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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.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

7 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

To Do

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US Military's Big Plan For Renewable Energy Projects
Forbes
The U.S. Department of Defense plans to open up 16 million acres of its land for renewable energy development, which it hopes will create a boom of solar, wind and geothermal projects and provide clean power to military bases, the department announced ...
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US to offer $2B in renewable energy loans to South Africa, boon for ...
Washington Post
JOHANNESBURG — The U.S. will offer South Africa up to $2 billion in loans to fund renewable energy ventures involving American companies, a top official said Monday, a potential boon for both the electricity-hungry nation and U.S. business interests.
Green Energy Renewable Solutions Forms Joint Venture In Puerto Rico
RenewablesBiz
Green Energy Renewable Solutions, Inc. (OTCBB: EWRL), a developer and operator of municipal solid waste processing and recycling facilities announced today that it has entered into a Letter of Intent to form a joint venture with Landfill Solutions, LLC ...
Branstad defends renewable energy
Quad City Times
DES MOINES — Gov. Terry Branstad expressed concern Monday that uninformed or misinformed decisions could be made at the federal level that will negatively affect renewable fuels at a time when America is making gains in reducing its dependency on ...
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Holy bat detector! Ecologists develop first Europe-wide bat ID tool
Phys.Org
Working with an international team of ecologists, lead author and PhD student Charlotte Walters from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) selected 1350 calls of 34 different European bat species from EchoBank, a global echolocation library of more ...
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Tale of two scientific fields -- ecology and phylogenetics -- offers new views ...
Phys.Org
Melding information from ecology and phylogenetics allows scientists to understand why plants and animals are distributed in certain patterns across landscapes, how these species adapt to changing environments across evolutionary time--and where their ...
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Ecological Society of America annual meeting draws more than 30 IU scientists ...
Indiana University
More than 30 Indiana University faculty members and graduate students will present research this week during the 97th annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. The meeting, themed "Life on Earth: Preserving, Utilizing, and Sustaining our ...
Solar panels could conflict with urban trees, says expert at Portland ecology ...
OregonLive.com
Solar energy, despite its popularity as an environmentally friendly resource, could cost urban areas another renewable resource: trees. At the Ecological Society of America's annual meeting in Portland today, Dan Staley explained the potential conflict ...
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Water Power

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'Like a water world': Torrential rains submerge half of Philippine capital ...
Washington Post
MANILA, Philippines — Relentless rains submerged half of the sprawling Philippine capital, triggered a landslide that killed nine people and sent emergency crews scrambling Tuesday to rescue tens of thousands of residents who called media outlets ...
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Camp Lejeune Water Bill Signed By President Obama
Huffington Post
RALEIGH, N.C. -- President Barack Obama signed a bill Monday promising health benefits for Marines and families who were exposed to contaminated water at a North Carolina Marine base for decades. "I think all Americans feel we have a moral, sacred ...
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Water polo: Mighty Hungary resurfaces in bid for gold
Chicago Tribune
LONDON (Reuters) - Water polo heavyweights Hungary hammered the United States 11-6 on Monday to end the group stage on a high and show their rivals they will not relinquish their Olympic title without a fight. Hungary, the most successful country in ...
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Film about Lejeune water to be shown in Raleigh
Sacramento Bee
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The award-winning documentary about the toxic drinking water at Camp Lejeune is getting a showing in Raleigh that includes a tribute to the man who led the fight to disclose information about the contamination. "Semper Fi: Always ...
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Scoop - NZ

  • Aleppo as the new Benghazi
    Let's get real. The Syrian conflict is a war, not a French-knitting circle - so it's absurd to claim that any help for the rebels somehow is ''non-lethal'' and, by implication, that the donor country is not a participant in the war. The tens of millions of dollars worth of ''non-lethal'' aid ...
  • Aleppo rebels wait anxiously for Syrian attack
    The battle for Salahedin has now settled into a violent rhythm. Rebel snipers perched behind sand berms shoot down streets towards regime positions around 200 metres away. Cars that still have petrol in their tanks – there aren't many – are used to drive behind the berms and tempt the snipers to ...
  • Woz: The Cloud is a Nightmare !
    Speaking after a performance of Mike Daisey's one-man Steve Jobs show, Steve Wozniak says he foresees nightmares caused by data stored in remote servers.
  • Meyssan : Contras, from Damascus to Aleppo
    The FSA managed to seize control of two areas of the city and a large public park. In the process, it stormed several police stations, slaying all the officers. The majority of the population living in the affected districts has taken refuge in the sectors of the city controlled by loyalists. ...
  • Telecom jackpot: How privatisation made fortunes
    For Alan Gibbs and friends, the 1990 Telecom privatisation was the deal of a lifetime. A new book* out today tells how fortunes were made.

Independent - London

  • Shares in Standard Chartered dive after Iran a ...
    Shares in Standard Chartered PLC dropped sharply today as investors reacted to US charges that the bank was involved in laundering money for Iran.
  • Mars rover Curiosity transmits low-resolution ...
    Nasa's Curiosity rover has transmitted a low-resolution video showing the last 150 seconds of its dive through the Mars atmosphere, giving Earthlings a sneak peek of a spacecraft landing on another world.Related StoriesSeven killed in Sikh temple mass shootingWisconsin Sikh Temple gunman Wade P ...
  • 19 killed in attack on Christian church in Nigeria
    Gunmen have shot dead at least 19 people in a Christian church in central Nigeria, according to an army official. Related StoriesMalians take up arms to drive out al-Qa'idaAiling Mandela is all smiles for ClintonVenezuelan diplomat faces murder chargeEgypt vows to hunt down gunmen in deadly bord ...
  • Three-year-old Malaysian girl killed in suspec ...
    A three-year-old girl was killed in a suspected exorcism ritual by family members who believed she was possessed by evil spirits, Malaysian police said today. Related StoriesPolice force naked couple to make 'walk of shame'The women who clear bombsKhmer Rouge mass grave discoveredSafe sex? Indon ...
  • Safe sex? Indonesia would rather its sex worke ...
    Her name may or may not be Rizki. In any case, it’s what the 29 year old with long sleek black hair calls herself for work. In her T shirt with a cartoon character on the front, cropped jeans and sensible sandals she looks as if she could be on her way to a job in one of the factories in Bekasi ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Harry Reid Stands by Claims that Mitt Romney D ...
    Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) has continued his attack on Mitt Romney, claiming the Republican presidential candidate did not pay taxes for a 10-year period. Sen. Reid claims the info came from an anonymous source at Bain Capital, Romney's former company. In response, the chairman of the Republican Na ...
  • Woops! Study Accidentally Finds Chemotherapy M ...
    A team of researchers looking into why cancer cells are so resilient accidentally stumbled upon a far more important discovery. While conducting their research, the team discovered that chemotherapy actually heavily damages healthy cells and subsequently triggers them to release a protein that s ...
  • Is There a Numerology Serial Killer in Brooklyn?
    Brooklyn shopkeepers are on alert after cops linked two storeowners' murders to the same gun and suggested the killer might be using numerology to choose his targets. Isaac Kadare's store at 1877 86th St., where he was killed last Thursday, and Mohammed Gebeli's shop at 7718 Fifth Ave., where h ...
  • Trail Cam From Alberta Snaps Surprisingly Clea ...
    We love anomalous trail cam photos. Whether they're clearly fake images of the Chupacabra, widely circulated viral marketing for a film, or just a bear with mange, there's something eerie about a lonely camera snapping grainy photos of anything that wanders by. Well, we've got a brand spanking n ...
  • A New Greek Name for Statin Poisoning: Polymya ...
    New Research: Statins Increase Risk of Polymalgia Rheumatica 14-Fold Few drugs are as toxic to the organ they are prescribed to "treat" as statins. There are already hundreds of studies indicating that statin drugs are muscle-damaging (myotoxic) and nerve-damaging (neurotoxic), and yet they are ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Better and better . . .
    THE OGALLALA AQUIFER might be the show-stopper for Keystone XL, according to the Washington Post's article "Keystone XL pipeline may threaten aquifer that irrigates much of the central U.S.", part of their series, "Keystone:Down the Line". There seems to be a clear and present danger, according ...
  • Testing the future . . .
    WE USED TO HAVE 23 skidoo; now, we have 23andMe. According to Susan Young at MIT's Technology Review, "Personal Genetics Company Seeks Regulatory Approval",  23andMe, in which Google has invested $6.5 million, offers a genome analysis test directly to consumers, who can use the produc ...
  • Stevie and his gargoyles . . .
    THE HARPER GOVERNMENT.
  • Things are getting tougher . . .
    EVEN PLANTS ARE GETTING TOUGHER these days, thanks to Monsanto and others in the genetic modification business, and this is causing problems for farmers who grow the mutants. According to Chris Taylor at AUTOBLOG, "GMO crops so tough that farmers are turning to Kevlar tractor tires". ...
  • Brave Sir Stephen
    For some reason, this reminded me of this: 

Media Matters for America

  • Fox Muddles The Truth About Romney's T ...
    Fox News is trying to cover up the fact that Mitt Romney's tax plan would disproportionately benefit the rich and harm the middle class, as the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center has concluded. The Center found that Romney's plan would "provide large tax cuts to high-income households, and increase ...
  • How Right-Wing Media Have Distorted Ohio's Ear ...
    Right-wing media have distorted efforts by President Obama's re-election campaign to restore early voting for all Ohio voters, claiming the campaign is suing to restrict voting for members of the military. In fact, the Obama campaign's lawsuit seeks to restore early voting for all Ohioans, incl ...
  • Fox Still Cherry-Picking Data To Push Voter ID ...
    Fox News continued to promote voter ID laws by hyping a report from the conservative group National Center for Public Policy Research. But Fox has continued to ignore the massive and growing body of evidence that voter ID laws disenfranchise eligible voters while addressing a largely non-existe ...
  • The Wall Street Journal: Dismissing E ...
    To forestall policy on climate change, the Wall Street Journal editorial board routinely downplays scientific consensus, overstates the cost of taking action, and claims that politics, not science, motivate those concerned about the climate. But an analysis of more than 100 editorials from ...
  • FRISKING THE TRUTH: New York Post Hus ...
    Over the past few months, the New York Post editorial page has defended the New York Police Department's controversial stop-and-frisk policy with myths and imbalanced coverage.What Is Stop-And-Frisk? New York Times: "Stop And Frisk" Is A Police Strategy To "Reduce Crime ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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Public Citizen in Texas

  • A Tale of Two Nuclear Disasters
    As Japan commemorates the anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bomb attack, Japanese officials are developing new energy policies that will guard the safety and the livelihood of the Japanese public in the wake of the devastating Fukushima nuclear accident. Sixty seven years ago today, on Aug. 6, ...
  • ERCOT prepares for first summer heat wave of 2012
    With the passing of the Summer solstice and temperatures expected to hit triple digits several days next week in the Lone Star State, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the electric grid operator for most of the state, is looking closely at anticipated electric use and available ...
  • NOAA Report – Global warming has made 2011 Tex ...
    According to a story on MSNBC, scientists can’t blame any single weather event on global warming, but they now believe they can assess how climate change has altered the odds of such events happening,   Click here to read the AP story, Global warming tied to risk of weather extremes.  Clic ...
  • We are now in energy emergency season as a hea ...
    The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT), system operator for the state’s bulk transmission grid, is asking consumers and businesses to reduce their electricity use during peak electricity hours from 3 to 7 p.m. today. Consumers can help by shutting off unnecessary lights and elec ...
  • KEFFER LISTENS INTENTLY TO TAR SANDS CONCERNS: ...
    The following story on testimony provided to the Texas House Energy Resources Committee about the threat the proposed Tar Sands pipeline poses for the state was reprinted with the permission of the Texas Energy Report. House Energy Resources Committee Chairman Jim Keffer on Tuesday promised envi ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Curiosity rover successfully lands on Mars
    NASA rejoiced this morning as the one-ton Mars Science Laboratory touched down on the Red Planet. The team behind the mission waited with baited breat...
  • Solar storms warning puts world on alert
    A peak in the Sun's 10-year activity cycle could put the Earth at risk from disruptive solar storms. Power grids, satellites and communications system...
  • Is there a Super Volcano in Italy ?
    Scientists are planning to drill down near Naples to determine if a huge magma chamber exists there. Volcanologists suspect that Italy could be the si...
  • Curiosity on final approach to Mars
    NASA's Curiosity rover is feeling the tug of Mars' gravity as it prepares to land on the Red Planet. The car-sized rover is on track to touch down on ...
  • Australia releases UFO files
    Details of UFO reports and investigations in Australia have been made available at the National Archives. Of particular interest in the documents were...

Grassroots

Climate

  • UK: Prize Fund for Carbon Capture Projects Shr ...
    (Guardian) The future of carbon capture and storage in Europe has been thrown into doubt after £800m was wiped off the value of a prize fund for developing the technology. The NER300 fund was supposed to encourage firms across the con ...
  • Canada Needs Energy Diversity: Federal Documents
    (Postmedia News) A dependence on fossil fuel resources is making the country vulnerable to a planetary "mega trend" toward low-carbon energy that "will affect the whole of Canada's economy," Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver was to ...
  • India's Drought Punishes Farmers, Highlights C ...
    (E&E Daily, sub req'd) India is in the midst of its second drought in four years, with rainfall roughly 20 percent below average nationwide. In the nation's agricultural areas of the west and north -- the states of Rajasthan, ...
  • Ethanol Groups Form Coalition to Save Federal ...
    (The Hill) Eight biofuels groups are forming a coalition to coordinate messaging to combat calls to limit a federal mandate for renewable fuels because of the drought.  The groups said the drought has raised the profile of the re ...
  • Anti-Coal Initiative Not on Washington Ballot
    (AP) An initiative that would have blocked the transport of coal through Bellingham will not be on the November ballot in Whatcom County. Whatcom County Superior Court Judge Charles Snyder on Friday granted the city of Bellingham an i ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • The Disgraceful Richard Cohen
    The sins of Richard Cohen have been well-documented. I don't think I need to recount them all here. All that is important is that you realize that Cohen is one of the rare 'liberals' who applauded when Poppy Bush used the last Christmas Eve of his time in office to pardon anyone who got in tro ...
  • James Hansen Goes All In
    James Hansen and his colleagues have published a study of heat waves that have occurred around the world since 2003. He claims that it will prove that man-made climate change is no longer a "theory" it is a "scientific fact." Read the following quote for his view regarding the extreme heat wav ...
  • On Aaron Blake's Wankery
    Jay Rosen's latest piece has my broad sympathy. I have made the same observations many times. In particular, I think Rosen has set up a useful dichotomy (as opposed to the dichotomies routinely employed by David Brooks). We can divide political reporters into one group which "fights for what ...
  • First Signs of Trouble for GOP
    If 2012 is going to be a wave election (either way) we will begin to get some signs of it before too much longer. Both sides still have very large arrows in their respective quivers, so we can't assume that small signs today won't be reversed or overwhelmed by future events. Still, we are reac ...
  • Sabotaging the Economy
    If any of your friends or family think the Republicans' obstinate and irrational ways are not screwing up the economy, they should consider this. Morgan Stanley surveyed businesses in July and found that 40% of them are slowing their hiring and investments because of the uncertainty created by ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Plight of the Reindeer Herders of Mongolia ...
    For millennia, the Dukha of Mongolia's taiga region have herded reindeer in harmony with their environment. Now that way of life is under threat. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Mysteries and Wonders of REM Sleep
    Some of the greatest mysteries in life are found not in the exploration of ocean depths or ventures into outer space, but in something much more daily and routine: sleep. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • How Green Homes Can Benefit You and the Enviro ...
    Green homes benefit both the homeowner and the environment. They don't have to cost much more, and any additional costs have been proven to get paid back tenfold. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Big Wave Surfer Rides 50ft Giants
    Being a big wave rider is certainly not for the faint-hearted, as these photographs of surfer Jeff Rowley prove. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Vintage Nursing Recruitment Posters
    Sometimes sexist, always patriotic, these 10 Awesome Vintage Nursing Recruitment Posters from the wartime era make fascinating viewing and reading. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Security culture danger as closed Occupy Homes ...
    Troublesome assumptions about security culture arrangements for closed Occupy Homes national gathering sessions starting tomorrow at the Neighbors Organizing for Change MN (NOC Office) around noon put participants at risk. I feel everyone involved means well, but a bunch of particularly 'toxic' ...
  • Plans for closed door Occupy Homes national me ...
    Many Twin Cities activists working with the Occupy Homes MN group were surprised to hear that a national gathering committee, with two representatives from their group, had decided to restrict open access to most (but not all) of the sessions of that national gathering, scheduled around August 7 ...
  • #FreeHammond - 23 July 2012 statement from acc ...
    Worth throwing up there as an example of how to keep perspective when they try to throw the book at you. Things like this crystallize the hypocrisy of conspiracy charges, cyber-fear-blather, terrorism and of course the laundering of drug money through the banking system. Till the walls tumble, J ...
  • The Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies - for ...
    Reposting this as it's a much more handy summary than I could give. Neato! I think we're seeing this get more and more privatized as well -- I have a couple flagrant sockpuppets I know and love, they are like a handy little COINTELPRO weathervane. When talking Information Operations (not to ment ...
  • Crib notes & URLs for today's discussion on Al ...
    All right I gotta be a bit raw in the formatting here... Just had a good talk for an hour with Alex Jones on the afternoon radio show. Also some good news, Zuccotti Park is reoccupied today - see http://globalrevolution.tv for live feed mixes! //// UPDATE 8PM: I forgot COINTELPRO GOTHIC 1 & ...

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • Standard Chartered rejects Iran trade claims
    A woman walks past a Standard Chartered branch in Hong Kong. Standard Chartered has rejected allegations from US regulators that it hid $250 billion in transactions with Iranian banks for almost a decade in violation of US sanctions.Standard Chartered Bank on Tuesday rejected allegations from ...
  • 250,000 flee as floods paralyse Philippine capital
    Residents wade through a flooded street under heavy rain as they are evacuated from their homes in the village of Tumana, Marikina town, in suburban Manila on August 7, 2012. Torrential rains have brought the Philippines capital to a standstill, forcing aHalf of Manila was under water and 250, ...
  • Tropical Storm Ernesto heads for Honduras, Mexico
    This NASA GOES Project satellite image shows Tropical Storm Ernesto (bottom) in the Caribbean Sea on August 6. Tropical Storm Ernesto headed towards Honduras and Mexico's Yucatan peninsula early Tuesday, with US forecasters predicting it would reach hurriTropical Storm Ernesto headed towa ...
  • Long-dormant New Zealand volcano erupts
    State Highway 1 sits in a cloud of ash after the eruption of Mount Tongariro in the Tongariro National Park on August 7, 2012. The New Zealand volcano erupted unexpectedly late on August 6 after lying dormant for more than a century, spewing an ash plume A New Zealand volcano suddenly erupted ...
  • Israel returns bodies of Egypt attackers
    Israeli soldiers inspect a burnt out armoured vehicle near the Kerem Shalom border crossing. Israel has returned the bodies of six gunmen, involved in the killing of 16 Egyptian troops during a raid on both sides of the border, to its Arab neighbour, IsraIsrael has returned the bodies of six g ...

Institute for Policy Studies

  • The Lineup: Week August 6-12, 2012
    Jim Hightower describes Wall Street's latest efforts to extract the earnings of college grads.
  • Letters to the Editor: Readers Respond to Kaul ...
    Readers from Wisconsin, Georgia, Florida, Illinois, California, Maine, Michigan, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Washington state, Arizona, Missouri --and of course Iowa--urge Don to write again when he recovers.
  • Washington's Democratic Double-Standard
    Uncle Sam isn't making much fuss over Latin America's law-breaking lawmakers.
  • Violence Defines American Culture
    When James Holmes mowed down twelve people and wounded almost sixty at a movie theater in Colorado, aggression penetrated my pores, inundated my brain and covered the cells of my heart.
  • Playing the Pundit
    Many entertainment figures, like George Clooney, have entered the world of punditry. But what happens when a pundit goes the other way?

IntelNews

  • Comment: Are US Authorities Ignoring Far-Right ...
    last Sunday’s mass shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, which left seven people dead and three injured, including a police officer, poses a long-overdue opportunity for reflection. The attacker has been identified as Wade Michael Page, was a committed neo-Nazi, who had an active ro ...
  • News you may have missed #773
    Conflicting reports on CIA-ISI meeting in Washington. Senior Mossad official suspected of financial misconduct. Ex-NSA official disputes DefCon claims by NSA chief.
  • Israeli intelligence insiders warn of ‘imminen ...
    If Iranian government officials had a uranium centrifuge for each time a warning is issued of an impending military attack on Tehran, they would undoubtedly have a nuclear weapon by now. Warnings about such an attack are now ‘a-dime-a-dozen’. Yet it is admittedly difficult to ignore the increasi ...
  • News you may have missed #772
    India restricts agency-to-agency contacts with CIA. Canadian spy revealed classified information in “massive leak”. Germany had advance warning of 1972 Olympics massacre.
  • Obama authorizes CIA to conduct ‘non-lethal co ...
    United States President Barack Obama has officially authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to assist anti-government rebels in Syria, according to a new report by the Reuters news agency.

War is a Crime.org

  • Slow Democracy
    Susan Clark and Woden Teachout's new book, "Slow Democracy," offers the civil equivalent to slow food. The goal of both is not slowness for its own sake, but quality, health, sustainability, and the pursuit of happiness. We all know that the federal government ignores us most of the time, state ...
  • KPFT's The Monitor Takes on Violence
    Listen here. The theme of this week’s show: Guns and Media RootsAction.org and Just Foreign Policy have launched a campaign targeting NBC’s new program, “Stars Earn Stripes,” a reality show co-hosted by retired U.S. General Wesley Clark and co-starring Todd Palin, which the network is adverti ...
  • Syria News - Aug 6
    Syrian prime minister defects from Syria regime - globalpost.com Bomb blast rocks Syrian TV station, three people reported injured - RT Syrian rebels: Three Iran hostages killed in shelling by government troops - Now Lebanon Saudi King Invites Iran's Ahmadinejad to Discuss Syria - RIA Novosti -- ...
  • Rape survivor assaulted by TSA
    At a travel chat forum called FlyerTalk, a member named “brennandunn” has posted a thread detailing his and his wife’s experience at the hands of the TSA in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  READ THE REST HERE.
  • When the Military Had Less Money It Produced M ...
    Never mind these facts, we must spend more more MORE on the military or we'll all die of something other than the military!

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • The Wonderland of the Subconscious
    By Visible The resonance here is no mystery to me. We’re all the same person, underneath the patina of the personality. Oh sure, we are as individual as a snowflake but there is a pervasive commonality and it accounts for why certain thoughts will have a wide ranging impact on diverse bein ...
  • BREAKING: 4 man team carried out Sikh massacre ...
    by Jacque Fresco UPDATE: A separate source has corroborated the other eyewitness claim – a family member whose parents were victims of the shooting said his parents told him there were “multiple shooters” involved in a “coordinated” attack. An eyewitness to the Sikh temple shooting in Wisconsin ...
  • Iran Bank Fraud Scandal: 4 Sentenced To Death
    An Iranian court has sentenced four people to death for a billion-dollar bankfraud that tainted the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, state media reported on Monday. Iranians, hit by sanctions and soaring inflation, were shocked by the scale of the $2.6 billion bank loan embezzlement ...
  • Landlord Charged for Front Yard Garden – ...
    Heather Callaghan Activist Post Stay-at-home dad Karl Tricamo was another unsuspecting gardener just going about his favorite hobby and following the rules. He loves to garden with his 55 heirlooms and dislikes GMOs and pesticides. But, like so many others now, he was pushed around and literally ...
  • Pinup Girl and Heart-Throb Boy Continued
    By Visible I recognize that most people don’t feel the way I do about unconditional love, nor do most people pursue it with the same enthusiasm. For me, though, possessing something or seeking to possess it, means exercising it and practicing it. It has no value otherwise. People like to t ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Two-Year-Old Gains Use of Her Arms Thanks to 3 ...
    Two-year-old Emma LaVelle wanted to play with the other children, but a congenital disorder prevented her from using her arms. Now, with the help of 3D printing, Emma  can lift toys and draw pictures with her friends. Stratasys, a pioneer in Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) and 3D printing, has w ...
  • NASA’s James Hansen: Data Proves Global Warmin ...
    James E. Hansen, head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, declared Aug. 3 that a new study by him and colleagues Makiko Sato and Reto Ruedy proves global warming is causing the extreme weather dominating the news in recent years. The study was published today online in the Proceedin ...
  • Is DEFRA Not Doing Enough to Battle Bee-Killin ...
    It has long been theorized that the use of certain pesticides has contributed to the declining bee population around the world. In order to counter and further prevent the detrimental effect to the UK’s ecosystems, The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) have issued ...
  • Rocking Horse Redevelopment Turns a Foreclosur ...
    Read the rest of Rocking Horse Redevelopment Turns a Foreclosure Into an Award-Winning Energy Efficient G Home In Phoenix Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: G Home, G Street, Green Remodel of the Year, NAHB, phoenix, remodel, Rocking Horse Redevelopment
  • AreaFiftyOne Skate Park In Eindhoven’s Old Phi ...
    Read the rest of AreaFiftyOne Skate Park In Eindhoven’s Old Phillips Factory is One of Europe’s Largest Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Architecture, AreaFiftyOne, Droog Design, Eindhoven, green lighting, green renovation, green transportation, Phillips, re ...

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PakAlert

  • Obama’s October Surprise: Bombing Iran
    A devastating strike would create an upsurge of patriotism in America and fully neutralize Mitt Romney's contention that Obama is a foreign-policy wimp. It could allow Obama to sweep to victory in November
  • Do these government records tell of Obama’s fa ...
    Recently, Tennessee state Rep. Kelly Keisling (R-Byrdstown) sent out an email from his state email account to his constituents with a concern that Obama and the Department of Homeland Security are planning events leading to “martial law”. Theories are only theories until facts allow them to b ...
  • GMOs cause animals to lose their ability to re ...
    A study presented at the Days of Defense Against Environmental Hazards in Russia has unveiled once again the implicit dangers associated with the consumption of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs). According to Voice of Russia, scientists from the National Association for Gene Security and the ...
  • Completely Surrounded By Psychopaths And Socio ...
    Do you remember when America was a place where you could attend a public gathering without having to worry if a sociopath was going to set off a bomb or start wildly shooting people? Do you remember when America was a place where you could walk down the street without having to worry that a vic ...
  • Crazy Details About The Bank That’s Been Accus ...
    U.K. investment bank Standard Chartered could be suspended from operating in New York after state finance regulators found hundreds of billions of dollars worth of transactions with Iran. "Motivated by greed, SCB acted for at least ten years without any regard for the legal, reputational, and ...

Andy Worthington

  • Union Jack Summer: Photos of the Queen’s ...
    Union Jack Summer: The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics, a set on Flickr. I have no great love for either the Royal Family or the Olympics, and on this latter point, my articles should make clear where I stand — Our Olympic Hell: A Militarised, Corporate, Jingoistic Disgrace, ...
  • Ten Years of Torture: Marking the 10th Anniver ...
    Exactly ten years ago, on August 1, 2002, Jay S. Bybee, who, at the time, was the Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, signed two memos (see here and here) that will forever be known as the “torture memos.” Also known as the Bybee memo ...
  • The Wealth of Empire: Photos of the City of Lo ...
    The Wealth of Empire: The City of London in the Rain, a set on Flickr. To describe these photos of the City of London, I used the word “empire” in the title because I believe that, in many fundamental ways, it is apt, although I realise that the British Empire is not, of course, the ...
  • The Dark Side of the Olympics: Kettling Cyclis ...
    I was at WOMAD last Friday when the £27 million Olympics Opening Ceremony took place, but a screen had been set up especially for the occasion, and I managed to catch everything from the 800 nurses celebrating the NHS, through the tour of Britain’s modern musical history, to the start of t ...
  • Big Skies and Global Beats: Photos from WOMAD’ ...
    Big Skies and Global Beats: WOMAD’s 30th Anniversary Festival (2/2), a set on Flickr. Yesterday I published my first set of photos from this year’s WOMAD world music festival in Charlton Park, Wiltshire, celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. The product of a great flowering of intere ...

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drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Bulletin: Alleged Sikh Temple Shooter Member o ...
    The man who allegedly murdered six people at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee yesterday, identified in media reports as Wade Michael Page, is a former member of a racist skinhead band. The Southern Poverty Law Center has evidence that Page in 2010 was the leader of a skinhead band based in Fa ...
  • Racist Decapitation Murder Shakes Small North ...
    The small North Dakota town of Cooperstown has been forever changed by its first murder in 80 years – a brutal decapitation-killing carried out by a racist, a state’s attorney says. “There are doors locked now that weren’t locked before, said Marina Spahr, the assistant state’s attorney for Grig ...
  • Men’s Rights Activists Disdain Men’s Sacrifice ...
    For most Americans, the recent mass murder in Aurora, Colo., was an unspeakable human tragedy; if the story had any political dimension at all, it was guns and gun control (or the lack thereof). But for a vocal few in the misogynistic online world of “men’s rights” — and no, not all men’s rights ...
  • Anti-Muslim Activists to Gather in Stockholm T ...
    Pamela Geller, American Islamophobia’s shrillest voice, is planning yet another demonstration of anti-Muslim hate – this time, in Europe. According to her blog, Atlas Shrugs, “the world’s leading freedom action organizations” (read: anti-Muslim hate groups) will rally in Stockholm, Sweden, tomor ...
  • Lions and Tigers and Fonts, Oh My! Proving the ...
    In the smoke-and-mirrors world of the deranged political right, there are plenty of reasons to conclude that President Obama is a “communist.” His father wrote about socialism. His mother was white and only Marxists slept with black men in her era — plus, she met Obama’s father in a Russian lang ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Japan Honors Anniversary of Hiroshima as Thous ...
    People release paper lanterns on the Motoyasu river facing the gutted Atomic Bomb Dome in remembrance of atomic bomb victims on the 67th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima (Photo:Reuters/Kyodo)Tens of thousands gathered in the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Monday to mark t ...
  • Sikh Temple Shooter Identified: US Veteran Wad ...
  • Chaos and Carnage: Gunman, Six Others Dead at ...
    At least seven people, including a gunman shot by a police officer, have been killed in an attack on worshippers at a Sikh temple in the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, police have said. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: ...
  • One Billion Already Hungry as Deeper Food Cris ...
    Despite growing enough food to feed to entire world, almost a billion people are now hungry – one in seven of the global population – and, according to Oxfam International, conditions are getting worse and the number of acutely malnourished children has risen for the first time this ...
  • Despite Promises, Colombia FTA Does Little to ...
    According to activists, 34 Colombian trade unionists have been killed since the LAP was implemented, including 11 this year alone. (Image AFL-CIO)Despite repeated assurances from both the US and Colombian governments, labor leaders say that two months after the implementation of a bi-lateral tra ...

Lifehacker

  • The CustoMac 2012 Buyer's Guide Offers Hackint ...
    If you've been waiting to build an Ivy Bridge-based hackintosh with OS X Mountain Lion but didn't know what hardware to get, wait no longer. Tonymacx86's custom builds for 2012 are now available, including a powerful budget build for as littl ...
  • How Do I Handle a Coworker Who Slacks Off? [As ...
    Dear Lifehacker, More »
  • Customize OS X Mountain Lion's Notification Ce ...
    Notification Center is one of the best parts of OS X Mountain Lion, but the classic linen background is a bit bland. If you want to add your own image, Cult of Mac shows off a pretty easy way to spice up your Notification Center. More&nbs ...
  • Delete Everything and Rewrite Your To-Do List ...
    It's easy to let a to-do list get out of hand. If you're having a little trouble getting everything in order for the week, productivity blog Day-Timer suggests you delete it all and rewrite your to-do list to get a handle on things. More&n ...
  • BrowseInApp Adds a Small Browser to Any iPhone ...
    iOS (Jailbroken): Some apps have a handy built-in browser that allows you to quickly load up links, but others, like Mail, or Messages, don't. To open a link you have to switch over to Safari. BrowseInApp is a jailbreak tweak that adds a small ...

Water Privatization

  • City to submit position paper on privatization
    ZAMBOANGA City Mayor Celso Lobregat has expressed reservations on some provisions of the bill that seeks to privatize water districts in the country, as he said that the City Government is currently preparing its position for submission to the bill’s sponsor. Lobregat said on Thursday that the C ...
  • American States Water Company Announces Earnin ...
    American States Water Company today reported net income from continuing operations of $15.1 million, or $0.79 per basic and fully diluted share for the quarter ended June 30, 2012, as compared to net income from continuing operations of $12.7 million, or $0.68 per basic and fully diluted share f ...
  • Anti-privatization suit dismissed
    DETROIT A freakish car crash Friday evening on Belle Isle -- in which a vehicle flipped, caught fire and pinned the driver inside -- tied up traffic on the island park while firefighters extricated a 67-year-old man from his burning vehicle, Detroit police said.
  • Water Authority Outlines Future Plans to Tackl ...
    JEDDAH, 8 October 2006 — Desalination, which currently supplies 60 percent of the Kingdom’s water, is Saudi Arabia’s strategic option, according to Fehaid Al-Sharief, governor of Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC).
  • Allentown water privatization draws concerns a ...
    Thursday marked the first public hearing for Allentown's proposal to privatize its water and sewer plants in order to make up for pension shortfalls.

Guardian

  • Woman tortured during burglary tells of waterb ...
    Francoise Jansen, 73, suffered multiple injuries during robbery at Surrey home in which raiders doused her with boiling waterA woman who was tortured inside her own home by a pair of masked burglars has described the terrifying ordeal as "sheer hell".Francoise Jansen, 73, said she thought she wa ...
  • Syria crisis: Iranian hostages, Aleppo battle, ...
    Follow live updates as Tehran says the US is responsible for fate of Iranian hostages held by rebels and the fight for the control of Aleppo continuesMatthew WeaverBrian Whitaker
  • Standard Chartered shares slump amid Iran alle ...
    UK-based bank denies US claims it illegally moved $250bn of Iranian money around financial system, but investors take flightMore than £6bn has been wiped from the stock market value of Standard Chartered bank, as its shares crashed following US allegations that the bank had illegally moved $250b ...
  • Eurozone crisis live: Italian recession continues
    There's optimism in the City that European leaders are inching towards a solution, as new data shows the Italian economy shrank by 0.7% in the second quarter of 2012Graeme Wearden
  • London 2012 Olympics: day 11 – live blog
    • Immerse yourself in our second screen experience • Today's events at the 30th Olympiad • Medal table so far • Contact me at paul.owen@guardian.co.uk or @paultowenPaul Owen

McClatchey

  • Temple gunman Wade Michael Page had ties to mi ...
    The man police say walked into a Sikh temple in Wisconsin on Sunday morning and shot members of the congregation was a former Fort Bragg soldier with two good conduct…Click to Continue »
  • LeBron takes charge in second half, helps Team ...
    For the second game in a row, Miami Heat star Lebron James came through when it mattered most and sparked a rally to help Team USA beat Argentina 126-97 and…Click to Continue »
  • Assad’s inner circle seen as intact despi ...
    Syrian President Bashar Assads administration struck a defiant tone Monday, renewing its counterattack on rebel forces in the countrys largest cities and vowing to stay in place, despite the defection…Click to Continue »
  • Obama signs law giving health care to Lejeune ...
    President Barack Obama signed into law on Monday legislation to provide health care to thousands of sick Marine veterans and their families who were exposed to contaminated water at Camp…Click to Continue »
  • 11 Afghan police defect to Taliban in Helmand ...
    Eleven U.S.-trained Afghan police officers defected to the Taliban on Monday in southern Helmand province, the spokesman for the province?s governor told McClatchy.Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Soldiers wounded in Afghanistan
    Two Australian soldiers were wounded in a bomb blast in Afghanistan last week. Defence said on Tuesday the soldiers were supporting Afghan National Security Force operations in Uruzgan province when ...
  • Australian soldiers wounded in Afghanistan
    Afghanistan Two Australian soldiers have been wounded by a bomb blast in Afghanistan's Uruzgan province.The soldiers, from the 3RAR task group, were supporting Afghan soldiers in the region ...
  • Civilians killed by Afghan bus bomb
    A militant has detonated a remote-control bomb, killing at least eight Afghan civilians travelling in a bus just north west of the Afghan capital, police said.The bomb was placed under a bridge and ...
  • Two Diggers wounded in Afghan bomb blast
    Defence said today the soldiers were supporting Afghan National Security Force operations in Uruzgan province when an improvised explosive device blew up.They received minor wounds and were taken to ...
  • Two Aust soldiers wounded in Afghanistan
    Two Australian soldiers were wounded in a bomb blast in Afghanistan last week. Defence said on Tuesday the soldiers were supporting Afghan National Security Force operations in Uruzgan province when ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • This Week on Honesty Without Fear
    Tune in tomorrow at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. Richard Renner interviews Professor Richard Moberly of the University of Nebraska College of Law about his recent law review article, "Sarbanes-Oxley's Whistleblower Provisions - Ten Years Later." Pro ...
  • Tax Court calls for an answer from IRS whistle ...
    The United States Tax Court issued an order Tuesday that requires the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to respond by September 24, 2012, to an amicus brief filed by the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC). We reported here on July 11, 2012, about the NWC "friend of the court" brief in I ...
  • FRSA ALERT! Railroads Lose Power To Interfere ...
    We are pleased to repost, with permission, this blog entry by Charlie Goetsch from trainlawblog.com, announcing a favorable and precedent-setting decision by the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB). Congratulations to Charlie Goetsch for obtaining the outstanding result for h ...
  • Fourth Circuit says employees can copy data th ...
    Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (in Richmond, Virginia) ruled that employers cannot use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) to make claims against former employees who copied computer files before separating from employment.  This decision agrees with the Nin ...
  • NWC amicus urges Supreme Court to reverse in L ...
    Today, Stephen M. Kohn and I are filing a "friend of the court" brief urging the United States Supreme Court to accept review of, and reverse, the First Circuit's decision in Lawson v. FMR. I wrote here previously about the two-judge majority in the First Circuit had terribly misconstr ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Zach Anner Uses Reddit To Connect With Fans An ...
    As more and more artists and entertainers come to understand that the old gatekeepers of culture are finding themselves without any gates to keep, the opportunities continue to expand. Such is the story of Zach Anner, a comedian who briefly had a show on Oprah's OWN network. Anner was born w ...
  • Game Developers Concerned About A Potentially ...
    A couple of years ago, we highlighted a story that asked the question, "What if Microsoft Had To Approve Every App On Windows?" At the time, this was a purely hypothetical experiment to highlight some of the weaknesses inherent in a closed platform such as the iPhone. Little did we know at the t ...
  • Google's App Crackdown Results In Indie Develo ...
    Recently, we covered an example of the somewhat pervasive mentality that the Android app store is a haven for evil, evil piracy. Nevermind that the claim that Android is "built for piracy" is completely insane. Unfortunately, perception is real enough to cause Google to exert more strict control ...
  • DailyDirt: How Do You Solve A Problem Like... ...
    Getting a tenured professorship position has been the dream job of a multitude of highly-educated researchers, but as funding cuts have hit public universities, these careers aren't looking as attractive as they once did. The academic system may soon be looking at some significant changes if the ...
  • The Pending Kodak Patent Auction May Create We ...
    At the moment, the patent system is seriously malfunctioning. The high volume of low quality, poorly defined patents, particularly in the software and IT industries, is catalyzing the explosion in patent litigation. And lately, the problem has been getting much worse. In fact, the amount of liti ...

VacTruth

  • The Games Grown Men Play
    Why is government protecting Big Pharma and vaccine makers instead of innocent children?
  • To Hide in the Pig Sty
    The first thing that one has to ask is: Who, in the consuming community, complained about pig stink when cooking? There had to be a market pressure for industry to respond before a huge industry would respond with a costly intervention. That is where the illusion breaks down.
  • Your Child May Get This Deadly Allergy After B ...
    Millions of children worldwide are being injected with this allergen over and over again in connection with vaccination schedules, often starting with the Hepatitis B vaccine when babies are only a few hours old. Is it any wonder that this specific allergy affects millions and that the numbers a ...
  • Vaccines: What Your Doctors Know and Don’t Know
    Do you ever wonder what doctors know about the dozens of vaccines they inject into your children? The answer may surprise you.
  • Are There Chemical Markers in the Urine of Aut ...
    A chemist and his team have been working on finding molecular compounds in autistic children’s urine.

BroadSnark

  • Is the Media Liberal?
    A friend of mine just posted this nifty graphic showing how much more often the media quotes the GOP. But I’m not sure that it says much. If conservative is defined as wanting to live by religious doctrine or being anti-abortion, then the media is not particularly conservative. If conserva ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Occupy our Homes DC has a new petition up to try and save Deborah Harris’s house.  They are only a few signatures away from their goal, so if you would be so kind… I was watching this video of James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Sidney Poitier, and Joseph ...
  • Some Thoughts on the GA Prisoner Strike
    Sadly, most people don’t seem to be paying much attention to all the prisoner strikes that have been happening across the country. In Georgia, two prisoners went without food for more than 47 days. You really need to watch this video. One of the things that struck me about that interview w ...
  • Activism and the Unbearable Dissonance
    I’ve been thinking a lot about why more people don’t get involved in activism. Which means I have been thinking a lot about what compelled me to get involved. I’ve known that things were fucked up since I was a tween. I may have more data and a different analysis now, but the s ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Just back from LA this morning where I learned far too much about Aaron Sorkin’s proclivities. I also learned that you can get a tequila shot and a beer for $4. Both kinda gave me a headache, but the tequila shots were way more fun. Related to the above in ways that will make no [...]

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War in Context

  • Obama more sympathetic to Israelis killed in B ...
    Ali Abunimah writes: As soon as news came of a bomb attack that killed Israeli tourists in Bulgaria on 18 July, US President Barack Obama condemned it in the most strident terms – even though, then, as now, the perpetrator and his motive remain unknown. Obama’s statement left no room ...
  • State Dept and Pentagon form Syria prayer circle
    The byline on the NBC News report below says Andrea Mitchell and Catherine Chomiak. I’ll assume Chomiak wrote it and Mitchell provided a veteran reporter’s oversight. “Now take care, we don’t want this to sound too much like Iraq. Make sure no one gets the idea that the U ...
  • An all-American racist
    Is there much chance that America will own its latest mass murderer? I doubt it. When a white man picks up a gun and slaughters a bunch of fellow Americans, the most predictable feature of the subsequent process through which everyone else tries to come to terms with what happened is that it wil ...
  • Assad’s premier defects — then gets fired
    The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reports: President Bashar al-Assad on Monday issued Decree No 294 on dismissing Prime Minister Riyad Hijab from his post. The President issued Decree No. 295 on designating Eng. Omar Galawanji as a caretaker premier. Each time there is a major defection and ...
  • Israel’s envoy to U.S. blames Iran for Sinai a ...
    I know it’s one of the most worn-out jokes in existence but never more true than when applied to Israel’s ambassador to the US. How can you tell when Michael Oren is lying? You can see his lips move. At Haaretz, Barak Ravid writes: Israel’s ambassador to the U.S Michael Oren, w ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Disney research figures out “twinned rai ...
    From Disney Research (who knew?) Researchers unlock secret of the rare ‘twinned rainbow’ ZURICH — Scientists have yet to fully unravel the mysteries of rainbows, but a group of researchers from Disney Research, Zürich, UC San Diego, Universidad de Zaragoza, … Continue reading & ...
  • Surprise volcanic eruption in New Zealand
    The eruption had been “really unexpected”. “You can measure and monitor but sometimes mother nature will do her own thing.” Yeah, like climate. From stuff.co.nz: (h/t to reader Dr K.A. Rodgers) Mt Tongariro has erupted, with ash fall closing roads … Continue reading ...
  • NASA’s James Hansen’s big cherry pick
    From NASA:  Research Links Extreme Summer Heat Events to Global Warming A new statistical analysis by NASA scientists has found that Earth’s land areas have become much more likely to experience an extreme summer heat wave than they were in … Continue reading →
  • Wind Energy Is Extraordinarily Expensive And I ...
      Press ReleaseLondon, 6 August: The Global Warming Policy Foundations has warned policy makers that wind energy is an extraordinarily expensive and inefficient way of reducing CO2 emissions. In fact, there is a significant likelihood that annual CO2 emissions could … Continue reading ...
  • Jo Nova’s site has been hacked
    Jo writes: Someone broke into my site in the last hour. My web manager says he’s sure it was an XSS attack. (I think that stands for cross site script.) I will keep you posted.  I have tweeted – but … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

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

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Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Old Man Santo Had a Farm
    Click here to read this article
  • Why Chick-fil-A and Other Brands Aren't Being ...
    If brand managers controlled the universe, big companies would glide through the culture wars with safe and steady neutrality, never taking sides. Click here to read this article
  • Monsanto's New Sweet Corn Adds to Debate on Ge ...
    As the Midwest crunches into sweet corn season, a new type will be appearing on grocery store shelves - even though shoppers have no way to recognize it.Click here to read this article
  • Eating Healthy Foods Prevent Diseases, Not Vac ...
    As one of the world's most well-known and respected voices, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has a unique opportunity to call attention to important social issues and make a huge impact worldwide.Click here to read this article
  • Is It Hot Enough for Ya?
    Climate change is hardly a seasonal issue, but summer is the only time of year when Americans and the news media regularly fix their attention on the everyday heat emergency that's already altering life on our planet. Indeed, this summer's record-shattering weather across the United States has c ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • “Project Corner Store:” Youth Make Muscle Broccoli
    Just another day in the office? We wish!
  • 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 ...

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My Care2 Picks

  • Just Say No to GMO
    Enviro Rap Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Noam Chomsky - In Hiroshimas Shadow
    This years Aug. 6 memorials have special significance. They take place shortly before the 50th anniversary of the most dangerous moment in human history, in the words of the historian and John F. Kennedy adviser Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., referring to Submitted by Wild Thang to World  |&n ...
  • 10 years ago American sanctified torture
    Includes links from Andy Worthington's tireless effort for Gitmo prisoners as well as much other info. My link looks to be missing in comments http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.ca/2010/09/law.html Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |  & ...
  • Notes on Climate Crisis
    People are alarmed about the environment. I think they should be - including monitoring changes in weather - but focusing on a fixed 'debate' run in circles is not my idea of analysis Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Zelda Medley- Lindsey Stirling
    I was surfing around a Skyrim combo - and thought of the community when I saw and heard this Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

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

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Adelson's Pro-Romney Donations Will Be 'Limitl ...
    ShareThisAdelson's Pro-Romney Donations Will Be 'Limitless,' Could Top $100M 13 Jun 2012 Forbes has confirmed that billionaire Sheldon Adelson, along with his wife Miriam, has donated $10 million to the leading Super PAC supporting presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney–and that ...
  • James Holmes's Psychiatrist Contacted Universi ...
    ShareThisJames Holmes's Psychiatrist Contacted University Police Weeks Before Movie-Theater Shooting - ABC News 06 Aug 2012 The psychiatrist who treated suspected movie-theater shooter James Holmes made contact with a University of Colorado police officer to express concerns about her patient's ...
  • Israel Had Intel on Attack That Killed 16 in Egypt
    ShareThisIsrael Had Intel on Attack That Killed 16 in Egypt 06 Aug 2012 Israeli intelligence services had reports of an impending attack from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and therefore were able to thwart the latest assault by suspected Islamist militants who killed 16 Egyptian soldiers at a border c ...
  • Leftover GMO corn stubs 'a field of little spe ...
    ShareThisLeftover GMO corn stubs 'a field of little spears' wreaking havoc on tires 02 Aug 2012 Corn modified (genetically modified organisms) to stand tall and tough against pests is also wreaking havoc on tractor tires. Mark Newhall of Farm Show Magazine tells American Public Media's Marketpla ...
  • Extreme summer heat linked to climate change, ...
    ShareThisExtreme summer heat linked to climate change, scientists say 06 Aug 2012 Exceedingly high summer temperatures, longer summers and related catastrophes, such as wildfire and drought, are poised to be the norm, and they are driven by climate change global warming, according to a new resea ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • The Paper August 2012
    02 August 2012
  • Best Soldiers for the worst days: Medevac crew ...
    July 20, 2012 By: Sgt. 1st Class Eric Pahon KHOWST PROVINCE, Afghanistan (July 17, 2012) -- They're the crew no one wants to see take off. "A perfect deployment would be no missions," said Spc. Bryan Heaston, 30, of Lusby, Md. Nearly every time Heaston, a medevac crew chief serving on Forward ...
  • Military Professionals Discussing the MEDEVAC ...
    18 July 2012 Increasing numbers of high-ranking military officers and veterans agree that the time has come for change.  Support from lawmakers continues to grow.  Army helicopter medical evacuation (Dustoff) polices are outdated and costing lives.  Our current polices even viola ...
  • We Are Still #1 (somehow)
    11 July 2012 Thank you for the tremendous support through the years.  We are just getting warmed up, though I am in a transition stage while completing a book.  I remain serious about potentially transitioning over to US/Mexico focused work. Meanwhile, this military blog rank came ac ...
  • Carl Prine, Bombs, Brain Damage, and our Respo ...
    10 July 2012 These wars have left us with thousands of troops and civilians who may have sustained brain damage from explosions.  Recently, my friend Carl Prine, a military combat veteran of Iraq, terminated his writing on Line of Departure due to apparent brain damage.  Carl believes ...

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

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

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Jurist - Legal Research

  • UK court rejects claims that two work programs ...
    [JURIST] The UK High Court ruled [judgment] Monday that two government back-to-work schemes do not constitute slave labor, rejecting plaintiffs' arguments that the programs breach human rights laws on slavery. The court's ruling upholds [Guardian report] the Jobseeker's Allowance (Employment, Sk ...
  • Russia feminist activists ask judge to recuse ...
    [JURIST] Three members of a Russian feminist activist group who are facing trial for their performance of a protest song in a Russian Orthodox church asked the judge in their case on Monday to recuse herself, saying her decisions were politically motivated. Judge Marina Syrova declined to hear [ ...
  • UK chief justice: recent reforms have increase ...
    [JURIST] UK top judge Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales Lord Igor Judge [official profile] on Friday released his three-year report detailing how recent reforms to the judicial system have placed an increased burden on the judiciary that will create problems with employing and keeping the ...
  • Nebraska Supreme Court strikes down campaign f ...
    [JURIST] The Supreme Court of Nebraska [official website] on Friday struck down [opinion, PDF] a state campaign finance law that contributes state money to certain political candidates in order to lessen financial disparity among candidates. Under the law, candidates for certain public offices c ...
  • Federal appeals court denies Illinois ex-gover ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit [official website] on Monday upheld [opinion, PDF] a lower court's denial of motion submitted by former Illinois governor George Ryan [JURIST news archive] seeking his release from prison. Ryan argued that he was convicted under pre-Skilli ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

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Tikun Olam

  • Barak Confidant: Israel Has Decided to Attack
    Former Labor party minister, Uzi Baram, wrote a column in Yisrael HaYom today that urges Israel’s leadership to tell the people clearly what lies in store when they execute an expected attack on Iran.  What is most striking about the article is this: Recently, I’ve come to believe th ...
  • Barak Concedes Iran’s Leaders “Have Not Yet Or ...
    Ehud Barak told Wolf Blitzer some eye-opening things about Iran’s nuclear ambitions.  Though many of Barak’s statements contradicted each other, the gist was that he conceded that Iran’s Ayatallolah Khamenei had not ordered his scientists to create a nuclear weapon.  This state ...
  • Sinai Islamists Attack Egyptian Border Outpost ...
    Today, something unprecedented happened along the Egypt-Israel border.  A group of Sinai Islamists, possibly including local Bedouins and foreign Al Qaeda elements, attacked a major Egyptian border post near the Kerem Shalom crossing.  They killed 16 Egyptian police officers who were preparing t ...
  • Avrum Burg: Boycotts May Be Necessary to Achie ...
    The NY Times has published a powerful broadside by Avrum Burg on behalf of Israeli democracy.  Burg, a former member of what might be called the country’s ruling élite, has turned into an advocate for a nation that separates religion and state, and in which democracy is the prevailing norm ...
  • Former Head of Israeli Nuclear Program Calls f ...
    Ari Shavit, one of Haaretz’s more right-wing columnists, published a profile (and Hebrew) yesterday of an anonymous Israeli nuclear engineer who advocated that Israel attack Iran with the secret help of the United States.  The condition for granting the interview was that Shavit not identi ...

If Americans Knew

  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
  • Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
    US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • The Edge of Space - 'Cry' of Shredded Star Her ...
    Last year, astronomers discovered a quiescent black hole in a distant galaxy that erupted after shredding and consuming a passing star. Now researchers have identified a distinctive X-ray signal observed in the days following the outburst that comes from matter on the verge of falling into the b ...
  • Sinai Tourism No More--Egypt a Danger
    I regret to agree with your other letter writers. As one who has trekked through the Sinai five times, I am very sad that I must cancel my plans to visit this year. I love the desert air and the desert night. I have ventured across the highlands and lowlands of Sinai and loved the people. But th ...
  • Kurdistan on Edge - The Kurds Remain The Middl ...
    As the battle for Damascus rages, the Kurds are positioning themselves to exploit the growing security and power vacuum in Syria, to the detriment of Turkey. Last week, Syrian Kurds raised their flag over several towns located on Syria’s border with Turkey. In addition, Syria’s Kurdish Democ ...
  • The Edge of Terrorism - Israeli Helicopters Ta ...
    In a release issued to reporters this morning, the Israel Air Force says it has, “targeted a Global Jihad-affiliated terrorist squad in the southern Gaza Strip.â€� One of the terrorists, says the release, “Ahmed Sai’d Isma’il, resident of Tufach, was among those ...
  • Oil Addiction - Improved Oil Recovery, Better ...
    Researchers have taken a new look at an old, but seldom-used technique developed by the petroleum industry to recover oil, and learned more about why it works, how it could be improved, and how it might be able to make a comeback not only in oil recovery but also environmental cleanup.The techno ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Democrats Beginning To Tell Harry Reid: PLEASE ...
    It was strange from the very beginning a Senior member of the Senate, the Majority leader claiming some mysterious anonymous source told him that Mitt Romney has not paid taxes for ten years.  Which of course is a strange charge for someone who has not released his tax returns for the past ...
  • How Did Obama Not Know About Solyndra When Mos ...
    Solyndra should be a giant red flag for all voters in the upcoming presidential election. If you truly believe that President Obama had no idea that the half a billion dollar loans were a waste of taxpayer dollars, then you must believe he is a lousy manager with no line of communication to his ...
  • Obama Adviser Got $100K From Company Aiding Ir ...
    Political junkies may remember the name of David Plouffe, Obama's 2008 campaign manager, one of the architects of the successful presidential campaign, Plouffe and Senior Adviser in the Obama White House since early 2001 According to the Washington Post, a subsidiary of MTN Group, a South ...
  • How the U.S. Government Should Deal With the J ...
    By Barry Rubin Recently there has been a controversy when State Department spokespeople refused to say what they thought to be Israel’s capital. To understand this issue we need to understand that there are two different issues involved: that of 1947 and that of 1967. I’m not going to discuss ...
  • Newsbusted Exculsive:Greece to Sell The Acropolis
    As Greece enters its fifth year of recession, not only is the count's economy falling apart but its dragging much of the rest of the worlds economy down also.  Even though its new government is trying to implement reforms things continue to look bleak and the government may run out of money ...

The Real Agenda

  • Germany Rejects Military Intervention in Syria ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 6, 2012 Germany’s Defense Minister, Thomas de Maizière, said Sunday that Germany opposes military actions against in Syria and emphasized that the resignation of the Special Envoy of the UN and the the Arab League, Kofi Annan, does not m ...
  • Spain’s debt will increase by 23,000 bil ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 6, 2012 You are not going crazy. 23,884 billion euros is approximately what Spain’s debt will be in the short term should the country continue to adopt the European banking policies. The reason for this is that the current and soon to co ...
  • Medios de comunicación ignoran el fraude de la ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 5 AGOSTO, 2012 Los fraudes más exitosos son los que están ocultos en plena luz del día, los que nadie ve porque son tan obvios, que son muy difíciles de distinguir. Este tipo de  actividades fraudulentas son aún más difícil de ver cuando los que han ...
  • Espanha reconhece a necessidade de um resgate ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 5 AGOSTO, 2012 O Ministro Espanhol da Economia e Competitividade, Luís de Guindos, anunciou na semana passada ao seu homólogo alemão que a Espanha provavelmente irá precisar de um resgate de 300 bilhões de euros, até agora a mais temida, mas por mui ...
  • España reconoce la necesidad de un rescate de ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 5 AGOSTO, 2012 El Ministro Español de Economía y Competitividad, Luis de Guindos anunció la semana pasada a su homólogo alemán que España muy probablemente necesitará un rescate de 300 mil millones de euros en lo que constituye el momento más temido ...

Wind Watch

  • Fire in the sky: lightning strike sparks Buffa ...
    Lightning claimed a “victim” Wednesday in rural Lake Benton, hitting and setting ablaze the blades of a Buffalo Ridge wind turbine. Deputy Chad Meester of the Lincoln County (Minnesota) Sheriff’s Department happened to be in the area – Minnesota County Highway 1 and 190th Street – when he witnes ...
  • Citizens occupy Lowell Wind site
    Vermonters Risk Arrest, Protest Project’s High Cost, Massive Environmental Destruction, and State’s Failed Energy Policies Lowell, Vermont – Early this morning, 20 citizens from surrounding towns formed a human blockade on the ridgeline crane path at Green Mountain Power’s Lowell Wind Project. W ...
  • Kahuku wind farm fire spreads concerns over fu ...
    The fire at the Kahuku wind farm is contained but environmental concerns within the community have spread including to the North Shore where First Wind is building another wind farm. There are eight turbines already up on Kawailoa Ridge about five miles from Haleiwa. Eventually there will be 30 ...
  • Windwise worries energy bill will bring more t ...
    FAIRHAVEN — Members of Windwise are upset by the passage of an energy bill this week that they feel will give advantages to wind developers and lead to an increase in the number of turbines state wide. The bill titled “An act relative to competitively priced electricity in the commonwealth ...
  • UD wind turbine struck by lightning
    Lewes — Lightning has damaged the University of Delaware’s wind turbine in Lewes, prompting officials to shut it down. The 250-foot wind turbine adjacent to the college’s Hugh R. Sharp Campus was struck June 22, said Ron Ohrel, director of Marine Public Education Office at the College of Earth, ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Whatever Happened to the Division of Labor?
    For Adam Smith the division of labor plays a crucial role in the material progress of society, yet it seems to do little of the theoretical heavy lifting in modern treatments of economic development.
  • Newest Social Security Beneficiaries to Get Sh ...
    “People retiring today are part of the first generation of workers who have paid more in Social Security taxes during their careers than they will receive in benefits after they retire. It’s a historic shift that will only get worse for future retirees, according to an analysis by Th ...
  • Fear of Government Moves Discourages Investment
    “A rising number of manufacturers are canceling new investments and putting off new hires because they fear paralysis in Washington will force hundreds of billions in tax increases and budget cuts in January, undermining economic growth in the coming months.” (New York Times) Robert ...
  • Regulatory Czar Leaves White House
    “White House official Cass Sunstein–known as ‘the regulatory czar,’ one of the most powerful little-known people in Washington–is leaving the administration.” (USA Today) One of the founders of “libertarian paternalism.” FEE Timely Classic “Paternalist Nudges” ...
  • Sow, and the State Shall Reap
    For hundreds of years Ethiopian kings had absolute power over the kingdom’s property. A king could give it to anyone he chose and reclaim it at his pleasure. Further, property was inherited by the king rather than by the (nominal) owner’s family. Manoel De Almeida, a Portuguese Jesuit priest who ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Battles over voter photo ID laws come to a head
    Facing South readers know the story . After campaigning on jobs and the economy, Republicans in state legislatures in the South and nationally focused on pushing laws that would require voters to show photo ID at the polls. read more
  • 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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Police
    Some scattered thoughts on cops, particularly cops in the US. Police exist primarily to protect property arrangements.  The war on drugs has paramilitarized police, with a heavy emphasis on overwhelming force.  While police have always considered themselves above the common herd, and have always ...
  • Police
    Some scattered thoughts on cops, particularly cops in the US. Police exist primarily to protect property arrangements.  The war on drugs have paramilitarized police, with a heavy emphasis on overwhelming force.  While police have always considered themselves above the common herd, and have alway ...
  • The best news this year is the Court of Justic ...
    Software, once sold, can be resold.  The person selling it cannot keep using it, but the original publisher has no right to stop the sale. This is a big deal.  A really big deal, and really good news.  It allows brokers, it allows you to sell your software once done.  It allows you to treat [...]
  • The best news this year is the Court of Justic ...
    Software, once sold, can be resold.  The person selling it cannot keep using it, but the original publisher has no right to stop the sale. This is a big deal.  A really big deal, and really good news.  It allows brokers, it allows you to sell your software once done.  It allows you to treat [...]
  • I wonder how much Ashley Fantz of CNN gets pai ...
    Beautiful: Assange claimed that various institutions and corporations had hit the site with a financial blockage. Claimed?  It’s not a claim, it’s a fact.  How much it cost Wikileaks might be a claim, but that’s not what Ms. Fantz wrote. This is one reason why we can’t ha ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Swing State Geography: The I-4 Corridor
    Overheated presidential politics have done few favors to Florida, except to put 132 miles of hot asphalt on everyone’s lips:  Interstate 4.  Completed in the late 1960s, this interstate (in fact, the only interstate highway to be entirely contained within one state) is known by million ...
  • Characteristics of the Self-Employed
    With EMSI’s new data categories, we can now more closely parse data on the major classes of workers in the labor market. This is a significant shift in how we present employment data, and one of the valuable applications is being able to track and analyze self-employed workers — th ...
  • The Uncertain Future of the California Bullet ...
    On July 18, at a site pregnant with symbolism — the future location of what HSR advocates hope will become San Francisco’s terminus of the state’s bullet train — California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill to fund construction of the first section of the high-speed line. Earlier in the day, Br ...
  • How Marketing Could Boost Land Development
    Zoning ordinances, land use maps and comprehensive plans used by cities to guide growth rarely provide the kind of insight required to make informed decisions about what will truly be best for the city and its residents in the long run. Unfortunately, by failing to incorporate market analysis an ...
  • State of Chicago: Explaining the 1990s Versus ...
    In my article “The Second-Rate City?” I noted Chicago’s very strong economic and demographic performance in the 1990s and contrasted it with the very poor performance in the 2000s. Then I outlined several problems with Chicago I thought helped drive the struggles. A few people asked a very fair ...

GM Watch

  • Controversial Dutch trial opens to public
    1.Dutch GM potato field trial will open to public 2.GM potato courtcase and citizen inspection  NOTE: Looks like the opening to the public of this trial is a PR response to the situation exposed by ASEED in item 2, where there has been a shying away from open 'dialogue' and 'discussion' with ci ...
  • GM corn backfiring
    EXTRACT: Potter told them the genetically modified corn is basically backfiring. "Instead of making things easier, we've just made corn rootworm management harder and a heck of a lot more expensive," Potter said. --- --- Corn farmers struggle to cope with rootworm resistance Mark Steil Minnesot ...
  • Labeling GM foods: Whose side are you on?
    EXTRACT: The question before voters could not be more stark: Do you side with anti-worker, pro-polluter forces epitomized by the GMA and deceptive corporate front groups, or do you side with 90% of California voters, the California Labor Federation, family farmers, the Consumer Federation of Ame ...
  • Brown out in Arctic apples raises GM ire
    Brown out in Arctic apples raises GM ire Sue Neales The Australian, July 21 2012  http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/brown-out-in-arctic-apples-raises-gm-ire/story-e6frg6nf-1226431253016?sv=9956df19ef1d842ad2b5eb3ea49e1c70 A NEW type of apple -- the Arctic -- has been developed in Cana ...
  • GM 'cure' threatens to be much worse than any ...
    NOTE: A very perceptive article. Recommended reading. --- --- GM 'cure' threatens to be much worse than any agricultural disease Gavin Lynch The Irish Times, 3 August 2012  http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0803/1224321366059.html "I KNOW an old lady who swallowed a fly" — we all ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Dead Crops, Extreme Drought And Endless Wildfi ...
    As you read this, the United States is experiencing the worst drought it has seen since the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s.  As you read this, nearly half of all corn crops in the United States are in "poor" or "very poor" condition.  As you read this, 38 major wildfires are ripping ...
  • The Employment Rate In The United States Is Lo ...
    Did you know that a smaller percentage of Americans are working today than when the last recession supposedly ended?  But you won't hear about this on the mainstream news.  Instead, the mainstream media obsesses over the highly politicized and highly manipulated "unemployment rat ...
  • Spain And Italy Are Toast Unless Germany Allow ...
    The financial chess game in Europe is still being played out, but in the end it is going to boil down to one very fundamental decision.  Is Germany going to allow the ECB to print up trillions of euros and use those euros to buy up the sovereign debt of troubled eurozone members ...
  • Mainstream Reporter Tells The Truth About Audi ...
    When someone in the mainstream media goes out on a limb to tell the truth, then the rest of us should go out of our way to applaud that effort.  Reporter Ben Swann of Fox 19 in Cincinnati is one of the few local television reporters in the United States that consistently tackles ...
  • Just Open Up Your Eyes And Look – 65 Sig ...
    Do you want to know when the "economic collapse" is going to happen?  Just open up your eyes and take a look.  The "economic collapse" is already happening all around us.  So many people talk about the coming economic collapse as if it is some massively hyped event that they will ...

Desertification

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

The Paper Trail

  • Senators suggest new penalties in Chinese heli ...
    Two senior members of the Senate Armed Services Committee called on Monday for the Defense Department to consider suspending or blocking its ties to a major weapons contractor that recently admitted it illegally aided China’s development of a new attack helicopter.Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the ...
  • Outside groups spend $2.2 million in Missouri ...
    Super PACs and nonprofits have spent more than $2.2 million in the race for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in Missouri, with nearly 90 percent of the total going toward negative ads, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis.Businessman John Brunner and former state treasurer Sarah ...
  • Nonprofit profile: American Commitment
    Type of organization: NonprofitSupports: ConservativeLocation: Washington, D.C.Founded: April 2012Website: http://www.americancommitment.org/Social media: Facebook, Twitter, YouTubeFinances: Not available.990: Not available.Principals:Phil Kerpen (president, founder): Kerpen is the former policy ...
  • Federal report: Fewer kids are victims of viol ...
    Teen pregnancies and the number of kids victimized by violent crime have fallen noticeably, but nearly a quarter of U.S. children are living in poverty and more, not fewer, are being exposed to damaging air pollution, according to a newly released federal report. “America’s Children in Brie ...
  • Solyndra loan guarantee 'a bad bet from the be ...
    The Department of Energy knew its $535 million loan guarantee to solar-panel maker Solyndra Inc. was “a bad bet from the beginning” but was “determined to make Solyndra a stimulus success story at any cost,” the Republican-led House Energy and Commerce Committee concluded in a report released Th ...

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

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

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Suckering Liberals into Supporting Foreign Wars
    Scene from "The Humanitarian War in Libya" by Julien Teil George Washington has written a great post – Why Do Progressive Liberals Fall for Humanitarian War? – on Zero Hedge. It’s quite an an interesting site dedicated to “widening the scope of information available ...
  • Police Taser a 12 Year Old Girl While Arrestin ...
    Dejamon Baker (NBC) — A 12-year-old girl has wounds in her chest and stomach after she was tased by a police officer inside a St. Louis Victoria’s Secret Wednesday afternoon. Authorities speaking to the New York Daily News say the girl “physically interceded” as a St. Lo ...
  • Julian Assange Hires Pinochet’s Nemesis
    Baltazar Garzon In June Wikileaks founder Julian Assange sought refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to prevent his extradition to Sweden for questioning on sexual assault allegations. His big fear is that the US will attempt to extradite him from Sweden and either detain him indefinitely ...
  • How to Tell Where Your Food Comes From
    Barcode indicating US or Canadian origin Consumers in North America and Europe are consciously opting for nationally – or better still locally – grown foods as a way of reducing fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide emissions. Increasing concern over “food miles” (i.e. the ...
  • Unlikely Folk Hero Releases New Hit
    If video won’t play go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MokNvbiRqCM Kim Dotcom, the multimillionaire who is awaiting extradition from New Zealand on alleged Internet piracy charges (see Unlikely Folk Hero) has just released his long-awaited new song ‘Mr. President’, directed ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • On Climate Change, Nothing Ventured, Nothing G ...
    Among political insiders in Washington, the conventional wisdom is that action on global climate change is a dead issue for the foreseeable future. But that need not, and should not, be the case, considering that the atmospheric thermostat isn’t on hold while we wait for a better political moment.
  • No restart date yet for SONGS reactors
    Reports of a late Fall return to service are pro-forma
  • Are Fast-Breeder Reactors A Nuclear Power Panacea?
    Plutonium is the nuclear nightmare. A by-product of conventional power-station reactors, it is the key ingredient in nuclear weapons. And even when not made into bombs, it is a million-year radioactive waste legacy that is already costing the world billions of dollars a year to contain.
  • NRC and Regulatory Capture: Conflict of Interest?
    My blog last week got some interesting reactions regarding the larger picture of regulatory issues. I chose to look at quality as it is an area where significant changes in the broader context of quality control have occurred since those regulations were written and an update is overdue. This is ...
  • Great Indian Power Outage Highlights the Need ...
    The “Great Power Outage” that struck India this week could never happen in the United States for a very simple reason: There are only 300 million people in the United States. Beyond that, the differences between the Indian grid and the U.S. grid offer cold comfort...

EU Times

  • Argentina bans UK ships from docking
    Argentina has prohibited all ships sailing under the British flag from docking at all the ports in the Buenos Aires province, Press TV reports. The measure was adopted on Friday in a bill passed by the legislature of the Buenos Aires, the country’s largest province. “We can’t have a colonial enc ...
  • The survival of our European culture and identity
    A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys ...
  • EMP attack: ’90% of Americans would be dead’
    Just think. A nuclear device carried aloft by an Iranian rocket somewhere near the Gulf of Mexico and a blinding flash in the skies. Within 12 to 18 months, experts predict, 90 percent of Americans would be dead. That’s the catastrophic threat from the resulting electromagnetic pulse signal, or ...
  • Iran successfully test-fires 4th generation of ...
    Iran has successfully test-fired the fourth generation of the indigenously-made Fateh 110 precision missile, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi says. “The 4th generation of the Fateh 110 precision missile with a range of more than 300 kilometers (190 miles) was successfully ...
  • Iran Missile Test Sends “Shockwave” Across Ent ...
    A grave Ministry of Defense bulletin flashed to Russian Naval and Marine Forces approaching their Mediterranean base in the Syrian port of Tartus is warning that Iran’s successful test-firing of their fourth generation indigenously-made Fateh 110 precision missile earlier today confirms that thi ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Google TV Webpage Updated â Site Redesign, App ...
    Google TV is about to blow up this year (or at least get an extra big boost from Google) and while we wait around to see what Google has planned for the TV OS at Google I/O this week, there’s been a silent update of sorts to their webpage, adding new content and a fresh new design. Google is gi ...
  • Microsoft and Yammer: Collaboration and Enterp ...
    via microsoft.comMicrosoft Corp. and Yammer Inc. have announced Yammer, a leading provider of enterprise social networks is to be acquired for $1.2 billion in cash. Yammer will join the Microsoft Office Division, led by division President Kurt DelBene, and the team will continue to report to cu ...
  • Brewer: Obama admin launched 'assault' on Arizona
    (CNN) – Republican Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona had some biting words for the Obama administration Monday after it announced it was rescinding agreements that allow some local law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration laws. "They arbitrarily singled out Arizona and sent a bomb, if y ...
  • Google Alert - Barack Obama
    News 7 new results for Barack Obama   President Barack Obama's response to ruling on the Arizona ... Washington Post WASHINGTON â President Barack Obama's statement reacting to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on the Arizona immigration law: See all stories on this topic » President Obama blasts ...
  • Miami Heat Parade: Team Goes All Out To Celebr ...
    The Miami Heat celebrated in grand fashion with an enormous parade through the streets of Miami on Monday morning, allowing the fans to join in on the celebration and commemorate their 2012 NBA Championship. Hundred’s of thousands of people filled the streets as players rolled by in double-deck ...

Groklaw

  • Samsung icon theft images shown by Apple [PJ: ...
    First have a peek at what could be an undeniable theft or, if Samsung is able to convince the jury, an incredible coincidence. This is the Telephone app icon for the iPhone - which still exists today - as it appeared on the first iPhone. [PJ: Who is stealing whose icons? I don't know the prove ...
  • How Much Is Expert Testimony Worth To Apple? $ ...
    Samsung's counsel, Charles Verhoeven, asked Bressler point blank how much Apple has paid him to be an expert witness in this case. "So far?" Bressler asked. "$75,000."... Mr. Verhoeven also made sure to show the jury that Bressler does this for a living. Verhoeven mentioned that Bressler adv ...
  • Curiositys Latest Mars Image Shows Imposing Mt ...
    The newest robotic resident of Mars, Curiosity, has sent a spectacular image of its main scientific target, Mt. Sharp, a three-mile-high mountain in the center of Gale crater. [PJ: It literally took my breath away for a second. How amazing is this?] - Adam Mann, Wired
  • Apple's expert witness struggles as Samsung go ...
    According to Bressler's testimony earlier in the day, the iPad design patent illustrates a device with a shiny or reflective back. The Tab has a matte finish, which prompted Verhoeven to approach the witness and ask if he could see his reflection in the back of the device. Another small hiccup ...
  • Microsoft said to block ability to boot straig ...
    One of those tweaks is the decision to block users from setting up their Windows 8 machines to boot straight to the Desktop, circumventing the tiled Start screen, formerly known as the Metro screen.... With Windows 8 test builds, users could create shortcut that switches to the Windows 8 Desktop ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Joplin Missouri mosque burned to ground
    A recent fire there was arson so presumably so was this fire While investigators did their work, a small group of Muslims gathered for an evening prayer on the lawn of the destroyed building. “This is what we stand for,” said Dr. Ahmed Asadullah, a member of the Islamic Society of Jo ...
  • Cinder cone volcanoes near Panguitch Lake UT
    This may look like a pile of gravel but is composed of lava rock and is 200-300 feet tall. There are numerous such piles around Panguitch Lake UT.These are cinder cone volcanoes. They form very fast. The video details how one in Mexico was 152 meters high in just seven days [...]The post Cinder ...
  • US accuses British bank of massive corruption
    In one of the most incendiary legal complaints ever levelled at a UK company, the New York State Department has accused Standard Chartered Bank of helping terrorism and scheming with Iran to launder as much as $250bn for nearly a decade.Sue says ‘You may quote me: I will vote for anyone w ...
  • Knight Capital should receive time-out for tra ...
    1 millisecond snapshot of trading algorithm gone mad with prices ping-ponging upwards. Credit: zerohedge.comThe recent debacle with Knight Capital, where they apparently rushed an untested new trading algorithm to market without rigorous testing first, caused the company to lose $400 million in ...
  • Sacramento Delta coalition to fight the Periph ...
    The Peripheral Tunnel would shunt water around the Sacramento Delta, sending it to Central Valley farmers and southern California. Somehow, proponents claim, this won’t hurt the Delta even a little biity bit. Farmers and the fishing industry disagree. Vehemently.California loves a good wat ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Two observations on the tragedy in Syria
    1. War always inflicts grave rights abuses on residents of the war zone. Additionally, its fog allows-- and its passions encourage-- the commission of a large variety of atrocities such as are very rarely committed in times of peace. Hence, actions tending toward the exacerbation of tensions can ...
  • 'New' Egypt and the Camp David accords
    Despite many setbacks and roadblocks along the way in Egypt, the political situation there is still one of the most hopeful-- and certainly, the most momentous-- phenomena in the region. Egypt, remember, really does carry the strategic ballast of the whole Arab world. How things turn out there i ...
  • July 2006, lest we forget
    In these days six years ago, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert and his team were battering much of Lebanon to smithereens in the "Dahiyeh War"-- designed, as we remember, to break Hizbullah once and for all, primarily by battering Lebanese civilians and their infrastructure so harshly that they would turn ...
  • Sarajevo, 1914; Damascus 2012?
    The killing, in Damascus today, of at least three powerful members of the Baathist regime in Syria, will almost certainly plunge that whole country-- and quite likely also much of the rest of the Greater Middle East-- into a maelstrom of inter-group violence far worse than any it has seen until ...
  • West Point military historian denies the net v ...
    The NYT has a very important piece today reporting that the head of the military history program at West Point has openly stated that the United States gained "not much" from 10.5 years of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The program head, Col. Gian Gentile, concluded-- presumably in light of the c ...

frogblog

  • A new organising framework – re-imaginin ...
    In the first two post-Rio reflections, I advanced two main propositions: That the international community needs to declare a global Ecological Crisis and undertake global executive action, rather than wallow in ineffective international legislative negotiations; That the interface between scienc ...
  • Newmont versus the vulnerable – my week ...
    This week I spent 4 days in the Environment Court with some Waihi residents opposing the expansion of the mining activities in the Martha pit. It is a small variation on the 1987 Mining Licence but it could lead a new large scale underground gold mine. The manawhenua Ngati Hako were raising issu ...
  • Anadarko delays deep sea oil plans
    We can breathe a sigh of relief that Anadarko has announced it won’t start exploratory deep sea drilling this summer, but their plans remain a cause for concern.
  • Have your say on the lobbying bill
    Submissions are now open on my Lobbying Disclosure Bill. Details on how to make a submission are available on the parliament website. The Bill passed its first reading in parliament with unanimous support from all parties and is now before the Government Administration Select Committee. The Bill ...
  • Protect the Human; Amnesty International is fu ...
       All too many people in this world need protection – protection from human rights abuses. They inspired my colleagues and I to get out of parliament this week and go support Pussy Riot What I love about Amnesty is they create a platform for all of us to support, actively monitor and defend hum ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • How the Economy Works: The Necessity of Crime
    The economy is merely a sum of money, not practices that sustain the oikos, and the money that makes up the sum is equally valued whether it results from virtuous or vicious, good or bad, constructive or destructive, humane or inhumane, legal or illegal, beneficent or malevolent practices. A ...
  • Governments Exist to Further the Interests of ...
    Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored group.
  • The History of Knowledge: Darkness in the Acadamy
    Knowledge does not always prevail or even endure. When the Roman Empire fell, the Justinian Code was replaced by Canon Law. The augustness of knowledge was transformed into heresy and mankind's curiosity was virtually extinguished. The age became dark. In the 11th century, people began to st ...
  • Vendor ArithmeticUnderhanded Capitalism
    Why does the nation exist? The truth is revealed when one realizes that merchant theft is protected by the legal system whose justices have enshrined an economic bias into law, having subverted the Constitution from the goals the founding fathers wrote into it to the almost exclusive promoti ...
  • Treacherous Treaties
    Is American imperialism a Bilderberger plot? Are the American bankers, diplomats, and members of the Council on Foreign Relations all traitors, having turned America into merely an instrument to carry out their Bilderberger maniacal aims? Does America as a sovereign nation even exist anymore ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Harvard Study Finds Fluoride Lowers IQ
    By Dr. Mercola Fluoride is added to 70 percent of U.S. public drinking water supplies to aid in the prevention of cavities. This benefit is dubious at best, as there is practically no difference in tooth decay rates between fluoridated and non-fluoridated countries, and no difference be ...
  • Decade-Long Feeding Study Reveals Significant ...
    By Dr. Mercola Scientists in Norway have released results from experimental feeding studies carried out over a 10-year period, and the verdict is in: If you want to avoid obesity, then avoid eating genetically engineered (GE) corn, corn-based products, and animals that are fed a diet of GE gr ...
  • Mammograms Have 'Limited or No Effect' on Brea ...
    By Dr. Mercola With only a few weeks to go before the annual October rush promoting mammograms begins, a new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute is raising some doubts on mammography's purported merits. The findings showed mammograms have little or no influence o ...
  • Food And Water, Nope. Vaccines, Yep.
    By Dr. Mercola As one of the world's most well-known and respected voices, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has a unique opportunity to call attention to important social issues and make a huge impact worldwide. Unfortunately Gates, through his foundation, has been partnering with not only biote ...
  • If You See This Google Warning, Act Fast: Big ...
    By Dr. Mercola Big Brother is watching. No kidding. And the warning is coming from none other than Google, which says government spies may be spying on you. Some believe the Google announcement may be related  to the recent discovery of the data-mining virus named "Flame." In a June 3 Ne ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Guarani Indians to take demands to Inter-Ameri ...
    Brazil's Guarani are demanding that the government protects their land © Survival Brazil’s Guarani Indians have announced that they will take their government to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, over its failure to protect their land. The Guarani said in a statement that they ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • How the Drug War Fuels a New Racial Caste Syst ...
    from alternet.org: A racial caste system is alive and well in America. For reasons that have stunningly little to do with crime or crime rates, we, as a nation, have chosen to lock up more than two million people behind bars. Millions more are on probation or parole, or branded felons for life ...
  • Calcium supplementation linked to heart attack ...
    from therealfoodchannel.com: Real food is your best source of calcium. For many years we've been sold the lie that we need mega-doses of calcium for strong bones. Foods such as orange juice have been supplemented with types of calcium that the body can't absorb. And now there is evidence linkin ...
  • WHY in the World Are They Spraying? Lifts Veil ...
    from farmwars.info: “WHY in the World are They Spraying?” lifts the veil on a major geo-engineering agenda that is at the forefront of our fight for food sovereignty. There are people who are working full time at controlling the food and thereby, controlling the population while maximizing pro ...
  • #Audio: Episode029 - No Rain
    On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features Criminalizing Permaculture, Monkey Mind Control, Twinkies and Milk Wars + Updates, Headlines, th ...
  • #BingeAndPurge: London Smog, Digital Health an ...
    Fast Food Nation: Chick-fil-A Leaps Into Controversy* '2012 Chick-fil-A same-sex marriage controversy' on Wikipedia* Video: Fast food company Chick-Fil-A conservative on marriage* Video: Hundreds of Thousands Support Chik-Fil-A 'Buycott' Day on Aug1, 2012* Chick-fil-A protesters to h ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Dead Crops, Extreme Drought And Endless Wildfi ...
    As you read this, the United States is experiencing the worst drought it has seen since the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s.  As you read this, nearly half of all corn crops in the United States are in "poor" or "very poor" condition.  As you read this, 38 major wildfires are ripping ...
  • The Employment Rate In The United States Is Lo ...
    Did you know that a smaller percentage of Americans are working today than when the last recession supposedly ended?  But you won't hear about this on the mainstream news.  Instead, the mainstream media obsesses over the highly politicized and highly manipulated "unemployment rat ...
  • Spain And Italy Are Toast Unless Germany Allow ...
    The financial chess game in Europe is still being played out, but in the end it is going to boil down to one very fundamental decision.  Is Germany going to allow the ECB to print up trillions of euros and use those euros to buy up the sovereign debt of troubled eurozone members ...
  • Mainstream Reporter Tells The Truth About Audi ...
    When someone in the mainstream media goes out on a limb to tell the truth, then the rest of us should go out of our way to applaud that effort.  Reporter Ben Swann of Fox 19 in Cincinnati is one of the few local television reporters in the United States that consistently tackles ...
  • Just Open Up Your Eyes And Look – 65 Sig ...
    Do you want to know when the "economic collapse" is going to happen?  Just open up your eyes and take a look.  The "economic collapse" is already happening all around us.  So many people talk about the coming economic collapse as if it is some massively hyped event that they will ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • So, did Nick Clegg deliberately mislead Parlia ...
    Despite every Conservative activist seemingly actually demonstrating on Twitter that boundary changes were never linked in any "contract" or "agreement" with the LibDems over House of Lords reform, by now, many of us have seen or read Nick Clegg's sombre toned statement on the matter. Step fo ...
  • Cweggy Cwying in the Rose Garden
    Poor Nick Clegg. His mission, for his few years sabbatical from serving his EU masters, was to tear up the constitution of this country as much as possible and tinker with our electoral systems as much as possible to ensure the irrelevant LibDems would play 'kingmaker' for the rest of all et ...
  • Anyone Mensch--ioned Boris yet?
    With the breaking news that Louise Mensch is to step down as MP for Corby and East Northamptonshire, the questions for this morning are... One: Will she still be 'sharing' her pearls of 'wisdom' with us all on Twitter? Two: How long will it take for the clamour for Boris Johnson to reach s ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 5th August 2012
    Conservative MP Dominic Raab - currently on a negative score in our 'MP Watch' - is on hand in the Telegraph to write a passionate piece justifying the Conservative Party's policy of EU appeasement. He believes the Government should: "offer the public a referendum sandwich: the first providin ...
  • Fourth Reich: Now the ITALIANS launch into Naz ...
    While the Greeks have defaced the EU flag placing swastikas at it's heart and Greek newspapers have launched into angered rhetoric lambasting the German control over the disaster that is the EU and it's damned currency, the latest advance in anti-German rhetoric from ITALY puts anything that eve ...

Facing South

  • Battles over voter photo ID laws come to a head
    Facing South readers know the story . After campaigning on jobs and the economy, Republicans in state legislatures in the South and nationally focused on pushing laws that would require voters to show photo ID at the polls. read more
  • 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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Ubuntu App Showdown: 15 Hot Apps to Watch
    Ubuntu App Showdown contest was introduced more than a month ago by Canonical to encourage application development for Ubuntu in a big way. And the initiative is showing results already. More than 150 applications were submitted out of which, 133 has been qualified and made it to the final l ...
  • How to Upgrade to Fireox 14.0.1 in Ubuntu 12.0 ...
    Firefox 14.0.1 has just been released and since it is a major release, updates will be coming to official Ubuntu repositories soon. But for the impatient folks among you, here is how you upgrade to Firefox 14.0.1 from Firefox 13.0.1 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin". Insta ...
  • Xubuntu 12.04 LTS Review: Perfect Alternative ...
    Negative publicity around Ubuntu Unity and GNOME Shell is proving to be a real blessing in disguise for a bunch of smaller, lightweight distros like Xubuntu, Lubuntu et al. As much as I like Unity and GNOME Shell, they are not really the ideal choice for under-powered devices like netbooks. ...
  • 25 Things I did After Installing Ubuntu 12.04 ...
    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" is proving everyone wrong. It is perhaps the most loved Ubuntu release since "Lucid Lynx". Unity is now an almost-finished product. The rock solid nature of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS along with bold moves such as the introduction of features like HUD is winning the h ...
  • Best Free Android Apps for TV and Film Buffs
    Some people say that smart phones are slowly killing televisions as a source of viewing content, but we believe that the two go hand in hand. After all, you don't have to choose one over the other. Being the nice folks we are, we decided to find you the very best Android apps that will ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Wonderland of the Subconscious
    By Visible The resonance here is no mystery to me. We’re all the same person, underneath the patina of the personality. Oh sure, we are as individual as a snowflake but there is a pervasive commonality and it accounts for why certain thoughts will have a wide ranging impact on diverse bein ...
  • BREAKING: 4 man team carried out Sikh massacre ...
    by Jacque Fresco UPDATE: A separate source has corroborated the other eyewitness claim – a family member whose parents were victims of the shooting said his parents told him there were “multiple shooters” involved in a “coordinated” attack. An eyewitness to the Sikh temple shooting in Wisconsin ...
  • Iran Bank Fraud Scandal: 4 Sentenced To Death
    An Iranian court has sentenced four people to death for a billion-dollar bankfraud that tainted the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, state media reported on Monday. Iranians, hit by sanctions and soaring inflation, were shocked by the scale of the $2.6 billion bank loan embezzlement ...
  • Landlord Charged for Front Yard Garden – ...
    Heather Callaghan Activist Post Stay-at-home dad Karl Tricamo was another unsuspecting gardener just going about his favorite hobby and following the rules. He loves to garden with his 55 heirlooms and dislikes GMOs and pesticides. But, like so many others now, he was pushed around and literally ...
  • Pinup Girl and Heart-Throb Boy Continued
    By Visible I recognize that most people don’t feel the way I do about unconditional love, nor do most people pursue it with the same enthusiasm. For me, though, possessing something or seeking to possess it, means exercising it and practicing it. It has no value otherwise. People like to t ...
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