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Thomas Paine

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

28 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Renewables firms to compete for £10m Saltire Prize
BBC News
Prize for 'sea snake' inventor · Saltire prize for 'Duck' inventor. Four renewable energy companies which will compete for the £10m Saltire Prize have been named by Scottish ministers. The competition was set up to encourage the development of wave and ...
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Minister mulls slower German green revolution due to costs
Reuters
German consumers angry about cost of renewable switch. * Germany making progress towards 2020 green targets. * Merkel chief of staff meets ministers, industry groups on energy switch. By Madeline Chambers. BERLIN, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Germany may ...
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German offshore wind sector needs more than just new law: executives
Reuters
BERLIN (Reuters) - Changing regulations will not be enough to make Germany's planned offshore wind expansion work, executives and industry experts say, arguing the industry needs to find other ways to support one of the main pillars of the country's ...
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Obama must waive renewable fuels standard now
Your Houston News
President Obama needs to give EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson an ultimatum: Waive the requirement in the RenewableFuels Standard established in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 mandating ethanol blending in motor fuels now, or hit the road Jack – son.
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HUMAN HABITAT

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Tropical Ecology 101: Snakes
GreenAnswers (blog)
To many people the tropics, including the areas near the equator throughout the world, are a mysterious and magical place. They represent places of great adventure, huge rivers, native people, and very large snakes. The tropics are some place you think ...
Ecology seeks comments on air quality inspection fees
Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal
The public is invited to comment on proposed changes to how the Washington Department ofEcology charges fees for certain kinds of air quality work. The changes include funding for the program that registers and inspects certain small and medium-size ...
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Ecology to recognize Sound Transit for environmental restoration
Maple Valley Reporter
A land purchase and technical assistance by Sound Transit helped a multi-agency estuary restoration project outside of Marysville overcome major hurdles and proceed toward construction. The state Department of Ecology plans to recognize that help on ...
Ecologists Protest Slaughter of Birds That Can Fly Through Hurricanes
New America Media
In a letter to the French Ministry of Ecology – which has an oversight role on the island – ABC requested that it to “take immediate measures to stop unregulated and unmonitored shooting on the island of Guadeloupe.” The letter also referenced “the ...
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Fouled water leaves Kivalina school closed
Sacramento Bee
The Anchorage Daily News (http://is.gd/CfIPaX) says storms soaked the Inupiaq community and created a storm surge that caused the river to rise and fouled the drinking water. School was supposed to begin more than a week ago. But city administrator ...
PepsiCo Awarded 2012 Prize for Efforts to Cut Water Consumption
Businessweek
PepsiCo Inc. (PEP) won an honorary industry award at the World Water Week today in Stockholm for efforts by the biggest snack-food maker to conserve billions of gallons ofwater in its global manufacturing operations. “Reducing our waterusage drives ...
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Methane Making An Appearance In Pa. Water Supplies
NPR
The danger goes beyond contaminated water. In a letter to both families detailing test results and preliminary findings, state regulators wrote that "there is a physical danger of fire or explosion due to the migration of natural gas water wells ...
Yonkers working on water main break
Wall Street Journal
Associated Press. YONKERS, N.Y. — A water main break in southwest Yonkers continues to affect service to some 50,000 residents and traffic on the Saw Mill River Parkway. Mayor Mike Spano says the break Monday was caused by a private contractor ...
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Personal & Noted

Scoop - NZ

  • The Power behind MasterChef
    Margie Bashfield may mould the eating habits of millions of Australians in her role as the executive producer of MasterChef Australia, but she doesn’t like cooking. She readily admits her food journey so far hasn’t resulted in a highly refined palate. "I've got really simple tastes," she tell ...
  • The View From Iran
    Whether it's the Syrian conflict, oil prices or its controversial nuclear research program, few countries stir up global policy discourse as often as the Islamic Republic of Iran. The country was recently hit by the toughest sanctions in more than a decade in the West's response to Iran's refusa ...
  • Hungary refutes Key on Baghlan patrols
    The Hungarian defence minister has written an open letter to New Zealand, refuting Prime Minister John Key's claims that Hungarian soldiers no longer patrol in their assigned area in Afghanistan. Minister Csaba Hende wrote of his "deepest condolences" for the loss of New Zealand soldiers, but ...
  • Reich: Ryan's Faux Populism
    On Friday, Paul Ryan, the presumptive Republican vice-presidential nominee, made the most populist speech of this campaign season. “It’s the people who are politically connected, it’s the people who have access to Washington that get the breaks,” he told an enthusiastic crowd of over 2,000 at ...
  • Tapu Misa: Paula Bennett so sure she's right
    Last week, while Labour leader David Shearer reprised a lame anecdote about a roof-painting sickness beneficiary in an attempt to appeal to middle New Zealand, Social Development Minister Paula Bennett was demonstrating how truthiness can drive public policy as well as public opinion. Defendi ...

Independent - London

  • Pirates kidnap 24 in gunfight off Togo coast
    An anti-piracy organization says pirates have attacked a Greek-owned oil tanker off the coast of Togo, kidnapping 24 sailors in an exchange of gunfire. Related StoriesGhana's witch camps: last refuge of the powerless and the persecutedWomen hold a sex strikeRiots in Mombasa after killing of Mus ...
  • US archbishop apologizes for drink-driving arrest
    The Roman Catholic archbishop-elect of San Francisco has apologized for his arrest on suspicion of drunken driving, behavior that he said brought "shame" and "disgrace" on himself and the church, though legal experts said was unlikely to derail his promotion.  Related StoriesEyes off Mitt Romne ...
  • Spain pays sharply lower rates in bond auction
    Spain's Treasury has sold nearly €4 billion in short-term debt auctions that saw investors accepting much lower interest rates, reflecting easing concern that the country will need a full-blown bailout.Related StoriesPussy Riot lawyer appeals jail sentencesFrançois Hollande to back a Syrian oppo ...
  • 8 dead as typhoon smashes ships in South Korea
    A powerful typhoon pounded South Korea with strong winds and heavy rain today as it churned up rough seas that smashed two fishing ships into rocks, killing at least five fishermen and forcing the coast guard to perform a daring rescue for the survivors. Related StoriesWanted: 'Innocent' brides ...
  • Second Yosemite National Park visitor dies of ...
    A second person has died of a rare, rodent-borne disease after visiting Yosemite National Park earlier this summer and park officials warned past visitors to be aware of some flu-like aches and symptoms.Related StoriesEyes off Mitt Romney as New Orleans braces for storm'Mitt-igator' Ann Romney o ...

Rogue Government.com

  • ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...
    The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
  • EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...
    European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.
  • Roman-era shipwreck reveals ancient medical s ...
    A wooden chest discovered on board the vessel contained pills made of ground-up vegetables, herbs and plants such as celery, onions, carrots, cabbage, alfalfa and chestnuts – all ingredients referred to in classical medical texts.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • FLASHBACK: Who Really Murdered Holly Wells and ...
    "T" Stands For "Torture" In The Brave New Gulag Archipelago. The illegal return of murder suspect Ian Huntley to secure psychiatric prison for another 28 days of drugs and "truth therapy", highlights the reintroduction of Witch Trials and Inquisitions in the "War on Terror" There is a preceden ...
  • Family food bills to soar as British shoppers ...
    Families face punishing food price rises triggered by a catastrophic U.S. drought, experts warned yesterday. They said the American crisis is forcing up the global price of crops used to make staples such as bread and pasta. Meat is also tipped to cost much more because animal feed costs have ...
  • It's called TV programming for a reason: Child ...
    Children who watch films with a high sexual content tend to lose their virginity earlier and have more partners, a study has found. Not only are they more promiscuous, they are also more likely to engage in risky sex by not using condoms. The six-year study of more than 1,200 teens refers to s ...
  • Mind Control: Scientists reveal they can find ...
    It sounds like something out of a futuristic sci-fi blockbuster, but scientists today demonstrated how they can 'hack' someone's brain to find out their pin number - using a cheap headset. Researchers from the University of California, University of Oxford and University of Geneva figured out a ...
  • Hollande takes up where Sarko left off as Pari ...
    French Interior Minister Manuel Valls today ordered police to destroy a Roma camp in his political powerbase and to deport illegal immigrants living there. Officers armed with truncheons and shields moved in to the settlement in the Paris suburb of Evry, where he was mayor for 11 years from 200 ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Torture and the little lost country
    I haven't commented much on the revelation that our  because there is very little. It's a funny place one arrives at when the move beyond the emotionally intense sort of outrage that normally follows when one receives news like this. I am afraid that many of us have moved to a place where we fee ...
  • Financial freedom . . .
    THE US GOVERNMENT AND BIG BUSINESS have tried their best to kill WikiLeaks by removing the ability of people to donate money to the cause. As you may know, the big credit card companies sided with the oligarchy that runs the US, and WikiLeaks found itself on a financial desert island. ...
  • Why gun-nuts are wrong
    Here's a real live rebuttal to the often heard argument from the pro-gun crowd that allowing people to carry hand-guns will save lives in mass shootings. It seems that in the recent disgruntled worker shooting in New York City, all nine injured bystanders were injured by police bullets. Police a ...
  • White trash wonders . . .
    Flipper-time NOBODY EVER WENT BROKE underestimating the taste of the American public — H. L. Mencken. Probably one of the most acerbic observations of the American Experience. And part of that attitude is a fascination with white trash "culture". Slate has a delightful article by  Mic ...
  • Nasty roots . . .
    Karl Brandt, Nuremburg, 1948 THE GOP-MENGELE CONNECTION. Really. You see, Todd Akin's megaton gaffe prompted some people to ask where this wizard had gotten the idea in the first place: So Where DID Akin Get That ‘Legitimate Rape’ Idea?. Turns out, it's from an early 70's study no ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox Coverage Of "You Didn't Build That" Spikes ...
    On August 21, Republicans announced that a portion of the Republican National Convention would be devoted to pushing the discredited Fox News-fueled myth that President Obama insulted business owners when he said, "you didn't build that." After the announcement, references to Obama's "you didn't ...
  • How The Sunday Shows "Covered" Romney's Birthe ...
    The major Sunday network news talk shows gave less than two minutes of coverage to Mitt Romney's invocation of the conspiracy theory that President Obama was not born in the United States. The New York Times reported that Romney's comment was part of a shift by the ...
  • "Right On": Conservative Media Applaud, Defend ...
    Conservative media figures are defending and applauding Mitt Romney for invoking at a Michigan rally the false conspiracy theory that President Obama was not born in the United States.Romney Makes Birth Certificate Comment At Rally Romney: "No One's Ever Asked To See My Birth Ce ...
  • Conservative Media Rubber Stamp Romney's Flawe ...
    Conservative media outlets are praising Mitt Romney's newly released energy plan, claiming it will lower gas prices, create jobs, and "make America an energy superpower." But experts say Romney's goal of energy independence by 2020 is a "pipe dream" and that his plan overlooks environmental cons ...
  • "You Didn't Build That": How Fox News Crafted ...
    After weeks of Fox News pushing the dishonest "you didn't build that" attack on President Obama, the Republican National Convention will reportedly adopt the Fox News lie by adopting "We Built This" as a convention theme. Independent fact checkers have said this line of attack is dishonest.Presi ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

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

  • Will Public Outcry Against Fracking Sink Gover ...
      In late June, Governor Andrew Cuomo leaked a plan to permit gas companies to frack five counties in New York’s Southern Tier. Confirmation of a final plan is expected after Labor Day. With no assurance that fracking won’t be permitted elsewhere once in the state, Cuom ...
  • Anti-Fracking Protesters Confront Pennsylvania ...
     At just after  8 am on Thursday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett got into a blue kayak in Beach Lake, Pa  to begin a 15 mile trip south on the scenic Delaware, the nation's most pristine and ancient river. Some 30 kayakers, friends and associates, including Richard Allan, Pennsyl ...
  • Anti-Fracking Residents Follow and Confront Pe ...
     At just after  8 am on Thursday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett got into a blue kayak in Beach Lake, Pa  to begin a 15 mile trip south on the scenic Delaware, the nation's most pristine and ancient river. Some 30 kayakers, friends and associates, including Richard Allan, Pennsyl ...
  • How One U.S. Coastal City Is Facing the Hard F ...
    NORFOLK, Va. – Water is inescapable in Virginia's second-largest city, home to the world's biggest naval base, three major port facilities and public and private shipyards. Norfolk is nearly surrounded by water: it sits at the mouth of the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and the junction of ...
  • 5 Weird -- and Terrifying -- Consequences of C ...
    When you think about the terrible effects of climate change, I bet you picture droughts, hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes, which makes sense — climate change is causing weather patterns to go absolutely crazy. But the crazy weather leads to other consequences that we often don&#x201 ...

Public Citizen in Texas

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

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Are we headed for a vegetarian future ?
    Global food and water shortages could force the world's population to turn vegetarian by the year 2050. As the population heads towards 9 billion, lea...
  • Lion reported to be on the loose in Essex
    Police in England are investigating reports of a lion on the loose following multiple sightings. Armed officers and a police helicopter have been call...
  • Great Wall of China section collapses
    Construction work and heavy rainfall have been blamed for causing a large piece of the wall to collapse. Originally constructed in the 7th century BC ...
  • Neil Armstrong has died
    The first human being ever to set foot on another world, Neil Armstrong, has died aged 82. On July 20th 1969 as Commander of Apollo 11, Armstrong emer...
  • Is Richard III buried under a car park ?
    Archaeologists believe the remains of King Richard III could be buried underneath a council car park. The exact burial place of Richard III has remain...

Grassroots

Climate

  • Green Climate Fund to Discuss $100B Pledged by ...
    (Guardian) The fate of billions of dollars of promised funding from rich countries to help the developing world adapt to climate change will be discussed on Thursday in Geneva, at the first meeting of the UN's Green Climate Fund. The ...
  • Biomass 'on Rise Despite Drought'
    (BBC News) The carbon storage capacity of protected forests in West Africa has increased despite the region suffering a 40-year drought, a study suggests. A team of UK and Ghanaian researchers found that the tree composition in these ...
  • Will Emissions Disclosure Mean Investor Pressu ...
    (NYT Green) A new financial tool developed by the investment firm South Pole Carbon, in partnership with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, provides greenhouse gas emissions profiles of more than 40,000 publicly listed companie ...
  • Drought Worsens in U.S. Plains Despite Cooler ...
    (AP) While other corn growers already have knocked down their drought-ravaged crops to feed them to livestock, Nebraska farmer Doug Nelson still waits for his maize to mature, well aware it won't be a banner year. read more
  • Largest Solar Highway Project Opens in Oregon
    (SustainableBusiness) Previously unused land at a highway rest stop in Oregon is now home to a 1.75-megawatt (MW) solar array that produces about 11% of the annual electricity needed by the Department of Transportation's local offices. ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

  • Stealing the Election
    The Republicans aren't fooling anyone. The Denver Post reports: Of the nearly 4,000 letters mailed this month by [Colorado] Secretary of State Scott Gessler to suspected noncitizens asking that they prove they are eligible to vote or remove themselves from the voter rolls 12.45 percent wen ...
  • A Governor's Son Can Be Humble
    My mother was a nursery school director which put her in a great position to find playmates for me when I was a young kid. And she was smart about it. She made sure that some of my playmates were from the less well-to-do parts of town. She made sure some of my playmates were black. And she a ...
  • These People Are Raping My Mind
    You know what is kind of like learning that your daughter has been raped? Finding out that she's pregnant even though she isn't married. The only difference is apparently that the shotgun is used for a different purpose. In this case, the comment came from a wingnut who has no chance of u ...
  • Flip Flop Flip-Flopping
    In an apparent shift from his previously stated position, Mitt Romney said that he supports an abortion exception when the "health" of the mother is at risk. His spokeswoman took it back: But there is no shift, Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul tells me. She emails: Gov. Romneys position is ...
  • Romney's 'Live Another Day' Strategy
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Environmental Graffiti

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

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

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Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

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

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IntelNews

War is a Crime.org

  • Audio: David Swanson on Protesting Obama's War ...
    Charlottesville Right Now: 8-27-12 David Swanson David Swanson, renowned activist and author joins the show to discuss the President's upcoming visit in Charlottesville. Go here. read more
  • Syria News - Aug 27
      Hollande Urges Syria Opposition to Form Interim Govt., Says Working with Partners on Possible Buffer Zones - Naharnet SNC Chief: There is no room in the Syrian interim government for those who defect late - As-Safir Newspaper Kurdish Leader Rejects Interim Government for Syria - Ruda ...
  • Navy Vet Responds to Navy Week P.R.
    By Mike Ferner All this summer, the U.S. Navy has put on a multi-million dollar dog and pony show called “Navy Week” in 15 cities across the country.  Six stops on the Great Lakes featured guided missile frigates, coastal patrol boats and the historic brig “Niagara,” the ship Oliver Hazard ...
  • Your pants may be cleared, but baggage still g ...
    As so many Americans love to say, "Meh, facts schmacts." READ THE REST AT TSA NEWS.
  • Support Bradly Manning- Grand Central Station NYC
    TIME TO STEP UP...Join Us: Walk to Support Bradley Manning in Grand Central Monday, August 27, 2012 Gather at 4:30 at the NW corner of 42nd and Lexington. Enter Grand Central at 5 pm. Walkers will hold "I am Bradley Manning" masks, carry small flags saying "Free Bradley Manning" and "Blowing th ...

Grist - News

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

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  • Historic Tehran NAM Summit
    By Stephen Lendman, Contributor theintelhub.com August 27, 2012 After the UN, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is the most important world body. Hopefully its 16th summit will infuse it with new life. As host, Iran has a historic opportunity. At the same time, it can enhance its own prestige and e ...
  • Twitter Fellatio in Asia Minor, with Modulatio ...
    By Visible As most of us know, there are those events and news items that are just a part of the routine of life. They don’t usually take on any meaningful significance, even though they can be important, like brushing your teeth or going to the bathroom. Then there is the next level that ...
  • Use coffee to beat slugs? Beware, the EU pesti ...
    By Ian Drury Desperate gardeners will try every trick in the book to prevent their lovingly tended plants being obliterated by the scourge of slugs. But those who use a popular organic method to protect their vegetables could be hit by a secondary pest – the EU. Brussels bureaucrats have ruled t ...
  • Portland, Oregon to spend $5 million to poison ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) One of the last remaining urban bastions of fluoride-free water, the city of Portland, Oregon, is about to join the ranks of most other U.S. cities in forcibly medicating its residents with a drug that has been scientifically shown to impede proper b ...
  • The deadly effects of synthetic vitamin K
    by: Craig Stellpflug (NaturalNews) Jabbing our newborns with vitamin K injections significantly increases our children’s chances of developing childhood cancer. In a study of two hospitals, researchers found almost a two-fold risk of leukemia for children who had received intramuscular vit ...

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  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
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    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
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  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Inhabitat

  • Green-Roofed Chinese Shopping Mall is Topped W ...
    While New York is making strides in promoting the installation of green roofs throughout NYC, the city of Zhuzhou in Hunan, China is taking the idea of green roofs to new heights with a shopping mall topped with a lush living roof and a four-villa development! China Daily reports that the houses ...
  • Areion EV: World’s First 3D Printed Car Hits 1 ...
    The world of custom racing has officially reached a new level of specificity and refinement as a team of 16 student engineers from Belgium-based Group T created the “Areion” – the world’s first car made almost entirely of 3D-printed parts.  The vehicle was designed for th ...
  • Patrick Jouin’s 3D-Printed Bloom Table Lamp Op ...
    French designer Patrick Jouin‘s Bloom Table Lamp opens up right in front of your eyes. Its shade transforms from a closed bud-like position and expands to release more light. Designed by Jouin for MGX, the lamp 3D printed as a single piece, including hinges, and it allows the user to contr ...
  • Students Show Ways to Revitalize San Francisco ...
    How many times have we seen the pattern where a freeway – once the emblem of the futuristic city – has turned neighborhoods into bleak, inhuman environments? San Francisco, like many American cities, is under constant transformation and is attempting to make a more livable space out ...
  • The Farmery: A Pop-Up Urban Farm Made From Rec ...
    The Farmery is a start-up in Raleigh, N.C. that is developing an urban farm and market built from shipping containers and standard greenhouse components. The bottom level serves as a market to sell the crops, and the entire structure is used to grow the crops. The structure uses the inside of th ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • New Method Found for Reading Your Body’s Clock
    Tracking the levels of 50 hormones and amino acids in blood samples can reveal a body's internal time.
  • Martian Mountain’s Features Resemble Grand Can ...
    The stunning layers of Mars's Mount Sharp in this recent image from NASA's Curiosity rover call to mind a familiar canyon in the American southwest. The photo is part of a larger image taken by Curiosity's 100-millimeter Mast Camera on August 23, looking south-southwest from the rover's landing ...
  • Botched Spacewalks, Crash Landings, and Smuggl ...
    Here we take a look at the most badass maneuvers ever pulled off in spaceflight history. In this gallery you can find out about the men, women, and a few robots that had the right stuff to keep cool under the most difficult conditions.
  • Teens Beware: Using Marijuana Could Make You D ...
    Marijuana is the world's most widely used illicit drug -- but smoke too many joints and you might lose IQ points. A new study suggests extensive marijuana use starting as a teenager could lead to cognitive decline.
  • Clive Thompson on the Hidden Truth of Counteri ...
    Wander into the pop science section of any bookstore and you’ll be told—over and over again—a disturbing fact: Everything you know is wrong. About everything. Seriously, everything! You’re familiar, no doubt, with this genre of book. It has metastasized in recent years, with a seemingly unending ...

PakAlert

  • Russian Expert Predicts Obama Will Declare Mar ...
    Igor Panarin, dean the Russian Foreign Ministry School for future diplomats, believes that President Obama will announce martial law by the end of 2012. He explains: “There’s a 55-45% chance right now that disintegration will occur.” In 2009, Panarin lectured at the Diplomatic Academy where h ...
  • Why Everybody’s Going To War in the Middle East
    Although a peaceful nation for hundreds of years, Iran was invaded and occupied by the Allies in both World War One and Two. Then in 1980, at the urging of the United States, Saddam Hussein invaded them and used poison gas against both Kurds and Iran. Over 500,000 civilians, Iranian and Iraqi so ...
  • TSA, DHS Order 1,400 Pounds of High Powered Ex ...
    Documents reveal that The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has ordered over 1,400 pounds of super high-powered explosives through the (TSA) Transportation Safety Administration set to be delivered on August 31st. The news comes just after it was reported that the DHS had purchased over 1.2 ...
  • 5-minute video: Declaration of Independence wa ...
    A lawful revolution is in response to government that abjectly violates its own laws, and refuses all reasonable offers to return government limits within its own constitution. It is a revolution that requests its own law enforcement to do their job to arrest obvious criminals in their own gover ...
  • Ron Paul Just Made The Last Speech Of His Poli ...
    Speaking on the eve of the Republican National Convention, Ron Paul reassured hundreds of ecstatic supporters at a rally here Sunday that the revolution he began is far from over. "Let me tell you, I was a little afraid to come down here," Paul told the crowd at his Sun Dome rally. "I wasn't ...

Andy Worthington

  • Echoes of Ancient Rome: Photos of the Roman Fo ...
    Echoes of Ancient Rome: The Roman Forum, the Colosseum and the Palatine Hill, a set on Flickr. My two-week family holiday in Italy is at an end, and I am now back in London, slightly cold and pining for the heat, the cooking, the fresh fruit, the culture of Rome and the mountains and lakes [...]
  • Photos of The Pantheon and Il Vittoriano in Ro ...
    The Pantheon and Il Vittoriano in Rome: Transcendental Illumination and a Show of Power, a set on Flickr. I’m nearing the end of my two-week family holiday in Italy, and have been in Abruzzo province, near the town of Sulmona, since Sunday August 19. For the first week my family and I were ...
  • Parks, Water and Dreams: Photos of a Journey f ...
    Parks, Water and Dreams: A Journey from Surrey Quays to Central London, a set on Flickr. On July 19, 2012, I had been invited to The Arts Catalyst, on Clerkenwell Road, in London EC1, to speak at an event marking the sixth anniversary of the arrest of Talha Ahsan, a British citizen and a Londone ...
  • Churches, Temples, Fountains and Piazze: Photo ...
    Churches, Temples, Fountains and Piazze: The Historic Centre of Rome, a set on Flickr. In two previous sets of photos (here and here), I have covered the first two days of my two-week family holiday in Italy — with a series of photos from Rome, where we have been during this first week, be ...
  • Photos of Rome: A Storm, the Hills and the Tib ...
    Rome: A Storm, the Hills and the Tiber at Night, a set on Flickr. This is my second set of photos from my family holiday this year — in Italy, and, specifically, in Rome this week and, next week, a village in Abruzzo province. The eternal city (la città eterna) is one of the most [...]

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

SPL Center

  • Prosecutors: Secret ‘Militia’ in Army Pl ...
    Four members of secret militia group, now facing murder charges in Georgia, operated inside the ranks of the U.S. Army and discussed blowing up a dam and poisoning fruit crops in Washington State, authorities said Monday. The motives of the alleged plotters remained murky. The revelation came as ...
  • Nativist Lawyer Kris Kobach Jumps on Anti-Shar ...
    Kris Kobach, the immigrant-baiting attorney behind a raft of “attrition through enforcement” laws designed to make unauthorized immigrants’ lives so miserable that they choose to “self-deport,” is letting his Islamophobic colors fly. Talking Points Memo reported last week that the Republican Nat ...
  • Conspiracists Say Recent Shootings ‘False Flag ...
    Kurt Nimmo says that there is no problem with violent white supremacists in the military. His boss, Alex Jones, says that there is no problem with gun violence in America – at least, no problem that’s not a result of government-sponsored “mind-control” experiments. Jones and Nimmo, who are among ...
  • Arizona Neo-Nazi Was Sober, Drug-Free During M ...
    Immigrant-hating neo-Nazi J.T. Ready was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs when he went on a murderous rampage in early May in Gilbert, Ariz., killing four people before taking his own life, a newly released autopsy report says. Jason Todd “J.T.” Ready, 39, died from a single bullet he ...
  • Bulletin: Four Soldiers in ‘Militia&#821 ...
    Update: The AP is reporting that members of the militia “wore distinctive tattoos that resemble an anarchy symbol,” according to a prosecutor. Prosecutors today said that four active-duty soldiers in Georgia formed what was described as an “anarchist militia” and took ste ...

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Tense Stand-Off as Greenpeace Raids Russian Ar ...
    Photo: Greenpeace via Twitter read more
  • Women in Togo Urge Sex Strike to Oust President
    The leader of an opposition group in Togo has urged the women of her country to stage a week long sex strike to encourage men to join the push for reform and oust the current president. read more
  • Surge in 'Insider' Attacks Continues in Afghan ...
    Two American soldiers were shot and killed by one of their Afghan colleagues Monday morning, while 10 Afghan soldiers were killed in an "insider" attack on a checkpoint in Southern Afghanistan, according to military officials. re ...
  • 'What Our Society Is Made of': Former IDF Sold ...
    Testimony by ex-Israeli Defense Force soldiers reveals a devastating portrayal of ill-treatment and abuse of Palestinian youth by members of Israel's occupying army in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The testimony by more than 30 soldiers, and fashioned into a booklet by Breaking the Silence, ...
  • Report: Water Scarcity Necessitates Near Veget ...
    By 2050 there will not be enough water in the world to continue the global trends of a Western-style, high animal protein diet. Rather, a primarily vegetarian diet is necessary to address growing water insecurity, according to a report released to coincide with the 2012 World Water Week in Stock ...

Lifehacker

  • Reboot a Terrible Voicemail Message with a Key ...
    Ever had that terrible moment when you realize, halfway through leaving a message, that you said something horribly stupid? This is a big bummer when you're trying to leave an important message, but as CNET reminds us, most cell phone carriers ...
  • Build This Yellow Jacket Trap for Worry-Free O ...
    If yellow jackets and other wasps still make unpleasant appearances at your backyard events, this pesticide-free wasp trap will take care of the little pests for you, without you having to lift a finger or risk getting stung. More &r ...
  • Use Phrases Like “Lunch,” “Brunch,” and “Break ...
    Over on Twitter, Jason Kottke noticed something interesting about iCal: If you create an appointment for "Lunch with Adam," for example, iCal automatically puts the appointment at noon, for one hour. Lunch isn't alone though: iCal recognizes ...
  • Clover Brings Chrome-Style Tabs to Windows Exp ...
    Windows: Tab management in Chrome is great, and if you wish Windows Explorer had tabs that look and work like Google Chrome, Clover is the app for you. More »
  • Broadcast Your iPhone or iPad's Screen Live on ...
    OS X and iOS: It's easy to share your computer's screen from anywhere, but when it comes to your iPhone or iPad that's not the case. Fortunately, a clever method discovered by entrepreneur Matt Galligan offers a simple solution. More&nbs ...

Water Privatization

  • Mayor Duterte-Carpio ‘misinformed’ about PPP – ...
    DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 August) — City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio was misinformed about the implications of a public-private partnership (PPP) ordinance as a prelude to privatization of basic social services such as water, energy and infrastructure, an official of a militant group said. Sheena D ...
  • Director pushes Newark leaders to form water a ...
    State Local Government Services Director Thomas Neff issued a letter to city leaders this week pressuring the council and mayor to act quickly in creating a municipal utilities authority to manage the city's water, or potentially lose millions in aid and revenue
  • Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski hosts final publi ...
    Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski hosted the fourth and final public meeting on the city’s proposed Water & Sewer Privatization plan on Thursday night. Pawlowski spent the majority of the meeting reviewing the reasons as to why the city is in need of this proposed plan. The main focus of this plan is ...
  • Protest Held On The Steps Of Newark's City ...
    Opponents of Mayor Booker’s plan to create an MUA took to the steps of City Hall.
  • Wall Street Tightens Grip on Public Water as L ...
    Investment bankers and other major financial players are increasingly swooping in on public water utilities and other municipal services in cash strapped towns to the detriment of local residents, according to a new report released today by advocacy group Food & Water Watch. Vulture capitalists ...

Guardian

  • Rachel Corrie ruling 'deeply troubling', says ...
    American activist's family vows to appeal against Israeli court's ruling that her death was a 'regrettable accident'The death of pro-Palestinian activist Rachel Corrie was a "regrettable accident" for which the state of Israel was not responsible, a judge has ruled, dismissing a civil lawsuit br ...
  • Pakistani girl accused of Qur'an burning is a ...
    Girl, who is said to be 14 but may have a younger mental age, will be tried in a juvenile court for blasphemy chargeAn official medical review of a Pakistani Christian girl accused of desecrating the Qur'an has determined that she is a minor, the girl's lawyer said on Tuesday.The finding, which ...
  • G4S confirms £50m hit on Olympics security con ...
    Security contractor confirms impact of bungled Games contract is at top end of expected loss, but reassures on ParalympicsSecurity contractor G4S has taken a hit of £50m on its bungled Olympics contract, at the top end of expectations, as the group reported a 60% fall in first-half profits.Nick ...
  • Heathrow third runway 'not a long-term solutio ...
    Cross-party consensus rules out west London airport expansion, says transport secretary Justine Greening amid Tory pressureThe transport secretary has insisted that cross-party consensus means a third runway at Heathrow will not be considered, as a senior Conservative stepped up the pressure for ...
  • South Korean typhoon kills fishermen
    At least eight people die as Typhoon Bolaven smashes ships on rocks, cuts power to hundreds of thousands and cancels flightsA powerful typhoon has struck South Korea, killing at least eight people, including five fishermen. Strong winds and heavy rain churned up rough seas and smashed two fishin ...

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Afghanistan Sun

  • Taliban Beheads 17 Afghans over Celebration Music
    Taliban insurgents beheaded 17 Afghan civilians while celebrating in Afghanistan, over the weekend. The attack happened Sunday in the Taliban-controlled Helmand Province. Officials said the people ...
  • Police chief in Afghan south survives insurgen ...
    KANDAHAR (Reuters) - The chief of police in Afghanistan's Kandahar province has survived an insurgent truck-bomb attack which killed four civilians, a spokeswoman for NATO-led forces and Afghan ...
  • US punishes 6 soldiers for burning Quran in Afghan
    {BLURB}The US will hand over administrative punishment to its six soldiers for their role in desecration of Holy Quran in Afghanistan early this year, an incident that had caused wide-spread protests ...
  • U.S. efforts fail to quell Afghan chaos
    KABUL, Afghanistan -- Insurgents beheaded 17 people at a party in a Taliban-controlled area, and an Afghan soldier killed two U.S. troops, bringing the two-day death toll Monday to about 30. ...
  • Taliban behead 17 people for having mixed-sex ...
    Taliban militants beheaded 17 party-goers for holding a mixed-sex gathering with music and dancing, Afghan officials said.The insurgents murdered the guests, who included two women, after attacking ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • DEA Gets Lawsuit Dismissed Because It Couldn't ...
    Catching up on some older stories, Aaron DeOliveira points us to the bizarre news that the DEA sought (and got) dismissal of a case against someone involved in a online pharmacy prescription drug scam (basically prescribing the drugs without ever seeing the patients) because the DEA was sick of ...
  • DOJ Gives Up On Arguing That Violating Your Em ...
    For a few years now, we'd been noting serious problems with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), which was supposed to be about "criminal hacking" of computers. That's the theory, at least. Except that various prosecutors had defined it so broadly that they felt basically anything people d ...
  • Paper Suggests Letting The Government Use Your ...
    Jon Brodkin, over at Ars Technica, has an interesting discussion about a paper from some researchers suggesting that we could augment first responder communications efforts by letting them make use of the public's WiFi routers. Basically, if I understand the proposal correctly, if turned on, it ...
  • How The Press Misinterprets Scientific Studies
    There's an absolutely awesome comic by Jorge Cham of PhDComics (which you should read whether or not you're a PhD student) about the science news cycle, in which a nuanced scientific result showing a slight correlation is turned into a causal relationship by the press, leading to a flat out fren ...
  • Copyright Reform Process Begins Down Under... ...
    Australia's been an interesting country to follow on the copyright front. In terms of court decisions, there have been some good ones and some awful ones. On the lawmaking front, we've seen ridiculous ideas floated and good ones as well. The current regime is, unfortunately, supporting some o ...

VacTruth

  • This Pharma Company Admits to $2 Million in Br ...
    Do you have a free “Get Out of Jail” card? Apparently Big Pharma does and they used it and their influential money to bribe health officials.
  • “Pain-Free” Vaccines—By Mail?
    These new vaccines may be coming through your mail sooner than you think!
  • A Parent’s Guide: What to do if Your Chi ...
    Over the years various medical doctors, attorneys, and parents have been seeking information about medical tests that could indicate a causal relationship between vaccines and their ingredients and the severe reactions. This Guide was vetted for accuracy, including omission of relevant informati ...
  • False Accusations of Child Abuse After Vaccine ...
    There are a growing number of parents who have been falsely accused of child abuse. Many of these cases only occur after parents mention that their child first became ill after they received a routine vaccination.
  • Vaccine Research Creating Virulent Strains
    When sanitation, clean water, and better nutrition were introduce into the jam-packed, filthy cities in Europe and the United States, smallpox decreased on its own, long before the modern pharmaceutical smallpox vaccine even came on the scene.

BroadSnark

  • Beware of Strange Men on Airplanes
    It seems that Virgin airlines has a policy that unaccompanied children cannot sit next to men on their airplanes. An Australian man, who was assigned a seat next to two boys he did not know, was asked to switch seats with a woman. Pissed off about being treated like a presumed predator, he blogg ...
  • Big Tents, Little Bridges, Vested Interests
    This piece over at Cubik’s Rube reminded me of something I have been wanting to write about for a while. James is worried that the atheism+ idea that Blag Hag wrote about, and that I linked to on Wed, will be just one more divide in a movement that already has plenty of “splits, schi ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Sorry I dropped out for a few days. I was at the beach having the greatest shit show on earth. I actually brought my laptop. But who the hell was I kidding? Shane Thayer is having a contest. Writing a blog post that links to his artwork enters you in a contest for a free [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    A nice, short piece on why War is Not Inevitable.  (See also why Pinker, with his claims about violence decreasing, is a jackass.) And as long as we are on the subject of violence. Lakey makes some excellent points in his post about a diversity of tactics. Check out the stats on suspensions of c ...
  • Small Acts of Resistance
    I’m reading this book called Freedom’s Children right now. I only just started it, but it relates to all the thinking I have been doing about motivation and participation in activism. The author interviewed thirty people who were children or teenagers in the 1950s and 1960s. Maybe on ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • How the Syrian revolution became militarized
    Sharif Abdel Kouddous writes: Emad Khareeta says he had no choice but to defect. The 23-year-old member of the Free Syrian Army stands outside his family home in a deserted section of town. Shards of concrete and glass litter the ground, the result of nearby shelling. The street is dark and quie ...
  • When Assad falls, Kurds in Syria say they’ll t ...
    David Enders reports: Sattam Sheikhmous still farms wheat on what’s left of his grandfather’s land, shrunk from more than 32,000 acres to less than 5,000 by the Syrian government in 1966. “They said it was a socialist policy, but we believe it was political,” said Sheikhmous, now in his 60s, ref ...
  • ‘I saw the whole beating, it’s a good thing th ...
    The Institute for Middle East Understanding: Just days after a mob of Jewish Israelis beat and injured three Palestinian youth, one nearly to death, Israel’s Ynet news website conducted interviews in central Jerusalem’s Kikar Hahatulot [Cat Square], just a few hundred feet from the s ...
  • Along with the Arctic ice, the rich world’s sm ...
    George Monbiot writes: There are no comparisons to be made. This is not like war or plague or a stockmarket crash. We are ill-equipped, historically and psychologically, to understand it, which is one of the reasons why so many refuse to accept that it is happening. What we are seeing, here and ...
  • Obama administration backs Shell in Supreme Co ...
    CorpWatch reports: The Obama administration is backing Shell Oil after abruptly changing sides in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that could make it even more difficult for survivors of human rights abuses overseas to sue multinational corporations in federal courts. The case will be heard on ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Isaac tracking
    As promised, here is a page with weather and tracking info for TS Isaac. First my own effort, satellite and track combined. This tracking map is in high definition (updates every 3-4 hours, click to enlarge) Now WeatherBell’s track map … Continue reading →
  • How ocean currents affect global climate is a ...
      From Florida State University: Kevin Speer has a “new paradigm” for describing how the world’s oceans circulate — and with it he may help reshape science’s understanding of the processes by which wind, water, sunlight and other factors interact … Continue reading →
  • Sea Ice News – Volume 3 Number 11, part 2 – ot ...
    Earlier today in part1, I posted about the new record low claimed by NSIDC: Sea Ice News – Volume 3 Number 11, part 1 – new Arctic satellite extent record. The number given is 4.1 million square kilometers: That of … Continue reading →
  • Pielke Sr., Curry, and Singer on the new AMS c ...
    Dr. Roger Pielke Senior has weighed in on the new AMS climate statement: Contradictory Statements By The American Meterological Society – Comments On The New Statement Titled “Climate Change” The American Meteorological Society has released its Statement Climate Change - An Information … C ...
  • ‘Reach for the Stars’ now becomes ...
    Guest post by Viv Forbes The deaths of Steve Jobs and Neil Armstrong could signal the end of a remarkable era of scientific and engineering achievement that started about 200 years ago when James Watt and Robert Stephenson managed to … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

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

CFACT

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Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

Center for a Livable Future

  • Multi-Drug Resistant Infections at the NIH Hos ...
    Last Wednesday, The Washington Post reported on an outbreak of multi-drug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center in Bethesda.  (The Post was covering an interesting report by NIH investigators in Science Translational Medicine.)  Initially, the ...
  • New Orleans Groups Awarded Grants for New Farm ...
    I want to congratulate my friends at the Recirculating Farms Coalition who were recently awarded two grants to construct an Urban Farming and Food Center in downtown New Orleans.   The center will be home to a community garden, fruit trees, aquaponics and hydroponics.  These last two are methods ...
  • 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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

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

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • US troops plotted to kill Obama
    ShareThisUS troops plotted to kill Obama 28 Aug 2012 Four US soldiers plotted to assassinate Barack Obama and overthrow the government, a court has heard. Prosecutors in Georgia said they formed an anarchist [?] militia within the military. Prosecutor Isabel Pauley said the group bought 87,000 d ...
  • Britain and US plan a Syrian revolution from a ...
    ShareThisBritain and US plan a Syrian revolution from an innocuous office block in Istanbul 26 Aug 2012 An underground network of Syrian opposition activists terrorists is receiving training and supplies of vital equipment from a combined American and British effort to forge an effective alterna ...
  • Soon-to-be Hurricane Isaac moving straight tow ...
    ShareThisSoon-to-be Hurricane Isaac moving straight toward New Orleans 27 Aug 2012 With its massive size and ponderous movement, Isaac could become a punishing rain machine depending on its strength, speed and where it comes ashore along the Gulf Coast. The focus has been on New Orleans as Isaac ...
  • Isaac menaces U.S. Gulf Coast 7 years after Ka ...
    ShareThisIsaac menaces U.S. Gulf Coast 7 years after Katrina 27 Aug 2012 Tropical Storm Isaac closed in on the U.S. Gulf of Mexico coast on Monday, triggering some mandatory evacuation orders and disrupting U.S. offshore oil production as it threatened to make landfall between Florida and Louisi ...
  • Israeli warplanes attack north of Gaza Strip
    ShareThisIsraeli warplanes attack north of Gaza Strip 27 Aug 2012 Israeli warplanes have launched at least three airstrikes on several targets in the northern Gaza Strip, according to security sources. Israeli F-16 warplanes attacked the blockaded coastal enclave on Monday night. Several powerfu ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Maori Farewell for Three Kiwi Troops
    27 August 2012 On 19 August an IED strike took the lives of three New Zealand troops in Afghanistan.  Lost were Corporal Luke Tamatea, 31, Private Richard Harris, 21, and Lance Corporal Jacinda Baker, 26, medic. Jacinda was the first New Zealand female killed in Afghanistan.  The ...
  • ISAF Joint Command morning operational update: ...
    UNCLASSIFIED 2012-08-S-046 For Immediate Release ISAF Joint Command morning operational update KABUL, Afghanistan (Aug. 26) – An Afghan and coalition security force conducted an operation in Marawarah district, Kunar province, yesterday. During the operation, the security force engaged a gro ...
  • MEDEVAC Issues
    20 August 2012 This is a bit technical, but of interest to the MEDEVAC community: J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2012 Aug;73(2 Suppl 1):S32-7. Impact of critical care-trained flight paramedics on casualty survival during helicopter evacuation in the current war in Afghanistan. Mabry RL,  ...
  • War Is Not Necessarily the Cause of Post-Traum ...
    20 August 2012 An interesting study of Danish troops and PTSD has been released.  (Link at the bottom.)  An informed group of people was talking about it on a private forum, where I saw this comment from Robert Goldich.  Mr. Goldich is smart and experienced, and so I normally sto ...
  • Mehrab Shot and Killed
    12 August 2012 A sad message came from Afghanistan.  Mehrab, who is known to some readers of my website, has been shot and killed.  I and many others greatly liked Mehrab.  He took good care of us in Jalalabad.  Every time I want to forget about Afghanistan, the names and fa ...

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

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

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National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Romania parliament accepts court decision retu ...
    [JURIST] The Parliament of Romania on Monday recognized the return to office of suspended President Traian Basescu after accepting a recent Constitutional Court [official websites, in Romanian] decision [text, PDF] that invalidated [JURIST report] a national referendum to remove the leader. Parl ...
  • Russia feminist activists appeal 2-year prison ...
    [JURIST] The lawyer for three members of the Russian feminist activist group Pussy Riot on Monday appealed the two-year sentences imposed on the women last week. Defense lawyer Nikolai Polozov conceded that the decision of the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow has little chance of being re ...
  • Supreme Court urged to deny review of Californ ...
    [JURIST] Opponents of Proposition 8 [text, PDF; JURIST news archive], California's statewide ban on same-sex marriage [JURIST backgrounder] urged the US Supreme Court [official website] on Friday not to grant the petition for a writ of certiorari submitted [JURIST report] by Proposition 8 suppor ...
  • Federal judge approves DOJ settlement over Sea ...
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Washington [official website] on Friday tentatively approved a settlement agreement between the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the City of Seattle relating to a DOJ investigation of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) [of ...
  • Pakistan high court grants PM additional time ...
    [JURIST] The Supreme Court of Pakistan [official website] on Monday granted Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf three additional weeks to urge Switzerland to reopen an old corruption case against President Asif Ali Zardari [official website]. Ashraf appeared in court on Monday to explain why the c ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

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Tikun Olam

  • Israeli Court Blames Rachel Corrie for Own Dea ...
    An Israeli court ruled in the past hour or so that neither the State nor the IDF is responsible for the death of Rachel Corrie.  In fact, the judge claims that she herself was responsible.  This is a case brought by Corrie’s parents, Craig and Cindy, in which they sought damages from the I ...
  • U.S. Exploits Iran Scare for Massive Boost in ...
    Let it not be said that turning it into the bogeyman of the Middle East doesn’t have its benefits to the U.S.  In a world economy desperate for export opportunities, this country turned 2011 into a banner year for arms dealing.  We tripled our exports ($66-billion).  The primary customers ...
  • Republican Jewish Coalition Super-PAC Violates ...
    Kim Barker wrote an eye-opening series on the ways in which anonymous Republican money is flooding into the presidential race through a legal loophole blessed by Congress and the FEC.  Under regulations governing 501c4′s, you may collect unlimited amounts of gifts and funnel them to virtua ...
  • Israel’s First Drone Strike Inside Egyptian Te ...
    A week ago or so I wrote here that given Barack Obama’s expansive interpretation of U.S. interests, which involves massive drone attacks against targets in multiple Middle Eastern and African countries, that it was only a matter of time before Israel did the same.  And now it has. Alon Ben ...
  • Trevino Fired by Guardian
    The Guardian today fired Josh Trevino, a development that alas, was long overdue.  But the reason it offered for doing so will make many scratch their heads.  Essentially, the editor says she (are you ready?) discovered he was a paid lobbyist for a foreign government.  Hello.  This is Josh Trevi ...

If Americans Knew

  • Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
    US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
  • An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Cli ...
    I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Mapping the Rise of Violence Against Journalis ...
    New reports gathered by Internews and their on-the-ground partner Nai show that 2011 had the most incidents of violence against journalists in Afghanistan yet, with local news and TV networks experiencing the worst of it. Last year there were 72 cases of violence against journalists, with Kabul ...
  • The State Decoded, Now Solr-Powered
    The State Decoded project is putting U.S. state laws online, making them easy to search, understand and navigate. Our laws are organized badly, but The State Decoded is reorganizing them automatically, connecting people with the legal information they need with the ease of a Google search. In ...
  • How Wikipedia Manages Sources for Breaking News
    Almost a year ago, I was hired by Ushahidi to work as an ethnographic researcher on a project to understand how Wikipedians managed sources during breaking news events. Ushahidi cares a great deal about this kind of work because of a new project called SwiftRiver that seeks to collect and en ...
  • What's Next for Ushahidi and Its Platform?
    This is part 2 in a series. In part 1, I talked about how we think of ourselves at Ushahidi and how we think of success in our world. It set up the context for this post, which is about where we're going next as an organization and with our platform. We realize that it's hard to understand j ...
  • How User-Centered Design Powers FrontlineSMS, ...
    I'm going to be honest: When I first joined FrontlineSMS, I had no idea how much goes into the design of software. Every screen, every button and every function has principled thought behind it. In 2011, we worked alongside Gabriel White, a user experience designer from Small Surfaces, ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Russia on Edge - Luxury Perks Pile Up For Putin
    A new report by Russian opposition leaders accuses President Vladimir Putin of enjoying a lifestyle that "can be compared to that of a Persian Gulf monarch or a flamboyant oligarch." The report is sarcastically titled "The Life of a Galley Slave," which is how Putin once described his life as pr ...
  • Edge of Terrorism - Revolutionary Sunni Islam ...
    No, it sure isn’t the age of Aquarius or of Multicultural, Politically Correct love-ins. It’s the age of revolutionary Islamism, especially Sunni Islamism. And you better learn to understand what this is all about real fast. (Shia Islamism, important mainly because of Iran and especially bec ...
  • Book Review - Marilyn: Monroe's Passion, Parad ...
    On the fiftieth anniversary of her death, Marilyn Monroe remains a woman of mystery and paradox as is evident in this long-awaited biography of the actress and sexual icon by feminist scholar and University of Southern California historian Lois Banner. In her more than ten years of research into ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Republicans Remain Bullish abo ...
    Three-quarters of Republican voters believe Mitt Romney is a stronger presidential candidate than John McCain was four years ago — and a sizable majority said the party is more closely aligned with their personal views than in 2008, according to a new poll for The Hill. The survey found 74 per ...
  • Politics on Edge - Poland's Dire Choices for a ...
    Polish national strategy pivots around a single, existential issue: how to preserve its national identity and independence. Located on the oft-invaded North European Plain, Poland's existence is heavily susceptible to the moves of major Eurasian powers. Therefore, Polish history has been erratic ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • New Hard Hitting RNC Video Features Former Oba ...
    One of the videos that will be featured tonight at the GOP convention and previewed for the press later today, features former supporters of Obama describing the reasons they will vote for Mitt Romney this time out.  Whats neat about this hard hitting video is the use of campaign signs a ...
  • Newt Gingrich Asks Chris Matthews if HE Is Racist
    Note: If you cannot see two videos below please click here Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus was attacked by Chris Matthews on Morning Joe this morning. Mr. Tingle Legs accused Priebus, Romney and just about everyone who has ever voted Republican racist (OK maybe the la ...
  • Charlie Crist=Arlen Specter Redux
    Some people are actually surprised that Charlie Crist has written an op ed called Barack Obama, the Right Leader for Our Times, and is even speaking at the Democratic Convention. Understand the poor guy has no where else to go. After considering himself 'heir apparent" for the Florida Senat ...
  • Wake Up, America, This Ain't 1895
    By Barry Rubin I had two interesting responses to my article on Baltimore and the decay of America and because my energy level is very low now as I begin treatment for cancer allow me to respond briefly. One friend asks why you believe that Romney and Ryan have answer ...
  • Newsbusted Excusive: Obama Campaign Promotes P ...
    Its amazing how far the committee to reelect the president (CREEP) will go. First they tried getting people to give him campaign donations instead of giving wedding presents, and now they have really gone off the edge. In an exclusive investigative report from Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller we ...

The Real Agenda

  • Russian, Chinese, Islamic military invasion co ...
    Military training with foreign troops in the US, Canada or any other European NATO member is not new. However, the inflow of thousands of foreign troops — in excess of 20,000  at a time — seems more like an invasion. TRUNEWSRADIO | AUGUST 27, 2012 In a passionate warning to his ...
  • Dramático Envejecimiento de la población para ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 26 AGOSTO 2012 Si bien las organizaciones globalistas y fundaciones filantrópicas apoyadas por los eugenistas más peligrosos de la historia nos advierten sobre la ‘bomba de tiempo’ que es la sobrepoblación (una mentira descarada), una nu ...
  • Weaponized Weather Exposed
    International, Clandestine Weather Modification Program is a Fact. The Weather is Being traded in the Stock Market THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 27, 2012 Continues from Page 1… AVIATION EMISSIONS FORM FAR-REACHING CIRRUS CLOUD COVER – irrefutable -  Frank G Noppel confirmed this was ...
  • Weaponized Weather Exposed
    International, Clandestine Weather Modification Program is a Fact. The Weather is Being traded in the Stock Market THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 27, 2012 Continues from Page 2… INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS AGAINST ANTHROPOGENIC AIR POLLUTION AND WEATHER MODIFICATION   (CLRTAP)  – ‘Conven ...
  • Weaponized Weather Exposed
    International, Clandestine Weather Modification Program is a Fact. The Weather is Being traded in the Stock Market ALIX LONGMAN & OLGA RAFFA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 27, 2012 This is a Directive sent to all UK MPs to Pass and Enforce the Ban of Geo-engineering of UK Skies via the ...

Wind Watch

  • State orders Georgia Mountain Wind to halt bla ...
    State regulators have ordered the developers of the Georgia Mountain wind project to halt blasting with high explosives. The Public Service Board says rock ejected by the blasting has apparently landed on neighbors’ property. The board says the work should stop for now because there’ ...
  • Judge sends wind project back to Charlestown
    CHARLESTOWN — A Superior Court judge has returned a proposed wind farm off Route 1 to the town’s Zoning Board for review, largely on technical grounds. Associate Justice Judith C. Savage ruled last week that the Zoning Board must clarify its January 2011 decision that allowed Whalerock Renewable ...
  • AGL withdraws proposed Hallett 3 wind farm pla ...
    Energy retailer AGL has ended more than three years of community-led litigation over the proposed development of its $180 million Hallett 3 (Mt Bryan) wind farm by shelving its approved plans for the site. AGL received planning approval from the Regional Council of Goyder in 2009, but residents ...
  • Decision to reject Bodham wind turbine is unan ...
    Councillors have thrown out a plan to build an 86.5m wind turbine on the edge of a north Norfolk village. After a debate that lasted about 90 minutes, North Norfolk District Council’s (NNDC) development committee rejected the bid to build a single turbine on the edge of Bodham. Today’s (Thursday ...
  • Town axes turbine
    After years of discussion and planning, the Town Council voted Monday 4-1 to abandon the proposed Taylor Point wind turbine. Councilman Bob Bowen voted against the measure, stating that more information was needed before the project was dismissed. “I think it’s unfortunate that we stop the proce ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Bernanke Has Stock Market on Yo-Yo String
    “The stock market keeps getting tossed around by the Fed. Stocks opened lower Friday but reversed course after a letter surfaced from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke suggesting there was room for the central bank to do more to help the economy.” (Christian Science Monitor) When ...
  • Storm Sends Oil Prices Up
    “Oil prices rose Monday as Tropical Storm Isaac barreled across the Gulf of Mexico and toward the U.S. mainland, picking up strength and threatening oil and refining operations. An explosion at a refinery in Venezuela also pushed prices higher.” (Christian Science Monitor) Next up: C ...
  • A Novel about “Guttiness” and Inde ...
    In accounting, “book value” is the term used to describe the estimated value of an asset that has been held for a long time and has depreciated over the years. It seemed an ideal title for this new book review column, which will revisit favorite old works and rediscover unjustly neglected works ...
  • Apple Patent Victory Raises Questions about In ...
    “People across the technology industry have expressed concerns about the future of innovation after a nine-person jury ruled in Apple’s favor last week in Federal District Court in San Jose, Calif. . . . [Bill Flora, creative director at a design firm in Seattle called Tectonic] said the d ...
  • Happy Capital Day?
    This year on Labor Day weekend, I’ll also be thinking about the remarkable achievements of inventors of labor-saving devices, the risk-taking venture capitalists who put their own money (not your tax money) on the line.

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • 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 ...
  • Lawsuit seeks better regulation of oil spill d ...
    The unprecedented use of chemical dispersants following BP's Gulf disaster led to complaints of health problems among cleanup workers and local residents. A coalition of groups is now suing the EPA in hopes of spurring regulatory action. read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • New Setbacks for the Beleaguered California Bu ...
    A proposal by Senator Michael Rubio (SB 317) to loosen California's landmark environmental protection law commonly known as CEQA, has been shelved. The proposed legislation was intended to exempt the Central Valley rail construction project from CEQA requirements, thereby removing ...
  • Anorexic Vampires and the Pittsburgh Potty: Th ...
    “Rust Belt Chic is the opposite of Creative Class Chic. The latter [is] the globalization of hip and cool. Wondering how Pittsburgh can be more like Austin is an absurd enterprise and, ultimately, counterproductive. I want to visit the Cleveland of Harvey Pekar, not the Miami of LeBron J ...
  • Need Your Water Treated? In the Philippines, C ...
    “The history of cities can be described as the history of water.” — UK Urbanist Matthew Gandy, 2003 In Cebu City, the second largest city in the Philippines, that particular history is being rewritten in a way never seen anywhere before. Contrary to the well-known major municipal water priva ...
  • Regionalism: Spreading the Fiscal Irresponsibility
    Stanley Kurtz's new book, Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities describes political forces closely tied to President Obama who have pursued an agenda to destroy the suburbs for many years. He expresses concern that a second Obama term will be marked by ...
  • Utah Up, Chicago Down: Why Mitt Romney Should ...
    In his run for the Republican nomination, Mitt Romney downplayed his Mormonism—referring only to “faith” or “shared values”—in the face of small-minded members of the Christian right and the occasional cackle from the Eastern cultural avant-garde. But with his party&rsq ...

GM Watch

  • New scientific review of health effects of pes ...
  • GM bugs in fruit and veg, and other pests!
    1.GM bugs could spread in fruit and veg under EU proposals 2.Comment on the responses to 'Releasing millions of GM mosquitoes - into the unknown' NOTE: It's very noticeable that every time any criticism of Oxitec's GM experiments is published, comments immediately start appearing underneath att ...
  • GM cotton is unsustainable
    NOTE: Although this article for an Australian farming publication is reporting the comments of Andrew Parkes - an expert totally committed to GM cotton, it provides a clear account of the extent and gravity of the problems that GM cotton faces, in terms of both insect resistance and herbicide re ...
  • GM cotton is unsustainable
    NOTE: Although this article for an Australian farming publication is reporting the comments of Andrew Parkes - an expert totally committed to GM cotton, it provides a clear account of the extent and gravity of the problems that GM cotton faces, in terms of both insect resistance and herbicide re ...
  • GM crops are no way forward
    NOTE: This is a very important and well argued article by Satyarat Chaturvedi, a spokesperson for the Indian National Congress and a member of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture, and reflects the unanimity and strength of feeling of the Committee on this issue. EXTRACT: A major arg ...

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Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • It Is Not Just Your Imagination – Americ ...
    Did you know that median household income in the United States is lower today than it was when the last recession supposedly ended?  If we are in the middle of an "economic recovery", how can this possibly be happening?  Stunning new statistics compiled by Sentier Research show t ...
  • Forsaken And Forgotten
    America is becoming a very cold place.  If you don't have money, you don't really matter much in our society.  The ads on television aren't for you - they are directed at people that actually have good jobs and that can afford to buy the nice little "extras" in life.  The politic ...
  • 8 Economic Threats That We Were Not Even Talki ...
    In the crazy times in which we live, it helps to expect the unexpected.  Sometimes you can think that you have it all figured out and then this world can throw a real curveball at you. Very few people anticipated that we would see a massive outbreak of the West Nile Virus in Texa ...
  • More Than Half Of All Americans Are At Least P ...
    A very large segment of the population has figured out that it can use voting as a tool to get more money and benefits from the government, and that is a very dangerous thing.  Once upon a time, the free market was the one that distributed nearly all the wealth in our system.  Bu ...
  • Jacob Rothschild, John Paulson And George Soro ...
    Are you willing to bet against three of the wealthiest men in the entire world?  Jacob Rothschild recently bet approximately 200 million dollars that the euro will go down.  Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson made somewhere around 20 billion dollars betting against the U ...

Desertification

  • UN FOOD AGENCY LAUNCHES WATER MANAGEMENT FRAME ...
    New York, Aug 27 2012 11:05AM The United Nations food agency today launched a framework that will help combat food insecurity by providing methods to better manage water resources in agriculture and reduce waste. The initiative, entitled <”http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/i3015e/i3015e.pd ...
  • GROWING PLANTS IN BOTTLES (Willem Van Cotthem)
    Please enjoy my latest video : http://youtu.be/MJmo-zj5PxI GROWING PLANTS IN BOTTLES Almost any plant can be grown in a bottle.  The method shown in this video is simple, inexpensive and efficient.  One can apply this method for growing vegetables, herbs, … Continue reading →
  • To bring water back, let the wilderness return ...
    Read at : http://www.colorsmagazine.com/stories/magazine/84/story/living-off-the-sand Living off the sand Desertification threatens 38 percent of the world’s surface. Last year, fields in western France were baked into barren waves of clay; with no grass growing, soldiers were deployed to feed h ...
  • Need to develop integrated risk-based national ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.care2.com/causes/integrate-drought-plans-or-face-disaster-u-n-warns.html Integrate Drought Plans or Face Disaster, U.N. Warns by Cathryn Wellner Although U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack refuses to link drought and climate change, S ...
  • UNESCO kit on combating desertification (Googl ...
    Read at : http://desertrestorationhub.com/resources-for-schools/primary-schools/unesco-kit-on-combating-desertification-for-primary-schools/ UNESCO kit on combating desertification (for primary schools)   http://portal.unesco.org/science/en/ev.php-URL_ID=6913&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SEC ...

The Paper Trail

  • Arizona primary latest example of Club for Gro ...
    As Republicans have battled for the soul of their party in primaries across the country, the deep-pocketed, anti-tax Club for Growth has proved itself a force to be reckoned with.If heavily favored Rep. Jeff Flake prevails Tuesday in Arizona over businessman Wil Cardon, the Club will mark f ...
  • Romney balancing act on undocumented youth get ...
    Undocumented youths 15 to 30 years old certainly can’t vote. But they are a large group — estimated at 800,000 to 1.7 million — that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney doesn’t think he can write off completely.Why? Conventional wisdom has it that Romney, to win, needs to peel off Lati ...
  • Nonprofit profile: Club for Growth Inc.
    Type of organization: 501 (c)(4)Supports candidate: ConservativeLocation: Washington, D.C.Founded: 1999Website: http://www.clubforgrowth.org/Social media: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook (all accounts jointly operated with Club for Growth Action)Finances (calendar year 2009):Total Revenue: $5.8 milli ...
  • Manipulating Medicare in the election season
    Mitt Romney's selection of Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice-presidential nominee has vaulted Medicare to the top tier of election issues, thanks to Ryan's proposal that the entitlement program be converted to a system of "premium support" that would provide subsidies for elderly beneficiaries to buy i ...
  • Bailed-out banks, Freddie Mac, AIG gave $6 mil ...
    The Republican nominating convention that kicks off this week in Tampa has been funded by tens of millions of dollars in corporate contributions, the exact source of which won’t be known until after the party is over.But it’s a sure bet that there are at least two big donors from the 2 ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Dieppe and the Lost Myth
    By Montreal Simon It was good to see that some of the soldiers who took part in the Dieppe Raid were able to make it back to that bloody beach today. And that so many people in the town turned out to greet them like heroes. I’m also glad that we may finally know the [...]
  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Italian miners barricade themselves undergroun ...
    100 Sardinian workers in Italy's only coal mine have barricaded themselves into the Carbosulcis mine overnight, with 350kg of company explosives. The occupation comes ahead of a government meeting to decide the future of the pit. ...
  • Russian writer and antifascist Pjotr Silajev i ...
    Silajev had been granted a political asylum in Finland early this year. The Finnish embassy in Madrid has said that Silajev can be kept arrested for 40 days! The Spanish police arrested Silajev in Granada because of request from Interpol on the 21st of augu ...
  • The Marikana Massacre: a Premeditated Killing?
    Benjamin Fogel on the Lonmin Massacre and the chilling bloodlust of the Stalinists in the South African Communist Party, “Two hundred thousand subterranean heroes who, by day and by night, for a mere pittance lay down their lives to t ...
  • On the Politics of Protest in Cape Town
    Jared Sacks on popular protest, disruption, and violence in South Africa in the wake of the Lonmin Massacre. The City of Cape Town is currently being rocked by a spate of road blockades and other significant protests. Certain liberal ...
  • Umshini Wam
    Chris McMichael on the Lonmin Massacre. 'Umshini Wam' is Jacob Zuma's trade mark song. It means 'bring me my machine gun'. “There’ll be civil war, said Johnny. Civil fucking war, that’s what there’ll be. I sai ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Christopher Plummer (Encore Presentation)
    Peter sits down with the legendary Canadian actor, Christopher Plummer(originally broadcast 24 April 2010).
  • Mary Simon, President of ITK (Jan 14, 2012)
    They are the first peoples of Canada’s north: the Inuit. They live in some of the most spectacular parts of this country, but the challenges facing them are daunting. From climate change to resource development, from education to housing. For the past six years the most powerful Inuit leader in ...
  • The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
    Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.
  • NAGUIB SAWIRIS
    Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
  • Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...
    In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • ایران خواستار اصلاحات در سازمان ملل متحد شد
    وزیر امور خارجه ایران گفته است که سازمان ملل متحد شش دهه پس از آغاز به کار خود، برای تطبیق با آنچه او "تحولات نوین جهانی" خواند، نیازمند اصلاحات اساسی است.read more
  • Iran, opens developing nations summit
    DUBAI (Reuters) Sun Aug 26, 2012 5:44am EDT - Iran welcomed a group of 120 developing nations on Sunday to a summit it says proves that Washington has failed to isolate it from the rest of the world. Opening the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Tehran, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said ...
  • استقرار وضعيت شبه حکومت نظامی در تهران/ حضور ه ...
    گزارش ها از سطح شهر تهران حاکی از حضور پرتعداد و بي‌سابقه ماموران پليس و نيروهای نظامی و شبه نظامی در نقاط مختلف کلانشهر تهران و حومه است؛ به طوری که حتی محله‌های به مراتب دور از محل برگزاری اجلاس غيرمتعهدها نيز از مزاحمت نيروهای امنيتی و نظامی بي‌نصيب نمانده‌اند. read more
  • Maryam Keshavarz: 'In Iran, anything illegal b ...
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  • Iran's Maligned Non-Aligned Summit
    Once the dust settles and the foreign dignitaries leave, Ayatollah Khamenei will return to worrying about a domestic version of the Non-Aligned Movement growing at home against his leadership.

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Tipton 3 vs the CIA
      The Road to Guantanomo (Free download – 2006 Directed by Morgan Spurlock)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HCw-5Qnm8c Film Review The Road to Guantanomo is docudrama about the Tipton 3, three British Muslims who were captured along with dozens of civilian refugees when ...
  • Former Black Panther Slams Obama
    Ex-Panther Larry Pinkney In an scorching indictment of Obama’s first four years as president, Black Panther veteran Larry Pinkney (former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa) weighs in on the betrayal of African Americans by Obama and the black “intelligentia.& ...
  • Federal Court Abolishes Fourth Amendment
    Another excellent post on Alexander Higgins’ blog reveals that the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California has ruled that the government is completely immune from any possible punishment for violating the Fourth Amendment, which supposedly protects US citizens against illegal sea ...
  • A Martian Looks at the Mars Landing
    From the Chattanooga Times (note the date)
  • Opt Out at the Airport
    A TSA Grope While being sexually groped by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel at the airport, can be both painful and humiliating, it sure beats getting cancer. I was curious to read in the recent Association of Natural Health (ANH) that an increasing number of doctors refus ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • French police dismantle Roma camp
    Police in France have dismantled a Roma camp near the capital, Paris, expelling 70 people, including 19 children, from their shelter. Local police moved in the encampment in the suburb of Evry early Monday in a bid to remove the people from the camp, following local mayor Francis Chouat’s expuls ...
  • Lunar ‘space elevator’ may be built by 2020
    US firm announced an ambitious project to build a lunar space elevator that could transport both robots and humans using an existing technology, in less than a decade. Fundraising efforts are already underway. ­Firm’s founder and former NASA researcher Michael Laine stated that LiftPort Group is ...
  • UK to grant Muslims Islamic holidays
    London has become the UK’s first city to recognize Islamic holidays, a move meant to encourage the integration of a religious minority often vilified by opponents of immigration. Tower Hamlets recommends that its schools close on the Islamic feasts of Eid al-Fitr and Eid ul-Adha. The local autho ...
  • DHS Rounding up Veterans, Throwing them in Men ...
    Veterans are being targeted in aftermath of Homeland Security smear campaign. The lawyer who helped secure the release of Brendon Raub, a former Marine forcibly incarcerated in a psychiatric ward by authorities in Virginia for political posts on Facebook, told the Alex Jones Show today that ther ...
  • US destroys very original basis of internet: A ...
    A political analyst says that the US government has been destroying “the very original basis of the internet,” as they launch cyber attacks against its perceived opponents. In an interview with Press TV, Paul Sheldon Foote criticized the American authorities for conducting the hacking tactic, be ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Stephen Strasburg Beans Marco Scutaro, Win Str ...
    On Monday, the Washington Nationals opened a four-game set against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. The Nats had ace Stephen Strasburg on the hill gunning for his 10th win of the season and his seventh straight start ending with a "W" next to his name. Unfortunately, Washington was unable t ...
  • Liriano, Twins top White Sox 4-1 in Youkilis debut
    MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â Francisco Liriano faced runners at the corners with only one out in the seventh. This was precisely the type of situation where he's faltered so many times before, but Twins manager Ron Gardenhire didn't budge. "I just have a lot of confidence in him," Gardenhire said
  • Google Alert - Barack Obama
    News 7 new results for Barack Obama   President Barack Obama's response to ruling on the Arizona ... Washington Post WASHINGTON â President Barack Obama's statement reacting to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on the Arizona immigration law: See all stories on this topic » President Obama blasts ...
  • Miami Heat Parade: Team Goes All Out To Celebr ...
    The Miami Heat celebrated in grand fashion with an enormous parade through the streets of Miami on Monday morning, allowing the fans to join in on the celebration and commemorate their 2012 NBA Championship. Hundred’s of thousands of people filled the streets as players rolled by in double-deck ...
  • Netanyahu says Russia and Israel on same page ...
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said he and visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin see eye to eye on the dangers of Iranâs nuclear weapons program. The two leaders met for over an hour in Jerusalem and discussed Iran, Syria, Egypt and bilateral ties. âWe agree that nuclear weapon ...

Groklaw

  • Samsung Not Giving Up Despite Apple Verdict: I ...
    "The [U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California] verdict starkly contrasts decisions made by courts in a number of other countries, such as the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany and Korea, which have previously ruled that we did not copy Apple's designs," Samsung stated ...
  • Apple-Samsung verdict may hurt consumers
    But if Apple secures its injunction and the legal victory is upheld, some obvious consequences start to take shape: It removes a slate of iPhone competitors from the market. It provides a precedent for Apple to go after other manufacturers relying on Android. And it may well force Google and han ...
  • Google responds to Apple v. Samsung verdict: m ...
    The court of appeals will review both infringement and the validity of the patent claims. Most of these don't relate to the core Android operating system, and several are being re-examined by the US Patent Office. The mobile industry is moving fast and all players - including newcomers - are bui ...
  • Post-pinch? Apple patent-case win could point ...
    Friday's $1 billion court ruling for Apple, which upheld patents for what manufacturers call "pinch to zoom," among other popular features, has clouded the future of the gesture for anyone inclined to buy mobile devices from other companies. Apple made clear its determination to press its ad ...
  • Rich Karlgaard: Apple's Lawsuit Sent a Message ...
    Congratulations, Apple-twice. But these two coinciding events should give us pause. One, how badly has Apple been hurt by copycats if it has become the richest company on earth? Do we want a patent system in which the strongest sue everyone else? Is this good for innovation? Two, Apple lost th ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • The US is number one in arms sales!
    Weapons sales by the United States tripled in 2011 to a record high… Overseas weapons sales by the United States totaled $66.3 billion last year, or more than three-quarters of the global arms market.Any questions about why we have so many wars and are so belligerent overseas? War is good ...
  • Moral rot. Everyone’s doing it
    It’s not just the banksters that are criminal. Moral rot runs throughout our society from top to bottom.The uncomfortable truth is that America has become a nation of skimmers and scammers. The rot runs deep not just in the upper reaches of the financial and political Elites, but in the bo ...
  • Vermonter who crushed cop cars with tractor st ...
    When Roger Pion drove a big tractor over seven cop cars on August 2, he became an instant Internet meme and ended up in jail.Locally, the police were subject to widespread public ridicule. At the Orleans county fair recently one woman was laughing so hard at police, according to Pion’s sister, t ...
  • California Workers’ Comp overhaul happening in ...
    Credit: ca.govCalifornia’s Workers’ Compensation is facing major changes if a bill scheduled for this week comes up for debate and then passes. Veteran Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters says renegotiating of workers’ comp benefits for injured workers happens about every ten years with the cur ...
  • Hurricane Isaac could be “nightmare scenario” ...
    Founder of the Weather Channel, Bryan Norcross, on how soon to be Hurricane Isaac is huge and slow moving, and that ain’t good.Taken together, the NHC’s Cat. 2 forecast looks reasonable, though preparations should be made for a Cat. 3, given the lack of skill inherent in intensity fo ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • There will be no electoral backlash against MP ...
    In the lead-up to the First Reading of Louisa Wall’s marriage equality bill, all MPs are receiving quite a lot of mail and email on both sides of the debate. A point frequently made by opponents of the reform is that they won’t vote for MPs who support the Bill. List MPs are insulated from [...]
  • What Greece’s motorways mean for NZ
    No one could say that Greece’s heavy spending on motorways directly caused their default crisis. I’m certainly not saying that. There were many factors at play, though certainly borrowing to pay for projects that were not the best at reducing transport costs certainly didn’t help. From 2000 to 2 ...
  • Green Party minority view – Immigration ...
    Members of the Green Party do not support the intent or detail of the Immigration Amendment Bill. This bill is not necessary The stated purpose of this bill is to effectively manage the mass arrival of irregular migrants and to make New Zealand a less attractive destination for people-smugglers. ...
  • Undemocratic climate change underway: listenin ...
    The National Government has decided to kneecap the ETS and it doesn’t really want to hear the views of people who disagree. Were it otherwise, it would have given more than two weeks for people to make a submission – the way you’re expected to, with New Zealand draft legislation. Last week, the ...
  • Me and Marriage Equality
    So here’s a sample of the kind of thing MPs are receiving in our inboxes: EXACTLY WHAT ARE GAYS #4 WHO SAYS WE NEED ‘OFFICIAL MARRIAGE’ FOR INSECURE HOMOSEXUALS? WHAT’S WRONG WITH CIVIL UNION? OR FOR EXTREME INSECURITY, MAYBE CASTRATION COULD RELIEVE THEIR ANXIETY (IT DID FOR MY DOG) (BE L ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Confirmed: India’s Polio Eradication Campaign ...
    By Dr. Mercola If you listen to mainstream media news, you'll be told that polio has now been eradicated in India – an accomplishment the Polio Global Eradication Initiative (PGEI), founded in 1988 by the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for ...
  • Dr. Mercola Interviews Ronnie Cummins
    By Dr. Mercola The largest opportunity to give people the right to know if their food is genetically engineered will occur with the California ballot initiative – officially known as Proposition 37. Your support before the November 6 vote can make all the difference between winning and losing ...
  • Use This to Remove Splinters -- and to Address ...
    By Dr. Mercola Baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate, is a staple in many homes for baking and cleaning purposes – but there’s a good chance you’re not taking full advantage of all that baking soda has to offer. For instance, did you know there’s a whole gamut of medicinal uses for baking soda, ...
  • Is it True that Eggs are as Bad for Your Arter ...
    By Dr. Mercola Recently, news headlines were ablaze with startling information that eggs are nearly as bad for your arteries as cigarettes. After surveying more than 1,200 seniors, the researchers concluded that eating egg yolks on a regular basis is approximately two-thirds as bad as smoking ...
  • Surprise! Chocolate CAN Be Good for You, at th ...
    By Dr. Mercola It’s a real pleasure to once again interview Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD, who has a number of diverse areas of expertise, and many in which we share an interest. The subject of this interview is chocolate. There have been quite a few interesting scientific studies emerging about ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Dongria's message to Vedanta ahead of AGM: "We ...
    The Dongria Kondh have vowed to defend their sacred mountain from being mined for bauxite. © Lewis Davids/SurvivalAhead of the AGM of Vedanta Resources in London today, India’s Dongria Kondh tribe has sent a strong message to the company’s chairman Anil Agarwal. ‘Even if Anil ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • Surprise! Chocolate CAN Be Good for You, at th ...
    from mercola.com: There have been quite a few interesting scientific studies emerging about chocolate over the past few years. There’s also a lot of confusion about chocolate—what type to eat and how much, types to avoid, etc., so I hope to dispel some of the myths on this subject. Chocolate ca ...
  • Scientists fear increased genetic defects in F ...
    from fukushimaupdate.com: via DW.de / August 16, 2012 / The effects of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima have now become visible in butterflies. Researchers worry the effects may start to be felt among human beings. The butterflies found to be deformed as a result of radiation from the nuclear m ...
  • #BingeAndPurge: Stockpiles, Smells, Subsidies ...
    Federal Court Again Rules that Genes Can be Patented* Pentagon Exploits Lower Drought-Related Prices to Stockpile Meat* USDA bought meat from slaughterhouse under investigation; meat for schools, nutritional programs* Despite growing demand, feeding hungry urban massess with locally pro ...
  • Pregnancy Alters Resident Gut Microbes
    from mercola.com: The microbes that reside in your gut are very much a living, and integral, part of you. Far from being just passive bystanders, the bacteria are impacted by your health, your lifestyle and even your life stages – and they actively change in response to different periods of you ...
  • CDC Claims Over 1,100 #WestNileVirus Cases In US
    Cities, counties nationwide begin mass aerial sprayings of toxic 'anti-West Nile Virus' pesticides linked to causing Colony Collapse Disorder* from cbsnews.com: U.S. health officials say there's been an alarming increase in the number of West Nile cases. So far, there have been more than 1,10 ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • It Is Not Just Your Imagination – Americ ...
    Did you know that median household income in the United States is lower today than it was when the last recession supposedly ended?  If we are in the middle of an "economic recovery", how can this possibly be happening?  Stunning new statistics compiled by Sentier Research show t ...
  • Forsaken And Forgotten
    America is becoming a very cold place.  If you don't have money, you don't really matter much in our society.  The ads on television aren't for you - they are directed at people that actually have good jobs and that can afford to buy the nice little "extras" in life.  The politic ...
  • 8 Economic Threats That We Were Not Even Talki ...
    In the crazy times in which we live, it helps to expect the unexpected.  Sometimes you can think that you have it all figured out and then this world can throw a real curveball at you. Very few people anticipated that we would see a massive outbreak of the West Nile Virus in Texa ...
  • More Than Half Of All Americans Are At Least P ...
    A very large segment of the population has figured out that it can use voting as a tool to get more money and benefits from the government, and that is a very dangerous thing.  Once upon a time, the free market was the one that distributed nearly all the wealth in our system.  Bu ...
  • Jacob Rothschild, John Paulson And George Soro ...
    Are you willing to bet against three of the wealthiest men in the entire world?  Jacob Rothschild recently bet approximately 200 million dollars that the euro will go down.  Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson made somewhere around 20 billion dollars betting against the U ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Defending the Constitution against all enemies ...
    Over the last few years, British readers may have been aware via some popular American tabloids of a strange story which claimed the U.S. Government had listed returning American troops as a terror threat to the U.S. On the face of it, it is a story which smacks of outrageous "conspiracy theo ...
  • More car tampering conspiracies?
    We're quite aware that, at this blog, we probably border on the limits of people's imaginations sometimes with some of the more conspiracy related topics that we invite readers to consider. However, are we alone in that? After all, the vast majority of stories we feature contain links to m ...
  • Audio: Who Killed Diana? John Morgan Interviewed
    Our friend John Morgan, author of the in-depth series of books examining the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, was interviewed last night on Talk Radio Europe by presenter Steve Gilmour. Time for you to hear the interview now, too. Click HERE (mp3).
  • Worrying for Harry... but not those hot naked ...
    We like Prince Harry. Granted, we are biased at this blog, as huge supporters of Diana's and - as her son - he has a special place in our affections. And we're not frowning on him over those naked pictures... in fact, it makes him very much typical of a modern man in his twenties. Pick any ...
  • Diana... campaigning to highlight humanitarian ...
    With whistleblowers in the news, we thought it might be a good time to revisit what must have already been seen by millions around the world - lest we forget. Now, we already knew about Diana's campaign to ban anti-personnel landmines and the high profile campaigns the she undertook in Bosnia ...

Facing South

  • 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 ...
  • Lawsuit seeks better regulation of oil spill d ...
    The unprecedented use of chemical dispersants following BP's Gulf disaster led to complaints of health problems among cleanup workers and local residents. A coalition of groups is now suing the EPA in hopes of spurring regulatory action. read more

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 20 Most Exciting Linux Games for 2012
    In terms of stability and flexibility, Linux blew away its proprietary counterparts a long time ago. What it sorely lacks is developer interest, especially in the gaming department. But there are signs of a major revival. To the delight of Linux gaming enthusiasts, EA started publishing games ...
  • How to Disable 'System Program Problem Detecte ...
    Ever since I upgraded to latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, this issue has been bugging me a lot. Every now and then, a notification pops up saying "Ubuntu 12.04 has experienced and internal error" or "System Program Problem Detected" without actually causing any real troubles. I believe this has everyt ...
  • Ubuntu App Showdown: 15 Hot Apps to Watch
    Ubuntu App Showdown contest was introduced more than a month ago by Canonical to encourage application development for Ubuntu in a big way. And the initiative is showing results already. More than 150 applications were submitted out of which, 133 has been qualified and made it to the final l ...
  • How to Upgrade to Fireox 14.0.1 in Ubuntu 12.0 ...
    Firefox 14.0.1 has just been released and since it is a major release, updates will be coming to official Ubuntu repositories soon. But for the impatient folks among you, here is how you upgrade to Firefox 14.0.1 from Firefox 13.0.1 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin". Insta ...
  • Xubuntu 12.04 LTS Review: Perfect Alternative ...
    Negative publicity around Ubuntu Unity and GNOME Shell is proving to be a real blessing in disguise for a bunch of smaller, lightweight distros like Xubuntu, Lubuntu et al. As much as I like Unity and GNOME Shell, they are not really the ideal choice for under-powered devices like netbooks. ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Historic Tehran NAM Summit
    By Stephen Lendman, Contributor theintelhub.com August 27, 2012 After the UN, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is the most important world body. Hopefully its 16th summit will infuse it with new life. As host, Iran has a historic opportunity. At the same time, it can enhance its own prestige and e ...
  • Twitter Fellatio in Asia Minor, with Modulatio ...
    By Visible As most of us know, there are those events and news items that are just a part of the routine of life. They don’t usually take on any meaningful significance, even though they can be important, like brushing your teeth or going to the bathroom. Then there is the next level that ...
  • Use coffee to beat slugs? Beware, the EU pesti ...
    By Ian Drury Desperate gardeners will try every trick in the book to prevent their lovingly tended plants being obliterated by the scourge of slugs. But those who use a popular organic method to protect their vegetables could be hit by a secondary pest – the EU. Brussels bureaucrats have ruled t ...
  • Portland, Oregon to spend $5 million to poison ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) One of the last remaining urban bastions of fluoride-free water, the city of Portland, Oregon, is about to join the ranks of most other U.S. cities in forcibly medicating its residents with a drug that has been scientifically shown to impede proper b ...
  • The deadly effects of synthetic vitamin K
    by: Craig Stellpflug (NaturalNews) Jabbing our newborns with vitamin K injections significantly increases our children’s chances of developing childhood cancer. In a study of two hospitals, researchers found almost a two-fold risk of leukemia for children who had received intramuscular vit ...

Veterans Today

  • Is the Situation Conducive for An Operation?
    The US had mounted extreme pressure on the newly formed democratic government to annul peace treaty with Maulanas Sufi and Fazlullah in Swat after the militants had penetrated Dir and Buner in April 2009. Alarm bells were sounded that the militants were at the verge of capturing Islamabad and th ...
  • U.S. Policies Contributed to Poverty in Latin ...
    The United States has worked across Latin America to enrich private clients at the expense of the pauperized masses, Professor of Sociology Emeritus James Petras of Binghamton University, N.Y., charges.
  • Risking Nuclear Armageddon
    Irresponsible leaders risk the unthinkable. Media scoundrels cheerlead mindlessly. So do neocon think tanks. Ordinary people are more concerned about mundane trivia than survival.
  • Extraordinary Increase: US Arms Sales Control ...
    Weapons sales by the United States tripled in 2011 to a record high, driven by major arms sales to Persian Gulf allies concerned about Iran’s regional ambitions, according to a new study for Congress.
  • China vs Japan – Who is Stoking the Fire ...
    - An analyst that is only concerned with the material that supports where he wants to go, and ignores everything that doesn't, is less than worthless.

electric politics

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