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Thomas Paine

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

Thursday, July 5, 2012

5 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt II


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.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Parts of UK at risk of renewed flooding
    UPDATE at 6.30pm Lastest information from American GFS model shifts emphasis for heavy rain towards the earlier ECMWF solution detailed below, i.e with much of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire at risk of some of the highest rainfall totals. ENDS Amber alerts are in force for parts of the UK tomorro ...
  • Poor summer weather to continue well into July
    UPDATE at 5PM According to the Met Office, averaged across the UK, June 2012 has been the wettest since records began in 1910, the coolest since 1991, and the second dullest since records began (record for lowest sunshine in June is still 1987). ENDS It will come as no surprise that June in Y ...
  • Blame the jet stream for return of heavy rain
    After a short spell of fine and warm weather in the last few days, Atlantic weather fronts are once again expected to spread wind and rain across the country tonight and tomorrow, leading us into a fourth successive weekend washout. According to Philip Eden, writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the ...
  • 'Flaming' June washout set to continue
    The very unsettled weather which has plagued June so far looks set to continue. Rainfall totals at the weekend were again in excess of an inch (25mm) across parts of North Yorkshire; this followed a very wet and cool Jubilee weekend. With another area of low pressure set to spoil things this ...
  • All eyes on June after an 'average' May
    The very warm spell which has dominated our weather in recent days has come to an end, with rain affecting much of northern England today. It's a wet end to a month which has seen a remarkable change from extreme cold to extreme warmth. And it's a good example of how statistics can hide big s ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Success Stories: Philippines, the Next Indonesia?
    In contrast to the America #1 cheerleaders I am duty-bound to debunk day in and day out, I am actually rather guarded about my home nation's economic prospects. This despite it growing at rates that make the United States look lethargic by comparison. Indonesia has somewhat surprisingly become o ...
  • Why China's Communist Party Will Endure, AEI
    There's a much-read contribution by Michael Auslin of the American Enterprise Institute on why "China's Party is About to End" from (surprise!) the WSJ op-ed pages. This coming from the libertarian AEI, you pretty much know how their story goes in following the classic American narrative: Politi ...
  • Obama, Bernanke, Stimulus & American Brattiness
    The New Yorker has an interesting new take on one of my favourite research genres, the search for the behavioural pathologies which account for terminal American decline, be it in health, income, wealth, life satisfaction or what else have you. Why should a clearly regressive society influence s ...
  • No Jobs? Come to Germany, Young PIGS Citizens
    From station to station Back to Dusseldorf City Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie Trans-Europe Express  Whew! We haven't had a video feature in a while, so here's a classic, Kraftwerk's Trans-Europe Express. Economic migration is often driven by differentials in economic opportunities, wh ...
  • Geography Flunkies? Pakistan Wants to Join ASEAN
    Of the few opinions I share with George W. Bush, I have long argued that Turkey should be allowed to join the European Union. You know all of the counter-arguments: Turkey is a security risk because it shares borders with Iraq and Syria. Turkey is a dominantly Islamic country, whereas most Europ ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Anything Less Than A Royal Commission Is Just ...
    For far too long Australians have been happy to turn their backs on the untold suffering of thousands of victims of church-enabled sexual predators. But ignoring the problem simply ensures it continues, and gives rapists the message that they have a right to destroy as many innocent lives as the ...
  • Historic Inquiry to Provide First Taste of Jus ...
    I have just received notification that in a few minutes the first official investigation into the Australian catholic church’s enabling and coverup of widespread child sexual assault will be announced. I congratulate the Victorian state government on being the first government in Australia ...
  • Why does the catholic church continue to abuse ...
    Every now and then I come across a summary of the catholic church’s exploitation and abandonment of children that pulls it all together so accurately, or captures the horror of honest, ordinary people at the atrocities committed by the Church of Child Rape. When I respond to a piece of wri ...
  • Just Like in Hunger Games the Church is killin ...
    The catholic church, when faced with the choice of protecting itself or preventing children from being raped, has consistently chosen to sacrifice the children. Usually without a second thought. This is not a claim without evidence. There is ample proof. In recent years there have been official, ...
  • Rare Opportunity for the Real Truth to be Told
    It was less than edifying this easter when the feeble monarch of the Church of Child Rape pronounced from his viciously defended high moral ground atop St Peter’s Square, tottering under the weight of pathetically opulent gold encrusted vestments and symbols of status, that ‘Life is ...

WL Central

  • 2012-07-03 41 good reasons for Julian to live ...
    The first name of the vice president of Ecuador, inaugurated alongside Rafael Correa in 2007, is 'Lenín'. read more
  • 2012-07-03 #JA41
    Julian Assange celebrates his 41st birthday Tuesday 3 July 2012. The celebration may be at 3 Hans Crescent in Knightsbridge, or in a Swedish remand prison, or in the custody of the United States, or in Ecuador. But we want him to know, wherever he'll be, how much we all appreciate what he's done ...
  • 2012-07-03 Great Aunt Sophie writes to her MP
    Dear WikiLeakers: I'm delighted that people are enjoying the Geek song and Great Aunt Sophie's midsummer spell. My publicist Emma asked Aunt Sophie to share with you the letter she had written to her MP. Sophie was happy to oblige. read more
  • REVEALED! WikiLeaks' SHOCKING Unpublished Reve ...
    WikiLeaks releases have shaken global politics and provoked countless news headlines. Founder Julian Assange has rarely been out of the media spotlight. And yet WikiLeaks' greatest revelations have scarcely been noticed by mainstream media journalists. Here at last, we expose the full story behi ...
  • 2012-07-01 WikiLeaks News Update: WikiLeaks re ...
    WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 575 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 572 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 769 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 655 days. read more

U N News

  • Historic forts on Panama's coastline placed on ...
    Citing environmental factors, lack of maintenance and uncontrollable urban developments, the World Heritage Committee today placed an historic Panamanian property on its list of endangered world heritage.
  • Ban urges peaceful resolution of differences w ...
    Ahead of a regional meeting on Paraguay, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on all concerned to "work in the days ahead to ensure the peaceful resolution of differences" which led to the removal of the South American country's president.
  • Ban pays tribute to late scholar, friend and U ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced sadness at the death of Dr. J. Michael Adams, President of the International Association of University Presidents, paying tribute to the late scholar who was also a friend of the United Nations and its chief.
  • Amid global uncertainty, G20 summit in Mexico ...
    Next week's summit of the Group of 20 (G20) leading economies must achieve meaningful results, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has told world leaders, stressing the need to tackle the global jobs crisis, ensure green growth and promote sustainable development.
  • Colombia must fight impunity for sexual violen ...
    Colombia must increase its efforts to fight impunity for crimes of sexual violence, a United Nations envoy said today, adding that such efforts should be paired with assistance to survivors and victims.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Sea Shepherd News
    Letter and excerpts from latest Sea Shepherd newsletter - Dear Friend of Sea Shepherd, Day 47 as a prisoner in Germany. My detainment has raised a lot of awareness for our cause. Citizens in Germany and all around the world have been very supportive. The only one who does not seem supportive is ...
  • A Radio Interview with Dave Foreman
    Listen to Ken Rose of http://www.pantedmonkey.org/ talk with Dave recently on his radio show What Now. Broadcast on KOWS Radio Occidental every Monday at 11 AM Pacific Time, Ken offers a fascinating collection of interviews with accomplished thinkers, writers, artists, farmers and scientists add ...
  • END THE ATTACK ON U.S. WILDERNESS AND THE 1964 ...
    Dr. Paul F. Torrence of Northern Arizona University created this petition asking the U.S. Senate  to stop H.R. 4089 from any further consideration: http://signon.org/sign/end-the-attack-on-us?source=s.em.cr&r_by=329647&mailing_id=4210 Your help is needed to block a vicious and po ...
  • Repeat: Urgent Action Needed – Sportsmen’s Her ...
    How the Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012 (HR 4089) Would Effectively Repeal the Wilderness Act, America’s Foremost Conservation Law May 2012 An Analysis Prepared by Wilderness Watch   “The purpose of the Wilderness Act is to preserve the wilderness character of the areas to be included in the wi ...
  • Free Paul Watson!
    Captain Watson has been in a German prison since Sunday and is in danger of being extradited to Costa Rica where we fear for his safety from the Shark Fin Mafia and an unfair, politically motivated trial! When we last wrote you, we had only 15 hours to make our case to the German Federal [...]

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Fukushima... 88 Page Government Report
    It is apparent from the Chernobyl accident, radioactive fallout that spread over a broad area remains in mountain and forest areas for many years, and their levels do not naturally diminish for many decades. Wildfires, floods and other causes can spread contamination further. read more
  • Japan Parliament Releases Fukushima Report... ...
    The disaster in the nuclear power station of Fukushima was caused in part by man and not only by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami [...] “It is clear that this incident was caused by man,” states one of the conclusions of the report. read more
  • Mexico... Fraud Allegations... Partial Recount ...
    Mexico's electoral authorities have announced a recount of votes cast at more than half the polling stations in Sunday's presidential election after finding inconsistencies. read more
  • Agenda 21 Exposed... Sustainable Development i ...
    Here is a detailed presentation on what is really in Agenda 21 and the sustainable development movement as defined by the UN.  And how it will ultimately compromise your property rights. ~ Video read more
  • IRS Hit With Audit for Mismanagement and Fraud
    WTHR13 Investigates has learned the tables are turned on a federal agency feared for its ability to audit taxpayers. The IRS is now the focus of a year-long audit, thanks to federal employees who are blowing the whistle. read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • TSA Wants To Test Your Drink — At The Gate
    I saw the headline this morning (DrudgeReport.com), and was again astounded by this latest action taken by the TSA. Even after passengers have checked through security, and purchase a drink inside airport security, their drink will now be subject to ‘test’. Reported by KJCT.com, Gran ...
  • Don’t Even Think About It says US to Iran
    8 Navy minesweepers are in the region. F-22 fighter jets have moved into two separate bases in the Persian Gulf. A converted amphibious transport and docking ship, the Ponce, has been moved into the Persian Gulf to serve as the Pentagon’s first floating staging base for military operations and c ...
  • It’s the 4th of July, But Will Iran Spar ...
    Iran is planning to close the Strait of Hormuz to oil tankers traveling to countries supporting economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic. The EU embargo against Iran went into effect on July 1. While theories are that this will not affect Iran too badly, lawmakers in the Islamic Republic ...
  • 10 Things To Do With Your Money
    Here are a few ideas of what to do with your money, from the standpoint of preparedness, being practical, and frugal. Ground rules: Do not spend into debt. Spend only what you have available to you. 1. Set aside the money that you need for the bills that must be paid. This requires that you [...]
  • Red Alert Issued By Think Tank Predicts World ...
    An independent global think tank, LEAP/E2020, recently reported the opinion that “this second half of 2012 will really mark a major inflection point of the global systemic crisis;” “The shock of the autumn 2008 will seem like a small summer storm compared to what will affect th ...

Fast Company

  • Hire Smart: Dump The Resume Pile, Start Playin ...
    How L'Oreal uses games to find leadership qualities that rarely show up in resumes. Every talent-recruitment executive knows how hard it is to make a good new hire. But L'Oreal, the French cosmetics giant, is making hundreds of successful hires each year from a pool of thousands of highly qualif ...
  • The Content Conundrum: To Create Or Automate?
    When it comes to content creation--even in short bits and blasts on Twitter---the human touch is what will keep marketers relevant and real. A look at J.Crew, Wegmans, NASCAR, and other brands that are getting it right. Last weekend I snagged a lounge chair at our community pool next to a friend ...
  • Google's Nexus 7 Tablet Will Lack Some Content ...
    News updates all day from Fast Company.One of the advantages that Google's Nexus 7 tablet may have over its Amazon rival the Kindle Fire is that Google wants to push it out internationally sooner, whereas Amazon is overly U.S.-centric now. But it's emerged that when the Nexus hits British shores ...
  • How A Sony Marketing Manager Helped Build A Br ...
    Meet Evan Krāchman, a Sony marketing manager who wanted to try his hand at a bit of engineering--and was given the green light from management to do so.Evan Krāchman is the marketing manager for surgical products and new business development for Sony. Despite being far removed from Sony’s engine ...
  • Measuring An Employee's Worth? Consider Influence
    The performance review of the future will include services like Salesforce.com's Chatter and its Influencers feature, which measures how much weight you carry among your peers.Today, your performance review is based on things like sales numbers or number of goals met. Tomorrow, though, it could ...

Jadaliyya

  • القرآن ـ جزء من أوروبا؟
     [نشر المقال في صحيفة فرانكفورتا الجماينة Frankfurter Allgemeine بتاريخ 16 ابريل 2012 وهي من أهم الصحف الألمانية وأكثرها توزيعا وتأثيرا. ترجم المقال كل من حامد فضل الله وعصام حداد.] إنها لمجازفة المطالبة بجعل القرآن الكريم مقبولا وواضحا كجزء من الثقافة الغربية إذ لا يوجد موضوع آخ ...
  • Maghreb Media Roundup (July 5)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@jadali ...
  • The Muslim Brotherhood and the Military: A New ...
    Speculation is rife that the Muslim Brotherhood are again reaching a deal with the ruling military council after weeks of what seemed to be escalating tensions between the two. The long awaited government Morsi is expected to appoint soon may reveal what the two parties will finally agree upon. ...
  • #Algeria50th
    Après 50 ans d’indépendance en Algérie, l’heure est au bilan. Celui-ci se révèle lourd et amer sur plusieurs plans : politiquement, la dictature est à peine dissimulée par une timide ouverture du système, économiquement, l’exploitation tous azimuts des hydrocarbures a empêché le développement ef ...
  • NEWTONs You Might Have Missed
    After taking a brief summer vacation, New Texts Out Now (NEWTON) will return next week. In the meantime, here are a few great posts that you might have missed from the past few months: Lila Abu-Lughod and Anupama Rao, editors, Women’s Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent Bett ...

mediagazer

  • U-T San Diego runs old story on today's front ...
    Julie Moos / Poynter: U-T San Diego runs old story on today's front page  —  When Doug Porter read the distinctive lead in a story on today's front page of the U-T San Diego, it sounded so familiar, he thought it had been plagiarized, he writes.  But no, it was simply recyc ...
  • Unreliable Narrators! TechCrunch Blogger Inse ...
    Adrianne Jeffries / Betabeat: Unreliable Narrators!  TechCrunch Blogger Inserted ‘Random Information (Sometimes Even False)’ Into Posts  —  Mr. Siegler.  (Photo: LinkedIn)  —  The blogosphere is a brave new news world, but it's generally ass ...
  • HBO Not Proceeding With Fox News' Roger Ailes ...
    Nikki Finke / Deadline.com: HBO Not Proceeding With Fox News' Roger Ailes TV Movie Produced By MSNBC Rivals: “CNN Affiliation” Cited As The Reason  —  EXCLUSIVE: I scooped yesterday that HBO had done a secret deal for an Untitled Roger Ailes Project being eecutive pr ...
  • Yahoo CEO Search in Final Stages, With Levinso ...
    Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: Yahoo CEO Search in Final Stages, With Levinsohn and Kilar in Lead  —  According to sources close to the situation, the search for a new CEO for Yahoo is closing in on key candidates.  —  But, said sources, it appears to be coming down ...
  • Columnist to Receive Reprimand for Paris Speec ...
    Richard Prince / The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education: Columnist to Receive Reprimand for Paris Speech  —  Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page, whose status at the Tribune was under review after an unauthorized paid speech event, told Journal-isms Thursday, “ ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • A natural talent for keeping bees Newbury ...
    If bees in any way reflect their keeper, it's no surprise that Orren Fox's hives are buzzing. If bees in any way reflect their keeper, it's no surprise that Orren Fox's hives are buzzing. He keeps four hives at a family friend's yard on the edge of the salt marsh in Newbury, just one of his ...
  • District child labour survey from July 15
    A special campaign to find out the exact statistics of child labour in the district would be launched from July 15 with a detailed survey of all the establishments, including all kinds of industries,...
  • Monsoon weak in past week; revives in key ...
    Tweet NEW DELHI: Monsoon rains were 49 per cent below average in the week to July 4, widening the 18 per cent shortfall in the previous week, data from the weather office showed on Thursday. But the rains revived over cane, oilseeds and cotton areas of India's western region, officials at...
  • Romney: Health care mandate is a tax
    WOLFEBORO, N.H.– Mitt Romney contradicted a top aide to his campaign and aligned himself instead with the Republican establishment in labeling the health care mandate...
  • Novak Djokovic gets Roger Federer in marq ...
    With "Murray Mania" gripping Britain, it's the other men's semifinal at Wimbledon that has many tennis fans waiting impatiently for Friday afternoon. Six-time champion Roger Federer and last year's winner Novak Djokovic will face each other at Wimbledon for the first time — in their 27th hea ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 7/2/12 - Is medical marijuana an effective tre ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - Is medical marijuana an effective treatment for depression, bipolar disorders, anxiety, and similar mood disorders?
  • 6/29/12 - Is a two-state solution (Israel and ...
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - Is a two-state solution (Israel and Palestine) an acceptable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? - Read pro and con arguments from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (pro), US Representative Joe Walsh (con), US President Barack Obama (pro), Z ...
  • 6/28/12 - "Obamacare" in the Supreme Court
    healthcarereform.procon.org - "Obamacare" in the Supreme Court - Updated with a point-by-point outline of the June 28, 2012 US Supreme Court decision finding "Obamacare" to be constitutional. Read a case summary, a timeline of how the case made it to the Supreme Court ...
  • 6/28/12 - Health Care Mandate Upheld by Suprem ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - Health Care Mandate Upheld by Supreme Court's 5-4 Obamacare Decision
  • 6/28/12 - US Supreme Court Rules (5-4) that th ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - US Supreme Court Rules (5-4) that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is constitutional. Read the full opinion as well as the various district and appeals court decisions that led to the Supreme Court ruling.

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Excessive Endurance Training Can Be Deadly
    Micah True, legendary ultra-marathoner, died suddenly while on a routine 12-mile training run March 27, 2012. The mythic Caballo Blanco in the best-selling book, Born to Run, True would run as far as 100 miles in a day. On autopsy his heart was enlarged and scarred; he died of a lethal arrhythmi ...
  • Exercise and the Brain
    The effects of exercise are different on memory as well as on the brain, depending on whether the exerciser is an adolescent or an adult. A gene has been identified which seems to mediate the degree to which exercise has a beneficial effect. This has implications for the potential use of exercis ...
  • TESTOSTERONE ON MY MIND …
    Simon Baron – Cohen This is a hormone that has fascinated me. It’s a small molecule that seems to be doing remarkable things. The variation we see in this hormone comes from a number of different sources. One of those sources is genes; many different genes can influence how much testostero ...
  • Origins of the Arts
    Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the evolution of culture Edward O. Wilson RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about reality external to our bodies, is ...
  • Middle Age
    Evolution has given humans a huge advantage over most other animals David Bainbridge As a 42-year-old man born in England, I can expect to live for about another 38 years. In other words, I can no longer claim to be young. I am, without doubt, middle-aged. To some people that is a depressing rea ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • A timely contribution to a fractious debate
    For a nation that’s only drilled three shale gas wells, and only hydraulically fractured (‘fracked’) one of them, the UK is remarkably engaged in the shale gas debate. The reasons for this are manifold, but two seem particularly salient.  Firstly, the UK’s lone instance of fracking for shale gas ...
  • Science’s Olympic legacy
    Credit: johnthescone Earlier this week I attended a Parliamentary Links Day on the subject of Science and Sport.  As an armchair athlete and a bit of an equipment geek I was looking forward to fuelling my conviction that but for the will and resources I would currently be entering my pre-Olympic ...
  • Making an open enterprise work
    Calls for media, business or government transparency have never been so noisy or so widespread. The mantra “sunlight is the best of disinfectants” (usually attributed to US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis) has been picked up as a cure for bad governance across the piece. But there is an err ...
  • Dual use education in neuroscience
    The Royal Society hosted a Roundtable meeting on dual use education and awareness raising in neuroscience on Friday 16 March. The meeting was intended to follow up on aspects of the recent Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security report, but specifically looked at the recommendation th ...
  • Human enhancement and the future of work
     Last week, I attended a joint meeting organised by the Academy of Medical Sciences, British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society on human enhancement and the future of work.  It’s the first time that all four academies have come together like this on a policy issue. Such ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
  • How sex hormones influence right heart function
    WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Exposing the criminal injustice system with Ge ...
    In today's show we are joined in the first hour by Josh Jackson from Germany. We cover the fiscal crisis in Europe and Josh gives us some interesting insights. In the second hour George Georgios returns to talk about the systemic injustice and corruption within the criminal justice system. Geo ...
  • Short, powerful video explains why we must opp ...
    This excellent video was produced by the video production company Koozzoo for Civil Liberties Australia.
  • Slaughtered families in Houla were supporters ...
    BBC's Newsnight last night interviewed a London based Syrian businessman who stated that the families murdered by terrorists in Houla were supporters of the Syrian government, not the opposition. If correct this would make it highly unlikely that the narrative pushed by the mainstream media is ...
  • Conspiracy theory: exploring the outer limits ...
    DISCLAIMER: During the show Damon Crowe made allegations which the persons concerned may find defamatory. These allegations should not be construed as reflecting the views of TNRA or its affiliates. In this week's show we plunge into murky waters with Damon Crowe, as we look at some fringe con ...
  • Invasion of the body scanners - Part 1
    In today's show we look at a variety of news and issues of the day, with a special focus on a new safety report on airport body scanners which was released by the EU last week. This development now opens the door to the roll out of these carcinogenic machines across Europe and potentially into A ...

Beacon

  • Need a Beach Soundtrack? We’ve Got You Covered.
    Heading out of town for the fourth of July? As with any trip, you need a great destination and some tunes for the ride. Our Ocean Heroes finalists have spent time on the beach and on the water, learning to appreciate and protect all the ocean has to offer. Each shoreline has its own unique qu ...
  • Video: Mercury from Source to Seafood
    The health benefits of seafood are well-documented, but some people avoid eating it after hearing reports of high mercury levels. This video might help make things a little clearer. Produced by the Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program, the video explains how mercury gets into water ...
  • Peru Dolphin Deaths Show What Seismic Testing ...
    © Reuters What will happen to marine life if the government allows seismic testing, using loud airgun blasts, to search for oil and gas deep beneath the seabed along the U.S. Atlantic coast in the next few years? The answer may be foreshadowed by the scene in Peru, where earlier this year, h ...
  • Peru Dolphin Deaths Show What Seismic Testing ...
    © Reuters What will happen to marine life if the government allows seismic testing, using loud airgun blasts, to search for oil and gas deep beneath the seabed along the U.S. Atlantic coast in the next few years? The answer may be foreshadowed by the scene in Peru, where earlier this year, h ...
  • If You Could be Any Ocean Animal...
    Have you ever dreamed of being a dolphin? Or maybe an anglerfish, octopus, or sea turtle? Exploring the oceans from one of these animals points of view would be an exciting (and eye opening) experience. So what marine animal would you be if you had the chance to be any creature in the ocean? ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The Rockwell-XFV-12A
        The Rockwell XFV-12A was a prototype United States Navy fighter built in 1977. On paper, designers thought it would easily be a Mach 2 fighter and utilizing the AIM 7 Sparrow it would be a world beater. One more advantage this plane had was a VTOL capabilities.  Powered by the Prat ...
  • Recently Released Training Films Of US Rangers ...
  • Great World War II Era Footage Of Pro Boxer An ...
      “Lessons in Boxing from Mike Gibbons (Former & Late Middleweight Boxing Champion of 1909), Captain Allan Corstorphin Smith (3rd degree jujutsu (judo) master), and how to fight with and against the bayonet. “  
  • Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus, T ...
        Sources: Dark History of the Roman Emperors, From Julius Caesar to The Fall of Rome, Michael Kerrigan. Amber Books, 2008. Wikipedia., Tumblr  
  • The C-15TA Otter Light Reconnaissance Vehicle.
    The C15TA was used by Canadian, British, Belgian and Dutch authorities as an armored personnel carrier and an ambulance. It was a General Motors Candian Division project. About 550 were manufactured in Ontario and for almost the next twenty years they saw some service.     Sten Boye Po ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Wanna Bet on Your Future? Or Do Something ‘Imp ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Obama is in the midst of his two state Betting on America bus tour. NPR reports that Romney said at an Independence Day appearance that he will “make America more like America.” Nothing like deep and thoughtful market ...
  • Bill Kristol to Mitt Romney: You’re No Bill Cl ...
    MITT ROMNEY’S HAVING a very rough day. The Wall Street Journal filleted him in their Independence Day op-ed, now Bill Kristol ads salt in the wound. Remember Michael Dukakis (1988) and John Kerry (2004)? It’s possible to lose a winnable presidential election to a vulnerable incumbent ...
  • Romney and his Team Continue Obamacare Tax Cleanup
    If Mitt Romney loses his run for the White House, a turning point will have been his decision Monday to absolve President Obama of raising taxes on the middle class. He is managing to turn the only possible silver lining in Chief Justice John Roberts’s ObamaCare salvage operation—that the ...
  • Spectacular Fireworks on the National Mall
    COMPLIMENTS OF the White House. The pyrotechnics this year were once again extraordinary.
  • For July 4, 2012: The ‘Radical’ Verses of ‘Thi ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. After a bit of digging, I found this version of Woody Guthrie’s classic “This Land is Your Land” (written in 1940) as performed by Pete Seeger, with some help from Bruce Springsteen, among others. Lyrics found here fo ...

Hudson New York

  • A Settlement Freeze Can Advance Israeli-Palest ...
    Now that Israel has a broad and secure national unity government, the time is ripe for that government to make a bold peace offer to the Palestinian Authority. The Palestinian Authority refuses to negotiate unless Israel accepts a "freeze" on settlement
  • Obama Administration Stabs Israel in the Back
    The Founders in their wisdom divided the powers of government; some to the Executive, some to the Legislative. The power of the purse went to Congress; diplomacy to the Executive. How that shakes out matters to the U.S. and our democratic allies. The
  • Egypt's Sex-Slave Marriage
    Egypt's "first sex-slave marriage" took place mere days after the Muslim Brotherhood's Muhammad Morsi was made president. Last Monday, on the Egyptian TV show Al Haqiqa ("the Truth"), journalist Wael al-Ibrashi showed a video-clip of a man, Abd al-Rauf
  • Radical Islam Spreading in Spain
    Two Islamists have been arrested in Spain on charges of torturing and murdering two fellow Muslims for "abandoning radical Islam." The arrests came just days after Spanish newspapers reported that jihadists in Spain are travelling to Syria to help
  • Egypt under Islamists
    When Mohammad Morsi, a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, won the presidential elections in Egypt on June 24, he addressed the Egyptian nation, promising he would "be a president for all Egyptian, Muslims and Christian, men and women." As the Muslim

Urban Survival

  • Recovery Day
    So another Fourth has come and gone – sunburns, the odd hangover, stories to tell at work, and most people at this time of year can hardly wait for the weekend to do more of the same.  In some places, … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Breakthroughs in Science
    There was  all kinds of coverage over the holiday about the discovery *they think* of something close to the Higgs Boson Particle in physics.  This as two different groups came up with confirming data, so the odds seem to favor … Continue reading →
  • Pre-Holiday Rally
    The nice thing about holidays is that they are predictable from a market standpoint.  Not saying the market will go up, but the price of gold is up $12 when I looked and there’s a normal trend to see an … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Search for the Ideal Retirement
    (Rapid City, SD)  We ended up staying an additional day here in Rapid City, Monday into Tuesday, though with luck we will continue ours journey this morning with good weather up north in Montana, although a fair bit of smoke … Continue reading →
  • Hot, Drought, Fires
    (Rapid City, SD)  This has been a terrible week for fires on the backside of the Rockies and all the way east to Washington where the lights could be off inn some areas for a week.  The area down slope … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Nine year old host of The Nerdist.com's Mutant ...
    Morgan Wyenn, Project Attorney, Santa Monica I recently had the honor of being interviewed by the awesome and talented nine year old Gil Dominguez-Letelier for his podcast The Mutant Season, of Nerdist.com.  Yes, you read that right—the h ...
  • The Brooklyn Navy Yard on the Front Lines Agai ...
    Lizzie Horvitz, Urban Program Assistant, New York Last Tuesday, the NRDC New York team and supporters from our New York Council had the opportunity to visit the Brooklyn Navy Yard—a city-owned industrial park on the Brooklyn waterfront.  ...
  • Join the July 28 rally and march in D.C., plus ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. On Saturday, July 28, there will be a rally and march in Washington, D.C. to build awareness, raise concerns, and call on Washington decisionmakers to change the way the oil and gas industry ope ...
  • Building community by painting the town with s ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   My view of sustainability is a broad one.  I work for an environmental organization, so ecosystem health is always in mind.  But, as with most ecosystems, the ecolog ...
  • On The Media: Finally Getting the Link Between ...
    Bob Keefe, Senior press secretary, Washington, DC The media just might be starting to see the obvious link between climate change and extreme weather. Of course it’s hard to miss during a week or so when we have deluges in Florida, wildfires ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, July 3, 2012: Mesa, Arizona police officer, Sgt. Mike Duke, has been indicted on two counts of felony assault, coming out of a road rage incident. Mesa Police Chief … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct NewsFe ...
  • Caught on Tape: The Long Beach Marijuana Colle ...
    From Jonathan Turley: More than a dozen Long Beach Police officers raided the store and show officers forcing one employee on the ground. Officers then proceed to step on him. The volunteer employee Dorian Brooks was entirely cooperative at the … Continue reading →Caught on Tape: The ...
  • ‘Mamba’ Appears in Concord’s July 4 Parade
    Story here.‘Mamba’ Appears in Concord’s July 4 Parade is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • Report: Local Governments Taxing the Poor With ...
    From the New York Times: In Georgia, three dozen for-profit probation companies operate in hundreds of courts, and there have been similar lawsuits. In one, Randy Miller, 39, an Iraq war veteran who had lost his job, was jailed after … Continue reading →Report: Local Governments Taxi ...
  • Lawsuit Claims Sheriff’s Deputies Filed False ...
    From the Daily Press: After the Newport News Sheriff’s Office seized hundreds of thousands of dollars from Jayson Mickle and several of his companies last summer, the tobacco shop owner says he didn’t initially have the cash to pay his … Continue reading →Lawsuit Claims S ...

Total Collapse

  • Medvedev Warns of Nuclear War
    Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has warned the West against launching ‘hasty wars’, which may increase regional tensions and even trigger a nuclear war. “Sometimes these [military] actions — which undermine state sovereignty — could result in a fully-fledged regional war ...
  • Putin, Obama Square Off As Russian Troops Mass ...
    Barely a week after the American President Obama’s top national security aide, Thomas Donilon, warned President Putin in the Kremlin that the “world may about to end,” Russia’s leader abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting with his US counterpart and stated he would not attend the G-8 Summit over ...
  • Faber: ‘Massive Wealth Destruction’ Coming, We ...
    The critical question over the next decade isn’t “where will my returns be highest?” but “where will I lose the least money?” That, according to economist and investor Marc Faber, is the scenario facing investors today. As the author of the Gloom, Boom, and Doom Report, Marc Faber is a well-know ...
  • Russia Warns of ‘Dead End’ in U.S. Missile Talks
    Russia said Thursday its dispute with the United States over missile defense was near a “dead end” and warned it might have to deploy new rockets in Europe to take out elements of the controversial shield. “We have not been able to find mutually-acceptable solutions at this poi ...
  • China and Russia hold joint naval exercises in ...
    China and Russia are conducting a major joint naval exercise in the Yellow Sea from April 22 to 27. The drills are a response by the two countries to their growing concerns about the Obama administration’s aggressive “pivot” to Asia that includes a military build-up and the strengthening of US a ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose: WikiLeaks’ lates ...
    WikiLeaks releases another batch of data, this time from Syria; iOS and Mac apps blighted with a crashing problem, and Apple sued in China over Siri. It’s all in today’s...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Bye-bye iGoogle, ACTA& ...
    Google kills off more underperforming services, the European Parliament rejects the controversial ACTA treaty, and long-awaited TV service YouView finally launches in the UK. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose....
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Search problems in Chr ...
    Chrome search problems abound. Twitter talks about government requests. Verizon doesn’t like the FCC’s new definition of Net Neutrality. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – MobileMe no mor ...
    Google touts its prowess for providing money to the US market. VLC for Android arrives. Apple’s MobileMe hits the deadpool. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Chrome for iOS, ...
    Zynga announces a rash of new features and games, Spotify and Yahoo hook up for a content deal, and Apple releases a standalone app for podcasts. It’s all in today’s...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Repowering Port Augusta 6:30pm Monday 2 July
    At this critical time for South Australian energy policy, Beyond Zero Emissions has released the long-awaited Repowering Port Augusta report. This report presents the compelling economic and environmental case for why Port Augusta’s ageing coal-fired power stations should be replaced with concen ...
  • Solar Thermal Models Built
    Another four of our famous solar thermal models have been built in NSW, thanks to the efforts of Beyond Zero Emissions volunteers, the Paramatta Climate Action Network, and the Granville Men’s Shed. The models are of a concentrated solar thermal plant with a molten salt storage (CST+) power stat ...
  • WME leaders list 2012: GOVERNMENT + NGO LEADER
    The idealistic realist Matthew Wright Outfit: Beyond Zero Emissions Position: Executive Director Completely decarbonising our coal-rich nation by 2020 might be seen as an idealistic notion, but not to Matthew Wright. As co-founder of the NGO Beyond Zero Emissions, he has provided insight in ...
  • Now we’re cooking without gas!
    Zero emissions buildings are good for your health Common wisdom has it that gas is the best for cooking and it’s the most efficient for heating. This thinking is out of date, as will be demonstrated in a talk at the Healthy Buildings Symposium by Trent Hawkins, Buildings Plan project director ...
  • Denying responsibility for our fossil fuel exports
    As Prime Minister Julia Gillard greets other world leaders at the Rio+20 sustainable development summit, a close look at the official messages her government is sending to the world on our behalf reveals a fundamental contradiction. On the one hand, the Government appears aware of what is at ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Poacher known as 'Morgan' behind devastating m ...
    Officials have pointed to an infamous elephant poacher known as 'Morgan' as the head of the murderous attack at the Okapi Wildlife Reserve station in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) late last month. The attack by Morgan and his crew left seven people dead, including two wildlife range ...
  • Experts dispute recent study that claims littl ...
    A study last month in the journal Science argued that pre-Columbian peoples had little impact on the western and central Amazon, going against a recently composed picture of the early Amazon inhabited by large, sophisticated populations influencing both the forest and its biodiversity. The new s ...
  • The Cardamom Conundrum: Reconciling Developmen ...
    Tim Killeen’s new engaging book, The Cardamom Conundrum: Reconciling Development and Conservation in the Kingdom of Cambodia, describes decision-making options that the Government of Cambodia could engage in to develop their nation along a path of sustainability through resolving the susta ...
  • In pictures: Rainforests to palm oil
    In late May I had the opportunity to fly from Kota Kinabalu in Malaysian Borneo to Imbak Canyon and back. These are some of my photos. Historically Borneo was covered by a range of habitats, including dense tropical rainforests, swampy peatlands, and natural grasslands. But its lowland forests h ...
  • Cutting-edge research center opens in Madagasc ...
    A high-tech research center opened today on the edge of a rainforest in Madagascar. The facility, known as the Centre Valbio, will support efforts to study Madagascar's unique wildlife, deliver health care to impoverished communities, and understand links between the environment and the rural ec ...

Sierra Express

  • ACC Commissioner raps with stakeholders in Bo
    On Monday 2nd July, 2012 the Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission, Mr. Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara visited the city of Bo with a delegation consisting of staff of the Commission mostly based in Freetown. It was a red letter day for most people of Bo as they had the opportunity to meet wit ...
  • AU Summit to Discuss President’s Report of Act ...
    The AU Heads of State and Government will consider the recommendations of the Executive Council on the report of the Commission on the implementation of previous Decisions of the Executive Council and the Assembly; the report of the Peace and Security Council on its activities and the state of p ...
  • President Koroma’s emphasis on road and infras ...
    Infrastructure and road construction are two of the centrepieces of the socio-economic and political development programs of  President Ernest Bai Koroma.  When the government was voted into power in 2007,  President Koroma immediately launched the Agenda For Change program which had the blessin ...
  • Sierra Rutile Advances into Agriculture
    With over 55,000 hectares of land in its mining concessions, and given the area’s prime location, ample rainfall and fertile soil, Sierra Rutile believes that there is a compelling business case for an agricultural business that will help provide employment opportunities for the surroundin ...
  • Why This Sudden Twist?
    There is an ongoing argument and a suspected conflict in reporting the unfolding at High Court where the matter between Momoh Kemoh Konte Vs the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on behalf of the state was being heard. Whilst other news media outlets are profane of reporting the accounts of happe ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Dairy prices bode ill for Fonterra payout - ec ...
    It's early days, but Fonterra will need to revise down its dairy payout for 2012/13 if the weaker prices evident in today's dairy auction are anything to go by, rural economists say.The price of dairy product fell in Fonterra's...
  • Dairy prices fall 5.9pc in overnight auction
    Prices of dairy products fell in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, mirroring a broader decline in New Zealand's primary sector exports in the face of doubts about the strength of the world's economic recovery.The...
  • Europe's troubles hit core exports
    Heightened concern over Europe's sovereign debt crisis pushed the prices of New Zealand's core exports to their lowest level in more than two years last month.ANZ's commodity price index dropped 2.4 per cent in June, marking the...
  • Bernard Hickey: Farmers right to be wary of sh ...
    This week I watched two great debates about what type of company structure is best for local people. The first one was over our biggest and most influential company - the future of New Zealand Inc.Fonterra's farmer shareholders...
  • Brian Gaynor: Fonterra's triumph marks big wee ...
    It has been a landmark week for the NZX with the passing of the Mixed Ownership Model Bill, by 61 votes to 60 votes, and the approval of Fonterra's Trading Among Farmers scheme with 66.4 per cent of votes cast in support.The only...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Is ObamaCare's Mandate a Tax or a Penalty? Eve ...
    Is ObamaCare’s mandate a tax or a penalty? The Obama administration, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, and (maybe) Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts all agree that the answer is: yes. Over the weekend, top Romney campaign adviser Eric Ferhnstrom told MSNBC that the ...
  • The Greatest Trick the Republicans' Anti-Gover ...
    Daniel McCarthy at American Conservative backhandedly and ironically thanks Todd Purdum at Vanity Fair on behalf of the bullshit artistes of the modern Republican Party, who manage to create a phony market differentiation by pretending to be the party of shrinking government.  In ...
  • High Desert Barbecue Wins Book of the ...
    And, with 66.2 percent of votes cast ... (drum roll please) ... Oh, I gave it away in the title, didn't I? Anyway, yes, High Desert Barbecue wins Book of the Month for July 2012 at Freedom Book Club (click the video there for the announcement). That's right, my wildly irrevere ...
  • Matt Welch on ObamaCare, the Euro-Zone Deal, a ...
    If there was any recent political decision more opaque than Supreme Court Justice John Roberts' tortured-if-fascinating majority decision upholding the Affordable Care Act, it might be German Chancellor Angela Merkel's sign-off Friday on a 120-billion Euro "growth pact" that will effe ...
  • Watch: New York Man Gets Tasered, Jumped on, B ...
    Corrected: Leone was convicted of 4 of the 24 charges, not 20. Here’s video of New York resident Robert Leone, 31 at the time, getting the tar beaten out of him by Pennsylvania State Police for not pulling over for police investigating a hit-and-run:   The incident to ...

Mercury Rising

  • Mexican elections: recount, Anonymous speaks, etc.
    The top news is the startling announcement that PRI will support a full recount of the vote. Apparently they want to address the widespread belief that the election was fraudulent. Perhaps they think they can control the recount or perhaps the vote theft occurred through means the recount would ...
  • Good News For The Planet: China Quadrupling Do ...
    China’s largely doing this to absorb excess solar-panel production so global solar panel prices don’t keep dropping (they’re currently at 87 cents a watt, competitive with coal), but it’s still a good thing that the world’s biggest user of coal, the world’s di ...
  • WaPo stirs from its deep slumber to notice Mex ...
    Washington Post: Thousands of people rushed to stores Tuesday to redeem pre-paid gift cards they said were given to them previously by the party that won Mexico’s presidency, inflaming accusations that the weekend election was marred by widespread vote-buying. At least a few cardholders were ang ...
  • “Who? Us?” –JP Morgan
    Interesting news is pouring out at holiday time. Katarzyna Klimasinska, Bloomies: JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) is being investigated over potential power-market manipulation that inflated payments for electricity, according to the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The FERC, which has ...
  • No One Expects the Papal Inquisition!
    Richard Grabman of MexFiles has an interesting story about how the Vatican, by appointing a man with roots in Liberation Theology, who also has urged conciliation with Protestants, to head the Congregation of the Faith could signal a change in the Church’s direction. The new “Prefect for t ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Zenergy Shamballa: Festival for the Mind, Body ...
    Evolver Network and Evolver Asheville are proud to present Zeneregy Shamballa/ S L 3 3 P, the 2nd Zenergy festival. Beginning August 24 at 3:33 pm and ending on August 27th at 11:11 am, this will be a three day and night weekend for mind, body and soul rejuvenation in the beautiful mountains o ...
  • Amplifying the Amazon: An interview with Lily ...
      In 2009, Jeremy Jensen and Shena Turlington went to the Amazon to make recordings of indigenous people from several different communities, including Shipibo and Shuar. They sampled traditional singing, instruments, nature sounds, and spoken word from tribal communities. These recordin ...
  • Music Evolves from Noise
    Scientists at London's Imperial College, headed by Bioinformaticist Robert MacCallum, developed a computer program they call DarwinTunes to show “how cultural dynamics can be explained in terms of competing evolutionary forces.”  read more
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  • The Evolver Convergence: A Report (or, How Inf ...
    I was privileged to help organize the first Evolver Convergence which happened in Pittsburgh the weekend of June 1-3. Since I'd been sporeganizing for the past year I thought I knew all about the wonders that can come from bringing together gorgeous geniuses. I figured that the Convergen ...

Desertification

  • China Battles Desertification
    As scientists increasingly label desertification as one of the most burning challenges facing the world today, a small village in China’s semi-arid Northeastern region of Inner Mongolia is fighting back. Chifeng City’s dry climate and sparse vegetation have given way to severe surface erosion an ...
  • RIO+20: Promised Green Economy Was a Fake, Say ...
    When the Rio+20 summit on sustainable development ended Friday, there were winners and losers – mostly losers. The United Nations and the host country Brazil – along with big business – put a positive spin on the outcome of the conference, a follow-up to the 1992 Earth Summit. It was another his ...
  • Rio Outcome Bleak With No New Funding*
    Amidst recrimination, anger and charges of “strong arm tactics”, negotiators eventually endorsed a global plan of action for sustainable development following marathon sessions lasting over six weary days. A proposal for a 30-billion-dollar global fund for sustainable development – initiated by ...
  • New Set of Sustainable Development Goals Looks ...
    When world leaders from over 100 countries wind up their three-day Rio+20 summit in Brazil next week, they will leave behind the shattered remains of a slew of proposals that never got off the ground. A 30-billion-dollar Global Fund for Sustainable Development? A Financial Transactions Tax? A Su ...
  • Cilantro Spices Up Coexistence with Drought in ...
    Many grow lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, beets and other vegetables. But cilantro is ever-present in the gardens that are helping rural families weather the lengthy drought that is once again wracking Brazil’s impoverished Northeast. Cilantro is the favourite “because of the flavour it adds to bean ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Canada Day and #DenounceHarper
    “#DenounceHarper is trending on Twitter in Canada, just behind #HappyCanadaDay. Users are using the hashtag to voice dissatisfaction with the Harper government, or just the man himself.” Read more about #DenounceHarper
  • TVO's The Agenda: The New McCarthyism
    There is no worse cancer in a free society than the thuggish impulse to equate dissent as disloyalty... The greatest patriot is the person with the courage to be the lone voice in the crowd crying out that the Emperor has no clothes. The test of our society's democratic nature is our instinct ...
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  • U.S. Healthcare Legislation
    Fuxs News’ take on the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on Healthcare. Repugs are apparently very upset by the decision. Repugs spin machine is going hard at it. Sarah Palin gives her gyrations. “Obama lies, freedom dies” Sarah Palin. Watch the latest video at U.S Supreme Court's decision on Healthcare leg ...
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Press TV - Middle East

  • Bahrain orders child protester monitored
    A Bahraini court has ordered an 11-year-old boy be monitored for a year after being tried on charges of disturbing security by taking part in popular demonstrations against the country’s monarch.
  • Israel to resume barrier construction
    Israel says it has plans to resume construction of its controversial security fence in the occupied West Bank after a five-year delay.
  • Bahraini HR activist urges intl. action
    Prominent Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab has called on the international community to take necessary measures to stop the Bahraini regime’s brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters, Press TV reports.
  • China boycotts ‘Friends of Syria’ meeting
    The government of China has announced that it has no plan to take part in the so-called “Friends of Syria” conference which is scheduled to be held in the French capital, Paris, on Friday.
  • Israeli PM involved in nuclear smuggling
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was involved in smuggling nuclear triggers out of the United States carried out by a network of front companies, a report says.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • SPS Governing Council Representative Nominatio ...
    We are accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and an alternate are needed to serve on the Cou ...
  • Follow-Back: The Power of Twitter
    Twitter, a social micro-blogging website has burst onto the scene and become embedded into the fabric of society and more importantly has become one of society’s methods of staying ‘in touch.’ Twitter has attracted users from all walks of life, be they mainstream corporations, governmental organ ...
  • Solicitation of Nominations for SPS Governing ...
    We are now accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and two alternates are needed to serve on t ...
  • Smarmy Prince, Contemptible Hypocrite, Ayatoll ...
    What a group. What a choice. The remaining field of Republican presidential candidates is one of the weakest in history. It is not just the liberal media that thinks so. Former Republican Congressman and current MSNBC host Joe Scarborough believes it and right wing pundit Charles Krauthammer cal ...
  • Silently Waiting
    The ruthless brutality which humankind has been known to unleash upon their fellow humans throughout history seems unrelenting and in fact almost unbelievable when considered in hindsight. For example, the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, the Middle Passage, and the Great Purge – all events of his ...

Dissident Voice

  • Occupy Your Couch: A Summer Staycation Home Fi ...
    The Background of the List of Films: The Arts and the Left During my graduate-school years in New York City in the mid-seventies to early eighties, Manhattan was the world’s vibrant center of repertory film theaters: each night yielded an embarrassment of the world’s great cinematic riches, meti ...
  • Should We Abolish the Olympics?
    The first modern Olympic Games, with the IOC (International Olympic Committee) running the show, was held in Athens, Greece, in 1896.  There were 14 nations represented, with a total of 241 athletes competing.  Jumping ahead 112 years, to the 2008 Olympics, held in Beijing, China, there were 204 ...
  • The Elite Coup is Complete (Part 2)
    The thirty-year bloodless coup, taking over America, conducted by the political, academic, and financial elite is a fait accompli as evidenced by the failure to charge anybody for the horrendous, and well documented, criminality behind America’s housing/financial bust of 2008 as described in “Th ...
  • Pennsylvania Politics Continues to Trump Healt ...
    The latest is how the Republican-dominated legislature and Gov. Tom Corbett separated one of the wealthiest and more high-tech/industrial areas of the state from the rural areas. Less than a week before the 2011–2012 fiscal year budget was scheduled to expire, June 30, the majority party slipped ...
  • Put the Bill of Rights on a Box of Milk
    When I was a small lad wearing the uniform of the Cub Scouts, around 1966, I won a lottery that awarded me the privilege to march at the front of the Cub Scout pack carrying the American flag during the annual hometown 4th of July parade. The experience instilled in me happiness and joy that [...]

Destructionist

  • Obama bars Congress from obtaining Fast and Fu ...
    US President Barack Obama has intervened in a Capital Hill probe centered on Attorney General Eric Holder, asserting executive privilege to keep documents linked to the Fast and Furious gun smuggling operation withheld from Congress. In the midst of an investigation being spearheaded by the H ...
  • Obama bars Congress from obtaining Fast and Fu ...
    US President Barack Obama has intervened in a Capital Hill probe centered on Attorney General Eric Holder, asserting executive privilege to keep documents linked to the Fast and Furious gun smuggling operation withheld from Congress. In the midst of an investigation being spearheaded by the H ...
  • N. Carolina refuses to compensate hundreds ste ...
    North Carolina has voted down the first attempt to compensate the victims of its eugenics program, one of 32 such programs that sterilized tens of thousands without their knowledge or consent across the US from the 1930s to the 1970s. ­Opponents cited budgetary restraints and concerns of sett ...
  • Farage: “The Euro Titanic Has Now Hit The Iceberg”
    In an epic rant, trumping Biderman, UKIP’s Nigel Farage appears to have reached the limit of his frustration with his ‘peers’ in the European Parliament after the Spanish bailout. Rajoy’s proclamation that this bailout shows what a success the euro-zone has been, sends Farage over the edge as he ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

    • U.N. Calls for Tax on Ultrarich to Boost Devel ...
      What if billionaires the world over are asked to shell out at least one percent of their wealth as an international tax for development? The question arises in a new U.N. survey, which bemoans the fact that many donor nations continue to shy away from fulfilling their pledge to finance developme ...
    • Caribbean Weighs Allegiance to Taiwan vs. China
      As Caribbean leaders meet in St. Lucia this week, they are focusing on a series of routine issues affecting the region, including problems with the smooth operation of the single trading market. But those from the smaller eastern group of islands are also likely to raise the implications of a re ...
    • Liberia’s Baby Blues – No Policy for Pregnant ...
      Patricia Kollie should be at school today but instead she is at home in Gbarnga, Liberia, pounding a pile of cassava leaves in a wooden mortar. Her entire body is slightly swollen. Her dress fits a little too snug at the stomach. Kollie’s house is a few minutes walk from the St. Mark Lutheran Hi ...
    • New Banknotes Elicit Hopes and Fears in DRC
      “The macroeconomic climate is looking good, with a growth rate varying between five and seven percent,” said Jean-Claude Masangu, governor of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Central Bank as he justified the release of new denominations of the Congolese franc. According to Ma ...
    • China Battles Desertification
      As scientists increasingly label desertification as one of the most burning challenges facing the world today, a small village in China’s semi-arid Northeastern region of Inner Mongolia is fighting back. Chifeng City’s dry climate and sparse vegetation have given way to severe surface erosion an ...

    My AntiWar

    CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

    • Iran's Persian Gulf gambit takes shape
      Summary: Responding to the onset of the European Union's oil embargo with a defiant show of military strength and renewed threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, Iran has signaled to the West that it won't be a passive victim of economic warfare. source: Asia Timesread more
    • Brics “hostage” to west over Iran sanctions, n ...
      Summary: Two recent developments – the $75bn bailout contribution from the Brics countries to the IMF, and the western push for sanctions against Iran – show how exposed the Brics economies are to western financial policies. source: FTread more
    • Iran Warns of Retaliation After Any US-Israeli ...
      Summary: Iran has warned Washington that it could retaliate after any unilateral attack it sustains and destroy US military bases across the Middle East and target Israel within minutes following an uptick in threatening postures from the US and Israel. source: Antiwar.comread more
    • How a Nonexistent Bomb Cylinder Distorts the I ...
      Summary: The coverage of the initial IAEA account of the cylinder in its report last November has been followed by a steady drip of reports about Iran refusing to allow the agency's inspectors to visit the site at Parchin and satellite photos showing what are said to be Iranian efforts to "s ...
    • No War on Iran -- Divest from War Campaign
      Summary: The Israeli government is not worried about the US Congress or any western government. However, they are worried about grassroots boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movements that are challenging their impunity. We can use this concern to help raise the cost of an attack on Ira ...

    The Daily Galaxy

    • "Higgs Boson Will Unlock Great Mysteries of th ...
      Physicists said Thursday the potential discovery of the "God particle" was a gateway to a new era that could see humanity unlock some of the universe's great mysteries including dark matter. The discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson, an elusive...
    • "Is There a Biological Limit to Longevity?" As ...
      Dr. Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist based in Cambridge, UK, and is the Chief Science Officer of SENS Foundation, a California-based 501(c)(3) charity dedicated to combating the aging process. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Rejuvenation Research, the world’s...
    • Image of the Day: Strange Merging Binary Stars ...
      A team of astronomers have used the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) on Hawaii to discover four pairs of stars that orbit each other in less than 4 hours. Until now it was thought that such close-in binary stars could...
    • 1st Dark Matter Bridge Discovered Linking Two ...
      A ‘finger’ of the Universe’s dark-matter skeleton, which ultimately dictates where galaxies form, has been observed for the first time bridging the galaxy clusters Abell 222 and Abell 223 2.7 billion light-years away by an international team of astrophysicists using...
    • DNA Dark-Matter Detector --"Will Observe Uniqu ...
      Physicists and biologists plan to build a dark matter detector out of DNA that will outperform anything available today, Technology Review Physics arXiv Blog reports. Current experiments to find dark matter are looking for the unique signature that dark matter...

    Natural News

    • The Higgs boson 'God Particle' discovery expla ...
      The ultimate goal of the study of physics is to decode the rules and laws of the universe; to understand what "makes it all tick," so to speak. That goal, of course, has remained elusive, but great strides have been made toward it over the last few thousand years. Newton's...
    • Simple ways to stay healthy while you travel
      Traveling has always had some health risks. But today those risks are higher, especially for those of us who prefer to use supplements and avoid processed foods. If you travel by air, you may be confronted with deciding on being groped or getting radiated by X-ray...
    • Following Denmark's example - Cleaning up the ...
      Antibiotics are used both by people and within the farming industry, to quickly decimate bacteria and micro-organism cultures that may degrade health. They are, however, an over simplified "solution" that is used in place of solving the underlying problem. One problematic...
    • Food intolerance epidemic - Why does it happen ...
      True food allergies are very rare, but observations and research lead to believe that there's a fast-growing number of people experiencing some type of food intolerance. Fatigue, bloating, diarrhea or other issues appear many hours after a meal. This delayed response...
    • Nutritional supplements prove better than toxi ...
      Do you know anyone that believes in poisoning the body to "get well"? The sad truth is that most ill-informed people think that un-natural medicine is the only way to solve health problems. By brainwashing doctors (in medical school); controlling politicians (with lobbying...

    Threat Level

    • Secretly Monitor Cop Stops With New ACLU App
      The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey is unveiling an Android app allowing users to secretly record audio and video of the police, and have the footage sent to the group's servers for review.
    • ‘The Analyzer’ Gets Time Served for Million-Do ...
      Ehud Tenenbaum, aka "The Analyzer," was quietly sentenced in New York this week to time served for a single count of bank-card fraud for his role in a sophisticated computer-hacking scheme that federal officials say scored $10 million from U.S. banks.
    • ‘DNSChanger’ Malware Could Strand Thousands Wh ...
      Tens of thousands of U.S. internet users could be left in the digital dark on Monday when the FBI pulls the plug on domains related to the DNSChanger malware.
    • European Parliament Kills Global Anti-Piracy A ...
      The European Parliament on Wednesday declared its independence from a global anti-piracy accord, rejecting the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The vote, 478-39, means the deal won’t come into effect in European Union-member nations, and effectively means the global accord is dead. Its ...
    • Defunct Copyright Troll Seeks Resurrection
      Copyright troll Righthaven, which famously went defunct last year after a epic failure in trying to make money for newspapers by suing sites that reposted even parts of news stories, is seeking a second life.

    PERRspectives : Blog

    • Supreme Court Opens Door for States to Drop Cu ...
      In the wake of the Supreme Court decision in NFIB v. Sebelius, the greatest threat to enabling health insurance for 30 million uninsured Americans may come not from Republicans in Congress, but in the states. With the Court's ruling that the federal government cannot penalize states who refuse ...
    • A Tale of Two Vacations
      It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. That is, according the U.S. media, July 2012 was an excellent opportunity for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to showcase his human side at his $8 million lakeside estate in New Hampshire. But when then-Senator Barack Obama too ...
    • States' Blights
      Few battle cries rally Republicans more than the demand for "states' rights." But for today's Party of Lincoln, that ideological bludgeon once used to deny millions of Americans their freedom for the first century of the Republic and ignore their rights in the second has a new purpose. When it ...
    • For Romney, There is No Life After Bain
      In recent weeks, Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has tried to redefine the calendar by inserting the new milestone "AB"--or "After Bain"-- into the timeline of human history. Defending its man from damaging reports that he profited when Bain Capital invested in companies that shipped jobs ov ...
    • Mr. Hatch's Hilarious Health Care Hypocrisy
      Congressional Republicans on Thursday dispatched some of their best and brightest to the Supreme Court in heady anticipation of the GOP triumph that never came. But when Chief Justice Roberts announced the decision upholding the Affordable Care Act, Utah Senator Orrin Hatch "folded his arms acr ...

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    TruthOut

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

    Planetsave

    • Rhino Crisis Round Up: S African Rhino Horn De ...
      Nearly two years after being arrested with some 30 rhino horns in his possession, South African game farmer Jacques Els has finally landed in jail. Els began serving his eight-year sentence this week following a failed appeal, according to IOL. He was also ordered to pay R1 million (US $122,802) ...
    • 5 Alternative Energy Meetups
        As the world’s supply of oil continues to be rapidly consumed, the focus on alternative energies is skyrocketing, bringing keen new minds into this new but still established industrial niche and promising a better future for all with an eventual transition to potentially 100% renewa ...
    • Rapid Disappearance Of Pre-Planetary Dust Disk ...
        Researchers have observed a very fast drop in infrared emissions from the Sun-like star TYC 8241 2652. This rapid drop may be an indication that the circumstellar disk of dusty debris, from which planets form, has experienced a very drastic (and, as of now, unknown) event. In observations ...
    • White-Nose Syndrome Mortality Is Highest In Ba ...
        Bat populations in North America are currently being decimated by a fungal disease known as white-nose syndrome. The deadliness of this fungus may greatly depend on how social the bats are during hibernation, according to new research from the University of California, Santa Cruz. “ ...
    • Music Break Monday: Mr Rogers — Garden of Your ...
        I’m stealing this great “Music Break” idea from Climate Denial Crock of the Week, and actually got this first video from that site (link above). I loved Mr Rogers as a kid, and I think this video shows some of the reasons why — he encouraged imagination, intellectu ...

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    Axis of Logic

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

    They Gave Us a Republic

    • There's Rich, and Then There's Pathologically ...
      By @KYYellowDog And then there's Willard Too-Much-Loot-to-Count Romney Zandar: Nick Shaxson's devastatingly brutal Vanity Fair piece on Mitt Romney's offshore bank account shell games is your must-read holiday assignment for this evening, and you'll want to tackle the piece sober. Then you'll wa ...
    • Having To Do My Own Work
      By @TomBales1 I have four girls in my family... three daughters and one of my two very special nieces... with spouses or significant others in the military or NG/Reserves.  One daughter is married to a career Navy man and has always kind of been my sounding board for things affecting the e ...
    • Move along, there's no racism to see by the li ...
      By @BGinKC Don't tell me that the first black president hasn't brought the crazies out of the woodwork. They are so bold now that in Alabama, so-called "christian" leaders are openly holding and publicly promoting a "white christians only" pastoral gathering that will culminate with a public cro ...
    • Songs to Fight the Plutocracy By: "On Dark St ...
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    • Continuing a long-running theme: This Shit Nee ...
       By @BGinKC As you know,  I have been a tad on the scarce side the last few days because I had a diagnostic medical procedure on Tuesday and it took me all day yesterday to recover and clear the cobwebs.  But today the coffee pierced the veil enough that I can form a sentence and ...

    Care 2

    • Happy Independence Day
      To see the graphic, you'll need to click through to PP, because C2 doesn't do animations. Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • The Republican Health Care Plan
      Se 1st comment Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • Romney Lied about Profiting from Abortion
      See 1st comment Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • Illinois Becomes First Inland State to Ban Sha ...
      SPRINGFIELD Oceana, the largest international advocacy group working solely to protect the worlds oceans, applauded Illinois Governor Patrick Quinn yesterday for signing into law a ban on the sale, trade, distribution and possession of shark fins Submitted by Dee C. to Animals  |  & ...
    • Death of dog named Lennox looms in Belfast, No ...
      According to a story published today in the Belfast Telegraph, unless the Belfast City Council decides that Lennox can be rehomed to an organization or adopter in the United States, he will likely be destroyed next week. Please Lord-no! Submitted by Dianne Lynn Elko to Animals  |  ...

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    No Quarter

    • Middle East Saber Rattling
      The push for a new war in the Middle East by the Obama Administration continues. Beyond providing tacit support for the Syrian Islamic extremists that are backed by Al Qaeada types, Barky is rushing new military forces into the Persian Gulf. All of this is being done with no clear strategic visi ...
    • Outsourcing POTUS
      “POTUS does not understand private enterprise … he lacks a sense of the scale of enterprise. POTUS does not know what it is to invest in order to create. OUTSOURCING VS INSOURCING is the new OFA [Obama For America] vid to hit Romney on the villainy of sending American jobs overseas t ...
    • Barclays Libor Scandal: How Big Will This Get?
      The real tragedy of the scandal is the apparent lack of ethics or self-restraint among the people involved. Following billions of dollars of trading losses at JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s out-of-control London unit, the latest installment of big-bank follies offers yet more proof that the industry ...
    • How “The Promise Gap” Harms the Middle Class ( ...
      “This effective image just arrived in my inbox from the Romney campaign,” says your very own “armchair activist,” mocking herself: That’s not all. There’s a companion video. From Mitt Romney’s YouTube channel. Have you noticed by now that this “arm ...
    • Yes, A Double Dip is Coming
      Shoving truth up the ass of Lola828, the Obamabot who graces NoQuarter, is fun. But that truth means more pain for America. I take no joy in that. Here’s the shocker from the Financial Times: US manufacturing activity contracted for the first time in three years, further denting confidence ...

    Futurismic

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

    Therapy News

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

    Mountaintop Removal

    • The Reverend Billy Returns to New York, Ready ...
      The Reverend Billy Returns to New York, Ready to Fight The L Magazine The L Magazine: Over the past few years, you seem to have shifted focus a little from the general perils/evils of consumerism to the environmental degradations of corporate greed, specifically mountaintop removal and fracking. ...
    • Love Story: Mother, Daughter, Community - unEA ...
      Love Story: Mother, Daughter, Community unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) To date, mountaintop removal coal mining has buried more than 2500 miles of streams and leveled an area of Appalachia bigger than the state of Delawa.
    • Mountain Hero Gets Help from Author Wendell Be ...
      Mountain Hero Gets Help from Author Wendell Berry unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) Bill Will Protect Communities, Families From Mountaintop Removal ... Big news today in our fight to end destructive mountaintop removal mining: 13 ...
    • “Don't drink the water” - San Francisco Chroni ...
      San Francisco Chronicle (blog) “Don't drink the water” San Francisco Chronicle (blog) In all of Appalachia, mountaintop-removal mining has already damaged or ... But the violence of mountaintop-removal mining — blasting and bulldozing, air and ...
    • House Bill would Halt New Mountaintop Removal ...
      Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) House Bill would Halt New Mountaintop Removal Mines WVNS-TV A new bill aiming to put a moratorium mountaintop removal coal mining was introduced until further health study can be conducted. New Bill Puts People's Health before Mountaintop Removal Perm ...

    Memeorandum

    • Conservative griping about Mitt Romney grows ( ...
      Alexander Burnsand Maggie Haberman / Politico: Conservative griping about Mitt Romney grows  —  The Romney campaign is grappling with an unexpected swell of Republican complaints about the former Massachusetts governor's political operation, at least temporarily disrupting the l ...
    • Rep. Joe Walsh gets into shouting match with C ...
      Adele Hampton / The Hill: Rep. Joe Walsh gets into shouting match with CNN host over ‘true hero’ remark  —  Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) refused to apologize again Thursday for his attacks on his Democratic challenger, an Iraq war vet he accused of not being a “true ...
    • HBO Not Proceeding With Fox News' Roger Ailes ...
      Nikki Finke / Deadline.com: HBO Not Proceeding With Fox News' Roger Ailes TV Movie Produced By MSNBC Rivals: “CNN Affiliation” Cited As The Reason  —  EXCLUSIVE: I scooped yesterday that HBO had done a secret deal for an Untitled Roger Ailes Project being eecutive pr ...
    • Innocent woman spends 53 days in jail (Rhonda ...
      Rhonda Cook / Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Innocent woman spends 53 days in jail  —  Fifty-three days.  —  From Aug. 21 until Oct. 12, Teresa Culpepper was locked in the Fulton County Jail.  —  And all that time she insisted she was not the woman ...
    • Libya elections: Muslim Brotherhood set to lea ...
      Jamie Dettmer / Telegraph: Libya elections: Muslim Brotherhood set to lead government  —  Libya's top politicians have hatched a deal that would see the Muslim Brotherhood lead the government after the country's first free elections in almost five decades takes place on Sunday.& ...

    Energy & Environment News

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    China Dialogue

    • Can Bhutan forge a new tourist path?
      The Himalayan kingdom, until now wary of holidaymakers, is hoping to boost visitor numbers without tarnishing its environmental record. Tashi Dorji reports.Most of the 3,400 tourists who trekked the lush green mountains of Bhutan in 2011 were blithely unaware they were breaking the law of the la ...
    • Dirty truth about China's incinerators
      China's “clean” trash-burning plants have a dark underside, writes Elizabeth Balkan. Stuffed with coal, many operate like fossil-fired power stations, only more laxly governed.Xie Yong could be called a pioneer. He is one of very few to date to sue a Chinese government agency over it ...
    • Racing to map Africa’s glaciers
      A team of scientists and photographers aims to document Earth’s threatened ice fields, including the many tropical ones in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, before they disappear. John Vidal reports.Ptolemy thought they were the source of the Nile and called them the Mountains o ...
    • Jinsha dam plans stoke old rows
      A war of words over hydropower development on the Yangtze tributary is the latest revival of an eight-year old argument. Deng Quanlun and Hu Feifei report.Editor's note: once again, experts, NGOs and officials are getting stuck into China’s hydropower debate, much of it played out in the c ...
    • The double life of Dali Lake
      A birdlife sanctuary that’s also a fishery, and whose staff spend their time scaring herons away – welcome to Dali nature reserve. Zhou Wei reports from Inner Mongolia.Every spring, migratory birds start arriving at Dali Lake in Inner Mongolia just as the fish-breeding season gets un ...

    AlterNet Top Stories

    Threat Level

    • Secretly Monitor Cop Stops With New ACLU App
      The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey is unveiling an Android app allowing users to secretly record audio and video of the police, and have the footage sent to the group's servers for review.
    • ‘The Analyzer’ Gets Time Served for Million-Do ...
      Ehud Tenenbaum, aka "The Analyzer," was quietly sentenced in New York this week to time served for a single count of bank-card fraud for his role in a sophisticated computer-hacking scheme that federal officials say scored $10 million from U.S. banks.
    • ‘DNSChanger’ Malware Could Strand Thousands Wh ...
      Tens of thousands of U.S. internet users could be left in the digital dark on Monday when the FBI pulls the plug on domains related to the DNSChanger malware.
    • European Parliament Kills Global Anti-Piracy A ...
      The European Parliament on Wednesday declared its independence from a global anti-piracy accord, rejecting the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The vote, 478-39, means the deal won’t come into effect in European Union-member nations, and effectively means the global accord is dead. Its ...
    • Defunct Copyright Troll Seeks Resurrection
      Copyright troll Righthaven, which famously went defunct last year after a epic failure in trying to make money for newspapers by suing sites that reposted even parts of news stories, is seeking a second life.

    Equality Trust

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

    PDA AMERICA

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

    Marler Blog

    • No title
      Thanks to Seth Slabaugh of the Muncie Indiana Star Press for his article today “January illness linked to employees - The Subway in Hartford City contributed to outbreak.” Once again ill subway employees sicken customers – See, Subway Restaurant Shigella Outbreak Lawsuits - Il ...
    • What is California link to Canadian E. coli ca ...
      The CBC reported yesterday that romaine lettuce is the likely source of an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in Miramichi in April that sickened 18 at a Jungle Jim’s Restaurant. Dr. Eilish Cleary, the chief medical officer of health, said all of those in the study who were sick with E. coli O157:H ...
    • Shigella Outbreak Growing in New York
      James Mulder of the Syracuse Post-Standard reported to today that the Onondaga County Shigella outbreak has increased to 21 confirmed cases and 13 probable cases.  This is up nine from last week. Dr. Cynthia Morrow, the county’s health commissioner, said her department has not yet pi ...
    • Salmonella Escapes for Clark College Lab
      KOIN TV Sally Showman reported on a very interesting way of contracting Salmonella. A teenager was sickened by a strain of Salmonella that originated inside a Clark College microbiology lab earlier this month.  "We believe the child could have been infected one of two ways," Catherine Kro ...
    • Pink Slime Lawsuit Press Conference (and book ...
      According to KTIV this morning: We'll have to wait a while longer to learn the details of a lawsuit being filed by a former employee of Dakota Dunes-based Beef Products Incorporated. Bruce Smith has postponed a news conference he had scheduled for this afternoon at company headquarters. No expl ...

    AutoblogGreen

    • Official: EPA officially approves E15 for sale ...
      Filed under: Government/Legal Putting E15 (a mix of 15 percent ethanol and 85 percent gasoline) on sale in the U.S. has been all but official since April, when the Environmental Protection Agency approved the first applications to make E15. Now, "all but official" has become official, with th ...
    • Official: Mitsubishi promises Outlander plug-i ...
      Filed under: Hybrid, Paris Motor Show, Crossover, Mitsubishi, Electric We've been waiting since the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show - when Mitsubishi first talked about the PX-MiEV, a plug-in CUV concept - for some sort of real-world plug-in Outlander. It looks like we're finally going to get our wish ...
    • Video: Translogic checks out the made-for-whee ...
      Filed under: Videos, Hatchback, Specialty, Electric The people behind the subway-friendly, all-electric Kenguru have experienced many of the ups and downs that other start-up EV companies are all too familiar with. In fact, when you first go to the Kenguru website, it doesn't ask if you want ...
    • Rumormill: Next-gen Chevy Volt to ditch 1.4-li ...
      Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Hatchback, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GM, Electric No one at General Motors is talking publicly about a rumor post over at InsideEVs that claims the 83-horsepower, 1.4-liter range-extending gas engine currently used in the Chevrolet Volt will "definitely not" be the engi ...
    • How GM got 3 more miles out of the 2013 Chevro ...
      Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Electric As we learned earlier today, the 2013 Chevrolet Volt has beefed up. The new model year vehicle has a "bigger" battery and can go three extra miles when driven solely on the battery. We spoke with GM representatives to get more in ...

    Rafe's Radar

    Camera Obscura

    • No title
    • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
    • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
    • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
    • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

    Democracy Now!

    • Climate Change: ‘This Is Just the Beginning’
      By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Evidence supporting the existence of climate change is pummeling the United States this summer, from the mountain wildfires of Colorado to the recent “derecho” storm that left at least 23 dead and 1.4 million people without power from Illinois to Virginia. ...
    • FRIDAY: Amy Goodman on HBO's Real Time with Bi ...
      Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday, June 29th at 10 pm ET.
    • Big Money Wins in the Big Skies of Montana
      By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan “I never bought a man who wasn’t for sale,” William A. Clark reportedly said. He was one of Montana’s “Copper Kings,” a man who used his vast wealth to manipulate the state government and literally buy votes to make himself a U.S. senator. That was more tha ...
    • Watch Democracy Now! Special: Supreme Court Up ...
      A one-hour Democracy Now! special broadcast hosted by Amy Goodman, covering the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Chief Justice John Roberts was the swing vote in upholding the Act, joining Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan ...
    • Democracy Now! Live Coverage of U.S. Supreme C ...
      Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman will host a live one-hour broadcast on Thursday morning, June 28, covering the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Guests will include health insurance industry whistleblower Wendell Potter, Georgetown Un ...

    Suzie-Q

    • Where the Money Lives
      © Ruth Tomlinson/Robert Harding World Imagery/Corbis (beach); by Justin Sullivan/Getty images (inset). BURIED TREASURE Grand Cayman, where Bain Capital maintains at least 138 funds. Inset, Mitt Romney tries to spot his La Jolla home from the campaign plane Vanity Fair August 2012 For all Mitt Ro ...
    • These Five People Just Saved Millions Of Ameri ...
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    • Supreme Court Health Care Decision: Individual ...
      HuffPost By- Mike Sacks Posted: 06/28/2012 10:10 am Updated: 06/28/2012 11:16 am WASHINGTON — The individual health insurance mandate is constitutional, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday, upholding the central provision of President Barack Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act. The co ...
    • WaPo Will Not Retract ‘Outsourcing&#8217 ...
      POLITICO By DYLAN BYERS| 6/27/12 3:33 PM EDT The Washington Post will not retract their June 21 report about Bain Capital‘s investments in firms that specialized in outsourcing American jobs, POLITICO has learned. “We are very confident in our reporting,” Washington Post s ...
    • Arizona Immigration Law Ruling: Supreme Court ...
      HuffPost By- Mike Sacks Posted: 06/25/2012 10:19 am Updated: 06/25/2012  2:52 pm WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday delivered a split decision in the Obama administration’s challenge to Arizona’s aggressive immigration law, striking multiple provisions but upholding the & ...

    Solari

    • Denmark Financing at Negative Interest Rates
      By John Acher and Ole Mikkelsen * Central bank cuts main policy rate by 25 bps to 0.20 pct * Cuts CD rate by 25 bps to negative 0.20 pct * Keeps current account rate unchanged at 0.0 pct * Lifts current account limits (Adds details, quotes and background) Copenhagen , [...]
    • “Happy Independence Day”
      A little boy and girl in American Patriotic clothing at the Fourth of July fireworks celebrations.
    • The American Revolution: Happy 4th of July!
      But what do we mean by the American Revolution?  Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds  and hearts of the people…. ~ John Adams Fourth of July Wikipedia
    • Right to Know Label GMO Foods
      Stand Up For Your Right To Know The California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act of 2012 We All Have a Right to Know What’s in Our Food Consumers have a right to know what’s in the food we eat and feed our children, including whether food is genetically engineered. We al ...
    • Higgs Boson Fever Fills Cern With 24-hour Part ...
      The home of the Large Hadron Collider is hot with excitement about what two teams of physicists will report this week By Ian Sample The teams have been searching for the Higgs boson using the giant CMS (pictured) and Atlas detectors. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images The canteen at ...

    Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

    AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

    Sideways News

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

    Fabius Maximus

    • We are alone in the defense of the Republic
      Summary: One by one, our professions and institutions have failed us and the Republic. Under pressure their standards proved to be parchment barriers defending our liberty.  Rightly so, since the Constitution stands upon its people’s love. When that fades nothing can prevents citizens from ...
    • Looking ahead to the next step of the quiet co ...
      Summary: We can look ahead to the next steps in the quiet coup overthrowing the Second Republic, that’s forging a new America. Here are some insightful articles about what to expect. Contents Excerpts appear below; please read these articles in full. “Is this 1936?” by David Be ...
    • Updates on the trends shaping our age
      Summary: The FM website attempts to show you the future at work today. But sometimes we forecast but forget to update you when it arrives. Consider this post an update to the world terminal’s Arrivals board.  Trains are coming; we still have time to prepare. Excerpts Quote of the Year show ...
    • Why liberals lose
      Summary: Today’s post by Chet Richards (Colonel, USAF, retired) applies the analytical tools of strategy and tactics to American politics.  At the end is a primer on grand strategy. Juan Cole (Prof History, U MI), one of our most perspicuous observers on the Middle East, ran a blog post th ...
    • Question time on the FM website. Post your qu ...
      Summary: It’s “ask a question” time. In the comments “ask the mineshaft”:  post questions about geopolitics — and your answers to other people’s questions.  This is a community exercise, from the German Gemeinschaft (see Wikipedia). Questions are especia ...

    Open Your Eyes News

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

    The Progressive Realist

    • On Independence Day as a Celebration of Our Mi ...
      It is impossible in the modern era to celebrate America without simultaneously venerating Our Troops. The culture that enables and nourishes this cynical farce is a threat to our politics, our democracy, and our very opportunity to embody the high ideals articulated at our national founding. I n ...
    • Map of the Day: Who Stands Where on the Arms T ...
      A new website, ArmsTreaty.org, just released this nifty interactive map that displays each country’s position on specific parts of the Arms Trade Treaty currently under negotiation at the UN in New York. The maps can be sorted by a number of categories, such as whether or not states suppor ...
    • How the Obama Administration Justifies Targete ...
      Despite almost ten years of operations and nearly four hundred airstrikes that killed an estimated three thousand people (both militants and civilians), both the Bush and Obama administrations have provided limited information about U.S. targeted killings policies. The scope and intensity of the ...
    • Top of the Morning: UN Refugee Agency Issues W ...
      Top stories from DAWNS Digest.  UN Refugee Agency Warns that Operations in South Sudan are Severely Overstretched read more
    • Anchoring the Alliance: Poland, Italy, Spain a ...
      For NATO to enjoy a more effective future, the Alliance’s other leading powers–Poland, Italy, Spain, and Canada—must be offered—and must be willing to earn—more responsibility within the Alliance. NATO is an alliance of twenty-eight nations of dramatically varying s ...

    TAPPED - The American Prospect

    • The DOJ Takes Aim at DOMA
      Late on Tuesday, when just about everyone had already left for their Fourth of July celebrations, the Department of Justice announced that it was asking the Supreme Court to take two DOMA lawsuits, promptly. The first was no surprise: You know that the First Circuit already, very cautiously, de ...
    • In Florida, the Attacks on Bain Capital Are Wo ...
      Awhile back, I suggested that President Barack Obama might have a problem winning Florida in November. The latest polls showed him with a significant deficit and emphasized the extent to which the Sunshine State has plenty of advantages for Republicans: Demographically, it’s an exceptionally fa ...
    • Graduating from the Electoral College
      We all know the states where the 2012 presidential election will be decided. Not New York, which hasn’t voted Republican since 1984, a year when only Minnesota could muster support for Walter Mondale. Not Texas, where you have to stretch back to 1976 to find an election where a Republican victo ...
    • The Myth That Won't Die
      John McCain is no longer a substantively important figure in American politics. As a member of the minority party in the Senate, he chairs no committees. He is not a leader among his peers. Since losing in his second run for president, he continued his decades-long record of not bothering to en ...
    • Look, up in the Sky! It's a Tax! It's a Penalt ...
      Since not much campaign news happens over the July Fourth holiday, Mitt Romney took the opportunity to change his campaign's tune on whether the penalty in the Affordable Care Act for those who can afford health insurance but refuse to get it is a "tax." To review, the Supreme Court said that t ...

    Buzzflash

    • Get a Straight Jacket for Exxon-Mobile’s CEO; ...
      JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Climate change is here, it's real, and it's going to get much worse from man-made pollution primarily produced from oil and coal. Currently, epic high temperatures set off uncontrollable wildfires spreading an inferno faster than firefighters can mana ...
    • Don't Laugh: There Are a Few Little Ledges of ...
      MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF TRUTHOUT AT BUZZFLASH Few have been more critical of the Tea Party and the Gun Zealots than BuzzFlash at Truthout. In fact, I personally have a 25-year history of national work on gun control. But is it possible that there may be some room for finding a few shared values ...
    • A Brief History Lesson on the High Court and ' ...
      STEVEN JONAS, MD, MPH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Ah yes, now the Grand Old Tea Party is screaming about "politics" and the Supreme Court. How could Chief Justice Roberts betray them on the "man from Kenya's" health care reform act? He was just playing politics and that was a terrible thing. Oh ...
    • The Fire This Time: Small-Government Extremism ...
      BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT A 2011 poll conducted after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan by the Public Religion Research Institute in partnership with the Religion News Service, found that 6 in 10 evangelicals, and 38 percent of Americans believe that God uses natural ...
    • Yes, Your Local News May Be Written in the Phi ...
      MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Chicagoan Sam Zell is one of the multi-billionaires of the US. But there are so many Americans in the one percent with billions of dollars that Zell, poor soul, only ranks 66th richest person in America. In 2007, he bought the ailing Chicago Tribune ...

    Glenn Greenwald - Salon

    The BiPartisan Report

    Sciencebase

    • The Demi God Particle
      The ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN today presented their latest results in the search for the long-sought Higgs boson. Both experiments see strong indications for the presence of a new particle, which could be the Higgs boson, in the mass region around 126 gigaelectronvolts (GeV). Confidence ...
    • We’ve observed a new particle #Higgs
      We had the leaked CERN Higgs video yesterday, thanks to Kate Travis who unearthed it first, I do believe, well ahead of the rest of the media. It was playable for a while, then CERN cut it off. I hadn’t been quick enough to save the movie file from their server and couldn’t resurrect ...
    • Flares are so out…seriously
      We’ve all seen them, or least we’ve all seen them in photos and TV documentaries, the eternal, infernal flames of the oil-field flare. Now, an international engineering research team has put some figures to the energy and exergy of the venting and burning of combustible gases conside ...
    • Higgs news leaked from CERN
      UPDATE: The video is now broken. CERN is claiming that it was just one of several made to cover various hypothetical findings. Sounds like nonsense to me. Videos in their files either side are still available and much more general. Incandela said in the video that he was very tired which is why ...
    • Best coffee you ever tasted…in the crystal met ...
      As a chemist, I was drawn to Breaking Bad from the very start. One of the coolest scenes is in Episode 6 of series…sorry season 3, when Gale makes Walt (Heisenberg to the drug world) the best cup of coffee he has ever tasted using apparatus rigged up in the crystal meth factory lab owned [ ...

    Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

    • Amnesty International Calls on Peruvian Leader ...
      Amnesty International today called on local authorities and social leaders in Peru's northern Cajamarca region to urgently appeal for calm after violence erupted at protests against the construction of a goldmine, killing at least four people. On Wednesday, Peruvian authorities imposed a sta ...
    • Fukushima Disaster “Man-Made” — Has the Nuclea ...
      Bloomberg BusinessWeek is reporting: “The Fukushima nuclear disaster was the result of ‘man-made’ failures before and after last year’s earthquake, according to a report from an independent parliamentary investigation.”read more
    • Study: Fish and Wildlife Service Routinely Ign ...
      A new study in the international journal Bioscience finds that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service routinely ignored scientific peer review when designating protected critical habitat for endangered species. According to the study published this month, the agency ignored recommendations by scient ...
    • Voting Rights Organizations File Suit to Enfor ...
      Today, the Black Political Empowerment Project (B-PEP) and ACTION United filed suit against Secretary of the Commonwealth Carol Aichele, Secretary of Public Welfare, Gary D. Alexander and Secretary of Health, Dr. Eli N. Avila in the U.S.read more
    • With Hundreds of Workers Dying, OSHA’s Denial ...
      The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has denied yet another petition from Public Citizen calling for a life-saving regulation – an action particularly shortsighted given the searing temperatures we are seeing in the summer and the number of workers who are dying fr ...

    Common Dreams-Views

    • Getting Iran Sanctions Wrong
      Peter Hart Much of the media analysis of Iran at the moment dwells on the punitive economic sanctions targeting Iran's economy. An additional round of more restrictive sanctions took effect at the beginning of this month, drawing renewe ...
    • New Film Hammers Democrat Andrew Cuomo's Plan ...
      Sara Jerving Gasland director Josh Fox released a short film last month targeting the Democratic governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, for his plan to open economically distressed parts of the state to hydraulic fracturing or "fracking.& ...
    • Washington's Militarized Mindset
      Tom Engelhardt Americans may feel more distant from war than at any time since World War II began.  Certainly, a smaller percentage of us -- less than 1% -- serves in the military in this all-volunteer era of ours and, on the face of i ...
    • Was Yasser Arafat Assassinated?
      César Chelala For at least two years before Yasser Arafat’s death in 2004, Uri Avnery, a leading Israeli peace activist, had been warning of the possibility that the Palestinian leader could be assassinated and on the negative effect ...
    • Courts Should Stop Jailing People for Being Poor
      Carl Takei Across the country, cash-strapped cities and counties are throwing poor defendants in jail for failing to pay legal debts that they can never hope to manage. On Monday, the New York Times told the story of Gina Ray, whose $1 ...

    Newshoggers - AfPak

    Water Wars

    • Water Wars Not Over
      APALACHICOLA, FL- The legal battle over water from Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river system appeared to be over after the supreme court refused to hear Florida's latest appeal. But members of Apalachicola Riverkeeper say that may not be the case.
    • What Others Say: State wins battle in 'wat ...
      Most of the media coverage centered on the high-profile U.S. Supreme Court decisions on immigration and Obamacare.
    • Beating the heat with water wars
      Participants at the Camp McIntosh day camp in Peachtree City found a great way to beat the summer heat last week, as a camp counselor doused them with leftover water from the just-concluded “water wars” event. Campers used the water to load waterguns they brought to camp for the special event, a ...
    • Alabama loses second round in Water Wars case
      A federal judge in Birmingham today dismissed most of Alabama's lawsuit to prevent Georgia from siphoning too much water upstream from rivers that flow into the state.
    • Water wars
      You wouldn’t think that getting water in an area with some of the largest natural lakes in the world would be a problem. read more

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    The Wonk Room

    • Happy 46th Birthday, Freedom of Information Act
      On July 4, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) into law. 46 years later, FOIA has been instrumental in investigations (after a few tweaks; the original bill was full of roadblocks like a copying cost of $1 per page and $7 per searching hour). Here are j ...
    • President Obama Consoles Woman Whose Uninsured ...
      President Obama stopped shaking hands for a moment today so that he could embrace a sobbing woman whose uninsured sister recently died of colon cancer. The sister of Stephanie Miller, from Sandusky, OH, would have been covered if Obamacare were fully implemented when she got sick. Instead, the w ...
    • VIDEO: Joe Walsh’s ‘Ashleigh&#8217 ...
      This afternoon, CNN host Ashleigh Banfield took Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) to task over his comments concerning his opponent, Tammy Duckworth. Walsh responded with a condescending repetition of the host’s name that topped out at 93 times. ThinkProgress has the video, with the counter to confirm ...
    • Workers Laid Off During The Rest Of 2012 Will ...
      Jobless Americans are facing a cliff when it comes to their unemployment benefits. As a new report from the National Employment Law Project notes, due to Congress phasing out federal unemployment benefits that were implemented as a response to the Great Recession, U.S. workers who lose their job ...
    • Obamacare Is A Major Tax Cut For Middle Class ...
      Following the Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act ruling, Republicans — including Mitt Romney — have vigorously insisted that the Affordable Care Act is a tax on the American people. But instead of being a tax increase, Obamacare will provide millions of families with large tax ...

    thwap's schoolyard

    • "Find one voter who didn't vote because of our ...
      There were an UNPRECEDENTED number of complaints about electoral irregularities arising out of the 2011 federal election. Call centres, in the pay of the Conservative Party of Canada, were (among other things) giving voters deliberately false information about polling stations moving to new loca ...
    • Mexico Shoots Itself in the Head
      And by "Mexico" I mean the whole gamut of people, institutions, laws (including those who uphold them and who choose to not uphold them), culture, etc. In the same way that "Canada" is tolerating stephen harper's stolen majority. Anyhow, Mexico's PRI candidate, the 45-year old airhead Peña Nieto ...
    • My Most Gracious Enquirie to the Esteemed Shit ...
      Sometimes I think Dr. Dawg is completely wasting his time by allowing trolls and/or absolute idiots to comment repeatedly on his site. I especially can't see the point of allowing the vile lunatic ksarroafh-skdf to pollute the environs on a regular basis. But sometimes, through the quality of tr ...
    • Now You're Talking!
      This rabble.ca essay has been up for a couple of days. But I just want to acknowledge it. We're finally talking about the people standing up to an illegitimate, anti-Canadian, undemocratic regime. This is vital to preserve the health of Canadian democracy (such as it was). Good to see the feder ...
    • Obamacare
      I'm trying to avoid blogging about US politics because Canada's crisis of democracy is so much more important to me But I have to admit to being completely surprised that the SCOTUS didn't find the "individual mandate" (wherein: "people who have no employer-provided health plan, and no other ki ...

    on Government Oversight

    Digital Journal

    • Long waits can turn citizens off when it comes ...
      The bloody t-shirt rested inside a tree hollow with more blood on a water bottle and other scraps of paper nearby. The logical thing to do is to call the police. Will that call tie up the rest of your day?
    • Toronto journalist blames gun violence on abse ...
      Toronto Sun columnist Lorrie Goldstein wrote today, "Kids growing up in poverty without dads are the single greatest future recruitment mechanism for the gangs." He believes "black men impregnate as many willing women as they can."
    • Would you like free Wi-Fi access with your Tim ...
      Most coffee shops and fast food restaurants now offer its customers free Wi-Fi access. Tim Hortons will install high speed Wi-Fi and expects close to 90 percent of its restaurants in Canada will have it.
    • Foreign workers can't be hired in sex trade in ...
      Canadian Ministers announced Wednesday that foreign workers cannot be hired in the sex trade industry, such as strip clubs, massage parlours or escort agencies. The federal government is taking action to combat abuse and exploitation.
    • Canadian MP Julian Fantino replaces Bev Oda in ...
      The Prime Minister's Office confirmed Wednesday that former Toronto Police Chief and Vaughan Member of Parliament Julian Fantino would replace Bev Oda as Minister of International Cooperation after the Durham MP announced her resignation.

    End Homelessness | Change.org

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

    Ceasefire.ca

    • Canada’s next top soldier
      Chief of Defence Staff General Walter Natynczyk will be retiring in a few days' time. Who will replace him?
    • Veteran left out in the cold
      The Harper government promotes itself as a strong supporter of the men and women serving in the Canadian Forces. But its dealings with Canada's veterans often tell a different tale.
    • Guilty plea on chopper software export
      Pratt & Whitney Canada has pled guilty to U.S. federal criminal charges in connection with the sale of software to the Chinese military.
    • Syria: The next war?
      What started as a series of peaceful protests inspired by the "Arab Spring" democracy movement has gradually become a violent civil war between the brutal secular regime of Bashar al-Assad and a fragmented and increasingly radicalized opposition. And Canada could get involved.
    • Destroyer replacement lags
      The Royal Canadian Navy's three destroyers are due to be reach the end of their planned service life in as little as five years, before their replacements can be delivered.

    Kevin Trudeau Show

    • The Correct, Easy Way To Make Green Smoothies ...
      April 3, 2012 Natural News By Paul Fassa “Adding green super food smoothies to your diet is a great thing to do for your health. There are many amazing benefits of adding more green vegetables in your diet and making smoothies is an easy way to get them in your tummy.” –KTRN Du ...
    • Pfizer Execs To Stand Trial For Cover-Up Of Dr ...
      April 3, 2012 Natural News By Ethan A. Huff “Here is more proof that drug companies are evil to the core.”  –KTRN Four former executives at Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drug company. — Henry McKinnell, John LaMattina, Karen Katen, Joseph Feczko — as well a ...
    • Three Benefits Of Dark Chocolate That Will Hel ...
      April 3, 2012 Natural News By Celeste M. Smucker, MPH, PhD “More evidence that chocolate is quite healthy. But don’t confuse real chocolate over the garbage called Hershey’s.” –KTRN The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that 68 percent of adults over the age ...
    • McDonald’s Stock Slides As More Consumers Turn ...
      April 3, 2012 The Onion By The Onion “Even though this is satire, The Onion nailed it – McDonald’s does not serve real food.” –KTRN The McDonald’s Corporation announced Tuesday that it will close 175 restaurants and cut nearly 600 corporate jobs, responding to ...
    • Ron Paul Is Trying To Save GOP From Themselves
      April 3, 2012 RT By RT “Ron Paul may be the only one who can save the GOP. The party is in complete turmoil these days.” –KTRN Presidential hopeful Ron Paul might not represent what his Republican rivals are touting this election year, but the Texas congressman says that he won ...

    Armies of Liberation

    • Yemen Air Forces bombs soldiers, kills 240
      The Yemeni Air Force bombed the al Samaa Republican Guard garrison in the Arhab district of Sanaa today, deliberately killing 240 guardsmen. The attack came after the troops refused to attack pro-revolution tribesmen with artillery. “The government did not stand quiet when the guards refused ord ...
    • Yemenis protest against al Qaeda
      In a direct rebuke to the terror group, residents of Taiz held a major protest against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Thursday evening after prayers. Protesters held signs denouncing AQAP that said, “Your racism will do nothing but make us stronger.” Taiz is the largest city in Yeme ...
    • اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن
      My article from PJM at al Mostakela: اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن تخاطر الولايات المتحدة بتمكين القاعدة في اليمن وتنفير الشعب اليمني عن طريق إحباط تغيير النظام هناك كتبت – جين نوفاك يعتبر اليمن بلد معقد، فقد ظل يرزح تحت وطأة اضطرابات كبيرة، كما أن فهم اليمن يخبرنا الشيء الكثير عن الشرق ال ...
    • Yemen’s CT chief accused of war crimes
      After Yemen’s Republican Guard killed and dismembered tribal prisoners Thursday, Arhab tribesmen issued a statement Friday demanding the immediate arrest and prosecution of General Ahmed Saleh as a war criminal. Ahmed Saleh heads the Republican Guard containing US funded counter-terror units and ...
    • Yemen protesters announce boycott of US, Saudi ...
      Protesters in Yemen announced a boycott today of US and Saudi products, a largely symbolic move in light of Yemen’s grave humanitarian crisis. Protesters allege that the Obama administration has thwarted their efforts for regime change. Millions across Yemen have demanded the end to the 33 year ...

    Dark Politricks

    • Are Banks Raiding “Allocated” Gold Accounts?
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAre Banks Raiding “Allocated” Gold Accounts? By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Beware: “Allocated” Gold May Not Really Be There In 2007, Morgan Stanley paid out $4.4 million to settle a class- ...
    • The Pauls’ New Crusade: “Internet Freedom”
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRosie Gray BuzzFeed Thursday, July 5, 2012 Ron and Rand Paul are set today to shift the central focus of their family’s long libertarian crusade to a new cause: Internet Freedom. Kentucky senator Rand and his fathe ...
    • Rep. Walsh flips out, digs in on criticism of ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Tea Party favorite freshman Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) took to CNN today to do damage control over his critical remarks about his congressional challenger’s military record. But the appearance quickly w ...
    • Servicewomen’s group critical of anti-’women i ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   The Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN), an advocacy group for women in the armed forces, has responded to a controversial anti-”women in combat” editorial in the Marine Corps Gazette ...
    • Occupy Your Couch: A Summer Staycation Home Fi ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy William Kaufman The Background of the List of Films: The Arts and the Left During my graduate-school years in New York City in the mid-seventies to early eighties, Manhattan w ...

    Dandelion Salad

    • Chris Hedges: It’s Not Our Job To Take P ...
      with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 3, 2012 “The Occupy Movement is the dress rehearsal for the end of the corporate state.” — Chris Hedges Jul 1, 2012 by mscotko Chris Hedges speaking at Occupy National Gathering in Philadelphia, streamed live by Jesse Hadde ...
    • Why The Yes Men Crashed the TPP Negotiations + ...
      Dandelion Salad Updated: July 5, 2012; added an article. Jun 29, 2012 by yeslabmedia http://www.tradewatch.org http://www.yeslab.org/tpp Why The Yes Men Crashed the TPP Negotiations *** Jul 4, 2012 by RTAmerica The Trans-Pacific Partnership is being called NAFTA on steroids. The TPP is an allian ...
    • “This Is Just the Beginning”: Fore ...
      Dandelion Salad Jul 3, 2012 by democracynow DemocracyNow.org – The past two weeks have witnessed the worst forest fires in Colorado history, a deadly Mid-Atlantic storm that left 23 dead and four million without power, and a record shattering heatwave across the East Coast and Midwest that ...
    • “This Is Just the Beginning”: Fore ...
      Dandelion Salad Jul 3, 2012 by democracynow DemocracyNow.org – The past two weeks have witnessed the worst forest fires in Colorado history, a deadly Mid-Atlantic storm that left 23 dead and four million without power, and a record shattering heatwave across the East Coast and Midwest that ...
    • A Leftist Guide to the Fourth of July by Billy ...
      Repost from last year. by Billy Wharton Guest Writer Dandelion Salad Examiner.com July 4, 2011 A neighbor illustrated the problem with the Fourth of July. He broke out a new bumper sticker for his car just in time for the annual celebration. The sticker promoted the US Navy with the slogan, “Lif ...

    Your New Reality

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

    Wired - Science

    • 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.

    Israeli Occupation Archive

    • Lia Tarachansky: Thousands of Israelis Join “C ...
      On Friday, June 22 Daphnie Leef, the symbolic leader of the J14 social justice movement in Israel was violently arrested while trying to set up a protest tent. The action was meant to reinvigorate... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
    • Lia Tarachansky: Israel’s J14 Movement and the ...
      On June 2nd, Wafa Tiara, a Palestinian agricultural worker organized under the Ma’an union was supposed to address Israel’s J14 social justice movement. The protest was meant to serve as an indicator... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
    • Jonathan Cook: The evil of humanitarian wars
      Societies cannot have democracy imposed from without, as though it were an item to be ordered from a lunch menu. The West’s democracies, imperfect as they are, were fought for by their peoples over... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
    • Author: Israel can claim the title of the most ...
      Sami Michael: "Israel is in danger unless its leadership understands it isn't located in Europe's tranquil north but in the Middle East's seething center," said Michael. "We may lose everything.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
    • Akiva Eldar: Palestinian disinheritance sponso ...
      It's a shame the police don't show the same determination treating the settlers who invade private Palestinian land as they do evicting the temporary settlers on Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard. It's... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

    Ria Novosti - Military

    • ‘Stalin’s Dogs’ Join Russian Army
      The Russian military will begin employing a breed of dog created in the Red Army kennels in the mid-20th century and known in English as “Stalin’s dogs,” a military spokesman said on Thursday.
    • Aviastar Sends First Il-76MD-90A Plane for Tests
      Russia's Aviastar aircraft plant has completed the first flying prototype of the Ilyushin Il-76MD-90A transport aircraft and sent it off for test-flights, the plant's general director, Sergei Dementyev, said on Thursday.
    • Russian Participation in UK Airshow Mired in S ...
      The Russian Knights, one of the world’s best aerobatic teams, missed on Thursday the planned deadline for their departure to the British airshow in Farnborough over the lack of Russian bureaucratic paperwork, a source from the team said.
    • Iran Demands $4 Bln From Russia Over Canceled ...
      Iran’s Defense Ministry and The Aerospace Industries Organization have launched a $4 bln law suit against Russia’s state arms corporation Rosoboronexport in an international court in Geneva over a deal to buy missiles suspended by Russia, Rosoboronexport said in its annual report.
    • U.S. Warships in Gulf ‘Sitting Ducks’ for Iran ...
      U.S. naval ships in the Persian Gulf are within reach of Iranian missiles should the United States consider an offensive against the Islamic Republic, an Iranian expert said on Wednesday.

    NewsWise

    • Turning History's 'Lost' Into 'Found'
      When antiquities go MIA, sometimes the sleuthing of a network of scholars can lead to rediscovery . That's what happened recently at the American Geographical Society Library at the UW-Milwaukee.
    • Extreme Heat Raises Climate Change Questions, ...
      The recent heat wave baking much of the country has prompted many people to ask: Is this due to climate change?
    • Levindale Auxiliary Creates Flower Power For R ...
      The Levindale Auxiliary has dedicated a unique sensory garden to enrich the lives of residents, employees and visitors at this Baltimore nursing home by awakening their powers of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch in a peaceful setting.
    • Study Shows Palin Treated Differently by Media ...
      The 2008 presidential race was one of the most watched, discussed and analyzed campaigns in U.S. history, and when it came to the vice presidential candidates, voters heard a great deal about Sarah Palin. Much more, in fact, than they heard about her opponent, Joe Biden.
    • Prof Suggests Reality Check for Sexy Summer Read
      Hot, sexy bestsellers like "50 Shades of Grey" offer teaching opportunities, but also challenges, says Robin Poedel, clinical assistant professor of nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). The books provoke discussion, but lack of attention to safe sex concerns her. Poedel's tea ...

    Natural Health News

    Climategate

    • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
      Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
    • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
      ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
    • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
      What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...
    • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
      A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
    • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
      USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

    Opinio Juris

    • The Arms Treaty Negotiations and the Problems ...
      by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson OJ’s esteemed commenter Martin Holterman asks in the comments to my earlier post about the Arms Treaty negotiation underway in New York what the point of negotiating a treaty is, if you assert in advance (and indeed attach to the treaty) that there ...
    • LJIL Symposium Vol 25-2: Fairness in Internati ...
      by Mario Prost and Alejandra Torres Camprubi by Mario Prost and Alejandra Torres Camprubi [Mario Prost is a Senior Lecturer at Keele Law School (UK) & Alejandra Torres Camprubí is a Research Fellow at the  Faculty of Law of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid] This post is part of the Leide ...
    • US Lawmakers Send Letter to Obama Administrati ...
      by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson The Hill (a DC newspaper covering US Congress and government) reports that some 130 US Congresspeople have sent a letter to the Obama administration objecting to various aspects of the just-started UN Arms Treaty negotiations in New York and warning the ...
    • LJIL Symposium Vol 25-2: Fairness in Internati ...
      by Eric Posner by Eric Posner [Eric Posner is Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law and Aaron Director Research Scholar at the University of Chicago] This post is part of the Leiden Journal of International Law Vol 25-2 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts be ...
    • Weekday News Wrap: July 5, 2012
      by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Paraguay has recalled its ambassador in Venezuela in protest over allegations that the Venezuelan government tried to encourage Paraguay’s military leaders to defend the recently impeached leftist President Lugo. Yasser Arafat’s body may be exhumed to ...

    Public News Service

    • A los educadores se les “cede el paso&#8 ...
      A los educadores se les “cede el paso” en tarifas de curso de manejo este verano PHOENIX – Durante verano es cuando el tráfico se pone más pesado en las autopistas, especialmente entre el 4 de julio y Labor Day. Este verano, la AARP ofrece un descuento en el curso de ...
    • Educators Get Break on Summer Driver Safety Course
      Educators Get Break on Summer Driver Safety Course PHOENIX - Summer is the heaviest time for traffic on American highways, especially around July 4 and then again around Labor Day. This summer, AARP is offering a discounted driver safety course to any current or former employee of a school dis ...
    • Poll Shows Democrats Lead Growing Among Latino ...
      Poll Shows Democrats Lead Growing Among Latino Voters PHOENIX - President Obama has received a bump in support from Latino voters as a result of recent events. That's one finding of a new poll taken in five potential battleground states, including Arizona. The poll also found Arizona Latinos put ...
    • Health Reform Focus now on Arizona Decision-Ma ...
      Health Reform Focus now on Arizona Decision-Makers PHOENIX – Arizona's leaders have some big decisions to make now that the U.S. Supreme Court has largely upheld the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Among them are expansion of the state's AHCCCS indigent health care program and creation of a st ...
    • Is Your Kid A Bully?
      Is Your Kid A Bully? PHOENIX - Arizona parents who have seen the YouTube video of seventh-grade boys harassing a 68-year-old school bus monitor may wonder if their children could do such a thing. Christy Buck, director of the Mental Health Foundation, says parents who don't want their children ...

    Center for Food Safety

    • This is Your Meat on Drugs. CFS Joins Consumer ...
      The Center for Food Safety has joined Consumers Union and Fix Food for the launch of “Meat Without Drugs,” a campaign urging supermarkets to only sell meat raised without antibiotics. The campaign’s first target is Trader Joe’s, one of the leading national supermarket chains best poised to make ...
    • 250,000+ to EPA: Time for Emergency Action on ...
      Beekeepers, Environmental Groups Still on Hold for Agency Response to Legal Petition Citing “Imminent” Harm to Bees A coalition of environmental groups and beekeepers submitted over 250,000 petitions to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today, urging immediate suspension of a pesticide l ...
    • The Sanders Amendment on GE Labeling Fails in ...
      Last week the U.S. Senate voted on an amendment supporting the rights of states to enact their own laws requiring the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods. Offered by Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Mark Begich (D-AK) to the Senate Farm Bill, the amendment faile ...
    • Farm Groups and Public Interest Advocates Join ...
      Hidden rider poses unprecedented constitutional assault, blocks USDA authority and denies GE crop safeguards The Center for Food Safety (CFS) and a coalition of farm, food safety, environmental and consumer advocacy groups today formally submitted a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Co ...
    • Your Burger Just Got a Little Safer, Thanks to ...
      by Michele Simon After years of debating, petitioning, rulemaking, and outright stalling, this week the federal government is finally implementing new requirements for testing E. coli in ground beef. Why is this cause for celebration? Because while the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safet ...

    Angry Indian Op-Eds

    • .:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism ...
      .:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism and Media in the New Libya:.: Journalism and media witnessed huge expansion in Libya since the first spark in the February 17 revolution. There are now around 200 printed newspapers in Tripoli and Benghazi alone, and around 18 satellite channels thro ...
    • GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “L ...
      GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “Latinos: Turn Off Your TV, Co�o!”: GUEST POST BY Jazmin Chavez & Julia Ahumada Grob of "East WillyB" By the time of this publication, we should all be familiar with the recent controversy regarding ABC sitcom, “Work It,” in which Puerto Rican act ...
    • A Brief look at the Censorship of Human Rights ...
      China must abandon censorship | APNS Article 35 of China's constitution as adopted in 1982 clearly states that: "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration." For 28 years this article has stood ...
    • The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy
      The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy [Black Star News Editorial] Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and front-runner Mitt Romney have all played the race-card to varying degrees in this election cycle, while Ron Paul's campaign is weighed down by the race b ...
    • The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown
      The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown: Black people are inherently inferior. This is not something you would often hear anybody say outright—if at all. That would be racist, and we live in a time when even devout racists get offended if you actually call them “racist.” The closest we tend to ge ...

    Pensieve

    • Grain
      I feel like sand crumbling in the wind. I try to take a step only to find my feet are no longer there. I am a particle, speeding away to nothingness. I was once a rock, solid, assailed by waves, broken by none. But one day I fell from the lofty cliff that was my [...] Related posts: Hurricane Al ...
    • Thermodynamics and Jenga Towers
      I imagine one type of probability space as an extremely wide and extremely high tower of Jenga blocks under bombardment from an arbitrarily large number of bored children wearing jetpacks. The vertical, y axis represents the passage of time. The higher you go up that axis, the further you travel ...
    • The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything
      An article on the blog “Shake Off the Grind“, titled “You Only Live Once so Make it Meaningful“,  asks the questions below. Here are my answers: Who am I: A semi-aware bundle of perceptions, habits, and quirks. My personality is simply the structure of the relationships b ...
    • Magic Wands Almost Possible
      “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistiguishable from magic” –Arthur C. Clarke Perhaps none of us will ever see straw being converted to gold, or water to wine, but the technology to power a wand-like instrument by waving it around has arrived. The electronics of the d ...
    • Self Sabotage versus Sage Wisdom
      Reading many psychology books recently is, surprisingly, changing my behavior for the wiser. Ever a pessimist and cynic, I’ve usually harbored little or no hope. I’ve even seen hope as a curse, and a weapon of self-torture. But as a result of what I’m reading, I’ve begun to explore the ways diff ...
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