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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 III

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Back To School: Are Cameras Needed?
    Our friend Leslie Phillips of National Autism Association asks an excellent question in this important back to school article: "You have to ask yourself, why don't they want them? Why don't they want us to see what's happening in the...
  • Denying Healthcare To Those with Autism Isn't New
    By Kim Stagliano Traditional and social media are abuzz with a story of a Pennsylvania man with autism who has been denied a heart transplant at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania over his "psychiatric condition" and "autism." His...
  • What's the Connection? SSRI's, Pregnancy and A ...
    By Teresa Conrick A few months back, I wrote about a calcium-binding protein, S100B, as it had been implicated as a possible biomarker in Autism -- "Autistic children had significantly higher serum S100B protein levels than healthy controls." From that...
  • Firsts
    By Cathy Jameson Today marks the day I brought my firstborn home from the hospital. Labor started on the 14th so after two days of hoping, wondering, praying and wishing my baby would hurry up and get here, she finally...
  • Age of Autism Weekly Wrap: Here Come the Bugs
    By Dan Olmsted Welcome to the new Weekly Wrap, a column highlighting issues in the news and wrapping in the week's From the Editor posts (which, for some glitchy reason, do not get picked up in Google News unless they...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • India may adopt Australia’s plain packag ...
    Sydney Morning Herald – Australia’s push for plain cigarette packaging has inspired India to consider similar laws, opening up a new frontier in the fight to reduce tobacco consumption. A taskforce of Australian and Indian public health experts last week presented a report to the New ...
  • Mexican official: CIA ‘manages’ dr ...
    Aljazeera – The US Central Intelligence Agency and other international security forces “don’t fight drug traffickers”, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state government in northern Mexico has told Al Jazeera, instead “they try to manage the drug trade”. Allegatio ...
  • Lord Rothschild in $200 Million Bet Against Euro
    CNBC – You know the euro is in deep water when a doyen of the banking industry, Lord Jacob Rothschild takes a £130 million ($200 million) bet against it. Lord Rothschild, an elder member of the dynastic Rothschild banking family, has taken the position against the euro through RIT Capital ...
  • U.N. monitors leave Syria
    Reuters – With signs of ceasefire in Syria unlikely and their mandate expired, the last wave of U.N. monitors prepared to leave Syria. Deborah Gembara reports.
  • Spanish Banks Bad Loans Rose 9.42% in June
    Oanda – Spanish banks’ bad loans rose to a record high in June as assets tied to the country’s deflating property market soured further, keeping the financial sector at the forefront of investor concerns about the country’s fragile economy. In the same month that Spain sought a European ba ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

  • A Promise to Haiti
    Join co-founders Matt Damon and Gary White on a recent visit to Haiti following up on our promise to help 50,000 people get safe water. The video ends with Matt, along with his father and brother, celebrating the opening of a new well with a community in the Central Plateau.
  • Urban water collection in Haiti
    No matter how many times one visits the developing world, it seems there is always another shocking image around every corner. Last week in Port-au-Prince we followed several people to collect water. After traversing a trash-lined creek bed and about 300 meters from the road we came across this ...
  • Community Latrines in India
    Many slum communities in India have this type of shared, public latrine, which, while helpful when brand new, can deteriorate within a couple of years.
  • An Empowered 6th Grader
    Parchurjya Bairagi was elected by his classmates to learn about good hygiene and sanitation, and to share what he'd learned with others. The results have reached far beyond his school walls.
  • A Lighter Load in Ethiopia
    Letebrehan Gerezgiher is 24 years old and has three kids; Maytsada village is living in this small village. She says,”I used to travel two hours in the dry season in search of water and then, without taking a rest, prepare food for my children and husband, clean the house yard, and wash the chil ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
    In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...
  • Seizure of Springs by Settlers Greatly Limits ...
    Palestinians have increasingly lost access to water sources in the West Bank as a result of the takeover of springs by Israeli settlers, who have used threats, intimidation and fences to ensure control of water points closed to tne settlements, Submitted by Naoko I. to World  |  &nbs ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

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

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Japan: America's Imperial Proxy
    by Stephen Lendman On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its surrender. On September 2, WW II officially ended. Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu's formalized it aboard the USS Missouri. Both dates signify VJ (Victory over Japan) or VP (Victory in the Pacific) Day. End of war m ...
  • Turn out the lights, the party's over
    Michael Collins (Washington, DC) Don Meredith blessed us with that song. It's just about time to sing it regarding the 2012 Presidential Election. (Graph source) Why? Because Mitt Romney's pick for vice president, the ultra-fit Representative Paul Ryan, is tightly associated with a make no m ...
  • Agent Orange: A Deadly Legacy
    by Stephen Lendman Fifty-one years and counting! On August 10, 1961, America began spraying Agent Orange in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Operation Ranch Hand waged herbicidal warfare for 10 years. Around 20,000 sorties were flown. Other spraying was done from boats, trucks, or soldiers mo ...
  • AIPAC Wants War on Iran
    by Stephen Lendman AIPAC is an unregistered foreign agent. It calls itself "America's Pro-Israeli Lobby." It's represented Israeli interests since 1953. Virtually no one in Congress confronts it. Doing so is a career-ender. It has enormous influence over US Middle East policies affecting Isra ...
  • The Nouveau Reign of Terror
    Michael Collins The Syrian regime should be smashed fast. Mr. Bashar al-Assad doesn't deserve to be on this earth. Laurent Fabius, French Foreign Minister Voice of America August 17 What do you expect from a fake socialist government? French President Francois Hollande joined the Empire ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • Fukushima Nuclear Situation “Deteriorating”
    by Richard Wilcox,dissidentvoice.org - Were it not for certain nuclear whistle blowers and outside, independent experts, the public would have to rely on the glib and technically inaccessible reports from Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) or the Japanese government. Not that those reports are ...
  • Hundreds rally at Obama campaign offices for P ...
    by Jeff Paterson, Courage to Resist  - OAKLAND Six veterans and activists in Oakland, CA, and six more in Portland, OR, were arrested last night at Obama campaign offices for occupying the spaces in solidarity with accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower PFC Bradley Manning. Dozens of veterans and anti ...
  • The horses are paying for chaos of a society s ...
    Horses s 14403 from joe mcevoy on Vimeo. Horses die in Spain as victims of financial crisis WWH/CJE,RTNews – Hundreds of horses in Spain are being sent to shelters or slaughterhouses. The animals are now deemed to be expensive luxuries that their owners can no longer afford because of the ...
  • LIVERPOOL’S FAILED UTOPIAN COMMUNE
    By Caroline Christie, Photos: Chris Bethell,vice.com – Traditionally, if alternative communes are found in the UK at all, they’re sited on the grounds of decaying National Trust properties in the sleepy, bucolic Home Counties. So when a bunch of Transcendental Meditators decided to s ...
  • Scott McKenzie’s San Francisco was a hip ...
    From guardian.co.uk – Rock history rightly celebrates the pioneers but sometimes the bandwagon jumpers get it right too. Whether anybody liked it not – and many in San Francisco didn’t – the song San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair) by Scott McKenzie, who died on ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Why Sugarcane Bagasse is the Most Promising Pa ...
    The history of cellulosic ethanol is a lot longer than most people probably realize. The Germans first commercialized cellulosic ethanol production from wood in 1898. The technology was commercialized in the U.S. in 1910, when Standard Alcohol Company built a cellulosic ethanol plant in South Ca ...
  • How Ethanol and the Chevron Refinery Fire Impa ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer two gasoline-related questions. One is on how ethanol is impacting current gasoline prices, and whether that increases the chances of a waiver for this year’s Renewable Fuel Standard. The other is on the impact of the Chevron re ...
  • How to Acquire Accurate Energy Data and Statistics
    Note: I am back in Hawaii after a long road trip, so my posting frequency will return to normal. I intend to record new R-Squared Energy TVs in the near future as well. In last week’s Energy Trends Insider our featured stories were How to Acquire Accurate Energy Data and Statistics, Invest ...
  • Climate Change and Developing Countries
    This post continues a theme I covered in my book Power Plays. Part 1 covered the impact on oil price and supply in Petroleum Demand in Developing Countries. Here I discuss some of the climate change implications. Climate Change Implications Regardless of one’s beliefs on climate change, it ...
  • Why China is Getting Their Feet Wet in the Oil ...
    In last week’s Energy Trends Insider our featured stories were Why China is Dipping Their Feet in the Canadian Oil Sands, CNOOC’s Purchase of Nexen May Signal New Wave of Consolidation, and Subscriber Questions on Lanzatech and Butanol. As we have done previously, we would like to sh ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Naiku Quick Question | Naiku
    Comments:Free site lets teachers conduct a variety of web-based assessments using any type of browser-equipped device. Very useful for formative assessment. - Randy RodgersTags: clickers, Teaching_Tools, polls, student_response, assessment, Online_Learning_Environments, formative_assessment, for ...
  • 18+ Videos Suggested for Back to School Facult ...
    Comments:"This post could be almost infinite: there is most certainly an extraordinary array of options for videos which expand educators’ understandings and inspire advances in 21st century learning.  But curation is about choice and selection, and while I know I will leave out many, I thought ...
  • How To Capture Ideas Visually With The iPad | ...
    Tags: ipad, Visual_recording, visualliteracyby: Dean Mantz
  • 10 Fun Tools To Easily Make Your Own Infograph ...
    Tags: infographics, tools, infographic, web2.0, howto, education, visualliteracyby: Dean Mantz
  • Blogs Wikis Docs Chart
    Tags: wikis, docs, chart, comparison, technologyby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • A Surprising Cause of Childhood Obesity
    Some causes of childhood obesity are obvious: Taking too many trips through the fast-food drive-thru or becoming best friends with a video game are the usual suspects contributing to the nation's growing childhood obesity problem. But behind the excess calories and inactivity hides a surprising ...
  • The Simple Trick That Strengthens Your Brain
    As a holistic physician and meditation practitioner with more than 25 years of experience, I have always believed strongly in the mental and emotional benefits of regular mindful meditation practice. The practice of regular meditation has been found to increase brain density, boost the connecti ...
  • The Fruit Trick That Prevents Sunburn
    Need another reason to love strawberries? You might soon be wearing them! European researchers have discovered that strawberries contain powerful compounds called anthocyanins that could help prevent inflammation and cancer caused by UV rays. In the latest study, published in the Journal of Ag ...
  • 3 Back-To-School Staples You Won't Find on Any ...
    If you believe all the hype you read in flyers and hear in TV ads, everything your kids need to head back to school can be picked up at your local big-box store. Well, don't believe the hype because three of the most important things that kids—kindergarteners, middle schoolers, and college stud ...
  • Johnson & Johnson Pulling Toxic Chemicals From ...
    Johnson & Johnson ingredients are going to be a lot cleaner in the coming years after the company took a major step this week, announcing its plan to remove toxic chemicals from baby products by the end of 2013. Adult toiletries will be less toxic by 2015, too, the company told the Associat ...

big think

  • Simultaneous Car Charging Means Extra Demands ...
    Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? Recent data collected from residents of Mueller, a sustainably-designed neighborhood in Austin, TX, shows that when people get home from work, they tend to turn everything on -- and that includes the charge ...
  • What It Means to Hate
    Last week, after the shooting in their lobby that wounded a security guard, the right-wing Family Research Council immediately blamed their listing by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group - as if that label, rather than the actions they took to earn it, was the only possible reason a ...
  • Jaron Lanier: What it Means to be #Human
    What’s the Big Idea?  Dreadlocked virtual reality/motion-sensor technology pioneer, octopus enthusiast, and master of a wide array of rare indigenous musical instruments Jaron Lanier is concerned about conformity. Lanier has been more intimately involved than most, since the very beginning, in ...
  • How Jeff Koons Cracked a Young Artist’s Dream
    Fresh off his potential “Colbert Bump,” conceptual artist Jeff Koons took a potential PR black eye this weekend in a New York Times Magazine piece titled “I Was Jeff Koons’s Studio Serf.” Former painter John Powers tells a short, but harrowing tale of working in the high-pressure studio of ...
  • FCC to TV Networks: Put Captions on Your Onlin ...
    Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ruled that television networks and web video sites have until the end of September to start providing basic closed captions for any video content made availa ...

Information Liberation

  • Fifty Shades of Government
    On a flight the other day, I noticed that a third of the passengers were reading a certain best-selling book. It got me thinking. Every politically active group wants something from government, and government is happy to oblige. It's even more obv...
  • Another Jury Revolts Against Marijuana Laws, " ...
    Jacob Sullum shares this incredible story from a defense attorney in Kansas. I had a jury trial this morning on level 3 possession with intent MJ, level 4 possession drug paraphernalia and level 10 no drug tax stamp. During voir dire, my almost all ...
  • LAPD Filmed Punching Man for Skateboarding on ...
    In a scene that brought with it echoes of the Los Angeles Police Department*s most infamous moment, residents filmed four officers holding down and punching a young man picked up outside his home for allegedly skateboarding on the wrong side of the s...
  • VIDEO: Distracted Cop Typing While Driving Cra ...
    Of course, he'd ticket you for doing the same. - Chris, IL HOUSTON * Civilians aren*t the only ones guilty of distracted driving. First responders, including police officers, have also been caught texting, typing, or talking on their cell phones...
  • Cops Step on Man's Neck During Arrest, Confisc ...
    The cop who stepped on the man's neck got a 15 day suspension as "punishment," the other cop who seized an onlooking woman's cellphone then charged the woman for "interfering with police" for failing to hand over her cellphone got off scot-free. The...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • My Sister Rosalind Franklin
    My Sister Rosalind Franklin: A Family Memoir 9780199699629: Jenifer Glynn – Jenifer Glynn is sister to Rosalind Franklin, whose pioneering X-ray crystallography work provide the key insights needed by Watson and Crick to unravel the double helix of DNA. Much has been written about her role ...
  • Gadget in the pan? Just add rice
    While the Gates Foundation is looking to reward new toilet designs, there is a “first-world” problem that afflicts many of us from time to time. The dreaded dropping the phone, iPod, Kindle in the toilet bowl. The whole hygiene and pathogen dissemination issue of using electronic gad ...

RFF Library

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

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First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Can't We Grow Hemp Instead?
    Port Hawkesbury's ghost town status gets another extension, Pacific West makes off with the public coffers, and things aren't really clear cut. (K'jipuktuk) Halifax – Single-resource towns necessarily experience boom and ...
  • Total Commitment: On Ramadan and Being Far Fro ...
    HALIFAX—It has been a glorious 30 days – from July 20 to Aug. 18. As the holy month of Ramadan came to an end this Saturday, the moment was bitter sweet. Muslims around the world spent their weekend celebrating Eid ul-Fitr, a ...
  • in case you or a friend are planning to join m ...
    by Mandy in Vanier Mandy Hiscocks is blogging from prison (Vanier Centre for Women) at boredbutnotbroken.tao.ca where she is spending a 16 month sentence for offences relating to anti-G20 organizing. in case you or a friend are pl ...
  • VANCOUVER: Continental Day of Action Against C ...
      Mining Justice Alliance joins communities across North and Latin America to decry Canadian mining corporations' role in the destruction and plunder of the envi ...
  • Denesuline Nene Traditional Assembly
    Need funds ASAP Need funds ASAP for Denesuline Nene ambassador to get to the Denesuline Nene Traditional Assembly happening this 20th of August where issues such as the tar sands, which occupies 80% of Denesuline Nene traditional territory, ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Of course the Democratic Party sucks... so what?
    My favorite description of the Democratic Party is Woody Allen's restaurant; you know the one, “such bad food and such small portions”.The American political system is corrupt and both political parties are part of the problem and in my opinion only a massive citizen’s movement similar to the Ci ...
  • The meaning of this year's election
    This year's presidential election is one of the most important in America's entire history and the reason is simple to the point of stark. It is all about who is going to fill any vacancies in the Supreme Court in the next four years.That simple.The Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ...
  • Political poetry... what is it?
    I have been indulging in verse and wondering whether there is a role in the USA for political poetry as there is in South America or in parts of Europe... So I asked myself what a poet is, and this is what I came up with.What is a poet? Master of the liar's art One who has walked the fog into ...
  • The Summer of 2012 (a poem)
    As I said in my previous post, at some point prose fails to express what I really feel. And I also begin to observe something that people who have never lived in a dictatorship may be slow to notice: that frank language is actively repressed, that certain truths may no be debated or even mention ...
  • A dream called “hope” in the potter’s field
    I’m on vacation and among the books I’m reading is “It’s the Middle Class, Stupid!” by James Carvillle and Stan Greenberg, a book I strongly recommend to anyone of any political leaning, anywhere, who is interested in where the world’s greatest economy is headed and what that journey to has mean ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Here's Why Obama is Maintaining His Lead Over ...
    Four weeks ago, thanks to Mitt Romney himself, the political world was consumed with "Romneyshambles," Romney's gaffe-filled disaster of a trip to Europe and Israel. Three weeks ago, thanks to Harry Reid, the political world was consumed with Mitt Romney's taxes. Then, thanks to Priorities USA ...
  • Fact Checking Not Dead Yet
    Newsweek might not bother with fact checking these days, but Ta-Nehisi Coates says it's still alive and well where he works: When I arrived at The Atlantic in 2008, I was subjected to arguably the most thorough fact-checking procedure in all of popular publishing. That meant submitting an anno ...
  • Yes, Plenty of Republicans Want to Ban All Abo ...
    In an editorial that joins the Republican lynch mob asking Todd Akin to leave the Missouri Senate race, National Review takes Democrats to task for pretending that Akin's views on abortion are anything but a laughable fringe. Sure, Akin wants to ban abortion in cases of rape, but no one else do ...
  • Does Obama Regret Reappointing Ben Bernanke?
    John Cassidy thinks President Obama was wrong to reappoint Ben Bernanke as Fed chair in 2009. I thought so too, so obviously I agree. Matt Yglesias agrees too, but he doubts that Obama himself has had second thoughts: An interesting further nuance is provided by [Cassidy's] very last line, whi ...
  • Dean Baker Says We Need to Reduce Our Trade De ...
    Dean Baker argues today that it's wrong to view bad housing policy as the main thing holding back the economy. I think that's right, and it's a point worth making: Bubble-inflated house prices created close to $8 trillion dollars of housing equity. The housing wealth effect implies that peo ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 343: nWFo
    Topics: Special Guests: Jaxx the Rapper, Rod & Karen from the Black Guy Who Tips The formation of the nWFO Lots and Lots of rants on everything from Politics to Rape to Rod complaining about women who fucked up his Fantasy Football bar nights Share with your friends:
  • IC 342: Land Sharks
    Topics: Ghostwriting You can’t force people to be activists Worse things than Kristen Stewart What Kevin Shouldn’t Do in Europe Shark Week Land Sharks The annoyance of politics Fix-a-Flat butt lifts Share with your friends:
  • IC 341: Moral High Horse Olympics
    Topics: Olympic fails Worst Olympic swimmer in history Domestic Violence CAN be funny Beware White Boys Bearing Drugs Shark Week Real Fear Factor The fear of prison rape keeps me out of prison Peeing in the pool Man beats woman with her dead dog Share with your friends:
  • IC 340: Double Trouble
    Topics: Olympic Taekwondo sucks Please don’t put MMA in the Olympics How Fox can (but won’t) use Days of Future Past to fix continuity Whedon back Warner Brothers and DC keep fucking up with the Justice League If you marry one conjoined twin…….. Pope says condoms are okay ...
  • IC 339: Niggalympics
    Topics: Folks taking things out of hand Did anyone really make fun of Gabby Douglas’ hair? Serena crip walking Rick Ross’ food rapping Cupcake ATM Evander Holyfield broke Fuck the Paterno family The Niggalympics Stabbed over Xbox Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Temperature rises could hamper developing worl ...
    Annual variations show every 1°C temperature increase shaves 1.3 percent off a poor country’s growth, over the course of a given year, according to MIT economist Ben Olken.
  • CO2-focused breeding can arm crops for food fight
    Higher CO2 levels could ensure we have enough food in the face of other climate and population changes, says Lewis Ziska from the US Department of Agriculture, if crop breeding programs tailored to take advantage get enough support
  • Continued emission growth promises US megadroughts
    2000-2004 western US drought was worst in 800 years, but will become normal in future, reversing the region’s absorption of CO2 and worsening climate change, says Christopher Schwalm from Northern Arizona University
  • Developed countries duck warming responsibility
    Rich countries have emitted 2/3 of CO2 through history but their pledges are set to result in just 1/3 of any future warming slowdown, says a study that combines climate, social, economic and ecological science by Xuefeng Cui and John Moore from Beijing Normal University and their colleagues.
  • Society must respond 50 times faster to meet l ...
    Using climate-society feedbacks Andrew Jarvis and colleagues from Lancaster University, UK, predict that the world is on course for 6°C of warming, but this could be much lower with even a slightly stronger response, if we make it quickly

e!Science News

  • Marine species at risk unless drastic protecti ...
    Many marine species will be harmed or won't survive if the levels of carbon dioxide continue to increase. read more
  • Sacrificing sleep to study can lead to academi ...
    Regardless of how much a high school student generally studies each day, if that student sacrifices sleep in order to study more than usual, he or she is more likely to have academic problems the following day. Because students tend to increasingly sacrifice sleep time for studying in the latter ...
  • Sleep improves memory in people with Parkinson ...
    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, researchers have shown. read more
  • Stem cells can become anything – but not witho ...
    How do stem cells preserve their ability to become any type of cell in the body? And how do they "decide" to give up that magical state and start specializing? read more
  • New technology to transform blood processing
    A pioneering surgical blood salvage technology developed at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, is set to transform the way major surgery is carried out by reducing blood loss in patients. read more

unEarthed

  • Age Of Extreme Energy Needs Extreme Caution
    U.S. lax about chemicals used in oil and gas operations In April 2010, a national nightmare began with a blowout into the Gulf of Mexico. But the hundreds of millions of gallons of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill were just th ...
  • Feds About To Toss Wolves To The Hunters
    Wyoming gray wolves may lose endangered species protection The Associated Press reports that the federal government will abandon its protections for Wyoming wolv ...
  • Smokey Loves Coal, Not Forests
    Forest Service prefers protecting wildlands, chooses bulldozers anyway The Sunset roadless area. Ted Zukoski photo (c). The Forest Service finally admitted it ...
  • Unplugged: Happy Motoring!
    New electric motor standards will save energy and simplify enforcement Earthjustice and a coalition of energy efficiency advocates and motor manufacturers are recommending stronger new effi ...
  • Q&A: Frank James, M.D., Whatcom Docs
    Medical professionals concerned about Pacific Northwest coal export projects (Editor's Note: This is the fifth blog post in an ongoing series about proposed coal ...

Brave New Climate

  • Two books on sustainable nuclear energy
    This is a short post to alert BNC readers to a couple of important things. First, Tom Blees has now generously released the full text of his book “Prescription for the Planet” — it is available for free download here (or click image). So, if you own an iPad or other tablet, or ...
  • Talking turkey on nuclear $$ costs
    This the final article in the SA Mines & Energy Journal series on nuclear energy (issue 24, pg 34), about the economic bottom line for nuclear. Ben Heard, my co-author, has also blogged about this on DecarboniseSA. And if you want a second opinion on, read what Columbia University’s Je ...
  • Fit-for-service low-carbon electricity technol ...
    This article (by Barry Brook) was originally published on The Conversation website until the title: “Low-carbon electricity must be fit-for-service (and nuclear power is)“. You can wade through the 224 comments over there (if you dare…) See also the comment here by Keith Orchis ...
  • No easy substitutes for fossil fuels
    The following guest post is republished (with permission from the author) from Opinion Online. Tom Biegler, who wrote this piece, worked with Martin Nicholson and me on our 2010 Energy paper, How carbon pricing changes the relative competitiveness of low-carbon baseload generating technologies. ...
  • Is the Olympic Dam mine a special case?
    Here is an Op Ed published by Geoff Russell and me in the The Adelaide Advertiser newspaper this week. It was in response to this piece by Jim Green. ———— OLYMPIC Dam uranium can power Australia four times over and close all our coal mines, write Geoff Russell and Barry B ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

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  • No, democracy isn’t the right of the maj ...
    By Naomi Paiss To some, the controversy over the firing of Adar Cohen, the Education Ministry bureaucrat in charge of civics education, may be no more than a footnote in the cultural and political wars roiling Israel. In my professional position, running communications for the New Israel Fund, I ...
  • Poster calls on Arab men to keep out of Jerusa ...
    Following the recent lynch-style attack on Palestinian youths in Jerusalem, racist extremists are starting a campaign calling on Arab men to keep out of popular Jerusalem hangouts and avoid dating Jewish girls – for their own good. The new racist poster, written in both Hebrew and Arabic b ...
  • ‘In a war, they do not distribute bread ...
    Some interesting quotes via the Iranian media roundup at Tehran Bureau (my emphasis). In his sermon for the Eid al-Fitr prayer in Qom, Grand Ayatollah Yousef Sanei, known as a supporter of the Green Movement, addressed the recent reports that Israel may be preparing to attack Iran. “I did ...
  • The holy war against Arab-Jewish relations and ...
    Those who attacked Palestinians in central Jerusalem claimed they wanted to prevent them from speaking to Jewish girls. The fear of interracial relations once found only in the fringes of the right are now turning into a legitimate, mainstream political issue in national-religious circles. Jerus ...
  • What is the link between Eli Yishai and Jerusa ...
    Interior Minister Eli Yishai has said that he would make the lives of African refugees ‘so miserable that they would want to leave.’  The recent lynching and firebombing against Palestinians prove to me that it is statements like these that instigate violence within Israeli society a ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • shhhh……It’s Even Better Than ...
    According to Wikipedia, Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) affects one percent of the population and has little to do with looking at yourself in the mirror.  It has a lot to do with unrealistic fantasies of success, power and intelligence.   Some NPD sufferers become cult leaders or mass m ...
  • Bring Out The Fences And Concrete Barriers&#82 ...
    They’ve been warning for months now, but you really cannot be prepared for your city turning into a heavily fortified warzone until you’re sitting in the middle of it.  And driving to work, I realized, I’m sitting at Ground Zero for the Republican National Convention here in Ta ...
  • I am more afraid of “my” governmen ...
    The government has declared it can lock anyone up forever or kill them without any proof or due process. DHS has placed an order for 450 million rounds of Hollow Point ammo. Obama can now declare martial law during peace time. I think that just about says it all. “We are Preparing for Mass ...
  • The American Home Mortgage Appeal, Will The Re ...
    Initial Brief AnswerBrief Trial transcript   Answer Brief appellantBrief Transcript Highlighted Scridb filter
  • The Most Important Lawsuit in The History of O ...
    The National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 gives the President of the United States of America the power to arrest, detain and try American citizens in secret tribunals with no access to an attorney and with no regard for fundamental American rights that form the very foundation of our natio ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • On Blood and Belonging
    It started out well enough. Jane and I had just finished sending my new book about London, Ontario to be …Continue reading »
  • An Open Letter To London’s New City Manager
    My London Free Press article of today – An open letter to City Manager Art Zuidema on his first week …Continue reading »
  • Beware the Sciopods and the Blemmyaes
    Prior to more detailed reports returning with people like Christopher Columbus and other explorers of the oceans in the 15th …Continue reading »
  • The Human Code (2) – Let’s All Be ...
    As humans, it can be a dangerous thing to permit ourselves to be divided into divisive camps. One of the …Continue reading »
  • The Human Code
    I was honoured to host two soldiers who had just returned from Afghanistan. One asked if they could view Question …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
    Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
  • Basic research and personal responsibility
    Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
  • Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
    Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But ...
  • Davos 2011: Global Risks permeate conversation ...
    Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. Take a metaphorical slice through this year’s annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, and Global Risk would be writ large through every part of it.  Hot on the heels of the sixth Global Risk report, this year’s meeting saw the launch of ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

  • Reality Check: add renewables subtract nuclear ...
    Germany’s increasing coal consumption is part of a global return to the fossil fuel that’s cheaper than most alternatives. The amount of coal burned worldwide rose 5.4 percent to account for 30 percent of total energy use last year.
  • Fisker Karma electric hybrid car is a gold-min ...
    The subsidy effectively provides a real incentive for Fisker not to make the car work or to sell more cars but to cease production as soon as practically possible without incurring any risk for repayment of the subsidy.
  • Wind power beginning to lose its gloss in Germany
    The cost of wind power is beginning to bite in Germany.
  • Lurid Julia Gillard story reaches the main str ...
    It is a lurid tale involving an old political cartoonist, a retired lawyer, the Prime Minister and her former boyfriend, an alleged fraudster.
  • Apocalypse Not!
    I have a theory that within a hundred years we will be bemoaning the lack of world population. The collapse of society will be forecast as the total world population stabilises at less than 10billion and the numbers of the young working population decrease in proportion to the increasing numbers ...

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Man Prompts JetBlue Flight To Make Emergency L ...
    There's the person you don't want to be seated next to on a flight (snores, won't share the arm rest, drools on your arm) and then there's the passenger no one wants to even be on the same plane with. Federal prosecutors say a man made enough people uncomfortable on a JetBlue flight from New [...]
  • See All The Pink On This Map? Those Are The 19 ...
    The Federal Communications Commission (or as we insiders like to call it, the FCC) has released its annual report on the state of broadband deployment in these here United States and while there is improvement in getting to the point where all Americans at least have the ability to access broadb ...
  • What Happened To The Clean Plate Club? America ...
    The scene is a familiar one: A lone child sits at the table, sullenly kicking the rungs of the chair that has become her prison. Her enemy — the pile of "stupid" and "gross" peas taunting her from the plate that she has been ordered to eat before she can leave the table, because wasting [...]
  • Have Best Buy Staff Changes Led To Increase In ...
    Best Buy has been making more than a few changes in recent months, and one Best Buy employee writes in to tell us that he believes some staffing changes have led to an increase in stolen items going out the front door. The anonymous tipster says that the store he works at has "gotten rid [...]
  • Body Shop, Local Businesses Pitch In To Repair ...
    A gay college student in Virginia says that his car has been the target of four separate attacks of vandalism in just the last few months, as some people find it hilarious to use their keys to etch homophobic slurs -- and randomly, the word "dye," which we assume is either a spelling error or [...]

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Circuit Court Ruling Limits Fed Employee Right ...
    Washington Post: Court Limits Federal Employee Appeal Rights Summary: Last Friday, a Federal Circuit court ruled that national security procedures will replace civil service appeals and merit system rights – such as the Whistleblower Protection Act – for employees removed from “noncritical sen ...
  • GAP Condemns Federal Circuit Decision
    Ruling 'Nullifies' Civil Service Rights (Washington, D.C.) –  Today, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) harshly criticized a ruling last Friday from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that, according to the decision's dissent, “nullifies” the Civil Service Reform Ac ...
  • Assange Blasts US Gov for Whistleblower 'Witch ...
    The New York Times: Assange Accuses US of a ‘Witch Hunt’ Summary: Yesterday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stood on the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy to give a speech, one condemning the US government and its prosecution of intelligence whistleblowers. Assange has been holed up in the e ...
  • Assange's Speech Mentions Three of My Whistleb ...
    Whatever your opinion of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, he was right when he called for an end to the war on whistleblowers in his speech outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London yesterday: The U.S. administration's war on whistleblowers must end. Thomas Drake, William Binney, John ...
  • GAP's Radack on Assange Asylum Decision: Daily ...
    The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann: Assange Granted Asylum Summary: GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack appeared on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann yesterday to talk about the ongoing Julian Assange saga. After holing up in the Ecuadorian embassy in L ...

UK Progressive

  • Ryan Isn’t an Entitlement Reformer, He’s an En ...
    by Robert Reich David Brooks in the New York Times commits the standard error of pundits who want to appear neutral but know the Romney-Ryan plan would be a disaster for America. He asserts that Ryan makes a serious effort at entitlement reform. “If you believe entitlement reform is essential fo ...
  • Missouri Congressman’s Disavowed Remarks Torme ...
    by Suevon Lee ProPublica A Missouri congressman’s startling remarksabout “legitimate rape” and pregnancy have set off a torrent of criticism from his fellow Republicans as well as from Democrats. And the episode has made the abortion issue an unwelcome focus for GOP candidates ...
  • The Five Reasons Why the Ryan-Romney Economic ...
    by Robert Reich Mitt Romney hasn’t provided details so we should be grateful he’s selected as vice president a man with a detailed plan Romney says is “marvelous,” “bold and exciting,” “excellent,” “much needed,” and “consistent with” what he’s put out. So let’s look at the five basic features o ...
  • Ryan’s War on Women
    by Brent Budowsky Here is one ad I propose for Democrats: “My name is Lilly Ledbetter. I passionately support pay equity for women. Paul Ryan voted against me. I will be voting against him. President Obama and Democrats are fighting for pay equity for all women. I will be voting for them.” Along ...
  • How Nonprofits Spend Millions on Elections and ...
    by Kim Barker ProPublica Matt Brooks describes the mission of the Republican Jewish Coalition as educating the Jewish community about critical domestic and foreign policy issues. But the well-dressed crowd that gathered in May for a luncheon on the 24th floor of a New York law firm easily could ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Big Green Machine – GE makes $21 billion ...
    GE — A clean energy revenue machine GE is so large that its annual revenue ($150 billion) is greater than New Zealand’s gross domestic product ($140.43 billion). But GE stands to profit in solving man-man global warming, whereas New Zealand will just pay. In 2011 GE generated $21 billion i ...
  • Are they serious? Shade Cloth over the Great B ...
    These people are not good with numbers. In a paper published in Nature Climate Change today, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, director of the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland, together with Greg Rau of the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of California, and Elizabeth McLe ...
  • Renewable energy is a $250 billion dollar indu ...
    … In June this year the UNEP report announced that Global Renewable Energy investment reached $257 Billion in 2011. It’s so large it rivals the $302 billion invested in fossil fuel power. But how much electricity do we get for all that money? When the details are pulled from the fog, ...
  • Compulsive namecallers: nutter, conspiracy the ...
    Got no evidence? Can’t hold a rational discussion? Just call people names. Go the smear. David Evans (my other half) pointed out that anyone who opposed the regulating class gets called a racist sooner or later (see those quotes at the end). Now it’s happened to him. Two weeks after ...
  • How much electricity do solar and wind make on ...
    Simple numbers are hard to get, so when Anton Lang pointed me at the EIA site (U.S. Energy Information Administration), I wanted to give everyone the straight answer to the question: just how much electricity do renewables make on a global scale? The EIA has the only database in the world with a ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Official Bunkers: BBC / Ottawa
    England I guess I’m just reminding y’all that the Powers That Be understand that it is best to be prepared, even if you don’t know what will happen, or when. I’m not suggesting that you build a mutli-level bunker like the Walton family, but please take a hint from your le ...
  • Earthquake-Proof Table
    I can’t wait for this product to go into production. Even though I live in a region that doesn’t really have earthquakes, I want one! The “Earthquake-Proof Table,” designed by Israeli industrial designers Arthur Brutter and Ido Bruno, was built with the table’s live-savi ...
  • DNA as a Storage Medium
    I’m always on the lookout for new forms of data storage, because it is important that knowledge is retained beyond any global disaster. Not only is this a marvelous new method, but it also suggests either in the past (alien intervention anyone?) or the future knowledge might be stored in l ...
  • The Electric Universe @ Thunderbolts.info
    An “electric universe” makes for an interesting alternative to standard theories. It has a lot of followers and few debunkers, and I really want to study it one day, although it is currently in my too hard basket. Not too hard for me to understand, but more too hard for me to find so ...
  • Belize 2012 Festival… with a twist!
    If you haven’t come across KickStarter yet, the concept is simple – people pledge $$ towards a project. If it reaches its funding goal, the project goes ahead, they take your money, and you get a predetermined gift or product. Sometimes it works amazingly well. I’ve actually he ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

  • Azmi challenges Raj: Find Bangladeshis, get Rs ...
    Samajwadi Party leader Abu Asim Azmi on Wednesday offered Rs two crore to Maharashtra Navnirman Chief chief Raj Thackeray if he substantiates his allegation about Bangladeshi voters in the Assembly constituency from where he won the poll. Reported by Rediff.com 1 hour ago
  • Brits shrug off nude photos of UK’s Prince Harry
    If the reaction of Britons to Harry's Las Vegas adventure was anything to go by, the nude photos will do little to tarnish his generally positive, party-prince image. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
  • Spouses of heart attack victims have an increa ...
    Spouses of heart attack victims have an increased risk of depression and anxiety, even if their partner survives, a new study has found. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
  • Indian at Warren Buffet's charitable trust gui ...
    An Indian man who worked for billionaire Warren Buffet's charitable foundation has pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of dollars from the organization and could face up to 20 years in prison. Related Stories Reported by NDTV.com 2 hours ago
  • Respect internet freedom, US tells India
    Voicing its support for full freedom of the internet, US has urged India to maintain respect for fundamental freedom, while probing rumours that have caused an exodus of northeastern Indians from southern cities. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • «International» Missions Patronize Apartheid i ...
    The situation in Serbia’s breakaway autonomy, Kosovo and Metohija, increasingly drifts towards apartheid. Incidents in which locals Serbs, including children, are targeted or Orthodox churches, monasteries, and cemeteries are vandalized recur across the province, as the administration evid ...
  • Russian “Punkers” Get 2 Years Jail ...
    When the US is overtly backing the terrorist invasion of Syria, seeing to the death, displacement, and disruption of millions of lives abroad, while hosting a mass murdering fugitive dictator at home, what then is it to back an act of hooliganism in a Russian church targeting a geopolitical riva ...
  • Pussy Riot’s Pyrrhic Victory
    The trial was closely watched at home and internationally not only by liberals, but also by people of other political viewpoints: nationalists, fascists, and extremists of all colors. In this case, the authorities could not show themselves to be weak, and not because they wanted to bestow vengea ...
  • If I Were Assad
    The situation in Syria keeps on getting hotter. The West is bumping up the pressure on Bashar Assad, hammering him with so-called “opposition” units that the countries of NATO arm, support and supply well with manpower — mercenaries recruited throughout the Middle East and Africa. Most of the me ...
  • «Independent Kosovo»: Pathological Criminal Ca ...
    The Western power centers use the «Republic of Kosovo» as a testing ground for working out the ways to create a quasi-state that could be defined as an «abnormal criminal case of global scope». The goal is reshaping South East Europe. The states below the «first echelon» are subject to the formu ...

BlogHer

  • Beginner Swing Kit in a Mason Jar
    [Editor's Note: What a great gift these wee little sewing kits would make. I've said it before and I will say it again, everything is cuter in a canning jar and sewing supplies are no different. Maggie from Smashed Peas and Carrots came up with this clever idea as a gift to give her latest sewin ...
  • Still Overwhelmed? Here's a Post-Conference Ch ...
    I still have a drawer in my desk full of business cards from 2011, and, um, errr, 2009. #ashamed I really wish I’d read a post like this four years ago when I attended my first BlogHer, and came home with a head full of ideas and a purse full of contacts I never did anything with, because I had ...
  • My Memories of Phyllis Diller
    Before a wave of texts, calls and emails informed me of Phyllis Diller's passing yesterday, there was an omen that morning. As I often do when showering, cleaning, cooking or, in this case, packing a suitcase, I play iTunes on shuffle. With 7,500 sound files, it's the only way to hear them all.I ...
  • Apple Rumors That Have Me Hoping
    On September 12, Apple is staging another event to announce the release of the next version of the iPhone – and possibly an iPad mini. The rumors are flying about the big reveal, but the thing I'm most stoked about is the possibility of an iPad mini. According to Apple Insider such a device woul ...
  • The Challenge of Me Time: Changing Focus
    [Editor's Note: As moms, we are told to take times for ourselves. Find a hobby! Do something that you love! Just be alone, with yourself! But the logistics and the carving out of said time presents a challenge. Autumn at Playing House Fulltime presents a change in thought about me-time, a shift ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, Aug. 17, 2012
    Hundreds of coal miners and their families stand in line while waiting to attend a rally at the Century Mine near Beallsville, Ohio, for Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/The Intelligencer, Scott Mccloskey) Out today is a p ...
  • GAO report supports MSHA black lung proposal
    The much anticipated U.S. Government Accountability Office report on the Obama administration’s proposed rules aimed at ending black lung disease is due out today, and the preliminary findings indicate GAO’s review supports the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration’s effor ...
  • About that coal deal with India …
    About two dozen protesters opposed to coal development in Montana occupy the state Capitol Rotunda on Monday, Aug. 13, 2012, in Helena, Mont. Protesters plan a week-long sit-in at the Capitol. (AP Photo/Matt Gouras) This week’s announcement of a deal to ship about 9 million tons of Appalac ...
  • Rockefeller touts GAO report on pollution stan ...
    Frankly, I’m not sure there was that much new in the GAO report that came out today on power plants, pollution and electrical system reliability. We already knew, for example, that the EPA rules did not threaten to cause widespread reliability problems. And we knew that many power plants c ...
  • Good news on global warming — kinda
    That’s one of the interesting charts included in a recent U.S. Energy Information Administration report that concludes: U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions resulting from energy use during the first quarter of 2012 were the lowest in two decades for any January-March period. Normally, CO2 ...

Daniel Miessler

  • The Real Reason to Exercise
    Most seem to think you should exercise to avoid dying early. That’s an acceptable reason, I suppose, but it misses what I believe to be much more important. Exercise enables you to function the way you should function. It’s a magnifier of value. It helps you finish writing that book, ...
  • The solution to bad teachers isn’t…
    http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-americans-keep-ignor… Sent from my mobile device; please forgive any brevity or errors. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentWhat Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success | ...
  • Self-publishing via DNA | Discover Magazine
    I have been meaning to read a book coming out soon called Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves. It’s written by Harvard biologist George Church and science writer Ed Regis. Church is doing stunning work on a number of fronts, from creating synthetic microbes to seq ...
  • Betrand Russell on Free WIll
    When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact that his annoying behavior is the result of antecedent causes which, if you follow them long enough, will take you beyond the moment of his birth, and therefore to events for which he [...]
  • Keystone Habits | Joel Is
    After I’d finished in the gym, I went straight home and had my usual breakfast of 4 Weetabix. As soon as I’d finished, I opened my MacBook Air, turned on the Pomodoro app and set the timer ticking for 30 minutes. I spent 30 minutes replying to emails from my “to-reply” label in Gmail, and [...]

Fitwatch

  • Spycops practices circumvent the law says Surv ...
    The Surveillance Commissioner has attacked police for circumventing the law on covert surveillance by building personal profiles of targets from ‘open’ internet sources. In a report published last month, the Surveillance Commission said that the increasingly used practice of processing internet ...
  • Welcome to the Future, Today.
    For those of us who have watched London 2012 with a keen eye from its inception, we have been alarmed by the extent to which it appeared to be just a 'festival of social control'. Yesterday's heavy-handed policing of the monthly Critical Mass bike ride  was a chilling confirmation of this. Cycli ...
  • The Most Dangerous Armed Gang in the Country
    A mini-rant from a few FITwatchers - not necessarily representative of the views of the organisation as whole. On Thursday, 19th July, killer cop PC Simon Harwood was acquitted of manslaughter at Southwark Crown Court for his role in the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests in 2009. Despit ...
  • A call to kettle FIT and Police Liaison in Bri ...
    Fitwatch are heading to the Smash EDO demo in Brighton on Monday 16th July, and we'd love you to join us. Smash EDO protests have historically been heavily hit by snoopers from the FIT, Police Liaison and the National Domestic Extremism Unit. These are all dangerous, vindictive and untrustworthy ...
  • Sussex police unleash new weapon – crowd ...
    Sussex police have recently started to use new forms of repressive tactics for policing demonstrations. They seem to have taken a break from head cracking to trial what they have termed 'Police Liaison Officers' or PLOs at the recent Smash EDO demonstration on June 4th. This may not be simply a ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Fukushima Nuclear Situation “Deteriorating”
    by Richard Wilcox,dissidentvoice.org - Were it not for certain nuclear whistle blowers and outside, independent experts, the public would have to rely on the glib and technically inaccessible reports from Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) or the Japanese government. Not that those reports are ...
  • Hundreds rally at Obama campaign offices for P ...
    by Jeff Paterson, Courage to Resist  - OAKLAND Six veterans and activists in Oakland, CA, and six more in Portland, OR, were arrested last night at Obama campaign offices for occupying the spaces in solidarity with accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower PFC Bradley Manning. Dozens of veterans and anti ...
  • The horses are paying for chaos of a society s ...
    Horses s 14403 from joe mcevoy on Vimeo. Horses die in Spain as victims of financial crisis WWH/CJE,RTNews – Hundreds of horses in Spain are being sent to shelters or slaughterhouses. The animals are now deemed to be expensive luxuries that their owners can no longer afford because of the ...
  • LIVERPOOL’S FAILED UTOPIAN COMMUNE
    By Caroline Christie, Photos: Chris Bethell,vice.com – Traditionally, if alternative communes are found in the UK at all, they’re sited on the grounds of decaying National Trust properties in the sleepy, bucolic Home Counties. So when a bunch of Transcendental Meditators decided to s ...
  • Scott McKenzie’s San Francisco was a hip ...
    From guardian.co.uk – Rock history rightly celebrates the pioneers but sometimes the bandwagon jumpers get it right too. Whether anybody liked it not – and many in San Francisco didn’t – the song San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair) by Scott McKenzie, who died on ...

reference frame

  • Strange claims about a new \(38\MeV\) boson
    In February 2012, Eef van Beveren and George Rupp released a provocative preprint based on their February 2011 work Material evidence of a 38 MeV boson in which they argued there is some evidence in the data from BABAR, CDF, CMD-2, CB-ELSA, and COMPASS experiments that there could exist a ...
  • Larry Summers: government is guaranteed to grow
    Summers' ode to an ever greater government is based on circular reasoning Larry Summers wrote a piece to The Washington Post and Financial Times that made me ROTFL: Government we can't afford (full text, free, titles differ)See also a response in The National Post which only reviews th ...
  • Peter Shor on deterministic fakes of quantum m ...
    Well over 90% of visitors to threads such as this Stack Exchange question by Gerard 't Hooft asking why professional physicists consider his research in the last 10+ years to be wrong are either unwilling or incapable of rational thinking or ignorant about the basics of modern physics. P ...
  • Arctic warming: a 1947 hysteria
    A hotel at Spitsbergen Steve Goddard found a pretty interesting article from the Saturday May 31st, 1947 edition of the West Australian published in Perth, ARCTIC phenomenon: Warming Of Climate Causes Concern It's interesting to observe these things especially this summer when ...
  • Hard work vs groundbreaking discoveries in HE ...
    I want to focus on one important aspect of the Milner Prize, namely the recognition of unexpected and original, creative research that goes beyond hard work. Matt Strassler has been trying hard to make the boundary look more fuzzy or non-existent. But the boundary is still there. T ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • The James Holmes Conspiracy (2012 Full Documen ...
    For those who do not believe the story we are being told by the government and media. The James Holmes Conspiracy. Several witness testimonies, news reports, theories and ideas behind the motives of the crime. Topics discussed include the second suspect, weapons, police audio analysis, James Hol ...
  • Latest Keiser Report “Where Money Goes To Die”
    Further informations about topics addressed are available in favourites, play lists on my channel and complementary video responses. RT “In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss the Irish government being so terribly ‘embarrassed’ that they hired two dirt ...
  • FPS Russia Jr: TDM 32-5 on Highrise
    please listen to if you don’t watch Video Rating: 2 / 5 FPS Russia Shirts – fpsrussia.spreadshirt.com My Twitter: twitter.com My Lets Plays: www.youtube.com Woody’s “How to make a successful youtube channel” : www.youtube.com Wanna help me pay for guns and ammo? Pay ...
  • Down-the-drain trading: Self-destroying cyber- ...
    Watch the full Keiser Report 306 here on.rt.com In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss the world looking for people looking for economic salvation in gold, the eurozone and emerging markets and ask “what kind of stupid people put precious money into messy banks?&#8 ...
  • Martial law is being prepared for a staged ban ...
    This is a Red Alert! Only exposing the fact that this is staged will make them back off. Let’s get to work exposing the Banksters. Don’t sit around with a bunch of guns talking about some physical confrontation. We don’t want it to go to that. The pen is mightier than the sword. Use It! [...] R ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either

Enviroblog

  • EWG, NRDC Sue California for Failing to Act on ...
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  • Ham and Cheese Again? Revamp your Lunch, Rethi ...
    By Altelisha Taylor, EWG food and nutrition intern Let me guess. You, like most Americans, usually have a sandwich for lunch. Or maybe it's a panini or a wrap, if you want to get technical. Regardless, it's what you eat... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...
  • Always Faithful: President Signs Bill Expandin ...
    "Times New Roman"">By Heather White, Chief of Staff We walked up to the White House Appointments Desk at 17th Street and State Place NW, headed for the West Wing. The security officer examined Jerry Ensminger's military... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...
  • Why I decided to cut back on processed meat, g ...
    By Altelisha Taylor, EWG food and nutrition intern As a kid, I was taught that a decent meal has carbs, veggies and meat. Tacos and burgers were my favorites. I have absolutely no interest in becoming a vegetarian. I'm pretty... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full l ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Import restrictions eased to spread butter
    The Norwegian market needs as many as 1,500 more tons of butter than what’s available from Norwegian producers, so the state is lowering the high, protective customs duties placed on foreign butter. That means more butter from places like France and Belgium may be on local store shelves so ...
  • ‘Multer’ finally ripe and ready
    Norwegian berry lovers have been grabbing buckets and heading for the marshes lately, especially in Northern Norway, to pick their share of wild, golden multer (cloudberries). Many feel pressure to act quickly, before the best areas get picked clean. “You have to get out there fast,” ...
  • Mette-Marit’s son in security ‘scandal’
    Crown Princess Mette-Marit’s eldest son, Marius Borg Høiby, has been eagerly releasing private photos of family holidays and other information about the royal family’s whereabouts for months, reported newspaper VG on Wednesday. No one seemed to realize that the use of such popular so ...
  • Labour parties, to fend off crisis
    NEWS ANALYSIS: Some commentators claim that Norway’s Labour Party is in its worst crisis since World War II, but party leaders put on broad smiles when gathering Tuesday to mark Labour’s 125th anniversary. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg made it clear he’s neither backing away ...
  • Pilots land on tax authorities’ radar
    Norwegian tax authorities want to make sure pilots and flight attendants based in Norway aren’t flying away from their tax obligations. They’ve launched a major probe into those who aren’t full-time employees but instead are hired in by airlines like Norwegian and Ryanair. News ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • ‘Quaquaponics’ – How to set up Aquaponics with ...
    You don’t need to eat fish to set up a backyard aquaponics system! Ducks are a great alternative and produce a huge amount of nutrient for growing veggies (not to mention providing eggs, meat and snail and slug control!) and they’re generally good friends to have around. At the ...
  • GMOs: It’s People vs Power on Proposition 37
    by Richard Widows I don’t think I could provide anyone with a better example of the madness and hypocrisy that plagues the Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) debate, than what is currently happening in California around the campaign to label GMO – or Proposition 37.  What is Proposition 3 ...
  • Australia’s Murray-Darling River Basin: Propos ...
    Comments yesterday by the Federal Minister for water, Tony Burke, following criticism of the proposed Basin Plan by the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, provide long overdue acknowledgement that a significant proportion of Australians do not approve of current water reform. The public is ...
  • Please Help a Permaculturist in Trouble – Update
    Tiny Eglington, who has been hospitalised in the Riverside Medical Centre, in Bacolod, in the Philippines for an infection is his leg, is now conscious and out of the Intensive Care Unit. Three days after Geoff’s post, PRI had raised $2174.01 which was sent to Tiny. This was enough funds f ...
  • Vandana says “Occupy the Seed”: Join the Seed ...
    by International Permaculture Day On Sunday 6th May 2012, we launched the first International Permaculture Day and were honoured to interview world-renowned environmental activist and seed defender Dr. Vandana Shiva. Dr. Shiva spoke to us about the importance of seed sovereignty as the basis for ...

Pointman's

  • Butt wiggling and the science of uncertainty.
    Being a climate realist, I’m used to a certain underdog status. I’ve learnt that it’s our advantage. We don’t have many of those, so you learn to work them hard. While they yap a lot, we get told to shut up but we watch them carefully while they’re yapping. We don&# ...
  • Announcing the inaugural Climate Prat of the Y ...
    I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but notables of the green persuasion seem to win a lot of awards from various green organisations. They give prizes to each other, occasionally with a nice bit of money as well; sometimes with a very very nice bit of money. You may also have noticed, t ...
  • Legislation by regulation.
    What is now called the European Union (EU), grew out of the aftermath of WWII, which had devastated both the economies and infrastructures of most countries in Europe. It was really the product of several treaties but the first big one was the 1957 treaty of Rome, which created a common market a ...
  • What’s the Watts paper actually mean, Dude?
    As a young man, my first mode of powered transport was motorbikes. Like all bikers, there was this thing you noticed about passing from the open countryside into a built up area. Basically, cities were warmer than the countryside, and exposed as you are to the elements on a bike, that was always ...
  • So, was climategate a hack after all?
    This is going to be one of those difficult articles to write, just to make it easy to read. It’s going to get technical at points, because it has to, so there’s going to be more than a few detours to explain things, but bear with me. It’s Sunday afternoon, I’m wearing sun ...

Journalists' Toolkit

  • Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery
    There are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
  • Baby Steps in Data Journalism
    This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
  • The best video export options
    How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
  • Video Resources updated
    The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...
  • Flash Journalism updates
    I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Is It Time For The Bounce Vote?
    New Orleans hip-hop artist Tenth Ward Buck, a legendary New Orleans bounce music artist, announced today that he has qualified for a spot on the ballot for the city council election in District B, the seat formerly held by Stacy Head. He is one of several candidates who have declared their inten ...
  • Unprecedented, Massive Cuts Devastate Universi ...
    While barely covered in the local media, the University of New Orleans is facing another round of brutal and devastating cuts, quickly transforming an already-under-resourced school into a shadow of its former self. Below is a letter from UNO President Peter Fos outlining some of the cuts. While ...
  • Coalition of Black and Latina Women, Women fro ...
    From our friends at the Congress of Day Laborers: A delegation of undocumented women from Arizona will join local immigrants and civil rights leaders from Women United for Justice, in demanding that Sheriff Gusman stop holding undocumented immigrants for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (IC ...
  • New Policy at Charter School in Delhi Louisian ...
    From our friends at the ACLU of Louisiana: The ACLU issued a letter today to the administration at Delhi Charter School in Delhi, Louisiana in response to its Student Pregnancy Policy. The policy requires female students even suspected of being pregnant to submit to a pregnancy exam – and if ...
  • Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute C ...
    Urban Bush Women have returned to New Orleans for another of their legendary Summer Leadership Institutes. This summer's theme is centered around the question, "Why are people poor?" You can catch some of their work this Saturday at a series of performances they are hosting. Below are the detail ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Am surprised they never came after TiU yet Fuck'em terroristsStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Wed Aug 22, 2012 7:03 am
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    CSR is of the opinion that the Ashkenazi J-Tribers came from multiple migrations to Russia-Ukraine from the West. The Turkic-Khazars likely were converted to Islam and Christianity since the 10th century after their defeat by the Rus. They are similar to the Turkic Kipchaks http://en.wikipedia. ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2012/ ... g-21-2012/ This is an interview on TheUglyTruth network among Keith Johnson, John Friend, and Mahmoud el Youseph, discussing this jDL demon walking-on-two-legs, and what it means for the REAL truth-movement. LindseyStatistics: Posted by LordLindsey — ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    joeblow is in the building...joe, how goes it bro? Statistics: Posted by Rockclimber — Tue Aug 21, 2012 8:27 pm
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    The supremacists pyschopaths are at it again, motivated by their delusions and believing their own lies... To read the whole story and comments go here but below is the gist... http://johnfriendsblog.blogspot.com/201 ... m-jdf.html Monday, August 20, 2012Greetings From The JDL I receive ...

TVNZ

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 ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Abe may seek LDP presidency again
    Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hinted he may make a second run for president of the Liberal Democratic Party in September. "My goal of breaking away from the postwar regime has yet to be achieved," Abe said on an Internet program Monday. "I've always been considering what I should do in what ...
  • Augusta National admits first women
    For the first time in its 80-year history, Augusta National Golf Club has female members. The home of the Masters has invited former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and South Carolina financier Darla Moore to become the first women in green jackets when the club opens for a new season in O ...
  • Over 225,000 register as victims of colonial-e ...
    Around 226,000 people have registered as victims of forced mobilization by Japanese authorities in Korea while the peninsula was under Japanese rule between 1910 and 1945, a South Korean government agency said. The agency, called the Commission on Verification and Support for the Victims of Fo ...
  • Chile to replace tsunami-hit Miyagi town's los ...
    The Chilean government is planning to give a stone replica of an Easter Island Moai statue created by Chilean artisans to Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, which was hit particularly hard by last year's earthquake and tsunami. The Chileans say the statue, the first made from the island's stone ...
  • Manchester United falls to Everton in van Pers ...
    Manchester United made a losing start to the Premier League season on Monday night, crashing to a 1-0 defeat at Everton as Robin van Persie endured a dismal debut. Marouane Fellaini capped an impressive performance by heading in a corner from former United midfielder Darron Gibson in the 57th ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Broadening the Bank of Canada’s Mandate
    Yesterday, Mike Moffatt took to The Globe and Mail’s “Economy Lab” in response to my suggestion that the Bank of Canada should moderate the exchange rate. My rebuttal of Mike’s rebuttal appears in today’s Economy Lab: Mike Moffatt’s friendly rebuttal of my comments on last week’s inflation repor ...
  • No Vale on the Plains?
    I had the following comments in yesterday’s front-page story on Vale’s decision to postpone its proposed $3-billion potash mine at Kronau, Saskatchewan: Regina economist Erin Weir, who is widely expected to run for the leadership of the provincial NDP, said in a statement Friday that the Vale an ...
  • The Right Response To “No Job Is A Bad Job”
    Last May federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said there was no such thing as a bad job. The Law Commission of Ontario may disagree. This week it put out a report about the rise in vulnerable workers and precarious jobs. Now that he’s heard from executives who think Canadians are paid too ...
  • Prices Decline Yet Again
    Statistics Canada reported today that, for a third consecutive month, consumer prices declined and the inflation rate fell below 2%. In July, the inflation rate was 1.3% and the Bank of Canada’s core rate was 1.7%. Gasoline and natural gas prices, which have been lower this summer than last, dra ...
  • Canada’s Economic Problem is NOT High Wages
    Bill Curry reports in today’s Globe that, at last year’s economic policy retreat, business leaders urged Finance Minister Flaherty to reduce the pay of “overpriced” Canadian workers, including through anti union right to work legislation. Coincidentally, or not, the subse ...

ReDress

  • 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 ...

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • Lawsuit Claims One-Third of California Drinkin ...
    “The movie Erin Brockovich made the chemical carcinogen chromium-6 infamous in 2000. A state law was passed in California the following year requiring formulation of a standard limiting its presence in drinking water by 2004. “Eight years later, two environmental groups have sued the ...
  • Out of sight, out of mind: groundwater in peril
    “A doubling of Australia’s population in coming decades combined with the crippling effects of future droughts means there will not be enough drinking water by the middle of this century if authorities do not do more to protect underground supplies, scientists warn. “This dooms ...
  • Shell Nigeria says leak contained, locals repo ...
    “Shell said on Friday it had contained oil leaked from a failed pump within a flowstation on Nigeria’s Nembe Creek though local residents disputed this, saying it had spread to mangrove swamps. “There was no oil spill, and there was no impact on the environment,” said Pre ...
  • Fracking, Coal and Nukes Wreak Havoc on Fresh ...
    “The undisputed champion of the current U.S. energy debate is  hydraulic fracturing or fracking. As conventional oil and gas resources become more difficult to come by, energy companies now have to dig deeper than ever to unearth the rich deposits of fossil fuels still available. In order ...
  • Bacteria Make Wastewater A Wanted Commodity
    “Nobody likes to think about what happens to wastewater once its gone down the drain, and it’s not often that sewers capture the imagination of researchers. But a new technology being developed by Oregon State University could turn sewage treatment plants from a major drain on the co ...

D. Kucinich

  • Victory: Treasury Department Allows Humanitari ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today issued the following statement after the U.S. Treasury Department announced the issuance of a general license allowing U.S.-based organizations to provide humanitarian assistance to the victims of an earthquake in northwestern Iran. Kucinich led fourteen ...
  • Kucinich to PUCO: Customers Should Not Pay for ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a dogged defender of consumer rights, today sent the following letter to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio: August 17, 2012 Mr. Todd A. Snitchler Chairman Public Utilities Commission of Ohio 180 East Broad Street Columbus, Ohio 43215-3718 Dear Cha ...
  • Kucinich Leads Fourteen Members of Congress to ...
    Washington D.C. (August 16, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) led 14 Members of Congress in requesting that President Obama allow U.S. non-governmental organizations to provide humanitarian assistance to the victims of the recent earthquake in Iran which has left more 300 dead and thous ...
  • Inspector General Probing Nuclear Regulatory C ...
    Washington D.C. (August 16, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today issued the following statement concerning an investigation by the Inspector General of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission examining the possibility that a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Commissioner undermined a pro ...
  • Kucinich asks NBC to Reconsider “Stars Earn St ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today wrote to the Chairman of NBC Entertainment asking that NBC reconsider “Stars Earn Stripes,” a TV show that puts celebrities in simulated combat situations. The program has been criticized by peace activists and veterans alike. The full text of Kucinich’s ...

Authentically Wired

  • is there anything “we” will not pr ...
    … is there anything “we” will not privatize …?   Why Are Our Public Schools Up For Sale? While charter proponents claim that their schools are less bureaucratic, more efficient, and more effective, the evidence fails to back those claims.    READ MORE»  …By Sarah Knopp, ...
  • who do we blame then …?
    …And still “we” believe that nuclear energy is safe … and when the tsunami hits Southern California … then what … who do we blame then …?   Nuclear Regulatory Commission Cites San Onofre Nuclear Plant for Security Lapse   Gregg Levine, Capitoilette: "The US Nuclear Regulatory ...
  • And who performed this assessment … the ...
    … And who performed this assessment … the Easter Bunny…?   New Nationwide Study of Election Fraud Since 2000 Finds Just 10 Cases of In-Person Voter Fraud   Brad Friedman, The Brad Blog: "A new nationwide analysis of 2,068 alleged election-fraud cases since 2000 shows that whi ...
  • Yet America’s “free” press f ...
    …Yet America’s “free” press fails to ask … why …?   In the USA only, Google Shopping has blocked all listings of vitamins and nutritional supplements. Week by week, Google keeps rolling out new censorship efforts that seem to be targeting natural product companies. Ed Group’s Gl ...
  • Jan Brewer – feelings about treating the ...
    … This should not come as a surprise as it clearly represents our Arizona Governor – “Sieg Heil”  - Jan Brewer – feelings about treating the “least” among us …   Free Bottle of Water? NOT WITHOUT A PERMIT! 08-19-2012  •  abc15.com via NaturalNews/DailyPaul PHOENIX &#821 ...

Popular Technology

  • The Truth about Richard Muller
    "I was never a skeptic" - Richard Muller, 2011 Richard Muller has never been a skeptic, at best he had a moment of intellectual honesty towards skeptics when he acknowledged Steve McIntyre's debunking of Mann's Hockey Stick, only to later dismiss this as irrelevant to the global warming debate ...
  • The Truth about Judith Curry
    Judith Curry is not a skeptic but a hurricane alarmist who had an alleged epiphany after Climategate and now seeks to be some sort of arbiter of scientific integrity. Her history of trust building includes accusing world leading hurricane expert, Dr. William Gray of "brain fossilization" and t ...
  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
  • Mastering the Firefox Search Bar
    As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...
  • The Truth about SourceWatch
    SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • The dark side of new species discovery
    Scientists and the public usually rejoice when a new species is discovered. But biologist Bryan Stuart has learned the hard way that the discovery of new species, especially when that species is commercially valuable, has a dark side-one that could potentially wipe out the new species before pro ...
  • Indonesia revises moratorium map; makes contes ...
    Indonesia is making 'encouraging' progress on its push to reduce deforestation by improving governance over its forests and peatlands, but still needs to do more to enforce environmental laws, said the head of the country's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) task force ...
  • Forest and environmental news in Indonesian
    Mongabay.com is pleased to announce the launch of Mongabay-Indonesia (mongabay.co.id), an environmental news web site published in Indonesian. The site was officially unveiled Saturday, May 19 at an event in Jakarta.
  • Can loggers be conservationists?
    Last year researchers took the first ever publicly-released video of an African golden cat (Profelis aurata) in a Gabon rainforest. This beautiful, but elusive, feline was filmed sitting docilely for the camera and chasing a bat. The least-known of Africa's wild cat species, the African golden c ...
  • The month in environmental news for April 2012
    Mongabay.com provides a quick review of forest-related news for April 2012.

Science - NZ Herald

  • Govt wants business to double R&D spend
    The Government wants businesses to double their spending on research and development as part of its plan to grow the economy but even reaching that target would leave New Zealand languishing below the average for developed countries.Prime...
  • $5.3m gift sets up Antarctic research unit
    New York philanthropist and billionaire Julian Robertson has donated $5.3 million to establish a new institute in New Zealand for research on the Antarctic and Southern Ocean's role in climate change.The New Zealand Antarctic Research...
  • Arachnophobic? New spiders with claws found
    Amateur cave explorers have found a new family of spiders in the Siskiyou Mountains of Southern Oregon, and scientists have dubbed it Trogloraptor - Latin for cave robber - for their fearsome front claws.The spelunkers sent specimens...
  • NASA Curiosity rover zaps rock on Mars
    Nasa's Curiosity rover has zapped its first Martian rock, aiming its laser for the sake of science.During the target practice today, Curiosity fired 30 pulses at a nearby rock over a 10-second window, burning a small hole.Since...
  • Puzzle of the Elephant Man probed
    He was the thing of children's nightmares, outcast by a Victorian society unable to comprehend his grotesque deformities, but was later immortalised in theatre and cinema.Joseph Merrick, better known as the Elephant Man, is one...

The Bovine

  • Thoughts on how to stay positive in the food r ...
    By Liz Reitzig, on the Complete Patient blog: “One of the things I do to help people access real foods in my area is I help run a buying club that makes local deliveries of real, non-GMO foods. About two … Continue reading →
  • Canadians jailed over unpaid fines
    From Karen Selick on The Justice Report: “Canadian news sources reported today that the federal government is seeking a collection agency to handle the task of collecting some $129 million in unpaid fines.  See, for instance, this story in The Globe … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk, lemonade, activists on Capitol hill ...
    From Dairyhead network: “This weekend, food safety is pitted against food freedom as two groups – Raw Milk Freedom Riders and Lemonade Freedom Day – take to Washington to protest the government’s interference in raw milk sales and neighborhood youth-organized … Continue reading →
  • You have the right to remain silent, and film ...
    Canadian Constitution Foundation litigation director Karen Selick, writing in the National Post: What have cops got against cameras these days? Increasingly, people are getting arrested, charged or even assaulted by police officers, merely for attempting to take photos or videos … Continue ...
  • The mutant butterflies of Fukushima
    From Fox News via DProgram: (AJC) – One legacy of the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year has already become apparent through a study of butterflies in Japan: Their rate of genetic mutations and deformities has increased with succeeding generations. “Nature … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Indiana's Voucher System Doubles, Public Schoo ...
    Indiana has the nation's largest school voucher system and it is about to double in size. In response, Indiana public schools wage unusual ad campaign. Struggling Indiana public school districts are buying billboard space, airing radio ads and even sending principals door-to-door in an unusua ...
  • CBO Expects 2013 "Fiscal Cliff" Recession Beca ...
    Automatic tax hikes and spending cuts will go into effect in 2013 causing a "fiscal cliff" recession according to the CBO. Massive spending cuts and tax hikes due next year will cause even worse economic damage than previously thought if Washington fails to come up with a solution, Congress' ...
  • Spain Predicts 4.3% Increase in Tax Revenues, ...
    Spain has been devastated by round after round of tax hikes. Another one is on the way. Via Google-translate, please consider this non-modified translation of government shuffles new tax increases to reduce the deficit Never two without three. The brutal tax increases approved by the Governme ...
  • ECB Printing Press Door Is Open
    Every day I get links from Spain, Italy, Germany, and Australia. The first three frequently cause problems. Translation from German is particularly difficult. For example, a Google-translated headline on Welt Online reads ECB chief demonstrates German banker. A cyberspace friend, "EM" ...
  • Part II - Robots to Rule the World? Taking All ...
    In part I of Robots to Rule the World? Taking All Jobs? Replace Women? I took a deep look at numerous robot and computer technologies that are displacing workers at a rapid pace. Will Robots to Rule the World? Right now it appears that way. Manufacturing may be returning to the US, bu ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • 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 ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 11, ...
    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 ...
  • Texas Case Raises Troubling Questions About AT ...
    Rio Grande Valley Businessman Was The Target of Multiple Arms-Trafficking Investigations Yet He Continued To Acquire Guns Through Straw Buyers By Bill Conroy @ the Narcosphere A series of criminal investigations initiated some four years ago by ATF agents, all focused on a weapons-trafficking ri ...
  • Pssssst… Buried News: Khalilzad Now Open ...
    Tethys Petroleum Appoints Zalmay Khalilzad to the Board Isn’t it amazing how the US media intentionally glosses over and censors meaningful developments involving key scumbag figures in US politics? Let me give you a personal example from the past- Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert’s we ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 10, ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

Press TV

  • 99-percenter sues judge for rights abuse
    An Occupy Wall Street protester has brought legal charges against a city judge for violating his rights by requiring a social networking site to turn over his messages and account information to prosecutors.
  • Russia to dispose of aging WMDs
    Russia is to dispose of all its aging chemical weapon stocks by the end of December 2015, says a top official in charge of the country’s chemical weapons safety.
  • BBC rapped for hiding spying practices
    British Communities Secretary Erick Pickles has blasted the BBC and other public organizations for hiding their use of surveillance powers to spy on the public and evading accountability.
  • ‘NAM summit in Tehran unnerves Israel’
    Iran’s Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari says Israel is fearful of the scheduled taking place of the upcoming NAM summit in Tehran as the event is certain to contribute to the Islamic Republic’s power.
  • ‘US stay won’t last in united Afghanistan’
    An analyst says the United States would not be able to survive in Afghanistan against a continued “massive countrywide resistance” of the Asian country’s elements of power supported by the Afghan people.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

Nick Turse

  • “A World of Hillbilly Heroin: The Hollowing Ou ...
    “A World of Hillbilly Heroin: The Hollowing Out of America, Up Close and Personal” By Chris Hedges Illustration by Joe Sacco Drug overdoses are the leading cause of accidental death in West Virginia, and the state leads the country in fatal drug overdoses. OxyContin — nicknamed “hillbilly hero ...
  • MANY SUBWAY CARS IN NEW YORK CITY HAVE BEEN SP ...
    MANY SUBWAY CARS IN NEW YORK CITY HAVE BEEN SPRAY-PAINTED BY VANDALS: 05/1973 (NARA)
  • "When I was very young and just beginning to g ...
    “When I was very young and just beginning to get what feminism was about and why it was...
  • Some of the 648 Journalists murdered since 199 ...
    Some of the 648 Journalists murdered since 1992 Beats Covered by Victims * 5% Business 29% Corruption 20% Crime 9% Culture 15% Human Rights 45% Politics 2% Sports 23% War (* May add up to more than 100 percent because more than one category applies in some cases.) For more, on these heroic ...
  • cjchivers:Please look away from all else for ...
    cjchivers: Please look away from all else for a moment to reflect on the passing of yet another journalist in Syria: Mika Yamamoto of Japan Press, who was killed yesterday in Aleppo. And please keep in your prayers two others missing in the same city: Bashar Fahmi and Cuneyt Unal, both of ...
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