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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 II

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Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Storage Of Fresh Eggs
    Guest post: by Christine Coburn We are a farm so of course we have chickens… And ducks…. And guineas… And hopefully soon turkeys also… Currently I am using fresh eggs from April (4 months !). I bring in my fresh eggs and wash them carefully with antibacterial soap then I ...
  • 21 Things For Pandemic Survival
    There are MANY more things that should be added to any survival list, however these particular items seem to capture some of the general and specifics regarding a pandemic threat. The most important thing to know regarding a deadly pandemic is that in order to survive it, you MUST isolate yourse ...
  • DHS Now With 1 Billion Rounds Of Ammo?
    The latest in a string of ammunition orders by non-military branches of the federal government comes from the Social Security Administration which is set to purchase 174,000 rounds of hollow point bullets that will be delivered to 41 locations across the country. The Social Security Administrati ...
  • Cities Are Bogus
    Cities are fake, an illusion, abnormal, phony, and artificial. Although they are centers of lots of population and activity, they can only exist at the expense of resources from elsewhere. Cities cannot make it on their own. From a survival preparedness standpoint, cities are a big red flag, a p ...
  • Survival Clothing After TSHTF
    An often overlooked subject for survival preparedness is the subject of clothing for after TSHTF or after a worst case scenario of collapse when there will likely be a shortage or lack of supplies for a possible long period of time. While most preparedness advice is to stock up on food, water, a ...

Fast Company

  • 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week: Small Biz ...
    Infographics without Excel, a finger-sized newspaper printer, and the new Pinterest from the creators of Twitter. Check out these stories and more in this week’s top 10. 1. Infographics Become Easy As Pie, With This Disruptive Font Co.Design ...
  • Will Twitter's New Rules For App Developers Sq ...
    Twitter’s future depends greatly on whether its UI can become more usable, and less of a firehose. So they’re taking drastic measures to make sure they run the show.
  • How to Write For Any Medium (From a Guy Who's ...
    Simon Rich writes novels, essays, screenplays, and sketches--and he’s written them for some of the most respected arbiters of quality in their respective fields. Here, the prolific writer talks to Co.Create about the differences between each medium, and how to choose where an idea belongs.
  • Facebook, Meet Live Video
    “Why should broadcasting be different then tweeting?” says David Thompson, Ustream’s senior vice president of marketing. “The only thing I care about on Twitter is what’s happening now.” The startup, which hosts live video of everything from Associated Press reporting to a Monterrey Bay Aquar ...
  • OfficeDrop And ExpenseMagic Want To Free You F ...
    If you still complete expense reports the old-fashioned way--on paper--you know that poring over piles of receipts to itemize your costs is a frequent but unavoidable cause of misery. Today OfficeDrop, the document management company that lets you turn your mobile device into a scanner that uplo ...

Jadaliyya

  • Abdelilah Benkirane : du chef de gouvernement ...
    Abdelilah Benkirane restera dans les annales politiques du Maroc comme le 1er ministre de façade qui aura incarné jusqu’à la caricature le rôle d’impuissant représentant de la légitimité du vote populaire devant la machine despotique du Makhzen. Ni ses blagues de mauvais goût, ni ses saillies q ...
  • مرسي والانقلاب والثورة: قراءة بين الأسطر الحمراء
    حاز قرار الرئيس محمد مرسي الأخير والقاضي بإحالة قادة عسكريين كبار إلى التقاعد على إشادة باعتباره خطوة كبيرة على طريق إنهاء عسكرة الدولة المصرية. يمثل هذا القرار بالنسبة لبعض المتفائلين نصراً للثورة على أعدائها داخل المؤسسة العسكرية. هناك شيء من الشك أن هذا الفعل سيكون تاريخياً وبأنه ربما يكون ال ...
  • The Emergence of Salafism in Tunisia
    Political Islam did not really play a prominent role in the success of the Tunisian revolution. Islamists were notably absent from the protests and the revolutionary slogans were about freedom, dignity, and jobs rather than Sharia law or the creation of an Islamic state. This made it reasonably ...
  • Families of Kidnapped Lebanese in Syria Cut Of ...
    In an irony of history, the old Lebanon, feared in the decade of the 1970s for its hijackers, is now the victim of kidnappings. The confusion is greater when Lebanese are kidnapped in Syria and Syrians are kidnapped in Lebanon as a deliberate proxy war between pro-Syrian regimes, armed groups in ...
  • Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interv ...
    The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon’s magnum opus, was published in 1961, a few days after his death. The book was not only influential for several generations of grassroots movements and activists in Africa, the United States, and Latin America; it was also discussed and debated extensively ...

mediagazer

  • Criticism Greets List of Debate Moderators (Ne ...
    New York Times: Criticism Greets List of Debate Moderators  —  Complaining about the moderators of the presidential debates is a time-honored tradition of the election season.  Usually, the complaints wait until the moderators have actually asked a question.  —&n ...
  • 'The Tonight Show' Lays Off 20 Staffers And Ho ...
    Nikki Finke / Deadline.com: ‘The Tonight Show’ Lays Off 20 Staffers And Host Jay Leno Takes Pay Cut To Save Jobs  —  SATURDAY UPDATE: Jay Leno's spokesman has now issued this statement: “Jay's foremost concern is for the wonderful people who work for The Tonigh ...
  • Ford Needs a Smarter Approach to Newspaper Gra ...
    Pablo Eisenberg / The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Ford Needs a Smarter Approach to Newspaper Grants  —  The Ford Foundation's announcement last month that it is providing $500,000 to help The Washington Post strengthen its coverage of government-accountability issues is inappropr ...
  • How Management Killed "The Village Voice" (Ros ...
    Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed: How Management Killed “The Village Voice”  —  Mike Lacey figured out sex ads on the Internet, but little else.  The paper edges toward collapse.  —  Follow  —  Alt-weeklies are always dying.  But the ne ...
  • Obama's soft-media strategy (Politico)
    Politico: Obama's soft-media strategy  —  Forget Chris Matthews — he'll take Nancy O'Dell.  —  President Barack Obama has been taking a lot of questions in the two months since his last press conference or national news interview.  He's just been doing ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Derek Jeter smacks 250th career home run ...
    Related topics Derek JeterNew York YankeesYankee StadiumMLBVideo Advertisement Thirty-Eight year old Derek Sanderson Jeter, 18 year veteran of the New York Yankees, hit his 250th home run last night on his home turf at Yankee Stadium, helping the Yankees pick up a win over the Boston Red Sox ...
  • Soldado: It is high time I scored at the ...
    The Spain international is in bullish mood ahead of the clash with Los Blancos in La Liga on Sunday, and vowed to end his dry streak in the Spanish capital By Alex...
  • Syria denies Assad's deputy tried to defe ...
    BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria denied reports on Saturday that President Bashar al-Assad's deputy had defected and his forces pressed an offensive against rebels, bombarding parts of Aleppo in the north and hitting an insurgent-held town in the oil-producing east. A Free Syrian Army fighter runs f ...
  • Prince William Rescues Drowning Teenager, ...
    Prince William helped to save a drowning teenager yesterday, proving that there are such things as knights in shining armor. The Duke of Cambridge, a Royal Air Force pilot, answered a distress call with his team after a 13-year-old girl and her 16-year-old sister were caught in a riptide off ...
  • Why Republicans Abhor the New Healthcare ...
    Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable." -Adam Smith The Republicans and ultra-conservatives that were up in arms over the recent Cancer Add, which linked presidential ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 8/16/12 - Mississippi Most Obese State in Amer ...
    obesity.procon.org - Mississippi Most Obese State in America for Sixth Year in a Row
  • 8/16/12 - Is human activity a substantial caus ...
    climatechange.procon.org - Is human activity a substantial cause of global climate change? -  Read new pro and con statements from James E. Hansen, PhD, Director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies at NASA (Pro), and John R. Christy, PhD, Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director ...
  • 8/15/12 - 10 US Surgeon Generals and Their Vie ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - 10 US Surgeon Generals and Their Views on Medical Marijuana, 1961-Present – In response to our question "Should marijuana be a medical option?” two former Surgeons General are Pro, two are Con, two have not clearly pro or con statements, and four have no position th ...
  • 8/10/12 - Vegetarian Diet Linked to Eating Dis ...
    vegetarian.procon.org - Vegetarian Diet Linked to Eating Disorders in Women, Study Says
  • 8/10/12 - Books, Articles, and Studies about U ...
    www.procon.org - - Books, Articles, and Studies about Using Controversial Issues to Stimulate Critical Thinking – Read over 40 studies which show that teaching controversial issues can improve critical thinking skills and increase student motivation, achievement, creativity, self-esteem, and app ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Tyrants and Art
    Culture thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray. "In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin ...
  • Barthes in China
    Adrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...
  • Tokyo’s Katsumi
    Japan’s most volatile politician is making a splash in the South China Sea — and the Chinese are beating the drums of war. MARK MACKINNON "I do what I do because I want to," Shintaro Ishihara wrote in his 1956 novel The Punishment Room. "Do what you please, and sooner or ...
  • Women’s Migraines
    Carol Cruzan Morton Migraines are a battle of the sexes that women might prefer not winning. Each year, roughly three times more women than men—up to 18% of all women—suffer from the debilitating headaches, as tallied by epidemiological surveys in Europe and the United States. A new brain imagin ...
  • Make Love
    Sara Wheeler This stimulating book examines the ways in which legal systems have attempted to regulate sexual activity over millennia, from the ‘slow impalement of unfaithful wives’ in Mesopotamia to the ‘sterilisation of masturbators’ in the United States. ‘I have ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Interview with Dr. Tim Ball - Part 1
    In the second hour of today's show we bring you a unique interview with one of Canada's most articulate and distinguished climate sceptics, Dr. Tim Ball. Dr. Ball, former Professor at the University of Winnipeg, has an extensive science background in climatology, especially the reconstruction ...
  • Australians For Syria Protest in Sydney
    On 5 August 2012 a rally was held in Sydney in support of the Syrian government by members of the Syrian community and Australians. Some four thousand people gathered peacefully at The Sydney Town Hall to express solidarity about the tragedy in Syria. A number of speakers, from various s ...
  • Would you like to help TNRA reach out to a wid ...
    Do you like TNRA? Would like to help us make TNRA better, stronger and more effective? If the answer is yes, read on! There are some areas we need help with, which I have listed below. These may require some basic technical skills and knowldge of online editing environments. Youtube Uploa ...
  • Free speech in Australia under threat - Part 1
    DISCLAIMER: This article is NOT an advertisement for "black salve", nor should it be construed as promoting the use of "black salve". We tend to believe that in Australia, despite excessive taxation, nanny state legislation, over-regulation and a spiralling cost of living, we at least have fre ...
  • World Roundup with George Georgios - Part 1
    Today we bring you a show which covers a wide range of stories from around the world, including news on all the latest annoying Nanny State measures which our listeners have come to expect from TNRA. Some topics covered include the introduction of high tech surveillance drones in Queensland, f ...

Beacon

  • Tonight: Ted Danson Narrates ‘Great White Highway’
    There is still a lot of mystery surrounding great white sharks. ©Terry Goss Shark Week is almost over, but one of the most exciting shows of the year is airing tonight. Tonight at 9 p.m. (Eastern and Pacific) tune in to Discovery Channel to watch “Great White Highway,” which follows the ...
  • The Myth of the Rogue Shark
    That man-eating shark from Jaws may be fictional, but that doesn’t stop people from believing that sharks are out to get us — even though it’s not true at all. Chris Neff, a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, gave this talk at TEDxSydney about his research on the politics of shark attac ...
  • Senate Moves Bill to End Pirate Fishing
    Pirate fishing threatens the ocean and those who rely on it ©Oceana/Keith Ellenbogen The Senate took an important step forward last month in the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, also known as pirate fishing, by passing the Pirate Fishing Elimination Act (S. 1980) thr ...
  • Creature Feature: Great White Shark
    Great whites have earned a bad reputation, but they don't deserve it ©Discovery Channel They’re the stars of Shark Week, one of the most iconic creatures in the ocean. But how well do you really know the great white shark? White sharks are known by many names—great white, white pointer, Carc ...
  • Save Shark Week’s Stars
    Great white sharks keep the oceans healthy and balanced ©NOAA Whether you fear them or admire them, most people have an instant reaction when they hear great white shark.   Intrigue, mystery, and terror have guided attention on great white sharks since they lit up the screens in the 197 ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Livia Augustus’ Hair Bun.
      In the first century AD politics roiled hotly through Rome. Around 42 BC, the Roman Senate, the wake of the murder of Julius Caesar, declared that Caesar had been a God; and so it was partly by divine imprimatur that Octavian, Caesar’s adopted son, and Mark Anthony and Marcus Aemilius Lep ...
  • How To Use War Coverage As Cover.
    Last month indigenous insurgents from the Haqquani network staged a mini Tet Offensive in the Kabul area, hitting a couple dozen targets from embassies to airports, the insurgents struck and engaged defenders for hours. The defenders were Iraqi National Police trained and abetted by US troops cl ...
  • The Forestry Service Needs Some New Tanker Air ...
      The United States Postal Service not too long ago boasted over 40 water-tanker fire fighting aircraft. Now they have about 9 aircraft and they are plagues with mechanical and maintenance issues. The main problem is that the planes are all Cold War era relics that formerly flew reconnaissa ...
  • The Vikings Weren’t Always That Brave.
      They Were Not Perfectly Brave.   In fact, the Vikings did so well at warfare for as much knowing when not to fight as when to attack. They were ambush warriors operating mostly as guerrillas, launching sudden and ferocious sneak attacks. Frankly most of the people they fought were pa ...
  • Ex CIA Operative Ran A Massive Recognition Sof ...
      “Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition technology — and have installed it across the US under the radar of most Americans, according to emails hacked by Anonymous.”   “Every few ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Top Story of the Week: Medicare, Not the Economy
    Mitt Romney’s advisers are orchestrating a four-day Republican National Convention that is not so much designed to make Americans fall in love with the nominee, but rather to fall in like with the idea of him as the nation’s leader and a uniquely qualified businessman who can fix the economy. &# ...
  • Queer Talk: After All the ‘Right-ful’ Judging, ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Okay, so I sound like an “old hippie,” who happens to be queer: but I really could use a few minutes of peace and calm and quiet, maybe sitting by a softly babbling brook, because I’m really, really tired of the loud ...
  • Voting Hurdles, Ohio and Florida Edition
    VOTING SHENANIGANS continue, with news in Ohio and Florida, beyond the voter I.D. issue in Pennsylvania already mentioned this past week. The election is Tuesday, Nov. 6. Buzzfeed reports that members of the Democratic election board in Ohio rebelled when the secretary of state banned weekend ea ...
  • Geraldo Rivera Wonders If Napolitano Is Respon ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. There’s not much to add. Geraldo does his usual level of whatever it is he does. Check out Annie-Rose Strasser’s piece at Think Progress regarding the “Fox and Friends” discussion about what Rivera also called a possi ...
  • Paul Ryan Declared ‘The hottest vice president ...
    HAPPY FRIDAY! Cleavage Friday, to be exact. Some of you may remember the “cleavage Friday” columns I used to run that began when Hillary was hit with a cleavage column for a C-SPAN neckline that ruffled the Beltway elite. She even fundraised on it. Republicans aren’t used to th ...

Hudson New York

  • Israeli gas, Iranian Missles, and the Russian ...
    In the on-going debate over an Israeli attack on Iran, attention has largely focused over the last few weeks on Israel and America, for good reason. But what about Russia? A very senior person in the Israeli gas industry tells me: "The Russians have been
  • How Palestinians Keep Shooting Themselves in t ...
    As the Arab countries continue to impose strict employment restrictions on Palestinians, Israel is opening its doors to Palestinian workers from the West Bank. Palestinians say, in fact, that Israel is becoming one of the largest employers of
  • Alawites in Syria and Alevis in Turkey: Crucia ...
    Sectarian differences, threatening to ensnare Muslims outside Syria's borders, have emerged as a key aspect of the horrific bloodshed there. Since February 2011 the Syrian protestors, mainly following Sunni Islam, have mobilized against the Baathist
  • Obama Administration "Caused Serious Damage to ...
    Ha'aretz Senior Defense Analyst Amos Harel, a regular on our "Gate" blog, just published his evaluation of Washington-Jerusalem relations. The key thought: The Israeli leadership is taking a dangerous gamble here, that has to do with more than the
  • J Street Makes an Attack on Iran More Likely
    J Street, which calls itself "pro-Israel and pro-peace", is now making it more likely that Israel and/or the United States will have no choice but to take military action against Iran's nuclear weapons program. The Israeli government is facing what may

Urban Survival

  • Ben Hits the Gas
    OK, this is going to start your morning with a short drive off into the economic weeds but it is really, really important because is shows how politics and money work in fine relief.  In the latest Federal Reserve H.6 … Continue reading →
  • Coping With those Odd Links of Ure’s
    A number of readers were very concerned about yesterday’s column in which I offered a couple of links which a few folks didn’t quite follow.  I had suggested that when it comes to all the 30-day war talk in the … Continue reading →
  • Ammo Slammo!
    Government is buying nearly a billion rounds of ammunition for domestic use and most people don’t give a rip.  We reported earlier this week on how the government is now trying to cover its tracks on massive arms purchases for … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Corpgov Trashing of "Statecraft"
    The need for secrecy in government is wildly overblown.  Most “classified” information about what goes on is more or less routine and more or less widely known (or at least strongly suspected) by the entities involved anyway. So far, there … Continue reading →
  • 7.7/7.3 Pacific Quake: W. Coast "Due?"
    Screw economics for a minute and score one for Patrick Geryl’s quake forecasts – a big one hit overnight.  We’ve been watching the August 12-15  quake window carefully, as you’ll recall, but always with the view that such “quake windows” … Cont ...

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • 61 Members of Congress Urge DOI to Defer Arcti ...
    Chuck Clusen, Director, National Parks and Alaska Projects, Washington, DC This week, 61 members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to the Department of the Interior’s Secretary Ken Salazar urging protection of America’s Arcti ...
  • Summer may be winding down but that isn't stop ...
    Pierre Bull, Policy Analyst, Air & Energy, New York City While most of us are off doing some form of R&R in the waning days of summer, New York Governor Cuomo is hard at work putting the sun's energy to greater use for the benefit of all New Yor ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile With 70 votes in favor, Chile’s Chamber of Deputies approved the creation a Commission for Hydro Resources, Desertification and Drought this week to oversee legislative proposals re ...
  • Massachusetts Restricts Dirty Biopower
    Sami Yassa, Senior Scientist, Director of NRDC’s Markets Initiative, San Francisco It’s been a busy few weeks in the biomass world.  Today in Massachusetts, the Patrick administration released its final rules governing eligible biomass un ...
  • Momentum builds to restore local energy effici ...
    Kit Kennedy, Counsel, Air and Energy Program, New York Thanks to a legal victory, there’s one more chance for supporters of energy efficiency and solar power to tell the Obama administration to bring back the popular clean energy finance progr ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • Lawsuit: ‘They fired me for doing the right thing’
    From the Chicago Tribune: A former Des Plaines deputy police chief has sued the city and its former and current top officials, claiming he was forced to retire as retaliation for reporting the alleged misconduct of a police officer. In … Continue reading →Lawsuit: ‘They fired m ...
  • Police Shooting in Saginaw, Michigan
    Police Shooting in Saginaw, Michigan is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • National Police Misconduct Daily NewsFeed Reca ...
    Here are the 9 stories of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, August 16, 2012: Brevard, Colorado: A deputy faces charges of grand theft and dealing in stolen property after he was found with paintball equipment that was reported stolen in … Continue reading →National Police Misco ...
  • More Coverage for the Crime of Video Recording
    From the New York Times: Q.  It seems like photographing in public is becoming a crime. A.  Literally every day, someone is being arrested for doing nothing more than taking a photograph in a public place. It makes no sense … Continue reading →More Coverage for the Crime of ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, August 15, 2012: Seattle, Washington: A Seattle police officer caught on video kicking a handcuffed suspect in the head has been suspended for 10 days, but won’t have to … Continue reading →National Police Misco ...

Total Collapse

  • Russian attack submarine sailed in Gulf of Mex ...
    A Russian nuclear-powered attack submarine armed with long-range cruise missiles operated undetected in the Gulf of Mexico for several weeks and its travel in strategic U.S. waters was only confirmed after it left the region, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. It is only the second time sin ...
  • Russian warships hold drills in Mediterranean
    A Russian joint naval task force on a training mission in the Mediterranean has conducted two-day tactical exercises with live-firing drills, the defense ministry said. The task force comprises three large amphibious assault ships, two Neustrashimy class frigates, an Udaloy class destroyer and t ...
  • 6.6 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Iran
    At least 87 people have been killed and 600 others injured in magnitude 6.4 earthquake and subsequent aftershocks that rocked Iran’s northwestern provinces. On Saturday, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck the city of Ahar, near East Azerbaijan’s provincial capital Tabriz at 15:53 loca ...
  • 87 dead and hundreds injured after two quakes ...
    Two strong quakes have shaken Iran’s northwest, leaving 87 people dead and over 400 injured, according to the country’s state television. The quakes have also disrupted communications, complicating rescue efforts. The quakes, measuring 6.4 and 6.3 on the Richter scale, struck near th ...
  • The US Civil War of 2016
    U.S. military officers are told to plan to fight Americans Imagine Tea Party extremists seizing control of a South Carolina town and the Army being sent in to crush the rebellion. This farcical vision is now part of the discussion in professional military circles. At issue is an article in the r ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Twitter’s ...
    More rumors on the Apple TV set. Flat-fee pricing comes to Square. Twitter’s API changes mean bad juju for app developers. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – An Obvious new ...
    Twitter founders’ Obvious Corp teases a new publishing platform, Uber faces legal pressure in Boston, and Pinterest unveils new mobile apps. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – App.net reaches ...
    Twitter alternative App.net has reached its funding goal, Google confirms significant job cuts at Motorola Mobility, and Apple fans get fooled by a fake screw. It’s all in today’s Daily...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – World of Warcra ...
    Battle.net has been hacked. Change those passwords. Facebook turns on an email address to report phishing attacks. We finally get some updates on Samsung tablet sales, and they’re not pretty....
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Google boosts s ...
    Google announces a raft of search improvements, Facebook launches a new anti-phishing drive, Pinterest is (finally) open to all without an invite, and OUYA raises a total of over $8.5m...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Paid Contractor Position: Development and Rela ...
    Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) is a community and volunteer-based climate and renewable energy think-tank. A small team of contracted coordinators enable hundreds of volunteers to actively engage and deliver Beyond Zero Emissions' objective of moving Australia from a 19th century fossil fuel-based ...
  • Paid contractor position: Campaign Coordinator
    Beyond Zero Emissions is a community and volunteer-based climate and energy security think-tank. A small team of contracted coordinators enable hundreds of volunteers to actively engage and deliver Beyond Zero Emissions' objective of moving Australia from a 19th century fossil fuel-based economy ...
  • Can Australia’s coal customers shop elsewhere?
    At the Climate Commission public meeting in Melbourne on July 24, when responding to a question, a Commissioner used what some call the drug dealer’s defence: if Australia stopped exporting coal, others would fill the gap. Climate Commissioner Gerry Hueston explained that, in relation to Aus ...
  • Gillard misses the real opportunities to reduc ...
    August 8, 2012 If Gillard wants to support households against price-gouging by electricity companies, she should look closer at renewable energy and energy efficiency, according to think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE). Electricity retailers accused of over-investing in grid infrastructure (l ...
  • Laggard to Leader - BZE's latest report
        Are you sick of hearing: Australia is only a small part of the climate problem We shouldn’t act before the rest of the world Our actions won’t make a difference, anyway? BZE’s new report, Laggard to Leader, challenges these excuses, exposing the true extent of Australia’s cont ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Madagascar gets biggest protected area
    Madagascar officially designated its largest protected area in a region renowned for its tropical rainforests and rich diversity of wildlife, including 20 species of lemurs, reports the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), a group that was instrumental in establishing the park. Makira Natural Pa ...
  • Velociraptor spider discovered in Oregon cave ...
    Scouring the caves of Southwest Oregon, scientists have made the incredible discovery of a fearsome apex predator with massive, sickle claws. No, it's not the Velociraptor from Jurassic Park: it's a large spider that is so unique scientists were forced to create a new taxonomic family for it. Th ...
  • Palm oil need not come at expense of the envir ...
    Palm oil production need not come at the expense of the environment, says Greenpeace in a new campaign that highlights a smallholder approach used by a community in Riau Province on the island of Sumatra.
  • Move to regularize mining in Colombia spurs co ...
    Colombia's move last week to begin granting new mining concessions across 17.6 million hectares has raised concerns about the potential environmental impacts of a new mining boom across the country.
  • Printed petri-meat gets boost from Internet bi ...
    A company attempting a new approach to in-vitro meat production received up to $350,000 from The Thiel Foundation, a philanthropy started by Internet billionaire Peter Thiel, reports CNET.

Sierra Express

  • Alim Kamara releases ‘Reciting Rainbows’
    Wearing his creative cap as an award winning Lyricist, Alim Kamara has finally blessed us with his long anticipated hip-hop album; ‘Reciting Rainbows’.  The Rapper, Mentor and Motivator who has inspired thousands of young people through his talks is now ready to formally introduce us to his firs ...
  • A wake up call to my beloved Sierra Leonean br ...
    This is a wakeup call for every Sierra Leonean at home and abroad to start looking at each other as a family member filled with the most priceless treasures on earth to make a positive impact in the lives of others. I believe that “nothing on earth” is more precious than you and I; therefore, [. ...
  • Brazil’s commitment to humanitarian efforts en ...
    BRASILIA –Brazil has provided over 300,000 tons of food commodities to 35 countries through WFP since 2011 and its contributions have increased from US$1 million in 2007 to US$75 million to date, making this South American nation one of WFP’s largest donors, according to Brazilian and WFP offici ...
  • Red Cross Responds to Cholera Outbreak in Sier ...
    The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society (SLRCS) are responding to a growing cholera crisis in the capital Freetown and surrounding areas. GENEVA, Switzerland, August 17, 2012/ — The International Federation of Red C ...
  • Renewed calls for mining contracts to benefit ...
    Obuasi, about 200 kilometres northwest of Accra, Ghana’s capital, is home to one of the world’s richest gold mines. For more than a hundred years the precious metal mined there has been taken to jewellers in the West and beyond, earning millions of dollars for mining companies and their sharehol ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • US drought helps push global dairy prices higher
    New Zealand dairy farmers will take more confidence from Fonterra's 2012-13 payout forecast after drought conditions in the United States helped drive dairy prices sharply higher at yesterday's international auction, economists say.The...
  • US drought behind surge in world dairy prices ...
    Severe drought conditions in the United States played a part in today's big lift in dairy prices, ANZ National rural economist Con Williams said.Prices of dairy products posted their third-biggest gain in about two years in...
  • Dairy prices surge 7.8pc in overnight auction
    Prices of dairy products posted their third-biggest gain in about two years in the latest GlobalDairyTrade sale overnight, paced by whole and skim milk powder.The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 7.8 per cent compared to the last...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: Chinese get message: We're op ...
    Bill English has sent a clear message to China that New Zealand is open for business.New Zealand needs direct foreign investment and China should be at the table was the upshot of the Finance Minister's speech to the Victoria University-Peking...
  • Fonterra to keep milk additive - despite debate
    Fonterra says it will not stop using permeate in its fresh milk, despite a debate raging on the other side of the Tasman.Milk permeate, a natural waste product from the ultra-filtration of milk, is banned in parts of the world.Fonterra...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Real Man of Genius: Joe Biden
    If Joe Biden has another week on the campaign trail like this one, we may have to update our Real Men of Genius commercial.  Here is the orginal text from the Feb. 24, 2009 video: Reason.tv salutes you, Mr. Plagiarizing, Gaffe-Prone, Hair-Plug-Wearing Vice Presid ...
  • Gary Johnson Holds A Rally In A Waco Parking Lot
    Waco – Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson spoke to a crowd of about 40 people in a hot parking lot near the beginning of the Heritage Square section of this midsized Texas city. Johnson, along with the LP candidate for US Senate in Texas John Jay Myers, spoke w ...
  • Why Geezers Are the True Enemy
    While Romney and Obama trade punches over who can best save Medicare and Medicaid, perhaps it's time to reaquaint ourselves with just how insane these programs are.  Here is the original text from the Jan. 30, 2012 video: "When you look at government policies, there' ...
  • Baylen Linnekin on the vanishing Food Libertarians
    Is it true that, as Jayson Lusk claims in a fascinating new article, 95 percent of Americans, including libertarians, want more regulations on food? Baylen Linnekin interviews Lusk, author of the new book The Food Police: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate, about ...
  • The New Yorker: Libertarian Founding ...
    Judith Thurman has a weird piece in The New Yorker that with the most tenuous of connection continues the game of (unfairly, to the libertarians....) linking Paul Ryan with them. She talks about him and Ayn Rand, then mentions Rose Wilder Lane, who helped ghostwrite her mother Laur ...

Mercury Rising

  • Tax Expert: “Romney Paid 13% in 2009? I ...
    From Victor Fleischer, a tax expert whose words Congress heeds: Romney is claiming that he paid at least 13% in taxes every year.  I call bullshit.  As discussed here, Romney had a capital loss carryover in 2010, which means that he realized so many capital losses in 2009 that he could ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
    This is his “Why aren’t you rubbing my tummy?” look.
  • Florida Muslim Family Targeted By Fire Bomber
    Yet another incident of right-wing terrorism, this time in Florida, that the national media will either ignore or downplay: Panama City police are investigating what appears to be a fire bombing in the Forest Park area. [...] The home is owned by a local medical professional named Aziz Ahmad. 5- ...
  • Vote baaing scandal in Mexico
    From La Jornada: At the trial before the electoral tribunal regarding election fraud in Mexico, the PRD presented evidence that included two turkeys, a lamb, a chicken, two ducks and a piglet which were used to buy votes in Guerrero, Campeche, Zacatecas and Veracruz. (photo from SDP Noticias) A ...
  • Vote baaing scandal in Mexico
    From La Jornada: At the trial before the electoral tribunal regarding election fraud in Mexico, the PRD presented evidence that included two turkeys, a lamb, a chicken, two ducks and a piglet which were used to buy votes in Guerrero, Campeche, Zacatecas and Veracruz. (photo from SDP Noticias) A ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Sex in the News
    In this week's Sex in the News: the Pope's takes a stance on condoms, settling, Olympic sex, intercourse and bleeding: just do it, one trans-man's story, and more. read more
  • Say No to Hydrofracking in NY
    Hydrofracking will destroy New York's abundance of fresh water. Fifty-percent of cement casings in these gas wells fail within 30 years of use, releasing hundreds of neurotoxins, plastics, natural gas, and other chemicals into our water.  What's at stake here is much more importan ...
  • Money and the Divine Masculine
    New Yorkers, please join Charles Eisenstein, David Graeber and Daniel Pinchbeck for "The New Radical Economics," as they dissect many of our unspoken economic assumptions and share ideas about how to create an economy that serves people and communities, not obsolete institutions. T ...
  • The Nursery Hypothesis
    There's still time to join Philip Coppens for the live, interactive video course "Learning from Ancient Aliens and the Egyptian Wisdom Tradition." In this five-part Evolver Intensives series, learn about the Ancient Egyptian mystery schools, their other-worldly origins, and their t ...
  • Daniel Pinchbeck on Change and Transformation
      Catch Daniel Pinchbeck's hour long discussion on Red Ice Radio, an independent radio program.  He joins them to discuss aspects of the new paradigm which will transform human society. He explains how we are leading into a reality we collectively co-create. They discuss consciousne ...

Desertification

  • Q&A: Water and Food Security Are Inseparable
    IPS U.N. Bureau Chief Thalif Deen interviews PER BERTILSSON, acting executive director of the Stockholm International Water Institute
  • Food Activists See Portents of New and Deeper ...
    Food rights activists from around the world will descend on the coastal U.S. state of Florida next week to protest homelessness and hunger facing millions of people in the United States and across the globe. The Aug. 20-26 protests in Tampa were organised to draw attention to the Republican Part ...
  • U.S. Drought Exposes “Hydro-Illogical&#8 ...
    The historic drought withering much of the United States this summer has revealed a need for strategies to better manage water supplies that could remain under severe pressure both this year and in the longer term. On Friday, the U.S. Agriculture Department said that corn yields – which ac ...
  • Record Aid Shortfall Abandons Millions to Thei ...
    Global funding for humanitarian aid interventions saw the biggest shortfalls in 10 years in 2011, according to a new report, raising questions about the international community’s ability to meet a 20-percent greater need for 2012 driven by drought and conflict. The launch of the 2012 Global Huma ...
  • Crops Failing as U.S. Simmers in Record Heat Wave
    The United States is suffering one of its most severe droughts in decades, leading to both widespread crop failures and increased public concern about the impacts of climate change. According to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climatic Data Center, th ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Prince William, Kate Middleton: More Than $80, ...
    The average British working household income is less than $40,000 U.S. That is why I have no use for those who are so privileged by birth. It is sickening. Probably Kate and William rented the whole airplane. Read more here. Kate Middleton: The gold-digger. Interesting video.
  • Canada Day and #DenounceHarper
    “#DenounceHarper is trending on Twitter in Canada, just behind #HappyCanadaDay. Users are using the hashtag to voice dissatisfaction with the Harper government, or just the man himself.” Read more about #DenounceHarper
  • TVO's The Agenda: The New McCarthyism
    There is no worse cancer in a free society than the thuggish impulse to equate dissent as disloyalty... The greatest patriot is the person with the courage to be the lone voice in the crowd crying out that the Emperor has no clothes. The test of our society's democratic nature is our instinct ...
  • Harper's Canada Day message loudly booed at Ja ...
  • U.S. Healthcare Legislation
    Fuxs News’ take on the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on Healthcare. Repugs are apparently very upset by the decision. Repugs spin machine is going hard at it. Sarah Palin gives her gyrations. “Obama lies, freedom dies” Sarah Palin. Watch the latest video at Press TV - Middle East
  • Syria arrests insurgents in Latakia
    Syrian security forces have arrested a group of foreign-sponsored insurgents attempting to block main roads in the northwestern port city of Latakia.
  • 'Syria insurgents get missile launchers'
    Reports say the foreign-sponsored insurgents in Syria have received over a dozen surface-to-air missile launchers through southern Turkey.
  • Syria insurgents, Turks clash in Hatay
    Reports say the armed anti-Syria insurgents in Turkey have clashed with residents of the city of Antakya near the Syrian border.
  • Bahrainis hold funeral of slain teen
    Bahraini anti-regime demonstrators have held a funeral for a 16-year-old teenager, who was the latest victim of the brutal crackdown by the police.
  • 'Israel, West apoplectic over Syria'
    An American author and historian says the United States, the Israeli regime, France and the UK are “apoplectic” due to the failure of their anti-Syria plots, Press TV reports.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Ex-Smoker Finds Support in Runners
    I am an ex-smoker It’s hard to believe that just over 3 months ago, I was a heavy smoker. I used to love smoking. I smoked on and off from the time I was 17. I really didn’t want to quit. I believed that there was no hope for me to ever find the desire [...]
  • SPS Joins the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure
    On Sunday, September 9th, we at CUNY School of Professional Studies will participate in our first Komen Greater NYC Race for the Cure in Central Park. We are honored to run and walk among over 21,000 breast cancer survivors and supporters to build awareness for this very important cause. To prep ...
  • Life, Liberty and Your Individual Pursuit of H ...
    “Live Your Best Life”… is what Oprah says and everybody knows that when Oprah speaks, we listen, intently! What happens when we aren’t necessarily happy with our best lives? We think we’d be better off with our co-worker’s best and our neighbor’s best because their best seems so much ...
  • What did I do on my summer vacation…?
    I remember, just before returning to school every fall, thinking for weeks and weeks how I would answer that question. Would I tell my classmates about a trip to the beach, or attending sleep-away camp, or a summer job? Since my birthday is at the end of August it was fun talking to my classmate ...
  • Reflections on Project Rwanda
    For the past three years, faculty and students in the M.A. in Applied Theatre program at CUNY’s School of Professional Studies have traveled to Rwanda to implement the project “Drama and Theatre Education in Schools for Reconciliation and Development in Rwanda.” The twin goals of Project R ...

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

  • Natural brands betray consumers over GMO labeling
    It’s time to defeat evil in the food industry and stop the vicious betrayal of consumers by so-called “natural” brands. They’re all conspiring right now to funnel millions of dollars into a disinformation campaign to try to defeat ballot measure 37, the “GMO labeling” initiative in California (h ...
  • Finland prepares for break-up of eurozone
    Finland is preparing for the break-up of the eurozone, the country’s foreign minister warned today.
  • 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.” The fact that U.S. troops are getting new headgear to protect ...
  • Monsanto spends millions to fight labeling of ...
    Activists in California are fighting to pass Proposition 37, a law that would legally require genetically modified foods to be labeled as such. Biotech giant Monsanto doesn’t like that idea, though, and has donated over $4.2 million to oppose it. If the majority of voters in California can co ...
  • BREAKING – DHS Classifies New Ammo Purch ...
    The Department of Homeland Security has redacted information relating to the quantity of bullets it is buying following a controversy concerning the agency’s purchase of over a billion rounds of ammo, which many fear is a sign the federal government is preparing for civil unrest in the United St ...

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Cambodia’s Hydro Plans Carry Steep Costs
    The Cambodian government has committed to the construction of five dams along the Mekong River in order to meet a huge demand for electricity, but environmental groups warn that severe repercussions loom for this strategy. “While each project proposed in Cambodia comes with a different set of im ...
  • Palestinians Step Again Towards Nationhood
    A year after their bid for statehood flopped in the United Nations’ Security Council, the Palestine Liberation Organisation is again planning to seek an upgrade in UN status. On Sep. 27, the PLO will approach the UN General Assembly in hopes of becoming a non-member observer state. If their bid ...
  • Immigrants’ Fear Palpable in Arizona
    Fear stalks the streets in the U.S. state of Arizona. Seven-year-old Matthew feels it when his mother crosses the line permitted by the guards of the Tent City – an extension of the Maricopa County Jail – to be photographed with a sign protesting the imprisonment of immigrants. &#822 ...
  • 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 trunks. Us ...
  • Millions of Jobless Desperate in Spain
    The sun is shining in Spain as it does every summer. But millions of people in this crisis-stricken country are living in the shadow cast by Europe’s highest unemployment rate. That is true for José Manuel Martínez, who was taking part in a protest in Madrid holding up a homemade sign reading “I ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Letter of response to the US Treasury Departme ...
    Summary: If the Administration really wanted to help, it would "fast track" a general OFAC license for humanitarian help by NGOs and individuals, identify approved banking channels, and allow participation of pertinent Iranian agencies like the Red Lion and Sun. As it is, your memo may serve ...
  • Why the world can't tolerate a preemptive Isra ...
    Summary: Under the UN Charter, neither Israel nor the US would have a legal right to preemptively launch a military attack on Iran. Do we want a world in which leaders are free to launch military attacks on other countries simply on an assumption of hostile intent and military capacity? so ...
  • Barak's Blunder
    Summary: On Friday press spokesman Jay Carney told the media (and the Israelis) that the U.S. “would know if and when Iran made” a decision to build a weapon. “We have eyes–we have visibility into the program, and we would know if and when Iran made what’s called a breakout move towards acqui ...
  • Julian Assange asylum: Why Ecuador is right to ...
    Summary: On Wednesday, the UK government made an unprecedented threat to invade Ecuador's embassy if Assange is not handed over. Such an assault would be so extreme in violating international law and diplomatic conventions that it is difficult to even find an example of a democratic governmen ...
  • How Washington’s Determination to Dominate Ira ...
    Summary: As the United States pushes for regime change in Syria and American allies flock to suspend Syria from the Organization for Islamic Cooperation, it is illuminating to examine the strategic bankruptcy of U.S. policy toward Bahrain. For the deep flaws in Washington’s approach to Bahra ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Image of the Day: Spectacular Colliding Cluste ...
    Astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have caught two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. The clusters are 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy...
  • 'Curiosity' Fires Up Its Laser Beam on 1st Mar ...
    The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team have received the first photos from the instrument’s remote micro imager. The successful capture of ChemCam’s first 10 photos sets the stage for the first test bursts of the instrument’s rock-zapping laser...
  • 'Curosity' Starting Trek to 1st Science Destin ...
    The scientists and engineers of NASA's Curiosity rover mission have selected the first driving destination for their one-ton, six-wheeled mobile Mars laboratory. The target area, named Glenelg, is a natural intersection of three kinds of terrain. The choice was described...
  • Extraterrestrial Life --"Alternative Biochemis ...
    In his famous lecture, "Life in the Universe," Stephen Hawking observed that what we normally think of as 'life' is based on chains of carbon atoms, with a few other atoms, such as nitrogen or phosphorous. We can imagine that...
  • Enigma? Black Holes Glow with a Bright Ring of ...
    Stephen Hawking's great discovery was that the mysterious regions in space we call black holes radiate heat through quantum effects. Hawking has said that "black holes are not really black after all: they glow like a hot body, and the...

Natural News

  • The big media lie about the US government's pu ...
    The alternative media scored a huge victory last week with the joint coverage of the U.S. government's purchase of over one billion rounds of anti-personnel "hollow point" ammunition. The ammunition is to be use domestically, not by the military. The story broke on...
  • Mystery man attacks junk food with machete, th ...
    Now that government agencies are branding animal rights and ecological activists as "eco-terrorists," what should anyone who attacks junk food with a machete be called - a foodie terrorist? The Yuma Sun of Yuma, AZ recently reported an episode of an unidentified man...
  • Drugs: The Epitome of Frustration (Opinion)
    (NaturalNews)When we look at the root of the drug and alcohol problems in the affluent Western nations, frustration and misery always rise to the surface. Yet, most people in the world find that hard to believe. After all, the people in the Western countries are so much wealthier...
  • Meta-study finds even the best cancer treatmen ...
    Besides testing the effectiveness of cancer treatments on the cancer, additional assessments are in place to ensure that the treatment design is effectively meeting the needs of the patients. A recent study that evaluated 155 clinic trial programs that are run and funded...
  • The art of mindful eating - Transform your lif ...
    In today's fast-paced world, many people, whether they realize it or not, routinely sacrifice the beauty and wonder of a meal well eaten for a quick morsel scarfed down in between their rush from point A to point B. But the only way to truly achieve vibrant health is...

Threat Level

  • Judge Rejects Facebook ‘Sponsored Stories’ Law ...
    A federal judge, ruling late Friday he had "serious concerns," rejected a Facebook privacy settlement concerning the social networking site's "Sponsored Stories" advertising program.
  • 500K Credit Cards Stolen in Australian Point-o ...
    Police in Australia are investigating a breach of half a million credit card numbers that reports say was conducted by the same gang that struck the Subway restaurant chain in the United States.
  • Text Message Donations Good for Democracy, Ris ...
    Citizens should soon be able to donate to political candidates via text message, which promises to increase participation in the democratic process. But that change should not be a privacy nightmare and our laws need to be updated to prevent that from happening.
  • Court Says Impersonating a Cop to Beat Traffic ...
    The Supreme Court says the First Amendment grants the right to lie about having earned a military decoration. But a divided federal appeals court is ruling the right of speech doesn't stretch that far when it comes to impersonating the police.
  • New Zealand Judge Orders U.S. to Disclose Mega ...
    Kim Dotcom, the filesharing kingpin, won another battle against the U.S. government, as a New Zealand appeals court judge rules the U.S. has to show Dotcom the evidence against him before he is extradited.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Romney Camp Admits Mitt's Cowardice is a Featu ...
    Last November, the New York Times ran a piece titled, "Building a Better Mitt Romney-Bot." Assessing the aloof and socially awkward Romney's stumbles during his first White House run, author Robert Draper explained, "His camp doesn't need to turn their guy into someone you'd have a beer with. Th ...
  • Mitt Romney's Voucher Madness
    Ever since Mitt Romney tapped Paul Ryan as his running mate, all eyes in Washington have been on Medicare. At the center of the debate has been what Romney called his "close to identical" proposal to Paul Ryan's to dramatically shift the costs of health care to future American seniors by transf ...
  • Romney Turns to Circular Argument for Upper-Cl ...
    Mitt Romney may "love data", but he has a serious problem with math. He has simultaneously promised to (a) extend the Bush tax cuts and then slash all rates by an additional 20 percent and (b) keep Uncle Sam's total take "revenue-neutral" while (c) ensuring "that high-income people would contin ...
  • Drive-by Bigot Mitt Romney Calls Kettle Black
    So it's come to this. Less 24 hours after airing his latest demonstrably false, racially-driven ad about welfare, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney accused President Obama of waging a "campaign of division and anger and hate." By any measure, Romney's is an amazing--and cynically con ...
  • Why the GOP Loves Paul Ryan--and Loves Him Not
    There's an old saying that politicians campaign in poetry and govern in prose. But when it comes to Paul Ryan and his radical GOP budget, Republicans would prefer to campaign in silence and then govern with an axe. While the Grand Old Party would love to enact Ryan's massive tax cut windfall f ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Lucy
      Haven’t been around too much for the last week. Today was the last day of Lucretia Borgia Ellis, more commonly known for the last eighteen years as: Lucy, Satanic moggy, Ugliest Kitten Ever Seriously Who Knew Kittens Could Even Be Ugly, destructive furbag, friend and motherly companion of ...
  • Chris Hedges: We’ve Betrayed Our Neighbor + Th ...
    “But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.” — Howard Zinn with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad August 14, 2012 Aug 14, 2012 by DeepDishTV “It challenged this corpo ...
  • Ecuador Defies UK/US Pressure, Gives Assange A ...
    Baher Azmy (CCR): International humanitarian law trumps extradition treaties
  • Is Full Employment Possible in Capitalism?
    Bob Pollin Pt2: There have been periods of unemployment less than 4%, those conditions could be created if there was intent to do so
  • Ecuador’s Decision on Julian Assange’s Request ...
    Dandelion Salad Listened to the live report via Russia TV and just heard the news. Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said, “Asylum is a fundamental right to all, held over local law.” Aug 16, 2012 by RussiaToday Ecuador has granted political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julia ...

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Trogloraptor, New Family And Genus Of Spider D ...
    A spider from a completely new genus and family of spiders has been discovered in the caves of southwest Oregon. The discovery of such a large animal representing a completely unknown family of animals is unprecedented. The spider, Trogloraptor, (or “cave robber”) is “named for ...
  • Robot That Can Camouflage Itself Developed (VIDEO)
    Soft bodied robots that can change their color to blend in with the background have now been developed by researchers. The research was done by a team of researchers led by George Whitesides, the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor. His team had already, before this, broken new e ...
  • Rhino Crisis Round Up: Yao Ming in Kenya & More
    Retired NBA star Yao Ming was in Kenya to film “The End of the Wild” documentary — and to bring international awareness to the plight of African rhinos and elephants, whose numbers are being decimated by demand from China. Yao’s itinerary included a visit to the Ol Pejeta ...
  • Pollen and Charcoal Document Ancient Egypt’s C ...
    Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey studying ancient pollen and charcoal preserved in deeply buried sediments in Egypt’s Nile Delta have documented the region’s ancient droughts and fires, including a massive drought that happened approximately 4,200 years ago and is thought ...
  • Tibetan Plateau May be Older than Previously T ...
    The Tibetan Plateau is the planet’s highest and largest plateau and has been the focus of scientific study for decades. In a new study, published online in the journal Nature Geoscience, researchers have discovered that the growth of high topography such as the Tibetan mountains and platea ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Mitt Romney's Monty Hall Campaign
    By @TedFrier More and more I am coming to the conclusion that Barack Obama is running against Monty Hall in this 2012 election. Those of us of a certain age grew up with the irritating host of Let's Make a Deal offering studio contestants (typically housewives and retired old men) the chance to ...
  • A Movie That Sucked So Horribly, Nobody Wants ...
    I don't know how many people got their money taken from them during the winter of 1976-77, by paying to sit through the movie called The Way He Was, an attempt at a parody of Dick Nixon and his assorted Watergate buffoons. I thought of this movie recently, as one of very few in which I've seriou ...
  • It Has NOT Been A Good Week
    First health problems kept me away from the keyboard and when I was finally able to get up and around a couple of days ago a major hard drive crash took most my system down for the second time in three months and I've spent the last two days restoring it... yeah, I neglected to back up again... ...
  • I've Got Mine, Now Screw You!
    By @TedFrier Benjamin Hale, assistant professor of philosophy and environmental studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, elaborates on an idea in this morning's New York Times that I wrote about last week, namely the idea there are two basic models for politics and policy-making. The fir ...
  • Todd Akin is wrong about the school lunch program
    By @BGinKC If it's true that those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it, it is also true that those of us who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while those who didn't repeat the follies of the past. That sad and desperate feeling washed over me like a tidal wave when ...

Care 2

  • The Ocean Health Index
    It is being hailed as an important milestone for ocean management. A North American team has created the first Ocean Health Index. It is a tool for evaluating the state of the worlds oceans. And takes into account the major factors that influence the Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle &nbs ...
  • Speak Up for Moose Fleeing Fires ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
    Help protect moose and fight further damage to their habitat by editing and sending a message, urging your elected officials to support clean energy. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Take Action: Fracking ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
    We need to push back! Remind Obama that fracking for natural gas shouldn't come at the expense of people's health. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Dozer
    Once you lay your eyes on Dozer, you are not going to be able to resist him! Hes extremely handsome and a whopping 80 lbs at just 9 months old. This guys a real charmer and his sweetness matches his incredible strength! Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it! & ...
  • Close Loophole that Allows California Restaura ...
    Despite the recent ban of the sale of foie gras, the fatty liver of the duck or goose, restaurants in California continue to bypass the law and serve this delicacy. The sale and production of foie gras was officially banned on July 1, 2012, Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   No ...

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No Quarter

  • The Dishonor in Dishonorable Disclosures
    A group of retired military and intelligence officers with ties to the Republican Party are out with a short film blasting, deservedly so, Barack Obama and his Administration for leaking sensitive military and intelligence secrets. The charges the group levels are correct. If you have not seen t ...
  • Obama Whiffs on Romney Taxes
    The following image encapsulates why the Obama team is failing to make Romney’s past tax returns an issue the country’s voters care about: Do you know why Romney’s effective tax rate hovers around 13%? Because he has earned so much money that he can invest in tax-free bonds and ...
  • Virginia Democrat Defects to Romney?
    While I suspect this is a shot across the bow warning to Obama, it is incredibly huge to see former Virginia governor and respected Democrat Douglas Wilder not only chastise the Obama administration Thursday morning but then follow that up in the evening by dropping in on Mitt Romney’s Ric ...
  • Israel Ready to Launch?
    I think war between Iran and Israel is inevitable and is likely to occur before our election in November. The following memo was published today at the blog, TIKUN, and merits your consideration. Mysteriously obtained by Richard Silverstein, who runs the blog, the memo certainly has the ring of ...
  • IBD on Artur Davis and his former pal Barack O ...
    Just as when I plan dinner party menus, I love to save the best for last. Cheesecake, anyone? Earlier today, I shared with you the superb article in Investor’s Business Daily on Artur Davis and his former buddy Barack. But I held back this section of IBD’s article: [Joe Biden] &#8220 ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining Divides Commu ...
    Between The Lines Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining Divides Communities Over Jobs and the ... Between The Lines Tensions are rising in the coal fields of southern Appalachia, as more militant – though nonviolent – protests are being staged to end mountaintop removal coal mining, and the demand fo ...
  • EPA allies combat strip mine ruling - Daily Camera
    EPA allies combat strip mine ruling Daily Camera Five green groups assert that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had legal authority to veto water-pollution permits for one of West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal mines, and that the federal judge who ruled otherwise improperly ...
  • EPA allies want WV strip mine ruling overturne ...
    EPA allies want WV strip mine ruling overturned State Journal MORGANTOWN (AP) — Five green groups assert that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had legal authority to veto water pollution permits for one of West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal mines and that the federal judge w ...
  • Neighbor shoots video of College Station incid ...
    Neighbor shoots video of College Station incident KIII TV3 EPA allies want W.Va. strip mine ruling overturned. Five groups say the Environmental Protection Agency properly vetoed water-pollution permits for one of West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal mines. Now they want an appeals co ...
  • EPA allies want W.Va. strip mine ruling overtu ...
    EPA allies want W.Va. strip mine ruling overturned KRGV (AP) Five groups say the Environmental Protection Agency properly vetoed water-pollution permits for one of West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal mines. Now they want an appeals court to overturn the ruling of a federal judge who ...

Memeorandum

  • Biden should apologize for "back in chains" re ...
    Boston Globe: Biden should apologize for “back in chains” remark  —  When Vice President Joe Biden warned a Virginia rally of hundreds of African Americans that Republican efforts to loosen bank regulations meant “They're going to put y'all back in chains,&rdqu ...
  • Iran: Israel's existence 'insult to all humani ...
    Associated Press: Iran: Israel's existence ‘insult to all humanity’  —  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Israel's existence is an “insult to all humanity,” Iran's president said Friday in one of his sharpest attacks yet against the Jewish state, as Israel openly ...
  • Paul Ryan On Foreign Policy Credentials: 'I Vo ...
    Andrew Kirell / Mediaite: Paul Ryan On Foreign Policy Credentials: ‘I Voted To Send People To War’  —  Speaking to Fox News' Carl Cameron Saturday morning, Republican VP nominee Paul Ryan made the case for why he believes his foreign policy credentials are stronger ...
  • Better Qualified To Serve As President? 42% Sa ...
    Rasmussen Reports: Better Qualified To Serve As President?  42% Say Ryan, 40% Biden  —  Voters are evenly divided as to whether Paul Ryan or Joe Biden is better qualified to serve as president.  Not surprisingly, there's a huge partisan divide on the issue.  Forty ...
  • Ryan stands by $716 billion Medicare criticism ...
    CNN: Ryan stands by $716 billion Medicare criticism  —  (CNN) - In an interview on Saturday, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan said his Medicare proposal had “evolved” - with, among other influences, input from Democrats.  —  “As ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.9, Tonga
    Saturday, August 18, 2012 17:45:02 UTC Sunday, August 19, 2012 06:45:02 AM at epicenterDepth: 9.70 km (6.03 mi)
  • M 5.9, Halmahera, Indonesia
    Saturday, August 18, 2012 15:31:44 UTC Sunday, August 19, 2012 12:31:44 AM at epicenterDepth: 46.70 km (29.02 mi)
  • M 5.3, Vanuatu region
    Saturday, August 18, 2012 10:23:36 UTC Saturday, August 18, 2012 09:23:36 PM at epicenterDepth: 67.80 km (42.13 mi)
  • M 6.3, Sulawesi, Indonesia
    Saturday, August 18, 2012 09:41:54 UTC Saturday, August 18, 2012 05:41:54 PM at epicenterDepth: 19.90 km (12.37 mi)
  • M 5.0, northern East Pacific Rise
    Friday, August 17, 2012 21:27:54 UTC Friday, August 17, 2012 02:27:54 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.10 km (6.28 mi)

China Dialogue

  • China deluged by toxic sludge
    China’s sewage-treatment industry generates 22 million tonnes of sludge every year. What happens to it? Yang Dazheng, Lü Minghe and Xie Dan investigate.To dispose of 500 tonnes of toxic sludge in the south China city of Guangzhou, all you need is a hired boat and a little money for pe ...
  • Sour Olympic legacy for Russia?
    Eyes are now on the next chance for Olympic glory: 2014’s winter games in Russia. But preparations have included an ominous change in conservation law, writes Jenny Johnson.The Russian government treated select participants at the Summer Olympic Games in London this month to a posh gala ni ...
  • Floods test Three Gorges Dam
    In late July, the world’s largest dam faced the toughest challenge in its chequered nine-year history. Deng Quanlan reports on a continuing controversy.It was the fourth Yangtze flood of the year and, on July 24, the water level at Chaotianmen in Chongqing, western China, hit 187.92 metres ...
  • Geothermal dreams in Fukushima
    With nuclear power out of favour, Japan faces an urgent need for other sources of electricity. In Fukushima, attention is turning to vast reserves of hot water underground, reports Mure Dickie.Since a tsunami crippled a nuclear power plant on its Pacific coast, Japan's north-east prefecture of F ...
  • Can new trials boost Chinese wind?
    Inner Mongolian experiments are meant to set a fresh direction for China’s wind industry. But technological and financial hurdles could dash hopes for a transformation, writes Lu Yanlai. For the last half year, the National Energy Administration (NEA) has been making its interest in I ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • 7 Ways Republicans Use Slavery Rhetoric to Sca ...
    The Republican indignation machine is in high gear, this time over remarks made by Vice-President Joe Biden at a campaign stop in Virginia on August 14, for racial overtones in his comments about Republican financial policies. Laughably hypocritical, the Republican response gushes forth in the ...
  • The Paul Ryan Insider Trading Story Won’t Die ...
    Editor's note: This is a followup to an article published August 15 on AlterNet titled "Revealed: Romney Campaign's Attempts to Deny Paul Ryan's Insider Trading Don't Add Up."Ever since the Richmonder blog posted a story last weekend pointing to suspicious-looking stock trades made by Pau ...
  • 10 Mind-Blowing Discoveries This Week
    It was one of those rare TV moments that makes a person want to jump up and down and run around the house -- I couldn’t believe what I heard. Performing in the closing ceremony of the Olympics, Eric Idle sang "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life," and included the line “Life&# ...
  • 6 Reasons Teachers Unions Are Good for Kids
    Once upon a time, labor unions enjoyed a fair amount of political legitimacy among both the public and political elites. While it is true that unions were always a source of concern for capitalist elites and union-busting was always with us, the public generally considered unions mainstream. T ...
  • Is Microwave Popcorn Making Workers Sick?
     The following article first appeared at Working In These Times, the labor blog of In These Times magazine. For more news and analysis like this, sign up to receive In These Times' weekly updates. The aroma of hot buttered popcorn evokes all sorts of childhood nostalgia, but for many work ...

Threat Level

  • Judge Rejects Facebook ‘Sponsored Stories’ Law ...
    A federal judge, ruling late Friday he had "serious concerns," rejected a Facebook privacy settlement concerning the social networking site's "Sponsored Stories" advertising program.
  • 500K Credit Cards Stolen in Australian Point-o ...
    Police in Australia are investigating a breach of half a million credit card numbers that reports say was conducted by the same gang that struck the Subway restaurant chain in the United States.
  • Text Message Donations Good for Democracy, Ris ...
    Citizens should soon be able to donate to political candidates via text message, which promises to increase participation in the democratic process. But that change should not be a privacy nightmare and our laws need to be updated to prevent that from happening.
  • Court Says Impersonating a Cop to Beat Traffic ...
    The Supreme Court says the First Amendment grants the right to lie about having earned a military decoration. But a divided federal appeals court is ruling the right of speech doesn't stretch that far when it comes to impersonating the police.
  • New Zealand Judge Orders U.S. to Disclose Mega ...
    Kim Dotcom, the filesharing kingpin, won another battle against the U.S. government, as a New Zealand appeals court judge rules the U.S. has to show Dotcom the evidence against him before he is extradited.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • CFIA Recalls California Romaine Produced by Ta ...
    It is unclear what prompted the recall – retail testing – company testing – governmental testing? The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume the Tanimura & Antle brand Romaine Lettuce described below because this product may be contamin ...
  • CDC and FDA Weigh in on Unnamed Farm and Unnam ...
    The CDC and the FDA report tonight that a total of 141 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 20 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (7), Arkansas (3), California (2), Georgia (1), Illinois (17), ...
  • Cantaloupe, a Deadly Fruit - Again
    According to Bloomberg News, Salmonella linked to cantaloupes are responsible for killing two people and sickening 141 others in 20 U.S. states. Among those sickened, 31 were hospitalized. Kentucky had the most reports of illness, 50, followed by Alabama, 7; Arkansas, 3; California, 2; Georgia, ...
  • Indiana Salmonella Cantaloupes Sickens 50 in K ...
    Nearly 150 Sick in 20 States total - 50 people in Kentucky, 14 in Indiana, 6 in Tennessee, 3 in Ohio and 3 in Minnesota - 31 hosptialized - more to be counted soon! According to press reports, A Kentucky outbreak of Salmonella has been pinpointed to produce from southwestern Indiana. Cantalou ...
  • Salmonella Newport contributes to Nebraska Death
    The Lincoln Star Journal reports that the Salmonella outbreak that sickened 17 with one likely killed at the 62-bed Blue Hill Care Center appears nearly over. Initial fears that the bacterium involved at the 62-bed Blue Hill Care Center might be a Newport strain resistant to a broad range of an ...

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Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Paul Ryan: A Man With a Plan, From the Fiscal ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan is considered by many a champion of small government. For women, though, the federal government that Paul Ryan envisions is big, intrusive and controlling. Paul Ryan would ban all abortions, with no excepti ...
  • From Our Archives: Full Video of WikiLeaks' Ju ...
    In one of his first public events since being held under house arrest, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange appeared in London Saturday for a conversation with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, moderated by Democracy Now! ’s Amy Goodman. They discussed the impact of WikiLeaks on world po ...
  • On Gun Laws, It’s Bipartisan Consensus Not Gri ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan With an average of 32 people killed by guns in this country every day—the equivalent of five Wisconsin massacres per day—both major parties refuse to deal with gun control. It’s the consensus, not the gridlock, that’s the problem. Read full column
  • Ten Years After 9/11, Little-Known Sikh Commun ...
    In the aftermath of the Sikh Temple shooting in Wisconsin, we revisit a Sept. 12, 2011 report by Democracy Now’s Jaisal Noor about how Sikh Americans have been targets of violence and harassment. Click here to see our coverage of the issue of gun control in the United States. No ...
  • The Obama Administration Torpedoes the Arms Tr ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Quick: What is more heavily regulated, global trade of bananas or battleships? In late June, activists gathered in New York’s Times Square to make the absurd point, that, unbelievably, “there are more rules governing your ability to trade a banana from one ...

Suzie-Q

  • Crossroads GPS And Americans For Prosperity Ou ...
    Think Progress Justice By Rebecca Leber  on Aug 14, 2012 at 3:50 pm Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS (an affiliate of the super PAC American Crossroads) and the Koch brothers’ Americans For Prosperity have spent more on TV ads than every super PAC combined, according to a ProPublica analysis of CMAG d ...
  • Scrutiny for Casino Mogul’s Frontman in China
    The New York Times By MICHAEL LUO, NEIL GOUGH and EDWARD WONG Published: August 13, 2012 When Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate, needed something done in China, he often turned to his company’s “chief Beijing representative,” a mysterious businessman named Yang Saixin. Mr. Yang arranged meetin ...
  • Paul Ryan’s Jack Abramoff And Tom DeLay ...
    Huff Post By- Jason Cherkis Posted: 08/11/2012  5:58 pm Updated: 08/11/2012  6:02 pm WASHINGTON — As Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has served more than a decade in Congress, President Barack Obama and his allies will surely be scouring his extensive voting record, if they haven’t done so a ...
  • Romney-Ryan 2012: The Herman & Eddie Munster T ...
    Crooks & Liars By karoli August 11, 2012 06:00 AM As I write, the only thing lacking is official confirmation by the Romney campaign that Mittens will adopt young Paul Ryan as his running mate. It would appear as though Mittens’ disaster-laden campaign of the past few weeks has prompte ...
  • Obama Super PAC Waiting To Unload On Mitt Romn ...
    Huff Post Jon Ward Posted: 08/07/2012 10:21 am Updated: 08/07/2012 10:54 am Bill Kristol and Stephen Hayes caused a stir this week when they encouraged Mitt Romney to pick Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) or Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) as his running mate. The conservative Weekly Standard authors based the ...

Solari

  • Ecuador Grants Julian Assange Asylum
    Julian Assange’s Wikileaks website published leaked diplomatic cables Source: BBC News UK 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 his human rights might be violated ...
  • Som Sabadell Flashmob
    On the 130th anniversary of the founding of Banco Sabadell we wanted to pay homage to our city by means of the campaign “Som Sabadell” (We are Sabadell) . This is the flashmob that we arranged as a final culmination with the participation of 100 people from the Vallès Symphony Orches ...
  • Transcript of the Precious Metals Market Repor ...
    A transcript of Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sanders is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: The markets have been unbelievably interesting since we talked to you last. How about updating us on what’s happened to gold and silver over the last 30 days?. Fr ...
  • Bank of America Tells Gun Company Goodbye
    From Kelly D. McMillan Director of Operations McMillan Group International, LLC McMillan Fiberglass Stocks, McMillan Firearms Manufacturing, McMillan Group International have been collectively banking with Bank of America for 12 years Today Mr. Ray Fox, Senior Vice President, Market Manager, Bu ...
  • Gold Report 2012 – In GOLD we TRUST
    From the Erste Group Research The foundation for new all-time-highs is in place. As far as sentiment is concerned, we definitely see no euphoria with respect to gold. Skepticism, fear, and panic are never the final stop of a bull market. In the short run, seasonality seems to argue in favor [...]

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • The X-51A is $300 million of fun. Can we spend ...
    Summary:  We cannot find the few dollars needed to study serious threats like Climate Change and Peak Oil. But the military effortlessly obtains funds to study star travel. Our nation’s physical infrastructure rots. But the military effortlessly obtains the funds for beyond-cutting edge pr ...
  • Question time on the FM website. Post your qu ...
    Summary: It’s time again for question time — “ask the mineshaft”. In the comments post your questions about geopolitics — and post your answers to other people’s questions.  This is a community exercise, from the German “Gemeinschaft” (see Wikipedi ...
  • Freedom and justice, evicted from America, may ...
    Summary:  The America-that-once-was slowly evolves into the New America, a harsh truth cloaked in lies. We don’t want to see; we don’t want to know. Events like the affair Assange provide a magic mirror. Will we dare to look, and see what our news media and geopolitical experts will ...
  • An example of national courage, even with no n ...
    Summary:  Relations between nations usually consist of boring dances combining crass self-interest with craven obsequiousness (by small nations) or brutal assertiveness (by largers). Today we have a refreshing break in the pattern, as Ecuador defies the United States (and its tame dogs, Sweden a ...
  • Parsing Cyberwar, part 3: Patch #1 – Les ...
    Summary: In “Parsing Cyberwar – Part 3” Marcus Ranum discussed the logistical problems implicit in cyberweapons. We now have a case-study showing how quickly a new cyberweapon technology obsoletes itself.  This, coupled with the tendency of one cyberweapons’ getting burne ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Reflections on Byman’s “Breaking the Bonds”
    The incisive Daniel Byman recently published a new study with the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy entitled Breaking the Bonds between al Qaeda and Its Affiliate Organizations. This is a critical topic for the contemporary study of al Qaeda driven and inspired te ...
  • Book Review: Arms Control - History, Theory an ...
    Praeger has published a new two-volume compendium on arms control edited by Robert Williams Jr. and Paul R.Viotti. If you're writing anything on the subject of arms, weapons advocacy or national security governance Volume 1, at least, is a pretty helpful resource - especially if you have researc ...
  • Paul Ryan's "Evolving" Views on Pentagon Spending
    When Paul Ryan introduced the first "Ryan budget" last year, the one that made him the Tom Cruise teen heartthrob of conservative circles, there was some quiet consternation about his Pentagon spending proposals. Bill Kristol's colleagues at the Foreign Policy Initiative thought the nu ...
  • The US and Pakistan: A Continuing Misalliance?
    The tattered relationship between the United States and Pakistan has been patched up yet again—with the political equivalent of duct tape. A low-level Memorandum of Understanding has been signed by bureaucrats, not political leaders, to provide a diplomatic fig leaf. But basic flaws contin ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Israeli Strike on Iran, ...
    Benny Morris, “Obama’s Last Chance Before Israel Bombs Iran,” The Daily Beast, August 16, 2012. (3PA: In this piece, Morris predicts “Israel is likely to strike [Iran] before the American elections.” In July 2008, Morris boldly predicted in the New York Times, “Israel will almost surely attack I ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Trickle-Down Ryanomics
    Republicans have already gone through the five stages of grief over Paul Ryan in the week since he was chosen to be the Little John to Mitt's Romney Hood, but their outsized emotions seem to have been a waste of energy. Romney's standing in the polls is … exactly the same as it was prior to the ...
  • Friday Music Break
    For today's music break, we're slowing down the pace a little. This is Peter Gabriel looking oh so young as he does "Here Comes the Flood." YouTube tells me this is from a 1979 Kate Bush Christmas special, which sounds like it must have been both wonderful and profoundly weird. Kate BushPeter ...
  • Takes One to Know One
    Ask a political consultant, and she'll tell you that if you're a candidate running for something like the House, there's no point in putting out position papers. Sure, you want to let people know you're substantive and have thought seriously about policy, but putting it down on paper only bring ...
  • Breaking Bad TV Expectations
    Breaking Bad’s Skyler White should be taking her place as one of the most beloved TV characters of all time. Performed with vanity-free honesty by Anna Gunn, Skyler, wife of the show’s protagonist Walter White, has gone through a lot the past three seasons: discovering her husband’s secret meth ...
  • Does America Get the Campaigns It Deserves?
    I have some bad news. Chances are Mitt Romney doesn't care about you. OK, you knew that, but Barack Obama probably doesn't care about you either. Because if you read the Prospect, you're not an undecided voter, and even if you were an undecided voter, unless you live in one of a handful of stat ...

Buzzflash

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

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • My Sister Rosalind Franklin
    My Sister Rosalind Franklin: A Family Memoir 9780199699629: Jenifer Glynn – Jenifer Glynn is sister to Rosalind Franklin, whose pioneering X-ray crystallography work provide the key insights needed by Watson and Crick to unravel the double helix of DNA. Much has been written about her role ...
  • Gadget in the pan? Just add rice
    While the Gates Foundation is looking to reward new toilet designs, there is a “first-world” problem that afflicts many of us from time to time. The dreaded dropping the phone, iPod, Kindle in the toilet bowl. The whole hygiene and pathogen dissemination issue of using electronic gad ...
  • Balls. Sorry…oblate spheroids!
    The sun is just a spinning ball of hot gas, 1.4 million kilometres across. The Deceived Wisdom about spinning balls if of course that they should bulge at their equator because of centrifugal force, the fast moving matter at the equator being flung out more than that at the North or South poles, ...
  • Sciencebase new book sampler online
    Did I mention it already? I’m writing a book – Deceived Wisdom. I’ve contributed to, edited and co-authored books before, of course, most recently including “A Brief History of Science” with John Gribbin and Richard Dawkins, Oxford University Press’ “Ato ...
  • Cinnamon for diabetes
    Oh and while we’re on supposedly natural remedies against disease (how natural is processed, sweetened chocolate?), there is a nice feature article over in Science-Based Medicine [no relation, Ed] that debunks the deceived wisdom about cinnamon and its supposed benefits to people with diab ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • 838,000 Acres Protected for Jaguar
    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today formally proposed to protect 838,232 acres — an area larger than the state of Rhode Island — as "critical habitat" for endangered jaguars in southern Arizona and New Mexico.read more
  • 838,000 Acres Protected for Jaguar
    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today formally proposed to protect 838,232 acres — an area larger than the state of Rhode Island — as "critical habitat" for endangered jaguars in southern Arizona and New Mexico.read more
  • Rights Group Praises Stop and Frisk Ruling by ...
    In response today’s ruling by Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, which excluded as untested and unreliable key portions of the proposed testimony of New York City’s key witness in a class-action lawsuit challenging the NYPD&rsq ...
  • Rights Group Praises Stop and Frisk Ruling by ...
    In response today’s ruling by Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, which excluded as untested and unreliable key portions of the proposed testimony of New York City’s key witness in a class-action lawsuit challenging the NYPD&rsq ...
  • Court Upholds Harmful EPA Decision to Approve ...
    The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today dismissed challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of a partial waiver for E15 -- a 15 percent ethanol fuel blend -- allowing it to be used in light-duty vehicles manufactured beginning in 2001. read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • No Silver Medal: Mexican Farmers Battle Canadi ...
    Paul Bocking Excellon Resources ‘La Platosa Mine’, Durango, Mexico. (Photos by author)Civil disobedience has halted production at Mexico’s “top grade producer of silver.” Farmers of the La Sierrita village, a close knit co ...
  • A Strategy for Filtering America's Toxic Sludg ...
    Dan Gillmor Two years ago, in the weeks before America's 2010 elections, I suggested that the safest strategy for voters was to disbelieve all political advertising. It's even more important now. The barrage of lies and distortions ...
  • Chevron: The Toxic Threat Next Door
    Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins When the fire broke out at the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, California last week, this is what families living nearby–including some of our own staff at Green For All–experienced: Their windows rattled ...
  • Mitt’s 13% Tax
    Robert Reich 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.” (photo: Marcus Demery ...
  • A Dream Deferred?
    Michelle Chen Undocumented youth hold banner in support of the DREAM Act. (Edward Kimmel/Flickr)read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

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

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Addressing Our Looming Climate Bankruptcy
    by Frank Lowenstein and Evan Girvetz, via Planet Change In the wake of the economic crash of 2008, the resilience of millions of Americans’ personal finances collapsed in the face of unexpected stresses — loss of a job, collapse of a home’s value, decline in stock prices, or a medical emergency. ...
  • Ryan Touts Medicare Program He Wants To End At ...
    Paul Ryan doubled down on the GOP’s strategy of staying on offense against criticisms of his plan to partially privatize the Medicare program for future retirees and defended the proposal during an appearance with his 78-year-old mother in The Villages, Florida Saturday morning. Without ex ...
  • Ocean Health Study Raises Concerns, Offers Som ...
    by Ben Bovarnick A comprehensive study of global oceanic health gave the world’s oceans a score of 60 out of 100. The Ocean Health Index, produced by an international team of scientists, policymakers, and conservationists, assessed the vitality of 171 coastal countries and territorial regions in ...
  • Ohio Secretary Of State Removes Democratic Mem ...
    In a dramatic move, Ohio Secretary of State John Husted immediately suspended two Democrats on a county election board after they voted to allow weekend voting. Earlier, Husted issued a directive canceling weekend voting statewide. In 2008, Ohio offered early voting on the weekends and thousands ...
  • Open Thread Plus Climate Cartoon Of The Week
    A cyber-penny for your thoughts.

thwap's schoolyard

  • Progressive Patriot: The War on Terrorism Part I
    This is the third part of an intended series to try to come up with a positive agenda to try to make this country a better place. In a better world, I wouldn't have to even deal with trashing something as self-evidently idiotic as "The War on Terror." Alas, alack, however ridiculous it is, the W ...
  • Wall Street Trying To Give Obama a Win
    This link confirms what I already thought. US politics is a total sham and has been for over a decade. Obama is the consensus candidate for Wall Street because they know they can't get away with everything they'd like to. So, the Repugs are allowed to descend into madness with a hapless buffoon ...
  • Progressive Patriot: Quebec
    One of the oldest and biggest of Canadian political anxieties is the strife between French and English Canada. As Part II in an intended series, I'd like to describe the progressive position on this issue and contrast it with what I see as the right-wing or "conservative" opinion. As all Canadi ...
  • Progressive Patriot: The First Nations
    Maybe this will be Part I of an exciting series or maybe it'll be the latest thing that I started and then abandoned out of sheer disorganization and laziness. Who really knows? Only God knows and only God can judge me. Anyway, the point of this possible series is to articulate, as a Canadi ...
  • Garbage Pick-up Woes
    Yes! I've finally got the time to talk in detail about the pressing political-economic issues of today. Or something. Whatever. Actually, I'll just be snotty. That's all an unhinged moonbat leftist such as myself is capable of anyway. So, the first day of private garbage collection in Toronto ...

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End Homelessness | Change.org

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

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