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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 III

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • NATO Expands Military Network to All Continents
    The top military officials – chiefs of defense staff – and other representatives of 55 North Atlantic Treaty Organization and partnership states met in Croatia on June 18-20 for the 2012 Strategic Military Partnership Conference. NATO’s Allied Command Transformation, established at the 1999 fift ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 26, ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Make a Statement- Make the Real Alternative Yo ...
    We at Boiling Frogs Post, disgusted with the mainstream and pseudo-alternative media, have made a statement. We have taken action. We have become the needed alternative media. Those of you who have had enough of mainstream propaganda and agenda-driven quasi alternatives can make a statement and ...
  • Pakistan: An Uncertain Present & Future
    Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s ouster this week was more than merely a significant development for national politics, it was an unequivocal message to the people of Pakistan that ineptness, subservience, and corruption will not go unpunished. Though it is fashionable to conclude t ...
  • Stop Imperialism Podcast – The Escalatin ...
    Eric Draitser Presents Pakistani Journalist Atif K Butt Eric discusses with Pakistani journalist Atif K Butt the latest news regarding the order by Pakistan’s Supreme Court to dismiss Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani from office and the escalating power struggle that has diminished the go ...

Afro Spear

  • Byts and Bytes
    Two Classes, Divided by “I Do” The Morehouse Male Initiative: Black Male Statistics Obama’s Scramble for Africa Mauritania: Slavery’s Last Stronghold Echwalu Photography
  • “False Claims of Voter Suppression‏&#822 ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 Benjamin Jealous, the president and CEO of the NAACP, heartily embraces the absurd assertion of the left that asking someone to simply prove their identity in order to participate in the sacred honor of casting a ballot is thinly-veiled voter suppression and an ass ...
  • A Profile of a Mass Murderer
  • sat’day riddymz
    She is singing in swahili and here is the translation: “Forgive my bad faith Forgive my absence Nonetheless I love you But I don’t know how to love Forgive me for the lost time You waited and hoped Forgive my ignorance Forgive my denial Forgive my silence To you who loved me Forgive my ang ...
  • Who Are Your Black Heroes?

Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...

Ode Magazine

  • Sonic boon
    A search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...
  • The secret’s in the sauce
    What my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
  • Clean water, clean energy
    In the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
  • Blocking CO2 to beat malaria
    Mosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
  • A winter’s tale
    Celebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...

OpEd News

  • Emergency Central Bank Intervention Coming?
    Greece is a corpse. It's waiting for its obituary to be written. Spain is on life support. Portugal and Ireland are wheezing. Italy is breathing hard. Britannia is sinking. America isn't far behind.
  • Conservative Millennials, Boomers & Libertaria ...
    As Bill A. Clark put it, "I never bought anybody who wasn't for sale." The Kocks, Waltons & other wealthy parasites were paying attention & who knows, maybe the price of the next election is 561 million dollars.
  • NBC Invents War-o-tainment
    If you've watched the Olympics on NBC you've probably seen ads promoting a war-o-tainment reality show cohosted by retired U.S. General Wesley Clark, co-starring Todd Palin, and with no apparent role for reality.
  • Hate on Social Media Against President Obama Soars
    The legion of web sites, bloggers, talk show jocks, and the occasional GOP official that has teed off on President Obama and at times Michelle Obama with assorted borderline racist digs, taunts, and depictions have been relentless.
  • Barack Obama commands, Hillary Clinton soars, ...
    Romney embarrassed himself almost from the minute he arrived in London. He insulted his hosts. He insulted a great nation and close American ally that joins us in a "special relationship." He made statements that were thoughtless, clumsy, amateurish and unworthy of anyone who aspires to be comma ...

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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • … and I support this message.*
    I’m not sure why conservatives are panicking about the responses of Romney’s spokeperson, Al Swearengen. They seem rote enough to me: CNN: Governor Romney are you concerned about some of the mishaps of your trip? AL SWEARENGEN: We’re forming a fucking government, you loopy fuck ...
  • I Guess All Graduate Students Come From the El ...
    So Inside Higher Ed ran basically the worst article ever written about how to be a good graduate student, by Katy Meyers, Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University: Knowing wine used to be a skill that you were raised to possess. Wine was an ever-present entity ...
  • All Good Things…
    The Alyona Show has ended. Say what you will (and by this I mean “make every entirely reasonable critique of RT”) about the sources of funding and oversight, Alyona was willing to have guests and tackle subjects that could be found nowhere else on television.  I can’t think of ...
  • Walking and talking with Louie and Liz
    Jim Emerson’s appreciation of Louie captures something I don’t think I quite did in my initial comments about the relationship of form to content in The Dark Knight Rises. The episode, “Daddy’s Girlfriend II,” largely consists of a slow-motion Sorkinian walk-and-tal ...
  • Mittens/Rocker ’12!
    Not only would John Rocker provide some needed sectional balance to the Republican ticket, he knows just as much about the First Amendment as the previous Republican vice-presidential nominee: Technically, as our Founding Fathers intended, we are all given the undeniable right to voice our thoug ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI attaining renewable energy power sources f ...
    Significant progress has been made on two renewable energy projects that is not only cost effective, but ultimately will contribute to the long-term efforts in sustainability by reducing the amount of electricity the Desert Research Institute needs from the utility grid.
  • Hallar Named Regents' Rising Researcher
    The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents presented Gannet Hallar, Ph.D. of the Desert Research Institute (DRI) with the 2012 Rising Researcher Award in acknowledgment of her contributions to the field of atmospheric science and her potential for future accomplishments.  
  • DRI scientists conduct climate change research ...
    Dr. Eric Wilcox and graduate student Nic Beres research pollution’s effects on clouds in the island nation most threatened by climate change.
  • Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
    Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.
  • Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
    Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Health Care and the High Court
    The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the centerpiece of the nation's new health care law — the individual mandate to buy insurance — as a constitutional exercise of Congress' taxing authority. Led by veteran reporters Tony Mauro and Marcia Coyle, NLJ wraps up its coverage of the week's hi ...
  • OPINION: ABA standards stand in the way of law ...
    The ABA needs to use its power of accreditation to usher in more affordable legal education.
  • L.A. litigator seeks house arrest to accommoda ...
    Trial attorney Pierce O'Donnell, fresh out of federal prison, has asked to serve his next four months' confinement at home, instead of in a halfway house, so that he can undergo hip replacement surgery.
  • Netflix seeks permission to appeal order to co ...
    Netflix Inc. asked a federal judge in Massachusetts for permission to appeal his ruling that the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 requires the company to provide closed-captioning text for its web-only streaming video.
  • Online poker sites settle with government for ...
    A $731 million deal between PokerStars, the largest online poker site, and the U.S. Justice Department has resolved a closely watched civil forfeiture dispute that roiled the gambling industry.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
    The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
  • New State Impact PA App
    Since I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
  • OilandGasHelp.com
    I happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
  • The Passage of House Bill 1950…
    I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...
  • Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...
    From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...

News Blaze

  • Astonishing 4,313 Record High Temperatures for ...
    Two hundred ninety-nine of these record highs were the warmest temperatures ever observed for the entire month and an incredible 171 records were the all-time highest temperatures ever observed.
  • Celebrated Artist Bonnie Steiger Dies on His 9 ...
    Chris Marker was one of the most celebrated artists in the world. In addition to being a writer, photographer and film director, he also liked cats. Marker died at 91 on July 29, 2012.
  • The Famed Night Markets of Bangkok
    The famed night markets of Bangkok are okay for a one-time experience but the real thing is the weekly market - they set up on Friday and work through Saturday to Sunday evenings.
  • Global Production of Iron Ore Sets New Record
    According to a new United Nations report, amount of iron ore produced globally in 2011 was 1.92 billion tons which represents a 4.7 per cent increase from 2010.
  • IPCDA Supports Plan for 'Humane' Relocation of ...
    In a meeting in Paris on 26 July 2012, Mrs Rajavi offered practical steps for providing adequate water, electricity, sanitation, and minimum comfort for the residents of Liberty at the expense of the residents. Now the ball is in Iraq's court.

environment 360

  • U.S. Meat Producers Call for Pause in Ethanol ...
    U.S. meat, poultry, and dairy producers are urging the Obama administration to suspend a quota for corn-based ethanol production, warning that the renewable fuels standard could trigger a food crisis as a prolonged Getty Images drought pushes corn and soybean prices to record levels. In a le ...
  • Powerful Storms Linked to Depletion of Ozone L ...
    A new study warns that a surge in powerful storms, perhaps linked to a warming climate, could be causing a depletion of the planet’s protective ozone layer. Writing in the journal Science, Harvard researchers explain that water vapor inserted into the normally dry stratosphere by strong thunders ...
  • Unusual Number of Grizzly and Hybrid Bears Spo ...
    Two Canadian biologists have reported sighting a handful of grizzly bears and hybrid grizzly/polar bears at unusually high latitudes in the Arctic, indicating that the interbreeding of the two bear species is becoming more common as the climate warms and grizzlies venture View photos Photo ...
  • Pulling Carbon From Air Should Be Pursued Desp ...
    Columbia University scientists say that technologies to extract carbon dioxide from the air will likely become a critical part of any strategy to stabilize the global climate and should not be abandoned because of high costs. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the re ...
  • Conservation Efforts Spur Comeback of Pakistan ...
    Conservation efforts in Pakistan have helped foster the resurgence of the markhor, a species of large wild goat found along cliff faces in the western Himalayas and ©Grahm Jones/Columbus Zoo and Aquarium A male markhor known for its iconic corkscrew horns. According to the Wildlife Conservati ...

Red Ice Creations

  • The eurozone’s religious faultline
    Discussion among eurozone leaders about the future of their single currency has become an increasingly divisive affair. On the surface, religion has nothing to do with it - but could Protestant and Catholic leaders have deep-seated instincts that lead them to pull the eurozone in different direc ...
  • Geo-Engineering: Dumping iron in the ocean cou ...
    Dumping iron in the seas can help transfer carbon from the atmosphere and bury it on the ocean floor for centuries, helping to fight climate change, according to a study released on Wednesday. The report, by an international team of experts, provided a boost for the disputed use of such ocean fe ...
  • Washington State Is Going To Allow Voter Regis ...
    Microsoft creates Facebook app that will allow Washington state voters to register to vote through the social networking site Washington is expected to become the first state in the US to offer voters the opportunity to register via Facebook with a new application that could launch as early as n ...
  • 600-Year-Old Bras Uncovered in Austrian Castle
    Victoria’s Secret might get credit for reinventing the brassiere, but the earliest-known bras now date back to the Middle Ages, according to Austrian archeologists at the University of Innsbruck. The university said Wednesday that it found four linen bras in an Austrian castle dating back to the ...
  • World’s most powerful laser fires most powerfu ...
    The largest laser system in the world was turned on for a fraction of a second July 5, and it unleashed the most powerful laser blast in history -- besting a record set mere months earlier. TheNational Ignition Facility (NIF) -- a laser test facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in ...

Russia Today

  • Medical mystery over discarded embryos: Stem-c ...
    Medical experts and investigators are pondering the origins of more than 200 human embryos found disposed in the Urals. Speculation ranges from illegal abortions to illegal stem-cell research. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Dirty Deeds: Iranian nuclear program hit by 'A ...
    Iranian nuclear facilities have been reportedly attacked by a “musical” virus, turning personal computers in laboratories on at nighttime and starting playing AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” out loud. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Typhoon Vincente slams Hong Kong (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
    The strongest storm in 10 years has hit Hong Kong, with dozens in hospitals and hundreds seeking refuge in shelters. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Top US Commander accused of stalling Afghanist ...
    A Congressional hearing on a delayed probe into a US-funded Afghan military hospital has aroused concerns that rampant corruption hampers the NATO occupation. An official cited “Auschwitz-like conditions” at the... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • ‘Fall of EU could help a new Hitler come to power’
    The political and economical crisis of the EU might help a new European Hitler to emerge, warns historian Geoffrey Roberts. He believes the current rise of ultra-nationalism in Europe resembles that one of 1930s as... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Mitt Romney trips upon brilliant foreign polic ...
    On the heels of making A TWIT of himself in London, self-caricaturized Romneyshambles, GOP presidential foil-candidate Mitt Romney traipsed over to Israel and depth-charged their bellicose policy of menacing Iran with continuous threats of preemptive attack by proclaiming his “respect&#822 ...
  • NATO training new police force in counter revo ...
    Turkey, a member of NATO, is now training the new police force in LIbya for the new counter revolutionary government the US and NATO have established there. ‘A total of 817 Libyan police academy students arrived in Istanbul last week to train at the Adile Sadullah Mermerci Police Centre, w ...
  • Should the London Olympics remember the 1972 M ...
    Of course the Israeli weightlifters and wrestlers killed in Munich in 1972 should be memorialized. But to call the killing of the Olympic athletes a holocaust is sarcasm. What happened at the 1972 Olympics is being recalled as the “Munich Massacre” but even the propagandists tweaking ...
  • Everything’s up to date in Kansas City
    Yep– They’ve gone about as far as they can go. Broadway’s otherwise obsolete lyrics about civilization’s western edge might be true again! Kansas City will now have 1-Gig/second internet access. One hundred times faster than yours. It’s a new project of Google&#8217 ...
  • So Aurora shooter James Holmes has “lawy ...
    If law enforcement spokespeople are to be believed, James Holmes has “lawyered up”, EXCEPT that he turned up at his arraignment alone, with a public defender. Does “lawyered up” mean something else, like invoking your right not to be interrogated without advice of a lawye ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Cowardly AIA Panders to Political Correctness
    One thing I have absolutely zero respect for is when people critique a book or documentary film without even reading or watching it. A recent article in Architect Magazine seems like a clear example of this, except the author supposedly did watch the film he's critiquing. You wouldn't think it t ...
  • Reply: Gage's Architects & Engineers for 9/11 ...
    Published on Jul 20, 2012 by RepresentativePress Reply: Photographs and video footage have vindicated Gage, as they show the same phenomenon of negative low air pressure occurred with WTC 1 after the collapse of WTC 2 making it appear as if the entire building was on fire. Skip to 10:2 ...
  • FAQ #8: What Is Nanothermite? Could It Have Be ...
    Written by Adam Taylor In order to understand what nanothermite is, we first must understand what ordinary commercial thermite is. Thermite is a mixture of a metal and the oxide of another metal, usually aluminum (Al) and iron oxide (Fe2O3), in a granular or powder form. When ignited, the ener ...
  • The DC 9/11 Truth 4th of July Parade
    DC 9/11 Truth in the 2012 Takoma Park 4th of July Parade For more information on the parade see www.TakomaPark4th.org Here is a report on some of their past events. 9/11 Truth Float in 4th of July Parade 9/11 Blogger | July 7, 2008 dc911truth.org first participated in the Takoma Park Mary ...
  • Fire, Steel, & WTC 7
    Published on Jul 12, 2012 by ofmay We look at the fire that NIST claims took down WTC building 7 as well as 5 other steel frame high rise fires. Debunking the Debunkers blog contributor and author of, "Other Collapses in Perspective: An Examination of Other Steel Structures Collapsing due ...

Fooducate

  • Weight Loss: It’s About Food, Not Exercise, Sa ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Are you frustrated that despite your strict exercise regimen you are not losing weight? Are you running 5 times a week and disappointed to see the pounds dropping off much m ...
  • VIDEO: Doritos Commercial Spoof (Nutrition Sur ...
    Have you read the ingredients in that bag of Doritos?! Woah! We decided that the Doritos superbowl commercial needed some editing… See for yourself some of the absurd ingredients they are putting in your snacks! Get Fooducated: iPhone App Android App Web App  RSS or  Email Follow us on twi ...
  • Perhaps it’s Time the USDA Stopped Giving Us N ...
     New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Something funny happened at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) last week. In an online newsletter to employees, published once a quarter, the advice dispens ...
  • Recovery Drinks: Gatorade or Chocolate Milk?
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! You got up early, dragged yourself out of bed and spent 30, 45, or even 60 full minutes on the treadmill, swimming, or jogging outside before the heat gets too unbearable. C ...
  • The Real Reason McDonald’s and Coke are Sponso ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! McDonald’s and Coca Cola each spent $100M to become sponsors of the Olympics. That’s a lot of dough, both for the International Olympic Committee to receive, and ...

Traffikd

  • Twitter Step by Step
    Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
  • SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
    When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
  • How To Choose Keywords
    Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
  • Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
    So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...
  • How Do I Tweet – Writing the $6 Million Dollar ...
    Twitter recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a star as fast bad ones can kill your image. Most of the time tweets just pass ...

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Congo Vultures Bagged
    Vulture fund's $100m DR Congo claim blocked By Meirion Jones BBC Newsnight Bid to block $100m 'vulture' debt The Privy Council has ruled that a "vulture fund" cannot collect $100m from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The award was against Congo's state-owned mining company Gecamines who su ...
  • Can we list your Group in our Election Guide?A ...
    We need you to join Operation PUSH, Rock the Vote, People for the American Way, League of United Latin American Citizens, Bobby Kennedy Jr., Thom Hartmann Show, Occupy.com and 150 other organizations.  Add your group's name to our book, website and film, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to ...
  • Fracking in Ireland and BeingDependent on Hall ...
    by Greg Palast for No Fracking Ireland No Fracking Ireland presents Greg Palast in Dublin, Today 3. July Connolly Books, Temple Bar - 1pm The Ireland Institute - 7.30pm Full info here On the 20th of April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oilrig blew out in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven men insta ...
  • Wall Street, a Farce in Three Acts
    The Medicine Show Theater presents: Wall Street, a Farce in Three Acts Written in 1819 by William Holmes NEW YORK CITY July 5th – 8th 8pm With a special guests appearance by Greg Palast on July 7th & 8th for a talk-back with the audience about the parallels between the Panic of 1819 dep ...
  • Warren Ellis: "Money is Fictional"
    Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan, Crooked Little Vein and yet to be released Gun Machine gave the opening remarks for me last night in London for my UK release of Vultures' Picnic. Thankfully he posted them this morning, here's a bit of them, the full text can be found on his website ww ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
    Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
    Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle large (catering siz ...
    Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods. Now that they’re empty, they are open on one end, with no plastic lid to [...]
  • She recycled that! Upcycling novelty hats into ...
    Last September, Karen emailed us about the vast collection of novelty jester hats that her boyfriend had collected at various carnivals and festivals over the years. She wanted to know how she could reuse or recycle them as she hadn’t had much success giving them away. Lots of people made ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle wallpaper samples?
    Following on from the paint tester pots the other week, I’ve got some wallpaper samples that have served their purpose too. I really can’t wait for our renovations to be over! Like the paint, the samples were to check out ideas/colours/designs in-situ. Some of them were torn from rol ...

Age of Autism

  • Institute of Medicine Plans Vax Safety Review: ...
    From our friends at Autism Action Network. Comments due today - use the link below. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has begun a purported review of the alleged safety of different vaccination schedules and has invited the public to comment...
  • Dr. Mayer Eisenstein and Alan Phillips Host "K ...
    You are cordially invited to join co-hosts Dr. Mayer Eisenstein MD, JD, MPH and Alan Phillips, JD on their new weekly radio show, the "Know Your Rights Hour," live Mon evenings beginning July 30th at 9pm ET (8pm CT /...
  • My Conversation with IACC Chair Dr. Tom Insel
    By Jake Crosby The following is my videotaped public comment in front of Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), drastically cut down due to a time limit given to me the day before the meeting. Shortly before I testified, IACC Chair...
  • My Conversation with NIH Director Dr. Francis ...
    By Jake Crosby Below is a video of the Canary Party Press Conference when the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) was on lunch break. In it, I speak (16:40 mark) about a conversation I’d just had with Dr. Francis Collins...
  • Autism File Magazine: What We Can Learn From S ...
    Thank you to our friends at The Autism File Magazine for allowing us to excerpt this article by Jonathan Rose. Fifty years ago, Rachel Carson alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of pesticides— and her spirited...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Asian factories sputter as Europe sinks
    Reuters – Euro zone manufacturing took another turn for the worse last month as output plummeted, hammering home the scale of the region’s economic crisis which also depressed export orders from factories in China and India. Surveys of thousands of factories across the world released ...
  • UK House prices show 2.6% decrease
    Independent – House prices have recorded their biggest year-on-year decline in almost three years amid the toughening economy, Nationwide building society said today. But the market has shown “resilience” compared with some other countries, despite the 2.6% annual drop taking a ...
  • South Korea backing human rights activist who ...
    Washington Post – South Korea is backing a push by a rights activist to raise his claim with the United Nations that he was tortured during his four-month detainment in China. A spokesman for activist Kim Young-hwan said Wednesday that Chinese authorities burned the South Korean with an el ...
  • Having seen the evidence, I don’t touch ...
    Daily Mail – Once upon a time, fizzy drinks were an occasional luxury treat. Now, many of us think nothing of having at least one every day — maybe a lunchtime can of cola or a ‘natural’ lemonade from Pret. We use them as instant pick-me-ups, and even as ‘healthy’ sports aids bought from v ...
  • Higgs boson results from LHC ‘get even s ...
    BBC – The particle has been the subject of a decades-long hunt as the last missing piece of physics’ Standard Model, explaining why matter has mass. Now one Higgs-hunting team at the Large Hadron Collider report a “5.9 sigma” levels of certainty it exists. Read article

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • UCLA's new transparent solar film could be gam ...
    One of the holy grails of solar cell technology may have been found, with researchers at UCLA announcing they have created a new organic polymer that produces electricity, is nearly transparent and is more durable and malleable than silicon.
  • Controversial Caribbean whaling approved with ...
    Representatives of the International Whaling Commission meeting in Panama this week have approved a controversial proposal extending the Aboriginal and Subsistence Whaling quotas for three countries: the United States, Russia and the Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent & the Grenadines.  Th ...
  • Keystone XL southern leg permitted as early as ...
    As a deadline rapidly approaches that will automatically permit the construction of the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, an increasingly vocal group of landowners, environmentalists and even tea party members are saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now ramming ...
  • EPA proposes more stringent soot rules
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed new regulations Thursday that would further reduce legal limits for fine particle pollution -- otherwise known as soot -- in the nation’s air. Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, made ...
  • Diesel exhaust can cause cancer, World Health ...
    Diesel engines power commerce and transportation around the world, but the exhaust they produce can prove deadly. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that it now classifies diesel exhaust as a cause of cancer. While major advances in technology have helped clean up some dies ...

water.org

  • A Lighter Load in Ethiopia
    Letebrehan Gerezgiher is 24 years old and has three kids; Maytsada village is living in this small village. She says,”I used to travel two hours in the dry season in search of water and then, without taking a rest, prepare food for my children and husband, clean the house yard, and wash the chil ...
  • Collecting Water in Majidpur
    A family collects drinking water from a newly installed submersible pump water supply system in the Majidpur slum of Savar in India. The water system was installed through the assistance of DSK and Water.org's WaterCredit program. At present, 19 poor households are using this water system.
  • Learning About Sanitation
    Mrs. Bhagya Shrinivas is a resident of Karthikere village & panchayath Chikamagaluru district in India. She has recently married Mr. Shrinivas who is a small businessman with a small petty shop in Karthikere. They have their own house and live there alone.
  • Toilets Bring Dignity
    Imagine for a moment what it might be like for a boy like Shipon and his family to lack access to a toilet. Then imagine how their lives would change when they were able to have one they could all use nearby to their home. Shipon is 10 years old and his family has just gained access to a toilet. ...
  • Water in Adina Faso, Ethiopia
    The residents of Adina Faso used to walk four hours each day to gather unclean water, but after working together with Water.org, they now have twenty-four-hour access to clean water, right in the middle of their village.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
  • Tibetan singer detained and tortured
    25-year-old singer, Ugyen Tenzin, was detained last month soon after the release of his album titled, An Unending Flow of My Hearts Blood,.Unconfirmed reports said that Ugyen Tenzin has been beaten in custody and disabled a month after album released Submitted by Red Thorvenkiold to World &nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • Canadian Solar, Inc. Purchases First American ...
    Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again.  Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. read more
  • Canadian Solar, Inc. Purchases First American ...
    Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again.  Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. ...
  • Potentia and Canadian Solar Sign Supply Agreem ...
    Canadian Solar, Inc. has signed a 17-megawatt supply agreement with Potentia Solar, Inc.  The solar panels will be used to develop more than 100 rooftop solar projects in Ontario. read more
  • Potentia and Canadian Solar Sign Supply Agreem ...
    Canadian Solar, Inc. has signed a 17-megawatt supply agreement with Potentia Solar, Inc.  The solar panels will be used to develop more than 100 rooftop solar projects in Ontario. read more
  • Konarka Technologies Files for Bankruptcy
    Konarka Technologies, a developer of thin-film solar panels, has filed for bankruptcy and will begin to liquidate its assets immediately. read more

News Blaze

  • Astonishing 4,313 Record High Temperatures for ...
    Two hundred ninety-nine of these record highs were the warmest temperatures ever observed for the entire month and an incredible 171 records were the all-time highest temperatures ever observed.
  • Celebrated Artist Bonnie Steiger Dies on His 9 ...
    Chris Marker was one of the most celebrated artists in the world. In addition to being a writer, photographer and film director, he also liked cats. Marker died at 91 on July 29, 2012.
  • The Famed Night Markets of Bangkok
    The famed night markets of Bangkok are okay for a one-time experience but the real thing is the weekly market - they set up on Friday and work through Saturday to Sunday evenings.
  • Global Production of Iron Ore Sets New Record
    According to a new United Nations report, amount of iron ore produced globally in 2011 was 1.92 billion tons which represents a 4.7 per cent increase from 2010.
  • IPCDA Supports Plan for 'Humane' Relocation of ...
    In a meeting in Paris on 26 July 2012, Mrs Rajavi offered practical steps for providing adequate water, electricity, sanitation, and minimum comfort for the residents of Liberty at the expense of the residents. Now the ball is in Iraq's court.

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Capitalism Failed
    by Stephen Lendman Economic/financial systems dependent on wars and predation eventually self-destruct. Western capitalism is no exception. Money power runs things. War profiteering is policy. Ordinary people have no say. Exploiting them for profit is prioritized. Divisions between rich ...
  • Major Media Admit Presence of Foreign Militant ...
    by Stephen Lendman Syria's conflict isn't an uprising, revolution or civil war. It's lawless Western aggression. It targets an independent government and its people. Doing so violates fundamental international law. Washington planned it years ago. It wants puppet leaders installed. It's ...
  • NBC Invents War-o-tainment
    By David Swanson If you've watched the Olympics on NBC you've probably seen ads promoting a war-o-tainment reality show cohosted by retired U.S. General Wesley Clark, co-starring Todd Palin, and with no apparent role for reality. The ads brag about the use of real bullets in a way that promot ...
  • Survival tips for the urbanite: Part 1 – ...
    By Rady Ananda Activist Post Though many survivalists like to prepare for TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it), joblessness and homelessness have led me to the end of the world as I know it. With coffee in hand, I opened the warehouse door of my temporary digs to greet the dawn. On ...
  • Permanent War: Official US Policy
    by Stephen Lendman Nations don’t wage permanent wars and survive. Imagine one calling itself a democracy trying. Washington spends more on militarism and imperial wars than the rest of the world combined. At the same time, vital domestic needs go begging. America lives by the s ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Improve seniors care to improve healthcare for all
    Our latest study shows that BC seniors' access to home and community care continues to decline, while at the same time our population is aging. Home and community care includes services like home nursing, residential care and home support that help keep seniors healthy and independent. Without t ...
  • The Dark Side of Investment Agreements: Video
    Movements around the world have put the spotlight on bailouts and tax evasion that have enriched the 1% at the expense of the 99% but this is only part of the picture. Now the Transnational Institute (TNI) has launched a new accessible popular video animation that exposes how inte ...
  • CCPA-NS 5th Annual Fundraiser: Dinner and an E ...
    Join CCPA-NS and its community of supporters on October 25th for its 5th annual fund raising gala. World-renown CCPA economist, Armine Yalnizyan, will deliver an address on the current federal government's agenda of austerity.  This will be a must-see for any Nova Scotian. Purchase tickets ...
  • CCPA's National Office is moving!
    The week of July 1st, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' National Office will be moving to Under One Roof Properties at 251 Bank Street, Suite 500, Ottawa ON, K2P 1X3. Please note that our phone, fax and general e-mail will remain the same: Telephone: 613-563-1341 | Fax: 613-233-1458 | ...
  • Australian economist Steve Keen's CCPA lecture ...
    The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' Ontario team was pleased to host a lecture, as well as a wine and cheese social in downtown Toronto on June 28th, featuring globally recognized economist Steve Keen, who is based at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. The lecture focused on t ...

World Wide Hippies

  • The Other Side
    By Linda Wolf, WWH/CJE– I sit at the lake watching the water, the waves lapping and receding. I’m under the shade tree at the edge of the sand. Between my hat, sun block (five thousand) and the shade, I’m protected. Idly, I sit watching. I wonder how I’m going to pay my b ...
  • Occupy Wall Street Protesters Targeting Obama ...
    By ELIZABETH FLOCK,usnews.com – A protest by any other name is still a protest. But not all protests are an occupation. Two months after the major group planning to protest the Democratic National Convention changed its name, a new and bigger demonstration is being planned for the Septembe ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Wednesday
    Iconoclastic American author Gore Vidal dead at 86 (Reuters) – Writer Gore Vidal, who filled his novels and essays with acerbic observations on politics, sex and American culture while carrying on feuds with big-name literary rivals, died on Tuesday at home in Los Angeles of complications ...
  • A Martian Takes a Second Look at Earth
    A follow up to; A Martian’s Voyage to Planet Earth By Mickey Walker,tpjmagazine.us – The Martian orbited and slept for many earth-hours before resuming his studies of the vast historical data on earthling behavior. He found that lies perpetuated to cause a desired result made some earthlin ...
  • Study: Pop music has grown louder, dumber and ...
    By J. Bryan LowderSlate.com WASHINGTON — According to a new study from researchers at the Spanish National Research Council, the familiar complaint that contemporary popular music has grown loud, predictable and simpler than ever may be exactly right. While we often cast a skeptical eye toward q ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Archaeology, the Internet and Neutrinos
    Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
    The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
  • Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
    In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
    No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Analyzing Coskata’s Major Strategy Shift
    In last week’s Energy Trends Insider our featured stories were How to Make Money in Solar as Every Solar Manufacturer Goes Bankrupt, Analyzing Coskata’s Major Strategy Shift, and Rough Road For Biobutanol. As we have done previously, we would like to share one of those stories with r ...
  • The Facts About Canada’s Oil Sands and Climate ...
    Misinformation is hard to stamp out, because it tends to be repeated - so Robert Rapier goes in depth to examine Climate Change claims around the Keystone XL pipeline.
  • The Contribution of U.S. Oil Consumption to Gl ...
    Financial Dependence Can Cause Bias Generally when I find myself having to clarify my position from a previous column, I find that I did not explain myself as well as I should have. Such is the case with last week’s column Environmentalism is a Profitable Business. There were several ways ...
  • Investment Opportunities in Natural Gas
    In this week’s Energy Trends Insider our featured stories were The Navy’s Biofuels Program and the Great Green Fleet, Investment Opportunities in Natural Gas, and the Short Term Oil Price Investment Outlook. As we did last week, we would like to share one of those stories with regula ...
  • Midwestern Drought, Ethanol, & Renewable Fuel ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I discuss the implications of the current drought in the Midwest, how that may impact the ethanol market, and whether the Renewable Fuel Standard is likely to be modified. Readers who have specific questions can send them to ask [at] consumere ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • More Positive News for Pork Lovers
    Although a little fashionably late to the party, Sysco, the world's largest catering company and food distributor, has announced its decision to stop buying pork from distributors whose pigs are housed in gestation crate facilities. For those who are a little rusty on animal welfare for pigs li ...
  • 7 Appalling Meat Facts You Need to Know
    Germaphobia is in full swing. News reports of nasty microorganisms lurking on remote controls, doorknobs, and in public restrooms have many of us reaching for hand sanitizer. Sure, those tales are unappetizing, but chew on this: The real germs you need to worry about and avoid—the new-breed, po ...
  • The Ultimate Food System Hero
    There's an unlikely person out to save the food system—and possibly your life. Will Witherspoon, a pro football player for the Tennessee Titans, is spending his final days before grueling NFL training camp begins lobbying Congress to end antibiotic abuse in farming. "It's important. I wouldn't ...
  • Why You Should Never Buy a Yellow Purse
    You probably don't associate your purse with major health problems—unless you're talking about those shoulder pains you get from loading it up with everything but the kitchen sink. But a new report from environmental health scientists in California may give you pause the next time you gravitate ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: Wasp-Proof Your Backyard
    Wasps, hornets, and yellow jacket can put a serious crimp in your outdoor fun. And since populations peak in late summer, now's the time of year when you either deal with them or risk ruining a perfectly good afternoon nursing a seriously nasty welt. I've got a few ideas on how to kill wasps, y ...

big think

  • Book Review: Nonbeliever Nation
    Summary: A solid, informative history of the rise of the American secular movement. Books like Jennifer Michael Hecht's Doubt: A History or Susan Jacoby's Freethinkers show how brave nonbelievers have always existed, even in theocratic societies that were implacably hostile to their view ...
  • So you want to be a Growth Hacker?
    A friend recently asked twitter for some recommendations on what to read if they want to learn about Growth Hacking. Being a great marketer (fine, fine "growth hacker) is about nurturing two very different skill sets in yourself: (1) creatively coming up with novel ways to engage and del ...
  • Collaborate With Your Competitors
    What's the Big Idea? Your colleague asks whether you agree with her perspective on a key issue, forcing you to take sides. Your six-year-old throws a fit just before bedtime, demanding to stay up later. Your partner will do the dishes, but only after you've taken out the trash.  ...
  • Sight: The Implications of Virtual Reality
    There has been a lot of noise recently surronding the prospects of virtual reality. With Google Glasses being showcased last month at the Google I/O conference, it seems - at the least -augmented reality is closer than any would have predicted; but legitimate virtual reality is still an idea ... ...
  • An Automated Word: The Rise of Machine-Machine ...
    What's the Latest Development? By the year 2020, the world's leading maker of wireless network equipment estimates that as many as 50 billion machines could be connected to the World Wide Web. That company, Ericsson, says only approximately 10 billion are likely to be mobile phones or ta ...

Information Liberation

  • Insult Person On Twitter, Go To Jail
    A teenager insulted a public figure on twitter. Then he got arrested. Why? Because in the U.K., it's a "criminal offense" to tweet messages that are "considered menacing, offensive, or indecent." Via The Independent: A 17-year-old boy has be...
  • Extremism normalized
    Remember when, in the wake of the 9/11 attack, the Patriot Act was controversial, held up as the symbolic face of Bush/Cheney radicalism and widely lamented as a threat to core American liberties and restraints on federal surveillance and detention p...
  • Police Militarization in Anaheim, CA
    Police dressed like military armed to the teeth seek to intimidate anti-police brutality protesters. Footage from a march in Anaheim on 7/29....
  • Marc Faber: Market Forces Will Prevail - July ...
    Central Banks will be taught a real lesson. Produced by http://www.HoweStreet.com....
  • Innocent Man Spends Four Months In Jail After ...
    Imagine for a moment, driving in your car, down the street, and coming to a stop sign. Then, as you proceed, you are pulled over by police officers. When you ask them why they stopped you, they reply that you failed to come to a complete stop. ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • One More Five-Ring Circus
    The Games of the XXX Olympiad kick off in a few hours, and I for one won’t be watching. In another age, another millemium, the Modern Olympic Games were conceived by an aristocratic Frenchman, Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, … Continue reading →
  • More Of The Shiny Stuff
    A few random jottings on gold while I’m out on the road; back in a week. The other day, I came across this article in the Mises Daily, taken from Joseph T. Salerno’s testimony submitted to the U.S. House Subcommittee … Continue reading →
  • Meet The Asylum’s New Management
    The iron ore town of Whyalla on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is one of the places most threatened by Labor’s Carbon Tax – the tax that Gillard promised before the last Federal election she would never introduce, and which came … Continue reading →
  • Gunwalker – What The Hell???
    I don’t know much about this whole Gunwalker episode, beyond the little I’ve read in the news. But it’s now meant the United States’ chief executive law officer has just been held in contempt of Congress. Pretty serious stuff. I … Continue reading →
  • Daily Telegraph Delingpole Refugee Camp
    G’day Folks, The DT blogs are down for maintenance for an unusually long period of time. So all regular readers of James Delingpole’s blog are welcome to continue the discussion here. Even the trolls can come in, just to make … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 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 human form of the disease. H3N8 is an influenza type A virus (Orthomyxoviridae) endemic in birds, equ ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • The Interim Regulation of Voluntary Greenhouse ...
    Translated from a Chinese government document by The Climate Group http://bit.ly/Mhv62t [GreenBiz.com] The Chinese government has released a new set of regulations for the country’s emerging carbon market, potentially laying the foundations for the development of a national carbon market&# ...
  • Physical Risks from Climate Change: a Guide fo ...
    Oxfam America and Ceres for Calvert Investments http://www.calvert.com/sr-physical-risks-climate-change.html [National Journal's Energy Experts Blog] …A report by David Gardiner and Associates prepared for Oxfam, Calvert Investments, and Ceres, Physical Risks from Climate Change, outlines ...
  • Report of Significant Emissions Decrease as Ut ...
    M. J. Bradley & Associates | Ceres http://www.mjbradley.com/benchmarking-air-emissions [From a Greenwire article by Jeremy Jacobs, sub. req'd] Emissions of harmful pollutants from the country’s power plants declined by nearly a third from 2008 to 2010 as a result of utilities shif ...
  • Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resourc ...
    US Geological Survey / by Robert C. Milici, James L. Coleman, Elisabeth L. Rowan, Troy A. Cook, Ronald R. Charpentier, Mark A. Kirschbaum, Timothy R. Klett, Richard M. Pollastro, and Christopher J. Schenk http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2012/3075/ [From Press Release] Using a geology-based assessment me ...
  • State Hydraulic Fracturing Disclosure Rules an ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council / by Matthew McFeeley http://www.nrdc.org/energy/files/Fracking-Disclosure-IB.pdf This analysis compares state hydraulic fracturing disclosure rules that: 1) require some identification of the substances used in hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas; and 2) make ...

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First Truths

  • The Anarchist Lineage
     Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
  • "Crisis of the State"
    From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
  • "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
    Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
  • "Integrated Geographies"
    From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
  • Colbert on Atheists
    I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...

Media Co-Op

  • A movement stronger than elections
    By the time you're reading this there's a strong chance that Quebec Premier Jean Charest has launched the province's 40th general election. And while we'll be hearing about politi ...
  • Other Peoples' Gold
    An interview with Simon Plouffe, director of L'or des autres In this interview, the Media Co-op sits down with Simon Plouffe, director of the film L'or des autres (The Gold of Others) for a discussion about mega mining in ...
  • My Life on Income Assistance
    Not many housing choices are available for $535 per month My name is Kendall Worth, and I am writing this article from my personal experiences of being a resident of North End Dartmouth for the past 11 years of my life. This article will ex ...
  • The Ground Beneath Our Feet
    Despite lack of grave markers, complete map, St. Paul's cemetery in Dartmouth is not for the dogs DARTMOUTH, NS - A small party stands gathered at the northwest corner of St. Paul's cemetery, staring more pensively than might seem ...
  • On Wearing the Hijab and Being "In-Between"
    As I whiz down Agricola St. on my bike, going to work at a screen-printing collective, I find a certain comfort in knowing that my hijab is safely tucked in under my blue helmet – as those few minutes on my bike give me a certain amo ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • The pain in Spain and America's iron jaw
    David Seaton's News LinksThis remobilisation of Spanish society, lulled into comfort and complacency during the boom years, in some senses recalls the fevered political and street activity of the transition to democracy after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco in 1975. Yet it is more amo ...
  • James Holmes: a budding neuroscientist runs amok
    David Seaton's News Links So this is just what one of America's many faces is going to be a bitterly divided, hatefully cynical country where insane people have easy access to semi-automatic weapons, and occasionally use them to commit senseless atrocities. We will continue to see more and mo ...
  • What exactly is the USA?
    David Seaton's News LinksRight now the question would have to be: what exactly is the USA?? The people? The system? The economy? Whose economy? What exactly is the USA? This is really important in America's case, more so than in other countries, because "American" isn't an ethnic grou ...
  • Globalization: King and country
    David Seaton's News Links We are white mice participating in a great historical experiment.The idea of completely untrammeled, frictionless capitalism has only been a theoretical construct till now, but we are almost there today.There are basically two -- untried -- theories of how this would p ...
  • The World Economy: into the Wild Blue Yonder
    David Seaton's News Links  It would be comforting for many to imagine that our globalized economy is a conspiracy,  a murky cabal, directed from the shadows by some Bilderberger-ish, ecumenical-protocol, of sinister "elders", who are pulling all the strings.I say comforting because pre ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Building Stuff in Cities is Really Hard, Washi ...
    One of my rules of thumb whenever I see something sort of odd that has no obvious explanation is: ADA. That is, it might very well be the result of someone trying to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act. To see what I mean, Matt Yglesias has a fine little story here about how ADA&nbs ...
  • Medicaid Turns Out To Be a Pretty Popular Program
    The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll is out, and it contains a couple of interesting tidbits. The first is that the Supreme Court's Obamacare ruling apparently had a substantial effect on public opinion. In the previous 18 months, support for keeping or expanding the law had been comfortably ...
  • Barack Obama Has Been Mysteriously Apathetic A ...
    Jonathan Bernstein points me to Jeffrey Toobin, who writes that although Republican obstruction of President Obama's judicial appointments has been unprecedented, it's also true that Obama hasn't nominated many judges in the first place. "The Senate cannot confirm judges who were never nominate ...
  • Does Algebra Help You Think Better?
    A couple of days ago Andrew Hacker wrote a New York Times op-ed asking "Is Algebra Necessary?" It was prompted by the growing trend to require a passing grade in algebra as a condition for graduating from high school, and Hacker argues that this trend is doing a lot of damage, helping to make d ...
  • I Have a Solution That Will Allow Florida to B ...
    Via Ed Kilgore, I see that Florida recently passed a law making it illegal for doctors to ask their patients about gun ownership. A federal judge blocked the law a few weeks ago because — duh — it's an obvious violation of the First Amendment. If this case ever makes it to the Supre ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 337: But He Smoked Crack
    Topics: Bigotry is delicious Being a nerdy isn’t trendy Comic Book Fans going too hard? “But He smoked crack…” Having Kristen Stewart Cheat on you Jerry Sandusky is creepy Penis thieves Share with your friends:
  • IC 336: Bad Parenting 101
    Topics: The Dark Knight Rises was awesome The Cunt Muffins who spoil movies on opening weekend Calling an Avengers Initiative on The Dark Knight Rises Politicizing Tragedies Gun control laws won’t stop evil people Regulation is a safety net and deterrent for for the casuals Kriss gives an ...
  • IC 335: Homophobia Tastes Like Chicken
    Topics: *Bonus* The first 15 minis is the pre-show with Kriss & Rod talking about the George Zimmerman/Sean Hannity Interview*Bonus* Kev Sees Spider-Man 2 Marvel wins San Diego Comic Con Nerds Ruin Everything Trolling The Dark Knight Rises Critics don’t love watching movies anymore Ru ...
  • IC 334: We’re Getting Soft
    Topics: Work sucks Dream Team The need to compare Each generation gets a little softer The Dark Knight Rises The 3 Titties Live ON Fat sex Sharks still ain’t shit Kriss’ religious rant Share with your friends:
  • IC 333: Fuck Summer
    Topics: Summer is Horrible Summer was more fun as a kid UFC 148 recap People hating athletes Team loyalty Team BlowJob for the champs? The blow job orgy…the worst orgy Booty pop videos with 6 year olds? We gotta do better Acknowledging privileged != you’re a racist The Dark Knight Ri ...

Simple Climate

  • Developed countries duck warming responsibility
    Rich countries have emitted 2/3 of CO2 through history but their pledges are set to result in just 1/3 of any future warming slowdown, says a study that combines climate, social, economic and ecological science by Xuefeng Cui and John Moore from Beijing Normal University and their colleagues.
  • Society must respond 50 times faster to meet l ...
    Using climate-society feedbacks Andrew Jarvis and colleagues from Lancaster University, UK, predict that the world is on course for 6°C of warming, but this could be much lower with even a slightly stronger response, if we make it quickly
  • Rich versus poor obstructs climate progress
    Though the 45,000 strong international Rio+20 meeting last month seemingly did little for climate change and the environment, social and economic issues must be resolved for such negotiations to be successful in future.
  • Beefing down farming could cut carbon
    Changing our meat consumption habits, including switching from cow to pig farming, will be necessary to feed the world and allow plant-based biofuels and carbon capture to reduce CO2 emissions say Tom Powell and Tim Lenton at the University of Exeter.
  • Climate change brings landscapes to their last ...
    Nature’s beauty means different things to each of us – but undoubtedly it burns some images onto our souls. Our favourite scenery is less constant than we sometimes suppose,  changing from day to day and season to season. But the slowest changes can be the most heartbreaking, eventua ...

e!Science News

  • 'Superbird' stuns researchers
    A team of researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the National Research Council of Argentina recently fitted a South American sea bird called an imperial cormorant with a small camera, then watched stunned as it became "superbird" -- diving 150 feet underwater in 4 ...
  • Coral reef thriving in sediment-laden waters
    Rapid rates of coral reef growth have been identified in sediment-laden marine environments, conditions previously believed to be detrimental to reef growth. A new study has established that Middle Reef -- part of Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef -- has grown more rapidly than many other re ...
  • A closer look at the consuming gaze
    Rows of chip bags in a vending machine, endless bottles of shampoo on pharmacy shelves, long lines of books arranged in the bestsellers section at the bookstore. From supermarket shelves to barroom beer selection, long lines of horizontally arranged products are the norm when it comes to the sho ...
  • Being paranoid about office politics can make ...
    People who worry about workplace rejection or sabotage can end up bringing it upon themselves, according to University of British Columbia research. read more
  • Critically endangered whales sing like birds; ...
    When a University of Washington researcher listened to the audio picked up by a recording device that spent a year in the icy waters off the east coast of Greenland, she was stunned at what she heard: whales singing a remarkable variety of songs nearly constantly for five wintertime months. rea ...

unEarthed

  • Unplugged: Where’s EnergyGuide?
    Study after study finds labels are missing from products in retail stores When the Government Accountability Office studied energy efficiency labeling in 2007, it found a surprising number of products on display in appliance stores ...
  • EPA Rules Would Give Teeth To TSCA Law
    Environmental, health groups support two health protections Last week we spoke about the weaknesses in the current law protecting Americans from toxic chemicals. Today we submitted comments to EPAurging the U.S. Environmental Prote ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: The Summer of Coal Ash
    Are the fires dying down or is the season just starting? Coal ash spill into Lake Michigan from legacy site at We Energy, Oak Creek, WI (Oct 2011). Summer o ...
  • Friday Finds: Greenland’s Meltdown
    Plus: London smog, EPA’s petrified politics, grocery bill blues Greenland's ice melt from July 8th (left image) to July 12 (right image). Photo courtesy of Nasa ...
  • Toxic Law's "Unsafe" Flaw
    Chemicals aren't dangerous unless proven so Firefighters are often exposed to a “chemical cocktail” of emissions from flame retardant chemicals. (BLS) At ...

Brave New Climate

  • Is the Olympic Dam mine a special case?
    Here is an Op Ed published by Geoff Russell and me in the The Adelaide Advertiser newspaper this week. It was in response to this piece by Jim Green. ———— OLYMPIC Dam uranium can power Australia four times over and close all our coal mines, write Geoff Russell and Barry B ...
  • Does energy efficiency reduce emissions and pe ...
    Guest Post by Graham Palmer. Graham is an industrial engineer and energy commenter from Melbourne. For another BNC post featuring his work, see Coal dependence and the renewables paradox. This post summarises the findings of a paper just published in the peer-reviewed journal Sustainability by G ...
  • Radio debate on nuclear power for addressing c ...
    Yesterday I debated nuclear energy and climate change on 891 ABC radio with Greens Senator Scott Ludlum, on the afternoon show hosted by Sonya Feldhoff. (It was a studio interview, so the audio quality is quite good.) We had a decent amount of time to cover off on issues, including answering cal ...
  • Notes from the US of A
    I’ve been travelling internationally for the last few weeks. It’s been a productive time – I’ve drafted a complete paper intended for The Breakthrough Journal (more on this in a later post), increased and enhanced my network of professional connections and friendships, go ...
  • Time for a reckoning, time for an apology
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was: Dietary Guidelines Committee ignores climate change. What’s the difference between the fear ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • A Republican Didn’t Like The Sign In My ...
    When I roll, I always have one of our RepublicansAreADisease.com sighs taped on the rear window of my car. I went to Office Depot to return some supplies yesterday and what appeared to be a Republican with his wife and teen age daughter were walking up to the car next to me. The Republican saw [...]
  • Michele Bachman Lying Again
    On Meet the Press Michele Bachman claims Republicans want women to make their own health care choices. Really? I guess unless their employer disagrees right Michele? Please media. The story is the fact that the Michele Bachman types get to lie repeatedly, and never have to pay a price. Time to d ...
  • Wolf Blitzer Owes Hillary Rosen An Apology
    Dear Wolf. You are an asshole. Why should anyone apologize for telling the truth? I know that you think that Marie Antoinette Romney is an “elite” and we are supposed to worship her while she tell us “poor people” how we should live our lives, and what matters to us? Hill ...
  • Marie “Ann”toinette Romney You Hav ...
    Dear Marie Antoinette Romney. Please sit down and shut up about economics. It is wonderful that your “family” has been so prosperous that you have never had to work for wages once in your whole life, unlike almost every other woman in America. What you don’t seem to understand ...
  • How Many Small Business Owners Did Newt Screw ...
    Come on Newt, who do you owe? You have millions upon millions in loot, and you can’t pay the people that you have contracts with and did business with? You have yours and you are screwing them out of theirs? You are sick man. I know you wanted to be prezzident so you could screw us [...]

Appalachia Rising

  • Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense!
    Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense On June 5th, 22 Appalachians were arrested in Washington DC, refusing to leave the offices of their Congresspeople until their representatives committed to taking steps toward ending mountaintop removal. You supported these men and … Continue readi ...
  • Judge Says Quaker Pro-Mountain Demonstrators & ...
    PHILADELPHIA – Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →
  • Donations Needed for Legal Support of 22 Arrested
    All 22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday. However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue reading →
  • Shaving Their Heads in Mourning and Protest
    On Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1. Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →
  • Video from Rep. Griffith (R-VA) Congressional ...
    West Virginian’s singing “Country Roads Take Me Home” as the police escort them out of Rep. Rahall’s office.

Amped Status

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  • Netanyahu’s interviews confirm: IDF does ...
    It seems that the prime minister is now trying to get an American commitment to a U.S. led military action in 2013. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhau gave rare interviews to the Israeli media yesterday (Netanyahu usually prefers to speak to international reportes, who don’t bother him with ...
  • It’s over – there will be no Israe ...
    This week the Israeli military/intellgence establishment, backed by the U.S., has come out forcefully against war, isolating Netanyahu. He needs the cabinet’s support to attack, and there’s no way he’ll get it.       It’s not often that the story out of Israel, and out of ...
  • PHOTOS: Susya’s women document life under thre ...
    The women of the Palestinian village of Susya tell their stories through the lens of a camera. A participatory photography project coordinated by Activestills.  By Activestills Around 400 people from 45 shepherds’ and farmers’ families are living in the Palestinian village of Susya, located in A ...
  • Making suggestions on Romney’s behalf
    In some of the articles covering the visit to Israel by the presumptive Republican U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s, Israeli and international media suggested that Romney suggested (yes, lots of suggestions happening here) Israeli culture was somehow superior to Palestinian cultur ...
  • Three Eritreans stabbed in south Tel Aviv inte ...
    The suspect in the stabbing is a white Israeli man who fled the scene. All three Eritreans reportedly suffered light injuries.  At around 11 a.m. this morning (Tuesday), a man entered an internet cafe in the Shapira neighborhood of south Tel Aviv, stabbed three Eritrean asylum seekers who were i ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • How a Bill Becomes a Law…In The USA toda ...
      ALEC, I’M JUST A BILL Scridb filter
  • Rick Scott, Fascism, The Florida Supreme Court ...
    Rick Scott continues his attack on this state….today’s headlines: TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott said he was championing transparency in May when he gave the public access to his emails by posting them online for anyone to see. But what he failed to say at his May 3 news conference la ...
  • Fannie Mae’s Response to Foreclosure? Th ...
    The federal government, with its friends The Banks and Fannie and Freddie, are selling off the homes they’ve thrown Americans out of to rich private investors.  That’s bad enough.  What’s worse is, it appears it might be even worse…what if those homes were being sold to r ...
  • FINALLY! A Real Reporter Dissects the Flawed F ...
    There’s a regular ritual that the mainstream press, news and policy makers engage in.  Private companies release press releases that suggest DRAMATIC TRENDS IN REAL ESTATE IN…..(PICK YOUR MARKET)! It works like this: FORECLOSURES IN TAMPA INCREASED 2139% IN JUNE 2012! HOME PRICES SUR ...
  • TARP, Bank Foreclosures and the Looting of Ame ...
    Most Americans have a sense TARP was a badly managed program that bailed out “fat cat” bankers at the expense of U.S. taxpayers. Well, it’s even worse than you think, according to Neil Barofsky, former special inspector general for TARP (SIGTARP). Officials in both the Bush and ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Humanity – It’s Indifference
    One of modernism’s great paradoxes has been its inability to solve its own problems. It sounds counter-intuitive but that’s the …Continue reading »
  • The Myth of Neutrality
    “Do you hear what you’re saying? You’re talking about parity here – in this *?&%@& place?” The words were uttered …Continue reading »
  • The Myth of the Silent Majority
    Listening in on a radio panel discussion to the pros and cons of citizen engagement was something of an education. …Continue reading »
  • Binding From Mischief
    One of the clear signs of the demise of modern democracy is the penchant for politicians to put partisanship over …Continue reading »
  • No Mere Dream Date
    Thirteen years of marriage is a very brief time to fill with all the adventures we have had over the …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

  • Doctors Slam Parents for Vaccine Choices & FDA ...
    Posted: 6/26/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was published in Pediatrics, a medical journal owned by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).[1 ...
  • Americans Fight for Vaccine Choices
    Posted: 5/14/2012 Philosophical Exemption To Vaccination Saved in Vermont! by Barbara Loe Fisher “I never thought this would turn into the mess it turned into.” – State Senator Kevin Mullin (R-Rutland), co-sponsor of a failed bill to eliminate philosophical exemption to vaccinat ...
  • The Vaccine Injured: Where Has Compassion Gone?
    Posted 12/08/2011 By Barbara Loe Fisher During this season of remembrance and thanksgiving, I am grateful for the blessings that I have had in my life, including the hard times, when I learned that faith and hope can overcome fear and doubt. Adversity can make us stronger but it is also an opp ...
  • Vermont Parents Fight to Save Philosophical Ex ...
    Posted: 2/21/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Informed consent to medical risk taking is a human right.[1] You have the right to be fully informed about the benefits and risks of pharmaceutical products – like vaccines - and be allowed to make a voluntary choice about whether or to take the risk ...
  • Vaccine Wake Up Call for Parents: Your Childre ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Every mother has had the nightmare. We dream our child, who we love more than we thought we could love anyone, has been taken away by strangers and cannot be found. The cold fear rises up from our stomach into our throats as we search, endlessly, to find the child we would ...

2020 Science

  • Davos 2011: Desperately seeking Google
    It’s that time of year again – 2000+ of the worlds top movers and shakers are beginning to descend on the Swiss ski town of Davos for this year’s Annual World Economic Forum meeting.  Political heavyweights like Clinton, Annan, Sarkozy and Cameron will be intermingling with the ...
  • Obama spotlights innovation, but how do we get ...
    Technology innovation was front and center of Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight.  This is extremely good news for those of us who believe more needs to be done, and done better, to ensure science and technology translate into effective solutions that enable economic and social grow ...
  • Asking smart people dumb questions – the new r ...
    Cross-posted at ForumBlog.org – the World Economic Forum blog My high school physics teacher used to tell me there’s no such think as a dumb question.  It’s a lesson I’ve carried with me through my professional career as a scientist.  But it’s a philosophy that might be just about to come ...
  • Davos 2011 – physics superstar meets music sup ...
    I don’t usually write about personal interactions here, but this is one I couldn’t resist – physics superstar Lawrence Krauss talking cosmology with music superstar Peter Gabriel. I was with Lawrence at a World Economic Forum dinner when he bumped into Peter – as one does ...
  • Davos 2011: Global Risks permeate conversation ...
    Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. Take a metaphorical slice through this year’s annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, and Global Risk would be writ large through every part of it.  Hot on the heels of the sixth Global Risk report, this year’s meeting saw the launch of ...

Reader Supported News

  • The Good of WikiLeaks
    Asan Bibi, 9, sits on a bench as burn cream is applied to her at Mirwais Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan. She, her sister and mother were badly burned when a US helicopter fired into their tent in the middle of the night, 10/13/09. (photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)     Reader Supported ...
  • Race War in Arizona
    Three Points Arizona Minuteman Pete Petruccione, 88, checks out the range before nightfall with the unit from a $1,800 US Nightvision Starlight, 10/10/06. (photo: Gary Williams/Getty Images)     Reader Supported News Perspective n August 20, 1914, the Los Angeles Times ran an article title ...
  • Are We Replaying Iraq ... In Iran?
    Secretary of Defense Robert Gates attends graduation ceremonies at West Point, 05/23/09. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty)     Reader Supported News Perspective n July 15, 2010, Time Magazine carried an article entitled, "An Attack on Iran: Back on the Table." According to the piece, the point ...
  • Rachel Takes Us Back to the Future
    Rachel Maddow on assignment in Afghanistan, 07/05/10. (photo: Rachel Maddow Show/MSNBC)     Reader Supported News Perspective very June, I leave my Northern California home and head south to our annual Gulf Coast family reunion. I might as well be an alien visiting from another planet. My ...
  • Corporate Election Machine Fires Up
    Future Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts meets with George W. Bush in the Oval Office, 06/15/05. (photo: Eric Draper)     Reader Supported News Perspective The corporate financial steamroller is heading into the election arena much faster than many folks thought possible. I was one of ...

War Resisters League

  • The Unfinished Story of Iraq’s Oil Law: ...
    [Originally published on July 24th, 2012 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa “No Blood For Oil” was a slogan featured on many a sign in demonstrations during the run up to the US-led invasion of Iraq, and throughout the early years … Continue reading →
  • Saying No To Tear Gas
    [An excerpt from an article of the same name by Frida Berrigan, originally published on Waging Nonviolence, June 22nd, 2012.] I have an assignment for you. Have you ever been tear gassed? I have not. It does not sound like … Continue reading →
  • Peace and Global Justice Groups: “End St ...
    On Father’s Day, June 17th , Peace and Global Justice groups walk together with New Yorkers in a Silent March to End Stop & Frisk We are a diverse gathering of groups working for global justice and peace around the … Continue reading →
  • On the Ground in Basra: An Interview with Hash ...
    Originally published on May 2nd, 2012 on Jadaliyya. by Ali Issa Iraqi unions demonstrated yesterday on May Day 2012 at a difficult historical moment. Still operating without a labor law that sanctions their organizing, and under the consolidation of Prime … Continue reading →
  • “You Can’t Take What’s All o ...
    To mark the upcoming NATO summit to be held in May 2012 in Chicago and the simultaneous G8 summit to be held in Camp David, Maryland, War Resisters League and the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance release a new popular education … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

  • Reported 1979-2008 U.S. temperature trends are ...
    The new improved assessment, for the years 1979 to 2008, yields a trend of +0.155C per decade from the high quality sites, a +0.248 C per decade trend for poorly sited locations, and a trend of +0.309 C per decade after NOAA adjusts the data.
  • Olympics: OBS coverage is amateur and cycling ...
    OBS - provides all pictures from the Olympics to broadcasters around the world. Of course, OBS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the International Olympic Committee and hosts the broadcasting operation for several major sporting events. The coverage of Day 1 of the London Olympics was amateur rath ...
  • Olympics have started – blogging will be ...
    The Beijing opening ceremony was far more spectacular but humourless. Some of the London themes were far more "socialist" than at Beijing. The ceremony had some humour - but some of which fell flat. The raising of the rings in London though will stick in my memory. Beijing was trying to hide its ...
  • Oh Calcutta!!
    Let Calcutta surprise you
  • Further confirmation that carbon dioxide lags ...
    Temperature leads CO2 concentration. I find it more plausible that increasing CO2 concentration may well have contributed to neutralising the temperature increase which caused the CO2 emission in the first place.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Wide Array Of Women’s Health Care Costs ...
    A few months ago the Obama administration announced new rules as part of its health care reform plan requiring U.S. insurers to cover a wide swath of preventative health services for women at no extra cost to women, including contraceptives, breast-feeding supplies and gestational diabetes scree ...
  • What Recipe Changes Have Turned You Off A Favo ...
    It's probably happened to most of you at some point in your eating experience. You go to bite into -- or take a sip of -- an item you've come to really enjoy, only to find there is, say, more salt, or less chocolate, or just some new ingredient. And with that, the relationship is [...]
  • Safeway Says This Tiny Pile Of Sad Chicken Cov ...
    We aren't sure in what world a paltry pile of pale chicken covered in some kind of gelatinous gloop accompanied by a whole lot of rice with bits vaguely resembling vegetables could be considered part of any "Gourmet Club." But Safeway said its "Safeway Select" branded Orange Chicken meal is fine ...
  • Fans Of The Who Allowed To Exchange Tickets Fr ...
    Back in 1979, a little band out of the UK called The Who was slated to play a show in Providence, Rhode Island. But after 11 people were killed during a stampede at a Who show in Ohio, the venue nixed the concert. In a few months, that same band will be playing that same [...]
  • City Informs Man Via Mail That It’s Not ...
    In times of economic insecurity, every last penny counts. And in one Michigan city, that's true down to seven cents a resident didn't pay in local taxes. The man said he received a four-paragraph letter from the city treasurer informing him that he was short that a few pennies on his summer taxe ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Newly-Released Documents Show Case Against Tho ...
    I've said since the collapse of the Espionage Act case against National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Thomas Drake that the case was built on sand and collapsed under the weight of the truth. Since the case collapsed last summer, the more information revealed publicly about the ...
  • Media’s Misguided Focus in FDA Surveillance Sc ...
    The New York Times has another story on the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) surveillance scandal, but completely misses the significance of fact that the FDA monitored employees, reporters, and congressional staffers, including whistleblowers’ protected communications.   The Time ...
  • Psychologist Who Reported Child Abuse Repriman ...
    The New York Times: Psychologist Who Wrote of Abuse Is Punished Summary: A federal health services psychologist who reported that an American Indian tribe in North Dakota was ignoring widespread child abuse has been reprimanded and reassigned. After writing a letter to the Department of H ...
  • Grassley Takes to YouTube to Defend Whistleblowers
    Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), one of the Senate's longtime whistleblower rights champions, took to YouTube recently to defend whistleblowers and their importance in society. He praised whistleblowers as defenders of the public good, and promised his continued support. Grassley makes some m ...
  • Manning Attorneys to Argue Torturous Condition ...
    The Guardian (UK): Bradley Manning’s Lawyers Seek to Show Torturous Holding Conditions Summary: The defense team of Bradley Manning – the soldier accused of giving classified information to WikiLeaks – plans to call several military psychiatrists to the stand to testify that Manning was h ...

UK Progressive

  • The Terrible Economy and the Anti-Election of 2012
    The worst economy since the Great Depression and you might think at least one of the candidates would come up with a few big ideas for how to get us out of it. But you’d be wrong. Neither candidate wants to take any chances by offering any large, serious proposals. Both are banking instead on [. ...
  • Discouraging Development: Republicans Scheme t ...
    Déjà Vu in Texas Voter-ID Fight The Lone Star state is among several places where new legislation will hit blacks hard at the polls. By: Monroe Anderson If you’re a strong believer in coincidence, the outbreak of voter-identification laws across the nation just might make sense. If you&#82 ...
  • Democracy Teeters on the Brink
    by Robert Hunziker Over the past three decades, America’s capitalistic democracy has evolved into a flawed socio-economic system that is destined to fall off the edge of the planet. Democracy’s affliction is the result of the buying and controlling of America by a cadre of elite capitalists. Fro ...
  • Downwardly Mobile Americans End Up Homeless
    By Charley James It’s easy to stereotype the homeless as people who had marginal jobs, lack education or training, or overextend themselves before falling behind on mortgage payments. Through no schooling, unemployment, repossession, bad luck or their own stupidity, the reasoning goes, the ...
  • U.S. Needs To Replace Pentagon’s Approach with ...
    By Sherwood Ross If the United States attempted to “conquer” by love rather than force of arms, it might be respected, not reviled, globally. If the White House took an altruistic approach in foreign affairs—that is, if it rejected greed, exploitation, and war in favor of fair play, charit ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Elizabeth Muller (Director of BEST) ran a &#82 ...
    How independent is this project? Would BEST have ever seriously published a study showing anything other than a scary warming trend? This is emblematic of how fans of Climate Change Scares present their efforts with half-truths — lines that are technically “correct” but leave a ...
  • Muller-the-pretend-skeptic makes three claims. ...
    Almost all the coverage of the Muller and BEST results confounds three different points, is poorly researched and mixes up cause and effect. Richard Muller is shamelessly promoting himself as something he is not, and his conclusions are nonsense on stilts that defy rational explanation. Everyone ...
  • Blockbuster: Anthony Watts skewers Muller, BES ...
    It’s all up on Watts Up now. What Anthony Watts and Evan Jones have revealed is breathtaking. [Art thanks to: Cartoons by Josh] This new pre-print paper by Anthony Watts accomplishes so much. Assuming that no major problems are found, the pieces of the jigsaw fit and pass the common sense ...
  • The big news is out on Watts Up: Half the tren ...
    It’s all up on Watts Up now. What Anthony Watts and Evan Jones have revealed is breathtaking, a must see. Half of the warming trend has gone. 92% of the artificial rise was due to” erroneous adjustments of well sited stations”. Muller et al used an older siting classification s ...
  • Müller lite: Why Every Scientist Needs a Class ...
    Müller lite: Why Every Scientist Needs a Classical Training By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley About 18 months ago, as soon as I heard of Dr. Richard Müller’s Berkeley Earth Temperature project, I sent an email to several skeptical scientists drawing their attention to his statement that he co ...

ReNew America

  • Obamacare, the Supremes, Dickens, and the bumb ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...
  • From preserving liberty to destroying it
    (Alan Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision, many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual mandate p ...
  • Building the free-market case against big business
    (Timothy P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's stimulus and h ...
  • New hope for life worldwide
    (Janice Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain. In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now beginning to ...
  • Formal complaint seeks disbarment of Eric Hold ...
    (Daily Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil contempt of Congress...

Truth Offering

  • The False Flag Cyber Attack Takedown of the In ...
    Here are some of today's top shock headlines: "Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'" - The Daily Mail "Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks" - Wall Street Journal "WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike" - R ...
  • S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom Act
    In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...
  • Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Rel ...
    At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the ...
  • Education v. Conditioning: Wundt, Rockefeller ...
    John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this subject ou ...
  • TruthOffering's Matt Gordon on LA Talk Live's ...
    Have a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and politics to international banksters and chemtrails. Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's perspective:

2012 Blog

  • Survival Seed Buckets – Some Advice
    There are many businesses flourishing right now because they supply preppers. It is hard to be a prepper without buying survival supplies… Consequently there are some products that might cost extra because they are targeting preppers. I don’t own any Bear Grylls products, so I’ ...
  • Bigger Disaster for Fukushima?
    I’ve ignored most of the conspiracy talk and amateur speculations that can be found online, like  suggestions that the Fukushima disaster of 2011 is the cause of illness in the USA. But when the report is from ABC Australia and they interview a senior nuclear reactor engineer from Japan, I ...
  • Information That Lasts Forever
    I presume forever is impossible, seeing as our universe probably has a finite existence But if you want some information to last a very, very long time, it would need to be: In a language that will always be understood In a format that can always be read Durable The current trend is for Engl ...
  • Doomsday Fortress Bunker on eBay
    Of course being on eBay doesn’t mean it is a bargain: $425K or make an offer: 19 Acre ATLAS-F ICBM Missile Silo Base Underground Doomsday Fortress Bunker I’d buy it, but they don’t offer international shipping But the real reason for this post is to share the following video. ...
  • US Govt. Says Space Weather is Serious
    “Space weather is a serious matter that can affect human economies around the world,” Tamara Dickinson, a senior policy analyst with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), told attendees at the 2012 Space Weather Enterprise Forum, held 5 June in Washington, D. C. … ...

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

One News Page

  • 22 killed, 25 injured as bus falls into gorge ...
    In Uttarakhand, 22 people have died and 25 were injured when a bus fell into a deep gorge near Chilhal in Chakrata Block of Dehradun district today.The seriously injured have been shifted to Dehradun Hospital. Reported by All India Radio 51 minutes ago
  • Kiwis make best of defensive lapses to rout India
    New Zealand made the best of defensive lapses to beat India 3-1 in the men's Olympics hockey tournament at the Riverbank Arena on Wednesday. Reported by Rediff.com 1 hour ago
  • TN Express fire: Railway Ministry to held stat ...
    A statutory enquiry will be held into the Tamil Nadu Express fire accident at Nellore tomorrow and the day after.The Commissioner of Railway Safety Dinesh Kumar Singh will hold the enquiry at Nellore Railway Station Premises. Reported by All India Radio 1 hour ago
  • Pawar asks Maha CM to submit revised proposal ...
    Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today asked Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan to submit a revised proposal related to drought.Mr. Reported by All India Radio 1 hour ago
  • India may allow Pak Commission to cross examin ...
    India may allow cross examination of witnesses by a Pakistani Judicial Commission set up for the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.Home Secretary R K Singh said, New Delhi may consider such a request from Islamabad as it wanted conviction of those involved in 26/11 Mumbai terror attack and are now ... ...

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • NATO Preparing Vast Disinformation Campaign
    Syrians wanting to watch their national TV stations will probably see them replaced on their screens by TV programs created by the CIA. Studio-shot images will show massacres that are blamed on the Syrian Government, people demonstrating, ministers and generals resigning from their posts, Presid ...
  • The SCO 2012 Shanghai Summit – on the Way to N ...
    The 12th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit took place in Beijing on June 6-7, 2012. The annual event brought together the heads of states to review and gauge the importance of the SCO in global affairs. China hosted the summit for the third time since its inception. The organization ...
  • Turkey: Taking a Risk With the U.S. In Syria
    In late 2011 Frederic C. Hof, one of the State Department`s point man on Syrian policy, equaled the Assad regime to ‘a dead man walking’. At the end of December, 2011, Hof joined a special secret committee set up by the Obama administration to discuss possible scenarios of Syrian intervention. T ...
  • Antidote to Fundamentalism and Terrorism
    In international politics, relations of trade and commerce among nations are known, but what about spiritual cooperation? This is in fact the central call of religious leaders at Astana in Kazakhstan. While speaking at the 4th Conference of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, held on 30t ...
  • Balochistan: Crossroads of Proxy War
    The current unrest in Balochistan centers around forced disappearances, kidnappings, targeted killings, assassinations and terrorism. However, these are merely the tactics of a much broader, more geopolitically complex war in which the United States and its Western allies are engaged. Though see ...

BlogHer

  • Sweet Corn Ice Cream and Eight More Ways to Us ...
    We've eaten a lot of corn on the cob lately. Grilled corn on the cob. There are few things that make my mouth more happy than farm-fresh grilled corn slathered in butter and salt.While we rarely have leftover corn on the cob after dinner, I might just start grilling an extra ear to make ice crea ...
  • Revamp an Old Canvas With a Stencil
    [Editor's Note: We all have that painting or print stashed away in a closet that once upon a time we loved and now we can hardly look at. Why not rescue, reclaim and reuse that canvas. Mandy from The House of Rose made herself a spiffy new piece of art with a few cans of paint she had on hand an ...
  • Jordyn Wieber: There’s No Crying... in the Ol ...
    (Editor's Note: If you're following the Olympics, you probably know that 17 year-old gymnast Jordyn Wieber, last year’s World Champion, missed the cut and will not be able to compete in the individual all-around competition at the London Games. The rule states that only two athletes from each te ...
  • Making Connections at Home During BlogHer '12 Week
    BlogHer '12 Week buzz is ramping up, and I hope everyone following along with @BlogHeratHome is getting ready for some fun and community, too. The first giveaway is closed, but we have a few more in the works this week. Stay tuned for announcements every day. We'll announce the first round of w ...
  • Making Connections at Home During BlogHer '12 Week
    BlogHer '12 Week buzz is ramping up, and I hope everyone following along with @BlogHeratHome is getting ready for some fun and community, too. The first giveaway is closed, but we have a few more in the works this week. Stay tuned for announcements every day. We'll announce the first round of w ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Harvard Study Finds Fluoride Lowers IQ – ...
    Harvard University researchers’ review of fluoride/brain studies concludes “our results support the possibility of adverse effects of fluoride exposures on children’s neurodevelopment.” It was published online July 20 in Environmental Health Perspectives, a US National In ...
  • Glaxo Agrees to Pay $3 Billion in Fraud Settlement
    In the largest settlement involving a pharmaceutical company, the British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay $3 billion in fines for promoting its best-selling antidepressants for unapproved uses and failing to report ...
  • Vaccine Genetically Engineers People to Stop S ...
    An upcoming vaccine contains a genetically engineered virus designed to infect the liver, forcing it to make antibodies against nicotine. In other words, its purpose is to genetically engineer humans to control behavior. They’re already talking ...
  • Anemia Drugs Made Billions, But At What Cost?
    On the day Jim Lenox got his last injection, the frail 54-year-old cancer patient was waiting to be discharged from the Baltimore Washington Medical Center. He’d put on his black leather coat. Then a nurse ...
  • Kids’ Cholesterol Tests: Doctors At Odds ...
    Should all U.S. children get tested for high cholesterol? Doctors are still debating that question months after a government-appointed panel recommended widespread screening that would lead to prescribing medicine for some kids. Fresh criticism was published ...

Live News Wire

  • Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...
    Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
  • Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...
    The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
  • Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...
    Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
  • “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...
    At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
  • Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” Proportions
    The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...

Coal Tattoo

  • Another West Virginia coal miner dies on the job
    Sadly, the word from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration is that another West Virginia coal miner died on the job yesterday. last night. MSHA’s website says the death occurred at Arch Coal Inc.’s Beckley Pocahontas Mine in Raleigh County. This is one of the properties Arch ...
  • Breaking news: EPA mining guidance thrown out
    Just in from U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia: Judge Reggie B. Walton has thrown out the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s water quality guidance for coal mining in Appalachia, a central part of the Obama administration’s crackdown on mountaintop removal. Here&#8 ...
  • Pa. orders Little Blue Run coal-ash dump closed
    Just two months ago, we wrote about citizen groups threatening to sue over the FirstEnergy Corp. Little Blue Run coal-ash impoundment near Chester, W.Va. Now, we have this news: On Fri­day, the Penn­syl­va­nia Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion filed a law­suit and con­sent decree in f ...
  • Coal protest: Was this really so radical?
    The follow-up story in today’s paper about Saturday’s big anti-mountaintop removal protest at Hobet Mining was certainly discouraging. As the Gazette’s Travis Crum reported: Matthew Louis-Rosenberg, a Sandstone resident and the group’s spokesman, alleges that State Police ...
  • Friday roundup, July 27, 2012
    Liu Yunqing, the first miner rescued, is carried out on a stretcher from the flooded pit of Qielichong colliery in Sandu Township of Leiyang City, central China’s Hunan Province, on Sunday, July 8, 2012.  Chinese rescuers pulled to safety the first three of about a dozen miners trapped und ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Friends in Vegas
    I already did a post on my recent Vegas trip, but there’s a piece of it that I didn’t mention. Working in my current job I have had the privilege to be able to hire many of my friends, and going to Vegas this time (our team meeting) I was able to see it for [...]
  • The Nicest Place on the Internet
    thenicestplaceontheinter.net Love. Related ContentSubway: CheckOne of the Best Pieces on Free Markets I’ve Ever ReadThe End Of The Internet?Paul Graham: How To Do What You LoveGoogle IM vs. Skype
  • Avoid Junk Information Like You Avoid Junk Food
    Smart, educated people tend to avoid junk food. They tend to be thinner and have better diets because they’re simply more aware of the downsides of eating crap, including the negative effect it has on productivity. It should be the same for junk information. This includes not just televisi ...
  • Planned vs. Random Leisure
    I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the habits of productive people. When I say productive I mean successful–as in setting out to accomplish something and then doing it. I’ll put up Paul Graham and Sam Harris as examples. They produce. They spend very little time on random ...
  • Cloud Atlas Extended Trailer #1
    via youtube.com ZOMFG. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentMario Bros. Indie Film TrailerNew Headz Up App | SNLPraha Opening‘The Star Wars That I Used To Know’Seriously Fast Lyrics

Fitwatch

  • Welcome to the Future, Today.
    For those of us who have watched London 2012 with a keen eye from its inception, we have been alarmed by the extent to which it appeared to be just a 'festival of social control'. Yesterday's heavy-handed policing of the monthly Critical Mass bike ride  was a chilling confirmation of this. Cycli ...
  • The Most Dangerous Armed Gang in the Country
    A mini-rant from a few FITwatchers - not necessarily representative of the views of the organisation as whole. On Thursday, 19th July, killer cop PC Simon Harwood was acquitted of manslaughter at Southwark Crown Court for his role in the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests in 2009. Despit ...
  • A call to kettle FIT and Police Liaison in Bri ...
    Fitwatch are heading to the Smash EDO demo in Brighton on Monday 16th July, and we'd love you to join us. Smash EDO protests have historically been heavily hit by snoopers from the FIT, Police Liaison and the National Domestic Extremism Unit. These are all dangerous, vindictive and untrustworthy ...
  • Sussex police unleash new weapon – crowd ...
    Sussex police have recently started to use new forms of repressive tactics for policing demonstrations. They seem to have taken a break from head cracking to trial what they have termed 'Police Liaison Officers' or PLOs at the recent Smash EDO demonstration on June 4th. This may not be simply a ...
  • A call to FITWATCH at Smash EDO demo, Monday 4 ...
    The high court has decided that it is perfectly ok for the cops to gather as much intel about anyone they like who is in any way connected to the Smash EDO campaign - or any other that uses direct action or civil disobedience. Yesterday they announced that the domestic extremism unit, in holding ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • The Other Side
    By Linda Wolf, WWH/CJE– I sit at the lake watching the water, the waves lapping and receding. I’m under the shade tree at the edge of the sand. Between my hat, sun block (five thousand) and the shade, I’m protected. Idly, I sit watching. I wonder how I’m going to pay my b ...
  • Occupy Wall Street Protesters Targeting Obama ...
    By ELIZABETH FLOCK,usnews.com – A protest by any other name is still a protest. But not all protests are an occupation. Two months after the major group planning to protest the Democratic National Convention changed its name, a new and bigger demonstration is being planned for the Septembe ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Wednesday
    Iconoclastic American author Gore Vidal dead at 86 (Reuters) – Writer Gore Vidal, who filled his novels and essays with acerbic observations on politics, sex and American culture while carrying on feuds with big-name literary rivals, died on Tuesday at home in Los Angeles of complications ...
  • A Martian Takes a Second Look at Earth
    A follow up to; A Martian’s Voyage to Planet Earth By Mickey Walker,tpjmagazine.us – The Martian orbited and slept for many earth-hours before resuming his studies of the vast historical data on earthling behavior. He found that lies perpetuated to cause a desired result made some earthlin ...
  • Study: Pop music has grown louder, dumber and ...
    By J. Bryan LowderSlate.com WASHINGTON — According to a new study from researchers at the Spanish National Research Council, the familiar complaint that contemporary popular music has grown loud, predictable and simpler than ever may be exactly right. While we often cast a skeptical eye toward q ...

reference frame

  • Ashoke Sen and tachyon condensation
    Ashoke Sen (yup, I took this Wikipedia picture of him in front of ex-Glashow, ex-my, and now-Randall office) is one of the nine winners of the inaugural Milner fundamental physics prize. And he deserves it a great deal. You will find something like 250 papers he has written and 20,000 ci ...
  • Gerlach and Osheroff: birthdays
    Two well-known enough physicists were born on August 1st: Walter Gerlach in 1889 and Douglas Osheroff in 1945. Osheroff Douglas Osheroff – congratulations to Stanford – was born to an originally Jewish Russian father and an originally Slovak mother in the Washington state. ...
  • Prof Matt Strassler and global warming
    Prof Matt Strassler who blogs at ProfMattStrassler.com made an excursion into our favorite topic which is an inferior scientific discipline at the same moment, namely to the climate change science: Humans, Carbon Dioxide and ClimateHe's been instantly conjectured by Twistor 59 to be Dr ...
  • Nine physicists win $27 million in total
    The first Milner fundamental physics prize for advances in delving into the deepest mysteries of physics and the universe One million dollars. Each winner has received three similar piles of paper trash. Yuri Milner, a graduate physics school dropout, earned a few bucks [inter ...
  • Have Muller or Watts transformed the AGW lands ...
    I don't think so. But let me add a few more words. In recent days, we witnessed two major salvos in the climate wars as well as many minor repercussions. Both of them are claimed to be equivalents of the battle of Stalingrand in the climate wars. A frustrating aspect of the hype sur ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Bernie Sanders Exposes the 26 Billionaires who ...
    By: Jason Easley July 24th, 2012 at Politicususa.com 1). Sheldon Adelson, owner of the Las Vegas Sands Casino, is worth nearly $25 billion, making him the 14th wealthiest person in the world and the 7th richest person in America. While median family income plummeted by nearly 40% from 2007-2010, ...
  • THE INTELHUB: Aurora Police Chief: From Beat C ...
    By Shepard Ambellas theintelhub.com July 27, 2012 Update: Actual police audio from the scene described what looked to be a coordinated attack with at least two shooters yet the police chief, the corporate media, and the federal government continue to claim that the mind controlled James Holmes a ...
  • AURORA FALSE FLAG – Sorcha Faal: Colorado Mass ...
    I knew I smelt a rat in this Colorado Shooting. A second gas mask found, Multiple witness claiming a second shooter, media using actors as supposed victims in the interviews….and now the lid has been blown off the cover-up. James Holmes was a patsy, used to silence his father who was set t ...
  • I have been asked to sell this domain name – Y ...
    $100,000.27 No negotiations. Send to my PayPal account at chiefape@gmail.com. Simple as that. Too much money? Too bad. It is a take it or leave it offer. Quit bugging me! TMA Related posts: Tatumba.com home of The Mad Ape – Radio Spot A few weeks ago I won a significant amount of... Relat ...
  • End of the Road – How Money Became Worthless – ...
    The new film “End Of The Road” has just been released for public viewing, featuring GoldSilver.com CEO Mike Maloney alongside Peter Schiff, Jim Rickards, Jim Puplava, James Turk, Eric Sprott and more. This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Gold American Eagle Fractional Bullion Co ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
    CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation

Enviroblog

  • Why I decided to cut back on processed meat, g ...
    By Altelisha Taylor, EWG food and nutrition intern As a kid, I was taught that a decent meal has carbs, veggies and meat. Tacos and burgers were my favorites. I have absolutely no interest in becoming a vegetarian. I'm pretty... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full l ...
  • BPA substitute found on store receipts
    By Paul Pestano, EWG research analyst Nearly two years after EWG published a study documenting high concentrations of the toxic plastics chemical bisphenol A in cash register receipts, scientists are finding that manufacturers have substituted bisphenol... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Study shows fracking can pollute
    By Alex Formuzis, VP for Media Relations A new water quality study near gas drilling operations in northeastern Pennsylvania counters natural gas industry claims that gas and hydraulic fracturing chemicals can't seep into the drinking water of nearby... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Hill politics churns small streams
    By T.J. Pepping, EWG Safe Drinking Water Intern Are smaller, upstream water bodies such as intermittent streams covered by the federal Clean Water Act? This is not an insignificant question: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has determined that... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
  • Pick the best sunscreen for kids
    By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Analyst I have happy memories of long summer days spent outdoors, largely unencumbered by sun hats, sunglasses and sunscreen. Now we know that one blistering burn during childhood can increase a child's risk of developing... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...

Quick Hits

  • More Teachers Being Replaced By Technology
    The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
  • Food costs at record levels, likely to go higher
    MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
  • Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...   The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said moto ...
  • Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia Uprisings
    Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
  • Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...
    The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Roma folk won some support
    Around 100 persons turned out for a demonstration earlier this week against the harsh criticism that’s been directed against Roma folk in Norway this summer. The show of support was supposed to take place last week, but was cancelled after its main organizer received death threats. Elise K ...
  • Fencing saves disappointing day at the Olympics
    It was another disappointing day for many Norwegians at the Olympics in London on Wednesday. Norway’s women’s handball team failed to beat South Korea, another Norwegian medal hope in swimming is now out of the Games, and a former rowing champion wound up in tears. Only a young athle ...
  • Sports fans stung by ‘OL’ ticket site
    A Norwegian website that offered tickets to sporting events at the Olympics in London, called “OL” in Norway, has left customers who paid dearly for them without tickets after all. Hundreds of tickets that Norwegian customers thought they’d bought were seized by police last wee ...
  • Embassy ‘regrets the disruptions’
    The US Embassy in Oslo issued a brief statement Tuesday night in which officials regretted setting off a bomb scare earlier in the day that paralyzed a large area of the Norwegian capital. The statement did not address what local police have called the “human error” behind what turne ...
  • Handball victory offset other losses
    Norway’s Olympic handball match against Sweden was a thrilling close one that left Norway’s goalkeeper as the national heroine on Tuesday. Meanwhile, though, the Norwegian swimmer meant to grab some glory of her own was disappointed, and a top hurdler dropped out of the games. Kari A ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Nepal – An Opportunity for Regeneration
    The Annapurna Range from the beautiful Pokhara Valley, the future site of MVEF For two months in late 2010 I had the pleasure of volunteering with the Sustainable Agriculture Development Program of Nepal (SADP). Situated in an ‘off the beaten track’ valley of Central Nepal, the d ...
  • Firewood Igloos – Adapting an Austrian design ...
    In certain parts of Austria, firewood igloos are a traditional way of storing firewood without needing a permanent shelter. Placed in a windy spot for good air flow and topped with overlapping shingles, the igloos are a convenient way to season, dry and store firewood. In winter a cap of ice a ...
  • We Can Reforest the Earth
    by Lester R. Brown , Earth Policy Institute Protecting the 10 billion acres of remaining forests on earth and replanting many of those already lost are both essential for restoring the earth’s health. Since 2000, the earth’s forest cover has shrunk by 13 million acres each year, with ...
  • Spring 2012 Permaculture Design Certificate (P ...
    Parliament House, Canberra If we are going to effect change in Australia, then what better place to present it in than The ACT (Australian Capital Territory). On the doorstep of people who can effect broadscale change and policy. The newly formed Permaculture Exchange Group, in Association wi ...
  • Permaculture Design Course, Otamatea Eco-Villa ...
    What: 14-day intensive residential PDC course Where: Otamatea Eco-Village, Northland, New Zealand When: 1-15 March 2013 Cost: NZ$1,700 fully inclusive of tuition, food and camping (some other accommodation options are available). The course will: Cover sustainable living systems for a wide var ...

Pointman's

  • What’s the Watts paper actually mean, Dude?
    As a young man, my first mode of powered transport was motorbikes. Like all bikers, there was this thing you noticed about passing from the open countryside into a built up area. Basically, cities were warmer than the countryside, and exposed as you are to the elements on a bike, that was always ...
  • So, was climategate a hack after all?
    This is going to be one of those difficult articles to write, just to make it easy to read. It’s going to get technical at points, because it has to, so there’s going to be more than a few detours to explain things, but bear with me. It’s Sunday afternoon, I’m wearing sun ...
  • The decline of popular science journals.
    We are creatures of habit and pleasure. When we find something of pleasure, we tend to revisit it with regularity. Despite what a large part of the mainstream media might have you believe, not all pleasure starts at the gullet and ends at the genitalia, though eating well and making love, are of ...
  • Is climate science just a belief?
    The alarmists in the climate debate have what they think of as this magic ace of trumps card, called peer review. If they actually knew something about the peer review process, perhaps they’d realise it isn’t a guarantee of anything much. It really isn’t. In brief, the process ...
  • Worried about climate change? Meh.
    Climate alarmism pushes a blinding variety of scares at the general public; Polar bears going extinct, droughts of biblical proportions, massive Noah’s ark type flooding, glaciers melting, sea levels rising, sea levels dropping, the polar ice caps melting, your Granny’s knicker elast ...

Journalists' Toolkit

  • Baby Steps in Data Journalism
    This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
  • The best video export options
    How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
  • Video Resources updated
    The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...
  • Flash Journalism updates
    I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
  • New tutorial: Windows Live Movie Maker
    As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less vers ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute C ...
    Urban Bush Women have returned to New Orleans for another of their legendary Summer Leadership Institutes. This summer's theme is centered around the question, "Why are people poor?" You can catch some of their work this Saturday at a series of performances they are hosting. Below are the detail ...
  • Community Profile: Brenda Williams of VOTE
    After attending an “outstanding” presentation that VOTE sponsored at Ashé Cultural Arts Center in Central City, Miss Brenda Williams was inspired to get “involved to make a difference in the lives of those who suffer injustice at the hands of lawmakers, judges and others involved in the criminal ...
  • Creating Excellent Schools is not the Same as ...
    Republished from Diane Ravitch's blog: Charter schools that perform better by recruiting and retaining better students don’t exist in a vacuum: skimming the best and most profitable students affects other schools, though it is hard to detect in systems with few charters.  The systemic ef ...
  • Homelessness, Displacement, Evictions . . . Th ...
    There are a number of obvious parallels between housing needs in New Orleans after the 2005 hurricanes and housing needs in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. In both disasters, large regions lost the majority of their affordable housing stock, resulting in massive spikes in homelessness and ...
  • Junebug Productions Welcomes Stephanie McKee a ...
    From our friends at Junebug Productions: The Board of Directors of Junebug Productions, Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Stephanie V. McKee to the position of Artistic Director, effective July 1, 2012.  Junebug Productions, founded by John O'Neal in 1980, is the organizati ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    object http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d03_1343832953 http://presstv.com/detail/2012/07/31/25 ... ok-normal/ We are in Aleppo city, the city known to be the financial capital of Syria, on contrary of all media propaganda, the city looks normal, traffic is usual as described by our driver, an ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/au ... sfeed=true .......so there we have it. Mi6/5 saying war inside 18 months. Its a lot sooner than that people. As soon as those elections are over watch for the escalation. Its coming and its coming sooner rather than later. Israeli PM says time runni ...
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    Disgusting. Tell Joe Six Pack down the street the "coincedence" of this guy being a Jew and you are called anti-semitic. Will there ever be justice?Statistics: Posted by Roy Hobs — Wed Aug 01, 2012 11:36 am
  • Social Engineering • Re: Ask.com "why did ...
    When you see the church today you are not seeing the same people as those that call themselves Christian on this 'Jew-wise' forum. You really should keep that in mind. Keep in mind also that the New Testatment actually PREDICTS what we are seeing today in the so called "Church". The ...

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environment 360

  • U.S. Meat Producers Call for Pause in Ethanol ...
    U.S. meat, poultry, and dairy producers are urging the Obama administration to suspend a quota for corn-based ethanol production, warning that the renewable fuels standard could trigger a food crisis as a prolonged Getty Images drought pushes corn and soybean prices to record levels. In a le ...
  • Powerful Storms Linked to Depletion of Ozone L ...
    A new study warns that a surge in powerful storms, perhaps linked to a warming climate, could be causing a depletion of the planet’s protective ozone layer. Writing in the journal Science, Harvard researchers explain that water vapor inserted into the normally dry stratosphere by strong thunders ...
  • Unusual Number of Grizzly and Hybrid Bears Spo ...
    Two Canadian biologists have reported sighting a handful of grizzly bears and hybrid grizzly/polar bears at unusually high latitudes in the Arctic, indicating that the interbreeding of the two bear species is becoming more common as the climate warms and grizzlies venture View photos Photo ...
  • Pulling Carbon From Air Should Be Pursued Desp ...
    Columbia University scientists say that technologies to extract carbon dioxide from the air will likely become a critical part of any strategy to stabilize the global climate and should not be abandoned because of high costs. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the re ...
  • Conservation Efforts Spur Comeback of Pakistan ...
    Conservation efforts in Pakistan have helped foster the resurgence of the markhor, a species of large wild goat found along cliff faces in the western Himalayas and ©Grahm Jones/Columbus Zoo and Aquarium A male markhor known for its iconic corkscrew horns. According to the Wildlife Conservati ...

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backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

  • The Deadbeat Banks
    The whales of the banking system have paid back the taxpayer for their bailout, but hundreds of minnows have not, reports Matthew Zeitlin.
  • NBC’s Olympics Snafus
    NBC’s Olympics are a disaster if you go by Twitter complaints, but the network is boasting the highest viewership for any Summer Games ever. Maria Elena Fernandez reports.
  • The Next Obama?
    Eleanor Clift on how Mayor Julian Castro, chosen to deliver this year’s DNC keynote, could mirror Obama.
  • Name-Calling
    Michael McKinnon on why Michael Tomasky’s attack on Romney as a “wimp” is unfair and sophomoric.
  • Cheap Talk About Cronyism
    Both campaigns are bashing away at sweetheart deals and insider advantages. But neither the Democrats or Republicans are serious about ending it. Peter Schweizer’s three easy fixes.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Gay marriage remains elusive goal
    Koyuki Higashi is slim, articulate and intelligent, things that make a would-be wife attractive to many. But Higashi knows she will probably never marry because she is a lesbian. Despite the increasing tolerance of gay marriage in much of the developed world, especially in Europe, and a gradua ...
  • Money for low-income pensioners
    A bill to provide up to ¥5,000 to low-income pensioners and disabled people was approved Tuesday by the Cabinet. The government aims to get the bill through the Diet soon so the law can be enforced in October 2015, when the consumption tax is raised to 10 percent.
  • Design a mascot for Shibuya; see a traditional ...
    In celebration of the 80th anniversary of Shibuya Ward in Tokyo, Shibuya City Hall is seeking ideas for a promotional character to represent the area for people in Japan and abroad. Shibuya is well known as one of the fashion centers of Japan, particularly for young people, and as a major nigh ...
  • Good fight by 'green' candidate
    In the Yamaguchi gubernatorial election held Sunday, Mr. Shigetaro Yamamoto, a former bureaucrat of the infrastructure and transport ministry supported by the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito, was elected the new governor, beating three other candidates. Still, attention should be paid to ...
  • Hirai's impact on swimmers profound
    Valentine's Day is not associated with a passion for one's job, but rather, you know, a different kind of affection. Nevertheless, a story published on Feb. 14 by the Asahi Shimbun highlighted Norimasa Hirai's passion for his job and the guidance he has given the Japan national team in his rol ...

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Making It Count - CCPA

  • Saskatchewan’s Rising Cost of Living
    Today’s Consumer Price Index provides further evidence of Saskatchewan’s rising cost of living. Among the provinces, Saskatchewan is tied for the second-highest annual inflation rate: 2.0%. Consumer prices decreased in June from May in nine provinces (all except Alberta). But Saskatchewan was ti ...
  • Baskin-Robbins and the Walmartization of Ice Cream
    It’s been an unusually hot summer, and soaring temperatures have boosted sales of that quintessential summer food, ice cream. But Baskin-Robbins has decided to shut its production facility in Peterborough, Ont., and lay off 80 workers because of…wait for it… increased demand! F ...
  • Labour Losing to Capital
    The just-released OECD Employment Outlook – full text not available on line – has an interesting chapter on the sharp decline of labour’s share of national income in virtually all OECD countries over the past 30 years, and especially the last twenty years. The median labour sha ...
  • EI Lags Unemployment
    Today, Statistics Canada reported that 3,400 more Canadians received Employment Insurance (EI) benefits in May. It previously reported that unemployment rose by 8,000 that month. In other words, even more workers are now unemployed without EI benefits. In total, just 37% of unemployed Canadians ...
  • Unions, Equality and Democracy
    Unions are an important force for a more democratic society, and a major reason why Canada is still a more equal country than the United States. That is why it is profoundly disturbing that Canadian conservatives have recently embraced the extreme anti union agenda of the American right. Indepen ...

ReDress

  • 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.

Physics Today

  • Graphene offers clear window on liquids
    BBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...
  • Rival teams shared in Nobel celebration
    Science: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
  • No title
    Talking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
  • Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sector
    Earth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
  • Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...
    Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...

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Peakwater

  • Occupy the Dam: Brazil’s Indigenous Uprising
    “The Belo Monte Dam is the most controversial of dozens of dams planned in the Amazon region and threatens the lives and livelihoods of thousands of Amazonian people, plants, and animals. Situated on the Xingu River, the dam is set to flood roughly 150 square miles of already-stressed rain ...
  • China’s biggest freshwater lake exceeds ...
    “Part of Poyang Lake, China’s largest freshwater lake, has seen its water level exceed the warning level, as flooding on the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River has been pushing up the water level of the lake. The water level at the lake’s Huxingzi Station in Jiangxi ...
  • That Sinking Feeling About Groundwater in Texas
    “The High Plains Water District, based in Lubbock, recently reported that the 2011-12 drought drove groundwater levels in its sixteen-county service area to drop an average of 2.56 feet (0.78 meters) – the largest annual decline recorded in the last 25 years and more than triple the annual ...
  • The world’s most disputed waters
    “China is provoking tensions in the South China Sea by establishing a new city on a disputed island. But with the rule of law and diplomacy failing to provide a solution, what lengths will China go to to protect its territorial claims? On Friday, China named two senior military generals to ...
  • Israel restricts Jordan Valley water access
    “At a time when the Palestinian Authority is facing a severe financial crisis, a report by the UK-based non-governmental organisation Oxfam International has revealed that Palestinians could generate an extra $1bn a year by some estimates if Israel removes restrictions on the use of land, ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich on Rep. LaTourette’s Announcement Not ...
    WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 31, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after Congressman Steven LaTourette (R-OH) announced during a press conference in Painesville, OH that he will not seek re-election to the 113th Congress. “It has been and honor and a p ...
  • House Plays Politics with the Safety of Nuclea ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today questioned how anyone could vote to prevent the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from enacting safety regulations, particularly in the light of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima and the poor safety record of a major nuclear plant in Ohio. H.R. 4078, the Reg ...
  • Kucinich Amendment Protects Consumers from Rai ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today offered an amendment to H.R. 4078 that would exempt the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) from legislation meant to prevent the federal government from taking “significant regulatory actions.” “If you look at a gas pump, it has that nozzle; i ...
  • Kucinich: Put Americans Back to Work AND Ensur ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today opposed on the House Floor H.R. 4078, the Regulatory Freeze for Jobs Act of 2012 which would prohibit any federal agency from taking any “significant regulatory action” until the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s average of monthly unemployment rates for any qu ...
  • Kucinich Cheers Passage of Bill to Audit the F ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), cosponsor of H.R. 459, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, today congratulated the bill’s author, Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), and the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have worked together to support the legislation. Kucinich has supported efforts to ...

Authentically Wired

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  • WHO ARE ARIZONA’S WATER WISEMEN
    … Rattle your cage … a perspective from outside in …         WHO ARE ARIZONA’S WATER WISEMEN …?     A brilliant sun pierces what moments earlier hosted a dim Arizona landscape of soaring mountains, towering Ponderosa pines, exquisite configurations of Saguaro c ...
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Popular Technology

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  • Indonesia revises moratorium map; makes contes ...
    Indonesia is making 'encouraging' progress on its push to reduce deforestation by improving governance over its forests and peatlands, but still needs to do more to enforce environmental laws, said the head of the country's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) task force ...
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    The use of remote camera traps, which photograph animals as they pass, has revolutionized research on endangered and cryptic species. The tool has even allowed scientists to document animals new to science or feared extinct. But as important as camera traps have become, they are still prohibitiv ...
  • New reptile discovered in world's strangest ar ...
    Few people have ever heard of the Socotra Archipelago even though, biologically-speaking, it is among the world's most wondrous set of islands. Over one third of Socotra's plants are found no-where else on Earth, i.e. endemic, while 90 percent of its reptiles are also endemic. Adding to its list ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Quakes continue to rattle Mt Tongariro
    Earthquakes are continuing to rattle Mount Tongariro.The mountains alert level was bumped from zero to one nearly two weeks ago, after a series of small earthquakes under the volcano.GNS Volcanologist Dr Brad Scott said they have...
  • 40 years of stunning Earth photos
    Landsat, the world's longest-running Earth-observing satellite programme, has marked 40 years of recording the world's changing landscape.The satellite programme, run by NASA and the United States Geological Survey, has captured...
  • Scientists create jellyfish using rat cells (+ ...
    US scientists have bioengineered a "jellyfish" that can swim, using rat heart cells and silicone polymers.However rather than being simply a freak of science, the researchers say the creature replicates the human heart and is a...
  • Quakes raise Tongariro alert
    Mt Tongariro's volcanic risk has been upgraded for the first time but scientists and locals have dismissed immediate chances of a large eruption.Yesterday scientists at GeoNet upgraded the alert level for the volcano after recording...
  • Fracking safe, claims UK science body
    The controversial oil and gas extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking", is capable of being managed sustainably and without serious risk of groundwater contamination or inducing damaging earthquakes, the Royal...

The Bovine

  • Pioneers of Etheric Rain Engineering: Wilhelm ...
    All this talk of Wilhelm Reich and his orgone energy in the comment section reminds me that Trevor James Constable ran a weather modification business out of Singapore towards the end of the last century using airborne technology based on … Continue reading →
  • Organic food at the London Olympics
    From Katrina Heron, on Civil Eats: “…The new rules of the Games dictate that much of the food served—including but not limited to fruits, vegetables, milk, cheeses, and meats—will be sourced in the U.K.; animal products will meet or exceed … Continue reading →
  • Drought-stricken Glencolton cows hit the road ...
    Drought is not just in America. Grey County, where Michael Schmidt’s Glencolton Farms are located, has also been affected. Michael sends this report and these pictures: Not in my forty  years as a farmer did I experience a drought like … Continue reading →
  • Yet another public health danger…
    As if dealing with raw milk farmers wasn’t keeping public health officials busy enough, here’s something else people are doing to themselves, as if to drive the nanny state apoplexic. From Butch News Youtube channel, via Facebook: “Public health authorities … Continue rea ...
  • Cardboard tomatoes from Florida
    by Jim Romahn, on Agri007: “I have just finished reading Tomatoland, by Barry Estabrook, and learned a great deal – most of it not very nice – about how Floridians grow most of the tomatoes we eat when local ones … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • ADP Estimates Nonfarm Payroll Growth at +163,0 ...
    ADP job estimates have been on the high side of BLS estimates for months, and I expect that to be the case again this Friday. Please consider some snips from the July 2012 ADP National Employment Report® Employment in the U.S. nonfarm private business sector increased by 163,000 from June ...
  • Japan Manufacturing PMI Shows Output and News ...
    Economic conditions in Japan continue to accelerate to the downside as PMI signals sharpest deterioration in operating conditions since April 2011 Key Points: Output and new orders down at accelerated rates New export business decreases at sharpest rate in 15 months Average costs fa ...
  • ESM Banking License? Not Happening as Merkel A ...
    So far it's been nothing but hot air and no action from ECB president Mario Draghi after he pledged to do whatever it takes to save the euro. One of the highly-touted ideas as of late has been a ESM banking license. However, the idea is not really new, and has been shot down repeatedly alre ...
  • 100,000 Workers in Spain Will Not be Paid Beca ...
    The crisis in Spanish regional governments continues to escalate. El Pais reports Catalona Will Not Pay Hospitals or Private Centers and 100,000 workers are affected. This month, the Government of Catalona cannot tackle  payments owed to hospitals, schools, residences, social organizati ...
  • Recent Gold Hype Sounds Like Grade-School Chan ...
    Reader David emailed a link to GATA, SHAKA ZULU, And The Coming Gold/Silver STORM! with a note "please see fit to write about this!!!" The article is by Bill Murphy, the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) chairman. Here are the key snips. To get right to the point, three quality s ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • NATO Expands Military Network to All Continents
    The top military officials – chiefs of defense staff – and other representatives of 55 North Atlantic Treaty Organization and partnership states met in Croatia on June 18-20 for the 2012 Strategic Military Partnership Conference. NATO’s Allied Command Transformation, established at the 1999 fift ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 26, ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • The EyeOpener- The Future of the Web (and what ...
    In mid-2012, in the wake of the ratification of ACTA and the proposal in the US of bills like SOPA and PIPA, in an age where the war on terror is gradually morphing into a cyberwar and database hacks, password leaks and identity thefts are reported on breathlessly, it is difficult to imagine the ...
  • War At Any Cost: Another Manufactured Pretext ...
    The downing of a Turkish jet by the Syrian military last week was not merely a military incident making the possibility of an intervention and regional war much more likely. This episode was the most recent in a long and storied history of “international incidents” or provocations used by imperi ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 25, ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...

bloody crossroads

  • Is Obama a Fraud?
    The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
  • The Tyranny of American Healthcare
    For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

gCaptain

  • Arctic Ice is Thickest in a Decade, Shell Forc ...
    LONDON–Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB) expects to drill eight wells in the second half of its two-year Arctic exploration program, three more than it had originally planned, as stubborn ice sheets [...]
  • LNG Carriers of a Different Color Load at Ras ...
    Fully-owned by Maersk until recently, the LNG carriers MILAHA RAS LAFFAN and MILAHA QATAR, recently carried out their first loading operations this month under their new names, new managers, and [...]
  • OSG: Disappointing Quarter for MR Tankers, US ...
    Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. (NYSE: OSG), one of the world’s largest publicly traded tanker companies in the world carrying nearly 11 million DWT with a fleet of 112 ships, reported results for [...]
  • Siem Offshore Releases the Swordfish to New Owners
    Siem Offshore announced today the sale and delivery of the  4500T multi-purpose ROV support vessel, Siem Swordfish, which was concluded on July 31st.  This sale is in line with the [...]
  • COSCO Anticipates a Difficult and Challenging ...
    SINGAPORE–Cosco Corp. Ltd. (F83.SG) said Wednesday its net profit in the fiscal second quarter fell 13% as revenue from its shipyard operations fell and flagged a cautious outlook for the [...]

Press TV

  • 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.
  • Greek bank employees stage protest
    Thousands of bank employees have gathered in the Greek capital, Athens, to protest against the government’s cost-cutting programs and austerity measures.
  • UK officials rake in rewards for failure
    Senior British authorities at the Treasury department have collected nearly one million pounds bonuses in just one year in what has been described as ‘rewards for failure’ as the country’s economy continues to struggle.
  • Britain fails to tackle homelessness
    Fresh figures have highlighted the UK government’s failure to tackle homelessness with thousands more vulnerable people in England in need of emergency accommodation.
  • 'EU elites complicit in banking theft'
    An economic analyst says Europe is a catastrophe in the making as bankers and politicians hold the power of money creation for the benefit of themselves.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
    The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
  • Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
    The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
  • Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
    More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
  • Presentation to the National Economists Club
    Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
  • Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
    The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...

Naked Scientists - News

  • Life's building blocks found in a ring around ...
    Complex carbon-based molecules, including many that are important for life on Earth, could have formed in the early solar system. That's according to a paper by Fred Ciesla and Scott Sandford in this ...
  • Pint sized rocket
    A rocket has been developed that could get a spaceprobe to the moon on just 100g of fuel Some tasks can only be done by a large satellite, but there are many others which can be done as well if not b...
  • Seeing Around the Corner
    Using a laser, a super fast camera and a clever algorithm, researchers at MIT have developed the ability to see, in 3D, around a corner. Writing in the journal Nature Communications, Andreas Velten a...
  • Drugs in sewage
    Drug use in populations, both legal and illegal, is important to know about for health and law and order reasons. Whilst it is relatively easy to keep tabs on the amount of legal drug use by asking ph...
  • Messages from Mercury
    The MESSENGER spacecraft completed one Earth year of orbiting Mercury this month, and two papers published in the journal Science highlight some of the surprising scientific results from our solar sys...

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