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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 II

Politics in the Zeros

  • Let’s not get smug about India’s massive power ...
    Over 600 million were without power in India on their second day of stunningly huge outages. Worse, no one knows what caused this, the biggest blackout in history.Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde blamed the new crisis on states taking more than their allotted share of electricity, and other of ...
  • Police violence precedes governor’s conference ...
    Credit: dylankelley.blogspot.comNew England governors and friends were on their way to a dinner party prior to a conference in Burlington, VT and found the way blocked by pedestrians and protesters. So they did what was only natural and called in the police, with police violence the predictable ...
  • Get ready for weapons screening at movie theaters
    We are now getting predictable squeaking about how maybe we need weapons screening and armed guards at movie theaters, as implied by the following:The Colorado movie theater complex that was the scene of a gunman’s massacre didn’t have any uniformed security guards on duty the night ...
  • Shooter Jennings – 4th of July
    The post Shooter Jennings – 4th of July appeared first on Politics in the Zeros.
  • Rooftop solar power in Hawaii faces unexpected ...
    The cost of rooftop solar power in Hawaii is lower than grid power. But interconnect costs, balky utilities, and a flood of those wanting rooftop solar have led to problems.First in the U.S., Hawaii residents and businesses can install solar power – without incentives – for less than the cost of ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • 'New' Egypt and the Camp David accords
    Despite many setbacks and roadblocks along the way in Egypt, the political situation there is still one of the most hopeful-- and certainly, the most momentous-- phenomena in the region. Egypt, remember, really does carry the strategic ballast of the whole Arab world. How things turn out there i ...
  • July 2006, lest we forget
    In these days six years ago, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert and his team were battering much of Lebanon to smithereens in the "Dahiyeh War"-- designed, as we remember, to break Hizbullah once and for all, primarily by battering Lebanese civilians and their infrastructure so harshly that they would turn ...
  • Sarajevo, 1914; Damascus 2012?
    The killing, in Damascus today, of at least three powerful members of the Baathist regime in Syria, will almost certainly plunge that whole country-- and quite likely also much of the rest of the Greater Middle East-- into a maelstrom of inter-group violence far worse than any it has seen until ...
  • West Point military historian denies the net v ...
    The NYT has a very important piece today reporting that the head of the military history program at West Point has openly stated that the United States gained "not much" from 10.5 years of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The program head, Col. Gian Gentile, concluded-- presumably in light of the c ...
  • Jewish-Israeli public lurches yet further right
    I just read Yossi Gurvitz's chilling account of the attack that a right-wing mob in South Tel Aviv unleashed against his girlfriend Galina, and him, during the anti-African-refugees demonstration held there Tuesday. The main speaker at the demo was Michael Ben-Ari, an elected MK. Gurvitz writes ...

frogblog

  • Don’t Frack with NZ postcard launched
    To mark a new phase in our campaign to protect our health and environment, this week we’re launching our Don’t Frack with NZ postcard.
  • NZ Inc in the Pacific
    Last Week I was on the annual Pacific Mission. This event is used to build understanding and networks between Pacific countries and New Zealand. It is my understanding that traditionally this Mission used to have a development focus but that this has changed significantly with this Government. O ...
  • The latest on the lobbying bill
    There was interesting coverage on my lobbying bill in the NZ Herald today. At the first reading of the Lobbying Disclosure Bill last week, Labour tabled an amendment that, amongst other things, calls for trade unions and not-for-profit groups to be exempted from any lobbying disclosure regime. T ...
  • Te Reo in the House
    I had a good time last week, Te wiki o Te Reo Maori, Arohatia Te Reo. I have heard a lot of Reo over the years and more as a result of initiatives like this. I have myself studied it at school, university, at night school. Recently I have been kindly offered courses but I [...]
  • Post-Rio reflections – addressing the gl ...
    The 1st post-Rio+20 reflection last week argued that the international community of states has failed the global community of peoples in ensuring global sustainability (comprised of resource conservation, climate stabilisation and biodiversity).  There are, it said, two global crises: an ecologi ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Governments Exist to Further the Interests of ...
    Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored group.
  • The History of Knowledge: Darkness in the Acadamy
    Knowledge does not always prevail or even endure. When the Roman Empire fell, the Justinian Code was replaced by Canon Law. The augustness of knowledge was transformed into heresy and mankind's curiosity was virtually extinguished. The age became dark. In the 11th century, people began to st ...
  • Vendor ArithmeticUnderhanded Capitalism
    Why does the nation exist? The truth is revealed when one realizes that merchant theft is protected by the legal system whose justices have enshrined an economic bias into law, having subverted the Constitution from the goals the founding fathers wrote into it to the almost exclusive promoti ...
  • Treacherous Treaties
    Is American imperialism a Bilderberger plot? Are the American bankers, diplomats, and members of the Council on Foreign Relations all traitors, having turned America into merely an instrument to carry out their Bilderberger maniacal aims? Does America as a sovereign nation even exist anymore ...
  • Is Adam Smith's a Pickpocket
    Economists use the law of supply and demand merely to provide suppliers with an excuse for raising prices and picking consumer's pockets.

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • New Study Shows This Potent Vitamin Helps Prev ...
    By Dr. Mercola If you want to slash your risk of cancer, it's essential that you spend adequate time in the sun or a safe tanning bed, or at the very least supplement with proper amounts of vitamin D3. This is because maintaining optimal blood levels of this vitamin is one of the most power ...
  • Gut Microbes Might Reflect Health, Diet of Old ...
    By Dr. Mercola Probiotics, along with a host of other microorganisms, are so crucial to your health that researchers have compared them to "a newly recognized organ." In fact, your microflora – a term used to describe the bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microbes that make up your microbial ...
  • Why Does Monsanto Always Win?
    By Dr. Mercola If you've ever wondered how Monsanto―a company that admits it wants to own the world's food supply through its patented genetically engineered seeds―gets away with not having to label its products, all you have to do is follow the trail of money leading from their coffers into ...
  • Bill Gates Leveraged Philanthropy: Corporate P ...
    By Dr. Mercola A recent commentary in Education Week takes a fresh look at the Gates Foundation's philanthropy. The money it spends on all kinds of projects around the world is no small chunk of change--$26 billion since its inception in 1994 has been donated to help developing countries ...
  • 3 Reasons You May Not be Getting Enough Vitami ...
    By Dr. Mercola While mainstream media continues to blast health warnings about the dangers of sun exposure, the news reports have it all wrong―instead of too much sun, it’s likely most people are not getting enough. Even though summer is a time when more people are outside―and theoretically ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Revealed: secret agenda of ranchers to steal u ...
    Ranching firms are destroying the land of Paraguay's uncontacted tribes. © GAT / Survival The secret agenda of a huge ranching firm in Paraguay has been exposed by satellite photos showing a newly-constructed reservoir. The reservoir reveals the firm’s intention to clear nearby ...
  • Train terror as mining giant endangers Earth’s ...
    The lives of Earth’s most threatened tribe will be in immediate danger if Vale’s new project succeeds. © Survival Plans by a giant mining company to expand a controversial railway line that has already opened up parts of Brazil’s Amazon to invaders, are now putting Earth’s most threatened t ...
  • Brazilian Indians fear ‘absurd’ setback over l ...
    The Guarani and other Indians are contesting a new decree which weakens control over their lands © F. Watson/Survival Brazilian Indians have expressed their anger and dismay as a new directive threatens to weaken their control over their lands. The directive, signed by Brazil’s Solicitor-G ...
  • Indian islands challenge Supreme Court move to ...
    India’s ‘human safari’ row exposed the exploitation of the Andamans’ Jarawa tribe. © Survival A ruling by India’s Supreme Court which would have drastically curtailed the notorious ‘human safaris’ in the Andaman Islands is being ignored by the islands’ authorities. Earlier this month India ...
  • Indian expulsion of armed forces in Colombia t ...
    The Nasa Indians have been caught in the crossfire of Colombia's civil war between the army and illegal armed groups © Francisco Pedro Nasa Indians in southwest Colombia are at the centre of a violent standoff between the army and left-wing guerrilla army the FARC (Revolutionary Armed ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Bill Gates Leveraged Philanthropy: Corporate P ...
    from mercola.com: The featured article discusses "philanthropic leverage," or "the idea that you can use a little money to access a lot of money," stating that this is exactly what the Gates Foundation is doing: "Gates' leveraged philanthropy model is a public-private partnership to improve t ...
  • Oregon criminalizes permaculture; claims state ...
    from naturalnews.com: There's nothing more refreshing than standing in a cool, summertime rain shower. Or bathing in the warm sunlight on a crisp spring day. Or inhaling the cool autumn air, fresh with the scent of turning leaves and pine needles. These things -- rainwater, sunlight, air -- ha ...
  • Twinkie vs. carrots
    from therealfoodchannel.com: Food policy influences dietary choices. Why is it cheaper to buy a Twinkie than to buy a carrot? How do food subsidies and agricultural policies affect the foods we eat? How is that tied to food-related diseases? Journalist Michael Pollan explains
  • Controlling Monkey Brains and Behavior with Light
    from cryptogon.com: Via: PhysOrg: Researchers reporting online on July 26 in Current Biology have for the first time shown that they can control the behavior of monkeys by using pulses of blue light to very specifically activate particular brain cells. The findings represent a key advance for ...
  • #Audio: Episode028 - Fake Rain
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu offers up Decriminalization, Brain Pain and Fake Rain + Health scares, Headlines, the 'Binge and Purge' a ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Greece: Can 'Golden Dawn' be criticised for a ...
    It is not often that RT put out a news story which is so blatantly designed to instruct us what we should all think. In highlighting this news story, we are aware of some terrible instances of discrimination which are - at best - purely menacing which have taken place in Greece which this blo ...
  • Flashback 1992: Secret Societies (Declaration) ...
    On 1st July 1992, Chris Mullin stood up in the House of Commons and made a speech in support of his Bill - the "Secret Societies (Declaration) Bill". Look at this joke of second reading dates, for a Bill which eventually failed to pass: "SECRET SOCIETIES (DECLARATION) BILL HC Deb 01 July ...
  • From London the New Jerusalem... to London the ...
    The other day, in response to THAT ceremony, we started decoding some of the masonic symbolism - of which there was plenty. In that post, we touched upon the notion of Iraq and Ancient Babylon. So, bugger me gently, what's this then? Following links from the British Film Institute (BFI) we ...
  • With friends like these... (a little blog hous ...
    This is not a 'woe is me' post. It is merely a statement of fact. Before anyone starts asking, the blog is going nowhere. However, I think sometimes some people get a little ahead of themselves and perhaps the occasional statement of what is obvious to most is necessary. The reason this ...
  • Is the Eurozone crisis part of a two-hundred a ...
    Whatever you're doing - stop. Invest two hours in this. It will change your life. According to the YouTube page, this was: "Recorded in 1967 by Myron Fagan (1887-1972) Jewish American who became a famous Broadway Playwrite." Looking at the guy's Wikipedia page, some clearly do not like ...

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • How to Upgrade to Fireox 14.0.1 in Ubuntu 12.0 ...
    Firefox 14.0.1 has just been released and since it is a major release, updates will be coming to official Ubuntu repositories soon. But for the impatient folks among you, here is how you upgrade to Firefox 14.0.1 from Firefox 13.0.1 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin". Insta ...
  • Xubuntu 12.04 LTS Review: Perfect Alternative ...
    Negative publicity around Ubuntu Unity and GNOME Shell is proving to be a real blessing in disguise for a bunch of smaller, lightweight distros like Xubuntu, Lubuntu et al. As much as I like Unity and GNOME Shell, they are not really the ideal choice for under-powered devices like netbooks. ...
  • 25 Things I did After Installing Ubuntu 12.04 ...
    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" is proving everyone wrong. It is perhaps the most loved Ubuntu release since "Lucid Lynx". Unity is now an almost-finished product. The rock solid nature of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS along with bold moves such as the introduction of features like HUD is winning the h ...
  • Best Free Android Apps for TV and Film Buffs
    Some people say that smart phones are slowly killing televisions as a source of viewing content, but we believe that the two go hand in hand. After all, you don't have to choose one over the other. Being the nice folks we are, we decided to find you the very best Android apps that will ...
  • How to Connect Blackberry Playbook with Ubuntu ...
    I bought a Blackberry Playbook recently, primarily because of its rock-bottom pricing which suddenly made it an excellent value-for-money Tablet. It was the base 16 GB version and when I tried connecting it to my Ubuntu via USB, Playbook was just not being automatically detected as a USB d ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Letter confirming my complaint against Baxter ...
    Here it is again: a pdf copy of a letter from the Austrian Health Ministry dated May 2009 confirming that I had made a complaint against Baxter and Avir and that state prosecutors had started an investigation into the incident involving the contamination of 72 kilos of seasonal flu vaccine with ...
  • New French pandemic plan targets internet
    The role information circulating on the internet played in persuading people in France not to take the pandemic vaccine in 2009 is confirmed by the country’s new pandemic plan. The plan states that number of French people willing to take the pandemic vaccine dropped from 65% at the end of August ...
  • Dr Carley’s radio show on Poland, Olympi ...
    Dr Rebecca Carley and I talked about Poland, forced vaccination and the Olympics on a radio show last Thursday. Check out the link here: http://www.reversingvaccineinduceddiseases.com/page/415061574
  • Resistance to new compulsory vaccination in Po ...
    When will the next „pandemic” strike? Vaccination enforcement in Poland. Sent by Marek Podlecki, Poland This time neither the government nor the Minister of Health will have a say. They will HAVE TO buy vaccines and all Poles will be FORCED to have them injected, and that is no conspiracy theory ...
  • Jewish Holocaust survivor compares new forced ...
    Vaccine Holocaust Eliza Walczak at the Senate Comittee of Diseases on 07.04.2012 Transcript and translation into English: EW: Mister Chairman, Senators. I am a lobbyst registered with number 197, I’m lobbying on the cause of patient rights, I guarantee patient rights in accordance with actual me ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • CIA “Manages” Drug Trade, Mexican Official Says
    by Alex Newman The Central Intelligence Agency’s involvement in drug trafficking is back in the media spotlight after a spokesman for the violence-plagued Mexican state of Chihuahua became the latest high-profile individual to accuse the CIA, which has been linked to narcotics trafficking for de ...
  • 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 ...

Veterans Today

  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Augu ...
    National Hispanic Heritage Month, Sept. 15 – Oct. 15, is a time to celebrate the history, achievements, traditions and contributions of Hispanic Americans to our nation.
  • Major Media Admit Presence of Foreign Militant ...
    War on humanity is waged for unchallenged global dominance. Syria is ground zero. Other targeted states come later.
  • Presidential Memorandum Supports Employment of ...
    President Barack Obama has made helping veterans find civilian employment and reintegrate into the nation’s workforce and economy a top priority, according to a White House fact sheet released July 19.
  • Bandar Bush, MIA
    When I read the report a week ago on Voltaire.net, responsible for some fair thing but lots of less reliable material also, I became afraid. As a journalist, perhaps the "pretend" kind, in that I have difficulty being slavish and naturally stupid, I knew it could be true.
  • Veteran Finds Work with Help From VA, Labor De ...
    Don’t give up hope. … You have to be persistent,” he said. “The doors will open. It’s not that dark out there. It seems that way, but there will be opportunities.”

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Hillary Clinton Embarks on Neo-Colonial Tour o ...
    Stop NATO July 31, 2012 Hillary Clinton Embarks on Neo-Colonial Tour of Africa Rick Rozoff America’s top diplomat, Hillary Clinton, arrived in Senegal on July 31 to begin an eleven-day, six-nation tour of the world’s second most populous continent, the target of the Pentagon’s ...
  • Pentagon Chief Rallies Arab, Israeli Allies Ag ...
    Stop NATO July 30, 2012 Pentagon Chief Rallies Arab, Israeli Allies Against Syria, Iran Rick Rozoff U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has begun a five-day, four-nation tour of North Africa and the Middle East to consolidate military ties with traditional allies against the backdrop of mounting ...
  • Moving Beyond Militarization: Northeast Asia N ...
    The Hankyoreh July 25, 2012 Moving Beyond Militarization: Northeast Asia needs collective security, not conflict By Honda Hirokuni Professor of Economics, Dokkyo University ==== Japanese administrations over recent decades have accepted US demands and transformed the original self-defense forces ...
  • Aggressive U.S. Policy From East To South Asia ...
    The News July 28, 2012 Aggressive US foreign policy Brian Cloughley Air travel isn’t much fun these days, what with searches, pat-downs, holdups, crowds and queues, so it’s good when sometimes you can have a laugh while travelling, which I did when reading a newspaper report. It made me hoot wit ...
  • Afghanistan: U.S., NATO, Pax Americana Face Defeat
    Frontier Post July 28, 2012 American and NATO misadventures Abid Mustafa After having fought for more than a decade in Afghanistan, America has yet to show any considerable gains for its brutal occupation. Nonetheless, there are some diehard American strategists who beg to differ, and argue that ...

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Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Zimmerman Surrenders to Authorities
    George Zimmerman is back behind bars.Contributor: TJ Larson Published: Jun 03, 2012
  • Why Does Florida Have Repeated Election Problems?
    Florida is having voter controversies this year and the general election isn't even here yet.Contributor: William Browning Published: Jun 03, 2012
  • Texas Teacher of the Year Arrested for Sexting ...
    John McDaniel, 32, days after being named Teacher of the Year, is arrested for inappropriate relationship with student. Recent cases like this have prompted Texas to re-examine its policy on social media.Contributor: Dori Starnes Published: Jun 01, 2012
  • Hold onto Your Fountain Drinks, New Yorkers!
    Bloomberg's administration propose a ban on sugary drinks in order to combat rising obesity in NYC.Contributor: Brianna Peterson Published: May 31, 2012
  • Defense of Marriage Act Ruled Unconstitutional ...
    The Defense of Marriage Act (DoMA) has been ruled unconstitutional yet again. Coming on the heels of two California federal judges ruling DoMA unconstitutional, the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals has now also issued a rulingContributor: Christopher Beheler Published: May 31, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • Scientists Engineer "Chimera" Primates to Comb ...
    Roku, Hex and Chimero are the world’s first primate chimeras—individual monkeys made from multiple fertilized eggs of the same species. Each animal has six different sets of genes instead of one. To produce each monkey, biologist Shoukhrat Mitali­pov and his team at the Oregon Health and Scienc ...
  • November 1926: Why Men Will Always Be Better a ...
    1926 sports aficionados give their opinions on why women can't reach the "masculine standard" This article originally appeared in the November 1926 issue of Popular Science. You can explore more of our archives--stretching back 140 years--here. While tennis and golf were possible--if uncomforta ...
  • The 2000-2004 North American Drought was the W ...
    Welcome to the 'megadrought' An analysis of past climate data published yesterday in the journal Nature Geoscience paints a less-than-rosy picture for the U.S., Mexico, and Canada in the 21st century. The 2000-2004 dry spell was the worst drought in the region in 800 years, the researchers clai ...
  • FYI: Will Athletes Ever Stop Breaking Records?
    World record after world record after world record Even if athletes never got any stronger or faster, and if their techniques and training never changed, they would still break records from time to time. That’s because the ability of each person who decides to compete, and the outcome of each c ...
  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, J ...
    A great roundup for you to end this steamy July week. We've got this tiny monkey, plus the world's oldest orangutan. There's awe-inspiring space pics and sassy tech infographics. It's all inside. Enjoy! Click to launch the gallery.

Veterans Today

  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Augu ...
    National Hispanic Heritage Month, Sept. 15 – Oct. 15, is a time to celebrate the history, achievements, traditions and contributions of Hispanic Americans to our nation.
  • Major Media Admit Presence of Foreign Militant ...
    War on humanity is waged for unchallenged global dominance. Syria is ground zero. Other targeted states come later.
  • Presidential Memorandum Supports Employment of ...
    President Barack Obama has made helping veterans find civilian employment and reintegrate into the nation’s workforce and economy a top priority, according to a White House fact sheet released July 19.
  • Bandar Bush, MIA
    When I read the report a week ago on Voltaire.net, responsible for some fair thing but lots of less reliable material also, I became afraid. As a journalist, perhaps the "pretend" kind, in that I have difficulty being slavish and naturally stupid, I knew it could be true.
  • Veteran Finds Work with Help From VA, Labor De ...
    Don’t give up hope. … You have to be persistent,” he said. “The doors will open. It’s not that dark out there. It seems that way, but there will be opportunities.”

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Jet stream set to spoil summer again
    After a fine and warm weekend across much of the country, temperatures today have reached 80 degrees Fahrenheit in Bridlington in East Yorkshire for the first time this summer - although similar values were reached in places for a time during late May. It's certainly come as a welcome relief af ...
  • What's causing our extreme weather? Is it unpr ...
    The awful weather which continues to affect the UK led yesterday to the Great Yorkshire show being cancelled (because of the weather) for the first time in its 154 year history. And on Monday, serious flash flooding devastated parts of the Calder valley for the second time in as many weeks. ...
  • Parts of UK at risk of renewed flooding
    UPDATE at 6.30pm Lastest information from American GFS model shifts emphasis for heavy rain towards the earlier ECMWF solution detailed below, i.e with much of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire at risk of some of the highest rainfall totals. ENDS Amber alerts are in force for parts of the UK tomorro ...
  • Poor summer weather to continue well into July
    UPDATE at 5PM According to the Met Office, averaged across the UK, June 2012 has been the wettest since records began in 1910, the coolest since 1991, and the second dullest since records began (record for lowest sunshine in June is still 1987). ENDS It will come as no surprise that June in Y ...
  • Blame the jet stream for return of heavy rain
    After a short spell of fine and warm weather in the last few days, Atlantic weather fronts are once again expected to spread wind and rain across the country tonight and tomorrow, leading us into a fourth successive weekend washout. According to Philip Eden, writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Eternity's End: Venezuela Joins MERCOSUR Today
    ...or, more accurately, what's left of MERCOSUR. Read on to understand why. Well I guess you should never say never: Hot on the heels of Russia joining the WTO after eighteen long years of negotiating its membership (or what passes for it), Venezuela is finally going to join MERCOSUR (Mercado ...
  • Geopolitics 40 Years Ago: USSR 'Beat' US in B-Ball
    Bloomberg has not one but two features recounting the famous basketball match in which the Soviet team famously beat the US team at the 1972 Munich Olympics by a single point forty years ago--albeit with a lot of controversy. Alike Pacquiao versus Bradley, the result is eminently contestable. In ...
  • Chuck Schumer Gets Misty on PRC FDI...in Canada
    With apologies to Johnny Mathis: PRC...you're as nasty as a kitten bred by...Dick Cheney While that may be the intro to the theme song of Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY/China Suxland), rest assured that Democrats are far from alone in declaring open season on China and its assumed unfair trade ...
  • Dirigisme 2012: Hollande v Hyundai, France v Korea
    You've got to hand it to the South Koreans. They've managed to outmanoeuvre everyone else in setting up FTAs with nearly every other region that they have substantial export markets in. While the trade concessions it gains may be comparatively small in this day and age of near-universal WTO memb ...
  • Need More Proof Patent Systems Favour the West?
    It's sad but true that the more you know about our world, the more disillusioned you become. However, in the name of normative inquiry, I am duty-bound to bring you the truth (no matter how hard it hurts). Today we return to that old IPE chestnut, global patent regimes. Recently, the distinguish ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Letter to politicians demanding Royal Commissi ...
    In my previous post I called on everyone to write to politicians to demand action to ensure that John Pirona’s tragic death is the last one. I am happy to help make this important job easier. Here’s a draft letter if you don’t have time to write your own. Or use it as a start [...]
  • Callous church leaders kill another victim
    The suicide death of clergy sex abuse victim John Pirona has devastated an entire community in the Hunter region of NSW, and saddened and enraged his fellow victims around the country. The news was made all the more tragic because John disappeared nearly a week before his body was found, leaving ...
  • Lynn sentenced to jail for his crimes. Now, wh ...
    At last. A church leader has been sentenced to jail for participating in the worldwide catholic church conspiracy to cover up child sex crimes. A conspiracy which has endangered countless millions of children. And ruined hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of lives. And directly led to the ...
  • Unholy Silence of Church leaders
    Last week a documentary titled Unholy Silence was aired in Australia. It detailed Australian church leaders covering up child sex offences by their priests, and examined two suicides resulting directly from a priest’s abuse, and the callous re-abuse of his victims by church leaders. The Australi ...
  • Anything Less Than A Royal Commission Is Just ...
    For far too long Australians have been happy to turn their backs on the untold suffering of thousands of victims of church-enabled sexual predators. But ignoring the problem simply ensures it continues, and gives rapists the message that they have a right to destroy as many innocent lives as the ...

WL Central

  • 2012-07-31 Christine Assange Meets Ecuador's F ...
    UPDATE BELOW: In the Ecuadorian capital of Quito today, Christine Assange struggled to hold back tears after a meeting with Ricardo Patiño, Ecuador's Minister for Foreign Relations, Business and Integration. While WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remains trapped in Ecuador's London embassy, his ...
  • 2012-07-30 WikiLeaks: Activist or Journalist? ...
    On Saturday evening, what appeared to be a New York Times op-ed piece by Bill Keller supporting WikiLeaks emerged on twitter. For WL supporters, this was too good to be true, as someone who had shown much animosity toward WikiLeaks appeared to be speaking in their defense. This turned out to be ...
  • 2012-07-30 WikiLeaks, Activist or Journalist?; ...
    On Saturday evening what appeared to be a New York Times op-ed piece by Bill Keller emerged on twitter. For those that support WikiLeaks, it was too good to be true, as a man who had shown much animosity toward WikiLeaks appeared to be speaking in defense of the organization. It turned out to be ...
  • 2012-07-29 The undermining of Canadian values ...
    The Minister of Public Safety in Canada, Vic Toews, recently made comments about Omar Khadr's potential transfer to Canada from Guantánamo Bay, where he has been incarcerated since 2002 when he was just 15 years old. The comment by Toews comes after the US formally requested a transfer in April ...
  • 2012-07-26 WikiLeaks News Update: Baltasar Gar ...
    WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 600 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 597 days. - 37 days at the Ecuadorian Embassy. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 794 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without ...

U N News

  • UN envoy calls for repatriation of last child ...
    A top United Nations official has renewed her call on Canada and the United States to transfer Omar Khadr, who has spent a decade at Guantánamo Bay as of today and is the last child soldier still being held at the US detention facility.
  • Overall picture of coca cultivation in Colombi ...
    The area used to cultivate coca in Colombia has risen three per cent in 2011 over the previous year, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which added that the overall picture remained stable for the raw material used to produce the illegal drug cocaine.
  • UN expert urges US authorities to stop executi ...
    An independent United Nations human rights expert has urged United States authorities to stop the execution of two people with psychosocial disabilities who are scheduled to be put to death tomorrow in the states of Georgia and Texas.
  • UN voices concern over thousands of Haitians f ...
    The United Nations refugee agency today voiced concern over the number of people from Haiti and other Caribbean countries who have risked their lives trying to escape by sea from difficult living situations in their homelands.
  • Feature: UN official sees first-hand New York ...
    Upper Manhattan is not the usual stomping ground for the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the part of the UN charged with helping in global efforts against illicit drugs, crime and terrorism.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • A Radio Interview with John Davis
    It’s always fun to have a conversation with John Davis, so get some iced tea, turn up the volume and take some time to listen as John is interviewed by Ken Rose on What Now, aired on KOWS Radio Occidental July 23, 2012. Weaving lessons learned, travel stories and his deep knowledge and con ...
  • Canid hybridization: contemporary evolution in ...
    Canid hybridization: contemporary evolution in human-modified landscapes Astrid V. Stronen1,*, Nathalie Tessier1, Hélène Jolicoeur2, Paul C. Paquet3, Michel Hénault4, Mario Villemure5, Brent R. Patterson6, Tim Sallows7, Gloria Goulet8,François-Joseph Lapointe1 First published online: July 25, 20 ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – The Myth ...
    The Myth of the Environmental Movement ©2012 Dave Foreman In the years following Earth Day, environmentalism, once regarded as the self-serving indulgence of a privileged elite, became ‘America’s cause’…. –Phil Shabecoff - A Fierce Green Fire: The American   Environmental Movement Th ...
  • Sea Shepherd News
    Letter and excerpts from latest Sea Shepherd newsletter - Dear Friend of Sea Shepherd, Day 47 as a prisoner in Germany. My detainment has raised a lot of awareness for our cause. Citizens in Germany and all around the world have been very supportive. The only one who does not seem supportive is ...
  • A Radio Interview with Dave Foreman
    Listen to Ken Rose of http://www.pantedmonkey.org/ talk with Dave recently on his radio show What Now. Broadcast on KOWS Radio Occidental every Monday at 11 AM Pacific Time, Ken offers a fascinating collection of interviews with accomplished thinkers, writers, artists, farmers and scientists add ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Why the US Used HAARP to Create the 9.0 Magnit ...
      HAARP or High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program is a US military weapon of mass destruction that can alter the weather and create earthquakes anywhere in the World.  On March 11, 2011 HAARP triggered a 9.0 magnitude off the coast of Japan. ~ Paul Kincaid - May 13, 2 ...
  • Obama To Transform U.S. Military Into Agenda 2 ...
    Progressive organizations behind White House policy have crafted specific, second-term plans for President Obama to transform the U.S. Armed Forces into a social work-style organization designed to combat “global warming,” fight global poverty, remedy “injustice,” bolster the United Nations ...
  • Do You Take Statin Drugs?... They're A Sweeth ...
    Statin drugs are a sweetheart alright... a $25 billion a year industry sweetheart that is! Not only are they the best-selling drug class out there, but they provide an almost endless list of side effects that assure the hapless taker a lifetime of expensive medical treatment. Statins are a B ...
  • Romney is Greeted in Poland with Huge Ron Paul ...
    Check it out!... Mitt Romney is greeted with a huge Ron Paul banner in Poland! ~ Video read more
  • The Fed Caught RED Handed!... Corrupt Banking ...
    The rats are jumping ship as corrupt banking is exposed at the highest levels and the FED is caught RED handed. ~ Alexander Higgins - Video - related articles read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Massive India Power Outage: Wake Up Call
    As the world’s population explodes beyond 7 BILLION people, India’s borders hold 10% of all humans on the planet, about 700 million. Yesterday, and again today, half of them lost power as the electricity went out and the grid went down… for 370 million people. That’s more ...
  • Fake TV Burglar Deterrent Review
    Home security and burglar deterrence should be thought of as ‘layers’, layers of security that you apply to achieve a more impenetrable home. Not only are there many ‘hardening’ aspects to home security, but there are others such as ‘illusional’. In addition t ...
  • Plan for Locations
    While there are warnings for many types of potential disasters, many emergencies and disasters occur without any warning. Since you can’t predict where you will be for disasters, it is important to have plans and supplies for the locations you and your household go to regularly. Planning ahead w ...
  • ALL Water In Oregon Belongs To The State
    “When something is wrong, you just, as an American citizen, you have to put your foot down and say, ‘This is wrong; you just can’t take away anymore of my rights and from here on in, I’m going to fight it.” Gary Harrington, of Eagle Point, Oregon said that he will never stop fighting the [...]
  • Make Drinking Water Safe with Bleach
    Water. We can’t live without it. Not for long – only about 3 days without any source of it (including any water or moisture that is in your foods). In fact, water is the one thing that we need the most, to survive. Far too often, survival minded preppers think of and concentrate on s ...

Fast Company

  • Amazon Instant Video Comes To The iPad
    News Updates All Day From Fast Company.Until today, subscribers to Amazon's Netflix alternative, Instant Video, had two options for viewing its library of videos: the Kindle Fire and their desktop browsers.Now they can add their iPads to that list--but not iPhones. The company released a new iPa ...
  • What Every CEO Can Learn From The Olympics’ Wa ...
    Anyone who's seen the way bureaucracy eviscerates originality, seeks comfort in consensus, and hides from the most benign level of risk-taking has to marvel at the miracle of intact survival that was Danny Boyle’s opening ceremonies. It should be required watching for every CEO. On Friday, ove ...
  • Rumor Patrol: How Apple Could Surprise Us With ...
    An overhauled iPod Nano could arrive in Apple's upcoming news event. And it could be an Apple secret weapon.I bet that when you picture an iPod you absolutely don't think of the current iPod Nano. You probably imagine a classic iPod or perhaps the new iPod Touch (which, by Apple's own numbers) i ...
  • Google Fiberhoods: Better Than Tupperware Parties
    Google's strategy for rolling out fiber-optic Internet in Kansas City is part Avon, part Amway, and hyperlocal marketing gold.A little peer pressure. A little neighborly competition. And a lot of hyperlocal. That’s Google’s plan for rolling out Google Fiber in Kansas City this year. And so far, ...
  • The Next Generation Of Android Malware
    Infected fake Angry Birds? Autotexting applications that spam dubious Eastern European pay-SMS lines? Here's how the latest Android malware sneaked past Google Play's security. (Hint: Dropbox.)Android phones are ubiquitous. However, their ubiquity is creating amazing opportunities for bad guys. ...

Jadaliyya

  • العدودة القبطية القنائية
    رغم أن عمله الأساسي هو إمام مسجد في نجع حمادى بصعيد مصر ، فإن أحمد عبد الغني شاعر له عدة دواوين شعرية مابين العامية والفصحى، أهمها “الشاعر والناس” 1987، و “الطلوع المر” 2009  ، و“طيور السما” 2009 ، و“بقايا الخوف” 2011 ، و”الفارس والجواد” 2010، لكنه نال شهرته من خلال بحثه فى المورث الشعبي.&n ...
  • Bulgaria Bombing Catches Country Unprepared
    It has been almost two weeks since the bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria, that killed five Israelis and one Bulgarian, and the investigation has still not yielded answers. Foreign security agents and experts flooded the country to help local authorities trace the organisers. One newspaper alleged that ...
  • أپاچي
    أپاچي “الحصانُ المجنونُ” لم يكُنْ حصاناً.  كان طفلاً من الأپاچي سمّتْهُ أُمّه “الحصان المجنون” لأنّه كان يعدو كالريحِ. يسْتَعْجِلُ الفُصولَ كي يكْبرَ ويدافعَ عَن الأپاچي. في الليل يراودُهُ حلمٌ واحدٌ: أنْ يكونَ طائِراً شرِساً يحلّْق في كبد السماء، يُعَشْعِشُ في الغيوم، ويَنْقَضُّ على ا ...
  • Dissent in Morocco: Not All for One
    When Tunisia and Libya began exhibiting what appeared to be the early stages of a popular uprising, some analysts and commentators turned to Morocco, the only remaining kingdom in North Africa, and tried to make sense of what Morocco is (or is not) experiencing: “Morocco is a regional model.” ...
  • Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (July 31)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundu ...

mediagazer

  • How the Financial Times achieved a digital mil ...
    Roy Greenslade / Guardian: How the Financial Times achieved a digital milestone  —  Five years ago I recall listening to the Financial Times's chief executive, John Ridding, as he outlined his paper's digital strategy.  It was under way by then, of course, but the FT was mo ...
  • Sun journalist in Tuleta arrest bailed until S ...
    Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette: Sun journalist in Tuleta arrest bailed until September  —  A 37-year-old Sun journalist has been released on bail following his arrest yesterday morning on suspicion of handling goods.  —  The journalist, who has not been named, was b ...
  • NAA list shows newspaper paywalls typically al ...
    Steve Myers / Poynter: NAA list shows newspaper paywalls typically allow 11 free articles  —  Research conducted by the Newspaper Association of America shows that some news organizations, like Gannett, vary their paywall thresholds at different papers, while others, like Digita ...
  • Amazon Revamps Its Cloud Music Player to Compe ...
    Ben Sisario / Media Decoder: Amazon Revamps Its Cloud Music Player to Compete With iTunes  —  It has taken more than a year, but Amazon is finally ready to compete with iTunes in the cloud.  —  On Tuesday, Amazon introduced a new version of its Cloud Player music ...
  • The Truth About #NBCFail - For Starters, NBC I ...
    Simon Dumenco / AdAge: The Truth About #NBCFail  —  For Starters, NBC Is Not, Last Time I Checked, a Charity  —  A few thoughts about NBC's Olympics strategy — and the operatic freak-outs about NBC's Olympics strategy:  —  It's been perverse ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Animal rights and Jewish law: restoring a ...
    The current widespread mistreatment of animals on factory farms is very inconsistent with Judaism’s beautiful teachings about compassion to animals. One way for Jews to respond to these inconsistencies is to restore and transform the ancient and largely forgotten Jewish holiday of Rosh Hasha ...
  • The Dugan Foundation presents 6th Annual ...
    Related topics This WeekendPetspet adoptionPet Rescueoutdoor fun Advertisement On Saturday, August 4th, 2012, Dugan Foundation will present the sixth annual Woofstock, “one part fantastic entertainment and one hundred parts great pets that need a home.” This event is free, and a ton of fun! ...
  • Rains lash capital, traffic snarls in sev ...
    Tweet New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) It was a rainy Wednesday morning in the capital with office-goers stuck in traffic snarls in several places and the weather office forecasting more showers later in the day. The minimum temperature was 26.6 degrees Celsius, average for the season....
  • Stressful pregnancy could harm child
    Tweet London, Aug 1 (IANS) A study in Britain has revealed that stress during pregnancy could have its affect on the unborn child's health in years to come and researchers suggest that expecting women should be supported during tension-filled times. The study of English mothers-to-be reveale ...
  • Pet of the Week: Snickers
    Comments Zoom Heidi Waeschle-Gabel) Pet of the week Pet: Meet Snickers. This 2-year-old Chow/German Shepherd mix is sweet as candy. Fully grown at 52 pounds, Snickers walks like a pro on a leash and already knows sit and stay. Adoption details: The adoption fee includes sterilization, age-ap ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 7/26/12 - Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Banne ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Banned by Los Angeles City Council
  • 7/25/12 - Top 17 Hospitals' Positions on Medic ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - Top 17 Hospitals' Positions on Medical Marijuana - Our chart shows the top 17 US hospitals according to US News and World Report along with their responses to our question "Should marijuana be a medical option?" Read statements from such hospitals as Johns Hopk ...
  • 7/25/12 - Olympic Games Tourism Brings Prostit ...
    prostitution.procon.org - Olympic Games Tourism Brings Prostitution, Human Trafficking Concerns to London
  • 7/25/12 - LA City Council Bans Medical Marijua ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - LA City Council Bans Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in Unanimous Vote - 762 registered medical marijuana shops in Los Angeles (plus as many as 200 unregistered ones) will be given notice to shut down immediately after the City Council voted 14-0 in favor of the ban.
  • 7/25/12 - Candidate Speeches
    2012election.procon.org - Candidate Speeches - Read campaign speeches from Obama, Paul, Romney, and third party candidates from the Constitution Party (Virgil Goode), Green Party (Jill Stein), and Libertarian Party (Gary Johnson).

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Lessons from across the pond?
    When it comes to scientific research, the US and UK are the world’s undisputed heavyweights (see Rising Above the Gathering Storm and The Scientific Century).  The US invests heavily in quality research, and the UK relies on its productivity and ability to punch well above its weight.  Both nati ...
  • Sowing the seed corn…
    Having worked in environment and sustainable development policy for the past couple of years, my recent foray into the world of science and innovation policy represents something of a paradigm shift. Thankfully, the GovNet Science & Innovation conference presented me with an opportune idiot’ ...
  • A timely contribution to a fractious debate
    For a nation that’s only drilled three shale gas wells, and only hydraulically fractured (‘fracked’) one of them, the UK is remarkably engaged in the shale gas debate. The reasons for this are manifold, but two seem particularly salient.  Firstly, the UK’s lone instance of fracking for shale gas ...
  • Science’s Olympic legacy
    Credit: johnthescone Earlier this week I attended a Parliamentary Links Day on the subject of Science and Sport.  As an armchair athlete and a bit of an equipment geek I was looking forward to fuelling my conviction that but for the will and resources I would currently be entering my pre-Olympic ...
  • Making an open enterprise work
    Calls for media, business or government transparency have never been so noisy or so widespread. The mantra “sunlight is the best of disinfectants” (usually attributed to US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis) has been picked up as a cure for bad governance across the piece. But there is an err ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Fans garner signatures in support of Kings XI ...
    CHANDIGARH - Dejected over the ouster of Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) from the Indian Premier League (IPL), fans of the team here have started a signature campaign to garner public support against the decision. They have constituted a group called Fans of Kings XI Punjab, consisting of students and ...
  • Even turtles and wasps need a little play time
    WASHINGTON - Watching kids and dogs play is not an alien sight. However, what about a turtle or even a wasp? Well, it seems they play, too. Gordon Burghardt, a psychology professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has discovered that many animals-not just dogs, cats, and monkeys-need ...
  • Oz PM Gillard says trade union official?s 9/11 ...
    CANBERRA - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed as “stupid and wrong” a senior union official’s belief that the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy, but refused to discipline him. Kevin Bracken, the president of the Victorian Trades Hall and secretary of the Mari ...
  • Turmeric boosts effect of chemo drug in head a ...
    WASHINGTON - Researchers with UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center have found that curcumin, the major component in the spice turmeric, when combined with the drug Cisplatin enhances the chemotherapy’s suppression of head and neck cancer cell growth. In India, women for years have been usi ...
  • Neanderthal children were ?large, sturdy and t ...
    WASHINGTON - Remains of the youngest Neanderthal ever found suggest that those who made it to the ‘terrible two’s’ were large, sturdy and toothy. The remains of this infant - a lower jaw and teeth unearthed in a Belgian cave - are that of the youngest Neanderthal ever found i ...

TruthNews Australia

  • ‘Batman’ Gun Grab: The Port Arthur Massacre Pa ...
    The recent ‘Batman’ massacre in Colorado has evinced several characteristics of past gun related atrocities which, if anything, only serve to seriously undermine evidence against these alleged ‘lone gunman’. This incident is clearly becoming a precursor for a campaign to ...
  • Vaccination and your rights with Bronwyn Hanco ...
    Last week we looked at the question of vaccine efficacy and safety. Our discussion today focuses on the question of your rights. Are vaccines compulsory? Can day care centres legally refuse entry to unvaccinated children? Can schools demand vaccination records? Will parents of unvaccinated child ...
  • Meryl Dorey on vaccine safety - Part 1
    Our guest today for the 2nd hour is Meryl Dorey, who runs the Australian Vaccination Network, a non-profit organisation which sets out to inform people about the hidden facts regarding both the efficacy and safety of vaccines. As noted in last week's show, Meryl has been investigated by the He ...
  • Celebrating year zero of the eco-technic dicta ...
    To mark the introduction into Australia of the most barbaric, pointless and deceptive tax ever conjured up by a phony democracy, we bring you a replay of an interview with Christopher Monckton which dates back to January 2010. At that time Lord Monckton was touring Australia to talk about clim ...
  • Exposing the criminal injustice system with Ge ...
    In today's show we are joined in the first hour by Josh Jackson from Germany. We cover the fiscal crisis in Europe and Josh gives us some interesting insights. In the second hour George Georgios returns to talk about the systemic injustice and corruption within the criminal justice system. Geo ...

Beacon

  • Creature Feature: Beluga Whale
    Belugas are the only whales that can make facial expressions ©NOAA Think that you could survive in the icy waters of the Arctic Ocean? Probably not, but beluga whales have certainly found a way. The beluga whale, sometimes known as the white whale, is an unusual-looking marine mammal. A typi ...
  • Uncovering Surprising Blooms in the Arctic
    A changing Arctic spells bad news for polar bears and other animals ©Michael Stephens Last summer I had the amazing opportunity to be on board the U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker Healy, in partnership with N.A.S.A.’s ICESCAPE mission to study the effects of ocean acidification on phytoplankton co ...
  • New Report: Seafood Fraud in South Florida
    58% of samples from sushi vendors in South Florida were mislabeled ©Wikimedia Commons How would you feel if you found out the red snapper on your plate wasn’t red snapper at all, but instead something illegally fished or potentially unhealthy? A new Oceana study found that 31% of seafood we t ...
  • Victory in Spain! National Park Saved from Oil ...
    Many birds make their homes in the wetlands of Doñana National Park ©Wikimedia Commons We’re pleased to announce that the Spanish government has put an end to proposed oil industry development that would have threatened the Doñana National Park, a World Heritage Site, after campaigning by Oce ...
  • And the 2012 Ocean Heroes Are…
    James Hemphill and Captain Don Voss, our 2012 Ocean Heroes You’ve been waiting with bated breath to find out who this year’s Ocean Heroes are, and the time has finally come to announce our winners! We received over 400 fantastic nominations this year, and narrowed it down to six adult finali ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Private Gore Vidal, United States Army, Passes ...
      Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012). He attended and graduated the Philips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. Afterwrds in 143 he joined the United States Army, He was stationed in the Aleutian Islands fduring the Second World War and served as  a first mate on a ship ...
  • The Most Astounding Fact About The Universe By ...
  • Military Anecdote Day. Even A Bullet To The Ch ...
    In 1913, Theodore Roosevelt was campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin when a crazed anarchist shop keeper, John Schrank. They were in front of the Gilpatrick Hotel. Chrank fitred a .32 directly at Roosevelt’s heart. The round was stopped by a steel glasses case and a 50 page manuscript and thusly ...
  • Someone Found And Posted The Actual Engineer L ...
      As you look through these, you will see if you can read the manuscripts, that the lunar modules were basically duct taped together battery powered toys. The ability to regulate current the way we do know simply did not exist as an exact science. And so circuit boards were constantly tripp ...
  • The V-173 Became The XF5U, Or Flying Flapjack. ...
          Charles Zimmerman was wondering why the entire plane could not be a wing. He was faced with drag problems at the tip end of small stubby wings created by high aspect wing ratio configuration. So he had the idea that by placing the propellers at the end of the fuselage, or at ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Bipartisan Police State Planning for Party Con ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Preparations for the Republican National Convention in Tampa, FL, August 27 – 30, and for the Democratic Convention in Charlotte, NC, September 3 – 6 are in the final phase. Security is a legitimate and major concern, ...
  • News Desk: Saudi Female Judoka Controversy, fr ...
    Wodjan Shaherkani’s participation in the London 2012 Games had been in doubt after the International Judo Federation said she needed to remove the head scarf for her match. … She and teammate Sarah Attar, the kingdom’s first ever female Olympic competitors, have both signed agr ...
  • NBC Lets Guy Adams Out of Twitter Jail
    **UPDATED** REPRESENTATIVE OF NBC’S aggressive content fencing, as well as their police grip on everything Olympics, when Guy Adams started ripping the network for their coverage of the London Olympic games, they took action. Twitter obliged. As you can see above, he’s back, promisin ...
  • U.S. Men’s Gymnastic Team Chokes in London
    IT HAPPENS, even when you can least afford it. There’s not another way to write or review it honestly. The men’s gymnastic team psyched themselves out. Danell Leyva, the gymnast who led the entire world in the all-around in the qualifications and nearly made the pommel horse final, l ...
  • Top Story: But Will Any of It Matter?
    President Obama came to the White House with big plans. He’d halve the deficit. Strengthen the economy. Lower unemployment. What did we get? National Debt over 15 trillion and climbing. Unemployment above 8 percent for 40 straight months. An ongoing economic crisis with no end in sight. He tried ...

Hudson New York

  • Britain: Muslim Polygamists to Get More Welfar ...
    Muslim immigrants with more than one wife will see an increase in their social welfare benefits beginning in 2013, when reforms to the British welfare system come into effect. Although polygamy is illegal in Britain, the state effectively recognizes the
  • British Allow Anti-Semitic Iranian Propaganda ...
    "The Heritage and Destiny Channel," on You Tube, run by Iran, currently features a video with two British subjects: an actress and film producer named Michelle Renouf, whose real name is Michelle Mainwaring, 62, a former Australian television model, now
  • Where is Prince Bandar?
    Was Bandar Bush, 63, son of Prince Sultan (perennial Saudi Defense Minister,1963-2001), semi-perennial ambassador to Washington (1983-2005), and secretive jihad financier, killed by a Syrian intelligence death squad? Thunderous silence prevails on
  • A Russian-Saudi-Turkish-Chinese alliance to co ...
    I suggested during our conference call yesterday that the only friend the Muslim Brotherhood has in high places is Barack Obama. I didn't mean that facetiously. Turkey's application to join the SIno-Russian Shanghai Cooperation Organization following
  • Egypt's Trade Deficit is Now $35 billion a Year
    Egypt's trade deficit nearly doubled in the year through April as demand for its exports fell 14% but import costs rose: Egypt's trade deficit soared to LE17.5billion ($2.9 billion) in April, 79.6 per cent higher than the same month the previous year,

Urban Survival

  • Housing Improves a Bit
    Here’s the update to the Case Shiller/S&P Housing Index just out this morning – good news mostly (at least if you’re a homeowner:   “New York, July 31, 2012 – Data through May 2012, released today by S&P Dow Jones … Continue reading →
  • Coping: How to End the Drought?
    (Creswell, OR)   So how does etheric energy have some potential to end the drought?   I have no idea why my life works like this, but sometimes things just “happen” in a really odd sort of way.  Odd to the point … Continue reading →
  • Waiting on Housing Numbers
    The news part of this morning’s report will be posted around :15 past the hour as we await the Case Shiller Housing data…
  • Swimming in Numbers
    (Tacoma, WA)  Sorry to report that the global pandemic, Niburu, thermonuclear war and the pole shift have not arrived overnight, so you will have to come up with something new and creative as an excuse to blow off work this … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Death in the Heartland
    Not a very chipper email from a long-term reader up in Oklahoma, but sobering often accompanies Monday morning: “Hi George,   This guy’s been an outspoken critic of global warming for a long time.  Our ultra-conservative members of congress her in … Continue reading &# ...

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • New News on Extreme Weather and Global Warming ...
    Theo Spencer, Senior Advocate, Climate Center, New York You’re familiar with the game Connect the Dots; there’s a pattern of dots on a page and you draw a line linking each dot with the next and when you’re done you can clearly see ...
  • This is What Global Warming Looks Like - 2012 ...
    Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. NRDC produced its first “this is what global warming looks like” video back in 2010, featuring the Russian heat wave and the Pakistani flood. This year the extreme ...
  • Will NYC Yellow Cabs Ever Go for the Gold?
    Mark Izeman, Senior Attorney and Director of the New York Urban Program, New York As the world watches the Olympic Games over the next two weeks, some will be glued to their television screens watching Ryan Lochte race to become America’s new ...
  • July 2012 Threats to the Endangered Species Act
    Elly Pepper, Legislative Advocate, Washington, DC Farm Bill The House version of the farm bill (H.R. 6083), which was introduced this month, not only cuts conservation programs by $6 billion, but also contains two provisions that would harm wildlif ...
  • Making an Invisible Resource Visible: Energy E ...
    Radhika Khosla, Staff Scientist, India Initiative , New York Energy efficiency is an amazing source of energy – and because it comes from using less energy rather than coming from a new source it is often referred to as an “invisible re ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • 12-Year Old Girl Tased in Victoria’s Secret Store
    Story here.12-Year Old Girl Tased in Victoria’s Secret Store is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked for Saturday, July 28 to Monday, July 30, 2012: Update: Melbourne, Florida: A police officer was fired for picking up prostitutes from his patrol car, while he was in uniform. He … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct NewsF ...
  • Milton Friedman on the Drug War
    100 years ago, the great champion of liberty, Milton Friedman, was born.  Thus, it is  an appropriate day to recall some of his words about the American criminal justice system, particularly the drug war.     Here is Dr. Friedman’s foreword ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 16 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, July 27, 2012: Bexar County, Texas: Two K-9s died after an officer left them in a hot patrol car overnight. http://bit.ly/Ma6Cs5 Wilmington, North Carolina: A state trooper was placed … Continue reading →National Police ...
  • Rethinking Police Shooting Policies
    Steven Greenhut: I covered one police shooting in Anaheim in 2008. A 20-year-old newlywed stepped outside his house with a wooden rod in his hand after hearing a ruckus nearby. Police had been chasing a robbery suspect, and when the … Continue reading →Rethinking Police Shooting Poli ...

Total Collapse

  • NATO “Weather War” Warned “Out Of Control” As ...
    A shocking report prepared for President Putin by The Ministry of Emergency Situations (EMERCOM) on the 7 July catastrophic flood that devastated the southern Russian Caucasus Mountain town of Krymsk, killing 171 people and damaging more than 4,000 homes, states that no timely warnings were give ...
  • U.S. forces on Syrian border. Assad ‘may put m ...
    Russian intelligence has information about U.S. troops inside Turkey near the country’s border with Syria, a senior Syrian official told KleinOnline today. The official said the Russians said they observed American forces taking part in Turkish military measures to secure the Syria-Turkey border ...
  • August 1 debt crisis a reality, says financial ...
    At least one expert is predicting an economy collapse that will make 2008 look like the economy of the 1980s Regan era and it is coming soon. And he says it could happen as early as Aug. 1, the day the Feds are expected to announce plans for a third round of Quantitative Easing and [...]
  • Russia will not allow EU to inspect ships: For ...
    The Russian Foreign Ministry says Moscow will not allow the European Union to inspect ships sailing under the Russian flag, and that it will not cooperate with a new round of EU sanctions imposed against Syria. “We do not plan to take any part in measures carrying out European Union decisions di ...
  • Bizarre: U.K. military at Olympics outnumber U ...
    The Summer Olympic Games in London kick off today with the opening ceremony extravaganza, march of athletes, lighting of the flame and security and surveillance so pervasive it would make Britain’s great prophet of dystopia, George Orwell, cringe in fearful recognition. Great Britain, with its o ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Twitter and NBC ...
    Twitter sends a smackdown to Stocktwits. Apple’s next iPhone comes in September. Twitter and NBC play the blame game. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Microsoft Surfa ...
    Microsoft looks set to release its first Surface tablet on the same day as Windows 8, HTC withdraws from South Korea in the face of stiff competition, and MS X...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Facebook’ ...
    Facebook’s stock crumbles after hours of its first quarterly earnings. Twitter revokes some API access to Instagram. Nope, that Surface tablet won’t cost $1,000. You can catch The Daily Dose...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Mountain Lion l ...
    Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion upgrade hits the Mac App Store, Kickstarter hit, the Pebble smartwatch misses its target launch date, and Twitter will let us download all out old...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – New tools for F ...
    Facebook adds new features for Page admins, court bans the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 in the EU, and iPhones account for 73% AT&T’s smartphone sales in the past quarter. You...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Laggard to Leader - Report Launch Melbourne Sy ...
        Are you sick of hearing? Australia is only a small part of the climate problem We shouldn’t act before the rest of the world Our actions won’t make a difference, anyway BZE’s new report, Laggard to Leader, will challenge these excuses, expose the true extent of Australia’s ...
  • Germany’s solar panels would provide 25% of Au ...
    If you took all the solar panels in Germany and put them in Australia, they would supply a quarter of our electricity demand. In the first six months of 2012, 4.5% of total electricity demand in Germany was met by solar power. Put ...
  • Half-price Stationary Energy Plans now on sale
    Beyond Zero Emissions' award-winning Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan is now on sale for $15 + postage. That's 50% off! Perfect for showing your friends, family and workmates how Australia can get to 100% renewable energy within a decade. To order your copy email our General Manager ...
  • Solar Thermal Models Built
    Another four of our famous solar thermal models have been built in NSW, thanks to the efforts of Beyond Zero Emissions volunteers, the Paramatta Climate Action Network, and the Granville Men’s Shed. The models are of a concentrated solar thermal plant with a molten salt storage (CST+) power stat ...
  • WME leaders list 2012: GOVERNMENT + NGO LEADER
    The idealistic realist Matthew Wright Outfit: Beyond Zero Emissions Position: Executive Director Completely decarbonising our coal-rich nation by 2020 might be seen as an idealistic notion, but not to Matthew Wright. As co-founder of the NGO Beyond Zero Emissions, he has provided insight in ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Interview with the new CEO of The GEF, the wor ...
    The Global Environment Facility or 'GEF' unites 182 government members, in partnership with multiple international institutions, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector, with the goal of addressing global environmental issues. The following is an interview with Dr. Naoko Ishii of J ...
  • Featured video: see the world from the eyes of ...
    Scientists have succeeded in capturing amazing footage of the imperial cormorant (Phalacrocorax atriceps) diving 150 feet below the ocean's surface—and it's from the bird's point of view!
  • Forest cover falls 9% in East Africa in 9 years
    Forest cover in East Africa has dropped by 9.3 percent from 2001-2009, according to a new paper published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE. Looking at 12 countries in the region, the scientists found that, worryingly, forests were particularly hard hit near protected areas. Usually thought of ...
  • Indonews wrap: Indonesia gets mixed reviews on ...
    WWF gave Indonesia mixed reviews for combating wildlife crime in its Wildlife Crime Scorecard: Assessing Compliance with and Enforcement of CITES Commitments for Tigers, Rhinos and Elephants. The conservation group said Indonesia is failing to effectively protect endangered tigers and elephants, ...
  • Human rights court favors indigenous tribe ove ...
    The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has found in favor of a Kichwa community's right to consultation prior to industrial projects on their land in a ruling that could have implications for many indigenous peoples across the Americas. The court found that the government of Ecuador violated t ...

Sierra Express

  • A look at Sierra Leone’s Eco-tourism to fight ...
    Sierra Leone is a country surrounded with hills and mountains. Its unique coast line and riverbeds form parts of the country’s landscape that makes it attractive with buoyant eco-tourism potential.  (A bustling wharf) However, taking a closer look at the wharfs and bays around Freetown and its p ...
  • NEC’s Le 100 Million…
    The debate in Freetown at the moment is over the pronouncement by NEC’s chairperson, Dr. Christiana Thorpe (in photo) for political aspirants, bulking the Presidential Nominees, Members of Parliament, Municipal and Local Government candidates to pay the various sums of Le 100 Million, Le 25 Mill ...
  • NPA’s Eastern Electrical Supply
    We underrated the wind of our circulation when we sometimes communicate as we think our message on the blackout in the east end of Freetown was never noticed. In fact it was much read. Much as the National Power Authority should not expect us thanking them for complying with consumer service dem ...
  • NDA Gets New Presidential Aspirant
    Mohamed Pateh-Bah (in photo) is the latest to joined the race for the presidential flag-bearer of the National Democratic Alliance Party (NDA), he made this pronouncement in a press briefing held at NDA party headquarters, 5 Duke Street, Freetown. Mr. Pateh-Bah aired out his political ambition o ...
  • 6,155 Arms and Ammunitions to be Destroyed
    Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon. Raymond Issa Kabia has disclosed that the government will soon destroy a total cache of 6,155 fire arms and ammunitions assembled in the country’s Northern region. Hon. Raymond Issa Kabbia spoke on Tuesday in the well of parliament in the process of tabl ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Fonterra director quits suddenly
    Fonterra director Colin Armer, who was seen by some as the natural successor to outgoing chairman Sir Henry van der Heyden, has tendered his resignation from the board, effective immediately.Armer, who with his wife Dale made the...
  • Wilson to head Fonterra
    Fonterra says John Wilson has been selected by the board to take over as chairman when Sir Henry van der Heyden steps down from the role in December.The appointment will be put to members of the co-operative at its annual meeting,...
  • John Wilson named new Fonterra chairman
    Fonterra, the world's biggest exporter of dairy products, has named long-serving director John Wilson as its next chairman, replacing Henry van der Heyden.Wilson, a director of the Auckland-based company since 2003, will take up...
  • NZ exports lose value in June quarter
    The value of New Zealand's exported goods has fallen in the second quarter of 2012, led by a drop in dairy export revenue, according to figures out today.
  • Fonterra dividends bill passes final reading
    A contentious bill allowing private investors to earn dividends from dairy industry giant Fonterra passed its final reading in Parliament last night.Fonterra is New Zealand's largest company valued at between $12 billion and $14...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Bolivia Boasting Ban on Coca Cola, End of Capi ...
    Bolivia’s minister of foreign affairs declared last week that December 21, the cyclical end of the Mayan calendar, would usher in a “new era free of capitalism,” and because he is not completely disconnected from reality, he did the media savvy thing and pegged his pronouncement to ...
  • Cryptocat Makes Web Privacy Easy and Accessible
    Nadim Kobeissi, a Canadian and Lebanese college student, has made encrypted online communication sexy. Kobeissi is the creator of Cryptocat, an open-source web application that offers true anonymity to its users, without any required setup. While similar programs hav ...
  • Argentina Embraces Unpleasant Old Ideas for Co ...
    Argentina, where President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner pals around with the likes of Hugo Chavez and wows progressive fans, has discovered an old truth: There's no reason for government officials to take on the scary responsibilities of running actual businesses when they can b ...
  • Sheldon Richman on Globalization vs. Trade War
    When economic times are bad, animosity is directed at foreigners: “They’re taking our jobs!” So it’s unsurprising that the presidential campaigns feature charges and countercharges about outsourcing, the employment of foreign labor by American companies. This is a dangerous game, expl ...
  • State Department Terrorism Report: We’re Winni ...
    Since 2004, the State Department has been required to submit an annual report to Congress on the status of terrorist threats in select countries and from select groups by April 30th of each year. The public version of this year’s report was released yesterday. The State Departmen ...

Mercury Rising

  • More joy in Murdoch City
    Nick Davies and David Leigh, The Guardian: Directors within Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation could face corporate charges and prosecution for neglect of their duties, in plans that are being examined by the Crown Prosecution Service. Company lawyers, fearing a dramatic escalation of the h ...
  • Reset the Bachmann clock
    Thomas Beaumont, AP, reports that campaign aide Barb Heki is suing Bachmann and senior aide Kent Sorenson for stealing an e-mail list of home schoolers from her computer, resulting in Heki being removed from the board of the Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators and its national counterpart. ...
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  • Sorry, Chick-fil-A Wingnuts: Most US Gas Comes ...
    Oh, joy. I think I just tumbled onto the new thing that’s gone viral among the right-wing email smear crowd. The glibertarian wing of the pro-Chick-fil-A and anti-gay-rights crowd is apparently pushing the old “if you pick on one group you must pick on them all no matter what” ...
  • Telegraph V. Guardian, Olympic And NHS Cherry- ...
    So this is how the Torygraph trolls for page views: The London Olympics are the most Right-wing major event in Britain’s modern history. Billions of pounds are taken from poor and middle-income taxpayers and service users to build temples to a corporate and sporting elite. Democratic, grassroots ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Perilous Propagation: Urban Gardening
    Urban gardening is a fundamentally positive trend. However, the toxins that plants extract from city soil and deliver to hungry human mouths form an unsavory dark side to the movement. As the popularity of urban gardens increases, publicizing safe gardening practices is critical. read more
  • Start With Universe
      The following article is excerpted from A Fuller View: Buckminster Fuller's Vision of Hope and Abundance for All, from Divine Arts Media. Edited by L. Steven Sieden (2012).   read more
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  • Transcending Poor Health With Meditation
    While the practice of meditation plays an integral role in a vast array of spiritual and contemplative traditions, the results of a recent study undertaken by researchers at Georgia Health Sciences University suggest that the benefits of meditation extend far beyond the emotional or psycho-spi ...

Desertification

  • Record Aid Shortfall Abandons Millions to Thei ...
    Global funding for humanitarian aid interventions saw the biggest shortfalls in 10 years in 2011, according to a new report, raising questions about the international community’s ability to meet a 20-percent greater need for 2012 driven by drought and conflict. The launch of the 2012 Global Huma ...
  • Crops Failing as U.S. Simmers in Record Heat Wave
    The United States is suffering one of its most severe droughts in decades, leading to both widespread crop failures and increased public concern about the impacts of climate change. According to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climatic Data Center, th ...
  • China Battles Desertification
    As scientists increasingly label desertification as one of the most burning challenges facing the world today, a small village in China’s semi-arid Northeastern region of Inner Mongolia is fighting back. Chifeng City’s dry climate and sparse vegetation have given way to severe surface erosion an ...
  • RIO+20: Promised Green Economy Was a Fake, Say ...
    When the Rio+20 summit on sustainable development ended Friday, there were winners and losers – mostly losers. The United Nations and the host country Brazil – along with big business – put a positive spin on the outcome of the conference, a follow-up to the 1992 Earth Summit. It was another his ...
  • Rio Outcome Bleak With No New Funding*
    Amidst recrimination, anger and charges of “strong arm tactics”, negotiators eventually endorsed a global plan of action for sustainable development following marathon sessions lasting over six weary days. A proposal for a 30-billion-dollar global fund for sustainable development – initiated by ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Prince William, Kate Middleton: More Than $80, ...
    The average British working household income is less than $40,000 U.S. That is why I have no use for those who are so privileged by birth. It is sickening. Probably Kate and William rented the whole airplane. Read more here. Kate Middleton: The gold-digger. Interesting video.
  • Canada Day and #DenounceHarper
    “#DenounceHarper is trending on Twitter in Canada, just behind #HappyCanadaDay. Users are using the hashtag to voice dissatisfaction with the Harper government, or just the man himself.” Read more about #DenounceHarper
  • TVO's The Agenda: The New McCarthyism
    There is no worse cancer in a free society than the thuggish impulse to equate dissent as disloyalty... The greatest patriot is the person with the courage to be the lone voice in the crowd crying out that the Emperor has no clothes. The test of our society's democratic nature is our instinct ...
  • Harper's Canada Day message loudly booed at Ja ...
  • U.S. Healthcare Legislation
    Fuxs News’ take on the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on Healthcare. Repugs are apparently very upset by the decision. Repugs spin machine is going hard at it. Sarah Palin gives her gyrations. “Obama lies, freedom dies” Sarah Palin. Watch the latest video at Press TV - Middle East
  • UAE arrests nine political activists
    Security forces in the United Arab Emirates have arrested nine more political activists as the government crackdown on the opposition continues.
  • New rift hits Syrian opposition
    As Western states are desperately trying to bring together Syria’s divided opposition groups behind a united front, an opposition alliance has deepened the division by moving to form a transitional government.
  • Syrian troops kill 150 rebels in Aleppo
    Syrian troops have stormed armed groups’ command center in the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 150 terrorists fighting against the government.
  • Turkey holds military drill near border
    The Turkish army has staged tank exercises near its border with Syria days after it reinforced its border troops with tanks, missile launchers and armored combat vehicles.
  • Iraq stresses MKO’s exit in due time
    An Iraqi official says the additional time for the members of the anti-Iran terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) to remain in Iraq has come to an end and will not be extended, Press TV reports.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • What did I do on my summer vacation…?
    I remember, just before returning to school every fall, thinking for weeks and weeks how I would answer that question. Would I tell my classmates about a trip to the beach, or attending sleep-away camp, or a summer job? Since my birthday is at the end of August it was fun talking to my classmate ...
  • Reflections on Project Rwanda
    For the past three years, faculty and students in the M.A. in Applied Theatre program at CUNY’s School of Professional Studies have traveled to Rwanda to implement the project “Drama and Theatre Education in Schools for Reconciliation and Development in Rwanda.” The twin goals of Project R ...
  • Are We Becoming Flattened by Technology?
    Are you an optimist or pessimist? There’s only one way to find out. I find it amazing that so much has progressed in our society—medical, education, economics, and even in technology.  The experience I’ve had thus far has surprisingly helped me.  I say surprisingly because with knowl ...
  • Five Questions for Our 1000th Facebook Fan
    We recently surpassed 1000 “likes” on our Facebook page, so to commemorate this milestone we asked our 1000th fan, Susan Punturieri, to tell us a little about herself. How did you learn about SPS? A co-worker referred the program to me. She said she really enjoyed it. I was looking i ...
  • SPS Governing Council Representative Nominatio ...
    We are accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and an alternate are needed to serve on the Cou ...

Dissident Voice

  • Veterans For Peace Supports U.N. Committee in ...
    Leah Bolger, President of Veterans For Peace, applauded a United Nations Committee this week for raising concerns about the recruitment of children into the U.S. military, the U.S. killing of children in Afghanistan, the U.S. detention and torture of children labeled “combatants,” an ...
  • The Dawn of Medicare
    A highly risible tactic of the Tea Partyers in the United States has been criticism of president Barack Obama as a “socialist”1 (insulting to Obama but more so to socialists), particularly since he attempted to reform a medical care system in a country where over 50 million were without medical ...
  • Hope is for the Lazy: The Challenge of Our Dea ...
    In 2005, I preached on the ecological crisis in a sermon I titled “Hope is for the Weak: The Challenge of a Broken World.”  Looking back, I realize that I had been far too upbeat and optimistic, probably trying too hard to be liked. Today I want to correct that. Hence, my updated title: “Hope [...]
  • Inflation of the University Degree
    Catch 22s Well it seems now that college graduates are up in arms about the student loan payments that they will have to make after graduation, and while Congress and the President have taken the necessary measures to keep student loan rates from increasing, college graduates still must confront ...
  • After The Fireworks Have Faded
    On July 4, the people of the U.S. marked the passing of another year’s perfunctory Independence Day festivities. The date, also, was occasioned by the formal announcement from physicists at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) that, according to the banner headline at CERN&#82 ...

Destructionist

  • Busted! Photoshop Forgery to Sell Image of War ...
    While mainstream press have been hailing 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, with some 3 mi ...
  • NSA Wants “EZ Pass” Control for Internet
    The NSA’s latest scheme to track and trace the online behavior of Americans – despite Alexander’s assertions to the contrary – is part of a long history of poking into the private affairs of Americans. Following Truman’s executive order creating the super-secret intelligence agency in 1952 as ...
  • U.S. Army Purchases Riot Gear As Fears Over Ci ...
    Fears that the U.S. military would be used to quell domestic unrest in violation of Posse Comitatus have raged over recent years. A recently leaked US Army Military Police training manual for “Civil Disturbance Operations” outlines how military assets are to be used domestically to quell riot ...
  • TSA CHECKPOINTS EXPOSED: JOURNALISTS TARGETED ...
    Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange breaks down WRC Correspondent Julio Rausseo’s experience at the Chicago Union Station, 1 week after releasing a video exposing TSA checkpoints being setup there.
  • Austerity At The Olympics: Each “Gold” Medal C ...
    As every Olympic athlete knows, size matters. The London 2012 medals are the largest ever in terms of both weight and diameter – almost double the medals from Beijing. However, just as equally well-known is that quality beats quantity and that is where the current global austerity, coin-clipping ...

Yeti Betty

  • Earthquake Prediction - Prediksi Gempa - Lindo ...
    Recent Earthquake Lists Area Of Higher Earthquake Danger! If You Can See Your Lands, It Is Under The Moon - Beware of Earthquakes. If it is in Sunlight Aswell Be Doubly Aware.. Eclipse Times Eclipses don't always mean earthquakes in the same way as getting run over by a Mack ...
  • Opera Low (zero) Kb (x6 million)
    O My Opera          Self Help          Community          Opera ISN'T IT TIME OPERA RELEASED THEIR OWN FONT!! ...
  • Educating Pita - Alan's Psychadelic BreakFasts
    I'll endeavour to keep a daily record of my simple inexpensive vegetarian eats here - just to answer the ever present carnivore's question: "What do you find to eat?"... ...
  • Help Yourself, it's all free...
    Best Viewed With:  Welcome Looking back at a previous blog of mine about earthquakes, a fair proportion of it turned out to be about common sense life tips. I've been through almost everything a life can throw at a person, and hopefully outlining a few useful things may help som ...
  • Website SEO Help
     B  Warning! As the web reaches into nearly every little village on the planet, the number of websites are currently expanding, and the number of people needing help are providing a tasty pool of minnows to the ever circling sharks. From blatant extorionism with threatening phonecall ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Trash Collectors Become Zimbabwe’s Unlikely Cl ...
    Tomson Chikowero was ashamed of his job. He did not want anyone finding out what he did to earn a living, so he used to wake up early every morning and leave his home in Hatfield, a residential suburb in Zimbabwe’s capital city Harare, under the cover of darkness. And he would return only after ...
  • Kenya Set to Run Away With Medals
    On a chilly morning at the Moi International Sports Centre in Nairobi, the largest multi-purpose sports centre in Kenya, 800m world record holder David Rudisha looked like just another athlete. At 1.90m tall, Rudisha is not diminutive. But as he trained with Kenya’s reigning Olympic and world 1, ...
  • Local Producers Worried about Venezuela’s Admi ...
    After a six-year delay, Venezuela finally became the fifth full member of South America’s main trade bloc, Mercosur, on Tuesday, bringing with it huge oil and natural gas reserves and a market hungry for the abundant agricultural production of its new partners to the south. Ever since he first b ...
  • Q&A: South Korea Steps Up as Marine Conservati ...
    Isabelle de Grave interviews AMBASSADOR KIM SOOK, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations
  • UNESCO Protection Crucial – and Controversial
    It took six years for a dedicated team of scientists from the Wildlife Institute of India, wildlife officials from six Indian states and officials from the federal ministry to secure international protection for one of India’s most precious biological reserves. Finally, earlier this month, the U ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Germany’s militarised foreign policy - Global ...
    Summary: Imagine Iran would be the target of an Israeli nuclear attack launched from submarines designed, built and delivered by Germany. This dystopia may seem unlikely, but it is now entirely possible. The German magazine Der Spiegel, not known for its critical stance towards Israeli polic ...
  • Ten Questions on Bulgaria Bus Attack
    Summary: The attack on a bus outside the airport at Burgas Bulgaria on Wednesday, July 18th is still under investigation and so far there are few clues regarding the perpetrator(s). The Bulgarian government has published the photo of the bomber’s blown-up face, describing him as “blue-eyed ...
  • Is Israel fixing the intelligence to justify a ...
    Summary: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's strong pro-Israel statements over the weekend, including his endorsement of Jerusalem as Israel's capital (a reversal of long-standing U.S. policy), increases the pressure on President Barack Obama to prove that he is an equally strong ...
  • Romney Ups the Ante in Israel
    Summary: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told an audience of Israelis and some wealthy pro-Israel Americans that he is prepared to employ “any and all measures” to stop Iran from gaining a nuclear weapons “capability,” a vague concept that arguably already exists. source: Co ...
  • Mitt Romney Doesn't Threaten, He Just 'Woos' O ...
    Summary: The Guardian's headlines about Iran continue to deceive. As Mitt Romney talks to Israel about the idea of a military attack on Iran, the Guardian interpret this not as a threat, but rather quite positively, stating that he "woos Israel" by considering such an attack. source: News ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Sunday's Touchdown of 'Curiosity' --"The 14-Mi ...
    NASA's most daring and expensive Mars mission yet begins this Sunday with the touchdown of the smartest, most advanced interplanetary rover ever built. The touchdown NASA for the Curiosity rover is so risky it's been described as "seven minutes of...
  • Image of the Day: First X-Rays from Supernova ...
    Over fifty years ago, a supernova was discovered in M83, a spiral galaxy about 15 million light years from Earth. Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to make the first detection of X-rays emitted by the debris from this...
  • Astrobiologists Resurrect a 500-Million-Year-O ...
    Using a process called paleo-experimental evolution, Georgia Tech researchers have resurrected a 500-million-year-old gene from bacteria and inserted it into modern-day Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria. This bacterium has now been growing for more than 1,000 generations, giving the scientists ...
  • Image of the Day: The Vast Molecular Clouds of ...
    The many bright, pinkish clouds in NGC 4700 are known as H II regions, where intense ultraviolet light from hot young stars is causing nearby hydrogen gas to glow. H II regions often come part-and-parcel with the vast molecular clouds...
  • The Weird Neuroscience of Immortality --Upload ...
    Neuroscientist Kenneth Hayworth, 41, recently of Harvrad and a veteran of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, believes that he can live forever, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports. But first he has to die. "The human race is on a beeline...

Natural News

  • Is your power strip spying on you? Complex hac ...
    I've said often that the Information Age in which we currently find ourselves is turning out to be a double-edged sword when it comes to striking a balance between advancing our quality of life and preserving our freedoms. Such is the case with a "new" product called...
  • What to look for when choosing a probiotic sup ...
    When most people think about consuming beneficial bacteria, probiotic supplements and dairy products with added bacteria usually come to mind. These products provide some of the microorganisms needed for good health. Hunter-gatherers and people living in non-westernized...
  • Top officials of US military cover up "Auschwi ...
    If you haven't heard of the US-funded Dawood Military Hospital in Afghanistan you aren't alone. The "Auschwitz-type" conditions, as one lawmaker put it, were allegedly covered up by top US military commanders to put a better face on the Afghan war, which has caused a...
  • Skype goes Big Brother, allowing police to mon ...
    Long sought and used as a communications tool beyond the reach of Big Brother's probing eyes, Skype has recently announced the company plans more cooperation with police, to include sharing of text chats. While surveillance of the audio and video feeds of the online...
  • Psyllium husk - Promote weight loss and cleans ...
    Psyllium husk is an amazing shrub-like herb that is most commonly found in India. It possesses a plethora of health benefits and has proven effective in treating irritable bowel syndrome, colon caner, constipation, diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity, ulcerative colitis...

Threat Level

  • Credit Card Roulette: Payment Terminals Pwned ...
    At least three widely used credit and debit card purchasing terminals in the U.S. and U.K. have vulnerabilities that would allow attackers to install malware on them and sniff card data and PINs.
  • Former NSA Official Disputes Claims by NSA Chief
    A former NSA official has accused the NSA's director of deception during a speech he gave at the DefCon hacker conference on Friday when he asserted that the agency does not collect files on Americans.
  • NSA Chief Tells Hackers His Agency Doesn’t Cre ...
    NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander, appearing for the first time at the DefCon hacker conference, told the crowd of hackers and security professionals that his agency "absolutely" does not maintain files on Americans.
  • Feds: We Can Freeze Megaupload Assets Even if ...
    The feds say that even if they can't criminal prosecute Megaupload the corporation, since its not registered in the United States, they still get to keep all the assets they seized in January when they shut down the file-sharing service.
  • This Cute Chat Site Could Save Your Life And H ...
    Nadim Kobeissi just wanted to make encrypted chat as easy as can be to help dissidents, but along the way he ran into deep skepticism from the tech community and nasty browser "features." But now that's he's launched version one of Crypto.cat to a warm tech reception, he says he's getting stoppe ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Mitt Romney's Meth Labs of Democracy
    Few phrases pepper the rhetoric of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney more frequently than variations of Justice Brandeis' famous quote that the states may "serve as a laboratory" for the rest of the nation. "Before imposing a one-size-fits-all federal program," Romney wrote in 2009, " ...
  • Romney in Hot Water over James Baker Anecdote
    From the beginning, Mitt Romney's much-hyped overseas journey has devolved into one self-inflicted wound after another. But largely lost in the laughter is another episode which to Romney's right-wing allies is no laughing matter at all. On the eve of the trip, Romney quoted former Reagan chie ...
  • Jewish Voters, Republican Chutzpah
    As Mitt Romney begins his excellent adventure in Israel, it's worth noting the many advantages he enjoys over his former Republican rivals when it comes to courting Jewish voters. For starters, Romney considers Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "my friend," one with whom he shares "comm ...
  • How the U.S. Government Helped Mitt Romney Bui ...
    At events across the country, Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is trying to convince voters that small business owners in fact build the roads and bridges they use every day. Unfortunately, Romney's "We Did Build It" gatherings have hit some potholes, with many participants revealed to be th ...
  • Romney Redeploys Bush's "Hollow Military" Frau ...
    Before departing on his trip to tout America's Anglo-Saxon heritage in the UK, Poland and Israel, Mitt Romney used an address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) to deliver a blistering attack on President Obama. Blistering and, of course, duplicitous. Romney accused President Obama of "mass ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Barack Obama’s Executive Order: Authorizing Ad ...
    Dandelion Salad Propaganda Alert! The White House For Immediate Release July 31, 2012 EXECUTIVE ORDER - – - – - – - AUTHORIZING ADDITIONAL SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO IRAN By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, ...
  • Gore Vidal dies aged 86 + Gore Vidal Interview
    Dandelion Salad My sympathies and condolences to his family and friends. guardian.co.uk Aug. 1, 2012 Gore Vidal, the author, playwright, politician and commentator whose novels, essays, plays and opinions were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional wisdom, has died in Los Angeles. Vidal ...
  • American Crew Hair Care Info
    American Crew Hair Care Info There are hundreds of hair care products for women available in the market but the fact that makes American Crew Hair Care products unique is that it caters to men rather than the usual target market. Moreover the products are so diverse and customized specially to s ...
  • New CISPA in the Senate ready for a vote + Act ...
    Dandelion Salad Jul 31, 2012 by RTAmerica Congress is debating a new cybersecurity bill that has garnered the support of the White House. Does that mean it will ease the fears from Capitol Hill while still respecting concerns of privacy though? Aaron Swartz of Demand Progress joins RT’s Li ...
  • The Great British Newspaper Adventure Strip
    Yes, of course other countries have their own adventure strip tradition.  But I’m British. And this has been stuck in my head since a friend of mine told me he was going to have a try at doing one on the web.  Moving newspaper strip traditions to the web isn’t new either, naturally.  But the [...]

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Keep Your Fruits & Veggies Alive
      I love fresh fruits and vegetables. When I see good ones, I buy enough for a few days. I’m sure the huge majority of people do the same. The problem is, sometimes I don’t get around to eating them right away, and sometimes I even forget they’re in the fridge, waiting to ...
  • New Discovery About The Ocean’s Absorption Of ...
    An important discovery about how carbon is drawn down from the surface of the Southern Ocean to the deep waters beneath has been made. Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and Australia’s national research agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisat ...
  • Wine on Tap = Greener Wine
      I’m not going to lie, wine is not my expertise, but this is a cool story. Wine is a major part of our world, and it would be helpful if we could green it up a bit. The folks over at Micro Matic seem to have a solution — wine on tap. From what I hear, this [...]
  • Chronic 2000-04 Drought Worst in 800 Years and ...
    Western North America suffered chronic drought from 2000 to 2004, causing forests to die, river basins to dry up. It was the strongest drought seen in 800 years. Sadly, it could also become the “new normal” in the coming decades; the “good old days”. A group of ten resear ...
  • “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math” Gets Ha ...
      16 years to change course and avoid six degrees Celsius of warming (or almost 11 degrees Fahrenheit), “which would create a planet straight out of science fiction,” as Fatih Birol, the IEA’s chief economist, notes. Bill McKibben’s rockin’ Rolling Stone articl ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Mitt Romney wants to be President, he just doe ...
    By @BGinKC There is a very good reason why Mittens tried to keep his plans for governing under wraps for as long as he possibly could. He hid them so long because they would be devastating to anyone not in the top 5% of earners. The centrist Brookings Institute -- no bastion of liberalism they ...
  • Ted Cruz Racks One Up For The Kooks!
    Early returns are good enough for former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz to claim victory in the Republican runoff for U.S. Senate from Texas. He leads Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst with about 55%, so just about everybody is calling this one for him. Cruz, 41, was always the Tea Party fave in the rac ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC Who else wants to put @SteveKingIA in a pit with a couple of winning pit bulls after this? The shame of Iowa, mental case Steve King, thinks it offends his God to pass laws that protect animals. He thinks cockfighting and dogfighting are fine, legitimate forms of "entertainment" and ...
  • Fox News uses double standards to defend bigotry
    By @TedFrier To Sean Hannity, there is no difference - none - between a Chick-fil-A magnate who devotes time and money towards preventing gays from marrying where it's not yet legal and ending it where it is, and a Democratic president who for conservative, prudential and - yes - political reaso ...
  • That was quite a trip. . . . .
    By @BGinKC That little trip abroad that Mittens took to bolster his foreign policy chops didn't go so very well. In fact, he managed to do the near-impossible and pull off a hat-trick by embarrassing himself in all three of the countries he visited.   He started off by insulting the British ...

Care 2

  • Sacramento authorities seek help in another ex ...
    Yolo County Animal Services announced Saturday they need the public's help identifying the person(s) involved in the torment and torture of another defenseless animal Submitted by Dianne Lynn Elko to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Applaud Virginia Represe ...
    Thanks to the audacious efforts of Virginia Representative Jim Moran, gas chambers may one day be a thing of the past. He has introduced a resolution that would require states to enact laws requiring the use of humane injectable drugs when euthanasia is Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals &n ...
  • Ban Fur farms in Ireland
    Animals on fur farms are reared highly intensively in small cages before being killed at about 6 months old for their fur pelts. They are very often still conscious when their skins are being ripped from their bodies. Submitted by Ginger Geronimo to Animals  |   Note-i ...
  • Stop the mockery of animals!
    In Ukraine, in the city of Lugansk, there is public organization "Bars." On organization's territory, live the animals : foxes, wild boars, dogs, horses and birds. Until recently, the organization contained a wolf, but he died. Wolf died of starvation. Submitted by Ginger Geronimo to Animals &n ...
  • Take Action: Protect Americans from Soot Pollu ...
    The EPA has proposed a long-overdue rule to strengthen America's health protections for particulate pollution, commonly known as soot a dangerous air pollutant associated with thousands of deaths each year. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |&nbs ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • “Believe In Our Future” + hk2 open thread
    Romney has a new Web ad out. The accompanying blurb is below the fold. Mitt Romney Digital | July 31, 2012 Throughout his life, Mitt Romney has shown he has what it takes to turn troubled enterprises around. As president, everything he does will be focused on restoring economic security for ...
  • Obama Flouts Law on Terrorism Report
    You would think that the annual report on terrorism is something the President and the Congress would care about. Apparently not. But I am not talking about some routine, irrelevant report. I am talking about the Annual Report on Terrorism that The United States Department of State is required b ...
  • A jazzy intro to Romney’s praise for a courage ...
    Mitt Romney: “Russia has faltered on road to freedom” A thought that President Obama would do well to remember “In Poland, Romney heralds economic freedom,” CNN International Classy: Reminiscent of The Pianist, there was spirited Chopin after Romney’s speech. (Hat t ...
  • A report from OFA (does that look like the wor ...
    I am Joe Biden’s friend. As you’ll see below. But first, hk2 does it again. This time, she gave me actual stomach pain. Here’s how: Not cool, Helen. Not nice either. In the future, if you want to make me laugh, can you at least warn me? It’s not too much to ask, Helen. Ju ...
  • “Sweat Equity” + hk2 open thread for Mopey Monday
    Sock it to ‘em, Scott Brown. That ad we shared last week refuses to go away. Everyone is still talking about Brown’s message. Now hear from a Massachusetts business owner — I love this guy! — as he reacts to Elizabeth Warren’s remarks that echoed Obama’s own i ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Activists Shut Down Largest Mountaintop Remova ...
    HNN Huntingtonnews.net Activists Shut Down Largest Mountaintop Removal Mine Care2.com (blog) This past weekend, 50 activists from around the country mobilized to stand up against Big Coal and Mountaintop Removal (MTR) in West Virginia. Organized by R.A.M.P.S., activists targeted Patriot Coal&#39 ...
  • Besieged Coalfield Residents Denounce Court De ...
    West Virginia Public Broadcasting Besieged Coalfield Residents Denounce Court Decision Against EPA Rules on ... Huffington Post In a shocking blow to besieged Appalachian coalfield residents today, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton ruled in favor of a coal industry law suit, striking down the ...
  • Protesters Shut Down West Virginia Mountaintop ...
    Democracy Now Protesters Shut Down West Virginia Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine Democracy Now Protesters opposed to mountaintop removal coal mining shut down operations at a controversial West Virginia strip mine over the weekend with a series of coordinated lock downs, tree-sits and banner drops ...
  • Anti-mining protests heat up in West Virginia ...
    WKYC-TV Anti-mining protests heat up in West Virginia as evidence of damage builds Facing South Protests are heating up over mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia at the same time new scientific evidence has emerged of the damage such surface mining is causing to human health and the envir ...
  • Breaking: Daring Protesters Shut Down Obama Ba ...
    WKYC-TV Breaking: Daring Protesters Shut Down Obama Backed Strip Mine In West Virginia Huffington Post Ramping up renewed efforts to end mountaintop removal mining in central Appalachia, scores of protesters staged a daring action at the controversial Hobet strip mine today in Boone County, West ...

Memeorandum

  • Why Not in Vegas? (Thomas L. Friedman/New York ...
    Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times: Why Not in Vegas?  —  I'll make this quick.  I have one question and one observation about Mitt Romney's visit to Israel.  The question is this: Since the whole trip was not about learning anything but about how to satisfy the polit ...
  • India blackout, on second day, leaves 600 mill ...
    Washington Post: India blackout, on second day, leaves 600 million without power  —  NEW DELHI — The worst blackout in India's history spread to more than half the country Tuesday, reinforcing concerns that the nation's horribly inefficient power sector could undermine its ...
  • Obama Hits 50% In Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, ...
    Quinnipiac University: Obama Hits 50% In Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times Swing State Poll Finds  —  Word format Crosstabs by State  —  Watch Video: Assistant Director Tim Malloy discusses poll results  — ...
  • Clarke is tipped to make way for IDS: Welfare ...
    James Chapman / Daily Mail: Clarke is tipped to make way for IDS: Welfare reformer may get justice post in reshuffle  —  Iain Duncan Smith is being tipped to take Kenneth Clarke's job as Justice Secretary in an autumn reshuffle.  —  David Cameron is planning to s ...
  • Bicycle 'pump': Pedal-share firm pushes for qu ...
    David Seifman / New York Post: Bicycle ‘pump’: Pedal-share firm pushes for quick $$  —  The city's stalled bike-sharing program is asking for financial help even before it begins, The Post has learned.  —  Alta, the company that was supposed to have p ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Protests show Chinese kids' fears
    Last month's environmental protests in Shifang saw the unprecedented involvement of children who have a fear of the future in China, says Gerard Lemos.The decision to cancel the metal refinery project in Shifang last month after protesters clashed with the police has been widely reported in the ...
  • The life of a climate scientist
    A senior advisor to German chancellor Angela Merkel tells Maryam  Omidi  it is only a matter of time before a climate scientist is killed.For a 24-hour period in May 2012, a billboard displaying Unabomber Ted Kaczynski’s mugshot gazed blankly at drivers along the Eisenh ...
  • Do we face another food price crisis?
    Global food prices are on the rise again as drought hits US　harvests. Until governments address the issues of biofuel mandates and export controls, writes Rob Bailey, a spike threatens to turn into a crisis.International food prices are on the rise again. The United States, the world&rsqu ...
  • Eco-toilet scheme ends in failure
    The dry toilets in Inner Mongolia's Daxing eco community have been quietly replaced after three years of bad smells, health problems and maggots. Wu Shan reports.The large banner at the front gate of what used to be called Daxing Ecological Community has been changed to read “Civilized Cit ...
  • Green and pleasant land?
    The opening ceremony of the London Olympics projects an image of rural tranquility. But the story of a peasant poet of the early 19th century is truer to Britain's actual experience and the relationship of people to environment, says the British activist George Monbiot.Editor's note: The opening ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Credit Card Roulette: Payment Terminals Pwned ...
    At least three widely used credit and debit card purchasing terminals in the U.S. and U.K. have vulnerabilities that would allow attackers to install malware on them and sniff card data and PINs.
  • Former NSA Official Disputes Claims by NSA Chief
    A former NSA official has accused the NSA's director of deception during a speech he gave at the DefCon hacker conference on Friday when he asserted that the agency does not collect files on Americans.
  • NSA Chief Tells Hackers His Agency Doesn’t Cre ...
    NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander, appearing for the first time at the DefCon hacker conference, told the crowd of hackers and security professionals that his agency "absolutely" does not maintain files on Americans.
  • Feds: We Can Freeze Megaupload Assets Even if ...
    The feds say that even if they can't criminal prosecute Megaupload the corporation, since its not registered in the United States, they still get to keep all the assets they seized in January when they shut down the file-sharing service.
  • This Cute Chat Site Could Save Your Life And H ...
    Nadim Kobeissi just wanted to make encrypted chat as easy as can be to help dissidents, but along the way he ran into deep skepticism from the tech community and nasty browser "features." But now that's he's launched version one of Crypto.cat to a warm tech reception, he says he's getting stoppe ...

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • More Chicks Sickening Kids with Salmonella
    A total of 76 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Montevideo have been reported from 22 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alaska (1), California (2), Colorado (1), Florida (1), Georgia (1), Illinois (2), Indiana (9), Iowa (2), Kansas ( ...
  • The USDA New York Microbiological Data Program ...
    On Saturday, Burch Farms of North Carolina announced a recall of Athena cantaloupes because the product may contain listeria monocytogenes. No illnesses have been associated with this recall, according to Burch Farms. Hannaford, including both Bedford locations, is advising customers because it ...
  • Campylobacter, Listeria, Salmonella, Vibrio an ...
    The Washington Post’s Dina ElBoghdady must not have had a busy social calendar this Summer weekend if she was stalking the pages of FoodNet for the latest in foodborne illness trends. Her story, “Food-borne illnesses not diminishing” which ran this morning on the Post’s ...
  • Should brothers Ryan and Eric Jensen face crim ...
    Earlier this week Food Safety News reported that the CDC had increased the numbers of those considered to be culture-confirmed cases from the 2011 cantaloupe Listeria outbreak from 146 to 147 and confirmed that the death toll now stands at 33[1].  Of course, the death toll is in fact much ...
  • 425 Sick by Salmonella Tuna Scrape from Moon M ...
    The CDC just released its final report on this ongoing outbreak. A total of 425 persons infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Bareilly (410 persons) or Salmonella Nchanga (15 persons) were reported from 28 states and the District of Columbia. 55 ill persons were hospitalized, and no ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: London's hydrogen buses grounded durin ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal, UK Is hydrogen a dangerous substance? It is, during the London Olympics, at least. That's why the fleet of five H2 buses that usually carries passengers between Covent Garden and Tower Gateway have been sent out to pasture for the duration of the games. Standard ...
  • Official: Ford C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid pri ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Minivan/Van, Hatchback, Ford The U.S. federal tax credit for plug-in vehicles maxes out at $7,500 for cars with batteries that are 16 kWh or larger. The Ford C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid doesn't have that big of a pack, so the most the feds will grant you for b ...
  • Official: Honda delivers first Fit EV in Calif ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hatchback, Honda, Electric Honda has made good on its promise to deliver its first Fit EV, and that delivery took place in California on Friday. Matt and Becky Walton, of Ventura County, can now claim they have the first example of Honda's all-electric car, which cost ...
  • Official: Ford C-Max Energi will have 20-mile ...
    Ford's marketing strategy for its plug-in vehicles is coming into Focus (pun intended): compare, compare, compare. When announcing the Focus Electric's 105 miles per gallon equivalent, for example, Ford made sure to note that it beats the "Nissan Leaf by 6 MPGe while also offering more mot ...
  • Official: Nissan Leaf gets badged for police d ...
    Filed under: Europe, Government/Legal, Hatchback, Nissan, Electric Plug-in vehicles perform police duties for Scotland Yard (Vauxhall Ampera) and the NYPD (Chevrolet Volt) and we've all seen the little EV parking-enforcement vehicles, so today's announcement that the Nissan Leaf will be used ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • DREAM Activist Speaks From Broward Detention C ...
    In a Democracy Now! exclusive, producer Renée Feltz speaks with Viridiana Martinez, a DREAM activist detained about a week ago who is being held in the Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach, Florida. Click here to listen. Martinez is one of a group of undocumented immigrant acti ...
  • Matt Taibbi Explains Wall Street's "License to ...
    In part two of our interview with Matt Taibbi , he describes recent Wall Street scandals — including a decade-long Wall Street scandal that drained money from every county and state in the United States — and notes not a single bank executive has faced individual consequences. He a ...
  • U.S. Gun Laws: Guilty by Reason of Insanity
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan James Holmes, the alleged shooter in the massacre in Aurora, Colo., reportedly amassed his huge arsenal with relative ease. Some of these weapons were illegal as recently as eight years ago. Legislation now before Congress would once again make illegal, if ...
  • Radical Journalist, Media Critic Alexander Coc ...
    Alexander Cockburn, the longtime journalist, columnist and publisher of the progressive website of news and analysis Counterpunch, has died at the age of 71. Cockburn was a prolific writer who authored columns over the years for the Village Voice, the Wall Street Journal and The Nation ma ...
  • From the Archives: Michael Moore on Gun Violen ...
    In October 2002 filmmaker Michael Moore visited the Democracy Now! firehouse studios to talk about his latest film, "Bowling for Columbine" about the Columbine High School massacre and violence in the United States. Following last week’s mass shooting in Aurora, Colorad ...

Suzie-Q

  • Mitt Romney Comments At Fundraiser Outrage Pal ...
    By KASIE HUNT and KARIN LAUB  07/30/12 11:18 AM ET JERUSALEM — Mitt Romney told Jewish donors Monday that their culture is part of what has allowed them to be more economically successful than the Palestinians, outraging Palestinian leaders who suggested his comments were racist and out of touch ...
  • Romney-Bain Contacts Outlasted Exit
    By STEPHEN BRAUN and JACK GILLUM Associated Press Jul 25, 8:19 AM EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has said he had no active role in Bain Capital, the private equity firm he founded, after he exited in February 1999 to take over Salt Lake City’s Win ...
  • James Holmes Identified As Alleged Aurora, Col ...
    AP |     By THOMAS PEIPERT and P. SOLOMON BANDA Posted: 07/20/2012  8:36 am Updated: 07/20/2012  4:00 pm AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Police say 71 people were shot in a suburban Denver movie theater early Friday during midnight shows of the new Batman movie. Twelve people were killed, ten of ...
  • Bain Capital Started With Help Of Offshore Inv ...
    Mitt Romney’s firm raised more than a third of its first investment fund from wealthy foreigners — who mostly used companies in Panama, then known for tax advantages and banking secrecy. Los Angeles Times By Joseph Tanfani, Melanie Mason and Matea Gold July 19, 2012, 3:00 a.m. Washington B ...
  • First Lady Michelle Obama: “It Takes One ...
    Published on Jul 19, 2012 by     BarackObamadotcom It starts with you: http://OFA.BO/xJQfHT First Lady Michelle Obama announces the launch of “It Takes One”. “It Takes One” is a new effort that asks you to inspire one more person to join you every time you take an action ...

Solari

  • Join Catherine & Franklin at Transformations & ...
    Every day Franklin and I meet and work with great people—people who are hard working and industrious, people who take time to care for others—their family, their communities, their colleagues. Yet too often, many of us feel as if we are struggling alone. Where are the other responsible, success ...
  • Money & Markets – Week of 7.29.12
    TARP Was Even Worse Than You Think: “An Abysmal Failure,” Barofsky Says Yahoo! Finance 27 July 2012 Most Americans have a sense TARP was a badly managed program that bailed out “fat cat” bankers at the expense of U.S. taxpayers.
  • CA CAFR: Parks Dept. ‘Found’ $54 Million, $2.3 ...
    By Carl Herman For five weeks I journalistically hammered that California’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) reveals $600 billion in surplus taxpayer assets, and the various local government agencies’ CAFRs are data-sampled to total $8 trillion in surplus assets. Last week, the Calif ...
  • Geopolitical – Week of 7.29.12
    2012 London Olympics I Am Fishead: Are Corporate Leaders Psychopaths? Top Documentary Films 2011 It is a well-known fact that our society is structured like a pyramid. The very few people at the top create conditions for the majority below.
  • Quote du Jour
    Though your balance-sheet’s a model of what balance-sheet should be, Typed and ruled with great precision in a type that all can see; Though the grouping of the assets is commendable and clear, And the details which are given more than usually appear; Though investments have been valued at t ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Assassination of an important Saudi Prince! By ...
    Summary:  This news story might be important. Or fake. Either way, it illustrates hidden dynamics in the Middle East and provides a useful lesson — how the Internet can help us sift through the morass of information to find the useful gems of information. “When I was sixteen, I went ...
  • A look at the debate among climate scientists ...
    Summary:  For those who like to see both sides of the climate science debate, this article by Judith Curry describes the consensus and shows some of the research challenging it — focusing on the last volley, the results of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project. A key elemen ...
  • Last week they spoke comforting words, but I s ...
    Summary:  Although entertaining as gallows humor, last week’s statement by ECB President Mario Draghi illustrates important but seldom discussed aspects of the euro-crisis. Here we read and annotate the text. It’s an oddity of our time that people tend to rely on secondary sources &# ...
  • America’s Shadow Wars in Africa
    Summary:  There’s an institutional drive for growth, just like that in biological entities. Sometimes it become cancerous, inimical to the overall organism. So it is with our mad profitless empire — which makes previous empires (eg, Spain, British) look like works of genius. Here Nic ...
  • Imagining the future. Here are my guesses. Pos ...
    Summary: What lies in our future, ten years or more distant? Here are my guesses. Post your speculations in the comments! This post appears not to have loaded correctly 8 hours ago; so this is a re-post of it. Contents The new world emerges Energy & Climate Technology Economics Demographics ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • No More Cups of Tea: Terrorism Research and th ...
    This is a guest post from Tanisha Fazal, a political science professor at Columbia University, and Jessica Martini, a human rights and international trade attorney based in New York City. ———- To conduct research on terrorism and insurgency, it’s best to be able to talk to people.  Co ...
  • Syria's Olympian Tragedy and the New Middle East
    The struggle for Syria is forging a new Middle East. Summer Olympics are often used by desperate, repressive, time-expired regimes to act repressively. The Russians invaded Georgia in the midst of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Now, the Assad regime is attacking Syria’s largest city Aleppo. ...
  • The Counterproductive US Strategy in Afghanistan
    The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction was established by Congress in 2008 “promote economy and efficiency of U.S.-funded reconstruction programs in Afghanistan.” Overseeing the billions of dollars the U.S. spends in Afghanistan each year keeps SIGAR busy. The Afghanis ...
  • Top of the Morning: Hillary Clinton Kicks off ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Hillary Clinton Travels to Africa…To Gently Chide African Partnerships with China The US Secretary of State will visit South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi and South Africa and Senegal. She is expected to give a speech that may ruffle a few feathers in Beijing. ...
  • On Assumptions and the Use of Force
    I’ve been doing some thinking in preparation for my debate tomorrow night with Mark Jacobson hosted by the Pell Center at Salve Regina University. We’ll be talking Afghanistan policy, mostly looking forward, but it is hard to discuss where we are going without considering where we&#8 ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Farm Bill on Life Support as Drought Worsens
    This month, the House agriculture committee finished its work on the farm bill—a massive piece of legislation that sets policy on everything from government subsidies to food stamps. Even though the Senate had passed its version of the farm bill, which must be reauthorized every five years, no ...
  • Has Romney Learned Anything from the Bush Years?
    The Washington Post's Ezra Klein asks an important question about Mitt Romney's policy platform: Has he actually learned anything from the failures of the Bush administration? The answer, so far, is no: These last few years have been extraordinary — and not in a good way. We have been through, ...
  • 2004 All Over Again
    Two historical analogues have been bounced around with regards to this election. Conservatives say we’re looking at another 1980, where a weak incumbent is felled by a resurgent Republican Party in a decisive victory. Liberals, with much less optimism, say that this is another 2004, where an em ...
  • Pro-Life Sentences
    Dissenting in Gonzales v. Carhart, the 2007 case that upheld a federal ban on "partial birth" abortion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg charged that the majority "refuses to take [Planned Parenthood v.] Casey ... seriously." This inclination, not surprisingly, has filtered down to the lower federal ...
  • Obama: Not Like You or Me
    "He's not one of us" has long been one of the most common electoral arguments at all levels—every election features ads all over the country where one candidate is accused of not sharing "[insert state here] values." It's become almost a cliché that Democrats talk about issues while Republicans ...

Buzzflash

  • Chick-fil-A’s Image Plummets Among Consumers a ...
    THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT New data indicates Chick-fil-A's image with consumers has dropped dramatically since the company's president proudly embraced the organization's anti-LGBT donations. The new numbers come as former Governor Mike Huckabee and the National Organiz ...
  • Predatory Privatization Puts Citizens and Comm ...
    PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT State and local budget crises and the election of anti-government ideologues have left taxpayers and communities increasingly vulnerable to predatory "privatization" of government services and public infrastructure. "Desperate government is o ...
  • Warning: Dick Cheney Can Constitutionally Be V ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Okay, okay, it is highly unlikely to occur - particularly given that Cheney and his former finger puppet, George W. Bush, are not going to the GOP convention this year, likely because the Romney people told them that they are not welcome. But then aga ...
  • Democrats Should Spend Campaign Money on Massi ...
    STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Some weeks ago I wrote something that got me in hot water with fellow progressives. I wrote that Democrats were making a big mistake in how they were responding to the GOP's naked and obvious attempts to suppress voter turnout with state voter ID laws. Fir ...
  • Tuberculosis Contamination May Spread in Flori ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT According to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2003, "HCA Inc. (formerly known as Columbia/HCA and HCA - The Healthcare Company) has agreed to pay the United States $631 million in civil penalties and damages arising from false claims the governme ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Bird flu, swine flu, now seal flu H3N8
    US scientists have identified a new strain of influenza in New England harbor seals – H3N8. They say the strain, presumably made the species leap from birds, might now be a reservoir for a threat to public health. H3N8 is an influenza type A virus (Orthomyxoviridae) endemic in birds, equin ...
  • Blog mining in reduced dimensions
    Despite exaggerated predictions about the death of the blog, it seems numbers continue to grow. Everyone and their dog seems to want to share their innermost thoughts, echo the news and comment on everything from the Higgs Boson to the Gaga Biebon. Efficiently pulling useful information from the ...
  • Attenborough: Twitter is not trivial
    “Twitter may sound trivial, it’s not. It’s hugely important.” It will transform the way that people talk to one another. Surely, if we can put a man on the moon, we can put our own house in order. The inimitable Sir David Attenborough OM on population growth, communicatio ...
  • Multitasking and listening to mood music
    When you’re feeling blue, put on a sad song. Getting in the party spirit, turn up the dance music. We are all well aware that music can fit our mood and even reinforce certain emotions. Now, researchers at Philips Research in The Netherlands have demonstrated that background music can affe ...
  • It’s an ant’s life
    I relocated a planter in our back garden and inadvertently exposed an ants’ nest. I needed the tub elsewhere in the garden so these creatures had to undertake frenzied remedial action in the face of a man-made disaster. In the name of science, I videoed their efforts, Needless to say, the ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Appalachian Communities Win Case Against Unlaw ...
    Today rulings were issued in both West Virginia and the U.S. District Court demonstrating the need for Environmental Protection Agency standards that are based on the overwhelming scientific consensus that pollution from surface coal mining and coal waste disposal threatens Appalachian streams.r ...
  • Report: Predatory Privatization Puts Citizens ...
    State and local budget crises and the election of anti-government ideologues have left taxpayers and communities increasingly vulnerable to predatory “privatization” of government services and public infrastructure. “Desperate government is our best customer,” says one fi ...
  • NRA Tries to Block Effort to Protect Condors, ...
    The National Rifle Association filed legal motions today to block the Environmental Protection Agency from protecting wildlife and people from toxic lead hunting ammunition left in the wild. Lead fragments needlessly poison and kill millions of birds each year, including bald eagles, swans and e ...
  • Study: Design Flaws Contribute to Hundreds of ...
    Design defects in ballots, voter instructions, and voting machines contributed to the loss of several hundred thousand votes in the most recent national elections, a new Brennan Center for Justice study found. read more
  • Romney Lauds Israeli Economy During Wave of At ...
    LIA TRACHANSKY, lia at therealnews.com, skype: lia-tarachansky, http://www.liatarachansky.com, http://www.therealnews.comread more

Common Dreams-Views

  • From the Archive: We Are the Patriots
    Gore Vidal CD editor's note: The following essay appeared in the June 2, 2003 edition of The Nation magazine, and we reprint it today following news that Gore Vidal died yesterday at the age of 86:Gore Vidal (1925-2012) read more
  • Remembering Gore Vidal (1925 - 2012)
    Jon Wiener Gore Vidal, who died on Tuesday at 86, in 2003 during an interview with the Los Angeles Times. (Photo: LA Times)Victor Navasky tells one of the most revealing stories about Gore Vidal, who died July 31 in Los Angeles at age 86.& ...
  • BPA Free Baby Bottles Now Law, But We’re Not i ...
    Kristin Wartman Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a ban on the use of bisphenol A, or BPA, in baby bottles and children’s cups. BPA is an estrogen-mimicking chemical that has been used in hard plastics, t ...
  • BPA Free Baby Bottles Now Law, But We’re Not i ...
    Kristin Wartman Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a ban on the use of bisphenol A, or BPA, in baby bottles and children’s cups. BPA is an estrogen-mimicking chemical that has been used in hard plastics, t ...
  • Mitt Romney’s 20th-Century Worldview
    Katrina vanden Heuvel Like a caveman frozen in a glacier, Mitt Romney is a man trapped in time — from his archaic stance on women’s rights to his belief in Herbert Hoover economics.U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Rom ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • New Analysis Shows Romney Tax Plan Would Raise ...
    On the campaign trail, Mitt Romney has been promising that he will cut taxes “across the board,” while also instituting tax reform that will not add to the nation’s deficit. But a new report from the Tax Policy Center at the Brookings Institution shows that this is much easier ...
  • Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings Don ...
    Unsurprisingly, given their constant classlessness, the Daily Caller reacted to the news that American women’s beach volleyball champions Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings planned to stick to the bikini swimsuits the wear to compete by declaring “They’re going to be the chee ...
  • August 1 News: Congress, President Showing No ...
    A round-up of the top climate and energy news. The planet may be getting hotter, but Washington’s debate on climate change isn’t heating up. Amid a summer marked by droughts, wildfires, record temperatures and freak storms, Congress is squeezing in just one hearing on the changing climate before ...
  • Tennessee State Rep. Claims Obama Will Fake As ...
    Tennessee state Rep. Kelly Keisling (R) is spreading a conspiracy theory to his constituents that claims that President Obama will fake his own assassination to avoid an election against Republican candidate Mitt Romney. In an email sent from a government email address in his office, Keisling fo ...
  • NOM Spokesperson Complains That ThinkProgress ...
    Jennifer Roback Morse heads up the National Organization for Marriage’s Ruth Institute, which more often than not is just another outlet for proliferating anti-gay propaganda. Morse has complained before that sites like ThinkProgress have debunked her fabrications about the “conseque ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • More Religion Bashing
    A lot of decent progressives get really bent out of shape by aggressive atheism. So much that they tend to blurt out ridiculous things. For instance, I'm sure that some of them would have a knee-jerk reaction to this post, and wouldn't be able to resist smugly telling me that my obsessive hatred ...
  • A Time to Stand and be Counted
    I was skeptical that camping out in public parks and critiquing the system a-la "Occupy" was ever going to change things. I was prepared to get involved to the limited extent that I was able to, when it wasn't immediately crushed and in the USA it's message was resonating with the majority of th ...
  • Why Don't I Trash Religion Again?
    One reason that I blog is to force myself to write every day. I've got a lot to do this morning and I can't decide on anything topical, so I guess I'll rant about religion. If you read this blog with any frequency you'll know that I have a real bee in my bonnet about religion and the asinine de ...
  • thwap Doesn't Catch Olympic Fever
    Sigh. So a television set is playing some Canadian Olympics coverage and there's a commercial for some young male Canadian athlete training and endorsing a product (VISA credit cards I think) and at one point he says "I'm doing it for my country." That struck me as odd. Really odd. All I could ...
  • Another Brick in the Wall
    Omar Khadr's case is a polarizing one, to say the least. Some people think that he's an evil, psychopathic, Islamofascist terrorist monster, while other people say that he was a victim of circumstances, a child soldier and a Canadian citizen who should have had his legal rights respected and bee ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Needle found in airline food this time in Canada
    An investigation is underway after a passenger on an Air Canada flight found a sewing needle in a sandwich purchased on-board the plane. It comes two weeks after 5 sandwiches were found with sewing needles on Delta Airlines flights.
  • Mitt Romney manages to ignore facts when prais ...
    Politicians praise other countries for improving their economy if they've used methods they plan to use to improve their country's economy, and Mitt Romney is no exception. The GOP nominee for U.S. president did just that in Poland this week...almost.
  • Author of best-selling book admits he made-up ...
    Jonah Lehrer, who wrote a book published last March called 'Imagine: How Creativity Works,' has admitted he got too creative in compiling it: Lehrer has acknowledged that some of the quotes from Bob Dylan in the book are made-up.
  • Big news for Toronto, Mayor Rob Ford meets 'Th ...
    The big Toronto City Hall news on Twitter today wasn't about crime or fixing the city, no it was two celebs were coming to town and Mayor Rob Ford was going to greet them.
  • Wicca’s murder – Montreal trying to match Belfast?
    The recent killing of pit bull Wicca in Montreal without a fair trial has put even Belfast to shame while still worse is coming for dog owners in Montreal.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Parliamentary outreach program canned
    The Canadian Forces outreach program that invited Senators and Members of Parliament to military units and bases has been discontinued.
  • Louder than the bomb: write your letter to the ...
    To commemorate both Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day, we are partnering with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) so our voices can be louder than the bomb. Write a letter to the editor of the newspaper of your choice, and explain why you want nuclear weapons to be abolished. ...
  • Jaffer, Radarsat, and China
    A private investigator has filed a court document claiming that disgraced former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer, the husband of former cabinet minister Helena Guergis, sought Canadian satellite information with military implications after liaising with Chinese state-owned technology companies in 2 ...
  • The War of 1812: Now playing
    The government's love of all things military has reached a new ridiculous high (or low depending on how you see it).
  • MacKay, Libya, and “political truth”
    Did Defence Minister Peter MacKay tell the truth about the costs of the Libya mission? Or was it just the "political truth"?

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Amalgam Fillings Leach Mercury Vapor Into The ...
    March 30, 2012 Activist Post By AP “If you have mercury fillings, you should seriously consider having them removed.” –KTRN Why is it that what one government department considers an environmental travesty, another department deems completely safe for the human body? Simple ans ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-31-12
    America no longer has a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. KT tells you what went wrong and how we can fix it. Plus, Dr. Josh Axe, author of The Real Food Diet Cookbook, stops by to talk with Kevin about eating real, healthy food. Self Help: Global Information Network Your Wish Is Your ...
  • Ventura County On Raw Milk Rampage
    April 2, 2012 Natural News By Mike Adams “If raw milk is so dangerous, why are people still drinking it all over the world and not getting sick?”  –KTRN Perhaps the best investigative reporter covering the raw milk industry today is David Gumpert, writing for www.TheCompletePat ...
  • Philadelphia Student Arrested For Photographin ...
    April 2, 2012 RT By RT “If the police weren’t up to something, why would they care if someone took their picture?” –KTRN A student in Philadelphia has been arrested for taking photos of a traffic stop outside his house. That’s despite of the fact that police officers were ...
  • Another Santorum Slip: Obama an Anti-War ‘Gove ...
    April 2, 2012 Crooks And Liars By Diane Sweet “Listen closely. He WAS about to say it.” –KTRN Failed former junior senator from Pennsylvania by way of Virginia, turned presidential hopeful, Rick Santorum speaks to a crowd at The Armory in Janesville, Wisconsin on March 27th dur ...

Armies of Liberation

  • State Department ends Yemen arms embargo
    Without much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
  • Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...
    Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
  • Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostages
    Al Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...
  • Obama’s strategic blunder in Yemen may shield ...
    A law passed by Yemen’s cabinet on Sunday provides blanket immunity to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and all those who served in his governments over the last 33 years. One unintended consequence may be to also immunize those al Qaeda operatives on the payroll of the Yemeni military and se ...
  • Former Yemen president’s intended US tri ...
    As pressure builds on the Obama administration to deny a diplomatic visa to ousted Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, the family of a sailor killed in the al Qaeda attack on the USS Cole urged that Saleh be denied entry to the United States. In a public plea, Gary and Deborah Swenchonis are c ...

Dark Politricks

  • Syria Spin Machine: UK mainstream lies exposed
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRT Wednesday, August 1, 2012 While Syria’s still locked in bloody confrontation on the ground, another war is also being waged – the media one. And as RT has discovered, even the world’s most respected ...
  • Rep. Steve King: Obama birth could have been f ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Rep. Steve King (R-IA) recently speculated that President Barack Obama’s family could have conspired to fake his citizenship by announcing his birth with a “telegram from Kenya.” During ...
  • Iranian Ayatollah: “War Within Weeks”
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comIran prepared for strike on nuclear facilities in September or October Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, August 1, 2012 Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told top Iranian military chiefs to expec ...
  • Syrian fighting reaches Damascus’ Christian en ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Clashes erupted near two Christian areas of the Syrian capital Wednesday for the first time in the nearly 17-month uprising, as the battle for Aleppo entered its fifth day and President Bashar al-Assad h ...
  • Capitalist Democracy on the Brink
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Robert Hunziker Over the past three decades, Americas capitalistic democracy has evolved into a flawed socio-economic system that is destined to fall off the edge of the plane ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Barack Obama’s Executive Order: Authorizing Ad ...
    Dandelion Salad Propaganda Alert! The White House For Immediate Release July 31, 2012 EXECUTIVE ORDER - – - – - – - AUTHORIZING ADDITIONAL SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO IRAN By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, ...
  • Gore Vidal dies aged 86 + Gore Vidal Interview
    Dandelion Salad My sympathies and condolences to his family and friends. guardian.co.uk Aug. 1, 2012 Gore Vidal, the author, playwright, politician and commentator whose novels, essays, plays and opinions were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional wisdom, has died in Los Angeles. Vidal ...
  • New CISPA in the Senate ready for a vote + Act ...
    Dandelion Salad Jul 31, 2012 by RTAmerica Congress is debating a new cybersecurity bill that has garnered the support of the White House. Does that mean it will ease the fears from Capitol Hill while still respecting concerns of privacy though? Aaron Swartz of Demand Progress joins RT’s Li ...
  • Bernie Sanders takes on Jim Inhofe: Global War ...
    Dandelion Salad by Bernie Sanders July 30, 2012 In a summer of record heat, severe drought, extreme storms, melting glaciers and raging wildfires, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday challenged claims by a leading Republican senator who dismisses global warming as a “hoax.” Sanders rebutte ...
  • The Perversion of Scholarship by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig July 30, 2012 Fraternities, sororities and football, along with other outsized athletic programs, have decimated most major American universities. Scholarship, inquiry, self-criticism, moral autonomy and a search for artistic and esoteric ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Israel has 30 days to find solution for reside ...
    Zanuta, like other small Palestinian villages in the area, existed as a cave-settlement before the West Bank was occupied by Israel. Archaeological findings reveal that Zanuta had been inhabited... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Reflections on a lifetime of eng ...
    Mouin Rabbani: Many of those who favor a one-state solution see it as the antithesis of the two-state solution, yet you seem to be suggesting a continuum. Noam Chomsky: I don’t know of any other... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Israel obstructs the peace, and ...
    Europe's only real leverage over Israel is economic: business between the two already accounts for about 60 per cent of Israeli trade, worth nearly 30 billion euros (Dh136 billion). But rather than... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • IDF officer head-butts Palestinian youth in th ...
    An IDF officer with the rank of lieutenant head-butted a Palestinian youth in the face, a video filmed in the city of Hebron on Wednesday and uploaded to YouTube has revealed. A volunteer for the NGO... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • EU move to upgrade relations with Israel
    Senior EU diplomat: "I was struck by the fact that a whole range of relations was offered to Israel – at the request of Israel – as if nothing is happening on the ground... Most ministers are too... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • Russian Shipyard Starts Metal Cutting for Mistral
    Russia’s Baltic Shipyard has started metal cutting for the hull of the first Mistral class amphibious assault ship being built in France for the Russian Navy, the United Shipbuilding Corporation said on Wednesday.
  • Azerbaijan to Host Radar Stations to Combat Sm ...
    Seven radar stations will be sited along Azerbaijan’s Caspian Sea coast, the U.S. Department of State said in its country report on terrorism for 2011.
  • Professionals in Russian Airborne Forces to Do ...
    The number of professional servicemen in the Russian Airborne Forces is expected to reach 20,000 in the next five or seven years, more than double the current 9,500 troops, the airborne troops chief commander, Colonel General Vladimir Shamanov, has said.
  • Russia Considers New Benefits for Army Conscripts
    In a move to make army service more attractive for citizens and cut the number of conscription dodgers, the Russian government is considering additional benefits for army conscripts, including easier access to higher education in Russia and abroad, as well as to state civil sector jobs, Russian ...
  • Putin Attends Nuclear Sub Ceremony
    Russian President Vladimir Putin participated on Monday in a ceremony to launch construction of Russia’s fourth Borei-class (Project 955A) ballistic missile submarine.

NewsWise

  • Sleep Affects Potency of Vaccines
    As moms have always known, a good night's sleep is crucial to good health -- and now a new study led by a UCSF researcher shows that poor sleep can reduce the effectiveness of vaccines.
  • Researchers Discover Gene that Permanently Sto ...
    Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have discovered a mutant form of the gene, Chk1, that when expressed in cancer cells, permanently stopped their proliferation and caused cell death without the addition of any chemotherapeutic drugs. This study illustrates an un ...
  • JAAOS Study Highlights Success of Nerve Transf ...
    Because many physicians are unaware of nerve transfer surgery, some patients suffer long-term impairment from nerve injuries that could have been fixed.
  • Identifying Dolphins with Technology
    A student-developed computer program simplifies the process of manual photo identification of bottlenose dolphins and other species.
  • CAP Checklist a First for Next Generation Sequ ...
    The College of American Pathologists (CAP) published a revised version of its molecular pathology checklist with a dedicated section on next generation sequencing (NGS) as part of the new edition of the CAP Laboratory Accreditation Program checklists released July 31, 2012. The CAP is the first ...

Natural Health News

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Second Annual Junior Faculty Forum for Interna ...
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Calling all junior faculty members… Professors Dino Kritsiotis (Nottingham), Anne Orford (Melbourne) and J.H.H. Weiler (NYU) just launched the Second Annual Junior Faculty Forum for International Law. It is designed to bring together international legal scho ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, July 31, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Syrian forces have intensified their attacks on the crucial Aleppo, while rebel fighters say that they are holding firm in the city they expect will become the “regime’s grave.” Russian president Vladimir Putin has ratified a stricter adopt ...
  • Gabor Rona on Targeted Killing: A Response to ...
    by Gabor Rona [Gabor Rona is the International Legal Director of Human Rights First] Over at Lawfare,  Mark Mazetti’s New York Times Magazine article “The Drone Zone” generated a rich discussion on targeted killing with entries by Ken Anderson, Geoff Corn, me, Charles Dunlap, Laurie Blank, and ...
  • Gabor Rona on Targeted Killing: A Response to ...
    by Gabor Rona [Gabor Rona is the International Legal Director of Human Rights First] Over at Lawfare,  Mark Mazetti’s New York Times Magazine article “The Drone Zone” generated a rich discussion on targeted killing with entries by Ken Anderson, Geoff Corn, me, Charles Dunlap, Laurie Blank, and ...
  • The Kochs Lose a Friend. But Does He Give Ref ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Add another name to the list of scientists that understand global warming is both real and the product of human activity.  Come on down Richard A. Muller: CALL me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that ...

Public News Service

  • Will Walmart Make Its Suppliers Stop Using Ges ...
    Will Walmart Make Its Suppliers Stop Using Gestation Crates? PHOENIX - An animal-advocacy group says Walmart is quickly becoming the lone major corporation that still allows its pork suppliers to use gestation crates. Nathan Runkle, executive director of Mercy for Animals, says the video the gr ...
  • New Study: Spanked Kids = Messed-Up Grownups
    New Study: Spanked Kids = Messed-Up Grownups PHOENIX - Physical punishment of children increases the chances of mood, anxiety and personality disorders, and of alcohol and drug abuse in adulthood, according to a study in the latest Journal of Pediatrics. Canadian researchers using data from near ...
  • Experts: Wealth Plummets for People of Color, ...
    Experts: Wealth Plummets for People of Color, 'Bad' Loans to Blame PHOENIX - Middle-class families have taken the biggest hit during the Great Recession, according to a Federal Reserve Bulletin report on family wealth. Many see the decline in home values and the foreclosure crisis as the primary ...
  • Se celebra por primera vez el Día del R&# ...
    Se celebra por primera vez el Día del Río Colorado PHOENIX – Varios estados del oeste, incluso Arizona, dependen del Río Colorado, por su agua potable y su impacto económico. Esta semana se realiza por primera vez, y en toda la región, la celebración del D&#2 ...
  • Bright Future Seen as Feds Approve Pair of Uti ...
    Bright Future Seen as Feds Approve Pair of Utility-Size Arizona Solar Sites PHOENIX, Ariz. - The U.S. Interior Department has approved a final plan to fast-track utility-size solar power plants at a pair of locations west of Phoenix. ...(Read More)

Center for Food Safety

  • EPA to Beekeepers: Buzz Off
    Agency denies “imminent hazard” exists, fails to take immediate steps to protect bees from pesticides Earlier today the Environmental Protection Agency announced it formally refused to recognize that honey bees face an “imminent hazard” and denied a request by beekeepers to immediately suspend t ...
  • Statement by Center for Food Safety at Nationa ...
    The Center for Food Safety (‘The Center’) joined a collection of top public interest groups today at the National Press Club to voice collective concern over the recently passed House Agriculture Committee 2012 farm bill, which reported out of committee with several agricultural biotech industry ...
  • New York Times’ Oversized Argument: Organic Ca ...
    by Lisa J. Bunin, Ph.D., Organic Policy Coordinator There is no disputing the claim that organic has become “a wildly lucrative business for Big Food,” as discussed at length in the recent New York Times article: “Has ‘Organic’ Been Oversized?” But what reporter Stephanie Strom has noticeably om ...
  • The Center’s Statement on House Agriculture Co ...
    Riders attacking GE crop safeguards and USDA review process remain amid growing concerns over risk to nation’s food supply The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture completed the markup of its Farm Bill yesterday evening.  Buried in the bill reported out of committee are a suite ...
  • House Farm Bill’s ‘Backdoor Biotech Riders’ En ...
    Sweeping pro-chemical industry provisions attack GE crop safeguards and USDA review process, set controversial allowance for transgenic contamination of the nation’s food supply The Center for Food Safety (CFS) and a group of 40 food businesses and retailers, and farm, food safety, environmental ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
    Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
  • House Hopping
    House Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
  • Buying Property
    Buying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
  • IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing
    IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing Aӏmоѕt еνегуtһіng іn tһе world today wіӏӏ nеνег ӏаѕt аnԁ tһаt іѕ а fact. Obviously, tһіngѕ ѕһоυӏԁ change nо matter wһаt еνеn wіtһ tһе assets уоυ аге tгуіng tо invest іn уоυг IRA. If уоυ аге іn tһе field оf investing, уоυ wіӏӏ аn idea tһаt IR ...
  • Real Estate Investing Myths
    Real Estate Investing Myths Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest. Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...

Pensieve

  • Disney-Pixar Pollution
    For a movie titled “Brave” Pixar are behaving like cowards. I knew it the moment Princess Merida rode her horse out of her castle. A character song. A musical cue. Suddenly I wasn’t watching a Pixar movie, I was watching Mulan or Pocahontas. The very thought of another Disney princess is bad eno ...
  • Grain
    I feel like sand crumbling in the wind. I try to take a step only to find my feet are no longer there. I am a particle, speeding away to nothingness. I was once a rock, solid, assailed by waves, broken by none. But one day I fell from the lofty cliff that was my [...] Related posts: Hurricane Al ...
  • Thermodynamics and Jenga Towers
    I imagine one type of probability space as an extremely wide and extremely high tower of Jenga blocks under bombardment from an arbitrarily large number of bored children wearing jetpacks. The vertical, y axis represents the passage of time. The higher you go up that axis, the further you travel ...
  • The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything
    An article on the blog “Shake Off the Grind“, titled “You Only Live Once so Make it Meaningful“,  asks the questions below. Here are my answers: Who am I: A semi-aware bundle of perceptions, habits, and quirks. My personality is simply the structure of the relationships b ...
  • Magic Wands Almost Possible
    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistiguishable from magic” –Arthur C. Clarke Perhaps none of us will ever see straw being converted to gold, or water to wine, but the technology to power a wand-like instrument by waving it around has arrived. The electronics of the d ...

Green Times

  • Hollande may not like it, but French nuclear i ...
    The recent meeting of European Energy Ministers has exposed a Germany-France rift on the role of nuclear power. Post-Fukushima, Germany is investing heavily in solar power; so is Italy. But a French spokesperson said efforts after 2020 must stay neutral on technologies
  • Green art project
    The ARTECYCLE Sculpture Exhibition starts today (18-May). Artecycle encourages Australian and international artists to create artwork that responds to contemporary ideas surrounding the themes of environmentalism (lifestyle/environmentalism.html) and sustainability (lifestyle/sustainable-develo ...
  • Environmental News 18/05/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Exporters face action on cattle cruelty film TWO Australian live cattle exporters have been found to have broken new animal welfare rules in Indonesia, imposed after a cruelty controversy last year. In February Animals Australia - the group that unco ...
  • Mass consumption is killing the environment...
    Abundance (glossary/categories/wildlife/abundance.html), mass consumption, capitalism (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q= esrc=s source=web cd=1 ved=0CIoBEBYwAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCapitalism ei=Wd6xT9bLMqKLmQXDyoi3CQ usg=AFQjCNEs9weTxH-ZiwZr_DR6I1eSy9IHpA sig2=3F5nMo ...
  • Environmental News 17/05/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Richmond Valley says no to new coal seam gas The Richmond Valley Council is reconsidering its position on the coal-seam industry. It was the only far north coast council to speak in favour of the industry when a parliamentary inquiry visited the regi ...

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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • A New Bio-Gas System in Palestinian Susya
    in May 2010, the Bio-Gas project was launched to install systems for producing gas from sheep and goat dung for the domestic energy needs of the Palestinian hamlet of Susya (Susiya). This project was the initiative of Yair Teller, together with The Villages Group and Arava Institute. The first s ...
  • Susya
    June 22, 2012: Susya I doubt if Palestinian Susya has ever seen so many people. Some 500, maybe more, have arrived from Jerusalem (including a large Palestinian delegation from East Jerusalem), Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva, and various sites in the occupied territories: Beit Umar, Mufagara, and the ...
  • My Home is Everything: the People of Susiya Sp ...
    Dear Friends and supporters, The latest news from Qamar, the lawyer from Rabbis for Human Rights representing Palestinian Susiya: the occupation’s “Civil Administration” agreed to extend the period for the submission of the juridical objections to the demolition orders issued f ...
  • Urgent alert to save Susya village from destru ...
    Dear Friends, Please have a look at the announcement below. For the last twelve years we have worked closely with our Palestinian friends in Susya, protected them to the best of our abilities from continuous violent harassment by Israeli settlers and by the army, fought the legal battle to keep ...
  • “Civil Administration” and Settler ...
    In March, we reported here about an unusual Israel High Court petition by Israeli settler-run groups, demanding that the (fraudulently named) “Civil Administration” carry out demolition orders in Palestinian Susya. Settler pressure upon the government to make Palestinian life more di ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Let’s not get smug about India’s massive power ...
    Over 600 million were without power in India on their second day of stunningly huge outages. Worse, no one knows what caused this, the biggest blackout in history.Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde blamed the new crisis on states taking more than their allotted share of electricity, and other of ...
  • Police violence precedes governor’s conference ...
    Credit: dylankelley.blogspot.comNew England governors and friends were on their way to a dinner party prior to a conference in Burlington, VT and found the way blocked by pedestrians and protesters. So they did what was only natural and called in the police, with police violence the predictable ...
  • Get ready for weapons screening at movie theaters
    We are now getting predictable squeaking about how maybe we need weapons screening and armed guards at movie theaters, as implied by the following:The Colorado movie theater complex that was the scene of a gunman’s massacre didn’t have any uniformed security guards on duty the night ...
  • Shooter Jennings – 4th of July
    The post Shooter Jennings – 4th of July appeared first on Politics in the Zeros.
  • Rooftop solar power in Hawaii faces unexpected ...
    The cost of rooftop solar power in Hawaii is lower than grid power. But interconnect costs, balky utilities, and a flood of those wanting rooftop solar have led to problems.First in the U.S., Hawaii residents and businesses can install solar power – without incentives – for less than the cost of ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Ex-NSA Overseer Accuses FBI of Retaliatory Raids
    courthousenews.com     (CN) – A former member of the House committee charged with overseeing National Security Agency operations claims the FBI raided her property and seized electronic equipment and papers after falsely suspecting her of leaking classified information about the ...
  • U.S. Navy Social Engineers To Remove Urinals F ...
    First, the navy went tobacco-free; then, the social engineers came up with the idea of implementing mandatory breathalyzers for the troops. Now, the latest initiative is to remove urinals from ships to create ‘gender-neutral’ restrooms. theatlanticwire.com   A spirited debate is spilling ou ...
  • No “Like”: Facebook shares hit new ...
    CIA Fail! USA TODAY Facebook’s rocky relationship with investors hit a new low Tuesday as shares tumbled another 6% to $21.71 a share. Three trading sessions after the social-networking giant reported earnings for the first time as a public company, concerns about growth and share valuatio ...
  • (Zero Hour) – ABC to produce Drama about ...
    I think we know how this will go: Militias Bad, Police and Military Good. Yep.   Deadline.com EXCLUSIVE: In their first development season after partnering last June to launch ABC Studios-based Di Bonaventura Pictures Television, Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and Dan McDermott landed a series on t ...
  • 12-year-old tased inside Victoria’s Secret
    Question is… HOW did the cops know that the Mom was there as they came to arrest her for warrants?   South St. Louis County (KSDK) - A police officer tased a 12-year-old girl inside a Victoria’s Secret Wednesday afternoon at South County Center. Police say the officer came into ...

The Air Vent

  • Surface Stations Project Hits Paydirt
    It seems as always, I don’t have much time.   I have been waiting for this to break for a long time now, holding my tongue through a lot of critique from the usual advocate trolls.  This extraordinary moment in climate science is FAR to important not to call attention to and I will absolut ...
  • CG Filedate Timeline
    An interesting Climategate timeline discussion has started in a recent Blackboard thread.
  • Why Back-Radiation is not a Source of Surface ...
    A guest post by Leonard Weinstein.  The original document is here and has more legible equations. Leonard Weinstein July 18, 2012 The argument is frequently made that back radiation from optically absorbing gases heats a surface more than it would be heated without back radiation, and this is th ...
  • Police Reveal Climatehack details.
    Steve McIntyre has a post up on an interview with the Norfolk Police regarding the conclusions on the Climategate hack. Apparently, there was a sophisticated effort to break in to the mail server and access was available for an extended period of time. This document is very interesting in partic ...
  • Climategate Investigation Pauses, No Suspects& ...
    It seems appropriate that I put this up here also. Andrew Montford, CA and others have reported that the Norfolk Police have ended their investigation into the hacking of online data from CRU. It turns out that none of us climate bloggers (previously popular or otherwise) have been implicated an ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Announcing Inside Social Apps NY — December 3, ...
    We are excited to bring our Inside Social Apps conference to New York City. Inside Social Apps NY will be a one-day show where industry leaders will share their insights on optimizing monetization, engagement, and discuss the future opportunities of the social … Continue reading →
  • New Facebook platform industry hires: AdParlor ...
    If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please let us know. Email mail (at) insidefacebook (dot) com, and we’ll get it into our next post. Also, please note that information about most new hires, below, … Continue reading →
  • Google acquires Wildfire, maker of social mark ...
    Google today announced that it agreed to acquire Wildfire Interactive, a social media marketing software company that is a popular solution for managing pages and apps across platforms. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed, but AllThingsD reports that … Continue reading →
  • Facebook to introduce additional targeting for ...
    Facebook is planning to allow pages to target their posts to new subsets of their audience, including fans of a particular age range or gender, according to a marketer who was briefed by a Facebook representative about the change. This change, … Continue reading →
  • Facebook tests bookmarking feature to save New ...
    Facebook is testing a new option for users to save posts in mobile and desktop News Feed for later viewing, iMore and The Verge have discovered. The feature has not rolled out to all users, but those in the test can … Continue reading →

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ReDress News

  • EU tells Israel: "Do your worst without fear o ...
    Alan Hart contrasts the European Union's brave words chastizing Israel about its land theft and ethnic cleansing of the occupied Palestinian territories with its deeds rewarding Israeli crimes, and he attributes this contradiction to Western politicians' fear of offending Zionism and thereby gu ...
  • Europe and US richly reward Israel for pariah ...
    Jonathan Cook exposes the complicity of the European Union and the United States in Israel's occupation and ethnic cleansing of the occupied Palestinian territories, showing how, as Israel accelerates its land grabs and colonizing of the West Bank, the EU and US have chosen to reward, not punish ...
  • Israeli voters and Zionist interests poised to ...
    Jamal Kanj considers how the Republican and Democrat contenders for the upcoming US presidential election, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, and behind them well-organized Israel lobbies, are vying with one another to prove their loyalty to Israel, as if the outcome of the election were more importa ...
  • An American motto: free, armed and stupid
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the Colorado massacre highlights the poisonous influence of lobby groups on US politics, in this case the gun lobby but also, in foreign policy, the Zionist lobby. He calls for a rational rethinking of the meaning of "freedom", so that, in essence, it does not mean ...
  • A war Israel is just begging for an excuse to ...
    Gilad Atzmon warns that Israel's eagerness to attack Iran in "retaliation" for the unsubstantiated claim that Iran is behind the attack on Israeli tourists in Bulgaria is driven by a collective self-annihilation complex that is inherent in Israeli culture and threatens to engulf the world in war.

Amazon Rainforest

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