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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, August 11, 2012

11 August - RSS SnapShot Pt 1I

Invisible Opportunity

  • 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 ...

Veterans Today

  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Augu ...
    Sixty-eight years since he was first catapulted from a World War II aircraft carrier while strapped in an F4F Wildcat fighter, John “Bart” Barteluce of Mahwah, N.J., hasn’t lost his taste for the wild blue yonder.
  • Mitt Romney: Pioneering New Frontier in US Eel ...
    Jamal Kanj argues that US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's stint at prostitution in Israel "broke a long held American taboo against seeking foreign money in US elections" and that "fundraising in foreign capitals could become the new frontier in US presidential campaign financing".
  • Obama’s Gold – 94.6% Pure, Bomb G ...
    ...the country very nearly lost the state of South Carolina. Those deadly Plutonium cores were jerked out of those three big Duke Power reactors so fast it would make your head spin.
  • NV Attorney Awarded $10 Million Default Judgme ...
    On May 15th, OFFE members and supporters from across the country held a rally in Freedom Park in Las Vegas.
  • Orwellian Ramifications Begin to Unfold in Syria
    By Ismail Salami There is a horrible speculation that the insurgents in Syria may have seized hold of chemical weapons. Apart from the catastrophically unthinkable havoc the rebels can wreak in Syria and in the region with the WMDs, the rhetorical question which remains is how these weapons of m ...

electric politics

  • Contact
    It stands to reason, though remains as yet unproven, that advanced civilizations exist elsewhere in our galaxy, in other galaxies, and indeed throughout the entire universe. The prudent thing is to plan ahead for contact, not to wait until we know for sure. But it's complicated. To get a sense o ...
  • Plutonium Is Poison
    Objecting to nuclear power is sensible. But objecting to nuclear bombs should be mandatory. Not only are they useless in and of themselves but making them cannot be done safely, for both cultural and technological reasons. Unused, they are nevertheless deadly. And even if we forget about the poi ...
  • Things That Go Bump In the Night
    To be at one with ourselves we cannot escape the night. What we do, what we don't do, what we dream — who we are — at night, shapes and informs us during the day. Nighttime, then, must necessarily contain diverse social meanings. It's not quite clear to me how far one might push this ...
  • Damascus Burning
    To be honest, Bashar al-Assad looks — and acts — like one of those stereotypical dictators who crop up occasionally in Doonesbury cartoons. If only it would be so easy to figure out what to do with him. But Syria, ultimately, involves the stability of the entire region, from Iran to ...
  • UFOs, What Are They?
    For 'something a little different' I turned to Col. John B. Alexander, Ph.D. (U.S. Army, Ret.), to talk about UFOs. John has had a unique experience looking into the UFO question from a government insider's point of view and has a lot of extremely helpful, and extremely thoughtful, things to say ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Clinton In Turkey: West Smelling Blood In Syria
    RT August 11, 2012 US and Turkey to consider no-fly zones for Syria ==== “The West is smelling blood right now because of recent events, including the fleeing of the prime minister. What the Clinton administration [sic] is trying to do right now is try to coordinate some sort of military approac ...
  • Aleppo: Decisive Turning Point For More Than Syria
    Voice of Russia August 11, 2012 Syria in flames Ilya Kharlamov ==== “Evidently, rebel forces, which consist of defectors, mercenaries and members of al-Qaeda, are powerless against a regular army. The West is thus faced with a dilemma: to leave everything as it is, or resort to a military ...
  • Weimar Triangle: Poland Wants Missile System W ...
    Focus News Agency August 11, 2012 Poland wants to build missile defence system with France, Germany Warsaw: Poland wants to cooperate with France and Germany on the establishment of its own missile defence system, the Polish Press Agency reported on Saturday, quoting Polish Defence Minister Toma ...
  • Kwame Nkrumah: The Last Stage of Imperialism
    Southern Times August 3, 2012 The Last Stage of Imperialism From Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism (1965) The mechanisms of neo-colonialism Kwame Nkrumah ==== [W]ith methodical thoroughness and attention to detail, the Pentagon set about consolidating its ascendancy, evidence of whi ...
  • Syria Is Linchpin In Broader U.S. Geopolitical ...
    Xinhua News Agency August 11, 2012 Commentary: Strategic calculations behind U.S.-Iran confrontation on Syria ==== On the one hand, the United States does not want the upheavals in the Middle East to disturb its set strategic policy. On the other, it intends to take the opportunity to eliminate ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • More Rising Food Prices? Grocery Bills to Skyr ...
    Natural Society | The U.S.D.A. cut its projected domestic corn and soy production by 17 and 12 percent, since last month.
  • Gauss Virus Targets Banking System May Cause U ...
    Susanne Posel | A computer security firm found a virus that has been spying on banking transactions and stealing login information for social networks in the Middle East
  • VIDEO: WAC Denmark speaks about 9/11/12
    HoustonFreeThinkers | There are many activists who recognize the attacks on 9/11/01 did not only affect Americans, but citizens of the world. We Are Change Denmark are some of those activists. Brian Gideon of WAC-Denmark, and Infowars.Dk reminds us why 9/11 is important.
  • IRS Caught In Multi-Billion Dollar ID Fraud Scam
    By Alexander Higgins theintelhub.com August 10, 2012 IRS whisteblowers have revealed a cover up of billions of dollars of tax refunds issued to fraudulent ID’s – in many instances 1000s of checks for millions were sent to a single address. Infowars Nightly News covers a series of articles being ...
  • Document: Pre-Crime for Terrorists
    theintelhub.com | A document leaked by PublicIntelligence.net, lays out pre-crime/terror detection capabilities that have been patented.

FRS

  • “Oppose and Fight Against Ban of RDF in ...
     Rise!   Resist!    Liberate! REVOLUTIONARY DEMOCRATIC FRONT (RDF) PRESS RELEASE — 11 August 2012 Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) has been banned by the Andhra Pradesh government on 9 August 2012 through Government Order No.430 under Andhra Pradesh Public Security Act 1992. This comes ...
  • “Oppose and Fight Against Ban of RDF in ...
     Rise!   Resist!    Liberate! REVOLUTIONARY DEMOCRATIC FRONT (RDF) PRESS RELEASE — 11 August 2012 Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) has been banned by the Andhra Pradesh government on 9 August 2012 through Government Order No.430 under Andhra Pradesh Public Security Act 1992. This comes ...
  • Bill Gates and Bloomberg Digitizing “Sto ...
    [As the economic crisis deepens, and discontent, rage, and resistance grows, the system trumpets new mechanisms of surveillance and control.  Such attempts do not, despite the hype, ensure that the capitalist system will last forever.  They only postpone the days when the system becomes ungovern ...
  • Bill Gates and Bloomberg Digitizing “Sto ...
    [As the economic crisis deepens, and discontent, rage, and resistance grows, the system trumpets new mechanisms of surveillance and control.  Such attempts do not, despite the hype, ensure that the capitalist system will last forever.  They only postpone the days when the system becomes ungovern ...
  • Solitary confinement: Torture chambers for bla ...
    An estimated 80,000 men, women and even children are being held in solitary confinement on any given day in US prisons. 10 August 2012  http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/08/20128694647587767.html “The torture technicians who developed the paradigm used in (prisons’) &#821 ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • New York's Newest Bookstore, Singularity&Co., ...
    Much of the oldest and best science fiction stories and novels are, sadly, long out of print. The only way to read them is to dig through second-hand bookshops, rummage sales, or dusty attics, or hope that the local library still keeps their old paperbacks around. A group in Brooklyn called Sin ...
  • F=ma: Prosperity Isn’t How Much You Move--It’s ...
    A new column by Luke Mitchell Science is how people attempt to see the world as it truly is. That’s why I’m drawing the title of this new column from the wisdom of the greatest of scientists. Since Isaac Newton first stated his Second Law of Motion, we have understood that “force” is really a p ...
  • May 1941: Eat Ice Cream Before Exercising or R ...
    And plenty more dated exercise tips from the PopSci archive This article originally appeared in the May 1941 issue of Popular Science. You can explore more of our archives--stretching back 140 years--here. No one can accuse our colleagues from PopSci's past of not trying. They devoted a large s ...
  • Mars Rover Curiosity Sends First Full-Color Pa ...
    360 degrees of lovely Gale Crater After a couple days of black-and-white imagery and blurry color thumbnails, the Mars rover Curiosity has downlinked its first full-color, 360-degree view of its new home in Gale Crater. Click past the jump to enlarge the whole thing--it's incredible. The image ...
  • Protein With Liquid Built In Could Be Key to L ...
    For all our attempts to find it on other worlds, water may not be the most essential molecule for life, a new study suggests. A protein that brings oxygen to muscle can function without it, using a synthetic polymer in its place. A study in the Journal of the American Chemical Society addresses ...

Veterans Today

  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Augu ...
    Sixty-eight years since he was first catapulted from a World War II aircraft carrier while strapped in an F4F Wildcat fighter, John “Bart” Barteluce of Mahwah, N.J., hasn’t lost his taste for the wild blue yonder.
  • Mitt Romney: Pioneering New Frontier in US Eel ...
    Jamal Kanj argues that US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's stint at prostitution in Israel "broke a long held American taboo against seeking foreign money in US elections" and that "fundraising in foreign capitals could become the new frontier in US presidential campaign financing".
  • Obama’s Gold – 94.6% Pure, Bomb G ...
    ...the country very nearly lost the state of South Carolina. Those deadly Plutonium cores were jerked out of those three big Duke Power reactors so fast it would make your head spin.
  • NV Attorney Awarded $10 Million Default Judgme ...
    On May 15th, OFFE members and supporters from across the country held a rally in Freedom Park in Las Vegas.
  • Orwellian Ramifications Begin to Unfold in Syria
    By Ismail Salami There is a horrible speculation that the insurgents in Syria may have seized hold of chemical weapons. Apart from the catastrophically unthinkable havoc the rebels can wreak in Syria and in the region with the WMDs, the rhetorical question which remains is how these weapons of m ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Worse Than Facebook's: Manchester United IPO
    I guess all's bad that starts badly. In recent years as an erstwhile follower of the English Premier League, I have pondered the dastardly dealings of the rapacious Ameriscum owners of Manchester United [1, 2, 3]. When you hear the words "American" and "finance" mentioned together nowadays, your ...
  • Gold, Copper and Neocolonialism in Peru
    As in any number of other countries, mining remains a most controversial industry in Latin America. If you want an industry which has every possible controversy going with it--pollution issues, labour issues, domestic revenue issues and foreign exploitation issues among others--look no further. ...
  • M Yunus on Why Japan (!) Needs Microfinance
    Alike the north of Great Britain or the American rust belt, there are any number of stagnant towns in northern Japan whose difficulties have been magnified by the tsunami's wake. And, just as the UK and the US are mired in a prolonged funk despite having had zero interest rate policies (ZIRP) fo ...
  • Stateless People: Independent Olympic Athletes
    My heart naturally goes out to the stateless people of the world. In our part of the globe there are those frequent headline-grabbers the Rohingya in western Burma. Unfortunately, they are far from alone in their persecution by nation-states who think they do not belong and have not been shy abo ...
  • Serbia Tells EU to Shove Central Bank Independence
    It was not so long ago that I offered to help improve Serbia's chances of EU accession by going on a Soldier of Fortune-inspired "Ratko Hunt 2010." Just when you thought that Serbia's path to EU membership has been smoothed out by the capture (or death) of the "Big Three" war criminals Slobodan ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Vale John Pirona
    John Pirona was farewelled yesterday in a moving, uplifting and beautiful ceremony. A huge number of family, friends, colleagues and well wishers spilled out of the building, filling the surrounds with a sea of people who fervently wished they could somehow undo the events which led to this day. ...
  • Letter to politicians demanding Royal Commissi ...
    In my previous post I called on everyone to write to politicians to demand action to ensure that John Pirona’s tragic death is the last one. I am happy to help make this important job easier. Here’s a draft letter if you don’t have time to write your own. Or use it as a start [...]
  • Callous church leaders kill another victim
    The suicide death of clergy sex abuse victim John Pirona has devastated an entire community in the Hunter region of NSW, and saddened and enraged his fellow victims around the country. The news was made all the more tragic because John disappeared nearly a week before his body was found, leaving ...
  • Lynn sentenced to jail for his crimes. Now, wh ...
    At last. A church leader has been sentenced to jail for participating in the worldwide catholic church conspiracy to cover up child sex crimes. A conspiracy which has endangered countless millions of children. And ruined hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of lives. And directly led to the ...
  • Unholy Silence of Church leaders
    Last week a documentary titled Unholy Silence was aired in Australia. It detailed Australian church leaders covering up child sex offences by their priests, and examined two suicides resulting directly from a priest’s abuse, and the callous re-abuse of his victims by church leaders. The Australi ...

WL Central

  • 2012-08-11 WLC News Update: DDoS continues, Tr ...
    WikiLeaks News WikiLeaks and related sites continue battling a massive DDoS attack. WL Central provides the latest information on the attack. The WikiLeaks GI Files have revealed the secret, widespread surveillance system TrapWire. Ben Doernberg offers a thorough explanation of what TrapWire is ...
  • 2012-08-10 WikiLeaks: Paraguay's "Quasi-Coup" ...
    By Nikolas Kozloff. In the wake of Paraguay's suspicious impeachment of President Fernando Lugo, which observers have likened to a kind of "quasi-coup," some may wonder whether underhanded corporate forces may have played a role in the political crisis. Such suspicions were heightened recently w ...
  • 2012-08-10 WLC News Update: GI Files releases, ...
    WikiLeaks News WikiLeaks quoted a forthcoming July poll saying "the more you earn, the more you believe a fair trial for Assange is impossible", "the younger, more educated you are, the more you support WikiLeaks", and "the more you earn and the older you are, the more sceptical you are of the ...
  • 2012-08-08 WikiLeaks battles ongoing DDoS attack
    UPDATED BELOW WikiLeaks has been under sustained DDoS attacks for five days now. The first notice came on August 3, 2012, with the following tweet: WikiLeaks.org is down for unknown reasons. We are investigating. wikileaks.org is still up. — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 3, 2012 read more
  • 2012-08-04 WikiLeaks News Update: New WikiLeak ...
    WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 609 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 606 days. - 46 days at the Ecuadorian Embassy. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 803 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without ...

U N News

  • UN expert calls on Colombia to further dialogu ...
    A United Nations independent expert today called on the Government of Colombia to advance the dialogue process with indigenous authorities in the state of Cauca to find a solution to the recent military presence in their territory and other related matters.
  • Caribbean countries encouraged to use UN progr ...
    A regional Caribbean body today encouraged its member countries to adopt a United Nations programme which would help them streamline trade and increase transparency in business procedures.
  • UN envoy calls for repatriation of last child ...
    A top United Nations official has renewed her call on Canada and the United States to transfer Omar Khadr, who has spent a decade at Guantánamo Bay as of today and is the last child soldier still being held at the US detention facility.
  • Overall picture of coca cultivation in Colombi ...
    The area used to cultivate coca in Colombia has risen three per cent in 2011 over the previous year, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which added that the overall picture remained stable for the raw material used to produce the illegal drug cocaine.
  • UN expert urges US authorities to stop executi ...
    An independent United Nations human rights expert has urged United States authorities to stop the execution of two people with psychosocial disabilities who are scheduled to be put to death tomorrow in the states of Georgia and Texas.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • The Politics of Climate Change
    Originally published in CounterPunch – Weekend Edition August 3-5, 2012 The Age of Unsustainable Problems The Politics of Climate Change by Dr. BRIAN MILLER and GEORGE WUERTHNER Politics cloud the issue of climate change.  We have a global economy driven by fossil fuels.  Whoever controls ...
  • A Radio Interview with John Davis
    It’s always fun to have a conversation with John Davis, so get some iced tea, turn up the volume and take some time to listen as John is interviewed by Ken Rose on What Now, aired on KOWS Radio Occidental July 23, 2012. Weaving lessons learned, travel stories and his deep knowledge and con ...
  • Canid hybridization: contemporary evolution in ...
    Canid hybridization: contemporary evolution in human-modified landscapes Astrid V. Stronen1,*, Nathalie Tessier1, Hélène Jolicoeur2, Paul C. Paquet3, Michel Hénault4, Mario Villemure5, Brent R. Patterson6, Tim Sallows7, Gloria Goulet8,François-Joseph Lapointe1 First published online: July 25, 20 ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – The Myth ...
    The Myth of the Environmental Movement ©2012 Dave Foreman In the years following Earth Day, environmentalism, once regarded as the self-serving indulgence of a privileged elite, became ‘America’s cause’…. –Phil Shabecoff - A Fierce Green Fire: The American   Environmental Movement Th ...
  • Sea Shepherd News
    Letter and excerpts from latest Sea Shepherd newsletter - Dear Friend of Sea Shepherd, Day 47 as a prisoner in Germany. My detainment has raised a lot of awareness for our cause. Citizens in Germany and all around the world have been very supportive. The only one who does not seem supportive is ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Is This How Obama Will Steal the Presidential ...
    Progressive organizations are quietly pushing a “popular vote” that could see only 14 states – those with the largest populations – decide the presidency for voters in all 50 states, according to a book released this week that’s now skyrocketing up bestseller charts. read more
  • Mitt Romney Has Made His VP Choice... Wisconsi ...
    Mitt Romney announced Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate Saturday, selecting the Republican Party’s go-to man on budget issues in a decision that signals the campaign will make the nation’s spiraling debt a centerpiece of its attacks on President Obama. read more
  • Congressman Steve King... 'Repeal EVERYTHING O ...
    A member of Congress from Iowa, seeking re-election, has given a campaign stop audience in Iowa a hint about what he considers a possible solution for the laws and regulations that have been generated by the Obama administration...     blanket repeal. read more
  • More Proof of False Flag... Ooops!... Surveil ...
    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. ~ Paul Joseph Watson read more
  • Rand Paul to Address GOP Convention... Ron Pau ...
    Although the GOP has yet to announce the addition of Ron Paul to the roster of speakers slated to address the party’s national convention later this month in Tampa, his son, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (pictured below), is on the program. ~ Joe Wolverton, II read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • People Don’t Notice They’re In Chains
    I read this quote recently and thought it was very insightful… “Most people never go anywhere and thus don’t bother to notice they’re in chains. They never get up and move around enough to find the limits.” ~Anonymous Gulliver’s Travels How true it is, on many ...
  • Home Fire Safety
    Fire is FAST, HOT, DARK, and DEADLY. In less than 30 seconds a small flame can get completely out of control and turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames. Most deadly fires occur in the home when [...]
  • Executive Order Being Considered For CyberSecurity
    This is the stuff that is scary. That is, the fact that the current sitting president has been, and evidently will continue to, enact Executive Orders which circumvent the congressional process of legislation. In this most recent case, since the Senate did not pass a recent cyber-security infras ...
  • Temperature Versus Food Storage Shelf Life
    Temperature is the most important factor having to do with general food storage shelf life. The following chart shows the correlation between temperature and storage life. Not to be confused with actual rated shelf life, the chart simply shows the relationship… (numbers are rounded) 40 deg ...
  • Basic Disaster Supplies Emergency Survival Kit
    Having a basic emergency kit, is a first step towards responsible self preservation. The basic survival kit should be geared towards the most common or likely disaster or collapse scenarios that could occur in your area. The purpose of a basic kit is to better deal with the outcome and effects t ...

Fast Company

Jadaliyya

  • Time to Reject the Language of Coptic Victimhood
    The casual observer of Egypt’s politics could hardly be blamed for thinking that Egypt’s Copts are facing the worst crisis of their modern history. The first president of Egypt’s second republic is an Islamist who, despite resigning from the Muslim Brotherhood and embracing rhetoric of inclusi ...
  • Soul Searching for the Roots of White Supremac ...
    I heard about what was unfolding in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, last Sunday when I saw the words “shooting” and “Sikh temple” on the screen of CNN as I walked into a hotel lobby. It felt like a punch in the stomach. Despite the lack of concrete information, I and other Sikhs who I talked with in ...
  • حوار مع الروائي العراقي مرتضى گزار
    [مرتضى گزار: روائي عراقي من مواليد ١٩٨٢، البصرة، تخرج من كلية الهندسة بجامعة بغداد سنة ٢٠٠٥، نشر روايته الأولى ”مكنسة الجنة“ سنة ٢٠٠٨، وصدرت روايته الجديدة ”السيد أصغر أكبر“ مطلع هذا العام عن دار التنوير، بيروت. حاوره سنان أنطون] جدلية: روايتك الأخيرة “السيد أصغر أكبر” رواية فريدة ومتميزة ...
  • Cinematic Occupation
    Kamal Aljafari, Port of Memory. France/Germany/UAE/Palestine, 2009. In the state of siege, time becomes place Fossilized in its eternity In the state of siege, place becomes time Lagging behind its yesterday and its tomorrow —Mahmoud Darwish, “State of Siege” Kamal Aljafari’s film Port ...
  • تأمّلات في بنيان درويشي: سرير الغريبة
    عندما أعلن محمود درويش في سرير غريبته نيته اعتلاء البداهة الإنسانية في صورها الأكثر بدائية ، وهي أن "يحب" أياً كانت مضامين دروعه البطولية والشعرية الفلسطينية و العربية التي أُسبغت عليه حصراً و أحيانا كثيرة قيداً، حينها حُملَّ –درويش- هزائمنا وهزائم الآخرين المهدرة، وتناسى الكثيرون ، مر ...

mediagazer

  • Olympics Online: Who Wins The Gold Medal For B ...
    Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb: Olympics Online: Who Wins The Gold Medal For Best Website?  —  We're well into the second week of the London 2012 Olympics, so which media website is winning with its online coverage?  NBC fell at the first hurdle with its TV scheduling, but ...
  • Bowing to pressure, NBC will stream Olympics c ...
    Matt Williams / Guardian: Bowing to pressure, NBC will stream Olympics closing ceremony live online  —  Ceremony that will feature Spice Girls and The Who will not be available on television but will be shown online  —  Olympic broadcaster NBC has bowed to pressu ...
  • Under Copyright Pressure, Google to Alter Sear ...
    Amy Chozick / Media Decoder: Under Copyright Pressure, Google to Alter Search Results  —  Big media companies won a battle in the fight to combat online piracy on Friday when Google said it would alter its search algorithms to favor Web sites that offered legitimate copyrighted ...
  • Paul Ryan: How Mitt Romney Failed to Announce ...
    Dave Smith / International Business Times: Paul Ryan: How Mitt Romney Failed to Announce His VP Before Twitter  —  Mitt Romney needed to announce his VP decision by Aug. 11.  His plan?  Supporters of the campaign would download a free app for iPhone or Android called & ...
  • From BuzzFeed to Flipboard, The Clip Report Vo ...
    Brad McCarty / The Next Web: From BuzzFeed to Flipboard, The Clip Report Vol. 2 predicts the future of media  —  In our changing media landscape it's important to note the ways in which different sites are being used and are seen - not only by their readers but also by the peopl ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 8/10/12 - Vegetarian Diet Linked to Eating Dis ...
    vegetarian.procon.org - Vegetarian Diet Linked to Eating Disorders in Women, Study Says
  • 8/10/12 - Books, Articles, and Studies about U ...
    www.procon.org - - Books, Articles, and Studies about Using Controversial Issues to Stimulate Critical Thinking – Read over 40 studies which show that teaching controversial issues can improve critical thinking skills and increase student motivation, achievement, creativity, self-esteem, and app ...
  • 8/9/12 - Does the death penalty cost less than ...
    deathpenalty.procon.org  - UPDATED: Does the death penalty cost less than life without parole? - Read pro and con statements from Florida Assistant State Attorney Gary D. Beatty (pro), Washington State Bar Association (con), Attorney Chris Clem (pro), and ACLU (con), among others.
  • 8/7/12 - Human-Induced Climate Change Causing ...
    climatechange.procon.org - Human-Induced Climate Change Causing Extreme Weather, New Study Says
  • 8/7/12 - Are felon disenfranchisement laws a f ...
    felonvoting.procon.org - Are felon disenfranchisement laws a form of racial discrimination? - Read pro and con statements from The Washington Post (pro), Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (con), ACLU (pro), Washington’s Secretary of State (con), and others.

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Modern economics is … sick
    Geoffrey M. Hodgson Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding the economic world. Economists have converted the subject into a sort of social mathematics in which analytical rigour is everything and pra ...
  • CONFLICT RESOLUTION
    Rebecca Saxe The advantage of neuroscience is being able to look under the hood and see the mechanisms that actually create the thoughts and the behaviors that create and perpetuate conflict. Seems like it ought to be useful. That’s the question that I’m asking myself right now, can ...
  • Progress: A Linear Development?
    Rolf-Dieter Heuer With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the last gap in the "Standard Model" of physics has been filled. Martin Eiermann talked with the head of the CERN laboraties, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, about the future of physics, the value of diversity, and the difference between knowle ...
  • Ten Most Difficult Books
    Emily Colette Wilkinson & Garth Risk Hallberg Back in 2009, The Millions started its "Difficult Books" series–devoted to identifying the hardest and most frustrating books ever written, as well as what made them so hard and frustrating. The two curators, Emily Colette Wilkinson ...
  • Something Special About Islands
    Carrie Arnold Islands seem to have it all: ample sunshine, white sand beaches, and species you can’t find anywhere else on Earth. Since Charles Darwin first traveled to the Galapagos Islands and British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace to the Malay Archipelago in the mid-19th century, ecol ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Fans garner signatures in support of Kings XI ...
    CHANDIGARH - Dejected over the ouster of Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) from the Indian Premier League (IPL), fans of the team here have started a signature campaign to garner public support against the decision. They have constituted a group called Fans of Kings XI Punjab, consisting of students and ...
  • Even turtles and wasps need a little play time
    WASHINGTON - Watching kids and dogs play is not an alien sight. However, what about a turtle or even a wasp? Well, it seems they play, too. Gordon Burghardt, a psychology professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has discovered that many animals-not just dogs, cats, and monkeys-need ...
  • Oz PM Gillard says trade union official?s 9/11 ...
    CANBERRA - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed as “stupid and wrong” a senior union official’s belief that the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy, but refused to discipline him. Kevin Bracken, the president of the Victorian Trades Hall and secretary of the Mari ...
  • Turmeric boosts effect of chemo drug in head a ...
    WASHINGTON - Researchers with UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center have found that curcumin, the major component in the spice turmeric, when combined with the drug Cisplatin enhances the chemotherapy’s suppression of head and neck cancer cell growth. In India, women for years have been usi ...
  • Pakistan panel to review criminal case rulings ...
    ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is going to set up a commission that will allow people to file appeals on cases decided by courts since 1947, the year the country was born. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will announce the setting up of the commission which will review criminal cases and determine poss ...

TruthNews Australia

  • MullerGate: a muddled professor who meddled wi ...
    In today's show we bring you our exclusive exposé of the latest climate science scandal. Richard A. Muller is a professor in physics at UC Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is the founder of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature projec ...
  • ‘Batman’ Gun Grab: The Port Arthur Massacre Pa ...
    The recent ‘Batman’ massacre in Colorado has evinced several characteristics of past gun related atrocities which, if anything, only serve to seriously undermine evidence against these alleged ‘lone gunman’. This incident is clearly becoming a precursor for a campaign to ...
  • Vaccination and your rights with Bronwyn Hanco ...
    Last week we looked at the question of vaccine efficacy and safety. Our discussion today focuses on the question of your rights. Are vaccines compulsory? Can day care centres legally refuse entry to unvaccinated children? Can schools demand vaccination records? Will parents of unvaccinated child ...
  • Meryl Dorey on vaccine safety - Part 1
    Our guest today for the 2nd hour is Meryl Dorey, who runs the Australian Vaccination Network, a non-profit organisation which sets out to inform people about the hidden facts regarding both the efficacy and safety of vaccines. As noted in last week's show, Meryl has been investigated by the He ...
  • Celebrating year zero of the eco-technic dicta ...
    To mark the introduction into Australia of the most barbaric, pointless and deceptive tax ever conjured up by a phony democracy, we bring you a replay of an interview with Christopher Monckton which dates back to January 2010. At that time Lord Monckton was touring Australia to talk about clim ...

Beacon

  • Get Ready for Shark Week 2012
    Shark Week turns 25 this year! ©Discovery Channel You’ve been waiting for it all summer, and now it’s finally here — Shark Week returns this Sunday, August 12th! Oceana is again a conservation partner, and we’ve got some fin-ominal stuff in store this year. Need some help preparing for the s ...
  • This Shark Week, Save Great Whites
    Great whites play an important role in the ocean ecosystem ©Terry Goss During Shark Week we love watching majestic great whites on TV, but if we don’t act soon to protect them, recordings will be the only place they exist. In the Pacific, great whites are important predators. As the lar ...
  • Shell Gets Green Light to Harass Marine Mammals
    Bowhead whales would be affected by Shell's drilling. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Shell now has the green light from the government to harass marine mammals and put them at risk of a major oil spill in the region. The Arctic Ocean is home to an abundance of wildlife. In the spring, consiste ...
  • How to Hunt a Lionfish
    Success! Bagging these invasive species is good for the reef habitat ©Michael Stephens One fish is rapidly becoming one of the biggest problems facing the fragile food web of coral reefs in the U.S.: the lionfish. Lionfish are native to the Indo-Pacific region, but are an invasive species in ...
  • Skin Cancer Appears in Australian Fish
    The black spots on this coral trout are melanomas. © Michael Sweet/Newcastle University  Strange lesions are showing up in coral trout in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. In a new paper in the journal PloS One researchers found that 15% of reef fish tested showed signs of melan ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

Taylor Marsh

  • TOP STORY: Romney Picks Paul Ryan as Vice Pres ...
    THE 2012 REPUBLICAN never too white or too male 2012 team theme team is official. What’s the theme? Austerity or bust, baby. Because it’s worked so well over the pond. But what optics. With the USS Wisconsin as the stage, Gov. Bob McDonnell announced Mitt Romney, who jogged down to t ...
  • News Desk: Jon Huntsman, Sr. Not Source of Sen ...
    I just got off the phone with Huntsman, and he confirmed to me that he is not Reid’s source. – [Plum Line Blog] TAXES CONTINUE to drag at Mitt Romney’s messaging, with the latest person to call for Romney to release returns Jon Huntsman, Sr. “Mr. Romney ought to square with the Ameri ...
  • Queer Talk: Obama and Romney Agree on Boy Scou ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. First, from Obama and Romney The recent Boy Scout decision to continue keeping the gays out is still making news. And Romney and Obama agree: the Boy Scouts should allow gay members. Both could do more. Obama, for exa ...
  • The Goldman Sachs Justice Department
    The Justice Department said Thursday it won’t prosecute Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs or its employees in a financial fraud probe. – [Associated Press] ONE MORE insulting decision for the 1% at the expense of the 99%. In 2011, seen in the video below, Eliot Spitzer explained on CNN the ch ...
  • News Desk: Zimmerman to Cite ‘Stand Your Groun ...
    Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester Jr. has already characterized the 28-year-old Zimmerman as a manipulator who, along with his wife, hid $130,000 and a second passport from the court. O’Mara has not yet said what he’ll do about Lester, who rejected Zimmerman’s request to step down f ...

Hudson New York

  • A Phantom Wrapped in an Enigma Wrapped in a Riddle
    It is apparently lore at the Economist that foreign correspondents have a shelf life of three years. After this, they know too much. They become too involved in the minutiae of local politics to explain a story to their domestic audience. Then, of
  • Caution on Evaluating Egyptian Government Stat ...
    I think we should be very careful about the Egyptian accusations against Hamas. Note that Israeli intelligence sources refused to confirm this information. The relationship between Gaza and fundamentalist Islamic elements in Sinai is deep, but I can't
  • Bibi and Barak battle for Israeli public opini ...
    All four of Israel's major newspapers featured Iran in their headlines in their weekend editions. In Ha'aretz, Ari Shavit, who has been pro-strike, wrote: "Top Israeli Official: the Iranian Nuclear Threat is bigger than the threat faced by Israel before
  • Attacks on Christians Sharpen with Government ...
    As all eyes were turned this week toward Sinai, where Muslim fundamentalists killed 16 Egyptian border guards while they were having the Ramadan fast-breaking meal, Christian families were being forced out of their homes in the village of Dahshur, 40
  • Should the U.S. De-Alert Its Nuclear Missiles?
    Supporters of doing away with nuclear weapons are pushing for the de-alerting of our nuclear missiles. This could mean, for example, separating the warheads from the missiles and storing them in a remote area. These critics worry that in a crisis, an

Urban Survival

  • Special Reader Note
    No UrbanSurvival Report Friday Back on our regular schedule on Monday AM Apologies and all but there’s no report this morning.  Not that we wouldn’t just love to be here telling you “what up” but we are in the hills … Continue reading →
  • The Unbroken Drought
    There was a very interesting article in USA Today Wednesday which is a must-read, since global warming is going fast and furious with July being the hottest month every on record.   What makes the drought records so interesting, from … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Advances in Time Engineering
    This is one of the coolest papers I have seen in years.  And one that we have to pass on to Dr. Rob, the genius eye surgeon because we’ve had many fine exchanges on the topic of Light and how … Continue reading →
  • Software Update
    Be a couple of minutes late posting this morning while we go through a quickie (ha!) software update.  Should be up by 8:30 Texas time (stand up when I say Texas, ya’ll?)
  • Gun Control Whine
    President Obama is making the familiar pitch for gun control, again, pointing to Aurora and most recently the Sikh temple shootings as “reasons.”   In case no one has reminded you lately, criminals don’t care about gun laws.  Places that … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile The planned $8 billion capital increase by Chilean energy holding company, Enersis, has created new uncertainty about the HidroAysén dam project.  Many Chileans are accusing ...
  • Watching the river flow - the complex effect o ...
    Sylvia Fallon, Senior Scientist, Washington, DC Bristol Bay in southwest Alaska supports the world’s greatest wild salmon fishery.  And now scientists have a new understanding why: water temperature and stream flow.   Varia ...
  • Piscatorial Powerlessness
    Matt Skoglund, Wildlife Advocate, Livingston, Montana   Two Saturdays ago, I hiked into a small stream in the Park to self-administer some backcountry-trout-stream therapy, which Yellowstone offers in abundance. It was a great day, and badly ...
  • Statement in Response to House Oversight Repor ...
    Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, San Francisco As soon as next week, President Obama is expected to announce the final details of an historic agreement that will raise auto fuel efficiency standard to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025 ...
  • Where the bike commuters are, mapped & analyzed
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   Check out this map produced by the League of American Bicyclists and posted on the graphics site Visual.ly.  The fonts are small - this image looks intended for a wall, n ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 11 reports of misconduct tracked for Thursday, August 9, 2012: Update: Philadelphia, Pennsylvaina: The officer who was accused of heroin dealing was indicted on robbery charges. bit.ly/MVa9Gv Troy, Kansas: An officer pleaded no contest to sexual exploitation … Continue reading ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, August 8, 2012: Phoenix, AZ: A police officer was arrested on suspicion of sexual misconduct with two teenagers. He was accused of 10 felony counts of sexual assault against … Continue reading →National Police Miscond ...
  • FBI in New Zealand: The Dotcom Raid
    Early morning raid.  Special paramilitary units with automatic weapons.  Helicopters.  Dogs.  Illegal search warrant. The New Zealand reporters, sadly, but accurately, observe that all this seems  “American.”   We are then informed that the FBI was indee ...
  • Arrested on suspicion of maybe, possibly, abou ...
    News item from Great Britain: A PARKINSON’S sufferer who was arrested during the Olympic cycle races in Surrey has questioned why he was dragged to the ground for “not smiling”. Mark Worsfold, 54, was sat on a wall in Leatherhead … Continue reading →Arrested on susp ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 6 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, August 7, 2012: New Orleans, LA: An ex-police officer was sentenced to two years in prison on a felony count of theft. http://goo.gl/s7TTr  DeLand, FL: A police officer is … Continue reading →National Police Miscon ...

Total Collapse

  • Russian warships hold drills in Mediterranean
    A Russian joint naval task force on a training mission in the Mediterranean has conducted two-day tactical exercises with live-firing drills, the defense ministry said. The task force comprises three large amphibious assault ships, two Neustrashimy class frigates, an Udaloy class destroyer and t ...
  • 6.6 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Iran
    At least 87 people have been killed and 600 others injured in magnitude 6.4 earthquake and subsequent aftershocks that rocked Iran’s northwestern provinces. On Saturday, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck the city of Ahar, near East Azerbaijan’s provincial capital Tabriz at 15:53 loca ...
  • 87 dead and hundreds injured after two quakes ...
    Two strong quakes have shaken Iran’s northwest, leaving 87 people dead and over 400 injured, according to the country’s state television. The quakes have also disrupted communications, complicating rescue efforts. The quakes, measuring 6.4 and 6.3 on the Richter scale, struck near th ...
  • The US Civil War of 2016
    U.S. military officers are told to plan to fight Americans Imagine Tea Party extremists seizing control of a South Carolina town and the Army being sent in to crush the rebellion. This farcical vision is now part of the discussion in professional military circles. At issue is an article in the r ...
  • Jordanian army destroys two Syrian border outposts
    The Jordanian army has destroyed two Syrian border outposts by tank shelling after clashes broke out between the two sides. Clashes erupted late Friday in the Tel Shihab-Turra area, about 50 miles north of the Jordanian capital Amman. Jordanian officials say reports of any casualties have not be ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – World of Warcra ...
    Battle.net has been hacked. Change those passwords. Facebook turns on an email address to report phishing attacks. We finally get some updates on Samsung tablet sales, and they’re not pretty....
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Google boosts s ...
    Google announces a raft of search improvements, Facebook launches a new anti-phishing drive, Pinterest is (finally) open to all without an invite, and OUYA raises a total of over $8.5m...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Square’s ...
    Square has entered into a major partnership with Starbucks, Apple suspends password resets over the telephone after Mat Honan’s epic hack and Google’s self-driving cars pass a major milestone. It’s...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Apple ditches Y ...
    Apple ditches YouTube from iOS6, and picks up a new lawsuit in China. Nasdaq takes the wraps of Market Steam and Facebook offers gambling game to UK adults. It’s all...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Chrome grabs a ...
    Google Chrome now has a third of global browser market share according to StatCounter, Baidu fires staff for deleting forum posts in return for money, and Pandora’s still growing fast....

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Gillard misses the real opportunities to reduc ...
    August 8, 2012 If Gillard wants to support households against price-gouging by electricity companies, she should look closer at renewable energy and energy efficiency, according to think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE). Electricity retailers accused of over-investing in grid infrastructure (l ...
  • Laggard to Leader - Report Launch Melbourne Sy ...
        Are you sick of hearing? Australia is only a small part of the climate problem We shouldn’t act before the rest of the world Our actions won’t make a difference, anyway BZE’s new report, Laggard to Leader, will challenge these excuses, expose the true extent of Australia’s ...
  • Germany’s solar panels would provide 25% of Au ...
    If you took all the solar panels in Germany and put them in Australia, they would supply a quarter of our electricity demand. In the first six months of 2012, 4.5% of total electricity demand in Germany was met by solar power. Put ...
  • Half-price Stationary Energy Plans now on sale
    Beyond Zero Emissions' award-winning Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan is now on sale for $15 + postage. That's 50% off! Perfect for showing your friends, family and workmates how Australia can get to 100% renewable energy within a decade. To order your copy email our General Manager ...
  • Solar Thermal Models Built
    Another four of our famous solar thermal models have been built in NSW, thanks to the efforts of Beyond Zero Emissions volunteers, the Paramatta Climate Action Network, and the Granville Men’s Shed. The models are of a concentrated solar thermal plant with a molten salt storage (CST+) power stat ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Indonesia's pulp and paper targets incompatibl ...
    Indonesia's pulp and paper targets incompatible with green growth goals Indonesia's ambitious targets for boosting pulp and paper production to make it the world's lowest-cost producer are at odds with its push for green economic growth should expansion proceed on its current business-as-usual ...
  • Scientists discover beautiful new insect speci ...
    Scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of lacewing insect after stumbling upon a series of photos posted on Flickr®, according to a paper published in the journal ZooKeys.
  • July 2012: hottest month in U.S. history
    Last month was not only the hottest July in U.S. weather history, but the hottest month ever recorded in the contiguous U.S, besting a record struck in July 1936 during the Dust Bowl, according to new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The average temperature l ...
  • A new tool for taking on elephant poaching: DN ...
    One of the difficulties plaguing law enforcement and authorities when it comes to tackling elephant poaching is determining where the ivory originates. Now, research published in the journal Evolutionary Applications, has found a new way of tracking ivory back to wild elephants populations: fore ...
  • Cambodia's largest lowland rainforest spared f ...
    Four economic land concessions have been cancelled in Cambodia's Prey Lang forest, known as the largest intact lowland forest in Southeast Asia, reports the Phnom Penh Post. The economic land concessions, totaling over 40,000 hectares, would have been used for rubber plantations.

Sierra Express

  • Start Blaming Yourselves: Freetonians
    The outbreak of cholera is one of the most serious challenges Sierra Leoneans are facing currently, especially in an effort to halt the disease. There is a loud outcry; murmuring and finger pointing among residents of Freetown for specificity, blaming the government for not putting the right mea ...
  • Bashing of Defense Minister and Journalists
    The beating up of Awoko Newspaper journalists by some Military Officers who purportedly dashed to the scene of rescuing the Defense Minister, Retired Major Alfred Palo Conteh, who was attacked by ex-combatants tagged as WIA’s is considered as unprofessional, irrational and brutal.  (Photo: Ex-so ...
  • Sierra Leone Musicians Hit Music Festival in F ...
    As the step to liberating Yenga diplomatically from sister nation Guinea bears fruit, Sierra Leone musician, Obi-Phrase Kamara has been hitting the airwaves at the Etnokult Festival, Finland. Representing the sacred green, white, and blue flag on stage, artist Obi-Phrase Kamara demonstrated a tr ...
  • Over High Nomination Fees…APPWA Lashes NEC
    The All Political Party Women Association (APPWA) has lambasted the nomination fees slammed by the National Electoral Commission (NEC) as unreasonable and promised to boycott the electioneering process in the 2012 November polls if not negotiated. Talking on this issue Public Relations Officer, ...
  • Driver Wins Le20 million Africell Ramadan Fren ...
    A resident of Lumley, private driver Abdulai Abass Koroma, with Africell GSM number 088-922128 has won the Africell Le20 million star prize in the Ramadan Promotional Frenzy draw, held live at the SLBC TV each week in the Ramadan month. Abass Koroma on Tuesday August 7th won the Africell Hidden ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Fonterra to keep milk additive - despite debate
    Fonterra says it will not stop using permeate in its fresh milk, despite a debate raging on the other side of the Tasman.Milk permeate, a natural waste product from the ultra-filtration of milk, is banned in parts of the world.Fonterra...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: Crafar farms decision a breat ...
    The Court of Appeal emphatically threw out the Sir Michael Fay-led challenge to Shanghai Pengxin's bid for the 16 Crafar farms and with it, hopefully, one of the most xenophobically charged episodes of commercial behaviour in New...
  • Serving up Kiwi food in China
    At New Zealand's world-class business centre in Shanghai, Chinese chefs are being introduced to iconic Kiwi produce like greenshell mussels, fresh paua and manuka honey. Food and beverage exports to China are currently worth about...
  • Dairy co-op Westland cuts payout forecast
    Westland Milk Products, an independent dairy cooperative, said it would cut its 2012-13 payout forecast due to a fall in international prices for dairy products.Westland said it would cut its budgeted $5.70 - $6.10 per kilogram...
  • NZ commodity prices keep falling - down 0.5pc ...
    New Zealand commodity prices fell for the sixth straight month in July, as uncertainty over the global economy and Europe's worsening debt crisis sapped demand for raw materials.The

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Paul Ryan: Meet the New Second Fiddle, Same as ...
    Stop me if you've heard this one before: A relatively moderate GOP nominee has picked a much younger and more conservative running mate. Anyone surprised at this has forgotten the last quarter-century of political history. Paul Ryan follows in the path of Palin, Kemp, Quayle -- ...
  • Video: What We Saw at the Solidarity Concert f ...
    "What We Saw at the Solidarity Concert for Pussy Riot" is the newest offering from ReasonTV. Watch above or click on the link below for video, full text, supporting links, downloadable versions. and more Reason TV clips. View this article.
  • The Case Against College Entitlements with Rep ...
    Ending weeks of speculation, Mitt Romney formally chose Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as his Vice Presidential pick. ReasonTV sat down with Ryan back in 2009 to discuss the country's fiscal issues and why we don't need more public funding for higher education.  Here is the ...
  • Are Paul Ryan's Budget Plans Radical or Weak Beer?
    So it's a Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan ticket. Rep. Ryan (R-Wis.) has distinguished himself as a serious politician who was ready and willing to talk substantive budget issues years before even his own party's leadership wanted to have that conversation. He's been characterized by Democr ...
  • Nick Gillespie and Veronique de Rugy on the Ir ...
    Despite looming deadlines related to budget sequestration and decade-old “temporary” tax rates that expire at year’s end, massive entitlement crises, and much more, Congress has effectively stopped work on serious legislation until at least some time after November’s election. Many ...

Mercury Rising

  • War on women? What war on women?
    Laura Bassett, HuffPo: Despite Mitt Romney’s efforts to court women voters ahead of November, he chose a running mate who is far outside the mainstream on women’s health issues. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) cosponsored a bill that would give fetuses full personhood rights from the moment ...
  • Romney’s Ryan Pick= GOP Can No Longer Pi ...
    McCain’s 2008 pick of Sarah Palin showed it, and now Romney’s 2012 choice of Paul Ryan proves it: The Republican Party is no longer allowed to pivot towards sanity in the general election for president, but must spend all of their time catering to the crazy base they and their corpor ...
  • The forgotten anniversary: Nagasaki
    Mark McDonald: On Thursday, several thousand people attended a ceremony marking the 67th anniversary of the atomic destruction of Nagasaki during World War II. A single plutonium device, nicknamed Fat Man, almost instantly killed some 70,000 people. Countless others would later succumb to radiat ...
  • Obama Admin. asserts right to impunity
    Tangerine Bolen, The Guardian (reprinted from The Daily Cloudt): I am one of the lead plaintiffs in the civil lawsuit against the National Defense Authorization Act, which gives the president the power to hold any US citizen anywhere for as long as he wants, without charge or trial. In a May hea ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging

Reality Sandwich

  • Rethinking Money
    What is money and who does it serve? New answers to these questions are challenging the foundations of our economic system. On August 22, Join David Graeber and Charles Eisenstein – two of our most provocative social thinkers – as they dissect many of our unspoken economic assumptions and sh ...
  • Parapsychological Association Opens Annual Con ...
      The 55th annual Parapsychological Association Conference opens today, August 10, and runs through August 12 in Durham, NC, featuring presentations by international psi researchers and scholars. From the announcement for the conference: read more
  • Sex in the News
      In this week's Sex in the News, how can a woman's orgasm save a man, Lana Wachowski comes out, the Pentagon and porn, children and the friendship test, & more.  read more
  • The Sikh Temple Shootings and Daemonic Possession
      read more
  • Crisis and Opportunity
      read more

Desertification

  • U.S. Drought Exposes “Hydro-Illogical&#8 ...
    The historic drought withering much of the United States this summer has revealed a need for strategies to better manage water supplies that could remain under severe pressure both this year and in the longer term. On Friday, the U.S. Agriculture Department said that corn yields – which ac ...
  • Record Aid Shortfall Abandons Millions to Thei ...
    Global funding for humanitarian aid interventions saw the biggest shortfalls in 10 years in 2011, according to a new report, raising questions about the international community’s ability to meet a 20-percent greater need for 2012 driven by drought and conflict. The launch of the 2012 Global Huma ...
  • Crops Failing as U.S. Simmers in Record Heat Wave
    The United States is suffering one of its most severe droughts in decades, leading to both widespread crop failures and increased public concern about the impacts of climate change. According to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climatic Data Center, th ...
  • China Battles Desertification
    As scientists increasingly label desertification as one of the most burning challenges facing the world today, a small village in China’s semi-arid Northeastern region of Inner Mongolia is fighting back. Chifeng City’s dry climate and sparse vegetation have given way to severe surface erosion an ...
  • RIO+20: Promised Green Economy Was a Fake, Say ...
    When the Rio+20 summit on sustainable development ended Friday, there were winners and losers – mostly losers. The United Nations and the host country Brazil – along with big business – put a positive spin on the outcome of the conference, a follow-up to the 1992 Earth Summit. It was another his ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Prince William, Kate Middleton: More Than $80, ...
    The average British working household income is less than $40,000 U.S. That is why I have no use for those who are so privileged by birth. It is sickening. Probably Kate and William rented the whole airplane. Read more here. Kate Middleton: The gold-digger. Interesting video.
  • Canada Day and #DenounceHarper
    “#DenounceHarper is trending on Twitter in Canada, just behind #HappyCanadaDay. Users are using the hashtag to voice dissatisfaction with the Harper government, or just the man himself.” Read more about #DenounceHarper
  • TVO's The Agenda: The New McCarthyism
    There is no worse cancer in a free society than the thuggish impulse to equate dissent as disloyalty... The greatest patriot is the person with the courage to be the lone voice in the crowd crying out that the Emperor has no clothes. The test of our society's democratic nature is our instinct ...
  • Harper's Canada Day message loudly booed at Ja ...
  • U.S. Healthcare Legislation
    Fuxs News’ take on the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on Healthcare. Repugs are apparently very upset by the decision. Repugs spin machine is going hard at it. Sarah Palin gives her gyrations. “Obama lies, freedom dies” Sarah Palin. Watch the latest video at Press TV - Middle East
  • US Democrats push for Syria invasion
    Top US Democratic foreign policy figures are adding pressure on the White House to intervene militarily in Syria as clashes continue between government forces and foreign-backed insurgents in the Arab country.
  • Houthis urge pres. to fire army cmdrs.
    A Houthi official in Yemen says the country’s president should fire Ahmad Ali Abdullah Saleh, the commander of the Republican Guard, and Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar, who leads the First Armored Division.
  • Syria insurgents killed in Deir al-Zour
    Syrian security forces have killed several insurgents during clashes in the eastern city of Deir al-Zour as fighting continues between government troops and terrorists in the country.
  • Syria army, insurgents clash in Aleppo
    Syrian security forces have clashed with foreign-sponsored insurgents in the northwestern city of Aleppo.
  • Turkish protesters condemn Clinton visit
    Turkish demonstrators have marched to the US Embassy in Turkey to condemn a visit by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Istanbul.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • SPS Joins the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure
    On Sunday, September 9th, we at CUNY School of Professional Studies will participate in our first Komen Greater NYC Race for the Cure in Central Park. We are honored to run and walk among over 21,000 breast cancer survivors and supporters to build awareness for this very important cause. To prep ...
  • Life, Liberty and Your Individual Pursuit of H ...
    “Live Your Best Life”… is what Oprah says and everybody knows that when Oprah speaks, we listen, intently! What happens when we aren’t necessarily happy with our best lives? We think we’d be better off with our co-worker’s best and our neighbor’s best because their best seems so much ...
  • What did I do on my summer vacation…?
    I remember, just before returning to school every fall, thinking for weeks and weeks how I would answer that question. Would I tell my classmates about a trip to the beach, or attending sleep-away camp, or a summer job? Since my birthday is at the end of August it was fun talking to my classmate ...
  • Reflections on Project Rwanda
    For the past three years, faculty and students in the M.A. in Applied Theatre program at CUNY’s School of Professional Studies have traveled to Rwanda to implement the project “Drama and Theatre Education in Schools for Reconciliation and Development in Rwanda.” The twin goals of Project R ...
  • Are We Becoming Flattened by Technology?
    Are you an optimist or pessimist? There’s only one way to find out. I find it amazing that so much has progressed in our society—medical, education, economics, and even in technology.  The experience I’ve had thus far has surprisingly helped me.  I say surprisingly because with knowl ...

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

  • Potassium Iodide tablets being distributed to ...
    The Pennsylvania Department of Health is giving away Potassium Iodide tablets to anyone living near any of the five nuclear power plants located throughout the state. There is no information in the press release on exactly why the Health Department has decided to give away KI tablets, but a r ...
  • Potassium Iodide tablets being distributed to ...
    The Pennsylvania Department of Health is giving away Potassium Iodide tablets to anyone living near any of the five nuclear power plants located throughout the state. There is no information in the press release on exactly why the Health Department has decided to give away KI tablets, but a r ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Occupier charged with terroristic felony for p ...
    A protester belonging to an Occupy Wall Street group in rural Pennsylvania is being charged with felony attempted bank robbery and a terrorism-related charge for holding signs up during a demonstration at a local Wells Fargo branch. David C. Gorczynski, 22, was charged on Tuesday with attempt ...

Yeti Betty

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

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Families of ‘Little Boy’ and ‘Fat Man’ Victims ...
    Sachiko Masumura (79) was standing just two kilometres away from the hypocentre of Little Boy, the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan over six and a half decades ago. She lost her mother and two siblings to the horrific heat, flames and radiation that engulfed the prefecture on Aug ...
  • Kenyan Differences Melt With Gold
    When Kenyan athlete David Lekuta Rudisha simultaneously became the first person ever to break the 1min 41sec mark in the 800m while also becoming the first person to set a world record at this year’s London Olympics on Thursday Aug. 9, he managed another first. He briefly united an ethnically di ...
  • U.S. Drought Exposes “Hydro-Illogical&#8 ...
    The historic drought withering much of the United States this summer has revealed a need for strategies to better manage water supplies that could remain under severe pressure both this year and in the longer term. On Friday, the U.S. Agriculture Department said that corn yields – which ac ...
  • Mexican Victims of Violence Take Aim Against U ...
    “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 United States, ...
  • U.S. Denies Consensus with Israel on Iran Nucl ...
    Tensions rose Thursday between the Barack Obama administration and the Israeli government when a leading Israeli official claimed to have knowledge of U.S. intelligence that portrays Iran as a more immediate threat than Washington has been saying. Israel has been urging the United States to take ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran's new summit diplomacy
    Summary: August is a crucial month in Iran's diplomatic calendar for 2012. If it plays its cards right, Tehran could see big dividends for its counter-sanction and regional strategies. source: Asia Timesread more
  • Sanctions on Iran: 'ordinary people are the ta ...
    Summary: Iranian civilians bear the brunt of western-imposed sanctions in terms of medicine and food shortages, and money problems source: The Guardianread more
  • The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ayatollah Khame ...
    Summary: Western pundits have been predicting the Islamic Republic’s impending collapse virtually since its founding in 1979; they have consistently underestimated Ayatollah Khamenei since he succeeded Imam Khomeini as the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader in 1989. His approach to leadership ...
  • Sanctions Will Kill Tens of Thousands of Iranians
    Summary: When she was running for president in 2008, Hillary Rodham Clinton threatened to “obliterate” Iran if it attacked Israel. Her opponent, Barack Obama, responded that Clinton’s threat was “too much like Bush.” Four years later Iran has not attacked Israel (and will not do so, unless at ...
  • S.Korea to resume buying Iranian crude in Sept ...
    Summary: South Korean refiners plan to resume buying crude from Iran in September after a two-month hiatus due to a European Union embargo that made shipping the oil difficult, government and refining sources said on Wednesday. source: Reutersread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • "The Virus Planet" -- A Hidden Universe that W ...
    In the invisible, parallel world of Earth, they kill half the bacteria in the ocean every day, and invade a microbe host 10 trillion times a second around the world. There are 10 billion trillion, trillion viruses inhabiting Planet Earth,...
  • Curiosity Rover to Get a "Brain Transplant" fo ...
    NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will spend its first weekend on Mars getting a "brain transplant," which will occur during a series of steps Aug. 10 through Aug. 13. NASA/JPL will download a new version of software on both of the...
  • Image of the Day: Mystery of NASA's Odd 'Curio ...
    A photo of Mars taken by Curiosity shows what might be the NASA rover's spacecraft crash-landing in the distance. If so, it 'would be an insane coincidence,' one engineer says. Scott Gold of the The Los Algeles Times asks "Did...
  • Hidden Supermassive Black Holes of the Universe
    The galaxy NGC 1068 is shown above with an active supermassive black hole at its nucleus. Astronomers studying similar extreme galaxies in the infrared have found that in many cases material obscuring the nucleus may be located over an extended...
  • EcoAlert: 2012 Proving to be Hottest Year on R ...
    The graphic below shows the year-to-date departure from average temperature in the US for the past 118 years. Each month includes the average temperature of the previous months in that year: March 2012, for example, shows the average temperature for...

Natural News

  • 10 health benefits of cucumbers
    Cucumbers are the fourth most cultivated vegetable in the world and known to be one of the best foods for your body's overall health, often referred to as a superfood. Cucumbers are often sprayed with pesticides so it is important to buy organic or even better, grow...
  • Total surveillance police state - NYPD reveals ...
    Statists and post-constitutionalists have a new ally: technology. The total surveillance police state has finally arrived - in New York City, at least - following a marriage between NYC officials and Microsoft. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, along with NYPD Commissioner...
  • Bananas aren't just for monkeys - Discover 25 ...
    You'll never look at a banana the same way again after discovering the many health benefits and reasons to add them to your diet. Bananas are high in fiber and three natural sugars -- glucose, sucrose and fructose -- giving them almost magical powers to provide a huge...
  • USDA conspires with factory chicken producers ...
    The federal agency responsible for conducting food inspections has announced a new proposal to screen chickens for disease and contaminates, but the measure has some industry analysts concerned because it would reduce the number of inspectors at processing plants. The...
  • The Great Culling has begun: Will your genetic ...
    The "Great Culling" of the human population has quietly begun. Covertly, insidiously, mercilessly, a global depopulation agenda has been launched. As this plays out, the vast majority of the human race will be removed from the gene pool. Genetically annihilated. Will...

Threat Level

  • Three-Star General Was Behind Harsh Treatment ...
    Orders to submit WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning to harsh and allegedly illegal treatment in prison apparently came from a three-star general, according to a new court filing from Manning's defense attorney.
  • DOJ Won’t Ask Supreme Court to Review Hacking Case
    The Justice Department has decided not to ask the Supreme Court to review a controversial federal appeals court decision that said employees may not be prosecuted under a federal anti-hacking statute for simply violating their employer's computer use policy.
  • When It Comes to Human Rights, There Are No On ...
    As one of people who built Martus, an encrypted database used by thousands of human rights activists around the world, I routinely confront the needs of users who are not in wealthy countries, as well as the difficult problem that creating real, easy-to-use security poses. My thoughts here are f ...
  • Goldman Sachs Programmer Back in Court on New ...
    Just when he thought his troubles were over, a former programmer for Goldman Sachs who downloaded source code for the investment firm’s high-speed trading system from the company’s computers is back in court on new charges that he unlawfully duplicated and used the company's proprietary code.
  • FTC Dings Google $22.5M in Safari Cookie Flap
    Google has agreed to pay a record $22.5 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges it intentionally circumvented the default privacy settings of Apple's Safari browser, using a backdoor to set cookies on browsers set to reject them.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • 98% of Republicans in Congress Voted for Ryan' ...
    Even as Mitt Romney was introducing Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate, his campaign was preparing a defense of the House Budget Chairman's draconian Medicare proposals. With good reason. After all, in April 2011 the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office forecast that Ryan's scheme ...
  • Romney Declares Religious Freedom for Me, Not Thee
    Mitt Romney's new ad accusing President Obama of declaring a "war on religion" with the Affordable Care Act isn't without risks for the Republican presidential nominee. Even leaving aside the over-the-top hyperbole, it turns out that Romney put similar contraception policies in place during his ...
  • Romney-Ryan Plan IS the Ticket for Republicans
    With the Romney campaign having alerted users of its mobile VP app to "turn on your push notifications," GOP vice presidential frenzy is reaching a fever pitch. But while New York Times statistician extraordinaire Nate Silver is running simulations to reveal which potential Romney running mate ...
  • Romney Throws Wife and Father under the Bus
    By most accounts, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is a devoted father, dedicated family man and committed church leader. But as his record sadly shows, Romney's family values often take a back seat to his presidential ambitions. Just last week, he cast aside his father George Romne ...
  • Romney's Financial Ties to Iran, China Back in ...
    Conservatives on Monday were predictably orgasmic in response to the Washington Post report that Obama campaign adviser David Plouffe earned $100,000 in speaking fees from a firm which did business with Tehran. As it turns out, the Republicans accusing the President of being "soft on Iran" are ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Dear Comics Industry: This Is How Social Media ...
    Basically, it’s like this: people can see your public activity on Twitter.  Yes, even when you use your publisher’s official account.  And while you yourself might believe that book publishers go around publicly supporting tweets that denigrate authors from other publishing houses, I h ...
  • From Saudis to Soccer, Women Make Strides at S ...
    One of the many records broken during the 2012 Olympic Summer Games was the number of female athletes participating from the conservative Islamic nations of Qatar, Brunei and Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia only allowed the women to compete after the International Olympic Committee, or IOC, threatene ...
  • Report From Turkey-Syria Border: Syrian Refuge ...
    Several neighborhoods have reportedly been reduced to rubble as the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad wages a massive ground assault to retake control of Aleppo. According to activists, more than 20,000 people, mostly unarmed civilians, have died in the last 17 months of fighting and te ...
  • Romney's Death Squad Ties: Bain Launched With ...
    Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is facing new scrutiny over revelations he founded the private equity firm Bain Capital with investments from Central American elites linked to death squads in El Salvador. After initially struggling to find investors, Romney traveled to Miami in 198 ...
  • LIBOR Rate-Fixing Scandal Sets Off Investigati ...
    Cities around the country, from Baltimore to Oakland, are taking legal action against the banks responsible for suppressing the London interbank offered rate, Libor. And some 75% of major cities involved in libor-tied interest-rate swaps stand to reclaim taxpayer losses in addition to libor-ba ...

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Good First — Helping People, & Tom’s of Maine
    This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Tom’s of Maine for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. Today, as probably every day of my life, a big part of my day was helping people. I started my day focused on that, and it's hard to think of a day when that [...]
  • Robotic Earthworm, Soft Autonomous Robot Moves ...
    Researchers have now engineered a soft bodied autonomous robot that moves along the ground in the same way as earthworms. Researchers from MIT, Harvard University and Seoul National University designed the robot to move via peristalsis, crawling across surfaces by contracting segments of its bod ...
  • Scientists Discover Plate Tectonics on Mars
    Scientists have long believed that planet Earth is the only planet in our solar system where plate tectonics existed, but new research out of the University of California Los Angeles has reversed this position, showing that Mars in fact also hosts this geological phenomenon. “Mars is at a ...
  • 1.5 Million Years of Climate History Revealed
    Scientists from the University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences have announced a major breakthrough in a decades old debate, the understanding of our planet’s climate machine, by reconstructing a highly accurate record of changes in ice volume and deep-ocean temperatures over the ...
  • 3-D Map Of The Universe, Largest Most Accurate ...
    The largest-ever three-dimensional map of the universe has just been created by astronomers. It maps all of the massive galaxies and distant black holes in the known universe, the researchers think it will help the investigation of the “dark matter” and “dark energy” that ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • So it's Ryan
    By @BGinKC It's official. The hapless Romney has chosen the hypocrite Ryan as his running mate. That is good news for Grover Norquist and the slash-and-burners who want to raise taxes on the poor and ever-shrinking middle class in order to reduce them for top earners. It's all set down in Ryan's ...
  • Paul Ryan Embodies Politics of Self-interest
    By @TedFrier One of the joys of reading a history like Gordon Wood's The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States, is the humbling experience it provides of learning how none of us are terribly distinctive, how living in interesting times does not mean we also live in parti ...
  • The question
    "Representative Ryan, how many years of tax returns did you provide to the Romney campaign in the vetting process?" That is all.
  • 'Biggest Brown-Noser' Ryan To Be GOP VP Pick
    If this is Romney's choice for a running mate, 99% of Americans under 55 should prepare to be thrown under the bus. U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, 42, looks to be Slick Willard's choice for a vice presidential running mate. It's a pretty clear signal from Scumney to the Republican Party's pow ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC Are you kidding @MittRomney? You have to be. Even you aren't tone-deaf and stupid enough to try to tell the people you want to vote for you that now the same business record that you insisted made you the best choice for president should now be off limits, are you? Don't answer that. ...

Care 2

  • A PORTRAIT OF NATIVE ACTIVISM: We Are All ...
    Among Tiokasin Ghosthorses childhood memories is the reign of terror that engulfed the Lakota native reservations from 1973 to 1976 following the 72-day indigenous occupation at Wounded Knee. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |  & ...
  • Facebook
    Facebook is the worlds largest social network, with over 845 million monthly active users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, initially as an exclusive network for Harvard students Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |&nb ...
  • Underground water reserves overexploited; may ...
    A new study suggests the world is depleting underground water reserves faster than they can be replenished. Scientists in Canada and the Netherlands say this is due to over-exploitation. Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Co ...
  • Sumatra Park Home to About 166 Tigers
    Kerinci Seblat National Park has approximately 166 Sumatran tigers, a program official said on Thursday. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Japan Fukushima disaster leads to geothermal e ...
    It has been nearly 18 months since the 9.0-magnitiude quake that ravaged the Japanese coast. The disaster was responsible for the nuclear tragedy that unfolded at Japans Fukushima Daiichi power plant. But despite that tragedy, locals have been finding Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle &nb ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Paul Ryan: His speech in its entirety, and fam ...
    Special thanks to AlJazeeraEnglish‘s YouTube channel. That’s right. Al Jazeera posted Paul Ryan’s speech immediately. U.S. networks and channels? Still M.I.A. (at YouTube). Now, for photos of today’s announcement from Zimbio, the incomparable photo site. If you click on e ...
  • Tweets and a new Twitter account for “R & R” ( ...
    Paul Ryan, what have you done to Twitter?! Could it be, as getfitnow commented below, “After four years of Obama, we need some R & R!” FIRST THINGS FIRST: GetFitNow commented, “Follow Paul Ryan on Twitter: @PaulRyanVP“ Well, shoot. See that Twitter image over yonder? However, I ...
  • Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan – 2012 [Open Thread]
    Governor Romney makes it official, Congressman Paul Ryan is his choice for vice-president. What do you think about this choice? About Obama, Ryan observes, “Whatever the explanations, whatever the excuses, this is a record of failure.” “Regrettably, President Obama has become p ...
  • ROMNEY to announce Paul Ryan as his V.P. pick ...
    The real news?  “It’s the economy and we’re not stupid.” Mitt Romney has underlined “it’s the economy” with his selection of Paul Ryan, a budget whiz who is clearly “presidential timber.” And how. Obama camp claims it’s thrilled be ...
  • Mitt goes on the offensive against that repugn ...
    Oh Mitt. You knocked this one outta the park. Power Line Blog dubbed the ad “nuclear.” Better yet, you’re releasing this video as a 30-second TV ad. Mitt, I pray you’ll untie your purse strings and air this ad in every media market across the nation. This TV ad will be 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 ...

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Stars Help End Mountaintop Removal - Look To T ...
    Look To The Stars Stars Help End Mountaintop Removal Look To The Stars These four celebrities have joined award-winning environmental activists, writers, musicians, and others in taking a stand against one of the most worst environmental travesties of our time: mountaintop removal coal mining. Y ...
  • Obama Administration Can Still Protect Streams ...
    Obama Administration Can Still Protect Streams from Mountaintop Removal ... Huffington Post Nor did the court challenge the overwhelming evidence by scientists, health professionals, and the findings of EPA's independent Science Advisory Panel that mountaintop removal mining has disastrous i ...
  • Kayford Mountain, Prettiest Lady I've Ever See ...
    Kayford Mountain, Prettiest Lady I've Ever Seen unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) Stand With Donna And All the People of Appalachia. To date, mountaintop removal coal mining has buried more than 2500 miles of streams and leveled an area of Appalachia bigger than the state of Delawa... by L ...
  • Becky Park: Appalachia's future depends on lis ...
    Becky Park: Appalachia's future depends on listening to our neighbors Charleston Gazette He reported that before a mountaintop removal protest turned into a deadlock of loud opposition, the mining supporters and those who want an end to mountaintop removal had some "healthy, civil dialo ...
  • Earth's Great Storyteller -- Water - unEARTHED ...
    Earth's Great Storyteller -- Water unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) Mountaintop removal has gained notoriety for contaminating precious water resources. Mountain Hero Junior Walk has talked about how the blasting of mountains contaminated his family's water; we also saw Amber Whitting ...

Memeorandum

  • How Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan Tricked the Pres ...
    John Parkinson / ABCNEWS: How Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan Tricked the Press  —  Mitt Romney decided on Paul Ryan on Aug. 1, the day after returning from his trip overseas to the Olympics in London and to Israel and Poland.  The candidate and his campaign kept the secret for n ...
  • Mitt Romney Would Pay 0.82 Percent in Taxes Un ...
    Matthew O'Brien / The Atlantic Online: Mitt Romney Would Pay 0.82 Percent in Taxes Under Paul Ryan's Plan  —  Paul Ryan's plan is a path to prosperity for Mitt Romney  —  Under Paul Ryan's plan, Mitt Romney wouldn't pay any taxes for the next ten years — or ...
  • It's Paul Ryan's Party: With Romney VP Pick, M ...
    Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine: It's Paul Ryan's Party: With Romney VP Pick, Movement Conservatives Openly Control GOP at Last  —  I'm not sure I believe in Freudian slips, and Barack Obama made a similar mistake when he introduced Joe Biden four years ago, but what the hell ...
  • Romney forced to backpedal after thorny Virgin ...
    CNN: Romney forced to backpedal after thorny Virginia endorsement  —  Richmond, Virginia (CNN) - Mitt Romney's campaign awkwardly backpedaled Saturday after the presumptive Republican presidential nominee waded into a contentious GOP primary fight in Virginia during his second c ...
  • Why Paul Ryan? - I did not think that Mitt Rom ...
    Ross Douthat: Why Paul Ryan?  —  I did not think that Mitt Romney would choose the Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate.  Nor did I think that Romney should pick Ryan as his number two.  But now that he's done so, let's consider what might have made the ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Official shrugs off public food "panic"
    Chinese people have a "poor understanding" of food-safety issues, senior official Wang Guowei tells Xu Nan and Zhou Wei.Wang Guowei heads up the policy and legislation department at the State Council Food Safety Commission. He spoke to Xu Nan and Zhou Wei about the nature of China&rsqu ...
  • Data gaps hobble carbon trading
    Seven Chinese regions are due to launch trial emissions-trading schemes next year. They will struggle to do so, write Liu Shuang and Xu Nan.Late last October, China’s top economic planning body – the National Development and Reform Commission – instructed the cities of Beijing, ...
  • Letting in the light
    While many were disappointed by Rio+20, European Environment Agency chief Jacqueline McGlade hails a breakthrough in data sharing. Here she speaks to Isabel Hilton about the lessons for Asia.The closing declaration of the Rio+20 conference in June was greeted with almost universal disappointment ...
  • The coming DIY revolution
    At the margins of the current order, a new breed of innovators has stopped waiting for big business and big government to fix our problems, writes John Elkington.Standing next to me in the baggage line at Heathrow a few weeks ago was Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple computer back in 1976. But ...
  • Doomed toilet scheme was “valuable exper ...
    Last week, chinadialogue published a report about the demise of the world’s biggest urban eco-toilet project. Here, its Swedish collaborator – the Stockholm Environment Institute – gives its side of the story.This article is a response to “Eco-toilet project ends in failu ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • 8 Crazy Fox Freakouts About the Olympics
    At this point, it should go without saying that Fox News is a propaganda arm of the GOP, but it also serves a larger ideological purpose. Every day, the cable net stokes the Right's intricate and comprehensive narrative of victimhood and oppression – a narrative that has become central ...
  • Nuns' Group Targeted by Vatican Refuses to Bac ...
     The Vatican has a nun problem. But you won't find the prelates skipping around singing, "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?" They're certain of their solution: flex the hierarchy's magisterial muscle, and place those wayward sisters under the canonical thumb. The nuns in questio ...
  • Celeste and Jesse Forever: Why No Blacks Frien ...
    After seeing the new film Celeste and Jesse Forever, I was reminded of something writer dream hampton once said to me regarding the whiteness of the independent film industry. We were talking about how these sorts of films are often prompted by personal stories that reflect the filmm ...
  • Obama Surrenders to Goldman Sachs
     Rarely does one see a more perfect illustration of the Obama administration’s tortured relationship with Wall Street.On August 9, the Justice Department and the SEC both announced the end of investigations into potential criminal behavior related to Goldman’s hand ...
  • 10 Mind-Blowing Discoveries This Week
     The Altamaha River in Georgia is said to be home to a fabled sea monster known as the Altamaha-ha. Altie, whom you can read all about in this excellent illustrated story by Creative Loafing’s Curt Holman via Cryptomundo), is said to resemble a plesiosaur.A few years back ...

Threat Level

  • Three-Star General Was Behind Harsh Treatment ...
    Orders to submit WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning to harsh and allegedly illegal treatment in prison apparently came from a three-star general, according to a new court filing from Manning's defense attorney.
  • DOJ Won’t Ask Supreme Court to Review Hacking Case
    The Justice Department has decided not to ask the Supreme Court to review a controversial federal appeals court decision that said employees may not be prosecuted under a federal anti-hacking statute for simply violating their employer's computer use policy.
  • When It Comes to Human Rights, There Are No On ...
    As one of people who built Martus, an encrypted database used by thousands of human rights activists around the world, I routinely confront the needs of users who are not in wealthy countries, as well as the difficult problem that creating real, easy-to-use security poses. My thoughts here are f ...
  • Goldman Sachs Programmer Back in Court on New ...
    Just when he thought his troubles were over, a former programmer for Goldman Sachs who downloaded source code for the investment firm’s high-speed trading system from the company’s computers is back in court on new charges that he unlawfully duplicated and used the company's proprietary code.
  • FTC Dings Google $22.5M in Safari Cookie Flap
    Google has agreed to pay a record $22.5 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges it intentionally circumvented the default privacy settings of Apple's Safari browser, using a backdoor to set cookies on browsers set to reject them.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Ode to the Microbiological Data Program (MDP)
    I was going to take the weekend off.  It has been a long few weeks of long days, and more than a few nights, working on putting the cases together of the 22 injured people and the families of 20 who died in the 2011 Listeria cantaloupe outbreak that I represent.  We have a court impose ...
  • Burch Equipment Expands Listeria Recall from C ...
    There have been no illnesses reported to date. Burch Equipment LLC, North Carolina, is expanding its recall to include all of this growing season's cantaloupes and honeydew melons that may remain on the market because they may possibly be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The whole ca ...
  • Listeria Recall: So much for apple slices bein ...
    Sliced apples distributed to fast-food and grocery chains across the country are among packaged products being recalled due to possible Listeria contamination. No illnesses have been reported, but listeria was found on equipment used to produce apple products by Missa Bay LLC, owned by Ready Pa ...
  • Microbiological Data Program (MDP) to the resc ...
    The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) is alerting consumers to not eat fresh cilantro that was sold at certain stores after routine testing by the Department found a sample of the product to be contaminated with Salmonella. MDA is working with the FDA and the State of California regulato ...
  • Microbiological Data Program to the rescue aga ...
    Menno Beachy of Cresco, Iowa, is recalling one pint containers of Certified Organic Grape Tomatoes because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail, or elderly people, and others with w ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Official: Ford C-Max Hybrid officially gets 47 ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Minivan/Van, Ford, Electric Two new announcements about Ford and its upcoming C-Max line of vehicles arrived today, emphasizing the vehicles' efficiency and electric performance. For the C-Max Hybrid, the previously predicted miles per gallon rating of 47 mpg is now of ...
  • First Drive: 2013 Toyota RAV4 EV [w/video]
    Filed under: Crossover, Toyota, First Drives, Tesla, ElectricTesla-Hearted Toyota Offers Real Sport And Utility The 2013 Toyota RAV4 EV is the most advanced Alpha prototype electric vehicle we've ever driven. Or maybe it's a poster child for the 21st Century automotive industry where all ...
  • Video: Toyota Prius Solution: When you're dead ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Videos, Hatchback, Toyota, Humor Let's make this clear from the get-go: we know this is satire, courtesy of The Onion. Of course, like all good comedy, the idea for the new, fictional Toyota Prius Solution model contains a grain of truth. After all, if you aren't alive, y ...
  • Report: London's hydrogen buses grounded durin ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal, UK Is hydrogen a dangerous substance? It is, during the London Olympics, at least. That's why the fleet of five H2 buses that usually carries passengers between Covent Garden and Tower Gateway have been sent out to pasture for the duration of the games. Standard ...
  • Official: Ford C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid pri ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Minivan/Van, Hatchback, Ford The U.S. federal tax credit for plug-in vehicles maxes out at $7,500 for cars with batteries that are 16 kWh or larger. The Ford C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid doesn't have that big of a pack, so the most the feds will grant you for b ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • On Gun Laws, It’s Bipartisan Consensus Not Gri ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan With an average of 32 people killed by guns in this country every day—the equivalent of five Wisconsin massacres per day—both major parties refuse to deal with gun control. It’s the consensus, not the gridlock, that’s the problem. Read full column
  • Ten Years After 9/11, Little-Known Sikh Commun ...
    In the aftermath of the Sikh Temple shooting in Wisconsin, we revisit a Sept. 12, 2011 report by Democracy Now’s Jaisal Noor about how Sikh Americans have been targets of violence and harassment. Click here to see our coverage of the issue of gun control in the United States. No ...
  • The Obama Administration Torpedoes the Arms Tr ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Quick: What is more heavily regulated, global trade of bananas or battleships? In late June, activists gathered in New York’s Times Square to make the absurd point, that, unbelievably, “there are more rules governing your ability to trade a banana from one ...
  • Part 2: Barlett and Steele on Media, Govt. Fai ...
    In part two of our interview with the investigative duo, James Steele and Don Barlett they talk about the media’s failure to hold Wall Street or politicians accountable for financial crimes and mismanagement — topics covered in their new book, The Betrayal of the American Dream. ...
  • DREAM Activist Speaks From Broward Detention C ...
    In a Democracy Now! exclusive, producer Renée Feltz speaks with Viridiana Martinez, a DREAM activist detained about a week ago who is being held in the Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach, Florida. Click here to listen. Martinez is one of a group of undocumented immigrant acti ...

Suzie-Q

  • Paul Ryan’s Jack Abramoff And Tom DeLay ...
    Huff Post By- Jason Cherkis Posted: 08/11/2012  5:58 pm Updated: 08/11/2012  6:02 pm WASHINGTON — As Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has served more than a decade in Congress, President Barack Obama and his allies will surely be scouring his extensive voting record, if they haven’t done so a ...
  • Romney-Ryan 2012: The Herman & Eddie Munster T ...
    Crooks & Liars By karoli August 11, 2012 06:00 AM As I write, the only thing lacking is official confirmation by the Romney campaign that Mittens will adopt young Paul Ryan as his running mate. It would appear as though Mittens’ disaster-laden campaign of the past few weeks has prompte ...
  • Obama Super PAC Waiting To Unload On Mitt Romn ...
    Huff Post Jon Ward Posted: 08/07/2012 10:21 am Updated: 08/07/2012 10:54 am Bill Kristol and Stephen Hayes caused a stir this week when they encouraged Mitt Romney to pick Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) or Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) as his running mate. The conservative Weekly Standard authors based the ...
  • Obama Camp Slams Romney’s Claim About Oh ...
    Charges that the president aims to undermine service members’ rights are called ‘shameful.’ By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times August 6, 2012, 6:02 a.m. CHICAGO — A top advisor to President Obama‘s campaign lashed out at Mitt Romney on Sunday, arguing that the presumptive ...
  • Las Vegas Sands Target Of U.S. Money-Launderin ...
    Reuters | Posted: 08/04/2012  1:25 pm Updated: 08/04/2012  2:55 pm CHICAGO, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Las Vegas Sands Corp,  controlled by billionaire Republican donor Sheldon Adelson, is  the target of a federal investigation into possible violations  of U.S. money-laundering laws, the Wall ...

Solari

  • Mars Rover Curiosity: Images From the Red Planet
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The rim of Gale Crater can be seen in the distance beyond the pebbly ground. The topography of the rim is very mountainous due to erosion. The ground seen in the middle shows low-relief scarps and plains. The foreground shows two distinct zones of excavation likely carv ...
  • Quote du Jour
    Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. ~ John Lennon Related reading: John Lennon – Imagine Lyrics dontgiveupworld.com
  • The Consumer Price Index:Measuring the Changin ...
    Source: qrc.depaul.edu Think back a few years.  How much did a gallon of gasoline cost then? A loaf of bread? A 10 inch sausage pizza?  A movie ticket? Almost undoubtedly these items  now cost more in dollar terms.  There is a tendency for prices of most goods to increase, even goods that have ...
  • They Say
    By The Thinking Moms’ Revolution They say high-pitched screams, fevers and swelling at the injection site are all common, harmless, insignificant side-effects of responsible, preventative medical care. Don’t listen. They say kids get sick all time. Antibiotics are harmless.  Even if they ...
  • How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My ...
    By Mat Honan Meet Mat Honan. He just had his digital life dissolved by hackers. In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophob ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Fighting America’s dark side. Fighting a ...
    Summary: We are not a nation of hate-mongers, and can restrain those of us who are. But inaction and apathy — closing our eyes to the rising fear and hatred of Islam — will have long and ill effects. This social disease is spreading; the clock is running. Contents Introduction: conta ...
  • The significance for America of Romney’s ...
    Summary: Let’s consider the significance of VP Paul Ryan.  My conclusion: it makes little difference.  In our system the key decisions were made during the primaries, especially during the earliest months — when few paid attention. This is America in the 21st century, irony ascendant ...
  • Question time on the FM website, and some big ...
    Summary: It’s “ask a question” time. In the comments “ask the mineshaft”:  post questions about geopolitics — and your answers to other people’s questions.  This is a community exercise, from the German “Gemeinschaft” (see Wikipedia). Questio ...
  • Parsing Cyberwar – Part 2: The Logistical Train
    Summary: In the previous part of this series, Marcus Ranum dissected the various subtypes of cyberwar into four specializations: cybercriminals, cyberspies, cyberterrorists, and cyberwarriors, so that we could begin to compare and contrast the practical problems faced by each specialty. I paid p ...
  • Parsing Cyberwar – Part 1: The Battlefield
    Summary of this post by Marcus Ranum: This series is based on a lecture I presented at RSA Conference in March 2012. In it, I will attempt to isolate some of the strategic elements of the “cyber” battlefield so that we can better understand the inner dynamics of its components. This is important ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Sudans Reach Agreement on Oil: But It’s Just a ...
    Sudan and South Sudan reached an interim agreement on the exploitation of oil and oil payments this weekend. The issue has been a major challenge since the South’s independence in July 2011, when negotiations that had been ongoing for nearly a year failed to result in an agreement. Negotiations ...
  • Infrastructure Alarm Sounds
    Last week, three events should have sounded deafening alarms and issued unmistakable warnings about the vulnerabilities facing mankind. And a fourth was further frosting on this rather explosive cake. None did and complacency still reigns. In India in the midst of an especially long, hot summer, ...
  • Just When I Thought I Was Out... They Pull Me ...
    It has been a while since I have posted here. But there is nothing like an op-ed by Sens. McCain, Graham and Lieberman to pull me back in. In the column, the Senators called for greater action in Syria, saying the Obama administration’s “hands-off approach” is not working. Specifically they ca ...
  • In Mali, Slow Progress Amidst Crisis
    Reuters reports: “Burkina Faso Foreign Minister Djibril Bassole, the [ECOWAS] mediator, met the leaders of Ansar Dine, which has links to al Qaeda, in Kidal on Tuesday. He also stopped in Gao but did not meet leaders of MUJWA, the Islamist group occupying the town, residents said.” ...
  • Do Battle Droids Dream of Electric Medals?
     One of the more interesting issues raised informally during the time I spent at the Lincoln Center's Emerging Technologies Workshop was the relative likelihood of developments in lethal autonomous robotics leading to fully autonomous armies: that is, eliminating the human presence from battle-s ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lipstick on a Wonk
    It’s official: Mitt Romney has picked Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan to join him as his running mate. I’ve already written why I think Ryan is a terrible choice. In short, his plan to cut taxes on the rich and gut the welfare state is one of the most unpopular proposals in American politics ...
  • Paul Ryan: Obama's Dream Opponent
    UPDATED: Mitt Romney has selected Paul Ryan as his running mate. As Beltway anticipation builds for Mitt Romney’s vice presidential announcement, conservative pundits have re-upped their calls for a “bold” and adventurous choice. This morning, the Wall Street Journal editorial page took the lea ...
  • Friday Music Break
    For today's Music Break, we're going down to New Orleans for the Neville Brothers, joined by John Hiatt, doing "Yellow Moon." Do you know something that I don't know? John HiattMusicThe Neville BrothersWarm Your HeartEntertainment
  • Wolveriiines!
    If you were a teenager in the '80s like I was, you had to have a complex relationship to jingoistic entertainment. On one hand, the way Cold War competition was grafted onto things like sports and movies was kind of unsettling, since the fate of the world was actually at stake, and one had to t ...
  • In Tennessee, a Hard-Fought Victory for the Mu ...
    The Murfreesboro Muslim community has been through hell. After the so-called "Ground Zero" mosque controversy in New York—a fight over a building that was neither a mosque nor at Ground Zero—Tennessee experienced its own wave of anti-Islamic fervor. While Muslim families have worshiped at a mo ...

Buzzflash

  • Five Adjectives That Scream "Don't Vote Republ ...
    PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There are more than five, of course, and voting Democrat may not be much of an improvement, but attaching these adjectives to the comically contemptible GOP seems more than appropriate. Obstructionist In 2010 Mitch McConnell said: "The single most importa ...
  • Mitt Romney's Most Unexcellent Adventure
    WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Mitt Romney has to be more relieved than an Iowa corn farmer in the middle of a thunderstorm to be back on home soil. Arms wide. Head back. Wet face. Smile. Podium steps. National Anthem. The American electorate may harbor an ambivalent attitude towards the ...
  • BuzzFlash Commentary Will Soon Be Posted on Tr ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In a day or two, BuzzFlash Commentary (formerly known as the BuzzFlash blog) will move to the actual Truthout site. It is an exciting step in the continued integration of BuzzFlash into Truthout. Not only will there be the physical move of the site ( ...
  • We Wrecked Iraq, We Pulled Out, We Redeployed ...
    ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT We wrecked Iraq, we pulled out, we redeployed in Anaheim. This ain't working, guys- I mean, firing rubber bullets into anguished crowds, siccing attack dogs on moms and children. I mean, inventing enemies, going to war, unleashing state-of-the-art fire ...
  • The Massive Voter Fraud of the GOP
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Isn't it voter fraud to deny US citizens the right to vote? That is what the Republican Party is engaged in its campaign to place onerous requirements on the poor, infirm and destitute seniors, the homeless, students and others to vote. Politico recen ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Martin Fleischmann Obituary
    Telegraph reports that Martin Fleischmann has died at the age of 85 years. A Fellow of the Royal Society, he was once regarded as one of Britain’s brightest electrochemists. However, he is most well known for the curious incidence of cold fusion back in 1989, which caused no little stir in ...
  • Monosodium glutamate, deceived wisdom
    It sounds like a nasty chemical and people have been worrying about it for year. MSG. Monosodium glutamate. But the monosdium, that’s just sodium ions from common salt and the glutamate is just the soluble form of the essential protein-making amino acid, glutamic acid. The question of its ...
  • Freebie Kindle sampler of book Deceived Wisdom ...
    My publisher just released a freebie Kindle sampler for my forthcoming book, Deceived Wisdom. You can grab it on your Kindle right now. But you don’t need a Kindle, you can read it with any Kindle app on your iPad, laptop or desktop computer. Here’s how E&T describe the book on ...
  • Dr Who. It’s for kids…
    …as Al Murray would have it…but that doesn’t mean us big kids cannot watch it and run behind the sofa crying for Mummy all over again when the Daleks appear! The Guardian describes the five new episodes that will air before Christmas 2012 as the big finale to Steven Moffat&#821 ...
  • Damaged electronic goods
    Electronic devices are susceptible to damage from radiation, potentially cosmic radiation and even ultraviolet radiation. A study using spectroscopy reveals that the amount of optical damage, as opposed to structural damage, that can be caused may be more than ten times greater than studies sugg ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • EWG Joins California’s Fight To Label Genetica ...
    Californians deserve the right to know whether their food contains genetically engineered ingredients, just as consumers do in 40 other countries around the world, including China. But the only way they’ll win that right is by voting yes on Proposition 37 on November 6, and today Environme ...
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture Predicts Plumme ...
    In the first estimates to take into account the extreme heat and droughts that have ravaged the country this summer, the Department of Agriculture predicted this morning that U.S. corn production will fall to 10.8 billion bushels for the 2012/2013 growing season, the lowest since the 2006/2007 g ...
  • Hearing Today in Challenge to Florida’s Illega ...
    A hearing will be held today in the administrative challenge to the implementation of a dual election involving restrictive changes in election procedures adopted by the Florida legislature in 2011. The challenge was brought by The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida, along with Sta ...
  • Chile: Investigate Police Violence Against Map ...
    The Chilean authorities should carry out a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation into the alleged unlawful use of force by police against members of the Mapuche indigenous community, Human Rights Watch said today. Officers found responsible for any unlawful use of force should be held to ...
  • Bahrain Must Free Prisoners of Conscience afte ...
    The Bahraini authorities must release 13 opposition activists and prisoners of conscience Amnesty International said today, ahead of next week's expected final verdict on their appeals. The 13, who include prominent activist Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, were originally sentenced by military court i ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Republican Right Gets What it Wanted: A Ry ...
    John Nichols It takes a special talent to blow the introduction of your running-mate. But Mitt Romney's got what it takes. So it was that the presumptive Republican nominee for president told thousands of cheering supporters that Paul R ...
  • Gun Control? Dream On.
    Katha Pollitt Why am I even bothering to write about gun control? That was going to be my opening sentence when this column was to be focused on the Aurora, Colorado, movie-theater massacre: twelve people murdered and fifty-eight wounded, s ...
  • "Path to Prosperity?" For Many Senior Citizens ...
    Wendell Potter 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 Wiscons ...
  • Erasing W
    Robert Reich As Bill Clinton is resurrected by the Democrats, George W. Bush is being erased by the GOP — as if an entire eight years of American history hadn’t happened.  While Bill Clinton stumps for Obama, Romney has gon ...
  • The Ryan Budget: Be Careful What You Cut
    Marian Wright Edelman Right before the U.S. House of Representatives left for the summer to go home to campaign for your vote, they voted to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the richest Americans millionaires and billionaires. For more than ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • California Water Wars: Will Thirsty Interests ...
    Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Now: California's water wars are back, as the state struggles to transfer a vital resource from where it falls to where it's needed. NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the area south of Sa ...
  • Will New Water Delivery System End San Diego’s ...
    The $14 billion plan involves a 37-mile twin-tunnel system to carry water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to farmlands and cities.
  • Water Wars: Gov Proposes Huge Underground Tunn ...
    Click here to view the full photogallery. Governor Jerry Brown and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar yesterday announced details of an expensive plan to ensure the future of Southern California's water supply (specifically, the supply shipped from Northern California)....
  • Calif. unveils $24B water tunnel plan
    Polarizing plan aiming to end Golden State's water wars still burdened by unanswered questions, hurdles
  • California, federal officials reveal plan to e ...
    SACRAMENTO -- California's ambitious $24 billion plan for ending the state's water wars was unveiled Wednesday, but standing in its way are unanswered questions and hurdles that will take years to surmount -- if that's even possible.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Fox News Pundits Wonder If Republicans Can Def ...
    Bill Kristol, who had predicted that Mitt Romney would name Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running-mate, expressed some concern Saturday morning that Republicans may have a hard time defending the GOP budget, which disproportionately cuts taxes for the rich. “It’s the tax cuts fo ...
  • Oops: Paul Ryan Forgets When New Presidents Ar ...
    GOP Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan wants to phase out Medicare, slash Medicaid, cut education, increase taxes on the middle class and use this money to pay for tax cuts for the very rich. So the fact that he appears to be unfamiliar with the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution is hard ...
  • Paul Ryan’s History On Welfare Undermine ...
    Mitt Romney has spent the week characterizing President Obama’s decision to grant waivers to states seeking innovative solutions for meeting the work requirements in welfare reform as gutting the program. In reality, the administration would require participating states “to increase ...
  • Paul Ryan’s Original Medicare Plan Ends ...
    In April of 2011, after Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan had been House Budget Chair for only a few months, he convinced nearly the entire House GOP caucus to vote for a laissez-faire budget resolution that would slash education, raise taxes on the middle class, and destroy Medicai ...
  • Five Times Mitt Romney Has Embraced The Ryan B ...
    Just minutes after Mitt Romney announced Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as his vice presidential choice, his campaign was working to distancing itself from Ryan’s signature piece of legislation — his “Path to Prosperity” budget, which would massively overhaul Medicare, Social Secu ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Progressive Patriot: The First Nations
    Maybe this will be Part I of an exciting series or maybe it'll be the latest thing that I started and then abandoned out of sheer disorganization and laziness. Who really knows? Only God knows and only God can judge me. Anyway, the point of this possible series is to articulate, as a Canadi ...
  • Garbage Pick-up Woes
    Yes! I've finally got the time to talk in detail about the pressing political-economic issues of today. Or something. Whatever. Actually, I'll just be snotty. That's all an unhinged moonbat leftist such as myself is capable of anyway. So, the first day of private garbage collection in Toronto ...
  • Last Bash of Religion For a While
    I've got a hankering to write something about any number of recent political atrocities, but no time today. So instead I thought I'd take one more bash on the useless stupidity of religion. A lot of religion's half-baked defenders stupidly argue that religion is just a vehicle by which inevitab ...
  • Why I Don't Like to be Moderated
    I suppose that my skin is thin in places. But it's pretty fucking thick in other places. What I hate is the inability of some people to put things into some sort of context. Here's an imaginary scenario: Troll who showed up two days ago: "I say, kill as many camel-fuckers as possible. And if to ...
  • A Touching Story
    I shouldn't always be so depressed and cynical. Here's a story about genuine love between two guys, thrown together by life, to be father and son ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • First Nations columnist offers support to talk ...
    Colleen Simard is a respected columnist for the Winnipeg Free Press and Troy Media. She's also a mom of two, an Ojibway and passionate writer on First Nations issues. And besides all of that it appears she is a forgiving person who likes Justin Bieber.
  • Missing person Morgan Durocher is found
    People go missing every day, leaving loved one's behind grieving. It's every mother's worst nightmare to have their child go missing and police work hard for their safe return.
  • Obama campaign manager Jim Messina issues warn ...
    Jim Messina, Barack Obama's campaign manager sent an email to supporters today on the subject of the man Mitt Romney picked as a running mate. He said Democrats now must "make sure Americans know the truth about what Romney's choice says about him."
  • Alberta bylaw officer killed in possible ambush
    A southern Alberta bylaw officer and former Mountie is dead after an incident at an acreage near the community of Priddis, just outside Calgary.
  • $400 million lawsuit launched over Costa Conco ...
    The biggest lawsuit to arise over the sinking of the Italian cruise liner, the Costa Concordia, was launched in a New York court this week. The suit seeks $400 million from Carnival Corp. and Costa Crociere for "serious negligence."

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Thank you for being louder than The Bomb!
    Newspapers across the country published your letters commemorating Hiroshima day and calling for an end to nuclear weapons. Thank you!
  • End of the Arms Trade Treaty (for now)
    Negotiations towards a global Arms Trade Treaty ended without an agreement last month when the Obama administration, under pressure from the pro-gun National Rifle Association and facing a presidential election in November, effectively killed a deal by demanding more time on the last day of nego ...
  • Arms spending adds to Greek woes
    Critics argue that high military spending (as a percentage of GDP) contributes to Greece's inability to pay its bills.
  • Activists infiltrate nuclear facility
    In late July, three American anti-nuclear-weapons activists sneaked into the high security “Y-12 Facility”, where the US’s bomb grade uranium is stored, to raise awareness about the danger posed by nuclear weapons on the eve of Hiroshima Day (Frank Munger, “Wrap-up on Y-1 ...
  • CSE to keep more secrets
    The Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s electronic spy agency, is further limiting the already scant details of its activities that are made public. The information technology security and foreign signals intelligence organization, which last year became a stand-alone agency of ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Ventura County On Raw Milk Rampage
    April 2, 2012 Natural News By Mike Adams “If raw milk is so dangerous, why are people still drinking it all over the world and not getting sick?”  –KTRN Perhaps the best investigative reporter covering the raw milk industry today is David Gumpert, writing for www.TheCompletePat ...
  • Philadelphia Student Arrested For Photographin ...
    April 2, 2012 RT By RT “If the police weren’t up to something, why would they care if someone took their picture?” –KTRN A student in Philadelphia has been arrested for taking photos of a traffic stop outside his house. That’s despite of the fact that police officers were ...
  • Another Santorum Slip: Obama an Anti-War ‘Gove ...
    April 2, 2012 Crooks And Liars By Diane Sweet “Listen closely. He WAS about to say it.” –KTRN Failed former junior senator from Pennsylvania by way of Virginia, turned presidential hopeful, Rick Santorum speaks to a crowd at The Armory in Janesville, Wisconsin on March 27th dur ...
  • Is That A Crushed Bug In Your Frothy Starbucks ...
    April 2, 2012 NPR By Nancy Shute “If you are still going to Starbucks, stop! Not only have they killed almost every mom and pop coffee shop, by now it’s been proven they are using crushed up beetles in their beverages. Gross!” –KTRN Call it the tempest in the Frappuccino. ...
  • Congress Gets Rough Treatment At Supreme Court
    April 2, 2012 Associated Press By AP “Even the Supreme Court thinks Congress is lame.” –KTRN The Supreme Court left little doubt during last week’s marathon arguments over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul that it has scant faith in Congress’ abili ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Ask Alex Jones #9
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrisonplanet.com Aug 11, 2012 Alex answers Planet Infowars members’ questions.Check out all the best #altnews at DarkPolitricks.com
  • Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan to be Mitt Romney’s V ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com Following information that former Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) would announce his choice for Vice President outside the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Virgina, sources have confirmed that the nominee will be Rep. ...
  • American Values
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy William Blum The United States and its comrade-in-arms, Al Qaeda. And other tales of an empire gone mad. Afghanistan in the 1980s and 90s … Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990 ...
  • U.S. Army tests football field-sized super spy ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com The U.S. Army’s Long-Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) — a high-tech robotic spy blimp — was launched for its 90-minute maiden voyage on Tuesday from a military base in Lakehurst, ...
  • Historic Hypocrisy: UN-Backed Rogue States Pla ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Felicity Arbuthnot The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy. ” Former US Attorney General, Ramsey Clark On May 4th, 2012, UN Secretary General ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Chris Hedges: When Empires Emplode + Update on ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad August 9, 2012 Aug 7, 2012 by wilrodx1 Guest host Sam Sacks discusses the world food crisis and corporate capitalism with journalist and author Chris Hedges. Hartmann Chris Hedges *** [Full show with better quality of the above video.] Aug 7, 201 ...
  • Cindy Sheehan: Nobody Wants Their Children To ...
    with Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox August 7, 2012 Aug 7, 2012 by GordonSturrock Cindy Sheehan speaks at Ground Zero Center for Non-violence event “Inconvenient Truth” on August 5, 2012. Sheehan was detained with 15 ...
  • The Future Does Not Look Good for Iran by Mich ...
    by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org August 5, 2012 Occasionally individuals complain that I fail to address one subject or another. One Berkeley denizen got in my face and announced: “You leftists ought to become aware of the ecological ...
  • Marcellus Earth First! Anti-fracking Activists ...
    Dandelion Salad http://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com July 8, 2012 Aug 5, 2012 by alexhiggins732 Full Story: http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/08/06/momentum-builds-fracking-truth-da… As anti-fracking momentum grows nationwide with word being spread the practice permanently destroys wate ...
  • The Science of Genocide by Chris Hedges
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Wired - Science

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Israeli Occupation Archive

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