ...
    Read the rest of Spain’s Crumbling Sant Francesc Church Gets a Modern Renovation by David Closes Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", adaptive reuse, church renovation, church reuse, david closes, eco design, green architecture, Green Build ...
  • “Lit” Light Bulb Combines LED Technology With ...
    The “Lit” concept bulb designed by Elie Ahovi is an extremely elegant and innovative combination of LED and fiber optic technology, and could pave the way for incandescent replacements of the future. “Lit” proposes that light from LEDs can be piped into fiber optics which ...
  • Audi R8 e-tron Electric Car Sets World Record ...
    This fall Audi’s first electric car, the R8 e-tron will arrive in Audi showrooms, and it just set a world record by the completing a lap on Germany’s Nürburgring Nordschleife faster than any other production vehicle with an electric drive system! Racing driver Markus Winkelhock pilot ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Higgs Hunt Heats Up With Final Tevatron Data
    As scientists await the latest results from the LHC, the final data from the Tevatron helps confirm the mass of the Higgs boson.
  • Spray-on Rechargeable Batteries Could Store En ...
    A team of mechanical engineers has published a paper demonstrating its latest invention -- spray-on rechargeable batteries that could be combined with solar cells to create self-sufficient, energy conversion-storage devices.
  • How the Discovery of the Higgs Boson Could Bre ...
    The announcement of the long-awaited discovery of the Higgs boson may happen on July 4, marking a major achievement and something to celebrate. Or maybe not. Some scientists fear the Higgs won't be all they hoped it would be and its discovery could head physics into a crisis.
  • Supersymmetry: The Future of Physics Explained
    What is supersymmetry? Physicist Lawrence Krauss helps you understand the theory that could solve many of the most troublesome problems in physics.
  • Fire Devastation in the Western U.S. Seen From ...
    The scale of the fires burning in the Western United States this summer can be hard to fathom. But the view from space reveals the true extent of the devastation. Satellites have captured some sobering images of the fire, smoke and burn scars scattered across the Intermountain West. While the fi ...

PakAlert

  • Reports of Troop Movements Near Syrian Borders
    After Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced new rules of engagement, Turkey deployed missile batteries, rocket launchers, and anti-aircraft weapons close to Syria’s border.
  • The American People Are Angry
    The American people are angry. They are angry that they are being forced to live through the worst recession in our lifetimes -- with sky-high unemployment, with millions of people losing their homes and their life savings. They are angry that they will not have a decent retirement, that they ca ...
  • Chinese ‘cannibal’ attack caught on camera as ...
    The recent terrifying spate of 'cannibal attacks' seems to have spread to China, as a drunk bus driver was caught on camera gnawing at a woman's face in a horrific random attack. The unfortunate woman will apparently require plastic surgery to repair the damage done by her crazed attacker. ...
  • Death of the Birds and the Bees Across America
    Birds and bees are something most of us take for granted as part of nature. The expression “teaching about the birds and the bees” to explain the process of human reproduction to young people is not an accidental expression. Bees and birds contribute to the essence of life on our planet. A study ...
  • Obama directs FEMA to aid recovery in states h ...
    President Obama on Saturday spoke with governors from four states ravaged by severe storms to help coordinate federal assistance for the recovery efforts. Obama made calls to Govs. John Kasich (R-Ohio), Bob McDonnell (R-Va.), Martin O’Malley (D-Md.), and Earl Ray Tomblin (D) to “receive an up ...

Andy Worthington

  • My Photos on Flickr: Visiting Kuwait to Campai ...
    Visiting Kuwait to Campaign for the Last Two Kuwaiti Prisoners in Guantánamo, a set on Flickr. In the six months following the opening of the Bush administration’s cruel and lawless ”war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on January 11, 2002, twelve Kuwaitis joined the ...
  • In Appeal for Moral Leadership, Jimmy Carter C ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...
  • When Will Immoral, Unprincipled Bankers Be Hel ...
    They say that patriotism is the last refuge To which a scoundrel clings Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king Bob Dylan, “Sweetheart Like You” (1983) The record-breaking fine of £290m to which Barclays was subjected this week for financial crime ...
  • Polish Senator’s Startling New Allegatio ...
    In the long quest for accountability for those who ordered, authorized or were complicit in the Bush administration’s torture program, every avenue has been shut down within the US by the Obama administration, the Justice Department and the courts, and the only hope lies elsewhere in the w ...
  • My Photos on Flickr: The Isle of Dogs, the Riv ...
    The Isle of Dogs, the River Lea and the Olympics, a set on Flickr. Regular readers will know that, after the rainiest spring in living memory, I found myself unable to stay in the house when the sun started shining again. My mission to take advantage of the good weather, and to take exercise and ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Dawn of ‘Red America’: Extremists React to SCO ...
    Antigovernment activists and far-right extremists are waxing hysterical over yesterday’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold President Obama’s signature achievement, the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Mike Vanderboegh, an antigovernment activist who in 2010 reacted to the imminent passage o ...
  • Arizona Bar Admonishes Oath Keepers Founder St ...
    It turns out Stewart Rhodes, the Yale-educated lawyer who founded the Oath Keepers to encourage police and military personnel to disobey orders they deem unconstitutional, has a hard time following the rules of conduct for lawyers. Hatewatch has learned that the State Bar of Arizona has admonish ...
  • Texas Pipeline Bomber Held Radical-Right Views
    The man accused of trying to bomb a Dallas-area natural gas facility last weekend appears to be a sympathizer of the antigovernment “sovereign citizens” movement who for years has used the Internet to espouse hatred and suspicion of the federal government. Anson Chi, 33, faces federal charges fo ...
  • Neo-Nazi Bill White: U.S. is a ‘Demonic Dream’
    Bill White, the Virginia neo-Nazi and convicted felon who was arrested in Mexico earlier this month and faces federal charges of violating the terms of his supervised release, appears to have suffered some kind of mental breakdown. In a series of letters to supporters and federal authorities, th ...
  • UFO Cult Celebrates World Swastika Rehabilitat ...
    Celebrants of World Swastika Rehabilitation Day, who on Saturday arranged to have a swastika-festooned banner flown along Manhattan and the New Jersey shore, are expressing bafflement and outrage over the barrage of complaints their festivities invited. “Why should the swastika, a symbol of peac ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Walmart: 50 Years of Facilitating America’s I ...
    Retail giant Walmart, the second-largest corporation on the planet, has not gotten the scrutiny it deserves for "facilitating America’s industrial decline," says a report released Monday from Demos. read more
  • Following Barclays' Scandal, Stiglitz says 'Se ...
    Nobel Prize winner and former World Bank economist Joseph Stiglitz has called recent revelations that Barclays and other large banks colluded to defraud their costumers by artificially leveraging international interest rates a "textbook illustration" of how banks use privileged informa ...
  • Power Outages Leave Millions Sweltering in 'Da ...
    Continued heat and power outages follow a weekend of destructive storms and oppressive temperatures across the east coast and plains. read more
  • Sea Level Rise Unstoppable, say Scientists
    Even if nations across the globe can agree on effective schemes to mitigate their carbon emissions in significant ways, the world's ocean levels will continue to rise far into the future, according to a new scientific study released on Sunday. ...
  • Factory-Fed Fish: Monsanto and Cargill's Plan ...
    Agribusiness behemoths including Monsanto and Cargill are set to cash in big from industrial fish farming or “aquaculture” as the soy industry spreads its reign to the seas, a new report from environmental and consumer watchdogs shows. ...

Lifehacker

  • Lighting Charcoal, Facebook Chat, and Wall Out ...
    Readers offer their best tips for firing up the grill, navigating Facebook Chat, and knowing which outlets connect to which breaker. More »
  • Remains of the Day: Google Image Search Gets K ...
    Google updates Image Search with Knowledge Graph integration, VLC for OS X now supports Retina display, Sparrow updates with Retina display and Mountain Lion support, and Amazon introduces barcode scanning app Flow for iOS. More &raqu ...
  • Always Have a "Project in Waiting" That You're ...
    Failure is useful, but it's also no fun. When things go poorly, it helps to have a plan in place to cope and move on. John Caddell, writing for productivity and creative thinking blog The 99 Percent, suggests that your plan should be another ...
  • Place Your Flip Flops Face Down When Outside t ...
    When you're at the beach, by the pool, or you just need to take off your flip flops (or sandals) outdoors, the sun can heat them up and burn your feet when you put them back on. Redditor shawbin suggests turn them upside down so they don't ab ...
  • How I Beat Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI) with ...
    In 2005, programmer Henrik Warne developed RSI—repetitive stress injury. Over the course of six months, the condition progressed so severely that he considered a career change. Fortunately, through a combination of actions, he managed to ...

Water Privatization

  • Group fights boating law
    Restore Public Water Rights-Rochester, NY, issued an open letter Monday to the commissioner of the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, calling the new law a privatization of public waters and asking her to overturn it.
  • Group asks state to overturn Irondequoit boati ...
    Restore Public Water Rights-Rochester, NY LLC, issued an open letter Monday to the commissioner of the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, calling the new law a privatization of public waters and asking her to overturn it.
  • Serious Steps Toward Privatization Of City Ser ...

  • Water system efficiencies sought by utility au ...
    The authority charged with overseeing the city's water and sewer system voted Wednesday to address mounting debt service and maintenance costs and certain rate increases by operating the system in a more businesslike fashion.
  • Privatization program remains in search of dir ...
    The government is trying to set a course in its privatization program, as the absence of a finance minister for some 10 days after the general election and the lack of a clear strategy have kept the sell-off schedule frozen, something which isn’t likely to change anytime soon.

Guardian

  • David Cameron orders speedy bank inquiry
    Prime minister seeks to turn political pressure over Barclays rate-fixing scandal on to LabourDavid Cameron has tried to fend off growing demands for a public inquiry into the loss of trust in British banking by announcing a quick parliamentary inquiry into professional and cultural standards in ...
  • Children in care to get more protection agains ...
    New government measures seek to end large concentrations of vulnerable children becoming easy prey for sex abusersThe government will announce measures to end the "export trade" in vulnerable children around the English regions that has led to concentrations of care homes, some a short walk away ...
  • David Cameron says Britain will get vote on le ...
    PM attempts to clarify mixed messages on Europe referendum as ministerial aide calls for plan to be sped upThe public will eventually be offered a vote on whether Britain should leave the European Union, David Cameron said on Monday as he attempted to clarify the government's thinking on an EU r ...
  • Devizes law firm shooting leaves man seriously ...
    Man taken to hospital after being shot in head in solicitor's office in Wiltshire market townA man has been taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after he was shot in a solicitor's office in a quiet market town.There were unconfirmed reports that the man was an employee and was shot i ...
  • Twitter forced to release Occupy protester's t ...
    Micro-blogging site loses legal challenge to prosecutors' request for three months' worth of messages from Malcolm HarrisTwitter has been ordered to hand over almost three months worth of messages from an Occupy Wall Street protester after losing a legal challenge to prosecutors' demands for the ...

McClatchey

  • Eurozone unemployment climbs to record high in May
    Unemployment in the 17-nation Eurozone climbed to another record high in May, reflecting deep public sector job cuts and a lack of employer confidence in the most indebted, recession-wracked countries…Click to Continue »
  • Mexico’s new leader, Enrique Pena Nieto ...
    Enrique Pena Nieto, the president-elect of Mexico, will be forced to govern in a way that his once-autocratic Institutional Revolutionary Party isn?t accustomed to: by negotiating with political opponents.Click to Continue »
  • Firefighting C-130 crashes in S.D.
    A C-130 Hercules tanker from a Charlotte-based Air National Guard unit crashed late Sunday night while helping battle a wildfire in southwest South Dakota, according to U.S. military officials.Click to Continue »
  • Some states balk at expanding Medicaid under h ...
    Hours after the Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama?s health care law Thursday but made its Medicaid expansion optional, a reporter asked senior White House officials how they?d entice states…Click to Continue »
  • How about laser's red glare for the 4th?
    The venerable tradition of Independence Day fireworks shows is under attack. From one flank, red ink from municipal budgets has fireworks fuses fizzling. On another side, environmentalists are raising questions:Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Pakistan Accuses Afghan Soldiers of Killing 2 ...
    Pakistani officials have accused Afghan soldiers of crossing into Pakistan and killing two local tribesmen. Government officials say at least 30 Afghan soldiers clashed with locals in the Upper ...
  • Wife of accused Afghan gunman rampage says she ...
    SEATTLE -- The wife of the soldier accused of killing 16 civilians in Afghanistan in March says she has not told their children -- a 5-year-old girl and 2-year-old boy - why their father isn't ...
  • Ireland wary of Afghanistan adventure
    If Ireland need any reminders of the dangers posed by Afghanistan's cricketers as they prepare for a pair of critical World Cup qualifiers in Clontarf this week, they need only recall Boyd ...
  • Afghanistan massacre defendants wife says he d ...
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Kari Bales, the wife of a U.S. Army staff sergeant charged with killing 16 villagers in Afghanistan in March, said on Monday she continues to believe her husband is innocent and ...
  • Britains top court considers case of Pakistani ...
    LONDON – Britain's Supreme Court has taken up the case of a 29-year-old detainee held by American officials at an Afghan prison outside Bagram air base. The two-day hearing in the case of ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Truck Safety victory in Congress
    My friends at the Truck Safety Coalition are reporting a victory for truck safety advocates in yesterday's deal between the House and Senate for transportation reauthorization.  The Senate bill, called MAP-21, included a number of truck safety initiatives, and those have survived in the fin ...
  • NYC Premiere of Whistleblower Documentary "Top ...
    The whistleblower documentary Top Priority: The Terror Within makes it east coast premiere at the IFC Film Center in New York City tomorrow, June 29th. It will be playing in NYC through July 5th and then will be showing at Laemmle NoHo Theatre in North Hollywood, California from July 13th throu ...
  • NWC amicus seeks SOX protection for internatio ...
    Yesterday, I had one of those moments that makes a lawyer's adrenalin run.  At 4:00 p.m., the clerk's office called to inform me that my request for an extension of time was denied. My brief would be due by midnight. Luckily, I was somewhat prepared with a draft of my brief on whether Congr ...
  • NWC Announces Seminar on New Whistleblower Laws
    On Monday, July 16, 2012, the National Whistleblowers Center will host a 2-hour training seminar that covers new whistleblower laws and the special Department of Labor litigation process. These new laws cover millions of employees who blow the whistle on a wide variety of issues, so this trainin ...
  • Whistleblowers Are Underpaid And Under Appreciated
    Washington, DC, attorney Steven N. Berk wrote the following in his blog, The Corporate Observer. He has generously given permission for us to repost it here: To many, whistleblowers are akin to lottery winners; just plain lucky. If you complain enough (like buying plenty of lottery tickets) you ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • ACTA Supporters In Europe Fighting To The Bitt ...
    As Techdirt has reported over the last few months, the passage of ACTA through the European Union's approval process has been little short of extraordinary. At the end of last year, ACTA seemed almost certain to be approved without difficulty. Then, inspired by the Internet community's success ...
  • DailyDirt: Who's Going To Clean Up All The Spa ...
    Putting satellites and spacecraft into low earth orbit is getting easier and less expensive all the time, but that also means we're possibly creating even more orbiting space junk around our planet -- without any way to remove this garbage. Man-made space debris is already a problem, and as we s ...
  • Twitter Forced To Hand Over Occupy Protestor's ...
    We recently wrote about Twitter standing up for a user, Malcolm Harris, who had participated in the Occupy Wall St. protests, and whose info was sought by the government under a 2703(d) order (which has fewer protections than an ordinary warrant). Twitter told Harris about the order, and Harris ...
  • James Watson, Co-Discoverer Of DNA, Says 'Pate ...
    Techdirt has been covering the important Myriad Genetics case for a while. Although the CAFC decided that isolated genes could be patented, the Supreme Court has asked the appeals court to review the case in light of the former's rejection of medical diagnostic patents. The importance of thi ...
  • Dear Judge Koh: Competition Is No Reason To Ba ...
    We already had mentioned that Apple had succeeded in getting a rare pre-trial injunction against Samsung's tablets, but now it's also succeeded in blocking the Galaxy Nexus phone as well, though the judge's reasoning is a bit bizarre: "Apple has made a clear showing that, in the absence of a ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Interview on KDVS
    Still trying to get back on my regular posting schedule, hopefully this coming week. In the meantime, Richard Estes was kind enough to invite me on his show Speaking in Tongues. You can listen here.
  • Book Review – Sex at the Margins
    Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry by Laura Maria Agustin My rating: 4 of 5 stars Laura Agustin has a remarkable ability to turn things on their head.If you read her blog, you’ll be familiar with the narratives that she contests. But the book really bring ...
  • Shame Redistribution
    A little while ago, I was watching this video of Michelle Alexander. In it, she talks about how struck she was by the silence within the communities most affected by mass incarceration. House after house in these neighborhoods had family members in prison. But people weren’t talking about ...
  • Anti-Authoritarianism, Anti-Racism, and Avoidi ...
    In response to my Trayvon post, one of the commenters denied that police and prison guards killed black kids and brought up how many black people were killed by other black people. I responded to the comment, but I think there is a bit more to say. Within the black communities that are most affe ...
  • Occupy the DOJ

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • The decade of war to come
    Nick Turse writes: “In operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, a failure to recognise, acknowledge and accurately define the operational environment led to a mismatch between forces, capabilities, missions and goals,” reads a new draft report by the Pentagon’s Joint Staf ...
  • Clinton: World may not succeed in Syria
    CNN reports: There is no guarantee that a sweeping new international agreement on Syria will succeed in ending the conflict there, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton conceded, as opposition activists said the number of dead had skyrocketed in recent months. “There is no guarantee that ...
  • Syrian rebel fighters boycott opposition’s pus ...
    AFP reports: Syrian rebel fighters and activists said they would boycott an opposition meeting in Cairo overnight, denouncing it as a “conspiracy” that served the policy goals of Damascus allies Moscow and Tehran. The two-day meeting, organised by the main exiled opposition bloc, the ...
  • The Libor scandal and the price of prosperity
    Umair Haque writes: To the long, dismal list of fatally broken institutions — GDP, governments, schools, corporations — we can add the mysterious Libor, and its conveniently comfortable calculation. It’s difficult to overstate what a pillar of the global economy Libor is — it’s used ...
  • Massive furor in UK over Libor manipulation; w ...
    Yves Smith writes: In case it isn’t yet apparent to you, the unfolding scandal over manipulation of Libor and its Euro counterpart Euribor is a huge deal. Even though at this point, only Barclays [the fourth largest bank in the world], the UK bank that was first to settle, is in the hot lights, ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Tisdale on the Curious Northern Hemisphere Sea ...
    Guest post by Bob Tisdale This post will serve as the Preliminary Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Update for June 2012, since we’ll be using preliminary June 2012 data in it. Last week ended on June 30th, so the preliminary data … Continue reading →
  • USA CO2 emissions may drop to 1990 levels this ...
    I graphed the EIA data, shown below. What is most interesting is that this is market driven, not mandate driven. Amazing Shale: US CO2 Emissions Plummet Towards 1990 Levels by John Hanger (via The GWPF) America’s carbon emissions may drop … Continue reading →
  • Impact on temperature measurement: Cities expa ...
    Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. points out on his weblog this interesting press release from IGBP (from March 2012) that we all apparently missed until now. One of the points worth noting is that there were fewer than 20 cities of … Continue reading →
  • BREAKING: CERN to announce “God Particle ...
    By JOHN HEILPRIN and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Scientists believe the “God particle” that might explain the underpinnings of the universe is real, and they are about to present their evidence to the world. Physicists at the … Continue reading →
  • Weather Channel absorbs Weather Underground, o ...
    The Weather Channel Companies Acquire Weather Underground ATLANTA & SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 02, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The Weather Channel Companies (TWCC) today announced an agreement to acquire Weather Underground, a leading provider of Web based weather data. The transaction, … Con ...

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Biosingularity

  • New Drug Shows Promise for Advanced Lymphoma
    The immune system cancer known as lymphoma can often be cured, but some types remain stubbornly resistant to treatment. Now researchers have found a drug that appears to help vanquish these lymphomas by targeting their abnormal cell wiring. Tumors shrank in four of 10 advanced lymphoma patients ...
  • Scientists solving the mystery of human consci ...
    Awakening from anesthesia is often associated with an initial phase of delirious struggle before the full restoration of awareness and orientation to one’s surroundings. Scientists now know why this may occur: primitive consciousness emerges first. Using brain imaging techniques in healthy ...
  • Virtual dissection table
  • Targeted nanoparticles show success in clinica ...
    Targeted therapeutic nanoparticles that accumulate in tumors while bypassing healthy cells have shown promising results in an ongoing clinical trial, according to a new paper. The nanoparticles feature a homing molecule that allows them to specifically attack cancer cells, and are the first such ...
  • The Benefits of Daydreaming
    Does your mind wander? During a class or meeting, do you find yourself staring out the window and thinking about what you’ll do tomorrow or next week? As a child, were you constantly reminded by teachers to stop daydreaming? Well, psychological research is beginning to reveal that daydreaming is ...

CFACT

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Pruning Shears

  • 'Nuns on the Bus' passes through Cleveland
    On June 17th the Catholic social justice lobbying group NETWORK launched a 15 day Nuns on the Bus tour. (As befits their budding rock star status, they are selling a tour shirt as well.) They are speaking out against the House Republican budget because, as they write: “When the federal g ...
  • "No Justice, No Pizza!" - A Call to Action
    Workers at the Palermo’s Pizza factory in Milwaukee, Wis., went on strike May 30 after the company retaliated with threats of termination and deportation against the workers’ attempts to organize a union.  The workers have been on the picket line eight hours a day, six days a we ...
  • Palermo's Pizza Workers Strike in Milwaukee
    Workers at a Palermo’s Pizza factory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin went on strike May 30 after the company retaliated with threats of termination and deportation against the workers’ attempts to organize a union.  The workers have been on the picket line six days a week for two weeks, ...
  • The Wisconsin recall: myths and talking points
    Part 1.Part 2.Yesterday I looked at Bruce Murphy’s article about the Wisconsin recall, and how Murphy thought Democrats and unions brought defeat on themselves. There is one point he made that fits in with a purely political analysis, which is what I’m focusing on today. He writes: ...
  • The Wisconsin recall: how the movement could h ...
    Part 1.Since the recall was run as a conventional political campaign, instead of one grounded in the turmoil of last year, it’s fair to ask how the latter might have looked. Doug Henwood offered these thoughts:Suppose instead that the unions had supported a popular campaign - media, door ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Congress Passes a Terrible Transportation Bill ...
    After months of partisan gamesmanship, Congress finally coughed up a transportation bill today. Both the House and the Senate voted to okay a compromise of a compromise that is a major letdown for fans of bikes and clean transit. President Obama is expected to sign it into law today or tomorrow. ...
  • 10 Sobering Realizations the Eastern U.S. Powe ...
    In the wake of violent storms, the power remains out today for millions of Americans across several U.S. states. Governors of Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio have declared a state of emergency. Over a dozen people are now confirmed dead, and millions are sweltering in blistering temperatures wh ...
  • Obamacare, the Great Swindle
    Now that Obamacare has been ruled a tax by the U.S. Supreme Court, reality is starting to sink in for all those who emotionally supported it. Promoted as a way to provide either free health care or low-cost health care to the masses, the sobering reality is that under Obamacare, health insuranc ...
  • Congress's Big Gift to Monsanto
    If you want your crops to bear fruit, you have to feed the soil. Few industries understand that old farming truism better than ag-biotech-the few companies that dominate the market for genetically modified seeds and other novel farming technologies. And they realize that the same wisdom applies ...
  • Aspartame and MSG: 2 Food Additives You Should ...
    Many people equate eating sugar with the development of type 2 diabetes, and in an attempt to be healthier choose sugar-free diet products instead.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Farm Bill Considerations: The Case for Support ...
    What’s better than a government program that improves the health of SNAP participants, while simultaneously driving local economic activity and addressing health care costs?
  • Farm Bill Considerations: The Case for Funding ...
    There is one program that, if implemented, will not only benefit both farmers and eaters, but may have the added benefit of job growth and economic activity.
  • Farm Bill Considerations: The Case for Protect ...
    Conservation programs are necessary in order to keep our cropland, wetlands, and public healthy.
  • DOJ ain’t the new sheriff in town, after all
    Ask and you shall receive … In early April I wrote a blogpost lamenting the fact that the U.S. Department of Justice had not followed up on its nationwide “workshops” on competition in agricultural markets that were held throughout 2010. The lack of follow-up seemed a bold-faced betrayal of farm ...
  • Get by with a little health from my friends…
    In an uncharacteristic act of relative efficiency, the Senate debated 73 amendments and on Thursday, June 21, passed the bill in the span of three short days. And, believe it or not, the final bill is a little better for public health than it was three days ago.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • 26 Ethical Flaws of Propagandists
    Ethical considerations arise from the activities of propagandists when: they seek to howl down any form of questioning or dissent, use threatening vilification as a propagandist tool,suppress contra-indicative data,subvert peer review Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech &nbsp ...
  • How Bain Capital helped BP blow up the Deepwat ...
    it was Bain Capital (Mitt Romney, former CEO), that told oil giant BP it was a good idea to cut costs. The cuts would lead to death, mayhem and the destruction of the Gulf Coast (not to mention BPs poisoning of Alaska, Africa, Central Asia and Colombia). Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...
  • Endangered whales begin to recover
    Population of a once near-extinct whale is on the rise Ten years ago, New Brunswick-based Irving Oil rerouted its shipping lanes in the Bay of Fundy away from feeding grounds of the North Atlantic right whale, whose population has since grown Submitted by John Farnham to Animals  |  & ...
  • Evidence for Negative Water Feedback
    The sun is a main sequence star whose output is known to increase slowly with age. The total change in solar radiation over 4 billion years turns out to be huge. The evidence supports the hypothesis that the Earths oceans have stabilized temperatures . Submitted by John Farnham to Environment & ...
  • Uncle Gordys Mid-Week Reality Check, May 23, 2012
    The money in your pocket is toilet paper, your home is worth less than yesterday and probably belongs to someone who lost the paperwork and has been bankrupt themselves 30 years. Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Danish Farmer Reverses Illnesses in pigs by re ...
    A Danish farmer has gained huge public recognition for publishing his simple method for ridding his pigs of illness- removing genetically modified (GM) ingredients from their diet.
  • Did Rand Paul even read the GMO labeling amend ...
    Text of SA 2310. Read what it really says instead of what they tell you it says.
  • Nuclear Shutdown Now or Never
    Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Peter Saunders Institute of Science in Society “We lost Japan,” said Rie Inomata, who works as an interpreter [1]. “I feel guilty and sorry for the children. They did not choose nuclear power plants, they did not choose to be born; but it is them that have to suffer in [ ...
  • Rand Paul Votes NO on GMO Labeling
    Thought that endorsing Romney was bad enough? In another turn of events that exposes the corporatist leanings of Rand Paul, Senator from Kentucky, he has voted NO on a GMO labeling amendment to the farm bill "to permit States to require that any food, beverage, or other edible product offered fo ...
  • Behind the GM Wheat Trial
    Can one still believe Rothamsted’s GM wheat is a mere experiment with no commercial objectives in mind? Should taxpayer’s money be hijacked to support GM development for corporate agribusiness without regard for potential damage to health and environment?

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Bomb Threat at UConn Law School
    ShareThisBomb Threat at UConn Law School 02 Jul 2012 UConn police investigating a bomb threat received today at University of Connecticut School of Law. There was also a bomb threat at the greater Hartford campus in West Hartford, but is all clear, school officials said. According to an alert on ...
  • U.S. building Afghanistan a new $92 million 'P ...
    ShareThisU.S. building Afghanistan a new $92 million 'Pentagon' 01 Jul 2012 The United States is spending $92 million to build Afghanistan a new "Pentagon," a massive five-story military headquarters with domed roofs and a high-tech basement command center that will link Afghan generals with the ...
  • US senator calls to prosecute Assange
    ShareThisUS senator calls to prosecute Assange 02 Jul 2012 The head of the US Senate's powerful intelligence oversight committee has renewed calls for Julian Assange to be prosecuted for espionage. The US Justice Department has also confirmed WikiLeaks remains the target of an ongoing criminal i ...
  • Stratfor settles class-action over Anon megaha ...
    ShareThisStratfor settles class-action over Anon megahack with freebies 29 Jun 2012 Stratfor has agreed to forgo $1.75m in income to settle a class action lawsuit arising from a high-profile hack by hacktivist group Anonymous against the global intelligence firm's systems last December. Anonymou ...
  • Fresh call on Assange 'espionage'
    ShareThisFresh call on Assange 'espionage' 02 Jul 2012 The head of the United States Senate's powerful intelligence oversight committee has renewed calls for Julian Assange to be prosecuted for espionage. The US Justice Department has also confirmed WikiLeaks remains the target of a criminal inv ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Another Smoking Gun: The Pentagon Caught Again ...
    12 June 2012 The Pentagon has repeatedly deceived Senators, Representatives and the Public on the MEDEVAC issue.  This fact pattern has been systematically revealed and irrevocably proven. For instance, top Generals have said that if ground commanders requested changes to MEDEVAC procedure ...
  • More Army Red Cross Lies Exposed
    04 June 2012 Click here to download PDF.
  • Proof That Military Puts Media Message before ...
    31 May 2012 The following document was provided by a source within the military.  This document proves that a decision was made not to arm vehicles during serious fighting because it would convey the wrong STRATCOM (strategic communications) message. To download as a PDF please click he ...
  • Little Girl Revisited
    02 May 2012 This image was made seven years ago today.   There had been a great deal of combat.  It’s been said that the “Deuce Four” was the most decorated unit in the Iraq war.  I do not know if this is true, but if not, it is probably close. There had been a suicide car ...
  • RED CROSS: Symbol of Blood
    Photo Michael Yon 17 April 2012 Army Generals will have the public believe that the Red Cross is a morale booster for our troops.  That load of bull is too heavy even for a Blackhawk helicopter sling load.  During my about three years with combat troops downrange, I've never heard th ...

The Killing Train

  • The International Organization for a Participa ...
    I joined the International Organization for a Participatory Society. read more
  • Curuguaty and the Paraguay Coup
    When the landless peasants of the Carperos Campesino Movement moved on to the 70,000 hectare ranch in Curuguaty registered to Blas Riquelme, they would have known that they were risking their lives. Using the same successful methods as elsewhere in Latin America, perhaps most famously by the Lan ...
  • Help that hurts: An interview with Tim Schwart ...
    First published on ZNet, March 18, 2012 Tim Schwartz is an anthropologist with extensive experience in the foreign aid sector in Haiti. He is the author of the book, Travesty in Haiti, and of an upcoming book studying the nature and problems of the ways nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) opera ...
  • Professionals and Torturers
    The key moment in many revolutions comes when police and militaries refuse to fire on crowds. But what is difficult to explain about those moments is their infrequency. Soldiers and police come from the same society as the crowds. Why do they kill them? Why are elites and authorities able to res ...
  • The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadia ...
    [This article, by Shourideh Molavi and myself, was first published in The Bullet - version with links is there]. The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadian Khevari petition Shourideh Molavi and Justin Podur November 11, 2011 On October 12, members of the Iranian-Canadian community sent a pe ...

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Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Google offers to settle EU antitrust claims
    [JURIST] Google [corporate website; JURIST news archive] on Monday offered to settle antitrust claims by the European Competition Commission (ECC) [official website]. The company's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt [Forbes profile], sent a letter [NYT report] to ECC Joaquin Almunia [official webs ...
  • Report: US to transfer Guantanamo detainees to ...
    [JURIST] The US government is considering transferring suspected Taliban militants from Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder] to prisons in Afghanistan, officials told AP [report] on Saturday. The potential transfer is part of an ongoing effort by the US government to improve relations with the T ...
  • UN releases leaked report on Rwanda aid to DRC ...
    [JURIST] The UN on Monday released a report [text, PDF] alleging that the Rwandan government has helped to create armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] and supplied them with weapons, armor and recruits including children. The group of ...
  • US Bancorp agrees to settlement on overdraft fees
    [JURIST] US Bancorp [corporate website], one of the 10 largest banks in the US, on Monday announced that they have agreed to a $55 million settlement to resolve lawsuits by customers who sued over excessive overdraft fees. The settlement is part of ongoing national litigation challenging the ove ...
  • ICRC calls for international arms treaty
    [JURIST] The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) [official website] on Sunday said [press release] that an effective international arms treaty would save lives and aid in the enforcement of international law. The statement by the ICRC was made in anticipation of the UN Conference on ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Brutalism, Style and Russian Oligarchs
    I don’t usually write about fashion (and this post is only peripherally about that subject) but I do find photographs often to be compelling political and visual statements.  So, today’s post.  In order to understand the context of this image, I should quote some of  this NY Times ar ...
  • Occupation’s Chickens Coming Home to Roost: Is ...
    Yesterday’s social justice protests in Tel Aviv witnessed a new low for the Big Brother-national security state.  Tel Aviv police employed an IDF battlefield command vehicle called suitably, Stalker (or Raccoon) and manufactured by Rafael, the Israeli weapons manufacturer.  It is similar t ...
  • Shin Bet Arrests Israeli Druze at Golan Border ...
    Israel’s Shin Bet secret police arrested a 38 year-old Israeli Druze doctor, Eyad Jamil al-Jawhari at the Golan border crossing. According to the Syrian new agency, Sana, Jawhari is studying in Syria and was returning to his home in Majdal Shams with his family awaiting him. The Shin Bet n ...
  • Israeli Attorney General Refuses to Prosecute ...
    Yesterday, Israel’s Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein announced his refusal to prosecute Border Police officers Maxim Vinogradov and Khir Al-Din Shadi, who executed East Jerusalem Palestinian Ziad Jilani in 2010, after a minor traffic accident on the city’s crowded streets.  A lower ...
  • Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them at Stan ...
    TweetMany of you are aware that TIAA-CREF’s Social Choice portfolio ditched it’s $72-million investment in Caterpillar after the long-standing BDS campaign by Jewish Voice for Peace and other Israeli-Palestinian peace activists.  The investment company’s action was precipitated ...

If Americans Knew

  • A History Lesson for Obama: Eisenhower's Example
    With President Obama's Middle East peace plans so completely -- and humiliatingly -- shipwrecked on the rocks of Israeli intransigence, it's time for him to consider a new approach, at least if he's serious about his announced objectives. In the spirit of bipartisanship that he's so dedicated to ...
  • The First Intifada
    It's interesting to find myself a small factor in the California race for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. But before I get to that, it's necessary to take a look at the campaigns themselves, and the system in which they're running.
  • My "Relationship" With Tom Campbell: A Wrench ...
    The First Intifada was a grassroots uprising against Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Intifada is an Arabic word for "civil uprising" that literally means "shaking off."
  • AIPAC: We'll take over Cal's student governmen ...
    "How are we going to beat back the anti-Israel divestment resolution at Berkeley? We're going to make certain that pro-Israel students take over the student government and reverse the vote. That is how AIPAC operates in our nation's capitol. This is how AIPAC must operate on our nation's campuses."
  • VIDEO: AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Acti ...
    Janet McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across America? Why don't any claim affiliation to their creator or use descriptive names? Shouldn't the ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • When News Organizations Geocode, How Accurate ...
    In my intro news writing class at UNC-Chapel Hill we ding students 50 points for allowing a fact error to creep into a story. If the fire happened at 123 W. Main St. and it really happened at 123 E. Main St., it's an instant F. But I've learned from working on OpenBlock that online maps seem to ...
  • How the Tulsa World Used AP's Overview to Repo ...
    In May, I published a story which described how the Tulsa Police Department in Oklahoma purchased millions of dollars of under-powered and under-tested computer hardware, resulting in a multitude of problems. Emails showed complaints from the field in which officers were unable to get basic p ...
  • Knight-Mozilla OpenNews to Offer Source for Jo ...
    Way back in November, as the ideas that led to Knight-Mozilla's OpenNews relaunch were starting to be articulated, I wrote about the need for something to "shine a spotlight" on the code being written in journalism: I think that there's real work to be done in advocating for, shining a spotl ...
  • Knight Announces Winners for News Challenge on ...
    The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today announced the winners of its first round of this year's Knight News Challenge contest at the MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference held in Cambridge, Mass. Networks is a theme you'll see running through the winners. That's because that was the focu ...
  • iWitness Launches Tool for Exploring Social Me ...
    We are very excited to announce the launch of iWitness, a free tool created by Adaptive Path for exploring social media content by time and place. We designed iWitness to enable people to explore content in new ways. We wanted it to be a vehicle for discovering what's happening in the wo ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Environmentalism on Edge - Rio+20 Wrap-Up: How ...
    The Rio+20 World Environmental Conference has come and gone. The “Plus 20� comes from the fact that it took place twenty years after the first such conference, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. Between these dates, I was a delegate at the 2002 world environment conference in Johannesb ...
  • Society on Edge - 'Ambient' Bullying Gives Emp ...
    Merely showing up to work in an environment where bullying goes on is enough to make many of us think about quitting, a new study suggests. Canadian researchers have found that nurses not bullied directly, but who worked in an environment where workplace bullying occurred, felt a stronger urge t ...
  • Oil Addictioon - Arctic Drilling a Political W ...
    The Obama administration’s expected approval of Royal Dutch Shell's plan to drill in Arctic waters off Alaska’s coast this summer is a political plus for President Obama, according to Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska), an advocate of the project.“I think what he is showing is — and [Interior S ...
  • Turkey and Syria - Syria and Turkey Mass Troop ...
    Turkish troops were deployed to the border on Thursday as a precaution against the encroaching Syrian threat, the Jerusalem Post reports. The new rules of engagement, issued by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, come just days after Syria shot down a Turkish fighter jet, flying over international ai ...
  • The Safety Edge - OSHA Reforms Voluntary Prote ...
    Citing a 2011 Center for Public Integrity investigation, a Labor Department official said Thursday that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has reformed a program that rewards workplaces reporting lower-than-average injury and illness rates.OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Programs (V ...

High Country News

  • A different voice on the phone
    The author's weary 21-year-old son, who has always wanted to be a firefighter, shares his frustrations from the fire lines.
  • Why I never hike alone
    After a fallen boulder pins her leg to the ground, a hiker learns the hard way how important it is to hike with friends, or at least to leave notes about where you are going.
  • Notes from a wildfire refugee
    When wildfire forces locals to flee their beloved Colorado homes, people begin to talk more openly than they used to about climate change.
  • Sometimes environmentalists miss the boat
    Colorado environmentalists goofed when they opposed a bill that would have harnessed the methane produced by coal mines as a form of renewable energy.
  • Three days in the Four Corners
    A loop around the Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah meet, leads into a land of both historical and geological friction.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Kimberlin Update: New Evidence, Same Old Creeps
    Its been over a week since I have published an update on Brett Kimberlin and his cadre of bad guys and there has been lots of news. You may remember that the same day Aaron Walker was given back his First Amendment Rights (allowed to write about Kimberlin again) he was a victim of swatting. ...
  • Manufacturing Contracts-New Orders Down-Econom ...
    June was not a good Month for the economy.  According to the Institute for Supply Management, manufacturing numbers dropped for the first time in almost three years (since July 2009). The purchasing managers' index dropped from 53.5 in may to 49.7 in June (a consensus of economists had ...
  • Wake Up and Smell the Coffee: The Israel-Pales ...
    Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more / Or close the wall up with our English dead! –William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act III, Scene I We demand of everyone to push ahead with reconciliation [between Fatah and Hamas] and to end the state of division, so that we will b ...
  • The Real Independence Day Was July 2, 1776
    "Why then sir, why do we longer delay? Why still deliberate? Let this happy day give birth to an American Republic. Let her arise not to devastate and to conquer but to reestablish the reign of peace and law. The eyes of Europe are fixed upon us. She demands of us a living example ...
  • Chief Justice Roberts: Coward or Evil Genius?
    Both sides of the political spectrum were shocked by the Court’s Obamacare decision. For weeks discussions have surrounded whether the Justices would merely strike down the individual mandate or the entire law. The president and his supporters had already begun to attack the court as extrem ...

The Real Agenda

  • Europe’s Unemployment Hits a new High
    By PAN PYLAS | AP | JULY 2, 2012 Unemployment in the 17-country euro currency bloc hit another record in May as the continent teetered on the edge of recession because of its crippling financial crisis, official figures showed Monday. Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office, said un ...
  • 75% of Obamacare Costs Will Fall on Backs of T ...
    By JIM HOFT | WSJ | JULY 1, 2012 Take Your Medicine, America… Stephen Moore, Senior Economics Writer with the Wall Street Journal, told FOX and Friends this morning that nearly 75% of Obamacare costs will fall on the backs of those Americans making less than $120,000 a year. “It’s a bi ...
  • 30 Genetically Engineered Babies born in the U.S.
    By MICHAEL HANLON | DAILY MAIL | JUNE 29, 2012 The world’s first genetically modified humans have been created, it was revealed last night. The disclosure that 30 healthy babies were born after a series of experiments in the United States provoked another furious debate about eth ...
  • The Truth About Obamacare: It’s Even Wor ...
    By STEFAN MOLYNEUX | FREEDOMAINRADIO | JUNE 29, 2012 Fact 1: There Is No Law in the US Anymore. Fact 2: Obamacare Is an Admission That All Previous Government Healthcare Programs Have Failed. Fact 3: Cost of Already Doubled from Initial Estimates. Fact 4: 70%+ of Healthcare Issues Resu ...
  • Less Sovereignty is the Central Bankers Soluti ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JUNE 29, 2012 Everyone on the main stream seems to believe that the continuous meetings between European central bankers and government officials are seeking to save the Euro and to help the governments deal with their sovereign debts. It is common t ...

Wind Watch

  • German wind farms kill bats from near and far
    Wind turbines may have large-scale negative effects on distant ecosystems. Results of research by the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) demonstrate that bats killed at German wind turbines originate mostly from northeastern Europe. The study investigated the provenance of tho ...
  • Banks issue ultimatum to wind turbine giant
    The world’s biggest maker of wind turbines is considering putting itself up for sale as concerns mount over its giant debt pile. Vestas is studying the drastic move after entering debt restructuring talks with its lenders. The banks have demanded that the Danish company prepares a comprehensive ...
  • Monks selling retreat at Ae forest
    Buddhist monks are selling their spiritual retreat in the forest of Ae because they can’t live near a windfarm. Scottish Power, which has lodged plans to extend the Harestanes development with a further 19, 125-foot turbines, said it was close to finalising a buy-out deal with the Tharpaland mon ...
  • Fixing wind power’s bat problem
    Fact one: Wind energy is booming around the world. Fact two: Wind turbines kill lots of bats. Fact three: Bats are worth billions to North American agriculture. Conclusion? Wind power has a bat problem. And with the Global Wind Energy Council predicting that worldwide wind capacity will double b ...
  • Hundreds say ‘no’ to windfarm
    Hundreds of residents near Presteigne have given a resounding “no” to the proposed windfarm at the nearby Reeves Hill. On Wednesday night Presteigne and Norton Town Council listened to an overwhelming no vote from local residents to Reeves Hill Wind Farm and a proposal for its access road. Local ...

Tippers News

  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From ...
    Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help v ...
    EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • The Power to Tax is THE Power
    The Supreme Court has long held that the government may use the tax system to regulate conduct—even if regulation, and not revenue, is the primary motive.
  • Justices Allow the Term ‘Tax’ to Embrace ‘Penalty’
    “When the establishment of Social Security was challenged after it was enacted in 1935, Mr. Glass said that ‘the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that the new Social Security program, based on the government’s broad power to tax, was fully constitutional.’ In that case, however, the government had based ...
  • Spain, Italy Win Major Concessions From German ...
    “That path already began to emerge Friday, with leaders agreeing to accelerate the creation of what amounts to a significant new step in European integration — a regional banking supervisor with power to overrule national authorities. Such a development could offer investors more confidence in t ...
  • For Mexican Voters Gripped By Fear, Few Good C ...
    “But Tampico is one of the places where the dark, scary Mexico is devouring the other one. In the nearly six years since Calderon declared war on the country’s drug mafias, the surrounding northern border state of Tamaulipas has become a cartel battlefield and a horror show, the scene of beheadi ...
  • JPMorgan Trading Loss May Reach $9 Billion
    “The growing fallout from the bank’s bad bet threatens to undercut the credibility of Mr. Dimon, who has been fighting major regulatory changes that could curtail the kind of risk-taking that led to the trading losses. . . . ‘Essentially, JPMorgan has been operating a hedge fund with federal ins ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Guestworkers at Gulf Coast Walmart seafood su ...
    Mexican guestworkers file federal complaints against a crawfish processor in Louisiana, alleging abusive treatment such as being forced to work 24 hours straight without overtime pay. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The real obscenity of mountai ...
    Mountaintop removal activist Maria Gunnoe of West Virginia was questioned about child porn by U.S. Capitol Police after submitting a photo of a child bathing in mine-polluted water to a House committee chaired by a lawmaker who counts coal companies among his biggest contributors. read more
  • VOICES: Walker & Koch Inc. pull it off but the ...
    Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker's victory in this week's recall election is being called a crushing blow to organized labor, but the grassroots are stirring across the land -- even in the anti-union South. read more
  • Florida groups relaunch voter registration dri ...
    After a federal judge rules Florida's laws on voter registration are too restrictive, groups like the League of Women Voters are back in action. But the state is digging in on a plan to flag and possibly purge thousands of voters, even though the data questioning their citizenship is riddled wit ...
  • Billionaire privatization activists pushing 'n ...
    Conservative political activists connected to Wal-Mart and Amway are funding a campaign to funnel public money to religious and other private schools. read more

Worldpress - Africa

  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
  • Somalia: No Sovereignty without Security
    Until the Somali National Security apparatus is able to stand strong on its own, Somalia will not be able to achieve full sovereignty.
  • Somalia: No Sovereignty without Security
    Until the Somali National Security apparatus is able to stand strong on its own, Somalia will not be able to achieve full sovereignty.
  • Blood Diamonds 2012
    Nine years after the Kimberley Process was formed to stop the trade in conflict diamonds and ensure that diamond purchases were not funding violence, the KP has refused to evolve and address the clear links between diamonds, violence and tyranny.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • To point out the obvious on today’s Supreme Co ...
    Roberts voted how he did because health insurance companies are absolutely desperate for the money they will get from the mandate.  All of the legitimacy arguments are bullshit, about 70% of Americans want Obamacare repealed.  This is more similar to TARP than anything else: it is a massive corp ...
  • Greek election consequences and the shape of t ...
    will be more years of austerity, people winding up on the street, suicides and outright starvation.  In this fertile ground, the neo-nazi right will rise.  The left will most likely not compete, because they will refuse to create an enforcer class to protect their own people.  The police in Gree ...
  • Stop bailing out banks
    The correct thing to do is to force them to take their losses, making the shareholders and bondholders eat it.  Kick out the management, cut the banks up into smaller entities then refloat.  It is cheaper, avoids moral hazard and leaves you with banks which are actually solvent and can lend. The ...
  • The Scott Walker recall fails
    Ordinary people hate other ordinary people who are doing better than them.  The politics of envy isn’t about the rich, whom ordinary people almost never see, but about their neighbours.  And Americans want a mean economy, one where everyone has to suffer like they do.  As long  as the unio ...
  • Oil Prices and the economy for the next year t ...
    Quick note, given I think that the economy is going to roll off a cliff in the new year, and soften between now and then, that means I think that oil prices are going to drop further.  I won’t be surprised to see them go under $50/barrel, unless something stupid like war with Iran happens. ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Pakistan: Where the Population Bomb is Exploding
    In much the developed, as well as developing world, population growth is slowing. Not so in Pakistan according to reported preliminary results of the 2011 Pakistan census. Here population is growing much faster than had been projected. Pakistan's population stood at 197.4 million in 2011, an ...
  • Religion and the City
    Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf; for in its welfare you will have welfare. – Jeremiah 29:7 Religion is another one of those topics seldom discussed in urbanist circles. Though Christianity was originally an urban religion, mode ...
  • Gentrification? Brixton's Angell Town Story
    In the US, urban planners talk about the 'redevelopment' of a neighborhood. In the UK, 'regeneration' is heard more often. What is the difference, from both the planner and the resident perspective? Are they both synonyms for 'gentrification'? Angell Town , a UK 'estate' in Brixton — it w ...
  • Questioning the Messianic Conception of Smart ...
    A new analysis from the United Kingdom concludes that smart growth (compact city) policies are not inherently preferable to other urban land use policy regimes, despite the claims of proponents."The current planning policy strategies for land use and transport have virtually no impact ...
  • U.S. Desperately Needs a Strategy to Attract t ...
    President Obama’s recent “do it myself” immigration reform plan, predictably dissed by conservatives and nativists, reveals just how clueless the nation’s leaders are about demographics. Monday’s Supreme Court ruling on Arizona’s immigration crackdown al ...

GM Watch

  • Congress's big gift to Monsanto
    Congress's Big Gift to Monsanto Tom Philpott Mother Jones, July 2 2012 http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/07/gmo-industry-flexes-its-muscles-capitol-hill If you want your crops to bear fruit, you have to feed the soil. Few industries understand that old farming truism better than ag-b ...
  • The fifth horseman of the apocalypse
    EXTRACT: Well, who did Obama bring to the party to save Africa? For starters we have Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta, Bayer and BASF; the world’s largest seed and agricultural chemical companies, all deeply involved in genetically modified crops, industrial agriculture and patenting of crops and food ...
  • The fifith horseman of the apocolypse
    EXTRACT: Well, who did Obama bring to the party to save Africa? For starters we have Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta, Bayer and BASF; the world’s largest seed and agricultural chemical companies, all deeply involved in genetically modified crops, industrial agriculture and patenting of crops and food ...
  • The agribusiness coup in Paraguay
    The Agribusiness Coup in Paraguay: Monsanto’s latest assault on democracy Idilio Méndez Grimaldi* Food First, June 24 2012 http://www.foodfirst.org/en/Agribusiness+Coup+in+Paraguay On Friday June 15, 2012, police officers were sent to Curuguaty in the department of Canindeyú, Paraguay near the ...
  • The agribusiness coup in Paraguay
    The Agribusiness Coup in Paraguay: Monsanto’s latest assault on democracy Idilio Méndez Grimaldi* Food First, June 24 2012 http://www.foodfirst.org/en/Agribusiness+Coup+in+Paraguay On Friday June 15, 2012, police officers were sent to Curuguaty in the department of Canindeyú, Paraguay near the ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • If One Storm Can Turn D.C. Dark For Several Da ...
    Sometimes we all get a little reminder of just how completely and totally dependent we are on the power grid.  Massive thunderstorms that ripped through Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Washington D.C. and Virginia left millions without power over the weekend.  At this point it is ...
  • Kicking The Can Down The Road
    Has Europe finally been saved this time?  Has this latest "breakthrough" solved the European debt crisis?  Of course not, and you should know better by now.  European leaders have held 18 summits since the beginning of the debt crisis.  After most of the preceding summits, global ...
  • 17 Reasons To Be EXTREMELY Concerned About The ...
    What is the second half of 2012 going to bring?  Are things going to get even worse than they are right now?  Unfortunately, that appears more likely with each passing day.  I will admit that I am extremely concerned about the second half of 2012.  Historically, a financial crisi ...
  • America On Fire: Why Is The Number Of Wildfire ...
    As America watches large sections of Colorado literally burn to the ground, many are wondering why all of this is happening.  There have always been wildfires, but what we are experiencing now seems very unusual.  So is the number of wildfires in the United States increasing?  As ...
  • Where Does Money Come From? The Giant Federal ...
    How is money created?  If you ask average people on the street this question, most of them have absolutely no idea.  This is rather odd, because we all use money constantly.  You would think that it would only be natural for all of us to know where it comes from.  So where does m ...

Desertification

  • Recycling tetrapacks to combat poverty and pro ...
    Interesting videos within the framework of Millennium Development Goals : Buklod Tao Livelihood Program: Tetra Pots http://youtu.be/W88Gmn0PqnI and draft buklod tao video on tetra pots (with English subtitles) http://youtu.be/mXnKGEfwDtQ
  • GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP KEY TO ACHIEVING MILLENNIUM ...
    New York, Jul  2 2012  2:05PM With three important targets on poverty, slums and water having been met, a new United Nations report stresses the need for a true global partnership to achieve the remaining Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by … Continue reading →
  • UNCCD 2nd Scientific Conference GRF Davos (UNCCD)
    Notification: Call for Abstracts for UNCCD 2nd Scientific Conference GRF Davos, the lead institution of the UNCCD 2nd Scientific Conference, is accepting submissions of abstracts for contributions to be included in the conference programme of the UNCCD 2nd Scientific Conference. … Continue ...
  • The “ZERO HUNGER CHALLENGE” and al ...
    Please read the 5 objectives of Mr. Ban Ki-moon’s “Zero Hunger Challenge” listed in : RIO+20: SECRETARY-GENERAL CHALLENGES NATIONS TO ACHIEVE ‘ZERO HUNGER’ UN News : New York, Jun 22 2012 11:05AM to achieve 100 per cent access to adequate … Continue reading →
  • The “ZERO HUNGER CHALLENGE” of Mr. ...
    RIO+20: SECRETARY-GENERAL CHALLENGES NATIONS TO ACHIEVE ‘ZERO HUNGER’ New York, Jun 22 2012 11:05AM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has launched a ‘Zero Hunger Challenge’ which invites all countries to work for a future where every individual has adequate nutrition and where … Continue readi ...

The Paper Trail

  • Evidence of overtreatment at dental clinics se ...
    Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, says that his investigators have found evidence of abuses by corporate dental chains treating children on Medicaid.For months now, Grassley’s staff has been asking questions of three dental chains serving poor children on Medicaid. Each is owned by a private-equity ...
  • House votes to hold attorney general in contempt
    WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday held Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal contempt of Congress for failing to provide documents related to a failed gun-tracking operation. It is the first time a sitting Cabinet member has been held in contempt.The vote was 255-67, with more than 100 Democ ...
  • Supreme Court rejects Montana's election spend ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision to allow unlimited corporate and union spending in federal elections, upheld Monday, also effectively wiped out similar prohibitions in 24 states.Most states bowed to the original high court ruling, but Montana’s Supreme Court backed it ...
  • Contribution limits at risk in states thanks t ...
    A campaign finance arms race is in danger of breaking out in Illinois and at least three other states as lawmakers use the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision as justification for raising or even eliminating campaign contribution limits.In Illinois, for example, the legislature voted last m ...
  • Corporate dental chains see big profits in adu ...
    Surviving on a meager $1,300 a month, 87-year-old Theresa Ferritto fretted about the cost when her dentist told her she needed two teeth pulled.She figured an oral surgeon would be too expensive. So she decided to try out a dental chain that promoted steep discounts in its advertisements. She we ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Terry Fallis gets it all wrong, brilliantly
    By Mark Leiren-Young Somebody has to tell Terry Fallis how publishing works. When he couldn’t find a publisher for his debut novel – the story of a reluctant campaign manager managing an even more reluctant candidate for the Parliament of Canada — Fallis released his story a chapter at a t ...
  • Body of missing Nunavut mayor found
    A BoB short: The body of Jamesie Kootoo, the mayor of Kimmirut, Nunavut, has been found 50 kms outside his community. Kootoo, 67, had been missing since Nov. 26th after he left on a caribou hunt and never returned. The town launched an intensive air and ground search shortly after the mayor’s di ...
  • Edmonton prof schools Omar Khadr
    A BoB short Former child soldier Omar Khadr has been receiving more than a lesson in international politics while jailed at Guantanamo Prison, awaiting his return to Canada. He has also been studying a curriculum devised by 15 Edmonton academics, led by King’s University College English pr ...
  • Life In Canada’s Small Government Dystopia
    By David@Sixthestate.net The following post is deliberately alarmist. Orwellian, you might say. I’m not trying to paint a picture of what things are like in Canada right now, or even what I think they’ll be like in the near future. I’m not an idiot. But I do want to paint a picture of the sort [...]
  • The Province’s big, gooey Enbridge mess
    By Frank Moher Now that we know just how much financial trouble Postmedia is in (see here, and here, and here), the question becomes: How well are they going to balance journalistic and money problems as they attempt, pell-mell, to transition to a digital-first strategy? On the basis of the Vanc ...

libcom

  • Wildcat London bus action, complete with blockades
    A short piece in the Evening Standard yesterday mentioned a wildcat bus action in North London yesterday. This is the only place I could find any mention of it on the internet. Anyone know any thing else? Bus staff start protesting ...
  • Will the Department of Justice Get Their Way i ...
    cop1.jpg Seattle City attorneys officially threw down the gauntlet with the Department of Justice last week, filing court documents which challenged the “reliability and trustworthiness” of a recent D ...
  • Return to work at Ashulia
    ashulia-return-Jun2012-2.jpg Garment workers resume work with issues unresolved... Thursday 21st June 2012, Ashulia, Dhaka; after a week of intense struggles for higher wages, f ...
  • Genoa isn’t over…new support campaign for acti ...
    logo_web_leggero1.jpg I’m not usually one for signing petitions, but a recent initiative has started up which I feel very strongly about. While the top table directly involved in organising and carryi ...
  • BNP murderer and paedophile convicted
    nonce-BNP.jpg One British National Party member has been jailed for the murder of a delivery driver and his father, a BNP organiser and candidate, becomes the latest activist in the fascist organisat ...

Free Range International

  • King for a Day
    Note from Baba T – It is important to start the Dalton Thomas series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) or it will not make much sense.   For those of you who are enjoying the series and have the means hitting the donation button would be much appreciated.  All proceeds from the ...
  • Great Idea #1: A Vacation in the Khyber Pass
    It turns out that my buddy Dr. John Ryan had spent five years in the army as a properly tabbed Special Forces medic.  And all this time we had thought he was a heterosexual.  I had to say that as Marine Corps bushido demands such things.  After John and I traded more inter-service insults Elisa, ...
  • Mexican Radio
    Dalton is back on stride and his next post will set the standard for crazy.  I’ll lean on him to get it out in a few days.  Enjoy. Mrs. Firelake took me to Sherriff Ron’s house where I linked up with Dr. John and Deputy Jimmy.  John was in the midst of a serious conversation with [...]
  • Dalton Escapes
    Sorry for the delay folks but Dalton is back and promises to pump these posts out faster. I woke up after surgery to the sound of chirping medical gear and the familiar smell of a particularly cheap cologne.  The sense of smell is the number one stimulate to human memory, which must be true beca ...
  • Fresh Cut Grass
    I woke to the sound of beeping and hushed voices. Struggling to come through the fog of unconsciousness, I realized I was in a hospital but had no idea why. I vaguely remembered the incident with the wolves, but couldn’t for the life of me figure out how I had ended up flat [...]

The Story Behind the Story

  • Willard Mittens (Mitt) Romney – the FACE ...
    Willard Mittens Romney has been anointed by the elite for a special purpose.  He has the support of the Bilderberg cabal.  He gives keynote speeches at MOSSAD conventions in Israel.  What does all this mean? The answer is here in this amazing video presentation.  Watch and learn.  
  • The LDS (Mormon) Agenda on Immunizations &#821 ...
    Utah leads the nation in AUTISM amongst its children.  Utah is ranked No. 1 in autism diagnoses in the country. The statistics are striking: One in 32 Utah boys has autism. The rate for girls is one in 85, and that represents a 1,200 percent increase between 2002 and 2008. Overall, Utah’s rate i ...
  • Glenn Beck, Limbaugh, and Hannity – Mann ...
    Wake up America!! Mormon shill and Mitt Romney lackey Glenn Beck crosses the proverbial line on his FOX TV show, and interviews author G. Edward Griffin – exposing the problems with the PRIVATE “Federal” Reserve system.   OOPS!  That was a most severe no-no you committed there ...
  • The Harbinger – A Book Review (i.e. Refl ...
    The “New York Times Bestseller” book The Harbinger was written by a Rabbi named Jonathan Cahn.   Its subtitle is: “The ANCIENT MYSTERY That Holds the SECRET of America’s Future.”   Rabbi Cahn claims to be a “Messianic Jew” – i.e. a practicing Rabbi ...
  • His “Excellency” McWilliams Weighs ...
    Submitted personally on 2012/05/07 at 2:09 am to this blog by His Excellency “Sir” Charles McWilliams: (In an earlier post concerning the “knighting” of Leonard Horowitz True Ott wrote:) “In a simple nutshell, the individual who “knighted” Leonard G. is a man named ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • برکناری چهار فرمانده بسیج که رهبری حمله به سفا ...
    چهار فرمانده بسیج دانشگاه‌های تهران که در حمله آذر ماه سال گذشته به سفارت بریتانیا و باغ قلهک نقش فرماندهی و رهبری نیرو‌های مهاجم را بر عهده داشتند از مقام خود برکنار شدند. read more
  • OPEC output steady, Saudi compensates for Iran ...
    (Reuters) - OPEC's oil output has remained close to its highest since 2008 in June as extra oil from Saudi Arabia and Iraq has compensated for a drop in Iranian supply to its lowest level in more than two decades, a Reuters survey found on Friday. U.S. and European sanctions have pushed Iran fro ...
  • Iran Mourns 1988 Airliner Downing by US Warship
    Iranians marked on Monday the anniversary of the downing of an airliner by a U.S. warship in the Persian Gulf more than two decades ago. State TV showed officials joining relatives of the 290 dead in scattering flowers from a ship and a helicopter into the waters where the Iran Air Airbus A300 c ...
  • کنيا2 ايرانی بازداشتی را به برنامه ريزی برای”ع ...
    به گزارش منابع بين المللي، مقام های رسمی در کنيا می گويند دو ايرانی که چندی پيش در ارتباط با حمل مواد منفجره در اين کشور دستگير شده اند، متهم به "برنامه ريزی حمله به منافع آمريکا و اسرائيل" شده اند و يک مقام رسمی کنيا نيز اين دو را از اعضای نيروی قدس سپاه، واحد برون مرزی سپاه پاسداران ...
  • نامه جبهه ملی به اوبامادرمورد ادعای واهی مالکی ...
     ما متعجب از سیاست خارجی ایالت متحده هستیم که با وجود سدها موسسات تحقیقاتی و اندیشکده هنوز از تجربه کودتای 28 مرداد 32 نیاموخته زیرا که: الف- اختلاف بین ایران و امارات ربطی به آمریکا ندارد و مشکلی است که باید تنها بین این دو حل شود، read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • I Think I Hear the Fat Lady Singing
    Dr Guy McPherson “The opera ain’t over till the fat lady sings” – Dan Cook, sports writer and broadcaster 1978 I have spent this past weekend at a lecture and workshop by Arizonan Guy McPherson, who is currently touring New Zealand. McPherson blogs at Nature Bats ...
  • Coming Soon to a Country Near You
    There was a great story in last week’s Daily Mail about Athens residents queuing around the block for food parcels – one that should ring warning bells for the rest of the industrialized world. Economic analysts who chart the link between oil production, price and economic crises (in ...
  • Support Postal Workers’ Hunger Strike
    Postal Workers Start Third Day of Hunger Strike to Save USPS by Tula Connell at AFL-CIO Now On the second day of a four day hunger strike by postal workers and their allies in Washington, D.C., dozens marched from L'Enfant Plaza to the U.S. Treasury yesterday wearing band ...
  • Britain’s Famous Anarchist Superhero
    I have spent the last few days enjoying the ten issue graphic novel whose superhero “V” wore a Guy Fawkes mask that Anonymous subsequently adopted for their hactivist campaign against investment banks; defense contractors; the Pentagon, CIA and other US government sites; as well as P ...
  • It’s Official: CIA Arming Syrian Rebels
    Free Syrian Army (from Washington Post) On June 21st, Fox News became the fifth major media outlet to report that CIA operatives in Turkey are “coordinating” arms shipments from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Islamic states to the Free Syrian Army (the Islamist branch of the Syrian re ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • 'No Going Back': Michael Moore on the Last Wor ...
  • Letter From Prominent Americans, Delivered to ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 25, 2012 Media Contacts: (London) Robert Naiman, US 217-979-2857 (US) Megan Iorio, US 908-400-9480 Letter signed by Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Wolf, Daniel Ellsberg, Danny Glover, Oliver Stone, Patch Adams, MD, Mark Weisbrot and other promine ...
  • 'The Man Who Killed Vincent Chin' by Michael M ...
    The below article appeared in the Detroit Free Press Sunday Magazine on August 30, 1987. Click each page to view larger versions.
  • Michael Moore to Headline 5th Anniversary Even ...
    Media Advisory, Contact -- Francesca Lo Basso for more information (610-417-5288) Michael Moore to Headline 5th Anniversary Event in Philadelphia on June 30 Philadelphia—Five years after his award-winning film on the U.S. healthcare system premiered around the world, Michael Moore return ...
  • Twenty Names
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore "Moore, YOUR SHIRTTAIL is out!" It was the voice of Mr. Ryan, the assistant principal for discipline at my high school, and he was right on my back. Not figuratively. He was literally on it. "Turn around!" I did as I w ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • New York Must Finish Its Study of Fracking's D ...
    The NRDC opposes making a decision about whether or not to allow fracking—including in demonstration projects—before the impacts to our health, economy, and environment have been fully and properly assessed. The stakes are simply too high to shortcut the on-going review.
  • Think Small to Think Really Big
    Our existing electrical grid is based on big systems thinking and engineering. But when the grid suffers disruptions, outages can be devastatingly big. We need distributed generation, energy storage, microgrids, and fuel cells – what is commonly known as distributed energy resources or DER.
  • Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions — Facts and Fi ...
    Despite the best intentions of environmental activists or politicians, we confront an inescapable logic: even small increases in standards of living in the developing world will lead to huge increases in global carbon dioxide emissions.
  • Wind Energy CO2 Emissions are Overstated
    Wind energy may be the ultimate poster child for renewable, low-carbon generation. But the actual CO2 savings are not all they're trumped up to be.
  • Updates on UK Nuclear New Build
    Chinese firms are interested in partnering with Areva and Westinghouse. But the government’s hands off policies are unlikely to help get plants built without help raising capital says a committee in parliament. The committee also was critical of the government’s lack of investment in nuclear ene ...

EU Times

  • Chemtrail Tanker Up-Close with ON and OFF Spraying
    Many re-mixed versions of this classic air-to-air video exist on the web. This is a pre-mixed version you can evaluate without the added graphics. The cockpit chatter near the end is interesting considering this flight crew witnessed events “real-time” with their own eyes before uploading the vi ...
  • Russian Warships Arrive at US Pearl Harbor for ...
    A group of Russia’s Pacific Fleet warships has arrived at the U.S. Pearl Harbor naval base to take part in the Rim of the Pacific international drills, a fleet spokesman said on Saturday. “During their long voyage from Vladivostok to Pearl Harbor, the warships’ crews held several firing drills, ...
  • Germany approves EU bailout fund
    The German parliament has voted in favor of the EU’s permanent bailout scheme and more lenient budget rules. Chancellor Merkel has been criticized with making a U turn in policy, easing borrowing costs on flagging banks without additional austerity. “Today Germany, with the approval of the ...
  • 10,000 armed men enter Syria for civil war
    An estimated 10,000 armed men equipped with highly-sophisticated weapons, including anti-tank missiles, have reportedly entered Syria to help fuel the unrest in the country, Press TV has learned. Informed sources in the Qusayr village in Homs say the terrorists crossed into Syria from the Lebane ...
  • Syrian rebels caught desecrating Christian chu ...
    Shocking images have surfaced, revealing the alleged desecration of Christian churches in Syria by Western-backed rebels. The pictures, taken by local Christians outraged at the violence, were published by PrisonPlanet.com. In one of the photos a man who is said to be a member of the Free Syrian ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Google TV Webpage Updated â Site Redesign, App ...
    Google TV is about to blow up this year (or at least get an extra big boost from Google) and while we wait around to see what Google has planned for the TV OS at Google I/O this week, there’s been a silent update of sorts to their webpage, adding new content and a fresh new design. Google is gi ...
  • Stephen Strasburg Beans Marco Scutaro, Win Str ...
    On Monday, the Washington Nationals opened a four-game set against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. The Nats had ace Stephen Strasburg on the hill gunning for his 10th win of the season and his seventh straight start ending with a "W" next to his name. Unfortunately, Washington was unable t ...
  • Facebook Sued Again: App Developer FriendThem ...
    Facebook recently unveiled a new mobile feature, “Find Friends Nearby.” Mobile app Friendthem believes that the social network stole its idea and is now planning to file a lawsuit against Facebook. Friendthem is a mobile app for Android and iOS that allows users to find Facebook users who are ...
  • Facebook Names COO Sheryl Sandberg to Its Boar ...
    In a post on its newsroom blog , Facebook just announced that it has named long-time COO Sheryl Sandberg to its board of directors. Sandberg will be the eighth member of the board and its first female member to date. But what took so long? Facebook has been criticized for a notable lack of raci ...
  • Gmail for iOS Finally Updated With Welcome Fea ...
    There are quite a lot of people who like to combine the best of both worlds and using Gmail on your iOS-powered device, let it be iPhone or iPad, is just one example. However, the Gmail app for iOS is lacking functionality compared to the Android flavor but there’s an update available in the Ap ...

Groklaw

  • Microsoft takes $6.2 billion charge, slows Int ...
    Microsoft Corp admitted its largest acquisition in the Internet sector was effectively worthless and wiped out any profit for the last quarter, as it announced a $6.2 billion charge to write down the value of an online advertising agency it bought five years ago. The announcement came as a ...
  • Eben Moglen: Time To Apply The First Law Of Ro ...
    Moglen: We imagined that robots would be designed so that they could never hurt a human being. These robots have no such commitments. These robots hurt us every day. They work for other people. They're designed, built and managed to provide leverage and control to people other than their owners ...
  • Dell Wins $2.4 Billion Bidding War for Quest S ...
    Why all the fuss over a company no one has ever heard of? Well, Quest has been around for a long time. It's a 25-year-old company that last year reported $857 million in sales, and a $44 million net profit. Its specialty is creating management systems for enterprise software. One of its ...
  • Free Software Foundation recommendations for f ...
    Our main concern with the Ubuntu plan is that because they are afraid of falling out of compliance with GPLv3, they plan to drop GRUB 2 on Secure Boot systems, in favor of another bootloader with a different license that lacks GPLv3's protections for user freedom. Their stated concern is that so ...
  • Apple Pays US$60M for IPad Trademark in China
    Apple has agreed to pay US$60 million for ownership of the iPad trademark in China, as part of a settlement with a little-known Chinese firm called Proview that had tried to ban sales of the tablet in the country, according to a local court. The Guangdong Province Higher People's Court annou ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Glaxo fined $3 billion but no one goes to prison
    Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline will plead guilty and pay $3 billion to resolve federal criminal and civil inquiries arising from the company’s illegal promotion of some of its products, its failure to report safety data and alleged false price reporting,When oh when will we have rule of law ag ...
  • Top Secret Tips on Reading BIG Environmental D ...
    Every wonder how your neighbor gets through the six-thousand or so page environmental documents?  Here’s the secret: more often than not – they are not reading six-thousand pages.  They might not even be reading six pages.  This might be the best kept secret in the world of Homeowner Assoc ...
  • Medical marijuana is a classic states’ rights ...
    The federal government has shut down at least 500 medical marijuana dispensaries in California in the past eight months, claiming they were violating state as well as federal law. But states’ right advocates would say the federal government has no right to interfere in California and that law en ...
  • The bomb buried in Obamacare explodes
    Forbes thinks this is a good thing because it will lead inexorably to single-payer. The post The bomb buried in Obamacare explodes appeared first on Politics in the Zeros.
  • El Sicario. Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin
    El Sicario killed and tortured hundreds of people for a Mexican drug cartel. After years of debauchery, violence, and unquestioned obedience to the cartel bosses he finally couldn’t do it any more, became a Christian, and left the life knowing one false move means he will be their prey and ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • West Point military historian denies the net v ...
    The NYT has a very important piece today reporting that the head of the military history program at West Point has openly stated that the United States gained "not much" from 10.5 years of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The program head, Col. Gian Gentile, concluded-- presumably in light of the c ...
  • Jewish-Israeli public lurches yet further right
    I just read Yossi Gurvitz's chilling account of the attack that a right-wing mob in South Tel Aviv unleashed against his girlfriend Galina, and him, during the anti-African-refugees demonstration held there Tuesday. The main speaker at the demo was Michael Ben-Ari, an elected MK. Gurvitz writes ...
  • The rhythms of blogging and other work
    I had a great, though short, get-together with Josh Foust today. Josh is a top-notch analyst of the United States' various interventions(!) in Afghanistan and the other 'Stans over the past ten years. His work first came to my notice back in my old 'heavy-blogging' days-- let's say, in around 20 ...
  • The vulnerability of Palestinian refugees, rev ...
    I'm looking forward to seeing my old friend-- and now Just World Books's latest author-- Jonathan Randal, who'll be flying in to DC from Paris on Saturday. We've arranged for a bunch of public and less-public events for him next week, in both DC and New York. You can find the schedule for the pu ...
  • Tragedies of liberal interventionist thinking ...
    Where to start? Maybe with this piece by Le Monde Diplo's Alain Gresh today (or anyway, recently.) In it, he writes: The opposition cannot bring down the government, and the government cannot put down an uprising that has a surprising determination and courage... I was writing the exact same t ...

frogblog

  • Canadian expert weighs in on lobbying bill
    Below is an opinion piece by Guy Giorno, a Canadian legal expert on lobbying transparency laws, written in response to the Attorney General’s recent report on the Bill of Rights implications of my Lobbying Disclosure Bill. Attorney General Chris Finlayson’s conclusion that Holly Walker’s L ...
  • Dig, drill and frack the consequences
    This week has seen a few mining stories floating around the pond. This Government is intent on digging it’s way out of the economic hole we are in. You would think they would know better. Last Monday the front page of the Dompost was dominated by the Governments plans to investigate the mi ...
  • General debate, June 30, 2012
  • Leagues Tables – Who Benefits?
    One of our worst fears the last term of Parliament was that National Standards in primary schools would be turned into League tables by the media. Now it’s about to happen as newspapers have requested the information so they can publish it. There was never a legal way to prevent this happening s ...
  • GE in the Food Bill
    The Food Bill is before Parliament at the moment and is intended to be an update and improvement of food safety legislation from the 20 year old Food Act 1981. There has been significant interest in the Bill, and I have been going around the country talking to lots of you about it. The draft [...]

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • The History of Knowledge: Darkness in the Acadamy
    Knowledge does not always prevail or even endure. When the Roman Empire fell, the Justinian Code was replaced by Canon Law. The augustness of knowledge was transformed into heresy and mankind's curiosity was virtually extinguished. The age became dark. In the 11th century, people began to st ...
  • Vendor ArithmeticUnderhanded Capitalism
    Why does the nation exist? The truth is revealed when one realizes that merchant theft is protected by the legal system whose justices have enshrined an economic bias into law, having subverted the Constitution from the goals the founding fathers wrote into it to the almost exclusive promoti ...
  • Treacherous Treaties
    Is American imperialism a Bilderberger plot? Are the American bankers, diplomats, and members of the Council on Foreign Relations all traitors, having turned America into merely an instrument to carry out their Bilderberger maniacal aims? Does America as a sovereign nation even exist anymore ...
  • Is Adam Smith's a Pickpocket
    Economists use the law of supply and demand merely to provide suppliers with an excuse for raising prices and picking consumer's pockets.
  • Economic Models and the Apologetics of Greed
    Economists build models by subtracting from reality the characteristics they deem unessential to the economic situations they model. The result is a bare bones description consisting of what economists deem economically essential. Everything that is discarded (not taken into consideration in the ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • How Diet Foods and Drinks Can Actually Cause, ...
    By Dr. Mercola Many people equate eating sugar with the development of type 2 diabetes, and in an attempt to be healthier choose sugar-free diet products instead. Imagine the irony if those diet products actually contained substances that cause an increase in fasting blood glucose levels ...
  • Diet, Doctor- and Drug-Avoidance Can Help You ...
    By Dr. Mercola In an unusual story of Rosario Schielzeth, a woman who turned 104 in June, newspaper reporters wanted to know her secret for a long lifei. Her answer consisted of just two simple rules that she's always lived by: Watching what she eats, and Staying away from d ...
  • Astaxanthin: A Rising Star in Alzheimer's Prev ...
    By Dr. Mercola In the United States, someone develops Alzheimer's disease every 69 seconds, and by 2050 this is expected to increase to a new case every 33 seconds, according to the Alzheimer's Association's 2011 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figuresi. The disease is currently at epidemic prop ...
  • Is the Meat You Are Eating Being Fed Animal Feces?
    By Dr. Mercola Mad Cow Disease (the common term for Bovine Spongiform Encepholopathy (BSE) made headlines once again in April 2012, when a dairy cow at a rendering facility in California was found to have the disease. BSE, a progressive neurological disorder of cattle that can be transmitted ...
  • '60 Minutes' Reports on the Dangers of Sugar
    By Dr. Mercola If you haven't viewed the video at the top, please schedule 20 minutes and do so as you will thoroughly enjoy this 60 Minutes vindication of sugar's dangers. In a ground-breaking news story, 60 Minutes reports that new research coming out of some of America's most respected in ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Ranchers burn bridges in anti-Indian protest
    Xavante Indians protest for land rights at Rio+20 © G1 Ranchers are blocking roads, burning bridges, and threatening Brazilian Indians in protest against their impending eviction from tribal land. The violence began after the Brazilian courts ruled that the ranchers must be removed imminen ...
  • India bans controversial tourist resort but fa ...
    Tourists who use the Andaman Trunk Road for ‘human safaris’ are exploiting India’s Jarawa tribe. © Survival The controversial tourist resort run by Barefoot India in the Andaman Islands has been dealt a fatal blow, after India’s government banned tourism businesses from operating in a buffe ...
  • ‘We understand sustainability better than anyo ...
    Brazilian Indians unite at the Rio+20 summit © Marcello Casal Jr/ABr Thousands of Brazilian Indians united in Rio this week, to make their voices heard at the Rio+20 UN Summit on sustainability and the environment. Sonia Guajajara, of the Guajajara tribe, said, ‘We have come here to raise ...
  • Guarani community in Brazil could get $83m award
    Guarani man. A Guarani community in Brazil could receive $83m for 'moral and material' damages © Fiona Watson/Survival A public prosecutor in Brazil is asking the government to pay $83m to a Guarani Indian community as compensation for ‘moral and material’ damages. The community, ...
  • ‘Dalai Lama of the rainforest’ appeals for Rio ...
    Davi Kopenawa Yanomami says Brazil can save the Awá tribe. © Survival The ‘Dalai Lama of the rainforest’ is urgently appealing to governments attending Rio+20 to help save the earth’s most threatened tribe, by pressuring Brazil to stamp out illegal logging. Speaking ahead of the UN confere ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • First-Ever Fracking Wastewater Test in Ohio Re ...
    from ecowatch.org: Results from a sample of brine from hydraulic fracturing operations have revealed numerous hazardous materials, leaving many residents increasingly frustrated at the inaction of Ohio’s Division of Natural Resources (ODNR), the agency responsible for regulation of the state’s ...
  • Japan Finds Large Deposit of Rare Earth Minerals
    from source: Japan has found a large deposit of rare earth minerals in its Pacific seabed, enough to supply its hi-tech industries for more than 200 years, a scientist said Friday. Around 6.8 million tonnes of the valuable minerals, used in electric cars, iPods and lasers, are sitting under t ...
  • A Calorie, is a Calorie, is a Calorie. Or is it?
    from civileats.com: It may not be long before the food industry will be proven wrong about their two favorite messages: All calories are created equal, and it’s all about personal responsibility. Well, it appears that science may be one step closer to proving at least half of that equation wro ...
  • Oregon Water Watch Update: Nestlé Still Wants ...
    Thanks to @CassieCohn for the rally recording! from portlandmercury.com: Over 150 people gathered yesterday [Jun26] afternoon in downtown's Terry Schrunk Plaza to oppose Nestlé’s attempts to open a water bottling plant in the Columbia River Gorge town of Cascade Locks. Remember this issue? ...
  • #Audio: Episode025 - Meat Maps
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu offers up meat maps and cereal facts + human power, headlines, the 'Binge and Purge' and more... ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • If One Storm Can Turn D.C. Dark For Several Da ...
    Sometimes we all get a little reminder of just how completely and totally dependent we are on the power grid.  Massive thunderstorms that ripped through Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Washington D.C. and Virginia left millions without power over the weekend.  At this point it is ...
  • Kicking The Can Down The Road
    Has Europe finally been saved this time?  Has this latest "breakthrough" solved the European debt crisis?  Of course not, and you should know better by now.  European leaders have held 18 summits since the beginning of the debt crisis.  After most of the preceding summits, global ...
  • 17 Reasons To Be EXTREMELY Concerned About The ...
    What is the second half of 2012 going to bring?  Are things going to get even worse than they are right now?  Unfortunately, that appears more likely with each passing day.  I will admit that I am extremely concerned about the second half of 2012.  Historically, a financial crisi ...
  • America On Fire: Why Is The Number Of Wildfire ...
    As America watches large sections of Colorado literally burn to the ground, many are wondering why all of this is happening.  There have always been wildfires, but what we are experiencing now seems very unusual.  So is the number of wildfires in the United States increasing?  As ...
  • Where Does Money Come From? The Giant Federal ...
    How is money created?  If you ask average people on the street this question, most of them have absolutely no idea.  This is rather odd, because we all use money constantly.  You would think that it would only be natural for all of us to know where it comes from.  So where does m ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • British Constitution Group Chairman "Arrested, ...
    The mainstream media are completely ignoring this, so it's up to those of us in the alternative media to spread the word. The UK Column is claiming that: "At 0930 this morning, in scenes reminiscent of Stasi East Germany, 2 police cars and 4 policemen from Merseyside Police arrested Briti ...
  • Quote of the Day: 2nd July 2012
    "There remains a strong resentment among large parts of the British people that they voted for one thing [Common Market] and were delivered into another [EU Political Union]. Worse, there is a suspicion that those who persuaded them to do so were all too aware of this deception. Not only were ...
  • Farage challenges David Cameron to 'national d ...
    Earlier today, Nigel Farage challenged David Cameron via social media to a debate on all things EU. It is a challenge he repeats in this interview with the BBC. But is David Cameron man enough? And Nigel Farage on the BBC seemingly getting a fair an uninterrupted hearing ...
  • William Hague helps the Conservative Party com ...
    With a huge don of the cap to liarpoliticians, here's the phoney 'eurosceptic' Foreign Secretary William Hague taking his own walk in the woods on behalf of the Conservative Party to add to the already Monty Python-esque charades of Prime Minister Call Me Cast Iron; a combination which shows the ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 1st July 2012
    We've been somewhat remiss with our Sunday paper reviews recently. Too many Sundays, too many papers, not enough news. However, the Twitosphere was jumping last night with an entire galaxy of voices chiming: 'Liar! Liar! Pants on fire!' at one man over one news story. Can you guess what it ...

Facing South

  • Guestworkers at Gulf Coast Walmart seafood su ...
    Mexican guestworkers file federal complaints against a crawfish processor in Louisiana, alleging abusive treatment such as being forced to work 24 hours straight without overtime pay. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The real obscenity of mountai ...
    Mountaintop removal activist Maria Gunnoe of West Virginia was questioned about child porn by U.S. Capitol Police after submitting a photo of a child bathing in mine-polluted water to a House committee chaired by a lawmaker who counts coal companies among his biggest contributors. read more
  • VOICES: Walker & Koch Inc. pull it off but the ...
    Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker's victory in this week's recall election is being called a crushing blow to organized labor, but the grassroots are stirring across the land -- even in the anti-union South. read more
  • Florida groups relaunch voter registration dri ...
    After a federal judge rules Florida's laws on voter registration are too restrictive, groups like the League of Women Voters are back in action. But the state is digging in on a plan to flag and possibly purge thousands of voters, even though the data questioning their citizenship is riddled wit ...
  • Billionaire privatization activists pushing 'n ...
    Conservative political activists connected to Wal-Mart and Amway are funding a campaign to funnel public money to religious and other private schools. read more

CenterLine

  • Search for new executive director of Center on ...
    Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003.  Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 25 Things I did After Installing Ubuntu 12.04 ...
    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" is proving everyone wrong. It is perhaps the most loved Ubuntu release since "Lucid Lynx". Unity is now an almost-finished product. The rock solid nature of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS along with bold moves such as the introduction of features like HUD is winning the h ...
  • Best Free Android Apps for TV and Film Buffs
    Some people say that smart phones are slowly killing televisions as a source of viewing content, but we believe that the two go hand in hand. After all, you don't have to choose one over the other. Being the nice folks we are, we decided to find you the very best Android apps that will ...
  • How to Connect Blackberry Playbook with Ubuntu ...
    I bought a Blackberry Playbook recently, primarily because of its rock-bottom pricing which suddenly made it an excellent value-for-money Tablet. It was the base 16 GB version and when I tried connecting it to my Ubuntu via USB, Playbook was just not being automatically detected as a USB d ...
  • What's New in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS [Screenshot Tour]
    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" was finally released few weeks ago and it truly is one of the best Ubuntu releases ever. We have been following the release pretty closely and now it's time for a brief round-up. Here is a quick screenshot tour through every single new feature that was added ...
  • EA Starts Publishing Games in Ubuntu Software ...
    EA is one of the most established names in the world of gaming. They have just published two of their browser based games - Lord of Ultima and Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances - in Ubuntu Software Center. May not be their greatest of games but still, EA took some effort to actually pub ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • VIDEO ON RISK OF NEW MONOLITHIC MASS PANDEMIC ...
    Yet again, we are facing the threat of another monolothic mass pandemic vaccination programme under the control of WHO. Check out my latest video about this real and present danger. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebcG_WcsezY&feature=youtu.be Off the radar screen, the Globalists have been str ...
  • Swiss seek referendum over new tighter, compul ...
    The power to decide whether the Swiss can be forced to take a pandemic vaccine in the future has been transferred from the cantons to the Swiss federal government under a new law. http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/schweiz/lehren-aus-sars-und-der-schweinegrippe-1.17133031 More than 40,000 people in Switz ...
  • CDC hypes 18,500 swine flu deaths into half a ...
    Jon Rappoport demonstrates why the  CDC’s revised swine flu death estimates a “fairy tale scare story”. In 2009, WHO labs counted only 18,500 deaths from the swine flu but the CDC now claims as many as half a million died from the virus – and without any solid basis. http ...
  • Africa is focal point of new pandemic hype
    International Conference On Pandemics Opens In Accra Thursday, 28 June 2012 11:13 The Minister for Information, Hon. Fritz Baffuor, has underscored the need for greater efforts at collaboration between institutions to contain the outbreak and spread of pandemic influenza. Mr Baffuor noted that d ...
  • Texas A&M university awarded new biodefense co ...
    The mainstream media report on three new biodefense contracts in the USA admits that the manufacturing of pandemic vaccines falls under the category of bioweapons i.e. that the pandemic vaccines are weapons, specifically biological weapons. http://www.wbtv.com/story/18817446/3-states-awarded-fed ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Kali Yuga and the Brotherhood of the Golden Calf
    By Les Visible The plague of fast-food eateries and endless advertisements for items of spiritual darkness and even death, the evil of Tribe generated Monsanto, the insanities of constantly shifting fashions, in which millions celebrate their individuality and uniqueness, by doing the same thing ...
  • The Black Swan is on the Wing
  • Brain Dead Acquiescence, Mephistopheles and Faust
    By Les Visible In any case, since before PNAC, a collection of psychopathic minds, knew where they intended to go. They knew that it was morally wrong, against the law (though they are changing that) and that it intended for either the elimination, or sustained subjugation and repression, of eve ...
  • Obamacare, the Great Swindle
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) Now that Obamacare has been ruled a tax by the U.S. Supreme Court, reality is starting to sink in for all those who emotionally supported it. Promoted as a way to provide either free health care or low-cost health care to the masses, the sobering re ...
  • Muslims for 9/11 Truth: Egyptian President to ...
    Egypt’s new President Mohammed Morsi doesn’t believe the official story of 9/11. And he apparently also doubts the official story of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. According to ABC News, President Morsi recently said: “”I see banners for Omar Abdel Rahman’s fa ...

Veterans Today

  • JFK Conspiracy: The bullet hole in the Windshield
    Jim Fetzer   Among the most controversial issues in JFK research has been the existence or not of a through-and-through hole in the windshield of the Lincoln limousine in which JFK was riding when he was assassinated in Dallas on 22 November 1963.  As a long-time student of this question, I ...
  • UFOs are IFOs
    A DETAILED EXAMINATION OF ALL THE AVAILABLE EVIDENCE STRONGLY SUGGESTS THAT “UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS” (UFO’S) ARE ACTUALLY “IDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS” (IFO’S). ——————— By Preston James ————& ...
  • Global Economic Analysis Summary June 2012 (Pa ...
      by Mike Stathis   For nearly three years we have been discussing important global macroeconomic trends in order to assess the progress and risks of what has been labeled a global economic “recovery.” The illusion accounting for these improvements was created by a global release of tr ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – June ...
    The VA for Vets Hiring Event started Tuesday in Detroit. June 26-28 the COBO Center will host employers from all over the country who have jobs for Vets.
  • SYRIA: No to Intervention, No to Illusions
    Fifteen months on, the short Syrian spring of 2011 has long since morphed into a harsh winter of discontent.

electric politics

  • Things That Go Bump In the Night
    To be at one with ourselves we cannot escape the night. What we do, what we don't do, what we dream — who we are — at night, shapes and informs us during the day. Nighttime, then, must necessarily contain diverse social meanings. It's not quite clear to me how far one might push this ...
  • Damascus Burning
    To be honest, Bashar al-Assad looks — and acts — like one of those stereotypical dictators who crop up occasionally in Doonesbury cartoons. If only it would be so easy to figure out what to do with him. But Syria, ultimately, involves the stability of the entire region, from Iran to ...
  • UFOs, What Are They?
    For 'something a little different' I turned to Col. John B. Alexander, Ph.D. (U.S. Army, Ret.), to talk about UFOs. John has had a unique experience looking into the UFO question from a government insider's point of view and has a lot of extremely helpful, and extremely thoughtful, things to say ...
  • "Age of Ignorance"
    By any reasonable reckoning idiocy in America has reached alarming proportions. Or, in the words of former U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, "[t]he ideal citizen of a politically corrupt state, such as the one we now have, is a gullible dolt unable to tell truth from bullshit." That's clear enou ...
  • Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder, Explained
    Here's an extra, in-between show, in-between our regular Friday shows. Two reasons for this: it's a very short conversation and the sound quality is less than optimal (from a cell phone on the street). Still, it's an extremely important subject, one we should all be aware of and well worth ponde ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

  • Leaving Afghanistan
    Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
  • Raging at Rawalpindi
    American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
  • The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
    An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
  • Crazy Like a Fox
    In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
  • Addicted to Contractors
    The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Washington’s Road To Iran Goes Through Syria
    RT July 2, 2012 Washington’s road to Iran goes through Syria Veronika Krasheninnikova Director General of the Institute for Foreign Policy Research and Initiatives in Moscow ==== A “transitional government” based on “mutual consent” will be to Syria what the “no-fly zone” was to Libya. Whi ...
  • Pentagon and NATO Rehearse for War in the Balt ...
    Stop NATO July 2, 2012 Pentagon and NATO Rehearse for War in the Baltic Sea Rick Rozoff Last month was a busy one for U.S.-NATO military exercises in the Baltic Sea. Three major multinational training exercises, including naval maneuvers, amphibious landings and preparation for deployment to Afg ...
  • Video Interview: U.S. Targeting Independent, P ...
    Press TV July 1, 2012 ‘US targeting independent, principled governments’ Interview with Rick Rozoff, Manager, Stop NATO, Chicago‎ VIDEO This will not be the last president of a sovereign state that Hillary Clinton orders to ‎step down as she did last year in the Ivory Coast and Libya ...
  • Africa: U.S. And NATO Build Neo-Colonial Proxy ...
    Stop NATO July 1, 2012 Africa: U.S. And NATO Build Neo-Colonial Proxy Forces Rick Rozoff Although the regular U.S.-run multinational special forces exercise in Africa, Operation Flintlock, was cancelled this year because of unrest in the intended host country, Mali, over the last seven years the ...
  • Romania: U.S. Escalates Missile Brinkmanship A ...
    Stop NATO June 30, 2012 Romania: U.S. Escalates Missile Brinkmanship Against Russia Rick Rozoff On June 29 U.S. European Command announced the signing of new accords with the government of Romania for the stationing of American interceptor missiles in the country, a senior Russian diplomat state ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Plutonium and the End of Humanity
    Dr. Mark Sircus | Fukushima radiation has traveled the globe. Much of the fallout follows the atmospheric jet stream and has blanketed Alaska, Canada, the U.S. Pacific northwest, U.S. west coast and U.S. mid-west. However, radioactive contamination from Fukushima has also been detected in ...
  • Russia Conduct Surveillance Flyover to Inspect ...
    National Post July 2, 2012 – originally published June 26, 2012 The Russians are conducting what has quietly become their annual flyover of key Canadian sites this week, revealing the two countries’ regular surveillance of one another at a time when a spy scandal and Arctic sovereignty hav ...
  • London Olympics Whistleblower Reveals Himself, ...
    Alex Thomas | The undercover journalist who recently exposed the widespread problems with the company leading security for the 2012 London Olympics has, in fear for his safety, revealed himself to be director Ben Fellows.
  • Report Claims Norwegian Trained by al Qaeda in ...
    Madison Ruppert | al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has recruited a Muslim convert from Norway to hijack and crash a U.S. passenger plane.
  • TEPCO Restarts Cooling Systems for Fukushima’s ...
    Madison Ruppert | TEPCO, the company operating the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station which has been the site of an unrelenting disaster since March of last year, has reportedly been able to restart the cooling systems for spent fuel pool four.

FRS

  • Cops own up to child deaths in raid
    SHEENA K, Telegraph India Raipur, June 30: Chhattisgarh police today admitted that the 18 victims of yesterday’s anti-Maoist operation included children and women but sparked fresh controversy by claiming they were all rebel cadres. The admission came after the bodies were laid out in front of a ...
  • India: More on the state’s false “ ...
    Day after encounter, villagers say no Maoist among those killed Ashutosh Bhardwaj | The Indian Express | Sarkeguda, Bijapur |  Sunday July 01 2012 On Saturday, over 40 hours after the “biggest encounter” involving security forces and Maoists in Chhattisgarh, bodies of 19 alleged “ ...
  • The Electoral Victory of Political Islam in Egypt
    by Samir Amin | Monthly Review | 30 June 2012 The electoral victory of the Muslim Brotherhood and of the Salafists in Egypt (January 2012) is hardly surprising.  The decline brought about by the current globalization of capitalism has produced an extraordinary increase in the so-called ...
  • Mural by Revolutionary Art Movement in Kathman ...
    Published on May 6, 2012 by kalishakti Revolutionary Art Movement painted its second mural in the historic yet struggling community of Newars in Kathmandu, Nepal. The mural is in dedication to all struggling and working women. Art by Martin Travers Music: Asian Dub Foundation
  • Chhattisgarh, India: Villagers bury their dead ...
    Aman Sethi | The Hindu SARKEGUDA, 1 July 2012 — The air is thick with rhythmic wailing and smoke from funeral pyres on the barren fields of Sarkeguda, Kotteguda and Rajapetta in the Kotteguda panchayat of Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district. “The funerals are being conducted one by one as ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

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