15 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

English: The 10-meter South Pole Telescope and the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP) telescope both collect data about the origins of the universe. The Milky Way and aurora australis color the night sky. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)English: Gene expression pattern of the BRAF gene. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Melbourne city view from Capital City Trail (Photo credit: Space Cadet Marko)

NewsWise

• BRAF Inhibitor Plus Immunotherapy Boosts Antit ...
  Combining the recently approved BRAF inhibitor, Zelboraf with an engineered T cell immunotherapy to treat metastatic melanoma significantly increased tumor responses and survival in an animal model, researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have shown.
• Resistance to Dementia May Run in the Family
  People who are free of dementia and have high levels of a protein that indicates the presence of inflammation have relatives who are more likely to avoid the disease as well, according to a new study published in the August 15, 2012, online issue of Neurology(r), the medical journal of the Ameri ...
• Schools Get Creative as They Introduce New US ...
  New school meal guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture have prompted schools to hire chefs, enlist parents and or input and recruit students to do food tastings so they can have tasty, nutritious foods, said a Baylor University dietitian.
• Meditation Reduces Loneliness
  Researchers at UCLA report that a simple meditation program lasting just eight weeks reduced loneliness in older adults. Further, mindfulness meditation was also show to benefit the immune system.
• Phoenix Cluster Sets Record Pace at Forming Stars
  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 eight othe ...

Natural Health News

• The Evolution of Bird Flu and the Race to Keep Up
  Bird Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to manipulate the vi ...
• 2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Was 15 Times Deadlier: ...
  A new study based on computer statistical models shows that the swine flu of 2009 killed 284,500 people, or 15 times more than health officials originally estimated.
• NY Law Gives Women More Information about Mamm ...
  A New York state law that has yet to be signed by the governor would mandate that women be given information on their breast density.
• Common Diabetes Drugs Associated with Increase ...
  A new analysis introduced to the most recent meeting of the Endocrine Society shows that three widely used drugs for diabetes are associated with an increased risk of death.
• Study Says More Vitamin D = Less Lbs
  If you're a woman over age 65 and you're deficient in vitamin D, research shows that you're probably more likely not only to weigh more, but to gain more weight.

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, August 15, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey In Syria, fresh clashes have broken out in Damascus and Aleppo, even though the defected Prime Minister Hijab has said the regime is close to collapse. Human Rights Watch reports that fighter planes have struck a hospital in Aleppo, while Reuters provides an ...
• Melbourne World’s Most Livable City
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller It’s been a slow blogging week, so I think I can get away with a completely self-serving post about the awesomeness of Melbourne.  And yes, Melbourne is awesome.  The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Livability Survey says so — agai ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, August 14, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has asked the ICTY for a new war crimes trial, accusing prosecutors of delaying the disclosure of crucial information. Ecuador will decide on the application of political asylum from WikiLeaks’ founder, Julia ...
• Did the Misratan Thuwar Persecute and Commit G ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller As I noted last week, I have just finished a long chapter critically assessing the work of the Human Rights Council-created International Commission of Inquiry on Libya (COI).  My basic conclusion is that although the COI generally did an excellent job, particularly in term ...
• Sivakumaran, The Law of Non-International Arme ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to report that Oxford has just published my friend Sandy Sivakumaran’s massive tome, The Law of Non-International Armed Conflict.  Here is the publisher’s description: This book brings together and critically analyses the dispa ...

Public News Service

• Latino Voter Drive Passes Halfway Mark
  Latino Voter Drive Passes Halfway Mark PHOENIX - A drive to register 80,000 new voters in Arizona and five other states has passed the halfway mark. The effort by the national group Mi Familia Vota targets states with high proportions of Latino residents, according to executive director Ben Mon ...
• Survey: "Anxiety Index" Especially High Among ...
  Survey: "Anxiety Index" Especially High Among Pre-Retirees PHOENIX - Americans 50 to 64 years are today's "most politically and economically anxious voters," according to a new AARP survey known as the "Anxiety Index." Seventy-two percent of that age group think they will likely have to delay re ...
• The Dangers of Living in the "Fire Plain"
  The Dangers of Living in the "Fire Plain" PHOENIX - You may have heard of a flood plain, but what about a fire plain? Some researchers are suggesting that thinking about forests in the same way we think about rivers may help stem some of the devastating damage we've seen in recent months from wi ...
• “Deferred Action” DREAM Act Altern ...
  “Deferred Action” DREAM Act Alternative Starts Next Week PHOENIX – Young people brought to the United States as children by undocumented parents can start applying Wednesday for temporary two-year work permits. The "deferred action" program is President Obama's alternative to t ...
• Study: Housing Woes Connected to Child Abuse
  Study: Housing Woes Connected to Child Abuse PHOENIX - Housing woes appear to open the door to child abuse, according to a new study based on data from children's hospitals and the real estate market. Housing stress is persistent in Arizona, with counties such as Maricopa, Pinal, Mohave and Sant ...

Center for Food Safety

• Oregon Farmers File Suit to Prevent Destructiv ...
  Groups and producers take action to halt threat to the state’s vital seed production and organic industry Today, in an effort to stop the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) from an unprecedented expansion of industrial, genetically engineered canola production into the boundaries in the Will ...
• Food Safety Update: Center for Food Safety Com ...
  By Michele Simon Last week I had the pleasure of lending my support, on behalf of the Center for Food Safety, to New York City’s proposal to limit the size of sugary beverages sold at food service outlets. (I wrote previously about why this policy makes sense.) The hearing room at New York’s hea ...
• EPA to Beekeepers: Buzz Off
  Agency denies “imminent hazard” exists, fails to take immediate steps to protect bees from pesticides Earlier today the Environmental Protection Agency announced it formally refused to recognize that honey bees face an “imminent hazard” and denied a request by beekeepers to immediately suspend t ...
• Statement by Center for Food Safety at Nationa ...
  The Center for Food Safety (‘The Center’) joined a collection of top public interest groups today at the National Press Club to voice collective concern over the recently passed House Agriculture Committee 2012 farm bill, which reported out of committee with several agricultural biotech industry ...
• New York Times’ Oversized Argument: Organic Ca ...
  by Lisa J. Bunin, Ph.D., Organic Policy Coordinator There is no disputing the claim that organic has become “a wildly lucrative business for Big Food,” as discussed at length in the recent New York Times article: “Has ‘Organic’ Been Oversized?” But what reporter Stephanie Strom has noticeably om ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife p ...
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• Vitamin D – the new book that could save your ...
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• Chemical linked to low IQ found in sunscreens
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• Kahui coroner’s verdict out this week
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• Suspect in Crewe murders made two attempts to kill
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

• Family Research Council guard shot by intruder
  Folks, can we just put down the freaking guns, ok? A guard at the Family Research Council shot an intruder who pulled a gun on him. Yes, FRC is vilely anti-gay but they deserve to be able to work without fear of yet another lone gunman shooting up the place just like the rest of [...]
• Substandard American education threatens natio ...
  The continued failure of the United States to provide decent education to its citizens threatens national security, says a recent report by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR.) The study was co-chaired by Joel I. Klein, former head of New York City public schools and Condoleezza Rice, former ...
• Ray Wylie Hubbard – Wanna Rock and Roll
• Warm seawater forces shutdown of Connecticut n ...
  A Connecticut nuclear power unit at the Millstone plant has been shut down because water from Long Sound Sound was too warm to provide proper cooling, something which has never happened before. [...]
• Assange to be granted asylum in Ecuador
  But they have to figure out how to get him out of the Ecuador Embassy in London without being arrested by the Brits.Would diplomatic immunity take care of that?

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

• Taxpayers Billed $100 Billion For “Corpo ...
  Also See: Obama: “Let’s Repeat Auto Bailout with Every Industry”   Corporate welfare programs instituted by the Obama administration are costing American taxpayers billions of dollars and they are getting nothing in return, except the bill. According to the CATO Institute ...
• (Wash. Times) – The Civil War of 2016 U. ...
  Hypothetical? War games? As we attempt to form the “OCCUTEA” party… The FEDS are working night and day to foment a sectarian civil war. DON’T LET THEM WIN! Freedom is the answer… What’s the question?   Imagine Tea Party extremists seizing control of a Sou ...
• Introducing the Gulf State Despots: 10 Facts a ...
    Astounding hypocrisy, self-censorship, and complicity by the West regarding one of the most regressive regimes on Earth. by Tony Cartalucci August 9, 2012 -  The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) comprises of 6 nations, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, the Uni ...
• “Mental Health”, Gun CONTROL and t ...
  This was passed by both houses and signed into law by George W Bush. We (Deadlinelive.info) were able to get both the McCain and Obama campaigns on the record in 2007 – they BOTH supported the legislation.   9-26-2007 Jack Blood confronts NRA spokeswoman Rachel Parsons 29:00 – 4 ...
• (Please “Boycott” me) Papa John’s ...
    WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — Papa John’s warns it will have to raise the price of its pizzas due to President Obama’s health care law. John Schnatter, CEO and founder of Papa John’s, said pizza will cost up to 14 cents more when the Affordable Care Act goes into effect in 2014.  “We’re not suppor ...

The Air Vent

• NH Sea Ice Heading for Record Minimum?
  From Cryosphere Today: Seeing the yellow line drop so far below the historic curves with much of the melt season ahead of us means we are probably on the way to a new record minimum for the Northern hemisphere.   Correspondingly, NH Sea ice anomaly is approaching the second lowest value in histo ...
• Surface Stations Project Hits Paydirt
  It seems as always, I don’t have much time.   I have been waiting for this to break for a long time now, holding my tongue through a lot of critique from the usual advocate trolls.  This extraordinary moment in climate science is FAR to important not to call attention to and I will absolut ...
• Surface Stations Project Hits Paydirt
  It seems as always, I don’t have much time.   I have been waiting for this to break for a long time now, holding my tongue through a lot of critique from the usual advocate trolls.  This extraordinary moment in climate science is FAR to important not to call attention to and I will absolut ...
• CG File Date Timeline
  An interesting Climategate timeline discussion has started in a recent Blackboard thread.
• CG Filedate Timeline
  An interesting Climategate timeline discussion has started in a recent Blackboard thread.

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• Who subscribes to page updates without Liking? ...
  Facebook page owners who want to know how many subscribers they have following their posts without Liking the page can see a list through a little known feature on Timeline. From the “admin panel” at the top of a page, … Continue reading →
• Facebook countersues Mitel over patents
  Facebook has filed a countersuit claiming Canadian telecommunications company Mitel Networks is infringing on patents it now owns, The Next Web reports. The social network alleges that Mitel infringes on its patents for a “telephone status notification system” and “user definable on- ...
• New Facebook platform industry hires and promo ...
  Facebook Ads API partner Optimal hired a new chief revenue officer, HYFN promoted a number of executives and Nanigans seems to have hired a new software engineer this week on our industry hires roundup. If your company is hiring new … Continue reading →
• Facebook tests page post ads in News Feed to r ...
  Facebook is testing a News Feed version of its page post ad format, which will allow advertisers to reach a broader audience than their own fans and friends of fans, a company spokesperson tells us. This ad unit will look … Continue reading →
• Yahoo, Bing, Power Editor, Causes, BranchOut a ...
  Yahoo! Social Bar again takes the No. 1 spot on our list of top non-game Facebook apps growing by monthly active users this week, adding 1.1 million MAU. Titles on our list gained the most MAU of any non-game apps on the … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Bob Pollin: How Do We Get Back to Fu ...
  truthout: Bob Pollin: How Do We Get Back to Full #Employment? http://t.co/VYN7NRgY @therealnews #jobs #economy #p2
• truthout: Credit Card #Debt Lawsuits by Lender ...
  truthout: Credit Card #Debt Lawsuits by Lenders Relying on Erroneous Documents, Incomplete Records http://t.co/iUqdEcOW
• truthout: #Romney Uses #Banksters' Money to Pl ...
  truthout: #Romney Uses #Banksters' Money to Play Race Card http://t.co/hhjiP9Ai #Election2012 #GoldmanSachs
• truthout: RT @buzzflash: A Healthcare Con Arti ...
  truthout: RT @buzzflash: A Healthcare Con Artist: Ryan Claims Universal Coverage Fails in Every Nation http://t.co/dz6GVfrr via @buzzflash
• truthout: Israeli Journalist Gideon Levy on th ...
  truthout: Israeli Journalist Gideon Levy on the Escalating Talk of a Military Attack on #Iran http://t.co/G3BjD4TL @democracynow #Israel

ReDress News

• Mitt Romney: the know-nothing candidate
  Lawrence Davidson traces the roots of US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney to the American Party of the 19th century whose hallmarks were ignorance, prejudice and fear of - and aggressiveness towards - what is not local
• Incarcerated inside Israel: Palestinians tortu ...
  Graham Peebles views Israel's arbitrary detention and treatment of Palestinians and its incessant violations of prisoners' rights, and argues that it is time that Israel "was treated as the criminal state it is" and that action is taken to enforce the repeated demands for justice, including subj ...
• Grace Halsell: courageous truth-seeker and deb ...
  Stuart Littlewood looks at how American journalist Grace Halsell exposed the un-Christian wart among Christians, the "Christian Zionist movement", which believes that it is "perfectly acceptable to give the green light to whatever it is Israel wants and then conceal this from the American people ...
• Mitt Romney: pioneering new frontier in US ele ...
  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".
• Mitt Romney: conduct unbecoming of a president ...
  Stuart Littlewood explores the propaganda of US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's "special adviser" on foreign policy, Dan Senor, an apprentice of the Israel lobby AIPAC and organizer of Romney's recent trip to Israel during which he indulged in a spectacular display of racism and ignorance abo ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 10, ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• The EyeOpener- The Struggle for Health Freedom
  “Freedom” is a word that has been so abused in the modern era that it is difficult to remember that it is not just a campaign slogan or a nebulous item that causes Al Qaeda boogeymen to hate us. It is an ideal for which men have fought and died, an ideal that for the [...]
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 9, 2012
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  The Frankfurt Group & the Economic Colonization of Europe Little-known outside the financial press, the EU experienced an elite coup – a political putsch – by a small group of eight individuals who call themselves the ‘Frankfurt Group’. The informal group was formed ...
• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  Phil Collins- “In the Air Tonight” This week’s pick BFP/Jamiol music pick for Soothing the Beast is In the Air Tonight with Phil Collins. Hey, didn’t you just have Phil Collins on not that long ago? Yup, and we’re bringing him back again. This live performance at Knebworth in E ...

Afro Spear

• Caster Semenya Wins Olympic Silver!
  Congrats and much love to Sister Caster (yes I said “Sister”) for overcoming all the haters and doubters and winning a silver medal in her first Olympics!
• sat’day riddymz
• “Eric Holder’s Plantation” by Derr ...
  Op-ed submission by Project 21 It’s said Lyndon Baines Johnson used voter fraud to win his 1948 Senate primary campaign. In 1954, then-Senator Johnson orchestrated a law prohibiting church involvement in electoral politics. Yet it was LBJ’s presidential library where Attorney General Eric Holder ...
• sat’day riddymz
• Byts and Bytes
  Two Classes, Divided by “I Do” The Morehouse Male Initiative: Black Male Statistics Obama’s Scramble for Africa Mauritania: Slavery’s Last Stronghold Echwalu Photography

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• Helping Hands:
  A brief look at Corporate tyranny in America today.
• Job Policies: An Experiment
  We had a 16-year experiment comparing the competing job creating plans of Democrats and Republicans. It is called the Clinton and Bush 43 administrations. Here are the results.
• A Solution for Correa, Assange and Justice For ...
  Here's one possible solution to the Assange-Correa-Obama crisis.
• Did Freeh Frame Joe Paterno?
  The FactFreeh Fiction was accepted by the feckless media as some final verdict on the Penn State story. As usual they were completely wrong - again
• Romney and Ryan: Deadly Duo To Seniors, Gays a ...
  Are Romney and Ryan really the enemies of gays, the poor and seniors? And if they are, who are they the allies of? How about Bishop Eddie Long?

Switchboard

• Wasteland: How America Can Save Money and Stop ...
  Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City Waste is just that – a waste.  A waste of time, money, and valuable resources, like food, clean water, fertile soil, or energy.  As pointless as waste is, and as much as we dislike it, ...
• 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Gilded Age Foreign Policy: Any Lessons for the ...
  Marc-William Palen provides a response of sorts to my connections between the Gilded Age and today, as well as others who have made the comparison such as Paul Krugman. Palen attempts to draw the comparisons out to foreign policy, but the piece is rather problematic on a number of levels. Palen ...
• Cleaning the Rivers
  A very good piece on the trickiness of Superfund attempts to clean up rivers. Is it better to clean up the toxic sludge at the bottom of rivers flowing through industrial sites, even though it could stir up those toxins in the short term? Or is better to risk those short-term problems in order t ...
• Paul Ryan’s Kind of Union
  For conservatives, Paul Ryan’s one possible weakness is that he’s not vociferously anti-union enough. After all, he supports the Davis-Bacon Act. He also voted for the auto bailout. But don’t let this fool anyone. There’s a particular kind of union Ryan likes: a corrupt b ...
• Gettin’ Drunk in Kentucky Just Got Easier
  Get big government out of my grocery store liquor aisle! A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a Kentucky law prohibiting grocery and convenience stores from selling wine and distilled spirits is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn II of Louisville said the state law “violat ...
• An immodest proposal
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Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Agri-Cube Turns A Parking Spot Into A Vegetabl ...
• Big Desert Solar Project Hit By Wind, Flood
• Way Cooler (And Greener) Than Your College Dorm
• Improvements to NY LEED Buildings Get A (Tax) ...
• Caltech’s Solar-Powered Toilet Wins $100K From ...

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Judge tosses ex-cheerleader's bias claim again ...
  A federal judge has thrown out a discrimination case against the Indianapolis Colts brought by one of the team's ex-cheerleaders, who claimed she was illegally fired after photos surfaced of her clad only in body paint.
• Ruling extends liability to companies that did ...
  The manufacturers of respirators used to protect workers from exposure to asbestos could be held liable for injuries even though their products didn't contain asbestos, the Washington Supreme Court has ruled.
• Sixth Circuit: No expectation of privacy in di ...
  A federal appeals court has ruled in a split decision that there is no Fourth Amendment violation when a criminal defendant is tracked through the GPS technology on his disposable mobile phone.
• Alumni couple gives $1 million Kansas Law
  The University of Kansas School of Law has received $1 million from an alumni couple to fund scholarships and a classroom renovation. The gift from Lydia Beebe and Chuck Doyle will create the Beebe/Doyle Family Scholarship and is part of the university's larger fundraising campaign.
• Tweet Relief
  The NLRB is aggressively protecting the use of social media by workers, even nonunion ones.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Two Old Widows Determined to Serve The Lord Un ...
  Neglected and ignored, Sashimani Devi, 89, and Parasmani Devi, 78, are the last surviving 'devadasis' of the famous 11th century Jagannath temple of Puri, a coastal town in the state of Odisha.
• Film Movement Commemorates 10 Year Anniversary ...
  Opening the series at BAMcinématek is the U.S. premiere of one of Film Movement's latest acquisitions, ALIYAH, the debut drama-thriller from French filmmaker Elie Wajeman (2012 Cannes Director's Fortnight Official Selection).
• Pinki Pramanik Case Sparks Controversy in India
  The bottom-line is: Who or what decides one's gender - is it society, medical professionals, the police or the law? In a democracy, where the right to gender equality is constitutionally mandated, how relevant is one's gender in a social or legal
• J.A. Steel Announces World Premiere of 'Blood ...
  Gerard plays the character of Professor Meade, mentor to the protagonist Tyler, in 'Blood Fare'. Gerard was recently seen in the Syfy original movie 'Ghost Town'.
• New Coalition Fights for Official Designation ...
  'I'm pleased to cosponsor H.R. 6304, important legislation designating the North American bison as the national mammal as the United States,' said Congressman Jeff Fortenberry.

environment 360

• Brazilian Judge Halts Belo Monte Dam Project O ...
  A Brazilian judge has ordered a suspension of the controversial Belo Monte dam project, saying that local indigenous people who will be affected by the massive hydroelectric project were not sufficiently consulted Divulgação/Norte Energia Illustration of the Belo Monte proposal during the e ...
• Wildlife Vanishing in Brazil’s Fragmented Atla ...
  The fragmentation of tropical forests in eastern Brazil as a result of agricultural expansion and other human activities has decimated biodiversity even within the pockets of forest that still remain, a new study has found. Using wildlife surveys and interviews conducted at 196 forest fragments ...
• Radiation from Fukushima Caused Butterfly Muta ...
  Radioactive materials emitted during the Fukushima disaster caused physical mutations and genetic damage to butterfly populations living near the nuclear plant, a University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa Mutated butterfly new study says. In a series of tests, Japanese scientists found that butt ...
• Interior Department Unveils Drilling Plan for ...
  A proposed management plan for the U.S.’s National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) would allow new drilling on half of the 23 million-acre reserve while placing the rest of it off-limits to oil and gas exploration. The plan, unveiled by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, also would not preclude ...
• Auto-Related Pollution in Los Angeles Declined ...
  Levels of some automobile-related pollutants in Los Angeles have plummeted by 98 percent since the 1960s, even as gasoline consumption nearly tripled during the same period, a new study says. Levels of volatile organic Spensatron 5000/Flickr compounds (VOCs), which are emitted from the t ...

Red Ice Creations

• U.S. nuclear bomb facility shut after security ...
  The U.S. government’s only facility for handling, processing and storing weapons-grade uranium has been temporarily shut after anti-nuclear activists, including an 82-year-old nun, breached security fences, government officials said on Thursday. WSI Oak Ridge, the contractor responsible for prot ...
• The awkward truth about lie detectors
  Polygraphs, the lie detector machines beloved of Fifties comic books and Jeremy Kyle shows, have a chequered history. American law‑enforcement agencies continue to use them, despite what critics claim is a lack of evidence that they actually work. Now our Government has announced plans to use th ...
• Attack of the Drones: Mysterious UAVs in Our Skies
  The emergence of new drone technologies have captured the public’s imagination, as well as sparked controversy, especially since the arrival of the US Navy’s show-stealing X-47B drone. With its triangular shape, non-existent tail, and sleek, almost saucerian look, the aircraft succeeds in resemb ...
• The Other Barbarians at the Gates
  “It’s incredible, right?” shouts Jeff Greene over the roar of the two-seater dune buggy’s motor. “It’s 55 acres!” Still in his whites from this morning’s tennis match, he’s giving a personal tour of his Sag Harbor estate, barreling at 30 miles per hour through the vast forest of scrubby pines an ...
• Batman Massacre: WHY and HOW and WHO
  THE MOTIVES Robert Holmes, the shooting suspect’s father, is a senior lead scientist with FICO, the American credit score company. He was scheduled to testify in the next few weeks before a US Senate panel that is investigating the largest bank fraud scandal in world history. This banking fraud ...

Russia Today

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

Not My Tribe

• Colorado is simply full of people who do not r ...
  Don’t you get sick of the annual Pikes Peak auto races? I do. The whole event is simply morons trashing out Mother Nature. Jeremy Foley Crash – Pikes Peak 2012 …With people like this seeing their ‘races’ as sport, firing guns off at firing ranges in the mountains, a ...
• There is too much superficial evaluation by th ...
  I am shocked (not particularly) to see that the scientific evidence shows this… Both genders stare equally hard at women’s body parts: study … What next will science ‘discover’? That both sexes stare equally hard’ at men’s wallet and porfolio parts? I do decla ...
• Capitalist chaos is now beginning to hit China ...
  China's ghost towns and phantom malls
• I don’t think their marriage would have ...
  Life in the USA! Ain’t it grand? See this one news item that let’s us know we’re all living in times of mass insanity… Na Cola Franklin allegedly kills fiancé Billy Brewster on wedding day …And notice also, that they had 4 children in the house, too!
• Colorado Springs happy enough to see Obama, fo ...
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.– It’s so dispiriting to witness the perpetual truancy of the local social justice community. They can attend prayer meeting circle jerks apparently, but when President Obomber comes to town, on the anniversary of the targeted assassination of the City of Nagas ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Statement For 9/11 Justice Off To A Great Start
  Jon Gold CindySheehanSoapbox.blogspot.com 8/9/2012 Recently, I wrote a petition for people to sign called a "Statement For 9/11 Justice." As of right now, there are 278 signatures. Not bad considering it was posted 5 days ago. Some of the people that have signed it that you may have heard o ...
• Noam Chomsky debunked on 9/11 Truth!
  Far too often I've had people tell me that they refuse to discuss 9/11 Truth because Noam Chomsky rejects it. So here is my rebuttal to Chomsky's misinformed, fallacious, and downright bizarre statements about 9/11 conspiracies.
• New York City 9/11/2012
  The goal of this website is to hopefully encourage activists, politicians, celebrities, whistleblowers, alternative media, truthers, infowarriors, and anyone that believes we need a new investigation into the events surrounding September 11th, 2001 to come to New York this coming September. ...
• New 9/11 parody song
  Produced for "Stew's Conspiracy Funhouse" podcast. Dark humor for paranoid people. Subscribe for free on iTunes or listen from source. Enjoy!: http://conspiracyfunhouse.libsyn.com/
• Cowardly AIA Panders to Political Correctness
  One thing I have absolutely zero respect for is when people critique a book or documentary film without even reading or watching it. A recent article in Architect Magazine seems like a clear example of this, except the author supposedly did watch the film he's critiquing. You wouldn't think it t ...

Fooducate

• Exclusive Posthumous Interview with Julia Chil ...
  New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Julia Child, who brought the love of high dining and French cooking to the masses here in America in the 1960′s, was born exactly 100 years ago. She is honored today by a Google D ...
• Fun Nutrition Worksheets for Kids
  New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! How do we get kids to think about healthy eating? How do we teach them critical thinking when it comes to choosing food? A few weeks ago, we asked for your ideas, just as the new school ...
• Finally? A Red Food Coloring NOT from Bugs or ...
  New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Red is a very appetizing color. We eat with our eyes, and when we see a rich red strawberry, a Red Delicious apple, or other foods draped in red, we want want them! That’s why man ...
• Glycemic Index Approach to Your Diet – Pros an ...
  New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Earlier this summer, research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association added a new twist to the classic low fat vs. low carb diet debate. Measurements of ...
• Carrots or Cake? Getting Kids to Make the Righ ...
  Go Go Mongo! New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Ahmed Siddiqui. Calories, sodium, protein, fat, are all parts of a nutrition label.  Although these bits of information are important to unders ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• Exposed: Spanish tycoon’s role in destruction ...
  Jacinto Rey González is one of Spain's richest men – and President of a ranching firm implicated in the illegal destruction of the Ayoreo's land.© AnonOne of Spain’s richest men has been implicated in the illegal bulldozing of a South American forest where the last uncontacted Indians ...
• Full-scale gun attack on Brazilian Indians end ...
  The violent attack has left the Guarani afraid and angry, but determined to remain on their land.© Aty Guasu/SurvivalMore than 50 gunmen have launched a full-scale attack on an Indian community in southwest Brazil, shooting, threatening and then reportedly kidnapping one of their leaders. The v ...
• New audio slideshow of ‘Tribes from the air’ m ...
  Aerial photographs of uncontacted Indians in Brazil caught the world’s imagination.© Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/SurvivalSurvival has published an aerial photographic gallery of tribes and their lands to mark the 18th UN International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. In a unique collaboration o ...
• Guarani Indians to take demands to Inter-Ameri ...
  Brazil's Guarani are demanding that the government protects their land © Survival Brazil’s Guarani Indians have announced that they will take their government to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, over its failure to protect their land. The Guarani said in a statement that they ...
• Victory for Indians as court blocks oil project
  Sarayaku President José Gualinga speaks before the Inter-American Court © Inter-American Court of Human Rights The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled in favour of Ecuador’s Kichwa Indians in a case against a controversial oil project that has destroyed parts of their land. Sara ...

Greg Palast

• Fukushima: They Knew
  "Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN by Greg Palast for FreePress.org I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant: Wiesel w ...
• Why We Occupy - Greg Palast Live!
  Get the DVD of Greg Palast LIVE from the Vultures' Picnic speaking tour. Undercover at the Vultures' Picnic, Greg Palast rips the sheets off the One Percent. Palast shows you the documents marked "secret" and "confidential" from the files of Chevron, Goldman Sachs, Koch Industries, the IMF, WTO ...
• 7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Bandits
  Print me out, use me, spread me around! 7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Bandits 1. Don’t Don’t DON’T Mail In Your Ballot For those of you who mailed in your ballot, please tell me, what happened to it? You don’t know, do you? I can tell you that in the last election, half a million absentee ballots ...
• Congo Vultures Bagged
  Vulture fund's $100m DR Congo claim blocked By Meirion Jones BBC Newsnight Bid to block $100m 'vulture' debt The Privy Council has ruled that a "vulture fund" cannot collect $100m from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The award was against Congo's state-owned mining company Gecamines who su ...
• Can we list your Group in our Election Guide?A ...
  We need you to join Operation PUSH, Rock the Vote, People for the American Way, League of United Latin American Citizens, Bobby Kennedy Jr., Thom Hartmann Show, Occupy.com and 150 other organizations.  Add your group's name to our book, website and film, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Call to Action: Ask Congressman Issa to Schedu ...
  Autism Advocates, Parents, Friends and Relatives, Are you tired of Federal officials covering up autism issues? Would you like to do something about it? Let’s get a date scheduled for the autism hearing! Congressman Darrell Issa, Chair of the House...
• The World of Flu as Manipulated by the CDC
  By David Burd Until three years ago and the Swine/H1N1 Summer Panic in 2009, for over ten years U.S. Government Health officials had designated the first week of December as National Flu Shot Week. The data for Summer 2009 shows...
• Helping The Doctors Who Help Our Children with ...
  On September 8th in Chicago, we parents of children with numerous health issues, will be honoring Dr. Anju Usman, to recognize the outstanding medical care she has provided to thousands of children with complex medical issues and support her ability...
• Age of Autism Science Summary: Anxiety, Sensor ...
  J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2012 Aug 1. [Epub ahead of print] Anxiety, Sensory Over-Responsivity, and Gastrointestinal Problems in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Mazurek MO, Vasa RA, Kalb LG, Kanne SM, Rosenberg D, Keefer A, Murray DS, Freedman B, Lowery...
• Possible Explanations Behind The Autistic Stru ...
  By James Williams Of the many issues that autistic people face that impact their daily lives, probably the one category of issues that impacts them the most are social issues. The inability to easily make friends, follow the social rules...

Global BDS Movement

• G4S loses its contract with the European Parli ...
  Campaigners had raised concerns about the role the company plays in equipping Israeli prisons in which Palestinian political prisoners are held in violation of international law
• Palestinian civil society and human rights org ...
  Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S, supplier to Israeli prisons at which political prisoners are detained
• BDS roundup: Los Angeles activists urge city t ...
  In this week’s BDS roundup from the Electronic Intifada, LA activists, international campaign urges Yves Béhar, university students in Pennsylvania protest, boycott activists, and more
• Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should ...
  The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been a significant instrument in the campaign to tear down Israel's democratic facade
• Scottish govt. helps Israeli company deal with BDS
  Documents obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

• Standard Chartered agrees $340m settlement wit ...
  Guardian – Standard Chartered has fended off threats by a New York regulator to revoke its banking licence for alleged breaches of US sanctions. Chief executive Peter Sands is however under intense pressure after the bank agreed to pay $340m (£220m) despite insisting that it had committed ...
• Eurozone on brink of double-dip recession as g ...
  Guardian – The eurozone is on the brink of following Britain into a double-dip recession after its economy shrank between April and June. GDP across the 17-nation bloc fell by 0.2% in the second quarter of this year and economists believe the downturn is continuing. Better-than-expected fi ...
• Australia asylum: MPs back offshore processing
  BBC – Australian MPs have approved laws allowing offshore processing camps for asylum seekers to be re-established in Papua New Guinea and Nauru. The lower house passed a bill presented to parliament on Tuesday, following recommendations from an expert panel. The bill now goes to the Senat ...
• Julian Assange ‘will be given asylum in ...
  Telegraph – The WikiLeaks founder took refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London on June 19 after losing his appeal against extradition to Sweden where he is wanted over allegations of sexual offences. After formally applying for political asylum, a decision was due this week. In the mean ...
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L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

• Urban water collection in Haiti
  No matter how many times one visits the developing world, it seems there is always another shocking image around every corner. Last week in Port-au-Prince we followed several people to collect water. After traversing a trash-lined creek bed and about 300 meters from the road we came across this ...
• Community Latrines in India
  Many slum communities in India have this type of shared, public latrine, which, while helpful when brand new, can deteriorate within a couple of years.
• An Empowered 6th Grader
  Parchurjya Bairagi was elected by his classmates to learn about good hygiene and sanitation, and to share what he'd learned with others. The results have reached far beyond his school walls.
• A Lighter Load in Ethiopia
  Letebrehan Gerezgiher is 24 years old and has three kids; Maytsada village is living in this small village. She says,”I used to travel two hours in the dry season in search of water and then, without taking a rest, prepare food for my children and husband, clean the house yard, and wash the chil ...
• Collecting Water in Majidpur
  A family collects drinking water from a newly installed submersible pump water supply system in the Majidpur slum of Savar in India. The water system was installed through the assistance of DSK and Water.org's WaterCredit program. At present, 19 poor households are using this water system.

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

• Two Old Widows Determined to Serve The Lord Un ...
  Neglected and ignored, Sashimani Devi, 89, and Parasmani Devi, 78, are the last surviving 'devadasis' of the famous 11th century Jagannath temple of Puri, a coastal town in the state of Odisha.
• Film Movement Commemorates 10 Year Anniversary ...
  Opening the series at BAMcinématek is the U.S. premiere of one of Film Movement's latest acquisitions, ALIYAH, the debut drama-thriller from French filmmaker Elie Wajeman (2012 Cannes Director's Fortnight Official Selection).
• Pinki Pramanik Case Sparks Controversy in India
  The bottom-line is: Who or what decides one's gender - is it society, medical professionals, the police or the law? In a democracy, where the right to gender equality is constitutionally mandated, how relevant is one's gender in a social or legal
• J.A. Steel Announces World Premiere of 'Blood ...
  Gerard plays the character of Professor Meade, mentor to the protagonist Tyler, in 'Blood Fare'. Gerard was recently seen in the Syfy original movie 'Ghost Town'.
• New Coalition Fights for Official Designation ...
  'I'm pleased to cosponsor H.R. 6304, important legislation designating the North American bison as the national mammal as the United States,' said Congressman Jeff Fortenberry.

Worldnews

• 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)
  Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.
• Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?
  With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.
• U.S. Troops ‘Killing for Sport’ in Afghanistan ...
  Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.

MY Daily Apple

• Our Genes Are Not Yet Ready For So Many Wheat- ...
  According to an expert in digestive disorders, the current rise in dietary problems related to gluten could be due to over reliance on wheat-based products...
• Programs Launched To Develop Medical Counterme ...
  Concerns about terrorist attacks, the prospect of a rogue nation using nuclear weapons and the Fukushima power plant accident in Japan are fostering efforts to develop a new family of drugs that everyone hopes will never be used, according to an article in the current edition of Chemical & Engin ...
• ScienceShot: Magnetic Tornadoes Rage on the Sun
  Pervasive swirling vortexes may heat the solar corona
• Eating Vegetables May Protect Pancreas, Study ...
  4 servings a day cut risk of acute pancreatitis by 44% compared to 1 helping, researchers say Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Nutrition, Pancreatitis
• Phylogeny: Rewriting evolution
  Tiny molecules called microRNAs are tearing apart traditional ideas about the animal family tree.

Common Dreams

• After Years of Grassroots Pressure, Johnson & ...
  Following years of pressure by consumer groups, cosmetics giant Johnson & Johnson has announced it will be phasing out dangerous chemicals and cancer-causing ingredients from its baby and adult products by 2015. (photo: aldinegirl87 via Flickr) ...
• Leaked Israel Memo: Propaganda or Iran War Plan?
  Richard Silverstein - the American blogger who says he has been given the text of a memo outlining Israel's plans for a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities - is clear about what he thinks it is. read more
• Another Oil Spill Off the Coast of Nigeria
  In a reminder of the cost of oil, an oil spill has hit the already ravaged Niger Delta region of Nigeria near operations by Mobil Producing Nigeria, a local subsidiary of U.S. oil behemoth ExxonMobil. In a statement, the company "confirms that oil from an unknown source has been sighted alo ...
• Penn. Judge Refuses to Block Controversial Vot ...
  A Pennsylvania judge has ruled not to block a controversial voter ID law on Wednesday, which critics have said could disenfranchise as many as 750,000 registered voters.  read more
• Families of Slain Iranian Nuclear Scientists S ...
  Several Iranian families have filed a lawsuit against Israel, the US and Britain, accusing them of involvement in the assassination of their relatives, including the killing of five nuclear scientists since 2010. read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Examine Religion - Tweets

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• ExamineReligion: Joan Rivers consults voodoo p ...
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Energy Collective

• One Step Closer to Game-Changing Electric Vehi ...
• The $449 Billion Answer to the Budget Crisis?
  The House Budget Committee had a fairly simple question for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO): If the United States immediately opened most federal areas to oil and natural gas development, how much revenue would the federal government realize in various fees and royalties?
• Will the Drought Also Cause the Renewable Fuel ...
• The Smart Grid – Shifting Paradigms for Consumers
• Consumers and global climate will win with new ...

Green House - USA Today

• Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...
  How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
• What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...
  What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
• U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...
  Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
• Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers
  Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
• Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hike
  President Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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Peoples Voice

• What Next in Syria?
  by Stephen Lendman A war of words accompanies conflict on the ground. On August 14, Reuters headlined "Assad's rule disintegrating, ex PM says after defecting," saying: Former prime minister Riad Hijab claims Assad "controls less than a third of Syria and his power is crumbling." Hij ...
• Colonizing Nations 101
  by Stephen Lendman Last December, Truth 11.com offered a model for destroying and colonizing nations. In Orwellian newspeak, it said: (1) Global "Mafia" scoundrels target nations "ripe for 'Regime Change.' " Calling them rogue states enlists support. (2) CIA/Mossad/MI6 and collaborators "arm, ...
• Goldman Sachs Free to Keep Stealing
  by Stephen Lendman Goldman again got off scot-free. On August 9, the Justice Department dropped criminal fraud charges. Evidence the equivalent of enough firepower to sink a carrier battle group was buried and forgotten. More on what happened below. Black's Law Dictionary says: "Fraud co ...
• Saving the Post Office: Letter Carriers Consid ...
  by Ellen Brown 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 postal services and developing new sources of revenue are import ...
• What if the Empire Project Fails in Syria?
  By Michael Collins Al Jazeera's weekend coverage of the battle for Aleppo, Syria reveals a major obstacle for the United States-NATO Empire Project. Hardly anyone in Aleppo seems to be joining up to fight with the rebels. Syrian rebels get limited support in Aleppo, Al Jazeera, August 11 Re ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Next Up: Calling young leaders in Vancouver, E ...
  Next Up taking applications for 2012/13 programs in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Saskatoon Next Up -- A leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice Next Up is an amazing, intensive and transformative program for young social change activists between the ...
• Bargaining Power and Job Quality in the United ...
  The age and educational attainment of the US workforce have increased significantly since 1979.  Since older and better educated workers generally have higher pay and better benefits, one might expect a greater share of workers to be in good jobs today compared to 30 years ago. In a Center ...
• Crime and Declining Unionization
  In an article entitled "Crime and the Decline of Unions," economics professors Robert Baumann and Bryan Engelhardt of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts estimate the elasticity of crime with respect to union membership.  They contend that the drop in US union membersh ...
• Final Report Released on CAW-CEP New Union Project
  The final report of the proposal committee for a new union combining the CAW and CEP contains many intriguing ideas, not least being the 5 regional councils, funded by a separate per capita levy, that give the new union the feel of a labour central.  All local unions in each region will be ...
• Low-income residents face housing challenges i ...
  In addition to the usual challenges of finding affordable, good quality housing that meets their needs, many low-income tenants have trouble maintaining their housing, often because their rents increase sharply or their units are converted to condominiums.  To learn more ...

World Wide Hippies

• Beaten Down, Isolated, Angry, And Distracted: ...
  By Phil Rockstroh - A couple of decades ago, upon returning to Atlanta, Georgia, after spending a year abroad, I would frequent an independent bookshop that contained a small coffee shop/cafe, where I would sip tea, read books and periodicals, and engage in the nearly extinct art of long form fa ...
• Fukushima mutant butterflies spark fear of eff ...
  From rt.com – Genetic mutations have been found in three generations of butterflies living near Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. The gruesome discovery has led scientists to fear that the leaking radiation could affect other species. Researches said that around 12 per cent o ...
• Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Wednesday
  Lawmakers suspect money laundering issues at Wal-Mart (Reuters) – Two U.S. House Democrats investigating bribery allegations in Wal-Mart’s Mexico affiliate said on Tuesday they have obtained new internal records that may point to evidence of tax evasion and money laundering. Reps. El ...
• “Sock Puppets” Online Predator Sti ...
  Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media Military’s ‘sock puppet’ software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda This is a re-post of  an article from guardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 March 2011 09.19 EDT The US military is developing softw ...
• Russian Psychologists ‘Appalled’ B ...
  By Maryana Torocheshnikova,rferl.org  - MOSCOW — For Russian prosecutors looking to justify a charge of “hooliganism … motivated by religious hatred or hostility” against the feminist punk performance-art group Pussy Riot, the third time was the charm. In order to bring such an ...

FourWinds10

• Scientists discover oil-containing dirty blizz ...
  Herald Tribune by Kate Spinner, May 26, 2011: A mixture of oil and dead organic particles may still be falling to the deep bottom of the northern Gulf of Mexico, potentially harming the base of a food web that supports all kinds of sea life, from giant whales and blue-fin tuna to grouper and sna ...
• Millions of tons of Fukushima debris expected ...
  (NaturalNews) The 9.0+ mega earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan back in March caused millions of tons of debris to wash into the Pacific Ocean. And for the first time, some of that debris has been spotted drifting between Russia and Hawaii, where officials expect it to hit Hawaiian shores m ...
• 'STAGE TWO' OF THE BP GULF OF MEXICO ENVIRONME ...
• Massive oyster die-offs in Chesapeake Bay leav ...
  (NaturalNews) Tack it on to the growing list of mysterious animal die-offs. Watermen working the oyster fishing business in the Maryland portion of Chesapeake Bay say the massive die-off of oysters in the area this year is due to recent hurricanes and tropical storms that have swept fresh water ...
• TEXAS GULF ALERT TO SAY AWAY, 4.2 MILLION POIS ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• How to Acquire Accurate Energy Data and Statistics
  Note: I am back in Hawaii after a long road trip, so my posting frequency will return to normal. I intend to record new R-Squared Energy TVs in the near future as well. In last week’s Energy Trends Insider our featured stories were How to Acquire Accurate Energy Data and Statistics, Invest ...
• Climate Change and Developing Countries
  This post continues a theme I covered in my book Power Plays. Part 1 covered the impact on oil price and supply in Petroleum Demand in Developing Countries. Here I discuss some of the climate change implications. Climate Change Implications Regardless of one’s beliefs on climate change, it ...
• Why China is Getting Their Feet Wet in the Oil ...
  In last week’s Energy Trends Insider our featured stories were Why China is Dipping Their Feet in the Canadian Oil Sands, CNOOC’s Purchase of Nexen May Signal New Wave of Consolidation, and Subscriber Questions on Lanzatech and Butanol. As we have done previously, we would like to sh ...
• Petroleum Demand in Developing Countries
  Note: I am still traveling, and my posting schedule won’t return to normal until after August 11th. This article was originally written for World Business Magazine in Singapore, and explores one of the themes I covered in my book Power Plays. I am breaking it up into two parts. The first d ...
• Analyzing Coskata’s Major Strategy Shift
  In last week’s Energy Trends Insider our featured stories were How to Make Money in Solar as Every Solar Manufacturer Goes Bankrupt, Analyzing Coskata’s Major Strategy Shift, and Rough Road For Biobutanol. As we have done previously, we would like to share one of those stories with r ...

Discovery Educator Network

• easel.ly | create and share visual ideas online
  Comments:Create infographics with these very helpful tools--backgrounds, objects, shapes, themes, more. - Randy RodgersTags: infographics, visualization, infographic, tools, web2.0, create, web, toolby: Randy Rodgers
• Sketch and doodle your brains out.
  Comments:Ultra simple web-based drawing tool, no account needed, and drawings can be downloaded. - Randy RodgersTags: sketch, draw, art, creativity, web, 2.0by: Randy Rodgers
• How The USA Expanded (In One Mesmerizing Anima ...
  Tags: expansion, history, Westward, US, edudemic, animated_gifby: Dean Mantz
• Tip 110 - Auto Generate QR Codes in Google Spr ...
  Tags: qrcodes, qr codes, google, spreadsheet, resources, qrcodeby: Heather Hurley
• Grazing for Digital Natives - Infographics
  Comments:The great (former DEN Genius) Jennifer Dorman has developed thiis fantastic resource regarding infographics.   - Dean MantzTags: infographic, infographics, digitalfootprint, JenniferDorman, Cliotech, wikispacesby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• Plant More Trees, Live Crime-Free
  Over a 50-year lifespan, a tree provides you and everyone around you with $31,250 worth of oxygen, and $62,000 worth of air-pollution control, according to the nonprofit environmental group Delaware Riverkeeper. But its contribution to your public safety? Priceless. Results in a recent study pu ...
• Contaminated Fruit at the Center of Two Huge R ...
  Fruit season is at its height, and this summer, like last, fruit is at the center of two major food-safety recalls affecting dozens of states. Cantaloupe and Honeydew North Carolina–based Burch Farms is recalling cantaloupes and melons grown on its farm because the fruits have the potential ...
• How Your Grocery Bill Is Going to Change
  Food prices are going to continue to rise in the coming weeks and months as U.S. farmers continue to suffer from the worst drought to hit the country in the last half century. The unfavorably dry weather in the U.S., a major food exporter, is affecting food prices across the globe. (Scientists ...
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• Why Your Periods Really Suck
  Periods can be a real pain—just ask any woman. But aside from the normal cramps and bloating that are par for the course when you're a female, an increasing number of women face more serious painful periods thanks to conditions like endometriosis and fibroid tumors. Endometriosis, a condition ...

big think

• 70 Percent of Research at Academic Institution ...
  When research is reproduced it is confirmed as sound science. The process of turning that science into something, for example, a helpful drug, can then proceed. Unfortunately, an alarming 70 percent of the research that takes place in the United Sates is never reproduced. Research that is not .. ...
• Dr. Michio Kaku's Playlist: Five Science Video ...
  What is the meaning of infinity? How can the Higgs boson be explained in a way that is clear and accessible? The answers to these questions and many others can be found in five videos that theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku says you cannot afford to miss.   This list also includes Dr. ...
• Separating Signal From Noise: How to Better Tr ...
  What’s the Big Idea? The increasingly fluid cultural landscape and an overabundance of information call for new ways to gather useful business intelligence.  In our hyper-connected world, ideas, data and conversations move at warp speed. We find ourselves in a churning sea of complex reference ...
• The new "Life skills your Parents should have ...
  Today a group of investors including three tech space leaders, namely Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Eric Schmidt of Google and Evan Williams of Twitter, put $10 million in EverFi, a Washington based startup that creates online tutorials for college students. The topics currently covered are financial .. ...
• Desperately Seeking (Signs of) Martian
  Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What’s the Latest Development? A report with the theme “Seeking the Signs of Life” is coming out in the next few weeks that will detail next steps in Mars exploration via the efforts of a newly-formed group at NASA, the Mars Program Plan ...

Information Liberation

• Peter Schiff: The Estate Tax Needs to Die
  If you add up all the taxes a rich person pays over their life and post death, the government takes over 90%, leaving their kids with a measly 10%. How is this any different from communism?...
• Obama's Latest Bailout Target: U.S. Farmers
  Obama has a brilliant new plan to save U.S. farmers suffering from drought--give them hordes of taxpayer money for their produce, "freeze it," then use it at a later date. Reuters reports: CHICAGO -- President Barack Obama will announce on Monday...
• Obama's 'You Didn't Build It' Canard
  Barack Obama recently proved once again that he is indeed a Proud Marxist (as Yuri Maltsev, former advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev, calls him) when he argued that successful American entrepreneurs "didn*t build" their businesses on their own. Govern...
• The Right's brittle heroes
  The contrast between (a) how Paul Ryan is depicted by worshipful Republicans and media figures alike * as a principled fiscal conservative and advocate of Randian self-sufficiency ** and the reality of what he*s done in his life is as stark as it is ...
• DHS Makes Massive Purchase of Explosive Nitrat ...
  A false flag is coming soon, so says*Susanne Posel, Recently the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) placed a*solicitation*by way of the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) for 700 pounds of High Density Ammonium Nitrate and 700 pounds of A...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Moon, Venus and Jupiter in the pre-dawn East
  I woke rather earlier 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, but have don ...
• 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
  Cell biologist Jenny Rohn just tweeted that “Police have asked us to evacuate Archway campus of University College London” and asks if anyone know whats going down? No responses have appeared as yet, be interesting to know if she has a twitter scoop on something interesting. Anyone k ...
• 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 ...

RFF Library

• Energy Technology Perspectives: Pathways to a ...
  International Energy Agency (available to RFFers through OECD iLibrary; username and password on library landing site, left frame) http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/energy/energy-technology-perspectives-2012_energy_tech-2012-en ETP 2012 shows: Current progress on clean energy deployment, and what can ...
• The Political Benefits of Taking a Pro-Climate ...
  Yale Project on Climate Change Communication / by Connie Roser-Renouf, Anthony Leiserowitz and Edward Maibach http://environment.yale.edu/climate/files/Political-Benefits-Pro-Climate-Stand.pdf [Via NYT DotEarth] …at the national level and among ten key swing states – taking a proclimate st ...
• 2011 Wind Technologies Market Report
  US Dept. of Energy http://1.usa.gov/Or41du [From Press Release]   …According to the 2011 Wind Technologies Market Report, the United States remained one of the world’s largest and fastest growing wind markets in 2011, with wind power representing a remarkable 32 percent of all new electric ...
• Coastal Fishers’ Livelihood in Peril: S ...
  Center for Participatory Research and Development, Bangladesh | Institute of Marine Sciences and Fisheries at the University of Chittagong / by Sayedur Rahman Chowdhury, M Shahamat Hossain, MD Shamsuddoha and SM Munjurul Hannan Khan http://bit.ly/TCF79U Bangladesh is one of the most disaste ...
• WISDOM, the Wyoming Interagency Spatial Databa ...
  State of Wyoming http://wisdom.wygisc.org/ [About Page] The Wyoming Interagency Spatial Database & Online Management (WISDOM) System is a user-friendly tool that will allow any interested individual to discover, consider, and assess Wyoming’s wildlife resources. WISDOM has been developed in ...

Scientific American - News

• Climate Change Shaped Ancient Mummification Pr ...
  From Nature magazine [More]
• U.S. Swine Flu Outbreak Spikes
  From Nature News Blog [More]
• Common Lab Dye Found to Interrupt Formation of ...
  From  Nature Medicine's  "Spoonful of Medicine" blog : [More]
• Prosthetic Retina Helps to Restore Sight in Mice
  By Geoff Brumfiel of Nature magazine [More]
• Shark-Tooth Weapons Reveal Lost Biodiversity
  From of Nature magazine [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• Update on the Quebec Student Strike
  Colleges vote on continuing the strike in Montreal and environs The first week back at classes has proven to be a crucial time for college students in Quebec, who have begun voting on whether to maintain the strike, which kicked off in Febr ...
• Ramadan Riot 2010, Maplehurst CC
  “No Justice, No Peace” (originally published on Alex Hundert's blog at alexhundert.wordpress.com, Alex is writing from prison as he is incarcerated for involvement in the G20 protests) This piece was originally intended to ...
• Montreal Radical Dyke March will be a "Collect ...
  Hundreds expected at city's first ever Dyke March Dykes of all backgrounds will walk through the streets of Montreal together tonight. The first annual Montreal Radical Dyke March will kick off at 6pm at Place Émilie-Gamelin. Whil ...
• The Health Inequities of Race and Proximity to ...
  NSPIRG launches new web site on environmental justice and environmental racism in Nova Scotia For several years, the Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group (NSPIRG) has been offering support to residents of Lincolnville in their fight a ...
• PetroWorth Granted Extension for Exploratory O ...
  The Margaree Environmental Association loses its Nova Scotia Supreme Court appeal to prevent PetroWorth’s progress The Nova Scotia Department of Energy has granted PetroWorth Resources a one-year extension in its pursuits to test oil well d ...

David Seaton's News Links

• The Summer of 2012 (a poem)
  As I said in my previous post, at some point prose fails to express what I really feel. And I also begin to observe something that people who have never lived in a dictatorship may be slow to notice: that frank language is actively repressed, that certain truths may no be debated or even mention ...
• A dream called “hope” in the potter’s field
  I’m on vacation and among the books I’m reading is “It’s the Middle Class, Stupid!” by James Carvillle and Stan Greenberg, a book I strongly recommend to anyone of any political leaning, anywhere, who is interested in where the world’s greatest economy is headed and what that journey to has mean ...
• Bibi Netanyahu and Israel's primal fallacy
  David Seaton's News Links (David Grossman) said he feared that Netanyahu and Barak would bomb Iran partly out of a perceived strategic need to back up their threats with action, but also because of what he sees as Netanyahu’s sense of historic responsibility to save the “people of eternity.” ...
• Thomas Friedman attacks Adelson, Netanyahu, AI ...
  David Seaton's News LinksCertain people have more credibility than others when talking about certain subjects. For example, if Warren Buffet says that rich people should pay more taxes, nobody would accuse him of fomenting "class warfare". That is because he will be the one that ends up pay ...
• The pain in Spain and America's iron jaw
  David Seaton's News LinksThis remobilisation of Spanish society, lulled into comfort and complacency during the boom years, in some senses recalls the fevered political and street activity of the transition to democracy after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco in 1975. Yet it is more amo ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Mitt Romney Still Unprepared for Questions Abo ...
  Here's the latest from Romneyland: Since the announcement of Ryan as Romney's vice-presidential pick, the Republican challenger has faced persistent questioning over where he stands. The Romney team has been left vulnerable, in part because it has been sending out mixed messages. Romney, in a ...
• The Media's Love Affair With Paul Ryan Might b ...
  It's been about six hours since my last Paul Ryan post, so I guess I'm allowed to do another one now without turning my blog into Paul Ryan Central. I've been emailing with a friend about something that might be surprising if it's true: the changing tone of the press coverage of the Ryan annou ...
• Just How Awful is Nano-Plagiarism?
  I'm with Atrios on this. Plagiarism "scandals" have a tendency to get out of hand awfully quickly. Here's the latest charge against Fareed Zakaria: Zakaria’s 2008 book, “The Post-American World,” contains a quote from former Intel Corp. chief executive Andy Grove about the ...
• Chart of the Day: The Blogosphere Has Too Many ...
  Reihan Salam on how to persuade people: If you want to change people’s minds, graphs and charts might be more effective than words alone. I sense that the word is out about this phenomenon, and that it is being used and abused. But that is another matter entirely. I don't know if R ...
• Congress Really, Truly Doesn't Care About the ...
  Martin Gilens has done some very interesting work on the way that politicians respond to public opinion, and his key result is that Congress doesn't really care much about the poor (no surprise) and cares only modestly about the middle class (a bit of a surprise). What they care about are the ...

Insanity Report

• IC 341: Moral High Horse Olympics
  Topics: Olympic fails Worst Olympic swimmer in history Domestic Violence CAN be funny Beware White Boys Bearing Drugs Shark Week Real Fear Factor The fear of prison rape keeps me out of prison Peeing in the pool Man beats woman with her dead dog Share with your friends:
• IC 340: Double Trouble
  Topics: Olympic Taekwondo sucks Please don’t put MMA in the Olympics How Fox can (but won’t) use Days of Future Past to fix continuity Whedon back Warner Brothers and DC keep fucking up with the Justice League If you marry one conjoined twin…….. Pope says condoms are okay ...
• IC 339: Niggalympics
  Topics: Folks taking things out of hand Did anyone really make fun of Gabby Douglas’ hair? Serena crip walking Rick Ross’ food rapping Cupcake ATM Evander Holyfield broke Fuck the Paterno family The Niggalympics Stabbed over Xbox Share with your friends:
• IC 338: God is an Asshole (with a Special App ...
  Topics: The Chick Fil-A situation is getting out of hand Stop playing 6 Degrees of Separation with where your money is going X-Men First Class Sequel = Days of Future Past? Can Fox make a clean break? Fuck the Total Recall remake Snoop Dogg proves that too much weed isn’t good for you Weez ...
• IC 337: But He Smoked Crack
  Topics: Bigotry is delicious Being a nerdy isn’t trendy Comic Book Fans going too hard? “But He smoked crack…” Having Kristen Stewart Cheat on you Jerry Sandusky is creepy Penis thieves Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

• CO2-focused breeding can arm crops for food fight
  Higher CO2 levels could ensure we have enough food in the face of other climate and population changes, says Lewis Ziska from the US Department of Agriculture, if crop breeding programs tailored to take advantage get enough support
• Continued emission growth promises US megadroughts
  2000-2004 western US drought was worst in 800 years, but will become normal in future, reversing the region’s absorption of CO2 and worsening climate change, says Christopher Schwalm from Northern Arizona University
• Developed countries duck warming responsibility
  Rich countries have emitted 2/3 of CO2 through history but their pledges are set to result in just 1/3 of any future warming slowdown, says a study that combines climate, social, economic and ecological science by Xuefeng Cui and John Moore from Beijing Normal University and their colleagues.
• Society must respond 50 times faster to meet l ...
  Using climate-society feedbacks Andrew Jarvis and colleagues from Lancaster University, UK, predict that the world is on course for 6°C of warming, but this could be much lower with even a slightly stronger response, if we make it quickly
• Rich versus poor obstructs climate progress
  Though the 45,000 strong international Rio+20 meeting last month seemingly did little for climate change and the environment, social and economic issues must be resolved for such negotiations to be successful in future.

e!Science News

• New report presents research program for solar ...
  A new report from the National Research Council presents a prioritized program of basic and applied research for 2013-2022 that will advance scientific understanding of the sun, sun-Earth connections and the origins of "space weather," and the sun's interactions with other bodies in th ...
• Lunar reconnaissance orbiter spectrometer dete ...
  Scientists using the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) spectrometer aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) have made the first spectroscopic observations of the noble gas helium in the tenuous atmosphere surrounding the Moon. read more
• Designing tiny molecules that glow in water to ...
  University of Miami scientists have developed a way to switch fluorescent molecules on and off within aqueous environments, by strategically trapping the molecules inside water-soluble particles and controlling them with ultraviolet light. The new system can be used to develop better fluorescent ...
• Team uncovers link between hormone levels and ...
  Working with a national team of researchers, a scientist from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute has shown for the first time a link between low levels of a specific hormone and increased risk of metabolic disease in humans. read more
• Babies may not have a 'moral compass' after all
  New research from New Zealand's University of Otago is casting doubt on a landmark US study that suggested infants as young as six months old possess an innate moral compass that allows them to evaluate individuals as 'good' or 'bad'. read more

unEarthed

• Q&A: Frank James, M.D., Whatcom Docs
  Medical professionals concerned about Pacific Northwest coal export projects (Editor's Note: This is the fifth blog post in an ongoing series about proposed coal ...
• Kayford Mountain, Prettiest Lady I've Ever Seen
  Some love stories captured on video She said, “Do you cheat on me?” He said, “Sure I do.” “Do I know her?" “Sure yo ...
• Winning The Debate On Fracking
  The law and the facts are on our side Earthjustice attorney Deborah Goldberg came out victorious in a recent Intelligence Squared debate over whether the natural ...
• What It Means To Be A Resource Colony
  Will the eco-conscious Pacific Northwest become a coal-shipping hub? Author Wendell Berry has examined the relationship of rural America with the nation’s urban centers. ...
• The Wild West Targets Wolves Again
  Wyoming wants gray wolves off the endangered species list The anti-wolf crowd in Wyoming has this irrational fear of wolves, and no amount of evidence can calm ...

Brave New Climate

• Fit-for-service low-carbon electricity technol ...
  This article (by Barry Brook) was originally published on The Conversation website until the title: “Low-carbon electricity must be fit-for-service (and nuclear power is)“. You can wade through the 224 comments over there (if you dare…) See also the comment here by Keith Orchis ...
• No easy substitutes for fossil fuels
  The following guest post is republished (with permission from the author) from Opinion Online. Tom Biegler, who wrote this piece, worked with Martin Nicholson and me on our 2010 Energy paper, How carbon pricing changes the relative competitiveness of low-carbon baseload generating technologies. ...
• Is the Olympic Dam mine a special case?
  Here is an Op Ed published by Geoff Russell and me in the The Adelaide Advertiser newspaper this week. It was in response to this piece by Jim Green. ———— OLYMPIC Dam uranium can power Australia four times over and close all our coal mines, write Geoff Russell and Barry B ...
• Does energy efficiency reduce emissions and pe ...
  Guest Post by Graham Palmer. Graham is an industrial engineer and energy commenter from Melbourne. For another BNC post featuring his work, see Coal dependence and the renewables paradox. This post summarises the findings of a paper just published in the peer-reviewed journal Sustainability by G ...
• Radio debate on nuclear power for addressing c ...
  Yesterday I debated nuclear energy and climate change on 891 ABC radio with Greens Senator Scott Ludlum, on the afternoon show hosted by Sonya Feldhoff. (It was a studio interview, so the audio quality is quite good.) We had a decent amount of time to cover off on issues, including answering cal ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

• As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
  By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
• The Evolution of the Butterfly
  Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
• After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
  This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:
• Fault Lines: History of an Occupation
• Wall Street Pirates – Shepard Fairey & J ...
  Shepard Fairey and Jamie Reid print collaboration.

+972

• WATCH: Palestinian violently dragged by ununif ...
  A video uploaded Tuesday by the International Solidarity movement shows a young Palestinian man being violently dragged from checkpoint 56 in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank. The young men dragging him appear to be soldiers out of uniform during some sort of spo ...
• I still don’t buy the hype about Iran
  Maybe I’m in denial. Or maybe I’m naive. Even though I trust and respect Richard Silverstein, I don’t buy his latest leak: Bibi’s Secret War Plan. It’s the Israeli government’s newest psychological operation.  Silverstein writes: In the past few days, I receiv ...
• WATCH: ‘Separate and unequal’ &#82 ...
  I recently sat down for an interview with activist and filmmaker David Sheen, as part of a larger project he is working on. We discussed Israel’s legal system and the distortions inherent in it, and the possible avenues for change in Palestine and Israel. I provide a breakdown of the struc ...
• A scorching desert jail for asylum seekers, wi ...
  While Eritrean asylum seekers cannot be deported due to the risk they would face upon return, the new Prevention of Infiltration Law enables Israel to keep them in prison indefinitely. New arrivals, most having faced rape and torture en route to Israel, are presently being held in a prison in th ...
• My Facebook chat with Rabin killer’s acc ...
  Remember a few weeks ago when I sent a friendship request to Hagai Amir, the brother of Rabin’s assassin Yigal Amir, on Facebook? Here’s what I wrote about it back then. Well, a few days later he accepted and we’ve been pals ever since. OK, not really. We haven’t spoken. Was never inclined to. B ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Koalas' Future in All our Hands
  Koalas have been thrown a lifeline by a project that funds private landowners to keep their properties Koala-friendly.
• More regional SA towns can now access 7-day fo ...
  Senator Don Farrell, Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, today announced that more South Australians can now get location-specific 7-day forecasts in 31 additional towns across the state, thanks to a Federal Government investment.
• Tarkine mines to undergo rigorous environmenta ...
  Two mine referrals in the Tarkine in Tasmania will undergo a rigorous environmental assessment under national environment law.
• Supporting jobs in Western Sydney
  The Gillard Government is supporting local jobs in western Sydney with a new employment precinct receiving support under the Suburban Jobs program.
• Secure water supply for Wurrumiyanga
  Wurrumiyanga residents on Bathurst Island now have a secure water supply with the opening of a new water production and storage project today.

Matt Weidner Blog

• The American Home Mortgage Appeal, Will The Re ...
  Initial Brief AnswerBrief Trial transcript   Answer Brief appellantBrief Transcript Highlighted Scridb filter
• The Most Important Lawsuit in The History of O ...
  The National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 gives the President of the United States of America the power to arrest, detain and try American citizens in secret tribunals with no access to an attorney and with no regard for fundamental American rights that form the very foundation of our natio ...
• AMERIKA 2012, THE RISE OF THE CORPORATE FASCIS ...
  “Fascism should rightly be called corporatism as it is a merger of state and corporate power–Benito Mussolini Americans in every state, from every political persuasion, from every religious and ethnic background and from every social and economic class need to wake up and recognize t ...
• Naranjo v. SBMC and WAMU and JPMorgan Chase
  Which bank is the very worst of the bunch in Amerika? Which one is the sleaziest, the dirtiest, the most abusive and aggressive? In my experience, JPMorgan Chase is hands down the biggest, sleaziest bully on the block.  I won’t disrespect the drug cartels and I certainly will not cast aspe ...
• HEY PINELLAS! GET OUT THERE AND VOTE, CATHY MC ...
    There are no races more important to our day to day lives than our local, elected judges.  In Pinellas County, no one has worked harder to earn the title “judge” in the 2012 elections than Cathy McKyton.  So when you’re in that voting booth, VOTE FOR CATHY MCKYTON! &#160 ...

abelard - news

• imagine there's no countries - the confusions ...
  Have you ever listened to Lennon's words, rather than let them flow over soothingly? abelard helps with a little rewriting to make the lyrics more rooted in the real world.
• think of the children - when a committee of jo ...
  Maybe we should blame 'lawyers for you' encouraging the blame culture.
• 2012 vuelta race favourites | vuelta a espagna ...
  Who could win in this race designed for climbers.
• like school qualifications, sporting achieveme ...
  How to make a false and silly comparison, leading to a daft conclusion.
• world food prices more than double in 10 years ...
  And among the major reasons are the rising price of fossil fuels, and the using of maize to make ethanol to replace FFs.

The Parallel Parliament

• Beware the Sciopods and the Blemmyaes
  Prior to more detailed reports returning with people like Christopher Columbus and other explorers of the oceans in the 15th …Continue reading »
• The Human Code (2) – Let’s All Be ...
  As humans, it can be a dangerous thing to permit ourselves to be divided into divisive camps. One of the …Continue reading »
• The Human Code
  I was honoured to host two soldiers who had just returned from Afghanistan. One asked if they could view Question …Continue reading »
• Humanity – “Is George Clooney Ther ...
  “Is George Clooney right there, with you? Can you see if we can get an interview with him?” This wasn’t …Continue reading »
• Humanity – The Revenge of the Id
  These last few days have provided a bit of a revelation. I decided, unprompted, to monitor just how many times …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

• The Québec Strike Continues and Defense Techno ...
  “On the fourth of May 2012, in Victoriaville, Québec during the congress of the corrupted Liberal party of Jean Charest, several dozens of gas bombs were thrown on families, activists, old people, and students that were protesting against high tuition … Continue reading →
• The Unfinished Story of Iraq’s Oil Law: ...
  [Originally published on July 24th, 2012 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa “No Blood For Oil” was a slogan featured on many a sign in demonstrations during the run up to the US-led invasion of Iraq, and throughout the early years … Continue reading →
• Saying No To Tear Gas
  [An excerpt from an article of the same name by Frida Berrigan, originally published on Waging Nonviolence, June 22nd, 2012.] I have an assignment for you. Have you ever been tear gassed? I have not. It does not sound like … Continue reading →
• Peace and Global Justice Groups: “End St ...
  On Father’s Day, June 17th , Peace and Global Justice groups walk together with New Yorkers in a Silent March to End Stop & Frisk We are a diverse gathering of groups working for global justice and peace around the … Continue reading →
• On the Ground in Basra: An Interview with Hash ...
  Originally published on May 2nd, 2012 on Jadaliyya. by Ali Issa Iraqi unions demonstrated yesterday on May Day 2012 at a difficult historical moment. Still operating without a labor law that sanctions their organizing, and under the consolidation of Prime … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

• India tops the list of Olympics underachievers
  India tops the list of underachieving Olympic nations based on how many medals they should have won according to poulation and GDP.
• Unions+con-men+lawyers+sleaze = Julia Gillard?
  "Julia Gillard was in tears when she called Bruce Wilson to tell him she had been sacked from Slater & Gordon."
• The “luminiferous aether” has morp ...
  Why there should be interaction between masses at a distance is still a mystery. We can observe and describe and even predict such gravitic effects but we still do not know what causes gravity. We still do not know how distant bodies communicate their mass to each other and the idea of some form ...
• The Bolt Games are coming to an end …&#8 ...
  But Usain Bolt and David Rudisha were well worth waiting for last night. It has been the Usain Bolt show even if the Team GB performance has been quite remarkable. Almost a fairy tale for the host nation. The organisation of the games has - to all appearances - been a great success. Journalists ...
• By the grace of Allah – a water-powered car!
  TALK-SHOW hosts feted it. Politicians rode in it. Cabinet ministers discussed it. Well-known scientists backed it.

Left Foot Forward

• Tymoshenko – the case against democratic Ukrai ...
  Why is Tymoshenko’s hearing being delayed time and time again? And why is the former PM refusing certain medical treatment while in detention?
• Is a rise in self-employment disguising unempl ...
  For the last few months, the headline numbers have been good, but a detailed look at the figures gives plenty of cause for concern.
• Will Wales make a bid for the 2026 Commonwealt ...
  One of Wales’ Olympic Gold medallists has put his weight right behind a bid for Cardiff and South Wales to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
• Diespelling the right-wing myths
  There have now been three stories on us from the notorious right-wing Guido Fawkes blog in the last week and we wish to dispel a few myths.
• Will Osborne match his support for motorists w ...
  George Osborne caved in to motorists earlier this year - will he do the same for rail and bus users?

Consumerist

• Progressive Denies Defending Driver Who Killed ...
  UPDATE: The victim's brother has issued a rebuttal to Progressive's statement. It has been added to the bottom of the post. --- Yesterday, the brother of a woman who died in a car crash made headlines when he wrote that lawyers for his late sister's insurance company, Progressive, had acted as t ...
• Giving A Stranger Unsolicited Advice Should Al ...
  Handing out unsolicited advice to strangers is generally frowned upon, but one topic is apparently not off-limits to anyone, ever. Scrawling "Wash me!" on a dusty, dirty or otherwise unsightly car has become socially acceptable behavior, unlike when I tried to tell a woman on the street that neo ...
• Detroit Sneaker Store Offers Free Nikes To Kid ...
  October 3 is Student Count Day in Detroit. A headcount will be made of all the kids in school that day, and that figure will be used to determine state and federal funding. It will also earn free sneakers for every student who decides to show up. According to CBS Detroit, local shoe seller Bob's ...
• Target Apparently Exists In A World Where A 3- ...
  There's nothing quite like the crazy pricing fun over at Target, and this time things are getting out of control with one of the cheapest food products you can buy. David sent in a tip of some outrageous pricing he found on Ortega taco seasoning, using the Consumerist mobile app. Just need one p ...
• For Back-To-School Shopping, Waiting In Line A ...
  It's been a while since any of us here at Consumerist HQ have had to do any sort of back-to-school shopping, but we all remember the crowded stores and awkwardly running into schoolmates while our parents forced us to try on pants that didn't fit (Okay... maybe that's just me; stop judging). So ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Anti-Leak Proposal Harms Whistleblowers: Daily ...
  Al Jazeera: A Revolution Against ‘the Culture of Leaks’? Summary: A new anti-leaks measure (to be amended to the Intelligence Authorisation Act for fiscal year 2013) is aimed at rooting out not just 'leakers' (aka whistleblowers), but potential 'leakers.' The proposal would essential ...
• Whistleblower Retaliation Creep
  Glenn Greenwald wrote yesterday about "secrecy creep"  – the retaliation against whistleblowers that has crept down from the White House into Executive branch agencies. Whistleblowers have always been subjected to retaliation, but the retaliation used to be focused on marginalizi ...
• States Protect Whistleblowers ... Why Not Ag W ...
  Checkered: Ag Gag legislation failed; Black: Ag Gag legislation passedStates Protect Their Own Whistleblowers … Why Not Ag Workers? Summary: Several states recognized for strengthening legal protection for public employee whistleblowers have also introduced anti-whistleblower "Ag Gag" bills th ...
• DOJ Creates Whistleblower Ombudsman Position: ...
  Government Executive: Whistleblowers Will Have a New Friend at Justice Summary: More coverage of the new whistleblower ombudsman position created by the Inspector General office of the Department of Justice. The position was apparently made to better protect and educate whistleblowers. GAP rel ...
• Eileen Foster To Obama Admin. – Use Wall St. W ...
  Eileen Foster at the 2012 Ridenhour ceremonyRolling Stone: Obama Administration Needs to Tap, Not Stiff-Arm, Wall Street Whistleblowers Summary: Countrywide/Bank of America (BofA) whistleblower and GAP client Eileen Foster published an op-ed yesterday in Rolling Stone, calling on the Obam ...

UK Progressive

• How Politicians and the Press Overstated Milit ...
  by Justin Elliott ProPublica Anxiety is rising in Washington about the big cuts to military spending slated to go into effect in January unless Congress takes action. Republicans, defense industry executives, and some Democrats are arguing hard against the automatic cuts, which were the result o ...
• Photojournalist Tom Stoddart’s London Exhibiti ...
  by Glyn Strong Just yards from City Hall, on London’s South Bank, the 20-year-old image of a beautiful woman towers above passers by. Frozen in time, the grainy blow-up of this iconic black and white photograph recalls another place at the heart of a forgotten war. Eerily reminiscent of a young ...
• Whose Plan Destroys Medicare — Obama’s or Romn ...
  by Robert Reich Stumping in Florida today, Mitt Romney charged President Obama’s Affordable Care Act will “cut more than $700 billion” out of Medicare. What Romney didn’t say was that his running-mate’s budget — approved by House Republicans and by Romney himself — would cut Medicare by the same ...
• At 42 Paul Ryan Out-of-Step with His Generatio ...
  Rev. Irene Monroe On paper, you’d think a 42 year-old Republican would be up to speed on marriage rights, and might even, given his age, be tolerant. To my surprise, Mitt Romney’s vice presidential pick, U.S. Congressman Paul D. Ryan from Wisconsin, is not only no ally to our lesbian, gay, ...
• Two Dark Money Groups Outspending All Super PA ...
  by Kim Barker ProPublica Two conservative nonprofits, Crossroads GPS and Americans for Prosperity, have poured almost $60 million into TV ads to influence the presidential race so far, outgunning all super PACs put together, new spending estimates show. These nonprofits, also known as 501(c)(4)s ...

NewsAlert

• Ayn Rand's Long Journey to the Heart of Americ ...
  The New Republic
• Flashback: The Blago/Obama/Blackwell pay-to-pl ...
  Flashback 2010. The Obama&Blago Blog report: 2001–Barack Obama gets an $8,000 a month legal consulting contract from a company owned by Robert Blackwell Jr. at a time that Obama is low on money. 2002–Barack Obama writes a letter to the State of Illinois urging a state grant be given to anot ...
• Poll: NYers tell pols to keep beaks out of Chi ...
  The New York Post
• Tea Party House Candidate Calls For Troops Alo ...
  Think Progress
• Romney 47% Obama 44%
  Rasmussen reports:The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 47% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns the vote from 44%. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided. This is the ...

JoNova

• Zebra Fish like it warm – they swim fast ...
  Experiments with Zebra Fish show that if their embryo’s develop in warmer water, they not only are able to swim faster but they cope better in both warmer and colder water. (How catastrophic can that be, I ask you?) ScienceDaily (Aug. 14, 2012) — New research by McMaster University biologi ...
• Models get cloud feedback wrong, but *only* by ...
  Yet another paper shows that the climate models have flaws, described as “gross” “severe” and “disturbing”. The direct effect of doubling CO2 is theoretically 3.7W per square meter. The feedbacks supposedly are 2 -3 times as strong (according to the IPCC). But ...
• UWA sponsors world wide junkets for poor resea ...
  I wondered who was funding Oreskes to fly all the way around the world to deliver two seminars in Perth to audiences of mostly evangelical believers. Michael Kile (Quadrant magazine) reveals more of the details. Presumably she is funded by the Professors-at-large program at the Institute of Adva ...
• The meme spreads: Patrick Moore “gets it ...
  It’s interesting how the message is spreading. David and I have been arguing for 2 or 3 years that the feedbacks are the key gaping flaw, the critical point in the skeptic’s case. (And see this post last week.) It’s the amplification in the models with water vapor and clouds wh ...
• Allegations about our PM raging across the int ...
  For the last three months emails have been burning across Australia with links to Larry Pickering. It’s a mark of the times that the ground breaking investigative research and news is breaking through the blog world, and barely touched in the mainstream media (see here and here as it start ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• The Electric Universe @ Thunderbolts.info
  An “electric universe” makes for an interesting alternative to standard theories. It has a lot of followers and few debunkers, and I really want to study it one day, although it is currently in my too hard basket. Not too hard for me to understand, but more too hard for me to find so ...
• Belize 2012 Festival… with a twist!
  If you haven’t come across KickStarter yet, the concept is simple – people pledge $$ towards a project. If it reaches its funding goal, the project goes ahead, they take your money, and you get a predetermined gift or product. Sometimes it works amazingly well. I’ve actually he ...
• SuperVolcanoes, Evolution and You!
  Last night I watched yet another cable TV doco on supervolcanoes – this one focused on the Toba eruption 70,000 years ago. I didn’t learn anything new, but a new thought crossed my mind: Could global catastrophes be the secret ingredient that made us who we are? According to the docu ...
• Survival Kit (in a Bottle)
  A serious survivalist has spent a lot of time working out exactly what they need in their go bag. But it is unlikely that everyone you know is a hardcore survivalist.  Rather than testing the patience of friends and family with long-winded scenarios that probably won’t happen – just ...
• Are You A Terrorist?
  Apologies if I have covered similar topics previously, but it is worth reiterating… As a reader of this blog, you most likely fit one of the following categories: believe your “way of life” is under attack purchase food in bulk fiercely nationalistic support Ron Paul anti-global own gold ...

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

One News Page

• Brad Pitt congratulates ex-wife Jennifer Anist ...
  Brad Pitt called up his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston to congratulate her on her engagement with actor-director Justin Theroux. Aniston, 43, said 'yes' to Theroux on his 41st birthday Aug 10. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
• Assocham submits report to govt on private sec ...
  The Assocham recommended that warning should be issued to the company for failing to ensure these security parameters in first instance. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
• Sweets from Pakistan followed by firing on Ind ...
  Firing by Pakistan rangers started around 15:30 hours and was on intermittently, the officer said, adding that BSF troops guarding the borderline replied back. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
• Goa cops framed Israeli national in drugs case
  Goa Police admitted to have falsely implicated Israeli national David Driham in a 2010 drugs case and are now feeling 'ashamed' of the frame-up. Reported by Zee News 2 hours ago
• Cash for bail scam: CBI, ACB teams arrive for ...
  A ten-member team of officers from CBI and AP ACB arrived here in connection with its ongoing probe into the alleged cash-for-bail scam. Reported by Zee News 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

• Yellow Brick Road: The Fed and A New Path to D ...
• West Attempts to Destabilize Syrian Government
• We are the Media Revolution: The Battle for Tr ...
• Putting a Stop to Radiation Exposure Practices
• Big Money Buys US Elections and Elected Officials

Daily Tech

• Quick Note: Sprint Continues iPhone 4S Price C ...
  Customers will receive a $100 reward card with purchase
• The Evolution of Connected TVs Leading to Seco ...
  Connected TVs are one step closer to receiving second screen support so TV viewers can have an interactive experience
• Republican Senators Question A123 Stimulus Dea ...
  A123 plans to sell an 80% stake to a Chinese company
• Corsair Announces Acquisition of Raptor Gaming
  Products will be a new Corsair series
• Fisker Appoints New CEO, Eliminates Battery/En ...
  Tony Posawatz is replacing Tom LaSorda after only six months as Fisker CEO

Oriental Review

• Egypt’s Brothers Stage Pre-Emptive Coup
  Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi has done the unthinkable – asserting civilian supremacy over the military. This was an act that was supposed to be way beyond the capacity of the Muslim Brotherhood for quite a while. Something precipitated it. Six decades of Egypt’s political history have been pu ...
• Who Will Replace Kofi Annan?
  Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, the UN and the League of Arab States joint peace envoy to Syria, announced his resignation before his tenure expires on August 31. The decision raised the issue of replacement. It’s already clear Annan didn’t fully comply with the instructions from Washing ...
• Syrian Tragedy: Continued
  The armed anti-government groupings in Syria come out in the open trying to topple the county’s leadership and get hold of power. It is said that the operation is masterminded by special services of the USA, Turkey, other NATO member countries and the monarchies of Persian Gulf. The terror act c ...
• Afghan’s Narco-Jihad and Pentagon’ ...
  Curious information surfaced in the media last month – based on space reconnaissance, the US Department of Defense put together a map of Afghanistan showing in detail the country’s mineral riches which, as it transpired, may be quite impressive. The fact that Afghanistan sits on lucrative ...
• Syria: Splendour and Misery of Western Diplomacy
  The situation in and around Syria is still one of the most important issues being in focus of international events. This is the case when diplomacy equals military operations in importance. The failure of the UN Security Council resolution of July 19 to great extent spurred the diplomatic and mi ...

BlogHer

• Hidden Dangers of Food Dyes
  In my quest to eat more real foods, I’ve become more conscious of how often I see synthetic food dyes in our world.  Halloween candy is already set-up in the stores and it’s a billboard for Red Dye #40. (Synthetic food dyes are listed with a #, like Blue #2.) In the past couple of year ...
• Here's How You Support Women in Tech
  Want to find out how to throw a tech event, get women to participate along with the men, and make them feel good about the experience after it's over? Lauren Bacon from Curious for a Living has seen it done and has a list of ideas that you can apply to your event. I ‘ve worked in tech for fiftee ...
• Why I'd Choose a Hospital Birth All Over Again
  [Editor's Note: In all of the discussions about the benefits of home birth and, related, the pitfalls of hospital births, it's important to hear from mothers who share their hospital experiences. Good and bad. Katie at Sassy Silly Spunky Momma defends hospital births because of the dramatic way ...
• The Rebirth of Broken Things
  Just because something - or someone - is cracked and broken, does not mean the beauty and worth is gone. This post is an eloquent reminder of an important philosophy:"He couldn't know that the glass he broke was something thrifted, or from the dollar store, I don't remember which. And as a first ...
• Oh, Those Mood Swings: She's Not Bipolar, She's 16
  It's a daily thing now. Not knowing what I am going to get when the T-Rex in the thong and Grateful Dead t-shirt wakes up in the morning. Or should I say afternoon. No one prepares you for teenagers. Or, shall I say FEMALE teenagers. When I was pregnant 16 years ago, the only parenting book th ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Dr. Lynne Fenton, The Batman Killer, Drugs And ...
  People don’t get it. The media don’t get it and they don’t want to get it. Billions of dollars are riding on the drugs Dr. Lynne Fenton may have prescribed to her patient, James Holmes, ...
• You Think GMO Is Scary? Nano Tech is Here, In ...
  Nanotechnology is measured in billionths of a meter, encompassing all aspects of life from food to medicine, clothing, to space. Imagine hundreds of microcomputers on the width of a strand of hair programmed for specific ...
• Will Congress Let Monsanto Write Its Own Rules?
  The agricultural biotech industry — well, let’s call it what it really is: the chemical industry — has gone on the offensive as never before with a set of slippery policy riders to the House ...
• Battling the Dogma of Big Ag
  I just read an article at the Hobby Farms website, Grow Smart: Keep Food Safe. I was frustrated with it for a number of reasons, but the underlying theme of this article was that we should be scared ...
• Oregon Man Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail for Co ...
  A rural Oregon man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in jail and over $1,500 in fines because he had three reservoirs on his property to collect and use rainwater. Gary Harrington of Eagle Point, Ore., ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• The presidential race’s ‘coal conu ...
  Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the American Energy Corporation,  Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, in Beallsville, Ohio.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) As discussed here the other day, the discussions of the coal industry in this year& ...
• Study on Carbon capture: The sooner, the better
  On the heels of his big speech criticizing the coal industry’s public relations campaign, Sen. Jay Rockefeller made a pitch to various interested groups asking for ideas about how to get moving on improving and deploying carbon capture and storage, or CCS, technology — which the sena ...
• Coal politics: Let the silly season begin
  Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets supporters at a campaign event at El Palacio de los Jugos in Miami, Monday, Aug. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) Let’s be honest: The political discourse surrounding the Appalachian coal industry was already ...
• Sen. Rockefeller: ‘War on coal’ ca ...
  Here’s the latest from Sen. Jay Rockefeller, via Larry Messina at The Associated Press: U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller believes that pressing ahead on mine safety and miners’ health can advance the debate over the future of coal, and he wants the industry to abandon what he considers a co ...
• Breaking: Judge rules for Alpha in permit case
  Word just in from Huntington that U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers has ruled in favor of the federal Army Corps of Engineers and Alpha Natural Resources in a challenge to the Clean Water Act permit for Alpha’s Highland Reylas Surface Mine. I’ve posted a copy of the decision her ...

Daniel Miessler

• Paul Ryan’s Mentor Fail(s)
  So Paul Ryan has “shrugged off” Ayn Rand in favor of Thomas Aquinas. Maybe he should read what Aquinas said about the poor: “…whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. via reddit.com From Rand to Aquinas, but taking ...
• Thoughts on Being a Programmer | Yelsew
  Thoughts on being a programmer Don’t be an asshole. Simple code is hard to write. Exquisitely simple code is exquisitely hard to write. Just because it’s easy to understand doesn’t mean it was easy to write. In fact, the easier it is to understand, the harder it probably was to ...
• A Tale of Two Moralities – NYTimes.com
  One side of American politics considers the modern welfare state — a private-enterprise economy, but one in which society’s winners are taxed to pay for a social safety net — morally superior to the capitalism red in tooth and claw we had before the New Deal. It’s only right, this side believes, ...
• Does America Need Ayn Rand or Jesus? | Fox News
  Today we face similarly stark choices. If we are to reject the welfare state as immoral and thereby restore the American dream of individualism, don’t we need a rational morality that challenges the centuries-old creed of self-sacrifice and instead argues for the individual’s moral right to his ...
• Losing a Dog
  I did not cry when I saw Beau; I came completely apart. It was not weeping; it was screaming. It was not sadness; it was despair. The wheel of the car had crushed Beau’s spine, almost severing it in half. Heavily drugged, Beau looked up at me while Doctor Tyree handed me a piece of [...]

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• Beaten Down, Isolated, Angry, And Distracted: ...
  By Phil Rockstroh - A couple of decades ago, upon returning to Atlanta, Georgia, after spending a year abroad, I would frequent an independent bookshop that contained a small coffee shop/cafe, where I would sip tea, read books and periodicals, and engage in the nearly extinct art of long form fa ...
• Fukushima mutant butterflies spark fear of eff ...
  From rt.com – Genetic mutations have been found in three generations of butterflies living near Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. The gruesome discovery has led scientists to fear that the leaking radiation could affect other species. Researches said that around 12 per cent o ...
• Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Wednesday
  Lawmakers suspect money laundering issues at Wal-Mart (Reuters) – Two U.S. House Democrats investigating bribery allegations in Wal-Mart’s Mexico affiliate said on Tuesday they have obtained new internal records that may point to evidence of tax evasion and money laundering. Reps. El ...
• “Sock Puppets” Online Predator Sti ...
  Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media Military’s ‘sock puppet’ software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda This is a re-post of  an article from guardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 March 2011 09.19 EDT The US military is developing softw ...
• Russian Psychologists ‘Appalled’ B ...
  By Maryana Torocheshnikova,rferl.org  - MOSCOW — For Russian prosecutors looking to justify a charge of “hooliganism … motivated by religious hatred or hostility” against the feminist punk performance-art group Pussy Riot, the third time was the charm. In order to bring such an ...

reference frame

• Israeli plans to strike Iran
  Grid, Internet will go out of business; satellite, automatic invisible airplanes will complete the job; automatized shock-and-awe conflict could take 30 days and lead to 500-5,000 casualties only Let me admit that in the recent week, I was spending at least one hour every day by re ...
• Cohen, Happer, Lindzen in WSJ and colors of noise
  Physicists Roger Cohen, William Happer, and Richard Lindzen wrote a calm and sensible text about weather extremes in the Wall Street Journal: 'Climate Consensus' Data Need a More Careful LookThey mention that the optimum CO2 concentration is probably significantly higher than the present on ...
• Why quantum mechanics has to be complex and li ...
  ...and why (near) energy eigenstates are the "most real" among equally allowed states in the Hilbert space Many physics beginners, physics fans, armchair physicists, young undergraduate students, as well as assorted physics Nobel prize winners who used to be the best quantum mechanical p ...
• ATLAS released 10 papers today
  The ATLAS collaboration at the LHC released ten papers today: ATLAS Conf NotesSix of them are based on the \(7\TeV\) data from 2011; four of them already use the \(8\TeV\) data collected in 2012. But before you buy the cherished libertarian book with "ATLAS" in the name (one that happe ...
• Paul Ryan, an apparently bright man of principle
  Mitt Romney has picked his running mate. It's Paul Ryan (*1970), a trained political scientist and economist, a member of the House and the boss of the budget committee over there. But given Mitt Romney's... well... ambiguity on many issues, this choice has been a very good surprise for ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Martial law is being prepared for a staged ban ...
  This is a Red Alert! Only exposing the fact that this is staged will make them back off. Let’s get to work exposing the Banksters. Don’t sit around with a bunch of guns talking about some physical confrontation. We don’t want it to go to that. The pen is mightier than the sword. Use It! [...] R ...
• You need to watch this video. WOW!
  Sorry, your browser does not support Videolla ad video player Related posts: WATCH LIVE: In Defiance of Commanders, Active Military and Vets March on White House in support of Ron Paul Live broadcast ended at 4:38 PM EST. This was a... @MaxKeiser’s Stand Up Rage at the King’s Head – London ...
• Bernie Sanders Exposes the 26 Billionaires who ...
  By: Jason Easley July 24th, 2012 at Politicususa.com 1). Sheldon Adelson, owner of the Las Vegas Sands Casino, is worth nearly $25 billion, making him the 14th wealthiest person in the world and the 7th richest person in America. While median family income plummeted by nearly 40% from 2007-2010, ...
• THE INTELHUB: Aurora Police Chief: From Beat C ...
  By Shepard Ambellas theintelhub.com July 27, 2012 Update: Actual police audio from the scene described what looked to be a coordinated attack with at least two shooters yet the police chief, the corporate media, and the federal government continue to claim that the mind controlled James Holmes a ...
• AURORA FALSE FLAG – Sorcha Faal: Colorado Mass ...
  I knew I smelt a rat in this Colorado Shooting. A second gas mask found, Multiple witness claiming a second shooter, media using actors as supposed victims in the interviews….and now the lid has been blown off the cover-up. James Holmes was a patsy, used to silence his father who was set t ...

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 ...

Bloomberg

• Can't Stop the Big Mo
  Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
• Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
  The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
• No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
  The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
• Grading Back-to-School Stocks
  Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
• Why Qualcomm Has Its Wallet Out
  The Elata and Flarion acquisitions reflect the outfit's need to keep abreast of tech's latest trends. Expect more of the same

Enviroblog

• Ham and Cheese Again? Revamp your Lunch, Rethi ...
  By Altelisha Taylor, EWG food and nutrition intern Let me guess. You, like most Americans, usually have a sandwich for lunch. Or maybe it's a panini or a wrap, if you want to get technical. Regardless, it's what you eat... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...
• Always Faithful: President Signs Bill Expandin ...
  "Times New Roman"">By Heather White, Chief of Staff We walked up to the White House Appointments Desk at 17th Street and State Place NW, headed for the West Wing. The security officer examined Jerry Ensminger's military... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...
• Why I decided to cut back on processed meat, g ...
  By Altelisha Taylor, EWG food and nutrition intern As a kid, I was taught that a decent meal has carbs, veggies and meat. Tacos and burgers were my favorites. I have absolutely no interest in becoming a vegetarian. I'm pretty... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full l ...
• BPA substitute found on store receipts
  By Paul Pestano, EWG research analyst Nearly two years after EWG published a study documenting high concentrations of the toxic plastics chemical bisphenol A in cash register receipts, scientists are finding that manufacturers have substituted bisphenol... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• Study shows fracking can pollute
  By Alex Formuzis, VP for Media Relations A new water quality study near gas drilling operations in northeastern Pennsylvania counters natural gas industry claims that gas and hydraulic fracturing chemicals can't seep into the drinking water of nearby... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• Why aren't America's leaders talking more abou ...
• Lawsky gets a settlement and Bloomberg gets a ...
• 'We'll let the survivors decide': Bob Turner e ...
• Times Company names outgoing BBC director Mark ...
• Bloomberg says Obama and Romney could learn ab ...

Views & News from Norway

• AUF boss expects life term for Breivik
  As the date nears for a verdict in the trial of confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, the head of the Labour Party youth organization that Breivik attacked has long felt confident the 33-year-old defendant will be kept in custody for the rest of his life. Other politicians seem confident a ...
• Police probe new threat from Breivik supporter
  Norway’s police intelligence unit PST is investigating who’s behind an e-mail sent to several Norwegian politicians and journalists on Monday. The writer, who claims to be part of Breivik’s alleged Knights Templar network, threatens to liquidate Norwegian leaders if Breivik isn ...
• Vast majority still support Stoltenberg
  As the soul-searching goes on in the aftermath of last summer’s terrorist attacks in Norway, one thing is clear: The vast majority of Norwegians still have faith in Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. Heads may roll following a harshly critical report on how police responded to the attacks, b ...
• Search continues for missing teen
  Oslo police have now collected more than 1,700 tips regarding the disappearance of 16-year-old Sigrid Giskegjerde Schjetne and call the public’s involvment in the case “fantastic.” They’re continuing their investigation into the teenager’s disappearance 10 days ago, ...
• Queen opens new coastal trail
  Around 250 hikers followed along with Norway’s Queen Sonja when she formally opened a new coastal trail on the island of Vannøya north of Tromsø late last week. The area has a rich history of settlements dating from the Stone Age, and the queen cycled there last summer. This summer she ret ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Tales from La Angostura, Guatemala, A Project ...
  When I was Young I was born in 1973 in a middle class family. My first memories were of our living in Nicaragua, where my father went to earn his masters degree in business administration in INCAE. We lived there for two years and then we came back to a home my grandmother gave [...]
• Higher Order Taxonomy: Nature’s Filing System
  by Eric Toensmeier When I started to learn about useful plants and their scientific (Latin) names, I quickly came to realize that there were many more than I could easily keep track of. Fortunately botany comes with a pre-made filing system to organize every species. Use of this system has made ...
• 90 Minutes with Geoff Lawton (Podcast)
  Permaculture is an ethical design science. – Geoff Lawton Today I, Paul Wheaton, sat down with Geoff Lawton to discuss all things permaculture in the 195th edition of my podcast. We spent 90 minutes on topics ranging from the issues of being a leader and having detractors to aquifers und ...
• Just a Few Seats Left on Bill Mollison and Geo ...
  What: Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course, with Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton Where: Trinity College, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia When: September 17 – 29, 2012 For full details on this excellent opportunity to take your Permaculture Design Certificate ...
• Beaufort Blokes Community Garden
  A 16-plot, all abilities access, community garden built by the Beaufort Blokes group in Victoria, Australia. by Carolyn Payne Beaufort Blokes is a community group supported by the local health department. They meet twice a month — one week they have lunch and play cards and board games, ...

Pointman's

• Announcing the inaugural Climate Prat of the Y ...
  I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but notables of the green persuasion seem to win a lot of awards from various green organisations. They give prizes to each other, occasionally with a nice bit of money as well; sometimes with a very very nice bit of money. You may also have noticed, t ...
• Legislation by regulation.
  What is now called the European Union (EU), grew out of the aftermath of WWII, which had devastated both the economies and infrastructures of most countries in Europe. It was really the product of several treaties but the first big one was the 1957 treaty of Rome, which created a common market a ...
• What’s the Watts paper actually mean, Dude?
  As a young man, my first mode of powered transport was motorbikes. Like all bikers, there was this thing you noticed about passing from the open countryside into a built up area. Basically, cities were warmer than the countryside, and exposed as you are to the elements on a bike, that was always ...
• So, was climategate a hack after all?
  This is going to be one of those difficult articles to write, just to make it easy to read. It’s going to get technical at points, because it has to, so there’s going to be more than a few detours to explain things, but bear with me. It’s Sunday afternoon, I’m wearing sun ...
• The decline of popular science journals.
  We are creatures of habit and pleasure. When we find something of pleasure, we tend to revisit it with regularity. Despite what a large part of the mainstream media might have you believe, not all pleasure starts at the gullet and ends at the genitalia, though eating well and making love, are of ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Unprecedented, Massive Cuts Devastate Universi ...
  While barely covered in the local media, the University of New Orleans is facing another round of brutal and devastating cuts, quickly transforming an already-under-resourced school into a shadow of its former self. Below is a letter from UNO President Peter Fos outlining some of the cuts. While ...
• Coalition of Black and Latina Women, Women fro ...
  From our friends at the Congress of Day Laborers: A delegation of undocumented women from Arizona will join local immigrants and civil rights leaders from Women United for Justice, in demanding that Sheriff Gusman stop holding undocumented immigrants for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (IC ...
• New Policy at Charter School in Delhi Louisian ...
  From our friends at the ACLU of Louisiana: The ACLU issued a letter today to the administration at Delhi Charter School in Delhi, Louisiana in response to its Student Pregnancy Policy. The policy requires female students even suspected of being pregnant to submit to a pregnancy exam – and if ...
• Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute C ...
  Urban Bush Women have returned to New Orleans for another of their legendary Summer Leadership Institutes. This summer's theme is centered around the question, "Why are people poor?" You can catch some of their work this Saturday at a series of performances they are hosting. Below are the detail ...
• Community Profile: Brenda Williams of VOTE
  After attending an “outstanding” presentation that VOTE sponsored at Ashé Cultural Arts Center in Central City, Miss Brenda Williams was inspired to get “involved to make a difference in the lives of those who suffer injustice at the hands of lawmakers, judges and others involved in the criminal ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2012/08 ... rong-here/ Check out the other links on the page by Scott Creighton (H/T Chris P) Common sense… it’s not just for conspiracy theorists anymore. The Mayor of Aurora claims there is something very seriously wrong with this story. Now I’m not sure in ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Bingo. Straight out of the talmud.Statistics: Posted by mgt23 — Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:13 am
• History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
  David Kimchi’s response to Christianity in his Psalm commentary by Rabbi Dr Raymond Apple Australian Association of Jewish Studies Conference, Sydney 15 February 2010 Précis The Kimchis were a famous medieval family of Judaic scholars, particularly active in Hebrew linguistics, Bible comme ...
• Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
  CIA And Mossad Drug Involvement The "mainstream" media in the United States continue to cover up the considerable role played by the CIA and its longtime allies in Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, in the international illicit drug trade. For over a decade The SPOTLIGHT has b ...
• Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
  The Mossad and CIA have shipped Cocaine and Herion into the USA for decades now. This is a part of Lansky's Carribbean-French Connection. It was called Operation Watchtower. --CSR ------------------------------------------ Affidavit Of Edward Cutolo AFFIDAVIT OF EDWARD P. CUTOLO I, Edward P. ...

TVNZ

• Prince Philip back in hospital
  Prince Philip has been admitted to hospital in Scotland after a recurrence of a bladder infection.
• Syrian air raid kills 30
  An air raid in the rebel-held town of Azaz killed 30 people.
• Bomb blast near UN hotel in Damascus
  A bomb has exploded in Damascus near a hotel used by United Nations monitors.
• Implant scandal prompts industry review
  Britain has launched a review of the cosmetic surgery industry.
• India PM: Economic growth issue of national se ...
  India's PM says economic growth should be treated as a national security issue.  

environment 360

• Brazilian Judge Halts Belo Monte Dam Project O ...
  A Brazilian judge has ordered a suspension of the controversial Belo Monte dam project, saying that local indigenous people who will be affected by the massive hydroelectric project were not sufficiently consulted Divulgação/Norte Energia Illustration of the Belo Monte proposal during the e ...
• Wildlife Vanishing in Brazil’s Fragmented Atla ...
  The fragmentation of tropical forests in eastern Brazil as a result of agricultural expansion and other human activities has decimated biodiversity even within the pockets of forest that still remain, a new study has found. Using wildlife surveys and interviews conducted at 196 forest fragments ...
• Radiation from Fukushima Caused Butterfly Muta ...
  Radioactive materials emitted during the Fukushima disaster caused physical mutations and genetic damage to butterfly populations living near the nuclear plant, a University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa Mutated butterfly new study says. In a series of tests, Japanese scientists found that butt ...
• Interior Department Unveils Drilling Plan for ...
  A proposed management plan for the U.S.’s National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) would allow new drilling on half of the 23 million-acre reserve while placing the rest of it off-limits to oil and gas exploration. The plan, unveiled by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, also would not preclude ...
• Auto-Related Pollution in Los Angeles Declined ...
  Levels of some automobile-related pollutants in Los Angeles have plummeted by 98 percent since the 1960s, even as gasoline consumption nearly tripled during the same period, a new study says. Levels of volatile organic Spensatron 5000/Flickr compounds (VOCs), which are emitted from the t ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• Ernst v. EnCana Corporation | Landowner Jessic ...
  Tags: water contamination fracking
• FracFocus Chemical Disclosure Registry
  Tags: chemical disclosure registry fracking water drilling
• CHEMICALS USED ON SPILLS
  Tags: BP Corexit cancer crude health_concerns
• Hands Off the People of Iran
  Tags: Iran blog anti-sanctions
• Food Freedom News | Decentralize – Grow Your O ...
  Tags: food news gardening survivalism GM_'food' pesticides seeds ...

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

• Thanks For The Feedback
  Today's reader who will get a question answered is Cheryl, who asked the following on Facebook:
• More Banking Scandals Erupt
  Barclays was only the first bank implicated the rate-manipulation scandal.
• Skin, Bones and Beauty
  The Daily Pic: Monika Sziladi captures a flesh-free ideal.
• All Hail, David!
  H&M is going out strong with statues of David Beckham.
• The Lonely Planet Guide to Dictators and Despots
  Michael Moynihan eviscerates the left-wing apologetics that appear in popular travel guides. In these handbooks for travelers and tourists, the more corrupt and economically backward a nation is, the more 'authentic' the travel experience. Dictators are merely misunderstood, and higher ...

Loonwatch

• Pamela Geller of AtlasShrugs: Bus Ads Inspired ...
  Rand described Arabs as savages; racism that Geller is eager to advertise today.
• Top Ten differences between White Terrorists a ...
  1. White terrorists are called “gunmen.” What does that even mean? A person with a gun? Wouldn’t that be, like, everyone in the US? Other terrorists are called, like, “terrorists.”
• National Front planning to protest ‘once a mon ...
  Members of the National Front are planning to protest once a month at the site of a proposed new city centre mosque, Sky Tyne and Wear has learned.
• Anti-mosque Campaigners Insist that Opposition ...
  Guest lecturer Peter Friedman, administrator of the website Islamthreat.com, will be speaking on topics such as "Islam – Threat to America," and "Islam and Women," at the Gilroy Library from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
• Muslim group: Republican ‘Islamophobia machine ...
  “I don’t know what’s going on, other than it being the month of Ramadan with heightened activity at mosques nationwide,” Ibrahim Hooper, communications director for CAIR, told Raw Story.

Energy News

• Local Homeland Security Director: Officials co ...
• Plutonium releases from Fukushima plant highli ...
• Paper: Giant propane cavern also in vacinity o ...
• Official: Reports that butane release from sal ...
• Gundersen: At this point my mind is changing — ...

Japan Times

• Hamels shuts out Marlins
  Cole Hamels is pitching his way into the NL Cy Young Award race one shutout at a time. Hamels tossed his second consecutive shutout for the fourth-place Philadelphia Phillies in a 4-0 win over the Miami Marlins on Monday night.
• Despite flaws, Rakuten is 1e_SEnD 0 against Am ...
  Rakuten, Japan's largest online shopping mall — and a head-to-head rival of Amazon Japan that also hopes to expand its business globally — launched its first e-book reader, the Rakuten Kobo Touch, on July 19, getting the jump on the long anticipated Japanese release of Amazon's Kindl ...
• Japan playing nuclear roulette
  J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the prominent fathers of the atomic bomb, had read the Bhagavad Gita, and when he saw the first test of the weapon, he quoted the terrifying line from the Hindu scripture: "Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds." It is hard to imagine the horror of the dropping ...
• Train platform safety doors in works
  The transport ministry plans to adopt new lightweight platform safety doors at train stations to reduce installation costs, officials said Tuesday. The current type of safety door assembly requires major platform reinforcement work to accommodate their weight.
• Hero's welcome for Walcott in Trinidad
  Olympic gold medalist Keshorn Walcott didn't just return to a hero's welcome in his Caribbean homeland of Trinidad & Tobago. He was also promised a check for about $155,000, a luxury home and roughly 1,850 square meters of land near his hometown. Oh, and a lighthouse and a Caribbean Ai ...

Alexander Higgins

• ACLU Debunked On Trapwire: Inside Big Brother& ...
  Debunking the ACLU's attempt to whitewash the capabilities of big brother's nationwide pre-crime software surveillance grid.
• Mainstream Doctors Say Supporting The 2nd Amen ...
  The medical industry and Big Pharma are pushing to officially classify supporting the right bear arms as a mental disorder to help Big Brother destroy the Constitution.
• Rocky, Rambo Star Stallone Rails Against Banks ...
  Sylvester Stallone, start of the hit series Rocky and Rambo, unleashed a tirade of fury on twitter blasting corrupt US politicians and Wall Street Bankers.
• CIA Agents Reveal Secrets of the CIA (Full Ver ...
  'The CIA is a state-sponsored terrorist association. You don’t look at people as human beings. They are nothing but pieces on the chessboard.'
• Oil Spikes On Mid-East War Fears As Saudi Arab ...
  Brent Crude oil has spiked to all-time highs in EUR terms as Saudi Arabia signals Syria war and Israel signals an Iran strike.

Macleans - Central

• 7 suprising facts about poutine
  Can you believe someone ate 13 pounds of poutine in a contest?
• Canadian housing market continues to lose steam
  Prices are down two per cent nationally: CREA
• Here we go again: The PQ takes on Crown symbol ...
  Bu crucifixes are OK, of course
• Making Canada’s universities the world&# ...
  Today in Halifax, Trade Minister Ed Fast officially received a report from Western University...
• Sir Michael Marmot on why all matters are heal ...
  Q&A: How social inequalities affect health and the limits of doctors' ability to fight illness

Making It Count - CCPA

• Canada’s Emissions Deception
  The federal government released an updated Canada’s Emission Trends 2012 report today. In a remarkable shift in federal rhetoric just this past week, the Harperites now appear to be more sensitive to concerns about the Enbridge pipeline and climate change more generally. But appearances ca ...
• “Right to Work” Laws and Jobs
  Ontario Conservative leader Tim Hudak claims that passage of an anti union “right to work” (RTW) law (making mandatory union dues illegal) would create jobs, especially in hard-hit manufacturing. With companies like Caterpillar moving to get ever cheaper labour, it seems semi plausib ...
• “Gotta Spend Money to Make Money”… or is it “M ...
  “Young people want to retire early and spend, too”. That’s the main finding of a survey commissioned by the Bank of Montreal, released last week in newspapers across the country. The coverage of the survey report is problematic on its own. For instance, although 1000 Canadians aged 18 and over w ...
• Arctic mega mining — a better future for Baffi ...
  A huge iron ore development at Mary River on northern Baffin Island is about to change an ancient landscape. Baffinland Mary River is majority owned by ArcelorMittal, which was ranked 70th on the Fortune Global 500 largest corporations in 2012. The project consists of a massive iron ore deposit ...
• Agrium Halves Potash Royalties
  Agrium reports that it paid half as much to the people of Saskatchewan in the second quarter as it had in the same quarter of last year. The company’s quarterly “potash profit and capital tax” payment dropped to $8 million from $15 million a year ago. Agrium’s only potash mine is in Saskatchewan ...

ReDress

• Mitt Romney: the know-nothing candidate
  Lawrence Davidson traces the roots of US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney to the American Party of the 19th century whose hallmarks were ignorance, prejudice and fear of - and aggressiveness towards - what is not local
• Incarcerated inside Israel: Palestinians tortu ...
  Graham Peebles views Israel's arbitrary detention and treatment of Palestinians and its incessant violations of prisoners' rights, and argues that it is time that Israel "was treated as the criminal state it is" and that action is taken to enforce the repeated demands for justice, including subj ...
• Grace Halsell: courageous truth-seeker and deb ...
  Stuart Littlewood looks at how American journalist Grace Halsell exposed the un-Christian wart among Christians, the "Christian Zionist movement", which believes that it is "perfectly acceptable to give the green light to whatever it is Israel wants and then conceal this from the American people ...
• Mitt Romney: pioneering new frontier in US ele ...
  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".
• Mitt Romney: conduct unbecoming of a president ...
  Stuart Littlewood explores the propaganda of US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's "special adviser" on foreign policy, Dan Senor, an apprentice of the Israel lobby AIPAC and organizer of Romney's recent trip to Israel during which he indulged in a spectacular display of racism and ignorance abo ...

Physics Today

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

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Peakwater

• Contract awarded to build saltwater barrier pr ...
  “Construction could begin as early as Wednesday on a $5.8 million underwater barrier to block the upriver flow of saltwater in the Mississippi River that is threatening area water supplies. The 1,700-foot-long underwater dam will be built at Alliance in Plaquemines Parish, using sediment d ...
• People of the Lake
  “The Aral Sea, located between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, was once the fourth-largest lake in the world – an immense body of fresh water covering a surface area of 68,000 square kilometres. Two port cities were located on it – Aralsk in Kazakhstan and Moynaq in Uzbekistan. Both ...
• Floods submerge most of Philippine capital
  “Tens of thousands of people are being evacuated from the capital of the Philippines as floods devastate the city. About 80 per cent of Manila, a sprawling metropolis of about 12 million people, remained inundated on Wednesday, Benito Ramos, head of the national disaster agency, told Reute ...
• Rare-earth mining in China comes at a heavy co ...
  “From the air it looks like a huge lake, fed by many tributaries, but on the ground it turns out to be a murky expanse of water, in which no fish or algae can survive. The shore is coated with a black crust, so thick you can walk on it. Into this huge, 10 sq [...]
• Surprising Effects of the U.S. Drought
  Suspended Fracking “Drought has dropped stream flows and groundwater levels so low that the use of water for natural gas “fracking” by drillers like these at work in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, has been suspended in many parts of the Keystone State. Permits to pull water fro ...

D. Kucinich

• Kucinich asks NBC to Reconsider “Stars Earn St ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today wrote to the Chairman of NBC Entertainment asking that NBC reconsider “Stars Earn Stripes,” a TV show that puts celebrities in simulated combat situations. The program has been criticized by peace activists and veterans alike. The full text of Kucinich’s ...
• 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 discovered in the shi ...
• Kucinich Calls Upon U.S. Attorney General to P ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is calling upon the U.S. Attorney General to step in to protect the Constitutional rights of Ohioans under the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. The Secretary of State in Ohio has ruled that four counties in Ohio, including Hamilton and Cuyahoga Co ...
• Kucinich Calls Upon Ohio Secretary of State to ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today renewed his appeal to Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted to expand voting opportunities for Ohioans. Secretary Husted previously cast a tie-breaking vote to limit voting on the last two weekends and late voting on weekdays in four Ohio counties prior to t ...
• Kucinich Wishes Social Security “Happy Birthday”
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a strong champion of Social Security in the Congress, today released the following statement on 77th anniversary of Social Security. “Seventy-seven years ago today, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. Today, 55 million Ameri ...

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Popular Technology

• The Truth about Richard Muller
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• The Truth about Judith Curry
  Judith Curry is not a skeptic but a hurricane alarmist who had an alleged epiphany after Climategate and now seeks to be some sort of arbiter of scientific integrity. Her history of trust building includes accusing world leading hurricane expert, Dr. William Gray of "brain fossilization" and t ...
• The Truth about Skeptical Science
  Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
• Mastering the Firefox Search Bar
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• The Truth about SourceWatch
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Monga Bay ( Articles )

• The dark side of new species discovery
  Scientists and the public usually rejoice when a new species is discovered. But biologist Bryan Stuart has learned the hard way that the discovery of new species, especially when that species is commercially valuable, has a dark side-one that could potentially wipe out the new species before pro ...
• Indonesia revises moratorium map; makes contes ...
  Indonesia is making 'encouraging' progress on its push to reduce deforestation by improving governance over its forests and peatlands, but still needs to do more to enforce environmental laws, said the head of the country's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) task force ...
• Can loggers be conservationists?
  Last year researchers took the first ever publicly-released video of an African golden cat (Profelis aurata) in a Gabon rainforest. This beautiful, but elusive, feline was filmed sitting docilely for the camera and chasing a bat. The least-known of Africa's wild cat species, the African golden c ...
• The month in environmental news for April 2012
  Mongabay.com provides a quick review of forest-related news for April 2012.
• Does the Tasmanian tiger exist? Is the saola e ...
  The use of remote camera traps, which photograph animals as they pass, has revolutionized research on endangered and cryptic species. The tool has even allowed scientists to document animals new to science or feared extinct. But as important as camera traps have become, they are still prohibitiv ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Experimental US hypersonic craft fails
  An unmanned experimental US aircraft failed during an attempt to fly at six times the speed of sound in the latest setback for hypersonic flight.The X-51A Waverider was designed to reach Mach 6, or 5,800 kph, after being dropped...
• Star births on a cosmic scale in distant galaxy
  Scientists have found a cosmic 'supermother'. It is a galaxy that gives births to more stars in a day than ours does in a year.Astronomers used Nasa's Chandra X-Ray telescope to spot this distant gigantic galaxy creating about 740...
• WaveRider off to surf skies at Mach 6
  The US Air Force planned a key test yesterday of an aircraft designed to fly at six times the speed of sound, or about 6000km/h. The unmanned X-51 WaveRider was expected to reach Mach 6 after it was launched by a B-52 bomber and...
• Experts to meet over Mt Tongariro today
  Volcanologists hope that today they will have a clearer idea of what caused last Monday's Mt Tongariro eruption, and how likely it is to explode again.Mike Rosenberg, of GNS Science, said many of the pieces of the puzzle - ash and...
• Sea ice disappearing faster than predicted
  Sea ice in the Arctic is disappearing at a far greater rate than previously expected, according to data from a satellite launched to study the thickness of Earth's polar caps.Preliminary results from the European Space Agency CryoSat-2...

The Bovine

• Karen Selick on TV tonight — talking she ...
  Sheep? Scrapie? Subsidies? How much are taxpayers paying for that they’ve never heard of? Where’s the cost-benefit analysis? Canadian Constitution Foundation litigation director Karen Selick will be discussing all this and more tonight on the Charles Adler show on Sun … Continu ...
• Pitchfork Protest over birthday party charges ...
  From Madeleine Morganstern, on The Blaze.com: “When Martha Boneta hosted a birthday party for a friend’s 10-year-old daughter on her Virginia farm, she didn’t expect to have the county come knocking on her door. But come knocking it did — … Continue reading →
• Regulatory wolf in sheep’s clothing
  From Karen Selick, reprinted from the August 11 National Post: Canada’s pending entry into the Trans Pacific Partnership has focused public attention – and well-deserved wrath – on the subsidies consumers are forced to pay to dairy and poultry farmers through … Continue r ...
• Raw milk user testifies to benefits
  From Kimberly Hartke: “Here is an incredible testimony about how nutrient dense foods and raw milk saved a little baby and restored his health. This child was born with a serious dental deformity, called parrot bite….”
• Albrecht on Droughts and Soil Fertility
  From Glencolton farmshare member Gary Wilson: In 1938, long before the presumed effects of global warming were being discussed, the soil scientist, William A. Albrecht, Ph.D, listed some of the consequences of declining soil fertility. Number five on this list … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Is Italy Following the Footsteps of Greece? Do ...
  As I watch the implosion of Greece, with shops closing everywhere and GDP plunging like a rock, I cannot help but wonder if we are witnessing the start of a similar trend in Italy. To be sure, Italy has a manufacturing base that Greece does not have, but retail aspects and shop closings in ...
• Retail Sales Rise? Not in California Where Sal ...
  On Tuesday we heard news that July retail sales rose, breaking a three-month downtrend. Doug Short at advisor Perspectives has a great set of charts in his report Retail Sales: At Last, an Improvement! Doug puts the improvement in proper perspective. However, my first thought in readin ...
• Syracuse New York Headed For Bankruptcy, 100% ...
  Without a doubt Syracuse, New York is headed for bankruptcy. Not only is there an "official denial" but the mayor of Syracuse is seeking legal guidance on municipal bankruptcy. Once again, public union wages and benefits, especially police and firefighters' pensions are smack in the midst ...
• Germany 6% Current Account Surplus a "Threat t ...
  Germany's current account surplus has reached six percent, an amount that bureaucrats in Brussels have decided is a threat to the entire continent. The EU commission will likely issue a warning to Germany with threats of sanctions if Germany does nothing about it. I picked up this story fro ...
• France Beats Expectations With 0% Growth; Euro ...
  Eurozone GDP sunk .2% in the second quarter and is clearly back in recession as a whole. For that matter, the eurozone has been in recession all year if not starting in the final quarter of 2011. Thus I am amused by headlines such as this one from the Financial Times: Eurozone edges back towards ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• FDL’s Gosztola on the Institutional & Politica ...
  As always Fire Dog Lake’s Kevin Gosztola is on top of the latest news, developments and implications involving government whistleblowers and transparency. Here are a few excerpts from Mr. Gosztola’s latest article: For over a month now, members of Congress have been engaged in a bipartisan offen ...
• U.S.’s Georgian Satrapy Prepares For “Total De ...
  Six days after being installed as the Mikheil Saakashvili regime’s new defense minister, Georgia’s Dimitri Shashkin briefed one of his nation’s newspapers on what he referred to as a three Ts policy in regard to the armed forces. The Ts in question were identified as Total Care, Total Training a ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 11, ...
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• Texas Case Raises Troubling Questions About AT ...
  Rio Grande Valley Businessman Was The Target of Multiple Arms-Trafficking Investigations Yet He Continued To Acquire Guns Through Straw Buyers By Bill Conroy @ the Narcosphere A series of criminal investigations initiated some four years ago by ATF agents, all focused on a weapons-trafficking ri ...
• Pssssst… Buried News: Khalilzad Now Open ...
  Tethys Petroleum Appoints Zalmay Khalilzad to the Board Isn’t it amazing how the US media intentionally glosses over and censors meaningful developments involving key scumbag figures in US politics? Let me give you a personal example from the past- Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert’s we ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

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• Following in Norwegian Footsteps, Harvey Gulf ...
  Louisiana-based Harvey Gulf International Marine announced to reporters recently that it has signed long term charters for 3 of its LNG powered offshore supply vessels, making Harvey Gulf the first [...]
• As Australian Dollar Gains Strength, Gorgon LN ...
  CANBERRA–Chevron Corp. (CVX) is unlikely to seek protection against swings in the Australian dollar that have intensified cost pressures at its flagship 43 billion Australian dollar (US$45.3 billion) Gorgon gas [...]
• Portugal Installs First Floating Offshore Wind ...
  Located 4000 meters off the northern Portuguese shoreline in approximately 50 meters of water, a pioneering piece of floating machinery is delivering up to 2MW of wind-generated electricity shoreside. Classed [...]
• Former Transocean Jack-up to be Converted into ...
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Press TV

• ‘Israel losing support among Britons’
  British politicians’ support for the Israeli regime is increasingly diminishing because of the entity’s aggressive settlement policies in the occupied Palestinian territories.
• Brent crude price hits three-month peak
  Brent light crude oil has hit a new three-month peak amid a surprise slide in US crude stockpiles that indicated rising demand in the world's biggest consumer.
• 'Afghanistan war signifies US failure'
  US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has expressed concern over the rise in the number of attacks by Afghan soldiers on US-led foreign forces in Afghanistan.
• 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.
• Islamic awakening reduces US clout
  A statement issued by Chiefs of Staff of Iran's Armed forces has described the decline of the US hegemony in the Middle East and Israel’s deterioration as achievements of the Islamic Awakening.

SciDev.net

• High-speed internet links southern African uni ...
  The launch of a new Internet link between university networks in South Africa and Zambia aims to boost regional research collaboration.
• Royal Society and DFID launch fund for African ...
  A capacity building fund will link up UK and African research teams to investigate water, renewable energy and soil.
• Supporting an open source approach to development
  Development programmes must move away from top-down approaches to empower networks of activity, argues USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah.
• Ivorian agricultural scientists open up their ...
  A shared platform for disseminating research results hopes to enable Ivorian researchers to communicate more effectively with farmers.
• Malaria overtreatment a 'risk to public health ...
  Overdiagnosing and mistreating malaria poses a risk to rural central and south Asian communities, says a study.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

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