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Friday, August 31, 2012

31 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Personal & Noted

Scoop - NZ

  • Fisk: "Rebel Army ? A Gang of Foreigners !"
    Our writer hears the Syrian forces' justification for a battle that is tearing apart one of the world's oldest cities
  • Afghans to spy on troops to stop inside attacks
    Afghan officials say they have launched an expanded effort to spy on their own police and army recruits, an acknowledgment that previous measures designed to reduce insurgent infiltration in the country’s security services have failed. The steps come amid a spate of “insider” attacks that hav ...
  • US: Another Hanging-Chad-Like Controversy ?
    With Florida once again expected to play a critical role in the upcoming presidential election, former Gov. and Sen. Bob Graham warned Newsmax.TV that the nation should brace for the possibility of a “strong second act” of another hanging chad-like controversy courtesy of The Sunshine State. ...
  • protect the children
    No !!! this is not acceptable in regards to the Police and The Department of Child Youth and Family. These young ones are children , youth or young persons whom are family members. A family group meeting should have been called with all families affected by the incidents reported (not only alleg ...
  • Fisk: UN leaves Syria to its bloody fate
    As the international troops retreat, heavy arms will flood into what will become a free-fire zone

Independent - London

  • Postcard From...Aargau
    In Switzerland, cleanliness is more than next to godliness. It seems to trump absolutely everything else. And as lovely as it is to stroll along the country's über-clean streets and swim in clear, crisp water devoid of the floating plasters endemic in Britain's public pools, I sometimes wonder a ...
  • Clint Eastwood mocked over Mitt Romney speech
    Actor and film director Clint Eastwood today earned plenty of bad reviews for his latest performance - a bizarre, rambling endorsement of Mitt Romney.Related StoriesFrom his Mormon roots to a lack of faith in Obama: Romney makes his pitchDemocrats return fire as Ryan gets his facts wrongMitt Ro ...
  • Democrats return fire as Paul Ryan gets his fa ...
    Mitt Romney took a chance by picking Paul Ryan as his running mate, but the reaction to Mr Ryan's barnstorming speech at the Republican convention here on Wednesday suggests - for the time being at least - that the gamble is paying off.Related StoriesFrom his Mormon roots to a lack of faith in ...
  • Mitt Romney blasts Barack Obama as he accepts ...
    Mitt Romney rode the applause of a packed Tampa arena last night accepting his party’s nomination as candidate for president and laying out his case for why America should vote for him over Barack Obama, who, he said, had won its trust in 2008 on a pledge of change and hope that “gave way to di ...
  • America's most senior general warns against ra ...
    The head of the American military has stated that the worst possible outcome of the Syrian civil war would be an "unstable state with all the risks that involves".Related StoriesFrom his Mormon roots to a lack of faith in Obama: Romney makes his pitchDemocrats return fire as Ryan gets his facts ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Police Brutality? Man Kicked by Cop Now Faces ...
    But man's ex-girlfriend had little sympathy. "I'm a victim of his brutality every day," she maintained. A YouTube video of a St. Paul police officer macing and kicking a man during an arrest for stalking a Roseville woman has gone viral. The video is making news across the country, prompting S ...
  • Police Brutality! Woman Gets Body-Slammed To P ...
    A 34-year-old registered nurse and mother was brutally body-slammed to the pavement by two male Los Angeles Police Department officers after being pulled over for talking on her cellphone, ABC4 reports. Michelle Jordan's (pictured) Aug. 21 takedown was caught on surveillance video from a Del Ta ...
  • Colorado Shooting Suspect May Have Called Univ ...
    Accused Colorado gunman James Holmes may have phoned a University of Colorado operator just nine minutes before the shooting at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises that killed 12 people, a defense attorney said on Thursday. Holmes' attorney, Tamara Brady, raised the possibility of suc ...
  • Frustrated UWS Resident Hangs "Rat Crossing" Signs
    Joseph Bolanos, president of the West 76th Street Block Association, installed rat-crossing signs in his neighborhood on the Upper West Side .
  • "No snitching' Trend Ignored By Fed Up Residents
    Hunting Park resident Darnell Mann still remembers the day last summer when a shootout at the corner store at North 27th and West Sterner streets brought a bullet flying into the living room of his home. "The store next door, the whole glass of the front door was shot out and the bullet went in ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Comparisons . . .
  • Shine the lights of freedom . . .
     — Know Thy Enemy — THE TRAPWIRE surveillance system has connected state and federal law enforcement agencies with a vast intelligence infrastructure, that is scary to contemplate. RT is a Russian site that proclaims itself  to be operated by Autonomous Nonprofit Organization “TV-N ...
  • Naval nightmare . . .
    x 3 = 270,000 tons of diplomacy in a small place IT SEEMS THAT we narrowly avoided a war off the coast of Iran back in 2007, thanks to the timely action by a top political adviser to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, Gwenyth Todd. According to Jeff Stein at The Washington Post, in an article, "W ...
  • Torture and the little lost country
    I haven't commented much on the revelation that our  because there is very little. It's a funny place one arrives at when the move beyond the emotionally intense sort of outrage that normally follows when one receives news like this. I am afraid that many of us have moved to a place where we fee ...
  • Financial freedom . . .
    THE US GOVERNMENT AND BIG BUSINESS have tried their best to kill WikiLeaks by removing the ability of people to donate money to the cause. As you may know, the big credit card companies sided with the oligarchy that runs the US, and WikiLeaks found itself on a financial desert island. ...

Media Matters for America

  • In Lockstep: Conservative Media Turn To Attack ...
    In an attempt to shield Mitt Romney's campaign from criticism that many of its claims against the Obama administration are based on falsehoods, conservative media have resorted to attacking fact-checkers, accusing them of liberal bias or of "shilling" for the Obama campaign. This is in keeping w ...
  • Fox Disregarded Numerous Falsehoods To Lavish ...
    Fox cheered Congressman Paul Ryan following his speech at the Republican National Convention, calling it "cogent," "coherent," and a "lethal shot" against President Obama. However, the speech was laden with numerous falsehoods that Fox patently ignored.Fox Lauded Ryan Speech As "Cogent," "A Tour ...
  • REPORT: How The Media Covered Two Romney False ...
    Two recent falsehoods from the Mitt Romney campaign have received media attention: the false claim that President Obama removed the work requirement from welfare, and the false claim that the health care reform bill "cuts" $716 billion from Medicare. While many mainstream media outlets debunked ...
  • Fox's Chris Wallace Advances GOP's False Medic ...
    Fox's Chris Wallace repeated Congressman Paul Ryan's false accusation that the Obama administration is guilty of "raiding $716 billion from Medicare to pay for Obamacare." In fact, the Affordable Care Act strengthens Medicare by cutting waste, extending the life of the trust fund and reducing co ...
  • Fox Misleads On Consumer Savings From Fuel Eco ...
    Fox News is ignoring the gasoline savings that newly finalized fuel economy standards will provide for consumers in order to hype the cost of new fuel-efficient cars. The standards, which will substantially reduce our dependence on oil, are expected to provide consumers significant savings at th ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

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

  • A One-Two Punch in the Fight For Clean Water
     It has been a week of good news in the fight for stronger protections against coal ash pollution. A court settlement in South Carolina and a major decision regarding the 2008 TVA Kingston coal ash spill make for a one-two punch against the poorly regulated toxic waste.A federal court foun ...
  • Pledge to Resist Fracking: Writer-Biologist Sa ...
     The following was a speech given by Sandra Steingraber for the Don’t Frack New York Rally in Albany, August 27, 2012.On this day, 53 years ago, a pregnant college student walked into a hospital in rural Illinois and gave birth to a child.And then she walked out. By herself.The bab ...
  • The Climate Breakdown Is Right Here, Right Now
     There are no comparisons to be made. This is not like war or plague or a stockmarket crash. We are ill-equipped, historically and psychologically, to understand it, which is one of the reasons why so many refuse to accept that it is happening.What we are seeing, here and now, is the tran ...
  • Don't Want to Be a Vegetarian? You May Not Hav ...
     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 catastrophic shortages.Humans deriv ...
  • Are the Water Wars Coming?
    The author Mark Twain once remarked that "whisky is for drinking; water is for fighting over" and a series of reports from intelligence agencies and research groups indicate the prospect of a water war is becoming increasingly likely. In March, a report from the office of the US Director ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • State Employee Charitable Campaign up for Suns ...
    In 1993, the state legislature created the State Employee Charitable Campaign (SECC) to provide a new benefit for state workers.  The ability to make tax-deductible contributions to a wide range of charities through their paychecks has giving state employees an easy way to donate to charities of ...
  • BREAKING – 4 Blockaders are Locked to Truck Ca ...
    4 Tar Sands Blockaders are Locked to Truck Carrying Keystone XL Pipeline in Livingston, TX, bringing construction on the Keystone XL pipeline to a stop!! Follow the action right now on the Tar Sands Blockade LIVE BLOG and tell the world about it. Just minutes ago four landowner advocates and cli ...
  • OMG! East Texas Judge rules foreign company ca ...
    Wednesday evening, Lamar County Court at Law Judge Bill Harris sent an email from his iPhone (complete with new internet slang – MSJ and NEMSJ) ruling in favor of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, allowing them to act as common carrier and giving them to right to condemn land for use ...
  • TVA found liable for toxin ladened coal ash spill
    Finally a positive ruling for those adversely affected by coal power plants.  Today a federal judge ruled that the Tennessee Valley Authority is liable for a huge spill of toxin-laden sludge in 2008 in Tennessee when containment dike at TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant burst. About 5 million cu ...
  • Today Was A Bad Air Day for US
    Today, the US Appeals Court in Washington, DC struck down an important pollution rule that would have protected up to 240 million Americans who live downwind from power plants that dump life-threatening pollution into our air like dangerous smog and soot. The divided ruling to block the Cross St ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • The Struggle for Justice Continues for Rachel ...
    rachel.jpg Today, a civil court in Israel issued a verdict in the 2003 death of Rachel Corrie. Judge Oded Gershon of Haifa District Court concluded that Rachel’s death was not caused by the negligence of the Israeli state or army. Rachel, a ...
  • “Land, water and food are part of our existenc ...
    honduras201204-41.jpg They left San Vicente searching for a peaceful place to live, free of the oppressive British colonial powers. Three thousand women, men and children sailing atop the blue waters of the Caribbean Sea were thirsty and hu ...
  • Supporting Indigenous Peoples' Struggle for Ri ...
    conic-2009.jpg Today [August 9] is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People. The United Nations pronounced this day to promote and protect the rights of the world’s indigenous population. Today also gives us an opportunity to ...
  • Traveling to Brazil, but not 'that' Brazil
    brazil_delegation_2012.jpg This summer, a group of Grassroots International supporters and allies participated in a delegation to Pernambuco, Brazil. There they saw first-hand the resilient and powerful work of the Landless Workers Movement ...
  • Campaign for Permanent Housing Solutions in Haiti
    4752570635_3dfd8c7f7b_m.jpg Article 22 of Haiti’s 1987 Constitution guarantees adequate housing to all Haitians, yet hundreds of thousands of Haitians are languishing in makeshift tents two and a half years after the January 2010 earthqu ...

Climate

  • Japan Strives to Go Nuclear-Free
    (New York Times) TOKYO — As Japan moves to cut back on nuclear power after last year’s disaster in Fukushima, it is running into a harsh economic reality: the cost of immediately abandoning its nuclear reactors may be too high for some ...
  • In Drought, Should Corn be Food or Fuel?
    (NPR) Standing outside the Central Minnesota Ethanol Co-Op in Little Falls, Minn., there's not a lot going on. The pungent smell of fermentation that typically hangs in the air here is absent. And trucks piled high with corn are nowher ...
  • Slow-moving Hurricane Isaac Pummels Louisiana
    (Climate Central) Although it made landfall more than 12 hours earlier, Hurricane Isaac continued to pummel southern Louisiana Wednesday morning as the huge Category 1 storm stalled in its motion to the northwest. New Orleans’ system ...
  • Wind Power Predictable Enough to Help Keep Lig ...
    (Reuters) Wind power in Britain is predictable enough that the grid can rely on it to help keep the lights on, despite spells of cold, calm weather, while it cuts carbon emissions significantly, the Institute for Public Policy Research ...
  • Enbridge's Deal with Michigan Sheriff's Depart ...
    (Livingston Daily) An Enbridge Energy LP contract with the Livingston County Sheriff's Department is intended to keep "unauthorized" people — including property owners — away from work sites as the company's 50-mile pipeline-replacemen ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • The Lying is So Bad, the Press Noticed
    I'm glad that Ezra Klein wrote this column about how incredibly dishonest Paul Ryan's speech was, but my reaction is still much like my reaction to fingernails on a chalkboard. Mr. Klein is so clearly pained by his inability to perform standard he said/she said/they both do it journalism that h ...
  • Convention Thread
    I've just been "watching" the convention on Twitter. It's more fun that way. I'll probably amble over to a television set at some point. At least tonight people are talking about Mitt Romney instead of themselves. That could be progress. So, what are your impressions so far? Are you almost ...
  • Ryan's Lies
    Joan Walsh and Brian Beutler begin the daunting job of detailing the stunningly brazen lies Paul Ryan told during his convention speech last night. Discuss
  • Loser: Chris Cillizza
    Chris Cillizza does a political winners and losers column periodically, and he's revived it for the Republican National Convention. Last night's winners were Susana Martinez, Condi Rice, Ron and Rand Paul, Paul Ryan, and Twitter. The losers were Tim Pawlenty, John Thune, interviews with delega ...
  • Containing the Alternative Universe
    Steve M. is a connoisseur of right-wing media, which may be why is more readily alarmed and prone to pessimism than I am. When it comes to wingnut media, I barely touch the stuff. The only time I watch Fox is when things have gone badly wrong for the GOP and I want to watch them suffer. The r ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Stuck in the Mud: Camel Gets Rescued from Stic ...
    The endangered Kharai breed of camels are unique in their ability to swim. But only a human rescue team can help this one out of it's muddy trap. Humph! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Beautiful Bamboo Forest of Kyoto
    The giant grass of Kyoto's bamboo forest is not only a captivating part of Japanese culture; it can also help us in our efforts to make our planet a greener place. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Mysteries and Tragedy of Russia's Bottomle ...
    Like a deep blue gemstone nestled in the Caucasus Mountains, this karst lake, one of the largest and deepest on Earth, guards dark and mysterious secrets in its depths. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Future Cities: Where Will America's Growing Po ...
    Immigration and births have set US population on a rising trajectory. Fortunately, creative thinkers are coming up with housing solutions for a more populous planet. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Waterspout Whips Across the Adriatic Sea
    While out for a walk one humid day, a photographer and his friend suddenly spotted a waterspout offshore. This amazing sequence of pictures captures what happened. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • East Coast National Parks at Risk From Sea Lev ...
    A new report on popular coastal retreats say these areas are some of the most susceptible to the effects of climate change and may look very different, very soon.
  • What Will It Take?
    In this presidential election season, mum is the word on all issues related to climate change.
  • Pemex Finally Strikes Oil in Deep Waters
    Mexico's state-owned oil monopoly has found a big oil field more than 8,200 below the water's surface in the Gulf of Mexico. The discovery could mute criticism of Pemex, which has struggled to develop new fields as older ones matured.
  • A Late Bet on Coal May Not Pay Off
    A consortium of utilities decided to build a coal-fired power plant, probably one of the last that will be allowed under E.P.A. regulations, figuring it would be cheaper than buying electricity on the open market. The low cost of natural gas has foiled that calculation.
  • Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon Organize Artists Agai ...
    Artists Against Fracking, a new coalition organized by Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon, will spread its message through social media.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

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AlterNet's Breaking News

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

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IntelNews

  • Afghan President replaces spy chief with contr ...
    The office of the Afghan President announced yesterday the dismissal of the country’s intelligence chief and his replacement with a controversial official accused by Canadian and British sources of using torture to implement his policies.
  • News you may have missed #787
    An interview with a senior Yemeni spy. Cyprus wants answers from UK over Syria spy claims. CIA 'turned down offer' to kill bin Laden in 1999.
  • France opens murder inquiry into death of Pale ...
    French prosecutors have opened an official murder inquiry into the 2004 death of Palestinian statesman Yasser Arafat, following allegations that he may have been poisoned.
  • News you may have missed #786
    US Pentagon wants to share intel with Egypt. Researcher disputes Aoki was FBI informant. Russian intelligence to monitor blogosphere.
  • Cuban Vice President’s daughter defects to the ...
    The daughter of one of Cuba’s most senior government officials secretly defected to the United States earlier this month and is now living in Tampa, Florida, according to a Spanish-language newspaper.

War is a Crime.org

  • Anti-Iranian Rage
      Anti-Iranian Rage   by Stephen Lendman   Washington and Israel wage dirty covert wars. Iran's been targeted for years. Imperial aims are prioritized. Rule of law principles don't matter. Israel wants sole regional dominance. America wants it globally. Lawless tactics continue. & ...
  • Waging War on Leaks
      Waging War on Leaks    by Stephen Lendman   On July 30, the Washington Post headlined "A bill to stop security leaks puts a plug on democracy," saying:   read more
  • Obama's America: Waiting For Blowback
    The United States has suffered three widely acknowledged military disasters since the end of the Second World War: in Korea, Vietnam and Iraq. The American public responded to each crisis by electing new leaders with a mandate to end the wars and avoid new ones. But in each case, our new leaders ...
  • Is There a Way Beyond Israeli Madness?
      By John Grant   The patient, by the name of Israel, walks into the room and instantly bursts into a tirade of arguments conclusively proving his credentials, and says that he is better than everyone else.   -Ofer Grosbard Israel On The Couch: The Psychology of the Peace Process ...
  • Syria News - Aug 30
        Syria buffer zone plans raise serious questions: United Nations - alarabiya.net US not supportive of Turkey's proposal to establish safe zones within Syria - todayszaman Republicans attack Obama on Syria, In opinion polls Obama gets high marks for his handling of foreign policy and ...

Grist - News

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

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  • The last antibiotic: Drug companies run out of ...
    by Mike Adams (NaturalNews) The age of antibiotics is over. It’s history. There are no more patented chemical antibiotics in the pipeline. The drug companies have all but abandoned antibiotics research, leaving humanity to suffer the fate of a wave of drug-resistant bacteria — superb ...
  • 2011 Polio Eradication Campaign in India
    By Dr. Mercola If you listen to mainstream media news, you’ll be told that polio has now been eradicated in India – an accomplishment the Polio Global Eradication Initiative (PGEI), founded in 1988 by the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers f ...
  • Slow Death and Fast Profits: The Globalisation ...
    By Colin Todhunter The next time anyone in India serves up a good old ‘wholesome’ meal of rice and various vegetables, they will probably take in half a milligram of pesticide also, around a pin prick. That would be more than 40 times what an average North American person would consume. India is ...
  • HOT: Ron Paul Left Tampa Yesterday
    By Llewellyn Rockwell, Jr. Ron, Carol, and one of their granddaughters left the GOP snake pit yesterday afternoon, but the State was not yet through with them. At the little airport in Clearwater, 8 TSA agents descended on them and ordered them not to board their private plane. First, the pilots ...
  • Israel angered over IAEA vote on nuclear arsenal
    Israel has become infuriated by a fresh initiative of Arab member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which seeks to launch a global campaign to slam Israel’s possession of nuclear stockpile. The motion tabled by 17 Arab IAEA members has been submitted to a preparatory commis ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Inhabitat

  • The Netherlands’ Medieval Centraal Museum Gets ...
    Read the rest of The Netherlands’ Medieval Centraal Museum Gets a Beautiful Glazed Renovation Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Architecture, atelier van lieshout, Beel & Achtergael Architects, Centraal Museum, Daylighting, dutch design, extension, green renova ...
  • TOTO Unveils Poo-Powered ‘Toilet Bike Neo’ Mot ...
    Yes this is real! Japanese toilet company TOTO just unveiled the ultimate green motorcycle – and it doesn’t run on gasoline or an electric motor. Instead, TOTO’s “Toilet Bike Neo” runs on biogas that is produced from livestock waste. TOTO—which is not technically a ...
  • Enter The HP Ultrabook Bag Design Contest – Yo ...
    Calling all designers and inspired creatives! Enter your HP laptop bag designs in our new competition and you could WIN $10,000! Tired of lugging your computer around in a clunky black bag that looks more like a suitcase than a fashionable accessory for a sleek piece of tech? If you have an idea ...
  • American Meteorological Society Finally Takes ...
    When it comes to climate change, certain groups in the United States are still resistant to the idea despite evidence from the US Military, US Forestry Commission, NASA and assorted independent studies. Now after years of sitting on the fence over the issue, the American Meteorological Society h ...
  • Coralbots: Swarms of Coral-Repairing Robots Co ...
    A team of researchers at Heriot-Watt University is developing a swarm of intelligent robots that are designed to help save coral reefs around the world, starting with reefs in Scotland. The robots, imaginatively called ‘coralbots,’ operate according to simple rules and work together ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Before-and-After Photos: Curiosity’s Laser Bur ...
    When it comes to laser blasts, the Curiosity rover is no slouching Stormtrooper. These impressive before-and-after shots show a nice row of dots resulting from the probe's Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on a target patch of soil on Mars.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Saturn a ...
    If you're like us, you could look at photos of galaxies, planets, moons and nebulas all day. But you don't have all day, so let Wired Science bring you the most intriguing, beautiful or mysterious view of space we can find. We promise they will be mind-blowing and tempt you to replace your deskt ...
  • Signing Forms at the Top Makes People More Honest
    Simply by signing documents at the start rather than end, people might be encouraged to behave more honestly. The effect was demonstrated in a series of staged and real-world experiments, which included moving signature lines from bottom to top on car insurance reports. On average, that small tw ...
  • Colorful Cosmic Superbubbles Glow With Intense ...
    This new image shows off beautiful and mysterious structures known as superbubbles, which have astronomers scratching their heads wondering how they emit more X-rays than should be possible.
  • Tiny Mechanical Scale Weighs One Molecule at a ...
    Like a miniscule bathroom scale, a tiny vibrating gizmo can weigh individual molecules, a team of physicists reports. The new device could open up new realms of mass spectroscopy, the science of measuring molecules' masses to help identify them.

PakAlert

  • Urban Warfare Drills: Psy-Op Acclimating Ameri ...
    The US Special Operations Command (USSOC) has conducted “training exercises” over Minneapolis. In a twofold effort, the US Armed Forces are acclimating the American public to seeing military everywhere, as well as being able to train their soldiers in real time on US streets in a manipulative ef ...
  • Former Marine Detained for ‘Ominous’ Facebook ...
    The former Marine who was detained by federal and local law enforcement over a number of controversial Facebook posts is speaking out for the first time since a judge ordered he be released from a psychiatric ward in Salem, Va. last Thursday. Brandon Raub, 26, spoke with John Whitehead, his l ...
  • Hot Mic Catches Republican Praising Censorship ...
    During a roll call of states at the Republican National Convention yesterday, an attendee was caught on a hot mic praising the moment where Ron Paul’s delegate result was accidentally censored as a result of an audio failure
  • Why Does The U.S. Government Treat Military Ve ...
    The way that the U.S. government treats military veterans is absolutely disgraceful. Men and women that have given everything for this nation are literally being treated like human garbage by their own government. After watching how vets are treated, it is absolutely amazing that anyone is sti ...
  • Reports: Egypt wouldn’t fire on Iran ship
    Egypt's Navy refused a U.S. request to fire on an Iranian weapons ship heading for violence-torn Syria through the Suez Canal, al-Arabiya reported. "The Suez Canal is a narrow waterway and it is impossible for military action to take place there," Mohab Mamish, recently appointed chairman of ...

Andy Worthington

  • Photos of Lewisham: Hills, Rivers, Secret Corn ...
    Lewisham: Hills, Rivers, Secret Corners and Blatant Skyscrapers, a set on Flickr. For most of the last 16 years I have lived in the London Borough of Lewisham — first in Forest Hill, London SE23, and, since November 1999, in Brockley, London SE4, which overlooks Lewisham town centre, the c ...
  • Photos of the Olympics: In Search of the Paral ...
    The Olympics: In Search of the Paralympic Torch, a set on Flickr. With the main Olympic Games now a memory, the focus, for the next 11 days, is on the Paralympic Games, before Britain returns to the gloom of life under the crushing yoke of a myopic Tory-led government. While the Games were a gre ...
  • Glass, Light and Fantasies: Photos of the City ...
    Glass, Light and Fantasies: The City of London At Night, a set on Flickr. This latest photo set, on Flickr, from my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike — the 23rd instalment in what will be at least a year-long project — follows up on a previous set, Parks, Wate ...
  • Echoes of Ancient Rome: Photos of the Roman Fo ...
    Echoes of Ancient Rome: The Roman Forum, the Colosseum and the Palatine Hill, a set on Flickr. My two-week family holiday in Italy is at an end, and I am now back in London, slightly cold and pining for the heat, the cooking, the fresh fruit, the culture of Rome and the mountains and lakes [...]
  • Photos of The Pantheon and Il Vittoriano in Ro ...
    The Pantheon and Il Vittoriano in Rome: Transcendental Illumination and a Show of Power, a set on Flickr. I’m nearing the end of my two-week family holiday in Italy, and have been in Abruzzo province, near the town of Sulmona, since Sunday August 19. For the first week my family and I were ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Anti-LGBT Zealots Target Fox and Bill O’Reilly
    Leave it to extreme elements of the anti-LGBT right to make Fox News look almost “fair and balanced” after all. Frequently the target of left-leaning criticism, the cable news network and its most popular host, Bill O’Reilly, are now coming under fire for “helping violent homosexuals to kill Chr ...
  • Conspiracy Theorists: Isaac Caused by God, Gov ...
    Hurricane Isaac has inconvenienced a lot of people. Many thousands of Gulf Coast residents have boarded up windows and sought shelter inland. And many others are now facing the prospect of cleaning up and rebuilding flooded homes and businesses. But the inconvenienced people we’ve been hearing a ...
  • Two ‘Sovereigns’ Plead Guilty in Alaska Murder ...
    An Alaska couple who are antigovernment “sovereign citizens” face lengthy prison terms after pleading guilty Monday to charges they plotted to kill a federal judge and an IRS agent involved in a tax case against them. Lonnie Vernon, 56, a member of Schaeffer Cox’s Alaska Peacemakers Militia, and ...
  • New Intelligence Report Focuses on Possible Bo ...
    Are U.S.-born vigilantes murdering Latino immigrants near the U.S.-Arizona border? The Southern Poverty Law Center today released its latest issue of the Intelligence Report, and the magazine’s cover story sifts through some of the evidence suggesting that undocumented immigrants may have been k ...
  • Nativist Lawyer Kris Kobach Jumps on Anti-Shar ...
    Kris Kobach, the immigrant-baiting attorney behind a raft of “attrition through enforcement” laws designed to make unauthorized immigrants’ lives so miserable that they choose to “self-deport,” is letting his Islamophobic colors fly. Talking Points Memo reported last week that the Republican Nat ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Obama Gives Shell Green Light to Start Risky A ...
    The Obama administration has given Royal Dutch Shell the green light to begin "preparatory activities" for oil drilling in Alaska's Chukchi Sea on Thursday to the outrage of environmental groups. read more
  • Canada Orders War Resister to Be Deported Back ...
    A war resister who has been living in Canada for the last five years has been ordered deported back to the U.S., an immigration board said Thursday. Kimberly Rivera, reported to be the first female U.S. war resister, had served in Iraq in 2006 but sought refuge in Canada in 2007. Rivera is the m ...
  • Iran's Khamenei Calls for 'Nuclear Free Middle ...
    Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday reiterated the country's position that it has no desire for nuclear weapons, calling atomic weapons a "great sin" and renewing the call for a nuclear-free Middle East. ...
  • Want to Keep Track of Drone Strikes? There's ...
    An iPhone app that would send users notification whenever a drone strike happens has been repeatedly rejected by Apple, Wired reports. Christina Bonnington and Spencer Ackerman describe in Wired's Danger Room blog how an app designed by Josh Begley has been rejected by the company three time ...
  • Which Way Will The Pendulum Swing? Chicago Tea ...
    CHICAGO—“What this is about, brothers and sisters, is about a moment in time where either the pendulum is going to swing one way or swing the other.” read more

Lifehacker

  • Remains of the Day: New Java Update Blocks Rec ...
    Oracle releases an update to Java that blocks zero-day exploits, Spotify adds handy features to its iOS app, Bing can now search your Facebook friends' photos, and Google Hangouts get Calendar integration. More » ...
  • Best Audio Editing Application? [Hive Five Cal ...
    Whether you're an at-home DJ or you just need an audio track to go behind a movie, speech, or other event, you'll probably need some audio editing tool to help you put the tracks together and turn multiple audio files into one. This week, we ...
  • What makes your commute easier? [Discussions O ...
    Great discussions are par for the course here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Check out these discussio ...
  • Wolfram Alpha's Facebook Report Analyzes Every ...
    Wolfram Alpha, the intelligent, computational search engine, just launched a new tool that breaks down your Facebook activity into numerous charts and graphs. If nothing else, it's an eye-opening reminder of everything Facebook knows about you ...
  • No Headphones Day [Communication]
    How about Thursdays? Do Thursdays work for you? From now on let's say Thursdays are officially "No Headphones" Day. Thursdays will be the day where you have to go through the world and actually hear stuff NOT coming from the well-crafted playl ...

Water Privatization

  • Water Sector Reform will not abolish local wat ...
    August 30, 2012. Stakeholders in the water sector from the public and private sectors applauded Senator Edgardo J. Angara for vowing not to harm or destroy players under the Water Sector Reform Act (WSRA) he authored. Angara said that proposed water sector reform will improve operations and make ...
  • Allentown council hears people pan, praise wat ...
    City council hears earful on Pawlowskis plan to lease water system to fund pensions. If Allentown leases its water system, the sky might fall. If the city doesn't lease its water system, that same sky might fall.
  • Allentown public hearing on water, sewer lease ...
    Out of about 30 people who spoke about Mayor Ed Pawlowski's proposed 50-year lease, only four speakers defended the plan.
  • Military Base Water Supply Contracts a Focus f ...
    67 WALL STREET, New York - August 29, 2012 - The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Utilities, Alternative Energy and Water Services Report offering a timely review of the sector to serious ...
  • Wall Street Transcript Interview with American ...
    67 WALL STREET, New York - August 29, 2012 - The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Utilities, Alternative Energy and Water Services Report offering a timely review of the sector to serious ...

Guardian

  • Dog owner jailed over horrific attacks
    Spencer Brown sentenced to 12 months after his Staffordshire bull terrier crosses savaged 10 people in street attackThe owner of two dogs which savaged 10 people in a "horrific and nightmarish" street attack has been jailed for 12 months.Spencer Brown, 22, pleaded guilty to 10 counts of owning d ...
  • Roman Abramovich wins court battle with Boris ...
    Judge calls Berezovsky an unreliable witness after he loses case in which he claimed Chelsea owner cheated him out of £3bnThe Chelsea football club owner, Roman Abramovich, has won a high court action against his rival Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky over a disputed £3bn debt.Berezovsky, 66, w ...
  • Spanish wildfire reaches edge of Marbella
    Thousands evacuated as blaze threatens tourist resort, fanned by strong windsSeveral thousand people have been evacuated after a huge wildfire raging out of control in southern Spain reached the edge of the tourist resort of Marbella on the Costa del Sol, Spanish authorities say.The fire broke o ...
  • iPhone 5 release date rumours mount
    Apple expected to introduce new version of iPhone on 12 September and an 'iPad mini' in OctoberSpeculation is mounting that Apple will announce a new version of its iPhone on 12 September and an "iPad mini" – a smaller version of its bestselling tablet – in October.Dozens of leaked photos and sa ...
  • Ulster Bank to compensate account holders for ...
    A compensation package worth €35m will be given to people forced to carry out branch transactions during the IT meltdown in June and JulyUlster Bank customers hit by the month-long IT meltdown which crippled the bank will be offered a one-off compensation payment of €25 (£19) and free banking fo ...

McClatchey

  • McClatchy contributor Austin Tice may be held ...
    Austin Tice, an American freelance journalist covering the civil war in Syria who was last heard from in mid-August, remains unaccounted for and is likely being held by the Syrian…Click to Continue »
  • Afghan minister accused of abuses to become ne ...
    An Afghan Cabinet minister dogged by torture allegations is slated to become the new chief of Afghanistans notorious intelligence service, the National Directorate of Security.Click to Continue »
  • S.C. residents say photo ID rule would keep th ...
    Black South Carolina residents testified Thursday in federal court that financial hardship and a lack of transportation would likely keep them from voting if a state voter ID law that…Click to Continue »
  • Federal court strikes down Texas voter ID law
    In a resounding rebuke of Texas? Republican leadership, a three-judge federal panel Thursday knocked down the state?s new far-reaching photo voter ID law, which the court said illegally suppressed Latino…Click to Continue »
  • Neighbors of Pakistani Christian girl in blasp ...
    The Christians are trickling back to the poor neighborhood in Islamabad that they fled after a blasphemy allegation ignited terror earlier this month. But fear still haunts them.Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Australia to Complete Afghan Mission Amidst De ...
    Australia n casualties in the decade-old Afghan War, Ms Gillard said she was saddened by the fact that she had attended so many funerals for fallen Diggers, 19 at the last count, according to reports ...
  • Australia says killings will not speed up Afgh ...
    SYDNEY, Aug 31, 2012 (AFP) - - Australia said Friday it would complete its mission in Afghanistan despite suffering its deadliest day in combat since the Vietnam War and the prospect of further ...
  • No early pull-out of Afghanistan
    Defence Minister Stephen Smith says there's nothing more terrible than loss of life at the hands of an ally, but staying the course in Afghanistan is still the right thing to do, despite the ...
  • Afghan Questions Answered In Blood
    Every time a soldier is killed in Afghanistan, the same questions are asked: why are we there and are the deaths worth it? The operational ends of the war are slipping away, writes Aaron ...
  • Man linked to torture will lead Afghan intelli ...
    McClatchy Newspapers KABUL, Afghanistan -- An Afghan Cabinet minister dogged by torture allegations is slated to become the new chief of Afghanistan's notorious intelligence service, the ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • First Round Of Ebook Price Fixing Settlements ...
    When the Department of Justice decided to sue Apple and five of the major book publishers for price fixing ebooks, we were glad to see some justice coming to purchasers of overpriced ebooks. Shortly after filing the suit, three of those publishers, HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schust ...
  • DailyDirt: Looking Back At Ancient Humans
    Our ancient ancestors had a pretty tough life without fire, farming techniques and 4G wireless internet connections. But they managed to create cave paintings that still exist today, and we're still finding cool stuff that pre-historic people left behind. Here are just a few interesting links to ...
  • B-Movie Legends Troma Entertainment Releases 1 ...
    Troma Entertainment is a giant in the B-movie world, creating and releasing tons of movies, including its most famous film, The Toxic Avenger. Company founder and film director Lloyd Kaufman (who has written a guest post for us in the past), recently alerted us to the fact that Troma has recent ...
  • USTR Tells Public Interest Groups They Have 8 ...
    We've noted for quite some time that the USTR's idea of "transparency" is laughable. They pretend that letting a few critics speak briefly is "transparency." It's not. Transparency is revealing what you're proposing on behalf of the public. And, even the "hearing from critics" part is increa ...
  • Hall & Oates Convince Super PAC Named After Th ...
    There's been plenty of talk this election season about the rise of PACs and SuperPACs -- and the ease of creating them. Of course, that can lead to some bizarre situations. Take, for example the creation of the Hall and Oates Fans for America SuperPAC, which was recently approved by the Federa ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    My friend Mark, also one of the founders of the punk collective I’m in, wrote this article comparing the Russian government’s reaction to Pussy Riot to the reaction Positive Force got for their “Meese is a Pig” postering back in the day. I know I should say something abou ...
  • Beware of Strange Men on Airplanes
    It seems that Virgin airlines has a policy that unaccompanied children cannot sit next to men on their airplanes. An Australian man, who was assigned a seat next to two boys he did not know, was asked to switch seats with a woman. Pissed off about being treated like a presumed predator, he blogg ...
  • Big Tents, Little Bridges, Vested Interests
    This piece over at Cubik’s Rube reminded me of something I have been wanting to write about for a while. James is worried that the atheism+ idea that Blag Hag wrote about, and that I linked to on Wed, will be just one more divide in a movement that already has plenty of “splits, schi ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Sorry I dropped out for a few days. I was at the beach having the greatest shit show on earth. I actually brought my laptop. But who the hell was I kidding? Shane Thayer is having a contest. Writing a blog post that links to his artwork enters you in a contest for a free [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    A nice, short piece on why War is Not Inevitable.  (See also why Pinker, with his claims about violence decreasing, is a jackass.) And as long as we are on the subject of violence. Lakey makes some excellent points in his post about a diversity of tactics. Check out the stats on suspensions of c ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Syria: this may be the best chance to exit the ...
    Wadah Khanfar writes: A crucial shift is now taking place in the Middle East towards the conflict in Syria. The Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi’s call for Arab-Iranian-Turkish dialogue over the crisis and a safe transfer of power in Syria – which he repeated in his speech to the Non-Align ...
  • Israel and Iran’s contest in incompetence
    Trita Parsi writes: Two weeks ago, Netanyahu launched a public campaign to persuade Ki-Moon not to go to Tehran. Attending the international summit in Tehran would be “a big mistake,” he told Ki-Moon. Later he issued a statement, telling the Secretary General that “you do not belong in Tehran.” ...
  • Iran said to send troops to bolster Syria
    The Wall Street Journal Reports: Iran is sending commanders from its elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and hundreds of foot soldiers to Syria, according to current and former members of the corps. The personnel moves come on top of what these people say are Tehran’s stepped-up effort ...
  • French probe deepens confusion over Arafat death
    The Associated Press reports: A French murder probe into the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat prompted an Israeli denial of responsibility on Wednesday and renewed doubts that Palestinians would stick to a halfhearted pledge to exhume Arafat’s body. Arafat’s death eight years ago in a F ...
  • Daraya: the defiance that led to the massacre ...
    Phil Sands reports: For a rather non-descript town of drab cement block buildings on the southern outskirts of Damascus, Daraya in two short months acquired a significance far exceeding its size or the apparent ordinariness of its neighbourhoods. Until the start of last week’s all-out assa ...

Watts Up With That?

  • An independent constraint on climate sensitivity
    Guest post by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Abstract Global CO2 emissions per unit increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration provide an independent constraint on climate sensitivity over the timescale of the available data (1960-2008), suggesting that, in the short term and … Continue ...
  • Errors in Estimating Temperatures Using the Av ...
    Guest post by Lance Wallace Abstract The traditional estimate of temperature at measuring stations has been to average the highest (Tmax) and lowest (Tmin) daily measurements. This leads to error in estimating the true mean temperature. What is the magnitude … Continue reading →
  • “North American energy independence by 2 ...
    Guest post by David Middleton GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney recently released an outline of his plan to achieve “North American energy independence” by 2020. While the white paper (1) is short on specific details, it does contain quite a … Continue reading →
  • Important paper strongly suggests man-made CO2 ...
    Reposted from the Hockey Schtick, as I’m out of time and on the road.- Anthony An important new paper published today in Global and Planetary Change finds that changes in CO2 follow rather than lead global air surface temperature and … Continue reading →
  • Single dose Malaria cure has high potential
    From the University of Cape Town comes some bad news for global warming alarmists, Malaria deaths may soon be a thing of the past and their attempts to link such deaths to global warming will evaporate if this cure holds … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Coffee drinkers have lower risk of death, stud ...
    Older adults who drank coffee — caffeinated or decaffeinated — had a lower risk of death overall than others who did not drink coffee, according a study by researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and AARP. Coffee drinkers were ...
  • All cancer cells are not created equal
    A study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers suggests that specific populations of tumor cells have different roles in the process by which tumors make new copies of themselves and grow.  In their report in the May 15 issue of Cancer Cell, researchers identify a tumor-propagatin ...
  • How the worm knows where its nose is
    For decades, scientists have studied Caenorhabditis elegans – tiny, transparent worms – to glean clues about how neurons develop and function. A new Harvard study suggests that the worms’ nervous system is much more capable and complex than previously thought, and has a way to monitor its ...
  • Mystery gene reveals new mechanism for anxiety ...
    A novel mechanism for anxiety behaviors, including a previously unrecognized inhibitory brain signal, may inspire new strategies for treating psychiatric disorders, University of Chicago researchers report. By testing the controversial role of a gene called Glo1 in anxiety, scientists uncovered ...
  • Researchers crack part of common cancer mutati ...
    Researchers have identified a compound that could correct a mutation and stop cancer from spreading — a development that could eventually be used to treat tens of thousands of cancer patients in the United States each year. In a study published today in the journal Cancer Cell, four scientists f ...

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Ria Novosti Online News

  • Nomura to Cut $1Bln Expenses in Fiscal 2013
  • Police Detain 'Free Pussy Riot' Murder Suspect
    Police in Russia's Volga city of Kazan have arrested a man on suspicion of the murder of two women whose bodies were found beneath a scrawled message demanding the release of three jailed members of the anti-Putin punk group Pussy Riot.
  • Romney Talks Tough on Russia in Acceptance Speech
    In the most important speech of his life, Mitt Romney accepted the U.S. Republican party’s nomination for president Thursday, vowing to toughen Washington’s dealings with Russia and President Vladimir Putin should he win the White House.
  • Borey Class Subs to be Deployed in Russian Nor ...
    Two Borey class strategic nuclear-powered submarines, the Yuri Dolgoruky and the Alexander Nevsky, will enter service with the Russian Navy, one with the North Fleet and the other with the Pacific Fleet, Anatoly Shlemov, head of defense contracts at the United Shipbuilding Corporation, said on F ...
  • Moscow Opposition Applies for ‘March of Millions’
    Moscow’s opposition has applied to hold the third “March of Millions” on September 15 that will be held under the slogan for “Snap Elections! and Against Repression!” opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov said on Friday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Hey - hand me that wrench over there, willya?
    I’m working under the hood this week.  I’m looking into moving the site to a new architecture, so I’ve got a test site underway.  If I can get it looking right, I’ll cut over.  Otherwise it will stay the same and I’ll just have some wasted time to sho ...
  • How the decline in CO2 emissions is like NAFTA
    The quality of reporting on fracking in large outlets has been of varying quality. Day-to-day coverage of the latest developments is usually pretty good, but bigger picture trend pieces have a tendency to be positively fawning towards the industry. A couple of recent articles in the New York T ...
  • Rallying for Aramark Laundry Workers
    The Immigrant Workers Union (UTI) Local 229 held a rally at an Aramark uniform service facility in Madison to bring to light the abuses being committed by management against the laundry workers they employ.     The workers, formerly organized under UNITE, are now organized under the& ...
  • Fighting fracking: introverts edition
    One of the biggest threats fracking poses to the environment is the way it endangers the water supply. It does so in several ways, one of which has large-scale implications. Global impact like that is a little unusual; environmental issues are more likely to be local. Whether it’s frack ...
  • Hiram residents attempt to ask questions about ...
    Thursday’s post on Hiram’s public fracking meeting mainly covered residents’ interaction with local officials. The bigger part of the meeting, though, featured two speakers with ties to the oil and gas industry. A representative from the company Mountaineer Keystone (MK) made ...

Organic Consumers.org

Center for a Livable Future

  • The Question at Smithsonian: Shrimp and Safety
    The emerging common concern was about imported shrimp.
  • 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?

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Public Schools Use RFID Chips to Track and Pun ...
    In the San Antonio school district, the Student Locator Project (SLP) is being beta-tested at Jay High School and Jones Middle School. The SLP includes the use of radio frequency identification technology (RFID) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note- ...
  • Why Does The U.S. Government Treat Military Ve ...
    The way that the U.S. government treats military veterans is absolutely disgraceful. Men and women that have given everything for this nation are literally being treated like human garbage by their own government. After watching how vets are treated, it i Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to US P ...
  • The $6 QUADRILLION Cost Of The Climate Scam!
    U.N.s absurd climate panel had already at least tripled the true (and harmless) rate of warming to be expected from our adding CO2 to the air.Divided by 10 the true cost of effective action. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...
  • Ten-Year-Old Convinces Jamba Juice To Go Styro ...
    Now this truly is a heartwarming story that goes to show how a little effort can go a wrong way. Ten-year-old Mia Hansen, with a little help from her mother, started a Change.org petition to get Jamba Juice, a smoothie franchise, to quit styrofoam. Submitted by Cher AwayAtLake Clarke to Green L ...
  • Beefing up security on skeptical blogs
    If you ever thought 'debate' occurred on a 'level playing field'....Heads Up ! Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Trial in WikiLeaks case set for Feb., March
    ShareThisTrial in WikiLeaks case set for Feb., March 30 Aug 2012 An Army private accused of handing over a trove of classified documents to the website WikiLeaks is scheduled for trial in February. Army Col. Denise Lind, the judge handling the case, said Thursday that Pfc. Bradley Manning's tria ...
  • Mitt Romney Accepts Republican Presidential No ...
    ShareThisMitt Romney Accepts Republican Presidential Nomination 30 Aug 2012 Mitt Romney accepted the Republican Party’s presidential nomination tonight, capping a six-year quest and setting up a general election showdown with President Barack Obama. As he began a speech at the Tampa Bay Times Fo ...
  • Pentagon threatens lawsuit over Osama bin Lade ...
    ShareThisPentagon threatens lawsuit over Osama bin Laden book 30 Aug 2012 The Defense Department is threatening to go after an ex-SEAL author and his publisher over a new book that challenges the administration's official account of last year's raid that killed 'Osama bin Laden.' The Pentagon la ...
  • Justice Department closes CIA probe without ch ...
    ShareThisJustice Department closes CIA probe without charges 30 Aug 2012 The Justice Department said Thursday that it would not file charges in connection with the deaths of two prisoners held in CIA custody a decade ago, closing the last active criminal investigation into the agency's treatment ...
  • Defense: Colo. shooting suspect tried to call ...
    ShareThisDefense: Colo. shooting suspect tried to call university psychiatrist 9 minutes before attack 30 Aug 2012 The suspect in the Colorado shooting rampage tried unsuccessfully to call his university psychiatrist [handler?] 9 minutes before he opened fire during a Batman movie premiere, defe ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • ISAF Joint Command morning operational update: ...
    UNCLASSIFIED 2012-08-S-055 For Immediate Release ISAF Joint Command morning operational update KABUL, Afghanistan (AUG 31) – An Afghan and coalition force killed two armed insurgents during an operation in Sayyid Karam district, Paktiya province, yesterday. During the operation, the security ...
  • ISAF Joint Command morning operational update: ...
    UNCLASSIFIED 2012-08-S-054 For Immediate Release ISAF Joint Command morning operational update KABUL, Afghanistan (AUG 30) – An Afghan and coalition security force conducted an operation to arrest a Taliban insurgent responsible for planning attacks against Afghan and coalition forces in Hisa ...
  • Maori Farewell for Three Kiwi Troops
    27 August 2012 On 19 August an IED strike took the lives of three New Zealand troops in Afghanistan.  Lost were Corporal Luke Tamatea, 31, Private Richard Harris, 21, and Lance Corporal Jacinda Baker, 26, medic. Jacinda was the first New Zealand female killed in Afghanistan.  The str ...
  • North to Norway: Pencari Tracking
    27 August 2012 Bomb dog that walked over Bomb in Sangin, Afghanistan (Helmand 2010) At this rate, 2012 will be the first year since 2004 that I have not stepped into a war.  An invitation came last week to attend a combat tracking course in Norway.   I received a similar invitat ...
  • Afghanistan: CUT LOSSES
    23 August 2012 U.S. Rocket Strike, Kandahar Province, 2011 Most people likely wish to hear that everything will turn out right in Afghanistan.  The reality is that it will not end well.  This bastard war will have a thousand fathers and nobody will claim it. In 2009, I wrote, “If a ...

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Firm steps needed to protect children from mil ...
    The government's effective implementation of a joint action plan to put an end to the recruitment of children by the country's military will be the true test of the agreement's significance
  • Amid the deluge
    More than 700 villages and over 200,000 acres (80,940 hectares) of rice fields have been flooded across Burma as seasonal rains overwhelm the country’s fragile infrastructure.
  • Burma’s farmers fight copper mine over e ...
    The construction of a government-backed copper mine in Northern Burma has led to the forced relocation of farmers and families in Sagaing division. Testing their new-found freedom of expression, the Burmese farmers are speaking out. The NGO Asian Legal Resources Centre reported that Burma is at ...
  • Exiled activist handed prison sentence after r ...
    A political activist and lawyer, who recently returned home after years in exile, was sentenced to six months in prison for charges of contempt of court on Wednesday
  • A pressing truth
    How the fourth estate can help fight racism, ethnic violence and intolerance in Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • UN rights chief urges Gambia to halt executions
    [JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official website] urged Gambian authorities Thursday to enact an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty [press release]. The statement is a response [UN News Centre report] to the execution of nine prisoners [JURIST report ...
  • Federal court rejects Texas voter ID law
    [JURIST] A three-judge panel in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Thursday unanimously rejected a Texas law [opinion, PDF] requiring voters to present photo identification to election officials before casting their ballots. The judges concluded that the law ...
  • Federal judge halts West Virginia sex-segregat ...
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia [official website] on Wednesday issued a temporary injunction blocking same-gender classes at a West Virginia middle school. The order follows a lawsuit [press release] brought by the American Civil Liberties U ...
  • US charges Guantanamo detainee with supporting ...
    [JURIST] The US Department of Defense announced Wednesday that the Chief Prosecutor for Military Commissions [official websites] has filed terrorism charges [press release] against a Saudi Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder] prisoner accused of plotting with al Qaeda to blow up oil tankers near ...
  • Maldives commission rules former president's r ...
    [JURIST] A Maldives commission of inquiry concluded Thursday that former president Mohamed Nasheed's resignation and the transfer of power to current President Mohammed Waheed Hassan [official profile] were legal [report, PDF]. In its report, the Commission of National Inquiry (CONI) [official w ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Navy SEALs Assassinated Bin Laden
    In the aftermath of the assassination of Osama bin Laden, amid the contradictory reports from the Obama administration about the event, I came to believe that the Isalmist was likely assassinated deliberately. The stories about resistance put up by Bin Laden made little sense since they were imm ...
  • Nahum Barnea: Settlers Have Won, Two States ar ...
    Nahum Barnea is Israel’s most respected daily columnist.  He is something akin to Tom Friedman.  Everyone reads him and his columns are a barometer of where centrist-mainstream political sentiment lies.  He provokes both the right and the left with his coverage and always comes down somewh ...
  • Israeli Attack on Iran: Driving Off a Cliff
  • Rachel Corrie Among First in Long Line of Fore ...
    The list below was compiled by the Institute for Middle East Understanding and lists foreign peace activists brutally maimed or murdered by the IDF over the past nine years.  It’s a list of ignominy.  It should also be noted that hundreds of Palestinian activists have been similarly maimed ...
  • Israeli Court Blames Rachel Corrie for Own Dea ...
    An Israeli court ruled in the past hour or so that neither the State nor the IDF is responsible for the death of Rachel Corrie.  In fact, the judge claims that she herself was responsible.  This is a case brought by Corrie’s parents, Craig and Cindy, in which they sought damages from the I ...

If Americans Knew

  • My "Relationship" With Tom Campbell: A Wrench ...
    The First Intifada was a grassroots uprising against Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Intifada is an Arabic word for "civil uprising" that literally means "shaking off."
  • AIPAC: We'll take over Cal's student governmen ...
    "How are we going to beat back the anti-Israel divestment resolution at Berkeley? We're going to make certain that pro-Israel students take over the student government and reverse the vote. That is how AIPAC operates in our nation's capitol. This is how AIPAC must operate on our nation's campuses."
  • VIDEO: AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Acti ...
    Janet McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across America? Why don't any claim affiliation to their creator or use descriptive names? Shouldn't the ...
  • Israel Lobby Dominates Congress, Media Covers ...
    You might think that 20 percent of the American Congress going on all-expenses-paid, week-long junkets to a foreign country -- paid for by a lobby for that country -- would be newsworthy, especially when the top congressional leaders of both parties are leading the trips. You would be wrong.
  • Israeli video games in Gaza: "Minimal collater ...
    He looks at the camera with bright eyes and the beginning of a smile, wearing a miniature dark blue zipper sweatshirt, the cuffs folded up a bit to make it fit. I can imagine his mother dressing him that morning, making sure he would be warm enough. I wonder if she's the one who took the picture ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • PANDA Development Wraps Up
    September 6 will be both the PANDA Project's one-year anniversary, as well as my last day as a full-time developer. The PANDA project aims to make basic data analysis quick and easy for news organizations, and make data sharing simple. To celebrate the end of primary development, we've spent ...
  • Mapping the Rise of Violence Against Journalis ...
    New reports gathered by Internews and their on-the-ground partner Nai show that 2011 had the most incidents of violence against journalists in Afghanistan yet, with local news and TV networks experiencing the worst of it. Last year there were 72 cases of violence against journalists, with Kabul ...
  • The State Decoded, Now Solr-Powered
    The State Decoded project is putting U.S. state laws online, making them easy to search, understand and navigate. Our laws are organized badly, but The State Decoded is reorganizing them automatically, connecting people with the legal information they need with the ease of a Google search. In ...
  • How Wikipedia Manages Sources for Breaking News
    Almost a year ago, I was hired by Ushahidi to work as an ethnographic researcher on a project to understand how Wikipedians managed sources during breaking news events. Ushahidi cares a great deal about this kind of work because of a new project called SwiftRiver that seeks to collect and en ...
  • What's Next for Ushahidi and Its Platform?
    This is part 2 in a series. In part 1, I talked about how we think of ourselves at Ushahidi and how we think of success in our world. It set up the context for this post, which is about where we're going next as an organization and with our platform. We realize that it's hard to understand j ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Iranian Threat - British Bank Accused of D ...
    On August 6, 2012, the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), the state banking regulator, accused Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) of Britain of using its New York state branch as a clearinghouse for Iran transactions in a massive cover-up scheme involving at least $250 billion.&nb ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Club for Growth's Clout
    As Republicans have battled for the soul of their party in primaries across the country, the deep-pocketed, anti-tax Club for Growth has proved itself a force to be reckoned with.If heavily favored Rep. Jeff Flake prevails Tuesday in Arizona over businessman Wil Cardon, the Club will mark four w ...
  • The Race for Solar - Arab-Isareli Solar Compan ...
    Yafa Energy could be a bridge over which Arab-Israeli technology finds its way to industries in the Arab world seeking renewable energy solutions. Eureka! Yafa Energy has become the first Arab-Israeli company to win a prestigious European Union EUREKA (Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabli ...
  • The Edge of Earth - Quake Map Prediction Metho ...
    Some high profile researchers in the earth sciences are questioning several long-standing assumptions about predicting earthquakes. They contend it is time for a major reassessment on the methods used to forecast where and when killer earthquakes will strike.Three recent major earthquakes: in Si ...
  • Destination Tibet - Tibet Theme Park
    Just outside Tibet’s capital, Lhasa, the Chinese government is building a $4.7 billion theme park that critics describe as a fairy tale universe that trivializes Tibetan culture and glosses over the nation’s troubles. The construction gets into high gear as Tibetans continue to demonstrate a ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Paul Ryan Answers the "Fact Checkers" Charges
    This morning I received an email from Obama's campaign manager Jim Messina, telling me that Paul Ryan "lied" his convention speech  He lied about Medicare. He lied about the Recovery Act. He lied about the deficit and debt. He even dishonestly attacked Barack Obama for the closing of a G ...
  • Did Romney Do What He Had To? (Plus full Trans ...
    Mitt Romney had three Jobs tonight, he had to show that he was indeed human, that he had a vision and a plan for America's future and he had to do it in a way that would appeal to the discouraged Obama vote. It was and it wasn't.  This was a very straight forward, workman-like speech.& ...
  • Text of Marco Rubio's GREAT RNC Speech!
    In 1980, I watched my first Republican convention with my grandfather. He was born to a farming family in rural Cuba. Childhood polio left him permanently disabled. Because he couldn't work the farm, his family sent him to school, and he became the only one in the family who could rea ...
  • Where Are the Muslim Anti-Islamists? They're ...
    By Barry Rubin A reader asks: where are all these tens and even hundreds of millions of Muslim anti-Islamists. I wrote an entire book about the liberals and moderates called The Long War for Freedom. There are a number of scholars who have written such books, even analogies of moderate Mus ...
  • Excerpts Of Romney's Acceptance Speech Relased ...
    Excerpts from Gov. Romney’s nomination speech, as prepared for delivery tonight at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, FL. LA EXCERPTS: Four years ago, I know that many Americans felt a fresh excitement about the possibilities of a new president. That president was not the choice of ...

The Real Agenda

  • Darpa and Homeland Security working on Next Ge ...
    Forget about those old, defective, useless, dangerous airport body scanners in which governments spent millions of dollars. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 31, 2012 It took how long?… Hmmm… Let’s see… 5 years for the U.S. Department of Homeland Securi ...
  • Americans shot in Mexico are CIA Agents
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 30, 2012 Two U.S. agents were wounded on Friday during a shooting with the Mexican Federal Police work for the CIA. This was reported by then The New York Times, adding that the employees of the Central Intelligence Agency, riding on a vehicle ...
  • The World’s Debt is China’s Wealth
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 30, 2012 Debt is never seen as a positive outcome, however there are times when someone’s incapacity to handle finances becomes wealth for others. A clear example is the current state of economics in both the developed and developing wor ...
  • Homeland Security Insider Warns about False-Fl ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 29, 2012 Douglas J. Hagmann, the founder of the Northeast Intelligence Network appeared on the Alex Jones Show yesterday recounting what a source of his, who works inside the Department of Homeland Security, has told him regarding the potentia ...
  • U.S. Military Openly Admits to Conducting Cybe ...
    Destroy, deny, degrade, disrupt, deceive, corrupt, or usurp the adversaries. By NOAH SHACHTMAN | WIRED.com | AUGUST 29, 2012 There was a time, not all that long ago, when the U.S. military wouldn’t even whisper about its plans to hack into opponents’ networks. Now America’s armed force ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind power poses problems
    CARROLL TOWNSHIP –While the number of small, residential wind turbines in Ottawa County is rising, large commercial-use wind turbines are still few and far between, and it appears commercial wind farms will not be on the horizon anytime soon. “Our first rule in siting when it comes t ...
  • Windham to state: Stop wind project
    WINDHAM — Commercial wind power is “expressly forbidden” in Windham, and the state should block a developer’s plans to erect test towers in the area, town officials wrote this week in a letter to the Vermont Public Service Board. The letter comes as Windham officials prepare to ...
  • Concerns over safety of Fenrother wind farm af ...
    A controversial wind monitoring mast in the Northumberland countryside has fallen down, sparking concerns among local residents. The mast at Fenrother, near Morpeth, came crashing down on Monday night after apparently beginning to buckle on Sunday. The developer who erected the mast says it came ...
  • First Wind permit for ‘taking’ end ...
    SHEFFIELD — More than 50 residents of the Northeast Kingdom turned out on Monday night for a hearing about First Wind’s pursuit of an Endangered and Threatened Species Taking Permit from the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources. The owner of the Sheffield wind turbines seeks the permit to allow f ...
  • PSB halts blasting at Georgia Mtn.; Neighbors ...
    The sun spilled through the trees on a hilly piece of Jane FitzGerald’s 200-plus acre wood last Friday. Jane’s son, Dan; his wife, Tina; and their son, Cody, effortlessly trekked up the path strewn with mossy grass, broken branches and rocks. All this looked natural in the woods, but the FitzGer ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help v ...
    EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Two survivors of human trafficking share their ...
    She fiddles with her cell phone. In mid conversation, she holds it out, showing off whos on the screen. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Why Did Aggie Boys Buy Sex at the Chicken Ranch?
    The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the Texas A&M football team celebrates a win with a visit to their local brothel, the Chicken Ranch. The Aggie Boys are f Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • A Novel about “Guttiness” and Inde ...
    In accounting, “book value” is the term used to describe the estimated value of an asset that has been held for a long time and has depreciated over the years. It seemed an ideal title for this new book review column, which will revisit favorite old works and rediscover unjustly neglected works ...
  • Individualism, Collectivism, and Other Murky L ...
    It behooves us to make sure our labels communicate clearly. Otherwise we will never bring the mass of people to the cause of liberty.
  • Economy Muddles Along, Data Show
    “Government data released Wednesday suggested the economy continued to muddle along at a subdued pace, highlighting the pressure on Ben S. Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, to come up with bolder policy prescriptions Friday when he delivers a widely anticipated speech in Jacks ...
  • Consumers Picked Up Pace in July
    “Americans spent at the fastest pace in five months in July after earning a little more. The increase in income and consumer spending could help boost subpar growth.” (Washington Times) So, Keynesians, lack of demand isn’t what’s holding things back. FEE Timely Classic “Consume ...
  • Who Plans Best for Natural Disasters?
    The private sector can move supplies quickly to where they need to be because it can effectively use local and decentralized knowledge.

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • The Unseen Class War That Could Decide The Pre ...
    Much is said about class warfare in contemporary America, and there’s justifiable anger at the impoverishment of much of the middle and working classes. The Pew Research Center recently dubbed the 2000s a “lost decade” for middle-income earners — some 85% of Americans in th ...
  • Evolving Urban Form: São Paulo
    São Paulo is Brazil's largest urban area and ranks among the top 10 most populous in the world. Between 1950 and 1975, São Paulo was also among the globe’s fastest growing urban areas. For two decades starting in 1980 São Paulo ranked fourth in population among the world's urban areas, ...
  • New Setbacks for the Beleaguered California Bu ...
    A proposal by Senator Michael Rubio (SB 317) to loosen California's landmark environmental protection law commonly known as CEQA, has been shelved. The proposed legislation was intended to exempt the Central Valley rail construction project from CEQA requirements, thereby removing ...
  • Anorexic Vampires and the Pittsburgh Potty: Th ...
    “Rust Belt Chic is the opposite of Creative Class Chic. The latter [is] the globalization of hip and cool. Wondering how Pittsburgh can be more like Austin is an absurd enterprise and, ultimately, counterproductive. I want to visit the Cleveland of Harvey Pekar, not the Miami of LeBron J ...
  • Need Your Water Treated? In the Philippines, C ...
    “The history of cities can be described as the history of water.” — UK Urbanist Matthew Gandy, 2003 In Cebu City, the second largest city in the Philippines, that particular history is being rewritten in a way never seen anywhere before. Contrary to the well-known major municipal water priva ...

GM Watch

  • Monsanto's point of no return: The truth about ...
    NOTE: Here's a remarkably perceptive article about what happens to farmer and consumer choice once Monsanto achieves the required degree of penetration in the seed market. It simply disappears, because Monsanto ensures that only GM seeds are available to farmers.  This trend lends ironic confir ...
  • Occupy protests to target Monsanto
    At least 60 Protests to Target Makers of Genetically Engineered Foods on Anniversary of Occupy Movement Occupy-Monsanto.com, August 27 2012 http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/27/4760978/at-least-60-protests-to-target.html ST. LOUIS - An expanding network of concerned individuals known as Occupy Mons ...
  • Alarm at US-backed GM food trial on Chinese ch ...
    Greenpeace alarmed at US-backed GE food trial on Chinese children Greenpeace International, 29 August 2012 http://www.greenpeace-magazin.de/tagesthemen/einzelansicht/artikel/2012/08/30/greenpeace-alarmed-at-us-backed-ge-food-trial-on-chinese-children/ Beijing  – Greenpeace International has exp ...
  • Legal challenge refused over first GM potatoes
    1. GM potato trials face legal challenge 2. Legal challenge refused over first genetically modified potatoes NOTE: In the first step of a legal case brought by organic producers and environmentalists to try to stop GM potato field trials in Ireland, an Irish judge has reportedly decided that th ...
  • University study reveals pest now resistant to ...
    NOTE: It's a sorry thing when the best that Monsanto and university experts can come up with as a "solution" to the rootworm resistant pest problem in Bt maize is mysterious and as yet unnamed "new technologies" and "new techniques". It's also a sorry thing when a fundamentally unsustainable ap ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • What Is The Best Place To Live In America? Pro ...
    If you could live in any state in America, where would you go?  During troubled times like these, what is the best place in the United States to live?  A lot of people are asking these kinds of questions these days.  Our economy is on the verge of collapse, natural disasters are ...
  • Obama Has Stolen $5.3 Trillion From Our Childr ...
    Barack Obama has destroyed the future of America in order to improve his chances of winning the next election.  Under Obama, 5.3 trillion dollars has been ruthlessly stolen from our children and our grandchildren.  That money has been used to pump up the debt-fueled false prosper ...
  • Is There Going To Be A Stock Market Crash In T ...
    Is the stock market going to crash by the end of this year?  Are we on the verge of major financial chaos on a global scale? Well, this is the time of the year when investors start getting nervous.  We all remember what happened during the fall of 1929, the fall of 1987 and the [...]
  • It Is Not Just Your Imagination – Americ ...
    Did you know that median household income in the United States is lower today than it was when the last recession supposedly ended?  If we are in the middle of an "economic recovery", how can this possibly be happening?  Stunning new statistics compiled by Sentier Research show t ...
  • Forsaken And Forgotten
    America is becoming a very cold place.  If you don't have money, you don't really matter much in our society.  The ads on television aren't for you - they are directed at people that actually have good jobs and that can afford to buy the nice little "extras" in life.  The politic ...

Desertification

  • Unpredictable rains and poor harvests in Malaw ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96205/MALAWI-Need-for-food-aid-outpaces-response MALAWI: Need for food aid outpaces response BLANTYRE, 30 August 2012 (IRIN) – Prolonged dry spells followed by poor harvests in Malawi’s maize-growing central and southern regions have created widespr ...
  • Trendy seedlings of green vegetables and herbs ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120829131634.htm Many Trendy ‘Microgreens’ Are More Nutritious Than Their Mature Counterparts ScienceDaily (Aug. 29, 2012) — The first scientific analysis of nutrient levels in edible microgreens has found that many of those tren ...
  • Can we have enough to eat and a healthy enviro ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120829151241.htm Hope of Greater Global Food Output, Less Environmental Impact of Agriculture ScienceDaily (Aug. 29, 2012) — Can we have enough to eat and a healthy environment, too? Yes — if we’re smart about it, suggests a &#82 ...
  • Economic assessment of desertification (UNCCD)
    Read at : http://2sc.unccd.int/conference-structure/call-for-abstracts/ UNCCD 2nd Scientific Conference Economic assessment of desertification, sustainable land management and resilience of arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas 04 – 07 February 2013 – Fortaleza, Brazil You are cord ...
  • A simple aridity index in a region susceptible ...
    Read at : http://sciencealerts.com/stories/1985326/Local_spatiotemporal_dynamics_of_a_simple_aridity_index_in_a_region_susceptible_to_desertification.html#.UD4SYkTLaHk Local spatiotemporal dynamics of a simple aridity index in a region susceptible to desertification submitted by larrindosl Incre ...

The Paper Trail

  • Profile: Political cartoonist Rob Tornoe
    You may have noticed something funny around here lately: political cartoons.Rob Tornoe, a political cartoonist based in Delaware,is now drawing original cartoons for The Center, based on our stories. You'll see his work pop up on publicintegrity.org, our Facebook page and on Twitter. Tornoe also ...
  • "Proper Photo ID", by Rob Tornoe
  • Third-party candidates may hurt Romney in key ...
    Dark-horse presidential candidates Gary Johnson and Virgil Goode may not be household names, but with a little help from super PACs, they could peel away precious support from Republican Mitt Romney and possibly even President Barack Obama in some key state races.The conserva ...
  • PAC profile: Club for Growth Action
    Type of organization: Super PACSupports candidate: ConservativeFounded: Aug. 9, 2010Website: http://www.clubforgrowth.org/action/Social media: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook (all accounts jointly operated with Club for Growth Inc.)Principals:Chris Chocola (treasurer, president): Chocola runs the Clu ...
  • Nonprofit profile: Club for Growth Inc.
    Type of organization: 501 (c)(4)Supports candidate: ConservativeLocation: Washington, D.C.Founded: 1999Website: http://www.clubforgrowth.org/Social media: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook (all accounts jointly operated with Club for Growth Action)Finances (calendar year 2009):Total Revenue: $5.8 milli ...

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

  • The Marikana Massacre: Details of deliberate p ...
    This article is from the mainstream media in South Africa but has invaluable details on what actually happened when the police left 35 strikers dead and another 78 injured. The murder fields of Marikana. The cold murder fields of Mari ...
  • Syrian embassy invites Polish Fascists to demo ...
    balanga falangi.JPG Short news about protest which changed into Fascist event. 26th of August in front of the Syrian embassy two demonstrations took place. The first one was org ...
  • Italian miners barricade themselves undergroun ...
    100 Sardinian workers in Italy's only coal mine have barricaded themselves into the Carbosulcis mine overnight, with 350kg of company explosives. The occupation comes ahead of a government meeting to decide the future of the pit. ...
  • Russian writer and antifascist Pjotr Silajev i ...
    Silajev had been granted a political asylum in Finland early this year. The Finnish embassy in Madrid has said that Silajev can be kept arrested for 40 days! The Spanish police arrested Silajev in Granada because of request from Interpol on the 21st of augu ...
  • The Marikana Massacre: a Premeditated Killing?
    Benjamin Fogel on the Lonmin Massacre and the chilling bloodlust of the Stalinists in the South African Communist Party, “Two hundred thousand subterranean heroes who, by day and by night, for a mere pittance lay down their lives to t ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Why I am a Christian
    I simply stand amazed at the incredible evidence that proves to my mind the fact that everything in this universe was indeed created! The lie of evolution is tied to the hopelessness of lack of faith in not only a loving Creator/God, but also in ignorance of His divine Rescue Plan. Christ was/is ...
  • Why I am a Christian
    I simply stand amazed at the incredible evidence that proves to my mind the fact that everything in this universe was indeed created! The lie of evolution is tied to the hopelessness of lack of faith in not only a loving Creator/God, but also in ignorance of His divine Rescue Plan. Christ was/is ...
  • Update on the IRS Rebate to Aliens Scandal
    The followup to this story is even more “shocking” not so much “disappointing”. In a simple nutshell, the IRS is absolutely not necessary if the U.S. Treasury printed and circulated  our currency freely and WITHOUT USURY (aka Plunder) as the Founding Fathers outlined in t ...
  • Update on the IRS Rebate to Aliens Scandal
    The followup to this story is even more “shocking” not so much “disappointing”. In a simple nutshell, the IRS is absolutely not necessary if the U.S. Treasury printed and circulated  our currency freely and WITHOUT USURY (aka Plunder) as the Founding Fathers outlined in t ...
  • The PRIVATE (for Profit) Corporation Called th ...
    This is an incredible video series, friends.  A MUST WATCH!!  As you view this wonderful expose of the IRS by Indiana’s Eyewitness News team, keep the following FACTS in mind: 1. The Federal Reserve is a private  corporation consisting of 13 families – the majority of which are not e ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
    Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.
  • NAGUIB SAWIRIS
    Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
  • Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...
    In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.
  • Alison Redford, Premier of Alberta (Nov. 19)
    Premier of Alberta, Alison Redford discusses her hopes for the province's future and the challenges she faces in the Keystone pipeline project.
  • Robbie Robertson, Musician and former member o ...
    Rock icon Robbie Robertson talks with Peter about life in the industry, his decision to stop touring 25 years ago and how his Jewish and Aboriginal roots drove his music career.

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Iran's policies roasted by UN head, Egyptian l ...
    DUBAI (Reuters) - The U.N. chief and Egypt's president delivered stinging speeches at a summit of developing nations in Iran on Thursday, damaging the host country's quest for global prestige and support for its nuclear programme and its policy on Syria. read more
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  • Morsi criticises Syria at Tehran meeting
    Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has said it is an "ethical duty" to support the Syrian people against the "oppressive regime" in Damascus. His speech at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran on Thursday prompted a walkout by the Syrians. read more
  • Prosecutors Link Money From China to Iran
    Prosecutors say they have unearthed evidence in recent international money-transfer investigations that Chinese banks may have flouted United States sanctions against Iran. read more
  • Q&A | Jahanshah Javid: From Iranian.com to Iro ...
    The vast majority of the population inside and outside Iran are becoming more and more frustrated. And what we see online is a reflection of that." read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Wall Street's $270 Million Loss
    Wall Street Volume at 10 Year Low Another worrying article on Zero Hedge raises concerns about the declining health of the US economy. An 8/16/12 post by Tyler Durden points out that Wall Street has lost hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth over the past two years. Durden cites data ...
  • It Can't Happen Here - US Troops Plot to Overt ...
    FEAR members arrested The website Newser has an update on the four soldiers arrested in Georgia yesterday for plotting to overthrow the government and assassinate President Obama. According the initial report on MSN , they formed an “anarchist” militia within the military, tho ...
  • The Tipton 3 vs the CIA
      The Road to Guantanomo (Free download – 2006 Directed by Morgan Spurlock)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HCw-5Qnm8c Film Review The Road to Guantanomo is docudrama about the Tipton 3, three British Muslims who were captured along with dozens of civilian refugees when ...
  • Former Black Panther Slams Obama
    Ex-Panther Larry Pinkney In an scorching indictment of Obama’s first four years as president, Black Panther veteran Larry Pinkney (former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa) weighs in on the betrayal of African Americans by Obama and the black “intelligentia.& ...
  • Federal Court Abolishes Fourth Amendment
    Another excellent post on Alexander Higgins’ blog reveals that the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California has ruled that the government is completely immune from any possible punishment for violating the Fourth Amendment, which supposedly protects US citizens against illegal sea ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • The Romney-Ryan Energy Plan by the Numbers
    Oil, gas, coal, nuclear, wind, solar, efficiency. Which are the Republican hopefuls’ priorities?This week, it’s convention time for the Republican presidential and vice presidential nominees. Last week, the Romney-Ryan team rolled out its energy policy [pdf] for the nation. Entitled “The Romney ...
  • The Long-Term Tie Between Energy Supply, Popul ...
    The tie between energy supply, population, and the economy goes back to the hunter-gatherer period. Hunter-gatherers managed to multiply their population at least 4-fold, and perhaps by as much as 25-fold, by using energy techniques which allowed them to expand their territory from central Afric ...
  • Economists Voice Support for California Cap-an ...
    This week, nearly 60 renowned economists and other experts around the country sent a letter to Governor Jerry Brown emphatically voicing their strong support for the design of California’s groundbreaking cap-and-trade program, a key element of the Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32).
  • Fuel Economy Standards: Is the Most Important ...
  • Will natural gas prices in North America skyro ...
    My friends and family recognize that I am an odd bird. I often wake up in the middle of the night as a result of thinking about things that few others worry about. Tonight was a great example; my eyes failed open at midnight as I thought really hard about how to spread the word about the dramati ...

EU Times

  • China pledges to buy more EU bonds as crisis d ...
    China is considering buying more EU government bonds amid a worsening European debt crisis in order to support its biggest trading partner, according to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. “China is willing, on condition of fully evaluating the risks, to continue to invest in the eurozone sovereig ...
  • NATO secretly authorizes Syrian attack
    On Monday, August 27, 2012, in a meeting in Brussels, NATO military leaders in consultation with “telephonic liaison” with officers of military forces in several former Soviet Republics, major African states, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf states came to a combined decision to act aga ...
  • South African miners charged with murder of 34 ...
    South African workers arrested after a shooting at a platinum mine have been charged with killing 34 of their colleagues, despite confirmation that police committed the murders. The officers, who did not deny using guns, face no charges. ­The Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana, in the country&#821 ...
  • NASA says Arctic sea ice is at record low
    The sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has melted to the lowest level ever recorded since it was first measured in 1979, the NASA space agency says. According to NASA, the sea ice fell to 4.9 million square kilometers as it was observed on Sunday, which is about 80,000 square kilometers less than the e ...
  • China continues to increase defensive potential
    Conflicting information regarding weapons is heard from China. According to some data, missiles “Dongfeng-41″, capable of hitting targets in the United States, were successfully tested in China. According to other data, Beijing is just developing an intercontinental ballistic missile ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • 'The Avengers' is Coming Back to Theaters This ...
    The end of summer is usually a time where the hit movies have come and gone. Indeed, last weekend saw only one movie do over $10 Million dollars… So for this Labor day weekend, The Avengers is returning to the big screen. This comes from the film’s Facebook page, and what this also means is tha ...
  • Andy Roddick Retirement: Tennis Star Will End ...
    Andy Roddick’s retirement has arrived. The US tennis star and former No. 1-ranked player has announced plans to leave the game he loves following the U.S. Open. Roddick scored the biggest win of his career during the 2003 championship at Flushing Meadows and so it seems like a fitting end to hi ...
  • A Ronald Reagan Hologram At The Republican Con ...
    When we first heard the rumor of a GOP “mystery guest” on the final night of the convention, many people jokingly suggested it would be a Ronald Reagan hologram. As it turns out, that wasn’t a joke: Despite  some conflicting reports , Yahoo News has learned that a hologram projection of former ...
  • 2009: Obama mania media proves Paul Ryan’s Jan ...
    Spin media and leftists spin. You still can’t hide from facts (or even past news reports.) Check out this video from WKBTV in La Crosse Wisconsin. Back in 2009 the news anchors confirmed Paul Ryan’s statement that the Janesville GM plant is closing UNDER Obama, not Bush. Of course, the corrupt ...
  • Samsung Galaxy Note II
    If Apple has defined the tablet with its iPad, Samsung has created the phablet (phone and tablet) of its own with the 5.3â Galaxy Note. The device differentiates with the others by its large but still pocketable size, phone functionality and the combination of touch and stylus navigation to del ...

Groklaw

  • Apple versus Samsung: Full interview with the ...
    This is the full text of the BBC's interview with Velvin Hogan, foreman of the jury in the recent Apple versus Samsung patent lawsuit.... Q: A lot has been made about the original interview you gave to Reuters in which you said you wanted to make the award sufficiently high to be painful to S ...
  • Apple Claims Court Schedule for Samsung Ban Is ...
    Apple, in a filing today, said the schedule creates a "severe imbalance" because Samsung's request will be addressed before Apple's. Apple asked Koh to reconsider the schedule by setting the two companies' requests on a parallel, simultaneous track. "Apple's request for injunctive relief is, i ...
  • Exclusive: Google, Apple CEOs in talks on pate ...
    The two chief executives had a phone conversation last week, the sources said. Discussions involving lower-level officials of the two companies are also ongoing....One possible scenario under consideration could be a truce involving disputes over basic features and functions in Google's Android ...
  • Huawei demonstrates custom "Emotion UI" for An ...
    As part of its showcase at IFA 2012, Huawei has released a short video demonstration of the Emotion UI personalization features. The video showcases a bevy of widget options, custom icons, and a feature that lets users apply themes to their home screen. The home screen has some similarities to M ...
  • Apple verdict: Set to stifle or spur innovation?
    These skeptics, painting a gloom and doom picture, argue that the decision will stifle innovation, yielding fewer product choices for consumers, and worse yet, leading to higher prices as Apple will levy an "Apple tax" on all electronic devices. They don't stop there. They then grouse that a par ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Feds mandate 54.5 mpg for new cars by 2025
    Cars will cost more due to the 54.5 mpg regulations. The government says drivers will save more than that on gas. Auto dealers aren’t so sure.How will the average mileage for car manufacturers meet this rigorous standard? No one really knows. The 54 mpg standard is achieved under lab testi ...
  • Why satire is so hard to do now
    Wealthy Republican holds fundraiser on yacht named “Cracker Bay” flying Cayman Islands flag.
  • World’s first 3D printed automobile
    Say hello to Areion.
  • Yahoo News Chief: GOP happy “with black people ...
    As Hurricane Isaac approached New Orleans Yahoo News Washington Bureau Chief David Chalian was caught on an open microphone saying of the Republicans, “They’re not concerned at all. They are happy to have a party with black people drowning.”In other news of political derangemen ...
  • Five foreign policy problems for the next pres ...
    Mark Safranski of Zenpundit writes on IVN about five major foreign policy challenges the next president must and will face. All of them are doozies and include the euro going belly up, the growing threat of the narco cartels, the AFPAK quagmire, and the possibility of a Sunni-Shia regional war. ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Faith, hope, and charity in the nuclear age &# ...
    Back in ‘91 a younger President Nursultan Nazarbayev faced a dilemma.  Along with independence just attained from the USSR, he had inherited 112 ICBMs sporting 1,200 nuclear warheads. A gift from heaven as it were, or from hell, depending on the level of your transcendentalism. Twenty years late ...
  • The risks of outsourcing conservation
    The problem with outsourcing conservation funding to business has been highlighted. The Tiwai Point Aluminim smelter has pulled the plug on funding for the Kakapo Recovery Programme. Even if it is tied to their contract negotiations for cheap electricity from Meridian it still shows that relying ...
  • The “Black Drain” Bill passes First Reading!
    Last night was a great night at Parliament for several reasons. Not the least was the one vote majority that sent my “Black Drain” Bill through First Reading to the Local Government and Environment Select Committee. Act. The Greens are celebrating because it is very hard to get Bills through the ...
  • Of yurts and twin towers – visiting Grou ...
    It must be the fates.  My life seems to be a continual encounter with Ground Zero. For 6 years in the ‘90s, we lived in downtown Manhattan, directly across the road from the Twin Towers, our apartment falling within their shadows across Battery Park.  We were there in ’93 when the bomb took out ...
  • Better choices than digging holes in the ground
    The Government’s “drill it, mine it, frack it” economic plan for New Zealand is a lazy gamble that belies a lack a vision.

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Why have Antipsychotic Prescriptions in Childr ...
    By Dr. Mercola Thanks to aggressive marketing techniques, pharmaceutical companies are raking in profits from atypical antipsychotic medications – drugs originally approved for mental illnesses that are as serious as they are rare. It's no surprise then that a major portion of the sales of ...
  • An Urgent Message from Ronnie Cummins
    By Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association If you think you should have the same right to know what’s in your food as consumers in nearly 50 other countries, please help us pass this country’s first GMO labeling law – Proposition 37, the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered ...
  • Where’s the Evidence Proving TSA’s Backscatter ...
    By Dr. Mercola The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) first began using advanced imaging technology in airports nationwide in 2007. But just how "tested," and how safe, are the TSA's backscatter machines? The TSA1 and Department of Homeland Security will tell you they've been ...
  • The Soap You Should Never Use -- But 75% of Ho ...
    By Dr. Mercola Triclosan, a high production volume ingredient used as a bactericide in personal care products such as toothpaste, deodorant, and antibacterial soap, has been linked to heart disease and heart failure in a new study. Yet the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) states that ...
  • Confirmed: India’s Polio Eradication Campaign ...
    By Dr. Mercola If you listen to mainstream media news, you'll be told that polio has now been eradicated in India – an accomplishment the Polio Global Eradication Initiative (PGEI), founded in 1988 by the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Yanomami Indians 'massacred' by goldminers in ...
    Survivors of Brazil's 1993 Haximu massacre hold urns containing the ashes of their relatives. Goldminers killed 16 Yanomami in the attack.© C Zacquini/ SurvivalGoldminers in Venezuela have carried out a ‘massacre’ of isolated Yanomami Indians, according to reports received by Su ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...
    The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.
  • Plateau letter draws reaction pro and con
    The July 23 Letter of the Day ("An administration that's sucking the life out of the Plateau," July 23) from Plateau Mont Royal resident Marion Bialek, and a response from Projet Montréal vouncillor Alex Norris drew lots of comment from readers at montrealgazette.com/opinion.
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    The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.
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    You've got a problem with the world today? Don't scream, protest or demonstrate about it; do something to change your own ways first.
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Food World Order

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    #Geoengineering Could Turn Skies White: Scientific American* Video: Isaac Hammers Key West, Florida Social Spotlight* Video: CNN on Isaac + Cholera 400,000 Haitians At Risk* Bat Lyssavirus Fears At Bat House in Cape Tribulation* USADA strips Lance Armstrong of Tour De France titles, ...
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    from mercola.com: Most of the atypical antipsychotics were approved in the 1990's, at which time they were reserved for a very small minority of serious mental illnesses; primarily schizophrenia and bipolar disorder – diseases afflicting an estimated three percent of Americans. More recently, ...
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    from sunnewsnetwork.ca: Marc Morano discusses Michael Mann’s ‘hockey stick’ hyperbole and his threats to sue Mark Steyn for calling him a climate fraud. Related: The Climate Change Racket: Finally a 'day in court'?*New blockbuster paper finds man-made CO2 is not the driver of global warmin ...
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    from cryptogon.com: Enormous quantities of decommissioned Russian nuclear reactors and radioactive waste were dumped into the Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia over a course of decades, according to documents given to Norwegian officials by Russian authorities and published in Norw ...
  • Surprise! Chocolate CAN Be Good for You, at th ...
    from mercola.com: There have been quite a few interesting scientific studies emerging about chocolate over the past few years. There’s also a lot of confusion about chocolate—what type to eat and how much, types to avoid, etc., so I hope to dispel some of the myths on this subject. Chocolate ca ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • What Is The Best Place To Live In America? Pro ...
    If you could live in any state in America, where would you go?  During troubled times like these, what is the best place in the United States to live?  A lot of people are asking these kinds of questions these days.  Our economy is on the verge of collapse, natural disasters are ...
  • Obama Has Stolen $5.3 Trillion From Our Childr ...
    Barack Obama has destroyed the future of America in order to improve his chances of winning the next election.  Under Obama, 5.3 trillion dollars has been ruthlessly stolen from our children and our grandchildren.  That money has been used to pump up the debt-fueled false prosper ...
  • Is There Going To Be A Stock Market Crash In T ...
    Is the stock market going to crash by the end of this year?  Are we on the verge of major financial chaos on a global scale? Well, this is the time of the year when investors start getting nervous.  We all remember what happened during the fall of 1929, the fall of 1987 and the [...]
  • It Is Not Just Your Imagination – Americ ...
    Did you know that median household income in the United States is lower today than it was when the last recession supposedly ended?  If we are in the middle of an "economic recovery", how can this possibly be happening?  Stunning new statistics compiled by Sentier Research show t ...
  • Forsaken And Forgotten
    America is becoming a very cold place.  If you don't have money, you don't really matter much in our society.  The ads on television aren't for you - they are directed at people that actually have good jobs and that can afford to buy the nice little "extras" in life.  The politic ...

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The Talking Clock

  • 15 years on... we still miss you dreadfully, Diana
    Fifteen years ago today, our Princess - Diana - was stolen away from us; unlawfully killed in Paris. As each year passes, the external displays of grieving for someone we thought of as a friend diminish but this does not displace the internal melancholy at her increasingly noticeable absence ...
  • Quote of the Day: 29th August 2012
    "It seems that appeasing the childish tit-for-tat approach to politics that is the entire Liberal Democrat mindset has dominated [David Cameron's] thoughts for far too long. The country needs a full-time Prime Minister and not a chamber-maid for a marginal, irrelevant pressure group who have got ...
  • Discussion Thread: What is "English law"..?
    Sparked by a conversation on Twitter with our good friend gruffdiver, we would like to invite your thoughts on the following. We know that the Bill Of Rights is the benchmark of what is known as "English law". We also know that Scotland has, in many areas, differing laws and policies from ...
  • Defending the Constitution against all enemies ...
    Over the last few years, British readers may have been aware via some popular American tabloids of a strange story which claimed the U.S. Government had listed returning American troops as a terror threat to the U.S. On the face of it, it is a story which smacks of outrageous "conspiracy theo ...
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    We're quite aware that, at this blog, we probably border on the limits of people's imaginations sometimes with some of the more conspiracy related topics that we invite readers to consider. However, are we alone in that? After all, the vast majority of stories we feature contain links to m ...

Facing South

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    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
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    Latinos are a fast-growing electoral force -- but will they realize their political potential in November? read more
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    The unprecedented use of chemical dispersants following BP's Gulf disaster led to complaints of health problems among cleanup workers and local residents. A coalition of groups is now suing the EPA in hopes of spurring regulatory action. read more

CenterLine

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

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  • How to Upgrade to Fireox 14.0.1 in Ubuntu 12.0 ...
    Firefox 14.0.1 has just been released and since it is a major release, updates will be coming to official Ubuntu repositories soon. But for the impatient folks among you, here is how you upgrade to Firefox 14.0.1 from Firefox 13.0.1 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin". Insta ...
  • Xubuntu 12.04 LTS Review: Perfect Alternative ...
    Negative publicity around Ubuntu Unity and GNOME Shell is proving to be a real blessing in disguise for a bunch of smaller, lightweight distros like Xubuntu, Lubuntu et al. As much as I like Unity and GNOME Shell, they are not really the ideal choice for under-powered devices like netbooks. ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • The last antibiotic: Drug companies run out of ...
    by Mike Adams (NaturalNews) The age of antibiotics is over. It’s history. There are no more patented chemical antibiotics in the pipeline. The drug companies have all but abandoned antibiotics research, leaving humanity to suffer the fate of a wave of drug-resistant bacteria — superb ...
  • 2011 Polio Eradication Campaign in India
    By Dr. Mercola If you listen to mainstream media news, you’ll be told that polio has now been eradicated in India – an accomplishment the Polio Global Eradication Initiative (PGEI), founded in 1988 by the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers f ...
  • Slow Death and Fast Profits: The Globalisation ...
    By Colin Todhunter The next time anyone in India serves up a good old ‘wholesome’ meal of rice and various vegetables, they will probably take in half a milligram of pesticide also, around a pin prick. That would be more than 40 times what an average North American person would consume. India is ...
  • HOT: Ron Paul Left Tampa Yesterday
    By Llewellyn Rockwell, Jr. Ron, Carol, and one of their granddaughters left the GOP snake pit yesterday afternoon, but the State was not yet through with them. At the little airport in Clearwater, 8 TSA agents descended on them and ordered them not to board their private plane. First, the pilots ...
  • Israel angered over IAEA vote on nuclear arsenal
    Israel has become infuriated by a fresh initiative of Arab member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which seeks to launch a global campaign to slam Israel’s possession of nuclear stockpile. The motion tabled by 17 Arab IAEA members has been submitted to a preparatory commis ...

Veterans Today

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

electric politics

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

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

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