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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 II

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Reloading Ammo: Case, Round, Primer, Die, Bull ...
    Guest post: by ‘Tripod XL’ What happens when you pull the trigger? This is not a “shooting aftermath”. This is recycling at it’s best! This is about reloading ammunition. When you shoot a round of BRASS CASED, BOXER PRIMED ammo, you leave a significant recyclable component, the brass ...
  • Government Gone Wild Says ALL The Water Is Theirs
    In our original article, All Water In Oregon Belongs To The State, we reported the fact that an Oregon man, Gary Harrington, has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for having 3 ponds on his property (which he has had for 37 years) which apparently fill from rainwater runoff and snow melt from an ...
  • Run, Hide, Fight
    Surviving an active shooter event Sometimes bad people do bad things. Their motivations are different. The warning signs may vary. But the devastating effects are the same. And unfortunately you need to be prepared for the worst. If you ever find yourself in the middle of an ‘active shoote ...
  • Maps and Direction
    If you don’t already know, learn how to use a compass and to read a map. Map reading is a very basic and essential skill that will help you during normal life and may save your life during a survival situation. Maps and survival go hand in hand. Keep maps in your car at all [...]
  • Massive India Power Outage: Wake Up Call
    As the world’s population explodes beyond 7 BILLION people, India’s borders hold 10% of all humans on the planet, about 700 million. Yesterday, and again today, half of them lost power as the electricity went out and the grid went down… for 370 million people. That’s more ...

Fast Company

  • Love Hope Strength Lollapalooza: Crowdfinding ...
    When 200,000-plus music fans descend on Chicago for this weekend’s Lollapalooza, they’ll be able to take a moment between acts to join in a life-saving project
  • Why Did Ping Fail Apple? Rhapsody, Echo Nest W ...
    Apple rarely fails publicly. Google, Microsoft, and other tech giants introduce plenty of duds into the market, but not Apple. Even its duds--MobileMe, the iMac mouse--typically disappear in the shadow of subsequent successes--iPods, iPhones, and iPads. But there is one product that almost all c ...
  • Apple Had To Sell A Million iPads In 2010 Just ...
    As the Apple-Samsung intellectual property trial of the decade unfolds, more and more information about the notoriously private Cupertino company is being made public. Apple CMO Phil Schiller just revealed details about how much the company spends on advertising and marketing, and it's enormous: ...
  • For A Lot Of The World, Climate Change Can't C ...
    While the long-term effects will be devastating for everyone, for many countries in the developing world struggling with drought, the changing environment could mean they can finally feed themselves.
  • Real-Time Diagnostics Of Your Local Water Qual ...
    Curious about the quality of what you’re drinking? You can use this simple water sensor to upload results to the cloud and, more importantly, find out if other people have discovered something problematic.

Jadaliyya

  • Jadaliyya Monthly Edition (July 2012)
    This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya during the month of July 2012. It also includes the most recent videos and the most read articles. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our Monthly Edition series, and we will have a page dedicated ...
  • زكريا محمد: ديانة مكة في الجاهلية: كتاب الحمس ...
    [“كتب” هي سلسلة جديدة على صفحات “جدلية” نستضيف فيها المؤلفين والمؤلفات في حوار حول أعمالهم الجديدة ونرفقه بفصل من الكتاب. وباكورة السلسلة حوار مع الشاعر والباحث الفلسطيني زكريا محمد.] “ديانة مكة في الجاهلية: كتاب الحمس والطلس والحلة” زكريا محمد (عمان، الدار الأهلية، ٢٠١٢)   ...
  • وقوع الغريب على نفسه
    يحتل سؤال الهوية الشائك مساحة كبيرة في رواية 'سارق النوم: غريب حيفاوي' (دار الجمل) للكاتبة الفلسطينية المقيمة في برلين، ابتسام عازم. وتتبلور إشكاليات الهوية في العنوان الفرعي 'غريب حيفاوي'، والذي يطابق اسم الشخصية الرئيسية التي تسرد أحداث الرواية، والذي يحمل دلالات وأبعاداً رمزية يتردد صداها في ...
  • ( في نقد مبدأ (اتبرع.. ولو بجنيه
    تأمل فى حال السيدة التى تساعدك على تنظيف منزلك أو زوجة حارس العقار. فأنت تعطيها ما طلبت هي بنفسها من أجر، بل وتزيد عليها فى المواسم، هذا عدا المأكولات ومساعدات دخول المدارس وبعض الملابس فى بداية كل موسم. بل والتضامن فى محنة كبيرة بالعطاء والتعاطف. هل تراها انتقلت من أسفل خط الفقر إلى أعلاه؟&nbsp ...
  • Maghreb Media Roundup (August 2)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@jadaliyya.c ...

mediagazer

  • An Open Letter to America's University Preside ...
    Knight Foundation: An Open Letter to America's University Presidents  —  We represent foundations making grants in journalism education and innovation.  In this new digital age, we believe the “teaching hospital” model offers great potential.  At its root, ...
  • How The Huffington Post Keeps All Those Tweets ...
    Rani Molla / The Content Strategist: How The Huffington Post Keeps All Those Tweets Flying  —  This post is part of the Social Media Editor Series, featuring interviews with social media editors from news organizations about what they do and where they see social media in journa ...
  • Digital Olympics: week one in numbers (Cait O' ...
    Cait O'Riordan / BBC: Digital Olympics: week one in numbers  —  It's the end of the first week of London 2012, a week that's seen record numbers of people accessing the BBC's Games coverage online and across mobile, tablet, connected TV and Red-Button.  As data flows in, my ...
  • Crossing the newspaper chasm: Is it better to ...
    Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: Crossing the newspaper chasm: Is it better to be funded by readers?  —  Both the Financial Times and the New York Times have either already crossed or are close to crossing an important threshold: namely, the point at which revenue from reader subscriptio ...
  • Breaking the Arab News (Sultan Al Qassemi/Fore ...
    Sultan Al Qassemi / Foreign Policy: Breaking the Arab News  —  Egypt made al Jazeera — and Syria's destroying it.  —  While civil war rages on the Syrian battlefield between regime loyalists and myriad rebel factions, another battle is taking place in the m ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • N. Korea says floods killed 169, left 400 ...
    SEOUL: Floods which hit parts of North Korea in recent weeks killed 169 people and left 400 missing, the state news agency said Saturday, sharply updating earlier casualty figures. It said the floods and torrential rain between late June and the end of July also made 212,200 people homeless ...
  • Rihanna 'Brown picks clothes'
    Rihanna sent 'three outfits via text' to Chris Brown so he could choose which she should wear. The 24-year-old reportedly sent messages to her former flame in anticipation of his arrival in the Mediterranean recently....
  • CDC preparing vaccine for new swine flu
    "This virus is still principally a swine virus, but it doesn't seem to have onward spread. It's still not a human virus," Dr. Joseph Bresee, from the CDC's influenza division, stressed during a noon press conference Friday. "Even so, a H3N2 candidate vaccine has been prepared and clinical tr ...
  • AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT
    Clinton pushes democracy in Kenya, seeks Somalia stability NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Kenya to press the country's leaders on the importance of democratic elections. Clinton is meeting top Kenyan officials on Saturday and urging them to a ...
  • Penalties ultimately come down to luck, c ...
    The Portugal international did not have much luck from six yards out in the 2011-12 campaign, as he believes spot kicks are a lottery rather than a skill By Stefan Coerts More...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
  • Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
    Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...

Medical Marijuana

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Hobson-Jobson
    In 1872 two men began work on a lexicon of words of Asian origin used by the British in India. Since its publication the 1,000-page dictionary has never been out of print and a new edition is due out next year. What accounts for its enduring appeal? Mukti Jain Campion Flora: “While having ...
  • Wealth & Compassion
    As riches grow, empathy for others seems to decline Daisy Grewal Who is more likely to lie, cheat, and steal—the poor person or the rich one? It’s temping to think that the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to act fairly. After all, if you already have enough for yourself, it’s easier t ...
  • Mapping Intelligence in the Brain
    A new study found that specific structures, primarily on the left side of the brain, are vital to general intelligence and executive function (the ability to regulate and control behavior). Brain regions that are associated with general intelligence and executive function are shown in color, wit ...
  • Dodos Solitaires
    This classic Marginalia on the dodo’s disappearance was first published in 1954 G. Evelyn Hutchinson The progress of Man in civilization, no less than his numerical increase, continually extends the geographical domain of Art by trenching on the territories of Nature, and hence the Zoologi ...
  • What’s the big idea?
    Dostoevsky tackled free will, Tolstoy the meaning of life – but is it still possible to write philosophical novels? Jennie Erdal At St Andrews University in the early 1970s, philosophy was still a required subject for entry into an honours course. To leave the way clear for reading modern langua ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Fans garner signatures in support of Kings XI ...
    CHANDIGARH - Dejected over the ouster of Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) from the Indian Premier League (IPL), fans of the team here have started a signature campaign to garner public support against the decision. They have constituted a group called Fans of Kings XI Punjab, consisting of students and ...
  • Even turtles and wasps need a little play time
    WASHINGTON - Watching kids and dogs play is not an alien sight. However, what about a turtle or even a wasp? Well, it seems they play, too. Gordon Burghardt, a psychology professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has discovered that many animals-not just dogs, cats, and monkeys-need ...
  • Oz PM Gillard says trade union official?s 9/11 ...
    CANBERRA - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed as “stupid and wrong” a senior union official’s belief that the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy, but refused to discipline him. Kevin Bracken, the president of the Victorian Trades Hall and secretary of the Mari ...
  • Turmeric boosts effect of chemo drug in head a ...
    WASHINGTON - Researchers with UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center have found that curcumin, the major component in the spice turmeric, when combined with the drug Cisplatin enhances the chemotherapy’s suppression of head and neck cancer cell growth. In India, women for years have been usi ...
  • Lady Gaga takes ?first step towards marriage? ...
    WELLINGTON - Lady Gaga and her beau Luc Carl have apparently taken their “first step towards marriage”. The flamboyant singer recently rekindled her romance with Carl, and there have been numerous reports the pair is planning to tie the knot. Although they have not legally marrie ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Would you like to help TNRA reach out to a wid ...
    Do you like TNRA? Would like to help us make TNRA better, stronger and more effective? If the answer is yes, read on! There are some areas we need help with, which I have listed below. These may require some basic technical skills and knowldge of online editing environments. Youtube Uploa ...
  • Free speech in Australia under threat - Part 1
    DISCLAIMER: This article is NOT an advertisement for "black salve", nor should it be construed as promoting the use of "black salve". We tend to believe that in Australia, despite excessive taxation, nanny state legislation, over-regulation and a spiralling cost of living, we at least have fre ...
  • World Roundup with George Georgios - Part 1
    Today we bring you a show which covers a wide range of stories from around the world, including news on all the latest annoying Nanny State measures which our listeners have come to expect from TNRA. Some topics covered include the introduction of high tech surveillance drones in Queensland, f ...
  • News roundup and an interview with Frank Legge
    NOTE: Due to major commitments, I am currently unable to remove ads from TNRA podcasts. I welcome any offers of assistance in this regard. In this week's show we begin with a roundup of breaking news within Australia and around the world. Some of the topics covered include Julian Assange's b ...
  • David Chandler and John Bursill address the fr ...
    Today John Bursill takes the helm as guest host. John is joined by two excellent guests who have become known within the 9/11 Truth Movement as two of it's most wise and reasonable voices. We warmly welcome Ken Jenkins in the first hour and David Chandler in the second. Also we are very lucky ...

Beacon

  • Skin Cancer Appears in Australian Fish
    The black spots on this coral trout are melanomas. © Michael Sweet/Newcastle University  Strange lesions are showing up in coral trout in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. In a new paper in the journal PloS One researchers found that 15% of reef fish tested showed signs of melan ...
  • A Big Win for Offshore Wind
    © Oceana Big news for offshore wind in Congress today! The Senate Finance committee just voted on a tax package that includes a one-year extension of the investment tax credit (ITC) for offshore wind. We’ve been working on this for a long time, so it’s very satisfying that the ITC was includ ...
  • Canary Islands Threatened by Oil Prospecting Plans
    Yellow gorgonia coral  and red sea fan in the Canary Islands.  © Oceana/Carlos Minguell The Canary Islands are in the oil industry’s crosshairs, and that spells danger for the area’s marine habitats and wildlife. In a new report, Oceana has denounced oil prospecting plans in the Ca ...
  • Creature Feature: Beluga Whale
    Belugas are the only whales that can make facial expressions ©NOAA Think that you could survive in the icy waters of the Arctic Ocean? Probably not, but beluga whales have certainly found a way. The beluga whale, sometimes known as the white whale, is an unusual-looking marine mammal. A typi ...
  • Uncovering Surprising Blooms in the Arctic
    A changing Arctic spells bad news for polar bears and other animals ©Michael Stephens Last summer I had the amazing opportunity to be on board the U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker Healy, in partnership with N.A.S.A.’s ICESCAPE mission to study the effects of ocean acidification on phytoplankton co ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

Taylor Marsh

  • Top Story: Serena Williams Wins ‘Golden Slam’ ...
    REUTERS SPORT reports via Twitter… Serena Williams becomes the first woman to win all four Grand Slams and a gold medal in both singles and doubles. photo via Shutterstock
  • Jenna Jameson Schools Clinton Eastwood on Romn ...
    Watch Study: Romney Tax Plan Would Most Benefit Wealthy Americans on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour. “It’s now more important than ever that we need Gov. Romney, and I’m going to be voting for him as I know most of you will be,” he said. “We’ve got to just sp ...
  • Kofi Annan Quits Syria
    CHARLIE ROSE had a conversation with Mark Lyall Grant, UK Ambassador to the United Nations on Syria, this week that is important (but not embeddable). The opening for Syria to eventually go the way of Afghanistan is getting wider.
  • News Desk: Sudan and South Sudan Reach ‘Reason ...
    Sudan has struck a deal with South Sudan over oil payments in a dispute that brought to the two countries to the brink of war. A spokesman from Sudan said a “reasonable understanding” had been reached, but that more further on security were needed. The two countries came close to all ...
  • Birthday Cake War
    RNC SENDS a birthday message to Pres. Obama. The DNC responds. Fun war games that have no consequences, except inside the campaigns, as the rest of us watch the warfare.

Hudson New York

  • Al Qaeda's Path of Decline: The Week in Review
    Last Tuesday, the State Department reported in its annual survey of terrorist threats that "[t]he loss of bin Ladin and ... other key operatives puts the [al Qaeda] network on a path of decline that will be difficult to reverse." The authors hedged their
  • Turkey's trade deficit reveals an economy in d ...
    I've been hammering away at Turkey's credit bubble problem for the past eight months: consumer lending is still growing at a nearly 30% annual rate, after dipping into the teens earlier this year (I am annualizing the 3-month growth rate). But the trade
  • EU "Upgrades" Relations with Israel, Stranglin ...
    The European Union has upgraded trade and diplomatic relations with Israel in more than 60 activities and fields, including agriculture, energy and immigration. But the wide-ranging boost to bilateral relations, which was announced at the annual
  • The French Railroad and the Holocaust
    Even though in wartime France, under the Vichy regime headed by Marshal Pétain, people behaved in a manner thought necessary for survival, the issue of legal as well as moral judgment has arisen again in lawsuits involving the actions of the Societé
  • Netanyahu Plays the Romney Card
    Lost in the discussion of Mitt Romney's Olympic gaffes were the larger geopolitical ramifications of the Israeli leg of the GOP candidate's grand tour. In Jerusalem, the Republican Presidential candidate called blocking Iran's nuclear ambitions a "moral

Urban Survival

  • Jobs: Flat/Down
    Not too surprising, the new report on the unemployment rate is just out and it’s bound to become a political football sometime today…since it is not as good as what had been expected:   “Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Different Ways of Seeing the Future
    Since Clif has been occupied with close, urgent family matters, plus prepping for next year’s whatevers, I’ve been thinking on how to get some kind of close-in sense of what it coming. Coincidentally, one of our readers has come up … Continue reading →
  • Job and Rate Watch
    There’s a fair bit of economic frufru this morning:  We begin with a note that the Fed will have a rate (non) decision later on  in the afternoon and the ECB has just announced (contrary to market hype) that they … Continue reading →
  • Coping: My Olympic Questions
    (Sun River, OR)  So here we were quietly wandering around this fine resort in the middle of Oregon, next to some gorgeous mountains: …and this weird thought pops into my head as we ducked into the bar and grill in … Continue reading →
  • Housing Improves a Bit
    Here’s the update to the Case Shiller/S&P Housing Index just out this morning – good news mostly (at least if you’re a homeowner:   “New York, July 31, 2012 – Data through May 2012, released today by S&P Dow Jones … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Carbon Pollution Update: Zombie Power Plants ...
    David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. As we sweat through this roaring-hot, extreme-weather summer, nearly 3 million Americans have raised their voices in public comments supporting EPA’s proposed stan ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile While the two companies who own the proposed Hidroaysén dam project in Patagonia, Endesa and Colbún, hope to resume the project before the end of the year, there remains si ...
  • Clean Energy Alternatives Could Help India Avo ...
    Amrita Batra, Program Assistant, India Initiative and Food and Agriculture, San Francisco Over 680 million Indians across 20 of India’s 28 states were affected by the world’s largest power outage this week. While fortunately, a natural d ...
  • Conservation Helps Farmers Tough Out Drought
    Bob Deans, Associate Director of Communications, Washington, DC LAMAR, CO. - A third generation farmer and rancher in southeast Colorado, Jensen Stulp lives close to the land, supporting his family on what it provides and working to keep it fertile ...
  • California Utilities Exceed Renewable Power Goals
    Peter Miller, Senior Scientist, San Francisco At a time when there’s plenty of disheartening news about the environment, yesterday’s report that California is continuing to make rapid progress toward its goals for clean, renewable power ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • The Michael Nida Case
    The Michael Nida Case is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • National Police Misconduct News Feed Daily Rec ...
    Here are the 14 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, August 2, 2012: Birmingham, Alabama: a Birmingham police officer has been indicted for two separate excessive force incidents. “We will prosecute those few who abuse their law enforcement powers … Continue reading &#8 ...
  • Praise for Retiring Police Chief
    From the Washington Post: Prince William Commonwealth’s Attorney Paul B. Ebert said that [Police Chief Charlie] Deane has embodied the principles of honesty and integrity, evidenced by the fact that there has never been a major scandal unearthed at the … Continue reading →Prais ...
  • Fighting City Hall — The Kelly Thomas Case
    From Huffington Post: Kelly’s Army worked tirelessly to publicize the beating, which Establishment types would have liked to sweep under the carpet, subtly or not-so-subtly trying to blame Kelly for his own death. Kelly’s Army got the ear of the … Continue reading →Fighti ...
  • National Police Misconduct News Feed Daily Rec ...
    Here are the 14 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, August 1, 2012: Los Osos, California: a San Luis Obispo County deputy has been arrested on a domestic violence charge. “The Sheriff’s Office holds our employees to the same … Continue reading →National Po ...

Total Collapse

  • 8 Russian warships bound for Syria for reasons ...
    On the same day the U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly for an Arab-backed resolution that severely criticized the Syrian government — blaming it almost exclusively for the killings and other atrocities that have come to shape the 17-month-old uprising there — the Russian Defense Ministry ...
  • Iran Missile Test Sends Shockwave Across Entir ...
    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 ...
  • Third Russian-Chinese Veto Blocks the Road to ...
    “They have shown only arrogance, not sincerity.” Chinese Ambassador Li Baodong, July 19, 2012, United Nations Security Council Following the first Persian Gulf War, in 1990-1991, authorized by the United Nations Security Council with the adoption of Resolution 678, permitting “all necessary mean ...
  • Typhoon toll rises as 300,000 flee in Asia
    THE death toll from Typhoon Saola has risen to 42 in the Philippines and Taiwan, and 300,000 people have been evacuated in China as Typhoon Damrey makes landfall. The Philippines recorded 37 deaths in floods and accidents caused by Saola’s torrential rains and strong winds, officials said ...
  • Iran Test Fires Missile
    Iran claims it has test fired a missile with a range of 203 miles, according to a state news agency. Defence minister Ahmad Vahidi is quoted as saying the test of the fourth-generation Fateh 110 missile was “successful”. The missile is an upgraded version of a short-range ballistic m ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – World of Warcra ...
    Blizzard and World of Warcraft are bleeding subscribers. Samsung can’t reference 2001: A Space Odyssey with its patent suit against Apple. Facebook drops below $20 per share. You can catch...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Facebook’ ...
    Facebook reveals its fake user accounts, investigative reporting lands its own YouTube Channel and Android moves out into its own blog. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – The new Digg un ...
    Betaworks unveils the new version of Digg, Hulu briefly works worldwide on Apple TV, and over 1 million people sign up for Microsoft’s new Outlook.com in its first six hours....
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Twitter and NBC ...
    Twitter sends a smackdown to Stocktwits. Apple’s next iPhone comes in September. Twitter and NBC play the blame game. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Microsoft Surfa ...
    Microsoft looks set to release its first Surface tablet on the same day as Windows 8, HTC withdraws from South Korea in the face of stiff competition, and MS X...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Laggard to Leader - Report Launch Melbourne Sy ...
        Are you sick of hearing? Australia is only a small part of the climate problem We shouldn’t act before the rest of the world Our actions won’t make a difference, anyway BZE’s new report, Laggard to Leader, will challenge these excuses, expose the true extent of Australia’s ...
  • Germany’s solar panels would provide 25% of Au ...
    If you took all the solar panels in Germany and put them in Australia, they would supply a quarter of our electricity demand. In the first six months of 2012, 4.5% of total electricity demand in Germany was met by solar power. Put ...
  • Half-price Stationary Energy Plans now on sale
    Beyond Zero Emissions' award-winning Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan is now on sale for $15 + postage. That's 50% off! Perfect for showing your friends, family and workmates how Australia can get to 100% renewable energy within a decade. To order your copy email our General Manager ...
  • Solar Thermal Models Built
    Another four of our famous solar thermal models have been built in NSW, thanks to the efforts of Beyond Zero Emissions volunteers, the Paramatta Climate Action Network, and the Granville Men’s Shed. The models are of a concentrated solar thermal plant with a molten salt storage (CST+) power stat ...
  • WME leaders list 2012: GOVERNMENT + NGO LEADER
    The idealistic realist Matthew Wright Outfit: Beyond Zero Emissions Position: Executive Director Completely decarbonising our coal-rich nation by 2020 might be seen as an idealistic notion, but not to Matthew Wright. As co-founder of the NGO Beyond Zero Emissions, he has provided insight in ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Brazil's deforestation rate still on decline i ...
    Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by more than a fifth for the 12-month period ending July 31, 2012, according to preliminary data released by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE).
  • Pig iron producers sign zero deforestation ple ...
    Pig iron producers in the Brazilian state of Maranhão today pledged to stop using charcoal produced from Amazon rainforest logging, reports Greenpeace, which had waged a zero deforestation campaign targeting foreign automakers that buy steel from the industry.
  • Tigers vs. coal in India: when big energy meet ...
    Burning coal fuels climate change, causes acid rain, and spreads toxic pollutants into the environment, but now a new Greenpeace report warns that coal may also imperil the world's biggest feline: the tiger. Home to world's largest population of tigers—in this case the Bengal subspecies (P ...
  • Mangroves should be part of solution to climat ...
    Mangroves are under-appreciated assets in the effort to slow climate change, argues a new Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper which makes a argument for including the coastal ecosystems in carbon credit programs.
  • Jungles in Antarctica? High CO2 levels contrib ...
    Tropical vegetation grew along the coast of Antarctica 52 million years ago, an indication to dramatic climate shifts linked to elevated carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, report scientists in Nature.

Sierra Express

  • President Koroma Receives Update on Gender Equ ...
    Freetown: A three person delegation from the Sierra Leone Female Parliamentary Caucus (SLEFPAC) has updated His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma on the Gender Equality Bill at the Presidential Lodge, Hill Station.  The delegation comprised the President of SLEFPAC, Hon. Reverend Marie Yansanneh, ...
  • “We are Working Geared towards an AIDS-Free Ge ...
    Sierra Leone HIV/Aids Secretariat Director Dr. Brima Kargbo Sierra Leone’s National HIV/Aids Secretariat director Dr. Brima Kargbo has disclosed that the world is unanimous in assiduously working towards an “Aids –free generation”. Speaking to a cross section of Sierra Leoneans in United States ...
  • Airtel Rising Stars finest teams battle for Su ...
    The male and female Champions for the five divided zones across Sierra Leone for the U-17 Airtel Rising Stars tournament are currently gathered in Makeni for the national finals to fight for supremacy.  (Photo: Mahmoud FC win opening match in ARS national finals) The tournament which kicked-off ...
  • World Energy Council to hold World Energy Lead ...
    New Delhi, India – The World Energy Council (WEC) announces that it will organize the World Energy Leaders Summit (WELS) in February 2013. This is the first time the WEC will hold its World Energy Leaders Summit in India. The WELS will be held on Wednesday, 6 February 2013 and will be co-h ...
  • Regional Champions for Airtel Rising Stars, Se ...
    Regional Champions for Airtel Rising Stars, Season II Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news! People who looked at this item also looked at… Airtel Arbitrates Players for ARS Tournament Airtel Rising Stars tournament reaches decisive stage Airtel’s Mobile Wallet Con ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Dairy co-op Westland cuts payout forecast
    Westland Milk Products, an independent dairy cooperative, said it would cut its 2012-13 payout forecast due to a fall in international prices for dairy products.Westland said it would cut its budgeted $5.70 - $6.10 per kilogram...
  • NZ commodity prices keep falling - down 0.5pc ...
    New Zealand commodity prices fell for the sixth straight month in July, as uncertainty over the global economy and Europe's worsening debt crisis sapped demand for raw materials.The
  • Fonterra director's resignation a 'shock' - Feds
    Federated Farmers says Colin Armer's resignation from Fonterra has come as a surprise and it is concerned the dairy cooperative's board is losing its 'old blood'. Fonterra director Armer, who was seen by some as the natural successor...
  • World dairy prices up 3.5pc in overnight auction
    Prices of dairy products rose for only the fourth time this year in the latest GlobalDairyTrade sale overnight, paced by whole milk powder, the biggest product by volume sold through the platform by Fonterra.The GDT-TWI Price...
  • Fonterra director quits suddenly
    Fonterra director Colin Armer, who was seen by some as the natural successor to outgoing chairman Sir Henry van der Heyden, has tendered his resignation from the board, effective immediately.Armer, who with his wife Dale made the...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Video: Celebrating the End of the Fairness Doc ...
    "Celebrating the End of the Fairness Doctrine" is the latest offering from ReasonTV. Watch above or click on the link below for video, full text, supporting links, downloadable versions, and more ReasonTV clips. View this article.
  • Baylen Linnekin on the Fight for the Right to ...
    Got raw milk? Increasingly that question appears difficult to answer in the affirmative. For fans of raw milk and those who fight for food freedom in all its forms, the past year or two have been notable for several setbacks on the unpasteurized dairy front, including S.W.A.T. raids ...
  • Welcome to the National Counterterrorism Cente ...
    The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wants to warn you about "the biggest new spying program you've probably never heard of" at the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). Some of the grim details: On March 22, 2012 the Attorney General, the Director of National Intellig ...
  • The DEA Busted Fewer Marijuana Grow Operations ...
    According to AP the amount of marijuana seized by government officials in 2011 has declined when it comes to marijuana grow ops, but increased in amount of bulk processed weed seized. The article notes: One thing is known: California, which provides the lion’s share of the m ...
  • Pot Legal by 2016, Your Government’s Odd Ideas ...
    Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson thinks marijuana will be legal by 2016 and that pot initiatives on the ballots in Washington State and Colorado are likely to pass in November. Maryland House speaker wants Internet gambling on the table for discussion at next wee ...

Mercury Rising

  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • En Lagarde: Why Republicans should be driven f ...
    Dominic Rushe, Le Guardian: Political infighting over the “fiscal cliff” threatens to wipe out the US’s fragile recovery with “very bad” consequences for the rest of the world, a senior International Monetary Fund economist warned Thursday. Updating its annual repor ...
  • En Lagarde: Why Republicans should be driven f ...
    Dominic Rushe, Le Guardian: Political infighting over the “fiscal cliff” threatens to wipe out the US’s fragile recovery with “very bad” consequences for the rest of the world, a senior International Monetary Fund economist warned Thursday. Updating its annual repor ...
  • Honduras: A Deadly Country For Women, And The ...
    Following up on Charles’ 08/01 post on Honduras and Mexico, I thought I should mention this from TrustLaw’s Anastasia Moloney: The number of women murdered in Honduras has more than quadrupled since 2002, the national human rights commission says, with more than 90 percent of the kil ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Sex in the News
    Guns verse sexual freedom, asexuality is a sexual identity, the Chinese Police rescue a sex doll, and men fake orgasm too. read more
  • The Stargate Project : Psychic Warriors and th ...
    Metaphysical and psychic phenomena have long existed on the fringes of conventional science and academia. ESP, Clairvoyance, Telekinesis and Astral traveling have all been relegated to the back seat of mainstream, accepted belief systems in spite of an extensive mention of these practices do ...
  • Machine Elves 101 (Or, Why Terence McKenna Mat ...
      This article is excerpted from Machine Elves 101 (Or, Why Terence McKenna Matters), recently released by Reality Sandwich Singles, a new series of novella-length e-books.   read more
  • Savants: What They Can Teach Us
      The following originally appeared in Explore: the Journal of Science and Healing. read more
  • This Week in Psychedelics
      More than 90 people are arrested in a nationwide crackdown on the synthetic drug industry, an archivist rediscovers the lost tape of Timothy Leary's visit with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and a marijuana legalization measure qualifies for the Oregon state ballot in this week's psy ...

Desertification

  • Record Aid Shortfall Abandons Millions to Thei ...
    Global funding for humanitarian aid interventions saw the biggest shortfalls in 10 years in 2011, according to a new report, raising questions about the international community’s ability to meet a 20-percent greater need for 2012 driven by drought and conflict. The launch of the 2012 Global Huma ...
  • Crops Failing as U.S. Simmers in Record Heat Wave
    The United States is suffering one of its most severe droughts in decades, leading to both widespread crop failures and increased public concern about the impacts of climate change. According to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climatic Data Center, th ...
  • China Battles Desertification
    As scientists increasingly label desertification as one of the most burning challenges facing the world today, a small village in China’s semi-arid Northeastern region of Inner Mongolia is fighting back. Chifeng City’s dry climate and sparse vegetation have given way to severe surface erosion an ...
  • RIO+20: Promised Green Economy Was a Fake, Say ...
    When the Rio+20 summit on sustainable development ended Friday, there were winners and losers – mostly losers. The United Nations and the host country Brazil – along with big business – put a positive spin on the outcome of the conference, a follow-up to the 1992 Earth Summit. It was another his ...
  • Rio Outcome Bleak With No New Funding*
    Amidst recrimination, anger and charges of “strong arm tactics”, negotiators eventually endorsed a global plan of action for sustainable development following marathon sessions lasting over six weary days. A proposal for a 30-billion-dollar global fund for sustainable development – initiated by ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Prince William, Kate Middleton: More Than $80, ...
    The average British working household income is less than $40,000 U.S. That is why I have no use for those who are so privileged by birth. It is sickening. Probably Kate and William rented the whole airplane. Read more here. Kate Middleton: The gold-digger. Interesting video.
  • Canada Day and #DenounceHarper
    “#DenounceHarper is trending on Twitter in Canada, just behind #HappyCanadaDay. Users are using the hashtag to voice dissatisfaction with the Harper government, or just the man himself.” Read more about #DenounceHarper
  • TVO's The Agenda: The New McCarthyism
    There is no worse cancer in a free society than the thuggish impulse to equate dissent as disloyalty... The greatest patriot is the person with the courage to be the lone voice in the crowd crying out that the Emperor has no clothes. The test of our society's democratic nature is our instinct ...
  • Harper's Canada Day message loudly booed at Ja ...
  • U.S. Healthcare Legislation
    Fuxs News’ take on the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on Healthcare. Repugs are apparently very upset by the decision. Repugs spin machine is going hard at it. Sarah Palin gives her gyrations. “Obama lies, freedom dies” Sarah Palin. Watch the latest video at Press TV - Middle East

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • What did I do on my summer vacation…?
    I remember, just before returning to school every fall, thinking for weeks and weeks how I would answer that question. Would I tell my classmates about a trip to the beach, or attending sleep-away camp, or a summer job? Since my birthday is at the end of August it was fun talking to my classmate ...
  • Reflections on Project Rwanda
    For the past three years, faculty and students in the M.A. in Applied Theatre program at CUNY’s School of Professional Studies have traveled to Rwanda to implement the project “Drama and Theatre Education in Schools for Reconciliation and Development in Rwanda.” The twin goals of Project R ...
  • Are We Becoming Flattened by Technology?
    Are you an optimist or pessimist? There’s only one way to find out. I find it amazing that so much has progressed in our society—medical, education, economics, and even in technology.  The experience I’ve had thus far has surprisingly helped me.  I say surprisingly because with knowl ...
  • Five Questions for Our 1000th Facebook Fan
    We recently surpassed 1000 “likes” on our Facebook page, so to commemorate this milestone we asked our 1000th fan, Susan Punturieri, to tell us a little about herself. How did you learn about SPS? A co-worker referred the program to me. She said she really enjoyed it. I was looking i ...
  • SPS Governing Council Representative Nominatio ...
    We are accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and an alternate are needed to serve on the Cou ...

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

  • New York City refuses to defend the cop who pe ...
    New York City will not provide a defense attorney for Police Officer Anthony Bologna, who was caught on camera pepper-spraying Occupy Wall Street protesters and now faces a civil lawsuit. The now-notorious cop, a 29-year veteran of the NYPD and a deputy inspector, will have to cover his own l ...
  • Real US unemployment: More than 15% (almost 1 ...
    While the official US unemployment rate lies just above 8 percent, real jobless rates are almost three times that high in some states, with the national “real” unemployment rate lying at 15 percent in July. The US government’s official unemployment rate, now at 8.3 percent, only takes into co ...
  • Ben Swann Gives a “Truth Smackdown&#8221 ...
    The 2nd Amendment (the right to bear arms) was created so that We the People could protect ourselves from a tyrannical government. Ben Swann elucidates in this video.
  • Massachusetts Citizens Frightened by Midnight ...
    The Federalist Papers are replete with warnings about standing armies and how they are used to deliver tyranny. The framers of the Constitution objected to a standing army because a “standing army in the hands of a government placed so independent of the people, may be made a fatal instrument to ...
  • House urges Obama to fight UN web regulation
    "Today’s unanimous vote sends a clear and unmistakable message: the American people want to keep the Internet free from government control and prevent Russia, China and other nations from succeeding in giving the U.N. unprecedented power over Web content and infrastructure," said Rep. Mary Bono ...

Yeti Betty

  • Earthquake Prediction - Prediksi Gempa - Lindo ...
    Recent Earthquake Lists Area Of Higher Earthquake Danger! If You Can See Your Lands, It Is Under The Moon - Beware of Earthquakes. If it is in Sunlight Aswell Be Doubly Aware.. Eclipse Times Eclipses don't always mean earthquakes in the same way as getting run over by a Mack ...
  • Opera Low (zero) Kb (x6 million)
    O My Opera          Self Help          Community          Opera ISN'T IT TIME OPERA RELEASED THEIR OWN FONT!! ...
  • Educating Pita - Alan's Psychadelic BreakFasts
    I'll endeavour to keep a daily record of my simple inexpensive vegetarian eats here - just to answer the ever present carnivore's question: "What do you find to eat?"... ...
  • Help Yourself, it's all free...
    Best Viewed With:  Welcome Looking back at a previous blog of mine about earthquakes, a fair proportion of it turned out to be about common sense life tips. I've been through almost everything a life can throw at a person, and hopefully outlining a few useful things may help som ...
  • Website SEO Help
     B  Warning! As the web reaches into nearly every little village on the planet, the number of websites are currently expanding, and the number of people needing help are providing a tasty pool of minnows to the ever circling sharks. From blatant extorionism with threatening phonecall ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • TURKEY: Caught Between Syria’s Kurds and a Har ...
    In a display of muscle-flexing, Turkish tanks this week carried out military exercises on the Syrian border, just a few kilometres away from towns that Syrian Kurds had seized from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces. The seizure of the Kurdish towns sent alarm bells ringing in the T ...
  • From the Ashes of Tragedy, Lessons for Disaste ...
    At 4:30 a.m. on the morning of Jul. 30, sleeping passengers in carriage S 11 on the Chennai-bound Tamilnadu Express were awoken by a blazing fire, as the train approached the east coast town of Nellore, just two and a half hours shy of its final destination. At least 32 people burned to death in ...
  • Malawi Checks China’s African Advance
    The move in Malawi to close down Chinese businesses outside of the four major cities has been condemned as xenophobic by rights organisations. A new law enforced Jul. 31 barred foreigners from carrying out trade in Malawi’s outlying and rural areas. The Investment and Export Promotion Bill requi ...
  • Awareness of Climate Change Risks Low in Domin ...
    One of the major difficulties to overcome in climate change adaptation policies in the Dominican Republic is society’s low awareness of the risks, even though this Caribbean island nation is seriously exposed to the impacts of the phenomenon. The probable consequences of climate change for the D ...
  • OP-ED: U.S. Adrift on Law of the Sea
    A little overshadowed by the Olympics, the Yeosu 2012 Expo is, in its own way, doing more than the London Games to promote global harmony – and without stirring up the waters the way the British did when they posted the ROK flag for the DPRK women’s soccer team. Next weekend, as the Expo h ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • The Power of War Propaganda on Iran, and How I ...
    Summary: So can the politicians and the media still be blamed for spreading falsehoods about Iran? In a word, yes. Former CIA officer Paul Pillar, when writing about the misinformation campaign to sell the Iraq war, explained it was “less a matter of instilling any specific mistaken belief ...
  • Illegitimate Sanctions on Iran
    Summary: Blockades are acts of war. Multiples rounds of sanctions targeting vital state functions have similar effects if pushed too far. Ones in place now violate fundamental human rights. They're illegal. Iran should sue. Unlike the International Criminal Court, ICJ rulings are more measure ...
  • Obsession With Iran Act 2012 - Ron Paul
    Summary: Senator Ron Paul slams the Iran Threat Reduction Act as "Obsession with Iran Act" during the House debate on the bill, arguing that Iran was no threat to the US national security and that the sanctions act was "an act of war". source: Foreign Policy Journalread more
  • The Parchin lie becomes a "social fact" throug ...
    Summary: Some idiot named Robert Beckhusen has written an article for Wired Danger Room about Parchin, entitled "Watch Iran make this nuke site disappear", promoting the idea that Iran is cleansing Parchin to hide its "secret nuclear weapons program" based on ISIS satellite imagery which sho ...
  • Is Iran “The Most Destabilizing Nation in the ...
    Summary: Standing reality on its head—at least in the eyes of most Middle Easterners—presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney declared during his recent visit to Israel that the Islamic Republic is “the most destabilizing nation in the world.” In fact, reputable surveys conduc ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • NASA Countdown: "The Conditions for the Emerge ...
    Planetary scientists have long been puzzling over what could be producing methane gas detected in Mars thin atmosphere. Methane molecules are easily blown apart by ultraviolet light from the Sun, so any methane around must have been released recently. The...
  • Image of the Day --NASA's Gale Crater Mars Lan ...
    This computer-generated view based on multiple orbital observations shows Mars' Gale crater as if seen from an aircraft north of the crater. Because of its history, 96-mile wide Gale Crater crater landing site, with its strangely sculpted mountain --three times...
  • Did a Supernova Shockwave Create Our Solar Sys ...
    For decades it has been thought that a shock wave from a supernova explosion triggered the formation of our Solar System. According to this theory, the shock wave also injected material from the exploding star into a cloud of dust...
  • "Vaporizing Earth" to Identify Atmospheres of ...
    At the beginning of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the officiously bureaucratic aliens called Vogons, authors of the third-worst poetry in the universe, follow through on their threat to destroy the Earth to make way for a hyperspatial express...
  • "Seven Minutes of Terror" Update --Two Days to ...
    Final preparations are underway at Nasa today as the space agency's Curiosity rover began its final approach to the red planet ahead of its expected landing on monday morning. The rover still has one massive hurdle to overcome before it...

Natural News

  • Mainstream media pushes malicious fluoride lie ...
    The mainstream media is at it again, lying to the public about fluoride. This time, the culprit is HealthDay, a "canned news" service that spits out lies and disinformation to be published by subscribing websites. Recently, HealthDay put out a story by author Alan Mozes...
  • Healing Naturally: Fasting and Elimination (op ...
    The evidence throughout time supporting fasting is incredible. There was a guy back in ancient Greece named Aesculapius that said, "Instead of using medicine, fast. "Hippocrates recommended prolonged fasting instead of taking health-destroying pharmaceuticals, which...
  • Muscle imbalances cause swayback and lower bac ...
    The amount of people experiencing bad posture and back or knee pain is steadily increasing. Modern lifestyle increases the risk of muscle imbalances, bad posture, back pain, knee pain etc., and we are spending billions each year on pharmaceuticals to alleviate the pain...
  • Zinc plays key role in supporting key biologic ...
    Zinc is an essential mineral which, although required in only limited amounts, the body cannot produce and a steady supply must be maintained in order to support important bodily processes like strengthening the immune system, wound healing, cell division and supporting...
  • The Batman op expands: you shot those people
    The Batman-murder psy-op is expanding. It aims to blow up one horrible crime into a vicious general lie. Now we're told that a U of Colorado "threat assessment team" was aware of "problems with James Holmes" in June, a month before he committed murder and mayhem...

Threat Level

  • Attaché Company Attacks Marvel, Alleging Aveng ...
    German luxury travel-case maker Rimowa claims in a federal lawsuit that the forthcoming Blu-ray box set of the Marvel Entertainment hit movie Avengers infringes on its Topas attaché case. The "Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One -- Avengers Assembled Box Set"comes in a briefcase that looks lik ...
  • Judge Skeptical of Facebook ‘Sponsored Stories ...
    A San Francisco federal judge declined Thursday to approve a Facebook legal settlement concerning the social-networking site's "Sponsored Stories" advertising program, saying he was concerned that the $10 million payout might not be big enough.
  • Legislation Seeks to Limit Warrantless Wiretap ...
    An Oregon senator wants the government's eavesdropping program to be more respectful of Americans' privacy rights, and introduced a bill Thursday to change the law. Unfortunately, the current program is all but re-authorized, without changes, by Congress.
  • Whistleblower, Suspected of Leaking Warrantles ...
    A former congressionals staffer and NSA whistleblower the authorities suspected of exposing the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program is suing the government, saying her constititonal rights are being violated because her computer seized five years ago has never been returned, an ...
  • Court Demands TSA Explain Why It Is Defying Nu ...
    A federal appeals court Wednesday ordered the Transportation Security Administration to answer why it hasn't complied with the court's year-old decision demanding the agency hold public hearings concerning the rules and regulations that have led to the deployment of so-called nude body scanners ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Mitt Romney's Meth Labs of Democracy
    Few phrases pepper the rhetoric of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney more frequently than variations of Justice Brandeis' famous quote that the states may "serve as a laboratory" for the rest of the nation. "Before imposing a one-size-fits-all federal program," Romney wrote in 2009, " ...
  • Romney in Hot Water over James Baker Anecdote
    From the beginning, Mitt Romney's much-hyped overseas journey has devolved into one self-inflicted wound after another. But largely lost in the laughter is another episode which to Romney's right-wing allies is no laughing matter at all. On the eve of the trip, Romney quoted former Reagan chie ...
  • Jewish Voters, Republican Chutzpah
    As Mitt Romney begins his excellent adventure in Israel, it's worth noting the many advantages he enjoys over his former Republican rivals when it comes to courting Jewish voters. For starters, Romney considers Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "my friend," one with whom he shares "comm ...
  • How the U.S. Government Helped Mitt Romney Bui ...
    At events across the country, Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is trying to convince voters that small business owners in fact build the roads and bridges they use every day. Unfortunately, Romney's "We Did Build It" gatherings have hit some potholes, with many participants revealed to be th ...
  • Romney Redeploys Bush's "Hollow Military" Frau ...
    Before departing on his trip to tout America's Anglo-Saxon heritage in the UK, Poland and Israel, Mitt Romney used an address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) to deliver a blistering attack on President Obama. Blistering and, of course, duplicitous. Romney accused President Obama of "mass ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Away For The Weekend
  • From Chomsky, Shiva, Pilger and more: An Open ...
    Dandelion Salad New Left Project 27 July 2012 The following is an open letter from IOPS  (the International Organisation for a Participatory Society) a potentially important new initiative in the struggle for a more just world… An Open Message to All Who Seek A New and Better World We are ...
  • Trillions in Off Shore Tax Havens Not Mentione ...
    James Henry: US media and politicians mostly ignore massive untaxed wealth that big banks help rich move to tax havens
  • Gore Vidal Remembered: 2003 Interview With Lat ...
    Gore Vidal died on Tuesday at the age of 86 from complications of pneumonia. Vidal was a national icon who authored some 25 novels, several plays, two memoirs and multiple volumes of essays. He was one of the best-known and most prolific chroniclers of American history and politics, dedicating h ...
  • WikiLeaks in Latin America: Online Whistleblow ...
    If Julian Assange is granted asylum in Ecuador, he will become a resident of Latin America, where the trove of classified U.S. State Department cables he strategically disseminated through WikiLeaks has generated hundreds of headlines, from Mexico to Chile. A year after thousands of cables on La ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Elephant Communication, Mechanisms Behind Call ...
    African elephants are known as some of the greatest communicators in the animal kingdom, they can converse with “extremely low-pitched vocalizations, known as infrasounds, over a distance of miles.” The “infrasounds” they make occupy a very low frequency range. At fewer t ...
  • Deep-Sea Squid Jettison Arms To Escape Predators
    A never-before-seen defensive strategy has been observed being used by a small species of deep-sea squid, the squid counter-attacks a predator and then leaves the tips of its arms attached to the predator as a distraction. Researcher Stephanie Bush said that “when the foot-long octopus squ ...
  • Death Cry Of Star Being Destroyed By Black Hol ...
    Astronomers recently discovered a quiescent black hole in a distant galaxy that erupted after shredding and devouring a passing star. And now in a new finding, researchers have identified a distinctive X-ray signal observed in the days following the outburst that comes from matter on the verge o ...
  • Rhino Crisis Round Up: U.S. Antiques Dealer Pl ...
    In the United States, antiques dealer David Hausman has pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and creating false records in relation to rhino horn trafficking. The Manhattan antiques dealer is one of the suspects arrested in February 2012 as part of “Operation Crash“. Hausman admi ...
  • Offshore Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines Get a Clo ...
      Offshore vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) could help to solve some of the problems of generating energy from offshore breezes, according to researchers from Sandia National Laboratory. Though VAWTs have been around since the beginning of wind energy research at Sandia and other researc ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Desperate GOP Turns to Voter Suppression as La ...
    By @TedFrier As Mitt Romney continues to slip in the polls, and as the more radical implications of his tax cut agenda get exposed, expect Republicans to turn with greater urgency to the secret weapon in their arsenal: Voter Suppression. Democrats are responding with a two-front counter-offen ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC So a porn star endorsed @MittRomney on Friday, a development that shouldn't surprise anyone, if you stop and think about it for a minute. They both made their money fucking people they don't know and they both change positions on command. I've said it before and I'll say it again - t ...
  • Having sown the wind, will they now reap the w ...
    By @BGinKC Three years ago the republicans turned over what was left of their damaged soul to the Koch brothers in an effort to stop healthcare reform in its tracks and "break" President Obama. "It will break him. It will be his Waterloo," were Jim DeMint's exact words. Of course, Napoleon wasn' ...
  • Gay Day at Chick-Fil-A
    For some (too many) Conservatives, free speech is the Constitutional protection to 1. call anything "speech" and 2. use it to express antagonism. In some old versions the creative use of a rope was simply an expression of opinion. Now they're reduced to consuming a hunk of fat and salt to send a ...
  • Plutocracy's Last Stand
    By @TedFrier For Republicans, 2012 is a "go-for-broke election." Or so says the Washington Post's E.J. Dionne, who claims the GOP hopes to "eke out a narrow victory in November" based on the counterintuitive idea of promoting a "quite radical program that includes more tax cuts for the rich, dee ...

Care 2

  • Stop Gun Smuggling To Mexico! ACTION
    More than 70% of the weapons seized in Mexico in the last three years and submitted for tracing came from the U.S. 10994,08817,08837,10933,10527,10510,21045,07010,07065,07111,07724 Postal Codes if you wish... Submitted by Nancy C. to World  |   Note-it!  |  &n ...
  • Playing for Peace-Athletes From the Democratic ...
    Because of the [girls soccer] matches we play, I have met many new friends from areas outside my village. I say to my family that I am the example of gender equality because I go to play matches all over Bunyakiri. Submitted by Nancy C. to World  |   Note-it!  |  &nbs ...
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Support the Student Loa ...
    There is a bill that would indefinitely set the federal student loan interest rate at 3.4 percent. It would ensure that students pay their fair share while partially forgiving federal student debt for those hardworking American taxpayers who have already Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politi ...
  • Your concern about being shamed in your commun ...
    Both parents jailed for life for honour killing Submitted by Tommy Shannon to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • AP Cites Israel in Murder of CIA Asset in Syri ...
    Hidden at the bottom of a report on Israeli spying against American diplomats and our CIA personnel inside Israel, breaks ins, stolen secrets, wire tapping is something much more serious. Submitted by Barbara W. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • “Focus” — on Florida * hk2′s tgif open thread
    This Romney TV ad is running in Florida: If you follow the link, you find yourself at Mark Halperin’s “The Page” for Time magazine. Yeah, but his site is handy for catching the latest ads and scripts (this one’s below). As I grabbed the video code, I noticed this headline ...
  • Obama’s Employment Fantasy and Delusion
    Much of the media is truly pathetic when it comes to informing you about what is really happening with the economy, especially on the jobs front. Most are so intellectually lazy that they will simply repeat White House talking points. I say, “just look at the numbers.” Do not believe ...
  • Anderson Cooper condemns Harry Reid for “no fa ...
    Edmund Randolph called for members of the U.S. Senate “to restrain, if possible, the fury of democracy.” James Madison: “The use of the Senate is to consist in proceeding with more coolness, with more system, and with more wisdom, than the popular branch.” (Constitutional ...
  • Adam M. Smith, Human Colostomy Bag
    Check out this self-righteous ass. Took it upon himself to rail against a Chik-Fil-A employee yesterday. Well, he was a total prick and rude to boot. The girl in the window? Total class and professionalism. A gem of an employee (hope she gets a raise). I think my title for Mr. Smith is spot on. ...
  • Obama’s sad sack job stats (see the HUMILIATIN ...
    How ’bout this chart, especially given Friday’s July jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Fresh from the WaPo’s Tweet introducing “President Obama’s job creation problem — in one chart“: From the WaPo: Mitt Romney is sure to seize on a status quo (or wor ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Earth's Great Storyteller -- Water - unEARTHED ...
    Earth's Great Storyteller -- Water unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) Mountaintop removal has gained notoriety for contaminating precious water resources. Mountain Hero Junior Walk has talked about how the blasting of mountains contaminated his family's water; we also saw Amber Whitting ...
  • Escalating the Resistance to Mountain-top Remo ...
    OpEdNews Escalating the Resistance to Mountain-top Removal Coal Mining OpEdNews Fifty mountain defenders quickly exited the cars, taking by surprise the lone woman worker standing outside the guard shack at one of the largest mountain-top removal coal mining operations in Appalachia. The nonviol ...
  • Two Activists Speak Out Against Mountaintop Re ...
    Two Activists Speak Out Against Mountaintop Removal Mining Care2.com (blog) As part of honoring America's mountains, Iraq war veteran Jonathan Gensler, a former officer and native of West Virginia, speaks out against mountaintop removal mining and reconnects the history of America to its mou ...
  • Toughen mine permits, W.Va. board recommends - ...
    Toughen mine permits, W.Va. board recommends Charleston Gazette While a federal court has rejected Obama administration guidance aimed at reducing mountaintop removal pollution, a new state appeals board decision is demanding tougher permit reviews and tightening water quality limits. The state ...
  • Federal judge throws out EPA mountaintop remov ...
    Federal judge throws out EPA mountaintop removal 'guidance' Free Speech Radio News As droughts, floods and other extreme weather events sweep across the US and the world, the federal government continues to battle over fossil fuel use and climate change. A federal judge's ruling Tues ...

Memeorandum

  • Chick-Fil-A In Torrance, Calif., Graffitied Wi ...
    Anna Almendrala / The Huffington Post: Chick-Fil-A In Torrance, Calif., Graffitied With ‘Tastes Like Hate’ … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage, Chick Fil a, Chick Fil a California, Chick Fil a Dan Cathy, Chick Fil a Gay Marriage ...
  • Michael Tomasky on the (Possible) Coming Obama ...
    Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast: Michael Tomasky on the (Possible) Coming Obama Landslide  —  Liberals don't want to jinx it.  It terrifies the right.  And the press would prefer a nail-biter.  But the fact is that finding Romney's path to victory is getting har ...
  • NBC forced to apologise after ill-timed ad fea ...
    Daily Mail: NBC forced to apologise after ill-timed ad features a monkey doing gymnastics - right after showing Gabby Douglas' gold medal victory  — More woes for NBC after it shows ad featuring monkey doing gymnastics, right after Gabby Douglas' big win  — She's now an in ...
  • Romney: Obama trying to limit military voters' ...
    Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box: Romney: Obama trying to limit military voters' rights, calls Ohio lawsuit ‘outrage’  —  Earlier this week the Obama campaign and Democratic National Committee filed a lawsuit to block a new Ohio state law allowing men and women in uniform ...
  • Birthday Golf for Obama (Daniel Halper/Weekly ...
    Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard: Birthday Golf for Obama  —  President Obama will spend his 51 birthday golfing.  From the pool report: … According to CBS reporter Mark Knoller it's Obama's 104 round as president. … Later today, President Obama will go to Camp ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Eco pilots find habits hard to change
    China’s low-carbon city programmes are doing well on public awareness, but an NGO survey finds little evidence of greener habits. Zhang Chun and Wang Haotong report.Only a small proportion of people in China’s low-carbon pilot cities are living “low-carbon lives” in spite ...
  • China in Europe: buying clean-tech
    A string of green energy acquisitions in crisis-stricken Europe have been hyped as a sign of China’s growing financial clout. So, asks Xie Dan, has the age of "owned-by-China" arrived?Since Hanenergy announced that it was buying a subsidiary of German solar firm Q-cells, the Chin ...
  • Protests show Chinese kids' fears
    Last month's environmental protests in Shifang saw the unprecedented involvement of children who have a fear of the future in China, says Gerard Lemos.The decision to cancel the metal refinery project in Shifang last month after protesters clashed with the police has been widely reported in the ...
  • The life of a climate scientist
    A senior advisor to German chancellor Angela Merkel tells Maryam  Omidi  it is only a matter of time before a climate scientist is killed.For a 24-hour period in May 2012, a billboard displaying Unabomber Ted Kaczynski’s mugshot gazed blankly at drivers along the Eisenh ...
  • Do we face another food price crisis?
    Global food prices are on the rise again as drought hits US　harvests. Until governments address the issues of biofuel mandates and export controls, writes Rob Bailey, a spike threatens to turn into a crisis.International food prices are on the rise again. The United States, the world&rsqu ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Attaché Company Attacks Marvel, Alleging Aveng ...
    German luxury travel-case maker Rimowa claims in a federal lawsuit that the forthcoming Blu-ray box set of the Marvel Entertainment hit movie Avengers infringes on its Topas attaché case. The "Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One -- Avengers Assembled Box Set"comes in a briefcase that looks lik ...
  • Judge Skeptical of Facebook ‘Sponsored Stories ...
    A San Francisco federal judge declined Thursday to approve a Facebook legal settlement concerning the social-networking site's "Sponsored Stories" advertising program, saying he was concerned that the $10 million payout might not be big enough.
  • Legislation Seeks to Limit Warrantless Wiretap ...
    An Oregon senator wants the government's eavesdropping program to be more respectful of Americans' privacy rights, and introduced a bill Thursday to change the law. Unfortunately, the current program is all but re-authorized, without changes, by Congress.
  • Whistleblower, Suspected of Leaking Warrantles ...
    A former congressionals staffer and NSA whistleblower the authorities suspected of exposing the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program is suing the government, saying her constititonal rights are being violated because her computer seized five years ago has never been returned, an ...
  • Court Demands TSA Explain Why It Is Defying Nu ...
    A federal appeals court Wednesday ordered the Transportation Security Administration to answer why it hasn't complied with the court's year-old decision demanding the agency hold public hearings concerning the rules and regulations that have led to the deployment of so-called nude body scanners ...

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Pig Flu and Petting Zoos and Fairs - And, then ...
    AP’s Mike Stobbe has a story about another reason to pay attention at petting zoos and fairs – Pig Flu. As Mike wrote - It's the season for state and county fairs, and health officials are reminding fairgoers to be careful around pigs because of a new flu spreading from the animals ...
  • Gills Onions Listeria Recall Impacts Tons of F ...
    What started out as a recall of Gills Onions – then expanded – after Gills was notified by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that a random sample of diced yellow onions taken at retail tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes - has expanded into something that is getting h ...
  • Orange County Health Officials Continue to Hid ...
    I loved this piece by Gustavo Arellano of the OC Weekly: Indigestion:  The OC Restaurant Where Customers Got Sick With E. coli in April--And That OC Health Care Officials Don't Want You to Know About Some time in April, nine customers at a restaurant in Orange County got sick with E. coli ...
  • Will Sunstein's Departure from OMB Free FSMA R ...
    Andrew Zajac reported today that Cass Sunstein, the chief regulator for President Barack Obama, said today he will resign, leaving behind a record criticized by both political opponents and White House allies.  Sunstein, 57, will return to Harvard Law School later this month after three yea ...
  • Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) - ...
    Several years ago I started following the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).  It used to come weekly in the mail (perhaps it still does), but it is a bit easier to see it online and it can be quickly downloaded. Given my profession, I tend to quickly pass over some o ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Video: Toyota Prius Solution: When you're dead ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Videos, Hatchback, Toyota, Humor Let's make this clear from the get-go: we know this is satire, courtesy of The Onion. Of course, like all good comedy, the idea for the new, fictional Toyota Prius Solution model contains a grain of truth. After all, if you aren't alive, y ...
  • Report: London's hydrogen buses grounded durin ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal, UK Is hydrogen a dangerous substance? It is, during the London Olympics, at least. That's why the fleet of five H2 buses that usually carries passengers between Covent Garden and Tower Gateway have been sent out to pasture for the duration of the games. Standard ...
  • Official: Ford C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid pri ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Minivan/Van, Hatchback, Ford The U.S. federal tax credit for plug-in vehicles maxes out at $7,500 for cars with batteries that are 16 kWh or larger. The Ford C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid doesn't have that big of a pack, so the most the feds will grant you for b ...
  • Official: Honda delivers first Fit EV in Calif ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hatchback, Honda, Electric Honda has made good on its promise to deliver its first Fit EV, and that delivery took place in California on Friday. Matt and Becky Walton, of Ventura County, can now claim they have the first example of Honda's all-electric car, which cost ...
  • Official: Ford C-Max Energi will have 20-mile ...
    Ford's marketing strategy for its plug-in vehicles is coming into Focus (pun intended): compare, compare, compare. When announcing the Focus Electric's 105 miles per gallon equivalent, for example, Ford made sure to note that it beats the "Nissan Leaf by 6 MPGe while also offering more mot ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • The Obama Administration Torpedoes the Arms Tr ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Quick: What is more heavily regulated, global trade of bananas or battleships? In late June, activists gathered in New York’s Times Square to make the absurd point, that, unbelievably, “there are more rules governing your ability to trade a banana from one ...
  • Part 2: Barlett and Steele on Media, Govt. Fai ...
    In part two of our interview with the investigative duo, James Steele and Don Barlett they talk about the media’s failure to hold Wall Street or politicians accountable for financial crimes and mismanagement — topics covered in their new book, The Betrayal of the American Dream. ...
  • DREAM Activist Speaks From Broward Detention C ...
    In a Democracy Now! exclusive, producer Renée Feltz speaks with Viridiana Martinez, a DREAM activist detained about a week ago who is being held in the Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach, Florida. Click here to listen. Martinez is one of a group of undocumented immigrant acti ...
  • Matt Taibbi Explains Wall Street's "License to ...
    In part two of our interview with Matt Taibbi , he describes recent Wall Street scandals — including a decade-long Wall Street scandal that drained money from every county and state in the United States — and notes not a single bank executive has faced individual consequences. He a ...
  • U.S. Gun Laws: Guilty by Reason of Insanity
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan James Holmes, the alleged shooter in the massacre in Aurora, Colo., reportedly amassed his huge arsenal with relative ease. Some of these weapons were illegal as recently as eight years ago. Legislation now before Congress would once again make illegal, if ...

Suzie-Q

  • Mitt Romney Comments At Fundraiser Outrage Pal ...
    By KASIE HUNT and KARIN LAUB  07/30/12 11:18 AM ET JERUSALEM — Mitt Romney told Jewish donors Monday that their culture is part of what has allowed them to be more economically successful than the Palestinians, outraging Palestinian leaders who suggested his comments were racist and out of touch ...
  • Romney-Bain Contacts Outlasted Exit
    By STEPHEN BRAUN and JACK GILLUM Associated Press Jul 25, 8:19 AM EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has said he had no active role in Bain Capital, the private equity firm he founded, after he exited in February 1999 to take over Salt Lake City’s Win ...
  • James Holmes Identified As Alleged Aurora, Col ...
    AP |     By THOMAS PEIPERT and P. SOLOMON BANDA Posted: 07/20/2012  8:36 am Updated: 07/20/2012  4:00 pm AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Police say 71 people were shot in a suburban Denver movie theater early Friday during midnight shows of the new Batman movie. Twelve people were killed, ten of ...
  • Bain Capital Started With Help Of Offshore Inv ...
    Mitt Romney’s firm raised more than a third of its first investment fund from wealthy foreigners — who mostly used companies in Panama, then known for tax advantages and banking secrecy. Los Angeles Times By Joseph Tanfani, Melanie Mason and Matea Gold July 19, 2012, 3:00 a.m. Washington B ...
  • First Lady Michelle Obama: “It Takes One ...
    Published on Jul 19, 2012 by     BarackObamadotcom It starts with you: http://OFA.BO/xJQfHT First Lady Michelle Obama announces the launch of “It Takes One”. “It Takes One” is a new effort that asks you to inspire one more person to join you every time you take an action ...

Solari

  • Donald Trump is Trumped: The Film he Does NOT ...
    YouTube July 26, 2012 Related reading: youvebeentrumped.com
  • Economic Resurrection for My Neighbors at East ...
    [CAF Note: I originally published this is April 2003. I am republishing as we explore ideas to rebuild income and employment.] “Arise, shine: for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the [...]
  • IRS Missing Billions in ID Theft
    By Josh Lederman Washington – The Internal Revenue Service may have delivered more than $5 billion in refund checks to identity thieves who filed fraudulent tax returns for 2011, Treasury Department investigators said Thursday. They estimate another $21 billion could make its way to ID th ...
  • Cybercrime: Black Hat Edition
    By Willie Jones How secure do you feel about the wireless router you use at home? Maybe more than you should. Researchers at AppSec Consulting Inc., in San Jose, Calif., reported new vulnerabilities at the annual Black Hat computer security conference, which took place from 21–26 July in Las Ve ...
  • Join Catherine & Franklin at Transformations & ...
    Every day Franklin and I meet and work with great people—people who are hard working and industrious, people who take time to care for others—their family, their communities, their colleagues. Yet too often, many of us feel as if we are struggling alone. Where are the other responsible, success ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Remember the old days, when the GOP and Dems a ...
    Summary:  The evolution from the America-that-once-was to the New America so far occurs without much notice. But it’s apparent if we step back and see the discontinuities in our politics, which foreshadow greater changes to come. Today we look at one such, the Democrats adopting GOP views. ...
  • Mission Failure: Afghanistan
    Summary: The very first articles articles at DNI, in 2003, expressed skepticism about the Afghanistan War.  By 2009 it was clear that we could achieve nothing useful from the war. But our military exists to feed itself, disconnected from any rational national goals, and only after ten years has ...
  • Good news about jobs! Bad news about jobs! Th ...
    Summary:  Looking at today’s employment report (PDF here) we can draw one big conclusion. The economy continues to growth more slowly than we’d hope given the massive on-going monetary and fiscal stimulus programs (which cannot be continued forever). Oddly enough, this is not obvious ...
  • Update on Europe: Tinker Bell fails to deliver
    Summary: Monday’s post explained why last week’s statement by ECB President Mario Draghi was not the game-changer Wall Street assumed. Today the ECB met and did little but give more comforting words. Here’s the scoop. This is a special morning post about ECB President Draghi’s ...
  • A smart expatriate, Eric Kraus, gives a rant a ...
    Summary:   As the saying goes, with distance comes perspective.  Eric Kraus writes from Russia about the decline of the West, a theme frequently discussed on the FM website — to which he brings some new insights. But the future will be what we make it. “Never let the future disturb y ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • You Might Have Missed: National Security Threa ...
    Saxby Chambliss, “The Threat From Within to Our National Security,” Macon Telegraph, August 3, 2012. Our nation and our military are about to confront one of the biggest threats since World War II. It does not come in the form of a shadowy terrorist organization or a well-armed forei ...
  • General Assembly Piles on Bashar al Assad, But ...
    With diplomacy stuck at the Security Council, the General Assembly today approved an Arab League sponsored resolution condemning the Syrian government and calling for political transition in Damascus. The resolution passed with 133 in favor, 12 against, and 31 abstentions. The resolution has no ...
  • Mitt Romney Flunks His Foreign Policy Tryout
    Governor Mitt Romney had a chance to demonstrate on his trip to Great Britain, Israel, and Poland that he is ready to take on the duties of America’s top diplomat and commander in chief — among the presidency’s most vital responsibilities. Yet for reasons that are hard to under ...
  • The China Scenario and Defense Budgets
    One reason progressives, historically, have found themselves on the losing side of defense budget debates is that, on the whole, progressives don’t spend enough time engaging in strategy debates, focusing instead on programatic debates and/or macro budget debates. But for all the talk that defen ...
  • Top of the Morning: Kofi Annan’s Resignation S ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest.  Kofi Annan Resigns as Syrian Envoy: “I Can’t Want Peace More than the Protagonists” read more

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Does Spanish Scare You?
    Every once in a while, when anti-immigrant sentiment is running high, Congress will revive the "English-only" debate, which was last a topic of national conversation during the 2006-2007 push for immigration reform. But the most recent attempt to make English the official language of the United ...
  • Romney's Cruel Joke on the Middle Class
    In response, it seems, to criticism of his economic plan—which will raise taxes on the vast majority of Americans in order to cut taxes for the wealthiest taxpayers—Mitt Romney has released a one-page “plan for a stronger middle-class.” The provisions are what you would expect: Increase domesti ...
  • Friday Music Break
    Today's edition of Shake Your Head, Shimmy Your Shoulders, Tap Your Feet is Ray Charles doing "What'd I Say." Check out the two dudes in the audience at 1:10, resolutely refusing to do any shaking, shimmying, or tapping. I think they got dragged there by their girlfriends, and found the fast hi ...
  • Mitt Romney Passes Wind
    Mitt Romney was in Colorado yesterday, where some people aren't too pleased with him. This week he came out in opposition to an extension of the wind-power production tax credit (PTC), which is set to expire at the end of the year. The tax credit helps make wind power competitive and is credite ...
  • Rick Perry Preemptively Outsmarts Most Pundits
    When it comes to the significance of Mitt Romney’s vice presidential choice, Texas Governor Rick Perry seems to have more sense than most political pundits: “There are great and talented people out there, but vice presidential candidates are interesting choices that will probably only make two ...

Buzzflash

  • We Wrecked Iraq, We Pulled Out, We Redeployed ...
    ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT We wrecked Iraq, we pulled out, we redeployed in Anaheim. This ain't working, guys- I mean, firing rubber bullets into anguished crowds, siccing attack dogs on moms and children. I mean, inventing enemies, going to war, unleashing state-of-the-art fire ...
  • The Massive Voter Fraud of the GOP
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Isn't it voter fraud to deny US citizens the right to vote? That is what the Republican Party is engaged in its campaign to place onerous requirements on the poor, infirm and destitute seniors, the homeless, students and others to vote. Politico recen ...
  • The Incredible Lightness of Being Dick Cheney
    STEVEN JONAS, MD, MPH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT On July 30, 2012, former Vice-President Dick Cheney described President Obama as one of the "weakest" Presidents, ranking even (sic) Jimmy Carter above him (1). That statement makes one wonder: what is Cheney's definition of the opposite of weakne ...
  • Chick-fil-A’s Image Plummets Among Consumers a ...
    THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT New data indicates Chick-fil-A's image with consumers has dropped dramatically since the company's president proudly embraced the organization's anti-LGBT donations. The new numbers come as former Governor Mike Huckabee and the National Organiz ...
  • Predatory Privatization Puts Citizens and Comm ...
    PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT State and local budget crises and the election of anti-government ideologues have left taxpayers and communities increasingly vulnerable to predatory "privatization" of government services and public infrastructure. "Desperate government is o ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Dr Who. It’s for kids…
    …as Al Murray would have it…but that doesn’t mean us big kids cannot watch it and run behind the sofa crying for Mummy all over again when the Daleks appear! The Guardian describes the five new episodes that will air before Christmas 2012 as the big finale to Steven Moffat&#821 ...
  • Damaged electronic goods
    Electronic devices are susceptible to damage from radiation, potentially cosmic radiation and even ultraviolet radiation. A study using spectroscopy reveals that the amount of optical damage, as opposed to structural damage, that can be caused may be more than ten times greater than studies sugg ...
  • Muse, Telstar and electronic keyboards
    As many Sciencebase readers will known Telstar was a generic name given to a range of communications satellites (the idea for which was first posited by author Arthur C Clarke). The first two Telstar satellites were experimental. Telstar 1 was launched atop a Thor-Delta rocket on July 10, 1962 a ...
  • 9 ways to avoid weirdos sitting next to you on ...
    Esther Kim has spent years observing travellers on buses and how they will go to extreme lengths to avoid anyone taking the seat next to them. Here are her top 9 “non-social transient interaction avoidance” tips. If this doesn’t win an IgNobel Prize, I will go by car next time& ...
  • Antarctica on Google Street View
    Back in September 2010, Google launched the first Street View imagery of the Antarctic, allowing users to see the penguins in situ. Now they’ve embedded additional panoramic imagery of historic Antarctic locations that you we can now explore the legacy from the comfort of our digital homes ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • BLM Analysis Reveals Massive Damage From Las V ...
    The Bureau of Land Management today released its long-anticipated final environmental impact statement for the pipeline right-of-way for the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s “groundwater development project.” The project envisions unsustainably siphoning more than 37.1 billion ...
  • BLM Analysis Reveals Massive Damage From Las V ...
    The Bureau of Land Management today released its long-anticipated final environmental impact statement for the pipeline right-of-way for the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s “groundwater development project.” The project envisions unsustainably siphoning more than 37.1 billion ...
  • Statement by Chad Stone, Chief Economist, on t ...
    Today’s jobs report showing some pickup in job creation does not reduce the need for policymakers to implement measures to give the flagging recovery a needed boost, including preparing to extend emergency federal unemployment insurance (UI) past its scheduled expiration at the end of the ...
  • Statement by Chad Stone, Chief Economist, on t ...
    Today’s jobs report showing some pickup in job creation does not reduce the need for policymakers to implement measures to give the flagging recovery a needed boost, including preparing to extend emergency federal unemployment insurance (UI) past its scheduled expiration at the end of the ...
  • Oil Spill Investigations “a Fiasco” in the Nig ...
    The investigation process into oil spills in the Niger Delta has been challenged today by Amnesty International and the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD), as inconsistencies in Shell’s claims about sabotage were revealed.  read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Drought-Stricken American Corn Should Feed Peo ...
    Jenna Woginrich The drought that has been parching the American midwest has brought growers to their knees. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has officially stated that half of the nation's corn crop is in poor or very ...
  • A Model Democracy? Really?
    Dave Lindorff 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 ...
  • With Liberty and Health Care for All
    Christopher Brauchli The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.                           —Shakesp ...
  • Greetings from the New Economy
    Abby Scher In a race against climate change, a new movement seeks to build a just, sustainable world.“Are you ready for a new economy? Are you ready for a new politics?” The challenge at the podium came from Gus Speth, the court ...
  • Occupation, Not Culture, Is Holding Palestinia ...
    NABLUS, West Bank - Earlier this week, while Israel’s cheerleaders and Las Vegas casino moguls were parsing every syllable uttered by Mitt Romney in Jerusalem as fastidiously as the Olympic judges were scrutinizing every back flip in London, millions of Palestinians issued a giant collecti ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • California Water Wars: Will Thirsty Interests ...
    Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Now: California's water wars are back, as the state struggles to transfer a vital resource from where it falls to where it's needed. NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the area south of Sa ...
  • Water Wars: Gov Proposes Huge Underground Tunn ...
    Click here to view the full photogallery. Governor Jerry Brown and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar yesterday announced details of an expensive plan to ensure the future of Southern California's water supply (specifically, the supply shipped from Northern California)....
  • Calif. unveils $24B water tunnel plan
    Polarizing plan aiming to end Golden State's water wars still burdened by unanswered questions, hurdles
  • California, federal officials reveal plan to e ...
    SACRAMENTO -- California's ambitious $24 billion plan for ending the state's water wars was unveiled Wednesday, but standing in its way are unanswered questions and hurdles that will take years to surmount -- if that's even possible.
  • Redesigned water tunnels reignite Calif. water ...
    California is moving forward with a controversial plan to move water for farming and drinking around the state.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Month in Pictures: July 2012
    3 August 2012 A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine.
  • Child malnutrition remains high in West Bank a ...
    Jerusalem 3 August 2012 Food insecurity for Palestinians living in refugee camps, the Gaza Strip and in Area C of the West Bank is rising, despite international aid agency reports to the contrary.
  • Gaza left in the dark at Ramadan
    Mohammed Omer Gaza City 3 August 2012 The only power plant in Gaza is currently operating at about a third of its capacity, or has been completely shut down by severe fuel shortages since February.
  • How Israel's siege on Gaza killed my sister
    Yousef M. Aljamal Gaza Strip 3 August 2012 Needing a simple, life-saving operation with equipment not available in Gaza hospitals, Yousef Aljamal’s sister died because Israel denied her access to a Jerusalem hospital.
  • LA professor "wakes up to hate mail" for linki ...
    Nora Barrows-Friedman Berkeley 1 August 2012 A professor at UCLA speaks to The Electronic Intifada after being attacked by an outside Zionist organization after posting research materials that included information on the Palestine solidarity movement.

The Wonk Room

  • Arctic Death Spiral Continues: Record Low Sea ...
    by Neven, via the Arctic Sea Ice Blog The PIOMAS people are early this month with updating the numbers (probably so that the SEARCH people have some extra info for their SIO). Here is the updated Arctic sea ice volume graph as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation Syst ...
  • FLASHBACK: Romney Economic Advisers Predicted ...
    Mitt Romney and his economic advisers have spent the week claiming that Romney’s economic plan will create 12 million jobs, as they attempt to change the subject away from a Tax Policy Center report showing that Romney’s tax plan would mean a big tax increase for middle-class familie ...
  • Feds Report Drop In Marijuana Plant Eradication
    The number of live marijuana plants “eradicated in outdoor and indoor grow operations has dropped in most states over the past three years,” the Associated Press notes, even as “the amount of bulk processed marijuana seized has doubled in that time.” Drug Enforcement Agen ...
  • Open Thread And Climate Cartoon Of The Week
    A cyber-penny for your thoughts. It’s Getting Hot in Here By Clay Bennett, From the Cartoonist Group.
  • Tea Party Senator Breaks With Top Romney Legal ...
    Although GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has dodged questions about whether he believes the Constitution protects a woman’s right to use birth control, one of Romney’s top legal advisers is a leading opponent of the right to contraception. Robert Bork, the former federal judge ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • A Salute to "Champagne Socialists"
    "Champagne Socialists" or "Limousine Liberals" are political epithets that used to mean people who advocated for policies that they had no intention or danger of having to follow themselves. Today though, it is often used in a mindless way to condemn anyone of privilege who supports collectivist ...
  • Great, GREAT Review of "Heist"
    I hadn't heard of this film, or its reviewer before, but I agree with almost every darned statement made in the review. (Except for basing the relative intelligence of Mexicans and US-Americans on the quality of conversations with each country's cab-drivers.) (Especially since a lot of US cab-dr ...
  • But Where Am I Running To?
    There's no place to go!
  • More Religion Bashing
    A lot of decent progressives get really bent out of shape by aggressive atheism. So much that they tend to blurt out ridiculous things. For instance, I'm sure that some of them would have a knee-jerk reaction to this post, and wouldn't be able to resist smugly telling me that my obsessive hatred ...
  • A Time to Stand and be Counted
    I was skeptical that camping out in public parks and critiquing the system a-la "Occupy" was ever going to change things. I was prepared to get involved to the limited extent that I was able to, when it wasn't immediately crushed and in the USA it's message was resonating with the majority of th ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Rosie MacLennan wins Canada's first gold medal
    Golden skies ahead for Toronto's Rosie MacLennan as she wins Canada's first Olympic gold medal of the 2012 Summer Games. She finished first in women's trampoline at the North Greenwich Arena.
  • Police warn residents after convicted sex tour ...
    Police in Abbotsford, B.C. issued not one but two warnings after Don Bakker was released from custody and moved to their city. Bakker was the first person in Canada to be convicted of sex tourism offences.
  • Big mess: Mark Messier awarded six million in ...
    In a decision that is certain to cause Vancouver Canuck hockey fans to cringe, former NHL star, for 3 of those years an unpopular and ineffective Canuck, Mark Messier was awarded $6 million Thursday. An arbitrator ruled Messier must be paid that amount.
  • Olympic Soccer: Canada proves to be too great ...
    Today, Canada "sins" against the host nation of the 2012 Summer Olympics as they are victorious on the soccer field 2-0. Goals were scored by Christine Sinclair and Jonelle Filigno.
  • Rapper Drake to graduate high school this summer
    Jimmy Brooks graduated from Degrassi High School years ago, but the actor who played him, rapper, Drake, has still not graduated. That will all change soon.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Activists infiltrate nuclear facility
    In late July, three American anti-nuclear-weapons activists sneaked into the high security “Y-12 Facility”, where the US’s bomb grade uranium is stored, to raise awareness about the danger posed by nuclear weapons on the eve of Hiroshima Day (Frank Munger, “Wrap-up on Y-1 ...
  • CSE to keep more secrets
    The Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s electronic spy agency, is further limiting the already scant details of its activities that are made public. The information technology security and foreign signals intelligence organization, which last year became a stand-alone agency of ...
  • Parliamentary outreach program canned
    The Canadian Forces outreach program that invited Senators and Members of Parliament to military units and bases has been discontinued.
  • Louder than the bomb: write your letter to the ...
    To commemorate both Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day, we are partnering with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) so our voices can be louder than the bomb. Write a letter to the editor of the newspaper of your choice, and explain why you want nuclear weapons to be abolished. ...
  • Jaffer, Radarsat, and China
    A private investigator has filed a court document claiming that disgraced former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer, the husband of former cabinet minister Helena Guergis, sought Canadian satellite information with military implications after liaising with Chinese state-owned technology companies in 2 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Will the Peasants Go Medieval On Bankers?
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comWill the Peasants Go Medieval On Bankers? By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Will We Have to Wait for a 21st Century Peasants Revolt Before Seeing Any Real Change? While everyone from Tony Blair to Nouriel Roubini is ...
  • Illegitimate Sanctions on Iran
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comThe history of illegitimate Sanctions on Iran By Veterans Today Friday, August 3rd, 2012   Washington bears full responsibility for imposing illegitimate sanctions on Iran. Other countries are pressured to agree. Do ...
  • NYPD’s use of stop-and-frisks suffers marked drop
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com New York’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy of fighting crime, which many critics say involves racial profiling of black and Hispanic citizens, has been reduced markedly in recent months, it has been clai ...
  • Does Anti-Zionism equate to Anti-Semitism
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comA look at anti-semitic attacks and whether Zionism can be equated with anti-semitism.Check out all the best #altnews at DarkPolitricks.com
  • U.S. officials warn of swine flu outbreak at c ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   US health officials on Friday warned the public to be careful around pigs after an outbreak of flu among visitors to county fairs. The virus does not appear to have evolved to the point where it spreads ...

Dandelion Salad

  • From Chomsky, Shiva, Pilger and more: An Open ...
    Dandelion Salad New Left Project 27 July 2012 The following is an open letter from IOPS  (the International Organisation for a Participatory Society) a potentially important new initiative in the struggle for a more just world… An Open Message to All Who Seek A New and Better World We are ...
  • Barack Obama’s Executive Order: Authorizing Ad ...
    Dandelion Salad Propaganda Alert! The White House For Immediate Release July 31, 2012 EXECUTIVE ORDER - – - – - – - AUTHORIZING ADDITIONAL SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO IRAN By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, ...
  • Gore Vidal dies aged 86 + Gore Vidal Interview
    Dandelion Salad My sympathies and condolences to his family and friends. guardian.co.uk Aug. 1, 2012 Gore Vidal, the author, playwright, politician and commentator whose novels, essays, plays and opinions were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional wisdom, has died in Los Angeles. Vidal ...
  • New CISPA in the Senate ready for a vote + Act ...
    Dandelion Salad Jul 31, 2012 by RTAmerica Congress is debating a new cybersecurity bill that has garnered the support of the White House. Does that mean it will ease the fears from Capitol Hill while still respecting concerns of privacy though? Aaron Swartz of Demand Progress joins RT’s Li ...
  • Bernie Sanders takes on Jim Inhofe: Global War ...
    Dandelion Salad by Bernie Sanders July 30, 2012 In a summer of record heat, severe drought, extreme storms, melting glaciers and raging wildfires, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday challenged claims by a leading Republican senator who dismisses global warming as a “hoax.” Sanders rebutte ...

Your New Reality

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    This man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
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    Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
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    Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
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    Normal blogging output will return soon. Making some movies. In the meantime, enjoy :
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    Best. Christmas. Ever A Short Story By Darryl Mason "Is your father okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happened while she was away... "He's not getting better, if that's what you mean." How could he tell her, right now? She had more than enough on her mind alread ...

Wired - 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jonathan Cook: Welcome to Nazareth
    Jonathan Cook tells the story of Nazareth, a Palestinian town that survived the Nakba only to be subjected to massive land confiscations, economic strangulation, and systematic discrimination by all... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Israel has 30 days to find solution for reside ...
    Zanuta, like other small Palestinian villages in the area, existed as a cave-settlement before the West Bank was occupied by Israel. Archaeological findings reveal that Zanuta had been inhabited... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Reflections on a lifetime of eng ...
    Mouin Rabbani: Many of those who favor a one-state solution see it as the antithesis of the two-state solution, yet you seem to be suggesting a continuum. Noam Chomsky: I don’t know of any other... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Israel obstructs the peace, and ...
    Europe's only real leverage over Israel is economic: business between the two already accounts for about 60 per cent of Israeli trade, worth nearly 30 billion euros (Dh136 billion). But rather than... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • IDF officer head-butts Palestinian youth in th ...
    An IDF officer with the rank of lieutenant head-butted a Palestinian youth in the face, a video filmed in the city of Hebron on Wednesday and uploaded to YouTube has revealed. A volunteer for the NGO... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Memory Improves for Older Adults Using Compute ...
    UCLA researchers found that older adults who regularly used a brain fitness program played on a computer demonstrated significantly improved memory and language skills.
  • Two University of Tennessee Scientists to Begi ...
    NASA's Curiosity rover is scheduled to land on Mars Sunday. Then, the work will begin for two University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professors searching for potentially habitable environments on the red planet. Linda Kah and Jeffrey Moersch, associate professors in the Department of Earth and Plan ...
  • Obesity in Nurses Linked to 'Adverse Work Sche ...
    For nurses who work long hours or other "adverse work schedules," the risk of obesity is related to lack of opportunity for exercise and sleep, suggests a study in the August issue of Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the official publication of the American College of Occupati ...
  • New Book Weighs Pros, Cons of Shale Gas Production
    A new book, Shale Gas: The Promise and the Peril, offers a balanced look at the intense debate surrounding shale gas production and the process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
  • Psychology Gives Courts, Policymakers Evidence ...
    Determining when a teenage brain becomes an adult brain is not an exact science but it's getting closer, according to an expert in adolescent developmental psychology, speaking at the American Psychological Association's 120th Annual Convention.

Natural Health News

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

  • Weekend Roundup: July 28 – August 3, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris we provided a forum to two guest posters, Gabor Rona and Michael W. Lewis, who continued their earlier conversation on targeted killing over at Lawfare. In his first post, Gabor asked whether the politicians and military leaders in charge ...
  • Where Can I Get One of Those Swatches?
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller When I wrote my account of Melinda Taylor and her team’s detention, I somehow missed this gem in the OPCD’s response: 381.  The inability of the particular prosecution authorities assigned to the case of Mr. Gaddafi to conduct credible or eff ...
  • Where Can I Get One of Those Swatches?
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller When I wrote my account of Melinda Taylor and her team’s detention, I somehow missed this gem in the OPCD’s response: 381.  The inability of the particular prosecution authorities assigned to the case of Mr. Gaddafi to conduct credible or eff ...
  • The Last Word (for now) on Targeted Killings: ...
    by Gabor Rona [Gabor Rona is the International Legal Director for Human Rights First and he is responding to a post by Michael W. Lewis] OK, let's forget about drones for a sec. After all, drones are simply a form of targeting. And targeting in war is a good thing. (Since killing is legal in w ...
  • The Last Word (for now) on Targeted Killings: ...
    by Gabor Rona [Gabor Rona is the International Legal Director for Human Rights First and he is responding to a post by Michael W. Lewis] OK, let's forget about drones for a sec. After all, drones are simply a form of targeting. And targeting in war is a good thing. (Since killing is legal in w ...

Public News Service

  • Report: Profit Motive May Be Influencing Immig ...
    Report: Profit Motive May Be Influencing Immigration Policies PHOENIX, Ariz. - The for-profit prison sector would have been hit hard by the Great Recession had it not been for expanded federal immigration enforcement. That's according to a just-released report by The Sentencing Project. ...(Read ...
  • Arizona 5th Worst in Conditions for Kids
    Arizona 5th Worst in Conditions for Kids PHOENIX - Arizona has dropped to 46th among the states in how well its children are faring, according to the latest KIDS COUNT Data Book from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Arizona dropped or stayed even in several poverty-related categories including th ...
  • ALEC Meeting Convenes Amid Tax Status Dispute
    ALEC Meeting Convenes Amid Tax Status Dispute PHOENIX – As many as 50 Arizona state lawmakers will be attending the annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), starting tomorrow in Salt Lake City, Utah. ALEC is a conservative think tank that gets private businesspeo ...
  • Latino Advocate: Arpaio Civil Trial Bigger Tha ...
    Latino Advocate: Arpaio Civil Trial Bigger Than Maricopa County PHOENIX - Evidence of alleged racial profiling by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office will be presented in court for the first time starting today in a Phoenix federal courtroom. The civil lawsuit accuses Sheriff Joe Arpaio of vio ...
  • Planned Parenthood Goes to Court Against New A ...
    Planned Parenthood Goes to Court Against New AZ Law PHOENIX - Arizona Medicaid patients could no longer receive family-planning services from Planned Parenthood under a new law set to take effect Aug. 2, but the organization has gone to federal court to keep that from happening. The new law bar ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Food Safety Update: Center for Food Safety Com ...
    By Michele Simon Last week I had the pleasure of lending my support, on behalf of the Center for Food Safety, to New York City’s proposal to limit the size of sugary beverages sold at food service outlets. (I wrote previously about why this policy makes sense.) The hearing room at New York’s hea ...
  • EPA to Beekeepers: Buzz Off
    Agency denies “imminent hazard” exists, fails to take immediate steps to protect bees from pesticides Earlier today the Environmental Protection Agency announced it formally refused to recognize that honey bees face an “imminent hazard” and denied a request by beekeepers to immediately suspend t ...
  • Statement by Center for Food Safety at Nationa ...
    The Center for Food Safety (‘The Center’) joined a collection of top public interest groups today at the National Press Club to voice collective concern over the recently passed House Agriculture Committee 2012 farm bill, which reported out of committee with several agricultural biotech industry ...
  • New York Times’ Oversized Argument: Organic Ca ...
    by Lisa J. Bunin, Ph.D., Organic Policy Coordinator There is no disputing the claim that organic has become “a wildly lucrative business for Big Food,” as discussed at length in the recent New York Times article: “Has ‘Organic’ Been Oversized?” But what reporter Stephanie Strom has noticeably om ...
  • The Center’s Statement on House Agriculture Co ...
    Riders attacking GE crop safeguards and USDA review process remain amid growing concerns over risk to nation’s food supply The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture completed the markup of its Farm Bill yesterday evening.  Buried in the bill reported out of committee are a suite ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

  • Disney-Pixar Pollution
    For a movie titled “Brave” Pixar are behaving like cowards. I knew it the moment Princess Merida rode her horse out of her castle. A character song. A musical cue. Suddenly I wasn’t watching a Pixar movie, I was watching Mulan or Pocahontas. The very thought of another Disney princess is bad eno ...
  • Grain
    I feel like sand crumbling in the wind. I try to take a step only to find my feet are no longer there. I am a particle, speeding away to nothingness. I was once a rock, solid, assailed by waves, broken by none. But one day I fell from the lofty cliff that was my [...] Related posts: Hurricane Al ...
  • Thermodynamics and Jenga Towers
    I imagine one type of probability space as an extremely wide and extremely high tower of Jenga blocks under bombardment from an arbitrarily large number of bored children wearing jetpacks. The vertical, y axis represents the passage of time. The higher you go up that axis, the further you travel ...
  • The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything
    An article on the blog “Shake Off the Grind“, titled “You Only Live Once so Make it Meaningful“,  asks the questions below. Here are my answers: Who am I: A semi-aware bundle of perceptions, habits, and quirks. My personality is simply the structure of the relationships b ...
  • Magic Wands Almost Possible
    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistiguishable from magic” –Arthur C. Clarke Perhaps none of us will ever see straw being converted to gold, or water to wine, but the technology to power a wand-like instrument by waving it around has arrived. The electronics of the d ...

Green Times

  • Hollande may not like it, but French nuclear i ...
    The recent meeting of European Energy Ministers has exposed a Germany-France rift on the role of nuclear power. Post-Fukushima, Germany is investing heavily in solar power; so is Italy. But a French spokesperson said efforts after 2020 must stay neutral on technologies
  • Green art project
    The ARTECYCLE Sculpture Exhibition starts today (18-May). Artecycle encourages Australian and international artists to create artwork that responds to contemporary ideas surrounding the themes of environmentalism (lifestyle/environmentalism.html) and sustainability (lifestyle/sustainable-develo ...
  • Environmental News 18/05/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Exporters face action on cattle cruelty film TWO Australian live cattle exporters have been found to have broken new animal welfare rules in Indonesia, imposed after a cruelty controversy last year. In February Animals Australia - the group that unco ...
  • Mass consumption is killing the environment...
    Abundance (glossary/categories/wildlife/abundance.html), mass consumption, capitalism (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q= esrc=s source=web cd=1 ved=0CIoBEBYwAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCapitalism ei=Wd6xT9bLMqKLmQXDyoi3CQ usg=AFQjCNEs9weTxH-ZiwZr_DR6I1eSy9IHpA sig2=3F5nMo ...
  • Environmental News 17/05/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Richmond Valley says no to new coal seam gas The Richmond Valley Council is reconsidering its position on the coal-seam industry. It was the only far north coast council to speak in favour of the industry when a parliamentary inquiry visited the regi ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • A New Bio-Gas System in Palestinian Susya
    in May 2010, the Bio-Gas project was launched to install systems for producing gas from sheep and goat dung for the domestic energy needs of the Palestinian hamlet of Susya (Susiya). This project was the initiative of Yair Teller, together with The Villages Group and Arava Institute. The first s ...
  • Susya
    June 22, 2012: Susya I doubt if Palestinian Susya has ever seen so many people. Some 500, maybe more, have arrived from Jerusalem (including a large Palestinian delegation from East Jerusalem), Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva, and various sites in the occupied territories: Beit Umar, Mufagara, and the ...
  • My Home is Everything: the People of Susiya Sp ...
    Dear Friends and supporters, The latest news from Qamar, the lawyer from Rabbis for Human Rights representing Palestinian Susiya: the occupation’s “Civil Administration” agreed to extend the period for the submission of the juridical objections to the demolition orders issued f ...
  • Urgent alert to save Susya village from destru ...
    Dear Friends, Please have a look at the announcement below. For the last twelve years we have worked closely with our Palestinian friends in Susya, protected them to the best of our abilities from continuous violent harassment by Israeli settlers and by the army, fought the legal battle to keep ...
  • “Civil Administration” and Settler ...
    In March, we reported here about an unusual Israel High Court petition by Israeli settler-run groups, demanding that the (fraudulently named) “Civil Administration” carry out demolition orders in Palestinian Susya. Settler pressure upon the government to make Palestinian life more di ...
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