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Thomas Paine

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

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

28 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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PR News

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Libya, Syria and Now Lebanon?
    Voice of Russia August 28, 2012 Libya, Syria and now Lebanon? Konstantin Garibov ==== “They are interested in upsetting a balance that has been in place in Syria for decades. I think that these interests are dictated by those of US companies,” Filonik says, singling out huge liquid h ...
  • Somalia To Syria: U.S. Contact Group Industry ...
    RT August 27, 2012 With ‘Friends’ like these: Contact group industry in overthrowing govts Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya ==== Somalia’s status as a divided, lawless, and unstable state has been the model for the now divided and lawless Libya and what the US sees in the cards for a Syria plagued with c ...
  • U.S. Arms Sales Abroad More Than Tripled Last Year
    RT August 28, 2012 Rocket-propelled sales figures: US arms sales abroad triple to record highs ==== All in all, US arms sales amounted to 78 per cent of the global foreign weapons sales. Thus, 2011 marks the largest figures in arms sales in US history, with Congressional Research Service study p ...
  • Is The U.S. Really Going To Withdraw From Afgh ...
    Voice of Russia August 27, 2012 Is the US really going to withdraw from Afghanistan? Boris Volkhonsky Edited by RR ==== [T]he 400 bases allegedly “closed or handed to Afghan security forces” are small combat outposts and observation positions of minor importance. The big ones, like t ...
  • Keep Space for Peace Week List Grows
    October 6-13, 2012   Keep Space for Peace Week International Week of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space No Missile Defense End Afghanistan War No to NATO Expansion Stop the Drones Convert the Military Industrial Complex Bring Our War $$ Home End Corporate Domination of Foreign/Military ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Louisiana Governor: ‘There May be Mandat ...
    theintelhub.com | NEW ORLEANS — Mandatory evacuations on the way as hurricane Isaac make it's way inland.
  • Police Outnumber Convention Protesters by 4-1 ...
    By Jordy Yager thehill.com August 27, 2012 Police outnumbered demonstrators Monday as hundreds took to Tampa’s streets to protest the Republican convention. Roughly 250 protesters took part in Monday’s “March on the RNC,” a figure dramatically lower than the 5,000 people organizers said would ta ...
  • 25 Cutting Edge Firms Funded By The CIA
    By Walter Hickey Business Insider August 27, 2012 It’s no secret the Central Intelligence Agency has an investment firm that funds startups that could have a big impact for the Agency. If there is a company out there doing intelligence research, it’s likely that In-Q-Tel, the CIA&#82 ...
  • An Open Letter to Jesse Benton from “P.A.U.L. ...
    By Tracy Diaz theintelhub.com August 27, 2012 Related: Insider Sabotage: Did Jesse Benton Sabotage the Ron Paul Festival and 2012 Campaign as a Whole? Contributed by FederalJack Dear Jesse Benton, My name is Tracy Diaz. I am one of the organizers of “P.A.U.L. Festival”. I, along with thousands o ...
  • US Forest Service Has an Immediate Need for Am ...
    James Smith | The amounts appear to be just enough for training of staff needed to manage such a large area.

FRS

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • Now on Kickstarter: The First Steps Toward a L ...
    There's only one it's-the-future-why-don't-we-have-x trope that rivals the flying car, and that's the space elevator. (First proposed in 1895, it might even predate it.) The idea of a giant tower that can carry us from Earth to outer space is legend, and it probably will be for a long time. But ...
  • Cage Match
    How science is transforming the sport of MMA fighting Greg Jackson, the single most successful trainer in the multi-billion-dollar sport of professional mixed martial arts fighting, works out of a musty old gym in Albuquerque, New Mexico, not far from the base of the Sandia Mountains. On a rece ...
  • Artificial Intelligence Predicts and Combats C ...
    Oriental fruit flies are one of the biggest scourges to farmers around the globe, often forcing officials to put crops into quarantine just to keep Bactrocera dorsalis shut out. In Taiwan, where the situation is especially dire, scientists are using artificial intelligence tech that can determi ...
  • Neil Armstrong in the Pages of PopSci: 1958, 1 ...
    Our coverage of the first man on the moon Popular Science first printed the words “Neil Armstrong” in June 1958, when the 27-year-old “tall, slim, crew-cut blond” aeronautical engineer was training for a flight in the X-15: an experimental “mile-a-second rocket plane” that would take a man to t ...
  • Neil Armstrong, First Man on the Moon, Dies at 82
    The reclusive astronaut is finally at rest Neil Armstrong's one small step, indelible in the minds of generations, will live far beyond his last day on Earth today, Aug. 25. The reclusive 82-year-old former astronaut and the first man on the moon may not have wanted such a legacy, preferring to ...

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.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Pragmatist Islamists? Those IMF-Loving* Egyptians
    In case you haven't been following the news, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde recently visited Egypt, where she was promptly serenaded by a plea from their Muslim Brotherhood-linked President Mohamed "Islam is the Solution" Morsi to increase the prospective bailout amount to $4.8 billion ...
  • 25 Years Later, World Bank Returns to Myanmar
    For developing countries, the process of normalizing relations with the rest of the world involves again availing of certain things: Coca-Cola. Pepsi. Aside from re-engaging in trade in (rather unhealthy and fattening) consumer goods, however, you also have development technocrats flogging their ...
  • Cold War Still Rages...In US Trade Policy on R ...
    Remember the time before China joined the WTO when it was annually subjected to congressional dog-and-pony shows concerning whether a country that did not respect human rights deserved most-favoured nation (MFN) trade status with the US? Just as Americans from various walks of life still have a ...
  • Myanmar, a Real Frontier Market for Visa Payments
    I suppose it's not quite on par with operating a payments system in North Korea, but this is as close as it gets in Southeast Asia as the American multinational corporation Visa is set to enter Myanmar. With many Western firms looking enter to re-enter the till recently off-limits nation due to ...
  • The Fading Dream of Yuan-Yen Direct Exchange
    One of the things people unfamiliar with currency markets do not fully appreciate--and these include poo-bahs alike Fred Bergsten of the Peterson Institute of International Economics--is that all currency pairs involve the US dollar and something else. To change Japanese yen into Chinese yuan fo ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

  • In wake of Tropical Storm Isaac, UN steps up H ...
    Humanitarian efforts are underway in Haiti following the torrential rains and blustery winds that battered the country over the weekend as Tropical Storm Isaac swept across the nation, the United Nations said today.
  • UN chief gathers with fellow alumni of Red Cro ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday gathered in Washington, D. C. with friends he made half a century ago during their visit to the United States, which was organized by the American Red Cross and which inspired him to pursue a life of public service.
  • UN chief gathers with fellow alumni of Red Cro ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday gathered in Washington, D. C. with friends he made half a century ago during their visit to the United States, which was organized by the American Red Cross and which inspired him to pursue a life of public service.
  • UN regional emergency teams on standby to assi ...
    As tropical storm Isaac nears landfall in the Caribbean, regional emergency teams are ready to be deployed in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Cuba in the event of any contingencies, the United Nations food relief agency said today.
  • Despite progress, Chile still faces challenges ...
    While progress has been made investigating and prosecuting enforced disappearances in Chile, challenges remain to ensure perpetrators serve their sentences, a group of United Nations independent experts said today.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Aurora Batman Shooting – Many Coincidences
    The trailer for Gangster Squad (shown before the movie) shows a theatre full of people being shot by numerous gunmen. This Batman comic "The Dark Knight Returns" depicts a Batman inspired shooting at a movie theatre.
  • CIA Agent Warns: “Never Watch the TV, the Grea ...
    He'll never give anything away whatsoever, except one bit of advice. He said, never watch the television. Never watch the television. It's the greatest scientific indoctrination tool ever devised.
  • The Magic Weed
    Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
  • Blood Coltan
    Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
  • CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
    Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.

Rewilding Institute

  • Prairie Dog Preservation & Black-footed Ferret ...
    Published on Aug 17, 2012 by NewMexicoPBS Why is it important for prairie dogs to be restored to their native habitat? Biologist Dr. Ana Davidson and Petunia (Gunnison’s prairie dog) join us to share insights about the ecology of New Mexico’s grasslands and the importance of reestabl ...
  • Upcoming Public Meetings About the Village at ...
    Please attend these important public meetings about the Village at Wolf Creek access project - The Wolf Creek and Alberta Park – Rio Grande National Forest Land Swap DEIS Comment Period ends September 28th and the Forest Service seems poised to give Leavell-McCombs Joint Venture (LMJV) 204 ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Natural ...
    Natural History:  the Ground Upon Which Conservation Rests ©2012 Dave Foreman It is a few months later than I would have liked, but the next Rewilding Institute book, Take Back Conservation, is at last with Raven’s Eye Press in Durango.  It will roll off the press in time for Yule gifts (hint, h ...
  • The Politics of Climate Change
    Originally published in CounterPunch – Weekend Edition August 3-5, 2012 The Age of Unsustainable Problems The Politics of Climate Change by Dr. BRIAN MILLER and GEORGE WUERTHNER Politics cloud the issue of climate change.  We have a global economy driven by fossil fuels.  Whoever controls ...
  • A Radio Interview with John Davis
    It’s always fun to have a conversation with John Davis, so get some iced tea, turn up the volume and take some time to listen as John is interviewed by Ken Rose on What Now, aired on KOWS Radio Occidental July 23, 2012. Weaving lessons learned, travel stories and his deep knowledge and con ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • The Human Race Is Dying
    Grim scientists have been running the numbers since the early Seventies and for some the writing’s on the wall... unless drastic action is taken soon the human race may quickly fade into extinction! ~ Adam Strange read more
  • HAARPing Isaac
    Could the timing and location of Isaac be a coincidence or a false flag? ~ Video - Maps read more
  • Russian Expert Predicts Obama Will Declare Mar ...
    Igor Panarin, dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry School for future diplomats, believes that President Obama will announce martial law by the end of 2012. read more
  • An Open Letter to Jesse Benton from “P.A.U.L. ...
    Dear Jesse Benton,... My name is Tracy Diaz. I am one of the organizers of “P.A.U.L. Festival”. I, along with thousands of other grassroots supporters, champion the cause of liberty. There is a great divide in our movement, and I have spent the better part of the last few months trying to bri ...
  • Ron Paul Declined Offer to Speak at GOP Convention
    Many Ron Paul supporters and delegates have been very disappointed that Paul wasn't given a prime time speaking slot at the upcoming GOP convention in Tampa. read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Store The Food You Will Eat
    [Although known by most preppers, it is an important note for newbies...] Think about it, if the time comes when you need to eat the food that you have stored away for survival preparedness, it really should be the same food that you would normally eat day to day. So many people when first getti ...
  • When You’re Hungry, Remember This…
    It happens to all of us from time to time… We are busy, head-long into a project, or exerting ourselves and burning calories… and at one point we suddenly realize (our body tells us) that we are VERY HUNGRY. We may have skipped a meal or gone hours past when we would ordinarily have ...
  • Hurricane Survival
    Guest post: by Joe Alton. M.D. aka Dr. Bones As we speak, a hurricane is slowly churning its way in the Caribbean over to the state of Florida. Soon, it’ll be time to bring the alligators and pythons inside and batten down the hatches. The last major hurricane to whack the U.S. was Hurricane Ike ...
  • Preppers Warehouse
    [msb-note] Modern Survival Blog welcomes a new sponsor with an assortment of emergency preparedness supplies. ————————- We here at PreppersWarehouse.com are devoted to making emergency and disaster preparedness easy and affordable for you and your ...
  • Methods Of Meat Preservation
    The problem of storing meat for use all year round is an old one. Before preservation though… Hanging Although not a method of preservation, a period of ‘hanging’ can improve the flavor and texture of meats by giving natural enzymes time to break down tough muscle fibers. The t ...

Fast Company

Jadaliyya

  • Egypt Media Roundup (August 27)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sund ...
  • The Love Affair with Erdogan (Part 1)
    [The following is part one of a two-part piece on Tayyip Erdogan.  Part two will be posted Monday, 3 September.] Since his election to the helm of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2003, but even more so following the party’s reelections in 2007 and 2011, Turkish Prime Minister Re ...
  • Oil. Religion. Occupation. ... A Combustible Mix.
    Overview A Freedom of Information request with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) by Al-Shabaka has led to the release of new documents on Gaza’s gas fields, and surprising new information about the possibility of oil fields in the West Bank. The released documents support Al-Shabaka’ ...
  • Anatomy of the US Targeted Killing Policy
    As President Barack Obama geared up for the 2012 campaign, he and his administration were eager to capitalize on their most bipartisan “victory” -- the targeted killing of Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011. With the one-year anniversary of bin Laden’s death approaching, top officials took to podium ...
  • Last Week on Jadaliyya (Aug 20-26)
    This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes the most read articles and the latest videos. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series.  The PhD's Job Crisis ...

mediagazer

  • Pandora and Spotify Rake in the Money and Then ...
    Ben Sisario / Media Decoder: Pandora and Spotify Rake in the Money and Then Send It Off in Royalties  —  If you have read anything about digital music recently, you have probably encountered two names over and over: Spotify and Pandora.  Both offer an abundance of free list ...
  • WaPo dings the 'give-it-away-free approach' (R ...
    Ryan Chittum / CJR: WaPo dings the ‘give-it-away-free approach’  —  There's all kinds of irony about the Washington Post slapping a company for a “give-it-away-free approach” that has hurt share prices.  —  There's the fact that the WaPo o ...
  • Mitt Romney team of 'Mad Men' creates ads to s ...
    Philip Rucker / Washington Post: Mitt Romney team of ‘Mad Men’ creates ads to sell nation on candidate  —  BOSTON — Now that Mitt Romney has amassed a couple hundred million dollars, it's largely up to an eclectic crew of self-described “Mad Men” to ...
  • With WikiLeaks On Ice, What Has Happened To Al ...
    Luke Allnutt / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: With WikiLeaks On Ice, What Has Happened To All Those Digital Whistleblowers?  —  It is hard sometimes to divide the story of Julian Assange from that of WikiLeaks.  But once upon a time, before Bradley Manning, the rape alleg ...
  • Monday Q&A: Josh Miller on Branch, comments as ...
    Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab: Monday Q&A: Josh Miller on Branch, comments as content, and the state of online discourse  —  Like a lot of tech startups, it's easier to describe what Branch isn't than what it is.  The newly launched discussion platform — b ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • High Meralco rates
    Electricity powers a country’s development. It runs the engines of industry, keeps commercial establishments humming, lights up offices and households, and keeps information and communication links connected. Shut it off, an all economic activity stops. Life as we know it would never be the ...
  • ‘Unleash heroes within you’
    PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino called on Filipinos to become heroes in their own way as he led the nation in marking the National Heroes’ Day at the Libingan ng mga Bayani, Taguig City, yesterday morning. Anchored on this year’s theme, “Pilipinong Tapat, Magiting at Makabayan: Ikaw ang Bayani sa T ...
  • Revellers flock to Notting Hill carnival
    AFP - Revellers filled the streets of west London as the Notting Hill Carnival, Europe's biggest street festival, reached its climax with its famous Caribbean-inspired parade. A multi-ethnic throng milled between the stalls and thumping sound systems, drinking, dancing, and tasting jerk chic ...
  • Indonesia May Import Rice From Cambodia
    Siem Reap, Cambodia. Indonesia might import as much as 100,000 metric tons of milled rice from Cambodia as early as next year, in a move to better manage the country’s food security, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told the Jakarta Globe on Sunday. “An agreement was reached on S ...
  • UNICEF calls for funds to help Syrian ref ...
    Syrian refugees arriving in Jordan are being sheltered at Zaatri camp. Photo: UNHCR/A. Eurdolian 27 August 2012 The United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) is urgently appealing for additional funds to meet the health and protection needs of an increasing number of Syrian refugee children an ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Once Upon a Time
    The lure of the fairy tale. Joan Acocella Once upon a time there was a stubborn child who never did what his mother told him to do. The dear Lord, therefore, did not look kindly upon him, and let him become sick. No doctor could cure him and in a short time he lay on … Read more
  • Violence as a way of life
    Humanity has hardly produced a more destructive version of itself than the new breed of terrorists, who are convinced that they have been chosen to show mankind the way to utopia. Helene Lööw The scenes and testimonies of the disaster in Norway make it difficult to justify. Pictures of children ...
  • You’ll never be Chinese
    Mark Kitto Death and taxes. You know how the saying goes. I’d like to add a third certainty: you’ll never become Chinese, no matter how hard you try, or want to, or think you ought to. I wanted to be Chinese, once. I don’t mean I wanted to wear a silk jacket and cotton slippers, … Rea ...
  • Psychiatry’s Crisis
    Andrew Scull ABOUT 40 YEARS AGO, American psychiatry faced an escalating crisis of legitimacy. All sorts of evidence suggested that, when confronted with a particular patient, psychiatrists could not reliably agree as to what, if anything, was wrong. To be sure, the diagnostic process in all are ...
  • Ten Most Difficult Books
    Emily Colette Wilkinson & Garth Risk Hallberg Back in 2009, The Millions started its "Difficult Books" series–devoted to identifying the hardest and most frustrating books ever written, as well as what made them so hard and frustrating. The two curators, Emily Colette Wilkinson ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Julian Assange in the crosshairs - Part 1
    Today's show focuses on the stand-off between Julian Assange and the British government. The news about his acceptance by Ecuador had not yet broken as we went to air. We also take a look at the science-fiction level totalitarian surveillance system known as "TrapWire", amid speculation that t ...
  • Interview with Dr. Tim Ball - Part 1
    In the second hour of today's show we bring you a unique interview with one of Canada's most articulate and distinguished climate sceptics, Dr. Tim Ball. Dr. Ball, former Professor at the University of Winnipeg, has an extensive science background in climatology, especially the reconstruction ...
  • All that is Necessary for Evil to Triumph
    This clip is from the film "Hitler: The Rise of Evil". It is often said, "all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing". As a follow up, we might add: "History seldom repeats, but it often rhymes". Once again, freedom is under threat. Evil is rising. Wh ...
  • Australians For Syria Protest in Sydney
    On 5 August 2012 a rally was held in Sydney in support of the Syrian government by members of the Syrian community and Australians. Some four thousand people gathered peacefully at The Sydney Town Hall to express solidarity about the tragedy in Syria. A number of speakers, from various s ...
  • MullerGate: a muddled professor who meddled wi ...
    In today's show we bring you our exclusive exposé of the latest climate science scandal. Richard A. Muller is a professor in physics at UC Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is the founder of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature projec ...

Beacon

  • Video: How Seismic Testing Works
    We've been working to stop proposed seismic testing in the Atlantic, which could injure marine mammals such as the endangered right whale. But seismic testing is a pretty hard thing to visualize, so I asked one of our marine scientists, Matt Huelsenbeck, to draw it for us.  He could use s ...
  • Q&A: Alexandra Cousteau
    The new issue of Oceana magazine is hot off the presses! In this issue, I interviewed Oceana senior advisor Alexandra Cousteau, who also graces this issue's cover.  The granddaughter of famed ocean explorer and filmmaker Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Alexandra doesn’t take her family legacy lig ...
  • Tonight: Ted Danson Narrates ‘Great White Highway’
    There is still a lot of mystery surrounding great white sharks. ©Terry Goss Shark Week is almost over, but one of the most exciting shows of the year is airing tonight. Tonight at 9 p.m. (Eastern and Pacific) tune in to Discovery Channel to watch “Great White Highway,” which follows the ...
  • The Myth of the Rogue Shark
    That man-eating shark from Jaws may be fictional, but that doesn’t stop people from believing that sharks are out to get us — even though it’s not true at all. Chris Neff, a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, gave this talk at TEDxSydney about his research on the politics of shark attac ...
  • Senate Moves Bill to End Pirate Fishing
    Pirate fishing threatens the ocean and those who rely on it ©Oceana/Keith Ellenbogen The Senate took an important step forward last month in the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, also known as pirate fishing, by passing the Pirate Fishing Elimination Act (S. 1980) thr ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

Taylor Marsh

  • How Rachel Maddow Got Away with Smacking Aroun ...
    SHORTLY AFTER the narrative begins, Rachel Maddow offers a silly little piece of ancient text. Why in the world would anyone be interested in the 1973 moment when Congress set out to write “A Joint Resolution Concerning the War Powers of Congress and the President”? Directing that &# ...
  • Another Republican Gets it Wrong on Rape, Equa ...
    TEA PARTY candidate Al Smith, taking on Democratic Sen. Bob Casey in Pennsylvania, decided to go down the Todd Akin-Paul Ryan road today. It got bumpy very quickly. From Think Progress: SMITH: Uh, having a baby out of wedlock. SCOLFORO: That’s similar to rape? SMITH: No, no, no, but… put yoursel ...
  • News Desk: Green-on-Blue, Afghan Killing Afgha ...
    An Afghan soldier killed two American troops Monday in the latest attack by Afghan security forces on coalition soldiers, authorities said. The killings occurred the same day 10 Afghan soldiers were killed when members of their own unit opened fire on them at an army post in southern Helmand pro ...
  • French Pres. Hollande Will Recognize Provision ...
    In a speech to French diplomats, Mr. Hollande called for an “intensification of efforts for the political transition to take place quickly” and urged the Syrian opposition to form a “provisional, inclusive and representative” government. “France will recognize the provisional government of the n ...
  • Why Do You Spend So Much Time Criticizing the ...
    As someone who is independently liberal, and vocal about it, I get the question in the headline a lot, and have for many years: why focus on criticizing the Democratic Party when the Republican Party is so much worse? Political conventions time – a routine stop along the way in what passes for “ ...

Hudson New York

  • The "Pro-Palestinians"
    Some 100 "pro-Palestinian" activists from different countries arrived in Jordan during the past few days on another anti-Israel mission. The activists did not come to Jordan to: Visit or help thousands of Syrian and Palestinian refugees who are being
  • The Muslim Brotherhood's Egypt
    Egypt's new president, Mohamed Morsi, using an alleged terrorist attack in the Sinai Peninsula as a pretext, has been able to fire senior army generals, increase extensively his presidential power and send troops into the Sinai Peninsula in direct
  • Germany: Turkish Muslims Hope for More Muslims ...
    Nearly half of all Turks living in Germany say they hope there will be more Muslims than Christians in Germany in the future, according to a new survey of Turkish-German mores and attitudes. The study also shows that Islam is becoming an increasingly
  • Interfaith Crisis on the Borderlands of Burma ...
    The Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC), based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, disclosed at its summit, on August 16, that it would take the question of violence against Rohingya Muslims in Burma (Myanmar) to the United Nations. Previously, Saudi King
  • Israel Welcomes Palestinians without Permits
    For many years, the Palestinians had been complaining about Israeli restrictions that ban them from entering Israel, but during the holy month of Ramadan, in an unprecedented move, the Israeli authorities granted permits to tens of thousands of

Urban Survival

  • Happy as in “Housing”
      Press release just crossing froim Case-Shiller/S&P:   “New York, August 28, 2012 – Data through June 2012, released today by S&P Dow Jones Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed that … Continue rea ...
  • Coping: My Antenna is Bigger than Your Antenna
    Every time I mention ham radio seems like I get a lot of questions from fellow “preppers” who want resilient communications. In yesterday’s column, I mentioned that ham radio could be played at four or five different levels and reader … Continue reading →
  • Double Disasters Ahead?
    Wednesday morning is going to just plain suck for people in New Orleans, which is expecting landfall about then of Hurricane Isaac which passed by a change to wash republicans and seems instead intent on shutting in oil production in … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With a Personal Bit of WuJo
    I keep thinking the line between the conscious world and the preconscious world is thinning because of odd bits of spillover from one to the other that seem to be happening with some consistency lately. My latest encounter was in … Continue reading →
  • Gold Glitters Anew, but…..
    If you’ve been wondering why gold hasn’t fallen into a deflationary funk, the answer is becoming clear, although in slow-motion.  Not only are several international banking groups giving gold new respect but now the republican party convention may adopt a … Continue readin ...

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Solar Energy in the Central Valley and the Chi ...
    Carl Zichella, Director of Western Energy Transmission, San Francisco Over the past several years thousands of megawatts of renewable energy projects have been approved for construction on both public and private lands in California.  The main ...
  • Governor Quinn, thanks for putting the bag on ...
    Nick Magrisso, Midwest Program , Chicago Illinois Governor Pat Quinn vetoed the Plastic Bag and Film Recycling Act (SB 3442); a controversial state senate bill that passed the legislature in May, and was the source of much contention as it limi ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile Four new photovoltaic solar energy projects received environemental approval from Chile’s authorities. When built, the four –Encuentro Solar, Laberinto Solar Estes, Crucero So ...
  • Refinery Smoke: How do we monitor what's in it ...
    Diane Bailey, Senior Scientist, San Francisco It’s hard to believe that for all the technology in the Bay Area, there are no real-time air monitors near the Chevron Richmond refinery, the largest refinery in the state.  This was particula ...
  • Green Roof Roots: Stumbling Upon Environmental ...
    Kelly Coplin, Water Program Assistant, San Francisco Last weekend I had the great fortune to spend three days biking, swimming and relaxing along the shores of Lake Tahoe with my family. I’ve spent summer weekends at the lake almost annually s ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, August 24, 2012: Longview, Washington: A deputy was charged with using a dead man’s debit card to steal nearly $12,000 from his estate. He faces charges of theft, ID … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct N ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, August 23, 2012: New Brunswick, New Jersey: An officer who shot and killed a man during a chase has resigned in lieu of discipline. He was facing discipline for … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct NewsFeed ...
  • ‘Everything they say is a lie’
    From the ABA Journal: A New York judge who says a police officer struck him after apparently mistaking him for a heckler is blasting Queens District Attorney Richard Brown for refusing to prosecute. Judge Thomas Raffaele claims Brown is orchestrating … Continue reading →‘Everyt ...
  • National Police Misconduct Newsfeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, August 22, 2012: Woonsocket, Rhode Island: An argument between a police officer and his nine-year-old sister led him to choke her. He was subsequently arrested. ow.ly/1Osacn Folly Beach, South … Continue reading →Nati ...
  • Officer Dies After Car Chase & Crash
    From the Washington Post: As the [police officers] caught up with the car on I-95 and relayed information about the Acura to a dispatcher, a supervisor got on the radio and questioned whether they were chasing the car, according to … Continue reading →Officer Dies After Car Chase &#0 ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • 'Penis-headed' fish discovered in Vietnam
    A bizarre penis-headed fish has been discovered in Vietnam, according to a new paper published in the journal Zootaxa.
  • Mekong dam spree could create regional food cr ...
    Fish are a hugely important protein source for many people around the world. This is no more evident than along the lower Mekong River delta where an estimated 48 million people depend directly on the river for food and livelihoods. But now a new study in Global Environmental Change cautions tha ...
  • Picture of the day: Yao Ming with baby elephan ...
    Former NBA Basketball player and Olympian, Yao Ming is taking his first trip through Africa in order to see the on-the-ground impacts of the black-market ivory and rhino trades in East Asia. Ming, who stands 7-and-a-half feet (2.3 meters), has become not only well-known for his athletic prowess, ...
  • Recommendations to save India's Western Ghats ...
    A massive expert panel report on the conservation of the Western Ghats has caused a political stir in India. The report, headed by noted ecologist Madhav Gadgil, recommends that the government phase out mining projects, cancel damaging hydroelectric projects, and move toward organic agriculture ...
  • Featured video: a Sumatran rhino love story
    Efforts to save the Sumatran rhino in Borneo have sped up ever since the capture of Puntung last Christmas. A female rhino, who lost one foot to a snare, Puntung represents the first viable mate for Tam, a male rhino who has been kept in a large rainforest enclosure since his rescue in an oil pl ...

Sierra Express

  • The Electoral College
    Sierra Express Media (SEM) has been following of late developments related to the establishment of an electoral college using an approach called inclusive governance.  What we fathom is that there is brilliance in establishing the electoral college since the onus is given this time to the commun ...
  • Wanting Usu Boie Dead!
    Whether it is whimsical or cynical as the case may be, something is getting very absurd in the much talked about wishing or wanting Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara dead. The rumour is ambiguous as in this case knowing from what I know that linking traces of suspicion are yet not too vital to establish ...
  • UNICEF Freetown, Sierra Leone – Vacancy Notice ...
    If you are a committed and creative individual and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights organization would like to hear from you.  For 60 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to p ...
  • Usu Boie’s “Killer” Assassins Exposed
    Outbursts on how the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) planned a murder scheme for its former flag-bearer contender, Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara (in photo) have been exposed once again in a vociferous online forum wherein swathes of texts have been extracted from the site for evidence, in what loo ...
  • SLPP declares support for APC councilor
    Madam Theresa Conteh, a staunch SLPP member, has told the Councilor of Portee in Constituency 99, Ward 355, East of Freetown she and her family are impressed of the APC councilor to the point that she declared their unflinching support to the APC vanguard in running for the same position. Mrs. T ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Fonterra cuts forecast 2013 payout
    Fonterra said it had downwardly revised its forecast payout to farmers for the 2012-13 season due to ongoing strength of the New Zealand dollar.The revised forecast comprises a lower Fonterra farmgate milk price of $5.25 per kg...
  • Baby formula advert has PM spitting
    Politicians normally love being pictured with babies, but Prime Minister John Key has taken exception to a baby formula company using his image without permission.Key's office will ask Auckland milk powder manufacturers Cowala to...
  • Trade surplus for July on China dairy exports
    New Zealand recorded a small trade surplus in July, with shipments of dairy products to China making up for weaker exports to Australia, Indonesia and India.The surplus was $15 million last month, down from a revised $287 million...
  • Fonterra hits record quarterly exports
    Fonterra Cooperative Group, the world's biggest exporter of dairy products, achieved record export in the final three months of its season of 620,000 tonnes.Its 2012 May, June and July shipments were 36 per cent more than the same...
  • US drought helps push global dairy prices higher
    New Zealand dairy farmers will take more confidence from Fonterra's 2012-13 payout forecast after drought conditions in the United States helped drive dairy prices sharply higher at yesterday's international auction, economists say.The...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Matt Welch on the 3 Big Stories in Tampa
    Matt Welch lays out the three big issues at this week's Republican National Convention in Tampa: 1. Where do Ron Paul supporters go? 2. Will the GOP get serious about debt and spending? 3. What about social issues and immigration? Click above to watch or go below for ...
  • Ronald Bailey Reviews Privacy
    Privacy encompasses the real and virtual spaces where you can think your most heretical thoughts without the fear of social and political consequences and where you can seal the bonds of love and friendship. In Privacy, Garret Keizer, a curmudgeonly contributing editor to Harper's, ...
  • 'Ben Bernanke is a traitor, a dictator. He's r ...
    So said State Sen. Tom Davis (R-South Carolina) at Sunday's Ron Paul rally on the eve of the Republican National Convention. Davis also said of the Federal Reserve Chairman that "he's hollowing us out, he's destroying our liberty, he's destroying our economic freedom and he has to ...
  • Brickbat: WTF?
    Officials at Oklahoma's Prague High School have refused to give a diploma to Kaitlin Nootbaar, the valedictorian of the 2012 graduating class. They say they won't give it to her until she writes an apology for saying “hell” in her graduation speech. Brickbat Archive
  • Mike Huckabee on Ron Paul, Libertarianism, and ...
    Tampa—Mike Huckabee has said some really caustic things about libertarians in the past. In 2011: To the contrary, the governor gave an all-out defense of his tax hikes while governor of Arkansas on the grounds that they were the only responsible course of action to repair state r ...

Mercury Rising

  • So How Will Republicans Handle This New Orlean ...
    In a post on soon-to-be Hurricane Isaac, David Dayen states the following: This has already had a political impact for the leaders in the states affected. Governor Bobby Jindal has pulled out of the Republican Convention, joining Florida Governor Rick Scott (the Republican Governors of Alabama a ...
  • So How Will Republicans Handle This New Orlean ...
    In a post on soon-to-be Hurricane Isaac, David Dayen states the following: This has already had a political impact for the leaders in the states affected. Governor Bobby Jindal has pulled out of the Republican Convention, joining Florida Governor Rick Scott (the Republican Governors of Alabama a ...
  • MN Voter ID: Costs Million$, Keeps 1000s Of Le ...
    Sally Jo Sorensen passes along the following: Faribault Daily News staff reporter Joseph Lindberg reports in Pricetag for voter ID in Rice County could surpass $120,000: If Minnesota voters this November approve a constitutional amendment requiring a valid photo ID to cast a ballot, the equipmen ...
  • MN Voter ID: Costs Million$, Keeps 1000s Of Le ...
    Sally Jo Sorensen passes along the following: Faribault Daily News staff reporter Joseph Lindberg reports in Pricetag for voter ID in Rice County could surpass $120,000: If Minnesota voters this November approve a constitutional amendment requiring a valid photo ID to cast a ballot, the equipmen ...
  • Pennsylvania’s Vote Chaos Shows Minnesot ...
    Anyone wonder what would happen to voting in the State of Minnesota should the ALEC-and-Kiffmeyer-inspired voter suppression (aka “voter ID”) amendment is passed? Here’s a taste, courtesy of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: This summer, the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Cente ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Gone to Burning Man '12
    This week, while much of the Reality Sandwich team decamps for the Burning Man Festival in Gerlach, Nevada, we offer a selection of noteworthy articles that appeared on the site earlier this year. We'll be back on Tuesday, September 4. Enjoy!   read more
  • Air Fuel
    Those of you who are around 25-30 years old and grew up in Britain may remember a kids TV show called Aquila. It was about two boys who found a small, pod-like alien craft that ran on air. Well, this type of vehicle, or at least power source, is finally here!  read more
  • Sex in the News
    Texas state representative comes out as pansexual, choosing love over motherhood, sex tips for Burning Man, and more in this week's sex news. read more
  • Co-creating Wellness
    Come together for an interactive, experiential community salon in which practitioners and lay people explore the theme of energy and vitality, and envision a well-care system that works. Together, participants will engage in a rich dialogue interweaving over seven holistic healing modalities a ...
  • EVOLVEfest
      Evolver is proud to host the workshop/presenters area of the 6th annual EVOLVE Music and Yoga Festival – 8/31-9/3 in Phillipsburg, NJ), a gathering for progressive, fun-loving and visionary people who wish to celebrate their co-creative potential and explore ways to make life on Earth h ...

Desertification

  • Whose Timber is it Anyway?
    With Pakistan’s last major stands of deodar (cedar) threatened by a ‘timber mafia’, the local people in the Chitral district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are resorting to direct action to stop the denudation of their picturesque alpine homeland. Since April, the community in Ayun town has been ...
  • Q&A: Water and Food Security Are Inseparable
    IPS U.N. Bureau Chief Thalif Deen interviews PER BERTILSSON, acting executive director of the Stockholm International Water Institute
  • Food Activists See Portents of New and Deeper ...
    Food rights activists from around the world will descend on the coastal U.S. state of Florida next week to protest homelessness and hunger facing millions of people in the United States and across the globe. The Aug. 20-26 protests in Tampa were organised to draw attention to the Republican Part ...
  • U.S. Drought Exposes “Hydro-Illogical&#8 ...
    The historic drought withering much of the United States this summer has revealed a need for strategies to better manage water supplies that could remain under severe pressure both this year and in the longer term. On Friday, the U.S. Agriculture Department said that corn yields – which ac ...
  • Record Aid Shortfall Abandons Millions to Thei ...
    Global funding for humanitarian aid interventions saw the biggest shortfalls in 10 years in 2011, according to a new report, raising questions about the international community’s ability to meet a 20-percent greater need for 2012 driven by drought and conflict. The launch of the 2012 Global Huma ...

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Press TV - Middle East

  • Car bomb attack hits Syrian capital
    At least three people have been injured after a car bomb was detonated in a suburb of the Syrian capital city of Damascus, Press TV reports.
  • Syrian army kills insurgents in Aleppo
    Syrian army has killed several insurgents near the radio and TV Station in the northern city of Aleppo and arrested 11 more in the restive city of al-Qamishli in the country's northeast.
  • Israel forces unpunished in Corrie case
    An Israeli court has ruled that American activist Rachel Corrie, who was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer during a protest in 2003, was not unlawfully killed.
  • ‘Saudi king takes special leave’
    Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Salman has been tasked with running the country temporarily, while Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz is away on ‘a special leave of absence.’
  • Imam Musa Sadr still alive: Lebanon
    Lebanon's Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour says the revered Lebanese Shia cleric Imam Musa Sadr and his companions are certainly alive and will soon be released.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

  • 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 ...
  • Empire State Shooting: Shooter Never Shot At P ...
    The Guardian reports: Johnson did not fire at police, according to law enforcement, but he did raise his gun. Nine civilians – four women and five men – were shot or grazed by the two officers who shot Johnson dead. Initial reports suggested the shooter shot the bystanders, additionall ...
  • Empire State Shooting: Shooter Never Shot At P ...
    The Guardian reports: Johnson did not fire at police, according to law enforcement, but he did raise his gun. Nine civilians – four women and five men – were shot or grazed by the two officers who shot Johnson dead. Initial reports suggested the shooter shot the bystanders, additionall ...
  • Over 80% of Infowars.com Poll Respondents Know ...
    Earlier this month, the establishment fount Forbes, a magazine fondly calling itself “the Capitalist Tool,” warned that an ever-creeping entitlement state and its confiscatory taxation policies may soon lead to a tyranny of the majority. “Today, a majority of Americans have a direct financial ...
  • Over 80% of Infowars.com Poll Respondents Know ...
    Earlier this month, the establishment fount Forbes, a magazine fondly calling itself “the Capitalist Tool,” warned that an ever-creeping entitlement state and its confiscatory taxation policies may soon lead to a tyranny of the majority. “Today, a majority of Americans have a direct financial ...

Wayne Madsen

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  • August 27-28, 2012 -- Tampa, FL (WMR) -- RNC T ...
    RNC Tampa likely one of the worst conventions in history.
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    Romney Fest a soaked dud
  • August 24-26, 2012 -- OFF-TOPIC WEEKEND FORUM

  • PS - Inter Press Services

    • ‘Eating’ Water Latest and Rising T ...
      Paradoxically, the water we “eat” is likely to become one of the growing new dangers to millions of the world’s thirsty, hungering for this finite natural resource. “More than one-fourth of all the water we use worldwide is taken to grow over one billion tons of food that nobod ...
    • Organ Trafficking Resurfaces in Pakistan
      About two months back, 28-year old Asif Ahmed* put up an announcement on the internet to sell one of his kidneys. “I lost a lot of money in business some four years back and pumped in more money by taking a loan, but I’ve lost all. I know there is a law that prohibits selling [...]
    • Evidence in Delhi Embassy Bombing Suggests Jou ...
      In "The Delhi Car Bombing: How the Police Built a False Case", a three-part series beginning today, award-winning investigative journalist Gareth Porter dissects the Delhi police accusation against an Indian journalist and four Iranians of involvement in the Feb. 13 bombing of an Israeli embassy ...
    • Norway Counts the Usefulness of Lending
      The Norwegian government has announced it would assess the legitimacy of developing countries’ debt to Norway. In effect it will investigate whether its loans have been useful enough to warrant repayment. That makes Norway the first nation ever to carry out a creditor’s debt audit. The Uni ...
    • There’s Bride at the End of the Tunnel
      Mai Ahmed, a 26–year-old from the West Bank fell in love over the Internet with Mohammed Warda from Nussirat refugee camp in Gaza after they ‘met’ on the Internet. The Israeli government refused permission for her to travel to Gaza. Mai travelled to Jordan, flew from there to Egypt, drove across ...

    My AntiWar

    CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

    • Iranian Rhetoric and the History of Cancer Analogy
      Summary: The rhetoric used in recent speeches by top Iranian officials has garnered much attention in the mainstream media. In addition to the outrage expressed over the statement that the Israeli governmental system and guiding Zionist ideology is an "insult to humanity," comments that the ...
    • Can the NAM Summit bridge the Iran-Egypt Gap?
      Summary: There is no question about it that Iran wants to make NAM relevant again to use it fight off the expansionist Atlanticist World. So do the Russians and the Chinese. The NAM after all has provided Iran important diplomatic support in its politicized nuclear dispute with the Atlantici ...
    • Iran draws India closer with talks on Afghanistan
      Summary: NEW DELHI — India, Iran and Afghanistan will hold talks on giving greater access to landlocked Afghanistan, a move that could also ease Iran's isolation in the region, Indian officials said Saturday. source: APread more
    • Iran Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit Sends M ...
      Summary: The summit in Tehran will serve to expose in the eyes of the world the nefarious, warmongering global elite. The gathering will expose the pretenders of “international community” as nothing more than a bunch of thugs who are holding the rest of the world to ransom under the threat of ...
    • Gathering Hope in Tehran
      Summary: CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — The Nonaligned Movement’s much-heralded summit meeting next week in Tehran — featuring dozens of leaders from the developing world, including President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India, as well as the U.N. secretary general, ...

    The Daily Galaxy

    • China's Antarctic Astronomy Base in Active Sea ...
      Chinese astronomers are actively searching for Earth-like planets using survey instruments in Antarctica, as they believe efforts to seek an extra-solar planet that that harbors life will soon be rewarded. "It's highly possible that human beings might find such a...
    • First Recorded Human Voice from Earth to Anoth ...
      In historic spoken words radioed to the rover on Mars and back to NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) on Earth, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden noted the difficulty of landing a rover on Mars, congratulated NASA employees and the agency's commercial...
    • Neil Armstrong & "The Lost Apollo 11" Footage
      After a three-year search for the lost Apollo 11 tapes and an exhaustive six-year restoration project, digitally remastered footage of the historic Moonwalk was completed in 2010. Thanks to the efforts of a dedicated tape restoration team, the enhanced footage...
    • "99% of the Mass of the Visible Universe Not E ...
      To get a grasp on what holds these visible forms of matter together—everything from stars to planets to people—you have to understand how quarks and gluons interact. That's the essence of quark matter physics—and the Quark Matter 2012 international conference,...
    • Did DNA Exist Before Life Began on Earth? New ...
      Scientists are close to demonstrating that the building blocks of DNA can form spontaneously from chemicals thought to be present on the early Earth. If they succeed, their research implies that DNA could have predated the birth of life. “The...

    Natural News

    • Not just the needles - Tattoo ink is connected ...
      The pain associated with tattoos is usually geared toward the needles; this time, the ink is the culprit. At least 14 cases of skin infections have appeared in New York within the last year, and others have been found in Washington, Colorado and Iowa. When traced back...
    • Are you experiencing a healing crisis?
      It is not uncommon for individuals to suffer from detoxification reactions when they begin a program of natural healing. This is classically referred to as a healing crisis and occurs when the body is expelling toxins into the different systems of the body. The healing...
    • How they brainwash you in a psych ward
      In the wake of the Batman murders, there is much speculation about what psychiatric drugs James Holmes may have been taking. People are realizing, as never before, the power of these drugs to cause homicidal behavior and damage the brain. In the case of the Marine...
    • The dangers of dairy explained
      Have you ever wondered why humans are the only mammals that drink another species' milk? Or maybe this thought never crossed your mind...
    • Get more sleep and significantly lower your ri ...
      A rapidly growing number of health-minded individuals understand that vascular disorders including stroke and heart are largely the result of preventable lifestyle practices that combine to dramatically increase risk of disease. Most people know that a natural diet of...

    Threat Level

    • Twitter Fights Back to Protect ‘Occupy Wall St ...
      Twitter is appealing a court order to turn over user data related to an Occupy Wall Street protestor.
    • Landmark California Location-Privacy Bill Near ...
      California lawmakers have approved legislation that would require the state's authorities to obtain a probable-cause warrant signed by a judge to obtain any location information from an electronic device -- from tablets and mobile phones to laptops. The measure, however, faces an uncertain fate ...
    • AT&T’s App-Blocking Defense Is Weak and Anti-C ...
      AT&T says it's okay to block FaceTime over 3G and 4G because the app comes installed by default. Free Press' research director S. Derek Scott calls that argument laughable and a plain attempt to undermine net neutrality.
    • FTC Asked to Stop Viral Advertising Promotions ...
      Children's health and privacy groups asked the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to investigate what they called the "commercial exploitation" of youths through popular brand-name companies' online, and viral, advertising promotions.
    • Feds Expand Domain Seizures to Mobile-App Pira ...
      The U.S. government for the first time has seized internet domains of online sites accused of selling pirated mobile applications, in this instance, Android apps. Seizing domains is nothing new under the President Barack Obama administration. Usually, however, sites are shuttered for offering ga ...

    PERRspectives : Blog

    • For Romney, Father Doesn't Know Best
      One of the inevitable developments of any modern presidency is the "psycho-history" cottage industry. That is, academics, physicians, amateur psychologists and dishonest partisans predictably produce elaborate psychological theories tracing the conscious and subconscious roots of the President' ...
    • Romney Promises to Gut His Massachusetts Healt ...
      As with virtually every issue, Mitt Romney has a love-hate relationship with his own 2006 Massachusetts health care law. Just days after his aide Andrea Saul provoked right-wing fury by claiming "if people had been in Massachusetts, under Governor Romney's health care plan, they would have had ...
    • Romney: My Secret Tithing Makes My Real Tax Ra ...
      By every indication, Mitt and Ann Romney are completely committed and deeply dedicated to each other. Nevertheless, they really need to get their lines straight, especially on the subject of their mysterious tax returns. Last month, Mrs. Romney protested that "We give 10% of our income to our ...
    • How Newly Pro-Life Romney Betrayed a "Dear, Cl ...
      Say what you will about the ultra-hardline reproductive politics of Todd Akin and Paul Ryan, but at least those two have always been true believers. Mitt Romney, not so much. As his former strategist Michael Murphy put it in 2005, "He's been a pro-life Mormon faking it as a pro-choice friendly ...
    • Ryan Joins McCain in Mocking the "Health of th ...
      Four years ago, Barack Obama beat John McCain among women voters by a healthy 13 point margin. That gap was doubtless made larger by McCain's shameful performance in the final presidential debate, when during an exchange about reproductive rights he used air quotes to mock the very idea of the ...

    Blackspot News Feed

    • The Unread Book List Of Shame
      I am writing this list in order to shame myself into doing better. I have obtained a pile (for values of “pile,” as most are electronic) of books over the last several months that for many and various (bad) reasons I haven’t yet read.  I need to fix this.  Not least because I need to [...]
    • Vintage Space
      Writing my talk for Improving Reality, the Brighton (UK) event I’m speaking at on September 6.  [details] And I’m looking at this phrase I noted down Saturday night.  “Vintage space.”  Or “vintage space travel,” in a clearer but less economical (or, somehow, pretty/doomy) turn. Go ...
    • Green Party VP Candidate Cheri Honkala Joins " ...
      Set up for the Republican National Convention in Tampa, the "Romneyville" encampment is similar to Hoovervilles of the 1930s Great Depression. Residents of Romneyville are calling for an end to foreclosures, homelessness and the criminalization of poverty. We hear from Shamako Noble, a Romneyvil ...
    • Hailed by GOP But Reviled by Labor, Union-Bust ...
      Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker survived a historic recall election in June, one year after he launched a controversial effort to slash bargaining rights for the state's public sector workers and reduce their benefits. The recall effort was the first election since the Citizens United ruling, which ...
    • Top GOP Leaders Tout Fundamentalist Views in B ...
      Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker both spoke on Sunday at a celebration of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, which has launched a massive push to get conservative religious voters to the polls in November. We discuss the Religious Right and its impact on elections ...

    Consortium News

    TruthOut

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

    Planetsave

    • One Third Less Life on Planet Earth than Previ ...
      Researchers have found that previous estimates about the total mass of life on our planet have been a little too generous, having to decrease the estimate by one third. The study behind the discovery was published in the current online issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
    • Eastern Pacific Barrier Is Virtually Impassabl ...
      Charles Darwin was right, again, but this time his predictions focused on a somewhat different genre than we normally associate with the man; this time, it’s the ocean. Researchers have found that Darwin may in fact have been right on the money when he labelled the Eastern Pacific Barrier ...
    • Indo-European Languages ‘Originated’ In Turkey
      Indo-European languages are part of one of the most widely dispersed language families in the world. For at least the last two thousand years they have been written and spoken. There is some controversy remaining about their history though, where and when they originate isn’t clear. In new ...
    • Fossil Fuel and Renewable Energy Subsidies on ...
        New Worldwatch Institute report discusses the rise in subsidies for renewable and fossil fuel-based energy production Washington, D.C.—-Total subsidies for renewable energy stood at $66 billion in 2010, but are still dwarfed by the total value of global fossil fuel subsidies estimat ...
    • Sesame Street Explains How Willard Mitt Romney ...
      More on this subject: From Crooks and Liars: Bill Maher Hits Republicans for Voter ID Laws in New Rules Segment From HuffPo: Jon Stewart Slams Voter ID Laws That ‘Cockblock The Vote’ (VIDEO) From ProPublica: Two Dark Money Groups Outspending All Super PACs Combined From MotherJones: ...

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    Axis of Logic

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

    They Gave Us a Republic

    • The Nightowl Newswrap
      By @BGinKC Oops! The swag-bag at the Republican convention has a copy of Mitt Romney's book No Apology. Just one problem -- it's the original version, the one that boasts about his healthcare bill and muses that it could be a model for the nation. The paperback, that was released after he decla ...
    • Cardinal Dolan Scales Wall Between Church and ...
      By @TedFrier I second the motion. In response to New York's Cardinal Timothy Dolan decision to deliver the closing prayer after Mitt Romney's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa this week, James Carville's daughter suggested the Democrats ought to invite to do their ...
    • Republicans Set to Repeat 1964 Disaster?
      By @TedFrier (Note: this piece is updated from a previous posting) In his review of David Frisk's new biography of the right wing organizer, If Not Us, Who? William Rusher, National Review, and the Conservative Movement, Yale historian Geoffrey Kabaservice issues a warning to all those Republica ...
    • Monday Morning Quad Shot
      By @BGinKC Good morning. I had a good weekend and got caught up on some much-needed sleep, but I was paying attention to what was going on in the world, too, and some of it was too good to risk missing, so without further ado, here is your Monday morning wakeup call. * Charlie Crist settled some ...
    • Where Does All This Hate Come From?
      By @TomBales1 Just got another of those emails from an old friend describing how he had received a request for a contribution from the Obama campaign and how incensed he was that they would dare to ask for a handout and expect him to use his own stamp to send them the money.  Or something ...

    Care 2

    • Refuse Parental Rights to Rapists
      l: Dont grant parental rights to rapists who impregnate their victims. Shockingly, 31 states allow rapists to enjoy the same parental rights that are extended to parents involved in consensual conception. Please sign this petition to Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |  ...
    • The Top Five Regrets of The Dying
      As you read this, think to yourself what could you do differently right now, with your life, so that you live a life of joy, happiness, and meaning, and not experience these regrets? Submitted by Emmanuel Defreitas to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • Puppy Swallows Sock Whole, Lives to Bark About ...
      We've heard of pets polishing off pretty much everything, but a whole sock? You'd think he would have at least chewed it up a bit first. Submitted by BarbCat SunshineLady to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • Investigate Abuses at Florida Institute for Ne ...
      Target: John Armstrong, Surgeon General and Secretary of Health for the State of Florida Goal: Investigate the alleged abuses of current and former patients at the Florida Institute for Neurologic Rehabilitation. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  | ...
    • GOOD NEWS! Toronto bans plastic bags
      A bunch of cool cities across the globe have some kind of ban on plastic bags---Last week, Toronto joined this admirable list after a surprise vote by the City Council. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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    No Quarter

    • Which Channels Will We Watch This Week?
      CNN, desperate to improve its ratings, is going all-out to cover this week’s GOP convention. “The network will start the convention coverage every morning at 5 Eastern time and continue right through a midnight interview show hosted by Piers Morgan, who hosts its flagship prime-time ...
    • “These Hands,” all hands on deck in Tampa & Ne ...
      * Bumped Up * JONATHAN CAPEHART (MSNBC / WaPo shill): We’ll see the [horrible] “memories of a Republican president” … the “SYMBOLISM of the GOP celebrating its presidential nominee while, on a split screen,” we’ll see “people hunkered down in shelt ...
    • More Democrat Panic
      Shrill shouting and over the top accusations are symptoms of both a mental disease and the awakening among Democrats that they are going to get their ass kicked on election day in November. The extent of the panic was writ large this morning on the mug of Chris Matthews. Chris is a total, comple ...
    • Poor Barack, he thought he was born with a sil ...
      Romney may have taken heat for playing too nice — but it could pay off in the end. By sticking to solutions and staying above board, he can be the positive, inclusive alternative to the negative and nasty Obama of 2012. In other words, the kind of candidate Obama claimed to be in 2008.  &#1 ...
    • A Political Thinker’s Shocking Complaints abou ...
      In Salon.com, David Daley interviews Thomas Frank, author of “What’s the Matter With Kansas” and “Pity the Billionaire.” Frank now calls President Obama’s leadership a “dramatic failure” that fell far short of his campaign rhetoric and blames his “conciliatory nature for a first term that looked ...

    Futurismic

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

    Therapy News

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

    Mountaintop Removal

    • Federal Judge Rules Against EPA Mining Restric ...
      Federal Judge Rules Against EPA Mining Restrictions GreenAnswers Mountaintop removal coal mining operations – a form of surface mining that gathers coal from the summit of mountains – commonly dump waste water into waterways in the Appalachian valleys. The polluted water disrupts biodiversity in ...
    • Musicians Join Hit Parade As Mountain Heroes - ...
      Musicians Join Hit Parade As Mountain Heroes unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) As part of Earthjustice's Mountain Heroes campaign, two more prolific artists are joining us to stand up against mountaintop removal mining. The first is Rolling Stone's 23rd greatest guitarist of all time: ...
    • Escalating the Battle Against Mountaintop Remo ...
      Escalating the Battle Against Mountaintop Removal Mining In These Times A direct action to close down a West Virginia mountaintop removal site—and the response to it—has escalated the struggle around coal mining in southern Appalachia. In late July, Radical Action for Mountain People's Survi ...
    • Kentucky Band Campaigns Against Mountaintop Re ...
      Kentucky Band Campaigns Against Mountaintop Removal weku The members of Louisville rock band My Morning Jacket appear in a new campaign by non-profit Earthjustice that opposes mountaintop removal coal mining. Earthjustice's Mountain Heroes campaign includes photos and videos submitted by peo ...
    • My Morning Jacket Featured in National Campaig ...
      WFPL My Morning Jacket Featured in National Campaign Against Mountaintop Removal WFPL The members of Louisville rock band My Morning Jacket appear in a new campaign by non-profit Earthjustice that opposes mountaintop removal coal mining. Earthjustice's Mountain Heroes campaign includes photo ...

    Memeorandum

    • Sarah Palin: Dems addicted to 'hope-ium' (Mack ...
      Mackenzie Weinger / Politico: Sarah Palin: Dems addicted to ‘hope-ium’  —  Sarah Palin on Monday said Democrats who “still have that addiction to the hope-ium” President Barack Obama peddled four years ago need to “open their eyes” and vote fo ...
    • Federal judge says Ohio must count disputed vo ...
      Robert Barnes / Washington Post: Federal judge says Ohio must count disputed votes  —  A federal judge ruled Monday that Ohio must count improperly cast ballots this fall if the mistake is caused by an election worker rather than the voter, a small but potentially significant is ...
    • Damn it, defeat this RINO power grab! (Mark Le ...
      Mark Levin / Facebook: Damn it, defeat this RINO power grab!  —  Conservatives of all stripes, especially Tea Party activists, this is an attempt to destroy your ability to influence the presidential and vice presidential nomination process in the Republican Party.  It is a ...
    • Arlen Specter hospitalized with a serious illn ...
      Dan Gross / Philly.com: Arlen Specter hospitalized with a serious illness, friends confirm  —  Arlen Specter has been hospitalized with a serious illness, confirm friends of the longtime U.S. Senator.  One asked that people keep him in thoughts and prayers.  —&nb ...
    • Hero Reagan's Compromise Would Collide With Te ...
      Michael Tackett / Bloomberg: Hero Reagan's Compromise Would Collide With Tea Party Certitude  —  Ronald Reagan remains the modern Republican Party's most durable hero.  His memory will be hailed as The Great Uncompromiser by those who insist the GOP must never flag in its s ...

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    China Dialogue

    • Water-transfer projects "essential", says Chin ...
      Xia Jun tells chinadialogue that China must press ahead with "essential" water-transfer projects, but needs a less chaotic approach.Xia Jun is president of the International Water Resources Association and head of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Water Resources Ce ...
    • China's South-North water transfer is "irrational"
      Ruth Matthews, of the Water Footprint Network, tells Tom Levitt how food has come to dominate our water use and why China may need to re-think its South-North water transfer project. Ruth Matthews is executive director of the Water Footprint Network Tom Levitt: What do you mean by our ...
    • China finds subsidised eco-fridges hard to shift
      The Chinese government has forked out 26 billion yuan to boost consumption of energy-saving home appliances. But so far the market hasn’t reacted as hoped, reports Wang Haotong.This summer, China launched a new round of subsidies for energy efficient home appliances, allocating 26.5 billio ...
    • China's power monopoly dilemma
      Consolidation of China’s coal and electricity industries may not resolve long-standing price tensions and power shortages argues Liu ChengkunIn late June, China’s biggest coal company, Shenhua Group, overtook China Power Investment (CPI) to become the country’s fifth largest el ...
    • Calls grow to scrap US nuclear plant
      A radioactive leak could see permanent closure of the San Onofre nuclear plant, as public frustrations mount. Jan McGirk reports from California.A radioactive leak may prove to be the swan song for one of California’s ageing nuclear-power plants, the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, ...

    AlterNet Top Stories

    • The 99% Take on the Republican National Convention
      Politics is an elaborate chess match, and in St, Petersburg one small strike was staged against the Republican National convention on Aug. 26 that revealed the thrust of President Obama’s 2012 re-election strategy.As panicky Republicans cancelled the first day of the convention on Monda ...
    • 6 Right-Wing Zealots and the Crazy Ideas Behin ...
      The official 2012 Republican Party platform is a far-right fever dream, a compilation of pouting, posturing and policies to meet just about every demand from the overlapping Religious Right, Tea Party, corporate, and neo-conservative wings of the GOP. If moderates have any influence in today&# ...
    • A Hard Life in the Fields Starting at Age 7
      Ed. Note: Three bills now making their way through Sacramento promise to dramatically improve conditions for California farmworkers, including one on Gov. Jerry Brown's desk that requires overtime pay for shifts above eight hours. For Javier Mondar-Flores Lopez, an indigenous Mixtec farmworker ...
    • Sorry Guys, Just Because One Study Claims That ...
       It’s the semen study that won’t stop. In the 10 years since its publication, it has continued to make news – despite being preliminary and involving a measly 293 undergraduate participants. “Every two to three years there will be something about it on the Inte ...
    • Dave Eggers' Gem of a New Novel Goes Right Aft ...
      Dave Eggers’ gem of a book, “A Hologram for the King,” is a parable about the decadence, fragility and heartlessness of late, decayed corporate capitalism. It is about the small, largely colorless men and women who serve as managers in our suicidal outsourcing of manufactu ...

    Threat Level

    • Twitter Fights Back to Protect ‘Occupy Wall St ...
      Twitter is appealing a court order to turn over user data related to an Occupy Wall Street protestor.
    • Landmark California Location-Privacy Bill Near ...
      California lawmakers have approved legislation that would require the state's authorities to obtain a probable-cause warrant signed by a judge to obtain any location information from an electronic device -- from tablets and mobile phones to laptops. The measure, however, faces an uncertain fate ...
    • AT&T’s App-Blocking Defense Is Weak and Anti-C ...
      AT&T says it's okay to block FaceTime over 3G and 4G because the app comes installed by default. Free Press' research director S. Derek Scott calls that argument laughable and a plain attempt to undermine net neutrality.
    • FTC Asked to Stop Viral Advertising Promotions ...
      Children's health and privacy groups asked the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to investigate what they called the "commercial exploitation" of youths through popular brand-name companies' online, and viral, advertising promotions.
    • Feds Expand Domain Seizures to Mobile-App Pira ...
      The U.S. government for the first time has seized internet domains of online sites accused of selling pirated mobile applications, in this instance, Android apps. Seizing domains is nothing new under the President Barack Obama administration. Usually, however, sites are shuttered for offering ga ...

    Equality Trust

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

    PDA AMERICA

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

    Marler Blog

    • Final, Final CDC 2011 Listeria Cantaloupe Outb ...
      After the final update on December 8, investigators learned that a Listeria isolate that had been isolated from a sample of cut cantaloupe from a patient’s home during the outbreak investigation had a PFGE pattern combination that was different from the four known pattern combinations in t ...
    • Canada, California and Washington Likely Linke ...
      Daniella brand Mangoes implicated. According to USA Today and Food Safety News, California has had 73 cases of Salmonella Braenderup, and 67% of those people reported that they ate mangoes. Washington State has had six cases of Salmonella Braenderup that match the genetic fingerprint of the Ca ...
    • A recent Salmonella cantaloupe outbreak and a ...
      On March 22, 2011 Del Monte announced the recall of 4,992 cartons of cantaloupes due to contamination with Salmonella panama. The recall followed an announcement by the FDA that “there is an epidemiologic link between the cantaloupes and approximately twelve reported cases of Salmonella ...
    • Another Child Sick from Salmonella Cantaloupe ...
      The cantaloupe industry and our own government seems incapable of figuring out how to produce a safe product.  Although, I have said on more that one occasion that "civil litigation is a blunt instrument for change," it does create incentives for change and that seems more than industry and ...
    • Fresh Express Hearts of Romaine Recalled Due t ...
      Fresh Express Incorporated is voluntarily recalling a limited quantity of expired 10 oz. Hearts of Romaine salad with the expired Use-by Date of August 23, 2012 and a Product Code beginning with "G222" as a precaution due to a possible health risk from Listeria monocytogenes. No illnesses are r ...

    AutoblogGreen

    • Report: Motor Trend tests Tesla Model S ...
      Filed under: Sedan, Tesla, Electric Tesla has said the highest-end Model S has a range of 300 miles (at 55 miles per hour), but until recently, it's been tremendously difficult for anyone outside the company to verify this number. When the EPA did its testing thing, it came up with a 265-mile ...
    • Official: Fisker Q&A sheds light, lots of ...
      Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Fisker, Electric, Luxury Despite what some media outlets are saying, the long list of questions and answers about the Fisker Karma now floating around (and available below) is not a leaked document. Instead, it is part of Fisker's ongoing customer service operation ...
    • Official: Fisker: cooling fan responsible for ...
      Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Recalls, Fisker, Electric, Luxury After two short "we're looking into it" official statements (1, 2), Fisker Automotive has announced that it has completed a "detailed investigation" into the strange, spontaneous combustion of a Karma plug-in hybrid that happened i ...
    • Official: Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid sets world s ...
      Filed under: Motorsports, Hybrid, Sedan, Volkswagen After blasting down the Bonneville Salt Flats at 185 miles per hour, the 2013 Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid is now the "world's fastest hybrid," according to VW. The modified Jetta Hybrid was driven by Motor Trend Associate Road Test Editor Car ...
    • Report: 2013 Nissan Leaf will go 25% further, ...
      Filed under: Car Buying, Hatchback, Nissan, Electric Months ago, we heard that the U.S. version of the 2013 Nissan Leaf would go farther per charge in cold weather thanks to a better heater. This was about the Leaf that will be made in Smyrna, Tennessee starting later this year. A new report ...

    Rafe's Radar

    Camera Obscura

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

    Democracy Now!

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

    Suzie-Q

    • Why It’s So Important For Rape To Be &#8 ...
      Daily Kos by Dante Atkins Sun Aug 26, 2012 at 06:00 AM PDT Unless you’ve been spending the past week or so living under a rock—and given the political climate these days, it would be hard to blame you for doing so—you can’t have missed the fact that Republican Congressman and newly m ...
    • Crossroads GPS And Americans For Prosperity Ou ...
      Think Progress Justice By Rebecca Leber  on Aug 14, 2012 at 3:50 pm Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS (an affiliate of the super PAC American Crossroads) and the Koch brothers’ Americans For Prosperity have spent more on TV ads than every super PAC combined, according to a ProPublica analysis of CMAG d ...
    • Scrutiny for Casino Mogul’s Frontman in China
      The New York Times By MICHAEL LUO, NEIL GOUGH and EDWARD WONG Published: August 13, 2012 When Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate, needed something done in China, he often turned to his company’s “chief Beijing representative,” a mysterious businessman named Yang Saixin. Mr. Yang arranged meetin ...
    • Paul Ryan’s Jack Abramoff And Tom DeLay ...
      Huff Post By- Jason Cherkis Posted: 08/11/2012  5:58 pm Updated: 08/11/2012  6:02 pm WASHINGTON — As Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has served more than a decade in Congress, President Barack Obama and his allies will surely be scouring his extensive voting record, if they haven’t done so a ...
    • Romney-Ryan 2012: The Herman & Eddie Munster T ...
      Crooks & Liars By karoli August 11, 2012 06:00 AM As I write, the only thing lacking is official confirmation by the Romney campaign that Mittens will adopt young Paul Ryan as his running mate. It would appear as though Mittens’ disaster-laden campaign of the past few weeks has prompte ...

    Solari

    • Genetic Roulette
      Source: YouTube This seminal documentary provides compelling evidence to help explain the deteriorating health of Americans, especially among children, and offers a recipe for protecting ourselves and our future. Continue reading the article . . . Related reading: Seeds of Deception Solari Re ...
    • The Pacific Free Trade Deal That’s Anyth ...
      By Dean Baker “Free trade” is a sacred mantra in Washington. If anything is labeled as being “free trade”, then everyone in the Washington establishment is required to bow down and support it. Otherwise, they are excommunicated from the list of respectable people and exil ...
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    • The Role of the CPA in a Crowdfunding Future
      By Michael Ramos In 2010, many sectors of the U.S. economy began to improve from the Great Recession—however, small businesses lagged behind, largely as a result of having trouble raising the capital they needed in a still tenuous financial recovery. This led to the advent of a concept called c ...
    • US Health Care Spending: Who Pays?
      By Josh Cothran, Georgia Institute of Technology [CAF Note: Ever notice that the more private insurers and the government get involved, the worse and more expensive things get?] In 1960, almost 100% of the spending on prescription drugs came out of the consumer’s pocket; by 2010, out-of-po ...

    Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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    Sideways News

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

    Fabius Maximus

    • Has America grown old, and can no longer grow? ...
      Summary:  The future of economic growth has become a hot topic. Here’s a brief look at two of the contrasting visions for our future. Read about both visions and decide for yourself! Contents Introduction Slow growth ahead — or even no growth Accelerating growth leading to the singul ...
    • Undercutting people’s trust in the Repub ...
      Summary:  Skepticism of authority is an element of wisdom, but with careful encouragement can become malignant distrust of government. It’s a step towards de-legitimizing the Republic, a powerful element of a elites “divide and concquor” strategy — leaving a people with n ...
    • Today we ask the mineshaft: Is the Right winni ...
      Summary:  Today we ask about the future of the GOP, and America.  Are they ascendant, or a list gasp of a dying ideology?  We ask the mineshaft!  As in “ask the community”, from the German “Gemeinschaft” (see Wikipedia).  Post your answer in the comments. To help you bett ...
    • Transmission in error, please ignore
      Click here to see today’s post. Filed under: Internal Tagged: propaganda
    • Updates to past posts, and an open thread to p ...
      Summary: Today we have updates to past posts, interesting recent news about important themes.  Also, please use this as an open thread to comment and ask questions about geopolitics. Contents More news of the robot revolution The rumor-mongers were wrong (again) about US carriers attacking Iran ...

    Open Your Eyes News

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

    The Progressive Realist

    • The Syria Bluff
      It is clearly intelligence-led. President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron have said that any recourse to chemical weapons by Damascus would be “completely unacceptable” and would lead the US and UK to “revisit their approach” to the crisis. According to Obama even movi ...
    • The Abuja Bombing, One Year On
      Yesterday was the one year anniversary of the terrorist bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria. At least 23 people were killed in the suicide bombing, making it the single deadliest attack against the United Nations in the organization’s history.  11 of those killed w ...
    • UK Support for Military Action in Syria not in ...
      The last time a British prime minister endorsed an American president's plans for military intervention, it resulted in the US invasion of Iraq – one of the worst foreign policy blunders in recent American history. That is why last week's endorsement by David Cameron of a warning by Barack ...
    • Top of the Morning: Another Massacre in Syria; ...
      Top stories from DAWNS Digest.  Word of Another Massacre in Syria There is increasing information about a mass atrocity event that has taken place in the Damascus suburb of Daraya. “Several other witnesses here and two activist groups have now offered accounts of what has begun to look like one ...
    • Parsing the RNC's National Security Platform
      POLITICO found what seems to be a close-to-final draft on the RNC's website. The national security section, titled "American Exceptionalism" is here. Below I have gone through and blogged some of the more mendacious and ridiculous content. But what's the short take: the Middle East, ...

    TAPPED - The American Prospect

    • Ghosts of Ballots Past
      “It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting.” —Tom Stoppard, Jumpers Voting rights are in the news again, and they’re back as a national issue. In Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania, and several other states, the coming election showdown on November 6 has been shadowed by a rising conce ...
    • Don't Think of a Hurricane!
      So it’s the last week of the summer, and you’re one of the few in the office who hasn’t escaped for vacation, and the Republicans are failing their God-given duty to offer you some entertainment while you wait for things to speed up again? Some nerve they have! Here are some things to read, and ...
    • Mitt in the Mud
      (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Mitt Romney gives a thumbs up as he leaves Brewster Academy after finishing convention preparations yesterday. In an interview with USA Today this weekend, Mitt Romney attacked President Obama for running a “sad” and “vituperative” campaign. He accused the p ...
    • Fear Not the Bump
      Since I write about politics for a living, my family and friends often ask me for my opinions about matters political, and in recent days these queries have taken on an edge—not quite panic, but let's call it worry. "Romney doesn't really have a chance, does he?" one person asked me yesterday w ...
    • The Projection Party
      Of all the things Republicans have called President Obama in the last four years—socialist, radical, un-American, anti-American, elitist—perhaps the strangest is "divisive." It seems so odd to the rest of us when we look at Obama, whose entire history, even from childhood, has been about carefu ...

    Buzzflash

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

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    Sciencebase

    • Chemistry matters
      Latest chemistry news round-up from the ChemWeb Alchemist, who this week looks through an ITO coated glass darkly this week with another step taken towards transparent electronics for solar panels. In earthly news, life’s inorganic components may have emerged as supercontinents were formed ...
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    • My Sister Rosalind Franklin
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    • Hairy Bikers BP
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    • Gadget in the pan? Just add rice
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    Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

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      Scientists from the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center have confirmed that Arctic sea ice extent has reached a record low, beating the previous mid-September low in 2007. Ice loss is driven by emissions of long-lived gases like carbon dioxide and short-lived climate pollutants like methane a ...
    • Private Equity and Breach of Trust
      Though private equity firms have garnered much more attention recently, the focus has mainly been on how partners in these firms use tax loopholes to amass vast fortunes in part by not paying their fair share of taxes. Much less is known about the sources of these earnings. A new report from the ...
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      The world’s climate crisis has hit a dire new milestone: The extent of sea ice across the Arctic is the smallest on record, the National Snow and Ice Data Center announced today. The agency said sea ice currently covers just 1.58 million square miles (4.1 million square kilometers).read more
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      AP reports at least eight deaths from tropical storm Issac in Haiti. Over 30 groups working on Haiti have set up the Under Tents campaign in working to ensure housing. The groups state that many of Haiti’s problems are not “natural disasters,” but are the result of policies tha ...

    Common Dreams-Views

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    Newshoggers - AfPak

    Water Wars

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    • India's basic needs
      India, Aug. 25 -- A blackout of an apocalyptic scale last month rendered half the nation powerless; impending water wars may overtake land wars; fuel crises; an erratic monsoon, floods and droughts... the spotlight is back on India's development trajectory. The country's urban population ...
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      It was a clean sweep for all three winners in the first round of the America’s Cup World Series match races as Ben Ainslie Racing and both Luna Rossa teams — Swordfish and Piranha — came away with 2-0 victories to advance to the quarterfinals. Ainslie Racing had the tightest races in its matchup ...
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      Industry rather than municipal supply is now the strongest driver of the desalination market, according to a new report published today by GWI*. Since the financial crisis of 2008, the growth of the market for seawater desalination to augment municipal water supply has slowed to a standstill – b ...
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      On Sunday, Aug. 5, Columbiana United Methodist Church Youth held their second annual Water Wars. This offered a chance for the youth of the church to come and enjoy a time of fellowship with water balloons, water balloon launchers, water guns and a giant foam pit.

    WordPress | Economics

    Electronic Intifada

    The Wonk Room

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    thwap's schoolyard

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    • Airshow MacKay vs. the Lives of "R"CAF Pilots
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      The way to grow a blog's readership is to post frequently so that there's always something knew when bored people click in to waste some more time. But, obviously, I ain't doing that. This whole online world is starting to leave me kinda cold. Oh well, not going to give up the ghost just yet ... ...
    • Progressive Patriot: The War on Terrorism Part I
      This is the third part of an intended series to try to come up with a positive agenda to try to make this country a better place. In a better world, I wouldn't have to even deal with trashing something as self-evidently idiotic as "The War on Terror." Alas, alack, however ridiculous it is, the W ...
    • Wall Street Trying To Give Obama a Win
      This link confirms what I already thought. US politics is a total sham and has been for over a decade. Obama is the consensus candidate for Wall Street because they know they can't get away with everything they'd like to. So, the Repugs are allowed to descend into madness with a hapless buffoon ...

    on Government Oversight

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    • Study says teens who smoke marijuana can lower ...
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    • TIFF Alert — 'Ship of Theseus' is a must see
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      The Canadian Comedy Awards Foundation handed out their awards and one act dominated the night. Note the name Picnicface.

    End Homelessness | Change.org

    • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
      Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
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      This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
    • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
      What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
    • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
      Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
    • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
      Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

    Ceasefire.ca

    Kevin Trudeau Show

    • Another Santorum Slip: Obama an Anti-War ‘Gove ...
      April 2, 2012 Crooks And Liars By Diane Sweet “Listen closely. He WAS about to say it.” –KTRN Failed former junior senator from Pennsylvania by way of Virginia, turned presidential hopeful, Rick Santorum speaks to a crowd at The Armory in Janesville, Wisconsin on March 27th dur ...
    • Is That A Crushed Bug In Your Frothy Starbucks ...
      April 2, 2012 NPR By Nancy Shute “If you are still going to Starbucks, stop! Not only have they killed almost every mom and pop coffee shop, by now it’s been proven they are using crushed up beetles in their beverages. Gross!” –KTRN Call it the tempest in the Frappuccino. ...
    • Congress Gets Rough Treatment At Supreme Court
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    • Japan’s Okinawa Island – The Healthiest Place ...
      April 2, 2012 Oddity Central By Sumitra “It’s really not that odd. The people living on Okinawa eat real food and have no stress – thus they live long lives. We can all learn a lot by studying the people living on this island.” –KTRN I used to think that there were ...
    • Secrets of Prometheus Film Leaked!
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    Armies of Liberation

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

    Dark Politricks

    • Ask Alex Jones #9
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    • Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan to be Mitt Romney’s V ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com Following information that former Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) would announce his choice for Vice President outside the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Virgina, sources have confirmed that the nominee will be Rep. ...
    • American Values
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    • U.S. Army tests football field-sized super spy ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com The U.S. Army’s Long-Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) — a high-tech robotic spy blimp — was launched for its 90-minute maiden voyage on Tuesday from a military base in Lakehurst, ...
    • Historic Hypocrisy: UN-Backed Rogue States Pla ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Felicity Arbuthnot The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy. ” Former US Attorney General, Ramsey Clark On May 4th, 2012, UN Secretary General ...

    Dandelion Salad

    • Sibel Edmonds: The United States of Terrorism
      by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post Aug. 22, 2012 Last Thursday, one day before leaving the sin city, in our temporary suitcase-filled rental apartment, I gave an interview to Lew Rockwell on Classified Woman and much more. I say much more ...
    • The Road Ahead Is Not An Easy One — Euro ...
      by Gaither Stewart Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rome, Italy August 27, 2012 The Rome Radical Left daily, Il Manifesto, recently headed a recent article about European politics (which I have summarized here) with the name of Emile Roemer. The 50-year old Roemer is the leader of Holland’s leftw ...
    • The Mirage of Our Lives by Chris Hedges
      by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig August 27, 2012 “A Hologram for the King” A book by Dave Eggers Published by McSweeney’s 328 Pages Dave Eggers’ gem of a book, “A Hologram for the King,” is a parable about the decadence, fragility and heartlessness of late, decayed corpor ...
    • Law of Value 9: Abstract Labor by Brendan M. C ...
      Dandelion Salad http://kapitalism101.wordpress.com/ Aug 23, 2012 by brendanmcooney [...] What kind of social power does money have? It seems to have any social power we might want it to have. In a society in which social life is coordinated by market exchange money has the ability to buy any asp ...
    • Dmitry Orlov: 2013: Revolutionary Travel Advis ...
      Dandelion Salad Aug 23, 2012 by RussiaToday In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the fact that we’re all cows eating candy during the global liquidity drought and yet Central Bank ‘farmers’ can’t see the ill-effects because the stock markets are at four y ...

    Your New Reality

    • No title
      Only A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent : It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the king-makers to the pol ...
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      Julian Assange, 2012: They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
    • No title
      This man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
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      Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
    • No title
      Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.

    Wired - 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 ...
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      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 ...

    Israeli Occupation Archive

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

    Ria Novosti - Military

    NewsWise

    • Wolters Kluwer Health Leads in the Transformat ...
      As more healthcare professionals use mobile devices to access medical information, Wolters Kluwer Health is leading the industry's digital transformation of medical journals with a strategy focused on helping its advertising partners leverage multimedia content to increase audience reach and eng ...
    • UMHS & MidMichigan Health Seek to Affiliate in ...
      MidMichigan Health and the University of Michigan Health System have announced plans to affiliate as clinical and business partners.
    • Babson College Connects Students To Social Inn ...
      Babson College is hosting "From Day One", an active marketplace of social innovation designed to connect students to the many ways they can make a difference in the world from the moment they first step foot on campus.
    • Foley's Fulbright Trip Reveals More About Asia ...
      The next superstar of the Muslim world might not be a political activist or a crusading journalist; instead it just might be a Lebanese singer who was raised in Sweden, worked in New York City and lives in Malaysia. That's only one of the fascinating insights Dr. Sean Foley gained during his ...
    • Deep Brain Stimulation Changes Rhythms to Trea ...
      Deep brain stimulation may stop uncontrollable shaking in patients with Parkinson's disease and essential tremor by imposing its own rhythm on the brain, according to two recent studies.

    Natural Health News

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

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