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Thomas Paine

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Friday, August 31, 2012

31 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

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

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Bing continues to expand Facebook integration ...
    Bing has added a new feature which allows users to search through their friends’ Facebook photos directly within the search engine. Users can access this through the Bing social sidebar or at www.bing.com/friendsphotos. With a reported 300 million photos uploaded to … Continue readin ...
  • Facebook careers: FBX, financial planning, int ...
    Facebook added 11 new positions to its careers page this week, including a second opening focused on the Facebook Exchange program (FBX). The company is also looking for more vertical-specific account managers, software and hardware engineers, as well as a … Continue reading →
  • Facebook hires: data center technicians, recru ...
    Facebook removed 14 job listings from its careers page this week, likely after making hires in the areas of infrastructure, recruiting, sales and marketing, design and account management. New hires according to LinkedIn: David Zhang, Software Engineer – former software development … ...
  • Facebook may soon allow ad targeting by email, ...
    Facebook appears to be preparing an option for advertisers to target users by email address, user ID or phone number, based on an option that was temporarily visible in the Power Editor tool. Sources familiar with Facebook’s ad plans previously … Continue reading →
  • Rockstar Games, Farmville Neighbours, EA Sport ...
    Rockstar Games is this week’s top gaining page in the People Talking About This metric among games and toy pages. The top 10 pages gaining People Talking About This saw increases between 37,765 and 98,203 engagements. We compile this list … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Israeli expansionism versus imaginary Palestin ...
    Jamal Kanj argues that Israeli expansionism and Western connivance with and complacency towards Israel's land grabbing - not the Palestinian quest for state recognition at the UN - are the real obstacles to peace in the Middle East.
  • Domestic terrorism American style
    Lawrence Davidson analyses the roots of domestic American terrorism, racism and bigotry, arguing that what is needed now is "consistent educational and legal pressure against racist behaviour both in terms of individual and institutional behaviour", or else the US will become as racist and bigot ...
  • Restoring Syria's uprising to the Syrian people
    Jamal Kanj warns against the creeping hijacking of the the Syrian people's fight for freedom by foreign powers with ulterior motives, and argues that "widespread civil disobedience exposing the brutal Assad regime and shifting the centre of power back to the home-based opposition is Syria's last ...
  • Ayn Rand, the preacher of selfishness inspirin ...
    Uri Avnery views the philosophy of Ayn Rand, the inspiration behind US Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan. A Jewish White Russian preacher of extreme selfishness, Rand, who has become the darling of Tea Party fanatics, was also an unabashed racist who believed that the Arab-Israeli ...
  • By way of deception Israel trying to drag US i ...
    Jamal Kanj argues that "leaked" Israeli information on plans to attack Iran are intended to drag the USA into a new Middle East quagmire through committing aggression against Iran on the eve of the American presidential election.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 17, ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Mali, Al Qaeda, and the US Neo-Colonial Agenda
    Recent developments in Mali illustrate both the way in which the Unites States and its Western allies directly project military and political power, as well as the role of terrorism as a necessary pretext for imperialist, neo-colonial domination. Beginning with the establishment of AFRICOM (US A ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Smokey Robinson- “Quiet Storm” It’s been over a half year now of Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol Music Pick. A lot of Saturday-night listening to an eclectic selection of music here at BFP. I hope you have enjoyed my selections (and the requests) so far. This weeks pick is al ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    From Indignados to Occupy The Indignados movement was sparked in Spain on May 15, 2011. In part inspired by the Arab Spring, young Spaniards, who face a 46% unemployment rate, occupied the Puerta del Sol in Madrid for several weeks, protesting against the socio-political and economic system that ...
  • The Template: NATO Consolidates Grip on Former ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization chieftain Anders Fogh Rasmussen has spent much of the past week in the former Yugoslavia, visiting Slovenia and Croatia on July 5 and 6, respectively, then arriving in Kosovo with the 28 members of the North Atlantic Council on July 11. Twenty years after NATO ...

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Dear Corporation
    A letter with scathing sarcasm and dry humor aimed at the corporate personhood debacle.
  • The War-Making Power of Baby Fears
    Much is said and written about fear, yet seldom is it traced to its irrational psychological core. To overcome this inner fear, we have to see its existence in our psyche instead of denying it or trying to justify it by imagining Armageddon or "seeing" evil intent in others. Deeper insight makes ...
  • Circus Shenanigans in Tampa
    Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey calls theirs "the greatest show on earth." Politics in America combines sham with show me the money.
  • Israeli Court Legitimizes Murder
    Cindy and Craig Corrie hoped for better. So did sister Sarah. The world knows Israel murdered their daughter, Rachel, in cold blood. On August 28, Israeli justice ruled otherwise.
  • Chris Christie at the Republican National Conv ...
    Tonight, Chris Christie and the Republicans told the American people that we're to blame for our broken economy. He told families to tighten their belts. He told seniors to live on less. He told teachers to stop fighting for fair pay.

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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Climate Change Is Funny As Shit! Especially o ...
    The Republican Party of 2012, defined: President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet.  [Pause.  Laughter.]  MY promise…is to help you and your family. The smarmy-even-for-Romney delivery and the audience reaction made it even worse than it looked on p ...
  • Thursday Afternoon Poll Blogging
    As Erik points out, Silver has positive news for Obama in Ohio.  Much of this optimism hangs on the house effect of the recent Gravis Marketing poll; measuring and adjusting for house effects can be a bit of an art.  House effects can also vary from election to election, which to my mind makes r ...
  • Eastwood As Director
    Given the discussion Erik’s post below is likely to stimulate, I thought I’d go back to our archives for an 2004 post about Eastwood as a director, lost in our archive shift but now made available to you, our faithful readers, in a special limited edition lovongly curated by Ridely S ...
  • Eastwood
    I always thought Clint Eastwood was the genial, George H.W. Bush type of Republican voter. Didn’t care much about the social issue stuff, didn’t much care to pay taxes, bought into his own character, whatever. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe he’s actually the type of Republican wh ...
  • Safety and the NFL Referee Lockout
    Travis Waldron has a very good piece up at Think Progress about the referee lockout and player safety. The National Football League Players Association, a year removed from being locked out by NFL owners, are monitoring the NFL’s current lockout of the league’s officials for its ramifications on ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • THE CONNECTED LAWYER: Religion, politics and s ...
    Are politics and religion appropriate topics that lawyers should openly discuss over social media?
  • Disbarment recommended in failure to disclose ...
    California's State Bar Court has recommended that an attorney in Anaheim be disbarred for having sex at his office with an underage employee and then failing to tell his clients about his subsequent suspension from practicing law.
  • Students to monitor protesters, police when De ...
    Classes will be cancelled next week at the Charlotte School of Law when the Democratic National Convention rolls into town, but that doesn't mean students will be relaxing. About 40 will don neon green hats and keep an eye on police and protesters during the convention.
  • Attorney disbarred for posing as former colleague
    The South Carolina Supreme Court has disbarred a lawyer who, while suspended from practice, posed as an attorney who had clerked at the wrongdoer's former firm.
  • Your Baby Can Read! promoters settle false adv ...
    Your baby cannot read — at least, not according to the Federal Trade Commission, which has announced a settlement of claims that the advertisements behind the Your Baby Can Read! program were false and based on unsubstantiated scientific studies.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Germany May Need to Slow Its Shift to Green En ...
    Germany’s environment minister said Tuesday that the country might have to slow its shift to renewable energy to quell concerns about rising consumer costs. A year after the government decided to phase out nuclear power following Japan’s Fukushima disaster, Germany has indeed been ab ...
  • Desalination Sector Surges as Technology Impro ...
    A new report predicts that global investment in water desalination projects will triple over a five-year period from 2011 to 2016, driven by improvements in technology and a surge in companies entering the sector. According to Global Water Intelligence, investments in desalination plant installa ...
  • Bolivia’s Battle: A Road or a Way of Life?
    In an e360 video report, Noah Friedman-Rudovsky explores how a highway proposed through the heart of the Bolivian national park known as TIPNIS will affect local indigenous communities.
  • In Bolivia, A Battle Over A Highway and a Way ...
    Growing conflicts over development in South America have come to a head in Bolivia, where indigenous groups are resisting a highway project that would slice through a national park. How Bolivia resolves this showdown could point the way for other regions seeking to balance economic growth and th ...
  • Drought Conditions Trigger Smallest Gulf ‘Dead ...
    U.S. scientists say the nation’s worst drought in five decades has had at least one positive effect: the smallest so-called “dead zone” seen in the Gulf of Mexico in years. In a 1,200-mile research cruise conducted in the NASA. Algal blooms in the Gulf of Mexico waters of the gulf this mo ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Man Builds Himself Bionic Hands After Losing B ...
    You may wonder how did he make himself a pair of bionic hands when he actually doesn’t have hands. Well, he just did it. He named Sun Jifa, a 51-year-old Chinese man who lost both hands when he was building a bomb for blast fishing. Since the prosthetic limbs would cost a fortune, he decided to ...
  • Ecuador grants Assange asylum; UK vows to ‘car ...
    Ecuador’s foreign minister announced on Thursday that the country would grant asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, defying threats by the British government to storm the Ecuadorean Embassy and extradite Assange to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning in cases of alleged rape and sex ...
  • Holder went on ‘Reefer Madness’-like campaign ...
    In late 2011, Attorney General Eric Holder authorized raids against marijuana dispensaries in California, where medicinal marijuana is legal, in an effort to create a distraction from the congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious, a new book set for release Tuesday claims. “Eri ...
  • Peace Laureates Call on NBC to Cancel New Show ...
    Critics say show promotes an “inglorious tradition of glorifying war and armed violence” Nine Nobel Peace Laureates on Monday joined a growing chorus of critics calling on NBC entertainment to cancel the new “reality” show—“Stars Earn Stripes”—saying that “war isn’t entertainment” and challenged ...
  • Why Do Koalas Have Human Fingerprints?
    Some accuse evolution of being pretty directionless. After all, the whole process involves random genetic mutations. But if evolution is just a toss of a million-sided die, why do so many animals turn out eerily similar? Nope, it’s not intelligent design. We take a look at the creepy look-alikes ...

Russia Today

  • Humanitarian aid to Syria must be neutral - Ru ...
    Some of the proposals for solving the humanitarian crisis in Syria voiced at a United Nations Security Council meeting Thursday do not fully comply with the principles of neutrality and impartiality, Russian envoy... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • RuPad: Russia to produce its own tablet computer
    Russians will soon be able to buy domestically-manufactured tablet computers. The gadget will be equipped with its own Android-esque operating system, which, unlike its American counterpart, will not be sending private... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • France and UK ‘not ruling out’ Syrian no-fly zone
    Britain and France are "not ruling out" the possibility of enforcing a no-fly zone over Syria. However, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague says such a move would require military intervention, and is unlikely to get... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Real Terminator Eye: First-ever bionic implant ...
    For the first time ever, scientists have given a previously blind woman sight by way of a bionic eye. The Australian-designed implant, which resembles the model worn by Arnie in The Terminator, is likely to transform... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Germany backs law that would charge Google for ...
    The German cabinet backed a draft law requiring Google and other news aggregators to pay for summarized information they display before linking to a source – a move that has outraged the Internet giant, politicians and... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • NMT’s friendly coverage of the lovely An ...
    First we have Ann and son speaking up for themselves… Ann and Craig Romney – We're an immigrant family but not latino -Aren’t they both just lovely? And then we also have this miserable stinking PERVERT Democrat speaking about Ann… Loco Mama on ANN ROMNEY! _____ I re ...
  • Time For a Raise!
    What’s stopping our nation’s business class pigs who rule over the rest of us? It’s time for a raise! Demand a Higher Minimum Raise Now
  • Bully cops of LA get caught beating up a 5&#82 ...
    Apparently nothing much has changed in Los Angeles from the days of their assault on Rodney King. Cop culture in the US is much like soldier culture in the US. Both are atrocity prone. Brutal LAPD arrest of Michelle Jordan
  • Todd Akin vesus Barack Obama on Rape
    Politics is never very pretty… Rape is Rape … Except When You're a Female Detainee- When Obama Whitewashed Rape
  • US, Britain, France, and Germany versus Russia ...
    Those Americans who tend to see the Syria battle out of its geo-politcal context are playing stupid and mainly fooling only themselves. Here from a news report… ‘Another item which the two leaders will most likely discuss is how Russia and China may protect themselves from a network ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • C2CAM - 9-11 Truth - Coast To Coast AM
    9/11 material starts at 0:39:27 Published on Jul 17, 2012 by Boomdaddy03 CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE LATEST UPDATED VIDEO THAT CAME OUT TODAY http://www.youtube.com/user/Boomdaddy03 Subscribe To Get Notified Of The Latest Releases As They Come Out http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add ...
  • 9/11 Free Fall-- Graeme MacQueen Interview (8/ ...
    Published on Aug 26, 2012 by Free Fall Following up last week's show, which covered reports of explosions at the World Trade Center on 9/11, Bernie and Andy's guest this week is Graeme MacQueen-- widely respected peace activist, and the author of various 9/11 related papers, including "118 Wit ...
  • COME TO NEW YORK THIS SEPTEMBER
    It's been 11 years since nearly 3 thousand people were murdered that tragic day in New York City. Officially they say 19 Muslims hijacked planes and attacked us because they hate our freedoms. However, since 2001 there have been many questions that have been raised and not answered. The 9/11 Com ...
  • Excerpt from Jesse Ventura's New Book 'DemoCRI ...
    Yes, Ventura has endorsed the theory that Directed Energy Weapons were used to demolish the buildings on 9/11 and the theory that the plane that hit the Pentagon actually flew over it while a bomb exploded, and no he doesn't always have all his facts as straight as we like around here. That ...
  • "9/11: Experts Speak Out" Premieres in Texas T ...
    When: Saturday, August 18, 2012, 7:00pm (MDT), with encore airings on Channel 12.1. Live Streaming and Details: Of special interest, CPT12 will be streaming this important event over the internet through Sunday, September 2, 2012 at: www.cpt12.org/911ExplosiveEvidence. Details of encore airings ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Yanomami Indians 'massacred' by goldminers in ...
    Survivors of Brazil's 1993 Haximu massacre hold urns containing the ashes of their relatives. Goldminers killed 16 Yanomami in the attack.© C Zacquini/ SurvivalGoldminers in Venezuela have carried out a ‘massacre’ of isolated Yanomami Indians, according to reports received by Su ...
  • Dongria's message to Vedanta ahead of AGM: "We ...
    The Dongria Kondh have vowed to defend their sacred mountain from being mined for bauxite. © Lewis Davids/SurvivalAhead of the AGM of Vedanta Resources in London today, India’s Dongria Kondh tribe has sent a strong message to the company’s chairman Anil Agarwal. ‘Even if Anil ...
  • Paraguay’s government confirms Spanish tycoon’ ...
    Jacinto Rey González is President of a ranching firm which has been illegally destroying the Ayoreo's land.© AnonAccusations that a ranching company owned by one of Spain’s richest men illegally bulldozed forest inhabited by uncontacted Indians have been upheld by the Paraguayan authorities ...
  • Nasa spiritual leader shot dead at point blank ...
    Nasa Indians in Colombia have been caught in the violent crossfire of Colombia's military and illegal armed groups© Francisco PedroA 74-year-old Nasa Indian leader has been shot dead following protests against the militarization of his land in Cauca, south-west Colombia. Lisandro Tenorio, ...
  • Proof ‘Death Road’ will destroy Peru’s unconta ...
    Tomas was contacted over ten years ago. He lives close to the proposed ‘Road of Death.’© David Hill/SurvivalControversial plans to build a ‘Road of Death’ through Peru’s Amazon have been dealt a severe blow after authorities confirmed uncontacted tribes do live along its proposed route. This la ...

Greg Palast

  • Billionaires & Ballot Bandits
    by Greg Palast If you're not sick and outraged and ready to vomit, then don't talk to me. When I see a cruel bucket of garbage and winky-winky racism and bullshit and venom like Paul Ryan talk to America like he's some kind of Boy Scout, I want a gun, or a TV network where I can [...]
  • RNC Opens with Pol who "Should be in Jail"
    by Greg Palast for Truth-out.org "Tim Griffin should be in jail." That's the conclusion of civil rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after going through the evidence I asked him to review. But Griffin's not in jail: he's in Congress. And Tuesday, he'll be the first Congressman the Republican ...
  • Fukushima: They Knew
    "Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN by Greg Palast for FreePress.org I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant: Wiesel w ...
  • Why We Occupy - Greg Palast Live!
    Get the DVD of Greg Palast LIVE from the Vultures' Picnic speaking tour. Undercover at the Vultures' Picnic, Greg Palast rips the sheets off the One Percent. Palast shows you the documents marked "secret" and "confidential" from the files of Chevron, Goldman Sachs, Koch Industries, the IMF, WTO ...
  • 7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Bandits
    Print me out, use me, spread me around! 7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Bandits 1. Don’t Don’t DON’T Mail In Your Ballot For those of you who mailed in your ballot, please tell me, what happened to it? You don’t know, do you? I can tell you that in the last election, half a million absentee ballots ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • The Pain You Can’t See
    By Natalie Palumbo Early in the summer, I received a letter notifying me that my school district was honoring me for ‘My Career Dreams’ poster during the June district meeting. My entry for the National Career Development Poster Contest had...
  • Yahoo News "Can You Prevent Autism" Mentions P ...
    Managing Editor's note: Valerie Isakova, Yahoo Shine Parenting Editor had a "home page" feature yesterday called, "Can you prevent autism?" which naturally caught my eye. I clicked into the article expected to see simply the word, "NO." To my surprise,...
  • De Novo Mutations and Autism
    By Teresa Conrick It's been all over the news and it really is NOT NEW news. The idea of paternal age and these "de novo mutations" has been one of the many exaggerated "THE reason" studies for Autism over the...
  • Amy Wallace and Thomas Goetz: Wired to Pharma
    By Jake Crosby Considering the abuse I sustained from millionaire vaccine industrialist Paul Offit last spring, I am continually amazed at the contrast between who he really is and the fairy tale humanitarian our pharma-controlled media make him out to...
  • Age of Autism Contest: OurKidsASD Autism Suppl ...
    Our good friends from Lee Silsby Compounding Pharmacy and OurKidsASD are offering you a chance to try two popular and useful products for back to school for free in this latest contest. Leave a comment to win a bottle of...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Japan to hold first talks with North Korea in ...
    Guardian – Officials from Japan and North Korea are holding their first government-to-government talks in four years, amid hopes that the new North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, will adopt a less confrontational approach to relations between his isolated, impoverished communist state and the ...
  • Five Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan
    BBC – Five Australian soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan in two separate incidents, defence officials say. Three soldiers were killed by a man in Afghan army uniform in Uruzgan province on Wednesday, the latest in a series of so-called “green-on-blue” attacks. In a separa ...
  • U.S. drone strike kills “suspected&#8221 ...
    Reuters – A U.S. drone attack killed at least four suspected Islamist militants in a car in a remote province of Yemen, a security official said. The official, who did not want to be named, said the vehicle was struck in the al-Qatn district of the vast Hadramout province in eastern Yemen. ...
  • France confirms it is working to establish buf ...
    Telegraph – As government forces launched a devastating aerial and artillery assault on the eastern outskirts of Damascus, Francois Hollande, the French president, declared on Monday night that he and his international partners were closer than ever before to a formal intervention in Syria ...
  • Five Australian soldiers killed in Afghan inci ...
    Reuters – Australia suffered its worst combat losses since the Vietnam War when five troops were killed in Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday, prompting Prime Minister Julia Gillard to return home early from a regional Pacific leaders’ conference. Officials from the Australian D ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
  • Tibetan singer detained and tortured
    25-year-old singer, Ugyen Tenzin, was detained last month soon after the release of his album titled, An Unending Flow of My Hearts Blood,.Unconfirmed reports said that Ugyen Tenzin has been beaten in custody and disabled a month after album released Submitted by Red Thorvenkiold to World &nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • [Correspondence] Pazopanib for metastatic soft ...
    In the PALETTE trial (May 19, p 1879), Winette van der Graaf and colleagues report that pazopanib increases progression-free survival in patients with metastatic soft-tissue sarcoma. They claim the results are relevant for patients with any type of non-adipogenic soft-tissue sarcoma; however, de ...
  • [Seminar] Hodgkin's lymphoma in adults
    Management of Hodgkin's lymphoma continues to develop. Outcomes for patients with favourable-risk, early-stage disease are excellent, and serial reductions in intensity of treatment have been made to retain the excellent prognosis while reducing the late effects of treatment. Prognosis is also v ...
  • No more sneezing, allergen free house plants
    New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Plant Biology shows how targeting two bacterial genes into an ornamental plant (Pelargonium), can produce long-lived and pollen-free plants.
  • MEDLINE READYBATH LUXE ANTIBACTERIAL FORMULA ( ...
    Updated Date: Aug 30, 2012 EST
  • Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome Kills Two In Yos ...
    Four cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome have been identified so far at Yosemite National Park, two of the infected people have died, according to an announcement by the National Park Service Office of Public Health. All the current infections occurred in people who visited that park in June ...

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

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

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Media Scoundrels Promote Permanent Wars
    by Stephen Lendman Real journalists report issues responsibly. Scoundrels operate by different rules. They play lead US imperial roles. Without them, pretexts for war wouldn't matter. Selling them depends on widespread dissemination. Messages not heard don't exist. Regurgitating officia ...
  • Israeli Soldiers Break Silence
    by Stephen Lendman 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. Their testimonies expose "the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories." Their purp ...
  • Settler Attacks on Palestinians
    by Stephen Lendman Last February, a Jerusalem Fund/Palestine Center (PC) report titled "When Settlers Attack" discussed data collected from 2004 to 2011. It includes over 3,700 separate incidents. It explains when, how, and why they occur. PC discovered a disturbing increase in violence. ...
  • Global Peace and Security: President Obama and ...
    Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. The Obama’s presidency was seen a fantasy to the centuries old white legacy of the White House. The power and its glorification associated with the White House have not resulted in any ground breaking discoveries even after Obama’s entry to the Washington la ...
  • Circus Shenanigans in Tampa
    by Stephen Lendman Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey calls theirs "the greatest show on earth." Politics in America combines sham with show me the money. Republicans got first dibs. Their version of politics US-style hits Tampa from August 27 - 30. Mother nature had first say. Isaac's ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • A Sustainable Vision for Our Community: Altern ...
    A Sustainable Vision for our Community: Alternative Municipal Budget for the Halifax Regional Municipality is the culmination of a collaborative effort involving more than 20 individuals from academia, the non-profit sector and labour organizations. The Alternative Budget contains 65 action item ...
  • Next Up: Calling young leaders in Vancouver, E ...
    Next Up taking applications for 2012/13 programs in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Saskatoon Next Up -- A leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice Next Up is an amazing, intensive and transformative program for young social change activists between the ...
  • Bargaining Power and Job Quality in the United ...
    The age and educational attainment of the US workforce have increased significantly since 1979.  Since older and better educated workers generally have higher pay and better benefits, one might expect a greater share of workers to be in good jobs today compared to 30 years ago. In a Center ...
  • Crime and Declining Unionization
    In an article entitled "Crime and the Decline of Unions," economics professors Robert Baumann and Bryan Engelhardt of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts estimate the elasticity of crime with respect to union membership.  They contend that the drop in US union membersh ...
  • Final Report Released on CAW-CEP New Union Project
    The final report of the proposal committee for a new union combining the CAW and CEP contains many intriguing ideas, not least being the 5 regional councils, funded by a separate per capita levy, that give the new union the feel of a labour central.  All local unions in each region will be ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Lawless America: Attorney General Eric H. Hold ...
    No Charges Filed on Harsh Tactics Used by the C.I.A. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced Thursday that no one would be prosecuted for the deaths of a prisoner in Afghanistan in 2002 and another in Iraq in 2003, eliminating the last possibility that any criminal charges will be brought ...
  • WWH/CJE Friday News Briefs
    Two more Yosemite visitors stricken with deadly virus (Reuters) – Two more visitors to Yosemite National Park have been diagnosed with a deadly rodent-borne virus, raising the total number of people infected in the unusual outbreak to six, California public health officials said Thursday. ...
  • US Child Farmworkers Left Behind
    By  Grace Meng,Human Rights Watch – Any American who has turned on the news lately could watch many young immigrants taking a first step toward the American dream. The Department of Homeland Security began taking applications on Aug. 15 for “deferred action for childhood arrivals,&#8 ...
  • Brooklyn Democrat Vito J. Lopez, is a Scum Bag!
    By RICK DEWSBURY,dailymail.co.uk - ’I'd like it better if you didn’t have a bra on’: Five women allege sexual harassment by New York lawmaker Vito J. Lopez, 71, only hired ‘attractive females’ Asked one to wear a ‘button down top to see cleavage A powerful New ...
  • Victims as ‘seducers’ Father Bened ...
    By CASSANDRA GARRISON,metro.us – The Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, the order to which Father Benedict Groeschel belongs, is not planning to reprimand him for expressing sympathy for convicted child sex abuser Jerry Sandusky making comments about pedophilia victims seducing their abuser ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Carbon Trading & Thorium Reactors
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer two viewer questions. The first is on California’s upcoming carbon trading markets, which includes a discussion on resource shuffling. The second question is on the potential of thorium nuclear reactors. Readers who have specifi ...
  • What Mitt Romney’s Energy Plan Should Look Like
    Following Mitt Romney’s release of his energy plan, I intended to offer a detailed critique. However, there are already numerous critiques out there that would not differ much from my own. My critique would have been a near mirror image of Michael Levi’s Pipe Dreams at Foreign Policy ...
  • Interview On My Energy Positions After ASPO 2011
    Following last year’s ASPO conference, I was interviewed by Aaron Wissner of Local Future, which is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to issues of energy, the environment, and sustainability. Aaron just made that interview available, and instead of an R-Squared Energy TV epis ...
  • Why Sugarcane Bagasse is the Most Promising Pa ...
    The history of cellulosic ethanol is a lot longer than most people probably realize. The Germans first commercialized cellulosic ethanol production from wood in 1898. The technology was commercialized in the U.S. in 1910, when Standard Alcohol Company built a cellulosic ethanol plant in South Ca ...
  • How Ethanol and the Chevron Refinery Fire Impa ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer two gasoline-related questions. One is on how ethanol is impacting current gasoline prices, and whether that increases the chances of a waiver for this year’s Renewable Fuel Standard. The other is on the impact of the Chevron re ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • ScootPad :: Practice. Learn. Succeed.
    Comments:"Practice. Learn. Succeed. ScootPad is the ultimate way to master math and reading skills. Self-paced and personalized practice keeps kids engaged & challenged. Common Core aligned, real-time progress tracking & concept proficiency insigts, paperless homework....Best of all: FREE!" - La ...
  • LawForKids.org Home Page
    Tags: law, civics, interactive, governmentby: Lauri Brady
  • Learn More - ThingLink
    Tags: interactive, web2.0, media, technology, image, tag, thinglinkby: Carolyn Rains
  • Naiku Quick Question | Naiku
    Comments:Free site lets teachers conduct a variety of web-based assessments using any type of browser-equipped device. Very useful for formative assessment. - Randy RodgersTags: clickers, Teaching_Tools, polls, student_response, assessment, Online_Learning_Environments, formative_assessment, for ...
  • 18+ Videos Suggested for Back to School Facult ...
    Comments:"This post could be almost infinite: there is most certainly an extraordinary array of options for videos which expand educators’ understandings and inspire advances in 21st century learning.  But curation is about choice and selection, and while I know I will leave out many, I thought ...

Rodale News

  • The Top Natural Treatments for Lyme Disease
    Lyme disease is a complicated infection, tough to diagnose and even harder to treat if doctors miss an early diagnosis, which is all too often the case. Lyme disease treatment is tricky because the most popular blood tests used in most doctors' offices to detect the disease miss about 55 percen ...
  • The Most Toxic Pesticide You'll Soon Be Eating
    So-called "superweeds" are taking over American farmland. Impervious to chemical herbicides, like Roundup (the most widely used herbicide in the U.S.), these weeds don't die when exposed to chemicals. Instead, they just grow taller and thicker and become so sturdy, they've been known ...
  • How Your Parents' Diet Could Help You Lose Weight
    The generation that spawned Woodstock and free love didn't completely abandon its ideals during the "Me Decade" of the '80s. Baby boomers are among the nation's largest percentage of vegetarians, according to a recent survey out from the Vegetarian Resource Group. The survey, given t ...
  • It's OK To Visit Jamba Juice, Thanks to This 1 ...
    How do you get a huge fast-food chain to make a major shift in its environmental policies? Sick a precocious, Internet-savvy 10-year-old on it, and just wait for it to see the error of its ways. It worked in California! One day this past summer, Mia Hansen's mom took her to Jamba Juice, her fa ...
  • The Medicine Cabinet Item That's Making You Fat
    For decades, nonorganic farmers have been using a feeding trick that speeds the growth of animals. Now, in a first-of-its-kind study, scientists have figured out that the same medicine cabinet staples used to fatten up livestock—antibiotics—could be making people obese, too. Antibiotics and obe ...

big think

  • Gall Me Maybe: Mitt’s Terrible Night
    I have a lot to complain about, but let’s start with my three favorite moments from the final night of the Republican National Convention: 1. In an excellent biographical video that lent a human face to the humanoid Mitt Romney, we saw scenes of the Republican nominee playing delightedly with ...
  • Daniel Kahneman: Why Moving to California Won’ ...
    What’s the Big Idea?  According to Nobel prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman, we humans are very poor decision makers when it comes to our own happiness. The problem begins with language. We use the word happiness, Kahneman says, to refer to two very different and often mutually . ...
  • Was Van Gogh Color Blind?
    If there’s any artist who ever lived and knew color in his soul, it was Vincent Van Gogh. Almost mad with color, Van Gogh owned a box of different-colored yarn just so he could tangibly handle color and literally weave them together to determine how the combinations might look when put into pain ...
  • For Better Sensory Input, Get Some (Artificial ...
    Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? Sensor system design is going in a new direction by taking a page from the animal world: Scientists participating in the Biotact project studied various rodents to examine how whiskers worked and then creat ...
  • You're Much Too Heavy For This Scale
    Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? Back when you were first learning about units of measurement, you probably didn't know about the dalton, which is used to indicate mass at the atomic level. It's also safe to guess that you didn't know abou ...

Information Liberation

  • This Is What Tampa Police "Trained To Act As T ...
    I heard a speech from the mayor in Tampa saying the police preparing for the RNC were "trained to act as tour guides." I ask you, do these look like any "tour guides" you've ever seen?...
  • Reich Here, Reich Now
    Well, why not? If there's a Blackhawk in your airspace, don't be alarmed now; it's just "urban warfare" training. That was the message issued to residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota by the local affiliate of the Homeland Security State...
  • 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...
  • DHS Amassing Arms for Secret Forces to be Used ...
    Major General Jerry Curry, who is a decorated combat veteran, Army Aviator, paratrooper and Ranger, has asked the question: *Who does the government intend to shoot?* In an op-ed piece, Curry brings up the strange purchases of hollow point bullets th...
  • Smartphone, Dumb Government
    Google's new Motorola unit had great ambitions to serve customers and keep dazzling us with ever more spectacular things that enhance our lives. After all, the smartphone is easily the greatest consumer innovation of our time, and maybe of all time. ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

  • The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic H ...
    Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. / by Richard Schmalensee and Robert N. Stavins http://bit.ly/QJcS5w [Abstract] Two decades have passed since the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 launched a grand experiment in market-based environmental policy: the SO2 cap-and-trade system. That syst ...
  • Revisiting Leopold: Resource Stewardship in th ...
    National Park System Science Board Advisory Committee http://www.nps.gov/calltoaction/PDF/LeopoldReport_2012.pdf [National Parks Traveler] Climate change, biodiversity, and the current state and understanding of ecosystem management all were unknown to A. Starker Leopold 50 years ago when he ove ...
  • Assessment of New York City Natural Gas Market ...
    ICF International for New York City Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/pdf/2012/icf_natural_gas_study.pdf [WNYC] As the state weighs whether to allow hydraulic fracturing, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has come out in favor of the controversial technique ...
  • Assumptions to Annual Energy Outlook 2012
    US Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/assumptions/ This report presents the major assumptions of the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) used to generate the projections in the Annual Energy Outlook 2012, including general features of the model ...
  • Carbon Tax Revenue and the Budget Deficit: A W ...
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change / by Sebastian Rausch and John Reilly http://globalchange.mit.edu/research/publications/2328 [Green Car Congress] A new report from MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change sugge ...

Scientific American - News

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Tout prisonnier est un prisonnier politique
    Un mémoire par Kelly Rose Pflug-Back, prisonnière du G20 Traduction de Every Prisoner is a Political Prisoner Ce jour du 27 juin 2010 était inhabituellement nuageux pour un milieu de l’été à Toronto. Je secouais ma tête de l'humi ...
  • An Injury to One: Why we all need to stand for ...
    (first published in Basics) When he arrived at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport 3 years ago, Santiago Escobar saw a large group of people who caught his attention.  From their clothing, resembling the traditional clothing of indigenous peoples of Central America, he assumed the ...
  • Alternative Media Centers at Summits and Spect ...
    This project is a comparison of alternative media centers (AMCs) set up as part of the 2010 anti-Olympic convergence in Vancouver and the anti-G-20 protests in Toronto in the same year. It is made up of two parts: a video and a pape ...
  • Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova S ...
    Group hopes budget will influence municipal council candidates, council discussions and upcoming budget In the heat of the municipal elections race, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS) revealed its first ever a ...
  • Painting the Lighthouse at Peggy's Cove: A Bea ...
    If you are a traveller who has been out to the East Coast recently you have probably stopped by Peggy's Cove to snap a picture of its famous lighthouse. If you have gone in the last year or two, you undoubtedly noticed the lighthouse ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Mooned... with aplogies to Neil Armstrong
    Mother of tidesThe great white kiteFloats gently cross the breathless nightGiant leaps are soon forgotten. David Seaton
  • Meditations on Republican craziness
    At the center of all the nuttiness of today’s Republicans is their bankrollers’ fear of regulation… The ceaseless culture warfare is merely a tactic to simultaneously attract and confuse a sufficient number of the ignorant to enable the “one-percenters” to paralyze the political process.Examined ...
  • The Rhymes of Ayn Rand and Ryan: tea for two
    In the withered heart of Any Rand’s world, the weak, the hungry, The violated, the broken, the disorganized are condemned, They have no brothers Unlettered children, tiny, lonely, light-starved beings, Like mushrooms fed on excrement, are free:  Free to sicken, free to die. In unhe ...
  • Of course the Democratic Party sucks... so what?
    My favorite description of the Democratic Party is Woody Allen's restaurant; you know the one, “such bad food and such small portions”.The American political system is corrupt and both political parties are part of the problem and in my opinion only a massive citizen’s movement similar to the Ci ...
  • The meaning of this year's election
    This year's presidential election is one of the most important in America's entire history and the reason is simple to the point of stark. It is all about who is going to fill any vacancies in the Supreme Court in the next four years.That simple.The Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Final Night Wrap-up: Kind of Blah
    I only watched the prime time coverage of the convention tonight, so I saw Clint Eastwood, Marco Rubio, and Mitt Romney but none of the other warmup acts. Clint Eastwood was....about the weirdest thing I've ever seen at a convention. (You can watch it here.) Marian and I were just staring at ...
  • When You Have No Hardship to Boast About, What ...
    Chris Hayes tweets: Amazed that the entire RNC theme is a sustain whine from successful people that the Pres hasn't given them enough credit for their success....And also this bizarre appropriation of the labor of previous generations. My grandfather owned a small business. He worked really ...
  • Will Mitt Romney Back Down Tonight on His Welf ...
    Anybody want to offer odds on whether Mitt Romney will repeat his dishonest welfare attack during his big prime time speech tonight? If he does, will he go the cowardly route and soften it up so that it's marginally defensible? Or will he have the guts to dive straight into the gutter and repe ...
  • Texas Voter ID Law Goes Down in Flames—For Now
    A three-judge federal court has just ruled that Texas's new voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act. Rick Hasen explains the decision (I've reformatted his explanation for ease of reading): This is a careful, unanimous opinion from a three-judge court which rejects most of the soci ...
  • The National Debt is a Problem, But Honestly, ...
    Are you worried about our soaring national debt? In the long term, you probably should be. Not because of the debt per se, but because the main cause of a skyrocketing national debt is a weak economy. So if our national debt really does keep going up sharply, it will be because our economy rem ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 344: Fuck France
    Topics: Kriss officially loses empathy Expendables 2 Michael Bay and the Ninja Turtle script WAS that bad Part 1 of Kev’s Europe Trip recap Share with your friends:
  • IC 343: nWFo
    Topics: Special Guests: Jaxx the Rapper, Rod & Karen from the Black Guy Who Tips The formation of the nWFO Lots and Lots of rants on everything from Politics to Rape to Rod complaining about women who fucked up his Fantasy Football bar nights Share with your friends:
  • IC 342: Land Sharks
    Topics: Ghostwriting You can’t force people to be activists Worse things than Kristen Stewart What Kevin Shouldn’t Do in Europe Shark Week Land Sharks The annoyance of politics Fix-a-Flat butt lifts Share with your friends:
  • IC 341: Moral High Horse Olympics
    Topics: Olympic fails Worst Olympic swimmer in history Domestic Violence CAN be funny Beware White Boys Bearing Drugs Shark Week Real Fear Factor The fear of prison rape keeps me out of prison Peeing in the pool Man beats woman with her dead dog Share with your friends:
  • IC 340: Double Trouble
    Topics: Olympic Taekwondo sucks Please don’t put MMA in the Olympics How Fox can (but won’t) use Days of Future Past to fix continuity Whedon back Warner Brothers and DC keep fucking up with the Justice League If you marry one conjoined twin…….. Pope says condoms are okay ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Shedding new light on one of diabetes' most da ...
    For many diabetics, monitoring their condition involves much more than adhering to a routine of glucose sensing and insulin injections. It also entails carefully monitoring the ongoing toll this disease takes on their body. read more
  • Increased sediment and nutrients delivered to ...
    Reservoirs near the mouth of the Susquehanna River just above Chesapeake Bay are nearly at capacity in their ability to trap sediment. As a result, large storms are already delivering increasingly more suspended sediment and nutrients to the Bay, which may negatively impact restoration efforts. ...
  • Viruses could be the key to healthy corals
    Corals are an invaluable part of the marine ecosystem, fostering biodiversity and protecting coastlines. But they're also increasingly endangered. Pathogenic bacteria, along with pollution and harmful fishing practices, are one of the biggest threats to the world's coral populations today. read ...
  • Biophysicists unravel secrets of genetic switch
    When an invading bacterium or virus starts rummaging through the contents of a cell nucleus, using proteins like tiny hands to rearrange the host's DNA strands, it can alter the host's biological course. The invading proteins use specific binding, firmly grabbing onto particular sequences of DNA ...
  • Information overload?
    "Information overload" may be an exaggerated way to describe today's always-on media environment. Actually, very few Americans seem to feel bogged down or overwhelmed by the volume of news and information at their fingertips and on their screens, according to a new Northwestern Univers ...

unEarthed

  • Judge Holds TVA Liable For Kingston Disaster
    But disastrous Senate bill would let utilities off the hook Kingston, TN coal ash spill In a stunning victory for victims of the 2008 Tennessee Valley Authori ...
  • Musicians Join Hit Parade As Mountain Heroes
    Warren Haynes, My Morning Jacket oppose mountaintop removal mining Guitarist Warren Haynes has joined the Mountain Heroes campaign. John Denver’s &ldquo ...
  • Unplugged: Stop Energy Hogs At The Border
    Earthjustice urges customs to act on noncompliant imports Courtesy: energyhog.org In June of 1976, the country had not yet marked its bicentennial. Gerald For ...
  • Age Of Extreme Energy Needs Extreme Caution
    U.S. lax about chemicals used in oil and gas operations In April 2010, a national nightmare began with a blowout into the Gulf of Mexico. But the hundreds of millions of gallons of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill were just th ...
  • Feds About To Toss Wolves To The Hunters
    Wyoming gray wolves may lose endangered species protection The Associated Press reports that the federal government will abandon its protections for Wyoming wolv ...

Brave New Climate

  • 21st century nuclear… for beginners
    SACOME has put published a glossy portfolio edition of the 6-part series (9 pages in total) was done by me and Ben Heard for the SA Mines & Energy Journal – you may find this useful for family and friends! (some of these individual articles were already published on BNC and DecarboniseSA). T ...
  • Two books on sustainable nuclear energy
    This is a short post to alert BNC readers to a couple of important things. First, Tom Blees has now generously released the full text of his book “Prescription for the Planet” — it is available for free download here (or click image). So, if you own an iPad or other tablet, or ...
  • Talking turkey on nuclear $$ costs
    This the final article in the SA Mines & Energy Journal series on nuclear energy (issue 24, pg 34), about the economic bottom line for nuclear. Ben Heard, my co-author, has also blogged about this on DecarboniseSA. And if you want a second opinion on, read what Columbia University’s Je ...
  • Fit-for-service low-carbon electricity technol ...
    This article (by Barry Brook) was originally published on The Conversation website until the title: “Low-carbon electricity must be fit-for-service (and nuclear power is)“. You can wade through the 224 comments over there (if you dare…) See also the comment here by Keith Orchis ...
  • No easy substitutes for fossil fuels
    The following guest post is republished (with permission from the author) from Opinion Online. Tom Biegler, who wrote this piece, worked with Martin Nicholson and me on our 2010 Energy paper, How carbon pricing changes the relative competitiveness of low-carbon baseload generating technologies. ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Lyin’ Ryan
    I turned on my radio a few times today and it seems like ever single caller referred to Paul Ryan as “Lyin’ Ryan”. Since he is a liar, well, it seemed appropriate. I am not any fancy MSM reporter, I just call em as I see em. And of course All Facts Support My Positions…..
  • 21 to 31 Trillion Hidden In Tax Havens
    You want to know what the solution to all of America’s financial problems is? The answer is simple. Tax the rich. According to an article on Forbes the world’s rich have between 21 and 31 trillion dollars sitting in tax havens like the Cayman Islands, and Switzerland. Thirty trillion ...
  • Four Days Of Lying About Obama Almost Over
    I have watched part of the Republiscum convention and have one observation. It amazes me to see them lying so easily with a straight face. They just stand there an spew nonsense, and the “reporter” with the microphone just lets them spew the lies like they are nothing. If a Republica ...
  • A Republican Didn’t Like The Sign In My ...
    When I roll, I always have one of our RepublicansAreADisease.com sighs taped on the rear window of my car. I went to Office Depot to return some supplies yesterday and what appeared to be a Republican with his wife and teen age daughter were walking up to the car next to me. The Republican saw [...]
  • Michele Bachman Lying Again
    On Meet the Press Michele Bachman claims Republicans want women to make their own health care choices. Really? I guess unless their employer disagrees right Michele? Please media. The story is the fact that the Michele Bachman types get to lie repeatedly, and never have to pay a price. Time to d ...

Appalachia Rising

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

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  • In Corrie ruling, court calls nonviolent activ ...
    An Israeli judge claims activists who oppose house demolitions - and not those who demolish them - are the perpetrators of violence. The Israeli court system was, for a long time, the most successful fig leaf of the only Jewish state in the Middle East.  Now it has gone diving into the Hasbara m ...
  • Julian Assange and ‘The Women’s Is ...
    By Leehee Rothschild Rare are the cases in which an article and the advertisement accompanying it fit together. But in the case of a recent op-ed in The New York Times by Oliver Stone and Michael Moore, “Wikileaks and Free Speech,” the two make a perfect match. Julian Assange, founde ...
  • Breaking the Silence: IDF’s treatment of ...
    The following is a compendium of testimonies given by over thirty IDF soldiers who served in the West Bank and in and around the Gaza Strip in the years 2005-2011. Like previous publications by Breaking the Silence, it portrays daily events in the Occupied Territories. The testimonies in this an ...
  • A week in photos: August 22-29
  • For many Israelis, Rachel Corrie was a nuisance
    Since Rachel Corrie’s death, the Israeli establishment has been losing patience with activists of any kind. (This op-ed was originally published in The Guardian on August 29 here and in the print edition here) The state of Israel is not to blame for the death of Rachel Corrie – this is the ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • Spencer v. EMC- Because of the stumbling, bumb ...
    Because of the stumbling, bumbling, and general ineptitude of the mortgagee and its representatives, the appellant has managed to remain in the mortgaged premises without payment for over fifteen years after defaulting in 1997. While it therefore pains me deeply to do so, I concur in the reversa ...
  • The GOP Came To St. Petersburg….And Stif ...
    ST. PETERSBURG — The city is $5.2 million over budget this year, including nearly $600,000 in expenses for hosting a welcome party for the Republican National Convention. The tab comes after Mayor Bill Foster repeatedly declared that taxpayers wouldn’t be on the hook for the Sunday bash at ...
  • THE VIDEO THAT SHOWS THE REPUBLICANS CHEATING ...
    First this evening, I learned that after the republicon party turned my city into a warzone, a locked down camp, they are now stiffing my city with the bill….that’s right, they’re not paying. But just watch this video that shows the ReTHUGliCONs cheating (once again) in their o ...
  • Have You Become Sufficiently Disgusted By The ...
    I have been a registered Republican my entire life. I have become increasingly not just disappointed, but disgusted by what I see happening not just with politics in general, but with the Republican party in particular. The lies. The fraud. The blatant, abject, in your face corruption. The arrog ...
  • Can A Servicer Verify A Mortgage Foreclosure C ...
    Now, this case involves very basic 12 principles of agency law that have existed in our 13 state from the beginning of the time. And the 14 principle is simply this: If an agent is coming 15 into court to act on behalf of a principal, there 16 must be some consent of the principal [...]

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The Parallel Parliament

  • How Politics Changes Us (2)
    Seth Godin writes a blog. It’s always short and terse but carries nuggets within it. Here’s what he put out …Continue reading »
  • How Politics Changes Us (1)
    Last week there was a conversation stream going on among some on Twitter asking why it is that politics always …Continue reading »
  • My Own Stargate
    O the things I’ve learned in the last three days! My last post spoke of my loss of a few …Continue reading »
  • On Blood and Belonging
    It started out well enough. Jane and I had just finished sending my new book about London, Ontario to be …Continue reading »
  • An Open Letter To London’s New City Manager
    My London Free Press article of today – An open letter to City Manager Art Zuidema on his first week …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

  • Find A Compassionate Doctor To Help You Preven ...
    August 28, 2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Ever since the first vaccines – smallpox and rabies vaccines - one of the most serious complications of vaccination has been brain inflammation.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Brain inflammation can cause convulsions, also known as seizures.[8] Continuing seizures can ...
  • Doctors Slam Parents for Vaccine Choices & FDA ...
    Posted: 6/26/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was published in Pediatrics, a medical journal owned by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).[1 ...
  • Americans Fight for Vaccine Choices
    Posted: 5/14/2012 Philosophical Exemption To Vaccination Saved in Vermont! by Barbara Loe Fisher “I never thought this would turn into the mess it turned into.” – State Senator Kevin Mullin (R-Rutland), co-sponsor of a failed bill to eliminate philosophical exemption to vaccinat ...
  • The Vaccine Injured: Where Has Compassion Gone?
    Posted 12/08/2011 By Barbara Loe Fisher During this season of remembrance and thanksgiving, I am grateful for the blessings that I have had in my life, including the hard times, when I learned that faith and hope can overcome fear and doubt. Adversity can make us stronger but it is also an opp ...
  • Vermont Parents Fight to Save Philosophical Ex ...
    Posted: 2/21/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Informed consent to medical risk taking is a human right.[1] You have the right to be fully informed about the benefits and risks of pharmaceutical products – like vaccines - and be allowed to make a voluntary choice about whether or to take the risk ...

2020 Science

  • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
    Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
  • Obama spotlights innovation, but how do we get ...
    Technology innovation was front and center of Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight.  This is extremely good news for those of us who believe more needs to be done, and done better, to ensure science and technology translate into effective solutions that enable economic and social grow ...
  • Asking smart people dumb questions – the new r ...
    Cross-posted at ForumBlog.org – the World Economic Forum blog My high school physics teacher used to tell me there’s no such think as a dumb question.  It’s a lesson I’ve carried with me through my professional career as a scientist.  But it’s a philosophy that might be just about to come ...
  • Davos 2011 – physics superstar meets music sup ...
    I don’t usually write about personal interactions here, but this is one I couldn’t resist – physics superstar Lawrence Krauss talking cosmology with music superstar Peter Gabriel. I was with Lawrence at a World Economic Forum dinner when he bumped into Peter – as one does ...
  • Davos 2011: Global Risks permeate conversation ...
    Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. Take a metaphorical slice through this year’s annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, and Global Risk would be writ large through every part of it.  Hot on the heels of the sixth Global Risk report, this year’s meeting saw the launch of ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • The Question at Smithsonian: Shrimp and Safety
    The emerging common concern was about imported shrimp.
  • Multi-Drug Resistant Infections at the NIH Hos ...
    Last Wednesday, The Washington Post reported on an outbreak of multi-drug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center in Bethesda.  (The Post was covering an interesting report by NIH investigators in Science Translational Medicine.)  Initially, the ...
  • New Orleans Groups Awarded Grants for New Farm ...
    I want to congratulate my friends at the Recirculating Farms Coalition who were recently awarded two grants to construct an Urban Farming and Food Center in downtown New Orleans.   The center will be home to a community garden, fruit trees, aquaponics and hydroponics.  These last two are methods ...
  • How Industrialized Farming Could Facilitate Pa ...
    With cases of H3N2v influenza on the rise, a look at where we stand and the key role of our system of food animal production in strengthening viruses
  • How FDA Can Improve the Safety of Fruits and V ...
    Fruits and vegetables are some of the foods in need of protection—but FDA has yet to publish a regulation for how to make good on that mandate for produce safety. So what are the best ways to protect fruits and vegetables grown on farms?

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Consumerist

  • Watch Out, Dish Network: Comcast Can Send Misl ...
    Reader Christopher is a Comcast customer, but had just signed a new one-year lease an has no plans to move. So the letter from Comcast he received in the mail that said "New home transfer service summary" in red letters caught his attention. Was there an error at Comcast and they thought he was ...
  • Twitter Says It’s Going To Start Aiming ...
    As my astute colleague Laura had cause to mention today — if you're using a free service without paying anything, you're probably the product. Twitter, long the bastion of those averse to the marketing tactics already displayed on social media sites like Facebook, has announced it's going to sta ...
  • How The Apple Store Trains Its Geniuses To Man ...
    People consider the Apple Store experience the gold standard--or at least the brushed aluminum standard--of electronics retail. Companies from AT&T to Microsoft have tried to replicate the Apple Store experience, then refused to admit that they were trying to replicate the Apple Store exper ...
  • Man Suing Orthodontist After 11 Years In Brace ...
    Nothing like a nice straight smile after spending years in braces — oh but, it should go without saying that said straight smile shouldn't be made up of a mouthful of rotten teeth. An Oregon man is suing his orthodontist after spending 11 years in braces, because he says many of his teeth have s ...
  • Why ‘Antibiotic-Free’ Meat Doesn&# ...
    Antibiotic-resistant infections are a serious and scary threat to public health. One reason why devious bacteria are evolving to resist antibiotics is the widespread overuse of them in both humans and in animals. A Center for Science in the Public Interest analysis of Food and Drug Administratio ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Manning Defense Demands Access to Emails: Dail ...
    Daily Telegraph (UK): ‘US Withheld Hundreds of Emails in the Bradley Manning Case’ Summary: The latest pretrial hearing for Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of giving classified information to WikiLeaks, continues its third day today. Manning’s defense has accused the prosecution of w ...
  • Young Niece of Indian Whistleblower Attacked: ...
    IBN Live (India): Whistleblower’s Niece Attacked in Bikaner Summary: The four-year-old niece of an Indian whistleblower was attacked and thrown against a wall in order to “get even” with her uncle. She has suffered permanent damage to her nervous system. Her whistleblower uncle has been trying ...
  • Is New Orleans Ready for Isaac?: Daily Whistle ...
    Seven Years after Katrina, New Orleans Still Has Defective Pumps Revealed by Whistleblower Summary: A US Army Corps of Engineers whistleblower revealed, years ago, major safety and reliability issues with the hydraulic pumps installed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. GAP National Securi ...
  • Seven Years After Katrina, New Orleans Still H ...
    Tropical Storm Isaac, on the verge of becoming a hurricane, is headed toward Louisiana. Officials have pronounced New Orleans ready, while at the same time the governor urged people in low-lying areas and places outside of levee protection to leave for safe ground. The Army Corps of Engine ...
  • Whistleblowers: Contemporary Davids vs. Goliaths
    GAP President Louis Clark recently authored the following entry on the blog of The Kindle Project, a Santa Fe-based grant-making entity which is a fiscally sponsored project of the Common Counsel Foundation. The Kindle Project's mission is to cultivate possibilities and support people and projec ...

UK Progressive

  • Paralympics Breathtaking Moments
    Screw Politics, I sat mesmerised by the Paralympics today. When a man with no limbs can destroy a field with limbs in the pool, a Chinese woman with one leg can win gold on a cycle in the Velodrome and two blind men can compete for judo gold, these are the real heroes. Yes Bolt [...]
  • When Elephants Lie, People Die
    by Denis G. Campbell People are drowning but the Burning (99.9% White) Man Festival known as the Republican National Convention must go on! In New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast Tropical Storm Isaac was stationary and entering its second day of relentlessly pounding them with wind and rain but ...
  • Karma is a Bitch, Just Please Leave New Orlean ...
    by Denis G. Campbell If the GOP’s God has a sense of humour and wished to dispense karma lessons, why does he pick on the poor people of New Orleans and kick THEM over and over again. The GOP holding their Presidential nominating convention already vows to hold disaster relief funds for this eve ...
  • Deported for a Speeding Offence
    by Glyn Strong NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE SATURDAY 25th August, 2012: Today The Mail reveals how Poloko Hiri, a Commonwealth citizen with an  ‘exemplary’ record in the British Army,  is being ordered out of the UK for  committing a single speeding offence. Only Britain’s scandalously incompetent immigr ...
  • T H E Heart I Hold – For God’s Sake
    by The Reverend Dr. Britt Minshall Last week Congressman Todd Akin made the most important statement I’ve heard in the past two years. After telling the world of his views of “universal abortion denial” he said” “in the heart I hold,” meaning these are his bed ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Lewandowsky – Shows “skeptics&#82 ...
    I‘m putting on a conservative, understated hat. This could be the worst paper I have seen — an ad hom argument taken to its absurd extreme, rebadged as “science”. Professorial fellow Stephan Lewandowsky thinks that skeptics who are “greatly involved” in the cl ...
  • Another pointless poll – 2% of Canadians ...
    It’s another useless question written in a another pointless poll. Define “climate change”: does it mean the climate doesn’t stay the same year after year, or is it code for “man-made global warming”? The term is so overused, so cliched, it is a meaningless p ...
  • Peter Doherty responds in The Australian but s ...
    There’s a letter in the paper today in response to my article: Climate scientists are not failing to convince others From: The Australian August 27, 2012 12:00AM Every significant science academy supports the case made by the climate science community. These academies encompass the full sp ...
  • Jo Nova in The Australian: Manne is anti-scien ...
    I’m published this weekend in The Australian (building on the post I did previously here. Manne himself popped in there to tell us “Deniers Hunt in Packs” — demonstrating his true depth of insight into the libertarian independent psyche — a group defined by it&#8217 ...
  • I feel sorry for ABC listeners, they have no i ...
    Australia’s politics is boiling at the moment, but you’d barely know if you got all your news from the Love Media ABC. Yesterday in a long press conference our Prime Minister was finally forced to address “questions” that have been burning across through the net. I heard ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Bizarre: Skeptics Cashing in on 2012
    I’m a skeptic at heart, but when things pass by BS detector I can be a believer of sorts. So while I dismiss Planet X, I believe there could be a scientific basis to the Long Count calendar. If I were to devote my time to writing about skeptical topics, I’d try to avoid saying things ...
  • A Third Type of Survivalist
    Normally there are just two types of survivalists – those who get off their butt and prepare, and those that might talk about it, but never really get anything done. If only someone could make it easier for them… The U.S. city of Cannon Beach, Oregon will suffer a tsunami one day, an ...
  • A Floating Safe for Your Valuables
    I’m not really sure what to make of this new product. It is common sense to keep your important documents in a water-proof, damage-proof safe, and there are plenty of options already available. But this one floats! The description doesn’t translate terribly well from Czech: Very imp ...
  • Every Day Carry (EDC) Kit
    We have Bug Out Bags (BOB) at home, for if we need to flee by foot, or perhaps escape if our house is on fire. But when I use public transport to visit friends, I’m not going to take one with me. Too bulky, too heavy, too paranoid. But I do have a few items on me at all times (aside from o ...
  • See Mayan Pyramids from your Armchair
    Thanks to the Street View aspect of Google Maps, many ancient sites of Central America are ready to be explored. Instead of looking at still images (or finding a documentary), you can walk around a pyramid and zoom in on any part of it. Give it a go! Visit Chichen Itza at Google Maps. Many more ...

Facing South

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

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Oriental Review

  • The Independent Kosovo: Gangland Spills Savage ...
    Part I A feature common to the serial outbreaks of unrest in the course of the Arab Spring and the conflicts in the post-Yugoslavian space was the involvement of the armed opposition which had grown out of local criminal or downright terrorist groups in the resulting transitions. The Arab countr ...
  • Ecuador Shields Assange from the Revengeful Empire
    Last June, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange took shelter in the embassy of Ecuador in London after being granted political asylum by the government of R. Correa. Assange explains that the plan shared by the Swedish, US, and British security agencies is to have him extradited to the US once Swede ...
  • Remembering the Man on the Moon: The Passing o ...
    It should surprise no one, and yet, the passing of the first man on the moon enabled space – and the American way of life – to be yanked into the public fold with a degree of hubris that should turn any human off extra-terrestrial missions. Tributes are flooding various forums, extolling Armstro ...
  • Authors and Producers Behind the Blueprint for ...
    It became clear recently that the West’s former blueprint for Syria – a conversion of Aleppo into the country’s Benghazi, a foothold for a sweeping offensive against the government forces – was irreversibly defeated. Having done the due editing on their tactic, the Syrian oppos ...
  • Inviolability of Embassies and Diplomatic Miss ...
    The forces of globalist neo-conservatism have now decided to attack another institution long-protected by international law: the extraterritorial diplomatic protection afforded to foreign embassies and diplomatic missions. Although WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a very unsympathetic figure ...

BlogHer

  • Clint Eastwood, Mitt Romney: We Believe in America
    Clint started trending on Twitter, since speculation was confirmed earlier today that actor Clint Eastwood would be the surprise guest at the closing night of the Republican National Convention. Mashable was quick on the draw, posting a list of 12 Classic Movie Quotes Clint Eastwood Can Use at ...
  • FLEISCHER: Romney Holds Foreign Policy Edge
    Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's wildly-popular speech Wednesday night posed the question "Where does America stand?" at the Republican National Convention in Tampa kicking the foreign policy debate into high gear among Republicans."We cannot be reluctant to lead," ... "And you canno ...
  • Celebrating Community by Reading Scary Books
    I used to struggle in the autumn. Like many people, I spent a large chunk of my life heading off to school in the fall. The years immediately after college were hard. What do people do in the fall when they aren't going back to school? Then in 2006 along came Carl with the very first Readers Imb ...
  • Hologram Reagan Out, Clint Eastwood In: Thursd ...
    Wait, the Reagan hologram isn't just a parody Twitter account? Digital Domain, the creators of the Tupac hologram, denied they had hologrammed our 40th president just yesterday. But Yahoo! News reported today that a different company did the job -- and it was to have been unveiled at the convent ...
  • Red, White, and Blue: Patriotic Style at the RNC
    Political conventions are about a lot of things: speeches, parties, and, yes, even style. So I went on a mission to find the best in patriotic style at the 2012 Republican Convention. Which one is your favorite? Copyright @KathrynFinney Two delegates from Texas discuss party matters outside th ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Obama MSHA: Standing up for coal miners
    We obviously hear a lot these days about how terrible the Obama administration is for coal miners and the coal industry. And goodness knows this blog hasn’t always been that friendly to some of the things that the current U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration has done (see here, here ...
  • Where is the outrage for Patriot retirees?
    This morning’s Gazette included an editorial about the growing concerns regarding pensions and retiree health-care for miners and their families, given the bankruptcy reorganization efforts of Patriot Coal. To quote the editorial: The word “scam” once described the tactic of bl ...
  • EPA proposes permit for Capitol power plant
    This — just in from the U.S. EPA — should certainly get interesting: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking public comment on a proposed permit for the Capitol Power Plant in Washington, D.C. that would provide the facility with the flexibility to begin using more-effici ...
  • Coal miners in Italy demand CCS
    Here’s an interesting take, via The Associated Press, on civil disobedience and coal mining: ROME (AP) — Some 100 miners are occupying a coal mine on Sardinia island to press for state funds for a clean energy project they say will provide new jobs. Miners at the Carbosulcis mine told Sky ...
  • Friday roundup, Aug. 24, 2012
    An official walks alongside part of a CSX freight train that derailed overnight in Ellicott City, Md., Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012. Authorities said two people not employed by the railroad were killed in the incident. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) While coalfield political leaders were falling all over ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Romney’s Game Plan for RNC Speech
    http://www.theonion.com/articles/romneys-acceptance-speech-to-avoid-mentionin… Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentPhenomenal Speech by a War VeteranStarving Third World Masses Warned Against Evils Of Contraception | The OnionLook, Are We Going To ...
  • HP ShadowLabs is Looking for an Infrastructure ...
    HP Shadowlabs is looking for someone with extremely strong skills in the following areas: Linux Oracle InfoSec Uber sysadmin skills Wicked Problem Solving General kickassedness We’re looking for someone with a good amount of experience in these areas. People interested must be willing to d ...
  • Persistent Cannabis Users Show Neuropsychologi ...
    Persistent cannabis use was associated with neuropsychological decline broadly across domains of functioning, even after controlling for years of education. Informants also reported noticing more cognitive problems for persistent cannabis users. Impairment was concentrated among adolescent-onset ...
  • Gene Sequencing and Ethical Puzzles | NYTimes.com
    In laboratories around the world, genetic researchers using tools that are ever more sophisticated to peer into the DNA of cells are increasingly finding things they were not looking for, including information that could make a big difference to an anonymous donor. The question of how, when and ...
  • Getting to Know the OWASP ASVS | HP Enterprise ...
    The Open Web Application Security Project OWASP is well known for its Top 10 list, and perhaps for its testing methodology as well, but comparitively few people are aware of its Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS) Project.  The ASVS, as the name alludes to, is a ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Victims as ‘seducers’ Father Bened ...
    By CASSANDRA GARRISON,metro.us – The Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, the order to which Father Benedict Groeschel belongs, is not planning to reprimand him for expressing sympathy for convicted child sex abuser Jerry Sandusky making comments about pedophilia victims seducing their abuser ...
  • I Tried
    By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE – It’s the morning after all the hoopla of speeches by Santorum and Christie and Mrs. Romney. Truthfully, I had to turn off the Republican convention. After yelling, “lying fuck!” loud enough to startle my dog, well I thought it the wisest thing that I could d ...
  • Can You Identify Me?
    WWH/CJE – In late July of 1983, I was hitchhiking near the intersection of US 41 and 63 near the city of Terra Haute, Indiana. I was offered a ride by this guy named Larry. Larry offered me alcohol and drugs and we went to this old barn on an abandoned farm in Lake Village, [...]
  • Let the Elders Die: Governments Talk Game, Hol ...
    by DR. CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS,themoderatevoice.com – In Japan, Fukushima plant went kaplooey and contaminated air and water in 2011. The USA and other ‘civilized’ countries of the world, make no mention of how tens of thousands of elderly in Japan were abandoned in hospitals and homes in t ...
  • ‘stop-and-frisk’ in a Lawless America
    stop and frisk s 14497 from joe mcevoy on Vimeo. WWH/CJE RT – New Yorkers protest against ‘stop-and-frisk’ Protesters hold a rally in New York against the “stop-and-frisk” policy of police, saying it is racist and unconstitutional. Activists held a protest against New York Police Departmen ...

reference frame

  • Harvard course: 125 students copy a take-home exam
    B Chimp Yen has informed me about a mass cheating scandal at Harvard; see e.g. these sources. BBC and other outlets wouldn't tell you the name of the course. However, good enough Internet users need approximately 1 minute to find out which course it was. Yes, it was "Introduction t ...
  • London built a new paralympic LHC collider
    The opening ceremony of the 2012 Paralympic Games in London was apparently a cool event. At the beginning of this 4-minute preview, you may listen to a 70-year-old athlete, Dr Stephen Hawking, who also talks about another hobby of his, the search for a theory of everything: H ...
  • German offshore wind turbines: hiding all the ...
    Most of the otherwise rational German nation was scared by the Fukushima non-disaster and decided to close all of its nuclear power plants by 2020 or so. Germany is also at the top of the fight against the CO2 emissions so both major sources of electricity seem to be doomed. So far, the ...
  • Where can you find out whether climate skeptic ...
    A poll is included in this blog entry A blog at the Guardian and many other sources have promoted a "research paper" by an Australian professorial fellow (whatever it means) called Stephan Lewandowsky and named Motivated rejection of science (PDF full)in which the author informs ...
  • Conformal Standard Model and the second \(325\ ...
    Does Peter Higgs (or God) have a secretive brother? Křištof Meissner and Hermann Nicolai released a short preprint \(325\GeV\) scalar resonance seen at CDF? in which they use a strange accumulation of four events of the type\[ p\bar p \to \ell^+ \ell^- \ell^+ \ell^- \] obse ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • July 20, 2012 – WHITE HATS REPORT #46
    A different call to action …CRITICAL INFORMATION! First agenda item:  Over the last week we have heard of many different types of “calls to action”.  The “calls” have to do with militia style activism and, although we do not discourage these actions, we realize how difficult it will be ...
  • August 16, 2012 – The White Hats Report #47
    Watergate revisited? The beginning of the end of the Obama Presidency has begun.  The only questions that remain are: How will the charade play out before the American public and the rest of the world? How many will the cabal sacrifice to keep their agenda alive? Will an insider FINALLY com ...
  • Max Keiser: Cancer is How They Will Take It All
    On the Wednesday, August 1 edition the Alex Jones Show, Alex talks with former Wall Street stockbroker and filmmaker Max Keiser about the continuing implosion of the economy as the euro crisis plagues global economies, cuts factory and productive output, stimulates endemic joblessness, and the F ...
  • Jim Grant on the Gold Standard and the Fed’s H ...
    by Tom Keene, Bloomberg: Here is ever sensible James Grant being very patient in discussing the gold standard, the Fed, Paul Krugman, inflation, and deflation with Bloomberg’s Tom Keene. His interviewers throw every argument against the gold standard and he gently leads them to the truth about g ...
  • Public Health Physician Warns of Smart Meter D ...
    Maine’s Smart Meter Safety Coalition (www.smartmetersafety.com) recently caught up with Dr. David Carpenter, a Harvard Medical School-trained physician who headed up the New York State Dept. of Public Health for 18 years before becoming Dean of the School of Public Health at the University ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
    CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation

Enviroblog

  • Water- The New Inconvenient Truth
    By Heather White, Environmental Working Group chief of staff Guaranteeing a clean and ample supply of water should be at the core of our energy policy. Sometimes Washington seems to have forgotten that. But a recent survey shows that the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websit ...
  • EWG, NRDC Sue California for Failing to Act on ...
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  • Johnson & Johnson Takes a Big Step in the Righ ...
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  • Ham and Cheese Again? Revamp your Lunch, Rethi ...
    By Altelisha Taylor, EWG food and nutrition intern Let me guess. You, like most Americans, usually have a sandwich for lunch. Or maybe it's a panini or a wrap, if you want to get technical. Regardless, it's what you eat... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...
  • Always Faithful: President Signs Bill Expandin ...
    "Times New Roman"">By Heather White, Chief of Staff We walked up to the White House Appointments Desk at 17th Street and State Place NW, headed for the West Wing. The security officer examined Jerry Ensminger's military... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • ‘Kon-Tiki’ directors already working on next ‘ ...
    As Norwegians pack cinemas around the country to see the new film Kon-Tiki, its directors are already hard at work on their next project: A film adaptation of Norwegian author Lars Saabye Christensen’s popular novel about growing up in Oslo, Beatles. The book revolves around young friends ...
  • A-ha photos go on display
    Norwegian photographer Stian Andersen is mounting an exhibit of “inside” photos he took of Norway’s most internationally popular rock band a-ha and the people around them during their successful career. Andersen will also release a book on the band in mid-September. The exhibit ...
  • Man jailed after stabbing estranged wife and child
    A man who was separated from his wife was ordered held in custody on Thursday after he stabbed both her and their seven-year-old son outside her home at Kalbakken on Oslo’s northeast side. She died of her stab wounds but their son survived. The man was quickly apprehended by police and cha ...
  • Military to allow religious symbols
    Members of the Norwegian military are now allowed to use religious symbols such as head coverings as part of their uniforms. Defense Minister Espen Barth Eide, meanwhile, claimed this week that the military “will get better” in recruiting and attracting “the best heads” i ...
  • Shtokman project put on ice
    Norwegian oil company Statoil now seems to be finished with its earlier plans to co-develop the huge Shtokman gas field with its main owner, Gazprom of Russia. Now even Gazprom thinks development costs will be too high, and has put the project on ice. Gazprom announced during a conference in Mos ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Making the Case for the Genetically Modified Human
    If we fail to change trajectory, then perhaps we should be re-engineering the root cause of our problem — ourselves? It’s true that I’m well known for attacking the GMO industry, its industry financed scientists and their thus-incentivised reductionist ’science’. I& ...
  • Vertical Gardens
    by Frank Gapinski Making use of vertical wall space located in a sunny spot is a great way to grow your garden. In fact you don’t need pumps or complicated equipment to start growing your own vegetable garden. As long as you have a consistent amount of sunshine of around 6 hours per day an ...
  • GM Bugs Could Spread in Fruit and Veg Under EU ...
    by Helen Wallace, GeneWatch Selling fish, meat and milk from GM animals will be controversial but the new draft rules will also allow billions of GM insect eggs and caterpillars to be spread in fruit and vegetables — claims campaign group. The European Food Safety Agency’s new draft ...
  • Don’t Count on Revolution in Oil Supply
    This is a guest post by Sadad al-Huseini, now a petroleum consultant and formerly executive vice president of Saudi Aramco for exploration and production, and is a response to the recent article in PIW (Petroleum Intelligence Weekly) by Leonardo Maugeri on his new study Oil: the Next Revolution, ...
  • After Capitalism
    An animation calling for economic democracy. Words by George Monbiot, animation by Yann Pons, Alban Connell, Moet Suzuki and Mohamed Ali. To answer the question of what the world will look like after capitalism, we first have to decide what we mean by capitalism. If it means a system that ...

Pointman's

  • Time to cull the prat nominations.
    I think it’s time to close off the first round of voting, since the viable candidates are by now obvious. People have really stuck to the letter of the law and voted for prats who’ve been very active this year. The front-runner, polling twice as many votes as anyone else, is Peter Gl ...
  • The repair man.
    He repaired people. He used a little bit of human insight but mostly patience and kindness. He was good at it, so all the bad cases nobody wanted to touch or didn’t quite know how to handle, were referred to him in the end and he patched them up. Mostly, he got the ugly sex … Re ...
  • Butt wiggling and the science of uncertainty.
    Being a climate realist, I’m used to a certain underdog status. I’ve learnt that it’s our advantage. We don’t have many of those, so you learn to work them hard. While they yap a lot, we get told to shut up but we watch them carefully while they’re yapping. We don&# ...
  • Announcing the inaugural Climate Prat of the Y ...
    I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but notables of the green persuasion seem to win a lot of awards from various green organisations. They give prizes to each other, occasionally with a nice bit of money as well; sometimes with a very very nice bit of money. You may also have noticed, t ...
  • Legislation by regulation.
    What is now called the European Union (EU), grew out of the aftermath of WWII, which had devastated both the economies and infrastructures of most countries in Europe. It was really the product of several treaties but the first big one was the 1957 treaty of Rome, which created a common market a ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Seven Years After Katrina, A Divided City, By ...
    A version of this article originally appeared on TruthOut.org.   Seven years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has become a national laboratory for government reforms. But the process through which those experiments have been carried out rarely has been transparent or democratic. The ...
  • Katrina Pain Index 2012: 7 Years After, By Bil ...
    1          Rank of New Orleans in fastest growing US cities between 2010 and 2011.  Source: Census Bureau. 1          Rank of New Orleans, Louisiana in world prison rate.  Louisiana imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of ...
  • Is It Time For The Bounce Vote?
    New Orleans hip-hop artist Tenth Ward Buck, a legendary New Orleans bounce music artist, announced today that he has qualified for a spot on the ballot for the city council election in District B, the seat formerly held by Stacy Head. He is one of several candidates who have declared their inten ...
  • Unprecedented, Massive Cuts Devastate Universi ...
    While barely covered in the local media, the University of New Orleans is facing another round of brutal and devastating cuts, quickly transforming an already-under-resourced school into a shadow of its former self. Below is a letter from UNO President Peter Fos outlining some of the cuts. While ...
  • Coalition of Black and Latina Women, Women fro ...
    From our friends at the Congress of Day Laborers: A delegation of undocumented women from Arizona will join local immigrants and civil rights leaders from Women United for Justice, in demanding that Sheriff Gusman stop holding undocumented immigrants for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (IC ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    THAT is a very powerful question. It was asked during the Guiliani debate, I think, but there is no good answer. Oh, man, Noel, you NAILED IT. LindseyStatistics: Posted by LordLindsey — Fri Aug 31, 2012 1:08 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    One small step for man My question is where did they get the cameraman?Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Fri Aug 31, 2012 1:06 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    You have to be SHITTING me... I am certain that something has happened to the brains of the people to make them the way that they are now. NONE of this shit taking-place now would dare be taking place 30, or even 20, years ago, because the people would have put a stop to it. SOMETHING has hap ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    I realized this shit was fake back in the early 90's when I still was a kid. Just like the holocaust and 911 it's all bullshit. I was recently debating with a PhD student regarding the official narrative concerning the 911 'attacks'. The dumb mofo was certain bin Laden did it, so I posed him wi ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    You know,people in the USA realy think that everyone else comes from the tree hut,and that we dont know anything!But that is just a programing that american people are submited to!I know that PATRIOT (''awake'')AMERICANS are ON SERBIAN SIDE!!You guys are one of the most brainwashed people on th ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Germany May Need to Slow Its Shift to Green En ...
    Germany’s environment minister said Tuesday that the country might have to slow its shift to renewable energy to quell concerns about rising consumer costs. A year after the government decided to phase out nuclear power following Japan’s Fukushima disaster, Germany has indeed been ab ...
  • Desalination Sector Surges as Technology Impro ...
    A new report predicts that global investment in water desalination projects will triple over a five-year period from 2011 to 2016, driven by improvements in technology and a surge in companies entering the sector. According to Global Water Intelligence, investments in desalination plant installa ...
  • Bolivia’s Battle: A Road or a Way of Life?
    In an e360 video report, Noah Friedman-Rudovsky explores how a highway proposed through the heart of the Bolivian national park known as TIPNIS will affect local indigenous communities.
  • In Bolivia, A Battle Over A Highway and a Way ...
    Growing conflicts over development in South America have come to a head in Bolivia, where indigenous groups are resisting a highway project that would slice through a national park. How Bolivia resolves this showdown could point the way for other regions seeking to balance economic growth and th ...
  • Drought Conditions Trigger Smallest Gulf ‘Dead ...
    U.S. scientists say the nation’s worst drought in five decades has had at least one positive effect: the smallest so-called “dead zone” seen in the Gulf of Mexico in years. In a 1,200-mile research cruise conducted in the NASA. Algal blooms in the Gulf of Mexico waters of the gulf this mo ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Hon Hai says talks with Sharp 'can't fail'
    Top executives of Sharp Corp. and its Taiwanese business partner, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., began two days of talks Thursday over how to revise the terms of their capital tieup. Sharp President Takashi Okuda and visiting Hon Hai Chief Executive Officer Terry Gou are aiming to reach a con ...
  • Revolutionary microsatellite set for ISS launch
    Takushi Tanaka can't wait for a microsatellite his project team developed for a unique mission to be released from the international space station in September. If successful, his team's FIT-SAT-1 invention would become the first microsatellite to beam images back to Earth via a high-speed tra ...
  • Heart ailments spiked after 3/11
    The great East Japan Earthquake spurred an increase in heart-related ailments and pneumonia, according to a study. The weekly figures for heart failure, the inability of the muscle to pump enough blood around the body, and pneumonia jumped soon after the earthquake, according to Japanese resea ...
  • Tax hike will pose serious costs for companies
    In response to the coming increase in the consumption tax, companies have set about revising their computer systems and business strategies in preparation for a smooth transition. While many businesses are expected to require only simple updates to their computer programs, others with complex sy ...
  • Magnitude 5.6 quake jolts Miyagi
    An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 jolted Miyagi Prefecture early Thursday, the Meteorological Agency said. No tsunami warning was issued. The 4:05 A.M. quake measured upper 5 on the Japanese intensity scale to 7 in the northern and central parts of the prefecture, lower 5 in so ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Labour Market Regulation and Labour Market Per ...
    A release by the Fraser Institute – Measuring Labour Markets in Canada and the United States, 2012 Edition – registers as a spectacular own goal. The Fraser Institute believes – and argues in this study – that strong unions, high minimum wages and high levels of public se ...
  • Raising Saskatchewan’s Minimum Wage
    Saskatchewan Federation of Labour president Larry Hubich and I have the following joint op-ed in today’s Regina Leader-Post (page A10). It’s been fourteen years since I first wrote into The Leader-Post advocating a minimum-wage increase. Why higher wages make economic sense Recent Saskatchewan g ...
  • Harper in the Arctic — the End of Ice Tour?
    News that multi-year Arctic sea ice was melting towards a record low did not put a dent in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s annual northern road show last week. So far in August, the Arctic has lost about 75,000 square kilometres of ice every day. To put this into perspective, the sea ice area be ...
  • Dead Money
    Kudos to Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney for raising the profile of the over $500 billion Canadian corporations are holding in excess cash surpluses and not investing in the economy, which garnered front page coverage (and kudos to the CAW for inviting him to speak). It’s not the first ...
  • Broadening the Bank of Canada’s Mandate
    Yesterday, Mike Moffatt took to The Globe and Mail’s “Economy Lab” in response to my suggestion that the Bank of Canada should moderate the exchange rate. My rebuttal of Mike’s rebuttal appears in today’s Economy Lab: Mike Moffatt’s friendly rebuttal of my comments on last week’s inflation repor ...

ReDress

  • Israeli expansionism versus imaginary Palestin ...
    Jamal Kanj argues that Israeli expansionism and Western connivance with and complacency towards Israel's land grabbing - not the Palestinian quest for state recognition at the UN - are the real obstacles to peace in the Middle East.
  • Domestic terrorism American style
    Lawrence Davidson analyses the roots of domestic American terrorism, racism and bigotry, arguing that what is needed now is "consistent educational and legal pressure against racist behaviour both in terms of individual and institutional behaviour", or else the US will become as racist and bigot ...
  • Restoring Syria's uprising to the Syrian people
    Jamal Kanj warns against the creeping hijacking of the the Syrian people's fight for freedom by foreign powers with ulterior motives, and argues that "widespread civil disobedience exposing the brutal Assad regime and shifting the centre of power back to the home-based opposition is Syria's last ...
  • Ayn Rand, the preacher of selfishness inspirin ...
    Uri Avnery views the philosophy of Ayn Rand, the inspiration behind US Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan. A Jewish White Russian preacher of extreme selfishness, Rand, who has become the darling of Tea Party fanatics, was also an unabashed racist who believed that the Arab-Israeli ...
  • By way of deception Israel trying to drag US i ...
    Jamal Kanj argues that "leaked" Israeli information on plans to attack Iran are intended to drag the USA into a new Middle East quagmire through committing aggression against Iran on the eve of the American presidential election.

Physics Today

  • Graphene offers clear window on liquids
    BBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...
  • Rival teams shared in Nobel celebration
    Science: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
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    Talking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
  • Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sector
    Earth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
  • Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...
    Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...

Revolutionary Politics

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

  • Water-transfer projects “essential&#8221 ...
    Photo retrieved from: www.chinadialogue.net “cd: We’ve seen a lot of public debate over water transfer projects. What role and impacts do regional water transfers have? How should we evaluate all the projects getting under way? See ”China’s South-North water transfer is ‘ ...
  • Drought wreaks havoc on Indian farmers
    “The drought, India’s first since 2009, will not cause a shortage of staples as the nation’s grain stores are overflowing with rice and wheat, and sugar output is set to exceed demand for a third straight year. But the drought will deal a devastating blow to grain crops used fo ...
  • Salmon Re-enter Olympic National Park River Th ...
    “The National Park Service reported this week that adult Chinook (king) salmon have been seen in the Elwha River in Olympic National Park, less than five months after removal began on the Elwha Dam. According to the Park Service, the fish are the first of their kind known to enter the park ...
  • Unicef Says Hardest Part Yet to Come in Provid ...
    “As World Water Week kicks off, UNICEF says that despite tremendous progress in the last two decades in bringing access to improved drinking water sources to billions of people, finishing the task is not going to be easy. “There have been outstanding gains in every region of the worl ...
  • Bloomberg Backs Fracking – But Far From ...
    “Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday reiterated his commitment to fracking as a way of extracting natural gas from upstate New York — but said it shouldn’t occur near the network of reservoirs that feed drinking water to the city. “The mayor’s remarks come as New York Gove ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

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    … Appointed by Az Gov Jan Brewer … KYLE BRYSON was handpicked as he believes as does our Governor … the law and rules are what they say they are in the moment … Arizona Election Fraud: Pima County Superior Court Judge Kyle Bryson Affirms His Own Ruling and Push 08-27-2012  •  The Inter ...
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    … And we call this FREEDOM … Prisoner Training: Austin Kids To Be Tracked With GPS Device 08-27-2012  •  http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson Children in nine Austin high schools are to be given GPS tracking devices and assigned “mentors” in a program designed to prevent tru ...
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     … If elected there is no doubt Romney will only pick cabinet members who will respond precisely as a corporation board of directors or they will not be picked … Romney’s Nonsensical Idea To Treat the Cabinet Like a Corporate Board of Directors Eliot Spitzer   Filed under: Blogroll
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    Why are you surprised … the Mormon Church was the leading contributor to defeat “same-sex” marriage election in California … A Utah Station Is Refusing To Air NBC’s New Gay-Friendly Show 08-28-2012  •  http://www.businessinsider.com, Kirsten Acuna …    Read Full Story & ...
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    …The story below may not be surprising if you have read … Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto …    This story may surprise you: A "genius" female chimpanzee has been found to demonstrate remarkable skills of reasoning and planning that are far beyond those of a typical U.S. hi ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Private reserve safeguards newly discovered fr ...
    Although it covers only 430 hectares (1,063 acres) of the little-known Chocó forest in Ecuador, the private reserve las Gralarias in Ecuador is home to an incredible explosion of life. Long known as a birder's paradise, the Reserva las Gralarias is now making a name for itself as a hotspot ...
  • Indigenous groups in Panama wait for UN REDD t ...
    A dispute over the implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) in Panama has pitted the United Nations (UN) against the nation's diverse and large indigenous groups. Represented by the National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples in Panama (COONAPIP), indigenous ...
  • Belo Monte mega-dam halted again by high Brazi ...
    A high federal court in Brazil has ruled that work on the Belo Monte dam in the Brazilian Amazon be immediately suspended. Finding that the government failed to properly consult indigenous people on the dam, the ruling is the latest in innumerable twists and turns regarding the massive dam, whic ...
  • Chart: Forest loss in Latin America
    Latin America lost nearly 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 square miles) of forest — an area larger than the state of Oregon — between 2001 and 2010, finds a new study that is the first to assess both net forest loss and regrowth across the Caribbean, Central and South America. The ...
  • Key mammals dying off in rainforest fragments
    When the Portuguese first arrived on the shores of what is now Brazil, a massive forest waited for them. Not the Amazon, but the Atlantic Forest, stretching for over 1.2 million kilometers. Here jaguars, the continent's apex predator, stalked peccaries, while tapirs waded in rivers and giant ant ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Teacher suspended after supporting pro-gay protest
    A teacher at Whangarei's Pompallier Catholic College claims he has been suspended for supporting a student protest against the principal's stance on gay marriage.Science teacher Nigel Studdart said he was suspended from the college...
  • Twin stars can host multiple planets
    The universe is looking increasingly crowded as scientists announced the first proof twin stars can host multiple planets - boosting their search for a planet that could support life."We're seeing more and more planets in more and...
  • Supermassive black holes discovered
    A NASA telescope has unearthed a "bonanza" of new supermassive black holes and extreme galaxies called hot DOGs.Images from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission have revealed millions of possible dusty black holes...
  • Scientists grow sperm from skin
    Scientists have succeeded in making early-stage sperm from human skin tissue, giving infertile men a shot at fathering children that are genetically their own. The breakthrough could also lead to new contraceptives and a "miracle...
  • LanzaTech lauded by world forum
    New Zealand clean technology developer LanzaTech will be recognised by the World Economic Forum as an "industry-changing company with the potential to transform the future of business and society" at the organisation's next meeting...

The Bovine

  • Prosecutors and defense girding for the Hersch ...
    From David E. Gumpert, on The Complete Patient blog: The principle of private food should get a test in front of a jury of ordinary citizens when raw dairy farmer Vernon Hershbeger goes on trial in Wisconsin on  Jan. 7. … Continue reading →
  • Montana Jones says CFIA returned to her farm t ...
    Link to this video just posted early Thursday morning on Facebook: Update posted by Montana Jones on FB 12:03 am Thurs. Aug. 30th: “CFIA ambushed Wholearth Farmstudio again this morning, arriving unannounced at 8:00 am to kill four of my … Continue reading →
  • Psy-ops against Montana Jones?
    Montana Jones posted 3 hrs ago on Facebook: “CFIA AMBUSH ONCE AGAIN! my heart can’t take it…they are trying to kill 4 of my sweet lambs because they are ARQ bloodtype…not because of any disease. No no no no” Don’t … Continue reading →
  • Bechards settle raw milk dispute with Missouri ...
    Thanks to Rosanne for first linking to this: Falls Church, Virginia (August 22, 2012) — Last month Armand and Teddi Bechard entered into a consent agreement with the State of Missouri, ending a case that began in 2009. On two occasions … Continue reading →
  • Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund to represe ...
    Falls Church, VA, Aug. 28, 2012 ( GlobeNewswire ) – Wisconsin dairy farmer, Vernon Hershberger of Loganville, has retained the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) to represent him in his upcoming criminal trial on four misdemeanor counts for alleged violations … Continue reading & ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Japan Manufacturing PMI Hits 16 Month Low, New ...
    Markit reports Japan Manufacturing PMI Hits 16 Month Low Key Points: Output and new orders down at accelerated rates Near-stagnation of employment Purchasing costs fall to greatest extent since November 2009 Markit/JMMA Manufacturing PMI After adjusting for seasonal ...
  • Reader Questions On Hyperinflation; Would Prin ...
    In response to Economist Fired for Expressing Opinions on Max Keiser Show; Errors in Observation where I stated "The Fed Cannot Realistically Cause Hyperinflation" I received a couple of emails worth reviewing. Reader Philip writes ... I do not understand how you could say that the Fed ...
  • Eurozone Retail Sales Decline 15th Month, Plun ...
    Once again there is grim data from Europe. The safe thing to do is expect grim data every time European data is reported. Except for an occasional outlier, you will not be too far off. Eurozone Retail Sales Decline 15th Month Markit Reports Eurozone retail downturn deepens in August ...
  • France to Hire 150,000 Subsidized Workers With ...
    Looking for a loony idea to address unemployment in France? Look no further because I have a doozie. Via Google Translate from El Economista, France will create 150,000 jobs for young people without qualifications The French Government has today adopted a draft law providing for the cre ...
  • Governor Brown Admits the Obvious "We Have Liv ...
    In a long-overdue moment, governor Jerry Brown has finally admitted the obvious, the state's pension system is broke and California Has "Lived Beyond Our Means". Unions of course are howling at that obvious admission. Please consider California leaders strike public pension reform deal C ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Understanding Social Movements No matter your specific ideological stance, beliefs, hopes, passions or activism, there is a need to better our understanding of each other and different social movements, a need to adopt a more adaptive and accepting discourse and method of communication, not desi ...
  • Turkey: NATO’s Neo-Ottoman Spearhead in the Mi ...
    Turkey already has troops in Syria and has threatened military action to protect the site they guard. A 1921 agreement between Ottoman Turkey and France (the Treaty of Ankara), the latter at the time the colonial administrator of Syria, guaranteed Turkey the right to station military personnel a ...
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  • The EyeOpener- Violation of Consent: Fluoridat ...
    Ever since Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 cinematic classic “Dr. Strangelove” was released, it has become fashionable for those who have wished to avoid the debate over the fluoridation of the water supply to engage in the rhetorical equivalent of stuffing their fingers into their ears and singing ...

bloody crossroads

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

  • Shell Gets Nod to Start Preparatory Work in Alaska
    (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc won a U.S. permit to begin limited preparatory work for drilling off the North Coast of Alaska, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said. Shell still [...]
  • Port Fourchon: A Critical Piece of Isaac No On ...
    Editor’s Note: While Hurricane Isaac mostly spared Gulf of Mexico oil and gas production, concerns are mounting over the condition of Port Fourchon, LA where the main hub of the Gulf [...]
  • Arctic Sea Ice Melts Past Record Low
    (Bloomberg) — The Arctic Ocean’s ice cover has shrunk to the smallest size ever observed in the three decades NASA has monitored it, according to the U.S. agency. The area of ocean covered by ice shrank [...]
  • Pirates Release Energy Centurion As Expected
    Pirates in west Arfica have released the Energy Centurion tanker hijacked earlier this week. Sources say that the pirates released the vessel and it’s 24 crew after stealing approximately 3,000 [...]
  • Shiprepair Brest Books First LNG Gig
    Damen Shiprepair Brest has booked it’s first LNG carrier maintenance and repair job since being switching hands over to Damen Group earlier this year. Formerly Sobrena Shiprepair, DSB is located [...]

Press TV

  • 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.
  • Lawyers slam Shia killings in Pakistan
    Pakistani lawyers have boycotted courts across the country in a show of protest against the assassination of a Shia judge in Balochistan Province, Press TV reports.
  • ‘NAM set to end unipolar world order’
    Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman reaffirms the Non-Aligned Movement’s (NAM) determination to transform the world’s unipolar structure and establish a global management system based on justice, Press TV reports.
  • Kenyan airstrikes kill 36 in Somalia
    Kenyan war planes have attacked a base, run by Somalia’s al-Shabab fighters near the town of Afmadow, killing at least 25 militants and 11 civilians, Press TV reports.
  • USGS downgrades SE Asia quake to 7.6
    The US Geological Survey (USGS) has downgraded a quake off Philippines from magnitude 7.9 to 7.6 and an initial extensive tsunami warning has been lifted for Japan and Taiwan.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
    The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
  • Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
    The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
  • Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
    More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
  • Presentation to the National Economists Club
    Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
  • Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
    The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...

Naked Scientists - News

  • Thinking cap makes impossible problem soluble
    A small dose of electrical current passed across their heads enabled a group of volunteers to immediately solve a puzzle they had previously found to be impossible. This surprising result is the work...
  • Pint sized rocket
    A rocket has been developed that could get a spaceprobe to the moon on just 100g of fuel Some tasks can only be done by a large satellite, but there are many others which can be done as well if not b...
  • Seeing Around the Corner
    Using a laser, a super fast camera and a clever algorithm, researchers at MIT have developed the ability to see, in 3D, around a corner. Writing in the journal Nature Communications, Andreas Velten a...
  • Drugs in sewage
    Drug use in populations, both legal and illegal, is important to know about for health and law and order reasons. Whilst it is relatively easy to keep tabs on the amount of legal drug use by asking ph...
  • Messages from Mercury
    The MESSENGER spacecraft completed one Earth year of orbiting Mercury this month, and two papers published in the journal Science highlight some of the surprising scientific results from our solar sys...

Nick Turse

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    vintageanchor: “How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?” ― Michael Herr, Dispatches A true classic.  Not just one of the best on the Vietnam War, but one of the best on men and war.  Period.  Incredible, incendiary writing and mu ...

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