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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

22 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

 

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Personal & Noted

Scoop - NZ

  • Euro Shorts Smell Blood
    Within the eurozone there are great stresses. At one extreme there are punitive costs of borrowing for Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Italy; at the other there is zero or negative interest rates for Germany, the Netherlands and Finland. Doubtless the first group begets the second ...
  • Job Losses Persist for the Less Educated
    After suffering the largest share of job losses in the recession, Americans with no more than a high school education have continued to lose jobs during the sputtering recovery while better-educated people have gained millions of jobs, according to a Georgetown University study.
  • Hillary in Africa
    Clinton, it is known, is a wholehearted supporter of fair and equitable trade. Like that which is practiced in Nigeria, whose oil industry is dominated by U.S. companies bringing home half of the extracted crude amounting to more than 30 billion dollars annually. For multinationals and the Niger ...
  • McCoy: Perfecting Illegality
    Her white hair peeked out from under a brilliant cerulean blue headscarf. Her lips and teeth were stained red from chewing areca nut and betel leaf, a mild stimulant favored by older Vietnamese women. She was missing her right eye. She also appeared to be in danger of floating away had a stiff ...
  • What Vikings Really Looked Like
    Unwashed, rough warriors with froth hanging out of the corners of the mouth. Popular culture portrays the Viking as a somewhat filthy person. But that's unlikely to be true: Several archaeological finds have revealed tweezers, combs, nail cleaners, ear cleaners and toothpicks from the Vik ...

Independent - London

  • Twelve years out with Parkinson's –now Michael ...
    It's back to the future for Michael J Fox, who is to revive his illness-stalled career with a new comedy sitcom on NBC.
  • Centre-left criticises 'mediocre' Hollande as ...
    President François Hollande is coming under fire from within his own camp for the first time as France prepares for a grim return from the long summer holidays.Related StoriesFrench woman in custody fight with Saudi Prince dies in fallRussian woman kills elderly neighbour with braWildfire burns ...
  • Romney's Midas touch turns up heat on Obama
    Mitt Romney, who has built his political brand partly on his record as a master money maker, is showing similar strength as a campaign fundraiser with new figures showing him opening a daunting cash advantage over President Barack Obama.Related StoriesPressure on US congressman Todd Akin grows ...
  • After devastating verdict, Pussy Riot face a g ...
    As lawyers for the jailed members of the punk band Pussy Riot prepare their appeals, the three women are gearing up to face the grim reality of two years in a Russian prison, where they will be able to meet their families and young children just once every six months, and receive phone calls on ...
  • American grandma quits Cuba swim bid
    Veteran long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad was plucked from the Florida Straits yesterday after giving up on her fourth and likely final attempt to make the 103-mile swim from Cuba to the United States.Related StoriesPressure on US congressman Todd Akin grows after rape remarkRomney's Midas touch ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Brain parasite hosted by cats linked to increa ...
    Exposure to a common parasite hosted by cats could make people more likely to attempt suicide, according to new research. Toxoplasma gondii - which can cause toxoplasmosis - is easily transmitted to humans and has already been linked to a series of personality and behavioural changes. A recent ...
  • Earliest Asian Skull Found; Likely Around 50,0 ...
    Find could lend credence to idea that man evolved in Asia, rather than Africa For scientists the evolution debate regarding man is far from over. No, not that debate -- the debate among researchers largely involves where the earliest primates (which predate the hominids that surveyed the Pleis ...
  • Woman sues City Hall for $1.7billion after rad ...
    A Santa Monica, California, woman claims that the city's new parking meters are causing her to have ear infections and tightness in her neck - so she wants the city to pay her billions for the inconvenience. Denise Barton has demanded the city pay her $1.7billion for the damage done since the ne ...
  • Heatwave Fuels Wildfires Across Southern Europe
    The Greek secret service is called in to investigate arson as firefighters tackle blazes that are raging across southern Europe. Wildfires have been spreading across southern Europe, fuelled by the hot, dry climate. Firefighters in Spain are struggling to cope with the country's worst blazes ...
  • Southern France Struggles With Extreme Heat, W ...
    French authorities are fighting wildfires, keeping an eye on isolated elderly populations and advising people to drink fluids as temperatures soar. Heat wave warnings were issued for a swath of central and southern France, from Burgundy to the Pyrenees. Temperatures are expected to reach up to 1 ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Even paranoids have enemies . . .
    ONE AND A HALF BILLION ROUNDS OF AMMO — and more — have been acquired by various domestic US Government agencies. That's enough ammo to shoot every American 5 times. Really. According to The Daily Caller's article by Major General Jerry Curry, USA (Ret.), "Who Does The Government Intend T ...
  • Seduced by the Dark Side
    I owned a book by Ferguson once. His Colossus volume about American power I picked up after a recommendation from very likable but a right leaning prof. Interesting read at the time. I ended up leaving it on a bookcase somewhere.   The Oxford and Harvard historian Niall Ferguson's spect ...
  • An anthem for our time . . .
    RAY AND DAVE tell it like it is: Low Budget. Full lyrics at the YouTube page. Cheap is small and not too steepBut best of all cheap is cheapCircumstance has forced my handTo be a cut price person in a low budget landTimes are hard but we'll all surviveI just got to learn to economizeI'm on a ...
  • The Party is not pleased . . .
    THIS IS AWKWARD: THE POLITICS OF A CHINESE ORGY, is a New Yorker post by Evan Osnos. OMG, there's a movie in it somewhere. “NAKED GUY IS NOT OUR PARTY CHIEF: LOCAL AUTHORITY” was the headline in the Global Times after the Communist Party committee in Lujiang county declared a case of mistak ...
  • American Spring . . .
    AMERICAN SPRING is a blog created by Paul Ellison, a concerned American, which itemizes most of the nefarious activity that Uncle Sugar is up to. Whether you are a donkey or an elephant, when the music stops and we look around, all of us see the same truth.They are not working for us. ...

Media Matters for America

  • "You Didn't Build That": How Fox News Crafted ...
    After weeks of Fox News pushing the dishonest "you didn't build that" attack on President Obama, the Republican National Convention will reportedly adopt the Fox News lie by adopting "We Built This" as a convention theme. Independent fact checkers have said this line of attack is dishonest.Presi ...
  • Conservative Media Dismiss Akin "Rape" Comment ...
    Right-wing media figures have downplayed and dismissed Republican Congressman Todd Akin's controversial remarks on rape and abortion, calling them "dumb" and a distraction. But Akin's rhetoric is reflected in actual policies pushed by conservatives.Todd Akin: It's "Really Rare" For "Legitimate R ...
  • NBC's David Gregory Adds To The Noise Of Medic ...
    NBC's David Gregory muddied the waters on the Medicare debate, saying that President Obama "claims that he would extend the solvency of Medicare eight years until 2024." However, this is not just a claim put forth by the Obama campaign; the Medicare Board of Trustees has estimated that Medicare ...
  • Sunday Shows Let Romney Surrogates Dismiss Pub ...
    CNN and NBC Sunday shows allowed Mitt Romney campaign surrogates to claim that the American people aren't interested in seeing more of Romney's tax returns, even as polling shows most Americans think Romney should release more of his returns. Polling Shows Most Americans Think Romney Should Rel ...
  • Just Trying To Help: Right-Wing Media's Advice ...
    Right-wing media are acting as de facto political advisers for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, offering the candidate an array of advice that includes replacing his staffers, finding "his inner pit bull," and talking more about his faith.Conservative Media: Romney Should Release Tax Returns ...

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TPM Cafe

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

  • Avoiding a 21st-Century Dust Bowl
     Mother Nature found a cruel way to demonstrate the difference between political rhetoric and reality when this summer's record-breaking drought coincided with the writing of a new U.S. Farm Bill.The House Agriculture Committee's draft 2012 Farm Bill will scrap costly farm subsidies in fav ...
  • Federal Grants Include Money to Greenwash Peri ...
     The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on August 14 announced $11 million in grants to California projects, including $640,575 for Jerry Brown's plan to build two peripheral tunnels to export more water to corporate agribusiness.The grants, awarded through the Cooperative Endangered Species ...
  • Debris Headed to a Beach Near You? Sailors Tra ...
    You can view a photo slideshow by Stiv Wilson of his journey here on AlterNet.One March 11, 2011 a tsunami devastated Japan’s northern prefectures causing one of the worst human and environmental catastrophes in modern history.  The images of chaos and destruction were broadcast ar ...
  • Photos: Tracking the Damage in Japan and Our O ...
    August 17, 2012 Water Stiv Wilson joined an expedition organized by the 5 Gyres Institute and Algalita Marine Research Foundation to sail from Tokyo to Oahu to observe and study the debris field from the tsunami which struck Japan last spring. In a new piece on Alt ...
  • Tar Sands Pipeline Construction Begins in Texa ...
    Blockaders braved a wall of bulldozers early Thursday morning and unfurled banners that warned TransCanada to expect resistance the size of Texas if the company proceeds with construction of a pipeline to carry Canadian tar sands through the region as part of Keystone XL’s has ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Today Was A Bad Air Day for US
    Today, the US Appeals Court in Washington, DC struck down an important pollution rule that would have protected up to 240 million Americans who live downwind from power plants that dump life-threatening pollution into our air like dangerous smog and soot. The divided ruling to block the Cross St ...
  • TransCanada – still a bully
    According to TransCanada, they started construction on the southern leg of their highly controvertial tar sands pipeline on August 9th, even as a trial questioning their right to use eminent domain to take a Texas farmer’s land was scheduled to be held the following day. At this time, Judg ...
  • 25 days of 100 degree weather, better than 90 ...
    Austin, Texas just hit 100 degrees today (according to weather.com). This is our 25th day of 100 degree weather this year.  That pales in comparison to 2011, where at this time last year we were counting down to breaking the previous record of 69 days of 100 degree days set back in 1925.  Austin ...
  • They tried to keep it quiet, but the Tar Sands ...
    TransCanada has begun construction of the southern Keystone XL in Oklahoma and Texas. and while they tried to keep it quiet, the Tar Sands Blockade is there to greet them. TransCanada is carelessly moving forward with construction and trying to keep it quiet. Important legal cases are still pend ...
  • Refuting Assumptions About Nuclear Waste
    The agency responsible for approving the construction of nuclear reactors may no longer be able to rely on its old “build reactors now and worry about radioactive waste later” approach. Learn more about new challenges to nuclear waste policy. For decades, nuclear reactors have been built under t ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • NASA unveils their next Mars mission
    A new mission planned for 2016 will be the first to take a look at the deep interior of the Red Planet. The dust from Curiosity's landing has barely s...
  • Man has fork in stomach for 10 years
    A man hospitalised with stomach pains was found to have had a 9-inch fork lodged inside him for a decade. Lee Gardner was rushed to hospital after suf...
  • Are robots becoming more like us ?
    How long will it be before robots and computers become capable of thinking like a human being ? On June 23rd a computer came very close to passing the...
  • Mars rover zaps rock with laser beam
    NASA's Curiosity rover debuted its ChemCam laser by firing the tool at a nearby rock called 'Coronation'. The instrument hit the rock 30 times with sm...
  • Was Da Vinci in The Last Supper ?
    Did Renaissance genius Leonardo Da Vinci paint his likeness in to one of his most famous paintings ? Art expert Ross King believes that Da Vinci used ...

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Climate

  • Low Water Strands 97 Vessels on Mississippi River
    (Reuters) The U.S. Coast Guard said on Monday that 97 vessels were stranded by low water on the Mississippi River near Greenville, Mississippi, after it closed an 11-mile stretch of the drought-parched waterway for dredging and to repl ...
  • An Unlikely Fuel Saver: Racing Cars
    (Wall Street Journal) European auto makers may turn to an unlikely source to reduce fuel consumption and pollution: gas-guzzling Formula One racing cars. The engines of these speed machines contain rotating mechanical devices called f ...
  • Indian Solar Hit by Climate Financing
    (UPI) The United States is using climate finance funds to kill India's solar power industry, says an Indian public interest research and advocacy group. Fast-start finance is a $30 billion fund set up under the U.N. Framework Conventi ...
  • China Says U.S. Support for Clean Energy Viola ...
    (Reuters) China's Commerce Ministry said on Monday the United States must cut support for six government-backed renewable energy programs or face unspecified penalties, in the latest trade dispute between the world's two largest econom ...
  • Al Gore Praises Australia on Climate Change Me ...
    (The Sydney Morning Herald) The Gillard government's carbon price has already "inspired the world" to press ahead with measures to tackle climate change, former US vice-president Al Gore says. Labelling Australia one of the "canaries ...

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Duly Noted

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

  • Will Hurricane Isaac Disrupt GOP Convention?
    As of now, the National Hurricane Center is projecting that Hurricane Issac will make landfall somewhere in South Florida on the evening of August 25th or the morning of August 26th. The Republican National Convention is scheduled to start on August 27th in Tampa. It is far too early to have a ...
  • Why Are They Picking on Akin?
    A lot of people are writing about the politics of abortion today. Mitt Romney came out yesterday and pledged that his administration would allow women whose pregnancies were caused by rape to get an abortion. That position is contrary to the Republican Party's platform. It's deeply contrary t ...
  • Independents Hate Gridlock
    If independents really feel this way, they should severely punish the Republican Party for their lockstep obstructionism over the past four years. Independent voters are not a monolithic bloc. Nor are many of them truly independent in their voting patterns, according to a new study by The W ...
  • Without MO, GOP Needs Inside Straight
    If, as now appears likely, Todd Akin remains on the ballot in Missouri, it will be very hard for him to overcome the mass condemnation of his own party. He'll also suffer from a lack of resources, as the NRSC and Karl Rove's outfit have pledged to withhold funds from the race. Claire McCaskill ...
  • Keeping Control of the Senate
    In my previous post I forgot about Olympia Snowe's seat in Maine and Richard Lugar's seat in Indiana. The Maine seat will almost definitely go to former Governor Angus King. Gov. King is an independent but he will caucus with the Democrats. So, that's a pickup of one. Polling in Indiana has ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Horrors of the Manchurian Plague in Pictures
    In the year 1910-1911, the Chinese region of Manchuria was devastated by a plague for which there was no cure and that would leave up 60,000 people dead. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • What Makes James Cameron's Mariana Trench Expl ...
    Did James Cameron inspire a new generation of scientists to pursue deep sea exploration? And why is his recent descent into the Mariana Trench a worthy task? This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Brick Makers of Andhra Pradesh
    Fleeing the effects of climate change and poverty, migrants from the Indian state of Orissa, find themselves in brick making kilns where they work in harsh conditions. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Mississippi River: The Backbone of America
    The Mississippi River and its history exemplify American commerce, as well as resiliency in the face of potential natural disasters. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 People Who Gained Extraordinary Abilities F ...
    From people who could suddenly do über-fast calculations to others blessed with artistic talent overnight, 10 People Who Gained Extraordinary Abilities From Brain Damage. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

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Green Inc. - NYT

  • Managing the Ocean for Humans and Whales
    Researchers seek the most protection for the North Atlantic's humpback whales at the least cost to the fishing and tourism industry.
  • On the Radar: Arctic Sea Ice Melt
    Next week, Arctic sea ice may melt to its smallest size since data collection began in 1979, according to the lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
  • A Whale, a Tag, a Mission
    Chugging behind a whale in an inflatable vessel, researchers may have only a precious second or two to affix an electronic tag to its glistening back. The tag precisely tracks the animal's movements.
  • On Our Radar: Making Clouds From Saltwater
    A proposal that uses futuristic ships to spray saltwater into the atmosphere, creating clouds that reflect sunlight and counter global warming.
  • Sweaty Lessons in the 'True' Cost of Construction
    Toiling with volunteers on the foundation of a straw bale house, the author absorbs a whole new environmental calculus.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

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

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  • Debating Syria
  • More Costs of War: Suicides and Mental Trauma ...
    By Ann Wright Seven months ago, in December, 2011, Brian Arredondo, age 24, hanged himself in a shed in his mother’s backyard. Brian was the brother of US Marine Corps Lance Corporal Alexander Arredondo, who was killed in Iraq in 2004. For seven years Brian had had difficulties dealing with th ...
  • Thirsting for Justice
    By Kathy Kelly At Maryhouse Catholic Worker, in New York City, word arrived, on a hot August day that, due to street construction, the water would be cut off for four hours the following day.  The Catholic Worker community serves scores of guests each day, and the water shortage would have ...
  • Syrian False Flag Planned?
      Syrian False Flag Planned?   by Stephen Lendman   Never bet against Washington's imperial plans. New tactics follow failed ones. Efforts to oust Assad continue. Proxy killers can't do it alone. They're no match against Syria's superior military strength. It's committed to rout t ...
  • Lawless National Security Letters
      Lawless National Security Letters   by Stephen Lendman   American freedom always was weak. It's now on life support. Numerous police state laws followed 9/11. Rights most people take for granted are on the chopping block for elimination.   Big Brother spying alone eroded th ...

Grist - News

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

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    By Visible When you are in control of what passes through your mind, you’re in control of your world and also the things that come and go in it. As simple as the process is, it is no easy feat because habitual patterns are habitual and that means they have a tendency to return. All [...]
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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • LEED Silver Emigration Canyon Residence is Cla ...
    Read the rest of LEED Silver Emigration Canyon Residence is Clad in Recycled Steel in Utah Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "leed", Corten steel, Daylighting, eco design, emigration canyon residence, green design, in-floor radiant heating, Recycled Materials, silver, sk ...
  • Transparent F3 House by Koh Kitayama Looks Lik ...
    Read the rest of Transparent F3 House by Koh Kitayama Looks Like a Daylight-Filled Industrial Greenhouse Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "prefabricated housing", 3F House, glass facade, greenhouse, japanese architecture, Koh Kitayama, shipping container prefab, shoji s ...
  • Harvard Stores 70 Billion Books in Record Brea ...
    DNA photo from Shutterstock A team from Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has discovered a way to store 70 billion books in a space the size of your thumbnail! Using next-generation sequencing technology, the team managed to encode the library in DNA ...
  • Stanford University’s Self-Driving Audi TTS Hi ...
    Google and Volvo‘s self-driving cars have been making headlines with the number of miles they’ve driven without a traditional driver at the wheel. Now Stanford’s Dynamic Design Lab has teamed up with Volkswagen’s Electronics Research Lab to create a self-driving Audi TTS ...
  • Patrick Blanc’s Lush Vertical Garden is a Gree ...
    Read the rest of Patrick Blanc’s Lush Vertical Garden is a Green Oasis in the Middle of Madrid Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "living wall", caixaforum, Caiza Forum, eco design, green design, Herzog & De Meuron, madrid, Patrick Blanc, self irrigating green w ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Video: Tool-Making Bonobos Give Glimpse of Hum ...
    Two bonobos living in an Iowa sanctuary have made stone tools resembling those used by our ancestors. The tools hint at untapped cognitive reserves in humanity's close relatives, who perhaps should be seen less as great apes than early humans.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Mercury ...
    If you're like us, you could look at photos of galaxies, planets, moons and nebulas all day. But you don't have all day, so let Wired Science bring you the most intriguing, beautiful or mysterious view of space we can find. We promise they will be mind-blowing and tempt you to replace your deskt ...
  • Curiosity Does the Hokey Pokey, Prepares to Tu ...
    The Curiosity rover is itching to move. Since it landed a little over two weeks ago on Mars, engineers have testing all of the probe's capabilities, most recently stretching out its robotic arm and making sure its wheels can turn.
  • Semen’s Secret Ingredient Induces Ovulation
    The fluid in semen, long dismissed as primarily a vehicle for sperm, contains a substance that can trigger ovulation and other pregnancy-supporting hormonal responses in female mammals.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Southern ...
    If you're like us, you could look at photos of galaxies, planets, moons and nebulas all day. But you don't have all day, so let Wired Science bring you the most intriguing, beautiful or mysterious view of space we can find. We promise they will be mind-blowing and tempt you to replace your deskt ...

PakAlert

  • Israel’s War Plans to Attack Iran “Before the ...
    Israel's Channel 10 suggests, in no uncertain terms, that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "determined to attack Iran before the US elections" and that the "time for action is getting closer." "Israel is now closer than ever to a strike designed to thwart Iran’s nuclear drive". This ...
  • Obama threatens to attack Syria
    US President Barack Obama has a stern warning for the country of Syria. In an address made early Monday, the commander-in-chief confirmed that he has not ruled out an offensive strike on Bashar al-Assad and his regime. Speaking from the White House, President Obama said that if Syria were to ...
  • Parents concerned that cafeteria palm scanners ...
    Mother Mamie Sonnier said that she will not allow her children to participate in the scanner payment program, alleging that the technology would imprint the mark of the beast, or 666, on their hands
  • Geoengineering clouds to slow global warming
    Researchers are taking a second look at the possibility of using futuristic ships to shoot salt water high into the sky over the oceans, creating clouds that reflect sunlight and thus counter global warming; The theory behind idea, called “marine cloud brightening,” is that adding particles, in ...
  • Congressman Bartlett: “Every Citizen Should De ...
    Outspoken in his belief that each individual American should prepare for a crisis where the government would be unable to provide for the basic needs of the national population, Bartlett has himself created a hideaway deep in the West Virginia forest. His cabin runs on independent power, he has ...

Andy Worthington

  • Parks, Water and Dreams: Photos of a Journey f ...
    Parks, Water and Dreams: A Journey from Surrey Quays to Central London, a set on Flickr. On July 19, 2012, I had been invited to The Arts Catalyst, on Clerkenwell Road, in London EC1, to speak at an event marking the sixth anniversary of the arrest of Talha Ahsan, a British citizen and a Londone ...
  • Churches, Temples, Fountains and Piazze: Photo ...
    Churches, Temples, Fountains and Piazze: The Historic Centre of Rome, a set on Flickr. In two previous sets of photos (here and here), I have covered the first two days of my two-week family holiday in Italy — with a series of photos from Rome, where we have been during this first week, be ...
  • Photos of Rome: A Storm, the Hills and the Tib ...
    Rome: A Storm, the Hills and the Tiber at Night, a set on Flickr. This is my second set of photos from my family holiday this year — in Italy, and, specifically, in Rome this week and, next week, a village in Abruzzo province. The eternal city (la città eterna) is one of the most [...]
  • Architecture on an Epic Scale: Photos of Arriv ...
    Architecture on an Epic Scale: Arriving in Rome, Visiting St. Peter’s and the Vatican, a set on Flickr. I’m on holiday right now, in Rome, an astonishing city, saturated in history, and still, of course, the centre of the Catholic church worldwide. Italy is a country that I have love ...
  • A Place to Call Home: Photos of Brockley from ...
    A Place to Call Home: Brockley from Winter to Summer, a set on Flickr. I have lived in London for 27 years, and for the last 12 years (13 in November) I have made my home — with my wife, and with the son who, prematurely, joined us shortly after moving here — in Brockley, [...]

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Ruby Ridge Carved Niche in History
    Editor’s Note: This article was first published on Aug. 19 in The Spokesman-Review, based in Spokane, Wash. The 11-day siege at Ruby Ridge began 20 years ago today, on Aug. 21, 1992. The author of this post covered the Aryan Nations and other extremist groups during his 37-year career as a repor ...
  • Kobach Tells Civil Rights Commission He’d Neve ...
    Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State and the architect of harsh, anti-immigrant laws in several states and cities, made a special trip to Hatewatch’s home state last week to testify in Birmingham before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The statutes pushed by Kobach – among them Arizona’s S ...
  • Kobach Tells Elderly White Southerners About t ...
    Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach didn’t leave Birmingham Friday after offering testimony at a contentious U.S. Commission on Civil Rights briefing on the impact of restrictionist immigration laws like those enacted in Alabama and Arizona. Instead, the nativist lawyer and author of the above ...
  • Alleged ‘Sovereign’ Cop-Killer Tried for Feder ...
    One of two antigovernment “sovereign citizens” tied to last week’s fatal shootings of two sheriff’s deputies and the wounding of two others near New Orleans had applied for a federal license to sell firearms, authorities now confirm. The man, Terry Lyn Smith, 44, appears to be the leader of a lo ...
  • Suspects in Louisiana Cop Killings May be ‘Sov ...
    State and federal investigators believe at least two of the five suspects arrested in connection with a shoot-out Thursday that killed two sheriff’s deputies near New Orleans have ties to the sometimes violent, antigovernment “sovereign citizens” movement. If so, that would mean that sovereigns ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • In Drought Crisis, Company Sees Profit Opportunity
    While the United Nations declared Tuesday that better drought strategies are needed for the world now suffering the effects of climate change, one company is acknowledging that the crisis is a perfect money making opportunity. read more
  • 240 Million Americans to Lose Protections From ...
    Up to 240 million Americans will now lose protections against dangerous smog and soot pollution, following a decision by a US appeals court on Tuesday. In a 2-1 decision the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit overturned the Environmental Protection Agency's Cross-State Air Pollution Ru ...
  • Not-So-Mighty Mississippi: Drought Pushes Rive ...
    Continued drought conditions have brought the Mississippi River to its lowest level since 1988 and have lead the U.S. Coast Guard to close an 11-mile stretch of the river, backing up traffic on the heavily used waterway. In New Orleans, the levels mean salt water is creeping into the drinking su ...
  • Record Radiation Found in Fish off Fukushima
    Fish recently caught off the shores of Fukushima have shown the highest level of radioactive caesium detected in fish and shellfish caught in Japan since the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster last year. The fish were caught 12.5 miles off the plant on August 1 and registered 25,800 becquere ...
  • Ecuadorans Rally Behind Assange, Correa over A ...
    A group of Ecuadoran natives take part in demonstrations in support of Assange in Quito on August 20, 2012 (AFP Photo / Rodrigo Buendia)Hundreds of Ecuadorans took to the streets Wednesday in support of President Rafael Correa's read more

Lifehacker

  • Control a Table Lamp with a Wave of Your Hand ...
    Clap-on lights are so 1980s. With an Arduino and some simple electronics, though, Make shows us how to control any table lamp with a seemingly magical wave of your hand. More »
  • Remains of the Day: $15 Windows 8 Upgrades Ava ...
    Microsoft begins sign-ups for $15 Windows 8 upgrade program, Google Play gift cards officially arrive, Google Search now saves your search settings to your Google account, and Skype for iOS updates with photo sharing and improved performance. ...
  • "Never Memorize What You Can Look Up in a Book ...
    We live in a time where you can look up nearly any piece of information right from your computer or phone. This quotation from Albert Einstein is arguably even more relevant today than it was in his time, keeping us productive and on task. ...
  • The White-On-Black Home Screen [Featured Andro ...
    Reader RJT Put together this monochromatic home screen with an emphasis on simplicity and eliminating distractions. Here's how to set it up. More »
  • Turn a Dresser into a Compact, Laptop-Hiding D ...
    Have limited room for a desk, but own a dresser? Problem solved! This DIY drop-down desk is perfect for dorm rooms and other small spaces, as well as cases when you want to hide your laptop away from sight. More » ...

Water Privatization

  • Gov’t eyeing privatization of water utilities, ...
    DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 August) — The public-private partnership (PPP) program of the national government and the water sector reform bills now pending in Congress are all roadmaps to privatization, employees of 10 water districts from different parts of Mindanao said. Senator Edgardo Angara ha ...
  • Pittsburgh water manager working to improve au ...
    Jim Good, executive director of the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority, plans no layoffs as he works to overhaul the city agency.
  • Five ways privatization is ruining America
    We spend lifetimes developing community assets, then give them away to a corporation for lifetimes to come
  • S'gor water war: Umno's river of CASH
    Does the Klang Valley’s water company mainly service UMNO? In the mid-1990s, then Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad ordered the privatization of a wide range of government activities from highways to airports to railways to shipyards and much more.
  • Malaysia's Murky Water War
    • (http://twitter.com/share) Does the Klang Valley’s water company mainly service UMNO?

Guardian

  • Nasa's Curiosity rover about to take its first ...
    Curiosity given instructions to make a cautious trip three metres from its landing spot and back again on WednesdayThe Mars rover Curiosity will take its first test drive on Wednesday, moving about three metres (10ft) on its own before steering back to its landing site, Nasa has said. If all goe ...
  • Centralised pay for teachers is hitting pupils ...
    Research finds average GCSE pupil's exam performance drops a grade when local private sector pay rises 10% over five yearsPupils' education is suffering because their teachers' pay is negotiated centrally, according to new research that finds a pupil's exam performance drops by an average of one ...
  • Julian Assange sex claims not a crime in Latin ...
    Rafael Correa says allegations should still be investigated but Ecuador will stand firm on asylum for WikiLeaks founderEcuador's president, Rafael Correa, has said Julian Assange should respond to the sexual assault allegations made against him by two Swedish women, even though the case would no ...
  • Haiti's National Palace to be torn down
    President's official residence, all but destroyed in 2010 earthquake, will be demolised by Sean Penn charityHaiti's crumpled National Palace will be torn down, with demolition work to begin in the next 10 days on the building all but destroyed in the 2010 earthquake, the country's government has ...
  • Mitt Romney calls on Todd Akin to quit Missour ...
    Romney says Missouri congressman should step aside, but Akin ignores deadline to abandon Senate bidTodd Akin, the Republican congressman at the centre of a row over remarks he made about rape, ignored a direct appeal from Mitt Romney to abandon his campaign for a Missouri Senate before a key ele ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • NWC Applauds First SEC Whistleblower Award
    Under a new program championed by the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) to reduce securities fraud, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today announced its first whistleblower award of nearly $50,000. The SEC's announcement is the mark of success for its new Whistleblower Program, w ...
  • Why Retaliation is a Company "Felony"
    By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash (and former chief compliance and ethics officer at two leading multinationals). Follow her on Twitter @DonnaCBoehme. “One way or another, I'm gonna find ya' I'm g ...
  • Blood Medicine tells the story of Mark Duxbury ...
    Kathleen Sharp's book about pharmaceutical whistleblower Mark Duxbury will be released in paperback on September 1, 2012. It is Blood Medicine: Blowing the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever. I had the pleasure of interviewing journalist Kathleen Sharp on November 15, 2011.& ...
  • Evans wins remand from ARB
    My client, Doug Evans, just won a remand from the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB). In a rare en banc decision, all five ARB judges joined in holding that Iqbal and Twombly do not apply to OSHA whistleblower complaints. Thus, the ARB's 2010 decision in Evans' case is final ...
  • This Week on Honesty Without Fear
    Tune in tomorrow at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. Richard Renner interviews Professor Richard Moberly of the University of Nebraska College of Law about his recent law review article, "Sarbanes-Oxley's Whistleblower Provisions - Ten Years Later." Pro ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Screwing Students Through Pointless Textbook B ...
    While some schools and teachers are looking for ways to make education, and especially textbooks, cheaper for students, others seem bent on doing everything possible to keep prices artificially high. Because colleges essentially have the textbook market cornered, they can require students to pur ...
  • Saudi Cleric Weighs In On The Sin Of 'Buying T ...
    It's no secret that it's possible to "buy" Twitter followers. This has always seemed to be a particularly pointless activity, but apparently it's common among some people who seem to feel the size of their Twitter following means something. That said, according to a Saudi Cleric, such activity ...
  • Debunking The Myth That The Internet Generatio ...
    If you just listened to the popular press pushing stereotypes, you might think that kids these days can't think in complete sentences, let alone read anything longer than 140 characters (oops, this post is too long!). And, of course, there are a few luddites out there who keep insisting that th ...
  • DailyDirt: Cheaters Never Prosper?
    It's hard to really know how many cheaters are actually caught taking shortcuts. Generally, people assume that the ones who get caught are representative of all cheaters -- but maybe the smart cheaters are never caught... and really do prosper. Here are just a few known cheaters... and not all o ...
  • SXSW Panel On The New Era Of Tech & Innovation ...
    It's that time of the year again when SXSW does its annual "panelpicker" effort. I'm on one of the proposed panels, put together by Engine Advocacy, discussing the new era of tech advocacy by looking at the political landscape after the 2012 elections and how startups, entrepreneurs, open innov ...

VacTruth

  • A Parent’s Guide: What to do if Your Chi ...
    Over the years various medical doctors, attorneys, and parents have been seeking information about medical tests that could indicate a causal relationship between vaccines and their ingredients and the severe reactions. This Guide was vetted for accuracy, including omission of relevant informati ...
  • False Accusations of Child Abuse After Vaccine ...
    There are a growing number of parents who have been falsely accused of child abuse. Many of these cases only occur after parents mention that their child first became ill after they received a routine vaccination.
  • Vaccine Research Creating Virulent Strains
    When sanitation, clean water, and better nutrition were introduce into the jam-packed, filthy cities in Europe and the United States, smallpox decreased on its own, long before the modern pharmaceutical smallpox vaccine even came on the scene.
  • Bombshell Interview Reveals DNA Fragments Disc ...
    This interview reveals how DNA fragments were discovered 6 months after a young woman was vaccinated.
  • Your Child Does NOT Have To Be Vaccinated To A ...
    As you’re going over your child’s back-to-school list, there’s one thing you can cross off: vaccines.

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Racist senior rabbi may decide whether Israel ...
    Haaretz reports: Senior defense officials have recently been visiting the ultra-Orthodox Shas party’s spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, to discuss a possible Israeli attack on Iran. Some want the 91-year-old rabbi to support it, others to oppose it. At least one visit, in which the rab ...
  • A lynching in Jerusalem: Anatomy of Jewish racism
    Jesse Benjamin writes: The news of an attempted mob lynching in Jerusalem’s Zion Square is trickling into Western news sources. It has been translated from angst-filled Hebrew-language Facebook pages written by eyewitnesses, stunned and harassed first responders, and translations gleaned from Ha ...
  • Hedges and Sacco: A twenty-first century Ameri ...
    A world of hillbilly heroinThe hollowing out of America, up close and personalBy Chris Hedges Illustration by Joe Sacco During the two years Joe Sacco and I reported from the poorest pockets of the United States, areas that have been sacrificed before the altar of unfettered and unregulated capi ...
  • In Iraqi town where Saddam Hussein was capture ...
    The Washington Post reports: Alaa Namiq doesn’t want to talk about it. Or he’s dying to. It’s hard to tell. One minute he’s shaking his head, stone silent. Then he starts bragging about it and he won’t stop talking. “I dug the hole for him,” he says, his eyes burning with pride. “The hole,” know ...
  • Afghanistan’s peace hopes may rest on Taliban ...
    Reuters reports: In the cloistered circles of the Taliban high command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar had no equal. As military chief of the hardline Islamic movement that once ruled Afghanistan and was ousted by a U.S.-led alliance, he oversaw the campaign of ambushes and roadside bombings that pr ...

Watts Up With That?

  • An active tropical Atlantic
    The big worry of course is Tropical Storm Isaac, which may collide with Florida this coming week, just in time for the Republican National Convention in Tampa Monday. This from NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center The Atlantic Ocean is kicking into … Continue reading →
  • NOAA releases tranche of FOIA documents &#8211 ...
    Guest post by Christopher Horner, CEI. Today, NOAA finally delivered thousands of pages (hard copy, oddly, despite our request for electronic copies) of additional records that had been withheld during the deliberations over what to produce for a thorough FOIA … Continue reading →
  • Climate FAIL: GISS is presenting 2012 US tempe ...
    Like the erroneous graph at California Governor Jerry Brown’s climate denier slam site,  here’s another one of those things that I’ve been sitting on for about a week, waiting for somebody to fix it. Since they haven’t, and I’ve given … Continue reading →
  • And it’s gone…Governor Brown&#8217 ...
    Sunday, I point out the glaring error in California Governor Jerry Brown’s website with a climate time-series that only showed 1/3 of the year, January-April: I got an email for the direct of the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research … Continue reading →
  • Hurricane Warning; McKibben Alert
    With Joe Bastardi stating an opening for a east coast hurricane is possible the next three weeks, it might be timely to submit this semi-humorous look at the dangers of an east coast hurricane versus the dangers of heeding Bill … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Aging heart cells rejuvenated by modified stem ...
    Damaged and aged heart tissue of older heart failure patients was rejuvenated by stem cells modified by scientists, according to research presented at the American Heart Association’s Basic Cardiovascular Sciences 2012 Scientific Sessions. “Since patients with heart failure are norma ...
  • Rabbits kept alive by oxygen injections
    Rabbits with blocked windpipes have been kept alive for up to 15 minutes without a single breath, after researchers injected oxygen-filled microparticles into the animals’ blood. Oxygenating the blood by bypassing the lungs in this way could save the lives of people with impaired breathing ...
  • Successful transplant of patient-derived stem ...
    Stem cells from patients with a rare form of muscular dystrophy have been successfully transplanted into mice affected by the same form of dystrophy, according to a new study published June 27 in Science Translational Medicine. For the first time, scientists have turned muscular dystrophy patien ...
  • Calcium: Good; Calcium Supplements: Not So Much
    After years of hearing that we should consume more calcium and supplement our diets with calcium pills, a new study questions that advice and suggests that calcium supplements may increase the risk of having a heart attack. Calcium supplements have been widely accepted by physicians and the publ ...
  • Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Apple Patent Lets Users Skip Ads
    Apple has been granted a patent enabling users to sidestep unwanted advertisements automatically, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) said.
  • Europe’s ATV-3 Space Freighter Adjusts Space S ...
    Europe’s ATV-3 unmanned resupply spacecraft raised the International Space Station (ISS) orbit to about 415 kilometers, a mission control spokesman said on Wednesday.
  • Russia to Build New Space Plant
    A space satellite manufacturing plant will be built in the town of Shchyolkovo, just outside the Russian capital, Moscow Region Governor Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday.
  • International Space Station Orbit to be Readjusted
    Specialists of the Moscow Region-based Mission Control Center will on Wednesday carry out two maneuvers to readjust the orbit of the International Space Station, a spokesman for the center said.
  • Russia’s ISS Crew Members Complete Spacewalk
    Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Yury Malenchenko completed a six-hour spacewalk having carried out all planned maintenance tasks on the International Space Station (ISS)

Pruning Shears

  • Rallying for Aramark Laundry Workers
    The Immigrant Workers Union (UTI) Local 229 held a rally at an Aramark uniform service facility in Madison to bring to light the abuses being committed by management against the laundry workers they employ.     The workers, formerly organized under UNITE, are now organized under the& ...
  • Fighting fracking: introverts edition
    One of the biggest threats fracking poses to the environment is the way it endangers the water supply. It does so in several ways, one of which has large-scale implications. Global impact like that is a little unusual; environmental issues are more likely to be local. Whether it’s frack ...
  • Hiram residents attempt to ask questions about ...
    Thursday’s post on Hiram’s public fracking meeting mainly covered residents’ interaction with local officials. The bigger part of the meeting, though, featured two speakers with ties to the oil and gas industry. A representative from the company Mountaineer Keystone (MK) made ...
  • Hiram residents seek local control on fracking
    On Tuesday the town of Hiram held a public meeting with representatives of the company Mountaineer Keystone (MK). MK, a subsidiary of First Reserve Corporation, is set to begin fracking operations in Hiram next month. The company is a bit of an enigma; for one, it does not appear to have a web ...
  • Quantifying the impact of the Republican agenda
    I attended a local government meeting earlier this month in order to keep up with the latest on fracking in our town. Something else interesting happened as well. The meeting began with a budget review. Budget reviews are long and drawn out affairs even when they’re not, if you know wha ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Stop Syngenta's New Insecticidal GMO Bt Corn!
    Click here to read this article
  • Monsanto Genetic 'X-Ray Glasses' Speed Tastier ...
    Doug Heath, a tomato breeder for Monsanto Co. (MON), offers visitors juicy slices of Cherokee Purple, a delicate variety with a sweetness and acidity he's trying to replicate in hardier commercial fruit. "We want to see these in the stores more than one month a year," Heath told visitors this m ...
  • Pro-GMO Propaganda in California Dismantled by ...
    Opponents of GMO labeling say it will raise food costs by hundreds of dollars per family when in fact it will likely cause NO cost increase at all!Click here to read this article
  • Former McDonald's Honchos Take On Sustainable ...
    The big dude with the tattoos and a bad case of five o'clock shadow served up a plate of roasted kabocha squash, organic brussels sprouts, and free-range chicken breast. None of this would have been worth noting had the dish been just another locavore delicacy, prepared by just another hipster c ...
  • Widely Used Pesticide Seems to Harm Boys' Brai ...
    A widely used pesticide - banned in homes but still commonly used on farms - appears to harm boys' developing brains more than girls', according to a new study of children in New York City.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Ten Maryland Educators Will Implement Food Sys ...
    Today, the Center announced the 10 winners of the Teaching the Food System (TFS) Grants for Educators program. The funds will help teachers implement innovative food systems–related projects in conjunction with the TFS curriculum, which they will integrate into their high school classrooms. All ...
  • “Project Corner Store:” Youth Make Muscle Broccoli
    Just another day in the office? We wish!
  • The 2012 Farm Bill: Evolution or Devolution?
    With no agreement between the two branches of Congress, farmers suffering from the severe drought will not receive the aid they desperately need any time soon. And, with Congress officially away on summer recess, no further forward momentum will occur until they return in September. And so, we c ...
  • An Interesting Eggs-perience
    I thought it was particularly intriguing that the discussion in the hearing, while under the guise of improving animal welfare standards, focused primarily on the complex economics of egg production.
  • Why Must the USDA Flip-Flop on Meatless Monday?
    The really sobering piece is the hypocrisy. Within the last two years, USDA issued a very clear set of recommendations for a healthy diet. These dietary guidelines suggest increasing the amount of fruits and vegetables in a weekly diet, and the guidelines are designed to improve public health an ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Are Waterworlds Planets in Transition?
    the amount of water delivered to a potentially habitable planet depends, in this scenario, on the presence of giant planets and their orbits. ( the heat moderating effect of water leads to http://clivebest.com/blog/?p=3659 negative feedback to warming Submitted by John Farnham to Science & T ...
  • Assange 'Arrest Threat' Ahead Of Asylum
    Ecuador accuses Britain of threatening to arrest the Wikileaks founder in its embassy ahead of a decision on his asylum request.....took refuge in the embassy two months ago to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he faces questioning for alleged sexual mis Submitted by John Farnham to World &nbs ...
  • Is Karl Rove Still the GOP's Puppet Master?
    According to Craig Unger's new piece at Vanity Fair, "Karl Rove has become the ultimate party boss." the new political landscape can be boiled down to a single equation: The Democratic Party vs. Karl Rove. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it! &n ...
  • Syrian War: The Prequel
    2007 New Yorker Article Exposed US-Israeli-Saudi Conspiracy to Overthrow Assad. Muslim Brotherhood and various "hardline" sectarian political factions sweeping into power in the wake of the US-engineered "Arab Spring feigning anti-Israeli and anti-Western Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...
  • The future may well be electric for COMCAR fleet
    THE FEDERAL government will consider using electric cars for MPs, following COMCAR's two-week trial of vehicles supplied by Melbourne-based consortium EV Engineering. Submitted by John Farnham to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Surveillance unit produced no terrorism leads, ...
    ShareThisSurveillance unit produced no terrorism leads, NYPD says --The NYPD's Demographics Unit was put together with the CIA's help. 22 Aug 2012 A controversial NYPD surveillance unit that cataloged information on Muslim communities never produced a lead that linked to a potential terrorist pl ...
  • Armed Wash. man arrested for alleged Obama threat
    ShareThisArmed Wash. man arrested for alleged Obama threat 22 Aug 2012 The Secret Service on Tuesday arrested a Washington state man accused of making an email threat against President Obama and brandishing a shotgun at officers who came to his door. Anton Caluori, 31, was arrested at an apartme ...
  • Netanyahu 'determined to attack Iran' before U ...
    ShareThisNetanyahu 'determined to attack Iran' before US elections, claims Israel's Channel 10 --TV reporter adds: 'I doubt Obama could say anything that would convince PM to delay a possible attack' 20 Aug 2012 Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "is determined to attack Iran before the ...
  • Rocket attack damages top US general's plane i ...
    ShareThisRocket attack damages top US general's plane in Afghanistan 21 Aug 2012 A rocket attack on the US-run Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan has inflicted damage on the aircraft used by Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey. According to authorities, two rockets were ...
  • US assassination drone strike kills three in n ...
    ShareThisUS assassination drone strike kills three in northwestern Pakistan 21 Aug 2012 A US assassination drone strike has killed at least three people in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region. The unmanned aircraft reportedly fired four missiles at a house in North Waziristan on Tuesday. Since ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Dakota Meyer blasts Army brass in new book
    21 August 2012 By Dan Lamothe - Staff writer Posted: Monday Aug 20, 2012 14:53:32 EDT WEST MILFORD, N.J. — During one of the Afghan war’s ugliest battles, Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer was nearly taken prisoner at gunpoint but fended off his would-be captor by beating him to death with ...
  • ISAF Joint Command morning operational update: ...
    UNCLASSIFIED 2012-08-S-041 For Immediate Release ISAF Joint Command morning operational update KABUL, Afghanistan (August 21) – An Afghan and coalition security force conducted an operation in Watahpur district, Kunar province, yesterday. During the operation, the security force conducted a ...
  • MEDEVAC Issues
    20 August 2012 This is a bit technical, but of interest to the MEDEVAC community: J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2012 Aug;73(2 Suppl 1):S32-7. Impact of critical care-trained flight paramedics on casualty survival during helicopter evacuation in the current war in Afghanistan. Mabry RL,  ...
  • War Is Not Necessarily the Cause of Post-Traum ...
    20 August 2012 An interesting study of Danish troops and PTSD has been released.  (Link at the bottom.)  An informed group of people was talking about it on a private forum, where I saw this comment from Robert Goldich.  Mr. Goldich is smart and experienced, and so I normally sto ...
  • Dishonorable Disclosures
    19 August 2012 Many people have alerted me to a copyright violation of my work in this video. Thank you. There is a clear violation. And for that, for starters, I could demand that the video be removed from the Internet until my work is removed. Refusal to do so could have serious consequences ...

The Killing Train

  • Haiti's New Dictatorship - Book Tour in November
    Hi everyone, In case you didn't notice the new tab above, my first book, Haiti's New Dictatorship, is set to come out at the end of October. I will be doing talks about the book all over Canada and probably in NYC in the US as well. Check the book tab for updates on the book tour. It's in the p ...
  • Paraguay: Weaving Peoples Resistance Against C ...
    Hello friends. We at En Camino put this together and it has gathered signatures since the coup. We are hoping to work together to find ways to support FDD in the coming weeks and months. -Justin ------- The undersigning organizations, collectives and individuals working towards a coordinated ini ...
  • The International Organization for a Participa ...
    I joined the International Organization for a Participatory Society. read more
  • Curuguaty and the Paraguay Coup
    When the landless peasants of the Carperos Campesino Movement moved on to the 70,000 hectare ranch in Curuguaty registered to Blas Riquelme, they would have known that they were risking their lives. Using the same successful methods as elsewhere in Latin America, perhaps most famously by the Lan ...
  • Help that hurts: An interview with Tim Schwart ...
    First published on ZNet, March 18, 2012 Tim Schwartz is an anthropologist with extensive experience in the foreign aid sector in Haiti. He is the author of the book, Travesty in Haiti, and of an upcoming book studying the nature and problems of the ways nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) opera ...

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Burmese troops, student army engage in brief fight
    The All-Burma Students’ Democratic Front in northern Burma’s Kachin state said its troops clashed with government forces on 18 August after being attacked
  • Rising tides wreak havoc across countryside
    Flooding across Burma has destroyed thousands of acres of farmland and families are struggling to find food and clean water. In some areas the waters show signs of receding but in others a months worth of flooding threatens to destroy livelihoods.
  • Htay Oo: ‘Those who are cooperating now want r ...
    Union Solidarity and Development Party’s secretary general Htay Oo sat down with DVB’s Khin Maung Win to discuss reform within the country and his party and how the USDP evaluated their losses in April’s by-elections I think it was two months ago, the president said that ‘hardliners’ ...
  • US, watchdogs call for abolishment of censor board
    The US and media watchdog organisations welcomed Burma's announcement that it has abolished pre-publication censorship, but called on the nation to go further by abolishing its censor board
  • Burma abolishes pre-censorship, but forbids cr ...
    The Burmese government announced on Monday that it has abolished pre-censorship of its media, but local papers say they have been issued a strict set of guidelines that forbid them from criticising the state

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Maritime Labour Convention to go into effect i ...
    [JURIST] The UN International Labor Organization (ILO) [official website; press release] announced Tuesday that the Maritime Labor Convention, 2006 [text] has received its final two required ratifications and will go into effect in 12 months. The Convention is a comprehensive range of labor stan ...
  • Tasmania legal panel proposes ban on circumcisions
    [JURIST] The Australian state of Tasmania moved closer to passing a ban on circumcision [NIH backgrounder] after the Tasmania Law Reform Institute (TLRI) [official website] issued a report [text, PDF] on Tuesday recommending that the state ban circumcision except for well-established religious a ...
  • Wisconsin AG to ask state Supreme Court to rei ...
    [JURIST] Wisconsin Attorney General JB Van Hollen [official website] announced [press release] on Tuesday that he will ask the Wisconsin Supreme Court [official website] to overturn an injunction barring enforcement of the state's voter identification law [text, PDF] in advance of the November e ...
  • South Korea rejects Japan proposal to have ICJ ...
    [JURIST] The government of South Korea on Tuesday rejected a proposal [press release] by Japan to have the International Court of Justice (ICJ) [official website] resolve an ongoing territorial dispute between the two countries regarding a group of islands to which each nation claims possession. ...
  • Federal judge rules priests not Vatican employ ...
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Oregon [official website] ruled in favor of the Vatican on Monday by holding that priests are not employees of the Holy See [official website], the ecclesiastical, governmental and administrative capital of the Roman Catholic Church. ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Josh Trevino Redux
    For those of you out there who can’t get enough of mindless Islamophobic racism, I’ve got more of Josh Trevino’s Greatest Hits and Tweets served up by Beyond Compromise.  These particular tweets mostly revolve around the Mavi Marmara massacre, though it should be said that Trev ...
  • Israeli Attack on Iran:1948, 1967 or 1973?
    Thanks to Prof. Yoav Peled for entrusting this essay to me for publication here.  In it, he critiques an interview Ehud Barak (cloaked under the pseudonymous moniker, “Decision-Maker”) gave to Haaretz in which he argued that an upcoming Israeli war against Iran should be seen in the ...
  • Israeli Cyber-War Against Iran
    The leaked Israeli government document I published last week is a sales pitch outlining Israel’s putative attack on Iran.  It would begin with a massive cyber-attack: “The Israeli attack will open with a coordinated strike, including an unprecedented cyber-attack which will totally paralyz ...
  • GOP Israel Junket Features Nude, Drunken Swim ...
    Any of you old enough to remember Wilbur Mills late night drunken dip in the Tidal Basin with Fanny Fox are gonna love this story.  Last summer, Eric Cantor boasted that he would bring the largest Congressional junket to Israel ever.  He did, bringing 80 House members.  Aipac funded each tour me ...
  • Former IDF Intelligence Chief Attacks Barak an ...
    Haaretz reports that Brig. Gen. Uri Saguy, former chief of military intelligence (Aman), has launched an attack on the credibility and Iran war plans of Defense Minister Ehud Barak: Saguy, who was head of the IDF’s Operations Directorate during the first Lebanon war and MI chief from 1991 ...

If Americans Knew

  • Ethan Bronner's Conflict With Impartiality
    Ethan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Israel-Palestine. It is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesn't; what goes in a story and what gets cut.
  • Beware of the BBC
    Stuart Littlewood highlights the BBC's chronic pro-Israel bias, from allowing untruths about Israel's onslaught on Gaza in 2008-09 to go unchallenged, to its failure to provide accurate context about the Israeli township of Sderot, to its routine willingness to give disproportionate airtime to I ...
  • Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
    And there is another aspect of Israel's growing high tech sector that he understandably chose to ignore because it is extremely sleazy. That is the significant advantage that Israel has gained by systematically stealing American technology with both military and civilian applications. The US dev ...
  • New Booklet: Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
    International security and counterterrorism expert Philip Giraldi argues that Israel's flourishing high tech industry is built on widespread theft of American research. This has undermined American companies and endangered American security.
  • How to Contact the US Government and Media
    Contact information for the U.S. government and media.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • The State Decoded, Now Solr-Powered
    The State Decoded project is putting U.S. state laws online, making them easy to search, understand and navigate. Our laws are organized badly, but The State Decoded is reorganizing them automatically, connecting people with the legal information they need with the ease of a Google search. In ...
  • How Wikipedia Manages Sources for Breaking News
    Almost a year ago, I was hired by Ushahidi to work as an ethnographic researcher on a project to understand how Wikipedians managed sources during breaking news events. Ushahidi cares a great deal about this kind of work because of a new project called SwiftRiver that seeks to collect and en ...
  • What's Next for Ushahidi and Its Platform?
    This is part 2 in a series. In part 1, I talked about how we think of ourselves at Ushahidi and how we think of success in our world. It set up the context for this post, which is about where we're going next as an organization and with our platform. We realize that it's hard to understand j ...
  • How User-Centered Design Powers FrontlineSMS, ...
    I'm going to be honest: When I first joined FrontlineSMS, I had no idea how much goes into the design of software. Every screen, every button and every function has principled thought behind it. In 2011, we worked alongside Gabriel White, a user experience designer from Small Surfaces, ...
  • How the Knight Lab's Babl App Helped Lollapalo ...
    This post was written by Jordan Young of the Knight News Innovation Lab. This past weekend marked the annual music carnival known as Lollapalooza" held in Chicago's Grant Park. As you'd expect, close to 100,000 people attending a large event can generate a lot of hot conversations on soci ...

Cutting Edge News

  • After Fukushima - Mutant Fukushima Butterflies ...
    Researchers who collected and studied 100 pale grass blue butterflies from the Fukushima prefecture following last year’s nuclear meltdown have discovered serious mutations resulting from exposure to radiation. The butterflies, which were collected two months after the March 2011 earthquake an ...
  • Turkey on Edge - Turks Fear “Kurdish Springâ€�
    Turkish forces have launched a major offensive in recent days against positions held by the PKK rebel movement in the area of the Turkish-Iraqi border. Up to 2,000 troops are taking part in the operation, according to Turkish media sources.Turkey’s Interior Minister, Idris Naim Sahin, claimed ...
  • The Race for Solar - Tigi Solar Honeycombs Kee ...
    Israel is the land of milk and honey –– and solar water heaters. Practically every roof in Israel is fitted with a solar thermal collector to warm water for endless hot showers and hot water for the kitchen sink.Taking the idea of solar thermal hot water heaters to the next level is Tigi Sol ...
  • The Edge of Terrorism - Clarify U.S. Policy on ...
    For the past two years, the Obama Administration has pursued on-again, off-again reconciliation talks with Taliban leaders in an effort to bring an end to the Afghan war. As part of this process, it has wrestled with how to handle the Haqqani network, a Taliban affiliate organization headquarter ...
  • Ethiopia on Edge - Ethiopian Premier Meles Zen ...
    Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has died at the age of 57 after months of speculation about his health. State-run television announced his death on August 21, saying he died from a sudden infection late on August 20 while at a hospital abroad. Meles had been suffering from an undisclosed i ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • What Surprises to look for at the GOP Convention
    It starts Sunday night in Tampa; 2,286 delegates and 2,125 alternate delegates from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories will gather together to nominate their choice for president of the United States at the 40th Republican National Convention. Conventio ...
  • Shhh! Please Don't Mention Bain in Front of Obama!
    The President and the committee to reelect the President (CREEP) love to use Bain Capital as the root of all evil.  If you believe the CREEPYs, those vampire capitalists at Mitt Romney's old company killed a laid off steelworker's wife, put millions of people out of work and quite possibly ...
  • Newsbusted: Liberals Outraged at FRC Shooter-- ...
    As most of you know, last week a gay rights activist shot and wounded a security guard in front of the Family Research Council offices claiming he did not like the group's politics. It now turns out that the shooter's fellow liberals were very upset with the shooter. Not because he shot guard&nb ...
  • New Book Claims Obama Didn't Have Guts to Get ...
    "You can wipe the rest of your life Mister, you will never wipe off that yellow stain"-Jose Ferrer in the classic movie Caine Mutiny If any politician deserves the credit for sending the Navy Seals after Bin Laden it is Hillary Clinton not Barack Obama. That is according to a new book ...
  • Does Akin Have to Go?
    To be honest I have written this post a few times struggling to find the right answer.   Congressman Akin said something horribly stupid and offensive yesterday It seems to me first of all from what I understand from doctors that's really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, t ...

The Real Agenda

  • France to subsidize jobs for young people
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 21, 2012 The government led by Francois Hollande will offer subsidized employment to young people for periods that will vary between one and three years. The French Minister of Labour, Michel Sapin, has indicated that the French government wil ...
  • Rothschild bets on the Euro zone Collapse
    Meanwhile, financial publications forecast a Greece style rescue for Spain. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 21, 2012 If there was any doubt on anyone’s mind that the Euro zone will collapse, this is the time to change your mind. Not only is the main stream media predic ...
  • James Hansen Alarmed over Inexplicable Global ...
    By WND | AUGUST 20, 2012 While NASA climate alarmist James Hansen insists record summer heat and drought are caused by man-made global warming, leaked internal emails from just three summers ago reveal that he and his colleagues expressed alarm that the planet was inexplicably cooling. Hans ...
  • European Central Bank to Gain control of 6,000 ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 20, 2012 The European Central Bank will “supervise” 6,000 banks in the euro area, including savings banks and regional German public banks, but the degree of direct supervision may vary depending on the banks and the involvement of ...
  • Why are they Manipulating the Weather?
    The most dangerous weapon is not nuclear, chemical or biological, it is the weather. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 20, 2012 The weather is changing and the effects of such change have been felt by millions already. But this drastic change in weather is not a result of anth ...

Wind Watch

  • Protesters vow to keep fighting despite verdict
    NEWPORT – The protesters arrested on Lowell Mountain for unlawful trespass were found guilty by a jury Wednesday evening after a day-long trial. The protesters were on Lowell Mountain where Green Mountain Power (GMP) is constructing a wind turbine farm. The self-proclaimed “Lowell Six” say they ...
  • Idle Kahuku wind farm still costing ratepayers
    Hawaii ratepayers are on the hook for $2.4 million in infrastructure costs for Oahu’s Kahuku wind farm, even though it’s only produced a fraction of the energy it was expected to and is now shut down due to a fire that devastated its battery storage facility earlier this month. During the first ...
  • Wind-power agenda fuels CMP increases
    On July 1, most of Central Maine Power’s customers unknowingly suffered a 19.6% increase in electrical transmission rates. If they did notice the shocking increase to their electric bill, they most likely failed to connect the rate hike with the aggressive agenda to push wind power in Maine. The ...
  • Buddhist monks flee ‘health risk’ ...
    They have lived in peaceful seclusion in a Scottish forest for more than 25 years. But now Buddhist monks claim they are being driven out by plans for a wind farm nearby. They are leaving their world-famous retreat because they say that the 71 turbines will shatter their peace, making meditation ...
  • County will take more time to study windmills
    The Carroll County Board of Supervisors has elected to take more time to gather information regarding utility scale windmill projects in Carroll County. During a public hearing on the matter Aug. 13, the board heard from 11 citizens, with the majority of the speakers opposing windmills in Carrol ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Indiana Schools Pressure Parents Not to Choose ...
    “Struggling Indiana public school districts are buying billboard space, airing radio ads and even sending principals door to door in an unusual campaign aimed at persuading parents not to move their children to private schools as the nation’s largest voucher program doubles in size.” ...
  • Coping with Disappointment
    The inability or unwillingness of governments to adjust to changing conditions ultimately results in forcing people to do things against their will in the attempt to achieve the impossible.
  • Whipping the Fast Ox
    In his book, The Commanding Heights, Daniel Yergin discusses China’s long march toward free markets that began soon after Mao’s death.  Discussion within the Communist Party included this assessment of progressive taxation: t was argued that the way the state collected revenues from enterprises ...
  • Jittery Nerves Send Oil Prices Skyward
    “World oil prices rose Monday, with New York crude reaching the highest level for three and a half months. . . .” (Reuters) Supply and demand. FEE Timely Classic “Rising Prices: The Market’s Way of Conserving Oil” by Jorge Amador
  • Not Better Off, Most Voters Say
    “In USA TODAY/Gallup survey nationwide and in the 12 top battleground states, most voters say the situation for them and their families hasn’t improved over the past four years, the first time that has happened since Ronald Reagan famously posed the question in his debate with Presid ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • To say that people must never revolt violently ...
    The question is not if it is ever justified.  The question is when. The credible threat of revolt was understood by America’s founders to be necessary for liberty to exist, just as they understood that standing armies were a great threat to liberty and that eternal war is the graveyard of ...
  • Horse to water
    People need to be taught by cops, with tazers and billy clubs, pepper spray and tear gas, rubber bullets and lead.  By bailiffs and homelessness, hunger and fear, humiliation and misery, and by the loss of their dreams. The political system is broken, the legal system is a farce. The descent int ...
  • Assange and Wikileaks: the basics
    Sigh, read the actual accusations.  They have been translated into English.  The accusation would not amount to rape in Britain, Canada or the US.  They best wording I can think of is “sexual misconduct”.  They are also, straight up, he said, she said, and rest entirely on credibilit ...
  • Pinochet had women raped by dogs and Britain w ...
    Yes, he did. So I don’t want to hear anything from Britain about how important extradition is to them or how important rape accusations are.
  • Pinochet had women raped by dogs and Britain w ...
    Yes, he did. So I don’t want to hear anything from Britain about how important extradition is to them or how important rape accusations are.

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • America's Baby Bust: How The Great Recession H ...
    At the turn of the century, America’s biggest advantage was its relatively vibrant demographics. In sharp contrast with its major competitors — the E.U., Russia, China, Japan — the United States had maintained a far higher birthrate and rate of population growth. But the 2010 Census ...
  • Form Follows Zoning
    When Louis Sullivan, purveyor of modern American high-rise architecture, said more than 100 years ago that ‘Form Follows Function’, he perhaps didn’t realize the extent to which building form would not be determined only by building type and the laws of physics, but by zonin ...
  • Cities of Aspiration
    Drew Klacik’s recent post on how he ended up in Indianapolis got me thinking about the unique status of what I’d describe as “cities of aspiration.” Pretty much all cities seem to be reasonably good at attracting people in the following cases: 1. Recruiting someone to a specific career or ...
  • Why I Do Live in Indianapolis
    When a friend constantly tells you how much he or she likes you and then one day says, “But I’d never live with you,” the predictable reaction is to feel hurt and angry. That’s how I felt when The Urbanophile posted “Why I Don’t Live in Indianapolis.” But last night, while riding my bike on one ...
  • Is California the New Detroit?
    Most Californians live within miles of its majestic coastline – for good reason. The California coastline is blessed with arguably the most desirable climate on Earth, magnificent beaches, a backdrop of snow-capped mountains, and natural harbors in San Diego, Long Beach and San Francisco. The ...

GM Watch

  • Landmark ruling against agrochemicals in Argen ...
    1. Cordoba: conviction for spraying pesticides 2. A landmark ruling against agrochemicals in Argentina receives mixed reactions NOTE: An Argentine criminal court has ruled in the case of the two GM soy producers and the crop spraying pilot accused of spraying pesticides that harmed the health o ...
  • Brazil court rules Nestle must label GM ingred ...
    1. Brazil court rules that Nestle must label transgenic ingredients 2. GMOs written on the label NOTE: A Brazilian court has forced the multinational food company Nestle to label GM ingredients in food products, in conformance with a Brazilian law (item 1) that says all food products containing ...
  • Campaign against Monsanto begins in Paraguay
    1.Campaign against U.S. Multinational Company Begins in Paraguay  2.No more restrictions to transgenic corn EXTRACT: The Health and Social Welfare Ministry's Aug. 6 approbation of the consumption of genetically modified corn VT Triple Pro, produced by US-based transnational corporation Monsanto ...
  • Monsanto making crops more vulnerable to drought
    1.Superinsects Are Thriving in This Summer's Drought 2.Illinois Researcher Confirms Rootworm Resistance To Monsanto Corn Trait EXTRACT: While the company peddles such flimflam, its ubiquitous products are making US crops more, not less, vulnerable to drought during the worst dry spell in a gene ...
  • Important interview with Chair of Parliamentar ...
    EXTRACT: How was unanimity achieved on this sensitive subject among the 31 committee members representing different political parties and ideologies? We wanted to make an objective report. We invited those in favour of GM crops, including Monsanto, and those who were not. We visited five States ...

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Cryptogon

  • Skilled Work, Without the Worker
    Via: New York Times: The next generation of robots for manufacturing will be more flexible and easier to train. Witness the factory of Tesla Motors, which recently began manufacturing the Tesla S, a luxury sedan, in Fremont, Calif., on the edge of Silicon Valley. More than half of the building i ...
  • Suicide of Deloitte Partner Daniel Pirron Link ...
    Via: Telegraph: The family of a senior partner at Deloitte has called for answers after he apparently committed suicide days after the auditing firm was linked to the Standard Chartered Iran dollar trades scandal. Daniel Pirron, a partner in Delloite’s key General Counsel’s office in New York, w ...
  • Water Shortages Hit U.S. Power Supply
    Via: New Scientist: As the United States’ extended heat wave and drought threaten to raise global food prices, energy production is also feeling the pressure. Across the nation, power plants are becoming overheated and shutting down or running at lower capacity; drilling operations struggl ...
  • Genetically Engineering ‘Ethical’ ...
    Via: Telegraph: Professor Julian Savulescu said that creating so-called designer babies could be considered a “moral obligation” as it makes them grow up into “ethically better children”. The expert in practical ethics said that we should actively give parents the choice ...
  • Cows Eating Second Hand Candy During the Drought
    Via: WPRI: Ranchers have struggled with skyrocketing corn prices, because the drought has made feeding their livestock very expensive. But one rancher has turned to a very sweet solution. At Mayfield’s United Livestock Commodities, owner Joseph Watson is tweaking the recipe for success. &# ...

The Economic Collapse

  • More Than Half Of All Americans Are At Least P ...
    A very large segment of the population has figured out that it can use voting as a tool to get more money and benefits from the government, and that is a very dangerous thing.  Once upon a time, the free market was the one that distributed nearly all the wealth in our system.  Bu ...
  • Jacob Rothschild, John Paulson And George Soro ...
    Are you willing to bet against three of the wealthiest men in the entire world?  Jacob Rothschild recently bet approximately 200 million dollars that the euro will go down.  Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson made somewhere around 20 billion dollars betting against the U ...
  • Startling Evidence That Central Banks And Wall ...
    If you want to figure out what is going to happen next in the financial markets, carefully watch what the insiders are doing.  Those that are "connected" have access to far better sources of information than the rest of us have, and if they hear that something big is coming up th ...
  • 22 Stats That Show How The Emerging One World ...
    For decades our politicians have promised us that the "free trade" agenda would bring us greater prosperity than ever before.  They insisted that merging our economy into the emerging one world economy would cause millions upon millions of new jobs to be added to the U.S. economy ...
  • The Mississippi River Is Drying Up
    The worst drought in more than 50 years is having a devastating impact on the Mississippi River.  The Mississippi has become very thin and very narrow, and if it keeps on dropping there is a very real possibility that all river traffic could get shut down.  And considering the fa ...

Desertification

  • WITH DROUGHT INTENSIFYING WORLDWIDE, UN CALLS ...
    New York, Aug 21 2012  2:05PM More consolidated efforts to combat the threat of climate change and counter its ripple effects on global food security are needed amid an intensifying global drought and increasing temperatures worldwide, the United Nations <”http://www.wmo.int/pages/medi ...
  • Plantas transgénicas resistentes à seca (Peabirus)
    Read at : http://www.redepeabirus.com.br/redes/form/post?topico_id=41330 Investigadores brasileiros criam plantas transgénicas resistentes à seca Carla de Pádua Martins por Fabiane Roque, agência Lusa Investigadores brasileiros estão a testar em laboratório plantas transgénicas capazes de resist ...
  • Opuntia (nopal) : staple food with potential h ...
    Read at : http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingtheplanet/nopal-prickly-and-slimy-with-a-medicinal-kick/?utm_source=The+Nourishing+the+Planet+Project&utm_campaign=290eb998ed-NtP_Draft_2_5_11_2012&utm_medium=email Nopal: Prickly and slimy with a medicinal kick By Eun Jae Park The nopal ca ...
  • Stopping Drought and Desertification (Green Pr ...
    Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/2012/08/a-12-step-program-to-stopping-drought-and-desertification/ A 12 Step Program to Stopping Drought and Desertification Soaring temperatures and low precipitation could not occur at a worse time for many farmers in the United States, and around the worl ...
  • Analyzing pollen in sediments and fluctuations ...
    Read at : http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/geowissenschaften/drastic_desertification_200857.html Drastic Desertification Over the past 10,000 years, climate changes in the Dead Sea region have led to surprisingly swift desertification within mere decades. This is what researchers f ...

The Paper Trail

  • About this story
    Our story about dangers in the commercial fishing industry was jointly reported by the Center for Public Integrity, WBUR in Boston and NPR News. 
  • IMPACT: OSHA's 'model workplace' program needs ...
    So-called “model workplaces” that won exemptions from regular inspections will now face greater scrutiny, amid concern over deaths and safety breakdowns at some plants held up as industry leaders.A report suggesting reforms, from a task force of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administra ...
  • Secretaries of state lead charge for strict vo ...
    A number of activist secretaries of state are dramatically changing a once non-partisan job that involves supervising elections.Some have supported partisan legislation. Some have endorsed or advised their party’s candidates. In 36 states, the secretary of state also holds the title of chief ele ...
  • INTERACTIVE: Get to know the secretaries of state
    Around the country, 36 secretaries of state also serve as their state’s chief election official. They come from diverse professional and political backgrounds, differ on endorsing candidates while in a nonpartisan office, and are making more headlines as election systems in many states are being ...
  • Judicial candidates vulnerable to outside spending
    Weeks before the March primary, Aurelia Pucinski looked like a shoe-in for a 10-year seat on Illinois’ highest court. Polls published in the Chicago Sun-Times had her up by 20 points a month before the Democratic primary. The daughter of a famous Illinois congressman, she also had great name re ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Dieppe and the Lost Myth
    By Montreal Simon It was good to see that some of the soldiers who took part in the Dieppe Raid were able to make it back to that bloody beach today. And that so many people in the town turned out to greet them like heroes. I’m also glad that we may finally know the [...]
  • That’s Canada Shop
    We’re delighted to introduce backofthebook.ca‘s new That’s Canada Shop, featuring Canadian books and music in all categories, with more products on their way. Get your Canada on, while you support independent journalism.
  • The Plan, Part Deux
    By Frank Moher Previously on The Plan, I explained why, despite the depredations of the current federal government, the Canadian political universe is unfolding as it should — or at least as I’d hoped it might when I was a young journalist lost in the conservative wilderness in the 1 ...
  • The Plan
    By Frank Moher As we enjoy, if that’s the word, the second summer of the Harper majority, I’m pleased to say The Plan is working. The Plan, of course, is the one I hatched back when I was working at Alberta Report in the 1980s. AR, some of you will know, was the conservative newsweek ...
  • McDonald’s: Some secrets should be kept
    By Mark Leiren-Young Did McDonald’s have to tell us what they put in their special sauce? Couldn’t they have just said, “May contain nuts, chlorine and anything else that may set off your allergies” and keep us guessing? Unless someone posted the recipe on Wikileaks, did they have to tell us abo ...

libcom

  • On the Politics of Protest in Cape Town
    Jared Sacks on popular protest, disruption, and violence in South Africa in the wake of the Lonmin Massacre. The City of Cape Town is currently being rocked by a spate of road blockades and other significant protests. Certain liberal ...
  • Umshini Wam
    Chris McMichael on the Lonmin Massacre. 'Umshini Wam' is Jacob Zuma's trade mark song. It means 'bring me my machine gun'. “There’ll be civil war, said Johnny. Civil fucking war, that’s what there’ll be. I sai ...
  • Senzeni Na?
    A beautifully written piece on the Lonmin massacre by Chris Rodrigues. 'Senzeni na?' is the name of a very mournful struggle song in South Africa that means 'What have we done?' By the time you read these words, th ...
  • The Marikana mine workers massacre – a massive ...
    2012-08-17-cfakepathsipho-lonmin-706-410.jpg Ayanda Kota from South African shack dwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo reports on the background to the massacre of striking mine workers at Marikana ...
  • Alexey Polikhovich - third anarchist, remanded ...
    Alexey Polikhovich was arrested in the evening of 25th of July, his house was searched and his computer was confiscated. Investigative committee of the Russian Federation is suspecting Alexey of having committed crimes according to parts 2 and 3 of the statute 212 of the criminal codex of t ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Update on the IRS Rebate to Aliens Scandal
    The followup to this story is even more “shocking” not so much “disappointing”. In a simple nutshell, the IRS is absolutely not necessary if the U.S. Treasury printed and circulated  our currency freely and WITHOUT USURY (aka Plunder) as the Founding Fathers outlined in t ...
  • The PRIVATE (for Profit) Corporation Called th ...
    This is an incredible video series, friends.  A MUST WATCH!!  As you view this wonderful expose of the IRS by Indiana’s Eyewitness News team, keep the following FACTS in mind: 1. The Federal Reserve is a private  corporation consisting of 13 families – the majority of which are not e ...
  • General Richie On Freedom
    Freedom – what does it really mean?  To General Steve Richie, the word means much more than it does to the average American. This is a great video – listen carefully to his closing words.  
  • From the W.A.R. (Witness Actual Reality) Room
    Just like the false-flag bombings of OKC and NYC, there is so much the media is NOT reporting. Here is an eyewitness coming forward to tell the truth about the Sikh Temple shooting in Wisconsin. Clearly, it was not the work of a single, lone, NUT gunman.  Far from it.  (Let’s see how long ...
  • From the W.A.R. (Witness Actual Reality) Room
    Just like the false-flag bombings of OKC and NYC, there is so much the media is NOT reporting. Here is an eyewitness coming forward to tell the truth about the Sikh Temple shooting in Wisconsin. Clearly, it was not the work of a single, lone, NUT gunman.  Far from it.  (Let’s see how long ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
    Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.
  • NAGUIB SAWIRIS
    Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
  • Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...
    In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.
  • Alison Redford, Premier of Alberta (Nov. 19)
    Premier of Alberta, Alison Redford discusses her hopes for the province's future and the challenges she faces in the Keystone pipeline project.
  • Robbie Robertson, Musician and former member o ...
    Rock icon Robbie Robertson talks with Peter about life in the industry, his decision to stop touring 25 years ago and how his Jewish and Aboriginal roots drove his music career.

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

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

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Shale Growth in other Nations: How Realistic i ...
    American leadership in developing horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing used in shale oil and gas plays is spreading around the world making it possible to extract previously uneconomic oil and natural gas resources from shale.  These resources are often called unconventional because ...
  • Debunking 6 myths about smart meters
    Courtesy of the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative, here are facts about smart/digital meters and six commonly circulated myths — debunked.1. Smart meters are less accurate than analog meters.Public service commissions require meter manufacturers to supply independently certified testing results ...
  • Cultural signaling and energy
    An image that struck me recently and has stayed with me since was a license plate.
  • What’s Worse for the Smart Grid – Failures of ...
  • Do We Humans Really Need External Energy?
    Strange as it may seem, humans seem to have evolved in a way that we have a need for external energy, such as energy from burning wood or fossil fuels. While the evidence is not 100% certain, it appears that we learned to use fire long enough ago that it is now  necessary for our food to be ...

EU Times

  • Ultra-compact Hiriko Fold to go on sale next year
    Researchers have designed a new car that can fold up to fit itself into small spaces, making it much easier for the driver to find a parking space. Developed by MIT’s Changing Places group and the Spanish Basque region’s development agency DENOKINN, the Hiriko Fold, is an ultra-compa ...
  • Pentagon reveals DARPA’s creepiest spy robot yet
    Researchers at the Pentagon’s DARPA lab are always on the lookout for new, exciting scientific marvels to creep out everyone on Earth. In their latest effort to do as much, they’ve succeeded with a small, color-shifting soft-shell robotic snail. Researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Proje ...
  • Researchers Develop New Pain-Free Ways to Make ...
    Dr. Erin Giudice, a pediatrician at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, proposed a new way to coerce parents into giving their children vaccinations: a clear, dissolvable patch that will elevate fears associated with needles. Pharmaceutical corporations, the US government and research ...
  • US Veteran put in psych ward for 1 month over ...
    Brandon J. Raub has been ordered to stay in a mental health institution for a month without charge – and contrary to the American constitution, his defense says. His supporters are concerned any American could end up in Raub’s shoes. ­US police detained Raub, 26, a Marine Corps veteran, on Thurs ...
  • Man ruled innocent by US judge still in prison
    A young American man who has wrongly spent 13 years in a US prison is still incarcerated despite being declared innocent by a federal judge two years ago. Daniel Larsen was sent to prison for 27 years to life under California’s controversial three strikes law, after he was found guilty of ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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

Groklaw

  • Google: We are so over patents, especially in ...
    After fighting the patent battle of the decade in court with Oracle, Googlers are getting publicly fed up with software patents as a whole. Conceptually, they just don't jive with innovation, two prominent Googlers have said recently.... In a chat with a Google rep, we learned that the company p ...
  • Why Apple Might be Better Off Losing Its Paten ...
    "It could hurt Apple," he writes, "because the real threat is not a competitor beating Apple at its own game but instead changing the game." "The likelihood of Apple being leapfrogged or a rival creating a new category is greater if they have to think outside the box," he adds, "If they just co ...
  • Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple?
    If you go back to the mid-1990s, there was their famous "look and feel" lawsuit against Microsoft. Apple's case there was eerily similar to the one they're running today: "we innovated in creating the graphical user interface; Microsoft copied us; if our competitors simply copy us, it's impossib ...
  • Patent Pounding
    Here are some of Apple's innovations: making computers that aren't scary, creating MP3 players that work, re-inventing phones and inventing tablets, making retail stores that people camp out to get into, and using patent litigation the way that Bruce Lee used his feet. ...So what should we want ...
  • Google: Time to ditch our current software pat ...
    Google suggested today that it might be time for the U.S. to ditch software patents. "One thing that we are very seriously taking a look at is the question of software patents, and whether in fact the patent system as it currently exists is the right system to incent innovation and really promo ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Mamas and Papas – Creeque Alley (with commentary)
  • Eleven reasons Todd Akin didn’t quit
    Salon explains the reasons, noting that Akin could still win,and why not having support of the big hitters in the party doesn’t matter to him.Plus, he’s a stone cold ideologue.Missouri politicians who have in the past tried to negotiate with Akin describe it as sort of like trying to ...
  • Republicans aching for Todd Akin to drop out
    Republicans want Todd Akin to drop out yet just approved a platform “calling for a Constitutional amendment outlawing abortion with no explicit exceptions for cases of rape or incest” which certainly is about as extreme as it gets. No word on their thoughts on, say, the sanity and me ...
  • Crowdfunding meets 3D printing for guns
    The Wiki Weapon ProjectHelp develop and spread a CAD file for a 3D printable plastic firearm! Fight for the civil right of self-defense supported by the free Internet!Via Global Guerrillas 
  • Man who armed Black Panthers was FBI informant
    The man who gave the Black Panther Party some of its first firearms and weapons training – which preceded fatal shootouts with Oakland police in the turbulent 1960s – was an undercover FBI informer, according to a former bureau agent and an FBI report.

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Gluckman on science and the environment
    Professor Peter Gluckman, the Prime Minister’s science advisor, delivered a speech today about “Bringing science and policy together for good environmental outcomes”. While he touches on many issues some positive others not so much I wanted to focus on a particular issue he addresses. Part way t ...
  • Responding to the two global crises: thoughts ...
    This piece was originally produced for the UN Association of Australia Conference, Brisbane, August 2012 Humanity today faces the first truly global crisis in its 5,000-year political history.  As we enter the Anthropocene: -       Our ecological footprint, surpassing Earth-share (bio-productive ...
  • Family Court – Fundamental protection
    Currently the Courts in Auckland are in a real mess, due to a completely bungled new system for processing Family Court cases.  The Law Society is saying that In some cases protection orders aren’t being served, cases are being delayed and case files are being sent to the wrong places. They are ...
  • Wondering how well-behaved we might be: reflec ...
    There was an exchange in the House last week that occasioned some media interest and concern from the public. It took the form of some theatrical antics by cabinet minister Paula Bennett, which prompted a rebuke from the Speaker, Dr Lockwood-Smith.  Likening the behaviour of a cabinet minister t ...
  • The “Black Drain” Bill
    A couple of weeks ago I had another Bill drawn from the Members ballot, my total is 4 so far. This Bill titled the Resource Management(Restricted Duration of Certain Discharge and Coastal Permits Amendment Bill  is about the long term desecration of a river. The Bill would change one clause in t ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Anemia Drug Made Billions but at What Cost?
    By Dr. Mercola Three anemia drugs -- Epogen, Procrit and Aranesp -- have been among the best-selling prescription drugs in the United States for years, generating more than $8 billion a year for their makers, Amgen and Johnson & Johnson. They were blockbuster drugs that stimulate you ...
  • Is Dentistry Finally Entering the 21st Century?
    By Dr. Mercola Dentists who use mercury fillings claim that amalgam is safe because it's been used for 150 years. More accurately, dental amalgam is a Civil War relic, hardly a point in its favor. It is no better, nor safer,  than other discarded  medical practices like bleeding pat ...
  • Small Farmers of Heritage-Breed Pigs Under Att ...
    By Dr. Mercola The vast majority of the nearly 66 million pigs raised for food in the United States are born and raised in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs),1 where they are subject to extreme mental and physical anguish, not to mention subject to incredibly unhealthy practic ...
  • Surprise! Vitamin D Can Help or Hinder Your We ...
    By Dr. Mercola Vitamin D, once thought to influence little more than bone diseases such as rickets and osteoporosis, is now recognized as a major player in overall human health. Most recently, new studies suggest that your vitamin D status can even help or hinder your weight management, which ...
  • Which Oil Will Help You Absorb Nutrients Better?
    By Dr. Mercola You're probably aware that in order to absorb all of the extremely healthy fat-soluble nutrients in your food, compounds like lutein, beta-carotene and vitamin E, for instance, you've got to eat them with some fat. So perhaps you always add olive oil to your salads or eat your ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Nasa spiritual leader shot dead at point blank ...
    Nasa Indians in Colombia have been caught in the violent crossfire of Colombia's military and illegal armed groups© Francisco PedroA 74-year-old Nasa Indian leader has been shot dead following protests against the militarization of his land in Cauca, south-west Colombia. Lisandro Tenorio, ...
  • Proof ‘Death Road’ will destroy Peru’s unconta ...
    Tomas was contacted over ten years ago. He lives close to the proposed ‘Road of Death.’© David Hill/SurvivalControversial plans to build a ‘Road of Death’ through Peru’s Amazon have been dealt a severe blow after authorities confirmed uncontacted tribes do live along its proposed route. This la ...
  • Brazilian judge halts illegal and controversia ...
    Widespread protests have made the Belo Monte dam notorious.© Atossa Soltani/ Amazon WatchA Brazilian judge has ordered work to be suspended on a highly controversial dam in the Amazon, describing the project’s failure to properly consult the indigenous population affected as ‘illegal’. Followin ...
  • Exposed: Spanish tycoon’s role in destruction ...
    Jacinto Rey González is one of Spain's richest men – and President of a ranching firm implicated in the illegal destruction of the Ayoreo's land.© AnonOne of Spain’s richest men has been implicated in the illegal bulldozing of a South American forest where the last uncontacted Indians ...
  • Full-scale gun attack on Brazilian Indians end ...
    The violent attack has left the Guarani afraid and angry, but determined to remain on their land.© Aty Guasu/SurvivalMore than 50 gunmen have launched a full-scale attack on an Indian community in southwest Brazil, shooting, threatening and then reportedly kidnapping one of their leaders. The v ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • James (Replies) (re-replies)
    I had a bit of a brain fart last night and while reinstalling Mozilla (videos haven't and still don't play) I deleted all my bookmarks. So the posts may be a bit more simplistic and lacking in links than they have been lately. I'm slowly scrolling through my older FWO posts and re bookmarkin ...
  • Prop. 37: Will California Be First State To La ...
    from csmonitor.com: Another multimillion-dollar fight over a ballot initiative – with big implications for the country – is brewing here in California. The initiative, which is on the ballot this November, has a mouthful of a name: the “California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act. ...
  • WHY in the World are They Spraying? FULL LENGT ...
    from farmwars.info: The long awaited film, “WHY in the Word are They Spraying?” has finally been released. The reviews from those who have seen the film have been incredible. Because of this, we are expecting “WHY in the World are They Spraying?” to revolutionize the environmental movement and ...
  • How Fructose Turns ON Your “Fat Switch”
    from mercola.com: If you have ever struggled losing weight and keeping it off, you already know what a challenge that can be. Dr. Richard Johnson, chief of the Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension at the University of Colorado has published hundreds of articles and two books on this topic ...
  • Cows Eating Second Hand Candy During the Drought
    from cryptogon.com: Ranchers have struggled with skyrocketing corn prices, because the drought has made feeding their livestock very expensive. But one rancher has turned to a very sweet solution. At Mayfield's United Livestock Commodities, owner Joseph Watson is tweaking the recipe for success ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • More Than Half Of All Americans Are At Least P ...
    A very large segment of the population has figured out that it can use voting as a tool to get more money and benefits from the government, and that is a very dangerous thing.  Once upon a time, the free market was the one that distributed nearly all the wealth in our system.  Bu ...
  • Jacob Rothschild, John Paulson And George Soro ...
    Are you willing to bet against three of the wealthiest men in the entire world?  Jacob Rothschild recently bet approximately 200 million dollars that the euro will go down.  Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson made somewhere around 20 billion dollars betting against the U ...
  • Startling Evidence That Central Banks And Wall ...
    If you want to figure out what is going to happen next in the financial markets, carefully watch what the insiders are doing.  Those that are "connected" have access to far better sources of information than the rest of us have, and if they hear that something big is coming up th ...
  • 22 Stats That Show How The Emerging One World ...
    For decades our politicians have promised us that the "free trade" agenda would bring us greater prosperity than ever before.  They insisted that merging our economy into the emerging one world economy would cause millions upon millions of new jobs to be added to the U.S. economy ...
  • The Mississippi River Is Drying Up
    The worst drought in more than 50 years is having a devastating impact on the Mississippi River.  The Mississippi has become very thin and very narrow, and if it keeps on dropping there is a very real possibility that all river traffic could get shut down.  And considering the fa ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Diana... campaigning to highlight humanitarian ...
    With whistleblowers in the news, we thought it might be a good time to revisit what must have already been seen by millions around the world - lest we forget. Now, we already knew about Diana's campaign to ban anti-personnel landmines and the high profile campaigns the she undertook in Bosnia ...
  • Who was the enemy? Well, the enemy... is YOU.
    Without delving into Wikileaks or the findings of conspiracy researchers, architects and engineers and their findings on 9/11 and 7/7... ...we do have some facts. FACT: Al-Qaeda, Robin Cook told us before he was bumped off died while out walking in the woods up a mountain were the Mujahedi ...
  • Quote of the Day: 19th August 2012
    "Unfortunately, there’s a long history of whistleblowers being smeared and charged with crimes unrelated to their whistleblowing, because, obviously, it’s quite difficult for states to convict people for telling the truth about state misdemeanors. So what you do is you frame them with other char ...
  • Willie's Wee Wiki-mess
    Wee Willie Winkie - Foreign Secretary William Hague (or 'Obama's Chihuahua' as we're now calling him in these parts) - hasn't half blundered himself into another fine pickle of a mess over Julian Assange. A Day In The Life... Wee Wilie's Foreign Office The state of play goes like this... ...
  • "Leftist" extremist rag The Independent causes ...
    Through an article which, had anyone on "the right" written it would have been condemned as "racist" and "xenophobic", the "leftist", "ManBearPig" worshippers of The Independent have seemingly caused grave offence in Greece. GreekReporter.com condemns an The Independent article, published thi ...

Facing South

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Why Were U.S. Intelligence Facilities in an &# ...
    When the terrorist attacks began on September 11, 2001, numerous U.S. intelligence agencies and facilities that should have been closely following the catastrophic events taking place in the skies over America were unaware that anything was wrong. Because of their particular responsibilities and ...
  • Goat Boy Country and the Worlds Beyond
    By Visible When you are in control of what passes through your mind, you’re in control of your world and also the things that come and go in it. As simple as the process is, it is no easy feat because habitual patterns are habitual and that means they have a tendency to return. All [...]
  • NaturalNews exclusive: US government developin ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) The U.S. government is making steady progress on a game-changing technology that would give it the most powerful weapon ever devised in the realm of cyber warfare and information dominance. The weapon is called a “prime-factoring quantum compu ...
  • And Now Facebook’s Bankers Are Divvying ...
    By Henry Blodget Wall Street bankers were paid extremely handsomely to sell the $16 billion of stock they sold on the Facebook IPO. Specifically, they were paid $176 million in fees. (Investors who bought Facebook’s stock on the IPO, meanwhile, have since lost $8 billion). But that was onl ...
  • How to Make a Penny Can Stove

Veterans Today

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

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Persian Gulf: Next Step In U.S. Global Missile ...
    Voice of Russia August 20, 2012 ABM in Qatar: American way to control the ‘axis of evil’ Standard Missile-3 launch ==== [T]here is a contingency plan in the Pentagon of invading and striking Iran’s nuclear installations. In this sense the Iranian air defense is much stronger th ...
  • String of Military Bases: Pentagon’s Scr ...
    Frontline August 25-September 7, 2012 This time for Africa John Cherian The United States makes a scramble for the African continent to set up a string of military bases U.S. troops at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti ==== The regime change in Libya has been a feather in the cap for U.S. military plan ...
  • Johann Gottfried Herder: Hardly dare name or w ...
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Johann Gottfried Herder Letters for the Advancement of Humanity From Letter 119 Translated by Michael N. Forster War, when it is not forced self-defence but a mad attack on a peaceful, neighboring nation, is an inhuman, worse-than-anima ...
  • Russia, China: Bypassing UN Rules Is Impermissible
    RT August 21, 2012 Russia, China say bypassing UN rules is ‘impermissible’ Russia and China have jointly called for other nations to strictly observe the UN charter and the international law after the US said it would bypass the UN in its actions on Syria. “Russia and China have very reliable cr ...
  • U.S. Stoking China-Japan Tensions Over Islands
    Xinhua News Agency August 21, 2012 U.S. should cease to stoke tensions over Diaoyu Islands            By Liu Chang ==== Intentionally ignoring the articles written in the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation, which stipulate that Japan must return all land ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • 1st Amendment Violated as Facebook Assists Pol ...
    By Susanne Posel theintelhub.com August 22, 2012 On August 16th former US Marine Brandon Raub was arrested for posting his opinion about the US government on his Facebook page . Raub is currently being held in a psychiatric ward. In a statement by Raub, he explains : “I’m currently in John Rando ...
  • False Flag Fires! The Rise of The Phoenix
    PressForTruth | In every government and every civilization that has ever existed it has always been the authoritarian ruling cabal who benefit from horrendous acts of violence.
  • Scientists Demonstrate Ability to Accurately P ...
    By Madison Ruppert theintelhub.com August 21, 2012 Mobile devices are quickly becoming one of the most powerful tools for surveillance evidenced by the breakthroughs in ultra-precise location tracking technology, enabling citizen spying through so-called “soft control” techniques and even microc ...
  • Cops Interrogate Family For Allowing Kids To P ...
    Social services harass mother for having ‘free range’ children By Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Tuesday, August 21, 2012 A family has been harassed by social services and police for the egregious crime of allowing their children to play outside in another example of how the nanny state is runn ...
  • Jacob Rothschild, John Paulson And George Soro ...
    By Michael Snyder The Economic Collapse Aug 21, 2012 Are you willing to bet against three of the wealthiest men in the entire world?  Jacob Rothschild recently bet approximately 200 million dollars that the euro will go down. Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson made somewhere around 20 b ...

FRS

  • George Jackson, US political prisoner and Blac ...
    [In 1970--one year before he was killed by San Quentin prison guards--George Jackson wrote:"We have a momentous historical role to act out if we will. The whole world for all time in the future will love us and remember us as the righteous people who made it possible for the world to live on. If ...
  • NYPD Official Admits Spying On Muslims Didn&#8 ...
    [An oppressive dragnet of surveillance, harassment, stalking, and ostracism, this CIA/NYPD program of racial/religious profiling has been conducted and budgeted under the phony guise of "homeland security" and "criminal justice" -- but its just Islamophobic repression without a shred of evidence ...
  • Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interv ...
    from Thinking Africa: Fanon 50 years later Nigel Gibson was interviewed by Yasser Munif in Jadaliyya:  “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 movement ...
  • Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interv ...
    from Thinking Africa: Fanon 50 years later Nigel Gibson was interviewed by Yasser Munif in Jadaliyya:  “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 movement ...
  • The Marikana Mine Worker’s Massacre – a ...
    by Ayanda Kota, in the Thinking Africa: Frantz Fanon blog 8 August 2012 It’s now two days after the brutal, heartless and merciless cold blood bath of 45 Marikana mine workers by the South African Police Services. This was a massacre!  South Africa is the most unequal country in the world. The a ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • The Army's Quick Fix for Soldier Suicides: Ant ...
    The U.S. Army tallied 38 confirmed or suspected suicides among its ranks last month--that’s among both active- and non-active-duty members including the Army National Guard and Army Reserve--the highest rate of suicide within the branch yet observed, further underscoring a mental health crisis ...
  • Autotransfusion Device Collects Stray Blood Du ...
    Massive blood loss, known as MBL in the medical world, is a major cause of death during cardiac surgery--and an accepted one, because it's the best option we have. Blood transfusions help, but those aren't without complications, either. A new device could cut that step out of the process for so ...
  • Distant Red Giant Caught Devouring One of Its ...
    Astronomers have glimpsed the first evidence of a dying star devouring one of its planets, a fate that may await the inner planets -- including Earth -- in our own solar system. The star in the new study swallowed its planet as it mushroomed into a red giant. The star, BD+48 740, is older than ...
  • Rape Results In More Pregnancies, Not Less
    Fact-checking Todd Akin As you've probably heard by now, in an interview Sunday, Missouri Representative and Republican Senate nominee Todd Akin said he believed that rape-related pregnancy was "really rare." He continued by saying that, "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to t ...
  • Army Sends Mobile 3-D Printing Labs to Afghani ...
    3-D printing has yielded items both fascinating and potentially troubling. Now we can add one more to the list of printed achievements: The U.S. Army has had a rapid prototyping wing for some time, and now they've deployed full teams--complete with scientists and 3-D printers--to Afghanistan. T ...

Veterans Today

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

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Myanmar, a Real Frontier Market for Visa Payments
    I suppose it's not quite on par with operating a payments system in North Korea, but this is as close as it gets in Southeast Asia as the American multinational corporation Visa is set to enter Myanmar. With many Western firms looking enter to re-enter the till recently off-limits nation due to ...
  • The Fading Dream of Yuan-Yen Direct Exchange
    One of the things people unfamiliar with currency markets do not fully appreciate--and these include poo-bahs alike Fred Bergsten of the Peterson Institute of International Economics--is that all currency pairs involve the US dollar and something else. To change Japanese yen into Chinese yuan fo ...
  • Speculation, Food Prices & Firm Reputation Risk
    In any number of commodity classes, there is the accusation that speculators and other sorts of profiteers are driving up prices to a degree unwarranted by economic fundamentals. You often hear this with regard to oil, but it's also an accusation heard with regard to foodstuffs as their prices h ...
  • Would Korea Have Developed Following World Bank?
    Although more than a few colleagues tend to view the World Bank in quite a negative light no matter what they do, I have come to a more ambivalent position. (Newer readers should note potential conflicts of interest since they gave me not-insubstantial prize a few years back when I was still a P ...
  • Assange's Last Stand: 'Internet Freedom' Revisited
    Now this is more like it: diplomatic intrigue, a kooky character, lurid accusations...and American baddies to boot (the last does "Diddley" Bo Xilai one better). The New York Times has a--how should I put this...piquant account of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange holed up in the Ecuadorean emb ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • More Than Half Of All Americans Are At Least P ...
    A very large segment of the population has figured out that it can use voting as a tool to get more money and benefits from the government, and that is a very dangerous thing.  Once upon a time, the free market was the one that distributed nearly all the wealth in our system.  Bu ...
  • Jacob Rothschild, John Paulson And George Soro ...
    Are you willing to bet against three of the wealthiest men in the entire world?  Jacob Rothschild recently bet approximately 200 million dollars that the euro will go down.  Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson made somewhere around 20 billion dollars betting against the U ...
  • Startling Evidence That Central Banks And Wall ...
    If you want to figure out what is going to happen next in the financial markets, carefully watch what the insiders are doing.  Those that are "connected" have access to far better sources of information than the rest of us have, and if they hear that something big is coming up th ...
  • 22 Stats That Show How The Emerging One World ...
    For decades our politicians have promised us that the "free trade" agenda would bring us greater prosperity than ever before.  They insisted that merging our economy into the emerging one world economy would cause millions upon millions of new jobs to be added to the U.S. economy ...
  • The Mississippi River Is Drying Up
    The worst drought in more than 50 years is having a devastating impact on the Mississippi River.  The Mississippi has become very thin and very narrow, and if it keeps on dropping there is a very real possibility that all river traffic could get shut down.  And considering the fa ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Ultra-compact Hiriko Fold to go on sale next year
    Researchers have designed a new car that can fold up to fit itself into small spaces, making it much easier for the driver to find a parking space. Developed by MIT’s Changing Places group and the Spanish Basque region’s development agency DENOKINN, the Hiriko Fold, is an ultra-compa ...
  • Pentagon reveals DARPA’s creepiest spy robot yet
    Researchers at the Pentagon’s DARPA lab are always on the lookout for new, exciting scientific marvels to creep out everyone on Earth. In their latest effort to do as much, they’ve succeeded with a small, color-shifting soft-shell robotic snail. Researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Proje ...
  • Researchers Develop New Pain-Free Ways to Make ...
    Dr. Erin Giudice, a pediatrician at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, proposed a new way to coerce parents into giving their children vaccinations: a clear, dissolvable patch that will elevate fears associated with needles. Pharmaceutical corporations, the US government and research ...
  • US Veteran put in psych ward for 1 month over ...
    Brandon J. Raub has been ordered to stay in a mental health institution for a month without charge – and contrary to the American constitution, his defense says. His supporters are concerned any American could end up in Raub’s shoes. ­US police detained Raub, 26, a Marine Corps veteran, on Thurs ...
  • Man ruled innocent by US judge still in prison
    A young American man who has wrongly spent 13 years in a US prison is still incarcerated despite being declared innocent by a federal judge two years ago. Daniel Larsen was sent to prison for 27 years to life under California’s controversial three strikes law, after he was found guilty of ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Heartless Hart at it Again
    Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart just cannot stop insulting victims every time he opens his mouth. He wrote another letter this week, in conjunction with his fellow Victorian bishops and leaders of religious orders, which reached its intended audience, the news media, yesterday. He even started o ...
  • True meaning of the word “CATHOLIC”
    C – Callous A – Arrogant T – Totalitarian H – Hierarchy O – Obstinately L – Lying about I – Indecent assaults against C – Children
  • Pope’s butler faces jail, unlike rapists ...
    In yet a further example of pernicious Vatican hypocrisy, the Pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, faces trial and very likely jail for the crime of revealing the truth about the corruption and infighting endemic amongst the ‘holy’ men who inhabit the Vatican. It is indeed encouragin ...
  • Vale John Pirona
    John Pirona was farewelled yesterday in a moving, uplifting and beautiful ceremony. A huge number of family, friends, colleagues and well wishers spilled out of the building, filling the surrounds with a sea of people who fervently wished they could somehow undo the events which led to this day. ...
  • Letter to politicians demanding Royal Commissi ...
    In my previous post I called on everyone to write to politicians to demand action to ensure that John Pirona’s tragic death is the last one. I am happy to help make this important job easier. Here’s a draft letter if you don’t have time to write your own. Or use it as a start [...]

WL Central

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

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    Chicago Tribune
    The Chicago Tribune made some great points in “No denying it” (Editorial, Aug. 17), but I was disappointed the editorial failed to include renewable energy as a solution to climate change. Renewable energy is one of the most important strategies to ...
    Creating A Truly Level Playing Field: Putting Renewables Subsidies In Context
    ThinkProgress
    A recent study taking the long view of subsidies to energy sources suggests renewables have received only a fraction of the historical support given to their fossil fuel competitors. Romney's position on support for renewables has vacillated over the ...
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    In our view / The politics of ecology Imagine the fire next time
    HeraldNet
    The Taylor Bridge fire, which has devastated parts of Cle Elum, is an example of politics and forest ecology sizing up the other, finally embracing the value of meeting halfway (personifying science delivers a face we can at least recognize.) Yes, the ...
    Ecology to recognize Sound Transit for environmental restoration
    Access Washington
    The state Department of Ecology plans to recognize that help on Aug. 23, 2012, when Sound Transit will receive the department's Environmental Excellence Award. “Sound Transit found a tremendous opportunity to amplify a required environmental offset,” ...
    Union environment ministry's expert team to submit report on Posco ecology by ...
    Times of India
    BHUBANESWAR: The four-member expert committee studying the alleged adverse impact of the proposed mega steel plant by Posco on the coastal ecology, is likely to submit its report to the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) by October this ...
    Ecology drones track endangered wildlife
    The Guardian
    They are better known as stealthy killing machines to take out suspected terrorists with pinpoint accuracy. But drones are also being put to more benign use in skies across several continents to track endangered wildlife, spot poachers, and chart ...
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    Does fluoride in drinking water hurt your brain?
    Fox News
    Back in 2011, the EPA reversed course and lowered the recommended maximum amount of fluoride in drinking water due to data that the levels then being allowed put kids at risk of dental fluorosis--streaking and pitting of teeth due to excessive fluoride ...
    Low water causes unusual traffic jam, blocking commerce along Mississippi River
    Knoxville News Sentinel
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    Is Coconut Water the New Sports Drink?
    Allentown Morning Call (blog)
    Many years ago, my husband and I did a long, sweaty and grueling guided hiking trip in the Caribbean. At the end of the hike, the guide whipped out a machete, whacked a coconut in two, and passed the thing around, encouraging us to drink the water that ...
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