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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 III

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Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
    Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
  • House Hopping
    House Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
  • Buying Property
    Buying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
  • IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing
    IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing Aӏmоѕt еνегуtһіng іn tһе world today wіӏӏ nеνег ӏаѕt аnԁ tһаt іѕ а fact. Obviously, tһіngѕ ѕһоυӏԁ change nо matter wһаt еνеn wіtһ tһе assets уоυ аге tгуіng tо invest іn уоυг IRA. If уоυ аге іn tһе field оf investing, уоυ wіӏӏ аn idea tһаt IR ...
  • Real Estate Investing Myths
    Real Estate Investing Myths Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest. Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...

Pensieve

  • Disney-Pixar Pollution
    For a movie titled “Brave” Pixar are behaving like cowards. I knew it the moment Princess Merida rode her horse out of her castle. A character song. A musical cue. Suddenly I wasn’t watching a Pixar movie, I was watching Mulan or Pocahontas. The very thought of another Disney princess is bad eno ...
  • Grain
    I feel like sand crumbling in the wind. I try to take a step only to find my feet are no longer there. I am a particle, speeding away to nothingness. I was once a rock, solid, assailed by waves, broken by none. But one day I fell from the lofty cliff that was my [...] Related posts: Hurricane Al ...
  • Thermodynamics and Jenga Towers
    I imagine one type of probability space as an extremely wide and extremely high tower of Jenga blocks under bombardment from an arbitrarily large number of bored children wearing jetpacks. The vertical, y axis represents the passage of time. The higher you go up that axis, the further you travel ...
  • The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything
    An article on the blog “Shake Off the Grind“, titled “You Only Live Once so Make it Meaningful“,  asks the questions below. Here are my answers: Who am I: A semi-aware bundle of perceptions, habits, and quirks. My personality is simply the structure of the relationships b ...
  • Magic Wands Almost Possible
    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistiguishable from magic” –Arthur C. Clarke Perhaps none of us will ever see straw being converted to gold, or water to wine, but the technology to power a wand-like instrument by waving it around has arrived. The electronics of the d ...

Green Times

  • Hollande may not like it, but French nuclear i ...
    The recent meeting of European Energy Ministers has exposed a Germany-France rift on the role of nuclear power. Post-Fukushima, Germany is investing heavily in solar power; so is Italy. But a French spokesperson said efforts after 2020 must stay neutral on technologies
  • Green art project
    The ARTECYCLE Sculpture Exhibition starts today (18-May). Artecycle encourages Australian and international artists to create artwork that responds to contemporary ideas surrounding the themes of environmentalism (lifestyle/environmentalism.html) and sustainability (lifestyle/sustainable-develo ...
  • Environmental News 18/05/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Exporters face action on cattle cruelty film TWO Australian live cattle exporters have been found to have broken new animal welfare rules in Indonesia, imposed after a cruelty controversy last year. In February Animals Australia - the group that unco ...
  • Mass consumption is killing the environment...
    Abundance (glossary/categories/wildlife/abundance.html), mass consumption, capitalism (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q= esrc=s source=web cd=1 ved=0CIoBEBYwAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCapitalism ei=Wd6xT9bLMqKLmQXDyoi3CQ usg=AFQjCNEs9weTxH-ZiwZr_DR6I1eSy9IHpA sig2=3F5nMo ...
  • Environmental News 17/05/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Richmond Valley says no to new coal seam gas The Richmond Valley Council is reconsidering its position on the coal-seam industry. It was the only far north coast council to speak in favour of the industry when a parliamentary inquiry visited the regi ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • A New Bio-Gas System in Palestinian Susya
    in May 2010, the Bio-Gas project was launched to install systems for producing gas from sheep and goat dung for the domestic energy needs of the Palestinian hamlet of Susya (Susiya). This project was the initiative of Yair Teller, together with The Villages Group and Arava Institute. The first s ...
  • Susya
    June 22, 2012: Susya I doubt if Palestinian Susya has ever seen so many people. Some 500, maybe more, have arrived from Jerusalem (including a large Palestinian delegation from East Jerusalem), Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva, and various sites in the occupied territories: Beit Umar, Mufagara, and the ...
  • My Home is Everything: the People of Susiya Sp ...
    Dear Friends and supporters, The latest news from Qamar, the lawyer from Rabbis for Human Rights representing Palestinian Susiya: the occupation’s “Civil Administration” agreed to extend the period for the submission of the juridical objections to the demolition orders issued f ...
  • Urgent alert to save Susya village from destru ...
    Dear Friends, Please have a look at the announcement below. For the last twelve years we have worked closely with our Palestinian friends in Susya, protected them to the best of our abilities from continuous violent harassment by Israeli settlers and by the army, fought the legal battle to keep ...
  • “Civil Administration” and Settler ...
    In March, we reported here about an unusual Israel High Court petition by Israeli settler-run groups, demanding that the (fraudulently named) “Civil Administration” carry out demolition orders in Palestinian Susya. Settler pressure upon the government to make Palestinian life more di ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • It’s time for an American Spring
    Dennis Perrin says the changes happening across the world may happen here too in the form of an American Spring. The world is changing and morphing fast. The US, as usual, doesn’t get it and arrograntly assumes the world must be in our image and follow our dictates. Good luck with that.I&# ...
  • Would Jesus bitch slap the far right and Chick ...
    Maybe, and quite possibly justifiably, but Chick-fil-A does help feed the homeless too.Adrianne Curry’s remarks were a reaction to the Chick-fil-A controversy. She commented on Twitter that if far right Christians spent the money they used to actively oppose gay marriage to feed the homeless the ...
  • Two-blade wind turbines for home use
    Bornay wind turbines are now available in the US. One model is just 9 feet tall, weighs 90 pounds, and produces 1.5 KW power in a mere 6 mph wind. But, the complete kit costs $20,000 (not including installation), a hefty investment that would take many years to break even. [...]The post Two-blad ...
  • Electric vehicle goes 500 miles without refueling
    ECOmove’s car, the QBEAK, can reach 75 miles and hour, uses electric motors and a fuel cell that converts a bio-methanol and water mixture into electricity, which charges the battery.The QBEAK is being developed by Danish car makers. Sure, it’s tiny. But a 500 mile range on an EV changes e ...
  • Aurora shooter James Holmes and his magic nose
    The noses in the two photos of James Holmes are quite different. Some say that’s because your nose flares when you have a wide grin. Maybe. But my nose doesn’t flare that much when I grin. Neither do others, like in these photos.Some are going screaming into full-tilt in conspiracy l ...

Coteret

  • Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
    On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here&#8 ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...

Deadline Live

  • Peaceful Streets Project Member Near Stomped b ...
    The “Peaceful Streets Project” is getting a lot of media attention in TX as members “Armed” with Video cameras film local arrests. This was put together to unite citizens in a direct action to curb, and document police brutality running rampant in Austin. More info at www ...
  • Tim McVeigh “Attorney” (gatekeeper ...
    In previous posts and on our radio broadcast… We have already laid out several connections in this Batman murder case to McVeigh and the OKC Bombing case. It is believed that Tim McVeigh was a Manchurian shooter or Patsy used by deep covert intelligence to provide a problem of white suprem ...
  • 5 Creepy Things London Did To Prepare For The ...
        Via GovtSlaves.info On July 27, the London Olympic Games begin, and for 17 long days everyone on Earth will pretend to be interested in track. And for some reason, LOCOG (the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games), normally responsible for ensuring that al ...
  • Glenn Beck sports All Seeing Eye shirt at his ...
    America 20xy 7/30/12 By Andrew Steele Glenn Beck has performed yet another creepy demonstration of his power to mislead people with meaningless nonsense, much like the one he held a few years ago in front of the the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, in what he’s calling ‘The Beginning of a Glob ...
  • Ex-sceptic says climate change is down to humans
    A formerly sceptical climate scientist says human activity is causing the Earth to warm, as a new study confirms earlier results on rising temperatures. In a US newspaper opinion piece, Prof Richard Muller says: “Call me a converted sceptic.” Muller leads the Berkeley Earth Project, ...

The Air Vent

  • Surface Stations Project Hits Paydirt
    It seems as always, I don’t have much time.   I have been waiting for this to break for a long time now, holding my tongue through a lot of critique from the usual advocate trolls.  This extraordinary moment in climate science is FAR to important not to call attention to and I will absolut ...
  • CG Filedate Timeline
    An interesting Climategate timeline discussion has started in a recent Blackboard thread.
  • Why Back-Radiation is not a Source of Surface ...
    A guest post by Leonard Weinstein.  The original document is here and has more legible equations. Leonard Weinstein July 18, 2012 The argument is frequently made that back radiation from optically absorbing gases heats a surface more than it would be heated without back radiation, and this is th ...
  • Police Reveal Climatehack details.
    Steve McIntyre has a post up on an interview with the Norfolk Police regarding the conclusions on the Climategate hack. Apparently, there was a sophisticated effort to break in to the mail server and access was available for an extended period of time. This document is very interesting in partic ...
  • Climategate Investigation Pauses, No Suspects& ...
    It seems appropriate that I put this up here also. Andrew Montford, CA and others have reported that the Norfolk Police have ended their investigation into the hacking of online data from CRU. It turns out that none of us climate bloggers (previously popular or otherwise) have been implicated an ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook creates new collage layout for photos ...
    Facebook today announced changes to the photos section of Timeline that makes photos larger and easier to interact with. Users can also highlight particular photos, similar to how they do on Timeline, to make them stand out among other images. … Continue reading →
  • Facebook shares tumble, company triples lobbyi ...
    Facebook stock drops 11 percent – Facebook shares closed at $23.70 today, down significantly since the company’s second quarter earnings call on Thursday. The company met analysts’ expectations with $1.184 billion in revenue, but many investors are underwhelmed by the the &#823 ...
  • Super Texas Holdem Poker, Temple Ruin, Tab Bui ...
    Soft Reklam’s canvas game Super Texas Holdem Poker led our list of emerging Facebook applications by monthly active users this week. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past week. This week’s top apps … Continue read ...
  • Facebook average revenue per user was $1.28 in ...
    Facebook’s earned an average $1.28 revenue per user in the second quarter of 2012, a nearly 6 percent increase over last quarter, but not even a 2 percent gain year over year. The company’s highest ARPU was in Q4 2011 … Continue reading →
  • The Weather Channel, Discovery Channel, Hallma ...
    The Weather Channel leads this week’s list of top gainers in the People Talking About This metric among TV Network pages. The top 10 pages gaining People Talking About This saw increases between about 30,000 and over 110,000 engagements. We compile … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Israeli voters and Zionist interests poised to ...
    Jamal Kanj considers how the Republican and Democrat contenders for the upcoming US presidential election, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, and behind them well-organized Israel lobbies, are vying with one another to prove their loyalty to Israel, as if the outcome of the election were more importa ...
  • An American motto: free, armed and stupid
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the Colorado massacre highlights the poisonous influence of lobby groups on US politics, in this case the gun lobby but also, in foreign policy, the Zionist lobby. He calls for a rational rethinking of the meaning of "freedom", so that, in essence, it does not mean ...
  • A war Israel is just begging for an excuse to ...
    Gilad Atzmon warns that Israel's eagerness to attack Iran in "retaliation" for the unsubstantiated claim that Iran is behind the attack on Israeli tourists in Bulgaria is driven by a collective self-annihilation complex that is inherent in Israeli culture and threatens to engulf the world in war.
  • The last days of Syrian butcher Assad's regime ...
    We are witnessing the last days of Bashar "The Butcher" Assad, the Alawite sectarian dictator ruling Syria. Slowly but surely, the revolutionaries of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) are closing in on his vipers’ nests... Yet, here in the West, lurking in the darkest corners of ignorance – on the in ...
  • Israel paves way for annexation of Palestinian ...
    Jonathan Cook sees a report recently published by Israeli Supreme Court judge Levy, which stated that Israel is not in fact occupying Palestinian territories, as a step towards the formal annexation of a large chunk of the West Bank - the 62 per cent of the occupied Palestinian territory dubbed ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Make a Statement- Make the Real Alternative Yo ...
    We at Boiling Frogs Post, disgusted with the mainstream and pseudo-alternative media, have made a statement. We have taken action. We have become the needed alternative media. Those of you who have had enough of mainstream propaganda and agenda-driven quasi alternatives can make a statement and ...
  • Pakistan: An Uncertain Present & Future
    Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s ouster this week was more than merely a significant development for national politics, it was an unequivocal message to the people of Pakistan that ineptness, subservience, and corruption will not go unpunished. Though it is fashionable to conclude t ...
  • Stop Imperialism Podcast – The Escalatin ...
    Eric Draitser Presents Pakistani Journalist Atif K Butt Eric discusses with Pakistani journalist Atif K Butt the latest news regarding the order by Pakistan’s Supreme Court to dismiss Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani from office and the escalating power struggle that has diminished the go ...
  • Podcast Show #88- Karzai Cartel & Its Washingt ...
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Michael Hughes Michael Hughes joins us to discuss his investigative article exposing President Hamid Karzai’s mob boss brother Qayum Karzai, and the subsequent legal threats issued against him and his exposé by the family’s business partners in Washington. He explains ...
  • Libya: New AFRICOM & NATO Beachhead in Africa
    Africa vs. the offensive by the axis of AFRICOM, EUCOM, NATO and the European Union, with assistance from the Arab monarchies By Rick Rozoff On June 15 the news agency of the U.S. Defense Department, American Forces Press Service, ran a story on commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) Army Ge ...

Afro Spear

  • Byts and Bytes
    Two Classes, Divided by “I Do” The Morehouse Male Initiative: Black Male Statistics Obama’s Scramble for Africa Mauritania: Slavery’s Last Stronghold Echwalu Photography
  • “False Claims of Voter Suppression‏&#822 ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 Benjamin Jealous, the president and CEO of the NAACP, heartily embraces the absurd assertion of the left that asking someone to simply prove their identity in order to participate in the sacred honor of casting a ballot is thinly-veiled voter suppression and an ass ...
  • A Profile of a Mass Murderer
  • sat’day riddymz
    She is singing in swahili and here is the translation: “Forgive my bad faith Forgive my absence Nonetheless I love you But I don’t know how to love Forgive me for the lost time You waited and hoped Forgive my ignorance Forgive my denial Forgive my silence To you who loved me Forgive my ang ...
  • Who Are Your Black Heroes?

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Academic Imperialism -- China lost in translation
    Dr. Thorsten Pattberg from Peking University argues that European (Hegelian) ownership of history is a language trick. Chinese concepts for example are either completely left out of history or they're being translated into biblical or philosophical Western terminologies.
  • Tax Dollars Better Spent on Life or Death?
    At look at the argument against Obamacare for fiscal reasons when compared to how our tax dollars are otherwise spent. Our money is wasted by other means, and none will have as noble of a cause as saving American lives.
  • The Lie of the Conservative Batman
    A reasonable response to writers like Mark Fisher and Salon's David Sirota, with a new contextual analysis of the fictional Gotham and our own hard reality.
  • Darkness in a once Light arena.
    It just what I have observed with my own eyes, in an industry that puts profit before anything, even entertainment. Ever wonder why there are so many bad movies?
  • Grab Bag -- No Fruits; All Nuts!
    In which prominent Republicans cloud the election issue by using the Big Lie against President Obama, and others.

Switchboard

  • 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 ...
  • Farm Bill Follies
    Franz Matzner, Associate Director of Government Affairs, Washington, D.C. Backers of the House Agriculture Committee’s extremist Farm Bill are currently scrambling to push something through before August recess.   The latest gambit i ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • The Vote Fraud Fraud, Willful Blindness Edition
    Vote suppression laws are more common in swing states. Ann Althouse is unconcerned: Weiser’s argument doesn’t prove as much as she’d like, because it’s also true that it’s in swing states where there’s the most reason to worry about fraud. It’s a corolla ...
  • The BULLY PULPIT — Is There Anything it ...
    The latest Drew Westen article has the same fundamental problems as every other Drew Westen article. There is, however, one howler that’s particularly instructive. Starting with the stimulus makes sense, because there’s a least a plausible argument that Obama left some money on the t ...
  • Humpty Dumpty Koch
    Who knew that Humpty Dumpty was the secret Koch Brother? A fantastic class war film from 1936 by the great Dave Fleischer.
  • Social Darwinism for the 21st Century
    Bryan Caplan is a terrible person. Now you might say that I am too mean to the Koch-funded George Mason economist. After all, he might not beat his dog. But that doesn’t really matter here. Because Bryan Caplan is a terrible person. Why is Bryan Caplan such a scourge on the human race? Thi ...
  • Every Nuclear Family is Nuclear in its Own Way
    Here’s a fascinating series of photographs from a book on the Soviet bomb program.  Someday, I would love to see a big coffee table book of pictures like these from all of the nuclear powers. The story that Richard Rhodes tells about the Manhattan Project is of an extended, extremely well- ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Qatar calls upon Harvard for help in establish ...
    Harvard Law School's Institute for Global Law and Policy has formed a partnership with the Qatar Foundation, an economic development and education organization that plans to start a graduate law school in Doha.
  • Court finds ethics warning trampled lawyer's s ...
    A federal appeals court has ruled that the Kentucky Bar Association violated a lawyer's First Amendment rights when it warned him against criticizing the handling of an investigation of a state senator.
  • Plaintiffs struggle to keep BP derivative acti ...
    A New Orleans pension fund has asked a federal appeals court to reinstate a consolidated shareholder action against BP PLC's officers and directors. A trial judge had thrown out the case on the ground that it should have been filed in the United Kingdom.
  • First Circuit tosses $30 million fee award in ...
    A federal appeals court threw out a Boston federal judge's $30 million attorney fee award for plaintiffs' lawyers in multidistrict litigation over oil-sludge damage to Volkswagen cars.
  • Tweet Relief
    The NLRB is aggressively protecting the use of social media by workers, even nonunion ones.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Scheme Opens Papua New Guinea Forests to Forei ...
    More than 5 million hectares (12.3 million acres) of community-held land in Papua New Guinea have been signed over to foreign and domestic corporations through ©Paul Hilton/ Greenpeace a government leasing scheme, accelerating deforestation in the resource-rich nation, a new Greenpeace study ...
  • Historic Drought Conditions of Recent Years Ma ...
    A multi-year drought from 2000 to 2004 that lowered crop productivity and reduced water levels across western North America may become “the new normal” over the next century as the climate warms, a new study says. In an analysis of climate models and precipitation projections, a team of scientis ...
  • Are Fast-Breeder Reactors A Nuclear Power Panacea?
    Proponents of this nuclear technology argue that it can eliminate large stockpiles of nuclear waste and generate huge amounts of low-carbon electricity. But as the battle over a major fast-breeder reactor in the UK intensifies, skeptics warn that fast-breeders are neither safe nor cost-effective ...
  • Powerful Storms Linked to Depletion of Ozone L ...
    A new study warns that a surge in powerful storms, perhaps linked to a warming climate, could be causing a depletion of the planet’s protective ozone layer. Writing in the journal Science, Harvard researchers explain that water vapor inserted into the normally dry stratosphere by strong thunders ...
  • Unusual Number of Grizzly and Hybrid Bears Spo ...
    Two Canadian biologists have reported sighting a handful of grizzly bears and hybrid grizzly/polar bears at unusually high latitudes in the Arctic, indicating that the interbreeding of the two bear species is becoming more common as the climate warms and grizzlies venture View photos Photo ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

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

Not My Tribe

  • Mitt Romney trips upon brilliant foreign polic ...
    On the heels of making A TWIT of himself in London, self-caricaturized Romneyshambles, GOP presidential foil-candidate Mitt Romney traipsed over to Israel and depth-charged their bellicose policy of menacing Iran with continuous threats of preemptive attack by proclaiming his “respect&#822 ...
  • NATO training new police force in counter revo ...
    Turkey, a member of NATO, is now training the new police force in LIbya for the new counter revolutionary government the US and NATO have established there. ‘A total of 817 Libyan police academy students arrived in Istanbul last week to train at the Adile Sadullah Mermerci Police Centre, w ...
  • Should the London Olympics remember the 1972 M ...
    Of course the Israeli weightlifters and wrestlers killed in Munich in 1972 should be memorialized. But to call the killing of the Olympic athletes a holocaust is sarcasm. What happened at the 1972 Olympics is being recalled as the “Munich Massacre” but even the propagandists tweaking ...
  • Everything’s up to date in Kansas City
    Yep– They’ve gone about as far as they can go. Broadway’s otherwise obsolete lyrics about civilization’s western edge might be true again! Kansas City will now have 1-Gig/second internet access. One hundred times faster than yours. It’s a new project of Google&#8217 ...
  • So Aurora shooter James Holmes has “lawy ...
    If law enforcement spokespeople are to be believed, James Holmes has “lawyered up”, EXCEPT that he turned up at his arraignment alone, with a public defender. Does “lawyered up” mean something else, like invoking your right not to be interrogated without advice of a lawye ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • Perhaps it’s Time the USDA Stopped Giving Us N ...
     New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Something funny happened at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) last week. In an online newsletter to employees, published once a quarter, the advice dispens ...
  • Recovery Drinks: Gatorade or Chocolate Milk?
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! You got up early, dragged yourself out of bed and spent 30, 45, or even 60 full minutes on the treadmill, swimming, or jogging outside before the heat gets too unbearable. C ...
  • The Real Reason McDonald’s and Coke are Sponso ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! McDonald’s and Coca Cola each spent $100M to become sponsors of the Olympics. That’s a lot of dough, both for the International Olympic Committee to receive, and ...
  • Clean Eating – What is It?
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Are you familiar with the term Clean Eating? We’re beginning to hear more and more people talk about the clean eating movement and decided to take a minute to take a look. Clean eating is all about eati ...
  • An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away. Two Apples…?
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! The famous adage, coined by Benjamin Franklin, has done good for the apple industry. And science has long backed the health benefits of apple consumption. Aside from the nutrient rich profile (vitamins, miner ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Train terror as mining giant endangers Earth’s ...
    The lives of Earth’s most threatened tribe will be in immediate danger if Vale’s new project succeeds. © Survival Plans by a giant mining company to expand a controversial railway line that has already opened up parts of Brazil’s Amazon to invaders, are now putting Earth’s most threatened t ...
  • Brazilian Indians fear ‘absurd’ setback over l ...
    The Guarani and other Indians are contesting a new decree which weakens control over their lands © F. Watson/Survival Brazilian Indians have expressed their anger and dismay as a new directive threatens to weaken their control over their lands. The directive, signed by Brazil’s Solicitor-G ...
  • Indian islands challenge Supreme Court move to ...
    India’s ‘human safari’ row exposed the exploitation of the Andamans’ Jarawa tribe. © Survival A ruling by India’s Supreme Court which would have drastically curtailed the notorious ‘human safaris’ in the Andaman Islands is being ignored by the islands’ authorities. Earlier this month India ...
  • Indian expulsion of armed forces in Colombia t ...
    The Nasa Indians have been caught in the crossfire of Colombia's civil war between the army and illegal armed groups © Francisco Pedro Nasa Indians in southwest Colombia are at the centre of a violent standoff between the army and left-wing guerrilla army the FARC (Revolutionary Armed ...
  • Brazil arrests 18 over high profile execution ...
    Indian leader Nísio Gomes was executed by masked gunmen last year. © Survival Brazilian authorities have arrested 18 people in connection with the high profile killing of an indigenous leader by masked gunmen. Religious leader Nísio Gomes was murdered in front of his Guarani community in t ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Autism File Magazine: What We Can Learn From S ...
    Thank you to our friends at The Autism File Magazine for allowing us to excerpt this article by Jonathan Rose. Fifty years ago, Rachel Carson alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of pesticides— and her spirited...
  • Winners! ABA Flash Card App See. Touch. Learn. ...
    Thank you to Jim McClafferty of BrainParade for giving us two free downloads of his terrific app called See. Touch. Learn. STL is a behavior based teaching tool that lets you (or a teacher or therapist) use pre-loaded lessons or...
  • Best of AofA: Dream On
    Cathy is on summer sabbatical with her five children. This post ran last summer. By Cathy Jameson “If you are alive in 2011, no matter what your age, you have been part of one of the largest and worst experiments...
  • Autism On The Seas Contest for FREE Vacation N ...
    Autism on the Seas (AotS), a niche travel company catering to vacationing families with special needs, and Skyeward Bound Ranch (SBR), a non-profit charity dedicated to providing social and recreational interaction for specially challenged youth, jointly announced today the tri-state...
  • The Scientist: Some with ALS Becoming Medical ...
    Managing Editor's Note: My husband and I had a good friend who was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and who quickly fell into the rabbit hole of mainstream medicine which told him (at the vaunted Cleveland Clinic) we can...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • The Lost American Dream: Living Off The Land
    Barb and Tink have found a way to survive and minimize all of their expenses by growing their own food, bartering with neighbors and extreme budgeting with their small income.
  • WHY in the World are They Spraying? Video Cont ...
    WHY in the World are They Spraying? Video contest in which the winner will receive $1000.00 via Paypal or if in the United States, airfare, Hotel, and a free 3 day pass to the premier and Consciousness Beyond Chemtrails event up to $1000 in value.
  • The Day ‘Our America with Lisa Ling’ Came to F ...
    I am happy to announce that an opportunity to extend the Farm Wars food independence and survival message to a wider audience came when Darcy Dennett contacted me about filming an episode of Our America with Lisa Ling titled Lost American Dream on the OWN network. Well, that’s right up our alley ...
  • We Won’t Get Fooled Again (Part 1)
    I find it interesting that a starving graduate student, living in a modest apartment, could afford very expensive weaponry, a bulletproof vest, a modern gas mask, groin and neck protectors, complicated bombs and tear gas. This was a well-funded operation and there doesn't seem to be any plausibl ...
  • Look Who Supports GMO Labeling – Infographic
    The following infographic from Voters Edge shows just how much money is being spent by both sides, for and against GMO labeling in California. "See who's spending money against our right to know labeling bill in CA and refuse to buy their products!"

Open Your Eyes News

  • India considering price controls for patented ...
    Reuters – India is considering a price control mechanism for patented drugs to make them affordable, a top government official who oversees the sector said on Friday. “A committee has already finalized a proposal and we will put it out in the public domain in a month or so,” Di ...
  • Would YOU like to become part of the Open Your ...
    There are currently seven volunteers based worldwide who bring you Open Your Eyes News. As we continue to expand, and in advance of our new website launch, we are seeking one additional member to join our team to become a category editor, taking responsibility for publishing articles in one of o ...
  • Romania votes in Traian Basescu impeachment re ...
    BBC – European Council President Herman Van Rompuy voiced “deep concerns” about the political crisis in Romania “with regard to the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary”. Despite Romania’s promises to respect EU institutions, Brussels has said it ...
  • Clashes in Congo as army retreats
    Reuters – Fighting between rebels and government forces flares in the Democratic Republic of Congo worsening conditions in refugee camps. Andrew Raven reports.
  • ‘Britons evaded £200m in tax’ usin ...
    Guardian – British clients of an HSBC-owned private Swiss bank that is the focus of a major HM Revenue & Customs investigation are alleged to have evaded tax by an amount likely to exceed £200m, the Observer has learned. The potential scale of the tax loss will heighten pressure on tra ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • UCLA's new transparent solar film could be gam ...
    One of the holy grails of solar cell technology may have been found, with researchers at UCLA announcing they have created a new organic polymer that produces electricity, is nearly transparent and is more durable and malleable than silicon.
  • Controversial Caribbean whaling approved with ...
    Representatives of the International Whaling Commission meeting in Panama this week have approved a controversial proposal extending the Aboriginal and Subsistence Whaling quotas for three countries: the United States, Russia and the Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent & the Grenadines.  Th ...
  • Keystone XL southern leg permitted as early as ...
    As a deadline rapidly approaches that will automatically permit the construction of the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, an increasingly vocal group of landowners, environmentalists and even tea party members are saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now ramming ...
  • EPA proposes more stringent soot rules
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed new regulations Thursday that would further reduce legal limits for fine particle pollution -- otherwise known as soot -- in the nation’s air. Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, made ...
  • Diesel exhaust can cause cancer, World Health ...
    Diesel engines power commerce and transportation around the world, but the exhaust they produce can prove deadly. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that it now classifies diesel exhaust as a cause of cancer. While major advances in technology have helped clean up some dies ...

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
  • Tibetan singer detained and tortured
    25-year-old singer, Ugyen Tenzin, was detained last month soon after the release of his album titled, An Unending Flow of My Hearts Blood,.Unconfirmed reports said that Ugyen Tenzin has been beaten in custody and disabled a month after album released Submitted by Red Thorvenkiold to World &nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Permanent War: Official US Policy
    by Stephen Lendman Nations don’t wage permanent wars and survive. Imagine one calling itself a democracy trying. Washington spends more on militarism and imperial wars than the rest of the world combined. At the same time, vital domestic needs go begging. America lives by the s ...
  • How we know what we know about Syria
    By Michael Collins Obama administration support for Syrian rebels is based on a United Nations authorized report from November 2011. In that document, Syria is accused of committing "crimes against humanity." The report's co-author is a board member at a Washington, D.C. based think tank that ...
  • High Stakes in Syria
    by Stephen Lendman The region's fate hangs in the balance. Perhaps much more. The potential ugly reality is chilling. Make no mistake. Washington orchestrated months of bloodbath. Obama officials bear full responsibility. They were last year against Libya. They are currently as violence ...
  • Self-immolations speak of Israel's bankruptcy
    Kourosh Ziabari In the past weeks, the streets of Tel Aviv have been witness to desperate people setting themselves on fire in protest at the growing social and economic inequalities and the rising cost of living in Israel. Almost one year after 400,000 Israelis filled Tel Aviv’s Rothsc ...
  • Preventing More Middle East Wars Tops All Prio ...
    by Stephen Lendman Washington's dirty hands control regional belligerence. Longstanding policy unleashed a regional bloodbath. It advances America's imperium. Willing partners include NATO and Middle East allies. They're serial killers for their own self-interest. Post-9/11, Afghani ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • It’s Not Clueless Behavior
    By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE – If Mitt’s recent actions at the Olympics were attributable to just being clueless I could just say that he’s out of his depth in diplomacy. That alone would make me nervous about him becoming president. If it was a lack of preparation due to staff I could ju ...
  • Dear Sarah Palin
    By Diana May-Waldman,WWH/CJE- Dear Sarah, I saw the picture of you and hubby Todd posing at a Chick Fil-A. It just rubbed me the wrong way. You both have a big cheesy grin and you are giving the thumbs up. You might as well have been giving the middle finger. You even went as far [...]
  • We Are Headed for Bad Times
    by Marie Gage,WWH/CJE -Mexico, Spain, Syria – tens of thousands of people all around the world are protesting their circumstances. Spain is struggling with its second recession in four years and an unemployment rate of more than 24%. The protest was one of over 80 demonstrations called by unions ...
  • Revolution 99 Updates: “Olympics” ...
    Vermont police clash with protesters at conference BURLINGTON, Vt. — Protests kicked off the 36th annual meeting of the New England governors and eastern Canadian premiers on Sunday, even before the talks got under way. Burlington Police said “defensive munitions” — including 8-10 pe ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Monday
    HSBC sets aside $2 billion for U.S. investigation, mis-selling Reuters) – HSBC’s chief executive apologized on Monday for shameful and embarrassing mistakes made on anti-money laundering controls as the bank set aside $2 billion to cover the cost of U.S. investigations and compensate ...

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Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Analyzing Coskata’s Major Strategy Shift
    In last week’s Energy Trends Insider our featured stories were How to Make Money in Solar as Every Solar Manufacturer Goes Bankrupt, Analyzing Coskata’s Major Strategy Shift, and Rough Road For Biobutanol. As we have done previously, we would like to share one of those stories with r ...
  • The Facts About Canada’s Oil Sands and Climate ...
    Misinformation is hard to stamp out, because it tends to be repeated - so Robert Rapier goes in depth to examine Climate Change claims around the Keystone XL pipeline.
  • The Contribution of U.S. Oil Consumption to Gl ...
    Financial Dependence Can Cause Bias Generally when I find myself having to clarify my position from a previous column, I find that I did not explain myself as well as I should have. Such is the case with last week’s column Environmentalism is a Profitable Business. There were several ways ...
  • Investment Opportunities in Natural Gas
    In this week’s Energy Trends Insider our featured stories were The Navy’s Biofuels Program and the Great Green Fleet, Investment Opportunities in Natural Gas, and the Short Term Oil Price Investment Outlook. As we did last week, we would like to share one of those stories with regula ...
  • Midwestern Drought, Ethanol, & Renewable Fuel ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I discuss the implications of the current drought in the Midwest, how that may impact the ethanol market, and whether the Renewable Fuel Standard is likely to be modified. Readers who have specific questions can send them to ask [at] consumere ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Kathy Schrock Guide
    Tags: DENSI2012, DENby: Jan Abernethy
  • Technology Integration in Education - Facilita ...
    Highlights and Sticky Notes:372130-62008430Tags: technology, education, integration, resources, web2.0, edtech, techintegration, ningby: Greg Limperis
  • expeditionlittrips - home
    Tags: googleearth, thomascooper, googlelittrips, google_earth, explorations, expedition, education, wiki, littrips, expeditionlittrips, googleby: Dean Mantz
  • DEPD Curricular Integration
    Tags: integration, professionaldevelopment, DiscoveryEducationby: Dean Mantz
  • History by Era | The Gilder Lehrman Institute ...
    Comments:“History by Era” is the Institute’s innovative new approach to our shared national history. At its core it is a collection of fifty individual introductions written by some of the most distinguished scholars of our day. It thus speaks to the reader not in one voice, but in fifty differe ...

Rodale News

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

big think

  • Celebrities and their Unnecessary Public Apologies
    I’m trying to understand this. Someone called Kristen Stewart, who is a Hollywood actress, issued an apology for having a (brief?) affair: “I'm deeply sorry for the hurt and embarrassment I've caused to those close to me and everyone this has affected. This momentary indiscretion ...
  • How Countries Rank in Food Security
    Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell What´s the Latest Development? In the rich countries like America, people have access to nearly twice the amount of calories than in a country such as The Democratic Republic of Congo—where people are getting 43 percent below the calor ...
  • New Direction in the Drug War
    Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell What´s the Latest Development? How did local residents overcome the risks of taking on drug traffickers in their community? The answer is participation and cooperation. “Details of the events remain vague, but in the fog of interdictio ...
  • Southern Views
    So I've gotten some touching emails asking whether I was sick or dead because I hadn't blogged for almost a whole week.  Well, I was sick with an unfashionable or even unnatural summer cold and then on a brief vacation at Callaway Gardens, GA with my wife, daughter, son-in-law, and grandson ... ...
  • Nine States With Highest Percentage of Borrowers
    Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell What´s the Latest Development? The Pew Charitable Trusts has identified nine states where the highest percentage of residents had taken out payday loans. Oklahoma came in as the first highest, Missouri second and Washington state is th ...

Information Liberation

  • Two Texas Pre-Teens Create a Fake Facebook Acc ...
    Two Texas girls--ages 12 and 13--were arrested earlier this month and charged with online impersonation, a third-degree felony, for creating a fake Facebook account under the name of another student at their school.* According to the Student Press...
  • Oregon Man Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail -- for ...
    A rural Oregon man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in jail and over $1,500 in fines because he had three reservoirs on his property to collect and use rainwater. Gary Harrington of Eagle Point, Ore., says he plans to appeal his conviction in Ja...
  • Florida Cop Fired For Picking Up Hookers On Duty
    Of course, he'd happily jail you for doing the same....
  • Gun carrying man ends stabbing spree at Salt L ...
    SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - A citizen with a gun stopped a knife wielding man as he began stabbing people Thursday evening at the downtown Salt Lake City Smith's store. Police say the suspect purchased a knife inside the store and then turned it...
  • MI5, CIA and TSA at the 2012 London Olympic Games
    The UK government has deployed an extra 1,200 more troops to aid in protection measures at the 2012 Olympic Games. The lack of confidence in the G4S security firm has prompted the use of military forces. The opening ceremony will provide an estima...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 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 ...

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • The Ground Beneath Our Feet
    Despite lack of grave markers, complete map, St. Paul's cemetery in Dartmouth is not for the dogs DARTMOUTH, NS - A small party stands gathered at the northwest corner of St. Paul's cemetery, staring more pensively than might seem ...
  • On Wearing the Hijab and Being "In-Between"
    As I whiz down Agricola St. on my bike, going to work at a screen-printing collective, I find a certain comfort in knowing that my hijab is safely tucked in under my blue helmet – as those few minutes on my bike give me a certain amo ...
  • Ktunaxa Nation Challenges BC Approval of Jumbo ...
    Resort would destroy the spiritual, cultural and environmental values of Qat'muk sacred area Ktunaxa to Submit Application for Judicial Review of Jumbo Resort Approval For Immediate Release July 24, 2012   British Columbia - Today ...
  • Re-visioning the Everyday
    A found object sculpture exhibition ReVISION is an eclectic group exhibit that offers viewers a chance to reimagine the everyday.  The show successfully balances individual artists' personal obsessions against the larger theme of r ...
  • How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Ra ...
    We’re right in the dirty middle of Pride here in Halifax, NS. Hearts are racing, pulses are beating, our breathe comes heavy, and we’re all about to reach our collective Rainbow Climax. This will be my fourth year “workin ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Real Obama vs. Fantasy Obama
    I've long had my issues with Drew Westen, and they're on striking display in an op-ed he wrote a few days ago for the Washington Post. He says Barack Obama made "three crucial errors" after he took office: Obama’s first mistake was inviting the Republicans to the table. The GOP had just ...
  • Mitt Romney Praises Socialized Healthcare, As ...
    Over the weekend, as I was watching Mitt Romney extol the virtues of Israel's entrepreneurial spirit, I tweeted sarcastically, "Wikipedia tells me that top marginal Israeli tax rate is 48% on income over $125,000. I wonder if Romney knows that?" Apparently not. Here's Romney at a fundraiser in ...
  • Berkeley Earth Project Says Carbon Dioxide is ...
    I promised to link to Richard Muller's latest climate change paper from the Berkeley BEST group when it was posted on Monday, and it's now Monday. So here it is. Previous BEST papers have confirmed dramatic global warming over the past century, and the new paper is mostly an attempt t ...
  • Has Aid to Afghanistan Been Wasted?
    Rajiv Chandrasekaran reports on the latest from Afghanistan: A U.S. initiative to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on construction projects in Afghanistan, originally pitched as a vital tool in the military campaign against the Taliban, is running so far behind schedule that it will not y ...
  • Scalia Take 2: The American Public is Pretty S ...
    A few days ago I scolded Antonin Scalia for his belief that Supreme Court hearings shouldn't be televised because the media would just play short snippets of the proceedings and Americans couldn't be trusted to figure out what was really going on. Here's Scalia: If I really thought it would ed ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

  • Developed countries duck warming responsibility
    Rich countries have emitted 2/3 of CO2 through history but their pledges are set to result in just 1/3 of any future warming slowdown, says a study that combines climate, social, economic and ecological science by Xuefeng Cui and John Moore from Beijing Normal University and their colleagues.
  • Society must respond 50 times faster to meet l ...
    Using climate-society feedbacks Andrew Jarvis and colleagues from Lancaster University, UK, predict that the world is on course for 6°C of warming, but this could be much lower with even a slightly stronger response, if we make it quickly
  • Rich versus poor obstructs climate progress
    Though the 45,000 strong international Rio+20 meeting last month seemingly did little for climate change and the environment, social and economic issues must be resolved for such negotiations to be successful in future.
  • Beefing down farming could cut carbon
    Changing our meat consumption habits, including switching from cow to pig farming, will be necessary to feed the world and allow plant-based biofuels and carbon capture to reduce CO2 emissions say Tom Powell and Tim Lenton at the University of Exeter.
  • Climate change brings landscapes to their last ...
    Nature’s beauty means different things to each of us – but undoubtedly it burns some images onto our souls. Our favourite scenery is less constant than we sometimes suppose,  changing from day to day and season to season. But the slowest changes can be the most heartbreaking, eventua ...

e!Science News

  • Archeologists unearth extraordinary human scul ...
    A beautiful and colossal human sculpture is one of the latest cultural treasures unearthed by an international team at the Tayinat Archaeological Project (TAP) excavation site in southeastern Turkey. A large semi-circular column base, ornately decorated on one side, was also discovered. Both pie ...
  • How to avoid traps in plastic electronics
    Plastic electronics hold the promise of cheap, mass-produced devices. But plastic semiconductors have an important flaw: the electronic current is influenced by "charge traps" in the material. These traps, which have a negative impact on plastic light-emitting diodes and solar cells, a ...
  • When the world burned less
    In the years after Columbus' voyage, burning of New World forests and fields diminished significantly -- a phenomenon some have attributed to decimation of native populations by European diseases. But a new University of Utah-led study suggests global cooling resulted in fewer fires because both ...
  • New discovery of how carbon is stored in the S ...
    A team of British and Australian scientists has discovered an important method of how carbon is drawn down from the surface of the Southern Ocean to the deep waters beneath. The Southern Ocean is an important read more
  • New discovery of how carbon is stored in the S ...
    A team of British and Australian scientists has discovered an important method of how carbon is drawn down from the surface of the Southern Ocean to the deep waters beneath. The Southern Ocean is an important read more

unEarthed

  • Tr-Ash Talk: The Summer of Coal Ash
    Are the fires dying down or is the season just starting? Coal ash spill into Lake Michigan from legacy site at We Energy, Oak Creek, WI (Oct 2011). Summer o ...
  • Friday Finds: Greenland’s Meltdown
    Plus: London smog, EPA’s petrified politics, grocery bill blues Greenland's ice melt from July 8th (left image) to July 12 (right image). Photo courtesy of Nasa ...
  • Toxic Law's "Unsafe" Flaw
    Chemicals aren't dangerous unless proven so Firefighters are often exposed to a “chemical cocktail” of emissions from flame retardant chemicals. (BLS) At ...
  • A Law That Turns Safe Into Sorry
    Chemicals aren't dangerous unless proven so Firefighters are often exposed to a “chemical cocktail” of emissions from flame retardant chemicals. (BLS) At ...
  • The New Math
    Bill McKibben takes us to school—and nominates Public Enemy #1 Bill McKibben Bill McKibben,  who first alerted the non-scientific world to global cl ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

  • The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
    Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
  • House Hopping
    House Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
  • Buying Property
    Buying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
  • IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing
    IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing Aӏmоѕt еνегуtһіng іn tһе world today wіӏӏ nеνег ӏаѕt аnԁ tһаt іѕ а fact. Obviously, tһіngѕ ѕһоυӏԁ change nо matter wһаt еνеn wіtһ tһе assets уоυ аге tгуіng tо invest іn уоυг IRA. If уоυ аге іn tһе field оf investing, уоυ wіӏӏ аn idea tһаt IR ...
  • Real Estate Investing Myths
    Real Estate Investing Myths Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest. Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

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  • Israeli hospitals refusing to treat African pa ...
    Report: Jerusalem’s Bikur Holim Hospital refuses to treat a number of African asylum seekers under the premise that they don’t have health insurance. In the past week, the Bikur Holim hospital in Jerusalem has turned away at least three Eritrean asylum seekers, according to a report in Maa ...
  • Romney or Obama: Why the Left in Israel should ...
    The Left in Israel should not remain apathetic to the U.S. elections in November and expect American policy on Israel to remain basically unchanged. Romney is much less likely to restrain Israel, more specifically a right-wing government.  By Dov Waxman The general sentiment among many of my lef ...
  • Romney’s trip shows us his non-approach ...
    Is the presumptive Republican presidential candidate really as “pro-Israel” as he’d like us to believe? Or is it simply that he doesn’t have a clue, so he defers to being “pro-Netanyahu?”  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, J ...
  • WATCH: Hamas and far-right Jewish organization ...
    “Our children are ready!”  The Temple Institute, an ultra-nationalist Jewish organization that is obsessed with rebuilding Solomon’s Temple exactly on the spot where the Dome of the Rock is located today in Jerusalem’s Old City, released the video below just in time for T ...
  • Did Romney snub Labor leader at PM Netanyahu&# ...
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been accused of playing the American political game. It seems that his friend Mitt Romney is now involved in Israeli politics, having cancelled a meeting with Labor head Shelly Yachimovich at the last minute. Labor Minister: ‘Romney may have been misle ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • Fannie Mae’s Response to Foreclosure? Th ...
    The federal government, with its friends The Banks and Fannie and Freddie, are selling off the homes they’ve thrown Americans out of to rich private investors.  That’s bad enough.  What’s worse is, it appears it might be even worse…what if those homes were being sold to r ...
  • FINALLY! A Real Reporter Dissects the Flawed F ...
    There’s a regular ritual that the mainstream press, news and policy makers engage in.  Private companies release press releases that suggest DRAMATIC TRENDS IN REAL ESTATE IN…..(PICK YOUR MARKET)! It works like this: FORECLOSURES IN TAMPA INCREASED 2139% IN JUNE 2012! HOME PRICES SUR ...
  • TARP, Bank Foreclosures and the Looting of Ame ...
    Most Americans have a sense TARP was a badly managed program that bailed out “fat cat” bankers at the expense of U.S. taxpayers. Well, it’s even worse than you think, according to Neil Barofsky, former special inspector general for TARP (SIGTARP). Officials in both the Bush and ...
  • ATTENTION: Important Republican National Conve ...
      IMPORTANT REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION BULLETIN! ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA- As all of America is aware, the cities of St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida were given the profound honor and privilege of hosting the 2012 Republican National Convention during the week of August 23-27, 2012, wit ...
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The Parallel Parliament

  • Humanity – It’s Indifference
    One of modernism’s great paradoxes has been its inability to solve its own problems. It sounds counter-intuitive but that’s the …Continue reading »
  • The Myth of Neutrality
    “Do you hear what you’re saying? You’re talking about parity here – in this *?&%@& place?” The words were uttered …Continue reading »
  • The Myth of the Silent Majority
    Listening in on a radio panel discussion to the pros and cons of citizen engagement was something of an education. …Continue reading »
  • Binding From Mischief
    One of the clear signs of the demise of modern democracy is the penchant for politicians to put partisanship over …Continue reading »
  • No Mere Dream Date
    Thirteen years of marriage is a very brief time to fill with all the adventures we have had over the …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • Disappointment with USDA’s Decision on Meatles ...
    From a statement issued today by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. On Friday, Michael J. Klag, MD, MPH, dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, wrote to Secretary Vilsack of USDA to express his disappointment with his agency’s recent retraction of a Meatle ...
  • Esri 2012: Exciting New Uses for ArcGIS
    The projects I heard about at the conference have inspired me to think about how I can incorporate elements from them into our Food System Map.
  • From Burlington to Baltimore, the Bronx, and B ...
    Although Vermont’s short growing season and mountainous terrain make agriculture tougher, it turns out they’re a blessing in disguise. There’s minimal “big ag” influence in Vermont, so politicians aren’t beholden to any Cargills or Monsantos.
  • Important letter to House Agriculture Committee
    The House Agriculture Committee began marking up the farm bill this morning. As we’ve described in past posts, this bill has significant implications for public health. CLF sent the letter (below) to the House Agriculture Committee, emphasizing important changes needed in the bill in order ...
  • Public Health Relies on Environmental Stewards ...
    Dan Glickman says that we revere the farmer, and I agree. Farmers know that conservation is critical to their success in the long term, and we all know that conservation is critical to human health. This month, as the House debates the farm bill, we’ll see how our representatives in Congress rea ...

k2p blog

  • Reported 1979-2008 U.S. temperature trends are ...
    The new improved assessment, for the years 1979 to 2008, yields a trend of +0.155C per decade from the high quality sites, a +0.248 C per decade trend for poorly sited locations, and a trend of +0.309 C per decade after NOAA adjusts the data.
  • Olympics: OBS coverage is amateur and cycling ...
    OBS - provides all pictures from the Olympics to broadcasters around the world. Of course, OBS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the International Olympic Committee and hosts the broadcasting operation for several major sporting events. The coverage of Day 1 of the London Olympics was amateur rath ...
  • Olympics have started – blogging will be ...
    The Beijing opening ceremony was far more spectacular but humourless. Some of the London themes were far more "socialist" than at Beijing. The ceremony had some humour - but some of which fell flat. The raising of the rings in London though will stick in my memory. Beijing was trying to hide its ...
  • Oh Calcutta!!
    Let Calcutta surprise you
  • Further confirmation that carbon dioxide lags ...
    Temperature leads CO2 concentration. I find it more plausible that increasing CO2 concentration may well have contributed to neutralising the temperature increase which caused the CO2 emission in the first place.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Mom Says Jolly Ranchers “Crunch ‘N ...
    Candy surprises are only good when they involve candy showing up when you least expect it, not when your bag of sweets surprises you with say, an old, rusty razor blade that could cut you while you're reaching for a treat. A California woman claims she found a grody old razor blade hanging out i ...
  • Report: $32 Billion In Federal Aid Going To St ...
    Earlier today, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) announced the findings of its two-year investigation into exactly where the $32 billion annual investment in federal student aid is going -- and whether students are getting a return on taxpayers' investment. Ac ...
  • Nothing Quite Like Being Stuck 150 Feet In The ...
    If anything could turn a die-hard roller coaster rider off the idea of any more trips looping crazily and careening joyfully through the air, it would likely be sitting in a non-moving train car 150 feet up in the air for almost two hours. That's what happened to a dozen riders the new Superman ...
  • Nevada Continues To Reign Supreme In Latest Un ...
    Since the bottom dropped out of the housing market a few years ago, and even as most other locales have begun to claw their way out of the pits, Nevada and California have continued to churn out huge unemployment numbers. And the latest stats from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows no rea ...
  • Some Companies Apparently Pay Attention To You ...
    When you go to Twitter, Facebook, an online forum or any other form of social media to voice a complaint about a product or service you've purchased, one can understandably be left with the feeling that no matter how loud they shout, no one is listening. However, some businesses say they are mon ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Manning Attorneys to Argue Torturous Condition ...
    The Guardian (UK): Bradley Manning’s Lawyers Seek to Show Torturous Holding Conditions Summary: The defense team of Bradley Manning – the soldier accused of giving classified information to WikiLeaks – plans to call several military psychiatrists to the stand to testify that Manning was h ...
  • WaPo Questions: "Is Classification System Dysf ...
    In its third editorial about the Espionage Act prosecution against National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Thomas Drake, the conservative Washington Post (WaPo) editorial board opines that the Drake case demonstrates how dysfunctional the classification system has become. Ju ...
  • OSC Handling Record Number of Whistleblower Co ...
    Government Executive: OSC on Pace for Record Number of Whistleblower Disclosures Summary: The Office of Special Counsel is on track to receive a record number of whistleblower reports this fiscal year. If this pace keeps up, this would mark a 22 percent increase from fiscal year 2011, whi ...
  • Congress Seeks to Plug the Leaks That Are Not ...
    Adding to the leak hysteria in Washington, the Senate Intelligence Committee advanced legislation purportedly to limit "leaks." WaPo reports: The legislation, which has yet to be considered by the full Senate or House, would require the White House to notify Congress whenever it plans to s ...
  • Ecuador Delays Assange Decision Until After Ol ...
    Dow Jones Newswires: Ecuador Delays Decision on WikiLeaks’ Assange Summary: Ecuador’s Foreign Minister is now saying that the country likely won’t decide on whether to grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange political asylum until after the 2012 London Olympics, which will end on August 12 ...

UK Progressive

  • U.S. Needs To Replace Pentagon’s Approach with ...
    By Sherwood Ross If the United States attempted to “conquer” by love rather than force of arms, it might be respected, not reviled, globally. If the White House took an altruistic approach in foreign affairs—that is, if it rejected greed, exploitation, and war in favor of fair play, charit ...
  • Obama-Clinton Wins Big
    by Brent Budowsky Ernest Hemingway advised young writers to write one true sentence. For the 2012 campaign one true sentence is this: A great nightmare for Republican strategists is that President Obama might pull a “JFK in 1960” and run with Hillary Clinton for vice president. If he does, it wi ...
  • It Isn’t Outsourcing It’s Big Business Disconn ...
    President Obama is slamming Mitt Romney for heading companies that were “pioneers in outsourcing U.S. jobs,” while Romney is accusing Obama of being “the real outsourcer-in-chief.” These are the dog days of summer and the silly season of presidential campaigns. But can we get real, please? The A ...
  • Capitalism’s Boundless War
    The streets of the world’s capital cities are war zones of hopelessness, but as people gather together, this despair transforms into a fierce determination, underlain by great expectations, like in 1848, when the only European-wide collapse of the status quo occurred in the Revolutions of 1848 a ...
  • Tough to Maintain: ‘Always Opposite of Obama’
    If Barack Obama had been the Democratic president who said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” Republicans would call it capitulation. “Obama surrenders to America’s enemies!” Commentators on Fox News would opine it’s actually an Islamic saying he picked up in a madrassa in Indones ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Blockbuster: Anthony Watts skewers Muller, BES ...
    It’s all up on Watts Up now. What Anthony Watts and Evan Jones have revealed is breathtaking. [Art thanks to: Cartoons by Josh] This new pre-print paper by Anthony Watts accomplishes so much. Assuming that no major problems are found, the pieces of the jigsaw fit and pass the common sense ...
  • The big news is out on Watts Up: Half the tren ...
    It’s all up on Watts Up now. What Anthony Watts and Evan Jones have revealed is breathtaking, a must see. Half of the warming trend has gone. 92% of the artificial rise was due to” erroneous adjustments of well sited stations”. Muller et al used an older siting classification s ...
  • Müller lite: Why Every Scientist Needs a Class ...
    Müller lite: Why Every Scientist Needs a Classical Training By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley About 18 months ago, as soon as I heard of Dr. Richard Müller’s Berkeley Earth Temperature project, I sent an email to several skeptical scientists drawing their attention to his statement that he co ...
  • Watts Up Speculation Thread
    Watts Up Suspended You know you’re going to speculate. The emails started coming in to me early this morning ten minutes after the unusual WUWT post was published. No — it’s not ClimateGate III, not FOIA. I have my theories. Rereke calculates the release time for WUWT In New Z ...
  • Some good news science – growing spare p ...
    With all the corruption and failures in climate science, sometimes it’s nice to read about how some areas of science are still working, and developing something that matters. There are thousands of people working on a frontier of science that promises to revolutionize medicine. We are livi ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Bigger Disaster for Fukushima?
    I’ve ignored most of the conspiracy talk and amateur speculations that can be found online, like  suggestions that the Fukushima disaster of 2011 is the cause of illness in the USA. But when the report is from ABC Australia and they interview a senior nuclear reactor engineer from Japan, I ...
  • Information That Lasts Forever
    I presume forever is impossible, seeing as our universe probably has a finite existence But if you want some information to last a very, very long time, it would need to be: In a language that will always be understood In a format that can always be read Durable The current trend is for Engl ...
  • Doomsday Fortress Bunker on eBay
    Of course being on eBay doesn’t mean it is a bargain: $425K or make an offer: 19 Acre ATLAS-F ICBM Missile Silo Base Underground Doomsday Fortress Bunker I’d buy it, but they don’t offer international shipping But the real reason for this post is to share the following video. ...
  • US Govt. Says Space Weather is Serious
    “Space weather is a serious matter that can affect human economies around the world,” Tamara Dickinson, a senior policy analyst with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), told attendees at the 2012 Space Weather Enterprise Forum, held 5 June in Washington, D. C. … ...
  • Looking Like the Aurora Shooting = False Flag
    While I suspect that mind control does exist, and some killers are programmed (I even wrote a movie treatment on this very topic back in the 90s, Told), it is mostly likely that the majority of mass murders are genuinely the result of a disturbed loner. However there are some cases in which I su ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

  • Kiran Reddy shielding Jagan to save Congress, ...
    BV Raghavulu alleged that Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy was trying to save jailed Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy in the disproportionate assets case. Reported by Zee News 52 minutes ago
  • BSP leaders meet Akhilesh, demand security for ...
    Last Thursday, some people under the banner of UP Navnirman Sena had vandalised the statue of former chief minister Mayawati in Lucknow and the state government had installed a new one in its place within 24 hours. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • ‘Narcopolis is an unauthorised biography of Bo ...
    Jeet Thayil never thought that a book like Narcopolis will make a cut with the Booker jury. So he was pleasantly surprised when it did. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
  • After PM, Sonia, Pawar targeted by violent Ann ...
    New Delhi/Pune, Jul 30: A furious mob, who were the supporters of Anna Hazare in his protest against corruption in India, on Monday, Jul 30 gheraoed NCP leader Sharad Pawar's residence in New Delhi. Massive protest was shown by the group Reported by Oneindia 2 hours ago
  • CRIMES OF PASSION: Nausheen Ali Sardar, Anuj S ...
    The two played a couple in Ekta Kapoor’s show Kkusum 10 years agoNausheen Ali Sardar and Anuj Saxena, who became popular after playing a couple in the 2001 TV soap Kkusum, team up again to host Crimes of Passion, a show about crime against women. Reported by Bollywood Life 2 hours ago

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Daily Tech

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

  • Can You Offer a Helping Hand Before a Judgment ...
    Trying on clothes at the store, a mother was in the fitting room next to me was having a conversation with her son who was asking for a toy. "We just bought you a toy yesterday, I told you we weren't buying anything for you today." "But I want it! Please mommmmmmyyyy!" "No, I told you no! St ...
  • What, Library of Congress? No Asian or Native ...
    The Library of Congress recently released a list of Books That Shaped America, along with an exhibit of the same name that will be on display in Washington D.C. until September. Out of the 88 books chosen for their influence on our nation’s culture, not a single title was written by an Asian Ame ...
  • Knewton to Reinvent Learning To Make Kids Smarter
    I’ll admit, not since college have I thought about the value of education and the impact it has on our communities. I know its importance, but surrounded by diapers and bottles for the last five years had me worrying about more immediate issues. Until now. Students filming with iPad by Brad Fli ...
  • Greek Frittata with Zucchini, Tomatoes, Feta, ...
    After I made this Greek Frittata with Zucchini, Tomatoes, Feta, and Herbs, I noticed I was eating the leftovers for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. That launched the idea in my mind that frittatas, which are a type of omelet that's not folded over, might be a perfect Meatless Monday dish. I love t ...
  • BlogHer '12 Is Almost Here! What Are Your Tho ...
    The BlogHer '12 conference is less than a week away. Are you going? Are you ready? If you're new to the event -- or even if you're a seasoned veteran -- you probably have a mental list compiled that you visit oh...three or four hundred times a day. If you're wondering what to wear, here's an exc ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

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

Daniel Miessler

  • Vegas 2012
    So I just finished up my annual Vegas trip. Much was accomplished. Attended a ton of great talks that will get parsed into additions to our testing methodologies Had valuable face time with the team Saw Daniel Tosh for the first time Saw the Jabberwalkies for the first time Saw Paul Oakenfold fo ...
  • How the Norwegians Reacted to Terrorism | Schneier
    An antidote to the American cycle of threat, fear, and overspending in response to terrorism is this, about Norway on the first anniversary of its terrorist massacre: And at the political level, the Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg pledged to do everything to ensure the country’s core value ...
  • Dinesh D’Souza Doing a Movie About Obama
    Oh Jesus. Related ContentBike Parkour‪Java TrailerCultivating Gratefulness | TEDObama Blasts GOP Candidates on Booing of Gay Soldier at DebateMagnet Through Copper Pipe
  • On the Vim Path
    I just uninstalled TextMate. I also just revamped my git workflow, and am going full-on Vim everywhere. That’s MacVim, Janus, using git within Vim, posting to WordPress from Vim, using Vimium in Chrome… Everything. I’m going to consume a massive number of tutorials, screencasts ...
  • “We thought Sarah Palin was the better candida ...
    People are saying he came to this conclusion after seeing Romney’s tax returns, although that doesn’t need to be true to make the statement hilarious. This is going to be a major joke in the future. It’s top of the list when it comes to ways to identify that you’re no lon ...

Fitwatch

  • Welcome to the Future, Today.
    For those of us who have watched London 2012 with a keen eye from its inception, we have been alarmed by the extent to which it appeared to be just a 'festival of social control'. Yesterday's heavy-handed policing of the monthly Critical Mass bike ride  was a chilling confirmation of this. Cycli ...
  • The Most Dangerous Armed Gang in the Country
    A mini-rant from a few FITwatchers - not necessarily representative of the views of the organisation as whole. On Thursday, 19th July, killer cop PC Simon Harwood was acquitted of manslaughter at Southwark Crown Court for his role in the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests in 2009. Despit ...
  • A call to kettle FIT and Police Liaison in Bri ...
    Fitwatch are heading to the Smash EDO demo in Brighton on Monday 16th July, and we'd love you to join us. Smash EDO protests have historically been heavily hit by snoopers from the FIT, Police Liaison and the National Domestic Extremism Unit. These are all dangerous, vindictive and untrustworthy ...
  • Sussex police unleash new weapon – crowd ...
    Sussex police have recently started to use new forms of repressive tactics for policing demonstrations. They seem to have taken a break from head cracking to trial what they have termed 'Police Liaison Officers' or PLOs at the recent Smash EDO demonstration on June 4th. This may not be simply a ...
  • A call to FITWATCH at Smash EDO demo, Monday 4 ...
    The high court has decided that it is perfectly ok for the cops to gather as much intel about anyone they like who is in any way connected to the Smash EDO campaign - or any other that uses direct action or civil disobedience. Yesterday they announced that the domestic extremism unit, in holding ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • It’s Not Clueless Behavior
    By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE – If Mitt’s recent actions at the Olympics were attributable to just being clueless I could just say that he’s out of his depth in diplomacy. That alone would make me nervous about him becoming president. If it was a lack of preparation due to staff I could ju ...
  • Dear Sarah Palin
    By Diana May-Waldman,WWH/CJE- Dear Sarah, I saw the picture of you and hubby Todd posing at a Chick Fil-A. It just rubbed me the wrong way. You both have a big cheesy grin and you are giving the thumbs up. You might as well have been giving the middle finger. You even went as far [...]
  • We Are Headed for Bad Times
    by Marie Gage,WWH/CJE -Mexico, Spain, Syria – tens of thousands of people all around the world are protesting their circumstances. Spain is struggling with its second recession in four years and an unemployment rate of more than 24%. The protest was one of over 80 demonstrations called by unions ...
  • Revolution 99 Updates: “Olympics” ...
    Vermont police clash with protesters at conference BURLINGTON, Vt. — Protests kicked off the 36th annual meeting of the New England governors and eastern Canadian premiers on Sunday, even before the talks got under way. Burlington Police said “defensive munitions” — including 8-10 pe ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Monday
    HSBC sets aside $2 billion for U.S. investigation, mis-selling Reuters) – HSBC’s chief executive apologized on Monday for shameful and embarrassing mistakes made on anti-money laundering controls as the bank set aside $2 billion to cover the cost of U.S. investigations and compensate ...

reference frame

  • Have Muller or Watts transformed the AGW lands ...
    I don't think so. But let me add a few more words. In recent days, we witnessed two major salvos in the climate wars as well as many minor repercussions. Both of them are claimed to be equivalents of the battle of Stalingrand in the climate wars. A frustrating aspect of the hype sur ...
  • Permutations join twistor minirevolution
    I have finally found the time to watch Nima Arkani-Hamed's excellent Strings 2012 lecture. Scattering Amplitudes and the Positive Grassmannian (four formats, 40 minutes) (Flash video, PDF only) I recommend you the Flash video; the PDF without Nima's words and handwaving is vastly less c ...
  • Olympic Czechs w/ wellies: climate in London h ...
    According to The New York Times [+pic], the two most memorable aspects of the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony were Ralph Lauren's and the Czech athletes' outfits. (A live NYT blogger has two different winners, the wellies and Danny Boyle's speech.) Irish Independent, LBSports, UKPA and ton ...
  • Anthony Watts' major announcement: what is it?
    The world's most visited climate blog, Watts Up With That, just interrupted the publishing of new posts for two days. On Sunday, we are told to expect a major announcement, one that led him to cancel vacation plans, will arguably attract the attention of the planet, overshadow the Olympic gam ...
  • Greek triple jumper and political correctness
    Voula Papachristou is the hottest among the top Greek athletes who defended her 2009 European gold a year ago (July 2011) in Ostrava, Czechia. She also has a Twitter account where she showed that she isn't just a pile of protein; she is apparently rather creative and intelligent. ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • AURORA FALSE FLAG – Sorcha Faal: Colorado Mass ...
    I knew I smelt a rat in this Colorado Shooting. A second gas mask found, Multiple witness claiming a second shooter, media using actors as supposed victims in the interviews….and now the lid has been blown off the cover-up. James Holmes was a patsy, used to silence his father who was set t ...
  • I have been asked to sell this domain name – Y ...
    $100,000.27 No negotiations. Send to my PayPal account at chiefape@gmail.com. Simple as that. Too much money? Too bad. It is a take it or leave it offer. Quit bugging me! TMA Related posts: Tatumba.com home of The Mad Ape – Radio Spot A few weeks ago I won a significant amount of... Relat ...
  • End of the Road – How Money Became Worthless – ...
    The new film “End Of The Road” has just been released for public viewing, featuring GoldSilver.com CEO Mike Maloney alongside Peter Schiff, Jim Rickards, Jim Puplava, James Turk, Eric Sprott and more. This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Gold American Eagle Fractional Bullion Co ...
  • HOW TO Defeat The System – Documentary Film
    HELP MAKE THIS GO VIRAL! How To Defeat The System is Fabian4Liberty’s latest micro documentary film. With the world in crisis and hundreds of talking heads highlighting the problems, what exactly are the solutions? In this micro documentary LIBERTARIAN ACTIVIST Fabian4Liberty covers concre ...
  • FPS Russia:The 40mm Machine Gun – Buy it here
      22″ Rapid Fire Machine Gun with Lights & Sound High quality battery operated machine gun with lights and blasting sounds! Feel the action when you pull the trigger. The barrel with bayonet moves back and forth thrusting. The bullet belt revolves when firing. This awesome machine ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Stunning roads blend old and new
    Norway’s network of  Nasjonal turistveger (National Tourist Routes) keeps expanding, offering motorists what can amount to the rides of their lives. It’s not the destination but the trip itself, and enhancements along the way, that can leave the most jaded traveler stunned. Statens v ...
  • Fredriksen’s busy summer
    Norwegian shipping, offshore and seafood magnate John Fredriksen doesn’t seem to have been taking much time off this summer, with two of his biggest firms announcing major contracts and pushing forward with expansion plans. As usual, though, Norway’s most successful entrepreneur face ...
  • Norwegian parents ‘spoil’ their kids
    Young Norwegians are so privileged and demanding that relatively few have been working in hotels, restaurants, fish factories or warehouses this summer. Frustrated Norwegian employers claim they simply can’t find Norwegian youth willing to take such traditional summer jobs. “Whether ...
  • Flag-bearer outshone husband
    Eirik Verås Larsen has won three Olympic medals and five world championships in kayak paddling, but he had to step out of the spotlight in favour of his wife Mira last week. That’s when she was the one chosen to carry Norway’s flag at the opening ceremonies for the Summer Olympics in ...
  • Norway Cup bigger than ever
    Around 32,000 young football players from all over the world are in Oslo this week for the annual Norway Cup, which makes it the biggest on record as the tournament celebrates its 40th anniversary. It’s sparked some unwelcome headlines recently over the exclusion of one girls’ team f ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Permaculture, a Step by Step Change, Part II – ...
    The most important step Maybe the most important step in the permaculture change is mindset. The day you get motivated to follow into a life of change towards freedom from the grid, the system and advertising; that day you will have taken the first and most important step in the permaculture ch ...
  • What is a Permaculture Convergence?
    A permaculture convergence is an opportunity to connect with other permaculture designers, folks living the permaculture lifestyle and people new to permaculture. It’s a platform to have those burning questions answered in a safe supportive environment. A convergence creates an opportunit ...
  • Food Preservation and Grandma’s Dill Pickles
    In my grandmother’s house you can always be sure to find the tastiest, crunchiest homemade dill pickles. "You have to choose the right cucumbers and they can only be found in the early cucumber season", she says. The right cucumbers are small and firm and slightly sweet. They are ...
  • Raw Milk Butter Making at Zaytuna Farm
    Milking a cow in central Europe Photo © Craig Mackintosh (Other photos below: Salah Hammad) Raw milk! Yes raw milk! For me, it was a first time! I grew up loving milk and milk products, but also grew up afraid of raw milk. We’ve always been taught that milk needs to [...]
  • Sinking the Lifeboats: Reflections on a Visit ...
    It was on the second week of the PermaNegev course that I arranged a visit to the small village of Herbaiet a Nabi in the south Hebron Hills. We were going to inspect the renewable energy installations put in place there by the Israeli NGO Comet-ME (www.comet-me.org), and to gain a better under ...

Pointman's

  • What’s the Watts paper actually mean, Dude?
    As a young man, my first mode of powered transport was motorbikes. Like all bikers, there was this thing you noticed about passing from the open countryside into a built up area. Basically, cities were warmer than the countryside, and exposed as you are to the elements on a bike, that was always ...
  • So, was climategate a hack after all?
    This is going to be one of those difficult articles to write, just to make it easy to read. It’s going to get technical at points, because it has to, so there’s going to be more than a few detours to explain things, but bear with me. It’s Sunday afternoon, I’m wearing sun ...
  • The decline of popular science journals.
    We are creatures of habit and pleasure. When we find something of pleasure, we tend to revisit it with regularity. Despite what a large part of the mainstream media might have you believe, not all pleasure starts at the gullet and ends at the genitalia, though eating well and making love, are of ...
  • Is climate science just a belief?
    The alarmists in the climate debate have what they think of as this magic ace of trumps card, called peer review. If they actually knew something about the peer review process, perhaps they’d realise it isn’t a guarantee of anything much. It really isn’t. In brief, the process ...
  • Worried about climate change? Meh.
    Climate alarmism pushes a blinding variety of scares at the general public; Polar bears going extinct, droughts of biblical proportions, massive Noah’s ark type flooding, glaciers melting, sea levels rising, sea levels dropping, the polar ice caps melting, your Granny’s knicker elast ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute C ...
    Urban Bush Women have returned to New Orleans for another of their legendary Summer Leadership Institutes. This summer's theme is centered around the question, "Why are people poor?" You can catch some of their work this Saturday at a series of performances they are hosting. Below are the detail ...
  • Community Profile: Brenda Williams of VOTE
    After attending an “outstanding” presentation that VOTE sponsored at Ashé Cultural Arts Center in Central City, Miss Brenda Williams was inspired to get “involved to make a difference in the lives of those who suffer injustice at the hands of lawmakers, judges and others involved in the criminal ...
  • Creating Excellent Schools is not the Same as ...
    Republished from Diane Ravitch's blog: Charter schools that perform better by recruiting and retaining better students don’t exist in a vacuum: skimming the best and most profitable students affects other schools, though it is hard to detect in systems with few charters.  The systemic ef ...
  • Homelessness, Displacement, Evictions . . . Th ...
    There are a number of obvious parallels between housing needs in New Orleans after the 2005 hurricanes and housing needs in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. In both disasters, large regions lost the majority of their affordable housing stock, resulting in massive spikes in homelessness and ...
  • Junebug Productions Welcomes Stephanie McKee a ...
    From our friends at Junebug Productions: The Board of Directors of Junebug Productions, Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Stephanie V. McKee to the position of Artistic Director, effective July 1, 2012.  Junebug Productions, founded by John O'Neal in 1980, is the organizati ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    When a person sells his or her soul to the devil, the devil will collect his due. And here, that price is defanging Iran. Attacking Iran is the price of success for any presidential candidate. Usually Mormons are apolitical, and do not get involved in politics to the extant of Romney. Romn ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Romney is selling his soul to the devil.Statistics: Posted by Chad — Mon Jul 30, 2012 3:23 pm
  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    You. The individual, wherever that individual is.Statistics: Posted by mgt23 — Mon Jul 30, 2012 1:48 pm
  • Health, Poisons, Diseases, Drugs • Weaponized ...
    Weaponized Mycoplasma, Vaccines, and Chronic Disease Okay, this info about weaponized mycoplasma is actually really new to me--I just found a comment posted on another site about this stuff and decided to look into it a bit more. I posted the comment I found on the "John Kaminski-Assassin ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/3 ... 18496.html Romney in Israel: Palestinians are inferior to Jews. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/3 ... 18496.html JERUSALEM — Mitt Romney told Jewish donors Monday that their culture is part of what has allowed them to be more economically suc ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Scheme Opens Papua New Guinea Forests to Forei ...
    More than 5 million hectares (12.3 million acres) of community-held land in Papua New Guinea have been signed over to foreign and domestic corporations through ©Paul Hilton/ Greenpeace a government leasing scheme, accelerating deforestation in the resource-rich nation, a new Greenpeace study ...
  • Historic Drought Conditions of Recent Years Ma ...
    A multi-year drought from 2000 to 2004 that lowered crop productivity and reduced water levels across western North America may become “the new normal” over the next century as the climate warms, a new study says. In an analysis of climate models and precipitation projections, a team of scientis ...
  • Are Fast-Breeder Reactors A Nuclear Power Panacea?
    Proponents of this nuclear technology argue that it can eliminate large stockpiles of nuclear waste and generate huge amounts of low-carbon electricity. But as the battle over a major fast-breeder reactor in the UK intensifies, skeptics warn that fast-breeders are neither safe nor cost-effective ...
  • Powerful Storms Linked to Depletion of Ozone L ...
    A new study warns that a surge in powerful storms, perhaps linked to a warming climate, could be causing a depletion of the planet’s protective ozone layer. Writing in the journal Science, Harvard researchers explain that water vapor inserted into the normally dry stratosphere by strong thunders ...
  • Unusual Number of Grizzly and Hybrid Bears Spo ...
    Two Canadian biologists have reported sighting a handful of grizzly bears and hybrid grizzly/polar bears at unusually high latitudes in the Arctic, indicating that the interbreeding of the two bear species is becoming more common as the climate warms and grizzlies venture View photos Photo ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • The Plan, Part Deux
    By Frank Moher Previously on The Plan, I explained why, despite the depredations of the current federal government, the Canadian political universe is unfolding as it should — or at least as I’d hoped it might when I was a young journalist lost in the conservative wilderness in the 1 ...
  • The Plan
    By Frank Moher As we enjoy, if that’s the word, the second summer of the Harper majority, I’m pleased to say The Plan is working. The Plan, of course, is the one I hatched back when I was working at Alberta Report in the 1980s. AR, some of you will know, was the conservative newsweek ...
  • McDonald’s: Some secrets should be kept
    By Mark Leiren-Young Did McDonald’s have to tell us what they put in their special sauce? Couldn’t they have just said, “May contain nuts, chlorine and anything else that may set off your allergies” and keep us guessing? Unless someone posted the recipe on Wikileaks, did they have to tell us abo ...
  • A Modest Opinion – Nathaniel Moher&#8217 ...
    By Nathaniel Moher Welcome to part three of Nathaniel Moher’s Guide to Fixing the World! As any good trilogy does, Nathaniel Moher’s Guide to Fixing the World will have six parts . . . three of which will be completely unreadable and will mostly be done as a money grab. (Well, if we’re being hon ...
  • Friendly Canadian input on the US election
    By David Taub Bancroft The sun is shining. The flowers are blooming. We are in a year that is divisible by four. I think we all know what that means. In a matter of months, our American friends will once again start hanging chads or whatever it is they do to hold a presidential election, [...]

Daily Beast

  • Romney Versus the World Bank
    Republican candidate Mitt Romney's visit to Israel was marked by a series of largely boilerplate comments about the special relationship between the United States and Israel. And, like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he almost entirely avoided the question of peace and the two-state solu ...
  • How the GOP Will Win Jewish Votes
    In 2008, John McCain won just 21% of the Jewish vote. The party has typically struggled with this vote in recent years. 2012 presents a unique opportunity for Republicans to grow their share of this constituency for several reasons. Firstly the President is presiding over a weak economy. Further ...
  • Why I Love the Olympics
    From buses that run on time to semi-naked women playing beach volleyball, London Mayor Boris Johnson on why he’s cheerful about the 2012 games in London.
  • Romney’s Israeli Faux Pas
    Romney turns the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a question of economics. By Daniel Stone.
  • Harry and Cressida Out For the Weekend
    Prince Harry hit a music festival in the UK this weekend, with new girlfriend, 23-year-old Cressida Bonas.

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Japan Times

  • Lunch containers that help make food-safety easy
    It's entirely likely I spend too much time thinking about the lunches I pack for my 7-year-old son. After all, he probably spends all of five minutes scoffing my hard work. But this is a different era from the days when I proudly toted cheese-and-mustard sandwiches on whole-wheat bread in my m ...
  • Mobile phone parts maker goes under
    Tokyo electronic parts maker Polymatech Co. filed for court protection from creditors Monday, going bankrupt with ¥20.3 billion in debt, a credit research agency said. The Tokyo District Court immediately issued an order to protect the assets of the firm, which saw sales of its keypad com ...
  • Judoka Matsumoto wins Japan's first gold, whil ...
    After two days of gloom and doom, Japan's Kaori Matsumoto burned brightest in the women's judo 57-kilogram weight class Monday, giving the nation its first gold medal of the London Olympics. Matsumoto led Japan's women judoka to their first medal in London and the brightest of them all with a ...
  • Kepco logs ¥99.5 billion net loss in firs ...
    Kansai Electric Co. said Monday it posted a group net loss of ¥99.50 billion in the first quarter against a year-before profit of ¥34.47 billion as fossil fuel costs rose with the suspension of nuclear power plants. Group sales for the April to June quarter of fiscal 2012, however, r ...
  • Japan makes gymnastics team final
    Japan advanced to the women's gymnastics team final at the London Olympics on Sunday, while Asuka Teramoto and Rie Tanaka earned places in the all-around individual final. Japan placed sixth in the qualification round with a total of 170.196 points at North Greenwich Arena and will seek to imp ...

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Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

  • Israeli voters and Zionist interests poised to ...
    Jamal Kanj considers how the Republican and Democrat contenders for the upcoming US presidential election, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, and behind them well-organized Israel lobbies, are vying with one another to prove their loyalty to Israel, as if the outcome of the election were more importa ...
  • An American motto: free, armed and stupid
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the Colorado massacre highlights the poisonous influence of lobby groups on US politics, in this case the gun lobby but also, in foreign policy, the Zionist lobby. He calls for a rational rethinking of the meaning of "freedom", so that, in essence, it does not mean ...
  • A war Israel is just begging for an excuse to ...
    Gilad Atzmon warns that Israel's eagerness to attack Iran in "retaliation" for the unsubstantiated claim that Iran is behind the attack on Israeli tourists in Bulgaria is driven by a collective self-annihilation complex that is inherent in Israeli culture and threatens to engulf the world in war.
  • The last days of Syrian butcher Assad's regime ...
    We are witnessing the last days of Bashar "The Butcher" Assad, the Alawite sectarian dictator ruling Syria. Slowly but surely, the revolutionaries of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) are closing in on his vipers’ nests... Yet, here in the West, lurking in the darkest corners of ignorance – on the in ...
  • Israel paves way for annexation of Palestinian ...
    Jonathan Cook sees a report recently published by Israeli Supreme Court judge Levy, which stated that Israel is not in fact occupying Palestinian territories, as a step towards the formal annexation of a large chunk of the West Bank - the 62 per cent of the occupied Palestinian territory dubbed ...

Physics Today

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

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Peakwater

  • Occupy the Dam: Brazil’s Indigenous Uprising
    “The Belo Monte Dam is the most controversial of dozens of dams planned in the Amazon region and threatens the lives and livelihoods of thousands of Amazonian people, plants, and animals. Situated on the Xingu River, the dam is set to flood roughly 150 square miles of already-stressed rain ...
  • China’s biggest freshwater lake exceeds ...
    “Part of Poyang Lake, China’s largest freshwater lake, has seen its water level exceed the warning level, as flooding on the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River has been pushing up the water level of the lake. The water level at the lake’s Huxingzi Station in Jiangxi ...
  • That Sinking Feeling About Groundwater in Texas
    “The High Plains Water District, based in Lubbock, recently reported that the 2011-12 drought drove groundwater levels in its sixteen-county service area to drop an average of 2.56 feet (0.78 meters) – the largest annual decline recorded in the last 25 years and more than triple the annual ...
  • The world’s most disputed waters
    “China is provoking tensions in the South China Sea by establishing a new city on a disputed island. But with the rule of law and diplomacy failing to provide a solution, what lengths will China go to to protect its territorial claims? On Friday, China named two senior military generals to ...
  • Israel restricts Jordan Valley water access
    “At a time when the Palestinian Authority is facing a severe financial crisis, a report by the UK-based non-governmental organisation Oxfam International has revealed that Palestinians could generate an extra $1bn a year by some estimates if Israel removes restrictions on the use of land, ...

D. Kucinich

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

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Popular Technology

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  • The Truth about Judith Curry
    Judith Curry is not a skeptic but a hurricane alarmist who had an alleged epiphany after Climategate and now seeks to be some sort of arbiter of scientific integrity. Her history of trust building includes accusing world leading hurricane expert, Dr. William Gray of "brain fossilization" and t ...
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    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
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  • 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 ...
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    For most people "Borneo" conjures up an image of a wild and distant land of rainforests, exotic beasts, and nomadic tribes. But that place increasingly exists only in one's imagination, for the forests of world's third largest island have been rapidly and relentlessly logged, burned, and bulldoz ...
  • Building indigenous resilience in the face of ...
    In the 1980s images of loincloth-clad tribesmen blockading blocking logging roads in Malaysian Borneo shocked the world. But while their protests captured the spotlight momentarily, Borneo's forests continued to be destroyed at rapid rates, undermining traditional communities that are dependent ...
  • In pictures: Rainforests to palm oil
    In late May I had the opportunity to fly from Kota Kinabalu in Malaysian Borneo to Imbak Canyon and back. These are some of my photos. Historically Borneo was covered by a range of habitats, including dense tropical rainforests, swampy peatlands, and natural grasslands. But its lowland forests h ...
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Science - NZ Herald

  • 40 years of stunning Earth photos
    Landsat, the world's longest-running Earth-observing satellite programme, has marked 40 years of recording the world's changing landscape.The satellite programme, run by NASA and the United States Geological Survey, has captured...
  • Scientists create jellyfish using rat cells (+ ...
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  • Fracking safe, claims UK science body
    The controversial oil and gas extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking", is capable of being managed sustainably and without serious risk of groundwater contamination or inducing damaging earthquakes, the Royal...
  • Tongariro volcano alert at new high
    A "sudden rise" in volcanic activity at Mt Tongariro has prompted scientists to lift its volcanic alert status for the first time.But local businesses and conservation authorities remain unconcerned as they seek to reassure visitors...

The Bovine

  • Organic food at the London Olympics
    From Katrina Heron, on Civil Eats: “…The new rules of the Games dictate that much of the food served—including but not limited to fruits, vegetables, milk, cheeses, and meats—will be sourced in the U.K.; animal products will meet or exceed … Continue reading →
  • Drought-stricken Glencolton cows hit the road ...
    Drought is not just in America. Grey County, where Michael Schmidt’s Glencolton Farms are located, has also been affected. Michael sends this report and these pictures: Not in my forty  years as a farmer did I experience a drought like … Continue reading →
  • Yet another public health danger…
    As if dealing with raw milk farmers wasn’t keeping public health officials busy enough, here’s something else people are doing to themselves, as if to drive the nanny state apoplexic. From Butch News Youtube channel, via Facebook: “Public health authorities … Continue rea ...
  • Cardboard tomatoes from Florida
    by Jim Romahn, on Agri007: “I have just finished reading Tomatoland, by Barry Estabrook, and learned a great deal – most of it not very nice – about how Floridians grow most of the tomatoes we eat when local ones … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt wins leave to appeal raw milk ...
    Leading American raw milk journalist David E. Gumpert, contrasts the Michael Schmidt story to the messy aftermath of the Rawsome food club raids in California. Here’s an excerpt from his The Complete Patient blog: “It is never a simple matter for a … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Eurozone Retail Sales Sink 9th Month; 17th Mon ...
    Eurozone retail sales continue to dive and not even Germany is immune. German manufacturing has been in contraction off-and-on, and retail sales are once again on the verge contraction as well. Let's take a look at some reports. Italy Retail Sales Slump Extends to 17th Month Marki ...
  • 51% of Germans Believe Germany Better Off Outs ...
    A recent poll says 51 percent of Germans now believe Germany would be better off without the euro. The Emnid poll for the Bild am Sonntag mass circulation weekly showed 51pc of Germans believed Europe's top economy would be better outside the 17-country eurozone. Twenty-nine percent said i ...
  • JCPenney to Eliminate All Checkout Clerks, Ins ...
    By 2014 JCPenney PLans to Eliminate All Check-Out Clerks, and instead use self-checkout machines and RFID chips. Struggling retailer JCPenney is making some big changes that will affect customers and its clerks. The store is getting rid of its check-out counters. CEO Ron Johnson said it ...
  • Foreigners Dump Nearly €80 Billion in Spanish ...
    Through the first half of the year, foreigners reduced Spanish debt by Nearly €80 Billion as banks in Spain gobbled up more of the toxic garbage. Foreign investment in Spanish public debt has decreased by 7 €78.168 billion in the first six months of the year, standing at  €203.271 billi ...
  • Federal Bankruptcy Court Lets Stockton, Califo ...
    In a welcome, common sense ruling, Court lets Stockton, Calif. cut retiree health care A federal bankruptcy judge on Friday cleared the way for Stockton, California to cut health care benefits for retirees while it is in bankruptcy proceedings. Stockton is seeking Chapter 9 protection f ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The EyeOpener- The Future of the Web (and what ...
    In mid-2012, in the wake of the ratification of ACTA and the proposal in the US of bills like SOPA and PIPA, in an age where the war on terror is gradually morphing into a cyberwar and database hacks, password leaks and identity thefts are reported on breathlessly, it is difficult to imagine the ...
  • War At Any Cost: Another Manufactured Pretext ...
    The downing of a Turkish jet by the Syrian military last week was not merely a military incident making the possibility of an intervention and regional war much more likely. This episode was the most recent in a long and storied history of “international incidents” or provocations used by imperi ...
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  • Pakistan: An Uncertain Present & Future
    Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s ouster this week was more than merely a significant development for national politics, it was an unequivocal message to the people of Pakistan that ineptness, subservience, and corruption will not go unpunished. Though it is fashionable to conclude t ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

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    The burnt out MSC Flaminia, along with the small flotilla of firefighting tugs, have anchored off the British coast as crews work to extinguish any leftover hotspots but overall conditions [...]
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    The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), which represents all sectors and trades and over 80% of the world merchant fleet, has called on the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to address [...]
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    More than six months after wrecking on the jagged cliffs of Australia’s Christmas Island, the last remaining pieces of the M/V Tycoon have been removed and crews are going home. [...]
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Press TV

  • Uganda denies supporting DRC rebels
    Uganda has rejected allegations that its army is providing assistance to the rebels fighting against Kinshasa in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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    Iranian boxer Ehsan Rouzbahani has defeated his Colombian rival Jeysson Monroy Varela in the first round light-heavyweight (81kg) match of the 2012 Olympic Games.
  • Olympics, Jubilee ‘non-events’ in UK
    The 2012 Olympic Games and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee have been “non-events” for the British accommodation providers, a survey has found.
  • 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.
  • 8 al-Shabab fighters killed in Somalia
    At least eight al-Shabab fighters have been killed in clashes with Somali government forces in the country’s southwestern region of Gedo, Press TV reports.

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Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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    The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
  • Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
    The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
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