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Saturday, August 11, 2012

11 August - RSS SnapShot Pt 1

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - FEBRUARY 20: In this han...KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - FEBRUARY 20: In this handout image provided by NATO/U.S. Navy, Afghan National Police cadets stand in formation to greet a congressional delegation at the Afghan National Police Academy February 20, 2011 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The cadets participated in drills showing how to clear a building and how to search a suspect for weapons during the delegations visit. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

Personal & Noted

Scoop - NZ

  • Olympic Imperialism
    Among the teams represent at the London Olympics, one stands out. It is multinational, made up journalists and trained by political coaches to excel in all disciplines of falsification. The gold medal goes to the British team, the best at disparaging the Chinese athletes, described as "cheats ...
  • Vice President Petraeus ?
    President Obama whispered to a top fundraiser this week that he believes GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney wants to name Gen. David Petraeus to the VP slot! "The president wasn't joking," the insider explains to the DRUDGE REPORT. A Petraeus drama has been quietly building behind the ...
  • Arafat Murder: The Case against Israel
    'We have to get rid of Arafat.' -- Israeli defense Minister Shaul Mofaz to Prime Minister Sharon caught on an open mic. (Source: Haaretz, Hebrew) “We operated against Ahmed Yassin and Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi [two Palestinian leaders extrajudicially assassinated by Israel] when we thought the ...
  • Bhadrakumar: Tehran reaches out to Morsi
    The main worry for the Saudis is that if Egypt, the biggest and most powerful Sunni Arab country, mends fences with Iran, the entire geopolitical thesis built around a contrived Sunni-Shi’ite sectarian schism which the US-Israeli-Saudi axis has been expounding as the centre-piece of the Arab Spr ...
  • The Dark Heart of Liborgate
    Given that the fraud impacted $10 trillion in consumer loans, the Libor scandal will likely leave a long list of previous financial scandals that contributed to the Great Recession look like child’s play. It also pulls back the curtain on the mechanisms behind the world economy, its anti-soci ...

Independent - London

  • Attack on Libya prison in Tripoli frees 8
    A top Libyan security official says gunmen attacked a prison in the capital Tripoli, breaking free eight prisoners in fighting that left another prisoner dead.Related StoriesStrikes against Islamic militants kill 'at least 20' in Sinai desertAway from the famines, Africa confronts a new killer: ...
  • Afghan policeman kills 10 fellow officers
     An Afghan official says a member of the Afghan National Police has killed at least 10 of his fellow policemen in southwestern Afghanistan.Related StoriesLawyers challenge UK over Afghan missile strikesVietnam airline fined for in-flight bikini showNeil Heywood case police officers tried over Gu ...
  • Mitt Romney campaign confirms Paul Ryan as run ...
    Republican US presidential candidate Mitt Romney has picked Congressman Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate, the Romney campaign confirmed today.Related StoriesBlack bear raids Colorado sweet shopMarried couple from London charged with smuggling the stimulant khat into North America ...
  • Is nature or nurture behind Jamaica's need for ...
    Some say it’s in the genes. Others credit the local yams and green bananas. Sports analysts reckon world-class coaches played the key role. Cultural commentators credit a straightforward love of speed which, in previous eras, inspired the nation’s most gifted sportsmen to devote their careers to ...
  • Robert Fisk: Syria welcomed them – now it has ...
    Syria's tragedy began 10 years before she was born. Her parents were driven from their home in Haifa – in that part of Palestine that became Israel – and fled to Lebanon in 1948, then to Syria in 1982. "God bless his soul, our Dad called me Syria and another sister he called Palestine," she say ...

Rogue Government.com

  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...
    European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • DC Superior Court Judge Robbed at Gunpoint
    A D.C. Superior Court judge, who recently presided over a high-profile murder case, was robbed at gunpoint last Friday while walking with two others through an upper Northwest D.C. neighborhood. Judge Ronna Beck was walking with her law clerk and the clerk's boyfriend when two men with guns ap ...
  • Elderly Woman, 84, Raped; Husband, 93, Savagel ...
    An elderly couple is recovering Tuesday after they were brutally beaten inside their south Kansas City home. The woman was also raped, according to a police report. Tony L. Putman, 18, of Kansas City was charged with six felonies Tuesday afternoon. The charges include one count of rape and tw ...
  • Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano Favored ...
    A veteran US law-enforcement official has filed a blockbuster discrimination lawsuit against Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, charging she pushed him aside to make way for a less-qualified woman who's "enjoyed a long-standing relationship" with the anti-terror chief. The lawsuit, w ...
  • U.S., Israel at Odds Over Iran Nuke Program In ...
    The White House expressed confidence Friday that American intelligence will know if Iran escalates its nuclear program in a sprint to build an atomic bomb - a day after Israel's defense minister warned that the allies might not know "in time" to prevent it. "We have eyes, we have visibility int ...
  • Egypt Arrests Nine Over Sinai Attack
    Egyptian troops and security forces have detained nine Islamic militants in northern Sinai believed to be behind a surprise attack last weekend that killed 16 Egyptian soldiers, a security official says. It was the first reported arrest in connection with the attack, which took place last Sunda ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Stevie's drones . . .
    THINGS ARE HEATING UP, and the Arctic is turning, well, slushy — and Vladimir Putin is getting all excited about creating more vodka outlets. Actually, they're going to be bases for "combined arms": army navy airforce. According to an article in WIRED by Robert Beckhusen, "Russia and Canada Gear ...
  • Better and better . . .
    THE OGALLALA AQUIFER might be the show-stopper for Keystone XL, according to the Washington Post's article "Keystone XL pipeline may threaten aquifer that irrigates much of the central U.S.", part of their series, "Keystone:Down the Line". There seems to be a clear and present danger, according ...
  • Testing the future . . .
    WE USED TO HAVE 23 skidoo; now, we have 23andMe. According to Susan Young at MIT's Technology Review, "Personal Genetics Company Seeks Regulatory Approval",  23andMe, in which Google has invested $6.5 million, offers a genome analysis test directly to consumers, who can use the produc ...
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  • Things are getting tougher . . .
    EVEN PLANTS ARE GETTING TOUGHER these days, thanks to Monsanto and others in the genetic modification business, and this is causing problems for farmers who grow the mutants. According to Chris Taylor at AUTOBLOG, "GMO crops so tough that farmers are turning to Kevlar tractor tires". ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox Special On Municipal Bankruptcies Falsely ...
    A Fox News special on budget problems facing state and local governments highlighted the case of bankrupt San Bernardino, California, and placed blame for its problems on public-sector workers and their unions. In fact, San Bernardino's finances were devastated by the recession -- the same facto ...
  • Union Leader's Medicaid "Choice" Isn't Really ...
    The New Hampshire Union Leader's editorial board attacked the new Medicaid expansion provisions in the Affordable Care Act and instead proposed a block granting scheme, but experts say block granting Medicaid would be detrimental to the most vulnerable Americans and decrease the quality of healt ...
  • Fox Continues Attacks On Welfare Waiver Provision
    Fox News continues to attack the Obama administration over welfare reform by claiming that the waiver provision it recently proposed is "illegal" and beyond the scope of President Obama's executive power. In fact, as the Department of Health and Human Services makes clear, there is nothing illeg ...
  • How Fox News Wrote Mitt Romney's "War On Relig ...
    Fox has engaged in a relentless and bogus effort to accuse President Obama of waging a "war on religion." That effort has become a central focus of the Romney campaign, which released an ad that adopts Fox's dishonest "war on religion" narrative.After Fox Fabricated Obama's "War On Religion"...& ...
  • Right-Wing Media: The Tax Policy Center Is Non ...
    Right-wing media are accusing the Tax Policy Center of bias following its analysis that Mitt Romney's tax plan would cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans while raising them for lower- and middle-income Americans. But conservative media previously touted TPC as nonpartisan and experts agree tha ...

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  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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  • A Tale of Two Nuclear Disasters
    As Japan commemorates the anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bomb attack, Japanese officials are developing new energy policies that will guard the safety and the livelihood of the Japanese public in the wake of the devastating Fukushima nuclear accident. Sixty seven years ago today, on Aug. 6, ...
  • ERCOT prepares for first summer heat wave of 2012
    With the passing of the Summer solstice and temperatures expected to hit triple digits several days next week in the Lone Star State, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the electric grid operator for most of the state, is looking closely at anticipated electric use and available ...
  • NOAA Report – Global warming has made 2011 Tex ...
    According to a story on MSNBC, scientists can’t blame any single weather event on global warming, but they now believe they can assess how climate change has altered the odds of such events happening,   Click here to read the AP story, Global warming tied to risk of weather extremes.  Clic ...
  • We are now in energy emergency season as a hea ...
    The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT), system operator for the state’s bulk transmission grid, is asking consumers and businesses to reduce their electricity use during peak electricity hours from 3 to 7 p.m. today. Consumers can help by shutting off unnecessary lights and elec ...
  • KEFFER LISTENS INTENTLY TO TAR SANDS CONCERNS: ...
    The following story on testimony provided to the Texas House Energy Resources Committee about the threat the proposed Tar Sands pipeline poses for the state was reprinted with the permission of the Texas Energy Report. House Energy Resources Committee Chairman Jim Keffer on Tuesday promised envi ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Mars rover beams back panoramic view
    NASA's Curiosity rover has returned a stunning panoramic view of the landscape within Gale Crater. With the rover's Mast camera deployed and all syste...
  • Face of Jesus appears on tree stump
    A cemetary in Belfast has become the latest scene of an alleged case of divine intervention. When an otherwise ordinary looking tree was felled at Bel...
  • Mass of volcanic rocks off New Zealand coast
    A large number of small volcanic rocks have covered an area the size of Belgium northeast of Auckland. The unusual phenomenon is comprised of lightwei...
  • Sir Bernard Lovell dies aged 98
    The pioneering physicist and astronomer was regarded as one of the great visionary leaders of science. Lovell's best known work was on the constructio...
  • Lost pyramids found on Google Earth ?
    Angela Micol believes that she may have located several undiscovered pyramids in Egypt using Google. A 'satellite archaeologist', Micol uses tools suc...

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Climate

  • GM May Have Huge Breakthrough on Electric Vehicles
    (Indianapolis Star) A small battery company backed by General Motors is working on breakthrough technology that could power an electric car 100 or even 200 miles on a single charge in the next two to four years, GM's CEO said Thursday. ...
  • Japan Nuclear Plant Closer than Fukushima to Q ...
    (AP) TOKYO — Nuclear experts have found that a Japanese nuclear power plant that was closer than Fukushima to the epicenter of last year’s devastating earthquake was largely undamaged because it was designed with enough safety margins. ...
  • Fukushima Videos Shed Light on Chaos in Nuclea ...
    (New York Times) TOKYO — Shortly after an explosion rocked the stricken nuclear plant at Fukushima last year, blanketing the plant and nearby towns in radioactive material, Masao Yoshida, the plant’s chief manager, rallied his men. “I ...
  • Wildfire on Utah Military Camp Burns Near Thou ...
    (AP) SALT LAKE CITY — A wildfire burning on a Utah military installation has officials concerned about the potential it could spread to an area littered with thousands of unexploded shells, which could still detonate. Utah National Gu ...
  • Easing U.S. Ethanol Mandate Would Help Prevent ...
    (Reuters) Global pressure on the United States to relax its ethanol quota mounted on Thursday as the top United Nations food official said an "immediate, temporary suspension" of the mandate could help head off another world food crisi ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

  • A Mafia in FATA: Haqqanis and Drones
    A new report about the Haqqani network's business interests raises questions about the anti-drones narrative in Pakistan
  • Are African governments suppressing art?
    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
    Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.
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Booman Tribune

  • So, It's Paul Ryan
    I watched the announcement that Paul Ryan will be Romney's running mate, and parts of Ryan's stupid speech. The whole thing was weird and foolish. Romney first told us that Paul Ryan is fond of lighting candles, and then announced that Ryan would be the next president of the United States. Th ...
  • Why There is No Substance to the Election
    [This was originally published on July 13th, 2012, at 9:46 EST] You have to read to page five of Robert Draper's piece on Obama's Super PAC to find the money quote. [Bill] Burton and his colleagues spent the early months of 2012 trying out the pitch that Romney was the most far-right pres ...
  • Ryan Thread. No, not Rex
    I'm headed to the pool. They actually have WiFI there. What a country! Use this thread to develop amusing anecdotes about the alliterative Romney-Ryan ticket. Remember, always refer to Ryan as "House Republican Paul Ryan." Also, too, Romney once proposed a constitutional amendment ...
  • Privatize This
    In case you were wondering, Paul Ryan can and will run for reelection to the House while simultaneously seeking the vice-presidency. But if you want to tell your Republican friends that they can only vote for him once, that might be funny. Does anyone remember how quickly Dubya lost the ...
  • Set Your Alarm Clock
    Mitt Romney will announce his running mate early tomorrow morning. Rumors are rampant that his choice will be Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. However, it would be a major show of lack of discipline if they spoiled the surprise, so don't buy into it just yet. Picking Paul Ryan would appear to be ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Incredible Evolutionary Approaches to Psych ...
    This cool infographic touches on some of the latest scientific developments that further our understanding of the mind's inner workings. Check it out. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Animal Remains of Anderlecht's Creepy Aban ...
    Most abandoned buildings are a little creepy, but this particular place in Brussels – a former veterinary school – has some especially unexpected and macabre contents. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Awesome Facts About Elephant Shrews!
    Learn about the furry little African mammals that are elephant shrews. Amongst other things, they mate for life and try to scare off black mambas by stamping their feet! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Cryptids More Terrifying than the Mongolian ...
    You may have heard of the Mongolian Death Worm, which is said to terrorize travelers in the Gobi Desert, but we think these cryptids are even more frightening! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Venezuela's Everlasting Lightning Storm
    The Catatumbo Delta in Venezuela experiences more lightning than anywhere else on Earth; indeed, thunderstorms rage here continually, practically every night of the year. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

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Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Security culture danger as closed Occupy Homes ...
    Troublesome assumptions about security culture arrangements for closed Occupy Homes national gathering sessions starting tomorrow at the Neighbors Organizing for Change MN (NOC Office) around noon put participants at risk. I feel everyone involved means well, but a bunch of particularly 'toxic' ...
  • Plans for closed door Occupy Homes national me ...
    ///// 1AM August 7th update: http://hongpong.com/archives/2012/08/07/security-culture-danger-closed-o... ///// ///// 1:40PM Sat August 4 update and correction below ///// Many Twin Cities activists working with the Occupy Homes MN group were surprised to hear that a national gathering committe ...
  • Plans for closed door Occupy Homes national me ...
    Many Twin Cities activists working with the Occupy Homes MN group were surprised to hear that a national gathering committee, with two representatives from their group, had decided to restrict open access to most (but not all) of the sessions of that national gathering, scheduled around August 7 ...
  • #FreeHammond - 23 July 2012 statement from acc ...
    Worth throwing up there as an example of how to keep perspective when they try to throw the book at you. Things like this crystallize the hypocrisy of conspiracy charges, cyber-fear-blather, terrorism and of course the laundering of drug money through the banking system. Till the walls tumble, J ...
  • The Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies - for ...
    Reposting this as it's a much more handy summary than I could give. Neato! I think we're seeing this get more and more privatized as well -- I have a couple flagrant sockpuppets I know and love, they are like a handy little COINTELPRO weathervane. When talking Information Operations (not to ment ...

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  • Situation Report: Intel-on-Demand in a Web 2.0 ...
    The increasingly connected and always-on civilian world, makes US defense and intelligence community members appear increasingly outdated and falling behind the curve as mobile adoption continues to skyrocket. To bridge the gap, defense and intelligence agencies are now strongly pushing for adop ...
  • News you may have missed #777
    Egypt sacks spy chief after border attacks. Photos reveal CIA deep-sea rescue of a spy satellite. Pre-inquest review into death of ex-KGB officer Litvinenko.
  • White House silent on rumors of ‘alarming’ inf ...
    The White House has refused comment on news from Israel that a recent American intelligence report contains “explosive” new findings on Iran’s nuclear program.
  • Comment: There Is No Such Thing as ‘Friendly E ...
    All allies spy on each other; but this is not to say that espionage conducted by an ally is necessarily less threatening to its target =than that conducted by an adversary
  • News you may have missed #776
    US Army critiques its own intel collection system. Russian lawyer exposes wiretap find on Tweeter. Volkswagen victim of Chinese industrial espionage?

War is a Crime.org

  • Syria News - Aug 11
        US, Turkey explore no-fly zones over Syria - NBC World News Democratic foreign policy figures criticize Obama on Syria, press for safe zones and arms to the rebels - latimes.com Russian Warships Hold Drills in Mediterranean | RIA Novosti -------------------------------------------- ...
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  • What Paul Ryan Has and Obama Wants
    According to the Huffington Post, "President Barack Obama's reelection campaign and Democratic political groups have been eager for Romney to pick Ryan, the architect of plans to slash government spending and overhaul entitlement programs that Democrats believe are political losers."  ABC a ...
  • Unconscionable Media Warmongering
      Unconscionable Media Warmongering   by Stephen Lendman   Washington needs media support to wage wars and plan new ones. Broadcast and print scoundrels oblige.    Paid liars infest Western media. Managed news misinformation creates enemies. Fear is stoked. War is cheerl ...
  • Israel's Neoliberal Hammer Strikes
      Israel's Neoliberal Hammer Strikes   by Stephen Lendman   In America and across Europe, austerity is official policy. It's also true in Israel.    Among developed countries, America, Britain, and Israel are the most socially unjust. Street protests rail against public ...

Grist - News

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

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  • Underwear Bomber Witness Kurt Haskell Sweeps M ...
    The Pete Santilli Show Thursday August 9, 2012 Los Angeles, Ca Today on The Pete Santilli Show: In the first hour Pete Santilli conducts one of the best interviews in the history of the show, as Kurt Haskell doesn’t hesitate to call for ending the Federal Reserve early on. Mr. Haskell is asked f ...
  • Surveillance Cameras Turned Off During Sikh Te ...
    Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Friday, August 10, 2012 Questions as to whether there were multiple shooters involved in the Sikh temple massacre are likely to remain unanswered given the fact that surveillance cameras covering the property were turned off at the time of the incident. According ...
  • Iran Nuclear Program: U.S. Believes Iran Not O ...
    Can it be that the US is not in lock step with Israel??? WASHINGTON, Aug 9 (Reuters) – The United States still believes that Iran is not on the verge of having a nuclear weapon and that Tehran has not made a decision to pursue one, U.S. officials said on Thursday. Their comments came after ...
  • Big Pharma’s Lies Exposed – Cancer IS Curable
    by # 1 NWO Hatr One out of four Americans will develop cancer in their lifetime. More than 350,000 people die every year from cancer in this country. And the sad truth is, it is entirely preventable, due to one simple fact: GREED. For hundreds of years, British sailors died by the thousands ever ...
  • The Explosive Story Of How Israel Received Wea ...
    Michael Kelley | Aug. 7, 2012, 1:09 PM On July 19, 1969, U.S. National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger wrote the following about Israel’s nuclear weapons program: “There is circumstantial evidence that some fissionable material available for Israel’s weapons development w ...

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

Inhabitat

  • Sweatshop Protestors Project Anti-Adidas Video ...
    Sweatshop protestors took advantage of the massive crowds descending upon London’s Olympic Park Sunday, and used a building overlooking the park to show a video criticizing Adidas for its alleged worker exploitation. Over 80,000 spectators leaving the men’s 100 meters final were met ...
  • With the Camera-Equipped “EyeRing” You Can Poi ...
    With the EyeRing, a new camera-equipped ring that takes photos and delivers them to a smart phone, “point and shoot” could take on a whole new meaning. The device, which is being developed by  Roy Shilkrot and Suranga Nanayakkara at MIT Media Lab, is meant to help the visually impair ...
  • The Amsterdam Collection’s American Debut: Get ...
    Dutch designer Kast van een Huis has paired with Cool Kids Company, an American distributer that will bring the designer's colorful Amsterdam collection to kids in the U.S.
  • Gordon Gallup’s “Natural” Remedy to Morning Si ...
    Based on SUNY-Albany Psychologist Gordon Gallup’s research, just a spoonful of semen a day will keep morning sickness at bay for mothers-to-be. Gallup's research suggests pregnant women feel nauseous and vomit as a reaction to the "foreign" sperm that has impregnated them.
  • Roadhouse Is a Student-Made Music Venue Made F ...
    Read the rest of Roadhouse Is a Student-Made Music Venue Made From Hundreds of Shipping Pallets Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: adaptive reuse, artscape, Baltimore, disused pallets, eco design, green design, Michael Zebrowski, Morgan State University, Recycled Material ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Olympic Physics: How Pole Vaulters Go Over the Top
    When you think about it, the pole vault is quite interesting. There is a bar 4 to 5 meters high that you want to clear. Jumping won’t cut it. Your only option is to run as fast as you can and use a long pole to vault over the bar. Historically, the pole vault was [...]
  • Watch Homemade Space Capsule Launch Livestream ...
    A do-it-yourself spaceflight program called Copenhagen Suborbitals hopes to launch a homemade spacecraft 3,000 feet skyward this weekend and broadcast live video of their test.
  • Peanuts, Blackjack and Pee: Strangest Space Mi ...
    If you were watching the coverage of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover landing on Aug. 5, it was hard to miss all the peanut-munching going on in mission control. It's just one of a slew of superstitious NASA traditions, and the Russians have more than their share of them too.
  • Can You Spot the Fake Scientific Studies?
    Scientists will investigate anything in pursuit of knowledge. Yes, anything. Out of the six studies here, three were published in science journals. We made up the other three. Can you tell the real papers from the fakes?
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Trippy S ...
    If you're like us, you could look at photos of galaxies, planets, moons and nebulas all day. But you don't have all day, so let Wired Science bring you the most intriguing, beautiful or mysterious view of space we can find. We promise they will be mind-blowing and tempt you to replace your deskt ...

PakAlert

  • DHS Preparing Oklahoma City Type False Flag Be ...
    Recently the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) placed a solicitation by way of the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) for 700 pounds of High Density Ammonium Nitrate and 700 pounds of A-5 Flake RDX. With the delivery date scheduled for August 31, 2012, could DHS be planning a false f ...
  • 11 Things That Can Happen When You Allow Your ...
    Why are Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and so many other countries experiencing depression-like conditions right now? It is because they have too much debt. Why do they have too much debt? It is because they allowed themselves to become enslaved to the bankers. Borrowing money from the banke ...
  • FBI: Constitution Stands In Way of Government ...
    According to Homeland Security News Wire, the federal government considers “extremist domestic organizations” as dangerous, if not more so, than foreign terrorist organizations. The FBI and federal law enforcement are stymied in detecting these groups by the First Amendment and political opposit ...
  • UK Sends £5 Million to Listed Terrorists in Syria
    August 10, 2012 - In direct violation of both American and British anti-terrorism legislation, particularly provisions regarding providing material support for listed or proscribed terrorist organizations, the United Kingdom has just announced that it will provide armed militants that include li ...
  • Stratfor emails reveal secret, widespread Trap ...
    Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition technology — and have installed it across the US under the radar of most Americans, according to emails hacked by Anonymous. Every few seconds, data picked up at surve ...

Andy Worthington

  • Photos of London At Night: From the Olympics a ...
    London At Night: From the Olympics at Greenwich to Deptford and Surrey Quays, a set on Flickr. On August 8, 2012, as part of my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike — and also to fully understand, both physically and mentally, the scale of the city and how its various ...
  • Real London: Photos of New Cross, Bermondsey a ...
    Real London: New Cross, Bermondsey and the Old Kent Road, a set on Flickr. “Real London” is a short-hand, of course, for a London that is not the shiny one of glass and steel built and sold by property developers, and bought by those in the top few percent of earners — as well ...
  • Photos of a Journey Across the Thames on the O ...
    A Journey Across the Thames on the Olympics Cable Car, a set on Flickr. On August 6, as I explained in a previous article, Jamaican Independence and a Giant Tent: Photos of a Visit to the Olympic Site at the O2, featuring photos and commentary, I cycled along the river from Deptford to Greenwich ...
  • Where is the Shame and Anger as the UK Governm ...
    What has happened to my country? I grew up in a Christian household — my father was Church of England, my mother Methodist — and both believed in Christian charity; in other words, the need for people of faith to look after those less fortunate than themselves. In the case of my Meth ...
  • Close Guantánamo: A Reminder of Why We Demand ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • How Do We Know FAIR is a Hate Group? Let Us Co ...
    John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou, the immigrant-bashing Los Angeles radio personalities who were suspended earlier this year when they referred to Whitney Houston as a “crack ho” and marveled that the late pop singer “took this long” to die, are back on the air and up to their old tricks. In the Aug ...
  • Radical Right Theories Flourish in Aftermath o ...
    With last weekend’s mass killing at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin fresh in the public’s memory, the usual players on the conspiracy scene have begun crafting wild, alternative narratives of what really happened. The theory has started to spread that the attack was orchestrated by some dark sector o ...
  • Sovereigns Arrested After Police Stand-off Nea ...
    Two antigovernment “sovereign citizens” who refused to get out of their truck – only to be surrounded by SWAT teams near Spokane, Wash. –  ultimately were arrested Wednesday by the only authority they truly recognize: the county sheriff. Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich told Hatewatch toda ...
  • A Little History Tutorial, from Hatewatch to B ...
    Bryan Fischer, the American Family Association (AFA) spokesman whose ultraconservative worldview is so extreme that he makes Pat Buchanan look like Rachel Maddow, seems never to have met a fact that he couldn’t improve upon. He has declared that gays were responsible for the Holocaust and opined ...
  • Neo-Nazi Killer Wade Page was Member of Hammer ...
    Wade Michael Page, the racist skinhead who killed six people last weekend at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin before turning the gun on himself, was a “patched” member of the Northern Hammerskins, a regional chapter of the larger Hammerskin Nation, the Southern Poverty Law Center has learned. Page bec ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Manning Defense Calls for Dismissal of Charges ...
    US army whistleblower Private Bradley Manning, known for allegedly leaking embarrassing US cables to website WikiLeaks, is now claiming his treatment in a pre-trial military prison for nine months was extreme and harsh and warrants a complete dismissal of his case. Manning's defense also cla ...
  • Scores Killed in Iran after Two Devastating Ea ...
    Two substantial earthquakes struck northwest Iran on Saturday, killing 87 people and injuring hundreds. Thousands fled their homes as aftershocks continued to hit the area, Iranian state media said. The U.S. Geological Survey measured Saturday's first quake at 6.4 magnitude 37 miles northeas ...
  • Caravan for Peace: Mexican Victims of Violence ...
    “The United States should stop producing so many weapons, which cause us so much harm. That country also suffers from so much violence, as billions of dollars go into manufacturing guns.” That is the message that anti-crime activist Fernando Ocegueda will take to the public in the Un ...
  • Two Attacks in One Day Leave Six US Soldiers D ...
    Three more foreign soldiers, reported to be US marines, were killed at a NATO base Friday night following a similar attack Friday morning, which also left three US soldiers dead in the same region. The day was the bloodiest single day for foreign troops in the southern Helmand province since six ...
  • Romney Veep Pick Announced: Paul Ryan
    Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has picked Congressman Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate, the Romney campaign confirmed Saturday. Romney made his announcement to supporters via a phone app. "Mitt's Choice for VP is Paul Ryan," it read. Minutes later, the ...

Lifehacker

  • Download New Android Boot Animations [Android]
    You don't have to have a Samsung Galaxy S3, Galaxy Nexus, or Droid Razr to enjoy their boot animations. Androidbootanimations.com serves up these and several other custom animations in three different screen resolutions. More » ...
  • Bicycle Commute with a Suit [Commuting]
    Commuting to work via bike is a great way to get exercise and save on gas money but if your office has a strict dress code it may seem like you can't both ride a bike and wear a suit. If you're willing to take a few minutes and pack a more for ...
  • Prevent Soggy Sandwiches with a Plastic Food C ...
    If the sandwiches you take to work or school end up being a soggy mess give this method by Reddit user kitten_suplex a try: place your bread at the bottom of a reusable food container, cover with plastic cling wrap, and then add your sandwich ...
  • Top 10 Clever Uses for Dropbox
    Dropbox is an awesome service. You can back your files up to the cloud, sync them between computers, and share them with your friends. That's not all it can do, though. Here are our top 10 favorite clever uses for our favorite file syncing pro ...
  • DIY Beach Bag Made from Window Screen Material ...
    Going to the beach for the day is great, but dealing with the inevitable sand collection you bring home can be a pain. DIY crafting weblog Between the Lines offers a design for a mesh beach bag from window screen material that will last nearly ...

Water Privatization

  • Anti-privatization suit dismissed
    DETROIT A freakish car crash Friday evening on Belle Isle -- in which a vehicle flipped, caught fire and pinned the driver inside -- tied up traffic on the island park while firefighters extricated a 67-year-old man from his burning vehicle, Detroit police said.
  • American States Water Company Announces Notice ...
    American States Water Company today announced that its Golden State Water Company subsidiary has issued a notice of redemption of its $8,000,000, 7.55% Medium-
  • City to submit position paper on privatization
    ZAMBOANGA City Mayor Celso Lobregat has expressed reservations on some provisions of the bill that seeks to privatize water districts in the country, as he said that the City Government is currently preparing its position for submission to the bill’s sponsor. Lobregat said on Thursday that the C ...
  • American States Water Company Announces Earnin ...
    American States Water Company today reported net income from continuing operations of $15.1 million, or $0.79 per basic and fully diluted share for the quarter ended June 30, 2012, as compared to net income from continuing operations of $12.7 million, or $0.68 per basic and fully diluted share f ...
  • Anti-privatization suit dismissed
    DETROIT A freakish car crash Friday evening on Belle Isle -- in which a vehicle flipped, caught fire and pinned the driver inside -- tied up traffic on the island park while firefighters extricated a 67-year-old man from his burning vehicle, Detroit police said.

Guardian

  • Mo Farah and Usain Bolt go for more gold: Olym ...
    Rolling report: Get all the latest news as Mo Farah goes in the 5,000m and Usain Bolt runs in the 4x100m relay for JamaicaSean Ingle
  • Brazil 1-2 Mexico | London 2012 Olympic footba ...
    Brazil 1-2 MexicoMexico's first ever Olympic football medal is gold and the wait for Brazil to add this title to their five World Cups now lasts to the Rio 2016 Games, at least.Oribe Peralta is the man who has the freedom of Mexico and all Brazilians never wish to hear of again. His two strikes ...
  • Tia Sharp's grandmother is held in custody and ...
    Dramatic new twist after the dead girl's step-grandfather is arrested following tip-off from a member of the publicThe Tia Sharp murder inquiry took a dramatic twist after detectives announced they had arrested her grandmother over the 12-year-old's death.Christine Sharp, 46, was being questione ...
  • Anger, tears, and forgiveness as Syrian rebel ...
    As evidence mounts of abuse and summary execution of prisoners , The Observer witnesses an extraordinary meeting between a Sunni rebel leader and his Alawite captive in al-Bab, near AleppoFirst Lieutenant Darid Barakat sat on a foam mattress on the floor of a schoolhouse, men he once commanded a ...
  • Dale Cregan sought over two Manchester murders
    Suspect wanted for questioning over deaths of David Short in Clayton on Friday, and his son, Mark, earlier this yearPolice have named a suspect they are seeking in connection with the murder of a father and his son in separate incidents.Dale Cregan, 29, is wanted for questioning after the body o ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

  • Wed and tortured at 13 Afghan girl finds rare ...
    Kabul: When she refused to prostitute herself or have sex with the man she was forced to marry when she was about 13, officials said, Sahar Gul's in-laws tortured her and threw her into a dirty, ...
  • Wed and Tortured at 13 Afghan Girl Finds Rare ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan - When she refused to prostitute herself or have sex with the man she was forced to marry when she was about 13, officials said, Sahar Gul’s in-laws tortured her and threw ...
  • Taliban infiltrator kills 11 Afghan police
    The incident, in the Delaram district of Afghanistan's western Nimroz province on Saturday, is the latest in a series of shootings in which members of the country's security forces have ...
  • Father pays tribute to soldier son killed in A ...
    Afghanistan , has said that his family had lost "a fine young man".Paul Chesterman said that the soldier's family were "immensely proud" of him.The 26-year-old, from ...
  • Rise of green-on-blue attacks in Afghanistan
    AFP © US soldiers on a joint patrol with their Afghan counterparts in Helmand province earlier this year. Seven international soldiers have been killed by their local colleagues in a ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • This Week on Honesty Without Fear
    Tune in tomorrow at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. Richard Renner interviews Professor Richard Moberly of the University of Nebraska College of Law about his recent law review article, "Sarbanes-Oxley's Whistleblower Provisions - Ten Years Later." Pro ...
  • Tax Court calls for an answer from IRS whistle ...
    The United States Tax Court issued an order Tuesday that requires the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to respond by September 24, 2012, to an amicus brief filed by the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC). We reported here on July 11, 2012, about the NWC "friend of the court" brief in I ...
  • FRSA ALERT! Railroads Lose Power To Interfere ...
    We are pleased to repost, with permission, this blog entry by Charlie Goetsch from trainlawblog.com, announcing a favorable and precedent-setting decision by the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB). Congratulations to Charlie Goetsch for obtaining the outstanding result for h ...
  • Fourth Circuit says employees can copy data th ...
    Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (in Richmond, Virginia) ruled that employers cannot use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) to make claims against former employees who copied computer files before separating from employment.  This decision agrees with the Nin ...
  • NWC amicus urges Supreme Court to reverse in L ...
    Today, Stephen M. Kohn and I are filing a "friend of the court" brief urging the United States Supreme Court to accept review of, and reverse, the First Circuit's decision in Lawson v. FMR. I wrote here previously about the two-judge majority in the First Circuit had terribly misconstr ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Baldaur Regis' Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    What has 500 thumbs and sounds like a murder of crows? A Twitmob, of course, and this weeks' chatter of angry, angry birds featured a group of writers closing down a website...for helping promote their works. Oops. Don't be too hard on them - mobs of any sort are tricksy beasts, and most of thes ...
  • From SOPA To Cybersecurity: All About Trying T ...
    Al Jazeera English recently did a very well done episode on its Fault Lines program about attempts by Hollywood and the US government to control the internet. It's about 24 minutes long and includes interviews with a bunch of people who were involved in protecting the internet discussing what h ...
  • Brandon Boyd Of Incubus On The Future Of Music ...
    Brandon Boyd has seen both ends of the music industry. With his band Incubus, Boyd rode possibly the last big wave (nu-metal) crafted by the labels. Now, faced with heading out label-less for the first time, Boyd has a refreshingly realistic outlook on the challenges he and his band face in the ...
  • Father Of The Video Game Console Showed Off Se ...
    It is often said that there are no new ideas any more. This adage is most often applied to fiction and other forms of entertainment. However, this story shows that the adage can also apply to technology as well. Ralph Baer is the often ignored but historically recognized father of the home video ...
  • DailyDirt: Cupcakes With a Twist
    An amazing number of cupcake stores have been popping up everywhere over the last few years, in what's been called the "Cupcake Bubble". (Just check out CRMB on NASDAQ for one public company dedicated to cupcake bakeries -- or the reality show about cupcakes, Cupcake Wars.) These tasty treats ar ...

VacTruth

  • Breaking News – Gardasil Vaccine rDNA In ...
    According to testimony presented before a coroner’s inquest, “residual HPV DNA fragments from the viral gene or plasmid injected with Gardasil®” have been found six months after that vaccination (series) was given to a teenager who died in her sleep of unknown and unexplained causes.
  • The Games Grown Men Play
    Why is government protecting Big Pharma and vaccine makers instead of innocent children?
  • To Hide in the Pig Sty
    The first thing that one has to ask is: Who, in the consuming community, complained about pig stink when cooking? There had to be a market pressure for industry to respond before a huge industry would respond with a costly intervention. That is where the illusion breaks down.
  • Your Child May Get This Deadly Allergy After B ...
    Millions of children worldwide are being injected with this allergen over and over again in connection with vaccination schedules, often starting with the Hepatitis B vaccine when babies are only a few hours old. Is it any wonder that this specific allergy affects millions and that the numbers a ...
  • Vaccines: What Your Doctors Know and Don’t Know
    Do you ever wonder what doctors know about the dozens of vaccines they inject into your children? The answer may surprise you.

BroadSnark

  • Die Chivalry Die
    You know that whole “women and children first” thing, where ship captains are supposed to stoically go down with the boat? Someone actually did a study of shipwrecks. Turns out – not so much. In examining 18 shipping disasters dating to the 1850s, the economists found little evidence that ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I can’t believe they are still kicking girls out of school for being pregnant. Do they think it is contagious? Do we need some sex ed for school administration? A map tracking unarmed people of color killed by authority figures. Interesting that the Western states have no killings. I reali ...
  • Is the Media Liberal?
    A friend of mine just posted this nifty graphic showing how much more often the media quotes the GOP. But I’m not sure that it says much. If conservative is defined as wanting to live by religious doctrine or being anti-abortion, then the media is not particularly conservative. If conserva ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Occupy our Homes DC has a new petition up to try and save Deborah Harris’s house.  They are only a few signatures away from their goal, so if you would be so kind… I was watching this video of James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Sidney Poitier, and Joseph ...
  • Some Thoughts on the GA Prisoner Strike
    Sadly, most people don’t seem to be paying much attention to all the prisoner strikes that have been happening across the country. In Georgia, two prisoners went without food for more than 47 days. You really need to watch this video. One of the things that struck me about that interview w ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

Watts Up With That?

  • Announcement – Robert Phelan, WUWT moder ...
    I received this communications a short while ago. It is with the greatest sadness that I must announce this. Diane Phelan Message: Dear Anthony and the WUWT moderators: I am the daughter of Robert Phelan and I unfortunately have some … Continue reading →
  • Not so hot – ocean temperatures around t ...
    While there’s wailing and gnashing of teeth over the US CONUS surface temperature being the “hottest ever” a cursory review of the sea surface temperatures in U.S.Coastal waters shows no cause for alarm, as they aren’t even close to record … Continue reading →
  • Oxburgh’s Climate Madness
    Lord Oxburgh (Of the famed Oxburgh non-inquiry of Climategate) was interviewed on Australia’s ABC radio recently Simon at Australian Climate Madness, has the audio, transcript, and story. Well worth a look and listen for the sheer ineptitude on display. Bishop … Continue reading →
  • Friday Funny – Climate Olympics
    There’s too many scientific sports to include in one panel. I was really looking forward to seeing Josh’s rendition of the 400 Meter Skeptics Hurdles.  
  • More “Fracking” Nonsense About Ear ...
    Are the science journalists ignorant of science? Or are they intentionally misleading the public? Earthquakes triggered by fluids injected deep underground, such as during the controversial practice of fracking, may be more common than previously thought, a new study suggests. … Continue r ...

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • The Benefits of Daydreaming
    Does your mind wander? During a class or meeting, do you find yourself staring out the window and thinking about what you’ll do tomorrow or next week? As a child, were you constantly reminded by teachers to stop daydreaming? Well, psychological research is beginning to reveal that daydreaming is ...
  • Prostate cancer patients given hope by new &#8 ...
    A new drug that tackles advanced prostate cancer in three different ways has passed its first hurdle towards being approved. Scientists reported promising early trial results using galeterone, which is designed to treat cancer that no longer responds to hormone therapy. However, researchers coun ...
  • Consciousness Does Not Reside Here
    What is the relation between selective attention and consciousness? When you strain to listen to the distant baying of coyotes over the sound of a campsite conversation, you do so by attending to the sound and becoming conscious of their howls. When you attend to your sparring opponent out of th ...
  • How Genes Organize the Surface of the Brain
    The first atlas of the surface of the human brain based upon genetic information has been produced by a national team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the VA San Diego Healthcare System. The work is published in the March 30 issu ...
  • 3D medical animation about acne

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Conventional Biofuels Won’t take Us Far
    Liquid biofuels are often touted as a partial solution to oil scarcity and climate change. But what are the realistic prospects?Click here to read this article
  • Dr. James Hansen: Climate Change is Here - and ...
    When I testified before the Senate in the hot summer of 1988 , I warned of the kind of future that climate change would bring to us and our planet. I painted a grim picture of the consequences of steadily increasing temperatures, driven by mankind's use of fossil fuels.Click here to read this ar ...
  • Why PepsiCo Is Fighting GMO Labeling in California
    Most people just think of soda when they hear the name "Pepsi." But in fact, PepsiCo is the nation's largest food company and second largest in the world. Its annual earnings top $60 billion, from a dizzying array of brands.Click here to read this article
  • Is Team Organic Outspending Team Big Ag in the ...
    In my Tuesday post about California's Prop. 37 ballot initiative that would require the labeling of genetically modified food, I wrote about a "gusher" of agribusiness cash entering the state to defeat the proposition, which will be voted on in the November election. Click here to read this article
  • Latest Lies from Monsanto's Minions: The Merce ...
    The US Food and Drug Administration says requiring special labels for foods that contain ingredients from genetically modified crops would be "inherently misleading" to consumers - that is exactly what proponents of GM food labeling are hoping for. Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • “Project Corner Store:” Youth Make Muscle Broccoli
    Just another day in the office? We wish!
  • The 2012 Farm Bill: Evolution or Devolution?
    With no agreement between the two branches of Congress, farmers suffering from the severe drought will not receive the aid they desperately need any time soon. And, with Congress officially away on summer recess, no further forward momentum will occur until they return in September. And so, we c ...
  • An Interesting Eggs-perience
    I thought it was particularly intriguing that the discussion in the hearing, while under the guise of improving animal welfare standards, focused primarily on the complex economics of egg production.
  • Why Must the USDA Flip-Flop on Meatless Monday?
    The really sobering piece is the hypocrisy. Within the last two years, USDA issued a very clear set of recommendations for a healthy diet. These dietary guidelines suggest increasing the amount of fruits and vegetables in a weekly diet, and the guidelines are designed to improve public health an ...
  • 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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • The future may well be electric for COMCAR fleet
    THE FEDERAL government will consider using electric cars for MPs, following COMCAR's two-week trial of vehicles supplied by Melbourne-based consortium EV Engineering. Submitted by John Farnham to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Trailer Trashing As South Africa Considers Out ...
    Although they are low tech, the trailers are skilfully designed and often neibourhood-manufactured, have two wheels and are attached to the bicycle via a hitch of behind the saddle. Submitted by Naoko I. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • New leaked TPP text puts fair use at risk
    United States Trade Representative (USTR) is putting Fair Use at risk with restrictive language in the Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement (TPP). The US and Australia are both proposing very restrictive text, and Peru is willing to accommodate the bad language Submitted by John Farnham to Society &am ...
  • Why We ALL Have Psychic Powers: How Thought Pr ...
    Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D. is one of the world's most innovative biologists, and is best known for his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance, which leads to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory. Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat  |  ...
  • CIA Manages Drug Trade, Mexican Official Says
    The Central Intelligence Agencys involvement in drug trafficking is back in the media spotlight after a spokesman for the violence-plagued Mexican state of Chihuahua became the latest high-profile individual to accuse the CIA, which has been linked to na Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to US Po ...

Angry Indian News

  • How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA Courses
    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Online High School Programs Help Troubled Students
    As the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Higher Education Opportunities for Everyone
    Higher education is something that many people would like to achieve, but that not all people believe is in their reach. You may think of higher education as limited to universities and colleges with... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Distance Learning Online Degree - A Great Way ...
    For those individuals who are working, it would be a reasonable assumption that going back to school is the last thing on your mind. Most people that have full time jobs work because they have to,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • International Programs For University Students
    One of the most popular actions of the European Union (EU) is the setting up of university exchange programs. University exchange programs are programs organized by specific universities and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • They Kill with Smiles on their Faces
    An open letter to GMO pushers, whoever you are… Can you hear the night screams of those independent farmers that have been pushed over by the corporate machine? Do the cries of children writhing in pain from your toxic garbage keep you awake at night, or do you just roll over and snore, obliviou ...
  • America – Just Label GMOs Already!!!
    The "it's too expensive to label GMOs" argument is FALSE! American companies already label them for export to other countries. So, why not here?
  • The Battle over Genetically Modified Organisms
    Depending on which poll, and how the question is asked, between 75% and 95% of Americans believe that foods containing GMOs ought to be labeled or identified, so they have a choice about consuming them or feeding them to their children. They are opposed by giant agribusiness corporations in leag ...
  • Monsanto Capitalizes on Drought and Enslaves F ...
    Monsanto is by far one of the greatest disaster capitalists around. Not only does this paraiah of a company manufacture and sell genetically engineered crops (GMOs) that actually increase drought conditions, but it is now poised to capitalize on the very same conditions that it helps to cause.
  • WHY in the World Are They Spraying? Lifts Veil ...
    Recently I had the opportunity to review a screener copy of the soon to be released film “WHY in the World Are They Spraying?.” In my opinion, this film is by far the most in-depth analysis of the chemtrail/geo-engineering issue that I have seen to date, clearly outlining the motives behind this ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Afghan policeman kills 10 fellow officers, in ...
    ShareThisAfghan policeman kills 10 fellow officers, in wake of Afghan attacks on US partners 11 Aug 2012 A member of the Afghan National Police opened fire at his colleagues at a checkpoint in southwestern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least 10 of his fellow policemen, officials said. The ...
  • U.S., Turkey to explore imposing Syria no-fly ...
    ShareThisU.S., Turkey to explore imposing Syria no-fly zones 11 Aug 2012 The United States and Turkey indicated on Saturday they might impose no-fly zones in Syria as battles between [CIA-backed] rebels and President Bashar al-Assad's forces shook Aleppo and fighting erupted in the heart of Dama ...
  • Anger as US prosecutors scrap probe of Goldman
    ShareThisAnger as US prosecutors scrap probe of Goldman 11 Aug 2012 Goldman Sachs was let off the hook yesterday as the US Department of Justice dropped plans to bring criminal charges over claims the bank was betting against the same toxic subprime mortgage securities it sold to clients. In Apr ...
  • Mitt Romney campaign confirms Paul Ryan as run ...
    ShareThisMitt Romney campaign confirms Paul Ryan as running mate 11 Aug 2012 Republican US presidential candidate Mitt Romney has picked Congressman Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate, the Romney campaign confirmed today. "Mitt's choice for VP is Paul Ryan. Spread the word about Ame ...
  • 6 Americans killed in one day by Afghan partners
    ShareThisUS tax dollars at work: 6 Americans killed in one day by Afghan partners 11 Aug 2012 An Afghan working on an installation shared by Afghan and foreign forces shot to death three U.S. service members, raising to six the number of Americans killed by their Afghan partners in a single day, ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Accused Scammers: Another Large Veteran's Charity
    11 August 2012 Government and private watchdogs are on the heels of another large charity.  The charity Help Hospitalized Veterans is accused of scamming millions.  One of those watchdogs, Charity Navigator, similarly outed Soldiers' Angels with a 1-star financial rating in 2012. Man ...
  • Another Bad Week in Afghanistan
    10 August 2012 Approximately 13 Coalition members have been killed over the period of a week.  In fact, this sad reality is normal.  There is another report today that three Special Forces Soldiers were murdered by Afghan Security Forces. Earlier in the week was also a massive suicid ...
  • Fraud Allegations against Publisher Richard Vi ...
    My previous publisher (I fired him) has been accused of fraud for not delivering large numbers of "Iraq: Inside the Inferno" that customers paid for. We are still having major problems with Vigilante. My apologies. This has been a tragedy for the book. If you paid for a book and did not receive ...
  • RUN HIDE FIGHT Surviving an Active Shooter
  • The Paper August 2012
    02 August 2012

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Memories of the uprising
    Four people share their thoughts about the demonstrations on 8th August 1988. The date became know as the 8888 Uprising and marks the long struggle for democracy. Though the protests led to the toppling of President Ne Win, a new military regime began. But it did lead to the emergence of A ...
  • ASEAN mulls providing Rohingyas humanitarian aid
    Southeast Asian nations are considering humanitarian assistance for Rohingya facing "pain and suffering" in Burma, the head of the ASEAN regional bloc said Wednesday
  • Labour activist arrested in Mandalay after protest
    Police detained Aye Thein who was assisting about 100 vendors who were protesting potential relocation in Mandalay’s Kidan Market
  • Suu Kyi to head ‘rule of law’ committee
    The Parliament’s Lower House formed the Committee for Rule of Law and Tranquility yesterday and appointed Aung San Suu Kyi as its chairperson after receiving approval from the country’s legislative representatives
  • Demonstrators support Rohingya resettlement
    A rally in Rangoon convenes to back Thein Sein's plan

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Libya national assembly elects Gaddafi opponen ...
    [JURIST] Libya's newly empowered General National Congress elected Mohamed al-Megaryef as interim president on Friday. Al-Megaryef, a long time opponent of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi [BBC obituary; JURIST news archive], was elected by a vote of 113 to 85 [Bloomberg report]. This is the ...
  • Judge hears challenge to conflicting Florida v ...
    [JURIST] Florida Administrative Judge Thomas Crapps on Friday heard a challenge [text] to a voting rights law, HB 1355 [materials], filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) [advocacy websites] and Senator Arthenia Joyner [official profile]. The n ...
  • MT high court okays corporate personhood ballo ...
    [JURIST] The Supreme Court of Montana [official website] on Friday ruled [decision, PDF] that its state's November ballots may include Initiative 166 [text, PDF], a nonbinding policy statement that would direct the state's congress to support an amendment to the US Constitution [text] asserting ...
  • Google to pay FTC $22.5 million fine for misre ...
    [JURIST] Google Inc. [corporate website] on Thursday agreed to pay a record fine [press release] of $22.5 million to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) [official website] after being charged with misrepresenting Apple Inc.'s Safari [corporate website] internet browser. Specifically, the FTC clai ...
  • California AG sues veterans charity for corruption
    [JURIST] California Attorney General Kamala Harris [official website] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] on Wednesday against a veterans charity organization alleging that its executives engaged in fraudulent fundraising, false reporting to the IRS and other illegal activities. The lawsuit alleges ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Sinai Terror Attacks Portend Gold Mine for Isr ...
    While many have reported on the recent terror attacks on the Sinai border between Egypt and Israel, few have reported on two aspects of the fallout of this Islamist campaign.  Until last summer, when a similar group of local Sinai Bedouin crossed the border and attacked Eilat, few in the Israeli ...
  • Israeli Activists Urge IDF Pilots to Refuse Or ...
    Israeli peace activists have created an online petition which calls for IAF pilots to refuse to participate in war against Iran.  Though the pilot corps is among the most élite of the entire army, there is a long tradition of resistance within the IDF to serving the Palestinian and Lebanese Occu ...
  • Barak Claims New U.S. Intelligence Report Find ...
    Senior Israeli sources are claiming (sort of) that the U.S. has produced a new National Intelligence Estimate and that its findings show alarming advances in Iran’s nuclear program.  According to Ehud Barak, undoubtedly one of the sources for this Haaretz report, the new NIE brings Israel ...
  • New Israeli Cyberworm Spies on Lebanese Bank T ...
    Kaspersky Labs reports (and here) a new computer virus infection using some of the same coding as Flame, an earlier major malware creation largely attributed to Israel cyberwarfare experts (probably affiliated with the IDF’s Unit 8200): A more in-depth analysis conducted in June 2012 resul ...
  • Tom Waits Anti-War “Hell Broke Luce”
    Tom Waits has just released a new video of his song, Hell Broke Luce, from his last album, Bad As Me. A reader, John Lewis Dickerson, sent me the words with a recommendation, saying it was a powerful anti-war song. After reading the lyrics, I couldn’t tell whether I’d like the song o ...

If Americans Knew

  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
  • International law is clear: Israeli settlement ...
    Eric Rozenman's Dec. 11 Op-Ed article, "Israeli settlements are more than legitimate," is legal nonsense that disregards history. He is correct in his observation that Article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine permitted "close settlement by Jews on the land, including state lands and waste lands no ...
  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...
  • Ethan Bronner's Conflict With Impartiality
    Ethan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Israel-Palestine. It is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesn't; what goes in a story and what gets cut.
  • Beware of the BBC
    Stuart Littlewood highlights the BBC's chronic pro-Israel bias, from allowing untruths about Israel's onslaught on Gaza in 2008-09 to go unchallenged, to its failure to provide accurate context about the Israeli township of Sderot, to its routine willingness to give disproportionate airtime to I ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • How User-Centered Design Powers FrontlineSMS, ...
    I'm going to be honest: When I first joined FrontlineSMS, I had no idea how much goes into the design of software. Every screen, every button and every function has principled thought behind it. In 2011, we worked alongside Gabriel White, a user experience designer from Small Surfaces, ...
  • How the Knight Lab's Babl App Helped Lollapalo ...
    This post was written by Jordan Young of the Knight News Innovation Lab. This past weekend marked the annual music carnival known as Lollapalooza" held in Chicago's Grant Park. As you'd expect, close to 100,000 people attending a large event can generate a lot of hot conversations on soci ...
  • From Japan to Burning Man, LocalWiki Heats Up ...
    We want to let you know about some really fantastic stuff that's happened in the LocalWiki world over the past month. Tallahassee, Fla. The folks spearheading the TallahasseeWiki project held their first two in-person CampWiki workshops. The idea behind the workshops is to introduce commu ...
  • Stable at Last, PANDA Reaches 1.0!
    Eleven months ago, we began prototyping PANDA. The PANDA project aims to make basic data analysis quick and easy for news organizations, and make data sharing simple. I hacked for a month on an experimental version, verified that our technology choices worked, and then threw it out and started o ...
  • Can Google Maps + Fusion Tables Beat OpenBlock?
    WRAL.com, North Carolina's most widely read online news site, recently published a tool that allows you to search concealed weapons permits down to the street level. It didn't use OpenBlock to do so. Why? Or, if you're like many journalistically and technically savvy people I've spoken over the ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The 2012 Vote - Romney Picks Ryan
    Republican U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney has chosen Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate. Romney made the announcement Saturday before a throng of supporters in front of the retired battleship USS Wisconsin in Norfolk in the eastern state of Virginia. R ...
  • The Edge of Terrorism - Terrorism in Sinai: Te ...
    The recent deadly attack in the Sinai Peninsula, in which militants killed sixteen Egyptian soldiers while wounding seven others, was as predictable as it was devastating. Since last year's revolution, terrorists have worked continuously to manufacture tensions between Egypt and Israel, attackin ...
  • The Battle for Syria - Massacred Sunni Syrians ...
    Earlier this month, 48 Iranian Shiite "pilgrims" were abducted in Damascus. The Free Syrian Army claims they were members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, who have been dispatched to Syria to protect one of Tehran's vital interests, Bashar al-Assad's regime. It's not the first time that ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Obama's Attack on 'Workfare'
    President Obama has created a firestorm by overturning the work requirements of the popular 1996 welfare-reform law. Now his White House is bristling because Mitt Romney dares to point out that fact on the stump and in a new campaign ad. Obama’s move is only the latest step in a long history o ...
  • Education on Edge - It’s Time for an Educati ...
    The stars of the global development galaxy infrequently align to provide the education sector with an opportunity to advance progress for girls and boys around the world. However, there is currently a unique opportunity to put forth a common vision to reinforce the Education for All (EFA) and Mi ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • More Criticism of Obama's Gutter Politics As R ...
    More critics of the disgusting "Romney caused my wife to die of cancer" ad have let their feelings be known, and the criticism seems to be getting more pointed. I wonder if/when the President will say enough and order the ad be pulled (I know its a SuperPAC ad--but I assure you that there is co ...
  • Newsbusted Exclusive: Porn Star Ron Jeremy End ...
    The Presidential endorsements are coming fast and furious (no pun intended). Even Adult Movie stars are getting into the act. Last week Jenna Jameson endorsed Mitt Romney, this week its Ron Jeremy endorsing Barack Obama.  In an exclusive report from Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller, we learn ...
  • Obama Had Solyndra Briefing At Least Two Month ...
    New White House emails have been released regarding the Solyndra scandal show that President Obama requested a briefing about the program which lost a half billion taxpayer dollars two months before it went belly-up. The president requested the briefing because he was being asked about the loans ...
  • Lefty Media Continues To Bash Obama Team For R ...
    Holy Cow! When the progressive leaning mainstream media goes after the Committee to Reelect the President (CREEP) you gotta believe the campaign has hit a new low.  Such is the story of the Obama SuperPAC ad featuring Joe Soptic blaming Mitt Romney for the cancer death of his wife, a lie. W ...
  • Untold Truths About the Syrian Civil War
    Ammar Abdulhamid may know more about Syria’s civil war than anyone else in the world. That’s no exaggeration. An pro-democratic oppositionist living abroad, Abdulhamid has functioned on a virtual 24/7 basis as the source of news and analysis about events within Syria, always trying to be honest ...

The Real Agenda

  • U.S. Banks told to make plans for Financial Co ...
    By RICK ROTHACKER | REUTERS | AUGUST 10, 2012 U.S. regulators directed five of the country’s biggest banks, including Bank of America Corp and Goldman Sachs Group Inc, to develop plans for staving off collapse if they faced serious problems, emphasizing that the banks could not c ...
  • Europe: From the Subprime to the Breakdown
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 10, 2012 The storm that began in the U.S. five years ago, swept governments, banks and mortgage financiers. The outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis in the U.S. arrives to its fifth year with a legacy that includes a global economic crisis ...
  • Money Drifts to Square for iPad, iPhone and An ...
    Starbucks Coffee Shops will allow Apple customer to pay using their devices. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 9, 2012 The network of cafés has decided to invest $ 25 million in the revolutionary payment system that focuses on mobile devices. Starbucks will use Square at its 7 ...
  • Europe to experience economic contraction in 2 ...
    A new report issued by the European Central Bank forecasts a downward trend in growth and similar inflation. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 9, 2012 The “let’s do the same thing and expect better results” crowd is getting what they wanted in the Euro zone. ...
  • Why is the US Army Mobilizing Troops and Equip ...
    BY SUSAN POSSEL | OCCUPY CORPORATISM | AUGUST 8, 2012 Informants and military personnel are coming forth anonymously to confirm that martial law “is right around the corner.” However, right now we are under a silent martial law and citizens are reporting strange and unexplainable activ ...

Wind Watch

  • Court sides with Union Beach on wind turbine a ...
    The New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division ruled today that the Bayshore Regional Sewerage Authority must seek site plan approval from the Union Beach Planning Board before finishing construction of their wind turbine. Attorney Stewart Lieberman, who represented the Union Beach Planning Bo ...
  • A serious energy policy debate blows through 2 ...
    On the campaign trail in Colorado Thursday President Obama assailed Mitt Romney for opposing the tax break for wind energy production, saying the presumptive nominee would put tens of thousands of jobs at risk by letting them expire. “At a moment when homegrown energy, renewable energy, is creat ...
  • Bear Mountain wind turbine blades getting replaced
    Just three years after they were installed, the wind turbines at Bear Mountain are getting an upgrade. Starting this summer, AltaGas will be replacing the blades on the 34 wind turbines at the Bear Mountain Wind Park. AltaGas Manager of Communications Neil Mackie says that as wind energy is such ...
  • Group suing Antrim board; Claims meetings were ...
    ANTRIM — A month after a group of Antrim residents alleged the Board of Selectmen held illegal meetings, five residents have filed a lawsuit against the board claiming it violated the state’s Right to Know law. In a lawsuit dated July 30, the plaintiffs allege that selectmen decided on the terms ...
  • Turbines at Kessingland are labelled a noise n ...
    The battle over two controversial wind turbines south of Lowestoft has taken a new twist after council officials branded one a “noise nuisance”. An investigation by Waveney District Council’s Environmental Health Team concluded that noise levels at one home in Whites Lane, Kessingland, two month ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Fewer File for Unemployment Benefits
    “The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell unexpectedly last week, offering hope that some of last month’s improvement in job growth could be sustained and give the economy a lift.” (New York Times) And yet participation in the labor force is down. FEE ...
  • Obamacare Taxes to Hit Not-So-Well-Off
    “Who gets thumped by higher taxes in President Barack Obama’s health care law? The wealthiest 2 percent of Americans will take the biggest hit, starting next year. And the pain will be shared by some who aren’t so well off—people swept up in a hodgepodge of smaller tax changes ...
  • Market, State, and Autonomy
    If the alternative we face is between grappling with market forces and trusting a ruling elite, anyone concerned with autonomy and equality should choose the market.
  • Mortgage-Backed Securities Make Big Bucks for ...
    “Banks make their money from taking the mortgages and bundling them into bonds that they then sell to investors, like pensions and mutual funds. ” (New York Times) But if the government is guaranteeing the mortgages, haven’t we been down this road before? FEE Timely Classic “Na ...
  • UN Warns Against Food Export Limits
    “The world could face a food crisis of the kind seen in 2007/08 if countries restrict exports on concerns about a drought-fuelled grain price rally, the U.N.’s food agency warned on Thursday, after reporting a surge in global food prices in July.” (Associated Press) Free trade ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Lawsuit seeks better regulation of oil spill d ...
    The unprecedented use of chemical dispersants following BP's Gulf disaster led to complaints of health problems among cleanup workers and local residents. A coalition of groups is now suing the EPA in hopes of spurring regulatory action. read more
  • Lacking contracts, New Orleans teachers use ol ...
    After Katrina, New Orleans fired all 7,500 of its teachers. The firings were recently ruled illegal, but teachers won't get their jobs back. Instead, the union is fighting for teachers and students through a grassroots, social justice approach. read more
  • Southern leaders fiddle while coasts threatene ...
    As sea levels rise due to global warming, politicians across the hard-hit South are blocking efforts to address the problem. read more
  • Sikh temple shooter was an Army veteran, white ...
    Reportedly a psy ops specialist, Wade Michael Page was also a frustrated neo-Nazi and the leader of a racist white-power band based in North Carolina. read more
  • The risks of being employed
    The number of workplaces with egregiously bad safety records has doubled in the past year. OSHA's effort to focus on these employers is laudable -- but is it enough? read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Police
    Some scattered thoughts on cops, particularly cops in the US. Police exist primarily to protect property arrangements.  The war on drugs has paramilitarized police, with a heavy emphasis on overwhelming force.  While police have always considered themselves above the common herd, and have always ...
  • Police
    Some scattered thoughts on cops, particularly cops in the US. Police exist primarily to protect property arrangements.  The war on drugs have paramilitarized police, with a heavy emphasis on overwhelming force.  While police have always considered themselves above the common herd, and have alway ...
  • The best news this year is the Court of Justic ...
    Software, once sold, can be resold.  The person selling it cannot keep using it, but the original publisher has no right to stop the sale. This is a big deal.  A really big deal, and really good news.  It allows brokers, it allows you to sell your software once done.  It allows you to treat [...]
  • The best news this year is the Court of Justic ...
    Software, once sold, can be resold.  The person selling it cannot keep using it, but the original publisher has no right to stop the sale. This is a big deal.  A really big deal, and really good news.  It allows brokers, it allows you to sell your software once done.  It allows you to treat [...]
  • I wonder how much Ashley Fantz of CNN gets pai ...
    Beautiful: Assange claimed that various institutions and corporations had hit the site with a financial blockage. Claimed?  It’s not a claim, it’s a fact.  How much it cost Wikileaks might be a claim, but that’s not what Ms. Fantz wrote. This is one reason why we can’t ha ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • The Screwed Election: Wall Street Can’t Lose, ...
    About two in three Americans do not think what’s good for Wall Street is good for America, according to the 2012 Harris poll, but do think people who work there are less “honest and moral than other people,” and don’t “deserve to make the kind of money they earn ...
  • The U.S. Cities Getting Smarter The Fastest
    It’s a commonplace among pundits and economic developers that smart people flock to “smart” places like sparrows to Capistrano. Reflecting the conventional wisdom, The New York Times recently opined that “college graduates gravitate to places with many other college gradu ...
  • Why I Don’t Live In Indianapolis
    It’s no secret that Indianapolis has been a huge focus of my blog over the years. One of the biggest criticisms I get here, especially when I ding some other city, is that I’m nothing more than a mindless booster for Indy. While I like to think I’ve given the city a lot of tough love over the ye ...
  • Evolving Urban Form: Dhaka
    A few weeks ago, we suggested that Hong Kong was the "smart growth" ideal, for having the highest urban population density in the high income world. But, if you expand the universe to the poorer, developing countries, Hong Kong barely holds a candle to Dhaka. Dhaka's 14.6 million p ...
  • Swing State Geography: The I-4 Corridor
    Overheated presidential politics have done few favors to Florida, except to put 132 miles of hot asphalt on everyone’s lips:  Interstate 4.  Completed in the late 1960s, this interstate (in fact, the only interstate highway to be entirely contained within one state) is known by million ...

GM Watch

  • Controversial Dutch trial opens to public
    1.Dutch GM potato field trial will open to public 2.GM potato courtcase and citizen inspection  NOTE: Looks like the opening to the public of this trial is a PR response to the situation exposed by ASEED in item 2, where there has been a shying away from open 'dialogue' and 'discussion' with ci ...
  • Controversial Dutch trial opens to public
    1.Dutch GM potato field trial will open to public 2.GM potato courtcase and citizen inspection  NOTE: Looks like the opening to the public of this trial is a PR response to the situation exposed by ASEED in item 2, where there has been a shying away from open 'dialogue' and 'discussion' with ci ...
  • GM corn backfiring
    EXTRACT: Potter told them the genetically modified corn is basically backfiring. "Instead of making things easier, we've just made corn rootworm management harder and a heck of a lot more expensive," Potter said. --- --- Corn farmers struggle to cope with rootworm resistance Mark Steil Minnesot ...
  • GM corn backfiring
    EXTRACT: Potter told them the genetically modified corn is basically backfiring. "Instead of making things easier, we've just made corn rootworm management harder and a heck of a lot more expensive," Potter said. --- --- Corn farmers struggle to cope with rootworm resistance Mark Steil Minnesot ...
  • Labeling GM foods: Whose side are you on?
    EXTRACT: The question before voters could not be more stark: Do you side with anti-worker, pro-polluter forces epitomized by the GMA and deceptive corporate front groups, or do you side with 90% of California voters, the California Labor Federation, family farmers, the Consumer Federation of Ame ...

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Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 11 Things That Can Happen When You Allow Your ...
    Why are Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and so many other countries experiencing depression-like conditions right now?  It is because they have too much debt.  Why do they have too much debt?  It is because they allowed themselves to become enslaved to the bankers.  Borrowing mone ...
  • The Sobering Reality Of What Life Is Like In R ...
    What do you do when the city where you live is dying?  All over the United States formerly great cities are crumbling, but some are definitely in worse shape than others.  One reader recently wrote to me about what she sees happening all around her in Reno, Nevada.  The unemploym ...
  • 14 Questions People Ask About How To Prepare F ...
    How in the world is someone supposed to actually prepare for an economic collapse?  What should you do with your money?  How can you make sure that your family is going to be okay?  How can you prepare if your resources are extremely limited?  These are the kinds of questions peo ...
  • Dead Crops, Extreme Drought And Endless Wildfi ...
    As you read this, the United States is experiencing the worst drought it has seen since the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s.  As you read this, nearly half of all corn crops in the United States are in "poor" or "very poor" condition.  As you read this, 38 major wildfires are ripping ...
  • The Employment Rate In The United States Is Lo ...
    Did you know that a smaller percentage of Americans are working today than when the last recession supposedly ended?  But you won't hear about this on the mainstream news.  Instead, the mainstream media obsesses over the highly politicized and highly manipulated "unemployment rat ...

Desertification

  • The potential of woody crops and shrubs (Bloom ...
    Read at : http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-09/suzano-unit-starts-china-trials-to-reclaim-desert-for-farmers.html Suzano-Unit Starts China Trials to Reclaim Desert for Farmers By Louise Downing FuturaGene Plc, held by Suzano Papel e Celulose SA (SUZB5), began trials in northwest China to tes ...
  • Worldwide “Help to Avoid Desertification” idea ...
    Read at : http://www.kaust.edu.sa/media/features/wdrc-honors.html Desertification and Water Treatment: WDRC Researchers Win Top Honors Researchers from King Adbullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Water Desalination and Reuse Center (WDRC) have taken both first and second place in ...
  • Malnutrition rates are always unacceptably hig ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96069/MALI-Malnutrition-Worrying-in-north-rising-in-south MALI: Malnutrition – Worrying in north, rising in south BAMAKO/MOPTI, 10 August 2012 (IRIN) – At Koutiala reference hospital in the Sikasso region of southeastern Mali, 300 children are ...
  • UN LAUNCHES SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT NETWORK TO ...
    New York, Aug  9 2012  6:05PM United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today launched a new independent global network of research centres, universities and technical institutions to help find solutions for some of the world’s most pressing environmental, social and economic … Continue ...
  • WFP moving away from food donations for over 4 ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96065/UGANDA-Weaning-Karamoja-off-food-aid UGANDA: Weaning Karamoja off food aid KAMPALA, 9 August 2012 (IRIN) – Uganda’s arid northeastern Karamoja region has been dependent on food aid for decades, but new programmes by the government and it ...

The Paper Trail

  • OPINION: Rep. Ryan's budget plan is a "Path to ...
    If Americans who are embracing Rep. Paul Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity” — and that now includes Mitt Romney — spent a few minutes reviewing a few recent research reports, they just might conclude that the Wisconsin Republican’s plan to reduce the deficit might better be renamed the “Path to the Poo ...
  • FACT CHECK: Obama’s ‘Boss’ Baloney
    The Obama campaign strikes another low blow with a TV spot accusing Mitt Romney of “personally” approving a notoriously abusive tax-avoidance scheme and suggesting he may have paid “zero” tax. That’s badly misleading.It wasn’t Romney who was avoiding taxes, it was Marriott Corp. And there’s no e ...
  • Obama ad "Son of Boss"
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  • FACT CHECK: Romney Hijacks Credibility
    A new Mitt Romney campaign ad passes off opinions of a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush as though they were from a newspaper’s reporters or editors. It’s a political trick used by both sides: hijacking a news organization’s credibility.In this example, the Romney ad attacks Presi ...
  • Romney Ad "Be Not Afraid"
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backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

Free Range International

  • How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?
    Our little posse made it out of Afghanistan without any dramas.  My brother Tim left with me because The Bot had made it perfectly clear that his IED hit from the year before had made him completely unstable and a big pain in his ass.  We went to London again and both my brother and [...]
  • Vision Quest
    Editors note: Be sure to start this series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) so it makes sense.  We will try to get more posts up sooner than we have been lately but Dalton is, to be honest, not doing as well as we hoped .  Baba Tim is also banged up again and [...]
  • Band On The Run
    Editors Note:  It is important for first time readers to start this story from the beginning.  This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother, Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to living a normal life back in the states.   Any donations received by the FRI bl ...
  • Dead Man Walking
    Dalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change.  Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton.  For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can&#8217 ...
  • King for a Day
    Note from Baba T – It is important to start the Dalton Thomas series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) or it will not make much sense.   For those of you who are enjoying the series and have the means hitting the donation button would be much appreciated.  All proceeds from the ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • From the W.A.R. (Witness Actual Reality) Room
    Just like the false-flag bombings of OKC and NYC, there is so much the media is NOT reporting. Here is an eyewitness coming forward to tell the truth about the Sikh Temple shooting in Wisconsin. Clearly, it was not the work of a single, lone, NUT gunman.  Far from it.  (Let’s see how long ...
  • From the W.A.R. (Witness Actual Reality) Room
    Just like the false-flag bombings of OKC and NYC, there is so much the media is NOT reporting. Here is an eyewitness coming forward to tell the truth about the Sikh Temple shooting in Wisconsin. Clearly, it was not the work of a single, lone, NUT gunman.  Far from it.  (Let’s see how long ...
  • Mass Media Mind Control – the Strongest ...
    “——  God shall send them STRONG DELUSION, that they should BELIEVE A LIE.”   —-  2 Thessalonians 2:11 – The Holy Bible. “In the Big Lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted ...
  • Mass Media Mind Control – the Strongest ...
    “——  God shall send them STRONG DELUSION, that they should BELIEVE A LIE.”   —-  2 Thessalonians 2:11 – The Holy Bible. “In the Big Lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted ...
  • The “Star of David” – Learn ...
    It is the symbol of modern day Zionism – and the Luciferian signature of the Khazars masquerading as “God’s Chosen People” – the terrorist nation of “Israel”. It is the HEX-agram, the 6 pointed triangles forming the number 666. It is the ancient logo of ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
    Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.
  • NAGUIB SAWIRIS
    Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
  • Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...
    In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.
  • Alison Redford, Premier of Alberta (Nov. 19)
    Premier of Alberta, Alison Redford discusses her hopes for the province's future and the challenges she faces in the Keystone pipeline project.
  • Robbie Robertson, Musician and former member o ...
    Rock icon Robbie Robertson talks with Peter about life in the industry, his decision to stop touring 25 years ago and how his Jewish and Aboriginal roots drove his music career.

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Batman Massacre: WHY and HOW and WHO
    A friend has sent me a really disturbing article by Grace Powers that explains many of the bizarre coincidences and unanswered questions in the Batman theater massacre. Most importantly it explains why Robert Holmes seemed drugged when he appeared in court and why he has no recollection whats ...
  • States Save Billions by Downsizing Prisons
    Carton credit California Political Review   Owing to candidates tripping over each other to be tough on immigrants and crime, the crisis of massive prison overcrowding is an issue that receives scant attention in an election year. Although federal candidates, including Obama and Romn ...
  • Suckering Liberals into Supporting Foreign Wars
    Scene from "The Humanitarian War in Libya" by Julien Teil George Washington has written a great post – Why Do Progressive Liberals Fall for Humanitarian War? – on Zero Hedge. It’s quite an an interesting site dedicated to “widening the scope of information available ...
  • Police Taser a 12 Year Old Girl While Arrestin ...
    Dejamon Baker (NBC) — A 12-year-old girl has wounds in her chest and stomach after she was tased by a police officer inside a St. Louis Victoria’s Secret Wednesday afternoon. Authorities speaking to the New York Daily News say the girl “physically interceded” as a St. Lo ...
  • Julian Assange Hires Pinochet’s Nemesis
    Baltazar Garzon In June Wikileaks founder Julian Assange sought refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to prevent his extradition to Sweden for questioning on sexual assault allegations. His big fear is that the US will attempt to extradite him from Sweden and either detain him indefinitely ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • What Role for China in the U.S. Battery Industry?
    Now that A123 Systems, one of the largest recipients of government-funded battery R&D largesse, may become Chinese-owned, the federal government will have to face the question of whether, and on what terms, Chinese-owned companies will be given access to U.S. battery and advanced materials t ...
  • India’s Outages: What Can We Learn?
    India’s recent national outages on July 30 and 31 have received a great deal of attention in the press.  Nearly 800 million people were without power and India suffered hits to its economy and its global reputation as a result.  Years from now some definitive report will outline the de ...
  • A123 Deal Ignites Debate Over China, Energy
    News that China’s largest auto parts maker is seeking a controlling stake in one of the most heralded U.S. green technology companies, A123 Systems, has quickly ignited into a debate on national security and the energy future.
  • Tariffs Well-Justified in Fighting Green Merca ...
  • Reports Underscore Shale’s Growth Dynamic
    Several reports out this week highlight the job-creating potential of shale development and the impact it is having on the overall economy.Leading the way is the Bakken formation, creating opportunities in North Dakota and surrounding states.From E&E (subscription required):

EU Times

  • USDA revises crop estimates dramatically lower
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) gave its assessment of the historic drought Friday, forecasting national corn production at 10.8 billion bushels, down 13% from 2011 and the lowest production since 2006. The report is the USDA’s first official assessment of the impact of the droug ...
  • Massive IRS Fraud Scheme Allows Illegals to Gr ...
    Alex Jones covers the discovery by Treasury Department investigators that has rooted out an IRS fraud scheme that allows illegals to collect billions in tax refunds, the AP reported on August 8: IRS discouraged fraud detection in ID program Source Related posts:Supreme Court upholds Arizona immi ...
  • Norwegian Lawyers Protecting Pedophiles?
    A Norwegian lawyer criticized the local judicial system that, in her opinion, protects pedophiles. As a result, in many families children are forced to live with parents who subject them to sexual abuse. All attempts to appeal to the court are unsuccessful because the testimony of the children s ...
  • Argentina’s parliament passes new anti-child l ...
    Argentina’s parliament has introduced a new bill in order to impose a range of penal sanctions against those who exploit children for labor in the South American country, Press TV reports. Official statistics show that more than 450,000 children are forced to work in agriculture, mining and fish ...
  • Russian Senators seek demographic fix
    As Russia searches for ways to improve its demographic situation, a group of senators is taking aim against teenage drinking. On a recent Friday night in the subuirbs of Moscow, Igor Andrianov, 17, is sharing a one-liter bottle of beer with a group of friends on a park bench. Although the legal ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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

Groklaw

  • Google Financially Supports Families of Deceas ...
    During a discussion on child and healthcare benefits at Google, Chief People Officer Laszlo Bock told Forbes that the company had just last year announced a new perk for staff. If you pass away while employed by Google, your spouse will get 50 percent of your salary for a decade. Google will als ...
  • Witness Asserts That Samsung Breaks Apple's 'R ...
    2:10 - We're wading through the details of the patent in question here. Not sure what point Samsung's lawyer is trying to make. Samsung's lawyer pulls up some video for the jury to watch of a user scrolling up and down a page using two fingers. This proves what? Isn't this a scroll, not a zoom, ...
  • Malaria is no excuse for patent trolling, Mr. ...
    What to make of all this? Well, the sentiment is certainly a noble one. The problem, though, is that Myhrvold is utterly unfit to espouse it. As we've stated before, no amount of philanthropy can undo the incredible ruin his company has unleashed on innovation through unfettered patent trolling. ...
  • New model For Office Apps
    A new Office Store has been announced by Microsoft which opens up a wider way to make money from coding for Office, but at the price of throwing away all the useful code from the last 15 years - sound familiar?...There are times when I think a sideline in punchbags with a suitable Microsoft imag ...
  • Open Source for the Space Age
    NASA has started a rather ambitious project: to provide open-source everything. The main site is located at http://open.nasa.gov. From here, there is access to data, code and applications, among other things. This is a great launching point for anyone interested in space science and NASA work. I ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Paul Ryan voting record will not please libert ...
    From Judy Morris, right wing libertarian who also posts at The Humble Libertarian which is run by Wes Messamore, my fellow editor at Independent Voter Network. Wes and I both note that lefties and libertarians have more than a few overlapping political views.The military theme of the announcemen ...
  • Download an AR-15 assault rifle using 3D printing
    Continuing the meme I’ve been discussing lately, 3D printing is disruptive technology that flies ahead of laws and governments.When guns can be downloaded and manufactured reliably, that’s when gun control as it is currently understood goes completely out the window. It becomes obsol ...
  • Texas Hippie Coalition – Pissed Off and Mad Ab ...
    The post Texas Hippie Coalition – Pissed Off and Mad About It appeared first on Politics in the Zeros.
  • “Hands Off Syria” and Other Slogans of Assad’s ...
    On August 6, Australian supporters of Bashar al-Assad’s murderous regime rallied and marched under the slogan “hands off Syria!”That the Syrian regime’s sycophants should demand a “hands off” policy from Washington, London, and Melbourne is logical. They do no ...
  • 3D printing Is disruptive technology with poli ...
    3D printing, the ability to print three-dimensional objects, is quickly becoming mainstream. This is classic disruptive technology, a new way of doing things that makes current technology obsolete. It will create new industries and eliminate old ones. The trend towards 3D printing cannot be stop ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Two observations on the tragedy in Syria
    1. War always inflicts grave rights abuses on residents of the war zone. Additionally, its fog allows-- and its passions encourage-- the commission of a large variety of atrocities such as are very rarely committed in times of peace. Hence, actions tending toward the exacerbation of tensions can ...
  • 'New' Egypt and the Camp David accords
    Despite many setbacks and roadblocks along the way in Egypt, the political situation there is still one of the most hopeful-- and certainly, the most momentous-- phenomena in the region. Egypt, remember, really does carry the strategic ballast of the whole Arab world. How things turn out there i ...
  • July 2006, lest we forget
    In these days six years ago, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert and his team were battering much of Lebanon to smithereens in the "Dahiyeh War"-- designed, as we remember, to break Hizbullah once and for all, primarily by battering Lebanese civilians and their infrastructure so harshly that they would turn ...
  • Sarajevo, 1914; Damascus 2012?
    The killing, in Damascus today, of at least three powerful members of the Baathist regime in Syria, will almost certainly plunge that whole country-- and quite likely also much of the rest of the Greater Middle East-- into a maelstrom of inter-group violence far worse than any it has seen until ...
  • West Point military historian denies the net v ...
    The NYT has a very important piece today reporting that the head of the military history program at West Point has openly stated that the United States gained "not much" from 10.5 years of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The program head, Col. Gian Gentile, concluded-- presumably in light of the c ...

frogblog

  • General debate, August 12, 2012
  • Tangata Tiriti – What Does It Mean?
    A couple of bloggers who comment on the performance of Maori MPs have recently included me in their analysis because of the Te Tiriti focus in my political work. One of them commented that I am a “born again Maori” whose heart is in the right place. It is flattering to be included bu ...
  • Time to move on Nuclear Weapons Convention
    I am pleased with the recent report of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee to Parliament, which calls for the New Zealand Government to support a Global Nuclear Weapons Convention. I have a draft member’s bill along these lines as part of my Global Affairs portfolio on which I have been speakin ...
  • Eating for the world
    “If you eat a little less meat and a little less dairy you’ll dramatically reduce the impact of your diet on the environment. Just think: one 1lb (or 500g) of ground beef for your family uses over 28,000 cups (or 6,810 litres) of water to produce – that’s enough to fill 20 bat ...
  • Crafar farms decision disappointing
    The decision by the Court of Appeal regarding the Crafar farms is disappointing. The Court of Appeal has concluded that Shanghai Pengxin has sufficient business experience and acumen to run the farming business. In reality New Zealand state owned enterprise Landcorp will be running the Crafar fa ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • How the Economy Works: The Necessity of Crime
    The economy is merely a sum of money, not practices that sustain the oikos, and the money that makes up the sum is equally valued whether it results from virtuous or vicious, good or bad, constructive or destructive, humane or inhumane, legal or illegal, beneficent or malevolent practices. A ...
  • Governments Exist to Further the Interests of ...
    Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored group.
  • The History of Knowledge: Darkness in the Acadamy
    Knowledge does not always prevail or even endure. When the Roman Empire fell, the Justinian Code was replaced by Canon Law. The augustness of knowledge was transformed into heresy and mankind's curiosity was virtually extinguished. The age became dark. In the 11th century, people began to st ...
  • Vendor ArithmeticUnderhanded Capitalism
    Why does the nation exist? The truth is revealed when one realizes that merchant theft is protected by the legal system whose justices have enshrined an economic bias into law, having subverted the Constitution from the goals the founding fathers wrote into it to the almost exclusive promoti ...
  • Treacherous Treaties
    Is American imperialism a Bilderberger plot? Are the American bankers, diplomats, and members of the Council on Foreign Relations all traitors, having turned America into merely an instrument to carry out their Bilderberger maniacal aims? Does America as a sovereign nation even exist anymore ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Does Low Income Mean More Medications?
    By Dr. Mercola You may think that people with low incomes would be taking the least amount of prescription drugs, given their expense and the cost of doctor visits. But it’s this group that is more likely to be covered by Medicaid, and as a result they are largely shielded from the costs of ...
  • Do YOU Take Any of These 11 Dangerous Choleste ...
    By Dr. Mercola Tens of millions of Americans are taking cholesterol-lowering drugs—mostly statins—and some "experts" claim that many millions more should be taking them. I couldn't disagree more. Statins are HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, that is, they act by blocking the enzyme in your liver ...
  • Unplug! Too Much Light at Night May Lead to De ...
    By Dr. Mercola When you climb into bed for the night, is your bedroom “littered” with dim light from streetlights, passing traffic, a computer, night-light or television set? Even if the light is so dim that you can easily sleep through it, light pollution can prompt biological changes t ...
  • Artificial Sweeteners May Be Worse than Sugar ...
    By Dr. Mercola Diet foods and drinks are promoted to help you lose weight but compelling evidence shows that artificial sweeteners like aspartame cause weight gain rater than weight loss. That’s right, aspartame―which was once hailed as a wonder chemical because it tastes like sugar without t ...
  • City Officials Are Waging a War on Gardens
    By Dr. Mercola It’s hard to imagine what could be controversial or even illegal about planting a couple of rows of tomato plants, green peppers and a cucumber vine … but depending on where those vegetables are planted, they have been the subject of great debate – even prosecution. Acro ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • New audio slideshow of ‘Tribes from the air’ m ...
    Aerial photographs of uncontacted Indians in Brazil caught the world’s imagination.© Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/SurvivalSurvival has published an aerial photographic gallery of tribes and their lands to mark the 18th UN International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. In a unique collaboration o ...
  • Guarani Indians to take demands to Inter-Ameri ...
    Brazil's Guarani are demanding that the government protects their land © Survival Brazil’s Guarani Indians have announced that they will take their government to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, over its failure to protect their land. The Guarani said in a statement that they ...
  • Victory for Indians as court blocks oil project
    Sarayaku President José Gualinga speaks before the Inter-American Court © Inter-American Court of Human Rights The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled in favour of Ecuador’s Kichwa Indians in a case against a controversial oil project that has destroyed parts of their land. Sara ...
  • Judge halts rail project close to Earth’s most ...
    More than 30,000 people have urged Brazil’s Justice Minister to save Earth’s most threatened tribe. © D Pugliese/ Survival A judge has ordered Brazil’s largest mining company to suspend plans to double a controversial railway track, which would have put the livelihoods of Earth’s most threa ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Plateau letter draws reaction pro and con
    The July 23 Letter of the Day ("An administration that's sucking the life out of the Plateau," July 23) from Plateau Mont Royal resident Marion Bialek, and a response from Projet Montréal vouncillor Alex Norris drew lots of comment from readers at montrealgazette.com/opinion.
  • Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...
    The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.
  • Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...
    The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.
  • Letter of the Day: You want change? Start with ...
    You've got a problem with the world today? Don't scream, protest or demonstrate about it; do something to change your own ways first.
  • Conrad Black: the man who took on a bad law, a ...
    Conrad Black left a U.S. federal prison Friday. For a moment, set aside whatever opinion you might have about Lord Black's business practices. There's no doubt about one point: businesspeople in the United States owe a very large debt of thanks to Black for his almost improbable challenge of the ...

Food World Order

  • Fat, Not Glucose, is the Preferred Fuel for Yo ...
    from mercola.com: While we may consider ourselves to be at the pinnacle of human development, our modern food manufacturing processes have utterly failed at improving health and increasing longevity. During the Paleolithic period, many thousands of years ago, our ancestors ate primarily vegetab ...
  • From the Department of Good News: Farmers’ Mar ...
    from civileats.com: The worst drought since the 1950s continues to wreak havoc on America’s bread basket, shriveling up commodity corn and soybean crops and driving up food prices. But there is heartening news from the local agricultural sector: Farmers’ markets are booming. Last week, the US ...
  • #BingeAndPurge: Fluoride, Fruit, Fraud and more
    Harvard Study: Fluoridated Water Associated with Lower IQs in Children* More Kids Are Living in Poverty and Exposed to Air Pollution* Can eating fruit help you quit smoking?* Tepco releases recordings of Fukushima nuclear crisis* US starts landmark Agent Orange cleanup in Vietnam* ...
  • City Officials Are Waging a War on Gardens
    from mercola.com: It’s hard to imagine what could be controversial or even illegal about planting a couple of rows of tomato plants, green peppers and a cucumber vine … but depending on where those vegetables are planted, they have been the subject of great debate – even prosecution. Across t ...
  • Rare snowfall stuns much of South Africa
    from ap.org: JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- People slowly came outside despite the cold wind Tuesday across South Africa, pointed their mobile phone cameras to the sky and opened their mouths to taste a rare snowfall that fell on much of the country. The snow began Tuesday morning, part of an extreme ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 11 Things That Can Happen When You Allow Your ...
    Why are Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and so many other countries experiencing depression-like conditions right now?  It is because they have too much debt.  Why do they have too much debt?  It is because they allowed themselves to become enslaved to the bankers.  Borrowing mone ...
  • The Sobering Reality Of What Life Is Like In R ...
    What do you do when the city where you live is dying?  All over the United States formerly great cities are crumbling, but some are definitely in worse shape than others.  One reader recently wrote to me about what she sees happening all around her in Reno, Nevada.  The unemploym ...
  • 14 Questions People Ask About How To Prepare F ...
    How in the world is someone supposed to actually prepare for an economic collapse?  What should you do with your money?  How can you make sure that your family is going to be okay?  How can you prepare if your resources are extremely limited?  These are the kinds of questions peo ...
  • Dead Crops, Extreme Drought And Endless Wildfi ...
    As you read this, the United States is experiencing the worst drought it has seen since the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s.  As you read this, nearly half of all corn crops in the United States are in "poor" or "very poor" condition.  As you read this, 38 major wildfires are ripping ...
  • The Employment Rate In The United States Is Lo ...
    Did you know that a smaller percentage of Americans are working today than when the last recession supposedly ended?  But you won't hear about this on the mainstream news.  Instead, the mainstream media obsesses over the highly politicized and highly manipulated "unemployment rat ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • People's Pledge: 86.6% in Cheadle and 88.5% in ...
    The following post is the content of a press release from the People's Pledge: # # PRESS RELEASE STARTS # # Historic Vote for EU Referendum in Lib Dem Seats in Manchester Record 35% turnout in Cheadle and Hazel Grove Constituencies - Cheadle Referendum Numbers voting AGREE 13, ...
  • Cameron defends letting British cancer suffere ...
    Keep British cancer sufferers alive through giving them the treatment they need... or send £11bn abroad for "international aid" projects? Your promises, Prime Minister. Yours, Labours, and the United Nations. Not our promises. We didn't instruct you to let anyone in Britain die while ...
  • So, did Nick Clegg deliberately mislead Parlia ...
    Despite every Conservative activist seemingly actually demonstrating on Twitter that boundary changes were never linked in any "contract" or "agreement" with the LibDems over House of Lords reform, by now, many of us have seen or read Nick Clegg's sombre toned statement on the matter. Step fo ...
  • Cweggy Cwying in the Rose Garden
    Poor Nick Clegg. His mission, for his few years sabbatical from serving his EU masters, was to tear up the constitution of this country as much as possible and tinker with our electoral systems as much as possible to ensure the irrelevant LibDems would play 'kingmaker' for the rest of all et ...
  • Anyone Mensch--ioned Boris yet?
    With the breaking news that Louise Mensch is to step down as MP for Corby and East Northamptonshire, the questions for this morning are... One: Will she still be 'sharing' her pearls of 'wisdom' with us all on Twitter? Two: How long will it take for the clamour for Boris Johnson to reach s ...

Facing South

  • Lawsuit seeks better regulation of oil spill d ...
    The unprecedented use of chemical dispersants following BP's Gulf disaster led to complaints of health problems among cleanup workers and local residents. A coalition of groups is now suing the EPA in hopes of spurring regulatory action. read more
  • Lacking contracts, New Orleans teachers use ol ...
    After Katrina, New Orleans fired all 7,500 of its teachers. The firings were recently ruled illegal, but teachers won't get their jobs back. Instead, the union is fighting for teachers and students through a grassroots, social justice approach. read more
  • Southern leaders fiddle while coasts threatene ...
    As sea levels rise due to global warming, politicians across the hard-hit South are blocking efforts to address the problem. read more
  • Sikh temple shooter was an Army veteran, white ...
    Reportedly a psy ops specialist, Wade Michael Page was also a frustrated neo-Nazi and the leader of a racist white-power band based in North Carolina. read more
  • The risks of being employed
    The number of workplaces with egregiously bad safety records has doubled in the past year. OSHA's effort to focus on these employers is laudable -- but is it enough? read more

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • How to Disable 'System Program Problem Detecte ...
    Ever since I upgraded to latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, this issue has been bugging me a lot. Every now and then, a notification pops up saying "Ubuntu 12.04 has experienced and internal error" or "System Program Problem Detected" without actually causing any real troubles. I believe this has everyt ...
  • Ubuntu App Showdown: 15 Hot Apps to Watch
    Ubuntu App Showdown contest was introduced more than a month ago by Canonical to encourage application development for Ubuntu in a big way. And the initiative is showing results already. More than 150 applications were submitted out of which, 133 has been qualified and made it to the final l ...
  • How to Upgrade to Fireox 14.0.1 in Ubuntu 12.0 ...
    Firefox 14.0.1 has just been released and since it is a major release, updates will be coming to official Ubuntu repositories soon. But for the impatient folks among you, here is how you upgrade to Firefox 14.0.1 from Firefox 13.0.1 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin". Insta ...
  • Xubuntu 12.04 LTS Review: Perfect Alternative ...
    Negative publicity around Ubuntu Unity and GNOME Shell is proving to be a real blessing in disguise for a bunch of smaller, lightweight distros like Xubuntu, Lubuntu et al. As much as I like Unity and GNOME Shell, they are not really the ideal choice for under-powered devices like netbooks. ...
  • 25 Things I did After Installing Ubuntu 12.04 ...
    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" is proving everyone wrong. It is perhaps the most loved Ubuntu release since "Lucid Lynx". Unity is now an almost-finished product. The rock solid nature of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS along with bold moves such as the introduction of features like HUD is winning the h ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Stauffenberg in the Wolf’s Lair: Read th ...
    At a time of  crisis, terror and tyranny, Claus von Stauffenberg seized the initiative and tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime in a coup in July, 1944. As such, he is an example to us all today. The mass impoverishment of people by the fractional reserve banking scam ...
  • FRANK STRONACH: WHY DID THE MAGNA CHIEF RING T ...
    *Frank Stronach, CEO of Magna, rings solicitor handling the proceeds of the sale of my flat and offers him job as justice minister and chauffeur-driven car *Phone call happens almost immediately after I sign the contract *Bizarre call comes to light after I return to sign a second document: Schw ...
  • Letter confirming my complaint against Baxter ...
    Here it is again: a pdf copy of a letter from the Austrian Health Ministry dated May 2009 confirming that I had made a complaint against Baxter and Avir and that state prosecutors had started an investigation into the incident involving the contamination of 72 kilos of seasonal flu vaccine with ...
  • New French pandemic plan targets internet
    The role information circulating on the internet played in persuading people in France not to take the pandemic vaccine in 2009 is confirmed by the country’s new pandemic plan. The plan states that number of French people willing to take the pandemic vaccine dropped from 65% at the end of August ...
  • Dr Carley’s radio show on Poland, Olympi ...
    Dr Rebecca Carley and I talked about Poland, forced vaccination and the Olympics on a radio show last Thursday. Check out the link here: http://www.reversingvaccineinduceddiseases.com/page/415061574v

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