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Thomas Paine

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Friday, August 31, 2012

31 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Senkaku Islands(Diaoyu Islands) Left:Uotsuri J...Senkaku Islands(Diaoyu Islands) Left:Uotsuri Jima(Diaoyu Dao) Right:Kita Kojima(Bei Xiaodao) and Minami Kojima(Nan Xiaodao) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Stop NATO

  • U.S. Playing With Balkans-Style Powder Keg In ...
    China Daily August 30, 2012 Tread with caution in the East By Yang Danzhi ==== The US is likely to lose its credibility with its faithful ally Japan if it sides with China. But by siding with Japan, it may risk a China-US conflict. Once the situation gets out of control and leads to an [...]
  • U.S. Carrier Rotation In The Gulf: Preparation ...
    Voice of Russia August 30, 2012 Shift rotation in Gulf: preparations for war? Ilya Kramnik USS John Stennis nuclear-powered supercarrier The US is sending its aircraft carrier John Stennis, accompanied by warships and a submarine, to the Persian Gulf, where it will replace the Enterprise aircraf ...
  • Havelock Ellis: War, a relapse from civilisati ...
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Havelock Ellis From Essays in War-Time (1917) Evolution and War It has sometimes been maintained — never more energetically than to-day, especially among the nations which most eagerly entered the present conflict — that war is a biolog ...
  • U.S. Plays Double Game In China-Japan Island D ...
    Xinhua News Agency August 30, 2012 Commentary: U.S. should stop playing double game Edited by RR BEIJING: An awkward moment was seen Tuesday when a U.S. State Department spokeswoman shunned a question from a Xinhua reporter regarding the territorial status of the Diaoyu Islands. At a regular bri ...
  • U.S. Plays Double Game In China-Japan Island D ...
    Xinhua News Agency August 30, 2012 Commentary: U.S. should stop playing double game Edited by RR BEIJING: An awkward moment was seen Tuesday when a U.S. State Department spokeswoman shunned a question from a Xinhua reporter regarding the territorial status of the Diaoyu Islands. At a regular bri ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Go to New york September 11th
    theintelhub.com | In remembrance of 9/11 of 2001, and to bring exposure to the issue.
  • Twinkle, Twinkle, Electric Star
    Liam Scheff | When humans first saw stars, they felt what we all feel. It even has its own word: starstruck. We marvel, we beam, our pupils open wide to let in the twinkling light. We feel that someone somewhere out there is looking at us, looking at them. It’s a wonderful, transcendent fee ...
  • Destroying Internet Freedom by Taxation
    theintelhub.com | Government taxation is as old as the first brute using force to steal from those intimated by threats. So why should it be any different for the internet? In today’s political environment of choosing winners and losers, the rush to tax online sales is gathering steam.
  • Media Scoundrels Promote Permanent Wars
    Stephen Lendman | Regurgitating official lies legitimizes attacking one nonbelligerent nation after another. Responsible parties share guilt with war planners.
  • Israeli Soldiers Break Silence
    theintelhub.com | Breaking the Silence (BTS) is an organization comprised of Israeli combat veterans. They served since the start of the second Intifada. They refuse any longer to stay silent.

FRS

  • “Phantom Control”: Israel’s ...
    Aug 26, 2012 by TheRealNews Yael Berda’s new book The Bureaucracy of Occupation sheds light on Israel’s more invisible control over the Palestinians. For more www.therealnews.com
  • “Phantom Control”: Israel’s ...
    Aug 26, 2012 by TheRealNews Yael Berda’s new book The Bureaucracy of Occupation sheds light on Israel’s more invisible control over the Palestinians. For more www.therealnews.com
  • Taking back Palestine’s streets: exclusive int ...
    Maath Musleh, The Electronic Intifada, Jerusalem, 29 August 2012 [“There’s no voice greater than the voice of the intifada” (Image courtesy of the artist)] Graffiti has been a tool of the Palestinian liberation struggle for decades; during the first intifada in the late 1980s and early ’90s, Pal ...
  • Taking back Palestine’s streets: exclusive int ...
    Maath Musleh, The Electronic Intifada, Jerusalem, 29 August 2012 [“There’s no voice greater than the voice of the intifada” (Image courtesy of the artist)] Graffiti has been a tool of the Palestinian liberation struggle for decades; during the first intifada in the late 1980s and early ’90s, Pal ...
  • Poor in India Starve as Politicians Steal $14. ...
    [It is only right that we introduce the article below by remembering the poem "THOSE WHO TAKE THE MEAT FROM THE TABLE" by Bertolt Brecht. -- Frontlines ed.]   THOSE WHO TAKE THE MEAT FROM THE TABLE Teach contentment. Those for whom the contribution is destined Demand sacrifice. Those who ea ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Data Confirms Christie’s Keynote Speech More A ...
    Voters enjoyed Chris Christie’s speech, but seemed to wonder whether it was more about touting Christie than Romney. A comparison of Christie’s speech with Obama’s Keynote Speech in 2004 confirms this.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Aug 29, 2012
  • Ann Romney Talks About Love of a Man Who Would ...
    When Ann Romney strode out onto the dais at the Republican National Convention, she had the singular task of talking about the man next to whom she has slept these past 42 years who just happens to want to be president of the United StatesContributor: Mark Whittington Published: Aug 29, 2012
  • Mixed Feelings on RNC Weapon Artur Davis
    Former Democratic congressman Artur Davis spoke at the Republican National Convention about not falling for well-spoken words. But there's a lot to consider behind his own words, as well.Contributor: Susan Graybeal Published: Aug 29, 2012
  • Republicans Must Focus on Future, Not the Last ...
    Republicans are spending too much time trying to pin unemployment blame on Obama, which invites terrible comparisons of today to Bush of 2008. It’s better to focus on what’s happening now what will happen in the near future.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Aug 29, 2012
  • GM's Strong Move: Banning Presidential Candida ...
    General Motors has banned the presidential candidates from visiting its plants during the election. This is a very strong move by the auto company and other automakers should follow suit.Contributor: L. Vincent Poupard Published: Aug 28, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • South African Scientists Claim Breakthrough Dr ...
    Malaria is the scourge of tropical nations, crippling its victims with symptoms like debilitating fever, convulsions and nausea, and killing half a million people annually. Now researchers in South Africa say they may have a one-size-fits-all solution, in the form of a new drug that could work ...
  • FYI: How Long Can a Brain Live in a Dish?
    Scientists have isolated the brains of dogs, cats and monkeys and kept them alive for short periods in one way or another. But the most successful “whole-brain preparation” of a mammal was developed in the mid-1980s. A neuroscientist at NYU Langone Medical Center named Rodolfo Llinás came up wi ...
  • Hurricane Isaac Captured in Eerily Beautiful I ...
    Hurricane Isaac has now made two landfalls in southern Louisiana, and the Gulf Coast region is no doubt in for a long Wednesday. The slow-moving storm carries an increased risk for flooding in the affected regions, as rainfall totals will be higher. And then there’s that storm surge, and those ...
  • Found in Orbit Around a Young Sunlike Star: Sugar
    The sweet building block of life Water, oxygen and now sugar molecules have been found floating around in space, in the right place and at the right moment to wind up on newly forming planets. Astronomers have found sugar molecules around a star for the first time, using the Atacama Large Milli ...
  • AIDS Virus Could Be Harnessed to Fight Cancer
    Viruses are skillful mutants, changing their structures or outer proteins to evade the shifting natural defenses of their targets. (This is why you have to get a flu shot every year.) Now researchers in France report using one of the most proficient mutants, HIV, to fight another intractable di ...

Veterans Today

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

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Summer 2012 - 2nd wettest on record
    The Met Office have said that summer 2012 will be the second wettest (summer is June, July and August combined for statistical purposes) on record across England and the UK as a whole, using rainfall data back to 1910. So far 367mm of rain has fallen, compared with 384mm which was recorded in ...
  • Arctic sea ice now lowest on satellite record
    The extent of sea ice in the Arctic region has dropped sharply in the last few months. Only in April, Arctic sea ice had staged an impressive recovery and was close to the 1979-2012 average, reaching levels not seen in April for over 10 years. But yesterday, the National Snow and Ice data ce ...
  • Jet stream set to spoil summer again
    After a fine and warm weekend across much of the country, temperatures today have reached 80 degrees Fahrenheit in Bridlington in East Yorkshire for the first time this summer - although similar values were reached in places for a time during late May. It's certainly come as a welcome relief af ...
  • What's causing our extreme weather? Is it unpr ...
    The awful weather which continues to affect the UK led yesterday to the Great Yorkshire show being cancelled (because of the weather) for the first time in its 154 year history. And on Monday, serious flash flooding devastated parts of the Calder valley for the second time in as many weeks. ...
  • Parts of UK at risk of renewed flooding
    UPDATE at 6.30pm Lastest information from American GFS model shifts emphasis for heavy rain towards the earlier ECMWF solution detailed below, i.e with much of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire at risk of some of the highest rainfall totals. ENDS Amber alerts are in force for parts of the UK tomorro ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Developing an 'Autocracy Index' (World Policy ...
    You are doubtlessly familiar with the "world's worst dictators" feature from Parade. Apparently, this concept of comparing authoritarian rule remains popular as our colleagues over at the World Policy Institute have come up with their own compilation. In their composite measure, they take a loo ...
  • Hillary, More White Man's Burdenish Than Kissinger
    Say what you will about Henry Kissinger and the practice of realpolitik, but it is interesting to note the degeneration in US foreign policy attitudes over four decades. From Kissinger-era live and let live, Missus Clinton has largely returned to the "America knows best" attitude familiar to Ame ...
  • Pragmatist Islamists? Those IMF-Loving* Egyptians
    In case you haven't been following the news, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde recently visited Egypt, where she was promptly serenaded by a plea from their Muslim Brotherhood-linked President Mohamed "Islam is the Solution" Morsi to increase the prospective bailout amount to $4.8 billion ...
  • 25 Years Later, World Bank Returns to Myanmar
    For developing countries, the process of normalizing relations with the rest of the world involves again availing of certain things: Coca-Cola. Pepsi. Aside from re-engaging in trade in (rather unhealthy and fattening) consumer goods, however, you also have development technocrats flogging their ...
  • Cold War Still Rages...In US Trade Policy on R ...
    Remember the time before China joined the WTO when it was annually subjected to congressional dog-and-pony shows concerning whether a country that did not respect human rights deserved most-favoured nation (MFN) trade status with the US? Just as Americans from various walks of life still have a ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

  • Many children in Guatemala still facing sexual ...
    In spite of protection measures by the Guatemalan Government, many children are still victims of sexual exploitation and forced labour, a United Nations independent expert warned today.
  • In wake of Tropical Storm Isaac, UN steps up H ...
    Humanitarian efforts are underway in Haiti following the torrential rains and blustery winds that battered the country over the weekend as Tropical Storm Isaac swept across the nation, the United Nations said today.
  • UN chief gathers with fellow alumni of Red Cro ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday gathered in Washington, D. C. with friends he made half a century ago during their visit to the United States, which was organized by the American Red Cross and which inspired him to pursue a life of public service.
  • UN chief gathers with fellow alumni of Red Cro ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday gathered in Washington, D. C. with friends he made half a century ago during their visit to the United States, which was organized by the American Red Cross and which inspired him to pursue a life of public service.
  • UN regional emergency teams on standby to assi ...
    As tropical storm Isaac nears landfall in the Caribbean, regional emergency teams are ready to be deployed in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Cuba in the event of any contingencies, the United Nations food relief agency said today.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • The Guardianship Gulag... Too Often, Death is ...
    There are many ways elderly, sick and disabled people can wind up in a court-appointed guardianship, where a complete stranger wields total control over their lives and assets. ~ Barbara Hollingsworth read more
  • Senator John McCain To Be Detained By FBI For ...
    Pete Santilli makes a call to Senator John McCain’s Phoenix office to track him down for his terrorist remarks on a recent CNN segment, and the call is recorded for your listening pleasure. ~ Audio   read more
  • Confirmed!... No November Election! October Ba ...
    John Moore Show... details on the Oct 2012 event. ~ Audio read more
  • Obama Preparing For TOTAL Takeover
    “It’s going hot.” Those were the ominous opening and closing words from my source inside the Department of Homeland Security in two separate contacts we had within the last 72 hours. Readers to this website and listeners to my radio program know this source as “Rosebud,” a source with access ...
  • U.S. Jobs Stolen By The Prison Industry
    As if American businesses don’t have enough trouble competing with free traders, who exploit cheap labor in third world countries to make sizable profits, they are also fighting government-run corporations that pay prisoners pennies on the dollar to manufacture cheap goods and undercut priva ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • 10 Rain Gear Items For Your Survival Preps
    Rain gear. ‘Mostly’ items to be worn on the body to help keep you dry in rainy weather. Just as with survival clothing, you should be sure to have a decent variety of good quality rain gear. One of the worst things for well being during inclement rainy weather is to get wet, which ca ...
  • 2012, It’s Almost The End
    2012. The Mayan Calendar. December 21, 2012 Galactic plane transition. Nibiru, Planet X. Asteroid impact. Solar cycle 24 (sunspot/flare/CME/EMP effect) peak (2012-2013). Power grid EMP vulnerability. Rapidly moving magnetic north pole. Weather extremes. Drought. Soaring food prices. Burgeoning w ...
  • How Old Is Grandma?
    Food for thought… Stay with this… the answer is at the end… One evening a grandson was talking to his grandmother about current events. The grandson asked his grandmother what she thought about the shootings at schools, the computer age, and just things in general. The Grandmot ...
  • A Well Rounded Prepper
    Most of us have our specialties and areas of so called ‘expertise’. We tend to know more about one thing or another based on what we find to be of interest to us. Often these interests and gathered knowledge are intermingled with our career choices. While some of these areas of speci ...
  • Store The Food You Will Eat
    [Although known by most preppers, it is an important note for newbies...] Think about it, if the time comes when you need to eat the food that you have stored away for survival preparedness, it really should be the same food that you would normally eat day to day. So many people when first getti ...

Fast Company

  • Are You A Level 5 Company?
    In his famous Hierarchy of Needs, American psychologist Abraham Maslow argued that people must meet their basic physiological requirements and needs for safety, love, and esteem before they can reach a fifth level he called “self-actualization.” As an entrepreneur who helped start what has becom ...
  • Amazon Rumored To Be Ditching Google Maps, Lik ...
    Rumors shared by Reuters say that Amazon has chosen Nokia Oyj as a mapping partner for its upcoming Kindle Fire tablets, which will also get location detecting powers (perhaps via GPS or Wi-Fi signal detection). As well as telling us that the new Fires will be more feature-complete than Amazo ...
  • In The Trenches With Burberry's Christopher Bailey
    For a 156-year old brand that was dangerously diminished when Christopher Bailey arrived as creative director in 2001, Burberry has made more than a comeback. You could say the British luxury label has stitched its timeless, iconic plaids and classic trench coats together with modern, technologi ...
  • Success Is Random, So Court Serendipity
    Howard Schulz walks into a buzzing Milan café and discovers that Starbucks should be about experience rather than beans; Stephanie Meyer dreams of a young couple in an enchanted forest and starts writing Twilight; Aheda Zanetti watches her niece play sports, realizes Muslim women need activewear ...
  • Peek Inside AT&T's New 10,000-Square-Foot Flag ...
    War used to be simple. All you needed was the biggest bomb, and everyone else kept their mouths shut. Then more people figured out how to make that bomb. And then all sorts of other threats--biological agents, computer viruses, and UAVs--complicated the landscape. Consider this in the context ...

Jadaliyya

  • NEWTONs You Might Have Missed
    With a new semester on the horizon, NEWTON is about to kick into high gear once again. Below are a few amazing posts that you might have missed the first time around. If you wish to recommend a book to be reviewed or if you have just published a book or a peer-reviewed article, please email us a ...
  • السلاح في العراق: موت صامت ...موت مباح
    بغداد مضمّخة برائحة البارود الذي خلّفته العبوات الناسفة والسيارات المفخخة والمسدسات الكاتمة. الحيرةُ ترتسم على ملامح قوّات الشرطة والجيش المنتشرة في نقاطِ تفتيشٍ تمتدُّ من شارعٍ إلى آخر: من أين وكيف تمرُّ هذه السيارات والعبوات؟ السياسيون ورجالات الحكم منقسمون بين من يلقي بالاتهام على تنظيم القاع ...
  • الأدب في زمن النفط: أيام الماعز
    "منذ تلك اللحظة، بالضبط مثل ذبابة مانيان، بدأ خوف مجهول يغلف عقلي. شك غير منطقي بدأ يتملكني، أن هذه الرحلة لم تكن تقودني إلى حياة الخليج التي كنت أحلم بها وأشتهيها. ذاك الخليج الذي عرفت عنه الكثير من العديد من الأشخاص، لا يشبه ما أراه. يلفحني الخطر، ولا شيء واضح أمامي ." (أيام الماعز، ...
  • Maghreb Media Roundup (August 30)
    Algeria Projet de nouvelle constitution: La classe politique ignore le contenu Mehdi Bsikri discusses the secrecy imposed on Algeria's constitutional revision process, which he claims is withheld entirely from public input and scrutiny. Abdelkader Kherba entame une grève de la faim &n ...
  • The Future of Media in Egypt: An Interview wit ...
    Hisham Kassem is one of the best known publishers and democracy advocates in Egypt. He spoke with Linda Herrera (Co-Editor of Jadaliyya's On Media and Reporting page) and AbdelRahman Mansour (activist and new media journalist) about why he left his position as publisher at Al-Masry al- ...

mediagazer

  • CNN-TIME's Political Convention App Exceeded 1 ...
    Bill Mickey / Folio: CNN-TIME's Political Convention App Exceeded 10,000 Downloads on First Day of RNC  —  The app offers round-the-clock National Convention news and alerts to its users.  —  J ust a few days prior to the Republic National Convention, Time Warne ...
  • Comcast Said Near U.S. Approval To Encrypt Bas ...
    Todd Shields / Bloomberg: Comcast Said Near U.S. Approval To Encrypt Basic-Cable Signals  —  Cable companies led by Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) are close to winning U.S. permission to start encrypting basic- tier signals, two regulatory officials said, in a move to fight theft and red ...
  • Adweek's Digital Guide to Election Apps and Si ...
    Charlie Warzel / Adweek: Adweek's Digital Guide to Election Apps and Sites  —  It's like an being on Instagram, but with more boring white males!  —  “Why not create a space with a stream of everything in one place?” is what WashingtonPost.com asked r ...
  • Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strik ...
    Wired: Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes  —  It seemed like a simple enough idea for an iPhone app: Send users a pop-up notice whenever a flying robots kills someone in one of America's many undeclared wars.  But Apple keeps blocking the Drones+ program from ...
  • Exclusive: Pentagon threatens legal action ove ...
    Phil Stewart / Reuters: Exclusive: Pentagon threatens legal action over bin Laden book  —  (Reuters) - The Pentagon warned on Thursday in a letter to a former U.S. Navy SEAL that he was in material breach of non-disclosure agreements with his book detailing his first-hand accoun ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Isaac still causing flooding with new sto ...
    Related topics Tropical Storm Isaacdroughttropical weatherWeather Advertisement Isaac is certainly wearing out his welcome in Louisiana and Mississippi.Torrential rains and heavy winds have pounded these areas for over 48 hours straight now. Isaac continues his leisurely stroll across the ba ...
  • UEFA Champions League Group Stage Draw Re ...
    The UEFA Champions League is back for another campagin, as the reigning champions of Europe look to repeat. See where...
  • Cameron and Obama could soon be drowning ...
    The voters will not be placated for ever by governments that fail to deliver on their word Paul Ryan speaking at the Republican convention made a devastating argument, not talking about 'structural deficits' or GDP but about dashed hope, stymied life chances and paths to prosperity Photo: AF ...
  • Ivanovic eases into third round
    Crowd favourite Ana Ivanovic eased into the third round of the US Open with a comfortable win over Sofia Arvidsson on Arthur Ashe Stadium. The Serb was tipped for glory after winning her first Grand Slam title at the French Open in 2008 and becoming...
  • France and UK say all options open on Syr ...
    Britain and France have said they are not ruling out any options in Syria, including a military-enforced no-fly zone to protect thousands of civilians fleeing the escalating civil war. William Hague, Britain's foreign secretary, told a joint news conference in New York with Laurent Fabius, t ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Tyrants and Art
    Culture thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray. "In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin ...
  • Barthes in China
    Adrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...
  • Tokyo’s Katsumi
    Japan’s most volatile politician is making a splash in the South China Sea — and the Chinese are beating the drums of war. MARK MACKINNON "I do what I do because I want to," Shintaro Ishihara wrote in his 1956 novel The Punishment Room. "Do what you please, and sooner or ...
  • Women’s Migraines
    Carol Cruzan Morton Migraines are a battle of the sexes that women might prefer not winning. Each year, roughly three times more women than men—up to 18% of all women—suffer from the debilitating headaches, as tallied by epidemiological surveys in Europe and the United States. A new brain imagin ...
  • Make Love
    Sara Wheeler This stimulating book examines the ways in which legal systems have attempted to regulate sexual activity over millennia, from the ‘slow impalement of unfaithful wives’ in Mesopotamia to the ‘sterilisation of masturbators’ in the United States. ‘I have ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • How sex hormones influence right heart function
    WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...
  • Karnataka crisis: High Court to decide rebel M ...
    BANGALORE - The Karnataka High Court will hear the petition of eleven BJP rebel MLAs after a division bench gave a split verdict on it on October 18. The rebel MLAs were disqualified by Speaker KG Bopaiah a under the provision of the anti-defection law on October 10. The two-judges bench on ...
  • Kiwi keeper McCullum set for move down batting ...
    WELLINGTON - New Zealand cricket captain Daniel Vettori and batting coach Mark Greatbatch have reportedly decided to push batsman-wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum down the order to change the fortunes of the team after its 4-0 loss to Bangladesh in a one-day international series. McCullum is expe ...
  • Katie Holmes
    more images Katie Holmes shelters underneath an umbrella as she returns to her trailer wrapped in a white dressing gown on the set of latest movie ?Jack And Jill?. Los Angeles, California. .... Source  : Gaea News Network.
  • Ava Sambora Walks The Runway
    more images LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com)- It seems that the celebrity children are making headlines now a days. Just few days back Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s daughter Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” went viral online, its time for Ava Sambora, the 13 year old daugh ...

TruthNews Australia

  • News roundup and an interview with Frank Legge
    NOTE: Due to major commitments, I am currently unable to remove ads from TNRA podcasts. I welcome any offers of assistance in this regard. In this week's show we begin with a roundup of breaking news within Australia and around the world. Some of the topics covered include Julian Assange's b ...
  • David Chandler and John Bursill address the fr ...
    Today John Bursill takes the helm as guest host. John is joined by two excellent guests who have become known within the 9/11 Truth Movement as two of it's most wise and reasonable voices. We warmly welcome Ken Jenkins in the first hour and David Chandler in the second. Also we are very lucky ...
  • Exposing the criminal injustice system with Ge ...
    Part 2 of Exposing the criminal injustice system with George Georgios
  • Exposing the criminal injustice system with Ge ...
    In today's show we are joined in the first hour by Josh Jackson from Germany. We cover the fiscal crisis in Europe and Josh gives us some interesting insights. In the second hour George Georgios returns to talk about the systemic injustice and corruption within the criminal justice system. Geo ...
  • Short, powerful video explains why we must opp ...
    This excellent video was produced by the video production company Koozzoo for Civil Liberties Australia.

Beacon

  • Victory: Power Plant Defeated in Chile
    Seagrass near where the power plant would have been built. © Oceana/Eduardo Sorensen  Great news from Chile: A planned coal-fired plant, located dangerously close to several biodiverse marine habitats, was shot down by the Chilean Supreme Court on Tuesday. Coal-powered thermoelectric po ...
  • Ocean Health Gets a Failing Grade
    The oceans scored a disheartening 60 out of 100 on the Ocean Health Index.  It’s no secret that the health of our oceans is under extreme threat. With dangers like overfishing, climate change and ocean acidification, keeping our oceans healthy is a complex problem that has proved diffic ...
  • Video: How Seismic Testing Works
    We've been working to stop proposed seismic testing in the Atlantic, which could injure marine mammals such as the endangered right whale. But seismic testing is a pretty hard thing to visualize, so I asked one of our marine scientists, Matt Huelsenbeck, to draw it for us.  He could use s ...
  • Q&A: Alexandra Cousteau
    The new issue of Oceana magazine is hot off the presses! In this issue, I interviewed Oceana senior advisor Alexandra Cousteau, who also graces this issue's cover.  The granddaughter of famed ocean explorer and filmmaker Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Alexandra doesn’t take her family legacy lig ...
  • Tonight: Ted Danson Narrates ‘Great White Highway’
    There is still a lot of mystery surrounding great white sharks. ©Terry Goss Shark Week is almost over, but one of the most exciting shows of the year is airing tonight. Tonight at 9 p.m. (Eastern and Pacific) tune in to Discovery Channel to watch “Great White Highway,” which follows the ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • “Le Pantalon Rouge, C’est La France!”
        Ancient battlefields were inundated with colorful uniforms, tall easily visible hats festooned with tassles and feathers, ornate unit flags, horns, and all of these attention getting and vibrant vestments were simply ways for warriors to identify where they were on a battlefield, a ...
  • The Hurricat.
        When the United States was shipping supplies to England over the North Atlantic, U-Boats picked them off with impunity. It was a terrible loss of tonnage for the Allies in the early months of 1942. The British had a formidable air force, and amont the Royal Air Force’s assets was the Hawker ...
  • Amazing Well Preserved Remains Of An RAF P-40 ...
          Flight Sergeant Dennis Copping disappeared when his P-40 Kittyhawk was show down in the dessert whilst on a mission to ferry the plane from one airbase to another. This was his plane. So that part has been answered. The British Museum will soon take possession of the remains ...
  • The HMS Habbakuk. A Proposal For A Massive Air ...
      Geoffrey Pyke was an inventor, a scientist and a designer who worked for the Combined Operations Headquarters in World War II. Hired by Lord Mountbatten, Pyke worked on helping the British protect supply convoys in the North Atlantic from U-boat attacks. Pyke was an original put of the bo ...
  • We Are On The F#*!&G Moon!

Taylor Marsh

  • Mitt Shows Heart
    “You know there’s something wrong with the kind of job he’s done as president when the best feeling you had, was the day you voted for him.” – Mitt Romney THE QUOTE above resonates with the situation the voter is in this year. It also goes to the one question Mitt Romney had to answer [...]
  • Um… What Was That?
    Judging an American icon like Clint Eastwood through a typical political lens doesn’t work. His ad libbing was a break from all the political speeches, and the crowd enjoyed it. He rightly pointed out that 23 million Americans out of work or underemployed is a national disgrace and it&#821 ...
  • GOP Convention ‘Mystery Speaker’ Will ‘Make My ...
    Clint Eastwood. That’s the latest speculation about tonight’s “mystery speaker,” according to Christian Science Monitor. ‘It’s him,’ Romney family friend Paul Gilbert told the US News ‘Washington Whispers’ blog. ‘I can confirm that, 100 percent.’ … Fox News is also saying it’s Mr. Eastwood ...
  • The Paul Ryan Reviews are In
    THIS POSTER is spreading across Facebook almost as fast as a picture of a politician caught with his pants down. It’s compliments of Fuse Washington.
  • Republicans Screwed Ron Paul, So Paulites Shou ...
    AFTER DECADES in politics and amassing an army of young people, the best the Republican Party could do for Ron Paul is the video above. CNN played it, C-SPAN did too, but there wasn’t much discussion anywhere about what he’s done for politics and to bring a generation of young people ...

Hudson New York

  • Syria's War Spills Into Lebanon
    Syria's civil war was doomed from the very beginning to spill into Lebanon. Trouble started last year shortly after peaceful demonstrations against Bashar al-Assad's regime turned violent, and it started again last week when sectarian clashes ripped
  • How Many Millionaires Live in the "Impoverishe ...
    The world often thinks of the Gaza Strip, home to 1.4 million Palestinians, as one of the poorest places on earth, where people live in misery and squalor. But according to an investigative report published in the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat,
  • The Palestine Arab Leaders Have Destroyed
    Even though Zahi Khouri, in "The Palestine Romney Doesn't Know"in the the Washington Post on August 10, charges the U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney with suggesting that cultural differences help explain why Israel's achievements are in sharp
  • An SOS From a Turkish Journalist
    Before I left Istanbul, Barçin Yinanç, the opinion editor of Turkey's English-language Hürriyet Daily News wrote a column that deserves attention. I reproduce it here: I was in elementary school when I decided to become a journalist; I later started to
  • The Order for Beatings Came From Abbas's Office
    A Palestinian commission of inquiry into the beating of Palestinian journalists and demonstrators in Ramallah has found that top officials in Mahmoud Abbas's office had ordered the assault. The discovery did not come as a surprise to many Palestinians,

Urban Survival

  • Personal Consumption (and Laughter!)
    Nothing like a Thursday morning ahead of a long  holiday weekend with a little humor, mirth, and levity to set up the fun ahead this weekend,  But rather than look for it in either of the political party charades, we’ll … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With How the World Ends
    Not sure why August 30th is the day to talk about World Enders…but if you remember last year on this date we had a discussion about worlds ending, too…so it may be something cyclical or that Elaine’s putting in my … Continue reading →
  • Happy as in “Housing”
      Press release just crossing froim Case-Shiller/S&P:   “New York, August 28, 2012 – Data through June 2012, released today by S&P Dow Jones Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed that … Continue rea ...
  • Coping: My Antenna is Bigger than Your Antenna
    Every time I mention ham radio seems like I get a lot of questions from fellow “preppers” who want resilient communications. In yesterday’s column, I mentioned that ham radio could be played at four or five different levels and reader … Continue reading →
  • Double Disasters Ahead?
    Wednesday morning is going to just plain suck for people in New Orleans, which is expecting landfall about then of Hurricane Isaac which passed by a change to wash republicans and seems instead intent on shutting in oil production in … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Taxpayers on the line for Midwestern drought l ...
    Claire Althouse, Policy Analyst, Santa Monica All summer long, news outlets have been chock-full of rather depressing headlines about the record-breaking drought gripping the center portion of the country.  Although it’s too soon to tell ...
  • Unanimous vote for waste reform in Los Angeles
    Adrian Martinez, Staff Attorney, Environmental Justice, Santa Monica, California After a 4 ½ hour hearing, including strong testimony from members of Don’t Waste LA coalition, the LA City Energy & Environment Committee and the Ad Ho ...
  • White House seeks to harness the multiple bene ...
    Vignesh Gowrishankar, Sustainable Energy Advocate, New York In an Executive Order issued by the White House earlier today, the President committed to pursuing industrial energy efficiency as a means to achieve many significant benefits for America&r ...
  • Calling for National Fracking Standards and Em ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City Yesterday I returned from several days in western Pennsylvania seeing and hearing about the impacts of fracking first hand from local activists, homeowners, and scientists. People in the region fear ...
  • Vermont Strong: A Transportation Tale of Recov ...
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. When Tropical Storm Irene struck the northeastern United States one year ago on August 28, 2011, dozens of lives were lost and $15.8 billion in damage was incurred, mostly due to ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • Brutal Arrest of a Nurse by LAPD
      More here.Brutal Arrest of a Nurse by LAPD is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 9 stories of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, August 29, 2012: Montgomery, Alabama: A police officer is accused of  stealing funds confiscated in a narcotics arrest, according to the release from the Police Department. A statement from … Continue reading →Na ...
  • Facebook Posts Prompt Feds to Seize Decorated ...
    From the Washington Times: Mr. Raub, 26, a decorated former Marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, was arrested at his Richmond, Va., home Aug. 16 for anti-government statements and song lyrics posted on his private Facebook page. Secret Service, … Continue reading →Facebook Post ...
  • Mayor Bloomberg and “Gun Violence”
    When a reporter asked New York  Mayor Michael Bloomberg whether the police had acted appropriately by shooting an armed murder suspect, he angrily replied, “Let me ask you this Miss, if somebody pointed a gun at you and you had … Continue reading →Mayor Bloomberg and &#822 ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 12 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, August 28, 2012: Sorrento, Louisiana: The police department is under investigation for possible criminal activities by one or more of its officers. The allegations include misuse of public vehicles … Continue reading → ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Biodiversity faltering: 20% of invertebrates t ...
    Twenty percent of invertebrates are at risk of extinction, according to a new report that looks at the 12,621 invertebrates assessed by the IUCN Red List to date. Although invertebrates never garner the same conservation attention as big, charismatic animals such as tigers and elephants, they pl ...
  • Obama approves preparation for oil drilling in ...
    In the same week that sea ice in the Arctic Ocean hit another record low due to climate change, the Obama Administration has given final approval to Royal Dutch Shell to prepare for exploratory drilling in the region. Vehemently opposed by environmentalists and indigenous groups, the drilling pl ...
  • Sabah protects 700 sq mi of rainforest in Borneo
    Sabah, a state in Malaysian Borneo, has reclassified 183,000 hectares (700 sq km) of forest zoned for logging concessions as protected areas.
  • Brazil's controversial Belo Monte back on trac ...
    Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered work on the controversial Belo Monte dam in the Amazon to resume, overturning a lower court order that suspended the project less than two weeks ago. Construction activities by the Norte Energia, the consortium building the dam, resumed immediately, acco ...
  • U.S. boosts fuel economy standard to 54.5 mpg
    The Obama administration finalized rules that will boost the national fuel economy standard for cars and light trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon for the 2025 model year.

Sierra Express

  • Push Comes To Shove!
    Now and again, the press has been highlighting the general derelict sanitary conditions affecting the nation as a whole but did not bear fruits as the citizenry and the government neglected the calls for cleaning the environments we live. Today the Cholera outbreak has taken the four corners of ...
  • Tight Contest in NDA Convention
    Four candidates have declared interest in becoming flag-bearer of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the contest for such candidature is settled a week ahead to take place in the eastern town of Kenema. The four include Mohamed C. Bah, Mohamed Pateh Bah, Alhaji Wurrie Musidal Jalloh, and ...
  • Finding Paul Kamara’s Soft Spot
    The Youth and Sports Minister is still locked in a defying mood, standing in an earlier decision to eliminate Leone Stars skipper, Ibrahim Kargbo (Obreh), and Kei Ansu Kamara who just got his 10th goal in 25 appearances for his club side Sporting, Kansas City in the United States of America.  Th ...
  • Stop these ugly developments
    We are noticing a sour relationship between the United Democratic Movement (UDM) and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which to some extent is not good for the health of the country’s democracy. The two political establishments have both seen themselves as the alternative third force, but ...
  • London Mining donates medical supplies to tack ...
    Lunsar (22 August 2012) – London Mining has donated over 1,ooo litres of fluids and 20,000 antibiotics to the Port Loko District Government Hospital as an emergency support to help stem a cholera outbreak in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma, on declared outbreak in the co ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Dairy boom days coming to an end - bank
    New challenges facing New Zealand's dairy industry will likely force a slowdown in milk production over the next decade, according to a new report. Agribusiness banking specialist Rabobank said the industry had ridden a wave of...
  • Fonterra cuts forecast 2013 payout
    Fonterra said it had downwardly revised its forecast payout to farmers for the 2012-13 season due to ongoing strength of the New Zealand dollar.The revised forecast comprises a lower Fonterra farmgate milk price of $5.25 per kg...
  • Baby formula advert has PM spitting
    Politicians normally love being pictured with babies, but Prime Minister John Key has taken exception to a baby formula company using his image without permission.Key's office will ask Auckland milk powder manufacturers Cowala to...
  • Trade surplus for July on China dairy exports
    New Zealand recorded a small trade surplus in July, with shipments of dairy products to China making up for weaker exports to Australia, Indonesia and India.The surplus was $15 million last month, down from a revised $287 million...
  • Fonterra hits record quarterly exports
    Fonterra Cooperative Group, the world's biggest exporter of dairy products, achieved record export in the final three months of its season of 620,000 tonnes.Its 2012 May, June and July shipments were 36 per cent more than the same...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Reason Staff Live Tweets the 2012 Republican C ...
    Yesterday, Reason staffers tweetered up a storm as primetime Republican Convention programming burbled in the background. Click below to enjoy more of the same patented blend of analysis, useful links, snark, and despair. <a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.p ...
  • Sheriff Joe: Obama Hasn't Deported Enough People
    Tampa – America’s most famous sheriff, Joe Arpaio of Arizona, was milling about the Republican National Convention, pausing for photos and signing autographs for fans. As a tough-talking sheriff who loves the spotlight, Arpaio has built a substantial following with his record on ...
  • Ted Cruz: Stakes Are Too High To Not Support R ...
    Tampa – After easily winning his primary in July, the Ron Paul endorsed Ted Cruz is well on his way to winning a US Senate seat in Texas. Cruz, a darling of the insurgent Tea Party movement,  has rocketed to national stardom in conservative and Republican circles. He got a prime ...
  • 3 Ways Romney, Ryan, and the Republicans Can W ...
    So tonight is Mitt Romney's big night. He's running even now with President Barack Obama in most polls but all indications suggest this is going to be a tight race. The GOP ticket is going to need every vote it can scrounge up. Even - and especially - from those of us who are indep ...
  • Angry Grassroots Activists Stage Mini-Rally on ...
    TAMPA – One hour before the final evening of the Republican National Convention was set to be gaveled in session, a group of roughly 100 angry and passionate grassroots Republican delegates, most (but not all) of them associated with either the Tea Party or Ron Paul campaig ...

Mercury Rising

  • Friday Cat Blogging
    Except for the shaved tummy (from getting an ultrasound), it’s as if he’d never been sick.
  • Beware what you wish for
    Kim Vallez, KRQE: ”I told Chuck we would be polite and enjoy a free lunch and then say goodbye…but we talked about issues,” Martinez said. “When we left that lunch we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and I said [I'll] be damned…we are republicans.” There were tweets out there Thur ...
  • Your tax dollars at work
    Allison Flood, The Guardian: Ray Bradbury was investigated by the FBI during the 1950s, with government agents interviewing his peers and putting him under surveillance before concluding that despite being critical of the US government in his writing, the celebrated writer was never a member of ...
  • What Do Floridians Think Of The Romney-Ryan Ki ...
    Not very much, as it turns out:
  • Where is Culture of Truth when we need him?
    Republican chant: “We bilked it! We bilked it! USA! USA!” The Republican National Convention definitely needs to be given the CoT treatment. His comments are here, but I would phrase it more like this: Ann Romney: Women want to be loved, and Mitt’s a lover! Chris Christie: Fahg ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Gone to Burning Man '12
    This week, while much of the Reality Sandwich team decamps for the Burning Man Festival in Gerlach, Nevada, we offer a selection of noteworthy articles that appeared on the site earlier this year. We'll be back on Tuesday, September 4. Enjoy!   read more
  • Air Fuel
    Those of you who are around 25-30 years old and grew up in Britain may remember a kids TV show called Aquila. It was about two boys who found a small, pod-like alien craft that ran on air. Well, this type of vehicle, or at least power source, is finally here!  read more
  • The Man Behind the Kirtan: A Talk with Krishn ...
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  • Sex in the News
    Texas state representative comes out as pansexual, choosing love over motherhood, sex tips for Burning Man, and more in this week's sex news. read more
  • Co-creating Wellness
    Come together for an interactive, experiential community salon in which practitioners and lay people explore the theme of energy and vitality, and envision a well-care system that works. Together, participants will engage in a rich dialogue interweaving over seven holistic healing modalities a ...

Desertification

  • Kashmir’s Melting Glaciers May Cut Ice With Sc ...
    Jowhar Ahmed, an air-conditioner dealer in Srinagar, is pleased at a spurt in business this summer caused by temperatures soaring over 35 degrees Celsius – unusual in this alpine valley ringed by snow-capped mountains. “I sold more than 70 air-conditioners in just one month,” Ahmed, who ru ...
  • Whose Timber is it Anyway?
    With Pakistan’s last major stands of deodar (cedar) threatened by a ‘timber mafia’, the local people in the Chitral district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are resorting to direct action to stop the denudation of their picturesque alpine homeland. Since April, the community in Ayun town has been ...
  • Q&A: Water and Food Security Are Inseparable
    IPS U.N. Bureau Chief Thalif Deen interviews PER BERTILSSON, acting executive director of the Stockholm International Water Institute
  • Food Activists See Portents of New and Deeper ...
    Food rights activists from around the world will descend on the coastal U.S. state of Florida next week to protest homelessness and hunger facing millions of people in the United States and across the globe. The Aug. 20-26 protests in Tampa were organised to draw attention to the Republican Part ...
  • U.S. Drought Exposes “Hydro-Illogical&#8 ...
    The historic drought withering much of the United States this summer has revealed a need for strategies to better manage water supplies that could remain under severe pressure both this year and in the longer term. On Friday, the U.S. Agriculture Department said that corn yields – which ac ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Cloud Computing Benefits For Small Business
    Cloud Computing is the concept which has emerged as a solution for every small and medium business as it helps them to earn good profit and reach to the next stage of progress.
  • Solar Panels Cost
    The use of solar system has been gaining its popularity day by day it is because of the nonstop rise in electricity costs which is encouraging the people to go for an alternative energy source. The solar systems are able to fulfill all the energy needs required for the daily domestic and busines ...
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Press TV - Middle East

  • Iraq Kurdistan ready for talks with govt.
    Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region is ready to restart negotiations with Baghdad to end political disputes, focusing on the row over oil, Iraqi deputy prime minister says.
  • US drone attack kills eight in Yemen
    At least eight people have been killed in a fresh US assassination drone attack in southern Yemen, bringing to 14 the number of people killed in US strikes in the past four days.
  • Palestinian farmers forced to leave lands
    Palestinian farmers in the Area C of the occupied West Bank have been given a 45-day deadline by the Israeli regime to leave agricultural lands.
  • Syria envoy slams Saudi Arabia, Qatar
    The Syrian ambassador to the United Nations says Saudi Arabia and Qatar are responsible for the deteriorating humanitarian situation of the Syrian people.
  • ‘Resistance can settle woes in Lebanon’
    Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says resistance and cooperation among Lebanese groups and tribes can avert plots by certain countries that try to make regional woes spill over into Lebanon.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Stepping Up: The Summer of 2012
    Recently, while browsing the CUNY SPS Community Blog, I noticed a post by Ms. Shannon Gallo in which she posed the oft-asked question of “What did you do this summer?” Although I have heard this question countless times before, just as I am sure most of us have, it never fails to catch my attent ...
  • Running for the Cure: Fundraising 101
    With the start of the Fall 2012 semester this week, those of us who took the summer off are quickly reminded of the juggling we will need to do in order to maintain our family responsibilities and jobs. Schedules need to be re-arranged, social outings declined or cancelled, and sometimes we have ...
  • New Age Parenting
    Parenting is an energy consuming challenge in the best of times. This past year I haven’t been employed outside my home, giving me a chance to spend a year as a stay-at-home mom for the first time since my 18 year old was a baby. It was eye opening to say the least. I had [...]
  • 10 Minutes and 10 Miles
    10 MINUTES AND 10 MILES In early June, on my very first group run with the American Cancer Society’s DetermiNation team, I ran for 10 minutes and wanted to cry. Not even 3 months later, through practice and DetermiNation, 10 minutes turned into 10 miles. Last Sunday, I ran for 10 straight miles ...
  • Career Services: What Students Need to Know

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

  • Half man, half machine: Scientists engineer fi ...
    It like it’s something out of a science-fiction movie – genius scientists engineer a synthetic skin that’s part living, part electronics. But scientists at Harvard University have done just that, creating meshes of electronic and biological tissue. The end result is cyborg tissue, which is ...
  • Marine Kidnapped Over Facebook Posts: ‘I Am Sc ...
    In his first public comments since being kidnapped by authorities over political posts on Facebook, former Marine Brandon Raub tells John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute that he is scared for his country.
  • Mini Documentary Reveals ‘Stellar Wind’ Domest ...
    A new mini documentary by Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker and journalist Laura Poitras blows the lid off the US government’s secretive domestic spy program – a system currently storing all electronic communications and analyzing it in real time, building dossiers on virtually every ...
  • Black Hawk Helicopters Over Minneapolis Worry ...
    Black Hawk military helicopters are flying low over Minneapolis this week as part of an exercise being overseen by the U.S. Special Operations Command, increasing concerns that Americans are being prepared for a state of martial law. The video above shows the helicopters being filmed from the ...
  • 5-minute video: Declaration of Independence wa ...
    A lawful revolution is in response to government that abjectly violates its own laws, and refuses all reasonable offers to return government limits within its own constitution. It is a revolution that requests its own law enforcement to do their job to arrest obvious criminals in their own gover ...

Wayne Madsen

  • August 31, 2012 -- Did delegate yelling "Don't ...
    "Oh! No! No! Don't touch me!" may haunt Romney as campaign gets fully underway.
  • August 30-31, 2012 -- OFF-TOPIC DAILY FORUM
  • August 30-31, 2012 -- ON-TOPIC DAILY FORUM
  • August 30-31, 2012 -- The "Romneycan Party" co ...
    GOP is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bain Capital.
  • August 29-30, 2012 -- OFF-TOPIC DAILY CHAT FORUM

  • IPS - Inter Press Services

    • Kashmir’s Melting Glaciers May Cut Ice With Sc ...
      Jowhar Ahmed, an air-conditioner dealer in Srinagar, is pleased at a spurt in business this summer caused by temperatures soaring over 35 degrees Celsius – unusual in this alpine valley ringed by snow-capped mountains.   “I sold more than 70 air-conditioners in just one month,” Ahmed, who ...
    • International Food Prices Again at Record Leve ...
      After decreasing somewhat in recent months, international food prices have again risen dramatically, according to figures published on Thursday by the World Bank. Statistics for July indicate a 10 percent rise over just the previous month, and a six percent increase over already high prices from ...
    • Australian Detention Centres Risk Violating Hu ...
      Australia’s recent decision to move asylum seekers to offshore detention facilities has alarmed human rights organisations. “Re-opening offshore detention centres could result in human rights violations, including potentially indefinite detention,” Pia Oberoi, advisor with the ...
    • Peru Identifies Civil War Victims – at Snail’s ...
      Of the 69,000 people killed during the 1980-2000 armed conflict in Peru, at least 16,000 were buried in secret unmarked graves. So far, only 2,064 of these bodies have been recovered, and just 50 percent have been identified, according to a new report. “The exhumation process is slow and disorde ...
    • Farming Among the Waste in Cameroon
      Cameroonian urban famer Juliana Numfor has six plots of land where she grows maize, cassava, sweet potatoes and leafy vegetables, including cabbages, wild okra and greens. The soil in which her crops grow is moist and visibly marshy, and a stream of water runs near it. But if you take a closer l ...

    My AntiWar

    CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

    • Analysis of latest IAEA report on Iran - Augus ...
      Summary: Paragraphs 1 and 2 attempt to portray UNSC resolutions on Iran, demanding that Iran give up enrichment, as being "binding". They further demand that Iran ratify the Additional Protocol. Sorry, but the UNSC is not legally authorized to make such demands. A very fundamental p ...
    • America Planning for a Post-Israel Middle East?
      Summary: So what is all the fuss about? It’s a paper entitled: Preparing For A Post Israel Middle East, an 82 page analysis that concludes that the American national interest in fundamentally at odds with that of Zionist Israel. The authors concludes that Israel is currently the greatest thre ...
    • Leader urges UN to help create nuclear-free Mi ...
      Summary: Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has called on the United Nations to assume a more decisive role in creating a nuclear-free Middle East. source: Press TVread more
    • Iranian FM: We Recognize Concerns Over Nuclear ...
      Summary: Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Tehran recognizes Western concerns about its nuclear program and is “ready” to “remove all these worries” if there is reciprocation from Washington. source: antiwar.comread more
    • Tehran NAM summit: A tragic failure for Israel
      Summary: (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Consisted of nearly two third of the United Nations body, Non-Aligned Movement is the second largest international organisation and its members are said to be politically independent of the world’s great powers, namely the United States and its European all ...

    The Daily Galaxy

    • Dark Matter --Could It Play a Role in Creating ...
      Dark matter makes up the majority of mass in our universe. However, we cannot directly measure the stuff as it doesn't interact with electromagnetic radiation (i.e. it doesn't emit or reflect any light), but we can indirectly observe its presence....
    • Supernova Explosion Shines Light on Mysteries ...
      An international research team, led by Edo Berger of Harvard University, made the most of a dying star’s fury to probe a distant galaxy some 9.5 billion light-years distant. The dying star, which lit the galactic scene, is the most...
    • Impact of Light on Matter --New Discoveries at ...
      Directly measuring how light manipulates matter on the atomic scale has never been possible, until now. An international team of scientists led by Thornton Glover of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) used the Linac...
    • Image of the Day: Stunning New Views of Saturn ...
      A wide-angle view in today’s package captures Titan passing in front of Saturn, as well as the planet’s changing colors. Upon Cassini’s arrival at Saturn eight years ago, Saturn’s northern winter hemisphere was an azure blue. Now that winter is...
    • NASA Infrared Mission Reveals Millions of Hid ...
      NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has led to a bonanza of newfound supermassive black holes and extreme galaxies called hot DOGs, or dust-obscured galaxies. Images from the telescope have revealed millions of dusty black hole candidates across the...

    Natural News

    • How to test for Celiac Disease and why it's al ...
      Celiac Disease and gluten seem like new topics even though they are decades old. The problem is that testing for Celiac IS still decades old and that is hurting millions of people. Most doctors are still using blood tests and biopsies, both of which are outdated and...
    • Lost Egyptian pyramids found?
      Have we discovered all of the pyramids built by ancient Egyptians? Perhaps not, according to Google Earth imagery currently under examination by archeologists. Two sites, located about 90 miles apart, contain unfamiliar groupings of mounds with mysterious features...
    • Plasma activated water may have grand humanita ...
      Plasma activated water (PAW) may sound new to many readers, but there's been much research on it over the past few years. A recent November issue of the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics states that water mixed with a cocktail of compounds contained in ionized plasma...
    • Obama punishes Americans with another trillion ...
      As a presidential candidate in 2008, Sen. Barack Obama characterized outgoing-President George W. Bush as "unpatriotic" for adding $4 trillion to the national debt during his eight-year tenure. In a campaign speech to supporters July 3, Obama said: "The problem...
    • A champion again! Amputee regains top athletic ...
      This really happened: A motorcycle accident at age 17 resulted in an amputation of Evan Strong's leg and abruptly ended his professional skateboarding career and contracts. Today; however, Evan is a world champion in his sport of adaptive snowboarding who regained...

    Threat Level

    • TSA Denies Stonewalling Nude Body-Scanner Cour ...
      The Transportation Security Administration denied Thursday it was stonewalling a federal appeals court's year-old decision demanding the agency hold public hearings concerning the rules and regulations pertaining to the so-called nude body scanners installed in U.S. airport security checkpoints.
    • EFF Sues to Get Secret Court Rulings Showing F ...
      The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the government Thursday demanding a judge order it to release documents allegedly showing the National Security Agency unlawfully surveilled e-mail and telephone calls.
    • Qatari Gas Company Hit with Virus in Wave of A ...
      The Qatari natural gas company commonly known as RasGas has been hit with a virus that shut down its office computers, according to news reports.
    • Warrantless Wiretap Victims Ask Court to Recon ...
      A federal appeals court is being asked to reconsider its earlier ruling that the government may spy on Americans’ communications without warrants and without fear of being sued. The August 7 decision by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the first and only case ...
    • Toyota Contractor Accused of Sabotaging Compan ...
      A former programmer for Toyota has been accused of sabotaging applications on the company's network and stealing data after he was fired from his job last week, according to a civil complaint filed by the company.

    PERRspectives : Blog

    • Jeb Bush Complains Even as Dubya, Mitt Still C ...
      By all appearances, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush hopes use his Republican National Convention address to rehabilitate his brother's shattered reputation. After claiming on Sunday that it was "unbecoming" for Barack Obama to continue to "blame others" for the economic calamity he inherited f ...
    • 15 Things the GOP Doesn't Want You to Know Abo ...
      The experience of the past three decades shows that for the GOP, there are only two certainties in life: debt and tax cuts. But you'd never know that watching the Republican National Convention, where a massive ticking debt clock and obvious falsehoods like "President Obama has doubled the nati ...
    • How We Built Bain Capital
      Among the things absent thus far from the 2012 Republican National Convention has been any mention of Bain Capital and any fidelity to the truth. After just the first day, the GOP's twin frauds about welfare and "we built that" were once again demolished, prompting Team Romney to protest that " ...
    • Lady Macbeth Comes to the Republican National ...
      At the Republican National Convention Tuesday night, Mitt Romney will stand behind a human shield: his wife Ann Romney. And with good reason. While his campaign still frets about his massive "empathy gap," the Republican nominee will deploy his warm, engaging and sympathetic wife as a proxy fo ...
    • Romney Contradicts Own Web Site on Abortion
      Back in June, Mitt Romney's right-hand man Eric Fehrnstrom declared, "This is not a social issue election." Romney, he pledged, will "govern as a pro-life president, but you're going to see the Democrats use all sorts of shiny objects to distract people's attention from the Obama performance on ...

    Blackspot News Feed

    • Daughter of Billionaire GOP Donor Sheldon Adel ...
      Dandelion Salad Aug 30, 2012 by democracynow DemocracyNow.org – When Democracy Now! senior producer Mike Burke attempted to interview billionaire casino magnate and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson inside the Republican National Convention, a woman identified as Adelson’s daughter gr ...
    • Daughter of Billionaire GOP Donor Sheldon Adel ...
      Dandelion Salad Aug 30, 2012 by democracynow DemocracyNow.org – When Democracy Now! senior producer Mike Burke attempted to interview billionaire casino magnate and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson inside the Republican National Convention, a woman identified as Adelson’s daughter gr ...
    • Ralph Nader: Paul Ryan’s Speech: Deceptive, Co ...
      Dandelion Salad with Ralph Nader Aug 29, 2012 by WSJDigitalNetwork Former Independent Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader criticizes Paul Ryan’s speech at the 2012 RNC Convention in Tampa, calling it deceptive, contradictory and hypocritical. Photo: Getty Images. Ralph Nader Reacts to Paul ...
    • Ralph Nader: Paul Ryan’s Speech: Deceptive, Co ...
      Dandelion Salad with Ralph Nader Aug 29, 2012 by WSJDigitalNetwork Former Independent Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader criticizes Paul Ryan’s speech at the 2012 RNC Convention in Tampa, calling it deceptive, contradictory and hypocritical. Photo: Getty Images. Ralph Nader Reacts to Paul ...
    • Marconi’s Shipwreck
      Perhaps you might like to listen to Erstlaub’s new record, a beautiful piece of fogbound electronic mystery called MARCONI’S SHIPWRECK.  You can find out all about it here. First I will lay into the (compressed) audiovisual version, and then the Bandcamp streaming version (where you can als ...

    Consortium News

    TruthOut

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

    Planetsave

    • Ancient Denisovans Contributed To Modern Human ...
      The Denisovan genome has now been completely sequenced from the bone fragments that were discovered in Siberia in 2008. The research has revealed that the Denisovans have left their trace in some modern humans, contributing some DNA to the genome of some modern melanesians and australian aborigi ...
    • Oldest Ever Record Of Arthropods Discovered In ...
      The oldest record of arthropods has been found preserved in amber. Arthropods are the invertebrate animals that include insects, arachnids, and crustaceans. The fossil specimens, are one fly and two mites that were found in millimeter-scale droplets of amber from northeastern Italy, they are aro ...
    • Feathered Dinosaur Hunted Early Birds
      Researchers have found the first evidence that feathered, but flightless dinosaur hunted the ancestors of modern birds. A paleontology research team from the U of A has discovered the fossilized remains of “three flying dinosaurs in the belly of a raptor-like predator called Sinocalliopter ...
    • Sugar Molecules Found Around Young Star
      Researchers working with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered sugar molecules in the gas surrounding a young newly formed Sun-like star. This discovery is the first time that sugar has been seen in space around a Sun-like star. The discovery makes it clear that ...
    • Advanced Tornado/Hurricane Shelter Panels from ...
      Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham have designed new storm shelter panels made from recycled materials that have passed the National Storm Shelter Association’s tornado threat test. The new panels are a part of a new high-tech shelter they are designing. For the live ...

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    Axis of Logic

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

    They Gave Us a Republic

    • The Nightowl Newswrap
      By @BGinKC Which @PaulRyanVP lie was it that broke through the media's stupor? Less than 24 hours after Paul Ryan lied like a rug in his speech at the GOP convention, the media backlash is gaining steam rather than losing it. Even Chris Wallace of Fox was less-than-fawning. He actually said tha ...
    • Invisible Americans
      By @TomBales1 Bill Moyers and Michael Winship had an OpEd on Truthout Sunday titled Invisible Americans Get the Silent Treatment Sunday in which they made reference to a group that nobody wants to talk about.  This isn't about the Native Americans although many of them are definitely part ...
    • More of this, please...
      By @BGinKC U.S. News & world Report has gone where  few journalists have dared to tread in ages.  Robert Schlesinger, the managing editor, posted a short but powerful article that "goes there" and calls Paul Ryan what he is -- a liar -- right there in the headline: "Ryan Repeats Auto B ...
    • Is this a political convention or a masked ball?
      By @TedFrier It used to be the Republican Party would gather every four years to select a standard-bearer they hoped would carry them to victory in November. Now, however, Republicans collect in these quadrennial conclaves to choose a metaphor. This year's theme of choice is how a welfare-coddli ...
    • Media Malpractice
      By @BGinKC By all accounts, Paul Ryan was the highlight of the GOP freakshow in Tampa this week. The average American saw someone who is youthful and energetic, who was fired up and forceful without crossing the line and coming across as petty or obnoxious -- two qualities his running mate is u ...

    Care 2

    • 23 Reasons Animal Lovers Should Boycott China ...
      Each weekday during August 2012, I'll give animal lovers one reason to boycott China23 reasons in all. It will not be an easy month, but as Albert Schweitzer said, "Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight." #boycottchina Submitted by Reynard Loki to Animals &nb ...
    • Dog Found Hanging from Bridge in Hinsdale | wg ...
      The Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Department is asked for help in finding the owner of a dog who died a horrible death. The animal which is believed to be a male terrier or terrier mix was found hanging by it's leash from a bridge Submitted by Dianne Lynn Elko to Animals &nbs ...
    • Mining for Gold: A 'Pact With the Devil'?
      The technical term for the environmental nightmare that is unfolding in front of us is "acid mine drainage." Acid mine drainage has plagued mine sites from Pennsylvania to El Salvador for centuries. Submitted by Judy C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • CANADA: Former environment minister slams ...
      A former federal environment minister has joined the mounting fracas around the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, arguing the project is not in Canada's best interest and that Enbridge (TSX:ENB) is the "last company in North America" that should be per Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environmen ...
    • AUSTRALIA: Groups call for fracking morat ...
      The call for a moratorium is in response to an announcement by Canadian gas giant, PetroFrontier, that it plans to use horizontal fracking techniques in the Georgina Basin, 450 kilometres north of Alice Springs. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |&nbs ...

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    No Quarter

    • Romney-Ryan 2012 ★ Open Thread ★
      Are you Ready? Tonight is the final evening of the 2012 Republican Convention. Leading up to Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech is a diverse list of speakers, including Jeb Bush, Newt Gingrich, and Marco Rubio. Plus, by surprise, Clint Eastwood. Please live blog your comments and observations ...
    • Romney has 17 point lead among independents—Ja ...
      Yes, per James Carville and his Democracy Corps, Mitt Romney holds a 17 point lead over Barack Obama among independents (August Economy Project Survey, August 28) “I think Democrats are worried right now.” Oh, they should be. As Carville so famously coined in 1992, “it’s the economy, ...
    • Paul Ryan’s great speech — in three parts:
      Did Paul Ryan knock it out of the park, or what?! First up: Paul Ryan’s remarkably passionate, powerful speech that has me so REVVED UP I could march on Washington, D.C. to take the White House this very second! (Below the fold you’ll find many reactions to Wednesday night’s sp ...
    • “Dirty Harry” Aims at Tampa
      Yes, Fox News reports that Clint Eastwood will speak at the GOP convention before Mitt Romney. It may be Tim Tebow, but my bet’s on “Dirty Harry“: The Mayor: Callahan… I don’t want any more trouble like you had last year in the Fillmore district. You understand? Tha ...
    • Obama and Al Gore’s Man Playing Politics at CIA
      A retired CIA buddy, who served in some highly sensitive posts, was perusing the CIA doc dump and discovered that Al Gore’s former PR guy was in the middle of a bunch of meetings. Here is his note: If one reads the released emails posted on the Judicial Watch site, one notes that also sitt ...

    Futurismic

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

    Therapy News

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

    Mountaintop Removal

    • Travelling “True Cost of Coal” Mural Sparks Lo ...
      Travelling “True Cost of Coal” Mural Sparks Local Conversation Sewardcity News The Beehive Design Collective is demonstrating its concerns about Climate Change, mountaintop removal and the struggle for justice in Appalachia through a large, extremely detailed portable mural. Some 20 copies of th ...
    • Why the Democratic Party Platform Should Call ...
      Why the Democratic Party Platform Should Call for End to Mountaintop Removal ... Democratic Underground Calling it "Judy's plank," in honor of beloved West Virginia mountaineer Judy Bonds, whose untimely death in 2011 served as a wakeup call to the mounting humanitarian and health ...
    • Federal Judge Rules Against EPA Mining Restric ...
      Federal Judge Rules Against EPA Mining Restrictions GreenAnswers Mountaintop removal coal mining operations – a form of surface mining that gathers coal from the summit of mountains – commonly dump waste water into waterways in the Appalachian valleys. The polluted water disrupts biodiversity in ...
    • Musicians Join Hit Parade As Mountain Heroes - ...
      Musicians Join Hit Parade As Mountain Heroes unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) As part of Earthjustice's Mountain Heroes campaign, two more prolific artists are joining us to stand up against mountaintop removal mining. The first is Rolling Stone's 23rd greatest guitarist of all time: ...
    • Escalating the Battle Against Mountaintop Remo ...
      Escalating the Battle Against Mountaintop Removal Mining In These Times A direct action to close down a West Virginia mountaintop removal site—and the response to it—has escalated the struggle around coal mining in southern Appalachia. In late July, Radical Action for Mountain People's Survi ...

    Memeorandum

    • If Clint Eastwood is Mitt Romney's Secret RNC ...
      Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress: If Clint Eastwood is Mitt Romney's Secret RNC Speaker, It'll Be No Surprise  —  It says a lot about how the Republican convention is going that the biggest buzz isn't over any one speech, but over the possible identity of a mystery speaker slate ...
    • "You Didn't Build That" Isn't Going Away - It ...
      Rachael Larimore / Slate: “You Didn't Build That” Isn't Going Away  —  It doesn't matter what Obama meant.  Here's why.  —  Attendees at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla.  —  Richard Kalvar/Magnum Photos for S ...
    • Clint Eastwood's rambling RNC speech (Mj Lee/P ...
      Mj Lee / Politico: Clint Eastwood's rambling RNC speech  —  TAMPA, Fla. — Clint Eastwood delivered a rambling performance at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night in a speech that included the Hollywood legend speaking to an empty stool and telling an imagin ...
    • Romney Vows to Deliver Country From Economic T ...
      Jeff Zeleny / New York Times: Romney Vows to Deliver Country From Economic Travails  —  TAMPA, Fla. — Mitt Romney accepted the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday by making a direct appeal to Americans who were captivated by President Obama's hopeful promises of ...
    • Romney accepts GOP presidential nomination (CNN)
      CNN: Romney accepts GOP presidential nomination  —  (CNN) - Mitt Romney told the Republican National Convention on Thursday that he accepts the nomination as the party's presidential candidate in November.  —  Mitt Romney said he wished President Barack Obama had ...

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    China Dialogue

    • American dairy cooperatives claim to offer pat ...
      In the US, health concerns about industrialised dairy farming are leading the public to go in search of safer milk. Zhou Li visited Organic Valley, a Wisconsin dairy cooperative that claims to present a safer example of local food provision.Dairy products are a major source of nutrition in the U ...
    • Milk price war puts squeeze on China's dairy f ...
      China’s dairy sector is caught between a model of local production and mass industrialisation, triggering battles over resources, price and supplier treatment. Xu Nan reports.China’s dairy industry has been in a precarious state since 2008, the year of the Sanlu milk-powder scandal, ...
    • Italy's "cancer town" in battle over polluting ...
      Owners of the polluting Ilva steelworks are under house arrest, and shutdowns have been ordered – but the plant has defenders despite sky-high cancer rates. Tom Kington reports.chinadialogue reported on China's cancer villages back in 2011. See the full report "Shadow over rural China ...
    • Water-transfer projects "essential", says Chin ...
      Xia Jun tells chinadialogue that China must press ahead with "essential" water-transfer projects, but needs a less chaotic approach.Xia Jun is president of the International Water Resources Association and head of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Water Resources Ce ...
    • China's South-North water transfer is "irrational"
      Ruth Matthews, of the Water Footprint Network, tells Tom Levitt how food has come to dominate our water use and why China may need to re-think its South-North water transfer project. Ruth Matthews is executive director of the Water Footprint Network Tom Levitt: What do you mean by our ...

    AlterNet Top Stories

    • Koch Party Time: Billionaire Brothers Show Off ...
      TAMPA, FLA. -- In a beautifully appointed meeting room overlooking Tampa Bay, David Koch, principal in Koch Industries and benefactor of Americans For Prosperity, basking in the glow of what, for him, has been a very good couple of years, now capped off by the selection of Rep. Paul Ryan, Wis. ...
    • Where Is the Outrage over Money in Politics?
      We might wish the uproar from the convention halls of both parties these busy weeks were the wholesome clamor of delegates deliberating serious visions of how we should be governed for the next four years. It rises instead from scripted TV spectacles — grown-ups doing somersaults of mak ...
    • I am the Only Black Woman in My Office -- And ...
       I am the only Black woman at my job.Of course, this means me and my massive hair stick out that much more, especially when the last Black woman to work here wore her hair flat-ironed mercilessly straight.I’ve been here for almost two years and the hair questions have not ...
    • The Craziest Conservative Conspiracy Theories ...
       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 b ...
    • Role-Reversal: Some Cops Have Started Saving L ...
      On August 1, 2012, Officer Michael Alfieri of Suffolk County, New York, responded to a 911 call about an unconscious man in an apartment. Arriving at the scene, Alfieri noted the man’s bluish skin, labored breathing and track marks in his arms, all indicative of a heroin overdose.  ...

    Threat Level

    • TSA Denies Stonewalling Nude Body-Scanner Cour ...
      The Transportation Security Administration denied Thursday it was stonewalling a federal appeals court's year-old decision demanding the agency hold public hearings concerning the rules and regulations pertaining to the so-called nude body scanners installed in U.S. airport security checkpoints.
    • EFF Sues to Get Secret Court Rulings Showing F ...
      The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the government Thursday demanding a judge order it to release documents allegedly showing the National Security Agency unlawfully surveilled e-mail and telephone calls.
    • Qatari Gas Company Hit with Virus in Wave of A ...
      The Qatari natural gas company commonly known as RasGas has been hit with a virus that shut down its office computers, according to news reports.
    • Warrantless Wiretap Victims Ask Court to Recon ...
      A federal appeals court is being asked to reconsider its earlier ruling that the government may spy on Americans’ communications without warrants and without fear of being sued. The August 7 decision by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the first and only case ...
    • Toyota Contractor Accused of Sabotaging Compan ...
      A former programmer for Toyota has been accused of sabotaging applications on the company's network and stealing data after he was fired from his job last week, according to a civil complaint filed by the company.

    Equality Trust

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

    PDA AMERICA

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

    Marler Blog

    • Salmonella Cantaloupe Sickens 204 in 22 States ...
      A total of 204 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 22 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as... Continue Reading
    • Salmonella Braenderup Tainted Mangoes Sicken 1 ...
      A total of 105 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Braenderup have been reported to PulseNet from 16 states since July 1, 2012. The number of ill persons... Continue Reading
    • Those who cannot remember the past “cantaloupe ...
      My apologies to George Santayana. Of course cantaloupes and salmonella are fresh on our minds, as the CDC reports a total of 178 persons infected with the outbreak strain of... Continue Reading
    • 124 Sickened by Salmonella-Tainted Mangoes in ...
      As of today, there have been 21 confirmed cases of Salmonella Braenderup in Canada with 16 in British Columbia and 5 in Alberta according to the Public Health Agency of... Continue Reading
    • Salmonella Mangoes and Cantaloupe - A Tainted ...
      Ingredient 1- Mangoes According to efoodalert, Food Safety News and Lola, as of August 22, 2012 there have been 22 confirmed cases of Salmonella Braenderup in Canada with 17 in British Columbia and 5 in Alberta. In the US, 101 cases of Salmonella Braenderup have been reported. Affected states ...

    AutoblogGreen

    • Report: GM will sell 2,500 Chevy Volts in Augu ...
      Filed under: Car Buying, Sedan, Chevrolet, GM, Electric We should be getting August's official sales numbers early next week, but The Detroit Free Press is already reporting that General Motors will have something to be proud of in the announcement: 2,500 Chevrolet Volt sales, the car's best ...
    • Official: New CAFE rules officially finalized; ...
      Filed under: Government/Legal Increasing the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for model year 2017-2025 cars to 54.5 miles per gallon was first proposed in July 2011. Since then, there has been a lot of back and forth, a lot of positive and negative responses, and, lately, a delay for ...
    • Report: Motor Trend tests Tesla Model S ...
      Filed under: Sedan, Tesla, Electric Tesla has said the highest-end Model S has a range of 300 miles (at 55 miles per hour), but until recently, it's been tremendously difficult for anyone outside the company to verify this number. When the EPA did its testing thing, it came up with a 265-mile ...
    • Official: Fisker Q&A sheds light, lots of ...
      Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Fisker, Electric, Luxury Despite what some media outlets are saying, the long list of questions and answers about the Fisker Karma now floating around (and available below) is not a leaked document. Instead, it is part of Fisker's ongoing customer service operation ...
    • Official: Fisker: cooling fan responsible for ...
      Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Recalls, Fisker, Electric, Luxury After two short "we're looking into it" official statements (1, 2), Fisker Automotive has announced that it has completed a "detailed investigation" into the strange, spontaneous combustion of a Karma plug-in hybrid that happened i ...

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    Camera Obscura

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

    Democracy Now!

    • Workers Feel the Pain of Bain
      By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan TAMPA , Fla. — Four hardy souls from rural Illinois joined tens of thousands of people undeterred by threats of Hurricane Isaac during this week’s Republican National Convention. They weren’t among the almost 2,400 delegates to the convention, thou ...
    • Breaking WIth Convention: Democracy Now! Repor ...
      Democracy Now! will expand to a daily two-hour broadcast during the 2012 Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Amy Goodman and the Democracy Now! crew will travel to Tampa Bay and Charlotte to report from the streets, to the suites, to the convention floor. Tune in on Monday, August 2 ...
    • Election 2012: Dreams of a Vote Deferred?
      By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan People remember 1929 as the year of the stock-market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression, the global economic disaster which remains the only one in history that dwarfs the one in which we now find ourselves. It was also the year Martin Luther ...
    • Read an Excerpt from "Subversives: The FBI's W ...
      Read "Spies in the Hills," Chapter 1 of the new book, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals and Reagan’s Rise to Power, by Seth Rosenfeld. Decades in the making, the book reveals that the FBI tried to disrupt the 1964 Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, helping ...
    • Craig Murray and Tariq Ali Speak In Support of ...
      See Craig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, and writer and activist Tariq Ali, speak outside the Ecuadorean embassy, where WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange spoke Sunday. "The invasion of a diplomatic premises is a crime in international law and a crime in the state whose ...

    Suzie-Q

    • Paul Ryan Address: Convention Speech Built On ...
      Huff Post Ryan Grim Posted: 08/30/2012 12:29 am Updated: 08/30/2012 11:52 am TAMPA, Fla. — Paul Ryan pledged Wednesday that if he and his running mate Mitt Romney were elected president, they would usher in an ethic of responsibility. The Wisconsin congressman and GOP vice presidential can ...
    • Paul Ryan Fails — The Truth
      The Washington Post By Jonathan Bernstein Posted at 11:56 PM ET, 08/29/2012 It was, by any reasonable standards, a staggering, staggering lie. Here’s Paul Ryan about Barack Obama: He created a bipartisan debt commission. They came back with an urgent report.  He thanked them, sent them on their ...
    • Why It’s So Important For Rape To Be &#8 ...
      Daily Kos by Dante Atkins Sun Aug 26, 2012 at 06:00 AM PDT Unless you’ve been spending the past week or so living under a rock—and given the political climate these days, it would be hard to blame you for doing so—you can’t have missed the fact that Republican Congressman and newly m ...
    • Crossroads GPS And Americans For Prosperity Ou ...
      Think Progress Justice By Rebecca Leber  on Aug 14, 2012 at 3:50 pm Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS (an affiliate of the super PAC American Crossroads) and the Koch brothers’ Americans For Prosperity have spent more on TV ads than every super PAC combined, according to a ProPublica analysis of CMAG d ...
    • Scrutiny for Casino Mogul’s Frontman in China
      The New York Times By MICHAEL LUO, NEIL GOUGH and EDWARD WONG Published: August 13, 2012 When Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate, needed something done in China, he often turned to his company’s “chief Beijing representative,” a mysterious businessman named Yang Saixin. Mr. Yang arranged meetin ...

    Solari

    • Where The Deficit Comes From
      [Note from CAF: Not to mention the money disappearing through the black budget, $4 trillion missing from federal accounts and on and on....] Related Viewing:
    • Transcript of Equity Markets: The View from Si ...
      Equity Markets: The View from Silicon Valley is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: Catherine: So let’s turn to our topic tonight, “Equity Markets: The View from Silicon Valley”. Chuck joined us on the precious metals market report with Franklin and I ...
    • Are We Living The Story of Joseph?
      By Wikipedia Pharaoh acknowledged that Joseph’s proposal to store grain during the abundant period was very wise. So before Joseph was even 30 years old, Pharaoh released him from prison and put him in charge over “all the land of Egypt” as Vizier. The Pharaoh took off his sig ...
    • Genetic Roulette
      Source: YouTube This seminal documentary provides compelling evidence to help explain the deteriorating health of Americans, especially among children, and offers a recipe for protecting ourselves and our future. Continue reading the article . . . Related reading: Seeds of Deception Solari Re ...
    • BWX Working Currency Group Film 2012

    Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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    Sideways News

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

    Fabius Maximus

    • Two vital lessons from the election so far, ab ...
      Summary:  This campaign season has, as they should, taught us much about the condition of the Republic’s most vital political processes.  We should have learned that the Republic is dying.  Watch your TV and smell the rot.  Our leaders lie — big lies — and are willing to casual ...
    • Has America grown old, and can no longer grow? ...
      Summary:  The future of economic growth has become a hot topic. Here’s a brief look at two of the contrasting visions for our future. Read about both visions and decide for yourself! Contents Introduction Slow growth ahead — or even no growth Accelerating growth leading to the singul ...
    • Undercutting people’s trust in the Repub ...
      Summary:  Skepticism of authority is an element of wisdom, but with careful encouragement can become malignant distrust of government. It’s a step towards de-legitimizing the Republic, a powerful element of a elites “divide and concquor” strategy — leaving a people with n ...
    • Today we ask the mineshaft: Is the Right winni ...
      Summary:  Today we ask about the future of the GOP, and America.  Are they ascendant, or a list gasp of a dying ideology?  We ask the mineshaft!  As in “ask the community”, from the German “Gemeinschaft” (see Wikipedia).  Post your answer in the comments. To help you bett ...
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    Open Your Eyes News

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

    The Progressive Realist

    • Why Dictatorships Build Stuff that Crumbles
      In a recent essay for Foreign Policy, James Traub gazes longingly at “the astonishing building and infrastructure projects that have propelled the growth of China’s cities—bullet trains, highways, ports, and giant manufacturing complexes.” He acknowledges that China&#8217 ...
    • Morsi’s Just Not that Into Iran
      Editor’s note: This article first appeared on foreignpolicy.com. Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had high hopes for the visit to Tehran by new Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. His trip on Thursday for the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit might have been brief — his spokesman e ...
    • National Security Nite: Reinvention Convention ...
      Today’s five-minute Romney appearance at the American Legion and convention appearances tonight from Senator John McCain and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice seem to be the sum total of what the party has planned on national security for the convention. Given this decision to downplay ...
    • Prospects for Syrian “Safe Zones” Look Dim For Now
      The Security Council is meeting on Syria today at the behest of Turkey. This is meant to be a meeting of Foreign Ministers but neither Hillary Clinton nor her Russian or Chinese counterparts will attend, which shows you just how fractured the Security Council has become on the Syria question. Tu ...
    • The August 2012 IAEA Report on Iran: An Initia ...
      The IAEA’s latest quarterly report on Iran, now in circulation, finds that Tehran has installed more machines for uranium enrichment in its Fordow underground facility, but has not started to use them. This means that Iran has not significantly increased its rate of enrichment at this facility s ...

    TAPPED - The American Prospect

    • Did Hubris Kill Texas's Photo ID Law?
      In a unanimous decision on Thursday, a panel of three federal judges knocked down the Texas voter ID law, which would have required voters show a form of government-issued photo identification. The state will undoubtedly appeal the decision, but the news is yet another blow to the law, which th ...
    • Race and the Gathering of Our Political Tribes
      Watching the Republican and Democratic conventions, with the stark visual contrast in the kinds of people on those different floors, always gets me thinking about how we vote, in part, by tribe. Those people just don’t look like my people, I can’t help thinking, and I’m sure those people think ...
    • The Hidden Candidate
      (John Cuneo) When Gore Vidal died a few weeks ago, eulogies quoted his famous observation that “the more money an American accumulates the less interesting he himself becomes.” Vidal originally wrote these words in a 1972 essay on Howard Hughes, but who could read them today and not th ...
    • Ryan's Speech Lays on the Charm, Drops the Plan
      Paul Ryan might be a familiar pretty face among the wonky set, but for most voters he is an unknown figure, a minor House representative from someplace in the middle of the country whose name they first encountered at the start of the month. His primetime premiere at the GOP convention last nig ...
    • Obama and the Two Virginias
      (Jamelle Bouie) President Obama in Charlottesville, Virginia yesterday Well before President Obama arrived for his Wednesday rally in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, local Tea Partiers had gathered to protest his event and promise an end to his tyrannical administration. Asse ...

    Buzzflash

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

    Glenn Greenwald - Salon

    The BiPartisan Report

    Sciencebase

    • Chemistry matters
      Latest chemistry news round-up from the ChemWeb Alchemist, who this week looks through an ITO coated glass darkly this week with another step taken towards transparent electronics for solar panels. In earthly news, life’s inorganic components may have emerged as supercontinents were formed ...
    • Hairy Bikers BP BS
      Yesterday, I watched one episode of the food show from fellow “Geordies” Si King and Dave Myers in which they expounded the benefits of exercise and calorie reduction for weight loss. So far, so good. They had Newcastle University’s Roy Taylor tracking their weight, blood press ...
    • My Sister Rosalind Franklin
      My Sister Rosalind Franklin: A Family Memoir 9780199699629: Jenifer Glynn – Jenifer Glynn is sister to Rosalind Franklin, whose pioneering X-ray crystallography work provide the key insights needed by Watson and Crick to unravel the double helix of DNA. Much has been written about her role ...
    • Hairy Bikers BP
      UPDATE: The show’s producer got in touch to tell me she was massively disinterested in any big-picture message warping. “I just shot what Roy Taylor said. Dave and Si were both on medication for high blood pressure. Following alterations in their way of cooking, living, exercising an ...
    • Gadget in the pan? Just add rice
      While the Gates Foundation is looking to reward new toilet designs, there is a “first-world” problem that afflicts many of us from time to time. The dreaded dropping the phone, iPod, Kindle in the toilet bowl. The whole hygiene and pathogen dissemination issue of using electronic gad ...

    Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

    • Reprieve for Proposed Third Maryland Reactor J ...
      The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) today gave a 60 day reprieve to embattled French governmental electric utility, Électricité de France (EDF), which remains in violation of the Atomic Energy Act while attempting to obtain a license for a third nuclear reactor at the Calver ...
    • Victory for Texas Voters: Restrictive Voter ID ...
      Voting rights advocates scored a clear victory today when a federal court rejected Texas’s restrictive voter ID law, which could have hurt hundreds of thousands of minority voters who lack the required ID.read more
    • Texas Voter Photo ID Law Blocked by Federal Court
      A U.S. District Court today blocked Texas’ new voter ID law because it discriminates against minorities and conflicts with the federal Voting Rights Act. In doing so, the three-judge panel in Washington removed a stumbling block that opponents of the law argued could keep up to 1.5 million ...
    • Sanders Welcomes Obama Support for Amendment ...
      U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today welcomed President Barack Obama’s statement in support of a constitutional amendment to undo the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United that paved the way for a flood of campaign cash from corporations and wealthy special interests. “I app ...
    • Amnesty International Reiterates Call for Mora ...
      Amnesty International has confirmed that at least 38 people still on death row in Gambia are at imminent risk of execution following official affirmation that nine other death row inmates were put to death last week. The human rights organization calls for a moratorium on the killings and denoun ...

    Common Dreams-Views

    • Money in Politics: Where Is the Outrage?
      Bill Moyers Bernard Weisberger We might wish the uproar from the convention halls of both parties these busy weeks were the wholesome clamor of delegates deliberating serious visions of how we shou ...
    • US Shares Responsibility for Rachel Corrie's Death
      Stephen Zunes On August 28, an Israeli court rejected a civil lawsuit against Israeli occupation forces for the 2003 murder of Rachel Corrie, a 23-year old American peace activist killed in the Gaza Strip, upholding a severely flawed intern ...
    • Workers Feel the Pain of Bain
      Amy Goodman Four hardy souls from rural Illinois joined tens of thousands of people undeterred by threats of Hurricane Isaac during this week’s Republican National Convention. They weren’t among the almost 2,400 delegates to the ...
    • "Egg-as-Person" Falls Short of Number Needed F ...
      Robin Marty The activists behind the egg-as-person movement--which wants to convey the full rights of personhood under the law on fertilized eggs--have failed in their bid for another ballot initiative (third time's the charm!) in Color ...
    • Most in Media Ignore Ryan's Lies--and Forgive ...
      Greg Mitchell I'm sure it's only coincidence, but it was still heartening last night to see so many in certain outposts of the media follow my urgent advice here yesterday (my piece) to not "live and let lie"--to stat ...

    Newshoggers - AfPak

    Water Wars

    • Teenager faces felony burglary, pointing firea ...
      The victim said he was later ordered to go to the back. He was forced to his knees, along with his friend, with one of the subjects holding a shotgun to their backs.
    • Police find Floyd County runaway
      Tap water is much better. It’s tested more frequently, it’s cheaper and it’s got fluoride, which we all need to prevent tooth decay, right? Well, it all depends on who you ask.
    • Water wars: There’s more in that clear drink t ...
      Tap water is much better. It’s tested more frequently, it’s cheaper and it’s got fluoride, which we all need to prevent tooth decay, right? Well, it all depends on who you ask. Ask an environmentalist and they’ll tell you bottled water creates an unnecessary amount of trash, so it’s bad. Ask som ...
    • Water woes likely to evaporate soon
      Move to set up A.P. Water Resources Regulatory Commission
    • Akomplice Readies Collabo Pack In Support Of E ...
      Akomplice Clothing has teamed up with the makers of the award-winning environmental documentary, Blue Gold: World Water Wars, for a collaborative release ... with the money going to a good cause.

    WordPress | Economics

    Electronic Intifada

    The Wonk Room

    • Romney Mocks Obama’s Pledge To Address Global ...
      The second lamest part of the Republican National Convention — after Clint Eastwood’s incoherent ramble — was this part of Romney’s speech: President Obama promised to slow the rise of the oceans — [pauses for audience laughter(!)] — and to heal the planet. MY ...
    • VIDEO: The Best Of Clint Eastwood’s Surreal Co ...
      As it turns out, Clint Eastwood was the mystery speaker tonight at the Republican National Convention. In a strange interlude that was part speech and part comedy bit, the always gruff Eastwood argued with a theoretical Obama purportedly seated in an empty chair, made some off-color jokes, almos ...
    • ‘Surprise’ Clint Eastwood Speech Features Biza ...
      In what was a poorly kept “surprise” appearance, actor/director Clint Eastwood gave a highly bizarre speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa Thursday. Eastwood blamed President Obama for getting the U.S. into a war in Afghanistan without talking to Russia first (though ...
    • Even David Koch Says The GOP Is Wrong On Taxes
      David Koch, one half of the pair of billionaire brothers who have pumped millions into the Republican infrastructure, admitted today that even he thinks that the Republican Party has strayed too far too the right: Koch said he thinks the U.S. military should withdraw from the Middle East and sai ...
    • ThinkProgress Live Blogs The Republican Nation ...
      Welcome to ThinkProgress’ primetime Thursday coverage of the Republican National Convention. We’re here all night to fact check and debunk the claims of the GOP’s brightest stars. Here is our guide to Thursday’s speakers. 7:00: Romney aides say the former Massachusetts go ...

    thwap's schoolyard

    • We Made it All Up
      Yep. The "coalition coup" was planned well in advance! There was no reason for it other than a burning lust for power. Also, wanting to know whether we were upholding international law with regards to our transfers of prisoners in Afghanistan was just a smoke-screen to embarrass the harpercon go ...
    • Two Books
      Nothing else to do. I'll post about two books I read. The first is called Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State by Garry Willis. Willis says that the trappings of the imperial presidency are almost all the fault of the huge increase in power to that office created by ...
    • Vic Toews Can Either Stand With Us, or Stand W ...
      Right. So, besides the "Toronto 18 (12? 9?)" who would have done exactly NOTHING had a coke-addicted RCMP informant gotten them all fired up, Canadian security forces have produced nothing in the way of threats thwarted by our draconian "anti-terror" legislation. Nothing, nothing, NOTHING. More ...
    • Airshow MacKay vs. the Lives of "R"CAF Pilots
      Just a reminder about what a craven turd and self-centred tool Peter MacKay is. We all know that the mega-expensive F-35 fighter jet is a highly problematic project. Evidently, it's one claim to fame, it's "stealth" is pretty much dead on arrival. Everything has been sacrificed to the plane's st ...
    • Progressive Patriot: The War on Terror Part II
      The way to grow a blog's readership is to post frequently so that there's always something knew when bored people click in to waste some more time. But, obviously, I ain't doing that. This whole online world is starting to leave me kinda cold. Oh well, not going to give up the ghost just yet ... ...

    on Government Oversight

    Digital Journal

    • Gays and Lesbians plan to crash Toronto Mayor ...
      Since Toronto Mayor Rob Ford skipped the city's Gay Pride celebration this year, a growing number of gays and lesbians plan to show up at his community backyard barbecue next weekend.
    • Shocked tourists find human torso below Niagar ...
      Tourists on the Maid of the Mist boat ride below the Niagara Falls, were shocked to see a human torso floating in the river. Police say the body is of a middle-aged woman who was obviously murdered.
    • There is nothing wrong, or parochial, with Pau ...
      The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms establishes the equal status of English and French as the two official languages in the country. But according to a recent paper written by journalist Lysiane Gagnon, one appears to be more equal than the other.
    • Canadian man pleads guilty to cruelly killing ...
      A Whistler, B.C. sled dog owner who employed dogs to take tourists on tours during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics pleaded guilty to "causing unnecessary pain and suffering to animals" on Thursday. It involved the death of 56 sled dogs with a gun or knife.
    • Canada reviews $15.1 billion Nexen takeover by ...
      The Canadian Industry Minister Christian Paradis has confirmed the review has started of China National Offshore Oil Company's $15.1 billion takeover deal with Calgary-based Nexen Inc.

    End Homelessness | Change.org

    • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
      Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
    • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
      This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
    • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
      What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
    • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
      Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
    • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
      Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

    Ceasefire.ca

    Kevin Trudeau Show

    • The Correct, Easy Way To Make Green Smoothies ...
      April 3, 2012 Natural News By Paul Fassa “Adding green super food smoothies to your diet is a great thing to do for your health. There are many amazing benefits of adding more green vegetables in your diet and making smoothies is an easy way to get them in your tummy.” –KTRN Du ...
    • Pfizer Execs To Stand Trial For Cover-Up Of Dr ...
      April 3, 2012 Natural News By Ethan A. Huff “Here is more proof that drug companies are evil to the core.”  –KTRN Four former executives at Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drug company. — Henry McKinnell, John LaMattina, Karen Katen, Joseph Feczko — as well a ...
    • Three Benefits Of Dark Chocolate That Will Hel ...
      April 3, 2012 Natural News By Celeste M. Smucker, MPH, PhD “More evidence that chocolate is quite healthy. But don’t confuse real chocolate over the garbage called Hershey’s.” –KTRN The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that 68 percent of adults over the age ...
    • McDonald’s Stock Slides As More Consumers Turn ...
      April 3, 2012 The Onion By The Onion “Even though this is satire, The Onion nailed it – McDonald’s does not serve real food.” –KTRN The McDonald’s Corporation announced Tuesday that it will close 175 restaurants and cut nearly 600 corporate jobs, responding to ...
    • Ron Paul Is Trying To Save GOP From Themselves
      April 3, 2012 RT By RT “Ron Paul may be the only one who can save the GOP. The party is in complete turmoil these days.” –KTRN Presidential hopeful Ron Paul might not represent what his Republican rivals are touting this election year, but the Texas congressman says that he won ...

    Armies of Liberation

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

    Dark Politricks

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

    Dandelion Salad

    • Daughter of Billionaire GOP Donor Sheldon Adel ...
      Dandelion Salad Aug 30, 2012 by democracynow DemocracyNow.org – When Democracy Now! senior producer Mike Burke attempted to interview billionaire casino magnate and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson inside the Republican National Convention, a woman identified as Adelson’s daughter gr ...
    • Daughter of Billionaire GOP Donor Sheldon Adel ...
      Dandelion Salad Aug 30, 2012 by democracynow DemocracyNow.org – When Democracy Now! senior producer Mike Burke attempted to interview billionaire casino magnate and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson inside the Republican National Convention, a woman identified as Adelson’s daughter gr ...
    • Ralph Nader: Paul Ryan’s Speech: Decepti ...
      Dandelion Salad with Ralph Nader Aug 29, 2012 by WSJDigitalNetwork Former Independent Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader criticizes Paul Ryan’s speech at the 2012 RNC Convention in Tampa, calling it deceptive, contradictory and hypocritical. Photo: Getty Images. Ralph Nader Reacts to Paul ...
    • Ralph Nader: Paul Ryan’s Speech: Decepti ...
      Dandelion Salad with Ralph Nader Aug 29, 2012 by WSJDigitalNetwork Former Independent Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader criticizes Paul Ryan’s speech at the 2012 RNC Convention in Tampa, calling it deceptive, contradictory and hypocritical. Photo: Getty Images. Ralph Nader Reacts to Paul ...
    • Sibel Edmonds: The United States of Terrorism
      by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post Aug. 22, 2012 Last Thursday, one day before leaving the sin city, in our temporary suitcase-filled rental apartment, I gave an interview to Lew Rockwell on Classified Woman and much more. I say much more ...

    Your New Reality

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

    Wired - Science

    • 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.

    Israeli Occupation Archive

    • Stephen Zunes: California state assembly seeks ...
      The California State Assembly has just passed a bipartisan resolution (HR 35) by voice vote which constitutes a serious attack on academic freedom and the rights of students and faculty to raise... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
    • Probing the bureaucracy of occupation
      Yael Berda: "The administrative flexibility, waste of resources and the frequent administrative friction that is part of granting work permits leads to two desired results in the governmental system.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
    • Rachel Corrie ruling ‘deeply troubling’, says ...
      Attorney Hussein Abu Hussein: "This verdict is yet another example of where impunity has prevailed over accountability and fairness. Rachel Corrie was killed while non-violently protesting home... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
    • Lia Tarachansky: “Phantom Control” – Israel’s ...
      In recent years Israel's control over the Palestinian people in the occupied territories has changed. While the presence of the Israeli army has been greatly reduced, the occupation has taken a more... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
    • Yitzhak Laor: Apologize to Vanunu
      A nuclear demilitarization of the Middle East is the answer to the Israelis greatest quandary. The validity of this demand has never been more clear. The religion that has developed here - the basic... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

    Ria Novosti - Military

    • 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 ...
    • Millionaire’s Draftee Sons Dig Own Graves at G ...
      Estonia’s Defense Ministry is looking into a hazing report of two draftee brothers forced to dig their own graves at night, the Postimees daily said on Thursday.
    • Uzbekistan Bans Foreign Military Bases
      Uzbekistan has said it will not host any foreign military bases or other military objects on its soil, Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov said on Thursday before the Senate.
    • No Plans to Suspend Mistral Deal over Syria – ...
      France will not use a $1.2 billion contract to build Mistral class amphibious assault ships for the Russian Navy to put pressure on Moscow over the Syrian issue, the country’s foreign minister said on Wednesday.
    • U.S. Hails Russia’s Readiness for Nuclear Cuts
      The United States welcomes Moscow’s willingness to further reduce nuclear weapons and reiterates that American missile shield in Europe is not aimed against Russia, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State said.

    NewsWise

    • Urinary Protein Excretion - Even in the Normal ...
      * For patients with type 2 diabetes, any degree of measurable urinary protein excretion--even in what is considered the normal range--increases their risk of experiencing heart problems. * Many patients with type 2 diabetes may benefit from cardioprotective medications. More than 300 million ...
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      A monoclonal antibody developed by MassBiologics of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) and tested in an animal model at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, prevents infection by the hepatitis C virus (HCV).
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    Climategate

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    Opinio Juris

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    Public News Service

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    Center for Food Safety

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