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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, August 18, 2012

18 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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TO DO

renewable recyclingconservation
Repeal of Renewable Energy Goals Killing Jobs in Florida
Sunshine State News
In the Sunshine State, where we lag behind most other states inrenewable energy industry job creation, we still do not have aRenewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS) policy like the 30-plus states creating new jobs. At the just-concluded Florida ...
Ground breaks for Tooele Army Depot renewable energy project
Fox 13 Now - Salt Lake City
TOOELE, Utah – Groundbreaking for the Stirling Solar ArrayRenewable Energy Project took place at the Tooele Army Depot on Friday. The power dish is a solar power-generating grid that converts the sun's heat into electricity without the use of water.
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Little improvement in national drought this fall
Examiner.com
As well as significant effects on agriculture and livestock, the drought has affected bothrenewable and traditional energy prices. Drought intense, unforgiving during July. The extreme heat and lack of rain combined to make July 2012 the fifth largest ...
BASF, Novozymes and Cargill to Develop Renewable Acrylic Acid Production ...
Azom.com
Novozymes, a company specializing in industrial enzymes with vast knowledge acquired through the development of technologies to produce bio-based chemicals, has been working onrenewable acrylic acid technology with Cargill since 2008. Both firms...
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Ecology Department Removing Some Tsunami Debris Trash Bins
Newstalk 1450 KBKW
Olympia, WA - The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) is removing some trash bins placed near state beach access points to address increased amounts of marine debris along coastal beaches in Grays Harbor and Pacific counties thanks to a ...
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Ecology seeks public comment on Ridgefield shoreline program update
Access Washington
Under Washington's 1972 voter-approved Shoreline Management Act, a proposed shoreline program needs Ecology's review and approval before it takes effect. About 200 towns, cities and counties statewide are in the process of, or soon will, be updating ...
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Ecology Proposes Changes to Standards For Cleaning Up In-water Sediments
Newstalk 1450 KBKW
In 1991, the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) adopted the SMS rule to guide management of sediments. The SMS rule is used to conduct environmental cleanup work, manage the dredging of sedment for navigation and cleanup, and manage ...
NCEAS Call for Working Group Proposals
Santa Barbara Independent
The National Center for EcologicalAnalysis and Synthesis was initiated in 1995 to promote synthesis, analysis, and multidisciplinary collaboration directed toward addressing important questions in ecology and allied disciplines. The Center seeks...
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WATER POWER

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Nyad back in water in Cuba-Florida record swim try
The Associated Press
Endurance athlete Diana Nyad launched another bid Saturday to set an open-water record by swimming 103 miles (166 kilometers) from Havana to the Florida Keys without a protective shark cage. Under a blazing afternoon sun at the Hemingway Marina in ...
Two-word error could cost Santa Clara Valley Water District half a billion dollars
San Jose Mercury News
When the Santa Clara Valley WaterDistrict turned in ballot language this month to elections officials to place a $548 million parcel tax before voters, the summary of the measure was 77 words. Under election law, however, summaries can be no more than ...
Air and Water Show gets underway, millions expected
Chicago Sun-Times
Anti-war protesters were among the large crowds of people gathered along the lakefront Saturday for the annual Air andWater Show, which they accused of being a promotional tool for the U.S. Army. Holding demonstrations at North Avenue Beach, the ...
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Water quality trading addresses freshwater problems with economic ...
OregonLive.com
View full sizeThe Freshwater TrustThomas Edlen, a fellow with The Freshwater Trust, uses a densitometer to measure the current shade at a restoration site along Little Butte Creek in Southern Oregon. The readings will be used to set a baseline from...
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Personal & Noted

Scoop - NZ

  • Syrian Opposition gets first Stingers
    Turkey manufactures the Stingers under American license and is obliged by contract to obtain US permission for their transfer to a third party. It was granted by Washington on the quiet. This made it possible for Ankara to supply the rebel Syrian Free Army with the weapon needed to shoot down go ...
  • World shipping crisis threatens German dominance
    Germany’s shipping industry faces a wave of bankruptcies over coming months as funding dries up and deepening economic woes across the world cause a sharp contraction in container trade.
  • First Flight of 3D Printed Plane
    The maiden flight of a 3D printed aeroplane.
  • Wesley Clark on 9/11 "Policy Coup"
    In this stunning but little-known speech from 2007, Gen. Wesley Clark claims America underwent a “policy coup” at the time of the 9/11 attacks. In this video, he reveals that, right after 9/11, he was privy to information contained in a classified memo: US plans to attack and remove governments ...
  • Israeli FM predicts fragmentation of Arab states
    Israeli deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon noted on Friday that the Arab world is passing through a phase that will restore it back to the way it was before World War I, reported Israel Radio. He also predicted Syria’s fragmentation into provinces, adding that Lebanon will suffer the same f ...

Independent - London

  • Ousted South Africa ANC youth leader Julius Ma ...
    Miners and their families welcomed expelled politician Julius Malema today as he told the thousands who gathered at the site where 34 miners were killed this week that South African police had no right to fire the live bullets that killed them.Related StoriesSouth African police slaughter strik ...
  • British soldier killed while on sentry duty in ...
    A soldier from 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards has been killed in Afghanistan while on sentry duty, the Ministry of Defence said today.Related StoriesOrganisation of American States to discuss diplomatic row over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
  • Organisation of American States to discuss dip ...
    The diplomatic row over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to be discussed by foreign ministers from across the Americas next week.Related StoriesBritish soldier killed while on sentry duty in Afghanistan
  • Burma’s film-lovers celebrate a Titanic taste ...
    The latest sign of the change taking place in Burma comes in the form of Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio holding each other tight and looking love-struck on the bow of a famous but ill-fated ship.Related StoriesChinese boy gets head stuck in stone balustradeSeven US troops killed in Afghan h ...
  • West Bank facing blackout over unpaid £63m ele ...
    Electricity supplies to the West Bank could be cut off next week unless the Palestinian Authority pays the Israel Electric Corporation more than £63m in unpaid bills.Related StoriesBahraini activist Nabeel Rajab jailed for three years over 'illegal gatherings'Ahmadinejad: Israel is 'an insult t ...

Rogue Government.com

  • Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
    Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
    For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
  • China aims high with space program ambitions
    As the U.S. winds down its space shuttle program, and with the International Space Station set to shut down in 2020, eyes are turning to China and its ambitious yet mysterious plans for the final frontier.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Possible Meteorites Found After Bang, Light
    Brandon -- A woman living near Riding Mountain believes she found meteorites close to her home. On Wednesday, she found two fragments with surfaces like "old elephant skin," one the size of a football, the other larger, weighing about 25 kilograms. In the middle of the night on Tuesday, Nicole ...
  • SOTT FOCUS: From Internet Troll to Psychopathy ...
    Compared to, say, ten years ago, a lot of people today are aware of and talking about psychopaths. On the one hand this is encouraging, but on the other, it's a little troubling. It is heartening to see awareness of psychopathy breach the mainstream frequency fence here and there, but the signal ...
  • Cracking Up: Debunking the "Eggs as Bad as Cig ...
    Remember the '70s when doctors equated eggs with cholesterol and heart disease? A recent Canadian study involving over 1,200 adults published in the peer-reviewed journal Atherosclerosis says that eating eggs yolks is about as bad as smoking cigarettes when it comes to advancing coronary heart d ...
  • Russia Prepared for Possible Economic Meltdown ...
    The Russian economy is prepared for a possible economic meltdown as a result of the slowing of global growth and the escalating eurozone debt crisis, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. At a meeting with regional ombudsmen, Putin said the situation was complex both in the European and gl ...
  • Mitt's 13% Tax
    Mitt Romney says "every year I've paid at least 13 percent [of my income in taxes] and if you add in addition the amount that goes to charity, why the number gets well above 20 percent." This is supposed to be in defense of not releasing his tax returns. Assume, for the sake of the argument, h ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Putin prevails . . .
    PUTIN PREVAILS . . . for now. Great picture. Here's a couple of posters, too.
  • Caveat emptor . . .
    — 5-chloro-2-(2,4-dichlorophenoxy)phenol — CHECK THE LABELS on your household cleaning stuff, as well as toiletries like toothpaste, for Triclosan, because evidence is showing that it's nasty, dangerous stuff — and it's everywhere, it seems. According to Disinformation, new reports fr ...
  • World History . . .
    WORLD HISTORY WITH THE POPE, according to irReligion.org, a site with a rather caustic viewpoint about Imaginary Buddies, proclaiming itself to be "Your last stop before eternal enlightenment".  Do check out the site, as it has some interesting stuff for your perusal, like "Muslims Protest ...
  • CDS search
    Something fishy here. You'd think that the replacement for the Chief of the Defence Staff, the functional uniformed head Canada's military (GG and the Queen aside) would be secured well in advance of retirement of the present individual. Not so, it seems (emphasis mine). It appears the same ...
  • Editing the truth . . .
    ENBRIDGE IS LYING, according to SumOfUs. Looking at the picture, it sure seems like it. As SumOfUs says, If a tar sands pipeline and supertankers project looks too dangerous, what do you do? If you’re Enbridge, you delete islands off of public videos and maps to convince the public the ...

Media Matters for America

  • Just Trying To Help: Right-Wing Media's Advice ...
    Right-wing media are acting as de facto political advisers for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, offering the candidate an array of advice that includes replacing his staffers, finding "his inner pit bull," and talking more about his faith.Conservative Media: Romney Should Release Tax Returns ...
  • Fox's Mike Huckabee Doesn't Understand How The ...
    Fox News' Mike Huckabee misled on President Obama's economic record by claiming that Obama is "the first president in U.S. history that's never signed a budget." In fact, presidents don't sign budgets at all; rather, Congress is supposed to pass a "concurrent budget resolution" to serve as an ou ...
  • A Guide To The Right-Wing Media's Dishonest Me ...
    Members of the right-wing media have promoted the claim that President Obama has "gutted" Medicare in order to fund health care reform, while GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan is attempting to preserve the program. In fact, though Obama and Ryan have advocated similar spending reductions ...
  • A 'COUNTING' FRAUD: New Book By John Fund & Ha ...
    In their new book, Who's Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk, Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund and Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow Hans von Spakovsky attempt to gin up fears about stolen elections and widespread voter fraud by ma ...
  • Fox May Cheerlead Romney-Ryan Ticket, But It's ...
    Fox News figures have routinely invoked Ronald Reagan while discussing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his running mate, Congressman Paul Ryan. Most recently, Fox compared Ryan to the former president by splicing together their quotes and saying that Ryan and Reagan are physica ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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Water - AlterNet

  • Debris Headed to a Beach Near You? Sailors Tra ...
    You can view a photo slideshow by Stiv Wilson of his journey here on AlterNet.One March 11, 2011 a tsunami devastated Japan’s northern prefectures causing one of the worst human and environmental catastrophes in modern history.  The images of chaos and destruction were broadcast ar ...
  • Photos: Tracking the Damage in Japan and Our O ...
    August 17, 2012 Water Stiv Wilson joined an expedition organized by the 5 Gyres Institute and Algalita Marine Research Foundation to sail from Tokyo to Oahu to observe and study the debris field from the tsunami which struck Japan last spring. In a new piece on Alt ...
  • Tar Sands Pipeline Construction Begins in Texa ...
    Blockaders braved a wall of bulldozers early Thursday morning and unfurled banners that warned TransCanada to expect resistance the size of Texas if the company proceeds with construction of a pipeline to carry Canadian tar sands through the region as part of Keystone XL’s has ...
  • Toxic Wastewater Dumped in Streets and Rivers ...
    Ken Dufalla sits at a table inside Laverne’s Restaurant on Route 188 in Waynesburg, PA. The former park ranger, 65, is sporting a camouflaged trucker’s hat and enjoying Laverne’s cream of chicken and biscuits with mashed potatoes. It’s midmorning, between the breakf ...
  • A New Gov't Scheme for 'Water Quality Trading' ...
     The goal of the Clean Water Act is straightforward: the U.S. has a national goal of zero discharge into our public waterways. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) put a variety of measures in place in order to implement that goal yet, most of the time, we forgo the fundamental princi ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • TransCanada – still a bully
    According to TransCanada, they started construction on the southern leg of their highly controvertial tar sands pipeline on August 9th, even as a trial questioning their right to use eminent domain to take a Texas farmer’s land was scheduled to be held the following day. At this time, Judg ...
  • 25 days of 100 degree weather, better than 90 ...
    Austin, Texas just hit 100 degrees today (according to weather.com). This is our 25th day of 100 degree weather this year.  That pales in comparison to 2011, where at this time last year we were counting down to breaking the previous record of 69 days of 100 degree days set back in 1925.  Austin ...
  • They tried to keep it quiet, but the Tar Sands ...
    TransCanada has begun construction of the southern Keystone XL in Oklahoma and Texas. and while they tried to keep it quiet, the Tar Sands Blockade is there to greet them. TransCanada is carelessly moving forward with construction and trying to keep it quiet. Important legal cases are still pend ...
  • Refuting Assumptions About Nuclear Waste
    The agency responsible for approving the construction of nuclear reactors may no longer be able to rely on its old “build reactors now and worry about radioactive waste later” approach. Learn more about new challenges to nuclear waste policy. For decades, nuclear reactors have been built under t ...
  • A Tale of Two Nuclear Disasters
    As Japan commemorates the anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bomb attack, Japanese officials are developing new energy policies that will guard the safety and the livelihood of the Japanese public in the wake of the devastating Fukushima nuclear accident. Sixty seven years ago today, on Aug. 6, ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Man survives metal rod through his head
    A construction worker found himself with a 6-foot metal bar piercing all the way through his skull. 24-year-old Eduardo Leite had been working on a bu...
  • New spider species discovered in Oregon
    A completely new species of spider has been discovered by cave explorers in southern Oregon. The new hook-legged arachnid is the first new family of s...
  • Why is the sun so perfectly round ?
    It's hot, it's bright and it also happens to be one of the most pefectly round things ever measured. Jeff Kuhn and Isabelle Scholl of the University o...
  • Skeleton army discovered in Denmark
    The remains of several hundred ancient warriors have been found in a bog in the Alken Enge wetlands. At least 200 warriors dating back 2,000 years are...
  • Are virgin births possible ?
    In 1944 Emmimarie Jones believed that she had conceived a child without the involvement of a man. In one of the most famous cases of an alleged virgin...

Grassroots

Climate

  • India's Water Reservoirs at 51 Percent of Capa ...
    (Reuters) Water levels in India's main reservoirs were at 51 percent of capacity in the week to August 16, down 12 percentage points from a year ago, reflecting this year's weak monsoon, government data showed on Thursday. The latest ...
  • EPA to Approve Grain Sorghum for Cleaner Ethanol
    (AP) The federal government is on the verge of approving a grain mainly used as livestock feed to make a cleaner version of ethanol, a decision officials say could give farmers a new moneymaking opportunity, boost the biofuels industry ...
  • Climate Change Poses Risks to Food, Beyond US ...
    (Reuters) Downpours and heatwaves caused by climate change could disrupt food supplies from the fields to the supermarkets, raising the risk of more price spikes such as this year's leap triggered by drought in the United States. Food ...
  • Singapore Issues National Climate Change Strategy
    (National Geographic) Singapore, the newest addition to the global C40 network, has recently published its national climate change strategy, “Climate Change & Singapore: Challenges. Opportunities. Partnerships.” The comprehensive d ...
  • Germany Delays Windfarm over Threat to Porpoises
    (The Guardian) Germany's plan to wean itself off nuclear power has been dealt an unusual blow. Utility companies have been forced to delay plans to build a 25,000 megawatts windfarm off the German coast over fears the noisy constructio ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • One-Legged Stool Campaign
    The magnitude of the basic deceit that is the Romney/Ryan campaign has grown so large that it presents a problem for the blogging format. Time and again, I am dissuaded from pursuing a topic by the sheer effort it will take to explain it, or by the fact that I have already expended that energy ...
  • Stupid Republicans
    Chuck Grassley can't understand why the Romney campaign is knifing him in the back on wind energy. Sen. Grassley is very naïve. The Romney campaign is run by the fossil fuel industry. And the fossil fuel industry wants to utterly destroy the wind sector. Thus, Romney wants to destroy wind fa ...
  • More Guns Needed at Football Games!
    A fan was shot in the face outside the University of Phoenix Stadium before the preseason game between the Arizona Cardinals and the Oakland Raiders. A 30-year-old man was shot in the face during an altercation in a parking lot near University of Phoenix Stadium Friday night while the Arizona ...
  • Casual Observation
    I don't know what percentage of people agree with me, but I've always found Joe Biden's gaffes to be endearing. Still, the main thing I like about Biden is his loyalty. There's no way that Obama would fail to reward that puppy-dog loyalty and kick Joe off the ticket. In any case, just be ...
  • Frog Pond Fantasy Football Update
    Reminder re: my post from yesterday about this all important subject: Yes it is that time of year again, and in an election year what could be a better way of blowing off steam than playing in one of our two very own Certified Green Fantasy Football leagues. Frog Marchers VII (the original l ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Ex-NBA Star Sees Brutal Reality of Elephant Po ...
    Former NBA player Yao Ming is on a fact-finding mission in Africa, part of a conservation campaign to reduce demand for ivory. Here, he encountered a poached elephant. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Rare Photographs of Chinese Women from the 1800s
    These amazing 19th-century photographs of Chinese women offer a glimpse, however small, of what their lives may have been like. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Dirt: The Incredible Ecosystem Beneath our Feet
    It's time to renew your childhood delight in mud pies! Soil and dirt is teeming with living creatures and forms an intricate ecosystem that brings the dead back to life. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Staging Death: Behind the Scenes at a Funeral Home
    They organize every aspect of a funeral – from picking up the body at the morgue to the final burial or cremation – but what do we really know about undertakers’ work? This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Most Memorable Nurses In Cinema
    From Nurse Ratched to “Hot Lips” Houlihan, there have been some remarkable portrayals of nurses in movies over the years. Here are the 10 Most Memorable Nurses In Cinema. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • UPDATE: Govt Sites appear OK right now // Earl ...
    UPDATE: August 12 7AM: via two different DNS services it looks like the sites are looking up correctly now. My net connection's pretty dodgy at the moment but I think they are loading correctly now. It could have been a temporary glitch - strange since other lookups were working correctly on a t ...
  • BREAKING: Feds / IIR.COM apparently SCRUBBING ...
    BREAKING NEWS PEOPLE - apparent #trapwire gov coverup in realtime!! it looks like the government is scrubbing Suspicious Activity Report related GOV sites and dumping their DNS entries. However the boxes are STILL ONLINE, if you use /etc/hosts on osx/unix you can STILL get in and mirror the file ...
  • Security culture danger as closed Occupy Homes ...
    Troublesome assumptions about security culture arrangements for closed Occupy Homes national gathering sessions starting tomorrow at the Neighbors Organizing for Change MN (NOC Office) around noon put participants at risk. I feel everyone involved means well, but a bunch of particularly 'toxic' ...
  • Plans for closed door Occupy Homes national me ...
    ///// 1AM August 7th update: http://hongpong.com/archives/2012/08/07/security-culture-danger-closed-o... ///// ///// 1:40PM Sat August 4 update and correction below ///// Many Twin Cities activists working with the Occupy Homes MN group were surprised to hear that a national gathering committe ...
  • Plans for closed door Occupy Homes national me ...
    Many Twin Cities activists working with the Occupy Homes MN group were surprised to hear that a national gathering committee, with two representatives from their group, had decided to restrict open access to most (but not all) of the sessions of that national gathering, scheduled around August 7 ...

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...
    Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
  • No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...
    Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal ch...
  • Climate Change Poses Food Distribution Risks, ...
    * Bridges, roads could be washed away, hitting harvest transport * "High degree of confidence" weather extremes linked to climate change * Enough food, but problem is distribution - professor By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Downpours and heatwaves caused ...
  • Paul Ryan: Quiet But Far-Right On Social Issues
    Rep. Paul Ryan is considered a single-issue candidate -- someone who bolsters Mitt Romney's argument that this election is about the economy and only the economy.Ryan hasn't dedicated much time to social issues. But the Wisconsinite, best understood as an anti-tax, anti-spending purist, has tak ...
  • Assange will be refused safe passage even if E ...
    Source: RT The UK will do everything in its power to block Assange’s passage to Ecuador even if he is granted asylum by the nation’s government, officials said, claiming a legal obligation to extradite the WikiLeaks founder to Sweden. UK authorities sparked a minor scandal when ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #780
    Israeli Prime Minister rebukes President's Iran comments. Russian embassy in UK alleges attack by Syrian activists. Syrian rebels put captured Iranian drones on YouTube.
  • Colombian police ‘steal personal data’ of 31 m ...
    The National Police Force of Colombia have stolen the contents of an enormous electronic database containing the personal information of over 31 million Colombian citizens, according to news reports from Bogotá.
  • News you may have missed #779
    German spy chief says end is near for Assad regime. Twitter shuts down fake CIA account. Canada spy agency suspends employees over security lapses.
  • Interview with editors of H-INTEL, a new intel ...
    In late June of this year, Dr. Mark Stout, of Johns Hopkins University and the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, announced the creation of H-INTEL, a new scholarly discussion list on intelligence. In an effort to spread the world about this noble effort, intelNews spoke with two indivi ...
  • Interview with editors of H-INTEL, a new intel ...
    In late June of this year, Dr. Mark Stout, of Johns Hopkins University and the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, announced the creation of H-INTEL, a new scholarly discussion list on intelligence. In an effort to spread the world about this noble effort, intelNews spoke with two indivi ...

War is a Crime.org

  • How to Survive in a Perfect Mess
      By John Grant When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. read more
  • Silencing Dissent in America
      Silencing Dissent in America   by Stephen Lendman   Freedom in America is endangered. Bipartisan complicity plans destroying it altogether.    America is on a fast track toward tyranny and ruin. Police state laws threaten everyone.   read more
  • Bahrain Imprisons Human Rights Leader
      Bahrain Imprisons Human Rights Leader   by Stephen Lendman   The Al Khalifa monarchy rules Bahrain despotically. State terror is policy. Activists are targeted, arrested, tortured, and imprisoned. Kangaroo court proceedings deny justice.   read more
  • Syria News - Aug 17
        Washington sidelines Syrian National Council, reaches out to opposition inside - The Arab American News SNC complains US failure to keep aid promise - China.org.cn Free Syrian Army declares a code of conduct pledging no executions and torture - hurriyetdailynews VIDEO: Sy ...
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Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Bankers, their Puppet Leaders and Poltical Age ...
    By The Watchdog Many of the credible economists are predicting a complete economic collapses in the near future. This economic turmoil could have been averted and avoided very easily. It did not happen, the political establishment colluding with Wall Street and the Bankers have been obstructing ...
  • Release of the ‘Dancing Israelis’, Coincidence ...
    A Few Days after AA Flight 587 Crash: Government Covered Up Likely Sabotage and Released Mossad Agents Arrested on 9/11 By Doug Steil | Aletho News | November 16, 2010 By now, after nine years, anyone who has seriously looked into the circumstances surrounding 9/11 has read about the s ...
  • Invisible Russian submarine: Voice of Russia
    Natalya Kovalenko In June-July, the Akula-class submarine, an attack warship capable of carrying long-range ballistic missiles, travelled in the Gulf of Mexico patrolling the US coast. The US satellites and hydro-acoustic sensors failed to spot it. The US Navy spotted only the submarine’s tail w ...
  • Runaway Stupid and the Train to Nowhere
    By Visible In these times and possibly in most times, considered more or less modern, given that this is a dark age, the impetus is to instinctively react in the negative, because of the depressing, soul-numbing chiaroscuro aspect of our daily fare. It’s understandable but it is inaccurate ...
  • Hiroshima Radiation Cover-up: How War Dept&#82 ...
    By Alexander Higgins The NY Times ran a Pulitzer winning article with the headline ‘NO RADIOACTIVITY IN HIROSHIMA RUIN’ to support US claims dismissing radioactive fallout as Japanese propaganda. After dropping nuclear bombs on Japan the US dismissed claims atomic bombs caused lingering radioact ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Fasotec is Offering a Teeny Tiny Scale Model o ...
    Japanese engineering firm Fasotec is now offering mini (90x60x40 millimeters) 3D models of fetuses to expectant mothers!
  • Lady Gaga’s Artistic Fur Choices Have PETA’s C ...
    Animal rights group PETA has called Lady Gaga a “Turncoat” after the star was spotted wearing a fur recently. Gaga responded to the PETA allegations and her fans via blog: fur can be art (not a surprising point of view, considering some previous wardrobe choices have included Kermit the Frog and ...
  • Sanya Skypump: World’s First Integrated Wind-P ...
    The world’s first fully integrated wind-powered EV charging station has been installed in Barcelona, Spain. The charging station, known as the Sanya Skypump, was unveiled today by Urban Green Energy and GE, and it combines UGE’s cutting-edge vertical wind turbines with GE’s electric vehicl ...
  • US Announces Agent Orange Clean-Up in Vietnam ...
    Nearly 40 years after the Vietnam War, the U.S. launched a project to clean up toxic residues of Agent Orange – one of the many herbicides used by the U.S. military during the war was proven to contain dioxin, a chemical linked to cancer, birth defects and other disabilities. The $43 milli ...
  • Heneghan Peng’s Giant’s Causeway Visitor Cente ...
    Read the rest of Heneghan Peng’s Giant’s Causeway Visitor Center is a Stone Sanctuary on the Cliffs of Ireland Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: basalt, causeway, coastal ireland, eco building, eco design, eco ireland, giant's causeway, giant's causeway visit ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Watch Live: Rare Cluster of Comets Enters the ...
    Nine rare comets will be invading the inner solar system and you can watch them shoot through space live during a Slooh Space Camera collaboration show starting at 3 p.m. PDT/6 p.m. EDT.
  • Sure, We Can Build a Better Toilet. But Will P ...
    The Gates Foundation wants to build a better toilet for the developing world, but good intentions and clever engineering aren't enough. Would-be designers of post-porcelain thrones don't just need to account for water use and material costs, but sociology and psychology.
  • Curiosity Prepares to Rove and Shoot Lasers
    Things are moving along nicely for the Curiosity rover team. Less than two weeks after a pitch-perfect landing on Mars, the rover is getting ready to roll along the Martian soil and pull out it rock-shooting laser for the first time.
  • Meet Trogloraptor: America’s Newest Cave Spider
    A cave-dwelling creature named Trogloraptor sounds like the villain of a B-horror film, but it’s actually a newly discovered type of spider.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Colorful ...
    If you're like us, you could look at photos of galaxies, planets, moons and nebulas all day. But you don't have all day, so let Wired Science bring you the most intriguing, beautiful or mysterious view of space we can find. We promise they will be mind-blowing and tempt you to replace your deskt ...

PakAlert

  • U.S. Troops To Get New Headgear For “Homeland ...
    The U.S. Army is planning to develop new protective headgear for soldiers that will shield them from ballistic munitions, small arms ammunition and blunt trauma as part of missions that will include “homeland security operations.”
  • Startling Evidence That Central Banks And Wall ...
    If you want to figure out what is going to happen next in the financial markets, carefully watch what the insiders are doing. Those that are "connected" have access to far better sources of information than the rest of us have, and if they hear that something big is coming up they will often ma ...
  • The Department of Homeland Securities ICE Want ...
    The Department of Homeland Security, through the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has requested another 33 million rounds of .223 caliber 62 grain ammunition in the base year, and for 4 subsequent years, with a limit of 165,000,000 rounds.
  • Monsanto Dishes Out 4.2 Million to Squash Cali ...
    Monsanto is doing its absolute best to ensure that you do not know what you are putting into your mouth, now confirmed to have donated $4.2 million in an attempt to fight the California GMO labeling initiative that could very well put them out of business. You see, if people actually knew that t ...
  • U.S. Government’s Foreign Debt Hits Record $5. ...
    The money the U.S. government owes to foreign entities rose to a record $5.2923 trillion in June, according to data released by the U.S. Treasury Wednesday afternoon. In May, the U.S. Treasury had owed $5.2581 trillion to foreign entities. On net, in June, the U.S. government borrowed an addi ...

Andy Worthington

  • Photos of Rome: A Storm, the Hills and the Tib ...
    Rome: A Storm, the Hills and the Tiber at Night, a set on Flickr. This is my second set of photos from my family holiday this year — in Italy, and, specifically, in Rome this week and, next week, a village in Abruzzo province. The eternal city (la città eterna) is one of the most [...]
  • Architecture on an Epic Scale: Photos of Arriv ...
    Architecture on an Epic Scale: Arriving in Rome, Visiting St. Peter’s and the Vatican, a set on Flickr. I’m on holiday right now, in Rome, an astonishing city, saturated in history, and still, of course, the centre of the Catholic church worldwide. Italy is a country that I have love ...
  • A Place to Call Home: Photos of Brockley from ...
    A Place to Call Home: Brockley from Winter to Summer, a set on Flickr. I have lived in London for 27 years, and for the last 12 years (13 in November) I have made my home — with my wife, and with the son who, prematurely, joined us shortly after moving here — in Brockley, [...]
  • The holiday starts here …
    OK, so I’m away for two weeks, on my annual family holiday — this year to Italy, and, specifically, to Rome for a week, and then Abruzzo for a second week. It will be good to get away. I’ve been finding Guantánamo weighing heavily on me, and the state of Britain under the Torie ...
  • Photos of London At Night: From the Olympics a ...
    London At Night: From the Olympics at Greenwich to Deptford and Surrey Quays, a set on Flickr. On August 8, 2012, as part of my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike — and also to fully understand, both physically and mentally, the scale of the city and how its various ...

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drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Suspects in Louisiana Cop Killings May be ‘Sov ...
    State and federal investigators believe at least two of the five suspects arrested in connection with a shoot-out Thursday that killed two sheriff’s deputies near New Orleans have ties to the sometimes violent, antigovernment “sovereign citizens” movement. If so, that would mean that sovereigns ...
  • SPLC: Family Research Council License-to-Kill ...
    Editor’s Note: The following statement may be attributed to Mark Potok, Senior Fellow of the Southern Poverty Law Center and editor of its Intelligence Report and Hatewatch blog. Yesterday’s attack on the Family Research Council and the shooting of a security guard there was a tragedy. The ...
  • SPLC Statement on Shooting at Family Research ...
    We’ve seen news of the shooting of a security guard today at the Family Research Council office in Washington, D.C., and are getting media inquiries about it. There are unconfirmed reports that the shooting was ideologically motivated. We condemn all acts of violence and are following the story ...
  • Wisconsin Temple Attack: Authorities Chose to ...
    Editor’s Note: This essay by Hatewatch Editor Mark Potok was originally posted Sunday night in The New York Times online opinion section as part of a “Room for Debate” feature that also included articles from four other contributors. The essays were meant to address the questio ...
  • How Do We Know FAIR is a Hate Group? Let Us Co ...
    John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou, the immigrant-bashing Los Angeles radio personalities who were suspended earlier this year when they referred to Whitney Houston as a “crack ho” and marveled that the late pop singer “took this long” to die, are back on the air and up to their old tricks. In the Aug ...

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

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  • Organization of American States to Meet Over U ...
    The Organization of American States (OAS) is set to meet next week over the UK's threat to storm the Ecuador's embassy in London to seize Julian Assange. read more
  • Israel Kicks Out Migrants – By Changing Their ...
    Sudanese asylum seekers in Israel are being issued with documents changing their nationality, allowing them to be removed from the country or imprisoned. The Bureau has identified migrants who have recently been issued with documents labelling them as South Sudanese – despite holding passp ...
  • Deadly Week for Afghan Civilians Ends With Mor ...
    A bomb exploded in a crowded market in Afghanistan on Saturday killing four and wounding at least 12, ending a deadly week for civilians in the occupied country. The explosion happened in the Shindand district of the western province of Herat. ...
  • U.S. Court Upholds Status Quo on Gene Patents
    Is a gene more like a tree trunk or more like a baseball bat? A federal court Thursday took a stand on the question, ruling that isolated DNA molecules are “not found in nature”, and are therefore more like inventions, such as baseball bats, than natural phenomenon, such as tree trun ...
  • Group: Lack of Diversity in Presidential Deba ...
    The lack of any journalist of color moderating any of the presidential debates is "unacceptable," says an advocacy organization. In a statement issued Friday, the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) said the Commission on Presidential Debates has ignored the changing elect ...

Lifehacker

  • Make Cocktails with Unwanted Wine
    If friends come over for a dinner party, bring a wine you hate (chardonnay?), and only finish around half the bottle before they leave you can always cook with it but another option is make it into a wine cocktail. More » ...
  • Enable Touch-pad Gestures on Windows 8 RTM [Wi ...
    If you've downloaded Windows 8 release-to-manufacturing (RTM) to your laptop you may notice that you don't have any support for multi-touch gestures. Technology weblog Cnet News discovered that until Windows releases official multi-touch drive ...
  • DIY Garage Solar Heating and Lighting Doors [W ...
    If your garage door faces south you can build a set of passive solar doors that will provide heat and light, reducing your energy expenses during winter for around $400 in materials. More »
  • Top 10 Tools That Are Better in the Command Li ...
    Typing commands into a terminal may seem tedious, but with the right tools, the command line can be incredibly powerful. Here are our favorite command line tools that do awesome things you just can't match in a GUI. More » ...
  • Store Cutting Boards in Your Cabinets with a M ...
    If you're looking for a way to keep cutting boards accessible yet out of the way crafting weblog Art Love Fashion recommends placing a magazine rack on the inside of your kitchen cabinet door. More »

Water Privatization

  • Five ways privatization is ruining America
    We spend lifetimes developing community assets, then give them away to a corporation for lifetimes to come
  • S'gor water war: Umno's river of CASH
    Does the Klang Valley’s water company mainly service UMNO? In the mid-1990s, then Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad ordered the privatization of a wide range of government activities from highways to airports to railways to shipyards and much more.
  • Malaysia's Murky Water War
    • (http://twitter.com/share) Does the Klang Valley’s water company mainly service UMNO?
  • Lehigh Valley Sierra Club opposes Allentown pl ...
    The club says the plan risks giving control of Allentown's resources to a company that 'could exploit that watershed without concern for environmental damage that could result.'
  • Meridian Energy FY12 Net Profit Dented By Reco ...
    A sharp drop in Meridian Energy Ltd.'s profit in the year to June 30 is unlikely to dent the company's valuation as it prepares to hit the market, as it was down to a fall in electricity production caused by water inflows hitting a 79-year low, analysts said Monday.

Guardian

  • Newcastle United v Tottenham Hotspur – live! | ...
    • Hit F5 or the auto-update buttton for the latest posts • Send your thoughts to rob.bagchi@guardian.co.uk • Check the live scores and results from around EuropeFinal score: Newcastle 2-1 Tottenham90 min+3: Spurs free-kick by their own penalty box, launched forward but Krul comes out to collect ...
  • Julian Assange case: Ecuador pushes for neighb ...
    Quito insists embassy is inviolable as Hague says WikiLeaks founder will not be allowed safe passage out of countryThe international diplomatic row over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange – who is avoiding extradition to Sweden by taking refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London – was escalating ...
  • Pussy Riot trial gives Russia 'the image of a ...
    Even some of Putin's supporters are aghast at the penal term handed out to the feminist punks. Amid a global storm of protest, signs have emerged that they might be released early – but a deep national rift remainsA storm of criticism against Russia was unleashed in western capitals and by human ...
  • Paul Ryan and his mother tout Medicare plans a ...
    The VP hopeful took to the offensive, seeking to reassure a large senior population about Republican plans for Medicare reformRepublican vice presidential pick Paul Ryan sought to reassure Floridians over his controversial plans for senior healthcare on Saturday, relying on his 78-year-old mothe ...
  • UK enjoys hottest day of the year
    High of 31.4C recorded at Cavendish in Suffolk beats previous peak at London's Olympic Park on 25 JulySaturday was the hottest day of the year so far, with temperatures reaching 31.7C (89.06F).The highest temperature was recorded at Cavendish in Suffolk, beating the previous record of 31.4C (88. ...

McClatchey

  • Commentary: Making sense of the senseless
    On first hearing the news of the Aug. 4 massacre in Wisconsin, I immediately thought of my neighbors down the street, particularly remembering a young man I first met when…Click to Continue »
  • Commentary: President Obama's next job?
    Its never too early to think about your next job, especially if youre president and unemployment has been over 8 percent for your entire term. So I imagine Barack Obama…Click to Continue »
  • GOP vice presidential pick Ryan releases 2010, ...
    Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan and his wife paid taxes at effective rates of 20 percent last year and 15.9 percent in 2010, according to returns released Friday.Click to Continue »
  • Romney still can’t shake income tax con ...
    In a year when a sputtering economy might be expected to give him the upper hand in the presidential race, Mitt Romney finds himself on the hot seat on income…Click to Continue »
  • States to get nearly $500 million in unused ea ...
    LaHood said that states have until Oct. 1 to identify how they intend to use the money and must obligate the funds by the end of the year or lose…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Soldier dies on Afghan sentry duty
    A soldier from 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards has been killed in Afghanistan while on sentry duty, the Ministry of Defence said.The soldier was serving in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand ...
  • MoD cash for bayoneted Afghan boy
    The Ministry of Defence is to pay compensation after a British soldier stabbed an Afghan boy with his bayonet.The family of Ghulam Nabi, who was 10 at the time, would be given an ...
  • Afghanistan Marks Independence Day With Low-Ke ...
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai has marked the 93rd anniversary of the country's independence in a ceremony in Kabul. In a low-key event attended by government officials and the honor guard, ...
  • Deadly Week for Afghan Civilians Ends With Mor ...
    A bomb exploded in a crowded market in Afghanistan on Saturday killing four and wounding at least 12, ending a deadly week for civilians in the occupied ...
  • Bomb at Afghan bazaar kills 4 people
    A bomb in a busy Afghan market killed four people on Saturday in the western province of Herat, an official said, the latest attack targeting civilians in the decade-long war. Hours later, a prison ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Blood Medicine tells the story of Mark Duxbury ...
    Kathleen Sharp's book about pharmaceutical whistleblower Mark Duxbury will be released in paperback on September 1, 2012. It is Blood Medicine: Blowing the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever. I had the pleasure of interviewing journalist Kathleen Sharp on November 15, 2011.& ...
  • Evans wins remand from ARB
    My client, Doug Evans, just won a remand from the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB). In a rare en banc decision, all five ARB judges joined in holding that Iqbal and Twombly do not apply to OSHA whistleblower complaints. Thus, the ARB's 2010 decision in Evans' case is final ...
  • This Week on Honesty Without Fear
    Tune in tomorrow at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. Richard Renner interviews Professor Richard Moberly of the University of Nebraska College of Law about his recent law review article, "Sarbanes-Oxley's Whistleblower Provisions - Ten Years Later." Pro ...
  • Tax Court calls for an answer from IRS whistle ...
    The United States Tax Court issued an order Tuesday that requires the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to respond by September 24, 2012, to an amicus brief filed by the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC). We reported here on July 11, 2012, about the NWC "friend of the court" brief in I ...
  • FRSA ALERT! Railroads Lose Power To Interfere ...
    We are pleased to repost, with permission, this blog entry by Charlie Goetsch from trainlawblog.com, announcing a favorable and precedent-setting decision by the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB). Congratulations to Charlie Goetsch for obtaining the outstanding result for h ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Holmes Wilson's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The ...
    First, two big wins against getting extradited from a country where you weren't breaking the law to a country where--regardless of whether you were or not--powerful enemies will almost certainly destroy your life for something awesome you did on the Internet: America! New Zealand High Court: ...
  • eBay Banishes Demons, Djinns, Work-From-Home S ...
    eBay's Fall Seller Update has just arrived, bringing with it several tables, FAQs, a bullet-pointed "Best Practices," and sadly, to the purveyors of certain goods, a list of categories that will no longer be welcome within the confines of Paypal Fraud Central eBay's listings.  Se ...
  • People Who Pay For A Service Are A Lot Nicer T ...
    Dealing with customers can quite often be a pain for many companies and other people who offer goods and services that require some support from time to time. When offering a free service, the barrier for new customers is eliminated and you can get a whole lot of cranky people when the service i ...
  • Where Do Teens Discover New Music? YouTube.
    As YouTube sits in the uncomfortable position of being absolutely loved by the general public, while also being accused by media labels of being an engine for piracy, while also being used by those same labels to try to get free money off the backs of their signed artists, we have long said that ...
  • DailyDirt: Lobsters -- Sea Food Different
    Lobsters have an interesting culinary history. While these invertebrates are now generally considered an expensive meal for special occasions, they were once so plentiful in the northeastern US that they were a cheap food fed to prisoners -- and subsequently considered "cruel and unusual punishm ...

VacTruth

  • Vaccine Research Creating Virulent Strains
    When sanitation, clean water, and better nutrition were introduce into the jam-packed, filthy cities in Europe and the United States, smallpox decreased on its own, long before the modern pharmaceutical smallpox vaccine even came on the scene.
  • Bombshell Interview Reveals DNA Fragments Disc ...
    This interview reveals how DNA fragments were discovered 6 months after a young woman was vaccinated.
  • Your Child Does NOT Have To Be Vaccinated To A ...
    As you’re going over your child’s back-to-school list, there’s one thing you can cross off: vaccines.
  • Fact: Vaccinations are Killing Our Kids
    Every day we are told that vaccinations are the best defense against the killer diseases while governments, media and pharmaceutical industries dish out billions of dollars advertising the benefits in an effort to convince us.
  • Breaking News – Gardasil Vaccine rDNA In ...
    According to testimony presented before a coroner’s inquest, “residual HPV DNA fragments from the viral gene or plasmid injected with Gardasil®” have been found six months after that vaccination (series) was given to a teenager who died in her sleep of unknown and unexplained causes.

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    A nice, short piece on why War is Not Inevitable.  (See also why Pinker, with his claims about violence decreasing, is a jackass.) And as long as we are on the subject of violence. Lakey makes some excellent points in his post about a diversity of tactics. Check out the stats on suspensions of c ...
  • Small Acts of Resistance
    I’m reading this book called Freedom’s Children right now. I only just started it, but it relates to all the thinking I have been doing about motivation and participation in activism. The author interviewed thirty people who were children or teenagers in the 1950s and 1960s. Maybe on ...
  • Die Chivalry Die
    You know that whole “women and children first” thing, where ship captains are supposed to stoically go down with the boat? Someone actually did a study of shipwrecks. Turns out – not so much. In examining 18 shipping disasters dating to the 1850s, the economists found little evidence that ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I can’t believe they are still kicking girls out of school for being pregnant. Do they think it is contagious? Do we need some sex ed for school administration? A map tracking unarmed people of color killed by authority figures. Interesting that the Western states have no killings. I reali ...
  • Is the Media Liberal?
    A friend of mine just posted this nifty graphic showing how much more often the media quotes the GOP. But I’m not sure that it says much. If conservative is defined as wanting to live by religious doctrine or being anti-abortion, then the media is not particularly conservative. If conserva ...

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War in Context

  • Netanyahu’s empty gun: War with Iran seems les ...
    Noam Sheizaf lays out the reasons why, in spite of the rhetoric of Israel’s prime minister and defense minister, he believes an attack on Iran won’t come this fall, and probably not at all. The debate is becoming very political. Leading Israeli politicians – Shimon Peres and Shaul Mofaz being tw ...
  • Video: One state, two states or even three states?
  • Trapwire: It’s not the surveillance, it’s the ...
    Noah Shachtman reports: Ever since WikiLeaks began releasing a series of documents about the surveillance system Trapwire, there’s been a panicked outcry over this supposedly all-seeing, revolutionary spy network. In fact, there are any number of companies that say they comb through video feeds ...
  • Video: The curious case of Julian Assange
  • Criminalizing dissent
    Chris Hedges writes: I was on the 15th floor of the Southern U.S. District Court in New York in the courtroom of Judge Katherine Forrest last Tuesday. It was the final hearing in the lawsuit I brought in January against President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. I filed the su ...

Watts Up With That?

  • How not to measure temperature, part 93: the h ...
    Over at Tallbloke’s Talkshop, moderator Tim Channon wondered about this regularly hot station reported in the news: An often appearing name in the BBC news as the hottest place in the country is Gravesend but the true location of the … Continue reading →
  • McIntyre’s talk in London – Plus, ...
    At The Register, Andrew Orlowski attended the talk and has a news article describing Steve McIntyre’s talk at the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, which was an event hosted by the Global Warming Policy Foundation. McIntyre’s statement on wind … Continue reading →
  • Apocalypse Not: I love the smell of skepticism ...
    Matt Ridley has just had a tremendous essay published in WIRED magazine, one that everyone should take a few minutes to read, because it sums up the issues of all the end time fears, fallacies, and failures we have collectively … Continue reading →
  • Friday Funny – pissing away the CO2 alarm
    From the FECYT – Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology  comes this hilarious bit of news pushed as serious science. I like the idea of a “potion”. It fits right up there with some of the other crazy CO2 sequestration … Continue reading →
  • Beefing up security on skeptical blogs
    It has been noted that in the past week we have seen two prominent skeptic websites attacked: Jo Nova and The GWPF, the latter of which has been overtaken, and a message from the attackers replaced the home page. I … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Is there a ‘healthy’ obesity gene?
    Why is it that some obese people are healthier than others? This was one of the main questions Dr. Chaodong Wu of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences — Texas A&M University System — and a group of researchers tried to answer in a recent study. The study, which will appea ...
  • How the zebra fish heals itself
    Scientists have unlocked the secrets of the zebra fish’s ability to heal its spinal cord after injury, in research that could deliver therapy for paraplegics and quadriplegics in the future. A team from Monash University’s Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI), led by Dr Yona Goldshm ...
  • Study shows how immune cells change wiring of ...
    Researchers have shown in mice how immune cells in the brain target and remove unused connections between brain cells during normal development. This research, supported by the National Institutes of Health, sheds light on how brain activity influences brain development, and highlights the newly ...
  • Researchers uncover new ways sleep-wake patter ...
    Researchers at New York University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered new ways neurons work together to ease the transition between sleep and wakefulness. Their findings, which appear in the journal Neuron, provide additional insights into sleep-wake pa ...
  • Scientists Turn Human Skin Cells Into Healthy ...
    In a medical first, scientists in Haifa, Israel, took skin cells from two heart failure patients and reprogrammed them into stem cells that generated healthy, beating heart muscle cells in the lab. Though human testing is likely a decade off, the hope is that such cells can be used to help peopl ...

CFACT

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Pruning Shears

  • Fighting fracking: introverts edition
    One of the biggest threats fracking poses to the environment is the way it endangers the water supply. It does so in several ways, one of which has large-scale implications. Global impact like that is a little unusual; environmental issues are more likely to be local. Whether it’s frack ...
  • Hiram residents attempt to ask questions about ...
    Thursday’s post on Hiram’s public fracking meeting mainly covered residents’ interaction with local officials. The bigger part of the meeting, though, featured two speakers with ties to the oil and gas industry. A representative from the company Mountaineer Keystone (MK) made ...
  • Hiram residents seek local control on fracking
    On Tuesday the town of Hiram held a public meeting with representatives of the company Mountaineer Keystone (MK). MK, a subsidiary of First Reserve Corporation, is set to begin fracking operations in Hiram next month. The company is a bit of an enigma; for one, it does not appear to have a web ...
  • Quantifying the impact of the Republican agenda
    I attended a local government meeting earlier this month in order to keep up with the latest on fracking in our town. Something else interesting happened as well. The meeting began with a budget review. Budget reviews are long and drawn out affairs even when they’re not, if you know wha ...
  • The view of fracking from San Pablo Bay
    Marvin Patten is an environmental health science student at Kent State University. The following letter was presented to the Kent city council earlier this year. The recent struggle over the disposal of fracking fluid sent to Warren’s Patriot Water System treatment plant gives renewed im ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Natural brands betray consumers over GMO label ...
    It's time to defeat evil in the food industry and stop the vicious betrayal of consumers by so-called "natural" brands.Click here to read this article
  • Destroying Children with the Cloak of ADHD - P ...
    ADHD, your child, drugs, corruption... are words that should not be in the same sentence - or same conversation for that matter. Last month, a study was published that makes it questionable whether this generation of children stands even a remote fighting chance against the pharmaceutical compan ...
  • Alarming Smoking Habits Found in Poorer Countries
    Two fifths of men in developing countries still smoke or use tobacco, and women are increasingly starting to smoke at younger ages, according to a large international study which found "alarming patterns" of tobacco use.Click here to read this article
  • CO2 Emissions in US drop to 20-year low
    In a surprising turnaround, the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere in the U.S. has fallen dramatically to its lowest level in 20 years, and government officials say the biggest reason is that cheap and plentiful natural gas has led many power plant operators to switch fr ...
  • Agriculture is Nation's Biggest Water Polluter ...
    Eight times in seven years, a state inspector asked Joe Lemire to keep his cattle off the banks of Pataha Creek. Why? Because they drop cow pies in the water. Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

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

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Assange 'Arrest Threat' Ahead Of Asylum
    Ecuador accuses Britain of threatening to arrest the Wikileaks founder in its embassy ahead of a decision on his asylum request.....took refuge in the embassy two months ago to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he faces questioning for alleged sexual mis Submitted by John Farnham to World &nbs ...
  • The future may well be electric for COMCAR fleet
    THE FEDERAL government will consider using electric cars for MPs, following COMCAR's two-week trial of vehicles supplied by Melbourne-based consortium EV Engineering. Submitted by John Farnham to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Trailer Trashing As South Africa Considers Out ...
    Although they are low tech, the trailers are skilfully designed and often neibourhood-manufactured, have two wheels and are attached to the bicycle via a hitch of behind the saddle. Submitted by Naoko I. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • New leaked TPP text puts fair use at risk
    United States Trade Representative (USTR) is putting Fair Use at risk with restrictive language in the Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement (TPP). The US and Australia are both proposing very restrictive text, and Peru is willing to accommodate the bad language Submitted by John Farnham to Society &am ...
  • 10 years ago American sanctified torture
    Includes links from Andy Worthington's tireless effort for Gitmo prisoners as well as much other info. My link looks to be missing in comments http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.ca/2010/09/law.html Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |  & ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Pro-GMO Propaganda in California Dismantled by ...
    Opponents of GMO labeling say it will raise food costs by hundreds of dollars per family when in fact it will likely cause NO cost increase at all!
  • Mothers To Regulators: We Will Not Comply!
    On August 18, 2012 a group of mothers and others, members of the advocacy groups, the Raw Milk Freedom Riders and Lemonade Freedom Day, will take their raw milk and lemonade to the lawn of the US Capitol to celebrate their right to “voluntary exchange.”
  • Jeffrey M. Smith, Roseanne Barr and Cynthia Mc ...
    This weekend please join the former Congresswoman and Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney along with Roseanne Barr – who is running for President this November! Both of these courageous women will be appearing on the 2nd day (Saturday, August 18) of this 3 day historical event.
  • 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?

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Federal court rules cops can warrantlessly tra ...
    ShareThisFederal court rules cops can warrantlessly track suspects via cellphone --Geo-data received based on 'reasonable grounds' phone was connected to a crime 14 Aug 2012 In a 2-1 ruling, the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has ruled that law enforcement has the right to obt ...
  • U.S. plans to beef up rural police forces in A ...
    ShareThisThere's no money for Medicare, but: U.S. plans to beef up rural police forces in Afghanistan [so they can kill more US soldiers to 'justify' the need to give billions to US mercenary firms who train Afghan police to kill US soldiers. We can't get a road built or a bridge fixed on US soi ...
  • Correa Says Assange May Stay in Ecuador Embass ...
    ShareThisCorrea Says Assange May Stay in Ecuador Embassy Indefinitely 17 Aug 2012 Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said he doesn't expect the U.K. to allow WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange to leave Ecuador's embassy in London after the South American nation granted him asylum yesterday. "The ...
  • Afghan soldier opens fire on US troopers injures 2
    ShareThisAfghan soldier opens fire on US troopers injures 2 17 Aug 2012 Two American troopers have been wounded by an Afghan soldier in a new 'green-on-blue' attack in Afghanistan's troubled southern province of Kandahar. The 'green-on-blue' shootings have been on the rise in the war-torn countr ...
  • US-led trooper killed in S Afghanistan IED blast
    ShareThisUS-led trooper killed in S Afghanistan IED blast 16 Aug 2012 An improvised explosive device (IED) blast in the restive southern Afghanistan has killed one US-led trooper, enlisted by the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Press TV reports. Earlier in the day, seven ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • ISAF Joint Command morning operational update: ...
    UNCLASSIFIED 2012-08-S-035 For Immediate Release ISAF Joint Command morning operational update: 18 August 2012 KABUL, Afghanistan (August 18) – Afghan and coalition officials confirmed today one of the insurgents arrested during an operation yesterday is a senior Taliban leader in Chahar Bola ...
  • The Last Post
    Written by Tim Lynch August 17th, 2012 This will be the last post I write for the FRI blog.  If this is the first time you have seen this blog stop reading this right now and go back to October 2011 in the archives section because those are some of the best posts I ever wrote about Afghani ...
  • Man-tracking Success in Australia
    17 August 2012 This is an interesting account of tracking and counter-tracking after an ugly murder in Australia.  It was sent to me by The Scott Donelan Tracking School.  It is very difficult to evade a skilled tracking team -- something I learned at the British tracking school in Br ...
  • ISW Publishes Must-Read Backgrounder on Israel ...
    16 August 2012 Contact: Jessica Lewis (202) 293-5550 press@understandingwar.org ISW Publishes Must-Read Backgrounder on Israeli Integrated Missile Defense System Israel exists under a threat of mortar, rocket, and missile attack that has grown from intermittent harassment to a constant and ex ...
  • The Navy's Moral Compass
    15 August 2012

The Killing Train

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

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Jurist - Legal Research

  • Federal court denies Florida attempt to limit ...
    [JURIST] The US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] declined to approve changes to Florida election law [HB 1355, materials] that would have reduced the number of early voting days in five of the state's 67 counties. The three-judge panel rejected [opinion, PDF] the st ...
  • UNICEF concerned over recruitment of child sol ...
    [JURIST] The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) [official website] said Friday that it has received "credible reports" of armed groups in Mali recruiting children [press release] for military purposes. UNICEF called on all parties to protect children from the reportedly escalating recruitme ...
  • Tymoshenko ally sentenced to additional 2 year ...
    [JURIST] A Ukrainian court on Friday handed down a two-year prison sentence to the former interior minister under ex-Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko [personal website; JURIST news archive]. Yuriy Lutsenko was convicted and sentenced for negligence in authorizing an illegal extension of ...
  • Moscow court upholds 100-year city ban on gay ...
    [JURIST] A city court in Moscow on Friday refused to overturn the municipal government's ban on gay pride marches for the next century. The court affirmed the Moscow municipal government ruling that any public gatherings that could be classified as gay pride marches are prohibited from March 201 ...
  • Federal appeals court again validates cancer g ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) [official website] on Thursday ruled [opinion, PDF] for the second time in Association for Molecular Pathology v. US Patent and Trademark Office (AMP) that a Utah company does have valid patents on two genes associated with breast a ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

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Tikun Olam

  • The Left Eats Itself
    UPDATE: I’ve finally got an audio file for the entire BBC Newshour program on which the Iran war plan document was discussed. During the entire Iran war plan story that’s played out over the past week, I anticipated the fierce reaction of the pro-Israel right. After all, it’s w ...
  • Josh Trevino, Arab-Hating Pro-Israel Flack Tak ...
    I’ve been reading with interest that the Guardian has appointed two new blogger-columnists, one of whom makes perfect sense and the other just makes me scratch my head and say: Huh?  They are Glenn Greenwald and Josh Trevino.  Greenwald of course is a fighting tiger of the progressive blog ...
  • National Intelligence Leaks and the Hasbarafia
    UPDATE: My source has permitted me to publish the entire original Hebrew document, which you read here.  The English translation is in yesterday’s post: When one publishes an important leaked Israeli government document as I have done, one has to expect a counter-attack from the hasbarafia ...
  • Bibi’s Secret War Plan
    UPDATE: Here’s the link for my portion of the BBC Newshour segment in which I was interviewed about the Israeli government document. In the past few days, I received an Israeli briefing document outlining Israel’s war plans against Iran. The document was passed to me by a high-level ...
  • Israel to Demand Guarantee Obama Will Attack Iran
    Israel in recent days has become a Hall of Mirrors in which wherever members of the war camp look in the media, they see an infinite regress of leaks and self-serving articles which promote the war narrative. There are about eight main talking points for war and Haaretz features two or three art ...

If Americans Knew

  • US Media and Israeli Military: All in the Family
    Recent exposes revealing that Ethan Bronner, the New York Times Israel-Palestine bureau chief, has a son in the Israeli military have caused a storm of controversy that continues to swirl and generate further revelations.
  • A History Lesson for Obama: Eisenhower's Example
    With President Obama's Middle East peace plans so completely -- and humiliatingly -- shipwrecked on the rocks of Israeli intransigence, it's time for him to consider a new approach, at least if he's serious about his announced objectives. In the spirit of bipartisanship that he's so dedicated to ...
  • The First Intifada
    It's interesting to find myself a small factor in the California race for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. But before I get to that, it's necessary to take a look at the campaigns themselves, and the system in which they're running.
  • My "Relationship" With Tom Campbell: A Wrench ...
    The First Intifada was a grassroots uprising against Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Intifada is an Arabic word for "civil uprising" that literally means "shaking off."
  • AIPAC: We'll take over Cal's student governmen ...
    "How are we going to beat back the anti-Israel divestment resolution at Berkeley? We're going to make certain that pro-Israel students take over the student government and reverse the vote. That is how AIPAC operates in our nation's capitol. This is how AIPAC must operate on our nation's campuses."

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • What's Next for Ushahidi and Its Platform?
    This is part 2 in a series. In part 1, I talked about how we think of ourselves at Ushahidi and how we think of success in our world. It set up the context for this post, which is about where we're going next as an organization and with our platform. We realize that it's hard to understand j ...
  • How User-Centered Design Powers FrontlineSMS, ...
    I'm going to be honest: When I first joined FrontlineSMS, I had no idea how much goes into the design of software. Every screen, every button and every function has principled thought behind it. In 2011, we worked alongside Gabriel White, a user experience designer from Small Surfaces, ...
  • How the Knight Lab's Babl App Helped Lollapalo ...
    This post was written by Jordan Young of the Knight News Innovation Lab. This past weekend marked the annual music carnival known as Lollapalooza" held in Chicago's Grant Park. As you'd expect, close to 100,000 people attending a large event can generate a lot of hot conversations on soci ...
  • From Japan to Burning Man, LocalWiki Heats Up ...
    We want to let you know about some really fantastic stuff that's happened in the LocalWiki world over the past month. Tallahassee, Fla. The folks spearheading the TallahasseeWiki project held their first two in-person CampWiki workshops. The idea behind the workshops is to introduce commu ...
  • Stable at Last, PANDA Reaches 1.0!
    Eleven months ago, we began prototyping PANDA. The PANDA project aims to make basic data analysis quick and easy for news organizations, and make data sharing simple. I hacked for a month on an experimental version, verified that our technology choices worked, and then threw it out and started o ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Battle for Syria - Syrian Rebels Step Up E ...
    Syrian rebels are redoubling their efforts to acquire portable anti-aircraft missiles following government airstrikes on cities and towns in the north of the country. In the latest such strike, a Syrian Air Force jet bombed the rebel-held town of Azaz near the Turkish border, killing at least 50 ...
  • The Edge of Climate Change - Asia Flood Disast ...
    Recent flooding disasters in Asian capitals are a warning of worse problems to come for city planners. The Asian Development Bank says rapid urbanization is straining city infrastructure, leading to worse pollution, and putting millions in Asia at risk. Heavy monsoon rains this month l ...
  • The Battle for Syria - Syrian Refugee Exodus E ...
    The United Nations Refugee Agency says that the Syrian refugee exodus continues to escalate. It says the exodus is particularly significant from Syria's most populous city of Aleppo where fighting continues between government and opposition forces. UNHCR says it has registered more than 170,000 ...
  • South Africa on Edge - South African President ...
    South African President Jacob Zuma has ordered an official inquiry into the police killing of 34 striking miners, the deadliest security operation in the country since the end of apartheid. Zuma said he was "shocked and dismayed" at what he called "senseless violence." The president cut sho ...
  • The Toxic Edge - Earthworms are Heavy Metal Co ...
    Earthworms could be used to extract toxic heavy metals, including cadmium and lead, from solid waste from domestic refuse collection and waste from vegetable and flower markets, according to researchers writing in the International Journal of Environment and Waste Management.Swati Pattnaik and M ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • BREAKING: OBAMA Was Ready to BOOT BIDEN: Hill ...
    Hillary Clinton is pooped! At least according to Ed Klein author of the New York Times bestselling book  "The Amateur." Apparently just two weeks ago Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was pressed by her husband and Valerie Jarrett to consider replacing Vice President Joe Biden. But  a ...
  • Paul Ryan Week One: A DISASTER (For Obama)
    Today is the seventh day that Paul Ryan has been on the GOP ticket as Vice President, and so far the predictions of Ryan hurting the Romney effort have been proven false. As a matter of fact this is also and the end for what can be only seen as a disastrous week for the Obama campaign. The R ...
  • Biden Staff Trying to CENSOR Pool Press Reports
    As he began his stump speech in North Canton today, Paul Ryan took a shot at Vice President Joe Biden's latest gaffe. "It is great to be here in North Canton, or as Joe Biden might say, it's great to be here in Nevada,"  Earlier this week the SCHMOTUS mistakenly told a crowd in Dan ...
  • Please Pray for My Friend and Teacher Barry Rubin
    A few weeks ago my friend and teacher Barry Rubin, a non-smoker his entire life, was diagnosed with lung cancer. I spoke to him last week, and he was in obvious discomfort. But thankfully, with the right medical attention, God willing, Barry will be around writing and teaching a ...
  • Media Fail- Getting Priorities Wrong in Egy ...
    By Barry Rubin Focus is everything, knowing what the central problem is and dealing with it. Here I want to discuss three articles that I basically agree with to point out how they miss the key issue and thus are somewhat misleading. I’m glad to see these three articles being published but it’s ...

The Real Agenda

  • Europa: Do Subprime ao Colapso
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AGOSTO 17, 2012 A tempestade, que começou em os EUA pelo menos cinco anos atrás, desestabilizou governos, bancos e financistas de hipotecas. A explosão da crise das hipotecas subprime em os EUA atinge o seu quinto aniversário com um legado que inclu ...
  • Europa: Del Subprime al Colapso
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AGOSTO 17,2012 La tormenta que comenzó en los EE.UU. hace por lo menos cinco años, ha desestabilizado gobiernos, destruido bancos y financistas hipotecarios. El estallido de la crisis de las hipotecas subprime en los EE.UU. llega a su quinto anivers ...
  • United States Gauges Sending 50,000 troops to ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 17, 2012 While the Obama regime actively participates in the destabilization of Bashar al-Assad’s government, by aiding rebel groups and proxy governments to carry out a shadow war against Syria, the US government is also considering inv ...
  • Facebook’s IPO Ponzi Scheme Collapsing
    Company shares have plunged almost half from their original value. As predicted, correction will place company’s value at the correct level. AP | AUGUST 16, 2012 Shares of Facebook are plunging to all-time lows after the expiration of a lock-up period that has provided early investors ...
  • Bienvenido Brother Julian
    Ecuador accepts Wikileaks’ founder’s request for Asylum BBC | AUGUST 16, 2012 Ecuador has granted asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange two months after he took refuge in its London embassy while fighting extradition from the UK. It said there were fears Mr Assange’s ...

Wind Watch

  • Songbird elevated on ‘watch’ list
    A bird that ornithologists, birders and wind-power opponents say is at risk from developments ranging from mountaintop wind turbines to ski resorts could get federal protection. The Bicknell’s thrush – a medium-sized migrating songbird – has cleared the first stage of a long route that cou ...
  • Caught in the wind storm
    The Hume electorate could be hosting nearly one fifth of the wind turbines needed to meet the federal government’s renewable energy target. With 1266 turbines either proposed, approved or under construction in an area targeted for its strong winds, the number is set to grow, says Liberal candida ...
  • Wind farms are a towering rural issue in Michigan
    Ludington— It’s a conversation Randy Saxton tries to avoid at all costs because, frankly, it never leads anywhere good. It’s hard to do that, however, because the subject — the massive wind turbines now towering over the area — is impossible to miss. And everyone here has an opinion. ...
  • Lyme council passes law restricting wind farms
    Three Mile Bay — After a heated public debate over setbacks and noise limits, Lyme’s Town Council adopted a set of zoning rules Saturday that are so strict industrial wind farms will not be feasible in the town. The council voted 4-1 with Deputy Supervisor Donald R. Bourquin casting the sole “no ...
  • Dozens head out to protest wind farm project i ...
    OCOTILLO — Protesters that marched and chanted in front of construction equipment Saturday said they felt like they won the day, stalling work on a wind farm in the area for a time. However, more days and more people will be needed to make an impact on Pattern Energy’s Ocotillo Expressway under ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • House Construction Slows, But Optimism Grows
    “U.S. builders slowed their pace of housing construction slightly in July. But in a hopeful sign for future construction, applications for building permits rose to their highest level since August 2008.” (Christian Science Monitor) Why is everyone fixated on housing construction? FEE ...
  • Where Free-Market Economists Go Wrong
    The freedom philosophy is a radical idea that looks ahead, rather than to some mythical golden era or Panglossian present. Every time we pass up an opportunity to make this point, we alienate potential allies.
  • Trend in Jobless Claims Has Some Feeling Optim ...
    “The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits edged higher last week although a trend reading fell close to a four-year low, pointing to healing in the still-struggling labor market.” (Reuters) We’ve heard this before, but the percentage of the population in the wor ...
  • It’s Not a Black-and-White World
    The world is not just about good guys and bad guys, but about real people whose ideas are good and bad in various mixtures.
  • All Quiet on Inflation Front
    “Consumer prices were flat in July for a second straight month and the year-over-year increase was the smallest since November 2010, giving the Federal Reserve room for further monetary easing to tackle stubbornly high unemployment.” (Reuters) The Fed has other things in mind. FEE Ti ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Assange and Wikileaks: the basics
    Sigh, read the actual accusations.  They have been translated into English.  The accusation would not amount to rape in Britain, Canada or the US.  They best wording I can think of is “sexual misconduct”.  They are also, straight up, he said, she said, and rest entirely on credibilit ...
  • Pinochet had women raped by dogs and Britain w ...
    Yes, he did. So I don’t want to hear anything from Britain about how important extradition is to them or how important rape accusations are.
  • Pinochet had women raped by dogs and Britain w ...
    Yes, he did. So I don’t want to hear anything from Britain about how important extradition is to them or how important rape accusations are.
  • Police
    Some scattered thoughts on cops, particularly cops in the US. Police exist primarily to protect property arrangements.  The war on drugs has paramilitarized police, with a heavy emphasis on overwhelming force.  While police have always considered themselves above the common herd, and have always ...
  • Police
    Some scattered thoughts on cops, particularly cops in the US. Police exist primarily to protect property arrangements.  The war on drugs have paramilitarized police, with a heavy emphasis on overwhelming force.  While police have always considered themselves above the common herd, and have alway ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Why I Do Live in Indianapolis
    When a friend constantly tells you how much he or she likes you and then one day says, “But I’d never live with you,” the predictable reaction is to feel hurt and angry. That’s how I felt when The Urbanophile posted “Why I Don’t Live in Indianapolis.” But last night, while riding my bike on one ...
  • Is California the New Detroit?
    Most Californians live within miles of its majestic coastline – for good reason. The California coastline is blessed with arguably the most desirable climate on Earth, magnificent beaches, a backdrop of snow-capped mountains, and natural harbors in San Diego, Long Beach and San Francisco. The ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Istanbul
    Istanbul is unique in straddling two continents. The historical city was concentrated on the European side of the Bosporus, the wide, more than 20 mile long strait linking the Sea of Marmara (Mediterranean Sea) in the south to the Black Sea in the north. Nearly all of the historic city was l ...
  • Sex (Or Not) And the Japanese Single
    Back in June 2011, British prime minister David Cameron backed proposals tackling the sexualisation of British children, in a bid to dilute the culture of sex that has swept western nations. The rhetoric goes that the ‘oversexualisation’ of society, as represented in everything from ‘lads mags’ ...
  • Vermont's 'New Agriculture': Mini-Farms and t ...
    The “new agriculture” is typically small-acreage, intensively-managed, organic (in contemporary terms) in that it avoids both chemical use and genetic modification, and uniquely adaptable to such practices as niche-market services, consumer associations (community-sharing) and pick-your-own. On ...

GM Watch

  • GM mosquito risks still not properly assessed
    1.GM mosquito risks still not properly assessed 2.Informed people are against GM mosquitoes --- --- 1.GM mosquito risks still not properly assessed GeneWatch UK, 10 August 2012 http://www.genewatch.org/article.shtml?als[cid]=569457&als[itemid]=571049 In a new briefing published today, GeneW ...
  • Complaint against EU authorisation of GM soybe ...
    Complaint against EU authorisation of genetically engineered soybeans with stacked genes Joint action of environmental organisations and scientists against decision of the EU Commission 9 August 2012 http://www.testbiotech.de/en/node/694 Munich/ Brussels - Several organisations such as the Euro ...
  • Maharashtra bans Bt cotton seeds
    EXTRACT: A top state agriculture department official, requesting anonymity, said henceforth all trading activities of the company shall be illegal and any violations could attract criminal action. --- --- Maharashtra bans Bt cotton seeds Press Trust of India (PTI), August 9 2012 http://timesofin ...
  • Parliamentary report calls for immediate end t ...
    1.Press release from GM-free India 2.Press release from the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture --- --- 1.COALITION FOR A GM-FREE INDIA WELCOMES THE PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEE'S REPORT ON GM CROPS:  ASKS GOVERNMENT TO IMMEDIATELY STOP ALL FIELD TRIALS. *ALSO DEMANDS GOVT THROW ...
  • Controversial Dutch trial opens to public
    1.Dutch GM potato field trial will open to public 2.GM potato courtcase and citizen inspection  NOTE: Looks like the opening to the public of this trial is a PR response to the situation exposed by ASEED in item 2, where there has been a shying away from open 'dialogue' and 'discussion' with ci ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Startling Evidence That Central Banks And Wall ...
    If you want to figure out what is going to happen next in the financial markets, carefully watch what the insiders are doing.  Those that are "connected" have access to far better sources of information than the rest of us have, and if they hear that something big is coming up th ...
  • 22 Stats That Show How The Emerging One World ...
    For decades our politicians have promised us that the "free trade" agenda would bring us greater prosperity than ever before.  They insisted that merging our economy into the emerging one world economy would cause millions upon millions of new jobs to be added to the U.S. economy ...
  • The Mississippi River Is Drying Up
    The worst drought in more than 50 years is having a devastating impact on the Mississippi River.  The Mississippi has become very thin and very narrow, and if it keeps on dropping there is a very real possibility that all river traffic could get shut down.  And considering the fa ...
  • You Will Not Believe What Some People Are Will ...
    It is absolutely amazing what some people will do to make a living in this economy.  Desperate times call for desperate measures, and we have not seen this kind of desperation for jobs in America since the Great Depression of the 1930s.  What some people are willing to put up wit ...
  • Are The Government And The Big Banks Quietly P ...
    Something really strange appears to be happening.  All over the globe, governments and big banks are acting as if they are anticipating an imminent financial collapse.  Unfortunately, we are not privy to the quiet conversations that are taking place in corporate boardrooms and in ...

Desertification

  • A sanitary solution that ensures human dignity ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120815082705.htm New Toilet Developed: Needs No Connection to Water Supply ScienceDaily (Aug. 15, 2012) — There are 2.6 billion people in the world who have no access to a decent toilet. An interdisciplinary team of Swiss aquatic … Con ...
  • Primer on Citizen Advocacy and Desertification ...
    Read at : http://www.earthaction.org/2012/08/primer-on-citizen-advocacy-and-desertification.html Primer on Citizen Advocacy and Desertification DESERTIFICATION, the loss of soil in the dryland regions of the world, is one of the world’s most serious problems. More than 40% of the world&#82 ...
  • Vast tracts of land that lie uncultivated in M ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96126/MALI-Rain-but-too-few-seeds MALI: Rain but too few seeds MOPTI, 17 August 2012 (IRIN) – It is raining in Mopti Region in central Mali and most of the fields are filled with millet and rice seedlings, turning the usually … Continue readin ...
  • That good old Chinese proverb (Willem Van Cotthem)
    Remind the Chinese proverb : Bring this man a fish and he can eat for  a day; teach him how to fish and he can eat an all year long. My translation : Bring these children food and they can … Continue reading →
  • More adapted means have to be offered to serve ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96122/SAHEL-Education-in-crisis SAHEL: Education in crisis OUAGADOUGOU/ABIDJAN, 16 August 2012 (IRIN) – In times of severe drought such as in the Sahel or East Africa, food funding often takes priority over other needs like education, yet children w ...

The Paper Trail

  • Kentucky death case: Another black eye for sta ...
    Around midnight on June 1, 2007, Tina Hall was finishing her shift in a place she loathed: the mixing room at the Toyo Automotive Parts factory in Franklin, Ky., where flammable chemicals were kept in open containers.A spark ignited vapors given off by toluene, a solvent Hall was transferring fr ...
  • Voting rights battles re-emerge in the South
    Raymond Rutherford has voted for decades. But this year, he doesn’t know if he’ll be able to cast a ballot.The Sumter, S.C., resident, 59, has never had a government-issued photo ID because a midwife’s error listed him as Ramon Croskey on his birth certificate. It’s wrong on his Social Security ...
  • Daily Disclosure: Virginia politics is for hat ...
    The closely watched Virginia Senate race attracted an advertising deluge by some of the 2012 election’s biggest outside spending groups Wednesday — five ads in 24 hours.The election pits former U.S. Sen. George Allen, a Republican, against former Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine to decide who will repl ...
  • Arizona and feds clash over voter registration
    Arizona, already at odds with the federal government and civil-rights groups over immigration, is adding voter ID and the Voting Rights Act to the disputes.Arizona’s voter ID law, a portion of Proposition 200, was partially struck down in April by a federal appeals court that said the state can’ ...
  • Former governor wins GOP Senate nod in Wisconsin
    Despite a torrent of negative attacks, former four-term Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson won the state’s Republican U.S. Senate primary for the open seat of retiring Democratic Sen. Herb Kohl Tuesday.With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Thompson caputred 34 percent of the vote while wealthy hed ...

backofthebook.ca

  • That’s Canada Shop
    We’re delighted to introduce backofthebook.ca‘s new That’s Canada Shop, featuring Canadian books and music in all categories, with more products on their way. Get your Canada on, while you support independent journalism.
  • 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 ...

libcom

Free Range International

  • The Last Post
    This will be the last post I write for the FRI blog.  If this is the first time you have seen this blog stop reading this right now and go back to October 2011 in the archives section because those are some of the best posts I ever wrote about Afghanistan.  Or go to the [...]
  • How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?
    Our little posse made it out of Afghanistan without any dramas.  My brother Tim left with me because The Bot had made it perfectly clear that his IED hit from the year before had made him completely unstable and a big pain in his ass.  We went to London again and both my brother and [...]
  • Vision Quest
    Editors note: Be sure to start this series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) so it makes sense.  We will try to get more posts up sooner than we have been lately but Dalton is, to be honest, not doing as well as we hoped .  Baba Tim is also banged up again and [...]
  • Band On The Run
    Editors Note:  It is important for first time readers to start this story from the beginning.  This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother, Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to living a normal life back in the states.   Any donations received by the FRI bl ...
  • Dead Man Walking
    Dalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change.  Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton.  For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can&#8217 ...

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • A Martian Looks at the Mars Landing
    From the Chattanooga Times (note the date)
  • Opt Out at the Airport
    A TSA Grope While being sexually groped by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel at the airport, can be both painful and humiliating, it sure beats getting cancer. I was curious to read in the recent Association of Natural Health (ANH) that an increasing number of doctors refus ...
  • Opt Out at the Airport
    A TSA Grope While being sexually groped by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel at the airport, can be both painful and humiliating, it sure beats getting cancer. I was curious to read in the recent Association of Natural Health (ANH) that an increasing number of doctors ...
  • Will the Economy (and Civilization) Collapse t ...
    A Prepper Garden Here comes another prediction, from the blog Ecomomic Collapse, that it will. It’s based on evidence that the government and major banks are making preparations they aren’t telling us about. Among other ominous signs, blogger Michael Snyder points to: 1. A secreti ...
  • Will the Economy (and Civilization) Collapse T ...
    A Prepper Garden Here comes another prediction, from the blog Ecomomic Collapse, that it will. It’s based on evidence that the government and major banks are making preparations they aren’t telling us about. Among other ominous signs, blogger Michael Snyder points to: 1. A secretiv ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • UK Threatens to Violate Ecuadoran Embassy Grou ...
    Reuters, August 15th, 2012: Ecuador said on Wednesday the British government had threatened to raid its embassy in London if WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is not handed over, and that Quito would make its decision on his asylum request on Thursday. "Today we've received a threat by the Un ...
  • FLASHBACK: Ann Coulter Says Rage Against the M ...
    New York Times, April 29, 2012: WASHINGTON — Representative Paul D. Ryan strolls the halls of Capitol Hill with the anarchist band Rage Against the Machine pounding through his earbuds. Daily Beast, August 11, 2012: Ryan seems to have a taste for hard-rock bands like Rage Against ...
  • WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE: WikiLeaks opens path ...
    After almost two years of fighting an unlawful banking blockade by US financial giants VISA and MasterCard, WikiLeaks has announced it is back open for donations. After WikiLeaks' publications revealing US war crimes and statecraft in 2010, US financial institutions erected a banking blockade a ...
  • 'No Going Back': Michael Moore on the Last Wor ...
  • Letter From Prominent Americans, Delivered to ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 25, 2012 Media Contacts: (London) Robert Naiman, US 217-979-2857 (US) Megan Iorio, US 908-400-9480 Letter signed by Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Wolf, Daniel Ellsberg, Danny Glover, Oliver Stone, Patch Adams, MD, Mark Weisbrot and other promine ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Manage climate risks with this framework – whe ...
    Whether one believes in the threats of a changing climate, or not, businesses are sticking their heads in the sand if they don’t at least acknowledge some degree of risk and manage it accordingly. I find it almost impossible to believe how corporate officers, policymakers, insurers, many investo ...
  • FAA Clears Cape Wind For Takeoff
    Last year, the courts told the Federal Aviation Administration to go back and take a better, longer look at the wind turbine array proposed for Nantucket Sound in Massachusetts. And once again, the FAA has determined that the Cape Wind project — which could well become the nation’s first of ...
  • How important is the two degree target?
    In a recent speech, US Lead Climate Negotiator Todd Stern caused some consternation in the media by opening up the subject of the global two degree Celsius target. Bylines such as “US Abandons 2° Target” appeared soon after, But really, he had outlined a negotiating strategy which might bring na ...
  • Survey Says: Americans Favor Pro-Climate Candi ...
    Since the defeat of US carbon legislation in 2010, conventional political wisdom has held that climate was a losing issue.
  • The intriguing mystery case of PV policy in Au ...
    Many years ago, I recall a debate at a Clean Energy Council conference where we all agreed that a consumer guide to solar PV was an essential and much needed tool.

EU Times

  • US foreign debt hits record high
    The United States might officially be the worst neighbor on Earth: the US now owes its allies $5.2923 trillion, the most money the country has ever been indebted to its foreign friends in the history of the nation. Statistics released this week by the US Treasury indicate that, as of June 2012, ...
  • Asian nations more exposed to natural disaster ...
    A new study by Maplecroft risk analysis firm says emerging Asian economies face the greatest financial risk from natural disasters. The study suggests that the limited ability of some Asian states has left them exposed to “major destructive natural hazards, such as earthquakes, flooding and trop ...
  • Americas bloc takes UK threats to Ecuador for ...
    British threats to invade Ecuador’s embassy will be discussed at international-level talks between the foreign ministers of the Organization of American States. The proposal was adopted despite the US saying OAS has nothing to do with the issue. ­Ecuador’s resolution to convene a meeting of the ...
  • 34 Armed Miners Die in Conflict with South Afr ...
    South African riot police opened fire on striking miners armed with machetes and sticks at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine, killing 34 men in the deadliest episode of a week of union violence. Heavily armed officers backed by armored vehicles were laying out barbed wire barricades when the ...
  • Russian embassy in UK attacked by vandals
    The Russian Embassy in London has been attacked by a large group of people, throwing stones at the building and chanting slogans against the Syrian Government and President Bashar al-Assad. There was significant damage and several windows were broken as a result of last night’s incident, the emb ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Stephen Strasburg Beans Marco Scutaro, Win Str ...
    On Monday, the Washington Nationals opened a four-game set against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. The Nats had ace Stephen Strasburg on the hill gunning for his 10th win of the season and his seventh straight start ending with a "W" next to his name. Unfortunately, Washington was unable t ...
  • Liriano, Twins top White Sox 4-1 in Youkilis debut
    MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â Francisco Liriano faced runners at the corners with only one out in the seventh. This was precisely the type of situation where he's faltered so many times before, but Twins manager Ron Gardenhire didn't budge. "I just have a lot of confidence in him," Gardenhire said
  • Netanyahu says Russia and Israel on same page ...
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said he and visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin see eye to eye on the dangers of Iranâs nuclear weapons program. The two leaders met for over an hour in Jerusalem and discussed Iran, Syria, Egypt and bilateral ties. âWe agree that nuclear weapon ...
  • Apple, Microsoft, now Google: I/O 2012 closes ...
    First Apple , then Microsoft , and now it’s Google ‘s turn: three weeks of back-to-back mobile strategy with each of the big three companies laying out their stalls for smartphones and tablets. It’s arguably never been such an interesting time in mobility, but nor has there ever been so much at ...
  • Google appears to aim low with new 7-inch Andr ...
    If the rumors are true, Google's Nexus 7 tablet will compete with the low-end Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire, not Apple's iPad. If the stories from Gizmodo Australia are true, Google and Asus will be releasing a new 7-inch Android-powered tablet, Nexus 7 , at this week’s Google I/O Conference. We ...

Groklaw

  • Madonna Faces $10.5 Million Lawsuit Over LGBT ...
    After Madonna challenged St. Petersburg's gay pride ban at a concert there earlier this month, a group of activists has announced they will file a $10.5 million lawsuit against the pop star for "moral damage," reports RIA Novosti, a Russian news agency. Members of the Union of Russian Citize ...
  • "Your Honor, First of All, I'm Not Smoking Crack"
    This is something you'd really prefer to get through your entire legal career without having to say. - Lowering the Bar
  • When Putin's Thugs Came for Me
    In the 100 days since Mr. Putin's re-election as president, severe new laws against public protest have been passed and the homes of opposition leaders have been raided. These are not the actions of a regime prepared to grant leniency to anyone who offends Mr. Putin's latest ally, the Orthodox C ...
  • Motorola Launches Unlock My Device Site Bootl ...
    Double check your calendars - is it April 1st? It's not? Then there's been a massive rip in the space time continuum as Motorola has officially published the new "Unlock My Device" page. On the site, Motorola device owners can finally unlock their device's bootloaders and install 3rd party softw ...
  • IEEE admits its MS-DOS history revisionist is ...
    The IEEE's Spectrum magazine has admitted that a recent contributor, who wrote an eyebrow-raising revisionist history of MS-DOS, is paid by Microsoft. Eagle-eyed readers have spotted that the notorious article about the development of Microsoft's early operating system, which we discussed here, ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • The Yankee Therapist on Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand
    We all have our contradictions. Or we lie.Perhaps that’s a distinction without a difference.Paul Ryan has called Ayn Rand the most influential person in his life, shaping the way he thinks, motivating him to go into government.Yet none of Ayn Rand’s heroes have anything but disdain f ...
  • What Pussy Riot did probably wouldn’t even be ...
    In my latest IVN article I explore why what Pussy Riot did probably wouldn’t have gotten them arrested, much less imprisoned, in the US.This YouTube video shows the performance by Pussy Riot on the steps of the cathedral, with lyrics. Yes, they are sending a political message too, one that ...
  • Facebook and its stock price
    Facebook stock is now worth about half its IPO price, less than the price many employees were vested at.Henry Blodget details what holders of the stock can expect, which is a long wait, among other things. Just be thankful you weren’t one of the poor schlubs who bought Facebook at 38 when ...
  • Two cops killed by alleged anti-government gro ...
    I don’t want to get ahead of ourselves here, but I’m going to go on the record that a Posse Comitatus presence among the refineries and petrochemical plants along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans would be a bad thing.And I’m going on the record saying t ...
  • World’s largest rooftop wind farm has omni-dir ...
    Eighteen vertical axis wind turbines now make up the world’s largest rooftop wind farm at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. They can generate energy from wind coming in from direction at as little as 8.9 mph and output 4.5 KW each, all part of their plan to be a zero emissions buil ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • News from the negotiated transition in Burma/M ...
    I've recently been devouring Evan Osnos's brilliant piece of reporting in The New Yorker, on the exciting, now-underway, negotiated transition to much greater democracy in Myanmar/Burma. Huge kudos to Osnos for doing this great research and reporting, and to The New Yorker for, presumably, fund ...
  • Two observations on the tragedy in Syria
    1. War always inflicts grave rights abuses on residents of the war zone. Additionally, its fog allows-- and its passions encourage-- the commission of a large variety of atrocities such as are very rarely committed in times of peace. Hence, actions tending toward the exacerbation of tensions can ...
  • 'New' Egypt and the Camp David accords
    Despite many setbacks and roadblocks along the way in Egypt, the political situation there is still one of the most hopeful-- and certainly, the most momentous-- phenomena in the region. Egypt, remember, really does carry the strategic ballast of the whole Arab world. How things turn out there i ...
  • July 2006, lest we forget
    In these days six years ago, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert and his team were battering much of Lebanon to smithereens in the "Dahiyeh War"-- designed, as we remember, to break Hizbullah once and for all, primarily by battering Lebanese civilians and their infrastructure so harshly that they would turn ...
  • Sarajevo, 1914; Damascus 2012?
    The killing, in Damascus today, of at least three powerful members of the Baathist regime in Syria, will almost certainly plunge that whole country-- and quite likely also much of the rest of the Greater Middle East-- into a maelstrom of inter-group violence far worse than any it has seen until ...

frogblog

  • Practical response to child poverty
    This week a Bill in my name which would help end child poverty was drawn from the Members Ballot.  The purpose of the Bill is to extend the In Work Tax Credit to all low income families. The issue is urgent because one quarter of all children are growing up in poverty. As the country [...]
  • General debate, August 19, 2012
  • Parliamentary behaviour
    This week the Speaker revealed he has been receiving numerous emails about "absolutely disgraceful" behaviour in the House.
  • Locking the gates to fracking
    Next week renowned Australian environmental campaigner, Drew Hutton is touring NZ talking about the risks of coal seam gas and fracking.
  • 0800PaulaKnowsBest
    My pick for the next Public Service restructuring announcement: Paula Bennett will replace MSD policy and funding departments with an 0800PaulaKnowsBest number. Yesterday in response to my questions  about the unsustainable funding situation faced by Wellington Rape Crisis, who have been forced ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • SCOTUS and the Rule of Flaw
    The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution that has failed in every possible way. It is notorious for having issued iniquitous opinions; it has not only failed to resolve but has exacerbated conflicts; and it has consistently negated the ideals the founding fathers wrote into t ...
  • How the Economy Works: The Necessity of Crime
    The economy is merely a sum of money, not practices that sustain the oikos, and the money that makes up the sum is equally valued whether it results from virtuous or vicious, good or bad, constructive or destructive, humane or inhumane, legal or illegal, beneficent or malevolent practices. A ...
  • Governments Exist to Further the Interests of ...
    Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored group.
  • The History of Knowledge: Darkness in the Acadamy
    Knowledge does not always prevail or even endure. When the Roman Empire fell, the Justinian Code was replaced by Canon Law. The augustness of knowledge was transformed into heresy and mankind's curiosity was virtually extinguished. The age became dark. In the 11th century, people began to st ...
  • Vendor ArithmeticUnderhanded Capitalism
    Why does the nation exist? The truth is revealed when one realizes that merchant theft is protected by the legal system whose justices have enshrined an economic bias into law, having subverted the Constitution from the goals the founding fathers wrote into it to the almost exclusive promoti ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • War on Health: The FDA's Cult of Tyranny
    By Dr. Mercola Five years ago, in 2007, a report bearing the revealing title "FDA Science and Mission at Risk" by the Subcommittee on Science and Technology1, detailed how the FDA cannot fulfill its mission because: The FDA's mission statement reads as follows: "The FDA is responsible fo ...
  • How Fructose Turns ON Your “Fat Switch”
    By Dr. Mercola If you have ever struggled losing weight and keeping it off, you already know what a challenge that can be. Dr. Richard Johnson, chief of the Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension at the University of Colorado has published hundreds of articles and two books on this topic ...
  • Why Does Breakfast Make Me Hungry?
    By Dr. Mercola Do you ever find that eating breakfast – even a “solid” breakfast like steak and eggs – makes you hungry? You start your day off right, re-fueling after sleep, then sometime around 30 minutes to 2 hours or so later you’re hungry again, as though you never even ate. It’s not al ...
  • Will Congress Grant Biotech Companies Immunity ...
    By Dr. Mercola That Monsanto has a phenomenal level of influence over American legislators and regulators is well known, but the latest gift to the biotech industry is really over the top. A stunning rider, ironically named “the Farmers Assurance provision” (Section 733), has been added to th ...
  • The Microscopic Zoo within Us
    By Dr. Mercola Believe it or not, there's a microbial zoo living inside you, literally trillions of microscopic organisms―more than 10,000 different kinds of them―all co-existing with each other and you. In fact they outnumber you ten to one and ninety percent of the genetic material, (DNA ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Nasa spiritual leader shot dead at point blank ...
    Nasa Indians in Colombia have been caught in the violent crossfire of Colombia's military and illegal armed groups© Francisco PedroA 74-year-old Nasa Indian leader has been shot dead following protests against the militarization of his land in Cauca, south-west Colombia. Lisandro Tenorio, ...
  • Proof ‘Death Road’ will destroy Peru’s unconta ...
    Tomas was contacted over ten years ago. He lives close to the proposed ‘Road of Death.’© David Hill/SurvivalControversial plans to build a ‘Road of Death’ through Peru’s Amazon have been dealt a severe blow after authorities confirmed uncontacted tribes do live along its proposed route. This la ...
  • Brazilian judge halts illegal and controversia ...
    Widespread protests have made the Belo Monte dam notorious.© Atossa Soltani/ Amazon WatchA Brazilian judge has ordered work to be suspended on a highly controversial dam in the Amazon, describing the project’s failure to properly consult the indigenous population affected as ‘illegal’. Followin ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • Cows Eating Second Hand Candy During the Drought
    from cryptogon.com: Ranchers have struggled with skyrocketing corn prices, because the drought has made feeding their livestock very expensive. But one rancher has turned to a very sweet solution. At Mayfield's United Livestock Commodities, owner Joseph Watson is tweaking the recipe for success ...
  • Destroying children with the cloak of ADHD - P ...
    from naturalnews.com: ADHD, your child, drugs, corruption... are words that should not be in the same sentence - or same conversation for that matter. Last month, a study was published that makes it questionable whether this generation of children stands even a remote fighting chance against t ...
  • #Audio: Episode030 - Fluoride Finale
    This Thursday night, Media Monarchy joined Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting for one last time to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This grande finale episode's menu features Farmers, Fats, Fuel and Fluoride + Updates, Headlines, the ...
  • #BingeAndPurge: Nocebos, Mutants, Mess and more
    Beware the Nocebo Effect: The nonexistent side effects of a placebo can be real for a patient who expects to have them* Mutant butterflies a result of Fukushima nuclear disaster, researchers say* NRC Shelves New Plant Licenses as It Ponders What to Do About Waste* Food prices likely ...
  • The Ultimate Freedom - Food Security: Easier t ...
    from therealfoodchannel.com: Agri-business and the criminal government officials who work for them in Congress and the White House would like you to think that growing food is a difficult and hazardous process and too complicated for normal people to do safely. Common sense initiatives like the ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Startling Evidence That Central Banks And Wall ...
    If you want to figure out what is going to happen next in the financial markets, carefully watch what the insiders are doing.  Those that are "connected" have access to far better sources of information than the rest of us have, and if they hear that something big is coming up th ...
  • 22 Stats That Show How The Emerging One World ...
    For decades our politicians have promised us that the "free trade" agenda would bring us greater prosperity than ever before.  They insisted that merging our economy into the emerging one world economy would cause millions upon millions of new jobs to be added to the U.S. economy ...
  • The Mississippi River Is Drying Up
    The worst drought in more than 50 years is having a devastating impact on the Mississippi River.  The Mississippi has become very thin and very narrow, and if it keeps on dropping there is a very real possibility that all river traffic could get shut down.  And considering the fa ...
  • You Will Not Believe What Some People Are Will ...
    It is absolutely amazing what some people will do to make a living in this economy.  Desperate times call for desperate measures, and we have not seen this kind of desperation for jobs in America since the Great Depression of the 1930s.  What some people are willing to put up wit ...
  • Are The Government And The Big Banks Quietly P ...
    Something really strange appears to be happening.  All over the globe, governments and big banks are acting as if they are anticipating an imminent financial collapse.  Unfortunately, we are not privy to the quiet conversations that are taking place in corporate boardrooms and in ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Willie's Wee Wiki-mess
    Wee Willie Winkie - Foreign Secretary William Hague (or 'Obama's Chihuahua' as we're now calling him in these parts) - hasn't half blundered himself into another fine pickle of a mess over Julian Assange. A Day In The Life... Wee Wilie's Foreign Office The state of play goes like this... ...
  • "Leftist" extremist rag The Independent causes ...
    Through an article which, had anyone on "the right" written it would have been condemned as "racist" and "xenophobic", the "leftist", "ManBearPig" worshippers of The Independent have seemingly caused grave offence in Greece. GreekReporter.com condemns an The Independent article, published thi ...
  • Perjury! Investigative author accuses Diana in ...
    The following is a press release for John Morgan's latest book in the series providing in-depth analysis of and investigation into the killing of Princess Diana. # # # STARTS # # # 26 Key Witnesses Committed Perjury at the Princess Diana Inquest An explosive new book has been released t ...
  • Assange: Seems there are some international la ...
    In a disturbing story that has been developing over the last few hours, it has emerged that our "Government" has warned Ecuador that they are prepared to "storm" the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in order to arrest Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. As reported by Reuters: "The diplomatic stand ...
  • Disenfranchised UK: Just 2% of people feel the ...
    Democracy in the UK stands damned today in the findings of our stunning poll which reveals a sense of disenfranchisement on an unimaginably devastatingly huge scale. Over the last fortnight, we've been running a poll which asked: "We are told that the UK is a 'democracy'. Who do you think ACT ...

Facing South

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

  • Stronach’s new “false flag” ...
    You read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“ opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as Justice Minister. ...
  • Stauffenberg in the Wolf’s Lair: Read th ...
    At a time of  crisis, terror and tyranny, Claus von Stauffenberg seized the initiative and tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime in a coup in July, 1944. As such, he is an example to us all today. The mass impoverishment of people by the fractional reserve banking scam ...
  • FRANK STRONACH: WHY DID THE MAGNA CHIEF RING T ...
    *Frank Stronach, CEO of Magna, rings solicitor handling the proceeds of the sale of my flat and offers him job as justice minister and chauffeur-driven car *Phone call happens almost immediately after I sign the contract *Bizarre call comes to light after I return to sign a second document: Schw ...
  • Letter confirming my complaint against Baxter ...
    Here it is again: a pdf copy of a letter from the Austrian Health Ministry dated May 2009 confirming that I had made a complaint against Baxter and Avir and that state prosecutors had started an investigation into the incident involving the contamination of 72 kilos of seasonal flu vaccine with ...
  • New French pandemic plan targets internet
    The role information circulating on the internet played in persuading people in France not to take the pandemic vaccine in 2009 is confirmed by the country’s new pandemic plan. The plan states that number of French people willing to take the pandemic vaccine dropped from 65% at the end of August ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Bankers, their Puppet Leaders and Poltical Age ...
    By The Watchdog Many of the credible economists are predicting a complete economic collapses in the near future. This economic turmoil could have been averted and avoided very easily. It did not happen, the political establishment colluding with Wall Street and the Bankers have been obstructing ...
  • Release of the ‘Dancing Israelis’, Coincidence ...
    A Few Days after AA Flight 587 Crash: Government Covered Up Likely Sabotage and Released Mossad Agents Arrested on 9/11 By Doug Steil | Aletho News | November 16, 2010 By now, after nine years, anyone who has seriously looked into the circumstances surrounding 9/11 has read about the s ...
  • Invisible Russian submarine: Voice of Russia
    Natalya Kovalenko In June-July, the Akula-class submarine, an attack warship capable of carrying long-range ballistic missiles, travelled in the Gulf of Mexico patrolling the US coast. The US satellites and hydro-acoustic sensors failed to spot it. The US Navy spotted only the submarine’s tail w ...
  • Runaway Stupid and the Train to Nowhere
    By Visible In these times and possibly in most times, considered more or less modern, given that this is a dark age, the impetus is to instinctively react in the negative, because of the depressing, soul-numbing chiaroscuro aspect of our daily fare. It’s understandable but it is inaccurate ...
  • Hiroshima Radiation Cover-up: How War Dept&#82 ...
    By Alexander Higgins The NY Times ran a Pulitzer winning article with the headline ‘NO RADIOACTIVITY IN HIROSHIMA RUIN’ to support US claims dismissing radioactive fallout as Japanese propaganda. After dropping nuclear bombs on Japan the US dismissed claims atomic bombs caused lingering radioact ...

Veterans Today

  • An Alternative View: Israel, the Sole Winner o ...
    An interview with journalist and author Maidhc Ó Cathail who looks at the Arab Spring and the revolutionary wave of the Middle East from an alternative, different perspective
  • Army: “OPSEC” Political Group Vio ...
    A group calling themselves "OPSEC" has accused President Obama of violating "operational security" tied to the theoretical operation involving the claimed murder of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. This week, we learned that top Pentagon officials are shocked at some of the information being leaked ...
  • Veteran Care Delayed
    Veterans filing for benefits with the US Department of Veterans Affairs are standing in line.
  • Sleep Can Play Important Role in PTSD
    As many as 90 percent of soldiers returning from deployment may report suffering from disrupted sleep, Army Col. Carl Castro, director of the Military Operational Medicine Research Program at Fort Detrick, said Tuesday.
  • Checklist of Environmental Hazards Helps Reduc ...
    When receiving care in a hospital, suicidal patients could take advantage of anything from bedding to belts to kill themselves.

electric politics

  • Dictatorship By Filibuster
    Given the filibuster, forty one percent of the U.S. Senate can block any vote they don't like. Thus, a minority of reactionary right wing Senators gets to kill a lot of worthy legislation. In recent years abuse of the filibuster has become increasingly intolerable; even ordinary Senate business ...
  • Contact
    It stands to reason, though remains as yet unproven, that advanced civilizations exist elsewhere in our galaxy, in other galaxies, and indeed throughout the entire universe. The prudent thing is to plan ahead for contact, not to wait until we know for sure. But it's complicated. To get a sense o ...
  • Plutonium Is Poison
    Objecting to nuclear power is sensible. But objecting to nuclear bombs should be mandatory. Not only are they useless in and of themselves but making them cannot be done safely, for both cultural and technological reasons. Unused, they are nevertheless deadly. And even if we forget about the poi ...
  • Things That Go Bump In the Night
    To be at one with ourselves we cannot escape the night. What we do, what we don't do, what we dream — who we are — at night, shapes and informs us during the day. Nighttime, then, must necessarily contain diverse social meanings. It's not quite clear to me how far one might push this ...
  • Damascus Burning
    To be honest, Bashar al-Assad looks — and acts — like one of those stereotypical dictators who crop up occasionally in Doonesbury cartoons. If only it would be so easy to figure out what to do with him. But Syria, ultimately, involves the stability of the entire region, from Iran to ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • West Hellbent On Replicating Libyan Model In Syria
    Voice of Russia August 18, 2012 West unwilling to cooperate with Russia on Syria Konstantin Garibov ==== “This is a clear-cut intention to repeat the Libyan scenario,” Dolgov says, referring to Clinton’s recent statement on a possible introduction of a no-fly zone over Syria, somethi ...
  • Ecuador Calls On OAS, UNASUR, ALBA Support Aga ...
    RT August 17, 2012 Americas bloc takes UK threats to Ecuador for international discussion British threats to invade Ecuador’s embassy will be discussed at international-level talks between the foreign ministers of the Organization of American States. The proposal was adopted despite the US sayin ...
  • Syria and Pakistan
    The News August 18, 2012 Syria and Pakistan Ghinwa Bhutto ==== The colonial rulers did indeed divide to rule, and they still do. That is why the media likes to project the predicament of Syria in sectarian terms. America’s allies in the region, Turkey, Jordan, and the Gulf countries, mainly Saud ...
  • Stephen Leacock: In The Good Time After The War
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Stephen Leacock: The war mania of middle age and embonpoint ==== In The Good Time After The War (1915) Stephen Leacock [Footnote: An extract from a London newspaper of 1916.] HOUSE OF COMMONS REPORT  The Prime Minister in risi ...
  • Ray McGovern On Assange, Ecuador: Caesar Has S ...
    RT August 16, 2012 ‘Not even in Cold War’s darkest days’: International law scrapped in anti-Assange crusade VIDEO Ecuador’s move to grant Julian Assange political asylum has shown the true face of the current world order, highlighting more clearly than ever the line between the Amer ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

FRS

  • Brazilian activists in solidarity with Lonmin ...
    Centro Brasileiro de Solidariedade aos Povos (CEBRASPO) (The Brazilian Center of Solidarity with the Peoples) repudiates massacre of miners in South Africa The Brazilian Center of Solidarity with the Peoples vehemently repudiates the cowardly murder of the mine workers of platinum company Lonmin ...
  • Nepal: The Role of NGOs in destroying the see ...
    The Drawback Of Nepal’s Revolution : The NGO’s Harvest By Saba Navalan, Countercurrents.org 17 August, 2012 Nepal is one of those lands so very rich in natural resources that it constantly pricks the eyes of multi-national companies which dominate the world today. Nepal which is situated at the ...
  • New Zealand: Solidarity with South African Min ...
    Global Peace & Justice Auckland Media Release: Picketing South Africa 20 years on… 17 August 2012 For the first time in 20 years New Zealanders will picket a South African government institution in Auckland tomorrow in protest at yesterday’s killing of striking mine-workers by South Af ...
  • South Africa: Solidarity with Mine Workers at ...
    17 August 2012 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press statement Solidarity with Mine Workers at Marikana Platinum Abahlali baseMjondolo are deeply shocked by the murderous cruelty of the South African police, and those that give the police their orders, at the Marikana Platinum Mine in the North West. The ...
  • Anger Over Mine Massacre in South Africa
    The police chief says that cops were forced to shoot the 34 striking miners after a series of violent protests at one of the world’s largest platinum-producing mines. South African Mine Strike turns into a massacre A series of violent protests, at one of the world’s largest platinum- ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Nieto Brings PRI Back into the Spotlight as Ne ...
    Enrique Pena Nieto of the PRI party has been named Mexico's new president, following the results of the national elections on Sunday.Contributor: Vanessa Evans Published: Jul 02, 2012
  • Iconic Big Ben to Become Elizabeth Tower
    Members of Parliament, along with the Prime Minister, proposed to rename Big Ben or the Clock Tower by honoring Queen Elizabeth’s recent Diamond Jubilee. Its new name would be the Elizabeth Tower. According to a poll many Britons are not in favor.Contributor: Maxine Nelson Published: Jun 27, 2012
  • Supreme Court Defends Constitution on Immigrat ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-3 to uphold the federal government's authority to set immigration policy.Contributor: William Browning Published: Jun 26, 2012
  • The Sandusky Case: From the Eyes of a Juror
    One Juror's View of the Trial that Shook Penn State to It's CoreContributor: Robert Watkins Published: Jun 24, 2012
  • Robots Found Titanic, Will They Find Amelia Ea ...
    In July, a new team will go underwater to search for Amelia Earhart's lost plane. But, this time, it will consist of robots instead of people, the same way that the Titanic wreckage was found.Contributor: Jean Kelly Published: Jun 23, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • The Most Amazing Science Images Of The Week, A ...
    This week's images span quite a range. For one, we've got a distant galaxy drifting away from other heavenly bodies. But on the other end of that, we look at technology that can reconstruct a beard down to the hair. It also includes this amazing photo of an air force base, two retired space shu ...
  • Gallery: The Most Amazing Images Of The Week, ...
  • Visualized: Worldwide Shark Attacks Since 2000
    At the Florida Museum of Natural History, filling up two five-drawer file cabinets are 2700 detailed accounts of shark attacks that collectively make up what's called the International Shark Attack File. The name of the database might be somewhat misleading—two recent stories suggest that shark ...
  • Archive Gallery: Man v. Shark
    Long cast as the enemy, sharks are really losing this war, as men arm themselves with shark guns, shark repellent and fish the bejeezus out of these misunderstood monsters The Olympics ended on Sunday, but if we know our readers, many of you were still glued to your televisions as the Discovery ...
  • The Sun Is the Most Perfect Naturally-Occurrin ...
    After 50 years of research, we've discovered a strange, beautiful fact about our Sun: it's more perfectly round than anything else in the natural world. It's not the roundest in a certain category; it's just the roundest sphere there is. If it were a beach ball, The Guardian writes, it would be ...

Veterans Today

  • An Alternative View: Israel, the Sole Winner o ...
    An interview with journalist and author Maidhc Ó Cathail who looks at the Arab Spring and the revolutionary wave of the Middle East from an alternative, different perspective
  • Army: “OPSEC” Political Group Vio ...
    A group calling themselves "OPSEC" has accused President Obama of violating "operational security" tied to the theoretical operation involving the claimed murder of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. This week, we learned that top Pentagon officials are shocked at some of the information being leaked ...
  • Veteran Care Delayed
    Veterans filing for benefits with the US Department of Veterans Affairs are standing in line.
  • Sleep Can Play Important Role in PTSD
    As many as 90 percent of soldiers returning from deployment may report suffering from disrupted sleep, Army Col. Carl Castro, director of the Military Operational Medicine Research Program at Fort Detrick, said Tuesday.
  • Checklist of Environmental Hazards Helps Reduc ...
    When receiving care in a hospital, suicidal patients could take advantage of anything from bedding to belts to kill themselves.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Would Korea Have Developed Following World Bank?
    Although more than a few colleagues tend to view the World Bank in quite a negative light no matter what they do, I have come to a more ambivalent position. (Newer readers should note potential conflicts of interest since they gave me not-insubstantial prize a few years back when I was still a P ...
  • Assange's Last Stand: 'Internet Freedom' Revisited
    Now this is more like it: diplomatic intrigue, a kooky character, lurid accusations...and American baddies to boot (the last does "Diddley" Bo Xilai one better). The New York Times has a--how should I put this...piquant account of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange holed up in the Ecuadorean emb ...
  • Honour Among Thieves, Somali Pirate Edition
    Coming from one of the countries worse affected by maritime piracy, I tend not to romanticize incidences of ship hijacking in the Gulf of Aden. That said, it strikes me as remarkable how much more "professional" and "businesslike" Somali pirates have become. Just as banks of yesteryear used to h ...
  • Wacky Ways of Middle East Youth Unemployment
    Over a year ago I penned a much-visited post depicting the world's worst levels of youth unemployment in the Middle East / North Africa (MENA) region that continue to contribute to pressures for regime change in any number of MENA countries. Today, I have an update on certain peculiarities of th ...
  • Worse Than Facebook's: Manchester United IPO
    I guess all's bad that starts badly. In recent years as an erstwhile follower of the English Premier League, I have pondered the dastardly dealings of the rapacious Ameriscum owners of Manchester United [1, 2, 3]. When you hear the words "American" and "finance" mentioned together nowadays, your ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Startling Evidence That Central Banks And Wall ...
    If you want to figure out what is going to happen next in the financial markets, carefully watch what the insiders are doing.  Those that are "connected" have access to far better sources of information than the rest of us have, and if they hear that something big is coming up th ...
  • 22 Stats That Show How The Emerging One World ...
    For decades our politicians have promised us that the "free trade" agenda would bring us greater prosperity than ever before.  They insisted that merging our economy into the emerging one world economy would cause millions upon millions of new jobs to be added to the U.S. economy ...
  • The Mississippi River Is Drying Up
    The worst drought in more than 50 years is having a devastating impact on the Mississippi River.  The Mississippi has become very thin and very narrow, and if it keeps on dropping there is a very real possibility that all river traffic could get shut down.  And considering the fa ...
  • You Will Not Believe What Some People Are Will ...
    It is absolutely amazing what some people will do to make a living in this economy.  Desperate times call for desperate measures, and we have not seen this kind of desperation for jobs in America since the Great Depression of the 1930s.  What some people are willing to put up wit ...
  • Are The Government And The Big Banks Quietly P ...
    Something really strange appears to be happening.  All over the globe, governments and big banks are acting as if they are anticipating an imminent financial collapse.  Unfortunately, we are not privy to the quiet conversations that are taking place in corporate boardrooms and in ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • US foreign debt hits record high
    The United States might officially be the worst neighbor on Earth: the US now owes its allies $5.2923 trillion, the most money the country has ever been indebted to its foreign friends in the history of the nation. Statistics released this week by the US Treasury indicate that, as of June 2012, ...
  • Asian nations more exposed to natural disaster ...
    A new study by Maplecroft risk analysis firm says emerging Asian economies face the greatest financial risk from natural disasters. The study suggests that the limited ability of some Asian states has left them exposed to “major destructive natural hazards, such as earthquakes, flooding and trop ...
  • Americas bloc takes UK threats to Ecuador for ...
    British threats to invade Ecuador’s embassy will be discussed at international-level talks between the foreign ministers of the Organization of American States. The proposal was adopted despite the US saying OAS has nothing to do with the issue. ­Ecuador’s resolution to convene a meeting of the ...
  • 34 Armed Miners Die in Conflict with South Afr ...
    South African riot police opened fire on striking miners armed with machetes and sticks at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine, killing 34 men in the deadliest episode of a week of union violence. Heavily armed officers backed by armored vehicles were laying out barbed wire barricades when the ...
  • Russian embassy in UK attacked by vandals
    The Russian Embassy in London has been attacked by a large group of people, throwing stones at the building and chanting slogans against the Syrian Government and President Bashar al-Assad. There was significant damage and several windows were broken as a result of last night’s incident, the emb ...

Voiceless Victim

  • True meaning of the word “CATHOLIC”
    C – Callous A – Arrogant T – Totalitarian H – Hierarchy O – Obstinately L – Lying about I – Indecent assaults against C – Children
  • Pope’s butler faces jail, unlike rapists ...
    In yet a further example of pernicious Vatican hypocrisy, the Pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, faces trial and very likely jail for the crime of revealing the truth about the corruption and infighting endemic amongst the ‘holy’ men who inhabit the Vatican. It is indeed encouragin ...
  • Vale John Pirona
    John Pirona was farewelled yesterday in a moving, uplifting and beautiful ceremony. A huge number of family, friends, colleagues and well wishers spilled out of the building, filling the surrounds with a sea of people who fervently wished they could somehow undo the events which led to this day. ...
  • Letter to politicians demanding Royal Commissi ...
    In my previous post I called on everyone to write to politicians to demand action to ensure that John Pirona’s tragic death is the last one. I am happy to help make this important job easier. Here’s a draft letter if you don’t have time to write your own. Or use it as a start [...]
  • Callous church leaders kill another victim
    The suicide death of clergy sex abuse victim John Pirona has devastated an entire community in the Hunter region of NSW, and saddened and enraged his fellow victims around the country. The news was made all the more tragic because John disappeared nearly a week before his body was found, leaving ...

WL Central

  • 2012-08-13 WikiLeaks: 'We're ready to rumble'
    After being offline since 3 August, wikileaks.org came back tonight under the protection of CloudFlare. The donations channels are again open. read more
  • 2012-08-12 WLC News Update: Sustained DDoS, Tr ...
    The WikiLeaks Collateral Murder website is now http://collateralmurder.org and is being protected by CloudFlare. The TrapWire surveillance technology revealed in the Global Intelligence Files continues to make headlines. read more
  • 2012-08-11 Brazil Torn in Different Directions
    By Nikolas Kozloff. Due to competing interests, the emerging world power's foreign policy is being pulled between pragmatism and idealism. read more
  • 2012-08-11 WLC News Update: DDoS continues, Tr ...
    WikiLeaks News WikiLeaks and related sites continue battling a massive DDoS attack. WL Central provides the latest information on the attack. The WikiLeaks GI Files have revealed the secret, widespread surveillance system TrapWire. Ben Doernberg offers a thorough explanation of what TrapWire is ...
  • 2012-08-10 WikiLeaks: Paraguay's "Quasi-Coup" ...
    By Nikolas Kozloff. In the wake of Paraguay's suspicious impeachment of President Fernando Lugo, which observers have likened to a kind of "quasi-coup," some may wonder whether underhanded corporate forces may have played a role in the political crisis. Such suspicions were heightened recently w ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Muslims Film the Beheading of Another Christia ...
    A young man appears held down by masked men. His head is pulled back, with a knife to his throat. He does not struggle and appears resigned to his fate. ~ Warning! EXTREMELY graphic Video read more
  • $20,000.00 REWARD!
    ...Will anyone give up Obama's transcripts for $20,000.00?... read more
  • Washington's Highest Court Rules MERS Cannot F ...
    The Washington Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that the mortgage industry's controversial document-recording system lacked authority to start out-of-court foreclosures and might have violated state consumer protection laws. ~ Brent Hunsberger read more
  • Social Security Responds To Bulk Ammo Purchase ...
    In light of recent articles about ammunition purchases by the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies, including the Social Security Administration’s own purchase of 174,000 .357 Sig 125 grain hollow point bullets, the SSA decided to come forward with an explanation for why ...
  • Obama’s College Classmate Speaks Out
    The scandal at Columbia that ends the Obama presidency ~ Video read more

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