- Putting the K back in Skeptic
I received this email today. It’s kind of humorous except that I do agree with a common sense approach to energy that has a lot less government involvement. — Jeff. —- Dear Sceptic, (I think he means me. It could be one of you guys though ) due to your high profile interes ...
- Are Climate Models Spatially Consistent?
An interesting link left by Curious on the open thread. I will read later. –Jeff h/t Curious, HR at Watts Up tips and notes: http://www.clim-past-discuss.net/8/2409/2012/cpd-8-2409-2012.pdf Climate of the last millennium:ensemble consistency of simulations and reconstructions O. Bothe, J. ...
- Descent
Today’s supreme court “health sickness care” ruling is an enormous blow to Americans. Our past successes have been created by a governmental philosophy of ‘the people know best’. Today we are told that in fact, ‘government knows best’. They flat stated, ...
- Questioning the Forest et al. (2006) sensitivi ...
Nic Lewis has spent a great deal of time analyzing this important paper in climate science. He has posted an article at Climate etc., readers may comment here or there, Nic will be around to answer technical quesitons. — Jeff Questioning the Forest et al. (2006) sensitivity study by Nicho ...
- Penguin Divination
Climate science hasn’t changed a bit since climategate. Sure there are now some climate scientists trying to find a middle ground between insane liberal energy activism and reality, but why is anything other than simple reality necessary? A slow path to Euro-crazy politics is still the wro ...
- Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summ ...
- Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
- Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
- Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the ...
- Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...
- Facebook roundup: Yahoo patent dispute resolve ...
Facebook and Yahoo have resolved their patent disputes out of court, agreeing to cross-license their patent portfolios and begin a new advertising partnership, according to a press release. All Things D, which broke the news this morning, says the settlement does … Continue reading →
- Coke Zero, Oreo and Dunkin’ Donuts lead this w ...
Coke Zero is one page leading the list of weekly gainers for the People Talking About This metric among food and beverage merchandise pages. The top 10 pages gaining People Talking About This saw increases between about 60,000 and over … Continue reading →
- Facebook updates page insights to make reach m ...
Facebook today made two changes that will help page owners understand the true reach of their posts. The reach metric in page insights will now include mobile data and the desktop News Feed will no longer count reach until a … Continue reading →
- Facebook says bug caused wrong contact syncing ...
A contact synchronization bug, combined with Facebook’s latest changes to users’ email visibility settings, led some mobile phones to update with users’ Facebook.com addresses rather than their primary email account, Facebook Director of Engineering Andrew Bosworth told The Ver ...
- TripAdvisor, Bubble Safari, Terra, Chill, Hoot ...
TripAdvisor displaced Zygna’s Bubble Safari as No. 1 on our list of top growing Facebook apps by monthly active users this week. Titles on our list gained the most MAU of any apps on the platform, growing from between 400,000 and 6.2 million MAU, … Continue reading →
- Poisoning Arafat: Ariel Sharon and the Jewish ...
Uri Avnery recalls Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's journey from national liberation fighter to peace warrior and argues that Arafat's quest for peace, which if successful would have posed a mortal danger to the Jewish settlements, is what led the Israelis to poison him.
- The voting dilemma facing Americans in the pre ...
Lawrence Davidson considers the hard choices facing American voters as they ponder who to cast their ballot in the upcoming presidential elections, and offers some guidelines on how potential but wavering voters might make up their minds.
- Palestinians, beware false friends
Stuart Littlewood assesses whether UK Labour leader Ed Miliband is worthy of the praise heaped upon him by the Palestinian Authority's UK representative, Manuel Hassassian, and urges Palestinians to beware of false "friends", such as the Miliband brothers and other Labour leaders, who are uncond ...
- Migrant nightmares: Ethiopian domestic workers ...
Graham Peebles charts the horrendous abuse faced by Ethiopian migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states and Lebanon where they are traded by unscrupulous traffickers - "not brokers/agents in any recognizable, legitimate sense of the word, but common criminals engaged in human trafficking ...
- An artist’s vision of peace in Palestine
Neve Gordon considers how an artist's work can evoke the possibility and the necessity of imagining a different reality in a war zone.
- Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire. Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
- Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
- European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
- Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way. ...
- Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...
- Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
- Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
- Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
- Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
- Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
On yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...
- Sonic boon
A search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...
- The secret’s in the sauce
What my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
- Clean water, clean energy
In the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
- Blocking CO2 to beat malaria
Mosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
- A winter’s tale
Celebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...
- 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 ...
- Ernest Borgnine RIP
Ernest Borgnine has passed away. Sean Penn’s segment of September 11 was not particular good, but Borgnine’s late career performance was genuinely touching. A remarkable actor.
- Anachronisms
Tom Goldstein’s account of how people got the initial reporting of NFIB v. Sebelius right or wrong is fascinating if you’re into that kind of thing. This struck me above all: The Supreme Court will not grant SCOTUSblog a press credential. Lyle Denniston is the only member of our team ...
- Kentucky State Politics
This is how we roll in Kentucky: Former state treasurer Jonathan Miller finished eighth overall in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas and won $69,896. Miller was one of nine players left in a No-Limit Hold ‘em tournament that started with 4,620 players. With 1,700,000 chips, Miller, a ...
- Protecting Sasquatch
I’m presently on a 6-week research trip to the Pacific Northwest and am presently working in Eugene, Oregon. Our former governor is a man named Ted Kulongoski. In the 1970s, he was a hip young state legislator, friends of this hippie group I’m researching. While in this group’s ...
- 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 ...
- Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
- New State Impact PA App
Since I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
- OilandGasHelp.com
I happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
- The Passage of House Bill 1950…
I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...
- Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...
From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...
- Helping U.S. Farmers Increase Production and P ...
American agriculture is steeped in a chemical-intensive system that wastes money and pollutes the environment. But by making use of new technology and innovative approaches, farmers can boost production and profits — while at the same time improving soil quality, enhancing biodiversity, and prot ...
- Living Building Challenge Aims to Revolutioniz ...
In the world of green architecture, no project has more stringent design criteria than the Living Building Challenge, a rigorous certification system that requires that structures follow 20 design “imperatives” across seven categories, from water and energy use to social HPA Hawaii Preparator ...
- Recent Policies May Undermine Brazil’s Green P ...
Recent policies enacted by the Brazilian government — including changes to its Forest Code and a push to build 30 new dams in the Amazon region — threaten to undermine critical environmental progress made by the nation over the last two decades, scientists say. In a declaration published after i ...
- Wildfires Across Western U.S. Depicted in NASA ...
A new map released by NASA depicts the large scale of wildfires sweeping across the western U.S. and Mexico, where experts say exceptionally dry conditions have made many regions a tinderbox. The map, based on Click to enlarge NASA Smoke across U.S. West and Mexico satellite data col ...
- Cities in U.S. Northwest Adopt Aggressive Recy ...
Seattle, San Francisco, and Portland, Ore., have all adopted stringent recycling programs that have generally been embraced by citizens in these progressive cities and have significantly reduced the amount of garbage going to landfills. The New York Times reports that Portland has cut the amount ...
- The Gang of Four: Presidents propose power of ...
European leaders have drafted a radical plan to turn the 17 countries of the eurozone into a full-fledged political federation within a decade in an attempt to placate the financial markets by demonstrating a political will to save the single currency in the medium-term. Herman Van Rompuy of the ...
- Three Legged Bear No Bigfoot
In this video, a 3 legged bear adapts to its situation and walks upright. It’s impressive, but it eerily mimics many witness reports of the elusive ’Sasquatch’. Could this behaviour account for some of those reports? Video from: YouTube.com
- The Elliot Lake mall collapse: Official Demoli ...
Video from: YouTube.com DEMOLISH WITH SURVIVORS INSIDE?? Video from: YouTube.com The Elliot Lake mall collapse and going ‘missing’ in the digital age By Matt Gurney | NationalPost.com On Saturday, a rooftop parking lot collapsed into a busy shopping mall in Elliot Lake, Ont. One person is believ ...
- Prediction: Global Warming Will Cause Everything!
The following news headline appeared on the internet last week: "Scientists warn global warming will fuel spread of ticks that carry Lyme disease." The corresponding article begins this way: Another effect of climate change may be crawling up your leg this summer as you frolic in the woods. Scie ...
- Madonna using ’DNA sterilization’ team on tour
Madonna doesn’t want you to have her DNA. The pop star apparently uses a "DNA Sterilization Team" on her current tour, according to Britain’s Daily Mail. The team cleans and disinfects each dressing room Madonna uses on the tour, literally wiping away any trace of the singer. "We have to take ex ...
- Zapiro vs Zuma- We need Shapiro over here in ...
___Zapiro is a South African cartoonist who is in trouble with the President of that country, Zuma, because he is always drawing him as a big bad penis which Zuma is! Zapiro Check out here also More Zapiro ___ Now, can we find an American Zapiro to draw us Hillary and Barack?
- Libyan show elections held after Pentagon made ...
“The United States is proud of the role that we played in supporting the Libyan revolution and protecting the Libyan people, and we look forward to working closely with the new Libya – including the elected congress and Libya’s new leaders,” Obama said (Saturday). What th ...
- Huge Rally protests yet another fraudulent Mex ...
The winner is declared after posting only an official 38% of the vote. A recount is done but only of half the ballots, not all of them. Much of the country utterly detests the return of the part of dictatorship back into controlling the country’s highest office. They will make their collec ...
- American government’s old South American ...
They hated communists so they thought it perfectly acceptable to murder those they labeled as such, and then steal their babies. These were the US government’s friends in South America and yesterday they just got convicted of cruelly stealing those children away from their murdered moms an ...
- Jimmy Carter attacks his own party’s pre ...
___Good for Jimmy! He actually told some truth during a time of everybody mainly speaking lies and fluff and nothingness. Jimmy Carter Accuses U.S. of ‘Widespread Abuse of Human Rights’ ___This abuse of human rights is occurring under the direction of Democratic Party President, Barack Obama. Go ...
- Maltodextrin – What is it Doing in Your Food?
New here? Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries! Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Maltodextrin is one of the most asked about ingredients found on food packaging. It is present in about 10% of packaged food products. So what exactly is maltodextrin? ...
- How to Burn 800 Calories in Just 30 Minutes
New here? Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries! Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Did you really think it’s that easy to burn off 800 calories ?!? While some elite athletes can do it, for most of us it would take at least an hour or two of moderate ...
- Don’t be a “Dumb” Vegetarian
New here? Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries! Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! This is a guest blog post by Lior Torenberg Being a 16-year-old girl, I have a seemingly unlimited threshold of energy befitting my age group, but this is a relativel ...
- DIY Baby Food: 3 Tips, a Recipe, and a Whole L ...
New here? Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries! Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Thankfully, the baby food industry is moving in the right direction, but we still love DIY Baby Food and think these tips and tricks are ESSENTIAL. Over the past few ...
- 10 Weird Hot Dog Facts
New here? Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries! Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Happy Fourth of July Everyone! Did you know that Americans will consume 150 million hot dogs before the day is over? How is that even possible?! Today, NYC is hosting ...
- Twitter Step by Step
Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
- SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
- How To Choose Keywords
Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
- Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...
- How Do I Tweet – Writing the $6 Million Dollar ...
Twitter recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a star as fast bad ones can kill your image. Most of the time tweets just pass ...
- Amazon Indians demand Italian priest’s expulsi ...
Italian Priest Miguel Piovesan who backs the road, with Peru’s President Ollanta Humala. © Anon Amazon Indians in Peru have demanded the expulsion of a controversial Italian priest, accusing him of ‘racism and aggression’ over his role in promoting the construction of a new road, which the ...
- Alarmed UK MPs urge Brazil to save Earth’s mos ...
Brazil’s Awá tribe are the Earth's most threatened tribe. © Survival Dozens of British politicians are calling on Brazil to save Earth’s most threatened tribe by halting illegal logging and land invasions in their territory. Expressing their ‘concern’ and ‘alarm’ to the UK Parliament ...
- Ranchers burn bridges in anti-Indian protest
Xavante Indians protest for land rights at Rio+20 © G1 Ranchers are blocking roads, burning bridges, and threatening Brazilian Indians in protest against their impending eviction from tribal land. The violence began after the Brazilian courts ruled that the ranchers must be removed imminen ...
- India bans controversial tourist resort but fa ...
Tourists who use the Andaman Trunk Road for ‘human safaris’ are exploiting India’s Jarawa tribe. © Survival The controversial tourist resort run by Barefoot India in the Andaman Islands has been dealt a fatal blow, after India’s government banned tourism businesses from operating in a buffe ...
- ‘We understand sustainability better than anyo ...
Brazilian Indians unite at the Rio+20 summit © Marcello Casal Jr/ABr Thousands of Brazilian Indians united in Rio this week, to make their voices heard at the Rio+20 UN Summit on sustainability and the environment. Sonia Guajajara, of the Guajajara tribe, said, ‘We have come here to raise ...
- Fracking in Ireland and BeingDependent on Hall ...
by Greg Palast for No Fracking Ireland No Fracking Ireland presents Greg Palast in Dublin, Today 3. July Connolly Books, Temple Bar - 1pm The Ireland Institute - 7.30pm Full info here On the 20th of April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oilrig blew out in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven men insta ...
- Wall Street, a Farce in Three Acts
The Medicine Show Theater presents: Wall Street, a Farce in Three Acts Written in 1819 by William Holmes NEW YORK CITY July 5th – 8th 8pm With a special guests appearance by Greg Palast on July 7th & 8th for a talk-back with the audience about the parallels between the Panic of 1819 dep ...
- Warren Ellis: "Money is Fictional"
Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan, Crooked Little Vein and yet to be released Gun Machine gave the opening remarks for me last night in London for my UK release of Vultures' Picnic. Thankfully he posted them this morning, here's a bit of them, the full text can be found on his website ww ...
- The Euro is a Big Success - No Kidding
by Greg Palast | The Guardian USA The idea that the euro has "failed" is dangerously naive. The euro is doing exactly what its progenitor – and the wealthy 1%-ers who adopted it – predicted and planned for it to do. That progenitor is former University of Chicago economist Robert Mundell. ...
- Palast London Events Schedule
Monday 25th June at 6.30pm Blackwell's Charing Cross Road - talk and book signing 30 minute talk followed by book signing. This is a free event but you should email events.london@blackwell.co.uk to reserve a place. Blackwell's 100 Charing Cross Road London WC2H 0JG Nearest tube: Leicester ...
- How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
- How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]
- How can I reuse or recycle large (catering siz ...
Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods. Now that they’re empty, they are open on one end, with no plastic lid to [...]
- She recycled that! Upcycling novelty hats into ...
Last September, Karen emailed us about the vast collection of novelty jester hats that her boyfriend had collected at various carnivals and festivals over the years. She wanted to know how she could reuse or recycle them as she hadn’t had much success giving them away. Lots of people made ...
- How can I reuse or recycle wallpaper samples?
Following on from the paint tester pots the other week, I’ve got some wallpaper samples that have served their purpose too. I really can’t wait for our renovations to be over! Like the paint, the samples were to check out ideas/colours/designs in-situ. Some of them were torn from rol ...
- Iran Seeks to Bypass Oil Curbs Using Local Fue ...
Bloomberg – An association of Iranian oil-product exporters will help the government bypass European Union sanctions and ship as much as 500,000 barrels a day, state-run Mehr news agency reported. Iran’s central bank and Oil Ministry signed an agreement with the Iranian Oil, Gas & Petr ...
- Woman ‘executed for adultery’, say ...
BBC – Authorities in Afghanistan claim the Taliban have publicly executed a woman after accusing her of adultery. They say the shooting happened in the area of Ghorband valley – less than an hour away from the capital Kabul. Read Article
- Man and robot linked by brain scanner
BBC – Robot avatars have got a step closer to being the real world doubles of those who are paralysed or have locked-in-syndrome. Scientists have made a robot move on a human’s behalf by monitoring thoughts about movement, reports New Scientist. Read article
- Hillary Clinton says Afghanistan ‘major ...
BBC – The designation, which includes countries such as Australia, Egypt and Israel, gives preferential access to US arms exports and defence co-operation. The announcement was made by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on an unannounced visit to Afghanistan. It comes ahead of a major d ...
- Suicide car bombing in central Iraq kills six
BBC – At least six people have been killed and 20 others wounded in a suicide car bombing in central Iraq, officials say. The attack reportedly targeted a member of a so-called Awakening Council in Ramadi, but he was not at home at the time. Most of the victims were women. Iraq’s Awa ...
- Controversial Caribbean whaling approved with ...
Representatives of the International Whaling Commission meeting in Panama this week have approved a controversial proposal extending the Aboriginal and Subsistence Whaling quotas for three countries: the United States, Russia and the Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent & the Grenadines. Th ...
- Keystone XL southern leg permitted as early as ...
As a deadline rapidly approaches that will automatically permit the construction of the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, an increasingly vocal group of landowners, environmentalists and even tea party members are saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now ramming ...
- EPA proposes more stringent soot rules
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed new regulations Thursday that would further reduce legal limits for fine particle pollution -- otherwise known as soot -- in the nation’s air. Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, made ...
- Diesel exhaust can cause cancer, World Health ...
Diesel engines power commerce and transportation around the world, but the exhaust they produce can prove deadly. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that it now classifies diesel exhaust as a cause of cancer. While major advances in technology have helped clean up some dies ...
- Global warming could lead to more wildfire in ...
California and the West, which have experienced a surge in wildfire during the last decade, can expect more of the same with global warming, according to a study published Tuesday.
- Toilets Bring Dignity
Imagine for a moment what it might be like for a boy like Shipon and his family to lack access to a toilet. Then imagine how their lives would change when they were able to have one they could all use nearby to their home. Shipon is 10 years old and his family has just gained access to a toilet. ...
- Water in Adina Faso, Ethiopia
The residents of Adina Faso used to walk four hours each day to gather unclean water, but after working together with Water.org, they now have twenty-four-hour access to clean water, right in the middle of their village.
- Kids Spreading the Word
To celebrate World Water Day, two rallies were organized in the communities of Savar-Aminbazar in India through children's group members and DSK, one of Water.org's program partners. The theme of the rally was “Everybody should drink safe water to lead a healthy and happy life, and have to acces ...
- A Bountiful Garden
Clean, readily available water brings all manner of opportunities - thanks to a water connection in their backyard, this family is able to easily cultivate a garden full of nutritious fruits and vegetables.
- June 2012 Conference Call
Recorded: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 Duration: 38:07 Laura Ralston, International Programs Manager at Water.org, shared stories and experiences from her three most recent trips to Haiti and what's been going on with our projects there. Laura also focused on the sanitation needs Haitians are fac ...
- Russian Deluge Claims 150 Lives: 'Three Months ...
Flash floods over the weekend have claimed the lives of at least 150 people in Russia, according to officials and various reports. Streets turned to rivers, bridges were washed away and thousands of homes were inundated by rising waters in towns in the region near the Black Sea, after over a foo ...
- Tens of Thousands March in Mexico Against Righ ...
Tens of thousands of students, unionists, leftists and angered citizens marched in Mexico's capital on Saturday to protest Enrique Pena Nieto's apparent win in the country's presidential election, accusing his PRI party of vote-rigging, fraud, and corruption. ...
- Woody Guthrie, says Daughter, was a 'Commonist ...
On the eve of what would be his 100th birthday Nora Guthrie says of her famous folk singer father, Woody Guthrie, that he was too busy breaking molds to fit into one and always resisted being "put in the straight jacket' of political parties. Woody Guthrie was "a commonist, not a c ...
- To Aid Afghans, Not Just Afghanistan
HERAT, Afghanistan - Afghanistan’s international donors gather on Sunday in Tokyo for a conference at which they are expected to pledge economic aid, and ensure their assistance level will be maintained after withdrawal of ISAF-NATO troops, in 2014. But Afghan people and civil society grou ...
- Enraged by Privatization Plan, Greece's Left R ...
Calls by Greece's ruling coalition government to speed up the sale of state-owned assets -- including state railway systems, water infrastructure, and power utilities -- compelled Syriza, the left coalition party, to say the move was tantamount to putting a 'for sale sign' on the cou ...
- Energy: It’s About Jobs
The latest jobs report, showing the creation of just 80,000 new jobs in June, is refocusing the political debate on the economy. How meager is 80,000 jobs?
- Wooden Electric Car Steals Limelight at Shell ...
An electric car designed by students from Universiti Sains Malaysia stood out among 119 teams competing in the Asian leg of Eco-marathon, an annual fuel efficiency competition, for its unique choice of body material: plywood.“We chose to use wood because it’s strong and biodegradable,” said mana ...
- 24/7/365 Power for North America from Solar Towers
From sunny subdivisions of Las Vegas to cloudy Pittsburgh and everything in between, solar power towers could provide sufficient amounts of electricity to satisfy the needs of the entire grid every hour of the year.
- The Growing Part of the World in Charts
A deep dive into the data reveals likely scenarios for the future growth of world economies and energy consumption. Spoiler alert: bet on China.
- Energy Quest and ‘Britain’s Atlantis’
Divers with oil companies have discovered fossilized evidence of mammoths and other large game, harpoons, flint tools and suspected burial mounds that mark settlements of hunters and gatherers who lived on dry land all around the British Isles
- Bullying, Bluster and Imperial Arrogance 101
by Stephen Lendman Hillary Clinton's outbursts reflect bullying, bluster, and imperial arrogance, not diplomacy. More on her strong-arm tactics below. On July 6, Friends of Syria met in Paris. Tunis and Istanbul meetings preceded this one. Conflicting reports said representatives from 6 ...
- It's Complicated
By Timothy V. Gatto There is a stir in the air. Something is changing but I don’t think that anyone can actually put their finger on it. People are just tired, tired and disgusted. They don’t seem to believe anyone or anything anymore. The trustful population of a sleeping nation ...
- TPP: A Trade Deal from Hell
by Stephen Lendman Obama and political Washington support an alphabet soup of repressive police state laws, other freedom destroying measures, and hellish trade deals. SOPA, PIPA, and CISPA threaten online freedom. Free speech and civil protections are endangered species. So are other in ...
- The Western Welfare State: Its Rise and Demis ...
James Petras Introduction "The ‘Great Reversal’ appears to be a long-term..."One of the most striking socio-economic features of the past two decades is the reversal of the previous half-century of welfare legislation in Europe and North America. Unprecedented cuts in social s ...
- Jefferson is spinning
Mary Shaw As I write this on the July 4th holiday, 2012, it occurs to me that Thomas Jefferson is surely spinning in his grave. When he and the other Founding Fathers created this nation 236 years ago today, their vision was of a society in which "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving ...
- The Dark Side of Investment Agreements: Video
Movements around the world have put the spotlight on bailouts and tax evasion that have enriched the 1% at the expense of the 99% but this is only part of the picture. Now the Transnational Institute (TNI) has launched a new accessible popular video animation that exposes how inte ...
- CCPA-NS 5th Annual Fundraiser: Dinner and an E ...
Join CCPA-NS and its community of supporters on October 25th for its 5th annual fund raising gala. World-renown CCPA economist, Armine Yalnizyan, will deliver an address on the current federal government's agenda of austerity. This will be a must-see for any Nova Scotian. Purchase tickets ...
- CCPA's National Office is moving!
The week of July 1st, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' National Office will be moving to Under One Roof Properties at 251 Bank Street, Suite 500, Ottawa ON, K2P 1X3. Please note that our phone, fax and general e-mail will remain the same: Telephone: 613-563-1341 | Fax: 613-233-1458 | ...
- Australian economist Steve Keen's CCPA lecture ...
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' Ontario team was pleased to host a lecture, as well as a wine and cheese social in downtown Toronto on June 28th, featuring globally recognized economist Steve Keen, who is based at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. The lecture focused on t ...
- Canada's embarrassing second-class status in t ...
In an opinion piece published in The Tyee and iPolitics, CCPA’s senior trade researcher Scott Sinclair analyzes the extraordinary concessions made by the Canadian government to gain entry to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations. Canada's terms of entry can only be desc ...
- TRUE LOVE
by L DOUGLAS ST OURS,WorldWide HIppies- It was the first sight and feel of something I never felt or saw before ecstasy starting with taste before ending in a scent. Were we just two adults who made a big mistake or was it all my fault to cut her an even break? Sailing in paradise [...]
- The Corporate Media Occupies A News Blackout
By Mickey Z. countercurrents.org – During the July Fourth hoopla… >> We learned Tom Cruise may be getting divorced. >> They held another hot dog eating contest at Coney Island. >> Hundreds of revolutionaries made the scene at the Occupy National Gathering from June 30 to July 4 in Ph ...
- Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Sunday
Baby dies, toddler hospitalized after being left in cars in Indiana A baby girl died and a toddler was in critical condition Saturday after they were left in separate vehicles in the Indianapolis area on a day in which the temperature hit 104 degrees, a record for the date. Greenfield Police Chi ...
- Letters to the Editor: Help save the Bees
Clicking here will automatically add your name to this petition to the EPA: “The EPA must take action to stop the alarming rate of bee die-offs. Please protect bees and our food system by immediately banning the use of the pesticide Clothianidin pending a full review of its safety.” ...
- Who Is So Hell-Bent On Getting Assange?
By Paul Sedkowski,OEN - Julian Assange is not a US citizen, and yet some influential Americans are calling him a “traitor” and trying to pin “espionage” on him. WikiLeaks has published information about virtually all the major governments and corporations around the world ...
- Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
- Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
- How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
- Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
- Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...
- Why Is Your Ice Cream More Expensive? Blame Na ...
Natural gas production: It's destroying towns, polluting the nation's water supply, and even releasing radioactive material into the environment. But perhaps the greatest insult of all? It's driving up the cost of ice cream during the hottest time of year! It turns out that an ingredient popula ...
- Proof That GMOs Really Are Unhealthy
Government researchers in Denmark are suddenly paying a lot closer attention to the health effects of genetically modified (GM) crops, after a Danish farming newspaper published the account of a pig farmer who reported significant health improvements in his pigs (and in his farm's bottom line) ...
- Is Vinyl Flooring Causing Your Love Handles?
In the early 1960s, just 13 percent of Americans were classified as obese. Fast-forward to 2012 and that number is creeping toward 40 percent, a dangerous shift that costs the country billions in health care costs annually. Certainly, the food industry isn't getting off the hook on this one. To ...
- The Best All-Natural Ways to Stay Cool
Summer can be a very energetic time of year, a time when many of us head to the outdoors for increased activities during the longer, warmer days. But as heat wave records make headlines across the country, it’s critical to protect yourself by staying cool. While extra movement, time in nature a ...
- The New Poisonous Seafood Threat
When you think of industrial agriculture, you might picture windowless factory farm buildings or fields being blasted with pesticides. We may soon have to add oceanic aquaculture to the industrial ag equation if the soy lobby gets its way. Currently, major biotech-, pesticide-, and food-industr ...
- Can Medicine Overcome Biological Limits on Lon ...
What's the Latest Development? The debate over whether there are biological limits to longevity has been heavily influenced by medical and lifestyle changes in the planet's wealthiest nations, says biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey. "In a sense, it is obvious that such a limit must ...
- How Knowing a Foreign Language Helps Make Bett ...
What's the Latest Development? University of Chicago researchers recently tested a common psychological phenomenon, in which people deviate from rational behavior because of an emotional pull, on people who spoke a second language. They found that because words in a second language, when ...
- How Access to Instant Information Plays to Our ...
What's the Latest Development? In a rush to report the Supreme Court's decision on the new national health care law, which will take months, if not years, to fully comprehend, both CNN and Fox News got it wrong, announcing that five justices had struck down the law when in fact the oppos ...
- Out-of-Body Experiences Highlight the Nature o ...
What's the Latest Development? By studying patients who regularly have out-of-body experiences, which result in the location of the self outside the physical body, scientists are beginning to understand which parts of the brain are responsible for our experience of consciousness. Traumat ...
- Why We Blame Others but Not Ourselves
What's the Latest Development? Psychologists have long observed that people assign very different causes to human behavior, depending on whether you are explaining your own actions or the actions of someone else. The phenomenon is called fundamental attribution error and works like this: ...
- Meet The Asylum’s New Management
The iron ore town of Whyalla on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is one of the places most threatened by Labor’s Carbon Tax – the tax that Gillard promised before the last Federal election she would never introduce, and which came … Continue reading →
- Gunwalker – What The Hell???
I don’t know much about this whole Gunwalker episode, beyond the little I’ve read in the news. But it’s now meant the United States’ chief executive law officer has just been held in contempt of Congress. Pretty serious stuff. I … Continue reading →
- Daily Telegraph Delingpole Refugee Camp
G’day Folks, The DT blogs are down for maintenance for an unusually long period of time. So all regular readers of James Delingpole’s blog are welcome to continue the discussion here. Even the trolls can come in, just to make … Continue reading →
- Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VI – Wha ...
Well, it’s finally happened. The scandal surrounding corruption in the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s, which LibertyGibbert covered last August, has now been formally raised in Federal Parliament. To refresh your memory, the story regards the activities of one … Continu ...
- A Mixed Legacy
Bella, horrida bella, et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. - Virgil, Aeneid VI LXXXVI-LXXXVII Today LibertyGibbert marks the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Enoch Powell, British scholar, poet, soldier, linguist, politician and polymath. How prescient were his views, … Cont ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 2012–2017 Final Programmatic Environmental Imp ...
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Interior Dept. http://www.boem.gov/5-Year/2012-2017/PEIS.aspx [Website] This Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) analyzes potential environmental, social, and economic impacts associated with the proposed 2012-2017 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and ...
- The Official Report of the Fukushima Nuclear A ...
The National Diet of Japan | Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission http://www.slideshare.net/jikocho/naiic-report-hires [From the New York Times] The nuclear accident at Fukushima was a preventable disaster rooted in government-industry collusion and the worst con ...
- Oil: The Next Revolution
Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard University / by Leonardi Maugeri http://bit.ly/MxuIIb [From Green Car Congress] Oil production capacity is surging in the United States and several other countries at such a fast pace that global oil output capacity could grow by nearly 20% from the curren ...
- In Fracking’s Wake: New Rules are Needed to Pr ...
Natural Resources Defense Council http://www.nrdc.org/energy/fracking-wastewater.asp [Fracking Insider] On Monday, Michael Krancer, Secretary of Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection, responded by letter to a May 2012 Natural Resources Defense Council report entitled In Fracking’ ...
- Shale Gas Extraction in the UK: a Review of Hy ...
Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering http://bit.ly/KQtA5L [Website] The key findings of this review were: The health, safety and environmental risks can be managed effectively in the UK. Operational best practices must be implemented and enforced through strong regulation. Fracture ...
- The Anarchist Lineage
Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
- "Crisis of the State"
From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
- "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
- "Integrated Geographies"
From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
- Colbert on Atheists
I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...
- Montreal group calls on Cirque du Soleil to re ...
Montrealers are speaking out against home-grown entertainment phenom Cirque du Soleil's plan to perform in Israel this August. Calling the Cirque a "global ambassador" for Quebec and Canada, Palesitinian solidarity collective ...
- An Exhibit That’s Been a Long Time Coming
The Snapshot: East Coast Contemporary Aboriginal Art exhibit fills a much needed and wanted gap in Halifax’s art world Local Indigenous art isn’t all craft and legend paintings. A new exhibit at the Khyber Institute of Contempora ...
- Montreal Medical Professionals Protest Refugee ...
Several hundred people gathered at the offices of Citizenship and Immigration Canada in downtown Montreal on June 18 to protest the cuts to the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP), the program that provides temporary health insurance for refugees, asylum seekers, and certain other migrants. &n ...
- Montreal Medical Professionals Protest Refugee ...
Several hundred people gathered at the offices of Citizenship and Immigration Canada in downtown Montreal on June 18 to protest the cuts to the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP), the program that provides temporary health insurance for refugees, asylum seekers, and certain other migrants. &n ...
- Rio Tinto Alcan in Talks with Paraguay Coup Go ...
$4 billion smelter project held up in negotiations pre-coup lurches forward Paraguay's major newspaper is reporting today that the government of Paraguay--which came to power after a coup on June 22--has agreed to resume negotiatio ...
- India holds up a mirror for the American right ...
"Evil requires the sanction of the victim." Ayn Rand" David Seaton's News Links The other day in my perusings I stumbled upon this troubling jewelNot only do Indians perform more Google searches for (Ayn) Rand than citizens of any country in the world except the United States, but ...
- Why is the American left so useless? - II
David Seaton's News Links On April 4th, 1968, the day when Martin Luther King Jr. was shot down in Memphis Tennessee, the American left lost its way. Less than a year before he was murdered, King set out to channel the energy and power of the Civil Rights movement toward ending poverty amon ...
- Why is the American left so useless?
David Seaton's News Links Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates and men decayOliver Goldsmith - The Deserted Village Throughout the Great Recession and the not-so-great recovery, the most commonly discussed measure of misery has been unemployment. But many middle- ...
- Angela Merkel and the hour of the Wolf
David Seaton's News Links Angela Merkel in the DDRAngie was 35 when the Berlin Wall fell. She grew up in Communist East Germany, was member of the Communist Party's youth group the Free German Youth (FDY, from the German initials), graduated from Karl-Marx University in Leipzig, and worked as ...
- American Karma: Obama and Free Floating Paranoia
David Seaton's News Links I remember once reading an Indian guru, who said that if the water buffalo had a god, it would probably look like a very large water buffalo. He believed that there is only one god, formless and all pervading, but that he/she/it responds to intense worship by takin ...
- Needed: An Econobox With a Nice Stick Shift
Here's a Sunday question for y'all. A bit of a long shot, maybe, but here goes. I'm thinking it's time for a new car. The repair bills on my current one are starting to piss me off. But here's the thing: my current car has an automatic transmission, the first one I've ever had, and I'm thinking ...
- Dog Groomers on California Occupational Licens ...
Here is today's Yglesias bait: California already licenses furniture upholsterers, private investigators and recreation guides. Now it wants to regulate pet groomers. In a state that leads the country in the number of professions requiring a license, a bill moving through the Legislature has s ...
- Bill Burton Explains Why Super PACs Have Such ...
When I read Robert Draper's piece this morning about Priorities USA Action, a Democratic super PAC, the first thought that popped into my head was, "Why do all these super PACs have such lame names?" As it turns out, though, PUSAA founder Bill Burton answered my question about halfway through: ...
- Friday Cat Blogging - 6 July 2012
On the left, Inkblot is entranced by a paper bag. Why? Is it because it was once full of takeout food from El Cholo, so it smelled inviting? No. It's because Domino had taken up residence in its lovely, aromatic interior. This all went pear shaped a few minutes after I took this picture, and ...
- Obama is Already Doing What Everyone Wants Oba ...
Last night I read an op-ed by Jonathan Rauch suggesting that President Obama should (a) adopt the Simpson-Bowles long-term deficit reduction plan, (b) propose some short-term fiscal stimulus, and (c) ask Congress to raise the debt ceiling for at least two years, so we don't go through last yea ...
- Beefing down farming could cut carbon
Changing our meat consumption habits, including switching from cow to pig farming, will be necessary to feed the world and allow plant-based biofuels and carbon capture to reduce CO2 emissions say Tom Powell and Tim Lenton at the University of Exeter.
- Climate change brings landscapes to their last ...
Nature’s beauty means different things to each of us – but undoubtedly it burns some images onto our souls. Our favourite scenery is less constant than we sometimes suppose, changing from day to day and season to season. But the slowest changes can be the most heartbreaking, eventua ...
- Hope from a surprising source that we can cont ...
While the optimism of the first Rio 'Earth Summit' seems misplaced 20 years later, the world's scientists have outlined the challenges we need to tackle from consumption and population, and I found hope from an unlikely place that there's some chance we might be able to.
- Weather watching hits home with powerful warmi ...
From hurricanes to heatwaves, Simple Climate has regularly reported on extreme weather events linked to global warming. This week I bring pictures from previous entries showing how these events and other more gradual changes are spread across the world, giving reasons close to home for all of us ...
- Hotter summers set to make power generators sweat
Electricity producers using fossil fuel and nuclear plants must adapt or face dips in generating capacity at their plants of up to a fifth in summer, due to scarcer, hotter cooling water, find Michelle van Vliet from Wageningen University and her colleagues.
- Notes from the US of A
I’ve been travelling internationally for the last few weeks. It’s been a productive time – I’ve drafted a complete paper intended for The Breakthrough Journal (more on this in a later post), increased and enhanced my network of professional connections and friendships, go ...
- Time for a reckoning, time for an apology
Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was: Dietary Guidelines Committee ignores climate change. What’s the difference between the fear ...
- Small(ish) is beautiful
This a new article written by Ben Heard and me in the SA Mines & Energy Journal (issue 23, pg 22-23), about the potential for small modular nuclear reactors. (Ben should get the primary authoring credit here — my job was to ‘enhance’ this one rather than lead the writing.) ...
- BNC Discussion Forum updates
In response to feedback, the structure of the BNC Discussion Forum on ProBoards has been greatly simplified. The revised forum looks like this: Logically (in my mind, and that of the BNC Moderator), it made sense to give people a robust classification structure. But in practice, such an approach ...
- Roads Not Taken (yet)
Guest Post by Tom Blees. Tom Blees is the author of Prescription for the Planet – The Painless Remedy for Our Energy & Environmental Crises. Tom is also the president of the Science Council for Global Initiatives and a board member of the UN-affiliated World Energy Forum [wef21.org]. M ...
- .: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 ...
- A Republican Didn’t Like The Sign In My ...
When I roll, I always have one of our RepublicansAreADisease.com sighs taped on the rear window of my car. I went to Office Depot to return some supplies yesterday and what appeared to be a Republican with his wife and teen age daughter were walking up to the car next to me. The Republican saw [...]
- Michele Bachman Lying Again
On Meet the Press Michele Bachman claims Republicans want women to make their own health care choices. Really? I guess unless their employer disagrees right Michele? Please media. The story is the fact that the Michele Bachman types get to lie repeatedly, and never have to pay a price. Time to d ...
- Wolf Blitzer Owes Hillary Rosen An Apology
Dear Wolf. You are an asshole. Why should anyone apologize for telling the truth? I know that you think that Marie Antoinette Romney is an “elite” and we are supposed to worship her while she tell us “poor people” how we should live our lives, and what matters to us? Hill ...
- Marie “Ann”toinette Romney You Hav ...
Dear Marie Antoinette Romney. Please sit down and shut up about economics. It is wonderful that your “family” has been so prosperous that you have never had to work for wages once in your whole life, unlike almost every other woman in America. What you don’t seem to understand ...
- How Many Small Business Owners Did Newt Screw ...
Come on Newt, who do you owe? You have millions upon millions in loot, and you can’t pay the people that you have contracts with and did business with? You have yours and you are screwing them out of theirs? You are sick man. I know you wanted to be prezzident so you could screw us [...]
- Military surveillance vehicle reappears to tra ...
The police and the army have yet to provide an explanation for the deployment of a military surveillance vehicle – nicknamed the Raccoon – that followed the social justice protesters in Tel Aviv last week. It was not clear who the vehicle belonged to: it looks like an army vehicle b ...
- Jerusalem encounter: racism seeps into my yard
I’d stepped into the alley to grab a few sage leaves for my tea. In my West Jerusalem neighborhood, the alley is more like a massive, shared garden. Branches loaded with plums, pomegranate, berries, apricots, oranges, lemons and olives bend over fences. Sage and rosemary are everywhere. When I f ...
- Knesset extends legislation that facilitates t ...
The Knesset has extended temporary legislation under which interrogations of security prisoners are exempt from requirements to visually record the investigation, Haaretz recently reported. The security establishment pushed hard to make the law permanent; Haaretz reports that opposition by two o ...
- Four Israelis arrested in Susya for painting o ...
Israeli activists went to the Palestinian village to replace the vandalism committed by settlers with a message of nonviolence and solidarity – and were subsequently arrested for damaging property. While tens of thousands of people were demonstrating last night (Saturday) in Tel Aviv for ...
- From Spain, with love: M-15 activists write to ...
The following is a letter that activists from the M-15 social protests movement in Spain wrote to their friends in J14 An open letter from the M15 movement in Spain to the J14 movement in Israel: You will only be free when you decide to be free. When we see the assemblies of Kiryat Shmona, [...]
- The Mortgage Meltdown- The Coup d’Etat/L ...
First, learn who Catherine Austin Fitts is….a high ranking official from the Bush I administration…next, read the very complex, yet conceptually very simple description of what’s happened here in this country in the context of larger financial warfare that has been waged on Ame ...
- The Housing Crash and Iran Contra? The Housin ...
The housing pump and dump began long before Bush..Bush II…it goes way back to Bush I. WOW! Imagine that. How skreewered are we? Huh? You mean it’s much deeper and longer than any of us have been told so far? Martin Andelman with Catherine Austin Fitts Scridb filter
- SMOKING GUN (sort of) Banker’s Associati ...
Hat tip to a reader who forwarded this document to me that was submitted by the Illinois Banker’s Association. Read the whole thing carefully…what they’re saying is that if the Fannie/Freddie notes are not negotiable, they’re in a world of hurt: A case in point would be ...
- HEY YOU! YEAH YOU! SUCKER….THE BANKERS ...
It’s so mind blowing and frustrating how out of touch and uneducated the vast majority of Amerikans really are. The flagy wavey celebrations and all the political campaigning, the bumper stickers for Romney 2012 or Obama 2012 only serve to emphasize just how completely corrupted and co-op ...
- US Govt. Will Spend $40 Million So We’ll ...
Why would my beloved government spend $40 million dollars to lay fiber optic wire into a concentration camp? $40 million would pay for a whole lot of food and a whole lot of medicine and real jobs for Americans, instead we’re going to continue operating a concentration camp in Cuba. Oh, an ...
- Vaccine Wake Up Call for Parents: Your Childre ...
by Barbara Loe Fisher Every mother has had the nightmare. We dream our child, who we love more than we thought we could love anyone, has been taken away by strangers and cannot be found. The cold fear rises up from our stomach into our throats as we search, endlessly, to find the child we would ...
- The Health Liberty Revolution & Forced Vaccination
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln by Barbara Loe Fisher In America today, there is an unprecedented assault on the human right to exercise informed consent to medical risk-taking ...
- What You Should Know About Meningococcal Disea ...
by Barbara Loe Fisher Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.1, 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending that doctors give four more doses of a new vaccine – meningococcal vaccine – to babies between ...
- Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring
by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...
- In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state man ...
- Lost in the Maize
Last September, I started posting my reflections on the weirdness of academia – amongst other things – every Friday, under the title Lost in the Maize. In part this was to document the shift from being a pseudo-academic to a real one. But it was also to provide some motivation to ...
- NOVA Making Stuff, nanomaterials and a web-lac ...
Next week sees the debut of the PBS science program NOVA’s new series Making Stuff – a four part special “exploring the materials that will shape our future”, hosted by NY Times technology columnist David Pogue. You may recall that I expressed some reservations over the p ...
- Obama’s 21st century regulatory system will de ...
Cross posted from the Risk Science Center Blog: There’s a lot to like in President Obama’s perspective on 21st century regulation. Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, Obama outlines his thinking behind his new executive order to review and revise a convoluted and potentiall ...
- Building a sustainable future: World Economic ...
“Technology doesn’t just happen” – people must be sick of hearing me say this. Yet as chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies, it’s something I seem to end up saying rather a lot as we strive to help decision-leaders maximiz ...
- Nanotechnology – what web resources do you fin ...
Over at the Risk Science Center blog, I have posted a request for help on web-based nanotechnology resources. Given that 2020 Science has such a nano-savvy readership, I thought I would cross-post the request here. If you have any suggestions on useful websites dealing with nanotechnology – ...
- The Good of WikiLeaks
Asan Bibi, 9, sits on a bench as burn cream is applied to her at Mirwais Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan. She, her sister and mother were badly burned when a US helicopter fired into their tent in the middle of the night, 10/13/09. (photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) Reader Supported ...
- Race War in Arizona
Three Points Arizona Minuteman Pete Petruccione, 88, checks out the range before nightfall with the unit from a $1,800 US Nightvision Starlight, 10/10/06. (photo: Gary Williams/Getty Images) Reader Supported News Perspective n August 20, 1914, the Los Angeles Times ran an article title ...
- Are We Replaying Iraq ... In Iran?
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates attends graduation ceremonies at West Point, 05/23/09. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty) Reader Supported News Perspective n July 15, 2010, Time Magazine carried an article entitled, "An Attack on Iran: Back on the Table." According to the piece, the point ...
- Rachel Takes Us Back to the Future
Rachel Maddow on assignment in Afghanistan, 07/05/10. (photo: Rachel Maddow Show/MSNBC) Reader Supported News Perspective very June, I leave my Northern California home and head south to our annual Gulf Coast family reunion. I might as well be an alien visiting from another planet. My ...
- Corporate Election Machine Fires Up
Future Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts meets with George W. Bush in the Oval Office, 06/15/05. (photo: Eric Draper) Reader Supported News Perspective The corporate financial steamroller is heading into the election arena much faster than many folks thought possible. I was one of ...
- Saying No To Tear Gas
[An excerpt from an article of the same name by Frida Berrigan, originally published on Waging Nonviolence, June 22nd, 2012.] I have an assignment for you. Have you ever been tear gassed? I have not. It does not sound like … Continue reading →
- Peace and Global Justice Groups: “End St ...
On Father’s Day, June 17th , Peace and Global Justice groups walk together with New Yorkers in a Silent March to End Stop & Frisk We are a diverse gathering of groups working for global justice and peace around the … Continue reading →
- On the Ground in Basra: An Interview with Hash ...
Originally published on May 2nd, 2012 on Jadaliyya. by Ali Issa Iraqi unions demonstrated yesterday on May Day 2012 at a difficult historical moment. Still operating without a labor law that sanctions their organizing, and under the consolidation of Prime … Continue reading →
- “You Can’t Take What’s All o ...
To mark the upcoming NATO summit to be held in May 2012 in Chicago and the simultaneous G8 summit to be held in Camp David, Maryland, War Resisters League and the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance release a new popular education … Continue reading →
- كفى دموعا!
كفى دموعا! بمناسبة يوم الارض الفلسطيني 2012, تُنشر النسخة العربية للكاريكاتير”كفى دموعا!” الذي يربط حركات للتغير حول العالم من خلال تحليل من ابرز الاسلحة التي تُستدخدم ضدها: الغاز المسيّل للدموع. بشكل سهل التناول, يسمّي “كفى دموعا!” الشركات التي تربح من … Continue r ...
- Best Buy Layoffs Reportedly Larger Than Expect ...
As we were among the first to report this morning, Best Buy is currently in the process of trimming off the staff numbers of its Geek Squad employees. But a new story claims that the layoffs go far beyond the 650 in-home Geek Squad agents and that the company is prepping to hand out more [...]
- Don’t Eat Meat? 30% Of Omnivores DonR ...
Dealbreakers come in all shapes, sizes and character quirks — and apparently, palates. In a recent survey, 30% of omnivorous, meat-eating singles said they wouldn't date a vegetarian or vegan. Is tofu's bad reputation among non-vegetarians to blame or is this about shared interests outside food ...
- Bank Of America Tries To Undo Foreclosure On H ...
Seems like it's just so darn easy for banks to accidentally foreclose on a home and force the residents to move out, but when it comes to making it right everything gets quite difficult. Bank of America has tried to rescind a foreclosure from April 2010 on a home it didn't hold the mortgage for, ...
- At What Age Is It Appropriate To Market Profes ...
A salon with locations in Florida and New York has a great promotion — waxing for half-off the price of a normal treatment, with one stipulation: You've got to be 15 or younger. Say what now? The reasoning goes, according to the salon, that "girls get bored when they go out with their Moms to [...]
- Top Posts Of The Week And Open Thread
Niagara Falls’ Plan To Lure Young People With Student Loan Payoffs Is Working Splendidly T-Mobile Store Rampage Caught On Video For Everyone To Enjoy Amazon Makes Sure Sharpie Shipment Arrives Very, Very, Very Safely Botched House Construction Forces Couple To Tear Down $150K Worth Of Building T ...
- UN Tribunal Issues Important Decision for Whis ...
GAP's Shelley Walden spoke with Al-Jazeera about a very positive decision from the UN Dispute Tribunal.In a major victory for employees at the United Nations, the UN Dispute Tribunal (UNDT) has found that the office charged with reviewing retaliation complaints and safeguarding the interests of ...
- WikiLeaks Releases Syria Emails: Daily Whistle ...
RT: WikiLeaks Unveils Syria Files Summary: WikiLeaks has just released more than two million emails from the Syrian regime, the rebels, and companies who correspond with the Syrian government. GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack appeared on RT to ta ...
- More Coverage of Vindicated UN Whistleblower: ...
Reuters: Tribunal Finds UN Chief Ban Failed Whistleblower Summary: More coverage on the UN whistleblower who was vindicated by the UN Dispute Tribunal. The Tribunal ruled that Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and the ethics office had failed to protect the whistleblower, who suffered retalia ...
- Whistleblowers Are Real Proxies for Sins of th ...
Attorney General Eric Holder recently complained in the wake of his congressional contempt citation – the first ever for an Attorney General – that Republicans are using him as a proxy for Obama in an election year. From WaPo: In his first interview since Thursday’s vote, Holder said lawmakers ...
- Big Pharma Company to Pay $3B in False Claims ...
The New York Times: Glaxo Agrees to Pay $3 Billion in Fraud Settlement Summary: GlaxoSmithKline, a pharmaceutical company, will pay $3 billion to the Justice Department in the largest healthcare fraud settlement in US history. The case, brought under the federal False Claims Act, alleged ...
- Denis Has Gone Walkabout….
by Bob Thanks for your support of UK Progressive Magazine. We’re on holiday until the 23rd. Boss is in China and I’m in charge. Problem is this opposable thumbs thing and, as you can see, I can’t be bothered. So I’m watching the lot of you, staring at the computer to make ...
- FBI Out to Lure Muslims into “Terror” Plots
By Sherwood Ross Nearly every major post-9/11 terrorism-related prosecution has involved a sting operation at the center of which is a government informant, “The Nation” magazine reports. The publication cites the findings of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School. The ...
- Mystery After the Health Care Ruling: Which St ...
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica For many people without insurance, a key question raised bythe Supreme Court’s decision today to uphold the Affordable Care Act is whether states will decline to participate in the law’s big Medicaid expansion. Although the court upheld the law’s ...
- The Elite Coup is Complete (Part 2)
by Robert Hunziker The thirty-year bloodless coup, taking over America, conducted by the political, academic, and financial elite is a fait accompli as evidenced by the failure to charge anybody for the horrendous, and well documented, criminality behind America’s housing/financial bust of 2008 ...
- Hate Crimes Against US Muslims Are on the Rise ...
By Sherwood Ross Muslims may make up fewer than one percent of the U.S. population but they were nearly 13 percent of victims of religious-based hate crimes in 2010, “The Nation” magazine reports (July 2nd). “These crimes include intimidation, burglary, arson, vandalism, and aggravated assault,” ...
- The tax man cometh to police you on Obamacare
(Associated Press) - The Supreme Court's decision to uphold most of President Barack Obama's healthcare law will come home to roost for most taxpayers in about 2 1/2 years, when they'll have to start providing proof on their tax returns that they have health insurance...
- Maine governor calls Obamacare's IRS agents th ...
(Human Events) - Main Governor Paul LePage accused the Obama Administration of organizing an army of "new Gestapo" agents to enforce the ObamaTax law. Gov. Paul LePage used his weekly radio address to blast President Obama's health care law and described the Internal Revenue Service as the "new ...
- Global warming blame-ologists play with fire
(Michelle Malkin) - Good news: The Waldo Canyon fire, which forced 32,000 residents (including our family) to flee, claimed two lives and destroyed 347 homes, is now 100 percent contained. Bad news: Radical environmentalists won't stop blowing hot air about this year's infernal season across the ...
- The U.N. is coming for your guns
(Washington Times) - The United Nations is deliberating over a treaty that will place comprehensive limits on the international weapons trade. The language of the draft agreement is so expansive it wouldn't take an Obama-appointed judge very long to extend the treaty to cover the domestic firear ...
- Never underestimate a 'slickster'
(Pat Boone) - "Now you see it . . . now you don't!" The hands are in constant motion, lifting, swapping and placing the walnut shells in ever shifting positions, occasionally giving a glimpse of the pea which will be found under one of the shells. The sleight-of-hand trickster is glib and talkat ...
- The False Flag Cyber Attack Takedown of the In ...
Here are some of today's top shock headlines: "Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'" - The Daily Mail "Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks" - Wall Street Journal "WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike" - R ...
- S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom Act
In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...
- Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Rel ...
At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the ...
- Education v. Conditioning: Wundt, Rockefeller ...
John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this subject ou ...
- TruthOffering's Matt Gordon on LA Talk Live's ...
Have a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and politics to international banksters and chemtrails. Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's perspective:
- Cosmic Dust Just Vanished
We can’t see our galactic center properly because of the interstellar dust that is in the way. While it might take a very long time for that dust to move out of the way, it appears that it could just vanish one day. Dust surrounding a star has disappeared in the space of a year, without a ...
- Another Apocalypse Fail
National Post reported: A Christian sect with hundreds of followers in Canada that had proclaimed Armageddon would strike over the weekend was met with a picture-perfect Canada Day and left waiting for their prognosticated superhuman-powers to kick in. Growing in Grace, also known as Creciendo ...
- Where Next for Robert Bast?
When pushed, I will rate the chances of a global catastrophe in late 2012 / early 2013 as 10%. It’s a guess, and not based on any sort of hard numbers. Really it’s a numerical reflection of my gut feelings. So I’m 90% expecting nothing untoward, which means I am probably planni ...
- Hunting For Cheap Survival Items
Survival Mum has an interesting article out: 21 Survival Items to Look for at Yard Sales, Thrift Stores and Garage Sales Sterling silver flatware – antimicrobial, and valuable Grain mill – get a spare or three Camping equipment – often dirt cheap Knives - old knives can be bro ...
- North American Geoglyphs
I’ve just been alerted to a very interesting site that shows possible geoglyphs in the USA – American Geoglyphs. None are as obvious as the Nazca Lines, and perhaps most of them are just natural landscapes. But these four might be man-made, in my opinion, so take a look: Praying goa ...
- NATO Preparing Vast Disinformation Campaign
Syrians wanting to watch their national TV stations will probably see them replaced on their screens by TV programs created by the CIA. Studio-shot images will show massacres that are blamed on the Syrian Government, people demonstrating, ministers and generals resigning from their posts, Presid ...
- The SCO 2012 Shanghai Summit – on the Way to N ...
The 12th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit took place in Beijing on June 6-7, 2012. The annual event brought together the heads of states to review and gauge the importance of the SCO in global affairs. China hosted the summit for the third time since its inception. The organization ...
- Turkey: Taking a Risk With the U.S. In Syria
In late 2011 Frederic C. Hof, one of the State Department`s point man on Syrian policy, equaled the Assad regime to ‘a dead man walking’. At the end of December, 2011, Hof joined a special secret committee set up by the Obama administration to discuss possible scenarios of Syrian intervention. T ...
- Antidote to Fundamentalism and Terrorism
In international politics, relations of trade and commerce among nations are known, but what about spiritual cooperation? This is in fact the central call of religious leaders at Astana in Kazakhstan. While speaking at the 4th Conference of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, held on 30t ...
- Balochistan: Crossroads of Proxy War
The current unrest in Balochistan centers around forced disappearances, kidnappings, targeted killings, assassinations and terrorism. However, these are merely the tactics of a much broader, more geopolitically complex war in which the United States and its Western allies are engaged. Though see ...
- Higgs Boson Particle: A Quick Explanation
Geekosystem has a video that can help you understand particle physics and the excitement over Higgs Boson. The video is from MinutePhysics, but it's actually about 3 minutes long. Not bad for explaining the theory of almost everything. . . . we found the Higgs Boson (or at least a particle that ...
- What Does Success Mean to You?
Success. Common term, general answers. Problem with it is that success looks different to different people. Do you know what your version of success is? A detailed, clear, and authentic that you can use to guide your choices? I may be a misfit & oddly comfortable in my own swiftly-wrink ...
- The Revelation of Homemade Toaster Pastries
Sometimes, a little handheld pie is just the sweet treat to hit the spot, whether it's served as a quick and convenient breakfast, or an afternoon snack, or even an after-dinner reward for eating all of one's (locally sourced) vegetables. Lately, I've been noticing more and more food bloggers su ...
- Teens and Texting: Two Can Play at That Game
Honestly – does your teen text you from inside the house? And if they do – do you text back? What is happening to the art of conversation? Or at least the ability or desire to converse in person? Teen girl texting: GoodNCrazy via photo pin ccIt’s an interesting phenomenon if you step back and ...
- How To Turn A Great Idea Into A Real Business
by Angie Chang (Co-Founder, Women 2.0) Everyone has that dream -- to run a drive-thru boba shop, a digital magazine with realistic depictions of girls today, maybe an online resource for fellow lawyers... What's your big idea? And what are the next steps to take that dream to a reality? The next ...
- Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...
Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
- Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...
The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
- Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...
Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
- “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...
At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
- Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” Proportions
The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...
- Tuesday roundup, July 3, 2012
I’m still catching up on the news following some time off, and obviously here in West Virginia the big story remains the aftermath of last Friday’s terrible “dereche” storm that hit our state and some neighboring areas. Thousands of residents remain without power. The st ...
- NPR misses mark with Mingo ‘war on coal ...
I’m generally a fan of NPR and also an admirer of the work of their longtime journalist Noah Adams, especially his book Far Appalachia. So maybe I was expecting too much when I heard he was working on a piece about the results of West Virginia’s Democratic presidential primary, in wh ...
- AP: ‘This is what global warming looks l ...
A tree lays down in the front lawn at a home Saturday, June 30, 2012 in Charleston, W.Va. Violent storms swept across the eastern U.S., killing at least nine people and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands on a day that temperatures across the region are expected to reach triple-digits. ...
- Friday roundup, June 22, 2012
Coal miners are seen before taking part in “La Marcha Negra”, a five hundred kilometers walk to Madrid, in Mieres, near Oviedo, Spain, Friday, June 22, 2012. Strikes, road blockades, and mine sit-ins continue as 8,000 mineworkers at over 40 coal mines in northern Spain continue their ...
- Rockefeller tells W.Va. what it doesn’t ...
Some things are abundantly clear this week, following Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s Senate floor speech about the future of our state’s coalfields: In West Virginia, it’s big news — huge news, really — if one of our political leaders dares to tell a little bit of truth abo ...
- The Most Amazing Con in History
The most amazing con in history has to be the one perpetuated by the modern Republican Party. These politicians have actually convinced the poor that ultra-wealthy corporations and business magnates have their best interests at heart. via reddit.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | ...
- “Stateless” Mobile Security
Forrester analysts say that to stay ahead of evolving mobile business requirements, S&R and I&O pros cannot rely on the old approach of end-to-end control over the data path, device, and applications. Instead, they must embrace a “stateless” architecture in which IT decouples security co ...
- 20 Beautiful World Bookstores
Unbelievably gorgeous. Bookstores make me happy. via flavorwire.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentWorld Map Of Touristyness | Information is BeautifulTry a BookInformation is Beautiful: SupplementsThe Bible is Awesome | Bad AstronomyA Digital ...
- Delusional Supporters of the GOP
As I watch the uber-rich buying the Presidency, I’m not sure which is sadder: The death of our democracy or watching half the country cheer it on as if the interests of the uber rich align with theirs. via reddit.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related Content ...
- An Incredibly Strong SQL Injection Guide
Websec CA SQL Injection Guide: http://websec.ca/kb/sql_injection :: Related ContentHow to do a WebSec DemoMass SQL Injection Attack Going OnHow Does One Explain SQL Injection to a Non-Techie?How Does One Explain SQL Injection to a Non-Techie?SQL Injection is 90% SQL, WebSec is 90% WebDev
- Obama SSN: the question to which the answer is ...
What is the Connecticut prefix for SSNs in the late 1970s? Exactly one year ago, I was intrigued by some interesting digital observations about Obama's birth certificate and then, just a day later, I figured out how the strange patterns could have been created in such a way that nothing ...
- Buckley, Hooper: Higgs decay deviations due to ...
We may already be looking at the first signs of supersymmetry at the LHC No one was too interested in the Higgs $500 bet I won – and was paid yesterday – but I have a more interesting outstanding bet against Adam Falkowski in which I would win $10,000 if supersymmetry is found. Of ...
- LHC Higgs: does it deviate from the Standard M ...
A textbook pedagogic exercise on chi-squared distributions On the 2012 Independence Day, the world of physics has made a transition. The question "Is there a Higgs-like particle with mass near \(126\GeV\)?" has been answered. Weinberg's toilet, i.e. Glashow's model of the SM ...
- Stephen Wolfram on Higgs, particle physics
A Moment for Particle Physics: The End of a 40-Year Story? Guest blog by Stephen Wolfram, a trained particle physicist, entrepreneur, and software designer
- Václav Havel's heart melted by global warming
I included a photograph of a sculpture of Havel by a local Pilsner student and sculptor because I consider it a more nontrivial piece of art than the sculpture discussed below but it is not the actual star in this story.Global warming – which hasn't been seen for 15 years – is nevertheless ca ...
- I have been asked to sell this domain name – Y ...
$100,000.27 No negotiations. Send to my PayPal account at chiefape@gmail.com. Simple as that. Too much money? Too bad. It is a take it or leave it offer. Quit bugging me! TMA Related posts: Tatumba.com home of The Mad Ape – Radio Spot A few weeks ago I won a significant amount of... Relat ...
- End of the Road – How Money Became Worthless – ...
The new film “End Of The Road” has just been released for public viewing, featuring GoldSilver.com CEO Mike Maloney alongside Peter Schiff, Jim Rickards, Jim Puplava, James Turk, Eric Sprott and more. This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Gold American Eagle Fractional Bullion Co ...
- HOW TO Defeat The System – Documentary Film
HELP MAKE THIS GO VIRAL! How To Defeat The System is Fabian4Liberty’s latest micro documentary film. With the world in crisis and hundreds of talking heads highlighting the problems, what exactly are the solutions? In this micro documentary LIBERTARIAN ACTIVIST Fabian4Liberty covers concre ...
- FPS Russia:The 40mm Machine Gun – Buy it here
22″ Rapid Fire Machine Gun with Lights & Sound High quality battery operated machine gun with lights and blasting sounds! Feel the action when you pull the trigger. The barrel with bayonet moves back and forth thrusting. The bullet belt revolves when firing. This awesome machine ...
- Bank of America Attacked SGT Report
e-mail Bank of America and ask them, is this how they treat AMERICANS? abuse@bankofamerica.com SGTreport.com: Someone at Bank of America Doesn’t Like SGTreport http://sgtreport.com/2011/09/someone-at-bank-of-america-doesnt-like-sgtreport/ Cass Sunstein’s Obama Spine-Chilling Proposal ...
- Pick the best sunscreen for kids
By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Analyst I have happy memories of long summer days spent outdoors, largely unencumbered by sun hats, sunglasses and sunscreen. Now we know that one blistering burn during childhood can increase a child's risk of developing... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
- EWG's 2012 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Pr ...
Well, as we do each year, EWG released (on June 19) the latest Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce and as we suspected, eaters around the country are still concerned about high levels of toxic pesticide residue on their fruits... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
- Peanut Butter, Pajamas and Power
By Heather White, chief of staff, Environmental Working Group My kids eat more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches than I'd like to admit. And in my line of work I hear about toxic chemicals daily so it takes a lot... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other ...
- "The EWG list of best sunscreens can't be beat ...
Late last week, news outlets began reporting that the Federal Communications Commission was considering revising their cell phone radiation testing methods - for the first time in 15 years. Early this week, Governor Brown of California announced a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
- Join the Fight to Provide Healthy Food for Str ...
By Nora Pouillon For those of us lucky enough to sit down every day to healthy, nutritious meals, it's easy to forget that millions of American families in the grip of the recession are struggling to put food on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other co ...
- Man denies guilt in bloody dog attack
A 23-year-old Norwegian man was arrested after a dog that he owned jumped a low fence in the yard where it was being held and attacked a two-year-old boy who was playing in an adjacent children’s park. Two other dogs he owned joined in and the boy’s mother and uncle were also badly b ...
- Plans unclear for terror-flower compost
The tons of flowers that Norwegians laid down all over Oslo following last summer’s terrorist attacks have now been transformed into specially marked compost. It remains unclear, however, where the special compost will be used. News bureau NTB reported that around 150 large sacks of the co ...
- Sunken boat to be raised after fatal accident
The seafood company that owned a boat used in connection with a fish farming operation in northern Norway wants to raise the vessel after it sunk earlier this week. The accident claimed the lives of a 42-year-old woman and her one-year-old daughter. Circumstances around the accident at Store Kuf ...
- State OKs major windmill project
Norwegian authorities have approved plans to build five new wind-power plants in the western county of Rogaland. The project, involving erection of large windmills, could double Norwegian production of wind power. The windmills will be constructed in the townships of Bjerkreim, Hå and Gjesdal an ...
- Faremo eases new immigration rules
Justice Minister Grete Faremo has finally responded to a stream of complaints, also from the state’s own immigration agency UDI, that new income requirements for would-be immigrants can be too strict. In many cases, Norwegians married to foreigners haven’t been able to move home with ...
- Share the Love – Seed Saving
Onion going to seed When I started to take an interest in permaculture, one of the first things I wanted to learn but had no reference to guide me on was seed saving. The idea of seed saving felt close to the core of a regenerative way of life: [...]
- Ordeal: Mulling the Meaning of Rio+20
Leaving Rio de Janeiro, site of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, we mulled the meaning of what we had witnessed, but could hardly put it any better than Charles Eisenstein in his excellent summary, Why Rio+20 Failed: You know folks, I’m a bit worried about my 16-year-old son, ...
- My Permaculture Internship at the PRI’s Zaytun ...
Can the human race build an environmentally sustainable culture? Can we disprove the myth that humans are inherently destructive? Here at The Permaculture Research Institute of Australia, myself and 18 others are a part of an intensive internship in an attempt to answer these big, big questions. ...
- Coal to Liquids – Racing to the Bottom With th ...
I thought I’d add to George Monbiot’s recent post highlighting moves to persevere with fossil fuels by sharing a little piece on how feeding our oil addiction is taking us to ever-dirtier lows. Although momentum is building in the fight against coal-fired power plants, it’s ...
- Preparing Our Children For a Resilient Future, ...
Our Role as Facilitators Having been a home educator for nearly 18 years, I have become aware of the value of hands-on experiences for helping children learn and really understand concepts — experiences that are relevant to their lives and help prepare them for a real future, in much more ...
- Worried about climate change? Meh.
Climate alarmism pushes a blinding variety of scares at the general public; Polar bears going extinct, droughts of biblical proportions, massive Noah’s ark type flooding, glaciers melting, sea levels rising, sea levels dropping, the polar ice caps melting, your Granny’s knicker elast ...
- The Nigger Word.
There’s been a bit of a furore recently about a supposedly prestigious science journal running a paper that was peppered with the word nigger. The editor, of what can only be referred to as a rag now, even came up with a fatuous reply to the resultant criticism, which when stripped of the ...
- The Nigger Word.
There’s been a bit of a furore recently about a supposedly prestigious science journal running a paper that was peppered with the word nigger. The editor, of what can only be referred to as a rag now, even came up with a fatuous reply to the resultant criticism, which when stripped of the ...
- Mullering the data.
There is this new sort of creature who’s emerged in the climate debate in the last year or two. Unsurprisingly, they all seem to spring from the alarmist side, but they all have one of those comfortably recognisable patterns of behaviour that I quite like. I’ll freely admit I’v ...
- Our secret weapon.
There are three elements to be considered when formulating a strategy; the ultimate objective of the strategy, the resources you have available to achieve that objective and the way the resources are to be deployed to take and then hold that objective. Obviously, our objective is to destroy the ...
- Baby Steps in Data Journalism
This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
- The best video export options
How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
- Video Resources updated
The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...
- Flash Journalism updates
I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
- New tutorial: Windows Live Movie Maker
As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less vers ...
- Beasts of the Southern Wild, A Hollywood Film ...
Earlier versions of this article originally were distributed via Agence France Presse, and in Louisiana Weekly. The Gulf Coast loses a football field of land every 45 minutes, and much of that loss happens in the bayous of Southern Louisiana, where roads disappear into canals, winding their way ...
- Backlash Mounts as the Louisiana Supreme Court ...
From a press release sent out today: Justice Bernette Joshua Johnson, who has served as an Associate Justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court for nearly two decades, is poised to assume the office of Chief Justice in February 1, 2013, upon the retirement of the current chief justice. She fol ...
- Structurally Unemployed Workers Deliver Junete ...
From our friends at the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice: Stand with Dignity Commemorated Juneteenth by delivering a proclamation to New Orleans City Council and Mayor. "The 20 people who arrived at City Hall today with Stand were there to deliver a message to our city that we a ...
- Newly Formed Observer Group to Monitor Today’s ...
From our friends at Louisiana Bucket Brigade: Khaki Vests and Citizen Monitor Buttons Identify Oil Monitoring Group Fifteen Citizen Monitors trained to engage oil industry and government representatives will be on hand at today’s oil lease auction. The goal of the newly formed Oil Monit ...
- Celebrate Juneteenth
A Juneteenth Message from our friends at Critical Resistance: Tuesday, June 19, marked Juneteenth, the commemoration of the end of formalized slavery in the United States. The date coincides with the last wave of notification of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, reaching e ...
- Helping U.S. Farmers Increase Production and P ...
American agriculture is steeped in a chemical-intensive system that wastes money and pollutes the environment. But by making use of new technology and innovative approaches, farmers can boost production and profits — while at the same time improving soil quality, enhancing biodiversity, and prot ...
- Living Building Challenge Aims to Revolutioniz ...
In the world of green architecture, no project has more stringent design criteria than the Living Building Challenge, a rigorous certification system that requires that structures follow 20 design “imperatives” across seven categories, from water and energy use to social HPA Hawaii Preparator ...
- Recent Policies May Undermine Brazil’s Green P ...
Recent policies enacted by the Brazilian government — including changes to its Forest Code and a push to build 30 new dams in the Amazon region — threaten to undermine critical environmental progress made by the nation over the last two decades, scientists say. In a declaration published after i ...
- Wildfires Across Western U.S. Depicted in NASA ...
A new map released by NASA depicts the large scale of wildfires sweeping across the western U.S. and Mexico, where experts say exceptionally dry conditions have made many regions a tinderbox. The map, based on Click to enlarge NASA Smoke across U.S. West and Mexico satellite data col ...
- Cities in U.S. Northwest Adopt Aggressive Recy ...
Seattle, San Francisco, and Portland, Ore., have all adopted stringent recycling programs that have generally been embraced by citizens in these progressive cities and have significantly reduced the amount of garbage going to landfills. The New York Times reports that Portland has cut the amount ...
- Spider-Man when he was Approved by the Comic C ...
By Mark Leiren-Young I read Spider-Man in the original Sanskrit. No, I’m not old enough, or lucky enough to have picked up Amazing Fantasy number 15, which featured the first ever appearance of everyone’s favourite wacky wall-crawler, whose latest movie incarnation debuted in North America this ...
- Bev Oda’s last long ride
By Montreal Simon Bev Oda has taken her last long limo ride. The kind of ride the Con mob gives you when you become a liability. First comes the horse’s head, then the scenic limo ride, in the middle of the night. And then da cement shoes. From The Globe and Mail: “Bev Oda, the CIDA ...
- Humane Society ad ropes Stampede
A BoB short A new ad released by the Vancouver Humane Society compares calf-roping at the Calgary Stampede to abusing a baby. The ad, published in a Calgary newspaper, shows a surprised looking baby next to a calf with the caption “Just 3 months old — Would you abuse a baby to entertain a ...
- A Modest Opinion – We Did It! We Beat th ...
By Nathaniel Moher Guys, we did it. We beat them! We beat the Conservatives! (USA! USA! er . . . I mean . . . CANADA! CANADA!) A little over a year after they were democratically elected (even if none of us voted for them), we’ve finally beat the Conservatives! It’s been a hard year [...]
- Harper’s patronage list: 1111 Conservati ...
By David@Sixthestate.net A new round of additions has been made to the Sixth Estate Patronage List, reflecting appointment orders made in June 2012. The Patronage List tracks Crown appointments given to apparent Conservative Party insiders, former politicians, and donors. So far this year, 42% o ...
- Hatoyama might back no-confidence motion again ...
Former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama hinted Saturday that he might back a possible no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's government, increasing the chances of the ruling coalition being ousted and forced to call a snap election. Hatoyama, whose membership in the ruling D ...
- Attitudes hardening toward the welfare state
Last March, the number of individuals receiving seikatsu hogo (financial assistance from the government) exceeded 2.1 million people, the first time the record had been surpassed since 1951. Payouts this year are likely to exceed ¥3.7 trillion. Based on the 2007 figures, Japan's ratio of ...
- The brief life of Kaneko Misuzu; "Yumin Super ...
Right after the Great East Japan Earthquake, the only commercials on TV were from the non-profit Ad Council. One of them featured a touching children's poem by Misuzu Kaneko (1903-1930) about the primacy of sibling relationships. The poet's brief life is dramatized in "Kaneko Misuzu Monogatari ...
- Free agent Allen to sign with Heat
Ray Allen told the Miami Heat on Friday night that he intends to accept their contract offer and leave Boston after five seasons despite having to take a significant pay cut. The Celtics could pay him about twice as much as the reigning NBA champions will be able to next season. Miami could on ...
- Wie one back at U.S. Women's Open
Even as she climbed into the lead in the second round of the U.S. Women's Open on Friday, Suzann Pettersen took some time to admire Michelle Wie's big move into contention. Pettersen, the Norwegian star ranked sixth in the world, shot a 4-under 68 at Blackwolf Run on Friday and moved to 5 und ...
- 800,000 Years
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) held its 35th session recently in Geneva, on the northern shore of Lac Leman. Across the water from the UN quadrant where the IPCC’s decision-making body met lies Mont Blanc. At 4800 metres Mont Blanc is the highest peak in the Alps. Like near ...
- Union Density and Unemployment
A major part of Hudak and the right wing’s argument for “right to work” laws is that weaker unions will bring more jobs. In fact, despite some evidence of a shift of manufacturing investment and production to lower wage/anti union jurisdictions (as in the Caterpillar case) , th ...
- More Canadians Give Up Looking for Work
Canada’s labour market stagnated again in June. Employment edged up by only 7,000 as the working-age population grew by 30,000. In response to this job shortage, 17,000 Canadians dropped out of the labour force. Canada’s economy is not generating nearly enough jobs to keep pace with the number o ...
- Equalization: is Québec committing a hold-up?
Is it normal that Albertans pay the much too generous social programmes to which the people of Québec are treating themselves through equalization, especially when they are being patronized regarding the environment by people that refuse to exploit their own gas and oil resources? That would sum ...
- Keen on Economics and Canadian Debt
I was fortunate enough to be able to attend Steven Keen’s talk “Canada’s Debt Bubble” on June 28th , 2012 (recorded in full here) The session was jointly sponsored by the new Ontario office of the CCPA, the Progressive Economics Forum and Ryerson University…and what a talk it was!! I immediate ...
- Poisoning Arafat: Ariel Sharon and the Jewish ...
Uri Avnery recalls Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's journey from national liberation fighter to peace warrior and argues that Arafat's quest for peace, which if successful would have posed a mortal danger to the Jewish settlements, is what led the Israelis to poison him.
- The voting dilemma facing Americans in the pre ...
Lawrence Davidson considers the hard choices facing American voters as they ponder who to cast their ballot in the upcoming presidential elections, and offers some guidelines on how potential but wavering voters might make up their minds.
- Palestinians, beware false friends
Stuart Littlewood assesses whether UK Labour leader Ed Miliband is worthy of the praise heaped upon him by the Palestinian Authority's UK representative, Manuel Hassassian, and urges Palestinians to beware of false "friends", such as the Miliband brothers and other Labour leaders, who are uncond ...
- Migrant nightmares: Ethiopian domestic workers ...
Graham Peebles charts the horrendous abuse faced by Ethiopian migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states and Lebanon where they are traded by unscrupulous traffickers - "not brokers/agents in any recognizable, legitimate sense of the word, but common criminals engaged in human trafficking ...
- An artist’s vision of peace in Palestine
Neve Gordon considers how an artist's work can evoke the possibility and the necessity of imagining a different reality in a war zone.
- Graphene offers clear window on liquids
BBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...
- Rival teams shared in Nobel celebration
Science: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
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Talking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
- Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sector
Earth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
- Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...
Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...
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- Let civic agency manage Delhi’s water supply
“At a time when the national capital is reeling under a water crisis, mayor of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation Meera Aggarwal Friday said the civic agency should be given back its task of managing water supply in the city. “The Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled corporation strongly ...
- US Drought Monitor shows record-breaking expan ...
“More of the United States is in moderate drought or worse than at any other time in the 12-year history of the U.S. Drought Monitor, officials from the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln said today. Analysis of the latest drought monitor data revealed ...
- China declares Three Gorges hydro project complete
“The construction of the world’s biggest hydropower plant began in 1994 and its first generating unit was connected to the grid in July 2003. Official news agency Xinhua said it has already generated a total of 564.8 billion kilowatt-hours, saving nearly 200 million tonnes of coal a ...
- Laos’ work on the Mekong river draws cri ...
“In a dusty gorge deep in landlocked Laos, work is underway on a project that could change South-East Asia forever. Despite the protests of countries downstream and the warnings of scientists, a construction company has begun building the first dam across the lower reaches of one of the wo ...
- $11 billion Calif. water bond yanked from ballot
“A massive $11 billion bond intended to pay for what lawmakers in 2009 said was a crucial upgrade of California’s water infrastructure has been pulled from the November ballot and delayed until 2014. “The Legislature voted for the postponement Thursday, the second time lawmaker ...
- Solidarity With Hungry Workers
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released a video continuing his support of postal workers across the country who are demanding Congress amend a 2006 mandate to prefund pension benefits for workers to the tune of $5.5 billion per year. On Monday, Congressman Kucinich hosted ten postal wo ...
- Kucinich: I Agree with Jimmy Carter
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released a video calling attention to an OpEd in The New York Times by former President Jimmy Carter titled, “Cruel and Unusual Record.” In the video Kucinich states, “I agree with President Carter when he says America’s violations of international human ...
- ICYMI: Pakistani Objection to U.S. Drones puts ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 29, 2012) – Please find below an interview and an article recently published by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a non-profit organization funded by the Potter Foundation, and dedicated to raising the standard of journalism through high quality investigative reporti ...
- Kucinich Announces Academy Appointments
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) announced today that four students from the 10th Congressional District nominated to military academies have been offered and have accepted appointments for the class of 2016. The following students will join military academies in the 2012-2013 academic year: ...
- The Fed “Twists” Again. Like it Did Last Summe ...
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after the Federal Reserve announced it would commit $267 billion to continue Operation Twist, a program to keep long-term interest rates low. The program was named after the 1960’s song by Chubby Checker, a popular song du ...
- The Truth about Richard Muller
"I was never a skeptic" - Richard Muller, 2011 Richard Muller has never been a skeptic, at best he had a moment of intellectual honesty towards skeptics when he acknowledged Steve McIntyre's debunking of Mann's Hockey Stick, only to later dismiss this as irrelevant to the global warming debate ...
- The Truth about Judith Curry
Judith Curry is not a skeptic but a hurricane alarmist who had an alleged epiphany after Climategate and now seeks to be some sort of arbiter of scientific integrity. Her history of trust building includes accusing world leading hurricane expert, Dr. William Gray of "brain fossilization" and t ...
- The Truth about Skeptical Science
Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
- Mastering the Firefox Search Bar
As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...
- The Truth about SourceWatch
SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...
- In pictures: Rainforests to palm oil
In late May I had the opportunity to fly from Kota Kinabalu in Malaysian Borneo to Imbak Canyon and back. These are some of my photos. Historically Borneo was covered by a range of habitats, including dense tropical rainforests, swampy peatlands, and natural grasslands. But its lowland forests h ...
- Saving Indonesia's monkey with a heart-shaped ...
North Sulawesi is one of the world's most beautiful places. Verdant forests and stunning coral reefs, combined with high levels of species endemism, make it a top biodiversity hotspot. But pressure on the region's natural resources is mounting. Mining projects, conversion of forests for plantati ...
- The rarest rhino's last stand
Trekking through deep mud and sawgrass we find a stinking wallow. The elite rangers, dressed completely in black despite the tropical heat, mark the site with the GPS unit, measure the mucky puddle's depth, and move on. This is the first sign of one of the planet's rarest animals—the Javan ...
- Indonesia revises moratorium map; makes contes ...
Indonesia is making 'encouraging' progress on its push to reduce deforestation by improving governance over its forests and peatlands, but still needs to do more to enforce environmental laws, said the head of the country's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) task force ...
- Forest and environmental news in Indonesian
Mongabay.com is pleased to announce the launch of Mongabay-Indonesia (mongabay.co.id), an environmental news web site published in Indonesian. The site was officially unveiled Saturday, May 19 at an event in Jakarta.
- FTCLDF: Big hearts for small farms
From Kimberly Hartke on her “Hartke is Online” blog: “This week, The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund is celebrating its 5th Anniversary. Tomorrow, Geoffrey and Sally Morell will host a lovely ‘Birthday” party for the Fund at their P.A. Bowen Farmstead, … Continue read ...
- WTO vs Country of Origin Labeling
From Rebekah Wilce, on PR Watch: “The World Trade Organization (WTO) issued a final ruling today against the U.S.country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law. This popular pro-consumer policy, which informs shoppers where meat and other foods were raised or grown, enjoys the support of 93% of  ...
- More debate over supply management
From Peter O’Neil in the National Post: “OTTAWA — Farms in the heavily protected dairy, poultry and egg sectors, concentrated primarily in Central Canada, are far more likely than those in other sectors to be high-priced operations owned by corporations, according to … Continue readi ...
- Bureaucrat is moved to a new post
So why is that newsworthy you might wonder. Well, his new post is with the “Normal Farm Practices Protection Board”. Never knew there was such a thing? Join the club. Obviously someone has to be standing on guard for normal … Continue reading →
- Traditional raw foods under fire; Michael Schm ...
From Karen Selick on the CCF’s Justice Report blog: Re: Kibbeh Ban (Common Sense, Please) – 5 July 2012 – Here’s a good editorial from the Windsor Star denouncing the local health unit’s ban on a Lebanese dish called “kibbeh”, made with … Continue reading →
- Steve Keen Goes Off the Deep End With a "Debt ...
Inquiring minds are watching Australian economist Steve Keen correctly debunk Paul Krugman in an interview with Lauren Lyster on Capital Account. Unfortunately, Keen's solution to the debt crisis leaves a lot to be desired. Position of Keen "Debt does not just matter at zero-bo ...
- Merkel's Magic Hat Running Out of Rabbits; 54% ...
A pair of articles translated from German and Spanish further highlights the pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to not give into to further demands by Spain, Italy, and France. 160 German Economists Denounce Summit Results The San Francisco Gate reports German Economists Denou ...
- Trends in Civilian Population, Labor Force, Em ...
Here is an interesting chart from Tim Wallace on Civilian Population, Labor Force, Employed. The chart compares June of 2012, to June in previous years. click on chart for sharper image Population keeps growing but labor force does not. This is mostly due to the weak economy no ...
- Hollande and Merkel Want a "Super Mr. Euro" Po ...
Eurozone announcements are often as amusing as attempts to herd cats on horseback. Today is no different. Via Google translate please consider Hollande and Merkel Want a "Super Mr. Euro" The ever-present Jean-Claude Juncker will probably continue for some months at the head of the Euro ...
- Finland Threatens to Leave Euro Rather Than Pa ...
The Independent reports Finland warns of euro exit rather than pay debts of others FINLAND would consider leaving the eurozone rather than paying the debts of other countries in the currency bloc, Finnish Finance Minister Jutta Urpilainen has said. In a newspaper interview today she s ...
- Is Obama a Fraud?
The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008. And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
- Today’s Stories
Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
- The Tyranny of American Healthcare
For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations? Let me give … Continue reading →
- Today’s Stories
Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
- Today’s Stories
Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
- The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
- Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
- Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
- Presentation to the National Economists Club
Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
- Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...
- timelightbox:Feb. 6, 2012. A Syrian man hugs ...
timelightbox: Feb. 6, 2012. A Syrian man hugs his seriously wounded brother in a house used as a hospital in Bab Amr, a southern neighborhood of Homs. Syria is no longer sliding into war or staring at the abyss of warfare. Syria is at war. On assignment for TIME this week, photographer Alessio ...
- nickturse:On International Women’s Day, it s ...
nickturse: On International Women’s Day, it seems fitting to suggest an article by a woman who has spent most of her life writing about women — most especially the women societies often ignore, those battered in their homes and battered by the wars men make. At TomDispatch today, writer, phot ...
- globalpost:BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. — The air is ...
globalpost: BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. — The air is pierced by the whine of incoming artillery, followed every few seconds by explosions. Groggily, I think about getting up and taking cover, but then I realize I am no longer in Kabul, Afghanistan. What is going on outside my door is no Taliban attack ...
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Interview with Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse | History News Network: So who is the drone lobby,...
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NEW YORK, NY - MAY 14: Flowers stand in front of a Chase sign at a bank branch inside the JPMorgan Chase headquarters on May 14, 2012 in New York City. Following a $2 billion trading blunder, JPMorgan Chase's chief investment officer Ina Drew retired and will be succeeded by Matt Zames, an executive from JPMorgan's investment bank. At least two others are also being held accountable for the mistake. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
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