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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

1 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Unfriend Coal: Greenpeace praises Facebook's renewable energy efforts
CNET
Facebook's energy sources was 23 percent clean and renewable, 27 percent coal, 17 percent natural gas, and 13 percent nuclear. Twenty percent of its sources is considered uncategorized because it was utilities purchased on the spot and can include any ...
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Renewable Energy Group to Report Second Quarter Financial Results on ...
MarketWatch (press release)
AMES, Iowa, Aug 01, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Renewable Energy Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:REGI) today announced that it will release financial results for the second quarter results after the market close on Tuesday, August 14, 2012. An investor conference ...
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POWER-GEN Asia & Renewable Energy World Asia announce Preliminary ...
MarketWatch (press release)
POWER-GEN Asia and Renewable Energy World Asia launches its conference with a big debate, guaranteed to highlight the key challenges facing the power industry in Asia and the significant opportunities that the fast growing economies of the region offer.
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NREL Study shows renewable energy potential in every state.
ThomasNet Industrial News Room
August 1, 2012 - Produced by NREL, U.S. RE Technical Potential looks at available renewable resources in each state and establishes upper-boundary estimate of development potential. Report compares estimates across 6 renewable energy technologies ...
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US Ecology Announces Record Second Quarter 2012 Results
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"The addition of US Ecology Michigan increases our service offering and capabilities in key industrial markets while allowing us to leverage our North American sales force and our Stablex facility in Quebec," stated Baumgardner. "We are excited to have ...
U.S. Ecology earnings rise
Idaho Business Review
U.S. Ecology Inc. on July 31 reported second quarter net income of $6.4 million, or 35 cents per diluted share, up 36 percent from $4.7 million, or 26 percent per share, a year earlier. Revenue was $40 million, up 1.26 percent. Analysts expected the ...
Roots and microbes: Bringing a complex underground ecology into the lab
Phys.Org
"What we have accomplished is the necessary descriptive phase to build a new experimental platform, that combines the best of community ecology with the best of reductionist molecular genetics," Dangl says. "This huge challenge was made easier by JGI's ...
US Ecology's Upcoming Earnings: What You Need to Know
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US Ecology is expected to report Q2 earnings on July 31. Here's what Wall Street wants to see: The 10-second takeaway. Comparing the upcoming quarter to the prior-year quarter, average analyst estimates predict US Ecology's revenue will shrink 4.0% and ...
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Water polo: Serbia, US on top as Hungary lose
Chicago Tribune
LONDON (Reuters) - Serbia and the United States ended day two of the men's Olympic water polo tournament joint top of their group as defending champions Hungary lagged behind after a shock second defeat on Tuesday. Hungary, the most successful ...
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US judge strikes down EPA water rules for mines
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its powers by setting up water-quality criteria for coal mining operations in Appalachia, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Only on NBCNews.com. Updated 119 minutes ago 8/1/2012 ...
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Too much bottled water might harm kids' teeth
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But, some experts say it may contribute to diminished dental health. While most bottled water manufacturers declare that their products are 100 percent "pure," "clean" or "natural," few brands contain one ingredient that most Americans take for granted ...
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House Approves Bill to Help Sick Families of NC Military Base Water ...
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Five weeks after "Nightline" reported on the decades-long attempt to secure health benefits for Marines and their families sickened by contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune, residents are finally getting the help they need, 30 years later. The ...
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  • The Upside of Default
    The total paper value of the world’s financial wealth is $1 quadrillion, of which the fraction directed into the productive economy in one year amounts to around a third of one per cent. Usury is only viable in an expanding economy, and as the global economy enters its post-peak oil decline, th ...
  • Saudi Silence on Bandar's Fate
    Disquiet in Washington, Jerusalem and a row of Middle East capitals is gaining ground the longer the Saudi government stays silent on the reports of the assassination of the newly-appointed Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan, purportedly in a revenge operation by a Syrian intellig ...
  • Why Britain doesn't love the Olympics
    The Britain that won the Olympic bid in 2005 was very different from the Britain of today. That Britain had experienced several years of sustained growth, with low unemployment and practically nonexistent inflation. Britain was booming and London was swinging. The Olympics offered the chance to ...
  • Mormons quit church in mass resignation ceremony
    A group of about 150 Mormons quit their church in a mass resignation ceremony in Salt Lake City on Saturday in a rare display of defiance ending decades of disagreement for some over issues ranging from polygamy to gay marriage. Participants from Utah, Arizona, Idaho and elsewhere gathered in ...
  • Aleppo residents give rebels mixed reviews
    The rebels seem to have their hands full trying to run the parts of the city they control. Gunmen now patrol traffic, smiling at cab drivers who wave and joke with them: "How do you like playing government?" ... One man shakes his head as he watches the scene. "We don't even know these fi ...

Independent - London

  • Assad urges his army to step up fight in Syria
    Syrian President Bashar Assad urged his armed forces today to step up the fight against rebels as the UN reported a significant escalation in the civil war with the military using warplanes to fire on opposition fighters in the battle for Aleppo.Related StoriesI was duped into writing Asma al-As ...
  • Computer-generated image of Israeli attack bus ...
    A computer-generated image of the suicide attacker who killed five Israeli tourists and a bus driver in Bulgaria has been released by police. Related StoriesPussy Riot trio defiant as 'hooliganism' trial beginsAnti-Putin activist charged and banned from leaving RussiaArafat's widow asks French ...
  • Assad speech aims to rally Syria troops
    Syrian President Bashar Assad has made a rare public statement urging his armed forces to step up the fight against rebels as the uprising agaisnt him continues to rage. Related StoriesI was duped into writing Asma al-Assad profile, says Vogue writer Joan Juliet BuckForeign fighters join Syria b ...
  • UN wants Syria civilians safe zone
    The lack of a United Nations Security Council resolution to establish a safe zone in Syria is hampering efforts to help civilians caught up in fighting in the Middle Eastern state, UN relief co-ordinator Baroness Amos said today. Related StoriesI was duped into writing Asma al-Assad profile, say ...
  • Do not watch Olympic Games at work - it will c ...
    The senior technology officer for Los Angeles is pleading with city workers to stop watching the Olympics online at work, saying it could cause a municipal computer meltdown. Related StoriesTwitter refuse to speak to The Independent's Guy Adams after suspending his account following his criticis ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

  • Safety haven
    If Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
  • Small tools, big impact
    Cancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...
  • Innovative, naturally
    For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
  • A very gourd idea
    It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
  • Johne’s happens
    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...

Signs of the times

  • The Startling Accuracy of Referring to Politic ...
    The characteristics that define clinical psychopathy are many of the same that make effective leaders. In this presidential election season where, as usual, the fur is flying and name-calling is in full swing, one invective seems to be gaining currency -- psychopath. A web search for "Romney" ...
  • When We Forget to Remember - Failures in Pro ...
    A surgical team closes an abdominal incision, successfully completing a difficult operation. Weeks later, the patient comes into the ER complaining of abdominal pain and an X-ray reveals that one of the forceps used in the operation was left inside the patient. Why would highly skilled professio ...
  • Meteorite craters in Australia
    Australia bears the scars of more than 30 major asteroid impacts, of the 176 worldwide. Exploring his vast cattlestation in 1899, Walter Parke came upon a feature in the landscape he could not explain. A 15m-deep, bowl-shaped depression, larger than a football field, had been gouged out of the ...
  • Writer Gore Vidal, 86, has died
    Gore Vidal, the iconoclastic writer, savvy analyst and imperious gadfly on the national conscience, has died. He was 86. Vidal died Tuesday at his home in the Hollywood Hills of complications of pneumonia, said nephew Burr Steers. Vidal was a literary juggernaut who wrote 25 novels, including ...
  • US Drone Pilot: 'I Feel No Emotional Attachment'
    Intimate look at Afghan family life from above does impact execution of 'duty,' say US drone pilots In a profile piece in the New York Times on Monday, interviews with military operators of US drones operating in the skies over Afghanistan and Pakistan reveal a class of pilots who remotely cont ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • RCMP and social change
    I sometimes have a quick and frustrated reaction for why victims of abuse, women in the latest case, might continue to endure it rather than rock the boat and assert themselves, even in numbers. But then I read things like this, and I think I understand a bit about why. The statement denies ...
  • Big Game in Africa . . .
    FABIUS MAXIMUS and The Tom's Dispatch gang can get a little hysterical, but it's a look at what Uncle Sugar thinks is necessary to be attended to in Africa, and is worthy of your attention.  Is it possible that the U.S. military is present in more countries and more places now than at ...
  • Size matters . . .
    BUNKER-BUSTERS: big, designed to take out hardened targets. First designed by Barnes Wallis, the 22,000lb Grand Slam proved to be just the thing to take out Hitler's U-boat pens, the Tirpitz, and various viaducts. — the MOP — With the advent of various clandestine WMD projects by c ...
  • The slippery slope . . .
    A NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY means different things to different people. To Stevie and the gang from Alberta, it means "give us what we want"; to others, it means optimum sustainability and concern for the environment. Alison Redford: a Black Hat? Licia Corbella, at The Calgary Herald ...
  • Something to watch...
    This could get interesting. Chris Roussakis says he was supposed to be in London as the official photographer for Canada's Olympic team, but he was told in June the job was no longer his. The photographer who is now working with the team is a member of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's ...

Media Matters for America

  • FRISKING THE TRUTH: New York Post Hus ...
    Over the past few months, the New York Post editorial page has defended the New York Police Department's controversial stop-and-frisk policy with myths and imbalanced coverage.What Is Stop-And-Frisk? New York Times: "Stop And Frisk" Is A Police Strategy To "Reduce Crime ...
  • Conservatives Still Trying To Dispute Global T ...
    Conservative media are attempting to use a new paper by climate contrarian Anthony Watts to question the reliability of global temperature records. But the paper, which has not been peer-reviewed, only addresses surface temperature records in the continental U.S., which have been confirmed by s ...
  • Fox Hiding Half The Story On Automatic Spendin ...
    Fox News is telling a one-sided story focused exclusively on cuts to defense spending that were included in a 2011 budget deal. What Fox is not telling its viewers is that the deal also included cuts to critical services for vulnerable Americans and reductions in important medical&nbs ...
  • Local News Outlets Help Push Bogus "Bu ...
    Local news outlets have helped push the dishonest narrative that President Obama's "you didn't build that" comments were an attack on small business owners while promoting Mitt Romney's resulting "We Did Build This" events. Local outlets also repeatedly failed to play the crucial missing contex ...
  • "Damage Control"? Fox Still Pushing Its Discre ...
    Fox News is characterizing President Obama's response to the Fox-manufactured "you didn't build that" controversy as "damage control." This comes after Fox promoted its deceptively edited clip for days -- and after independent fact-checkers have discredited attacks on Obama based on the decepti ...

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TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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  • ERCOT prepares for first summer heat wave of 2012
    With the passing of the Summer solstice and temperatures expected to hit triple digits several days next week in the Lone Star State, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the electric grid operator for most of the state, is looking closely at anticipated electric use and available ...
  • NOAA Report – Global warming has made 2011 Tex ...
    According to a story on MSNBC, scientists can’t blame any single weather event on global warming, but they now believe they can assess how climate change has altered the odds of such events happening,   Click here to read the AP story, Global warming tied to risk of weather extremes.  Clic ...
  • We are now in energy emergency season as a hea ...
    The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT), system operator for the state’s bulk transmission grid, is asking consumers and businesses to reduce their electricity use during peak electricity hours from 3 to 7 p.m. today. Consumers can help by shutting off unnecessary lights and elec ...
  • KEFFER LISTENS INTENTLY TO TAR SANDS CONCERNS: ...
    The following story on testimony provided to the Texas House Energy Resources Committee about the threat the proposed Tar Sands pipeline poses for the state was reprinted with the permission of the Texas Energy Report. House Energy Resources Committee Chairman Jim Keffer on Tuesday promised envi ...
  • WCS – A potential bailout without any authoriz ...
    We’ve recently realized that TCEQ allowed stock from Waste Control Specialists (WCS) sister company, Titanium Metals Corp to be put up as the financial assurance for their radioactive waste dump and that stock isn’t performing well right now. So we want to know, where does that leave ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • 'UFO' sighted over Olympics opening
    Sightings of a disc-shaped object hovering over the Olympic stadium have been circulating the internet. Nick Pope predicted just weeks before the Olym...
  • Genetic evidence of human 'sister' species?
    Researchers believe they have uncovered DNA evidence of an unknown sister species of human. The discovery was made by scientists analyzing the DNA of ...
  • Ice avalanches found on Iapetus
    Huge and destructive landslides have been discovered on Iapetus, one of the moons of Saturn. These huge landslides can travel far further than similar...
  • Apollo Moon flags still standing
    New images from the Lunar Reconaissance Orbiter show the Apollo landing site flags still standing. Experts have analyzed photographs taken by NASA's o...
  • The leaning Colosseum of Rome ?
    The world famous Colosseum in Rome could be going the same way as the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The ancient gladiator arena appears to be slanting about ...

Grassroots

Climate

  • Russia Battles Siberia Wildfires: Greenpeace
    (AFP) Several regions in Siberia are battling massive wildfires that have left cities shrouded in smog after a heatwave, an environmental group said on Monday. "More and more burns every year," said the head of the forest programme at ...
  • India Blackouts Leave 700 Million Without Power
    (Guardian) More than 700 million people in India have been left without power in the world's worst blackout of recent times, leading to fears that protests and even riots could follow if the country's electricity supply continues to fa ...
  • Solar Startups Innovate Around Financing Models
    (GigaOM) Buying and selling renewable energy credits has helped to build New Jersey into a major solar state. That has enticed a San Francisco startup to start offering a credit trading service, which it launched on Tuesday, to help in ...
  • Fracking Boom Lifts Hopes for Geothermal Proje ...
    (Greenwire) No matter what it may sound like, Susan Petty insists she's not trying to frack a volcano. Petty, the founder and president of the Seattle startup AltaRock Energy Inc., says she is just trying to do for geothermal energy w ...
  • Study: West's Forests Could See 100-Year Drought
    (MSNBC) Western forests could be facing a 100-year drought, turning to scrubland by the end of the century – and taking their ability to soak up carbon with them, according to a new study. The new research, published in Nature Geoscie ...

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Duly Noted

  • Are African governments suppressing art?
    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
    Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.
  • NFL Superbowl live blog – New England Pa ...
    Join our Superbowl liveblog where will you bring you all the latest from one of the biggest sporting events on the planet.
  • Winning the battle, losing the war; the US and ...
    After the NATO airstrikes, the political discourse within Pakistan is narrowing as religious nationalism gains ground

Booman Tribune

  • Can We Retake the House?
    I see that Roll Call currently believes that the Democrats will pick up about eight seats in the House of Representatives, which is far short of the twenty-five they need to retake the House. I have not done my independent race-by-race analysis for this cycle yet, but my instincts tell me that ...
  • The Con-Game is Exposed
    I got the following over at Benen's place: President Obama will be in Mansfield, Ohio, today, and according to remarks prepared for delivery, he's going to take full advantage of the new revelations: "[T]he centerpiece of my opponent's entire economic plan is a new, $5 trillion tax cut. ...
  • The Real GOP Record
    George W. Bush came into office and immediately gave everyone who pays income taxes a tax break. For some people on the lower end of the pay-scale, this amounted to a few hundred extra bucks a year. For people on the high end of the pay-scale, however, this amounted to few extra hundred thousa ...
  • Harry Reid Stirs the Pot
    Harry Reid is stirring up some serious shit with his assertion that he received a phone call from a Bain Capital investor who told him that Mitt Romney didn't pay any income taxes for ten years. Yet, personally, I prefer his quote about how his internal polling shows that he is in good shape to ...
  • Wanker of the Day: Drew Westen
    I'm tired of Drew Westen's act. He's little more than a professional nitpicker. And he's not a good nitpicker. In attempting to explain how President Obama might conceivably lose his bid for reelection, Westen lists three main causes. First, he tried to work with Republicans. Second the stim ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Grisly Mummies of Palermo's Catacombs
    Sicily might be better known for its associations with the Mafia, but its Catacombe dei Cappuccini, the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, may prove equally scary for some. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • When Rainbows Embrace Metropolises
    Beloved by little girls and photographers alike, there is really no natural phenomenon that can make you smile like a beautiful rainbow. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Shard London Bridge: The European Union's ...
    Thanks to its global outlook and political stability, London has a new addition to an already iconic skyline. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Attack on Pearl Harbor in Pictures
    The infamous attack on Pearl Harbor will forever be remembered for its casualties, as well as for its role in bringing the US fully into WWII This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Dizzying Perspectives from the Top of New York ...
    Here's a different way to look at the New York skyline – from its rooftops. It certainly gives you a new perspective on the city – if you don't get too dizzy, that is! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

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  • #FreeHammond - 23 July 2012 statement from acc ...
    Worth throwing up there as an example of how to keep perspective when they try to throw the book at you. Things like this crystallize the hypocrisy of conspiracy charges, cyber-fear-blather, terrorism and of course the laundering of drug money through the banking system. Till the walls tumble, J ...
  • The Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies - for ...
    Reposting this as it's a much more handy summary than I could give. Neato! I think we're seeing this get more and more privatized as well -- I have a couple flagrant sockpuppets I know and love, they are like a handy little COINTELPRO weathervane. When talking Information Operations (not to ment ...
  • Crib notes & URLs for today's discussion on Al ...
    All right I gotta be a bit raw in the formatting here... Just had a good talk for an hour with Alex Jones on the afternoon radio show. Also some good news, Zuccotti Park is reoccupied today - see http://globalrevolution.tv for live feed mixes! //// UPDATE 8PM: I forgot COINTELPRO GOTHIC 1 & ...
  • Found older manual on Civil Disturbance Operat ...
    Fortunately the MP manual which I wrote a post on last Thursday night has been circulating & spurred a lot of discussion on domestic military operations. I will be going on the Alex Jones Show at 1PM tomorrow (Central) to discuss this and other trends in domestic militarization. Please tune ...
  • "Warning shot will not be fired" by MPs traine ...
    b. Use of Deadly and Non-deadly Force (4) (b) Warning shot will not be fired. or better yet: (3) In an occupied building, when the dissident's/sniper's location is unknown, all suspected rooms must be searched. The action element should try to have occupants submit voluntarily to the search of ...

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  • Opposition fighters leave Syrian Free Army to ...
    Few outside Syria’s pro-government Alawite and Christian communities share the regime’s claim that it is fighting a war against Islamist terrorists. Clearly, the core membership of the Free Syrian Army consists of rebels whose grievances against the brutal rule of Bashar al-Assad are primarily e ...
  • US-based Russian illegals ‘groomed child ...
    A group of Russian non-official-cover operatives, who were arrested in the United States by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2010, were grooming some of their children to become spies, according to insider accounts.
  • News you may have missed #771
    Ex FBI official says foreign spies biggest online threat. Taiwanese officials jailed for espionage. Germany charges suspected Syrian spy.
  • News you may have missed #770
    Kaspersky Lab is ‘thwarting US cyber spies’. Al-Shabaab executes alleged CIA and MI6 assets. Australian intelligence briefed on Canadian spy.
  • CIA sees Israel as ‘genuine counterintelligenc ...
    The Near East Division of the Central Intelligence Agency, America’s primary intelligence organization, views Israel as the most serious threat to its secrets, according to an exposé published yesterday by the Associated Press. Citing interviews with at least five current and former US intellige ...

War is a Crime.org

  • TWILIGHT OF THE BOMB
    By Jay Kvale (Speech prepared for Hiroshima Commemoration ceremony at Lake Harriet Peace Garden in Minneapolis on Monday, August 6th, 2012.)                         Sixty-seven years ago ...
  • Gore Vidal and the Impeachment of George W. Bush
    By Gore Vidal Listen to the author read this essay from Truthdig. On June 9, 2008, a counterrevolution began on the floor of the House of Representatives against the gas and oil crooks who had seized control of the federal government. This counterrevolution began in the exact place which had sl ...
  • Washington's Aleppo Strategy Failed
      Washington's Aleppo Strategy Failed   by Stephen Lendman   Since WW II, America lost every war it waged. Its only success was destroying nations and murdering millions.    Imagine that legacy for current and future historians to address. Imagine how few will do it ...
  • Capitalism Failed
      Capitalism Failed   by Stephen Lendman   Economic/financial systems dependent on wars and predation eventually self-destruct. Western capitalism is no exception.   read more
  • Harry Truman and Memory of Mass Murder
    Harry Truman spoke in the U.S. Senate on June 23, 1941: "If we see that Germany is winning," he said, "we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible." Did Truman value Japanese lives above Russian and German?  Ther ...

Grist - News

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

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  • Syria reportedly eliminated Bandar bin Sultan ...
    Though not yet announced by the Saudi authorities, the death of Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has been confirmed to Voltaire Network by unofficial souces. Prince Bandar had just been appointed head of Saudi intelligence on July 24: a promotion which was interpreted as a reward f ...
  • New study shows half of the global warming in ...
    A reanalysis of U.S. surface station temperatures has been performed using the recently WMO-approved Siting Classification System devised by METEO-France’s Michel Leroy. The new siting classification more accurately characterizes the quality of the location in terms of monitoring long-term spati ...
  • US squanders $200m on ‘useless’ Iraq police pr ...
    The US spent over $200m on a police training program in Iraq – the largest in the world – that was never approved by authorities, according to a govt audit. Iraq’s Interior Ministry reportedly branded the initiative “useless” and “unnecessary.” The report, published on Monday by the Special Insp ...
  • Batman Massacre: WHY and HOW and WHO
    By Grace Powers THE MOTIVES Robert Holmes, the shooting suspect’s father, is a senior lead scientist with FICO, the American credit score company. He was scheduled to testify in the next few weeks before a US Senate panel that is investigating the largest bank fraud scandal in world histor ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Prefab Infiniski Menta House Features Steel Sh ...
    Read the rest of Prefab Infiniski Menta House Features Steel Shutters Shaped Like Mint Leaves in Spain Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Corten steel, eco design, green design, Infiniski, Joseph & Mau, Menta House, natural ventilation, passive design, Prefab, Spain, ...
  • Employees Grow Herbs and Veggies at Google’s N ...
    Read the rest of Employees Grow Herbs and Veggies at Google’s New Super-headquarters in London Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags:
  • Pedal-Powered GiraDora Washer Needs No Electri ...
    In developing countries that lack electricity or the funds to buy expensive machines, taking care of laundry the old-fashioned way requires an enormous amount of time and effort.  That’s why Alex Cabunoc and Ji A You created the GiraDora – a combination washer and spin-dryer that is ...
  • Gigantic Energy-Generating Waterfall Skyscrape ...
    Read the rest of Gigantic Energy-Generating Waterfall Skyscraper Could Power the 2016 Rio Olympics Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "solar energy", 2016 Olympics, 2016 rio olympics, eco design, eco skyscraper, green design, pumped water storate, pv, RAFAA, renewable ene ...
  • Giant Glowing LED Buckyball Coming to Madison ...
    If you’re in New York this fall, keep your eyes peeled for artist Leo Villareal’s glowing, 30-foot tall “Buckyball” sculpture made of 180 LED tubes. Villareal will be bringing his luminous creation to NYC later this year to light up Madison Square Park, so mark your calen ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • The Secret of Shrimp-Tailed Ice
    In 2009, glaciologist Evgeny Podolskiy stumbled on something he'd never seen: soft, feathery fronds of frost called shrimp tails. He left the mountain with photographs and a question: What weather conditions produced the strange formations? Now, with the help of a powerful climate model, he and ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day
    Every day, Wired Science selects a new awesome space photo for our collection. Check out the mind-blowing views of galaxies, planets and stars.
  • U.S. Drought and Climate Change: Science Point ...
    The drought that's turned most of the United States into a dessicated hotbox may be a symptom of climate change, a brutal blowback from carbon pollution. Climate scientists, who prefer to speak in terms of probabilities and trends rather than single events, are reluctant to point fingers at any ...
  • Olympics Physics: How Fast Are Breaststrokers ...
    Physics of the Olympics: breaking down a swimmer's speed in the men's 200-meter breaststroke.
  • New Lights to Help ISS Astronauts Stay Alert
    A neuroscientist is working with NASA to develop special lamps that could help restore the circadian rhythm of exhausted astronauts working aboard the International Space Station.

PakAlert

  • The Assault on 2nd Amendment Precursor to Mart ...
    The disinformation mafia at Time magazine says that the phrase “’Guns don’t actually kill people’ is sometimes a refrain from gun rights advocates when they run low on arguments in a policy discussion.” Concerning the false flag staged attack in Aurora, Colorado, the National Rifle Associatio ...
  • FEMA – The Secret Government
    Some people have referred to it as the "secret government" of the United States. It is not an elected body, it does not involve itself in public disclosures, and it even has a quasi-secret budget in the billions of dollars. This government organization has more power than the President of the Un ...
  • This Is What 670 Million People Without Power ...
    First thing today we reported that India just suffered what may have been the biggest blackout in history, after half of the country's population of 1.2 billion, or just under 700 million was without power, as the electric grid of more than a dozen states suffered an epic collapse. Below we shar ...
  • Wag the Dog: Media Publish Photoshop Forgery t ...
    While mainstream press have been hailing the virtues of the alliance between al Qaeda, the Syrian Free Army and the West in opposing Assad in Syria, they’ve also been caught once again “faking the war” to play up sympathy for an all out invasion. Austria’s largest daily paper, Kronen Zeitung, ...
  • Historic Drought, Giant Dust Storms And Massiv ...
    This week has provided two very clear examples of why it is so important to keep on prepping. In the United States, the historic drought ravaging the central part of the country is absolutely devastating our crops. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, drought is affecting nearly 90 ...

Andy Worthington

  • Photos from WOMAD’s 30th Anniversary Fes ...
    WOMAD’s 30th Anniversary Festival, Wiltshire, July 2012 (1/2), a set on Flickr. In the history of British music festivals — and especially those with an appeal that spreads beyond these shores — the behemoth that is Michael Eavis’s Glastonbury, with its roots in the free ...
  • Abd Al-Rahim Al-Nashiri: The Torture Victim th ...
    A millionaire Saudi businessman accused of being the brains behind the terrorist attack on the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen in 2000, in which 17 US soldiers died, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri is also a notorious victim of the torture program initiated by the Bush administration after the 9/11 atta ...
  • I’m Off to WOMAD, Back on Monday: Please ...
    Every year, on the last weekend in July, WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance), the world music festival, takes place in the UK — for the last few years, in Wiltshire, on a wonderful site in Charlton Park — and this year is its 30th anniversary. My wife has been running children&#82 ...
  • The Olympics Minus One Day: Photos from the Fr ...
    The Olympics Minus One Day: Photos from the Frontline in Stratford, a set on Flickr. So the Games are nearly upon us! I won’t be here in London, as I’ll be at the WOMAD festival in Wiltshire; that’s World of Music and Dance, the celebrated world music festival celebrating its 3 ...
  • Real Life in South London: Photos of a Journey ...
    Real Life in South London: A Journey through Nunhead, Peckham, Walworth and Borough, a set on Flickr. Since I began my project, ten weeks ago, to cycle the whole of London by bike, armed only with a camera, I have managed to become quite familiar with the whole of south east London, Canary Wharf ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Gay-Bashing American Family Association Thick ...
    We used to think the $20 million-a-year American Family Association (AFA) acted as crazy as it does mainly because it allowed mostly free rein to its best-known spokesman, the truly nutty Bryan Fischer. Fischer, after all, spends his days raving about how gay people were behind the Holocaust, ho ...
  • White Mississippi Church to Black Couple: You ...
    It’s been more than 50 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously called Sunday morning at 11 “the most segregated hour of Christian America.” Although many congregations have since integrated – or at least no longer actively oppose the idea – some still haven’t gotten the message. Just ask ...
  • Anarchist Pleads Guilty in Terrorist Plot to B ...
    One of five self-proclaimed anarchists has pleaded guilty to three federal “weapons of mass destruction” charges in a conspiracy to blow up a bridge, a Ku Klux Klan gathering spot and a Federal Reserve Bank in Ohio. Anthony M. Hayne, 35, of Cleveland, pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to us ...
  • Police: Intruders Carved Anti-Gay Slurs into N ...
    Editor’s Note: Police subsequently said they had not ruled out the possibility that the attack was staged. Last weekend, three men in masks stormed into a woman’s home in Nebraska, bound her wrists and ankles with zip ties, and carved anti-gay slurs into the woman’s body. The men also pain ...
  • Nebraska Police Not Ruling Out Hoax in Attack ...
    Police investigators in Lincoln, Neb., have not ruled out the possibility that a 33-year-old lesbian allegedly attacked last weekend because of her sexual orientation might have staged the hate crime. But they’re also not ready to call her story, which has ignited interest across the country, a ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Congress to Obama: Show Us Your 'License to Kill'
    In 2011, the Obama administration ordered and executed the assassination of US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki with an airstrike in Yemen. Weeks later, also in Yemen, al-Alwaki's  sixteen year old son, Abdulrahman, was killed in a strike targeting other suspected Al-Qaeda operatives.  Near ...
  • Gore Vidal Dies at 86
    American novelist, playwright, media critic, political historian and pundit Gore Vidal died at his home in Los Angeles on Tuesday following complications with pneumonia. He was 86. A towering figure in both literary and political circles for most of his life, Vidal leaves a legacy seared with ad ...
  • Greenpeace: Oil Companies, Not Us, Are Dangero ...
  • 'When It Rains, It Pours': Global Warming Brin ...
    The impacts of human-caused global warming are being felt across the U.S. as increased and heavier storms -- predicted by climate scientists -- are confirmed in a report released Tuesday. read more
  • Greenpeace Discovers Sensitive Coral at Shell' ...
    Exploration vessels deployed by Greenpeace have discovered several coral species thriving on the ocean floor right where Shell is set to begin drilling in the Chukchi Sea.  Environmental groups have being fighting hard to prevent the oil company from starting its drilling operation, saying ...

Lifehacker

  • Watch Your Desktop Go Up in a Puff of Smoke wi ...
    Smoke isn't so great for your health, but it can be beautiful to watch—or just capture in a photo that you can stick on your desktop. Here are some beautiful examples. More »
  • Frank DeLoupe Puts a System-Wide and Photoshop ...
    OS X: Frank DeLoupe (or Frank, for short) is a handy little app that lives in your Mac's menubar and can grab any color from any pixel on your screen upon request. Just call it up via its global, user-specified hot key, select the color you ...
  • Does It Make Sense to Buy Movies and Music fro ...
    Dear Lifehacker, I just read yesterday that Amazon now offers iTunes-like "cloud matching" for music, and now Amazon's Instant Video is available for iPad. Does this make Amazon a viable option for buying movies and music, no matter what devic ...
  • SigFig Is a Powerful Investment Tracker and Po ...
    SigFig is a new Mint-like service—for tracking your investments. The free webapp analyses your portfolio and delivers personalized recommendations, connects you to financial advisors, and gives you an in-depth look at all aspects of your ...
  • Grab Over 80 Free Ebooks from Microsoft and Le ...
    Microsoft's MSDN blog has released a boatload of free ebooks on a range of technologies and programs, including a power users guide for Windows 7, programming Windows 8 apps and Windows Phone 7, SQL Server tutorials, and much more. More&nb ...

Water Privatization

  • American States Water Announces 27% Increase i ...
    On July 31, 2012, the Board of Directors of American States Water Company approved a $0.075 per share increase in its quarterly cash dividend to $0.355 per share on the Common Shares of the Company.
  • Privatization: Security Risk?
    With the privatization of Oakdale’s waste water treatment plant and other city water services under consideration, opponents warn that one overlooked factor with the cost saving measure may very well be the security of the facility and future compliance to Homeland Security measures and other ma ...
  • No need for water rate hikes, lawmakers say
    MANILA, Philippines - Several lawmakers said they found no legal basis for water concessionaires to justify a series of hikes in water rates imposed on consumers in Metro Manila.
  • Malaysia water "crisis" signals fier ...
    KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The surprise statement came during a rainy spell and when the seven dams in Malaysia's richest, most populous state were full. Reserves of treated water in the opposition-controlled state of Selangor were perilously low, said the water company supplying a population ...
  • City to submit position paper on privatization
    ZAMBOANGA City Mayor Celso Lobregat has expressed reservations on some provisions of the bill that seeks to privatize water districts in the country, as he said that the City Government is currently preparing its position for submission to the bill’s sponsor.

Guardian

  • Hans Kristian Rausing kept wife's body because ...
    Tetra Pak heir given suspended sentence after pleading guilty to charge of preventing Eva Rausing's decent and lawful burialHans Kristian Rausing, an heir to the Tetra Pak packaging fortune, admitted he hid the body of his "beloved" wife Eva for two months in a barricaded bedroom in the upstairs ...
  • London 2012 Olympic Games: 1 August - evening ...
    Two gold medals for Team GB while a sight of Ryan Giggs is just the ticket for the Welsh All of today's action - live blogTHE DAY'S ACTION SO FARPlease note all times are in BST (EDT+5)Rowing: 10.10am at Eton DorneyHelen Glover and Heather Stanning clinched Team GB's first gold of London 2012 - ...
  • Facebook reveals its carbon footprint
    Data shows social networking site's annual emissions are significantly less than those of Google'sFacebook has, for the first time, revealed the carbon footprint of its operations and over 900m users' likes, photo albums and status updates.The data, published on Wednesday, shows that despite the ...
  • Tehran exhibition reveals city's hidden Warhol ...
    Paintings collected with help of Iran's last queen, Farah Pahlavi, and safeguarded in museum basement, on show for first timeIt is the finest collection of modern art anywhere outside Europe and the US, boasting works by Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Edvard Munch, René Magritte an ...
  • Bradley Wiggins wins time trial gold to become ...
    • Wiggins outstrips Tony Martin to seal fourth Olympic gold • Chris Froome secures bronze medal for Great Britain • In pictures: all Wiggins's Olympic medals • Richard Williams: Wiggins rides into history booksWith the yellow jersey swapped for Stella McCartney's blue and red creation, the Bradl ...

McClatchey

  • Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul to speak at Kent ...
    In a sign of the Tea Party movement's growing influence on Republican politics, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is scheduled to speak at a Tea Party rally for what…Click to Continue »
  • Drought dragging down Midwest regional economy ...
    The relentless drought and deteriorating global economic conditions are combining to take a toll on businesses in a nine-state area that includes Kansas and Missouri, increasing concerns about another recession.Click to Continue »
  • Mississippi candidate says mayors blocking Chi ...
    South Mississippi congressional candidate Ron Williams said mayors vowing to block new Chick-fil-A restaurants because the companys president opposes gay marriage need to be introduced to the Second Amendment ASAP.Click to Continue »
  • Badminton players kicked out of Olympics for t ...
    Eight Olympic badminton players have been disqualified from the womens doubles competition for not using ones best efforts to win, a breach of the players code and a tenet of…Click to Continue »
  • Commentary: Chick-Fil-A protest could boomerang
    Let's accept for a moment the thinnnnnnn logic equation that preference for heterosexual marriage equals opposition to gay marriage and opposition to gay marriage equals homophobia, and that cities are…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Suspected Militants Kill 4 Afghans
    The spokesman for the Wardak provincial government says that four civilians have been killed by suspected militants in central Afghanistan. Shahidullah Shahid said the killings happened on July 31 ...
  • 4 Afghan civilians killed by militants in east ...
    Four Afghan civilians were killed by the militants in the eastern province of Wardak, a provincial government spokesman said Wednesday."A total of four civilians were kidnapped by militants ...
  • Taliban happy Pakistan reopened NATO supply line
    As the United States trumpeted its success in persuading Pakistan to end its seven-month blockade of supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan, another group privately cheered its good fortune: the ...
  • Ukrainian Police Release 15 Afghan Hostages in ...
    KIEV, August 1 (RIA Novosti) - Ukrainian police have released 15 Afghans, including six children, who have been taken hostage in the Black Sea city of Odessa, the police press service said on ...
  • Blast kills senior police officer in southern ...
    GHAZNI, Afghanistan, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- A remote-controlled bomb blast claimed the life of a senior police officer in Ghazni city, the capital of Ghazni province, 125 km south of capital city Kabul ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Fourth Circuit says employees can copy data th ...
    Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (in Richmond, Virginia) ruled that employers cannot use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) to make claims against former employees who copied computer files before separating from employment.  This decision agrees with the Nin ...
  • NWC amicus urges Supreme Court to reverse in L ...
    Today, Stephen M. Kohn and I are filing a "friend of the court" brief urging the United States Supreme Court to accept review of, and reverse, the First Circuit's decision in Lawson v. FMR. I wrote here previously about the two-judge majority in the First Circuit had terribly misconstr ...
  • The FBI is Waiting for Special Agent Theresa F ...
    The story of FBI whistleblower Theresa Foley is distasteful and sordid - one too often told when speaking of FBI whistleblowers.  Theresa Foley is no shrinking violet. She came from a law enforcement family and was a DEA support employee before joining the FBI in 2000. In ...
  • British MP Julian Smith visits NWC
    British Member of Parliament Julian Smith (second from left) today visited (from left) Lindsey Williams (Advocacy Director of the National Whistleblowers Center), Estelle Kohn (Deputy Director) and Stephen Kohn (Executive Director). Mr. Smith asked for the meeting to discuss how the United Kingd ...
  • ATF's Orwellian Warning to Whistleblowers
    "There Will Be Consequences" (Uh Oh, Did I Say That Out Loud?) By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash (and former chief compliance and ethics officer at two leading multinationals) In Washington, ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Artists Want The Ability To Buy Back Their Cop ...
    As Universal Music Group (UMG) continues dealing with antitrust questions as it tries to close its purchase of EMI, there's a lot of focus on "divestment," or which parts of the combined entity that would have to be sold off. There's even talk of having to sell off the famed Parlophone Records ...
  • Is This Real? Is This Recall? MPAA Hosts Scree ...
    It's been said that Hollywood is completely out of ideas, and all it does these days is the same thing over and over again. That seems to be the case both on the policy front and with its movies. So how perfect is it that the MPAA's gift-of-the-month to Congress is a showing of the remake of t ...
  • Would You Like To Keep The Government From Spy ...
    We've been talking about the Senate debate over cybersecurity all week, and it appears that it's moving into the endgame process. Last night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called for cloture -- basically the process to end the debate and move to a vote. In doing so, he also set it up such ...
  • Homeland Security Issuing Its Own DMCA Takedow ...
    We recently wrote about the fight over copyright/fair use in political videos. In the comments, someone anonymous pointed us to a YouTube page including a typical takedown notice.. Here's a screenshot. This is actually the first time I can recall that I've seen a takedown that had "mult ...
  • If The Government Needs To Step In To Help You ...
    We recently wrote about a bunch of super successful UK musicians complaining that the UK government needed to force ISPs and startups to make their old business model viable again. We, quite naturally, thought that was a pretty crazy suggestion. In reaction to this post on Twitter, reader bota ...

VacTruth

  • Vaccines: What Your Doctors Know and Don’t Know
    Do you ever wonder what doctors know about the dozens of vaccines they inject into your children? The answer may surprise you.
  • Are There Chemical Markers in the Urine of Aut ...
    A chemist and his team have been working on finding molecular compounds in autistic children’s urine.
  • Vaccines Kill 8 Children; Others Critically Sick
    In the last few months vaccinations have caused the death of eight children and left others critically ill. The most recent death to be reported is a three month old baby girl who died just hours after receiving the 5 in 1 vaccination.
  • Vaccines: How Would You Like the Truth for a C ...
    What’s being crammed down our throats is BS. Plain and simple. Blatant lies, lies, and more lies. Incompetence, negligence, junk science, fraud, a violation of rights, red herrings, cover-ups, and a waste of time and money.
  • U.S. Government & Whistleblowers Sue Merck Abo ...
    Why didn’t the media and press report the 2010 complaint filed against Merck’s fraudulent mumps vaccine? Isn’t it about time the U.S. healthcare consumer found out that it apparently cannot trust the CDC or FDA or Big Pharma when it comes to vaccines and vaccinations, the ‘Sacred Cow’ of modern ...

BroadSnark

  • Some Thoughts on the GA Prisoner Strike
    Sadly, most people don’t seem to be paying much attention to all the prisoner strikes that have been happening across the country. In Georgia, two prisoners went without food for more than 47 days. You really need to watch this video. One of the things that struck me about that interview w ...
  • Activism and the Unbearable Dissonance
    I’ve been thinking a lot about why more people don’t get involved in activism. Which means I have been thinking a lot about what compelled me to get involved. I’ve known that things were fucked up since I was a tween. I may have more data and a different analysis now, but the s ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Just back from LA this morning where I learned far too much about Aaron Sorkin’s proclivities. I also learned that you can get a tequila shot and a beer for $4. Both kinda gave me a headache, but the tequila shots were way more fun. Related to the above in ways that will make no [...]
  • Communication. Understanding. Action.
    One of my most deeply held beliefs is that people shouldn’t just jump into things without spending a lot of time understanding the situation. And that goes a bazillion times more when we are talking about the actions of activists who are working on issues that affect others more than thems ...
  • Dear Reformists, You’re Welcome
    The problem with people who focus on reform is that they don’t seem to understand how reform actually happens. They want to focus on influencing the people in power by gaining access. That almost never leads to change, or at least not the kind of change that we need. Reform happens in one ...

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War in Context

Watts Up With That?

  • Senate EPW hearing on global warming tomorrow
    On Wednesday at 10AM ET (7AM PT) the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will conduct a hearing on (take your pick) global warming climate change climate disruption. Dr. John Christy will be there, but it is confirmed that Dr. … Continue reading →
  • Watts et al paper 2nd discussion thread
    The first press release announcement thread is getting big and unwieldy, and some commenters can’t finish loading the thread, so I’m providing this one with some updates. 1. Thanks to everyone who has provided widespread review of our draft paper. … Continue reading →
  • In other news…”Ten Reasons Why Fra ...
    Guest Post by David Middleton I ran across a really funny story on Real Clear Energy last Friday… Once you get past all of the nonsense about fracking polluting groundwater and global warming hysteria, the article really gets “interesting.” Ten … Continue reading →
  • UAH global temperature for June, up 0.29 °C
    UAH Global Temperature Update for June, 2012: +0.37 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for June (+0.37 °C) was up from May 2012 (+0.29 °C). Click on the image for the super-sized version: … Continue reading →
  • Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. on two recent “game ...
    In case you missed it, on Sunday Dr. Roger Pielke Sr.wrote a statement of support for Watts et al 2012. See: Comments On The Game Changer New Paper “An Area And Distance Weighted Analysis Of The Impacts Of Station Exposure … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • ‘Brake gene’ turned off in pancrea ...
    Aggressive pancreatic tumours may be treatable with a new class of drugs, according to Cancer Research UK Less than one in five people with this form of cancer are still alive a year after being diagnosed. A study, published in the journal Nature, showed that a gene was being switched off in the ...
  • Eating more berries may reduce cognitive decli ...
    Blueberries and strawberries, which are high in flavonoids, appear to reduce cognitive decline in older adults according to a new study published today in Annals of Neurology, a journal of the American Neurological Association and Child Neurology Society. The study results suggest that cognitive ...
  • Researchers Discover Particularly Dangerous Sa ...
    UC Santa Barbara researchers have discovered Salmonella bacteria that are up to 100 times more capable of causing disease. Their findings may help prevent food poisoning outbreaks that continue to plague public health and the food industry. These “hypervirulent” bugs can override vac ...
  • Will we ever correct diseases before birth?
    Every year, millions of people are born with debilitating genetic disorders, a result of inheriting just one faulty gene from their parents. They may have been dealt a dud genetic hand, but they do not have to stick with it. With the power of modern genetics, scientists are developing ways of ed ...
  • Anti-inflammatory Factors Fight Bugs
    Specialized compounds that naturally reduce inflammation in mice also help clear bacterial infections. A combination of these inflammation-resolving factors and antibiotics lowers the antibiotic dose needed to clear E. coli and Staphylococcus, according to a new paper in Nature. The finding sugg ...

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Russian Billionaire Yury Milner Offers Physics ...
    Russian billionaire and social media investor Yury Milner began offering multimillion-dollar prizes for achievements in fundamental physics, a move that could turn him into a role model for the rich in Russia.
  • Russian Space Freighter Departs From Orbital S ...
    Russian Progress M-15M cargo spacecraft undocked early on Tuesday from the International Space Station (ISS) to depart on a three-week scientific mission before being buried in the Pacific.
  • Progress M-15M Space Freighter to Undock from ...
    The Russian Progress M-15M space freighter will be undocked from the International Space Station on Tuesday morning and sent on a three-week flight to conduct a series of experiments, mission control said on Monday.
  • Progress M-15M Space Freighter Re-Docks with S ...
    A second attempt to re-dock the Russian Progress M-15M resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) with the help of a new rendezvous system has been a success, a spokesman for the Russian Mission Control Center said on Sunday.
  • Two-Headed Pig Born in Russia
    A two-headed, four-eyed pig was born at a farm in central Russia, the Bryansk regional veterinary service said on Wednesday.

Pruning Shears

  • Hiram residents attempt to ask questions about ...
    Thursday’s post on Hiram’s public fracking meeting mainly covered residents’ interaction with local officials. The bigger part of the meeting, though, featured two speakers with ties to the oil and gas industry. A representative from the company Mountaineer Keystone (MK) made ...
  • Hiram residents seek local control on fracking
    On Tuesday the town of Hiram held a public meeting with representatives of the company Mountaineer Keystone (MK). MK, a subsidiary of First Reserve Corporation, is set to begin fracking operations in Hiram next month. The company is a bit of an enigma; for one, it does not appear to have a web ...
  • Quantifying the impact of the Republican agenda
    I attended a local government meeting earlier this month in order to keep up with the latest on fracking in our town. Something else interesting happened as well. The meeting began with a budget review. Budget reviews are long and drawn out affairs even when they’re not, if you know wha ...
  • The view of fracking from San Pablo Bay
    Marvin Patten is an environmental health science student at Kent State University. The following letter was presented to the Kent city council earlier this year. The recent struggle over the disposal of fracking fluid sent to Warren’s Patriot Water System treatment plant gives renewed im ...
  • 'Nuns on the Bus' passes through Cleveland
    On June 17th the Catholic social justice lobbying group NETWORK launched a 15 day Nuns on the Bus tour. (As befits their budding rock star status, they are selling a tour shirt as well.) They are speaking out against the House Republican budget because, as they write: “When the federal g ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • USDA Prepares To Greenlight Gnarliest GMO Soy Yet
    In early July, on the sleepy Friday after Independence Day, the USDA quietly signaled its intention to greenlight a new genetically engineered soybean seed from Dow AgroSciences. The product is designed to produce soy plants that withstand 2,4-D, a highly toxic herbicide (and, famously, the less ...
  • Stop GMO Apples!
    Click here to read this article
  • Why a Major Food Organization Is Teaming Up Wi ...
    Big Food companies like ConAgra, Smucker, Hormel, Kellogg, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo want to block consumer protection legislation. Click here to read this article
  • The FDA Is Spying on Its Own Scientists
    The FDA knowingly chose to expose untold thousands of people to unnecessary cancer risk apparently to appease General Electric and other medical-device makers-and fired and spied on scientists who tried to force the agency to do its job. Click here to read this article
  • Fighting GMO Labeling in California Is Food Lo ...
    In case you had any doubt that California's Prop 37 - which would require labeling of food containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) - poses a significant threat to the food industry, a top food lobby has now made it perfectly clear that it does.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Disappointment with USDA’s Decision on Meatles ...
    From a statement issued today by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. On Friday, Michael J. Klag, MD, MPH, dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, wrote to Secretary Vilsack of USDA to express his disappointment with his agency’s recent retraction of a Meatle ...
  • Esri 2012: Exciting New Uses for ArcGIS
    The projects I heard about at the conference have inspired me to think about how I can incorporate elements from them into our Food System Map.
  • From Burlington to Baltimore, the Bronx, and B ...
    Although Vermont’s short growing season and mountainous terrain make agriculture tougher, it turns out they’re a blessing in disguise. There’s minimal “big ag” influence in Vermont, so politicians aren’t beholden to any Cargills or Monsantos.
  • Important letter to House Agriculture Committee
    The House Agriculture Committee began marking up the farm bill this morning. As we’ve described in past posts, this bill has significant implications for public health. CLF sent the letter (below) to the House Agriculture Committee, emphasizing important changes needed in the bill in order ...
  • Public Health Relies on Environmental Stewards ...
    Dan Glickman says that we revere the farmer, and I agree. Farmers know that conservation is critical to their success in the long term, and we all know that conservation is critical to human health. This month, as the House debates the farm bill, we’ll see how our representatives in Congress rea ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Notes on Climate Crisis
    People are alarmed about the environment. I think they should be - including monitoring changes in weather - but focusing on a fixed 'debate' run in circles is not my idea of analysis Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Zelda Medley- Lindsey Stirling
    I was surfing around a Skyrim combo - and thought of the community when I saw and heard this Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • New Research Casts Doubt on Pasteurization Tec ...
    This story reminds me of posts on The Bovine ( CowBoss http://www.care2.com/c2c/people/profile.html?pid=457840906 who is no longer active on Care2 ) and notes about effects of use of growth hormone in US dairy cattle Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   N ...
  • Fraud and Reputation - The Climate Wars
    Verifying the climate caper as an initiative in the Energy Wars Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Derecho Windstorm
    Reflecting on Preparativeness: 10 things the recent D.C. power outage taught us about a real, large-scale collapse Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Higher Education Challenge Grants Program
    The National Institute of Food and Agriculture, more commonly known as NIFA, is a United States federal government agency operating under the Department of Agriculture that's primarily answerable for... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Revealed: Survival International alerted Andam ...
    Revealed: Survival International alerted Andaman authorities to human safaris two years ago: The Andaman authorities were alerted to the existence of human safaris two years ago by Survival... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Afghans Condemn US Over Urination Video -- New ...
    Afghans Condemn US Over Urination Video -- News from Antiwar.com: From Afghan President Hamid Karzai to tribal elders in the far southern Helmand Province, reaction is coming out from the leaked... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Spooks off the hook but torture fight continue ...
    Spooks off the hook but torture fight continues / Britain / Home - Morning Star: Top government figures are still not off the hook for Britain's complicity in torture despite the Crown Prosecution... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Mapuche women assaulted by police, have crimin ...
    Mujeres mapuche agredidas por Carabineros, presentan querella criminal Guillermina Painevilo with his daughter Susana Guzman, accompanied by members of their community, with the sponsorship of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • The Lost American Dream: Living Off The Land
    Barb and Tink have found a way to survive and minimize all of their expenses by growing their own food, bartering with neighbors and extreme budgeting with their small income.
  • WHY in the World are They Spraying? Video Cont ...
    WHY in the World are They Spraying? Video contest in which the winner will receive $1000.00 via Paypal or if in the United States, airfare, Hotel, and a free 3 day pass to the premier and Consciousness Beyond Chemtrails event up to $1000 in value.
  • The Day ‘Our America with Lisa Ling’ Came to F ...
    I am happy to announce that an opportunity to extend the Farm Wars food independence and survival message to a wider audience came when Darcy Dennett contacted me about filming an episode of Our America with Lisa Ling titled Lost American Dream on the OWN network. Well, that’s right up our alley ...
  • We Won’t Get Fooled Again (Part 1)
    I find it interesting that a starving graduate student, living in a modest apartment, could afford very expensive weaponry, a bulletproof vest, a modern gas mask, groin and neck protectors, complicated bombs and tear gas. This was a well-funded operation and there doesn't seem to be any plausibl ...
  • Look Who Supports GMO Labeling – Infographic
    The following infographic from Voters Edge shows just how much money is being spent by both sides, for and against GMO labeling in California. "See who's spending money against our right to know labeling bill in CA and refuse to buy their products!"

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Harry Reid: Bain Investor Told Me Mitt Romney ...
    ShareThisHarry Reid: Bain Investor Told Me Mitt Romney 'Didn't Pay Any Taxes For 10 Years' 31 Jul 2012 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has what he says is an informed explanation for why Mitt Romney refuses to release additional tax returns. According a Bain investor, Reid charged, Ro ...
  • U.S. to give $1 billion in military aid to Pak ...
    ShareThisU.S. to give $1 billion in military aid to Pakistan [Oh. I thought there was a *deficit?* We can't get single-payer health care or a road built on US soil, though, right?] 31 Jul 2012 Pakistan and the United States signed a deal regulating the shipment of American troop supplies to and ...
  • Tea-Party-Backed Cruz Wins Texas Senate GOP Runoff
    ShareThisTea-Party-Backed Cruz Wins Texas Senate GOP Runoff 31 Jul 2012 Houston lawyer Rafael "Ted" Cruz easily won a runoff election Tuesday to become the Republican U.S. Senate nominee in Texas, underscoring how tea-party activists are upending this year's GOP primary contests. Mr. Cruz, a tea ...
  • Mitt Romney Adviser to Press: 'Kiss My Ass... ...
    ShareThisMitt Romney Adviser to Press: 'Kiss My Ass... Shove It' 31 Jul 2012 Mitt Romney's Offend the World megatour continued in Poland today, where the gaffe outbreak is apparently now contagious. Fresh off putdowns of the British and Palestinians, Romney aide Rick Gorka chipped in today by gi ...
  • Fukushima utility TEPCO gets $12.8B nuclear cr ...
    ShareThisFukushima utility TEPCO gets $12.8B nuclear crisis bailout 31 Jul 2012 The Japanese operator of the nuclear power plant devastated in last year's disasters received a 1 trillion yen ($12.8 billion) bailout Tuesday, putting it under government ownership. Tokyo Electric Power Co. apologiz ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Special Operations Association Tosses out Accu ...
    Caption John Giduck DATE: JULY 20, 2012 SUBJECT: THE BOARD REVOKES THE SOA HONORARY TITLE OF MR. JOHN GIDUCK THE CORPORATE PURPOSES OF THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS ASSOCIATION (SOA) AS SET FORTH IN THE BY LAWS INCLUDE: PERPETUATION OF THE ESPRIT DE CORP OF THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMUNITY, FRATERNA ...
  • Best Soldiers for the worst days: Medevac crew ...
    July 20, 2012 By: Sgt. 1st Class Eric Pahon KHOWST PROVINCE, Afghanistan (July 17, 2012) -- They're the crew no one wants to see take off. "A perfect deployment would be no missions," said Spc. Bryan Heaston, 30, of Lusby, Md. Nearly every time Heaston, a medevac crew chief serving on Forward ...
  • Military Professionals Discussing the MEDEVAC ...
    18 July 2012 Increasing numbers of high-ranking military officers and veterans agree that the time has come for change.  Support from lawmakers continues to grow.  Army helicopter medical evacuation (Dustoff) polices are outdated and costing lives.  Our current polices even viola ...
  • We Are Still #1 (somehow)
    11 July 2012 Thank you for the tremendous support through the years.  We are just getting warmed up, though I am in a transition stage while completing a book.  I remain serious about potentially transitioning over to US/Mexico focused work. Meanwhile, this military blog rank came ac ...
  • Carl Prine, Bombs, Brain Damage, and our Respo ...
    10 July 2012 These wars have left us with thousands of troops and civilians who may have sustained brain damage from explosions.  Recently, my friend Carl Prine, a military combat veteran of Iraq, terminated his writing on Line of Departure due to apparent brain damage.  Carl believes ...

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Burma gov’t failed to prevent Arakan violence: HRW
    The Burmese government could have prevented the recent sectarian violence in Arakan state, but instead stood by and watched human rights abuses perpetrated against both Arakanese and Rohingya communities
  • UN envoy meets with activists, ‘new year bomber’
    UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights for Burma Tomas Ojea Quintana met with prominent activist groups and death row inmate Phyo Wai Aung in Rangoon yesterday before flying to western Burma
  • Minister rejects calls for int’l investi ...
    Union Immigration Minister Khin Yi rejected the call from the United Nations’ to investigate the unfair treatment of the Rohingya by security forces following the rioting in western Burma
  • Press group speaks out against media suppression
    Burma’s Organising Committee for the Formation of the Myanmar [Burma] Press Union released a statement on Saturday stating that the ban placed on Snapshot weekly news journal could inhibit the country’s reform process
  • NGO warns of ‘second tragedy’ in western Burma
    An official from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) expressed concern that parts of Arakan state may face a “second tragedy” if medical personal are kept from providing aid to those in need

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Federal judge allows Colorado Taxpayer's Bill ...
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Colorado [official website] on Monday ruled that a challenge to the Colorado Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (TABOR) can proceed. The lawsuit argues that TABOR is unconstitutional [Denver Post report] because it limits state spending and b ...
  • India Supreme Court allows Exxon Valdez to be ...
    [JURIST] The Supreme Court of India [official website] ruled [order, PDF] Monday that the ship formerly known as the Exxon Valdez [EPA backgrounder] may be dismantled at the country's biggest scrapyard. The two-judge panel headed by Altamas Kabir overruled [Bloomberg report] a May decision by th ...
  • Former Saudi Arabia Guantanamo detainee surrenders
    [JURIST] Saudi Arabia's Ministry of the Interior [official website] announced Monday that a former Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder] inmate who had completed the country's militant rehabilitation program surrendered to Saudi authorities. Adnan al-Sayegh, who was placed in the Ministry's rehab ...
  • London court denies bail for Muslim cleric hel ...
    [JURIST] The UK High Court [official website] in London on Monday denied an application for bail [judgment, PDF] by Muslim cleric Abu Qatada [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. Qatada had challenged a previous ruling that had denied him bail on grounds that the government's risk of losing Qatada ...
  • Report urges Mexico authorities to investigate ...
    [JURIST] Complaints about violations committed by Mexico's military forces have been on the rise, a report [press release] issued by the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego (TBI) [official website] said on Monday. The report alleges that Mexican military forces have been commit ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Israeli Battle Between Political-Military Eche ...
    The Battle of the Titans continues between the Israeli political and military echelons over attacking Iran.  I broke a gag here a few days ago that had been imposed by order of Defense Minister Barak against critical statements by IDF chief Benny Gantz regarding a potential Israeli strike agains ...
  • Netanyahu Increases Settlement Spending by 38% ...
    The Israeli business publication Calcalist broke a major new story (Hebrew) about a government report which recounts Israeli spending over the Green Line.  The document, prepared for the U.S. government (which deducts from foreign aid expenditures monies spent by Israel on settlements), has so f ...
  • Romney Roils Middle East Waters With Diversion ...
    Mitt Romney’s 36-hour stop in Israel lasted long enough for him to add a new set of gaffes and missteps to his itinerary for this foreign trip designed to showcase his foreign policy chops.  Yesterday, I outlined a series of misadventures for the Mitt which included a Dan Senor-initiated e ...
  • Romney’s Not Ready for Primetime Campaign Cont ...
    Yisrael HaYom journalist, Amir Mizroch has recounted a continuing series of gaffes by Mitt Romney while in Israel that mirror similar errors during his previous visit to London during the Olympics.  Apparently, Mizroch either doesn’t know or doesn’t care that his bosses at the paper ...
  • IDF Chief Goes Off Reservation: Israeli Home F ...
    IDF chief Benny Gantz has further confirmed the outright reluctance of the Israeli military to attack Iran, a position that goes directly counter to that of Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak.  Channel 10′s Immanuel Rosen reported about an allegedly off the recor ...

If Americans Knew

  • VIDEO: AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Acti ...
    Janet McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across America? Why don't any claim affiliation to their creator or use descriptive names? Shouldn't the ...
  • Israel Lobby Dominates Congress, Media Covers ...
    You might think that 20 percent of the American Congress going on all-expenses-paid, week-long junkets to a foreign country -- paid for by a lobby for that country -- would be newsworthy, especially when the top congressional leaders of both parties are leading the trips. You would be wrong.
  • Israeli video games in Gaza: "Minimal collater ...
    He looks at the camera with bright eyes and the beginning of a smile, wearing a miniature dark blue zipper sweatshirt, the cuffs folded up a bit to make it fit. I can imagine his mother dressing him that morning, making sure he would be warm enough. I wonder if she's the one who took the picture ...
  • American Taxpayers Pay and Pay: Subsidizing Is ...
    Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper recently published an article calling Israel "The New Golden Country" for young people from around the world. It reports that Israel boasts "an ever-increasing GDP, a strong currency, and a lower unemployment rate than the US."
  • Spinning the Egyptian Anti-Israel Protest
    Today's New York Times front-page story on Egyptian protests against the Israeli embassy largely neglects a primary cause of the anger: Israeli forces' killing of five Egyptian policemen. Egyptian anger over these deaths grew even greater when Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak refused to apol ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Can Google Maps + Fusion Tables Beat OpenBlock?
    WRAL.com, North Carolina's most widely read online news site, recently published a tool that allows you to search concealed weapons permits down to the street level. It didn't use OpenBlock to do so. Why? Or, if you're like many journalistically and technically savvy people I've spoken over the ...
  • How SahelResponse.org Used TileMill, Open Data ...
    To bring key aid agencies together and help drive international response, the SahelResponse.org data-sharing initiative maps information about the ongoing food crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa. More than 18 million people across the Sahel are at risk and in need of food assistance in th ...
  • Why Code in the Newsroom? New York Times, ProP ...
    As the deadline to apply to become a 2013 Knight-Mozilla Fellow approaches, there’s one question often comes up: Why would I want to work as a developer in the newsroom? There are all sorts of reasons—from being in the room when news breaks, to working with a community of people ...
  • A Look Back at News Hack Day SF
    This is a guest column by ScraperWiki's Thomas Levine, an awesome data scientist who spends his time roaming the globe finding interesting data and doing stuff with it. Blogging about News Hack Day SF, which brought together journalists, developers and designers for several days of creative n ...
  • How TileMill Is Mapping Support of the Interna ...
    Amnesty International's latest campaign features a map front and center. The Campaign for Global Justice, launched this week on International Justice Day, which celebrates the creation of the International Criminal Court 10 years ago, asks people to demand justice for the victims of war crimes, ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Israel and Palestine - Reinvigorating the Disc ...
    The Commission to Examine the Status of Building in Judea and Samaria (the "Levy report") has drawn a flurry of overwrought criticism due to its inclusion of a section concerning the lawfulness of Israeli settlement activity. But the report’s argument is surprisingly modest in substance; it do ...
  • The Battle for Syria - Is The War in Syria Und ...
    The fate of the Assad regime in Syria has been the main focus of media attention in recent months. Yet, another crisis has quietly developed on the sidelines of the Syrian calamity which may greatly affect the Palestinian refugees and the coveted “right of return�. Over the past year, the Pa ...
  • The Edge of Space - NASA’s Curiosity Set for ...
    The U.S. space agency is preparing for its newest Mars rover, Curiosity, to touch down on the Red Planet on August 6. The rover’s entry and descent will be nerve-wracking for NASA engineers, compounded by a 14-minute delay as the rover’s signals travel to Earth from Mars. If successful, Curi ...
  • The Way We Are - Sum of the Parts: Our Brains ...
    When casting our eyes upon an object, our brains either perceive it in its entirety or as a collection of its parts. Consider, for instance, photo mosaics consisting of hundreds of tiny pictures that when arranged a certain way form a larger overall image: In fact, it takes two separate mental f ...
  • The Historical Edge - Remote Fort Helped Eleva ...
    “The Star Spangled Banner� plays when an American wins at the Olympics, is a favorite at Gospel concerts, and is routinely played at the start of every American baseball game. Historically, “The Star Spangled Banner� is associated with Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor, where the 1814 Bri ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • OBAMA LIES! Calls Study Written By Former Staf ...
    Note: if you cannot see two videos in this post please click here As the saying goes, you can always tell when Barack Obama is lying,  his lips are moving. The most unsuccessful president in my lifetime is during his campaign stops once again, this time in Mansfield Ohi ...
  • RACISTS! Black Pastors Launch Anti-Obama Campaign
    In a despicable case of prejudice, bigotry, racism and possibly even jay-walking, a group of African American pastors held a press conference attacking President Obama's for his stance on same-sex marriage. The group Coalition of African-Americans Pastors, led by the Rev. ...
  • Harry Reid Hits New Low With Disgusting Attack ...
    This has been a dirty campaign season. Sadly as the desperation of the Democratic Party increases, the filth spewing from their mouths grow.  Sunday it was Nancy Pelosi, using Antisemitism as a campaign tactic, today it's Harry Reid's turn. In an interview with the Huffington Post, Rei ...
  • Newsbusted: IOC To Award Obama 3 Gold Medals
    Perhaps the worldwide worship of Barack Obama is not over.  You may remember that the US President was awarded the Nobel peace prize for...well...nothing.  Now the International Olympic Committee has decided to award Obama three Olympic Gold medals. Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller is bac ...
  • Romney's Israel Trip Made The Liberals Go Mesh ...
    Meshuggah: From the Yiddish (Mamaloshen): chronically crazy, or obsessed.  Even before Mitt Romney got on a plane in London and set a heading for Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel, it seems the liberals and their friends in the media have been going ...

The Real Agenda

  • Cowardly Media Ignores Fraud Supporting Obama ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 1, 2012 The most successful frauds are the ones that are hidden in plain view, the ones no one sees because they are so obvious, that it is too hard to distinguish. These kind of ‘on your face’ fraudulent activities is even harder ...
  • Iranians Forecast War for the Fall
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 1, 2012 The maximum representative of the religious branch of the Iranian government, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, bluntly warned the Iranian military forces that war on Iran may be unleashed next September or October. Ali Khamenei’s warning ...
  • Mercosur Opens the Doors to Socialism
    The MERCOSUR alliance officially welcomed Venezuela as a permanent member. By ALONSO SOTO | REUTERS | AUGUST 1, 2012 On his first foreign trip since undergoing cancer treatment in Cuba earlier this year, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hailed his country’s welcome by fellow Sout ...
  • New York’s Police State Total Surveillan ...
    RUSSIA TODAY | JULY 31, 2012 The New York Police Department already has thousands of cameras aimed all over the island of Manhattan, but this literal surveillance state is about to be brought up a notch. The NYPD is teaming up with Microsoft to track action across the city. Later this week, ...
  • Africa Braces for Fall on Exports and Rising F ...
    By PASCAL FLETCHER | REUTERS | JULY 31, 2012 Rising food prices could hit commodity producers in Africa with a dangerous “double whammy” when combined with an economic slowdown in Europe and China reducing African exports of oil and raw materials, a leading African economis ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind turbine starts fire near Tehachapi
    A large wind turbine burst into flame late Friday night in the mountains above Mojave, causing a small grassfire. The fire took place near the intersection of Oak Creek and Tehachapi Willow Springs roads. The fire was spotted and photographed by passersby who, ironically, had just left a meeting ...
  • Spruce Mt. Wind neighbors complain of “a ...
    Woodstock property owners near the Spruce Mountain Wind turbines – particularly camp owners on Shagg and Concord ponds – said at a public informational meeting last week that noise from the towers is louder than expected, because it carries over water and bounces off nearby hills. Its effe ...
  • Gulf turbine plan sparks wildlife debate
    The 300 offshore wind turbines proposed for the Gulf of Mexico near South Padre Island would rival the Tower of the Americas in height, with 280-foot blades longer than the wingspan of a Boeing 747. They would be almost twice the size of any turbine currently in the United States. The electricit ...
  • DNR, Fish & Wildlife critical of proposed Fill ...
    HARMONY — The largest wind project ever permitted in Minnesota could soon become the second project in the state to pursue an incidental take permit to kill bald eagles. To date, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has never issued such a permit. The 280-megawatt EcoHarmony West Wind project n ...
  • Grothman: ‘Good chance’ town can s ...
    Despite state rules that eliminate virtually all local control from the application process, state Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) said Thursday he thinks there’s “a fairly good chance” that Town of Sherman officials can stave off development of a wind farm in their community that seems almost ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Fed Announcement on New Moves Expected
    “The Federal Reserve appears to be moving toward announcing some new step to try to energize the troubled U.S. economy. The question is whether it will do so after its policy meeting this week. Probably not, many economists say.” (Associated Press) That’s right. Do more of what helpe ...
  • Midwest Drought Has Agriculture Execs Calling ...
    “Alarm grew over the unrelenting Midwest drought on Tuesday, as one of the top corporate leaders in agriculture warned that the government must act quickly to reduce the amount of corn going to ethanol to prevent a sharp spike in food prices.” (Reuters) What’s missing? Entrepreneursh ...
  • Divided House Republicans Press for Farm Droug ...
    “With Republicans badly split over farm subsidies and cutting food stamps, House GOP leaders Tuesday decided to drop plans to extend the current farm program for one year and instead will press for immediate help for drought-stricken livestock producers. The decision comes as Republicans f ...
  • Obama Sees Rough Economic Times Still Ahead
    “President Barack Obama warned on Monday the U.S. economy would face continuing ‘headwinds’ over the next few months, with Europe’s debt crisis still posing a challenge, but predicted the euro zone and its currency would remain intact.” (Reuters) Isn’t he the headwind-in-chief? ...
  • Uruguay Ponders End to Drug War
    “The agricultural output of this country [Uruguay] includes rice, soybeans and wheat. Soon, though, the government may get its hands dirty with a far more complicated crop—marijuana—as part of a rising movement in this region to create alternatives to the United States-led war on drugs. Ur ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Will the Duke Energy scandal hurt the Democrat ...
    The Democratic Party tied its upcoming convention's fortunes to Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, now embroiled in a scandal over an abrupt CEO switch following the company's merger with Progress Energy. What will the controversy mean for the party in the upcoming election? read more
  • Tennessee program to provide photo IDs missing ...
    To quell criticism of the state's new voter ID law, Tennessee lawmakers offered to provide free photo IDs to those without one. But the state's own data shows that the program is reaching only a fraction of voters who will need it to vote this fall. read more
  • Mexican drug cartels and the U.S. banking industry
    Before its purchase by Wells Fargo, North Carolina-based Wachovia laundered over $378 billion for illegal drug organizations -- and paid just $160 million in fines. It's part of a broader and disturbing trend in the U.S. banking industry. read more
  • The big money behind the assault against sea l ...
    A controversial bill that would block North Carolina agencies from considering the science of sea level rise in making planning decisions has gotten a lot of national attention -- but what hasn't gotten much scrutiny are the powerful development interests behind the legislation. read more
  • Southern states show biggest job gains
    The recent jobs report showed the economy continues to struggle. Many of the states that have seen the biggest job gains are in the South -- but that likely won't help Obama much in November. read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Police
    Some scattered thoughts on cops, particularly cops in the US. Police exist primarily to protect property arrangements.  The war on drugs have paramilitarized police, with a heavy emphasis on overwhelming force.  While police have always considered themselves above the common herd, and have alway ...
  • The best news this year is the Court of Justic ...
    Software, once sold, can be resold.  The person selling it cannot keep using it, but the original publisher has no right to stop the sale. This is a big deal.  A really big deal, and really good news.  It allows brokers, it allows you to sell your software once done.  It allows you to treat [...]
  • I wonder how much Ashley Fantz of CNN gets pai ...
    Beautiful: Assange claimed that various institutions and corporations had hit the site with a financial blockage. Claimed?  It’s not a claim, it’s a fact.  How much it cost Wikileaks might be a claim, but that’s not what Ms. Fantz wrote. This is one reason why we can’t ha ...
  • To point out the obvious on today’s Supreme Co ...
    Roberts voted how he did because health insurance companies are absolutely desperate for the money they will get from the mandate.  All of the legitimacy arguments are bullshit, about 70% of Americans want Obamacare repealed.  This is more similar to TARP than anything else: it is a massive corp ...
  • Greek election consequences and the shape of t ...
    will be more years of austerity, people winding up on the street, suicides and outright starvation.  In this fertile ground, the neo-nazi right will rise.  The left will most likely not compete, because they will refuse to create an enforcer class to protect their own people.  The police in Gree ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • America's Future Is Taking Shape In The Suburbs
    For nearly a generation, pundits, academics and journalists have written off suburbia. They predict that the future lies in the cities, with more Americans living in smaller spaces such as the micro-apartments of 300 square feet or less that New York and San Francisco are considering changin ...
  • Libor: Is The City of London Fixed?
    Having worked inside banking, do I think that banks colluded to post an artificial London interbank offered rate, otherwise known as Libor? For those not in the brotherhood, that acronym is a compendium of average borrowing prices from sixteen large banks, pronounced either as lee-boar or lie-bo ...
  • Density is Not the Issue: The Urban Scaling Re ...
    The "urban scaling" research of Geoffrey West, Luis Bettencourt, Jose Lobo, Deborah Strumsky, Dirk Helbing and Christian Kuhnert on cities has attracted considerable attention (references below). They have provided strong quantitative evidence, based upon voluminous econometric ana ...
  • Predictable Punditry Down Under
    The New South Wales Government has been following an extreme version of currently fashionable planning doctrines based on higher population densities. These policies have resulted in exorbitant housing costs and increasing traffic congestion.  A Liberal/National Coalition Government has com ...
  • Public School Parent Trigger Laws: Something’s ...
    In the mid-1950s, the McGuire Sisters’ version of Johnny Mercer’s song about what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object made it to number five on the record charts. Their prediction, that “Something’s Gotta Give,” provides an apt description of the outcome of today’s b ...

GM Watch

  • FSA public information on GM DNA in food misle ...
    FSA Public Information on GM DNA in Food Out of Step with Science GM Freeze, 31 Jul 2012 http://www.gmfreeze.org/news-releases/197/ Today GM Freeze told the Food Standards Agency it must revise its public information on the presence of GM DNA in animals fed GM feed because it is out of touch wi ...
  • 'Anne Glover, you are wrong'
    1.GMOs: "Anne Glover, you are wrong" 2.Professor Glover's 'Poll' Dancing --- --- 1.GMOs: "Anne Glover, you are wrong" EurActiv, 27 July 2012, updated 30 July 2012 http://www.euractiv.com/cap/gmos-anne-glover-wrong-analysis-514185 An interview by EurActiv with Anne Glover, European Commission ch ...
  • 'Anne Glover, you are wrong'
    1.GMOs: "Anne Glover, you are wrong" 2.Professor Glover's 'Poll' Dancing --- --- 1.GMOs: "Anne Glover, you are wrong" EurActiv, 27 July 2012, updated 30 July 2012 http://www.euractiv.com/cap/gmos-anne-glover-wrong-analysis-514185 An interview by EurActiv with Anne Glover, European Commission ch ...
  • Oxitec, Syngenta, and gullible journalists
    Gullible Journalist Doesn't Observe GM Front Erica George GM Education  http://www.gmeducation.org/blog/p149576-gullible-journalist-doesn-t-observe-gm-front.html There was an article in The Observer the other week (15th July) about this lovely little company in Oxfordshire called Oxitec. One d ...
  • Oxitec, Syngenta, and gullible journalists
    Gullible Journalist Doesn't Observe GM Front Erica George GM Education  http://www.gmeducation.org/blog/p149576-gullible-journalist-doesn-t-observe-gm-front.html There was an article in The Observer the other week (15th July) about this lovely little company in Oxfordshire called Oxitec. One d ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Just Open Up Your Eyes And Look – 65 Sig ...
    Do you want to know when the "economic collapse" is going to happen?  Just open up your eyes and take a look.  The "economic collapse" is already happening all around us.  So many people talk about the coming economic collapse as if it is some massively hyped event that they will ...
  • 11 Signs That Time Is Quickly Running Out For ...
    Are we rapidly approaching a moment of reckoning for the global financial system?  August is likely to be a relatively slow month as most of Europe is on vacation, but after that we will be moving into a "danger zone" where just about anything could happen.  Historically, a finan ...
  • Does Barack Obama Expect The Upcoming Election ...
    What is Barack Obama preparing for?  What does Barack Obama actually expect to happen in November?  Does he believe that the upcoming election could actually spark rampant civil unrest inside the United States?  The conditions are certainly ripe for civil unrest in this country.  ...
  • 17 Reasons Why Those Hoping For A Recession In ...
    If you were hoping for a recession in 2012, then you are going to be very happy with the numbers you are about to see.  The U.S. economy is heading downhill just in time for the 2012 election.  Retail sales have fallen for three months in a row for the first time since 2008, manu ...
  • The Audit The Fed Bill Gets Passed By The Hous ...
    On Wednesday, Ron Paul's bill to audit the Federal Reserve was overwhelmingly passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.  The vote was 327 to 98.  You would think that a bill with such overwhelming support would easily become law.  But it won't, because Barack Obama and the Dem ...

Desertification

  • The drip irrigation technology (IFAD)
    Read at : IFAD electronic newsletter http://www.ifad.org/newsletter/pf/20_full.htm#5 Madagascar: introducing the drip irrigation technology Drip irrigation is an irrigation method that saves water and fertilizer by allowing water to drip slowly to the roots of plants, either onto the soil surfac ...
  • Minimum soil disturbance, permanent soil cover ...
    Read at : IFAD electronic newsletter http://www.ifad.org/newsletter/pf/20_full.htm#5 General feature on Conservation Agriculture The world is facing one of its biggest challenges to date: producing more food for a growing population without increasing the land surface used to do so. It … C ...
  • Improved crop, soil and water management pract ...
    Read at : IFAD electronic newsletter http://www.ifad.org/newsletter/pf/20_full.htm#5 What are the constraints and opportunities for Conservation Agriculture in Africa? Over the past ten years there has been an endless debate over the relevance of the ‘Conservation Agriculture’ (CA) paradigm to t ...
  • There’s a long line of problems that can ...
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/African-drought-is-inevitable-hunger-and-starvation-is-not/ African drought is inevitable, hunger and starvation is not by Andrew Hewett Imagine if 18 million Australians were at risk of severe hunger ...
  • World Food Crisis (Google / Democratic Undergr ...
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.democraticunderground.com/101636625 The World is Closer to a Food Crisis Than Most People Realize Published on Thursday, July 26, 2012 by The Guardian/UK Unless we move quickly to adopt new … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • Maryland, California taking action to improve ...
    From President Obama to Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, politicians are habitually warning us that high dropout rates among some students are a civil rights issue, and a drag on U.S. global competitiveness.On the East Coast, let’s see if the Maryland Board of Education’s recent deci ...
  • Key findings
    In the Texas primary and runoff for U.S. Senate, more than a dozen super PACs and other outside spending groups spent $14.5 million on on ads and other independent expenditures, with about 75 percent of them negative.Super PACs supporting victor Ted Cruz spent nearly as much as his campaign rais ...
  • Daily Disclosure: Misleading ad seeks to scare ...
    “You know,” she says, closing her laptop and shaking her head, “It seems these days, not a single one of us steps on a train, boards an airplane, attends a concert or a sporting event that doesn’t have at least a fleeting concern that terror could strike.”It sounds like this suburban woman is sp ...
  • Secure America Now ad: "Are We Safer?"
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  • Transparency missing in Arizona's legislature
    Arizona’s legislative session this year was as hard to track as a Stealth bomber, even for many Capitol regulars.A bill focused on attorney’s fees turned into a controversial measure about abortion. Other bills changed subjects too. And the Legislature took just one morning of public testimony a ...

backofthebook.ca

  • The Plan, Part Deux
    By Frank Moher Previously on The Plan, I explained why, despite the depredations of the current federal government, the Canadian political universe is unfolding as it should — or at least as I’d hoped it might when I was a young journalist lost in the conservative wilderness in the 1 ...
  • The Plan
    By Frank Moher As we enjoy, if that’s the word, the second summer of the Harper majority, I’m pleased to say The Plan is working. The Plan, of course, is the one I hatched back when I was working at Alberta Report in the 1980s. AR, some of you will know, was the conservative newsweek ...
  • McDonald’s: Some secrets should be kept
    By Mark Leiren-Young Did McDonald’s have to tell us what they put in their special sauce? Couldn’t they have just said, “May contain nuts, chlorine and anything else that may set off your allergies” and keep us guessing? Unless someone posted the recipe on Wikileaks, did they have to tell us abo ...
  • A Modest Opinion – Nathaniel Moher&#8217 ...
    By Nathaniel Moher Welcome to part three of Nathaniel Moher’s Guide to Fixing the World! As any good trilogy does, Nathaniel Moher’s Guide to Fixing the World will have six parts . . . three of which will be completely unreadable and will mostly be done as a money grab. (Well, if we’re being hon ...
  • Friendly Canadian input on the US election
    By David Taub Bancroft The sun is shining. The flowers are blooming. We are in a year that is divisible by four. I think we all know what that means. In a matter of months, our American friends will once again start hanging chads or whatever it is they do to hold a presidential election, [...]

libcom

  • The death of an Argentinian squatter in Barcelona
    na16fo01.jpg Juan Pablo Torroija was detained in the city of Girona. A few hours later he ended up in hospital. He was beaten and carried marks of strangulation. The police says he hanged himself in ...
  • California cops clamp down on Disneyland dissent
    Anaheim-Protest-of-police-killings-grows.jpg An update from Adam Ford on the dissent - and repression - following the fatal shooting of 25 year-old Manuel Diaz by police, in Anaheim, California. ...
  • Serwotka sellout sets seal on olympic exploitation
    serwotka.jpg Adam Ford on the PCS' aborted strike action, and the unions' Olympic failures. As women footballers were getting ready to unofficially kick off the London ...
  • All out at Preston Remploy
    remply.jpg Mark Harrison visited Remploy pickets taking part in a national strike this morning. There used to be over 50 workers at the Remploy factory in Preston, now reduced t ...
  • Cleaners strike protest near Olympic site
    cleaners.png Cleaners strike over pay and conditions on London Underground and Docklands Light Railway. This morning saw the beginning of a 48-hour strike by cleaners on London ...

Free Range International

  • Band On The Run
    Editors Note:  It is important for first time readers to start this story from the beginning.  This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother, Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to living a normal life back in the states.   Any donations received by the FRI bl ...
  • Dead Man Walking
    Dalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change.  Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton.  For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can&#8217 ...
  • King for a Day
    Note from Baba T – It is important to start the Dalton Thomas series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) or it will not make much sense.   For those of you who are enjoying the series and have the means hitting the donation button would be much appreciated.  All proceeds from the ...
  • Great Idea #1: A Vacation in the Khyber Pass
    It turns out that my buddy Dr. John Ryan had spent five years in the army as a properly tabbed Special Forces medic.  And all this time we had thought he was a heterosexual.  I had to say that as Marine Corps bushido demands such things.  After John and I traded more inter-service insults Elisa, ...
  • Mexican Radio
    Dalton is back on stride and his next post will set the standard for crazy.  I’ll lean on him to get it out in a few days.  Enjoy. Mrs. Firelake took me to Sherriff Ron’s house where I linked up with Dr. John and Deputy Jimmy.  John was in the midst of a serious conversation with [...]

The Story Behind the Story

  • The “Star of David” – Learn ...
    It is the symbol of modern day Zionism – and the Luciferian signature of the Khazars masquerading as “God’s Chosen People” – the terrorist nation of “Israel”. It is the HEX-agram, the 6 pointed triangles forming the number 666. It is the ancient logo of ...
  • The “Star of David” – Learn ...
    It is the symbol of modern day Zionism – and the Luciferian signature of the Khazars masquerading as “God’s Chosen People” – the terrorist nation of “Israel”. It is the HEX-agram, the 6 pointed triangles forming the number 666. It is the ancient logo of ...
  • The Culture of Reverence – The Louis Fre ...
    The Culture of Reverence America’s Pedophilia Hypocrisy By A. True Ott, Phd The “Freeh Report” is concluded.  Released to public eyes Thursday, July 12, 2012, the 267-page report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh and his select team of investigators has exposed in a most accurate manner, what i ...
  • The Culture of Reverence – The Louis Fre ...
    The Culture of Reverence America’s Pedophilia Hypocrisy By A. True Ott, Phd The “Freeh Report” is concluded.  Released to public eyes Thursday, July 12, 2012, the 267-page report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh and his select team of investigators has exposed in a most accurate manner, what i ...
  • Willard Mittens (Mitt) Romney – the FACE ...
    Willard Mittens Romney has been anointed by the elite for a special purpose.  He has the support of the Bilderberg cabal.  He gives keynote speeches at MOSSAD conventions in Israel.  What does all this mean? The answer is here in this amazing video presentation.  Watch and learn.  

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Christopher Plummer (Encore Presentation)
    Peter sits down with the legendary Canadian actor, Christopher Plummer(originally broadcast 24 April 2010).
  • Mary Simon, President of ITK (Jan 14, 2012)
    They are the first peoples of Canada’s north: the Inuit. They live in some of the most spectacular parts of this country, but the challenges facing them are daunting. From climate change to resource development, from education to housing. For the past six years the most powerful Inuit leader in ...
  • Ken Dryden, NHL Hall of Famer (Jan 7, 2012)
    Hockey and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the present, takes on tho ...
  • Malcolm Gladwell (Dec 31, 2011)
    Renowned author wraps the critical events of 2011.
  • The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
    Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • رهبر میخواهد زمانی برود که چند میلیون را به کش ...
    به یاد داشته باشیم که زنده یاد نورالدین کیانوری 33 سال پیش و پس از نخستین دیدار خود با علی خامنه‌ای او را "یک مائویست اسلامی خطرناک" توصیف کرد.
  • نفرات نخست کنکور ۹۱ معرفی شدند
    به گزارش خبرنگار ایلنا، در گروه آزمایشی علوم ریاضی و فنی محمد استاد محمدی از کاشان رتبه نخست را به دست آورد و سینا ملکیان از بابل و الهام احسانی مقدم از بابل به ترتیب رتبه‌های دوم و سوم را در گروه آزمایشی علوم ریاضی کسب کردند.
  • دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی، همچنان پیشتاز در تفکیک ...
    با اعلام نتایج مرحله اول آزمون سراسری ورودی دانشگاه‌ها، دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی در ۹ رشته تحصیلی، دانشجویان را کاملا تفکیک جنسیتی کرده است. روند جداسازی کلاس‌های درس در این دانشگاه نیز همچنان ادامه دارد. read more
  • House, Senate negotiators back new Iran sanctions
    House and Senate negotiators reached agreement late Monday on legislation that builds on the current penalties directed at financial institutions that do business with Iran’s central bank. The new bill would impose sanctions on anyone who mines uranium with Iran; sells, leases or provides oil ta ...
  • Iran and Syria's Nerve Gas is Made in Europe
    Nothing keeps a German or French firm - and a British, Italian or Swiss one - from making a good profit. And if it puts the Zionist state in danger, no problem.

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Julian Assange Hires Pinochet’s Nemesis
    Baltazar Garzon In June Wikileaks founder Julian Assange sought refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to prevent his extradition to Sweden for questioning on sexual assault allegations. His big fear is that the US will attempt to extradite him from Sweden and either detain him indefinitely ...
  • How to Tell Where Your Food Comes From
    Barcode indicating US or Canadian origin Consumers in North America and Europe are consciously opting for nationally – or better still locally – grown foods as a way of reducing fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide emissions. Increasing concern over “food miles” (i.e. the ...
  • Unlikely Folk Hero Releases New Hit
    If video won’t play go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MokNvbiRqCM Kim Dotcom, the multimillionaire who is awaiting extradition from New Zealand on alleged Internet piracy charges (see Unlikely Folk Hero) has just released his long-awaited new song ‘Mr. President’, directed ...
  • US Citizen Journalism Killing the Mainstream News
    RT reports on a recent Gallup poll showing that only 20% of the public trusts the mainstream news, owing to bias and bungled reporting and the rise of citizen journalism (i.e blogs like this). They quote one viewer who says something's terribly wrong when there are major revolutions occurring a ...
  • Drone Warrior Obama Tries to Explain Mass Shooting
    From our friends at We Are Change  [Owing to extremely slow connection speed in rural New Zealand, I'm unable to insert embed code.] If video fails to play go to We Are Change Share and Enjoy:

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE: WikiLeaks opens path ...
    After almost two years of fighting an unlawful banking blockade by US financial giants VISA and MasterCard, WikiLeaks has announced it is back open for donations. After WikiLeaks' publications revealing US war crimes and statecraft in 2010, US financial institutions erected a banking blockade a ...
  • 'No Going Back': Michael Moore on the Last Wor ...
  • Letter From Prominent Americans, Delivered to ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 25, 2012 Media Contacts: (London) Robert Naiman, US 217-979-2857 (US) Megan Iorio, US 908-400-9480 Letter signed by Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Wolf, Daniel Ellsberg, Danny Glover, Oliver Stone, Patch Adams, MD, Mark Weisbrot and other promine ...
  • 'The Man Who Killed Vincent Chin' by Michael M ...
    The below article appeared in the Detroit Free Press Sunday Magazine on August 30, 1987. Click each page to view larger versions.
  • Michael Moore to Headline 5th Anniversary Even ...
    Media Advisory, Contact -- Francesca Lo Basso for more information (610-417-5288) Michael Moore to Headline 5th Anniversary Event in Philadelphia on June 30 Philadelphia—Five years after his award-winning film on the U.S. healthcare system premiered around the world, Michael Moore return ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • UN team visits flood hit areas in North Korea, ...
    The UN has sent a team to North Korea for expressing their solidarity with the government and people in the wake of the recent flood, a UN official says. The UN team was headed “to see what help if any, the UN country team can provide”, said UNICEF’s Bangkok-based regional offi ...
  • DOJ Suggests Criticism of Islam Could Be Crimi ...
    Refuses to rule out Shariah-style law in the United States. In refusing to rule out a future law that would criminalize criticism of religion as racist hate speech, the Department of Justice has left the door open to the prospect of Shariah-style law in the United States that would forbid critic ...
  • Romney spokesperson gives offensive response t ...
    Mitt Romney has spent nearly a week shaking hands abroad while conducting a foreign policy trip that has managed to somehow spark some of the most uncomfortable roadblocks of his campaign. In Warsaw, Poland on Tuesday, things didn’t get better. Right on the heels of having remarks made in London ...
  • Eurozone’s unemployment at record high amid de ...
    The number of people unemployed across the 17 countries that share the euro currency has hit a record high in June, official figures show. New data released by the Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office on Tuesday shows that 17.801 million people were out of work in the eurozone in June. The ...
  • Half of India Without Electricity in Record Bl ...
    More than ten percent of the world’s population has found itself without electricity, after three of India’s power grids failed. Blackouts have now plagued India for two consecutive days, leaving half the country without power. The string of power shortages began on Monday, when India’s no ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Google TV Webpage Updated â Site Redesign, App ...
    Google TV is about to blow up this year (or at least get an extra big boost from Google) and while we wait around to see what Google has planned for the TV OS at Google I/O this week, there’s been a silent update of sorts to their webpage, adding new content and a fresh new design. Google is gi ...
  • Microsoft and Yammer: Collaboration and Enterp ...
    via microsoft.comMicrosoft Corp. and Yammer Inc. have announced Yammer, a leading provider of enterprise social networks is to be acquired for $1.2 billion in cash. Yammer will join the Microsoft Office Division, led by division President Kurt DelBene, and the team will continue to report to cu ...
  • Brewer: Obama admin launched 'assault' on Arizona
    (CNN) – Republican Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona had some biting words for the Obama administration Monday after it announced it was rescinding agreements that allow some local law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration laws. "They arbitrarily singled out Arizona and sent a bomb, if y ...
  • Google Alert - Barack Obama
    News 7 new results for Barack Obama   President Barack Obama's response to ruling on the Arizona ... Washington Post WASHINGTON â President Barack Obama's statement reacting to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on the Arizona immigration law: See all stories on this topic » President Obama blasts ...
  • Miami Heat Parade: Team Goes All Out To Celebr ...
    The Miami Heat celebrated in grand fashion with an enormous parade through the streets of Miami on Monday morning, allowing the fans to join in on the celebration and commemorate their 2012 NBA Championship. Hundred’s of thousands of people filled the streets as players rolled by in double-deck ...

Groklaw

  • Nine theoretical physicists to split new $27 m ...
    The nine phone calls came from out of the blue, from a Russian investor who had made a vast fortune in Silicon Valley. In a few days, Yuri Milner told each of the men who answered the phone, he would be announcing a lucrative new prize in theoretical physics. And they had already won. The news ...
  • Apple v Samsung: Can Look and Feel Be Patented?
    To prevail in San Jose, Apple will need to persuade jurors -- and that won't be easy, even in a case being heard just a few miles from its headquarters, said Kevin Rivette, managing partner at 3LP Advisors LLC and a former vice president of intellectual-property strategy for International Busine ...
  • Samsung angers judge by sending rejected evide ...
    The Apple vs. Samsung trial was always destined to be a circus, but Samsung's already causing trouble on the first day of testimony: Judge Lucy Koh is furious that the company sent the press rejected evidence after the court overruled repeated attempts to introduce it at trial. Samsung has been ...
  • Samsung Is No Johnny-Come-Lately and Other Jui ...
    "It's not out there like some Johnny-Come-Lately and copying knockoffs." - Verhoeven on Samsung. "Apple is marketing itself as an innovator, and the only company that actually provides this retina display is Samsung." - Verhoeven, noting that Samsung supplies ultra-high-resolution displays to A ...
  • Samsung Goes Public With Excluded Evidence to ...
    Denied the opportunity to make the argument in court that the design of the original iPhone was derived from Sony concepts, Samsung has decided to make it in the court of public opinion. Moments ago, the company released two batches of evidence excluded from the trial currently occuring in San ...

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