OTSUCHI, JAPAN - MARCH 14: In this handout images provided by the International Federation of Red Cross Japan, Japanese self-defense forces search for missing people in Otsuchi, after an 9.0 magnitude strong earthquake struck on March 11, off the coast of north-eastern Japan, March 14, 2011 in Otsuchi, Japan. The quake struck offshore at 2:46pm local time, triggering a tsunami wave of up to 10 metres which engulfed large parts of north-eastern Japan. On Tuesday there was a third explosion from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant causing fears for the radiation levels being emitted from the plant. Japan have implemented a no fly zone for 30km round the reactors in order to stop any further spread of radiation. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
Christian rules (Photo credit: Matt Paish 2011)
David Suzuki at a rally for the Global Day of Action on Climate Change, Vancouver, BC (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Today he has written another essay, showing that Watts et al 2012 and another recent paper, McNider et al 2012 have shown
“…evidence of major systematic warm biases in the analysis of multi-decadal land surface temperature anomalies by NCDC, GISS, CRU and BEST.”
The July 19, 2012 issue of Georgia Straight featured a full-page cover graphic showing a cartoon of three-eyed mutant fish cleverly entitled, Nuclear Fishin’. According to the article, high radiation levels in some Pacific Ocean fish have created concern among doctors at B.C. universities. Should we be worried about the health effects of consuming fish from Japan or fish that migrate here from Japan?
( This is the outfit that had both noted IPCC limits on validity on alarmist claims on warmism and David Suzuki claimed rant about 'deniers'. )
The cesium action level is the level above which food is no longer considered safe for human consumption so that action must be taken to prevent consumption. This level is ten times higher in Canada and elsewhere than in Japan. Why the difference?
According to Yomiuri Online (Dec. 25, 2011), action levels were recently set much lower in Japan in order to ensure the public's safety and provide reassurance. Do you feel reassured to know that fish considered safe to eat last year is now considered contaminated? This article also goes on to say that the planned tightening of the limits is puzzling local government officials who are charged with monitoring radioactive cesium in food.
More Talkin' 'Bout Religious Right Revolution By Frederick Clarkson, 2012-07-28 14:51:47
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The haze of summer has not quite obscured my recent essay
[http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/6207/god_is_my_co-bell
igerent%3A_avatar_priests%2C_hijacked_theologians%2C_and_other_figures_of_
right-wing_revolt/] at Religion Dispatches about the insurrectionist
visions of up-and-coming Christian Right leader Eric Metaxas and Fr. C.
John McCloskey -- Opus Dei evangelist to the rich and powerful.
Bloggers digby
[http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/religious-right-revolutionaries.ht
ml] and DownWithTyranny
( Notes on the outcome on that 10 million for media manipulation nest egg for the Rove startup a few years back )
California's Proposition 32: The next big, deceptive corporate attack on working families
by David Atkins
Never content with record income inequality and corporate profits, America's billionaires are forging ahead with an attempt to destroy what is left of the labor movement. And they're doing it by attempt to use anti-corporate populism to fool the voters In California, that takes the shape of the odious Proposition 32 in California, which does this:
"Restricts union political fundraising by prohibiting use of payroll-deducted funds for political purposes. Same use restriction would apply to payroll deductions, if any, by corporations or government contractors. Permits voluntary employee contributions to employer or union committees if authorized yearly, in writing. Prohibits unions and corporations from contributing directly or indirectly to candidates and candidate-controlled committees. Other political expenditures remain unrestricted, including corporate expenditures from available resources not limited by payroll deduction prohibition. Limits government contractor contributions to elected officers or officer-controlled committees"
"Former N.H. hospital worker held in hepatitis outbreak" by Peter Schworm | Globe Staff, July 20, 2012 CONCORD, N.H. — Federal prosecutors Thursday charged a *medical technician *with *infecting at leas...
"If you've got an Olympic medal, you didn't earn that. Somebody else made that happen." - Paraphrasing President Obama of the Socialist Republic of the United States. Phelps's 19th medal was the result of ...
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/07/31/uk-italy-euribor-barclays-idUKBRE86U0BN20120731 * * *Italian police seize Barclays documents in rates probe* By Antonella Ciancio and Edward Taylor MILAN/FRANKF...
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*The release of the government’s CGI-powered plan for the ruined centre of Christchurch has got many people talking excitedly about living in a CGI city, but (**apart from this story**, for which kudos t...
Hahaha. I'm slowly wading through pictures and thoughts about the RAMPS direct action, which I hope to finish for a post tomorrow - in the meanwhile, for humor, here's a wildly optimistic film which purp...
Were going to peruse a gamut of topics- So were going long, but, there is much worth reading. *Of course, primary is Syria*. And, everything that surrounds that situation! *Be sure to have your preferred b...
Media Matters American television news outlets continue to devote sparse time to one of largest banking scandals in history. The controversy over whether major banks have been manipulating the LIBOR, a cr...
As I explained last night elsewhere,my sleep patterns are all screwed up. Didn't post a single thing yesterday besides that because there wasn't enough coffee in the world to jumpstart my brain. Overslept ...
What would the Americans give Canada for Alberta? Let's say everything east of the Rockies to the Saskatchewan border and everything from the north end of the Athabasca tar fields down to the U.S. borde...
*Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- A Spanish politician is facing a charge of vehicular homicide for the car crash that killed prominent Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya, Cuba's state press said Tuesday.* Angel Carromer...
Jeroen Oerlemans, a Dutch photographer, was abducted on the Turkish-Syrian border last week. He says he was captured by a "jihadi group" consisting of about 100 fighters who said they were fighting a "holy...
*Caravaggio... way smarter than Steve Israel* Monday morning the DCCC was strutting around like a rooster bragging about the campaign to hold Republicans accountable, running an ad (below) called "The Mil...
*In so many ways*: "Roche closing longtime N.J. home" Associated Press, June 27, 2012 TRENTON, N.J. — Swiss drug maker Roche Holding AG is *closing its former US headquarters*, a sprawling facility where...
To Jeffrey Toobin: But the responsibility for Obama’s failure to make a dramatic impact on the courts does not lie completely with the Senate. There are currently seventy-four vacancies on the circuit and...
Last week Anaheim Police handcuffed a young Latino man, Manuel Diaz, and shot him through the back of the head for throwing a plastic water bottle at police. Shooting a man through the back of the head ...
*Where was the driver?* "Bullied bus aide says she’s retiring" Associated Press, July 28, 2012 GREECE, N.Y. — A school bus monitor who was *shown in a video being relentlessly bullied* by a group of boys ...
So, summer is half done... and so is the woodpile. Chain saw, saw table (pallet plus wheelbarrow), Risa, glass of water, chair, hat, woodshed, oil, radio, finished wood, chopping block, woodpile. As you ...
ثمانية الصفات للفنان معلومات ديس1) لتفادي الاصطدام. انهم لم تناقش القضايا في الواقع وجها لوجه أو تقديم مساهمات بناءة، وتجنب عموما الاقتباس من المراجع أو وثائق التفويض. بدلا من ذلك، أنها تنطوي على مجرد هذ...
*Graphic new footage has emerged of what it is claimed is rebel soldiers in Syria executing pro-government milita members.* The two-minute video seems to show Shabiha fighters, who are an armed militia g...
*Don't answer that!* "Police make arrests in alleged teen prostitution ring; Nationwide effort nets 14 inMass." by Matt Byrne | Globe Correspondent, June 27, 2012 Police in three Massachusetts communiti...
I have long been a supporter of many others in what I call the REAL truth movement. One of them, is of course my friend Debra who hails from the Christian Zionist bible belt region of southwestern Tenness...
*Eight Traits of the Disinformationalist* 1) Avoidance. They never actually discuss issues head-on or provide constructive input, generally avoiding citation of references or credentials. Rather, ...
*Should we worry yet? Ebola and Avian Flu viruses are again active.* *We really don't know how epidemiologists sleep at night knowing full well how quickly these things mutate, Yet they have the sheer gal...
"26 arrested in Web credit card fraud" by Nelson D. Schwartz | New York Times, June 27, 2012 Authorities in the United States and overseas *arrested 26* people Tuesday in a crackdown on *Internet credit...
It's election day here in Texas. I voted, just as I did on primary day in May, in an empty polling place, although a few voters were wandering in as I was leaving. Today was the primary election run-off, ...
Posted: 6/26/2012 *by Barbara Loe Fisher *On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was publ...
The Plan to Gut Social SecurityBehind Obama’s Fake Recovery July 27-29, 2012 Edition Mike Whitney Last week’s dismal “data dump” has ended all talk of a strong recovery in the US. Retail sales, factory out...
Posted: 5/14/2012 *Philosophical Exemption To Vaccination Saved in Vermont! * *by Barbara Loe Fisher * * * * “I never thought this would turn into the mess it turned into.” – *State Senator Kevin Mullin ...
Due to personal matters posting is and will be spotty for the next several days. Apologies for any inconvenience, and thanks for your patience and understanding. - CP
Susanne Posel, *Contributor* *Activist Post* The disinformation mafia at Time magazine says that the phrase “’Guns don’t actually kill people’ is sometimes a refrain from gun rights advocates when they r...
Posted: 2/21/2012 * by Barbara Loe Fisher * Informed consent to medical risk taking is a human right.[1] You have the right to be fully informed about the benefits and risks of pharmaceutical products – l...
Posted 12/08/2011 *By Barbara Loe Fisher* During this season of remembrance and thanksgiving, I am grateful for the blessings that I have had in my life, including the hard times, when I learned that fai...
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Revolutionary thought of the day: Remember when, in the wake of the 9/11 attack, the Patriot Act was controversial, held up as the symbolic face of Bush/Cheney radicalism and widely lamented as a threat ...
*Global Research* Greg Muttitt and Ali Issa * * *In this interview, investigative journalist Greg Muttitt talks about efforts by US occupying forces, multinational oil giants and Iraq's newly-minted 'lea...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck SOUTHWESTERN SIBERIA, RUSSIA at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:16:39 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 97 km (60.1 miles) East of Saryg-...
*(CNN) -- A new strain of avian flu that jumped from birds to mammals is responsible for the death of more than 160 seals off the New England coast last year, scientists announced Tuesday.* The virus cou...
*Why the West is now under Nazi rule and why the elite are in denial* *Posted by Benjamin Fulford * July 31, 2012 A visit to Canada and long conversations with bankers, newspaper editors and others ...
*TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2012* *We don’t recommend Rachel Maddow:* We’ll recommend the new piece by Salon’s Roxane Gay about the latest faux genius. Gay asks a lot of good questions about the genius Lehrer (no...
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Maddow demonstrates how frighteningly fast a fringe element can seize power and radically alter what was thought to be a settled matter. Watch. Link to video that Blogger ate. Visit NBCNews.com for ...
Prof Matt Strassler who blogs at ProfMattStrassler.com made an excursion into our favorite topic which is an inferior scientific discipline at the same moment, namely to the climate change science: Huma...
*(Reuters) - Japan on Tuesday flagged the Chinese army's growing role in shaping the country's foreign policy as a security risk, saying a sense of caution exists across East Asia about Beijing's apparent...
*Police in Canada are searching for a Briton believed to have been swept to his death over waterfalls in British Columbia in an incident in which two others died.* The 50-year-old man from Scotland, who ...
Barbarians, armed by the warmongering West and Arab Gulf monarchies, invade Syria and slaughter everything standing in their way, including women and children. An excerpt from Moon of Alabama's July 31 a...
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Al Qaeda fighter in Syria Brit Dee, *Contributor* *Activist Post* In their determination to destabilise Syria, oust Bashar al-Assad's government, and install a compliant regime - thus weakening Iran - W...
*New Orleans Saints show no rust in first week of training camp ~WWL* *Camp Confidential: New Orleans Saints* *‘Spags' has defenders trying on new roles* *Saints rank #9 in new Pro-32 NFL Power Ranking* ...
All monthly subscribers should see the magazine in their email inbox. This issue has a complete redesign in the way we do our articles, and turned out great! We have a new sample up on the Magazine page as...
Another aspect of the municipal bond market is being examined for manipulation. I posted recently on how the auctions for municipal bonds were rigged and how the big banks gauged the municipalities wit...
Per Dan's post below, I don't understand why Russia is our number-one enemy, either today or ten years from now. Neither, it seems, do Americans, who have only noticed Russia's phantom menace at one period...
The Reproductive Health (RH) bill or Responsible Parenthood bill was the most applauded topic when the President delivered his State of the Nation Address (SONA) a week ago. Which means majority of those i...
Blue America is proud to be officially endorsing Sue Thorn today. Sue is a grassroots community activist whose ideas about the role of government hearken back to a time when West Virginians very much saw...
*EFF* This week, the Senate will be voting on a slew of amendments to the newest version of the Senate’s cybersecurity bill. Senators John McCain and Kay Bailey Hutchison have proposed several amendmen...
I sometimes have a quick and frustrated reaction for why victims of abuse, women in the latest case, might continue to endure it rather than rock the boat and assert themselves, even in numbers. But then I r...
*I can exclusively reveal that the Treasury is preparing to wind down the National Loan Guarantee Scheme (NLGS) - or "credit easing" as it was widely dubbed - less than six months after its launch.* Trea...
image source Brandon Turbeville *Activist Post* In a rare instance of real journalism, ABC news aired a report on the increasing number of foreign workers being contracted and imported into the United St...
A magnitude 2.9 earthquake has struck OKLAHOMA at a depth of 2.9 km (1.8 miles), the quake hit at 16:03:39 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.4 miles) WNW of Prague, Oklahoma No Reports o...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck SOUTH OF JAVA, INDONESIA at a depth of 33 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 14:43:40 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 136 km (84.3 miles) South of Ambulu, ...
image source Michael Snyder, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Are we rapidly approaching a moment of reckoning for the global financial system? August is likely to be a relatively slow month, as most of Euro...
Japan Today: "16 dead, 8,670 hospitalized for heatstroke July 23-29" http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/16-dead-8670-hospitalized-for-heatstroke-july-23-29Majia Here: I posted on the oddly h...
Japan Today: TEPCO gets Y1 tril in public funds, putting it under gov't control. July 31. http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/tepco-gets-y1-tril-in-public-funds-putting-it-under-govt-contro...
*Police say they have spoken to two 10-year-old girls from Bridlington following a 999 call that sparked a frantic search in Leeds.* Police in West Yorkshire said they have spoken to two 10-year-old girls ...
Josh Kraushaar says: Tapping Elizabeth Warren to give a Wed primetime address before B Clinton is one heckuva gamble for the Obama campaign. His biggest mistake recently was emulating the rhetoric Warren ...
Back from a weekend bus trip to Santa Rosa de Copan, a town about 105 kilometres away - or three-and-a-half hours. The roads aren't great, but that's not the reason for the long journey. The Casasalo Exp...
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[image: Flor de loto en los pantanos de Indonesia - Lotus flower]
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[image: Pueblo de Dassu en Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.]
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Paisaje en Laskargass Karamber, Gilgit, Pakistan.
Disquiet in Washington, Jerusalem and a row of Middle East capitals is gaining ground the longer the Saudi government stays silent on the reports of the assassination of the newly-appointed Saudi intellig...
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[image: Montaña estrella de plata en Washington, USA.]
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[image: Cielo estrellado en las montañas - Postales inolvidables]
*TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2012* *Resurrecting Popkin’s poop:* They simply never abandon their stories! That said, we found it ironic when Nicholas Confessore passed on a timeless tale from Professor Popkin’s new...
*Spain: Incident at the Tablada Aerodrome (Seville)* *Date: 29 September 1986 Time: 3:30 a.m. Duration: Approximately 15 seconds Report by: M. Filpo* The report was made by a police officer at the...
Science Education: The Problem is Poverty, not Lack of High Standards Sent to Scientific American, July 31, 2012 Scientific American thinks that high science standards are the reason some states do bett...
*"The Ignorance of 'Intelligence'”* By Danny Schechter "Some years ago, I meet a major in American intelligence, a member of the “Red Cell Unit.” As he explained it to me, his unit was actually charged...
*Governor Mary Fallin has declared a State of Emergency due to the drought conditions in Oklahoma. All 77 counties in the Sooner State are included in the State of Emergency.* KWTV Channel 9 News in Oklah...
Image: A man is cared by after being bitten by a shark on Back Beach, near Streaky Bay. Picture: Jeff Schmucker Source: AdelaideNow JOHN Campion had surfed the West Coast waters for years, but yesterday h...
(continued; previously: part 12-2; part 1)~ translation by Microsoft. http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=ru&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fzakonvremeni.ru%2Fpublications%2F27-genocide%2F9397-metastazy-me...
You may have heard that Romney referred to Russia as America's "number-one geopolitical foe" and plans to double down on this rhetoric during his big speech in Poland. The speech on the "values of libert...
*TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2012* *Name withheld, meet Jonah Lehrer:* Maybe he got some bad ideas at a meritocratic high school! We have our latest Julien Sorel! In this instance, the climber in question is the ...
A lot of decent progressives get really bent out of shape by aggressive atheism. So much that they tend to blurt out ridiculous things. For instance, I'm sure that some of them would have a knee-jerk react...
(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.) Perhaps we would've been better off sending Don Rickles abroad- At least he's funnier. After Mitt Romney left Poland, Polish people starting tellin...
*Kolkata: Two children have died and over 400 hospitalised after eating food at an iftaar party in North 24 Parganas district, Minister of State for Health Chandrima Bhattacharya said today. * The conditio...
Image source Brandon Smith, *Contributor* *Activist Post* I think it’s safe to say with some conviction that in the year of 2012 the concept of survival prepping is NOT an alien one to most Americans. Wh...
*Rescuers carry out an on-site assistance after the mudslide occurred at an iron ore mine in the township of Araltobe in Xinyuan County, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, July 31, 2012....
We are now in full Learn MPI mode so the morning was devoted to lecture on how to parallelize a large problem (by the dymanic and always entertaining HN) and the afternoon was spent actually doing it. Te...
*A twister that touched down in Colorado's high-country on Saturday is estimated to be the second-highest tornado ever recorded in the U.S. by the National Weather Service.* There were four different rep...
*PHOENIX - Aggressive bees swarmed a Phoenix neighborhood in the area of 69th Ave and Thomas Monday.* By the time firefighters got there, the bees had already stung a couple of dogs, and sadly one did no...
*TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2012* *Part 2—What would sophisticates think:* What would “sophisticated readers” think of the New York Times? We ask for a reason. On Sunday, Arthur Brisbane, the Times’ public editor,...
*PHOENIX - Authorities say tularemia has been found among wild rabbits in the Dewey area of northern Arizona.* Commonly known as ``rabbit fever,'' tularemia is caused by a germ carried by animals- especi...
July 31 - Profit at several large European banks tumble, putting the troubled financial sector under even greater strain. Trade financials if you want, but don't invest in them, says CMC Market's Michael H...
*(Reuters) - Two more people, including a child, are suspected to have died of the Ebola virus while 11 more have been put in isolation in western Uganda where the deadly haemorrhagic fever was first confi...
*(Reuters) - Syrian rebels aim to push towards central Aleppo, capturing the country's biggest city within days despite being outgunned by President Bashar al-Assad's forces, a local rebel commander said....
I have been looking through the Obama administration's midsession review, which was released a few days ago. I found the comparison between the adminstration's economic forecast and the Blue Chip consensu...
*A businessman accused of arranging the honeymoon murder of his new bride needs up to a year to recover from stress and depression before he will be fit to be extradited, a court has heard. * Shrien Dewan...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck NEPAL at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:58:36 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 56 km (34.7 miles) Southeast of Jumla, Nepal No Reports ...
Police have launched an urgent appeal to trace a little girl who called the ambulance service to say her mum had fallen and was not moving at their home in Leeds. The girl, who gave her name as Ellie, s...
*Debate has been raging in the Twittersphere about whether Dorset police overreacted by arresting a 17-year-old in the early hours "on suspicion of malicious communications".* The police were responding ...
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* GOP dogma goes like this: government regulation is excessive, a drag on the economy, an impediment to growth. For the GOP that's a 'given', an article of faith! Re...
*I am happy to guest post my friend Dave Kang of the University of Southern California. I think Dave’s work on east Asia and IR theory is excellent; I would start with this or this if you’re interested. RE...
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Stuff recycled from around the web..... Report: Flag removal "hurt Taiwanese feelings" says Ma. *wince!* sounding like Beijing. Ma also directed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to look into it. That will...
Three hundred indigenous people, small farmers, fisherfolk, and local residents occupied the Belo Monte Dam project. (photo: Atossa Soltani/Amazon Watch) Occupy the Dam: Brazil's Indigenous Uprising John ...
*Tens of thousands of angry citizens from all walks of life marched through Tokyo and surrounded the Diet building under scorching heat on July 29, demanding the government scrap its decision to reactivat...
*NAGOYA -- Chubu Electric Power Co. announced July 30 that construction of tsunami defenses at its suspended Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant in Shizuoka Prefecture will be delayed by a year, pushing the compl...
*South St. Louis County (KSDK) -* A police officer tased a 12-year-old girl inside a Victoria's Secret Wednesday afternoon at South County Center. Police say the officer came into the Victoria's Secret ...
Happy Birthday to J.K. Rowling, 47. Straight to the good stuff: 1. Larrry Bartels and Lynn Vavreck have a comprehensive look at the remaining undecided voters in the presidential race. 2. Scott Bland ha...
The man and the contradictions. The brilliant student. Recipient of NIH grant given to outstanding neuroscientists Or tormented psychiatric patient? Or, something else entirely? Thanks Marie! Don't miss th...
*(Reuters) - Half of India's 1.2 billion people were without power on Tuesday as the grids covering a dozen states broke down, the second major blackout in as many days and an embarrassment for the govern...
Hard to make a choice without information. When I go shopping, I'd like to avoid genetically modified food. Last month the Senate made it a lot harder for me to do that by giving AgriBusiness a big fat w...
- Russia seeks to revive its power-projection capabilities by establishing overseas naval facilities. - Elisabeth Bumiller of the *New York Times* describes the experience of being a drone p...
Michelle Martin, the ex-wife and accomplice of the notorious Belgian paedophile killer Marc Dutroux has been granted a conditional release from prison to serve the rest of her sentence in a convent. She ...
*The U.S. Embassy in Norway was evacuated on Tuesday after its security staff found a suspicious object beneath a nearby automobile.* Norwegian police said the embassy and the surrounding area, including ...
*(Reuters) - As if things weren't bad enough, one of Europe's banks took another knock on the chin on Tuesday from its role in Facebook's botched stock market flotation.* Banks are showing the scars from...
Anne Gordon, RN, *Contributor* *Activist Post* Nanotechnology is measured in billionths of a meter, encompassing all aspects of life from food to medicine, clothing, to space. Imagine hundreds of micro...
* Two high court judges have dismissed a fresh attempt by the radical Islamist preacher Abu Qatada to be released from a maximum-security prison on bail pending his deportation back to Jordan.* Lawyers fo...
*Mr Navalny. 36, was summoned to the Investigative Committee in Moscow today, where he was indicted for "organising misappropriation" of the sum from Kirovles.* The charge carries a potential 10-year pri...
*(Reuters) - Eight people were killed in fighting on Tuesday between Yemeni government forces and armed tribesmen loyal to former leader Ali Abdullah Saleh who were trying to storm the Interior Ministry i...
*(Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said on Tuesday that Europe was starting to see light at the end of the tunnel of the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis, belying a welter of deteriorating e...
*(Reuters) - Two car bombs in central Baghdad killed at least 13 people and wounded 30 more near a busy main intersection, police and hospital sources said on Tuesday.* Two clouds of black smoke rose abov...
Susanne Posel, *Contributor* *Activist Post* The titans of the Internet, including Google, eBay, Amazon and Facebook, are combining forces under the blanket of a newly formed lobby group that wants to ...
The* Globe and Mail *reports that Mitt Romney's foreign policy has Canadian roots. Dan Senor, who has accompanied Romney on his tour of Israel, was born in New York but grew up in Toronto -- where his m...
*(Reuters) - Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) said it will slash 1,900 jobs in an effort to achieve cost savings of about 3 billion euros ($3.67 billion) as part of a broader strategic overhaul unveiled by the ba...
*(Reuters) - Syrian helicopter gunships and artillery pounded two key areas of Aleppo on Tuesday, extending the army's campaign to control the country's biggest city, but rebel fighters said troops loyal ...
* (CNN) -- A large, hanging and then collapsing chunk of ice is likely the reason why two American climbers died in Peru, an investigator said Monday.* The bodies of Ben Horne and Gil Weiss were found two...
Phillip Smith *Stop The Drug War* A decade after the Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis(CRC) filed its petition seeking to have marijuana moved from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, the fe...
*The first Milner fundamental physics prize for advances in delving into the deepest mysteries of physics and the universe* *One million dollars. Each winner has received three similar piles of paper tr...
*This is the shocking moment a raging woman had to be tasered by a police officer because she was so out of control. * The woman and her friends had got into a fight after being thrown out of a Florida ni...
*Colonel D Scott Brenton kills insurgents in Afghanistan from an office 7,000 miles away in suburban Syracuse, New York. * Contrary to popular belief, though, the US Air Force officer says piloting a remo...
*Police are on the hunt for a group of grave robbers who broke into a mausoleum at a New Jersey cemetery and stole the body of a 98-year-old woman who was laid to rest there 14 years ago.* Workers at the...
*Police in West Yorkshire have launched an urgent appeal to trace a little girl who dialled 999 to say her mother was not moving.* The girl, who gave her name as Ellie, called the ambulance service to say...
Sam Harris's view on free will is really nothing new. It is merely a secular restatement of the Calvinist concept of double predestination - we are saved or damned without any input from ourselves. It is...
*His arm raised in an apparent Nazi salute, a Lithuanian basketball fan goads two black Olympic stewards.* The sight was also witnessed by two policemen at a game on Sunday night, but astonishingly they ...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE at a depth of 87 km (53.9 miles), the quake hit at 09:53:47 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 98 km (60.8 miles) South of Calama, Antofag...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck UTAH at a depth of just 0.2 km (0 miles), the quake hit at 10:27:28 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 22 km (13.6 miles) WNW from Emery, Utah No Reports of ...
*A man and a woman are being questioned by police after a teenage boy was left dying in the road following a hit-and-run. * The pair are helping police with their inquiries after the 14-year-old, who has ...
*Italian police have taken documents from a Barclays office in Milan as part of a probe into possible Euribor rate manipulation, according to Reuters.* It said the raid occurred as regulators investigate...
*The boss of HSBC today apologised for 'mistakes' at the bank which today saw it set aside £1.3billion to pay for its part in a string of financial scandals. * Chief executive Stuart Gulliver said executiv...
*Immigrants with more than one wife will qualify for extra benefits under reforms to Britain’s welfare system, after an attempt to crack down on the problem backfired.* Polygamous marriages, largely conf...
*The man who plunged 100ft to his death at London’s Tate Modern gallery in front of horrified onlookers was a HSBC bank manager, it was revealed today. * Michael Foreman, 48, was reported missing the day ...
*Paul McCartney and other star performers at the Olympic Games opening ceremony were paid just one pound for their efforts, London 2012 confirmed Monday.* Beatles star McCartney -- who closed the showpie...
*A couple left their two toddlers locked in a dangerously hot car as temperatures soared to 27C and went shopping.* Horrified police discovered the brothers, aged 20 months and two, 'sweating profusely' ...
A Romanian deported from Britain seven years ago was today jailed for four months after returning to London to steal money from cash machines. Claudiu Ojogel, 31, was kicked out of the UK in 2005 after he ...
*A former police detective jailed for life for murdering his partner in front of their two young children was found hanged in his cell today.* Peter Foster, 36, who was found guilty of murder last month w...
*A massive power breakdown has hit India for a second day running, leaving more than half the country without power.* Officials said the northern and eastern grids had both collapsed. All Delhi metro ser...
*It was a bittersweet occasion when Danielle Howard married Chris Watson.* Everyone there knew the 22-year-old bride was battling advanced cervical cancer and had only a one-in-seven chance of surviving. ...
*These are the first pictures of the two teenage boys seriously injured after their carriage on a spinning fairground ride broke off and flipped over. * Danny Keogh and Conor Baker, both 16, were on the s...
*Finance ministers from the U.S. and Germany today stressed the need for 'ongoing international cooperation' as the world's superpower weighed in on the eurozone debt crisis.* U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim...
*A son who stole hundreds of thousands of pounds of his late father's money to fund a luxury lifestyle abroad has been jailed. * Jobless Andrew White, 45, moved to the Mediterranean with his partner and h...
*The Olympics has turned central London into a ‘ghost town’ that could be damaging to the economy, businesses warned last night.* Shops, hotels, museums and theatres said trade is down by up to 35 per cen...
*When her one-year-old son was pulled limp and lifeless from an overfilled bath, drunken Danielle Reeves screamed with rage and blamed those around her. * She lied to paramedics and even said her other so...
*Angela Merkel was last night said to be ‘profoundly disturbed’ after a poll showed that a majority of Germans want to ditch the struggling euro.* Sources in Berlin said the German chancellor was shocked ...
*Once upon a time, fizzy drinks were an occasional luxury treat.* Now, many of us think nothing of having at least one every day — maybe a lunchtime can of cola or a ‘natural’ lemonade from Pret. We use t...
*Tube trains to the Olympic Park were suspended this morning. * Spectators travelling to Stratford on the Central line at around 7am were told all services were terminating at Liverpool Street due to an in...
*NSW police investigators are preparing to give evidence to prosecutors about an alleged child sex abuse cover-up in the Catholic Church.* A strike force was formed in late 2010 to investigate whether pas...
* It's the U.S. space agency's most ambitious and expensive Mars mission yet and it begins with the arrival Sunday night of the smartest interplanetary rover ever built.* It won't be easy. The complicated...
When I saw that James Carville and Stan Greenberg had just published *It's the Middle Class, Stupid!* (Blue Rider Press), I knew that I would want to read it. I had always liked Carville's *We're Right, Th...
*A massive power breakdown has hit northern and eastern India for a second day running, officials say.* Officials said there was a total blackout in Delhi. All Metro services had been halted and staff we...
*Sky News has uncovered evidence that suggests Olympic tickets meant for officials are being touted on the black market.* A man claiming to work for the ministry of Azerbaijan sold a "complimentary" 2012...
*Police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who left a teenage boy dying in the road after knocking him from his bike.* The 14-year-old, who has not yet been named, was riding along the A2 London Road...
*A 17-year-old has been arrested after malicious tweets were sent to Olympic diver Tom Daley.* Dorset Police, investigating the alleged abuse, said the teenager was held at a guesthouse in Weymouth hours ...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA at a depth of 58.3 km (36.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:50:14 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 145 km (90 miles) SSE from Beng...
*Slide Show* *Book Review*
27 July 2012 Five months after students in Montreal, Quebec launched a strike against tuition increases, the movement stands at a crossroads. The strike's leaders are seeking to channel mass opposition ...
*Bandar in Pakistan.* The Saudi spy chief Prince Bandar has been assassinated: report Israel has long been wary of certain people in Saudi Arabia, including Prince Bandar. According to Debka file, a ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2181288/Why-risk-dying-hospital-rise-6-cent-tomorrow.html Put that in your next extravaganza, Danny Boyle
It is surprising how often doubling up of the gene content plays out in biology. The most important is polyploidy. This has driven much of our domesticated grains in particular. Since the most ...
In our various postings regarding what is called the European Bronze Age, a number of conclusions are reached regarding key dates. *2420 BC.* Great Pyramid built and Lake Superior mining of nat...
We have had good news over the past couple of years in terms of tackling AIDS. This item reviews the prospects on the way forward in terms of finally beating this disease. It has become promisi...
The disease remains uncured, but it can be suppressed. Even with full investment, the curve reflecrting total infections will simply flatten out for some time until it begins a precipitous decli...
http://www.israellycool.com/2012/07/30/hey-bbc-what-size-are-all-these-countries/ What about Spain and Melilla & Ceuta?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100173422/there-are-many-better-reasons-to-be-patriotic-than-the-accident-of-hosting-the-olympics/
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The field experiment in solar geoengineering aims to ultimately create a technology to replicate the observed effects of volcanoes that spew sulphates into the stratosphere. Photo courtesy: Gallo Images/Ge...
Your blogger in happier times with departing Alberta Party Leader Glenn Taylor. Below: Party luminaries Michael Walters and Sue Huff. Get ready for the Big Re-Think. Or the Long Goodbye. Or something… Albe...
Queen Alexandra's birdwing butterflies are already on the endangered species list, and rapidly losing their rainforest habitat. Photo courtesy: Mark Stratton How large does a butterfly have to be before a...
Blogging is not writing. It's just graffiti with punctuation.– Contagion A few days ago, this blog turned seven. It's been another year with little time to write and plenty of backlogged major-posts-in-the-...
*This shocking video shows the moment two thugs broke into the home of a wheelchair-bound man, beat him up and robbed him.* Surveillance camera footage shows the pair entering the Upper Darby, Pennsylvan...
As they stood outside the commandeered government building in the town of Mohassen, it was hard to distinguish Abu Khuder's men from any other brigade in the Syrian civil war, in their combat fatigues, T-...
*A man was reading in his suburban St. Louis home on Monday when he heard a gunshot and discovered his wife and two children dead in what police suspect was a murder-suicide. * Officers arrived at a larg...
*Watching the new ‘Mandarin Mermaid’ glide to another suspiciously easy victory yesterday - the prelude to what will doubtless be her second gold medal of these Games - my thoughts returned to the disturb...
*(Reuters) - An Italian embassy security officer who was kidnapped in Yemen on Sunday was seized by tribesmen and is being detained in the oil-producing province of Maarib, Yemen's Interior Ministry said ...
"Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations." "Peace for us means the destruction of Israel." "We plan to eliminate the state...
July 30 - Nightly shelling has created a ghost town just north of Aleppo as the battle for control of Syria rages on. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
*(CNN) -- A man who suffered lacerations to his legs while in the water at a Massachusetts beach Monday apparently was bitten by a shark, authorities said.* "It looked like a shark bite to me," Truro, Ma...
*Northern Syria (CNN) -- Syrian rebel fighters fought to control a key road to the Turkish border and turned captured tanks against a government air base north of Syria's largest city on Monday.* The tank...
*(CNN) -- O.J. Murdock, who signed with the NFL's Tennessee Titans last year, killed himself Monday morning in front of the Tampa, Florida, high school where he was a track and football star, police said....
* (CNN) – Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney clarified his March remark that Russia is the nation's top foe, saying in an interview to air Monday on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf...
*MANILA, Philippines — A typhoon dumped torrents of rain as it swept past the Philippines, killing at least seven people and displacing more than 20,000 others by Tuesday. Another storm lashed the capital ...
*A MALE student who is wanted by police in connection with a sex attack on a woman has returned to his homeland of India.* The attack in Pilrig Park, Edinburgh, on Sunday, July 22, left a 23-year-old woma...
*BEIJING, July 31 (Xinhuanet) -- At least 47 people have been killed and 25 others injured by a fire on an express train in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in the early hours of Monday*. The i...
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FotoFrontera - 19 hours ago
[image: Dogón, Bali, África. Pueblos del mundo - Postales]Foto: Licancabur
*Chinese gold medallist swimmer Ye Shiwen, 16, has denied taking drugs to enhance her performance, saying there was "no problem with doping".* A US coach earlier said Ye's record-breaking performance in S...
*Two cases of the deadly Ebola virus have been reported in Uganda’s capital, as the country's president warned people to avoid physical contact. * The outbreak began three weeks ago in the Kibale district...
*Seal flu could pose a new threat to human health, scientists have warned.* A new flu virus identified in American harbour seals has the potential to pass to other mammals, including humans, say experts. ...
The DC memo being circulated about 16 votes Eric Cantor engineered calls them the "worst" votes in the current session. I'm not so sure this would be my own list-- not by a mile, but it is a way of lookin...
*Radical preacher Abu Qatada is launching a fresh bid for freedom at the High Court later.* He will ask two judges for permission to challenge his ongoing detention by Home Secretary Theresa May. The Sp...
*A woman who snatched a newborn baby from a New York hospital in 1987 and raised the child as her own is jailed for 12 years.* Ann Pettway, who pleaded guilty to the abduction in February, took three-wee...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck TONGA at a depth of 34.7 km (21.6 miles), the quake hit at 02:20:11 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 45 km (27 miles) Northwest of Nuku`alofa, Tonga No Tsu...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the PHILIPPINE ISLANDS REGION at a depth of 121.6 km (75.6 miles), the quake hit at 02:07:31 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 111 km (68 miles) ESE of Pon...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the KURIL ISLANDS at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:35:49 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 51 km (31.6 miles) Southeast of Severo-kuril...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck COLOMBIA at a depth of 53 km (32.8 miles), the quake hit at 01:26:39 UTC Tuesday 31st July 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.4 miles) Northeast of Obando, Colombia No Rep...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck SOUTHWESTERN SIBERIA, RUSSIA at a depth of 16 km (9.9 miles), the quake hit at 22:30:44 UTC Monday 30th July 2012 The epicenter was 48 km (29 miles) West of Ust'-Ulag...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck NEAR NORTH COAST OF NEW GUINEA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA at a depth of 31.6 km (19.6 miles), the quake hit at 21:46:53 UTC Monday 30th July 2012 The epicenter was 57 km (35 m...
A magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck OKLAHOMA at a depth of 15.1 km (9.4 miles), the quake hit at 19:35:07 UTC Monday 30th July 2012 The epicenter was 6 km (3.7 miles) ESE from Meeker, Oklahoma No Reports...
*Bandar Bush is seen here sitting with George W. Bush, discussing various matters. * On Sunday, July 29, Voltaire Network *reported* that Prince Bandar bin Sultan is dead. He served as Saudi Arabia's a...
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FotoFrontera - 20 hours ago
[image: Nebulosa fantástica más allá de Andrómeda - Fantasy]
Welcome to Thiruvananthapuram, India. Photo courtesy: Bernard Oh/CC BY-ND 2.0 Fines for not recycling, and other punitive measures designed to encourage less wasteful behavior, have lead some people in th...
Arms Control Wonk had an excellent post last week on the US effort to get Taiwan to sign onto the non-proliferation treaty.... A few people in Washington are pumping up the forthcoming renewal of the U.S....
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Heatstroke: Scrounging for banned authors in Tucson Tucson public schools missed out on banning some notorious local authors -- but at least they got Luis By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorre...
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. Let's work together for a better tomorrow... M Gandhi
------------------------------ *Escape From Economics* ------------------------------ By Paul Craig Roberts | July 29, 2012 | Original here Readers ask me from time to time to recommend a book from which...
The Common Core Standards is a tsunami that will destroy all of us unless it is stopped. It is going to cost billions, bleeding money from where it is badly needed and it will soon impose what can only b...
*July 30, 1965: With former President Harry Truman looking on, President Lyndon Johnson signs Medicare into law* *"After reading Atlas Shrugged, [Paul Ryan] said, 'Wow, I've got to check out this economics...
*Never saw it in my printed paper*: Occupy members accused of violating city curfew* * *I saw these in my printed paper but the web site scrubbed 'em(?) from their version*: "Mass. coalition calls for c...
*Enjoy, readers*: "States fight ‘tourists’ trafficking painkillers" Associated Press, July 09, 2012 LEBANON, Ohio — Authorities trying to *crack down* on *prescription painkiller abuse* at home say they...
"Lawn chairs’ flight aborted in storm BEND — An Oregon gas station owner and an Iraqi adventurer trying to fly from Oregon to Montana in tandem lawn chairs suspended from party balloons are back on land a...
"Pipeline’s southern leg gets OK to begin; Canadian section still under review" by Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson | Washington Post, July 28, 2012 WASHINGTON — The permits dealt a blow to efforts by ...
*In sticking with the new format I'm putting the things I care most about up front*: "US drone attack kills 12 in Pakistan" July 07, 2012 ISLAMABAD — Missiles fired by a *US drone* *killed at least 12* su...
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Not PC - 23 hours ago
I see complaints from the chattering classes that plans to sell TranzScenic or to partner with another company “would be privatisation by stealth.” Who are they kidding? The true value of KiwiFail has...
*I wonder how much it cost**** the U.S. taxpayer*: "US restarts supply runs via Pakistan; Trucks enter Afghanistan after Clinton apology" by Salman Masood | New York Times, July 06, 2012 ISLAMABAD, Paki...
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Not PC - 1 day ago
After the release yesterday of the government’s CGI fantasy for Christchurch, comes the plan to acquire the land on which the governments’ slick CGI creations are planned. Because virtually all of that l...
*"Parental Fears: Breaking Family Ties that Bind"* by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM "So often we come into this world carrying the fear of our parents as it is passed down to us and lived through us. Whe...
*She's simply irresistible. * "Fans kickstart Amanda Palmer’s album, tour" by James Reed | Globe Staff, July 26, 2012 NEW YORK — Amanda Palmer, the rock singer-songwriter from Lexington, who rose to s...
*I used to be one. I'm now officially unenrolled.* "Ron Paul delegates fight GOP on ouster" by Stephanie Ebbert | Globe Staff, July 30, 2012 Sixteen Republicans elected to represent Massachusetts at the...
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Not PC - 1 day ago
Telecom were once the country’s largest company. They’ve been nobbled several times by big government, but their slow slide has also been due to manifest incompetence. Take the way they’ve chosen to end...
With just 100 days left until the U.S. presidential election, investors are beginning to make bigger bets on which candidate will carry the day. One analysis concludes that last week's sharp three-day mar...
*Newest BFF*: "One of the best-known businesses on the Internet is moving into a signature tower in the Financial District in a potential breakthrough deal for a commercial area that has been stagnant, as...
Sister Judith Ann Duvall Chairperson of OSF St. Francis Healthcare System (Photo by Peoria Journal Star) Kevin Schoeplein, CEO of OSF Healthcare System in Peoria, received a salary of 2.2 million dollar...
"Our Constitution is not a nuisance. It is the foundation of our democracy." (2008 Democratic Platform) There's been a fair amount of attention today to reports that the Democrats will support marriage equ...
Former Liberal Environment Minister David Anderson has slammed both the Northern Gateway pipeline proposal and the would-be pipeline operator, Enbridge. Anderson says the pipeline is not in Canada's bes...
The Republicans are obviously stuck with the notion that it takes a business whiz to make a good president of the United States. That's how they wound up with Mitt the Twit Romney as their presidential n...
These days, when most California voters think about the Countrywide scandal, they probably think about the only congressman seeking reelection who was found to be taking personal bribes-- rather than just...
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Dr Cintli - 1 day ago
Also posted at and please leave comments at the following website: http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10595-arizona-and-the-role-of-the-intellectual-when-history-beckoned-what-did-you-do Arizona and the R...
David Suzuki at a rally for the Global Day of Action on Climate Change, Vancouver, BC (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/07/31/uk-italy-euribor-barclays-idUKBRE86U0BN20120731 * * *Italian police seize Barclays documents in rates probe* By Antonella Ciancio and Edward Taylor MILAN/FRANKF...
Were going to peruse a gamut of topics- So were going long, but, there is much worth reading. *Of course, primary is Syria*. And, everything that surrounds that situation! *Be sure to have your preferred b...
Media Matters American television news outlets continue to devote sparse time to one of largest banking scandals in history. The controversy over whether major banks have been manipulating the LIBOR, a cr...
As I explained last night elsewhere,my sleep patterns are all screwed up. Didn't post a single thing yesterday besides that because there wasn't enough coffee in the world to jumpstart my brain. Overslept ...
What would the Americans give Canada for Alberta? Let's say everything east of the Rockies to the Saskatchewan border and everything from the north end of the Athabasca tar fields down to the U.S. borde...
*Caravaggio... way smarter than Steve Israel* Monday morning the DCCC was strutting around like a rooster bragging about the campaign to hold Republicans accountable, running an ad (below) called "The Mil...
Last week Anaheim Police handcuffed a young Latino man, Manuel Diaz, and shot him through the back of the head for throwing a plastic water bottle at police. Shooting a man through the back of the head ...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago*These are the first pictures of the two teenage boys seriously injured after their carriage on a spinning fairground ride broke off and flipped over. * Danny Keogh and Conor Baker, both 16, were on the s...
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