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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, August 4, 2012

4 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

 

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New Mass. law seeks boost in renewable energy
Boston Herald
Deval Patrick has signed an energy bill that requires Massachusetts utilities to buy more of their electricity in competitively bid, long-term contracts with renewable energy providers. Patrick said Friday the new law will protect ratepayers while also ...
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Utilities, renewables developers set for PUC fight
Businessweek
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — State electricity regulators aiming to set the course for Idaho's renewables industry for years to come will hold hearings next week on long-running and bitter disputes between utilities like Idaho Power Co. and independent wind ...
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Iowa, Nebraska ethanol output cut amid drought
CBS News
Ethanol production nationally has dropped by 20 percent since the beginning of the year and is at a two-year low, said Bob Dinneen, CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association, a national trade group. The production drop-off is similar in Iowa, which ...
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New Report Follows Money Trail Behind Attacks on Clean Energy
Huffington Post (blog)
Over the past decade, renewable energy's strong growth and success has made it a target for unprecedented new attacks from oil, coal, and gas interests. The report reveals how the fossil fuel industry is using tactics such as financial contributions to ...
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US Ecology Beats, Ups Guidance - Analyst Blog
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US Ecology, Inc. ( ECOL ) reported earnings per share (EPS) of 39 cents (excluding special items) in its fiscal first quarter, up 56% year over year and way ahead of the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 20 cents. Including non-cash loss on foreign currency ...
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FAR Summer Ecology Camp picnic, awards Friday
YourArlington.com (press release) (blog)
Join the Friends of the Alewife Reservation (FAR) on Friday, Aug. 10, at 10: 30 a.m. for the sixth annual FAR Ecology Camp picnic and celebration at the (Acorn Park Drive parking lot and FAR-DCR benches. Learn from our international youth team about ...
US Ecology Announces Record Second Quarter 2012 Results
MarketWatch (press release)
"The addition of US Ecology Michigan increases our service offering and capabilities in key industrial markets while allowing us to leverage our North American sales force and our Stablex facility in Quebec," stated Baumgardner. "We are excited to have ...
US Ecology's Upcoming Earnings: What You Need to Know
msnbc.com
US Ecology is expected to report Q2 earnings on July 31. Here's what Wall Street wants to see: The 10-second takeaway. Comparing the upcoming quarter to the prior-year quarter, average analyst estimates predict US Ecology's revenue will shrink 4.0% and ...
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Craving Energy and Glory, Pakistan Revels in Boast of Water-Run Car
New York Times
The assertion — based on the premise that he had discovered a way to easily split the oxygen and hydrogen atoms in water molecules with almost no energy — would, if proven, represent a stunning breakthrough for physics and a near-magical solution to ...
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Serbia hands US 1st loss in Olympic water polo
Huffington Post
LONDON — Against a gold medal-favorite like Serbia, the U.S. men's water polo team should have known better than to come out flat. The Serbs outmuscled the Americans on both ends of the pool, got a string of solid saves from goalkeeper Slobodan Soro ...
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Water polo: Spain, Australia finish top of their groups
Chicago Tribune
LONDON (Reuters) - Spain's women lined up a quarter-final clash against Britain, while the U.S., Beijing silver medalists, face tougher opponents in Italy in their knock-out match, and Australia will play China, who like Britain are yet to post a win ...
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Rogers County Water Pump Repaired
KTUL (blog)
Less than an hour after officials of Rogers County Water District No. 4 lifted a water emergency, the emergency was reinstated after a replacement pump failed. Office Manager Julie Hendrix said the districtMore >>. Less than an hour after officials of ...
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Scoop - NZ

  • Libor Scandal could cost Banksters Billions
    They wanted to influence the giant market for interest rate and foreign currency derivatives in their favor. The volume of outstanding transactions in this area amounted to €567 trillion at the end of 2011 alone. Changes of as little as 0.01 percentage points can translate into hundreds of milli ...
  • Safe Haven Intervention in Aleppo Thwarted
    Saudi and Qatari intelligence officers, based in Free Syrian Army headquarters at Apaydin in the southwest Turkish Hatay region, were forced to admit that Bashar Assad’s army had smashed their plan for a safe haven in the Aleppo area. Territory was to have been seized by rebels and converted int ...
  • Khamenei : WAR IN WEEKS
    On July 27, just before Friday prayers, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei summoned top Iranian military chiefs for what he called “their last war council.” “We’ll be at war within weeks,” he told the gathering, DEBKAfile’s exclusive Iranian and intelligence sources disclose. Prese ...
  • Climate Change and the Tipping Point ..
    The most frightening prospect that Mr. Lenton has found is the vulnerability of the Indian monsoon. More than a billion people depend on this weather pattern each year for the rain it brings to crops. The monsoon, though, is being affected by two conflicting forces: the buildup of carbon dioxide ...
  • So much for that argument
    Pacific Fibre cancelled its plans for a second international fibre-optic cable, after failing to raise enough capital... One "justification" for asset sales is that the sharemarket is small and kiwis need something to invest in (which when you think about it is a pretty strong criticism of the t ...

Independent - London

  • Afghan lawmakers vote to replace key ministers
    The Afghan parliament has passed a vote of no confidence against the country's defence and interior ministers. Lawmakers have demanded that President Hamid Karzai appoint replacements. Related StoriesChina's rulers seek to close ranks over Heywood deathChina's rulers seek to close ranks over Nei ...
  • Afghan parliament votes to remove key ministers
    The Afghan parliament passed votes of no confidence Saturday to remove the country's defense and interior ministers, a move that threatens to throw the country's security apparatus into confusion as foreign forces withdraw. Related StoriesChina's rulers seek to close ranks over Heywood deathChin ...
  • UN to send food aid to flood-hit North Korea
    The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has said it will send a first batch of emergency food aid to impoverished North Korea, where a series of deluges and a typhoon have left hundreds of people dead or missing. Related StoriesChina's rulers seek to close ranks over Heywood deathChina's rulers seek t ...
  • Soldier shot dead in Shi'ite area of Saudi Arabia
    A Saudi soldier was shot dead patrolling an area populated by minority Shi'ite Muslims last night, the Interior Ministry said, and one of the gunmen was killed in the ensuing shoot-out. Related StoriesAleppo brutality may be crimes against humanity, says UN's Ban Ki-moon ahead of Syria voteIsrae ...
  • Tripoli sees first car bomb since Gaddafi's fall
    A car bomb exploded near the offices of the military police in Tripoli early this morning, a senior security source said, in the first such attack in the Libyan capital since the start of a revolt that toppled the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. Related StoriesSyrian army storms last rebel stronghold ...

Rogue Government.com

  • Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
    Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...
    European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Fawn saved from manhole by New York Police
    Scampered into the woods after it was released Mount Sinai, New York, US - Police on New York's Long Island spent over four hours rescuing a baby deer that fell into a 20-foot-deep manhole. The cute, speckled creature scampered into the woods after it was released Thursday by its beaming, bu ...
  • Statue of Liberty UFO or a blimp?
    A UFO video on YouTube, which at first looks like a blimp hovering near the Statue of Liberty, raises more questions than answers as the unidentified flying object seems to speed up, morph and even split. Other objects zoom past without explanation. What are these things? The video, posted by t ...
  • X-Files: Australia releases secret UFO files
    It is probably the closest Australia has come to scrambling fighter jets to intercept a UFO. Documents that have just become available under the 30-year rule at the National Archives of Australia reveal how two RAAF Mirage jets were placed on the second highest level of alert to determine the c ...
  • UFO sightings going up in Missouri and making ...
    Missouri is suddenly a hotspot for UFO sightings, and now incidents are pouring in from the southeastern part of the state. So much so, that local news stations have begun picking up the story. Last week dozens of witnesses saw a strange, unidentified flying object, hovering in the night sky ar ...
  • Leonard Stringfield's UFO research goes public
    (US) Sixty volumes of "meticulous UFO research over 30 years" by the late Ufologist Leonard H. Stringfield were donated to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), according to an August 3, 2012, announcement by MUFON Executive Director David MacDonald who spoke at the organization's annual symposium. T ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Stevie and his gargoyles . . .
    THE HARPER GOVERNMENT.
  • Things are getting tougher . . .
    EVEN PLANTS ARE GETTING TOUGHER these days, thanks to Monsanto and others in the genetic modification business, and this is causing problems for farmers who grow the mutants. According to Chris Taylor at AUTOBLOG, "GMO crops so tough that farmers are turning to Kevlar tractor tires". ...
  • Brave Sir Stephen
    For some reason, this reminded me of this: 
  • RCMP and social change
    I sometimes have a quick and frustrated reaction for why victims of abuse, women in the latest case, might continue to endure it rather than rock the boat and assert themselves, even in numbers. But then I read things like this, and I think I understand a bit about why. The statement denies ...
  • Big Game in Africa . . .
    FABIUS MAXIMUS and The Tom's Dispatch gang can get a little hysterical, but it's a look at what Uncle Sugar thinks is necessary to be attended to in Africa, and is worthy of your attention.  Is it possible that the U.S. military is present in more countries and more places now than at ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox Still Cherry-Picking Data To Push Voter ID ...
    Fox News continued to promote voter ID laws by hyping a report from the conservative group National Center for Public Policy Research. But Fox has continued to ignore the massive and growing body of evidence that voter ID laws disenfranchise eligible voters while addressing a largely non-existe ...
  • The Wall Street Journal: Dismissing E ...
    To forestall policy on climate change, the Wall Street Journal editorial board routinely downplays scientific consensus, overstates the cost of taking action, and claims that politics, not science, motivate those concerned about the climate. But an analysis of more than 100 editorials from ...
  • FRISKING THE TRUTH: New York Post Hus ...
    Over the past few months, the New York Post editorial page has defended the New York Police Department's controversial stop-and-frisk policy with myths and imbalanced coverage.What Is Stop-And-Frisk? New York Times: "Stop And Frisk" Is A Police Strategy To "Reduce Crime ...
  • Conservatives Still Trying To Dispute Global T ...
    Conservative media are attempting to use a new paper by climate contrarian Anthony Watts to question the reliability of global temperature records. But the paper, which has not been peer-reviewed, only addresses surface temperature records in the continental U.S., which have been confirmed by s ...
  • Fox Hiding Half The Story On Automatic Spendin ...
    Fox News is telling a one-sided story focused exclusively on cuts to defense spending that were included in a 2011 budget deal. What Fox is not telling its viewers is that the deal also included cuts to critical services for vulnerable Americans and reductions in important medical&nbs ...

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TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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  • ERCOT prepares for first summer heat wave of 2012
    With the passing of the Summer solstice and temperatures expected to hit triple digits several days next week in the Lone Star State, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the electric grid operator for most of the state, is looking closely at anticipated electric use and available ...
  • NOAA Report – Global warming has made 2011 Tex ...
    According to a story on MSNBC, scientists can’t blame any single weather event on global warming, but they now believe they can assess how climate change has altered the odds of such events happening,   Click here to read the AP story, Global warming tied to risk of weather extremes.  Clic ...
  • We are now in energy emergency season as a hea ...
    The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT), system operator for the state’s bulk transmission grid, is asking consumers and businesses to reduce their electricity use during peak electricity hours from 3 to 7 p.m. today. Consumers can help by shutting off unnecessary lights and elec ...
  • KEFFER LISTENS INTENTLY TO TAR SANDS CONCERNS: ...
    The following story on testimony provided to the Texas House Energy Resources Committee about the threat the proposed Tar Sands pipeline poses for the state was reprinted with the permission of the Texas Energy Report. House Energy Resources Committee Chairman Jim Keffer on Tuesday promised envi ...
  • WCS – A potential bailout without any authoriz ...
    We’ve recently realized that TCEQ allowed stock from Waste Control Specialists (WCS) sister company, Titanium Metals Corp to be put up as the financial assurance for their radioactive waste dump and that stock isn’t performing well right now. So we want to know, where does that leave ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • New Loch Ness Monster photo surfaces
    Nessie hunter George Edwards has published a photo showing an object in the waters of Loch Ness. The cruise operator has been searching for definitive...
  • World's oldest hippo dies aged 62
    Donna the Nile hippopotamus lived at Mesker Park Zoo in Indiana for over five decades. Normally hippos live for only 40 years in the wild and up to 50...
  • Traces of 2,500-year-old chocolate found
    A plate found in the Yucatan peninsula appears to show traces of ancient chocolate residue. The find is thought to expand upon the known uses for choc...
  • Pilot reports UFO over Kansas airport
    A commercial pilot has come forward to claim that his jet was buzzed by a UFO as it came in to land. The anonymous pilot described witnessing a silver...
  • Cheetah breaks running speed record
    A cheetah at Cincinnati Zoo was timed running 100m in 5.95 seconds at an astonishing speed of 61mph. The blistering pace of the animal far exceeds the...

Grassroots

Climate

  • Greenland Ice Said More Robust Than Feared
    (MSNBC) Greenland's ice seems less vulnerable than feared to a runaway melt that would drive up world sea levels, according to a study showing that a surge of ice loss had petered out. "It is too early to proclaim the 'ice sheet's fut ...
  • Former 'Exxon Valdez' to Be Dismantled in India
    (AP) India's Supreme Court this week delivered a ruling that could drastically change the way international ships are dismantled, but in the process cleared the way for the destruction of the ship formerly known as the Exxon Valdez. T ...
  • Chevron Says Ecuador Arbitration to Stretch in ...
    (Reuters) An international tribunal that will weigh in on Chevron Corp's two-decade dispute over pollution in Ecuador has set a timeline that runs into 2014, according to a Chevron regulatory filing on Thursday. The panel, formed via ...
  • Japan Could Become Second Biggest Solar Power ...
    (New Scientist) WITH nuclear power on the ropes in Japan, it could be solar power's time to shine. Minamisoma City in Fukushima prefecture has signed an agreement with Toshiba to build the country's biggest solar park. The deal comes w ...
  • India: Drought Delivers Fresh Blow to Reeling ...
    (Reuters) A summer drought makes a bad situation worse for an Indian economy already crippled by a sharp slowdown in growth, persistent inflation and a politically hamstrung government. Late on Thursday, New Delhi confirmed the first ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

  • Please Listen to Bill Kristol, Again
    In 2008, Bill Kristol extolled the virtues of the then little-known governor of Alaska and urged John McCain to pick her as his running mate. Today, Kristol and Steve Hayes do the same for Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan. I pray that Romney heeds their "wisdom." Paul Ryan has introduced a budget prop ...
  • Give 'Em Hell, Harry
    It's true that Harry Reid can be a bit blunt, but when you look at his history of insulting people, he's always completely correct. He said George W. Bush was a loser. Well, if he were not a loser, he'd be introducing Romney at the Republican convention just as Bill Clinton intends to do for O ...
  • It Struck a Chord
    My piece on poor Mitt Romney went viral, with over 4,000 shares of the orange version and 1,300 shares of the green. It spent most of the day atop the Daily Kos recommended diary list, and then Kos posted about it on the front-page. It obviously resonated with a lot of Democrats. And it's not ...
  • We All Have Our Problems
    According to Pew Research, Mitt Romney is the most unpopular presidential candidate we've seen going back to at least 1988. He's more unpopular than Poppy Bush and Bob Dole were the month before they went down to resounding defeat. Only 18% of undecided voters have a favorable view of Romney. ...
  • Casual Observation
    I think "huddled with lobbyists" could become this election season's "intercepted by warlords." SNL needs to get on it. Discuss

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Mysteries and Wonders of REM Sleep
    Some of the greatest mysteries in life are found not in the exploration of ocean depths or ventures into outer space, but in something much more daily and routine: sleep. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • How Green Homes Can Benefit You and the Enviro ...
    Green homes benefit both the homeowner and the environment. They don't have to cost much more, and any additional costs have been proven to get paid back tenfold. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Big Wave Surfer Rides 50ft Giants
    Being a big wave rider is certainly not for the faint-hearted, as these photographs of surfer Jeff Rowley prove. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Vintage Nursing Recruitment Posters
    Sometimes sexist, always patriotic, these 10 Awesome Vintage Nursing Recruitment Posters from the wartime era make fascinating viewing and reading. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 20 Incredible Coconut Crab Photos
    Coconut crabs are the Titans among crabs – huge in size and fearsome in appearance. Yet the largest crab on land is ultimately more endangered than it is a danger to us. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

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Green Inc. - NYT

  • On Our Radar: Hunger in North Korea
    Floods have swept away crops and damaged wells and pumping stations, leaving many without food or clean drinking water, a United Nations agency said.
  • Who Are Your Sources?
    People's receptivity to climate messages depends to a large degree on where they stand on a scale of belief in climate change, from dismissive to alarmed.
  • Golf Course vs. Dunes: A Rebellion That Failed
    Talking with the director of a film about Donald Trump's new golf course in Scotland, constructed on dunes that local fought to protect.
  • On Our Radar: Facebook's Carbon Footprint
    Coal-fired power contributes the most to Facebook's energy mix, but renewable energy sources are close behind.
  • Big Drought Makes for a Small 'Dead Zone'
    Because of a lack of rain in the Midwest, far less fertilizer was flushed into rivers and far less nitrates reached the Gulf of Mexico, slowing the process that depletes oxygen there.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Plans for closed door Occupy Homes national me ...
    Many Twin Cities activists working with the Occupy Homes MN group were surprised to hear that a national gathering committee, with two representatives from their group, had decided to restrict open access to most (but not all) of the sessions of that national gathering, scheduled around August 7 ...
  • #FreeHammond - 23 July 2012 statement from acc ...
    Worth throwing up there as an example of how to keep perspective when they try to throw the book at you. Things like this crystallize the hypocrisy of conspiracy charges, cyber-fear-blather, terrorism and of course the laundering of drug money through the banking system. Till the walls tumble, J ...
  • The Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies - for ...
    Reposting this as it's a much more handy summary than I could give. Neato! I think we're seeing this get more and more privatized as well -- I have a couple flagrant sockpuppets I know and love, they are like a handy little COINTELPRO weathervane. When talking Information Operations (not to ment ...
  • Crib notes & URLs for today's discussion on Al ...
    All right I gotta be a bit raw in the formatting here... Just had a good talk for an hour with Alex Jones on the afternoon radio show. Also some good news, Zuccotti Park is reoccupied today - see http://globalrevolution.tv for live feed mixes! //// UPDATE 8PM: I forgot COINTELPRO GOTHIC 1 & ...
  • Found older manual on Civil Disturbance Operat ...
    Fortunately the MP manual which I wrote a post on last Thursday night has been circulating & spurred a lot of discussion on domestic military operations. I will be going on the Alex Jones Show at 1PM tomorrow (Central) to discuss this and other trends in domestic militarization. Please tune ...

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    India restricts agency-to-agency contacts with CIA. Canadian spy revealed classified information in “massive leak”. Germany had advance warning of 1972 Olympics massacre.
  • Obama authorizes CIA to conduct ‘non-lethal co ...
    United States President Barack Obama has officially authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to assist anti-government rebels in Syria, according to a new report by the Reuters news agency.
  • Guest Comment: Radio Still Medium of Choice fo ...
    Despite the miniaturization of technology and the proliferation of the Internet, many intelligence agencies still use radio-based number stations to reach their agents abroad.
  • Opposition fighters leave Syrian Free Army to ...
    Few outside Syria’s pro-government Alawite and Christian communities share the regime’s claim that it is fighting a war against Islamist terrorists. Clearly, the core membership of the Free Syrian Army consists of rebels whose grievances against the brutal rule of Bashar al-Assad are primarily e ...
  • US-based Russian illegals ‘groomed child ...
    A group of Russian non-official-cover operatives, who were arrested in the United States by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2010, were grooming some of their children to become spies, according to insider accounts.

War is a Crime.org

  • Syria News - Aug 4
      Free Syrian Army kidnapped 48 Iranian pilgrims near Damascus, report says - Haaretz Daily Newspaper Syrian insurgents threaten to kill Iranian media staff - Press TV Kidnapped Syrian TV host executed, says rights group - Now Lebanon Accounts of Syria rebels executing prisoners raise new h ...
  • Sanctions: Diplomacy’s Weapon of Mass Murder
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  • Brave Young Afghan Peace Workers Denied Visas ...
    Many of you remember the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers (AYPV), a remarkable group of young people in Afghanistan who are working to create a peaceful future, through the teachings of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and others.  You may have been on, or heard of, the monthly Global Conference Ca ...
  • Former Governor Don Siegelman Sentenced To 78 ...
    What a disgrace!
  • America a Democracy? Really?
    By Dave Lindorff This article was originally written forPressTV We Americans are taught it in school. The propaganda put out by Voice of America repeats the idea ad nauseum around the globe. Politicians refer to it in every campaign speech with the same fervor that they claim to be running for o ...

Grist - News

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

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  • Walmart Heirs Worth More Than Entire Bottom 40 ...
    Everyone knows that Walmart is huge, but just how huge is something we rarely think of. But now we have some data to mull over. The six heirs to the Walmart fortune are worth more than 40% of Americans combined. The Walton family, heirs to the Walmart fortune during a recent study were found to ...
  • Jackson Browne Lives In the Balance
  • Police Say Man Handcuffed With Arms Behind Bac ...
    by Alexander HigginsPolice say a man they patted down double locked in the back of their patrol car shot himself in head while handcuffed behind his back. This story – like any that deal with government corruption or police brutality – lack the pertinent details to jump to any conclusions but wh ...
  • Greenland’s ice sheets ‘less vulne ...
    Greenland’s ice seems less vulnerable than feared to a runaway melt that would drive up world sea levels, according to a study showing that a surge of ice loss had petered out. ‘It is too early to proclaim the ‘ice sheet’s future doom’ caused by climate change&#8217 ...
  • Empirical Scientific Data Continues to Discred ...
    Susanne Posel, Contributor Activist Post Based on a new mathematical reconfiguration of the false claims that CO2 is affecting the earth’s temperature, a call for a “carbon deinvestment campaign” has been made. By making carbon taxes a global and integral part of the “fee-and-dividend approach”, ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • The Original Tree Swing’s Latest Pied Piper Cr ...
    The Original Tree Swing’s Pied Piper Crafts brings parents several new Waldorf-inspired DIY kits for kids (mostly six and up). With the Pied Piper kits, kids and parents have all the basic ingredients to let their imaginations go nuts.
  • Ida-Marie Corell’s Creates an IKEA Sack Gown f ...
    Ida-Marie Corell’s ID(E)A, part of Oh Plastiksack! a co-curated show at The Gewerbemuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, features the artist playing a keyboard in an expansive blue gown…constructed from 555 sturdy Ikea shopping bags.
  • UNStudio Unveils V on Shenton Singapore Skyscr ...
    Read the rest of UNStudio Unveils V on Shenton Singapore Skyscraper With a Hive-Inspired Facade Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", eco design, eco tower, energy efficient design, gardens, green architecture, Green Building, green design, high p ...
  • PHOTOS: Marmol Radziner’s Hidden Valley Prefab ...
    Read the rest of PHOTOS: Marmol Radziner’s Hidden Valley Prefab For Sale in Moab, Utah Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, green architecture, Green Building, green design, hidden valley home, hidden valley prefab, marmol radziner, Marmol Radziner Prefab, ...
  • Prefab Infiniski Menta House Features Steel Sh ...
    Read the rest of Prefab Infiniski Menta House Features Steel Shutters Shaped Like Mint Leaves in Spain Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Corten steel, eco design, green design, Infiniski, Joseph & Mau, Menta House, natural ventilation, passive design, Prefab, Spain, ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Watch Live: Why Curiosity Is the Ultimate Mars ...
    Get a rundown of the history of robotic exploration on Mars and hear why NASA’s newest Mars rover, Curiosity, is the greatest rover yet in this live show from the Slooh Space Camera collaboration starting at 2 p.m. Pacific/5 Eastern.
  • Cheetah Sets New Land Speed Record, Beats Bolt ...
    The fastest athlete this summer isn't competing in London: She's a cheetah at the Cincinnati Zoo. The 11-year-old cheetah named Sarah ran 100 meters in 5.95 seconds, breaking her own record as fastest land mammal. In 2009, she ran it in 6.13 seconds.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Red Spac ...
    If you're like us, you could look at photos of galaxies, planets, moons and nebulas all day. But you don't have all day, so let Wired Science bring you the most intriguing, beautiful or mysterious view of space we can find. We promise they will be mind-blowing and tempt you to replace your deskt ...
  • Olympics on Mars? Neil deGrasse Tyson Imagines ...
    With a robotic emissary from Earth speeding towards the red planet for a rendezvous Sunday, an eminent scientist took to Twitter to imagine the Olympics on Mars. “The #MarsScienceLaboratory arrives at the RedPlanet in the middle of the #Olympics back here on Earth. Hmmm…How about a M ...
  • Cross Your Fingers: How to Watch NASA’s Mars R ...
    The moment is almost here. In just a couple days, NASA’s new Mars rover, Curiosity, will begin its descent to the Martian surface and hopefully start beaming back amazing images and data. Here's how to watch the exciting event live online.

PakAlert

  • Massachusetts Citizens Frightened by Midnight ...
    Editor’s note: After this story was posted earlier today, the Sun Sentinel in Hollywood, Florida, reported on a drill and advised citizens not to worry: People in Hollywood may be startled (again) by the sight of menacing looking figures rappelling from a Blackhawk helicopter over various ...
  • Homeland Security Issuing Its Own DMCA Takedow ...
    We recently wrote about the fight over copyright/fair use in political videos. In the comments, someone anonymous pointed us to a YouTube page including a typical takedown notice.. Here's a screenshot
  • Central Bankers Agenda: Obama Sanctions Agains ...
    placed more stringent sanctions on Iran’s oil sales and financial transactions. And in the next breath, he claimed that because Iran is supposedly developing a nuclear weapon, Obama will “once again reaffirming [the US government’s] commitment to hold the Iranian government accountable for its a ...
  • Most dangerous drug in the world can block fre ...
    The borrachero tree, which is marked by beautiful white and yellow blossoms that droop ever so innocuously from the plant's slender branches, holds a secret that few people outside northern South America know about. The tree's seeds, flowers, and pollen possess hallucinogenic chemical substances ...
  • Mainstream Reporter Tells The Truth About Audi ...
    When someone in the mainstream media goes out on a limb to tell the truth, then the rest of us should go out of our way to applaud that effort. Reporter Ben Swann of Fox 19 in Cincinnati is one of the few local television reporters in the United States that consistently tackles the tough issues ...

Andy Worthington

  • The Wealth of Empire: Photos of the City of Lo ...
    The Wealth of Empire: The City of London in the Rain, a set on Flickr. To describe these photos of the City of London, I used the word “empire” in the title because I believe that, in many fundamental ways, it is apt, although I realise that the British Empire is not, of course, the ...
  • The Dark Side of the Olympics: Kettling Cyclis ...
    I was at WOMAD last Friday when the £27 million Olympics Opening Ceremony took place, but a screen had been set up especially for the occasion, and I managed to catch everything from the 800 nurses celebrating the NHS, through the tour of Britain’s modern musical history, to the start of t ...
  • Big Skies and Global Beats: Photos from WOMAD’ ...
    Big Skies and Global Beats: WOMAD’s 30th Anniversary Festival (2/2), a set on Flickr. Yesterday I published my first set of photos from this year’s WOMAD world music festival in Charlton Park, Wiltshire, celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. The product of a great flowering of intere ...
  • On the 10th Anniversary of Yoo and Bybee&#8217 ...
    Exactly ten years ago, two memos written by John Yoo, a lawyer in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, were signed by his immediate boss, Jay S. Bybee. In these two memos, Yoo, also a law professor at UC Berkeley, attempted to redefine torture so that it could be used on Abu Z ...
  • Photos from WOMAD’s 30th Anniversary Fes ...
    WOMAD’s 30th Anniversary Festival, Wiltshire, July 2012 (1/2), a set on Flickr. In the history of British music festivals — and especially those with an appeal that spreads beyond these shores — the behemoth that is Michael Eavis’s Glastonbury, with its roots in the free ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Racist Decapitation Murder Shakes Small North ...
    The small North Dakota town of Cooperstown has been forever changed by its first murder in 80 years – a brutal decapitation-killing carried out by a racist, a state’s attorney says. “There are doors locked now that weren’t locked before, said Marina Spahr, the assistant state’s attorney for Grig ...
  • Men’s Rights Activists Disdain Men’s Sacrifice ...
    For most Americans, the recent mass murder in Aurora, Colo., was an unspeakable human tragedy; if the story had any political dimension at all, it was guns and gun control (or the lack thereof). But for a vocal few in the misogynistic online world of “men’s rights” — and no, not all men’s rights ...
  • Anti-Muslim Activists to Gather in Stockholm T ...
    Pamela Geller, American Islamophobia’s shrillest voice, is planning yet another demonstration of anti-Muslim hate – this time, in Europe. According to her blog, Atlas Shrugs, “the world’s leading freedom action organizations” (read: anti-Muslim hate groups) will rally in Stockholm, Sweden, tomor ...
  • Lions and Tigers and Fonts, Oh My! Proving the ...
    In the smoke-and-mirrors world of the deranged political right, there are plenty of reasons to conclude that President Obama is a “communist.” His father wrote about socialism. His mother was white and only Marxists slept with black men in her era — plus, she met Obama’s father in a Russian lang ...
  • Gay-Bashing American Family Association Thick ...
    We used to think the $20 million-a-year American Family Association (AFA) acted as crazy as it does mainly because it allowed mostly free rein to its best-known spokesman, the truly nutty Bryan Fischer. Fischer, after all, spends his days raving about how gay people were behind the Holocaust, ho ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Is Your Neighbor a Democrat? Obama Has an App ...
    Screenshots taken from two different searches of the Obama for America app, which displays the names and addresses of nearby Democratic voters.Curious how many Democrats live on your block? Just download the Obama campaign's new mobile app. ...
  • Outcry as Walmart OK's Monsanto GM Corn
    Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, has confirmed to the Chicago Tribune that despite protests from environment and food-safety advocates, it will not restrict sales of genetically modified corn in its stores. read more
  • Mathematics Impossible: Economists, Analysts P ...
    The Tax Policy Center, after assessing Mitt Romney's tax reform proposal this week, said flatly that the plan "would provide large tax cuts to high-income households, and increase the tax burdens on middle- and/or lower-income taxpayers." ...
  • Latest Jobs Report Reveals Woeful Impact of US ...
    The US jobs report released Friday showed the creation of 172,000 private sector jobs in July. Despite those nominal gains, nearly 9,000 public sector jobs were lost, a trend that many observers argue reveals the negative impact austerity measures and public sector budget cuts have had on econom ...
  • Reuters Hacked: Fake Posts Push Rumors About R ...
    The blogging platform of the Reuters news website was hacked on Friday morning and a series of false posts were  published on a journalist's blog, Thomson Reuters has confirmed. "Reuters.com was a target of a hack on Friday," the company said in a statement. "Our blogging ...

Lifehacker

  • After Focus for Android Brings DSLR-Like Optio ...
    Android: If you want your image backgrounds to blur or apply the Bokeh effect After Focus is a free and easy way to get effects usually reserved for much more expensive cameras. More »
  • Reduce Your Grocery Budget with a Food Waste D ...
    Forbes magazine estimates that we throw away 250 lbs of food per person each year, about a quarter of the total food supply sold each year. Keeping a food waste diary can help you figure out what doesn't get eaten and why so you can adjust you ...
  • DIY Goo Gone [DIY]
    Goo Gone is a commercial degreaser we like because it makes removing sticker or tape residue a breeze. But if you're looking to save money or you enjoy making your own cleaning agents you can make it yourself with gasoline and citrus oil. ...
  • Top 10 Ways to Boost Your Home Wi-Fi [Lifehack ...
    Wi-Fi is one of the most useful and important parts of using a computer, and yet it's also one of the most frustrating. If you're plagued by slow speeds, bad reception, and other Wi-Fi issues, here are 10 ways you can power up the Wi-Fi in you ...
  • Paint the Inside of Light Switch Covers to Sim ...
    The next time you repaint a room in your home consider painting the inside of your light switch cover with same paint you use on the walls; if you ever need more of that color you can remove the cover and take it in to be matched. More&nbs ...

Water Privatization

  • Water Authority Outlines Future Plans to Tackl ...
    JEDDAH, 8 October 2006 — Desalination, which currently supplies 60 percent of the Kingdom’s water, is Saudi Arabia’s strategic option, according to Fehaid Al-Sharief, governor of Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC).
  • Allentown water privatization draws concerns a ...
    Thursday marked the first public hearing for Allentown's proposal to privatize its water and sewer plants in order to make up for pension shortfalls.
  • Mayor defends water, sewer lease plan
    Pawlowski: Allentown would protect customers, employees if systems are leased. Residents had plenty of questions for Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski on Thursday about the city's plan to lease its water and sewer systems to an outside operator for 50 years.
  • Ramos opposes water reform bill
    The City Council recently approved a resolution authored by Councilor Percival Ramos expressing strong opposition to the passage the proposed Water Sector Reform Act citing its negative implications not only on water district workers but on the general public itself.
  • Ramos of District II said House Bill 2997, now ...
    Ramos of District II said House Bill 2997, now for Senate’s consideration on second reading, calls for the privatization of water districts in the country, and thus, yield more disadvantages than advantages.

Guardian

  • Carole Waugh murder: man charged with fraud
    Nicholas Kutner arrested in connection with the murder of Carole Waugh has been charged with conspiracy to commit fraudA man arrested in connection with the murder and kidnap of businesswoman Carole Waugh has been charged with four counts of conspiracy to commit fraud.Nicholas David Kutner, 47, ...
  • GB women's team pursuit win Olympic gold with ...
    • Dani King, Laura Trott and Joanna Rowsell add fourth GB gold • Team GB trio set stunning 3km record of 3min 14.051secGreat Britain's Joanna Rowsell, Dani King and Laura Trott claimed a stunning women's team pursuit gold in a blistering world record at the Olympic velodrome.Britain have won fou ...
  • Jessica Ennis and Mo Farah go for Olympics ath ...
    Rolling report: Great Britain are in the medals hunt on a jam-packed night of finals in the Olympic Stadium. Join Sean IngleSean Ingle
  • Sudan and South Sudan move towards ending oil row
    Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton hail 'new momentum towards peace' as Sudanese rivals take first step towards oil dealSudan claims it has reached a deal with South Sudan on oil transit fees, a first step towards ending a row which had brought the hostile neighbours close to war, but also said it ...
  • War for Aleppo: battle rages in city that will ...
    Skirmishes have broken out in Aleppo as rebels pour in to confront regime loyalists in what will be a decisive clashThe pitched battle for Syria's oldest city was edging ever closer to its ancient heart on Saturday, with skirmishes flaring near world-renowned landmarks and once impregnable pilla ...

McClatchey

  • Serena Williams breezes to gold on high-flying ...
    Serena Williams needed just 1 hour, 3 minutes to put away the Russian, Maria Sharapova, who was competing in her first Olympics. Williams, 30, took charge from the start, racing…Click to Continue »
  • Dave Barry: Now we can add another name to the ...
    To the list of legendary athletes who have won Olympic gold medals under great pressure - names such as Jesse Owens, Babe Ruth and Charles Lindbergh - we can now…Click to Continue »
  • Team USA struggles against Lithuania before pu ...
    After a record-shattering 83-point annihilation of Nigeria on Thursday, the U.S. men's basketball team expected a tougher test Saturday against an experienced Lithuanian squad. They certainly got it.Click to Continue »
  • Obama to sign Lejeune bill at Oval Office sign ...
    President Obama will sign a bill on Monday to give health care to thousands of sick Marine veterans and their families who were exposed to contaminated water at Marine Corps…Click to Continue »
  • 40 years after Idi Amin expelled Asians from U ...
    Forty years ago when Riyaz Hassanali, then 12, boarded a plane with his family at Entebbe International Airport in Uganda, he realized he had dropped a transistor radio and a…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Williams Beats Sharapova To Claim Olympic Tenn ...
    American Serena Williams has won her first Olympic tennis women's singles gold medal with a 6-0, 6-1 demolition of Russia's Maria Sharapova on Wimbledon's Centre Court on August 4. ...
  • Ulster flag removed at Afghan base
    A serving soldier said the Northern Ireland flag had been displayed along with the Scottish, Welsh and English flags in the mess at Bastion 1 to represent all areas of the UK.The soldier said he was ...
  • Market bomb kills three in Afghanistan
    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan police say a remote-controlled bomb in a busy market has killed two policemen and one civilian in the country's northwest. The explosion went off as ...
  • Family says Florida soldier killed Afghanistan
    LARGO, Fla. -- Family members say a Tampa Bay-area soldier has been killed in Afghanistan.The family of Staff Sgt. Matthew Steven Sitton says Army officials told them Thursday that the 26-year-old ...
  • 2 Top Ministers Face Dismissal in Afghanistan
    KABUL, Afghanistan - The Afghan Parliament voted to dismiss the two most powerful members of the government’s security team on Saturday, a surprise move that could create new turmoil in an ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Tax Court calls for an answer from IRS whistle ...
    The United States Tax Court issued an order Tuesday that requires the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to respond by September 24, 2012, to an amicus brief filed by the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC). We reported here on July 11, 2012, about the NWC "friend of the court" brief in I ...
  • FRSA ALERT! Railroads Lose Power To Interfere ...
    We are pleased to repost, with permission, this blog entry by Charlie Goetsch from trainlawblog.com, announcing a favorable and precedent-setting decision by the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB). Congratulations to Charlie Goetsch for obtaining the outstanding result for h ...
  • Fourth Circuit says employees can copy data th ...
    Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (in Richmond, Virginia) ruled that employers cannot use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) to make claims against former employees who copied computer files before separating from employment.  This decision agrees with the Nin ...
  • NWC amicus urges Supreme Court to reverse in L ...
    Today, Stephen M. Kohn and I are filing a "friend of the court" brief urging the United States Supreme Court to accept review of, and reverse, the First Circuit's decision in Lawson v. FMR. I wrote here previously about the two-judge majority in the First Circuit had terribly misconstr ...
  • The FBI is Waiting for Special Agent Theresa F ...
    The story of FBI whistleblower Theresa Foley is distasteful and sordid - one too often told when speaking of FBI whistleblowers.  Theresa Foley is no shrinking violet. She came from a law enforcement family and was a DEA support employee before joining the FBI in 2000. In ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Dan Bull's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    Looking across Techdirt this week, two trends make themselves apparent time and time again. As artists utilize new ways to succeed, gatekeepers such as book publishers and record labels are becoming increasingly obsolete. The more obsolete these gatekeepers become, the crazier their tactics in ...
  • Why Tragedies Result In Overreactions: 'Our Br ...
    Bruce Schneier has an excellent post over at CNN discussing why it's so easy for everyone from the general public to earnest politicians to draw the wrong conclusions after major tragedies, like the recent shooting in Aurora. Occasionally, a horrific incident will result in a positive change in ...
  • Avoiding Olympic Spoilers: A Guide
    As the Olympic Games rage on and an entire world full of people watch on to remind themselves that they should have paid better attention in their high school geography classes (stop lying: you couldn't pick out Angola on a map either), the old-world thinking of the various Olypmic committee ...
  • Warner Bros. Sues A Ton Of Amazon Resellers Fo ...
    The Hollywood Reporter has a story on Warner Bros. filing a lawsuit against a bunch of individuals who use Amazon's marketplace offering to sell DVDs that Warner Bros. claims are counterfeit. The lawsuit is pretty weak on details so far. The THR report speculates on whether or not this is abou ...
  • DailyDirt: DIY Fast Food
    Some restaurants guard their recipes as if they were the blueprints for a nuclear bomb. But it's usually not that difficult to reverse-engineer some kind of copycat meal that tastes pretty good, and there are tons of foodies out there with blogs dedicated to replicating all kinds of famous dishe ...

VacTruth

  • To Hide in the Pig Sty
    The first thing that one has to ask is: Who, in the consuming community, complained about pig stink when cooking? There had to be a market pressure for industry to respond before a huge industry would respond with a costly intervention. That is where the illusion breaks down.
  • Your Child May Get This Deadly Allergy After B ...
    Millions of children worldwide are being injected with this allergen over and over again in connection with vaccination schedules, often starting with the Hepatitis B vaccine when babies are only a few hours old. Is it any wonder that this specific allergy affects millions and that the numbers a ...
  • Vaccines: What Your Doctors Know and Don’t Know
    Do you ever wonder what doctors know about the dozens of vaccines they inject into your children? The answer may surprise you.
  • Are There Chemical Markers in the Urine of Aut ...
    A chemist and his team have been working on finding molecular compounds in autistic children’s urine.
  • Vaccines Kill 8 Children; Others Critically Sick
    In the last few months vaccinations have caused the death of eight children and left others critically ill. The most recent death to be reported is a three month old baby girl who died just hours after receiving the 5 in 1 vaccination.

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Occupy our Homes DC has a new petition up to try and save Deborah Harris’s house.  They are only a few signatures away from their goal, so if you would be so kind… I was watching this video of James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Sidney Poitier, and Joseph ...
  • Some Thoughts on the GA Prisoner Strike
    Sadly, most people don’t seem to be paying much attention to all the prisoner strikes that have been happening across the country. In Georgia, two prisoners went without food for more than 47 days. You really need to watch this video. One of the things that struck me about that interview w ...
  • Activism and the Unbearable Dissonance
    I’ve been thinking a lot about why more people don’t get involved in activism. Which means I have been thinking a lot about what compelled me to get involved. I’ve known that things were fucked up since I was a tween. I may have more data and a different analysis now, but the s ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Just back from LA this morning where I learned far too much about Aaron Sorkin’s proclivities. I also learned that you can get a tequila shot and a beer for $4. Both kinda gave me a headache, but the tequila shots were way more fun. Related to the above in ways that will make no [...]
  • Communication. Understanding. Action.
    One of my most deeply held beliefs is that people shouldn’t just jump into things without spending a lot of time understanding the situation. And that goes a bazillion times more when we are talking about the actions of activists who are working on issues that affect others more than thems ...

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War in Context

  • War for Aleppo: battle rages in city that will ...
    Martin Chulov reports from Aleppo: The pitched battle for Syria’s oldest city was edging ever closer to its ancient heart on Saturday, with skirmishes flaring near world-renowned landmarks and once impregnable pillars of state control. Monuments and security buildings stand cheek-by-jowl i ...
  • Is there an alternative to chaos?
    The Economist reports: For all the talk of an early endgame being played out in Syria in the aftermath of the bombing that killed four of Bashar Assad’s key security enforcers, Western governments and their intelligence services are not betting on the regime’s imminent collapse. The battle under ...
  • Syria crisis felt in Israel and occupied Golan ...
    BBC News reports: The deepening crisis in Syria threatens to have a destabilising effect on all of its neighbours but Israel has a particular set of concerns. Technically, the two countries have been in a state of war since 1948. Israel also continues to occupy the Golan Heights, Syrian territor ...
  • What does the hacking of Reuters reveal?
    As has been widely reported, a Reuters blog was hacked yesterday and bogus articles were posted claiming that rebel forces had withdrawn from Aleppo. What observations can we make about the hacking? Firstly, the hackers have no sympathies with the Free Syrian Army since the reporting clearly had ...
  • Assad’s dependence on powerful weapons exposes ...
    C.J. Chivers reports: With diplomatic efforts dead and the future of Syria playing out on the battlefield, many of the Syrian government’s most powerful weapons, including helicopter gunships, fighter jets and tanks, are looking less potent and in some cases like a liability for the military of ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Weekend Open Thread
    Taking a break, it has been an exhausting week. Postings resume Monday. Be sure to vote in the August ARCUS sea ice forecast poll.
  • Sea Ice News – Volume 3 Number 9
    I don’t have much time for a detailed post, a number of people want to discuss sea ice, so here is your chance. We also need to update the ARCUS forecast  for August, due Monday August 6th.  Poll follows: 
  • Vaporizing the Earth
    From Washington University in St. Louis, and in honor of melted globe week, here’s one more thing for weepy Bill McKibben to worry about. In science fiction novels, evil overlords and hostile aliens often threaten to vaporize the Earth. At … Continue reading →
  • The secret letter UEA and CRU doesn’t wa ...
    Uh oh. Steve McIntyre has written an eviscerating essay about a secret letter circulated by the IPCC to UEA/CRU, which they are refusing to divulge, because: there would be an adverse effect on international relations between IPCC WG1 and academic … Continue reading →
  • Friday Funny – facts don’t matter ...
    From Senator Inhofe’s office, more on the story about the melting street lamps in Oklahoma and follow up press release: =========================================================== Yesterday Inhofe revealed that a dumpster fire, not global warming, was the reason for streetlight lamps to me ...

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Biosingularity

  • The Benefits of Daydreaming
    Does your mind wander? During a class or meeting, do you find yourself staring out the window and thinking about what you’ll do tomorrow or next week? As a child, were you constantly reminded by teachers to stop daydreaming? Well, psychological research is beginning to reveal that daydreaming is ...
  • Prostate cancer patients given hope by new &#8 ...
    A new drug that tackles advanced prostate cancer in three different ways has passed its first hurdle towards being approved. Scientists reported promising early trial results using galeterone, which is designed to treat cancer that no longer responds to hormone therapy. However, researchers coun ...
  • Consciousness Does Not Reside Here
    What is the relation between selective attention and consciousness? When you strain to listen to the distant baying of coyotes over the sound of a campsite conversation, you do so by attending to the sound and becoming conscious of their howls. When you attend to your sparring opponent out of th ...
  • How Genes Organize the Surface of the Brain
    The first atlas of the surface of the human brain based upon genetic information has been produced by a national team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the VA San Diego Healthcare System. The work is published in the March 30 issu ...
  • 3D medical animation about acne

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Pruning Shears

  • Hiram residents attempt to ask questions about ...
    Thursday’s post on Hiram’s public fracking meeting mainly covered residents’ interaction with local officials. The bigger part of the meeting, though, featured two speakers with ties to the oil and gas industry. A representative from the company Mountaineer Keystone (MK) made ...
  • Hiram residents seek local control on fracking
    On Tuesday the town of Hiram held a public meeting with representatives of the company Mountaineer Keystone (MK). MK, a subsidiary of First Reserve Corporation, is set to begin fracking operations in Hiram next month. The company is a bit of an enigma; for one, it does not appear to have a web ...
  • Quantifying the impact of the Republican agenda
    I attended a local government meeting earlier this month in order to keep up with the latest on fracking in our town. Something else interesting happened as well. The meeting began with a budget review. Budget reviews are long and drawn out affairs even when they’re not, if you know wha ...
  • The view of fracking from San Pablo Bay
    Marvin Patten is an environmental health science student at Kent State University. The following letter was presented to the Kent city council earlier this year. The recent struggle over the disposal of fracking fluid sent to Warren’s Patriot Water System treatment plant gives renewed im ...
  • 'Nuns on the Bus' passes through Cleveland
    On June 17th the Catholic social justice lobbying group NETWORK launched a 15 day Nuns on the Bus tour. (As befits their budding rock star status, they are selling a tour shirt as well.) They are speaking out against the House Republican budget because, as they write: “When the federal g ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Old Man Santo Had a Farm
    Click here to read this article
  • USDA Prepares To Greenlight Gnarliest GMO Soy Yet
    In early July, on the sleepy Friday after Independence Day, the USDA quietly signaled its intention to greenlight a new genetically engineered soybean seed from Dow AgroSciences. The product is designed to produce soy plants that withstand 2,4-D, a highly toxic herbicide (and, famously, the less ...
  • US Farmers Markets Surge: USDA
    Urban farmers markets across the US have become increasingly popular over the past few years and are now surging and expanding at unseen levels, according the the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA will announce Friday that the number of direct-sales markets has increased 9.6 per cent ...
  • Child Labor: Small Hands Legally Picking our Food
    SAN FRANCISCO - Thousands of children, many too young to drive, are hard at work putting in long hours in brutal conditions to make sure the rest of us eat well - and cheaply. Click here to read this article
  • Rock the Barn: A Bicycle Tour for California P ...
    Summer temperatures, Olympic competitions, and the presidential election are not the only things heating up these days. This August, a promotional bicycle tour hopes to fan the flames of a highly controversial issue--the labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on many packaged food pr ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • The 2012 Farm Bill: Evolution or Devolution?
    With no agreement between the two branches of Congress, farmers suffering from the severe drought will not receive the aid they desperately need any time soon. And, with Congress officially away on summer recess, no further forward momentum will occur until they return in September. And so, we c ...
  • An Interesting Eggs-perience
    I thought it was particularly intriguing that the discussion in the hearing, while under the guise of improving animal welfare standards, focused primarily on the complex economics of egg production.
  • Why Must the USDA Flip-Flop on Meatless Monday?
    The really sobering piece is the hypocrisy. Within the last two years, USDA issued a very clear set of recommendations for a healthy diet. These dietary guidelines suggest increasing the amount of fruits and vegetables in a weekly diet, and the guidelines are designed to improve public health an ...
  • Disappointment with USDA’s Decision on Meatles ...
    From a statement issued today by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. On Friday, Michael J. Klag, MD, MPH, dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, wrote to Secretary Vilsack of USDA to express his disappointment with his agency’s recent retraction of a Meatle ...
  • Esri 2012: Exciting New Uses for ArcGIS
    The projects I heard about at the conference have inspired me to think about how I can incorporate elements from them into our Food System Map.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Just Say No to GMO
    Enviro Rap Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Noam Chomsky - In Hiroshimas Shadow
    This years Aug. 6 memorials have special significance. They take place shortly before the 50th anniversary of the most dangerous moment in human history, in the words of the historian and John F. Kennedy adviser Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., referring to Submitted by Wild Thang to World  |&n ...
  • 10 years ago American sanctified torture
    Includes links from Andy Worthington's tireless effort for Gitmo prisoners as well as much other info. My link looks to be missing in comments http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.ca/2010/09/law.html Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |  & ...
  • Why We ALL Have Psychic Powers: How Thought Pr ...
    Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D. is one of the world's most innovative biologists, and is best known for his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance, which leads to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory. Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat  |  ...
  • Notes on Climate Crisis
    People are alarmed about the environment. I think they should be - including monitoring changes in weather - but focusing on a fixed 'debate' run in circles is not my idea of analysis Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • WHY in the World Are They Spraying? Lifts Veil ...
    Recently I had the opportunity to review a screener copy of the soon to be released film “WHY in the World Are They Spraying?.” In my opinion, this film is by far the most in-depth analysis of the chemtrail/geo-engineering issue that I have seen to date, clearly outlining the motives behind this ...
  • The Lost American Dream: Living Off The Land
    Barb and Tink have found a way to survive and minimize all of their expenses by growing their own food, bartering with neighbors and extreme budgeting with their small income.
  • WHY in the World are They Spraying? Video Cont ...
    WHY in the World are They Spraying? Video contest in which the winner will receive $1000.00 via Paypal or if in the United States, airfare, Hotel, and a free 3 day pass to the premier and Consciousness Beyond Chemtrails event up to $1000 in value.
  • The Day ‘Our America with Lisa Ling’ Came to F ...
    I am happy to announce that an opportunity to extend the Farm Wars food independence and survival message to a wider audience came when Darcy Dennett contacted me about filming an episode of Our America with Lisa Ling titled Lost American Dream on the OWN network. Well, that’s right up our alley ...
  • We Won’t Get Fooled Again (Part 1)
    I find it interesting that a starving graduate student, living in a modest apartment, could afford very expensive weaponry, a bulletproof vest, a modern gas mask, groin and neck protectors, complicated bombs and tear gas. This was a well-funded operation and there doesn't seem to be any plausibl ...

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Rebekah Brooks charged over phone hacking alle ...
    ShareThisRebekah Brooks charged over phone hacking allegations 02 Aug 2012 Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks was formally charged with phone hacking and will appear in court next month, Scotland Yard have said. Brooks, 44, answered bail at Lewisham police station and will ...
  • Ebola outbreak at Kibaale prison; inmates amon ...
    ShareThisEbola outbreak at Kibaale prison; inmates among 30 people with suspected virus 02 Aug 2012 The hospital at the center of an Ebola outbreak in Uganda is now dealing with 30 suspected cases, including five from Kibaale prison, Dr. Dan Kyamanywa said Thursday. Three patients at Kagadi hosp ...
  • Iraq seeking Russian air defence gear -official
    ShareThisIraq seeking Russian air defence gear -official 02 Aug 2012 Iraq's acting defence minister is in Russia negotiating the purchase of air surveillance equipment to help Iraq rebuild its crippled military defences, a lawmaker said on Thursday. Under Saddam Hussein, Iraq's air force was one ...
  • Four NATO Troops, Afghans Killed in Attacks
    ShareThisFour NATO Troops, Afghans Killed in Attacks 01 Aug 2012 Four soldiers with the NATO-led military alliance and seven Afghans were killed on Wednesday in separate incidents, officials said. The alliance said in a statement that two soldiers and an interpreter died in a bomb attack in east ...
  • Wind, heat fuel destructive Oklahoma wildfires
    ShareThisWind, heat fuel destructive Oklahoma wildfires 03 Aug 2012 A wildfire whipped by gusty, southerly winds swept through rural woodlands south of the Oklahoma City area Friday, burning a number of homes as firefighters struggled to contain it in 113-degree heat. Oklahoma's emergency manage ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • RUN HIDE FIGHT Surviving an Active Shooter
  • TALIBAN STATEMENT Today
    Published: 24 July 2012 The Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid spontaneously emailed a statement to me today.  It looks like the Taliban are on defense after the recent murder of a woman.  The video of her execution went viral.  The Taliban claims no part in the execution.&nbsp ...
  • Our dithering has played into Assad's hands
    Written by: Mark Palmer and Paul Wolfowitz Published: 22 July 2012 At a time when the Assad regime appears to be tottering, the United States, Britain and other friends of Syria should be trying to give it a push. Instead, we are engaged in a fruitless effort to get a new sanctions resolution ...
  • More than 50,000 Facebook Readers
    We have more than 50,000 folks subscribed to my Facebook.  Please follow the conversations on Facebook.  Some are great, some are good, and some totally flop, but all are interesting. https://www.facebook.com/MichaelYonFanPage
  • Soldiers' Angels is Dying
    22 July 2012 On 17 July 2012, Soldiers' Angels announced that Executive Director Toby Nunn was leaving the organization.  Rumors of impropriety have surrounded Nunn.  Plenty of those landed in my inbox and in my ears.  I warned SA leadership and the public. Moreover, a roadkill ...

The Killing Train

  • Paraguay: Weaving Peoples Resistance Against C ...
    Hello friends. We at En Camino put this together and it has gathered signatures since the coup. We are hoping to work together to find ways to support FDD in the coming weeks and months. -Justin ------- The undersigning organizations, collectives and individuals working towards a coordinated ini ...
  • The International Organization for a Participa ...
    I joined the International Organization for a Participatory Society. read more
  • Curuguaty and the Paraguay Coup
    When the landless peasants of the Carperos Campesino Movement moved on to the 70,000 hectare ranch in Curuguaty registered to Blas Riquelme, they would have known that they were risking their lives. Using the same successful methods as elsewhere in Latin America, perhaps most famously by the Lan ...
  • Help that hurts: An interview with Tim Schwart ...
    First published on ZNet, March 18, 2012 Tim Schwartz is an anthropologist with extensive experience in the foreign aid sector in Haiti. He is the author of the book, Travesty in Haiti, and of an upcoming book studying the nature and problems of the ways nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) opera ...
  • Professionals and Torturers
    The key moment in many revolutions comes when police and militaries refuse to fire on crowds. But what is difficult to explain about those moments is their infrequency. Soldiers and police come from the same society as the crowds. Why do they kill them? Why are elites and authorities able to res ...

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Stuart Dean: ‘We should engage with them and e ...
    After the US began easing key sanctions against Burma this July, General Electric became the first major American corporation to invest in the country and inked deals to begin supplying hospitals in Rangoon with medical equipment. David Stout spoke with Stuart L. Dean, CEO of GE in ASEAN, about ...
  • US Congress extends Burma import ban
    The US Congress on Thursday extended a ban on imports from Burma, seeking to maintain pressure despite a series of reforms in the country that have prompted an easing of other sanctions
  • ‘Rangoon bomber’ receives presidential pardon
    Death row prisoner Phyo Wai Aung, who was charged with plotting the New Year’s bombings in April 2010, has been freed by a presidential pardon this afternoon
  • Political prisoner beaten at Insein
    Officials at Rangoon’s Insein prison beat a political prisoner, who was being transferred from Arakan state’s Sittwe prison to Pegu’s Tharawaddy prison, during a brief stopover at the facility on 31 July
  • Bangladesh targets charities working with Rohingya
    Bangladesh has ordered three international charities to stop providing aid to Rohingya refugees who cross the border to flee persecution and violence in Burma, an official said Thursday

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National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Sixth Circuit strikes down Ohio law restrictin ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit [official website] on Friday struck down [opinion, PDF] a portion of an Ohio law [Ohio Rev Code § 3599.45] that prohibited doctors who treat Medicaid patients from contributing to the political campaigns of candidates for state attorney ...
  • UN rights expert urges investigation into sect ...
    [JURIST] A UN rights expert on Saturday urged an independent investigation into sectarian violence taking place in the Myanmar [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] state of Rakhine. After spending a week in Myanmar, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Toma ...
  • Kansas judge refuses to dismiss lawsuit challe ...
    [JURIST] A Kansas judge on Friday refused to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the state's new abortion clinic regulations after state officials asked that they be upheld without a trial. The state argued [AP report] that they have a rational reason for enacting the new regulations in that they were ...
  • Military commission to hear oral arguments on ...
    [JURIST] A military commissions judge at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder] announced [order, PDF] Thursday that he will hear oral arguments [press release] regarding allegations [motion, PDF] by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] that the government censored discussi ...
  • ACLU challenges congressional insider trading law
    [JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed suit [complaint, PDF] in federal court on Thursday arguing that a provision of a new law designed to stop insider trading by members of Congress and federal employees violates these employees' privacy and freedom of spee ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

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Tikun Olam

  • Bibi: IDF Generals Only Worried About Covering ...
    There’s trouble in the Promised Land when Israel’s prime minister complains (in English) that his generals are pussies afraid to attack Iran for fear of the finger of blame pointing at them when the commission of inquiry seeks to assign blame for failures.  In fact, I just learned a ...
  • U.S. Leaks War-Plan for Iran Attack
    I’ve written regularly here about Israel’s manipulation of U.S. media and public opinion in favor of military intervention against Iran.  This perception management campaign has gone on for years.  But recent days have proven that two can play at this.  The U.S. too has a horse in th ...
  • Was al-Awlaki FBI Informant?
    FoxNews revealed today that Anwar al-Awlaki, one of the few U.S. citizens ever murdered by a drone targeted-assassination (whose 16 year-old son was similarly murdered in a separate incident), was a guest of the Defense Department in the executive dining room at the Pentagon in February 2002.  I ...
  • Panetta Calls Netanyahu, Barak “Piggish, Ungra ...
    There are those Israelis and other serious Middle East observers who don’t believe Israel will attack Iran.  They’re far too optimistic in my view.  It foolish to talk in such definitive terms as Larry Derfner does in the 972 Magazine post linked above.  Leon Panetta , Tom Donilon an ...
  • Netanyahu Plummets in Polls
    Bibi Netanyahu’s popularity has plummeted to its lowest point during his tenure as prime minister with a favorability rating of 31% compared to 60%  who disapprove.  His lowest previous poll had shown 54% approval and he’d never dropped below the 50% mark. Despite Bibi’s reputa ...

If Americans Knew

  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
  • Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
    Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
  • International law is clear: Israeli settlement ...
    Eric Rozenman's Dec. 11 Op-Ed article, "Israeli settlements are more than legitimate," is legal nonsense that disregards history. He is correct in his observation that Article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine permitted "close settlement by Jews on the land, including state lands and waste lands no ...
  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Stable at Last, PANDA Reaches 1.0!
    Eleven months ago, we began prototyping PANDA. The PANDA project aims to make basic data analysis quick and easy for news organizations, and make data sharing simple. I hacked for a month on an experimental version, verified that our technology choices worked, and then threw it out and started o ...
  • Can Google Maps + Fusion Tables Beat OpenBlock?
    WRAL.com, North Carolina's most widely read online news site, recently published a tool that allows you to search concealed weapons permits down to the street level. It didn't use OpenBlock to do so. Why? Or, if you're like many journalistically and technically savvy people I've spoken over the ...
  • How SahelResponse.org Used TileMill, Open Data ...
    To bring key aid agencies together and help drive international response, the SahelResponse.org data-sharing initiative maps information about the ongoing food crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa. More than 18 million people across the Sahel are at risk and in need of food assistance in th ...
  • Why Code in the Newsroom? New York Times, ProP ...
    As the deadline to apply to become a 2013 Knight-Mozilla Fellow approaches, there’s one question often comes up: Why would I want to work as a developer in the newsroom? There are all sorts of reasons—from being in the room when news breaks, to working with a community of people ...
  • A Look Back at News Hack Day SF
    This is a guest column by ScraperWiki's Thomas Levine, an awesome data scientist who spends his time roaming the globe finding interesting data and doing stuff with it. Blogging about News Hack Day SF, which brought together journalists, developers and designers for several days of creative n ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Race for Hydropower - Hydropower Proposal ...
    n environmental advocacy group says a bill introduced Thursday in the House will harm rivers by cutting funding for restoration programs, according to UPI. House Natural Resources Chairman Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) says his bill would officially recognize hydropower as renewable energy. It also blo ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Obama Camp Facing Cash Crisis
    Get ready for this year’s “October Surprise� — the news event in the weeks before the presidential election that has the potential to push the remaining undecided voters behind one candidate and decide the outcome. Here’s a sneak peek at the “surprise.�In late October, President Ob ...
  • The Weapon's Edge - Pentagon To Ground V-22 Ai ...
    A tranche of American hybrid airplane-helicopters won’t be buzzing over the skies of Japan anytime soon. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Japanese Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto announced on Friday that U.S-led operations of the V-22 Osprey aircraft would be suspended in the country until ...
  • The Battle for Syria - Al-Qaeda Resurgent In I ...
    Al-Qaeda is back in Iraq, a fact underscored by a wave of spectacular attacks this summer. With 325 Iraqis killed by militants, according to statistics released on August 1 by the Iraqi Health Ministry, July was the country's deadliest month in two years. Al-Qaeda, believed to be on the wane in ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Black Pastors Oppose Democrats ...
    Support for same-sex marriage is now in the Democratic Party preliminary platform. Once approved by the full platform committee and voted on at the convention, same-sex marriage will have the party's formal support. But as Democrats institutionalize their support for same sex-marriage, their rel ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Newsbusted Exculsive:Greece to Sell The Acropolis
    As Greece enters its fifth year of recession, not only is the count's economy falling apart but its dragging much of the rest of the worlds economy down also.  Even though its new government is trying to implement reforms things continue to look bleak and the government may run out of money ...
  • Unemployment Rises to 8.3%- Sequestration Will ...
    The monthly unemployment rate released just 15 minutes ago increasing for the second straight month from 8.2 to 8.3%. Of additional concern are the coming cuts in the defense budget which will hurt the already bad jobs situation: Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 163,000 in July, and t ...
  • Two Years Ago Today:Turbo-Tax Tim Wrote "Welco ...
    Boy oh Boy, time flies when the economy stinks. It was two years ago today during the "recovery summer," Treasury Secretary Turbo-Tax Tim Geithner penned an op-ed for the New York Times called "Welcome To The Recovery." In the piece Geithner detailed all the reasons why the economy had turn ...
  • Harry Reid Doubles Down On Romney Rumors-John ...
    Maybe its time for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to take his meds and retire to the dog track- the guy is totally out of touch with reality. After two days of being criticized and ridiculed, he is doubling down on his charges that a mysterious phantom told him Mitt Romney hasn't p ...
  • Trumka's Latest Misuse of Union Dues-Fixing Ob ...
    According to AFL-CIA bully-in-chief, Richard Trumka President Barack Obama has a "white guy" problem. So he intends to "fix it" he is going to take the hard earned union dues of working class white guys and use it to tell them why they should vote for Obama. In actuality the socialist ...

The Real Agenda

  • Antarctica was once a Green Rainforest, scient ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 3, 2012 One point with which climate alarmists always struggle with, is understanding, explaining or accepting how climate patterns occur throughout centuries or millenia, and how those patterns have little to do with the insignificant influen ...
  • Obama Authorizes War Against Syria Without Con ...
    The US President has violated the Constitution once again by authorizing support for the Syrian rebel groups that fight against the Syrian Army. Having done so, he has effectively declared war on the country. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 3, 2012 President Barack Obama has ...
  • Russia now has Nuclear Missiles in Cuba
    By PAUL J. WATSON | INFOWARS.com | AUGUST 2, 2012 A report out of Pravda quotes President Vladimir Putin as saying that Russia has moved strategic nuclear missiles to Cuba in response to the United States’ continuing efforts to encircle Russia in Eastern Europe. The article, written by ...
  • France Begins Taxing Financial Transactions
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 2, 2012 France has implemented –beginning today — a new financial transactions tax, a levy of 0.2% to be paid by investors whose shares belong to businesses with headquarters in the country. Transactions in shares of companies whos ...
  • Would you like a micro chip with your prescrip ...
    By AMY MAXMEN | NATURE | AUGUST 2, 2012 Digestible microchips embedded in drugs may soon tell doctors whether a patient is taking their medications as prescribed.  These sensors are the first ingestible devices approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). To some, they signif ...

Wind Watch

  • SA wind farm plan rejected at council level
    A proposed wind farm for the mid-north of South Australia has been rejected. After an extraordinary meeting lasting almost six hours, Goyder Council’s Development Assessment Panel rejected TruEnergy’s proposed Stony Gap wind farm, near Burra. It is the first time a wind farm applicat ...
  • Crews spend day fighting fire at Kahuku wind farm
    The latest call came just after 11:30 a.m. on Kamehameha Highway between Charlie Road and Marconi Road. Fire officials said it all started when an alarm went off at 4:45 a.m. First Wind officials said smoke was coming from a battery energy storage facility. Toxic smoke was mixing with ordinary s ...
  • Wind turbine starts fire near Tehachapi
    A large wind turbine burst into flame late Friday night in the mountains above Mojave, causing a small grassfire. The fire took place near the intersection of Oak Creek and Tehachapi Willow Springs roads. The fire was spotted and photographed by passersby who, ironically, had just left a meeting ...
  • Spruce Mt. Wind neighbors complain of “a ...
    Woodstock property owners near the Spruce Mountain Wind turbines – particularly camp owners on Shagg and Concord ponds – said at a public informational meeting last week that noise from the towers is louder than expected, because it carries over water and bounces off nearby hills. Its effe ...
  • Gulf turbine plan sparks wildlife debate
    The 300 offshore wind turbines proposed for the Gulf of Mexico near South Padre Island would rival the Tower of the Americas in height, with 280-foot blades longer than the wingspan of a Boeing 747. They would be almost twice the size of any turbine currently in the United States. The electricit ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Sow, and the State Shall Reap
    For hundreds of years Ethiopian kings had absolute power over the kingdom’s property. A king could give it to anyone he chose and reclaim it at his pleasure. Further, property was inherited by the king rather than by the (nominal) owner’s family. Manoel De Almeida, a Portuguese Jesuit priest who ...
  • Jobs Added, but Unemployment Rises to 8.3 Percent
    “The American economy continued its long slog upward from the depths of the Great Recession, adding 163,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in July, the Labor Department said on Friday. That compares to a revised 64,000 jobs in June. For context, the economy now produces as many goods and services—mo ...
  • Tax Difference Shapes Tobacco Buying
    Fewer Americans are smoking cigarettes, but a growing number are turning to cigarettelike cigars that can sell for as little as seven cents apiece or to making cigarettes from inexpensive loose tobacco labeled for pipe use, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday. Sales ...
  • Regulation Red Herring
    Order grows from market forces. But where do impersonal market forces come from? These are the result of human action.
  • Regulation Red Herring
    Order grows from market forces. But where do impersonal market forces come from? These are the result of human action.

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Managing research: Your personal library, online
    As a university professor, I not only teach — I also need to keep up-to-date with the literature in my field. This is so much easier now than it was when I was a graduate student long ago — now I can download PDFs of relevant articles and catalog them in folders on my hard drive, so ...
  • Most viewed posts
    Here’s a lazy update: To find any post in the image below, just type the title (or keywords) into the search box at left. I like running these stats from time to time to see which posts here are most popular.
  • Plagiarism and journalism students
    When students plagiarize, they take a risk. I guess they tell themselves nothing very bad will happen to them. When journalism students plagiarize, the risk is pretty damned big. For example, you lose your chance to work as a journalist. Ever. I’m going to omit the name of the former stu ...
  • Every journalist is a copy editor (or needs to be)
    As print/online newsrooms evolve, the role of copyediting (and the people who copyedit) is changing. Steve Buttry, director of community engagement and social media at Journal Register Co., just wrote a long blog post about this. There’s useful information there for students, journalism ed ...
  • Programming and journalism students: A convers ...
    I think it’s pretty cool to use Storify to sort out the threads of a bunch of simultaneous conversations on Twitter: [View the story "Programming and journalism students: A conversation" on Storify] Please join in — on Twitter, on Facebook, or here.

Facing South

  • Will the Duke Energy scandal hurt the Democrat ...
    The Democratic Party tied its upcoming convention's fortunes to Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, now embroiled in a scandal over an abrupt CEO switch following the company's merger with Progress Energy. What will the controversy mean for the party in the upcoming election? read more
  • Tennessee program to provide photo IDs missing ...
    To quell criticism of the state's new voter ID law, Tennessee lawmakers offered to provide free photo IDs to those without one. But the state's own data shows that the program is reaching only a fraction of voters who will need it to vote this fall. read more
  • Mexican drug cartels and the U.S. banking industry
    Before its purchase by Wells Fargo, North Carolina-based Wachovia laundered over $378 billion for illegal drug organizations -- and paid just $160 million in fines. It's part of a broader and disturbing trend in the U.S. banking industry. read more
  • The big money behind the assault against sea l ...
    A controversial bill that would block North Carolina agencies from considering the science of sea level rise in making planning decisions has gotten a lot of national attention -- but what hasn't gotten much scrutiny are the powerful development interests behind the legislation. read more
  • Southern states show biggest job gains
    The recent jobs report showed the economy continues to struggle. Many of the states that have seen the biggest job gains are in the South -- but that likely won't help Obama much in November. read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Police
    Some scattered thoughts on cops, particularly cops in the US. Police exist primarily to protect property arrangements.  The war on drugs have paramilitarized police, with a heavy emphasis on overwhelming force.  While police have always considered themselves above the common herd, and have alway ...
  • The best news this year is the Court of Justic ...
    Software, once sold, can be resold.  The person selling it cannot keep using it, but the original publisher has no right to stop the sale. This is a big deal.  A really big deal, and really good news.  It allows brokers, it allows you to sell your software once done.  It allows you to treat [...]
  • I wonder how much Ashley Fantz of CNN gets pai ...
    Beautiful: Assange claimed that various institutions and corporations had hit the site with a financial blockage. Claimed?  It’s not a claim, it’s a fact.  How much it cost Wikileaks might be a claim, but that’s not what Ms. Fantz wrote. This is one reason why we can’t ha ...
  • To point out the obvious on today’s Supreme Co ...
    Roberts voted how he did because health insurance companies are absolutely desperate for the money they will get from the mandate.  All of the legitimacy arguments are bullshit, about 70% of Americans want Obamacare repealed.  This is more similar to TARP than anything else: it is a massive corp ...
  • Greek election consequences and the shape of t ...
    will be more years of austerity, people winding up on the street, suicides and outright starvation.  In this fertile ground, the neo-nazi right will rise.  The left will most likely not compete, because they will refuse to create an enforcer class to protect their own people.  The police in Gree ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • How Marketing Could Boost Land Development
    Zoning ordinances, land use maps and comprehensive plans used by cities to guide growth rarely provide the kind of insight required to make informed decisions about what will truly be best for the city and its residents in the long run. Unfortunately, by failing to incorporate market analysis an ...
  • State of Chicago: Explaining the 1990s Versus ...
    In my article “The Second-Rate City?” I noted Chicago’s very strong economic and demographic performance in the 1990s and contrasted it with the very poor performance in the 2000s. Then I outlined several problems with Chicago I thought helped drive the struggles. A few people asked a very fair ...
  • Let L.A. Be L.A.
    Victor’s Restaurant, a nondescript coffee shop on a Hollywood side street, seems an odd place to meet for a movement challenging many of Los Angeles’s most powerful, well-heeled forces. Yet amid the uniformed service workers, budding actors, and retirees enjoying coffee and F ...
  • America's Future Is Taking Shape In The Suburbs
    For nearly a generation, pundits, academics and journalists have written off suburbia. They predict that the future lies in the cities, with more Americans living in smaller spaces such as the micro-apartments of 300 square feet or less that New York and San Francisco are considering changin ...
  • Libor: Is The City of London Fixed?
    Having worked inside banking, do I think that banks colluded to post an artificial London interbank offered rate, otherwise known as Libor? For those not in the brotherhood, that acronym is a compendium of average borrowing prices from sixteen large banks, pronounced either as lee-boar or lie-bo ...

GM Watch

  • Labeling GM foods: Whose side are you on?
    EXTRACT: The question before voters could not be more stark: Do you side with anti-worker, pro-polluter forces epitomized by the GMA and deceptive corporate front groups, or do you side with 90% of California voters, the California Labor Federation, family farmers, the Consumer Federation of Ame ...
  • Brown out in Arctic apples raises GM ire
    Brown out in Arctic apples raises GM ire Sue Neales The Australian, July 21 2012  http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/brown-out-in-arctic-apples-raises-gm-ire/story-e6frg6nf-1226431253016?sv=9956df19ef1d842ad2b5eb3ea49e1c70 A NEW type of apple -- the Arctic -- has been developed in Cana ...
  • GM 'cure' threatens to be much worse than any ...
    NOTE: A very perceptive article. Recommended reading. --- --- GM 'cure' threatens to be much worse than any agricultural disease Gavin Lynch The Irish Times, 3 August 2012  http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0803/1224321366059.html "I KNOW an old lady who swallowed a fly" — we all ...
  • Olympic sponsor speeds up pesticide arms race
    Olympic Sponsor Speeds Up Pesticide Arms Race GM Freeze, 2 August 2012 http://www.gmfreeze.org/news-releases/198/ *EU can avoid US GM mistakes Dow Chemical Company, one of the main sponsors of the London 2012 Olympic games, has just been granted approval in South Africa for a new GM 2,4-D tole ...
  • Who's opposing Prop 37?
    1.Three California Democrats Team Up with Monsanto 2.Prop 37 Cash: Which Companies Are Supporting Genetically Modified Food 3.Who's opposing Prop 37? Contributors and amounts NOTE: A number of images and embedded links in the original article for item 1 are not reproduced here. --- --- 1.Three ...

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Cryptogon

  • Greece: Official Projection of Result: New Dem ...
    Via: BBC Liveblog: That is from the Greek interior ministry, quoted by Reuters.
  • Living Large in a Tiny House
    Via: Yahoo Finance: Imagine living in a space that measures a mere 168 square feet, more than 14 times smaller than the average American home. That’s the reality for one family of four who, for the past year, has been living in their “Tiny House” tucked away in the rural mountains of Virginia. I ...
  • Ottawa Airport Wired with Microphones to Recor ...
    Via: Ottawa Citizen: Sections of the Ottawa airport are now wired with microphones that can eavesdrop on travellers’ conversations. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is nearing completion of a $500,000 upgrade of old video cameras used to monitor its new “customs controlled areas,” includ ...
  • China Launches Its First Female Astronaut Into ...
    Via: PC Magazine: China on Saturday launched its Shenzhou-9 spacecraft carrying three astronauts, including Liu Yang, the first Chinese woman to travel to space. The Long March-2F rocket lifted off successfully from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 6:37 p.m local time an ...
  • Financial Firms Ready ‘Special Teams’
    Via: New York Times: The banks are on high alert. Hundreds of employees at big firms, some part of special teams, will be on standby this Sunday, awaiting the results of Greece’s pivotal election. They are preparing for the worst case. The fear is that the vote will heighten the chances of Greec ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Employment Rate In The United States Is Lo ...
    Did you know that a smaller percentage of Americans are working today than when the last recession supposedly ended?  But you won't hear about this on the mainstream news.  Instead, the mainstream media obsesses over the highly politicized and highly manipulated "unemployment rat ...
  • Spain And Italy Are Toast Unless Germany Allow ...
    The financial chess game in Europe is still being played out, but in the end it is going to boil down to one very fundamental decision.  Is Germany going to allow the ECB to print up trillions of euros and use those euros to buy up the sovereign debt of troubled eurozone members ...
  • Mainstream Reporter Tells The Truth About Audi ...
    When someone in the mainstream media goes out on a limb to tell the truth, then the rest of us should go out of our way to applaud that effort.  Reporter Ben Swann of Fox 19 in Cincinnati is one of the few local television reporters in the United States that consistently tackles ...
  • Just Open Up Your Eyes And Look – 65 Sig ...
    Do you want to know when the "economic collapse" is going to happen?  Just open up your eyes and take a look.  The "economic collapse" is already happening all around us.  So many people talk about the coming economic collapse as if it is some massively hyped event that they will ...
  • 11 Signs That Time Is Quickly Running Out For ...
    Are we rapidly approaching a moment of reckoning for the global financial system?  August is likely to be a relatively slow month as most of Europe is on vacation, but after that we will be moving into a "danger zone" where just about anything could happen.  Historically, a finan ...

Desertification

  • Stopping Drought and Desertification (Green Pr ...
    Read at : http://paper.li/f-1318161034?utm_source=subscription&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=paper_sub A 12 Step Program to Stopping Drought and Desertification Soaring temperatures and low precipitation could not occur at a worse time for many farmers in the United States, and around th ...
  • Syria needs UN-aid (IRIN News / WFP / FAO))
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96016/SYRIA-Three-million-people-need-food-aid-UN SYRIA: Three million people need food aid – UN DUBAI, 2 August 2012 (IRIN) – The Syrian conflict has left up to three million people in need of food assistance and agricultural support in the n ...
  • Desertification risk in Armenia (panaroma. am)
    Read at : http://www.panorama.am/en/economy/2012/08/01/armenia-agrology/ Expert: Armenia faces desertification risk “Armenia’s agriculture is in poor condition. The Ministry of Agriculture says that everything is ok, agriculture develops, villages improve, villagers live in good conditions, but ...
  • Checking desertification with 14m seedlings (T ...
    Read at : http://guardiannewsngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=94166:jigawa-checks-desertification-with-14m-seedlings-&catid=1:national&Itemid=559#.UBoaemqodz0.twitter Jigawa checks desertification with 14m seedlings IN its effort to combat desert encroachment, ...
  • UN TO AIR DROP FOOD ASSISTANCE TO REFUGEES IN ...
    New York, Aug  2 2012  3:05PM The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced it plans to air drop lifesaving assistance to refugees located in parts of South Sudan which have limited infrastructure. “WFP is pulling out all the … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • Capitalism and Corrections: Wall Street loan f ...
    Venture capitalists to the rescue of locked-up youth?The world of juvenile justice is abuzz over news that Goldman Sachs will provide New York City with a $9.6 million loan — a so-called “social impact bond” — to finance rehabilitation programs for youths locked up at the Rikers Island correctio ...
  • Parts of Pa. law favored by frackers overturned
    Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court overturned parts of the state’s controversial Act 13 on Thursday, returning zoning authority over natural gas drilling to the municipalities and townships that had contested the five-month-old law. The Center for Public Integrity reported last month that local g ...
  • Daily Disclosure: Sierra Club pushes wind indu ...
    The Sierra Club’s nonprofit has released three new ads yesterday targeting Republican congressmen who have opposed renewing a tax credit for the wind energy industry.The Sierra Club so far has taken aim at six Republicans in its pro-wind campaign: Reps. Bob Latta of Ohio, Blake Farenthold of Tex ...
  • Daily Disclosure: Misleading ad seeks to scare ...
    “You know,” she says, closing her laptop and shaking her head, “It seems these days, not a single one of us steps on a train, boards an airplane, attends a concert or a sporting event that doesn’t have at least a fleeting concern that terror could strike.”It sounds like this suburban woman is sp ...
  • Daily Disclosure: Jewish groups run anti-Obama ...
    With GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney in Israel over the weekend, the “Emergency Committee for Israel,” a conservative political group with neoconservative ties, released a series of ads on Thursday, Friday and Sunday opposing President Barack Obama.Among them:A print ad in 26 Jewish newspap ...

backofthebook.ca

  • 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 ...
  • A Modest Opinion – Nathaniel Moher&#8217 ...
    By Nathaniel Moher Welcome to part three of Nathaniel Moher’s Guide to Fixing the World! As any good trilogy does, Nathaniel Moher’s Guide to Fixing the World will have six parts . . . three of which will be completely unreadable and will mostly be done as a money grab. (Well, if we’re being hon ...
  • Friendly Canadian input on the US election
    By David Taub Bancroft The sun is shining. The flowers are blooming. We are in a year that is divisible by four. I think we all know what that means. In a matter of months, our American friends will once again start hanging chads or whatever it is they do to hold a presidential election, [...]

libcom

  • The death of an Argentinian squatter in Barcelona
    na16fo01.jpg Juan Pablo Torroija was detained in the city of Girona. A few hours later he ended up in hospital. He was beaten and carried marks of strangulation. The police says he hanged himself in ...
  • California cops clamp down on Disneyland dissent
    Anaheim-Protest-of-police-killings-grows.jpg An update from Adam Ford on the dissent - and repression - following the fatal shooting of 25 year-old Manuel Diaz by police, in Anaheim, California. ...
  • Serwotka sellout sets seal on olympic exploitation
    serwotka.jpg Adam Ford on the PCS' aborted strike action, and the unions' Olympic failures. As women footballers were getting ready to unofficially kick off the London ...
  • All out at Preston Remploy
    remply.jpg Mark Harrison visited Remploy pickets taking part in a national strike this morning. There used to be over 50 workers at the Remploy factory in Preston, now reduced t ...
  • Cleaners strike protest near Olympic site
    cleaners.png Cleaners strike over pay and conditions on London Underground and Docklands Light Railway. This morning saw the beginning of a 48-hour strike by cleaners on London ...

Free Range International

  • Vision Quest
    Editors note: Be sure to start this series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) so it makes sense.  We will try to get more posts up sooner than we have been lately but Dalton is, to be honest, not doing as well as we hoped .  Baba Tim is also banged up again and [...]
  • Band On The Run
    Editors Note:  It is important for first time readers to start this story from the beginning.  This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother, Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to living a normal life back in the states.   Any donations received by the FRI bl ...
  • Dead Man Walking
    Dalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change.  Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton.  For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can&#8217 ...
  • King for a Day
    Note from Baba T – It is important to start the Dalton Thomas series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) or it will not make much sense.   For those of you who are enjoying the series and have the means hitting the donation button would be much appreciated.  All proceeds from the ...
  • Great Idea #1: A Vacation in the Khyber Pass
    It turns out that my buddy Dr. John Ryan had spent five years in the army as a properly tabbed Special Forces medic.  And all this time we had thought he was a heterosexual.  I had to say that as Marine Corps bushido demands such things.  After John and I traded more inter-service insults Elisa, ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • The “Star of David” – Learn ...
    It is the symbol of modern day Zionism – and the Luciferian signature of the Khazars masquerading as “God’s Chosen People” – the terrorist nation of “Israel”. It is the HEX-agram, the 6 pointed triangles forming the number 666. It is the ancient logo of ...
  • The “Star of David” – Learn ...
    It is the symbol of modern day Zionism – and the Luciferian signature of the Khazars masquerading as “God’s Chosen People” – the terrorist nation of “Israel”. It is the HEX-agram, the 6 pointed triangles forming the number 666. It is the ancient logo of ...
  • The Culture of Reverence – The Louis Fre ...
    The Culture of Reverence America’s Pedophilia Hypocrisy By A. True Ott, Phd The “Freeh Report” is concluded.  Released to public eyes Thursday, July 12, 2012, the 267-page report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh and his select team of investigators has exposed in a most accurate manner, what i ...
  • The Culture of Reverence – The Louis Fre ...
    The Culture of Reverence America’s Pedophilia Hypocrisy By A. True Ott, Phd The “Freeh Report” is concluded.  Released to public eyes Thursday, July 12, 2012, the 267-page report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh and his select team of investigators has exposed in a most accurate manner, what i ...
  • Willard Mittens (Mitt) Romney – the FACE ...
    Willard Mittens Romney has been anointed by the elite for a special purpose.  He has the support of the Bilderberg cabal.  He gives keynote speeches at MOSSAD conventions in Israel.  What does all this mean? The answer is here in this amazing video presentation.  Watch and learn.  

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • EU Council de-lists Bank Mellat ex-chairperson
    Bank Mellat, has been fighting accusations of involvement in nuclear 'proliferation-sensitive' activities in Iran.
  • Assad: Peoples' support saves me from Shah's fate
    ANKARA - Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview published on Thursday that he would have been toppled long ago like the shah of Iran if his people did not support him. read more
  • Iranian pilgrims abducted near Shia shrine in ...
    Some 48 Iranian pilgrims have been kidnapped from a bus in the vicinity of a shrine near the Syrian capital Damascus, reports say. read more
  • نماينده حامی دولت:به امثال مرتضوی هاجهت دفاع ا ...
    عضو کميسيون امنيت ملی و سياست خارجی با تأکيد بر اينکه به امثال مرتضوی ها جهت دفاع از نظام در ايام فتنه نيازمنديم، بيان داشت: اگر مرتضوی به دليل حمايتی که از نظام داشته مورد مؤاخذه قرار گيرد، نبايد در آينده انتظار دفاع از نظام را از ديگران داشته باشيم. read more
  • سه كشته و 15 مجروح در آتش سوزى پتروشيمى بندر امام
    گزارش خبرنگار ايلنا در بندرامام، ساعت 16:15 دقيقه روز جمعه نشت گاز و بدنبال آن آتش سوزی باعت کشته شدن سه نفر در‌‌ همان محل انفجار شد که گفته مي‌شود از نيروهای امدادي‌‌ همان منطقه بوده‌اند. همچنين در اثر استمرار آتش سوزی تاکنون ۱۵ نفر ديگر مجروح شده‌اند. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Police Taser a 12 Year Old Girl While Arrestin ...
    Dejamon Baker (NBC) — A 12-year-old girl has wounds in her chest and stomach after she was tased by a police officer inside a St. Louis Victoria’s Secret Wednesday afternoon. Authorities speaking to the New York Daily News say the girl “physically interceded” as a St. Lo ...
  • Julian Assange Hires Pinochet’s Nemesis
    Baltazar Garzon In June Wikileaks founder Julian Assange sought refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to prevent his extradition to Sweden for questioning on sexual assault allegations. His big fear is that the US will attempt to extradite him from Sweden and either detain him indefinitely ...
  • How to Tell Where Your Food Comes From
    Barcode indicating US or Canadian origin Consumers in North America and Europe are consciously opting for nationally – or better still locally – grown foods as a way of reducing fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide emissions. Increasing concern over “food miles” (i.e. the ...
  • Unlikely Folk Hero Releases New Hit
    If video won’t play go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MokNvbiRqCM Kim Dotcom, the multimillionaire who is awaiting extradition from New Zealand on alleged Internet piracy charges (see Unlikely Folk Hero) has just released his long-awaited new song ‘Mr. President’, directed ...
  • US Citizen Journalism Killing the Mainstream News
    RT reports on a recent Gallup poll showing that only 20% of the public trusts the mainstream news, owing to bias and bungled reporting and the rise of citizen journalism (i.e blogs like this). They quote one viewer who says something's terribly wrong when there are major revolutions occurring a ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE: WikiLeaks opens path ...
    After almost two years of fighting an unlawful banking blockade by US financial giants VISA and MasterCard, WikiLeaks has announced it is back open for donations. After WikiLeaks' publications revealing US war crimes and statecraft in 2010, US financial institutions erected a banking blockade a ...
  • 'No Going Back': Michael Moore on the Last Wor ...
  • Letter From Prominent Americans, Delivered to ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 25, 2012 Media Contacts: (London) Robert Naiman, US 217-979-2857 (US) Megan Iorio, US 908-400-9480 Letter signed by Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Wolf, Daniel Ellsberg, Danny Glover, Oliver Stone, Patch Adams, MD, Mark Weisbrot and other promine ...
  • 'The Man Who Killed Vincent Chin' by Michael M ...
    The below article appeared in the Detroit Free Press Sunday Magazine on August 30, 1987. Click each page to view larger versions.
  • Michael Moore to Headline 5th Anniversary Even ...
    Media Advisory, Contact -- Francesca Lo Basso for more information (610-417-5288) Michael Moore to Headline 5th Anniversary Event in Philadelphia on June 30 Philadelphia—Five years after his award-winning film on the U.S. healthcare system premiered around the world, Michael Moore return ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Alcatraz Solar Isn’t for the Birds, But They L ...
    It was no easy task getting a thousand or so solar panels past preservationists PO’d at the idea of PV on the iconic Alcatraz penitentiary – and now that the modules are up and operating, there’s the challenge of keeping the bird poop off them.    
  • Encouraging CCS in Europe
    With an allowance surplus building up in the EU ETS and a resulting low carbon price, the urgent need for commercial deployment of CCS has diminished. Furthermore, with natural gas availability growing and renewable energy becoming a sizable factor in the EU electricity mix, it may be well into ...
  • The World’s Least Carbon-Emitting Building?
    How, exactly, do you design the world’s least C02-emitting building? By incorporating a whole host of green features, apparently, as Shimizu Corporation has with its new headquarters building in Tokyo. The building, which officially opened yesterday, is said to emit only 38 kilograms per square ...
  • Making solar history in Australia
    On the 17th of July 2012 a little bit of Australian solar history was made.For the very first time EVER (that I am aware of) pretty much every solar and renewable advocacy, lobbying and indu
  • CB&I surprises investors with $3 billion takeo ...
    Stockholders will receive $46/share, a 72% premium

EU Times

  • Iran Missile Test Sends “Shockwave” Across Ent ...
    A grave Ministry of Defense bulletin flashed to Russian Naval and Marine Forces approaching their Mediterranean base in the Syrian port of Tartus is warning that Iran’s successful test-firing of their fourth generation indigenously-made Fateh 110 precision missile earlier today confirms that thi ...
  • Russian mobile operator calls Apple “dictatorship”
    The major Russian mobile phone operator MTS has slammed Apple for its ‘too’ strict sales policy by not allowing a cut in the device’s $1,000-plus price tag in the country. ­The iPhone’s high cost makes them a hard sell in the Russian market where rival models can be purchased for as little as $1 ...
  • Syrian troops storm rebels command center in A ...
    Syrian troops have stormed armed groups’ command center in the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 150 terrorists fighting against the government. According to reports coming from Syria, the army attacked a rebel-held school in Aleppo’s Salahuddin district, which was being used as a comman ...
  • The Assault on 2nd Amendment Precursor to Mart ...
    The disinformation mafia at Time magazine says that the phrase “’Guns don’t actually kill people’ is sometimes a refrain from gun rights advocates when they run low on arguments in a policy discussion.” Concerning the false flag staged attack in Aurora, Colorado, the National Rifle Association i ...
  • Russian MP suggests ban on foreign currency tr ...
    An MP who represents the United Russia majority party has prepared legislative amendments that would make the Russian ruble the only valid currency in the country, and put an end to dependency on the US dollar and the Euro. Yevgeniy Fyodorov described the initiative in an interview with the Izve ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Stephen Strasburg Beans Marco Scutaro, Win Str ...
    On Monday, the Washington Nationals opened a four-game set against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. The Nats had ace Stephen Strasburg on the hill gunning for his 10th win of the season and his seventh straight start ending with a "W" next to his name. Unfortunately, Washington was unable t ...
  • Liriano, Twins top White Sox 4-1 in Youkilis debut
    MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â Francisco Liriano faced runners at the corners with only one out in the seventh. This was precisely the type of situation where he's faltered so many times before, but Twins manager Ron Gardenhire didn't budge. "I just have a lot of confidence in him," Gardenhire said
  • Netanyahu says Russia and Israel on same page ...
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said he and visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin see eye to eye on the dangers of Iranâs nuclear weapons program. The two leaders met for over an hour in Jerusalem and discussed Iran, Syria, Egypt and bilateral ties. âWe agree that nuclear weapon ...
  • Apple, Microsoft, now Google: I/O 2012 closes ...
    First Apple , then Microsoft , and now it’s Google ‘s turn: three weeks of back-to-back mobile strategy with each of the big three companies laying out their stalls for smartphones and tablets. It’s arguably never been such an interesting time in mobility, but nor has there ever been so much at ...
  • Google appears to aim low with new 7-inch Andr ...
    If the rumors are true, Google's Nexus 7 tablet will compete with the low-end Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire, not Apple's iPad. If the stories from Gizmodo Australia are true, Google and Asus will be releasing a new 7-inch Android-powered tablet, Nexus 7 , at this week’s Google I/O Conference. We ...

Groklaw

  • Wall Street sees Knight as software risk wake- ...
    Wall Street banks and brokers are poring over their trading systems and rethinking the way they test software to make sure they don't become the next Knight Capital Group, the trading firm whose survival was imperiled by a software glitch on Wednesday. Knight Capital's $440 million loss fro ...
  • Broadcast TV on Your Phone? It's a Real Thing
    Samsung and MetroPCS jointly announced the latest addition to the latter's lineup of Android LTE-equipped smartphones with the new Samsung Galaxy S Lightray 4G. The device's specs aren't anything extraordinary--4.3-inch display, Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), 1GHz processor, and 8MP/1.3MP front/rear ...
  • How Gizmodo (on Twitter) Got Hacked and How Yo ...
    If you follow Gizmodo on Twitter, you may have noticed our account started spewing some garbage last night. We got hacked. Here's how it happened, and some steps you can take to keep it from happening to you. - Gizmodo
  • EA levels copyright lawsuit against Zynga
    Electronic Arts, the creators of The Sims Social, announced this week that it is suing Zynga, alleging that Zynga violated copyright infringement with its new game, called The Ville.... Lucy Bradshaw, head of Maxis, the EA-owned studio that created The Sims Social, wrote a blog post in which s ...
  • Apple vs. Samsung brings Silicon Valley stars out
    And then came the question from Price that I swear brought a gasp to the courtroom, which was mostly filled with reporters and lawyers for both sides. Did Schiller expect that the iPhone 5, due out any month now, would come with design changes? His answer: Silence. And then, more silence. Old ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Parowan UT half marathon
    That’s me before the Parowan Half Marathon this morning . No enormously speedy time but 25 minutes faster than last year. The race starts at 8200 ft elevation in Yankee Meadows and goes down a canyon road ending at 6000 feet elevation.There were about 400 runner, twice as many as last year ...
  • US farmers: Government should rethink ethanol ...
    Farmers and farming advocates are asking the Environmental Protection Agency to ease up on ethanol requirements for the U.S. fuel mix because drought conditions through much of the country are causing corn prices to spike.Corn is used to produce ethanol as well as to feed livestock, The drought ...
  • Fossil fuels get vastly more subsidies than re ...
    Federal tax breaks and subsidiesCarbon capture and storage $2.3 billion Renewable energy $12.2 billion Corn ethanol $16.8 billion Fossil fuels $70.2 billionClick through to Good to see the full-sized chart.The post Fossil fuels get vastly more subsidies than renewable energy appeared first on Po ...
  • Justin Townes Earle – Ain’t Waitin’
    Steve Earle’s son Justin does the song solo with acoustic guitar. He has an incredible voice.The post Justin Townes Earle – Ain’t Waitin’ appeared first on Politics in the Zeros.
  • 3D printing ‘bigger than Internet’
    Proponents say it’s the next disruptive technology with the potential to significantly change the landscape of a number of industries. Peter Marsh, [Financial Times] manufacturing editor talks to one such supporter – Abe Reichental, chief executive of US-based 3D Systems – to f ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • 'New' Egypt and the Camp David accords
    Despite many setbacks and roadblocks along the way in Egypt, the political situation there is still one of the most hopeful-- and certainly, the most momentous-- phenomena in the region. Egypt, remember, really does carry the strategic ballast of the whole Arab world. How things turn out there i ...
  • July 2006, lest we forget
    In these days six years ago, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert and his team were battering much of Lebanon to smithereens in the "Dahiyeh War"-- designed, as we remember, to break Hizbullah once and for all, primarily by battering Lebanese civilians and their infrastructure so harshly that they would turn ...
  • Sarajevo, 1914; Damascus 2012?
    The killing, in Damascus today, of at least three powerful members of the Baathist regime in Syria, will almost certainly plunge that whole country-- and quite likely also much of the rest of the Greater Middle East-- into a maelstrom of inter-group violence far worse than any it has seen until ...
  • West Point military historian denies the net v ...
    The NYT has a very important piece today reporting that the head of the military history program at West Point has openly stated that the United States gained "not much" from 10.5 years of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The program head, Col. Gian Gentile, concluded-- presumably in light of the c ...
  • Jewish-Israeli public lurches yet further right
    I just read Yossi Gurvitz's chilling account of the attack that a right-wing mob in South Tel Aviv unleashed against his girlfriend Galina, and him, during the anti-African-refugees demonstration held there Tuesday. The main speaker at the demo was Michael Ben-Ari, an elected MK. Gurvitz writes ...

frogblog

  • Newmont versus the vulnerable – my week ...
    This week I spent 4 days in the Environment Court with some Waihi residents opposing the expansion of the mining activities in the Martha pit. It is a small variation on the 1987 Mining Licence but it could lead a new large scale underground gold mine. The manawhenua Ngati Hako were raising issu ...
  • Anadarko delays deep sea oil plans
    We can breathe a sigh of relief that Anadarko has announced it won’t start exploratory deep sea drilling this summer, but their plans remain a cause for concern.
  • Have your say on the lobbying bill
    Submissions are now open on my Lobbying Disclosure Bill. Details on how to make a submission are available on the parliament website. The Bill passed its first reading in parliament with unanimous support from all parties and is now before the Government Administration Select Committee. The Bill ...
  • Protect the Human; Amnesty International is fu ...
       All too many people in this world need protection – protection from human rights abuses. They inspired my colleagues and I to get out of parliament this week and go support Pussy Riot What I love about Amnesty is they create a platform for all of us to support, actively monitor and defend hum ...
  • “No need for concern – I know them ...
    In February this year, our parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee scrutinised the Foreign Ministry’s financial estimates. We had just spun out of scrutinising Defence Ministry estimates which showed that two officials had been laid off as a cost-cutting (‘downsizing’) exercise, with sizeable go ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Governments Exist to Further the Interests of ...
    Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored group.
  • The History of Knowledge: Darkness in the Acadamy
    Knowledge does not always prevail or even endure. When the Roman Empire fell, the Justinian Code was replaced by Canon Law. The augustness of knowledge was transformed into heresy and mankind's curiosity was virtually extinguished. The age became dark. In the 11th century, people began to st ...
  • Vendor ArithmeticUnderhanded Capitalism
    Why does the nation exist? The truth is revealed when one realizes that merchant theft is protected by the legal system whose justices have enshrined an economic bias into law, having subverted the Constitution from the goals the founding fathers wrote into it to the almost exclusive promoti ...
  • Treacherous Treaties
    Is American imperialism a Bilderberger plot? Are the American bankers, diplomats, and members of the Council on Foreign Relations all traitors, having turned America into merely an instrument to carry out their Bilderberger maniacal aims? Does America as a sovereign nation even exist anymore ...
  • Is Adam Smith's a Pickpocket
    Economists use the law of supply and demand merely to provide suppliers with an excuse for raising prices and picking consumer's pockets.

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • New Insights into Links Between Immune Functio ...
    By Dr. Mercola Has a sleepless night ever made you feel physically ill? If so, there's a perfectly natural reason for it. Recent research published in the journal Sleep reports that sleep deprivation has the same effect on your immune system as physical stress1. The researchers me ...
  • This New Drug Appears to Cause Cancer Cells to ...
    By Dr. Mercola According to the American Cancer Society, the odds you'll develop cancer in your lifetime are one in two, if you're a man, and one in three, if you're a woman.1 But an experimental cancer drug shown to shrink tumors by correcting metabolic oddities in cancer cells shows promise ...
  • Collusion Between Pharmaceutical Industry and ...
    By Dr. Mercola There's no shortage of stories detailing conflicts of interest—so many in fact that you may be getting sick and tired of hearing of them. However, this is a truly important issue that must be tackled, and one of the ways of doing that is by exposing it to the harsh light of day ...
  • Mercola.com Celebrates its 15-Year Anniversary
    By Dr. Mercola It’s been nearly 15 years since we started this journey together, when, in 1997, I combined my two primary passions in life ― health and technology― and made it my mission to share exciting new developments in natural health with you.  Thanks to you, this site has become ...
  • New Study Shows This Potent Vitamin Helps Prev ...
    By Dr. Mercola If you want to slash your risk of cancer, it's essential that you spend adequate time in the sun or a safe tanning bed, or at the very least supplement with proper amounts of vitamin D3. This is because maintaining optimal blood levels of this vitamin is one of the most power ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Victory for Indians as court blocks oil project
    Sarayaku President José Gualinga speaks before the Inter-American Court © Inter-American Court of Human Rights The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled in favour of Ecuador’s Kichwa Indians in a case against a controversial oil project that has destroyed parts of their land. Sara ...
  • Judge halts rail project close to Earth’s most ...
    More than 30,000 people have urged Brazil’s Justice Minister to save Earth’s most threatened tribe. © D Pugliese/ Survival A judge has ordered Brazil’s largest mining company to suspend plans to double a controversial railway track, which would have put the livelihoods of Earth’s most threa ...
  • Revealed: secret agenda of ranchers to steal u ...
    Ranching firms are destroying the land of Paraguay's uncontacted tribes. © GAT / Survival The secret agenda of a huge ranching firm in Paraguay has been exposed by satellite photos showing a newly-constructed reservoir. The reservoir reveals the firm’s intention to clear nearby ...
  • Train terror as mining giant endangers Earth’s ...
    The lives of Earth’s most threatened tribe will be in immediate danger if Vale’s new project succeeds. © Survival Plans by a giant mining company to expand a controversial railway line that has already opened up parts of Brazil’s Amazon to invaders, are now putting Earth’s most threatened t ...
  • Brazilian Indians fear ‘absurd’ setback over l ...
    The Guarani and other Indians are contesting a new decree which weakens control over their lands © F. Watson/Survival Brazilian Indians have expressed their anger and dismay as a new directive threatens to weaken their control over their lands. The directive, signed by Brazil’s Solicitor-G ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Calcium supplementation linked to heart attack ...
    from therealfoodchannel.com: Real food is your best source of calcium. For many years we've been sold the lie that we need mega-doses of calcium for strong bones. Foods such as orange juice have been supplemented with types of calcium that the body can't absorb. And now there is evidence linkin ...
  • WHY in the World Are They Spraying? Lifts Veil ...
    from farmwars.info: “WHY in the World are They Spraying?” lifts the veil on a major geo-engineering agenda that is at the forefront of our fight for food sovereignty. There are people who are working full time at controlling the food and thereby, controlling the population while maximizing pro ...
  • #Audio: Episode029 - No Rain
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features Criminalizing Permaculture, Monkey Mind Control, Twinkies and Milk Wars + Updates, Headlines, th ...
  • #BingeAndPurge: London Smog, Digital Health an ...
    Fast Food Nation: Chick-fil-A Leaps Into Controversy* '2012 Chick-fil-A same-sex marriage controversy' on Wikipedia* Video: Fast food company Chick-Fil-A conservative on marriage* Video: Hundreds of Thousands Support Chik-Fil-A 'Buycott' Day on Aug1, 2012* Chick-fil-A protesters to h ...
  • Digestible Microchips Embedded in Drugs
    from cryptogon.com: Digestible microchips embedded in drugs may soon tell doctors whether a patient is taking their medications as prescribed. These sensors are the first ingestible devices approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). To some, they signify the beginning of an era in ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Employment Rate In The United States Is Lo ...
    Did you know that a smaller percentage of Americans are working today than when the last recession supposedly ended?  But you won't hear about this on the mainstream news.  Instead, the mainstream media obsesses over the highly politicized and highly manipulated "unemployment rat ...
  • Spain And Italy Are Toast Unless Germany Allow ...
    The financial chess game in Europe is still being played out, but in the end it is going to boil down to one very fundamental decision.  Is Germany going to allow the ECB to print up trillions of euros and use those euros to buy up the sovereign debt of troubled eurozone members ...
  • Mainstream Reporter Tells The Truth About Audi ...
    When someone in the mainstream media goes out on a limb to tell the truth, then the rest of us should go out of our way to applaud that effort.  Reporter Ben Swann of Fox 19 in Cincinnati is one of the few local television reporters in the United States that consistently tackles ...
  • Just Open Up Your Eyes And Look – 65 Sig ...
    Do you want to know when the "economic collapse" is going to happen?  Just open up your eyes and take a look.  The "economic collapse" is already happening all around us.  So many people talk about the coming economic collapse as if it is some massively hyped event that they will ...
  • 11 Signs That Time Is Quickly Running Out For ...
    Are we rapidly approaching a moment of reckoning for the global financial system?  August is likely to be a relatively slow month as most of Europe is on vacation, but after that we will be moving into a "danger zone" where just about anything could happen.  Historically, a finan ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Fourth Reich: Now the ITALIANS launch into Naz ...
    While the Greeks have defaced the EU flag placing swastikas at it's heart and Greek newspapers have launched into angered rhetoric lambasting the German control over the disaster that is the EU and it's damned currency, the latest advance in anti-German rhetoric from ITALY puts anything that eve ...
  • Give up your freedoms and liberties for... our ...
    Within a month of telling you via The Guardian about the truth of "Al Qaeda", former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook went for a walk in the woods - in his case, up a mountain - where he met his death. Robin Cook, of course, famously resigned from Government over the Iraq war - claiming in his Ho ...
  • Greece: Can 'Golden Dawn' be criticised for a ...
    It is not often that RT put out a news story which is so blatantly designed to instruct us what we should all think. In highlighting this news story, we are aware of some terrible instances of discrimination which are - at best - purely menacing which have taken place in Greece which this blo ...
  • Flashback 1992: Secret Societies (Declaration) ...
    On 1st July 1992, Chris Mullin stood up in the House of Commons and made a speech in support of his Bill - the "Secret Societies (Declaration) Bill". Look at this joke of second reading dates, for a Bill which eventually failed to pass: "SECRET SOCIETIES (DECLARATION) BILL HC Deb 01 July ...
  • From London the New Jerusalem... to London the ...
    The other day, in response to THAT ceremony, we started decoding some of the masonic symbolism - of which there was plenty. In that post, we touched upon the notion of Iraq and Ancient Babylon. So, bugger me gently, what's this then? Following links from the British Film Institute (BFI) we ...

Facing South

  • Will the Duke Energy scandal hurt the Democrat ...
    The Democratic Party tied its upcoming convention's fortunes to Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, now embroiled in a scandal over an abrupt CEO switch following the company's merger with Progress Energy. What will the controversy mean for the party in the upcoming election? read more
  • Tennessee program to provide photo IDs missing ...
    To quell criticism of the state's new voter ID law, Tennessee lawmakers offered to provide free photo IDs to those without one. But the state's own data shows that the program is reaching only a fraction of voters who will need it to vote this fall. read more
  • Mexican drug cartels and the U.S. banking industry
    Before its purchase by Wells Fargo, North Carolina-based Wachovia laundered over $378 billion for illegal drug organizations -- and paid just $160 million in fines. It's part of a broader and disturbing trend in the U.S. banking industry. read more
  • The big money behind the assault against sea l ...
    A controversial bill that would block North Carolina agencies from considering the science of sea level rise in making planning decisions has gotten a lot of national attention -- but what hasn't gotten much scrutiny are the powerful development interests behind the legislation. read more
  • Southern states show biggest job gains
    The recent jobs report showed the economy continues to struggle. Many of the states that have seen the biggest job gains are in the South -- but that likely won't help Obama much in November. read more

CenterLine

  • Search for new executive director of Center on ...
    Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003.  Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • How to Upgrade to Fireox 14.0.1 in Ubuntu 12.0 ...
    Firefox 14.0.1 has just been released and since it is a major release, updates will be coming to official Ubuntu repositories soon. But for the impatient folks among you, here is how you upgrade to Firefox 14.0.1 from Firefox 13.0.1 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin". Insta ...
  • Xubuntu 12.04 LTS Review: Perfect Alternative ...
    Negative publicity around Ubuntu Unity and GNOME Shell is proving to be a real blessing in disguise for a bunch of smaller, lightweight distros like Xubuntu, Lubuntu et al. As much as I like Unity and GNOME Shell, they are not really the ideal choice for under-powered devices like netbooks. ...
  • 25 Things I did After Installing Ubuntu 12.04 ...
    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" is proving everyone wrong. It is perhaps the most loved Ubuntu release since "Lucid Lynx". Unity is now an almost-finished product. The rock solid nature of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS along with bold moves such as the introduction of features like HUD is winning the h ...
  • Best Free Android Apps for TV and Film Buffs
    Some people say that smart phones are slowly killing televisions as a source of viewing content, but we believe that the two go hand in hand. After all, you don't have to choose one over the other. Being the nice folks we are, we decided to find you the very best Android apps that will ...
  • How to Connect Blackberry Playbook with Ubuntu ...
    I bought a Blackberry Playbook recently, primarily because of its rock-bottom pricing which suddenly made it an excellent value-for-money Tablet. It was the base 16 GB version and when I tried connecting it to my Ubuntu via USB, Playbook was just not being automatically detected as a USB d ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Letter confirming my complaint against Baxter ...
    Here it is again: a pdf copy of a letter from the Austrian Health Ministry dated May 2009 confirming that I had made a complaint against Baxter and Avir and that state prosecutors had started an investigation into the incident involving the contamination of 72 kilos of seasonal flu vaccine with ...
  • New French pandemic plan targets internet
    The role information circulating on the internet played in persuading people in France not to take the pandemic vaccine in 2009 is confirmed by the country’s new pandemic plan. The plan states that number of French people willing to take the pandemic vaccine dropped from 65% at the end of August ...
  • Dr Carley’s radio show on Poland, Olympi ...
    Dr Rebecca Carley and I talked about Poland, forced vaccination and the Olympics on a radio show last Thursday. Check out the link here: http://www.reversingvaccineinduceddiseases.com/page/415061574
  • Resistance to new compulsory vaccination in Po ...
    When will the next „pandemic” strike? Vaccination enforcement in Poland. Sent by Marek Podlecki, Poland This time neither the government nor the Minister of Health will have a say. They will HAVE TO buy vaccines and all Poles will be FORCED to have them injected, and that is no conspiracy theory ...
  • Jewish Holocaust survivor compares new forced ...
    Vaccine Holocaust Eliza Walczak at the Senate Comittee of Diseases on 07.04.2012 Transcript and translation into English: EW: Mister Chairman, Senators. I am a lobbyst registered with number 197, I’m lobbying on the cause of patient rights, I guarantee patient rights in accordance with actual me ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Walmart Heirs Worth More Than Entire Bottom 40 ...
    Everyone knows that Walmart is huge, but just how huge is something we rarely think of. But now we have some data to mull over. The six heirs to the Walmart fortune are worth more than 40% of Americans combined. The Walton family, heirs to the Walmart fortune during a recent study were found to ...
  • Jackson Browne Lives In the Balance
  • Police Say Man Handcuffed With Arms Behind Bac ...
    by Alexander HigginsPolice say a man they patted down double locked in the back of their patrol car shot himself in head while handcuffed behind his back. This story – like any that deal with government corruption or police brutality – lack the pertinent details to jump to any conclusions but wh ...
  • Greenland’s ice sheets ‘less vulne ...
    Greenland’s ice seems less vulnerable than feared to a runaway melt that would drive up world sea levels, according to a study showing that a surge of ice loss had petered out. ‘It is too early to proclaim the ‘ice sheet’s future doom’ caused by climate change&#8217 ...
  • Empirical Scientific Data Continues to Discred ...
    Susanne Posel, Contributor Activist Post Based on a new mathematical reconfiguration of the false claims that CO2 is affecting the earth’s temperature, a call for a “carbon deinvestment campaign” has been made. By making carbon taxes a global and integral part of the “fee-and-dividend approach”, ...

Veterans Today

  • New Legislation Aims to End Homelessness among ...
    The bipartisan bill, designed by U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, improves homeless services outreach to rural and under-served urban veterans.
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Augu ...
    On June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
  • Illegitimate Sanctions on Iran
    Washington bears full responsibility for imposing illegitimate sanctions on Iran. Other countries are pressured to agree. Doing so harms their own interests.
  • Israel and Kurdistan – Turkey Enters a D ...
    The following short article was printed on the Press TV (Iran) website today. The meaning of it is clear to those familiar with the region, and, as hundreds, perhaps thousands of journalists have worked in Iraq and the Kurdish regions, where I have also worked, the story is obvious, it just can ...
  • Breaking: Bandar Bush – Saudi Intel Chi ...
    Report From French Sources Have Saudi Intel Chief in Switzerland   …by Sources in the Region with Gordon Duff   Bandar Bush, reported either missing or dead by Israel, the Voltairenet in France, stories repeated and asked in dozens of papers, based on his disappearance soon after ...

electric politics

  • Plutonium Is Poison
    Objecting to nuclear power is sensible. But objecting to nuclear bombs should be mandatory. Not only are they useless in and of themselves but making them cannot be done safely, for both cultural and technological reasons. Unused, they are nevertheless deadly. And even if we forget about the poi ...
  • Things That Go Bump In the Night
    To be at one with ourselves we cannot escape the night. What we do, what we don't do, what we dream — who we are — at night, shapes and informs us during the day. Nighttime, then, must necessarily contain diverse social meanings. It's not quite clear to me how far one might push this ...
  • Damascus Burning
    To be honest, Bashar al-Assad looks — and acts — like one of those stereotypical dictators who crop up occasionally in Doonesbury cartoons. If only it would be so easy to figure out what to do with him. But Syria, ultimately, involves the stability of the entire region, from Iran to ...
  • UFOs, What Are They?
    For 'something a little different' I turned to Col. John B. Alexander, Ph.D. (U.S. Army, Ret.), to talk about UFOs. John has had a unique experience looking into the UFO question from a government insider's point of view and has a lot of extremely helpful, and extremely thoughtful, things to say ...
  • "Age of Ignorance"
    By any reasonable reckoning idiocy in America has reached alarming proportions. Or, in the words of former U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, "[t]he ideal citizen of a politically corrupt state, such as the one we now have, is a gullible dolt unable to tell truth from bullshit." That's clear enou ...

PR News

  • Mohegan Sun names Bork CMO
    UNCASVILLE, CT: Mohegan Sun has appointed CMO of Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Brian Bork as the destination's new CMO.
  • Drugfree, CRT/Tanaka prepare medication abuse push
    NEW YORK: The Partnership at Drugfree.org has teamed with pharma companies, government, and law enforcement agencies on a multi-year effort to curb the abuse of over-the-counter and prescription medicines.
  • Highway safety body seeks PR support
    WASHINGTON: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is seeking a communications firm to provide assistance to its offices in the southern region of the US.
  • PR firms target DUMBO hot-shops for acquisitions
    To enhance their digital capabilities, PR firms considering acquisitions in DUMBO, an area of Brooklyn that has become a hotbed for digital and social media agencies.
  • Avon appoints Heinonen CCO
    NEW YORK: Avon Products has hired Cheryl Heinonen as CCO and group VP of global corporate relations. She started August 1.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • General Assembly Vote On Syria: World Gone Uni ...
    Stop NATO August 3, 2012 General Assembly Vote On Syria: World Gone Unipolar – And Mad Rick Rozoff On August 3 the United Nations General Assembly voted on a resolution written by Saudi Arabia condemning both the government of Syria for the preponderance if not all the violence in the coun ...
  • Russian Warships To Enter Syrian Harbor
    Voice of Russia August 3, 2012 Russia sends navy vessels to Syria base Moscow is sending three large landing ships The Alexander Ostrakovsky, the Georgy Pobedonosets and the Kondopogaassault, each with a marine company on board, are scheduled to call at Tartus late this week-early next, a source ...
  • Syria And America’s New World Order
    Voice of Russia August 3, 2012 America’s new world order Yekaterina Kudashkina AUDIO: Download ==== I think that after the crushing of the Soviet Union, the US forgot about international law, about Security Council resolutions, about all legitimacy regarding their actions. We watched these ...
  • Venezuela Shares Russian, Chinese Stance On Syria
    Russian Information Agency Novosti August 2, 2012 Chavez: Venezuela Shares Russian, Chinese Stance on Syria MEXICO: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said the people of Syria should resolve their internal conflict on their own and without any foreign interference. “We share Russian and Chinese po ...
  • Annan Resignation Opens Gates For Syrian Milit ...
    Interfax August 3, 2012 Annan’s resignation will give free hand to military action supporters – Russian Foreign Ministry MOSCOW: Kofi Annan’s resignation from the post of UN-Arab League envoy raises a lot of questions over Syria’s future, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister G ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Its the Corporations, Stupid!
    theintelhub.com | According to Republican media pundits, the main factor that most likely will destroy Obama’s dreams of a second term is the dismal state of the economy. Obviously, the American economy is in bad shape.
  • Texas: Foreign Troops Spotted at Wal-Mart Mask ...
    theintelhub.com | What is most disturbing about the video footage is the fact that the foreign troops are piling into large government vans upon departure from the store.
  • The Hygiene Hypothesis – Can Being too Clean H ...
    Elizabeth Renter | A study looked at the effects of BPA and a soap-agent called triclosan found both actually suppressed the immune system of adults.
  • Hemp History
    WakingTimes.com | Cannabis, family Cannabaceae; species: Cannabis indica, Cannabis ruderalia, and Cannabis sativa L., has been found on every continent in this hemisphere, it was used long before its first recorded uses.
  • Architects of Control: Mass Control & Future o ...
    theintelhub.com | The endgame of control over the entire world’s population is the endeavor of the global Elite, however, where does the individual play into it?

FRS

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • Mars Forecast: Dry Skies and Calm Winds for Ma ...
    Mars is cooperating PASADENA, Calif. -- About 34 hours from the Mars rover Curiosity's landing (scheduled for 01:31 am Eastern time on Monday), NASA brought us the latest weather forecast from the surface -- dry and cold, with a slight chance of dust. Slight is good. Earlier this week, the Mar ...
  • Watch This Spot: Mars Rover Curiosity Touches ...
    We'll be reporting live from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where the people who sent Curiosity into space are gathered to watch it arrive! You may have heard there's a new rover that's just about to make an edge-of-our-seat landing on Mars. You can read all about the Mars rover Curiosity -- an ...
  • This Week in the Future, July 30-August 3, 2012
    The big stories this Olympics? Badminton players tried to throw a game, and NBC is awful. But we imagine a future forewarned by this illustration, a future Olympics with dinosaurs, and giant mecha-bots. Then we'll have some great stuff to talk about. Want to win this sporty Baarbarian illustrat ...
  • The Most Amazing Science Images Of The Week, J ...
    It wouldn't be right to go this week without a photographic look at the Olympics, so we've got this awesome fencing image, a shot of the competitor-tracking cameras, and the unlit Olympic flame. But there's also a lot more, including a 3-D supernova and a deadly typhoon in China. Check out the ...
  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, J ...

Veterans Today

  • New Legislation Aims to End Homelessness among ...
    The bipartisan bill, designed by U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, improves homeless services outreach to rural and under-served urban veterans.
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Augu ...
    On June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
  • Illegitimate Sanctions on Iran
    Washington bears full responsibility for imposing illegitimate sanctions on Iran. Other countries are pressured to agree. Doing so harms their own interests.
  • Israel and Kurdistan – Turkey Enters a D ...
    The following short article was printed on the Press TV (Iran) website today. The meaning of it is clear to those familiar with the region, and, as hundreds, perhaps thousands of journalists have worked in Iraq and the Kurdish regions, where I have also worked, the story is obvious, it just can ...
  • Breaking: Bandar Bush – Saudi Intel Chi ...
    Report From French Sources Have Saudi Intel Chief in Switzerland   …by Sources in the Region with Gordon Duff   Bandar Bush, reported either missing or dead by Israel, the Voltairenet in France, stories repeated and asked in dozens of papers, based on his disappearance soon after ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • EU Political Economy, France v GB Olympic Ed'n
    In case you missed it, the Socialist French Prime Minister Francois Hollande yukked it up with his British counterpart David Cameron at the London Games. In particular, he took a swipe at Cameron's assertion that Britain stands ready to welcome tax exiles if the French government charges tax rat ...
  • Eternity's End: Venezuela Joins MERCOSUR Today
    ...or, more accurately, what's left of MERCOSUR. Read on to understand why. Well I guess you should never say never: Hot on the heels of Russia joining the WTO after eighteen long years of negotiating its membership (or what passes for it), Venezuela is finally going to join MERCOSUR (Mercado ...
  • Geopolitics 40 Years Ago: USSR 'Beat' US in B-Ball
    Bloomberg has not one but two features recounting the famous basketball match in which the Soviet team famously beat the US team at the 1972 Munich Olympics by a single point forty years ago--albeit with a lot of controversy. Alike Pacquiao versus Bradley, the result is eminently contestable. In ...
  • Chuck Schumer Gets Misty on PRC FDI...in Canada
    With apologies to Johnny Mathis: PRC...you're as nasty as a kitten bred by...Dick Cheney While that may be the intro to the theme song of Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY/China Suxland), rest assured that Democrats are far from alone in declaring open season on China and its assumed unfair trade ...
  • Dirigisme 2012: Hollande v Hyundai, France v Korea
    You've got to hand it to the South Koreans. They've managed to outmanoeuvre everyone else in setting up FTAs with nearly every other region that they have substantial export markets in. While the trade concessions it gains may be comparatively small in this day and age of near-universal WTO memb ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • The Employment Rate In The United States Is Lo ...
    Did you know that a smaller percentage of Americans are working today than when the last recession supposedly ended?  But you won't hear about this on the mainstream news.  Instead, the mainstream media obsesses over the highly politicized and highly manipulated "unemployment rat ...
  • Spain And Italy Are Toast Unless Germany Allow ...
    The financial chess game in Europe is still being played out, but in the end it is going to boil down to one very fundamental decision.  Is Germany going to allow the ECB to print up trillions of euros and use those euros to buy up the sovereign debt of troubled eurozone members ...
  • Mainstream Reporter Tells The Truth About Audi ...
    When someone in the mainstream media goes out on a limb to tell the truth, then the rest of us should go out of our way to applaud that effort.  Reporter Ben Swann of Fox 19 in Cincinnati is one of the few local television reporters in the United States that consistently tackles ...
  • Just Open Up Your Eyes And Look – 65 Sig ...
    Do you want to know when the "economic collapse" is going to happen?  Just open up your eyes and take a look.  The "economic collapse" is already happening all around us.  So many people talk about the coming economic collapse as if it is some massively hyped event that they will ...
  • 11 Signs That Time Is Quickly Running Out For ...
    Are we rapidly approaching a moment of reckoning for the global financial system?  August is likely to be a relatively slow month as most of Europe is on vacation, but after that we will be moving into a "danger zone" where just about anything could happen.  Historically, a finan ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Iran Missile Test Sends “Shockwave” Across Ent ...
    A grave Ministry of Defense bulletin flashed to Russian Naval and Marine Forces approaching their Mediterranean base in the Syrian port of Tartus is warning that Iran’s successful test-firing of their fourth generation indigenously-made Fateh 110 precision missile earlier today confirms that thi ...
  • Russian mobile operator calls Apple “dictatorship”
    The major Russian mobile phone operator MTS has slammed Apple for its ‘too’ strict sales policy by not allowing a cut in the device’s $1,000-plus price tag in the country. ­The iPhone’s high cost makes them a hard sell in the Russian market where rival models can be purchased for as little as $1 ...
  • Syrian troops storm rebels command center in A ...
    Syrian troops have stormed armed groups’ command center in the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 150 terrorists fighting against the government. According to reports coming from Syria, the army attacked a rebel-held school in Aleppo’s Salahuddin district, which was being used as a comman ...
  • The Assault on 2nd Amendment Precursor to Mart ...
    The disinformation mafia at Time magazine says that the phrase “’Guns don’t actually kill people’ is sometimes a refrain from gun rights advocates when they run low on arguments in a policy discussion.” Concerning the false flag staged attack in Aurora, Colorado, the National Rifle Association i ...
  • Russian MP suggests ban on foreign currency tr ...
    An MP who represents the United Russia majority party has prepared legislative amendments that would make the Russian ruble the only valid currency in the country, and put an end to dependency on the US dollar and the Euro. Yevgeniy Fyodorov described the initiative in an interview with the Izve ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Letter to politicians demanding Royal Commissi ...
    In my previous post I called on everyone to write to politicians to demand action to ensure that John Pirona’s tragic death is the last one. I am happy to help make this important job easier. Here’s a draft letter if you don’t have time to write your own. Or use it as a start [...]
  • Callous church leaders kill another victim
    The suicide death of clergy sex abuse victim John Pirona has devastated an entire community in the Hunter region of NSW, and saddened and enraged his fellow victims around the country. The news was made all the more tragic because John disappeared nearly a week before his body was found, leaving ...
  • Lynn sentenced to jail for his crimes. Now, wh ...
    At last. A church leader has been sentenced to jail for participating in the worldwide catholic church conspiracy to cover up child sex crimes. A conspiracy which has endangered countless millions of children. And ruined hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of lives. And directly led to the ...
  • Unholy Silence of Church leaders
    Last week a documentary titled Unholy Silence was aired in Australia. It detailed Australian church leaders covering up child sex offences by their priests, and examined two suicides resulting directly from a priest’s abuse, and the callous re-abuse of his victims by church leaders. The Australi ...
  • Anything Less Than A Royal Commission Is Just ...
    For far too long Australians have been happy to turn their backs on the untold suffering of thousands of victims of church-enabled sexual predators. But ignoring the problem simply ensures it continues, and gives rapists the message that they have a right to destroy as many innocent lives as the ...

WL Central

  • 2012-08-02 Christine Assange Meets The Preside ...
    Ecuador's President Rafael Correa yesterday met with the mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Quito's Palacio Carondelet. read more
  • 2012-08-01 WikiLeaks News Update: New coverage ...
    WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 605 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 603 days. - 43 days at the Ecuadorian Embassy. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 800 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without ...
  • 2012-07-31 Christine Assange Meets Ecuador's F ...
    UPDATE BELOW: In the Ecuadorian capital of Quito today, Christine Assange struggled to hold back tears after a meeting with Ricardo Patiño, Ecuador's Minister for Foreign Relations, Business and Integration. While WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remains trapped in Ecuador's London embassy, his ...
  • 2012-07-30 WikiLeaks: Activist or Journalist? ...
    On Saturday evening, what appeared to be a New York Times op-ed piece by Bill Keller supporting WikiLeaks emerged on twitter. For WL supporters, this was too good to be true, as someone who had shown much animosity toward WikiLeaks appeared to be speaking in their defense. This turned out to be ...
  • 2012-07-29 The undermining of Canadian values ...
    The Minister of Public Safety in Canada, Vic Toews, recently made comments about Omar Khadr's potential transfer to Canada from Guantánamo Bay, where he has been incarcerated since 2002 when he was just 15 years old. The comment by Toews comes after the US formally requested a transfer in April ...

U N News

  • UN envoy calls for repatriation of last child ...
    A top United Nations official has renewed her call on Canada and the United States to transfer Omar Khadr, who has spent a decade at Guantánamo Bay as of today and is the last child soldier still being held at the US detention facility.
  • Overall picture of coca cultivation in Colombi ...
    The area used to cultivate coca in Colombia has risen three per cent in 2011 over the previous year, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which added that the overall picture remained stable for the raw material used to produce the illegal drug cocaine.
  • UN expert urges US authorities to stop executi ...
    An independent United Nations human rights expert has urged United States authorities to stop the execution of two people with psychosocial disabilities who are scheduled to be put to death tomorrow in the states of Georgia and Texas.
  • UN voices concern over thousands of Haitians f ...
    The United Nations refugee agency today voiced concern over the number of people from Haiti and other Caribbean countries who have risked their lives trying to escape by sea from difficult living situations in their homelands.
  • Feature: UN official sees first-hand New York ...
    Upper Manhattan is not the usual stomping ground for the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the part of the UN charged with helping in global efforts against illicit drugs, crime and terrorism.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • The Magic Weed
    Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
  • Blood Coltan
    Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
  • CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
    Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
  • Hangar 18: The UFO Warehouse
    Not only was debris from many UFO crashes allegedly shipped to the base, but from the late 1940s until the end of the late 1960s, all reports regarding UFOs were conducted at Wright-Patterson for the military's official UFO investigation Project Blue Book.
  • HAARP – Everything You Wanted to Know – Nick B ...
    You might be surprised at all of the constructive uses HAARP could be used for, but will be even more surprised by its focus on weapons and military applications, such as weather modification, geological disruption such as triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and perhaps most controver ...

Rewilding Institute

  • A Radio Interview with John Davis
    It’s always fun to have a conversation with John Davis, so get some iced tea, turn up the volume and take some time to listen as John is interviewed by Ken Rose on What Now, aired on KOWS Radio Occidental July 23, 2012. Weaving lessons learned, travel stories and his deep knowledge and con ...
  • Canid hybridization: contemporary evolution in ...
    Canid hybridization: contemporary evolution in human-modified landscapes Astrid V. Stronen1,*, Nathalie Tessier1, Hélène Jolicoeur2, Paul C. Paquet3, Michel Hénault4, Mario Villemure5, Brent R. Patterson6, Tim Sallows7, Gloria Goulet8,François-Joseph Lapointe1 First published online: July 25, 20 ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – The Myth ...
    The Myth of the Environmental Movement ©2012 Dave Foreman In the years following Earth Day, environmentalism, once regarded as the self-serving indulgence of a privileged elite, became ‘America’s cause’…. –Phil Shabecoff - A Fierce Green Fire: The American   Environmental Movement Th ...
  • Sea Shepherd News
    Letter and excerpts from latest Sea Shepherd newsletter - Dear Friend of Sea Shepherd, Day 47 as a prisoner in Germany. My detainment has raised a lot of awareness for our cause. Citizens in Germany and all around the world have been very supportive. The only one who does not seem supportive is ...
  • A Radio Interview with Dave Foreman
    Listen to Ken Rose of http://www.pantedmonkey.org/ talk with Dave recently on his radio show What Now. Broadcast on KOWS Radio Occidental every Monday at 11 AM Pacific Time, Ken offers a fascinating collection of interviews with accomplished thinkers, writers, artists, farmers and scientists add ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Military Sued By Obama Campaign To Restrict Vo ...
    President Barack Obama, along with many Democrats, likes to say that, while they may disagree with the GOP on many issues related to national security, they absolutely share their admiration and dedication to members of our armed forces. ~ Mike Flynn read more
  • U.S. to Surrender Military Control to UN While ...
    Alex also talks with Bernadine Smith, the founder of the Second Amendment Committee, a nationwide organization working to make sure the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights is upheld as the supreme protective law for firearms of law-abiding people. Smith also authored legislation to restor ...
  • Obama's Secret Plan to Ban Guns if Re-Appointed
    The chief of the powerful Gun Owners of America organization says there is no doubt Barack Obama will impose gun controls if he wins re-election is re-appointed, even without constitutional authority. ~ Bob Unruh read more
  • Illinois Governor Quinn Gets Cozy With Mayor ...
    As many of you know, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn today utilized his amendatory veto authority to hijack a pro-gun bill and convert it into a ban on so called assault weapons. Quinn claims that his bill would... “ make Illinois a safer place.” read more
  • Batman Massacre... Why? + How? + Who?... Answe ...
    Robert Holmes, the shooting suspect's father, is a senior lead scientist with FICO, the American credit score company. He was scheduled to testify in the next few weeks before a US Senate panel that is investigating the largest bank fraud scandal in world history. This banking fraud threatens ...
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