15 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• The Mississippi River Is Drying Up
  The worst drought in more than 50 years is having a devastating impact on the Mississippi River.  The Mississippi has become very thin and very narrow, and if it keeps on dropping there is a very real possibility that all river traffic could get shut down.  And considering the fa ...
• You Will Not Believe What Some People Are Will ...
  It is absolutely amazing what some people will do to make a living in this economy.  Desperate times call for desperate measures, and we have not seen this kind of desperation for jobs in America since the Great Depression of the 1930s.  What some people are willing to put up wit ...
• Are The Government And The Big Banks Quietly P ...
  Something really strange appears to be happening.  All over the globe, governments and big banks are acting as if they are anticipating an imminent financial collapse.  Unfortunately, we are not privy to the quiet conversations that are taking place in corporate boardrooms and in ...
• 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 ...

CASSE

• The Triumph of Fantasy over Science, Part 2
  How to take back economic policy from the damaging fantasies of neoclassical economics.
• Eight Fallacies about Growth
  Herman Daly's synthesis will leave you questioning the most ingrained economic assumptions of our times.
• Failure and Hope from Rio+20
  "Green growth" was a great one, but "sustained growth" sets a new bar on the oxymoron scale.
• The Triumph of Fantasy over Science, Part 1
  How in the world did fantasy become the basis for economic policy in the real world?
• The Higgs Boson and the Steady State Economy
  Discovery of the Higgs boson required incredible resources and resourcefulness -- the same is necessary for discovering a new economy.

The Talking Clock

• Disenfranchised UK: Just 2% of people feel the ...
  Democracy in the UK stands damned today in the findings of our stunning poll which reveals a sense of disenfranchisement on an unimaginably devastatingly huge scale. Over the last fortnight, we've been running a poll which asked: "We are told that the UK is a 'democracy'. Who do you think ACT ...
• Quote of the Day: 'Look at this scary news rep ...
  "...the US Army does have very real plans for putting any domestic insurgency on ice if it is attempted on American soil: drafted back in 2010, the US Army Training and Doctrine Command for 2016-2028 lists operating procedures for a military offensive on US soil in the event of a mass civil upri ...
• Forget the Daddy Dancing... it was the cheerin ...
  So, the Olympics closing ceremony passed off peacefully - thank goodness. As the concert screeched and stomped through it's phases, many of us were on Twitter engaging in that other national sport of taking the proverbial - which was all good fun. Meanwhile, in some parts of the world, the ...
• Sunday Fun: TTC's Fantasy Premier League challenge
  As a quick bit of relief from politics and politicians, a bit of fun. Anyone playing Fantasy Premier League at the official FPL site? If so, TTC has two leagues for you. First twenty players into both are in - first come, first served. While the FPL game is open to people everywhere, th ...
• Sunday Paper Review: 12th August 2012
  Not the most important story in the world but we have to headline with it and you'll see why. We are told that the price of bacon is set to soar as struggling British pig farmers quit the industry in increasing number. So, why headline with this one? How about we tell you that the respo ...

Facing South

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

• Dramatic loss of sea ice in North-West Passage
  These images, captured two weeks apart by NASA's Terra satellite, show a significant retreat of sea ice in the Arctic's North-West Passage
• Today on New Scientist: 14 August 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: human-Neanderthal interbreeding, NASA's plutonium pinch, Arctic ice heads for record low, and more
• Curiosity to Earth: Look! Me on Mars
  Taking a great picture of yourself is never easy – even if you're the pioneering, alien-life-hunting robot Mars Science Laboratory
• Today on New Scientist: 13 August 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: the algorithm that runs the world, giant US military airship, the beauty of Venn diagrams, and more
• Flying off a Shetland cliff in search of offal
  A seabird success story, fulmars breed in huge numbers in the UK – a smorgasbord of fish remains may be behind the boom

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

• Rockefeller Council Subjects Chicago Black Com ...
  Jurriaan Maessen ExplosiveReports.Com June 30, 2012 Until recently unsuspected and undetected, a publication surfaces straight from the Rockefeller Archives which speaks of eugenic mind-operations on the black community of Chicago in the early 1960s. In an outright chilling speech the two men in ...
• Libyan Terrorists Are Invading Syria
  by Tony Cartalucci August 14, 2012 – Reuters today provides us with a spectacularly contradictory headline in their report, “Libyan fighters join Syrian revolt.” Obviously foreign fighters from Libya, raiding cities, attacking government and civilian targets, and attempting to ...
• Al-Qaeda flags fly over rebel-held Syria
  John Rosenthal Asia Times There has recently been a small stir in the American media, as media organizations from the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal to the Associated Press have finally gotten around to acknowledging a “presence” of al-Qaeda and like-minded jihadist groups among the S ...
• Tunnel full of weapons discovered in Syrian ca ...
  Syrian security forces have discovered a tunnel under a house in the capital, Damascus, with a large amount of weapons and ammunition stored inside. Israeli-made bombs, night vision goggles, sophisticated telecommunication equipment and a satellite sender were among things confiscated. Syrian tr ...
• Could chocolate stave off dementia? Daily dose ...
  A daily dose of chocolate could help keep dementia and Alzheimer’s at bay, a study suggests. Researchers found that consuming cocoa every day helped improve mild cognitive impairment – a condition involving memory loss which can progress to dementia or Alzheimer’s – in elderly patien ...

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

• James to manage Cornerstone's PR division
  NEW YORK: Ed James will return to Cornerstone to manage the firm's PR division after a stint leading the PR function at Gibson Guitar.
• South Dakota seeks agency to boost foster fami ...
  PIERRE, SD: South Dakota's child protection division is looking for a firm to execute a statewide campaign for foster care recruitment.
• Nissan names Menezes Brazil corp comms director
  FRANKLIN, TN: Nissan Americas has promoted Fernando Menezes, the GM of corporate and brand communications for Europe, its corporate communications director in Brazil.
• Text100 wins Vodafone global b-to-b brief
  LONDON: Mobile telecomms giant Vodafone has handed a lucrative global b-to-b brief to Text100.
• Grayling revenue down 1% in 1H, Huntsworth ear ...
  LONDON: Grayling's revenue dropped 1% on a like-for-like basis in the first half of the year to approximately $67.3 million. The agency earned an operating profit of $13.6 million in the first half of 2012.

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

• Castle Logging Decision Ignored Fish & Wildlif ...
  Details Revealed in Newly-released Freedom of Information Documents Alberta Wilderness Association Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition ...
• Job Opportunity: Executive Assistant, Red Deer ...
  Position:  Executive Assistant Organization:  Red Deer River Watershed Alliance ...
• Job Opportunity: Water (Member) Relations Coor ...
  Position:  Water (Member) Relations Coordinator Organization:  Red Deer River Watershed Alliance ...
• Job Opportunity: Outreach Coordinator, Red Dee ...
  Position:  Outreach Coordinator - Watershed Education & Stewardship Organization:  Red Deer River Watershed Allia ...
• Hands-on volunteer project with the Nature Con ...
  Position:  Conservation volunteers Organization:  Nature Conservancy of Canada ...

Stop NATO

• Syria: Peace Still On Table As China Scrambles ...
  Global Times August 14, 2012 Peace still on table in Syria as China scrambles to set up talks By Gao Lei ==== The US and some Western and Gulf countries are now exploring the option of imposing a no-fly zone in Syria, which, as witnessed in Libya, is an important step to enable foreign military ...
• U.S. Plots With NATO To Form New Anti-Syrian C ...
  Voice of Russia August 15, 2012 The U.S. plans to form a new anti-Syrian coalition Konstantin Garibov The U.S. plans to step up cooperation with its NATO allies in order to topple the regime in Syria. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed the issue during a phone conversation with co ...
• Syria: U.S. Opens Another Pandora’s Box ...
  People’s Daily August 14, 2012 Do not reopen ‘Pandora’s box’ in the Middle East The United States invaded Iraq nine years ago, which induced sectarian and ethnic conflict in the state. Jacques René Chirac, president of France at the time, had accused the invasion of the U ...
• Graham Greene: Letter On NATO Threat To Cuba
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Graham Greene February 21, 1962 To the Editor of The Times Sir— Your excellent leading article today criticizing the American suggestion that NATO countries should aid in the suppression of Dr. Castro’s Cuba will, I feel sure, be ...
• Interview: Syria and the U.S. Threat to World ...
  WZRD Radio July 29, 2012 Dale Lehman The U.S. Threat To World Peace Rick Rozoff AUDIO:   Summary: Focus On Syria within the context of the U.S. drive for global domination. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union the US has increased war spending and initiated many wars of aggression under th ...

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
• ‘I’ve been forward to Shen Yun for years!’ Say ...
• Arkansas Storms: Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Across ...
• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Intel Hub

• Popular Reggae Artist Releases Brand New Anti- ...
  theintelhub.com | Former Billboard artist Skull releases song about chemtrails.
• A Brief History of False Flag Attacks: Or Why ...
  By Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com August 14, 2012 False flag attacks occur when government engages in covert operations designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations seem as if they are being carried out by other entities. False flag terrorism is a favorite political tactic used by g ...
• Mainstream Doctors Say Supporting the 2nd Amen ...
  By Susanne Posel theintelhub.com August 14, 2012 The medical industry in conjunction with Big Pharma want to classify the right to keep and bear arms as a mental disorder in another power grab to circumvent and eventually destroy our Constitutional 2nd Amendment. More and more doctors are forcin ...
• U.S. Super Soldiers Of The Future Will Be Gene ...
  End of the American Dream Blog | The future of war is going to look really, really weird. The “super soldier” research that DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is working on right now is unlike anything we have ever seen before.
• You Tube Threatens To Terminate Account Over C ...
  Third parties claim they own people’s voices By Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Monday, August 13, 2012 A You Tube video critical of the company’s bizarre copyright policy under which ownership of people’s voices can be claimed by third parties was deleted and the account put on notice for termi ...

FRS

• Newly formed Communist Party of Nepal – Maoist ...
  [Note by Enaemaehkiw Túpac Keshena on the "Bermuda Radical" blogsite--"(The) following information is about the line of the newly formed Communist Party of Nepal – Maoist. The CPN-M developed from the so-called “red” or “revolutionary” faction within the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) ...
• Los Angeles: FBI Sting Lawsuit Blocked by &#8 ...
  By Adam Serwer, Mother Jones magazine, August 15, 2012 It was like a James O’Keefe hidden camera operation gone wrong: In 2006, despite no evidence of wrongdoing, the FBI sent informant Craig Monteilh to spy on a California mosque, only to have Ahmadullah Sais Niazi, the guy Monteilh was t ...
• Spanish police arrest 5 union members over ‘Ro ...
  By Associated Press, August 10, 2012 MADRID — Spanish police have arrested seven left-wing union activists for their alleged role in a “Robin Hood”-style looting of a supermarket made to highlight the plight of people suffering through the country’s recession.A handful of activists from the sout ...
• Tribal weapons ban in Indian state of Chhattisgarh
  [This article, though phrased as if tribal arms usage by revolutionary fighters has been newly discovered by state (and media) forces, actually confirms the long term preponderance of adivasis -- tribal people -- in the Maoist "Peoples Guerilla Liberation Army" and in the much larger people's mi ...
• Nine killed in S.Africa mine union violence
  By Ed Stoddard and Sherilee Lakmidas, Reuters, Monday,  August 13, 2012 JOHANNESBURG – Nine people including two policemen have been killed in clashes between labour unions at a South African mine operated by world no. 3 platinum producer Lonmin , by far the deadliest spate of violence in ...

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

• Strange, Unexplained Solar Influence Over Eart ...
  A mystifying trick of the sun, inappropriately interfering with particles on Earth, could be used as an early-warning system for solar flares, a new study says. With enough warning, satellites, telecommunications infrastructure and even orbiting astronauts can take cover from our star's worst r ...
• Museum Relics Prove Pacific Sharks Died Out Be ...
  Dusky sharks do not live in the Pacific waters near the Republic of Kiribati. Neither do spottail sharks, nor the aptly named bignose sharks. But they used to live there at one point in the past -- right by the Gilbert Islands, according to anthropological evidence. Ancient shark-tooth weapons ...
• The Ten Weirdest-Named Shark Species
  Happy Shark Week! In honor of the One True American Holiday (all other holidays are less true, due to lower shark content), I spent about an hour reading about sharks on Wikipedia. Important findings from a solid morning's research: sharks often have weird names. For example: the birdbeak dogfi ...
• Gallery: Weird Shark Names
• Mutant Butterflies are Turning Up in Japan's N ...
  The first serious indications of the ecosystem impact of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan are in, and they’re troubling. Researchers there collected 144 common pale grass blue butterflies from the region a couple of months after the catastrophic nuclear meltdowns leaked radiation into th ...

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

• State Lawmaker Accused Of Diverting Contract M ...
  Startling allegations against a conservative Oregon legislator who also runs a hot-zone aviation business and a military training range.
• “Surveillance Inc.”: Profit Makes ...
  Sell moral responsibility Sell moral responsibility • Read more at The Atlantic
• 2011 Not So Bad For U.S. Defense Contractors, ...
  Buy downturn insurance Buy downturn insurance • Read more at Govpro
• Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...
  Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
• Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...
  Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy

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

• Honour Among Thieves, Somali Pirate Edition
  Coming from one of the countries worse affected by maritime piracy, I tend not to romanticize incidences of ship hijacking in the Gulf of Aden. That said, it strikes me as remarkable how much more "professional" and "businesslike" Somali pirates have become. Just as banks of yesteryear used to h ...
• Wacky Ways of Middle East Youth Unemployment
  Over a year ago I penned a much-visited post depicting the world's worst levels of youth unemployment in the Middle East / North Africa (MENA) region that continue to contribute to pressures for regime change in any number of MENA countries. Today, I have an update on certain peculiarities of th ...
• 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 ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• The Mississippi River Is Drying Up
  The worst drought in more than 50 years is having a devastating impact on the Mississippi River.  The Mississippi has become very thin and very narrow, and if it keeps on dropping there is a very real possibility that all river traffic could get shut down.  And considering the fa ...
• You Will Not Believe What Some People Are Will ...
  It is absolutely amazing what some people will do to make a living in this economy.  Desperate times call for desperate measures, and we have not seen this kind of desperation for jobs in America since the Great Depression of the 1930s.  What some people are willing to put up wit ...
• Are The Government And The Big Banks Quietly P ...
  Something really strange appears to be happening.  All over the globe, governments and big banks are acting as if they are anticipating an imminent financial collapse.  Unfortunately, we are not privy to the quiet conversations that are taking place in corporate boardrooms and in ...
• 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Latest Issue of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed
  Despite rumors to the contrary, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed continues, as provocative and exciting as ever. We have decided to stick with...
• July 2012 Kate Sharpley Library bulletin (doub ...
  KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 70-71, July 2012 [Double issue] has just been posted on the site. July 2012 Kate Sharpley...
• Jurnal Kontinum (Indonesia) - Call For Papers
  Jurnal Kontinum, an Indonesian-based biannual anti-authoritarian journal, is seeking submissions around anti-authoritarian discourse and movemen...
• Break the Chains Blog Turns Six Years Old
  Since June 2006 to present day, the Break the Chains Blog (http://breakthechains.info) has published over 5,400 stories on government violence a...
• Fifth Estate, Summer 2012 issue, now available
  Greetings! The Summer Fifth Estate has been delivered to us by our printer and we are in the process of mailing subscriptions and shipping bulk ...

E U Times

• Russia Issues Apocalyptic Warning For US Gulf ...
  A shocking report from Russian Northern Fleet scientists aboard the Gepard Akula II, which just completed its maiden voyage off the United States coastline in the Gulf of Mexico, warns the aftereffects from the 20 April 2010 BP Oil Spill Disaster are “beyond catastrophic” and borders on the “tru ...
• Computer games to be indistinguishable from re ...
  A leading visual effects artist at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) says computer graphics will be indistinguishable from reality in 10 years time. “It’s an interesting time because with modern computer graphics hardware, the way it’s going, it’s gonna be pretty hard to tell ...
• Women-only city planned for Saudi Arabia
  Saudi Arabia is to build a new city exclusively for women. The Gulf kingdom is working on the narrow junction between strict Sharia law and the aspirations of active females who wish to pursue their own careers. ­The new plan is to combine women’s desire to work in the modern age and provide a j ...
• Cat parasite can cause schizophrenia in humans
  Parasites passed from cats could be causing schizophrenia in their owners, a scientist has claimed. Studies have also shown behavioral changes in humans, including lower reaction times and a sixfold increased risk of traffic accidents among infected, RhD-negative males, as well as links to schiz ...
• French police smash camps and round up gypsies ...
  France declares war on illegal migrants. Riot police smash camps and hundreds rounded up for deportation as Socialists take on gipsies. French police were yesterday breaking up gipsy camps and deporting illegal immigrants found in them. Dozens of officers in riot gear descended on a settlement n ...

Voiceless Victim

• Pope’s butler faces jail, unlike rapists ...
  In yet a further example of pernicious Vatican hypocrisy, the Pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, faces trial and very likely jail for the crime of revealing the truth about the corruption and infighting endemic amongst the ‘holy’ men who inhabit the Vatican. It is indeed encouragin ...
• 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 ...

WL Central

• 2012-08-13 WikiLeaks: 'We're ready to rumble'
  After being offline since 3 August, wikileaks.org came back tonight under the protection of CloudFlare. The donations channels are again open. read more
• 2012-08-12 WLC News Update: Sustained DDoS, Tr ...
  The WikiLeaks Collateral Murder website is now http://collateralmurder.org and is being protected by CloudFlare. The TrapWire surveillance technology revealed in the Global Intelligence Files continues to make headlines. read more
• 2012-08-11 Brazil Torn in Different Directions
  By Nikolas Kozloff. Due to competing interests, the emerging world power's foreign policy is being pulled between pragmatism and idealism. read more
• 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 ...

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

• Japan-Korea Relations hit Rock Bottom
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Disputed islet specks foment trouble
• Indian Army's Growing Morale Problems
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Low pay, incompetent leaders, other problems, lead to fragging, suicides
• Seoul's Lessons for Asian Urban Flooding
  • (http://twitter.com/share) City's dramatic response to 2011 inundation
• Fishing down on the Farm
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Almost half of the world's fish are now grown via aquaculture, FAO says
• The Rise and Possible Fall of the Philippines' ...
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Overfishing threatens a crucial industry

We Know the Lies

• The Autism Epidemic and Mothers Using Aspartam ...
  As Dr. James Bowen's paper "Aspartame Murders infants" explained, the poison violates the Federal Genocide Law. Toxic mechanisms the doctor listed include... ~ Betty Martini - D.Hum read more
• Accepting Foreign Cash Disqualifies Romney fro ...
  No other American presidential candidate has ever left the US to garner campaign contributions from foreign citizens. There is a reason for this, one that Romney and his staff seem oblivious to and the mainstream media had ignored until just recently.Using foreign contributions in any American ...
• The Obama False Flag Attack That Would Suspend ...
  Kelly Keisling, Tennessee state Representative, is concerned that the Obama administration and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are planning events that will lead to “martial law”. read more
• Mainstream Media Doctors Diagnose New Mental I ...
  The medical industry in conjunction with Big Pharma want to classify the right to keep and bear arms as a mental disorder in another power grab to circumvent and eventually destroy our Constitutional 2nd Amendment. ~ Susanne Posel read more
• National Weather Service Follows DHS In Huge A ...
  Why would the National Weather Service need to purchase large quantities of powerful ammo??? That’s the question many are asking after the federal agency followed in the footsteps of the Department of Homeland Security in putting out a solicitation for 46,000 rounds of hollow point bullets. ...

Tarpley

• With 50 Million Americans Destitute, Austerity ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on Infowars Nightly News Infowars August 15, 2012 [download audio][download video]
• Would President Mitt Romney be Bound by the Mo ...
  Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio August 11, 2012 [download audio]
• Russia, China, India, Iran, Pakistan, Indonesi ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV August 11, 2012 [download video] [download audio] PressTV has conducted an interview with Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley, author and historian, to further discuss the issue. The following is a rough transcription of the interview. Press TV: France is the first cou ...
• Reactionary Feudal Monarchies of Gulf Increasi ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars August 8, 2012 [download audio]
• Syria Captures Turkish and Saudi Officers Comm ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV August 7, 2012 [download video] [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

• Cities Are Bogus
  Cities are fake, an illusion, abnormal, phony, and artificial. Although they are centers of lots of population and activity, they can only exist at the expense of resources from elsewhere. Cities cannot make it on their own. From a survival preparedness standpoint, cities are a big red flag, a p ...
• Survival Clothing After TSHTF
  An often overlooked subject for survival preparedness is the subject of clothing for after TSHTF or after a worst case scenario of collapse when there will likely be a shortage or lack of supplies for a possible long period of time. While most preparedness advice is to stock up on food, water, a ...
• 10 Things To Do When A Stranger Knocks On Your ...
  Here are a few ideas how to handle a situation where someone (a stranger) is knocking on your door. It happens to all of us, sometimes somewhat regularly. That is, we here an unexpected knock on our front door. The question is, what do we do? Open the door NOT the best idea (maybe the [...]
• 9th Circuit Court Heads To Maui (At Your Expense)
  This weekend, judges, lawyers and staff of the country’s 9th Circuit Court of Shlameel’s (oops, I mean ‘Appeals’) will convene in Maui, Hawaii, for a government-funded [insert hint: you are paying for it] conference that they refused to cancel despite pressure from Republ ...
• 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 ...

Fast Company

• Have You Registered 300 Domain Names?
  Lea Woodward (left) is an entrepreneur, whose projects include Location Independent, a site supporting those wanting to live a nomadic lifestyle, and Startup Training School, which teaches online tech skills to women entrepreneurs. On September 9th, Woodward will be hosting One K in 1 Day, an ef ...
• Watch: 5 Ways To Generate Killer Ideas, From A ...
  The latest from Column Five Media
• 10 Inspiring Examples Of Small-Biz Branding
  A new book from Gestalten catalogs the brightest examples of innovative branding.
• A Gorgeous, Towering Hive To Save Our Dying Bees
  Elevator B is a gorgeous tower that rises from the industrial wasteland of Buffalo, New York. But it’s not just art, it’s also what might be the most beautiful working beehive you’ve ever seen.
• Peter Thiel Bets Big On 3-D Printed Meat
  The legendary VC’s investment means factory-assembled, cruelty-free, 100% natural-feeling leather may be coming as soon as next year. After that: Get ready for your first test-tube steak.

Jadaliyya

• عن الحلم الاجتماعي والأمن والفساد
  يجادل البحث في هذه الجزئية أن الحلم الاجتماعي والخيال السياسي في مصر متمحوران حول الأمن والفزع وبشكل رئيسي حول ثلاثة نقاط. الأولى هي تأمين وظيفة عمل والثانية هي الخدمات العامة للمنطقة من خلال نواب مجلس الشعب. والثالثة هى سلامة الجسد من ممارسات الشرطة أو البلطجية. ولهذا كانت لجان التفتيش الليلية ...
• Morsy, the Coup and the Revolution: Reading be ...
  President Mohamed Morsy’s recent decision to force Egypt’s most prominent military leaders into retirement has been lauded as a major step toward the demilitarization of the Egyptian state. For some optimists, his decision represents the triumph of the revolution over its adversaries inside the ...
• الرئيس مرسي وأخلاقيات النظافة
  أعترف بأني تلقيت خبر إطلاق حملة "وطن نظيف" بفرحة غامرة. فأحوال النظافة في شوارعنا وأحيائنا وصلت من السوء درجة أصبحت لا تؤذي جوارحنا فقط بل تهدد الصحة العامة وتنذر بانتشار الأمراض والأوبئة. لذا سعدت عندما علمت بهذه الحملة وبتبني رئيس الجمهورية نفسه لها وبإدماجها ضمن خطته للمائة يوم ...
• Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (August 14)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ...
• Imposition of National/Civil Service Requireme ...
  In February 2012, the Israeli Supreme Court struck down the Tal Law, which for the last ten years afforded an exemption to the religious ultra-Orthodox from serving in the military or national/civil service. As the court found the law unconstitutional, the Knesset would not be able to renew the ...

mediagazer

• Reuters blogging platform hacked, false Saudi ...
  Andrew Torchia / Reuters: Reuters blogging platform hacked, false Saudi blog posted  —  (Reuters) - The blogging platform of the Reuters News website was hacked on Wednesday and a false posting saying Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal had died was illegally p ...
• Netflix Heads to Scandinavia (Peter Kafka/AllT ...
  Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: Netflix Heads to Scandinavia  —  Here's the next stop on Reed Hastings' world tour: His video service plans to launch in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland by the end of the year.  —  The move is both expected and a sore spot with some ...
• Getty Images bought by private equity firm Car ...
  Josh Halliday / Guardian: Getty Images bought by private equity firm Carlyle Group  —  Co-founders Mark Getty and Jonathan Klein will remain investors as world's biggest picture agency acquired for £2.1bn  —  The world's biggest picture agency, Getty Images ...
• Bad news for Reuters (Stephen Foley/The Indepe ...
  Stephen Foley / The Independent: Bad news for Reuters  —  It is 161 years since Paul Julius Reuter, a German-born entrepreneur whose first venture in the news business was sending carrier pigeons across Europe, installed himself in the London Stock Exchange, called himself the R ...
• Carlyle in $3.3 Billion Deal for Getty Images ...
  DealBook: Carlyle in $3.3 Billion Deal for Getty Images  —  The Carlyle Group announced on Wednesday that it had reached a deal to acquire Getty Images, the well-known distributor of photography, video and multimedia products, from Hellman & Friedman for $3.3 billion.

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

• PM Netanyahu's Remarks at the Start of th ...
  Following are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks at the start of the Cabinet meeting today on the defense budget: Today, we are starting a discussion the likes of which, until today, have not been held in a forum of Israeli Government ministers, certainly not in the overall forum of ...
• Series Of Explosions Follow Damascus Bomb ...
  At least 21 explosions have been heard across Damascus just hours after a bomb exploded in Damascus near a hotel used by UN observers, wounding at least three people. Syrian state TV said the bomb near the Dama Rose hotel was planted on a fuel lorry. The blast was in the car park of a milit ...
• Chocolate 'lowers blood pressure'
  There may be good news for people looking for an excuse to munch on a couple of squares of chocolate after a review showed the treat could reduce blood pressure. An analysis of 20 studies showed that eating dark chocolate daily resulted in a slight reduction in blood pressure. The Cochrane G ...
• Olive oil can protect bones: Study
  A diet enriched with olive oil can help preserve bone strength, a new study has claimed. Researchers from Hospital Dr. Josep Trueta in Girona, Spain found that consumption of a Mediterranean diet enriched with olive oil for two years is associated with increased bone...
• HK Airlines to delay Boeing delivery
  HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong Airlines plans to replace a number of Boeing planes with Airbus jets and delay delivery of six Boeing freight jets past 2015 from an earlier target of 2013-14 as it seeks to cut costs and unify its fleet. President Yang Jianhong said the unit of China's HNA Gr ...

no frakking consensus

• Green Death Threats: ‘Change or Die’
  The key message of today's environmentalists is: Accept our worldview, submit to our solutions - or else. This is, let us be blunt, a death threat. It is the voice of an extortionist.
• US Official: ‘Activate Your Science’
  A senior public servant thinks scientists should be passionate, engaged activists.
• Delusions Down Under
  Concerned about climate change, coral reef experts say they can predict the future with startling precision.
• The WWF’s Supermarket Offensive
  The World Wildlife Fund is reaching into new corners of your life.
• From Canada, With Love
  Audience members at my upcoming Australian speaking tour are in for a special treat.

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
• National Parks at Risk: Photos
  National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
• Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
  The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...

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

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

• Tokyo’s Katsumi
  Japan’s most volatile politician is making a splash in the South China Sea — and the Chinese are beating the drums of war. MARK MACKINNON "I do what I do because I want to," Shintaro Ishihara wrote in his 1956 novel The Punishment Room. "Do what you please, and sooner or ...
• Women’s Migraines
  Carol Cruzan Morton Migraines are a battle of the sexes that women might prefer not winning. Each year, roughly three times more women than men—up to 18% of all women—suffer from the debilitating headaches, as tallied by epidemiological surveys in Europe and the United States. A new brain imagin ...
• Make Love
  Sara Wheeler This stimulating book examines the ways in which legal systems have attempted to regulate sexual activity over millennia, from the ‘slow impalement of unfaithful wives’ in Mesopotamia to the ‘sterilisation of masturbators’ in the United States. ‘I have ...
• 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 ...

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

• All that is Necessary for Evil to Triumph
  This clip is from the film "Hitler: The Rise of Evil". It is often said, "all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing". As a follow up, we might add: "History seldom repeats, but it often rhymes". Once again, freedom is under threat. Evil is rising. Wh ...
• 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 ...

Beacon

• The Myth of the Rogue Shark
  That man-eating shark from Jaws may be fictional, but that doesn’t stop people from believing that sharks are out to get us — even though it’s not true at all. Chris Neff, a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, gave this talk at TEDxSydney about his research on the politics of shark attac ...
• Senate Moves Bill to End Pirate Fishing
  Pirate fishing threatens the ocean and those who rely on it ©Oceana/Keith Ellenbogen The Senate took an important step forward last month in the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, also known as pirate fishing, by passing the Pirate Fishing Elimination Act (S. 1980) thr ...
• Creature Feature: Great White Shark
  Great whites have earned a bad reputation, but they don't deserve it ©Discovery Channel They’re the stars of Shark Week, one of the most iconic creatures in the ocean. But how well do you really know the great white shark? White sharks are known by many names—great white, white pointer, Carc ...
• Save Shark Week’s Stars
  Great white sharks keep the oceans healthy and balanced ©NOAA Whether you fear them or admire them, most people have an instant reaction when they hear great white shark.   Intrigue, mystery, and terror have guided attention on great white sharks since they lit up the screens in the 197 ...
• Top 5 Myths About Sharks
  Basking sharks are gentle giants, nothing to fear here (unless you're plankton). ©NOAA Happy Shark Week! Sharks are the center of a lot of stories and urban legends, but you might be surprised by the truth behind some of the most common myths about sharks. In honor of Shark Week, we’re going ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• The Vikings Weren’t Always That Brave.
    They Were Not Perfectly Brave.   In fact, the Vikings did so well at warfare for as much knowing when not to fight as when to attack. They were ambush warriors operating mostly as guerrillas, launching sudden and ferocious sneak attacks. Frankly most of the people they fought were pa ...
• Ex CIA Operative Ran A Massive Recognition Sof ...
    “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 ...
• The T 14 Tank.
        Some say the T 14 was just an up armored M4 Sherman. It had a 75mm gun, and 100mm of armor, roughly twice that of a Sherman. If not a 75mm gun, a British 6 pounder. Either gun would waste any German Medium tank, the Panzer mk4 and below and used properly, [...]
• Letter Drafted By Eisenhower In Case D-Day Inv ...
  “Our landings have failed and I have withdrawn the troops. My Decision to attach at this time and place was based on the best information available. he troops the air and the Navy did all that bravery could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.”   S ...
• Photo Of Jimmy Hendrix, 101 Airborne, US Army ...
    Source: 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Band

Taylor Marsh

• Grover Norquist Takes on Romney-Ryan on Defens ...
  CONSERVATISM IS DIFFERENT from neoconservative imperialism. Josh Rogin recently reported that Grover Norquist is ready to draw a line on this distinction, as well as fight it out on principles: “We can afford to have an adequate national defense which keeps us free and safe and keeps every ...
• Celebrating Julia Child at 100
  WE ALL REMEMBER Dan Ackroyd’s Julia Child skit. There’s even a Google doodle in her honor today. Meryl Streep as Child was a marvel… I’m a big fan of Food TV, shows like “The Best Thing I Ever Ate” are great fun. All of these shows are now being interrupted by ...
• An Interview on Where Obama and Romney Stand o ...
  I DID AN interview yesterday on the subject and here’s the link.
• Top Story: Romney Accuses Obama Campaign of ‘H ...
  “Mr. President, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago,” Romney said while campaigning in Ohio. [The Hill] “Well I think, if you look at the ads that have been described and the divisiveness based upon income, age, ethnicity and so forth, it’s designe ...
• CNN’s Blitzer Corners Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ...
  EVER SINCE PAUL RYAN was selected as Romney’s running mate, Rep. Wasserman-Schultz and other Democrats have been falsely claiming that Romney-Ryan’s Medicare plan would impact seniors, without saying that those 55 and older would not be affected. Now, perhaps Wasserman-Schultz and ot ...

Hudson New York

• That Mecca Photo-Op
  Talk about all roads lead to Mecca. This is BIG. Everyone and his neighbor is there. The Emir of Qatar, Morsi from Egypt, Gul from Turkey, Mahmoud Abbas, Hamid Karzai, Zardari from Pakistan, Marzouki from Tunisia, King Abdullah from Jordan, Ahmadinejad
• Al Qaeda in Spain
  Three suspected al Qaeda terrorists arrested in Spain in early August were allegedly plotting an airborne attack on a shopping mall near Gibraltar, the British overseas territory on the southernmost tip of Spain. In recent weeks, the Obama Administration
• Muslim Forced Marriages in Spain
  Police in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia have intervened to prevent the forced marriage of a 13-year-old girl belonging to a Muslim immigrant family from Morocco. The girl was one of nine reported victims of forced marriage in Catalonia
• Pharaoh Morsi? Not so fast
  President Morsi in Egypt may now be accumulating as much power as Pharaoh Mubarak. For all practical purposes Egypt still does not have a solid Constitution. But what happened seems more like a bunch of generals getting rid of the ultra-unpopular Tantawi
• Saudi newspaper warns Muslim Brotherhood
  Writing in the Saudi English-language news site Asharq Alawsat, senior editor Osman Mirghani issued a sharp warning to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. Under the headline "Who is trying to set Egypt ablaze?" Mighani wrote: Egypt has been experiencing a state

Urban Survival

• 7.7/7.3 Pacific Quake: W. Coast "Due?"
  Screw economics for a minute and score one for Patrick Geryl’s quake forecasts – a big one hit overnight.  We’ve been watching the August 12-15  quake window carefully, as you’ll recall, but always with the view that such “quake windows” … Cont ...
• Coping: While Waiting Around for War
  In yesterday’s column, we explained that contrary to the claims of some nutters that HAARP was used for channeling alien messages, the real use of HAARP (on the military side) is to deliver low frequency ground tones using an atmospheric … Continue reading →
• Long Tale Analysis: Shakes and Quakes & Eyeing ...
  (Palestine, TX)  Yep, back on the ranch this morning and going through the reports of earthquakes over the weekend.  Why?   Well, what I told people on Peoplenomics Saturday real early was (in part):   “The decision this week by … Continue reading →
• Coping: Talking Past One Another
  In the wake of the joint www.backdoorsurvival.com/ www.peoplenomics.com report on how FEMA won’t answer honest, straight-forward questions about things like camps and coffins, and calls it stuff of “urban legends” I thought we could use this as prime example of … Continue ...
• 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 →

Trends & Forecasts

• Economic Collapse-American Riots Will Be The W ...
  People, The Great Culling has begun in earnest.... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Webster Tarpley : The Coming World Economic De ...
  There is a huge world war coming up! How do you... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• The Bubble film panel @ Freedom Fest 2012 : Pe ...
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• How America Financed Communism While Ostensibl ...
  Karl Marx was a failing journalist who was... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Economic Collapse | Depression 2012
  People need to accept a lower standard of living... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

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

• FracFocus: "....just a fig leaf...."
  Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. FracFocus is a website where oil and gas producers can upload data regarding the chemicals used in wells that have been hydraulically fractured ("fracked"). Producers ca ...
• New Study: Strong Wind Industry Growth Threate ...
  Cai Steger, Energy Policy Analyst, New York, Center for Market Innovation An important wind power study (also helpful presentation version) was released today by two prominent energy experts from Lawrence Berkeley National Labs - Ryan Wiser and Mark ...
• Another Kind of Farmers' Market for NYC
  Johanna Dyer, Attorney, New York I hope you all enjoyed National Farmers’ Market Week as much as I did last week! To commemorate it, I stopped by my local Union Square market (more than once, I must confess) to buy some fresh, healthy local fo ...
• In a Kansas Corn Field, Drought Points to the ...
  Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC Last month, I spent a week traveling with my NRDC colleague Bob Deans through the drought-decimated corn and wheat fields of Colorado and Kansas, talking to farmers knocked flat by one of the&n ...
• We Can't Wait Any Longer for Safe Drinking Water
  Sarah Janssen, Senior Scientist, Health You can’t see it, smell it or taste it, but for too many Californians, a toxic chemical is in their drinking water. It’s called hexavalent chromium, or hex chrome, and though it was made famous in ...

Injustice Everywhere

• False Claims of Police Misconduct and Free Speech
  Minnesota has a criminal law that punishes complaints of police misconduct that a person knows to be false.  The constitutionality of that law has been challenged and may now be on its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Here’s some … Continue reading →False Claims of Police Mi ...
• State Trooper Kills Woman in DUI Crash
  Prosecutors have charged a Pennsylvania State Trooper with homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence of alcohol. Searfoss was coming from an annual charity golf outing at Five Ponds Golf Course in Warminster, which began around 11:30 a.m., the … Continue reading →State Tr ...
• National Police MIsconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 13 reports of Police Misconduct tracked for Tuesday, August 14, 2012: Columbia, Wisconsin: A former police officer who lost his job after a holding cell altercation has been charged. The prosecuting attorney, appointed as a special prosecutor … Continue reading →National ...
• Behold … a Real Mayor at Work!
  When a  false arrest came to his attention, the Mayor sprang into action and ordered a full review so that it will not happen again. From the Colorado Springs Gazette: James Sorensen told the Gazette that he was on his … Continue reading →Behold … a Real Mayor at Work! is ...
• Police and Prosecutorial Misconduct in New York
  Michael Powell: n 70 known cases of prosecutorial mistakes and misbehavior in Queens over about a decade, the district attorney, Richard A. Brown, has disciplined just one lawyer. In Brooklyn, the district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, promoted and gave an … Continue reading →Police an ...

Total Collapse

• Russian attack submarine sailed in Gulf of Mex ...
  A Russian nuclear-powered attack submarine armed with long-range cruise missiles operated undetected in the Gulf of Mexico for several weeks and its travel in strategic U.S. waters was only confirmed after it left the region, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. It is only the second time sin ...
• 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 ...

Daily Dose

• TNW’s Daily Dose – App.net reaches ...
  Twitter alternative App.net has reached its funding goal, Google confirms significant job cuts at Motorola Mobility, and Apple fans get fooled by a fake screw. It’s all in today’s Daily...
• 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...

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Paid contractor position: Campaign Coordinator
  Beyond Zero Emissions is a community and volunteer-based climate and energy security think-tank. A small team of contracted coordinators enable hundreds of volunteers to actively engage and deliver Beyond Zero Emissions' objective of moving Australia from a 19th century fossil fuel-based economy ...
• Paid contractor position: Technical Research C ...
  Reports to: Project Director - ZCA Transport Plan and Technical Director ZCA Project Based: Fitzroy VIC 3065 Job Purpose: To support the development and communication of the ZCA Transport Plan. After the release of the Transport Plan, the focus of this role will shift to one of the subsequent ...
• 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 - BZE's latest report
      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, challenges these excuses, exposing the true extent of Australia’s cont ...
• 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 ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• United States ranks near bottom on first ever ...
  Last month, the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy released its first ever international energy efficiency scorecard, which gave the United Kingdom the top score. Using data points honed over years of rating U.S. states, the organization hoped to inspire nations to learn from each ...
• Evidence of 'isolated' indigenous people found ...
  Evidence of indigenous people living in "voluntary isolation" in a remote part of the Amazon has been found where an Italian Catholic priest is campaigning for Peru’s government to build a highway. The discovery is controversial because the priest has questioned the existence of the isolat ...
• Massive snake found in Florida (photos)
  Researchers in Florida have documented the biggest snake ever found in Florida. But the snake is an invader — it's not native.
• NASA image shows Northwest Passage open
  A satellite image released by NASA last week shows a key channel that forms part of the Northwest Passage is partially free of ice.
• North American freshwater fish going extinct a ...
  Since 1898 North America has lost at least 39 species of freshwater fish, according to a new study in Bioscience, and an additional 18 subspecies. Moreover, the loss of freshwater fish on the continent seems to be increasing, as the rate jumped by 25 percent since 1989, though even this data may ...

Sierra Express

• Over SLPP Lies…Usman Boie Kamara’s Press Team ...
  The main opposition Sierra Leone People Party (SLPP) has now resorted to rumor mongering over Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara’s political defection a few months back to the All People’s Congress Party (APC).  (Photo: Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara) Recent publications by one of our local tabloids, a mouth pi ...
• Local Government Launches Chiefdom & Tradition ...
  The Ministry of Local Government on Tuesday August 14th officially launched the Chiefdom and Traditional Administrative Policy at the Young Women’s Christian Association Hall (YWCA), Rasmussen Street, Freetown. The launching ceremony featured a host of dignitaries from state functionaries and ot ...
• Plans to Demonstrate against Fatmata Hassan!
  Latest reports reaching this press have indicated that there is an ongoing plan by relatives of the late Harry Yansaneh, Editor of ‘For Di People Newspaper’ to stage a demonstration against former Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), parliamentarian Hon. Dr. Fatmata Hassan. The late Editor was sai ...
• Government Appoints Sulaiman Kemoh- Regent Chief
  The Ministry of Local Government on Saturday August 10 appointed Mr. Sulaiman Kemoh as the Regent Chief of Bendu-Cha Chiefdom, Bonthe District, Sierra Leone. This appointment was issued through a letter signed by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Local Government, Mr. A.S Kamara; which ...
• Occupy Yenga now!
  Today, the Yenga issue, between Sierra Leone and Guinea is rapidly coming to an end as the Guinean Military presence is being withdrawn. President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone and his Guinean counterpart, President Alpha Konde succeeded in concluding the Yenga saga through peaceful and dipl ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Dairy prices surge 7.8pc in overnight auction
  Prices of dairy products posted their third-biggest gain in about two years in the latest GlobalDairyTrade sale overnight, paced by whole and skim milk powder.The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 7.8 per cent compared to the last...
• Fran O'Sullivan: Chinese get message: We're op ...
  Bill English has sent a clear message to China that New Zealand is open for business.New Zealand needs direct foreign investment and China should be at the table was the upshot of the Finance Minister's speech to the Victoria University-Peking...
• 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...

Hit & Run | Reason

• Emily Ekins on Evangelicals and the Tea Party ...
  A new book by Christian Broadcasting Network correspondent David Brody gets across an often-overlooked fact about the Tea Party movement: It is a coalition compromised in roughly equal proportions of social conservatives and activists who lean toward libertarianism. Unfortunately, a ...
• Will Nothing Slay the Ethanol Dragon?
  Apparently the beast cannot be starved to death. As the drought kills off corn by the stalk, animal feed costs are rising, and this has a big impact on livestock management. It's causing ranchers to slaughter their animals earlier than usual, increasing the supply temporarily and ac ...
• Video: The Caravan for Peace Calls for an End ...
  The Caravan for Peace Calls for an End to the Drug War is the latest offering from ReasonTV.  Watch above or click on the link below for video, full, text, supporting links, downloadable versions, and more ReasonTV clips. View this article.
• John Stossel on Why People Love Big Government
  Most people see a world full of problems that can be solved by laws. They assume it's just the laziness, stupidity or indifference of politicians that keeps them from solving our problems. But government is force—and inefficient. he enemy here is human intuition. Amid the dazzling bou ...
• Obama’s Bogus Case for Agricultural Subsidies
  At Bloomberg, Josh Barro unloads on President Barack Obama for “pandering to Iowans’ demands for federal handouts.” He writes: Obama says we need to "put politics aside" and give farmers their money. This is backwards. America's food policies, which put food producers' interests ah ...

Mercury Rising

• A few Republicans are not trying to blame Obam ...
  If all Republicans were like Bartlett and Stockman, I’d have to reconsider which party to vote for. While I disagree heartily with them on many things, they have been honorable in accepting blame for bad policies. Via Ritholtz, David Stockman, Reagan Director of OMB, in the NYT: PAUL D. RY ...
• Things Our GOP-Friendly Big Media Outfits Don& ...
  – That right-wing gun nuts, not Muslims, are and pretty much always have been the biggest terrorist threats to Americans. (Anyone besides me remember the Posse Comitatus?) – That we need to ask why the hell we are allowing people who aren’t in a well-organized national, state o ...
• Paul Ryan, GOP Electoral Boat Anchor
  The fact that the Republican Party is no longer able to pivot towards sanity once the primaries are done explains why they are so eager to do all they can to keep anyone who isn’t in a known Republican voting group from casting a ballot. Demographics aren’t on their side in the long ...
• What Most Big Media Won’t Tell You: Paul ...
  Paul Krugman does what most people employed by the US establishment media won’t — he tells and shows us that Paul Ryan is, contrary to the carefully-protected GOP-generated media myths about him, is a vacuous twit and liar who is willfully bad with numbers: Look, Ryan hasn’t “crunche ...
• Romney Already Running Away From Ryan’s ...
  David Dayen has the deets.

Reality Sandwich

• Tonal and Nahual: Understanding Our Role in 2012
    The following is excerpted from 2012-2021, The Dawn of the Sixth Sun: The Path of Quetzalcoatl, published by Blossoming Books. 

 

   If we want to understand what will happen in 2012 and our role in this cosmic mechanism, we must understand that the four movements also govern ...
• The Imaginary App: Call for Artists
  For The Imaginary App, an anthology of art and scholarship on app-computing that I am co-edting with Svitlana Matviyenko, invite artists and designers to submit entries for a traveling art exhibition and publication of selected works in our anthology. Our exhibition will feature original icons ...
• What Is To Be Done?
    The following originally appeared on satyogainstitute.org  read more
• Empowering Public Wisdom: Chapter 2
  The following is the second installment of Empowering Public Wisdom: A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics, available from EVOLVER EDITIONS/North Atlantic Books. You can visit the Empowering Public Wisdom homepage here.  CHAPTER 2: Direct Democracy, Representative Democracy, and Their ...
• Romney's Freudian Slips and Fluctuations in th ...
      “We are going to talk about aspirations and American ideals; about bringing people together to  serve....to solve the urgent problems facing our nation. And when that message wins in America, it will be a victory for every American. Today is a good day for America. And there ...

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

• Turkey deploys new defense systems
  Turkey has deployed new air defense systems along its border with Syria as it strengthens its military presence in the area.
• Footage shows Saudi regime brutality
  A newly released video on the internet shows Saudi policemen severely beating a prisoner, thrusting into spotlight once more the plight of detainees in Saudi jails.
• Syria attacks insurgents near PM office
  Syrian troops have attacked armed anti-government groups near the prime minister’s office in the capital, killing a large number of insurgents.
• Russia warns West over Syria accord
  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned the West against "sabotage" of a political transition accord to end the Syria unrest.
• 'US-led Syria siege prelude to partition'
  The ultimate goal of the US-sponsored crisis in Syria is not simple regime change, but to divide the Arab republic as prelude to division of the entire Eurasia and maintaining US global primacy as a superpower.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

• Ex-Smoker Finds Support in Runners
  I am an ex-smoker It’s hard to believe that just over 3 months ago, I was a heavy smoker. I used to love smoking. I smoked on and off from the time I was 17. I really didn’t want to quit. I believed that there was no hope for me to ever find the desire [...]
• 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 ...

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

• BREAKING – DHS Classifies New Ammo Purch ...
  The Department of Homeland Security has redacted information relating to the quantity of bullets it is buying following a controversy concerning the agency’s purchase of over a billion rounds of ammo, which many fear is a sign the federal government is preparing for civil unrest in the United St ...
• Social Security Administration To Purchase 174 ...
  First it was the Department of Homeland Security, then it was the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and now the Social Security Administration is set to purchase 174,000 rounds of hollow point bullets that will be delivered to 41 locations across the country. It’s not outlandis ...
• Rome Burned, Will We? Ruling class accelerate ...
  As America’s engineered economic implosion accelerates, the parallels with how the Roman empire fell are staggering. It is now abundantly clear that the ruling class is preparing for a planned economic implosion after which they will declare themselves the saviors. A recent Reuters report hig ...
• Rome Burned, Will We? Ruling class accelerate ...
  As America’s engineered economic implosion accelerates, the parallels with how the Roman empire fell are staggering. It is now abundantly clear that the ruling class is preparing for a planned economic implosion after which they will declare themselves the saviors. A recent Reuters report hig ...
• Total Awareness System: ‘Facedeals’ scans your ...
  Redpepper, out of Nashville, TN, has developed technology that says it will save you money, however, the methods engaged are much more intrusive than your standard grocery store coupon. The process starts when a “Facedeals” camera, mounted at a venue’s front door, scans and matches your face’ ...

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

• Rebels Claim Responsibility for Syria Blast
  The main Syrian rebel group has claimed responsibilty for a series of explosions in central Damascus near the hotel used by the U.N. observer mission in Syria. Abu al-Noor, a spokesperson for the Ahfad Al Rasoul Brigade that has claiming responsibility for the bombing attacks, told Al Jazeera th ...
• Hospitals Working to Reduce Their Ecological F ...
  Marianela Jarroud interviews KATHY GERWIG and VERÓNICA ODRIOZOLA of Health Care Without Harm
• Surviving on a Meal a Day in Ghana’s Savannah Zone
  In order to ensure that he and his family survive this year’s failed harvest, Adams Seidu, like farmers in other rural communities in Ghana’s Northern Region, has implemented a strategy for survival. They are using what Seidu calls the “one-zero-one strategy” for children, and ...
• Crocs and Humans Clash in Shrinking Space
  This is the first of a two-part series on the human-animal conflict over space in the Andaman group of islands in India.
• Civil Society Squeezed on All Sides
  A year and a half after the international wake-up call of the Arab Spring uprisings, the room for civil society organisations is being increasingly constricted across the globe, experts in Washington warned on Tuesday. “Unfortunately, the trends have been against democracy, against expansion of ...

My AntiWar

• US Hypocritically Accuses Iran of Sending Pro- ...
• Ecuador to Grant Julian Assange Asylum, Report ...
• Egypt’s Most Extreme Hardliners in Sinai ...
• South Korea’s Lee Says History ‘Ha ...
• Report: Obama to Tell Israel US ‘Will At ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Why do people keep predicting war with Iran?
  Summary: You may have noticed that there is an active campaign underway to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons. In fact, the real goal is to prevent Iran from having even the latent capacity to build a weapon if at some point it decided it wanted one. This is why the United States and o ...
• Iran Deserves “Respect” for its Efforts to Fos ...
  Summary: This week, Iran hosted an international conference on the conflict in Syria. The conference is more important than most Western media coverage conveyed. The conflict in Syria is not just a civil war; it has become a highly militarized proxy war, involving major regional and interna ...
• Should The United States Rethink Sanctions Aga ...
  Summary: First, international sanctions only work when the population they are imposed on identifies with the objective of the sanctions. This is the big difference between the sanctions to end apartheid in South Africa and those to force Iran to abandon nuclear enrichment. Most Iranians are ...
• U.S., EU sanctions have endangered lives of Ir ...
  Summary: TEHRAN - The Iranian hemophilia society sent a letter to the president of the World Federation of Hemophilia and the president of the World Health Organization on July 28, warning about the negative effect of sanctions on the health of hemophiliacs in Iran. source: Tehran Timesrea ...
• Iran ‘hero pilot’ launches campaign to lift We ...
  Summary: U.S. sanctions prevent Tehran from updating its 35-year-old American aircraft and it’s also difficult to get European parts or planes. source: Associated Pressread more

The Daily Galaxy

• Colossal Phoenix Cluster of Galaxies Comes to ...
  Astronomers have found an extraordinary galaxy cluster, one of the largest objects in the universe, that is breaking several important cosmic records. Observations of the Phoenix cluster with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the National Science Foundation's South Pole Telescope, and...
• "Hacking the Universe" --Astrophysicists Recre ...
  Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and their colleagues at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) have invented a new computational approach that can accurately follow the birth and evolution of thousands of galaxies over billions of...
• Mars 'Curiosity' Rover at "Day Six"
  This color-enhanced view -- taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as the satellite flew overhead -- shows the terrain around the rover's landing site within Gale Crater on Mars. Colors were enhanced...
• EcoAlert: Dramatic Arctic Sea-Ice Melt over a ...
  These images, captured two weeks apart by NASA's Terra satellite on 17 July (below) and 3 August (above), show a stark melting of sea ice in the Arctic's North-West Passage. The region's ice cover is now significantly lower than expected,...
• Image of the Day: The Star Clouds & Asteroids ...
  This new and very detailed image the Pipe Nebula, also known as Barnard 59, was captured by the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory. The Pipe Nebula is a prime example of a...

Natural News

• NaturalNews to launch online store featuring s ...
  Good news, folks. We are only weeks away from the opening of our new online store, complete with our own fulfillment center and in-house customer support based in the USA. Our new store will offer competitive prices on selected nutritional supplements, superfoods, storable...
• The most damning vaccination study not publica ...
  There have been reports from epidemiological studies confirming suspicions that those who are vaccinated often don't do as well with long-term health as those who are vaccination free. Those epidemiological studies (statistical surveys) have shown that bad health...
• Farmers stage pitchfork protest over absurd fi ...
  Dozens of Virginia farmers are up in arms after one of their neighbors was targeted by county officials for holding a birthday party and produce fair on her own property. Martha Boneta, owner of Liberty Farms in the northern Virginia village of Paris, has been threatened...
• Overloaded US power grid stretched to capacity ...
  Could the U.S. really suffer the kinds of widespread power outages that struck two-thirds of India's billion-plus population recently? Absolutely, say experts, and fixing the problem won't be cheap. While the nation's power infrastructure is referred to as a "grid...
• Easy tips for growing superfoods in your home ...
  The superfood designation has been applied mostly to exotic food sources that contain very little bulk, few calories, but are high in nutritional value. Many of them, for example, chlorella or spirulina, are beyond home gardening capacity. Disease healing and preventative...

Threat Level

• Ecuador to Grant Julian Assange Asylum, Report ...
  After weeks with his fate hanging in the balance, Ecuador is preparing to formally grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asylum in that country, according to a news report.
• Appeals Court OKs Warrantless, Real-Time Mobil ...
  A federal appeals court on Wednesday said the authorities do not need probable-cause warrants to enable them to track a suspect's every move via the GPS signals emitted from a suspect's mobile phone. The decision, a big boost for the government's surveillance powers, comes as prosecutors are shi ...
• Researchers Seek Help Cracking Gauss Mystery P ...
  Researchers at Kaspersky Lab are asking the public for help in cracking an encrypted warhead that gets delivered to infected machines by the recently discovered Gauss malware toolkit. They're publishing encrypted sections and hashes in the hope that cryptographers will be able to help them out.
• FAA Documents Raise Questions About Safety of ...
  Drones are coming soon to the U.S. civilian airspace, thanks to pending changes by the FAA. But newly revealed documents on drone tests and crashes in the U.S. raise questions about the wisdom of that decision.
• Google Gives Big Content an Olive Branch in Se ...
  Google will begin altering its search algorithm Monday to lower search rankings of sites with "high numbers" of copyright-infringement removal notices. The move is to head off perhaps more Draconian legislation, and is also an olive branch to big content.

PERRspectives : Blog

• Drive-by Bigot Mitt Romney Calls Kettle Black
  So it's come to this. Less 24 hours after airing his latest demonstrably false, racially-driven ad about welfare, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney accused President Obama of waging a "campaign of division and anger and hate." By any measure, Romney's is an amazing--and cynically con ...
• Why the GOP Loves Paul Ryan--and Loves Him Not
  There's an old saying that politicians campaign in poetry and govern in prose. But when it comes to Paul Ryan and his radical GOP budget, Republicans would prefer to campaign in silence and then govern with an axe. While the Grand Old Party would love to enact Ryan's massive tax cut windfall f ...
• You Can Fool Some of the People All of the Time
  Cut taxes. Raise defense spending. Balance the budget. That, in a nutshell, is the promise of Mitt Romney's 162-page, 59 point economic plan. But if that refrain sounds hauntingly familiar, it should. After all, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and the leading lights of the Republican Party have ...
• Courageous Romney and Ryan Chicken Out on Tax ...
  Introducing his new running mate on Saturday, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney boasted, "We offer solutions that are bold, specific, and achievable." Number Two dutifully followed Number One, as Paul Ryan then promised voters, "We won't duck the tough issues...we will lead." Just not ...
• Romney and Ryan Both Supported Privatization o ...
  Though not yet 24 hours old, the Republicans' Romney-Ryan ticket is already drawing fire for both men's plans for the "voucherization of Medicare." As it turns out, there's another reason Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan should worry America's seniors and the millions more soon to join them. Both sup ...

Blackspot News Feed

• 77 Years After FDR Signs Social Security, VP P ...
  Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney’s newly picked running mate, Paul Ryan, is on the forefront of efforts to dismantle Social Security by putting seniors' savings into risky Wall Street investments. Over the years, Ryan has not only pushed for privatizing Social Security, but also dis ...
• Iranian Americans Warn Harsh U.S. Sanctions Co ...
  Warnings of military action against Iran come amidst concerns harsh U.S. sanctions on Iran will greatly hinder international donations for victims of this weekend's double earthquakes. More than 300 people were killed and thousands more wounded when the earthquakes struck northwest Iran on Satur ...
• From Military Threats to Crippling Sanctions, ...
  As the drums of war beat louder in Israel for an attack on Iran, we're joined by two guests: Trita Parsi, founder and president of the National Iranian American Council and author of the book, "A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran"; and Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Polic ...
• Israeli Journalist Gideon Levy on the Escalati ...
  Could Israel launch an attack on Iran before the U.S. election in November? On Friday, Israel's largest-selling daily newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, published an article suggesting an Israeli attack could be imminent. The article reported: "Insofar as it depends on Binyamin Netanyahu and Ehud Bara ...
• Headlines for August 15, 2012
  Syrian Rebels Behind Major Bombing in Damascus, Afghanistan Sees Deadliest Day for Civilians This Year, Correa: No Decision Yet on Assange’s Asylum Bid, Court Filing Details Harsh Treatment of Manning at Quantico, New Policy Takes Effect to Halt Deportation of Immigrants Brought to the U.S. as C ...

Consortium News

• A New Egyptian Government Rises
• Atomized America of Late Capitalism
• The Impulse to Intervene
• Ryan Pick Leaves Global Void
• Romney-Ryan Bet on ‘Greedy Geezers’

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

• 5 Eco Considerations for a Full Bathroom Refur ...
    You might have seen ‘5 DIY Hacks for a Eco-Friendly Bathroom’ recently on Planetsave, which offered some great, easy-to-implement tips for anyone looking to take a few small steps to convert their home into an environmentalist’s dream. But what about when you’re going the whole hog and ha ...
• Megapolitan Expansion Wreaks Havoc on Summerti ...
  The United Nations’ 2011 Revision of World Urbanization Prospects report outlined the expected growth of urban population to gain more than 2.5 billion inhabitants by 2050, which will necessarily require a massive expansion of urban landscapes, most likely at the detriment of natural lands ...
• NOAA Increases Hurricane Season Predictions De ...
  The Atlantic hurricane season has already gotten off to a flyer, with six named storms already, and according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, may have a pretty hectic second half as well. As a result, the NOAA have updated their hurricane season outlook. The updated outlo ...
• Building an Earthquake History for Europe
  Scientists of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences have compiled for the first time a harmonised catalogue of earthquakes for Europe and the Mediterranean region, going back a thousand years, and consisting of approximately 45,000 earthquakes. Such a database provides governments and a ...
• Perseid Meteor Shower 2012 Peaks Sunday
  The Perseid meteor shower is peaking on Sunday, August 12th. The sky map below shows the location in the northern sky where the Perseid meteor shower will appear to originate from in 2012. The Perseid meteor shower hits its peak every August and appears to come out of the constellation Perseus. ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• COGCC opposes water monitoring
  Routt County defies state oil official, OKs Quicksilver permit In a nutshell, the Routt County BOC d
• US Fish & Wildlife Small Grants Program, D ...
  U.S. Small Grants Deadlines: October 25, 2012. Purpose The Small Grants Program is a competitive, ma
• TESTING THE WATERS : A Guide to Water Quality ...
  [via blog post at Notions Capitol- Surf's Up..]              
• Ag. Water Quality Training
  The Division of Compliance Assistance and the University of Kentucky are teaming up for a series of
• Proposed Md. Farm Pollution Rules Set For Hearing
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A state senator from Harford County is taking aim at proposed regulation

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• The Loss of American Democracy By Timothy V. Gatto
  By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com June 10, 2012 Image by D
• Michael Hudson: Obama scapegoats Euro for mise ...
  by Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com June 8, 2012 Image by ma
• Southeast Asia: U.S. Revives And Expands Cold ...
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO June 9, 2012 On May 30 the two officials mo
• Andy Worthington: Gitmo detainees stay impriso ...
  with Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 11 June 2012 Image b
• Iraq: The Terrible State Murder of Abed Hamid ...
  by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, England 10 June 2012 “There was no hon

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

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  By @BGinKC Welcome to the major leages, @PaulRyanVP It ain't beanbag, it's hardball, and everywhere he goes, he is mocked and jeered at and berated by protesters, especially young women who are not amused by the fact that he seems to think that he and other men like him should have dominion ove ...
• Catholic Paul Ryan Needs to do Penance for his ...
  By @Ted Frier It looks like Mitt Romney's new running mate, Congressman Paul D. Ryan, needs to say a few Hail Mary's and Our Father's if he expects to get back into the good graces of the Catholic Church to which he swears true faith and devotion. Republicans are praising Romney for putting the ...
• What was Mittens thinking?!?
  By @BGinKC Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan for a running mate has the GOP establishment in a panic. All the proof one needs of this is found on the homepage of Politico this morning, where there are no less than three headlines screaming about the folly of choosing an ideologue who is on recor ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  By @BGinKC Welcome to the national stage, @PaulRyanVP. Get used to the sort of treatment that Sister Sarah and the tea-folk who followed pioneered. You don't get to whine about incivility when we have video of you and Glenn Beck blowing one another and asserting that progressivism is a cancer o ...
• We don't deserve those who serve
  By @BGinKC Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) has been called the signature injury of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where for the first time in the history of all the wars the US has been involved in, the enemy has killed and injured more troops with bombs and IEDs than bullets. And the more we le ...

Care 2

• SAHEL/AFRICA: Climate Change and the Fate ...
  If you had to pick ground zero for climate change, you might pick the Sahel, the grasslands between the Sahara in the north and African tropical rainforests in the south. The region is immensely fertilewhen it isn't being slammed by recurrent droughts an Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environmen ...
• Encourage a National Ban on Shark Finning ! PL ...
  Eliminate the cruel practice of shark finning, whereby sharks fins are cut off while still alive and are left to suffocate Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission: C ...
  We are deeply disturbed about Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks wolf hunting and trapping plan for the upcoming 2012-13 season. We will continue to demand that decision-makers use science to guide their policies and to urge restraint when enacting Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  & ...
• Support Companies Committed to Farming Pigs Hu ...
  Thank and support the major food retail companies that are eliminating pork products from producers that continue to use gestation crates Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• National Geographic's Best Photos of the Year
  This is an oldie, and if it has not been posted here it comes....You will enjoy this I am sure with some wonderful photos of our Wildlife! WOW...Fast Music so Speakers up! Enjoy Guys...Have a Special Day! Submitted by Mm M. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a C ...

Smirking Chimp

• GOPer Confesses: Republicans Have Gone "Nuts" ...
• Does God hate Republicans?
• The Pimp Backing Mitt
• Democracies Don’t Start Wars, but Fake Democra ...
• Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Perfecting Illegality

Paul Krugman

• Romney/Ryan: The Real Target
  It's the gullible news media.
• The Ryan Role
  He's not a serious conservative, but he plays one on TV.
• Galt / Gekko 2012
  Brothers in flim-flam.
• Culture Of Fraud
  Economists debasing their reputations.
• Poor Spokesmen
  Laffer and Glassman, oh my.

No Quarter

• Medicare: Tell your Obamabot pals to put this ...
  And here is Brit Hume’s interview of Paul Ryan on Medicare (transcript): Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Remember my neighbor who’s on Medicare? He watches the news and got all excited because Obama’s promising that he will get Medicaid eligibility. He doesn’t ...
• “America is an idea … we promise equal opportu ...
  Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy I transcribed what Paul Ryan said: “What I’ve heard lately, that’s what troubles me the most. There’s something different in their voice, in their words. What I hear from them is diminished dreams ...
• Obama, Leads with His Chin
  Clearly, Obama does not know a damn thing about fighting. One of the key rules of fight club, “DON’T LEAD WITH YOUR CHIN.” Why? If you move your face towards your opponent’s on rushing fist and it connects with your chin–lights out. That’s exactly what Obama d ...
• Obama Don’t Know Much
  Obama, his campaign and many Democrat leaders, are fully embracing the belief that they are running the equivalent of a Wes Craven horror-fest and need only shriek that Romney and Ryan are trying to choke the life out of your GranGram in order to secure your vote. Pretty damn clueless. So I came ...
• Paul Ryan Makes My Gut Feel Like A Pretzel
  I first heard the phrase “Pretzel Logic” in the mid-1970s because it’s the title of a great Steely Dan album that I have listened to a thousand times and still love. I’ve always liked the phrase because it explains in two words how some people can twist perceived “f ...

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

• EPA allies combat strip mine ruling - Daily Camera
  EPA allies combat strip mine ruling Daily Camera Five green groups assert that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had legal authority to veto water-pollution permits for one of West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal mines, and that the federal judge who ruled otherwise improperly ...
• EPA allies want WV strip mine ruling overturne ...
  EPA allies want WV strip mine ruling overturned State Journal MORGANTOWN (AP) — Five green groups assert that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had legal authority to veto water pollution permits for one of West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal mines and that the federal judge w ...
• Neighbor shoots video of College Station incid ...
  Neighbor shoots video of College Station incident KIII TV3 EPA allies want W.Va. strip mine ruling overturned. Five groups say the Environmental Protection Agency properly vetoed water-pollution permits for one of West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal mines. Now they want an appeals co ...
• EPA allies want W.Va. strip mine ruling overtu ...
  EPA allies want W.Va. strip mine ruling overturned KRGV (AP) Five groups say the Environmental Protection Agency properly vetoed water-pollution permits for one of West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal mines. Now they want an appeals court to overturn the ruling of a federal judge who ...
• EPA allies want W.Va. strip mine ruling overtu ...
  EPA allies want W.Va. strip mine ruling overturned Ventura County Star (AP) - Five green groups assert that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had legal authority to veto water-pollution permits for one of West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal mines, and that the federal judge wh ...

Memeorandum

• Fiery Gay Marriage Opponent Who Torched Cheeri ...
  Jjesselli / The Smoking Gun: Fiery Gay Marriage Opponent Who Torched Cheerios, General Mills Lawn Dies  —  The gay marriage opponent whose recent fiery, videotaped protest outside General Mills gained national attention—and triggered a criminal investigation—died ove ...
• Security guard shot at conservative group's DC ...
  U.S. News: Security guard shot at conservative group's DC office  —  An armed man walked into the Washington headquarters of the Family Research Council and shot a security guard, according to authorities.  NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.  —  By NBC's Pete ...
• Debate commission denies Univision request (Dy ...
  Dylan Byers / Politico: Debate commission denies Univision request  —  The Commission on Presidential Debates is denying Univision's request to host a ‘forum’ with the presidential candidates that would address Latino issues.  —  Janet Brown, the comm ...
• Joe Biden clarifies "in chains" remark (Brian ...
  Brian Montopoli / CBS News: Joe Biden clarifies “in chains” remark  —  (Credit: (Travis Long/Raleigh News Observer/MCT via Getty Images))  —  (CBS News) Vice President Joe Biden has clarified a comment he made earlier today in which he said presumptiv ...
• Paul Ryan's budget balancing act (Halimah Abdu ...
  Halimah Abdullah / CNN: Paul Ryan's budget balancing act  —  Washington (CNN) — When Paul Ryan struggled to explain a budget-balancing timeline under Mitt Romney, he highlighted the difficulty of trying to run a substantive campaign without being too specific.  &mdash ...

Energy & Environment News

• Green Blog: Introducing the Ocean Health Index
  Comparing different parts of the world's oceans, the index weighs whether the human activity there is sustainable or in need of better management.
• Green Blog: On Our Radar: Wildfires in Washing ...
  Altogether the fires have burned some 500,000 acres across a parched Idaho, Washington, Oregon and California.
• Dot Earth Blog: Biologists Track Biggest Flori ...
  A giant python roaming Florida's Everglades discloses disturbing secrets.
• Green Blog: Energy Security vs. Environment in ...
  In a balancing act, the Interior Department rules out drilling in some sections of the National Petroleum Reserve but green-lights it in others.
• Green Blog: A Different Approach to Coping Wit ...
  To reduce evaporation, a start-up venture proposes to cover reservoirs with a layer of vegetable oil made from palm and coconut.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.3, northwestern Iran
  Wednesday, August 15, 2012 17:49:06 UTC Wednesday, August 15, 2012 09:19:06 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.3, Reykjanes Ridge
  Wednesday, August 15, 2012 10:04:29 UTC Wednesday, August 15, 2012 08:04:29 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.1, northwestern Iran
  Tuesday, August 14, 2012 14:02:25 UTC Tuesday, August 14, 2012 05:32:25 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.2, Bonin Islands, Japan region
  Tuesday, August 14, 2012 12:06:15 UTC Tuesday, August 14, 2012 10:06:15 PM at epicenterDepth: 43.50 km (27.03 mi)
• M 5.1, Taiwan
  Tuesday, August 14, 2012 10:55:42 UTC Tuesday, August 14, 2012 06:55:42 PM at epicenterDepth: 20.30 km (12.61 mi)

China Dialogue

• Floods test Three Gorges Dam
  In late July, the world’s largest dam faced the toughest challenge in its chequered nine-year history. Deng Quanlan reports on a continuing controversy.It was the fourth Yangtze flood of the year and, on July 24, the water level at Chaotianmen in Chongqing, western China, hit 187.92 metres ...
• Geothermal dreams in Fukushima
  With nuclear power out of favour, Japan faces an urgent need for other sources of electricity. In Fukushima, attention is turning to vast reserves of hot water underground, reports Mure Dickie.Since a tsunami crippled a nuclear power plant on its Pacific coast, Japan's north-east prefecture of F ...
• Can new trials boost Chinese wind?
  Inner Mongolian experiments are meant to set a fresh direction for China’s wind industry. But technological and financial hurdles could dash hopes for a transformation, writes Lu Yanlai. For the last half year, the National Energy Administration (NEA) has been making its interest in I ...
• 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, ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• America's 12 Most Obese States (And What the N ...
  America! Where we love to watch toned, determined athletes strive for new heights at the Olympics while we sit on the couch (guilty as charged); where Coke and McDonald's, sponsors of noble athletic events, try to woo us with seductive spots highlighting their fat-laden products; where fo ...
• Ryan Family Fortune Built on Public Works Proj ...
   When Paul Ryan took to the stage in Mooresville, North Carolina, as Mitt Romney’s running mate, he attacked President Obama’s “you didn’t build that” remark about the role of government in supporting private innovation. But while Republicans have been c ...
• Why Do We Idolize Jerks?
  From the book Ascent of the A-Word by Geoffrey Nunberg. Reprinted by arrangement with PublicAffairs, a member of the Perseus Books Group. Copyright © 2012.This is an age of assholism simply because we find the phenomenon and its practitioners so interesting — or provocati ...
• Revealed: Romney Campaign’s Attempts to Deny P ...
  Over the weekend, the Richmonder blog broke what looked like a whopper of a story: that Republican vice-presidential hopeful Paul Ryan had lined his pockets from information he had obtained from a now-legendary meeting that took place on September 18, 2008. On that day, Fed Chairman Ben Bernan ...
• Mexican Poet Retired His Pen When His Son Was ...
  Most people probably wouldn’t consider poetry and bravery synonymous, but poet Javier Sicilia defies such primitive thought. In war-plagued Mexico, protesting against the prohibition-fueled violence carries the gravest risks imaginable. Many voices similar to Sicilia's have been permane ...

Threat Level

• Ecuador to Grant Julian Assange Asylum, Report ...
  After weeks with his fate hanging in the balance, Ecuador is preparing to formally grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asylum in that country, according to a news report.
• Appeals Court OKs Warrantless, Real-Time Mobil ...
  A federal appeals court on Wednesday said the authorities do not need probable-cause warrants to enable them to track a suspect's every move via the GPS signals emitted from a suspect's mobile phone. The decision, a big boost for the government's surveillance powers, comes as prosecutors are shi ...
• Researchers Seek Help Cracking Gauss Mystery P ...
  Researchers at Kaspersky Lab are asking the public for help in cracking an encrypted warhead that gets delivered to infected machines by the recently discovered Gauss malware toolkit. They're publishing encrypted sections and hashes in the hope that cryptographers will be able to help them out.
• FAA Documents Raise Questions About Safety of ...
  Drones are coming soon to the U.S. civilian airspace, thanks to pending changes by the FAA. But newly revealed documents on drone tests and crashes in the U.S. raise questions about the wisdom of that decision.
• Google Gives Big Content an Olive Branch in Se ...
  Google will begin altering its search algorithm Monday to lower search rankings of sites with "high numbers" of copyright-infringement removal notices. The move is to head off perhaps more Draconian legislation, and is also an olive branch to big content.

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

• A US link to Scottish Child's E. coli Death?
  According to the Scottish Daily Record, a schoolgirl who died of E. coli O157:H7 may have contracted the killer bug while on holiday in America. Rachel Shaw, eight, died at Yorkhill sick children’s hospital in Glasgow after being taken to the doctor suffering from sickness and diarrhea. ...
• Dale T. Smith and Sons Meat Packing E. coli Recall
  Dale T. Smith and Sons Meat Packing, a Draper, Utah establishment, is recalling approximately 38,200 pounds of beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The following products are ...
• Nebraska Faces Salmonella Outbreak
  South Heartland District Health Department along with the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services is investigating an outbreak of Salmonellosis associated with the Blue Hill Care Center in Webster County. To date there have been 17 confirmed cases and 2 probable or suspected cases repor ...
• Criminal Probe of Jensen Farms 2011 Listeria C ...
  Bllomberg's Stephanie Armour posted "Cantaloupe Outbreak Targeted by U.S. Prosecutors, Lawyer Says" a few moments ago.  Here is the story: The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Colorado is investigating a deadly 2011 listeria outbreak traced to a cantaloupe processor in the state, according ...
• So, if you sell tainted food, can you (should ...
  I got this helpful email over the weekend: Hey Bill, Section 303, the fine provisions of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic (FD&C) Act, 21 U.S.C. section 333, have been superseded by 18 U.S.C. section 3571, so that the maximum criminal fines for a misdemeanor conviction of the FD&C Act are $2 ...

AutoblogGreen

• Official: Tony Posawatz replaces Tom LaSorda a ...
  Filed under: Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Fisker Tony Posawatz is a familiar face in the green car world, having played a prominent and public role in the development of the Chevrolet Volt as the vehicle line director for GM's plug-in hybrid. Today, we learn that Posawatz - who retired from GM la ...
• Official: Fisker Statement: Karma batteries
  Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Performance, Safety, Fisker, Electric, Luxury As we suspected yesterday, the first official word from Fisker about the Karma that caught fire in Woodside, CA this weekend is that the lithium ion batteries are apparently not to blame. Fisker has released a statement ...
• 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

• Gesture control coming to Windows 8 computers
  PointGrab brings its TV remote-control system to the gesture-friendly Windows 8 user interface. Originally posted at ...
• First Thunderbird, now Sparrow? We need e-mail ...
  CNET's Rafe Needleman hopes Google's acquisition of Sparrow doesn't spell the end of competition among desktop e-mai ...
• Groupiter makes workflow as simple as Dropbox
  Tiny two-person startup brings conversations about shared files up to date. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
• Highlight 1.2: Is it less creepy or are we jus ...
  New version of people discovery app adds social engineering tweaks. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
• Zaarly Anywhere takes projects from blogs to r ...
  New service lets consumers see a project or product on a Web site and then find someone to make them a custom versio ...

Camera Obscura

• No title
• 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

• Crossroads GPS And Americans For Prosperity Ou ...
  Think Progress Justice By Rebecca Leber  on Aug 14, 2012 at 3:50 pm Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS (an affiliate of the super PAC American Crossroads) and the Koch brothers’ Americans For Prosperity have spent more on TV ads than every super PAC combined, according to a ProPublica analysis of CMAG d ...
• Scrutiny for Casino Mogul’s Frontman in China
  The New York Times By MICHAEL LUO, NEIL GOUGH and EDWARD WONG Published: August 13, 2012 When Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate, needed something done in China, he often turned to his company’s “chief Beijing representative,” a mysterious businessman named Yang Saixin. Mr. Yang arranged meetin ...
• 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 ...

Solari

• Bank of America Tells Gun Company Goodbye
  From Kelly D. McMillan Director of Operations McMillan Group International, LLC McMillan Fiberglass Stocks, McMillan Firearms Manufacturing, McMillan Group International have been collectively banking with Bank of America for 12 years Today Mr. Ray Fox, Senior Vice President, Market Manager, Bu ...
• Gold Report 2012 – In GOLD we TRUST
  From the Erste Group Research The foundation for new all-time-highs is in place. As far as sentiment is concerned, we definitely see no euphoria with respect to gold. Skepticism, fear, and panic are never the final stop of a bull market. In the short run, seasonality seems to argue in favor [...]
• Here’s Catherine’s Latest Kickstar ...
  In a landscape as dramatic as its stories, Alaska Native people face staggering suicide rates, yet remain determined to heal & thrive! Historically Alaska Native peoples lived solely from the lands and waters of the far north; it is that relationship between land, water and people that h ...
• Quote du Jour
  “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication“ - Leonardo da Vinci
• Catherine & Jon Rappoport – Best Books for the ...
  So many books, so little time. ~ Frank Zappa By Catherine Austin Fitts For several years, one of the top questions from Solari Report subscribers is “what are the best books to help me understand what is really going on?” Inspired by your questions, I invited Jon Rappoport to join m ...

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

• Corporate Legal Rights Grow As Courts Block Pr ...
  Consumer activists find a 2011 Supreme Court ruling has blocked dozens of class action suits, instead forcing consumers into arbitration.
• Woman in Jail for Shooting at Abusive Husband: ...
  There are major inconsistencies in applications of "Stand Your Ground" laws.
• Tracked, Detained at Gunpoint? 3 Americans Ass ...
  A career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker have all been targeted by the state, despite not having been charged with a crime.
• Supreme Court Asks Hard Questions at Oral Argu ...
  The justices signalled that this may not be the end of the fight over SB 1070.
• Facebook and Google Turned Into Government Spi ...
  A private company doing the government’s work does not face the same privacy restrictions.

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

• Gallup’s polls show who we trust, pointi ...
  Summary: A tottering Republic, tough times ahead, a weak and fearful people who respect the military and police more than their elected officials.  Here we look at #3 in this ugly hat trick. The New America now emerging might look like the Founder’s worst nightmare.  We can prevent this if ...
• Wisdom in the raw: best of the comments from t ...
  Summary: Intense bare-knuckle discussions of important topics brings out the occasional burst of raw wisdom. Here we harvest those from the comments section of the FM website. Please post in the comments your favorites and your reactions. Contents Introduction Pogo: one of America’s greate ...
• Parsing Cyberwar – Part 3: Synergies and Inter ...
  Summary:  As the cyberwar with Iran continues, we cheer to the news media’s reporting information and misinformation about this next frontier of war.  All fodder for laughter at a future version of The Atomic Cafe.  But there are reliable sources of insight to prepare us for the big cyber- ...
• 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 ...

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

• Please Exhale: Israel Is Not Going to Attack Iran
  Every few months there is a concocted “crisis” involving suggestions that Israel is just on the verge of attacking Iran. This cycle started almost a decade ago, and it has repeated itself roughly annually, though sometimes more frequently. In the early days, these alarms typically be ...
• Top of the Morning: Sectarian Kidnappings in S ...
  Top stories from the Development and Aid World News Service–DAWNS Digest  Sectarian-Based Kidnappings on the Rise in Syria A disturbing new trend in the Syrian civil war. “A series of hostage-takings aimed at Assad’s few remaining supporters — Iranians and Lebanese Shiites — has soug ...
• 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 ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Don't Hold Your Breath for a Romney Budget tha ...
  If you missed it, Mitt Romney gave a long interview to CNN Money in which he explained his plans for dealing with taxes, cutting the budget, and juicing the economy. The interview is boilerplate Romney—vague declarations about policies he won’t detail—but he does comment on the recent analysis ...
• Pride and Prejudice
  A week or two ago—how quickly it disappears in the rearview mirror!—my family went on vacation to Provincetown, the gorgeous seaside town at the at the tip of Cape Cod. Formerly a whaling town, Ptown has for the last century been an arts colony and LGBT haven, which suits my primary interests. ...
• Crocodile Tears from the Koch Brothers
  The latest campaign from Americans for Prosperity—the Koch-funded conservative group—is a $7 million ad buy meant to highlight the disappointment of various Obama supporters. The commercial, which runs for one minute, will air on broadcast and cable in 11 battleground states: Colorado, Florida, ...
• Voter Rights Lose in Pennsylvania
  Let's imagine a world in which Pennsylvania's voter-ID law did not disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters. The law, which requires voters show government-issued identification in order to vote, has created significant burdens for voters without IDs, a population disproportionately made ...
• Obama's European Socialist Empire
  It has been a long time since Europe has featured so prominently in an American presidential race. Republicans, in particular, have seen the crisis plaguing the Eurozone as an opportunity to attack president Obama, who—they claim—is leading America away from its core values and towards the sick ...

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 DOJ's escalating criminalization of speech
  Muslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
• Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga
  A series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
• Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...
  A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
• Celebrating the fall of a dictator
  Reports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
• A tweet that explains everything
  The nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• Moon, Venus and Jupiter in the pre-dawn East
  I woke rather earlier than usual this morning (about 4:30 to be precise) and took a look eastwards from our bedroom window and what a spectacle! Despite the early hour, I grabbed my SLR and snapped the crescent Moon, Venus and Jupiter in near alignment. I posted the raw photo on Imaging Storm, b ...
• Print your fetus
  Back in the day, parents used to spend nine months wondering what they’re baby would be like. Then came monochromatic, grainy but wonderful ultrasound, which showed you the baby in mummy’s “tummy”…we have such grainy snapshots of both our children ante-natal and lov ...
• Police evacuate university campus
  UPDATE: Roads are re-opening, suspicious package was not, apparently, a bomb. UPDATE: Jenny Rohn just updated us: “Apparently there is a suspicious package in the Whittington hospital A&E – avoid Archway station and environs if you can, all locked down. ” UPDATE: McDonald& ...
• Sonic bug repellants don’t work
  More deceived wisdom debunked, this time sonic bug repellants. Whether they are meant to repel mosquitoes, cockroaches or ants they don’t. They are based on junk science, according to a Texas A&M entomologist Roger Gold who has studied these products for two decades. The Android and i ...
• 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• National Parks Group Finds EPA Air Clean Up Pl ...
  “This long-awaited decision should have required the antiquated Reid Gardner coal-fired power plant, located 50 miles north of Las Vegas, to significantly reduce pollution. Instead, the EPA’s decision will do little to clean up the air which will result in continued negative impacts ...
• Kucinich Demands Investigation of Nuclear Safe ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is today demanding the Inspector General of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which oversees safety at our nation’s nuclear power plants, investigate the agency’s handling of the reopening of Davis-Besse in northern Ohio after cracks were discovere ...
• ACLU Asks Court to Reject Hazleton, PA’s Attem ...
  Attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union and other civil rights groups asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit today to uphold earlier rulings blocking the city of Hazleton’s anti-immigrant law.read more
• Santa Monica Council Urges Probe of San Onofre ...
  Last night, the Santa Monica City Council voted unanimously to urge the state to fully investigate the costs and reliability of the crippled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station and to compare it to other available energy sources. The council also voted unanimously to urge federal regulators to ...
• Romney “Tax Issues Cheat Sheet” Released
  LEE SHEPPARD, via Wendy Harris, Wendy_Harris at tax.org Available for a limited number of interviews, Sheppard is a contributing editor at Tax Analysts, an influential provider of tax news and analysis. She just published Your Mitt Romney Tax Issues Cheat Sheet.read more

Common Dreams-Views

• Goldman Non-Prosecution: AG Eric Holder Has No ...
  Matt Taibbi I’ve been on deadline in the past week or so, so I haven't had a chance to weigh in on Eric Holder’s predictable decision to not pursue criminal charges against Goldman, Sachs for any of the activities in the rep ...
• The Walmart Model for Education
  Josh Eidelson The world’s largest private-sector employer and the country’s most prominent conservative entertainment company have teamed up to sponsor a fundraiser called “Teachers Rock.” Backed by Walmart and Ansc ...
• Syrian Uprising Morphs Into Regional and Globa ...
  Phyllis Bennis The news from Syria is really bad these days. And bad stuff in Syria doesn’t stay in Syria – though Syrian civilians are paying by far the biggest price.read more
• VP Role for Paul Ryan Has His Former Parish Pr ...
  Jonathan Rosenblum The entrance to St. Mary Elementary School in Janesville, Wisconsin has two identical archways with contrasting inscriptions. One entrance says, "For God." The other says, "For Country." That is where ...
• On 77th Birthday, Social Security Under Attack
  Bernie Sanders We are now in the midst of the fiercest and best-financed attack against Social Security in our lifetimes.Instead of getting a birthday celebration for its wild success, Social Security is under direct by the nation's wealthi ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• This Is The War That Never Ends
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• Making Afghanistan Safe For China
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• The Costs of War
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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

• The Genius of Mutual Indebtedness (video)
• "Gold and Economic Freedom" - Alan Greenspan ( ...
  Gold and Economic Freedom by Alan Greenspan Published in Ayn Rand’s “Objectivist”
• Greece is Insolvent III: Seeking Bailout #3
  Greece seeks two-year austerity extension – CNN.com. I have been writing since last week that
• WHOSE UNDER THE FISCAL CLIFF?
  Over the last few months the term ‘Fiscal Cliff’ has become increasingly popular in political as wel
• Expanding Broadband Access To Rural Areas
  English: Availability of 4 Mbps-Capable Broadband Networks in the United States by County (Photo cre

Electronic Intifada

• "After Zionism" puts forth debates on one-stat ...
  Sarah Irving 14 August 2012 After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine is a significant contribution to the literature on the one-state/two-state debate.
• Book review: how Israeli school textbooks teac ...
  Asa Winstanley 11 August 2012 A new book examines how the widespread inculcation of anti-Palestinian ideology in the minds of Israel’s youth is achieved in school textbooks.
• Bogus allegations of "anti-Semitism" create re ...
  Nora Barrows-Friedman Berkeley 8 August 2012 The real intention of various lawsuits alleging anti-Semitism in universities is to chill Palestine solidarity activism and censor open discussions about Israeli policy in classrooms.
• Why are we in Gaza being punished for Egypt bo ...
  Rana Baker Gaza City 8 August 2012 Palestinians in Gaza are being collectively punished for an attack in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula that left 16 border guards dead.
• "I can't dictate methods of Palestinian strugg ...
  Cecilia Dalla Negra 8 August 2012 Israeli boycott activist Ronnie Barkan on the role of Israeli and international solidarity activists in the Palestine liberation struggle.

The Wonk Room

• Why Google’s New Approach to Copyright V ...
  Google’s announcement last week that its search algorithm will begin downgrading the search rankings of sites that have been hit with numerous claims that they’re violating copyright that have determined to be valid has been treated in some quarters as if it’s a worrisome surre ...
• MSNBC Host Calls Out Iowa Governor For Lying A ...
  The Romney campaign spent last week claiming that the Obama administration is trying to “gut” the welfare reform law of the 90s. The Romney camp portrayed the administration as removing the work requirements included in that law, when all the administration did is offer states waiver ...
• Ohio Secretary Of State Vows Uniform Voting Ho ...
  Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R) said on Wednesday morning that he would unilaterally step in to address what he termed the “political hysteria” over disparities between voting hours across counties. But, while he said he will issue uniform rules for voting hours “long be ...
• Video Short: As Wind Tax Credit Dominates Pres ...
  How important is the wind industry to the U.S. economy? Since 2009, the wind industry has doubled its capacity, installing enough projects nationwide to power 12 million homes and supporting 75,000 jobs. Each year, the industry attracts $20 billion in private capital to the U.S. And most importa ...
• New Group With GOP Ties Tries To Swift Boat Obama
  A group of former Special Forces operatives is launching a media attack on President Obama over the killing of Osama bin Laden, Reuters reports. In the spirit of the infamous 2004 Swift Boat ads, which turned the military service of Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) against him, a new video by the Special ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Progressive Patriot: Quebec
  One of the oldest and biggest of Canadian political anxieties is the strife between French and English Canada. As Part II in an intended series, I'd like to describe the progressive position on this issue and contrast it with what I see as the right-wing or "conservative" opinion. As all Canadi ...
• 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 ...

on Government Oversight

• CATO Study: Reshaping the Pentagon Budget Won' ...
  A recent study by Benjamin Zycher from the libertarian think tank the CATO Institute reaffirms what we’ve been saying all along: Cutting Pentagon spending will not cause the economic nightmare or job loss catastrophe the defense industry wants us to fear. In addition to CATO, other right-leanin ...
• Where's the Oversight at Nuclear Labs? Hands-O ...
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Digital Journal

• Culture Days across Canada in September
  Whatever your passion or curiosity, indulge it during Culture Days, Canada’s annual country-wide celebration of arts and culture, returning this fall for its third edition from Friday, September 28 –Sunday, September 30, 2012.
• Britain's Prince Philip admitted to the Aberde ...
  It has just been confirmed that Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, has been taken to the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary as a "precautionary measure." This is the third time in just eight months he has been admitted to the hospital.
• Mark Towhey tapped as Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's ...
  Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has selected Mark Towhey, the mayor's Director of Policy and Strategic Planning, to be his Chief of Staff. Earl Provost has served as Acting Chief of Staff since Amir Remtulla stepped down in July.
• Marineland animals are suffering according to ...
  Former workers at the Niagara Falls Marineland say animals are suffering illness, injuries and death because of neglect, blamed on a staffing shortage.
• Ottawa bus driver gets four years for rape of ...
  The former driver for ParaTranspo had earlier pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault. The 26-year-old victim is developmentally challenged, suffers from cerebral palsy, and is confined to a wheelchair.

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

• Recruitment unlikely to meet equity goals
  The Canadian Forces appear unlikely to meet their employment equity targets for 2013.
• Canada to spend $1 billion on drones
  The Harper government is planning to purchase attack drones - but who is the target?
• 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.

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

• TrapWire: American cities under total surveill ...
  Dandelion Salad Aug 14, 2012 by RussiaToday It’s been revealed that the U.S. government is secretly spying on its citizens using an advanced surveillance programme. Software called TrapWire allegedly has access to all security cameras across the country. Documents revealed through Wikileak ...
• NDAA on trial: Obama Administration fights ban ...
  Dandelion Salad Aug 13, 2012 by RTAmerica White House lawyers have been recently defending the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA. They have been arguing that jailing Americans indefinitely without trial in some instances is necessary for the safety and security of the country.Tangerine ...
• Criminalizing Dissent by Chris Hedges
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig August 13, 2012 I was on the 15th floor of the Southern U.S. District Court in New York in the courtroom of Judge Katherine Forrest on Tuesday. It was the final hearing in the lawsuit I brought in January against President Barack Obama and ...
• Saving the Post Office: Letter Carriers Consid ...
  by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com August 12, 2012 On July 27, 2012, the National Association of Letter Carriers adopted a resolution at their National Convention in Minneapolis to investigate establishing a postal banking system.  The resolution noted that expanding po ...
• Tim A. Wise: The Drought and the Coming Food P ...
  Dandelion Salad Aug 13, 2012 by TheRealNews Tim A. Wise: US food reserves at an historic low as biofuels, climate change and speculation exacerbate food crisis. The Drought and the Coming Food Price Bubble see A New Dust Bowl? by Chris Williams Bernie Sanders takes on Jim Inhofe: Global Warming ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

• Storyboard: The Strange Science and Shocking H ...
  You’ve heard the tales: A bite from a vicious monster transforms you into something less than human, leaving you just enough consciousness to contemplate your terrible fate as you slowly and agonizingly die. This scene is at the root of many of our most popular horror tropes — think ...
• Scientists Discover How Brains Keep Clean
  Every organ produces waste, and the brain is no exception. But unlike the rest of our body, it doesn't have a lymphatic system, a network of vessels that filter out junk. Now, a new study of mouse brains suggests how ours handle waste: by rapidly pumping fluid along the outside of blood vessels, ...
• Extreme Galaxy Cluster Birthing Stars at Exces ...
  The newly discovered Phoenix cluster may be one of the most extreme objects ever observed, being among the most massive, luminous, and productive clusters in the universe.
• Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Birth an ...
  If you're like us, you could look at photos of galaxies, planets, moons and nebulas all day. But you don't have all day, so let Wired Science bring you the most intriguing, beautiful or mysterious view of space we can find. We promise they will be mind-blowing and tempt you to replace your deskt ...
• Physicists Challenge Man-Made Heat Record
  Physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider have been a bit of a loose end since discovering the Higgs particle, so they've broken the man-made temperature record for fun. And science.

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Amid talk of Iran strike, IDF set to reactivat ...
  The "Eitan" drone can take off and land automatically, is able to stay in the air for 36 straight hours and reach a maximum flight height of 45,000 feet. In addition, the craft can carry cargo... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Reaffirming the legality of the Occupation: Ha ...
  One can conclude from Grossman's article, probably contrary to his intent, that in theory things could have been different. In theory the occupation could have been sustained with the upholding of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
• Simon Tzabar: A dialogue on the nature of security
  A brilliant work by Shimon Tzabar (1926, Palestine – 2007, London), an artist, writer, poet, satirist, amateur mycologist, and a vocal fighter against the occupation of Palestinian land by Israel. As... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• IDF raids Hebron-area village; residents fear ...
  An unusual operation by the Israel Defense Forces in the South Hebron Hills region has intensified suspicions among Palestinian residents that Israel is moving forward with its plan to demolish... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Moshé Machover: Netanyahu seeks war with Iran ...
  All the problems in this region stem from the way that the imperial powers France and Britain divided the region after the First World War, to serve their purposes... Syria, Lebanon, and a country... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russia Puts 4th S-400 Air Defense Regiment on ...
• Poland to Replace Su-22 Bombers with UCAV
  Poland is planning to replace its obsolete Soviet-built Sukhoi Su-22 strike aircraft with an unmanned strike aircraft (UCAV) system, Deputy Defense Minister Waldemar Skrzypczak told TVN24 television on Tuesday.
• Russian Steals Gunpowder to Fuel Stove
  Police detained a man in the Volga Federal District as he tried to steal a load of gunpowder from a military test site, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.
• Russian Warships Head to Mediterranean
  A Russian joint naval flotilla has arrived in the Mediterranean after missing a planned visit to a Russian Black Sea port, a defense ministry source said on Monday.
• Nuclear Submarine to Serve Decade After Refit
  The Russian Navy's submarine Novomoskovsk has been refitted and returned to service with the Northern Fleet, and will serve another ten years before being decommissioned in 2022, Fleet Spokesman Captain First Rank Vadim Serga said on Monday.

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