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Sunday, July 8, 2012

8 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Michigan group submits petitions for ballot issue on renewable energy
Toledo Blade
LANSING -- Supporters of a Michigan ballot measure that would require utilities to get more of their electricity from renewable sources submitted more than a half-million petition signatures to the secretary of state's office. The Michigan Energy ...
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Americans Want Power Companies To Embrace Renewables
Care2.com (blog)
In general, those who had a utility that was helping them buy or produce green energy were more satisfied overall. Are you listening utility companies?
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Nebraska event offers renewable energy advice
NewsOK.com
LYONS, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska homeowners and businesses interested in renewable energy can learn more about their options later this month. The Nebraska Energy Fair will be held on July 21 in Lyons, Neb.
Cuba's Renewable Energy: Gov. Missing Out On Solar, Wind Power ...
Huffington Post
RAMON GORDO, Cuba (AP) — The sleepy country setting that farmer Juan Alonso calls home hasn't changed much since he was born 74 years ago, with the two rustic wooden houses nestled among palm trees against a backdrop of green hills and clear ...
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Ecology seeks comment on proposed rule for Mercury-Containing Lights Product ...
Bonney Lake and Sumner Courier-Herald
The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) proposes adopting a rule that is necessary to carry out the law creating the state's Mercury-Containing Lights Product Stewardship Program. Ecology invites the public to comment on the proposed rule.
Commerce Man Leads Teacher Group to Explore Ecology of Costa Rica
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COMMERCE - Commerce resident Alton Biggs and his wife Louise recently traveled more than 2000 miles to point out the behavior of monkeys and various other.
Ecology invites the public to comment on proposed rule for Mercury-Containing ...
Access Washington
OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) proposes adopting a rule that is necessary to carry out the law creating the state's Mercury-Containing Lights Product Stewardship Program. Ecology invites the public to comment on the proposed ...
Balancing the economics and ecology of ecosystems
Phys.Org
Is it possible to put a dollar value on the beauty of a river or to judge the worth of a wetland?
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Russia Floods: Terrifying Wall of Water Kills at Least 171
ABC News (blog)
AP Photo/Ignat Kozlov MOSCOW — The death toll from this weekend's catastrophic flash floods in southern Russia has climbed to at least 171 people, and authorities warn that figure is likely to increase. As the flood waters receded they revealed a grim ...
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PM shuns water ownership claim
New Zealand Herald
Claims that Maori own water have no basis and will not hold up the Government's privatisation programme, says the Prime Minister.
Monmouth residents allowed to water lawns, but restrictions still apply
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Lawn sprinklers are still banned, but American Water's customers in Monmouth County may use handheld garden hoses on every other day.
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Texas Seeks New Water Supplies Amid Drought
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Ranchers endured a tough time during the seven-year Texas drought in the 1950s. But last year was the hottest, driest period in the record books. As the state braces for another arid summer, it is getting more serious about finding new sources of water.
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  • Internet Improves Olympic Sex Worker Health Care
    The 2012 Olympic Games are already having quite an impact on sex workers in London. The Open Doors team of nurses has for years relied on its knowledge of East London brothels to provide critical sexual health advice, checkups and free condoms. In the run up to the Olympics, police have closed a ...
  • US Heading for Recession 2013 ?
    Fresh reports pointing to a slowdown in the struggling U.S. economy, coupled with worries of Europe's fiscal woes, have experts warning that Recession 2013 is inevitable. The dismal and downtrodden jobs numbers, the elevated long-term unemployment levels, the ailing housing market and the lo ...
  • Kunstler: US Health, A Hostage Racket.
    Roberts must know exactly what he is doing: prompting x-million young and/or poor voters to an election year tea party tax revolt. The Obama health care reform will henceforth be defined as a tax against people too economically strapped to buy health insurance - in other words, a gross injustice ...
  • Straight Talking: The Syrian Cauldron
    If the Baath government can be brought down, the strategic alliance between Iran, Syria and Hizbullah will collapse at the centre. Even if the government is not dislodged, Syria will be in such chaos that it would be unable respond if Iran is attacked. Hizbullah would be similarly immobilized. I ...
  • Debka: Saudis buying Chinese nuclear capable m ...
    DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Saudi Arabia has set its feet on the path to a nuclear weapon capability and is negotiating in Beijng the purchase of Chinese nuclear-capable Dong-Fen 21 ((NATO-codenamed CSS-5) ballistic missile. China, which has agreed to the transaction in principle ...

Independent - London

  • British businesses head to Burma for trade del ...
    British businesses, including the oil giants BP and Shell, will arrive in Burma tomorrow for the first government sponsored trade delegation to the south east Asian nation in nearly two decades, the Independent has learned. Related StoriesUS drone strike kills four militants in PakistanOver 800 ...
  • More than 150 people killed in worst floods to ...
    More than 150 people are now known to have died in the worst floods to hit Russia in a generation, with the official response to the tragedy becoming heavily politicised even before the waters had fully receded. President Vladimir Putin flew to the region on Saturday to coordinate the rescue eff ...
  • Unrelenting US heatwave kills at least 30 people
    Americans dipped into the water, went to the cinema and took tube trains just to have air conditioning relief from unrelenting heat that has killed at least 30 people across half the country. Related StoriesRomney seizes on job figures to blame US 'misery' on ObamaBroken America: The towns left ...
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    International donors pledged more than £10 billion today in badly-needed development aid for Afghanistan over the next four years when most foreign troops will leave, as President Hamid Karzai urged the international community not to abandon his country. Related StoriesUS drone strike kills four ...
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    US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has said time is running out on Syrian peace hopes and warned that the Syrian state could collapse.

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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  • Small tools, big impact
    Cancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...
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    For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
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    It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
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    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...

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    We have a land line phone in our condo. We have it because we rent it out during the summer and thought we should have it in case renters need it. We contracted with Verizon 8 years ago for the minimal local service. The charge was $18 per month. I just paid the monthly bill today and it was $2 ...
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    One of the perks of writing a book about sound medical solutions to common health complaints is that I have an opportunity to reach so many people from so many places on the globe. In the release of my latest book, The Blood Sugar Solution, I have been inspired by countless tales of the human bo ...
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    Why is it that we believe we can feed our bodies industrial nutrient depleted food-like substances empty of life and be healthy? How did we come to believe that food industry chemicals and processing could replace nature made foods? A hundred years ago all food was organic, local, seasonal, fre ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Tries your patience . . .
    THOSE KIND FUNDIES in Afghanistan are at it again, with a disturbing report from CNN, "Video: Taliban shoot woman 9 times in public execution as men cheer". Officials in Afghanistan, where the amateur video was filmed, believe the woman was executed because two Taliban commanders ...
  • Whodunnit?
    POLONIUM 210 is a nasty way to off somebody. The assassination of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in 2006 was the first known use of the radioactive isotope. WIRED's Deborah Blum has an article about the history of Polonium, "A Poison for Assassins", which takes a close look at the substan ...
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    Doing his thing. I wonder how fast his reflexes are. h/t harebell
  • India tries GM agriculture . . .
    GENETICALLY-MODIFIED plants have a lot of people very nervous: the subject brings up a lot of automatic negative knee-jerk, reflexive, unthinking, thanks to Monsanto and their GM tar-baby of Round-Up-resistant GM crops. GM cotton But GM plants are beneficial, and modifying genetics ...
  • Infographic . . .
    While we wait for events, Jim Harris' Huffpo article is worth a review.

Media Matters for America

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

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

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Ouija board helps probe the subconscious
    Psychologists are using Ouija boards to explore how we communicate with our subsconcious mind. Long alleged to enable communication with spirits, Ouij...
  • Man licks 42 cathedrals
    Lawrence Edmonds has travelled over 5,000 miles in a quest to lick every Anglican cathedral in Britain. Edmonds undertook the mission following a bet ...
  • 'Impossible' binary stars discovered
    Astronomers have discovered two red dwarf stars orbiting one another in a record breaking 2.5 hours. While binary star systems are quite common in our...
  • What might alien life forms look like ?
    How far can our imagination take us when it comes to envisaging extraterrestrial life forms ? One leading scientist has come up with one of the more u...
  • Did most dinosaurs have feathers ?
    A new well preserved fossil find suggests that feathered dinosaurs may have been quite common. Palaeontologists have been identifying an increasing nu...

Grassroots

  • A Decade of Separation
    6583016675_1b765dda49_n.jpg The Separation Wall is now 10 years old. The Israeli government has not reversed course despite protests, a UN General Assembly resolution (ES-10/13), an International Court of Justice (ICJ) advisory opinion, and ...
  • Later Is Too Late: Examining Gender-Based Viol ...
    Subheadline:  Overview of funding in Haiti to eliminate violence against women Outside Author Info Outside Author:  Alicia Tozour ...
  • The Elephant in Rio: The Corporate-Driven "Gre ...
    Subheadline:  Letting big business profit off climate change is a lose-lose for people and the planet Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Janet Redman is co-director of the Su ...
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Climate

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    (AP) The future of the troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant could balance on an inescapable question: Is it worth the money to fix it? Engineers face a daunting task finding a solution for problems that knocked the seaside plant of ...
  • How an Old Ohio Coal Town Stays Cool and Saves ...
    (ClimateWire) Retired coal miner John Campbell has lived up the same hollow in this rural town for 70 years. Tarnished clocks, glass oil lamps, mining gear from the 1800s and other antique knickknacks fill his two-bedroom home. He gues ...
  • U.S. Ethanol Output Falls to 10-Month Low, Dro ...
    (Reuters) U.S. ethanol production dropped to its lowest level in 10 months last week as dwindling pre-harvest corn stocks crushed profit margins, while a deepening drought in the Midwest threatens to extend the pain into next year. Fo ...
  • As U.S. Corn Belt Bakes, Wheat Heats Up in Europe
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  • Oil Sands Tapping Military Veterans to Fill Jobs
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Duly Noted

  • Are African governments suppressing art?
    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
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    After the NATO airstrikes, the political discourse within Pakistan is narrowing as religious nationalism gains ground

Booman Tribune

  • Pushing Roberts Into the Liberal Camp
    Okay, I'm back from my vacation. Where were we? Oh, yes, we were discussing the delicious spectacle of conservative superhero Richard Posner's interview with NPR in which he referred to the modern GOP as a bunch of goofs and seemed to call the three amigos of the Supreme Court backstabbing lu ...
  • Frustration Building
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  • Our Temperatures
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  • Go Ahead and Pick Condi
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  • Travel Day
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Environmental Graffiti

  • 20 Most Incredible Lenticular Clouds
    If you ever thought you spied a UFO – maybe it was a lenticular cloud. We've covered mammatus clouds before here on EG; now it's time for lenticular clouds to take a bow! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • The Amusement Park Being Swallowed by the Sea
    Faced with the wrath of the elements and coastal erosion, Blackgang Chine on England's Isle of Wight is an amusement park that is literally falling into the sea. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Most Incredible JFK Assassination Theories
    It's almost 50 years since the JFK assassination, and many conspiracies theories surrounding Kennedy’s death continue to have their adherents. These are our 10 favorites. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Why Forest Fires Do Good As Well As Harm
    Each year, fires destroy thousands of acres of forests. Fires are a natural process in the forests, but today's fires often get out of control. Why This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Curiously Strange and Weirdly Awesome Trees
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    b. Use of Deadly and Non-deadly Force (4) (b) Warning shot will not be fired. or better yet: (3) In an occupied building, when the dissident's/sniper's location is unknown, all suspected rooms must be searched. The action element should try to have occupants submit voluntarily to the search of ...
  • TRAILBLAZERs unite! Q2 & Turnkey Dictatorship, ...
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  • Homeland Security RAPS; Oklahoma jumps into Ho ...
    Basically drones are going into all kinds of state programs, including an interesting pilot program called DHS Robotic Aircraft for Public Safety (RAPS) Program between Homeland Security and the Oklahoma National Guard. But first this sketchy nationwide coverup going on... The U.S. Special Opera ...
  • FAA Sets Large ND Drone Training Airspace - Fe ...
    The plan to convert America, and the world, into a hellish dystopia patrolled by killer flying robots continues apace with a fine fanciful scheme for flying more drones around North Dakota. It is apparently controlled by the FAA Minneapolis office to some extent. PublicIntelligence.net reported ...
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  • Medical tests suggest Yasser Arafat may have b ...
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    US government Pollard video declassified. Senior CIA officer accused of being Mafia hitman. Colombian pleads guilty to spy charges in Nicaragua.
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    Hamas has accused Israel of assassinating Kamel Ranaja, whose body was found last week in his half-burned apartment in Syrian capital Damascus. Ranaja had replaced the late Hamas weapons procurer Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who was killed in 2010 in Dubai, most likely by Israeli intelligence agency Mossad.
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    On June 27, In-Q-Tel, the venture arm of the CIA, announced a strategic partnership with Looxcie, makers of the first ever “wear and share” video cam recorders. Surveillance and video reconnaissance technologies have been a mainstay of espionage and intelligence collection efforts for some time ...

War is a Crime.org

  • Syria News - July 8
      Annan: Russia, Iran crucial for Syria peace - Al Akhbar English Syria begins war games to defend itself from outside attackers, state media says - Fox News Turkey signals resort to UN action over Syria crisis, Envisages the use of force or the threat to use force - todayszaman Assad: Anna ...
  • Iran War Weekly - July 8, 2012
    Iran War Weekly July 8, 2012 Hello All – Nuclear diplomacy stepped into the background this week.  The focus of the US-Iran standoff is now the new round of economic sanctions against Iran and the possible effect/non-effect of these sanctions on Iran’s negotiating positions about its nuclea ...
  • Debating Amnesty About Syria and Double Standards
    by Joe Emersberger I sent the following note to Amnesty on June 16 after it put out a detailed report on the conflict in Syria: Dear Amnesty In your most recent report on Syria you ask the UN Security Council to impose an arms embargo on the Syrian government.  You ask for no such arms emba ...
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  • Bullying, Bluster and Imperial Arrogance 101
      Bullying, Bluster and Imperial Arrogance 101   by Stephen Lendman   Hillary Clinton's outbursts reflect bullying, bluster, and imperial arrogance, not diplomacy. More on her strong-arm tactics below.   read more

Grist - News

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

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  • Christine Lagarde, scourge of tax evaders, pay ...
    Kim Willsher in Paris Christine Lagarde, the IMF boss who caused international outrage after she suggested in an interview with the Guardian on Friday that beleaguered Greeks might do well to pay their taxes, pays no taxes, it has emerged. As an official of an international institution, her sala ...
  • New York Times: What Do You Get From A Drug Wa ...
    Ronald Bailey | July 5, 2012 Here’s hoping for some real change New York Times reporter Eduardo Porter has a terrific column, Numbers Tell of Failure in Drug War, excoriating the stupidity and tragedy of the War on Drugs in the July 4 issue. Here are just a few tidbits: When policy ma ...
  • Art Tyranny: Businessman Must Remove Mural To ...
    Kim M. FreeSLO.com As if it’s not bad enough to live in a country where Fourth of July fireworks are slowly, but surely, being criminalized out of existence… Art supply store owner, Bill Arkfeld, has been told by the city of Atascadero, California to either remove the mural that he h ...
  • RICO Lawsuit Filed Against George Soros and Do ...
    MONEY LAUNDERING and BANKRUPTCY FRAUD CONSPIRACY EXPOSED INVOLVING GEORGE SOROS’S INVISIBLE INTEREST IN CONSECO FINANCE and THE GM BUILDING NEW YORK, NY – Law Offices of David H. Relkin, Esq. on behalf of Leslie Dick Worldwide Ltd. has filed a Federal RICO Complaint in the United States District ...
  • McChrystal: Time to bring back the draft
    By Josh Rogin Tuesday, July 3, 2012 – 3:08 PM Share Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former top commander of international forces in Afghanistan, said this week that the United States should bring back the draft if it ever goes to war again. “I think we ought to have a draft. I think if ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • INTERVIEW & GIVEAWAY: We Talk to Architecture ...
    Read the rest of INTERVIEW & GIVEAWAY: We Talk to Architecture for Humanity About Their New Book ‘Design Like You Give A Damn [2]‘ Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags:
  • An Ordinary Cotton T-Shirt Could Someday Charg ...
    Photo by Shutterstock Researchers at the University of South Carolina have developed a technique to turn an ordinary cotton t-shirt into a supercapacitor. The team, led by Xiaodong Li, a professor of mechanical engineering, and Lihong Bao, a postdoctoral associate, soaked the shirt in fluoride s ...
  • Keep Cool: 7 Delicious Ways to Make Sure Kids ...
    We know how much of a challenge it can be to stop the summer fun and make your kids (or yourself!) drink water. Hydration is so important, though, that we’ve came up with a few suggestions that are simple, delicious, and totally refreshing.  So click ahead and make sure you indulge in one ...
  • HOW TO: Grow an Avocado Tree from an Avocado Pit
    Avocados are one of the wonderful fruits of summer. High in nutrition and flavor, nothing signals the start of summer like a zesty lime guacamole dip with tortilla chips. The next time you’re making guacamole or slicing an avocado for a salad, try saving your pits to grow into avocado trees. It’ ...
  • Aston University Students Create a Hydrogen-Po ...
    A group of Aston University students has created this hydrogen powered “eco car” that made from cardboard and plywood. The car recently won Shell’s Eco-Design Award for pushing the boundaries of sustainable car design, and this week the unique cardboard vehicle will hit the track at ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • How Fire Could Change the Face of the West
    The vast fires of this summer and last represent a new normal for the western United States. They may signal a radical landscape transformation, one that will make the 21st century West an ecological frontier. Unlike fires that have occurred regularly for thousands of years, these fires are so b ...
  • Astronomers Use Zeppelin to Hunt for Meteorites
    A team of researchers used the commercial airship Eureka to search for pieces of a meteorite that blazed to Earth on April 22 over California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. They used a camera onboard the airship to look for signs of meteor wreckage to help locate the pieces.
  • With Mars Rover’s Newest Panorama, It Feels Li ...
    This week NASA released an ultra-high-resolution panoramic view of the Martian landscape captured by the only rover currently operating on Mars. It is made of 817 photos taken over six months.
  • Video: Scientists Create Biologically Accurate ...
    Researchers have created a pair of robotic legs that they claim are the first to model walking in a biologically accurate manner. They have features that imitate biological muscles, sensors and nervous-system control. The research, published today, could help us understand how human babies learn ...
  • What the Discovery of the Higgs Means for Scie ...
    Stephen Wolfram provides an insider's perspective on the discovery of the Higgs boson and how the moment is a culmination of 40 years of hard and often surprising work.

PakAlert

  • New Executive Order — Assignment of National S ...
    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
  • Ancient Alien Moon ‘Fortress’ And Pyramids Rev ...
    When National Aeronautics and Space Administration Data and Photo Control Department manager, Ken Johnston, who worked for the space agency's Lunar Receiving Laboratory during the Apollo missions, was fired for telling the truth about alien artifacts on the Moon, he went public. And the he blew ...
  • There Will Never Be Enough Jobs In America Again
    Well, we just had another bad jobs report. The U.S. economy created just 80,000 new jobs during the month of June. Normally, about 125,000 new jobs need to be created every month just to keep up with population growth. So it is a bit odd that the official unemployment rate did not rise above ...
  • DOT Construction Signs Hacked To Read ‘Impeach ...
    Several electronic road construction signs around Anchorage were hacked late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning, according to the state Department of Transportation. Signs that normally display closure and detour information, like the one on Minnesota Drive near 100th Avenue, were chan ...
  • Shaking all over: Map of every major earthquak ...
    If you are looking for somewhere safe from an earthquake, this might help. For this map shows the where every major quake has struck since 1898, and as you can see, the edge of the Pacific Ocean appears particularly dangerous. In total there are a staggering 203,186 of them, dotted all over t ...

Andy Worthington

  • US in Talks to Return the 17 Afghan Prisoners ...
    Earlier this year, there was much discussion in the US media about the possibility that, as part of negotiations aimed at securing peace in Afghanistan, the US would release five high-level Taliban prisoners in Guantánamo to Qatar, where they would be held under a form of house arrest. Those pla ...
  • My Photos on Flickr: The Isle of Dogs and Rege ...
    The Isle of Dogs and Regent’s Canal, July 2012, a set on Flickr. In the latest set of photos uploaded to my recently established Flickr account, I’ve posted photos that I took on the American Day of Independence, July 4, 2012, when I spoke at a screening of “Extradition,” ...
  • NHS Chief Quits, Calls Austerity a Weapon to & ...
    Dr. Gabriel Scally, who resigned in April, also talks of “a very deliberate policy across all of the public sector to roll back the achievements that have been made in this country since the second world war,” and “a systematic downgrading, if not destruction, of civil society ...
  • My Photos on Flickr: Bermondsey and the River ...
    Bermondsey and the River Thames, June 2012, a set on Flickr. This set of photos, recording elements of a journey I made by bike on June 28, 2012 from south east London to the West End and back, is the third set of photos of London that I’ve uploaded to my recently established Flickr accoun ...
  • Criminal Bankers Are Not Above the Law
    That’s an optimistic headline, obviously, as, to date, bankers have demonstrated that they are in fact above the law, and that they can do what they want — wrecking the global economy, for example, and being bailed out instead of being punished, as happened in 2008. However, in the w ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • The CCC’s Kyle Rogers Makes Himself Known on S ...
    As one of the key players in the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), Kyle Rogers has never backed down from urging politicians to stand up for whites. But in recent months, when not mugging for the camera in an ill-fitting suit, the modern face of the council has another life posting anti-Se ...
  • ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Daughter Indicted in Telem ...
    In the family of one of the antigovernment “sovereign citizen” movement’s most notorious ideologues, the apple seems to have fallen tragically close to the tree. Jessica Gutierrez, the daughter of the late sovereign citizen Jerry Kane, was among 18 suspects charged by the Ohio attorney general i ...
  • Dawn of ‘Red America’: Extremists React to SCO ...
    Antigovernment activists and far-right extremists are waxing hysterical over yesterday’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold President Obama’s signature achievement, the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Mike Vanderboegh, an antigovernment activist who in 2010 reacted to the imminent passage o ...
  • Arizona Bar Admonishes Oath Keepers Founder St ...
    It turns out Stewart Rhodes, the Yale-educated lawyer who founded the Oath Keepers to encourage police and military personnel to disobey orders they deem unconstitutional, has a hard time following the rules of conduct for lawyers. Hatewatch has learned that the State Bar of Arizona has admonish ...
  • Texas Pipeline Bomber Held Radical-Right Views
    The man accused of trying to bomb a Dallas-area natural gas facility last weekend appears to be a sympathizer of the antigovernment “sovereign citizens” movement who for years has used the Internet to espouse hatred and suspicion of the federal government. Anson Chi, 33, faces federal charges fo ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Russian Deluge Claims 150 Lives: 'Three Months ...
    Flash floods over the weekend have claimed the lives of at least 150 people in Russia, according to officials and various reports. Streets turned to rivers, bridges were washed away and thousands of homes were inundated by rising waters in towns in the region near the Black Sea, after over a foo ...
  • Tens of Thousands March in Mexico Against Righ ...
    Tens of thousands of students, unionists, leftists and angered citizens marched in Mexico's capital on Saturday to protest Enrique Pena Nieto's apparent win in the country's presidential election, accusing his PRI party of vote-rigging, fraud, and corruption. ...
  • Woody Guthrie, says Daughter, was a 'Commonist ...
    On the eve of what would be his 100th birthday Nora Guthrie says of her famous folk singer father, Woody Guthrie, that he was too busy breaking molds to fit into one and always resisted being "put in the straight jacket' of political parties. Woody Guthrie was "a commonist, not a c ...
  • To Aid Afghans, Not Just Afghanistan
    HERAT, Afghanistan - Afghanistan’s international donors gather on Sunday in Tokyo for a conference at which they are expected to pledge economic aid, and ensure their assistance level will be maintained after withdrawal of ISAF-NATO troops, in 2014. But Afghan people and civil society grou ...
  • Enraged by Privatization Plan, Greece's Left R ...
    Calls by Greece's ruling coalition government to speed up the sale of state-owned assets -- including state railway systems, water infrastructure, and power utilities -- compelled Syriza, the left coalition party, to say the move was tantamount to putting a 'for sale sign' on the cou ...

Lifehacker

  • DIY Oven-Dried Tomatoes
    Sun-dried tomatoes are a great Mediterranean taste that can be expensive when purchased but easy and inexpensive to make. With tomatoes available cheaply as they're coming into season soon consider drying them in your oven and storing in oliv ...
  • Five Best To-Do List Managers [Hive Five]
    Everyone has some kind of to-do list, but which tool do you use to get it out of your head and keep track of the things you have to do? Whether it's a simple, all-text application, or a fancy cloud-based webapp with mobile app components, we ...
  • Repurpose a Wine Barrel Into an Outdoor Sink [ ...
    If you're looking for a classier way to wash up after working in the yard than rinsing your hands under the outdoor spigot consider acquiring a used wine barrel and fitting it with a bar sink that attaches to your spigot. More &raquo ...
  • This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
    Open URLs in Chrome for iPhone Instead of Mobile Safari More »
  • Swap Grocery Lists with a Trusted Friend to Av ...
    If you're trying to get your spending in order and grocery store impulse purchases are your kryptonite consider trying to find a friend in a similar situation that lives in your town and switch shopping lists so that friend buys your groceries ...

Water Privatization

  • Enraged by Privatization Plan, Greek Left Resists
    Calls by Greece's ruling coalition government to speed up the sale of state-owned assets -- including state railway systems, water infrastructure, and power utilities -- compelled Syriza, the left coalition party, to say the move was tantamount to putting a 'for sale sign' on the cou ...
  • Greece's program of privatization aims to ...
    ATHENS, Greece - Greece's three-party coalition government will try to get the economy out of its deep recession by encouraging private investment and making privatizations its "highest priority," finance minister Yannis Stournaras said Saturday.
  • Greek finance minister: Privatizations are &#3 ...
    ATHENS, Greece - Greece's three-party coalition government will try to get the economy out of its deep recession by encouraging private investment and making privatizations its "highest priority," finance minister Yannis Stournaras said Saturday.
  • Minister: Privatizations are Greece's top ...
    Greece's three-party coalition government will try to get the economy out of its deep recession by encouraging private investment and making privatizations its "highest priority," finance minister ...
  • Minister: Privatizations are Greece's top ...
    Greece's three-party coalition government will try to get the economy out of its deep recession by encouraging private investment and making privatizations its "highest priority," finance minister Yannis Stournaras said Saturday.

Guardian

  • Andy Murray v Roger Federer – Wimbledon men's ...
    So the wait goes on. Andy Murray's heart was again broken by Roger Federer in a grand slam final, 6-4, 5-7, 3-6 4-6Afternoon all. Despite being in the eye of the biggest storm in British tennis for three quarters of a century, Andy Murray seems calm. He seems composed. He seems collected.After w ...
  • Andy Murray v Roger Federer | Wimbledon men's ...
    • Federer wins seventh title with 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 victory • Fred Perry still the last British men's singles champion in 1936An irresistible Roger Federer won his seventh Wimbledon title with a 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 victory over a valiant Andy Murray on Sunday, dashing the world No4's hopes of be ...
  • Flood alerts in Devon as deluge continues
    No sign of end to miserable summer, with some parts of UK receiving a month's rainfall in just 24 hoursYet another clean-up operation was under way in parts of the UK on Sunday after heavy rain battered many parts of the country over the weekend, causing the Environment Agency to issue three sev ...
  • Clinton issues stern warning to Assad as war o ...
    Syrian president accuses Washington of fuelling bloodshed by arming rebel forces as country risks reaching point of collapseUS secretary of state Hillary Clinton warned hardline Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad that his days were numbered as both countries intensified the rhetoric in a war of words ...
  • London 2012: concern mounts over potential sho ...
    Private security firm G4S still needs to train and accredit 9,000 more guards, according to security sources The private security company being paid nearly £300m to guard the London 2012 Olympics has yet to fully train or accredit thousands of security guards needed to protect the games from ter ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

  • Afghan donors pledge $16B in aid
    International donors pledge $16 billion in development aid to Afghanistan The Afghan Central Bank estimates at least $6 billion a year is needed The pledges do not include donations by the United ...
  • Afghanistan to Receive $16bn Development Aid O ...
    According to the Afghan Central Bank estimates, the country needs $6bn annually to revive economic growth over the next 10 years. The donors' conference in Tokyo was attended by nearly 70 ...
  • Clinton in plea for rights of Afghan women
    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a powerful plea on Sunday for the rights of women in Afghanistan, using a global forum to insist that they must be part of the ...
  • Clinton declares Afghanistan as a major ally
    U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walks with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul. IPTC: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, walks with Afghanistan President ...
  • Karzai Afghanistan on Long Journey to Self-Rel ...
    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, left, walks with President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai to a press conference at the Presidential Palace in Kabul Saturday July 7, ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
    The voters have spoken, and to them, the most insightful comment of the week comes from Machin Shin responding to a Brit jokingly calling July 4th "Happy We-got-rid-of-a-bunch-of-useless-colonies Day." Machin then explained the conflicting feelings of being American and many of you found it to ...
  • Claire Ryan's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    Hello there, dear Techdirt readers! Gather 'round, and let me tell you of my favorite posts on this fine day. There's nothing like starting the week off with a marketing disaster of truly epic proportions. Charles Carreon once again steps up and delivers, in a way that only the namesake of th ...
  • Can't We All Get Along: Principles Over Policy ...
    It's been really fantastic to see what's happened in the last week, since the Declaration of Internet Freedom was announced, leading to widespread discussion online (and lots of individuals and organizations signing on to support it). There was a ton of press coverage, and plenty of valuable f ...
  • Could Louis C.K. Make His TV Show Using The Di ...
    Last week, in one of their daily roundups, the folks at AVClub made a passing comment about Louis C.K.'s cable television show Louie: you still have to subscribe to a cable package that features FX in order to watch the season premiere of Louie tonight—but the way things are going, he& ...
  • The Warehousing And Delivery Of Digital Goods? ...
    One of the most important moments in the rise of a radical idea is when the fightback begins, because it signals an acceptance by the establishment that the challenger is a real threat. That moment has certainly arrived for open access, most obviously through moves like the Research Works Act, ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Iran warns of regional ‘catastrophe’ if no pol ...
    The Associated Press reports: An Iranian official has warned of a “catastrophe” in the Middle East if no political solution is found to the 16-month crisis in Syria. Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian also says Syria has a strong army and is able to defend itself from attack alone ...
  • The banners from Kafranbel, a town in northwes ...
    Foreign Policy: A town in northwestern Syria has become the creative center of the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad. Since the beginning of the uprising, the residents of Kafr Anbel have drawn signs that skewer the Assad regime and express outrage that the world has not done more to stop ...
  • Message to Presbyterians: ‘If you truly want t ...
    Anna Baltzer gave the following testimony to the Presbyterian Church (USA) Middle East Peacemaking Committee on Monday, July 2, 2012: Friends, I am not up here as a Jew to tell that it’s okay for you to divest. Because you do not need my permission to do whatever you think is the righteous thing ...
  • Israel divestment campaigns gain momentum in U.S.
    Mitchell Plitnick reports: A resolution at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) to divest from three corporations which provide equipment used to maintain Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands failed by a mere two votes on Thursday. Yet despite this apparent setback, the move ...
  • Egypt President Mohammed Mursi reverses parlia ...
    BBC News reports: Egypt’s President Mohammed Mursi has ordered parliament to reconvene, a month after it was dissolved by court order amid a row over voting systems. The Supreme Court had ruled parliament unconstitutional because two voting systems had been used in the election. The milita ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Weekly Weather and Climate News Roundup
    Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and whi ...
  • Why the U.S East Coast heatwave was not unusua ...
    This is a combination of two posts elsewhere that illustrate just how much hype and how little substance the MSM and blogs like Grist, Climate Progress. and Capital Weather Gang have been pushing trying to make a run of the … Continue reading →
  • Taxing Termites, Wetlands, Volcanoes and Sacre ...
    Letter to the Editor – Watts Up With That? Australia’s tax on carbon dioxide now applies to big power stations, rubbish tips, steel works, cement plants, refineries and coal mines. But many of them have been given exemptions or compensation … Continue reading →
  • A wave of heated peer pressure results in shri ...
    Over on the thread The folly of blaming the Eastern U.S. heat wave on global warming there is a lively discussion going on between people that think the Eastern US heatwave hype by media and a few activist scientists is … Continue reading →
  • Gavin on the ropes over heat wave explanation
    Tom Nelson writes: If CO2 is really such an all-powerful warming factor, and if the science is so settled, why does warmist Gavin Schmidt have so much trouble explaining why the southeastern US hasn’t warmed since the 1930s?: “Whether this … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Consciousness Does Not Reside Here
    What is the relation between selective attention and consciousness? When you strain to listen to the distant baying of coyotes over the sound of a campsite conversation, you do so by attending to the sound and becoming conscious of their howls. When you attend to your sparring opponent out of th ...
  • Cytoskeleton Microtubules
  • Think that’s not fair? Your serotonin transpor ...
    “That’s not FAIR!” This is the line that rings through most houses with at least one kid. We all know when something’s not fair. That car that drove up the shoulder while you waited in traffic (rrrrr)? That’s a cheater, and that’s not fair. The person who cut in line at the grocery store instead ...
  • Mouse ‘avatars’ could aid pancreat ...
    Mouse ‘avatars’ could in future allow physicians to find the most effective cocktail of cancer drugs to combat a particular tumour before giving them to a patient, according to researchers at the annual meeting of the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) in Australia last week. “Using a ...
  • Lapses in oversight compromise omics results
    apses in oversight that prevented a US university from identifying the flawed research behind a series of clinical trials are symptomatic of a larger problem says a report by the US Institute of Medicine (IOM), released today. The case in question, which revolves around papers relating to cancer ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

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

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • New Benbrook Data Blow Away Claims of Pesticid ...
    Data presented at a conference by Dr Charles Benbrook analyze pesticide use on GM and non-GM equivalent crops over the first 16 years of use, from 1996 to 2011. The analysis is based on widely accepted USDA data.Click here to read this article
  • Monsanto May Lose Billions in Brazil Over "Mon ...
    Brazil, the second-largest producer of genetically modified (GM) crops (after the U.S.), is the latest country to take a stand against biotech giant Monsanto, which could end up handing over at least $2 billion as a result.Click here to read this article
  • Another Fabricated Pandemic like the Swine Flu?
    A number of articles underscoring problems within the vaccine industry have recently circulated in the news.Click here to read this article
  • Message from Rio: Unite and Survive
    Twenty years after the United Nations Earth Summit of 1992, hundreds of civil society, small farmer, and grassroots organizations gathered here in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to once again sound the alarm by taking to the streets, organizing workshops, and planning future campaigns. Click here to re ...
  • America's Family Farmers Fight Monsanto's Scor ...
    Seventy-five family farmers, seed businesses, and agricultural organizations representing over 300,000 individuals and 4,500 farms filed a brief today with the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC asking the appellate court to reverse a lower court's decision ...

Center for a Livable Future

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Nessie is being used to debunk evolution -- on ...
    Government-subsidized private schools will start teaching that the Loch Ness Monster is a factual living creature and use it to debunk evolution in science classes. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Never Ending Vandalism
    Collected articles including hydrofracking and Gulf of Mexico blowout information re: health risks from chemicals Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Till Death Do Us Part
    Afghans (and Pakistanis in tribal areas across the border) surely know the rules of the road of the American war: there is no sanctity in public or private rites. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • PNAC: The Dawn of a New Fascism
    an animated look at War Corporatism unleashed upon the world by Bush and the PNAC as stated in the September 2000 Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Water customers threatened with debt collector ...
    Tens of thousands of families have been wrongly billed $177 in desalination plant charges. David Galbally, QC, said the charge was illegal . City West Water managing director Anne Barker said in extreme cases water supplies may be restricted to customers Submitted by John Farnham to Business & ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Terror suspect with a lonely heart only has hi ...
    ShareThisTerror suspect with a lonely heart only has himself to blame, says judge 06 Jul 2012 A young terrorism suspect who says the Government's new security service monitoring powers are preventing him from finding a wife and starting a family has been told by a High Court judge he has only hi ...
  • Al-Qaeda terror suspect caught at Olympic Park
    ShareThisAl-Qaeda terror suspect caught at Olympic Park 07 Jul 2012 A suspected terrorist who MI5 believe is a would-be suicide bomber was found repeatedly near the Olympic Games venue. The alleged 'al-Qaeda' militant was caught crossing through the Olympic Park five times, breaking a ban impose ...
  • Extreme Heat Breaks More Than 3,500 Records Th ...
    ShareThisExtreme Heat Breaks More Than 3,500 Records This Week 07 Jul 2012 A scorching heat wave is gripping much of the eastern two-thirds of the nation, setting an astonishing number of temperature records. More than 3,500 temperature records have been shattered in the U.S. this past week, fro ...
  • Fukushima Disaster Was Man-Made, Investigation ...
    ShareThisFukushima Disaster Was Man-Made, Investigation Finds [Yeah, HAARP and Stuxtnet.] 05 Jul 2012 The Fukushima nuclear disaster was the result of "man-made" failures before and after last year's earthquake, according to a report from an independent parliamentary investigation. The breakdown ...
  • Unrelenting heat wave bakes half the US; 30 dead
    ShareThisGlobal warming: Unrelenting heat wave bakes half the US; 30 dead 07 Jul 2012 The heat sent temperatures soaring over 100 degrees in several US cities, including a record 105 in Washington, St. Louis (106), and Indianapolis (104), buckled highways and derailed a Washington-area train eve ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Study: 25% of war deaths medically preventable ...
    03 July 2012 Study: 25% of war deaths medically preventable Army Times, By Patricia Kime - Staff writer Thursday Jun 28, 2012 16:04:10 EDT A new study finds that nearly a quarter of the 4,596 combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2001 and 2011 were “potentially survivable,” meaning th ...
  • More Army Red Cross Lies Exposed
    04 June 2012 Click here to download PDF.
  • Proof That Military Puts Media Message before ...
    31 May 2012 The following document was provided by a source within the military.  This document proves that a decision was made not to arm vehicles during serious fighting because it would convey the wrong STRATCOM (strategic communications) message. To download as a PDF please click he ...
  • Little Girl Revisited
    02 May 2012 This image was made seven years ago today.   There had been a great deal of combat.  It’s been said that the “Deuce Four” was the most decorated unit in the Iraq war.  I do not know if this is true, but if not, it is probably close. There had been a suicide car ...
  • RED CROSS: Symbol of Blood
    Photo Michael Yon 17 April 2012 Army Generals will have the public believe that the Red Cross is a morale booster for our troops.  That load of bull is too heavy even for a Blackhawk helicopter sling load.  During my about three years with combat troops downrange, I've never heard th ...

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • West African leaders urge ICC to investigate M ...
    [JURIST] The leaders of six West African nations urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website; JURIST backgrounder] to investigate war crimes in Mali [JURIST news archive] at a crisis summit on Saturday. Malian soldiers took control of the government [JURIST report] and suspend ...
  • Georgia argues immigration law valid after Sup ...
    [JURIST] Lawyers for the state of Georgia argued Friday in court filings with the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit [official website] that its immigration law is constitutional under the recent US Supreme Court [official website] ruling in Arizona v. United States [opinion, PDF; JURI ...
  • New York appeals court dismisses challenge to ...
    [JURIST] The New York Fourth Appellate Division for the Supreme Court [official website] on Friday dismissed a challenge [opinion, PDF] to the state's year-old Marriage Equality Act (MEA) [text, PDF], ruling that closed-door meetings between gay rights advocates and state senators did not violat ...
  • Egypt president appoints committee to investig ...
    [JURIST] Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi on Thursday issued a decree appointing a fact-finding committee to investigate the deaths of protesters in last year's demonstrations. The committee is made up of 16 members [AP report] including judges, a state prosecutor, a general, a police commander ...
  • Romania lawmakers vote to impeach president
    [JURIST] Lawmakers in Romania voted on Friday to impeach President Traian Basescu [official website, in Romanian] for overstepping the bounds of his authority by interfering in judicial and legislative affairs. The Romanian Parliament [official website] voted 256-114 for impeachment. Romanian vo ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Israel’s Lethal History with Polonium
    With news breaking in Al Jazeera this week about the possible poisoning of Yasser Arafat by polonium, I thought it worthwhile to examine an interesting line in Clayton Swisher’s report, which refers to an accident in an Israeli lab involving the material.  Through further research, I disco ...
  • Jerusalem Light Rail Promises Palestinian Righ ...
    Hey, who said Israel had the only intelligence services capable of launching psyops against its enemies?  Apparently, Palestine does as well.  I’ve learned from an Israeli source that the PA recruited a Palestinian working for the Jerusalem light rail system to program a bit of psychologic ...
  • Blau Plea Deal Criminalizes Pursuit of Journal ...
    Sorry, I know my title contains strong language, but what Israel’s attorney general, Yehudah Weinstein, has done is to rape freedom of the press in Israel.  The first violation of the body of journalism occurred when he pursued espionage charges (charge sheet in Hebrew) against Uri Blau fo ...
  • Arafat’s Death by Polonium, More on Israeli Pi ...
    I’ve published two new pieces today, one at Antiwar.com on Yasser Arafat’s likely murder by polonium in 2004; and the second a follow up to my article against pinkwashing at Tikkun Magazine.  Regarding the first, Clayton Swisher’s Al Jazeera report that Arafat’s personal ...
  • Join IDF’s Virtual Hasbara Army
    Every once in a while (all too often I’m afraid) articles come along like this one from today’s Jerusalem Post.  While reading them you stare at the page in a cross between utter disbelief and hilarity that someone in a position of authority in the IDF actually believes that the idio ...

If Americans Knew

  • Spinning the Egyptian Anti-Israel Protest
    Today's New York Times front-page story on Egyptian protests against the Israeli embassy largely neglects a primary cause of the anger: Israeli forces' killing of five Egyptian policemen. Egyptian anger over these deaths grew even greater when Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak refused to apol ...
  • US Ambassador: Support for Israel drives all U ...
    While many Americans may believe that US policies are designed to address American needs, America's new Ambassador to Israel explains that this is far from the case.
  • Shop Talk: The Sacramento Bee
    Editors at McClatchy's Sacramento Bee recently made a series of questionable decisions in their coverage of a local event. They ran news stories about opposition to an upcoming event beforehand and accusations against it afterward, but didn't cover the event itself.
  • The Real Story of How Israel Was Created
    To better understand the Palestinian bid for membership in the United Nations, it is important to understand the original 1947 UN action on Israel-Palestine. The common representation of Israel's birth is that the UN created Israel, that the world was in favor of this move, and that the US gover ...
  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Palestine on Edge - Yasir Arafat is Still Dead ...
    Yasir Arafat is still dead. True, he was once alive. I sat across from him in his Gaza office, for example. And he even had a copy of my history of the PLO on his bookshelf so he must have been of sound mind at the time. It’s not my fault. I told him to start jogging and cut down on sweets. Bu ...
  • The Edge of Justice - Sen. Reid Defends Holder ...
    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) blasted Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives for holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress and attempting to try him in federal criminal court, according to a press statement released on Friday.“Instead of focusing on jobs ...
  • Broken Economy - Middle Class Wealth--It's Not ...
    Last month, the Census Bureau released its latest data on wealth, updating earlier figures from 2005 to 2010. The numbers confirm findings from a Federal Reserve Board survey showing unprecedented declines in the net worth of the typical American household. The Census figures indicate a drop of ...
  • Afghanistan on Edge - Clinton Admits Tough Tas ...
    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is traveling to Tokyo this weekend for a key conference with 70 countries, where the United States and its allies hope to nail down aid to Afghanistan for a decade to come.Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has said he’s seeking international aid of $4 billio ...
  • Broken Government - ALEC Faces Challenge to Ta ...
    The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) “elevates commercial gain for a few over the well-being of society’s less fortunate,� says a complaint penned by Marcus Owens, the former chief of the Internal Revenue Service’s nonprofit corporations division, on behalf of Clergy VOICE, a ...

High Country News

  • High Noon for solar
    Why does solar power development lag in the United States when it has taken off all over Europe?
  • A different voice on the phone
    The author's weary 21-year-old son, who has always wanted to be a firefighter, shares his frustrations from the fire lines.
  • Rural communities still have to fight off extr ...
    Fiery rhetoric and polemic messages keep rural communities from working through their natural resource problems.
  • Why I never hike alone
    After a fallen boulder pins her leg to the ground, a hiker learns the hard way how important it is to hike with friends, or at least to leave notes about where you are going.
  • Notes from a wildfire refugee
    When wildfire forces locals to flee their beloved Colorado homes, people begin to talk more openly than they used to about climate change.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Who Really Killed Yasir Arafat
    By Barry Rubin Yasir Arafat is still dead. True, he was once alive. I sat across from him in his Gaza office, for example. And he even had a copy of my history of the PLO on his bookshelf so he must have been of sound mind at the time. It’s not my fault. I told him to start jogging and cut ...
  • How Stupid Do They Think We Are? VERY!
    The more I observe the 2012 presidential race, the more I realize the progressives believe the American people are stupid.  We are not talking about dumber than a piece of chalk stupid, no they think the American people are a 12 on the Barbara Boxer/Debbie Wasserman Schultz ten point stupid ...
  • Job Growth Lower Than Expected: Marginally/Une ...
    The June Unemployment numbers were just released and they remain pitiful.   Only 80,000 jobs were added to the economy (not enough to keep up with population growth), basically 3,000 more than the revised number for May (77,000). Industry estimates were that the jobs added would be bet ...
  • Mid East Political Diseases That Won't Go Away
    By Barry Rubin In the new Middle East where people talk a lot behind the scenes using high-technology communications, we have far more frequent interactions with people who live in countries ostensibly at war with Israel. Such conversations are always interesting and useful for analysts. Somet ...
  • 40 Years After Munich Massacre:The IOC Fails t ...
    Almost 40 years ago, Yassir Arafat sent five Palestinian Terrorists into an Olympic Village dedicated to peace and international cooperation. Their successful mission was to shock the world by kidnapping and killing the Israeli Olympic team. This was the first terrorist tragedy played out ...

The Real Agenda

  • Obamacare is Mandated Social Engineering
    INFOWARS.com | JULY 6, 2012 Retired neurosurgeon, author, lecturer and educator Dr. Russell L. Blaylock gives his expert doctor’s perspective analysis of the unconstitutional Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Filed under: English, North America Tagged: healthcare, obamacare, Patie ...
  • Who’s Social Security Number is Barack O ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JULY 6, 2012 A new chapter in the unknown life of Barack Obama has been uncovered after a seasoned police investigator filed a lawsuit questioning the US president’s eligibility for the upcoming election. According to a report on World Net Dail ...
  • Fukushima Disaster was Man-made, says report
    The report incriminates the power plant operator, the Japanese government and the regulators. By ANTHONY BOND | MAIL ONLINE | JULY 5, 2012 ‘They effectively betrayed the nation’s right to be safe from nuclear accidents’ says report. The findings call for further inves ...
  • Wi Fi Radiation as Dangerous as Microwave Weap ...
     By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JULY 5, 2012 Barrie Trower, a British physicist and expert on microwave weapons warned this week about the dangers of WiFi radiation, which he says, is as dangerous as the radiation emitted by microwave weapons. Mr. Trower is not just a scientist wh ...
  • Fear Narrative Heightened Weeks Before Olympics
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JULY 5, 2012 The prospect of a terror attack before or during the London 2012 Olympic games have been raised today as British police stopped and held a bus that traveled from Birmingham to London due to a report that suspicious behavior had been obse ...

Wind Watch

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

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • William H. Peterson
    We’re sad to report that Freeman contributing editor William H. Peterson died last month at the age of 91. He was a long-time friend of FEE and a student in Ludwig von Mises’s seminar at New York University. Bill contributed many articles and book reviews to The Freeman over the year ...
  • Unemployment Stuck at 8.2 Percent
    “The nation’s employers created more jobs in June, but not enough to significantly reduce the backlog of nearly 13 million unemployed workers.” (New York Times) Still in the ditch. FEE Timely Classic “How Government Distorts Labor Markets” by Robert P. Murphy
  • Romney Used to Call His Penalty a Tax
    “Four months before Mitt Romney signed his health care plan into law in Massachusetts in 2006, he told a conservative group that the state’s tax code would be the hammer that would make the plan work. For those who refused to comply with the state’s mandate to buy health insurance, he said ...
  • Obama Deemphasizes “No Child Left Behind”
    “In just five months, the Obama administration has freed schools in more than half the nation from central provisions of the No Child Left Behind education law, raising the question of whether the decade-old federal program has been essentially nullified.” (New York Times ) Maybe it ...
  • Obamacare and the Court
    Constitutional though it may be, Obamacare is an act of aggression against Americans: Buy insurance or some of your money will be taken from you, by force—even lethal force—if necessary.

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

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

GM Watch

  • The NFU fallout with Morrisons and ASDA
    A few months back the UK supermarket chain Morrisons broke ranks with most other UK supermarkets by saying it would allow poultry farmers supplying both meat and eggs to use GM feed, in a move that lined them up with another UK chain, the Walmart owned ASDA.  Many of Morrisons' customers were o ...
  • Crazy GM patent system
    Crazy GM patent system Latha Jishnu Down To earth, July 15 2012 http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/crazy-gm-patent-system *The Brazilian lawsuit against Monsanto's royalty on soybean seeds exposes the irrational way in which laws apply to GM crops Patent laws governing the use of geneticall ...
  • Crazy GM patent system
    Crazy GM patent system Latha Jishnu Down To earth, July 15 2012 http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/crazy-gm-patent-system *The Brazilian lawsuit against Monsanto's royalty on soybean seeds exposes the irrational way in which laws apply to GM crops Patent laws governing the use of geneticall ...
  • Sam Dryden - Gates' head of agriculture
    Sam Dryden: the most powerful figure in the global south's agriculture? John Vidal The Guardian, 6 July 2012 http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/jul/06/sam-dryden-global-south-agriculture?cat=global-development&type=article *The Gates Foundation's head of agriculture has attracted ...
  • Sam Dryden - Gates' head of agriculture
    Sam Dryden: the most powerful figure in the global south's agriculture? John Vidal The Guardian, 6 July 2012 http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/jul/06/sam-dryden-global-south-agriculture?cat=global-development&type=article *The Gates Foundation's head of agriculture has attracted ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • There Will Never Be Enough Jobs In America Again
    Well, we just had another bad jobs report.  The U.S. economy created just 80,000 new jobs during the month of June.  Normally, about 125,000 new jobs need to be created every month just to keep up with population growth.  So it is a bit odd that the official unemployment rate did ...
  • The Biggest Financial Scandal In History?
    We always knew that the financial markets were rigged, but this is getting ridiculous.  It is now being alleged that 20 major banks have been systematically fixing global interest rates for years.  Barclays has already been fined hundreds of millions of dollars for manipulating L ...
  • Is Wal-Mart Destroying America? 20 Facts About ...
    America absolutely loves Wal-Mart.  100 million customers visit Wal-Mart every single week in this country.  But is Wal-Mart good for America?  That is a question that most people never stop and ask.  Most of us love shopping in big, clean stores that are packed with super cheap ...
  • Are You A Slave Of The System?
    If you went out and took a poll of the American people on July 4th (Independence Day) and asked them if they are free, what would the results look like?  Of course the results would be overwhelmingly lopsided.  Most Americans believe that they live in "the land of the free" and t ...
  • If One Storm Can Turn D.C. Dark For Several Da ...
    Sometimes we all get a little reminder of just how completely and totally dependent we are on the power grid.  Massive thunderstorms that ripped through Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Washington D.C. and Virginia left millions without power over the weekend.  At this point it is ...

Desertification

  • The ZIMCONSERVE poject in Zimbabwe (Gabriel MU ...
    We as Zimconserve, received seeds and agroforestry training material from the African Community Project and Trees of the Future. This report serves, however, as an attempt to inform you about our current project stage in setting up the centralised nursery. … Continue reading →
  • Traditions of subsistence agriculture foundati ...
    Read at : http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/06/family-planning-and-subsistence-agriculture-key-to-food-security/ Family Planning and Subsistence Agriculture Key to Food Security By Catherine Wilson PORT MORESBY, Jun 6 2012 (IPS) – Papua New Guinea’s high fertility rate is exerting pressure on la ...
  • Une vaste partie des savanes africaines serait ...
    Lu au site : http://www.mediaterre.org/scientifiques/actu,20120705094020.html D’ici 2100 la savane africaine pourrait être recouverte d’arbres par Florent Breuil | modéré par fbreuil Portail Scientifiques, 05/07/12 Une nouvelle recherche réalisée par des chercheurs de deux insti ...
  • Student Conservation Association’s (SCA) Green ...
    Read at : http://3blmedia.com/theCSRfeed/Local-Conservation-Group-Working-Sustainable-Future?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Local Conservation Group Working For Sustainable Future Members of the Student Conservation Association’s (SCA) Green Cities Sustainability Corps program have fa ...
  • CSO Drynet (RTCC)
    VIDEO seen at : http://www.rtcc.org/climate-change-tv/rio20-civil-societies-role-within-the-unccd/ Rio+20: Civil societies role within the UNCCD https://vimeo.com/44202025 Rio+20 (17/06/2012) –Patrice Burger, Tanveer Arif and Emmanuel Seck from Drynet talk about the importance of civil society i ...

The Paper Trail

  • Farmworkers plagued by pesticides, red tape
    NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Laboring in the blackberry fields of central Arkansas, the 18-year-old Mexican immigrant suddenly turned ill. Her nose began to bleed, her skin developed a rash, and she vomited.The doctor told her it was most likely flu or bacterial infection, but farmworker Tania Banda-Rodri ...
  • GOP teachers balk at Obama-centric NEA convention
    WASHINGTON (AP) — It had all the trappings of a re-election rally: thousands packing a convention center, Barack Obama T-shirts, videos celebrating the health care law, and a wall-size banner with encouraging messages to the incumbent president."You are our knight in shining armor — Sarah C., No ...
  • Report: Countrywide won influence with discounts
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The former Countrywide Financial Corp., whose subprime loans helped start the nation's foreclosure crisis, made hundreds of discount loans to buy influence with members of Congress, congressional staff, top government officials and executives of troubled mortgage giant Fannie M ...
  • Evidence of overtreatment at dental clinics se ...
    Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, says that his investigators have found evidence of abuses by corporate dental chains treating children on Medicaid.For months now, Grassley’s staff has been asking questions of three dental chains serving poor children on Medicaid. Each is owned by a private-equity ...
  • OPINION: Translating the insurance industry's ...
    Health insurers avoided their worst case scenario last week — the prospect of the Supreme Court striking down the individual mandate but letting the rest of the health care law, especially profit-threatening consumer protections, go forward. Now the industry can focus on a goal it has had all al ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Spider-Man when he was Approved by the Comic C ...
    By Mark Leiren-Young I read Spider-Man in the original Sanskrit. No, I’m not old enough, or lucky enough to have picked up Amazing Fantasy number 15, which featured the first ever appearance of everyone’s favourite wacky wall-crawler, whose latest movie incarnation debuted in North America this ...
  • Bev Oda’s last long ride
    By Montreal Simon Bev Oda has taken her last long limo ride. The kind of ride the Con mob gives you when you become a liability. First comes the horse’s head, then the scenic limo ride, in the middle of the night. And then da cement shoes. From The Globe and Mail: “Bev Oda, the CIDA ...
  • Humane Society ad ropes Stampede
    A BoB short A new ad released by the Vancouver Humane Society compares calf-roping at the Calgary Stampede to abusing a baby. The ad, published in a Calgary newspaper, shows a surprised looking baby next to a calf with the caption “Just 3 months old — Would you abuse a baby to entertain a ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Holland & Barrett quit workfare after direct a ...
    holland-barrett-picket.jpeg Campaigners are claiming a major scalp in the fight against workfare after retailer Holland & Barrett announced they were pulling out of the scheme. ...
  • Pisa: the "Nuova Periferia Polivalente" has op ...
    600352_252009214915109_1116199826_n.jpg After being left derelict and neglected for 6 years, during which the only intervention by the local authorities has been the building of a wall around the old ...
  • Week of Action Against Workfare
    SLSF Press release on week of action against workfare FIGHTING AGAINST WORKFARE South London Solidarity Federation will be joining a week of action against Holland and Barrett's involvement in workfare from 7th to 14th July. The ...
  • Health care reform: the insurance lobby's triumph
    hospital-sign.jpg A single payer system, in which all citizens of the United States are covered by a Medicare like system, has been fairly popular for some time. Likewise, a public option has remained ...
  • Wildcat London bus action, complete with blockades
    A short piece in the Evening Standard yesterday mentioned a wildcat bus action in North London yesterday. This is the only place I could find any mention of it on the internet. Anyone know any thing else? Bus staff start protesting ...

Free Range International

  • Dead Man Walking
    Dalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change.  Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton.  For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can&#8217 ...
  • King for a Day
    Note from Baba T – It is important to start the Dalton Thomas series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) or it will not make much sense.   For those of you who are enjoying the series and have the means hitting the donation button would be much appreciated.  All proceeds from the ...
  • Great Idea #1: A Vacation in the Khyber Pass
    It turns out that my buddy Dr. John Ryan had spent five years in the army as a properly tabbed Special Forces medic.  And all this time we had thought he was a heterosexual.  I had to say that as Marine Corps bushido demands such things.  After John and I traded more inter-service insults Elisa, ...
  • Mexican Radio
    Dalton is back on stride and his next post will set the standard for crazy.  I’ll lean on him to get it out in a few days.  Enjoy. Mrs. Firelake took me to Sherriff Ron’s house where I linked up with Dr. John and Deputy Jimmy.  John was in the midst of a serious conversation with [...]
  • Dalton Escapes
    Sorry for the delay folks but Dalton is back and promises to pump these posts out faster. I woke up after surgery to the sound of chirping medical gear and the familiar smell of a particularly cheap cologne.  The sense of smell is the number one stimulate to human memory, which must be true beca ...

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Iran plans to sell oil via consortium, evade ban
    "It is likely that because of international restrictions, we will give minor privileges or discounts to some of the buyers of our oil."
  • U.S. Says Edison International Exits Iran
    Edison withdrew from its contract to explore Iran’s Dayyer natural gas field, the State Department said, and it pledged not to engage in activity with Iran in the future that is subject to U.S. sanctions. read more
  • چرا زباله های تهران جمع نمی شود؟
    مشکل زباله‌های تهران جدی است . . . . . . .
  • طراحی نرم افزار محاسبه خمس
    مدير کل امور رسانه هاي معاونت تبليغ و آموزشهاي کاربردي حوزه علميه با تأکيد بر اينکه توليد و ارائه نرم ا فزارهاي ديني ويژه مبلغان در دستور کار است از تهيه نرم افزار محاسبه گر خمس خبر داد.
  • US Flexes Muscles against Iran in Gulf
    The other side of the coin is the possibility that the American military force could cause Iran’s military generals to pull the trigger finger and try to block oil tankers from Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Britain Cuts Defense Force by 20%
    Britain's Secretary of State for Defence Philip Hammond In an effort to reduce its debt burden, Britain plans to cut its defense force by 20% by 2020. In announcing the UK’s plans to cut 102,000 to 82,000 military personnel, Secretary of State for Defence Philip Hammon signaled his int ...
  • Local Dollars, Local Sense – Part II
    Michael Shuman Local Dollars, Local Sense by Michael Shuman (Post Carbon Institute, 2012) Book Review  – Part II Unconventional Funding Models for Small Local Businesses Local Dollars, Local Sense is basically a compilation of interviews with US activists and small businesses who ...
  • Local Dollars, Local Sense – Part I
    Local Dollars, Local Sense by Michael Hudson (Post Carbon Institute, 2012) Book Review – Part I There is growing consensus among economists and anti-corporate and sustainability activists about the importance of relocalization as the centerpiece part of genuine economic and political ref ...
  • I Think I Hear the Fat Lady Singing
    Dr Guy McPherson “The opera ain’t over till the fat lady sings” – Dan Cook, sports writer and broadcaster 1978 I have spent this past weekend at a lecture and workshop by Arizonan Guy McPherson, who is currently touring New Zealand. McPherson blogs at Nature Bats ...
  • Coming Soon to a Country Near You
    There was a great story in last week’s Daily Mail about Athens residents queuing around the block for food parcels – one that should ring warning bells for the rest of the industrialized world. Economic analysts who chart the link between oil production, price and economic crises (in ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Energy: It’s About Jobs
    The latest jobs report, showing the creation of just 80,000 new jobs in June, is refocusing the political debate on the economy. How meager is 80,000 jobs?
  • Wooden Electric Car Steals Limelight at Shell ...
    An electric car designed by students from Universiti Sains Malaysia stood out among 119 teams competing in the Asian leg of Eco-marathon, an annual fuel efficiency competition, for its unique choice of body material: plywood.“We chose to use wood because it’s strong and biodegradable,” said mana ...
  • 24/7/365 Power for North America from Solar Towers
    From sunny subdivisions of Las Vegas to cloudy Pittsburgh and everything in between, solar power towers could provide sufficient amounts of electricity to satisfy the needs of the entire grid every hour of the year.
  • The Growing Part of the World in Charts
    A deep dive into the data reveals likely scenarios for the future growth of world economies and energy consumption. Spoiler alert: bet on China.
  • Energy Quest and ‘Britain’s Atlantis’
    Divers with oil companies have discovered fossilized evidence of mammoths and other large game, harpoons, flint tools and suspected burial mounds that mark settlements of hunters and gatherers who lived on dry land all around the British Isles

EU Times

  • 18,000 acre devastated in deadly Colorado wildfire
    The devastation caused by Colorado’s Waldo Canyon wildfire is so severe that the burn scar is clearly visible from space, as a incredible picture clearly shows. The shocking photograph showing the worst fire in the state’s history was taken from Nasa’s Terra satellite on July 4th, as the fire ra ...
  • ­Smoking orang-utan to be forced to quit
    Keepers at a Zoo in Indonesia are planning to help an orang-utan named Tori give up smoking. The animal started ten years ago after visitors to the Zoo on the island of Java began throwing him cigarettes, reports the Jakarta Globe newspaper. “It is very common in Indonesian zoos for people ...
  • Switzerland defies US, EU ban on Iran oil
    Switzerland will continue to purchase Iranian oil in defiance of the European Union sanctions on the Islamic Republic that came into effect on July 1. The Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs stated that Switzerland will not join the oil embargo against Iran, despite pressure from the Un ...
  • Iran launches new era of Egyptian relations
    Egypt and Iran are set to restart bilateral relations after more than three decades of animosity. Iran will place no limits on the strengthening of relations with Egypt, said President Ahmadinejad in his first phone call with his counterpart. He invited newly-elected Egyptian President Mohamed M ...
  • Romanian president impeached
    Romanian MPs have voted to impeach President Traian Basescu, initiating a process that could oust the unpopular leader in a national referendum. Some 256 of the bicameral parliament’s 372 deputies voted to impeach Basescu, 114 voted against the motion, and two votes were canceled, the fina ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Liriano, Twins top White Sox 4-1 in Youkilis debut
    MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â Francisco Liriano faced runners at the corners with only one out in the seventh. This was precisely the type of situation where he's faltered so many times before, but Twins manager Ron Gardenhire didn't budge. "I just have a lot of confidence in him," Gardenhire said
  • Microsoft and Yammer: Collaboration and Enterp ...
    via microsoft.comMicrosoft Corp. and Yammer Inc. have announced Yammer, a leading provider of enterprise social networks is to be acquired for $1.2 billion in cash. Yammer will join the Microsoft Office Division, led by division President Kurt DelBene, and the team will continue to report to cu ...
  • Brewer: Obama admin launched 'assault' on Arizona
    (CNN) – Republican Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona had some biting words for the Obama administration Monday after it announced it was rescinding agreements that allow some local law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration laws. "They arbitrarily singled out Arizona and sent a bomb, if y ...
  • Google Alert - Barack Obama
    News 7 new results for Barack Obama   President Barack Obama's response to ruling on the Arizona ... Washington Post WASHINGTON â President Barack Obama's statement reacting to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on the Arizona immigration law: See all stories on this topic » President Obama blasts ...
  • Miami Heat Parade: Team Goes All Out To Celebr ...
    The Miami Heat celebrated in grand fashion with an enormous parade through the streets of Miami on Monday morning, allowing the fans to join in on the celebration and commemorate their 2012 NBA Championship. Hundred’s of thousands of people filled the streets as players rolled by in double-deck ...

Groklaw

  • Abolish the Law Reviews!
    One way or another, some scholarly apparatus will be found to publish meritorious longer articles that advance the mission of serious research into the law. But when it comes to discussion of timely controversies, slash-and-thrust debates, and other forms of writing that people actually go out o ...
  • Were getting wildly differing assessments
    The announcement of the Supreme Court's decision largely upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Thursday, June 28 precipitated a genuine media drama. Millions tuned in to get the result in real time, and were rewarded with the spectacle of two major news networks reporting ...
  • Hardware back in vogue in Silicon Valley
    For decades, the accepted wisdom of the valley was that the best way to get rich was to build software.... "They all thought they could get someone else to do the hard work," says Hartmut Esslinger, founder of Frog Design, which helped create the first Apple Macintosh computer. The idea that a ...
  • Judge Rejects Sony Attempt to Kill 'Premium Ru ...
    A federal judge in California has refused to dismiss writer Joe Quirk's claim that Sony Pictures breached an implied contract by allegedly stealing his 1998 novel to create Premium Rush, planned for a Aug. 24 release date.The decision not only impacts Sony's movie about an adventurous bike messe ...
  • Shuttleworth: Why Windows 8 made us ditch GPL ...
    Q&A participant Tom Dial asked: "Based on the statement by FSF that the GPL v3 licence on GRUB 2 would not require disclosure of the Ubuntu private keys for Secure Boot, will Canonical reconsider its approach to that?" Shuttleworth replied: The SFLC advice to us was that the FSF could ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Libor. The mother of all Wall Street scandals
    Robert Reich makes the key point that we must not let cynicism and fatigue stop us from demanding and insuring that the real reform comes to our financial sector.When it comes to Wall Street and the financial sector in general, most of us suffer outrage fatigue combined with an overwhelming cyni ...
  • AZ initiative would allow state to reject fede ...
    If the proposition passes “it would allow Arizonans ‘to reject any federal action that they determine violates the United States Constitution.’ That could occur through a vote of the state House and Senate with consent of the governor” and also by popular vote.The post AZ ...
  • Intelligent industrial robots sort recyclables ...
    Zenrobotics has a robotic recycling system that runs on solar, responds to changes, and learns from its mistakesWatch their over-the-top trailer!Clean Technica has more.The post Intelligent industrial robots sort recyclables from waste appeared first on Politics in the Zeros.
  • High speed rail. Never underestimate stupidity ...
    The California legislature has approved spending billions for a high speed rail line from nowhere to nowhere in the Central Valley but postponed yet again putting a water bond on the ballot to save the Sacramento Delta.Gosh, makes perfect sense to me. Spend billions on a rail line that cannot po ...
  • I love the smell of Libor lawsuits in the morning
    It’s time to put an end to corrupt bank parasitesThe Libor rate-fixing is such egregious corruption that there will unquestionably be gazillions of lawsuits against corrupt big banks.Thus it probably won’t be the regulatory agencies in the US and UK that bring down the banks but rath ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Keep our laws, sell our PM
     Here’s an idea; instead of letting the Government sell our gambling laws, let’s sell the PM – apparently the Aussies want him. John Key met financial and business leaders during a visit to Sydney and Melbourne last week. One was clearly smitten. “Prime Minister, I’m not sure what you’re doing n ...
  • Unique in its own way – observing the Ea ...
    East Timor is probably unique.  Possibly the last colonial enclave to attain independence from a European power through UN midwifery, straddling strategically critical deep-water straits between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and struggling to emerge from least developed status near the bottom o ...
  • General debate, July 8, 2012
  • TOKM risking indigenous rights?
    South Korea stunned the international community yesterday by announcing that they intended to exploit the ‘scientific whaling’ exemption in the International Whaling Commission rules and begin hunting minke in their coastal waters. Most nations including New Zealand have condemned this action an ...
  • For farming to be in the black we need to go green
    With only the most backward openly saying that we can keep trashing the planet to grow the economy it can be harder to distinguish between the rhetoric of genuine environmental commitment and greenwash. The language of “balance” has reappeared.   In a speech to Federated Farmers’ conferenc ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Gaea Powell on Safer Breast Cancer Screening
    By Dr. Mercola Breast cancer is the leading cause of death among American women between the age of 40-55, and the high prevalence has spawned a very lucrative industry; from mammography and other dangerous or invasive testing methods, to “preventive” double mastectomies and cancer drugs ...
  • Monsanto May Lose Billions in Brazil Over “Mon ...
    By Dr. Mercola Brazil, the second-largest producer of genetically modified (GM) crops (after the U.S.), is the latest country to take a stand against biotech giant Monsanto, which could end up handing over at least $2 billion as a result. A war has been waging against Monsanto in Brazil for ...
  • Are We Being Set Up for Another Fabricated Pan ...
    By Dr. Mercola A number of articles underscoring problems within the vaccine industry have recently circulated in the news. While the fear of a mutated virus turning into a pandemic is flouted virtually every year to some degree, perhaps a greater concern is the potential for an engineer ...
  • What's Behind Illinois Stealing Local Hero's B ...
    By Dr. Mercola An Illinois beekeeper whose bee hives were stolen and allegedly destroyed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture has stirred up a hornet's nest with his questions on why the state did this, and most importantly, what they did with his bees. The state claims the bees were de ...
  • Dirtying Up Our Diets
    By Dr. Mercola Asthma, hay fever, eczema, food allergies, lupus, multiple sclerosis and other immune- mediated afflictions are all on the rise. According to some estimates, allergies and diseases of the immune system have doubled, tripled or even quadrupled in the last few decades, with ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • Drought Hits 56 Percent of Continental U.S.; ‘ ...
    from cryptogon.com: The prolonged heat across the Midwest has not only set temperature records, it is also expanding and intensifying drought conditions — and relief isn’t on the horizon for most areas, the National Weather Service reported Thursday. Drought conditions are present in 56 perce ...
  • Merck Accused of Lying about Vaccine Effectiveness
    from mercola.com: Things aren't going so well lately in the litigation department for Merck, which stands accused of lying according to not just one, but two class-action lawsuits. In the first case, two former Merck virologists accuse their former employer of overstating the effectiveness of t ...
  • Author, Farmer Joel Salatin Says: "Folks, This ...
    from therealfoodchannel.com: "We've been snookered by the drug companies, we've been snookered by the mechanical food companies..." Farmer Joel Salatin and his family have created a model for sustainable farming. They live it. This interview about his book "Folks, this ain't normal" gives a glim ...
  • #Audio: Episode026 - Rare Earth
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu offers up Big Pharma, Fracking and Fraud + Healthcare, Headlines, the 'Binge and Purge' and more... ...
  • #BingeAndPurge: Celebrity, Security, Scandal a ...
    Video: Actor Rob Schneider on Vaccines, Corporate Greed* Food industry reacts to Supreme Court decision* Video: #Obamacare - The 'Cut, Burn, and Drug' School of Medicine* GMO food labels are costly and unnecessary* 'Unauthorized' Stroll Past 'Lax' Security at CDC Bioterror Lab* ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • There Will Never Be Enough Jobs In America Again
    Well, we just had another bad jobs report.  The U.S. economy created just 80,000 new jobs during the month of June.  Normally, about 125,000 new jobs need to be created every month just to keep up with population growth.  So it is a bit odd that the official unemployment rate did ...
  • The Biggest Financial Scandal In History?
    We always knew that the financial markets were rigged, but this is getting ridiculous.  It is now being alleged that 20 major banks have been systematically fixing global interest rates for years.  Barclays has already been fined hundreds of millions of dollars for manipulating L ...
  • Is Wal-Mart Destroying America? 20 Facts About ...
    America absolutely loves Wal-Mart.  100 million customers visit Wal-Mart every single week in this country.  But is Wal-Mart good for America?  That is a question that most people never stop and ask.  Most of us love shopping in big, clean stores that are packed with super cheap ...
  • Are You A Slave Of The System?
    If you went out and took a poll of the American people on July 4th (Independence Day) and asked them if they are free, what would the results look like?  Of course the results would be overwhelmingly lopsided.  Most Americans believe that they live in "the land of the free" and t ...
  • If One Storm Can Turn D.C. Dark For Several Da ...
    Sometimes we all get a little reminder of just how completely and totally dependent we are on the power grid.  Massive thunderstorms that ripped through Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Washington D.C. and Virginia left millions without power over the weekend.  At this point it is ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Spain: Tell me this isn't what civil war looks ...
    On Friday, we posted on disturbances in Pola de Lena in the Spanish Asturias as the conflict between miners and the Spanish state escalates out of control with a huge swathe of the Spanish population seemingly taking the side of the miners, if social media is indicative of opinion. Now, more ...
  • Quote of the Day: When 'The Telegraph' starts ...
    "This lack of trust in politicians is scarcely new, although it has certainly grown since the expenses scandal. Yet historically, the institution of Parliament itself managed to rise above the incompetence and venality of its occupants. No more. Ever since Britain’s accession to what was then th ...
  • EU austerity impositions creating conditions f ...
    A week or so ago, The Guardian ran a worthwhile back-story on issues facing miners in Spain as they commenced a series of what The Guardian described as "acts planned to protest at the proposed 63% cuts in coal subsidies already approved by the EU". Yes, we know - it's The Guardian... but do ...
  • UKIP's Gerard Batten: Roger Hayes imprisonment ...
    We've long, long admired and respected UKIP's Gerard Batten for being the constant voice of our constitution and common law. He's also one of UKIP's most prolific on matters of 'freedom'. So we were THRILLED to see that Gerard Batten has taken the case of Roger Hayes to the international s ...
  • "Nice to see you!," Nigel Farage tells Gollum ...
    No boos in the chamber for Nigel anymore. Only applause. Huge numbers of people from all over Europe (the land mass) telling Nigel that he speaks for them. People from the US saying that they wished they had a politician like him wherever we look. No wonder Gollum von Rumpy-Pumpy has th ...

Facing South

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

  • Guest on Dr Rebecca Carley’s radio show ...
    Listen to Dr Rebecca Carley’s radio show on Sunday where I will be joining in to discuss topics such as the new wave of pandemic hype, oral vaccines, tweaked rabies viruses causing a rash of acts of cannabalism around the world as well as the Olympics as a possible venue for another pandem ...
  • SWISS COLLECT ENOUGH SIGNATURES TO TRIGGER REF ...
    It has been one of the most dramatic campaigns to collect the 50,000 signatures for a referendum in the history of Switzerland. Yesterday, on the final day, and at the last possible hour, the organizers of a referendum against a new centralised law allowing for forced vaccination handed over 51& ...
  • MEXICO SOURCE OF NEW BIRD FLU PANDEMIC HYPE
    Mexico declares emergency over new bird flu outbreak Published: 03 July, 2012, 07:19 RT The Mexican government has declared a national animal health emergency in the wake of a new outbreak of bird flu that has affected some 1.7 million fowl, leaving around 870,000 dead. ­http://www.rt.com/news/m ...
  • GERMAN ECONOMISTS CALL ON CITIZENS TO RESIST E ...
    *172 GERMAN ECONOMISTS LEAD RESISTANCE TO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION AND DEBT SLAVERY BONDAGE *ECONOMISTS CALL ON CITIZENS TO TAKE TO THE BARRICADES *GERMAN CONSTITUTIONAL COURT EXPECTED TO PASS ILLEGAL ESM AND FISCAL PACT *GERMAN CONSTITUTION MAKES RESISTANCE TO ABOLITION OF DEMOCRACY AND ...
  • Bank of England colluded in interest rate Libo ...
    The Bank of England has been implicated in a scandal in which banks rigged a key interbank lending rate to maximise their profits. In an email, Barclay’s chief Bob Diamond relates a conversation in which Bank of England’s deputy government Paul Tucker told his bank to manipulate Libor rates and ...

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