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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 III

Politics in the Zeros

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

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Alaska man charged with ‘driving under t ...
      FAIRBANKS — A Juneau man faces a rare DUI charge for allegedly having a 0.313 breath-alcohol content as he floated through Fairbanks on an inflatable raft Sunday night. Alaska’s driving under the influence law applies to people operating motor vehicles, water craft and airplanes. The vast ...
  • Exec Bullies Chick-Fil-A Worker, Then Promptly ...
    Instant Karma?   Adam Smith, former CFO and treasurer of medical supplies manufacturer Vante, caused quite a stir today when he put up a video of himself bullying a Chick-fil-A drive-thru employee in Tucson on YouTube. Smith berates the worker about her company in the video, which was initi ...
  • This Day In History – August 3
    1527 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John’s, Newfoundland. 1900 – The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company is founded. 1913 – A major labour dispute, known as the Wheatland Hop Riot, starts in Wheatland, California. 1914 – World War I: Germany d ...
  • Congressman Ron Paul’s Speech Against Ir ...
    We are gonna Miss Rep Kucinich (intros Paul)  
  • United Nations Pushing To Legalize Prostitutio ...
    TOO LATE TO GET ON OUR GOOD SIDE WITH THIS MOVE UN! – Maybe there is more than meets the all seeing eye in this headline? maybe this: (UN makes child refugees into sex slaves…) The Christians are going nuts on this story. and Now… back to Chik Filet and regular “Programmi ...

The Air Vent

  • Surface Stations Project Hits Paydirt
    It seems as always, I don’t have much time.   I have been waiting for this to break for a long time now, holding my tongue through a lot of critique from the usual advocate trolls.  This extraordinary moment in climate science is FAR to important not to call attention to and I will absolut ...
  • Surface Stations Project Hits Paydirt
    It seems as always, I don’t have much time.   I have been waiting for this to break for a long time now, holding my tongue through a lot of critique from the usual advocate trolls.  This extraordinary moment in climate science is FAR to important not to call attention to and I will absolut ...
  • CG File Date Timeline
    An interesting Climategate timeline discussion has started in a recent Blackboard thread.
  • CG Filedate Timeline
    An interesting Climategate timeline discussion has started in a recent Blackboard thread.
  • Why Back-Radiation is not a Source of Surface ...
    A guest post by Leonard Weinstein.  The original document is here and has more legible equations. Leonard Weinstein July 18, 2012 The argument is frequently made that back radiation from optically absorbing gases heats a surface more than it would be heated without back radiation, and this is th ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook roundup: stock price, Sponsored Stori ...
    Facebook stock picks up slightly after all-time low – Facebook shares closed at $21.09 today, up slightly from their all-time low earlier this week of $19.82. The stock has taken a beating since its second quarter earnings report and it … Continue reading →
  • Silp, Keek, Olympic Games City, Telly, MTV.com ...
    Careers app Silp led our list of emerging Facebook applications by monthly active users this week with 1,539 percent gain. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past week. This week’s top apps … Continue reading →
  • Facebook adds Sponsored Stories to ‘Pages You ...
    Facebook appears to be testing Page-Like Sponsored Stories in a mobile module called “Pages You May Like.” With this new module, seen right, the social network is showing some users two Sponsored Stories at a time. This increases Facebook’s mobile … Continue reading →
  • Facebook careers: SMB marketing associates, ac ...
    Facebook added job listings for a number of advertising-focused positions, including several SMB marketing associates, account managers and a manager of sales and a global marketing solutions position based in Buenos Aires. New listings added to the Facebook Careers Page: Executive … Conti ...
  • Facebook hires: engineers, ad sales, client pa ...
    Facebook hired several advertising-focused employees, including client partners, account specialists and a media solutions manager engineers this week according to the company’s LinkedIn feed and its Careers page. As usual, Facebook also hired a number of engineers, analysts and other tech ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Palestinian history on a billboard versus Isra ...
    Lawrence Davidson pits the facts of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict - Israel's dispossession of the Palestinian people and theft of Palestinian land, as displayed recently in a New York billboard - against the arguments of the Zionist apologists for colonization and ethnic cleansing. He argues ...
  • Assad's "anti-imperialist" pretenders make the ...
    The UN General Assembly has overwhelmingly denounced the Syrian regime's crackdown on the people's revolution. The resolution, passed today by 133 in favour, with 12 against and 31 abstentions, says "the first step in the cessation of violence has to be made by the Syrian authorities"... Mean ...
  • US politicians prostitute their country for Is ...
    Jamal Kanj argues that, in their eagerness for Israel lobby election campaign funds and Jewish votes, US politicians have put Israeli interests ahead of those of the American people, displaying rare unity in doling out more US taxpayer money for Israel at a time of economic recession, possibly v ...
  • Is US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney just a ...
    Stuart Littlewood reviews the the erratic progress of a stumblebum, US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, from gaffes in London and Warsaw to a spectacular display of racism and ignorance during a visit to Israel where he paid homage to America’s Zionist kingmakers.
  • EU tells Israel: "Do your worst without fear o ...
    Alan Hart contrasts the European Union's brave words chastizing Israel about its land theft and ethnic cleansing of the occupied Palestinian territories with its deeds rewarding Israeli crimes, and he attributes this contradiction to Western politicians' fear of offending Zionism and thereby gu ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The EyeOpener- Sentient World Simulation: Meet ...
    The NSA’s illegal warrantless wiretapping programming. The building of the massive NSA data center in Utah to permanently store copies of all digital communication sent around the world. The UK government’s “Communications Data Bill” to monitor emails, instant messages an ...
  • Donald Rumsfeld Returns to Georgia
    The War-Tested & Conflict-Ready Pentagon-NATO Surrogate Army in Georgia By Rick Rozoff Only reported in English on the website of the Georgian Ministry of Defense, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld visited Georgia for a week in late June. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, NATO’s ...
  • We are Almost Back
    We were one of the unfortunate 1.5 million hit by the violent storms and still do not have our broadband service – but expect that to be corrected by tomorrow. Thank you for patience.
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – “Ohio” (1970) Kent State University Neil Young wrote and composed “Ohio” after seeing a picture of the Kent State University shootings of May 4, 1970. He performed it with his band mates David Crosby, Steven Stills and Graham Youn ...
  • NATO Expands Military Network to All Continents
    The top military officials – chiefs of defense staff – and other representatives of 55 North Atlantic Treaty Organization and partnership states met in Croatia on June 18-20 for the 2012 Strategic Military Partnership Conference. NATO’s Allied Command Transformation, established at the 1999 fift ...

Afro Spear

  • “Eric Holder’s Plantation” by Derr ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 It’s said Lyndon Baines Johnson used voter fraud to win his 1948 Senate primary campaign. In 1954, then-Senator Johnson orchestrated a law prohibiting church involvement in electoral politics. Yet it was LBJ’s presidential library where Attorney General Eric Holder ...
  • sat’day riddymz
  • Byts and Bytes
    Two Classes, Divided by “I Do” The Morehouse Male Initiative: Black Male Statistics Obama’s Scramble for Africa Mauritania: Slavery’s Last Stronghold Echwalu Photography
  • “False Claims of Voter Suppression‏&#822 ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 Benjamin Jealous, the president and CEO of the NAACP, heartily embraces the absurd assertion of the left that asking someone to simply prove their identity in order to participate in the sacred honor of casting a ballot is thinly-veiled voter suppression and an ass ...
  • A Profile of a Mass Murderer

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Holy Misogyny! Dating Advice From Megachurch ...
    The scandal list of megachurch pastors just got a new name: Dr. Jack Schaap of First Baptist Church of Hammond, IN. The hypocrisy is wonderfully monumental: pastor who is touted as THE most misogynistic in the country is accused of having sex with a minor and across state lines.
  • Nuns On The Bus: Reflecting Back, Looking Ahe ...
    Sister Simone Campbell, the driving force behind the Nuns On The Bus Tour, calls Paul Ryan's budget an unpatriotic lie.
  • Human Rights Abuses Continue in Myanmar as Wes ...
    Despite international praise for the reforms initiated by Thein Sein's government, systematic human rights abuses continue in the ethnic minority areas on Myanmar's periphery.
  • Bikes in bloom across America
    "Camp out among the grass and gentians of glacier meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of Nature's darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees."
  • Escalating the Resistance to Mountain-top Remo ...
    Activists allied with Radical Action for Mountain Peoples Survival (R.A.M.P.S. in mountain mobilization shut down West Va. surface coal mine site with bold nonviolent intervention. 20 arrests remain in jail on $25,000 bond each while 30 others forced to walk four hours on mountain road under con ...

Switchboard

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Why would anyone like someone like us?
    Because it’s a Saturday and Saturdays are slow around these here parts, I’m going to get a bit personal. I’ve been told that this post about Howard Zinn—which was written by someone clearly more talented than me—is more popular than the post on which my entire Internet Career i ...
  • This Day in Labor History: August 4, 1942
    On August 4, 1942, the United States and Mexico made an agreement to deliver contract Mexican labor to American farmers in order to serve as cheap replacement labor during World War II. While the Bracero Program helped fill the labor shortages, it also opened up a new era of Americans exploiting ...
  • Never Has the Term “Legacy Media” ...
    Luke Russert’s journalistic credentials entail 1)being the son of an overrated bobblehead host and 2)that’s it.   He has some incredibly dumb thoughts about how Elizabeth Warren is too un-American to speak at the Democratic convention.  Fortunately, this motivated Charles Pierce to r ...
  • In Fairness, At Least They Didn’t Renomi ...
    Tennessee — once a pretty moderate southern state, now a place where Glenn Reynolds can be considered an intellectual. …Bonus Reynolds material with classic Richard Thompson reference.  Who do I sit here and cry?
  • Illegal Logging and the Failures of the Mexica ...
    If you haven’t read Karla Zabludovsky’s piece today on locals in Michoacán organizing to fight illegal logging by criminal gangs that is robbing them of their livelihood and traditional ways of life, you really must do so. A few points on this: 1. While legalizing marijuana in the Un ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI attaining renewable energy power sources f ...
    Significant progress has been made on two renewable energy projects that is not only cost effective, but ultimately will contribute to the long-term efforts in sustainability by reducing the amount of electricity the Desert Research Institute needs from the utility grid.
  • Hallar Named Regents' Rising Researcher
    The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents presented Gannet Hallar, Ph.D. of the Desert Research Institute (DRI) with the 2012 Rising Researcher Award in acknowledgment of her contributions to the field of atmospheric science and her potential for future accomplishments.  
  • DRI scientists conduct climate change research ...
    Dr. Eric Wilcox and graduate student Nic Beres research pollution’s effects on clouds in the island nation most threatened by climate change.
  • Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
    Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.
  • Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
    Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • U.S. Meat Producers Call for Pause in Ethanol ...
    U.S. meat, poultry, and dairy producers are urging the Obama administration to suspend a quota for corn-based ethanol production, warning that the renewable fuels standard could trigger a food crisis as a prolonged Getty Images drought pushes corn and soybean prices to record levels. In a le ...
  • Powerful Storms Linked to Depletion of Ozone L ...
    A new study warns that a surge in powerful storms, perhaps linked to a warming climate, could be causing a depletion of the planet’s protective ozone layer. Writing in the journal Science, Harvard researchers explain that water vapor inserted into the normally dry stratosphere by strong thunders ...
  • Unusual Number of Grizzly and Hybrid Bears Spo ...
    Two Canadian biologists have reported sighting a handful of grizzly bears and hybrid grizzly/polar bears at unusually high latitudes in the Arctic, indicating that the interbreeding of the two bear species is becoming more common as the climate warms and grizzlies venture View photos Photo ...
  • Pulling Carbon From Air Should Be Pursued Desp ...
    Columbia University scientists say that technologies to extract carbon dioxide from the air will likely become a critical part of any strategy to stabilize the global climate and should not be abandoned because of high costs. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the re ...
  • Conservation Efforts Spur Comeback of Pakistan ...
    Conservation efforts in Pakistan have helped foster the resurgence of the markhor, a species of large wild goat found along cliff faces in the western Himalayas and ©Grahm Jones/Columbus Zoo and Aquarium A male markhor known for its iconic corkscrew horns. According to the Wildlife Conservati ...

Red Ice Creations

  • The Enchantment of the Olympics and the Earths ...
    Amid concerns about a possible false flag attack on the Olympic stadium, what hasn’t yet been mentioned is that the Olympic Park ~ as well as the whole of the Greater London area ~ is protected by a pair of nine-mile-high giant spirits who are quite visible to the naked eye, if you know where to ...
  • The Aurora Massacre: Once again, evasions rath ...
    President Barack Obama touched down in the Denver, Colorado area Sunday afternoon to meet with the families of the victims of the Aurora movie theatre massacre. Afterwards he made a brief public appearance, in which he declared: “Although the perpetrator of this evil act has received a lot of at ...
  • The Greatest Crimes Against Humanity Are Perpe ...
    The greatest crimes of human history are made possible by the most colorless human beings. They are the careerists. The bureaucrats. The cynics. They do the little chores that make vast, complicated systems of exploitation and death a reality. They collect and read the personal data gathered on ...
  • A new stage in the euro crisis
    Reading the latest headlines on the euro crisis, one experiences a feeling of déjà vu. Like last summer, the rating agencies are lowering their ratings, interest rates for government bonds are rising to astronomical heights, and governments are announcing new austerity measures. Only this time S ...
  • Fast and Furious: Obama’s Potential Watergate ...
    On June 7 Attorney General Eric Holder told the U.S. House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee: “We’ve looked at 240 custodians, processed millions of electronic records and reviewed over 140,000 documents and produced to you about 7,600.” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) shot back: “So, 140,000 ...

Russia Today

  • Medical mystery over discarded embryos: Stem-c ...
    Medical experts and investigators are pondering the origins of more than 200 human embryos found disposed in the Urals. Speculation ranges from illegal abortions to illegal stem-cell research. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Dirty Deeds: Iranian nuclear program hit by 'A ...
    Iranian nuclear facilities have been reportedly attacked by a “musical” virus, turning personal computers in laboratories on at nighttime and starting playing AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” out loud. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Typhoon Vincente slams Hong Kong (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
    The strongest storm in 10 years has hit Hong Kong, with dozens in hospitals and hundreds seeking refuge in shelters. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Top US Commander accused of stalling Afghanist ...
    A Congressional hearing on a delayed probe into a US-funded Afghan military hospital has aroused concerns that rampant corruption hampers the NATO occupation. An official cited “Auschwitz-like conditions” at the... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • ‘Fall of EU could help a new Hitler come to power’
    The political and economical crisis of the EU might help a new European Hitler to emerge, warns historian Geoffrey Roberts. He believes the current rise of ultra-nationalism in Europe resembles that one of 1930s as... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Time to get rid of Carlos Slim says the intern ...
    Carlos Slim is the richest person in the world, and it’s well past time for Mexico and the US together to get rid of these superrich rateros and take back some of the money they have stolen from the public through the many years. Why not start with Mr. Slim and slim him down some? [...]
  • Obama’s lying about US intervention in S ...
    Last week, Reuters reported that, along with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Turkey had established a secret base near the Syrian border to help direct vital military and communications support to Mr. al-Assad’s opponents. This “nerve center” is in Adana, a city in southern Turkey about 100 km from the ...
  • Sarah Palin was no aberration, Comrades!
    There is a widespread belief in liberal circles that John McCain aberrantly reduced American politics single handedly to a cartoon level of discourse through his selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008. However, this 2012 campaign shows that liberals give John McCain way more person ...
  • US Out of Anaheim! Yankees Go Home!
    DISNEYLAND, California– Out of Iraq, into Anaheim, Orange County California. You thought the militarization of America’s urban police forces was overkill? You didn’t know the police state they had in mind. Next come the drones.
  • Oops. McDonalds shill Ryan Lochte says he ate ...
    Literally, Ryan Lochte scored his piece of silver at the 2012 London Games for endorsing McDonalds’ unolympian crap-food. But in London Lochte waited until after his competitive events to “go to McDonalds”. His fellow shill Michael Phelps added a vicarious, thus safer, third pe ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Cowardly AIA Panders to Political Correctness
    One thing I have absolutely zero respect for is when people critique a book or documentary film without even reading or watching it. A recent article in Architect Magazine seems like a clear example of this, except the author supposedly did watch the film he's critiquing. You wouldn't think it t ...
  • Reply: Gage's Architects & Engineers for 9/11 ...
    Published on Jul 20, 2012 by RepresentativePress Reply: Photographs and video footage have vindicated Gage, as they show the same phenomenon of negative low air pressure occurred with WTC 1 after the collapse of WTC 2 making it appear as if the entire building was on fire. Skip to 10:2 ...
  • FAQ #8: What Is Nanothermite? Could It Have Be ...
    Written by Adam Taylor In order to understand what nanothermite is, we first must understand what ordinary commercial thermite is. Thermite is a mixture of a metal and the oxide of another metal, usually aluminum (Al) and iron oxide (Fe2O3), in a granular or powder form. When ignited, the ener ...
  • The DC 9/11 Truth 4th of July Parade
    DC 9/11 Truth in the 2012 Takoma Park 4th of July Parade For more information on the parade see www.TakomaPark4th.org Here is a report on some of their past events. 9/11 Truth Float in 4th of July Parade 9/11 Blogger | July 7, 2008 dc911truth.org first participated in the Takoma Park Mary ...
  • Fire, Steel, & WTC 7
    Published on Jul 12, 2012 by ofmay We look at the fire that NIST claims took down WTC building 7 as well as 5 other steel frame high rise fires. Debunking the Debunkers blog contributor and author of, "Other Collapses in Perspective: An Examination of Other Steel Structures Collapsing due ...

Fooducate

  • Only 10% of Americans Get Enough Fiber. Will A ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! You’d think that with the cereal category being so saturated, manufacturers would focus their energy elsewhere. But no, new products are coming out all the time. We re ...
  • Ten Hilarious Watermelon Pictures to Celebrate ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Watermelons are a wonderful summertime treat. When you pick a winner, nothing beats the sweet juicy taste of cold, red, watermelon bites. With only 25 calories per serving o ...
  • Help Needed: Back To School and Fooducate
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! We’re still having fun in the sun, but once August rolls in, the countdown to a new school year begins in many homes across America. We’ve been approached by man ...
  • Weight Loss: It’s About Food, Not Exercise, Sa ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Are you frustrated that despite your strict exercise regimen you are not losing weight? Are you running 5 times a week and disappointed to see the pounds dropping off much m ...
  • VIDEO: Doritos Commercial Spoof (Nutrition Sur ...
    Have you read the ingredients in that bag of Doritos?! Woah! We decided that the Doritos superbowl commercial needed some editing… See for yourself some of the absurd ingredients they are putting in your snacks! Get Fooducated: iPhone App Android App Web App  RSS or  Email Follow us on twi ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

  • Congo Vultures Bagged
    Vulture fund's $100m DR Congo claim blocked By Meirion Jones BBC Newsnight Bid to block $100m 'vulture' debt The Privy Council has ruled that a "vulture fund" cannot collect $100m from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The award was against Congo's state-owned mining company Gecamines who su ...
  • Can we list your Group in our Election Guide?A ...
    We need you to join Operation PUSH, Rock the Vote, People for the American Way, League of United Latin American Citizens, Bobby Kennedy Jr., Thom Hartmann Show, Occupy.com and 150 other organizations.  Add your group's name to our book, website and film, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to ...
  • Fracking in Ireland and BeingDependent on Hall ...
    by Greg Palast for No Fracking Ireland No Fracking Ireland presents Greg Palast in Dublin, Today 3. July Connolly Books, Temple Bar - 1pm The Ireland Institute - 7.30pm Full info here On the 20th of April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oilrig blew out in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven men insta ...
  • Wall Street, a Farce in Three Acts
    The Medicine Show Theater presents: Wall Street, a Farce in Three Acts Written in 1819 by William Holmes NEW YORK CITY July 5th – 8th 8pm With a special guests appearance by Greg Palast on July 7th & 8th for a talk-back with the audience about the parallels between the Panic of 1819 dep ...
  • Warren Ellis: "Money is Fictional"
    Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan, Crooked Little Vein and yet to be released Gun Machine gave the opening remarks for me last night in London for my UK release of Vultures' Picnic. Thankfully he posted them this morning, here's a bit of them, the full text can be found on his website ww ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • The Appeal Is On Dr. Wakefield District Court ...
    In a disappointing, but not unexpected ruling Travis County District Judge Amy Clark Meachum said, Texas Courts do not have jurisdiction in the defamation lawsuit Dr. Wakefield filed against the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the journal’s editor, Fiona Godlee, and...
  • No Shots No School? Not True.
    By Marcella Piper-Terry It's that time of year again. Parents throughout the U.S. are scrambling to get their children ready to head back to school. In addition to pencils, protractors and other educationally-related paraphernalia, many parents are packing their kids...
  • Win Dr. Martha Herbert's The Autism Revolution ...
    We have contests frequently at Age of Autism. But this one is special. Dr. Martha Herbert, MD, who is an assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and a pediatric neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital has kindly given us...
  • Free Two Day Event As Talk About Curing Autism ...
    **FREE EVENT** Save the date! Don’t miss this special two-day event where you can hear the latest on Autism research and treatments from one of the top ASD specialists in the country! Come with questions and hear Dr. Frye speak...
  • Juggling the Astronaut: Autism into Adulthood
    By Wendy Frye This spring, our son graduated from high school. Born well and happy, he like many of the children you read about, regressed back into himself after his early rounds of routine vaccinations. He became very sick, unhappy...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • News Archive In Focus – Corruption (1,47 ...
    The saying goes that “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. Our archive exposes why with the shift of power ending up in the hands of a few, this is shown to have increasingly worrying consequences as we witness the abuse of power by individuals, corporations, and p ...
  • Climate Fact Of The Day – New research i ...
    Clim. Past, 8, 1213-1221, 2012 www.clim-past.net/8/1213/2012/ doi:10.5194/cp-8-1213-2012 Tightened constraints on the time-lag between Antarctic temperature and CO2 during the last deglaciation Authors: J. B. Pedro1,2, S. O. Rasmussen3, and T. D. van Ommen2,4 1Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems ...
  • Spray-On Skin Cells Heal Wounds Fast
    Spray-on skin cells significantly improved wound healing versus standard care in patients with venous leg ulcers, results of a randomized trial showed. The mean reduction in wound area at 12 weeks ranged from 8% to 16% greater with the mix of keratinocytes and fibroblasts versus placebo (P=0.044 ...
  • Vladimir Putin making first visit to Britain s ...
    BBC – Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding talks with David Cameron on his first trip to Britain for seven years. The two men are expected to discuss the conflict in Syria and relations between the two countries at Downing Street. Read article
  • Australia rejects proposal to base a US nuclea ...
    Independent – Australia, which tries to tread a fine line between supporting its closest ally, the US, and not upsetting China, its biggest trading partner, yesterday rejected a proposal to base a US nuclear aircraft carrier group near Perth, saying it did not want American bases in the co ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

  • An Empowered 6th Grader
    Parchurjya Bairagi was elected by his classmates to learn about good hygiene and sanitation, and to share what he'd learned with others. The results have reached far beyond his school walls.
  • A Lighter Load in Ethiopia
    Letebrehan Gerezgiher is 24 years old and has three kids; Maytsada village is living in this small village. She says,”I used to travel two hours in the dry season in search of water and then, without taking a rest, prepare food for my children and husband, clean the house yard, and wash the chil ...
  • Collecting Water in Majidpur
    A family collects drinking water from a newly installed submersible pump water supply system in the Majidpur slum of Savar in India. The water system was installed through the assistance of DSK and Water.org's WaterCredit program. At present, 19 poor households are using this water system.
  • Learning About Sanitation
    Mrs. Bhagya Shrinivas is a resident of Karthikere village & panchayath Chikamagaluru district in India. She has recently married Mr. Shrinivas who is a small businessman with a small petty shop in Karthikere. They have their own house and live there alone.
  • Toilets Bring Dignity
    Imagine for a moment what it might be like for a boy like Shipon and his family to lack access to a toilet. Then imagine how their lives would change when they were able to have one they could all use nearby to their home. Shipon is 10 years old and his family has just gained access to a toilet. ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
    In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...
  • Seizure of Springs by Settlers Greatly Limits ...
    Palestinians have increasingly lost access to water sources in the West Bank as a result of the takeover of springs by Israeli settlers, who have used threats, intimidation and fences to ensure control of water points closed to tne settlements, Submitted by Naoko I. to World  |  &nbs ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • Canadian Solar, Inc. Purchases First American ...
    Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again.  Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. read more
  • Canadian Solar, Inc. Purchases First American ...
    Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again.  Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. ...
  • Potentia and Canadian Solar Sign Supply Agreem ...
    Canadian Solar, Inc. has signed a 17-megawatt supply agreement with Potentia Solar, Inc.  The solar panels will be used to develop more than 100 rooftop solar projects in Ontario. read more
  • Potentia and Canadian Solar Sign Supply Agreem ...
    Canadian Solar, Inc. has signed a 17-megawatt supply agreement with Potentia Solar, Inc.  The solar panels will be used to develop more than 100 rooftop solar projects in Ontario. read more
  • Konarka Technologies Files for Bankruptcy
    Konarka Technologies, a developer of thin-film solar panels, has filed for bankruptcy and will begin to liquidate its assets immediately. read more

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

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

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Mad Dog Leaders Threaten Humanity
    by Stephen Lendman A common thread defines Obama and Netanyahu. Their agenda threatens humanity. Both head modern-day Spartas. Israel is very much involved in Washington's war on Syria. At issue is destroying another independent state, murdering thousands, planning more wars, and threate ...
  • Ordinary citizens: the silent victims of anti- ...
    Kourosh Ziabari While the United States and European Union are vehemently competing with each other in the seemingly endless race of imposing sanctions on Iran, the ordinary Iranian citizens are experiencing the most breathtaking, agonizing impacts of the crippling embargoes. On July 31, the A ...
  • The Austerity Hoax
    by Stephen Lendman Since 2008, Western nations have force-fed their people austerity poison. Decline replaces prosperity. Millions suffer. Living standards deteriorate. Societies become no longer fit to live in. Neoliberal and imperial priorities let essential public needs go begging. Ho ...
  • Remembering Gore Vidal
    by Stephen Lendman Many labels characterize him: distinguished author, essayist, playwright, historian, acerbic sociopolitical/cultural critic, freethinker, intellectual, and humanist. In 2009, the American Humanist Association (AHA) named him honorary president. On July 31, Gore V ...
  • He’s blind to the “bleedin’ ...
    Stuart Littlewood Mitt Romney is listed among People magazine's 50 “most beautiful” of 2002. He was up there with Nicole Kidman, Britney Spears and Julia Roberts. But how pretty does he look in 2012? This US presidential hopeful from AIPAC’s Republican wing came here to Engla ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Bargaining Power and Job Quality in the United ...
    The age and educational attainment of the US workforce have increased significantly since 1979.  Since older and better educated workers generally have higher pay and better benefits, one might expect a greater share of workers to be in good jobs today compared to 30 years ago. In a Center ...
  • Crime and Declining Unionization
    In an article entitled "Crime and the Decline of Unions," economics professors Robert Baumann and Bryan Engelhardt of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts estimate the elasticity of crime with respect to union membership.  They contend that the drop in US union membersh ...
  • Final Report Released on CAW-CEP New Union Project
    The final report of the proposal committee for a new union combining the CAW and CEP contains many intriguing ideas, not least being the 5 regional councils, funded by a separate per capita levy, that give the new union the feel of a labour central.  All local unions in each region will be ...
  • Low-income residents face housing challenges i ...
    In addition to the usual challenges of finding affordable, good quality housing that meets their needs, many low-income tenants have trouble maintaining their housing, often because their rents increase sharply or their units are converted to condominiums.  To learn more ...
  • Smashing the Stereotypes: Challenging Race and ...
    Quebec's striking students have raised arguments and concerns that get to the root of the debate about the kind of society we want to build—or the kind of society we areallowing to be dismantled in our name. However, the response to this action has raised another issue. The stereotype of th ...

World Wide Hippies

  • People F#@!^ing Amaze Me! – PROPANE “H ...
    (Natures way of Culling the Herd?)  Just saying… From firegeezer.com - Two Huffers Critical TWO TEENAGE BOYS IN MOSGIEL, NEW ZEALAND, blew themselves up Monday afternoon while using a propane bottle to kill their brain cells by “huffing” the gas (i.e.: getting high by inhaling ...
  • Camp “Romneyville” protesters read ...
    By Saundra Amrhein,TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - * With convention still weeks away, group sets up camp * Protesters leased a spot inside restricted event zone A group of protesters in pink tents are creating a headache for Tampa city officials after they rented land inside a restricted zone near the ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Saturday
    Oklahoma’s plea for help falls on deaf ears as wildfires burn out of control Wildfires are burning out of control in Oklahoma, destroying homes and shutting down highways in a state that has suffered 18 straight days of 100-plus degree temperatures and persistent drought. Emergency officia ...
  • Campaign to encourage good deeds for World Hum ...
    WWH/CJE,UN  – Ahead of World Humanitarian Day, the United Nations today launched a global campaign – featuring the music of performing artist Beyoncé – to highlight humanitarian work and encourage people to get involved by doing something good for others. A campaign website – www.whd-iwashere.or ...
  • US ghost towns live side by side with Opulent ...
    Connecticut rta s 1 14179 from joe mcevoy on Vimeo. WWH/CJE,RT – (Bridgeport; Greenwich , Connecticut) A financial divide is painfully evident in the US as crisis-hit ghost towns live side by side with growing hedge-fund hubs. In Connecticut two towns, Greenwich and Bridgeport, are tied to ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Petroleum Demand in Developing Countries
    Note: I am still traveling, and my posting schedule won’t return to normal until after August 11th. This article was originally written for World Business Magazine in Singapore, and explores one of the themes I covered in my book Power Plays. I am breaking it up into two parts. The first d ...
  • Analyzing Coskata’s Major Strategy Shift
    In last week’s Energy Trends Insider our featured stories were How to Make Money in Solar as Every Solar Manufacturer Goes Bankrupt, Analyzing Coskata’s Major Strategy Shift, and Rough Road For Biobutanol. As we have done previously, we would like to share one of those stories with r ...
  • The Facts About Canada’s Oil Sands and Climate ...
    Misinformation is hard to stamp out, because it tends to be repeated - so Robert Rapier goes in depth to examine Climate Change claims around the Keystone XL pipeline.
  • The Contribution of U.S. Oil Consumption to Gl ...
    Financial Dependence Can Cause Bias Generally when I find myself having to clarify my position from a previous column, I find that I did not explain myself as well as I should have. Such is the case with last week’s column Environmentalism is a Profitable Business. There were several ways ...
  • Investment Opportunities in Natural Gas
    In this week’s Energy Trends Insider our featured stories were The Navy’s Biofuels Program and the Great Green Fleet, Investment Opportunities in Natural Gas, and the Short Term Oil Price Investment Outlook. As we did last week, we would like to share one of those stories with regula ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • 7 Crazy Things Pesticides Are Doing to Your Body
    Pesticides are designed to kill, although the mode of action they use to put the stranglehold on pests varies. Whether it's nerve gas–like neurological disruption, the unbalancing of key hormones, or the stunting of a plant's ability to absorb life-sustaining trace minerals from the soil, none ...
  • The World's First 100% Organic Nation?
    The tiny Himalayan country of Bhutan serves as home to just 738,000 people—about the population of Alaska. But this tiny landlocked nation is on track to make one of the biggest pro-organic moves in the world. At the June 2012 Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, the kingdom's prime m ...
  • Are GMOs Making You Fat?
    Americans are getting fatter, thanks to a food supply that's increasingly processed fare or eaten out of cardboard boxes acquired from the nearest drive-thru. But is it just calories and fat playing a role? Some researchers in Europe are throwing out the theory that there may be more to the wor ...
  • 5 Ways to Cook for Your Dog on a Tight Budget
    Think your dog loves you now? Wait 'til you start whipping up some of these delicious homemade dog food recipes that, luckily, are also easy on the wallet. These treats and meals will help you get your feet wet in creating K-9 cuisine and help crank up your comfort in making homemade meals for ...
  • Are You Chronically Dehydrated?
    Believe it or not, the simple answer to that question is probably yes. In fact, most of us function in a chronic state of dehydration. Whether it's because of your busy schedule or simply not having fresh, clean water on hand when you need it, chances are more than good that you simply don't dr ...

big think

  • The Trouble with Kute Spelling
    When I go to my favorite political websites these days I have to see “Chick Fil A” as one of the hot topics. The CEO’s against same-sex marriage, but he’s also one of the worst offenders of cute spelling. That’s when a corporation or business takes the correct spelling of a word and trad ...
  • Measuring Political Buzz with Twitter
    Telephone polls have been in their dying throes for years. At about 12% response rates, they shouldn't even work now. But they do, so far. That said, pollsters expect them to die at any moment. I preparation for the demise of telephone polls, pollsters have been looking for alternative s ...
  • Phone-Spam Evangelism
    On Friday afternoon, I got a call on my cell phone from an 800 number I didn't recognize. I let it go to voicemail, and I'm glad I did, because that means I had a recording of this wonderfully bizarre call so I could transcribe and share it with you: God bless you, this is [unint ...
  • Why Women May Outlive Men
    Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell What’s the Latest Development? Mitochondria have its own DNA separate from the rest of the DNA genome and researchers believe the "loophole" in the genome may be responsible for a shorter life span in men. The DNA is passed down to chi ...
  • Childhood Social Relationships Key to Adult Ha ...
    Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell What’s the Latest Development? Based on a study conducted by researchers at the Deakin University and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Australia, the presence of social relationships throughout childhood and adolescence can ...

Information Liberation

  • The Police: Useless, but not Harmless
    The bad news for Rafael Lopez was that the 27-year-old Iraq war veteran had been robbed and severely beaten by a gang of at least 10 men on the street outside the Aqua nightclub in Minneapolis. The good news * or Lopez initially thought * was that th...
  • Message to the Voting Cattle - Larken Rose
    This video is a US-version of the video "Nachricht an das Stimmvieh", produced by FreiwilligFrei.de, a german group of bloggers and activists. http://www.freiwilligfrei.info/ focuses on voluntarism and the philosophy of freedom. The "rulers" ac...
  • Own Guns, So that I Don't Have To
    While attending the Agora Financial Symposium in Vancouver, I became aware that Americans enjoy some rights that Canadians do not: among them, the limited ability to carry weapons. Even private security guards seem unable to be armed in Canada.This d...
  • Government Is Shrinking?
    In today's political climate, the more implausible the claim, the more likely it is to stick. One that seems to be sticking now is that government today is small by historical standards and constantly shrinking. Run that one by the man on the stre...
  • Death From Above: Navy Drone Logo Features Gri ...
    The US Navy, which has just revealed the latest development in stealth drone technology, is using a logo for its unmanned aviation program that literally features the angel of Death, clothed in a black cloak with a hood, holding aloft a large scyt...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • One More Five-Ring Circus
    The Games of the XXX Olympiad kick off in a few hours, and I for one won’t be watching. In another age, another millemium, the Modern Olympic Games were conceived by an aristocratic Frenchman, Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, … Continue reading →
  • More Of The Shiny Stuff
    A few random jottings on gold while I’m out on the road; back in a week. The other day, I came across this article in the Mises Daily, taken from Joseph T. Salerno’s testimony submitted to the U.S. House Subcommittee … Continue reading →
  • Meet The Asylum’s New Management
    The iron ore town of Whyalla on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is one of the places most threatened by Labor’s Carbon Tax – the tax that Gillard promised before the last Federal election she would never introduce, and which came … Continue reading →
  • Gunwalker – What The Hell???
    I don’t know much about this whole Gunwalker episode, beyond the little I’ve read in the news. But it’s now meant the United States’ chief executive law officer has just been held in contempt of Congress. Pretty serious stuff. I … Continue reading →
  • Daily Telegraph Delingpole Refugee Camp
    G’day Folks, The DT blogs are down for maintenance for an unusually long period of time. So all regular readers of James Delingpole’s blog are welcome to continue the discussion here. Even the trolls can come in, just to make … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • The Carbon Price and the Property and Construc ...
    Davis Logan (unit of AECOM Australia Pty Ltd) http://bit.ly/Nf7zKC [From Architecture and Design] A report from Davis Langdon has found that the impact of Australia’s carbon pricing on construction costs is less than 0.5 per cent, after considering industry compensation in the first year of the ...
  • Future Transportation Fuels Study
    National Petroleum Council http://www.npc.org/FTF-80112.html [NY Times Green blog] The internal-combustion engine, propelling U.S. automobiles since before the Model T Ford, will remain the dominant power source for cars until at least 2050, according to a study by a panel advising the Energy De ...
  • When It Rains, It Pours: Global Warming and th ...
    Environment America http://www.environmentamerica.org/reports/ame/when-it-rains-it-pours [From Press Release] …a new Environment America Research & Policy Center report confirms that extreme rainstorms and snowstorms are happening 30 percent more frequently on average nationwide since ...
  • In It Together: a How-To Reference for Buildin ...
    Willamette Partnership | Pinchot Institute for Conservation and World Resources Institute for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Environmental Markets http://willamettepartnership.org/in-it-together/ [From Website] Watersheds across the United States have used different forms of ...
  • The RFS, Fuel and Food Prices, and the Need fo ...
    By Dr. Thomas E. Elam, President, FarmEcon LLC http://www.farmecon.com/Pages/default.aspx [From an article in InsideEPA.com, sub. req'd] Senate staff are expected to launch as soon as this week a bipartisan investigation into the market impacts of EPA’s renewable fuel standard (RFS)… ...

Scientific American - News

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Halifax Media Co-op Journalist Reports on Emer ...
    On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the privatization of power generation, Halifax Media Co-op editor Miles Howe is travelling to the Bahamas to report on that country's recent experience with Nova Scotia-based company Emera Inc.   Emera, also the parent company of Nova Scotia Power, ...
  • A movement stronger than elections
    By the time you're reading this there's a strong chance that Quebec Premier Jean Charest has launched the province's 40th general election. And while we'll be hearing about politi ...
  • Other Peoples' Gold
    An interview with Simon Plouffe, director of L'or des autres In this interview, the Media Co-op sits down with Simon Plouffe, director of the film L'or des autres (The Gold of Others) for a discussion about mega mining in ...
  • My Life on Income Assistance
    Not many housing choices are available for $535 per month My name is Kendall Worth, and I am writing this article from my personal experiences of being a resident of North End Dartmouth for the past 11 years of my life. This article will ex ...
  • ACAB (All Cops Are Bastards)
    Download Video – Translate 1. Rodney King RIP 2. The Mighty Pigs 3. Mining for Resistance 4. Burning Barricades 5. Red Square Army 6. No lock for chilean cops 7. Th ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Bibi Netanyahu and Israel's primal fallacy
    David Seaton's News Links (David Grossman) said he feared that Netanyahu and Barak would bomb Iran partly out of a perceived strategic need to back up their threats with action, but also because of what he sees as Netanyahu’s sense of historic responsibility to save the “people of eternity.” ...
  • Thomas Friedman attacks Adelson, Netanyahu, AI ...
    David Seaton's News LinksCertain people have more credibility than others when talking about certain subjects. For example, if Warren Buffet says that rich people should pay more taxes, nobody would accuse him of fomenting "class warfare". That is because he will be the one that ends up pay ...
  • The pain in Spain and America's iron jaw
    David Seaton's News LinksThis remobilisation of Spanish society, lulled into comfort and complacency during the boom years, in some senses recalls the fevered political and street activity of the transition to democracy after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco in 1975. Yet it is more amo ...
  • James Holmes: a budding neuroscientist runs amok
    David Seaton's News Links So this is just what one of America's many faces is going to be a bitterly divided, hatefully cynical country where insane people have easy access to semi-automatic weapons, and occasionally use them to commit senseless atrocities. We will continue to see more and mo ...
  • What exactly is the USA?
    David Seaton's News LinksRight now the question would have to be: what exactly is the USA?? The people? The system? The economy? Whose economy? What exactly is the USA? This is really important in America's case, more so than in other countries, because "American" isn't an ethnic grou ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Harry Reid Doubles Down
    So what's going on with Harry Reid? When he decided, out of the blue last week, to tell a reporter that he'd gotten a call from a "Bain investor" who told him that Mitt Romney had paid no taxes for ten years, I figured he was just talking smack. He wanted to get under Romney's skin and decided ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - On Hiatus
    I know this is going to disappoint a lot of you, but I'm afraid today is the final installment of Friday catblogging — at least for a little while. There are actually several reasons I'm doing this, but the obvious one is reason enough: Inkblot was the original inspiration for catblogging ...
  • Repeat After Me: In-Person, In-Person, In-Person
    The court case against Pennsylvania's new voter ID law is wrapping up, and supporters of the law say it's necessary in order to reduce voter fraud. However, when you hear the words "voter fraud," there are three things you need to keep clearly in mind: In-person In-person In- ...
  • A Good Job is Hard to Find
    Via Richard Kirsch, here's an interesting juxtaposition courtesy of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. They set out to calculate the number of workers with "good jobs," and they set a fairly low bar. A good job is one that pays $37,000 (the median wage for men in 1979), includes at l ...
  • Taxes vs. Chicken Sandwiches at the New York Times
    Bob Somerby takes a look at how the New York Times treated Catherine Rampell's story about Mitt Romney's tax plan, the one that cuts taxes on the rich and raises them on the middle class: Her report totaled 423 words. It was crammed at the bottom of page A10. It didn’t even make the f ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 338: God is an Asshole (with a Special App ...
    Topics: The Chick Fil-A situation is getting out of hand Stop playing 6 Degrees of Separation with where your money is going X-Men First Class Sequel = Days of Future Past? Can Fox make a clean break? Fuck the Total Recall remake Snoop Dogg proves that too much weed isn’t good for you Weez ...
  • IC 337: But He Smoked Crack
    Topics: Bigotry is delicious Being a nerdy isn’t trendy Comic Book Fans going too hard? “But He smoked crack…” Having Kristen Stewart Cheat on you Jerry Sandusky is creepy Penis thieves Share with your friends:
  • IC 336: Bad Parenting 101
    Topics: The Dark Knight Rises was awesome The Cunt Muffins who spoil movies on opening weekend Calling an Avengers Initiative on The Dark Knight Rises Politicizing Tragedies Gun control laws won’t stop evil people Regulation is a safety net and deterrent for for the casuals Kriss gives an ...
  • IC 335: Homophobia Tastes Like Chicken
    Topics: *Bonus* The first 15 minis is the pre-show with Kriss & Rod talking about the George Zimmerman/Sean Hannity Interview*Bonus* Kev Sees Spider-Man 2 Marvel wins San Diego Comic Con Nerds Ruin Everything Trolling The Dark Knight Rises Critics don’t love watching movies anymore Ru ...
  • IC 334: We’re Getting Soft
    Topics: Work sucks Dream Team The need to compare Each generation gets a little softer The Dark Knight Rises The 3 Titties Live ON Fat sex Sharks still ain’t shit Kriss’ religious rant Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Continued emission growth promises US megadroughts
    2000-2004 western US drought was worst in 800 years, but will become normal in future, reversing the region’s absorption of CO2 and worsening climate change, says Christopher Schwalm from Northern Arizona University
  • Developed countries duck warming responsibility
    Rich countries have emitted 2/3 of CO2 through history but their pledges are set to result in just 1/3 of any future warming slowdown, says a study that combines climate, social, economic and ecological science by Xuefeng Cui and John Moore from Beijing Normal University and their colleagues.
  • Society must respond 50 times faster to meet l ...
    Using climate-society feedbacks Andrew Jarvis and colleagues from Lancaster University, UK, predict that the world is on course for 6°C of warming, but this could be much lower with even a slightly stronger response, if we make it quickly
  • Rich versus poor obstructs climate progress
    Though the 45,000 strong international Rio+20 meeting last month seemingly did little for climate change and the environment, social and economic issues must be resolved for such negotiations to be successful in future.
  • Beefing down farming could cut carbon
    Changing our meat consumption habits, including switching from cow to pig farming, will be necessary to feed the world and allow plant-based biofuels and carbon capture to reduce CO2 emissions say Tom Powell and Tim Lenton at the University of Exeter.

e!Science News

  • Crayfish species proves to be the ultimate sur ...
    One of the most invasive species on the planet is able to source food from the land as well as its usual food sources in the water, research from Queen Mary, University of London has found. read more
  • Birds that live with varying weather sing more ...
    A new study of North American songbirds reveals that birds that live with fluctuating weather are more flexible singers. read more
  • Ancient records shed light on Italian earthqua ...
    When a damaging earthquake struck the area of L'Aquila in central Italy in 2009, it was the latest in the region's long history of strong and persistent quakes. The rich recorded history of settlement in the area, along with oral traditions, archaeological excavations, inscriptions and medie ...
  • Queen's researcher finds situation dire for th ...
    Peter de Groot (Biology) hopes his recent finding confirming the extinction of the Javan rhinoceros in Vietnam pushes the public to protect the last remaining group of these prehistoric creatures living in Indonesia. read more
  • Iowa State, Ames Lab researchers invent new to ...
    By blending optical and atomic force microscope technologies, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory researchers have found a way to complete 3-D measurements of single biological molecules with unprecedented accuracy and precision. read more

unEarthed

  • The Wild West Targets Wolves Again
    Wyoming wants gray wolves off the endangered species list The anti-wolf crowd in Wyoming has this irrational fear of wolves, and no amount of evidence can calm ...
  • Earth’s Great Storyteller -- Water
    Cousteau legacy aids fight against mountaintop removal mining Alexandra Cousteau. One of the biggest threats to water in Appalachia is mountaintop removal. En ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: A Dangerous Trojan Horse
    Despite appearances, the new bill is an attack on public health This bill is worse than no action at all. (Henri Motte) Today, Sens. Hoeven (R-SD), Conrad (D- ...
  • Unplugged: Where’s EnergyGuide?
    Study after study finds labels are missing from products in retail stores When the Government Accountability Office studied energy efficiency labeling in 2007, it found a surprising number of products on display in appliance stores ...
  • EPA Rules Would Give Teeth To TSCA Law
    Environmental, health groups support two health protections Last week we spoke about the weaknesses in the current law protecting Americans from toxic chemicals. Today we submitted comments to EPAurging the U.S. Environmental Prote ...

Brave New Climate

  • No easy substitutes for fossil fuels
    The following guest post is republished (with permission from the author) from Opinion Online. Tom Biegler, who wrote this piece, worked with Martin Nicholson and me on our 2010 Energy paper, How carbon pricing changes the relative competitiveness of low-carbon baseload generating technologies. ...
  • Is the Olympic Dam mine a special case?
    Here is an Op Ed published by Geoff Russell and me in the The Adelaide Advertiser newspaper this week. It was in response to this piece by Jim Green. ———— OLYMPIC Dam uranium can power Australia four times over and close all our coal mines, write Geoff Russell and Barry B ...
  • Does energy efficiency reduce emissions and pe ...
    Guest Post by Graham Palmer. Graham is an industrial engineer and energy commenter from Melbourne. For another BNC post featuring his work, see Coal dependence and the renewables paradox. This post summarises the findings of a paper just published in the peer-reviewed journal Sustainability by G ...
  • Radio debate on nuclear power for addressing c ...
    Yesterday I debated nuclear energy and climate change on 891 ABC radio with Greens Senator Scott Ludlum, on the afternoon show hosted by Sonya Feldhoff. (It was a studio interview, so the audio quality is quite good.) We had a decent amount of time to cover off on issues, including answering cal ...
  • Notes from the US of A
    I’ve been travelling internationally for the last few weeks. It’s been a productive time – I’ve drafted a complete paper intended for The Breakthrough Journal (more on this in a later post), increased and enhanced my network of professional connections and friendships, go ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • A Republican Didn’t Like The Sign In My ...
    When I roll, I always have one of our RepublicansAreADisease.com sighs taped on the rear window of my car. I went to Office Depot to return some supplies yesterday and what appeared to be a Republican with his wife and teen age daughter were walking up to the car next to me. The Republican saw [...]
  • Michele Bachman Lying Again
    On Meet the Press Michele Bachman claims Republicans want women to make their own health care choices. Really? I guess unless their employer disagrees right Michele? Please media. The story is the fact that the Michele Bachman types get to lie repeatedly, and never have to pay a price. Time to d ...
  • Wolf Blitzer Owes Hillary Rosen An Apology
    Dear Wolf. You are an asshole. Why should anyone apologize for telling the truth? I know that you think that Marie Antoinette Romney is an “elite” and we are supposed to worship her while she tell us “poor people” how we should live our lives, and what matters to us? Hill ...
  • Marie “Ann”toinette Romney You Hav ...
    Dear Marie Antoinette Romney. Please sit down and shut up about economics. It is wonderful that your “family” has been so prosperous that you have never had to work for wages once in your whole life, unlike almost every other woman in America. What you don’t seem to understand ...
  • How Many Small Business Owners Did Newt Screw ...
    Come on Newt, who do you owe? You have millions upon millions in loot, and you can’t pay the people that you have contracts with and did business with? You have yours and you are screwing them out of theirs? You are sick man. I know you wanted to be prezzident so you could screw us [...]

Appalachia Rising

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

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  • Government laughs in the face of economic desp ...
     A review of the year of social protests – just hours before the demonstration planned against the government’s budget – yields bad news: The government has offered shallow solutions and deepened the roots of economic inequality.  Last year’s social paradox During last su ...
  • PA-Israel trade agreements only stabilize occu ...
    The trade agreements signed earlier this week between Israel and the Palestinian Authority serve as a reminder of the convenient status quo of occupation. They also illustrate just how irrelevant the PA has become in the struggle against the foreign military regime, and raise the question: When ...
  • Don’t believe Bibi: 1981 strike only spe ...
    With Netanyahu and Barak desperate to sell their case for an attack on Iran, they’ve been repeating the urban legend that Israel’s 1981 bombing of Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor stopped Saddam’s nuclear ambitions permanently. Since we are getting down to crunch time, I am ...
  • Israelis, Palestinians must cooperate now on t ...
    Cross-border environmental cooperation cannot wait until a final peace agreement is signed. But it also cannot completely disregard political realities: The recent Cross-Border Environmental Conference held by Israel in the settlement of Ariel meant that no Palestinian could dare attend, leaving ...
  • Activists get set to launch new flotilla to br ...
    European activists are organizing a new flotilla in solidarity with residents of Gaza. Their boat is expected to leave the Baltic Sea in the coming weeks and pass through several harbors in the Mediterranean for events aimed at raising awareness, before reaching the sealed off Strip. Previous fl ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • (tax)BOMBSHELL!- ACCORING TO US CONGRESSMAN, I ...
    “Of all the tax changes likely to expire,” Rep. Brad Miller said, “this is the one that causes me the most concern.” And homeowners abused by banks throughout the mortgage process would suffer a final nightmare courtesy of the Internal Revenue Service. The letter from Bank of America Home Loans ...
  • How a Bill Becomes a Law…In The USA toda ...
      ALEC, I’M JUST A BILL Scridb filter
  • Rick Scott, Fascism, The Florida Supreme Court ...
    Rick Scott continues his attack on this state….today’s headlines: TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott said he was championing transparency in May when he gave the public access to his emails by posting them online for anyone to see. But what he failed to say at his May 3 news conference la ...
  • Fannie Mae’s Response to Foreclosure? Th ...
    The federal government, with its friends The Banks and Fannie and Freddie, are selling off the homes they’ve thrown Americans out of to rich private investors.  That’s bad enough.  What’s worse is, it appears it might be even worse…what if those homes were being sold to r ...
  • FINALLY! A Real Reporter Dissects the Flawed F ...
    There’s a regular ritual that the mainstream press, news and policy makers engage in.  Private companies release press releases that suggest DRAMATIC TRENDS IN REAL ESTATE IN…..(PICK YOUR MARKET)! It works like this: FORECLOSURES IN TAMPA INCREASED 2139% IN JUNE 2012! HOME PRICES SUR ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Humanity – The Revenge of the Id
    These last few days have provided a bit of a revelation. I decided, unprompted, to monitor just how many times …Continue reading »
  • Humanity – It’s Indifference
    One of modernism’s great paradoxes has been its inability to solve its own problems. It sounds counter-intuitive but that’s the …Continue reading »
  • The Myth of Neutrality
    “Do you hear what you’re saying? You’re talking about parity here – in this *?&%@& place?” The words were uttered …Continue reading »
  • The Myth of the Silent Majority
    Listening in on a radio panel discussion to the pros and cons of citizen engagement was something of an education. …Continue reading »
  • Binding From Mischief
    One of the clear signs of the demise of modern democracy is the penchant for politicians to put partisanship over …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

  • Doctors Slam Parents for Vaccine Choices & FDA ...
    Posted: 6/26/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was published in Pediatrics, a medical journal owned by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).[1 ...
  • Americans Fight for Vaccine Choices
    Posted: 5/14/2012 Philosophical Exemption To Vaccination Saved in Vermont! by Barbara Loe Fisher “I never thought this would turn into the mess it turned into.” – State Senator Kevin Mullin (R-Rutland), co-sponsor of a failed bill to eliminate philosophical exemption to vaccinat ...
  • The Vaccine Injured: Where Has Compassion Gone?
    Posted 12/08/2011 By Barbara Loe Fisher During this season of remembrance and thanksgiving, I am grateful for the blessings that I have had in my life, including the hard times, when I learned that faith and hope can overcome fear and doubt. Adversity can make us stronger but it is also an opp ...
  • Vermont Parents Fight to Save Philosophical Ex ...
    Posted: 2/21/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Informed consent to medical risk taking is a human right.[1] You have the right to be fully informed about the benefits and risks of pharmaceutical products – like vaccines - and be allowed to make a voluntary choice about whether or to take the risk ...
  • Vaccine Wake Up Call for Parents: Your Childre ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Every mother has had the nightmare. We dream our child, who we love more than we thought we could love anyone, has been taken away by strangers and cannot be found. The cold fear rises up from our stomach into our throats as we search, endlessly, to find the child we would ...

2020 Science

  • Davos 2011: Desperately seeking Google
    It’s that time of year again – 2000+ of the worlds top movers and shakers are beginning to descend on the Swiss ski town of Davos for this year’s Annual World Economic Forum meeting.  Political heavyweights like Clinton, Annan, Sarkozy and Cameron will be intermingling with the ...
  • Obama spotlights innovation, but how do we get ...
    Technology innovation was front and center of Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight.  This is extremely good news for those of us who believe more needs to be done, and done better, to ensure science and technology translate into effective solutions that enable economic and social grow ...
  • Asking smart people dumb questions – the new r ...
    Cross-posted at ForumBlog.org – the World Economic Forum blog My high school physics teacher used to tell me there’s no such think as a dumb question.  It’s a lesson I’ve carried with me through my professional career as a scientist.  But it’s a philosophy that might be just about to come ...
  • Davos 2011 – physics superstar meets music sup ...
    I don’t usually write about personal interactions here, but this is one I couldn’t resist – physics superstar Lawrence Krauss talking cosmology with music superstar Peter Gabriel. I was with Lawrence at a World Economic Forum dinner when he bumped into Peter – as one does ...
  • Davos 2011: Global Risks permeate conversation ...
    Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. Take a metaphorical slice through this year’s annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, and Global Risk would be writ large through every part of it.  Hot on the heels of the sixth Global Risk report, this year’s meeting saw the launch of ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

  • The Unfinished Story of Iraq’s Oil Law: ...
    [Originally published on July 24th, 2012 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa “No Blood For Oil” was a slogan featured on many a sign in demonstrations during the run up to the US-led invasion of Iraq, and throughout the early years … Continue reading →
  • Saying No To Tear Gas
    [An excerpt from an article of the same name by Frida Berrigan, originally published on Waging Nonviolence, June 22nd, 2012.] I have an assignment for you. Have you ever been tear gassed? I have not. It does not sound like … Continue reading →
  • Peace and Global Justice Groups: “End St ...
    On Father’s Day, June 17th , Peace and Global Justice groups walk together with New Yorkers in a Silent March to End Stop & Frisk We are a diverse gathering of groups working for global justice and peace around the … Continue reading →
  • On the Ground in Basra: An Interview with Hash ...
    Originally published on May 2nd, 2012 on Jadaliyya. by Ali Issa Iraqi unions demonstrated yesterday on May Day 2012 at a difficult historical moment. Still operating without a labor law that sanctions their organizing, and under the consolidation of Prime … Continue reading →
  • “You Can’t Take What’s All o ...
    To mark the upcoming NATO summit to be held in May 2012 in Chicago and the simultaneous G8 summit to be held in Camp David, Maryland, War Resisters League and the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance release a new popular education … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

  • Reported 1979-2008 U.S. temperature trends are ...
    The new improved assessment, for the years 1979 to 2008, yields a trend of +0.155C per decade from the high quality sites, a +0.248 C per decade trend for poorly sited locations, and a trend of +0.309 C per decade after NOAA adjusts the data.
  • Olympics: OBS coverage is amateur and cycling ...
    OBS - provides all pictures from the Olympics to broadcasters around the world. Of course, OBS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the International Olympic Committee and hosts the broadcasting operation for several major sporting events. The coverage of Day 1 of the London Olympics was amateur rath ...
  • Olympics have started – blogging will be ...
    The Beijing opening ceremony was far more spectacular but humourless. Some of the London themes were far more "socialist" than at Beijing. The ceremony had some humour - but some of which fell flat. The raising of the rings in London though will stick in my memory. Beijing was trying to hide its ...
  • Oh Calcutta!!
    Let Calcutta surprise you
  • Further confirmation that carbon dioxide lags ...
    Temperature leads CO2 concentration. I find it more plausible that increasing CO2 concentration may well have contributed to neutralising the temperature increase which caused the CO2 emission in the first place.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Cable Companies Should Be Worrying About Kids ...
    For many adults between the ages of 20 to 45, cable TV was a staple of everyday life -- and something that a lot of us automatically purchased for our homes when it came time to make nests of our own. But for the younger folks who have no memory of a world without widespread [...]
  • EA Sues Zynga Over Facebook Game That Also Has ...
    There's a fight brewing in social media gaming land: Electronic Arts is steamed at Zynga over its new "The Ville" game, which EA claims is a total ripoff of "The Sims Social," both games that are played on Facebook. EA is suing, claiming The Ville is an "unmistakable" copy of The Sims Social. Bo ...
  • Turning Your Tractor Into A Monster Truck To C ...
    If you're going to retaliate against cops for arresting you, one way to make sure they can't come after you would be to say, turn your tractor into a monster truck and crush the heck out of their cars. A Vermont man allegedly did that and now he's gotten arrested yet again. It's a vicious [...]
  • Amazon’s 1-Day Kindle Shipping Takes At ...
    Reese had this strange idea in her head. She thought that because she paid Amazon $20 for one-day shipping on her Kindle, it would take one day for the Kindle to be delivered to her. Maybe two, if she placed the order really late that day. Not so fast! Amazon's site helpfully told her that [...]
  • Walmart And Monsanto Team Up To Sell Genetical ...
    Retail behemoth Walmart says it will soon be selling a new variety of genetically modified sweet corn developed by seed megacorp/frequent litigator Monsanto. This is the same corn that other big names like Whole Foods and General Mills have already said thanks but no thanks to. “After closely lo ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • GAP Responds to Critique of United Nations Eth ...
    It has come to GAP's attention that lawyers from the United Nations have questioned statistics that we compiled regarding the record of the UN Ethics Office, which is charged with reviewing retaliation complaints and safeguarding the interests of UN whistleblowers. Specifically, in the Responden ...
  • New Senate Bill to Punish Whistleblowing?: Dai ...
    ProPublica: Washington’s War on Leaks, Explained Summary: This article explains the new Senate bill that has been proclaimed to be aimed at preventing "leaks," but which has been denounced by open government groups (like GAP) for hindering whistleblowing and attacking truth-tellers. The b ...
  • UBS Whistleblower Birkenfeld Released from Prison
    Yesterday marked the end of Bradley Birkenfeld’s prison term for conspiracy to defraud the United States. However, what he actually did was save taxpayers billions of dollars after exposing the secret corruption of UBS, the largest bank in Switzerland. UBS conducted a tax evasion scandal, allowi ...
  • NSA Whistleblower Sues Agency: Daily Whistlebl ...
    Wired: Whistleblower, Suspected of Leaking Warrantless Spying Program, Sues NSA Summary: NSA whistleblower Diane Roark – who the federal government suspected of exposing the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program – has filed suit against the agency for failing to return her ...
  • Czech Whistleblower Running for Senate: Daily ...
    Prague Daily Monitor: Corruption Whistle-Blower Michalek Running for Senate Libor Michalek, the former head of the Czech Republic's Environmental Fund who blew the whistle on corruption at the Ministry of Environment, has been nominated by multiple parties to, and will, run in the upcoming Cz ...

UK Progressive

  • Suddenly Homeless – Homeless LGBT Face Even Gr ...
    By Charley James A few weeks ago, I wrote about Mark Twombley and Craig Richardson, a committed gay couple who found themselves homeless after Mark became injured on his job and Craig getting laid off from a middle management position. Mark and Craig are luckier than many homeless gays, lesbians ...
  • I Owe Mitt an Apology
    by Tina Dupuy Presumptive nominee Mitt Romney is seemingly fixated on apologies. He’s obsessed with apologies like Bristol Palin is obsessed with teen abstinence—like BP is obsessed with clean energy—Marcus Bachmann with curing homosexual men … Mitt’s book is titled No Apology. He’s convinced th ...
  • Romney Channels Monty Python
    By Charley James It’s taken me a while to figure out what bothers me the most about Mitt Romney. Is it the lying, changing his policy positions every 10 minutes, pandering to the extreme fringe of the Republican Party, the violent gay bashing at his preppy boarding school, the cruel corpor ...
  • Men Can’t Compete in Synchronized Swimming? Re ...
    Gender bias and homophobia are the culprit Rev. Irene Monroe One of my favorite Olympic sports is synchronized swimming. I discovered the sport when, as a child, I stumbled upon the black and white, 1952 film Million Dollar Mermaid with Hollywood star Esther Williams. Synchronized swimming (ofte ...
  • Veterans Aid – Frontline Support When and Wher ...
    by Glyn Strong First published in  ‘THE CORMORANT’ 2011 *Since this was written Veterans Aid has championed the cause of at least 100 Foreign and Commonwealth ex-servicemen and women who through bad advice or legal anomalies have faced deportation and/or acute hardship.  One veterans charity is ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • August 4th Weekend Unthreaded
    For all those thoughts that don’t fit somewhere else… - Rating: 10.0/10 (2 votes cast) Rating: 10.0/10 (2 votes cast)
  • Victory of the Denialists! says Robert Manne i ...
    Firstly — No one wins anything while the people who slag off at scientists get their denigrating name-calling on the front cover of magazines. That said, I’m smiling. Beaming. The man who doesn’t know what science is, admits his team is failing. That has to be good. Real scien ...
  • Major Australian dailies disappear the Muller ...
    It appears skeptics are getting to the Fairfax press (finally!) The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age both ran with Muller’s claims of being a converted skeptic who found the world was warming (and the preposterous leap that “therefore” we were to blame). “I saw past the ...
  • David Evans in the Fairfax press: Climate chan ...
    Today in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, for the first time, David Evans has been published in the Op-Ed section. Something is going on in those newsrooms…? This article, below, simply makes the point that the models amplify the direct effect of CO2 by a factor of three and that is ...
  • Elizabeth Muller (Director of BEST) ran a &#82 ...
    How independent is this project? Would BEST have ever seriously published a study showing anything other than a scary warming trend? This is emblematic of how fans of Climate Change Scares present their efforts with half-truths — lines that are technically “correct” but leave a ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Grid Vulnerability Warnings Continue
    Just over a year ago I summarized a Scientific American article that pointed out how at risk the U.S. power grids are, regardless of what the Sun might do: Every facet of the modern electrical grid is controlled by computers. It is our greatest example of physical infrastructure interlinked wit ...
  • Zahi Hawass and the future of Egyptian Tourism
    With the ousting of the Mubarak regime last year, so went Zahi Hawass, Minister of Antiquities, and the face of ancient Egypt. An article at the Huffington Post looks into what happened to Hawass since (not much, seems like he is sitting around hoping to be reinstated…), and it provides s ...
  • Could Eta Carinae Harm Us?
    I’ve just been reading Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku. He is very skilled at making complex topics easy to follow. And that helps me to generate ideas rather than just trying to keep up. This is from page 126: Gamma Ray Bursters… releasing within seconds the entire energy output of o ...
  • Survival Seed Buckets – Some Advice
    There are many businesses flourishing right now because they supply preppers. It is hard to be a prepper without buying survival supplies… Consequently there are some products that might cost extra because they are targeting preppers. I don’t own any Bear Grylls products, so I’ ...
  • Bigger Disaster for Fukushima?
    I’ve ignored most of the conspiracy talk and amateur speculations that can be found online, like  suggestions that the Fukushima disaster of 2011 is the cause of illness in the USA. But when the report is from ABC Australia and they interview a senior nuclear reactor engineer from Japan, I ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

  • UoM to host international knowledge meet
    *University of Mysore registrar P S Naik said the 12th International Society for Knowledge Organisation (ISKO) conference would be held from August 6 to 9 at Bahadur Institute of Management Studies.* Addressing a press meet here on Saturday, he said, more than 100 delegates from over ... Report ...
  • Govt considering to grant additional subsidy ...
    Union Agriculture Minister and NCP Chief Sharad Pawar today said that the Government is considering to grant additional subsidy to the farmers of drought affected districts of Maharashtra.A decision will be taken soon. Reported by All India Radio 2 hours ago
  • Devendro beats Beijing Games silver medalist t ...
    Laishram Devendro Singh proved too good for 2008 Beijing Games silver medallist Serdamba Purevdorj of Mongolia to storm into the quarter-finals of the men's light-fly (49kg) category at the London Olympics' boxing competition on Saturday. The pocket-sized dynamo from Manipur won 16-11 and put .. ...
  • PICS: Fashion inspired by free-spirited nymphs!
    Here's a look at Babita M's line, showcased on the second day of Lakme Fashion Week. Reported by Rediff.com 2 hours ago
  • Title deeds problem sorted out in Udupi Kota
    *Muzrai, Inland Water Transport and Port Minister Kota Srinivas Poojary said that the problem of title deeds in the district has been sorted out. 'People who inherited the government land until last January are given title deeds under Karnataka Land Revenue Act Section 94-C,' he informed.* ... ...

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • NATO Preparing Vast Disinformation Campaign
    Syrians wanting to watch their national TV stations will probably see them replaced on their screens by TV programs created by the CIA. Studio-shot images will show massacres that are blamed on the Syrian Government, people demonstrating, ministers and generals resigning from their posts, Presid ...
  • The SCO 2012 Shanghai Summit – on the Way to N ...
    The 12th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit took place in Beijing on June 6-7, 2012. The annual event brought together the heads of states to review and gauge the importance of the SCO in global affairs. China hosted the summit for the third time since its inception. The organization ...
  • Turkey: Taking a Risk With the U.S. In Syria
    In late 2011 Frederic C. Hof, one of the State Department`s point man on Syrian policy, equaled the Assad regime to ‘a dead man walking’. At the end of December, 2011, Hof joined a special secret committee set up by the Obama administration to discuss possible scenarios of Syrian intervention. T ...
  • Antidote to Fundamentalism and Terrorism
    In international politics, relations of trade and commerce among nations are known, but what about spiritual cooperation? This is in fact the central call of religious leaders at Astana in Kazakhstan. While speaking at the 4th Conference of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, held on 30t ...
  • Balochistan: Crossroads of Proxy War
    The current unrest in Balochistan centers around forced disappearances, kidnappings, targeted killings, assassinations and terrorism. However, these are merely the tactics of a much broader, more geopolitically complex war in which the United States and its Western allies are engaged. Though see ...

BlogHer

  • BlogHer '13 Is Heading Back to the Midwest -- ...
    Today we are thrilled to announce the dates and venue for our ninth-annual BlogHer Conference:BlogHer '13 will take place on July 25 - 27th at McCormick Place and the Sheraton Chicago!So, to anticipate your immediate questions:  1. Registration will open September 1st. Look out for tha ...
  • Refresh Yourself With Lavender Lemonade
    [Editor's Note: One of the loveliest things to do in summer is to mix up some fresh lemonade and sit for awhile on a porch on a warm afternoon, sipping from the frosty glass and reading a book. The lavender in the lemonade lends it a floral note that makes this especially lovely. Mix up a pitche ...
  • Cropping, Exposure, and Mint Syrup
    [Editor's Note: The mint syrup sounds really yummy, but the photography tips in this tutorial are extra delicious, too. Take a look at these tips from Melissa Hartfiel. -Virginia] Last week’s photo was an easy start. It was pretty decent looking to begin with. So this week I thought I’d pick a ...
  • Backyard Dessert: S'mores Cheese Ball
    [Editor's Note: I've never thought of cheese balls as being anything but a non-sweet appetizer, but here's a recipe that takes the cheese ball and makes it into a dessert item! It has all the flavors of s'mores, in a dipping-friendly package! --Genie] S'mores Cheese Ball S’mores are all the r ...
  • In Which I Try Not To be Afraid of Myself
    "And if all I can think about is people yawning at my vulnerable dreams with their big eye-glazed stares, and my natural response is to kick, kick, kick at myself because I don’t want to be yawned at or glazed over, or be different than what is normal and convenient and that for which people hav ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Dr. Lynne Fenton, The Batman Killer, Drugs And ...
    People don’t get it. The media don’t get it and they don’t want to get it. Billions of dollars are riding on the drugs Dr. Lynne Fenton may have prescribed to her patient, James Holmes, ...
  • You Think GMO Is Scary? Nano Tech is Here, In ...
    Nanotechnology is measured in billionths of a meter, encompassing all aspects of life from food to medicine, clothing, to space. Imagine hundreds of microcomputers on the width of a strand of hair programmed for specific ...
  • Will Congress Let Monsanto Write Its Own Rules?
    The agricultural biotech industry — well, let’s call it what it really is: the chemical industry — has gone on the offensive as never before with a set of slippery policy riders to the House ...
  • Battling the Dogma of Big Ag
    I just read an article at the Hobby Farms website, Grow Smart: Keep Food Safe. I was frustrated with it for a number of reasons, but the underlying theme of this article was that we should be scared ...
  • Oregon Man Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail for Co ...
    A rural Oregon man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in jail and over $1,500 in fines because he had three reservoirs on his property to collect and use rainwater. Gary Harrington of Eagle Point, Ore., ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, Aug. 3, 2012
    Zeo Blake, 18 months, daughter of Justin and Geneva Blake, wearis a T-shirt of her grandfather, mining victim Rex Mullins, during the unveiling of the 48-foot-long granite Upper Big Branch Miners monument Friday, July 27, 2012 in Whitesville, W.Va. (AP Photo/The Register-Herald, Rick Barbero) Th ...
  • Talking coal: What about things we have in common?
    This week, I’ve had the opportunity to spend some time on the phone with a few West Virginians who made it very clear they aren’t very happy with the way I cover the coal industry, and with coverage of mountaintop removal in particular. Out of maybe a half-dozen callers in what they ...
  • SMCRA anniversary ‘not a time of celebra ...
    So yesterday was the 35th anniversary of the day then-President Jimmy Carter signed into law the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. It looks like Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and OSM Director Joe Pizarchik marked the event with some sort of ceremony. Not mentioned on the OSM website&# ...
  • Is the Obama EPA an out of control, rogue agency?
    I hate to mention Hoppy Kercheval at MetroNews twice in the same day. But what he wrote about the Obama administration EPA is about the best local example of what needs saying here. Here’s Hoppy, commenting on this week’s federal court ruling on mountaintop removal: The beauty of a g ...
  • Federal probe sought following mining protest
    Here’s the latest, reported by Vicki Smith over at The Associated Press: Environmental activists demanded a federal investigation Thursday into the alleged beating of a mountaintop removal mining protester by West Virginia State Police. Several groups issued a statement asking the U.S. Att ...

Daniel Miessler

  • All By Himself
    via i.imgur.com Signs of a dumbass. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentDon’t Be a Cryptic AssHipster HawkingThe Sriracha Spray BottlePolitical Perspective NeededEarth vs. Google Earth
  • Go Through Your Address Book and Contact Every ...
    Brad failing to not smile I’ll try to avoid cliché, but for this post it’ll be an uphill battle. I have a friend named Brad. I met him in my first job out of college where we both started on the same infosec team at a credit card processing company. He was starting as a [...]
  • Friends in Vegas
    I already did a post on my recent Vegas trip, but there’s a piece of it that I didn’t mention. Working in my current job I have had the privilege to be able to hire many of my friends, and going to Vegas this time (our team meeting) I was able to see it for [...]
  • The Nicest Place on the Internet
    thenicestplaceontheinter.net Love. Related ContentSubway: CheckOne of the Best Pieces on Free Markets I’ve Ever ReadThe End Of The Internet?Paul Graham: How To Do What You LoveGoogle IM vs. Skype
  • Avoid Junk Information Like You Avoid Junk Food
    Smart, educated people tend to avoid junk food. They tend to be thinner and have better diets because they’re simply more aware of the downsides of eating crap, including the negative effect it has on productivity. It should be the same for junk information. This includes not just televisi ...

Fitwatch

  • Welcome to the Future, Today.
    For those of us who have watched London 2012 with a keen eye from its inception, we have been alarmed by the extent to which it appeared to be just a 'festival of social control'. Yesterday's heavy-handed policing of the monthly Critical Mass bike ride  was a chilling confirmation of this. Cycli ...
  • The Most Dangerous Armed Gang in the Country
    A mini-rant from a few FITwatchers - not necessarily representative of the views of the organisation as whole. On Thursday, 19th July, killer cop PC Simon Harwood was acquitted of manslaughter at Southwark Crown Court for his role in the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests in 2009. Despit ...
  • A call to kettle FIT and Police Liaison in Bri ...
    Fitwatch are heading to the Smash EDO demo in Brighton on Monday 16th July, and we'd love you to join us. Smash EDO protests have historically been heavily hit by snoopers from the FIT, Police Liaison and the National Domestic Extremism Unit. These are all dangerous, vindictive and untrustworthy ...
  • Sussex police unleash new weapon – crowd ...
    Sussex police have recently started to use new forms of repressive tactics for policing demonstrations. They seem to have taken a break from head cracking to trial what they have termed 'Police Liaison Officers' or PLOs at the recent Smash EDO demonstration on June 4th. This may not be simply a ...
  • A call to FITWATCH at Smash EDO demo, Monday 4 ...
    The high court has decided that it is perfectly ok for the cops to gather as much intel about anyone they like who is in any way connected to the Smash EDO campaign - or any other that uses direct action or civil disobedience. Yesterday they announced that the domestic extremism unit, in holding ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Saturday
  • People F#@!^ing Amaze Me! – PROPANE “H ...
    (Natures way of Culling the Herd?)  Just saying… From firegeezer.com - Two Huffers Critical TWO TEENAGE BOYS IN MOSGIEL, NEW ZEALAND, blew themselves up Monday afternoon while using a propane bottle to kill their brain cells by “huffing” the gas (i.e.: getting high by inhaling ...
  • Camp “Romneyville” protesters read ...
    By Saundra Amrhein,TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - * With convention still weeks away, group sets up camp * Protesters leased a spot inside restricted event zone A group of protesters in pink tents are creating a headache for Tampa city officials after they rented land inside a restricted zone near the ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Saturday
    Oklahoma’s plea for help falls on deaf ears as wildfires burn out of control Wildfires are burning out of control in Oklahoma, destroying homes and shutting down highways in a state that has suffered 18 straight days of 100-plus degree temperatures and persistent drought. Emergency officia ...
  • Campaign to encourage good deeds for World Hum ...
    WWH/CJE,UN  – Ahead of World Humanitarian Day, the United Nations today launched a global campaign – featuring the music of performing artist Beyoncé – to highlight humanitarian work and encourage people to get involved by doing something good for others. A campaign website – www.whd-iwashere.or ...

reference frame

  • Why stringy enhanced symmetries are natural, i ...
    A TRF reader expressed the following sentiment: I would have liked to see the gauge symmetries of standard model emerging purely from the 10-dim geometry.In other words, he would have liked if string theory were nothing more than the Kaluza-Klein theory (general relativity with extra dimens ...
  • UAH, first 7 months: 2012 was 6th warmest
    In July 2012, the UAH global temperature anomaly was 0.09 °C cooler than in June 2012, at 0.28 °C. The June 2012 anomaly was, much like the July 2011 anomaly one year earlier, at 0.37 °C. This month-on-month cooling occurred despite the apparently emerging 2012-2013 El Niño. T ...
  • Antarctic palm trees: 52M years ago
    Fox News and others just promote a new paper in Nature Persistent near-tropical warmth on the Antarctic continent during the early Eocene epoch (by Jörg Pross + 16 + 318 co-authors)which claims the discovery of traces of palm trees that apparently lived in the Antarctica 52 million years ag ...
  • John Christy's climate testimony
    Anthony Watts posted the 7-minute video of John Christy's testimony in the U.S. Senate. Well, about 2 minutes at the beginning are dedicated to an introduction – explanations why Christy is really good. ;-) So he only has had about 5 minutes but he said almost everything that is im ...
  • Hackers fight against algebra in the New York ...
    While hackers in various cybercriminal organizations are sophisticated enough to use some algebraic tricks to break into other institutions' computers, hackers hired by the New York Times seem much less intelligent. Willie Soon has reminded me about an unusually dumb article by one of th ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Bernie Sanders Exposes the 26 Billionaires who ...
    By: Jason Easley July 24th, 2012 at Politicususa.com 1). Sheldon Adelson, owner of the Las Vegas Sands Casino, is worth nearly $25 billion, making him the 14th wealthiest person in the world and the 7th richest person in America. While median family income plummeted by nearly 40% from 2007-2010, ...
  • THE INTELHUB: Aurora Police Chief: From Beat C ...
    By Shepard Ambellas theintelhub.com July 27, 2012 Update: Actual police audio from the scene described what looked to be a coordinated attack with at least two shooters yet the police chief, the corporate media, and the federal government continue to claim that the mind controlled James Holmes a ...
  • AURORA FALSE FLAG – Sorcha Faal: Colorado Mass ...
    I knew I smelt a rat in this Colorado Shooting. A second gas mask found, Multiple witness claiming a second shooter, media using actors as supposed victims in the interviews….and now the lid has been blown off the cover-up. James Holmes was a patsy, used to silence his father who was set t ...
  • I have been asked to sell this domain name – Y ...
    $100,000.27 No negotiations. Send to my PayPal account at chiefape@gmail.com. Simple as that. Too much money? Too bad. It is a take it or leave it offer. Quit bugging me! TMA Related posts: Tatumba.com home of The Mad Ape – Radio Spot A few weeks ago I won a significant amount of... Relat ...
  • End of the Road – How Money Became Worthless – ...
    The new film “End Of The Road” has just been released for public viewing, featuring GoldSilver.com CEO Mike Maloney alongside Peter Schiff, Jim Rickards, Jim Puplava, James Turk, Eric Sprott and more. This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Gold American Eagle Fractional Bullion Co ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
    The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?

Enviroblog

  • Why I decided to cut back on processed meat, g ...
    By Altelisha Taylor, EWG food and nutrition intern As a kid, I was taught that a decent meal has carbs, veggies and meat. Tacos and burgers were my favorites. I have absolutely no interest in becoming a vegetarian. I'm pretty... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full l ...
  • BPA substitute found on store receipts
    By Paul Pestano, EWG research analyst Nearly two years after EWG published a study documenting high concentrations of the toxic plastics chemical bisphenol A in cash register receipts, scientists are finding that manufacturers have substituted bisphenol... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Study shows fracking can pollute
    By Alex Formuzis, VP for Media Relations A new water quality study near gas drilling operations in northeastern Pennsylvania counters natural gas industry claims that gas and hydraulic fracturing chemicals can't seep into the drinking water of nearby... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Hill politics churns small streams
    By T.J. Pepping, EWG Safe Drinking Water Intern Are smaller, upstream water bodies such as intermittent streams covered by the federal Clean Water Act? This is not an insignificant question: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has determined that... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
  • Pick the best sunscreen for kids
    By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Analyst I have happy memories of long summer days spent outdoors, largely unencumbered by sun hats, sunglasses and sunscreen. Now we know that one blistering burn during childhood can increase a child's risk of developing... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Nerdrum wins fight over farm
    Embattled Norwegian artist Odd Nerdrum finally got some good news this week: His legal battle against partners in The Nerdrum Institute he set up just a few years ago has gone in his favour after they lost a claim to his farm in Stavern. Newspaper Dagbladet ruled that an appeals court in Agder d ...
  • ‘Brutal’ Norseman attracts hundreds
    Call them gluttons for punishment, but 500 hardy souls from 37 countries were taking part this weekend in what’s been called one of the “most brutal” races in the world: The extreme triathlon known as the Norseman.  Participants started gathering in the mountains of southern No ...
  • Lawmakers react to blogger’s release
    Norway’s Parliament looks set to update a law against making threats in public, after the country’s highest court (Høyesterett) upheld the release of an extremist blogger who police claimed had threatened them. Blogger Eivind Berge had urged the public to murder police officers over ...
  • City gives in to calls for migrant toilets
    The head of Oslo’s city government, Stian Berger Røsland, has backed down from his refusal to provide migrant poor in Oslo, mostly Roma folk from Romania and Bulgaria, with free public toilets. City officials have set up portable toilets after all, at two areas where the migrants are campi ...
  • Embattled ticket site strikes back
    Norwegian online ticket agency Euroteam, caught in conflict over its sales of tickets to Olympic events in London, is back in business after promising refunds to customers. It still faces legal action both in Norway and the UK and was evicted from its Oslo offices this week, but its owners vow t ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Creating Change in Communities and NGO’s in Ta ...
    During June this year Tanzania hosted its second ever permaculture design course. Twenty-eight participants from around the globe gathered in the bustling northern town of Arusha for 11 wonderful days of learning and sharing. The Australian based non-government organization (NGO) FoodWaterShelte ...
  • How to Germinate Your Seeds
    by Restoration Seeds Germinating Your Seeds is Fun and Easy. Methods vary by plant type. Seeds of annual plants have a shallow dormancy and do not need a winter to germinate, they only live one season. Annuals generally are buried to a depth equal to the size of the seed in moist well drained s ...
  • September 2012 PDC With the Southern Oregon Pe ...
    Learn More on a Working Permaculture Farm What: Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course When: September 9–22, 2012 Where: Southern Oregon Permaculture Institute, 1133 Old Highway 99 S, Oregon, USA Cost: Earlybird price — $1,250 (ends August 9), Regular price — $1,45 ...
  • Dance With the One Who Brung You
    The environment is being trashed because of a failure to reform campaign finance. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.” These words, from WB Y ...
  • Permaculture, a Step by Step Change, Part III ...
    Welcome back to my Step by Step permaculture process. We have been studying the uses of passive solar space heating around the house; now it’s time for solar water heating. Solar water heating can be as simple as filling a transparent PET bottle with water and leaving it in sunlight, neve ...

Pointman's

  • Legislation by regulation.
    What is now called the European Union (EU), grew out of the aftermath of WWII, which had devastated both the economies and infrastructures of most countries in Europe. It was really the product of several treaties but the first big one was the 1957 treaty of Rome, which created a common market a ...
  • What’s the Watts paper actually mean, Dude?
    As a young man, my first mode of powered transport was motorbikes. Like all bikers, there was this thing you noticed about passing from the open countryside into a built up area. Basically, cities were warmer than the countryside, and exposed as you are to the elements on a bike, that was always ...
  • So, was climategate a hack after all?
    This is going to be one of those difficult articles to write, just to make it easy to read. It’s going to get technical at points, because it has to, so there’s going to be more than a few detours to explain things, but bear with me. It’s Sunday afternoon, I’m wearing sun ...
  • The decline of popular science journals.
    We are creatures of habit and pleasure. When we find something of pleasure, we tend to revisit it with regularity. Despite what a large part of the mainstream media might have you believe, not all pleasure starts at the gullet and ends at the genitalia, though eating well and making love, are of ...
  • Is climate science just a belief?
    The alarmists in the climate debate have what they think of as this magic ace of trumps card, called peer review. If they actually knew something about the peer review process, perhaps they’d realise it isn’t a guarantee of anything much. It really isn’t. In brief, the process ...

Journalists' Toolkit

  • Baby Steps in Data Journalism
    This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
  • The best video export options
    How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
  • Video Resources updated
    The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...
  • Flash Journalism updates
    I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
  • New tutorial: Windows Live Movie Maker
    As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less vers ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute C ...
    Urban Bush Women have returned to New Orleans for another of their legendary Summer Leadership Institutes. This summer's theme is centered around the question, "Why are people poor?" You can catch some of their work this Saturday at a series of performances they are hosting. Below are the detail ...
  • Community Profile: Brenda Williams of VOTE
    After attending an “outstanding” presentation that VOTE sponsored at Ashé Cultural Arts Center in Central City, Miss Brenda Williams was inspired to get “involved to make a difference in the lives of those who suffer injustice at the hands of lawmakers, judges and others involved in the criminal ...
  • Creating Excellent Schools is not the Same as ...
    Republished from Diane Ravitch's blog: Charter schools that perform better by recruiting and retaining better students don’t exist in a vacuum: skimming the best and most profitable students affects other schools, though it is hard to detect in systems with few charters.  The systemic ef ...
  • Homelessness, Displacement, Evictions . . . Th ...
    There are a number of obvious parallels between housing needs in New Orleans after the 2005 hurricanes and housing needs in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. In both disasters, large regions lost the majority of their affordable housing stock, resulting in massive spikes in homelessness and ...
  • Junebug Productions Welcomes Stephanie McKee a ...
    From our friends at Junebug Productions: The Board of Directors of Junebug Productions, Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Stephanie V. McKee to the position of Artistic Director, effective July 1, 2012.  Junebug Productions, founded by John O'Neal in 1980, is the organizati ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Nice Commie sickle-and-hammer "FPSRussia". It means: For Poor Suckers, "Russia" (instead of the Sowijet Union). When are you going to wake up that you have been completely duped by the Kike with Perestroika? "All warfare is based on deception" Sun Tsu, 500 ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    ......golden dawn coming to a country near you. iframe http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=09c_1344075921 Golden Dawn far-right party give out food to Greek nationals only Members of the Greek far-right party, Golden Dawn, hand out food to those suffering because of the country's economic cris ...
  • Social Engineering • See how ISREAL teach thei ...
    iframe http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=179_1344075973 .......disturbing, deeply disturbing.Statistics: Posted by mgt23 — Sat Aug 04, 2012 7:49 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    http://deadspin.com/5931226/was-this-di ... atch-fixed Was This Disgraceful Olympic Boxing Match Fixed? Barry Petchesky Knockdowns are exceedingly rare in Olympic boxing. Japan's Satoshi Shimizu knocked down Azerbaijan's Magomed Abdulhamidov five times in the third and final round of their ba ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aaf_1344063863 Interview With A High-Frequency Trader I know that this is a wall of text but I think the information about whats going on in the markets is worth the time. Submitted by Tyler Durden While the attached interview between the Casey Report and HFT ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • U.S. Meat Producers Call for Pause in Ethanol ...
    U.S. meat, poultry, and dairy producers are urging the Obama administration to suspend a quota for corn-based ethanol production, warning that the renewable fuels standard could trigger a food crisis as a prolonged Getty Images drought pushes corn and soybean prices to record levels. In a le ...
  • Powerful Storms Linked to Depletion of Ozone L ...
    A new study warns that a surge in powerful storms, perhaps linked to a warming climate, could be causing a depletion of the planet’s protective ozone layer. Writing in the journal Science, Harvard researchers explain that water vapor inserted into the normally dry stratosphere by strong thunders ...
  • Unusual Number of Grizzly and Hybrid Bears Spo ...
    Two Canadian biologists have reported sighting a handful of grizzly bears and hybrid grizzly/polar bears at unusually high latitudes in the Arctic, indicating that the interbreeding of the two bear species is becoming more common as the climate warms and grizzlies venture View photos Photo ...
  • Pulling Carbon From Air Should Be Pursued Desp ...
    Columbia University scientists say that technologies to extract carbon dioxide from the air will likely become a critical part of any strategy to stabilize the global climate and should not be abandoned because of high costs. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the re ...
  • Conservation Efforts Spur Comeback of Pakistan ...
    Conservation efforts in Pakistan have helped foster the resurgence of the markhor, a species of large wild goat found along cliff faces in the western Himalayas and ©Grahm Jones/Columbus Zoo and Aquarium A male markhor known for its iconic corkscrew horns. According to the Wildlife Conservati ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • The Plan, Part Deux
    By Frank Moher Previously on The Plan, I explained why, despite the depredations of the current federal government, the Canadian political universe is unfolding as it should — or at least as I’d hoped it might when I was a young journalist lost in the conservative wilderness in the 1 ...
  • The Plan
    By Frank Moher As we enjoy, if that’s the word, the second summer of the Harper majority, I’m pleased to say The Plan is working. The Plan, of course, is the one I hatched back when I was working at Alberta Report in the 1980s. AR, some of you will know, was the conservative newsweek ...
  • McDonald’s: Some secrets should be kept
    By Mark Leiren-Young Did McDonald’s have to tell us what they put in their special sauce? Couldn’t they have just said, “May contain nuts, chlorine and anything else that may set off your allergies” and keep us guessing? Unless someone posted the recipe on Wikileaks, did they have to tell us abo ...
  • A Modest Opinion – Nathaniel Moher&#8217 ...
    By Nathaniel Moher Welcome to part three of Nathaniel Moher’s Guide to Fixing the World! As any good trilogy does, Nathaniel Moher’s Guide to Fixing the World will have six parts . . . three of which will be completely unreadable and will mostly be done as a money grab. (Well, if we’re being hon ...
  • Friendly Canadian input on the US election
    By David Taub Bancroft The sun is shining. The flowers are blooming. We are in a year that is divisible by four. I think we all know what that means. In a matter of months, our American friends will once again start hanging chads or whatever it is they do to hold a presidential election, [...]

Daily Beast

  • Will and Kate's Record Night
    Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge were at the Olympic Stadium today, to witness the greatest day in British athletic history. Britain won three gold medals on this 'super Saturday' with British hero Jessica Ennis among the victors, winning the women's heptathlon.
  • Help Wanted
    I've been brilliantly assisted first at FrumForum and now here at The Daily Beast by Noah Kristula-Green. Now Noah is moving on to the next phase of his great adventure, and I'm in the market for a new deputy. Here's the mission:
  • The Overheated Case Against Romneycare
    Philip Klein writes a rebuttal to my praise for Romneycare. At the core of his argument is found this remarkable—even breathtaking—statement:
  • The United States of Victimhood
    In my column for the National Post, I ask why some Christians act as if they were members of a persecuted minority:
  • Man Up, Mr. President
    In a new book, the comedian D.L. Hughley says Obama needs to demand his opponents' respect. He talks to Allison Samuels.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Restoration of temple 'harder than building it'
    The year was 1735, and on the plains of Menuma in present-day Saitama Prefecture, master builder Hayashi Masakiyo was going from village to village assembling a group of top-class carpenters, engravers, painters and other artisans. Having gathered his team together, 60-year-old Hayashi may wel ...
  • Let them dance!
    The police have been cracking down on dance clubs over the past year, arresting operators and shutting clubs by suddenly enforcing a law about dancing and other amusement that goes back to 1948, and related regulations. The fines, raids and closing of dance clubs all over Japan are a repressiv ...
  • "Intimate TV"; Reconstructing Tut's death; CM ...
    The variety special "Nakayoshi Terebi" ("Intimate TV"; Fuji TV, Tues., 7 p.m.) brings together commentators from Japan, China and South Korea to argue over current affairs and poke fun at one another's cultures and economies. In the typical variety-show manner, it's all done in good humor. Amo ...
  • Ancient Japan captures money man's interest
    Yes. I think most other companies in this industry still pay them daily. Our staff's pay does not fluctuate by season any more, thus allowing them to concentrate more on their work. It has also helped maintain the quality of work. Is it your stance that the Japanese government spends too littl ...
  • Ancient Japan captures money man's interest
    David Atkinson was still in his 20s when he rose to fame as a Japan-based banking analyst with the U.S. investment bank Salomon Brothers, prior to him moving to Goldman Sachs. Having graduated from Oxford University with an M.A. in Japanese studies in 1987, and following a few years' stint in ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Agrium Halves Potash Royalties
    Agrium reports that it paid half as much to the people of Saskatchewan in the second quarter as it had in the same quarter of last year. The company’s quarterly “potash profit and capital tax” payment dropped to $8 million from $15 million a year ago. Agrium’s only potash mine is in Saskatchewan ...
  • Saskatchewan’s Rising Cost of Living
    Today’s Consumer Price Index provides further evidence of Saskatchewan’s rising cost of living. Among the provinces, Saskatchewan is tied for the second-highest annual inflation rate: 2.0%. Consumer prices decreased in June from May in nine provinces (all except Alberta). But Saskatchewan was ti ...
  • Baskin-Robbins and the Walmartization of Ice Cream
    It’s been an unusually hot summer, and soaring temperatures have boosted sales of that quintessential summer food, ice cream. But Baskin-Robbins has decided to shut its production facility in Peterborough, Ont., and lay off 80 workers because of…wait for it… increased demand! F ...
  • Labour Losing to Capital
    The just-released OECD Employment Outlook – full text not available on line – has an interesting chapter on the sharp decline of labour’s share of national income in virtually all OECD countries over the past 30 years, and especially the last twenty years. The median labour sha ...
  • EI Lags Unemployment
    Today, Statistics Canada reported that 3,400 more Canadians received Employment Insurance (EI) benefits in May. It previously reported that unemployment rose by 8,000 that month. In other words, even more workers are now unemployed without EI benefits. In total, just 37% of unemployed Canadians ...

ReDress

  • Palestinian history on a billboard versus Isra ...
    Lawrence Davidson pits the facts of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict - Israel's dispossession of the Palestinian people and theft of Palestinian land, as displayed recently in a New York billboard - against the arguments of the Zionist apologists for colonization and ethnic cleansing. He argues ...
  • Assad's "anti-imperialist" pretenders make the ...
    The UN General Assembly has overwhelmingly denounced the Syrian regime's crackdown on the people's revolution. The resolution, passed today by 133 in favour, with 12 against and 31 abstentions, says "the first step in the cessation of violence has to be made by the Syrian authorities"... Mean ...
  • US politicians prostitute their country for Is ...
    Jamal Kanj argues that, in their eagerness for Israel lobby election campaign funds and Jewish votes, US politicians have put Israeli interests ahead of those of the American people, displaying rare unity in doling out more US taxpayer money for Israel at a time of economic recession, possibly v ...
  • Is US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney just a ...
    Stuart Littlewood reviews the the erratic progress of a stumblebum, US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, from gaffes in London and Warsaw to a spectacular display of racism and ignorance during a visit to Israel where he paid homage to America’s Zionist kingmakers.
  • EU tells Israel: "Do your worst without fear o ...
    Alan Hart contrasts the European Union's brave words chastizing Israel about its land theft and ethnic cleansing of the occupied Palestinian territories with its deeds rewarding Israeli crimes, and he attributes this contradiction to Western politicians' fear of offending Zionism and thereby gu ...

Physics Today

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

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

  • Animal Waste, Waterways, and Drinking Water
    “A growing body of evidence indicates that CAFO-generated contaminants are ending up in the waters that we depend on for commerce, recreation, and perhaps most importantly, drinking. Spills that occur during manure transport or when storage facilities fail can lead to easily discernible, s ...
  • Mexican Communities Fight Mini-Dams
    “Small-scale hydroelectric dams with a capacity of under 30 MW are seen by the authorities in Mexico as an important alternative for generating energy. But local communities reject them on the argument that they would cause social, economic and environmental damages. On the front line of t ...
  • A 12 Step Program to Stopping Drought and Dese ...
    “Soaring temperatures and low precipitation could not occur at a worse time for many farmers in the United States, and around the world. Intensifying drought conditions are affecting corn and soybean crops throughout the Midwest, raising grain prices as well as concerns about future food p ...
  • US Judge Strikes Down EPA Water Rules For Mines
    “The Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its powers by setting up water-quality criteria for coal mining operations in Appalachia, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton in Washington ruled that the EPA infringed on the authority given to state regulato ...
  • What’s Next In The Water War
    “This river system does many things…supplies drinking water, hydropower, takes away our treated waste water. You’ve got wildlife and endangered species issues, industrial issues. The trick is to figure out how to share this liquid lifeline that is so critical from north Georgia all the way to Fl ...

D. Kucinich

  • Syria and Lessons Learned
    We don’t know who they are, but we know that we are for them. And it is possible that we are helping people that we have claimed to be against. As we strongly condemn violence wrought in support of the Assad government, recent allegations of war crimes committed in the name of rebellion shoul ...
  • Kucinich and Paul Tag Team Floor Debate on “Ob ...
    Congressmen Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Ron Paul (R-TX) took to the House Floor to stand in bipartisan opposition to legislation that would expand broad and indiscriminate sanctions on Iran. Congressman Paul called the House “obsessed” with a weapon that doesn’t exist, while Congressman Kucinich ...
  • Congress Pushing Postal Service into “Manufact ...
    Today, the United States Postal Service (USPS) will default on a payment that it should have never been required to pay. Legislation passed by Congress in 2006 requires the USPS to prefund retirement benefits up to 75 years in advance. On the House Floor, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) calle ...
  • Kucinich Mourns the Passing of Gore Vidal
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement. “America has lost a man of singular brilliance, a towering intellectual figure of immense heart and wit whose mere passing will revive the power and integrity of the adjective in the English language. “Gore Vidal was a ...
  • Kucinich on Rep. LaTourette’s Announcement Not ...
    WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 31, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after Congressman Steven LaTourette (R-OH) announced during a press conference in Painesville, OH that he will not seek re-election to the 113th Congress. “It has been and honor and a p ...

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    …Mon$anto Creed … you will eat what we tell you to eat … got it … and besides our stuff is USDA sanctioned and tested by academic institution we own … Hey Monsanto — I Want My Tomatoes From Nature, Not Your Labs   The biotech industry is willing to tamper with our food supply, [...]
  • WHO ARE ARIZONA’S WATER WISEMEN
    … Rattle your cage … a perspective from outside in …         WHO ARE ARIZONA’S WATER WISEMEN …?     A brilliant sun pierces what moments earlier hosted a dim Arizona landscape of soaring mountains, towering Ponderosa pines, exquisite configurations of Saguaro c ...
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Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Interview with the new CEO of The GEF, the wor ...
    The Global Environment Facility or 'GEF' unites 182 government members, in partnership with multiple international institutions, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector, with the goal of addressing global environmental issues. The following is an interview with Dr. Naoko Ishii of J ...
  • Industrial logging leaves a poor legacy in Bor ...
    For most people "Borneo" conjures up an image of a wild and distant land of rainforests, exotic beasts, and nomadic tribes. But that place increasingly exists only in one's imagination, for the forests of world's third largest island have been rapidly and relentlessly logged, burned, and bulldoz ...
  • Building indigenous resilience in the face of ...
    In the 1980s images of loincloth-clad tribesmen blockading blocking logging roads in Malaysian Borneo shocked the world. But while their protests captured the spotlight momentarily, Borneo's forests continued to be destroyed at rapid rates, undermining traditional communities that are dependent ...
  • In pictures: Rainforests to palm oil
    In late May I had the opportunity to fly from Kota Kinabalu in Malaysian Borneo to Imbak Canyon and back. These are some of my photos. Historically Borneo was covered by a range of habitats, including dense tropical rainforests, swampy peatlands, and natural grasslands. But its lowland forests h ...
  • Saving Indonesia's monkey with a heart-shaped ...
    North Sulawesi is one of the world's most beautiful places. Verdant forests and stunning coral reefs, combined with high levels of species endemism, make it a top biodiversity hotspot. But pressure on the region's natural resources is mounting. Mining projects, conversion of forests for plantati ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • New Mars rover to land in intriguing giant crater
    The latest Mars destination is a giant crater near the equator with an odd feature: a mountain rising from the crater floor.How did it get there?Gale Crater was gouged by a meteor impact more than three billion years ago. Over...
  • Aussies first to receive news from Mars
    Forty-three years ago the Aussies brought you Neil Armstrong stepping on to the moon.On Monday they'll be the first to record America's bid to find life on Mars.The Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex, operated for Nasa...
  • Will the MSL nail the EDL? A guide to Mars lingo
    Fascinated by Nasa's latest Mars mission and planning to tune in?Well, good luck understanding the space agency's everyday lingo, which resembles a sort of Martian alphabet soup.In the highly specialized world of spacecraft engineering,...
  • Stroke treatment breakthrough by Kiwi scientists
    Stroke patients will be told how well or quickly they might recover use of their hand or arm after a medical breakthrough by Auckland scientists.A simple bedside test done within three days of a stroke can now tell the patient their...
  • NASA confident ahead of Mars mission
    Nasa said all was well ahead of its nail-biting mission to Mars, with its most advanced robotic rover poised to hunt for clues about past life and water on Earth's nearest planetary neighbor.On a two-year journey to seek out signs...

The Bovine

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    From Michael Schmidt: Lets be like Children Today once again we faced the reality of another search and seizure action by Government agents and Police. To make it very clear, this time NOT because of milk like most people thought, … Continue reading →
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    From David E. Gumpert on The Complete Patient blog: “A raiding party of twenty agents from three different agencies descended on Michael Schmidt’s Ontario Farm  at 7 this morning with a simple message: he could be looking at 14 years … Continue reading →
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    That’s what Michael Schmidt is reporting today on Facebook, along with this pictures:
  • Montana Jones sheep story continues….
    Montana’s lawyer, Karen Selick, posted this message on Facebook today: “OPP and CFIA are at Montana Jones‘ farm RIGHT NOW executing search warrant. They are going to charge her with obstructing CFIA–which means they are not planning to pay her compensation … Continu ...
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    All this talk of Wilhelm Reich and his orgone energy in the comment section reminds me that Trevor James Constable ran a weather modification business out of Singapore towards the end of the last century using airborne technology based on … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Eurozone New Business Sinks at Fastest Rate in ...
    With everyone watching and analyzing US jobs data on Friday, there were a number of other news reports showing steeper contractions in much of the world. Let's start off with a look at the rapidly deteriorating eurozone. Markit Eurozone Composite PMI® – Final Data Markit reports Eurozo ...
  • Preposterous Falsehoods From Gary North Regard ...
    When it comes to the inflation deflation debate it really would help if people would stop presenting complete falsehoods as facts. Here is a case in point: Gary North writes Why the Deflationists' Argument Is Wrong in Both Theory and Historical Fact Aug. 3, 2012 An inflationist is ...
  • Headline Jobs +163,000, But Household Survey ...
    ADP got the headline job number correct, I certainly didn't. However, one look beneath the surface shows this was actually an anemic jobs report. Unemployment was up, and the household survey shows a loss of 195,000 jobs. The household numbers are even worse because part-time employment wen ...
  • China Buys U.S. Businesses at Record Pace; Wha ...
    CNN Money reports Chinese buying of U.S. business at record pace Chinese direct investment in the United States could hit a record high in 2012, according to a new research report released Wednesday. Total Chinese foreign direct investment in the U.S. is on pace to reach at least $8 b ...
  • US Factory Orders "Unexpectedly" Decline; US C ...
    The words for the day once again are "unexpectedly declined". I have a couple of examples. The New York Times reports U.S. Factory Orders Fall Unexpectedly New orders for factory goods unexpectedly fell in the United States in June, a fresh sign that the slowdown in the country’s manufactu ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Barack Obama, His Mother, and the CIA
    So Why the Omission? William Blum In his autobiography, Dreams From My Fathers, Barack Obama writes of taking a job at some point after graduating from Columbia University in 1983. He describes his employer as “a consulting house to multinational corporations” in New York City, and h ...
  • The EyeOpener- Sentient World Simulation: Meet ...
    The NSA’s illegal warrantless wiretapping programming. The building of the massive NSA data center in Utah to permanently store copies of all digital communication sent around the world. The UK government’s “Communications Data Bill” to monitor emails, instant messages an ...
  • Donald Rumsfeld Returns to Georgia
    The War-Tested & Conflict-Ready Pentagon-NATO Surrogate Army in Georgia By Rick Rozoff Only reported in English on the website of the Georgian Ministry of Defense, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld visited Georgia for a week in late June. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, NATO’s ...
  • We are Almost Back
    We were one of the unfortunate 1.5 million hit by the violent storms and still do not have our broadband service – but expect that to be corrected by tomorrow. Thank you for patience.
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – “Ohio” (1970) Kent State University Neil Young wrote and composed “Ohio” after seeing a picture of the Kent State University shootings of May 4, 1970. He performed it with his band mates David Crosby, Steven Stills and Graham Youn ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

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    Petrobras signed contracts today with Sete Brasil, Queiroz Galvão, Petroserv, Odebrecht, Odfjell and Seadrill for the chartering and operation of 12 floating drilling platforms to be built at Brazilian shipyards, [...]
  • Crowley Liner Services Offers Statement in Col ...
    An agreement was filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in which Crowley Liner Services, Inc. (CLSI) agreed to plead guilty to violating the Sherman Antitrust [...]
  • Ship Photo of The Day – Aiviq Waiting Anxiousl ...
    Today’s ship photo is of Shell’s $200 million AHTS, Aiviq, sitting in Dutch Harbor just waiting to go ‘do-what-it-do’ in the Chukchi Sea.  The photo was taken on July 30th, and [...]
  • Transocean Suspension “Unjustified”
    SAO PAULO–The head of Brazil’s national petroleum agency, ANP, said Thursday a court order for Transocean Ltd. (RIG) to suspend operations in the country wasn’t justified. Magda Chambriard, head of [...]
  • Inmarsat Gets A Boost
    (Bloomberg) — Inmarsat Plc jumped the most in more than three years after the biggest provider of satellite services to the maritime industry posted second-quarter earnings that beat analyst estimates [...]

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Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Thinking cap makes impossible problem soluble
    A small dose of electrical current passed across their heads enabled a group of volunteers to immediately solve a puzzle they had previously found to be impossible. This surprising result is the work...
  • Eyes vote no to space travel
    Head scans of astronauts have shown signs of raised intracranial pressure affecting their eyes and pituitary glands, new research has revealed. Writing in the journal Radiology, University of Texas ...
  • Happiness is in your Right Hand
    How you type a word could change the way you emotionally respond to it, and words typed with mainly the right hand seem to make people happier. In fact, the layout of letters on a keyboard may e...
  • Gut Bugs Promote Blood Vessel Growth
    The bacteria that live in your intestines change the way that blood vessels form inside your gut. New research, published in the journal Nature, identifies how this happens and offers potential ...
  • Corals that can clone
    Mass mating spawnings aren't the only means of coral reproduction: these reef-building organisms have a clever way of cloning themselves too, Australian scientists have shown. Writing in Science, A...

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