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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 III

IPCC protest coffinIPCC protest coffin (Photo credit: theduckshoot)

Climategate

Opinio Juris

  • Weekday News Wrap: Monday, August 27, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey  In an effort not to stoke tensions any further, Japan’s central government has declined authorization to the Tokyo Metropolitan Authorities to survey the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands. Japan’s territorial tensions with South Korea hinder their bilatera ...
  • Upcoming Events: August 26, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Calls for Papers The Irish Yearbook of International Law has a call for papers for a special symposium issue regarding Climate Justice in International Law (Word document). Submission deadline is August 31, 2012. The University of Sydney is hosting a post-graduate ...
  • Upcoming Events: August 26, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Calls for Papers The Irish Yearbook of International Law has a call for papers for a special symposium issue regarding Climate Justice in International Law (Word document). Submission deadline is August 31, 2012. The University of Sydney is hosting a post-graduate ...
  • Weekend Roundup: August 11-24, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen With the start of the US academic year just around the corner, activity picked up here at Opinio Juris this week. There certainly wasn’t a shortage of international law items to discuss… First, there is of course the diplomatic spat between the UK and ...
  • Weekend Roundup: August 11-24, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen With the start of the US academic year just around the corner, activity picked up here at Opinio Juris this week. There certainly wasn’t a shortage of international law items to discuss… First, there is of course the diplomatic spat between the UK and ...

Public News Service

  • "Look Before You Lock" – Keeping AZ Kids ...
    "Look Before You Lock" – Keeping AZ Kids Out of Hot Cars PHOENIX – With school back in session, Arizona parents are again running kids around to all their activities. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says it's important for parents and day care providers to ...
  • Eating Healthy Helps AZ Kids Succeed in School
    Eating Healthy Helps AZ Kids Succeed in School PHOENIX, Ariz. - With Arizona schools back in session, parents are reminded that eating right is important for children's bodies as well as their brains. Tammy Gallow, a registered nurse and dietitian, says it's absolutely critical to get a student' ...
  • Arizona, U.S. Risk Losing Wind Jobs to Other N ...
    Arizona, U.S. Risk Losing Wind Jobs to Other Nations PHOENIX - Like the wind itself, the wind-energy industry has blown hot and cold in Arizona. Some blame the lack of effort in Congress to extend the Production Tax Credit for alternative energy, set to expire in about four months. The standsti ...
  • Election 2012: What about Arizona's Children?
    Election 2012: What about Arizona's Children? PHOENIX - So far, the 2012 presidential race has focused variously on unemployment, job creation, tax cuts, the candidates' tax returns, even the London Olympics. What's missing? The executive director of the Child and Family Policy Center, Charles ...
  • Is My Child Ready for Social Media?
    Is My Child Ready for Social Media? PHOENIX – Kids tweet, they post pictures on Facebook, and they connect through many social media channels - while their parents, in Arizona and around the nation, seem to accept it. A new national study by Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics finds 83 ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Hiroshima Survivors to Visit Israel
    The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project is a unique, civil society initiative that enables Hibakusha (survivors of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki) to participate in around-the-world voyages to give personal testimonies about the effects of the atomic bomb ...
  • Military and Settler Vandalism Escalates as Co ...
    We continue to follow, report and support the struggle of the Palestinian residents of the West Bank’s southernmost region, to continue living on their ancestral lands which they legally own. One would think that in an enlightened society such a simple request would be guaranteed beyond do ...
  • A New Bio-Gas System in Palestinian Susya
    in May 2010, the Bio-Gas project was launched to install systems for producing gas from sheep and goat dung for the domestic energy needs of the Palestinian hamlet of Susya (Susiya). This project was the initiative of Yair Teller, together with The Villages Group and Arava Institute. The first s ...
  • Susya
    June 22, 2012: Susya I doubt if Palestinian Susya has ever seen so many people. Some 500, maybe more, have arrived from Jerusalem (including a large Palestinian delegation from East Jerusalem), Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva, and various sites in the occupied territories: Beit Umar, Mufagara, and the ...
  • My Home is Everything: the People of Susiya Sp ...
    Dear Friends and supporters, The latest news from Qamar, the lawyer from Rabbis for Human Rights representing Palestinian Susiya: the occupation’s “Civil Administration” agreed to extend the period for the submission of the juridical objections to the demolition orders issued f ...

Politics in the Zeros

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

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Chefville, social readers, Scribd, Causes, Bra ...
    Zynga’s ChefVille leads our list of the fastest growing Facebook applications by monthly active users this week with 2,141 percent gain that pushed the game past 12 million MAU. Zynga seems to have put its marketing weight behind Chefville rather than The Ville, … Continue reading &# ...
  • Facebook shows off the size of its News Feed ads
    Facebook wants advertisers to know just how big its ads are these days. In an infographic to explain the power its advertising platform, the company points out that News Feed ads are larger than many traditional display and mobile units. For … Continue reading →
  • Facebook roundup: large investors sell shares, ...
    Facebook co-founder and early investor sell shares – Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and early investor Peter Thiel both sold a portion of their shares since the IPO lockup period ended last week. Thiel, of venture capital firm Founders Fund, sold nearly 20.1 … Continue reading ...
  • Facebook acquires Threadsy start-up behind Swa ...
    Facebook has acquired San Francisco-based Threadsy, which offers Klout-like service called Swaylo to connect brands and influencers. Some of that product will be taken down after the deal closes, but SwayloPro will continue to operate as an independent company owned … Continue reading →
  • Facebook updates iOS Messenger with option to ...
    Facebook released an update today for its standalone Messenger app for iOS, which now includes links to view a friend’s Timeline or call their cell phone if it’s been shared in their profile. The app also allows users to see when … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Domestic terrorism American style
    Lawrence Davidson analyses the roots of domestic American terrorism, racism and bigotry, arguing that what is needed now is "consistent educational and legal pressure against racist behaviour both in terms of individual and institutional behaviour", or else the US will become as racist and bigot ...
  • Restoring Syria's uprising to the Syrian people
    Jamal Kanj warns against the creeping hijacking of the the Syrian people's fight for freedom by foreign powers with ulterior motives, and argues that "widespread civil disobedience exposing the brutal Assad regime and shifting the centre of power back to the home-based opposition is Syria's last ...
  • Ayn Rand, the preacher of selfishness inspirin ...
    Uri Avnery views the philosophy of Ayn Rand, the inspiration behind US Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan. A Jewish White Russian preacher of extreme selfishness, Rand, who has become the darling of Tea Party fanatics, was also an unabashed racist who believed that the Arab-Israeli ...
  • By way of deception Israel trying to drag US i ...
    Jamal Kanj argues that "leaked" Israeli information on plans to attack Iran are intended to drag the USA into a new Middle East quagmire through committing aggression against Iran on the eve of the American presidential election.
  • America on the road to Ryan and ruin
    Lawrence Davidson argues that a win for Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan in the upcoming US presidential election would most likely destroy what is left of the USA's social safety nets, devastate the middle class, greatly increase the ranks of the poor and unemployed, do away with unio ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

Afro Spear

  • “Between Truths and Indulgences” b ...
    Repost inspired by this commentary from Sis. Carolyn Moon: “The difference that I’m noticing more now and it’s a perception which I’m sure can be debated but there is this extreme animus towards the various countries on the continent of Africa and their historical role in promoting the tri ...
  • The scourge of NGO’s in Haiti: why the r ...
  • African American Arrogance 2: The Audacity of ...
    Allow me to present these questions to you directly: 1.  What is your position, and more specifically, what do you suggest as an alternative to voting for the president, and 2.  If you are a non-African American living in Canada, what dog do you have in this fight? What is your purpose of arguin ...
  • Caster Semenya Wins Olympic Silver!
    Congrats and much love to Sister Caster (yes I said “Sister”) for overcoming all the haters and doubters and winning a silver medal in her first Olympics!
  • sat’day riddymz

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Healing the Earth: Healing the Self: Lifestyle ...
    Permaculture is a design method and set of tehniques for creating a sustainable and resilient human habitat within a larger ecosystem. This article looks at Permaculture in relation to commercial agriculture, organic commercial agriculture, and hunting and gathering.
  • The world is not 10,000 years old. The Bible s ...
    A recent Gallup poll showed that 58% of Republicans think the world was created in the last 10,000 years, with humans in their present form. Gallup concludes: "Despite the many changes that have taken place in American society and culture over the past 30 years, including new discoveries in bi ...
  • The New Vanity Publishing: Traditional Publishing
    The new world of self-publishing offers incredible opportunities for authors to publish their works when they want, earn thirty to eighty percent royalties, control all the rights to their books, and to market to targeted audiences over the internet.Sadly, many authors think that self-publish ...
  • Romney's Lying Machine
    Every campaign is guilty of exaggerations, embellishments, distortions, and half-truths. But this is another thing altogether. I've been directly involved in seven presidential campaigns, and I don't recall a presidential candidate lying with such audacity, over and over again. Why does Romney d ...
  • Should More of the Blood Be on the Train Tracks?
    S. Brian Wilson, gave his legs and part of his skull for peace.

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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Obama’s the only President who’s e ...
    A Republican PAC full of former Navy Seals, Special Operations for America, will be releasing an ad entitled “Bow to Nobody” at the RNC: Ryan Zinke, the former Navy SEAL who started the super PAC, spoke exclusively with Breitbart News today. “The ad itself accurately portrays where t ...
  • The Downfall of Higher Education
    Bruce Bawer, an old white male and writer of anti-Islamic screeds, seems to think that the downfall of higher education is in the “studies.” You know, black studies, women’s studies, gender studies, etc. Classes dedicated to non-white males, which Bawer believes constitutes the ...
  • Consent and the Republican Mind
    If being a Republican today means anything, it means…well, supporting massive upper class tax cuts.  But in addition to that, it means not understanding the concept of “consent,” at least as it pertains to women. A desire to use the law to punish women for having sex in ways Re ...
  • “This race isn’t about race. Wait, ...
    Not that conservatives are trying to make it an issue—being that theirs is the party whose anti-anti-racism robustly defies the law that governs all other double negatives—but via Jamelle, I see that Romney claims: There’s no question in mind that the president’s action in this regard was ...
  • Breaking Bad: “Say My Name,” or fi ...
    One of the more gratifying things about studying film and television is the occasional payoff. You consider a scene in obsessive detail and it turns out that scene is just as important as you thought it was. This isn’t a credit to you, obviously, so much as the director. (Though it is a va ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Appeals court rules that gown, invitations do ...
    A California appeals court has ruled that a "commitment ceremony" between a stock trader's ex-wife and another man did not absolve the trader of nearly $40,000 per month in support payments.
  • Classes convene at the country's newest law school
    The country's newest law school held its first day of class on Monday, August 27. About 75 students comprise the inaugural class of the Concordia University School of Law in Boise — the first law school in Idaho's capital. The school is part of Concordia University in Portland, Ore., a ...
  • DOJ, South Carolina face off over voter ID law
    Lawyers for South Carolina have begun their pitch to convince a special judicial panel in Washington that the state's voter identification law promotes integrity in the electoral process and does not discriminate against minorities.
  • The other disgraced cyclist to pay $479,000 in ...
    Former professional cyclist Floyd Landis, who blew the whistle on rampant doping in the sport, particularly by former teammate Lance Armstrong, has admitted to defrauding 1,765 people who donated to a legal fund he organized to fight charges that he used performance-enhancing drugs himself.
  • The Equity Gap: A Special Report on Women in t ...
    Are big firms committed to promoting women into the equity partnership? Our study of the largest U.S. firms shows that women represent just 15 percent of equity partners. At just five firms surveyed, women make up more than 25 percent of equity partners.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Desalination Sector Surges as Technology Impro ...
    A new report predicts that global investment in water desalination projects will triple over a five-year period from 2011 to 2016, driven by improvements in technology and a surge in companies entering the sector. According to Global Water Intelligence, investments in desalination plant installa ...
  • Bolivia’s Battle: A Road or a Way of Life?
    In an e360 video report, Noah Friedman-Rudovsky explores how a highway proposed through the heart of the Bolivian national park known as TIPNIS will affect local indigenous communities.
  • In Bolivia, A Battle Over A Highway and a Way ...
    Growing conflicts over development in South America have come to a head in Bolivia, where indigenous groups are resisting a highway project that would slice through a national park. How Bolivia resolves this showdown could point the way for other regions seeking to balance economic growth and th ...
  • With Funding Tight, Cities are Turning to Gree ...
    From Seattle to Sweden, an ever-growing number of city and regional governments are using roof gardens, specially designed wetlands, and other forms of “green infrastructure” to rein in pollution from countless diffuse sources — and to save money. BY JIM ROBBINS
  • Solar Shingles Made With Abundant Metals Offer ...
    U.S. scientists say that emerging photovoltaic technologies will enable the production of solar shingles made from abundantly available elementsrather than rare-earth metals, an innovation that would make solar Dow Chemical Solar shingles energy cheaper and more sustainable. Speaking at t ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Pigs and squatters threaten Peru’s Nazca lines
    Squatters have started raising pigs on the site of Peru’s Nazca lines - the giant designs best seen from an airplane that were mysteriously etched into the desert more than 1,500 years ago. The squatters have destroyed a Nazca-era cemetery and the 50 shacks they have built border Nazca figures, ...
  • All Men Are Potential Pedophiles in the Eyes o ...
    Are all men potential pedophiles? If you’re a passenger on a Qantas Airways or Virgin Australia flight, the answer is yes, as both airlines have policies forbidding adult men from sitting next to unaccompanied minors. Dismayed at being so negatively stereotyped, men are speaking out down under t ...
  • New Impact Crater in the Arctic Discovered
    Researchers from the University of Saskatchewan and the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) have discovered a massive meteor impact from millions of years ago in Canada’s western Arctic. Located on the northwestern part of Victoria Island, the impact crater, or astrobleme, is about 25 km wide and ...
  • Open-air quantum teleportation performed acros ...
    Sending signals through fiber optic cable is reliable and fast, but because of internal absorption and other effects, they will lose photons—which is a problem when the number of photons being sent is small. This is of particular concern in quantum networks, which typically involve a small numbe ...
  • CIA’s LSD Mind-Control Experiments Destroyed M ...
    Excerpt from Wall’s new book "Healing to Hell": A Cold War scheme to find a mind-control drug for use on hostile leaders destroyed many lives. [AlterNet Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from From Healing to Hell , a memoir in which oral surgeon and inventor W. Henry Wall, Jr. explores ...

Russia Today

  • Spiritual leader of Dagestani Muslims killed i ...
    A Muslim leader of the Russian Republic of Dagestan has been assassinated in his home, according to law enforcement sources. Sheikh Said Afandi died after a suicide bomber apparently set off an explosive device in his... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Syrian opposition announces roadmap for post-A ...
    Syrian opposition activists announced they have drafted a political roadmap for the country’s development in the event of the ouster of President Assad. The project, initiated by US and German think tanks, is currently... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • 8 killed as typhoon Bolaven slams South Korea ...
    Typhoon Bolaven has struck South Korea, killing at least eight and leaving dozens homeless. The powerful storm severely disrupted communications and caused hundreds of flight cancellations. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Human rights court begins hearings on Tymoshen ...
    The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is beginning deliberation of a Ukrainian ex-Prime Minister’s complaint over pre-trial detention. Two famous legal teams are ready to square off in the case, including Watergate... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • 'Poverty is back in Europe': Brands adapt sale ...
    Record high unemployment in the EU has forced some of the larger consumer goods companies to shift marketing strategies. They target poverty-stricken Europeans’ demand for cheaper goods in the midst of an economic... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

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

Debunking the Debunkers

  • 9/11 Free Fall-- Graeme MacQueen Interview (8/ ...
    Published on Aug 26, 2012 by Free Fall Following up last week's show, which covered reports of explosions at the World Trade Center on 9/11, Bernie and Andy's guest this week is Graeme MacQueen-- widely respected peace activist, and the author of various 9/11 related papers, including "118 Wit ...
  • COME TO NEW YORK THIS SEPTEMBER
    It's been 11 years since nearly 3 thousand people were murdered that tragic day in New York City. Officially they say 19 Muslims hijacked planes and attacked us because they hate our freedoms. However, since 2001 there have been many questions that have been raised and not answered. The 9/11 Com ...
  • Excerpt from Jesse Ventura's New Book 'DemoCRI ...
    Yes, Ventura has endorsed the theory that Directed Energy Weapons were used to demolish the buildings on 9/11 and the theory that the plane that hit the Pentagon actually flew over it while a bomb exploded, and no he doesn't always have all his facts as straight as we like around here. That ...
  • "9/11: Experts Speak Out" Premieres in Texas T ...
    When: Saturday, August 18, 2012, 7:00pm (MDT), with encore airings on Channel 12.1. Live Streaming and Details: Of special interest, CPT12 will be streaming this important event over the internet through Sunday, September 2, 2012 at: www.cpt12.org/911ExplosiveEvidence. Details of encore airings ...
  • Freeway blogging with the cooperation of CHP
    Published on Aug 15, 2012 by UhMark Police can and often do harass and intimidate citizens exercising their First Amendment rights of free speech. Especially in the post 9/11 era when the federal government and mass media are literally on the warpath, encouraging police to go on the warpath, v ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Dongria's message to Vedanta ahead of AGM: "We ...
    The Dongria Kondh have vowed to defend their sacred mountain from being mined for bauxite. © Lewis Davids/SurvivalAhead of the AGM of Vedanta Resources in London today, India’s Dongria Kondh tribe has sent a strong message to the company’s chairman Anil Agarwal. ‘Even if Anil ...
  • Paraguay’s government confirms Spanish tycoon’ ...
    Jacinto Rey González is President of a ranching firm which has been illegally destroying the Ayoreo's land.© AnonAccusations that a ranching company owned by one of Spain’s richest men illegally bulldozed forest inhabited by uncontacted Indians have been upheld by the Paraguayan authorities ...
  • Nasa spiritual leader shot dead at point blank ...
    Nasa Indians in Colombia have been caught in the violent crossfire of Colombia's military and illegal armed groups© Francisco PedroA 74-year-old Nasa Indian leader has been shot dead following protests against the militarization of his land in Cauca, south-west Colombia. Lisandro Tenorio, ...
  • Proof ‘Death Road’ will destroy Peru’s unconta ...
    Tomas was contacted over ten years ago. He lives close to the proposed ‘Road of Death.’© David Hill/SurvivalControversial plans to build a ‘Road of Death’ through Peru’s Amazon have been dealt a severe blow after authorities confirmed uncontacted tribes do live along its proposed route. This la ...
  • Brazilian judge halts illegal and controversia ...
    Widespread protests have made the Belo Monte dam notorious.© Atossa Soltani/ Amazon WatchA Brazilian judge has ordered work to be suspended on a highly controversial dam in the Amazon, describing the project’s failure to properly consult the indigenous population affected as ‘illegal’. Followin ...

Greg Palast

  • RNC Opens with Pol who "Should be in Jail"
    by Greg Palast for Truth-out.org "Tim Griffin should be in jail." That's the conclusion of civil rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after going through the evidence I asked him to review. But Griffin's not in jail: he's in Congress. And Tuesday, he'll be the first Congressman the Republican ...
  • Fukushima: They Knew
    "Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN by Greg Palast for FreePress.org I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant: Wiesel w ...
  • Why We Occupy - Greg Palast Live!
    Get the DVD of Greg Palast LIVE from the Vultures' Picnic speaking tour. Undercover at the Vultures' Picnic, Greg Palast rips the sheets off the One Percent. Palast shows you the documents marked "secret" and "confidential" from the files of Chevron, Goldman Sachs, Koch Industries, the IMF, WTO ...
  • 7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Bandits
    Print me out, use me, spread me around! 7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Bandits 1. Don’t Don’t DON’T Mail In Your Ballot For those of you who mailed in your ballot, please tell me, what happened to it? You don’t know, do you? I can tell you that in the last election, half a million absentee ballots ...
  • Congo Vultures Bagged
    Vulture fund's $100m DR Congo claim blocked By Meirion Jones BBC Newsnight Bid to block $100m 'vulture' debt The Privy Council has ruled that a "vulture fund" cannot collect $100m from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The award was against Congo's state-owned mining company Gecamines who su ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Media Tricks and Old Sperm
    By Anne Dachel I read news stories on autism everyday. I see the never-ending attempts to calm the fear over vaccines. I see the media trivializing autism and the impact it’s having on America with trite phrases like “better diagnosing”...
  • AutismOne A Conversation of Hope: Beacon Day S ...
    Tuesday, 8/28 on the VoiceAmerica Health and Wellness Channel AutismOne: A Conversation of Hope Noon Eastern, 9 am Pacific www.health.voiceamerica.com A BEACON OF LIGHT FOR YOUR CHILD, with Dr. Mary Joann Lang and Edward Miguel We hear so many stories...
  • Twice Another
    By Cathy Jameson Twice another. It’s how my four-year old daughter said three this summer. “I went under twice another times at the pool today!” Three times underwater to blow bubbles. “I saw it twice another times, Mommy!” Three times...
  • Paternal Age Study Implicates Environment Not ...
    By Bob Krakow The headline generating paper published this week in a leading scientific journal, Kong, Augustine et al. 2013. “Rate of de novo mutations and the importance of father’s age to disease risk.” Nature 488(7412):471–475, has been promoted relentlessly...
  • Age of Autism Weekly Wrap: Did the Anthrax Kil ...
    By Dan Olmsted This week has seen all kinds of activity on the war-against-disease front. Small planes dive-bombing big cities with pesticides! Ebola re-emerging! A superbug rampaging through the NIH! Vaccine clinics popping up at Walmart -- now it's not...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Problem, Reaction, Solution: NY Times Calls Fo ...
    New York Times – DON’T expect to hear much about climate change at the Republican and Democratic conventions. Yes, there will be plenty of speeches about unemployment, budget deficits and other immediate problems. But the threats posed by global warming are decades away — or so we have bee ...
  • £57m and rising: the cost of inquiries into Br ...
    Telegraph – The Government is preparing to allow two controversial inquiries to run for up to another three years, with the total cost expected to exceed £100 million. Despite years of investigation, the two inquiries — plus a third that has already concluded — have yet to lead to a single ...
  • Problem, Reaction, Solution: Australia to link ...
    Phys Org – Australia announced Tuesday it would link its deeply contested emissions trading scheme with the European Union’s from mid-2015 in an effort to combat climate change. Ads by Google eziTracker Monitoring – Home care monitoring, alerts and messaging in real time for ca ...
  • Israel breaks silence over army abuses
    Independent – Hafez Rajabi was marked for life by his encounter with the men of the Israeli army’s Kfir Brigade five years ago this week. Sitting beneath the photograph of his late father, the slightly built 21-year-old in jeans and trainers points to the scar above his right eye whe ...
  • 3 new cases in Quebec ‘Legionnaires&#821 ...
    CBC – Liberal Leader Jean Charest is promising that his party will assume whatever responsibility it has to in an outbreak of legionnaires’ disease that has killed eight people. Charest says his government will look into the outbreak to determine what could have been done differently ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

  • Stop the Crisis, Share our Stories!
    Subscribe to the official Water.org YouTube channel to be among the first to see our weekly videos. These shorts, which provide a glimpse of life in the heart of the water crisis, can help give a face to a world-wide struggle.
  • A Promise to Haiti
    Join co-founders Matt Damon and Gary White on a recent visit to Haiti following up on our promise to help 50,000 people get safe water. The video ends with Matt, along with his father and brother, celebrating the opening of a new well with a community in the Central Plateau.
  • Urban water collection in Haiti
    No matter how many times one visits the developing world, it seems there is always another shocking image around every corner. Last week in Port-au-Prince we followed several people to collect water. After traversing a trash-lined creek bed and about 300 meters from the road we came across this ...
  • Community Latrines in India
    Many slum communities in India have this type of shared, public latrine, which, while helpful when brand new, can deteriorate within a couple of years.
  • An Empowered 6th Grader
    Parchurjya Bairagi was elected by his classmates to learn about good hygiene and sanitation, and to share what he'd learned with others. The results have reached far beyond his school walls.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
  • Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
    In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • More Kids Taking Antipsychotics for ADHD
    Unapproved uses of these powerful drugs need further investigation, experts say Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Child Behavior Disorders, Medicines and Children
  • More Delays in Brain Growth Seen with ADHD
    Latest study finds the covering of the cerebral cortex developed more slowly Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Child Development
  • ADHD and College
    Source: HealthDay - Related MedlinePlus Pages: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, College Health
  • ADHD May Raise Girls' Risk for Suicide as Youn ...
    Also more likely to self-injure as young women, study shows Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Mental Disorders, Suicide
  • Teens with ADHD May Need Help Making Transitio ...
    Experts offer suggestions for students on how to compensate for their disorder Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, College Health

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Anti-Syrian Blame Game
    by Stephen Lendman Washington, NATO allies, complicit regional partners, the UN, and media scoundrels wrongfully blame Syria for massacres, other killings, and atrocities committed by Western recruited death squads. Washington features dirty tactics. They include blaming victims. Syria ...
  • Palestinians Living in Firing Zones
    by Stephen Lendman Life in Occupied Palestine is hard enough. Imagine how much worse in firing zones. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): (1) Israel designated about 18% of West Bank land closed military zones, aka firing zones. It's one am ...
  • Getting Away with Torture in Israel
    by Stephen Lendman Torture is illegal at all times under all circumstances with no allowed exceptions. Israel's Supreme Court ruled both ways. On the one hand, it banned torture. On the other, it permitted physical force in "ticking bomb" cases. At the time, Court President Aharon Barak ...
  • America preparing for a post-Israel Middle East?
    Franklin Lamb Beirut Illena Ros-LehtinenCongresswoman Illena Ros-Lehtinen will have her hands full as she makes the political and social rounds at this month’s Republican National Convention. Illena, is the only female committee chair in the House of Representatives and arguably Israe ...
  • Washington Opposes Peace
    by Stephen Lendman America's history is blood-drenched. Permanent war is policy. Peace and stability are verboten. One nation after another is targeted. Aggressive wars follow. Rule of law principles and democratic values are discarded. Wealth, power and unchallengeable dominance alone matter ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • WWH/CJE Tuesday News Briefs
    MAN KILLED WHILE TRYING TO CREATE BIGFOOT SIGHTING KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — A man dressed in a military-style “ghillie” suit and apparently trying to provoke reports of a Bigfoot sighting in northwest Montana was struck by two cars and killed, authorities said. The man was stand ...
  • Togo women push sex strike to unseat president
    By EBOW GODWIN, Associated Press – LOME, Togo (AP) — The female wing of a civil rights group is urging women in Togo to stage a week-long sex strike to demand the resignation of the country’s president. Women are being asked to start withholding sex from their husbands or partners as ...
  • The Deliberate Middle Class
    by Mixt Green Leo,WWH/CJE – The Middle Class is not something that happens naturally within an economic system, and certainly not within capitalism.  The Middle Class doesn’t trickle down from the 1%. The Middle Class, if it is to exist and prosper, has to be a deliberate economic creation ...
  • MAYBERRY BY ANY OTHER NAME…
    By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE – One of those would be my hometown and it would smell and look as sweet. I joined a group on Facebook dedicated to the “kids” and our memories of the old hometown. It’s been fun looking at old photographs and sharing stories. A lot of those things many of us ...
  • Monsanto Creates Children’s Book: Avoid ...
    by Rebekah Wilce,PRwatch – Did you know that genetic engineering (GE) “is helping to improve the health of the Earth and the people who call it home”? A trade group funded by Monsanto wants your kids to believe it. The Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI) has published a ...

FourWinds10

  • Massive Oil Slick Found At BP's Deepwater Hori ...
    VIEW HERE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1pe-hvHdEg&feature=youtu.be Aug. 25, 2011
  • US Energy Department panel endorses shale frac ...
    (NaturalNews) Hydraulic fracturing, also known as "fracking," for the purpose of extracting natural gas from the earth involves flooding it with millions of gallons of chemical-laden water, a practice that by all estimates is damaging the environment to some extent. But a US Energy Dep ...
  • Industrial waste blamed as millions of fish di ...
    MILLIONS of dead fish have been found floating on the Minjiang River in southeast China's Fujian Province and it has started to stink. A cleanup has begun and authorities are investigating the cause and trying to find out whether there is any danger to drinking water. Local farmers suspect t ...
  • EPA finally acknowledges fracking dangers
    Dec. 14, 2011 (NaturalNews) The Environmental Protection Agency on December 7 released its first report linking fracking to water contamination. The report identified fracking as the source of poisons, including the carcinogen benzene, in the groundwater of a central Wyoming community.   So ...
  • Researchers discover massive methane 'fountain ...
    Dec. 22, 2011 (NaturalNews) When a Russian team recently stumbled upon a few methane "fountains" releasing large amounts of methane gas from shallow arctic waters directly into the atmosphere, they had no idea that there were hundreds, if not thousands, more. The UK's Daily Mail re ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • What Mitt Romney’s Energy Plan Should Look Like
    Following Mitt Romney’s release of his energy plan, I intended to offer a detailed critique. However, there are already numerous critiques out there that would not differ much from my own. My critique would have been a near mirror image of Michael Levi’s Pipe Dreams at Foreign Policy ...
  • Interview On My Energy Positions After ASPO 2011
    Following last year’s ASPO conference, I was interviewed by Aaron Wissner of Local Future, which is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to issues of energy, the environment, and sustainability. Aaron just made that interview available, and instead of an R-Squared Energy TV epis ...
  • Why Sugarcane Bagasse is the Most Promising Pa ...
    The history of cellulosic ethanol is a lot longer than most people probably realize. The Germans first commercialized cellulosic ethanol production from wood in 1898. The technology was commercialized in the U.S. in 1910, when Standard Alcohol Company built a cellulosic ethanol plant in South Ca ...
  • How Ethanol and the Chevron Refinery Fire Impa ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer two gasoline-related questions. One is on how ethanol is impacting current gasoline prices, and whether that increases the chances of a waiver for this year’s Renewable Fuel Standard. The other is on the impact of the Chevron re ...
  • How to Acquire Accurate Energy Data and Statistics
    Note: I am back in Hawaii after a long road trip, so my posting frequency will return to normal. I intend to record new R-Squared Energy TVs in the near future as well. In last week’s Energy Trends Insider our featured stories were How to Acquire Accurate Energy Data and Statistics, Invest ...

Discovery Educator Network

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

Rodale News

  • It's OK To Visit Jamba Juice, Thanks to This 1 ...
    How do you get a huge fast-food chain to make a major shift in its environmental policies? Sick a precocious, Internet-savvy 10-year-old on it, and just wait for it to see the error of its ways. It worked in California! One day this past summer, Mia Hansen's mom took her to Jamba Juice, her fa ...
  • The Medicine Cabinet Item That's Making You Fat
    For decades, nonorganic farmers have been using a feeding trick that speeds the growth of animals. Now, in a first-of-its-kind study, scientists have figured out that the same medicine cabinet staples used to fatten up livestock—antibiotics—could be making people obese, too. Antibiotics and obe ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: The Best Iced Coffee You'v ...
    Iced coffee has to be one of the best drinks of summer, hands down. And if you're a fan, you've probably been hearing a lot this summer about something called "cold-brew" iced coffee, a new trendy way to brew iced (and even hot) coffee that fancy coffee houses now charge as much as $4 ...
  • 5 Diseases You Can Get from a Drought
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just released figures showing that this year's West Nile virus outbreak is the largest ever seen in the United States. Is it a coincidence that we're also experiencing the worst drought in more than 50 years? No, say epidemiologists, who have ...
  • You're Throwing Away $2,275 Every Year on This
    Here's a depressing statistic: Forty percent of the food produced in the United States goes into landfills instead of our mouths, according to a new report from Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). That massive quantity of food, which amounts to 20 pounds per person per month, uses 25 perc ...

big think

  • Simon Doonan – Is Mitt Romney Too Handsome To ...
    What's the Big Idea?   Although we’re all focused intensely on the serious issues involved in the 2012 presidential race, and although the economy continues to limp along, making this an especially sober political season, let’s face it – presidential elections are always something of a f ...
  • Egypt’s Garbage Problem Could be Assuaged by T ...
    What’s the Latest Development? The 2009 outbreak of swine flu in Mexico led to a variety of startled responses throughout the world. In Egypt, authorities ordered an immediate slaughter of all pigs. “Pigs used to play a central role in [Cairo’s] rudimentary waste management system. But s ...
  • U.S. College Grads to be Dwarfed by China/India
    What’s the Latest Development? The United States has dominated the global market for college graduates for several decades but that trend is changing. According to a recent analysis by the Center for American Progress, both China and India have been increasing their share of the total nu ...
  • Chinese Weapons Fuel African Conflicts, Despit ...
    What’s the Latest Development? War torn areas of Africa continue to be flooded by weapons despite U.N. sanctions. “The United Nations enforces arms embargoes against 13 countries or groups, including the Taliban, al-Qaeda and seven African countries.” Over the last decade, more and more ...
  • Unemployment in Spain Leads to the Creation of ...
    What’s the Latest Development? The 2007 market collapse has had a huge impact on jobless rates in Spain. While Spanish labor laws help protect older workers, unemployment rates are on the rise. “Today, workers 16 to 24 face an astronomical 53.3% unemployment rate. For 25- to 34-year-olds ...

Information Liberation

  • 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 shoo...
  • Apple Wins, Consumers Lose
    Prepare yourself, Samsung products are now going to be more expensive, as well as Apple's now that they've won $1.05 billion off their biggest competitor. Incidentally, Samsung is also Apple's biggest customer. Isn't it neat the way stupid laws...
  • Cop Who Karate Chopped NY Judge In Throat Gets ...
    Remember the Judge who came upon an "unruly" crowd angry over police abusing a suspect and called 911 to "help" police get backup, only to be singled out himself by a raging cop who proceeded to assault him by chopping him in the throat? If you reme...
  • Cop Charged With Assault For Strangling 9-Yr-O ...
    After getting in an argument with his 9-year-old sister, 23-year-old Woonsocket police officer Patrick Cahill, according to a police report, grabbed and dragged his 9-year-old sister by her hair, then "put his hand around her throat and began to stra...
  • Man Says LA Police Kidnapped Him Beat Him Up & ...
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Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Chemistry matters
    Latest chemistry news round-up from the ChemWeb Alchemist, who this week looks through an ITO coated glass darkly this week with another step taken towards transparent electronics for solar panels. In earthly news, life’s inorganic components may have emerged as supercontinents were formed ...
  • Chemistry matters
    Latest chemistry news round-up from the ChemWeb Alchemist, who this week looks through an ITO coated glass darkly this week with another step taken towards transparent electronics for solar panels. In earthly news, life’s inorganic components may have emerged as supercontinents were formed ...
  • Hairy Bikers BP BS
    Yesterday, I watched one episode of the food show from fellow “Geordies” Si King and Dave Myers in which they expounded the benefits of exercise and calorie reduction for weight loss. So far, so good. They had Newcastle University’s Roy Taylor tracking their weight, blood press ...
  • Hairy Bikers BP BS
    Yesterday, I watched one episode of the food show from fellow “Geordies” Si King and Dave Myers in which they expounded the benefits of exercise and calorie reduction for weight loss. So far, so good. They had Newcastle University’s Roy Taylor tracking their weight, blood press ...
  • My Sister Rosalind Franklin
    My Sister Rosalind Franklin: A Family Memoir 9780199699629: Jenifer Glynn – Jenifer Glynn is sister to Rosalind Franklin, whose pioneering X-ray crystallography work provide the key insights needed by Watson and Crick to unravel the double helix of DNA. Much has been written about her role ...

RFF Library

  • Assumptions to Annual Energy Outlook 2012
    US Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/assumptions/ This report presents the major assumptions of the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) used to generate the projections in the Annual Energy Outlook 2012, including general features of the model ...
  • Carbon Tax Revenue and the Budget Deficit: A W ...
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change / by Sebastian Rausch and John Reilly http://globalchange.mit.edu/research/publications/2328 [Green Car Congress] A new report from MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change sugge ...
  • Role of Alternative Energy Sources: Natural Ga ...
    US DOE Office of Fossil Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) http://www.netl.doe.gov/energy-analyses/pubs/NGTechAssess.pdf [Green Car Congress] The US’ large resource base of natural gas can be used for cost-effective power generation, with environmental burdens coming primarily ...
  • The Critical Decade: International Action on C ...
    Government of Australia. Climate Commission / by Tim Flannery, Roger Beale and Gerry Hueston bit.ly/Pz1H0H [Crikey] A new report from the Climate Commission paints a more optimistic scenario of global momentum toward renewable energy while suggesting a mix of carbon abatement methods and volunta ...
  • How Inertia and Limited Potentials Affect the ...
    World Bank / by Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Guy Meunier, and Stéphane Hallegatte http://bit.ly/NItlHX [Abstract] This paper investigates the optimal timing of greenhouse gas abatement efforts in a multi-sectoral model with economic inertia, each sector having a limited abatement potential. It defines ec ...

Scientific American - News

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • The Lebowski Blog: The LIBOR Scandal is the La ...
    "Where's the f'ing money, Lebowski?" It's a sad testament to finance when the largest scam in the world's history goes by un-noticed, mainly because it is boring. You may have come across the term LIBOR in the news pages recently in relation to  Barclays capital, a ...
  • Parcs, environnements, contrôle, exploitation...
    En quoi les parcs sont la plupart du temps des environnements domestiqués, coloniaux, étatisés, capitalisés... et quelles seraient les bases écologistes et anti-coloniales d'autres relations au vivant ? Entrevue avec Karl, anarchiste, ...
  • The Action Camp
    This is the second video subMedia.tv has produced about the struggle to stop a natural gas transport project called the Pacific Trails Pipeline or PTP. The Unis'tot'en, a ...
  • Treasure Island
    Like the pirates and rum runners of old, Emera may be using the island of Grand Bahama as a staging ground for larger raids FREEPORT (GRAND BAHAMA)—Just as Nova Scotians are now bearing witness to the multi-billion dollar Muskrat Fall ...
  • Queers Against Israeli Aparteid Picket Film
    QAIA Hangs Pinkwashing Out to Dry       COAST SALISH TERRITORY - Queers Against Israeli Apartheid held an information picket outside the Vancity Cinema in downtown Vancouver tonight. Their target was a showing of the Israeli ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Meditations on Republican craziness
    At the center of all the nuttiness of today’s Republicans is their bankrollers’ fear of regulation… The ceaseless culture warfare is merely a tactic to simultaneously attract and confuse a sufficient number of the ignorant to enable the “one-percenters” to paralyze the political process.Examined ...
  • The Rhymes of Ayn Rand and Ryan: tea for two
    In the withered heart of Any Rand’s world, the weak, the hungry, The violated, the broken, the disorganized are condemned, They have no brothers Unlettered children, tiny, lonely, light-starved beings, Like mushrooms fed on excrement, are free:  Free to sicken, free to die. In unhe ...
  • Of course the Democratic Party sucks... so what?
    My favorite description of the Democratic Party is Woody Allen's restaurant; you know the one, “such bad food and such small portions”.The American political system is corrupt and both political parties are part of the problem and in my opinion only a massive citizen’s movement similar to the Ci ...
  • The meaning of this year's election
    This year's presidential election is one of the most important in America's entire history and the reason is simple to the point of stark. It is all about who is going to fill any vacancies in the Supreme Court in the next four years.That simple.The Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ...
  • Political poetry... what is it?
    I have been indulging in verse and wondering whether there is a role in the USA for political poetry as there is in South America or in parts of Europe... So I asked myself what a poet is, and this is what I came up with.What is a poet? Master of the liar's art One who has walked the fog into ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • For Now, Apple Has Exclusive Rights to Pinch-t ...
    This is the top story at the Washington Post right now: If the swipe is the essential gesture of the smartphone revolution, the pinch is a close second....Friday’s $1 billion court ruling for Apple, which upheld patents for what manufacturers call “pinch to zoom,” among ot ...
  • If You Win a Charter School Lottery, You're Ha ...
    How do we know if charter schools really do a better job of educating students? After all, maybe it's just that better students apply to charters in the first place. The usual way of controlling for this is to examine charter schools that select students by lottery. It's entirely random who ge ...
  • Lots of Romney Supporters Aren't Really Sure H ...
    No real point to make here. This is just an interesting comparison. Apparently, about a fifth of Romney supporters don't think he really has much chance to win.
  • Civil Engineering in America Is the Most Expen ...
    California's high-speed rail line from LA to San Francisco is estimated to cost nearly $100 billion. New York City's Second Avenue subway will cost $5 billion just for the first two miles. And New York's Water Tunnel No. 3 will not only cost more than $6 billion, but take nearly half a century ...
  • Paul Ryan May Have Produced a Bounce for Romne ...
    Did Mitt Romney get an electoral bounce from his choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate? Generally speaking, it hasn't seemed so, but Sam Wang thinks otherwise. His model suggests that the Ryan pick did indeed help out Romney for a couple of weeks: One week after the August 11 VP announcem ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

  • Finding nature’s part in Arctic ice loss puts ...
    With Arctic ice heading for reaching its smallest area yet, Jonny Day from the University of Reading, UK and his colleagues have found an ocean circulation pattern could be responsible for up to three-tenths of the ice loss since the 1970s – but that humans remain most responsible.
  • Temperature rises could hamper developing worl ...
    Annual variations show every 1°C temperature increase shaves 1.3 percent off a poor country’s growth, over the course of a given year, according to MIT economist Ben Olken.
  • CO2-focused breeding can arm crops for food fight
    Higher CO2 levels could ensure we have enough food in the face of other climate and population changes, says Lewis Ziska from the US Department of Agriculture, if crop breeding programs tailored to take advantage get enough support
  • Continued emission growth promises US megadroughts
    2000-2004 western US drought was worst in 800 years, but will become normal in future, reversing the region’s absorption of CO2 and worsening climate change, says Christopher Schwalm from Northern Arizona University
  • Developed countries duck warming responsibility
    Rich countries have emitted 2/3 of CO2 through history but their pledges are set to result in just 1/3 of any future warming slowdown, says a study that combines climate, social, economic and ecological science by Xuefeng Cui and John Moore from Beijing Normal University and their colleagues.

e!Science News

  • Frankenstein programmers at UT Dallas test a c ...
    In order to catch a thief, you have to think like one. read more
  • Reducing the side effects of treatment for pro ...
    New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine reassessing clinical data from trials, which investigate ways of treating side effects of therapy for prostate cancer, finds that tamoxifen, an anti-estrogen used to treat breast cancer, is also able to suppress gynecoma ...
  • Selective imprinting: How the wallaby controls ...
    Marsupial mothers regulate the composition of their milk so that it is optimal for the development stage of their young. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Epigenetics & Chromatin shows that, similar to the human placenta, which regulates embryonic growth and deve ...
  • Tests show that adhesive could improve safety ...
    Kansas State University researchers have developed a glue mixture that may reduce risks after laser vision correction surgery. read more
  • Arctic sea ice shrinks to new low in satellite era
    The extent of the sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean has shrunk. According to scientists from NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colo., the amount is the smallest size ever observed in the three decades since consistent satellite observations of the ...

unEarthed

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

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

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  • Journalism 101: A recommended course for the IDF
    Israeli army’s Facebook status chides journalists for not choosing sides and becoming active participants in conflict. By Mati Milstein “Pictured is Zehava Weiss, who was injured earlier this year when Palestinians threw bricks at her windshield. Reporters on the scene were positione ...
  • Testimonies: Eyes on Israeli military courts
    The following booklet, published by Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, encompasses a series of reflections by Addameer volunteers and associates who visited Israeli military courts in occupied Palestinian territory between 2009 and 2011. The contributors witnessed hearings f ...
  • Shas spiritual leader may have paved way for a ...
    Last week, Benjamin Netanyahu sent National Security Council head Yaakov Amidror to the spiritual leader of Shas, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. Apparently, this was done to convince the rabbi of the need to attack Iran. According to Haaretz political analyst Yossi Verter, Shas ministers Eli Yishai and Ari ...
  • Testimonies by Israeli soldiers detail abuse o ...
    Breaking the Silence, an organization of Israelis who served in the IDF and work to expose human rights violations committed by Israel,  released today a collection of soldiers’ testimonies called Children and Youth, Soldiers’ Testimonies 2005-2011. The report attests to the mistreat ...
  • Asylum seekers can now face years in prison ov ...
    The Prevention of Infiltration Law, which enables asylum seekers to be detained for three years or more without trial, can now be applied to anyone with a ‘criminal background.’ But what does ‘criminal background’ mean? It’s unclear.  By Elizabeth Tsurkov In early J ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • This (not yet) Foreclosed Home, (poorly) Maint ...
    Take a look around your neighborhood, any neighborhood in Amerika and you will see vacant and abandoned homes that are falling into disrepair.  Many times the homes have been abandoned by their rightful owners and many times the homes are languishing in a nether world…foreclosure not yet c ...
  • SPECIAL REPORT: Why Won’t Wall Street Be ...
    The Dept of Justice recently announced they will not prosecute Goldman Sachs.  Of course not,  Goldman pays to keep everyone in line. Just how bad is it?  Just how high up does it go?  Right into the White House and of Course, Eric Holder in the Dept. of (In)Justice are knee deep in the corrupti ...
  • It Official, According to the GOP, Amerika is ...
    Hurricane Issac has not yet even made landfall and already the GOP standard bearers are giving God credit for the storm…they couldn’t just shut up and not say anything about the hurricane….could they? I mean, after all…why let a perfectly good non-event go UN-exploited. J ...
  • The Federal Government, Conspiring With Wall S ...
    The federal government is the Wizard Behind The Curtain in the majority of all Amerikan residential real estate financing.  Through its surrogates Fannie, Freddie, USDA, VA, HUD, it controls and directs virtually all economic, legal and social policy related to the homes Amerikans live in. In co ...
  • NYTimes: The United States of America- A Lawle ...
    And by “governed” I don’t mean the puppets that are auctioned off in election theaters…I mean the corporatists that really run things… The current administration is clear that they will support, protect and defend the white collar criminals that have destroyed this ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • How Politics Changes Us (1)
    Last week there was a conversation stream going on among some on Twitter asking why it is that politics always …Continue reading »
  • My Own Stargate
    O the things I’ve learned in the last three days! My last post spoke of my loss of a few …Continue reading »
  • On Blood and Belonging
    It started out well enough. Jane and I had just finished sending my new book about London, Ontario to be …Continue reading »
  • An Open Letter To London’s New City Manager
    My London Free Press article of today – An open letter to City Manager Art Zuidema on his first week …Continue reading »
  • Beware the Sciopods and the Blemmyaes
    Prior to more detailed reports returning with people like Christopher Columbus and other explorers of the oceans in the 15th …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
    Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
  • A plug for Risk Science Unplugged. Next up – ...
    OK so this is a shameless plug for the University of Michigan Risk Science Center Unplugged series of discussions (if you’ll forgive the pun) – and specifically the live/webcast event we’re having on the health impacts of the Gulf Oil Spill on April 14. But I actually think the ...
  • James Gleick’s Chaos – the enhanced edition
    In 1987 I got my Bachelors of Science in physics, Prozac was launched in the US, and James Gleick published Chaos.  I don’t think the middle one has any bearing on the other two.  But the first and last are tentatively linked because, despite being completely jazzed on physics, I didn&#821 ...
  • Why we don’t need a regulatory definition for ...
    I‘ve just posted a piece over on the Risk Science Blog on regulatory definitions of engineered nanomaterials.  What may come as a surprise to many readers given my comments over the years is the title – “Why we don’t need a regulatory definition for nanomaterials”!  ...
  • Regulating emerging technologies – Science & P ...
    Cross-posted from The Risk Science Blog: Back in 2007 the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a set of “Principles for Nanotechnology Environmental, Health and Safety Oversight” (no longer available on the OSTP website it seems, but you can read them in ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

  • A.J. Muste Peace Mural Dedication
    By Sachio Ko-yin*One Painter. One pacifist folk hero. And location location location.These were among the ingredients of a remarkable gathering on Thursday, August 9, the unveiling and dedication of the A.J. Muste Peace Mural by artist Christopher Cardinale.The subject of the … Continue re ...
  • The Québec Strike Continues and Defense Techno ...
    “On the fourth of May 2012, in Victoriaville, Québec during the congress of the corrupted Liberal party of Jean Charest, several dozens of gas bombs were thrown on families, activists, old people, and students that were protesting against high tuition … Continue reading →
  • The Unfinished Story of Iraq’s Oil Law: ...
    [Originally published on July 24th, 2012 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa “No Blood For Oil” was a slogan featured on many a sign in demonstrations during the run up to the US-led invasion of Iraq, and throughout the early years … Continue reading →
  • Saying No To Tear Gas
    [An excerpt from an article of the same name by Frida Berrigan, originally published on Waging Nonviolence, June 22nd, 2012.] I have an assignment for you. Have you ever been tear gassed? I have not. It does not sound like … Continue reading →
  • Peace and Global Justice Groups: “End St ...
    On Father’s Day, June 17th , Peace and Global Justice groups walk together with New Yorkers in a Silent March to End Stop & Frisk We are a diverse gathering of groups working for global justice and peace around the … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

  • Multi-Drug Resistant Infections at the NIH Hos ...
    Last Wednesday, The Washington Post reported on an outbreak of multi-drug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center in Bethesda.  (The Post was covering an interesting report by NIH investigators in Science Translational Medicine.)  Initially, the ...
  • New Orleans Groups Awarded Grants for New Farm ...
    I want to congratulate my friends at the Recirculating Farms Coalition who were recently awarded two grants to construct an Urban Farming and Food Center in downtown New Orleans.   The center will be home to a community garden, fruit trees, aquaponics and hydroponics.  These last two are methods ...
  • How Industrialized Farming Could Facilitate Pa ...
    With cases of H3N2v influenza on the rise, a look at where we stand and the key role of our system of food animal production in strengthening viruses
  • How FDA Can Improve the Safety of Fruits and V ...
    Fruits and vegetables are some of the foods in need of protection—but FDA has yet to publish a regulation for how to make good on that mandate for produce safety. So what are the best ways to protect fruits and vegetables grown on farms?
  • Ten Maryland Educators Will Implement Food Sys ...
    Today, the Center announced the 10 winners of the Teaching the Food System (TFS) Grants for Educators program. The funds will help teachers implement innovative food systems–related projects in conjunction with the TFS curriculum, which they will integrate into their high school classrooms. All ...

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Consumerist

  • I Used To Work At GameStop, Now I’m Neve ...
    We often hear from people who vow that they'll never shop at GameStop again after one last straw of a terrible shopping experience. They're usually not ex-employees, though. Marisa used to work at GameStop. It was a while ago: before, she claims, staffers were encouraged to sell quite so aggress ...
  • No, My Drunk Seatmate Probably Can’t Ope ...
    Patrick wanted off the plane. The overloaded Delta flight sat on the runway for more than an hour. He had the privilege of sitting in the exit row next to a very drunk man who was probably more likely to collapse on the emergency exit door than to be capable of opening it. When te [...]
  • Keep Those Worst Ad In America Nominations Coming!
    Last week, we asked you to start nominating the baddest badvertisers around for Consumerist's Third Annual Worst Ad In America Awards, and you quickly responded with hundreds of comments and e-mails. But even if you missed that post, there are still four days left to vent your hatred. Last year' ...
  • U.S. Airways & American Airlines Join Forces T ...
    Consumerist reader Liz says she's usually the kind of traveler where everything that could possibly go wrong does — lost luggage, no pilot for a plane, bumped holiday flights, the works — so when she had the Very Best Most Awesomest Travel Experience ever last week, she felt compelled to write i ...
  • Man Announces “Toyota Sucks” On Ro ...
    Writing "Toyota Sucks" on your roof and turning your Toyota truck into an anti-Toyota billboard may seem like a slightly fruitless exercise. That is, until both of them end up on Google Maps, much to the amusement of the Internet. You have to zoom in to read the roof of this home in Bradenton, F ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Whistleblowers: Contemporary Davids vs. Goliaths
    GAP President Louis Clark recently authored the following entry on the blog of The Kindle Project, a Santa Fe-based grant-making entity which is a fiscally sponsored project of the Common Counsel Foundation. The Kindle Project's mission is to cultivate possibilities and support people and projec ...
  • Tainted Cantaloupe Show Food Distribution Safe ...
    Tainted Cantaloupe Underscores Important Safety Role of Food Distribution Summary: The potential role of cantaloupe transportation in the recent Salmonella outbreak (that has sickened at least 178 people in 21 states) is a reminder of the importance of food distribution workers and their abili ...
  • Relying on Conflicting Reports from Afghanista ...
    Associated Press reported on the conflicting reports of suspected al-Qaeda leader Badruddin Haqqani's death: The son of the founder of the powerful Haqqani network was been killed in an airstrike in Pakistan, Afghanistan’s intelligence agency said Sunday, providing the first public confirm ...
  • Short Documentary Highlights NSA Whistleblower ...
    The New York Times: The Program Summary: NSA whistleblower and GAP client William Binney is interviewed by documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras for this New York Times op-doc about the agency’s domestic spying and profiling. Binney has been speaking out about Stellar Wind, the NSA pro ...
  • New Bin Laden Book Author Skipped Broken Pre-P ...
    Reports have surfaced about a new book on the Bin Laden raid by an anonymous Navy Seal who, according to the book's publisher, "was one of the first men through the door on the third floor of the terrorist leader’s hideout and was present at his death." This latest book (titled No Eas ...

UK Progressive

  • Homelessness Can Strike Twice!
    By Charley James For the estimated 10-to-12 million Americans who’ll be homeless for at least one night this year, the impact is devastating enough when you lose your own place once. For me, it is an emotionally crippling blow, a wound that won’t heal and will stay with me for the re ...
  • Dark Money Explained
    Top 13 Questions From ProPublica’s Q&A on Dark Money in the 2012 Campaign by Blair Hickman ProPublica Yesterday our reporter Kim Barker answered readers’ questions on how outside money is influencing the 2012 election, in arousing chat on Reddit. We combed through all 930 comment ...
  • Boycott Newsweek
    Tina Brown Should Sell It; Al Gore Should Buy It; Women and Liberals Should Boycott It Until That Happens By Brent Budowsky  All I can say after Tina Brown’s slanderous and scandalous attack on Barack Obama, written by Niall Ferguson, bannered on the cover of Brown’s now-disfigured remnant of wh ...
  • The Monday Line: Freak Show, Interrupted
    by Denis G. Campbell The Republican National Convention is delayed by at least one day. This means the 5 birthers braying (was 7 but Ann must be on telly to humanise Robotic Mitt), 4(0,000) anit-abortion activists, 3(,000) preaching pudits, 2(0,000) white wing nuts, And Cayman Mitt in a hotel su ...
  • Thanks And So Long, Neil – You Made The Globe ...
    by Charley James I remember it being very late at night yet three generations of my family were still awake, glued to the television watching grainy, black-and-white, live images from the moon. The moon! Walter Cronkite and former astronaut Wally Schirra were talking but I have no recollection o ...

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JoNova

  • Peter Doherty responds in The Australian but s ...
    There’s a letter in the paper today in response to my article: Climate scientists are not failing to convince others From: The Australian August 27, 2012 12:00AM Every significant science academy supports the case made by the climate science community. These academies encompass the full sp ...
  • Jo Nova in The Australian: Manne is anti-scien ...
    I’m published this weekend in The Australian (building on the post I did previously here. Manne himself popped in there to tell us “Deniers Hunt in Packs” — demonstrating his true depth of insight into the libertarian independent psyche — a group defined by it&#8217 ...
  • I feel sorry for ABC listeners, they have no i ...
    Australia’s politics is boiling at the moment, but you’d barely know if you got all your news from the Love Media ABC. Yesterday in a long press conference our Prime Minister was finally forced to address “questions” that have been burning across through the net. I heard ...
  • John McLean – ENSO drives sea surface te ...
    Ove Hoegh-Guldberg wants us to consider putting sun shades over the Great Barrier Reef, but it begs the question — how much is the reef heating up, and how sure are we that it’s man-made and not natural? John McLean digs into the data and finds that temperature variations on the reef ...
  • Prof Antonino Zichichi (of anti-matter fame) i ...
    You may not have heard of the World Federation of Scientists – it certainly isn’t run with a budget of millions or a professional PR team, instead it’s exactly the kind of organization that outstanding scientists would set up. No flash graphics, no spiffy logo, and no inundatio ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • A Floating Safe for Your Valuables
    I’m not really sure what to make of this new product. It is common sense to keep your important documents in a water-proof, damage-proof safe, and there are plenty of options already available. But this one floats! The description doesn’t translate terribly well from Czech: Very imp ...
  • Every Day Carry (EDC) Kit
    We have Bug Out Bags (BOB) at home, for if we need to flee by foot, or perhaps escape if our house is on fire. But when I use public transport to visit friends, I’m not going to take one with me. Too bulky, too heavy, too paranoid. But I do have a few items on me at all times (aside from o ...
  • See Mayan Pyramids from your Armchair
    Thanks to the Street View aspect of Google Maps, many ancient sites of Central America are ready to be explored. Instead of looking at still images (or finding a documentary), you can walk around a pyramid and zoom in on any part of it. Give it a go! Visit Chichen Itza at Google Maps. Many more ...
  • Safest Place in the USA: Peebles, Ohio
    It’s about time I started sharing information from my book (Survive 2012, available at Amazon). Something that makes it unique is the listings of safe spots around the world. While it is quite easy to nominate places that have substantial height, and are away from volcanoes and earthquakes ...
  • Expert Opinions #7 B
        Although I was well pleased that Whitley Strieber responded to my 2012 question – it felt like a cop-out:  The War for Souls was a work of fiction. While I do think that there is a great deal of change unfolding presently, I don’t see how, in real life, it would relate to th ...

Facing South

  • UAW vs. Nissan in Mississippi: Operation Dixie ...
    When the CIO launched a campaign to organize Southern workers in 1946, the region's elite fought back by exploiting fears about race and communism -- and fear remains the biggest obstacle to organizing today, as the UAW's campaign to unionize Nissan's Canton, Miss. plant shows. read more
  • Will Latino voters fully flex their voting pow ...
    Latinos are a fast-growing electoral force -- but will they realize their political potential in November? read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The party conventions' extrao ...
    In light of planned protests, the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. and Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. will be taking unprecedented security measures. read more
  • Mysterious environmental disaster unfolding in ...
    Bayou Corne in Assumption Parish has been evacuated after a massive sinkhole opened up last week following months of mysterious bubbling, rumblings and a strong diesel smell. The community sits atop an old salt mine where companies including Chevron and Dow Chemical store gas products, and the s ...
  • Lawsuit seeks better regulation of oil spill d ...
    The unprecedented use of chemical dispersants following BP's Gulf disaster led to complaints of health problems among cleanup workers and local residents. A coalition of groups is now suing the EPA in hopes of spurring regulatory action. read more

One News Page

  • BJP is in the habit of shedding crocodile tear ...
    Under unrelenting attack from the BJP over coal blocks allocation, the Congress Tuesday announced it will 'hit the streets' to expose the double-speak of the opposition over sanctity of constitutional institutions. Reported by Firstpost 59 minutes ago
  • Tropical Storm Isaac takes aim at New Orleans
    NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac had nearly reached hurricane strength as it bore down on the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday and appeared to be taking direct aim at New Orleans, almost seven years to the day since the Crescent City was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Reported by Reuter ...
  • Sikkim Lokayukta Bill gets presidential nod
    The Sikkim Lokayukta Bill has got the presidential assent turning it into an act seeking to check corruption in the state. Reported by DNA 1 hour ago
  • Assam violence unacceptable: Sonia
    Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said no government can ignore such 'treacherous activities'. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
  • Sonia Gandhi leads from front to counter oppos ...
    Sonia Gandhi today led from the front by egging on her members in the Lok Sabha to counter opposition's sloganeering on coal allocation issue. Reported by IndiaTimes 1 hour ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Authors and Producers Behind the Blueprint for ...
    It became clear recently that the West’s former blueprint for Syria – a conversion of Aleppo into the country’s Benghazi, a foothold for a sweeping offensive against the government forces – was irreversibly defeated. Having done the due editing on their tactic, the Syrian oppos ...
  • Inviolability of Embassies and Diplomatic Miss ...
    The forces of globalist neo-conservatism have now decided to attack another institution long-protected by international law: the extraterritorial diplomatic protection afforded to foreign embassies and diplomatic missions. Although WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a very unsympathetic figure ...
  • Toward a More Stable Euro-Atlantic Region: Bac ...
    ORIENTAL REVIEW republishes the full text of the report by Mr. Vyacheslav Nikonov, the president of the Policy Foundation (Moscow), presented at the recent conference held in Brussels ‘USA, Europe and Russia: What Is Next?’ “The path to an inclusive, effective Euro-Atlantic security ...
  • Condoms for British Justice
    For slightly under a year, the war on Julian Assange, an Austrian commentator and publisher on the wanted list in the US and Sweden, seems to steadily top the British law-enforcement agenda. While much ado surrounds the cross-border manhunt, the formal charges which prompted it are not on the pu ...
  • On ‘Pussy Riot’, CIA and Cultural Terrorism
    Last Friday the notorious ‘punk-group’ Pussy Riot was sentenced to two years in prison by the criminal court in Moscow. For the last weeks the destiny of three mediocre Russian clown-girls has been in focus of public attention worldwide. Galaxies of world celebrities and officials from McCartney ...

BlogHer

  • Creative Cookie Packaging Ideas
    [Editor's Note: Sometimes you do judge a book by it’s cover or in this case a cookie by it’s jar. Cute handmade cookies deserve cute handmade packaging. Glory from Glorious Treats has a great post about how to make clever packaging to showcase your handmade baked goods. - Jen]Cute and Creative C ...
  • Moist Monday: Evening Update From the RNC in Tampa
    Unintentional ironic hilarity from the newly released, revised, temporary Order of Business: Wind and rain is fairly light in Tampa right now, as Tropical Storm Isaac moves across the Gulf of Mexico. But while some experts say the Republican National Convention cancelled Monday's events for ...
  • What Bloggers Are Saying: RNC Day One
    Not at the Republican National Convention in Tampa? The next best thing may be right in front of your nose, as online media is playing bigger role than ever in the 2012 convention season. #GOP12 and #RNC have been trending all day on Twitter, and it’s just getting started. #GOP2012 factoid: ...
  • Newt Gingrich: What Women Need, the GOP Can De ...
    With Monday's official Republican National Convention events cancelled, the hallways of the Tampa Convention Center -- rather than center stage at the Tampa Bay Times Forum -- are the main event, with politicians, aides, and armies of journalists on the hunt for a story parading the hallways. ...
  • Liven Up Your Meals With Spicy Tomato Pickle
    [Editor's Note: I always have spicy mango pickle in my refrigerator (well, until the other night, when I finished off my current jar), but until I saw this recipe, I'd never heard of spicy tomato pickle, which is a similar Indian condiment. It sounds incredible: hot from chilies, sweet from the ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

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

Daniel Miessler

  • Persistent Cannabis Users Show Neuropsychologi ...
    Persistent cannabis use was associated with neuropsychological decline broadly across domains of functioning, even after controlling for years of education. Informants also reported noticing more cognitive problems for persistent cannabis users. Impairment was concentrated among adolescent-onset ...
  • Gene Sequencing and Ethical Puzzles | NYTimes.com
    In laboratories around the world, genetic researchers using tools that are ever more sophisticated to peer into the DNA of cells are increasingly finding things they were not looking for, including information that could make a big difference to an anonymous donor. The question of how, when and ...
  • Getting to Know the OWASP ASVS | HP Enterprise ...
    The Open Web Application Security Project OWASP is well known for its Top 10 list, and perhaps for its testing methodology as well, but comparitively few people are aware of its Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS) Project.  The ASVS, as the name alludes to, is a ...
  • A Lists of Obama’s Accomplishments
    Here’s a quality link for those who wish to know what Obama has done with his time in office. It’s broken down by category and has a very crisp structure to it. So for anyone looking to: Learn for yourself what Obama has done. Provide data to others regarding what Obama has actually ...
  • Christopher Hitchens Destroys Ayn Rand
    via youtube.com I’m invited to be unpleasant at the expense of Ayn Rand.Hilarious. A beautiful simplification: Basically, there is no need for additional selfishness in the United States, and that’s precisely what Ayn Rand and her morally vapid Objectivism is promoting. It’s no ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • WWH/CJE Tuesday News Briefs
    MAN KILLED WHILE TRYING TO CREATE BIGFOOT SIGHTING KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — A man dressed in a military-style “ghillie” suit and apparently trying to provoke reports of a Bigfoot sighting in northwest Montana was struck by two cars and killed, authorities said. The man was stand ...
  • Togo women push sex strike to unseat president
    By EBOW GODWIN, Associated Press – LOME, Togo (AP) — The female wing of a civil rights group is urging women in Togo to stage a week-long sex strike to demand the resignation of the country’s president. Women are being asked to start withholding sex from their husbands or partners as ...
  • The Deliberate Middle Class
    by Mixt Green Leo,WWH/CJE – The Middle Class is not something that happens naturally within an economic system, and certainly not within capitalism.  The Middle Class doesn’t trickle down from the 1%. The Middle Class, if it is to exist and prosper, has to be a deliberate economic creation ...
  • MAYBERRY BY ANY OTHER NAME…
    By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE – One of those would be my hometown and it would smell and look as sweet. I joined a group on Facebook dedicated to the “kids” and our memories of the old hometown. It’s been fun looking at old photographs and sharing stories. A lot of those things many of us ...
  • Monsanto Creates Children’s Book: Avoid ...
    by Rebekah Wilce,PRwatch – Did you know that genetic engineering (GE) “is helping to improve the health of the Earth and the people who call it home”? A trade group funded by Monsanto wants your kids to believe it. The Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI) has published a ...

reference frame

  • Crackpots are patient while sending texts to j ...
    In November 2011, a group of three physicists wrote the 3,635th paper suggesting that there has to be something wrong about the foundations of modern physics as redesigned by the founding fathers of quantum mechanics. None of these 3,635 papers has ever offered any successful description ...
  • Neil Armstrong: 1930-2012
    Neil Armstrong, an unusually modest professional who considered moonwalk to be a job just like any other job, took this New World Symphony by Antonín Dvořák to his trip to Earth's only large natural satellite. Exactly 40 later, in 2009, I combined the music (the final, fou ...
  • Simple proof QM implies many worlds don't exist
    A vast majority of the people who write popular books, blogs, and comments at discussion forums about the foundations of quantum mechanics are peers of the stupid monkeys. A week ago, Scott Aaronson wrote that he is a champion of the "Many Worlds Interpretation" (MWI) even though M ...
  • Ordinary SUSY quantum mechanical theories don' ...
    Two days ago, Scott Aaronson was rightfully confused by some bizarre statements in the literature on "superqubits" and he asked: Two very intriguing papers recently appeared on the arXiv, claiming that one can use "superqubits" -- a supersymmetric generalization of qubits -- to violate t ...
  • Prague Castle and AGW after Václav Klaus
    Three days ago, Václav Klaus gave the "Magistral Lecture" at the International Seminar on Planetary Emergencies, organized by the World Federation of Scientists, Erice, Sicily, Italy: The Manmade Contribution to Ongoing Global Warming Is Not a Planetary Emergency (full text) See also Klau ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Richard Gilbert Takes On Romney’s Organized Cr ...
    Richard Gilbert Takes On Romney’s Organized Crime Convention   RNC Tightens Noose On Delegates In Last Minute Rule Change – Cynthia Kennedy Reports From the Trenches! Submitted by ausscyn on Tue, 08/28/2012- 02:25 in Events DP Original Florida MUST READ! It’s 9:30pm in Tampa, an ...
  • Dr. Steve Pieczenik: Bin Laden, The Oswald Lik ...
    the critically acclaimed author of psycho-political thrillers and the co-creator of the best-selling Tom Clancy’s Net Force paperback series, Steve Pieczenik. Alex covers the latest on the Osama bin Laden assassination spectacle. www.stevepieczenik.com www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv ...
  • It’s Not Just Your Imagination – American Fami ...
    from The Economic Collapse Blog: 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 ...
  • Inside The Mind of an MKUltra Killer with Auth ...
    Alex talks with author Fritz Springmeier in-studio. Fritz’s latest book is Bloodlines of the Illuminati, a literal encyclopedia of rare, unbelievable information that exposes the dynasties that make up the global elite. The book is now available at the Infowars store. Bloodlines of the Ill ...
  • Turkey’s gold reserves rise 1/5 to 9.3 million ...
    by Harvey Organ, HarveyOrgan.Blogspot.ca: Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen: Gold closed up today to the tune of $ 2.60 with the final comex closing coming in at $ 1672.40. However the star of the day still belongs to silver closing up 43 cents finishing the session at $ 31.04. However in the ac ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Why Qualcomm Has Its Wallet Out
    The Elata and Flarion acquisitions reflect the outfit's need to keep abreast of tech's latest trends. Expect more of the same

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Majority backs court, not government
    Eighty percent of Norwegians questioned support the jail term handed down to confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik last week, and a solid majority also believe the lead judge behind it has helped restore Norwegians’ faith in their court system.  Parallel opinion polls, however, indica ...
  • Latest oil discovery boosts stocks
    Norwegian oil company Det norske oljeselskap was among those seeing even more investor interest on Monday, after state oil company Statoil confirmed the discovery of more oil at the Geitung prospect in the North Sea. Det norske and Lundin of Sweden are Statoil’s partners in the field, whic ...
  • Statoil boss now ‘more shy’
    Helge Lund, chief executive officer of Norwegian oil company Statoil, is having an even busier week than normal as he runs the country’s biggest international firm and oversees its high-profile presence at one of the largest oil industry exhibitions in the world. He told newspaper Dagens N ...
  • Mysterious package held historic documents
    A mysterious package given decades ago to local leaders of the small community of Sel in the mountains of southern Norway was finally opened over the weekend, and current leaders claimed they weren’t disappointed. The package had been wrapped up in 1912 and embellished with the words Kan a ...
  • App tips about Northern Lights
    An observatory located on the northern Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard has started offering a free “app” (application) that sends out predictions on appearances of nordlys (the Northern Lights). The app, sponsored by the Norwegian research council (Norges Forskningsråd), allows eve ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Perming the ‘Burbs in Queensland, Australia
    With 80% of Australians living in the suburbs, this reality is a hurdle for responsible edible landscapers who know that not all the cookie cutters that we are forced to live amongst share the same vision. Some need to just get that first roof over their head and work on the dream of sustainab ...
  • Tales from La Angostura, Guatemala, A Project ...
    If you read my last article (Inspiration and First Moves), you might know already that when I got motivated to do something with permaculture my financial situation wasn’t the best. To be precise, it was rather precarious. Nevertheless, as a dreamer that tries to see not the evidence that ...
  • Registration Cut-Off Date Extended to Fill Las ...
    What: Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course, with Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton Where: Trinity College, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia When: September 17 – 29, 2012 In order to fill the last few remaining seats on this significant PDC event, we are extendi ...
  • “Civilisation Needs to Change Its Intent” – In ...
    Although recorded back in May, for International Permaculture Day (see here and here), I found out about the interview below only yesterday. In the interview, PRI PDC Teacher, Rhamis Kent, talks to renowned environmental filmmaker, John Liu, whose fantastic work we’ve featured on this sit ...
  • “Civilisation Needs to Change Its Intent” – In ...
    Although recorded back in May, for International Permaculture Day (see here and here), I found out about the interview below only yesterday. In the interview, PRI PDC Teacher, Rhamis Kent, talks to renowned environmental filmmaker, John Liu, whose fantastic work we’ve featured on this sit ...

Pointman's

  • The repair man.
    He repaired people. He used a little bit of human insight but mostly patience and kindness. He was good at it, so all the bad cases nobody wanted to touch or didn’t quite know how to handle, were referred to him in the end and he patched them up. Mostly, he got the ugly sex … Re ...
  • Butt wiggling and the science of uncertainty.
    Being a climate realist, I’m used to a certain underdog status. I’ve learnt that it’s our advantage. We don’t have many of those, so you learn to work them hard. While they yap a lot, we get told to shut up but we watch them carefully while they’re yapping. We don&# ...
  • Announcing the inaugural Climate Prat of the Y ...
    I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but notables of the green persuasion seem to win a lot of awards from various green organisations. They give prizes to each other, occasionally with a nice bit of money as well; sometimes with a very very nice bit of money. You may also have noticed, t ...
  • Legislation by regulation.
    What is now called the European Union (EU), grew out of the aftermath of WWII, which had devastated both the economies and infrastructures of most countries in Europe. It was really the product of several treaties but the first big one was the 1957 treaty of Rome, which created a common market a ...
  • What’s the Watts paper actually mean, Dude?
    As a young man, my first mode of powered transport was motorbikes. Like all bikers, there was this thing you noticed about passing from the open countryside into a built up area. Basically, cities were warmer than the countryside, and exposed as you are to the elements on a bike, that was always ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Katrina Pain Index 2012: 7 Years After, By Bil ...
    1          Rank of New Orleans in fastest growing US cities between 2010 and 2011.  Source: Census Bureau. 1          Rank of New Orleans, Louisiana in world prison rate.  Louisiana imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of ...
  • Is It Time For The Bounce Vote?
    New Orleans hip-hop artist Tenth Ward Buck, a legendary New Orleans bounce music artist, announced today that he has qualified for a spot on the ballot for the city council election in District B, the seat formerly held by Stacy Head. He is one of several candidates who have declared their inten ...
  • Unprecedented, Massive Cuts Devastate Universi ...
    While barely covered in the local media, the University of New Orleans is facing another round of brutal and devastating cuts, quickly transforming an already-under-resourced school into a shadow of its former self. Below is a letter from UNO President Peter Fos outlining some of the cuts. While ...
  • Coalition of Black and Latina Women, Women fro ...
    From our friends at the Congress of Day Laborers: A delegation of undocumented women from Arizona will join local immigrants and civil rights leaders from Women United for Justice, in demanding that Sheriff Gusman stop holding undocumented immigrants for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (IC ...
  • New Policy at Charter School in Delhi Louisian ...
    From our friends at the ACLU of Louisiana: The ACLU issued a letter today to the administration at Delhi Charter School in Delhi, Louisiana in response to its Student Pregnancy Policy. The policy requires female students even suspected of being pregnant to submit to a pregnancy exam – and if ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Sites back online via msmd Thanks to the hard work and efforts of Mike Delaney aka Prothink, we are back up and running on a new, and hopefully permanent, network. Jews have worked feverishly over the past several months to shut us down, succeeding in doing so twice within a month and a half p ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    You think Obama is a Marxist? You obviously wouldn't know one if it bit in the ass. This belief of yours is probably the result of the same twisted logic that allows you to arrive at your somewhat perverse white "strongman" = defending church equation. Note: I don't support the actio ...
  • Gun Talk • 2 arrested for hog hunting trip nea ...
    2 detained in hog hunting trip near RNC hotel August 27, 2012 21:43 GMT %reldate(2012-08-27T21:40:47 WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. (AP) -- A Pasco County man who told deputies he was on a hog hunting trip near where delegates are staying for the Republican National Convention is now in jail. Jail recor ...
  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    The Rot Runs Deep 2: Don't Call Out My Scam and I Won't Call Out Yours August 28, 2012 Complicity reigns supreme as everyone benefiting from a scam keeps quiet about everyone else's skim lest their own share of the spoils fall under the harsh light of inquiry. The uncomfortable truth is that ...
  • Historical Events • Re: Mission to America: Lu ...
    Weinstein, Gregory Isaakovich (1880-1940) Biographies, References A Russian Revolutionary who took part in the American revolutionary movement from 1915 to 1918 and later became a Soviet diplomat. Gregory Weinstein was born in Vilna, in the Russian Empire (now Vilnius, Lithuania), on July 1, 1 ...

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environment 360

  • Desalination Sector Surges as Technology Impro ...
    A new report predicts that global investment in water desalination projects will triple over a five-year period from 2011 to 2016, driven by improvements in technology and a surge in companies entering the sector. According to Global Water Intelligence, investments in desalination plant installa ...
  • Bolivia’s Battle: A Road or a Way of Life?
    In an e360 video report, Noah Friedman-Rudovsky explores how a highway proposed through the heart of the Bolivian national park known as TIPNIS will affect local indigenous communities.
  • In Bolivia, A Battle Over A Highway and a Way ...
    Growing conflicts over development in South America have come to a head in Bolivia, where indigenous groups are resisting a highway project that would slice through a national park. How Bolivia resolves this showdown could point the way for other regions seeking to balance economic growth and th ...
  • With Funding Tight, Cities are Turning to Gree ...
    From Seattle to Sweden, an ever-growing number of city and regional governments are using roof gardens, specially designed wetlands, and other forms of “green infrastructure” to rein in pollution from countless diffuse sources — and to save money. BY JIM ROBBINS
  • Solar Shingles Made With Abundant Metals Offer ...
    U.S. scientists say that emerging photovoltaic technologies will enable the production of solar shingles made from abundantly available elementsrather than rare-earth metals, an innovation that would make solar Dow Chemical Solar shingles energy cheaper and more sustainable. Speaking at t ...

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backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

  • ‘More Than Walking on the Moon’
    Even if Neil Armstrong hadn’t gone to the moon, he’d be lauded, his friend John Glenn tells Eleanor Clift.
  • Vengeance Doesn’t Make Us Safer
    Americans are happy to see convicts receive life sentences at the drop of a hat, but we refuse to understand that our vengeance doesn’t make us any safer, writes David Dow.
  • Boehner Plays Defense
    Don’t sweat the gender gap, or the public’s disdain for Congress. The House speaker’s (un)conventional pep talk. By Peter J. Boyer.
  • Karl Rove’s Advice to Obama
    Super-PAC honcho Karl Rove urges Obama to ease up on the fundraisers—and asks Romney to show voters the private Mitt. By Lloyd Grove
  • Thanks For The Feedback
    Today's featured reader comment comes from "Grace_5," who asked the following in the post: "Inside The Mind Of A Republican Delegate."

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Car plunges 10 meters from Imperial Hotel park ...
    A car plunged about 10 meters Sunday night from the fourth floor of the 10-story parking lot of the Imperial Hotel in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, and all three occupants were injured, a hotel spokesman said. Police received a call around 9:55 p.m. Sunday from a witness. The car, being driven by a wom ...
  • Late Tevez equalizer rescues point for City
    Manchester City twice came from behind to draw 2-2 against Liverpool in the Premier League at Anfield on Sunday after Carlos Tevez scored a late equalizer. Martin Skrtel headed Liverpool into a 1-0 lead at halftime, but Yaya Toure leveled for City after goalkeeper Pepe Reina missed a cross and ...
  • Paid leave, advice for foreign parents, JET's ...
    Not being a Japanese person employed in a private Japanese company, it is hard for me to imagine the hardship experienced by the writer of the July 17 Have Your Say letter ("Working employees to death"). I can, however, say with a high degree of confidence that laws mandating time off from work ...
  • Why is government policymaking paralyzed?
    It is no secret that the global economy is struggling. Europe is in the midst of a crisis whose root cause is a structurally flawed monetary and economic union. The United States, emerging slowly from a financial crisis and widespread deleveraging, is experiencing a growth slowdown, a persiste ...
  • Harumafuji on east side for yokozuna challenge
    After his pristine campaign in Nagoya, ozeki Harumafuji finds himself on the prestigious east position for the upcoming Autumn Sumo Grand Tournament with the release Monday of the sumo rankings by the Japan Sumo Association. The 28-year-old Mongolian, who won all 15 bouts to capture his third ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Harper in the Arctic — the End of Ice Tour?
    News that multi-year Arctic sea ice was melting towards a record low did not put a dent in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s annual northern road show last week. So far in August, the Arctic has lost about 75,000 square kilometres of ice every day. To put this into perspective, the sea ice area be ...
  • Dead Money
    Kudos to Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney for raising the profile of the over $500 billion Canadian corporations are holding in excess cash surpluses and not investing in the economy, which garnered front page coverage (and kudos to the CAW for inviting him to speak). It’s not the first ...
  • Broadening the Bank of Canada’s Mandate
    Yesterday, Mike Moffatt took to The Globe and Mail’s “Economy Lab” in response to my suggestion that the Bank of Canada should moderate the exchange rate. My rebuttal of Mike’s rebuttal appears in today’s Economy Lab: Mike Moffatt’s friendly rebuttal of my comments on last week’s inflation repor ...
  • No Vale on the Plains?
    I had the following comments in yesterday’s front-page story on Vale’s decision to postpone its proposed $3-billion potash mine at Kronau, Saskatchewan: Regina economist Erin Weir, who is widely expected to run for the leadership of the provincial NDP, said in a statement Friday that the Vale an ...
  • The Right Response To “No Job Is A Bad Job”
    Last May federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said there was no such thing as a bad job. The Law Commission of Ontario may disagree. This week it put out a report about the rise in vulnerable workers and precarious jobs. Now that he’s heard from executives who think Canadians are paid too ...

ReDress

  • Domestic terrorism American style
    Lawrence Davidson analyses the roots of domestic American terrorism, racism and bigotry, arguing that what is needed now is "consistent educational and legal pressure against racist behaviour both in terms of individual and institutional behaviour", or else the US will become as racist and bigot ...
  • Restoring Syria's uprising to the Syrian people
    Jamal Kanj warns against the creeping hijacking of the the Syrian people's fight for freedom by foreign powers with ulterior motives, and argues that "widespread civil disobedience exposing the brutal Assad regime and shifting the centre of power back to the home-based opposition is Syria's last ...
  • Ayn Rand, the preacher of selfishness inspirin ...
    Uri Avnery views the philosophy of Ayn Rand, the inspiration behind US Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan. A Jewish White Russian preacher of extreme selfishness, Rand, who has become the darling of Tea Party fanatics, was also an unabashed racist who believed that the Arab-Israeli ...
  • By way of deception Israel trying to drag US i ...
    Jamal Kanj argues that "leaked" Israeli information on plans to attack Iran are intended to drag the USA into a new Middle East quagmire through committing aggression against Iran on the eve of the American presidential election.
  • America on the road to Ryan and ruin
    Lawrence Davidson argues that a win for Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan in the upcoming US presidential election would most likely destroy what is left of the USA's social safety nets, devastate the middle class, greatly increase the ranks of the poor and unemployed, do away with unio ...

Physics Today

  • Graphene offers clear window on liquids
    BBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...
  • Rival teams shared in Nobel celebration
    Science: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
  • No title
    Talking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
  • Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sector
    Earth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
  • Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...
    Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...

Revolutionary Politics

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

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

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Remembers Legacy of Neil Armstrong
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement upon learning of the passing of Neil Armstrong, the legendary astronaut who inspired all humanity:  “Neil’s voyage to the moon carried the hopes of a nation and reminded the world for all time that in America nothing is ...
  • Kucinich Asks Inspector General to Review FDA’ ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today asked the Inspector General to review the Food and Drug Administration’s handling of an investigation of tainted jerky treats for dogs made in China. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been investigating consumer complaints for five years while th ...
  • Kucinich Honors Dear Friend at Memorial for th ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke at a crowded memorial ceremony for the late Gore Vidal. Gore Vidal was a prolific author and a close personal friend to Congressman Kucinich as well as a public and vocal supporter of Congressman Kucinich’s political career. Also speaking at the m ...
  • Kucinich Statement Regarding Public-Private-Pa ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has united the community to demand the second phase of the Innerbelt Bridge project be completed on time, today released the statement below. Governor John Kasich (R-OH) and Ohio Department of Transportation Director Jerry Wray today announced plans to sec ...
  • Victory: Treasury Department Allows Humanitari ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today issued the following statement after the U.S. Treasury Department announced the issuance of a general license allowing U.S.-based organizations to provide humanitarian assistance to the victims of an earthquake in northwestern Iran. Kucinich led fourteen ...

Authentically Wired

  • No title
    …So tell me … how is this also Obama’s fault…? Our Products Are So Darn Safe That We Don’t Want You to Know What’s in Them 08-26-2012  •  Lew Rockwell blog The Big Agra-Big Food Complex is pouring it on in California’s Proposition 37. They don’t want consumers t ...
  • No title
    … I find this editorial troubling as is touts full disclosure and transparency while choosing not to hold the leading GOP presidential candidate accountable to that same standard or am I missing something…? Filed under: Blogroll
  • No title
    … Even though Arizona has empty prison bed$ … Az Gov Jan Brewer owe$ … and so one of her campaign $upporters will get an opportunity to put the $crew$ to Arizona taxpayers … .. And hey no doubt “America’s toughest $heriff – Joe – can perform some magic raids and quickly fill any currently [...]
  • No title
    …In Arizona a “sane” leader is scarcer than hen’s teeth… . Filed under: Blogroll
  • No title
    … The only person more loathsome than a car salesman/dealer is a current sitting Arizona politician … Filed under: Blogroll

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • WWF: Asia Pulp & Paper misleads public about i ...
    Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) continues to mislead the public about its role in destroying rainforests and critical tiger habitat across the Indonesian island of Sumatra, alleges a new report from Eyes on the Forest, a coalition of Indonesian environmental groups including WWF-Indonesia. The report, t ...
  • The dark side of new species discovery
    Scientists and the public usually rejoice when a new species is discovered. But biologist Bryan Stuart has learned the hard way that the discovery of new species, especially when that species is commercially valuable, has a dark side-one that could potentially wipe out the new species before pro ...
  • Indonesia revises moratorium map; makes contes ...
    Indonesia is making 'encouraging' progress on its push to reduce deforestation by improving governance over its forests and peatlands, but still needs to do more to enforce environmental laws, said the head of the country's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) task force ...
  • Forest and environmental news in Indonesian
    Mongabay.com is pleased to announce the launch of Mongabay-Indonesia (mongabay.co.id), an environmental news web site published in Indonesian. The site was officially unveiled Saturday, May 19 at an event in Jakarta.
  • Can loggers be conservationists?
    Last year researchers took the first ever publicly-released video of an African golden cat (Profelis aurata) in a Gabon rainforest. This beautiful, but elusive, feline was filmed sitting docilely for the camera and chasing a bat. The least-known of Africa's wild cat species, the African golden c ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Record Arctic ice melt 'like a giant slushie'
    The sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has melted to its smallest point ever in a milestone that may show that worst-case forecasts on climate change are coming true, US scientists said today.The extent of ice observed at the weekend broke...
  • Is this the Earth's oldest bug trap?
    Scientists said today they have found three well-preserved ancient insects frozen in amber and time in what is Earth's oldest bug trap.The discoveries in Italy may sound like something out of Jurassic Park , but these bugs are...
  • Tributes flood in following death of Kiwi scie ...
    Tributes for one of New Zealand's top young international scientists have been flooding in following his death last week.Simon Chan, 38, an associate associate professor of plant biology at the at the University of California, Davis,...
  • Cartoonist's jolt of support for Tesla museum
    A jolt of support from a popular web cartoonist has re-energised a decades-long effort to restore a decrepit, 110-year-old laboratory once used by Nikola Tesla. Tesla was a visionary scientist who was a rival of Thomas Edison and...
  • 'Genetic terrorism' claims as big guns of GM s ...
    The world's biggest names in genetic modification are meeting at a taxpayer-sponsored conference billed as the possible answer to the world's food troubles.The week-long biotech conference is being touted as the chance for fresh...

The Bovine

  • GMO labeling fight in California
    From the Organic Consumers Association: “In recent weeks, several public interest groups, including the Organic Consumers Association, Cornucopia Institute, Mercola.com, and Natural News, have pointed out the gross hypocrisy and greed of large food and beverage corporations which profit fr ...
  • Humankind facing a vegetarian future?
    From John Vidal, in The Guardian, via Cryptogon: “Leading water scientists have issued one of the sternest warnings yet about global food supplies, saying that the world’s population may have to switch almost completely to a vegetarian diet over the next 40 years to avoid catastrophi ...
  • Karen Selick’s unpublished letter to the ...
    From Karen Selick: This is the letter that I prepared for the Owen Sound Sun Times on July 4, 2012 after discussing with the editor Doug Edgar my concerns about inaccuracies in their reporting on the Montana Jones story.  Mr. … Continue reading →
  • LifeStock – a call to farms – Sept ...
    Join us Sunday September 30th for a day of food, music, words… Raw milk is illegal, growing food in your urban yard is against the law, and government policy threatens the genetic biodiversity of our produce and livestock. Small farms are targets…but we are ALL losing … Continue reading &# ...
  • Recording or videoing police in Canada
    From the Ottawa Citizen: “Every Ontarian should read the Police Services Act’s Code of Conduct, especially the part in Section 30 that says an officer engages in discreditable conduct when he or she “uses profane, abusive or insulting language or … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Government Spending as Percentage of GDP
    Here are a couple of charts from Doug Short at Advisor Perspectives regarding government spending. Federal Government Spending as Percent of GDP Total Government Spending as Percent of GDP I asked Doug for those charts because Paul Krugman said he would be concerned if ...
  • Food Stamp Usage up 64% in Last Four Years, Co ...
    Here are a couple of charts from Tim Wallace on the food stamp program, now called "SNAP" to remove the stigma. SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. SNAP Participants click on chart for sharper image SNAP Program Costs in Millions click ...
  • Merkel Pushes Convention to Draft New EU Treat ...
    Will Merkel get her wish for a Unites States of Europe led by nannycrats in Brussels? I suspect not because a vote would likely go up in flames. Nonetheless, Merkel Pushes for Convention to Draft New EU TreatyChancellor Angela Merkel's plans for a new treaty governing the European Union are beco ...
  • ECB Slated to Become "Currency Forger of Europ ...
    As time passes, the rifts between the Bundesbank and the ECB grow wider. So do the rifts between what German citizens want and what German chancellor Angela Merkel is willing to do to "save the euro". Merkel increasingly (and as expected) does what she need to do to preserve he legacy, con ...
  • GM Seeks Bigger Credit Line To Shrink Pension ...
    Going into debt to fund pensions seems like a ridiculous thing to do, especially for a company had a chance to shed more of those pension obligations in bankruptcy. Please consider the Wall Street Journal story GM Wants to Up Credit Line General Motors Co. is in preliminary talks with ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 16, ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Mali, Al Qaeda, and the US Neo-Colonial Agenda
    Recent developments in Mali illustrate both the way in which the Unites States and its Western allies directly project military and political power, as well as the role of terrorism as a necessary pretext for imperialist, neo-colonial domination. Beginning with the establishment of AFRICOM (US A ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    From Indignados to Occupy The Indignados movement was sparked in Spain on May 15, 2011. In part inspired by the Arab Spring, young Spaniards, who face a 46% unemployment rate, occupied the Puerta del Sol in Madrid for several weeks, protesting against the socio-political and economic system that ...
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    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Texas Case Raises Troubling Questions About AT ...
    Rio Grande Valley Businessman Was The Target of Multiple Arms-Trafficking Investigations Yet He Continued To Acquire Guns Through Straw Buyers By Bill Conroy @ the Narcosphere A series of criminal investigations initiated some four years ago by ATF agents, all focused on a weapons-trafficking ri ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • VLCC Owners Brace for Heavy Rolls
    For the first time this year, slowing growth in oil demand is spurring analysts to cut estimates for earnings in the tanker industry’s largest vessels. Rates for very large crude [...]
  • Canadian Miner Seeking Partner in Ultra-Deepwa ...
    (Bloomberg) — Nautilus Minerals Inc., seeking to be the first large-scale miner of copper and gold from the ocean floor, is in talks with potential partners to sell a stake [...]
  • Isaac Claims Containership in Cuban Waters
    Mariners in the Gulf of Mexico region reported to us today of a continual alert being received over distress frequencies off Cuba, one that we have been able to track [...]
  • Interesting Ship – The Damen “Do-It-All” Offsh ...
    Damen Shipyards on Monday released information about an innovative new concept vessel designed as a smaller heavy transport, offshore installation and ro-ro platform versatile enough to be suitable in a [...]
  • Provincetown Ferry Runs Aground, Passengers Ma ...
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Press TV

  • 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.
  • 'NAM offers peaceful solution for Syria'
    Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad-Mehdi Akhoundzadeh says the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) could be the harbinger of a peaceful and intervention-free solution for the Syrian unrest.
  • ‘UN chief to meet Leader, Ahmadinejad’
    UN spokesman Martin Nesirky says United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will hold talks with Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his visit to Iran.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
    The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
  • Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
    The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
  • Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
    More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
  • Presentation to the National Economists Club
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