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Thomas Paine

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

Friday, August 24, 2012

24 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

July 2011 MosaicJuly 2011 Mosaic (Photo credit: Jill Clardy)240/365: Sunday, August 28, 2011: Abandoned Wo...240/365: Sunday, August 28, 2011: Abandoned Wood & Iron Bridge (Photo credit: Stephen Little)Birkenhead ParkBirkenhead Park (Photo credit: Ruth_W)The great architectural marvel, Ramappa temple...The great architectural marvel, Ramappa temple in Andhra pradesh, India. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The Andhra Pradesh State Legislative Assembly ...The Andhra Pradesh State Legislative Assembly at the centre of Hyderabad City. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Audio: Who Killed Diana? John Morgan Interviewed
    Our friend John Morgan, author of the in-depth series of books examining the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, was interviewed last night on Talk Radio Europe by presenter Steve Gilmour. Time for you to hear the interview now, too. Click HERE (mp3).
  • Worrying for Harry... but not those hot naked ...
    We like Prince Harry. Granted, we are biased at this blog, as huge supporters of Diana's and - as her son - he has a special place in our affections. And we're not frowning on him over those naked pictures... in fact, it makes him very much typical of a modern man in his twenties. Pick any ...
  • Diana... campaigning to highlight humanitarian ...
    With whistleblowers in the news, we thought it might be a good time to revisit what must have already been seen by millions around the world - lest we forget. Now, we already knew about Diana's campaign to ban anti-personnel landmines and the high profile campaigns the she undertook in Bosnia ...
  • Who was the enemy? Well, the enemy... is YOU.
    Without delving into Wikileaks or the findings of conspiracy researchers, architects and engineers and their findings on 9/11 and 7/7... ...we do have some facts. FACT: Al-Qaeda, Robin Cook told us before he was bumped off died while out walking in the woods up a mountain were the Mujahedi ...
  • Quote of the Day: 19th August 2012
    "Unfortunately, there’s a long history of whistleblowers being smeared and charged with crimes unrelated to their whistleblowing, because, obviously, it’s quite difficult for states to convict people for telling the truth about state misdemeanors. So what you do is you frame them with other char ...

Facing South

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • 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 ...

Veterans Today

  • Anti-Iranian Hysteria
    Western media, hard right commentators, and pro-Israeli groups feature regular anti-Iranian denigration, slander, misinformation and lies.
  • Can Nasal Spray Help Prevent Military Suicides?
    In the midst of a crisis that saw its highest rate of suicide in July, the Army has greenlighted a grant for Dr. Michael Kubek, an Indiana University of Medicine professor, to dig deeper into whether a nasal spray could be a safe and effective way to administer a specific antidepressive neuroche ...
  • Vet Detained After Radical Facebook Posts
    A former Marine involuntarily detained for psychiatric evaluation for posting strident anti-government messages on Facebook has received an outpouring of support from people who say authorities are trampling on his First Amendment rights.
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Augu ...
    Mobile apps like the PTSD Coach can identify signs of PTSD, manage symptoms, and connect with resources and help instantly. And according to studies, early intervention may prevent long term damage to mental health.
  • More Costs of War: Suicides and Mental Trauma ...
    Seven months ago, in December, 2011, Brian Arredondo, age 24, hanged himself in a shed in his mother’s backyard. Brian was the brother of US Marine Corps Lance Corporal Alexander Arredondo, who was killed in Iraq in 2004.

electric politics

  • Billionaires vs. Science
    Sociopath billionaires. They cause a ton of trouble across the board but the very worst thing they do is to deny global warming. They should, in my view, be thrown in jail for subverting science. Because, however, we don't have laws yet against scientific malpractice the next best thing, the onl ...
  • Dictatorship By Filibuster
    Given the filibuster, forty one percent of the U.S. Senate can block any vote they don't like. Thus, a minority of reactionary right wing Senators gets to kill a lot of worthy legislation. In recent years abuse of the filibuster has become increasingly intolerable; even ordinary Senate business ...
  • Contact
    It stands to reason, though remains as yet unproven, that advanced civilizations exist elsewhere in our galaxy, in other galaxies, and indeed throughout the entire universe. The prudent thing is to plan ahead for contact, not to wait until we know for sure. But it's complicated. To get a sense o ...
  • Plutonium Is Poison
    Objecting to nuclear power is sensible. But objecting to nuclear bombs should be mandatory. Not only are they useless in and of themselves but making them cannot be done safely, for both cultural and technological reasons. Unused, they are nevertheless deadly. And even if we forget about the poi ...
  • Things That Go Bump In the Night
    To be at one with ourselves we cannot escape the night. What we do, what we don't do, what we dream — who we are — at night, shapes and informs us during the day. Nighttime, then, must necessarily contain diverse social meanings. It's not quite clear to me how far one might push this ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Russia Alarmed Over U.S.-Turkish “Operat ...
    Voice of Russia August 24, 2012 Moscow alarmed as Turkey and West hold “Operational Meeting” on Syria John Robles ==== Turkey wishes to be one of the main players for NATO, the West and its Middle East Allies in the region and has many times failed to support the positions of its once allies and ...
  • Wilhelm Lamszus: The Human Slaughter-House
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Wilhelm Lamszus From The Human Slaughter-House Scenes from the War that is Sure to Come (1912) Translated by Oakley Williams War! War is declared! So the news speeds hollow-eyed through the streets. We are at war. It’s the real th ...
  • NATO’s Libyan Protectorate: War Of All A ...
    Voice of Russia August 24, 2012 Libya: war of all against all? Svetlana Kalmykova ==== Clashes between tribes sometimes happened under Gaddafi as well. But after he was ousted, they became much more frequent. As a rule, the conflicting sides are very well armed, because during the revolution, ma ...
  • U.S. Mulls Interceptor Missile Radar Deploymen ...
    Itar-Tass August 24, 2012 US considers another X-band radar in Japan – Morimoto Army Navy/Transportable Radar Surveillance US may deploy yet another early-warning missile defense radar in Japan, Satoshi Morimoto, Japan’s Minister of Defense said at a press conference in Tokyo. He confirmed ...
  • U.S. Military Build-Up In Asia Pacific: Threat ...
    Xinhua News Agency August 24, 2012 US should stop military build-up in Asia Pacific U.S. Sea-Based X-Band Radar BEIJING: Senior military officials of the United States and Japan confirmed on Thursday that the two countries were discussing the option of adding another X-band early-warning radar a ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • The Case of Brandon Raub: Speaking Out Against ...
    By Susanne Posel theintelhub.com August 24, 2012 Yesterday, Circuit Court Judge Allan Sharrett, dismissed the unlawful detainment and FBI case against US veteran Brandon Raub. The FBI petitioned the court to have Raub involuntarily detained and forced to have psychiatric evaluations after a prev ...
  • Customer Deposits Are Property of the Bank: Cl ...
    By Susanne Posel theintelhub.com 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 “exposing” customer se ...
  • Brandon Raub: Persecuted for Telling the Truth ...
    By Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com August 24, 2012 Corporate media news reports state that former Marine Brandon Raub was arrested by the FBI and the Secret Service and detained in a psychiatric hospital for anti-government posts on Facebook. A large part of Raub’s post, however, was not directed at the ...
  • New York City Mass Shooting: Has Operation Gla ...
    theintelhub.com August 24, 2012 With today’s mass shooting in New York city marking at least the 3rd major shooting in the last few months, one must wonder. Has Operation Gladio and or the NATO Option been activated inside the United States? Has a series of low scale terror attacks inside ...
  • Up to 10 Hurt in Shooting Near Empire State Bl ...
    Intel Hub Note: Within the next few hours Mayor Bloomberg (noted eugenicist SCUM) will blame the shooting on the 2nd amendment and call for the full scale banning of guns. Has Operation Gladio/the NATO Option been activated in the United States? USATODAY August 24, 2012 As many as 10 people have ...

FRS

  • Democracy Now: “Where is the evidence t ...
    Part 1 of this interview: Part 2 of this interview: DemocracyNow.org, August 23, 2012 Explosive new allegations have emerged that the man who gave the Black Panther Party some of its first firearms and weapons training was an undercover FBI informant in California. Richard Aoki, who died in 2009 ...
  • South Africa: “We are Living in a Democ ...
    Marikana shows that we are Living in a Democratic Prison by Bandile Mdlalose South Africa has the most beautiful Constitution amongst all countries. Its beauty is well documented and respected. But we are living in a Democratic Prison.We must acknowledge the fight of Doctor Nelson Mandela, Steve ...
  • South Africa: “We are Living in a Democ ...
    Marikana shows that we are Living in a Democratic Prison by Bandile Mdlalose South Africa has the most beautiful Constitution amongst all countries. Its beauty is well documented and respected. But we are living in a Democratic Prison.We must acknowledge the fight of Doctor Nelson Mandela, Steve ...
  • Where’s the evidence Aoki was FBI informant?
    [Last week's "exposure" of the highly respected revolutionary Richard Aoki, veteran of the Black Panther Party, who died in 2009, as "an FBI informant" some five decades ago, has spurred great debate and demands for investigation of these charges, the details on which these accusations are based ...
  • Where’s the evidence Aoki was FBI informant?
    [Last week's "exposure" of the highly respected revolutionary Richard Aoki, veteran of the Black Panther Party, who died in 2009, as "an FBI informant" some five decades ago, has spurred great debate and demands for investigation of these charges, the details on which these accusations are based ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • The Most Amazing Images Of The Week, August 20 ...
    There's some history in this week's roundup of stunning images. For one, we have a photo of the Nevada atomic bomb tests from the '50s, taken from the Las Vegas strip. Alongside that we have what you see above: a nuclear power station still in use today. We're also featuring a Syrian rebel with ...
  • Paralympic Athletes Try to Get a Performance B ...
    We've heard of odd rules put in place (marijuana use comes to mind) to keep Olympians and Paralympians from gaining an unfair advantage, but this is odd and more than a little scary: Against regulations, some Paralympians may physically hurt themselves--maybe to the point of breaking a bone--in ...
  • Gallery: The Most Amazing Images Of The Week, ...
  • Scientists Turn Adult Red Blood Cells Into Emb ...
    Despite the ethical and political differences they incite, stem cells are still a miraculous medicine, potentially able to change into whatever a sick body needs them to be. The only way to get them, though, is from actual embryos. If we could get around that, theoretically, the problems would ...
  • Cloud Seeding Could Cool Off Seas Where Hurric ...
    Hurricanes form in warm tropical waters, drawing strength from the heat of the ocean surface — that’s why they are expected to worsen as sea surface temperatures increase. But if we could cool them off, they may chill out and decrease in strength. Cloud seeding the areas in front of their path ...

Veterans Today

  • Anti-Iranian Hysteria
    Western media, hard right commentators, and pro-Israeli groups feature regular anti-Iranian denigration, slander, misinformation and lies.
  • Can Nasal Spray Help Prevent Military Suicides?
    In the midst of a crisis that saw its highest rate of suicide in July, the Army has greenlighted a grant for Dr. Michael Kubek, an Indiana University of Medicine professor, to dig deeper into whether a nasal spray could be a safe and effective way to administer a specific antidepressive neuroche ...
  • Vet Detained After Radical Facebook Posts
    A former Marine involuntarily detained for psychiatric evaluation for posting strident anti-government messages on Facebook has received an outpouring of support from people who say authorities are trampling on his First Amendment rights.
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Augu ...
    Mobile apps like the PTSD Coach can identify signs of PTSD, manage symptoms, and connect with resources and help instantly. And according to studies, early intervention may prevent long term damage to mental health.
  • More Costs of War: Suicides and Mental Trauma ...
    Seven months ago, in December, 2011, Brian Arredondo, age 24, hanged himself in a shed in his mother’s backyard. Brian was the brother of US Marine Corps Lance Corporal Alexander Arredondo, who was killed in Iraq in 2004.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Cold War Still Rages...In US Trade Policy on R ...
    Remember the time before China joined the WTO when it was annually subjected to congressional dog-and-pony shows concerning whether a country that did not respect human rights deserved most-favoured nation (MFN) trade status with the US? Just as Americans from various walks of life still have a ...
  • Myanmar, a Real Frontier Market for Visa Payments
    I suppose it's not quite on par with operating a payments system in North Korea, but this is as close as it gets in Southeast Asia as the American multinational corporation Visa is set to enter Myanmar. With many Western firms looking enter to re-enter the till recently off-limits nation due to ...
  • The Fading Dream of Yuan-Yen Direct Exchange
    One of the things people unfamiliar with currency markets do not fully appreciate--and these include poo-bahs alike Fred Bergsten of the Peterson Institute of International Economics--is that all currency pairs involve the US dollar and something else. To change Japanese yen into Chinese yuan fo ...
  • Speculation, Food Prices & Firm Reputation Risk
    In any number of commodity classes, there is the accusation that speculators and other sorts of profiteers are driving up prices to a degree unwarranted by economic fundamentals. You often hear this with regard to oil, but it's also an accusation heard with regard to foodstuffs as their prices h ...
  • Would Korea Have Developed Following World Bank?
    Although more than a few colleagues tend to view the World Bank in quite a negative light no matter what they do, I have come to a more ambivalent position. (Newer readers should note potential conflicts of interest since they gave me not-insubstantial prize a few years back when I was still a P ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

  • UN regional emergency teams on standby to assi ...
    As tropical storm Isaac nears landfall in the Caribbean, regional emergency teams are ready to be deployed in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Cuba in the event of any contingencies, the United Nations food relief agency said today.
  • Despite progress, Chile still faces challenges ...
    While progress has been made investigating and prosecuting enforced disappearances in Chile, challenges remain to ensure perpetrators serve their sentences, a group of United Nations independent experts said today.
  • UN human rights expert calls on US to consult ...
    A United Nations independent expert today called on the United States Government and authorities in the state of South Dakota to start consultations with indigenous people on a land sale that will affect a site of spiritual significance to them.
  • UN expert calls on Colombia to further dialogu ...
    A United Nations independent expert today called on the Government of Colombia to advance the dialogue process with indigenous authorities in the state of Cauca to find a solution to the recent military presence in their territory and other related matters.
  • Caribbean countries encouraged to use UN progr ...
    A regional Caribbean body today encouraged its member countries to adopt a United Nations programme which would help them streamline trade and increase transparency in business procedures.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • CIA Agent Warns: “Never Watch the TV, the Grea ...
    He'll never give anything away whatsoever, except one bit of advice. He said, never watch the television. Never watch the television. It's the greatest scientific indoctrination tool ever devised.
  • The Magic Weed
    Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
  • Blood Coltan
    Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
  • CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
    Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
  • Hangar 18: The UFO Warehouse
    Not only was debris from many UFO crashes allegedly shipped to the base, but from the late 1940s until the end of the late 1960s, all reports regarding UFOs were conducted at Wright-Patterson for the military's official UFO investigation Project Blue Book.

Rewilding Institute

  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Natural ...
    Natural History:  the Ground Upon Which Conservation Rests ©2012 Dave Foreman It is a few months later than I would have liked, but the next Rewilding Institute book, Take Back Conservation, is at last with Raven’s Eye Press in Durango.  It will roll off the press in time for Yule gifts (hint, h ...
  • The Politics of Climate Change
    Originally published in CounterPunch – Weekend Edition August 3-5, 2012 The Age of Unsustainable Problems The Politics of Climate Change by Dr. BRIAN MILLER and GEORGE WUERTHNER Politics cloud the issue of climate change.  We have a global economy driven by fossil fuels.  Whoever controls ...
  • A Radio Interview with John Davis
    It’s always fun to have a conversation with John Davis, so get some iced tea, turn up the volume and take some time to listen as John is interviewed by Ken Rose on What Now, aired on KOWS Radio Occidental July 23, 2012. Weaving lessons learned, travel stories and his deep knowledge and con ...
  • Canid hybridization: contemporary evolution in ...
    Canid hybridization: contemporary evolution in human-modified landscapes Astrid V. Stronen1,*, Nathalie Tessier1, Hélène Jolicoeur2, Paul C. Paquet3, Michel Hénault4, Mario Villemure5, Brent R. Patterson6, Tim Sallows7, Gloria Goulet8,François-Joseph Lapointe1 First published online: July 25, 20 ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – The Myth ...
    The Myth of the Environmental Movement ©2012 Dave Foreman In the years following Earth Day, environmentalism, once regarded as the self-serving indulgence of a privileged elite, became ‘America’s cause’…. –Phil Shabecoff - A Fierce Green Fire: The American   Environmental Movement Th ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • The Newest Government 'Manufactured' Boogyman. ...
    Forget about al-Qaeda and state-sponsored radicalized Muslims, the newest Boogyman that the US government wants the American public to fear are our own US veterans! ~ Susanne Posel read more
  • U.S. Census Bureau Helped Racially Target Thou ...
    The U.S. Census Bureau claims you are required by law to reveal your race on their (coercive) questionnaire, and Census Bureau workers can get ridiculously adamant about stalking you until you agree to fill out such forms... ~ Mike Adams - Video read more
  • Solved... Mystery Surrounding 1.2 Billion Roun ...
    The mystery surrounding the purpose for the U.S. government’s procurement of 1.2 billion rounds of hollow-point ammunition just got a boost Tuesday. ~ Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul read more
  • LONG BEFORE 9/11 U.S. Government Planned Indef ...
    The government’s claim that it can indefinitely detain American citizens living on American soil based upon a vague “suspicion” that they might be supporting or affiliated with bad guys is disturbing. ~ Video read more
  • Texas Judge Tom Head... Obama Reelection Could ...
    "He's going to try to hand over the sovereignty of the United States to the (United Nations), and what is going to happen when that happens?," Judge Tom Head asked the station during a Monday interview. "I'm thinking the worst. Civil unrest, civil disobedience, civil war maybe. And we're not ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Methods Of Meat Preservation
    The problem of storing meat for use all year round is an old one. Before preservation though… Hanging Although not a method of preservation, a period of ‘hanging’ can improve the flavor and texture of meats by giving natural enzymes time to break down tough muscle fibers. The t ...
  • A Hurricane Preparedness List
    Having a hurricane preparedness checklist will provide reassurance that you will have thought of all the essentials (provided that they are on the list) and will greatly reduce the likelihood that you will forget something during the stressful time immediately before a potential hurricane disast ...
  • Northeast Population Density
    The population density of the northeast United States is dense, for sure, however there are large regions of low population and wilderness in northern New England. For folks that are seeking to live in an area that is further away from the many systemic risks and the dependencies on the systems ...
  • George Soros Loading Up With Gold
    Billionaire George Soros has recently sold more than a million shares of major financial companies including JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and Citigroup, valued at 50 million dollars. While George Soros is well known for his donations to foundations that often undermine the American way, one has to ...
  • Israel To Attack Iran October 15?
    When? October 15 Why? New Moon (dark) It should come as no surprise to those following the news of the Middle East that tensions between Israel and Iran are at an all time high. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is determined to attack Iran before the US elections,” Israel’s Channel 10 ...

Fast Company

  • Livestrong CEO Doug Ulman: What Lance Armstron ...
    This time, it's really not about the bike. Doug Ulman The news broke last night that Lance Armstrong will no longer contest the latest allegations of cheating throughout his cycling career, prompting the United States Anti-Doping Agency to strip him of his seven Tour de France titles. If ...
  • It's Nikola Tesla's World (We're Just Opening ...
    Matthew Inman--the comic illustrator behind The Oatmeal--won a thumping victory against FunkyJunk's lawyer in June and raised more than $220,000 for cancer research and bear preservation. His latest campaign is to raise money to build a museum in memory of legendary inventor Nikola Tesla--and it ...
  • This Week In Bots: The Robots We Build To Kill ...
    Bot Vid: Inflatable-Arm Army Robot iRobot's been working with DARPA on what seems like a very unlikely piece of military hardware: A warbot with an inflatable arm. One would think that inflatables are incompatible with a battlefield, but the design the robot makers have pursued means the arm ...
  • The Ascent Of The Arab Startup
    When I arrived in Dubai in late 2009, Maktoob was all the rage. The Internet portal, founded in Jordan 11 years earlier, had hit the big time with the kind of exit that technology ventures dream of. In August 2009, a couple months before I arrived, Yahoo! had acquired Maktoob for $164 million. T ...
  • Pivoting From A White Label YouTube To A Multi ...
    Serial-entrepreneur Reggie Bradford launched Vitrue in 2006 as a kind of “white label YouTube,” that let consumers create, upload, and rate video ads for their favorite products. Fresh off of two successful exits that had been worth more than $4 billion to shareholders, Bradford was convinced he ...

Jadaliyya

  • The Economic and Human Toll of Syria's Worseni ...
    The following interview was conducted with Omar Dahi, a Syrian professor of economics at Hampshire College on August 14th, 2012 regarding the economic consequences of the uprising in Syria, especially in terms of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon.  The escalating conflict in Syria has ma ...
  • الإخوان المسلمون: سنوات ما قبل الثورة
    يحوي كتاب "الإخوان المسلمون: سنوات ما قبل الثورة" للباحث الراحل حسام تمام (دار الشروق 2012)،  مجموعة من الدراسات المتعلقة بجماعة الإخوان المسلمين المصرية وتحولاتها السياسة والاجتماعية قبيل ثورة يناير، ولا تُعنى هذه الدراسات التي تمثل خلاصة فكر حسام تمام ورؤيته في النظر إلى الحركة ...
  • Trying to Understand MUJWA
    Since it first burst onto the scene in December 2011, the Movement for Tawhid and Jihad in West Africa (generally MUJWA in English, or MUJAO in French) has been a difficult group to pin down. The group, originally characterized as a “dissident” faction of al-Qaeda in the Isla ...
  • Jordan's Current Political Opposition Movement ...
    The following is the second and final installement in a two-part interview on the history and politics of the Jordanian regime. The interview was conducted during the first two weeks of August 2012 with Tariq Tell, a Jordanian scholar and activist. In this second part, Tell discusses the positio ...
  • عندما يصبح تسييس القضاء ضمانة لاستقلاله: أفكار ...
    أين اختفى قضاة "التيار الاستقلالي" في مصر اليوم؟ سؤال محير يراود أذهان أكثر من متابع للشأن القضائي المصري في الوقت الحاضر. فالمفارقة الغريبة هي أن القضاة الذين صنعوا الحدث القضائي والسياسي عامي 2005 و2006 عندما تحدوا من خلال نادي قضاة مصر نظام حسني مبارك في أوج سلطته باتوا اليوم، بعد س ...

mediagazer

  • How the media handled graphic images of Empire ...
    Jeff Sonderman / Poynter: How the media handled graphic images of Empire State Building shooting  —  When today's deadly shooting occurred in the heart of Manhattan, thousands of witnesses were nearby and many used cameras to quickly document the scene.  Some of the images ...
  • Vanity Fair Snags a Silicon Valley Scoopmonger ...
    Ryan Tate / Wired: Vanity Fair Snags a Silicon Valley Scoopmonger  —  Well-connected Silicon Valley journalist Kara Swisher will write for Vanity Fair.  Photo: Via Kara Swisher  —  If you need more evidence that geeks are chic, keep an eye on the bylines in ...
  • Microsoft's Election 2012 hub on Xbox Live her ...
    Samit Sarkar / The Verge: Microsoft's Election 2012 hub on Xbox Live heralds the interactive TV future  —  Microsoft wants to push election engagement forward by using its Election 2012 hub on Xbox Live as a proof-of-concept for the future of television and the future of polling ...
  • Empire State Building shooting leads to social ...
    Andrew Gill / WBEZ: Empire State Building shooting leads to social media payday for one Instagrammer  —  As the world tries to figure out the motives of the Empire State Building shooter, one random Instagram photo provides a window into the dirty underbelly of photo licensing f ...
  • MOG's Music-Focused Ad Network Sold To Townsqu ...
    Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: MOG's Music-Focused Ad Network Sold To Townsquare Media  —  Before it was a music streaming service that was acquired by Beats, MOG was a music blog network.  It launched in 2008 as the MOG Music Network, an ad network to monetize that content.&n ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • KiwiRail turnaround plan intellectually b ...
    Friday, 24 August 2012, 4:52 pm Press Release: Rail And Maritime Transport Union August 24, 2012 KiwiRail turnaround plan intellectually bankrupt The KiwiRail turnaround plan is intellectually bankrupt and a tragic case of history repeating itself, the rail workers’ union said today. ...
  • Peru seizes 16,000 dried seahorses headed ...
    "We managed to seize... 16,280 seahorses destined to be sold illegally on the Asian continent," Colonel Victor Fernandez, from the...
  • Top 10 benefits of growing your own food
    Related topics fallRecipesFoodOrganicCari Hahngarden Advertisement Tending a home garden doesn't require a lot of space in order to be fruitful endeavor. Anyone can grow a healthful and attractive garden. From rural plots which are able to be set aside, specifically, for gardening purposes t ...
  • Beef cattle herds shrink amid drought
    The worst U.S. drought in half a century and record feed prices are spurring farmers to shrink cattle herds to the smallest in two generations, driving beef prices higher. Beef output will slump to a nine-year low in 2013 after drought damaged pastures from Missouri to Montana, the U.S. Depa ...
  • Thanks to the weather ‘wonky’ ...
    Misshapen pears, ugly apples and tiny onions will be sold in British supermarkets for the first time in years after the dismal summer weather ruined harvests. During a normal harvest, farmers will once again be forced to lose profit and dump produce Photo: Alamy By Louise Gray, Environment C ...

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Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
  • News of the World staff shocked at closure
    Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Julian Assange in the crosshairs - Part 1
    Today's show focuses on the stand-off between Julian Assange and the British government. The news about his acceptance by Ecuador had not yet broken as we went to air. We also take a look at the science-fiction level totalitarian surveillance system known as "TrapWire", amid speculation that t ...
  • All that is Necessary for Evil to Triumph
    This clip is from the film "Hitler: The Rise of Evil". It is often said, "all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing". As a follow up, we might add: "History seldom repeats, but it often rhymes". Once again, freedom is under threat. Evil is rising. Wh ...
  • MullerGate: a muddled professor who meddled wi ...
    In today's show we bring you our exclusive exposé of the latest climate science scandal. Richard A. Muller is a professor in physics at UC Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is the founder of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature projec ...
  • ‘Batman’ Gun Grab: The Port Arthur Massacre Pa ...
    The recent ‘Batman’ massacre in Colorado has evinced several characteristics of past gun related atrocities which, if anything, only serve to seriously undermine evidence against these alleged ‘lone gunman’. This incident is clearly becoming a precursor for a campaign to ...
  • Vaccination and your rights with Bronwyn Hanco ...
    Part 2 of Vaccination and your rights with Bronwyn Hancock

Beacon

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

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The Mars Lander Filmed From The Lander POV
        This is what is happening parsed out in seconds of time elapsed on the video. The video is played at 3X normal speed. Before video starts – parachute  0:00 -Heat shield separation 0:21 – Heat shield impacts surface (bottom left) 0:25 – Parachute separation and the ...
  • Star Wars Speeder On The Way. Flying Cars? Sti ...
          Sources: Star Wars Wiki, Yahoo News    
  • Cold War Bomber Intercepts
    During the Cold War, Soviet and US bomber aircraft often probed the defenses of each other by flying into each other;s airspace or close to it. when a bomber went up on either side, a fighter went up to escort them out. So I found this great website called AcesFkyingHigh. Here are some great pho ...
  • William Windom, Actor, Paratrooper With 82nd A ...
            Windom was born in Manhattan, born of parents Paul Windom and Isobel Wells. His grandfather was also William Windom and served as United States Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents James Garfield and Chester A. Arthur. Oh, and by the way, William Windom, was an ...
  • The Growing Absolute Power Of States.
      The world is reacting with shock and outrage over the jail sentence given to a Punk Rock band out of Russia. What’s shocking is not just the outright smothering of what we might term inalienable rights; it is the hypocrisy in the notion that a purportedly Communist and thusly non-religiou ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Top Story: Romney Shrugs off Critics, Pleased ...
    “The crowd loved it and it got a good laugh.” – Mitt Romney DEFLECTING THE QUESTION about what he said today in Michigan, Mitt Romney shrugged it all off as a joke when speaking to Scott Pelley of CBS News. It didn’t bother Mr. Romney that he was not only channeling Donal ...
  • Duopoly Convention Entertainment: Act I, The T ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. I’ve written about the 2012 Republican and Democratic Conventions for a while now, as a focus of planned Occupy and related protests, as a part of the Duopoly system, and most recently, as related to security in Bipar ...
  • Mitt Romney Floats Birther Joke in Michigan
    THE GAFFERIFFIC candidate either can’t tell a joke or actually believes this stuff works. Adviser says Romney went rogue. “I love being home, where but the both of us were born. No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate; they know that this is the place where both of us were bo ...
  • Tampa Police Chief Calls Concealed Carry Event ...
    ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER gun shooting in America, this time outside the Empire State Building. From the AP not long ago: New York City police say at least four people have been shot outside the Empire State Building and that the gunman is dead. Federal officials say the shooting isn’t related t ...
  • Lance Armstrong Gives Up on Clearing his Name, ...
    Convicted doper Floyd Landis, another Armstrong teammate, said he saw Armstrong using the performance enhancing drug EPO. “I also received some from him,” Landis told ABC News. “You know, rather than go into entire detail of every single time I’ve seen it: Yes, I saw Lanc ...

Hudson New York

  • Israel Welcomes Palestinians without Permits
    For many years, the Palestinians had been complaining about Israeli restrictions that ban them from entering Israel, but during the holy month of Ramadan, in an unprecedented move, the Israeli authorities granted permits to tens of thousands of
  • The Smear Campaign Against Geert Wilders
    Few politicians are as pro-Jewish and pro-Israel as Geert Wilders, the leader of the Dutch Freedom Party PVV. The 49-year old Wilders, who lives under round-the-clock police protection because of Islamist death threats, has visited Israel over 40 times.
  • France Seeks to Reclaim 'No-Go' Zones
    The French government has announced a plan to boost policing in 15 of the most crime-ridden parts of France in an effort to reassert state control over the country's so-called "no-go" zones: Muslim-dominated neighborhoods that are largely off limits to
  • Maximum Delhi
    Despite my long complaint the other day about reporters who fly into countries they know little about and report on them as if they knew what they were talking about, I'm about to do exactly that: I'm off to Delhi this afternoon to see if I can become an
  • Crucial Threat to Israel from Western Border
    The developments on Israel's western border might be far more crucial to its strategic situation, even compared to the Iranian nuclear threat. The August 5 terror attack in northern Sinai, killing 16 Egyptian policemen, supplied the perfect excuse for

Urban Survival

  • Gold Glitters Anew, but…..
    If you’ve been wondering why gold hasn’t fallen into a deflationary funk, the answer is becoming clear, although in slow-motion.  Not only are several international banking groups giving gold new respect but now the republican party convention may adopt a … Continue readin ...
  • Coping: Reinventing Airspace
    A very interesting article in the Chinese news agency Xinhua caught by eye this morning:  It details Chinese plans to promote civilian general aviation in coming years. Unlike the US which invented aviation in many ways, the Chinese have always … Continue reading →
  • And I Though I was Cheerful…
    Several readers have asked what my thoughts are on the Money Morning report “Economist Richared Duncan: Civilization may not survive “Death Spiral“  so I thought we could begin with that today.    A confidential source has been passing me some … Continue re ...
  • Coping: Around the Ranch
    Pastoral serenity?  Ha!  Not very often that I share this and that developments with you here in the East Texas Outback since they are usually not of interest unless you happen to be a B&R (born and raised) Texan.  Which … Continue reading →
  • A Tenth Monday Downer: So?
    A couple of people have suggested that I should mention that yesterday was the 10th week in a row when the market had been down on Monday, something that hasn’t happened for more than 20 or 30-years.  I’d look it … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Day-tripping without a car in Los Angeles
    Jessica Lass, Senior Press Secretary, Santa Monica Yes, sure, no one walks in LA…except well, more people than you’d think. Every month more Angelenos are choosing to ride their bike to work or ride public transit as a cheaper, healthie ...
  • Truth in jest; a livestock industry in denial ...
    Sasha Lyutse, Policy Analyst, New York Sometimes a bit of humor is worth a thousand words. Here at NRDC, we’ve written about how the livestock industry employs a strategy of obfuscation—pesky facts be damned!—to try and convince us ...
  • Ready for round two? A new mega-resort is prop ...
    Carolina Herrera, Latin America Advocate, Washington DC Mexico’s Cabo Pulmo National Park may once more be under threat from a mega tourism resort. Barely two months since President Calderón announced the cancellation of the controversi ...
  • Alaska to EPA: Stay away from Pebble Mine (but ...
    Taryn Kiekow, Staff Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California Alaska is sending EPA mixed messages.  On the one hand, Alaska Attorney General Michael Geraghty has told EPA to steer clear of Pebble Mine.  On the o ...
  • Final Test Before California's Cap-and-Trade P ...
    Kristin Eberhard, Legal Director, Western Energy and Climate Projects, Santa Monica Next week’s scheduled practice auction of greenhouse gas allowances for California’s largest polluters will provide an important first look into how the ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • ‘Everything they say is a lie’
    From the ABA Journal: A New York judge who says a police officer struck him after apparently mistaking him for a heckler is blasting Queens District Attorney Richard Brown for refusing to prosecute. Judge Thomas Raffaele claims Brown is orchestrating … Continue reading →‘Everyt ...
  • National Police Misconduct Newsfeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, August 22, 2012: Woonsocket, Rhode Island: An argument between a police officer and his nine-year-old sister led him to choke her. He was subsequently arrested. ow.ly/1Osacn Folly Beach, South … Continue reading →Nati ...
  • Officer Dies After Car Chase & Crash
    From the Washington Post: As the [police officers] caught up with the car on I-95 and relayed information about the Acura to a dispatcher, a supervisor got on the radio and questioned whether they were chasing the car, according to … Continue reading →Officer Dies After Car Chase &#0 ...
  • The Chavis Carter Case: Was It Suicide?
    From the New York Times: [W]hat started as a routine arrest then took a fatal turn. As the officers were about to drive Mr. Carter to jail, they found him slumped over, his hands still cuffed behind his back, drenched … Continue reading →The Chavis Carter Case: Was It Suicide? is a p ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, August 21, 2012: Update: Boiling Spring Lake, North Carolina: The police chief who aided and abetted his criminal son was indicted on a felony count. http://bit.ly/NYyBJW Venice, California: A … Continue reading →Natio ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Paid Contractor Position: Development and Rela ...
    Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) is a community and volunteer-based climate and renewable energy think-tank. A small team of contracted coordinators enable hundreds of volunteers to actively engage and deliver Beyond Zero Emissions' objective of moving Australia from a 19th century fossil fuel-based ...
  • Paid contractor position: Campaign Coordinator
    Beyond Zero Emissions is a community and volunteer-based climate and energy security think-tank. A small team of contracted coordinators enable hundreds of volunteers to actively engage and deliver Beyond Zero Emissions' objective of moving Australia from a 19th century fossil fuel-based economy ...
  • Paid contractor position: Technical Research C ...
    Reports to: Project Director - ZCA Transport Plan and Technical Director ZCA Project Based: Fitzroy VIC 3065 Job Purpose: To support the development and communication of the ZCA Transport Plan. After the release of the Transport Plan, the focus of this role will shift to one of the subsequent ...
  • Clouding a bright solar thermal future
    The July 31 Australian Energy Technology Assessment from the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics has been hailed by the government, and renewable energy advocates, as a step forward for Australia’s ‘clean energy future’. It is true that the estimates in the AETA are an improvement over t ...
  • Santos’ shale gas adventure to slug SA househo ...
    Santos’ foray into expensive shale gas will increase household bills by a whopping $263 each year. Santos has admitted that shale gas will double the wholesale price of gas, adding $163 to average gas bills, but neglected to mention ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Construction of controversial Belo Monte dam s ...
    Belo Monte dam developer Norte Energia, S.A. has stopped all work on the Belo Monte dam after receiving formal notification of the decision last week by the Brazilian Federal Appeals Court to suspend the project, reports International Rivers. Norte Energia said it would take 'all available measu ...
  • Bird uses hurricane winds to accelerate flight ...
    Migrating Whimbrels — a type of shorebird — may struggle for hours against winds when trying to cross the Caribbean during hurricane season but get a huge boost as they fly out of storms, report researchers from the Center for Conservation Biology in Williamsburg, Virginia.
  • Forget-me-not: two new flowers discovered in N ...
    New Zealand scientists have discovered two new species of forget-me-nots (flowers in the genus Mytosis), both of which are believed to be endangered. Discovered in Kahurangi National Park on the South Island, the new species highlight the diversity of the tiny flowers in New Zealand.
  • Animal picture of the day: Critically Endanger ...
    Found in only one location in northern Bolivia, the blue-throated macaw (Ara glaucogularis) is thought to number little more than 100 individuals in the wild. However the species is protected from utter extinction by a much larger captive population.
  • Human society surpasses 'nature's budget' today
    As of today, August 22nd, humanity has overshot the world's annual ecological budget, according to the Global Footprint Network, which tracks global consumption related to resource availability and sustainability. The organization looks at a variety of data including the world's fisheries, fores ...

Sierra Express

  • Unbecoming Attitude of Ex-soldiers
    Time has passed when we used to say the issue of the Wounded In Action (WIAs) a faction of the ex-service men of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces protesting to have payments of their benefits should be treated with the utmost interest it deserves. Equally it does not deserve the latter, ...
  • Josiah Paris Applauded For Promoting Healthy D ...
    There is weaving of novelty in the political programs, ace broadcaster, Josiah Paris puts on in the airwaves of Universal Radio on Frequency Modulation (FM 98.7) – that have portrayed a beat of novelty in him, which is the fair-cast he gives to the various political parties in Sierra Leone. On t ...
  • APC, SLPP to Battle in Parliament
    The legislative house of Sierra Leone’s Parliament today commenced a tense debate on the much talked about National Electoral Commission’s (NEC) nomination fee paper, which was laid before the House on Tuesday 21st August, 2012. Leaders from the majority and minority parties in parliament told t ...
  • Africell Ends Ramadan Promo
    Africell’s Ramadan Hidden Treasure Hunt 2 promotion ended on Monday 20th August with final presentations of prizes won by the various subscribers presented on August 22nd at the company’s headquarters at No. 1 Pivot Street, Wilberforce, west of the capital, Freetown. Addressing the congregation, ...
  • First Africa-China Media Cooperation Forum
    AUC Chairperson Dr. Jean Ping acknowledges the important role of media and press freedom in changing the socio-political landscape in Africa. Beijing, China, 23 August 2012 – The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Dr. Jean Ping, addressed some African Ministers in charge of infor ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Trade surplus for July on China dairy exports
    New Zealand recorded a small trade surplus in July, with shipments of dairy products to China making up for weaker exports to Australia, Indonesia and India.The surplus was $15 million last month, down from a revised $287 million...
  • Fonterra hits record quarterly exports
    Fonterra Cooperative Group, the world's biggest exporter of dairy products, achieved record export in the final three months of its season of 620,000 tonnes.Its 2012 May, June and July shipments were 36 per cent more than the same...
  • US drought helps push global dairy prices higher
    New Zealand dairy farmers will take more confidence from Fonterra's 2012-13 payout forecast after drought conditions in the United States helped drive dairy prices sharply higher at yesterday's international auction, economists say.The...
  • US drought behind surge in world dairy prices ...
    Severe drought conditions in the United States played a part in today's big lift in dairy prices, ANZ National rural economist Con Williams said.Prices of dairy products posted their third-biggest gain in about two years in...
  • Dairy prices surge 7.8pc in overnight auction
    Prices of dairy products posted their third-biggest gain in about two years in the latest GlobalDairyTrade sale overnight, paced by whole and skim milk powder.The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 7.8 per cent compared to the last...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Were Some (Or All) of the Empire State Buildin ...
    The murder of a 41-year-old import company vice president outside the Empire State Building, and the subsequent wounding of nine people when police closed in on the apparent murderer, doesn't appear to be a high point in public safety. But would it matter if some or all of the bys ...
  • Scott Shackford on Kickstarting Technological ...
    Three-year-old crowd-funding site Kickstarter is not just for the creative class. Tech innovators are attempting to use the tool to draw attention (and potential backers) to hardware projects like new game consoles and video cameras. Scott Shackford takes a look at the Ouya, the oddly ...
  • Finland is Ready to Leave the Euro As Frustrat ...
    It is an odd political reality that a country roughly the size of New Mexico with a population a little more than Minnesota’s and home to cell phone throwing champions is positioning itself to wield dramatic influence over the future of an economy with 333,000,000 people worth a ...
  • Anarchists Are Planning Lots of Violent, Extre ...
    The FBI and police warn, in a vague, but ominous sort of way, that anarchists and other "extremist" folks are planning scary things for the upcoming Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. Now, is there a good chance that when thousands of people, including some of the rad ...
  • NJ School District Considers Drug Testing High ...
    This story came up on the local cable news here today—a  school district in Northern New Jersey is considering a program to administer random drug test on its high school students. But not just any students, the ones who participate in after school activities. Specifically, accordin ...

Mercury Rising

  • Friday Cat Blogging
    Alexander was very sick last week, eventually diagnosed with pancreatitis. I’m happy to report that he seems to be fully recovered. He’s very relieved that I’m done squirting medicine down his throat.
  • So, Was Dr. Thompson Right?
    From this week’s Village Voice: As Republicans prepared to renominate Richard Nixon for president, journalist Hunter S. Thompson had a moment of clarity inside his Miami Beach hotel room. “This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves,” Thompson wrote in ...
  • Doctor Behind Akin’s Rape Myth: Romney S ...
    From the LAT via joelgp: After saying he “can’t defend” Rep. Todd Akin’s suggestion that women don’t get pregnant from rape, Mitt Romney stepped up his rebuke on Tuesday when he called on Akin to drop out of the Missouri Senate race. But archives from Romney’s previous presidential bid show that ...
  • Doctor Behind Akin’s Rape Myth: Romney S ...
    From the LAT via joelgp: After saying he “can’t defend” Rep. Todd Akin’s suggestion that women don’t get pregnant from rape, Mitt Romney stepped up his rebuke on Tuesday when he called on Akin to drop out of the Missouri Senate race. But archives from Romney’s previous presidential bid show that ...
  • Share this vid
    Via Avedon, a good theological argument on why everything that conservative Christians think they know about what the Bible says on homosexuality is wrong. Now, if only it were this clear-cut. The Bible is simply not very clear on many issues and this is one of them. But Matthew Vines makes an e ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Air Fuel
    Those of you who are around 25-30 years old and grew up in Britain may remember a kids TV show called Aquila. It was about two boys who found a small, pod-like alien craft that ran on air. Well, this type of vehicle, or at least power source, is finally here!  read more
  • The Man Behind the Kirtan: A Talk with Krishn ...
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  • Sex in the News
    Texas state representative comes out as pansexual, choosing love over motherhood, sex tips for Burning Man, and more in this week's sex news. read more
  • Co-creating Wellness
    Come together for an interactive, experiential community salon in which practitioners and lay people explore the theme of energy and vitality, and envision a well-care system that works. Together, participants will engage in a rich dialogue interweaving over seven holistic healing modalities a ...
  • EVOLVEfest
      Evolver is proud to host the workshop/presenters area of the 6th annual EVOLVE Music and Yoga Festival – 8/31-9/3 in Phillipsburg, NJ), a gathering for progressive, fun-loving and visionary people who wish to celebrate their co-creative potential and explore ways to make life on Earth h ...

Desertification

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

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CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • New Age Parenting
    Parenting is an energy consuming challenge in the best of times. This past year I haven’t been employed outside my home, giving me a chance to spend a year as a stay-at-home mom for the first time since my 18 year old was a baby. It was eye opening to say the least. I had [...]
  • 10 Minutes and 10 Miles
    10 MINUTES AND 10 MILES In early June, on my very first group run with the American Cancer Society’s DetermiNation team, I ran for 10 minutes and wanted to cry. Not even 3 months later, through practice and DetermiNation, 10 minutes turned into 10 miles. Last Sunday, I ran for 10 straight miles ...
  • Career Services: What Students Need to Know
  • Ex-Smoker Finds Support in Runners
    I am an ex-smoker It’s hard to believe that just over 3 months ago, I was a heavy smoker. I used to love smoking. I smoked on and off from the time I was 17. I really didn’t want to quit. I believed that there was no hope for me to ever find the desire [...]
  • SPS Joins the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure
    On Sunday, September 9th, we at CUNY School of Professional Studies will participate in our first Komen Greater NYC Race for the Cure in Central Park. We are honored to run and walk among over 21,000 breast cancer survivors and supporters to build awareness for this very important cause. To prep ...

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

  • Over 80% of Infowars.com Poll Respondents Know ...
    Earlier this month, the establishment fount Forbes, a magazine fondly calling itself “the Capitalist Tool,” warned that an ever-creeping entitlement state and its confiscatory taxation policies may soon lead to a tyranny of the majority. “Today, a majority of Americans have a direct financial ...
  • Oath Keepers to Place Billboard Outside Ft. Le ...
    Oath Keepers is putting up a billboard right outside the main gate of Ft. Leavenworth Kansas to respond directly to the Small Wars Journal article by Leavenworth instructor Colonel Kevin Benson which paints the Tea Party movement as a future military opponent during domestic CONUS operations by ...
  • Judge Orders Release of Detained Marine Veteran
    HOPEWELL, Va. (WTVR) – A Hopewell circuit court judge has ordered that a Marine veteran detained over anti-government Facebook posts be released from a psychiatric hospital. CBS 6 News’ Catie Beck said the judge dismissed the case Thursday against Brandon Raub. The judge said the original pet ...
  • Judge Orders Release of Detained Marine Veteran
    HOPEWELL, Va. (WTVR) – A Hopewell circuit court judge has ordered that a Marine veteran detained over anti-government Facebook posts be released from a psychiatric hospital. CBS 6 News’ Catie Beck said the judge dismissed the case Thursday against Brandon Raub. The judge said the original pet ...
  • Ben Swann Takes On Brandon Raub Case In ‘Reali ...
    Ben Swann breaks it down regarding Brandon Raub and First Amendment rights

Wayne Madsen

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • India’s participation at XVI NAM Summit at Tehran
    Summary: Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will be participating in the XVI Summit Meeting of the Heads of State and Government of the Non-Aligned Movement which is being held at Tehran, Iran on 30-31 August, 2012. Prime Minister Dr. Singh had also participated in the last two NAM Summits hel ...
  • The bankrupt US policy on Syria and Iran
    Summary: Former State Department, CIA and NSC official Flynt Leverett discusses US policy on Syria and Iran; why most Syrians don’t support the radical Islamic rebellion; how US interference prevents a power sharing agreement and an end to violence; the Obama administration’s ideological blin ...
  • ‘US-Israeli warmongering against Iran illegal ...
    Summary: "Under the UN Charter, actually Article Two, clause four, it is important to recognize that not only it is considered the real violation of international law to launch a war, but it is also a violation to threaten war and that is something that Israel and the US have done continually ...
  • Russia, China say bypassing UN rules is ‘imper ...
    Summary: Russia and China have jointly called for other nations to strictly observe the UN charter and the international law after the US said it would bypass the UN in its actions on Syria. source: rtread more
  • Morsi gives solution to Syrian crisis
    Summary: I wrote yesterday for Asia Times that in Muslim politics such as the event of the summit meeting of the Organization of Islamic Conference that was held in Jeddah last week over the Syrian crisis, it is invariably the case that the sub-texts turn out to be more important than the nar ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • The Complete Mars Science Lab Descent in HD Video
    This is a full-resolution version of the NASA Curiosity rover descent to Mars, taken by the MARDI descent imager. As of August 20, all but a dozen 1600x1200 frames have been uploaded from the rover, and those missing were interpolated...
  • NASA Asks "How Did Phosphorus Become a Key Bui ...
    Phosphorus is not abundant in the universe or in molecular clouds as seen above the Lagoon nebular that create the building blocks of life, yet it is vital to life on Earth, even though our planet doesn’t provide us with...
  • Mar's Curiosity Mission Gale Crater Landing S ...
    NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced yesterday that it has dubbed the landing site of the Mars rover Curiosity “Bradbury Landing” in honor of sci-fi author Ray Bradbury, who's most popular work was The Martian Chronicles, which portrayed a human invasion...
  • Black-Hole Incubators Discovered --In Huge Sta ...
    Japanese astronomers using two radio telescopes have produced a map of carbon monoxide distribution in the central region of our Galaxy. While mapping the region, they identified three huge gas clumps and a number of intermediate-mass black hole candidates. While...
  • "Big Picture" of the Universe Confirmed --Ein ...
    “Our entire understanding of the Universe, even how we interpret the light we see from stars and galaxies, would be affected if the Universe were not even on large scales. By looking at how the WiggleZ galaxies are distributed in...

Natural News

  • Eating locally and in season
    The idea of eating locally and in-season just makes sense. Foods that grow locally are produced in the very same environment in which we are nested. It's quite likely, thus, that they contain the essential micro-nutrients that, quite naturally, work well for us. The...
  • DHS blacks out ammo purchase quantities, stock ...
    Detailed information about how many rounds of .223 caliber ammunition the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is right now in the process of purchasing for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been deliberately hidden from public view. Infowars reports...
  • Children with healthier diets are smarter, res ...
    Most parents want to do whatever they can to ensure they give their children every advantage and opportunity to succeed in life. According to new research, that also includes making sure they have a healthy diet. According to a new study led by University of Adelaide...
  • Meditation and sex have the same effects on yo ...
    The approach of western science is usually totally mechanical. So the inclusion of that which is not tangible is often excluded. Neuroscience delves into the brain's pleasure points according to what areas "light up" in the brain during sex and during meditation. This...
  • The nutritional content of baby food falls far ...
    When considering what foods to feed their infants, most people are made fully aware of which baby foods their child dislikes by the terrible contortions their unpracticed face goes through. Almost universally, babies prefer the sweet fruits to any other combination of...

Threat Level

  • Landmark California Location-Privacy Bill Near ...
    California lawmakers have approved legislation that would require the state's authorities to obtain a probable-cause warrant signed by a judge to obtain any location information from an electronic device -- from tablets and mobile phones to laptops. The measure, however, faces an uncertain fate ...
  • AT&T’s App-Blocking Defense Is Weak and Anti-C ...
    AT&T says it's okay to block FaceTime over 3G and 4G because the app comes installed by default. Free Press' research director S. Derek Scott calls that argument laughable and a plain attempt to undermine net neutrality.
  • FTC Asked to Stop Viral Advertising Promotions ...
    Children's health and privacy groups asked the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to investigate what they called the "commercial exploitation" of youths through popular brand-name companies' online, and viral, advertising promotions.
  • Feds Expand Domain Seizures to Mobile-App Pira ...
    The U.S. government for the first time has seized internet domains of online sites accused of selling pirated mobile applications, in this instance, Android apps. Seizing domains is nothing new under the President Barack Obama administration. Usually, however, sites are shuttered for offering ga ...
  • AT&T: Holding FaceTime Hostage Is No Net-Neutr ...
    The nation's biggest mobile carrier, AT&T, went on the offensive Wednesday when it claimed it would not be breaching so-called net neutrality rules by limiting FaceTime over its cellular network when Apple's newest mobile-phone operating system debuts in September.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • How Newly Pro-Life Romney Betrayed a "Dear, Cl ...
    Say what you will about the ultra-hardline reproductive politics of Todd Akin and Paul Ryan, but at least those two have always been true believers. Mitt Romney, not so much. As his former strategist Michael Murphy put it in 2005, "He's been a pro-life Mormon faking it as a pro-choice friendly ...
  • Ryan Joins McCain in Mocking the "Health of th ...
    Four years ago, Barack Obama beat John McCain among women voters by a healthy 13 point margin. That gap was doubtless made larger by McCain's shameful performance in the final presidential debate, when during an exchange about reproductive rights he used air quotes to mock the very idea of the ...
  • Romney Insults Non-Christians Again
    On Tuesday, Cathedral Age, a magazine produced by the Washington National Cathedral, published its interviews with President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney. In "Faith in America," the quarterly asked each candidate questions about their perspectives on the role of religion in the public ...
  • GOP Ignores Its Nominee on Abortion Platform. ...
    The Republican presidential nominee was once a strong supporter of Roe v. Wade, but underwent a just-in-time pro-life conversion to seek his party's nomination. Kowtowing to the GOP's evangelical base, he named a hardline social conservative who opposed abortion in all cases, including rape and ...
  • Global Business Leaders See Obama as Stronger ...
    Financial engineer turned Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has boasted for years that "I know how the economy works." Unfortunately for Mitt, global business leaders aren't buying what he's selling. A recent survey of executives around the world found that by a 2 to 1 margin, they ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Kucinich Asks Inspector General to Review FDA’ ...
    Dandelion Salad by Dennis Kucinich Washington, Aug. 24 2012 Five Year Investigation, Thousands of Sick and Dead Dogs, Tainted Jerky Still on the Shelves – FDA Refuses to Exercise Authority Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today asked the Inspector General to review the Food and Drug Administra ...
  • Howard Zinn: Be Honest About the History of Ou ...
    with Howard Zinn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad August 24, 202 “But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.” — Howard Zinn Aug 24, 2012 by democracynow DemocracyNow.org – The late historian, writ ...
  • NYPD Admits Muslim Spy Program Generated No Le ...
    After years of spying on Muslim neighborhoods, infiltrating groups and eavesdropping on conversations across the northeastern United States, the New York City Police Department has admitted its secret Demographics Unit failed to yield a single terrorism investigation or even a single lead. In th ...
  • Headlines for August 24, 2012
    Norwegian Mass Killer Breivik Sentenced to Maximum Prison Term, U.S. Drone Strike Kills 16 in Pakistan, Isaac Approaches Haiti, D.R.; Hurricane Strength Expected Next Week, Gov. Rick Scott: Florida, RNC Prepared for Isaac, Romney Calls for Ending Federal Regulation of Drilling, Mining, Bain Docs ...
  • Tunisia to Reject Odious Debt
    Leonce Ndikumana: Tunisia to audit foreign debt and reject loans embezzled by former dictator

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Fossil Fuel and Renewable Energy Subsidies on ...
      New Worldwatch Institute report discusses the rise in subsidies for renewable and fossil fuel-based energy production Washington, D.C.—-Total subsidies for renewable energy stood at $66 billion in 2010, but are still dwarfed by the total value of global fossil fuel subsidies estimat ...
  • Sesame Street Explains How Willard Mitt Romney ...
    More on this subject: From Crooks and Liars: Bill Maher Hits Republicans for Voter ID Laws in New Rules Segment From HuffPo: Jon Stewart Slams Voter ID Laws That ‘Cockblock The Vote’ (VIDEO) From ProPublica: Two Dark Money Groups Outspending All Super PACs Combined From MotherJones: ...
  • Nepali Harvesting of Aphrodisiac Threatens Loc ...
    A fungus being harvested in Nepal is leading to devastating effects on the local environment [...]
  • Butterflies Spreading North With Changing Climate
    Butterfly species are rapidly extending their range north as the climate warms, according to new research. A new study published August 19th in the journal Nature Climate Change analyzed data gathered from “an unlikely source — the trip accounts of the Massachusetts Butterfly Club. D ...
  • Text Of A Full Book Encoded In DNA
    The text of a whole book has been encoded in DNA by a geneticist from Harvard University. “Using next-generation sequencing technology and a novel strategy to encode 1,000 times the largest data size previously achieved in DNA, a Harvard geneticist encoded his book in life’s language ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • What the hell just happened?
    By @BGinKC There are probably stranger things in the world than a candidate for the Senate to make a big deal out of announcing a 4:15 press conference to make a two minute statement that he is staying in until November because he supports freedom more than Claire McCaskill, and she's led us to ...
  • I'm back, and I have a whole new outlook on things
    By @BGinKC My internet came back on yesterday evening about 7:30 or so -- I got it back a day early because I have terrific readers. Thanks to those who hit the PayPal button, especially Gene Ha. When I say I have the coolest readers on the internet, I'm not even kidding a little bit. I hadn't ...
  • Incredibly, Missouri GOP Has A Senate Candidat ...
    Rep. Todd Aiken, a Republican, represents Missouri's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House. I didn't think it possible, but he's even more of a kook than former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz, who's likely to be this state's next U.S. senator. Aiken, 65, suggested during a TV interview ...
  • Deficits Don't Matter
    By @TedFrier The gross inconsistencies in the Republican Party's obsession with federal budget deficits are contradictions that cannot be completely explained away by their rank hypocrisy or political opportunism. Eight years of reckless fiscal profligacy were not enough to provoke the GOP's an ...
  • The Akin Aftermath: I've been wrong before
    Heaven knows my record isn't perfect, and I have more than seven years of archives to attest to the veracity of that statement. Some of my classic "D'oh!" moments include voting for Dukakis in the primary in '88, and more recently I was one of the loudest voices calling for former KC Mayor Mark ...

Care 2

  • Lion Cub's First Meeting With Dad Captured on ...
    Lions are known as some of the most ferocious animals on the planet, so a tender moment between a father and his cub captured on camera in the wilds of Africa is generating a lot of buzz. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Starbucks Funding Research To Reuse Food Waste
    First Jamba Juice, now Starbucks. Food franchises are sure stepping it up to make a positive change in the world and bettering the environment. Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Stop TV Show's Wolf Killing "Fun" ! PLEASE SIG ...
    Tonight a reality TV show -- "On Your Own Adventures" with Randy Newberg -- is broadcasting the killing of a wolf in Montana. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • From puppy mill to pet shop: LA City Council s ...
    For those who stubbornly insist that losing their choice to purchase a dog, cat or rabbit from a pet store is a greater tragedy than the horror inflicted on multitudes of animals suffering for that choice, the Los Angeles City Councils proposed ban Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |  ...
  • Vertical Gardens: Sprouting Up Everywhere
    Here in Vancouver, on a rooftop between pizza slice joints in the downtown core, an EasyPark parking garage prepares to balance its ecological mandate by converting its roof to a 5,700 square foot vertical garden able to grow over 80 variety of leafy Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle &nbs ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Obama Campaign Hits Panic Button
    You know how it is when you are super stressed or taking too many steroids? You snap easily; you get overly emotional. Well, let me introduce you to the meltdown of Team Obama. Mitt Romney, with tongue firm in cheek, fired off this shot today: Only a complete, total moron would assume that Romne ...
  • Why We Need to Cut Government Spending, Includ ...
    I strongly disagree with Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, who insist that the Defense budget should not be touched. Government spending, including defense, is out of control. Let me give you some interesting facts that will put this into perspective. Let’s look at the US Navy. During World War I ...
  • This is a 100% irrelevant, a-political post … ...
    I like massages before bedtime too. Not so sure about the pink comforter though. But the kitchen is ALSO my favorite place. However, I don’t like sugar in my coffee. Yes, yes, yes … I admit that the open thread part is just to give myself an excuse for posting this video. Here’ ...
  • Sununu Uses the “L” word
    I hope that John Sununu never ever gets up on the right side of the bed. Now, this video, thanks to JRTerrier‘s comment: Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com JrTerrier also quoted the accompanying Fox Business News story: Stephanie Cutter lies and this Obama administration can&# ...
  • It Just Keeps Getting Ridiculouser and Ridicul ...
    As I watch the train wreck of Congressman Todd Akin’s weird concepts of conception being whipped into a frenzied froth by the zealots of the left, with Congressman Paul Ryan being portrayed as his evil twin, I don’t know whether to guffaw out loud or just silently convulse with laughter. Everybo ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Escalating the Battle Against Mountaintop Remo ...
    Escalating the Battle Against Mountaintop Removal Mining In These Times A direct action to close down a West Virginia mountaintop removal site—and the response to it—has escalated the struggle around coal mining in southern Appalachia. In late July, Radical Action for Mountain People's Survi ...
  • My Morning Jacket Featured in National Campaig ...
    WFPL My Morning Jacket Featured in National Campaign Against Mountaintop Removal WFPL The members of Louisville rock band My Morning Jacket appear in a new campaign by non-profit Earthjustice that opposes mountaintop removal coal mining. Earthjustice's Mountain Heroes campaign includes photo ...
  • BTL:Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining Divides C ...
    BTL:Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining Divides Communities Over Jobs and ... Bay Area Indymedia Tensions are rising in the coal fields of southern Appalachia, as more militant – though nonviolent – protests are being staged to end mountaintop removal coal mining, and the demand for coal and its av ...
  • Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining Divides Commu ...
    Between The Lines Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining Divides Communities Over Jobs and the ... Between The Lines Tensions are rising in the coal fields of southern Appalachia, as more militant – though nonviolent – protests are being staged to end mountaintop removal coal mining, and the demand fo ...
  • EPA allies combat strip mine ruling - Daily Camera
    EPA allies combat strip mine ruling Daily Camera Five green groups assert that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had legal authority to veto water-pollution permits for one of West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal mines, and that the federal judge who ruled otherwise improperly ...

Memeorandum

  • Romney Accused Of Going Full Birther After Jok ...
    Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo: Romney Accused Of Going Full Birther After Joke At Campaign Stop  —  The Obama campaign swiftly and harshly condemned a joke made by Mitt Romney about the president's birth certificate on the campaign trail in Michigan Friday, saying ...
  • Romney: 'No one has ever asked to see my birth ...
    Twitchy: Romney: ‘No one has ever asked to see my birth certificate’; Update: Team Obama feigns outrage … At a campaign rally in Commerce, Michigan, Mitt Romney couldn't resist taking a jab at President Obama:  —  “Ann was born in Henry Ford Hospital, I ...
  • Mitt Romney: 'No one's ever asked to see my bi ...
    Felicia Sonmez / Election 2012: Mitt Romney: 'No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate'  —  COMMERCE, Mich. — Did Mitt Romney make a birther joke?  —  It sure seemed like it Friday morning as he made remarks before a crowd of more than 1,000 here in ...
  • Mitt Romney's birther joke (Greg Sargent/Washi ...
    Greg Sargent / Washington Post: Mitt Romney's birther joke  —  On the trail just now in Michigan, Mitt Romney made a birther funny:  —  Romney: … The Obama campaign quickly put out a response: … The Romney campaign is trying to shut down the story r ...
  • Obama has millions of fake Twitter followers ( ...
    David Jackson / USA Today: Obama has millions of fake Twitter followers  —  President Obama's Twitter account has 18.8 million followers — but more than half of them really don't exist, according to reports.  —  A new Web tool has determined that 70% of Oba ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • China finds subsidised eco-fridges hard to shift
    The Chinese government has forked out 26 billion yuan to boost consumption of energy-saving home appliances. But so far the market hasn’t reacted as hoped, reports Wang Haotong.This summer, China launched a new round of subsidies for energy efficient home appliances, allocating 26.5 billio ...
  • China's power monopoly dilemma
    Consolidation of China’s coal and electricity industries may not resolve long-standing price tensions and power shortages argues Liu ChengkunIn late June, China’s biggest coal company, Shenhua Group, overtook China Power Investment (CPI) to become the country’s fifth largest el ...
  • Calls grow to scrap US nuclear plant
    A radioactive leak could see permanent closure of the San Onofre nuclear plant, as public frustrations mount. Jan McGirk reports from California.A radioactive leak may prove to be the swan song for one of California’s ageing nuclear-power plants, the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, ...
  • Now can we talk about the weather?
    The Great Drought of 2012 may edge us a little closer to the radical conversation we so desperately need about the gathering climate crisis, says Howard Covington.Britons habitually discuss the changeable weather that, as a small island nation, torments us. This year’s Great Drought in Nor ...
  • Tibetans fight tourism on holy lakes
    Public outrage has halted a damaging cruise boat project on one of Tibet’s sacred lakes, but unrestrained tourism remains a threat. Liu Jianqiang reports.Mining, dam construction, sand excavation, poaching and grassland degradation are seriously damaging the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, the worl ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Going Undercover at the GOP's Voter Vigilante ...
    I was nervous getting onto the flight to Denver. Since 2004, I have been a national radio producer, investigative reporter, author and consultant—writing about how elections are won, lost, bungled and improved, with a big focus on voter registration. But I had never snuck into a meeting ...
  • Howard Zinn Turns 90: The Great Legacy of the ...
     Howard Zinn would have turned 90 this Friday if his seemingly boundless energy and youthfulness had not been cut short in January 2010.Toward the end of his life, when a New York Times reporter called him with the morbid task of interviewing him in preparation for his future obituary, he ...
  • The Big, Racist Lie at the Center of the Romne ...
    The Romney team appears to have adopted a strategy of throwing so much dishonest spin around that the fact-checkers just throw their hands up in frustration. Along with his bald-faced lie that Obama “raided” Medicare, this week the campaign tripled-down on its universally debunke ...
  • Should African-American Stars Be More Politica ...
     Recently Harry Belafonte caused a minor uproar when he gave his opinion on the state of minorities in Hollywoodtoday:“And I think one of the great abuses of this modern time is that we should have had such high-profile artists, powerful celebrities. But they have turned their ...
  • 10 Hilariously Stupid S&M Sex Tips from Cosmo ...
     The following post first appeared on Nerve.com.I knew this was coming when the cashier in Barnes and Nobles saw me looking at Fifty Shades of Grey and stage-whispered: "I bought that for my mom, and now I'm just terrified that I'm going to go home and find my dad. In a&#xA ...

Threat Level

  • Landmark California Location-Privacy Bill Near ...
    California lawmakers have approved legislation that would require the state's authorities to obtain a probable-cause warrant signed by a judge to obtain any location information from an electronic device -- from tablets and mobile phones to laptops. The measure, however, faces an uncertain fate ...
  • AT&T’s App-Blocking Defense Is Weak and Anti-C ...
    AT&T says it's okay to block FaceTime over 3G and 4G because the app comes installed by default. Free Press' research director S. Derek Scott calls that argument laughable and a plain attempt to undermine net neutrality.
  • FTC Asked to Stop Viral Advertising Promotions ...
    Children's health and privacy groups asked the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to investigate what they called the "commercial exploitation" of youths through popular brand-name companies' online, and viral, advertising promotions.
  • Feds Expand Domain Seizures to Mobile-App Pira ...
    The U.S. government for the first time has seized internet domains of online sites accused of selling pirated mobile applications, in this instance, Android apps. Seizing domains is nothing new under the President Barack Obama administration. Usually, however, sites are shuttered for offering ga ...
  • AT&T: Holding FaceTime Hostage Is No Net-Neutr ...
    The nation's biggest mobile carrier, AT&T, went on the offensive Wednesday when it claimed it would not be breaching so-called net neutrality rules by limiting FaceTime over its cellular network when Apple's newest mobile-phone operating system debuts in September.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • It happened at the Picnic, but the E. coli sou ...
    It is inconclusive as to what food item or other environmental factor caused this outbreak of E. coli O157:H7. Dayton & Montgomery County announced today that following an intensive investigation into the July outbreak of O157:H7 in Germantown, they were unable to determine the cause of the ...
  • Mt. Morris New York E. coli Illnesses Announce ...
    According to Patti Singer of the Rochester Press Democrat, the Livingston County Department of Health in Mr. Morris is investigating seven cases of E. coli infection that occurred in about a two-week span this month. No deaths were reported, although four people were hospitalized. Two have sinc ...
  • 4 Ill in Minnesota Linked to Hoffman Turkey Jerky
    Minnesota State Department of Health issues consumer advisory for Hoffman Town & Country Meat Market turkey jerky. Four cases of Salmonella-related illness associated with consumption of product. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) and Hoffman Town & Country Meat Market of De ...
  • Microbiological Data Program to the rescue aga ...
    Dole Fresh Vegetables is voluntarily recalling 1,039 cases of bagged salad. The product being recalled is 10 oz. Dole Italian Blend coded 0049N2202008, with a Use-By date of August 20 and UPC 7143000819 due to a possible health risk from Listeria monocytogenes. Dole Fresh Vegetables is coordinat ...
  • Salmonella Cantaloupe Outbreak up from 141 to ...
    Late last night, August 22, the FDA reported that Chamberlain Farms Produce, Inc. of Owensville, Indiana “voluntarily” recalled cantaloupe grown on its farm, because it may be one source contributing to the multistate outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium infections.  The CDC this ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Official: Fisker Q&A sheds light, lots of ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Fisker, Electric, Luxury Despite what some media outlets are saying, the long list of questions and answers about the Fisker Karma now floating around (and available below) is not a leaked document. Instead, it is part of Fisker's ongoing customer service operation ...
  • Official: Fisker: cooling fan responsible for ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Recalls, Fisker, Electric, Luxury After two short "we're looking into it" official statements (1, 2), Fisker Automotive has announced that it has completed a "detailed investigation" into the strange, spontaneous combustion of a Karma plug-in hybrid that happened i ...
  • Official: Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid sets world s ...
    Filed under: Motorsports, Hybrid, Sedan, Volkswagen After blasting down the Bonneville Salt Flats at 185 miles per hour, the 2013 Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid is now the "world's fastest hybrid," according to VW. The modified Jetta Hybrid was driven by Motor Trend Associate Road Test Editor Car ...
  • Report: 2013 Nissan Leaf will go 25% further, ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hatchback, Nissan, Electric Months ago, we heard that the U.S. version of the 2013 Nissan Leaf would go farther per charge in cold weather thanks to a better heater. This was about the Leaf that will be made in Smyrna, Tennessee starting later this year. A new report ...
  • Official: Tony Posawatz replaces Tom LaSorda a ...
    Filed under: Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Fisker Tony Posawatz is a familiar face in the green car world, having played a prominent and public role in the development of the Chevrolet Volt as the vehicle line director for GM's plug-in hybrid. Today, we learn that Posawatz - who retired from GM la ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Breaking WIth Convention: Democracy Now! Repor ...
    Democracy Now! will expand to a daily two-hour broadcast during the 2012 Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Amy Goodman and the Democracy Now! crew will travel to Tampa Bay and Charlotte to report from the streets, to the suites, to the convention floor. Tune in on Monday, August 2 ...
  • Election 2012: Dreams of a Vote Deferred?
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan People remember 1929 as the year of the stock-market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression, the global economic disaster which remains the only one in history that dwarfs the one in which we now find ourselves. It was also the year Martin Luther ...
  • Read an Excerpt from "Subversives: The FBI's W ...
    Read "Spies in the Hills," Chapter 1 of the new book, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals and Reagan’s Rise to Power, by Seth Rosenfeld. Decades in the making, the book reveals that the FBI tried to disrupt the 1964 Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, helping ...
  • Craig Murray and Tariq Ali Speak In Support of ...
    See Craig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, and writer and activist Tariq Ali, speak outside the Ecuadorean embassy, where WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange spoke Sunday. "The invasion of a diplomatic premises is a crime in international law and a crime in the state whose ...
  • Paul Ryan: A Man With a Plan, From the Fiscal ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan is considered by many a champion of small government. For women, though, the federal government that Paul Ryan envisions is big, intrusive and controlling. Paul Ryan would ban all abortions, with no excepti ...

Suzie-Q

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

Solari

  • Inside the Propaganda Matrix with Jon Rappoport
    By Catherine Austin Fitts You will really enjoy Jon’s newest special for the Solari Report! In our interview in February, “The Matrix Revealed,” Jon described his decades of research that make it possible for him to unpack for you the different cartels that make up the Matrix, ...
  • My Paleo Media Diet
    By Jim Stogdill What would happen if we turned off, opted out, and completely disconnected ourselves from the technology that runs our lives? For Jim Stogdill, tuning out brought greater productivity, less stress, and improved relationships. I’ve been on a train to New York City for about ...
  • Transcript of Best Books for the 21st Century ...
    Best Books for the 21st Century Part 2 with Jon Rappoport is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: Well, welcome for this conversation. I hear you said you’ve changed your books from our conversation last night. Jon: Radically. I thought I’d just slip one or two new ones ...
  • Just a Taste
  • Victory for GMO-Free Movement: Plantings Halte ...
    By Nicholas Tomasi The ongoing food fight between massive biotech companies and grassroots activists has continued on the west coast, with a monumental vote on the mandatory labeling of genetically modified foods looming in California this November. The GMO-free movement took home an important v ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Whatever You Do, Don’t Read This Book!
    Summary:  On rare occasions a book arrives that’s both important and timely. Mike Lofgren’s new book, “The Party is Over”, is both. Here Winston Wheeler explains why you should read this book.  Or, for your peace of mind, you shouldn’t read this book. As citizens, u ...
  • The Affair Assange rips off the veil concealin ...
    Summary:  The Affair Assange provides a mirror in which we can see ourselves and our institutions. It’s not a pretty picture. Today we look at our journalists.  Their reaction to the opportunity provided by WikiLeaks, the competition provided by WikiLeaks, and the challenge to their triple ...
  • A look behind the curtain at the news of extr ...
    Summary:  The force of American politics comes from one simple fact: both Left and right are Americans, and share the same gullibility. The pathos of American politics comes the ability of each side to see through the lies that mesmerize their opponents — and the mockery that this gullibil ...
  • National decay starts at the heart, and spread ...
    Summary:  As our War on Terror grows ever-larger, it becomes more difficult to distinguish the two teams. Our enemies increasingly are insurgents fighting tyrannical governments. Our allies are allies of Iran or (and) jihadists. And we use terrorism. Think of this as evolution. The New America s ...
  • Parsing Cyberwar – Part 4: The Best Defe ...
    Summary: In this series, Marcus Ranum, walks us through the basics of cyberconflict, in its various forms: the nature of the battlefield, logistics, and dynamics. Today he looks at methods of defense. While offense gets most of the attention, most organisations play only defense. So read and lea ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Give Romney Foreign Policy Adviser an 'F' for ...
    How can we tell the Romney campaign foreign policy platform proposes things the Obama administration is already doing, while masquerading as a starkly different approach? Because the Romney camp's Stephen Hadley, who was national security adviser in the GW Bush White House, is so transparent abo ...
  • A Short Post on the Long Game in Russia
    While the recent trial, conviction, and incarceration of Pussy Riot have refocused Western attention on the sham that is “managed democracy” in Russia, the long game rumbles on. Two recent developments warrant some attention as portents of political change on a time scale the 24/7 press rarely d ...
  • Russian Human Rights Official Calls Pussy Riot ...
    Reuters reports that Russia’s human rights “ombudsman,” Vladimir Lukin, said that prison sentences a Russian court handed down to three women from the punk band Pussy Riot were “excessive” and warned that the whole fiasco surrounding the trial is damaging Russian society. The women, Nadezhda T ...
  • Thoughts on Congressional Oversight of DoD
    Rosa Brooks’ weekly column is up at Foreign Policy. She’s been writing mostly on civil-military relations but this week dives into runaway Pentagon spending. She echoes a lot of my own thoughts on the subject, particularly her last paragraph where she asks a lot of tough questions that I’m fairl ...
  • Missing from the Campaign Debate: The Military ...
    Last fall, Secretary Clinton published “America’s Pacific Century,” wherein she declared the policy of strategic rebalancing – then called the “pivot” – according to which the United States will prioritize developing its “Pacific power.”  Since then, the policy has generated voluminous discussio ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Voter-ID Fight Gets Down to the Wire in Wisconsin
    We may be months away from Election Day, but in states fighting legal battles over newly minted voter-ID laws, time is short. These laws, which require residents to show government-issued identification to vote, have been shown to disenfranchise poor and minority voters in the first place. But ...
  • Friday Music Break
    Spurred on by Dave Weigel's epic series on the history of progressive rock, for this week's Music Break we have Asia, with "Don't Cry." Although I'd contend that Asia wasn't really prog rock; instead, it was a supergroup made up of prog rock royalty (members came from Yes, ELP, and King Crimson ...
  • Norman Mailer Aims for Auteur ... and Falls Wa ...
    Whenever being a writer wasn’t enough to suit his churning sense of drama, Norman Mailer (1923-2007) could come up with some awfully wild-assed ways of advertising himself. They ranged from stabbing his second wife in 1960 (she lived and was dissuaded from pressing charges, and he actually got ...
  • His Cheatin' Heart
    Longer than most people, I held out hope that Barry Bonds was clean. Sure, he was bulked up, but that could just mean a lot of weight training. And it wasn't like he was some mook who suddenly started hitting homers—the guy was already headed for the Hall of Fame. And that swing? You don't get ...
  • The Misogynist Elephant in the Convention Room
    (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, Edmund D. Fountain) The floor of the Tampa Bay Times Forum undergoing preparation or the 2012 Republican National Convention Three days from now, in the hurricane-lashed hull of the Tampa Bay Times Forum, at the temporal cross coordinates of Congres ...

Buzzflash

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

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Chemistry matters
    Latest chemistry news round-up from the ChemWeb Alchemist, who this week looks through an ITO coated glass darkly this week with another step taken towards transparent electronics for solar panels. In earthly news, life’s inorganic components may have emerged as supercontinents were formed ...
  • Hairy Bikers BP BS
    Yesterday, I watched one episode of the food show from fellow “Geordies” Si King and Dave Myers in which they expounded the benefits of exercise and calorie reduction for weight loss. So far, so good. They had Newcastle University’s Roy Taylor tracking their weight, blood press ...
  • My Sister Rosalind Franklin
    My Sister Rosalind Franklin: A Family Memoir 9780199699629: Jenifer Glynn – Jenifer Glynn is sister to Rosalind Franklin, whose pioneering X-ray crystallography work provide the key insights needed by Watson and Crick to unravel the double helix of DNA. Much has been written about her role ...
  • Hairy Bikers BP
    UPDATE: The show’s producer got in touch to tell me she was massively disinterested in any big-picture message warping. “I just shot what Roy Taylor said. Dave and Si were both on medication for high blood pressure. Following alterations in their way of cooking, living, exercising an ...
  • Gadget in the pan? Just add rice
    While the Gates Foundation is looking to reward new toilet designs, there is a “first-world” problem that afflicts many of us from time to time. The dreaded dropping the phone, iPod, Kindle in the toilet bowl. The whole hygiene and pathogen dissemination issue of using electronic gad ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Wilmington Joins National Call for Action on C ...
    Wilmington, Del., has joined more than 30 other U.S. cities in urging national leaders to use the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gas pollution to head off catastrophic climate change. The city council passed a resolution Thursday making Wilmington the 34th American city to join the Center fo ...
  • Migrating Shorebirds Slingshot Through Storms ...
    As hurricane season gets under way and Tropical Storm Isaac bears down on the Caribbean, biologists are paying particular attention to this fall’s shorebird migration. Researchers at the Center for Conservation Biology (CCB) in Williamsburg, Virginia have documented incredible feats of end ...
  • Violence Policy Center Statement on Shooting O ...
    Following the fourth high-profile shooting in little over a month, this time outside the Empire State Building in New York City and reportedly involving a 45 caliber handgun, the Violence Policy Center, a national non-profit educational organization working to stop gun death and injury, issued t ...
  • Detention of Editor in Ethiopia Signals Contin ...
    Amnesty International condemns the detention yesterday of the editor of one of Ethiopia's last independent publications, saying the arrest is a worrying signal that the government intends to carry on targeting dissent.read more
  • Organic Consumers Association Petitions Michel ...
    The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today launched a national petition on SignOn.org asking Michelle Obama to pressure President Obama to honor his 2007 campaign promise to support the labeling of genetically modified foods. The petition also asks President Obama to endorse California’ ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Argentina to Maintain Use of Agrochemicals
    Teresa Bo Susana Marquez couldn't stop crying when she heard the sentence in the courtroom in Cordoba. She was hoping that the men accused of spraying the town of Ituzaingo with agrochemicals would serve a prison sentence. But that did ...
  • Arizonification of the Republican Platform
    Jeff Biggers While notorious Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio entertains the Republican Party convention diehards at a Tampa zoo next week, the real Old West show will have already taken place at the platform committee meetings.
  • Katrina Pain Index 2012: 7 Years After
    Bill Quigley Davida Finger 1 Rank of New Orleans in fastest growing US cities between 2010 and 2011. Source: Census Bureau.read more
  • Paul Ryan: Galt, Gold and God
    Paul Krugman So far, most of the discussion of Paul Ryan, the presumptive Republican nominee for vice president, has focused on his budget proposals. But Mr. Ryan is a man of many ideas, which would ordinarily be a good thing. In his case, ...
  • From Greenwashing to Workerwashing
    David Sirota Big Industrial Ag pretends to go organic. PC behemoths mimic Apple products. Barack Obama goes to the right of the Republicans on civil liberties. Mitt Romney suddenly portrays himself as a left-leaning moderate on immigration. ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Water risk drives the market for desalination ...
    Industry rather than municipal supply is now the strongest driver of the desalination market, according to a new report published today by GWI*. Since the financial crisis of 2008, the growth of the market for seawater desalination to augment municipal water supply has slowed to a standstill – b ...
  • Newspapers, Schools, Breaking News, Sports, We ...
    On Sunday, Aug. 5, Columbiana United Methodist Church Youth held their second annual Water Wars. This offered a chance for the youth of the church to come and enjoy a time of fellowship with water balloons, water balloon launchers, water guns and a giant foam pit.
  • California Water Wars: Will Thirsty Interests ...
    Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Now: California's water wars are back, as the state struggles to transfer a vital resource from where it falls to where it's needed. NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the area south of Sa ...
  • Will New Water Delivery System End San Diego’s ...
    The $14 billion plan involves a 37-mile twin-tunnel system to carry water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to farmlands and cities.
  • Water Wars: Gov Proposes Huge Underground Tunn ...
    Click here to view the full photogallery. Governor Jerry Brown and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar yesterday announced details of an expensive plan to ensure the future of Southern California's water supply (specifically, the supply shipped from Northern California)....

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Republicans Working To Repeal Obamacare Are Op ...
    Mitt Romney’s home state of Massachusetts — where Romney enacted a health care reform initiative that President Obama later drew on as inspiration for his own Obamacare policies — is somewhat of a test case for national health care reform, as researchers examine the impact that ...
  • Republicans Flip-Flop On The Fed With Extreme ...
    Our guest blogger is Cameron DeHart, an intern at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. The Republican National Convention Platform Committee met this week to draft the party’s official policy platform. Lost among the headlines about the human life amendment, Arizona-style immigration po ...
  • Another Republican Congressman Pushes Back Aga ...
    FORT GARLAND, Colorado — Rep. Scott Tipton (R-CO) is the latest Republican to come out against Mitt Romney’s plan to end the production tax credit for the wind industry. In an interview with ThinkProgress, Tipton rejected Romney’s pledge to end the wind tax credit, saying that ...
  • New Ad Highlights Pro-Marriage Equality Republ ...
    A new ad for marriage equality, by the Human Rights Campaign and Freedom to Marry, will run in Tampa during next week’s Republican National Convention. The spot, aimed at Republicans, features San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders (R) and cites Dick and Lynne Cheney, Laura Bush, Ted Olsen and Cind ...
  • Dershowitz Misrepresents J Street, U.S. Milita ...
    In a new Jerusalem Post column, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz declares that the progressive pro-Israel group J Street, by highlighting statements by Israeli defense officials regarding the potential consequences of a strike on Iran, “is now making it more likely that Israel and/or ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Airshow MacKay vs. the Lives of "R"CAF Pilots
    Just a reminder about what a craven turd and self-centred tool Peter MacKay is. We all know that the mega-expensive F-35 fighter jet is a highly problematic project. Evidently, it's one claim to fame, it's "stealth" is pretty much dead on arrival. Everything has been sacrificed to the plane's st ...
  • Progressive Patriot: The War on Terror Part II
    The way to grow a blog's readership is to post frequently so that there's always something knew when bored people click in to waste some more time. But, obviously, I ain't doing that. This whole online world is starting to leave me kinda cold. Oh well, not going to give up the ghost just yet ... ...
  • Progressive Patriot: The War on Terrorism Part I
    This is the third part of an intended series to try to come up with a positive agenda to try to make this country a better place. In a better world, I wouldn't have to even deal with trashing something as self-evidently idiotic as "The War on Terror." Alas, alack, however ridiculous it is, the W ...
  • Wall Street Trying To Give Obama a Win
    This link confirms what I already thought. US politics is a total sham and has been for over a decade. Obama is the consensus candidate for Wall Street because they know they can't get away with everything they'd like to. So, the Repugs are allowed to descend into madness with a hapless buffoon ...
  • Progressive Patriot: Quebec
    One of the oldest and biggest of Canadian political anxieties is the strife between French and English Canada. As Part II in an intended series, I'd like to describe the progressive position on this issue and contrast it with what I see as the right-wing or "conservative" opinion. As all Canadi ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Surfer Healing helping autistic kids this week ...
    This weekend a charity born from a father's frustration and anger will be at Woodbine Beach in Toronto helping families dealing with autism. Aloha Toronto is hosting a Surfers Healing camp this weekend for kids with autism.
  • NHL owners want to win, too, so CBA needs to r ...
    It's common to hear and read of how owners of NHL franchises get what they deserve when it comes to overspending. That they do not deserve the help of a salary cap or any limits upon player contract lengths because they themselves created their problems.
  • Marineland claims inspectors found no major pr ...
    The long awaited investigation of Marineland at Niagara Falls, has apparently turned up no serious problems, despite allegations of animal neglect and poor conditions by former employees.
  • Canadian PM introduced as the 'prime minister ...
    In a gaffe worthy of the Vice President of the United States, it happened not once but twice. If that wasn't bad enough, both speakers are honourable members of Parliament. And both are members of Harper's Conservative Party of Canada.
  • Lance Armstrong could not put up, time now for ...
    The United States Anti-Doping Agency's case against Lance Armstrong was strong, make no mistake about that. They are not inclined to taking down American sports heroes without cause and evidence. The agency was not created for headlines but for justice.

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