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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 III


Green Times

  • The connection between Ocean temperature and e ...
    According to a new report, high ocean temperatures contributed to the extreme rainfall that flooded three-quarters of Queensland over the summer of 2010-11. For example, 25% of rainfall across the state was due to the average sea surface temperatures in december 2010! For further information l ...
  • Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...
    Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...
  • Famous melt ice cream
    Just to think about global warming (climate-change/global-warming.html) with humour!Photo by William Murphy (http://www.flickr.com/people/infomatique/)via Flickr Creative Commons
  • Cycling for sustainable development
    Biking is less impacting environment than cars or other transportations. It doesn't damage the environment with pollutant emission (glossary/categories/climate-change/carbon-emission.html) for example. Of course, the production of bikes and their infrastructures uses energy (glossary/categories/ ...
  • Green art project
    The ARTECYCLE Sculpture Exhibition starts today (18-May). Artecycle encourages Australian and international artists to create artwork that responds to contemporary ideas surrounding the themes of environmentalism (lifestyle/environmentalism.html) and sustainability (lifestyle/sustainable-develo ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Susya
    June 22, 2012: Susya I doubt if Palestinian Susya has ever seen so many people. Some 500, maybe more, have arrived from Jerusalem (including a large Palestinian delegation from East Jerusalem), Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva, and various sites in the occupied territories: Beit Umar, Mufagara, and the ...
  • My Home is Everything: the People of Susiya Sp ...
    Dear Friends and supporters, The latest news from Qamar, the lawyer from Rabbis for Human Rights representing Palestinian Susiya: the occupation’s “Civil Administration” agreed to extend the period for the submission of the juridical objections to the demolition orders issued f ...
  • Urgent alert to save Susya village from destru ...
    Dear Friends, Please have a look at the announcement below. For the last twelve years we have worked closely with our Palestinian friends in Susya, protected them to the best of our abilities from continuous violent harassment by Israeli settlers and by the army, fought the legal battle to keep ...
  • “Civil Administration” and Settler ...
    In March, we reported here about an unusual Israel High Court petition by Israeli settler-run groups, demanding that the (fraudulently named) “Civil Administration” carry out demolition orders in Palestinian Susya. Settler pressure upon the government to make Palestinian life more di ...
  • Protest around the world today for Ziad Jilani
    I have written early in an attempt to draw parallels between Trayvon Martin and the killing of Palestinian youths by settler vigilantes. Today we are protesting a killing done by “Border Police” in Israel. The name suggest an obvious link to police brutality in the United States: wit ...

Politics in the Zeros

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

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • This Day In History – July 6
    1189 – Richard I “the Lionheart” is crowned King of England. 1483 – Richard III is crowned King of England. 1535 – Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England. 1560 – The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England. 1785 – The dollar is unanim ...
  • The Jack Blood Show – July 4 2012
    Jack Blood assembles an all star cast of writers and activists to reflect of In Dependence day 2012 – 1/2 of them made it before the show was hached… again. Starring: Jason Rink, Ledge, Larry Pinkney, and Heather Fazio.
  • Man calls out Congressman criticizing Constitu ...
    Two wrongs…. Dude has some words for James Lankford on his support of several unconstitutional bills (including the National Defense Authorization Act). GETS TOTAL DOUBLE-SPEAK! Then He got escorted off by 3 military personnel. Please EVERYONE GO DO THIS!  
  • Occupied US celebrates In “dependence&#8 ...
      Wed Jul 4, 2012 By Kevin Barrett Press TV We are occupied by the Zionists, who control the media, Congress, and the White House. Our top layers of government are infested by US-Israeli dual citizens. They cannot be accused of dual loyalties, since it is so obvious where their one and only ...
  • Can Americans Escape the Deception?
    Paul Craig Roberts Wednesday, July 4, 2012 Hot Air Day is upon us. On July 4 hot air will spew forth all over the country as dignitaries deliver homilies to our “freedom and democracy” and praise “our brave troops” who are protecting our freedom by “killing them over there before they come over ...

The Air Vent

  • Putting the K back in Skeptic
    I received this email today.   It’s kind of humorous except that I do agree with a common sense approach to energy that has a lot less government involvement. — Jeff. —- Dear Sceptic,  (I think he means me. It could be one of you guys though   ) due to your high profile interes ...
  • Are Climate Models Spatially Consistent?
    An interesting link left by Curious on the open thread. I will read later. –Jeff h/t Curious, HR at Watts Up tips and notes: http://www.clim-past-discuss.net/8/2409/2012/cpd-8-2409-2012.pdf Climate of the last millennium:ensemble consistency of simulations and reconstructions O. Bothe, J. ...
  • Descent
    Today’s supreme court “health sickness care” ruling is an enormous blow to Americans. Our past successes have been created by a governmental philosophy of ‘the people know best’. Today we are told that in fact, ‘government knows best’. They flat stated, ...
  • Questioning the Forest et al. (2006) sensitivi ...
    Nic Lewis has spent a great deal of time analyzing this important paper in climate science. He has posted an article at Climate etc., readers may comment here or there, Nic will be around to answer technical quesitons.  — Jeff Questioning the Forest et al. (2006) sensitivity study by Nicho ...
  • Penguin Divination
    Climate science hasn’t changed a bit since climategate. Sure there are now some climate scientists trying to find a middle ground between insane liberal energy activism and reality, but why is anything other than simple reality necessary? A slow path to Euro-crazy politics is still the wro ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook updates page insights to make reach m ...
    Facebook today made two changes that will help page owners understand the true reach of their posts. The reach metric in page insights will now include mobile data and the desktop News Feed will no longer count reach until a … Continue reading →
  • Facebook says bug caused wrong contact syncing ...
    A contact synchronization bug, combined with Facebook’s latest changes to users’ email visibility settings, led some mobile phones to update with users’ Facebook.com addresses rather than their primary email account, Facebook Director of Engineering Andrew Bosworth told The Ver ...
  • TripAdvisor, Bubble Safari, Terra, Chill, Hoot ...
    TripAdvisor displaced Zygna’s Bubble Safari as No. 1 on our list of top growing Facebook apps by monthly active users this week. Titles on our list gained the most MAU of any apps on the platform, growing from between 400,000 and 6.2 million MAU, … Continue reading →
  • TripAdvisor applies lessons from its other pop ...
    TripAdvisor’s revamped restaurant ratings app Local Picks helps users share where they’ve eaten and find new spots to try. The Facebook app also feeds TripAdvisor valuable data for its social travel site. TripAdvisor is the No. 10 Facebook app developer … Continue reading →
  • Facebook roundup: stock price slips, Chill rai ...
    Facebook shares back down to $31 – Facebook stock is down 5 percent from last Friday, closing at $31.09 today. The stock slipped after a number of analysts suggested that the company might report underwhelming earnings this quarter. Six of … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • The voting dilemma facing Americans in the pre ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers the hard choices facing American voters as they ponder who to cast their ballot in the upcoming presidential elections, and offers some guidelines on how potential but wavering voters might make up their minds.
  • Palestinians, beware false friends
    Stuart Littlewood assesses whether UK Labour leader Ed Miliband is worthy of the praise heaped upon him by the Palestinian Authority's UK representative, Manuel Hassassian, and urges Palestinians to beware of false "friends", such as the Miliband brothers and other Labour leaders, who are uncond ...
  • Migrant nightmares: Ethiopian domestic workers ...
    Graham Peebles charts the horrendous abuse faced by Ethiopian migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states and Lebanon where they are traded by unscrupulous traffickers - "not brokers/agents in any recognizable, legitimate sense of the word, but common criminals engaged in human trafficking ...
  • An artist’s vision of peace in Palestine
    Neve Gordon considers how an artist's work can evoke the possibility and the necessity of imagining a different reality in a war zone.
  • Time to abandon never-ending futile talks with ...
    Jamal Kanj calls on the Palestinian National Authority to abandon its commitment to the pointless perpetual negotiations with the Israelis which while achieving peace for the Jews-only state of Israel are permanently eliminating the prospects of justice for the Palestinian people.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • War on Whistleblowers: Manning & Assange Just ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 4, 2012
    BFP Nightly Quote “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.” – ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Marvin Gaye This week’s BFP/Jamiol pick is Inner City Blues from the soulful artistry of Marvin Gaye. He wrote the song in 1971 for his album What’s Going On. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Marvin Gaye number 6 on its list of the Greatest Singers of All Time. This soulful tune is one ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Podcast Show #87- The Balochistan Nexus
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Eric Draitser Eric Draitser joins us to discuss Balochistan, a region rich in oil reserves and mineral deposits in Southwest Asia bordering Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and a nexus at which diametrically opposing strategic interests converge. He talks about US suppo ...

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • 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 ...
  • Fourth of July Fireworks: Military Fights for ...
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City As we prepare to celebrate Independence Day, some members of Congress are intent on prolonging our dependence--on fossil fuels. At a time when we should be promoting American progress, some of our Cong ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Every fancy must one day run amok.
    If you know any conservatives, you’ve likely come across this “witticism” recently: The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is proud to be distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps ever. Meanwhile, the National Park Servi ...
  • Brief Sandusky Thought
    Talking about the case with Scott the other day, I started to wonder why Sandusky-as-coaching-candidate didn’t merit more consistent mention after his retirement in 1999.  An excellent defensive coordinator for a big school with a renowned head coach should excite a great deal of interest ...
  • NFIB v. Sebelius and Judicial Decision-Making ...
    Mark Tushnet has an expectedly brilliant series of posts about the ACA cases up chez Balkin, all of which merit some discussion.   I’ll start with the least counterintuitive argument (from the perspective of Tushnet, in my view the most accomplished scholar to come from the Critical Legal ...
  • When the Two Gilded Ages Meet
    Mitt Romney is having a fundraiser in Hamilton, Montana. Not only is this fundraiser hosted by Charles Schwab, but it is at the home of Marcus Daly, one of Montana’s Copper Kings during the Gilded Age. Among the other Copper Kings–William Clark. Daly, the power behind Anaconda, hated ...
  • Book Review: Richard Slotkin, The Long Road to ...
    Richard Slotkin is one of the nation’s premier historians of violence. Most known for his trilogy on western frontier violence, in recent years Slotkin has turned his attention to the Civil War, writing several popular books, both fiction and non-fiction, that continue his lifelong interest in c ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Hallar Named Regents' Rising Researcher
    The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents presented Gannet Hallar, Ph.D. of the Desert Research Institute (DRI) with the 2012 Rising Researcher Award in acknowledgment of her contributions to the field of atmospheric science and her potential for future accomplishments.  
  • DRI scientists conduct climate change research ...
    Dr. Eric Wilcox and graduate student Nic Beres research pollution’s effects on clouds in the island nation most threatened by climate change.
  • Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
    Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.
  • Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
    Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.
  • DRI's Net Zero Building Honored by USGBC and ...
    The Desert Research Institute’s Net Zero Building was honored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and Senator Harry Reid at the USGBC Northern Nevada Chapter luncheon for its goals and plans to create an independently sustainable structure.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Former lobbyist, Capitol Hill staffers named i ...
    A former lobbyist for Countrywide Financial Corp. began refering members of Congress and Capitol Hill staffers to a now-scandalous "VIP" program because complaints about the lender made it harder for him to influence legislation, according to a Congressional report.
  • Health Care and the High Court
    The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the centerpiece of the nation's new health care law — the individual mandate to buy insurance — as a constitutional exercise of Congress' taxing authority. Led by veteran reporters Tony Mauro and Marcia Coyle, NLJ wraps up its coverage of the week's hi ...
  • OPINION: High court's GPS ruling may have mini ...
    Some thought the decision in U.S. v. Jones could become a significant step in Fourth Amendment jurisprudence protecting defendants' rights. Congress changed that.
  • Court strikes L.A. County's ban on medical mar ...
    A California appellate panel has struck down a ban on marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated Los Angeles County, ruling that it was pre-empted by a state law that permits cannabis operations for medical purposes.
  • Law schools form international group to promot ...
    Law schools from around the world have joined forces to create what they say is the first formal, international network geared toward spurring legal teaching and research collaborations.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • SFF Holds Two-Day Workshop for Coaches and Clu ...
    Somali Football Federation President Ali Said Guled Rooble added that players, coaches and club chairmen are obliged to help in the implementation of fair play during and after matches.
  • The Electronic Couple: You And Your Cell
    Cells are supposed to help communication but they also dodge communication. An informal survey on a college campus found the majority of incoming freshmen were using their cells to talk to-anybody?-Mom!... not to make new friends.
  • Prominent Assamese Poet 'Hiru Da' Dies At 80
    He died at the hospital around 10:25 am on Wednesday. Bhattacharyya (80), popularly known as 'Hiru Da' was admitted at Dispur Hospital in the city due to lung infection on June 14.
  • Somali Minister Jubilant At Local Football Pro ...
    The state minister once again called on Somali business companies in and outside the country to invest in the development of football as the country is recovering from the past wounds caused by one of the most ravaging wars
  • US Pursues Missile Defense Cooperation With Russia
    Successful missile defense cooperation would provide concrete benefits to Russia, NATO Allies, and the United States and will strengthen strategic stability over the long term, he added.

environment 360

  • U.S.’s Largest Solar Factory Halted in Face of ...
    General Electric has halted construction of what would have been the largest solar factory in the U.S. due to the falling price of photovoltaic modules globally and says it will focus instead on developing the next generation of cadmium-telluride thin-film technologies for the developers of sola ...
  • Leatherback Turtle Declines Will Escalate As C ...
    A warming climate could exacerbate threats facing leatherback turtle populations in the eastern Pacific Ocean, creating conditions that could trigger a 75 percent reduction in turtle numbers by the end of the century, a new study says. Even under existing USFW conditions, turtle births ebb a ...
  • African Savannas May Shift to Forest as CO2 Le ...
    Large areas of African savanna may slowly transform into forest ecosystems by the end of the century as atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide continue to rise, a new study says. While earlier studies have suggested that rising CO2 “fertilization” will not trigger global vegetation shifts, researc ...
  • Oh Canada: The Government’s Broad Assault on E ...
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government has been weakening Canada’s environmental regulations and slashing funds for oversight and research — all while promoting aggressive resource development. Critics warn these unprecedented actions pose a major threat to the nation’s vast natural heritage ...
  • Beyond Rio’s Disappointment, Finding a Path to ...
    The Rio+20 Summit produced a largely meaningless document that failed to address the daunting environmental challenges the world faces. But many at the conference looked to an alternative approach they called “green economics” — using market forces to help nations achieve sustainable development ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Roman jewellery found in ancient Japanese tomb
    Glass jewellery believed to have been made by Roman craftsmen has been found in an ancient tomb in Japan, researchers said on Friday, in a sign the empire’s influence may have reached the edge of Asia. A 5mm diameter piece of glass jewellery believed to have been made by Roman craftsmen, was fou ...
  • Grass linked to Texas cattle deaths
    A mysterious mass death of a herd of cattle has prompted a federal investigation in Central Texas. Preliminary test results are blaming the deaths on the grass the cows were eating when they got sick, reports CBS Station KEYE. The cows dropped dead several weeks ago on an 80-acre ranch owned by ...
  • Does Mars’ interior hold huge reservoirs of wa ...
    The interior of Mars holds vast reservoirs of water, with some spots apparently as wet as Earth’s innards, scientists say. The finding upends previous studies, which had estimated that the Red Planet’s internal water stores were scanty at best — something of a surprise, given that liquid water a ...
  • Bolivian police mutiny and riot over pay, stag ...
    An estimated 4,000 low-ranked Bolivian police officers began a mutiny yesterday, demanding better wages across the nation, the AP reports. The footage coming out of the country is pretty insane. Hundreds of heavily armed police officers, barricaded in their own offices, setting files alight and ...
  • Germany says "no" to throwing money at euro crisis
    Throwing more money at the eurozone debt crisis will not solve the problem because the troubles have to be resolved at the cause, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Sunday. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble Schaeuble also said in an interview with German TV network ZDF t ...

Russia Today

  • “Predator” on the prowl: Multi-billion DARPA r ...
    A new multi-billion dollar agency will develop cutting-edge Russian weapons, after the Russian Duma overwhelmingly voted to establish the Future Research Fund (FPI). Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Haz-mat burial: Swiss Alpine radioactive trash ...
    The first photos of full-size model of the Swiss site for safe disposal of radioactive waste have been made public. The Grimsel Test Site sits at an altitude of 1,730 meters, yet still at a depth of 450 meters beneath... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Fire engulfs Moscow Military Academy (VIDEO, P ...
    A huge fire has erupted in a hangar located at Moscow’s Air Force Academy in the north of the capital. Firefighters struggled for hours to put out the flames, and helicopters had to be called in as well. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • CCTV footage shows details of Microsoft firebo ...
    Greek police have released CCTV footage of the night a group of people drove a stolen van into the Microsoft office in the capital Athens and set fire to 150 liters of petrol there. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • A leap of faith: Russian base jumper falls 120 ...
    A Russian daredevil has survived a fall from a 120 meter power pylon after his parachute failed to open. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Wikileaks to release Syria Files, but to whose ...
    At first glance it looks like the Wikileaks cavalry to the rescue! Wikileaks and embattled Julian Assange back in the saddle, to expose the behind-the-scenes on Syria, to undermine the shelf-worn NATO Powerpoint Presentation, this time against Syria, the NATO powers’ prelude to war. YAY WI ...
  • Oil and Gas Lies
    From Lotus: The oil & gas industry is similar to the tobacco industry – almost everything it tells us is a lie. It has even hired the same PR firm as the tobacco industry used. The biggest lie, and one that the Colorado Springs City Council has accepted, is that local governments cannot leg ...
  • My Yahweh ! Who would have wanted to kill Ya ...
    Suha Arafat welcomes PA support for action, saying she long suspected her husband was murdered. Arafat's widow calls for swift exhumation of her dead husband’s body ‘Seriously ill and perhaps fighting for his life, Yasser Arafat was rushed Friday to a military hospital near Pari ...
  • Waldo Canyon concert fundraiser feted Colo. Sp ...
    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.- All night local speakers proclaimed: “Colorado Springs knows how to look after its own.” And doesn’t it! But I’m almost positive that it used to be, if only everywhere else, the virtue was looking out for others, not just your own.   The Wald ...
  • President Obama celebrates 4th of July in true ...
    Remember Rome’s soldier citizens? American forces now augment their numbers by recruiting foreign legionnaires with the promise of US citizenship. President Obama reportedly spent the Fourth of July in the company of soldiers for hire, hired to commit American war crimes with the advantage ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • The DC 9/11 Truth 4th of July Parade
    dc911truth.orgreports that "as in past years" they got together to "decorate the Truth Mobile" and held their DC 9/11 Truth 4th of July Parade. Here is a report on their past events. 9/11 Truth Float in 4th of July Parade 9/11 Blogger | July 7, 2008 dc911truth.org first participated ...
  • You Might Be A Terrorist (BOSS137)
    Published on Jul 3, 2012 by ChangeDaChannel blowing off some steam about- http://start.umd.edu/start/publications/research_briefs/LaFree_Bersani_HotSpotsOfUSTerrorism.pdf Related: Debunk This! Series Debunk This! 008 ( 911 Conspiracy ) Debunk This! 202 (ChemTrails) Debunk This! 2 ...
  • WTC 7 Collapse (Various Angles)
    Thought this was a good collection of the various angles of the WTC 7 collapse, especially for those just beginning to look into all the evidence. Especially interesting is the loud "boom" at about 4:34 min just before the penthouse collapses.
  • President Obama: 9/11 Families Ask You to Watc ...
    Support the 9/11 families and others who are asking President Obama to review the evidence in the documentary, 9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out http://www.change.org/petitions/president-obama-9-11-families-ask-you-to-watch-9-11-explosive-evidence-experts-speak-out-2 • Who: Presi ...
  • Free Samples from Two Latest Books by Coordina ...
    James Hufferd, Ph.D., coordinator of 911grassroots.org, which hosts the 9/11 Grassroots Organizers list, has been kind enough to provide Debunking the Debunkers blog readers with the first chapters from his two latest books. Hufferd writes in a recent blog: In America’s creed (the commo ...

Fooducate

  • DIY Baby Food: 3 Tips, a Recipe, and a Whole L ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Thankfully, the baby food industry is moving in the right direction, but we still love DIY Baby Food and think these tips and tricks are ESSENTIAL.  Over the past few ...
  • 10 Weird Hot Dog Facts
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Happy Fourth of July Everyone! Did you know that Americans will consume 150 million hot dogs before the day is over? How is that even possible?! Today, NYC is hosting ...
  • 10 Tips for Healthy Eating this Fourth of July
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate on the Web!  This is a guest blog post by Dr. Lisa Sutherland and Emily Kaley Fireworks, friends, franks and family.  It sure sounds like the 4th of July to me!  This holiday is always fun and enjo ...
  • Bolthouse Farms Salad Dressing – When Low Fat ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Carol Harvey, Director of food/nutrition labeling and product development at Palate Works. People are generally of two camps regarding salad dressings – hom ...
  • An Apology
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! If you have tried to access Fooducate early this weekend, you most likely got some sort of error message. We are deeply sorry for this. Now that our service is back up, we’d like ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

  • Fracking in Ireland and BeingDependent on Hall ...
    by Greg Palast for No Fracking Ireland No Fracking Ireland presents Greg Palast in Dublin, Today 3. July Connolly Books, Temple Bar - 1pm The Ireland Institute - 7.30pm Full info here On the 20th of April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oilrig blew out in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven men insta ...
  • Wall Street, a Farce in Three Acts
    The Medicine Show Theater presents: Wall Street, a Farce in Three Acts Written in 1819 by William Holmes NEW YORK CITY July 5th – 8th 8pm With a special guests appearance by Greg Palast on July 7th & 8th for a talk-back with the audience about the parallels between the Panic of 1819 dep ...
  • Warren Ellis: "Money is Fictional"
    Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan, Crooked Little Vein and yet to be released Gun Machine gave the opening remarks for me last night in London for my UK release of Vultures' Picnic. Thankfully he posted them this morning, here's a bit of them, the full text can be found on his website ww ...
  • The Euro is a Big Success - No Kidding
    by Greg Palast | The Guardian USA The idea that the euro has "failed" is dangerously naive. The euro is doing exactly what its progenitor – and the wealthy 1%-ers who adopted it – predicted and planned for it to do. That progenitor is former University of Chicago economist Robert Mundell. ...
  • Palast London Events Schedule
    Monday 25th June at 6.30pm Blackwell's Charing Cross Road - talk and book signing 30 minute talk followed by book signing. This is a free event but you should email events.london@blackwell.co.uk to reserve a place. Blackwell's  100 Charing Cross Road London WC2H 0JG Nearest tube: Leicester ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Six Years. A Billion Tax Payer Dollars. Autism ...
    Managing Editor's Note: "Six years and almost a billion dollars later, Insel has not only failed to produce even one medical intervention or recommendation to prevent or treat autism, the autism rate has DOUBLED on his watch." Imagine if children...
  • Happy Independence Day
    Happy Independence Day. Independence means something different to each family, for each child (or adult) on the spectrum. Here's to a safe, healthy, happy holiday to all of our readers.
  • Freedom? Illinois Takes Public out of Public H ...
    On Wednesday, July 18th , the Illinois Department of Public Health will be meeting and your attendance is IMPORTANT: July 18, 2012 Immunization Advisory Committee Meeting Agenda – TBA Michael A. Bilandic Bldg. 160 N. LaSalle St. Chicago, IL Room...
  • The Truth About Liz Szabo and USA Today RE Aut ...
    By Anne Dachel USA TODAY medical reporter Liz Szabo has long denied everything about the autism epidemic. She's especially adamant that vaccines aren't a factor. She's done such a good job attacking the autism community that vaccine developer Dr. Paul...
  • GAD65, Diabetes, Autoimmunity And Autism
    By Teresa Conrick Lab results recently have shown my daughter's autoimmune condition is connected to GAD65, an autoantibody, often related to TYPE 1 DIABETES. Here is a brief description on Wiki of GAD65 : "-Glutamate decarboxylase or glutamic acid decarboxylase...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Bangladesh: Rights Group Cites Abuses in Mass ...
    NY Times – Human Rights Watch said Wednesday that it had found serious human rights abuses in the mass trials of Bangladeshi paramilitary border guards accused of participating in a 2009 mutiny, including the deaths of at least 47 suspects from maltreatment in detention. The group said in ...
  • India to give free generic drugs to hundreds o ...
    Reuters – India has put in place a $5.4 billion policy to provide free medicine to its people, a decision that could change the lives of hundreds of millions, but a ban on branded drugs stands to cut Big Pharma out of the windfall. From city hospitals to tiny rural clinics, India’s p ...
  • Would YOU like to become part of the Open Your ...
    There are currently six volunteers based worldwide who bring you Open Your Eyes News. As we continue to expand, and in advance of our new website launch, we are seeking one additional member to join our team to become a category editor, taking responsibility for publishing articles in one of our ...
  • Mexico election candidate Lopez Obrador seeks ...
    BBC – “For the good of democracy and of the country, all the votes must be counted,” Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, of the leftist PRD, told reporters. He had refused to concede victory after the official preliminary count gave Enrique Pena Nieto of the PRI victory by more than s ...
  • US says postponed missile defense exercise wit ...
    Washington Post – The top U.S. military officer says the U.S. and Israel will hold a major missile defense exercise in October. The exercise Austere Challenge ‘12 was scheduled originally for April but was postponed amid growing talk of Israel preparing to attack Iran over its nuclear prog ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Controversial Caribbean whaling approved with ...
    Representatives of the International Whaling Commission meeting in Panama this week have approved a controversial proposal extending the Aboriginal and Subsistence Whaling quotas for three countries: the United States, Russia and the Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent & the Grenadines.  Th ...
  • Keystone XL southern leg permitted as early as ...
    As a deadline rapidly approaches that will automatically permit the construction of the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, an increasingly vocal group of landowners, environmentalists and even tea party members are saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now ramming ...
  • EPA proposes more stringent soot rules
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed new regulations Thursday that would further reduce legal limits for fine particle pollution -- otherwise known as soot -- in the nation’s air. Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, made ...
  • Diesel exhaust can cause cancer, World Health ...
    Diesel engines power commerce and transportation around the world, but the exhaust they produce can prove deadly. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that it now classifies diesel exhaust as a cause of cancer. While major advances in technology have helped clean up some dies ...
  • Global warming could lead to more wildfire in ...
    California and the West, which have experienced a surge in wildfire during the last decade, can expect more of the same with global warming, according to a study published Tuesday.

water.org

  • Toilets Bring Dignity
    Imagine for a moment what it might be like for a boy like Shipon and his family to lack access to a toilet. Then imagine how their lives would change when they were able to have one they could all use nearby to their home. Shipon is 10 years old and his family has just gained access to a toilet. ...
  • Water in Adina Faso, Ethiopia
    The residents of Adina Faso used to walk four hours each day to gather unclean water, but after working together with Water.org, they now have twenty-four-hour access to clean water, right in the middle of their village.
  • Kids Spreading the Word
    To celebrate World Water Day, two rallies were organized in the communities of Savar-Aminbazar in India through children's group members and DSK, one of Water.org's program partners. The theme of the rally was “Everybody should drink safe water to lead a healthy and happy life, and have to acces ...
  • A Bountiful Garden
    Clean, readily available water brings all manner of opportunities - thanks to a water connection in their backyard, this family is able to easily cultivate a garden full of nutritious fruits and vegetables.
  • June 2012 Conference Call
    Recorded: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 Duration: 38:07 Laura Ralston, International Programs Manager at Water.org, shared stories and experiences from her three most recent trips to Haiti and what's been going on with our projects there. Laura also focused on the sanitation needs Haitians are fac ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

  • SFF Holds Two-Day Workshop for Coaches and Clu ...
    Somali Football Federation President Ali Said Guled Rooble added that players, coaches and club chairmen are obliged to help in the implementation of fair play during and after matches.
  • The Electronic Couple: You And Your Cell
    Cells are supposed to help communication but they also dodge communication. An informal survey on a college campus found the majority of incoming freshmen were using their cells to talk to-anybody?-Mom!... not to make new friends.
  • Prominent Assamese Poet 'Hiru Da' Dies At 80
    He died at the hospital around 10:25 am on Wednesday. Bhattacharyya (80), popularly known as 'Hiru Da' was admitted at Dispur Hospital in the city due to lung infection on June 14.
  • Somali Minister Jubilant At Local Football Pro ...
    The state minister once again called on Somali business companies in and outside the country to invest in the development of football as the country is recovering from the past wounds caused by one of the most ravaging wars
  • US Pursues Missile Defense Cooperation With Russia
    Successful missile defense cooperation would provide concrete benefits to Russia, NATO Allies, and the United States and will strengthen strategic stability over the long term, he added.

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

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

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • The Western Welfare State: Its Rise and Demis ...
    James Petras Introduction "The ‘Great Reversal’ appears to be a long-term..."One of the most striking socio-economic features of the past two decades is the reversal of the previous half-century of welfare legislation in Europe and North America. Unprecedented cuts in social s ...
  • Jefferson is spinning
    Mary Shaw As I write this on the July 4th holiday, 2012, it occurs to me that Thomas Jefferson is surely spinning in his grave. When he and the other Founding Fathers created this nation 236 years ago today, their vision was of a society in which "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving ...
  • PRI Regains Mexican Presidency
    by Stephen Lendman 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. Longstanding problems fester. For millions, they're unbeara ...
  • AMERIKA’S LAST INDEPENDENCE DAY
    Allen L Roland 2012 could well mark the last celebration of our once brave and free Republic whose firm moral bearings have slowly been eroded by a cancerous military industrial complex and the sinister emergence of a fascist corpocracy. Enjoy this fourth of July; watch the patriotic parades ...
  • Failure in Geneva
    by Stephen Lendman Morning headlines belie continued conflict on the ground. East/West divisions remain. Nothing changed but political rhetoric from Geneva. After Annan's so-called peace plan, violence increased because Washington planned it that way. Expect it to continue now. America ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • CCPA's National Office is moving!
    The week of July 1st, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' National Office will be moving to Under One Roof Properties at 251 Bank Street, Suite 500, Ottawa ON, K2P 1X3. Please note that our phone, fax and general e-mail will remain the same: Telephone: 613-563-1341 | Fax: 613-233-1458 | ...
  • Australian economist Steve Keen's CCPA lecture ...
    The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' Ontario team was pleased to host a lecture, as well as a wine and cheese social in downtown Toronto on June 28th, featuring globally recognized economist Steve Keen, who is based at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. The lecture focused on t ...
  • Canada's embarrassing second-class status in t ...
    In an opinion piece published in The Tyee and iPolitics, CCPA’s senior trade researcher Scott Sinclair analyzes the extraordinary concessions made by the Canadian government to gain entry to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations. Canada's terms of entry can only be desc ...
  • Canada's embarrassing second-class status in t ...
    In an opinion piece published in The Tyee and iPolitics, CCPA’s senior trade researcher Scott Sinclair analyzes the extraordinary concessions made by the Canadian government to gain entry to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations. Canada's terms of entry can only be desc ...
  • BC can meet energy needs, reduce GHGs — but we ...
    The latest study from our Climate Justice Project is both cautionary and hopeful. The study warns that mining, oil and gas corporations are putting increasingly large demands on BC’s hydroelectricity system, and BC households and small businesses face steep rate increases to pay for this industr ...

World Wide Hippies

  • How not to help a woman cope
    By Jona Johns,Worldwide Hippies - I’ll start with sharing some of the stats that I’ve shared before, but just in case you missed it… They say the stats are 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage. One in four. So 75% of the time, a mother gets to take her baby home to the nursery that [...]
  • Revolution 99 Updates: Cradle of liberty is n ...
    Philly marks nation’s birthday with cake, dissent PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The cradle of liberty celebrated the nation’s 236th birthday on Wednesday with thousands of cupcakes, an old-fashioned parade and some modern-day political dissent. Marching bands, floats, community groups and mili ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Thursday
    ‘Mass Concentration Prison Camps’: Read the Shocking Emails That Forced a Florida DNC Member To Resign President Barack Obama’s Democratic party has been accused by many sources of being overly cozy with anti-Israel cranks. It is perhaps because of this reputation, fair or unfair though it may b ...
  • Remember FBI Warning – After July 9th Hu ...
    By Jack Swint,OEN - International Online Scam Nets Thieves 14 Million Dollars And Infected 570,000 Computers … For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing Internet connections this summer. Unknown to most of them, their problem began w ...
  • Gasland Director Josh Fox on His New Film, Gas ...
    By Christine Shearer, Truthout | Interview - In 2010, the documentary film “Gasland” exploded onto the public consciousness, exposing many people to the next wave of energy extraction: fracking. The practice was taking place across swaths of the United States overlying shale roc ...

FourWinds10

  • Exxon oil spill in Mont. river prompts evacuations
    LAUREL, Mont. (AP) — An ExxonMobil pipeline that runs under the Yellowstone River in Montana ruptured Saturday and leaked hundreds of barrels of oil into the waterway, causing a 25-mile plume that fouled the riverbank and forced municipalities and irrigation districts downstream to close i ...
  • Bishops, Nuns and Rabbis Debate Gas Fracking
    Associated Press= PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bishops, nuns and rabbis are joining the environmental and social debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale region, and many are seeking a balance that reflects their congregations. "We have people's lives who are being blessed or ...
  • CDFA Pest PEIR Must Not Be Allowed
      This is an important alert to all California readers. The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is preparing a ‘Programmatic Environmental Impact Import’ (PEIR) which will give them advance approval for all future pesticide spraying programs, without any safegua ...
  • Oil Pipeline Breaks on Blackfeet Reservation; ...
    Blackfeet Oil Ravine.m4v http://youtu.be/VG6eJvq0UI8   Tuesday, July 19, 2011 Oil Pipeline Breaks on Blackfeet Reservation; Significant Volume of Oil Floods Cut Bank River, Montana (Video) Destini Vaile and Reed Perry http://www.activistpost.com/2011/07/oil-pipeline-breaks-on-blackfeet.
  • INSIDE Your Home: The Ugly Invaders Which Can ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Announcing Energy Trends Insider
    Consumer Energy Report covers a wide variety of energy topics, and is targeted at a broad audience. Our columns tend to identify risks and opportunities, but we generally stop short of providing specific financial advice that may be better suited for a narrower subset of our audience. Of course ...
  • Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions — Facts and Fi ...
    Robert Rapier looks at the growth of global carbon dioxide emissions since 1965. A great deal has changed over the past 46 years.
  • World Energy Consumption Facts, Figures, and S ...
    Robert Rapier investigates the data from BP's Statistical Review of World Energy and highlights some of the key numbers in consumption of crude oil, coal, and natural gas.
  • How Much Oil Does the World Produce?
    In the first installment of this series, I took a look at U.S. and global oil reserves according to the 2012 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Today, I want to examine oil production statistics since 1965. Highlights of this article and topics that will be explored include: New global oil p ...
  • How Much Oil is Left in the World?
    Over the next two to three weeks, I am going to post a series of short articles utilizing graphics I created from the recently released 2012 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Because I am working on the roll-out of a new product which will be geared specifically toward those with a financia ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Proof That GMOs Really Are Unhealthy
    Government researchers in Denmark are suddenly paying a lot closer attention to the health effects of genetically modified (GM) crops, after a Danish farming newspaper published the account of a pig farmer who reported significant health improvements in his pigs (and in his farm's bottom line) ...
  • The New Poisonous Seafood Threat
    When you think of industrial agriculture, you might picture windowless factory farm buildings or fields being blasted with pesticides. We may soon have to add oceanic aquaculture to the industrial ag equation if the soy lobby gets its way. Currently, major biotech-, pesticide-, and food-industr ...
  • 9 Pet Myths Debunked
    URL Title:  9 Pet Myths Debunked Head Open HTML:  9 Pet Myths Debunked Get the facts straight to keep your pet safe. BY LEAH ZERBE Pager buttons P ...
  • Science Reveals Why Supermarket Tomatoes Are D ...
    Think back to the last time you bought a fresh tomato at the grocery store and actually enjoyed it. Can't remember when that was? Neither can most Americans. In fact, sales of commercially grown fresh tomatoes at grocery stores have plummeted in recent years as consumers hit up farmer's markets ...
  • The Bug Bite That Could Kill Your Love of Burgers
    This just in from the freaky news department: Researchers from the University of Virginia have discovered that a bite from a certain variety of tick could make you allergic to red meat. The lone star tick, native to the Southeast but spreading to the north, is a distinctive-looking tick, so nam ...

big think

  • Rights, Traffic, and Freedom at Work
    Intervening on the great  Crooked Timber vs. Bleeding Hearts Libertarians debate on freedom in the workplace, Matthew Yglesias says: My standard approach to this is that in almost all political contexts, including this one, both the concept of freedom and the concept of property ...
  • Military Readying Mind-Reading Equipment for t ...
    What's the Latest Development? It takes the brain several seconds to become conscious of what the eyes see, and in Afghanistan, a precious few seconds can mean the difference between life and death. So the Pentagon's experimental R&D wing is working on a device it calls Sentinel, whi ...
  • How Far Will Businesses Go to Automate the Mid ...
    What's the Latest Development? To become more efficient, businesses are automating more and more jobs once done by humans. Will that open new economic sectors or just aggravate current wealth inequities—or both? "Amazon, for example, paid $775 million for Kiva Systems, a company that mak ...
  • The Literary Darwinists: The Evolutionary Orig ...
    The summer of 1975 was a rough time for beachgoers at Amity Island. Citizens of the Long Island getaway became terrorized when a shark devoured a young woman and two young boys in the span of a few days. Luckily, three brave men – Brody, Quint and Hooper – traveled out to sea in a small boat ... ...
  • Ford Predicts Self-Driving Cars Will Cut Traff ...
    What's the Latest Development? By combining several technologies that exist today, the automobile company says cars will soon help unclog traffic jams more efficiently than human drivers can. The concept, called Traffic Jam Assist, will use adaptive cruise control, lane keep assist, and ...

Information Liberation

  • Homeland Security Report Lists 'Liberty Lovers ...
    A new study funded by the Department of Homeland Security characterizes Americans who are *suspicious of centralized federal authority,* and *reverent of individual liberty* as *extreme right-wing* terrorists. Entitled Hot Spots of Terrorism and O...
  • Troops In Door To Door "Wellness Checks" In Vi ...
    National Guard troops are conducting door to door *wellness checks* in areas of Virginia and Ohio following power outages due to severe heat and storms. WDTV in West Virginia reports that *The National Guard is checking to make sure everyone is...
  • British police get battlefield weapons
    The British police will be for the first time armed with the same advanced weapons as British soldiers use in conflict zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Ministry of Defense has put the contracts for 30,000 modern assault rifles out to tender to ...
  • Florida Cop Fired For Planting Dope, Says He D ...
    In Crestview, Florida, Police Street Crimes Unit investigator Tim White is out of a job for swiping grass from an evidence locker and planting it at a residence to beef up the grounds for a search warrant application. Even more interesting, he says h...
  • San Jose police attempt to raid our garage sal ...
    We left the children out for a minute while we ran inside and came out to these thugs fondling our Airsoft gear. I am so glad my little girl is a Copwatcher and quickly turned on her camera. We have outside surveillance, but the audio is low on the...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Meet The Asylum’s New Management
    The iron ore town of Whyalla on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is one of the places most threatened by Labor’s Carbon Tax – the tax that Gillard promised before the last Federal election she would never introduce, and which came … Continue reading →
  • Gunwalker – What The Hell???
    I don’t know much about this whole Gunwalker episode, beyond the little I’ve read in the news. But it’s now meant the United States’ chief executive law officer has just been held in contempt of Congress. Pretty serious stuff. I … Continue reading →
  • Daily Telegraph Delingpole Refugee Camp
    G’day Folks, The DT blogs are down for maintenance for an unusually long period of time. So all regular readers of James Delingpole’s blog are welcome to continue the discussion here. Even the trolls can come in, just to make … Continue reading →
  • Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VI – Wha ...
    Well, it’s finally happened. The scandal surrounding corruption in the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s, which LibertyGibbert covered last August, has now been formally raised in Federal Parliament. To refresh your memory, the story regards the activities of one … Continu ...
  • A Mixed Legacy
    Bella, horrida bella, et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. - Virgil, Aeneid VI LXXXVI-LXXXVII Today LibertyGibbert marks the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Enoch Powell, British scholar, poet, soldier, linguist, politician and polymath. How prescient were his views, … Cont ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 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 [ ...

RFF Library

  • The Official Report of the Fukushima Nuclear A ...
    The National Diet of Japan | Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission http://www.slideshare.net/jikocho/naiic-report-hires [From the New York Times]  The nuclear accident at Fukushima was a preventable disaster rooted in government-industry collusion and the worst con ...
  • Oil: The Next Revolution
    Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard University / by Leonardi  Maugeri http://bit.ly/MxuIIb [From Green Car Congress] Oil production capacity is surging in the United States and several other countries at such a fast pace that global oil output capacity could grow by nearly 20% from the curren ...
  • In Fracking’s Wake: New Rules are Needed to Pr ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council http://www.nrdc.org/energy/fracking-wastewater.asp [Fracking Insider] On Monday, Michael Krancer, Secretary of Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection, responded by letter to a May 2012 Natural Resources Defense Council report entitled In Fracking’ ...
  • Shale Gas Extraction in the UK: a Review of Hy ...
    Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering http://bit.ly/KQtA5L [Website] The key findings of this review were: The health, safety and environmental risks can be managed effectively in the UK. Operational best practices must be implemented and enforced through strong regulation. Fracture ...
  • Hydraulic Fracturing: Chemical Disclosure Requ ...
    Congressional Research Service www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42461.pdf [Fracking Insider] …we call your attention to a very helpful Summary of Chemical Disclosure Laws published by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) last week. The Report explains how states, as well as BLM and the FRAC A ...

Scientific American - News

  • New Particle Resembling Long-Sought Higgs Boso ...
    NEW YORK--The city that never sleeps was mostly asleep. The bars were closed. But at 4:45 A.M., inside a library on Columbia University's Manhattan campus, Michael Tuts was getting ready to pop the champagne. [More]
  • Chat at 11 A.M. EDT on Higgs Boson News from CERN
    Join us below at 11 A.M. Eastern time on Wednesday, July 4 for a live 30-minute online chat with physicist Michael Tuts of Columbia University, who will discuss an early-morning announcement from CERN , a Switzerland-based lab for particle physics, about the long-running search for the Higgs b ...
  • Weight-Loss Drug Wins U.S. Approval
    From Nature magazine [More]
  • Mixed Signals: Smart Phone Sensors Recruited t ...
    Global positioning system (GPS) devices may not always provide spot-on directions, but they do provide drivers, cyclists and hikers with convenient access to digital map data of every square meter of the planet shadowed by satellites. Step indoors and you will find that same GPS receiver becom ...
  • U.S. Task Force's Recommendations Stoke Debate ...
    If you are healthy, living at home, and take calcium and vitamin D supplements to prevent broken bones or cancer, you may want to reconsider, according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). The group's new draft recommendations , published online on June 12, add more fervor t ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • The Greek Council of State orders the suspensi ...
    Residents of Halkidiki fighting against the massive gold-copper and base metals mining projects of Hellas Gold – a subsidiary of Vancouver based Eldorado Gold - have won an important victory. On June 29, the Greek State Council order ...
  • Squatting in Oakland: an interview with a tour ...
    CKUT's Wednesday morning after for July 4th
  • SIU Clears Cop in Violent Arrest of Occupier
    Unpublicized CCTV footage key to investigation Ontario's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) issued a press release today clearing Toronto Police Constable Rhoel Ong of misconduct in the arrest of Angela Turvey. The press release opens by ...
  • Not Just Another Newsletter
    An update from your friendly neighbourhood VMC Dear VMC readers, supporters, ninjas… These past two weeks have been busy ones! David Ball has been reporting on the arrests and sexual harassment of protesters by police at Vancouver &q ...
  • Wetlands or waste park?
    Six Nations, Southgate residents work to save headwaters of Grand River from becoming “Toronto’s trashbin” Before the blockade started, few had heard of Dundalk. But now that Six Nations land defenders and residents of Southgate Township ha ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • India holds up a mirror for the American right ...
      "Evil requires the sanction of the victim." Ayn Rand" David Seaton's News Links The other day in my perusings I stumbled upon this troubling jewelNot only do Indians perform more Google searches for (Ayn) Rand than citizens of any country in the world except the United States, but ...
  • Why is the American left so useless? - II
    David Seaton's News Links On April 4th, 1968, the day when Martin Luther King Jr. was shot down in Memphis Tennessee, the American left lost its way. Less than a year before he was murdered, King set out to channel the energy and power of the Civil Rights movement toward ending poverty amon ...
  • Why is the American left so useless?
    David Seaton's News Links Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates and men decayOliver Goldsmith - The Deserted Village Throughout the Great Recession and the not-so-great recovery, the most commonly discussed measure of misery has been unemployment. But many middle- ...
  • Angela Merkel and the hour of the Wolf
    David Seaton's News Links Angela Merkel in the DDRAngie was 35 when the Berlin Wall fell. She grew up in Communist East Germany, was member of the Communist Party's youth group the Free German Youth (FDY, from the German initials), graduated from Karl-Marx University in Leipzig, and worked as ...
  • American Karma: Obama and Free Floating Paranoia
    David Seaton's News Links I remember once reading an Indian guru, who said that if the water buffalo had a god, it would probably look like a very large water buffalo. He believed that there is only one god, formless and all pervading, but that he/she/it responds to intense worship by takin ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • The Conservative Misinformation Campaign About ...
    Andrew Sprung draws my attention to a Kaiser quiz about Obamacare from a few months ago, and you'll be unsurprised to learn that most Americans don't know much about it. I put the responses into graphical form, and what's most interesting, I think, is to look at the right side of the chart: th ...
  • The LIBOR Scandal Might Destroy the Banking In ...
    The recent settlement with Barclays Bank over its LIBOR1 fixing fraud has gotten.... some.... attention. Not a lot of attention, though. Why is that, given that this fraud potentially affected trillions of dollars in assets? I think the obvious answer is that (a) it's really complicated and ( ...
  • Obama Playing Long Game With Iran
    Last month Robert Wright wrote a few posts trying to draw attention to the Obama administration's Iran strategy. In a nutshell, Wright lays out some persuasive evidence that Obama isn't seriously negotiating with Iran at all. In fact, he's deliberately making proposals he knows will be refused ...
  • Tax vs. Penalty is More Than a "Mere" Argument ...
    I've now read about a hundred blog posts claiming that the question of whether the individual mandate is a tax or a penalty is "just a question of semantics." But it's not. I know this seems obvious, but it is, in fact, also a legal question. And there's all sorts of past precedent that judge ...
  • Blind in Beijing
    Chinese declinism is one of the hot memes going around today. FP's "5 Signs of the Chinese Economic Apocalypse" is typical of the genre, and you probably already know most of the high points: a big property bubble, social unrest, looming demographic apocalypse, competition from even lower-wage ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 331: Pants Down, Man Down
    Topics: Tyler Perry as Alex Cross Tyler Perry wants to branch out Every Black man wants to play Black Panther Don’t fuck up Black Panther Chris Nolan to be on the walk of fame Bad Internet music How to shoot a music video while at work Obama Care survives Mark Jackson gets blackmailed Fear ...
  • IC 330: The Chitlin Circus
    Topics: Rod & the Summer of Bron The irrational sports fan The unfortunate Chris Bosh video Sometimes shit is just funny Dredd trailer Taken 2….sold Need 4 Speed The Movie Gym bans skinny people Fat People live the good life Getting bullied by middle school kids Kids are assholes Rape ...
  • IC 329: The Liam Neeson Okie Doke
    Topics: The Worst Three Days The Liam Neeson Okie Doke The Lindsay Lohan Death Clock Watch Tourist injured by Drake & Chris Brown scuffle Forcing empathy never works Australia…God’s way of saying he hates us Uncle Luke as a father figure The false false equivalency Serial Teddy ...
  • IC 328: Sophtest Niggas Alive
    Topics: Octomom Porn Pictures Paul W.S. Anderson needs to be stopped Kriss threatens to stab Adam Sandler Slave shackle sneakers Chris Brown and Drake have an altercation R Kelly is a pedophile Sandusky trial updates Why kriss doesn’t talk politics anymore Share with your friends:
  • IC 327: Flowers
    Topics: Boxing disappoints again What the UFC did to become popular Ninja Assassin these hoes Giving a guy flowers Men lie to women more than women know Django Unchained Just shut up and enjoy the movie Negro Twitter Rebellion Is Creflo Gonna Having to Choke a Bitch? Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Climate change brings landscapes to their last ...
    Nature’s beauty means different things to each of us – but undoubtedly it burns some images onto our souls. Our favourite scenery is less constant than we sometimes suppose,  changing from day to day and season to season. But the slowest changes can be the most heartbreaking, eventua ...
  • Hope from a surprising source that we can cont ...
    While the optimism of the first Rio 'Earth Summit' seems misplaced 20 years later, the world's scientists have outlined the challenges we need to tackle from consumption and population, and I found hope from an unlikely place that there's some chance we might be able to.
  • Weather watching hits home with powerful warmi ...
    From hurricanes to heatwaves, Simple Climate has regularly reported on extreme weather events linked to global warming. This week I bring pictures from previous entries showing how these events and other more gradual changes are spread across the world, giving reasons close to home for all of us ...
  • Hotter summers set to make power generators sweat
    Electricity producers using fossil fuel and nuclear plants must adapt or face dips in generating capacity at their plants of up to a fifth in summer, due to scarcer, hotter cooling water, find Michelle van Vliet from Wageningen University and her colleagues.
  • Hotter summers set to make power generators sweat
    Electricity producers using fossil fuel and nuclear plants must adapt or face dips in generating capacity at their plants of up to a fifth in summer, due to scarcer, hotter cooling water, find Michelle van Vliet from Wageningen University and her colleagues.

e!Science News

  • Climate change suspended reef growth for 2 mil ...
    Climate change drove coral reefs to a total ecosystem collapse lasting thousands of years, according to a paper published this week in Science. The paper shows how natural climatic shifts stopped reef growth in the eastern Pacific for 2,500 years. The reef shutdown, which began 4,000 years ago, ...
  • Eddies, not sunlight, spur annual bloom of tin ...
    On a recent expedition to the inhospitable North Atlantic Ocean, scientists at the University of Washington and collaborators studying the annual growth of tiny plants were stumped to discover that the plankton had started growing before the sun had a chance to offer the light they need for thei ...
  • First direct evidence that elemental fluorine ...
    Fluorine is the most reactive chemical element. That is why it is not found in nature in its elemental form, but only in compounds, such as fluorite -- that was the accepted scientific doctrine so far. A special fluorite, the "fetid fluorite" or "antozonite," has been the sub ...
  • Another M-class flare from Sunspot 1515
    Active Region 1515 has now spit out 12 M-class flares since July 3. Early in the morning of July 5, 2012 there was an M6.1 flare. It peaked at 7:44 AM EDT. This caused a moderate - classified as R2 on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's space weather scale - radio blackout that ...
  • Employees' interests predict how they will per ...
    When evaluating job applicants, employers want to be sure that they choose the right person for the job. Many employers, from consulting firms to federal agencies, will ask prospective employees to complete extensive tests and questionnaires to get a better sense of what those employees might be ...

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Notes from the US of A
    I’ve been travelling internationally for the last few weeks. It’s been a productive time – I’ve drafted a complete paper intended for The Breakthrough Journal (more on this in a later post), increased and enhanced my network of professional connections and friendships, go ...
  • Time for a reckoning, time for an apology
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was: Dietary Guidelines Committee ignores climate change. What’s the difference between the fear ...
  • Small(ish) is beautiful
    This a new article written by Ben Heard and me in the SA Mines & Energy Journal (issue 23, pg 22-23), about the potential for small modular nuclear reactors. (Ben should get the primary authoring credit here — my job was to ‘enhance’ this one rather than lead the writing.) ...
  • BNC Discussion Forum updates
    In response to feedback, the structure of the BNC Discussion Forum on ProBoards has been greatly simplified. The revised forum looks like this: Logically (in my mind, and that of the BNC Moderator), it made sense to give people a robust classification structure. But in practice, such an approach ...
  • Roads Not Taken (yet)
    Guest Post by Tom Blees. Tom Blees is the author of Prescription for the Planet – The Painless Remedy for Our Energy & Environmental Crises. Tom is also the president of the Science Council for Global Initiatives and a board member of the UN-affiliated World Energy Forum [wef21.org]. M ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • .: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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

  • Judge Says Quaker Pro-Mountain Demonstrators & ...
    PHILADELPHIA – Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →
  • Donations Needed for Legal Support of 22 Arrested
    All 22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday. However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue reading →
  • Shaving Their Heads in Mourning and Protest
    On Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1. Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →
  • Video from Rep. Griffith (R-VA) Congressional ...
    West Virginian’s singing “Country Roads Take Me Home” as the police escort them out of Rep. Rahall’s office.
  • Donate to Support Mountain Heroes Arrested Today!
    Donate here to support the 22 arrested today sitting in Congressional Offices to stop mountaintop removal. NOTE: this button will take you to Rising Tide America’s website.  We can’t yet release the names of those arrested by Capitol Police, but … Continue reading →

Amped Status

+972

  • Debate on draft reform moves Israel further aw ...
    If Netanyahu’s government doesn’t come up with a solution, the army could soon start enlisting all of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox citizens. But while it is convenient to see the debate on a universal draft as a step toward equality, Israeli militarism should be challenged by decrea ...
  • Experimental dance on display at 13th annual I ...
    Tonight (Thursday), the 13th annual Intimadance Festival will open at Tmuna Theater in south Tel Aviv. The program includes premiers by the local fringe elite and offers a good forecast of what’s to come in Israeli dance. Curated by Nava Zuckerman and Irad Mazliach, the festival invited ch ...
  • Israeli hotels compete for ‘Too Jewish&# ...
    +972 Magazine has got its hands on the official hotel rating of Jewishness devised by Israel’s Chief Rabbi Jonah Metzger [Heb]. The new rating will help religious customers choose hotels with a more Jewish environment. 1 Star of David – “Gentile” hotels. Serve traif. Don’t even touch with ...
  • WATCH: Palestinian village suffers from ongoin ...
    Because Israel restricts Palestinian access to natural water sources in the West Bank, Palestinians are forced to depend on water allocation by Mekorot, the national water company. But in many West Bank villages, the daily water allocation supplied to residents is much lower than the minimal sup ...
  • Forgotten deportees: Israeli-born children of ...
    While Israel’s current campaign to deport some 700-1500 South Sudanese asylum seekers made headlines around the world, the mainstream media has neglected another ongoing expulsion. Originally published in The Daily Beast’s Open Zion. Since March of 2011, the state has been arresting and de ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Heritage grant to share footprints of convict ...
    The yards of the Cascades Female Factory will be filled with the footprints of the convict buildings that housed the women who were once held and worked there, as part of a conservation and interpretation project funded by the Gillard Labor Government's Your Community Heritage program.
  • Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting 2012
    Australia today welcomes more than 300 delegates from among the 50 Antarctic nations to Hobart for the 35th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting.
  • $469 million for NSW to deliver major rural w ...
    Federal Water Minister Tony Burke has approved $469 million in funding to support four major projects that will return an average of 80 billion litres of water to the system each year as part of the Basin-wide commitment to infrastructure projects.
  • Review of the Bureau of Meteorology's capacity
    The Australian Government has released the independent review of the Bureau of Meteorology's capacity to respond to future extreme weather and natural disaster events and to provide seasonal forecasting services.
  • Meeting with the Queensland Government
    The meeting with Deputy Premier Seeney and Minister Powell today was productive and is hopefully the first step in resolving the differences which have unfolded between the Commonwealth and Queensland over the past fortnight.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • THE WIZARD BEHIND THE CURTAIN SPEAKS! FANNIE M ...
    Methinks Thou Dost Protest Too Much That’s what our boy Willie said a while ago, and today we need to think about this in the context of servicers ramming down Amerikans all across this country. Despite all the light and happy press releases from the banks about keeping Amerikans in their ...
  • THE LIBOR SCANDAL, THE BIGGEST BANKING SCANDAL ...
    Once again, Matt Taibbi is the only real journalist covering this story… The only question is just how deep does this go….but that’s not a real question anymore, we know they do whatever they want. The real question is just how big will this blow up. LIBOR SCANDAL   Scridb ...
  • VIOLENT HOME INVASION AND A MURDER, CAUGHT ON ...
    Are you one of those people that deadbolts your door then goes to bed at night thinking you’re safe? Are you one of those 2nd Amendment, heavily armed types that thinks you’ll have the skills and clear thinking to protect yourself in the middle of a flash violent attack? My client wa ...
  • July 4th, The Wizard Behind The Curtain, The L ...
    Ah, the Fourth of July, the day Amerikans all across the world gather to celebrate the dangerous delusion that America remains independent and that we have some form of government that should be admired and envied. That We The People even have any real control. And yes, as part of this delusion, ...
  • International Banks, Crooks, Crimes And Crimin ...
    You might have missed the latest bank scandal, the one involving Barclays Plc (BARC), in the hubbub of last week’s U.S. health-care ruling and euro salvage plan. If so, allow us to fill you in: On June 27, Barclays, the U.K.’s second-largest bank by assets, admitted it deliberately reported arti ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Troubles Ahead For CIDA
    The following is my Huffington Post piece for today on the appointment of a new minister for the Canadian International …Continue reading »
  • Losing Humanity
    Some stories are just so gut wrenchingly moving that you’d have to be a pretty hard-hearted sort not to be …Continue reading »
  • Start Living
    All that is left is to act. The entire citizen engagement process culminates in this one moment. All the work, …Continue reading »
  • Reconfiguring Our Future
    There are only two more steps in the process of engagement that we need to consider (some will see more, …Continue reading »
  • The Art of Connecting
    Poet Robert Frost used to say, “I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
    Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
  • Basic research and personal responsibility
    Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
  • Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
    Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

  • Saying No To Tear Gas
    [An excerpt from an article of the same name by Frida Berrigan, originally published on Waging Nonviolence, June 22nd, 2012.] I have an assignment for you. Have you ever been tear gassed? I have not. It does not sound like … Continue reading →
  • Peace and Global Justice Groups: “End St ...
    On Father’s Day, June 17th , Peace and Global Justice groups walk together with New Yorkers in a Silent March to End Stop & Frisk We are a diverse gathering of groups working for global justice and peace around the … Continue reading →
  • On the Ground in Basra: An Interview with Hash ...
    Originally published on May 2nd, 2012 on Jadaliyya. by Ali Issa Iraqi unions demonstrated yesterday on May Day 2012 at a difficult historical moment. Still operating without a labor law that sanctions their organizing, and under the consolidation of Prime … Continue reading →
  • “You Can’t Take What’s All o ...
    To mark the upcoming NATO summit to be held in May 2012 in Chicago and the simultaneous G8 summit to be held in Camp David, Maryland, War Resisters League and the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance release a new popular education … Continue reading →
  • كفى دموعا!
    كفى دموعا! بمناسبة يوم الارض الفلسطيني 2012, تُنشر النسخة العربية للكاريكاتير”كفى دموعا!” الذي يربط حركات للتغير حول العالم من خلال تحليل من ابرز الاسلحة التي تُستدخدم ضدها: الغاز المسيّل للدموع. بشكل سهل التناول, يسمّي “كفى دموعا!” الشركات التي تربح من … Continue r ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

  • Social psychology falls from grace
    But it is not only social psychologists who make up data to "prove" whatever they wish to prove. The traditional sciences of physics and chemistry and medicine are not immune to such chicanery either. And when it comes to "climate science" a political agenda has replaced the scientific method. T ...
  • On tour during coldest June in Sweden in 92 years
    The coldest June in Sweden in 92 years.
  • Midsommar
    A week away from blogging as we travel north through the hinterland and into the Arctic Circle for a Swedish Midsommar! With the midnight sun and consequent shortage of sleep I suspect I shall not be blogging much.
  • Political correctness shifts away from wind in ...
    A government re-think on costly green energy resources is a winning statement of intent.
  • Rio+20 fizzles into insignificance
    A text has been agreed in Rio to be "approved" by country leaders later this week. The text appears to watered down and to be largely meaningless in terms of binding commitments by any country for moving towards the politically correct view of "a more sustainable future".

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Niagara Falls’ Plan To Lure Young People ...
    Remember how towns in need of a shot of youthful energy were dangling a tasty carrot of student loan payoffs in front of said young people to try and convince them to move there? It seems Niagara Falls' plan in that vein is doing quite well for itself, with a new report that young people [...]
  • Amazon Makes Sure Sharpie Shipment Arrives Ver ...
    UPS delivered a large, light, somewhat damaged box to Erick's workplace. What was inside? Gosh, what if it was damaged when the box was dented? Better open it to make sure. That's quite a few air pillows. Good thing the item was well protected. Oh. Well, great job delivering those Sharpies safel ...
  • Cops: Man Used Guests’ Credit Cards In O ...
    Can't afford to stay in the priciest hotels, order the swankiest room service and wash your hands with the nicest-smelling fancy soaps? Don't use other guests' credit cards to make your dreams come true, as cops say one homeless man did. He was busted for allegedly posing as guests at luxury hot ...
  • July 4th Holiday Open Thread: Foods Of Summer
    Happy impending holiday! We at Consumerist HQ are taking the next two days off to eat inadvisable things, because fireworks are illegal in the jurisdictions where 75% of our staffers live, and we have to have fun somehow.  So "somehow" involves bacon. Anyway, that made us think: what are your fa ...
  • For Some Reason Nuns Really Don’t Want S ...
    There's a battle going down in one Illinois town, and one side is turning to an unlikely weapon in the fight — balloons. An order of nuns and members of the community released scores of balloons skyward (despite a nationwide helium shortage) to demonstrate their opposition of the "Get It" strip ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • More Coverage of Vindicated UN Whistleblower: ...
    Reuters: Tribunal Finds UN Chief Ban Failed Whistleblower Summary: More coverage on the UN whistleblower who was vindicated by the UN Dispute Tribunal. The Tribunal ruled that Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and the ethics office had failed to protect the whistleblower, who suffered retalia ...
  • Whistleblowers Are Real Proxies for Sins of th ...
    Attorney General Eric Holder recently complained in the wake of his congressional contempt citation – the first ever for an Attorney General – that Republicans are using him as a proxy for Obama in an election year. From WaPo: In his first interview since Thursday’s vote, Holder said lawmakers ...
  • Big Pharma Company to Pay $3B in False Claims ...
    The New York Times: Glaxo Agrees to Pay $3 Billion in Fraud Settlement Summary: GlaxoSmithKline, a pharmaceutical company, will pay $3 billion to the Justice Department in the largest healthcare fraud settlement in US history. The case, brought under the federal False Claims Act, alleged ...
  • Japan's Supreme Court Sides with Whistleblower ...
    Associated Press: Japan Whistleblower Wins in Supreme Court in Nation First as Judge Dismisses Olympus Appeal In a notable first, the Supreme Court of Japan has sided with a corporate whistleblower. The decision by the Court, in a culture that is widely regarded as valuing corporate positions ...
  • D.C. Still Unprepared for a Severe Thunderstor ...
    After a short but unusually severe thunderstorm that roared through the D.C. area on Friday night, the entire Washington Metropolitan Area was thrown into chaos. Three days later, countless traffic lights are still out, hundreds of thousands of residents are without power, including myself, gro ...

UK Progressive

  • Denis Has Gone Walkabout….
    by Bob Thanks for your support of UK Progressive Magazine. We’re on holiday until the 23rd. Boss is in China and I’m in charge. Problem is this opposable thumbs thing and, as you can see, I can’t be bothered. So I’m watching the lot of you, staring at the computer to make ...
  • FBI Out to Lure Muslims into “Terror” Plots
    By Sherwood Ross Nearly every major post-9/11 terrorism-related prosecution has involved a sting operation at the center of which is a government informant, “The Nation” magazine reports. The publication cites the findings of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School. The ...
  • Mystery After the Health Care Ruling: Which St ...
    by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica For many people without insurance, a key question raised bythe Supreme Court’s decision today to uphold the Affordable Care Act is whether states will decline to participate in the law’s big Medicaid expansion. Although the court upheld the law’s ...
  • The Elite Coup is Complete (Part 2)
    by Robert Hunziker 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 ...
  • Hate Crimes Against US Muslims Are on the Rise ...
    By Sherwood Ross Muslims may make up fewer than one percent of the U.S. population but they were nearly 13 percent of victims of religious-based hate crimes in 2010, “The Nation” magazine reports (July 2nd). “These crimes include intimidation, burglary, arson, vandalism, and aggravated assault,” ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Nobel prize winner — Ivar Giaever &#8212 ...
    It was for a moment the clash of the Nobel Prize winners on climate change… just barely, but nothing like this has happened before in the debate-that-isn’t. Normally this is not a show the heavyweights turn up too. But there were three Nobel winners in the room at the same time. Paul ...
  • Weather from before coal fired power stations ...
    Australians are spending $77 million a week to try to replicate the stable climate we had with CO2 at 280ppm. So just how ideal was that climate? Newspaper reports of the times were filled with stories of droughts, then floods, bitter cold, and fires that wasted the land. Hmm. Something to aim f ...
  • Who’s running The Big Scare Campaign?
    Just which Big Scare Campaign is the worst? Thanks to Steve Hunter via Andy’s Rant. The Australian Labor Party has been crying “Tony Abbott’s Scare Campaign” in every second interview on the carbon tax. I guess we could call this whipping up a scare about the scare campa ...
  • The-Tax-Whose-Name-Shall-Not-Be-Spoken Begins
    Australians will pay $77 million per week in carbon taxes, while Europe with the 30 most green countries pays just one third of that, according to the Mineral Council of Australia. “Australia’s carbon tax starts generating $77.3 million per week from today. New figures from the Centr ...
  • On Carbon Sunday an ode to Gaia
    Posted in comments by “Carbon Free” ———————————————- I sit here in my living room with just a few minutes left before midnight & ‘Carbon Sunday’, now in my dark cold residence, using only a ...

ReNew America

  • The Keyes vs. Obama prize fight -- 2004 U.S. S ...
    (Fred Hutchison, RA analyst) - It was nice to listen to an intelligent articulate political debate for a change. Alan Keyes is probably the nation's most articulate black conservative, and Barak Obama is probably the nation's most articulate black liberal. What a delight to see them in a duel of ...
  • On July 4, remember: We are not French
    (Ann Coulter) - It has become fashionable to equate the French and American revolutions, but they share absolutely nothing beyond the word "revolution." The American Revolution was a movement based on ideas, painstakingly argued by serious men in the process of creating what would become the fre ...
  • Supreme Court decision puts Romney at odds wit ...
    (Washington Examiner) - Chief Justice John Roberts' surprise decision to side with the liberal majority to uphold the individual mandate on taxing power grounds -- an argument that even liberal lower-court judges had rejected -- has scrambled both parties' health care strategies...
  • 'A shining city on a hill'
    (Joseph Farah) - The way to build a consensus for good governance is to come up with a simple, beautiful vision of liberty and justice for all. That's what the Founding Fathers taught us. In 1776, the men who authored the Declaration of Independence probably did not represent the majority opinio ...
  • Trump: Obama will start Iran war to win election
    (WorldNetDaily) - Donald Trump is again predicting President Obama will start a war with Iran solely to help his chances of getting re-elected this November. The billionaire developer made his forecast both on the Internet and television Tuesday, initially tweeting: "Just as I predicted, Barack ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Hunting For Cheap Survival Items
    Survival Mum has an interesting article out: 21 Survival Items to Look for at Yard Sales, Thrift Stores and Garage Sales Sterling silver flatware – antimicrobial, and valuable Grain mill – get a spare or three Camping equipment – often dirt cheap Knives - old knives can be bro ...
  • North American Geoglyphs
    I’ve just been alerted to a very interesting site that shows possible geoglyphs in the USA – American Geoglyphs. None are as obvious as the Nazca Lines, and perhaps most of them are just natural landscapes. But these four might be man-made, in my opinion, so take a look: Praying goa ...
  • Full Moon Quake in NZ
    Eight hours short of full moon, just north of Wellington, NZ just had a 6.2 earthquake. No major damage or injuries. Still, I can’ t kick this idea that alignments – full and new moon are minor, eclipses are major – add extra stress to the equation. Keep a look out for a big qu ...
  • Galactic Center Collision Due Soon
    I don’t know much about our Galactic Center, and scientists don’t know that much more. Here are some concepts that are mostly agreed: Most galactic centers harbor black holes, and it looks like they probably all do Those black holes are generally very energetic The source of the ene ...
  • Killer Asteroid Can Still Surprise
    The main reason NASA has managed to locate the vast majority of large asteroids in our vicinity is because they tend to hang out in the same narrow slice of space. So rather than observing the entire sky, they can concentrate on a small region. This is also why they are less successful at discov ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

  • ‘Moral police’ attack couple near hospital at ...
    In a suspected case of moral policing, a couple was attacked by three miscreants at Vengod near Vattappara on Tuesday night. Nedumangad police have registered a case and launched a probe after receiving a complaint from the couple in this regard. The victims have been identified as Ajikumar and ...
  • Kingfisher Airlines staffers stage protest ove ...
    The pilots and other employees have, however, decided not to go on strike.'We do not want the passengers to be harassed,' said a commander. Reported by IndiaTimes 3 hours ago
  • Pilots' Dreamliner dream sours
    'Air India has asked its pilots, both from the erstwhile Indian Airlines (IC) and Air India (AI), trained to fly the B787, to go back and do a refresher course to fly (old) aircraft,' said an airline source. Reported by IndiaTimes 4 hours ago
  • Rain brings back threat of H1N1 virus in Mumbai
    Rain seem to have brought the H1N1 virus back in circulation in the city, with over 50% of this year's 67 positive cases reported in June alone. Reported by IndiaTimes 4 hours ago
  • 21-year-old killed by wifes two brothers, both ...
    Days after an MCD schoolteacher became a victim of honour killing, a 21-year-old newly married man was stabbed to death allegedly by his wifes brothers Reported by Indian Express 5 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

  • Making Your Own Graphics Can Help You Go Viral
    Rachel Callahan from Grasping for Objectivity in My Subjective Life published a guest post at Birmingham Blogging Academy that explains how to use graphics to make your posts stand out and even help them go viral. She explains, In the past three weeks, I was honored to win a major blogging awar ...
  • Mothering Continues to Teach Me as I Go Along
    [Editor's Note: I think my kids teach me something about mothering -- about life -- every single day. Sometimes I get down on myself about it, feeling like I'll never figure out this whole mothering gig, like I'll always be two steps behind them. But MJ at 154 Hidden Court recently wrote somethi ...
  • Anatomy of a Corporate Meeting
    Regular meetings in Corporate America. I SO do not miss those meetings. That is why I absolutely loved this post with the anatomy of a meeting. While it may sound like hyperbole, anyone who's been in the brain-suck of a meeting like this knows that it is unfortunately not uncommon. People ...
  • Quick-Pickled Celery: Cheap, Always in Season, ...
    It's 105 outside today. I'm hot. Crabby. I can't afford the olive bar any longer because I will not spend the rest of my life here, a slave to jobs and location. But it's mind-meltingly hot out and all I want is something cold that explodes with vinegar. You know how we fix this ornery mood? We ...
  • Actually, I AM an American
    [Editor's Note: It's the time of year when people talk about how proud they are to be American. But what if your "American-ness" is constantly questioned? Check out this excerpt from House of Peanut and tell us how you would deal with these kinds of comments. --Grace] When someone asks me where ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • GMO Farming, Glyphosate Significant Causes of ...
    Water pollution and air pollution has been and continues to be a serious issue in many nations. Both of these pollution types are successfully bringing down the health of not only humans, but also animals, ...
  • Genetic Evidence that Antioxidants Kill Cancer
    Researchers of Jefferson’s Kimmel Cancer Center have produced genetic evidence suggesting antioxidant drugs could help prevent and treat cancer. With research already showcasing the powers of various cancer fighting foods, this research further shows how dangerous mainstream medical ...
  • Microbe census maps out human body’s bac ...
    It gives scientists a reference point of what the microbial community looks like in healthy people, and they plan to use it to study how changes in a person’s microbiome can lead to illness. After five ...
  • Spray tans – the hazards of faking it
    The active chemical used in spray tans, dihydroxyacetone (DHA), has the potential to cause genetic alterations and DNA damage, according to a panel of medical experts. The ABC News channel brought together six medical experts in areas ranging ...
  • Health Habits That Are a Waste of Time
    A little more than a year ago, my eye doctor prescribed new disposable contact lenses. My insurance, he explained, would pay for only one six-month supply per year. “I’ll just take six months’ worth then,” I ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Tuesday roundup, July 3, 2012
    I’m still catching up on the news following some time off, and obviously here in West Virginia the big story remains the aftermath of last Friday’s terrible “dereche” storm that hit our state and some neighboring areas.  Thousands of residents remain without power. The st ...
  • NPR misses mark with Mingo ‘war on coal ...
    I’m generally a fan of NPR and also an admirer of the work of their longtime journalist Noah Adams, especially his book Far Appalachia. So maybe I was expecting too much when I heard he was working on a piece about the results of West Virginia’s Democratic presidential primary, in wh ...
  • AP: ‘This is what global warming looks l ...
    A tree lays down in the front lawn at a home Saturday, June 30, 2012 in Charleston, W.Va.  Violent storms swept across the eastern U.S., killing at least nine people and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands on a day that temperatures across the region are expected to reach triple-digits.  ...
  • Friday roundup, June 22, 2012
    Coal miners are seen before taking part in “La Marcha Negra”, a five hundred kilometers walk to Madrid, in Mieres, near Oviedo, Spain, Friday, June 22, 2012. Strikes, road blockades, and mine sit-ins continue as 8,000 mineworkers at over 40 coal mines in northern Spain continue their ...
  • Rockefeller tells W.Va. what it doesn’t ...
    Some things are abundantly clear this week, following Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s Senate floor speech about the future of our state’s coalfields: In West Virginia, it’s big news — huge news, really — if one of our political leaders dares to tell a little bit of truth abo ...

Daniel Miessler

  • China: Friend or Enemy?
    The ideological godfather of the benign-China school is Harvard professor and former Clinton administration defense policymaker Joseph S. Nye. In 1995, Nye put forth the notion that if the United States treated China as a threat, it would become a threat. Nye, who is also one of the progenitors ...
  • DShield for Splunk
    The idea behind the application is to allow you to have you own, local copy of the DShield database so you can mine data as much as you want. The application downloads the DShield data (the published All Sources IPs dump) once per day and indexes it into your local Splunk. Once the data has [...]
  • Daring Fireball on iPhone Disruption
    This explains everything that has happened to both the computer and phone industries over the past five years. The iPhone is not and never was a phone.1 It is a pocket-sized computer that obviates the phone. The iPhone is to cell phones what the Mac was to typewriters. via daringfireball.net Pos ...
  • Step #1 For U.S. Healthcare Policy
    Don’t allow healthcare providers to have mission statements that look like this: Screw our policy holders AS MUCH AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE so that we have maximum profit this quarter. Related ContentAn Easy Test: How to See the Real Motive Behind the Healthcare OppositionA Republican Voting for ...
  • No More Facebook on my Phone
    So I removed Facebook from my phone. The reason is simple: too much of my day is spent checking to see what funny pictures people uploaded over the last 45 minutes. I’m all for that stuff, actually, but only once or twice a day–not 30 times a day. Facebook is great at getting you to ...

Fitwatch

  • Sussex police unleash new weapon – crowd ...
    Sussex police have recently started to use new forms of repressive tactics for policing demonstrations. They seem to have taken a break from head cracking to trial what they have termed 'Police Liaison Officers' or PLOs at the recent Smash EDO demonstration on June 4th. This may not be simply a ...
  • A call to FITWATCH at Smash EDO demo, Monday 4 ...
    The high court has decided that it is perfectly ok for the cops to gather as much intel about anyone they like who is in any way connected to the Smash EDO campaign - or any other that uses direct action or civil disobedience. Yesterday they announced that the domestic extremism unit, in holding ...
  • FITwatch beneFIT: Weds 30th May.
    Come and join us in one of South London's finest boozers and live music venues, and help us raise some much-needed money! See you there. FW Crew x
  • N9 plain clothes cops identified
    As avid readers of the comments pages of this blog and indymedia will know, two of the plain clothes cops who terrorised and dragged people out of the N9 student demo have now been identified. The comments that were posted are re-posted in full below. PC Chris Healey and PC Giles Dainty, both wo ...
  • FIT at Mayday march, London
    FIT team and the new 'baby blue' Police Liasion cops were much in evidence on the Mayday march in London. We've also had reports of a PCSO in a FIT role - first time we've come across that! Some reports have suggested that the FIT were in evidence partly because the cops seem fixated on [...]

Worldwide Hippies

  • How not to help a woman cope
    By Jona Johns,Worldwide Hippies - I’ll start with sharing some of the stats that I’ve shared before, but just in case you missed it… They say the stats are 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage. One in four. So 75% of the time, a mother gets to take her baby home to the nursery that [...]
  • Revolution 99 Updates: Cradle of liberty is n ...
    Philly marks nation’s birthday with cake, dissent PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The cradle of liberty celebrated the nation’s 236th birthday on Wednesday with thousands of cupcakes, an old-fashioned parade and some modern-day political dissent. Marching bands, floats, community groups and mili ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Thursday
    ‘Mass Concentration Prison Camps’: Read the Shocking Emails That Forced a Florida DNC Member To Resign President Barack Obama’s Democratic party has been accused by many sources of being overly cozy with anti-Israel cranks. It is perhaps because of this reputation, fair or unfair though it may b ...
  • Remember FBI Warning – After July 9th Hu ...
    By Jack Swint,OEN - International Online Scam Nets Thieves 14 Million Dollars And Infected 570,000 Computers … For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing Internet connections this summer. Unknown to most of them, their problem began w ...
  • Gasland Director Josh Fox on His New Film, Gas ...
    By Christine Shearer, Truthout | Interview - In 2010, the documentary film “Gasland” exploded onto the public consciousness, exposing many people to the next wave of energy extraction: fracking. The practice was taking place across swaths of the United States overlying shale roc ...

reference frame

  • Stephen Wolfram on Higgs, particle physics
    A Moment for Particle Physics: The End of a 40-Year Story? Guest blog by Stephen Wolfram, a trained particle physicist, entrepreneur, and software designer
  • Václav Havel's heart melted by global warming
    I included a photograph of a sculpture of Havel by a local Pilsner student and sculptor because I consider it a more nontrivial piece of art than the sculpture discussed below but it is not the actual star in this story.Global warming – which hasn't been seen for 15 years – is nevertheless ca ...
  • CMS: tantalizing excess of top partners
    A few hours ago, the CMS Collaboration released five new papers, mostly about the search for supersymmetry. In general, you could say that they universally conclude that "we see nothing so far". However, a more detailed review could lead you to think that this conclusion could be prematu ...
  • Higgs bets: I won $500, Gordy Kane won $100 fr ...
    Just hours after the yesterday's discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN, my counterparty contacted me by e-mail, conceded defeat in our 2007 bet, and requested the relevant contacts or banking numbers to pay $500. So I sent the data and I haven't heard from him again after that so far but ...
  • Compact formula for all tree \(\NNN=8\) SUGRA ...
    Even though many of us expected the Higgs discovery today, it's been a very intense day and it's not yet over. I was told that 30 people at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey gathered in the rooms previously occupied by Albert Einstein and similar colleagues and ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • I have been asked to sell this domain name – Y ...
    $100,000.27 No negotiations. Send to my PayPal account at chiefape@gmail.com. Simple as that. Too much money? Too bad. It is a take it or leave it offer. Quit bugging me! TMA Related posts: Tatumba.com home of The Mad Ape – Radio Spot A few weeks ago I won a significant amount of... Relat ...
  • End of the Road – How Money Became Worthless – ...
    The new film “End Of The Road” has just been released for public viewing, featuring GoldSilver.com CEO Mike Maloney alongside Peter Schiff, Jim Rickards, Jim Puplava, James Turk, Eric Sprott and more. This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Gold American Eagle Fractional Bullion Co ...
  • HOW TO Defeat The System – Documentary Film
    HELP MAKE THIS GO VIRAL! How To Defeat The System is Fabian4Liberty’s latest micro documentary film. With the world in crisis and hundreds of talking heads highlighting the problems, what exactly are the solutions? In this micro documentary LIBERTARIAN ACTIVIST Fabian4Liberty covers concre ...
  • FPS Russia:The 40mm Machine Gun – Buy it here
      22″ Rapid Fire Machine Gun with Lights & Sound High quality battery operated machine gun with lights and blasting sounds! Feel the action when you pull the trigger. The barrel with bayonet moves back and forth thrusting. The bullet belt revolves when firing. This awesome machine ...
  • Bank of America Attacked SGT Report
    e-mail Bank of America and ask them, is this how they treat AMERICANS? abuse@bankofamerica.com SGTreport.com: Someone at Bank of America Doesn’t Like SGTreport http://sgtreport.com/2011/09/someone-at-bank-of-america-doesnt-like-sgtreport/ Cass Sunstein’s Obama Spine-Chilling Proposal ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
    CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation

Enviroblog

  • Pick the best sunscreen for kids
    By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Analyst I have happy memories of long summer days spent outdoors, largely unencumbered by sun hats, sunglasses and sunscreen. Now we know that one blistering burn during childhood can increase a child's risk of developing... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • EWG's 2012 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Pr ...
    Well, as we do each year, EWG released (on June 19) the latest Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce and as we suspected, eaters around the country are still concerned about high levels of toxic pesticide residue on their fruits... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
  • Peanut Butter, Pajamas and Power
    By Heather White, chief of staff, Environmental Working Group My kids eat more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches than I'd like to admit. And in my line of work I hear about toxic chemicals daily so it takes a lot... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other ...
  • "The EWG list of best sunscreens can't be beat ...
    Late last week, news outlets began reporting that the Federal Communications Commission was considering revising their cell phone radiation testing methods - for the first time in 15 years. Early this week, Governor Brown of California announced a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • Join the Fight to Provide Healthy Food for Str ...
    By Nora Pouillon For those of us lucky enough to sit down every day to healthy, nutritious meals, it's easy to forget that millions of American families in the grip of the recession are struggling to put food on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other co ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Rig workers slam threatened lock-out
    Leaders for oil rig workers who are striking over lost pension benefits were furious on Thursday after their employers threatened to shut down all rigs in the North Sea and literally lock out non-striking workers as well. The move would affect more than 6,000 workers and halt Norwegian oil and g ...
  • Airlines face off with new routes
    Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) and its arch rival in Norway, Norwegian Air, are both planning new routes when intercontinental competition heats up next year. The plans include the return of SAS to California, more than 20 years after it stopped flying to Los Angeles. SAS has begun selling a new, n ...
  • Mediation failed to settle oil strike
    A strike by oil service workers in the North Sea entered its 12th day on Thursday, after attempts at mediation failed Wednesday evening. The strike has shut down several Norwegian oil rigs and reportedly is costing Statoil alone more than NOK 100 million a day. A national mediator called the thr ...
  • Queen takes a birthday break
    The canons were fired from the Akershus Fortress at noon and flags were flying all over Norway on the 4th of July, to mark the 75th birthday of Queen Sonja. She and other members of the royal family were taking a break from official duties, however, after a few hectic months. In the past few [...]
  • Mediator tries to end oil service strike
    A national mediator has called in those involved in a strike that’s disrupted or halted production at several oil platforms in the North Sea since late last month. Representatives for around 700 striking members of three labour organizations and their employers were set to start talking ag ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Ordeal: Mulling the Meaning of Rio+20
    Leaving Rio de Janeiro, site of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, we mulled the meaning of what we had witnessed, but could hardly put it any better than Charles Eisenstein in his excellent summary, Why Rio+20 Failed: You know folks, I’m a bit worried about my 16-year-old son, ...
  • My Permaculture Internship at the PRI’s Zaytun ...
    Can the human race build an environmentally sustainable culture? Can we disprove the myth that humans are inherently destructive? Here at The Permaculture Research Institute of Australia, myself and 18 others are a part of an intensive internship in an attempt to answer these big, big questions. ...
  • Coal to Liquids – Racing to the Bottom With th ...
    I thought I’d add to George Monbiot’s recent post highlighting moves to persevere with fossil fuels by sharing a little piece on how feeding our oil addiction is taking us to ever-dirtier lows. Although momentum is building in the fight against coal-fired power plants, it’s ...
  • Preparing Our Children For a Resilient Future, ...
    Our Role as Facilitators Having been a home educator for nearly 18 years, I have become aware of the value of hands-on experiences for helping children learn and really understand concepts — experiences that are relevant to their lives and help prepare them for a real future, in much more ...
  • A Tip for the Strawberry Patch
    An easy trick for saving your strawberries from birds! by Mari Korhonen Here’s a little tip I learned last summer from a friend for saving your strawberries from getting munched by birds: Early in the season, before the strawberries start turning red, pick some little strawberry-sized st ...

Pointman's

  • The Nigger Word.
    There’s been a bit of a furore recently about a supposedly prestigious science journal running a paper that was peppered with the word nigger. The editor, of what can only be referred to as a rag now, even came up with a fatuous reply to the resultant criticism, which when stripped of the ...
  • The Nigger Word.
    There’s been a bit of a furore recently about a supposedly prestigious science journal running a paper that was peppered with the word nigger. The editor, of what can only be referred to as a rag now, even came up with a fatuous reply to the resultant criticism, which when stripped of the ...
  • Mullering the data.
    There is this new sort of creature who’s emerged in the climate debate in the last year or two. Unsurprisingly, they all seem to spring from the alarmist side, but they all have one of those comfortably recognisable patterns of behaviour that I quite like. I’ll freely admit I’v ...
  • Our secret weapon.
    There are three elements to be considered when formulating a strategy; the ultimate objective of the strategy, the resources you have available to achieve that objective and the way the resources are to be deployed to take and then hold that objective. Obviously, our objective is to destroy the ...
  • How environmentalism turned to the dark side.
    Over the best part of the last two decades, the twin delusions that we’re destroying the planet and that we have to completely restructure civilisation to somehow save it, have taken root and gripped the popular psyche of the West. The first notion had its origins in the early seventies, w ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Beasts of the Southern Wild, A Hollywood Film ...
    Earlier versions of this article originally were distributed via Agence France Presse, and in Louisiana Weekly. The Gulf Coast loses a football field of land every 45 minutes, and much of that loss happens in the bayous of Southern Louisiana, where roads disappear into canals, winding their way ...
  • Backlash Mounts as the Louisiana Supreme Court ...
    From a press release sent out today: Justice Bernette Joshua Johnson, who has served as an Associate Justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court for nearly two decades, is poised to assume the office of Chief Justice in February 1, 2013, upon the retirement of the current chief justice. She fol ...
  • Structurally Unemployed Workers Deliver Junete ...
    From our friends at the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice: Stand with Dignity Commemorated Juneteenth by delivering a proclamation to New Orleans City Council and Mayor. "The 20 people who arrived at City Hall today with Stand were there to deliver a message to our city that we a ...
  • Newly Formed Observer Group to Monitor Today’s ...
    From our friends at Louisiana Bucket Brigade:  Khaki Vests and Citizen Monitor Buttons Identify Oil Monitoring Group Fifteen Citizen Monitors trained to engage oil industry and government representatives will be on hand at today’s oil lease auction. The goal of the newly formed Oil Monit ...
  • Celebrate Juneteenth
    A Juneteenth Message from our friends at Critical Resistance: Tuesday, June 19, marked Juneteenth, the commemoration of the end of formalized slavery in the United States.  The date coincides with the last wave of notification of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, reaching e ...

Information Underground

  • Formal Introductions & Welcomes • Re: Plea ...
    Welcome to TIU Josey. And I totally agree w/you--the zio-controlled MSM is beyond sickening. I give you lots of credit for trying to wake up the brainwashed and clueless masses--I've tried that a bit myself and it's exhausting. Anyway, great to have someone from Central America here at TIU.Sta ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    bluejelly wrote: Not a bad article but I wish people would stop blaming the jews for abortion, it is down right silly. How is it silly when Jews have been the heart and soul of the sexual liberation movement the last 300 years—a big part of which has been the barbaric practice of abortion?Sta ...
  • Historical Events • 'Britain's Atlantis' found ...
    'Britain's Atlantis' found at bottom of North sea - a huge undersea world swallowed by the sea in 6500BC Divers have found traces of ancient land swallowed by waves 8500 years ago Doggerland once stretched from Scotland to Denmark Rivers seen underwater by seismic scans Britain ...
  • Formal Introductions & Welcomes • Re: Plea ...
    A man of Wealth & Taste, Josey Wales. Good song, Great Movie. Statistics: Posted by Wimpy — Thu Jul 05, 2012 8:05 pm
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    I think A. Kubizek has the last word on Hitler and Wagner: ------------- Chapter 17 - Nights at the Opera. The high spots of our friendship were our visits together to the H of Opera, and memories of my friend are inseparably connected with these wonderful experiences. The theatre in Linz sa ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • U.S.’s Largest Solar Factory Halted in Face of ...
    General Electric has halted construction of what would have been the largest solar factory in the U.S. due to the falling price of photovoltaic modules globally and says it will focus instead on developing the next generation of cadmium-telluride thin-film technologies for the developers of sola ...
  • Leatherback Turtle Declines Will Escalate As C ...
    A warming climate could exacerbate threats facing leatherback turtle populations in the eastern Pacific Ocean, creating conditions that could trigger a 75 percent reduction in turtle numbers by the end of the century, a new study says. Even under existing USFW conditions, turtle births ebb a ...
  • African Savannas May Shift to Forest as CO2 Le ...
    Large areas of African savanna may slowly transform into forest ecosystems by the end of the century as atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide continue to rise, a new study says. While earlier studies have suggested that rising CO2 “fertilization” will not trigger global vegetation shifts, researc ...
  • Oh Canada: The Government’s Broad Assault on E ...
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government has been weakening Canada’s environmental regulations and slashing funds for oversight and research — all while promoting aggressive resource development. Critics warn these unprecedented actions pose a major threat to the nation’s vast natural heritage ...
  • Beyond Rio’s Disappointment, Finding a Path to ...
    The Rio+20 Summit produced a largely meaningless document that failed to address the daunting environmental challenges the world faces. But many at the conference looked to an alternative approach they called “green economics” — using market forces to help nations achieve sustainable development ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

  • The Media’s November Wake-Up Call
    Wrong calls on the court’s health-care ruling didn’t affect that outcome, but imagine if it had been an election night, writes Michael Medved.
  • The GOP’s Vacation Edge
    Mitt Romney left the trail for a bout of family Olympics at his lavish getaway. But then, Republicans usually win this primary. Michelle Cottle on the Dems’ holiday gap.
  • Duran Duran Looks Back
    The iconic British rockers reminisce with Marlow Stern on 30 years of the album ‘Rio,’ their upcoming Olympics concert, and more.
  • A ‘Perfect Storm’ of Scandals
    Peter Jukes on Barclays, NatWest, and LIBOR—the crises rocking London to its core.
  • Mexico’s Telenovela President
    The telegenic president-elect is married to a soap-opera star, fathered two kids out of wedlock, and is close to a disgraced former president, says Teresa Puente.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Nomura to continue leak probe
    Nomura Holdings Inc. will continue to check for further cases of insider trading involving its employees, according to sources. Japan's top brokerage — already reeling from three confirmed stock trading scandals — and its panel of outside lawyers will investigate whether Nomura emp ...
  • Lakers bolster backcourt with two-time MVP Nash
    Steve Nash is going to the Los Angeles Lakers, a Pacific Division rival the two-time MVP point guard tried so hard to beat, with little success, in his eight seasons with the Phoenix Suns. At Nash's request, the Lakers and Suns reached a sign-and-trade deal, with Los Angeles using the trade ex ...
  • Inaugural festival celebrates intangible cultu ...
    The festival season in Japan is here and people are gearing up to celebrate old traditions, but adding a little variety this year is the first Tokyo Festival of Intangible Culture. The festival's focus on intangible culture means that there will be a lot of dancing, music and performances. The ...
  • BOJ ups regional assessments
    The Bank of Japan on Thursday revised upward the assessments of all nine regional economies in the country compared with three months earlier, encouraged by pickups in business investment and private consumption. "Many regions noted that the economy had been recovering moderately or picking up ...
  • Famed patissier to visit the Cerulean
    From July 11-31, the Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel in the Shibuya area of Tokyo will hold a special Laurent Jeannin Promotion featuring special lunch and dinner courses at the restaurant Coucagno on the hotel's 40th floor. Jeannin is one of the most distinctive chef patissiers in France and works ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Equalization: is Québec committing a hold-up?
    Is it normal that Albertans pay the much too generous social programmes to which the people of Québec are treating themselves through equalization, especially when they are being patronized regarding the environment by people that refuse to exploit their own gas and oil resources? That would sum ...
  • Keen on Economics and Canadian Debt
    I was fortunate enough to be able to attend Steven Keen’s talk “Canada’s Debt Bubble” on June 28th , 2012 (recorded in full here)  The session was jointly sponsored by the new Ontario office of the CCPA, the Progressive Economics Forum and Ryerson University…and what a talk it was!!  I immediate ...
  • GDP: Petro-Rebound Conceals Underlying Problems
    The main story in today’s GDP numbers is that the oil, gas and mining industries rebounded sharply in April after being hobbled by temporary maintenance and production difficulties in February and March. While the upswing in fossil-fuel and mineral extraction was large enough to boost the overal ...
  • Canada’s Mean Test: Myths behind neo-con madness
    It’s difficult to overstate the significance of the Quebec student strike (the longest in North American history) and resultant public backlash against the provincial government’s Orwellian response. Not that you’d know it. According to mainstream (predominantly) English media, Montreal is being ...
  • Freedom from Medicare and lower tuition days
    Well well, another misinformed tax freedom day has come and gone on June 12th.  To mark the occasion this year I wanted to skip over the very serious methodological flaws that others have pointed out, and take a look at several other items that Canadians are “free of” at various poin ...

ReDress

  • The voting dilemma facing Americans in the pre ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers the hard choices facing American voters as they ponder who to cast their ballot in the upcoming presidential elections, and offers some guidelines on how potential but wavering voters might make up their minds.
  • Palestinians, beware false friends
    Stuart Littlewood assesses whether UK Labour leader Ed Miliband is worthy of the praise heaped upon him by the Palestinian Authority's UK representative, Manuel Hassassian, and urges Palestinians to beware of false "friends", such as the Miliband brothers and other Labour leaders, who are uncond ...
  • Migrant nightmares: Ethiopian domestic workers ...
    Graham Peebles charts the horrendous abuse faced by Ethiopian migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states and Lebanon where they are traded by unscrupulous traffickers - "not brokers/agents in any recognizable, legitimate sense of the word, but common criminals engaged in human trafficking ...
  • An artist’s vision of peace in Palestine
    Neve Gordon considers how an artist's work can evoke the possibility and the necessity of imagining a different reality in a war zone.
  • Time to abandon never-ending futile talks with ...
    Jamal Kanj calls on the Palestinian National Authority to abandon its commitment to the pointless perpetual negotiations with the Israelis which while achieving peace for the Jews-only state of Israel are permanently eliminating the prospects of justice for the Palestinian people.

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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  • The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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Peakwater

  • Desal measure heads to November ballot; group ...
    “SANTA CRUZ- The city announced Tuesday an anti-desalination group has narrowly collected the required number of signatures to place a measure on November’s ballot asking voters whether they want a future say in building a plant. The Right to Vote on Desal Coalition was required to c ...
  • Blackout: Weak monsoon to hit power, kill crops
    “NEW DELHI: The faltering monsoon has pushed the country to the brink of severe shortages of power and drinking water, apart from hurting crop planting as India’s biggest water reservoirs need to be quickly replenished to generate electricity and irrigate fields for the rest of the y ...
  • Drought lowering Mississippi River
    “At Natchez, Miss., about 60 miles downriver from Vicksburg, the Mississippi is at 12.72 feet, about 49 feet below what was the record high on May 19 of last year. Mississippi’s Emergency Management Agency director,Robert Latham, said drought conditions are a part of what’s cau ...
  • Kalamazoo River oil spill: $3.7 million penalt ...
    “Federal regulators recommended a record $3.7 million penalty against Canada’s Enbridge Energy on Monday for a July 2010 pipeline rupture that sent hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude into a tributary of the Kalamazoo River. In its report, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety ...
  • As Farms Bite the Dust, “Megadrought&#82 ...
      “This summer is worse than last; forest fires have already broken last year’s records. The rains haven’t come, and temperature records are falling like leaves from a dried-up tree. Springs, wells and irrigation ditches are bone dry. Farms are withering. We’ve all h ...

D. Kucinich

  • Solidarity With Hungry Workers
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released a video continuing his support of postal workers across the country who are demanding Congress amend a 2006 mandate to prefund pension benefits for workers to the tune of $5.5 billion per year. On Monday, Congressman Kucinich hosted ten postal wo ...
  • Kucinich: I Agree with Jimmy Carter
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released a video calling attention to an OpEd in The New York Times by former President Jimmy Carter titled, “Cruel and Unusual Record.” In the video Kucinich states, “I agree with President Carter when he says America’s violations of international human ...
  • ICYMI: Pakistani Objection to U.S. Drones puts ...
    WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 29, 2012) – Please find below an interview and an article recently published by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a non-profit organization funded by the Potter Foundation, and dedicated to raising the standard of journalism through high quality investigative reporti ...
  • Kucinich Announces Academy Appointments
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) announced today that four students from the 10th Congressional District nominated to military academies have been offered and have accepted appointments for the class of 2016. The following students will join military academies in the 2012-2013 academic year: ...
  • The Fed “Twists” Again. Like it Did Last Summe ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after the Federal Reserve announced it would commit $267 billion to continue Operation Twist, a program to keep long-term interest rates low. The program was named after the 1960’s song by Chubby Checker, a popular song du ...

Authentically Wired

  • WHEN THE GOP/TEA PARTY/REPUBLICAN GOAL IS SIMP ...
    …WHEN THE GOP/TEA PARTY/REPUBLICAN GOAL IS SIMPLY TO DENY … OBFUSCATE … BLAME … AND DO NOTHNG TO ASSIST AMERICA OR ITS ELECTED LEADER … YOU EXPECT ANOTHER RESULT …   Key Regulations to Prevent Another Financial Crisis Are Being Delayed or Scrapped, and More In today’s On the New ...
  • DISPITE CONSCIOUSLY DIRECTED EFFORT BY CORPORA ...
    … DISPITE CONSCIOUSLY DIRECTED EFFORT BY CORPORATE AND GOVERNMENT TO CONTROL ACCESS TO INFORMATION “THE PEOPLE” ARE WAKING UP AND BEGINNING TO DEMAND ANSWERS …   Twitter "Transparency Report" Reveals U.S. Government Making Shocking Number of Requests for User Information ...
  • The middle class is being hollowed out; increa ...
    …The middle class is being hollowed out; increasingly, there are the super-super-rich, and there are the rest of us…   Corporate Profits at All-Time High; Wages at All-Time Low: Can We Call it Class War Yet…?   June 29, 2012 ….http://www.alternet.org/story/156042/corporate_ ...
  • …Though Lake Mead feeds the mighty Color ...
    …Though Lake Mead feeds the mighty Colorado River upon which Arizona is highly dependent Arizona water guru’s see nothing … hear nothing … report nothing to you and me and like ostriches we continue to keep our heads firmly buried up our ??? … you fill in the blank …   … HIGH GOOD, LO ...
  • rally around the flag folks
    …This just … Capitalism and greed is god rule … Europe is socialistic … communist … come on people wake up … it’s the 4 the July rally around the flag folks … Why Europe’s Laws On Vacations Are Better Than Your Wildest Dreams (and How Badly Americans Get Screwed)   We work ourse ...

Popular Technology

  • The Truth about Richard Muller
    "I was never a skeptic" - Richard Muller, 2011 Richard Muller has never been a skeptic, at best he had a moment of intellectual honesty towards skeptics when he acknowledged Steve McIntyre's debunking of Mann's Hockey Stick, only to later dismiss this as irrelevant to the global warming debate ...
  • The Truth about Judith Curry
    Judith Curry is not a skeptic but a hurricane alarmist who had an alleged epiphany after Climategate and now seeks to be some sort of arbiter of scientific integrity. Her history of trust building includes accusing world leading hurricane expert, Dr. William Gray of "brain fossilization" and t ...
  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
  • Mastering the Firefox Search Bar
    As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...
  • The Truth about SourceWatch
    SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Indonesia revises moratorium map; makes contes ...
    Indonesia is making 'encouraging' progress on its push to reduce deforestation by improving governance over its forests and peatlands, but still needs to do more to enforce environmental laws, said the head of the country's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) task force ...
  • Can loggers be conservationists?
    Last year researchers took the first ever publicly-released video of an African golden cat (Profelis aurata) in a Gabon rainforest. This beautiful, but elusive, feline was filmed sitting docilely for the camera and chasing a bat. The least-known of Africa's wild cat species, the African golden c ...
  • The month in environmental news for April 2012
    Mongabay.com provides a quick review of forest-related news for April 2012.
  • Does the Tasmanian tiger exist? Is the saola e ...
    The use of remote camera traps, which photograph animals as they pass, has revolutionized research on endangered and cryptic species. The tool has even allowed scientists to document animals new to science or feared extinct. But as important as camera traps have become, they are still prohibitiv ...
  • New reptile discovered in world's strangest ar ...
    Few people have ever heard of the Socotra Archipelago even though, biologically-speaking, it is among the world's most wondrous set of islands. Over one third of Socotra's plants are found no-where else on Earth, i.e. endemic, while 90 percent of its reptiles are also endemic. Adding to its list ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • What the Higgs? 'God particle' explained
    Scientists working at the world's biggest atom smasher near Geneva have announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle that looks remarkably like the long-sought Higgs boson. Sometimes called the "God particle" because its existence...
  • Scientists prepare to share 'God particle' pro ...
    Scientists believe the "God particle" that might explain the underpinnings of the universe is real, and they are about to present their evidence to the world.Physicists at the world's biggest atom smasher plan to announce tomorrow...
  • Kiwi scientist works on US presidential mystery
    A University of Otago scientist has been working with a former consultant for the TV show House to try to establish whether United States president Abraham Lincoln suffered from a rare form of cancer.A piece of the blood-soaked...
  • 7000-year-old moa dung reveals secrets
    Moa fed on nectar-rich flowers from flax and tree fuchsia, according to scientists analysing fossilised moa dung near Karamea.Landcare Research scientists have just completed a detailed analysis of 35 samples of fossilised dung...
  • Hang on a second - when will it be high noon?
    There is never enough time in the day but tomorrow, at least, there will be one extra second.A so-called leap second will be inserted into the atomic time scale at midnight on June 30, universal time - which is midday today, New...

The Bovine

  • Safe Foods for Canadians Act
    From Lewis Retik, on Mondaq.com: “On June 7, 2012 the federal government introduced the proposed Safe Food for Canadians Act (the Act). The proposed Act which must be passed by Parliament and may be subject to change, would apply to … Continue reading →
  • How food safety regulations do not necessarily ...
    From Baylen Linnekin, on Reason.com: “Nearly 18 months after passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act, a landmark piece of legislation that granted new powers and authority to the FDA, the legislation is still mired in congressional debates over how to fund it. … Continue reading ...
  • Tending the body’s microbial garden
    One of the arguments for raw milk is that bacteria are not all bad, as some germ theorists might seem to imply. It’s about time science took note of the role of beneficial bacteria in maintaining and enhancing bodily health. … Continue reading →
  • Crackdown on raw meat dishes
    From CBC news: “At least one Windsor chef plans to protest the local health unit’s crackdown on raw meat dishes. Rino Bortolin will serve raw meat dishes lamb tartare and lamb Carpaccio this Canada Day weekend. “Until an inspector tells … Continue reading →
  • Good cop, bad cop games in Maine
    From David E. Gumpert on The Complete Patient blog: “The  good-cop-bad-cop routine is one of the oldest in law enforcement. Talk  with me, goes the advice to the criminal suspect from the nice-guy cop, or I’ll  send in our junk … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Japan Composite PMI Contracts; China Composite ...
    The contraction hit parade keeps humming along. Japan Composite data show first fall in business activity since November 2011 Business activity in Japan’s service sector decreased for a second successive month during June, as new order growth remained muted. Meanwhile, manufa ...
  • Eurozone Composite PMI Signals Steep Rate of C ...
    PMI reports from Europe continue to show severe signs of stress. Yesterday, Markit reported Eurozone PMI rises in June but still signals steep rate of contraction Key points for June Final Eurozone Composite Output Index: 46.4 (Flash 46.0, May 46.0) Final Eurozone Services Business A ...
  • Record Number of Homes for Sale in Melbourne; ...
    Record Number of Homes for Sale in Melbourne Given the alleged housing shortage in Australia, it is interesting to note a Record number of houses for sale in Melbourne In June, Melbourne’s residential listings grew at a monthly rate of 6.1 per cent - almost four times the national avera ...
  • Global Uncoordinated Panic; ECB Cuts Rates to ...
    Global Uncoordinated Panic In a 45-Minute Salvo today, the ECB cuts rates to a record low 0.75 percent and reduced the deposit rate to zero. Meanwhile, the People’s Bank of China cut their benchmark borrowing costs (the second time in a month), and the Bank of England raised the size of its ...
  • In 2010 Obama Promised to Double Exports by 20 ...
    Purportedly the US is going to decouple from the global economy, led by exports. I believe otherwise, which got me to thinking about pledges president Obama made in January 2010. On January 27, 2010 Obama pledged to double exports by 2015. Miracles and Mysteries Investigated The h ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 6, 2012
    BFP Nightly Quote “If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington International Newsworthy US Rejected Iranian ‘No Nukes’ Offer in 2005 Israel ‘Super Ready’ to Attack Iran Russ ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 24, 2012
    BFP Nightly Quote “But, ah, think what you do when you run in debt: you give another power over your liberty.” – Benjamin Franklin International Newsworthy Iran Invites Assad to Attend Non-Aligned Movement Summit Fearful Iran Hawks Flap Harder Iran ‘Gives Guidance’ to US Ship i ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Quebec Moves toward Martial Law to Crush Student Movement A student movement in the Canadian province of Quebec was sparked with a strike in February of 2012 against the government’s planned 75% increase in tuition. For over three months, students have protested night and day, with over 20 ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 23, 2012
    BFP Nightly Quote “War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that ’tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,’ like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. W ...
  • Afghan Heroin Myths and Facts Recapped & Simpl ...
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bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Box Ships Takes Delivery of OOCL China, Charte ...
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  • Monsoon Will Likely Keep Pirates at Bay in Ind ...
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  • CMA CGM Sells Off Luxury Cruise Business to Pr ...
    Bridgepoint and CMA CGM Group, with its parent company Merit, announced today that they have signed a formal agreement whereby Bridgepoint will acquire French luxury cruise line operator, and CGM [...]
  • Sanko Steamship Comes Crashing Down Once Again
    Sanko Steamship has had one of the most tumultuous histories of any shipping company in the world. Established in 1934, Sanko Line has its origin in the Sanko Kaiun Kaisha which [...]

Press TV

  • Rare America map found in Germany
    Researchers have found a rare copy of early America map in the University Library in Munich, which they believe dates back to 500 years ago.
  • 2 German troopers hurt in Afghanistan
    At least two German soldiers serving with the US-led NATO forces have been wounded in northern Afghanistan, Press TV reports.
  • PCS union attacks UK govt. job cuts
    The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), Britain's biggest civil service union, has criticized the Tory-led government’s plan to close the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) offices by the end of next year for throwing thousands on the dole.
  • West’s economic system crumbling
    Eritrea, reported as having the highest rate of economic growth in the world, is demonized and targeted for destabilization by the US.
  • ‘Iran-P5+1 talks in constructive phase’
    Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers have entered a constructive phase.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
    The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
  • Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
    The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
  • Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
    More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
  • Presentation to the National Economists Club
    Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
  • Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
    The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...

Naked Scientists - News

  • Life's building blocks found in a ring around ...
    Complex carbon-based molecules, including many that are important for life on Earth, could have formed in the early solar system. That's according to a paper by Fred Ciesla and Scott Sandford in this ...
  • Pint sized rocket
    A rocket has been developed that could get a spaceprobe to the moon on just 100g of fuel Some tasks can only be done by a large satellite, but there are many others which can be done as well if not b...
  • Seeing Around the Corner
    Using a laser, a super fast camera and a clever algorithm, researchers at MIT have developed the ability to see, in 3D, around a corner. Writing in the journal Nature Communications, Andreas Velten a...
  • Drugs in sewage
    Drug use in populations, both legal and illegal, is important to know about for health and law and order reasons. Whilst it is relatively easy to keep tabs on the amount of legal drug use by asking ph...
  • Messages from Mercury
    The MESSENGER spacecraft completed one Earth year of orbiting Mercury this month, and two papers published in the journal Science highlight some of the surprising scientific results from our solar sys...

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