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Friday, August 24, 2012

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Personal & Noted

Scoop - NZ

  • Reich: Ryan's Faux Populism
    On Friday, Paul Ryan, the presumptive Republican vice-presidential nominee, made the most populist speech of this campaign season. “It’s the people who are politically connected, it’s the people who have access to Washington that get the breaks,” he told an enthusiastic crowd of over 2,000 at ...
  • Tapu Misa: Paula Bennett so sure she's right
    Last week, while Labour leader David Shearer reprised a lame anecdote about a roof-painting sickness beneficiary in an attempt to appeal to middle New Zealand, Social Development Minister Paula Bennett was demonstrating how truthiness can drive public policy as well as public opinion. Defendi ...
  • Is Silicon Valley coming to an end ?
    Sacks wrote on Facebook that "Silicon Valley as we know it may be coming to an end". He wrote that in order to create a successful new company you have to find an idea that has escaped the attention of major internet companies ("which are better run than ever before"), is capable of being proven ...
  • Fisk, behind the lines in Aleppo
    After gaining exclusive access to Bashar al-Assad's army officers, our writer reports from the Aleppo front line
  • Morsi's visit to Iran could reshape political ...
    The Egyptian official MENA news agency reported on Saturday that Morsi will attend the Non-Aligned Movement Summit to be held in the Iranian capital Tehran later this month - the first such visit by an Egyptian head of state to Teheran since the Islamic revolution in 1979.

Independent - London

  • Sealed for 99 years and 363 days - so what was ...
    For 99 years, 363 days, two World Wars and doubtless more than a couple of moments of temptation - the people of the small town of Otta in Norway have resisted opening a mysterious package bearing the inscription, “Kan aabnes i 2012” - “Can open in 2012.”Related StoriesActivists storm Russian P ...
  • Two killed and at least eight injured in shoot ...
    Two people were killed and at least eight injured near the Empire State Building in New York today in the third US mass shooting incident this summer.Related StoriesTeenage girl escapes 'after being held captive and sexually assaulted for two years in village of Washington Park'John Lennon's ki ...
  • Bridge collapse kills 3 and train crash hurts ...
    Two transportation disasters struck a northeastern Chinese province in 24 hours, with a bridge collapse  upending four trucks and killing three people today and a collision of passenger trains at a railway station injuring at least 24 people.Related StoriesTalk about long haul: Paris bound woman ...
  • Two dead and eight injured after New York Empi ...
    Two people were killed and at least eight wounded in a shooting outside the Empire State Building today, a New York police source said, creating chaos and shocking tourists and commuters who witnessed the bloody scene outside the landmark tourist attraction.Related StoriesTeenage girl escapes ' ...
  • Angela Merkel offers Greek PM Antonis Samaras ...
    Angela Merkel reassured Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras today that she wanted his country to stay in the eurozone, but gave no sign of ceding to his pleas for more time to meet the tough terms of Athens' international bailout.Related StoriesActivists storm Russian Prirazlomnaya oil rigNorw ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Italian Dies after Setting Himself on Fire in ...
    Rome - A 54-year-old unemployed man has become the latest victim of Italian austerity measures. He died on Sunday from burns incurred when he set himself on fire in front of the Italian parliament last week. Angelo di Carlo set himself on fire in Rome in a protest against austerity measures on ...
  • Sinus Irrigation With Tap Water Linked to Two ...
    When water containing the Naegleria fowleri ameba, a single-celled organism, enters the nose, the organisms may migrate to the brain, causing primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a very rare -- but usually fatal -- disease. A new study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases describes the first ...
  • Shooter, victim dead, 9 injured outside Empire ...
    A recently laid-off store worker shot a former colleague to death Friday morning outside New York's iconic Empire State Building before being killed by police, police said. Nine others were hit by gunfire in the confrontation, but police said all were expected to survive. The shooting set off c ...
  • Human Lungs Brush out Intruders
    A runny nose and a wet cough caused by a cold or an allergy may not feel very good. But human airways rely on sticky mucus to expel foreign matter, including toxic and infectious agents, from the body. Now, a study by Brian Button and colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Chapel H ...
  • How Does Body Temperature Reset the Biological ...
    Numerous processes in our body fluctuate in a regular pattern during the day. These circadian (or daily) variations can be driven by local oscillators present within our cells or by systemic signals controlled by the master pacemaker, located in the brain. Ueli Schibler, professor at the Univers ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Bumper stickers . . .
    VERACITY STEW has a whole whack of similar delights. Enjoy. H/T — the regina mom
  • Careers in aviation . . .
    A drug package can still be seen attached tothe bottom of this downed cartel ultralight plane. Photo: ChuckHolton/Flickr THE WAR ON DRUGS continues its catastrophic process of destroying lives and cultures and consensus. The demand for mood-improving substances in the US is insatiable, as ...
  • Even paranoids have enemies . . .
    ONE AND A HALF BILLION ROUNDS OF AMMO — and more — have been acquired by various domestic US Government agencies. That's enough ammo to shoot every American 5 times. Really. According to The Daily Caller's article by Major General Jerry Curry, USA (Ret.), "Who Does The Government Intend T ...
  • Seduced by the Dark Side
    I owned a book by Ferguson once. His Colossus volume about American power I picked up after a recommendation from very likable but a right leaning prof. Interesting read at the time. I ended up leaving it on a bookcase somewhere.   The Oxford and Harvard historian Niall Ferguson's spect ...
  • An anthem for our time . . .
    RAY AND DAVE tell it like it is: Low Budget. Full lyrics at the YouTube page. Cheap is small and not too steepBut best of all cheap is cheapCircumstance has forced my handTo be a cut price person in a low budget landTimes are hard but we'll all surviveI just got to learn to economizeI'm on a ...

Media Matters for America

  • "Right On": Conservative Media Applaud, Defend ...
    Conservative media figures are defending and applauding Mitt Romney for invoking at a Michigan rally the false conspiracy theory that President Obama was not born in the United States.Romney Makes Birth Certificate Comment At Rally Romney: "No One's Ever Asked To See My Birth Ce ...
  • Conservative Media Rubber Stamp Romney's Flawe ...
    Conservative media outlets are praising Mitt Romney's newly released energy plan, claiming it will lower gas prices, create jobs, and "make America an energy superpower." But experts say Romney's goal of energy independence by 2020 is a "pipe dream" and that his plan overlooks environmental cons ...
  • "You Didn't Build That": How Fox News Crafted ...
    After weeks of Fox News pushing the dishonest "you didn't build that" attack on President Obama, the Republican National Convention will reportedly adopt the Fox News lie by adopting "We Built This" as a convention theme. Independent fact checkers have said this line of attack is dishonest.Presi ...
  • Conservative Media Dismiss Akin "Rape" Comment ...
    Right-wing media figures have downplayed and dismissed Republican Congressman Todd Akin's controversial remarks on rape and abortion, calling them "dumb" and a distraction. But Akin's rhetoric is reflected in actual policies pushed by conservatives.Todd Akin: It's "Really Rare" For "Legitimate R ...
  • NBC's David Gregory Adds To The Noise Of Medic ...
    NBC's David Gregory muddied the waters on the Medicare debate, saying that President Obama "claims that he would extend the solvency of Medicare eight years until 2024." However, this is not just a claim put forth by the Obama campaign; the Medicare Board of Trustees has estimated that Medicare ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

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

  • Anti-Fracking Residents Follow and Confront Pe ...
     At just after  8 am on Thursday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett got into a blue kayak in Beach Lake, Pa  to begin a 15 mile trip south on the scenic Delaware, the nation's most pristine and ancient river. Some 30 kayakers, friends and associates, including Richard Allan, Pennsyl ...
  • How One U.S. Coastal City Is Facing the Hard F ...
    NORFOLK, Va. – Water is inescapable in Virginia's second-largest city, home to the world's biggest naval base, three major port facilities and public and private shipyards. Norfolk is nearly surrounded by water: it sits at the mouth of the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and the junction of ...
  • Romney's New Energy Plan Would Doom Humanity
    Let's not mince words -- we're on thin ice. And it's getting rapidly thinner. We're breaking records faster than Usain Bolt but unfortunately we're running top speed toward the endgame. Our place in the record books is beside titles like "hottest" and "driest" and "most rapidly warming." This ...
  • Romney Releases Terrifying Energy Plan: We Are ...
    Let's not mince words -- we're on thin ice. And it's getting rapidly thinner. We're breaking records faster than Usain Bolt but unfortunately we're running top speed toward the endgame. Our place in the record books is beside titles like "hottest" and "driest" and "most rapidly warming." This ...
  • Farming Without Water? Age-Old Techniques Are ...
     As the nation grapples with the worst drought in decades, the USDA added more than 218 counties to its list of natural disaster areas, bringing the total to 1,584—more than half of all US counties. Farmers in the Midwest and Great Plains have been the hardest hit, but th ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • OMG! East Texas Judge rules foreign company ca ...
    Wednesday evening, Lamar County Court at Law Judge Bill Harris sent an email from his iPhone (complete with new internet slang – MSJ and NEMSJ) ruling in favor of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, allowing them to act as common carrier and giving them to right to condemn land for use ...
  • TVA found liable for toxin ladened coal ash spill
    Finally a positive ruling for those adversely affected by coal power plants.  Today a federal judge ruled that the Tennessee Valley Authority is liable for a huge spill of toxin-laden sludge in 2008 in Tennessee when containment dike at TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant burst. About 5 million cu ...
  • Today Was A Bad Air Day for US
    Today, the US Appeals Court in Washington, DC struck down an important pollution rule that would have protected up to 240 million Americans who live downwind from power plants that dump life-threatening pollution into our air like dangerous smog and soot. The divided ruling to block the Cross St ...
  • TransCanada – still a bully
    According to TransCanada, they started construction on the southern leg of their highly controvertial tar sands pipeline on August 9th, even as a trial questioning their right to use eminent domain to take a Texas farmer’s land was scheduled to be held the following day. At this time, Judg ...
  • 25 days of 100 degree weather, better than 90 ...
    Austin, Texas just hit 100 degrees today (according to weather.com). This is our 25th day of 100 degree weather this year.  That pales in comparison to 2011, where at this time last year we were counting down to breaking the previous record of 69 days of 100 degree days set back in 1925.  Austin ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • UFO sighted over New York State
    A silvery disc-shaped object was sighted over the town of Vestal this month by Brian Titus. Titus had been at Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton when he ...
  • China unveils ambitious space projects
    China's space agency has revealed a number of new projects that are currently in the works. Between 2014 and 2016 China hopes to launch several new pr...
  • Man bites snake to death
    In an unusual case of role reversal, a man in Nepal killed a Cobra snake by biting it to death. Mohamed Salmo Miya has been working in a rice paddy wh...
  • California firm develop 'hover bike'
    The Aerofex hover vehicle resembles the speeder bikes from the movie 'Star Wars: Return of the Jedi'. The bike is based on a design from the 1960s whi...
  • Bill Gates aims to reinvent the toilet
    The founder of Microsoft has turned his attention to providing toilet facilities to 2.5 billion people. While a lot of us take the availability of sui...

Grassroots

Climate

  • Support for Nuke-Free Japan Defies Government ...
    (The Asahi Shimbun) Policymakers determined to maintain nuclear energy believed most people would still want it as part of the nation’s power generation despite the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. Their calculations wer ...
  • Coal Plants Still Pressured Despite Romney Pla ...
    (Reuters) Coal-fired power plants will face pressure and in some cases closure despite a Republican energy plan favorable to the industry and a court victory against new environmental rules. As many as one-sixth of U.S. coal-fired pow ...
  • Residents Skewer Enbridge Oil PIpeline Plans
    (The Times of Northwest Indiana) VALPARAISO — Several residents voiced their frustration about the lack of transparency and responsiveness from Enbridge Energy LP and state government agencies Thursday on the company's projec ...
  • Pipeline Pitch: Registry Reveals Enbridge's He ...
    (The Canadian Press) VANCOUVER - It has been said that there are no true friends in politics ... but there are plenty of them. Few issues have made politicians so popular as the oil and gas potential in Western Canada and the big plan ...
  • Romney Energy Plan Supports U.S. Ethanol Mandate
    (Reuters) Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released an energy plan on Thursday that supports Washington's ethanol quota, a mandate several governors want to suspend as the worst drought in over 50 years sends corn prices t ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Another Shooting
    Ten people have been shot just outside the Empire State Building. Early reporting says that two people were killed, in addition to the shooter. Mayor Bloomberg is going to be someone to reckon with over this. The man is going to go ape. Update [2012-8-24 10:58:43 by BooMan]: Now reporting ...
  • Tell Your Lady Friends
    Paul Ryan still opposes abortion with no exceptions for rape, incest, or the health or life of the mother. Mitt Romney isn't willing to go that far, but he has supported a personhood amendment to the Constitution that would effectively make Ryan's position the inalterable law of the land. Here ...
  • Serious Question
    How do you feel about the birther joke Mitt Romney made today? Discuss
  • The Real History of the First Term
    In December of 2008, congressional Republicans were in an odd place. Their president was serving out the last days of his failed presidency, but all the important decisions were being made by people like Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. On January 9th, ...
  • Don't Freak Out
    Whether or not a hurricane disrupts the Republican National Convention, we should expect Romney to get a bump out of it in the polls. He has enjoyed some narrow improvement in his standing since he announced Paul Ryan as his running mate, despite an almost uninterrupted amount of bad news on th ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Inside an Abandoned Soviet Submarine
    This submarine, once armed with nuclear missiles, was prized by the Soviet Navy. Now, abandoned, it makes for fascinating urban exploration. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Bizarre Medical Treatments Involving Animals
    From snake massages to ant mandible sutures, check out this list of 10 Bizarre Medical Treatments Involving Animals. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Past and Future of Wind Power
    Two experiments demonstrate what wind power can do: a sailing trip around the coast of Africa, and Kite Gen, who aim to supply the grid with huge kites flying in the sky. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 20 Incredible Migrating Monarch Butterfly Pictures
    Monarch butterflies are not just pretty, they're also incredible insects. Each year special generations migrate across North America in their thousands. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Japan's Amazing Manga Cafés
    If you're into comic books, cultural experiences, or simply want a cheap place in which to spend the night, the Japanese manga café are perfect for you. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

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Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

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AlterNet's Breaking News

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

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #784
    US agencies still not sharing intelligence. Russian spies 'top priority' for Czech intelligence. Afghanistan blames 'foreign spies' for insider attacks.
  • Judge orders CIA to release files on drug king ...
    A US judge has ordered the CIA to respond again --this time in good faith-- to a FOIA request on the notorious Colombian drug smuggler Pablo Escobar. The FOIA request also relates to Los PEPES, a rival drug cartel set up by the CIA and the DEA in the early 1990s to help kill Escobar.
  • News you may have missed #783
    Israeli ex-intel chief says warns of 'hysteria' over Iran. Australian spy chief warns of economic espionage. Top US military official objects to attack on Iran.
  • Canadian reporter says Chinese news agency ask ...
    A longtime Canadian journalist says he resigned his post at China’s state-run news agency after he was asked to use his press-pass privileges to spy on a prominent Tibetan separatist leader.
  • Ex-CIA officer urges Bulgaria to probe alleged ...
    A 22-year veteran of the United States Central Intelligence Agency, who spent over a decade in the Middle East, has urged Bulgaria to probe a recent suicide attack against Israeli tourists on its soil without relying on American or Israeli assistance.

War is a Crime.org

  • De profundis clamavi
    De profundis clamavi, or why we can talk till we’re blue in the face but until we put our money where our mouth is we won’t get rid of the TSA Read the rest at TSA News.
  • Dear Syria, Please Consider What a Paradise We ...
    Iraqis wait to see gains from oil boom By Adam Schreck - The Associated Press BAGHDAD — Iraq is fast becoming an oil producing powerhouse, but you’d never know that by looking at the faded Unknown Soldier gas station in downtown Baghdad. There’s no repair garage or mini-mart, just a cramped offi ...
  • Should More of the Blood Be on the Train Tracks?
    At this year's Veterans For Peace convention in Miami, VFP President Leah Bolger challenged members to take risks: "Many of you have risked a lot for war.  What will you risk for peace?" One VFP member, S. Brian Willson, gave his legs and part of his skull for peace.  It was 1987, and ...
  • Vets & Activists Hold Sit-In for Bradley Mann ...
    OAKLAND, Calif. — Six out of seven protesters were arrested Thursday night after they held a peaceful sit-in inside President Obama's campaign headquarters and refused to leave. The protesters marched to the headquarters after a 5 p.m. rally in Frank Ogawa Plaza in support of Bradley Manning, a ...
  • Entrepreneur in Empire State Saves World Economy
    No joke.  A little innovative thinking and economic calculation, and someone has come up with a model in Niagara Falls that could restore the U.S. economy and every economy influenced by it, not to mention the natural environment and what's left of our miserable souls. The Niagara Falls Air ...

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Crocodile Swines and Gang Banging End Times
    By Visible It’s not a coincidence that Eugenics is a primary interest of rich men who own the space, time continuum and the financial masters of the universe. Emotionally retarded psychopaths, inflate their sense of self importance through reducing the value of others. All manner of things ...
  • What Happened After Europe’s Last Three ...
    by Tyler Durden on 08/21/2012 It may come as a surprise to some of our younger readers, that the Eurozone, and its associated currency, is merely the latest in a long series of failed attempts to create a European currency union and a common currency. Three of the most notable predecessors to th ...
  • Robbed MF Global Clients Pursue Criminal Charg ...
    by Alexander Higgins – August 22, 2012 at 7:13 pm MF global clients who had over a billion dollars stolen by Corzine, whose buddies in DOJ have decide not to prosecute, are pursuing criminal charges nationwide Last week Jon Corzine was given an unofficial pardon by his buddies in the Obama ...
  • The Key to Economic Recovery; Kucinich Explain ...
  • The $6 quadrillion cost of the climate scam
    Christopher Monckton on the economics of fighting ‘global warming’ The capture of the once-pure environmental movement by the hard left is far from cheap for the rest of us. I have just told the annual planetary-emergencies conference of the World Federation of Scientists that on the basis of th ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Scotland to Build World’s First Community-Owne ...
    As a country, Scotland has some of the most aggressive renewable energy targets in the world – the entire nation is working to be completely independent of fossil fuels in the next decade, and has pledged to use 100 percent renewable energy by 2020. You don’t have to be an energy exp ...
  • Thomas Allen’s Latest Works Find New Artistic ...
    Read the rest of Thomas Allen’s Latest Works Find New Artistic Perspectives in Dissected Old Science Books Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Art, Beautiful Evidence, book cut outs, discovery, encyclopedia, Foley, illustrations, New York., science, Thomas Allen, upc ...
  • Hawaii-Based Engineer Develops a Laser Powered ...
    Ryan K, a member of the Maui Makers hackerspace, has developed a laser powered by one of the strangest renewable power sources ever: tropical fruit! To be more specific, the power source is the Hawaiian Lilikoi fruit (more commonly known as passion fruit). By using the fruit in conjunction with ...
  • Minivelo: Russian Man Rides the World’s Tinies ...
    A video has been posted on YouTube of a Russian man riding what appears to be a fully working bicycle… apart from the fact it could probably fit in the rider’s pocket. It’s a good thing he’s wearing a helmet, as he doesn’t look particularly stable – the man&#8 ...
  • Ian Ruhter Converts a Delivery Truck into a Pi ...
    Read the rest of Ian Ruhter Converts a Delivery Truck into a Pinhole Camera for his American Dream Project Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: american dream project, american landscape, delivery truck, eco design, eco photography, eco-art, green art, green design, green p ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Todd Akin and the Anti-Science House Science C ...
    Aside from the sheer biological ludicrousness of Todd Akin's ideas on female physiology, one unsettling subplot to the debacle is his presence on the House of Committee on Science, Space and Technology. That's right: A man who, to put it gently, ignores what science tells us about how babies are ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Young St ...
    If you're like us, you could look at photos of galaxies, planets, moons and nebulas all day. But you don't have all day, so let Wired Science bring you the most intriguing, beautiful or mysterious view of space we can find. We promise they will be mind-blowing and tempt you to replace your deskt ...
  • What the Cluck? Introducing the Vegan Egg Yolk
    Rocky Shepheard has perfected a paradox: a vegan egg yolk, no feathered friend required. Nope, it's not one of those coconut-and-carrot-puree concoctions that molecular gastronomists are so fond of. This sulfury golden goo is every bit as eggy as anything laid by a hen.
  • Panorama Shows Every Mars Landing in One Beaut ...
    Travel through time and space on Mars in this cool mosaic, which includes at least one shot from every robotic mission to successfully land on the Red Planet's surface.
  • Slime Molds Help Show How Cancer Grows
    Smarty-pants slime molds can solve mazes and produce diagrams similar to the Tokyo rail system -- and now, scientists suggest, they may also be able to help treat cancer.

PakAlert

  • Texas judge warns of civil war if Obama is re- ...
    Texas Democrats are calling for the resignation of a Republican elected county judge who warned this week told a reporter on Tuesday that he and other officials are making plans for the possibility of “civil war” if President Barack Obama is reelected, warning that should the president cede cont ...
  • Infographic: The Illusion of Choice
    It seems like in today’s world there are fewer and fewer people making choices for the greater good. What I mean to say is that everything in our world seems to be able to be consolidated. The media of course is no exception to this trend with only 6 major companies dictating about 90% of the me ...
  • The Manufactured US Veteran Threat Against Oba ...
    Forget about al-Qaeda and state-sponsored radicalized Muslims, the newest Boogeyman that the US government wants the American public to fear are our own US veterans. The US Armed Forces are preparing to fight what they call “rahowa” or racial holy war. They claim that white supremacists are j ...
  • 5 Vital Strategies for Peacefully Underthrowin ...
    One of the main obstacles that tie the general population to the status quo is that many people are looking for a step by step process for how we can peacefully neutralize the power structure and achieve peace on this planet. This step by step process is not a possibility, because human actio ...
  • Judge orders release of US Marine detained for ...
    On the basis that there was zero reason to detain a retired Marine and commit him to a medical facility for psychiatric evaluation, a Virginia judge has demanded that Brandon Raub be released from custody immediately

Andy Worthington

  • Photos of The Pantheon and Il Vittoriano in Ro ...
    The Pantheon and Il Vittoriano in Rome: Transcendental Illumination and a Show of Power, a set on Flickr. I’m nearing the end of my two-week family holiday in Italy, and have been in Abruzzo province, near the town of Sulmona, since Sunday August 19. For the first week my family and I were ...
  • Parks, Water and Dreams: Photos of a Journey f ...
    Parks, Water and Dreams: A Journey from Surrey Quays to Central London, a set on Flickr. On July 19, 2012, I had been invited to The Arts Catalyst, on Clerkenwell Road, in London EC1, to speak at an event marking the sixth anniversary of the arrest of Talha Ahsan, a British citizen and a Londone ...
  • Churches, Temples, Fountains and Piazze: Photo ...
    Churches, Temples, Fountains and Piazze: The Historic Centre of Rome, a set on Flickr. In two previous sets of photos (here and here), I have covered the first two days of my two-week family holiday in Italy — with a series of photos from Rome, where we have been during this first week, be ...
  • Photos of Rome: A Storm, the Hills and the Tib ...
    Rome: A Storm, the Hills and the Tiber at Night, a set on Flickr. This is my second set of photos from my family holiday this year — in Italy, and, specifically, in Rome this week and, next week, a village in Abruzzo province. The eternal city (la città eterna) is one of the most [...]
  • Architecture on an Epic Scale: Photos of Arriv ...
    Architecture on an Epic Scale: Arriving in Rome, Visiting St. Peter’s and the Vatican, a set on Flickr. I’m on holiday right now, in Rome, an astonishing city, saturated in history, and still, of course, the centre of the Catholic church worldwide. Italy is a country that I have love ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • David Barton’s Make-Believe Version of A ...
    Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on Aug. 20 at the website of Other Words, which publishes progressive editorials and offers them to newspapers around the country. David Barton, a self-styled Christian historian who claims to debunk left-wing myths about America, is sur ...
  • Racists Accused of Four Murders Sought to ‘Pre ...
    Two white supremacists tied to the brutal murders of four people on the West Coast now face a federal indictment filed in Oregon alleging that they embarked on their rampage in order to “purify and preserve the white race.” David “Joey” Pedersen, 32, and Holly Ann Grigsby, 24, both from Oregon, ...
  • Ruby Ridge Carved Niche in History
    Editor’s Note: This article was first published on Aug. 19 in The Spokesman-Review, based in Spokane, Wash. The 11-day siege at Ruby Ridge began 20 years ago today, on Aug. 21, 1992. The author of this post covered the Aryan Nations and other extremist groups during his 37-year career as a repor ...
  • Kobach Tells Civil Rights Commission He’d Neve ...
    Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State and the architect of harsh, anti-immigrant laws in several states and cities, made a special trip to Hatewatch’s home state last week to testify in Birmingham before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The statutes pushed by Kobach – among them Arizona’s S ...
  • Kobach Tells Elderly White Southerners About t ...
    Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach didn’t leave Birmingham Friday after offering testimony at a contentious U.S. Commission on Civil Rights briefing on the impact of restrictionist immigration laws like those enacted in Alabama and Arizona. Instead, the nativist lawyer and author of the above ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • US: Israel's Inquiry Into Rachel Corrie's Dea ...
    Israel's investigation into the death of Rachel Corrie has failed to be "thorough, credible and transparent," U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro told the Corrie family last week. Shapiro made his comments to Rachel Corrie's parents, Craig and Cindy, and her sister Sarah at t ...
  • Drone Strikes in Pakistan Kill 18 Amid Continu ...
    Drone strikes hitting three compounds in Pakistan have killed at least 18 on Friday. The strikes come after repeated demands from Pakistan that the use of drones on its territory must stop, the latest demand just one day ago. Agencies report that Friday's are the seventh drone strike in Paki ...
  • #SavetheArctic: Greenpeace Activists Occupy Ar ...
    developing... Six Greenpeace activists have occupied the Russian oil drilling platform Prirazlomnaya in the Arctic to protest the risky plans for drilling in the pristine ecosystem.read more
  • Rebuffing Israel, UN Chief Heads to Iran for N ...
    Brushing aside a warning by the Israeli government and rebuffing a campaign by pro-Israeli lobbying groups in the United States, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has decided to visit Iran next week to participate in the summit meeting of the 120-member Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), described as the w ...
  • Ecuador: Assange Can Stay in Embassy for 'Cent ...
    Assange speaks to media from a window at the Ecuadoran embassy in London (Photo: Reuters)Ecuadoran officials stated Thursday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could remain inside the Ecuadoran embassy in London for "centuries" if need be, or essentially as long as he wanted. ...

Lifehacker

  • Make Your Own Cooking Gadgets and Upgrade Your ...
    Cooking can be easier and more fun when you have the right tools, but those tools are often pretty expensive. Instead of forking over the cash, you can make many kitchen gadgets yourself. More »
  • Remains of the Day: Microsoft Sees Every Windo ...
    Microsoft's SmartScreen technology sees every app you download, several NBC shows are coming to Amazon Prime Instant Video, Xbox Live is getting a special presidential election hub, and Evernote announces Evernote Business and a Partnership w ...
  • Battery Time Remaining Brings More Battery Inf ...
    OS X: With Mountain Lion, Apple took away the ability to see your remaining battery time in the menu bar. Free app Battery Time Remaining brings it back, along with a few other goodies to keep your laptop alive. More » ...
  • Are you worried about the recent changes to Tw ...
    Great discussions are par for the course here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Check out these discussio ...
  • DIY Solar Panel Backpack Charges Your Gadgets ...
    DIYer Theodore Protasiewicz shows us how to mod a backpack with a few solar panels to charge your devices with the midday sun. More »

Water Privatization

  • Director pushes Newark leaders to form water a ...
    State Local Government Services Director Thomas Neff issued a letter to city leaders this week pressuring the council and mayor to act quickly in creating a municipal utilities authority to manage the city's water, or potentially lose millions in aid and revenue
  • Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski hosts final publi ...
    Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski hosted the fourth and final public meeting on the city’s proposed Water & Sewer Privatization plan on Thursday night. Pawlowski spent the majority of the meeting reviewing the reasons as to why the city is in need of this proposed plan. The main focus of this plan is ...
  • Protest Held On The Steps Of Newark's City ...
    Opponents of Mayor Booker’s plan to create an MUA took to the steps of City Hall.
  • Wall Street Tightens Grip on Public Water as L ...
    Investment bankers and other major financial players are increasingly swooping in on public water utilities and other municipal services in cash strapped towns to the detriment of local residents, according to a new report released today by advocacy group Food & Water Watch. Vulture capitalists ...
  • Gov’t eyeing privatization of water utilities, ...
    DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 August) — The public-private partnership (PPP) program of the national government and the water sector reform bills now pending in Congress are all roadmaps to privatization, employees of 10 water districts from different parts of Mindanao said. Senator Edgardo Angara ha ...

Guardian

  • Arm of the law reveals Julian Assange arrest t ...
    Handwritten note detailing Met police strategy suggests there should be no escape, no matter how he leaves embassyIt is the "restricted" official document that sums up the Metropolitan police's tactics towards Julian Assange. "Action required: Assange to be arrested under all circumstances," say ...
  • Families raising funds to treat children for c ...
    NHS refuses to pay for treatment of tumour that trials showed cut deaths by 25%Dozens of families are clashing with the NHS over its refusal to fund treatments for a devastating children's cancer that are not available in Britain.At least 45 families with a child suffering from neuroblastoma, th ...
  • Putting modern art on the map
    Will Gompertz has sketched out a new history of modern art. Its key turning point is a shopping trip taken in 1917 by Marcel Duchamp, whose purchase was to revolutionise thinking about artistic activityThe story of modern art is in many ways the story of the 20th century. Art shaped and was shap ...
  • Empire State Building gunman shot dead by poli ...
    'Disgruntled employee' Jeffrey Johnson, 58, shot dead by police after attack in midtown Manhattan that left nine others injuredA laid-off clothing designer killed his former manager before being shot dead by police in New York on Friday after a workplace dispute escalated into a shootout near th ...
  • Jersey court convicts builder of knife massacre
    Damian Rzeszowski found guilty of killing six people, including his wife and their two childrenA builder who killed six people, including his wife and their two children, in knife attacks on Jersey was convicted of six counts of manslaughter on Friday after a 10-day trial.Damian Rzeszowski, 31, ...

McClatchey

  • Isaac aims at Haiti; Florida takes precautions
    A strengthening Tropical Storm Isaac signaled its arrival Friday with a cloak of dark clouds, rumbling thunder and fast-moving showers - only a taste of the downpours expected to drench…Click to Continue »
  • Libya to try Gadhafi son Saif al Islam, despit ...
    Libyas prosecutor general has announced that the central government and the militia thats holding Moammar Gadhafis son Saif al Islam have agreed to try him in Zintan, 90 miles south…Click to Continue »
  • New state laws make undercover probes of farm ...
    The undercover investigator who secretly videotaped alleged animal abuses at a meat processing plant in California's San Joaquin Valley would have been a criminal for doing the same thing in…Click to Continue »
  • Romney makes 'birther' joke during Michigan stop
    Campaigning today in his home state of Michigan, Mitt Romney stepped into the birther controversy, telling a crowd he's never been asked where he was born.Click to Continue »
  • Workplace dispute may be motive for shooting n ...
    A man who had been fired from his job in a shop outside the Empire State Building returned to the scene Friday morning, shot to death a former co-worker and…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Fort Campbell soldiers to deploy to Afghanistan
    The Pentagon announced Friday that three more Army brigades, including one from Fort Campbell, will deploy to Afghanistan this winter. About 2,800 soldiers from the 1st Brigade combat team of the ...
  • Airstrike kills 12 Afghan militants NATO
    A NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan targeting a group of insurgents near the Pakistani border has killed at least 12 militants, the international military coalition says.Pakistani intelligence ...
  • US hope of victory in Afghanistan dims
    With the death toll of US soldiers in Afghanistan surpassing 2,000 this month, citizens of the United States have shown less patience and confidence in the nearly 11-year-old war. On Wednesday, the ...
  • General US launched cyberattacks on Afghanistan
    (AP) The U.S. military has been launching cyberattacks against its opponents in Afghanistan, a senior officer says, making an unusually explicit acknowledgment of the oft-hidden world of electronic ...
  • Four soldiers wounded in Afghanistan
    The soldiers were wounded when an improvised explosive device blew up in Oruzgan province during operations with the Afghan National Security Force, the ADF said in a statement.The soldier who was ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Happy Birthday! Lloyd-La Follette Act
    Today is the 100th anniversary of the Lloyd-La Follette Act, a milestone in our nation's protections for government whistleblowers and a watershed in the balance of power between Congress and the President.  In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt issued an executive order prohibiting all fed ...
  • NWC Applauds First SEC Whistleblower Award
    Under a new program championed by the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) to reduce securities fraud, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today announced its first whistleblower award of nearly $50,000. The SEC's announcement is the mark of success for its new Whistleblower Program, w ...
  • Why Retaliation is a Company "Felony"
    By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash (and former chief compliance and ethics officer at two leading multinationals). Follow her on Twitter @DonnaCBoehme. “One way or another, I'm gonna find ya' I'm g ...
  • Blood Medicine tells the story of Mark Duxbury ...
    Kathleen Sharp's book about pharmaceutical whistleblower Mark Duxbury will be released in paperback on September 1, 2012. It is Blood Medicine: Blowing the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever. I had the pleasure of interviewing journalist Kathleen Sharp on November 15, 2011.& ...
  • Evans wins remand from ARB
    My client, Doug Evans, just won a remand from the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB). In a rare en banc decision, all five ARB judges joined in holding that Iqbal and Twombly do not apply to OSHA whistleblower complaints. Thus, the ARB's 2010 decision in Evans' case is final ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Help Us Expand The Insider Shop By Voting On I ...
    We want to keep our Insider Shop stocked with an always-expanding selection of fresh Techdirt gear, so we've set up a Step2 thread for you to vote on product ideas and submit your own. Our Seized Tee and DMCA Tee have both been very popular, so we're definitely looking for your input on new t-s ...
  • DailyDirt: Red, Red Wine...
    Alcoholic beverages have been part of human culture for thousands of years. But what do we really know about these drinks? Red wine goes with red meats, and white wine goes with fish... Liquor before beer, you're in the clear... Here are just a few more interesting tidbits of information regardi ...
  • Samsung Routed In Apple Patent Fight; Told To ...
    The jury in the Samsung/Apple patent fight took nearly everyone by surprise by rushing through its job and finishing it way, way, way before anyone expected. They didn't even ask any questions and with about 700 questions to answer, they breezed through it in no time. It was not a total victor ...
  • And... The Bureaucrats Begin Spreading FUD Abo ...
    We've been waiting patiently for quite some time now to see the SEC's "rules" for equity crowdfunding. As you hopefully recall, earlier this year, the JOBS Act became law, and one part of that was the legalization of certain forms of crowdfunding for equity (i.e., ownership of a company). You' ...
  • Apparently I'm A Google Shill And I Didn't Eve ...
    So, there's been this slightly weird tangent in the Oracle/Google patent & copyright dispute, in which Judge Alsup -- for reasons that are still not clear to anyone -- ordered both companies to disclose the names of any "authors, journalists, commentators or bloggers who have and/or may publish ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Sorry I dropped out for a few days. I was at the beach having the greatest shit show on earth. I actually brought my laptop. But who the hell was I kidding? Shane Thayer is having a contest. Writing a blog post that links to his artwork enters you in a contest for a free [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    A nice, short piece on why War is Not Inevitable.  (See also why Pinker, with his claims about violence decreasing, is a jackass.) And as long as we are on the subject of violence. Lakey makes some excellent points in his post about a diversity of tactics. Check out the stats on suspensions of c ...
  • Small Acts of Resistance
    I’m reading this book called Freedom’s Children right now. I only just started it, but it relates to all the thinking I have been doing about motivation and participation in activism. The author interviewed thirty people who were children or teenagers in the 1950s and 1960s. Maybe on ...
  • Die Chivalry Die
    You know that whole “women and children first” thing, where ship captains are supposed to stoically go down with the boat? Someone actually did a study of shipwrecks. Turns out – not so much. In examining 18 shipping disasters dating to the 1850s, the economists found little evidence that ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I can’t believe they are still kicking girls out of school for being pregnant. Do they think it is contagious? Do we need some sex ed for school administration? A map tracking unarmed people of color killed by authority figures. Interesting that the Western states have no killings. I reali ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • If Breivik is sane, what is sanity?
    Fittingly, a Norwegian court today pronounced its conclusion that Anders Behring Breivik is sane and thus has been given the maximum sentence for his crimes. As The Guardian notes, Norway demonstrated that terrorism can be faced without suspending the legal rights of the accused through ‘a ...
  • Attacking Iran would destroy Israel’s economy
    M.J. Rosenberg writes: A couple of years before Binyamin Netanyahu was elected prime minister of Israel in 2009, I participated in a small meeting with him as a staffer for Israel Policy Forum, an organization that lobbied for the “two-state” solution. Netanyahu was ebullient. He see ...
  • Suicide attacks in Syria
    John Rosenthal writes: There has recently been a small stir in the American media, as media organizations from the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal to the Associated Press have finally gotten around to acknowledging a “presence” of al-Qaeda and like-minded jihadist groups am ...
  • Gruesome killings mark escalation of violence ...
    The Washington Post reports: Scores of mutilated, bloodied bodies have been found dumped on the streets and on waste ground on the outskirts of Damascus in recent days, apparently the victims of a surge of extrajudicial killings by Syrian security forces seeking to drive rebel fighters out of th ...
  • Whereabouts of journalist Austin Tice, McClatc ...
    McClatchy reports: Austin Tice, a freelance American journalist who has contributed to McClatchy, The Washington Post and other media outlets from Syria, has been incommunicado for more than a week, his whereabouts unknown since exchanging email with a colleague. Tice, a Georgetown University la ...

Watts Up With That?

  • The Maldives Emily Littella sea level moment & ...
    (For those of you who aren’t familiar with Emily Littella) From Tom Nelson: Current Maldives president: Remember when the previous Maldives president claimed that CO2 was going to cause our country to disappear? Never mind HaveeruOnline – Global warming won’t … Continue r ...
  • Poetic license – UEA’s Creative Cl ...
    People send me stuff. Here’s one about UEA offering a prize contest for “creative climate writing”. – Anthony To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: UEA Magazine – Climate Writing Clanger… An article on page 16 of the University of East Anglia August/September ...
  • Friday Funny: Hilarious Mann email, IPCC icon ...
    Chris Horner sends us another Michael Mann Email from the NOAA FOIA release. One should remember this statement from Dr. Mann before continuing: Mann: ‘I always thought it was somewhat misplaced to make it a central icon of the climate … Continue reading →
  • AR5 Climate Forecasts: What to Believe
    Guest post by Pat Frank The summary of results from version 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) has come out. [1] CMIP5 is evaluating the state-of-the-art general circulation climate models (GCMs) that will be used in the IPCC’s … Continue reading →
  • Yay! Mike Mann took the bait, intends to file ...
    UPDATE: Uh oh, looks like Mann will have to sue Investors Business Daily too, because they say that: It’s been the greatest fraud of all time, and Michael Mann has been at the heart of it. The bait. Popcorn futures … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • The Benefits of Daydreaming
    Does your mind wander? During a class or meeting, do you find yourself staring out the window and thinking about what you’ll do tomorrow or next week? As a child, were you constantly reminded by teachers to stop daydreaming? Well, psychological research is beginning to reveal that daydreaming is ...
  • Prostate cancer patients given hope by new &#8 ...
    A new drug that tackles advanced prostate cancer in three different ways has passed its first hurdle towards being approved. Scientists reported promising early trial results using galeterone, which is designed to treat cancer that no longer responds to hormone therapy. However, researchers coun ...
  • Consciousness Does Not Reside Here
    What is the relation between selective attention and consciousness? When you strain to listen to the distant baying of coyotes over the sound of a campsite conversation, you do so by attending to the sound and becoming conscious of their howls. When you attend to your sparring opponent out of th ...
  • How Genes Organize the Surface of the Brain
    The first atlas of the surface of the human brain based upon genetic information has been produced by a national team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the VA San Diego Healthcare System. The work is published in the March 30 issu ...
  • 3D medical animation about acne

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Pruning Shears

  • How the decline in CO2 emissions is like NAFTA
    The quality of reporting on fracking in large outlets has been of varying quality. Day-to-day coverage of the latest developments is usually pretty good, but bigger picture trend pieces have a tendency to be positively fawning towards the industry. A couple of recent articles in the New York T ...
  • Rallying for Aramark Laundry Workers
    The Immigrant Workers Union (UTI) Local 229 held a rally at an Aramark uniform service facility in Madison to bring to light the abuses being committed by management against the laundry workers they employ.     The workers, formerly organized under UNITE, are now organized under the& ...
  • Fighting fracking: introverts edition
    One of the biggest threats fracking poses to the environment is the way it endangers the water supply. It does so in several ways, one of which has large-scale implications. Global impact like that is a little unusual; environmental issues are more likely to be local. Whether it’s frack ...
  • Hiram residents attempt to ask questions about ...
    Thursday’s post on Hiram’s public fracking meeting mainly covered residents’ interaction with local officials. The bigger part of the meeting, though, featured two speakers with ties to the oil and gas industry. A representative from the company Mountaineer Keystone (MK) made ...
  • Hiram residents seek local control on fracking
    On Tuesday the town of Hiram held a public meeting with representatives of the company Mountaineer Keystone (MK). MK, a subsidiary of First Reserve Corporation, is set to begin fracking operations in Hiram next month. The company is a bit of an enigma; for one, it does not appear to have a web ...

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Center for a Livable Future

  • How Industrialized Farming Could Facilitate Pa ...
    With cases of H3N2v influenza on the rise, a look at where we stand and the key role of our system of food animal production in strengthening viruses
  • How FDA Can Improve the Safety of Fruits and V ...
    Fruits and vegetables are some of the foods in need of protection—but FDA has yet to publish a regulation for how to make good on that mandate for produce safety. So what are the best ways to protect fruits and vegetables grown on farms?
  • 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 ...

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My Care2 Picks

  • The $6 QUADRILLION Cost Of The Climate Scam!
    U.N.s absurd climate panel had already at least tripled the true (and harmless) rate of warming to be expected from our adding CO2 to the air.Divided by 10 the true cost of effective action. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...
  • Ten-Year-Old Convinces Jamba Juice To Go Styro ...
    Now this truly is a heartwarming story that goes to show how a little effort can go a wrong way. Ten-year-old Mia Hansen, with a little help from her mother, started a Change.org petition to get Jamba Juice, a smoothie franchise, to quit styrofoam. Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle &nbsp ...
  • Beefing up security on skeptical blogs
    If you ever thought 'debate' occurred on a 'level playing field'....Heads Up ! Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Syria And Iran Dominos Lead To World War
    Recomended article about the attention in Syria and Iran, I would like to read your comment here on Care2, let it kick start by saying: War is a problem to everyone but to the exception of minority top wealthy inhabitants of the earth. Submitted by Marco Da Silva to World  |   N ...
  • The Peculiar Stability of Instability
    We actually deal with the Mideast, Latin America, the Atlantic Region, Eastern Europe, NE Asia, and SE Asia as if we were still living in the WW-II era : we deal with the Mideast, Latin America, the Atlantic Region, Eastern Europe, NE Asia, separately Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics &a ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Arrest plan to seize Julian Assange 'under all ...
    ShareThisArrest plan to seize Julian Assange 'under all circumstances' accidentally revealed 24 Aug 2012 Plans to seize Julian Assange "under all circumstances" the moment he leaves the Ecuadorean embassy in London have accidentally been revealed by a police officer displaying restricted documen ...
  • NYPD: No evidence yet gunman fired at officers
    ShareThisNYPD: No evidence yet gunman fired at officers 24 Aug 2012 Investigators say the evidence collected so far suggests that a laid off clothing designer who shot a former colleague near the Empire State Building didn't fire at police. The gunman was shot by police, and nine bystanders were ...
  • NYPD disciplines 17 cops who posted racist Fac ...
    ShareThisNYPD disciplines 17 cops who posted racist Facebook comments --About 150 comments were posted, referring to West Indian Day Parade revelers as 'savages' and 'animals.' 23 Aug 2012 NYPD brass has disciplined 17 cops who posted racist or offensive comments on a Facebook page devoted to la ...
  • Assange Supporters Hold 24-Hour 'Vigil' Outsid ...
    ShareThisAssange Supporters Hold 24-Hour 'Vigil' Outside Ecuador Embassy 24 Aug 2012 Foreign ministers from Latin America meet in Washington Friday to discuss Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks who has been living inside Ecuador's London Embassy for over two months. Ecuador has granted Ass ...
  • Israeli protesters warn against war as governm ...
    ShareThisIsraeli protesters warn against war as government appears to prep Iran strikes --Parallel demonstrations took place in Haifa and Jerusalem 24 Aug 2012 A persistent group of anti-war protesters gathered in front Israel's Ministry of Defense in Central Tel Aviv on Thursday, chanting "We d ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • ISAF Joint Command morning operational update: ...
    UNCLASSIFIED 2012-08-S-044 For Immediate Release ISAF Joint Command evening operational update KABUL, Afghanistan (AUG 24) – An Afghan and coalition security force detained several suspected insurgents and seized multiple weapons and ammunition during an operation to arrest an al-Qaeda associ ...
  • MEDEVAC Issues
    20 August 2012 This is a bit technical, but of interest to the MEDEVAC community: J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2012 Aug;73(2 Suppl 1):S32-7. Impact of critical care-trained flight paramedics on casualty survival during helicopter evacuation in the current war in Afghanistan. Mabry RL,  ...
  • War Is Not Necessarily the Cause of Post-Traum ...
    20 August 2012 An interesting study of Danish troops and PTSD has been released.  (Link at the bottom.)  An informed group of people was talking about it on a private forum, where I saw this comment from Robert Goldich.  Mr. Goldich is smart and experienced, and so I normally sto ...
  • Fraud Allegations against Publisher Richard Vi ...
    My previous publisher (I fired him) has been accused of fraud for not delivering large numbers of "Iraq: Inside the Inferno" that customers paid for. We are still having major problems with Vigilante. My apologies. This has been a tragedy for the book. If you paid for a book and did not receive ...
  • RUN HIDE FIGHT Surviving an Active Shooter

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • China forces refugees to return to conflict zone
    China has pushed thousands of refugees from Burma's Kachin minority back across the border into a province wracked by fighting between government troops and ethnic guerillas
  • Capital details
    Under the mysterious direction of the former State Peace and Development Council, Burma’s capital was moved in 2005 from its historic location in Rangoon to the recently cleared jungles of Naypyidaw. The ‘home of the kings’ hosts the union’s civic institutions, but only a few cars can be seen dr ...
  • Watchdog slates Bangladesh over Rohingya policy
    Human Rights Watch on Thursday blasted the Bangladeshi government's "cruel" restrictions on humanitarian aid to Rohingya refugees fleeing persecution and violence in neighbouring Burma
  • Thai PM set to visit Naypyidaw in September
    Following President Thein Sein’s visit to the ‘Land of Smiles’ in July, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is set to visit Burma's capital in September
  • Journalists call for greater freedoms after di ...
    The Burmese government has abolished pre-publication censorship but journalists are calling for greater press freedom. A 16-point plan was sent to editors on Monday stating that publications must not criticise the state.

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Jurist - Legal Research

  • Federal appeals court upholds life sentence of ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [official website] on Friday upheld opinion, PDF] the life sentence imposed on a former Osama bin Laden aide after he stabbed a prison guard in the eye in 2000. Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, 54, is a Sudanese-born Iraqi who at the time of the stabb ...
  • Federal appeals court dismisses challenge to f ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] on Friday rejected an appeal [opinion, PDF] of a lower court decision that dismissed a challenge to federal funding of human embryonic stem cell [JURIST news archive] research. The three-judge panel found no ...
  • Federal appeals court rejects graphic cigarett ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Friday that tobacco companies do not need to print graphic warnings of the dangers of smoking on cigarette packages. In a 2-1 decision, the DC Circuit struck down a Food and Drug Adminis ...
  • HRW: China must stop forced returns of Myanmar ...
    [JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Friday called on China to stop forcibly returning thousands of Kachin refugees to northern Myanmar [JURIST news archive]. HRW reported that Chinese authorities repatriated more than 1,000 Kachin refugees to Myanmar [HRW report] last week an ...
  • Kansas secretary of state challenges Obama imm ...
    [JURIST] Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach [official website] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] on Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas [official website] challenging a policy directive [memorandum, PDF; JURIST report] to defer the deportation of young illegal ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

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Tikun Olam

  • As Egypt Declares Independent Course, Israel W ...
    Israel’s expressions of concern for Egypt’s deployment of tanks in the Sinai are both ironic and hypocritical.  The 1979 peace treaty restricts the force-level Egypt can maintain there.  This, is turn, has helped turn the region into a smuggler-terrorist paradise where Al Qaeda and n ...
  • Former Intelligence Officer: Shin Bet Makes Fo ...
    The issue of Jewish terror and how the Israeli state fights or doesn’t fight it is extremely complicated.  If you view it from a liberal Zionist perspective, as people like Shimon Peres and most American Jewish leaders do, you only understand part of the problem and you believe–or ho ...
  • Josh Trevino Redux
    For those of you out there who can’t get enough of mindless Islamophobic racism, I’ve got more of Josh Trevino’s Greatest Hits and Tweets served up by Beyond Compromise.  These particular tweets mostly revolve around the Mavi Marmara massacre, though it should be said that Trev ...
  • Israeli Attack on Iran:1948, 1967 or 1973?
    Thanks to Prof. Yoav Peled for entrusting this essay to me for publication here.  In it, he critiques an interview Ehud Barak (cloaked under the pseudonymous moniker, “Decision-Maker”) gave to Haaretz in which he argued that an upcoming Israeli war against Iran should be seen in the ...
  • Israeli Cyber-War Against Iran
    The leaked Israeli government document I published last week is a sales pitch outlining Israel’s putative attack on Iran.  It would begin with a massive cyber-attack: “The Israeli attack will open with a coordinated strike, including an unprecedented cyber-attack which will totally paralyz ...

If Americans Knew

  • Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
    Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
  • International law is clear: Israeli settlement ...
    Eric Rozenman's Dec. 11 Op-Ed article, "Israeli settlements are more than legitimate," is legal nonsense that disregards history. He is correct in his observation that Article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine permitted "close settlement by Jews on the land, including state lands and waste lands no ...
  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...
  • Ethan Bronner's Conflict With Impartiality
    Ethan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Israel-Palestine. It is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesn't; what goes in a story and what gets cut.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • The Edfe of Space - WiggleZ confirms the Big P ...
    We know that stars group together to form galaxies, galaxies clump to make clusters and clusters gather to create structures known as superclusters. At what scale though, if at all, does this Russian doll-like structure stop? Scientists have been debating this very question for decades because c ...
  • The Battle for Syria - Turkey's Split with Syria
    Turkey is divided on what course to pursue in Syria, and the AKP's ability to sell a more muscular policy is by no means guaranteed.Following this week's suicide bombing in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, Turkey's government has hinted at Syrian complicity in the attacks, with Foreign Minister Ah ...
  • The Edge of Space - Penny-Sized Rocket Thruste ...
    A penny-sized rocket thruster may soon power the smallest satellites in space. The device, designed by Paulo Lozano, an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, bears little resemblance to today’s bulky satellite engines, which are laden with valves, pipes and heavy propella ...
  • The Battle for Syria - PA Voices Concern over ...
    Last month, the Palestinian Authority (PA) took the rare step of publicly voicing concern over the fate of Palestinians living in Syria. About 300 (out of a population of over 500,000) have already been killed, PA officials said, and with some Palestinians supporting the Assad government while o ...
  • The Ancient Edge - Climate Change was a Factor ...
    A new analysis of complex interactions between humans and the environment preceding the 9th century collapse and abandonment of the Central Maya Lowlands in the Yucatán Peninsula points to a series of events — some natural, like climate change; some human-made, including large-scale landscape ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Newsbusted Excusive: Obama Campaign Promotes P ...
    Its amazing how far the committee to reelect the president (CREEP) will go. First they tried getting people to give him campaign donations instead of giving wedding presents, and now they have really gone off the edge. In an exclusive investigative report from Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller we ...
  • Talking About Rich, Fat-Cat, Arrogant, and Eli ...
    By Barry Rubin "And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there." --Francis Scott Key, "The Star-Spangled Banner" Well, is it still there? Is it? Or has it been lowered over Fort McHenry? Has Baltimore and other American ...
  • Why Does Obama Have Anti-Israel Activists On H ...
    Note: I received a press release today from the Republican Jewish Coalition  informing me that one of the Rabbis on the President's "Rabbis for Obama" list (Gottlieb) was an Anti-Israel activist. Over my lunchtime brisket sandwich from Bens, I decided to see if the President had any oth ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: PRO-Israel SuperPac Tried To Ban Ra ...
    Major Republican donor (and boogeyman to the left-wing) Sheldon Adelson and his wife have each given $250,000 to a new independent super PAC called the Patriot Prosperity PAC created to help elect New Jersey Rabbi Shmuley Boteach to Congress. According to the Wall Street Journal: ...
  • BREAKING: Romney Releases His Energy Policy (D ...
    According to President Obama anybody who claims that we can drill our way out of the present high cost of energy is a liar. However a report created by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service (published at a time when the Democrats Controlled both houses of Congress) says it is ...

The Real Agenda

  • You know that Money on your Bank Account? Well ...
    By SUSANNE POSEL | OCCUPY CORPORATISM | AUGUST 24, 2012 In June of 2012, Eric Bloom, former chief executive, and Charles Mosely, head trader of Sentinel Management Group (SMG) were indicted for stealing $500 million in customer secured funds. Both Mosely and Bloom were accused of “expo ...
  • Cyberwar 2.0: DARPA’s Plan X to Attack t ...
    By NOAH SHACHTMAN | WIRED | AUGUST 24, 2012 The Pentagon’s top research arm is unveiling a new, classified cyberwarfare project. But it’s not about building the next Stuxnet, Darpa swears. Instead, the just-introduced “Plan X” is designed to make online strikes a more routine part of U ...
  • Merkel and Hollande want Greece Destruction to ...
    Both Merkel’s and Holland’s stances are that Greece must suffer the pain related to being owned by European banksters. The PM’s have said they won’t move a muscle to easy the destruction and consolidation of the mediterranean country. By STEPHEN BROWN | REUTERS &#124 ...
  • Four people shot outside Empire State Building ...
    AP | AUGUST 24, 0212 Follow our updates on Twitter. UPDATE 10:10 am EDT: At least 10 people injured in shooting. UPDATE 10:00 am EDT: Police says shooting no link to terrorism. NEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials say several people have been shot outside the Empire State Building and th ...
  • Spain’s Bailout in mid-September says Go ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 23, 2012 The Spanish government will wait at least until mid-September before requesting help from its European partners in order to properly assess what offers and under what conditions the European Central Bank (ECB), intends to use. This is ...

Wind Watch

  • Judge sends wind project back to Charlestown
    CHARLESTOWN — A Superior Court judge has returned a proposed wind farm off Route 1 to the town’s Zoning Board for review, largely on technical grounds. Associate Justice Judith C. Savage ruled last week that the Zoning Board must clarify its January 2011 decision that allowed Whalerock Renewable ...
  • AGL withdraws proposed Hallett 3 wind farm pla ...
    Energy retailer AGL has ended more than three years of community-led litigation over the proposed development of its $180 million Hallett 3 (Mt Bryan) wind farm by shelving its approved plans for the site. AGL received planning approval from the Regional Council of Goyder in 2009, but residents ...
  • Decision to reject Bodham wind turbine is unan ...
    Councillors have thrown out a plan to build an 86.5m wind turbine on the edge of a north Norfolk village. After a debate that lasted about 90 minutes, North Norfolk District Council’s (NNDC) development committee rejected the bid to build a single turbine on the edge of Bodham. Today’s (Thursday ...
  • Town axes turbine
    After years of discussion and planning, the Town Council voted Monday 4-1 to abandon the proposed Taylor Point wind turbine. Councilman Bob Bowen voted against the measure, stating that more information was needed before the project was dismissed. “I think it’s unfortunate that we stop the proce ...
  • SNP proposes wind farm ‘propaganda&#8217 ...
    SNP minsters are planning to undermine community opposition to wind farms by having teachers tell schoolchildren that turbines benefit the environment, according to official guidance just published. Updated advice issued by the Scottish Government stated that councils should include green energy ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Laissez Faire and the Tariff
    In his great book Master of the Senate, volume 3 of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro describes the Progressive Era Senate Republican leaders as holding an “unshaken belief in laissez faire and the protective tariff.” Just before this he describes the hardship  the tariff i ...
  • Progressives’ Misrepresentation of Free- ...
    The economy is in a ditch; Government has proven itself impotent; Free-market folks have plausible explanations and remedies; Ergo: Uh oh!
  • Stock Market Rises, Falls with Fed Signals
    “Nobody ever said reading the Federal Reserve was easy. On Wednesday, the Fed appeared to suggest it was closer to taking additional steps to help the U.S. economy. Stocks rallied as a result and finished the day well off their lows. But the prospect of Fed help seemed much less certain Th ...
  • Bastiat Misread
    When a fan of Bastiat’s sees the broken-window fallacy in government “stimulus” spending, she is on the firmest of ground.
  • CBO Warns of New Recession
    “The U.S. economy will hurtle into a recession if Congress fails to avert a series of tax increases and budget cuts due in January, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday, warning that a fiscal impasse would have consequences even more dire than previously forecast.” (Washing ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • A few thoughts about MOOCs: Massive Open Onlin ...
    Educators are talking about the phenomenon of large-enrollment free online courses offered by very reputable professors and universities. Now the University of Texas “is in negotiations with Coursera and edX, two of the most prominent companies engaged in the mass distribution of course c ...
  • Managing research: Your personal library, online
    As a university professor, I not only teach — I also need to keep up-to-date with the literature in my field. This is so much easier now than it was when I was a graduate student long ago — now I can download PDFs of relevant articles and catalog them in folders on my hard drive, so ...
  • Most viewed posts
    Here’s a lazy update: To find any post in the image below, just type the title (or keywords) into the search box at left. I like running these stats from time to time to see which posts here are most popular.
  • Plagiarism and journalism students
    When students plagiarize, they take a risk. I guess they tell themselves nothing very bad will happen to them. When journalism students plagiarize, the risk is pretty damned big. For example, you lose your chance to work as a journalist. Ever. I’m going to omit the name of the former stu ...
  • Every journalist is a copy editor (or needs to be)
    As print/online newsrooms evolve, the role of copyediting (and the people who copyedit) is changing. Steve Buttry, director of community engagement and social media at Journal Register Co., just wrote a long blog post about this. There’s useful information there for students, journalism ed ...

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Regionalism: Spreading the Fiscal Irresponsibility
    Stanley Kurtz's new book, Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities describes political forces closely tied to President Obama who have pursued an agenda to destroy the suburbs for many years. He expresses concern that a second Obama term will be marked by ...
  • Utah Up, Chicago Down: Why Mitt Romney Should ...
    In his run for the Republican nomination, Mitt Romney downplayed his Mormonism—referring only to “faith” or “shared values”—in the face of small-minded members of the Christian right and the occasional cackle from the Eastern cultural avant-garde. But with his party&rsq ...
  • America's Baby Bust: How The Great Recession H ...
    At the turn of the century, America’s biggest advantage was its relatively vibrant demographics. In sharp contrast with its major competitors — the E.U., Russia, China, Japan — the United States had maintained a far higher birthrate and rate of population growth. But the 2010 Census ...
  • Form Follows Zoning
    When Louis Sullivan, purveyor of modern American high-rise architecture, said more than 100 years ago that ‘Form Follows Function’, he perhaps didn’t realize the extent to which building form would not be determined only by building type and the laws of physics, but by zonin ...
  • Cities of Aspiration
    Drew Klacik’s recent post on how he ended up in Indianapolis got me thinking about the unique status of what I’d describe as “cities of aspiration.” Pretty much all cities seem to be reasonably good at attracting people in the following cases: 1. Recruiting someone to a specific career or ...

GM Watch

  • GM cotton is unsustainable
    NOTE: Although this article for an Australian farming publication is reporting the comments of Andrew Parkes - an expert totally committed to GM cotton, it provides a clear account of the extent and gravity of the problems that GM cotton faces, in terms of both insect resistance and herbicide re ...
  • GM crops are no way forward
    NOTE: This is a very important and well argued article by Satyarat Chaturvedi, a spokesperson for the Indian National Congress and a member of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture, and reflects the unanimity and strength of feeling of the Committee on this issue. EXTRACT: A major arg ...
  • Analysis of Argentina court case on GM soy/gly ...
    NOTE: An Argentine court has convicted two men accused of contaminating a neighbourhood of Argentina with pesticides sprayed on GM soy: ***Landmark ruling against agrochemicals in Argentina receives mixed reactions http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/51-2012/14140 ***Argentina convicts two o ...
  • Analysis of Argentina court case on GM soy/gly ...
    NOTE: An Argentine court has convicted two men accused of contaminating a neighbourhood of Argentina with pesticides sprayed on GM soy: ***Landmark ruling against agrochemicals in Argentina receives mixed reactions http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/51-2012/14140 ***Argentina convicts two o ...
  • 'Massive doubts' on WWF report seem appropriate
    "Massive doubts" on WWF report seem appropriate Informationsdienst Gentechnik / Information Service on GMOs (Berlin) 21 August 2012 In a report published on 21 August, the environmental organization WWF Germany estimates that "more than 80 percent" of all soy imported to the country has been ge ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Forsaken And Forgotten
    America is becoming a very cold place.  If you don't have money, you don't really matter much in our society.  The ads on television aren't for you - they are directed at people that actually have good jobs and that can afford to buy the nice little "extras" in life.  The politic ...
  • 8 Economic Threats That We Were Not Even Talki ...
    In the crazy times in which we live, it helps to expect the unexpected.  Sometimes you can think that you have it all figured out and then this world can throw a real curveball at you. Very few people anticipated that we would see a massive outbreak of the West Nile Virus in Texa ...
  • More Than Half Of All Americans Are At Least P ...
    A very large segment of the population has figured out that it can use voting as a tool to get more money and benefits from the government, and that is a very dangerous thing.  Once upon a time, the free market was the one that distributed nearly all the wealth in our system.  Bu ...
  • Jacob Rothschild, John Paulson And George Soro ...
    Are you willing to bet against three of the wealthiest men in the entire world?  Jacob Rothschild recently bet approximately 200 million dollars that the euro will go down.  Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson made somewhere around 20 billion dollars betting against the U ...
  • Startling Evidence That Central Banks And Wall ...
    If you want to figure out what is going to happen next in the financial markets, carefully watch what the insiders are doing.  Those that are "connected" have access to far better sources of information than the rest of us have, and if they hear that something big is coming up th ...

Desertification

  • Cheap ways to draw water for irrigation (IRIN ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96166/FOOD-A-quiet-water-revolution FOOD: A quiet water revolution JOHANNESBURG, 24 August 2012 (IRIN) – Quietly, a revolution to develop cheap ways to draw water for irrigation is unfolding in small villages and rural regions in sub-Saharan Africa ...
  • Great Green Wall Implementation (SCOPE ACP)
    Read at : http://www.scopeacp.net/sobi2/experts-meet-on-great-green-wall-implementation Experts meet on Great Green Wall Implementation Region: Africa Date: 21/08/2012 Date: 27/08/2012 – 30/08/2012 Location: Burkina Faso The Great Green Wall has come a long way since the African Union endo ...
  • UNCCD at ITMU MUN 2012 (News Attitude)
    Read at : http://www.newsattitude.com/lsquoun-convention-to-combat-desertificationrsquo-took-the-central-stage-at-itmu-mun-2012.html ‘UN CONVENTION TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION’ TOOK THE CENTRAL STAGE AT ITMU MUN 2012  New Delhi August 21, 2012: In a bid to shed light on the proceedings of actual U ...
  • Reforestatikon in Zimbabwe (ZDDT)
    Read at : http://www.zddt.org/tree-planting-gweru-0820.html ZDDT tree planting initiative in Gweru gets recognition from Forestry Commission Written by Ntando Sibanda – ZDDT Reporter Gweru, Zimbabwe. The Forestry Commission in Gweru has commended ZDDT for its Community Restoration efforts, ...
  • Combating desertification in Brazil (VIMEO / RTCC)
    Read at : http://www.rtcc.org/climate-change-tv/rio20-combating-desertification-in-brazil-2/ Rio+20: Combating desertification in Brazil Rio+20 (17/06/2012) – José Amaro Nogueria, Consultor do Programma Estadual de Combate à Desertificaçao  (Consultant to the State Program to Combat Desertificat ...

The Paper Trail

  • Bailed-out banks, Freddie Mac, AIG gave $6 mil ...
    The Republican nominating convention that kicks off Monday in Tampa (weather permitting), has been funded by tens of millions of dollars in corporate contributions, the exact source of which won’t be known until after the party is over.But it’s a sure bet that there are at least two big donors f ...
  • Drugs, guns and child porn at Homeland Security
    The Department of Homeland Security is the first line of defense against threats to Americans, entrusted with guarding the borders, protecting the skies and cracking down on potential terrorist attacks.But instead of protecting America’s citizens, hundreds of DHS agents have been busy smuggling ...
  • Daily Disclosure: Super PAC ad compares Mack t ...
    "Tiger Blood” is the name of a new ad from a Democratic super PAC, Majority PAC, targeting Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fla., a reference to the always-entertaining Charlie Sheen’s explanation for his ability to ingest copious amounts of harmful substances without dying.The ad calls the U.S. Senate ...
  • Majority PAC ad: "Tiger Blood"
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  • Donor profile: Robert Mercer
    Ranking: 9Total contributions to super PACs (includes family members), $3.2 million*$1 million to American Crossroads (pro-Republican)$1 million to Restore Our Future, Inc. pro-Mitt Romney)$615,000 to Club for Growth Action (conservative)$500,000 to Prosperity First Inc. (unknown)$50,0 ...

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

  • The Marikana Massacre: a Premeditated Killing?
    Benjamin Fogel on the Lonmin Massacre and the chilling bloodlust of the Stalinists in the South African Communist Party, “Two hundred thousand subterranean heroes who, by day and by night, for a mere pittance lay down their lives to t ...
  • On the Politics of Protest in Cape Town
    Jared Sacks on popular protest, disruption, and violence in South Africa in the wake of the Lonmin Massacre. The City of Cape Town is currently being rocked by a spate of road blockades and other significant protests. Certain liberal ...
  • Umshini Wam
    Chris McMichael on the Lonmin Massacre. 'Umshini Wam' is Jacob Zuma's trade mark song. It means 'bring me my machine gun'. “There’ll be civil war, said Johnny. Civil fucking war, that’s what there’ll be. I sai ...
  • Senzeni Na?
    A beautifully written piece on the Lonmin massacre by Chris Rodrigues. 'Senzeni na?' is the name of a very mournful struggle song in South Africa that means 'What have we done?' By the time you read these words, th ...
  • The Marikana mine workers massacre – a massive ...
    2012-08-17-cfakepathsipho-lonmin-706-410.jpg Ayanda Kota from South African shack dwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo reports on the background to the massacre of striking mine workers at Marikana ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • سفر 'سر زده' احمدی نژاد به مناطق زلزله زده
    به گزارش پایگاه اطلاع رسانی ریاست جمهوری ایران، محمود احمدی نژاد، رئیس جمهوری روز جمعه، ۳ شهریور (۲۴ اوت) "به صورت سرزده" به استان آذربایجان شرقی سفر کرد تا از مناطق زلزله زده این استان دیدن کند.read more
  • Signs Suggest Iran Is Speeding Up Work on Nucl ...
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  • North Korea to send figurehead to summit, not ...
    SEOUL, Aug 23 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - North Korea's figurehead head of state, not supreme leader Kim Jong-un, will attend a summit of non-aligned developing nations in Iran next week, Pyonyang's official KCNA news agency reported on Thursday. There had been rumors Kim, who succeeded his father ...
  • آزادی تعدادی از بازداشت شدگان روز گذشته در منا ...
    معیت مبارزه با تبعیض تحصیلی – دقایقی پیش تمامی بانوان و ۴ تن از مردان امدادگر بازداشت شده در مناطق زلزله زده (کمپ روستای سرند) به قید ضمانت از بازداشتگاه وزارت اطلاعات تبریز آزاد شدند. read more
  • Staffers: Voice Of America Left Lawmakers in T ...
    But last November, Parazit abruptly went off air — and though Iranians mourned its disappearance, the U.S. lawmakers who championed the show didn't have a clue. The popular show was dark for almost nine months before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee learned about it, according to a staffer ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Federal Court Abolishes Fourth Amendment
    Another excellent post on Alexander Higgins’ blog reveals that the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California has ruled that the government is completely immune from any possible punishment for violating the Fourth Amendment, which supposedly protects US citizens against illegal sea ...
  • A Martian Looks at the Mars Landing
    From the Chattanooga Times (note the date)
  • Opt Out at the Airport
    A TSA Grope While being sexually groped by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel at the airport, can be both painful and humiliating, it sure beats getting cancer. I was curious to read in the recent Association of Natural Health (ANH) that an increasing number of doctors refus ...
  • Opt Out at the Airport
    A TSA Grope While being sexually groped by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel at the airport, can be both painful and humiliating, it sure beats getting cancer. I was curious to read in the recent Association of Natural Health (ANH) that an increasing number of doctors ...
  • Will the Economy (and Civilization) Collapse t ...
    A Prepper Garden Here comes another prediction, from the blog Ecomomic Collapse, that it will. It’s based on evidence that the government and major banks are making preparations they aren’t telling us about. Among other ominous signs, blogger Michael Snyder points to: 1. A secreti ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • US emissions continue to fall
    Last week the US EIA released the latest greenhouse gas emission figures and they show that the country is well on track to meet its emission reduction pledge following the Copenhagen Climate Conference in 2009, even though there is no formal program in place to ensure delivery.
  • Final Test Before California's Cap-and-Trade P ...
    Next week’s scheduled practice auction of greenhouse gas allowances for California’s largest polluters will provide an important first look into how the state’s cap-and-trade program, a key element of the Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32), will work going forward.
  • Clean Energy Companies Are Powering Economic R ...
    A few years ago, Craig Winn launched a new company with two employees and a good idea: leverage the auto industry’s engineering prowess to improve solar manufacturing. Three years later, the Michigan-based company has hired nearly 50 workers and doubled its production capacity. The secret to its ...
  • LWR SMRs have fuel advantages
    Fast reactor designs face export controls and the need to develop new fuel types which may slow time to market
  • India: Forget The Centralized Grid, Community ...
    Just days after the historic blackout reminded us that centralized coal is the problem, not the solution to India’s energy woes, a new era of entrepreneurs marked the beginning of a truly revolutionary effort to deliver energy access.

EU Times

  • West Nile virus epidemic the worst America has ...
    Cities across the United States are being ravaged by an outbreak of West Nile virus, and experts say the epidemic is the worst the country has ever seen. “The number of West Nile virus disease cases has risen dramatically in recent weeks, and indicate that we’re in the midst of one o ...
  • US, Pakistan must “divorce” as allies: Ex-Paki ...
    Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States says the two countries must “divorce” as allies rather than prolong a dysfunctional marriage. “If in 65 years, you haven’t been able to find sufficient common ground to live together, and you had three separations and four reaffirmations of marri ...
  • Judge orders release of US Marine detained for ...
    On the basis that there was zero reason to detain a retired Marine and commit him to a medical facility for psychiatric evaluation, a Virginia judge has demanded that Brandon Raub be released from custody immediately. Raub, 26, had his home visited one week earlier by FBI, Secret Service and loc ...
  • Argentina plans to lodge WTO complaint against US
    Argentina says it will file a complaint with the World Trade Organization against the United States as the protectionism dispute between the two business partners escalates, Press TV reports. Argentine Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that the South American country will lodge a c ...
  • Ebola outbreak in Africa
    Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo are the scenarios of the latest outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever. In Uganda, 24 cases and 16 deaths have been reported while in DR Congo, the health authorities have confirmed ten cases and 6 deaths. To note, the swift and efficient response from th ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Google TV Webpage Updated â Site Redesign, App ...
    Google TV is about to blow up this year (or at least get an extra big boost from Google) and while we wait around to see what Google has planned for the TV OS at Google I/O this week, there’s been a silent update of sorts to their webpage, adding new content and a fresh new design. Google is gi ...
  • Microsoft and Yammer: Collaboration and Enterp ...
    via microsoft.comMicrosoft Corp. and Yammer Inc. have announced Yammer, a leading provider of enterprise social networks is to be acquired for $1.2 billion in cash. Yammer will join the Microsoft Office Division, led by division President Kurt DelBene, and the team will continue to report to cu ...
  • Brewer: Obama admin launched 'assault' on Arizona
    (CNN) – Republican Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona had some biting words for the Obama administration Monday after it announced it was rescinding agreements that allow some local law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration laws. "They arbitrarily singled out Arizona and sent a bomb, if y ...
  • Facebook Names COO Sheryl Sandberg to Its Boar ...
    In a post on its newsroom blog , Facebook just announced that it has named long-time COO Sheryl Sandberg to its board of directors. Sandberg will be the eighth member of the board and its first female member to date. But what took so long? Facebook has been criticized for a notable lack of raci ...
  • Gmail for iOS Finally Updated With Welcome Fea ...
    There are quite a lot of people who like to combine the best of both worlds and using Gmail on your iOS-powered device, let it be iPhone or iPad, is just one example. However, the Gmail app for iOS is lacking functionality compared to the Android flavor but there’s an update available in the Ap ...

Groklaw

  • Apple vs. Samsung: S. Korea court rules iPhone ...
    South Korea's Samsung won a home court ruling in its global smartphone battle against Apple on Friday when judges in Seoul said the company didn't copy the look and feel of the U.S. company's iPhone, and that Apple infringed on Samsung's wireless technology. [PJ: In the California case, the look ...
  • Windows 8 Tells Microsoft About Everything You ...
    To recap, here are the concerns posed by SmartScreen in Windows 8: Windows 8 will, by default, inform Microsoft of every app downloaded and installed by every user. This puts Microsoft in a compromising, omniscient situation where they are capable of retaining information on the application ...
  • A Lawyer's Take: Should Apple, Samsung Have Se ...
    The media has been closely watching the Apple - Samsung case and so have the lawyers. Intellectual property attorney Bill Panagos joins digits to discuss what the legal community has their eye on. - WSJ Video
  • Apple v. Samsung: What's the worst that could ...
    The other handset manufacturers may not wait for the lawsuits to hit them. Many may start lining up to strike licensing deals -- all of which would heavily favor Apple. All of a sudden Google's Android operating system wouldn't be so free anymore. [PJ: So, Apple has the same dream as SCO did reg ...
  • Samsung Gains Leverage With South Korea Patent ...
    The South Korea ruling stands out because the judges broke with courts in other countries that have heard the companies' dispute by ruling that patents Samsung contributed to create industry standards can be used as leverage in cases involving non-standards patents that companies don't have to s ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Legitimate Rape by the Renegade Raging Grannies
    Lyrics“Legitimate rape” is great birth control. So says Todd Akin, and he oughta know. If we are raped we can rest unafraid, ‘Cause we can’t get pregnant if forcibly laid.Our female bodies are clever that way, We only get pregnant when we say “okay.” Doctors have to ...
  • Assange and the attempt to extradite him to the US
    Anyone opposing the extradition of Assange immediately gets demonized. The empire moves in lockstep on this. Yes, some have concerns about the rape charge but underlying all this is the fierce determination of the US to try Assange here, with a guilty verdict a foregone conclusion.Craig Murray&# ...
  • Romney – My Bounty Lies Over the Ocean
    Another fine greeting card from Cara Scissoria.
  • When the elderly get forgetful about taxes
    I know two long-retired couples where the husbands recently made serious mistakes on taxes and the results are really ugly, to the point that what should be comfortable retirements for them are now seriously imperiled. And they are too old to recoup or start over.In the first case, the husband i ...
  • Something to Ponder
    Is Tropical Storm Isaac the righteous wrath of an angry God coming to smite the Republican Convention in Tampa?

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Bill English wrong about child payment discrim ...
    The Finance Minister was wrong to tell Parliament that the In-Work Tax Credit doesn't discriminate against some of our poorest children.
  • Searching for common ground – over commo ...
    Thursday was one of those rare moments when parliamentary debate tosses up a touch of democracy – a juxtaposition of deeply-held views, expressed back-to-back, in one bill before the House. First up on the Order Paper was the Government’s latest foray into climate change legislation – the Climat ...
  • Catholic Bishops over-reach on marriage equality
    It’s not a surprise that the NZ Catholic Bishops have chosen to oppose Louisa Wall’s Bill for marriage equality. After all, they opposed Homosexual Law Reform, they opposed human rights protection on the grounds of sexual orientation and they opposed Civil Unions. I’m beginning ...
  • Gluckman on science and the environment
    Professor Peter Gluckman, the Prime Minister’s science advisor, delivered a speech today about “Bringing science and policy together for good environmental outcomes”. While he touches on many issues some positive others not so much I wanted to focus on a particular issue he addresses. Part way t ...
  • Responding to the two global crises: thoughts ...
    This piece was originally produced for the UN Association of Australia Conference, Brisbane, August 2012 Humanity today faces the first truly global crisis in its 5,000-year political history.  As we enter the Anthropocene: -       Our ecological footprint, surpassing Earth-share (bio-productive ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • The Hidden "Cancer-Trigger" You Probably Swall ...
    By Dr. Mercola It's estimated that half of all hospital beds in the world are occupied by people who have become sick from drinking contaminated water. In fact, over 1 billion people (or about one-sixth of the world's population) do not have access to safe drinking water, and millions in deve ...
  • Pregnancy Alters Resident Gut Microbes
    By Dr. Mercola The microbes that reside in your gut are very much a living, and integral, part of you. Far from being just passive bystanders, the bacteria are impacted by your health, your lifestyle and even your life stages – and they actively change in response to different periods of you ...
  • Anemia Drug Made Billions but at What Cost?
    By Dr. Mercola Three anemia drugs -- Epogen, Procrit and Aranesp -- have been among the best-selling prescription drugs in the United States for years, generating more than $8 billion a year for their makers, Amgen and Johnson & Johnson. They were blockbuster drugs that stimulate you ...
  • Is Dentistry Finally Entering the 21st Century?
    By Dr. Mercola Dentists who use mercury fillings claim that amalgam is safe because it's been used for 150 years. More accurately, dental amalgam is a Civil War relic, hardly a point in its favor. It is no better, nor safer,  than other discarded  medical practices like bleeding pat ...
  • Small Farmers of Heritage-Breed Pigs Under Att ...
    By Dr. Mercola The vast majority of the nearly 66 million pigs raised for food in the United States are born and raised in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs),1 where they are subject to extreme mental and physical anguish, not to mention subject to incredibly unhealthy practic ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Paraguay’s government confirms Spanish tycoon’ ...
    Jacinto Rey González is President of a ranching firm which has been illegally destroying the Ayoreo's land.© AnonAccusations that a ranching company owned by one of Spain’s richest men illegally bulldozed forest inhabited by uncontacted Indians have been upheld by the Paraguayan authorities ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • CDC Claims Over 1,100 #WestNileVirus Cases In US
    Cities, counties nationwide begin mass aerial sprayings of toxic 'anti-West Nile Virus' pesticides linked to causing Colony Collapse Disorder* from cbsnews.com: U.S. health officials say there's been an alarming increase in the number of West Nile cases. So far, there have been more than 1,10 ...
  • James (Replies) (re-replies)
    I had a bit of a brain fart last night and while reinstalling Mozilla (videos haven't and still don't play) I deleted all my bookmarks. So the posts may be a bit more simplistic and lacking in links than they have been lately. I'm slowly scrolling through my older FWO posts and re bookmarkin ...
  • Prop. 37: Will California Be First State To La ...
    from csmonitor.com: Another multimillion-dollar fight over a ballot initiative – with big implications for the country – is brewing here in California. The initiative, which is on the ballot this November, has a mouthful of a name: the “California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act. ...
  • WHY in the World are They Spraying? FULL LENGT ...
    from farmwars.info: The long awaited film, “WHY in the Word are They Spraying?” has finally been released. The reviews from those who have seen the film have been incredible. Because of this, we are expecting “WHY in the World are They Spraying?” to revolutionize the environmental movement and ...
  • How Fructose Turns ON Your “Fat Switch”
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