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Thomas Paine

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

Monday, July 30, 2012

30 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 13: Occupy Wall Street p...NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 13: Occupy Wall Street protestors are arrested by New York City police officers during a demonstration across the street from the New York Stock Exchange on April 13, 2012 in New York City. In preparation for massive May Day demonstrations, Occupy Wall Street protestors continue to hold weekly 'Spring Training' demonstrations. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)Golden DawnGolden Dawn (Photo credit: unNickrMe)

Stop NATO

  • Moving Beyond Militarization: Northeast Asia N ...
    The Hankyoreh July 25, 2012 Moving Beyond Militarization: Northeast Asia needs collective security, not conflict By Honda Hirokuni Professor of Economics, Dokkyo University ==== Japanese administrations over recent decades have accepted US demands and transformed the original self-defense forces ...
  • Aggressive U.S. Policy From East To South Asia ...
    The News July 28, 2012 Aggressive US foreign policy Brian Cloughley Air travel isn’t much fun these days, what with searches, pat-downs, holdups, crowds and queues, so it’s good when sometimes you can have a laugh while travelling, which I did when reading a newspaper report. It made me hoot wit ...
  • Afghanistan: U.S., NATO, Pax Americana Face Defeat
    Frontier Post July 28, 2012 American and NATO misadventures Abid Mustafa After having fought for more than a decade in Afghanistan, America has yet to show any considerable gains for its brutal occupation. Nonetheless, there are some diehard American strategists who beg to differ, and argue that ...
  • Interview on Syria and U.S.-Saudi Arabia-Qatar ...
    KGNU (Boulder, Colorado) July 27, 2012 Hemispheres Interview with Ibrahim Kazerooni and Rob Prince AUDIO
  • U.S. Campaign Against Syria: Years In The Making
    Stop NATO July 28, 2012 U.S. Campaign Against Syria: Years In The Making Rick Rozoff Those occupying seats of power in Western capitals and their complicit film editors of politics and history in the corporate mass media, who decide when the narrative begins, how it proceeds and where it inevita ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Overwhelming Evidence Mounts Indicating Colora ...
    Infowars.com July 28, 2012 It is now clear the Colorado shooting is a staged event. It mirrors previous shootings, including the assassination of Robert Kennedy blamed on the drugged patsy Sirhan Sirhan. Recently produced evidence reveals that Sirhan was not the shooter and he was framed. In a f ...
  • US Army Orders Riot Gear As Build Up For Civil ...
    Alex Thomas | An early June 2012 solicitation posted on the FedBizOpps.gov website details the US Armies need and eventual purchase of a wide variety of riot control gear including riot shields, batons, and body armor.
  • Education is the Key to Independence in Americ ...
    Joe Joseph | There is a tremendous sense of impending doom as the "economic recovery" (fueled completely by government money) collapses, thousands of drones fly through the skies of our great nation, and rampant corruption infects everything from government, to banking, to society itself.
  • Oregon criminalizes permaculture; claims state ...
    Mike Adams Natural News July 30, 2012 There’s nothing more refreshing than standing in a cool, summertime rain shower. Or bathing in the warm sunlight on a crisp spring day. Or inhaling the cool autumn air, fresh with the scent of turning leaves and pine needles. These things — rainwater, sunlig ...
  • Illuminati Occult Symbolism in The 2012 London ...
    WorldTruth.tv July 30, 2012 If you were scratching your head watching the Olympic opening ceremony, and thinking to yourself, “what on earth has this got to do with sport”? then you were not alone. If, on the other hand, you are like me, and understand how these ancient bloodlines use the power ...

FRS

  • “Suppressing Protest: Human Rights Viola ...
    Law school clinics criticize NYPD response to Occupy protests 7/25/2012 NEW YORK, July 25 (Reuters) – New York police officers have used excessive force, made unjustified arrests and engaged in pervasive surveillance in violation of the rights of Occupy Wall Street protesters, according to ...
  • “Suppressing Protest: Human Rights Viola ...
    Law school clinics criticize NYPD response to Occupy protests 7/25/2012 NEW YORK, July 25 (Reuters) – New York police officers have used excessive force, made unjustified arrests and engaged in pervasive surveillance in violation of the rights of Occupy Wall Street protesters, according to ...
  • Crisis breeds xenophobia in Greece as national ...
    Jul 11, 2012 by RussiaToday Greece is in turmoil. Violent clashes have shaken the city of Agrinio in the west. Supporters of the far-right Golden Dawn party fought with anarchists, leaving cars and shop windows smashed, and one person injured. Golden Dawn’s influence is rising. It gained a ...
  • Crisis breeds xenophobia in Greece as national ...
    Jul 11, 2012 by RussiaToday Greece is in turmoil. Violent clashes have shaken the city of Agrinio in the west. Supporters of the far-right Golden Dawn party fought with anarchists, leaving cars and shop windows smashed, and one person injured. Golden Dawn’s influence is rising. It gained a ...
  • Analysis: The myth of Palestinian neutrality i ...
    [Further signs of changing alignments from the traditional alliances of some Palestinian leadership with the Assad regime in Syria. -- Frontlines ed.] ———————————————————- Syria &#82 ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

  • Life is change and change is life
    And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
  • Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
    "Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
  • De-pinkifying breast cancer
    There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
  • Why the occupation?
    You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
  • Cleansing after Yom Kippur
    Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo

Associated Content

  • Zimmerman Surrenders to Authorities
    George Zimmerman is back behind bars.Contributor: TJ Larson Published: Jun 03, 2012
  • Why Does Florida Have Repeated Election Problems?
    Florida is having voter controversies this year and the general election isn't even here yet.Contributor: William Browning Published: Jun 03, 2012
  • Texas Teacher of the Year Arrested for Sexting ...
    John McDaniel, 32, days after being named Teacher of the Year, is arrested for inappropriate relationship with student. Recent cases like this have prompted Texas to re-examine its policy on social media.Contributor: Dori Starnes Published: Jun 01, 2012
  • Hold onto Your Fountain Drinks, New Yorkers!
    Bloomberg's administration propose a ban on sugary drinks in order to combat rising obesity in NYC.Contributor: Brianna Peterson Published: May 31, 2012
  • Defense of Marriage Act Ruled Unconstitutional ...
    The Defense of Marriage Act (DoMA) has been ruled unconstitutional yet again. Coming on the heels of two California federal judges ruling DoMA unconstitutional, the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals has now also issued a rulingContributor: Christopher Beheler Published: May 31, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • The 2000-2004 North American Drought was the W ...
    Welcome to the 'megadrought' An analysis of past climate data published yesterday in the journal Nature Geoscience paints a less-than-rosy picture for the U.S., Mexico, and Canada in the 21st century. The 2000-2004 dry spell was the worst drought in the region in 800 years, the researchers clai ...
  • FYI: Will Athletes Ever Stop Breaking Records?
    World record after world record after world record Even if athletes never got any stronger or faster, and if their techniques and training never changed, they would still break records from time to time. That’s because the ability of each person who decides to compete, and the outcome of each c ...
  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, J ...
    A great roundup for you to end this steamy July week. We've got this tiny monkey, plus the world's oldest orangutan. There's awe-inspiring space pics and sassy tech infographics. It's all inside. Enjoy! Click to launch the gallery.
  • Images of the Week, July 23-27, 2012
  • Archive Gallery: Fun with Magnetism
    Incredible lifting power, at-home experiments, pretty patterns and more My second grade teacher had a pair of supermagnets. She wowed us with them one day, lifting a metal barstool by just holding onto the tiny silver nub. We were allowed to play with them only when closely supervised. Apparent ...

Veterans Today

  • Alexander Cockburn and the hypocrisy of &#8216 ...
    Alexander Cockburn ripped through mealy-mouthed platitudes about “the urgency of non-proliferation” the way George Orwell ripped through earlier examples of double-speak.
  • U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
    The Missile Defense Agency is announcing the award of a sole-source cost-plus-incentive-fee contract action to Raytheon Missile Systems Co., Tucson, Ariz., under contract HQ0276-10-C-0005, modification P00030.
  • America’s Second Great Depression
    Now that the illusiveness of America’s bubble economy has been revealed, millions of Americans remain jobless; many without hope. The principle factor accounting for the exportation of millions of jobs from U.S. soil has been due to America’s unfair trade policy, which despite common mispercepti ...
  • Breaking DNA News – Elvis Pressley Was N ...
    DNA Study Busts Myth that One Million Appalachians are of Turkish Descent. Americans Now Saved from being Tagged as Turkish Deniers.
  • Home Operators Claim VA Misled Them in Contrac ...
    Tara Ingram says she and her mother spent thousands of dollars installing sprinklers and making other improvements to ensure their house would qualify for a Veterans Affairs contract to shelter homeless veterans.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Jet stream set to spoil summer again
    After a fine and warm weekend across much of the country, temperatures today have reached 80 degrees Fahrenheit in Bridlington in East Yorkshire for the first time this summer - although similar values were reached in places for a time during late May. It's certainly come as a welcome relief af ...
  • What's causing our extreme weather? Is it unpr ...
    The awful weather which continues to affect the UK led yesterday to the Great Yorkshire show being cancelled (because of the weather) for the first time in its 154 year history. And on Monday, serious flash flooding devastated parts of the Calder valley for the second time in as many weeks. ...
  • Parts of UK at risk of renewed flooding
    UPDATE at 6.30pm Lastest information from American GFS model shifts emphasis for heavy rain towards the earlier ECMWF solution detailed below, i.e with much of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire at risk of some of the highest rainfall totals. ENDS Amber alerts are in force for parts of the UK tomorro ...
  • Poor summer weather to continue well into July
    UPDATE at 5PM According to the Met Office, averaged across the UK, June 2012 has been the wettest since records began in 1910, the coolest since 1991, and the second dullest since records began (record for lowest sunshine in June is still 1987). ENDS It will come as no surprise that June in Y ...
  • Blame the jet stream for return of heavy rain
    After a short spell of fine and warm weather in the last few days, Atlantic weather fronts are once again expected to spread wind and rain across the country tonight and tomorrow, leading us into a fourth successive weekend washout. According to Philip Eden, writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Geopolitics 40 Years Ago: USSR 'Beat' US in B-Ball
    Bloomberg has not one but two features recounting the famous basketball match in which the Soviet team famously beat the US team at the 1972 Munich Olympics by a single point forty years ago--albeit with a lot of controversy. Alike Pacquiao versus Bradley, the result is eminently contestable. In ...
  • Chuck Schumer Gets Misty on PRC FDI...in Canada
    With apologies to Johnny Mathis: PRC...you're as nasty as a kitten bred by...Dick Cheney While that may be the intro to the theme song of Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY/China Suxland), rest assured that Democrats are far from alone in declaring open season on China and its assumed unfair trade ...
  • Dirigisme 2012: Hollande v Hyundai, France v Korea
    You've got to hand it to the South Koreans. They've managed to outmanoeuvre everyone else in setting up FTAs with nearly every other region that they have substantial export markets in. While the trade concessions it gains may be comparatively small in this day and age of near-universal WTO memb ...
  • Need More Proof Patent Systems Favour the West?
    It's sad but true that the more you know about our world, the more disillusioned you become. However, in the name of normative inquiry, I am duty-bound to bring you the truth (no matter how hard it hurts). Today we return to that old IPE chestnut, global patent regimes. Recently, the distinguish ...
  • Solar Wars: Now China Will Investigate US Firms
    When countries fight over trade, you usually assume that they have meaningful things to fight over. That is, there is something at stake. I am thus befuddled by the likes of the US, China and the European Union going at it tooth and nail over solar panels when (a) the global market for them is s ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Does Barack Obama Expect The Upcoming Election ...
    What is Barack Obama preparing for?  What does Barack Obama actually expect to happen in November?  Does he believe that the upcoming election could actually spark rampant civil unrest inside the United States?  The conditions are certainly ripe for civil unrest in this country.  ...
  • 17 Reasons Why Those Hoping For A Recession In ...
    If you were hoping for a recession in 2012, then you are going to be very happy with the numbers you are about to see.  The U.S. economy is heading downhill just in time for the 2012 election.  Retail sales have fallen for three months in a row for the first time since 2008, manu ...
  • The Audit The Fed Bill Gets Passed By The Hous ...
    On Wednesday, Ron Paul's bill to audit the Federal Reserve was overwhelmingly passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.  The vote was 327 to 98.  You would think that a bill with such overwhelming support would easily become law.  But it won't, because Barack Obama and the Dem ...
  • 100 Million Poor People In America And 39 Othe ...
    Every single day more Americans fall into poverty.  This should deeply alarm you no matter what political party you belong to and no matter what your personal economic philosophy is.  Right now, approximately 100 million Americans are either "poor" or "near poor".  For a lot of p ...
  • 12 Signs That Spain Is Shifting Gears From Rec ...
    Where have we seen this before?  Bond yields soar above the 7 percent danger level.  Check.  The stock market crashes to new lows.  Check.  Industrial activity plummets like a rock and the economy contracts.  Check.  The unemployment rate skyrockets to more than 20 percent.  Chec ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Merkel loses support on handling of debt crisis
    Support has sharply declined for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decisions regarding the eurozone’s spiraling debt crisis, a survey suggests. The poll, conducted by YouGov and printed in the Monday edition of Bild newspaper, found only 33 percent in favor of Merkel’s stance, Reuters reported. ...
  • It’s not just Homeland Security: US Army order ...
    It’s more than just stockpiling surveillance drones to spy on US citizens: the United States Army is attempting to procure an arsenal of riot gear in case the military must go toe-to-toe with civilians on US soil. A solicitation for weapons posted on the official government website for federal b ...
  • Austerity At The London Olympics: Gold Medals ...
    As every Olympic athlete knows, size matters. The London 2012 medals are the largest ever in terms of both weight and diameter – almost double the medals from Beijing. However, just as equally well-known is that quality beats quantity and that is where the current global austerity, coin-clipping ...
  • China drops controversial pipeline after viole ...
    China’s government has bowed down to public pressure and abandoned an unpopular industrial waste pipeline project, just hours after a street protest against it, which turned violent. China’s coastal city of Qidong saw a thousands-strong march of angry protesters clash with police and rampage in ...
  • European crisis hits many US states hard
    Europe drags the United States of America to the bottom, languishing from the global financial crisis. Tourism, trade and the raw materials industry, which previously supported the economy, are no longer in demand. Close economic relations between the US and the EU have brought the European cris ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Letter to politicians demanding Royal Commissi ...
    In my previous post I called on everyone to write to politicians to demand action to ensure that John Pirona’s tragic death is the last one. I am happy to help make this important job easier. Here’s a draft letter if you don’t have time to write your own. Or use it as a start [...]
  • Callous church leaders kill another victim
    The suicide death of clergy sex abuse victim John Pirona has devastated an entire community in the Hunter region of NSW, and saddened and enraged his fellow victims around the country. The news was made all the more tragic because John disappeared nearly a week before his body was found, leaving ...
  • Lynn sentenced to jail for his crimes. Now, wh ...
    At last. A church leader has been sentenced to jail for participating in the worldwide catholic church conspiracy to cover up child sex crimes. A conspiracy which has endangered countless millions of children. And ruined hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of lives. And directly led to the ...
  • Unholy Silence of Church leaders
    Last week a documentary titled Unholy Silence was aired in Australia. It detailed Australian church leaders covering up child sex offences by their priests, and examined two suicides resulting directly from a priest’s abuse, and the callous re-abuse of his victims by church leaders. The Australi ...
  • Anything Less Than A Royal Commission Is Just ...
    For far too long Australians have been happy to turn their backs on the untold suffering of thousands of victims of church-enabled sexual predators. But ignoring the problem simply ensures it continues, and gives rapists the message that they have a right to destroy as many innocent lives as the ...

WL Central

  • 2012-07-30 WikiLeaks: Activist or Journalist? ...
    On Saturday evening, what appeared to be a New York Times op-ed piece by Bill Keller supporting WikiLeaks emerged on twitter. For WL supporters, this was too good to be true, as someone who had shown much animosity toward WikiLeaks appeared to be speaking in their defense. This turned out to be ...
  • 2012-07-30 WikiLeaks, Activist or Journalist?; ...
    On Saturday evening what appeared to be a New York Times op-ed piece by Bill Keller emerged on twitter. For those that support WikiLeaks, it was too good to be true, as a man who had shown much animosity toward WikiLeaks appeared to be speaking in defense of the organization. It turned out to be ...
  • 2012-07-29 The undermining of Canadian values ...
    The Minister of Public Safety in Canada, Vic Toews, recently made comments about Omar Khadr's potential transfer to Canada from Guantánamo Bay, where he has been incarcerated since 2002 when he was just 15 years old. The comment by Toews comes after the US formally requested a transfer in April ...
  • 2012-07-26 WikiLeaks News Update: Baltasar Gar ...
    WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 600 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 597 days. - 37 days at the Ecuadorian Embassy. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 794 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without ...
  • 2012-07-25 My thoughts about the Baltasar Garz ...
    By Nikolas Kozloff. On a certain level, I wonder whether Baltasar Garzón, the Spanish judge who is now defending WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, agreed to take the assignment for personal reasons. In recent years, Garzón has come to international attention for pursuing a number of high profile ...

U N News

  • UN envoy calls for repatriation of last child ...
    A top United Nations official has renewed her call on Canada and the United States to transfer Omar Khadr, who has spent a decade at Guantánamo Bay as of today and is the last child soldier still being held at the US detention facility.
  • Overall picture of coca cultivation in Colombi ...
    The area used to cultivate coca in Colombia has risen three per cent in 2011 over the previous year, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which added that the overall picture remained stable for the raw material used to produce the illegal drug cocaine.
  • UN expert urges US authorities to stop executi ...
    An independent United Nations human rights expert has urged United States authorities to stop the execution of two people with psychosocial disabilities who are scheduled to be put to death tomorrow in the states of Georgia and Texas.
  • UN voices concern over thousands of Haitians f ...
    The United Nations refugee agency today voiced concern over the number of people from Haiti and other Caribbean countries who have risked their lives trying to escape by sea from difficult living situations in their homelands.
  • Feature: UN official sees first-hand New York ...
    Upper Manhattan is not the usual stomping ground for the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the part of the UN charged with helping in global efforts against illicit drugs, crime and terrorism.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • The Magic Weed
    Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
  • Blood Coltan
    Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
  • CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
    Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
  • Hangar 18: The UFO Warehouse
    Not only was debris from many UFO crashes allegedly shipped to the base, but from the late 1940s until the end of the late 1960s, all reports regarding UFOs were conducted at Wright-Patterson for the military's official UFO investigation Project Blue Book.
  • HAARP – Everything You Wanted to Know – Nick B ...
    You might be surprised at all of the constructive uses HAARP could be used for, but will be even more surprised by its focus on weapons and military applications, such as weather modification, geological disruption such as triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and perhaps most controver ...

Rewilding Institute

  • Canid hybridization: contemporary evolution in ...
    Canid hybridization: contemporary evolution in human-modified landscapes Astrid V. Stronen1,*, Nathalie Tessier1, Hélène Jolicoeur2, Paul C. Paquet3, Michel Hénault4, Mario Villemure5, Brent R. Patterson6, Tim Sallows7, Gloria Goulet8,François-Joseph Lapointe1 First published online: July 25, 20 ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – The Myth ...
    The Myth of the Environmental Movement ©2012 Dave Foreman In the years following Earth Day, environmentalism, once regarded as the self-serving indulgence of a privileged elite, became ‘America’s cause’…. –Phil Shabecoff - A Fierce Green Fire: The American   Environmental Movement Th ...
  • Sea Shepherd News
    Letter and excerpts from latest Sea Shepherd newsletter - Dear Friend of Sea Shepherd, Day 47 as a prisoner in Germany. My detainment has raised a lot of awareness for our cause. Citizens in Germany and all around the world have been very supportive. The only one who does not seem supportive is ...
  • A Radio Interview with Dave Foreman
    Listen to Ken Rose of http://www.pantedmonkey.org/ talk with Dave recently on his radio show What Now. Broadcast on KOWS Radio Occidental every Monday at 11 AM Pacific Time, Ken offers a fascinating collection of interviews with accomplished thinkers, writers, artists, farmers and scientists add ...
  • END THE ATTACK ON U.S. WILDERNESS AND THE 1964 ...
    Dr. Paul F. Torrence of Northern Arizona University created this petition asking the U.S. Senate  to stop H.R. 4089 from any further consideration: http://signon.org/sign/end-the-attack-on-us?source=s.em.cr&r_by=329647&mailing_id=4210 Your help is needed to block a vicious and po ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • AMERICA'S KIDS... What's Wrong With Them And H ...
    What in the world has happened to the children of America?  All over the United States kids are acting like half-crazed monsters, but most people seem to think that this is "normal"!  American kids today are selfish, self-centered, sadistic, cruel, disrespectful, disobedient to the ...
  • Politicizing Gun Gontrol?...This is a MUST Rea ...
    The aftermath of the Aurora, Colorado shootings has been thick with calls to avoid “politicizing” the tragedy. That is code, essentially, for “don’t talk about reforming our gun control laws.” ~ Erza Klein read more
  • NRA Memberships 'Support' Government Control o ...
    The idea that the U.S. Federal Government or anyone approved by Washington D.C. should have the authority to determine who is “dangerous” is itself a “dangerous” idea. ~ Kevin Craig read more
  • The Most Pro-Gun Low-Crime City in the United ...
    The anti-Second Amendment crowd is on the warpath again. PBS’ Bill Moyers, who served as White House Press Secretary in the Lyndon Johnson administration from 1965 to 1967, called the NRA “the enabler of death.” ~ Gary DeMar read more
  • Nuclear Weapons Trucking Routes in the US
    “Is that it?” My wife leans forward in the passenger seat of our sensible hatchback and points ahead to an 18-wheeler that’s hauling ass toward us on a low-country stretch of South Carolina’s Highway 125. We’ve been heading west from I-95 toward the Savannah River Site nuclear facility on th ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Plan for Locations
    While there are warnings for many types of potential disasters, many emergencies and disasters occur without any warning. Since you can’t predict where you will be for disasters, it is important to have plans and supplies for the locations you and your household go to regularly. Planning ahead w ...
  • ALL Water In Oregon Belongs To The State
    “When something is wrong, you just, as an American citizen, you have to put your foot down and say, ‘This is wrong; you just can’t take away anymore of my rights and from here on in, I’m going to fight it.” Gary Harrington, of Eagle Point, Oregon said that he will never stop fighting the [...]
  • Make Drinking Water Safe with Bleach
    Water. We can’t live without it. Not for long – only about 3 days without any source of it (including any water or moisture that is in your foods). In fact, water is the one thing that we need the most, to survive. Far too often, survival minded preppers think of and concentrate on s ...
  • Hurricane Preparedness Checklist
    Preparing for a hurricane primarily involves ensuring the safety of food, water, and medical supplies. Take precautions for storing water and ensuring the safety of your food and medical supplies for you and your pets. It is important to have a plan in place for emergency medication and medical ...
  • How To Get IP Address Of Websites
    When you type into your web browser the name of a website, for example www.ModernSurvivalBlog.com, before you actually get to the site there is a process that takes place in the background that translates the name of the site to the IP address of the site (a number), like 184.168.238.139 The num ...

Fast Company

  • Vacation, Unplugged
    A vacation with one thumb on the iPhone at all times is no vacation at all--and it can actually hurt your business. Here are practical steps to take to totally unplug and get the most of your time off. When Carson Tate tells clients to follow their bliss, she’s not invoking some new-age hooey. I ...
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  • Big Data On Campus Is Like A Keg Stand For You ...
    Take a crash course in digital humanities with McGill professor Stefan Sinclair. In the burgeoning academic discipline of digital humanities, creating software tools is as important as getting published in a journal. To better understand what this means, take a peek at the pedagogical playbook o ...
  • "Like Sonny And Cher--With More Google Analytics"
    What's it like to cofound a startup with your significant other? To find out, we talk to the creators of UnsubscribeDeals, a repellent for all that unwanted daily deal email in your inbox.Edwin Hermawan and Lea Pische are the founders of UnsubscribeDeals, a service that gets rid of all those unw ...
  • Why No One Will Watch Your Crappy Corporate "V ...
    Those "Will It Blend?" videos of some guy throwing an iPhone in a blender and the instantly viral Shakeweight ads have millions and millions of views. Your company's new "viral" spot has 500. Here's what separates great branded video content from the flops. I get asked this question all the time ...

Jadaliyya

  • Last Week on Jadaliyya (July 23-29)
      This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes the most read articles and the latest videos. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series. My 50 Minutes with Manaf ...
  • Neither Allah, Nor Master
    An exploration of secularism and public religiosity in post-revolution Tunisia, Nadia el Fani's Neither Allah, Nor Master serves more as a vehicle for an intellectual who poses as a victim of Islamism. The film attempts to probe into the question of fasting and alcohol sales during the Islamic m ...
  • Morocco Reforms: Criminalizing Dissent
    After the protests on Sunday, police kidnapped and detained six activists (five men and one woman) in Casablanca. Laila Nassimi, the only female out of the group, was released on bail and her trial is due to resume on 3 August, along with the five others, all of whom were denied releas ...
  • مصطفى كامل والعثمانية القديمة
    تبدو كثرة الحديث اليوم عن "النموذج التركي" الذي يشير إلى نهضة أحدثتها قيادة حزب العدالة والتنمية للدولة التركية عبر عشر سنوات (2001-2012) نتاجاً لتعثر نماذج التحديث العربية ووقوعها أسيرة لجدليات العلمانية والإسلام العبثية، بدأت حالة "التوركومانيا Turkomania" كما أطلق عليها ال ...
  • My 50 Minutes with Manaf
    Tala was a friend of a friend. I met her in the early 2000s. Shortly afterward, she disappeared from the office. It turns out she got married. Some years later, during one of my regular visits to Syria, I was with a group of friends at one of the bustling new restaurant-bars that dotted Damas ...

mediagazer

  • #NBCFail: Journalist at The Independent has Tw ...
    Guy Adams / The Independent: #NBCFail: Journalist at The Independent has Twitter account suspended after complaining about NBC's coverage of London 2012 Olympics  —  On Friday afternoon, like every resident of America, I was not watching the Olympic opening ceremony.  Inste ...
  • Ford Foundation gives Washington Post $500,000 ...
    Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Ford Foundation gives Washington Post $500,000 grant for government-accountability reporting  —  A memo from The Washington Post leadership to staff says the grant of a half-million dollars will allow four new hires.  In May, the Ford Foundation gr ...
  • NBC Sports confirms to me they filed a complai ...
    Matthew Keys / @producermatthew: NBC Sports confirms to me they filed a complaint with Twitter because a user tweeted personal information about one of its executives.
  • Reporter shield protects Jobs biographer in Ap ...
    Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: Reporter shield protects Jobs biographer in Apple e-book case  —  A federal judge ruled earlier this month that the laws of reporter privilege mean that Walter Isaacson, the author of a popular Steve Jobs biography, doesn't have to hand over his ...
  • Jonah Lehrer Resigns From New Yorker After Mak ...
    Julie Bosman / Media Decoder: Jonah Lehrer Resigns From New Yorker After Making Up Dylan Quotes for His Book  —  Jonah Lehrer, the staff writer for The New Yorker who apologized in June for recycling his previous work in articles, blogs and his bestselling book “Imagine,&r ...

Chemtrail News

  • CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...
    I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
  • Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...
    Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
  • 10 mile long chemtrail 1 Video
    probably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
  • ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...
    Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
  • Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTube
    Chemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU

World News - Top Stories

  • Israel's Barak sees no threat of chemical ...
    JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's defense minister, in an apparent allusion to Syria, says that no country in the world would "dare" to attack the Jewish state with chemical weapons. Ehud Barak told Israel Radio on Monday that he's so sure that an attack won't happen that he's willing to turn in his ...
  • Romania’s Basescu survives impeachment vo ...
    Bucharest Romanian President Traian Basescu escaped impeachment Monday when a referendum on his removal from office fell short of the 50 per cent turnout threshold, despite a resounding vote for his dismissal. His arch rival Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta, who has led efforts to push B ...
  • Katie Couric: 'Ann Curry will land on her ...
    Katie Couric has predicted that Ann Curry will "land on her feet" after her exit from Today....
  • Afghan forces dying at 5 times rate of NA ...
    Kabul: Afghan security forces are dying at five times the rate of NATO soldiers in the country, new figures have revealed. The surge in deaths come as Taliban insurgents have increased attacks ahead of the proposed and planned withdrawal of foreign troops in 2014. According to...
  • Congo governor demands evaluation of rebe ...
    KINSHASA, Congo - The governor of Congo's North Kivu province says the government must evaluate the March 2009 agreement that has sparked a rebellion in the country's east. The March 23, 2009 peace deal paved the way for rebels to join the army. This year, hundreds of rebels defected from th ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
  • Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
    Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 7/26/12 - Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Banne ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Banned by Los Angeles City Council
  • 7/25/12 - Top 17 Hospitals' Positions on Medic ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - Top 17 Hospitals' Positions on Medical Marijuana - Our chart shows the top 17 US hospitals according to US News and World Report along with their responses to our question "Should marijuana be a medical option?" Read statements from such hospitals as Johns Hopk ...
  • 7/25/12 - Olympic Games Tourism Brings Prostit ...
    prostitution.procon.org - Olympic Games Tourism Brings Prostitution, Human Trafficking Concerns to London
  • 7/25/12 - LA City Council Bans Medical Marijua ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - LA City Council Bans Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in Unanimous Vote - 762 registered medical marijuana shops in Los Angeles (plus as many as 200 unregistered ones) will be given notice to shut down immediately after the City Council voted 14-0 in favor of the ban.
  • 7/25/12 - Candidate Speeches
    2012election.procon.org - Candidate Speeches - Read campaign speeches from Obama, Paul, Romney, and third party candidates from the Constitution Party (Virgil Goode), Green Party (Jill Stein), and Libertarian Party (Gary Johnson).

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Wealth & Compassion
    As riches grow, empathy for others seems to decline Daisy Grewal Who is more likely to lie, cheat, and steal—the poor person or the rich one? It’s temping to think that the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to act fairly. After all, if you already have enough for yourself, it’s easier t ...
  • Mapping Intelligence in the Brain
    A new study found that specific structures, primarily on the left side of the brain, are vital to general intelligence and executive function (the ability to regulate and control behavior). Brain regions that are associated with general intelligence and executive function are shown in color, wit ...
  • Dodos Solitaires
    This classic Marginalia on the dodo’s disappearance was first published in 1954 G. Evelyn Hutchinson The progress of Man in civilization, no less than his numerical increase, continually extends the geographical domain of Art by trenching on the territories of Nature, and hence the Zoologi ...
  • What’s the big idea?
    Dostoevsky tackled free will, Tolstoy the meaning of life – but is it still possible to write philosophical novels? Jennie Erdal At St Andrews University in the early 1970s, philosophy was still a required subject for entry into an honours course. To leave the way clear for reading modern langua ...
  • Rise of the Fictional Lecherous Prof.
    Stephanie Bernhard He’s crusty, grumpy, aging, and set in his outdated ways. He’s a he. Mortality is on his mind, and his will to bed women a fraction of his age increases in direct proportion to his fear of aging and death. He is, of course, the Humanities Professor archetype, and he is everywh ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Lessons from across the pond?
    When it comes to scientific research, the US and UK are the world’s undisputed heavyweights (see Rising Above the Gathering Storm and The Scientific Century).  The US invests heavily in quality research, and the UK relies on its productivity and ability to punch well above its weight.  Both nati ...
  • Sowing the seed corn…
    Having worked in environment and sustainable development policy for the past couple of years, my recent foray into the world of science and innovation policy represents something of a paradigm shift. Thankfully, the GovNet Science & Innovation conference presented me with an opportune idiot’ ...
  • A timely contribution to a fractious debate
    For a nation that’s only drilled three shale gas wells, and only hydraulically fractured (‘fracked’) one of them, the UK is remarkably engaged in the shale gas debate. The reasons for this are manifold, but two seem particularly salient.  Firstly, the UK’s lone instance of fracking for shale gas ...
  • Science’s Olympic legacy
    Credit: johnthescone Earlier this week I attended a Parliamentary Links Day on the subject of Science and Sport.  As an armchair athlete and a bit of an equipment geek I was looking forward to fuelling my conviction that but for the will and resources I would currently be entering my pre-Olympic ...
  • Making an open enterprise work
    Calls for media, business or government transparency have never been so noisy or so widespread. The mantra “sunlight is the best of disinfectants” (usually attributed to US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis) has been picked up as a cure for bad governance across the piece. But there is an err ...

NAU Resistance

  • End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...
    Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
  • Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ...
    "On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
  • The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ...
    "Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
  • Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase One
    We knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
  • Paving The Way For A North American Union
    By: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...

Gaea Times

  • Fans garner signatures in support of Kings XI ...
    CHANDIGARH - Dejected over the ouster of Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) from the Indian Premier League (IPL), fans of the team here have started a signature campaign to garner public support against the decision. They have constituted a group called Fans of Kings XI Punjab, consisting of students and ...
  • Even turtles and wasps need a little play time
    WASHINGTON - Watching kids and dogs play is not an alien sight. However, what about a turtle or even a wasp? Well, it seems they play, too. Gordon Burghardt, a psychology professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has discovered that many animals-not just dogs, cats, and monkeys-need ...
  • Oz PM Gillard says trade union official?s 9/11 ...
    CANBERRA - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed as “stupid and wrong” a senior union official’s belief that the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy, but refused to discipline him. Kevin Bracken, the president of the Victorian Trades Hall and secretary of the Mari ...
  • Turmeric boosts effect of chemo drug in head a ...
    WASHINGTON - Researchers with UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center have found that curcumin, the major component in the spice turmeric, when combined with the drug Cisplatin enhances the chemotherapy’s suppression of head and neck cancer cell growth. In India, women for years have been usi ...
  • Pakistan panel to review criminal case rulings ...
    ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is going to set up a commission that will allow people to file appeals on cases decided by courts since 1947, the year the country was born. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will announce the setting up of the commission which will review criminal cases and determine poss ...

TruthNews Australia

  • ‘Batman’ Gun Grab: The Port Arthur Massacre Pa ...
    The recent ‘Batman’ massacre in Colorado has evinced several characteristics of past gun related atrocities which, if anything, only serve to seriously undermine evidence against these alleged ‘lone gunman’. This incident is clearly becoming a precursor for a campaign to ...
  • Vaccination and your rights with Bronwyn Hanco ...
    Last week we looked at the question of vaccine efficacy and safety. Our discussion today focuses on the question of your rights. Are vaccines compulsory? Can day care centres legally refuse entry to unvaccinated children? Can schools demand vaccination records? Will parents of unvaccinated child ...
  • Meryl Dorey on vaccine safety - Part 2
    Part 2 of Meryl Dorey on vaccine safety
  • Meryl Dorey on vaccine safety - Part 1
    Our guest today for the 2nd hour is Meryl Dorey, who runs the Australian Vaccination Network, a non-profit organisation which sets out to inform people about the hidden facts regarding both the efficacy and safety of vaccines. As noted in last week's show, Meryl has been investigated by the He ...
  • Celebrating year zero of the eco-technic dicta ...
    To mark the introduction into Australia of the most barbaric, pointless and deceptive tax ever conjured up by a phony democracy, we bring you a replay of an interview with Christopher Monckton which dates back to January 2010. At that time Lord Monckton was touring Australia to talk about clim ...

Beacon

  • Uncovering Surprising Blooms in the Arctic
    A changing Arctic spells bad news for polar bears and other animals ©Michael Stephens Last summer I had the amazing opportunity to be on board the U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker Healy, in partnership with N.A.S.A.’s ICESCAPE mission to study the effects of ocean acidification on phytoplankton co ...
  • New Report: Seafood Fraud in South Florida
    58% of samples from sushi vendors in South Florida were mislabeled ©Wikimedia Commons How would you feel if you found out the red snapper on your plate wasn’t red snapper at all, but instead something illegally fished or potentially unhealthy? A new Oceana study found that 31% of seafood we t ...
  • Victory in Spain! National Park Saved from Oil ...
    Many birds make their homes in the wetlands of Doñana National Park ©Wikimedia Commons We’re pleased to announce that the Spanish government has put an end to proposed oil industry development that would have threatened the Doñana National Park, a World Heritage Site, after campaigning by Oce ...
  • And the 2012 Ocean Heroes Are…
    James Hemphill and Captain Don Voss, our 2012 Ocean Heroes You’ve been waiting with bated breath to find out who this year’s Ocean Heroes are, and the time has finally come to announce our winners! We received over 400 fantastic nominations this year, and narrowed it down to six adult finali ...
  • Creature Feature: Seahorse
    Camouflaging in coral ©Wikimedia Commons Though you won’t see them saddled and ready to ride anytime soon, seahorses are pretty fascinating little sea creatures. Named for their resemblance to the horses that we’re used to seeing on land, the seahorse is one of the slowest moving fish in the ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Military Anecdote Day. Even A Bullet To The Ch ...
    In 1913, Theodore Roosevelt was campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin when a crazed anarchist shop keeper, John Schrank. They were in front of the Gilpatrick Hotel. Chrank fitred a .32 directly at Roosevelt’s heart. The round was stopped by a steel glasses case and a 50 page manuscript and thusly ...
  • Someone Found And Posted The Actual Engineer L ...
      As you look through these, you will see if you can read the manuscripts, that the lunar modules were basically duct taped together battery powered toys. The ability to regulate current the way we do know simply did not exist as an exact science. And so circuit boards were constantly tripp ...
  • The V-173 Became The XF5U, Or Flying Flapjack. ...
          Charles Zimmerman was wondering why the entire plane could not be a wing. He was faced with drag problems at the tip end of small stubby wings created by high aspect wing ratio configuration. So he had the idea that by placing the propellers at the end of the fuselage, or at ...
  • Sherman Alexander Hemsley, United States Air F ...
      Sherman Alexander Hemsley (February 1, 1938 – July 24, 2012) was an actor who appeared in All In The Family, The Jeffersons, and did Voice Over work on animated features as well. He served for four years in the United States Air Force. He was 74.   Source: Wikipedia
  • The Absolutely, Utterly Amazing Paintings Of T ...
      I don’t know exactly where to start with Mark Lemon. He is a hybrid being, half artist/articulate historian – half Captain America. In 1978 Mark Lemon graduated the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design. A year later he swore out an oath to the flag and comm ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Bernie Sanders: ‘Responding to Citizens United ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Yesterday, on NPR’s Weekend Edition, Sunday, Andrea Seabrook reminded listeners that this time last year, the “debt ceiling” battle was in full swing, which eventually saw the appointment of the bipartisan “Super Comm ...
  • Liz Cheney Defends Sarah Palin Against Dad’s R ...
    Rarely do I disagree with best VP ever but @SarahPalinUSA more qualified than Obama and Biden combined. Huge respect 4 all she’s done 4 GOP. – Liz Cheney, via Twitter “Obviously, I’m not a big fan of President Obama,” said Cheney in an excerpt from an interview with ABC News aired Mo ...
  • Row After Row of Empty Seats at London Olympics
    Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, the minister responsible for the Olympics, said Saturday that the organizing committee was “doing a full investigation into what happened. . . . We think it was accredited seats that belong to sponsors, but if they are not going to turn up, we want those tickets to ...
  • Romney Slammed on Temple Mount Visit, Dennis R ...
    ROMNEY PUTS the capital “p” in presumptive nominee, his insatiable ego never satisfied. He thinks everything is about him, so treads where more sober foreign policy experts wouldn’t dare. As all this was playing out, Eli Lake got an exclusive for the Daily Beast, reporting that ...
  • Bill Clinton to Headline Democratic Convention
    PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON will not only give a prime-time convention speech, but afterward Clinton will put President Obama’s name into nomination at the Democratic convention in September. From the New York Times: The prominent role of Mr. Clinton, which is scheduled to be announced on Monda ...

Hudson New York

  • Germany Tackles Islamic Radicalization
    The German state of Lower Saxony has published a practical guide to extremist Islam to help citizens identify tell-tale signs of Muslims who are becoming radicalized. Security officials say the objective of the document is to mitigate the threat of
  • The Ramadan Olympics and Islam's "Law of Neces ...
    Islam Is a flexible religion: religious obligations allow exceptions, subject to circumstances. Muslim religious scholars balance countervailing obligations to determine when exceptions apply. Understanding such balancing of necessities in Islam is not
  • The Circumcision Debate in Germany, Austria an ...
    A German regional court held at the end of June that circumcision of males, practiced by Jews and Muslims, is a "bodily injury" of the child and punishable as a crime. German political leaders reacted against the opinion, and the probability that it
  • When Turkey's Weirdest Televangelist Met Sean ...
    The Turkish televangelist Harun Yahya, also known as Adnan Oktar, is a controversial figure in Turkey, controversial among other things for his litigiousness—scores of websites in Turkey, including Wordpress, have been banned at his behest—so forgive me
  • A Truly Heroic Sportsman
    Gino Bartali, the legendary Tuscan Italian cyclist who died in 2000 and is acclaimed in his home country of Italy, but less well known internationally, is a heroic figure, not only in his sport, but even more outside of it, as documented in a recent

Urban Survival

  • Swimming in Numbers
    (Tacoma, WA)  Sorry to report that the global pandemic, Niburu, thermonuclear war and the pole shift have not arrived overnight, so you will have to come up with something new and creative as an excuse to blow off work this … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Death in the Heartland
    Not a very chipper email from a long-term reader up in Oklahoma, but sobering often accompanies Monday morning: “Hi George,   This guy’s been an outspoken critic of global warming for a long time.  Our ultra-conservative members of congress her in … Continue reading &# ...
  • Words, Games
    How can America monetize the Olympics in London here at home?  Simple!  Make it part and parcel of the political silly season, which is just what the Mittster has done by wondering if the Brits are “ready” for such a … Continue reading →
  • Coping: The Coming Flood, Pt. 2
    There are going to be a lot of very disappointed Christians about, if – as some people are sensing – there comes a might meteor (bolide) impact from space that splashes all around the world and brings with it terrible … Continue reading →
  • Double-Talking Bankster
    While we wait for Greece to run out of money on August 20th, there’s no getting around it:  Banksters are getting (properly) scared.  So much so, that one of the engineers of mega banking, Sandy Weill of Citi, has come … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

  • NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLAND
    Once you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...
  • AFRICAN ROMANCE: ‘Thorns With Roses&#821 ...
    I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]
  • AWKWARD TOPICS: A 12 Year Old Has A Baby, Shou ...
    This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]
  • RANDOM RANTS: ‘Infidelity’ – ...
    It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...
  • FLASH FICTION: ‘A Christmas Miracle&#821 ...
    Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • Tattoos, movies, and commies: Sciencey stuff t ...
    Much to do here even as the semester winds down in Boston and Cambridge. On Monday, science writer Carl Zimmer meets Terry Gilliam, so to speak. Zimmer will be the speaker at the Coolidge Corner Theatre's "Science and Screen" airing of Gillam's 12 Monkeys. In a future world devastated by di ...
  • Sat. is last chance to see "Prints and the Pur ...
    Artist Brian Knep has a lab on Longwood Avenue -- not a studio. He's not a scientists; he's the Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence. Knep says he looks to science for "metaphors about life, about change, about healing." So, when he led group through the Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge ...
  • New Kendall Square restaurant set up to host b ...
    When new drug development company H3 decided to throw a party to launch the opening of Kendall Square labs and offices, organizers didn't have to go very far. They took the elevator downstairs. Last week, local researchers, bio boosters and lots of men in dark suits from the Japanese drug comp ...
  • BU's biolab makes it to level-2, still seeking ...
    Massachusetts environmental regulator recognized that there is a big difference between TB and Ebola. So, last week, they granted Boston University permission to begin using their new biolab to work on bio safety level-2 materials. From the Globe: For years, the National Emerging Infectious ...
  • Sunday's Chef Adrià talk at Harvard' sells out
    Most of Harvard's Science and Cooking Lectures are first come, first served, so to speak. But, you needed a ticket for Tuesday's return of superstar Spanish chef and modernist Ferran Adrià of elBulli, who talked about "The New Culinary Think Tank - el bulli 2.0." And they were scooped up a few d ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • Most Drought States Don't Have Comprehensive P ...
    Steve Fleischli, Senior Attorney, Washington, DC There can be no doubt that the current drought in the U.S. is having horrific impacts on communities across the country.  Water supplies are shrinking.  Crops are dying.  And, due to th ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile While non-conventional renewable energy (NCRE) currently accounts for 3 percent of Chile’s electricity, there is a portfolio of new NCRE initiatives that would generate 8,749 megaw ...
  • How far will we walk to go somewhere? It depends.
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   We have a number of formal and informal ways to think about what makes a good walkable community.  I’ve written before about the popsicle test (can a child comforta ...
  • Thousands of Americans unite in Washington to ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Thousands of Americans from across the country united in Washington, D.C. today to rally in front of the U.S. Capitol and march through the streets to express their outrage about environmental harms ...
  • Keystone XL still under review while Gulf Coas ...
    Danielle Droitsch, Director, Canada Project, Washington, D.C. As the environmental review process for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline commences under the direction of the State Department, Trans Canada has announced it will proceed with another t ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 16 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, July 27, 2012: Bexar County, Texas: Two K-9s died after an officer left them in a hot patrol car overnight. http://bit.ly/Ma6Cs5 Wilmington, North Carolina: A state trooper was placed … Continue reading →National Police ...
  • Rethinking Police Shooting Policies
    Steven Greenhut: I covered one police shooting in Anaheim in 2008. A 20-year-old newlywed stepped outside his house with a wooden rod in his hand after hearing a ruckus nearby. Police had been chasing a robbery suspect, and when the … Continue reading →Rethinking Police Shooting Poli ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, July 26, 2012: Chicago, Illinois: A man who was shot in the chest by police while riding his bike is filing suit. He claims that he was unarmed when … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Recap ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 stories of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, June 25, 2012: Update: Chicago, IL: The police officer accused of beating a 19-year-old while he was handcuffed was found guilty of aggravated battery and official misconduct. The incident … Continue reading →Nationa ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, July 24, 2012: Memphis, Tennessee: An officer was charged with driving while intoxicated after he was involved in a crash. bit.ly/NIq5NC Paso Robles, California: A woman is suing the … Continue reading →National Police ...

Total Collapse

  • Russia will not allow EU to inspect ships: For ...
    The Russian Foreign Ministry says Moscow will not allow the European Union to inspect ships sailing under the Russian flag, and that it will not cooperate with a new round of EU sanctions imposed against Syria. “We do not plan to take any part in measures carrying out European Union decisions di ...
  • Bizarre: U.K. military at Olympics outnumber U ...
    The Summer Olympic Games in London kick off today with the opening ceremony extravaganza, march of athletes, lighting of the flame and security and surveillance so pervasive it would make Britain’s great prophet of dystopia, George Orwell, cringe in fearful recognition. Great Britain, with its o ...
  • Russian Navy to evacuate Syrian base in emergency
    If the lives of the personnel at the Russian naval base in the Syrian port of Tartus are put at serious risk, they may be evacuated, Russia’s Navy chief says. This comes as Russia holds a major naval drill not far from the Syrian coast. “If an emergency happens, we will remove the base’s personn ...
  • Mysterious Radio “Blast” Before Colorado Massa ...
    A new report prepared by Russian Space Forces (VKO) scientists, who are charged with monitoring radio and other electrical type transmitted emissions from the United States under provisions outlined in the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), states that at the “exact time” of the 20 Jul ...
  • Collecting rainwater now illegal in many US states
    Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly eroding as the nation transforms from the land of the free into the land of the enslaved, but what I’m about to share with you takes the assault on our freedoms to a whole new level. You may not be aware of this, [...]

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Microsoft Surfa ...
    Microsoft looks set to release its first Surface tablet on the same day as Windows 8, HTC withdraws from South Korea in the face of stiff competition, and MS X...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Facebook’ ...
    Facebook’s stock crumbles after hours of its first quarterly earnings. Twitter revokes some API access to Instagram. Nope, that Surface tablet won’t cost $1,000. You can catch The Daily Dose...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Mountain Lion l ...
    Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion upgrade hits the Mac App Store, Kickstarter hit, the Pebble smartwatch misses its target launch date, and Twitter will let us download all out old...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – New tools for F ...
    Facebook adds new features for Page admins, court bans the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 in the EU, and iPhones account for 73% AT&T’s smartphone sales in the past quarter. You...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Amazon’s ...
    Google acquires Sparrow for the Gmail team. Apple’s iPad launches in China, without chaos. Kayak becomes a billion-dollar company on its second day of trading. You can catch The Daily...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Laggard to Leader - Report Launch Melbourne Sy ...
        Are you sick of hearing? Australia is only a small part of the climate problem We shouldn’t act before the rest of the world Our actions won’t make a difference, anyway BZE’s new report, Laggard to Leader, will challenge these excuses, expose the true extent of Australia’s ...
  • Germany’s solar panels would provide 25% of Au ...
    If you took all the solar panels in Germany and put them in Australia, they would supply a quarter of our electricity demand. In the first six months of 2012, 4.5% of total electricity demand in Germany was met by solar power. Put ...
  • Half-price Stationary Energy Plans now on sale
    Beyond Zero Emissions' award-winning Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan is now on sale for $15 + postage. That's 50% off! Perfect for showing your friends, family and workmates how Australia can get to 100% renewable energy within a decade. To order your copy email our General Manager ...
  • Solar Thermal Models Built
    Another four of our famous solar thermal models have been built in NSW, thanks to the efforts of Beyond Zero Emissions volunteers, the Paramatta Climate Action Network, and the Granville Men’s Shed. The models are of a concentrated solar thermal plant with a molten salt storage (CST+) power stat ...
  • WME leaders list 2012: GOVERNMENT + NGO LEADER
    The idealistic realist Matthew Wright Outfit: Beyond Zero Emissions Position: Executive Director Completely decarbonising our coal-rich nation by 2020 might be seen as an idealistic notion, but not to Matthew Wright. As co-founder of the NGO Beyond Zero Emissions, he has provided insight in ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Prominent climate skeptic reverses course, say ...
    After starting his own project to study global warming, a once-prominent climate change skeptic and physicist says he now accepts the reality of anthropogenic climate change. "Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real ...
  • European Space Agency releases time series sho ...
    The European Space Agency last week released an animation showing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon between 1986 and 2010.
  • Humpback whales delaying migration due to Anta ...
    Humpback whales in the Antarctic are delaying their migration to feed on krill that are staying later due to reduced extent of sea ice, a possible consequence of climate change, reports a study published in the journal Endangered Species Research.
  • Healthier economy leads to more 'green' advert ...
    Advertisers run more 'green' ads when the economy is stronger, confirms a new study that looked at 30 years of advertising in National Geographic Magazine.
  • World's largest funder of environmental projec ...
    The Global Environment Facility or 'GEF' unites 182 government members, in partnership with multiple international institutions, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector, with the goal of addressing global environmental issues. The following is an interview with Dr. Naoko Ishii of J ...

Sierra Express

  • UNIDO’s Yumkella tapped to keynote Nigeria’s I ...
    LONDON, 29 July 2012- Sierra Leonean born UNIDO Director General, Kandeh K. Yumkella has been tapped by organizers of Nigeria’s High Level Investment and Business Summit to deliver the keynote address on achieving Nigeria’s Vision 2020 Economic Transformation Blueprint and the role of the privat ...
  • Road to Sierra Leone’s Development: Changing t ...
    I will continue to be an advocate for  a better Sierra Leone where everyone enjoys the wealth of our nation. I will continue to introduce the psychological and hidden problems – the one we never discuss openly – about the development of our future. We always see our circumstances and ...
  • Drug-resistant HIV ‘on increase’ in sub-Sahara ...
    Drug-resistant HIV has been increasing in parts of sub-Saharan Africa over the last decade, according to experts writing in the Lancet. (Photo: Monitoring of patients helps in detecting drug resistance ) Studies on 26,000 untreated HIV-positive people in developing countries were reviewed by the ...
  • UNIDO Director General to address Africa’s Fin ...
    PHILADELPHIA (USA) – Africa’s finance ministers and central bank governors are expected to meet in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo to attend arguably one of the continent’s most important events along with representatives of other international development agencies and financi ...
  • APC Dallas Chapter fundraising: “If Ernest Kor ...
    Saturday, July 21st marked another extraordinary day in Dallas, Texas for the All People’s Congress (APC), Dallas Chapter as it collaborated with the Diaspora Campaign Group (DCG) in a fundraising dance to further a worth course in Sierra Leone. The two organizations, All Peoples Congress Social ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Wilson to head Fonterra
    Fonterra says John Wilson has been selected by the board to take over as chairman when Sir Henry van der Heyden steps down from the role in December.The appointment will be put to members of the co-operative at its annual meeting,...
  • John Wilson named new Fonterra chairman
    Fonterra, the world's biggest exporter of dairy products, has named long-serving director John Wilson as its next chairman, replacing Henry van der Heyden.Wilson, a director of the Auckland-based company since 2003, will take up...
  • NZ exports lose value in June quarter
    The value of New Zealand's exported goods has fallen in the second quarter of 2012, led by a drop in dairy export revenue, according to figures out today.
  • Fonterra dividends bill passes final reading
    A contentious bill allowing private investors to earn dividends from dairy industry giant Fonterra passed its final reading in Parliament last night.Fonterra is New Zealand's largest company valued at between $12 billion and $14...
  • Primary sector revenue dips
    A solid season for production in the dairy and meat sectors was not enough to prevent a fall in overall primary sector earnings in the first quarter of 2012, according to figures out today. The Ministry for Primary Industries today...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Poll Respondents Say Mitt Sucks Less Than Barr ...
    Mitt Romney has a very slim lead over Barack Obama on issues of leadership, honesty and personality among poll respondents. Uh huh. Yeah, that's quite a contest. American plans for massive construction projects in Afghanistan are running so far behind that the U.S. will (suppose ...
  • Ira Stoll on Why Liz Warren Wants America to B ...
    Massachusetts residents who tuned in to the Olympics opening ceremony saw a new 30-second campaign commercial from the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, Elizabeth Warren, that said America should be more like Communist China. “We've got bridges and roads in need of repair and th ...
  • Get Ready for an All-New Reason.com and Reason.tv!
    I'm happy to let all readers know that tomorrow brings a totally new-look Reason.com and Reason.tv. We've spent the past few months working behind the scenes to update the look and functionality of the web's largest libertarian site of "Free Minds and Free Markets." Starting tomorro ...
  • Do 3D Printers Make Prohibitions Impossible?
    The Web thingies are buzzing with news that a 3D printer — sort of a first-generation Star Trek replicator — was used to make a gun that actually goes bang when you pull the trigger. Aside from the sheer cool factor, the development makes it clear that a wide range of bans, restrict ...
  • Russian Dissident Punk Band Pussy Riot Goes on ...
    Today, over in Putin's unfree Russia, three members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot go on trial for "hooliganism motivated by by religious hatred or hostility" for a February stunt where they performed "Punk Prayer"in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior during massive ...

Mercury Rising

  • Sorry, Chick-fil-A Wingnuts: Most US Gas Comes ...
    Oh, joy. I think I just tumbled onto the new thing that’s gone viral among the right-wing email smear crowd. The glibertarian wing of the pro-Chick-fil-A and anti-gay-rights crowd is apparently pushing the old “if you pick on one group you must pick on them all no matter what” ...
  • Telegraph V. Guardian, Olympic And NHS Cherry- ...
    So this is how the Torygraph trolls for page views: The London Olympics are the most Right-wing major event in Britain’s modern history. Billions of pounds are taken from poor and middle-income taxpayers and service users to build temples to a corporate and sporting elite. Democratic, grassroots ...
  • Nouriel says
    Via Ritholtz, an article by Roubini: Third, the fiscal cliff would amount to a 4.5%-of-GDP drag on growth in 2013 if all tax cuts and transfer payments were allowed to expire and draconian spending cuts were triggered. Of course, the drag will be much smaller, as tax increases and spending cuts ...
  • Breaking! Romney picks VP
    Reliably reported: Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Willard ‘Mitt’ Romney stunned the political establishment and left pundits scrambling for their notes this morning when he announced his choice of freshman Florida Congressman Allen West to round out the GOP ticket. If Romney is elec ...
  • Kellercod
    Bill Keller, editor of the NYT, was forced to deny that he had written an Op-Ed defending Wikileaks: The fake in question was a cod Keller op-ed entitled ‘WikiLeaks, a Post Postscript’. Visually, it was immaculate – replicating perfectly the typographic style of his column down to th ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Transcending Poor Health With Meditation
    While the practice of meditation plays an integral role in a vast array of spiritual and contemplative traditions, the results of a recent study undertaken by researchers at Georgia Health Sciences University suggest that the benefits of meditation extend far beyond the emotional or psycho-spi ...
  • The Disillusionist: New Spirituality -- Strang ...
    What Is a Spiritual Teacher? "Let me give you one piece of advice: be honest. He knows more than you can imagine." --Trinity to Thomas, before his first meeting with Morpheus, in The Matrix read more
  • The Big Dub Candy Mountain
      This August 9-12, the Big Dub Candy Mountain festival will bring you three days of electronic music from multiple stages, a whole host of theme camps, workshops, seminars and various parties. The festival is happening at the Four Quarters Farm in Artemas, PA from August 9 -12. Check ou ...
  • Sex in the News
    In this week's Sex in the News: No-orgasm sex is saving marriages, Yahoo hires a pregnant CEO and the world wails, the Olympic Village gets set to screw, man with large penis is given a hard time at San Francisco Airport, while another woman visits the Statue of Liberty to declare her love. ...
  • The Stan Grof Incident
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Desertification

  • Record Aid Shortfall Abandons Millions to Thei ...
    Global funding for humanitarian aid interventions saw the biggest shortfalls in 10 years in 2011, according to a new report, raising questions about the international community’s ability to meet a 20-percent greater need for 2012 driven by drought and conflict. The launch of the 2012 Global Huma ...
  • Crops Failing as U.S. Simmers in Record Heat Wave
    The United States is suffering one of its most severe droughts in decades, leading to both widespread crop failures and increased public concern about the impacts of climate change. According to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climatic Data Center, th ...
  • China Battles Desertification
    As scientists increasingly label desertification as one of the most burning challenges facing the world today, a small village in China’s semi-arid Northeastern region of Inner Mongolia is fighting back. Chifeng City’s dry climate and sparse vegetation have given way to severe surface erosion an ...
  • RIO+20: Promised Green Economy Was a Fake, Say ...
    When the Rio+20 summit on sustainable development ended Friday, there were winners and losers – mostly losers. The United Nations and the host country Brazil – along with big business – put a positive spin on the outcome of the conference, a follow-up to the 1992 Earth Summit. It was another his ...
  • Rio Outcome Bleak With No New Funding*
    Amidst recrimination, anger and charges of “strong arm tactics”, negotiators eventually endorsed a global plan of action for sustainable development following marathon sessions lasting over six weary days. A proposal for a 30-billion-dollar global fund for sustainable development – initiated by ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Prince William, Kate Middleton: More Than $80, ...
    The average British working household income is less than $40,000 U.S. That is why I have no use for those who are so privileged by birth. It is sickening. Probably Kate and William rented the whole airplane. Read more here. Kate Middleton: The gold-digger. Interesting video.
  • Canada Day and #DenounceHarper
    “#DenounceHarper is trending on Twitter in Canada, just behind #HappyCanadaDay. Users are using the hashtag to voice dissatisfaction with the Harper government, or just the man himself.” Read more about #DenounceHarper
  • TVO's The Agenda: The New McCarthyism
    There is no worse cancer in a free society than the thuggish impulse to equate dissent as disloyalty... The greatest patriot is the person with the courage to be the lone voice in the crowd crying out that the Emperor has no clothes. The test of our society's democratic nature is our instinct ...
  • Harper's Canada Day message loudly booed at Ja ...
  • U.S. Healthcare Legislation
    Fuxs News’ take on the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on Healthcare. Repugs are apparently very upset by the decision. Repugs spin machine is going hard at it. Sarah Palin gives her gyrations. “Obama lies, freedom dies” Sarah Palin. Watch the latest video at Press TV - Middle East
    • UN chief concerned about Syria violence
      United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has once again expressed his deep concerns about the ongoing violence in Syria.
    • ‘Turkey ruling party foment Syria unrest’
      Turkey’s Republican People's Party has blamed the ruling Justice and Development Party for fomenting the Syrian unrest that has led to the killing of thousands of civilians in the county.
    • Bahraini cleric’s grandson arrested
      The grandson of senior Bahraini cleric Sheikh Issa Qasim has been arrested by security forces after he was reportedly injured.
    • 'US, NATO to blame for Syria violence'
      A political analyst says the United States President Barack Obama’s administration and NATO should be held responsible for the killing of thousands of civilians in Syria, Press TV reports.
    • 'Bahrainis close to an elected govt.'
      Leader of Bahrain’s main opposition bloc Al-Wefaq has announced that the Persian Gulf nation is close to achieving its demand for an elected government.

    CUNY SPS Community Blog

    • Reflections on Project Rwanda
      For the past three years, faculty and students in the M.A. in Applied Theatre program at CUNY’s School of Professional Studies have traveled to Rwanda to implement the project “Drama and Theatre Education in Schools for Reconciliation and Development in Rwanda.” The twin goals of Project R ...
    • Are We Becoming Flattened by Technology?
      Are you an optimist or pessimist? There’s only one way to find out. I find it amazing that so much has progressed in our society—medical, education, economics, and even in technology.  The experience I’ve had thus far has surprisingly helped me.  I say surprisingly because with knowl ...
    • Five Questions for Our 1000th Facebook Fan
      We recently surpassed 1000 “likes” on our Facebook page, so to commemorate this milestone we asked our 1000th fan, Susan Punturieri, to tell us a little about herself. How did you learn about SPS? A co-worker referred the program to me. She said she really enjoyed it. I was looking i ...
    • SPS Governing Council Representative Nominatio ...
      We are accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and an alternate are needed to serve on the Cou ...
    • Follow-Back: The Power of Twitter
      Twitter, a social micro-blogging website has burst onto the scene and become embedded into the fabric of society and more importantly has become one of society’s methods of staying ‘in touch.’ Twitter has attracted users from all walks of life, be they mainstream corporations, governmental organ ...

    Dissident Voice

    • Veterans For Peace Supports U.N. Committee in ...
      Leah Bolger, President of Veterans For Peace, applauded a United Nations Committee this week for raising concerns about the recruitment of children into the U.S. military, the U.S. killing of children in Afghanistan, the U.S. detention and torture of children labeled “combatants,” an ...
    • The Dawn of Medicare
      A highly risible tactic of the Tea Partyers in the United States has been criticism of president Barack Obama as a “socialist”1 (insulting to Obama but more so to socialists), particularly since he attempted to reform a medical care system in a country where over 50 million were without medical ...
    • Hope is for the Lazy: The Challenge of Our Dea ...
      In 2005, I preached on the ecological crisis in a sermon I titled “Hope is for the Weak: The Challenge of a Broken World.”  Looking back, I realize that I had been far too upbeat and optimistic, probably trying too hard to be liked. Today I want to correct that. Hence, my updated title: “Hope [...]
    • Inflation of the University Degree
      Catch 22s Well it seems now that college graduates are up in arms about the student loan payments that they will have to make after graduation, and while Congress and the President have taken the necessary measures to keep student loan rates from increasing, college graduates still must confront ...
    • After The Fireworks Have Faded
      On July 4, the people of the U.S. marked the passing of another year’s perfunctory Independence Day festivities. The date, also, was occasioned by the formal announcement from physicists at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) that, according to the banner headline at CERN&#82 ...

    Destructionist

    • U.S. Army Purchases Riot Gear As Fears Over Ci ...
      Fears that the U.S. military would be used to quell domestic unrest in violation of Posse Comitatus have raged over recent years. A recently leaked US Army Military Police training manual for “Civil Disturbance Operations” outlines how military assets are to be used domestically to quell riot ...
    • TSA CHECKPOINTS EXPOSED: JOURNALISTS TARGETED ...
      Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange breaks down WRC Correspondent Julio Rausseo’s experience at the Chicago Union Station, 1 week after releasing a video exposing TSA checkpoints being setup there.
    • Austerity At The Olympics: Each “Gold” Medal C ...
      As every Olympic athlete knows, size matters. The London 2012 medals are the largest ever in terms of both weight and diameter – almost double the medals from Beijing. However, just as equally well-known is that quality beats quantity and that is where the current global austerity, coin-clipping ...
    • Spanish Jobless Rate Hits 24.6 Percent: (nearl ...
      Spanish unemployment hit its highest level in the second quarter since the country's return to democracy in the mid-1970s, as firms shed more staff, driven by fears of prolonged recession and a crisis of confidence among consumers. [That's nearly 1 out of every 4 people in Spain.] The jobles ...
    • Monsanto sued for underpaying workers
      Seven migrant workers from the state of Texas are suing Monsanto after they say the massive biotech corporation failed to keep their promise. The plaintiffs argue that they were promised free housing and kitchen access for their families in exchange for working on a hybrid corn seed project in t ...

    Yeti Betty

    • Earthquake Prediction - Prediksi Gempa - Lindo ...
      Recent Earthquake Lists Area Of Higher Earthquake Danger! If You Can See Your Lands, It Is Under The Moon - Beware of Earthquakes. If it is in Sunlight Aswell Be Doubly Aware.. Eclipse Times Eclipses don't always mean earthquakes in the same way as getting run over by a Mack ...
    • Opera Low (zero) Kb (x6 million)
      O My Opera          Self Help          Community          Opera ISN'T IT TIME OPERA RELEASED THEIR OWN FONT!! ...
    • Educating Pita - Alan's Psychadelic BreakFasts
      I'll endeavour to keep a daily record of my simple inexpensive vegetarian eats here - just to answer the ever present carnivore's question: "What do you find to eat?"... ...
    • Help Yourself, it's all free...
      Best Viewed With:  Welcome Looking back at a previous blog of mine about earthquakes, a fair proportion of it turned out to be about common sense life tips. I've been through almost everything a life can throw at a person, and hopefully outlining a few useful things may help som ...
    • Website SEO Help
       B  Warning! As the web reaches into nearly every little village on the planet, the number of websites are currently expanding, and the number of people needing help are providing a tasty pool of minnows to the ever circling sharks. From blatant extorionism with threatening phonecall ...

      IPS - Inter Press Services

    • Private Sector Debt Gnawing at Developing Coun ...
      Twelve years after a global campaign successfully advocated the cancellation of some of the world’s poorest countries’ public debt, developing economies are again facing unsustainable debt burdens. Only this time, it is the private sector’s debt in developing economies that is inflating dangerou ...
    • Breaking the Ghostly Silence on Rape
      It was the ghostly silence that struck him hardest as he walked through the Colombo suburb of Kirulapone the day after the lifeless body of a six-year-old girl had been discovered floating in a filthy canal, Kumar de Silva, a well-known local media personality, told IPS. The autopsy report later ...
    • Lebanon Heading for Failed State Status?
      Every day Lebanon is being plunged further into a state of general insecurity, as chaos from the war in Syria seeps across the border. Repeated kidnappings, multiple Syrian incursions resulting in the death of Lebanese citizens, and the widespread use of weapons are just some of the indicators p ...
    • Trading Across the Line of Control
      As part of recent confidence building measures aimed at minimising tensions between India and Pakistan, which arose largely due to conflicting claims over Kashmir, the two countries have decided to make the Valley an economic bridge, rather than a bone of contention. But merchants who have long ...
    • Israeli Group Maps Palestinian Removals
      Sitting in an airconditioned car along Road 60 in the heart of the occupied West Bank, Ovad Arad explained how he goes about his job: driving unannounced into Palestinian towns and villages, taking photographs, having coffee with families, and leaving almost as quickly as he arrived. “I don’t li ...

    My AntiWar

    CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

    • Iran and the Time of "Last Resort" Ponce in th ...
      Summary: In early July, the United States Navy moved a converted transport ship, USS Ponce, into the Persian Gulf to its temporary home off Bahrain’s waters. The Ponce is a floating forward base for military operations in the region. source: Counterpunch.orgread more
    • Israel Pins Bombing on Hezbollah to Get EU Ter ...
      Summary: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim Sunday of absolutely reliable intelligence linking Hezbollah to the bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria last week was apparently aimed at supporting his government’s determination to get the EU to declare Hezbollah a terrorist organisation. ...
    • Iran’s Strategy in the Strait of Hormuz
      Summary: As a consequence of the failure of the latest negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, the European Union ban on the importation of Iranian oil took effect on July 1, 2012, and closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran became an issue again. This has provoked the following question: ...
    • AC/DC "Thunderstruck" malware strikes Iran nuc ...
      Summary: As marketers, PR specialists and psychologists have long known, people have a tendency to believe a claim is true, simply because it is repeated often. People confuse truth with familiarity. In fact, the less they pay attention to the claims, the more likely they are to believe them ...
    • Al-Qaeda emerges as Bulgaria bomb suspect
      Summary: As the Israeli government seizes on last week's suicide bombing of a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Bulgaria as an opportunity to discredit Iran and Hezbollah, the on-going investigation in Bulgaria is increasingly pointing the finger at a different culprit - al-Qaeda. source: ...

    The Daily Galaxy

    • Image of the Day: The Vast Molecular Clouds of ...
      The many bright, pinkish clouds in NGC 4700 are known as H II regions, where intense ultraviolet light from hot young stars is causing nearby hydrogen gas to glow. H II regions often come part-and-parcel with the vast molecular clouds...
    • The Weird Neuroscience of Immortality --Upload ...
      Neuroscientist Kenneth Hayworth, 41, recently of Harvrad and a veteran of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, believes that he can live forever, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports. But first he has to die. "The human race is on a beeline...
    • Will Alien Life be First Discovered on Saturn' ...
      In 2011, NASA's Cassini spacecraft discovered the best evidence yet for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The data came from the spacecraft's direct analysis of salt-rich ice grains close to the jets ejected...
    • "The Universe is Timeless" --A Radical Theory ...
      Scientists at the Scientific Research Centre Bistra in Ptuj, Slovenia, have theorized that the Newtonian idea of time as an absolute quantity that flows on its own, along with the idea that time is the fourth dimension of spacetime, are...
    • Image of the Day: 'Fomalhaut' --A Spectacular ...
      Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have discovered that planets orbiting the star Fomalhaut must be much smaller than originally thought. The discovery was made possible by exceptionally sharp ALMA images of a disc, or ring,...

    Natural News

    • Take away all the guns all the time
      (NaturalNews)He paced the floor and scratched his chin. He went to his desk and made a few notes on a legal pad. Obama thought about it and finally came up with a really good reason to own a gun: "hunting and shooting are part of a cherished national heritage." Glad he cleared...
    • Common parasite causes defects in newborns
      (NaturalNews)Research conducted with the support of the NIH proves that toxoplasmosis screening should be performed on pregnant women. Toxoplasmosis is caused by the Toxoplasma gondii parasite, and now researchers have pinpointed the strains of this parasite that are the cause for...
    • The secret healing benefits of miso - Here's w ...
      Miso is a traditional Japanese fermented food that has been growing in popularity worldwide. Chefs and food aficionados prize miso for its rich, complex flavor and its ability to add an extra heartiness ("umami," also known as the "fifth taste") to nearly any dish. Natural...
    • The evolutionary approach to weight loss and g ...
      Studies show that people eating "ancestral diets" maintain excellent health and low body fat. Some of these healthy societies have a high carbohydrate intake while others get the majority of their calories from fat. Typically, people living closer to equator have usually...
    • Use natural remedies to quit smoking
      Smoking is more than just a bad habit; it's an addiction. Governments try to fight smoking by making policies to raise taxes and the price of cigarettes so fewer people can afford them. This might work for some, but for people who are truly addicted, real help to break...

    Threat Level

    • Former NSA Official Disputes Claims by NSA Chief
      A former NSA official has accused the NSA's director of deception during a speech he gave at the DefCon hacker conference on Friday when he asserted that the agency does not collect files on Americans.
    • NSA Chief Tells Hackers His Agency Doesn’t Cre ...
      NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander, appearing for the first time at the DefCon hacker conference, told the crowd of hackers and security professionals that his agency "absolutely" does not maintain files on Americans.
    • Feds: We Can Freeze Megaupload Assets Even if ...
      The feds say that even if they can't criminal prosecute Megaupload the corporation, since its not registered in the United States, they still get to keep all the assets they seized in January when they shut down the file-sharing service.
    • This Cute Chat Site Could Save Your Life And H ...
      Nadim Kobeissi just wanted to make encrypted chat as easy as can be to help dissidents, but along the way he ran into deep skepticism from the tech community and nasty browser "features." But now that's he's launched version one of Crypto.cat to a warm tech reception, he says he's getting stoppe ...
    • Kids Can Open Gun Safes With Straws and Paper ...
      Is a plastic drinking straw from McDonald’s the only thing keeping a thief, or worse a child, from accessing the loaded weapon in your closet safe? That's apparently the case with one brand of personal safes that a team of researchers will be cracking at DefCon on Friday, along with several othe ...

    PERRspectives : Blog

    • Mitt Romney's Meth Labs of Democracy
      Few phrases pepper the rhetoric of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney more frequently than variations of Justice Brandeis' famous quote that the states may "serve as a laboratory" for the rest of the nation. "Before imposing a one-size-fits-all federal program," Romney wrote in 2009, " ...
    • Romney in Hot Water over James Baker Anecdote
      From the beginning, Mitt Romney's much-hyped overseas journey has devolved into one self-inflicted wound after another. But largely lost in the laughter is another episode which to Romney's right-wing allies is no laughing matter at all. On the eve of the trip, Romney quoted former Reagan chie ...
    • Jewish Voters, Republican Chutzpah
      As Mitt Romney begins his excellent adventure in Israel, it's worth noting the many advantages he enjoys over his former Republican rivals when it comes to courting Jewish voters. For starters, Romney considers Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "my friend," one with whom he shares "comm ...
    • How the U.S. Government Helped Mitt Romney Bui ...
      At events across the country, Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is trying to convince voters that small business owners in fact build the roads and bridges they use every day. Unfortunately, Romney's "We Did Build It" gatherings have hit some potholes, with many participants revealed to be th ...
    • Romney Redeploys Bush's "Hollow Military" Frau ...
      Before departing on his trip to tout America's Anglo-Saxon heritage in the UK, Poland and Israel, Mitt Romney used an address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) to deliver a blistering attack on President Obama. Blistering and, of course, duplicitous. Romney accused President Obama of "mass ...

    Blackspot News Feed

    • The Judaizing of East Jerusalem
      The Sumarin family has been living in their house in Silwan neighborhood in East Jerusalem for dozens of years. In legal proceedings filed due to ideological purposes of judaizing East Jerusalem, the family got an eviction notice. The family home was transferred by the executor to Himanuta, ...
    • The Perversion of Scholarship by Chris Hedges
      by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig July 30, 2012 Fraternities, sororities and football, along with other outsized athletic programs, have decimated most major American universities. Scholarship, inquiry, self-criticism, moral autonomy and a search for artistic and esoteric ...
    • Pulitzer-Winning Reporting Duo Don Barlett and ...
      The famed award-winning investigative reporting team of Donald Barlett and James Steele have just published a new book, "The Betrayal of the American Dream," a followup to their landmark bestseller, "America: What Went Wrong?" As Republicans and Democrats continue disputing who should bear the b ...
    • Quebec Students Continue Resistance
      Report on the Quebec student movement's July mass protest and future plans
    • Headlines for July 30, 2012
      U.N. Arms Treaty Talks Fail Before Deadline, U.S. Foreign Weapons Sales at Record in 2012, U.S. Drone Attack Kills 7 in Pakistan, 240,000 Pakistani Children at Risk After Taliban Bans Vaccinations in Protest of U.S., Romney Falls Short of Backing Pre-Emptive Israeli Strike, Obama Unveils New Mil ...

    Consortium News

    TruthOut

    • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
      The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...
    • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
      Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
    • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
      In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
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    • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
      About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

    Planetsave

    • Keep Your Fruits & Veggies Alive
        I love fresh fruits and vegetables. When I see good ones, I buy enough for a few days. I’m sure the huge majority of people do the same. The problem is, sometimes I don’t get around to eating them right away, and sometimes I even forget they’re in the fridge, waiting to ...
    • Eco-Friendly Trade Show Displays
        My guess is that trade shows aren’t the greenest thing in the world. Tons of fliers, little trinkets made of plastic that most people will never use, excessive food that must lead to a good deal of food waste, countless flights, etc. But trade shows are an important part of most ind ...
    • Vampire Stars Much More Common Than Previously ...
      In a surprise finding, it has been discovered that most very bright, high-mass stars, those which drive the evolution of galaxies, have close companion stars. In a new study done using European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), it was found that almost three quarters of th ...
    • New Research Shows How Carbon is Stored in Sou ...
      British and Australian researchers working on data collected over a ten-year period from robotic probes wandering around the Southern Ocean have discovered an important method of how carbon is drawn from the surface of the Southern Ocean to the deeper waters below. The research shows that carbon ...
    • Sacred Naming Ceremony of Rare White Buffalo Calf
        A rare white buffalo born June 6th is bringing hundreds of American Indians together to celebrate this auspicious birth event. They are joining together in a naming ceremony. “[The event] brings so much happiness to us because of the stories of the white buffalo calf that [were] passed do ...

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    Axis of Logic

    • Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ...
      "The American people are being disenfranchised, disinherited, and enslaved." The PBS Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the last."Economic c ...
    • CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...
      22 June 2012 CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday. The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a ...
    • UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...
      Río de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment against Pre ...
    • The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...
      Editor's Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January, 2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing presid ...
    • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...
      22 June 2012 Australian and US governments “playing word games”  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador. Interviewed b ...

    They Gave Us a Republic

    • Toward a conservatism of cruelty where selfish ...
      By @BGinKC I have allways found Paul Ryan to be just downright creepy. He has always struck me as one of those assholes who thinks that they did something besides win the ovarian lottery; a scion of privilege and at least modest wealth who never knew poverty, want or need of the basics of life, ...
    • A perfect and total lack of self-awarness
      By @BGinKC Mittens is still abroad and he's still screwing up at every turn. If he isn't insulting our allies, he's offending their religious sensibilities.  But the strangest, most surreal moment had to be when the Godfather of Obamacare -- who has sworn to "end Obamacare on day one" -- st ...
    • Monday Morning Quad Shot
      By @BGinKC All righty, then. I'm back on my feet. Not running any marathons or even doing the daily chores, but my so-called job is pretty low impact and easy on the body, so it isn't like I'm pushing myself as I return to a somewhat regular posting schedule. So without further adieu, here are t ...
    • America The Stupid, Part 4
      63% of Americans think Mitt Romney's business background would make him more able to manage the economy. Yep, that's according to a recent poll conducted by USA Today/Gallup. Here's a link to the story. That's in spite of Bain Capital's reputation as a predatory, job-destroying, job-exporting en ...
    • Right hates "entitlement" except when it comes ...
      By @TedFrier The flap embroiling Chick-fil-A that is causing feathers to fly between Christian conservatives and their liberal detractors over comments the fast food franchise's president made condemning gay marriage, would be hilarious had not the company's vice president for public relations t ...

    Care 2

    • The Republican Attack on Your Right to Vote is ...
      If you have to stop people from voting to win, your ideas suck. Submitted by Carrie B. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • Why Do Cats Bury Their Poop???
      I found this story and though to myself...HMMMMM! Why exactly do they?? One of life's mysteries solved!! No graphic photos...snicker!! Submitted by Kim O. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • Go bag-free, Sacramento ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
      Nothing we use for a few minutes should pollute our parks, our beaches and the ocean we love for hundreds of years. Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • Kabang, Hero Dog Who Lost Her Snout Saving Two ...
      Thanks to the generosity of animal welfare groups and individual well-wishers, a hero dog from the Philippines whose face was destroyed in a horrific accident earlier this year will soon be flown to the United States for reconstructive surgery. Submitted by Carrie B. to Animals  |  &n ...
    • ACTIVISM: 5,000 People United in D.C. to ...
      More than 5,000 people from all over the nation, and various parts of the world including Australia, united today on the West lawn of the U.S. Capitol demanding Congress take immediate action to stop fracking Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |  ...

    Smirking Chimp

    Paul Krugman

    No Quarter

    • Economic Upheaval
      If you think that the economy is going to calm down, even if Romney is elected, think again. Don’t get me wrong–Barack Obama is a socialist and is not a genuine American. He was raised during the most formative years of his childhood as a muslim in a muslim country. He was not imbued ...
    • Gov. Romney addresses crowd in Israel
      Google News is offering “Real-Time Coverage” of Mitt Romney’s trip. The second I saw that feature, I clicked and was wowed by the actual “dynamic” appearance of news stories the second that Google’s massive search engines find them. Try it. Neatly clustered at ...
    • Face it, Zuckerberg + hk2′s open thread
      Ever since I got online back in the 1980s, I’ve wondered how in the heck anybody would make money off the Internet, especially after the advent of the World Wide Web (except porn and gambling sites). Well, Facebook is still trying to figure that one out … Now I hear that Congress may ...
    • Incumbents do win, but what of a challenger wh ...
      Mitt Romney’s remarks about London’s readiness for the Olympics came across, to many “fans,” as reasonable. But fans are prejudiced. Romney’s rather specific charges were not immediately followed by equally weighty compliments for London’s efforts to resolve c ...
    • Incumbents Win
      Bronwyn’s Qs: Why did no third-party candidates make a run for the presidency in 2011-2012? Might it be that both parties cracked down on any and all suspects because this election is more important than anyone could envision? Or did the Obama and Romney camps — both wield a mighty s ...

    Futurismic

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

    Therapy News

    • Do People Misestimate Their Future Reactions?
      When someone is asked to predict their emotional reaction to a future, hypothetical event, they usually underestimate how they will respond, according to previous research. However, a new study, led by Heather C. Lench of the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M University, suggests otherwi ...
    • Therapist Self-Disclosure Decreases Stigma of ...
      One of the primary reasons people neglect to seek treatment for their mental health problems is because they are concerned about the external and internal stigmas associated with mental illness. Public stigma is the external belief that one is defective if they receive therapy for their problems ...
    • GoodTherapy.org Weekly Inspirational Thoughts
      November 23, 2011 – As we approach Thanksgiving, the day that reminds us to be thankful for those around us, we present Ghandi’s belief in the unity of all living things. Keep this in mind as you care for your loved ones this weekend and for those who are less fortunate. Happy Thanks ...
    • Can Negative Attributions Predict Marital Diss ...
      Engaged couples form patterns of positive and negative behavior that can predict their marital satisfaction. “Serious marital dissatisfaction predicts increased risk for a major depressive episode, even when controlling for history of depression,” said Rebecca E. Osterhout of the New Mexico Vete ...
    • Three Steps for Dealing with Panic Attacks
      Panic attacks are usually initiated by a triggering thought or collection of thoughts that are anxiety-provoking in nature. These thoughts then cause an overly exaggerated anxiety response in the body (choking sensations, dizziness, tightness, tingling, etc). These physical sensations are then o ...

    Mountaintop Removal

    • Anti-mining protests heat up in West Virginia ...
      WKYC-TV Anti-mining protests heat up in West Virginia as evidence of damage builds Facing South Protests are heating up over mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia at the same time new scientific evidence has emerged of the damage such surface mining is causing to human health and the envir ...
    • Breaking: Daring Protesters Shut Down Obama Ba ...
      WKYC-TV Breaking: Daring Protesters Shut Down Obama Backed Strip Mine In West Virginia Huffington Post Ramping up renewed efforts to end mountaintop removal mining in central Appalachia, scores of protesters staged a daring action at the controversial Hobet strip mine today in Boone County, West ...
    • Activists plan to protest mountaintop-removal ...
      Activists plan to protest mountaintop-removal mining in southern W.Va. The Republic CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Anti-coal activists plan to hold a protest effort to shut down a southern West Virginia strip mine. The Radical Action for Mountain Peoples' Survival and other groups say they plan to cond ...
    • Study finds damage far downstream of mine site ...
      Study finds damage far downstream of mine sites Charleston Gazette CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Mountaintop removal is harming water quality far downstream from where active mining buries creeks beneath valley fill waste dumps, according to a new scientific paper that adds to the growing concerns about ...
    • Group Planning to Protest Strip Mining in West ...
      Group Planning to Protest Strip Mining in West Virginia WSAZ-TV (WSAZ) -- Hundreds of people are gathering Saturday to protest mountaintop removal in West Virginia. It's all a part of Mountain Mobilization, and it's already causing some controversy in the state. Protesters plan to shut d ...

    Memeorandum

    • Obama's Mother Had African Forebear, Study Sug ...
      Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times: Obama's Mother Had African Forebear, Study Suggests  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama's biography — son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas — has long suggested that unlike most African-Americans, his ...
    • Palestinian official: Romney comments unaccept ...
      Associated Press: Palestinian official: Romney comments unacceptable  —  JERICHO, West Bank (AP) - Mitt Romney's assertion that Jerusalem is Israel's capital is absolutely unacceptable, a senior Palestinian official said Monday, voicing the strongest Palestinian criticism yet of ...
    • Senate's Top Republican Hails The Fall Of Old ...
      BuzzFeed: Senate's Top Republican Hails The Fall Of Old Media  —  Mitch McConnell talks to BuzzFeed about the Web, the election, and his plans to let Democrats take a few votes if he becomes Majority Leader.  “I kind of like this new environment.”  —& ...
    • 'Gutsy Call' Not So Gutsy After All, New Book ...
      Rachel Hirshfeld / Arutz Sheva: ‘Gutsy Call’ Not So Gutsy After All, New Book Reveals  —  According to a new book, President Obama canceled operation to kill Osama bin Laden on three separate occasions, due to instructions of aide  —  At the urging of ...
    • As America succeeds at the Games, back home al ...
      Guy Adams / The Independent: As America succeeds at the Games, back home all the talk is about #NBCfail  —  Host Bob Costas made a series of jingoistic remarks, including a joke about Idi Amin when Uganda's team appeared  —  NOTE: WE DO NOT STORE YOUR EMAIL ADDRE ...

    Energy & Environment News

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    China Dialogue

    • Eco-toilet scheme ends in failure
      The dry toilets in Inner Mongolia's Daxing eco community have been quietly replaced after three years of bad smells, health problems and maggots. Wu Shan reports.The large banner at the front gate of what used to be called Daxing Ecological Community has been changed to read “Civilized Cit ...
    • Green and pleasant land?
      The opening ceremony of the London Olympics projects an image of rural tranquility. But the story of a peasant poet of the early 19th century is truer to Britain's actual experience and the relationship of people to environment, says the British activist George Monbiot.Editor's note: The opening ...
    • Germany's risky green wager
      With China’s renewables industry waiting in the wings, able to achieve astonishing economies of scale, a nuclear-free Germany could see its first mover advantage quickly turn sour, writes David Buchan.China’s solar panel makers are well aware of Germany’s clean-energy programme ...
    • Will China exploit its shale gas?
      China urgently needs new sources of energy, but is shale gas the way forward? As the government prepares to launch a new auction of drilling rights, Xu Nan and Wang Haotong look at the debate within China.Shale gas is a rising star in China. Ever since the government solicited interest in its fi ...
    • Bill McKibben: China should rethink gas fracking
      The rise of unconventional gas in America has proved a “real distraction” from the priority of tackling climate change, Bill McKibben tells chinadialogue.Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and founder of the campaign group 350.org chinadialogue: Why have US environmen ...

    AlterNet Top Stories

    Threat Level

    • Former NSA Official Disputes Claims by NSA Chief
      A former NSA official has accused the NSA's director of deception during a speech he gave at the DefCon hacker conference on Friday when he asserted that the agency does not collect files on Americans.
    • NSA Chief Tells Hackers His Agency Doesn’t Cre ...
      NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander, appearing for the first time at the DefCon hacker conference, told the crowd of hackers and security professionals that his agency "absolutely" does not maintain files on Americans.
    • Feds: We Can Freeze Megaupload Assets Even if ...
      The feds say that even if they can't criminal prosecute Megaupload the corporation, since its not registered in the United States, they still get to keep all the assets they seized in January when they shut down the file-sharing service.
    • This Cute Chat Site Could Save Your Life And H ...
      Nadim Kobeissi just wanted to make encrypted chat as easy as can be to help dissidents, but along the way he ran into deep skepticism from the tech community and nasty browser "features." But now that's he's launched version one of Crypto.cat to a warm tech reception, he says he's getting stoppe ...
    • Kids Can Open Gun Safes With Straws and Paper ...
      Is a plastic drinking straw from McDonald’s the only thing keeping a thief, or worse a child, from accessing the loaded weapon in your closet safe? That's apparently the case with one brand of personal safes that a team of researchers will be cracking at DefCon on Friday, along with several othe ...

    Equality Trust

    • The Spirit Level Documentary Film
      We're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...    
    • Act Local = Reduce the Gap
      Find out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
    • We work in partnership with One Society
      Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
    • Among Equals: read our newsletter
      Read the latest edition of our supporter newsletter  
    • Action for Happiness
      Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...

    PDA AMERICA

    • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
      Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
    • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
      Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
    • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
      Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
    • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
      WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
    • An American Suicide Terrorist
      William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

    Marler Blog

    • The USDA New York Microbiological Data Program ...
      On Saturday, Burch Farms of North Carolina announced a recall of Athena cantaloupes because the product may contain listeria monocytogenes. No illnesses have been associated with this recall, according to Burch Farms. Hannaford, including both Bedford locations, is advising customers because it ...
    • Campylobacter, Listeria, Salmonella, Vibrio an ...
      The Washington Post’s Dina ElBoghdady must not have had a busy social calendar this Summer weekend if she was stalking the pages of FoodNet for the latest in foodborne illness trends. Her story, “Food-borne illnesses not diminishing” which ran this morning on the Post’s ...
    • Should brothers Ryan and Eric Jensen face crim ...
      Earlier this week Food Safety News reported that the CDC had increased the numbers of those considered to be culture-confirmed cases from the 2011 cantaloupe Listeria outbreak from 146 to 147 and confirmed that the death toll now stands at 33[1].  Of course, the death toll is in fact much ...
    • 425 Sick by Salmonella Tuna Scrape from Moon M ...
      The CDC just released its final report on this ongoing outbreak. A total of 425 persons infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Bareilly (410 persons) or Salmonella Nchanga (15 persons) were reported from 28 states and the District of Columbia. 55 ill persons were hospitalized, and no ...
    • Marler and Theno at 10th Beef Industry Safety ...
      David Theno, former VP of Food Safety at Jack in the Box and I were the keynote speakers at the Beef Industry Safety Summit. Our topic was the 20 year post the Jack in the Box E. coli Outbreak. For those who want to read the book read Poisoned at www.poisoned.com. Here is the video of Dave&rs ...

    AutoblogGreen

    • Report: London's hydrogen buses grounded durin ...
      Filed under: Government/Legal, UK Is hydrogen a dangerous substance? It is, during the London Olympics, at least. That's why the fleet of five H2 buses that usually carries passengers between Covent Garden and Tower Gateway have been sent out to pasture for the duration of the games. Standard ...
    • Official: Ford C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid pri ...
      Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Minivan/Van, Hatchback, Ford The U.S. federal tax credit for plug-in vehicles maxes out at $7,500 for cars with batteries that are 16 kWh or larger. The Ford C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid doesn't have that big of a pack, so the most the feds will grant you for b ...
    • Official: Honda delivers first Fit EV in Calif ...
      Filed under: Car Buying, Hatchback, Honda, Electric Honda has made good on its promise to deliver its first Fit EV, and that delivery took place in California on Friday. Matt and Becky Walton, of Ventura County, can now claim they have the first example of Honda's all-electric car, which cost ...
    • Official: Ford C-Max Energi will have 20-mile ...
      Ford's marketing strategy for its plug-in vehicles is coming into Focus (pun intended): compare, compare, compare. When announcing the Focus Electric's 105 miles per gallon equivalent, for example, Ford made sure to note that it beats the "Nissan Leaf by 6 MPGe while also offering more mot ...
    • Official: Nissan Leaf gets badged for police d ...
      Filed under: Europe, Government/Legal, Hatchback, Nissan, Electric Plug-in vehicles perform police duties for Scotland Yard (Vauxhall Ampera) and the NYPD (Chevrolet Volt) and we've all seen the little EV parking-enforcement vehicles, so today's announcement that the Nissan Leaf will be used ...

    Rafe's Radar

    Camera Obscura

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    • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
    • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
    • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
    • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

    Democracy Now!

    • Matt Taibbi Explains Wall Street's "License to ...
      In part two of our interview with Matt Taibbi , he describes recent Wall Street scandals — including a decade-long Wall Street scandal that drained money from every county and state in the United States — and notes not a single bank executive has faced individual consequences. He a ...
    • U.S. Gun Laws: Guilty by Reason of Insanity
      By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan James Holmes, the alleged shooter in the massacre in Aurora, Colo., reportedly amassed his huge arsenal with relative ease. Some of these weapons were illegal as recently as eight years ago. Legislation now before Congress would once again make illegal, if ...
    • Radical Journalist, Media Critic Alexander Coc ...
      Alexander Cockburn, the longtime journalist, columnist and publisher of the progressive website of news and analysis Counterpunch, has died at the age of 71. Cockburn was a prolific writer who authored columns over the years for the Village Voice, the Wall Street Journal and The Nation ma ...
    • From the Archives: Michael Moore on Gun Violen ...
      In October 2002 filmmaker Michael Moore visited the Democracy Now! firehouse studios to talk about his latest film, "Bowling for Columbine" about the Columbine High School massacre and violence in the United States. Following last week’s mass shooting in Aurora, Colorad ...
    • Amy Goodman on MSNBC's "UP w/ Chris Hayes" on ...
      Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on MSNBC’s "UP w/ Chris Hayes" on Sunday, July 22nd at 8-10 am ET.

    Suzie-Q

    • Mitt Romney Comments At Fundraiser Outrage Pal ...
      By KASIE HUNT and KARIN LAUB  07/30/12 11:18 AM ET JERUSALEM — Mitt Romney told Jewish donors Monday that their culture is part of what has allowed them to be more economically successful than the Palestinians, outraging Palestinian leaders who suggested his comments were racist and out of touch ...
    • Romney-Bain Contacts Outlasted Exit
      By STEPHEN BRAUN and JACK GILLUM Associated Press Jul 25, 8:19 AM EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has said he had no active role in Bain Capital, the private equity firm he founded, after he exited in February 1999 to take over Salt Lake City’s Win ...
    • James Holmes Identified As Alleged Aurora, Col ...
      AP |     By THOMAS PEIPERT and P. SOLOMON BANDA Posted: 07/20/2012  8:36 am Updated: 07/20/2012  4:00 pm AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Police say 71 people were shot in a suburban Denver movie theater early Friday during midnight shows of the new Batman movie. Twelve people were killed, ten of ...
    • Bain Capital Started With Help Of Offshore Inv ...
      Mitt Romney’s firm raised more than a third of its first investment fund from wealthy foreigners — who mostly used companies in Panama, then known for tax advantages and banking secrecy. Los Angeles Times By Joseph Tanfani, Melanie Mason and Matea Gold July 19, 2012, 3:00 a.m. Washington B ...
    • First Lady Michelle Obama: “It Takes One ...
      Published on Jul 19, 2012 by     BarackObamadotcom It starts with you: http://OFA.BO/xJQfHT First Lady Michelle Obama announces the launch of “It Takes One”. “It Takes One” is a new effort that asks you to inspire one more person to join you every time you take an action ...

    Solari

    • Money & Markets – Week of 7.29.12
      TARP Was Even Worse Than You Think: “An Abysmal Failure,” Barofsky Says Yahoo! Finance 27 July 2012 Most Americans have a sense TARP was a badly managed program that bailed out “fat cat” bankers at the expense of U.S. taxpayers.
    • CA CAFR: Parks Dept. ‘Found’ $54 Million, $2.3 ...
      By Carl Herman For five weeks I journalistically hammered that California’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) reveals $600 billion in surplus taxpayer assets, and the various local government agencies’ CAFRs are data-sampled to total $8 trillion in surplus assets. Last week, the Calif ...
    • Geopolitical – Week of 7.29.12
      2012 London Olympics I Am Fishead: Are Corporate Leaders Psychopaths? Top Documentary Films 2011 It is a well-known fact that our society is structured like a pyramid. The very few people at the top create conditions for the majority below.
    • Quote du Jour
      Though your balance-sheet’s a model of what balance-sheet should be, Typed and ruled with great precision in a type that all can see; Though the grouping of the assets is commendable and clear, And the details which are given more than usually appear; Though investments have been valued at t ...
    • Life – Week of 7.29.12
      Miracle Mushrooms Power the Slums of Mumbai Open Culture 27 July 2012 Don Tapscott: Four Principles For The Open World Ted Talks June 2012

    Insurgency Watch - Newswire

    • Times Scare
      ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
    • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
      Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
    • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
      BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
    • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
      Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
    • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
      Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »

    AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

    Sideways News

    • Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
      The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
    • Brit mums strict about eco-chores
      Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
    • UK venue offers rainforest weddings
      Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
    • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
      The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
    • 10 green resolutions to save you money
      By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

    Fabius Maximus

    • Last week they spoke comforting words, but I s ...
      Summary:  Although entertaining as gallows humor, last week’s statement by ECB President Mario Draghi illustrates important but seldom discussed aspects of the euro-crisis. Here we read and annotate the text. It’s an oddity of our time that people tend to rely on secondary sources &# ...
    • America’s Shadow Wars in Africa
      Summary:  There’s an institutional drive for growth, just like that in biological entities. Sometimes it become cancerous, inimical to the overall organism. So it is with our mad profitless empire — which makes previous empires (eg, Spain, British) look like works of genius. Here Nic ...
    • Imagining the future. Here are my guesses. Pos ...
      Summary: What lies in our future, ten years or more distant? Here are my guesses. Post your speculations in the comments! This post appears not to have loaded correctly 8 hours ago; so this is a re-post of it. Contents The new world emerges Energy & Climate Technology Economics Demographics ...
    • Imagining the future. Here are my guesses. Po ...
      Summary: What lies in our future, ten years or more distant?  Here are my guesses.  Post your speculations in the comments! Contents The new world emerges Technology Economics Demographics Military Politics For more information . (1) The new world emerges The old world ran from 1648 to 1776.  Af ...
    • The hidden goal of Europe’s leaders. Se ...
      Summary:  As the euro-crisis, now in its third year, grows in breadth and intensity, many analysts conclude that Europe’s leaders are stupid. Perhaps not.  Perhaps they pursue hidden goals.  Goals important to them, if not to Europe’s peoples. Many people writing about the euro-crisi ...

    Open Your Eyes News

    • Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
      Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported.  Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, ...
    • Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
      Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point si ...
    • British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
      PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
    • Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
      IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of ...
    • Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
      Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. ...

    The Progressive Realist

    • World Health Organization Preparing Response t ...
      14 people have died this month from an outbreak of Ebola in remote western Uganda. This bulletin was issued by the World Health Organization yesterday. A total of 20 cases, including 14 deaths have been reported since the beginning of July 2012. The index case was identified in a family from Nya ...
    • China's New City: Is this Beijing's Pivot?
      It’s not relocating aircraft carriers to the Pacific or stationing 2500 marines in Australia but China’s provocative establishment of a new city, Sansha, in the disputed Paracels chain takes the geopolitical drama in the South China Sea to a new stage. This escalating assertiven ...
    • Recollections of the Rwandan Army's Early Years
      Below is a post I originally published here on August 28, 2010. With Paul Kagame and the Rwandan Army back in the news, I thought I should again recall their role in the Eastern Congo refugee crisis of 1996-97. I stopped following the Great Lakes region closely at the end of that decade and can' ...
    • Top of the Morning: Ebola Outbreak in Uganda; ...
      Top stories from DAWNS Digest Ebola Outbreak in Uganda One of the deceased was transported to Kampala and her body was not handled with appropriate caution, which is causing some panic. “The world’s first major outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever since 2009 has killed at least 14 of 20 p ...
    • You Might Have Missed: Drones, Afghanistan and ...
      Department of Defense News Briefing with General Norton Schwartz, July 24, 2012. Q:  I just had a question about [remotely piloted aircraft].  There was statements recently that in the next year or so the military estimates that there will be more unmanned pilots than pilots in the air.  Is that ...

    TAPPED - The American Prospect

    • Obama a Descendent of the First Slave
      Is President Obama a descendent of the first American slave? According to a team of geneologists, working with Ancestory.com, Obama is an 11th generation descendent of John Punch, an African indentured servant sentenced to slavery. Moreover, these roots come by way of his mother, a white Kansan ...
    • Is Obama Misreading the Public?
      In a new poll, Gallup asks voters to rank their priorities for the next president. Unsurprisingly, the top answer is “jobs,” followed by “reducing corruption in the federal government,” and “reducing the federal budget deficit.” Here are the full results: Writing at the Washington Examiner, By ...
    • If Only the President Would Make Speeches, Eve ...
      Yesterday, psychologist and political consultant Drew Westen had yet another op-ed in a major newspaper (the Washington Post this time) explaining that all of Barack Obama's troubles come from a failure to use rhetoric effectively. Don't get me wrong, I think rhetoric is important—in fact, I've ...
    • Mitt Romney Thinks You're a Sucker
      Back in January, when he was asked during a primary debate about the taxes he pays, Mitt Romney made the somewhat odd assertion that "I pay all the taxes that are legally required and not a dollar more. I don't think you want someone as the candidate for president who pays more taxes than he ow ...
    • Teflon Don?
      Responding to arguments that Mitt Romney is stronger than he looks, The New Republic’s Nate Cohn notes the degree to which Romney’s resiliency—in the face of attacks and gaffes—is a natural consequence of polarization in the electorate. In other words, it doesn’t actually tell us anything about ...

    Buzzflash

    • Tuberculosis Contamination May Spread in Flori ...
      MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT According to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2003, "HCA Inc. (formerly known as Columbia/HCA and HCA - The Healthcare Company) has agreed to pay the United States $631 million in civil penalties and damages arising from false claims the governme ...
    • What’s Chick-fil-A’s "Biblically Based Princip ...
      BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT When Chick-fil-A's president Dan Cathy came out loud and clear against same-sex marriage, some folks decided that CFA restaurants are for the birds, and are taking their business elsewhere. Christian right culture warriors, incensed by the outpouring of a ...
    • Privatization: The Big Joke That Isn't Funny
      PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The privatization of public goods and services turns basic human needs into products to buy and sell. That's more than a joke, it's an insult, it's a perversion. It generally benefits only a privileged group of businesspeople and their companies while incr ...
    • Romney Rebuked by British PM for Mitt's Gaffe- ...
      MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Reportedly, Mitt Romney made so many offensive comments in London that one paper posted a list of his top ten gaffes. The Vancouver Sun of Canada headlined a story, "Team Romney earns gaffe gold in Britain: Criticism of Olympics rankles British PM, wh ...
    • Utah Mormons Man the Phone Banks for Romney's ...
      BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT No matter how many gaffes Mitt Romney and his advisors commit during their current European trip, and despite not having much love for the Republican Party's presumptive presidential candidate, conservative Christian evangelicals will turn out in November ...

    Glenn Greenwald - Salon

    The BiPartisan Report

    Sciencebase

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

    Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

    • This Week Millions of Women Gain Access to Pre ...
      Today, two days before key provisions of Obamacare go into effect, providing millions of women guaranteed access to preventive services, the Center for American Progress released a package of resources illustrating how women will be impacted by this significant implementation deadline.read more
    • Medical Marijuana Patients Get Their Day in Fe ...
      Late last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit agreed to hear oral arguments in Americans for Safe Access v. Drug Enforcement Administration, a lawsuit challenging the federal government's classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no medical value. Ten yea ...
    • It's Time to Restore Retirement Security to Am ...
      Mary Kay Henry, President of the 2.1 million member Service Employees International Union, issued the following statement in response to a new report released today by Senator Tom Harkin (D_IA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, that examines and proposes ...
    • It's Time to Restore Retirement Security to Am ...
      Mary Kay Henry, President of the 2.1 million member Service Employees International Union, issued the following statement in response to a new report released today by Senator Tom Harkin (D_IA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, that examines and proposes ...
    • Thousands to Protest Dirty and Dangerous Frack ...
      Thousands of “fracktivists” will travel to Washington DC this week for Stop the Frack Attack, the first-ever national protest to stop dirty and dangerous fracking. The 3-day summit will culminate in a rally on the West Lawn of the Capitol on Saturday, July 28 at 2pm, followed by a ma ...

    Common Dreams-Views

    • Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama Raises Funds O ...
      Brendan Fischer On July 20, hours after the horrific shooting in Aurora, Colorado, the Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama sent an email to supporters with the subject line "OUTRAGEOUS: Media Tries to Blame Tea Party for Colorado Shooting. ...
    • Palestinian Rights Activist Victorious Over AI ...
      Medea Benjamin It is not every day that the voices for justice triumph over the actions of the rich and powerful, especially when it comes to the Israel-Palestine debate.read more
    • Is Barack Obama a Radical Socialist, a Pro-Bus ...
      Peter Dreier Donald Cohen President Obama's conservative opponents lambast him as a radical, a socialist, and a purveyor of class warfare.read more
    • ALEC: Hawking "Freedom" in Salt Lake City
      Brian Moench As I write this, the infamous ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) is meeting across the street from me in Salt Lake City's luxurious  Grand America Hotel.read more
    • Health Care Workers, Patients Lead Fight for D ...
      Katie Robbins In the midst of a fierce debate on the national level around the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act, the Divestment Campaign for Health Care made its official debut.read more

    Newshoggers - AfPak

    Water Wars

    WordPress | Economics

    Electronic Intifada

    • Magic realism with footnotes: novelist Nasrall ...
      Raymond Deane 28 July 2012 Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Time of White Horses is a bewildering labyrinth of a book, yet its very untidiness conveys a powerful sense of the textures of place, time and custom of Palestine’s history.
    • Israel denied me entry on the basis of my skin ...
      Jakril Hoque London 27 July 2012 A British citizen who was detained, interrogated and denied entry at Ben Gurion airport last month describes his experience.
    • Victory for Australia's boycott campaign as ch ...
      Kim Bullimore Melbourne 27 July 2012 A judge’s decision to drop the charges against 16 Palestine solidarity activists in Melbourne, Australia has been hailed as a “landmark victory” for freedom of expression.
    • Brothers jailed by US and expelled to Gaza spe ...
      Joe Catron Gaza City 26 July 2012 Two brothers who were deported to Gaza from the US despite their stateless status say the government is punishing people for opposing foreign policy.
    • Revealed: producer of propaganda BBC report on ...
      Asa Winstanley London 26 July 2012 A journalist who produced a film defending Israel’s war crimes in Gaza for the BBC is the same man who wrote hoax stories about Palestine and Lebanon a decade ago, an investigation by The Electronic Intifada has revealed.

    The Wonk Room

    • Log Cabin Republicans Leader Defends Chick-fil ...
      The Log Cabin Republicans’ R. Clarke Cooper today penned a scathing rebuke of LGBT activists and allies who have been speaking out against Chick-fil-A for its anti-gay policies. Confirming for his conservative brethren that “gay people really are the thought police,” Cooper las ...
    • REPORT: Ohio Routinely Tosses Thousands Of Vot ...
      In 2004, 9 votes per precinct pushed George W. Bush ahead of John Kerry in Ohio. But thousands are thrown out each election, according to a new report by the Cincinnati Enquirer. The battleground state, which has predicted the winner of every presidential election since 1944 except Nixon vs. Ken ...
    • Head Of U.N. Syria Mission Attacked
      A convoy carrying the head of a U.N. monitoring mission to Syria was attacked over the weekend, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told reporters on Monday. “It’s quite fortunate that nobody got injured by these attacks,” Ban said. “It was only because of these armored ve ...
    • Pew Poll Shows Five-Point Swing Toward Pro-Gun ...
      A Pew Research Center for the People & the Press poll, taken after the Colorado shooting, shows that 47 percent of Americans say it is more important to control gun ownership, compared to 46 percent who say it is more important to protect the rights of Americans to own guns. While Pew calls ...
    • North Dakota Newspaper Updates Anti-Gay Weddin ...
      The Forum, a newspaper in North Dakota, recently faced public outcry when it refused to print a same-sex marriage announcement. As of yesterday, The Forum has updated its policy and will allow same-sex couples to submit their weddings announcements provided the marriages are legal where they are ...

    thwap's schoolyard

    • A Time to Stand and be Counted
      I was skeptical that camping out in public parks and critiquing the system a-la "Occupy" was ever going to change things. I was prepared to get involved to the limited extent that I was able to, when it wasn't immediately crushed and in the USA it's message was resonating with the majority of th ...
    • Why Don't I Trash Religion Again?
      One reason that I blog is to force myself to write every day. I've got a lot to do this morning and I can't decide on anything topical, so I guess I'll rant about religion. If you read this blog with any frequency you'll know that I have a real bee in my bonnet about religion and the asinine de ...
    • thwap Doesn't Catch Olympic Fever
      Sigh. So a television set is playing some Canadian Olympics coverage and there's a commercial for some young male Canadian athlete training and endorsing a product (VISA credit cards I think) and at one point he says "I'm doing it for my country." That struck me as odd. Really odd. All I could ...
    • Another Brick in the Wall
      Omar Khadr's case is a polarizing one, to say the least. Some people think that he's an evil, psychopathic, Islamofascist terrorist monster, while other people say that he was a victim of circumstances, a child soldier and a Canadian citizen who should have had his legal rights respected and bee ...
    • Canadians lack confidence in governments' abil ...
      According to a recent poll. Granted, when governments don't even care if they succeed (as in Haiti and Afghanistan) or when they're dedicated to starving the state of resources so that it will fuck things up, or when (like the Liberals) they're such deluded yet conniving scum-bags that it's h ...

    on Government Oversight

    Digital Journal

    • Cops and teens SAIL for KICKS in Toronto
      This week 11 kids living in Toronto's Jane and Finch neighbourhoods, one of the most dangerous areas in the city, will be sailing on Lake Ontario as part of the SAIL for KICKS program.
    • Rhythms of the World: A cultural tour around t ...
      Rhythms of the World is a former street festival that evolved into being hosted at mansion priory grounds, while still maintaining its core aim of bridging the gap between age, race, economic stature and ability of those taking part.
    • Olympic Eventing: GER leads across the board a ...
      A breathtaking but demanding course challenged both horses and riders in the cross-country phase of eventing at Greenwich Park. Stellar rounds from the British team could not keep Germany at bay however, and Australia's hopes took a tumble.
    • B.C. union study says most want public liquor ...
      A new poll conducted for the British Columbia Government and Service Employees Union suggests that a strong majority of residents support having public liquor stores open on Sundays and expanding operations.
    • Rising temps make it challenging to beat the s ...
      Soaring temperatures have prompted a string of heat alerts across the city, as well as many other parts of the province, this year. On some days, it has even been warm enough to fry an egg outside, weather experts say.

    End Homelessness | Change.org

    • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
      Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
    • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
      This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
    • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
      What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
    • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
      Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
    • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
      Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

    Ceasefire.ca

    • Louder than the bomb: write your letter to the ...
      To commemorate both Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day, we are partnering with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) so our voices can be louder than the bomb. Write a letter to the editor of the newspaper of your choice, and explain why you want nuclear weapons to be abolished. ...
    • Jaffer, Radarsat, and China
      A private investigator has filed a court document claiming that disgraced former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer, the husband of former cabinet minister Helena Guergis, sought Canadian satellite information with military implications after liaising with Chinese state-owned technology companies in 2 ...
    • The War of 1812: Now playing
      The government's love of all things military has reached a new ridiculous high (or low depending on how you see it).
    • MacKay, Libya, and “political truth”
      Did Defence Minister Peter MacKay tell the truth about the costs of the Libya mission? Or was it just the "political truth"?
    • Cluster bombs: an expensive mess
      Canada still possesses hundreds of cluster bombs it purchased during the Cold War. DND recently began the expensive and dangerous process of dismantling the munitions.

    Kevin Trudeau Show

    • Amalgam Fillings Leach Mercury Vapor Into The ...
      March 30, 2012 Activist Post By AP “If you have mercury fillings, you should seriously consider having them removed.” –KTRN Why is it that what one government department considers an environmental travesty, another department deems completely safe for the human body? Simple ans ...
    • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-31-12
      America no longer has a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. KT tells you what went wrong and how we can fix it. Plus, Dr. Josh Axe, author of The Real Food Diet Cookbook, stops by to talk with Kevin about eating real, healthy food. Self Help: Global Information Network Your Wish Is Your ...
    • Ventura County On Raw Milk Rampage
      April 2, 2012 Natural News By Mike Adams “If raw milk is so dangerous, why are people still drinking it all over the world and not getting sick?”  –KTRN Perhaps the best investigative reporter covering the raw milk industry today is David Gumpert, writing for www.TheCompletePat ...
    • Philadelphia Student Arrested For Photographin ...
      April 2, 2012 RT By RT “If the police weren’t up to something, why would they care if someone took their picture?” –KTRN A student in Philadelphia has been arrested for taking photos of a traffic stop outside his house. That’s despite of the fact that police officers were ...
    • Another Santorum Slip: Obama an Anti-War ‘Gove ...
      April 2, 2012 Crooks And Liars By Diane Sweet “Listen closely. He WAS about to say it.” –KTRN Failed former junior senator from Pennsylvania by way of Virginia, turned presidential hopeful, Rick Santorum speaks to a crowd at The Armory in Janesville, Wisconsin on March 27th dur ...

    Armies of Liberation

    • State Department ends Yemen arms embargo
      Without much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
    • Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...
      Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
    • Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostages
      Al Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...
    • Obama’s strategic blunder in Yemen may shield ...
      A law passed by Yemen’s cabinet on Sunday provides blanket immunity to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and all those who served in his governments over the last 33 years. One unintended consequence may be to also immunize those al Qaeda operatives on the payroll of the Yemeni military and se ...
    • Former Yemen president’s intended US tri ...
      As pressure builds on the Obama administration to deny a diplomatic visa to ousted Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, the family of a sailor killed in the al Qaeda attack on the USS Cole urged that Saleh be denied entry to the United States. In a public plea, Gary and Deborah Swenchonis are c ...

    Dark Politricks

    • The Main Driver of GDP Growth: A Strong Rule ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comThe Main Driver of GDP Growth: A Strong Rule of Law By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com GDP Growth More Strongly Correlated with Rule of Law than Anything Else … Economist Woody Brock says that a nation’s G ...
    • Obama will ‘evaluate’ bill to ban online munit ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comSusan Crabtree The Washington Times Monday, July 30, 2012 White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Monday that President Obama will “evaluate” a new bill that would ban online ammunition sales in the wake of t ...
    • Court upholds Arizona’s extreme 20-week aborti ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   The U.S. District Court of Arizona rejected a Center for Reproductive Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) challenge to the state’s 20-week abortion ban, one of the most extreme ant ...
    • Bizarre Booms & Weird Noises In the Sky
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrison Planet.com Monday, July 30, 2012 You Tube sensation Sheila Martin joins Paul Joseph Watson to discuss the mysterious unexplained booms reported by people across the United States, as well as strange ‘noises ...
    • Why Are Republicans Calling To Disarm The Amer ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comWhile the federal government is arming itself to the teeth against conservatives Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, July 30, 2012 The recent deluge of attacks against the second amendment were completely predic ...

    Dandelion Salad

    • The Perversion of Scholarship by Chris Hedges
      by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig July 30, 2012 Fraternities, sororities and football, along with other outsized athletic programs, have decimated most major American universities. Scholarship, inquiry, self-criticism, moral autonomy and a search for artistic and esoteric ...
    • Fears of ecological disaster in Bangladesh oil ...
      Dandelion Salad Jul 30, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish Environmentalists in Bangladesh are warning that leaks from a sunken oil tanker could lead to the country’s worst-ever ecological disaster. Al Jaeera’s Nicholas Haque reports from Naraayan-ganj, on the banks of the Meghna river. Fears ...
    • Behind Obama’s Fake Recovery – The Plan ...
      Dandelion Salad by Mike Whitney Information Clearing House July 28, 2012 Last week’s dismal “data dump” has ended all talk of a strong recovery in the US. Retail sales, factory output, jobless claims, consumer confidence, business investment and existing home sales are all down sharply indicatin ...
    • Obama and Romney: Start Debating the Prison-In ...
      Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page July 25, 2012 Ever visit a major prison? The vast majority of Americans have not, despite our country having by far a higher incarceration rate per capita than China or Iran. Out of sight is out of mind. Imagine the benefits of the average taxpayer t ...
    • Climate Change and the Next U.S. Revolution by ...
      Dandelion Salad by Shamus Cooke www.globalresearch.ca July 24, 2012 The U.S. heat wave is slowly shaking the foundations of American politics. It may take years for the deep rumble to evolve into an above ground, institution-shattering earthquake, but U.S. society has changed for good. The heat ...

    Your New Reality

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      This man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
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      Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
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      Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
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      Normal blogging output will return soon. Making some movies. In the meantime, enjoy :
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      Best. Christmas. Ever A Short Story By Darryl Mason "Is your father okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happened while she was away... "He's not getting better, if that's what you mean." How could he tell her, right now? She had more than enough on her mind alread ...

    Wired - Science

    • Astronaut Fish Head To Space Station
      The Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) has sent an aquarium to the International Space Station. It's not for relaxation, mind: the fish tank will be used to see how microgravity impacts marine life, including a transparent fish.
    • The Secret to Popular Sing-Along Bar Songs
      A pub full of Brits singing lustily along to bands like Queen isn't the most typical locale for research -- unless the topic of study is what makes a song worthy of singing along to. According to research presented at the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Queen's "We ar ...
    • Olympic Swimming Physics: New Starting Block I ...
      An analysis of the physics behind the angled swimming starting blocks making their Olympic debut in London.
    • Natural Gas Fracking Industry May Be Paying Of ...
      In the latest battle over the basic facts of fracking in America, the provost of the University of Texas announced he would re-examine a report by a UT professor that said fracking was safe for groundwater after the revelation that the professor pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars from a T ...
    • Giant Ice Avalanches Found on Saturn’s Moon Ia ...
      Enormous ice landslides have been spotted on Saturn's moon Iapetus. Scientists think that heating of the ice causes it to become slippery, helping unravel the mystery of giant landslides elsewhere in the solar system.

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    NewsWise

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    Climategate

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      ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
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      A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
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      USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

    Opinio Juris

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    • Weekday News Wrap: Monday, July 30, 2012
      by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Participants from around the world failed to agree on a UN arms-trade treaty last Friday, eliciting disappointment from Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Foreign Policy has a post on Friday’s decision of the US to back away from supporting the Arms Trade ...
    • Upcoming Events: July 29, 2012
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    Public News Service

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    • Bright Future Seen as Feds Approve Pair of Uti ...
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    • First-Ever Colorado River Day Celebrated
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    • Phone Company Fights FBI to Protect Customers' ...
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    Center for Food Safety

    • EPA to Beekeepers: Buzz Off
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    • New York Times’ Oversized Argument: Organic Ca ...
      by Lisa J. Bunin, Ph.D., Organic Policy Coordinator There is no disputing the claim that organic has become “a wildly lucrative business for Big Food,” as discussed at length in the recent New York Times article: “Has ‘Organic’ Been Oversized?” But what reporter Stephanie Strom has noticeably om ...
    • The Center’s Statement on House Agriculture Co ...
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