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Thursday, July 5, 2012

5 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt I


TO DO

renewable recycling conservation
Cuba's Renewable Energy: Gov. Missing Out On Solar, Wind Power ...
Huffington Post
RAMON GORDO, Cuba (AP) — The sleepy country setting that farmer Juan Alonso calls home hasn't changed much since he was born 74 years ago, with the two rustic wooden houses nestled among palm trees against a backdrop of green hills and clear ...
Renewable UK threatens legal action as Tory MPs call for wind policy U-turn
The Guardian
Wind power lobby group Renewable UK says it would consider judicial challenge if Treasury slashes onshore wind subsidies.
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Global Inverter Market for RenewableEnergy Systems
Sacramento Bee
PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:
40% growth in global renewable energy generation forecast
Creamer Media's Engineering News
The International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday that global renewable power generation would increase by over 40% over the next five years, driven by growth in China. In its first-ever renewable energy market report, the IEA stated that global ...
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HUMAN HABITAT

ecology water energy
Implement ecology report on Western Ghats swiftly: Gadgil
Times of India
"The recommendations are not the final voice.They are the starting point for public discussion and local participation .
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Columbia River deal studied over ecologyconcerns
Seattle Post Intelligencer
(AP) — Regulators are considering changes to the Columbia River Treaty with Canada to account for environmental concerns that weren't addressed a half-century ago. Policymakers on both sides of the border are considering a rewrite to address concerns ...
Balancing the Economics and Ecology of Ecosystems
Inside Science News Service (blog)
In other words, when businesses, developers or individuals alter the environment in some way, they must either meet the regulations protecting the natural resources involved, or they have to compensate land and water managers for their adverse impact.
Senate Committee On Ecology Summons Ministry of Environment Over Flood
AllAfrica.com
Ilorin — The Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology has summoned the Ministry of Environment to provide a detailed report on the flood ravaging the southern part of the country. The committee, while sympathizing with victims of the flood, urged ...
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WATER POWER

water floods pollution
Water main repairs leave hundreds withoutwater
CBC.ca
The repair of a broken water main on Russell Road continues to leave hundreds of people without water in the Elmvale area.
Outdoor water ban lifted for some Monmouth County residents
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
But for anyone connected to the AmericanWater system, which lost some pressure last week after three major pipelines broke at the Swimming River Reservoir treatment plant in Middletown, such restrictions remain in place for the time being.
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Legislature Delays Water Bond Until November 2014
Bay Area Indymedia
Investing in water infrastructure is vital for our State but in the current economic climate, the likelihood of voters approving this bond in November 2012 is low,” Assemblymember Perea said. “We need to make sure we give it the best chance for success ...
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Is Water the World's Next Global Security Threat?
Huffington Post (blog)
We have to make solving the global watercrisis for the men, women, and children living and dying its daily reality a central priority. A child under the age of five will die from a preventable water-related disease before you finish reading this ...
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  • White House Behind DotCom Shutdown ?
    In a report out today, and in comments to the Herald, Dotcom has said the shutdown of his Megaupload filesharing service was ordered by the White House after Hollywood studio executives met with US Vice President Joe Biden. The meetings are revealed in publicly released White House logs which ...
  • Kabul Diary - like Saigon 1975
    It is difficult to convey how easy life is for those of us privileged to be in Kabul at this time. Some say it is like Saigon during the Vietnam War. There were lots of good times against a dramatic backdrop. Like Saigon in the final days before the Viet Cong took over, you can see how the re ...
  • Syria: Many Agendas at Work
    Much has been written about the barbarous massacre in the Syrian administrative area of Al-Houla on 25 May 2012, in which 108 persons are known to have died including 49 children. Absent a definitive report from the UN observer mission we are left with media and cyber speculation, much of which ...
  • The New Cold War
    Determined to maintain a strong presence in Africa, in 2006 the US established military relations with 54 African nations. Dubbed AFRICOM (or USAFRICOM), it's the newest of nine unified combatant commands the US armed forces have set up worldwide. AFRICOM was established as a not-so-subtle messa ...
  • Wozniak Rides To Rescue DotCom
    "When crimes occur through the mail, you don't shut the post office down," Wozniak wrote. "When governments dream up charges of 'racketeering' for a typical IT guy who is just operating a file-sharing service, or accuse him of mail fraud because he said he had removed files [to alleged infringin ...

Independent - London

  • Mexico: Opposition leader set to be confirmed ...
    Rebuffing claims of fraud, bribery and coercion in last week's presidential election, the opposition candidate Enrique Peña Nieto appeared on his way to being confirmed the victor as Mexico's electoral authorities came close to completing their formal count of the votes.Related StoriesHuman head ...
  • Thousands of computers at risk of losing inter ...
    Thousands of people may lose internet service on Monday unless they check their computers for malware that could have taken over their machines a year ago.Related StoriesMel Gibson's stepmother files restraining order against himLet the divorce row begin... Cruise tops Hollywood's rich list with ...
  • Montreal decapitation victim identified
    Medical tests have confirmed that a human head discovered in Montreal last weekend belonged to a Chinese student who waas allegedly dismembered by a porn actor. Related StoriesHuman head found in park belongs to Chinese student 'dismembered by Canadian cannibal pornstar Luka Magnotta'Mexico: Opp ...
  • Trayvon Martin's killer is released on $1m bail
    The neighbourhood watch volunteer who killed an unarmed black teenager can be released from jail while he awaits trial on a second-degree murder charge, a Florida judge has ruled.Related StoriesHuman head found in park belongs to Chinese student 'dismembered by Canadian cannibal pornstar Luka Ma ...
  • Misrata speaks: no more Gaddafis
    The two chairs were placed side by side. One was fitted with straps and manacles, the other a seat of long nails. They had been taken from a regime interrogation centre, but now had a sign stating: "Presents for the new President if he mistreats his people."Related StoriesAhead of Saturday's el ...

Rogue Government.com

  • Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
    Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...
    European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 

Innovation Canada

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    If Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
  • Small tools, big impact
    Cancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...
  • Innovative, naturally
    For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
  • A very gourd idea
    It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
  • Johne’s happens
    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...

Signs of the times

  • Did the Mossad Murder Arafat?
    Al Jazeera published a report Wednesday based on an extensive scientific investigation of the 2004 death of Yasser Arafat. Though he was 75 years old when he died, many noted the marked deterioration in his appearance in his final weeks and speculated that he was poisoned or that he had AIDS. An ...
  • The single Jew that Hitler wanted to save: Ast ...
    An amazing letter sent on the orders of Adolf Hitler informing his Gestapo thugs to leave a single Jew alone during his reign of terror has been found in Germany. The Jew in question was Ernst Hess, a judge, whom the Führer ordered not to be 'persecuted or deported' because he had been his ...
  • Iranian President Congratulates Venezuela on I ...
    Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a message felicitated the Venezuelan nation and government on the country's Independence Day. Ahmadinejad in a message to his Venezuelan counterpart President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday congratulated [the] anniversary of Venezuelan Independence Day to him, ...
  • Score One for Us? Stealth app allows citizens ...
    A civil rights group has released a new smartphone 'stealth' app which allows users to record video of police encounters without the officer's knowledge. Called the 'Police Tape', the app makes the phone act as if it is off when recording video displaying a blank screen and when audio is being ...
  • Police Brutality: Motorist Robert Leone Beaten ...
    In Bradford County, Pennsylvania, protesters are calling for justice for Robert Leone, who was reportedly assaulted by five Pennsylvania State Troopers. A March 2010 video of police arresting Leone has gone viral after being posted last week by Larry Hohol, an author -- and former Penn. cop -- ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Hey Donald Hayes!
    A big paycheque does not correlate with a strong leadership. A big paycheque correlates with a massive ego and sense of entitlement.
  • Navy choppers
    I don't know CBC, your typo might be quite accurate... The helicopters, crammed with modern anti-warfare systems, are considered vital to naval operations, flying off the decks of Canada’s naval frigates to scan the seas for enemy threats. ...as the ultimate anti-warfare system might ...
  • Blair FAIL . . .
    — Billy ponders a river in Egypt — BILLY, YA DONE GONE AND SCREWED THE POOCH. According to the Toronto Star, "G20 aftermath: Civilian police board barely asked any questions in leadup to summit", Captain Billy was less than efficient: The report blames the federal government — ...
  • Famine stalks the Juche Joint . . .
    NORTH KOREA just can't seem to get a break. According to the Telegraph, "North Korea facing worst drought in 100 years", North Korean soldiers have been dispatched to water crops that are withering in the worst drought to affect the country in more than a century, with the United Nations warning ...
  • Ungghh!
    Problem child. The senator, appointed in 2008 by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, sent an email response to a request for comment. "The very simple answer to your question with respect to my attendance or lack thereof is for personal matters," said Brazeau, former national chief of the ...

Media Matters for America

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

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TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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  • We are now in energy emergency season as a hea ...
    The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT), system operator for the state’s bulk transmission grid, is asking consumers and businesses to reduce their electricity use during peak electricity hours from 3 to 7 p.m. today. Consumers can help by shutting off unnecessary lights and elec ...
  • KEFFER LISTENS INTENTLY TO TAR SANDS CONCERNS: ...
    The following story on testimony provided to the Texas House Energy Resources Committee about the threat the proposed Tar Sands pipeline poses for the state was reprinted with the permission of the Texas Energy Report. House Energy Resources Committee Chairman Jim Keffer on Tuesday promised envi ...
  • WCS – A potential bailout without any authoriz ...
    We’ve recently realized that TCEQ allowed stock from Waste Control Specialists (WCS) sister company, Titanium Metals Corp to be put up as the financial assurance for their radioactive waste dump and that stock isn’t performing well right now. So we want to know, where does that leave ...
  • GROUP WARNS OF TEXAS OIL SANDS PIPELINE THREAT
    The following story on the threat the proposed Tar Sands pipeline poses for the state was reprinted with the permission of the Texas Energy Report. GROUP WARNS OF TEXAS OIL SANDS PIPELINE THREAT Enbridge says public data don’t back up spill concerns As the Environmental Protection Agency announc ...
  • At Energy Future Holdings, Failure Pays Well f ...
    If you think that bonuses are supposed to reward success, you’re not alone, but the reality is more bizarre.  While Energy Future Holdings, formerly TXU, of Dallas continues its downward spiral toward bankruptcy, it’s handing out millions in bonuses to its executives. The bonuses are called rete ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Ex-FBI employee claims she saw angels
    Lillie Leonardi believes she saw angels at the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site in Pennsylvania. Leonardi had been the liaison officer between law...
  • Red rain falls over India
    Residents were left perplexed when red coloured rain started falling from the sky in rural Kannur. The rainstorm lasted only 15 minutes but it was eno...
  • 'Portals' found in Earth's magnetic field
    NASA plans to launch four spacecraft to investigate hidden portals in the magnetic field of the Earth. The portals, or "x-points", were observed in th...
  • Higgs Boson 'God' particle discovered
    Hadron Collider scientists have confirmed that they have discovered the elusive Higgs Boson particle. The find was announced at a conference in Geneva...
  • Ancient sunken 'Doggerland' unveiled
    A vast area of land covering what is now the North Sea has been revealed following a 15-year project. Known as Doggerland, the huge stretch of land wa...

Grassroots

  • A Decade of Separation
    6583016675_1b765dda49_n.jpg The Separation Wall is now 10 years old. The Israeli government has not reversed course despite protests, a UN General Assembly resolution (ES-10/13), an International Court of Justice (ICJ) advisory opinion, and ...
  • Later Is Too Late: Examining Gender-Based Viol ...
    Subheadline:  Overview of funding in Haiti to eliminate violence against women Outside Author Info Outside Author:  Alicia Tozour ...
  • The Elephant in Rio: The Corporate-Driven "Gre ...
    Subheadline:  Letting big business profit off climate change is a lose-lose for people and the planet Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Janet Redman is co-director of the Su ...
  • 2012 Partners and Projects Guide
    The attached PDF provides details on our plans in this area for the coming year. For more information on Grassroots International's partnership-based approach, see our grantmaking page.
  • Uprooting GM Crops with Creole Seeds
    Subheadline:  MCP shows Brazilian farmers a better way brazil-creole_seed_saving.jpg In rural areas like Seu Lazaro’s community in the state of Goiás, Brazil, vendors of ge ...

Climate

  • Searing Sun and Drought Shrivel Corn in Midwest
    (New York Times) Across a wide stretch of the Midwest, sweltering temperatures and a lack of rain are threatening what had been expected to be the nation’s largest corn crop in generations. read more
  • Get Ready for Solar Sharing Communities
    (GigaOM) Are people who don't own homes being left out of the solar energy revolution? A bill that’s making its way through the Legislature in California will expand the public’s access to solar energy by making it easier for renters a ...
  • Bavarian Glaciers Could Disappear in 30 Years
    (Der Spiegel) The Bavarian Alps are known for their stunning vistas and winter sports opportunities. But the view from some summits could change drastically in the coming years. Nearly all of the glaciers in the Bavarian Alps will like ...
  • Australia: Sea Level Rise Planning Clause Dumped
    (The Daily Telegraph) Thousands of coastal property owners have been given relief after their council dumped a controversial clause on planning documents which labelled their homes as in danger of sea level rise. read more
  • Md. Democrats Voice Concerns About Pipeline’s ...
    (The Hill) Democratic lawmakers from Maryland are urging federal regulators to pay close attention to the environmental and health problems that might result from the expansion of a natural-gas pipeline in their state. The 21.4-mile e ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

  • Are African governments suppressing art?
    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
    Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.
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  • Winning the battle, losing the war; the US and ...
    After the NATO airstrikes, the political discourse within Pakistan is narrowing as religious nationalism gains ground

Booman Tribune

  • Casual Observation
    Eventually the European banks will listen to Atrios because they will have tried everything else and none of it will have worked. At that point, Atrios will revert to cat-blogging. And everyone will be happy. Ponies. Discuss
  • The wonders of privatization
    You are a lifeguard at a beach. You see a drowning swimmer. You rescue that person. But, you make a mistake. You see you work for a private company that has the contract for public beaches. That company has rules. One of those rules says you can't go past a certain, shall we say, line in t ...
  • Keep Piling On Roberts, Please
    Chief Justice John Roberts is 62 57 years-old. If he serves as long as his former colleague John Paul Stevens, he will retire in 2043 2048. I don't expect Roberts to become a reliable vote for the liberal point of view on the Court, but anything that pushes him in that direction has to be cons ...
  • Hating on the 60's
    So, the thesis here is that the Boomers won the right to smoke weed, get abortions, watch porn, and go without neckties, but along with that came the right for CEO's to pay themselves 400 times what the average employee gets paid and to flaunt their wealth without fear of opprobrium. Do I have ...
  • Vacation Blogging
    I'm sorry to see Andy Griffith go. I always liked him. Our teenagers don't seem to know who he was. Not even his Matlock character. That makes me feel old. Of course, they didn't know who Gilligan was either. We spent the day hiking along the coast between Thunder Hole and the Otter Cli ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Most Incredible JFK Assassination Theories
    It's almost 50 years since the JFK assassination, and many conspiracies theories surrounding Kennedy’s death continue to have their adherents. These are our 10 favorites. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Why Forest Fires Do Good As Well As Harm
    Each year, fires destroy thousands of acres of forests. Fires are a natural process in the forests, but today's fires often get out of control. Why This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Curiously Strange and Weirdly Awesome Trees
    From providing dragon blood sap to the stuffing in lifejackets, the properties of these weird and wonderful trees will make you think you've stepped into a Dr. Seuss book This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Braving the Perilous Terrain of Greenland's St ...
    Tasermiut Fjord in Southern Greenland is one of the most spectacular and pristine wildernesses on Earth. It is also one of the most dangerous. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 7 Communities Who Salvage Trash to Survive in ...
    These garbage dumps and landfills in the less developed world are not only a place for unwanted trash; they also provide a place to live and work for thousands of people. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

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Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • TRAILBLAZERs unite! Q2 & Turnkey Dictatorship, ...
    TRAILBLAZER related NSA workstation privatization schema in FOUO document --- SOURCE WayneMadsenReport.com - http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/downloads/20110322_2/download - March 22-23, 2011 -- SPECIAL REPORT. NSA, DOJ, and courts conspire to cover-up NSA fraud, waste, abuse, and crimina ...
  • Homeland Security RAPS; Oklahoma jumps into Ho ...
    Basically drones are going into all kinds of state programs, including an interesting pilot program called DHS Robotic Aircraft for Public Safety (RAPS) Program between Homeland Security and the Oklahoma National Guard. But first this sketchy nationwide coverup going on... The U.S. Special Opera ...
  • FAA Sets Large ND Drone Training Airspace - Fe ...
    The plan to convert America, and the world, into a hellish dystopia patrolled by killer flying robots continues apace with a fine fanciful scheme for flying more drones around North Dakota. It is apparently controlled by the FAA Minneapolis office to some extent. PublicIntelligence.net reported ...
  • And then they came for Lauryn Hill - at least ...
    I've tried to convince a few people that something is weird and sketchy in the entertainment industry. It's hard to get people to bite usually -- though as Mr Knowles says at Secret Sun, the old occult-pop-art trick is pretty old and good for boosting sales. There's a whole bunch of sites about ...
  • Political duality of the week: Electoral polit ...
    Government is the Entertainment Division of the military-industrial complex. -- attributed to Frank Zappa The ugly realities of modern electoral politics in America hit home this week with two body blows to self-styled anti-authoritarian political networks: The Ron Paul movement finally hit ...

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  • Medical tests suggest Yasser Arafat may have b ...
    A nine-month forensic toxicological investigation into the death of Yasser Arafat has raised the possibility that the Palestinian leader may have been poisoned with a radioactive substance. The Institut de Radiophysique (IRA) in Lausanne, Switzerland, has announced the discovery of significant t ...
  • Did Israel assassinate senior Hamas official i ...
    US government Pollard video declassified. Senior CIA officer accused of being Mafia hitman. Colombian pleads guilty to spy charges in Nicaragua.
  • Comment: Did Israel assassinate senior Hamas o ...
    Hamas has accused Israel of assassinating Kamel Ranaja, whose body was found last week in his half-burned apartment in Syrian capital Damascus. Ranaja had replaced the late Hamas weapons procurer Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who was killed in 2010 in Dubai, most likely by Israeli intelligence agency Mossad.
  • News you may have missed #756 (analysis edition)
    Intel analysts taking over leading role in spy game. US intel doesn't see Syrian regime cracking. Arrests of Iranians in Kenya spark fears of plot.
  • Situation Report: CIA venture group funds vide ...
    On June 27, In-Q-Tel, the venture arm of the CIA, announced a strategic partnership with Looxcie, makers of the first ever “wear and share” video cam recorders. Surveillance and video reconnaissance technologies have been a mainstay of espionage and intelligence collection efforts for some time ...

War is a Crime.org

  • We've Reached Point of Govt. Openly Launching ...
    The stated purpose is to entrap whistleblowers, which is bad enough, but doing so by feeding them misinformation means feeding it to the rest of us too. Wired: Pentagon-funded researchers have come up with a new plan for busting leakers: Spot them by how they search, and then entice the se ...
  • TSA continues to harass passengers with medica ...
    As we’ve reported numerous times, the TSA, despite its claims in public and on its website, routinely harasses passengers who have medical conditions and/or who are carrying prescription medicines. READ THE REST HERE.
  • TPP: A Trade Deal from Hell
      TPP: A Trade Deal from Hell   by Stephen Lendman   Obama and political Washington support an alphabet soup of repressive police state laws, other freedom destroying measures, and hellish trade deals.   read more
  • Stealth Trade Agreement Secret Negotiations
      Stealth Trade Agreement Secret Negotiations   by Stephen Lendman   Two other articles address the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). They discuss what the companion article to this one calls a trade deal from hell.   read more
  • Syria News - July 4
      Divided Syria opposition ends chaotic Cairo talks - Yahoo! News Syria Welcomes the Concluding Statement of Geneva Meeting, Foreign Ministry - DayPress ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Swiss suspend arms exports to UAE over weapons delivered to Syrian ...

Grist - News

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

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    by Henry Shivley Today is the 4th of July. Today we celebrate our freedoms and liberties that were won through the great sacrifices made by our founding fathers after declaring independence from the British Empire. We have been celebrating the 4th of July for 236 years and in the beginning we in ...
  • Why is Nobody Freaking Out About the LIBOR Ban ...
    By Matt Taibbi The LIBOR manipulation story has exploded into a major scandal overseas. The CEO of Barclays, Bob Diamond, has resigned in disgrace; his was the first of what will undoubtedly be many major banks to walk the regulatory plank for fixing the interbank exchange rate. The Labor party ...
  • Interview with a Rothschild: 1892
    Chicago Tribune Sept. 15, 1892 “Capital is a country’s fortune. It represents the energy, intelligence, thrift and labor of the people. Capital is labor. Apart from unhappy exceptions which seem to be unavoidable, each shares in the capital according to his intelligence, energy and w ...
  • Melinda Gates Admits: “Stop People’s Lives Fro ...
    Love him or hate him, Stephen Colbert doesn’t waste time getting to the point. In last Thursday’s interview with Melinda Gates on the Colbert Report, he asked Melinda about her newest initiative and cut straight to the chase: the new population control movement exists to save lives by erasing li ...
  • The Declaration of Total Dependence upon The S ...
    By Les Visible When in the proscribed intercourse of entrus behindus in human events, it becomes necessary for any number of people to break the political binds that have shackled them in ignorance with another and to seize the powers of Heaven, the separate but equal station they have never pos ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • San Francisco’s Parklets Transform Parking Spa ...
    Read the rest of San Francisco’s Parklets Transform Parking Spaces Into Urban Oases Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", "sustainable architecture", eco design, green design, green park, parking day, Parklet, pop up park, rebar, San Francisco, susta ...
  • eVolo Announces Their 2013 Skyscraper Competition
    The 2013 eVolo Skyscraper Competition is now open for business and looking for the most outrageous, exceptional, unusual, and forward-thinking designs out there. One of our favorite annual architectural competitions, given its broad interpretation of what a building can be, we’ve always be ...
  • Environmentalists Protest US Navy War Games Du ...
    Thanks to films like Battleship, we all know that war games are a crucial part of the US Navy‘s defense strategy. They provide ships’ crews with the necessary training and expertise that they will need in future war scenarios. Often though, they involve sinking old vessels for practi ...
  • ‘The Sync’ Provides a Platform to Bring Social ...
    Do you know where to turn if you have an idea that will make society better? We are many who dream of change in our society, but turning those dreams into reality might prove to be a tricky deal. Soramist Chintanamanus, a recent MA graduate from the Interaction Design program at the Umeå Institu ...
  • ES Pipe Waterwheel Generates Hydroelectricity ...
    Here at Inhabitat we love discovering products that generate power from everyday activities – innovations like piezoelectric energy-generating roads and human-powered clothing have the potential to change the world. That’s why were so intrigued by the ES Pipe Waterwheel – it&#8 ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • What the Discovery of the Higgs Means for Scie ...
    Stephen Wolfram provides an insider's perspective on the discovery of the Higgs boson and how the moment is a culmination of 40 years of hard and often surprising work.
  • Medical Marijuana Without the High
    Israeli researchers have developed a strain of medicinal marijuana that can ease symptoms of diseases such as arthritis without making patients "high".
  • Planet-Forming Disk Vanishes Into Thin Air
    In less than 2 years, a star system's planet-forming disk just vanished -- and the same thing may have happened in our own solar system.
  • New Videogame Lets Amateur Researchers Mess Wi ...
    Featuring an array of clickable candy-colored pieces, EteRNA looks a little like the popular game Bejeweled. But instead of combining jewel shapes in Tetris-like levels, EteRNA players manipulate nucleotides, the fundamental building blocks of RNA, to coax molecules into shapes specified by the ...
  • The Classic, Beautiful and Controversial Books ...
    The classic books that record the revolutionary moments in science may not be intelligible to most people, so we asked scientists to explain what was, and still is, great about the seminal works in their fields.

PakAlert

  • List: What Barack Obama Has Done His First Term
    Among other things, since taking office Obama has:   - Signed the NDAA into law — assassinating US citizens w/o trial now legal - Personally oversaw a ‘Secret Kill List‘ - Waged war on Libya without congressional approval - Started a covert, drone war in Yemen - Escalated ...
  • Can Americans Escape the Deception?
    Hot Air Day is upon us. On July 4 hot air will spew forth all over the country as dignitaries deliver homilies to our “freedom and democracy” and praise “our brave troops” who are protecting our freedom by “killing them over there before they come over here.” Not a single one of these speeche ...
  • Video: Horrific Testicle-Eating Fish Invade IL ...
    Swimmers looking for a welcome break from the ongoing heatwave fled in fear when they discovered the small Illinois lake they swam in had evil-looking fish with human-like teeth. The horrific creatures seem to be breeding in the lake far from their native homes of the Amazon River and Papua New ...
  • 3/11 was Japan’s 9/11. It’s all documented folks!
    This is Japan's 911, and it's all based on official records and evidence which cannot be silenced. What is here is every bit as damning as building 7 on 9/11, while being far more important, and the fact that a large portion of even the truth movement has shunned this report will show you just h ...
  • Why Healthy People Avoid These Dangerous Foods
    In the days of the ancients all food was wholesome and organic. Today, many foods are laced with preservatives, peppered with flavor enhancers, infused with artificial chemicals and hormones, or doused with toxic herbicides and insecticides. Top health experts know all too well that many of the ...

Andy Worthington

  • My Photos on Flickr: Bermondsey and the River ...
    Bermondsey and the River Thames, June 2012, a set on Flickr. This set of photos, recording elements of a journey I made by bike on June 28, 2012 from south east London to the West End and back, is the third set of photos of London that I’ve uploaded to my recently established Flickr accoun ...
  • Criminal Bankers Are Not Above the Law
    That’s an optimistic headline, obviously, as, to date, bankers have demonstrated that they are in fact above the law, and that they can do what they want — wrecking the global economy, for example, and being bailed out instead of being punished, as happened in 2008. However, in the w ...
  • Talha Ahsan and Babar Ahmad: “Extraditio ...
    As part of the campaign to prevent the extradition to the US of Talha Ahsan and Babar Ahmad — who, along with others, including Richard O’Dwyer and Gary McKinnon — face extradition to the US under the terms of the much-criticised US-UK Extradition Treaty, Talha’s brother ...
  • My Photos on Flickr: Visiting Kuwait to Campai ...
    Visiting Kuwait to Campaign for the Last Two Kuwaiti Prisoners in Guantánamo, a set on Flickr. In the six months following the opening of the Bush administration’s cruel and lawless ”war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on January 11, 2002, twelve Kuwaitis joined the ...
  • In Appeal for Moral Leadership, Jimmy Carter C ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Daughter Indicted in Telem ...
    In the family of one of the antigovernment “sovereign citizen” movement’s most notorious ideologues, the apple seems to have fallen tragically close to the tree. Jessica Gutierrez, the daughter of the late sovereign citizen Jerry Kane, was among 18 suspects charged by the Ohio attorney general i ...
  • Dawn of ‘Red America’: Extremists React to SCO ...
    Antigovernment activists and far-right extremists are waxing hysterical over yesterday’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold President Obama’s signature achievement, the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Mike Vanderboegh, an antigovernment activist who in 2010 reacted to the imminent passage o ...
  • Arizona Bar Admonishes Oath Keepers Founder St ...
    It turns out Stewart Rhodes, the Yale-educated lawyer who founded the Oath Keepers to encourage police and military personnel to disobey orders they deem unconstitutional, has a hard time following the rules of conduct for lawyers. Hatewatch has learned that the State Bar of Arizona has admonish ...
  • Texas Pipeline Bomber Held Radical-Right Views
    The man accused of trying to bomb a Dallas-area natural gas facility last weekend appears to be a sympathizer of the antigovernment “sovereign citizens” movement who for years has used the Internet to espouse hatred and suspicion of the federal government. Anson Chi, 33, faces federal charges fo ...
  • Neo-Nazi Bill White: U.S. is a ‘Demonic Dream’
    Bill White, the Virginia neo-Nazi and convicted felon who was arrested in Mexico earlier this month and faces federal charges of violating the terms of his supervised release, appears to have suffered some kind of mental breakdown. In a series of letters to supporters and federal authorities, th ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Report: Vast Extent of Congressional 'VIP' Loa ...
    Countrywide Financial Corp sold 'VIP' loans to members of congress in exchange for influence in Washington according to a report released on Thursday by the U.S. House and Government Oversight Committee, Associated Press reports. r ...
  • Jailed Russian Punk-Rockers 'Pussy Riot' Begin ...
    Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of female punk band, "Pussy Riot", reacts behind bars during a court hearing in Moscow July 4, 2012. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin read more
  • New Dust Bowl?
    As record temperatures and drought leave corn fields parched in the Midwest, some farmers fear a new Dust Bowl is lurking, the New York Times reports. read more
  • Anti-Mining Protests Escalate in Peru; Four Ki ...
    Peru’s government declared a state of emergency on Wednesday, banning protests and freedom of assembly in the country, following public opposition to a planned restart of the nation's largest gold mining project. At least four protesters have been killed and twenty-one injured due to p ...
  • Wikileaks Publishes the 'Syrian Files'
    Beginning this morning, the international media organization and whistleblower group WikiLeaks began publishing what they are calling the "Syria Files" – more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies, dating from August 2006 to Ma ...

Lifehacker

  • Make a No-Bake Icebox Cake to Satisfy Your Swe ...
    If it's as hot where you are as it is here, the last thing you want to do even in air conditioned spaces is to turn on the oven and start baking. It'll bring the temperature up, force your air conditioner to work harder to cool the place down ...
  • How Can I Get Over the Summer Productivity Slu ...
    Dear Lifehacker, More »
  • iFixit for Android and iPhone Puts Repair Guid ...
    iOS/Android/WebOS: We've long been big fans of iFixit's useful repair guides and teardown manuals, and now you can easily access the site's content on the go. The free mobile apps allow offline browsing of the thousands of how-to repair guides ...
  • Watch Out for Corrupt iOS and Mac App Store Up ...
    iOS/Mac: A whole lot of apps are crashing because of corrupt App Store updates. The problem was discovered by Instapaper founder Marco Arment, who has compiled a list of the affected apps, including Instapaper, GoodReader, Angry Birds Space Fr ...
  • Taskk Is a To-Do App That Manages Your Time fo ...
    Taskk is a new to-do app that solves the common problem of trying to figure out what to do next. Give each task a time estimate and drag them into priority order, and Taskk will set up a plan of action based on how much time you have. More ...

Water Privatization

  • Serious Steps - City Services Privatization?
    (Editor’s note: Due to early holiday deadlines, this article went to press prior to the July 2 Oakdale City Council meeting. Log on to www.oakdaleleader.com for updates to this story and a report on the council meeting.)
  • Group fights boating law
    Restore Public Water Rights-Rochester, NY, issued an open letter Monday to the commissioner of the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, calling the new law a privatization of public waters and asking her to overturn it.
  • Group fights boating law
    Restore Public Water Rights-Rochester, NY, issued an open letter Monday to the commissioner of the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, calling the new law a privatization of public waters and asking her to overturn it.
  • Group asks state to overturn Irondequoit boati ...
    Restore Public Water Rights-Rochester, NY LLC, issued an open letter Monday to the commissioner of the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, calling the new law a privatization of public waters and asking her to overturn it.
  • Serious Steps Toward Privatization Of City Ser ...

Guardian

  • Fears Church of England vote on women bishops ...
    Church could see women ordained as bishops by 2014, but critics warn draft legislation contains a compromise too farThe Venerable Rachel Treweek, archdeacon of Hackney, will leave east London for York tomorrow with mixed feelings and a heavy heart. This weekend's gathering of the General Synod w ...
  • Court upholds convictions of Italian G8 police
    Statute of limitations means none of officers guilty of beating protesters will go to jail, but many will receive suspensionsEleven years after Italian police savagely beat scores of protesters at the Genoa G8 meeting in 2001, leaving one British activist in a coma, an Italian court has upheld t ...
  • Jorge Rafael Videla convicted of baby thefts
    Former Argentine dictator has been convicted of executing a systematic plan to steal babies from leftist dissentersThree key figures from Argentina's "dirty war" received hefty jail terms for the systematic theft of babies from political prisoners during the 1976-1983 dictatorship, an Argentine ...
  • 'Buried' report praised Labour's school buildi ...
    Building Schools for the Future was controversially scrapped by education secretary Michael Gove in July 2010Ministers are being accused of suppressing a glowing report about Labour's school renovation programme, Building Schools for the Future, which was controversially scrapped by the educatio ...
  • Deadly shootings across US cities mar Independ ...
    Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Washington all see violence spike, but one criminologist warns not to blame the heatWhile Americans across the country celebrated Independence Day on Wednesday, several of the nation's largest cities reported disturbing incidents of violence, with dozens of pe ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

  • First NATO container crosses Pakistan-Afghan b ...
    The first container carrying supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan Thursday crossed the Pakistan-Afghan border after Islamabad reopened the supply route, officials said. The container entered ...
  • Reopening NATO routes in Pakistans interest PM
    The decision to reopen the routes for passage of NATO supplies to Afghanistan via Pakistan was taken in the best interests of the country following the recommendation of parliament, Prime Minister ...
  • 20 dead nearly 200 wounded in Kabul fire
    At least 20 people died and more than 180 others were injured in two deadly fires in the Afghan capital, the authorities said Thursday. A huge fire erupted following a blast at a propane gas ...
  • Baloch Elders body calls for end to genocide o ...
    The Council of Baloch Elders of Afghanistan in Kabul, has in a declaration, called for urgent measures to stop the genocide of Baloch political leaders and nationalists in Pakistan and Iran. In a ...
  • Pakistan should dump its policy of supporting ...
    Pakistan should begin rethinking on the issue of Pakistani Taliban as unless the nation dumps its policy of supporting Afghan Taliban proxies, Islamabad will find it hard put to it to deal with their ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Ron And Rand Paul: Net Neutrality And The Publ ...
    I tend to be a pretty big supporter of free market capitalism and the importance of real property rights (not imaginary property rights). As such, I've always been intrigued by Ron Paul's libertarian stance against big government and excessive regulation. I think that position is petty clearly ...
  • OxyContin Being Tested On Kids... So Drugmaker ...
    Want a sense of just how screwed up the incentives of our patent system are today? Purdue Pharma, the makers of the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin, is now running clinical tests to get the FDA to approve its use for kids as young as 6-years-old. Why? Because the Federal Food, Drug, and ...
  • Twitter's Transparency Report Reveals Takedown ...
    We've been impressed with Google's ongoing transparency report efforts, and it appears that the folks at Twitter agree. The company recently released its own Transparency Report (and gave a hat tip to Google in the process). Like Google's report, Twitter's looks at how many requests for inform ...
  • Still Plenty To Be Concerned About With TPP
    While we are encouraged by the USTR's supposed recognition of the importance of limitations and exceptions in copyright law in their latest TPP draft proposal, there are still significant concerns about the TPP agreement, as a whole, including with the very specifics of the language around excep ...
  • Charles Carreon Saga Takes A Turn For The Biza ...
    While the main event in the Charles Carreon vs. Matthew Inman saga may officially be over, a few issues do remain, including (most importantly) the lawsuit for declaratory judgment against him -- which he can't just dismiss. That said, there's also something... bizarre going on. And we're not ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Why try to understand the nature of the universe?
    Rhett Allain, an Associate Professor of Physics at Southeastern Louisiana University, talks about how to discuss the Higgs boson announcement in the classroom — especially with non-science majors. Given that those of us who don’t understand particle physics have not spent years wonde ...
  • How the Higgs boson explains our universe
    Jeff Forshaw, professor of particle physics at the University of Manchester, writes: There is utter joy in the world of particle physics – Cern’s announcement that a new particle has been discovered will have long-lasting consequences for our understanding of how the universe works and it ...
  • Palestinian leader seeks more information from ...
    The Associated Press reports: An aide says the Palestinian leader wants more information from a Swiss lab before deciding whether to dig up the remains of his predecessor, Yasser Arafat. Doctors at the lab say they found elevated levels of the radioactive agent polonium-210 on clothing reportedl ...
  • Turkish firefighters battle blazes ‘deliberate ...
    The Associated Press reports: Turkish firefighters are battling blazes along the border with Syria in areas where thousands of Syrians have crossed to flee the fighting in their country. Mehmet Harbi, a forestry official, claimed the fires were “deliberately started” at four differen ...
  • Libya beset by ethnic tension as elections loom
    Luke Harding reports: In a villa on Libya’s stunning sea coast, a sculptor finishes off a war memorial. It commemorates the 50 men from the western town of Zuwara who perished last year in the battle against Muammar Gaddafi. The slab, which is destined for Zuwara’s small concrete rou ...

Watts Up With That?

  • July sea ice outlook submitted to ARCUS
    The WUWT Extent Projection: 4.55 million square kilometers. Readers polled, 142 responded with 22.11% of responses in the range of 4.5 to 4.6 million square kilometers. 4.6 million sqkm  11.21%  (72 votes) 4.5 million sqkm  10.9%  (70 votes) This was almost … Continue reading →
  • Putting Piers Corbyn to the test
    I’ve been given a link in email today to a public forecast page for July by weather prognosticator Piers Corbyn, which you can investigate in full yourself here. I find his web pages and forecasts hard to read, and even … Continue reading →
  • WUWT sea Ice forecast poll, just a few hours left
    The poll closes at 12PM PST, Thursday, July 5th. If you have not voted, get your vote in now here. The deadline for submission to ARCUS is today.
  • Linking the ENSO and PDO induced rainfall of t ...
    From Penn State , another Mann paper with proxy sets, and a divergence problem. At least they are talking about the MWP, or as they call it, the Medieval Climate Anomaly which had been erased in previous papers Mann had … Continue reading →
  • ‘Doppler radar’ for solar storm de ...
    Rice researcher part of team that used Doppler shifts to ID phenomenon; may help predict space weather  HOUSTON – (July 2, 2012) – Doppler measurements that help track storms on Earth may also be useful for understanding storms on the … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

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

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • James Bond Design Art Show Opens in London
    A new exhibition exploring the famous James Bond theme opens on Friday at the Barbican center in London to celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of the most influential silver screen franchises of all times
  • Main News of July 5
    A roundup of what has happened over the past 24 hours
  • Italian Experts Discover 100 Caravaggio Drawings
    Italian art historians have stumbled on a stash of around 100 drawings and a few paintings by the Renaissance master Caravaggio, Italian news agency ANSA said Thursday.
  • St. Petersburg Authorities Revoke LGBT Rally P ...
    St. Petersburg authorities revoked their permission to hold an event in support of civil rights for Russia’s gay and transsexual community on July 7, a spokesperson for the St. Petersburg governor said on Thursday.
  • Tehran Invites Egypt President to NAM Summit
    Iran invited Egypt’s new President Mohamed Morsi on Thursday to attend the next Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in the Iranian capital, Tehran, Press TV reported.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • China Beats Russia on Space Launches
    For the first time in the history of space exploration, China beat Russia on the number of space launches in a given period of time, a rocket engine manufacturer said on Wednesday.
  • Higgs Boson Candidate Found – CERN
    The final elementary particle needed to complete the Standard Model of particle physics might have been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider, researchers said on Wednesday.
  • Space Station Crew Lands in Kazakhstan
    A Soyuz reentry capsule with three members of the International Space Station (ISS) crew landed safely in Kazakhstan on Sunday, mission control said.
  • Japan Reactor to Go Back Online
    A reactor at the Ohi nuclear power plant in central Japan is set to go back on line later on Sunday, NHK Television reported.
  • Soyuz Reentry Capsule Undocks from Space Station
    A Soyuz reentry vehicle with three members of the International Space Station (ISS) crew undocked from the station’s Rassvet module on Sunday in preparation for return to Earth, mission control said.

Pruning Shears

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

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Center for a Livable Future

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

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

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

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Navy plans $40 million fiber-optic link to Gua ...
    ShareThisNavy plans $40 million fiber-optic link to Guantánamo base --$40 million project will put an underwater cable from base in southeast Cuba through Windward Passage to an undisclosed link in South Florida 04 Jul 2012 The Pentagon has decided to lay an estimated $40 million underwater fibe ...
  • Iran's state TV accuse BBC of hacking website ...
    ShareThisIran's state TV accuse BBC of hacking website to change results of nuclear poll 04 Jul 2012 Iran's state TV charged Wednesday that the BBC hacked its website to change the results of a poll about Iran's nuclear program. The BBC denied the allegation. The British broadcaster's Farsi lang ...
  • Pressure Grows on Obama Administration to Prot ...
    ShareThisPressure Grows on Obama Administration to Protect Polar Bears (Natural Resources Defense Council) 28 Jun 2012 The United States is in a position to help lead the world in doing just that at the next meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). There's ...
  • Pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan vow to targe ...
    ShareThisPro-Taliban militants in Pakistan vow to target NATO supply trucks 04 Jul 2012 Pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan have threatened to attack trucks transporting supplies destined for the US-led foreign forces in neighboring Afghanistan, following Islamabad's agreement to end its seven-mon ...
  • Poor Land in Jail as Companies Add Huge Fees f ...
    ShareThisPoor Land in Jail as Companies Add Huge Fees for Probation 03 Jul 2012 Richard Earl Garrett is the lead plaintiff in a class action suit against the town of Harpersville, Ala. Mr. Garrett has spent a total of 24 months in jail and owes $10,000, all for traffic and license violations tha ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Study: 25% of war deaths medically preventable ...
    03 July 2012 Study: 25% of war deaths medically preventable Army Times, By Patricia Kime - Staff writer Thursday Jun 28, 2012 16:04:10 EDT A new study finds that nearly a quarter of the 4,596 combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2001 and 2011 were “potentially survivable,” meaning th ...
  • Not I
    19 June 2012 Through the years there has been a constant barrage of people misquoting me.  They might say, “Last week on CNN you said…”  And I was in some war zone at the time and nowhere near a television interview.  But then it gets picked up, and bloggers do the he-said, she-s ...
  • Angels Over Afghanistan
    F/A-18C Hornet named after SPC Chazray Clark Father’s Day 17 June 2012 The US Navy has named an F/A-18C Hornet after Specialist Chazray Clark, who was killed in action last September in Afghanistan.  The jet bearing Chazray’s name is now flying combat operations over Afghanistan and may w ...
  • Proof That Military Puts Media Message before ...
    31 May 2012 The following document was provided by a source within the military.  This document proves that a decision was made not to arm vehicles during serious fighting because it would convey the wrong STRATCOM (strategic communications) message. To download as a PDF please click he ...
  • Bowe Bergdahl: Two messages from the Taliban
    10 April 2012 Over the months I have communicated with the Taliban about US prisoner Bowe Bergdahl.  Numerous times I have asked the Taliban to allow me to visit Bowe.  In each case, the Taliban has declined citing security issues. It has been said that I am negotiating with the Tali ...

The Killing Train

  • Paraguay: Weaving Peoples Resistance Against C ...
    Hello friends. We at En Camino put this together and it has gathered signatures since the coup. We are hoping to work together to find ways to support FDD in the coming weeks and months. -Justin ------- The undersigning organizations, collectives and individuals working towards a coordinated ini ...
  • The International Organization for a Participa ...
    I joined the International Organization for a Participatory Society. read more
  • Curuguaty and the Paraguay Coup
    When the landless peasants of the Carperos Campesino Movement moved on to the 70,000 hectare ranch in Curuguaty registered to Blas Riquelme, they would have known that they were risking their lives. Using the same successful methods as elsewhere in Latin America, perhaps most famously by the Lan ...
  • Help that hurts: An interview with Tim Schwart ...
    First published on ZNet, March 18, 2012 Tim Schwartz is an anthropologist with extensive experience in the foreign aid sector in Haiti. He is the author of the book, Travesty in Haiti, and of an upcoming book studying the nature and problems of the ways nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) opera ...
  • Professionals and Torturers
    The key moment in many revolutions comes when police and militaries refuse to fire on crowds. But what is difficult to explain about those moments is their infrequency. Soldiers and police come from the same society as the crowds. Why do they kill them? Why are elites and authorities able to res ...

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Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • UN expert calls for international prevention o ...
    [JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance Mutuma Ruteere [official website] on Tuesday called on the international community [report, PDF] to be wary of signs of racism that could lead to escalated conflicts and huma ...
  • New York court upholds order forcing Twitter t ...
    [JURIST] The Criminal Court of the City of New York this week upheld a subpoena [order, PDF] forcing social networking site Twitter [corporate website] to turn over account information for one of its users. The District Attorney's office requested the user data to aid in the investigation of Mal ...
  • Expert panel claims Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...
    [JURIST] A Japanese expert panel on Thursday issued a report claiming that the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster [IAEA backgrounder] was preventable. In the 641-page document the panel claims that the accident was not caused solely by the earthquake [Reuters report] and subsequent ts ...
  • EU parliament rejects international anti-pirac ...
    [JURIST] The European Parliament [official website] on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted to reject [press release] the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) [text, PDF] in a vote of 39 in favor and 478 opposed, with 165 abstentions. The ACTA is designed to curb intellectual property t ...
  • UK high court hears case of Pakistan detainee
    [JURIST] The Supreme Court of the UK [official website] on Monday began its two-day hearing in the case of a 29-year-old individual detained by US officials at an Afghan prison. Yunus Rahmatullah, a citizen of Pakistan, was arrested by British forces in 2004 and subsequently transferred to US of ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Arafat’s Death by Polonium, More on Israeli Pi ...
    I’ve published two new pieces today, one at Antiwar.com on Yasser Arafat’s likely murder by polonium in 2004; and the second a follow up to my article against pinkwashing at Tikkun Magazine.  Regarding the first, Clayton Swisher’s Al Jazeera report that Arafat’s personal ...
  • Join IDF’s Virtual Hasbara Army
    Every once in a while (all too often I’m afraid) articles come along like this one from today’s Jerusalem Post.  While reading them you stare at the page in a cross between utter disbelief and hilarity that someone in a position of authority in the IDF actually believes that the idio ...
  • Israeli Gag Order Lifted on Reporting Arrest o ...
    Yesterday, the Shin Bet lifted the gag order prohibiting reporting on the case of the 38 year-old Druze doctor, Eyad Jamil al-Jawhari.  He’d been arrested on June 28th as he attempted to enter the occupied Golan heights at the Kuneitra border crossing.  His entire family had been waiting f ...
  • Brutalism, Style and Russian Oligarchs
    I don’t usually write about fashion (and this post is only peripherally about that subject) but I do find photographs often to be compelling political and visual statements.  So, today’s post.  In order to understand the context of this image, I should quote some of  this NY Times ar ...
  • Occupation’s Chickens Coming Home to Roost: Is ...
    Yesterday’s social justice protests in Tel Aviv witnessed a new low for the Big Brother-national security state.  Tel Aviv police employed an IDF battlefield command vehicle called suitably, Stalker (or Raccoon) and manufactured by Rafael, the Israeli weapons manufacturer.  It is similar t ...

If Americans Knew

  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
  • International law is clear: Israeli settlement ...
    Eric Rozenman's Dec. 11 Op-Ed article, "Israeli settlements are more than legitimate," is legal nonsense that disregards history. He is correct in his observation that Article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine permitted "close settlement by Jews on the land, including state lands and waste lands no ...
  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...
  • Ethan Bronner's Conflict With Impartiality
    Ethan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Israel-Palestine. It is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesn't; what goes in a story and what gets cut.
  • Beware of the BBC
    Stuart Littlewood highlights the BBC's chronic pro-Israel bias, from allowing untruths about Israel's onslaught on Gaza in 2008-09 to go unchallenged, to its failure to provide accurate context about the Israeli township of Sderot, to its routine willingness to give disproportionate airtime to I ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

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

High Country News

  • High Noon for solar
    Why does solar power development lag in the United States when it has taken off all over Europe?
  • A different voice on the phone
    The author's weary 21-year-old son, who has always wanted to be a firefighter, shares his frustrations from the fire lines.
  • Why I never hike alone
    After a fallen boulder pins her leg to the ground, a hiker learns the hard way how important it is to hike with friends, or at least to leave notes about where you are going.
  • Notes from a wildfire refugee
    When wildfire forces locals to flee their beloved Colorado homes, people begin to talk more openly than they used to about climate change.
  • Sometimes environmentalists miss the boat
    Colorado environmentalists goofed when they opposed a bill that would have harnessed the methane produced by coal mines as a form of renewable energy.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • 40 Years After Munich Massacre:The IOC Fails t ...
    Almost 40 years ago, Yassir Arafat sent five Palestinian Terrorists into an Olympic Village dedicated to peace and international cooperation. Their successful mission was to shock the world by kidnapping and killing the Israeli Olympic team. This was the first terrorist tragedy played out ...
  • If They Exhume Arafat-Will They Also Test For ...
    On November 11, 2004 the world became a better place, that's when Yassir Arafat the man responsible for so many Jewish and Palestinian deaths died after a long illness. Since the death of this despotic killer, his Arab compatriots have been claiming that he died at the hands of Israel throug ...
  • Obama Screws Israel at UN (And Nobody Cares)
    Here's another example of how this Administration presents its anti-Israel bias. Earlier this week the UN Security Council had its first discussion about Syria since April 21st. The Security Council wanted to hear from the "High Commissioner of Human Rights" regarding the horrors goi ...
  • IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776--Freedom Endowed By God
    IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers ...
  • Kimberlin Crony Falsely Accuses Brandon Darby ...
    The inmates are out of the asylum again, and now they have a new target.  Brandon Darby who should be considered an American hero for the work he has done with the FBI. Darby was a liberal activist most of his life. After turning in a Palestinian radical to the FBI for plotting to ...

The Real Agenda

  • Wi Fi Radiation as Dangerous as Microwave Weap ...
     By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JULY 5, 2012 Barrie Trower, a British physicist and expert on microwave weapons warned this week about the dangers of WiFi radiation, which he says, is as dangerous as the radiation emitted by microwave weapons. Mr. Trower is not just a scientist wh ...
  • Fear Narrative Heightened Weeks Before Olympics
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JULY 5, 2012 The prospect of a terror attack before or during the London 2012 Olympic games have been raised today as British police stopped and held a bus that traveled from Birmingham to London due to a report that suspicious behavior had been obse ...
  • DARPA Utilizará Sensores Implantables para Mon ...
    La tecnología In Vivo también tendría aplicaciones comerciales para el control fisiológico de los pacientes. POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 4 JULIO 2012 ¿Cuán beneficioso sería para la guerra si los soldados no se enfermaran en el campo de batalla, o si aquellos que se ...
  • ACTA Rejected in European Union Vote
    BBC | JULY 4, 2012 The European Parliament has voted to reject the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta). The proposed agreement sought to curb piracy, but internet campaigners said it posed a threat to online freedoms. The rejection vote followed a failed attempt to postpone the decis ...
  • In the U.S., Liberty Lovers are Labeled Terrorists
    A report from the American Department of Homeland Security says that people who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority and reverent of individual liberty” are potential terrorists. By PAUL J. WATSON | INFOWARS.com | JULY 4, 2012 A new study funded by the Department of H ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind farm breaches its resource consent
    The Te Rere Hau Wind Farm near Palmerston North is breaching its resource consent, the Environment Court has found. Following repeated noise complaints from residents near the windfarm Palmerston North City Council asked the Environment Court to rule whether Te Rere Hau was operating in accordan ...
  • German wind farms kill bats from near and far
    Wind turbines may have large-scale negative effects on distant ecosystems. Results of research by the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) demonstrate that bats killed at German wind turbines originate mostly from northeastern Europe. The study investigated the provenance of tho ...
  • Banks issue ultimatum to wind turbine giant
    The world’s biggest maker of wind turbines is considering putting itself up for sale as concerns mount over its giant debt pile. Vestas is studying the drastic move after entering debt restructuring talks with its lenders. The banks have demanded that the Danish company prepares a comprehensive ...
  • Monks selling retreat at Ae forest
    Buddhist monks are selling their spiritual retreat in the forest of Ae because they can’t live near a windfarm. Scottish Power, which has lodged plans to extend the Harestanes development with a further 19, 125-foot turbines, said it was close to finalising a buy-out deal with the Tharpaland mon ...
  • Planning group in Northeast Kingdom votes for ...
    The regional planning board in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom has voted overwhelmingly for a three-year moratorium on wind energy development in the three-county area. The vote was 36-3 at a meeting of the Northeastern Vermont Development Association, the regional planning commission for Essex, Cal ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Romney Switches on Mandate Penalty/Tax Controversy
    “Mitt Romney on Wednesday said requiring all Americans to buy health insurance amounts to a tax, contradicting a senior campaign adviser who days ago said the Republican presidential candidate viewed President Obama’s mandate as anything but a tax.” (USA Today) The court philos ...
  • Slower Military Spending Said to Drag Down Growth
    “Tighter defense budgets are starting to pinch the nation’s economy, slowing a sluggish recovery even before sharper spending cuts could kick in next year. . . . The Bureau of Economic Analysis . . . said last week that weaker defense spending shaved half a percentage point off first ...
  • Fractional Reserves, Legal Tender, and Central ...
    There’s nothing wrong with fractional reserve banking that getting rid of central banking wouldn’t cure.
  • Declaration of Independence
    When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another. . . .
  • Energy Policy Battleground Heats Up
    “Big oil and natural gas companies may vastly outspend and outman the renewable fuels industry on Capitol Hill but the general gridlock in Washington gives advocates of wind, ethanol and other new-age sources the upper hand in the growing battle to overhaul the country’s energy polic ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
  • Somalia: No Sovereignty without Security
    Until the Somali National Security apparatus is able to stand strong on its own, Somalia will not be able to achieve full sovereignty.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The best news this year is the Court of Justic ...
    Software, once sold, can be resold.  The person selling it cannot keep using it, but the original publisher has no right to stop the sale. This is a big deal.  A really big deal, and really good news.  It allows brokers, it allows you to sell your software once done.  It allows you to treat [...]
  • I wonder how much Ashley Fantz of CNN gets pai ...
    Beautiful: Assange claimed that various institutions and corporations had hit the site with a financial blockage. Claimed?  It’s not a claim, it’s a fact.  How much it cost Wikileaks might be a claim, but that’s not what Ms. Fantz wrote. This is one reason why we can’t ha ...
  • To point out the obvious on today’s Supreme Co ...
    Roberts voted how he did because health insurance companies are absolutely desperate for the money they will get from the mandate.  All of the legitimacy arguments are bullshit, about 70% of Americans want Obamacare repealed.  This is more similar to TARP than anything else: it is a massive corp ...
  • Greek election consequences and the shape of t ...
    will be more years of austerity, people winding up on the street, suicides and outright starvation.  In this fertile ground, the neo-nazi right will rise.  The left will most likely not compete, because they will refuse to create an enforcer class to protect their own people.  The police in Gree ...
  • Stop bailing out banks
    The correct thing to do is to force them to take their losses, making the shareholders and bondholders eat it.  Kick out the management, cut the banks up into smaller entities then refloat.  It is cheaper, avoids moral hazard and leaves you with banks which are actually solvent and can lend. The ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Coney Island's Invisible Towers
    When crowds throng Coney Island for the annual Nathan's hot dog eating contest on July 4th, they'll find a boardwalk amusement strip that is, for the umpteenth year in a row, undergoing a summer of change and transition. There is the new: go-carts and a new roller coaster for the "Sc ...
  • Misreferencing Misoverestimated Population
    I know the media confusion story of the past week is all about the momentary misreporting that got the story of the Supreme Court ruling backwards. Yet there was some real misoverestimating across the nation over the latest census numbers that were released recently on municipal population estim ...
  • Localism As An Anti-Depressant
    Are we heading into a new era of local solutions? Western economists and governments usually measure the health of the job market by unemployment percentages, with unemployment defined as less-than-full-time employment. But the reality for many Americans today is more akin to the rest of the w ...
  • Pakistan: Where the Population Bomb is Exploding
    In much the developed, as well as developing world, population growth is slowing. Not so in Pakistan according to reported preliminary results of the 2011 Pakistan census. Here population is growing much faster than had been projected. Pakistan's population stood at 197.4 million in 2011, an ...
  • Religion and the City
    Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf; for in its welfare you will have welfare. – Jeremiah 29:7 Religion is another one of those topics seldom discussed in urbanist circles. Though Christianity was originally an urban religion, mode ...

GM Watch

  • Bt cotton kills pests or farmers?
    1.Bt cotton kills pests or farmers? 2.Fields of exploitation --- --- 1.Bt cotton kills pests or farmers? Neha Saigal  Tehelka, 5 July 2012 http://www.tehelka.com/story_main53.asp?filename=Fw050712Cotton.asp *Neha Saigal says the lives of farmers are more important than the profits of MNCs  IN ...
  • GM and the less than partial BBC
    1.GM and the less than impartial BBC 2.Responses to GM and the less than impartial BBC 3.More on the problems with some BBC coverage --- --- 1.GM and the less than impartial BBC Colin Tudge Campaign for Real Farming, May 3 2012 http://www.campaignforrealfarming.org/2012/05/gm-and-the-less-than-i ...
  • New campaign takes on Monsanto's spin machine
    RESOURCES: Monsanto Fails at Improving Agriculture UCS'S New Ad Campaign http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/science_and_impacts/impacts_genetic_engineering/monsanto-fails-at-improving.html Set the Record Straight on Monsanto We don't have Monsanto's advertising budget - that's where you ...
  • New campaign takes on Monsanto's spin machine
    RESOURCES: Monsanto Fails at Improving Agriculture UCS'S New Ad Campaign http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/science_and_impacts/impacts_genetic_engineering/monsanto-fails-at-improving.html Set the Record Straight on Monsanto We don't have Monsanto's advertising budget - that's where you ...
  • Non-GM cotton to the rescue
    1.Desi cotton to the rescue 2.Government takes 7 years to admit Bt cotton has failed --- --- 1.Desi cotton to the rescue Latha Jishnu Down To Earth, July 15 2012 http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/desi-cotton-rescue *CICR banks on traditional solutions to Vidarbha's cotton crisis BHIMRAO Ka ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Biggest Financial Scandal In History?
    We always knew that the financial markets were rigged, but this is getting ridiculous.  It is now being alleged that 20 major banks have been systematically fixing global interest rates for years.  Barclays has already been fined hundreds of millions of dollars for manipulating L ...
  • Is Wal-Mart Destroying America? 20 Facts About ...
    America absolutely loves Wal-Mart.  100 million customers visit Wal-Mart every single week in this country.  But is Wal-Mart good for America?  That is a question that most people never stop and ask.  Most of us love shopping in big, clean stores that are packed with super cheap ...
  • Are You A Slave Of The System?
    If you went out and took a poll of the American people on July 4th (Independence Day) and asked them if they are free, what would the results look like?  Of course the results would be overwhelmingly lopsided.  Most Americans believe that they live in "the land of the free" and t ...
  • If One Storm Can Turn D.C. Dark For Several Da ...
    Sometimes we all get a little reminder of just how completely and totally dependent we are on the power grid.  Massive thunderstorms that ripped through Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Washington D.C. and Virginia left millions without power over the weekend.  At this point it is ...
  • Kicking The Can Down The Road
    Has Europe finally been saved this time?  Has this latest "breakthrough" solved the European debt crisis?  Of course not, and you should know better by now.  European leaders have held 18 summits since the beginning of the debt crisis.  After most of the preceding summits, global ...

Desertification

  • Land acquisitions : significant threats to loc ...
    Read at : 17123IIED Agricultural land acquisitions: a lens on Southeast Asia by Emily Polack (April 2012) Recent years have seen ‘land grabbing’ emerge as a big issue in media houses across the world, with reporters quick to write about … Continue reading →
  • Six tried and tested ways that can empower cit ...
    Read at : IIED Briefing paper: 17125IIED Putting citizens at the heart of food system governance Michel Pimbert Establishing inclusive governance of food systems — where farmers and other citizens play an active role in designing and implementing food and … Continue reading →
  • UNCCD : Two regional media workshops on land d ...
    Read at : http://www.unccd.int/en/programmes/RioConventions/RioPlus20/Pages/UNCCD-Media-Workshops-.aspx UNCCD Asian Media Workshop In the run-up to Rio+20, UNCCD organized two regional media workshops on land degradation, desertification and drought. The Asian media workshop took place on 23-25 ...
  • Rio+20 Outcome on Land-Degradation Neutrality ...
    Read at : http://www.unccd.int/en/programmes/RioConventions/RioPlus20/Pages/Land-Degradation-Neutrality.aspx UNCCD Stakeholders Share Their Opinions About Rio+20 Outcome on Land-Degradation Neutrality At Rio+20, the world leaders recognized the economic and social significance of sustainable lan ...
  • The growing problem of desertification in Leba ...
    Read at : http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2012/Jul-04/179291-desertification-a-threat-to-the-bekaa.ashx#axzz1zf7vwNTj Desertification a threat to the Bekaa (Lebanon) By Rakan al-Fakih The Daily Star HERMEL, Lebanon: To witness firsthand the growing problem of desertification in Leban ...

The Paper Trail

  • Report: Countrywide won influence with discounts
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The former Countrywide Financial Corp., whose subprime loans helped start the nation's foreclosure crisis, made hundreds of discount loans to buy influence with members of Congress, congressional staff, top government officials and executives of troubled mortgage giant Fannie M ...
  • Company earned millions in defense contracts w ...
    The Canadian arm of the aircraft engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney closed a six-year U.S. government probe last week by admitting that the lure of up to $2 billion in helicopter sales to China had caused it to export computer software illegally that helped China create its first modern att ...
  • ALEC faces new challenge to tax-exempt status
    A prominent tax attorney has accused an organization of state lawmakers and corporations officials with improperly claiming nonprofit status, alleging the group’s role is to benefit businesses, the Republican Party, and legislators and not the public.The American Legislative Exchange Council (AL ...
  • Facts American adults can learn from undocumen ...
    Now that young illegal immigrants are an election-year football, Americans have an opportunity to learn a few things from the kids.A lot of adults profess some degree of sympathy for these young people, who were born in undocumented parents’ native countries, brought here as very young children, ...
  • Evidence of overtreatment at dental clinics se ...
    Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, says that his investigators have found evidence of abuses by corporate dental chains treating children on Medicaid.For months now, Grassley’s staff has been asking questions of three dental chains serving poor children on Medicaid. Each is owned by a private-equity ...

backofthebook.ca

  • A Modest Opinion – We Did It! We Beat th ...
    By Nathaniel Moher Guys, we did it. We beat them! We beat the Conservatives! (USA! USA! er  . . .  I mean . . . CANADA! CANADA!) A little over a year after they were democratically elected (even if none of us voted for them), we’ve finally beat the Conservatives! It’s been a hard year [...]
  • Harper’s patronage list: 1111 Conservati ...
    By David@Sixthestate.net A new round of additions has been made to the Sixth Estate Patronage List, reflecting appointment orders made in June 2012. The Patronage List tracks Crown appointments given to apparent Conservative Party insiders, former politicians, and donors. So far this year, 42% o ...
  • Terry Fallis gets it all wrong, brilliantly
    By Mark Leiren-Young Somebody has to tell Terry Fallis how publishing works. When he couldn’t find a publisher for his debut novel – the story of a reluctant campaign manager managing an even more reluctant candidate for the Parliament of Canada — Fallis released his story a chapter at a t ...
  • Body of missing Nunavut mayor found
    A BoB short: The body of Jamesie Kootoo, the mayor of Kimmirut, Nunavut, has been found 50 kms outside his community. Kootoo, 67, had been missing since Nov. 26th after he left on a caribou hunt and never returned. The town launched an intensive air and ground search shortly after the mayor’s di ...
  • Edmonton prof schools Omar Khadr
    A BoB short Former child soldier Omar Khadr has been receiving more than a lesson in international politics while jailed at Guantanamo Prison, awaiting his return to Canada. He has also been studying a curriculum devised by 15 Edmonton academics, led by King’s University College English pr ...

libcom

  • Week of Action Against Workfare
    SLSF Press release on week of action against workfare FIGHTING AGAINST WORKFARE South London Solidarity Federation will be joining a week of action against Holland and Barrett's involvement in workfare from 7th to 14th July. The ...
  • Health care reform: the insurance lobby's triumph
    hospital-sign.jpg A single payer system, in which all citizens of the United States are covered by a Medicare like system, has been fairly popular for some time. Likewise, a public option has remained ...
  • Wildcat London bus action, complete with blockades
    A short piece in the Evening Standard yesterday mentioned a wildcat bus action in North London yesterday. This is the only place I could find any mention of it on the internet. Anyone know any thing else? Bus staff start protesting ...
  • Will the Department of Justice Get Their Way i ...
    cop1.jpg Seattle City attorneys officially threw down the gauntlet with the Department of Justice last week, filing court documents which challenged the “reliability and trustworthiness” of a recent D ...
  • Return to work at Ashulia
    ashulia-return-Jun2012-2.jpg Garment workers resume work with issues unresolved... Thursday 21st June 2012, Ashulia, Dhaka; after a week of intense struggles for higher wages, f ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Ken Dryden, NHL Hall of Famer (Jan 7, 2012)
    Hockey and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the present, takes on tho ...
  • NAGUIB SAWIRIS
    Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
  • Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...
    In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.
  • Alison Redford, Premier of Alberta (Nov. 19)
    Premier of Alberta, Alison Redford discusses her hopes for the province's future and the challenges she faces in the Keystone pipeline project.
  • Robbie Robertson, Musician and former member o ...
    Rock icon Robbie Robertson talks with Peter about life in the industry, his decision to stop touring 25 years ago and how his Jewish and Aboriginal roots drove his music career.

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Local Dollars, Local Sense – Part I
    Local Dollars, Local Sense by Michael Hudson (Post Carbon Institute, 2012) Book Review – Part I There is growing consensus among economists and anti-corporate and sustainability activists about the importance of relocalization as the centerpiece part of genuine economic and political ref ...
  • I Think I Hear the Fat Lady Singing
    Dr Guy McPherson “The opera ain’t over till the fat lady sings” – Dan Cook, sports writer and broadcaster 1978 I have spent this past weekend at a lecture and workshop by Arizonan Guy McPherson, who is currently touring New Zealand. McPherson blogs at Nature Bats ...
  • Coming Soon to a Country Near You
    There was a great story in last week’s Daily Mail about Athens residents queuing around the block for food parcels – one that should ring warning bells for the rest of the industrialized world. Economic analysts who chart the link between oil production, price and economic crises (in ...
  • Support Postal Workers’ Hunger Strike
    Postal Workers Start Third Day of Hunger Strike to Save USPS by Tula Connell at AFL-CIO Now On the second day of a four day hunger strike by postal workers and their allies in Washington, D.C., dozens marched from L'Enfant Plaza to the U.S. Treasury yesterday wearing band ...
  • Britain’s Famous Anarchist Superhero
    I have spent the last few days enjoying the ten issue graphic novel whose superhero “V” wore a Guy Fawkes mask that Anonymous subsequently adopted for their hactivist campaign against investment banks; defense contractors; the Pentagon, CIA and other US government sites; as well as P ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Electrical Reliability Demand Can Drive Storag ...
    Millions of consumers have been fuming and sweating without power for the past week. Now is the time to talk about making the push to develop market-ready distributed power storage solutions..
  • Extreme hot weather in the USA and climate change
    The current spate of very hot weather across much of the USA (and not forgetting the balmy “winter” days in many states back in the early part of the year) raises the question of the role of climate change in relation to such extremes.
  • EPA Cellulosic Biofuel Technology Forcing Regu ...
    The EPA’s decision to penalize the U.S. Refining Industry for not blending advanced biofuels that are unavailable is illogical. It’s time to end the RFS2 dysfunctional administration and refocus on the original intent of the EPAct/EISA regulations: developing clean and economically feasible alt ...
  • China Ups Solar PV Targets
    China intends to lift its 2015 targets for Solar PV by 5 times. That means in just 3 years time China will install roughly the same amount of PV in one year, as the entire world did in 2011.
  • Fourth of July Fireworks: Military Fights for ...
    As we prepare to celebrate Independence Day, some members of Congress are intent on prolonging our dependence--on fossil fuels, at a time when we should be promoting American progress and a move toward cleaner forms of energy.

EU Times

  • Now foreign police forces can snoop on your em ...
    Foreign police forces will be able to obtain details of the British public’s internet use, emails and text messages, it emerged last night. In a controversial move, MPs were told that officials in Europe and the US will be able to take advantage of the Home Office’s proposed ‘snoopers’ charter’. ...
  • American Rebel Forces Attack Gas Pipelines, Ex ...
    A disturbing new report prepared by the Federal Security Service (FSB) states that in the past 3 weeks American rebel forces battling against the US government have “retaliated in force” after the massacre of at least 380 men, women and children attending a clandestine Michigan meeting held earl ...
  • Scientists discover why Supermarket Tomatoes h ...
    Study in the United States showed that fruit that ripens uniformly is preferred by producers, but lose their flavor. The difference in taste of supermarket tomatoes compared to those from the garden has genetics as an explanation. An international team of researchers identified the genetic mutat ...
  • Europe’s highest court legalizes resale of use ...
    Used software licenses may be resold by both individuals and companies, the European Court of Justice has ruled. A major victory against copyright holders comes as the European Parliament prepares for a vote on the controversial ACTA treaty. ­A major blow has been dealt to any company trying to ...
  • Why has China built a ghost town in Angola?
    It was supposed to be a state-of-the-art city for 500,000 – but eery footage shows how a Chinese-built urbanisation is at risk of becoming Africa’s first ‘ghost town’. Constructed on the outskirts of Angola’s capital city Luanda, Nova Cidade de Kilamba has 750 eight ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Google TV Webpage Updated â Site Redesign, App ...
    Google TV is about to blow up this year (or at least get an extra big boost from Google) and while we wait around to see what Google has planned for the TV OS at Google I/O this week, there’s been a silent update of sorts to their webpage, adding new content and a fresh new design. Google is gi ...
  • Stephen Strasburg Beans Marco Scutaro, Win Str ...
    On Monday, the Washington Nationals opened a four-game set against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. The Nats had ace Stephen Strasburg on the hill gunning for his 10th win of the season and his seventh straight start ending with a "W" next to his name. Unfortunately, Washington was unable t ...
  • Netanyahu says Russia and Israel on same page ...
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said he and visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin see eye to eye on the dangers of Iranâs nuclear weapons program. The two leaders met for over an hour in Jerusalem and discussed Iran, Syria, Egypt and bilateral ties. âWe agree that nuclear weapon ...
  • Apple, Microsoft, now Google: I/O 2012 closes ...
    First Apple , then Microsoft , and now it’s Google ‘s turn: three weeks of back-to-back mobile strategy with each of the big three companies laying out their stalls for smartphones and tablets. It’s arguably never been such an interesting time in mobility, but nor has there ever been so much at ...
  • Google appears to aim low with new 7-inch Andr ...
    If the rumors are true, Google's Nexus 7 tablet will compete with the low-end Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire, not Apple's iPad. If the stories from Gizmodo Australia are true, Google and Asus will be releasing a new 7-inch Android-powered tablet, Nexus 7 , at this week’s Google I/O Conference. We ...

Groklaw

  • Interview: Judge who shelved Apple trial says ...
    The U.S. judge who tossed out one of the biggest court cases in Apple Inc's smartphone technology battle is questioning whether patents should cover software or most other industries at all.... Advances in software and other industries cost much less, he said, and the companies benefit tremendou ...
  • Fukushima Disaster Was Man-Made, Investigation ...
    The breakdowns involved regulators working with the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. to avoid implementing safety measures as well as a government lacking commitment to protect the public, the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission said in the report. The March 1 ...
  • The Gates Foundation's Leveraged Philanthropy: ...
    Gates' leveraged philanthropy model is a public-private partnership to improve the world, partly through targeted research support but principally through public advocacy and tax-free lobbying to influence government policy. The goal of these policies is often to explicitly support profitability ...
  • Five years after the iPhone, carriers are the ...
    Increased carrier control over customers and devices has stunted competition and stalled innovation - sometimes fatally so.Just look at the tragic story of Palm, which went from darling of CES 2009 to legendary failure in just 31 short months. The company initially wanted to ship its Pre smartph ...
  • Galaxy Nexus no longer available to purchase f ...
    In April, Google started selling unlocked Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphones from its own store, for $399 a pop. Six days ago, the price dropped to $349. Now, however, the phone is listed as "coming soon" on Google's website. We're not sure whether Google is simply updating the boxed hands ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • DNS Changer. Check your computer now, says FBI
    DNS changer can jack your computer. Check your computer now to determine if it is infected. No software is downloaded, no changes are made.You need to do do this before July 9.The botnet operated by Rove Digital altered user DNS settings, pointing victims to malicious DNS in data centers in Esto ...
  • Libor scandal grows, implicates other banks, B ...
    The Libor scandal is huge, much larger than previous scandals, as it  is at the central of the financial system, involves multiple big banks and apparently at least one government too.Local governments got screwed due to Libor manipulationGreg Smith wrote that at Goldman Sachs, the gullible bure ...
  • So a Higgs Boson walks into a church…
    The post So a Higgs Boson walks into a church… appeared first on Politics in the Zeros.
  • Higgs Boson
    The Higgs Boson Explained from PHD Comics on Vimeo.Peter Higgs proposed the existence of Higgs Boson 48 years ago and was ridiculed. Today he was at the announcement in CERN that the Higgs Boson almost certainly does exist.Prof Higgs, 83, who travelled to Switerland to witness the landmark annou ...
  • We have been this way before
    People’s party candidates for president and vice president 1892. Goes Lith. Co. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.)Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Gun$ and Money continues his excellent series on Labor History today with a look at the first convention of the Peop ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • For farming to be in the black we need to go green
    With only the most backward openly saying that we can keep trashing the planet to grow the economy it can be harder to distinguish between the rhetoric of genuine environmental commitment and greenwash. The language of “balance” has reappeared.   In a speech to Federated Farmers’ conferenc ...
  • Taking the “local” out of “local government”
    Local government has a vital role in providing the services that can strengthen communities and make places that people want to live in. National’s Local Government Act Amendment Bill (the bill) will potentially cause the most significant changes to local government since the amalgamations and r ...
  • Government lags behind business
    A decade or two ago there was no debate in the business community over the economic strategy for New Zealand.  The prevailing assumption was we must grow GDP and that any associated environmental damage was an unfortunate but sometimes necessary consequence. The ethos of “balance” which was part ...
  • Greens call for inquiry into inquiries
    The Greens have been criticised by Prime Minister John Key, who said, ‘The Greens call for an inquiry on virtually anything.’ The remark prompted immediate calls from the Green Party for an inquiry, which would focus on why the Greens call for so many inquiries. According to a spokesperson for t ...
  • Let’s get some interaction on crime plan
    The Government has an Action Plan to reduce crime and reoffending, and it’s great they are going to have a go. Instead of just promising to lock more people up for longer, or forever, they say they will work differently, including more closely with communities and iwi. They have targets that may ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • What's Behind Illinois Stealing Local Hero's B ...
    By Dr. Mercola An Illinois beekeeper whose bee hives were stolen and allegedly destroyed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture has stirred up a hornet's nest with his questions on why the state did this, and most importantly, what they did with his bees. The state claims the bees were de ...
  • Dirtying Up Our Diets
    By Dr. Mercola Asthma, hay fever, eczema, food allergies, lupus, multiple sclerosis and other immune- mediated afflictions are all on the rise. According to some estimates, allergies and diseases of the immune system have doubled, tripled or even quadrupled in the last few decades, with ...
  • Major Drug Company to Pay at Least $1.5 Billio ...
    By Dr. Mercola Earlier this year, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) agreed to pay more than $1 billion in a civil settlement involving fraudulent marketing of their antipsychotic drug Risperdal – but federal prosecutors decided to hold out for more. Now their illegal marketing of Risperdal ...
  • Warning: Cell Phones May Trigger ADHD and Othe ...
    By Dr. Mercola If you're pregnant, there is compelling evidence that you should use extreme caution when using a cell phone, and at least take care to keep it as far away from your developing baby as possible. The latest animal study suggests that the increasingly prevalent neurobehavioral d ...
  • Negative Impacts of Dental Mercury Surpass Tho ...
    By Dr. Mercola Far from being an essential dental product with no viable alternatives, amalgam (mercury) fillings are substitutable with other filling materials. Yet this toxic material is still being widely used by dentists in the United States by about half the dentists, the other ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Amazon Indians demand Italian priest’s expulsi ...
    Italian Priest Miguel Piovesan who backs the road, with Peru’s President Ollanta Humala. © Anon Amazon Indians in Peru have demanded the expulsion of a controversial Italian priest, accusing him of ‘racism and aggression’ over his role in promoting the construction of a new road, which the ...
  • Alarmed UK MPs urge Brazil to save Earth’s mos ...
    Brazil’s Awá tribe are the Earth's most threatened tribe. © Survival Dozens of British politicians are calling on Brazil to save Earth’s most threatened tribe by halting illegal logging and land invasions in their territory. Expressing their ‘concern’ and ‘alarm’ to the UK Parliament ...
  • Ranchers burn bridges in anti-Indian protest
    Xavante Indians protest for land rights at Rio+20 © G1 Ranchers are blocking roads, burning bridges, and threatening Brazilian Indians in protest against their impending eviction from tribal land. The violence began after the Brazilian courts ruled that the ranchers must be removed imminen ...
  • India bans controversial tourist resort but fa ...
    Tourists who use the Andaman Trunk Road for ‘human safaris’ are exploiting India’s Jarawa tribe. © Survival The controversial tourist resort run by Barefoot India in the Andaman Islands has been dealt a fatal blow, after India’s government banned tourism businesses from operating in a buffe ...
  • ‘We understand sustainability better than anyo ...
    Brazilian Indians unite at the Rio+20 summit © Marcello Casal Jr/ABr Thousands of Brazilian Indians united in Rio this week, to make their voices heard at the Rio+20 UN Summit on sustainability and the environment. Sonia Guajajara, of the Guajajara tribe, said, ‘We have come here to raise ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • #BingeAndPurge: Celebrity, Security, Scandal a ...
    Video: Actor Rob Schneider on Vaccines, Corporate Greed* Food industry reacts to Supreme Court decision* Video: #Obamacare - The 'Cut, Burn, and Drug' School of Medicine* GMO food labels are costly and unnecessary* 'Unauthorized' Stroll Past 'Lax' Security at CDC Bioterror Lab* ...
  • U.S. researchers create 30 genetically modifie ...
    from naturalnews.com: US fertility researchers from the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of Saint Barnabas in New Jersey have created 30 healthy babies who have been genetically altered. It has been confirmed that two of these children have the DNA of three parents. The babies ...
  • GlaxoSmithKline: Largest Case of Healthcare Fr ...
    from cryptogon.com: GlaxoSmithKline Plc has agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor criminal charges and pay $3 billion to settle what government officials said on Monday is the largest case of healthcare fraud in U.S. history. The agreement, which still needs court approval, would resolve alle ...
  • First-Ever Fracking Wastewater Test in Ohio Re ...
    from ecowatch.org: Results from a sample of brine from hydraulic fracturing operations have revealed numerous hazardous materials, leaving many residents increasingly frustrated at the inaction of Ohio’s Division of Natural Resources (ODNR), the agency responsible for regulation of the state’s ...
  • Japan Finds Large Deposit of Rare Earth Minerals
    from source: Japan has found a large deposit of rare earth minerals in its Pacific seabed, enough to supply its hi-tech industries for more than 200 years, a scientist said Friday. Around 6.8 million tonnes of the valuable minerals, used in electric cars, iPods and lasers, are sitting under t ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Biggest Financial Scandal In History?
    We always knew that the financial markets were rigged, but this is getting ridiculous.  It is now being alleged that 20 major banks have been systematically fixing global interest rates for years.  Barclays has already been fined hundreds of millions of dollars for manipulating L ...
  • Is Wal-Mart Destroying America? 20 Facts About ...
    America absolutely loves Wal-Mart.  100 million customers visit Wal-Mart every single week in this country.  But is Wal-Mart good for America?  That is a question that most people never stop and ask.  Most of us love shopping in big, clean stores that are packed with super cheap ...
  • Are You A Slave Of The System?
    If you went out and took a poll of the American people on July 4th (Independence Day) and asked them if they are free, what would the results look like?  Of course the results would be overwhelmingly lopsided.  Most Americans believe that they live in "the land of the free" and t ...
  • If One Storm Can Turn D.C. Dark For Several Da ...
    Sometimes we all get a little reminder of just how completely and totally dependent we are on the power grid.  Massive thunderstorms that ripped through Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Washington D.C. and Virginia left millions without power over the weekend.  At this point it is ...
  • Kicking The Can Down The Road
    Has Europe finally been saved this time?  Has this latest "breakthrough" solved the European debt crisis?  Of course not, and you should know better by now.  European leaders have held 18 summits since the beginning of the debt crisis.  After most of the preceding summits, global ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • UKIP's Gerard Batten: Roger Hayes imprisonment ...
    We've long, long admired and respected UKIP's Gerard Batten for being the constant voice of our constitution and common law. He's also one of UKIP's most prolific on matters of 'freedom'. So we were THRILLED to see that Gerard Batten has taken the case of Roger Hayes to the international s ...
  • "Nice to see you!," Nigel Farage tells Gollum ...
    No boos in the chamber for Nigel anymore. Only applause. Huge numbers of people from all over Europe (the land mass) telling Nigel that he speaks for them. People from the US saying that they wished they had a politician like him wherever we look. No wonder Gollum von Rumpy-Pumpy has th ...
  • British Constitution Group Chairman "Arrested, ...
    The mainstream media are completely ignoring this, so it's up to those of us in the alternative media to spread the word. The UK Column is claiming that: "At 0930 this morning, in scenes reminiscent of Stasi East Germany, 2 police cars and 4 policemen from Merseyside Police arrested Briti ...
  • Quote of the Day: 2nd July 2012
    "There remains a strong resentment among large parts of the British people that they voted for one thing [Common Market] and were delivered into another [EU Political Union]. Worse, there is a suspicion that those who persuaded them to do so were all too aware of this deception. Not only were ...
  • Farage challenges David Cameron to 'national d ...
    Earlier today, Nigel Farage challenged David Cameron via social media to a debate on all things EU. It is a challenge he repeats in this interview with the BBC. But is David Cameron man enough? And Nigel Farage on the BBC seemingly getting a fair an uninterrupted hearing ...

Facing South

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • It’s the 4th of July!….and?
    by Henry Shivley Today is the 4th of July. Today we celebrate our freedoms and liberties that were won through the great sacrifices made by our founding fathers after declaring independence from the British Empire. We have been celebrating the 4th of July for 236 years and in the beginning we in ...
  • Why is Nobody Freaking Out About the LIBOR Ban ...
    By Matt Taibbi The LIBOR manipulation story has exploded into a major scandal overseas. The CEO of Barclays, Bob Diamond, has resigned in disgrace; his was the first of what will undoubtedly be many major banks to walk the regulatory plank for fixing the interbank exchange rate. The Labor party ...
  • Interview with a Rothschild: 1892
    Chicago Tribune Sept. 15, 1892 “Capital is a country’s fortune. It represents the energy, intelligence, thrift and labor of the people. Capital is labor. Apart from unhappy exceptions which seem to be unavoidable, each shares in the capital according to his intelligence, energy and w ...
  • Melinda Gates Admits: “Stop People’s Lives Fro ...
    Love him or hate him, Stephen Colbert doesn’t waste time getting to the point. In last Thursday’s interview with Melinda Gates on the Colbert Report, he asked Melinda about her newest initiative and cut straight to the chase: the new population control movement exists to save lives by erasing li ...
  • The Declaration of Total Dependence upon The S ...
    By Les Visible When in the proscribed intercourse of entrus behindus in human events, it becomes necessary for any number of people to break the political binds that have shackled them in ignorance with another and to seize the powers of Heaven, the separate but equal station they have never pos ...

Veterans Today

  • Small Business Assault from Obamacare
    Hold on to your socks, the part time hiring of employees will become the new normal. The biggest prohibitive hit against job creation is in full motion. The consequences from Obamacare place a drag on the economy that is undeniable. This mugging of small business will guarantee that the primary ...
  • PRI Regains Mexican Presidency
    Like its northern neighbor, wealth and power dominate Mexican politics. Elections are notoriously tainted. Populist candidates are excluded. The late John Ross said Mexico perfected the art of electoral theft.
  • VA Exceeds Government-Wide Goal for Veteran-Ow ...
    The Department of Veterans Affairs exceeded by more than six times the Small Business Administration (SBA) goal of government procurements to Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB) according to the SBA scorecard released today. That total surpassed the combined procurements fro ...
  • VA’s Detroit Hiring Fair Connects Thousands of ...
    The Department of Veterans Affairs has concluded its National Veteran Small Business Conference, Open House and Hiring Fair in Detroit, where employers offered more than 1,300 jobs to Veterans and conducted more than 5,500 interviews.
  • U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
    Marlex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.*, New Castle, Del., was awarded a fixed-price with economic price adjustment, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum $79,952,403 for various pharmaceuticals.

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Mediterranean: NATO Launches War Games Amid Te ...
    RT July 5, 2012 NATO launches war games in Mediterranean amid tension with Syria NATO’s joint maritime group is flexing its muscle in the eastern Mediterranean Sea by conducting anti-terrorism drills as tensions between NATO member Turkey and its neighbor Syria escalate. The Standing NATO Mariti ...
  • NATO’s Global Open Door Policy
    Stop NATO July 5, 2012 NATO’s Global Open Door Policy Rick Rozoff On July 4 NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen delivered an address entitled “NATO – delivering security in the 21st century” at the Chatham House in London that should lay to rest forever any doubts abou ...
  • Syria, Libya, Iraq, Yugoslavia: Who Decides Na ...
    Daily Star (Lebanon) July 3, 2012 For Russia, Syria is not about Syria By Dmitri Trenin ==== [F]rom a Russian policy perspective, Syria – much like Libya, Iraq or Yugoslavia previously – is primarily about the world order. It is about who decides: Who decides whether to use military force? Who d ...
  • U.S. Marines: New Deployments From Black Sea T ...
    Stop NATO July 4, 2012 U.S. Marines: New Deployments From Black Sea To Africa And Beyond Rick Rozoff Last December U.S. Marine Forces Europe conducted a two-day conference in Stuttgart, Germany (where U.S. Africa Command headquarters is based) to plan this year’s Black Sea Rotational Force ...
  • Donald Rumsfeld Returns to Georgia
    Stop NATO July 3, 2012 Donald Rumsfeld Returns to Georgia Rick Rozoff Only reported in English on the website of the Georgian Ministry of Defense, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld visited Georgia for a week in late June. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, NATO’s Deputy Secretar ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Border Patrol Officers Told to Run and Hide Fr ...
    Intel Hub Note: Under the Obama Administration, the Department of Homeland Security is actively working to make it EXTREMELY difficult if not impossible for any law enforcement agency to arrest or even speak to illegal aliens. This is outright treason and is waking up police officers and border ...
  • GlaxoSmithKline Admits to Criminal Pharma Frau ...
    NaturalNews.com July 5, 2012 British registered company, GlaxoSmithKline, faces $3 billion in penalties after pleading guilty to the biggest health care fraud case in history. GSK admitted that physicians had been bribed to push potentially dangerous drugs in exchange for Madonna tickets, Hawaii ...
  • Homeland Security Report Lists ‘Liberty Lovers ...
    Americans who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority, reverent of individual liberty” deemed domestic threat By Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Wednesday, July 4, 2012 A new study funded by the Department of Homeland Security characterizes Americans who are “suspicious of centralized f ...
  • In David Cameron’s Orwellian Britain They Now ...
    By Richard Cottrell theintelhub.com July 5, 2012 A country crosses the Rubicon to a full blown totalitarian state when its agents decide to read the contents of seaside post cards. In the future anyone sending the traditional vacation greeting ‘wish you were here’ to family and friends through t ...
  • Three Former NSA Employees Expose ‘Mass Illega ...
    By Madison Ruppert theintelhub.com July 5, 2012 The National Security Agency (NSA), which has recently been protected from having to disclose their relationship with the search engine giant and data mining powerhouse Google, is back in court over the case Jewel v. NSA. The case, which was reinst ...

FRS

  • Turkey: Court Sentences Singer to Two Years i ...
    by AHMerdan TURKEY | 27 – 06 – 2012 | A specially authorized court in the eastern province of Malatya sentenced Kurdish-Alevi singer Ferhat Tunç to two years in prison on terrorism related charges due to his invocation of the names of deceased Turkish leftists during a speech on May 1, ...
  • Stop-and-Frisk Goes to Frisco
    By Glen Ford, Tuesday, 07/03/2012 A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The “progressive” Chinese-American mayor of “liberal” San Francisco is considering instituting stop-and-frisk – which no doubt is already informally practiced by his city’s police. Mayor Ed Lee’s intention to endorse ...
  • FBI: Fabricating threats, false prosecutions, ...
    The FBI’s ‘Islamic Terrorism’ Fraud By Sherwood Ross | Aletho News | July 2, 2012 Nearly every major post-9/11 terrorism-related prosecution has involved a sting operation at the center of which is a government informant, The Nation magazine reports. The publication cites the findings ...
  • University of California Police Dept.’s ...
    UC Berkeley to use federal funds to purchase $200,000 ‘armed personnel carrier’ by Josiah Ryan, Campus Forum – June 29, 2012 The University of California – Berkeley Police Department (UCPD) has acquired a $200,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Security to purchase an “A ...
  • Formerly Incarcerated Issue Statement Regardin ...
    Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted People’s Movement June 17th 2012 Silent March against Racial Profiling Letter in Solidarity There comes a time when the American people must recognize that we lead the world in prison cells.  The American people must also recognize that these cells do not fi ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Nieto Brings PRI Back into the Spotlight as Ne ...
    Enrique Pena Nieto of the PRI party has been named Mexico's new president, following the results of the national elections on Sunday.Contributor: Vanessa Evans Published: Jul 02, 2012
  • Iconic Big Ben to Become Elizabeth Tower
    Members of Parliament, along with the Prime Minister, proposed to rename Big Ben or the Clock Tower by honoring Queen Elizabeth’s recent Diamond Jubilee. Its new name would be the Elizabeth Tower. According to a poll many Britons are not in favor.Contributor: Maxine Nelson Published: Jun 27, 2012
  • Supreme Court Defends Constitution on Immigrat ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-3 to uphold the federal government's authority to set immigration policy.Contributor: William Browning Published: Jun 26, 2012
  • The Sandusky Case: From the Eyes of a Juror
    One Juror's View of the Trial that Shook Penn State to It's CoreContributor: Robert Watkins Published: Jun 24, 2012
  • Robots Found Titanic, Will They Find Amelia Ea ...
    In July, a new team will go underwater to search for Amelia Earhart's lost plane. But, this time, it will consist of robots instead of people, the same way that the Titanic wreckage was found.Contributor: Jean Kelly Published: Jun 23, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • A Diamond Quantum Bit Holds Data for Nearly Tw ...
    To build a quantum computer, scientists first have to build a working qubit, or quantum bit, that is both controllable and measurable (something that, for few very quantum reasons, is fairly challenging). But a group of Harvard physicists have overcome some key obstacles to turn the impurities i ...
  • In a Cosmology Breakthrough, Astronomers Measu ...
    Invisible, cold dark matter plays a major role in the evolution of galaxies, according to modern cosmological theory. The most advanced simulations of cosmic evolution show stringy tendrils of mass — dark matter — connecting giant clusters of galaxies via a vast cosmic web. Now for the first tim ...
  • For the First Time, A Snapshot of A Single Ato ...
    There's no way to take a direct picture of something as small and fleeting as a Higgs boson. But physicists can photograph its relatives, directly imaging atomic structures and improving our understanding of atomic physics. Now comes this picture: The first-ever snapshot of a single atom's shado ...
  • FYI: What’s the Hottest the Earth Has Ever Gotten?
    Hot enough to boil oceans and vaporize rock. The highest terrestrial temperatures occurred more than four billion years ago, when a Mars-size proto-planet smashed into the Earth. (The debris from this collision formed our moon.) Within a millennium, the surface air temperature had dropped from a ...
  • Hello, Higgs Boson: LHC's New Particle Looks L ...
    How 'Higgsy' is this particle? More work needs to be done “We have discovered a new particle,” CERN director general Rolf Heuer said Wednesday morning. “A boson. Most probably a Higgs boson.” Even the most anticipated news in science does not come without some caveats. Still, all signs point ...
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