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Thomas Paine

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

Sunday, July 8, 2012

8 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 27: David Karnovsky, ...NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 27: David Karnovsky, general counsel for the New York City Department of City Planning, cross country skis down West 73rd Street towards Central Park on December 27, 2010 in New York City. A blizzard pounded the East Coast of the United States delivering 20 inches of snow to New York City while snarling post-Christmas travel. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

Invisible Opportunity

  • 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 ...

Veterans Today

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

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO: Digest for June 28-July 7
    Stop NATO: Digest for June 28-July 7 Imperial Hubris: Clinton Demands Russia And China “Pay The Price” Georgia Gets New U.S.-Approved Defense Chief U.S. Military Meddling In The Asia-Pacific Russia Warns West Of “Big War” In Syria War Of Nerves Around Strait Of Hormuz Resumed Mediterranean: NATO ...
  • “Friends Of Syria” In Fact Friends ...
    Xinhua News Agency July 7, 2012 “Friends of Syria” are indeed friends of opposition ==== Western countries’ pressure on al-Assad to step down and economic sanctions against his government on one hand and more money and weaponry aid for the opposition, on the other, would only p ...
  • Slovenia’s Leading Newspaper: Country Mu ...
    Xinhua News Agency July 7, 2012 Slovenia’s leading newspaper calls for country to leave NATO ==== [J]oining the alliance was the biggest and most expensive mistake of Slovenian foreign policy, Delo wrote. The newspaper said that NATO is no longer an alliance for the protection of its membe ...
  • Imperial Hubris: Clinton Demands Russia And Ch ...
    Stop NATO July 6, 2012 Imperial Hubris: Clinton Demands Russia And China “Pay The Price” Rick Rozoff At the third meeting of the so-called Friends of Syria in Paris on July 6, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proved once again that diplomacy is to the United States what refine ...
  • Georgia Gets New U.S.-Approved Defense Chief
    Stop NATO July 6, 2012 Georgia Gets New U.S.-Approved Defense Chief Rick Rozoff America’s and NATO’s favorite autocrat, Georgia’s Mikheil Saakashvili, “reshuffled” his cabinet on U.S. Independence Day and appointed Dimitri Shashkin his new defense minister. Presenti ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Agenda 21: How Globalist Domination Happens on ...
    By Susanne Posel theintelhub.com July 7, 2012 Agenda 21 wants to, among other things, bring the American lands back to rewilding. The non-governmental organization (NGO) The Wildlands Project (WP) is a focusing of the American landscape in preservation for “future generations to inherit a contin ...
  • LIBOR: the “Mega-Scandal of All Mega-Scandals” ...
    By Madison Ruppert theintelhub.com July 7, 2012 The London Interbank Offered Rate, or LIBOR, scandal is growing by the minute and is shaping up to be one of the largest, if not the single largest, financial scandals of all time. This has the potential to make the massive conflicts of interest at ...
  • U.N. Finalizing Arms Trade Treaty, U.S. Claims ...
    By Madison Ruppert theintelhub.com July 7, 2012 Currently, the Obama administration is joining countries from around the world at the headquarters of the United Nations (UN) for negotiations, being held from July 2-27, 2012, attempting to finalize the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), part of which is th ...
  • U.S. Army Course Authorizes Use of Deadly Forc ...
    Madison Ruppert | In a damning new 115 page self-learning course from the U.S. Army Military Police School at Fort McClellan originally issued in April 2006, we learn that the military has a detailed and brutal plan in store in times of mass civil unrest in the United States.
  • The USA Federal Agent In The Wheelchair
    Richard Sauder | Of course, the Pentagon has made wicked contingency plans for the dystopian, "Mad Max World After The Fall." The extensive underground and undersea labyrinth of secret bases and tunnels is one part of their elaborate preparations.

FRS

  • Growing resistance to Alaskan police killings
    Polynesian community questions police policies after shooting deaths Suzanna Caldwell, Alaska Dispatch  | July 6, 2012 Almost a month after the police shot and killed a Mountain View resident, the Polynesian community of Anchorage is still looking for answers. Their questions have sparked a ...
  • The Jackson Plan: A Struggle for Self-Determi ...
    Written by Kali Akuno, For the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement — (Wednesday, July 4, 2012) A major progressive initiative is underway in Jackson, Mississippi. This initiative demonstrates tremendous promise and potential in making a major contribution towards improving the overall quality of ...
  • Egypt: The Muslim Brotherhood and the Militar ...
    Jul 05 2012 by Salma Shukrallah, http://www.jadaliyya.com Speculation is rife that the Muslim Brotherhood are again reaching a deal with the ruling military council after weeks of what seemed to be escalating tensions between the two. The long awaited government Morsi is expected to appoint soon ...
  • Hot Potato: Brute Pig Toys and the Red-faced ...
    [The point of this article is:  the state is not renouncing the use of brutal equipment and weaponry--which they will be keeping nearby and available.  But maintaining the image of  democratic civilization means keeping, for public view, the iron fist inside the velvet glove.  Democratic illusio ...
  • Turkey: Court Sentences Singer to Two Years i ...
    by AHMerdan TURKEY | 27 – 06 – 2012 | A specially authorized court in the eastern province of Malatya sentenced Kurdish-Alevi singer Ferhat Tunç to two years in prison on terrorism related charges due to his invocation of the names of deceased Turkish leftists during a speech on May 1, ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • Video: The Closest Robotic Legs Have Ever Gott ...
    Getting a robot to walk is doable. Getting it to walk exactly like a human? Not so easy. But now we're getting there, with researchers from the University of Arizona unveiling a first-of-its-kind set of biologically accurate robot legs. To make it possible, researchers set up a fake half-center ...
  • Space Helps Worms Live Longer--What About Humans?
    Getting to space is a tough enough prospect, and even once you make it out of our atmosphere, there are still physical issues. Chief among them: a long flight can cause a loss of bone and muscle mass. To find ways to combat that process, researchers study C. elegans, worms that have a surprising ...
  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, J ...
    It was hard to fight off the temptation to make this week's roundup just a collection of fireworks shots, but we managed to also find the world's largest crocodile, a massive light installation in Singapore, protests against nuclear power in Japan, and a bunch more of the most amazing science an ...
  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, J ...
  • Archive Gallery: The Science of Gambling
    How winners win, cheaters cheat, and what a century of Popular Science taught us about both Our world runs on money, and a whole lot of us want to know how to get more of it. Unfortunately, so do a lot of less-scrupulous people willing to use technology to cheat their way to the top. Click he ...

Veterans Today

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

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • South Sudan Cuts Off Its Oil To Spite Its Economy
    It seems like only yesterday that we were wishing the new nation of South Sudan all the best after it voted to create a new, independent republic. However, it probably wasn't long in coming that the tensions with Sudan (call it the old, "North" Sudan) resurfaced. You see, while many of the oil-r ...
  • Success Stories: Philippines, the Next Indonesia?
    In contrast to the America #1 cheerleaders I am duty-bound to debunk day in and day out, I am actually rather guarded about my home nation's economic prospects. This despite it growing at rates that make the United States look lethargic by comparison. Indonesia has somewhat surprisingly become o ...
  • Why China's Communist Party Will Endure, AEI
    There's a much-read contribution by Michael Auslin of the American Enterprise Institute on why "China's Party is About to End" from (surprise!) the WSJ op-ed pages. This coming from the libertarian AEI, you pretty much know how their story goes in following the classic American narrative: Politi ...
  • Obama, Bernanke, Stimulus & American Brattiness
    The New Yorker has an interesting new take on one of my favourite research genres, the search for the behavioural pathologies which account for terminal American decline, be it in health, income, wealth, life satisfaction or what else have you. Why should a clearly regressive society influence s ...
  • No Jobs? Come to Germany, Young PIGS Citizens
    From station to station Back to Dusseldorf City Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie Trans-Europe Express  Whew! We haven't had a video feature in a while, so here's a classic, Kraftwerk's Trans-Europe Express. Economic migration is often driven by differentials in economic opportunities, wh ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2012-07-08 WikiLeaks News Update: Syria Files ...
    WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 582 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 579 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 776 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 662 days. read more
  • 2012-07-07 Sweden's 'reinterpretation' of MLA law
    Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) is a common legal practice in the European Union. It is an agreement between two countries to help cooperation during investigation of alleged crimes. The EU's website states "mutual legal assistance and agreements on extradition are essential for the EU in order to ...
  • 2012-07-06 WikiLeaks News Update: WikiLeaks re ...
    WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 580 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 577 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 774 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without transparency for 660 days. read more
  • 2012-07-06 Australia's Opposition Has Also Aba ...
    After seeking asylum in Ecuador's London embassy, WikiLeaks' Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange asserted that Prime Minister Julia Gillard's Labor Party government in his native Australia had made an "effective declaration of abandonment" by refusing to intervene in any extradition to Sweden or the ...
  • 2012-07-03 41 good reasons for Julian to live ...
    The first name of the vice president of Ecuador, inaugurated alongside Rafael Correa in 2007, is 'Lenín'. read more

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Agenda 21... Warning... Global Domination Happ ...
    Agenda 21 wants to, among other things, bring the American lands back to rewilding. The non-governmental organization (NGO) The Wildlands Project (WP) is a focusing of the American landscape in preservation for “future generations to inherit a continent rich in wildlife, with plenty of room ...
  • Exposed... Plan to Train Combat Nurses on US Soil!
    Tyranny Watch recently received an interesting letter from a local whistleblower within St. Louis, MO who we will refer to as “Andrew Jackson”... His mother, who is a nurse, was sent this letter by the Army in hopes of recruiting RN’s to serve. The disturbing, but subtle, facts spelled out i ...
  • Campaign Over?... ROMNEY CAUGHT CHEATING!... P ...
    Republican Presidential Candidate Ron Paul is now looking past the RNC Convention and into the fall. The US Presidential debates are when most American choose the candidate of their choice. ~ Video read more
  • Alias Barack Hussein Obama Exposed on Power Ho ...
    The Power Hour radio show Joyce Riley, exposes the FACTS they have uncovered about Obama’s past that “may be surprising, even shocking, to some”.  Obama is really Barry Soetoro.  Barack Obama is a fabricated name. ~ Audio read more
  • Mexico Imports Eggs... Prices Rise 60 Percent ...
    Secretary of Economy Bruno Ferrari said that 132,000 tons of eggs have been imported with the objective of stabilizing prices, which have risen nearly 60 percent in the last two weeks. read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Obama Issues Executive Order To Control Commun ...
    The latest in a string of executive orders from Barack Obama is the order titled “Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions” in which the underlying commonality is apparently to establish methods of command and control over all communications ...
  • Pros and Cons of Freeze-Dried, Dehydrated, MRE ...
    Freeze-Dried (Instant) Pros Very low moisture Very lightweight Long shelf life Reconstitutes quickly Retains original shape, texture, color after reconstitution Best way to dry meat items Cons Most expensive food storage option Most items require water to prepare Items are bulkier than if dehydr ...
  • Heat Stroke And Avoidance
    Heat stress is the buildup in the body of heat generated by the muscles during work and of heat coming from a hot environment. Heat exhaustion and heat stroke result when the body is subjected to more heat than it can cope with. When the body becomes overheated, less blood goes to the muscles, b ...
  • Sunspot Group 1515 Ready To Belt X-Flare
    Sunspot AR1515 has been keeping my inbox busy with near constant solar flare alerts from the Australian Space Forecast Centre. Behemoth sunspot AR1515 is crackling with M-class solar flares and appears to be on the verge of producing an X-class explosion. NOAA forecasters estimate an 80% chance ...
  • TSA Wants To Test Your Drink — At The Gate
    I saw the headline this morning (DrudgeReport.com), and was again astounded by this latest action taken by the TSA. Even after passengers have checked through security, and purchase a drink inside airport security, their drink will now be subject to ‘test’. Reported by KJCT.com, Gran ...

Fast Company

  • The Thread: Women and Leadership
    In the U.S., why isn't the percentage of government seats held by women higher?Canada's National Post has created an excellent infographic illustrating the data in Save the Children's State of the World's Mothers report. Co.Exist's Ariel Schwartz dug into the report and visualization this mornin ...
  • How A Gaming Guru Is Powering Up The New Socia ...
    Razoo CEO Lesley Mansford is an interactive entertainment and gaming veteran who’s now challenging nonprofits and individuals to raise the bar (and bigger donations) on social fundraising.If  Lesley Mansford has her way, Razoo will soon be as familiar to you as Kickstarter. Razoo is a compa ...
  • This Week In Bots: On A Gender-Bender With Gyn ...
    Bot Vid: Strolling Like A PersonWalking like a human isn't just a weird narcissistic goal for robot developers--the human gait has evolved to be a very efficient way to move bipedally, and if robots are to work with and among humans, then a human-like walk is both useful and sensible. So a team ...
  • Greed Is Good, Trust Is Bad, And Other (Not So ...
    Shortly after his arrival in early 2002, Nick Wilkinson, as managing director of Dixons Retail, one of the largest consumer electronics retailers in Europe, actively tried to combine an already high level of internal competition by adding a team reward. As a consequence, many of his best salespe ...
  • 5 Contrarian Lessons From Successful Entrepreneurs
    There's something special about entrepreneurs whose startups take off and those whose stay small--starting with how they begin. In studying successful entrepreneurs for my new book, Breakthrough Branding, I was struck by a series of contrarian habits that set them apart. Here are five contrar ...

Jadaliyya

  • غسان كنفاني رمز التراجيديا الفلسطينية
    كان العام 1966 في ما أذكر. هرعنا يومها إلى قاعة «سينما النصر» في مدينة غزة لحضور ندوة أدبية عقدت على هامش مؤتمر لاتحاد كتاب فلسطين، كان يعقد في المدينة. كانت المفاجأة أجمل من مؤتمر يعقد وينتخب هيئة مسؤولة للاتحاد وينفضُ كأن شيئاً لم يكن.  أعلن عريف الندوة دعوته «الكاتب الشاب» غسان كنفاني. ...
  • البوستر السياسي السوري .. الكلمة في وجه الرصاصة
    قبل بداية الثورة السورية ببضعة شهور، كتبت لي الإقامة لليلة يتيمة في أحد الفنادق التابعة لمؤسسة الجيش التي تمتلك سلسلة من النوادي الترفيهية والفنادق المخصصة للضباط والعسكريين السوريين . التجربة سوريالية بكل ما تعني الكلمة من معنى، بدءاً بطقوس الاستقبال القريبة من التحقيق الأمني، وصولاً لخدم الفند ...
  • Slain Filmmaker Bassel Shahade: "It's very dan ...
    “When I held my camera and went to Homs... It was like holding a weapon with me. It’s very dangerous to hold a camera and travel around the country.” Syria Through a Lens highlights the life, activism, and films of martyred Syrian filmmaker Bassel Shahade. On May 28th, 2012, Bassel was killed d ...
  • Borders and Bobbing Heads: Postcoloniality and ...
    Algeria, one might say, is a site of postcoloniality par excellence. A protracted war of independence that was the model for third-world struggle and a nationalist party that had Frantz Fanon as an official spokesman gave rise to a word, algérianité, that has become a buzz-word of postcolonial s ...
  • هل إنتهى سراب الترويكا: حول تسليم البغدادي
    هل تسليم البغدادي المحمودي، رئيس وزراء ليبيا السابق نهاية وهم؟ إن البغدادي المحمودي بريء إلى أن تثبت إدانته في محاكمة عادلة تتوفر فيها كل شروط وضمانات الدفاع. وتسليمه، في نفس الوقت، هو واجب وحق للليبيين. لكن طريقة وتوقيت عملية التسليم تعتورها سبعة  أخطاء:  خطأ قانوني : القانون المنظم ...

mediagazer

  • Newspaper Industry Is Running Out of Time to A ...
    David Carr / New York Times: Newspaper Industry Is Running Out of Time to Adapt to Digital Future  —  While the rest of us were burning hot dogs on the grill last week, the newspaper industry seemed to be lighting itself on fire.  —  There have been cracks in pub ...
  • How the digital divide developed in New Orlean ...
    Tracie Powell / Poynter: How the digital divide developed in New Orleans & what that means for the future of news there  —  Come September when changes at The Times-Picayune take effect, not only will New Orleans become the largest city without a daily newspaper, its residen ...
  • The sixth W - Who, what, when, where, why--and ...
    Cyndi Stivers / CJR: The sixth W  —  Who, what, when, where, why—and women.  A bow to those who helped close the media gender gap, and a cheer for leaders of the future  —  Forty years ago in July, Ms. debuted as a stand-alone magazine.  Thanks to ...
  • Times-Picayune reporter: I can't keep my mouth ...
    Jim Romenesko: Times-Picayune reporter: I can't keep my mouth shut and pretend everything is okay  —  “Sometimes I just want to scream about what is happening around me” at the newspaper, she writes.  —  “Those of us laid off still have jobs to ...
  • Exclusive: NBC News launches 'Dateline Chatlin ...
    Natan Edelsburg / Lost Remote: Exclusive: NBC News launches ‘Dateline Chatline’ to make broadcast more social  —  When Dateline first launched on NBC News back in 1992, it was unclear whether this TV news magazine would fail after so many other NBC attempts had tanke ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Airshow - Bombardier swoops on AirAsia at ...
    By Alan Baldwin SILVERSTONE (Reuters) - Canada's Bombardier is in talks with AirAsia about a more densely packed 160-seat version of its CSeries jet, in a surprise bid to loosen the stranglehold on Asia's largest low-cost carrier held by European giant Airbus . AirAsia founder and Formula On ...
  • Demi Moore's daughters 'break all ties wi ...
    Demi Moore's daughters have allegedly 'broken all ties' with their mother following her split from Ashton Kutcher. The...
  • Megan Fox shares childhood pictures on Fa ...
    Megan Fox has posted pictures of herself aged 12 on Facebook. The series of photos show Fox posing at home and in a car during the late 1990s. The actress, who began her modelling career at the age of 13, is seen wearing a black choker and gold hoop earrings. The Transformers star uploaded t ...
  • Sir Paul McCartney working with 'Halo' st ...
    Sir Paul McCartney has announced that he is working with video game developer Bungie. The former Beatle revealed via Twitter that he is composing music for an unnamed project that is in the works at the Halo studio. He posted a picture of himself in the studio, working alongside resident Bun ...
  • Benjamin Netanyahu backs controversial ar ...
    Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has announced he will back a controversial plan to compel ultra-Orthodox Jews and Arab Israelis to complete compulsory military or community service. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu Photo: GETTY 2:44PM BST 08 Jul 2012 The move came ho ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Wealth & Compassion
    As riches grow, empathy for others seems to decline Daisy Grewal Who is more likely to lie, cheat, and steal—the poor person or the rich one? It’s temping to think that the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to act fairly. After all, if you already have enough for yourself, it’s easier t ...
  • Mapping Intelligence in the Brain
    A new study found that specific structures, primarily on the left side of the brain, are vital to general intelligence and executive function (the ability to regulate and control behavior). Brain regions that are associated with general intelligence and executive function are shown in color, wit ...
  • Dodos Solitaires
    This classic Marginalia on the dodo’s disappearance was first published in 1954 G. Evelyn Hutchinson The progress of Man in civilization, no less than his numerical increase, continually extends the geographical domain of Art by trenching on the territories of Nature, and hence the Zoologi ...
  • What’s the big idea?
    Dostoevsky tackled free will, Tolstoy the meaning of life – but is it still possible to write philosophical novels? Jennie Erdal At St Andrews University in the early 1970s, philosophy was still a required subject for entry into an honours course. To leave the way clear for reading modern langua ...
  • Rise of the Fictional Lecherous Prof.
    Stephanie Bernhard He’s crusty, grumpy, aging, and set in his outdated ways. He’s a he. Mortality is on his mind, and his will to bed women a fraction of his age increases in direct proportion to his fear of aging and death. He is, of course, the Humanities Professor archetype, and he is everywh ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Celebrating year zero of the eco-technic dicta ...
    To mark the introduction into Australia of the most barbaric, pointless and deceptive tax ever conjured up by a phony democracy, we bring you a replay of an interview with Christopher Monckton which dates back to January 2010. At that time Lord Monckton was touring Australia to talk about clim ...
  • Exposing the criminal injustice system with Ge ...
    In today's show we are joined in the first hour by Josh Jackson from Germany. We cover the fiscal crisis in Europe and Josh gives us some interesting insights. In the second hour George Georgios returns to talk about the systemic injustice and corruption within the criminal justice system. Geo ...
  • Short, powerful video explains why we must opp ...
    This excellent video was produced by the video production company Koozzoo for Civil Liberties Australia.
  • Slaughtered families in Houla were supporters ...
    BBC's Newsnight last night interviewed a London based Syrian businessman who stated that the families murdered by terrorists in Houla were supporters of the Syrian government, not the opposition. If correct this would make it highly unlikely that the narrative pushed by the mainstream media is ...
  • Conspiracy theory: exploring the outer limits ...
    DISCLAIMER: During the show Damon Crowe made allegations which the persons concerned may find defamatory. These allegations should not be construed as reflecting the views of TNRA or its affiliates. In this week's show we plunge into murky waters with Damon Crowe, as we look at some fringe con ...

Beacon

  • If You Were President...
    We asked our Ocean Heroes finalists: If you were elected President, what would be the first thing on your agenda? They gave us some pretty great answers, check them out below, and don’t forget to vote for your favorite finalist! Who knows, maybe one of our finalists will be running for Presid ...
  • What Motivates You?
    To be an Ocean Hero, you have to have a strong commitment to your work—so what keeps our finalists going when the going gets tough? The voting is open for our 2012 Ocean Heroes Awards, but if you're having a hard time deciding who your favorite finalist is, here's a chance to get to know ...
  • Need a Beach Soundtrack? We’ve Got You Covered.
    Heading out of town for the fourth of July? As with any trip, you need a great destination and some tunes for the ride. Our Ocean Heroes finalists have spent time on the beach and on the water, learning to appreciate and protect all the ocean has to offer. Each shoreline has its own unique qu ...
  • Video: Mercury from Source to Seafood
    The health benefits of seafood are well-documented, but some people avoid eating it after hearing reports of high mercury levels. This video might help make things a little clearer. Produced by the Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program, the video explains how mercury gets into water ...
  • Peru Dolphin Deaths Show What Seismic Testing ...
    © Reuters What will happen to marine life if the government allows seismic testing, using loud airgun blasts, to search for oil and gas deep beneath the seabed along the U.S. Atlantic coast in the next few years? The answer may be foreshadowed by the scene in Peru, where earlier this year, h ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

Taylor Marsh

  • Speaker Boehner: “No,” I Can’t Make You Love M ...
    THE GENERAL FEELING is the same across the Republican sphere. Charles Krauthammer expressed it most eloquently recently: “The Republican bench had several candidates stronger than Romney, but they chose not to run.” That’s their story and they’re sticking to it, which was ...
  • All Things Obama Versus Romney
    THE JOBS REPORT knocked Obamacare out of the conversation, rescuing Mitt Romney from himself. Unemployment remains at 8.2%, with 80,000 jobs created in June. What’s even more interesting is that Politico went out of their way to post Ralph Nader’s post from July 5th, delighting in th ...
  • Queer Talk: DOJ Asks Supreme Court to Hear DOM ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. UPDATE at end: The Advocate endorses Obama, “IN OBAMA WE TRUST.” As I’ve written before, there’s nothing like a close election to encourage evolving. And while Obama’s expression of personal support for marriage equal ...
  • Barack Obama Wakes Up in Ohio
    What’s going on in this election is bigger than just a choice between two candidates or between two parties. It’s about two fundamentally different visions of where we go as a country. – President Barack Obama WHO IS this guy? I can’t believe my ears. The man who took a bus to Ohio o ...
  • Torture in Syria Documented by Human Rights Watch
    Former detainees and defectors have identified the locations, agencies responsible, torture methods used, and, in many cases, the commanders in charge of 27 detention facilities run by Syrian intelligence agencies, Human Rights Watch said in a multimedia report released today. The systematic pat ...

Hudson New York

  • Guess Who's Helping Assad Get Away With Murder?
    Wikileaks is at it again, this time, leaking a (promised) two million-plus emails from the Syrian regime, which has in the past eighteen months tortured, raped and killed at least 15,000 of its own citizens. And look what we have here: A memo explaining
  • National Jewish Democratic Council Doesn't Spe ...
    David Harris, the President of the National Jewish Democratic Council, has asked Jewish Democrats to sign a petition demanding that Mitt Romney and the rest of the Republican Party stop taking campaign contributions from Sheldon Adelson, and return those
  • Palestinians' Islamist Spring
    After the recent wave of protests and clashes with Palestinian Authority policemen in the West Bank, the Palestinians are asking if the "Arab Spring" might be finally knocking on their door. The protests, organized by young Palestinians through Facebook
  • A Settlement Freeze Can Advance Israeli-Palest ...
    Now that Israel has a broad and secure national unity government, the time is ripe for that government to make a bold peace offer to the Palestinian Authority. The Palestinian Authority refuses to negotiate unless Israel accepts a "freeze" on settlement
  • Obama Administration Stabs Israel in the Back
    The Founders in their wisdom divided the powers of government; some to the Executive, some to the Legislative. The power of the purse went to Congress; diplomacy to the Executive. How that shakes out matters to the U.S. and our democratic allies. The

Urban Survival

  • Jobs Humbug
    Here it is, well after July 1 and I haven’t done my first “bah-humbug” of the coming Christmas season – which, if you have a calendar handy has only 172-shopping days away.  Since it’s a little early to go-a-wassailing, I’ve … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Halfway Across America
    (Tacoma, WA)  I accomplished yet another lifetime goal on Thursday as we arrived in Tacoma – having traveled about 1,800 miles from East Texas for a couple of weeks of work up here including lots of project time with Survivalwoman … Continue reading →
  • Recovery Day
    So another Fourth has come and gone – sunburns, the odd hangover, stories to tell at work, and most people at this time of year can hardly wait for the weekend to do more of the same.  In some places, … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Breakthroughs in Science
    There was  all kinds of coverage over the holiday about the discovery *they think* of something close to the Higgs Boson Particle in physics.  This as two different groups came up with confirming data, so the odds seem to favor … Continue reading →
  • Pre-Holiday Rally
    The nice thing about holidays is that they are predictable from a market standpoint.  Not saying the market will go up, but the price of gold is up $12 when I looked and there’s a normal trend to see an … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Extreme weather: Preview or feature, no one wa ...
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. With 2012 being another year of violent storms, wildfires, floods and extreme heat, we can argue whether this is a preview or the main feature, but no one wants to see the ful ...
  • The International Whaling Commission: the Good ...
    Taryn Kiekow, Staff Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California I had the honor of representing the voices of nongovernmental organizations on the United States Delegation to the 64th annual meeting of the International Whal ...
  • Improving Public Safety and the Health of Rive ...
    Monty Schmitt, Senior Scientist, San Joaquin River Project Manager, San Francisco On June 29th, the Central Valley Flood Protection Board adopted the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan – a plan created by the Department of Water Resources (D ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile   The Spanish company, Solarpack, was chosen by the mining company, Collahuasi, to provide 60,000 megawatt hours per year of solar energy to the mining site.  Solarpack will con ...
  • Momentum Builds Toward A "Time Out" On Frackin ...
    Damon Nagami, Staff Attorney, Santa Monica Concerned residents pack a Baldwin Hills meeting room in March to speak out on fracking. When a company wants to use a new process or product that could potentially harm public health, common sense dicta ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • Agency Declines to Name Officer Involved in Fa ...
    From the Washington Post: Nearly three weeks after a Metro Transit Police officer shot and killed a 44-year-old man in a Lanham neighborhood, officials have not disclosed the identity of the officer or divulged many details of the deadly encounter. … Continue reading →Agency Declines ...
  • Police and Prosecutorial Misconduct in Texas
    From the Dallas Observer: He stood, encircled by reporters. After some thank yous, he lit the fuse: “I want to say that me and my lawyer, Cheryl Wattley, we’ll make a formal complaint against Thomas D’Amore for prosecutorial misconduct,” Miles … Continue reading &#8 ...
  • ACLU App for Police Misconduct
    H/T: Raw Story.ACLU App for Police Misconduct is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • Manslaughter Charges Filed Against Philadelphi ...
    From CBS Philly: PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office has filed numerous charges, including voluntary manslaughter, against two former police officers in connection with a fatal shooting in 2008. DA Seth Williams is following the recommendations of a &#823 ...
  • After Baby Dies in Jail Cell, Mother Sues Sheriff
    From the Atlanta Journal Constitution: Deshawn Balka, 25, who was 5 1/2 months pregnant at the time, is alleging a lack of adequate medical care and a slow response to her cries for help when her son was born prematurely … Continue reading →After Baby Dies in Jail Cell, Mother Sues S ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose: New discovery options ...
    Twitter is set to tweak its discovery methods today. Amazon could finally be entering the phone market. The UN calls for similar rights online as offline. You can catch The...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: WikiLeaks’ lates ...
    WikiLeaks releases another batch of data, this time from Syria; iOS and Mac apps blighted with a crashing problem, and Apple sued in China over Siri. It’s all in today’s...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Bye-bye iGoogle, ACTA& ...
    Google kills off more underperforming services, the European Parliament rejects the controversial ACTA treaty, and long-awaited TV service YouView finally launches in the UK. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose....
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Search problems in Chr ...
    Chrome search problems abound. Twitter talks about government requests. Verizon doesn’t like the FCC’s new definition of Net Neutrality. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – MobileMe no mor ...
    Google touts its prowess for providing money to the US market. VLC for Android arrives. Apple’s MobileMe hits the deadpool. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday...

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Scientist: 'no doubt' that climate change is p ...
    A noted climate scientist says there is 'no doubt' that climate change is 'playing a role' in this year's series of record fires in the western U.S. A massive wildfire in Colorado has forced the evacuation of 36,000 people, destroyed over 300 homes, and killed two people. The devastation wrought ...
  • Protest in China leads to cancellation of copp ...
    A massive protest triggered cancellation of a controversial copper smelter local communities feared would lead to air pollution, reports The New York Times. Outcry also led to the release of jailed protesters who demonstrated against the project.
  • Nature's Compass: The Mystery of Animal Navig ...
    Migration patterns, natal homing, and daily activities by animals all require significant navigation capacities. In Nature’s Compass: The Mystery of Animal Navigation, Dr. James L. Gould and Carol Grant Gould explore the mathematical and physical underpinnings of what it takes for these sp ...
  • New colorful rainforest frog named after Princ ...
    Researchers have discovered a previously unknown species of frog and named it in honor of Price Charles, according to a paper published in the journal Zootaxa.
  • Pre-industrial deforestation still warming atm ...
    Fossil fuels were not burned in massive quantities prior to the Industrial Revolution, but humans were still pumping carbon into the atmosphere due to land use change, especially deforestation. In fact, a new study in Environmental Research Letters finds that deforestation prior to 1850 is still ...

Sierra Express

  • Scars of War – The Neglected Story
    The eleven years civil strife left a shadow that is tied to impunity with the highest degree in Sierra Leone. August 2000 saw the United Nations Security Council passing of resolution 1315 on the establishment of a Special Court to indict those that bear the greatest responsibility for serious v ...
  • As Sorious’s Media Hype Makes Flames – Manley ...
    Following the controversy of reports claiming that a writ of criminal summons was not served to the Prosecution Witness (PW2), Sorious Samura in the Momoh Konte Timber Documentary Trial, lead Defense Counsel Ajibola E. Manly Spaine, has issued a press release affirming that a writ of criminal su ...
  • Imagine a world without witches and wizards
    Abu Bakarr Sulaiman Tarawally has been doing a perspective survey on what the existence of a society called the witches and wizards’ world is with particular reference to the fact that the said society poses strange experiences in both society and human lives. (Photo: SEM’s Abu Bakarr Sula ...
  • Kissy Community Slams Politicians
    Hundreds of supporters of the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC) in Constituency 102, Kissy community have expressed dissatisfaction over the performance approaches of their Honorable Member of Parliament and Councilors with specific reference to developing their community. They said they will no ...
  • Mumaj Driving School Abandons Learner’s Car
    Mumaj Driving School learner’s vehicle with registration number ADE280 has been abandoned for quiet a long period of time at the middle of the vehicular route of the main Liverpool Street via Pademba Road Freetown. Mumaj Driving School a renowned Driving School situated at 82 Pademba Road, Freet ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Success: Helping hand for farmers
    Put aside your cornflakes, please, because this morning you're going to read about mastitis in cows' udders.It's an expensive problem, costing the country $280 million a year in lost production and treatment costs, according to...
  • Dairy prices bode ill for Fonterra payout - ec ...
    It's early days, but Fonterra will need to revise down its dairy payout for 2012/13 if the weaker prices evident in today's dairy auction are anything to go by, rural economists say.The price of dairy product fell in Fonterra's...
  • Dairy prices fall 5.9pc in overnight auction
    Prices of dairy products fell in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, mirroring a broader decline in New Zealand's primary sector exports in the face of doubts about the strength of the world's economic recovery.The...
  • Europe's troubles hit core exports
    Heightened concern over Europe's sovereign debt crisis pushed the prices of New Zealand's core exports to their lowest level in more than two years last month.ANZ's commodity price index dropped 2.4 per cent in June, marking the...
  • Bernard Hickey: Farmers right to be wary of sh ...
    This week I watched two great debates about what type of company structure is best for local people. The first one was over our biggest and most influential company - the future of New Zealand Inc.Fonterra's farmer shareholders...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Mike Riggs on 3 Accounting Tricks the Obama Ad ...
    "Since day one, President Obama has led the way in reforming our Nation's drug policies by, among other things, addressing drug use and its consequences as a public health problem,” reads a statement posted on We the People, the petition site started by the, er, Obama administration. ...
  • Obama's New New Deal: As Bad as the Old New Deal
    Despite trying "real hard," President Obama is dealing with another round of anemic job numbers. If only he had paid attention back in 2008 when we expalined how his new New Deal policies were destined to fail. Original text below: On the cusp of a deep econo ...
  • Sheldon Richman on the Supreme Court’s Dismal ...
    Amid all of Chief Justice John Roberts’s scholastic hairsplitting over whether ObamaCare imposes a tax or a penalty for failing to buy medical insurance, writes Sheldon Richman, one passage should matter most to advocates of liberty: “Those subject to the individual mandate may lawful ...
  • New York Deli Gets to Keep Serving "Instant He ...
    The Second Avenue Deli in New York City can keep serving a sandwich dubbed the “Instant Heart Attack,” after they won a federal lawsuit against the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, which claimed trademark infringement. Both sides claimed victory. From the New York Daily News: “We ...
  • Arab Spring Update: Freedom House's Arch Puddi ...
    Libyans took to the polls on Saturday in the first free election that country has seen in over 50 years. During an interview with Freedom House's Arch Puddington in February, Puddington made it clear that 2012 would be remembered as a banner year for Middle East liberty ...

Mercury Rising

  • Bradlee Dean Ordered To Pay Court Costs Of His ...
    Looks like Bradley Dean “Bradlee Dean” Smith, Minnesota hate preacher, radio show host, and Republican ally, forgot the first rule of SLAPPers — never sue anyone who can afford to fight you in court: Via Ken Avidor’s Bradlee Dean Info, an interesting development in the de ...
  • Barney Frank Weds James Ready – And Gove ...
    Congratulations to the happy couple: Democratic Representative Barney Frank wed his longtime partner, James Ready, on Saturday, becoming the first sitting congressman to enter into a same-sex marriage. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick officiated the ceremony and added some levity by saying F ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Mexican elections: recount, Anonymous speaks, etc.
    The top news is the startling announcement that PRI will support a full recount of the vote. Apparently they want to address the widespread belief that the election was fraudulent. Perhaps they think they can control the recount or perhaps the vote theft occurred through means the recount would ...
  • Good News For The Planet: China Quadrupling Do ...
    China’s largely doing this to absorb excess solar-panel production so global solar panel prices don’t keep dropping (they’re currently at 87 cents a watt, competitive with coal), but it’s still a good thing that the world’s biggest user of coal, the world’s di ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Tread the Shamanic Path
    The two upcoming Evolver intensives are led by shamanic sages who, through intense and interactive courses, can teach you techniques and processes that strengthen the self, and let you rise to your highest potential. Itzhak Beery's "Shamanic Protection and Self-Defense" gives ...
  • Sex in the News
    In this week's Sex in the News, Anderson Cooper comes out, the air force is rocked by a sex scandal, "gay" can still be insulting, men's age-proof testosterone, and women make more noise in bed? read more
  • Burning Man Camp Needs a Helping Hand
      FractalNation, a village at Burning Man, is a collaboration of over a dozen Art and Production collectives, who were all inspired and given purpose by Burning Man. Community support is needed; listed below are the ways in which you can help, and recreate last year's magic.  read more
  • Quantum Consciousness
      The following is excerpted from The Struggle for Your Mind: Conscious Evolution and the Battle to Control How We Think, available from Inner Traditions.  read more
  • Zenergy Shamballa: Festival for the Mind, Body ...
    Evolver Network and Evolver Asheville are proud to present Zeneregy Shamballa/ S L 3 3 P, the 2nd Zenergy festival. Beginning August 24 at 3:33 pm and ending on August 27th at 11:11 am, this will be a three day and night weekend for mind, body and soul rejuvenation in the beautiful mountains o ...

Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

  • Syrian troops clash with armed gangs
    Syrian forces have clashed with armed groups on the Lebanese border near the Wadi Khaled region in northern Lebanon.
  • Assad: US backs armed gangs in Syria
    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says Washington plays a role in the turmoil in Syria by supporting the armed gangs to destabilize the country.
  • ‘Lebanon pursues Iran diplomats fate’
    Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour has stressed that Beirut spares no effort in investigating the fate of the four kidnapped Iranian diplomats, who have been reportedly held captive in Israeli jails for the past 30 years.
  • Kofi Annan arrives in Syria for talks
    UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Kofi Annan has arrived in Damascus to hold talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
  • Israeli-trained troops to protect UAE
    The United Arab Emirates has reportedly recruited soldiers form the Colombian army’s special forces units to protect the sheikdom in case of heightened tension in the Persian Gulf or domestic unrest.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

  • Will an Independent Scotland Throw out UK Nukes?
    Scotland votes on independence in 2014 and may tell UK to remove Trident missiles.
  • Siege Mentality
    On 4th April 1967 Martin Luther King gave a speech at the Riverside Church in New York. It was titled “Beyond Vietnam – A Time to Break Silence.” In that speech he referred to his recent meetings with young gang members in American ghettoes angered by the terminal social injustice that surrounde ...
  • The Zionist-Nazi Collaboration
    Both Nazism and Zionism arose in tandem from small insignificant social movements in the early part of the 20th century, arguing, with equal force, that Jews were an alien and indigestible mass living in the midst of an otherwise pure Aryan population. Both movements contributed to the more gene ...
  • The Virtues of Big Government
    For decades now, actually since President Reagan’s administration, Republicans, with encouragement from Neocons, Supply-siders, Neoliberals, Tea Partiers, or, in short, the Right Wing in toto, have argued big government is evil, a bureaucratic money-trap that is inefficient without producing one ...
  • Phony Conservatives and Progressives in the Media
    Most of us probably knew for the longest time how the Fox Cable talk show hosts keep labeling themselves conservatives.  A purist conservative would never dare refer to the Hannitys, O’Reillys et al as one of them. After all, these clowns rail and rave about how broke our government is, and then ...

Destructionist

  • Army Manual Outlines Plan To Kill Rioters, Dem ...
    A newly leaked US Army Military Police training manual for “Civil Disturbance Operations” outlines how military assets are to be used domestically to quell riots, confiscate firearms and even kill Americans on U.S. soil during mass civil unrest. The document (PDF), which is dated 2006 and was ...
  • Army Course Manual Trains Soldiers to Confisca ...
    In addition to revealing how the federal government and the Pentagon will respond to civil disturbances – in violation of the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act – the United States Army Military Police School’s Civil Disturbance Operations document instructs the military to confiscate weapons from America ...
  • Initiative would let Arizona voters overrule f ...
    PHOENIX -- Voters could get the right to overrule federal laws and mandates under the terms of an initiative filed late Thursday. The Arizona Constitution already says the federal Constitution "is the supreme law of the land." This measure, if approved in November, it would add language sayin ...
  • Obama bars Congress from obtaining Fast and Fu ...
    US President Barack Obama has intervened in a Capital Hill probe centered on Attorney General Eric Holder, asserting executive privilege to keep documents linked to the Fast and Furious gun smuggling operation withheld from Congress. In the midst of an investigation being spearheaded by the H ...
  • Obama bars Congress from obtaining Fast and Fu ...
    US President Barack Obama has intervened in a Capital Hill probe centered on Attorney General Eric Holder, asserting executive privilege to keep documents linked to the Fast and Furious gun smuggling operation withheld from Congress. In the midst of an investigation being spearheaded by the H ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • “No Future We Want Without the Ocean We ...
    When South Korea, one of Asia’s rising economic powerhouses, decided to host the international exhibition Expo 2012 in the coastal town of Yeosu, it picked a theme high on the agenda of the just-concluded Rio+20 summit on sustainable development: the living ocean. The entire focus of Expo ...
  • South Africa’s National Health Insurance Sites ...
    Experts say that underfunded pilot universal healthcare sites to be set up by South Africa as part of its proposed national health insurance may be doomed to fail as debate rages about how the move to more equitable healthcare will be funded. In March, South Africa announced 10 districts across ...
  • Concerns over Poll Preparations in Angola
    Preparations for Angola’s second peacetime polls scheduled for August are being overshadowed by allegations of electoral fraud, state media bias and growing concerns about a violent crackdown on activists and protestors. Human Rights Watch has criticised the government for its heavy-handed respo ...
  • Sri Lanka Emerges as Launchpad for Human Smuggling
    If you hold a Pakistani or Afghan passport, be prepared for an unusually lengthy immigration process on entering neighbouring Sri Lanka. Immigration authorities in the island tell IPS they have set up special procedures to check passengers from these two countries. This is after increasing evide ...
  • Analysts Says Nuclear Talks Should Continue De ...
    The one agreement that talks between Iran and the P5+1 – the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany -produced after a “technical meeting” in Istanbul was a decision to schedule more talks. But even while the United States and Iran engage in threatening ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Russia and Iran must participate in Syria solu ...
    Summary: Kofi Annan said on Saturday that despite Washington’s harsh rhetoric, there was ‘no alternative’ to Russia’s participation in a diplomatic solution to the Syrian crisis. He also said Iran was ‘an actor that cannot be ignored’. source: RTread more
  • Iran’s views presented at 5+1 talks
    Summary: During nuclear talks with the 5+1 group (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany) in Moscow on June 18 and 19, Iranian negotiators provided a detailed explanation of Tehran’s views, including a proposal for holding high-level negotiations every three months. ...
  • Sanction as Trade War prelude: Iran tankers he ...
    Summary:   Remember the reports that Iran was storing oil in its tanker fleet because it couldn't sell the oil? source: Iran Affairsread more
  • Are Obama’s Iran Sanctions A Ruse?
    Summary: Like the fairy-tale Big Bad Wolf, the United States and the European Union continue to huff and puff and say that economic sanctions will blow Iran’s house down. source: The Diplomatread more
  • Introducing the E-3
    Summary: Iran has to look outside dollar economics for solutions, and I am here to advocate an approach that addresses both problems by literally re-basing Iran's economy on the absolute value of energy rather than a black hole of debt. source: Asia Timesread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Image of the Day: "Fresh Tracks of Human Tech ...
    This full-circle scene combines 817 images taken by the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. It shows the terrain that surrounded the rover while it was stationary for four months of work during its most recent Martian...
  • "Higgs Boson Will Unlock Great Mysteries of th ...
    Physicists said Thursday the potential discovery of the "God particle" was a gateway to a new era that could see humanity unlock some of the universe's great mysteries including dark matter. The discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson, an elusive...
  • Image of the Day: Runaway Black Hole at Plane ...
    The ESA/NASA impression shows an oblique view of our Milky Way galaxy. The black-hole system GRO J1655-40 is streaking through space at a rate of 400 000 kilometres per hour - 4 times faster than the average velocity of the...
  • Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Cosmic Dust
    Astronomers have discovered that enormous amounts of dust known to circle the star--enought to fill our Solar System-- have unexpectedly vanished. "It's like the classic magician's trick: now you see it, now you don't. Only in this case we're talking...
  • "Higgs Boson Will Unlock Great Mysteries of th ...
    Physicists said Thursday the potential discovery of the "God particle" was a gateway to a new era that could see humanity unlock some of the universe's great mysteries including dark matter. The discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson, an elusive...

Natural News

  • 10 things the recent D.C. power outage taught ...
    In the wake of violent storms, the power went out for millions of Americans across several U.S. states. Governors of Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio declared a state of emergency. Over twenty people were confirmed dead, and millions sweltered in blistering temperatures...
  • An introduction to Divinity Now: Consciousness ...
    Welcome to Divinity Now, an exploration of conscious cosmology. "Conscious" means we each have a soul, a sense of self awareness, and free will to decide our actions. "Cosmology" is the study of the physical universe and its origins. Conscious cosmology stands in...
  • Getting back to nature
    Nietzsche said that we were all Hyperboreans. I'd say that if our culture were any more alienated from Nature, he'd have been better advised to call us all Extraterrestrials. We are, frankly, so removed from Nature that it's hard to take seriously our claim to be a vital...
  • Wellness guru Lynette Pate's new book and upco ...
    Most Americans do not understand the way food can WORK FOR THEM and not against them. Most Americans have a hard time breaking out of the rut they have been in for so many years, usually due to a lack of education about the food they already consume. "Fuel for the Body...
  • Germination and fermentation - The secret to e ...
    For many, improperly prepared grains can cause a variety of health issues ranging from digestive upset to serious malabsorption and deficiency. The problem is not necessarily the grain itself, but how it is handled before consumption. Through soaking, sprouting, and...

Threat Level

  • Convicted of Murder, Linux Guru Hans Reiser Re ...
    Four years after being convicted of killing his wife, Linux guru Hans Reiser returns Monday to court, this time to defend himself from a wrongful-death suit brought by his two children. The developer of the ReiserFS filesystem now claims he killed his wife, Nina, out of love for the divorcing co ...
  • Secretly Monitor Cop Stops With New ACLU App
    The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey is unveiling an Android app allowing users to secretly record audio and video of the police, and have the footage sent to the group's servers for review.
  • ‘The Analyzer’ Gets Time Served for Million-Do ...
    Ehud Tenenbaum, aka "The Analyzer," was quietly sentenced in New York this week to time served for a single count of bank-card fraud for his role in a sophisticated computer-hacking scheme that federal officials say scored $10 million from U.S. banks.
  • ‘DNSChanger’ Malware Could Strand Thousands Wh ...
    Tens of thousands of U.S. internet users could be left in the digital dark on Monday when the FBI pulls the plug on domains related to the DNSChanger malware.
  • European Parliament Kills Global Anti-Piracy A ...
    The European Parliament on Wednesday declared its independence from a global anti-piracy accord, rejecting the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The vote, 478-39, means the deal won’t come into effect in European Union-member nations, and effectively means the global accord is dead. Its ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The Return of the Republican Medicare Frauds
    Back in 2010, Republicans swept to power in no small part by scaring the bejesus out of elderly voters over supposed Democratic cuts to Medicare. But now that the Supreme Court has preserved the Affordable Care Act, Mitt Romney and his GOP allies on Capitol Hill are once again darkly warning th ...
  • Supreme Court Opens Door for States to Drop Cu ...
    In the wake of the Supreme Court decision in NFIB v. Sebelius, the greatest threat to enabling health insurance for 30 million uninsured Americans may come not from Republicans in Congress, but in the states. With the Court's ruling that the federal government cannot penalize states who refuse ...
  • A Tale of Two Vacations
    It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. That is, according the U.S. media, July 2012 was an excellent opportunity for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to showcase his human side at his $8 million lakeside estate in New Hampshire. But when then-Senator Barack Obama too ...
  • States' Blights
    Few battle cries rally Republicans more than the demand for "states' rights." But for today's Party of Lincoln, that ideological bludgeon once used to deny millions of Americans their freedom for the first century of the Republic and ignore their rights in the second has a new purpose. When it ...
  • For Romney, There is No Life After Bain
    In recent weeks, Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has tried to redefine the calendar by inserting the new milestone "AB"--or "After Bain"-- into the timeline of human history. Defending its man from damaging reports that he profited when Bain Capital invested in companies that shipped jobs ov ...

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Robot Developed That Can Walk Like A Human (VIDEO)
    A robotic set of legs that is able to fully model walking, in a biologically accurate manner, has been produced by a group of US researchers. The remarkably human-like walking gait was produced by simplifying the neural architecture, musculoskeletal architecture and sensory feedback pathways of ...
  • Going Solar Step 1: Check Out Your Solar Poten ...
      I thought I’d do a little “Going Solar” series here on Planetsave, to help nudge you all along and to have resources available for this great opportunity. This first step is not really required (and not an option for those without an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch — l ...
  • Living In Space May Extend Lifespan (VIDEO)
    Living in space appears to increase an organism’s lifespan, suggests new research on the microscopic worm — Caenorhabditis elegans. The surprise discovery was made by a group of researchers studying the bone and muscle mass loss experienced by astronauts after extended time in space. ...
  • U.S. Beginning New Phase Of Hypersonic Jet Pla ...
      Extreme hypersonic flight, taking place at Mach 20 (i.e., 20 times the speed of sound), would enable travel anywhere in the world, in under an hour. It’s an area of research where there remain significant blocks to scientific advancement. The research and development done by DARPA i ...
  • Maldives President “Not Impressed” with US Cli ...
      As he and all of us rightfully shouldn’t be…. Waging Nonviolence recently conducted a wonderful interview with climate superstar Mohamed Nasheed, former president of Maldives. Here are some striking words (refreshingly but also depressingly pointed) from the interview: What do ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Songs to Fight the plutocracy By: "Rich Girl"
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  • This Photo Kills Lies
    By @KYYellowDog Send this picture, with Stephanie's story, to everyone you know. karoli at Cooks and Liars: Obama supporter and Ohio voter Stephanie Miller appeared on Al Sharpton's show Friday to tell her story about why the Affordable Care Act means so much to her. Stephanie's sister died on J ...
  • Your Tax Dollars at Work ... for Freakazoids
    By @KYYellowDog We've wondered for decades how much. Just how many millions - tens of millions - hundreds of millions of our hard-earned tax dollars do the deluded and the criminal of the freakazoids suck up every year? The motherfuckers keep it a pretty close secret, as well they should, as it' ...
  • The New Debtors' Prisons
    By @KYYellowDog This is how absolute monarchs kept themselves rich: criminalizing debtors and imprisoning the poor for being poor. And that is why the founders specifically banned imprisonment for debt in the Constitution: because it is economic tyranny. So why are local jurisdictions like Lexin ...
  • Bye-bye WalMart; Hello, Public Library
    By @KYYelloeDog You don't have to be a library rat like me to benefit from your neighborhood public library; like police, firefighters, social workers and teachers, the work it does reaches far beyond those it touches directly. Via maddowblog: The LA Times: A vast building in McAllen, Texas, was ...

Care 2

  • Japan Anonymous Pick Up Litter to Protest Down ...
    TOKYO - About 80 masked people, calling themselves allies of the global hacker group Anonumous, picked up litter in Tokyo Saturday in novel protest against Japan's tougher laws against illegal downloads. Submitted by Naoko I. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • PLEASE SIGN Campaign to Save Earth's Honeybe ...
    In fact, honeybee deaths are reaching a critical point, whereby it may not be possible to reverse the damage. The good news is that much of the population decline can be attributed to human actions, including the use of nicotine-based insecticides Submitted by KELLY ROGERS to Offbeat  |&n ...
  • King Cobra ownership surrendered by Delhi Govt ...
    The UN affiliated OIPA chapter in India demands immediate rescue and rehabilitation of these captive snakes along with the strict legal action against snake charmers, tainted Chief Wild Life Warden of Delhi as well - Abhishek Kadyan, Media Adviser OIPA Submitted by Kadyan Naresh to Animals &nbs ...
  • Whales to gain Panama Canal traffic protection
    Shipping lanes into and out of the Panama Canal are likely to be constrained in order to protect whales. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • TAKE ACTION - Petition: Tell the Democrats: Th ...
    We need to solve America's health care crisis, and we know it may take awhile. So with health care reform back in the public debate, we need to start advocating now for the real solution: Single-payer health care. Tell Democrats: Support Medicare for All. Submitted by John Doe to US Politics &am ...

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Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • THE BRIAN TERRY EXCEPTION
    (FROM LARRY JOHNSON–My business partner, Bobby Nieves, drafted this op-ed, which is now published by The Washington Times and will appear in their print edition on Monday.) Anyone who has spent time in Washington knows government runs on process. There is a procedure for everything, and th ...
  • for revolutionaries only: an open thread
    “The New Obama Typeface: Revolution Gothic.” It’s about time. That 2008 “pinko” look was sadly outdated. Besides, in a discussion on Huckabee’s show about our nation’s economic and unemployment woes, Obama surrogate Liz Chadderdon proudly defended Obama& ...
  • Stooping Obama/Romney 2008
    POTUS back when he was “Mr. Yes, We Can,” taking his usual cool partisan barbs at individual mandate advocated by the Clinton campaign in 2008. The younger, smarter, unknown Obama; the ceaseless, drone-like, untested, unavailable Obama. It is striking to see what he looks like then a ...
  • Negative Job Growth
    After almost four years of Obama policies, the number of Americans unemployed or not in the labor force has ballooned to 4,817,000. That is the horrific increase and the statistics do not tell the story of mothers and fathers depressed because they cannot find work and feed their families. These ...
  • Boogeymen, Copycats & Agendas
    Top of my agenda: How much fun it was to watch Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter squirm on CNN’s Outfront with Erin Burnett. Guest John Avlon said later, “She was obviously trying to deflect [attention from the fact that Mitt Romney is surpassing Obama in fundraising by ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Appalachia Turns on Itself - New York Times
    Appalachia Turns on Itself New York Times ANYONE traveling on Interstate 77 just north of Charleston, W.Va., can't miss the billboard perched high above the traffic, proclaiming “Obama's No Jobs Zone,” a reference to increased regulations on the coal industry and mountaintop removal mini ...
  • Humanitarian Disaster From Electricity Crisis ...
    Humanitarian Disaster From Electricity Crisis Grows in Coalfields, As Coal ... Huffington Post (blog) As reports of revamped mountaintop removal operations and detonations continue to rock the electricity-bereft disaster areas in the West Virginia coalfields, ailing residents -- entering their s ...
  • LETTER: Help fight Round 2 iron mining - Super ...
    LETTER: Help fight Round 2 iron mining Superior Telegram Walker signaled round two in the Penokee Mountain top removal fight, Bad River tribal elder Joe Rose and I were drinking coffee at the Golden Glow Café in Ashland. ... rights war, stopping local garbage incineration and Terra Energy from d ...
  • The Reverend Billy Returns to New York, Ready ...
    The Reverend Billy Returns to New York, Ready to Fight The L Magazine The L Magazine: Over the past few years, you seem to have shifted focus a little from the general perils/evils of consumerism to the environmental degradations of corporate greed, specifically mountaintop removal and fracking. ...
  • Love Story: Mother, Daughter, Community - unEA ...
    Love Story: Mother, Daughter, Community unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) To date, mountaintop removal coal mining has buried more than 2500 miles of streams and leveled an area of Appalachia bigger than the state of Delawa.

Memeorandum

  • New Republican governors rapidly bringing down ...
    Robert Elliott / Examiner: New Republican governors rapidly bringing down unemployment in their states  —  Voters in 17 states elected new Republican governors in November 2010.  This new breed of fiscally-conservative, tea party-supported Republican governors took office i ...
  • Swing states poll: Amid barrage of ads, Obama ...
    Susan Page / USA Today: Swing states poll: Amid barrage of ads, Obama has edge  —  When it comes to campaign ads in the presidential race, there are two Americas.  —  In most of the country, just about the only time campaign ads for the presidential candidates ar ...
  • State Rep. Carlos Henriquez arrested on domest ...
    Travis Andersen / Boston Globe: State Rep. Carlos Henriquez arrested on domestic assault charges  —  A Dorchester state representative was arrested this morning on domestic assault charges after an altercation with a woman as they were driving near a Northeastern University dorm ...
  • Bill Kristol: Romney camp has reason to 'worry ...
    Meghashyam Mali / The Hill: Bill Kristol: Romney camp has reason to ‘worry’  —  Political analyst Bill Kristol on Sunday added to conservative criticism of Mitt Romney's campaign, saying it was a troubling sign that Obama was still ahead in the polls despite a still ...
  • Romney Donors Out in Force in Hamptons (The Ca ...
    The Caucus: Romney Donors Out in Force in Hamptons  —  EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. - A woman in a blue chiffon dress poked her head out of a black Range Rover here on Sunday afternoon and yelled to an aide to Mitt Romney, “Is there a V.I.P. entrance.  We are V.I.P.”&nbsp ...

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China Dialogue

  • Restoring eco balance
    A 1970s botanist and his theory of ecological balance are all but forgotten in China. But the country needs them today more than ever, writes Jiang Gaoming.In the late 1970s, China was swept by a wave of economic growth, and with it a wholesale attack on nature. Grain was planted on grasslands a ...
  • Restoring eco balance
    A 1970s botanist and his theory of ecological balance are all but forgotten in China. But the country needs them today more than ever, writes Jiang Gaoming.In the late 1970s, China was swept by a wave of economic growth, and with it a wholesale attack on nature. Grain was planted on grasslands a ...
  • Can Bhutan forge a new tourist path?
    The Himalayan kingdom, until now wary of holidaymakers, is hoping to boost visitor numbers without tarnishing its environmental record. Tashi Dorji reports.Most of the 3,400 tourists who trekked the lush green mountains of Bhutan in 2011 were blithely unaware they were breaking the law of the la ...
  • Dirty truth about China's incinerators
    China's “clean” trash-burning plants have a dark underside, writes Elizabeth Balkan. Stuffed with coal, many operate like fossil-fired power stations, only more laxly governed.Xie Yong could be called a pioneer. He is one of very few to date to sue a Chinese government agency over it ...
  • Racing to map Africa’s glaciers
    A team of scientists and photographers aims to document Earth’s threatened ice fields, including the many tropical ones in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, before they disappear. John Vidal reports.Ptolemy thought they were the source of the Nile and called them the Mountains o ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Convicted of Murder, Linux Guru Hans Reiser Re ...
    Four years after being convicted of killing his wife, Linux guru Hans Reiser returns Monday to court, this time to defend himself from a wrongful-death suit brought by his two children. The developer of the ReiserFS filesystem now claims he killed his wife, Nina, out of love for the divorcing co ...
  • Secretly Monitor Cop Stops With New ACLU App
    The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey is unveiling an Android app allowing users to secretly record audio and video of the police, and have the footage sent to the group's servers for review.
  • ‘The Analyzer’ Gets Time Served for Million-Do ...
    Ehud Tenenbaum, aka "The Analyzer," was quietly sentenced in New York this week to time served for a single count of bank-card fraud for his role in a sophisticated computer-hacking scheme that federal officials say scored $10 million from U.S. banks.
  • ‘DNSChanger’ Malware Could Strand Thousands Wh ...
    Tens of thousands of U.S. internet users could be left in the digital dark on Monday when the FBI pulls the plug on domains related to the DNSChanger malware.
  • European Parliament Kills Global Anti-Piracy A ...
    The European Parliament on Wednesday declared its independence from a global anti-piracy accord, rejecting the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The vote, 478-39, means the deal won’t come into effect in European Union-member nations, and effectively means the global accord is dead. Its ...

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Norovirus Hits California Guest Ranch
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that noroviruses cause nearly 21 million cases of acute gastroenteritis annually, making noroviruses the leading cause of gastroenteritis in adults in the United States. So it should come as no surprise that, according to press repo ...
  • Real Raw Milk Facts - Legislative Packet Avail ...
    From Real Raw Milk Facts:  The use of heat is central to the culinary arts and dates back to the beginning of human civilization. Heat enhances the flavor of animal- and plant-based foods. Heat is also a way to destroy harmful germs that can cause disease or spoil the food. Pasteurization i ...
  • Pacific International Marketing Romaine Promts ...
    Pacific International Marketing (“Pacific”) is voluntarily recalling 19 cases of bulk Romaine Lettuce sold at Vons and Pavilions stores in California and Nevada due to potential Salmonella contamination. The bulk Romaine Lettuce was sold in bulk produce bins from July 2, 2012 through ...
  • Shelled Peas Recalled Due to Listeria Risk
    The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Thomas Bros. Farm Market are warning the public not to consume the fresh shelled peas described below because the product may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The affected product, fresh shelled peas, was sold from Thomas&nbsp ...
  • 324,770 Pounds of Meat Recalled Due to Listeri ...
    Buona Vita, Inc., a Bridgeton, N.J. establishment, is recalling approximately 324,770 pounds of various frozen, ready-to-eat meat and poultry products due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

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

Suzie-Q

  • Ben Labolt: Mitt Romney’s Offshore Bank ...
    Published on Jul  8, 2012 by     BarackObamadotcom Ben Labolt, National Press Secretary, has some questions concerning Mitt Romney’s offshore bank accounts and tax returns.
  • Where the Money Lives
    © Ruth Tomlinson/Robert Harding World Imagery/Corbis (beach); by Justin Sullivan/Getty images (inset). BURIED TREASURE Grand Cayman, where Bain Capital maintains at least 138 funds. Inset, Mitt Romney tries to spot his La Jolla home from the campaign plane Vanity Fair August 2012 For all Mitt Ro ...
  • These Five People Just Saved Millions Of Ameri ...
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  • Supreme Court Health Care Decision: Individual ...
    HuffPost By- Mike Sacks Posted: 06/28/2012 10:10 am Updated: 06/28/2012 11:16 am WASHINGTON — The individual health insurance mandate is constitutional, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday, upholding the central provision of President Barack Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act. The co ...
  • WaPo Will Not Retract ‘Outsourcing&#8217 ...
    POLITICO By DYLAN BYERS| 6/27/12 3:33 PM EDT The Washington Post will not retract their June 21 report about Bain Capital‘s investments in firms that specialized in outsourcing American jobs, POLITICO has learned. “We are very confident in our reporting,” Washington Post s ...

Solari

  • Life – Week of 7.8.12
    The Story of Team Hoyt YouTube (28 June 12) Inspiration on a Bad Day: The Story of Team Hoyt SGT Report (June 2012)
  • George Carlin on Soft Language
    YouTube (3 Aug 2007)
  • The Rotten Heart of Finance
    [click on the image for a larger version] Source: The Economics A scandal over key interest rates is about to go global. THE most memorable incidents in earth-changing events are sometimes the most banal. In the rapidly spreading scandal of LIBOR (the London inter-bank offered rate) it is the v ...
  • Solving Mortgage Fraud With Fraud
    [ CAF Note: We created a mortgage bubble by fraudulent means. When the bubble burst, we solved the banks problem with fraudulent means at taxpayers expense. Now the question is if and how will we solve the homeowners problem? It is not surprising that proposals would begin to float whereby inve ...
  • NAFTA on Steroids
    Farmers from Miyagi prefecture raise their fists along with other farmers from across Japan during a rally against Japan participating in rule-making negotiations for the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in Tokyo October 26, 2011. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao By Lori Wallach While the Occupy mov ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • A lesson from history about wasted valor, for ...
    Summary:  Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the other small wars we have and are fought.  All fruitless in terms of our nation’s needs. All fought at great personal cost by our troops, up to and including the ultimate payment.  But no nation can continue to waste the valor of its troops in s ...
  • Question time on the FM website. Post your qu ...
    Summary: It’s “ask a question” time. In the comments “ask the mineshaft”:  post questions about geopolitics — and your answers to other people’s questions.  This is a community exercise, from the German “Gemeinschaft” (see Wikipedia). Questio ...
  • Three important things to know about today&#82 ...
    Summary:  Looking at today’s employment report (PDF here) we can draw three big conclusions. Oddly enough, these are not obvious to all. Contents The change in June was statistically about zero The cumulative change over the past year was very small This is bad news; worse might lie ahead ...
  • One aspect of The New America: permanent milit ...
    Summary:  We are at war, a war now in its second decade. We’re increasingly mobilizing every aspect of our society to defeat the enemy. Not just the massive expansion of our military, intelligence services, and domestic security services (no longer well-described as “police”).  ...
  • We are alone in the defense of the Republic
    Summary: One by one, our professions and institutions have failed us and the Republic. Under pressure their standards proved to be parchment barriers defending our liberty.  Rightly so, since the Constitution stands upon its people’s love. When that fades nothing can prevents citizens from ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Syrian Defections
    Defections are probably the most serious indication that Assad may be in trouble: Syria’s armed forces have been slowly bleeding defectors and deserters since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began 16 months ago. But now the military arrivals reaching Syria’s neighbors are more lik ...
  • Russia’s Syria Conundrum
    Standing on principle is rarely a good place to be perched in the shifting world of international politics - if that’s the reason the Russian government continues to behave as it does with respect to its apparent unflinching support for the Assad regime in Damascus. True, Vladimir Putin’s view ...
  • South Sudan at One: Facts and Figures of a Tum ...
    South Sudan is the world’s newest country. It is also among the world’s least developed, most conflict prone, and home to one of the world’s most urgent humanitarian crisis. Much of South Sudan’s current woes stems from its unresolved conflict with its neighbor to the nor ...
  • How Does Iran View the West’s Approach to Syria?
    Only a short time has elapsed since the announcement of Kofi Annan’s plan for a ceasefire in Syria, which sent international observers to the country and sought to reconcile the grievances between Syrian rebels and Bashar al-Assad. However, Annan, the United Nations and Arab League’s special env ...
  • Top of the Morning: Elections in East Timor; L ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest.  Security Council Inches Closer to Authorizing Military Intervention in Mali The Security Council passed a resolution on Thursday threatening sanctions against Islamist rebels in Northern Mali, who have been on a week long rampage destroying cultural heritage sites ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Running on Health Care
    A significant part of the Affordable Care Act’s unpopularity had less to do with the law itself, and everything to do with its contested status. With Democrats unhappy and Republicans furious, voters saw the law as something controversial and potentially terrible. As such, the Supreme Court’s d ...
  • The American Jobs Act Still Exists
    Mitt Romney is back to accusing President Obama of having no plan for economic growth: The president’s policies have not gotten America working again. And the president is going to have to stand up and take responsibility for it. I know he’s been planning on going across the country and celebra ...
  • What's the "Chief Purpose" of Marriage?
    Last week, I laid out some of my ideas about what is and is not radical about same-sex marriage, boiling down a few of the chief concepts I've argued in public over the past 15 or so years. Maggie Gallagher, chief nemesis of the marriage-equality movement, referred to one of those three posts a ...
  • The Data Are Speaking
    I have more than my share of pet peeves about language usage, none greater than the ubiquity of the phrase "I could care less" when what people are actually trying to say is "I couldn't care less" (it's one thing to say something wrong, but something else entirely to say the opposite of what yo ...
  • Health Care Is Slavery?
    Rand Paul’s debut on the national stage was marked by a firestorm over his comment that he would have voted against the Civil Rights Act, on account of the fact that it intruded on a business’s “freedom” to discriminate against black people. Since then, Paul has been circumspect about commentin ...

Buzzflash

  • Is It Time for a Human Preservation Movement?
    JEREMY BRECHER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT A quarter-century ago, when "Save the Whales!" was a popular slogan, a New Yorker cartoon showed one whale asking another, "But can they save themselves?" In the early 21st century, experts and ordinary people alike are asking each other how we humans ca ...
  • Support Negotiations, Not War, With Iran
    MARY FRANCIS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Hawks in the U.S. and Israel believe military action against Iran is justified because Iran enriches uranium for its nuclear power plants and medical uses. This enrichment activity is entirely legal under the Treaty for the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Wea ...
  • Young People Who Don't Want to Buy Healthcare ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT BuzzFlash has written several commentaries about how people below age 65 (and those over 65 who oppose healthcare for everybody but warn the government not to cut their Medicare) object to healthcare reform because they claim it doesn't affect them a ...
  • In a Mean-Spirited Political World, Where Do ' ...
    ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT What have we done to deserve the kind of low-life governance under which we now find ourselves operating? The bad guys are in control and money and deceit are the means by which they exercise control. Certainly truth is stretched on all sides in the heat of ...
  • Get a Straight Jacket for Exxon-Mobile’s CEO; ...
    JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Climate change is here, it's real, and it's going to get much worse from man-made pollution primarily produced from oil and coal. Currently, epic high temperatures set off uncontrollable wildfires spreading an inferno faster than firefighters can mana ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Blog plugin KCite excites research papers
    I just discovered the KCite WordPress plugin from a team at my alma mater which lets you improve reference citations in your blog Install and activate the plugin and surround any DOI or PMID number with the following tags: [cite][/cite] and the link becomes automagically active. A mouseover brin ...
  • Alchemical chemistry news
    The Alchemist gets down and dirty with the geckos this week, or not, as the case may be. Meanwhile learns how to make multi-layered graphene flakes with ultrasound and finds caffeine, cocaine and more in ultratrace quantities in the water supply. In ancient news, we hear that Libyans have been d ...
  • Peter Higgs and the chocolate cookie
    Back in 1993, the then UK Science Minister, William Waldegrave (remember him?) launched a competition for the best lay explanation of the Higgs boson and how it might theoretically endow other particles with mass. The prize-winning Higgs analogy came from Professor David Miller of University Col ...
  • The Demi God Particle
    The ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN today presented their latest results in the search for the long-sought Higgs boson. Both experiments see strong indications for the presence of a new particle, which could be the Higgs boson, in the mass region around 126 gigaelectronvolts (GeV). Confidence ...
  • We’ve observed a new particle #Higgs
    We had the leaked CERN Higgs video yesterday, thanks to Kate Travis who unearthed it first, I do believe, well ahead of the rest of the media. It was playable for a while, then CERN cut it off. I hadn’t been quick enough to save the movie file from their server and couldn’t resurrect ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Giant Ice Sculpture On National Mall to Symbol ...
    On Saturday morning, 350.org will unveil a giant sculpture on the National Mall—the word “HOAX?” carved in ice. Given the forecast for highs in the 100s, it will not last long, but organizers say that is the point: it will disappear like the arguments have from climate den ...
  • Jobs Now! Austerity is a Recipe for Recession
    Robert Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future reacted to the unemployment numbers released today of 8.2 percent. He said, “Partisan paralysis and ideological inanity are blocking the common sense steps we must take to get this economy going and put people back to ...
  • How to Get Better Jobs Numbers
    NOEL ORTEGA, noel at ips-dc.orgread more
  • Statement by Chad Stone, Chief Economist, on t ...
    The weak June employment report shows that it remains difficult to find a job in today’s job market, especially for the long-term unemployed (those who have been looking for work for 27 weeks or longer).  The percentage of people in the labor force who are long-term unemployed remains ...
  • Amnesty International Calls on Peruvian Leader ...
    Amnesty International today called on local authorities and social leaders in Peru's northern Cajamarca region to urgently appeal for calm after violence erupted at protests against the construction of a goldmine, killing at least four people. On Wednesday, Peruvian authorities imposed a sta ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Extreme Weather: Preview or Feature, No One Wa ...
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz A satellite image from June 22. Red means warm, blue means cold.With 2012 being another year of violent storms, wildfires, floods and extreme heat, we can argue whether this is a preview or the main feature, but no one ...
  • West Speaks with a Forked Tongue on the Arab S ...
    Haroon Siddiqui We profess fidelity to democracy, especially in the Arab world. But our commitment seems to come with the caveat that the will of the people is acceptable only if it confirms our prejudices. If not — as in Egyptians&rs ...
  • Should the Democrats Be Taken Over? Can They Be?
    Charles Davis By this fall, the two major political parties in the United States will have spent around $10bn this election cycle to persuade an increasingly skeptical US public that there is more than just a stylistic difference between a ...
  • NPR, NBC Use One Guy for Small Biz Opposition ...
    Emily Osborne With millions of small business owners in the United States, why can multiple news outlets find only one small business owner to say that federal health care reform will negatively impact business?read more
  • Ending the Cradle to Prison Pipeline and Mass ...
    Marian Wright Edelman A black boy born in 2001 has a one in three chance of going to prison in his lifetime and a Latino boy a one in six chance of the same fate. The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world: 7.1 million adult r ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

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

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Global Warming Denier George Will Blames Histo ...
    Washington Post columnist George Will spent much of 2009 denying the overwhelming scientific consensus that man-made global climate change is a real and dangerous phenomenon, sometimes publishing objectively false information. At one point, for example, Will claimed that “according to the ...
  • Obama Adviser Says President Will Not Extend B ...
    As House Republicans return to Washington to a vote on extending the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for another year, Obama adviser Robert Gibbs insisted that the president would not support giving rich people another tax break. “Let’s make some progress on our spending by doing away with tax cuts for p ...
  • We’re Already Topping Dust Bowl Temperat ...
    This heat wave has broken thousands  of temperature records. Climate Central reported Satuday, “In many cases, records that had stood since the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s have been equaled or exceeded, and this event is likely to go down in history as one of America’s worst.” I ...
  • Top Romney Surrogate Applauds Romney For Not L ...
    On Face the Nation Sunday morning, former Mississippi Governor and Romney campaign surrogate Haley Barbour (R) defended the presumptive Republican nominee from criticism over his refusal to outline any specific policy proposals by trying to spin it as a smart political move: At the end of the da ...
  • Allen West: Social Security Benefits Are &#821 ...
    During an appearance on Fox News on Sunday, Rep. Allen West (R-FL) compared social programs like Social Security to slavery, arguing that President Obama’s failed economic policies are creating a culture of “dependence” that is causing people who lose their unemployment benefit ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Irrelevance
    John Baird is irrelevant. He's a rat, too fucked-up and stupid to realize that he's on a sinking ship. He's an incompetent blowhard and an international embarrassment for Canada. More to today's point, ... his own government's cavalier response to accusations of Canadian complicity in torture ...
  • WTF???
    Via Dawg's Blawg, we find a curious last-minute ploy by Elections Canada with regards to Ted Opitz's desperate attempts to retain his stolen election in Etobicoke-Centre:Elections Canada has filed a chart with the Supreme Court, showing that 44 of the 52 people whose ballots were discarded due ...
  • Discouraged Workers, Deficits and the Whole Da ...
    The Progressive Economics Forum summarizes the latest StatsCan labour report. 17,000 workers dropped out of a job market that has only produced 7,000 jobs for a labour force that grew by 30,000 in June. Here's a good (old) article about how the real source of stephen harper's deficits have been ...
  • "Find one voter who didn't vote because of our ...
    There were an UNPRECEDENTED number of complaints about electoral irregularities arising out of the 2011 federal election. Call centres, in the pay of the Conservative Party of Canada, were (among other things) giving voters deliberately false information about polling stations moving to new loca ...
  • Mexico Shoots Itself in the Head
    And by "Mexico" I mean the whole gamut of people, institutions, laws (including those who uphold them and who choose to not uphold them), culture, etc. In the same way that "Canada" is tolerating stephen harper's stolen majority. Anyhow, Mexico's PRI candidate, the 45-year old airhead Peña Nieto ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Will anything change in Canada's foreign assis ...
    This week, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a small cabinet shuffle: the replacement of Tory Member of Parliament Bev Oda with former Toronto Police Chief Julian Fantino as Minister of International Cooperation. Will anything change?
  • Barack Obama calls family of restaurant owner ...
    The family of Josephine Ann Harris, owner of a restaurant who died the day she served U.S. President Barack Obama, said Obama called and offered condolences and they're grateful he did so. Harris died of a heart attack, her third this year.
  • Montreal mom stabbed to death while neighbours ...
    Catherine De Boucherville screamed off and on for over 30 minutes while she was being stabbed, yet none of her neighbours bothered to call police. Her husband has been charged with her murder.
  • Inquiry begins into Mountie who posed for sex- ...
    Although the photos came to the attention of the Officer in Charge of the Coquitlam Detachment in December 2010, no action was taken until now.
  • Canada's public sector makes gains, jobless ra ...
    Statistics Canada published its June unemployment numbers Friday, in which it showed the unemployment rate fell 0.1 percent to 7.2 percent as the economy added more than 7,000 jobs, which was better than what market analysts were forecasting.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Still no helicopters
    The project to replace the Navy's Sea King helicopters with the Sikorsky Cyclone has been incredibly long and expensive. And it's not over yet.
  • Canada’s next top soldier
    Chief of Defence Staff General Walter Natynczyk will be retiring in a few days' time. Who will replace him?
  • Veteran left out in the cold
    The Harper government promotes itself as a strong supporter of the men and women serving in the Canadian Forces. But its dealings with Canada's veterans often tell a different tale.
  • Guilty plea on chopper software export
    Pratt & Whitney Canada has pled guilty to U.S. federal criminal charges in connection with the sale of software to the Chinese military.
  • Syria: The next war?
    What started as a series of peaceful protests inspired by the "Arab Spring" democracy movement has gradually become a violent civil war between the brutal secular regime of Bashar al-Assad and a fragmented and increasingly radicalized opposition. And Canada could get involved.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • United Nations Soft-Kill Depopulation Agenda E ...
    March 30, 2012 Prison Planet By Paul Joesph Watson “Click the link the below to watch the video exposing the truth about depopulation.” –KTRN Eugenics expert Jurriaan Maessen talks to Paul Joseph Watson about the population control agenda. Click here for the interview and video ...
  • Money is Not Needed with Energy Abundance
    March 30, 2012 Activist Post By Amaterasu Solar In order to understand the very basis of money, it is best to contemplate how it developed in the first place. Once society developed past the clan stage, when barter, trade and so forth arose, it became the practice to place value on the products ...
  • TSA Continues To Expand Operations Outside Of ...
    March 30, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “If you don’t think the TSA is out of control yet, read this article.” –KTRN Through so-called VIPR teams, meaning Visual Intermodal Protection and Response, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), a child agency o ...
  • Concern Over National Defense Resources Prepar ...
    March 30, 2012 Info Wars By Kurt Nimmo Asawin Suebsaeng, who is an editorial fellow at Mother Jones, seems to have a problem understanding the Constitution and the national security state. He takes the political “right” to task for warning about the National Defense Resources Preparedness execut ...
  • Gold Juniors to Explode?
    March 30, 2012 321 Gold By Scott Wright Over the course of gold’s bull, the companies that explore for and mine this metal have greatly prospered. The gold-stock sector has thus been one of the top-performing in all the markets over the last 10+ years, and its investors have been richly re ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Scientists congratulate themselves on finding ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBy Dark Politrcks The Higgs Boson particle may have been found in the huge super Hadron Collider at Cern, Geneva. Scientists don’t like the term “God Particle” but the maths that predicted its’s e ...
  • Transgender romance movie a hit in Bangladesh
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   DHAKA ” A film about a love affair between a transgender person and a Hindu boy has become a surprise hit in Bangladesh, with distributors saying on Sunday that it will now be given a general relea ...
  • Will an Independent Scotland Throw out UK Nukes?
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.org By The Real News Network (TRNN) View the original article at dissidentvoice.orgCheck out all the best #altnews at DarkPolitricks.com
  • New Obama Executive Order Seeks ‘Control’ Over ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comWhiteHouse.gov Sunday, July 8, 2012 Executive Order — Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions EXECUTIVE ORDER - – – – – – - ASSIGNMENT OF NA ...
  • California high-speed rail gets green light
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   The US state of California has approved the first phase of construction of a much anticipated yet controversial high-speed rail project linking Los Angeles and San Francisco, officials said. Following ye ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Climate Change: Lines of Evidence
    Dandelion Salad Jul 2, 2012 by nationalacademies The National Research Council is pleased to present this video that explains how scientists have arrived at the current state of knowledge about recent climate change and its causes. You can also watch the video in seven separate chapters here on ...
  • Josh Fox: The Sky Is Pink
    Dandelion Salad Jun 22, 2012 by TheMrSirCharles Josh Fox on fracking. Mirror from http://vimeo.com/44367635 Also: http://sites.google.com/site/frackingireland/the-sky-is-pink Annotated documents featured in the film can be found here: http://www1.rollingstone.com/extras/theskyispink_annotdoc-gas ...
  • Max Keiser: TPP Secret Trade Deal with Dr. Pau ...
    Dandelion Salad Jul 7, 2012 by PressTVGlobalNews In this edition of the show Max interviews Dr. Paul Craig Roberts from paulcraigroberts.org. Dr. Paul C. Roberts is an economist, author and now a blogger at paulcraigroberts.com. He was an Assistant Treasury Secretary in Reagan Administration. Th ...
  • Noam Chomsky: The Occupy movement just lit a spark
    Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky www.guardian.co.uk July 6, 2012 ‘If you’re rich and powerful you never have enough’. In this full-length interview, Gary Younge talks to US historian and philosopher Noam Chomsky about why the Occupy movement is so important, where it goes from ...
  • Chris Hedges: Corporate Capitalism Will Quite ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 3, 2012 Jul 3, 2012 by TheAlyonaShow That’s what our guest tonight argues in his latest book, by travelling to, and documenting life and the destruction of it in so called, “sacrifice zones”. This includes the Pine Ridge Re ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

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

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • What Happens When We Sunburn
    The biological mechanism of sunburn - the reddish, painful, protective immune response from ultraviolet (UV) radiation - is a consequence of RNA damage to skin cells, report researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and elsewhere in the July 8, 2012 Advance Online ...
  • Urinary Infections Steal From Hosts' Defense A ...
    Humans have known for centuries that copper is a potent weapon against infection. New research shows that the bacteria that cause serious urinary tract infections "know" this, too, and steal copper to prevent the metal from being used against them.
  • TMC Institutions Get $20 Million Renewal Grant ...
    In 2006, three Texas Medical Center institutions were among the first in the nation to receive a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to accelerate the translation of laboratory discoveries into patient treatments. That grant has been renew ...
  • Zebrafish Provide Insights Into Causes and Tre ...
    Zebrafish, popular as an aquarium fish, have an important place in research labs as a model organism for studying human diseases. They enable scientists to examine the basic biological mechanisms underlying human disorders and identify potential treatment approaches for an array of organ and sys ...
  • A Surprise Win or Loss Impacts Taking Future Risks
    People appear to decrease their risk-taking levels after experiencing any surprising outcome - even positive ones.

Natural Health News

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Upcoming Events: July 8, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Conferences & events On Wednesday July 11, the Brookings Institution is organizing Translating Human Rights into Practice: A Conversation on the United Nations Human Rights Council in the Saul/Zilkha Rooms, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC. For more ...
  • Chart of the Day — Paid Leave and Paid H ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Courtesy of the European Trade Union Institute.  I have no significant commentary to add, other than to say that I’m glad I live outside of the U.S.  Here is the chart: Hat-tip: The Atlantic.
  • Weekend Roundup June 30-July 6, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey This week on Opinio Juris, we had Kevin Jon Heller weighing in on Melinda Taylor’s release in Libya and offering thoughts related to whether she should be prosecuted there. Additionally, Kevin Jon proposed a thought experiment regarding ICC-State coope ...
  • Melinda Taylor Discusses Her Detention
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Not surprisingly, Taylor insists that she did nothing wrong — and that Saif Gaddafi cannot possibly get a fair trial in Libya.  First, regarding the so-called “coded letter,” which has always been the most bizarre Libyan allegation: AUS ...
  • LJIL Symposium Vol 25-2: Beyond Constitutional ...
    by Tom de Boer by Tom de Boer [Tom de Boer is a Candidate, Research Master Public International Law at the Amsterdam Law] This post is part of the Leiden Journal of International Law Vol 25-2 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. To start, I want to tha ...

Public News Service

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

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Kangaroo cull
    Last week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
  • Environmental News 01/06/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
  • Green Capital Australia
    Today is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
  • Environmental News 31/05/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
  • Environmental News 30/05/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Spooked rare cockatoos fly away from Taronga Zoo Taronga Zoo is calling on the public to help find three rare red-tailed black cockatoos after they were spooked by four sea eagles during a bird show at 3pm on Monday and flew away, spokesman Mark Willi ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

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