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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

22 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Based on Mobile Phone Data... Scientists Demon ...
    Based on location data already collected by mobile phones, the researchers were able to create an algorithm to forecast the future movements of users with mind-bending accuracy. ~ Madison Ruppert read more
  • ALERT!... Court Ruling... Banks Can Legally St ...
    In 2007, the Sentinel Management Group (SMG) collapsed, leaving many customer segregated funds lost after they had been used as collateral. After a plethora of lawsuits and creditor claims, a decision earlier this month in the 7th Circuit Court placed the banking cartels ahead of customer cl ...
  • After-Birth Abortion... Babies are a 'Parasiti ...
    According to Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva, “after-birth abortion” is proposed as a form of “contraception” that would allow babies to be killed after they are born! ~ Susanne Posel - article - Video read more
  • Chemtrails From Ships... Cloud Geoengineering ...
    Even though it sounds like science fiction, researchers are taking a second look at a controversial idea that uses futuristic ships to shoot salt water high into the sky over the oceans, creating clouds that reflect sunlight and thus counter global warming. ~ Alton Parrish read more
  • Agenda 21... America 2050... Government Funded ...
    To boost infrastructure and build Agenda 21 high-speed rail systems (HSRS) across America, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood stated last week that $470 million in unspent funds are still available to states for such projects. ~ Susanne Posel read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • George Soros Loading Up With Gold
    Billionaire George Soros has recently sold more than a million shares of major financial companies including JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and Citigroup, valued at 50 million dollars. While George Soros is well known for his donations to foundations that often undermine the American way, one has to ...
  • Israel To Attack Iran October 15?
    When? October 15 Why? New Moon (dark) It should come as no surprise to those following the news of the Middle East that tensions between Israel and Iran are at an all time high. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is determined to attack Iran before the US elections,” Israel’s Channel 10 ...
  • JM Bullion
    msb-note JM Bullion is proud to be the newest sponsor on ModernSurvivalBlog.com. As staunch believers that precious metals are far superior stores of value than paper fiat currency, we look forward to earning your business and helping you protect your wealth from currency debasement and inflatio ...
  • Its Time To BUG OUT But Where Will You Go?
    Think about this… you live either in the city or in the mass of suburbia immediately surrounding the city. One afternoon while you are at work, the power goes out. You don’t think much of it at first, but after an hour or so, you discover that the power outage is not just localized t ...
  • 3 Ways A Burglar Breaks In, 80 Percent Of The Time
    The number one place where burglars break into homes is straight through the front door. The second most likely point of entry for the burglar is through a first floor window. Third, is through the back door. These top three break-in points cover about 80 percent of all home burglary break-ins. ...

Fast Company

  • Beard Hats, PBR Bracelets, And Beef Empanadas: ...
    Impulse is a powerful emotion in retail. It’s why stores often bombard you in the checkout line with careful arrangements of inexpensive-but-unnecessary items: the brightly colored socks; the chocolate bars; the glossy magazines; the As Seen On TV sunglasses. It’s a longstanding trick of brick-a ...
  • What The Fancy Is Doing Right With Online Shopping
    Do you ever wonder how we functioned before the Internet? Imagine booking travel, shopping for real estate or sending flowers before being able to do so with a click on your keyboard. Do you even remember how it was done? While it has been disruptive for less than two decades, the pervasivene ...
  • Roastmaster General Jeff Ross On How to Burn S ...
    The standout standup at all of Comedy Central’s roasts, and star of the channel’s new weekly series, “The Burn,” Jeff Ross is an expert on making people squirm while paying tribute to them. Here he demystifies the business of giving people the business.
  • For Stripe Cofounders, Y Combinator Supplies F ...
    Stripe cofounders (and brothers) John and Patrick Collison, are two of the most successful entrepreneurs to come out of Y Combinator's accelerator program. The natives of Limerick, Ireland built their first startup, Auctomatic, at Y Combinator in 2007--and they sold it for millions. Now, the YC ...
  • Is Digg Back? Definitely Maybe
    A handful of web publishers have noticed something unusual about their incoming traffic lately: For the first time in years, readers are coming from Digg. Once an Internet kingmaker with traffic that trumped Reddit's, Digg has been largely absent from publisher traffic reports since it began ...

Jadaliyya

  • ما هو الاستعمار الاستيطاني؟
    في أسبوع الرابع من تموز في كل عام تقريباً تقوم عائلتي برحلة الساعات الإثنتي عشرة من منزلهم في ميشيغان إلى مكان يسمونه "المزرعة". امتلكت أسرتي هذه الأرض منذ أن أنشئت محمية " قبيلة باد ريفر" على بحيرة سوبيرير بموجب معاهدة 1854 بين أوجيبوي والولايات المتحدة. تملك عائلتي وثائق تث ...
  • An Invisible Nation: The Gulf’s Stateless Comm ...
    The issue of statelessness in the Gulf is as old as the post-colonial oil states from which they are actively being excluded. Until the 1980s, the status of the Bedoon was not seen as a political issue, with the fledgling governments more concerned with state building functions than with further ...
  • Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (August 21)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ...
  • مأساة الكتب في مصر
    واقعتان مررت بهما الأسبوع الماضي جعلاني أتحسر على وضع الكتب والقراءة والثقافة بوجه عام في مصر. الواقعة الأولى حدثت لي في مكتبة جامعة نيويورك حيث أقضي هذا الصيف في محاولة لكتابة الفصل الأخير من كتاب عن التاريخ الاجتماعي والثقافي لمصر في القرن التاسع عشر. الكتاب يتضمن فصلين عن تاريخ الطب، الأول ع ...
  • Last Week on Jadaliyya (Aug 13-19)
    This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes the most read articles and the latest videos. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series.    Morsy, the Coup and t ...

mediagazer

  • President spurns MSNBC for CNN: Obama, Romney ...
    Dylan Byers / Politico: President spurns MSNBC for CNN: Obama, Romney sit for pre-convention docs  —  Later today, CNN will announce plans to air 90-minute documentaries on Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama prior to the Republican and Democratic National Conventions — ...
  • Media General President & CEO Morton to retire ...
    Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Media General President & CEO Morton to retire  —  Marshall N. Morton will step down as CEO of Media General at the end of 2012, the company announced Wednesday.  George L. Mahoney will replace him.  Mahoney, the company's release says, &l ...
  • Husband of Japanese journalist killed in Syria ...
    The Daily Telegraph: Husband of Japanese journalist killed in Syria speaks of attack  —  The husband and work partner of a Japanese journalist shot dead in Aleppo has described the gunfight between Syrian forces and rebels that led to his wife being shot.  Kazutaka Sato sai ...
  • Syria: footage released of journalist Mika Yam ...
    Guardian: Syria: footage released of journalist Mika Yamamoto's final hours - video  —  Colleagues of Mika Yamamoto, Japan Press's war correspondent who was shot dead during a gun battle between Syrian forces and rebels in Aleppo on Monday, release footage of her final hours, in ...
  • Tina Brown stands by Niall Ferguson (Dylan Bye ...
    Dylan Byers / Politico: Tina Brown stands by Niall Ferguson  —  Newsweek editor Tina Brown is standing by Niall Ferguson following his controversial cover story about President Obama's handling of the economy, even as she said that she did not agree with many of the opinions he ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • White, Red and Pink Caladiums Planted in ...
    Tweet 0 Email Report Advertisement Photo 1 of 20 Aaron Caladiums With White Impatiens and Amaryllis. Aaron Caladiums With White Impatiens and Amaryllis.Aaron Caladiums With White Impatiens and Amaryllis Grown Under a tree.Aaron Caladiums grown in a group of white caladiums. Combine several w ...
  • Cops to train mandals on tighter Ganpati ...
    The recent serial explosions in Pune have shifted focus of city Ganesh mandals from attractive themes to tighter vigil during the 10-day mega festival. Taking a cue from the Pune blasts in July-end, city-based mandals have asked their volunteers or gan-sevaks to be more vigilant this year, e ...
  • Sleep improves memory in Parkinson's pati ...
    Tweet Washington, August 22 (ANI): Researchers have shown that people with Parkinson's disease performed markedly better on a test of working memory after a night's sleep, and sleep disorders can interfere with that benefit. While the classic symptoms of Parkinson's disease include tremors a ...
  • Bees need Kiwis and visitors on our &#x20 ...
    Wednesday, 22 August 2012, 5:18 pm Press Release: Federated Farmers 22 August 2012 Bees need Kiwis and visitors on our ‘Border Patrol’ Honey bees, so vital to every New Zealander, are just 500 grams from a disaster warns Federated Farmers. That could be in the shape of just one ...
  • Asian stocks fall after Japan posts trade ...
    HONG KONG - Asian stocks fell after Japan reported on Wednesday that it fell back into a trade deficit last month because of languishing exports and as investors watched for progress on bailout conditions for Greece by eurozone policymakers. Energy shares led declines as major oil and gas co ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
  • Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...
    For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |& ...
  • South Sudan becomes an independent nation
    South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • News of the World staff shocked at closure
    Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Once Upon a Time
    The lure of the fairy tale. Joan Acocella Once upon a time there was a stubborn child who never did what his mother told him to do. The dear Lord, therefore, did not look kindly upon him, and let him become sick. No doctor could cure him and in a short time he lay on … Read more
  • Violence as a way of life
    Humanity has hardly produced a more destructive version of itself than the new breed of terrorists, who are convinced that they have been chosen to show mankind the way to utopia. Helene Lööw The scenes and testimonies of the disaster in Norway make it difficult to justify. Pictures of children ...
  • You’ll never be Chinese
    Mark Kitto Death and taxes. You know how the saying goes. I’d like to add a third certainty: you’ll never become Chinese, no matter how hard you try, or want to, or think you ought to. I wanted to be Chinese, once. I don’t mean I wanted to wear a silk jacket and cotton slippers, … Rea ...
  • Psychiatry’s Crisis
    Andrew Scull ABOUT 40 YEARS AGO, American psychiatry faced an escalating crisis of legitimacy. All sorts of evidence suggested that, when confronted with a particular patient, psychiatrists could not reliably agree as to what, if anything, was wrong. To be sure, the diagnostic process in all are ...
  • Korea: Number One!
    Clyde Prestowitz The South Koreans have long been confident that anything the Japanese can do, they can do better, but now they’re proving it. In the 1970s-80s, the likes of Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, Toshiba, Hitache, NEC, and Fujitsu killed off RCA, Motorola, and the rest of the American co ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Fans garner signatures in support of Kings XI ...
    CHANDIGARH - Dejected over the ouster of Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) from the Indian Premier League (IPL), fans of the team here have started a signature campaign to garner public support against the decision. They have constituted a group called Fans of Kings XI Punjab, consisting of students and ...
  • Even turtles and wasps need a little play time
    WASHINGTON - Watching kids and dogs play is not an alien sight. However, what about a turtle or even a wasp? Well, it seems they play, too. Gordon Burghardt, a psychology professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has discovered that many animals-not just dogs, cats, and monkeys-need ...
  • Oz PM Gillard says trade union official?s 9/11 ...
    CANBERRA - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed as “stupid and wrong” a senior union official’s belief that the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy, but refused to discipline him. Kevin Bracken, the president of the Victorian Trades Hall and secretary of the Mari ...
  • Turmeric boosts effect of chemo drug in head a ...
    WASHINGTON - Researchers with UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center have found that curcumin, the major component in the spice turmeric, when combined with the drug Cisplatin enhances the chemotherapy’s suppression of head and neck cancer cell growth. In India, women for years have been usi ...
  • Bangladesh media slams Hasina stand on secularism
    DHAKA - Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s move to restore the word ’secularism’ in the constitution while allowing political activity by religion-based parties has received mixed response from the media. New Age newspaper Wednesday called it “a poignant example of politica ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Julian Assange in the crosshairs - Part 2
    Part 2 of Julian Assange in the crosshairs
  • Julian Assange in the crosshairs - Part 1
    Today's show focuses on the stand-off between Julian Assange and the British government. The news about his acceptance by Ecuador had not yet broken as we went to air. We also take a look at the science-fiction level totalitarian surveillance system known as "TrapWire", amid speculation that t ...
  • All that is Necessary for Evil to Triumph
    This clip is from the film "Hitler: The Rise of Evil". It is often said, "all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing". As a follow up, we might add: "History seldom repeats, but it often rhymes". Once again, freedom is under threat. Evil is rising. Wh ...
  • MullerGate: a muddled professor who meddled wi ...
    Part 2 of MullerGate: a muddled professor who meddled with the media
  • MullerGate: a muddled professor who meddled wi ...
    In today's show we bring you our exclusive exposé of the latest climate science scandal. Richard A. Muller is a professor in physics at UC Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is the founder of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature projec ...

Beacon

  • Q&A: Alexandra Cousteau
    The new issue of Oceana magazine is hot off the presses! In this issue, I interviewed Oceana senior advisor Alexandra Cousteau, who also graces this issue's cover.  The granddaughter of famed ocean explorer and filmmaker Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Alexandra doesn’t take her family legacy lig ...
  • Tonight: Ted Danson Narrates ‘Great White Highway’
    There is still a lot of mystery surrounding great white sharks. ©Terry Goss Shark Week is almost over, but one of the most exciting shows of the year is airing tonight. Tonight at 9 p.m. (Eastern and Pacific) tune in to Discovery Channel to watch “Great White Highway,” which follows the ...
  • The Myth of the Rogue Shark
    That man-eating shark from Jaws may be fictional, but that doesn’t stop people from believing that sharks are out to get us — even though it’s not true at all. Chris Neff, a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, gave this talk at TEDxSydney about his research on the politics of shark attac ...
  • Senate Moves Bill to End Pirate Fishing
    Pirate fishing threatens the ocean and those who rely on it ©Oceana/Keith Ellenbogen The Senate took an important step forward last month in the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, also known as pirate fishing, by passing the Pirate Fishing Elimination Act (S. 1980) thr ...
  • Creature Feature: Great White Shark
    Great whites have earned a bad reputation, but they don't deserve it ©Discovery Channel They’re the stars of Shark Week, one of the most iconic creatures in the ocean. But how well do you really know the great white shark? White sharks are known by many names—great white, white pointer, Carc ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Cold War Bomber Intercepts
    During the Cold War, Soviet and US bomber aircraft often probed the defenses of each other by flying into each other;s airspace or close to it. when a bomber went up on either side, a fighter went up to escort them out. So I found this great website called AcesFkyingHigh. Here are some great pho ...
  • William Windom, Actor, Paratrooper With 82nd A ...
            Windom was born in Manhattan, born of parents Paul Windom and Isobel Wells. His grandfather was also William Windom and served as United States Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents James Garfield and Chester A. Arthur. Oh, and by the way, William Windom, was an ...
  • The Growing Absolute Power Of States.
      The world is reacting with shock and outrage over the jail sentence given to a Punk Rock band out of Russia. What’s shocking is not just the outright smothering of what we might term inalienable rights; it is the hypocrisy in the notion that a purportedly Communist and thusly non-religiou ...
  • More Political Posters On Facebook.
      We’ve discussed here several times how facebook has given graphic political posters and other flat protest art a new life. Now with election season at full speed and the public utterly divided, Facebook is quite a popular forum for discourse.           &#160 ...
  • Livia Augustus’ Hair Bun.
      In the first century AD politics roiled hotly through Rome. Around 42 BC, the Roman Senate, the wake of the murder of Julius Caesar, declared that Caesar had been a God; and so it was partly by divine imprimatur that Octavian, Caesar’s adopted son, and Mark Anthony and Marcus Aemilius Lep ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Jake Tapper Questions Whether U.S. Haste to Ex ...
    IN A CONVERSATION that cites the biased coverage of 2008, as well as what it might mean for 2012, the interview ABC News’s Jake Tapper did with Laura Ingraham is not something you’ll hear every day. Tapper said he thought the “media helped tip the scales” in ’08, wh ...
  • A Word About Pres. Obama’s Press Conference
    QUESTIONS AROSE for me about what Pres. Obama said in the press conference earlier this week, video below. Here’s the snippet I questioned: PRESIDENT OBAMA: [...] And although these particular comments have led Governor Romney and other Republicans to distance themselves, I think the under ...
  • In Honor the the GOP Platform, It’s Back to th ...
    AKIN: You know, Dr. Willke has just released a statement and part of his letter, I think he just stated it very clearly. He said, of course Akin never used the word legitimate to refer to the rapist, but to false claims like those made in Roe v. Wade and I think that simplifies it….. [...]
  • The ‘Alternative Party Debate’ 2012: See the Video
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. In the Comments to my Guess Which Presidential Candidate Will Speak at Hempfest, and Which at Paul Festival? post last week, TPAZ asked if I knew of any “second-tier presidential debate” plans. It was a very good ques ...
  • News Desk: Todd Akin Tells Mike Huckabee: “We ...
    **UPDATED** TODD AKIN is staying in Missouri Senate race. “We are going to continue with this race for the US Senate.” – Todd Akin on the Mike Huckabee radio show For those of you who donate to candidates, here’s a way to help… CLAIRE McCASKILL for SENATE As much as ...

Hudson New York

  • Bacon Hate Crimes and Islamophobia Witch-Hunts
    The NYPD is taking a break from investigating multiple shootings in four of New York City's boroughs, including the attempted murder of an NYPD Sergeant, to head down to the city's much overlooked fifth borough, Staten Island, to investigate a case of
  • The Muslim Brotherhood Builds a Totalitarian S ...
    Buried in a news item in the Egypt Independent on prospective foreign aid for Egypt is the following eye-opener: The government decided to lower subsidies on oil products from LE95.5 billion in the 2011-2012 budget to LE25.5 billion in the 2012-2013
  • Germany: "Islamists Want to Bring Jihad to Europe"
    German Intelligence Chief Gerhard Schindler has issued a warning saying that Europe is at great risk of terrorist attacks by Islamic extremists. In a wide-ranging interview with the German newspaper Die Welt, Schindler said the German foreign
  • Gexit Is Better Than Grexit
    Any reasonable person would assume it highly unlikely that Europe's leaders would have adopted the euro as their common currency if they had known 10 years ago what a mess they would be in today. The euro project, however, was not a project of reason but
  • Justice for the Kurds
    Much ink has been spilled about the desirability or even the inevitability of a separate State for Palestinians, whose identity stems from the middle of the 20th century, but what has been much less discussed by the international community -- and for the

Urban Survival

  • A Tenth Monday Downer: So?
    A couple of people have suggested that I should mention that yesterday was the 10th week in a row when the market had been down on Monday, something that hasn’t happened for more than 20 or 30-years.  I’d look it … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With a Massive Outbreak of WuJo
    Not sure why our “tales of the odd and misbehaving reality” should take a summer break, but whatever the reason, WuJo tales have been flooding into the inbox since Monday. Let’s try this one on for size from reader Lisa: … Continue reading →
  • Recovery Flatlining
    It’s “that time of the month” when we pick through the various West Coast port cargo tonnage reports, which is near-enough to a financial crystal ball as you’ll likely time and try to infer what’s happening in the not-too-distant future. … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With that Sinking Feeling
    Might want to drop by the WAFB-TV website now and then to see what comes out of drilling to determine the cause of a massive sinkhole that developed in in Bayou Corne in Assumption Parrish. A friend down in the … Continue reading →
  • Ben Hits the Gas
    OK, this is going to start your morning with a short drive off into the economic weeds but it is really, really important because is shows how politics and money work in fine relief.  In the latest Federal Reserve H.6 … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Thank You, Diana Nyad, Courageous Swimmer and ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City Monday evening, dolphins frolicked alongside world class swimmer Diana Nyad as she plowed through open ocean waters on her fourth attempt to swim from Cuba to the Florida Keys. In the midst of this ...
  • "Ratepayer," RIP
    Ralph Cavanagh, Energy Program Co-Director, San Francisco, CA Today I asked the California Public Utilities Commission to banish the word “ratepayer” from its institutional vocabulary. I undertook this mission in coordination with the Ca ...
  • States Save Fuel and Create Jobs from 54.5 mpg ...
    Luke Tonachel, Vehicles Analyst, New York City With landmark new automobile fuel efficiency standards expected to be released this month, NRDC teamed up with the BlueGreen Alliance to provide a state-by-state breakdown of projected jobs created, fue ...
  • Let's Raise a (Nature) Revolution in Our Kids
    Sylvia Fallon, Senior Scientist, Washington, DC Fighting for a clean, healthy environment is my job. Literally. As a scientist for NRDC, I work to protect our endangered wildlife and wild lands on a daily basis. I find it challenging and rewarding ...
  • In the Icy North, Risk of an Arctic Oil Disast ...
    Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC Across the nation’s breadbasket, many farmers are out of time waiting for cooling rains to salvage crops blistered by one of the hottest and driest summers on record. But up in the frigid ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • Wrongful Conviction: The Michael Hash Case
    From the Washington Post: On Monday, Hash walked out of the Culpeper County courthouse with the charges against him dismissed, 12 years after being wrongly convicted of murder. Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Morrogh, who had been brought in to … Continue reading →Wr ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Saturday, August 18 to Monday, August 20, 2012: Lawrence County, Alabama: The chief deputy was indicted by a grand jury. He was indicted on two counts of fraudulent use of … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct NewsFeed ...
  • Remember Ruby Ridge
    Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Ruby Ridge scandal. Here is an article that I wrote on the case ten years ago: “Ruby Ridge” used to refer to a geographical location in the state of Idaho, but after an … Continue reading →Remember Ruby Ridge is a post from PoliceMi ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 14 reports of Police Misconduct tracked for Friday, August 17, 2012: Boulder, Colorado: A police officer accused of telling his roommate he planned to kill his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend has resigned, just before an internal affairs review … Continue reading →Na ...
  • Jason Rios Files Brutality Lawsuit
    In the video the police take three steps to conceal their actions from impartial bystanders/witnesses: (1) “Go inside with the camera,” orders one; (2) the fire truck is moved to block the view of the people watching across the street; … Continue reading →Jason Rios Files ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Apple vs Samsung hands to t ...
    The Apple vs Samsung trial hands over to the jury, AT&T responds to FaceTime concerns, and PayPal announces a big offline deal. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – WhatsApp scams ...
    WhatsApp users are the target of a Facebook phishing scam. Startupbootcamp is opening in Israel. HTC admits it’s going to lose $40 million from its OnLive investment. You can catch...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Twitter’s ...
    More rumors on the Apple TV set. Flat-fee pricing comes to Square. Twitter’s API changes mean bad juju for app developers. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – An Obvious new ...
    Twitter founders’ Obvious Corp teases a new publishing platform, Uber faces legal pressure in Boston, and Pinterest unveils new mobile apps. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – App.net reaches ...
    Twitter alternative App.net has reached its funding goal, Google confirms significant job cuts at Motorola Mobility, and Apple fans get fooled by a fake screw. It’s all in today’s Daily...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Paid Contractor Position: Development and Rela ...
    Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) is a community and volunteer-based climate and renewable energy think-tank. A small team of contracted coordinators enable hundreds of volunteers to actively engage and deliver Beyond Zero Emissions' objective of moving Australia from a 19th century fossil fuel-based ...
  • Paid contractor position: Campaign Coordinator
    Beyond Zero Emissions is a community and volunteer-based climate and energy security think-tank. A small team of contracted coordinators enable hundreds of volunteers to actively engage and deliver Beyond Zero Emissions' objective of moving Australia from a 19th century fossil fuel-based economy ...
  • Paid contractor position: Technical Research C ...
    Reports to: Project Director - ZCA Transport Plan and Technical Director ZCA Project Based: Fitzroy VIC 3065 Job Purpose: To support the development and communication of the ZCA Transport Plan. After the release of the Transport Plan, the focus of this role will shift to one of the subsequent ...
  • Using coal exports as a lever for climate action
    In the first part of this article, we provided evidence that suggests Australia’s current coal exports, and more so their projected doubling by 2020, is unlikely to be replaced by other international coal exporters, should Australia withdraw from the market. We argued that restricting Austra ...
  • Can Australia’s coal customers shop elsewhere?
    At the Climate Commission public meeting in Melbourne on July 24, when responding to a question, a Commissioner used what some call the drug dealer’s defence: if Australia stopped exporting coal, others would fill the gap. Climate Commissioner Gerry Hueston explained that, in relation to Aus ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Featured video: a Sumatran rhino love story
    Efforts to save the Sumatran rhino in Borneo have sped up ever since the capture of Puntung last Christmas. A female rhino, who lost one foot to a snare, Puntung represents the first viable mate for Tam, a male rhino who has been kept in a large rainforest enclosure since his rescue in an oil pl ...
  • Chinook salmon return to Olympic National Park ...
    In March of this year the Elwha Dam, which had stood for 99 years, was demolished in the U.S. state of Washington. Five months later, Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) made their way down 70 miles of long-blocked off habitat and entered Olympic National Park.
  • Pictures of the day: NASA captures stunning im ...
    NASA is now able to capture satellite images of wildfires—at night. Using the The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite (S-NPP), which has instruments that are particularly sensitive to light, NASA was able to take images of fires burning nocturnally across the American West ...
  • Illegal lobster fishermen slammed with over $5 ...
    Three men who illegally harvested lobster from South African waters and smuggled them to the U.S. for 14 years have been ordered to pay $54.9 million in restitution to the South African government by a District Court in Manhattan. According to the Pew Environment Group this is the largest restit ...
  • Dry forests disappearing faster than rainfores ...
    Countries across Latin America lost 78,000 square kilometers of subtropical and tropical dry broadleaf forests between 2001 and 2010, according to a new satellite-based assessment published in the journal Biotropica.

Sierra Express

  • Cholera is a Development Issue not a Political ...
    The Presidential Task Force on Cholera has met at State House to follow up on the last meeting where Cholera was declared as an emergency by His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma at the Presidential Lodge, Hill Station, Freetown. At the first meeting chaired by President Koroma, it was noted that ...
  • Civil Society monitors commencement of revised ...
    In a bid to ensure that the Revised National Anti-Corruption Strategy (RNACS) 2011-2013 is successfully implemented; a vital component of this Strategy-Civil Society Monitoring Groups (CSMG) has on Tuesday 21st August 2012 commenced the monitoring of all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA ...
  • Constituency 63 Disowns MP
    Electorates in Constituency 63 in Tonkolili District have disclosed in the ‘Monologue’ radio program on that they may not vote in the November polls if the incumbent Member of Parliament, Hon. David Bai Conteh is re-awarded the party symbol instead of the choice of the people, Aruna Turay aka ‘S ...
  • FPU and United Muslim Association (UMA) in a u ...
    On Sunday, August 19, 2012, a congregation of Muslims comprising of a cross section of the local African Community belonging to the FPU, UMA and other groups converged at the Paint Branch Parkway Community Park in College Park, Prince Georges County, Maryland, USA to observe the Eid-ul-Fitr pray ...
  • Liberian president suspends son Charles Sirleaf
    Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has suspended one of her sons from the post of central bank deputy governor for failing to declare his assets, her office has said.   President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has faced accusations of nepotism Charles Sirleaf was among 46 officials suspended ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Fonterra hits record quarterly exports
    Fonterra Cooperative Group, the world's biggest exporter of dairy products, achieved record export in the final three months of its season of 620,000 tonnes.Its 2012 May, June and July shipments were 36 per cent more than the same...
  • US drought helps push global dairy prices higher
    New Zealand dairy farmers will take more confidence from Fonterra's 2012-13 payout forecast after drought conditions in the United States helped drive dairy prices sharply higher at yesterday's international auction, economists say.The...
  • US drought behind surge in world dairy prices ...
    Severe drought conditions in the United States played a part in today's big lift in dairy prices, ANZ National rural economist Con Williams said.Prices of dairy products posted their third-biggest gain in about two years in...
  • Dairy prices surge 7.8pc in overnight auction
    Prices of dairy products posted their third-biggest gain in about two years in the latest GlobalDairyTrade sale overnight, paced by whole and skim milk powder.The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 7.8 per cent compared to the last...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: Chinese get message: We're op ...
    Bill English has sent a clear message to China that New Zealand is open for business.New Zealand needs direct foreign investment and China should be at the table was the upshot of the Finance Minister's speech to the Victoria University-Peking...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Nick Gillespie on HuffPost Live Right Now, Tal ...
    Go here now!  I'm talking with James Poulos, David Kirby, and others via the miracle of Google Plus! Here's a link to the segment, which also included Alyona Minkovski (late of RT's The Alyona Show), Kathryn Delong (a University of Buffalo student), and host Jacob Soboroff. ...
  • Ron Paul Delegate Deals Reached, Report CNN an ...
    I'm sure this will be seen as a good news/bad news scenario for more pugnacious Paulites hoping for a rip-roaring floor fight at the Republican National Convention in Tampa next week, but the delegate fights I've been blogging about here for a long time, seem to be resolved, gaining R ...
  • The GOP Reserves the Right to Screw With You, ...
    Today the Republican platform committee overwhelmingly rejected an amendment supporting civil unions for gay couples. Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach (right) presumably spoke for many when he said: I oppose this amendment. I think the wording is too broad. Especially t ...
  • A Politician Across The Pond Gets Into His Own ...
    While the United States is currently enjoying its own rape controversy in the UK George Galloway MP has got himself into some trouble of his own. Although Todd Akin seems to have slept through almost every biology class, George Galloway seems to have misunderstood exactly what it e ...
  • Syphilis Cases Lead to Outbreak of Nanny-Statism
    Forget about the corn; we’ve got a porn drought coming! Via the Los Angeles Times: Jolted by the possibility of a syphilis outbreak among its ranks, a Los Angeles-based trade group that represents the adult film industry announced a nationwide moratorium on X-rated productions ...

Mercury Rising

  • Share this vid
    Via Avedon, a good theological argument on why everything that conservative Christians think they know about what the Bible says on homosexuality is wrong. Now, if only it were this clear-cut. The Bible is simply not very clear on many issues and this is one of them. But Matthew Vines makes an e ...
  • Take That, Romney/Ryan! Obamacare Has Helped M ...
    I wonder if the establishment media will notice that yet another Romney/Ryan talking point — namely, their Obama and Medicare claim — is a big fat lie? Here are the deets: http://www.offthechartsblog.org/health-reform-strengthens-medicare-doesnt-rob-it/ Res ipsa loquitor.
  • No One Should Discuss Julian Assange Until The ...
    Four Corners, Australia’s longest-running and most respected TV news investigatory program, has just come out with the best summation of the facts involving Julian Assange, the accusations against him, and the entities behind the drive to get him to Sweden: Think you know the truth about J ...
  • We Tweak Russia Over Pussy Riot, Russia Tweaks ...
    Tit-for-tat, anyone? This will never make it into the establishment US media’s radar screens, but even as we tweak Russia over Pussy Riot, Russia is tweaking our ally, Britain (and by extension, us) about Assange: AFP- Russia on Friday warned Britain against violating fundamental diplomati ...
  • Tax Expert: “Romney Paid 13% in 2009? I ...
    From Victor Fleischer, a tax expert whose words Congress heeds: Romney is claiming that he paid at least 13% in taxes every year.  I call bullshit.  As discussed here, Romney had a capital loss carryover in 2010, which means that he realized so many capital losses in 2009 that he could ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Understanding Entheos: Spirituality in the Wa ...
    At the 6th Annual Entheos Summer Solstice Festival in Vancouver, Bradley Ross was found murdered in his tent. The tragedy was discovered on the final day of a conscious gathering that marked the countdown towards the "2012 shift."   read more
  • Eternal Protest
    As cringe-inducing dubstep remixes of The Beatles abound, John Lennon & George Harrison writhe in their graves, while deceased Beastie Boy MCA shouts out a haunting “told you so” from his.read more
  • The Forbidden Book: An Interview with Guido Mi ...
    "When man was created, he could not help being jealous of the birds. Flying along invisible lines, they soared higher than he could see, and migrated to distant lands he could only imagine. Since he could not fly, he started to dream. In time, he began to build temples. But a more compellin ...
  • High Art
    Different drugs influence our self-perception in unique and strange ways. Artist Bryan Lewis Saunders manifested these effects by taking a different drug every day for 45 days, and drawing himself under the influence. The result is a series of portraits that range from amusing to surreal, haunti ...
  • Incendiary Person in the Desert Carnival Realm
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Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

  • Prince William, Kate Middleton: More Than $80, ...
    The average British working household income is less than $40,000 U.S. That is why I have no use for those who are so privileged by birth. It is sickening. Probably Kate and William rented the whole airplane. Read more here. Kate Middleton: The gold-digger. Interesting video.
  • Canada Day and #DenounceHarper
    “#DenounceHarper is trending on Twitter in Canada, just behind #HappyCanadaDay. Users are using the hashtag to voice dissatisfaction with the Harper government, or just the man himself.” Read more about #DenounceHarper
  • TVO's The Agenda: The New McCarthyism
    There is no worse cancer in a free society than the thuggish impulse to equate dissent as disloyalty... The greatest patriot is the person with the courage to be the lone voice in the crowd crying out that the Emperor has no clothes. The test of our society's democratic nature is our instinct ...
  • Harper's Canada Day message loudly booed at Ja ...
  • U.S. Healthcare Legislation
    Fuxs News’ take on the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on Healthcare. Repugs are apparently very upset by the decision. Repugs spin machine is going hard at it. Sarah Palin gives her gyrations. “Obama lies, freedom dies” Sarah Palin. Watch the latest video at Press TV - Middle East
  • ‘Syria unrest, plot to hide Israel crimes’
    Iran's Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar says the West has created unrest in Syria to divert the world’s attention away from the crimes of the Israeli regime.
  • ‘West not after democracy in Syria’
    The US and its allies are not after democracy in Syria and only seek “a total regime change” in the Middle Eastern country, a political analyst has told Press TV.
  • Bahraini forces arrest 8 mourners
    Saudi-backed Bahraini regime forces have arrested at least eight people in an attack on a funeral ceremony in the country’s third largest city, Muharraq.
  • 6 killed, 62 injured in Lebanon clashes
    At least six people have been killed and 62 others injured in renewed clashes between the supporters and opponents of the Syrian government in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.
  • 6 PKK members die in SE Turkey clashes
    Turkish security forces have killed six members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in southeastern Turkey.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

  • Military Vet Detained For Psych Evaluation Ove ...
    A former Marine involuntarily detained for psychiatric evaluation for posting strident anti-government messages on Facebook has received an outpouring of support from people who say authorities are trampling on his First Amendment rights. Brandon J. Raub, 26, has been in custody since FBI and ...
  • Illegal aliens protest “illegal” l ...
    A small group of immigrants gathered in Woodbury Monday to protest the use of the word "illegal" to describe those who have entered the United States without documentation. "By saying illegal, they're assuming that we broke a criminal law," said Jackeline Saavedra, 27, of Bay Shore, a Touro L ...
  • VIDEO: Homeless Man Killed By Cops, shot 46 times
    Three days before Independence Day, Milton Hall died in a fusillade of police gunfire outside a strip mall. He had been arguing with officers in a parking lot next to a shuttered Chinese restaurant when he was shot, in full view of passing motorists and while he was holding some sort of knife ...
  • Amerika’s Future is Death
    Conspiracy theories have now blossomed into what the smug presstitute media calls a “conspiracy culture.” According to the presstitutes, Americans have to find some explanation for their frustrations and failings, so Americans shift the blame to the Bilderbergers, the Rothschilds, the New World ...
  • Mobile phone companies can predict future move ...
    From telling us when our train is coming, helping us when we're lost and letting us watch our favourite TV shows, there seems no limit to how involved our smartphone is with our day-to-day life. Now the gadget promises something so advanced it verges on the supernatural: it will know exactly ...

Wayne Madsen

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Morsi gives solution to Syrian crisis
    Summary: I wrote yesterday for Asia Times that in Muslim politics such as the event of the summit meeting of the Organization of Islamic Conference that was held in Jeddah last week over the Syrian crisis, it is invariably the case that the sub-texts turn out to be more important than the nar ...
  • Morsy on path-breaking visit to China, Iran
    Summary: Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsy is heading for China and Iran — a path-breaking visit that is unlikely to please the United States, which has gone overboard to cultivate relationship with the new leadership in Cairo. source: The Hinduread more
  • Veterans For Peace Appeals to Non-Alignment Mo ...
    Summary: With the Non-Aligned Movement meeting this week in Tehran, Veterans For Peace is urging the organization of 120 nations not formally allied with any major power bloc to take steps to deter the Israeli-American threats of war against Iran over its nuclear enrichment program. source ...
  • Why West Should Curb Hostility To Non-Aligned ...
    Summary: The approaching 16th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Tehran at the end of August is shaping up as a diplomatic coup for Iran, by virtue of the planned participation of dozens of world leaders and the summit's transfer of NAM's presidency from Egypt to Iran for the next th ...
  • THE UN CHIEF’S STATEMENT AGAINST IRAN LACKS IM ...
    Summary: The latest statements by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in response to comments made by President Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, in speeches made on the Quds Day ceremony on Friday 16 August, against the Israeli government, are yet another egregious example of d ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Phobos -- "Mars' Mystery Moon May Harbor Proof ...
    Some 135 years after its discovery, Mars’ largest moon Phobos is seen in fantastic detail – and in 3D – in an image taken by ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft as it passed just 100 km by. This view is much...
  • Image of the Day: The Coma SuperCluster --An E ...
    The galaxy shown above, NGC 4911, lies more than 320 million light-years away in the "Coma Cluster" an evolving supercluster of 1,000 galaxies and islands of stars similar to the Milky Way 320 million light-years away. NASA said the stunning...
  • Monster Black Holes of the Early Universe --"D ...
    Did monster black holes pull the first galaxies together, or were they born inside those galaxies? A new analysis of the gravitational ripples from colliding black holes led by Ioannis Kamaretsos of the University of Cardiff could reveal the answer...
  • Did the Universe Begin with a Big Bang or Big ...
    The start of the Universe should be modeled not as a Big Bang but more like water freezing into ice, according to a team of theoretical physicists at the University of Melbourne and RMIT University that could our revolutionized our...
  • The 'Daily Galaxy' Twitter Followers Top 200,000
    Join the 200,000 Daily Galaxy fans around the world who follow us via their Twitter page. Our followers include many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists, astronauts, space observatories, news organizations, universities, and governmental space organizations such as NASA,...

Natural News

  • Where your low back pain is coming from and ho ...
    Do you experience bouts of low back pain? Do you notice stiffness and aching moving from a seated to standing position? Do you sit for more than four hours a day? If you answered yes to any or all of these questions, then you may be suffering from tight hip flexor muscles...
  • Upcoming iPhone 'appcessory' detects whether o ...
    The dramatic rise in demand for food that is untainted by pesticides and other unnatural chemicals begs the question, how can you really know for sure whether or not that "organic" peach or "biological" avocado is truly what it says it is? Well, an upcoming iPhone app...
  • GMOs: Exemplifying 'If It's Not Broken, Don't ...
    Multiple dangers exist in meddling in GMOs when we don't know what we're doing, which may be the ultimate validation of the saying, "If it's not broken, don't fix it." At the same time, multiple more life-affirming, more life-sustaining, healthier, and better ideas exist...
  • The only way to completely heal breast cancer
    Breast cancer is the number one cancer that kills women. Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation have proved that there needs to be a more comprehensive approach to healing this disease. The answer can only be found when one truly understands that breast cancer is not caused...
  • Nature's sweetener - The health benefits of honey
    Evidence shows that humans have been collecting and using honey for thousands of years. Humans have used honey in multiple ways, consuming it as an edible food and also using honey as a topical cream. The first sign of humans gathering honey is a six thousand-year...

Threat Level

  • Sabu Gets 6-Month Sentencing Delay for Continu ...
    Sabu, the outspoken Anonymous hacker turned FBI informant, will not be sentenced as scheduled this month, prosecutors said, citing his ongoing help to law enforcement.
  • Did Bush’s Broadband Deregulation Upend His Ow ...
    Did a decision by the Bush administration to deregulate cable internet service end up undermining the NSA's e-mail wiretapping on U.S. soil and lead to an overbroad spying law? An academic book on the subject gives hints that might well be the case, though it's all still wrapped in secrecy.
  • In a Blow to Hulu, Judge Rules Video Privacy L ...
    Hulu could be on the hook for potentially millions of dollars in damages for allegedly transmitting consumer viewing habits to third parties, after a federal magistrate ruled that online video watching is protected by U.S. privacy law.
  • Alexandria 2.0: One Millionaire’s Quest to Bui ...
    Brewster Kahle never had to work again after selling his company to Amazon for a quarter-billion dollars in the dot-com boom. But he then began working on building the world's biggest digital library, earning him a spot in the Internet Hall of Fame.
  • Assange Calls on U.S. to End ‘Witchhunt’ Again ...
    Standing on a first-floor balcony of the Ecuador embassy in London, WikiLeaks found Julian Assange said the United States must "renounce its witchhunt against WikiLeaks."

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Romney Insults Non-Christians Again
    On Tuesday, Cathedral Age, a magazine produced by the Washington National Cathedral, published its interviews with President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney. In "Faith in America," the quarterly asked each candidate questions about their perspectives on the role of religion in the public ...
  • GOP Ignores Its Nominee on Abortion Platform. ...
    The Republican presidential nominee was once a strong supporter of Roe v. Wade, but underwent a just-in-time pro-life conversion to seek his party's nomination. Kowtowing to the GOP's evangelical base, he named a hardline social conservative who opposed abortion in all cases, including rape and ...
  • Global Business Leaders See Obama as Stronger ...
    Financial engineer turned Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has boasted for years that "I know how the economy works." Unfortunately for Mitt, global business leaders aren't buying what he's selling. A recent survey of executives around the world found that by a 2 to 1 margin, they ...
  • The Neverending Republican War on Medicare
    In the week since Mitt Romney named Paul Ryan as his running mate, both Democrats and Republicans have claimed theirs is the party which will save and protect Medicare, the federal health insurance program for nearly 50 million seniors. But Americans have good reason to believe one side is lyin ...
  • Romney Camp Admits Mitt's Cowardice is a Featu ...
    Last November, the New York Times ran a piece titled, "Building a Better Mitt Romney-Bot." Assessing the aloof and socially awkward Romney's stumbles during his first White House run, author Robert Draper explained, "His camp doesn't need to turn their guy into someone you'd have a beer with. Th ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Gareth Porter: Civilian Deaths from US Drone A ...
    with Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Aug. 22, 2012 Aug 21, 2012 by TheRealNews Gareth Porter: New investigative work shows that civilian deaths in Pakistan, including from second wave attacks, higher than Pentagon reports Civilian Deaths from US Drone Attacks Much Higher than Repor ...
  • Massacre in South Africa: Police Defend Killin ...
    South African police shot dead 34 striking workers at platinum mine last week, setting off a wave of protests. In what has been described as "South Africa's first post-apartheid massacre," the miners were killed after demanding more pay and walking off the job at the Marikana mine, the world's t ...
  • The Invisible Wounds of War: Number of Soldier ...
    The month of July set a record high for the number of suicides in the U.S. military. An Army report reveals a total of 38 troops committed suicide last month, including 26 active-duty soldiers and 12 Army National Guard or reserve members -- more soldiers than were killed on the battlefield. The ...
  • Todd Akin's "Legitimate Rape" Comment Sheds Li ...
    Republicans are mounting increasing pressure on Missouri Rep. Todd Akin to end his bid to unseat Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill after he claimed that women's bodies can prevent pregnancies in cases of what he called "legitimate rape," a comment he later apologized for. The controversy is sp ...
  • Headlines for August 21, 2012
    Todd Akin Vows to Remain in Senate Race Despite Firestorm from "Legitimate Rape" Comment, Romney Accuses Obama of False Claims on GOP Tax Plan, Obama Defends Call for Romney to Release Tax Returns, Correa: U.K. Raid to Grab Assange Would Be "Diplomatic Suicide", Ecuadoreans Show Support After Go ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Solar Panels Can Save You Both Energy and Money
      Today, more and more home owners are becoming increasingly energy conscious. Stories about climate change have been over the news for the past decades, and there are many changes from large to small that you, as a home owner, would be able to make that can not only ensure you home is more ...
  • Why do the Caribbean Islands Arc?
    If you look at the Caribbean islands from above you’ll see that they arc, and new research by geophysicists at the University of Southern California have found that over the past 50 million years the Caribbean islands have been pushed east by the steady movement of the Earth’s viscou ...
  • Nobel Prize Winning Scientists Links Extreme W ...
    The 244th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has already revealed several big stories regarding alternative fuels for transport, but it has also given Nobel Prize winning scientist, Mario J. Molina, Ph.D. a platform from which to explain why he believes ther ...
  • Penny-Sized Engine Developed That Can Move Sat ...
    An extremely small penny-sized rocket thruster has been developed to power the smallest satellites in space, replacing the bulky and heavy engines currently in use. The device was designed by Paulo Lozano, an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. It shows little resemblance ...
  • Robot That Can Camouflage Itself Developed (VIDEO)
    Soft bodied robots that can change their color to blend in with the background have now been developed by researchers. The research was done by a team of researchers led by George Whitesides, the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor. His team had already, before this, broken new e ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Akin Aftermath: I've been wrong before
    Heaven knows my record isn't perfect, and I have more than seven years of archives to attest to the veracity of that statement. Some of my classic "D'oh!" moments include voting for Dukakis in the primary in '88, and more recently I was one of the loudest voices calling for former KC Mayor Mark ...
  • Lose a wingnut in-law, gain a crazy painter cousin
    By @TedFrier Well, I lost one Christian fundamentalist in-law who defriended me on Facebook after telling her that her anti-gay crusade was not about religious freedom, or liberal censorship of conservative free speech, but a demand for conformity to right wing ideas without complaint or contrad ...
  • The Akin Fiasco -- Will he stay or will he go?
    By @BGinKC You know what the hardest thing about being from Missouri is? It isn't the hillbilly jokes, or the offers to "show me" ... whatever. No, it's the smug certainty that folks who have never really spent any time here have when they paint us all with one broad brush that's dripping barn-r ...
  • Boy, is my face red
    by @BGinKC In the chaos of the last month -- surgery, a return trip to the hospital, student record hell -- that's still not settled, by the way -- I'm posting this from campus while I wait for one more demigod in a private office who, I am assured by the last person who I was assured would be a ...
  • A License to Lie
    By @TedFrier George F. Will, the so-called "thinking man's" conservative, has just given Republicans permission to lie, and to do so shamelessly, promiscuously -- perhaps even extravagantly. He does so using the right wing's rhetorical weapon of choice: Projection. In a Washington Post column pu ...

Care 2

  • TAKE ACTION NOW! HELP SAVE ENDANGERED BEL ...
    The Apache Alaska Corporation has launched a deafening airgun assault as it explores for oil and gas in Cook Inlet, Alaskahome to a struggling population of 284 endangered beluga whales. At close range, the intense noise from airguns can cause injury, he Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals & ...
  • PURGATORY: Immigrant detainees land in limb ...
    Even those accused of relatively minor infractions, such as overstaying a visa, can be held for months or even years fighting their cases without the benefit of rights and resources guaranteed to those accused of criminal acts. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't   ...
  • Add your name to send a message to political c ...
    Great petition going to both conventions! It is so obvious that our elected officials DO NOTwork for us, and, at least this will let them know this. They may not care, but, they will know that this will influence our voting! Submitted by Maggie S. to US Politics & Gov't  |  ...
  • Wonky Donkey Gets Pink Casts (Video)
    A donkey foal born prematurely has pink casts put on her front legs to support them until they strengthen. Submitted by BarbCat SunshineLady to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Harpers Arctic tour not without controversy
    This year, his entourage includes wife Laureen, as well as Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Minister John Duncan, and Yukon MP Ryan Leef and Senator Dan Lang. Upon arrival, Harpers trip kicks off with with a Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |&nbsp ...

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No Quarter

  • I’m Shocked! A tainted Dem Poll influences Aki ...
    From Power Line’s post, “TAINTED POLL BY DEM OUTFIT OFFERS AKIN INCENTIVE NOT TO QUIT”: A PPP poll, taken after Todd Akin’s infamous comment about rape, puts him in a virtual tie with Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill in the Missouri Senate race. According to that poll, Akin lea ...
  • “Obama Slaughtered in Latest Gallup Poll”: Fox ...
    Oh lawdy. As they say, the facts speak for themselves: Americans Continue to Give Obama Low Marks on the Economy (Fox Nation: Politics) Low rating on the economy may be more problematic than even lower deficit rating PRINCETON, NJ — Three months before the election, President Barack Obama ...
  • Romney’s “Huge Cash Advantage” + hk2′s open thread
    Are you sitting down? This is the headline at The New York Times: “Romney Gains Huge Cash Advantage Over Obama,” which Power Line, per usual, summarizes better than the MSM. First, allow me to sneak in this Power Line take on the media: “Large and enthusiastic crowds greet Mitt ...
  • Tales of the Vice-Presidency and the GDP
    Mark Halperin of Time, who labors to appear fair-minded with his spirited, establishmentarian TV remarks, (a breezy, distracted, self-involved guest) makes the peculiar case that each Sunday that passes without the economy being the center of the election argument on TV is a Sunday that OFA wins ...
  • Barack Obama Running From Barry Soetoro
    * Bumped Up From 2011, More Relevant Than Ever * [UPDATE--This was an issue last year and, because of a recent surge of comments on this particular post, I decided to bump it up and let you have a shot at it in 2012. Let's see how far back in Romney's past the Obama team [...]

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

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

Memeorandum

  • Oklahoma kindergartner banned from wearing Mic ...
    Chris Chase / USA Today: Oklahoma kindergartner banned from wearing Michigan shirt  —  An Oklahoma City kindergartner was forced to turn his University of Michigan shirt inside out last week because it violated a city ban on any apparel not supportive of the state's college team ...
  • Todd Akin Opens Door to Possible Exit (George ...
    George Stephanopoulos / ABCNEWS: Todd Akin Opens Door to Possible Exit  —  Here's what Missouri Congressman Todd Akin said when I asked if he was in the race to stay - even if it looked like he would lose and possibly cost Republicans control of the Senate.  —  & ...
  • Todd Akin's looming campaign of isolation (Man ...
    Manu Raju / Politico: Todd Akin's looming campaign of isolation  —  Rep. Todd Akin showed he could win a 48-hour standoff with his party.  But that feat pales compared with what's next: Running for a critical Senate seat as a candidate in near total isolation — abando ...
  • House GOP: FCC 'twists the facts' in report to ...
    Brendan Sasso / The Hill: House GOP: FCC ‘twists the facts’ in report to justify regulation  —  A spokeswoman for House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans accused the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday of using an annual report on broadband access to ...
  • Costs Seen in Romney's Medicare Savings Plan ( ...
    Jackie Calmes / New York Times: Costs Seen in Romney's Medicare Savings Plan  —  WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney's promise to restore $716 billion that he says President Obama “robbed” from Medicare has some health care experts puzzled, and not just because his runnin ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Now can we talk about the weather?
    The Great Drought of 2012 may edge us a little closer to the radical conversation we so desperately need about the gathering climate crisis, says Howard Covington.Britons habitually discuss the changeable weather that, as a small island nation, torments us. This year’s Great Drought in Nor ...
  • Tibetans fight tourism on holy lakes
    Public outrage has halted a damaging cruise boat project on one of Tibet’s sacred lakes, but unrestrained tourism remains a threat. Liu Jianqiang reports.Mining, dam construction, sand excavation, poaching and grassland degradation are seriously damaging the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, the worl ...
  • China deluged by toxic sludge
    China’s sewage-treatment industry generates 22 million tonnes of sludge every year. What happens to it? Yang Dazheng, Lü Minghe and Xie Dan investigate.To dispose of 500 tonnes of toxic sludge in the south China city of Guangzhou, all you need is a hired boat and a little money for pe ...
  • Sour Olympic legacy for Russia?
    Eyes are now on the next chance for Olympic glory: 2014’s winter games in Russia. But preparations have included an ominous change in conservation law, writes Jenny Johnson.The Russian government treated select participants at the Summer Olympic Games in London this month to a posh gala ni ...
  • Floods test Three Gorges Dam
    In late July, the world’s largest dam faced the toughest challenge in its chequered nine-year history. Deng Quanlan reports on a continuing controversy.It was the fourth Yangtze flood of the year and, on July 24, the water level at Chaotianmen in Chongqing, western China, hit 187.92 metres ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Paul Ryan's 'Path to Prosperity' Is Really a B ...
    Vice-presidential hopeful Paul Ryan has a giant liability for someone hailed for his economic vision: He knows next to nothing about the facts of economic history.Ryan is celebrated by Republicans as a “super-wonk” who "masterfully and forcefully presents his free market, fiscal- ...
  • Tampa: One of America's Most Screwed-Up Cities ...
     This piece originally appeared at Salon.Poke around the White House website and you can still find the hopeful “fact sheet” for a 324-mile high-speed rail line linking Miami, Orlando and Tampa.No such system exists, of course — it was killed by Florida Gov. ...
  • Romney Campaign's Ugly Anti-Muslim Strategy to ...
    The political debate over Islam in the United States reached its height during the Republican presidential primaries last year when Herman Cain's Islamophobic remarks drew controversy.“I would not be comfortable [appointing a Muslim to the presidential cabinet] because you have peacef ...
  • Solitary Confinement Is Used as Torture Chambe ...
    Russell “Maroon” Shoats has been kept in solitary confinement in the state of Pennsylvania for 30 years after being elected president of the prison-approved Lifers’ Association. He was initially convicted for his alleged role in an attack authorities claim was carried out ...
  • How Some States Are Giving Oil and Gas Compani ...
     Eminent domain, the government’s right to condemn (or take) private land for “public use,” has at times been a highly contentious topic because it can displace people from their homes to make way for construction of different projects, like highways or roads, civic b ...

Threat Level

  • Sabu Gets 6-Month Sentencing Delay for Continu ...
    Sabu, the outspoken Anonymous hacker turned FBI informant, will not be sentenced as scheduled this month, prosecutors said, citing his ongoing help to law enforcement.
  • Did Bush’s Broadband Deregulation Upend His Ow ...
    Did a decision by the Bush administration to deregulate cable internet service end up undermining the NSA's e-mail wiretapping on U.S. soil and lead to an overbroad spying law? An academic book on the subject gives hints that might well be the case, though it's all still wrapped in secrecy.
  • In a Blow to Hulu, Judge Rules Video Privacy L ...
    Hulu could be on the hook for potentially millions of dollars in damages for allegedly transmitting consumer viewing habits to third parties, after a federal magistrate ruled that online video watching is protected by U.S. privacy law.
  • Alexandria 2.0: One Millionaire’s Quest to Bui ...
    Brewster Kahle never had to work again after selling his company to Amazon for a quarter-billion dollars in the dot-com boom. But he then began working on building the world's biggest digital library, earning him a spot in the Internet Hall of Fame.
  • Assange Calls on U.S. to End ‘Witchhunt’ Again ...
    Standing on a first-floor balcony of the Ecuador embassy in London, WikiLeaks found Julian Assange said the United States must "renounce its witchhunt against WikiLeaks."

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Best Advice from Government about Salmonella C ...
    Lets start what we do not know as consumers.  We do not know the name of the farm (its somewhere in southern Indiana), nor where the tainted cantaloupe was sold (well, except Walmart).  How helpful is that when you are shopping, or deciding what to feed your family for dinner? Also, i ...
  • Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana hit hard in Sal ...
    Wal-Mart and southwest Indiana farm only known link to outbreak - Kentucky (50), Illinois (17) and Indiana (13) sickened. The CDC and FDA have reported that a total of 141 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 20 states. The number of ill ...
  • Tanimura & Antle Romaine E. coli Lettuce Expanded
    Tanimura & Antle Inc. is voluntarily recalling a single lot of romaine lettuce because it may be contaminated with Escherichia coli O157:H7 bacteria (E. Coli O157:H7). The affected product is limited to Tanimura & Antle Field Fresh Wrapped Single Head Romaine. This product is packed in ...
  • Cantaloupe a year after a deadly Listeria outb ...
    A year after 147 people were sickened, and perhaps 37 died, from Listeria-tainted cantaloupe, comes yesterday’s announcement from the CDC and FDA that a total of 141 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 20 states.  The number of i ...
  • CFIA Recalls California Romaine Produced by Ta ...
    It is unclear what prompted the recall – retail testing – company testing – governmental testing? The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume the Tanimura & Antle brand Romaine Lettuce described below because this product may be contamin ...

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Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Craig Murray and Tariq Ali Speak In Support of ...
    See Craig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, and writer and activist Tariq Ali, speak outside the Ecuadorean embassy, where WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange spoke Sunday. "The invasion of a diplomatic premises is a crime in international law and a crime in the state whose ...
  • Paul Ryan: A Man With a Plan, From the Fiscal ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan is considered by many a champion of small government. For women, though, the federal government that Paul Ryan envisions is big, intrusive and controlling. Paul Ryan would ban all abortions, with no excepti ...
  • From Our Archives: Full Video of WikiLeaks' Ju ...
    In one of his first public events since being held under house arrest, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange appeared in London Saturday for a conversation with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, moderated by Democracy Now! ’s Amy Goodman. They discussed the impact of WikiLeaks on world po ...
  • On Gun Laws, It’s Bipartisan Consensus Not Gri ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan With an average of 32 people killed by guns in this country every day—the equivalent of five Wisconsin massacres per day—both major parties refuse to deal with gun control. It’s the consensus, not the gridlock, that’s the problem. Read full column
  • Ten Years After 9/11, Little-Known Sikh Commun ...
    In the aftermath of the Sikh Temple shooting in Wisconsin, we revisit a Sept. 12, 2011 report by Democracy Now’s Jaisal Noor about how Sikh Americans have been targets of violence and harassment. Click here to see our coverage of the issue of gun control in the United States. No ...

Suzie-Q

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

Solari

  • New Wave of Adept Robots is Changing Global In ...
    By John Markoff At the Philips Electronics factory on the coast of China, hundreds of workers use their hands and specialized tools to assemble electric shavers. That is the old way. Robot arms like those at a Philips Electronics factory in the Netherlands can perform the same tasks as hundreds ...
  • What Are Zombies? Where Do They Come From? And ...
    They’re coming to get you Barbara ~ Night of the Living Dead By Justin Boldenow, Solari Report production assistant There seems to be an unstoppable force that is spreading, growing, and changing people. The brain isn’t the same once this force has taken hold and your friends won&#8 ...
  • Local Food & Wine at Transformations & Renewal ...
    Throughout the Transformations & Renewals weekend this October, we will enjoy fresh, healthy food and a wonderful selection of wines grown and prepared in Middle Tennessee. On our first dinner on Friday night, October 12th, Justin Sanders of Top of the World Farm in Dogwood Mudhole, who wil ...
  • Equity Markets: The View from Silicon Valley
    By Catherine Austin Fitts This Thursday on the Solari Report, I will joined by Chuck Gibson, my partner in Sea Lane Advisory, LLC in the San Francisco Bay Area. Have you been surprised by the strength of the US equity markets this year? One of the primary trends fueling that [...]
  • Enemy of the State Director Tony Scott Dies
    By Andrew Blankstein “Top Gun” director Tony Scott fatally jumped off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro on Sunday afternoon, according to Los Angeles police sources. His body was pulled out of the water by Los Angeles Police Department, California Highway Patrol and U.S. Coast ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • A look behind the curtain at the news of extr ...
    Summary:  The force of American politics comes from one simple fact: both Left and right are Americans, and share the same gullibility. The pathos of American politics comes the ability of each side to see through the lies that mesmerize their opponents — and the mockery that this gullibil ...
  • National decay starts at the heart, and spread ...
    Summary:  As our War on Terror grows ever-larger, it becomes more difficult to distinguish the two teams. Our enemies increasingly are insurgents fighting tyrannical governments. Our allies are allies of Iran or (and) jihadists. And we use terrorism. Think of this as evolution. The New America s ...
  • Parsing Cyberwar – Part 4: The Best Defe ...
    Summary: In this series, Marcus Ranum, walks us through the basics of cyberconflict, in its various forms: the nature of the battlefield, logistics, and dynamics. Today he looks at methods of defense. While offense gets most of the attention, most organisations play only defense. So read and lea ...
  • The X-51A is $300 million of fun. Can we spend ...
    Summary:  We cannot find the few dollars needed to study serious threats like Climate Change and Peak Oil. But the military effortlessly obtains funds to study star travel. Our nation’s physical infrastructure rots. But the military effortlessly obtains the funds for beyond-cutting edge pr ...
  • Question time on the FM website. Post your qu ...
    Summary: It’s time again for question time — “ask the mineshaft”. In the comments post your questions about geopolitics — and post your answers to other people’s questions.  This is a community exercise, from the German “Gemeinschaft” (see Wikipedi ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • With Meles Gone, Will Ethiopia Become Less Aut ...
    Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s prime minister for the past 20 years died of an illness at the age of 57. Had he survived, he might have been prime minister for another 20 years. Meles was a technocrat with authoritarian tendencies. He was never going to face serious international pressure to ste ...
  • Discretionary Wars in a Small World
    The distinction between necessity and choice in arguing about war is a very prominent one – and the kind of categorical thinking that I and many other realist-sympathetic commentators have slipped into as well. But, of course, the topic is much more complex and multifaceted than that. Patr ...
  • Four Percent for Freedom
    It’s campaign season and the defense budget, after a decade of bipartisan support for steady growth, is once again a battlefield for Democrats and Republicans. Having used a credit card to fund a forty-year bender, both parties recognize the need – in theory if not practice – to get a handle on ...
  • Top of the Morning: Meles Zenawi Dies; Obama R ...
    Top stories from the Development and Aid World News Service–DAWNS Digest. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi Dies There has been much speculation about his health, so this should not come as a shock. The man ran Ethiopia with an iron fist, pushing through health and development projects ...
  • Cyber-something: It's Not Cyberwar, Exactly, B ...
     With cyberattacks gaining increasing media attention, it soon becomes apparent that our language does not quite match reality. War, for example, is understood to be state-directed violence to achieve political purposes. Adding a qualifier like a “one thousand battle deaths annually&r ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Cost of Living Apart
    (Flickr/Seattle Municiple Archive) Politicians and experts typically refer to schools as “failing” if they are filled with low-income children with low test scores. Faced with enormous challenges, such schools may be doing as well as they possibly can, though. African American children ...
  • Barack Obama's Billionaire Problem
    One complaint that has been around privately (and occasionally publicly) since the beginning of the Obama administration is that they haven't paid enough attention to "donor maintenance." Most (not all, but most) big donors are egotistical and self-important, and part of the reason that they gi ...
  • Republicans Are Leaving Gains on the Table
    In addition to endorsing a complete ban on abortion through constitutional amendment, the Republican Party platform will also include opposition to same-sex marriage, reports the Washington Post: Barbara Ann Fenton of Rhode Island suggested that the 112 members of the GOP platform committee end ...
  • Rep. Akin and Fun with Fake Facts
    Honestly, some days I can’t tell real news from The Onion. Representative Todd Akin’s staggering comment on Sunday about the female body’s amazing ability to reject unwanted sperm actually made my jaw drop. If only it didn’t represent what so many people believe, as Amanda Marcotte explained so ...
  • The GOP's Crazy Core
    The pragmatic Republican establishment (despite the Tea Party, there still is one) is frantic to jettison Representative Todd Akin’s toxic comments on conception and rape, and to quarantine the scientifically-challenged congressman. Much of the commentary has been about how Akin’s clumsiness co ...

Buzzflash

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

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Hairy Bikers BP BS
    Yesterday, I watched one episode of the food show from fellow “Geordies” Si King and Dave Myers in which they expounded the benefits of exercise and calorie reduction for weight loss. So far, so good. They had Newcastle University’s Roy Taylor tracking their weight, blood press ...
  • My Sister Rosalind Franklin
    My Sister Rosalind Franklin: A Family Memoir 9780199699629: Jenifer Glynn – Jenifer Glynn is sister to Rosalind Franklin, whose pioneering X-ray crystallography work provide the key insights needed by Watson and Crick to unravel the double helix of DNA. Much has been written about her role ...
  • Hairy Bikers BP
    UPDATE: The show’s producer got in touch to tell me she was massively disinterested in any big-picture message warping. “I just shot what Roy Taylor said. Dave and Si were both on medication for high blood pressure. Following alterations in their way of cooking, living, exercising an ...
  • Gadget in the pan? Just add rice
    While the Gates Foundation is looking to reward new toilet designs, there is a “first-world” problem that afflicts many of us from time to time. The dreaded dropping the phone, iPod, Kindle in the toilet bowl. The whole hygiene and pathogen dissemination issue of using electronic gad ...
  • Balls. Sorry…oblate spheroids!
    The sun is just a spinning ball of hot gas, 1.4 million kilometres across. The Deceived Wisdom about spinning balls if of course that they should bulge at their equator because of centrifugal force, the fast moving matter at the equator being flung out more than that at the North or South poles, ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • ACLU to Argue Wednesday at Guantánamo Tribunal ...
    Tomorrow, a military commission judge at Guantánamo Bay will hear oral argument on the American Civil Liberties Union’s challenge to censorship of torture testimony at the trial of the 9/11 defendants. This will be the ACLU’s first appearance arguing before the tribunal.read more
  • Federal Court Blocks Key Parts of Georgia and ...
    A federal appeals court today blocked key provisions of Alabama and Georgia’s anti-immigrant laws. Significantly, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit found that section 28 of Alabama’s law, which requires the immigration verification of newly enrolled K – 12 students ...
  • Good Food on a Tight Budget: EWG’s New Easy-to ...
    In an era of rising food prices and economic strains that have put one in four people on federal nutrition assistance, nearly all Americans must search for foods that are nutritious and affordable. To ease the pressure, Environmental Working Group’s researchers have created Good Food on a ...
  • Record Gas Costs and Price Manipulation
    AP just ran a piece titled “Summertime Blues for Drivers: Gas at August Record.”read more
  • Divided U.S. Appeals Court Rejects EPA Air Pro ...
    As many as 240 million Americans will lose new protections against dangerous smog and soot pollution after a sharply divided federal appeals court today struck down Environmental Protection Agency safeguards designed to reduce power plant air pollution that crosses state lines. A powerful dissen ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • AT&T: Pay Me, Screw Net Neutrality
    Craig Aaron From electricity to earmuffs, once you buy a product or service from a company, it shouldn't be any of their business how you choose to use it.(image: Free Press Pics / Flickr) The power company doesn't say you can't ...
  • We're All Subsidizing Free Lunches for America ...
    Scott Klinger Sam Pizzigati Belt-Tightening Time, an OtherWords cartoon by Khalil Bendib. A generation ago, on National Secretary's Day, America's top corporate executives used to take thei ...
  • Why Are Americans So Confused?
    Ira Chernus When I was back there in junior high school, there was a civics teacher who put forth the proposition that democracy depends on one simple principle: People are rational. Give them free access to information, and they’ll t ...
  • Veterans for Peace Appeals for Peace, Not War ...
    Leah Bolger This is an urgent appeal from Veterans For Peace. We are an organization of U.S. veterans formed in 1985 to try to bring an end to war. VFP is a non-profit organization recognized by the UN as an NGO.Map of the current members ( ...
  • As Romney and Ryan Dissemble, RNC Prepares Ra ...
    Jodi Jacobson As of today, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan may find themselves in a wee bit of a bind.read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Newspapers, Schools, Breaking News, Sports, We ...
    On Sunday, Aug. 5, Columbiana United Methodist Church Youth held their second annual Water Wars. This offered a chance for the youth of the church to come and enjoy a time of fellowship with water balloons, water balloon launchers, water guns and a giant foam pit.
  • California Water Wars: Will Thirsty Interests ...
    Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Now: California's water wars are back, as the state struggles to transfer a vital resource from where it falls to where it's needed. NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the area south of Sa ...
  • Will New Water Delivery System End San Diego’s ...
    The $14 billion plan involves a 37-mile twin-tunnel system to carry water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to farmlands and cities.
  • Water Wars: Gov Proposes Huge Underground Tunn ...
    Click here to view the full photogallery. Governor Jerry Brown and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar yesterday announced details of an expensive plan to ensure the future of Southern California's water supply (specifically, the supply shipped from Northern California)....
  • Calif. unveils $24B water tunnel plan
    Polarizing plan aiming to end Golden State's water wars still burdened by unanswered questions, hurdles

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • New book "Freedom Sailors" provides riveting a ...
    Rod Such 21 August 2012 Freedom Sailors is a first-hand account of the first successful attempt to break the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip by sailing two boats into Gaza City in 2008.
  • Jerusalemite faces decades in prison after vis ...
    Maath Musleh Jerusalem 20 August 2012 Samer Issawi faces essentially a life sentence after his arrest in a Jerusalem-area village, which Israel says is outside the city municipality and therefore violates a prisoner swap agreement that won Isaswi’s release last year.
  • Harsh economic and social conditions contribut ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Bethlehem 20 August 2012 After the brutal murder of a Palestinian woman by her husband, local human rights groups are pushing for stronger reforms to stem violence against women in Palestine.
  • "After Zionism" puts forth debates on one-stat ...
    Sarah Irving 14 August 2012 After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine is a significant contribution to the literature on the one-state/two-state debate.
  • Book review: how Israeli school textbooks teac ...
    Asa Winstanley 11 August 2012 A new book examines how the widespread inculcation of anti-Palestinian ideology in the minds of Israel’s youth is achieved in school textbooks.

The Wonk Room

  • Welfare Reform’s 16th Birthday Is Anything But ...
    Our guest blogger is Melissa Boteach, director of Poverty to Prosperity at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Sixteen years ago today President Clinton signed the law that did away with guaranteed income assistance for poor families with children and replaced it with Temporary Assista ...
  • Creating A Truly Level Playing Field: Putting ...
    by Harald Heubaum, via The Carbon Brief US presidential contender Mitt Romney recently said that, if elected, he would not extend the production tax credits (PTCs) that have helped grow the US domestic wind energy industry since the early 1990s. But does Romney’s claim that discontinuing P ...
  • Romney’s Plan To Restore Medicare Cuts Would I ...
    Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan continue to attack President Obama for “stealing” $716 billion from Medicare. The GOP presidential candidate says he will restore the cuts, despite the fact that Ryan included the savings in his FY 2013 budget. But if Romney did stick to his ...
  • CHART: Akin’s Views On Women’s Health Are In L ...
    Republicans have distanced themselves from Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-MO) “legitimate rape” comments, arguing that his insulting remarks are an embarrassment to the party. But peel away the outrageous rhetoric, and Akin’s policy positions on women’s health — his oppo ...
  • Medical Cannabis Supporters Launch Referendum ...
    Last month, the Los Angeles city council voted to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in that city, and the city recently sent letters to those dispensaries instructing them to close by September 6. In response, supporters of medical cannabis launched a petition drive seeking to trigger a referen ...

thwap's schoolyard

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

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End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Philadelphia Student Arrested For Photographin ...
    April 2, 2012 RT By RT “If the police weren’t up to something, why would they care if someone took their picture?” –KTRN A student in Philadelphia has been arrested for taking photos of a traffic stop outside his house. That’s despite of the fact that police officers were ...
  • Another Santorum Slip: Obama an Anti-War ‘Gove ...
    April 2, 2012 Crooks And Liars By Diane Sweet “Listen closely. He WAS about to say it.” –KTRN Failed former junior senator from Pennsylvania by way of Virginia, turned presidential hopeful, Rick Santorum speaks to a crowd at The Armory in Janesville, Wisconsin on March 27th dur ...
  • Is That A Crushed Bug In Your Frothy Starbucks ...
    April 2, 2012 NPR By Nancy Shute “If you are still going to Starbucks, stop! Not only have they killed almost every mom and pop coffee shop, by now it’s been proven they are using crushed up beetles in their beverages. Gross!” –KTRN Call it the tempest in the Frappuccino. ...
  • Congress Gets Rough Treatment At Supreme Court
    April 2, 2012 Associated Press By AP “Even the Supreme Court thinks Congress is lame.” –KTRN The Supreme Court left little doubt during last week’s marathon arguments over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul that it has scant faith in Congress’ abili ...
  • Japan’s Okinawa Island – The Healthiest Place ...
    April 2, 2012 Oddity Central By Sumitra “It’s really not that odd. The people living on Okinawa eat real food and have no stress – thus they live long lives. We can all learn a lot by studying the people living on this island.” –KTRN I used to think that there were ...

Armies of Liberation

  • State Department ends Yemen arms embargo
    Without much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
  • Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...
    Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
  • Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostages
    Al Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...
  • Obama’s strategic blunder in Yemen may shield ...
    A law passed by Yemen’s cabinet on Sunday provides blanket immunity to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and all those who served in his governments over the last 33 years. One unintended consequence may be to also immunize those al Qaeda operatives on the payroll of the Yemeni military and se ...
  • Former Yemen president’s intended US tri ...
    As pressure builds on the Obama administration to deny a diplomatic visa to ousted Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, the family of a sailor killed in the al Qaeda attack on the USS Cole urged that Saleh be denied entry to the United States. In a public plea, Gary and Deborah Swenchonis are c ...

Dark Politricks

  • Ask Alex Jones #9
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrisonplanet.com Aug 11, 2012 Alex answers Planet Infowars members’ questions.Check out all the best #altnews at DarkPolitricks.com
  • Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan to be Mitt Romney’s V ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com Following information that former Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) would announce his choice for Vice President outside the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Virgina, sources have confirmed that the nominee will be Rep. ...
  • American Values
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy William Blum The United States and its comrade-in-arms, Al Qaeda. And other tales of an empire gone mad. Afghanistan in the 1980s and 90s … Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990 ...
  • U.S. Army tests football field-sized super spy ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com The U.S. Army’s Long-Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) — a high-tech robotic spy blimp — was launched for its 90-minute maiden voyage on Tuesday from a military base in Lakehurst, ...
  • Historic Hypocrisy: UN-Backed Rogue States Pla ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Felicity Arbuthnot The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy. ” Former US Attorney General, Ramsey Clark On May 4th, 2012, UN Secretary General ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Gareth Porter: Civilian Deaths from US Drone A ...
    with Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Aug. 22, 2012 Aug 21, 2012 by TheRealNews Gareth Porter: New investigative work shows that civilian deaths in Pakistan, including from second wave attacks, higher than Pentagon reports Civilian Deaths from US Drone Attacks Much Higher than Repor ...
  • The War in the Shadows by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig August 20, 2012 A Swedish documentary filmmaker released a film last year called “Last Chapter—Goodbye Nicaragua.” In it he admitted that he unknowingly facilitated a bombing, almost certainly orchestrated by the Sandinista government of N ...
  • Michael Parenti: The Corporate Plutocracy
    with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org August 16, 2012 Aug 15, 2012 by SmellsLikePodcast For Episode 13 of the Smells Like Human Spirit Podcast, we are lucky enough to be joined by an internationally known award winning-author and lecture ...
  • Houston janitors take on the 1% — and win! by ...
    Dandelion Salad by Gloria Rubac www.workers.org Aug. 16, 2012 Houston — After a hot summer of mass demonstrations, civil disobedience, rallies, almost 70 arrests, prayer vigils and marches, Houston janitors — who had been without a contract since May 31 and went on strike in July — won double wh ...
  • How a Student Movement Can Become a Revolution ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://andrewgavinmarshall.com August 18, 2012 And so it seems that the student strike in Quebec is slowing down and nearing an end, as the college – CEGEPs – in Quebec have voted to return to class, with roughly 10,000 students having vot ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Yitzhak Laor: Apologize to Vanunu
    A nuclear demilitarization of the Middle East is the answer to the Israelis greatest quandary. The validity of this demand has never been more clear. The religion that has developed here - the basic... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Petition calls for IDF combat pilots to refuse ...
    The petition cautioned that in the event an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities caused the dispersal of radioactive materials among civilian populations "Israel as a country, as well as those... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Amid talk of Iran strike, IDF set to reactivat ...
    The "Eitan" drone can take off and land automatically, is able to stay in the air for 36 straight hours and reach a maximum flight height of 45,000 feet. In addition, the craft can carry cargo... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Reaffirming the legality of the Occupation: Ha ...
    One can conclude from Grossman's article, probably contrary to his intent, that in theory things could have been different. In theory the occupation could have been sustained with the upholding of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Simon Tzabar: A dialogue on the nature of security
    A brilliant work by Shimon Tzabar (1926, Palestine – 2007, London), an artist, writer, poet, satirist, amateur mycologist, and a vocal fighter against the occupation of Palestinian land by Israel. As... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Research to Examine Effects of Suicide on Vete ...
    University of Kentucky experts investigate suicide exposure and bereavement consequences in a landmark study funded by the U.S. Department of Defense.
  • Historian Examines Animals' Role in Westward E ...
    The story of westward expansion in the United States is often told from the perspective of the men and women who crossed the Great Plains in search of a better life in the west. But a historian at Missouri University of Science and Technology is bringing to light the role settlers' animals playe ...
  • IVMF, Griffin-Hammis Produce Government Benefi ...
    In response to a need for more easily accessible and organized information on governmental benefits available to veterans and their families, the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF), in collaboration with Griffin-Hammis Associates LLC, has released the publ ...
  • UI Hospital To Receive $2.5 Million for Heart ...
    The University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System has received a $2.5 million grant from the Medtronic Foundation to coordinate Illinois Heart Rescue, an ambitious statewide all-volunteer effort to more than double survival from sudden cardiac arrests in Illinois.
  • ORNL Technology Moves Scientists Closer to Ext ...
    Fueling nuclear reactors with uranium harvested from the ocean could become more feasible because of a material developed by a team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Natural Health News

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Klamberg on Extraditing Assange from Sweden to ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller Mark Klamberg, who is a lecturer in public international law at the University of Stockholm, has a detailed post on his personal blog about the likelihood -- or unlikelihood, to be more precise -- that Sweden would extradite Julian Assange to the United States.  He has kind ...
  • Can We All Admit that Assange Has No Legal Cas ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I will refrain from adding too much to the increasingly ridiculous battle over Julian Assange’s refuge at the Ecuador Embassy in the UK. Assange is acting like a paranoid lunatic and it is astonishing to me that so many folks who should know better instinctively ...
  • China and the (Not Very Positive) Future of In ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku While I am at it, I might as well flog my most recent piece on China’s relationship with international tribunals and international adjudication more generally.  This study, which attempts to document all of China’s treaties that include compulsory dispute ...
  • Weekday News Wrap, Tuesday, August 21, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey As UN monitors left Syria, fighting progressed to suburbs of Damascus. US president Barack Obama has said that if Syria’s government were to use chemical weapons, the US would be forced to act. German politicians have said that they will give no leeway ...
  • President Obama Adopts the Bush Doctrine in Th ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku President Obama emerged from his campaign bunker to face the press, and he issued what the NYT seems to think is a pretty serious military threat against Syria. “We cannot have a situation in which chemical or biological weapons are falling into the hands of the wrong ...

Public News Service

  • Arizona, U.S. Risk Losing Wind Jobs to Other N ...
    Arizona, U.S. Risk Losing Wind Jobs to Other Nations PHOENIX - Like the wind itself, the wind-energy industry has blown hot and cold in Arizona. Some blame the lack of effort in Congress to extend the Production Tax Credit for alternative energy, set to expire in about four months. The standsti ...
  • Election 2012: What about Arizona's Children?
    Election 2012: What about Arizona's Children? PHOENIX - So far, the 2012 presidential race has focused variously on unemployment, job creation, tax cuts, the candidates' tax returns, even the London Olympics. What's missing? The executive director of the Child and Family Policy Center, Charles ...
  • Is My Child Ready for Social Media?
    Is My Child Ready for Social Media? PHOENIX – Kids tweet, they post pictures on Facebook, and they connect through many social media channels - while their parents, in Arizona and around the nation, seem to accept it. A new national study by Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics finds 83 ...
  • Analysts: Ryan Budget Could Throw AZ into "Crisis"
    Analysts: Ryan Budget Could Throw AZ into "Crisis" PHOENIX, Ariz. - Paul Ryan, the GOP candidate for vice-president, was the architect of the federal budget that passed in the U.S. House this spring. ...(Read More)
  • Latino Voter Drive Passes Halfway Mark
    Latino Voter Drive Passes Halfway Mark PHOENIX - A drive to register 80,000 new voters in Arizona and five other states has passed the halfway mark. The effort by the national group Mi Familia Vota targets states with high proportions of Latino residents, according to executive director Ben Mon ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Feds Playing Politics with Food Safety is Enou ...
    By Michele Simon Rarely does the mainstream media bother to connect the dots when it comes to our broken food safety system. Consider these two recent headlines: • Foodborne Outbreaks Falling Short of U.S. Reduction Goals • USDA to purchase $170 million worth of meat to help farmers struggling w ...
  • Center for Food Safety Statement on the Oregon ...
    The Center for Food Safety (‘The Center’) is pleased to announce that the legal action filed yesterday at the State of Oregon’s Court of Appeals requesting an immediate stay on illegal planting of genetically engineered (GE) canola in the Willamette Valley was successful. The Court found suffici ...
  • Oregon Farmers File Suit to Prevent Destructiv ...
    Groups and producers take action to halt threat to the state’s vital seed production and organic industry Today, in an effort to stop the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) from an unprecedented expansion of industrial, genetically engineered canola production into the boundaries in the Will ...
  • Food Safety Update: Center for Food Safety Com ...
    By Michele Simon Last week I had the pleasure of lending my support, on behalf of the Center for Food Safety, to New York City’s proposal to limit the size of sugary beverages sold at food service outlets. (I wrote previously about why this policy makes sense.) The hearing room at New York’s hea ...
  • EPA to Beekeepers: Buzz Off
    Agency denies “imminent hazard” exists, fails to take immediate steps to protect bees from pesticides Earlier today the Environmental Protection Agency announced it formally refused to recognize that honey bees face an “imminent hazard” and denied a request by beekeepers to immediately suspend t ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Kangaroo cull
    Last week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
  • Environmental News 01/06/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
  • Green Capital Australia
    Today is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
  • Environmental News 31/05/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
  • Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...
    Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Military and Settler Vandalism Escalates as Co ...
    We continue to follow, report and support the struggle of the Palestinian residents of the West Bank’s southernmost region, to continue living on their ancestral lands which they legally own. One would think that in an enlightened society such a simple request would be guaranteed beyond do ...
  • A New Bio-Gas System in Palestinian Susya
    in May 2010, the Bio-Gas project was launched to install systems for producing gas from sheep and goat dung for the domestic energy needs of the Palestinian hamlet of Susya (Susiya). This project was the initiative of Yair Teller, together with The Villages Group and Arava Institute. The first s ...
  • Susya
    June 22, 2012: Susya I doubt if Palestinian Susya has ever seen so many people. Some 500, maybe more, have arrived from Jerusalem (including a large Palestinian delegation from East Jerusalem), Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva, and various sites in the occupied territories: Beit Umar, Mufagara, and the ...
  • My Home is Everything: the People of Susiya Sp ...
    Dear Friends and supporters, The latest news from Qamar, the lawyer from Rabbis for Human Rights representing Palestinian Susiya: the occupation’s “Civil Administration” agreed to extend the period for the submission of the juridical objections to the demolition orders issued f ...
  • Urgent alert to save Susya village from destru ...
    Dear Friends, Please have a look at the announcement below. For the last twelve years we have worked closely with our Palestinian friends in Susya, protected them to the best of our abilities from continuous violent harassment by Israeli settlers and by the army, fought the legal battle to keep ...

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.

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • The Jack Blood Show – August 15 2012
    Chris Maple joins us to discuss his documentary film series “THE GREAT CULLING” www.thegreatculling.org – the first edition is about our poison water (Fluoride)! Facts fly like crazy in this 60 min interview. The same director made “What in the world are the Spraying&#822 ...
  • Gunman Opens Fire At Conservative Family Resea ...
    What were we saying about Civil war? Sectarian violence is way up in 2012!     The conservative Family Research Council was the site of a shooting by someone who obviously demonstrates the “radical hatred” of the left. The gunman entered the lobby of the Chinatown headquart ...
  • More Federal Agencies Caught Ordering Huge Amo ...
    What does the Social Security Administration National weather service need with this kind of ammo? It appears our calculation a few months back could be right after all. Getting ammo off the market before it is banned or highly restricted  / regulated.  By the time regular folks find out it will ...
  • “The Great Culling” Official Water ...
    Chris Maple will be our guest ON “The Jack Blood Show” Wednesday August 15th 2012 (find it in our archives) SHARE THIS!!!!!!! “The Great Culling” Official Water Trailer 2 Donate Today! http://www.thegreatculling.org Hello Everyone - Chris and Paul here, we just wanted to ...
  • Gen Wesley Clarke hosts Military meets d list ...
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The Air Vent

  • Simulated Universe
    Calculated galactic formation. This is just way too good to miss: http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/17/scientists-create-universe-simulation/ http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/research/movingmeshcosmology/index.html
  • NH Sea Ice Heading for Record Minimum?
    From Cryosphere Today: Seeing the yellow line drop so far below the historic curves with much of the melt season ahead of us means we are probably on the way to a new record minimum for the Northern hemisphere.   Correspondingly, NH Sea ice anomaly is approaching the second lowest value in histo ...
  • Surface Stations Project Hits Paydirt
    It seems as always, I don’t have much time.   I have been waiting for this to break for a long time now, holding my tongue through a lot of critique from the usual advocate trolls.  This extraordinary moment in climate science is FAR to important not to call attention to and I will absolut ...
  • CG File Date Timeline
    An interesting Climategate timeline discussion has started in a recent Blackboard thread.
  • CG File Date Timeline
    An interesting Climategate timeline discussion has started in a recent Blackboard thread.

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Nanigans brings ex-Yahooer in as COO; more Fac ...
    Facebook advertising software company Nanigans appointed former Yahoo executive Marc Grabowski as chief operating officer, the company announced today. Grabowski was at Yahoo for nine years, and most recently held a position as VP Media Sales, North America. Another Facebook Ads API partner &#82 ...
  • Facebook tests larger visual format for Questions
    Facebook appears to be testing a new format for its Questions product, which includes large photos that users can click on to respond. We saw the social network testing this on its own “Known Issues on Facebook” and “Facebook Tips” … Continue reading →
  • Zoosk, Badoo, TopFace, Onedate and more on the ...
    Zoosk leads the list of top dating apps that integrate the Facebook platform with 14.6 million monthly active users, according to our AppData tracking service. The canvas app, which bills itself as “the romantic social network,” has more than twice as many monthly active … Cont ...
  • Open Graph apps can now use in-line tagging to ...
    Facebook today announced that Open Graph app developers will be able to integrate in-line tagging so that users can mention their friends in messages they share from an app. This feature will allow developers to give users more control over … Continue reading →
  • Zynga games, SongPop, social readers, Bing, Sh ...
    The Ville leads our list of the fastest growing Facebook applications by monthly active users this week with 11 percent gain that pushed the game past 60 million MAU. Titles on our list gained the most MAU of any apps on the … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • America on the road to Ryan and ruin
    Lawrence Davidson argues that a win for Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan in the upcoming US presidential election would most likely destroy what is left of the USA's social safety nets, devastate the middle class, greatly increase the ranks of the poor and unemployed, do away with unio ...
  • Palestinians "going for gold" are hampered by ...
    Stuart Littlewood views the failure of the Palestinian "embassy" in the UK to ensure full advantage is taken of the Palestinian Olympic team's presence in London and to impress upon the world the team members' achievements and the difficulties they face at home under the Israeli occupation.
  • Seven simple rules to ensure politicians repre ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that basic rules of conduct for public officials, such as Britain's "Seven Principles of Public Life", should guard against politicians acting on behalf of foreign interests, whether Mitt Romney in the US or David Cameron and William Hague in the UK. But sadly, he lament ...
  • Netanyahu versus Obama and Iran
    Alan Hart argues that, for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, a second term in the White House for Barack Obama is a far more serious concern than the illusory Iranian "nuclear threat" and that, if it appears that Obama is poised to win the upcoming presidential election, Netanyahu may o ...
  • Why Israel will not attack Iran
    Uri Avnery explains why he believes Israel will not attack Iran, highlighting in particular Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's own words as well as the risks to the world economy and the perception of blackmailing the US president on the eve of elections - both of which could backfire b ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Smokey Robinson- “Quiet Storm” It’s been over a half year now of Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol Music Pick. A lot of Saturday-night listening to an eclectic selection of music here at BFP. I hope you have enjoyed my selections (and the requests) so far. This weeks pick is al ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    From Indignados to Occupy The Indignados movement was sparked in Spain on May 15, 2011. In part inspired by the Arab Spring, young Spaniards, who face a 46% unemployment rate, occupied the Puerta del Sol in Madrid for several weeks, protesting against the socio-political and economic system that ...
  • The Template: NATO Consolidates Grip on Former ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization chieftain Anders Fogh Rasmussen has spent much of the past week in the former Yugoslavia, visiting Slovenia and Croatia on July 5 and 6, respectively, then arriving in Kosovo with the 28 members of the North Atlantic Council on July 11. Twenty years after NATO ...
  • Stop Imperialism Podcast – Covering Syri ...
    In this episode Eric Draitser covers recent developments and their implications in several regions including: Syria & Assad’s rejection of comparison with Libya-Egypt, Russia & Putin’s statement on the West clinging to Arab influence with airstrike democracy, Iran-China trade, CIA Dire ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 12, ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Why Election Campaigns Are a Waste of Your Time
    If you are paying attention to this 2012 election campaign, you are wasting your time. Nothing a candidate says or does matters. It's all about getting votes.
  • On the Duty of Fiscal Disobedience
    As an oligarchic plutocracy in America rises, we see around us that the very concepts of justice, common good, and the idea of the social are under relentless attack. Just because the rules have change doesn't mean we have to obey them. In fact, deliberative disobedience is becoming the mark of ...
  • Syrian False Flag Planned?
    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 them.
  • Lawless National Security Letters
    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.
  • War fever as seen from Iran
    For Moscow, "a new wave of the world order has been initiated by the United States in order to create a new version of the past unipolar world system. The main targets of this wave, Moscow maintains, include North Africa, the Middle East, Iran, Eurasia, and finally China and Russia." Forget abou ...

Switchboard

  • Thank You, Diana Nyad, Courageous Swimmer and ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City Monday evening, dolphins frolicked alongside world class swimmer Diana Nyad as she plowed through open ocean waters on her fourth attempt to swim from Cuba to the Florida Keys. In the midst of this ...
  • Let's Raise a (Nature) Revolution in Our Kids
    Sylvia Fallon, Senior Scientist, Washington, DC Fighting for a clean, healthy environment is my job. Literally. As a scientist for NRDC, I work to protect our endangered wildlife and wild lands on a daily basis. I find it challenging and rewarding ...
  • "Ratepayer," RIP
    Ralph Cavanagh, Energy Program Co-Director, San Francisco, CA Today I asked the California Public Utilities Commission to banish the word “ratepayer” from its institutional vocabulary. I undertook this mission in coordination with the Ca ...
  • States Save Fuel and Create Jobs from 54.5 mpg ...
    Luke Tonachel, Vehicles Analyst, New York City With landmark new automobile fuel efficiency standards expected to be released this month, NRDC teamed up with the BlueGreen Alliance to provide a state-by-state breakdown of projected jobs created, fue ...
  • In the Icy North, Risk of an Arctic Oil Disast ...
    Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC Across the nation’s breadbasket, many farmers are out of time waiting for cooling rains to salvage crops blistered by one of the hottest and driest summers on record. But up in the frigid ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Everything I do, I do it for you.
    As is often the case at the beginning of the school year, even secondhand and samizdat copies of textbooks become difficult to acquire. But if someone can score me a copy of the apparently very august Elements of Literature for Christian Schools, I promise I’ll make it worth everyone&#8217 ...
  • The Radicalism of the Republican Agenda on Abo ...
    In comparative perspective.
  • Realism and bad manners in Breaking Bad
    In the previous post, I wrote: [W]hy do people insist that Breaking Bad is a realistic portrayal of the perils of the methamphetamine trade? Because of scenes like what I’ll call “The Story of Jesse and the Beans.” I suggested that the answer is the power of conventions: if you shoot a family si ...
  • This One Goes Out to the Republican Party
    Every time I listen to the old Tex Williams song “The Night Miss Nancy Ann’s Hotel for Single Girls Burned Down,” I always think the relevant politicians are modern Republicans. The hypocrisy seems so perfect. I prefer the Hank Thompson version of the song.
  • The post I should’ve written about The H ...
    It reads like I actually did: On screen, when two characters or objects exist in relationship to each other, an imaginary axis between them constitutes the 180º line or line of action. In order to maintain geographic continuity and consistent screen direction in film, it is standard practice for ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Judge skeptical about graduates' claim that Br ...
    The fraud class action brought by graduates of Brooklyn Law School against their alma mater appears to be turning into an uphill battle. Attorneys for both sides spent three hours before Kings County, N.Y., Supreme Court Justice David Schmidt on August 21 debating the law school's motion to dismiss.
  • Ninth Circuit kills 'Die Hard' director's appe ...
    A federal appeals court has refused to grant Die Hard director John McTiernan's motion to suppress an audio recording of a conversation he had with celebrity sleuth Anthony Pellicano and recuse U.S. District Judge Dale Fischer, who had denied his request to withdraw an earlier plea deal, from hi ...
  • Fee enhancement limits don't extend to bankrup ...
    A recent appellate holding that bankruptcy cases aren't governed by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting district courts' fee enhancement power will help lawyers seek bonus fees when they get good results for creditors, according to practitioners who reviewed the opinion.
  • Bid to extend asbestos liability to job site v ...
    James Yukevich, name partner at Los Angeles-based Yukevich Calfo & Cavanaugh, talks to NLJ about an unusual defense verdict in which a bystander brought claims against an automotive company over asbestos exposure.
  • Gibson Dunn teams with Lawyers Without Borders ...
    Lawyers Without Borders and attorneys from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher recently returned from a trip to Kenya, where they helped train attorneys and judges on anti-corruption practices.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Radiation from Fukushima Caused Butterfly Muta ...
    Radioactive materials emitted during the Fukushima disaster caused physical mutations and genetic damage to butterfly populations living near the nuclear plant, a University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa Mutated butterfly new study says. In a series of tests, Japanese scientists found that butt ...
  • Interior Department Unveils Drilling Plan for ...
    A proposed management plan for the U.S.’s National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) would allow new drilling on half of the 23 million-acre reserve while placing the rest of it off-limits to oil and gas exploration. The plan, unveiled by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, also would not preclude ...
  • Auto-Related Pollution in Los Angeles Declined ...
    Levels of some automobile-related pollutants in Los Angeles have plummeted by 98 percent since the 1960s, even as gasoline consumption nearly tripled during the same period, a new study says. Levels of volatile organic Spensatron 5000/Flickr compounds (VOCs), which are emitted from the t ...
  • Natural Gas and Its Role In the U.S.’s Energy ...
    The boom in natural gas production has undeniable benefits for the United States. But two policy analysts argue that embracing a monolithic energy future dominated by gas will mean the loss of a golden opportunity: Leveraging cheap, abundant gas to create a sustainable future based on renewable ...
  • Shifting Climate Makes Frogs More Vulnerable t ...
    Increasingly unpredictable swings in the weather are making frogs more vulnerable to the deadly chytrid fungus, according to a new study. In a series of tests, scientists at Oakland University in Michigan exposed Cuban treefrogs living under a variety of conditions in laboratory incubators to ch ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Feds: Temple Shooter Committed Suicide With He ...
    The FBI revealed today that Wade Michael Page, the Army veteran and white supremacist who killed six people at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin on Sunday, appears to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after being shot in the stomach by a police officer who responded t ...
  • Liberated to Death : Post-Revolution Libya
    Persecuted Libyans Struggle to Be Heard Pregnant women miscarrying due to mistreatment, detainees mainly from sub-Saharan Africa denied adequate food and water. Small cells crammed with 80-100 detainees subjected to arbitrary justice by Libya’s volatile militias, politically persecuted Somalis f ...
  • Pussy Riot Trial Sheds Light on Kremlin’s Reli ...
    Critics in Russia want to see them "burn on a pyre," while supporters abroad are calling for their release. As the world awaits next week’s verdict against the feminist punk band Pussy Riot, officials within the Russian Orthodox Church seem to be realizing that the case against the trio was perh ...
  • Extreme Plasma Theories Put to the Test
    The first controlled studies of extremely hot, dense matter have overthrown the widely accepted 50-year-old model used to explain how ions influence each other’s behavior in a dense plasma. The results should benefit a wide range of fields, from research aimed at tapping nuclear fusion as an ene ...
  • On the Trail of the Warsaw Basilisk
    Few creatures have struck more terror into more hearts for longer than the basilisk, a monster feared for centuries throughout Europe and North Africa. Like many ancient marvels, it was a bizarre hybrid: a crested snake that hatched from an egg laid by a rooster and incubated by a toad. [Left: B ...

Russia Today

  • New deadly flood hits Russia’s south: 4 killed ...
    Four people have died, three more are missing and over 1,500 have been affected by a devastating deluge that inundated the region, already severely battered by the deadly disaster in July. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Big Bang? No, Big Chill! Australian scientists ...
    A team of Australian physicists have come up with their own theory on the universe’s creation. Challenging the “Big Bang” model, they now say it was a “Big Chill” – somewhat similar to water first freezing into ice and... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Hover bike: Star Wars technology brought to li ...
    A hover bike resembling the ones from ‘Return of the Jedi’ has been developed by a US firm, bringing science fiction to life. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • N. Korea takes key step in constructing nuclea ...
    North Korea has taken a pivotal step towards constructing a light-water reactor at its main nuclear complex in Yongbyon, fixing a dome atop the building. The facility could be used to produce nuclear weapons. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Criminal charges filed against German rabbi fo ...
    A German Rabbi has become the first person to face criminal charges after performing a circumcision. The charges come less than two months after a Cologne court ruled that the religious act causes bodily harm to newborn... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Long Live the Juche Idea?
    Just what is the Juche Idea? Judge the Juche Idea for yourself… Let Us Study the Juche Idea …and if you are desiring of a nice vacation spot with little irritation from automobile noise pollution and a blessed absence of advertising to hurt the eye, then check out the internationally ...
  • Hank Williams Jr.- yet another country music idiot
    The guy looks stupid, acts stupid, and says moronic things. Why does suburban style country music produce so many Tea Party idiot types? Hank Williams Jr says that President Obama is a Muslim president who hates the US
  • Meles Zenawi, the Pentagon’s Ethiopian h ...
    The Pentagon used this thug to help destroy Somalia in a D.C. sponsored invasion of that country. Here is the New York Times talking about him some: ‘Ethiopia is widely considered one of Africa’s most repressive governments, though it continues to get around a billion dollars of American a ...
  • More Jewish hate attacks in the news
    Because of US and Israeli government policies of hate, and systematic efforts to destroy all of Palestine, Jewish residents of the Apartheid state of Israel are increasingly engaging in hate attacks on the Arabs they have yet to push outside of the boundaries of their hate filled Jewish supremac ...
  • Let’s not forget Wikileaks snitch Adrian ...
    While we’re praising Wikileaks and its impact on our revolutionary times, let’s call out those who betrayed the cause, they’re already erasing their tracks on Wikipedia. First there’s hackster-confidant Adrian Lamo who turned in Bradley Manning; there’s fired Wikile ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • "9/11: Experts Speak Out" Premieres in Texas T ...
    When: Saturday, August 18, 2012, 7:00pm (MDT), with encore airings on Channel 12.1. Live Streaming and Details: Of special interest, CPT12 will be streaming this important event over the internet through Sunday, September 2, 2012 at: www.cpt12.org/911ExplosiveEvidence. Details of encore airings ...
  • Freeway blogging with the cooperation of CHP
    Published on Aug 15, 2012 by UhMark Police can and often do harass and intimidate citizens exercising their First Amendment rights of free speech. Especially in the post 9/11 era when the federal government and mass media are literally on the warpath, encouraging police to go on the warpath, v ...
  • Statement For 9/11 Justice Off To A Great Start
    Jon Gold CindySheehanSoapbox.blogspot.com 8/9/2012 Recently, I wrote a petition for people to sign called a "Statement For 9/11 Justice." As of right now, there are 278 signatures. Not bad considering it was posted 5 days ago. Some of the people that have signed it that you may have heard o ...
  • Noam Chomsky debunked on 9/11 Truth!
    Far too often I've had people tell me that they refuse to discuss 9/11 Truth because Noam Chomsky rejects it. So here is my rebuttal to Chomsky's misinformed, fallacious, and downright bizarre statements about 9/11 conspiracies.
  • New York City 9/11/2012
    The goal of this website is to hopefully encourage activists, politicians, celebrities, whistleblowers, alternative media, truthers, infowarriors, and anyone that believes we need a new investigation into the events surrounding September 11th, 2001 to come to New York this coming September. ...

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