- Facebook says bug caused wrong contact syncing ...
A contact synchronization bug, combined with Facebook’s latest changes to users’ email visibility settings, led some mobile phones to update with users’ Facebook.com addresses rather than their primary email account, Facebook Director of Engineering Andrew Bosworth told The Ver ...
- TripAdvisor, Bubble Safari, Terra, Chill, Hoot ...
TripAdvisor displaced Zygna’s Bubble Safari as No. 1 on our list of top growing Facebook apps by monthly active users this week. Titles on our list gained the most MAU of any apps on the platform, growing from between 400,000 and 6.2 million MAU, … Continue reading →
- TripAdvisor applies lessons from its other pop ...
TripAdvisor’s revamped restaurant ratings app Local Picks helps users share where they’ve eaten and find new spots to try. The Facebook app also feeds TripAdvisor valuable data for its social travel site. TripAdvisor is the No. 10 Facebook app developer … Continue reading →
- Facebook roundup: stock price slips, Chill rai ...
Facebook shares back down to $31 – Facebook stock is down 5 percent from last Friday, closing at $31.09 today. The stock slipped after a number of analysts suggested that the company might report underwhelming earnings this quarter. Six of … Continue reading →
- Facebook career postings: mobile, platform, re ...
Facebook added 17 new positions to its careers page this week, including jobs for a mobile growth partner engineer, marketing and platform designer, a pan-Euro client partner and a procurement buyer, among others. Posts added this week on Facebook’s Careers Page: … Continue reading →
- Migrant nightmares: Ethiopian domestic workers ...
Graham Peebles charts the horrendous abuse faced by Ethiopian migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states and Lebanon where they are traded by unscrupulous traffickers - "not brokers/agents in any recognizable, legitimate sense of the word, but common criminals engaged in human trafficking ...
- An artist’s vision of peace in Palestine
Neve Gordon considers how an artist's work can evoke the possibility and the necessity of imagining a different reality in a war zone.
- Time to abandon never-ending futile talks with ...
Jamal Kanj calls on the Palestinian National Authority to abandon its commitment to the pointless perpetual negotiations with the Israelis which while achieving peace for the Jews-only state of Israel are permanently eliminating the prospects of justice for the Palestinian people.
- Church of the Nativity sanctuary seekers still ...
Stuart Littlewood recalls the horror of the 39-day Israeli siege of the Church of the Nativity in the occupied West Bank and asks why, 10 years on, the United States and the European Union have done nothing to reunite the Palestinian siege survivors - whose exile to Europe and Gaza they had faci ...
- Simulating an Iranian attack on Israel - why?
Alan Harts speculates on whether a planned US-Israeli exercise simulating an Iranian missile strike on Israel is intended to pull the rug from under the "I'm-more-Israeli-than-you" Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, or to prepare US forces for a doomsday situation in the Middle East ...
- Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire. Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
- Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
- European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
- Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way. ...
- Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...
- Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
The World This Week: Bilderberg, Syria, the Debt Crisis and Quebec This week’s show is a news round-up, covering inter-related issues starting with the recent Bilderberg meetings in Virginia, which were attended by a Syrian opposition leader, raising questions about a possible military int ...
- BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 5, 2012
BFP Nightly Quote “It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itse ...
- BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 30, 2012
BFP Nightly Quote “Whether the mask is labelled Fascism, Democracy, or Dictatorship of the Proletariat, our great adversary remains the Apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier or the battlelines, which is not so much our enemy as our b ...
- Pentagon Consolidates Control over Balkans
Getting Closer to New Theaters of War By Rick Rozoff Ahead of, during and after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 25th summit in Chicago on May 20-21, the Pentagon has continued expanding its permanent military presence in the former Yugoslavia and the rest of the Balkan region. The milit ...
- BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 24, 2012
BFP Nightly Quote “But, ah, think what you do when you run in debt: you give another power over your liberty.” – Benjamin Franklin International Newsworthy Iran Invites Assad to Attend Non-Aligned Movement Summit Fearful Iran Hawks Flap Harder Iran ‘Gives Guidance’ to US Ship i ...
- Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
- Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
- Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
- Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
- Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
On yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...
- Sonic boon
A search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...
- The secret’s in the sauce
What my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
- Clean water, clean energy
In the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
- Blocking CO2 to beat malaria
Mosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
- A winter’s tale
Celebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...
- Let's party like it's ... 1997
As far as Beijing is concerned, it all comes down to "crossing the river while feeling the stones." The motherland has its own ideas on reviving the Silk Road -- and perhaps Hong Kong could be part of it, a least on the financial services side. Maybe it's time to party like it's 1997 and hit th ...
- New Israeli Deputy PM Undercuts Strategy of Pr ...
By staking out a policy line on Iran reflecting the views of the Israeli national security leadership, Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz has undercut the Benjamin Netanyahu government's carefully planned strategy to get U.S. President Barack Obama to threaten war against Iran if it doesn't give ...
- Complicated Bereavement: Some People Experienc ...
Complicated bereavement is puzzling. Certain people experience, but most don't. Based on my own experience of it, and on my reading about it, I want to share my reflections about it in an accessible way. At the end of my analysis, I suggest a hypothesis about it for others to consider in light o ...
- VIDEO: Congressman Tom Reed Gives Earmark-Tari ...
Congressman Tom Reed (R-NY) was quick to claim that his tariff exemption bills aren't targeted earmarks. But as our analysis shows, most of Reed's tariff bills only benefit one firm. In other cases, they benefit at most two firms. Rather than "sound tax policy," these legislative items are clear ...
- The Cosmic Story: Capricorn Full Moon, July 3, ...
The next full Moon occurs the day before America's 236th Birthday. It has a lot to say to us about what Americans really want and believe. It supports peaceful revolution, but also inner freedom.
- Declaring independence from drugged up meat by ...
Sasha Lyutse, Policy Analyst, New York This week, many Americans will celebrate Independence Day with backyard barbeques and beach picnics, gathering with family and friends over shared meals and hopefully some sun. On the menu for many will be hot ...
- How Can We Promote Innovation?
David Goldstein, Energy Program Co-Director, San Francisco Last month I attended a conference celebrating the Lemelson-MIT innovation awards, where this year's two winners gave talks on their inventions and in the process tried to inspire younger st ...
- New York Must Finish Its Study of Fracking's D ...
Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City According to a recently leaked report, New York officials may allow fracking for natural gas in designated communities across the state. As reported, the plan would permit fracking in parts of five ...
- Defense in Depth through Filtered Venting
Jordan Weaver, Project Scientist and Science Center Fellow, Washington, D.C. Defense in Depth. When I hear this phrase, a very common one at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), I imagine a design philosophy that takes multiple safety systems an ...
- State regulators in North Dakota still overwhe ...
Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. In February, 2011, state officials in North Dakota said that they are "understaffed and overwhelmed" and "struggling to provide adequate oversight amid an explosion of activity in North Dak ...
- Paul on O’Donnell
I’ll let Paul write up his own scoop, but his appearance on the teevee for those who missed it: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
- Nye
Noted climate Maoist Bill Nye strikes CNN with his clearly partisan interest in “science” and “truth” Science educator Bill Nye on Monday told CNN that they weren’t doing the public any favors by giving climate change deniers equal airtime because “the two sides aren’t eq ...
- The Crawford story
I’m going to be on the Lawrence O’Donnell show on MSNBC at about 10:15 ET to discuss Jan Crawford’s story regarding the Roberts switch. I have what I think are very good reasons, based on both internal textual evidence and my own sources, for concluding that some key features o ...
- The Romney Foreign Policy Team
I have a new piece at Right Web on the Romney foreign policy team: A campaign team has two purposes. First, to supply rhetoric and policy that will help the candidate win; second, to provide the nucleus for the group that will guide administration policy. Because the campaign team often becomes ...
- The Labour Party behaving like . . . The Labou ...
The Labour Party in the UK is flirting with re-nationalising British Rail. Fares are due to increase an average of 6% this year, and Britain already has the most expensive train system in Europe: Making it clear that Labour agreed with many ideas in the report, which was funded by the main rail ...
- Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
- New State Impact PA App
Since I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
- OilandGasHelp.com
I happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
- The Passage of House Bill 1950…
I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...
- Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...
From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...
- Leatherback Turtle Declines Will Escalate As C ...
A warming climate could exacerbate threats facing leatherback turtle populations in the eastern Pacific Ocean, creating conditions that could trigger a 75 percent reduction in turtle numbers by the end of the century, a new study says. Even under existing USFW conditions, turtle births ebb a ...
- African Savannas May Shift to Forest as CO2 Le ...
Large areas of African savanna may slowly transform into forest ecosystems by the end of the century as atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide continue to rise, a new study says. While earlier studies have suggested that rising CO2 “fertilization” will not trigger global vegetation shifts, researc ...
- Oh Canada: The Government’s Broad Assault on E ...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government has been weakening Canada’s environmental regulations and slashing funds for oversight and research — all while promoting aggressive resource development. Critics warn these unprecedented actions pose a major threat to the nation’s vast natural heritage ...
- Beyond Rio’s Disappointment, Finding a Path to ...
The Rio+20 Summit produced a largely meaningless document that failed to address the daunting environmental challenges the world faces. But many at the conference looked to an alternative approach they called “green economics” — using market forces to help nations achieve sustainable development ...
- Elevated Ozone Levels Trigger Heart Risks for ...
Exposure to ozone at levels sometimes present in the world’s most polluted cities can trigger potentially dangerous changes to human cardiovascular systems, according to a new study. In a series of tests conducted Wikimedia Commons Mexico City smog on 23 healthy adults, scientists found evi ...
- The Green Gods: New Religion and Eco-Faith
Now at the U.N. Earth Summit, even the image of Christ has been made a forcible convert to the eco-faith, as the city of Rio is bathing the iconic statue of Christ the Redeemer (Christo Redentor) in green light. Is there a push to create a new religion from old ideas, marrying devotion to god(s) ...
- Talisman of Ancient Googly-Eyed God Discovered
A newly identified googly-eyed artifact may have been used by the ancient Egyptians to magically protect children and pregnant mothers from evil forces. Made of faience, a delicate material that contains silica, the pale-green talisman of sorts dates to sometime in the first millennium B.C. It s ...
- Washington’s 5 Worst Arguments for Keeping Sec ...
The government’s vast secrecy bureaucracy does two things with great frequency. The first, of course, is keeping secrets. The second is devising elaborate reasons why you can’t know what those secrets are. It’s hardly a secret that the government overclassifies basic information about what it do ...
- The World’s Largest Chocolate Sculpture - Anci ...
To celebrate our 30th anniversary, Qzina Specialty Foods, has broken a Guinness World Record for building the largest chocolate sculpture. The sculpture models an ancient Mayan temple and weighs 18,239 pounds, far surpassing the previous record set in Italy in 2010 by more than 7,500 pounds. Qzi ...
- Revealed: CIA secretly operates on Syrian bord ...
American secret service operatives are distributing illegal assault rifles, anti-tank rocket launchers and other ammunition to Syrian opposition, the New York Times reports. But due to some rebels’ links to Al Qaeda, the CIA’s task is precarious. The paper reports that for weeks now, officers b ...
- With PRI’s Nieto put into the presidency ...
The PRD says that the boss’s candidate didn’t win once again. Some things never seem to change in Mexico, and corruption is one of them. What makes Mexico so corrupt? Perhaps it is that the Mexican business community has sold the patria out to the gringos? And now with PRI’s Ni ...
- Sgt Robert Bales, your wife wants to talk to y ...
Talk about pure denial! Kari Bales, Afghanistan Massacre Defendant's Wife, Says Husband Is Innocent ___There seems little doubt that Bales is guilty as sin. The only remaining true question is just how many other US GI pals of Bales were also in on the killings? Who is the Pentagon covering ...
- Who really has PTSD?
“Suleiman’s post-traumatic stress disorder left him unable to work and without means to support himself,” says Crosby. “His lack of self-sufficiency has led to further depression and feelings of inadequacy and shame, because he has to rely on his family for his basic needs.” Let’s take a f ...
- HRW says state-sanctioned torture is “cr ...
They keep piling it on against Syria. Human Rights Watch declared that SYRIA’S state-sanctioned torture constitutes a “crime against humanity” but not when America does it. SYRIA’S “torture centers” stink, not ours. ITS chemical weapons stockpile is a threat, ...
- Joe Paterno’s ‘legacy’ needs ...
Joe Paterno’s Lying in Jerry Sandusky Abuse Case Further Taints His Legacy -Joe Paterno and the entire Penn State Administration that were in the football program decision making loop were guilty of covering up for Jerry Sandusky’s crimes.
- Free Samples from Two Latest Books by Coordina ...
James Hufferd, Ph.D., coordinator of 911grassroots.org, which hosts the 9/11 Grassroots Organizers list, has been kind enough to provide Debunking the Debunkers blog readers with the first chapters from his two latest books. Hufferd writes in a recent blog: In America’s creed (the commo ...
- Cheney Lied... There Isn't a Doubt
As a recent article in the Prague Post entitled, "Debunking 9/11's 'Prague Connection'," notes: "The newly released CIA documents confirm what we already knew: There was no 'Prague connection' between al-Qaida and Iraqi intelligence,"... "What is new in the documents, however, is evidence that ...
- The "Pseudosceptics"
- 9 11 Truth New CIA documents released June 19t ...
The already staggering amount of 9/11 prior-knowledge, some as specific as could be, continues to stack up. Before getting into the new material, take a look at least the first minute and 24 seconds here for a flashback to the bombshell information from last September. This evidence strains ...
- Christina Consolo: Fukushima Facts the Mainstr ...
Essential News UPDATE on the Fukushima situation: This is a really informative radio interview on the subject. Put it on in the background and listen. The Debunkers should recognise the consequences of a system fixated with covering up highly damaging (to the status quo) information. Sometim ...
- Bolthouse Farms Salad Dressing – When Low Fat ...
New here? Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries! Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Carol Harvey, Director of food/nutrition labeling and product development at Palate Works. People are generally of two camps regarding salad dressings – hom ...
- An Apology
New here? Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries! Or try Fooducate on the Web! If you have tried to access Fooducate early this weekend, you most likely got some sort of error message. We are deeply sorry for this. Now that our service is back up, we’d like ...
- Some Math Fun with Nutrition Facts Labels
image: kimballlarsen.com New here? Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries! Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Richard Perlmutter, MS Beginning May 8, 1993 the American public has benefited from information about the composition of foods and ...
- FIVE Bread Ingredients You Absolutely Should A ...
New here? Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Or try Fooducate on the Web! Welcome to part 4 of our miniseries. In part 1, we provided ground rules for choosing healthy bread. In part 2, we explained what whole grains are. In part 3 we presented the most common ingredients used in ...
- The 20 Most Common Bread Ingredients [Bread mi ...
New here? Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Or try Fooducate on the Web! Welcome to part 3 of our miniseries. In part 1, we provided ground rules for choosing healthy bread. In part 2, we explained what whole grains are. Today we’ll take a look at the other ingredients in bread. T ...
- Twitter Step by Step
Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
- SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
- How To Choose Keywords
Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
- Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...
- How Do I Tweet – Writing the $6 Million Dollar ...
Twitter recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a star as fast bad ones can kill your image. Most of the time tweets just pass ...
- 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 ...
- Fracking in Ireland and BeingDependent on Hall ...
by Greg Palast for No Fracking Ireland No Fracking Ireland presents Greg Palast in Dublin, Today 3. July Connolly Books, Temple Bar - 1pm The Ireland Institute - 7.30pm Full info here On the 20th of April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oilrig blew out in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven men insta ...
- Wall Street, a Farce in Three Acts
The Medicine Show Theater presents: Wall Street, a Farce in Three Acts Written in 1819 by William Holmes NEW YORK CITY July 5th – 8th 8pm With a special guests appearance by Greg Palast on July 7th & 8th for a talk-back with the audience about the parallels between the Panic of 1819 dep ...
- Warren Ellis: "Money is Fictional"
Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan, Crooked Little Vein and yet to be released Gun Machine gave the opening remarks for me last night in London for my UK release of Vultures' Picnic. Thankfully he posted them this morning, here's a bit of them, the full text can be found on his website ww ...
- The Euro is a Big Success - No Kidding
by Greg Palast | The Guardian USA The idea that the euro has "failed" is dangerously naive. The euro is doing exactly what its progenitor – and the wealthy 1%-ers who adopted it – predicted and planned for it to do. That progenitor is former University of Chicago economist Robert Mundell. ...
- Palast London Events Schedule
Monday 25th June at 6.30pm Blackwell's Charing Cross Road - talk and book signing 30 minute talk followed by book signing. This is a free event but you should email events.london@blackwell.co.uk to reserve a place. Blackwell's 100 Charing Cross Road London WC2H 0JG Nearest tube: Leicester ...
- How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
- How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]
- How can I reuse or recycle large (catering siz ...
Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods. Now that they’re empty, they are open on one end, with no plastic lid to [...]
- She recycled that! Upcycling novelty hats into ...
Last September, Karen emailed us about the vast collection of novelty jester hats that her boyfriend had collected at various carnivals and festivals over the years. She wanted to know how she could reuse or recycle them as she hadn’t had much success giving them away. Lots of people made ...
- How can I reuse or recycle wallpaper samples?
Following on from the paint tester pots the other week, I’ve got some wallpaper samples that have served their purpose too. I really can’t wait for our renovations to be over! Like the paint, the samples were to check out ideas/colours/designs in-situ. Some of them were torn from rol ...
- Deforestation, Natural Disasters Force Haitian ...
Global Press Institute – Sen. Maxime Roumer, 50, of Grand’Anse department, says he’s worried about the future of the country’s national emblem: the palm tree. “The national tree has a long-standing tradition ever since the liberations struggle from the French,” Roumer says in a phone interview. ...
- Mass protests as Hong Kong marks 15 years unde ...
BBC – Tens of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators have marched through the streets of Hong Kong as the former British colony marked 15 years since the return to Chinese rule. Read article
- British June was wettest since 1860 and dulles ...
The Telegraph – Provisional data indicates that it was the wettest June since 1860, a spokesman for MeteoGroup, the weather division of the Press Association, said. It was also the dullest since 1909 and the coldest since 1991. Average rainfall over England and Wales, including an estimate ...
- European leaders surpassed expectations to rea ...
The Washington Post – Europe’s leaders surprised skeptics with a bold plan to pump cash into troubled banks, reduce borrowing costs for Italy and Spain and stop forcing austerity on every government that needs aid. Now their finance ministers have a week and a half to work out a lot of the ...
- U.N. drops Saudi dissident from al Qaeda blacklist
Reuters – A U.N. Security Council committee is removing Saudi dissident Saad al-Faqih from the United Nations’ al Qaeda sanctions list, despite strong objections from Saudi Arabia, a U.N. diplomat said on Sunday. The London-based Faqih was added to the list in December 2004, days aft ...
- Keystone XL southern leg permitted as early as ...
As a deadline rapidly approaches that will automatically permit the construction of the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, an increasingly vocal group of landowners, environmentalists and even tea party members are saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now ramming ...
- EPA proposes more stringent soot rules
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed new regulations Thursday that would further reduce legal limits for fine particle pollution -- otherwise known as soot -- in the nation’s air. Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, made ...
- Diesel exhaust can cause cancer, World Health ...
Diesel engines power commerce and transportation around the world, but the exhaust they produce can prove deadly. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that it now classifies diesel exhaust as a cause of cancer. While major advances in technology have helped clean up some dies ...
- Global warming could lead to more wildfire in ...
California and the West, which have experienced a surge in wildfire during the last decade, can expect more of the same with global warming, according to a study published Tuesday.
- Ikea responds to reports of old-growth logging
In response to accusations by European NGOs that IKEA and its wholly owned subsidiary, Swedwood, were engaging in some questionable logging practices in Russia, Ikea is arguing that it has been cutting according to international standards that the company itself helped create.
- Toilets Bring Dignity
Imagine for a moment what it might be like for a boy like Shipon and his family to lack access to a toilet. Then imagine how their lives would change when they were able to have one they could all use nearby to their home. Shipon is 10 years old and his family has just gained access to a toilet. ...
- Water in Adina Faso, Ethiopia
The residents of Adina Faso used to walk four hours each day to gather unclean water, but after working together with Water.org, they now have twenty-four-hour access to clean water, right in the middle of their village.
- Kids Spreading the Word
To celebrate World Water Day, two rallies were organized in the communities of Savar-Aminbazar in India through children's group members and DSK, one of Water.org's program partners. The theme of the rally was “Everybody should drink safe water to lead a healthy and happy life, and have to acces ...
- A Bountiful Garden
Clean, readily available water brings all manner of opportunities - thanks to a water connection in their backyard, this family is able to easily cultivate a garden full of nutritious fruits and vegetables.
- June 2012 Conference Call
Recorded: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 Duration: 38:07 Laura Ralston, International Programs Manager at Water.org, shared stories and experiences from her three most recent trips to Haiti and what's been going on with our projects there. Laura also focused on the sanitation needs Haitians are fac ...
- Minority leader: Odds long to undo health ...
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. — It's on his to-do list, but U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says the odds are against lawmakers wanting to gut the health care law championed by President Barack Obama. The Kentucky Republican talked about the law on Monday to about 50 people at Hardin ...
- Victoria Azarenka routs Ana Ivanovic in 4 ...
WIMBLEDON, England — Second-ranked Victoria Azarenka cruised into the Wimbledon quarterfinals by routing former top-ranked Ana Ivanovic 6-1, 6-0 today on Centre Court. Azarenka converted five of her seven break...
- Nastia Liukin fall: Olympic gymnast's car ...
The sports world is buzzing over Nastia Liukin's fall off the uneven bars during the Gymanstics Olympic Trials in San Jose Sunday night. (See video at left) The 2008 Olympic Silver Medalist began her routine with a lift from her father to the high uneven bar. She started out elegantly then h ...
- Pregnancy Rates Sank Over Last 20 Years
Pregnancy rates have decreased over the past two decades among all races, ethnicities and age groups — except for women in their 30s and early 40s. Enlarge This Image issued in June by the National Center for Health Statistics says there were 4,248,000 live births in 2008, a rate of 68 ...
- Philippines to vaccinate 700,000 babies
AFP - Philippine President Benigno Aquino said Monday the government would vaccinate 700,000 babies this year to protect them from a virus that causes...
- 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 ...
- Failure in Geneva
by Stephen Lendman Morning headlines belie continued conflict on the ground. East/West divisions remain. Nothing changed but political rhetoric from Geneva. After Annan's so-called peace plan, violence increased because Washington planned it that way. Expect it to continue now. America ...
- Government by the Banks, for the Banks: The ES ...
by Ellen Brown On Friday, June 29th, German Chancellor Angela Merkel acquiesced to changes to a permanent Eurozone bailout fund—“before the ink was dry,” as critics complained. Besides easing the conditions under which bailouts would be given, the concessions included an agre ...
- Big Pharma wants nano-scavengers in its drugs
By Rady Ananda Activist Post To clean up its drugs that are contaminated with genotoxic ingredients (which are also carcinogenic), Big Pharma may deploy lab-created, nanosized, polymer-based scavengers. But is the cure any safer? New research explains that: A variety of chemical compounds, i ...
- Obama Planning More War
by Stephen Lendman America's favorite pastime isn't baseball. It's war, permanent imperial wars that won't end in our lifetime Dick Cheney said earlier. America is addicted to war. One nation after another is ravaged and plundered. Unchallenged global dominance is sought. Who's next ...
- Spurious Terrorism Indictments
by Stephen Lendman On May 19 and 20, NATO occupied Chicago violently. Downtown residents were in virtual lockdown. No-fly zones were imposed. Elaborate barricades were erected. Constitutional rights were suspended. Getting around was hazardous. Anyone could be stopped, searched, interrogate ...
- Canada's embarrassing second-class status in t ...
In an opinion piece published in The Tyee and iPolitics, CCPA’s senior trade researcher Scott Sinclair analyzes the extraordinary concessions made by the Canadian government to gain entry to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations. Canada's terms of entry can only be desc ...
- BC can meet energy needs, reduce GHGs — but we ...
The latest study from our Climate Justice Project is both cautionary and hopeful. The study warns that mining, oil and gas corporations are putting increasingly large demands on BC’s hydroelectricity system, and BC households and small businesses face steep rate increases to pay for this industr ...
- Too big to fail? Canadian banks are not immune ...
A new report released by CCPA says that Canada is not immune to the banking problems we see abroad, and cautions that like all banks worldwide, Canadian banks are structurally vulnerable to instability. The report, No More Swimming Naked: The Need for Modesty in Canadian Banking, ex ...
- SaskNotes: The Shield or the Sword? The Saskat ...
Dan Cameron reviews the Saskatchewan government's recent Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation and asks whether the consultations may actually serve as an opportunity for the provincial labour movement to expand the process of collective bargaining. More here.
- Canadian identity, pluralism, and the performi ...
The CCPA Education Project is pleased to present a remarkable education and cultural resource: Pluralism in the Arts in Canada: A Change is Gonna Come, edited by CCPA Research Associate charles c. smith. With narratives coming out of theatre, dance, music and other forms of artistic expression f ...
- Hippie Digest Monday: Mickey Hart ,Paul McCar ...
Drum Circle with Grateful Dead percussionist brings community together in RenoFor a few hours on Sunday afternoon, Idlewild Park was transformed into a throwback to San Francisco in the 1960s, with dozens of self-proclaimed hippies dancing and drumming in a circle with former Grateful Dead percu ...
- National Picnic Day
By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies - Yes, it’s that time of the year again. At one time the main purpose might have been patriotic. Now, it’s a chance to get your grill skills put to the test, buy mattresses on sale and blow stuff up while annoying the neighbors and scaring pets. Honestly, ...
- Insurance, Healthcare and You The Affordable ...
by Marie Gage,Worldwidehippies - The long anticipated Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of the ACA law has finally been given and this law was upheld. There is a lot of misinformation regarding the law. It is very complex, but as Justice Scalia declared that he should not have to r ...
- Iraqi drama portrays life in mental hospital a ...
baghdad theater s 13683 from joe mcevoy on Vimeo. Worldwidehippies,RT-The play ‘Celebration of Madness and Honey’, portraying life at a hospital for the mentally ill after it was bombed by the US forces in 1991, has opened at a theater in Baghdad. “It took us half a year to put this play on the ...
- Revolution 99 Updates: Philadelphia Freedom!
Occupy National Gathering in Philadelphia Underway; Expect Waves of Protest Although conservative newspapers sneered “Goodbye, Occupy” months ago, the Occupy movement refuses to exit the scene, popping up to protest the role of big money in elections at Obama and Romney campaign events and summo ...
- Ocean Life on the Brink of Mass Extinctions
ife in the oceans is at imminent risk of the worst spate of extinctions in millions of years due to threats such as climate change and over-fishing, a study showed on Tuesday. Time was running short to counter hazards such as a collapse of coral reefs or a spread of low-oxygen "dead zones,& ...
- Exxon oil spill in Mont. river prompts evacuations
LAUREL, Mont. (AP) — An ExxonMobil pipeline that runs under the Yellowstone River in Montana ruptured Saturday and leaked hundreds of barrels of oil into the waterway, causing a 25-mile plume that fouled the riverbank and forced municipalities and irrigation districts downstream to close i ...
- Bishops, Nuns and Rabbis Debate Gas Fracking
Associated Press= PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bishops, nuns and rabbis are joining the environmental and social debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale region, and many are seeking a balance that reflects their congregations. "We have people's lives who are being blessed or ...
- CDFA Pest PEIR Must Not Be Allowed
This is an important alert to all California readers. The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is preparing a ‘Programmatic Environmental Impact Import’ (PEIR) which will give them advance approval for all future pesticide spraying programs, without any safegua ...
- Oil Pipeline Breaks on Blackfeet Reservation; ...
Blackfeet Oil Ravine.m4v http://youtu.be/VG6eJvq0UI8 Tuesday, July 19, 2011 Oil Pipeline Breaks on Blackfeet Reservation; Significant Volume of Oil Floods Cut Bank River, Montana (Video) Destini Vaile and Reed Perry http://www.activistpost.com/2011/07/oil-pipeline-breaks-on-blackfeet.
- Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
- Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
- How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
- Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
- Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...
- Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions — Facts and Fi ...
Robert Rapier looks at the growth of global carbon dioxide emissions since 1965. A great deal has changed over the past 46 years.
- World Energy Consumption Facts, Figures, and S ...
Robert Rapier investigates the data from BP's Statistical Review of World Energy and highlights some of the key numbers in consumption of crude oil, coal, and natural gas.
- How Much Oil Does the World Produce?
In the first installment of this series, I took a look at U.S. and global oil reserves according to the 2012 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Today, I want to examine oil production statistics since 1965. Highlights of this article and topics that will be explored include: New global oil p ...
- How Much Oil is Left in the World?
Over the next two to three weeks, I am going to post a series of short articles utilizing graphics I created from the recently released 2012 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Because I am working on the roll-out of a new product which will be geared specifically toward those with a financia ...
- Highlights of the 2012 BP Statistical Review
Last week the 2012 BP Statistical Review of World Energy was released. I always look forward to the release, because the data represent the most comprehensive, publicly available database on energy consumption and production statistics. I have now read through this year’s report, picking o ...
- 9 Pet Myths Debunked
URL Title: 9 Pet Myths Debunked Head Open HTML: 9 Pet Myths Debunked Get the facts straight to keep your pet safe. BY LEAH ZERBE Pager buttons P ...
- Science Reveals Why Supermarket Tomatoes Are D ...
Think back to the last time you bought a fresh tomato at the grocery store and actually enjoyed it. Can't remember when that was? Neither can most Americans. In fact, sales of commercially grown fresh tomatoes at grocery stores have plummeted in recent years as consumers hit up farmer's markets ...
- The Bug Bite That Could Kill Your Love of Burgers
This just in from the freaky news department: Researchers from the University of Virginia have discovered that a bite from a certain variety of tick could make you allergic to red meat. The lone star tick, native to the Southeast but spreading to the north, is a distinctive-looking tick, so nam ...
- The Secret Trick for Radiant Skin
When you glance in the mirror and find yourself greeted with a newly formed pimple that, in your mind, is the size of Mount Everest, most of us assume that stress, hormones, or oily skin are the primary culprits for these blemishes and bumps. We don't usually think about the cereal we eat or th ...
- The Best Wine Pairings for Grilling Season
Summer cookouts can become dull in a hurry. Plain ole burgers and hotdogs again?? If your BBQ scene is bordering on boring, it's time to consider inviting wine into the mix to give your taste buds a much-needed boost. This is the perfect time to pop open bottles of sweeter wines lower in alcoho ...
- Canada's Oil Sands: Disaster or Opportunity?
What's the Latest Development? Thanks to stores of crude oil mixed with sand and clay in its Alberta region, Canada sits just behind Saudi Arabia on the list of the world's oil-richest countries. "The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers estimates that production, now 1.7 million ...
- Class Overtakes Race as the Great American Divide
What's the Latest Development? Speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Saturday, Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam alerted activists to the fact that class division has become the dominant form of social difficulties in America, and that the problem is getting worse. "Non-white folks wit ...
- For Some Nations, Rich Natural Resources Are a ...
What's the Latest Development? The rich natural resources which could pull a generation of Afghan citizens out of poverty are being sold by government officials for personal gain and without regard for the future of the country. Afghanistan, which is particularly rich in iron and copper, ...
- Wicked Problems. Might Our Biggest Challenges ...
There’s wicked, like the Wicked Witch. Wicked, as in evil. There’s wicked, like “It’s WICKED hot!” Wicked, urban slang for ‘very’. And then there are Wicked Problems; like the European financial crisis, or like the epidemic of obesity, or like ...
- "It IS a Tax!"
So I go to Panera Bread (a great example of how a well-designed national chain can serve localist ends) yesterday and was confronted by several Floyd County members or fellow travelers of the Tea Party. "What do you think of Roberts' opinion?" they ask me. I begin by commenting that it ...
- Top CIA Spy Accused of Being a Mafia Hitman
Enrique *Ricky* Prado*s resume reads like the ultimate CIA officer: veteran of the Central American wars, running the CIA*s operations in Korea, a top spy in America*s espionage programs against China, and deputy to counter-terrorist chief Cofer Blac...
- Dallas courts drug test specialist called 'imp ...
DALLAS - The man responsible for handling most of the drug tests in the Dallas County family courts system is the target of what aspires to be a class-action lawsuit. Jim Turnage is accused by one former client of masquerading as an expert in drug...
- Colombia High Court Okays Drug Decriminalization
Colombia's Constitutional Court has approved the government's proposal to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs for personal use. The opinion (scroll down to item three, Expediente D-8842) issued last Sunday re-decriminalizes drug po...
- Milwaukee Cop Threatens Man With Arrest For As ...
Asking annoying questions is apparently a crime, at least if you take this Milwaukee cop's freak out session as an indicator. Via CopBlock.org: This is a video I located on youtube.* When MPD isn*t tatting themselves with their gang emblems, ...
- Are Americans Not Submissive Enough?
If I didn*t know better, I*d have thought New York Times columnist David Brooks was having a laugh at our expense. Alas, Brooks means every word of his column titled *The Follower Problem,* as anyone who reads him regularly will realize. *I don*...
- Meet The Asylum’s New Management
The iron ore town of Whyalla on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is one of the places most threatened by Labor’s Carbon Tax – the tax that Gillard promised before the last Federal election she would never introduce, and which came … Continue reading →
- Gunwalker – What The Hell???
I don’t know much about this whole Gunwalker episode, beyond the little I’ve read in the news. But it’s now meant the United States’ chief executive law officer has just been held in contempt of Congress. Pretty serious stuff. I … Continue reading →
- Daily Telegraph Delingpole Refugee Camp
G’day Folks, The DT blogs are down for maintenance for an unusually long period of time. So all regular readers of James Delingpole’s blog are welcome to continue the discussion here. Even the trolls can come in, just to make … Continue reading →
- Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VI – Wha ...
Well, it’s finally happened. The scandal surrounding corruption in the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s, which LibertyGibbert covered last August, has now been formally raised in Federal Parliament. To refresh your memory, the story regards the activities of one … Continu ...
- A Mixed Legacy
Bella, horrida bella, et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. - Virgil, Aeneid VI LXXXVI-LXXXVII Today LibertyGibbert marks the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Enoch Powell, British scholar, poet, soldier, linguist, politician and polymath. How prescient were his views, … Cont ...
- Have we found the Higgs yet?
On July 4th this year, CERN will make an announcement based on activity at its multi-billion Euro Large Hadron Collider that will probably take us a step closer to being able to say that we have found the so-called “God Particle”, the Higgs boson that allegedly endows matter with mas ...
- Zooming in on our supermassive blackhole
Let’s zoom in on the supermassive blackhole at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way… This zoom sequence starts with a view of the Milky Way. We zoom in towards the crowded central region, in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer). By shifting to an infrared view we see thro ...
- Frisky firefly sex tape
Once the lights go out, female fireflies apparently prefer a little more substance and a little less flash. Infrared imaging and other techniques have been used to monitor firefly behaviour and to show that the females of the species tend to choose mates that they perceive as able to deliver a l ...
- Frisky firefly sex tape
Once the lights go out, female fireflies apparently prefer a little more substance and a little less flash. Infrared imaging and other techniques have been used to monitor firefly behaviour and to show that the females of the species tend to choose mates that they perceive as able to deliver a l ...
- The ultrasonic mosquito, the mixed-up radio sh ...
Self-professed cyberpunk Jonty Campbell sent me a link to a site reporting that the Brazilian adventure-travel magazine, Go Outside, has collaborated with Sao Paulo radio station, Band FM, to broadcast a music program that suppoedly repels mosquitoes. The radio station purportedly broadcasts a c ...
- EPA’s Report to Congress on Black Carbon ...
US EPA / by Erika Sasser (Presentation at the Black Carbon STAR Grant Kickoff Workshop) www.epa.gov/ncer/events/calendar/2012/may21/sasser.pdf [From an article in InsideEPA.com, sub. req'd] EPA is undertaking new research aimed at better characterizing black carbon’s effects on global warm ...
- EPA’s Report to Congress on Black Carbon ...
US EPA / by Erika Sasser (Presentation at the Black Carbon STAR Grant Kickoff Workshop) www.epa.gov/ncer/events/calendar/2012/may21/sasser.pdf [From an article in InsideEPA.com, sub. req'd] EPA is undertaking new research aimed at better characterizing black carbon’s effects on global warm ...
- Fixing A Broken National Flood Insurance Program
The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) http://bit.ly/NwcXs8 [Website] The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) insures 5.6 million American homeowners and some $1 trillion in assets. For many years, however, the premiums collected have not been sufficient to cover losses, resultin ...
- Fixing A Broken National Flood Insurance Program
The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) http://bit.ly/NwcXs8 [Website] The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) insures 5.6 million American homeowners and some $1 trillion in assets. For many years, however, the premiums collected have not been sufficient to cover losses, resultin ...
- Annual Energy Outlook 2012
US Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/ {From Press Release] Key results highlighted in AEO2012 include: The rate of growth in energy use slows over the projection period, reflecting moderate population growth, an extended economic recovery, and in ...
- Weight-Loss Drug Wins U.S. Approval
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- Mixed Signals: Smart Phone Sensors Recruited t ...
Global positioning system (GPS) devices may not always provide spot-on directions, but they do provide drivers, cyclists and hikers with convenient access to digital map data of every square meter of the planet shadowed by satellites. Step indoors and you will find that same GPS receiver becom ...
- U.S. Task Force's Recommendations Stoke Debate ...
If you are healthy, living at home, and take calcium and vitamin D supplements to prevent broken bones or cancer, you may want to reconsider, according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). The group's new draft recommendations , published online on June 12, add more fervor t ...
- Fire Deficit May Trigger Fiercer Wildfires
BOULDER, Colo. – As the West has warmed and dried over the past 30 years, headlines describing fire season have grown ever more apocalyptic: "epic" dryness, "monster" fires, new records for damage and devastation. [More]
- Empirical Esthetics: 18 Outstanding Images Tha ...
Life is filled with unexpected moments of beauty, something those on a lab bench know just as well as any poet. The third annual Science Is Beautiful competition at Charles University in Prague allowed students and faculty to share these moments through photographs, digital imagery and illustrat ...
- The Anarchist Lineage
Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
- "Crisis of the State"
From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
- "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
- "Integrated Geographies"
From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
- Colbert on Atheists
I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...
- India holds up a mirror for the American right ...
"Evil requires the sanction of the victim." Ayn Rand" David Seaton's News Links The other day in my perusings I stumbled upon this troubling jewelNot only do Indians perform more Google searches for (Ayn) Rand than citizens of any country in the world except the United States, but ...
- Why is the American left so useless? - II
David Seaton's News Links On April 4th, 1968, the day when Martin Luther King Jr. was shot down in Memphis Tennessee, the American left lost its way. Less than a year before he was murdered, King set out to channel the energy and power of the Civil Rights movement toward ending poverty amon ...
- Why is the American left so useless?
David Seaton's News Links Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates and men decayOliver Goldsmith - The Deserted Village Throughout the Great Recession and the not-so-great recovery, the most commonly discussed measure of misery has been unemployment. But many middle- ...
- Angela Merkel and the hour of the Wolf
David Seaton's News Links Angela Merkel in the DDRAngie was 35 when the Berlin Wall fell. She grew up in Communist East Germany, was member of the Communist Party's youth group the Free German Youth (FDY, from the German initials), graduated from Karl-Marx University in Leipzig, and worked as ...
- American Karma: Obama and Free Floating Paranoia
David Seaton's News Links I remember once reading an Indian guru, who said that if the water buffalo had a god, it would probably look like a very large water buffalo. He believed that there is only one god, formless and all pervading, but that he/she/it responds to intense worship by takin ...
- Louisiana Gives Us a Taste of Mitt Romney's Ed ...
Ed Kilgore has been sounding the alarms over Mitt Romney's education proposals for a couple of months now, and I keep meaning — but somehow forgetting — to link to his posts about this. It's probably all part of my love-hate relationship with education policy in general. But today ...
- Walking Out on Congress
Gregory Koger comments on the fact that most Democrats didn't actually vote against the Republican contempt resolution aimed at Eric Holder last Thursday. Instead, they simply walked out: The nice thing about this tactic is that it is a suitable response to the situation the Democrats found th ...
- Obama and Romney Are Both Raising Money from A ...
The post on the right was put up on Saturday morning by Andy McCarthy over at National Review's group blog, The Corner. It is untrue. As my colleague Tim Murphy reports, Obama will spend the Fourth, his daughter Malia's birthday, throwing a party on the White House lawn for military families. A ...
- Grandstanding Over Medicaid Begins in Florida, ...
Following Thursday's Supreme Court decision, Republican governors in the South are starting to trip all over themselves to see who will be first across the line to turn down the Medicaid expansion that's part of Obamacare. As it turns out, Florida's Rick Scott and Louisiana's Bobby Jindal took ...
- Mitch McConnell Demonstrates the "Repeal and R ...
On Sunday Chris Wallace interviewed Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, and tried manfully to get him to comment on the "replace" part of "repeal and replace." He didn't succeed: WALLACE: One of the keys to "Obama-care" is that it will extend insurance access to 30 million pe ...
- Climate change brings landscapes to their last ...
Nature’s beauty means different things to each of us – but undoubtedly it burns some images onto our souls. Our favourite scenery is less constant than we sometimes suppose, changing from day to day and season to season. But the slowest changes can be the most heartbreaking, eventua ...
- Hope from a surprising source that we can cont ...
While the optimism of the first Rio 'Earth Summit' seems misplaced 20 years later, the world's scientists have outlined the challenges we need to tackle from consumption and population, and I found hope from an unlikely place that there's some chance we might be able to.
- Weather watching hits home with powerful warmi ...
From hurricanes to heatwaves, Simple Climate has regularly reported on extreme weather events linked to global warming. This week I bring pictures from previous entries showing how these events and other more gradual changes are spread across the world, giving reasons close to home for all of us ...
- Hotter summers set to make power generators sweat
Electricity producers using fossil fuel and nuclear plants must adapt or face dips in generating capacity at their plants of up to a fifth in summer, due to scarcer, hotter cooling water, find Michelle van Vliet from Wageningen University and her colleagues.
- Hotter summers set to make power generators sweat
Electricity producers using fossil fuel and nuclear plants must adapt or face dips in generating capacity at their plants of up to a fifth in summer, due to scarcer, hotter cooling water, find Michelle van Vliet from Wageningen University and her colleagues.
- Sounding rocket mission to observe magnetic fi ...
On July 5, NASA will launch a mission called the Solar Ultraviolet Magnetograph Investigation or SUMI, to study the intricate, constantly changing magnetic fields on the sun in a hard-to-observe area of the sun's low atmosphere called the chromosphere. read more
- UC Santa Barbara geographer charts the ‘next-g ...
The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since applications like Google Earth became mainstream, says UC Santa Barbara Professor of Geography Michael Goodchild. However, there is still a long way to go, and there are important steps to take to get there. His perspective, shared with many ...
- Autism, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder may ...
New research led by Patrick F. Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP, a medical geneticist at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, points to an increased risk of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) among individuals whose parents or siblings have been diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorde ...
- The advantages of being first
How people make choices depends on many factors, but a new study finds people consistently prefer the options that come first: first in line, first college to offer acceptance, first salad on the menu -- first is considered best. read more
- Researchers able to better pinpoint history of ...
Through an exploration of tree rings and oxygen isotopes, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are now able to better pinpoint the history of droughts in the arid and semiarid areas of the American West. read more
- Notes from the US of A
I’ve been travelling internationally for the last few weeks. It’s been a productive time – I’ve drafted a complete paper intended for The Breakthrough Journal (more on this in a later post), increased and enhanced my network of professional connections and friendships, go ...
- Time for a reckoning, time for an apology
Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was: Dietary Guidelines Committee ignores climate change. What’s the difference between the fear ...
- Small(ish) is beautiful
This a new article written by Ben Heard and me in the SA Mines & Energy Journal (issue 23, pg 22-23), about the potential for small modular nuclear reactors. (Ben should get the primary authoring credit here — my job was to ‘enhance’ this one rather than lead the writing.) ...
- BNC Discussion Forum updates
In response to feedback, the structure of the BNC Discussion Forum on ProBoards has been greatly simplified. The revised forum looks like this: Logically (in my mind, and that of the BNC Moderator), it made sense to give people a robust classification structure. But in practice, such an approach ...
- Roads Not Taken (yet)
Guest Post by Tom Blees. Tom Blees is the author of Prescription for the Planet – The Painless Remedy for Our Energy & Environmental Crises. Tom is also the president of the Science Council for Global Initiatives and a board member of the UN-affiliated World Energy Forum [wef21.org]. M ...
- .:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism ...
.:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism and Media in the New Libya:.: Journalism and media witnessed huge expansion in Libya since the first spark in the February 17 revolution. There are now around 200 printed newspapers in Tripoli and Benghazi alone, and around 18 satellite channels thro ...
- GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “L ...
GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “Latinos: Turn Off Your TV, Co�o!”: GUEST POST BY Jazmin Chavez & Julia Ahumada Grob of "East WillyB" By the time of this publication, we should all be familiar with the recent controversy regarding ABC sitcom, “Work It,” in which Puerto Rican act ...
- A Brief look at the Censorship of Human Rights ...
China must abandon censorship | APNS Article 35 of China's constitution as adopted in 1982 clearly states that: "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration." For 28 years this article has stood ...
- The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy
The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy [Black Star News Editorial] Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and front-runner Mitt Romney have all played the race-card to varying degrees in this election cycle, while Ron Paul's campaign is weighed down by the race b ...
- The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown
The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown: Black people are inherently inferior. This is not something you would often hear anybody say outright—if at all. That would be racist, and we live in a time when even devout racists get offended if you actually call them “racist.” The closest we tend to ge ...
- A Republican Didn’t Like The Sign In My ...
When I roll, I always have one of our RepublicansAreADisease.com sighs taped on the rear window of my car. I went to Office Depot to return some supplies yesterday and what appeared to be a Republican with his wife and teen age daughter were walking up to the car next to me. The Republican saw [...]
- Michele Bachman Lying Again
On Meet the Press Michele Bachman claims Republicans want women to make their own health care choices. Really? I guess unless their employer disagrees right Michele? Please media. The story is the fact that the Michele Bachman types get to lie repeatedly, and never have to pay a price. Time to d ...
- Wolf Blitzer Owes Hillary Rosen An Apology
Dear Wolf. You are an asshole. Why should anyone apologize for telling the truth? I know that you think that Marie Antoinette Romney is an “elite” and we are supposed to worship her while she tell us “poor people” how we should live our lives, and what matters to us? Hill ...
- Marie “Ann”toinette Romney You Hav ...
Dear Marie Antoinette Romney. Please sit down and shut up about economics. It is wonderful that your “family” has been so prosperous that you have never had to work for wages once in your whole life, unlike almost every other woman in America. What you don’t seem to understand ...
- How Many Small Business Owners Did Newt Screw ...
Come on Newt, who do you owe? You have millions upon millions in loot, and you can’t pay the people that you have contracts with and did business with? You have yours and you are screwing them out of theirs? You are sick man. I know you wanted to be prezzident so you could screw us [...]
- The ‘wrong’ protest: Why J14 propa ...
Despite the importance of the J14 movement’s demand for social justice, by calling for the restoration of the welfare state while ignoring the mechanisms of Israel’s ethno-national colonial regime that fosters occupation, activists are actually propagating the status quo, rather than ...
- WATCH: Palestinian child kicked by Border Poli ...
B’Tselem just released disturbing footage of a Border Policeman kicking a Palestinian child while another policeman holds him on the streets of occupied Hebron. The video was shot last Friday June 29 by a B’Tselem activist, from the window of his house, adjacent to the Tomb of the P ...
- Visualizing Occupation: Distribution of Water
Israel controls the access to water from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. Its disproportionate allocation of water, the settlements’ takeover of natural springs, and the prohibition against maintaining and constructing water cisterns in the West Bank without Israeli permits make ...
- Jerusalem’s light rail: Judaizing Palest ...
Activists disrupt the operation of the Jerusalem Light Rail to protest the deal with the operating company, which effectively bans public gatherings in Zion Square in the heart of West Jerusalem. By Sahar Vardi A few hundred Israelis attempted to reclaimed their public space in Jerusalem on Sat ...
- Cyprus assumes EU Presidency amid bank crisis
Nicosia – The small eastern Meditteranean nation of Cyprus has taken over the six-month presidency of the Council of Europe just days after two of its three largest banks asked for assistance. The lanes have all been freshly painted, the flowers have been freshly planted, and the flags have been ...
- An Open Letter to This Nation’s Lawyers& ...
There is a crisis that has been raging through our nation’s legal system for years now. It’s a crisis that has destroyed our nation’s legal system and not only have attorneys, and the Bar associations…all of them; national, state, local…not done anything to help stop this crisis…almost all…espe ...
- 12 USC 5212 Are All of Amerikan’s Mortga ...
It’s too late for all this…long day…but it sure makes a whole make lot of sense: § 5212. Insurance of troubled assets (a) Authority (1) In general If the Secretary establishes the program authorized under section 5211 of this title, then the Secretary shall establish a program ...
- BOBMSHELL? DO THESE SECRET EMAILS REVEAL YET A ...
Take a look at the email that starts on Page 11. Are the processors that are working behind the scenes on this foreclosure admitting that they are misrepresenting to the court what party really owns this loan and who has the right to foreclose? Now, at least according to the pleadings, and as f ...
- The World’s Banks…Ongoing, Governm ...
How would you like to blow all your money in a casino that is most definitely rigged against you? Well, you do. We all do. The governments of the world require that we deposit our life’s work into the hands of criminals, then our governments work with the criminals to help them steal eve ...
- Lynn Syzmoniak- The Fraudclosure Machine Roars ...
Amerikans have developed terrifyingly short attention spans. Amerikans, and especially the press, have grown tired of the fraudclosure story..it’s like some kind of pathetic defense mechanism where we avert our attention from the victim of spouse abuse being beaten in public, or a child w ...
- Vaccine Wake Up Call for Parents: Your Childre ...
by Barbara Loe Fisher Every mother has had the nightmare. We dream our child, who we love more than we thought we could love anyone, has been taken away by strangers and cannot be found. The cold fear rises up from our stomach into our throats as we search, endlessly, to find the child we would ...
- The Health Liberty Revolution & Forced Vaccination
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln by Barbara Loe Fisher In America today, there is an unprecedented assault on the human right to exercise informed consent to medical risk-taking ...
- What You Should Know About Meningococcal Disea ...
by Barbara Loe Fisher Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.1, 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending that doctors give four more doses of a new vaccine – meningococcal vaccine – to babies between ...
- Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring
by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...
- In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state man ...
- Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
- Basic research and personal responsibility
Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
- Lost in the Maize
Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan. Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor. The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
- Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it. But ...
- Lost in the Maize
Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...
- The Good of WikiLeaks
Asan Bibi, 9, sits on a bench as burn cream is applied to her at Mirwais Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan. She, her sister and mother were badly burned when a US helicopter fired into their tent in the middle of the night, 10/13/09. (photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) Reader Supported ...
- Race War in Arizona
Three Points Arizona Minuteman Pete Petruccione, 88, checks out the range before nightfall with the unit from a $1,800 US Nightvision Starlight, 10/10/06. (photo: Gary Williams/Getty Images) Reader Supported News Perspective n August 20, 1914, the Los Angeles Times ran an article title ...
- Are We Replaying Iraq ... In Iran?
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates attends graduation ceremonies at West Point, 05/23/09. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty) Reader Supported News Perspective n July 15, 2010, Time Magazine carried an article entitled, "An Attack on Iran: Back on the Table." According to the piece, the point ...
- Rachel Takes Us Back to the Future
Rachel Maddow on assignment in Afghanistan, 07/05/10. (photo: Rachel Maddow Show/MSNBC) Reader Supported News Perspective very June, I leave my Northern California home and head south to our annual Gulf Coast family reunion. I might as well be an alien visiting from another planet. My ...
- Corporate Election Machine Fires Up
Future Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts meets with George W. Bush in the Oval Office, 06/15/05. (photo: Eric Draper) Reader Supported News Perspective The corporate financial steamroller is heading into the election arena much faster than many folks thought possible. I was one of ...
- Saying No To Tear Gas
[An excerpt from an article of the same name by Frida Berrigan, originally published on Waging Nonviolence, June 22nd, 2012.] I have an assignment for you. Have you ever been tear gassed? I have not. It does not sound like … Continue reading →
- Peace and Global Justice Groups: “End St ...
On Father’s Day, June 17th , Peace and Global Justice groups walk together with New Yorkers in a Silent March to End Stop & Frisk We are a diverse gathering of groups working for global justice and peace around the … Continue reading →
- On the Ground in Basra: An Interview with Hash ...
Originally published on May 2nd, 2012 on Jadaliyya. by Ali Issa Iraqi unions demonstrated yesterday on May Day 2012 at a difficult historical moment. Still operating without a labor law that sanctions their organizing, and under the consolidation of Prime … Continue reading →
- “You Can’t Take What’s All o ...
To mark the upcoming NATO summit to be held in May 2012 in Chicago and the simultaneous G8 summit to be held in Camp David, Maryland, War Resisters League and the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance release a new popular education … Continue reading →
- كفى دموعا!
كفى دموعا! بمناسبة يوم الارض الفلسطيني 2012, تُنشر النسخة العربية للكاريكاتير”كفى دموعا!” الذي يربط حركات للتغير حول العالم من خلال تحليل من ابرز الاسلحة التي تُستدخدم ضدها: الغاز المسيّل للدموع. بشكل سهل التناول, يسمّي “كفى دموعا!” الشركات التي تربح من … Continue r ...
- 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.
- Hooters, Hard Rock, Friendly’s Score Low ...
The idea behind chain restaurants is -- or at least it should be -- to provide customers with dependable, consistent food and service at multiple locations. And many chains succeed in at least trying to fulfill these goals. But according to a recent survey of nearly 48,000 Consumer Reports reade ...
- Queen Elizabeth II Ocean Liner To Be Turned In ...
She may not be sailing the high seas anymore, but the Queen Elizabeth II ocean liner is set to hold tourists once again, this time as a 300-room hotel moored in a Dubai port. The company that owns the QE2 bought the ship in 2007 for $100 million and hasn't done much with the beloved [...]
- Botched House Construction Forces Couple To Te ...
What's a little thing like $150,000 when a pool is on the line? A couple in the Hamptons on Long Island, N.Y. went on vacation while their new house was being built, and weren't too happy when they came back to find it had been situated too far away from the curb. Not because they [...]
- T-Mobile Store Rampage Caught On Video For Eve ...
For several years, Consumerist and our readers have offered tips and suggestions for getting refunds from wireless providers without resorting to violence. Apparently, there is a man in the UK who does not read Consumerist. The below video shows a man going bat-poop crazy at a T-Mobile store in ...
- The IRS Just Can’t Keep Up With All Thes ...
If you're one of the two million people who filed a potentially fraudulent tax return last year, well, you're causing the Internal Revenue Service to have a really rough time. That number is a sharp increase, up 72% from the previous year, and it's giving the IRS a huge headache as it struggles ...
- Japan's Supreme Court Sides with Whistleblower ...
Associated Press: Japan Whistleblower Wins in Supreme Court in Nation First as Judge Dismisses Olympus Appeal In a notable first, the Supreme Court of Japan has sided with a corporate whistleblower. The decision by the Court, in a culture that is widely regarded as valuing corporate positions ...
- D.C. Still Unprepared for a Severe Thunderstor ...
After a short but unusually severe thunderstorm that roared through the D.C. area on Friday night, the entire Washington Metropolitan Area was thrown into chaos. Three days later, countless traffic lights are still out, hundreds of thousands of residents are without power, including myself, gro ...
- Profile of OSC Continues to Rise: Daily Whistl ...
Washington Post: Under Carolyn Lerner, Special Counsel Office is Doing Its Job Now, Observers Say Summary: Yesterday, the Office of Special Counsel honored the Dover Air Force Base mortuary whistleblowers who brought to light the mismanagement of soldiers’ remains. They were given th ...
- Corruption, Dysfunction & Whistleblower Retali ...
World Bank headquarters in Washington, DCForbes: World Bank Spinning Out of Control – Corruption, Dysfunction Await New Head Summary: With a new World Bank president taking office this coming Saturday, this Forbes cover story looks at how corruption and mismanagement permeates t ...
- Whistleblower Concerns Prompt Hanford Plant De ...
Associated Press: Hanford Waste Plant Sees New Costs, Delays Summary: The Department of Energy announced major delays in the building of the Hanford nuclear waste treatment plant yesterday. The plant will be delayed by at least a year while serious technical problems alleged by whistleblo ...
- BT News – ON THE SOAPBOX: Sir Roy McNulty
With the Olympic Games and Paralympics commencing in London on 27 July, we asked Sir Roy McNulty, Deputy Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, to tell us about the construction programme for the Games. Sir Roy has over 30 years experience in aviation, initially with Short Brothers and Bom ...
- Mitt Romney and the New Gilded Age
The election of 2012 raises two perplexing questions. The first is how the GOP could put up someone for president who so brazenly epitomizes the excesses of casino capitalism that have nearly destroyed the economy and overwhelmed our democracy. The second is why the Democrats have failed to poin ...
- Op-Ed: Former High US Defence Official Warns A ...
By Sherwood Ross “A unilateral preventive attack” on Iran by the United States would be viewed by many countries “as a breach of international law,” a former high American Defense Department official has warned his country. “Given the high costs and inherent uncertainties of a strike, the United ...
- The Monday Line: Walking China’s Silk Road
We’re 127 days away from the 2012 US Presidential election. This means there are still 3,024 hour of cable television news to fill between now and 06 November. While outrage machines will pump out material 24/7… we’re taking a break. From close of business this Friday until Monday the 23rd ...
- Op-Ed: Chinatown-WalMart Cultural Center
By Robert Hunziker On June 26th, 2012 the Wal-Mart PR team drove home the point of their plans to open a new store in Chinatown (Los Angeles) with a special cultural touch, a traditional Lion Dance, using dancers from the East Wind Youth Foundation, to ward off bad luck because of two decades of ...
- The-Tax-Whose-Name-Shall-Not-Be-Spoken Begins
Australians will pay $77 million per week in carbon taxes, while Europe with the 30 most green countries pays just one third of that, according to the Mineral Council of Australia. “Australia’s carbon tax starts generating $77.3 million per week from today. New figures from the Centr ...
- On Carbon Sunday an ode to Gaia
Posted in comments by “Carbon Free” ———————————————- I sit here in my living room with just a few minutes left before midnight & ‘Carbon Sunday’, now in my dark cold residence, using only a ...
- If he wins, Abbot vows to kill the Carbon Tax ...
From the Liberal Party site June 29th 2012 the details we hope to see unfold. The thought makes the arrival of The-Tax-On-Everything this Sunday easier to bear… savour the anticipation, and hope we don’t have to wait too long. Abbott vows he will dissolve the Parliament if the voters ...
- My reply to Dr Paul Bain — on rational d ...
Dear Dr Paul Bain, Thank you for replying (and so promptly). I do sincerely appreciate it. Apologies for my tardiness. I do still think I can help you with your research. Indeed, in more ways than you realize. You describe in your Bain et al letter in Nature, that the number of deniers is growin ...
- Carbon Tax protest CATA – July 1 — ...
CATA have organised a protest ELECTION NOW! WE’VE HAD ENOUGH RALLY “ELECTION NOW – WE ARE READY” REPEAL THE CARBON DIOXIDE TAX AN INVITATION TO ATTEND THIS VITAL RALLY CATA and the ‘NO CARBON TAX RALLY’ team Where: Hyde Park, Sydney and Steps of Parliament House, Melbourne When: Sunday 1st July ...
- Arizona decision leaves U.S. naked to our enemies
(Alan Keyes) - In the face of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Arizona v. United States, I invite my readers to revisit the column "Arizona is right to defend against foreign invasion." In that column, I anticipated the fateful abrogation of state sovereignty and their own sworn duty to the ...
- How we lost our constitutional republic
(Harold Witkov) - Then the Lord appeared to Chief Justice Roberts and said, "The outrage of America is so great, and their sin is so grave! No longer are there any Americans who love and believe in the Constitution. Therefore be warned, I will do away with your beloved Constitutional Republic."...
- Roberts switched views to uphold health care law
(CBS News) - Chief Justice John Roberts initially sided with the Supreme Court's four conservative justices to strike down the heart of President Obama's health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, but later changed his position and formed an alliance with liberals to uphold the bulk of the ...
- The Roberts rewrite: A fitting save for Obamacare
(Timothy P. Carney) - Chief Justice John Roberts' judicial sleight of hand, transforming Obamacare's mandate into a tax, was a fittingly twisted save for a law of such grisly provenance. Born of tawdry liaisons between industry lobbyists and political hacks, passed through naked logrolling and l ...
- Court's awful ruling taxes our patients
(Robert Knight) - When is a tax not a tax? Answer: When you're busy pushing a major expansion of government like Obamacare. The tax that is not a tax becomes a "penalty" or a "shared responsibility payment" in the text of the bill. In campaign lingo, it becomes an "investment"...
- The False Flag Cyber Attack Takedown of the In ...
Here are some of today's top shock headlines: "Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'" - The Daily Mail "Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks" - Wall Street Journal "WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike" - R ...
- S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom Act
In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...
- Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Rel ...
At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the ...
- Education v. Conditioning: Wundt, Rockefeller ...
John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this subject ou ...
- TruthOffering's Matt Gordon on LA Talk Live's ...
Have a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and politics to international banksters and chemtrails. Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's perspective:
- Killer Asteroid Can Still Surprise
The main reason NASA has managed to locate the vast majority of large asteroids in our vicinity is because they tend to hang out in the same narrow slice of space. So rather than observing the entire sky, they can concentrate on a small region. This is also why they are less successful at discov ...
- New Mayan Reference to December 21, 2012
This is a win/lose for both the academics and independent researchers. The academics have long said that with only one mention of the end of the Long Count calendar written in Mayan stone – Tortuguero Monument 6 – it can’t have been that important to the Maya. Well now there is ...
- 8.0 Quake Due in NZ
It’s an inexact science, but generally pressure builds up along fault lines, and earthquakes happen in roughly regular manner. Seismologists can’t tell us the day or even year of a major earthquake, but they are pretty good at calculating when a big one is approximately due. And desp ...
- Humans: Insanely Optimistic
Insane is probably too harsh. And I doubt the study accounted for race or culture, or even age. Still, it has been demonstrated that people are generally optimistic, and revise their opinions much more readily when given good news rather than bad. Or, in other words, if someone tells an optimist ...
- Icke on Fulford & Wilcock
The following is from David Icke’s newsletter. At David Wilcock’s recent Melbourne talk he told us that he doesn’t believe in Icke’s shape-shifting reptiles. But he did tell us that mass arrests were about the occur among the NWO elite, and that Wilcock himself wo ...
- NATO Preparing Vast Disinformation Campaign
Syrians wanting to watch their national TV stations will probably see them replaced on their screens by TV programs created by the CIA. Studio-shot images will show massacres that are blamed on the Syrian Government, people demonstrating, ministers and generals resigning from their posts, Presid ...
- The SCO 2012 Shanghai Summit – on the Way to N ...
The 12th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit took place in Beijing on June 6-7, 2012. The annual event brought together the heads of states to review and gauge the importance of the SCO in global affairs. China hosted the summit for the third time since its inception. The organization ...
- Turkey: Taking a Risk With the U.S. In Syria
In late 2011 Frederic C. Hof, one of the State Department`s point man on Syrian policy, equaled the Assad regime to ‘a dead man walking’. At the end of December, 2011, Hof joined a special secret committee set up by the Obama administration to discuss possible scenarios of Syrian intervention. T ...
- Antidote to Fundamentalism and Terrorism
In international politics, relations of trade and commerce among nations are known, but what about spiritual cooperation? This is in fact the central call of religious leaders at Astana in Kazakhstan. While speaking at the 4th Conference of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, held on 30t ...
- Balochistan: Crossroads of Proxy War
The current unrest in Balochistan centers around forced disappearances, kidnappings, targeted killings, assassinations and terrorism. However, these are merely the tactics of a much broader, more geopolitically complex war in which the United States and its Western allies are engaged. Though see ...
- I Left My Son in the Produce Section
Every time I go somewhere in the car without the kids -- and it's painstakingly quiet in the back seat -- I'll have a moment where my breath catches and I'll panic: Did I leave them somewhere? Wannabauthor shared a "not proud of it moment" when she left her son's side in the grocery store. Have ...
- Get Sated: San Francisco Bloggers Launch New F ...
In May, two San Francisco-area bloggers launched sated, a new quarterly food magazine. The magazine features a combination of stunning photography and in-depth exploration of a single topic per issue. The first issue focuses on dark chocolate, and includes articles that cover everything fro ...
- Choosing Favorites: Mom or Mom?
As parents, we often talk about the fact that we shouldn't have favorites in our children. However, as I'm sure you've noticed as a mom, our children tend to have favorite parents. I'm most certainly a Daddy's Girl. I found this post by Kristin at Mondays with Mac to be a heartfelt discussion of ...
- Rejection Collection, What's Your Objection?
I visualize a world in the future where our technological existence is collected in museums with anthropologists and archeologists debating over the purpose of sushi shaped USB drives. I see them stroking their beards as they watch YouTube deciding that, based on the number of videos we posted a ...
- Need Help Deciding Whether to Upgrade to Mount ...
[Editor's Note: The latest version of the Mac X operating system, Mountain Lion, is available in July. Miraz from Mac Tips has help with answering the burning question - "Should I upgrade?" -Virginia] Should you upgrade? That’s actually more than one question, because before you decide if you ...
- GMO Farming, Glyphosate Significant Causes of ...
Water pollution and air pollution has been and continues to be a serious issue in many nations. Both of these pollution types are successfully bringing down the health of not only humans, but also animals, ...
- Genetic Evidence that Antioxidants Kill Cancer
Researchers of Jefferson’s Kimmel Cancer Center have produced genetic evidence suggesting antioxidant drugs could help prevent and treat cancer. With research already showcasing the powers of various cancer fighting foods, this research further shows how dangerous mainstream medical ...
- Microbe census maps out human body’s bac ...
It gives scientists a reference point of what the microbial community looks like in healthy people, and they plan to use it to study how changes in a person’s microbiome can lead to illness. After five ...
- Spray tans – the hazards of faking it
The active chemical used in spray tans, dihydroxyacetone (DHA), has the potential to cause genetic alterations and DNA damage, according to a panel of medical experts. The ABC News channel brought together six medical experts in areas ranging ...
- Health Habits That Are a Waste of Time
A little more than a year ago, my eye doctor prescribed new disposable contact lenses. My insurance, he explained, would pay for only one six-month supply per year. “I’ll just take six months’ worth then,” I ...
- Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...
Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
- Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...
The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
- Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...
Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
- “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...
At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
- Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” Proportions
The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...
- Friday roundup, June 22, 2012
Coal miners are seen before taking part in “La Marcha Negra”, a five hundred kilometers walk to Madrid, in Mieres, near Oviedo, Spain, Friday, June 22, 2012. Strikes, road blockades, and mine sit-ins continue as 8,000 mineworkers at over 40 coal mines in northern Spain continue their ...
- Rockefeller tells W.Va. what it doesn’t ...
Some things are abundantly clear this week, following Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s Senate floor speech about the future of our state’s coalfields: In West Virginia, it’s big news — huge news, really — if one of our political leaders dares to tell a little bit of truth abo ...
- Rockefeller: Coal must ‘boldly embrace&# ...
Mr. President, I rise today in the shadow of one seemingly narrow Senate vote — the Inhofe resolution of disapproval of the Environmental Protection Agency’s rules on mercury and air toxics — to talk about West Virginia. About our people – our way of life, our health, our ...
- Happy West Virginia Day!
- Legislation seeks review of mining’s hea ...
AP photo by Jeff Gentner New federal legislation was introduced today that seeks a moratorium on new mountaintop removal permits and demands that the federal government examine the growing scientific evidence that residents living near these mining operations are at greater risk of serious healt ...
- Hippie Digest Monday: Mickey Hart ,Paul McCar ...
Drum Circle with Grateful Dead percussionist brings community together in RenoFor a few hours on Sunday afternoon, Idlewild Park was transformed into a throwback to San Francisco in the 1960s, with dozens of self-proclaimed hippies dancing and drumming in a circle with former Grateful Dead percu ...
- National Picnic Day
By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwidehippies - Yes, it’s that time of the year again. At one time the main purpose might have been patriotic. Now, it’s a chance to get your grill skills put to the test, buy mattresses on sale and blow stuff up while annoying the neighbors and scaring pets. Honestly, ...
- Insurance, Healthcare and You The Affordable ...
by Marie Gage,Worldwidehippies - The long anticipated Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of the ACA law has finally been given and this law was upheld. There is a lot of misinformation regarding the law. It is very complex, but as Justice Scalia declared that he should not have to r ...
- Iraqi drama portrays life in mental hospital a ...
baghdad theater s 13683 from joe mcevoy on Vimeo. Worldwidehippies,RT-The play ‘Celebration of Madness and Honey’, portraying life at a hospital for the mentally ill after it was bombed by the US forces in 1991, has opened at a theater in Baghdad. “It took us half a year to put this play on the ...
- Revolution 99 Updates: Philadelphia Freedom!
Occupy National Gathering in Philadelphia Underway; Expect Waves of Protest Although conservative newspapers sneered “Goodbye, Occupy” months ago, the Occupy movement refuses to exit the scene, popping up to protest the role of big money in elections at Obama and Romney campaign events and summo ...
- François Englert: a hero of the Higgs mechanis ...
According to an incognito ATLAS member who spoke to Nature, they have a discovery without any doubts. Pure elation that will culminate on Wednesday morning. François Englert of Brussels is one of the few (or two?) guys whose Nobel prize should be pretty much guaranteed once the discovery ...
- CO2 will turn savannahs to forests
A current press release reviewed a paper by a German-affiliated duo published in Nature: Atmospheric CO2 forces abrupt vegetation shifts locally, but not globally Steven Higgins and Simon Scheiter of Frankfurt acknowledge previous experimental measurements of the CO2 fertilization (increa ...
- Tevatron: DØ has made a lot of Higgs progress
There was a 90-minute-long webcast at the Tevatron today. This is how their combined searched looked a few months ago: The excesses were over 2 sigma. The peak is fuzzy largely because of the energy uncertainty in events with a W-boson decaying to neutrinos, among other particles. ...
- An interview with Arkani-Hamed on SUSY
A reader nicknamed Synchronize has brought my attention to this almost excellent Science Watch interview with Nima Arkani-Hamed. Nima Arkani-Hamed on maximally supersymmetric theories They start by explaining that Nima is a big shot who doesn't belong to the bottom 99%. He says that SUSY ...
- U.K.: energy smart meters will monitor your se ...
Marc Morano has pointed out the following interesting article in the Guardian: Energy smart meters are a threat to privacy, says watchdog By 2019, British citizens are obliged to install new, "smart" devices to measure the energy consumption. The detailed consumption patterns will be eval ...
- I have been asked to sell this domain name – Y ...
$100,000.27 No negotiations. Send to my PayPal account at chiefape@gmail.com. Simple as that. Too much money? Too bad. It is a take it or leave it offer. Quit bugging me! TMA Related posts: Tatumba.com home of The Mad Ape – Radio Spot A few weeks ago I won a significant amount of... Relat ...
- End of the Road – How Money Became Worthless – ...
The new film “End Of The Road” has just been released for public viewing, featuring GoldSilver.com CEO Mike Maloney alongside Peter Schiff, Jim Rickards, Jim Puplava, James Turk, Eric Sprott and more. This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Gold American Eagle Fractional Bullion Co ...
- HOW TO Defeat The System – Documentary Film
HELP MAKE THIS GO VIRAL! How To Defeat The System is Fabian4Liberty’s latest micro documentary film. With the world in crisis and hundreds of talking heads highlighting the problems, what exactly are the solutions? In this micro documentary LIBERTARIAN ACTIVIST Fabian4Liberty covers concre ...
- FPS Russia:The 40mm Machine Gun – Buy it here
22″ Rapid Fire Machine Gun with Lights & Sound High quality battery operated machine gun with lights and blasting sounds! Feel the action when you pull the trigger. The barrel with bayonet moves back and forth thrusting. The bullet belt revolves when firing. This awesome machine ...
- Bank of America Attacked SGT Report
e-mail Bank of America and ask them, is this how they treat AMERICANS? abuse@bankofamerica.com SGTreport.com: Someone at Bank of America Doesn’t Like SGTreport http://sgtreport.com/2011/09/someone-at-bank-of-america-doesnt-like-sgtreport/ Cass Sunstein’s Obama Spine-Chilling Proposal ...
- EWG's 2012 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Pr ...
Well, as we do each year, EWG released (on June 19) the latest Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce and as we suspected, eaters around the country are still concerned about high levels of toxic pesticide residue on their fruits... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
- Peanut Butter, Pajamas and Power
By Heather White, chief of staff, Environmental Working Group My kids eat more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches than I'd like to admit. And in my line of work I hear about toxic chemicals daily so it takes a lot... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other ...
- "The EWG list of best sunscreens can't be beat ...
Late last week, news outlets began reporting that the Federal Communications Commission was considering revising their cell phone radiation testing methods - for the first time in 15 years. Early this week, Governor Brown of California announced a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
- Join the Fight to Provide Healthy Food for Str ...
By Nora Pouillon For those of us lucky enough to sit down every day to healthy, nutritious meals, it's easy to forget that millions of American families in the grip of the recession are struggling to put food on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other co ...
- "We need to stop this."
Finding a nasty flame retardant in peanut butter and other food products brought EWG senior analyst Sonya Lunder to tell E&E reporter Jeremy Jacobs: "We are contaminating our food chain with chemicals that are long-lasting in the environment and... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
- Rapid growth hits housing market
It took Norway a few thousand years to reach a population of just 5 million. Another million, though, is expected just 17 years from now and cities like Oslo are struggling to keep up with demand for housing, as real estate prices soar. Figures released recently by state statistics bureau SSB s ...
- Area around bombed government complex starts r ...
The area around Norway’s government headquarters in Oslo, badly damaged in last summer’s terrorist bombing, was starting to reopen for pedestrians and bicyclists this week. The buildings themselves remain empty, mostly boarded up and forlorn. Rigmor Aasrud, the government minister in ...
- Hurtigruten ads banned in China
Norway’s famed coastal voyage called “Hurtigruten” had targeted the emerging market of Chinese tourists but suddenly seems to have found itself Shanghaied by Chinese authorities who are angry with the Norwegian government. Hurtigruten will no longer be allowed to market or prom ...
- Investigation confirms ‘unacceptable’ payments ...
Norwegian industrial firm Yara, which has been under both internal and criminal investigation for suspected bribery the past year, has been found to have made “unacceptable” payments in both India and Libya by the external lawyer hired to probe corruption suspicions by Yara itself. ...
- Sick leave declines again, for third year in a row
Norwegians are calling in sick much less frequently than they did a decade ago. New figures from state welfare agency NAV and state statistics bureau SSB show that sick leave is at its lowest level since 2001. The portion of the workforce that’s off the job because of illness declined fro ...
- Preparing Our Children For a Resilient Future, ...
I doubt many would disagree that food is one of the most important things that we are going to need to become reconnected to, in times to come. Without a reliable food source, much hardship can be predicted and even potentially losses of life. In the future, food security will probably rely mu ...
- Resilience Through Simplication: Revisiting Ta ...
Below, Samuel Alexander summarises his new Simplicity Institute Report, which discusses ‘voluntary simplification’ in the context of Joseph Tainter’s theory of collapse. The full report, ‘Resilience through Simplification,’ is available here (360kb PDF). A society ...
- Village Repair: Permaculture Design Maquettes ...
by Delvin Solkinson Download the free, open source printable files for 3 placemaking worksheets here : Placemaking Worksheets (PDF) The Village Repair branch of Gaiacraft is a local grassroots initiative growing in the mossy cedar rainforests of Mt. Elphinstone, British Columbia, Canada. In ...
- Pasture Cropping: an Integrated Approach to Gr ...
Harvesting oats as green native perennial pasture grows up between the cereal rows (Seis, 2006) Pasture cropping is a farmer-initiated land management system that seamlessly integrates cropping with pasture production, and allows grain growing to function as part of a truly ...
- Planning for Permanence with Yeomans’ Keyline ...
The Keyline Contribution to Permaculture Without Percival Alfred (P.A.) Yeomans and his Keyline concepts Permaculture as we know it would not exist. Bill Mollison is quick to tip his hat toward this debt in the very first paragraph of Permaculture Two: Practical Design for Town and Country in P ...
- The Nigger Word.
There’s been a bit of a furore recently about a supposedly prestigious science journal running a paper that was peppered with the word nigger. The editor, of what can only be referred to as a rag now, even came up with a fatuous reply to the resultant criticism, which when stripped of the ...
- Mullering the data.
There is this new sort of creature who’s emerged in the climate debate in the last year or two. Unsurprisingly, they all seem to spring from the alarmist side, but they all have one of those comfortably recognisable patterns of behaviour that I quite like. I’ll freely admit I’v ...
- Mullering the data.
There is this new sort of creature who’s emerged in the climate debate in the last year or two. Unsurprisingly, they all seem to spring from the alarmist side, but they all have one of those comfortably recognisable patterns of behaviour that I quite like. I’ll freely admit I’v ...
- Our secret weapon.
There are three elements to be considered when formulating a strategy; the ultimate objective of the strategy, the resources you have available to achieve that objective and the way the resources are to be deployed to take and then hold that objective. Obviously, our objective is to destroy the ...
- Our secret weapon.
There are three elements to be considered when formulating a strategy; the ultimate objective of the strategy, the resources you have available to achieve that objective and the way the resources are to be deployed to take and then hold that objective. Obviously, our objective is to destroy the ...
- Baby Steps in Data Journalism
This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
- The best video export options
How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
- Video Resources updated
The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...
- Flash Journalism updates
I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
- New tutorial: Windows Live Movie Maker
As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less vers ...
- Backlash Mounts as the Louisiana Supreme Court ...
From a press release sent out today: Justice Bernette Joshua Johnson, who has served as an Associate Justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court for nearly two decades, is poised to assume the office of Chief Justice in February 1, 2013, upon the retirement of the current chief justice. She fol ...
- Structurally Unemployed Workers Deliver Junete ...
From our friends at the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice: Stand with Dignity Commemorated Juneteenth by delivering a proclamation to New Orleans City Council and Mayor. "The 20 people who arrived at City Hall today with Stand were there to deliver a message to our city that we a ...
- Newly Formed Observer Group to Monitor Today’s ...
From our friends at Louisiana Bucket Brigade: Khaki Vests and Citizen Monitor Buttons Identify Oil Monitoring Group Fifteen Citizen Monitors trained to engage oil industry and government representatives will be on hand at today’s oil lease auction. The goal of the newly formed Oil Monit ...
- Celebrate Juneteenth
A Juneteenth Message from our friends at Critical Resistance: Tuesday, June 19, marked Juneteenth, the commemoration of the end of formalized slavery in the United States. The date coincides with the last wave of notification of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, reaching e ...
- Women With A Vision Opens at Temporary New Spa ...
This message comes from our friends at Women With A Vision: Dear friends and family, With the fire at Women With A Vision now two weeks behind us, I wanted to reach out to each of you to thank you for your support. Your donations, your efforts to publicize the arson through your n ...
- Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
Okay, I still don't know what they are up to, but it sure seems like they are up to something. Here's another strange, barbaric attack that the zio-media is labeling as part of the "zombie apocalypse." Zombie apocalypse hits China with new face-eating attack http://now.msn.com/no ...
- Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
Amanda: Brilliant deductions. I hang onto Stone like it's a life line. Your logic about Rense's original linking to Stone and then suddenly bring in NINE ex wives---suddenly it all makes sense, oops, sorry it all makes rense.Statistics: Posted by geraldo — Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:04 pm
- Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
mgt23 wrote: .....and another thing this whole racial type vs another racial type, sort of implies that one soul is better and deserves to live more than another soul; or deserves better living conditions in a particular geographical area than another soul. we are all equal before god and this i ...
- Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=421_1341262930 Iran lawmakers prepare to close Hormuz Strait Iranian lawmakers have drafted a bill that would close the Strait of Hormuz for oil tankers heading to countries supporting current economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic. "There is a ...
- Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/98733449/Chil ... ry-Custody In September 2011 a UK delegation of 9 lawyers, from the fields of human rights, crime and child welfare, travelled to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories to assess the treatment of Palestinian children under Israeli military l ...
- Leatherback Turtle Declines Will Escalate As C ...
A warming climate could exacerbate threats facing leatherback turtle populations in the eastern Pacific Ocean, creating conditions that could trigger a 75 percent reduction in turtle numbers by the end of the century, a new study says. Even under existing USFW conditions, turtle births ebb a ...
- African Savannas May Shift to Forest as CO2 Le ...
Large areas of African savanna may slowly transform into forest ecosystems by the end of the century as atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide continue to rise, a new study says. While earlier studies have suggested that rising CO2 “fertilization” will not trigger global vegetation shifts, researc ...
- Oh Canada: The Government’s Broad Assault on E ...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government has been weakening Canada’s environmental regulations and slashing funds for oversight and research — all while promoting aggressive resource development. Critics warn these unprecedented actions pose a major threat to the nation’s vast natural heritage ...
- Beyond Rio’s Disappointment, Finding a Path to ...
The Rio+20 Summit produced a largely meaningless document that failed to address the daunting environmental challenges the world faces. But many at the conference looked to an alternative approach they called “green economics” — using market forces to help nations achieve sustainable development ...
- Elevated Ozone Levels Trigger Heart Risks for ...
Exposure to ozone at levels sometimes present in the world’s most polluted cities can trigger potentially dangerous changes to human cardiovascular systems, according to a new study. In a series of tests conducted Wikimedia Commons Mexico City smog on 23 healthy adults, scientists found evi ...
- 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 ...
- Change necessary if Noda really wants to put ' ...
Dear Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, Recently, I was reading an article on your blog titled "Children First." I was especially impressed by your following four quotes:
- Business sentiment improves at nation's top ma ...
Business sentiment among large manufacturers improved for the first time in three quarters in the three months through June, reaching minus 1, according to the Bank of Japan's quarterly "tankan" index released Monday. The business index for major manufacturers — companies capitalized at ...
- Honda plans new bike for 2013 return to Dakar ...
Honda Motor Co. said Monday it will design a new motorcycle for the South American part of the Dakar Rally in January 2013, returning to the off-road race for the first time since 1989. For the north-to-south portion running through Peru, Chile and Argentina, Honda will develop a motorcycle ba ...
- Rangers, Yanks lead All-Star starters
Josh Hamilton is set to lead a Texas parade to the All-Star Game. Now, fans will decide if Chipper Jones gets one final appearance or whether it's time for teen sensation Bryce Harper. Hamilton drew a record total of more than 11 million votes, and the slugger was among seven Rangers chosen Su ...
- Rangers, Darvish fall at home against A's
Yu Darvish finally lost a game at home for the Texas Rangers. Except for a couple of pitches, it was still an All-Star-worthy performance. Now fans will determine if the Japanese ace gets to go to Kansas City with seven of his teammates and his manager.
- GDP: Petro-Rebound Conceals Underlying Problems
The main story in today’s GDP numbers is that the oil, gas and mining industries rebounded sharply in April after being hobbled by temporary maintenance and production difficulties in February and March. While the upswing in fossil-fuel and mineral extraction was large enough to boost the overal ...
- Canada’s Mean Test: Myths behind neo-con madness
It’s difficult to overstate the significance of the Quebec student strike (the longest in North American history) and resultant public backlash against the provincial government’s Orwellian response. Not that you’d know it. According to mainstream (predominantly) English media, Montreal is being ...
- Freedom from Medicare and lower tuition days
Well well, another misinformed tax freedom day has come and gone on June 12th. To mark the occasion this year I wanted to skip over the very serious methodological flaws that others have pointed out, and take a look at several other items that Canadians are “free of” at various poin ...
- CPI Deflates Case for Rate Hike
Today’s report that the national inflation rate fell to 1.2% in May deflates calls for higher interest rates to reduce inflation. The central bank’s core rate was 1.8%, also below the 2% target. The other argument for an interest-rate hike was to moderate mortgage lending and the housing market. ...
- Deflating Housing Bubble Risks Recession
Seen in isolation, Finance Minister Flaherty probably did the right thing yesterday in seeking to safely deflate the housing bubble and lower the dangerous growth of household credit to a record level as a share of household income. But he did it very late in the game, and risks tipping an alre ...
- Migrant nightmares: Ethiopian domestic workers ...
Graham Peebles charts the horrendous abuse faced by Ethiopian migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states and Lebanon where they are traded by unscrupulous traffickers - "not brokers/agents in any recognizable, legitimate sense of the word, but common criminals engaged in human trafficking ...
- An artist’s vision of peace in Palestine
Neve Gordon considers how an artist's work can evoke the possibility and the necessity of imagining a different reality in a war zone.
- Time to abandon never-ending futile talks with ...
Jamal Kanj calls on the Palestinian National Authority to abandon its commitment to the pointless perpetual negotiations with the Israelis which while achieving peace for the Jews-only state of Israel are permanently eliminating the prospects of justice for the Palestinian people.
- Church of the Nativity sanctuary seekers still ...
Stuart Littlewood recalls the horror of the 39-day Israeli siege of the Church of the Nativity in the occupied West Bank and asks why, 10 years on, the United States and the European Union have done nothing to reunite the Palestinian siege survivors - whose exile to Europe and Gaza they had faci ...
- Simulating an Iranian attack on Israel - why?
Alan Harts speculates on whether a planned US-Israeli exercise simulating an Iranian missile strike on Israel is intended to pull the rug from under the "I'm-more-Israeli-than-you" Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, or to prepare US forces for a doomsday situation in the Middle East ...
- Graphene offers clear window on liquids
BBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...
- Rival teams shared in Nobel celebration
Science: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
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Talking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
- Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sector
Earth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
- Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...
Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...
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- The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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- As Farms Bite the Dust, “MegadroughtR ...
“This summer is worse than last; forest fires have already broken last year’s records. The rains haven’t come, and temperature records are falling like leaves from a dried-up tree. Springs, wells and irrigation ditches are bone dry. Farms are withering. We’ve all h ...
- Perilous New Vegas Water Pipeline Claims A Life
“Just six miles from where the Hoover Dam holds back the largest reservoir in the nation, workers are struggling against solid rock, geologic faults and seeping water to construct an intake tunnel to keep drinking water flowing from shrinking Lake Mead to thirsty Las Vegas. Their work in a ...
- Water supply lines for rural farms
“The Municipality of Abu Dhabi City will supply fresh water to 1,334 registered rural farms at Dhaharat Al Teeb and Al Wafiya for five hours a day through a new supply line. “The supply started on Wednesday is a bid to curb water wastage. Accordingly, the municipality will cease supp ...
- Ranchers, farmers seeking solutions to U.S. wa ...
“Texas cattle rancher Gary Price knows what it is like to worry about water. “With 2,500 acres of rough range land situated about an hour south of Dallas, Price relies on rain-fed soils to provide the hearty grass forage he needs to fatten his cattle. When the animals are sold at gro ...
- 8K homes get bulk water supply while others suffer
“With most city residents struggling to get proper water supply, around 7,000 to 8,000 residences in the city are reportedly water metre-less and getting supply in bulk on flat rates. Sources in the Chandigarh municipal corporation say since the supply in these areas is given in bulk, wast ...
- Solidarity With Hungry Workers
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released a video continuing his support of postal workers across the country who are demanding Congress amend a 2006 mandate to prefund pension benefits for workers to the tune of $5.5 billion per year. On Monday, Congressman Kucinich hosted ten postal wo ...
- Kucinich: I Agree with Jimmy Carter
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released a video calling attention to an OpEd in The New York Times by former President Jimmy Carter titled, “Cruel and Unusual Record.” In the video Kucinich states, “I agree with President Carter when he says America’s violations of international human ...
- ICYMI: Pakistani Objection to U.S. Drones puts ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 29, 2012) – Please find below an interview and an article recently published by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a non-profit organization funded by the Potter Foundation, and dedicated to raising the standard of journalism through high quality investigative reporti ...
- Kucinich Announces Academy Appointments
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) announced today that four students from the 10th Congressional District nominated to military academies have been offered and have accepted appointments for the class of 2016. The following students will join military academies in the 2012-2013 academic year: ...
- The Fed “Twists” Again. Like it Did Last Summe ...
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after the Federal Reserve announced it would commit $267 billion to continue Operation Twist, a program to keep long-term interest rates low. The program was named after the 1960’s song by Chubby Checker, a popular song du ...
- The Truth about Richard Muller
"I was never a skeptic" - Richard Muller, 2011 Richard Muller has never been a skeptic, at best he had a moment of intellectual honesty towards skeptics when he acknowledged Steve McIntyre's debunking of Mann's Hockey Stick, only to later dismiss this as irrelevant to the global warming debate ...
- The Truth about Judith Curry
Judith Curry is not a skeptic but a hurricane alarmist who had an alleged epiphany after Climategate and now seeks to be some sort of arbiter of scientific integrity. Her history of trust building includes accusing world leading hurricane expert, Dr. William Gray of "brain fossilization" and t ...
- The Truth about Skeptical Science
Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
- Mastering the Firefox Search Bar
As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...
- The Truth about SourceWatch
SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...
- In pictures: Rainforests to palm oil
In late May I had the opportunity to fly from Kota Kinabalu in Malaysian Borneo to Imbak Canyon and back. These are some of my photos. Historically Borneo was covered by a range of habitats, including dense tropical rainforests, swampy peatlands, and natural grasslands. But its lowland forests h ...
- Saving Indonesia's monkey with a heart-shaped ...
North Sulawesi is one of the world's most beautiful places. Verdant forests and stunning coral reefs, combined with high levels of species endemism, make it a top biodiversity hotspot. But pressure on the region's natural resources is mounting. Mining projects, conversion of forests for plantati ...
- The rarest rhino's last stand
Trekking through deep mud and sawgrass we find a stinking wallow. The elite rangers, dressed completely in black despite the tropical heat, mark the site with the GPS unit, measure the mucky puddle's depth, and move on. This is the first sign of one of the planet's rarest animals—the Javan ...
- Forest and environmental news in Indonesian
Mongabay.com is pleased to announce the launch of Mongabay-Indonesia (mongabay.co.id), an environmental news web site published in Indonesian. The site was officially unveiled Saturday, May 19 at an event in Jakarta.
- Photos: Uncontacted Amazon tribes documented f ...
Aerial surveys of a remote area of rainforest along the Colombia-Brazil border have produced the first photographic evidence of uncontacted tribes, according to a conservation group that works to safeguard indigenous territories and culture. The photos, released by the Amazon Conservation Team ( ...
- Tending the body’s microbial garden
One of the arguments for raw milk is that bacteria are not all bad, as some germ theorists might seem to imply. It’s about time science took note of the role of beneficial bacteria in maintaining and enhancing bodily health. … Continue reading →
- Crackdown on raw meat dishes
From CBC news: “At least one Windsor chef plans to protest the local health unit’s crackdown on raw meat dishes. Rino Bortolin will serve raw meat dishes lamb tartare and lamb Carpaccio this Canada Day weekend. “Until an inspector tells … Continue reading →
- Good cop, bad cop games in Maine
From David E. Gumpert on The Complete Patient blog: “The good-cop-bad-cop routine is one of the oldest in law enforcement. Talk with me, goes the advice to the criminal suspect from the nice-guy cop, or I’ll send in our junk … Continue reading →
- Vernon Herschberger to face jury trial over ra ...
From the Reedsburg Times-Press: “BARABOO — The legal arguments of an Amish dairy farmer representing himself in a criminal case miss the mark, according to a Sauk County judge. “The defendant fails to develop any argument that makes sense,” Sauk … Continue reading →
- Cosmetic use of milk goes way back
From Hella Delicious: “…Cleopatra is renowned for being an incredibly beautiful woman, many people put this down to her habit of bathing in fermented mares’ milk and modern research has discovered the benefits of lactic acid on cleansing skin and … Continue reading →
- Airbus to Assemble Jets in Mobile, Alabama; St ...
Airbus is hoping to take US market share from rival Boeing by assembling jets in Mobile, Alabama. Airbus is a French-based company, jointly run by French and German management. Senator Rick Shelby (Alabama) is supportive of the move. Boeing, as one might have expected, issued complaints of ...
- Faber Says Germany Should Abandon the Euro
Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report, spoke with Bloomberg Television’s Betty Liu this morning and said that, “If I were running Germany, I would have abandoned the eurozone last week.” Faber went on to say, “In the case of Greece, one should have kicked out Greece three ...
- US Manufacturing ISM Contracts for First Time ...
US Manufacturing contracted this month as reported in the June 2012 Manufacturing ISM Report On Business® Economic activity in the manufacturing sector contracted in June for the first time since July 2009; however, the overall economy grew for the 37th consecutive month, say the nation's su ...
- China Manufacturing Weakens 8th Month; Will th ...
The global economy led by Europe and China continues its downward path. Will the US follow? First let's take a look at China. Markit reports China Manufacturing PMI Declines 8th Consecutive Month. Key points New orders fall to greatest extent in seven months, as export orders slu ...
- Email From Lead Analyst at EIA on Petroleum Usage
In response to my post 3-Month Petroleum Usage Chart for March, April, May Shows 14 Years of Supply Demand Growth has Vanished (with charts from Tim Wallace) I received a nice email from James Beck, Lead Analyst, Weekly Petroleum Status Report Team, Energy Information Administration (EIA). H ...
- BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 6, 2012
BFP Nightly Quote “If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington International Newsworthy US Rejected Iranian ‘No Nukes’ Offer in 2005 Israel ‘Super Ready’ to Attack Iran Russ ...
- BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 24, 2012
BFP Nightly Quote “But, ah, think what you do when you run in debt: you give another power over your liberty.” – Benjamin Franklin International Newsworthy Iran Invites Assad to Attend Non-Aligned Movement Summit Fearful Iran Hawks Flap Harder Iran ‘Gives Guidance’ to US Ship i ...
- Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
Quebec Moves toward Martial Law to Crush Student Movement A student movement in the Canadian province of Quebec was sparked with a strike in February of 2012 against the government’s planned 75% increase in tuition. For over three months, students have protested night and day, with over 20 ...
- BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 23, 2012
BFP Nightly Quote “War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that ’tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,’ like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. W ...
- Afghan Heroin Myths and Facts Recapped & Simpl ...
Yesterday I wrote a piece on the real lords of Afghan poppies and heroin operations. I am thankful to all your supportive feedback. Of course not all feedbacks were positive, and I truly understand and accept that. Many of the critics came from mainstream media and establishment’s loyal believer ...
- Is Obama a Fraud?
The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008. And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
- Today’s Stories
Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
- The Tyranny of American Healthcare
For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations? Let me give … Continue reading →
- Today’s Stories
Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
- Today’s Stories
Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
- The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
- Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
- Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
- Presentation to the National Economists Club
Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
- Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...
- Life's building blocks found in a ring around ...
Complex carbon-based molecules, including many that are important for life on Earth, could have formed in the early solar system. That's according to a paper by Fred Ciesla and Scott Sandford in this ...
- Pint sized rocket
A rocket has been developed that could get a spaceprobe to the moon on just 100g of fuel Some tasks can only be done by a large satellite, but there are many others which can be done as well if not b...
- Seeing Around the Corner
Using a laser, a super fast camera and a clever algorithm, researchers at MIT have developed the ability to see, in 3D, around a corner. Writing in the journal Nature Communications, Andreas Velten a...
- Drugs in sewage
Drug use in populations, both legal and illegal, is important to know about for health and law and order reasons. Whilst it is relatively easy to keep tabs on the amount of legal drug use by asking ph...
- Messages from Mercury
The MESSENGER spacecraft completed one Earth year of orbiting Mercury this month, and two papers published in the journal Science highlight some of the surprising scientific results from our solar sys...
- On June 11th 1963, Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnam ...
On June 11th 1963, Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, sat down in the middle of a busy intersection in Saigon, covered himself in gasoline and He then ignited a match, and set himself on fire. Đức burned to death in a matter of minutes, and he was immortalized in a famous photograph ...
- nickturse:Despite all the recent attention t ...
nickturse: Despite all the recent attention to a possible war with Iran, just about nobody has noticed that President Obama put forward a shocking new war-making policy In his latest article, Tom Engelhardt explores Obama’s extreme position that one-ups Dick Cheney’s radical “1% Doctrine. Cal ...
- nprfreshair:“There are medical consequences ...
nprfreshair: “There are medical consequences to obesity, but there are also psychological, social and financial ones that matter, that really bear down on people and can really make their lives very, very unhappy.” — Kelly Brownell [complete interview here] Percent of Obese Americans by State ...
- nickturse:A photograph of a man holding an A ...
nickturse: A photograph of a man holding an AK-47 found in a house in Marja. Taliban propaganda and audio tapes were also found in the residence. United States Marines and Afghan forces continued Operation Moshtarak, meaning “joint operation,” to retake the city of Marja from Taliban forces. T ...
- bostonreview:The cover of the July/August 20 ...
bostonreview: The cover of the July/August 2012 issue.
Vulnerability Assessment Team: Electronic voting machines (Photo credit: Argonne National Laboratory)
English: Signpost warning Israelis of forbidden entry to Area A near Hermesh. Literal translation: This way leads to Area 'A' located in control of the Palestinian Authority. Entrance of Israeli citizens into Area 'A' is forbidden, life-endangering, and a criminal offense (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Map of West Bank and Gaza Strip (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Skeptics (Photo credit: Newtown grafitti)
English: Binyamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, lighting Chanuka candles at the Israel bible quiz for adults. With him are Gideon Saar, education minister and Yosef Shaar, bible quiz question writer. Binyanei Hauma Jerusalem (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Rav Aluf Binyamin "Benny" Gantz, the 20th Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defence Forces, receiving rav-aluf (Lt. General) rank from the Defense minister Ehud Barak and the Prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Region administered by the Palestinian National Authority (under Oslo 2), shown in the context of Israel's 1948 and 1967 borders (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Meir Dagan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - JUNE 05: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the weekly cabinet meeting June 5, 2011 in Jerusalem. The meeting comes following accusations against former Mossad chief Meir Dagan of involvement in a political plot to topple Netanyahu. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
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