24 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

YEMAC Mine Dog Detection Center and Mine Risk Education (Photo credit: YEMAC_UNDP)English: Yemen wants Ali Abdullah Saleh OUT (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Cover of Howard Zinn

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

Dandelion Salad

• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Chris Hedges: It All Goes Back to World War I +Q&A
  with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad August 20, 2012 by Arc Media http://vimeo.com Jun 1, 2012 by FedCanada According to Chris Hedges, liberal institutions are to blame for the downward spiral of the American political system. In his Big Thinkinglecture at Congress 2012, he argues t ...
• Gareth Porter: Civilian Deaths from US Drone A ...
  with Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Aug. 22, 2012 Aug 21, 2012 by TheRealNews Gareth Porter: New investigative work shows that civilian deaths in Pakistan, including from second wave attacks, higher than Pentagon reports Civilian Deaths from US Drone Attacks Much Higher than Repor ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

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

Israeli Occupation Archive

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

Ria Novosti - Military

• Warships, Fighter Jets, S-400 to 'Protect Russ ...
  Warships, warplanes as well as S-400 missile defense systems will be deployed to protect the leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum during a summit in Russia's Far East next month, an official said on Friday.
• Russia Won't Buy Foreign Tanks - Deputy PM
  The Russian Federation will not make large-scale purchases of foreign armored vehicles, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday at an arms exhibition in the Urals.
• Ukraine to Scrap Ordnance for Russian Fleet
  Ukraine will scrap 3,500 tons of ordnance from Russia’s Black Sea fleet under a 2012 contract worth 235 million rubles ($7.3 million).
• U.S. Fears for Safety of Syrian Chemical Weapo ...
  The United States is concerned with the issue of safety of chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria and views it as one of the areas of importance in dealing with the conflict-hit country, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said.
• Russian Spies ‘Top Priority’ for Czech Intelli ...
  Russian “special services” are the most active foreign espionage organizations in the Czech Republic, the Czech Security Information Service (BIS) said on Wednesday.

NewsWise

• Loyola Named One of Nation's Most Wired Hospitals
  Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC) has been named one of the nation's Most Wired Hospitals and Health Systems, according to results of the 2012 Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study. These results were published in the July issue of the American Hospital Association's Hospitals & Health ...
• 2012 Hurricane Season: Tropical Storm Isaac Ed ...
• Loyola to Welcome Students to New School of Nu ...
  Construction crews have been busy putting the finishing touches on Loyola University Chicago's new Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing building in preparation for the first day of classes on Monday, Aug. 27, in Maywood.
• Experts Discuss Republican National Convention
• Ancestral Link Places Mexican-Americans at Gre ...
  New study results call for better screening for diabetes, heart disease.

Natural Health News

• The Evolution of Bird Flu and the Race to Keep Up
  Bird Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to manipulate the vi ...
• 2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Was 15 Times Deadlier: ...
  A new study based on computer statistical models shows that the swine flu of 2009 killed 284,500 people, or 15 times more than health officials originally estimated.
• NY Law Gives Women More Information about Mamm ...
  A New York state law that has yet to be signed by the governor would mandate that women be given information on their breast density.
• Common Diabetes Drugs Associated with Increase ...
  A new analysis introduced to the most recent meeting of the Endocrine Society shows that three widely used drugs for diabetes are associated with an increased risk of death.
• Study Says More Vitamin D = Less Lbs
  If you're a woman over age 65 and you're deficient in vitamin D, research shows that you're probably more likely not only to weigh more, but to gain more weight.

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Ecuador Has Got to Be Bluffing About its ICJ C ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I hope this statement by Assange’s legal team is just seeking leverage for negotiations, because I think their claim would be blown out of the water by the ICJ. It would be an international embarrassment for Ecuador. Actually, it would be a further international ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Friday, August 24, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Libya has set a date for the trial of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, despite the calls for him to be tried at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. More from Jurist can be found here. Israel claimed that South Africa is acting like an “apartheid state ...
• Israel’s Tone-Deaf Foreign Policy
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller South Africa recently decided that, in order to avoid consumer confusion, goods imported from the Occupied Palestinian Territories must include special labels that make clear they were not produced in Israel.  Israel’s outrage was predictable &#821 ...
• Essential International Law Cases for the Clas ...
  by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis As summer winds down, I’m beginning to look ahead to the coming semester in which I’ll be teaching public international law after a couple of years’ hiatus.  As a result, I’ve spent the week, re-working my syllabus (and thanking Ecuador ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, August 23, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Egypt has requested a $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund. Despite the claims put forth by Julian Assange, the US says it has no case against him for which he could potentially be extradited. In Guantanamo Bay, tropical storm Isaac has del ...

Public News Service

• New Study Prompts Closer Look at Farm Pesticid ...
  New Study Prompts Closer Look at Farm Pesticide Safety PHOENIX - A new look at the effects of a common farm pesticide on children has stepped up calls for the EPA to further restrict or even ban its use. Chlorypyrifos is a chemical sprayed on fruit trees and a wide variety of crops, and also use ...
• Study: Housing Woes Connected to Child Abuse
  Study: Housing Woes Connected to Child Abuse PHOENIX - Housing woes appear to open the door to child abuse, according to a new study based on data from children's hospitals and the real estate market. Housing stress is persistent in Arizona, with counties such as Maricopa, Pinal, Mohave and Sant ...
• Blowing in the Wind: Tax Credit for Alternativ ...
  Blowing in the Wind: Tax Credit for Alternative Energy PHOENIX - In a possible boost for wind-energy production in Arizona, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee has voted to renew a tax credit for wind power, with several Republicans joining Democrats in support of extending the credit for one more ...
• Healthcare Reform to Increase Domestic Violenc ...
  Healthcare Reform to Increase Domestic Violence Screenings PHOENIX - Screening for domestic violence is one of the eight preventive-care tests patients can get at no cost under the part of health-care reform that went into effect last week. Advocates say that will improve women's health and save ...
• Monsoon Heat and Humidity Can Be A Hindrance t ...
  Monsoon Heat and Humidity Can Be A Hindrance to Heart Health PHOENIX – The hot and humid conditions during Arizona's summer monsoon make it difficult to get outside and keep an active, heart-healthy lifestyle. But Chrissy Spoo, an educator with the American Heart Association says there are ...

Center for Food Safety

• USDA-Appointed Committee’s Recommendations Fai ...
  Proposed AC21 “co-existence” policy would harm conventional growers, endanger U.S. organic industry The Center for Food Safety (“The Center”) issued a position paper today critical of proposals made by the Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture (AC21), a group appointed ...
• Feds Playing Politics with Food Safety is Enou ...
  By Michele Simon Rarely does the mainstream media bother to connect the dots when it comes to our broken food safety system. Consider these two recent headlines: • Foodborne Outbreaks Falling Short of U.S. Reduction Goals • USDA to purchase $170 million worth of meat to help farmers struggling w ...
• Center for Food Safety Statement on the Oregon ...
  The Center for Food Safety (‘The Center’) is pleased to announce that the legal action filed yesterday at the State of Oregon’s Court of Appeals requesting an immediate stay on illegal planting of genetically engineered (GE) canola in the Willamette Valley was successful. The Court found suffici ...
• Oregon Farmers File Suit to Prevent Destructiv ...
  Groups and producers take action to halt threat to the state’s vital seed production and organic industry Today, in an effort to stop the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) from an unprecedented expansion of industrial, genetically engineered canola production into the boundaries in the Will ...
• Food Safety Update: Center for Food Safety Com ...
  By Michele Simon Last week I had the pleasure of lending my support, on behalf of the Center for Food Safety, to New York City’s proposal to limit the size of sugary beverages sold at food service outlets. (I wrote previously about why this policy makes sense.) The hearing room at New York’s hea ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

• Older and Wiser
  I had feared my coworkers would forget my birthday this morning, since even one of my closest friends saw me this morning and apparently forgot. But they didn’t! This reminds me of past birthdays in Mexico, and shows me that the people at Kansas City Southern, Mexico are classier than any ...
• Disney-Pixar Pollution
  For a movie titled “Brave” Pixar are behaving like cowards. I knew it the moment Princess Merida rode her horse out of her castle. A character song. A musical cue. Suddenly I wasn’t watching a Pixar movie, I was watching Mulan or Pocahontas. The very thought of another Disney princess is bad eno ...
• Grain
  I feel like sand crumbling in the wind. I try to take a step only to find my feet are no longer there. I am a particle, speeding away to nothingness. I was once a rock, solid, assailed by waves, broken by none. But one day I fell from the lofty cliff that was my [...] Related posts: Hurricane Al ...
• Thermodynamics and Jenga Towers
  I imagine one type of probability space as an extremely wide and extremely high tower of Jenga blocks under bombardment from an arbitrarily large number of bored children wearing jetpacks. The vertical, y axis represents the passage of time. The higher you go up that axis, the further you travel ...
• The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything
  An article on the blog “Shake Off the Grind“, titled “You Only Live Once so Make it Meaningful“,  asks the questions below. Here are my answers: Who am I: A semi-aware bundle of perceptions, habits, and quirks. My personality is simply the structure of the relationships b ...

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife p ...
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• Vitamin D – the new book that could save your ...
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• Chemical linked to low IQ found in sunscreens
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• Kahui coroner’s verdict out this week
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• Suspect in Crewe murders made two attempts to kill
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

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

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• Facebook ad budgets increasing faster than sea ...
  Marketers are increasing their Facebook advertising budgets at a faster rate than they are for search ads, digital marketing software company Kenshoo has found. For the first half of 2012, Kenshoo clients’ Facebook ad budgets are up 36 percent, whereas … Continue reading →
• Instagram, Truth Game, schoolFeed, Netflix, Kl ...
  Instagram was the top growing app based on daily active users, crossing 10 million Facebook-connected DAU for the first time in the app’s history. The app was updated last week with a photo map, likely prompting more users to log in. … Continue reading →
• Facebook careers: ad analysts, data center ops ...
  Facebook added 22 new positions to its careers page this week, including a number of jobs focused on measuring and improving the effectiveness of Facebook advertising. The company is also looking for more data center employees, talent sourcers and marketing … Continue reading →
• Facebook hires: engineering, marketing, commun ...
  Facebook removed more than two dozen job listings from its careers page this week, likely after making hires in the areas of engineering, recruiting, sales and marketing, communications, developer relations and more. Prior listings removed from Facebook’s careers page: Developer Advocate & ...
• Chili’s, Scoops, Texas Roadhouse and more amon ...
  Chili’s Grill & Bar is one of this week’s top gaining pages in the People Talking About This metric. The top 10 pages gaining People Talking About This saw increases between about 7,910 and 176,855 engagements. We compile this list with … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: The Harsh Politics of #Rape Pregnanc ...
  truthout: The Harsh Politics of #Rape Pregnancy http://t.co/Vutk9Zf8 by @sue_sturgis
• truthout: George Lakoff and Glenn Smith: Budge ...
  truthout: George Lakoff and Glenn Smith: Budgets are moral documents. http://t.co/73Ygp0dy
• truthout: RT @ggreenwald: TIME praises (http:/ ...
  truthout: RT @ggreenwald: TIME praises (http://t.co/3mc6JzoK) this vital piece by Gareth Porter on severe under-counting of civilian drone deaths ...
• truthout: Pocket Guide Advises US #Troops to " ...
  truthout: Pocket Guide Advises US #Troops to "Avoid Arrogance," "Respect Islam" in Order to Prevent "Green on Blue" Attacks http://t.co/vA7sxcWR
• truthout: Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan want to cu ...
  truthout: Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan want to cut domestic spending in order to increase military spending. http://t.co/s40mw4y1 #jobs

ReDress News

• By way of deception Israel trying to drag US i ...
  Jamal Kanj argues that "leaked" Israeli information on plans to attack Iran are intended to drag the USA into a new Middle East quagmire through committing aggression against Iran on the eve of the American presidential election.
• America on the road to Ryan and ruin
  Lawrence Davidson argues that a win for Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan in the upcoming US presidential election would most likely destroy what is left of the USA's social safety nets, devastate the middle class, greatly increase the ranks of the poor and unemployed, do away with unio ...
• Palestinians "going for gold" are hampered by ...
  Stuart Littlewood views the failure of the Palestinian "embassy" in the UK to ensure full advantage is taken of the Palestinian Olympic team's presence in London and to impress upon the world the team members' achievements and the difficulties they face at home under the Israeli occupation.
• Seven simple rules to ensure politicians repre ...
  Stuart Littlewood argues that basic rules of conduct for public officials, such as Britain's "Seven Principles of Public Life", should guard against politicians acting on behalf of foreign interests, whether Mitt Romney in the US or David Cameron and William Hague in the UK. But sadly, he lament ...
• Netanyahu versus Obama and Iran
  Alan Hart argues that, for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, a second term in the White House for Barack Obama is a far more serious concern than the illusory Iranian "nuclear threat" and that, if it appears that Obama is poised to win the upcoming presidential election, Netanyahu may o ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Mali, Al Qaeda, and the US Neo-Colonial Agenda
  Recent developments in Mali illustrate both the way in which the Unites States and its Western allies directly project military and political power, as well as the role of terrorism as a necessary pretext for imperialist, neo-colonial domination. Beginning with the establishment of AFRICOM (US A ...
• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  Smokey Robinson- “Quiet Storm” It’s been over a half year now of Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol Music Pick. A lot of Saturday-night listening to an eclectic selection of music here at BFP. I hope you have enjoyed my selections (and the requests) so far. This weeks pick is al ...
• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  From Indignados to Occupy The Indignados movement was sparked in Spain on May 15, 2011. In part inspired by the Arab Spring, young Spaniards, who face a 46% unemployment rate, occupied the Puerta del Sol in Madrid for several weeks, protesting against the socio-political and economic system that ...
• The Template: NATO Consolidates Grip on Former ...
  North Atlantic Treaty Organization chieftain Anders Fogh Rasmussen has spent much of the past week in the former Yugoslavia, visiting Slovenia and Croatia on July 5 and 6, respectively, then arriving in Kosovo with the 28 members of the North Atlantic Council on July 11. Twenty years after NATO ...
• Stop Imperialism Podcast – Covering Syri ...
  In this episode Eric Draitser covers recent developments and their implications in several regions including: Syria & Assad’s rejection of comparison with Libya-Egypt, Russia & Putin’s statement on the West clinging to Arab influence with airstrike democracy, Iran-China trade, CIA Dire ...

Afro Spear

• African American Arrogance 2: The Audacity of ...
  Allow me to present these questions to you directly: 1.  What is your position, and more specifically, what do you suggest as an alternative to voting for the president, and 2.  If you are a non-African American living in Canada, what dog do you have in this fight? What is your purpose of arguin ...
• Caster Semenya Wins Olympic Silver!
  Congrats and much love to Sister Caster (yes I said “Sister”) for overcoming all the haters and doubters and winning a silver medal in her first Olympics!
• sat’day riddymz
• “Eric Holder’s Plantation” by Derr ...
  Op-ed submission by Project 21 It’s said Lyndon Baines Johnson used voter fraud to win his 1948 Senate primary campaign. In 1954, then-Senator Johnson orchestrated a law prohibiting church involvement in electoral politics. Yet it was LBJ’s presidential library where Attorney General Eric Holder ...
• sat’day riddymz

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• Blow, Blow, Blow the Man Down . . .
  You have to wonder if Isaac causes serious damage, will this crop of compassionate conservatives make pithy comments to the victims of this storm as they did when Katrina battered New Orleans? Will Tom Delay crawl out of his hidey-hole to ask the now-homeless children if they're having fun in th ...
• Blockade Busters -- Activists and Ships Attemp ...
  After the release of two boats in mid-June, the Israeli government still has seven boats impounded in Haifa harbor: six passenger boats -- "Spirit of Humanity," "Challenger 1," "Irene," "Dignite-Al Karama," "Tahrir," and "Saoirse," and one cargo ship: "Rachel Corrie."
• The America That Once Championed Human Rights, ...
  America has done an excellent job of portraying itself as the bastion of human rights, freedom and democracy. However, there is only one problem with that wondrous self-assessment; it is simply not the case as it has become very evident that, based on this nation's hubristic actions around the w ...
• Fixing the Mortgage Mess: The Game-changing Im ...
  San Bernardino and other counties are drowning in debt from a crisis created when Wall Street's real estate securitization bubble burst. By using eminent domain, they can clean up the destruction of their land title records and 400 years of real property law. And by setting up their own banks, ...
• The Pussies, The War On Women And My Childh ...
  Patented demagogues should not be trusted. They steal your soul. That's what they are for. Here, in the US they are paid big money for that. Be prepared.

Switchboard

• Green Roof Roots: Stumbling Upon Environmental ...
  Kelly Coplin, Water Program Assistant, San Francisco Last weekend I had the great fortune to spend three days biking, swimming and relaxing along the shores of Lake Tahoe with my family. I’ve spent summer weekends at the lake almost annually s ...
• 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• The Party of Ideas
  Finally, the Republicans — truly becoming the party of Paul Ryan with a little Ron Paul on the side — have the courage to consider some real solutions! The Republican Party is set to call for the creation of a commission to look at restoring a link between the U.S. dollar and gold se ...
• Gun Industry Holds a Gun to the Heads of Its E ...
  The gun industry’s response to the call for stricter gun laws after mass murder after mass murder (see today among others) is outrageous and awful. Lawmakers are proposing, among other things, to limit firearm sales to one per person per month; to require background checks for anyone purch ...
• Marker
  Outstanding J. Hoberman essay in The New York Review of Books on Chris Marker and his amazing films. Must read of the morning.
• Romney Goes Full Sagebrush
  The thing about Romney basically declaring the Sagebrush Rebellion agenda his official policy on public lands is that it doesn’t attract a single western voter who wasn’t already going to vote for him. Does anyone in Las Vegas care about this issue? Denver? Phoenix? Not a lot. They c ...
• HEY EVERYBODY I’M OVER HERE! DON’T ...
  This article from The Hill is making the conservative rounds and I’m not sure what to make of it. The author, Mike Lillis, opens by claiming that the Obama team is “ucking protocol” because Presidential candidates have traditionally kept a low profile during their opponent&#821 ...

Desert Research Institute

• 2012 Tahoe Summit Report
  The Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno have worked together for decades to provide comprehensive studies that have led to a better understanding of threats to Lake Tahoe’s air and water quality and the health of the forest.
• DRI Demonstrates Lake Tahoe Research to Senato ...
  The 2012 Lake Tahoe Summit provided an opportunity for Desert Research Institute (DRI) reaseachers to demonstrate to Sen. Dean Heller methods used to study changes in water clarity and invasive species.
• DRI Works Toward Sustainability with Renewable ...
  Significant progress has been made on two renewable energy projects that is not only cost effective, but ultimately will contribute to the long-term efforts in sustainability by reducing the amount of electricity the Desert Research Institute needs from the utility grid.
• DRI attaining renewable energy power sources f ...
  Significant progress has been made on two renewable energy projects that is not only cost effective, but ultimately will contribute to the long-term efforts in sustainability by reducing the amount of electricity the Desert Research Institute needs from the utility grid.
• Hallar Named Regents' Rising Researcher
  The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents presented Gannet Hallar, Ph.D. of the Desert Research Institute (DRI) with the 2012 Rising Researcher Award in acknowledgment of her contributions to the field of atmospheric science and her potential for future accomplishments.  

Earth Techling

• Michigan Tower Maker Struggles As Wind Wanes
• USA Pavilion At 2012 World Expo Showcased Gree ...
• Intel Creates 4,100 Pencil Boxes From Plastic ...
• Signs Of The California Solar Initiative’s Com ...
• Tigi Solar Honeycombs Keep You Warm In Cold Cl ...

National Law Journal | U.S.

• THE GLOBAL LAWYER: The case of the lesbian judge
  As a Chilean judge of Palestinian origin, Karen Atala was a member of three conservative societies. Neither Chile nor its judiciary reacted very gracefully when Atala began to live with a same-sex partner.
• OPINION: Could there be another 'Bush v. Gore' ...
  If the popular vote in only a few states is close, the result of the election in the electoral college will hang in the balance. Will we have another scrap in the U.S. Supreme Court, as we did in 2000 with Bush v. Gore?
• OPINION: Litigating the vote
  Since 2000, the number of election lawsuits per year has more than doubled. Possible reasons: Litigation is a more accepted political strategy, and partisans count the votes.
• THE PRACTICE: FCPA guidance expected soon from ...
  If it is modeled on U.K. Bribery Act's 'adequate procedures' defense, it could improve effectiveness of global compliance.
• Ex-associate broadens bias complaint against R ...
  A Boston federal judge has allowed former Ropes & Gray associate John H. Ray III to add defamation and invasion of privacy claims to his racial discrimination and retaliation case against the law firm.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Incursion Into India A Prelude To More Threats ...
  There are possibilities of more attacks on business establishments belonging to hindu communities if the authorities continue to play the role of dumb watcher.
• Are Prospects of Peace Fading in Middle East?
  According to Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Jeffrey Feltman, the UN is concerned that it has not yet seen the progress required for sustained negotiations that could lead to a successful results.
• We're Eating WHAT? McDonald's-Linked Slaughter ...
  It has been over four years since the public was horrified and sickened to watch dying dairy cows moved with pitchforks into the slaughter line to make meat for the national school lunch program.
• New Study Shows Protective Moose Moms are Key ...
  A new Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) study shows that if you're a juvenile moose trying to make it in the real world, you can't beat an overprotective mom.
• Nasser Al-Kidwa Appointed Deputy Special Envoy ...
  Mr. Al-Kidwa is set to work with new Joint Representative Lakhdar Brahimi when he takes up his position following the end of Mr. Annan's mandate on 31 August 2012.

environment 360

• Drought Conditions Trigger Smallest Gulf ‘Dead ...
  U.S. scientists say the nation’s worst drought in five decades has had at least one positive effect: the smallest so-called “dead zone” seen in the Gulf of Mexico in years. In a 1,200-mile research cruise conducted in the NASA. Algal blooms in the Gulf of Mexico waters of the gulf this mon ...
• U.S. Solar Panel maker to Build Solar Farms in ...
  First Solar Inc., the U.S.-based solar panel manufacturer, plans to expand its role in the global energy industry by developing solar power farms in India, where an emerging industrial sector is looking to First Solar Inc. shore up energy security in the aftermath of record blackouts. The ...
• With Funding Tight, Cities are Turning to Gree ...
  From Seattle to Sweden, an ever-growing number of city and regional governments are using roof gardens, specially designed wetlands, and other forms of “green infrastructure” to rein in pollution from countless diffuse sources — and to save money. BY JIM ROBBINS
• Solar Shingles Made With Abundant Metals Offer ...
  U.S. scientists say that emerging photovoltaic technologies will enable the production of solar shingles made from abundantly available elementsrather than rare-earth metals, an innovation that would make solar Dow Chemical Solar shingles energy cheaper and more sustainable. Speaking at t ...
• New Canadian Law Removes Federal Oversight Fro ...
  Major revisions to Canada’s Environmental Assessment Act have stripped nearly 500 projects of federal oversight in British Columbia alone, including major dam projects, gravel extraction operations, and the sinking of former warships as artificial reefs, according to a news report. The new scree ...

Red Ice Creations

• Trapwire: Big Brother Now Monitors Your Every Move
  The latest Wikileaks data-dump reveals that the government now has the ability to grab video from far-flung surveillance cameras located in stores, casinos and other businesses around the country. It uses sophisticated facial recognition software to identify people of interest captured by the ub ...
• Norway could have prevented Breivik massacre, ...
  Norwegian police and security services could have prevented all or part of an attack by far-right militant Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and gun massacre last year, a government commission said on Monday. Intelligence services could have learned about Breivik’s plans ...
• Man swims, walks through $100 million JFK Airp ...
  A man whose jet ski failed him in New York’s Jamaica Bay swam to John F. Kennedy airport, where he was easily able to penetrate the airport $100 million, state-of-the art security system. Daniel Casillo, 31, was able to swim up to and enter the airport grounds on Friday night, past an intricate ...
• White House Pulls Down TSA Petition
  "The Electronic Privacy Information Center posted a brief and detailed notice about the removal of a petition regarding security screenings by the TSA at US airports and other locations. ’At approximately 11:30 am EDT, the White House removed a petition about the TSA airport screening procedures ...
• Loving life in Paris’ Empire of the Dead
  Beneath the streets of the City of Light lies a world draped in darkness and shrouded in silence. The tunnels are narrow, the ceilings are low and death is on display. The skulls and bones lining the walls, arranged in a macabre fashion, make up what is known as the Empire of the Dead -- the Cat ...

Russia Today

• Tahrir troubles: Biggest rally yet against Egy ...
  In the first significant protest against Egypt’s new Islamist rulers, several thousand people rallied at Cairo’s landmark Tahrir Square accusing President Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood of trying to monopolize... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Long arm of the law: UK police given Arrest As ...
  British police are to arrest Julian Assange “under any circumstances” if he attempts to flee the Ecuadorian embassy. The secret police documents revealing the order, were found in plain view outside the embassy, in the... Read Full Article at RT.com
• ‘Imperial ambitions’ won’t change Ecuador`s po ...
  The mounting pressure on Ecuador after granting Julian Assange asylum, comes from some countries imperial ambitions, Ecuador`s President says. He argued that the UK’s “diplomatic clumsiness” only showcased strong... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Turkey and US plan ‘intelligence shield’ and S ...
  Washington and Ankara have agreed to create an “intelligence shield” to prevent militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party from freely entering and operating on the Turkish territory from Syria as they discussed "after... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Greenpeace activists climb Russian Arctic oil ...
  Greenpeace activists are literally “hanging out” on a Gazprom oil platform in the Arctic. Suspended by cables from the rig, they are protesting the Russian Arctic oil-drilling campaign and making some new friends in the... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• Major setback for Lance Armstrong and Team Ame ...
  You can see why Lance Armstrong fans are upset. Even President Obama is satisfied not to look back, why should the sports-doping authority? Lance Armstrong beat their drug tests fair and square, what right have they to retest his blood and urine samples, based on the probable cause of mounting w ...
• Prince Polo Polo of England
  These photos are fakes… ‘The UK edition of Cosmopolitan has long been famous for its racy male centerfold spreads, but these images of a naked Prince William and Harry celebrating victory in a polo match, their modesty hidden by nothing more than a strategically placed trophy and a t ...
• Senate hopeful, Missouri fool Todd Akin takes ...
  Representative Todd Akin revealed his “legitimate rape” standard was no misunderstanding — now he’s courting America’s vast army of Christian idiots who already share his belief in rape-modulated immaculate contraception, a convenient pretext for a complete abortion ...
• Long Live the Juche Idea?
  Just what is the Juche Idea? Judge the Juche Idea for yourself… Let Us Study the Juche Idea …and if you are desiring of a nice vacation spot with little irritation from automobile noise pollution and a blessed absence of advertising to hurt the eye, then check out the internationally ...
• Hank Williams Jr.- yet another country music idiot
  The guy looks stupid, acts stupid, and says moronic things. Why does suburban style country music produce so many Tea Party idiot types? Hank Williams Jr says that President Obama is a Muslim president who hates the US

Debunking the Debunkers

• COME TO NEW YORK THIS SEPTEMBER
  It's been 11 years since nearly 3 thousand people were murdered that tragic day in New York City. Officially they say 19 Muslims hijacked planes and attacked us because they hate our freedoms. However, since 2001 there have been many questions that have been raised and not answered. The 9/11 Com ...
• Excerpt from Jesse Ventura's New Book 'DemoCRI ...
  Yes, Ventura has endorsed the theory that Directed Energy Weapons were used to demolish the buildings on 9/11 and the theory that the plane that hit the Pentagon actually flew over it while a bomb exploded, and no he doesn't always have all his facts as straight as we like around here. That ...
• "9/11: Experts Speak Out" Premieres in Texas T ...
  When: Saturday, August 18, 2012, 7:00pm (MDT), with encore airings on Channel 12.1. Live Streaming and Details: Of special interest, CPT12 will be streaming this important event over the internet through Sunday, September 2, 2012 at: www.cpt12.org/911ExplosiveEvidence. Details of encore airings ...
• Freeway blogging with the cooperation of CHP
  Published on Aug 15, 2012 by UhMark Police can and often do harass and intimidate citizens exercising their First Amendment rights of free speech. Especially in the post 9/11 era when the federal government and mass media are literally on the warpath, encouraging police to go on the warpath, v ...
• Statement For 9/11 Justice Off To A Great Start
  Jon Gold CindySheehanSoapbox.blogspot.com 8/9/2012 Recently, I wrote a petition for people to sign called a "Statement For 9/11 Justice." As of right now, there are 278 signatures. Not bad considering it was posted 5 days ago. Some of the people that have signed it that you may have heard o ...

Fooducate

• The Church, Waffles, and Made-up Marketing Hol ...
• Will School Lunch Be Healthier This Year?
• 5 Tips for Using the Fooducate App as a Health ...
• How School Snack Rules Affect Children’s Weight
• Our NEW App: Diabetes Nutrition by Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• Paraguay’s government confirms Spanish tycoon’ ...
  Jacinto Rey González is President of a ranching firm which has been illegally destroying the Ayoreo's land.© AnonAccusations that a ranching company owned by one of Spain’s richest men illegally bulldozed forest inhabited by uncontacted Indians have been upheld by the Paraguayan authorities ...
• Nasa spiritual leader shot dead at point blank ...
  Nasa Indians in Colombia have been caught in the violent crossfire of Colombia's military and illegal armed groups© Francisco PedroA 74-year-old Nasa Indian leader has been shot dead following protests against the militarization of his land in Cauca, south-west Colombia. Lisandro Tenorio, ...
• Proof ‘Death Road’ will destroy Peru’s unconta ...
  Tomas was contacted over ten years ago. He lives close to the proposed ‘Road of Death.’© David Hill/SurvivalControversial plans to build a ‘Road of Death’ through Peru’s Amazon have been dealt a severe blow after authorities confirmed uncontacted tribes do live along its proposed route. This la ...
• Brazilian judge halts illegal and controversia ...
  Widespread protests have made the Belo Monte dam notorious.© Atossa Soltani/ Amazon WatchA Brazilian judge has ordered work to be suspended on a highly controversial dam in the Amazon, describing the project’s failure to properly consult the indigenous population affected as ‘illegal’. Followin ...
• Exposed: Spanish tycoon’s role in destruction ...
  Jacinto Rey González is one of Spain's richest men – and President of a ranching firm implicated in the illegal destruction of the Ayoreo's land.© AnonOne of Spain’s richest men has been implicated in the illegal bulldozing of a South American forest where the last uncontacted Indians ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Support Age of Autism
  Thank you for your readership and comments throughout the summer. We have a rich slate of topics taking us through the end of the year. Our sponsors are working harder than ever to protect and care for American children -...
• Karma Foundation partners with Generation Rescue
  Karma Foundation partners with Generation Rescue - Karma and its members pledge to support autism recovery and awareness charity through grant program and volunteer work – Los Angeles, CA – August 23, 2012 – The Karma Foundation, an exclusive social...
• The Immunization Partnership Applauds Meachum' ...
  By Jake Crosby Confirming her conflict of interest, Judge Amy Clark Meachum's decision to throw Dr. Andrew Wakefield's defamation case out of district court was publicly applauded by the President/CEO of The Immunization Partnership who promised to continue working with...
• Back To School: Are Cameras Needed?
  Our friend Leslie Phillips of National Autism Association asks an excellent question in this important back to school article: "You have to ask yourself, why don't they want them? Why don't they want us to see what's happening in the...
• Denying Healthcare To Those with Autism Isn't New
  By Kim Stagliano Traditional and social media are abuzz with a story of a Pennsylvania man with autism who has been denied a heart transplant at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania over his "psychiatric condition" and "autism." His...

Global BDS Movement

• G4S loses its contract with the European Parli ...
  Campaigners had raised concerns about the role the company plays in equipping Israeli prisons in which Palestinian political prisoners are held in violation of international law
• Palestinian civil society and human rights org ...
  Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S, supplier to Israeli prisons at which political prisoners are detained
• BDS roundup: Los Angeles activists urge city t ...
  In this week’s BDS roundup from the Electronic Intifada, LA activists, international campaign urges Yves Béhar, university students in Pennsylvania protest, boycott activists, and more
• Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should ...
  The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been a significant instrument in the campaign to tear down Israel's democratic facade
• Scottish govt. helps Israeli company deal with BDS
  Documents obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government

Farm Wars

• These Brands Want To Defeat GMO Labeling In Ca ...
  Want to know the latest anti-labeling contributors fighting our right to know about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our food? Thanks to Jon Abrahamson, here is the latest info.
• Consciousness Beyond Chemtrails 2012: Jeffrey ...
  "Are Genetically Engineered Foods and Crops Akin to Weapons of Mass Destruction?" Jeffrey Smith
• WHY in the World are They Spraying? FULL LENGT ...
  Watch the full length version of WHY in the World are They Spraying? free online.
• Pro-GMO Propaganda in California Dismantled by ...
  Opponents of GMO labeling say it will raise food costs by hundreds of dollars per family when in fact it will likely cause NO cost increase at all!
• Mothers To Regulators: We Will Not Comply!
  On August 18, 2012 a group of mothers and others, members of the advocacy groups, the Raw Milk Freedom Riders and Lemonade Freedom Day, will take their raw milk and lemonade to the lawn of the US Capitol to celebrate their right to “voluntary exchange.”

Open Your Eyes News

• Australia Fluoride appeal heads to the Supreme ...
  ABC – Rous Water’s legal team has been briefed once again to defend the authority’s decision to fluoridate the water supply to Lismore, Ballina and Richmond Valley residents. Anti-fluoride campaigner Al Oshlack lodged an appeal in the Supreme Court after Rous Water won the case ...
• Can Sex Make You Smarter and Happier? A New St ...
  Care2 – A new study by a University of Amsterdam researcher, Dr. Jens Forster, suggest that those who are sexually active and have lust on the mind actually perform better during critical thinking exercises. Dr. Forster’s experiment involved presenting a group of participants with critical ...
• Charity asks UK to reverse move that could cos ...
  Guardian – Britain will deprive developing countries of up to £4bn in tax revenues after a change in the law that could prompt British-owned multinational companies to shift profits into offshore havens, according to a leading charity. Read article
• McDonalds Wants Your Child’s Personal Data
  Care2 – On Wednesday, a coalition of nearly 20 children’s advocacy, health and public interest groups reportedly filed at least five separate complaints with the Federal Trade Commission alleging that McDonald’s, General Mills, the Cartoon Network, Subway and Nickolodeon are in violation o ...
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L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
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• Arkansas Storms: Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Across ...
• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• Bill Gates' Latest Tech Development: Turning C ...
  Part of the Cal Tech team demonstrates how the solar toilet operates. The flush toilet so many of us know ...
• Bill Gates' Latest Tech Development: Turning C ...
  Part of the Cal Tech team demonstrates how the solar toilet operates. The flush toilet so many of us know so well is in fac ...
• Canadian Solar, Inc. Purchases First American ...
  Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again.  Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. read more
• Canadian Solar, Inc. Purchases First American ...
  Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again.  Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. ...
• Potentia and Canadian Solar Sign Supply Agreem ...
  Canadian Solar, Inc. has signed a 17-megawatt supply agreement with Potentia Solar, Inc.  The solar panels will be used to develop more than 100 rooftop solar projects in Ontario. read more

News Blaze

• Incursion Into India A Prelude To More Threats ...
  There are possibilities of more attacks on business establishments belonging to hindu communities if the authorities continue to play the role of dumb watcher.
• Are Prospects of Peace Fading in Middle East?
  According to Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Jeffrey Feltman, the UN is concerned that it has not yet seen the progress required for sustained negotiations that could lead to a successful results.
• We're Eating WHAT? McDonald's-Linked Slaughter ...
  It has been over four years since the public was horrified and sickened to watch dying dairy cows moved with pitchforks into the slaughter line to make meat for the national school lunch program.
• New Study Shows Protective Moose Moms are Key ...
  A new Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) study shows that if you're a juvenile moose trying to make it in the real world, you can't beat an overprotective mom.
• Nasser Al-Kidwa Appointed Deputy Special Envoy ...
  Mr. Al-Kidwa is set to work with new Joint Representative Lakhdar Brahimi when he takes up his position following the end of Mr. Annan's mandate on 31 August 2012.

Worldnews

• 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)
  Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.
• Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?
  With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.
• U.S. Troops ‘Killing for Sport’ in Afghanistan ...
  Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.

MY Daily Apple

• Our Genes Are Not Yet Ready For So Many Wheat- ...
  According to an expert in digestive disorders, the current rise in dietary problems related to gluten could be due to over reliance on wheat-based products...
• Programs Launched To Develop Medical Counterme ...
  Concerns about terrorist attacks, the prospect of a rogue nation using nuclear weapons and the Fukushima power plant accident in Japan are fostering efforts to develop a new family of drugs that everyone hopes will never be used, according to an article in the current edition of Chemical & Engin ...
• ScienceShot: Magnetic Tornadoes Rage on the Sun
  Pervasive swirling vortexes may heat the solar corona
• Eating Vegetables May Protect Pancreas, Study ...
  4 servings a day cut risk of acute pancreatitis by 44% compared to 1 helping, researchers say Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Nutrition, Pancreatitis
• Phylogeny: Rewriting evolution
  Tiny molecules called microRNAs are tearing apart traditional ideas about the animal family tree.

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
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• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Why is Sean Hannity so intent ...
  ExamineReligion: Why is Sean Hannity so intent on having us accept Akin's apology? http://t.co/EP7QA8kE
• ExamineReligion: Atheist billboards taken down ...
  ExamineReligion: Atheist billboards taken down due to threats http://t.co/uwf3qDPg
• ExamineReligion: Day by day the moon sign way ...
  ExamineReligion: Day by day the moon sign way for September 2012 http://t.co/GN0foHLe
• ExamineReligion: Building the perfect relation ...
  ExamineReligion: Building the perfect relationship http://t.co/oGCiiPoT
• ExamineReligion: Interesting facts about the c ...
  ExamineReligion: Interesting facts about the color pink http://t.co/jqf4jCty

Energy Collective

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

Green House - USA Today

• Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...
  How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
• What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...
  What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
• U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...
  Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
• Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers
  Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
• Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hike
  President Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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• Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft in i4i Case
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Peoples Voice

• Do US Prisons Violate European Human Rights La ...
  By Angola 3 News On April 10, 2012, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued judgement in the case of Babar Ahmad and Others v The United Kingdom, thereby making a landmark ruling on the legitimacy of solitary confinement, extreme isolation and life without parole in US supermax prisons ...
• War of Words on Iran
  by Stephen Lendman If words could kill, imperial Washington long ago would have returned Iran to its nightmarish Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi days. Propaganda wars rage daily. Tehran is wrongfully called an existential threat. Imagine a country wanting peace accused of belligerent intents. ...
• Power Politics vs. American Prosperity
  Ian Fletcher I had one of those “Aha!” moments recently. I was engaged in an e-mail dialogue with a moderately prominent individual active in America’s international trade relations. He’s a former high-ranking public official, important enough to matter but not a ...
• America and Israel Need Change: Animosity and ...
  Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD “There are the times that try men’s soul”, noted Thomas Paine in his famous “Common Sense”, the lifeline to American independence. In situations of adversity and crises, competent leaders represent hope and optimism for change, not egoistic ...
• Hope and Despair for Lebanon’s Palestinians
  Franklin Lamb Beirut Remarkably, this Ramadan holiday season in Lebanon designees from both the Shia Higher Islamic Shiites Council and the Sunni Dar el Fatwa, figuratively speaking, pointed their binoculars deep into the eastern sky and in almost unheard of unison, proclaimed that Eid al Fitr ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

• The Lessons I Have Learned
  By Ars Moriendi,WWH/CJE - Stay still feel the energy around you quietly now it is everywhere ripple off a lake in the Ozark try not to move but don’t try at all wind from the Serengeti breathe it into your lungs gentle whisper from a lover in Rio defiance from a fighter in Rome love, [...]
• Cancer is Not Funny
  By Cindi Silva,WWH/CJE–This morning I woke up around 3:20 am. I’m not even sure why. It may have something to do with hearing outside noises. After all I do live on a somewhat noisy street. Not feeling like writing I went to Facebook and started reading my friends walls. I found a pa ...
• Introduction to the Basics of Sex, Rape and Bi ...
  By Linda Wolf,WWH/CJE- Welcome to the Introduction to Sex, Rape and Birth Control for Beginners and/or the Misinformed! This class covers the basics. For those of you taking notes, the year is 2012, the 21st century. Lately with the headlines, news and politics, I wonder if we’re living in ...
• Afghanistan, U.S. disagree on culprits behind ...
  By Laura King, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan —Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, surprises U.S. and NATO officials by blaming ‘foreign spy agencies’ for ‘insider’ shootings. A potentially serious rift has emerged in the way the Afghan and U.S. gov ...
• Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Friday
  Martin Luther King tape found in attic heads for sale (Reuters) – A previously unknown audio tape of an interview with slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was discovered recently in the attic of a Tennessee home, and a New York collector who bought the recording says he plans ...

FourWinds10

• Photos: Oil At BP's Deepwater Horizon Gulf Spi ...
• Windsor abuzz with mystery hum rocking neighbo ...
  105 Comments Purchase Image The Canadian ministry of environment set up seismic monitors, but there has been no answer for the noise people have heard for months. / ANDRE J. JACKSON/Detroit Free Pres WINDSOR -- Windsor attorney David Robins first heard the low rumbling while he was watching the ...
• Massive oyster die-offs in Chesapeake Bay leav ...
  (NaturalNews) Tack it on to the growing list of mysterious animal die-offs. Watermen working the oyster fishing business in the Maryland portion of Chesapeake Bay say the massive die-off of oysters in the area this year is due to recent hurricanes and tropical storms that have swept fresh water ...
• TEXAS GULF ALERT TO SAY AWAY, 4.2 MILLION POIS ...
• Busted! Fracking Chemical Found in Wyoming Wat ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Interview On My Energy Positions After ASPO 2011
  Following last year’s ASPO conference, I was interviewed by Aaron Wissner of Local Future, which is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to issues of energy, the environment, and sustainability. Aaron just made that interview available, and instead of an R-Squared Energy TV epis ...
• Why Sugarcane Bagasse is the Most Promising Pa ...
  The history of cellulosic ethanol is a lot longer than most people probably realize. The Germans first commercialized cellulosic ethanol production from wood in 1898. The technology was commercialized in the U.S. in 1910, when Standard Alcohol Company built a cellulosic ethanol plant in South Ca ...
• How Ethanol and the Chevron Refinery Fire Impa ...
  In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer two gasoline-related questions. One is on how ethanol is impacting current gasoline prices, and whether that increases the chances of a waiver for this year’s Renewable Fuel Standard. The other is on the impact of the Chevron re ...
• How to Acquire Accurate Energy Data and Statistics
  Note: I am back in Hawaii after a long road trip, so my posting frequency will return to normal. I intend to record new R-Squared Energy TVs in the near future as well. In last week’s Energy Trends Insider our featured stories were How to Acquire Accurate Energy Data and Statistics, Invest ...
• Climate Change and Developing Countries
  This post continues a theme I covered in my book Power Plays. Part 1 covered the impact on oil price and supply in Petroleum Demand in Developing Countries. Here I discuss some of the climate change implications. Climate Change Implications Regardless of one’s beliefs on climate change, it ...

Discovery Educator Network

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

Rodale News

• The Medicine Cabinet Item That's Making You Fat
  For decades, nonorganic farmers have been using a feeding trick that speeds the growth of animals. Now, in a first-of-its-kind study, scientists have figured out that the same medicine cabinet staples used to fatten up livestock—antibiotics—could be making people obese, too. Antibiotics and obe ...
• The Nickel Pincher: The Best Iced Coffee You'v ...
  Iced coffee has to be one of the best drinks of summer, hands down. And if you're a fan, you've probably been hearing a lot this summer about something called "cold-brew" iced coffee, a new trendy way to brew iced (and even hot) coffee that fancy coffee houses now charge as much as $4 ...
• 5 Diseases You Can Get from a Drought
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just released figures showing that this year's West Nile virus outbreak is the largest ever seen in the United States. Is it a coincidence that we're also experiencing the worst drought in more than 50 years? No, say epidemiologists, who have ...
• You're Throwing Away $2,275 Every Year on This
  Here's a depressing statistic: Forty percent of the food produced in the United States goes into landfills instead of our mouths, according to a new report from Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). That massive quantity of food, which amounts to 20 pounds per person per month, uses 25 perc ...
• A Surprising Cause of Childhood Obesity
  Some causes of childhood obesity are obvious: Taking too many trips through the fast-food drive-thru or becoming best friends with a video game are the usual suspects contributing to the nation's growing childhood obesity problem. But behind the excess calories and inactivity hides a surprising ...

big think

• A Confederacy of Cheaters: How to End “Bigger, ...
  Along with Romney’s 13% tax bill and Pussy Riot, the other media sensation of recent weeks has been cheaters.  After Jonah Lehrer’s sloppy multitasking and Fareed Zakaria’s “journalistic lapse,” now we as a nation face the verdict the rest of the world has been smugly waiting for: Lance Armstron ...
• How Social Networks Can Make Us Healthier And ...
  What’s the Big Idea?  Sometimes a little over-sharing online can be a good thing, at least if it’s about your health. Researchers at the University of Rochester have started using posts on Twitter to predict when people will get sick, and the amazing thing is they are actually su ...
• Myths and Truths About Atheism+
  Last week, Jen McCreight announced that she was fed up with sexism in the atheist movement and called for a new wave of atheist activism, one explicitly concerned with social justice, which quickly acquired the name "atheism+". These posts landed like a cannon shell, generating a huge wa ...
• New Fuel Cells Make Much More Energy From Waste
  Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? Governments and others who are looking to take advantage of waste-to-energy technologies may want to check out what Oregon State University scientists have been up to. They designed a microbial fuel cell th ...
• Realism About America’s Influence
  Roger Cohen recently argued that despite “the enduring centrality of American power” and “the nation’s immense capacity for renewal,” “even all the right choices for the United States will not alter the rise of India and China.”  Cohen’s statement isn’t one of fatalism, but rather, of realism.   ...

Information Liberation

• Man Says LA Police Kidnapped Him Beat Him Up & ...
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• ANARCHIST THREATEN REPUBLICAN CONVENTION! Poli ...
  This is one of the most insane propaganda scare stories ever aired on TV....
• Rep. Nadler Proposes The RIAA Bailout Act Of 2012
  Ah, the whole fight over licensing and royalty rates for internet radio had been quiet for a little while, but has sprung back up thanks to Rep. Jerry Nadler proposing a music royalty bill that would effectively bump up the rates that cable and satel...
• Apple and Samsung Should Fight in the Marketpl ...
  As you've likely heard, Apple and Samsung continue to duke it out in what commentators have called the "patent trial of the century." The case involves more than three dozen devices (such as iPhones, iPads, and Galaxy phones and tablets) and various ...
• Texas judge warns of possible 'civil war' if P ...
  From Lubbock's Fox 34 News: "He's going to try to hand over the sovereignty of the United States to the U.N., and what is going to happen when that happens?," Head asked. "I'm thinking the worst. Civil unrest, civil disobedience, civil war maybe....

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VII – Th ...
  Well, it’s happened at last. The festering stink of corruption within the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s is now front-page news on every paper in the country. This is despite the best efforts of Gillard and others to shut … Continue reading →
• One More Five-Ring Circus
  The Games of the XXX Olympiad kick off in a few hours, and I for one won’t be watching. In another age, another millemium, the Modern Olympic Games were conceived by an aristocratic Frenchman, Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, … Continue reading →
• More Of The Shiny Stuff
  A few random jottings on gold while I’m out on the road; back in a week. The other day, I came across this article in the Mises Daily, taken from Joseph T. Salerno’s testimony submitted to the U.S. House Subcommittee … Continue reading →
• Meet The Asylum’s New Management
  The iron ore town of Whyalla on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is one of the places most threatened by Labor’s Carbon Tax – the tax that Gillard promised before the last Federal election she would never introduce, and which came … Continue reading →
• Gunwalker – What The Hell???
  I don’t know much about this whole Gunwalker episode, beyond the little I’ve read in the news. But it’s now meant the United States’ chief executive law officer has just been held in contempt of Congress. Pretty serious stuff. I … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

RFF Library

• Role of Alternative Energy Sources: Natural Ga ...
  US DOE Office of Fossil Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) http://www.netl.doe.gov/energy-analyses/pubs/NGTechAssess.pdf [Green Car Congress] The US’ large resource base of natural gas can be used for cost-effective power generation, with environmental burdens coming primarily ...
• The Critical Decade: International Action on C ...
  Government of Australia. Climate Commission / by Tim Flannery, Roger Beale and Gerry Hueston bit.ly/Pz1H0H [Crikey] A new report from the Climate Commission paints a more optimistic scenario of global momentum toward renewable energy while suggesting a mix of carbon abatement methods and volunta ...
• How Inertia and Limited Potentials Affect the ...
  World Bank / by Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Guy Meunier, and Stéphane Hallegatte http://bit.ly/NItlHX [Abstract] This paper investigates the optimal timing of greenhouse gas abatement efforts in a multi-sectoral model with economic inertia, each sector having a limited abatement potential. It defines ec ...
• Are Natural Resources Cursed? An Investigation ...
  World Bank / by Donato De Rosa and Mariana Iootty http://bit.ly/PZmHkM [Abstract] his paper examines whether natural resource dependence has a negative influence on various indicators of institutional quality when controlling for the potential effects of other geographic, economic and cultural i ...
• A Carbon Tax Would Harm U.S. Competitiveness a ...
  Heritage Foundation / by Derrick Morgan http://bloom.bg/NSzG69 [Abstract] Supporters of a new carbon tax are using arguments aimed at conservatives (it can be revenue neutral) and liberals (it can help the environment) alike. But even if one concludes that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas ...

Scientific American - News

• Chimp Research Facility Found Not Guilty of Br ...
  By Meredith Wadman of Nature magazine [More]
• Nuclear Decelerator: Last U.S. Particle Collid ...
  Until recently, the American particle collider was a thriving species spanning a variety of habitats from coast to coast. But now it finds itself on the endangered list. [More]
• Disease Maps Pinpoint Origin of Indo-European ...
  By Alyssa Joyce of Nature magazine [More]
• More Science Needed for Forensic Investigations
  By Daniel Cressey of Nature magazine [More]
• Red Giants and White Dwarfs Make Explosive Ste ...
  Mysterious stars that incite their stellar companions to explode in spectacular supernovas have just been revealed -- these culprits can be bloated red giants, researchers say. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• The Action Camp
  This is the second video subMedia.tv has produced about the struggle to stop a natural gas transport project called the Pacific Trails Pipeline or PTP. The Unis'tot'en, a ...
• Treasure Island
  Like the pirates and rum runners of old, Emera may be using the island of Grand Bahama as a staging ground for larger raids FREEPORT (GRAND BAHAMA)—Just as Nova Scotians are now bearing witness to the multi-billion dollar Muskrat Fall ...
• Queers Against Israeli Aparteid Picket Film
  QAIA Hangs Pinkwashing Out to Dry       COAST SALISH TERRITORY - Queers Against Israeli Apartheid held an information picket outside the Vancity Cinema in downtown Vancouver tonight. Their target was a showing of the Israeli ...
• Victory! Vancity divests from Enbridge
  "Pipeline boycotts and blockades are just beginning" Vancity announced today that it has divested Enbridge stock from its Socially Responsible Investment funds. The BC credit union is the first financial institution to quit invest ...
• Stefan Christoff on Duets for Abdelrazik
  Montréal based musician, activist and writer explores musical solidarity Stefan Christoff, activist, writer, composer and musician, talks about his recently released disc, Duets for Abdelrazik. Recording includes three short clips of m ...

David Seaton's News Links

• The Rhymes of Ayn Rand and Ryan: tea for two
  In the withered heart of Any Rand’s world, the weak, the hungry, The violated, the broken, the disorganized are condemned, They have no brothers Unlettered children, tiny, lonely, light-starved beings, Like mushrooms fed on excrement, are free:  Free to sicken, free to die. In unhe ...
• Of course the Democratic Party sucks... so what?
  My favorite description of the Democratic Party is Woody Allen's restaurant; you know the one, “such bad food and such small portions”.The American political system is corrupt and both political parties are part of the problem and in my opinion only a massive citizen’s movement similar to the Ci ...
• The meaning of this year's election
  This year's presidential election is one of the most important in America's entire history and the reason is simple to the point of stark. It is all about who is going to fill any vacancies in the Supreme Court in the next four years.That simple.The Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ...
• Political poetry... what is it?
  I have been indulging in verse and wondering whether there is a role in the USA for political poetry as there is in South America or in parts of Europe... So I asked myself what a poet is, and this is what I came up with.What is a poet? Master of the liar's art One who has walked the fog into ...
• The Summer of 2012 (a poem)
  As I said in my previous post, at some point prose fails to express what I really feel. And I also begin to observe something that people who have never lived in a dictatorship may be slow to notice: that frank language is actively repressed, that certain truths may no be debated or even mention ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• An Itsy Bitsy $716 Billion Medicare Q&A
  Mitt Romney says that Obamacare cut $716 billion in Medicare spending. Is that true? Yes it is. This is most recent estimate from the CBO for the ten-year period from 2013-2022. So seniors are getting screwed? No, probably not. Then who is? Mostly hospitals and insurance companies. How so? Abou ...
• American Doctors, Hospitals, and Pharmaceutica ...
  Is the American public addicted to entitlements? Is that why U.S. healthcare costs are so high? Matt Miller says no: the addiction to entitlement is real, but the public isn't the main culprit: The United States spends twice per person on health care what most other advanced nations spend with ...
• Iranian Oil Sanctions Still Biting
  Via Stuart Staniford, here is a chart of Iranian oil production. It dropped in 2008, probably due to the Great Recession, then plateaued for a while, and then began a steep plunge in the middle of last year. "So the sanctions are definitely biting," Stuart says, and "revenue will likely have dr ...
• What Ever Became of George W. Bush?
  This may seem like an odd question, but the other day I found myself wondering what had become of George W. Bush. The answer, of course, is nothing. He lives in Dallas with Laura and…that's about it. For all practical purposes, he's disappeared. You'd hardly know that for eight years he ...
• From the Annals of Jackassery
  If you would like to read the stupidest story of the day, click here. No, I'm not going to give you a hint first. 

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

• Antarctic ice sheet quakes shed light on ice m ...
  Analysis of small, repeating earthquakes in an Antarctic ice sheet may not only lead to an understanding of glacial movement, but may also shed light on stick slip earthquakes like those on the San Andreas fault or in Haiti, according to Penn State geoscientists. read more
• Sunbathing helps these bugs stay healthy
  Sunbathing may be healthy -- at least for one group of North American insects that apparently uses the activity to fight off germs, Simon Fraser University scientists have found. read more
• Only 2 percent of Canadians deny climate change
  Only two per cent of Canadians believe climate change is not occurring, a new important survey released August 24 by IPAC-CO2 Research Inc. concluded. read more
• Microwave ovens may help produce lower cost so ...
  The same type of microwave oven technology that most people use to heat up leftover food has found an important application in the solar energy industry, providing a new way to make thin-film photovoltaic products with less energy, expense and environmental concerns. read more
• Southampton physicists join search for hidden ...
  Physicists from the University of Southampton were among the first researchers to use the new high magnetic-field beamline at Diamond Light Source, the UK's national synchrotron facility, to search for 'hidden magnetic states'. read more

unEarthed

• Musicians Join Hit Parade As Mountain Heroes
  Warren Haynes, My Morning Jacket oppose mountaintop removal mining Guitarist Warren Haynes has joined the Mountain Heroes campaign. John Denver’s &ldquo ...
• Unplugged: Stop Energy Hogs At The Border
  Earthjustice urges customs to act on noncompliant imports Courtesy: energyhog.org In June of 1976, the country had not yet marked its bicentennial. Gerald For ...
• Age Of Extreme Energy Needs Extreme Caution
  U.S. lax about chemicals used in oil and gas operations In April 2010, a national nightmare began with a blowout into the Gulf of Mexico. But the hundreds of millions of gallons of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill were just th ...
• Feds About To Toss Wolves To The Hunters
  Wyoming gray wolves may lose endangered species protection The Associated Press reports that the federal government will abandon its protections for Wyoming wolv ...
• Smokey Loves Coal, Not Forests
  Forest Service prefers protecting wildlands, chooses bulldozers anyway The Sunset roadless area. Ted Zukoski photo (c). The Forest Service finally admitted it ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

• As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
  By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
• The Evolution of the Butterfly
  Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
• After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
  This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:
• Fault Lines: History of an Occupation
• Wall Street Pirates – Shepard Fairey & J ...
  Shepard Fairey and Jamie Reid print collaboration.

+972

• PHOTOS: Forces crack down on weekly protest in ...
  UPDATE: Israeli forces went from house to house on Friday in Nabi Saleh, searching through homes and firing stun grenades, injuring one person in his hand and reportedly damaging some property. A total of six demonstrators – Palestinian, Israeli and international – were arrested duri ...
• Between a rock and a Haredi place: profile of ...
  Rabbi Dov Lipman is soft-spoken and not even 41-years old, but has seen his share of action on the battleground of Israeli society. He’s taken verbal beatings and sustained physical injury. He’s won praise and publicity, and drawn fire too, for his tireless struggle against religious ...
• Beyond the separation wall: A visit to Jerusal ...
  Israel’s policy in East Jerusalem continues to be a double game: It does not provide Palestinian residents with services it is obligated under its own law to provide, but will not allow anyone else to fill that void either. With the Palestinian population at 38% and growing, Israel is just ...
• A week in photos: August 14-21
  A new regular feature from the Activestills photography collective. Each week, we will bring you a selection of our most compelling images from movements for political and social change throughout Palestine and Israel.          
• Israeli government willingly lays foundations ...
  When the pogromchiks from Jerusalem go to court, they’ll have a strong case, saying they only did what was expected of them. Israel officially condemned last week the fact Jewish terrorists attacked a Palestinian vehicle with Molotov cocktails, wounding six of its passengers. Prime Ministe ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Tasmania's largest irrigation scheme ready to ...
  The construction of Tasmania's biggest ever irrigation scheme is ready to start in the Midlands.
• Joyce says no to spending on infrastructure up ...
  Today in The Australian, the Shadow Minister for Water, Barnaby Joyce, reached new heights in the Opposition's obsession with saying no to everything.
• New weather bureau radar for south-east Tasmania
  Tasmania's new state-of-the-art Doppler weather radar will provide coverage to large sections of the state for the first time.
• Nominations open for the 2012 Prime Minister's ...
  Commercial and industrial companies that can demonstrate recent water savings are encouraged to nominate for the 2012 Prime Minister's Water Wise Award.
• Stormwater greening Geelong Botanic Gardens an ...
  Geelong Botanic Gardens and Eastern Park will be greener thanks to the construction of new stormwater irrigation infrastructure.

Matt Weidner Blog

• The ReTHUGliCON fascists lash out (again) at t ...
  TAMPA — Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, led by top Romney lawyer Ben Ginsberg, forced through a major change the GOP nominating process on Friday in response to Ron Paul supporters’ efforts to win delegates to the Republican National Committee.. The Republican National Conventio ...
• Regions Bank…Why Are You Defying Court O ...
  060612-full-1 304361.362311 HEARING 06-05-2012.fullprint Scridb filter
• Wells Fargo and the Case of the Missing $100,0 ...
  TrialTranscript Scridb filter
• Foreclosure Crisis Solved!!!!….(Greeting ...
  Sorry for the distraction, the diversion away from what’s really important in this country……the circus, the farce, the distraction and delusion of political choice.  All of this talk about foreclosure and the desperate financial situation of Americans and Amerika is really dive ...
• The Entirely Corrupt RepubliCON Party Moves to ...
  The entire RepubliCON nomination fraud has been a fraud….and now it’s gotten even uglier: TAMPA, Fla. – Mitt Romney’s quest to formally win the Republican Party’s presidential nomination may suddenly come two days earlier. Plans are under way for Mr. Romney’s name to be placed into n ...

abelard - news

• another interesting expose of swedish goings o ...
  More of what the Puritan socialist-dominated media would prefer to ignore. Video.
• germany backs the money printing against the b ...
  Mrs Merkel and her national bank may protest publicly, but her ECB appointee knows what must be done to save the euro.
• ruled from brussels - uk courts are not 'indep ...
  And this has been the situation for at least five years, after Magna Carta had been discarded.
• why richard dawkins is wrong | science and tec ...
  "Dawkins is not a scientist".
• julian assange statement transcript | civil li ...
  Wikileaks founder speaks after two months of enforced asylum.

The Parallel Parliament

• My Own Stargate
  O the things I’ve learned in the last three days! My last post spoke of my loss of a few …Continue reading »
• On Blood and Belonging
  It started out well enough. Jane and I had just finished sending my new book about London, Ontario to be …Continue reading »
• An Open Letter To London’s New City Manager
  My London Free Press article of today – An open letter to City Manager Art Zuidema on his first week …Continue reading »
• Beware the Sciopods and the Blemmyaes
  Prior to more detailed reports returning with people like Christopher Columbus and other explorers of the oceans in the 15th …Continue reading »
• The Human Code (2) – Let’s All Be ...
  As humans, it can be a dangerous thing to permit ourselves to be divided into divisive camps. One of the …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

• Lost in the Maize
  Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...
• Risk, uncertainty and sustainable innovation: ...
  Despite the risk of receiving absolutely no comments (please don’t let me down!), I thought I’d try something new and ask for some feedback on the background blurb for a meeting I’ve been working on. The meeting is a symposium on Risk, Uncertainty and Sustainable Innovation bei ...
• Lost in the Maize
  I’m writing this at Detroit airport, en route to Dubai via Heathrow.  By rights, I should be writing the usual stuff about how traveling to exotic places isn’t all it’s cracked up to be – the mantra of the seasoned traveler.  But as it’s the day after Thanksgiving, I thought I would suck i ...
• Reviewing the National Nanotechnology Initiati ...
  Here’s a bit of trivia: with the 4000 character limit on comments on the National Nanotechnology Initiative Draft Strategic Plan, you might as well ditch the official portal, and tweet your comments to the Office of Science and Technology Policy – 28 tweets would do it! As you can pr ...
• Risk Science – A personal perspective
  As Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?”  What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer.  Which is why I decided to spend ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

• How Industrialized Farming Could Facilitate Pa ...
  With cases of H3N2v influenza on the rise, a look at where we stand and the key role of our system of food animal production in strengthening viruses
• How FDA Can Improve the Safety of Fruits and V ...
  Fruits and vegetables are some of the foods in need of protection—but FDA has yet to publish a regulation for how to make good on that mandate for produce safety. So what are the best ways to protect fruits and vegetables grown on farms?
• Ten Maryland Educators Will Implement Food Sys ...
  Today, the Center announced the 10 winners of the Teaching the Food System (TFS) Grants for Educators program. The funds will help teachers implement innovative food systems–related projects in conjunction with the TFS curriculum, which they will integrate into their high school classrooms. All ...
• “Project Corner Store:” Youth Make Muscle Broccoli
  Just another day in the office? We wish!
• The 2012 Farm Bill: Evolution or Devolution?
  With no agreement between the two branches of Congress, farmers suffering from the severe drought will not receive the aid they desperately need any time soon. And, with Congress officially away on summer recess, no further forward momentum will occur until they return in September. And so, we c ...

k2p blog

• Long term investment: Avoid the carbon taxers ...
  So my message for the next 5 or 6 years is to shift your investments away from Australia (and other virtuous but economically silly countries) and into countries promoting low energy prices (US and other countries where the environmental regulations and tax regimes allow production of electrici ...
• Anders Behring Breivik’s cell to be
  He killed 77 people and this is what his cell will look like. Sentenced to "luxury for life"?
• Reality Check: add renewables subtract nuclear ...
  Germany’s increasing coal consumption is part of a global return to the fossil fuel that’s cheaper than most alternatives. The amount of coal burned worldwide rose 5.4 percent to account for 30 percent of total energy use last year.
• Fisker Karma electric hybrid car is a gold-min ...
  The subsidy effectively provides a real incentive for Fisker not to make the car work or to sell more cars but to cease production as soon as practically possible without incurring any risk for repayment of the subsidy.
• Wind power beginning to lose its gloss in Germany
  The cost of wind power is beginning to bite in Germany.

Left Foot Forward

• London’s cost of living crisis: Boris needs to ...
  Labour’s message to London Mayor Johnson is simple, when you’re able to help and support people by easing the burden on household finances, you should.
• Experts slap down Salmond’s plan for a t ...
  A panel of experts has argued the referendum on whether Scotland should become an independent nation should be comprised of one clear question.
• Syria: Cameron and Obama step up pressure on A ...
  David Cameron and Barack Obama have warned any move towards the use of chemical weapons by Bashar al-Assad “would force them to revisit their approach so far”.
• Almost a million young people are still NEET
  This generation of young people do not deserve to be abandoned. They deserve a far greater opportunity than they are currently getting.
• Aussie taskforce recommends strategic interven ...
  The manufacturing taskforce report commissioned last year by Australian prime minister, Julia Gillard, presented its findings this week.

Consumerist

• Top Posts Of The Week And Open Thread
  ‣  Is It Sweet Or Creepy To Get A Discount For Having The Best Butt In The Restaurant? ‣ Holiday Inn Sends Me Wrong Receipt, Reveals How Much Of A Discount It Gives To Travelocity ‣ How The Stupid Shipping Gang Sends A Bottle Of White-Out ‣ Memo To U.S. Airways Employees: The Coast Guard Is Part ...
• Whataburger Suing Debt Collection Company That ...
  If debt collectors at NCO Financial Systems thought they could get away with annoying Whataburger Restaurants while trying to get one of its employees to pay up on an alleged debt owned, well, they've got another think coming. The burger chain is taking the side of its employee and is suing NCO ...
• Camelbak Advertises Lifetime Warranty, Even Ho ...
  Mike really likes his Camelbak water bottle. He carried it everywhere, and then dropped it and it broke. He was briefly sad, then purchased a replacement. He sent in a warranty claim by e-mail, though, just to see what would happen. What happened was that the company sent him a new replacement l ...
• TSA Can’t Get Fancy Footwear Scanners To ...
  If there's nothing you hate more than doffing your shoes to walk barefooted or shuffle in your socks through security screenings at the airport, well, we hate to be the ones to tell you, but that's going to be your reality for awhile. The Transportation Security Administration has been shelling ...
• I Upgraded My MagicJack, Lost Years Of Prepaid ...
  DL likes MagicJack phone service, and prepaid for five years in advance. That was probably a really good deal until he decided that he would rather have a MagicJack Plus. That model doesn't need to be connected to a computer. Much more convenient, but one problem: DL's prepaid years wouldn't tra ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Short Documentary Highlights NSA Whistleblower ...
  The New York Times: The Program Summary: NSA whistleblower and GAP client William Binney is interviewed by documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras for this New York Times op-doc about the agency’s domestic spying and profiling. Binney has been speaking out about Stellar Wind, the NSA pro ...
• New Bin Laden Book Author Skipped Broken Pre-P ...
  Reports have surfaced about a new book on the Bin Laden raid by an anonymous Navy Seal who, according to the book's publisher, "was one of the first men through the door on the third floor of the terrorist leader’s hideout and was present at his death." This latest book (titled No Eas ...
• Undercover Video Integral for Humane Handling ...
  Slaughterhouse Suspension Shows Undercover Video Still Important for Humane Handling Whistleblowers Summary: A California slaughterhouse has been suspended in light of undercover video footage exposing inhumane handling of cattle. GAP's Food Integrity Campaign discusses the importance of under ...
• Circuit Court Ruling Limits Fed Employee Right ...
  Washington Post: Court Limits Federal Employee Appeal Rights Summary: Last Friday, a Federal Circuit court ruled that national security procedures will replace civil service appeals and merit system rights – such as the Whistleblower Protection Act – for employees removed from “noncritical sen ...
• GAP Condemns Federal Circuit Decision
  Ruling 'Nullifies' Civil Service Rights (Washington, D.C.) –  Today, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) harshly criticized a ruling last Friday from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that, according to the decision's dissent, “nullifies” the Civil Service Reform Ac ...

UK Progressive

• The Tale of Two Political Tales
  by Tina Dupuy Last Friday I went to the Broadway revival of the 1960 Tony Award-nominated play written by the late Gore Vidal, “The Best Man.” John Larroquette plays Secretary William Russell, the womanizing candidate in a sham marriage who’s the more scrupulous of the two politicians vying for ...
• The Know Nothings Gather In Tampa
  By Charley James When Jack Kennedy was president, he hosted a state dinner for all of the living Nobel Prize winners. His toast to the guests, one of the best ever uttered at such an event, proclaimed, “This is the greatest collection of intellect ever to dine under this roof at one time, ...
• Ryan-Akin, Romney-Trump
  by Brent Budowsky This column is an expression of contempt toward some of the wealthiest Democrats in America, who fail to understand the consequences if the forces I describe here take power in America. They are being dominated by donations of rightist billionaires and greed-soaked beneficiarie ...
• Nothing New in GOP’s Anti-Woman, Anti-Gay Platform
  by Rev. Irene Monroe The GOP’s anti-abortion platform hasn’t changed—it is identical to that of its 2008 platform, allowing abortions only in cases of rape and incest. The GOP’s anti-gay platform also hasn’t changed—it is identical to that of its 2008 platform, allowing m ...
• No Tax Returns for You, Dark Money Groups Say
  by Kim Barker ProPublica It was mid-July and I had come to Hilltop Public Solutions because Jessie Bradley, a partner with the consulting firm, appeared to run two social-welfare nonprofits out of its Washington, D.C., office. ProPublica was preparing a story about how such groups – also known a ...

NewsAlert

• EPA Levies $40,000+ Fines on Landlords Who Fai ...
  CNS News
• Free Speech Fight: Campus Anti-Zionism May Res ...
• Obama Justice Department delays Blagojevich ap ...
  Citizen Wells News
• Hollywood bailing on President Obama and the D ...
  Fox News
• Robert Reich Unloads On Evil Republicans
  Breitbart T.V.

JoNova

• Jo Nova in The Australian: Manne is anti-scien ...
  I’m published this weekend in The Australian (building on the post I did previously here. Manne himself popped in there to tell us “Deniers Hunt in Packs” — demonstrating his true depth of insight into the libertarian independent psyche — a group defined by it&#8217 ...
• I feel sorry for ABC listeners, they have no i ...
  Australia’s politics is boiling at the moment, but you’d barely know if you got all your news from the Love Media ABC. Yesterday in a long press conference our Prime Minister was finally forced to address “questions” that have been burning across through the net. I heard ...
• John McLean – ENSO drives sea surface te ...
  Ove Hoegh-Guldberg wants us to consider putting sun shades over the Great Barrier Reef, but it begs the question — how much is the reef heating up, and how sure are we that it’s man-made and not natural? John McLean digs into the data and finds that temperature variations on the reef ...
• Prof Antonino Zichichi (of anti-matter fame) i ...
  You may not have heard of the World Federation of Scientists – it certainly isn’t run with a budget of millions or a professional PR team, instead it’s exactly the kind of organization that outstanding scientists would set up. No flash graphics, no spiffy logo, and no inundatio ...
• Big Green Machine – GE makes $21 billion ...
  GE — A clean energy revenue machine GE is so large that its annual revenue ($150 billion) is greater than New Zealand’s gross domestic product ($140.43 billion). But GE stands to profit in solving man-man global warming, whereas New Zealand will just pay. In 2011 GE generated $21 billion i ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• Safest Place in the USA: Peebles, Ohio
  It’s about time I started sharing information from my book (Survive 2012, available at Amazon). Something that makes it unique is the listings of safe spots around the world. While it is quite easy to nominate places that have substantial height, and are away from volcanoes and earthquakes ...
• Expert Opinions #7 B
      Although I was well pleased that Whitley Strieber responded to my 2012 question – it felt like a cop-out:  The War for Souls was a work of fiction. While I do think that there is a great deal of change unfolding presently, I don’t see how, in real life, it would relate to th ...
• Official Bunkers: BBC / Ottawa
  England I guess I’m just reminding y’all that the Powers That Be understand that it is best to be prepared, even if you don’t know what will happen, or when. I’m not suggesting that you build a mutli-level bunker like the Walton family, but please take a hint from your le ...
• Earthquake-Proof Table
  I can’t wait for this product to go into production. Even though I live in a region that doesn’t really have earthquakes, I want one! The “Earthquake-Proof Table,” designed by Israeli industrial designers Arthur Brutter and Ido Bruno, was built with the table’s live-savi ...
• DNA as a Storage Medium
  I’m always on the lookout for new forms of data storage, because it is important that knowledge is retained beyond any global disaster. Not only is this a marvelous new method, but it also suggests either in the past (alien intervention anyone?) or the future knowledge might be stored in l ...

Facing South

• NC voters reject Pope-backed candidates in loc ...
• UAW vs. Nissan in Mississippi: Operation Dixie ...
  When the CIO launched a campaign to organize Southern workers in 1946, the region's elite fought back by exploiting fears about race and communism -- and fear remains the biggest obstacle to organizing today, as the UAW's campaign to unionize Nissan's Canton, Miss. plant shows. read more
• Will Latino voters fully flex their voting pow ...
  Latinos are a fast-growing electoral force -- but will they realize their political potential in November? read more
• INSTITUTE INDEX: The party conventions' extrao ...
  In light of planned protests, the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. and Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. will be taking unprecedented security measures. read more
• Mysterious environmental disaster unfolding in ...
  Bayou Corne in Assumption Parish has been evacuated after a massive sinkhole opened up last week following months of mysterious bubbling, rumblings and a strong diesel smell. The community sits atop an old salt mine where companies including Chevron and Dow Chemical store gas products, and the s ...

One News Page

• Rs 5-lakh fine for institutes running courses ...
  This rule will be applicable to courses of 12 months or more once Maharashtra State Unauthorised Institutions Act comes into force Reported by Indian Express 1 hour ago
• BMC mulls ambulances at accident prone sites
  In a bid to ensure immediate medical help the civic administration has proposed to deploy ambulances with paramedical staff at several accident prone sites in the city. Reported by Indian Express 2 hours ago
• Work to prepare electoral roll under way, vote ...
  The work of compiling electoral roll of the Pune Cantonment Board is currently under way for the PCB election due in May next year. Reported by Indian Express 2 hours ago
• Canards over `fabricated incidents`: Mamata
  In the face of a string of incidents of alleged rapes in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that canards were being spread over `fabricated incidents`. Reported by Zee News 2 hours ago
• How India's youngest airline became the largest
  A signature cocktail of on-time performance, clean aircraft and good on-board service has helped India's youngest airline become the largest. Reported by Rediff.com 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

• Greek Great Depression: 'Everybody going down ...
• Monetary System Reform: Message of 12-Year Old ...
• Media Coverage of Syrian Violence Partial and ...
• Can Fukushima's Spent Fuel Pools Catch Fire?
• Which CEO Made $5 Million Stealing Your Kid's ...

Daily Tech

• Chinese Produce iPhones, But Aren't as Interes ...
  Apple market share in the world's biggest smartphone marketis halved in Q2
• Amazon May Announce New Kindle Fire at Sept. 6 ...
  The Kindle sector of Amazon sent out press conference invitations
• 8/24/2012 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Friday
• Kodak Extends Auction Deadline, Plans to Sell ...
  Kodak auction deadline extension could indicate low prices
• Chrysler Takes Fuel Economy Seriously With New ...
  The Ram 1500 gets a much needed heart transplant

Oriental Review

• Inviolability of Embassies and Diplomatic Miss ...
  The forces of globalist neo-conservatism have now decided to attack another institution long-protected by international law: the extraterritorial diplomatic protection afforded to foreign embassies and diplomatic missions. Although WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a very unsympathetic figure ...
• Toward a More Stable Euro-Atlantic Region: Bac ...
  ORIENTAL REVIEW republishes the full text of the report by Mr. Vyacheslav Nikonov, the president of the Policy Foundation (Moscow), presented at the recent conference held in Brussels ‘USA, Europe and Russia: What Is Next?’ “The path to an inclusive, effective Euro-Atlantic security ...
• Condoms for British Justice
  For slightly under a year, the war on Julian Assange, an Austrian commentator and publisher on the wanted list in the US and Sweden, seems to steadily top the British law-enforcement agenda. While much ado surrounds the cross-border manhunt, the formal charges which prompted it are not on the pu ...
• On ‘Pussy Riot’, CIA and Cultural Terrorism
  Last Friday the notorious ‘punk-group’ Pussy Riot was sentenced to two years in prison by the criminal court in Moscow. For the last weeks the destiny of three mediocre Russian clown-girls has been in focus of public attention worldwide. Galaxies of world celebrities and officials from McCartney ...
• «International» Missions Patronize Apartheid i ...
  The situation in Serbia’s breakaway autonomy, Kosovo and Metohija, increasingly drifts towards apartheid. Incidents in which locals Serbs, including children, are targeted or Orthodox churches, monasteries, and cemeteries are vandalized recur across the province, as the administration evid ...

BlogHer

• Get Over Myself by Being Present in this Moment
  My girls went out for happy hour last night. I had to stay home. My husband requested that I do. He wasn’t being unreasonable in his request. I mean he did just have outpatient surgery and all. I made dinner like a good little wife and mommy. My husband said he wasn’t very hungry. My son turned ...
• A Greek Twist on Nachos
  [Editor's Note: I may love my Mexican nachos, but this Greek-inspired recipe intrigues me. I love Mediterranean flavors, and this twist sounds fresh and delicious. Give it a try and mix things up for your family or friends! --Genie] Gyro Nachos Like most American homes, my kitchen does not in ...
• Where Are the South Asian Mom Bloggers?
  For many bloggers, the moment things really start to get going is when they find their "tribe"... you know, those people just seem to understand you and write posts that you could have written yourself. But what if you can't find many women online who share your culture? That's what Anjum Choudh ...
• The Myth of Birth Mothers as a Hot Mess: Debunked
  I am a birth mother. Most of you know this, but if you don't: I had a child when I was 15 and placed my daughter with an adoptive family. She will be 16 this November. There is a re-occurring theme for birth mothers that, quite frankly, is exhausting and just a tad infuriating. And that theme i ...
• There are Things You Can Only Get From Facebook
  [Editor's Note: House of Peanut has so many good reasons for why she can't quit Facebook despite going through periods of time when she is unhappy with the site.  I related to all three of her reasons and could even add a few more to my list including a way to see photos without having the ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• The Power of Being an Introvert in a World Tha ...
  “Mom, you’re reading that, too!?” My 23-year-old-son, home for a visit, was astonished to see that each of us had picked up the same book: Susan Cain’sQuiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That ...
• An Open Letter to Consumer Reports: 10 Misinfo ...
  By James J. Gormley It is personally disappointing for me that Consumer Reports, the flagship of the respected marketplace-empowerment organization, Consumers Union, has once again seen fit to arm the American consumer with detrimental misinformation regarding safe, ...
• The Importance of Fever
  Childhood fevers can be frightening, mostly because they are misunderstood. A fever is an increase in body temperature above the “normal range.” But the definition of “normal” can vary from person to person. Body temperature also ...
• Is Your Tatoo Making You Sick?
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched an investigation after new research turned up troubling findings about toxic chemicals in tattoo ink. Recently published studies have found that the inks can contain a host of ...
• Dr. Lynne Fenton, The Batman Killer, Drugs And ...
  People don’t get it. The media don’t get it and they don’t want to get it. Billions of dollars are riding on the drugs Dr. Lynne Fenton may have prescribed to her patient, James Holmes, ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Friday roundup, Aug. 24, 2012
  An official walks alongside part of a CSX freight train that derailed overnight in Ellicott City, Md., Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012. Authorities said two people not employed by the railroad were killed in the incident. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) While coalfield political leaders were falling all over ...
• More coal politics: Can we take these guys ser ...
  With each passing day, it becomes more and more difficult to take seriously any of this stuff that politicians and their consultants are trying to pass off as a discussion about the future of the coal industry and coalfield communities. Take the latest email from the West Virginia Republican Par ...
• Judge: TVA liable for coal-ash spill
  In this Dec. 22, 2008 file photo, an aerial view shows homes that were destroyed when a retention pond wall collapsed at the Tennessee Valley Authorities Kingston Fossil Plant in Harriman, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne, File) Here’s the breaking news, via The Associated Press: NASHVILLE, Tenn ...
• Judge continues stay on Alpha permit – f ...
  I just got off the phone after listening in to a conference call hearing held by U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers concerning the effort by citizen groups to block Alpha Natural Resources from beginning the mining work under its Clean Water Act permit for the Highland Reylas Surface Mine in ...
• A little news and more on Patriot Coal bankr ...
  Late yesterday, Bloomberg brought us this interesting tidbit about the Patriot Coal bankruptcy case: Patriot (PCXCQ) Coal Corp.’s bankruptcy case should be moved out of Manhattan because the company can’t show it didn’t create two new units with the sole purpose of avoiding other bankruptcy cour ...

Daniel Miessler

• The Answer to Terrorism is Resilience
  Photo by Till Achinger Here’s what we should be saying to people who attack us, and to those who panic when we are attacked. Actually, it’s quite easy to attack us. And we like it that way. That’s what freedom is. We’re not going to defend every street corner and mall wit ...
• Take a Logic Class
  In summary, reasoning training altered multiple measures of white matter structure in young adults. While the cellular underpinnings are unknown, these results provide evidence of experience-dependent white matter changes that may not be limited to myelination. via frontiersin.org Posted via ema ...
• Computing Environment Optimizations
  I’ve been slowly adding some optimizations to my overall computing environment. Here are a few–some of which I’ll write about extensively: Switched to zsh as my default shell in OS X. Used the Oh My Zsh configuration options to do so, and the article here for further config. Ha ...
• Intelligence vs. Effort | Arronsw
  In the fixed mindset, success comes from proving how great you are. Effort is a bad thing — if you have to try hard and ask questions, you obviously can’t be very good. When you find something you can do well, you want to do it over and over, to show how good you are [...]
• The Real Reason to Exercise
  Most seem to think you should exercise to avoid dying early. That’s an acceptable reason, I suppose, but it misses what I believe to be much more important. Exercise enables you to function the way you should function. It’s a magnifier of value. It helps you finish writing that book, ...

Fitwatch

• Police use anti-terror powers to detain anarch ...
  The following article is reproduced from Statewatch British counter-terrorist police at Heathrow airport last week (13 August) detained two anarchists returning from a conference in Switzerland, asked them a number of "inflammatory, irrelevant and offensive questions," and copied information fro ...
• Spycops practices circumvent the law says Surv ...
  The Surveillance Commissioner has attacked police for circumventing the law on covert surveillance by building personal profiles of targets from ‘open’ internet sources. In a report published last month, the Surveillance Commission said that the increasingly used practice of processing internet ...
• Welcome to the Future, Today.
  For those of us who have watched London 2012 with a keen eye from its inception, we have been alarmed by the extent to which it appeared to be just a 'festival of social control'. Yesterday's heavy-handed policing of the monthly Critical Mass bike ride  was a chilling confirmation of this. Cycli ...
• The Most Dangerous Armed Gang in the Country
  A mini-rant from a few FITwatchers - not necessarily representative of the views of the organisation as whole. On Thursday, 19th July, killer cop PC Simon Harwood was acquitted of manslaughter at Southwark Crown Court for his role in the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests in 2009. Despit ...
• A call to kettle FIT and Police Liaison in Bri ...
  Fitwatch are heading to the Smash EDO demo in Brighton on Monday 16th July, and we'd love you to join us. Smash EDO protests have historically been heavily hit by snoopers from the FIT, Police Liaison and the National Domestic Extremism Unit. These are all dangerous, vindictive and untrustworthy ...

Worldwide Hippies

• The Lessons I Have Learned
  By Ars Moriendi,WWH/CJE - Stay still feel the energy around you quietly now it is everywhere ripple off a lake in the Ozark try not to move but don’t try at all wind from the Serengeti breathe it into your lungs gentle whisper from a lover in Rio defiance from a fighter in Rome love, [...]
• Cancer is Not Funny
  By Cindi Silva,WWH/CJE–This morning I woke up around 3:20 am. I’m not even sure why. It may have something to do with hearing outside noises. After all I do live on a somewhat noisy street. Not feeling like writing I went to Facebook and started reading my friends walls. I found a pa ...
• Introduction to the Basics of Sex, Rape and Bi ...
  By Linda Wolf,WWH/CJE- Welcome to the Introduction to Sex, Rape and Birth Control for Beginners and/or the Misinformed! This class covers the basics. For those of you taking notes, the year is 2012, the 21st century. Lately with the headlines, news and politics, I wonder if we’re living in ...
• Afghanistan, U.S. disagree on culprits behind ...
  By Laura King, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan —Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, surprises U.S. and NATO officials by blaming ‘foreign spy agencies’ for ‘insider’ shootings. A potentially serious rift has emerged in the way the Afghan and U.S. gov ...
• Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Friday
  Martin Luther King tape found in attic heads for sale (Reuters) – A previously unknown audio tape of an interview with slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was discovered recently in the attic of a Tennessee home, and a New York collector who bought the recording says he plans ...

reference frame

• Simple proof QM implies many worlds don't exist
  A vast majority of the people who write popular books, blogs, and comments at discussion forums about the foundations of quantum mechanics are peers of the stupid monkeys. A week ago, Scott Aaronson wrote that he is a champion of the "Many Worlds Interpretation" (MWI) even though M ...
• Ordinary SUSY quantum mechanical theories don' ...
  Two days ago, Scott Aaronson was rightfully confused by some bizarre statements in the literature on "superqubits" and he asked: Two very intriguing papers recently appeared on the arXiv, claiming that one can use "superqubits" -- a supersymmetric generalization of qubits -- to violate t ...
• Prague Castle and AGW after Václav Klaus
  Three days ago, Václav Klaus gave the "Magistral Lecture" at the International Seminar on Planetary Emergencies, organized by the World Federation of Scientists, Erice, Sicily, Italy: The Manmade Contribution to Ongoing Global Warming Is Not a Planetary Emergency (full text) See also Klau ...
• Strange claims about a new \(38\MeV\) boson
  In February 2012, Eef van Beveren and George Rupp released a provocative preprint based on their February 2011 work Material evidence of a 38 MeV boson in which they argued there is some evidence in the data from BABAR, CDF, CMD-2, CB-ELSA, and COMPASS experiments that there could exist a ...
• Larry Summers: government is guaranteed to grow
  Summers' ode to an ever greater government is based on circular reasoning Larry Summers wrote a piece to The Washington Post and Financial Times that made me ROTFL: Government we can't afford (full text, free, titles differ)See also a response in The National Post which only reviews th ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Criminal Mitt Romney gone Nazi? Richard Gilber ...
  Richard Gilbert Takes On Romney’s Felony Crime Of Foreign Contributions This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot TRANSCRIPT: I am Richard Gilbert, the attorney on the federal case for the delegates. Mr. Romney: No one, and I mean no one, pushes around a Ron Paul delegate and politically s ...
• The James Holmes Conspiracy (2012 Full Documen ...
  For those who do not believe the story we are being told by the government and media. The James Holmes Conspiracy. Several witness testimonies, news reports, theories and ideas behind the motives of the crime. Topics discussed include the second suspect, weapons, police audio analysis, James Hol ...
• Latest Keiser Report “Where Money Goes To Die”
  Further informations about topics addressed are available in favourites, play lists on my channel and complementary video responses. RT “In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss the Irish government being so terribly ‘embarrassed’ that they hired two dirt ...
• FPS Russia Jr: TDM 32-5 on Highrise
  please listen to if you don’t watch Video Rating: 2 / 5 FPS Russia Shirts – fpsrussia.spreadshirt.com My Twitter: twitter.com My Lets Plays: www.youtube.com Woody’s “How to make a successful youtube channel” : www.youtube.com Wanna help me pay for guns and ammo? Pay ...
• Down-the-drain trading: Self-destroying cyber- ...
  Watch the full Keiser Report 306 here on.rt.com In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss the world looking for people looking for economic salvation in gold, the eurozone and emerging markets and ask “what kind of stupid people put precious money into messy banks?&#8 ...

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• Silver strips Lopez of Housing chairmanship, s ...
• 'A lot of guns,' and a lot of bullets too
• Romney makes a birth certificate joke; Obama c ...
• Post-Empire State shooting, A.G. Schneiderman ...
• Before Empire State shooting reports, Bloomber ...

Views & News from Norway

• Nation heaves a sigh of relief
  Reaction to a court verdict that may imprison mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik for life can be described as one huge national sigh of relief. Victims’ families, survivors, politicians and law professors were among those specifically and repeatedly using the word lettelse (relief), and ...
• Breivik’s attacks cost billions
  In addition to costing 77 lives, the murderous attacks carried out by confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik will be costing the Norwegian state tens of billions of kroner over the coming years. Legal fees alone from all the lawyers involved have topped NOK 65 million (nearly USD 11 million) ...
• Breivik ruled sane and sent to jail
  Norway’s home-grown confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik knew what he was doing when he killed 77 persons in and around Oslo on July 22 last year, the city court in Oslo ruled on Friday. The court, finding Breivik sane at the time of his murderous rampage, sentenced him to Norway&#82 ...
• Breivik ‘won’t appeal a sanity ruling’
  The lead defense attorney for confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik said on the eve of his client’s sentencing on Friday that Breivik had repeated claims he would not appeal a court ruling that finds him sane and able to be sent to prison. If ruled insane, though, and committed to psy ...
• Multi-cultural festival underway
  Oslo’s annual multi-cultural Melafestivalen was opening on Thursday for a long weekend full of entertainment, exhibitions and, not least, food and drink. Thousands are expected during the four-day run on the harbour-front plaza in front of Oslo’s City Hall. “Mela” means & ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• “Civilisation Needs to Change Its Intent” – In ...
  Although recorded back in May, for International Permaculture Day (see here and here), I found out about the interview below only yesterday. In the interview, PRI PDC Teacher, Rhamis Kent, talks to renowned environmental filmmaker, John Liu, whose fantastic work we’ve featured on this sit ...
• Maximizing Omega-Level Diversity
  Note: this is a piece that was originally to be published in Edible Forest Gardens, which I coauthored with Dave Jacke. Yes, there are parts we cut out, it would have been even longer! Dave reviewed and edited that version of this article, though I have substantially updated it here and he is no ...
• PRI Sunshine Coast: Open Garden Day on Sunday, ...
  Open Garden Day at the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast, permaculture demonstration site. Come and see what we do here and have some morning tea with us! by Zaia Kendall, PRI Sunshine Coast The Vegetable Garden We have had a number of requests for an open garden day recently. W ...
• Permaculture in Palestine – a Green Revolution
  by Melissa Andrews Olive trees stand the test of time in Palestine All images © Christopher List Photography It was a brisk, rather harried morning when my husband, photographer Christopher List, and I set off on a trip to delve deeper into the relatively unheard of phenomenon of ...
• Adventures in Hugelkultur in Australia
  A while back, the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia presented an article on hugelkultur raised beds (see also here and here). I found the idea of planting out raised beds made of tree saplings covered in a bit of soil and woody mulch to be intriguing. I’d never heard of hugelku ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  I'd be shocked if the chosens were involvedStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:26 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Federal regulators who shut down a central California slaughterhouse after receiving an animal welfare video were investigating Tuesday whether beef from sick cows reached the human food supply. Central Valley Meat Co., owned by Brian and Lawrence Coelho, declined to comment on the video http: ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  GitmoStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Fri Aug 24, 2012 12:54 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxVL0h-S-fsStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Fri Aug 24, 2012 12:36 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  “Israel is my home," he said. Than by all means GO THE FUCK HOME, ASSHOLE!Statistics: Posted by Rockclimber — Fri Aug 24, 2012 9:39 am

TVNZ

• Accused Colorado gunman 'wanted to kill people'
  Accused Colorado gunman James Holmes had conversations with a classmate in March about wanting to kill people.
• Two dead in gunfire near NY's Empire State Bui ...
  A man fatally shot a former co-worker near the Empire State Building and was then killed by police.
• Syria army shells Damascus suburb, kills 21
  The Syrian army pounded the Damascus suburb of Daraya today, killing at least 21 people on the third day of a campaign to regain control of outlying areas of the capital.
• Syrian refugees top 200,000 as exodus grows
  More than 200,000 Syrians have poured into neighbouring countries during the conflict.
• Tropical Storm Isaac takes aim at Haiti
  Tropical Storm Isaac headed toward the Dominican Republic and Haiti today.

environment 360

• Drought Conditions Trigger Smallest Gulf ‘Dead ...
  U.S. scientists say the nation’s worst drought in five decades has had at least one positive effect: the smallest so-called “dead zone” seen in the Gulf of Mexico in years. In a 1,200-mile research cruise conducted in the NASA. Algal blooms in the Gulf of Mexico waters of the gulf this mon ...
• U.S. Solar Panel maker to Build Solar Farms in ...
  First Solar Inc., the U.S.-based solar panel manufacturer, plans to expand its role in the global energy industry by developing solar power farms in India, where an emerging industrial sector is looking to First Solar Inc. shore up energy security in the aftermath of record blackouts. The ...
• With Funding Tight, Cities are Turning to Gree ...
  From Seattle to Sweden, an ever-growing number of city and regional governments are using roof gardens, specially designed wetlands, and other forms of “green infrastructure” to rein in pollution from countless diffuse sources — and to save money. BY JIM ROBBINS
• Solar Shingles Made With Abundant Metals Offer ...
  U.S. scientists say that emerging photovoltaic technologies will enable the production of solar shingles made from abundantly available elementsrather than rare-earth metals, an innovation that would make solar Dow Chemical Solar shingles energy cheaper and more sustainable. Speaking at t ...
• New Canadian Law Removes Federal Oversight Fro ...
  Major revisions to Canada’s Environmental Assessment Act have stripped nearly 500 projects of federal oversight in British Columbia alone, including major dam projects, gravel extraction operations, and the sinking of former warships as artificial reefs, according to a news report. The new scree ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• Ernst v. EnCana Corporation | Landowner Jessic ...
  Tags: water contamination fracking
• FracFocus Chemical Disclosure Registry
  Tags: chemical disclosure registry fracking water drilling
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backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

• Journalist, Or Spy? Xinhua Doesn't Distinguish
  Canadian reporter Mark Bourrie quit his $50,000 a year job at Xinhua News Agency (part of China's state media arm) after it became apparent his employment was predicated on being willing to spy on behalf of the Chinese government. The last straw was when they asked him to "prepare a tr ...
• Julian Assange's New Digs At The Ecuadorian Em ...
  Looks like Wikileaks' founding leader (and alleged rapist) Julian Assange might have found a permanent home, the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. From the Guardian:
• Are Housing Hawks Wrong?
  Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research delivers a strong reproof to those (like me!) who believe that reducing consumer debt is the key to accelerating recovery.
• Gabrielle Douglas Pitches at Citi Field; Katie ...
  And Playgirl wants Prince Harry.
• Playgirl Wants Harry
  Playgirl wants Harry to pose naked for them.

Loonwatch

• Mondoweiss: Another Morphing Muni ad and a Hat ...
  Pamela Geller's defeat the "savages" San Francisco Muni advertisements created a firestorm among local culture jammers who are challenging the pro-Israel pundit's message by re-designing the originals ads.
• CAIR Calls for Release of Pakistani Girl Held ...
  "It is imperative that the government of Pakistan immediately release Rimsha Masih and ensure her safety and that of her family and their community."
• Sheila Musaji: Pamela Geller & Robert Spencer ...
  Some individuals like Pamela Geller are so anxious to find anything at all that is negative about Islam or Muslims that they are willing to pass on any unsubstantiated rumor from anywhere as “proof” that Muslims are evil.
• Poll: GOP Really Dislikes Muslims
  Overall, Republican voters hold strong negative views of Muslims and Arabs.
• Bacon Scattered Before Muslim Celebration May ...
  As the first of an estimated 1,500 Muslims began to arrive at Cpl. Allan E. Kivlehan Park in New Dorp, Staten Island, early Sunday morning to celebrated Id al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, they discovered uncooked bacon scattered on the ground.

Energy News

• Yamada: We cannot cover Fukushima Daiichi reac ...
• Listen: Melted fuel may have broken through co ...
• NHK: Many Fukushima nuclear workers leaving af ...
• 6-year-old playing on radioactive waste dump 2 ...
• Teacher: “I’m lying to a room full of students ...

Japan Times

• Japan to include zero nuclear power goal in ne ...
  The Democratic Party of Japan-led government may set as its new mid- to long-term energy policy the goal of abolishing nuclear power, due to the heightened public safety concerns since the triple-meltdown crisis started last year at the Fukushima No. 1 atomic plant, sources said Friday. The go ...
• Number of elderly with dementia doubles to 3 m ...
  The number of seniors with dementia has doubled over the past 10 years to exceed 3 million, meaning 1 in 10 people aged 65 or older suffers from it, a health ministry estimate showed Friday. The number is estimated to reach just over 3 million this year, up from almost 1.5 million in 2002, acc ...
• Ainu quest for rights enters political realm
  Shiro Kayano, 54, was once just like the millions of salarymen who populate Japan's neon-lit cities. He wore a suit and tie, bought the latest technology and earned a paycheck in Tokyo's advertising sector. But a chance visit to a Canadian indigenous household two decades ago set him on a diff ...
• Hosono denies nuke disposal report
  Environment Minister Goshi Hosono denied on Friday a media report that the government has asked the town of Minamiosumi, Kagoshima Prefecture, to be the host for final disposal of radiation-contaminated soil and other waste generated by the Fukushima nuclear crisis. "We've been looking into va ...
• Moyes deserves shot with big club
  David Moyes accepted the praise and plaudits in his typically unassuming manner. Privately, the Everton manager would have been punching the air with joy after his hugely impressive team defeated Manchester United 1-0, but as usual he gave credit to his players though he was moved to say: "The ...

Alexander Higgins

• The Squandering Of $45 Trillion For An Imagina ...
  The objections of tens of thousands of scientists goes ignored as the global warming hoax is being used to squander $45 trillion from the masses.
• Congressman Kucinich Warns Of Al Qaeda False F ...
  Representative Dennis Kucinich warns of Al Qaeda's presence among the Syria rebels in damning editorial that warns Syria is 'rife with potential for a false flag'
• Marine Under Nazi Detention For Facebook Posts ...
  The former US Marine that is being subjected Nazi style indefinite psychiatric detention over Facebook posts has been transferred to a facility hundreds of miles away.
• Assange Embassy Siege Costing UK Taxpayers $75 ...
  The cost of the British government's siege of the Ecuadorean embassy to arrest Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is costing UK taxpayers over $75,000 per day.
• Chavez Warns UK Of Assange Embassy Raid Fallout
  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warns the British government there will be 'severe consequences' if they raid the Ecuador Embassy to arrest Assange.

Macleans - Central

• ‘Even by the standards of his day, Macdo ...
  Stephen Azzi counters Richard Gwyn’s defence of our first prime minister. Macdonald’s actions can...
• Radicals on film
  The NDP brings the pipeline fight to YouTube....
• What Jack Layton left
  Gerald Caplan considers the late NDP leader’s legacy. It seems to me that Jack...
• Case dismissed
  Helena Guergis’ lawsuit has been dismissed. Judge Charles Hackland ruled Friday that Harper’s ability...
• The Cola Road, Week 3: An African health minis ...
  Claire Ward sits down with Dr. Joseph Kasonde, Zambia's MOH

Making It Count - CCPA

• Dead Money
  Kudos to Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney for raising the profile of the over $500 billion Canadian corporations are holding in excess cash surpluses and not investing in the economy, which garnered front page coverage (and kudos to the CAW for inviting him to speak). It’s not the first ...
• Broadening the Bank of Canada’s Mandate
  Yesterday, Mike Moffatt took to The Globe and Mail’s “Economy Lab” in response to my suggestion that the Bank of Canada should moderate the exchange rate. My rebuttal of Mike’s rebuttal appears in today’s Economy Lab: Mike Moffatt’s friendly rebuttal of my comments on last week’s inflation repor ...
• No Vale on the Plains?
  I had the following comments in yesterday’s front-page story on Vale’s decision to postpone its proposed $3-billion potash mine at Kronau, Saskatchewan: Regina economist Erin Weir, who is widely expected to run for the leadership of the provincial NDP, said in a statement Friday that the Vale an ...
• The Right Response To “No Job Is A Bad Job”
  Last May federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said there was no such thing as a bad job. The Law Commission of Ontario may disagree. This week it put out a report about the rise in vulnerable workers and precarious jobs. Now that he’s heard from executives who think Canadians are paid too ...
• Prices Decline Yet Again
  Statistics Canada reported today that, for a third consecutive month, consumer prices declined and the inflation rate fell below 2%. In July, the inflation rate was 1.3% and the Bank of Canada’s core rate was 1.7%. Gasoline and natural gas prices, which have been lower this summer than last, dra ...

ReDress

• By way of deception Israel trying to drag US i ...
  Jamal Kanj argues that "leaked" Israeli information on plans to attack Iran are intended to drag the USA into a new Middle East quagmire through committing aggression against Iran on the eve of the American presidential election.
• America on the road to Ryan and ruin
  Lawrence Davidson argues that a win for Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan in the upcoming US presidential election would most likely destroy what is left of the USA's social safety nets, devastate the middle class, greatly increase the ranks of the poor and unemployed, do away with unio ...
• Palestinians "going for gold" are hampered by ...
  Stuart Littlewood views the failure of the Palestinian "embassy" in the UK to ensure full advantage is taken of the Palestinian Olympic team's presence in London and to impress upon the world the team members' achievements and the difficulties they face at home under the Israeli occupation.
• Seven simple rules to ensure politicians repre ...
  Stuart Littlewood argues that basic rules of conduct for public officials, such as Britain's "Seven Principles of Public Life", should guard against politicians acting on behalf of foreign interests, whether Mitt Romney in the US or David Cameron and William Hague in the UK. But sadly, he lament ...
• Netanyahu versus Obama and Iran
  Alan Hart argues that, for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, a second term in the White House for Barack Obama is a far more serious concern than the illusory Iranian "nuclear threat" and that, if it appears that Obama is poised to win the upcoming presidential election, Netanyahu may o ...

Physics Today

• Graphene offers clear window on liquids
  BBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...
• Rival teams shared in Nobel celebration
  Science: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
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  Talking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
• Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sector
  Earth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
• Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...
  Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...

Revolutionary Politics

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• The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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Peakwater

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

D. Kucinich

• Kucinich Asks Inspector General to Review FDA’ ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today asked the Inspector General to review the Food and Drug Administration’s handling of an investigation of tainted jerky treats for dogs made in China. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been investigating consumer complaints for five years while th ...
• Kucinich Honors Dear Friend at Memorial for th ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke at a crowded memorial ceremony for the late Gore Vidal. Gore Vidal was a prolific author and a close personal friend to Congressman Kucinich as well as a public and vocal supporter of Congressman Kucinich’s political career. Also speaking at the m ...
• Kucinich Statement Regarding Public-Private-Pa ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has united the community to demand the second phase of the Innerbelt Bridge project be completed on time, today released the statement below. Governor John Kasich (R-OH) and Ohio Department of Transportation Director Jerry Wray today announced plans to sec ...
• Victory: Treasury Department Allows Humanitari ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today issued the following statement after the U.S. Treasury Department announced the issuance of a general license allowing U.S.-based organizations to provide humanitarian assistance to the victims of an earthquake in northwestern Iran. Kucinich led fourteen ...
• Kucinich to PUCO: Customers Should Not Pay for ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a dogged defender of consumer rights, today sent the following letter to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio: August 17, 2012 Mr. Todd A. Snitchler Chairman Public Utilities Commission of Ohio 180 East Broad Street Columbus, Ohio 43215-3718 Dear Cha ...

Authentically Wired

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  It’s the water, stupid Treading water BY DAWN STOVER | 22 AUGUST 2012 In 1954, Lewis Strauss, then chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, gave a speech in which he famously predicted that "our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter." Whether ...
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  …Those comprising the class of 2016 truly march to a different drummer … a different beat one which likely most “baby boomers” now believing they control the USA cannot even remotely fathom…     LISTEN TO RADIOS? WATCH TVS? NOT FOR CLASS OF ’16 BY DINESH RAMDE … ASSOCIATED PRESS& ...
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  … And what you expect Romney would choose to include you and me in his large$$ … Gue$$ again … Filed under: Blogroll
• Leadership, where is it when Arizona most desp ...
  … From what I see this is a natural for our Governor Jan Brewer along with wagging her finger … … Leadership, where is it when Arizona most desperately needs it… Filed under: Blogroll
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  …When you have $old your soul to the military-industrial- corporate-congre$$ional-complex … what you expect McCain would dare bite the hand that feeds him … Filed under: Blogroll

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• Chart: Forest loss in Latin America
  Latin America lost nearly 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 square miles) of forest — an area larger than the state of Oregon — between 2001 and 2010, finds a new study that is the first to assess both net forest loss and regrowth across the Caribbean, Central and South America. The ...
• Key mammals dying off in rainforest fragments
  When the Portuguese first arrived on the shores of what is now Brazil, a massive forest waited for them. Not the Amazon, but the Atlantic Forest, stretching for over 1.2 million kilometers. Here jaguars, the continent's apex predator, stalked peccaries, while tapirs waded in rivers and giant ant ...
• Turning gorilla poachers into conservationists ...
  Although founded only four years ago, Endangered Species International-Congo, has ambitious plans to protect dwindling Western gorilla populations and aid local people in the Republic of the Congo. The organization, an offshoot of Endangered Species International (ESI), has been spending the las ...
• Belo Monte mega-dam halted again by high Brazi ...
  A high federal court in Brazil has ruled that work on the Belo Monte dam in the Brazilian Amazon be immediately suspended. Finding that the government failed to properly consult indigenous people on the dam, the ruling is the latest in innumerable twists and turns regarding the massive dam, whic ...
• Interview with the new CEO of The GEF, the wor ...
  The Global Environment Facility or 'GEF' unites 182 government members, in partnership with multiple international institutions, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector, with the goal of addressing global environmental issues. The following is an interview with Dr. Naoko Ishii of J ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Hauraki Gulf: Planning for the future
  The turnaround could start with volunteer boaties and divers, re-seeding mussels on the barren sea floor.Or it could come from farmers on the Hauraki Plains, planting trees and using less fertiliser to reduce nitrogen run-off into...
• 150 years of tropical storms mapped (+graphic)
  The paths of 150 years of destructive tropical storms around the world have been mapped in a stunning image.The graphic, looking at the globe with Antarctica in the centre, shows the intensity and location of hurricanes, cyclones...
• John Minto: Olympic medal hopes nurtured in st ...
  What do James Hargest College in Invercargill and Palmerston North Boys High School have in common?Aside from being state secondary schools they each have two ex-students who won medals in the London Olympics. Hargest's Nathan Cohen...
• Mars rover Curiosity to make first test drive
  The Nasa rover Curiosity made its first test drive today on ancient soil of Mars."Wheel tracks on Mars," Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer Allen Chen tweeted along with an image sent from one of the rover's cameras. "The EDL (Entry,...
• Govt wants business to double R&D spend
  The Government wants businesses to double their spending on research and development as part of its plan to grow the economy but even reaching that target would leave New Zealand languishing below the average for developed countries.Prime...

The Bovine

• Karen Selick’s unpublished letter to the ...
  From Karen Selick: This is the letter that I prepared for the Owen Sound Sun Times on July 4, 2012 after discussing with the editor Doug Edgar my concerns about inaccuracies in their reporting on the Montana Jones story.  Mr. … Continue reading →
• LifeStock – a call to farms – Sept ...
  Join us Sunday September 30th for a day of food, music, words… Raw milk is illegal, growing food in your urban yard is against the law, and government policy threatens the genetic biodiversity of our produce and livestock. Small farms are targets…but we are ALL losing … Continue reading &# ...
• Recording or videoing police in Canada
  From the Ottawa Citizen: “Every Ontarian should read the Police Services Act’s Code of Conduct, especially the part in Section 30 that says an officer engages in discreditable conduct when he or she “uses profane, abusive or insulting language or … Continue reading →
• Recording or videoing police in Canada
  From the Ottawa Citizen: “Every Ontarian should read the Police Services Act’s Code of Conduct, especially the part in Section 30 that says an officer engages in discreditable conduct when he or she “uses profane, abusive or insulting language or … Continue reading →
• Thoughts on how to stay positive in the food r ...
  By Liz Reitzig, on the Complete Patient blog: “One of the things I do to help people access real foods in my area is I help run a buying club that makes local deliveries of real, non-GMO foods. About two … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Mish Translation of Bernanke's Statements on t ...
  The non-news of the day is Bernanke says scope for more Fed easing Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says there’s room for the central bank to take more action in responding to critical questions from a top lawmaker on Capitol Hill. Bernanke’s letter to Darrell Issa, the California ...
• Trading Caps and Gowns for Mops; Why Go to Col ...
  A pair of interesting articles on MarketWatch highlights the plight of those graduating from college deep in debt and little prospects of landing a good job in their field. First consider Why go to college if I can’t get a job? by John Pelletier. A recent Economic Policy Institute study ...
• Trends in Interest Rates on National Debt Sugg ...
  Here are a couple of charts from Tim Wallace regarding interest on the national debt. The first chart shows the interest rate is falling as debt skyrockets. Interest Rates vs. National Debt click on any chart for sharper image Key Questions How long can the trend la ...
• Eurozone PMI Declines 7th Month; German Privat ...
  As easily predicted, at least in this corner, the Markit Flash Eurozone PMI® shows Downturn in Eurozone economy extends into seventh month. Key Points Flash Eurozone PMI Composite Output Index(1) at 46.6 (46.5 in July). Seventh straight contraction. lash Eurozone Services PMI Activit ...
• China Flash Manufacturing PMI at 9-Month Low, ...
  Adding to the grim news on global growth, the HSBC Flash China Manufacturing PMI shows new export business declines at sharpest rate since March 2009. Key points Flash China Manufacturing PMI™ at 47.8 (49.3 in July). 9-month low. Flash China Manufacturing Output Index at 47.9 (50.9 in ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Mali, Al Qaeda, and the US Neo-Colonial Agenda
  Recent developments in Mali illustrate both the way in which the Unites States and its Western allies directly project military and political power, as well as the role of terrorism as a necessary pretext for imperialist, neo-colonial domination. Beginning with the establishment of AFRICOM (US A ...
• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  From Indignados to Occupy The Indignados movement was sparked in Spain on May 15, 2011. In part inspired by the Arab Spring, young Spaniards, who face a 46% unemployment rate, occupied the Puerta del Sol in Madrid for several weeks, protesting against the socio-political and economic system that ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 11, ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Texas Case Raises Troubling Questions About AT ...
  Rio Grande Valley Businessman Was The Target of Multiple Arms-Trafficking Investigations Yet He Continued To Acquire Guns Through Straw Buyers By Bill Conroy @ the Narcosphere A series of criminal investigations initiated some four years ago by ATF agents, all focused on a weapons-trafficking ri ...
• Pssssst… Buried News: Khalilzad Now Open ...
  Tethys Petroleum Appoints Zalmay Khalilzad to the Board Isn’t it amazing how the US media intentionally glosses over and censors meaningful developments involving key scumbag figures in US politics? Let me give you a personal example from the past- Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert’s we ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• Caterpillar Celebrates Grand Opening of New Hy ...
  The new factory is the most recent expansion for Caterpillar in the United States and is expected to employ about 800 people once it is fully operational PEORIA, Ill., Aug. [...]
• Miami’s ‘Deep Dredge’ Going Up For Bid
  The Port of Miami on Friday announced that it has struck a deal with the U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers that allows for a massive dredging project to go to [...]
• Ship Photo of the Day – Holland America Line’s ...
  MS Zaandam is named for the city of Zaandam, Netherlands near Amsterdam. It was built by Italy’s Fincantieri yard in Venice and was delivered in 2000. She is part of the ‘R-Class’ and a sister ship to MS Volendam, MSRotterdam, and MS Amsterdam.  MS Zaandam was christened by [...]
• Greenpeace Activists Get Ice-Cold Greeting by ...
  Greenpeace activists scaled OAO Gazprom’s Prirazlomnaya platform in the Arctic to protest drilling plans on Russia’s first major oil project in the ocean. Six ecologists, including the environmental organization’s executive [...]
• “Technically Bankrupt”…Heavy Shipping Poised f ...
  Shipping lines that carry generators and giant trucks for General Electric Co. and BHP Billiton Ltd. are becoming takeover targets amid a lack of funding for the vessels needed to [...]

Press TV

• More insurgents slain in Damascus suburbs
  The Syrian Army has killed a number of armed men in the cities of Darayya and Duma, which are located near Damascus, Press TV reports.
• Deadly clashes underway near Aleppo
  The Syrian Army has killed a number of armed men in the suburbs of the cities of Aleppo and Lattakia, Press TV reports.
• Insurgents killed in Homs clashes
  Syrian security forces have killed a large number of anti-government insurgents in the western governorate of Homs, Press TV reports.
• Army, insurgents clash in Damascus
  The Syrian Army has launched attacks on armed groups in Damascus, Press TV reports.
• Two US embassy staffers shot in Mexico
  Two US embassy employees have suffered gunshot wounds when assailants opened fire on their vehicle south of the national capital Mexico City.

SciDev.net

• ICT will help Ugandan farmers cope with climat ...
  Uganda's 'cattle corridor' is the focus of a new ICT project to help farmers adapt to severe weather patterns and changes in water access.
• Open access for development: a battle not yet won
  The momentum for Open Access is unstoppable. Now the global science community must manage change to ensure poorer regions are not left behind.
• Climate change 'may boost South-East Asian agr ...
  By mapping future weather trends in South-East Asia, scientists find global warming could be a blessing for agriculture in the region.
• Colombia regulates fining firms for environmen ...
  A new methodology sets up ground rules for fining companies for their negative impact on biodiversity.
• Public libraries — an underused resource for d ...
  Evidence of impact shows that libraries can be local hubs for community development, says communication specialist Jean Fairbairn.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

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

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• Mugshots from 1870s EnglandCredit: Tyne & Wea ...
  Mugshots from 1870s England Credit: Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
• Maria Alekhina, left, Yekaterina Samutsevich, ...
  Maria Alekhina, left, Yekaterina Samutsevich, top right, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, right, members of feminist punk group Pussy Riot seen behind bars at a court room in Moscow, Russia, Russia, Monday, July 30, 2012. Three members of the band are facing trial for performing a “punk prayer” against ...
• thepoliticalnotebook:This is the last footag ...
  thepoliticalnotebook: This is the last footage shot by Japanese journalist Mika Yamamoto prior to being shot and killed in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. Released by the Japan Press and subtitled by The Telegraph, it shows she was filming Syrian rebel fighters with her colleague Kazutaka ...
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  Guide to Reporting at the 2012 Republican and Democratic National Conventions:...
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  “Hezbollah’s ruthless and brilliant use of car bombs in Lebanon in the 1980s to counter...

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