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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 II

Veterans Today

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

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • U.S. Military Pivots To Asia-Pacific Region
    China Daily August 6, 2012 US military swings to Asia-Pacific region Click to enlarge Washington revised its military cooperation over the weekend with two of its major Asian allies as part of a revamp of its Asia strategy, that analysts said are aimed at curbing China. The United States and Jap ...
  • U.S.-Led War Games Detrimental To Asia-Pacific ...
    Xinhua News Agency August 5, 2012 US-led war games detrimental to Asia-Pacific stability BEIJING: Since the start of the year, US armed forces have massively and incessantly engaged in joint military exercises in the Asia-Pacific region. The notable increase of US military presence in the region ...
  • Photo Gallery: America’s favorite freedo ...
    Afghanistan: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar Afghanistan: Jalaluddin Haqqani Afghanistan: Osama bin Laden Bosnia: Nasir Oric Kosovo: Hashim Thaci Kosovo: Ramush Haradinaj Kosovo: Agim Ceku Macedonia: Ali Ahmeti (third from left) Libya: Abdelhakim Belhadj Syria: Riad Mousa al-Asaad
  • No Second Caribbean: South China Sea Is Not U. ...
    Global Times August 6, 2012 South China Sea is not US playground The US Department of State criticized China over the establishment of the Sansha city and garrison last week. US action was partial to Vietnam and the Philippines, and may encourage them to further oppose China. The Chinese Ministr ...
  • Commercially Viable Truth: U.S. Inconveniences ...
    Voice of Russia August 4, 2012 Commercially viable truth: India deserves less attention than US John Robles A month ago a storm in the United States left approximately 200 million people without power for a week in ten states covering an area from Washington to Indiana. The news was covered exte ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Alert: Do These Government Records Tell of Oba ...
    James Smith | The Department of Homeland Security is looking to hire Role Players for the TSA/Air Marshall program starting in December.
  • Report: Adelson Asked Romney to Publicly Deman ...
    Haaretz.com August 6, 2012 Daily Beast says Romney refuses request, saying he ‘could not consider the Pollard situation because he doesn’t have access to the classified information.” Sheldon Adelson, the American Jewish billionaire and close friend of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has ...
  • Private Prisons Cost Arizona $3.5 Million More ...
    thinkprogress.org | Private prisons, touted as a cost-efficient alternative to state-run penitentiaries, are not living up to their promises in at least one state.
  • Dan Dicks Interview Tonight on Press TV and SH ...
    PressForTruth.ca | Dan Dicks talks about the new film trailer release, and gives updates on Syria. Dan will appear on Press TV later today.
  • NSA Director Courts DEF CON Hackers
    criminaljusticedegreeschools.com August 6, 2012 If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em – or at least ask for tips on how they win so much. That seems to be the new line of thinking at the National Security Agency (NSA) given the tack director Gen. Keith Alexander took at DEF CON – the self-described “l ...

FRS

  • US Citizens to lead anti-drone march in northe ...
    Medea Benjamin in Tucson: “Obama’s Tuesday kill list responsible for assassination of 16-year-old from Denver” By Brenda Norrell, Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Thursday, August 2, 2012 TUCSON — President Obama’s Tuesday kill list is responsible for ...
  • In a growing culture of US xenophobia, arrogan ...
    Sikh Temple Massacre Suspect Wade Michael Page Was White Supremacist [Neo-Nazi Wade Michael Page killed seven members of the Sikh religion in suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 5, 2012. He was later killed in a clash with local police at the scene. Photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos ...
  • In a growing culture of US xenophobia, arrogan ...
    Sikh Temple Massacre Suspect Wade Michael Page Was White Supremacist [Neo-Nazi Wade Michael Page killed seven members of the Sikh religion in suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 5, 2012. He was later killed in a clash with local police at the scene. Photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos ...
  • Israel’s Detention Camp for African migrants
    [The appalling history of ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinian population from the exclusivist “Jewish state” of Israel has long been recognized and condemned.  But the ban on African migration (simultaneous with the welcoming -- with open arms and US$ -- of migrants from Russia and fr ...
  • Israel’s Detention Camp for African migrants
    [The appalling history of ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinian population from the exclusivist “Jewish state” of Israel has long been recognized and condemned.  But the ban on African migration (simultaneous with the welcoming -- with open arms and US$ -- of migrants from Russia and fr ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • New Images Show Mars Rover Curiosity's New Hom ...
    PASADENA, Calif. -- This is the latest view from NASA's Mars rover Curioisty, which landed pointing toward its target, Mt. Sharp, a huge peak at the heart of Gale Crater. What a view! NASA downloaded lots more data from the rover overnight and is preparing for it to awaken on Mars. As of 4:30 p ...
  • Watching Curiosity's Mars Landing Live on a 53 ...
    The craziest space moment of the year, in one of the craziest places on Earth TIMES SQUARE, NEW YORK, NY: A dramatic lightning storm with violent accompanying downpour lit up New York’s skies yesterday evening. But the unpredictable weather didn’t stop New York’s space-loving faithful from gath ...
  • Video: The Superhuman Biomechanics Behind Usai ...
    What gives the fastest man in the world his unmatchable speed and acceleration It's now two Olympics running that Usain Bolt has dominated the 100-meter dash, breaking Olympic records both times and being crowned fastest man in the world. He's so good that it's drawn the attention of top engine ...
  • New Image Shows Mars Rover Curiosity Parachuti ...
    PASADENA, Calif. -- As the Mars rover Curiosity plummeted toward its landing on Mars last night, NASA's orbiters, the storied Odyssey orbiter and Reconnaissance Orbiter, were sailing overhead and watching its progress. In an incredible feat of photography on another planet, MRO's HiRISE camera ...
  • Mars Rover Curiosity Sends First High-Resoluti ...
    With more, full-color images to come NASA has just released the best-looking photo (above) we have of the Gale Crater, the piece of the Red Planet where Mars rover Curiosity landed last night. The photo shows the rim of the crater on the horizon and a gravel field in the foreground, as seen thr ...

Veterans Today

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

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Stateless People: Independent Olympic Athletes
    My heart naturally goes out to the stateless people of the world. In our part of the globe there are those frequent headline-grabbers the Rohingya in western Burma. Unfortunately, they are far from alone in their persecution by nation-states who think they do not belong and have not been shy abo ...
  • Serbia Tells EU to Shove Central Bank Independence
    It was not so long ago that I offered to help improve Serbia's chances of EU accession by going on a Soldier of Fortune-inspired "Ratko Hunt 2010." Just when you thought that Serbia's path to EU membership has been smoothed out by the capture (or death) of the "Big Three" war criminals Slobodan ...
  • It's the Economy, Stupid, Egypt & IMF Edition
    Mirror, mirror on the wall Who's the most conditionality-laden of them all? (That's not my cartoon, by the way)  Americans enjoy fairy tales where everyone lives happily ever after: Cinderella. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Unfortunately, many of these Americans in positions of power ...
  • EU Political Economy, France v GB Olympic Ed'n
    In case you missed it, the Socialist French Prime Minister Francois Hollande yukked it up with his British counterpart David Cameron at the London Games. In particular, he took a swipe at Cameron's assertion that Britain stands ready to welcome tax exiles if the French government charges tax rat ...
  • Eternity's End: Venezuela Joins MERCOSUR Today
    ...or, more accurately, what's left of MERCOSUR. Read on to understand why. Well I guess you should never say never: Hot on the heels of Russia joining the WTO after eighteen long years of negotiating its membership (or what passes for it), Venezuela is finally going to join MERCOSUR (Mercado ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2012-08-04 WikiLeaks News Update: New WikiLeak ...
    WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 609 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 606 days. - 46 days at the Ecuadorian Embassy. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 803 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without ...
  • 2012-08-02 Christine Assange Meets The Preside ...
    Ecuador's President Rafael Correa yesterday met with the mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Quito's Palacio Carondelet. read more
  • 2012-08-01 WikiLeaks News Update: New coverage ...
    WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 605 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 603 days. - 43 days at the Ecuadorian Embassy. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 800 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without ...
  • 2012-07-31 Christine Assange Meets Ecuador's F ...
    UPDATE BELOW: In the Ecuadorian capital of Quito today, Christine Assange struggled to hold back tears after a meeting with Ricardo Patiño, Ecuador's Minister for Foreign Relations, Business and Integration. While WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remains trapped in Ecuador's London embassy, his ...
  • 2012-07-29 The undermining of Canadian values ...
    The Minister of Public Safety in Canada, Vic Toews, recently made comments about Omar Khadr's potential transfer to Canada from Guantánamo Bay, where he has been incarcerated since 2002 when he was just 15 years old. The comment by Toews comes after the US formally requested a transfer in April ...

U N News

  • Caribbean countries encouraged to use UN progr ...
    A regional Caribbean body today encouraged its member countries to adopt a United Nations programme which would help them streamline trade and increase transparency in business procedures.
  • UN envoy calls for repatriation of last child ...
    A top United Nations official has renewed her call on Canada and the United States to transfer Omar Khadr, who has spent a decade at Guantánamo Bay as of today and is the last child soldier still being held at the US detention facility.
  • Overall picture of coca cultivation in Colombi ...
    The area used to cultivate coca in Colombia has risen three per cent in 2011 over the previous year, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which added that the overall picture remained stable for the raw material used to produce the illegal drug cocaine.
  • UN expert urges US authorities to stop executi ...
    An independent United Nations human rights expert has urged United States authorities to stop the execution of two people with psychosocial disabilities who are scheduled to be put to death tomorrow in the states of Georgia and Texas.
  • UN voices concern over thousands of Haitians f ...
    The United Nations refugee agency today voiced concern over the number of people from Haiti and other Caribbean countries who have risked their lives trying to escape by sea from difficult living situations in their homelands.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • The Politics of Climate Change
    Originally published in CounterPunch – Weekend Edition August 3-5, 2012 The Age of Unsustainable Problems The Politics of Climate Change by Dr. BRIAN MILLER and GEORGE WUERTHNER Politics cloud the issue of climate change.  We have a global economy driven by fossil fuels.  Whoever controls ...
  • A Radio Interview with John Davis
    It’s always fun to have a conversation with John Davis, so get some iced tea, turn up the volume and take some time to listen as John is interviewed by Ken Rose on What Now, aired on KOWS Radio Occidental July 23, 2012. Weaving lessons learned, travel stories and his deep knowledge and con ...
  • Canid hybridization: contemporary evolution in ...
    Canid hybridization: contemporary evolution in human-modified landscapes Astrid V. Stronen1,*, Nathalie Tessier1, Hélène Jolicoeur2, Paul C. Paquet3, Michel Hénault4, Mario Villemure5, Brent R. Patterson6, Tim Sallows7, Gloria Goulet8,François-Joseph Lapointe1 First published online: July 25, 20 ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – The Myth ...
    The Myth of the Environmental Movement ©2012 Dave Foreman In the years following Earth Day, environmentalism, once regarded as the self-serving indulgence of a privileged elite, became ‘America’s cause’…. –Phil Shabecoff - A Fierce Green Fire: The American   Environmental Movement Th ...
  • Sea Shepherd News
    Letter and excerpts from latest Sea Shepherd newsletter - Dear Friend of Sea Shepherd, Day 47 as a prisoner in Germany. My detainment has raised a lot of awareness for our cause. Citizens in Germany and all around the world have been very supportive. The only one who does not seem supportive is ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Mitt Romney Financed by Drug Money?!?... Las V ...
    Romney (L) - Adelson (R) Las Vegas Sands Corp, controlled by billionaire Republican donor Sheldon Adelson, is the target of a federal investigation into possible violations of US money-laundering laws, the Wall Street Journal reported today.  read more
  • Obama Didn't Get His Way... Senate Voted Down ...
    While a compromised version of the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 was introduced to the Senate in July, the false claim of  “...foreign governments, criminal syndicates and lone individuals are probing our financial, energy and public safety systems every day. It would be the height of irres ...
  • Former Army PSY-OP Soldier Wade Michael Page I ...
    It is now openly admitted throughout the mainstream that one of the suspects in the Wisconsin mass shooting is former Army PSY-OPS. The fact that the “Batman Shooter” and the “Temple” shooters are both linked to psy-programs is frightening to say the least. ~ Shepard Ambellas - related article ...
  • Sikh Temple Shooting... Another False Flag Sta ...
    Obama insiders have publicly bragged that they have a ace up their collective sleeves against political enemies-staged mass shootings, bombings and other nasty terror. It's so easy to carry out a false flag and cast yourself as the hero while demonizing your opposition. All you need is a dru ...
  • Foreign Troops Spotted at Texas Wal-Mart Maski ...
    On August 1, 2012 a group of foreign troops was spotted and filmed by a patriot You-Tuber at a local Wal-Mart store. What is most disturbing about the video footage is the fact that the foreign troops are piling into large government vans upon departure from the store. ~ Shepard Ambellas ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Basic Disaster Supplies Emergency Survival Kit
    Having a basic emergency kit, is a first step towards responsible self preservation. The basic survival kit should be geared towards the most common or likely disaster or collapse scenarios that could occur in your area. The purpose of a basic kit is to better deal with the outcome and effects t ...
  • Bug-Out-Bag Papers and Documents
    A bug-out bag or kit should include more than just some food and supplies, it should also contain important papers and documents which would make your life easier should you need to refer to them later. If your home has been wiped out by disaster or whatever circumstance… you could potenti ...
  • Survival Cash For After The Disaster
    After a disaster or a deflationary economic collapse, CASH will be King… for awhile. During an inflationary economic collapse (which would be runaway hyperinflation), GOLD and SILVER and other commodities will be King. Well, actually either way, Gold and Silver holds its value with respect ...
  • Reloading Ammo: Case, Round, Primer, Die, Bull ...
    Guest post: by ‘Tripod XL’ What happens when you pull the trigger? This is not a “shooting aftermath”. This is recycling at it’s best! This is about reloading ammunition. When you shoot a round of BRASS CASED, BOXER PRIMED ammo, you leave a significant recyclable component, the brass ...
  • Government Gone Wild Says ALL The Water Is Theirs
    In our original article, All Water In Oregon Belongs To The State, we reported the fact that an Oregon man, Gary Harrington, has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for having 3 ponds on his property (which he has had for 37 years) which apparently fill from rainwater runoff and snow melt from an ...

Fast Company

  • YouSnub: Apple's Next iOS Will Be Google-Free
    Not only has Apple created its own version of maps to replace the Google Maps app in iOS 6, but it's nixed the native YouTube app--a feature that has been included in iOS since its beginning. Apple had this to say about the omission: “Our license to include the YouTube app in iOS has ended, ...
  • One Down, Google To Go As AOL Settles With Vri ...
    AOL has reached a settlement with Vringo, the mobile app company that sued for patent infringement last fall. Google is still Vringo's primary target here, but the move could prove auspicious for Vringo. The amount wasn't disclosed, but investors reacted by driving up Vringo's stock price 20 ...
  • Shark Week, Thunderclap Form Voltron Of Awesom ...
    Pledge a tweet, save a shark. Discovery Channel's Shark Week is teaming up with Thunderclap to give its social campaign some extra bite. Shark Week is supporting three shark conservation groups--the Pew Environment Group, Oceana and Shark Savers. Regular shark lovers can rally behind the the ...
  • Maelle Gavet: The Jeff Bezos Of Russia
    If you have an idea here, chances are it hasn't been done well. Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur. Attribution:  Maelle Gavet, CEO of Russia's largest e-commerce company, Ozon Holdings
  • Landfills Are The Mines Of The Future
    There are greater concentrations of precious metals in our e-waste than there are in the ground. And it’s a lot cheaper and cleaner to get things out of e-waste than starting a giant mining operation. Where would you rather get the materials for your next gadget?

Jadaliyya

  • Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (August 7)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ...
  • Understanding the Standoff in Mali
    The standoff between Mali’s government and the armed Islamists who control two-thirds of the country is unlikely to resolve peacefully, and the prospects for a new war in the Sahel appear increasingly probable. In January, a disciplined Tuareg separatist group, the Movement for the National Lib ...
  • Egypt Media Roundup (August 6)
     [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com b ...
  • Jadaliyya Launches Arab (Tikram) Yoga Page, Co ...
    [UPDATED 6 August 2012] A Note from Tikram Page Editors: With a happy, smiling face, the Tikram Page Editors would like to express disappointment at the negative energy that some souls have tried to inject into this world through their (so far, unsuccessful) attempts to hijack Tikram’s initiati ...
  • زوبعة "النمر" لم تكن في فنجان
    على الرغم من مرور أكثر من ثلاثة أسابيع على اعتقال الشيخ نمر النمر إلا أن الشارع  لم يهدأ وأصوات المتظاهرين لازالت تدوي في الارجاء، ولازالت المدرعات وقوات الأمن تلاحق الشباب وتقنص وتترصد في نواحي عدة في قرى وبلدات محافظة القطيف. أرض القطيف اهتزت بهتافات الآلاف من الغاضبين في تشييع الشهد ...

mediagazer

  • The Newsroom - 'Yours in Truth,' About Ben Bra ...
    Phil Bronstein / New York Times: The Newsroom  —  ‘Yours in Truth,’ About Ben Bradlee, by Jeff Himmelman  —  Ben Bradlee is not God.  —  That's a hard truth for those who worked for him at The Washington Post, or who simply revere him. ...
  • London 2012: What It's Like To Cover The Olymp ...
    David Bauder / Associated Press: London 2012: What It's Like To Cover The Olympics From New York  —  NEW YORK — Between Olympic soccer matches, NBC analyst Marcelo Balboa fields texts and emails from friends who ask him, “How's London?”  He wouldn't know.& ...
  • Are the Olympics a bigger media draw than the ...
    Daniel Frankel / paidContent: Are the Olympics a bigger media draw than the Super Bowl?  —  Are the Games really bigger than the Big Game?  —  According to a Pew Research study released Monday, nearly 8 out of 10 Americans say they're following the London Olympic ...
  • Push by Syrian Rebels Opens Space for Foreign ...
    Robert Mackey / The Lede: Push by Syrian Rebels Opens Space for Foreign Journalists to Report on Conflict  —  As my colleagues Damien Cave and Hwaida Saad report, the White House claimed on Monday that President Bashar al-Assad's “grip on power is loosening,” amid co ...
  • Bleacher Report and the evolution of the conte ...
    Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: Bleacher Report and the evolution of the content farm  —  Turner Broadcasting confirmed on Monday that it is acquiring the sports-blogging network Bleacher Report for what some estimate to be about $175 million — a deal that was first reported by Al ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Moratti: PSG have bid €45m for Luca ...
    Inter Milan president Massimo Moratti has claimed that Paris St Germain have offered Sao Paulo €45 million for in-demand midfielder Lucas Moura, a fee he believes is "completely illogical". PA PhotosLucas...
  • Only 9.63 seconds to Bolt
    IT WAS over in a flash. A Bolt of thunder followed by lightning on the track. Olympia was on fire. A legacy was sealed. No 100 metre champion has kept to speed like Usain Bolt, who remains the greatest even as many smote his ability to go for gold in a bid to write him off the starting block ...
  • At the Net: Murray the Magnificent
    It wasn't a Wimbledon title, but it was darn near close...if not just as good. Andy Murray broke through with the biggest win of his career this past weekend by toppling world No. 1 Roger Federer to capture Olympic gold at the story- filled London Games. The London resident, as you would exp ...
  • Ahmadinejad invited to Saudi summit over ...
    Tehran: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will take part in a meeting of the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Saudi Arabia, which will focus on the Syrian conflict, Iran's...
  • Moratti slams 'illogical' Paris Saint-Ger ...
    The Nerazzurri president has confirmed the club will not be signing the Brazil international, after the French side offered a much larger amount for the player...

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Anna's News

  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
  • Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...
    For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |& ...
  • South Sudan becomes an independent nation
    South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • News of the World staff shocked at closure
    Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • The Fundamental Nature of Consciousness
    Neuroscientist Giulio Tononi’s PHI: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul takes the reader on an imaginative tour in which Galileo tries to discover an explanation for our conscious selves. … Read More>> Filed under: Neuroscience, Philosophy Tagged: Consciousness
  • The Wisdom of Psychopaths
    Kevin Dutton In this engrossing journey into the lives of psychopaths and their infamously crafty behaviors, the renowned psychologist Kevin Dutton reveals that there is a scale of “madness” along which we all sit. Incorporating the latest advances in brain scanning and neuroscience, Dutton demo ...
  • The economics of Olympic success
      Tyler Cowen and Kevin Grier evaluate the economics of olympic success and how to boost a country’s medal count Tyler Cowen and Kevin Grier “The Olympic Games are competitions between athletes in individual or team events and not between countries.” — International Olympi ...
  • The spectre of plagiarism
    A spectre is haunting Europe, and this time it is the spectre of plagiarism and scientific misconduct. Some high-profile politicians have had to resign in the last 18 months – but the revelations are also shaking respected European universities. Debora Weber-Wulff Many European countries, ...
  • Baudelaire’s B
    http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/4565/fullSaintsburywhen Baudelaire embarked on his literary career he wanted to make his mark not in poetry but in prose. In 1847 he informed his mother that he was going to commit himself to achieving commercial success in the newly dominant literary form of ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
  • How sex hormones influence right heart function
    WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

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

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • A Project To Track Every Bomb We Have Ever Dro ...
      MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. — Six years ago it seemed a zany idea when Lieutenant Colonel Jenns Robertson , 45, a bespectacled Minnesota native with an outsized gee-whiz quality even by military standards, began a rather unusual hobby: documenting a century of US air power — bomb by bomb ...
  • No Knights Did NOT Have To Be Lifted On Their ...
      It was during the filming of Henry, that the Master of the Armories at the Tower of London, Sir James Mann, had an absolute fit. He was acting as technical advisor to the filming of this famous movie and wanted to show King Henry in Knights armor that was so heavy he had to [...]
  • What An Art Director Or Set Director Knows Abo ...
      Their clothes didn’t always fit well.   The massively operose task of training, arming, clothing and feeding and then sending hundreds of thousands of people into the bloody jars of war is as daunting as actual combat. Perhaps even more so. Imagine just the task of having two governm ...
  • Best Nike TV Spot For The Olympics. Find Your ...
  • The Panzerfaust Was So Good, We Captured Them ...
        The Nazi’s made six million lightweight, portable, single shot, disposable anti tank guns that made short work of Allied armor. The round was 3.9 inch, or 100mm. It was a recoilless rocket propelled shape charge that was deadly at close range. You don’t see many of these in the mov ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Mitt Romney Distorting Obama Military Complain ...
    “President Obama’s lawsuit claiming it is for Ohio to allow servicemen and women extended early voting privileges during the state’s early voting period is an outrage.” – Mitt Romney WHILE SEN. REID continues to confound Republicans on what they can do about his unabashedly brazen charges ...
  • ‘America’s False-Memory Syndrome’ and the ‘Poi ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. I’ll acknowledge from the top that one reason I appreciate Andrew O’Hehir’s post, ”Total Recall” and America’s false-memory syndrome is because he’s saying things very similar to what I frequently write about, because ...
  • The Disingenuousness of Sandra Day O’Connor
    “Any time you’re deciding a case involving a presidential election, it’s awfully close to politics.” – Sandra Day O’Connor on “Face the Nation THIS WAS JUST too much to believe. How did former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor have the unmitigated gall t ...
  • Britain’s Celebrity MP and Cameron Groupie Lou ...
    THIS STORY is a hoot on just too many levels to innumerate. But the importance of Ms. Mensch’s bolting from Parliament is given gravitas by Iain Martin of the Telegraph, because he refuses to give the “Twitter queen,” as she’s known in Britain, any room on her excuses. It ...
  • News Desk: Pres. Obama Tweets Mars Landing
    **UPDATED** Statement by the President on Curiosity Landing on Mars Tonight, on the planet Mars, the United States of America made history. The successful landing of Curiosity – the most sophisticated roving laboratory ever to land on another planet – marks an unprecedented feat of technology th ...

Hudson New York

  • Should the US Remilitarize Military Procurement?
    The US military is facing potentially catastrophic funding cuts due to last year's so-called "sequestration" deal between the President and the Republicans in Congress. If Congress and the President fail to agree on future tax and spending policy, on
  • The Sinai Attack and Gaza-Israel Border Incide ...
    When I read the news of Sunday night's attack on an Egyptian military post in the Sinai Peninsula, I immediately jumped to conclusions. I had, after all, noted here that Hamas had freed al Qaeda member Hisham al-Saedni on Thursday, and that immediately
  • Olympic Silence: The Anti-Semitic Past of the IOC
    During the opening ceremony of the London Olympics, Count Jacques Rogge, the Belgian who is the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), refused to hold a minute of silence for the eleven Israeli Olympic athletes murdered forty years ago
  • Anti-Palestinian Discrimination in Jordan
    In a daring and unprecedented move, Jordanian politicians, academics, political activists and media figures have sent a letter to King Abdullah urging him to end discrimination against Jordanians of Palestinian origin. The letter serves as a warning to
  • Will Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Orient to Saud ...
    Depending on whom you believe, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood will ally with Saudi Arabia (according to Fouad Ajami) or Iran (according to former Indian diplomat M.K. Bhadrakumar. These are mutually exclusive scenarios given the extreme enmity between Riyadh

Urban Survival

  • Gun Control Whine
    President Obama is making the familiar pitch for gun control, again, pointing to Aurora and most recently the Sikh temple shootings as “reasons.”   In case no one has reminded you lately, criminals don’t care about gun laws.  Places that … Continue reading →
  • Coping: A Call for Line Laws
    (Las Vegas, NV)  As we wander back toward the land of living cheaply, from the land of living large, one of our “experiences” was to take in a semi-famous Las Vegas buffet,  Not the one as Caesar’s which will put … Continue reading →
  • V.P. Roulette
    (Las Vegas, NV)  Stories are rolling this morning that Condi Rice may be off the table as a potential Mittster veep.  Which means we will be subjected to endless speculation about who’s behind curtail numbger two.  I haven’t heard of … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Running out of Dough
    (Las Vegas, NV)  Been a fine, once-in-a-lifetime  and no cruise ship adventure this vacation of ours.  No, we didn’t hang around Modesto, CA for X-Fest on Saturday night.  I mean, 60-bands and 12 stages sounded interesting, but since we are … Continue reading →
  • Jobs: Flat/Down
    Not too surprising, the new report on the unemployment rate is just out and it’s bound to become a political football sometime today…since it is not as good as what had been expected:   “Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • India's Role in Phasing Down Hydrofluorocarbon ...
    Anjali Jaiswal, Senior Attorney, San Francisco Leaders around the world, including my colleague David Doniger, recently met in Bangkok for the mid-year meeting of the Montreal Protocol to discuss, among other things, phasing down the “super gr ...
  • NRDC in the News 8/3: Nontoxic cotton dyes, pi ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide In a Bloomberg Businessweek article about a new nontoxic treatment for dyeing cotton, Susan Egan Keane explains how the textile dyeing industry can create hundreds of tons of water pollution… ...
  • It doesn't have to be low-density to be sprawl
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   On my flight home from California last week, I took the photo above.  It's not the greatest photo, but I captured the image to illustrate the edge of suburban sprawl in s ...
  • Carbon Pollution Update: Zombie Power Plants ...
    David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. As we sweat through this roaring-hot, extreme-weather summer, nearly 3 million Americans have raised their voices in public comments supporting EPA’s proposed stan ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile While the two companies who own the proposed Hidroaysén dam project in Patagonia, Endesa and Colbún, hope to resume the project before the end of the year, there remains si ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct News Feed Daily Rec ...
    Here are the 16 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, August 3, 2012: Helena, Arkansas: a former Helena-West Helena officer who had been indicted for drug trafficking and corruption has been sentenced to 14 months in prison. http://goo.gl/KlvLM Bergen County, … Continue rea ...
  • Deaf Woman Calls Police for Help; Police Arriv ...
    From KIROTV.com: KIRO TV’s investigative unit has discovered Tacoma police used force to arrest and handcuff an innocent deaf woman after she called 911 for their help. Instead of an apology, she ended up bloody and in jail for nearly … Continue reading →Deaf Woman Calls Police ...
  • Rogue Metro Gang “Strike Force”
    From the Star Tribune: A toddler, not yet 2 years old, was kicked in the head by a Metro Gang Strike Force officer and his crib was destroyed during a botched drug raid. The government’s payout to the child: $6,000. … Continue reading →Rogue Metro Gang “Strike Force&#8221 ...
  • The Michael Nida Case
    The Michael Nida Case is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • National Police Misconduct News Feed Daily Rec ...
    Here are the 14 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, August 2, 2012: Birmingham, Alabama: a Birmingham police officer has been indicted for two separate excessive force incidents. “We will prosecute those few who abuse their law enforcement powers … Continue reading &#8 ...

Total Collapse

  • Polish president says US missile deployment a ...
    Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski has described as “a political mistake” his country’s agreement to let the deployment of US missile system on its territory by 2018. “Our mistake was that while accepting the US proposal, we have not taken into account a political risk related to the change o ...
  • Chinese warships start 4-day “visit” to Turkey
    Two Chinese warships, including a guided missile destroyer, started a four-day visit to Turkey after they arrived in Istanbul on Sunday. The Chinese warships and navy officers were greeted by Chinese ambassador to Turkey, Gong Xiaosheng, Turkish navy officers, and representatives from Chinese fi ...
  • False Flag Sikh Massacre In US Shocks Top Russ ...
    A grim report prepared by Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov on the latest “false flag” massacre in America is warning today that Russia should be prepared for “unprecedented and potentially catastrophic” rapid changes to occur in the United States within the next few months as the forces ba ...
  • Egyptian Air Force Deploys Fighter Jets To The ...
    Egyptian Air Force deployed fighter jets in the Sinai Peninsula on Monday in the wake of the Kerem Shalom attack, for the first time since the Egypt-Israel peace treaty was signed in 1979, Egyptian news agencies reported. Two fighter jets, armed with attack missiles, arrived in El Arish early Mo ...
  • Iran Prepares to Close Strait of Hormuz
    Security of the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz was studied by MPs and Commander of IRGC Navy Rear-Admiral Ali Fadavi and Army’s Navy Commander Rear-Admiral Habibollah Sayyari on Sunday. Spokesman for Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Hossein Naqavi Hosseini told IRN ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Chrome grabs a ...
    Google Chrome now has a third of global browser market share according to StatCounter, Baidu fires staff for deleting forum posts in return for money, and Pandora’s still growing fast....
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – World of Warcra ...
    Blizzard and World of Warcraft are bleeding subscribers. Samsung can’t reference 2001: A Space Odyssey with its patent suit against Apple. Facebook drops below $20 per share. You can catch...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Facebook’ ...
    Facebook reveals its fake user accounts, investigative reporting lands its own YouTube Channel and Android moves out into its own blog. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – The new Digg un ...
    Betaworks unveils the new version of Digg, Hulu briefly works worldwide on Apple TV, and over 1 million people sign up for Microsoft’s new Outlook.com in its first six hours....
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Twitter and NBC ...
    Twitter sends a smackdown to Stocktwits. Apple’s next iPhone comes in September. Twitter and NBC play the blame game. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right...

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Climate and culture: abrupt change and rapid r ...
    As the world experiences record heat, increased drought and fires, unprecedented ice melt and similar extreme weather anomalies decades before expected, climatologists have been forced to reconsider previous climate change projections and research techniques. Less than a decade ago, scientific c ...
  • Chart: the world's endangered mammals
    Last month the International Union for Conservation of Nature — better known as IUCN — released an update on the conservation status of the world's lemurs. The update was not cause for celebration: 91 percent of the world's lemurs — all of which are native to Madagascar — ...
  • Earth's ecosystems still soaking up half of hu ...
    Even as humans emit ever more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, Earth's ecosystems are still sequestering about half, according to new research in Nature. The study finds that the planet's oceans, forests, and other vegetation have stepped into overdrive to deal with the influx of carbon emitt ...
  • Gibson Guitar to pay $300,000 for violating La ...
    Gibson Guitar Company has avoided criminal prosecution under the Lacey Act — a law that aims to curb illegal logging abroad — by settling with the Department of Justice.
  • Southeast Asia's largest lowland rainforest sp ...
    Four economic land concessions have been cancelled in Cambodia's Prey Lang forest, known as the largest intact lowland forest in Southeast Asia, reports the Phnom Penh Post. The economic land concessions, totaling over 40,000 hectares, would have been used for rubber plantations.

Sierra Express

  • Has the APC government just conceded another o ...
    It is often said that the foundation of every state lies in the education of its youths.  According to John F. Kenedy, the 35th President of the United States of America:  “Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education, the human mind is our fundamental resource”.  In ...
  • Poetry Collection Review: Willie James King’s ...
    I’ve known Willie James King for over a decade.  Our initial meeting was probably predestined, as most of our conversations have centered around his commitment as a devoted, dedicated and seasoned poet.  King holds an MFA in creative writing, and other degrees in English and Education.  He’s wid ...
  • Mahmoud FC win 2012 Airtel Rising Stars girls’ ...
    Mahmoud FC (in photo) are the champions of the 2012 Airtel Rising Stars (ARS) girls’ tournament and have qualified to represent Sierra Leone at the Airtel Pan African competition in Nairobi this month. The western Area champions will officially be declared the winners on Sunday, the day th ...
  • Tides in Sierra Leone [Poetic History Of Sierr ...
    Précis In 1462, the waves carried the shrill cry, “Sierra Lyoa!” Lion Mountains! Professed the sailor, Pedro Da Cintra To this wonderful abode of nature, valour and power Reduced to a mall for humans during the colonial era Land of the homeless, the Athens of old West Africa… Early History Histo ...
  • ‘Green economy’: empty rhetoric or pathway to ...
    World leaders and some 40,000 people converged on Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June in the hope of charting a path towards a better, more sustainable future for everyone that many are calling the “green economy.” Underlining the urgency, Sha Zukang, secretary-general of the UN Conference on Sustai ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Rand Paul to Speak at Republican National Conv ...
    Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) isn't currently scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention, but according to Reuters*, his son Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)--the one with the future with the GOP--will be. This is a sign that Rand Paul's clear attempts to be the libertarian-leanin ...
  • Wayne Allyn Root Is Why the Libertarian Party ...
    Former Libertarian Party vice presidential candidate and current Libertarian National Campaign Committee Chair Wayne Allyn Root is why libertarians can't have nice things. Case in point: Root's latest column at Glenn Beck's The Blaze. Let me sum it up for you: Mitt Romney should ...
  • Private Funding for Space Exploration? Katheri ...
    Reason Managing Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward debates Bill Nye "the Science Guy" about public versus private funding for space exploration on CNBC's Street Signs. Air Date: August 6, 2012. About 5 minutes.
  • Hiroshima 67 Years Later: Some Reminders of th ...
    Here's a perfect summary of World War II: even the good guys committed monstrous, criminal acts. That's the good war for ya, no matter how good it was that Hitler lost. Today, if pausing to think about the first use of an atomic bomb on civilians, first and foremost, go read Anthon ...
  • Mexico's President-Elect Peña Nieto Wants to E ...
    The long-awaited end to Mexico’s deadly War on Drugs may be farther off than hoped, reports New America Media. Advisors to President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto have signaled that the rebirth of the PRI party means the $50 billion war is going international. Well, at least more ...

Mercury Rising

  • There’s Death In The Pot: The Perils Of ...
    Elisha returned to Gilgal and there was a famine in that region. While the company of the prophets was meeting with him, he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot and cook some stew for these prophets.” One of them went out into the fields to gather herbs and found a wild vine [...]
  • Paray fer Emerica, nu?
    Recent comment by a middle-aged Mormon with some college education (no link): My God Will supply all i needs according to his Riches in Glory nu Chirst Jesus. If we could reform right-wing spelling, we might have a chance at their theology. Nu?
  • Do Mitt’s Tax Returns Show IRA Shenanigans?
    I’ve been wondering why the reporters of America’s establishment media are too busy attacking Harry Reid for his questions about Willard “Mitt” Romney’s stubborn refusal to follow his own father George’s example and release several years’ worth of tax re ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Friday Cat Blogging

Reality Sandwich

  • Is Sharing Safe?
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  • Waking Up to the Possibilities of Being Asleep
    A third of our life is spent sleeping -- this relates to approximately to 25 years of the average person's life! For most people this is either a blank void or a time when the best we can hope for is some confusing and often incomprehensible dream memories. What if we could utilize that ...
  • Sex in the News
    Guns verse sexual freedom, asexuality is a sexual identity, the Chinese Police rescue a sex doll, and men fake orgasm too. read more
  • The Stargate Project : Psychic Warriors and th ...
    Metaphysical and psychic phenomena have long existed on the fringes of conventional science and academia. ESP, Clairvoyance, Telekinesis and Astral traveling have all been relegated to the back seat of mainstream, accepted belief systems in spite of an extensive mention of these practices do ...
  • Machine Elves 101 (Or, Why Terence McKenna Mat ...
      This article is excerpted from Machine Elves 101 (Or, Why Terence McKenna Matters), recently released by Reality Sandwich Singles, a new series of novella-length e-books.   read more

Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

  • Prince William, Kate Middleton: More Than $80, ...
    The average British working household income is less than $40,000 U.S. That is why I have no use for those who are so privileged by birth. It is sickening. Probably Kate and William rented the whole airplane. Read more here. Kate Middleton: The gold-digger. Interesting video.
  • Canada Day and #DenounceHarper
    “#DenounceHarper is trending on Twitter in Canada, just behind #HappyCanadaDay. Users are using the hashtag to voice dissatisfaction with the Harper government, or just the man himself.” Read more about #DenounceHarper
  • TVO's The Agenda: The New McCarthyism
    There is no worse cancer in a free society than the thuggish impulse to equate dissent as disloyalty... The greatest patriot is the person with the courage to be the lone voice in the crowd crying out that the Emperor has no clothes. The test of our society's democratic nature is our instinct ...
  • Harper's Canada Day message loudly booed at Ja ...
  • U.S. Healthcare Legislation
    Fuxs News’ take on the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on Healthcare. Repugs are apparently very upset by the decision. Repugs spin machine is going hard at it. Sarah Palin gives her gyrations. “Obama lies, freedom dies” Sarah Palin. Watch the latest video at Press TV - Middle East
  • Syrian army foils bomb attack in Hama
    Syrian security forces have foiled a bomb attack by insurgents in the western city of Hama amid fierce clashes between government forces and armed groups in the country’s largest city of Aleppo.
  • Saudi protesters hold rallies in Qatif
    Saudi anti-regime protesters have once against held rallies in the city of Qatif in Eastern Province to protest against police crackdown on demonstrators.
  • Syrian army confiscates cache of arms
    Syrian military forces have confiscated a cache of weapons belonging to the insurgents in al-Shadadi city in northeast Syria.
  • Convoy of Turkish forces enters Syria
    A convoy of Turkish forces backed by several helicopters has entered the Syrian town of Jarablos in a Kurdish area.
  • Syria army engages rebels in Aleppo
    Syrian security forces have clashed with insurgents in several neighborhoods in the country’s largest city of Aleppo as part of their efforts to clear the city of the armed groups, Press TV reports.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Life, Liberty and Your Individual Pursuit of H ...
    “Live Your Best Life”… is what Oprah says and everybody knows that when Oprah speaks, we listen, intently! What happens when we aren’t necessarily happy with our best lives? We think we’d be better off with our co-worker’s best and our neighbor’s best because their best seems so much ...
  • What did I do on my summer vacation…?
    I remember, just before returning to school every fall, thinking for weeks and weeks how I would answer that question. Would I tell my classmates about a trip to the beach, or attending sleep-away camp, or a summer job? Since my birthday is at the end of August it was fun talking to my classmate ...
  • Reflections on Project Rwanda
    For the past three years, faculty and students in the M.A. in Applied Theatre program at CUNY’s School of Professional Studies have traveled to Rwanda to implement the project “Drama and Theatre Education in Schools for Reconciliation and Development in Rwanda.” The twin goals of Project R ...
  • Are We Becoming Flattened by Technology?
    Are you an optimist or pessimist? There’s only one way to find out. I find it amazing that so much has progressed in our society—medical, education, economics, and even in technology.  The experience I’ve had thus far has surprisingly helped me.  I say surprisingly because with knowl ...
  • Five Questions for Our 1000th Facebook Fan
    We recently surpassed 1000 “likes” on our Facebook page, so to commemorate this milestone we asked our 1000th fan, Susan Punturieri, to tell us a little about herself. How did you learn about SPS? A co-worker referred the program to me. She said she really enjoyed it. I was looking i ...

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

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

Yeti Betty

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

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Honduran President Puts “Tigers” on the Streets
    The Honduran government’s plan to create a new rapid response police force, as part of a strategy to militarise the fight against crime, is dangerously vague, experts say. The creation of the elite “Intelligence and Special Security Response Groups Unit” (whose acronym is Tigres, which means “ti ...
  • Cuban Intellectuals Discuss the Transformation ...
    On discussion panels, by email and in the blogosphere, Cuban intellectuals are speaking out to bring a critical perspective and propose roads forward to national development. And they increasingly seem to be including the transformation of public space as one of their goals. In response to a que ...
  • How a Gay Rights Maverick Helped Topple Icelan ...
    By the time the political climate in Iceland was ripe for the Cutlery Revolution, Hörður Torfason was already well practiced at stirring things up. “I’ve been doing this all my life,” he told IPS in an interview. In 1975, Torfason stepped forward as the first openly gay man in Iceland, to much p ...
  • Mexicans Migrate – Body and Soul
    Sergio Guerrero immigrated to the United States without documents in 2006 and returned to Mexico in 2010, converted to another religious faith. “I was Catholic, and there I met a lot of evangelicals, so I was reborn in Christ,” the 31-year-old father of three told IPS. The story of Guerrero, who ...
  • Native Peoples Take on Threadbare Stereotypes
    With the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples coming up on Thursday, native communities are increasingly using media to challenge a legacy of stereotypes. This year’s theme, “Indigenous Media, Empowering Indigenous Voices”, takes the international stage against a backd ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Criticism of David Crist's book Twilight War
    Summary: Having perused the much-lauded book by David Crist, I can't help but notice that it is not only light on citations but the material on Iran, and Iran's nuclear program in particular, is either flat wrong or merely a reinforcement of conventional wisdom, doused in a good bit of innuen ...
  • Syria as a Proxy Arena for the Obama Administr ...
    Summary: Yesterday, Flynt appeared on Al Jazeera’s Inside Story to discuss Syria, regional politics, and U.S. policy in the wake of Kofi Annan’s resignation as the UN/Arab League special envoy for Syria. Flynt argues that possibilities for achieving a political resolution to what has become ...
  • Tightening the Noose on Iran
    Summary: New sanctions on the Islamic Republic stack the deck for war. source: The American Conservativeread more
  • The Power of War Propaganda on Iran, and How I ...
    Summary: So can the politicians and the media still be blamed for spreading falsehoods about Iran? In a word, yes. Former CIA officer Paul Pillar, when writing about the misinformation campaign to sell the Iraq war, explained it was “less a matter of instilling any specific mistaken belief ...
  • Illegitimate Sanctions on Iran
    Summary: Blockades are acts of war. Multiples rounds of sanctions targeting vital state functions have similar effects if pushed too far. Ones in place now violate fundamental human rights. They're illegal. Iran should sue. Unlike the International Criminal Court, ICJ rulings are more measure ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Can eating fruit help you quit smoking?
    Researchers from the University at Buffalo are coming forward with some new advice for people who are struggling to give up the use of tobacco products. The longitudinal study is a groundbreaking investigation of the mutually effective relationship between tobacco use...
  • Former CIA contractor sued for leaking classif ...
    A former CIA contractor is being sued by the federal government for publishing an online book "containing intelligence-related information" without the agency's prior consent, in violation of his agreement, the government claims in court documents. Jonathan Scherck's...
  • Medical establishment too dysfunctional to cor ...
    A few months ago, a simple breakdown in communication between doctors led to the death of a 12-year-old boy in New York. Approximately 100,000 people die each year as a result of errors in hospitals, according to a decade-old national panel. In addition to breakdowns...
  • We are 90 percent microbes: Human Microbiome P ...
    Certain biologists and a big part of the natural treatment community have long been preaching about the vital importance of the tiny microorganisms in and on our body. In the last couple of years, the research on the subject has sky-rocketed, and a whole new approach...
  • Federal government now ruthlessly stealing tho ...
    If you run a family farm or other small business in which you regularly make large cash deposits at the bank, you could be in violation of a little-known federal law called the Bank Secrecy Act. Making regular cash deposits of any amount, in fact, could land you in the...

Threat Level

  • How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My ...
    On Friday, Wired staff writer Mat Honan got hacked hard, his phone and computer wiped, his Gmail emptied and his Twitter hijacked. Here's what happened and how, thanks to AIM chats with the culprits.
  • Proposed Privacy Law Demands Court Warrants fo ...
    Two Democratic congressmen are proposing sweeping changes to a U.S. privacy law that would always require the government to obtain a probable-cause warrant to access data stored in the cloud.
  • Attaché Company Attacks Marvel, Alleging Aveng ...
    German luxury travel-case maker Rimowa claims in a federal lawsuit that the forthcoming Blu-ray box set of the Marvel Entertainment hit movie Avengers infringes on its Topas attaché case. The "Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One -- Avengers Assembled Box Set"comes in a briefcase that looks lik ...
  • Judge Skeptical of Facebook ‘Sponsored Stories ...
    A San Francisco federal judge declined Thursday to approve a Facebook legal settlement concerning the social-networking site's "Sponsored Stories" advertising program, saying he was concerned that the $10 million payout might not be big enough.
  • Legislation Seeks to Limit Warrantless Wiretap ...
    An Oregon senator wants the government's eavesdropping program to be more respectful of Americans' privacy rights, and introduced a bill Thursday to change the law. Unfortunately, the current program is all but re-authorized, without changes, by Congress.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Romney's Financial Ties to Iran, China Back in ...
    Conservatives on Monday were predictably orgasmic in response to the Washington Post report that Obama campaign adviser David Plouffe earned $100,000 in speaking fees from a firm which did business with Tehran. As it turns out, the Republicans accusing the President of being "soft on Iran" are ...
  • Romney Proposes $80 Million Tax Cut for His Family
    The U.S. tax code may be difficult to grasp, but understanding the presidential candidates' plans for it doesn't have to be. President Obama wants to raise his own taxes, while Mitt Romney wants to dramatically reduce the already small slice he pays to Uncle Sam. Of course, that simplificatio ...
  • Mitt Romney's Meth Labs of Democracy
    Few phrases pepper the rhetoric of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney more frequently than variations of Justice Brandeis' famous quote that the states may "serve as a laboratory" for the rest of the nation. "Before imposing a one-size-fits-all federal program," Romney wrote in 2009, " ...
  • Romney in Hot Water over James Baker Anecdote
    From the beginning, Mitt Romney's much-hyped overseas journey has devolved into one self-inflicted wound after another. But largely lost in the laughter is another episode which to Romney's right-wing allies is no laughing matter at all. On the eve of the trip, Romney quoted former Reagan chie ...
  • Jewish Voters, Republican Chutzpah
    As Mitt Romney begins his excellent adventure in Israel, it's worth noting the many advantages he enjoys over his former Republican rivals when it comes to courting Jewish voters. For starters, Romney considers Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "my friend," one with whom he shares "comm ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Bloodshed Along North Sinai Border Rocks Egypt
    Muslim Brotherhood is blaming Israel for the deadly cross-border attack which killed 16 Egyptian soldiers
  • Why Doesn't Assad Make a Deal?
    Sami Ramadani Pt4: US, Saudi and Turkey's support of Muslim Brotherhood in Syria makes a deal unlikely
  • The Future Does Not Look Good for Iran by Mich ...
    by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org August 5, 2012 Occasionally individuals complain that I fail to address one subject or another. One Berkeley denizen got in my face and announced: “You leftists ought to become aware of the ecological ...
  • Virginia Tech Survivor Colin Goddard: To Preve ...
    Police in Wisconsin have identified the suspected gunman in the Sikh temple shooting as Army veteran Wade Michael Page. According to the Associated Press, Page enlisted in April 1992 and was given a less-than-honorable discharge in October 1998. The Wisconsin shooting came just more than two wee ...
  • Wisconsin Sikh Temple Shooting Latest Tragedy ...
    Following the attacks on September 11, 2001, Sikh Americans have faced many of the same discriminatory conditions as Muslims and Arab Americans. Because of their distinct appearance, they are visible targets of violence and harassment. Observant Sikhs do not cut their hair; male followers often ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Perseid Meteor Shower August 11th – 12th 2012
    On August 11th-12th, 2012, the Perseid meteor shower will peak in intensity, several meteors will be visible streaking across the sky every minute. The exact peak will be around 2am early Sunday morning (Saturday night), on August 12th. The moon will be in its waning crescent phase during this t ...
  • Quantum Physics, Breakthrough In The Remote Co ...
    One of the fundamental characteristics of quantum physics is that two or more particles, sometimes quite distant, can interact much more strongly than allowed by classical physics. This fundamental characteristic especially applies to quantum entanglement: “as soon as the quantum state of ...
  • Snowball Earth Saw Dynamic Ice Sheets
    The snowball Earth hypothesis suggests that at some point approximately 715 million years ago our planet’s surface was totally – or as close as can be – covered in ice. Scientists had assumed that the glaciers covering the surface of the planet were stable, acting as a like for ...
  • Elephant Communication, Mechanisms Behind Call ...
    African elephants are known as some of the greatest communicators in the animal kingdom, they can converse with “extremely low-pitched vocalizations, known as infrasounds, over a distance of miles.” The “infrasounds” they make occupy a very low frequency range. At fewer t ...
  • Deep-Sea Squid Jettison Arms To Escape Predators
    A never-before-seen defensive strategy has been observed being used by a small species of deep-sea squid, the squid counter-attacks a predator and then leaves the tips of its arms attached to the predator as a distraction. Researcher Stephanie Bush said that “when the foot-long octopus squ ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC @BarackObama delivered the Quote of the Day in a speech to supporters on Monday when he talked about Mitt Romney's tax plan: "It's like Robin Hood in reverse. It's Romney Hood." I'm a Secular Humanist but part of me hopes there is a God because Pat Robertson really needs to feel mor ...
  • Growing Old In America_A Curmudgeon's View
    By @TomBales1 Yeah, it's yet another one of those "back in my day" stories that young people hate to hear but I'm gonna do it anyway. When I was a kid, if we were smart we learned to seek out old folks because we understood that the things you could learn from what often amounted to their wealt ...
  • How the terrorists managed to win
    By @BGinKC Last week when republican Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania compared the mandate that insurance companies cover contraception with no co-pay to the attacks on Pearl Harbor and September 11, 2001 I mocked him and the idiots who nodded approvingly mercilessly. I've had about all the deep- ...
  • Mars!
    Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 08.06.2012 Curiosity's Surroundings This is one of the first images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT). It was taken through a "fisheye" wide-angle lens on the left "eye" of a stereo pair of Haz ...
  • Where I come from they call what Romney's doin ...
    By @BGinKC A few hours ago Mitt Romney (okay, one of his 'people') posted the following to his Facebook page: President Obama's lawsuit claiming it is unconstitutional for Ohio to allow servicemen and women extended early voting privileges during the state's early voting period is an outrage. Th ...

Care 2

  • Timothy Noah: Why the Rich Are Getting Richer ...
    In his new book "The Great Divergence," Noah digs into the causes of America's rapidly increasing inequality. In this interview, he talks to AlterNet about what he found. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Handmaidens to Barbarity --- Chris Hedges
    They will relentlessly push forward, exploiting and pillaging, perfecting their terrible tools of technology and science, until their creation destroys them and us. They make the nuclear bombs. They extract oil from the tar sands. Submitted by Kit B. to Science & Tech  |   No ...
  • Abilify Vs. Abilifraud---A Tale of Two Videos
    Everyone loves a cartoon, a soft voice, and pleasing music. What better way for Big Pharma to capitalize on humanity. Submitted by Kenneth L. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Save greyhounds from cruel export ! PLEASE SIG ...
    Demand an end to the export of greyhounds! Tell the Minister in charge that greyhounds don't deserve that treatment - no matter how fast or slow they are Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Palestinian Bubble Set to Burst
    The Palestinian Authority (PA) has announced it is facing a funding crisis; it is now relying on donor aid to cover a budget deficit of 1.1 billion dollars and cash shortfall of 500 million dollars.The International Monetary Fund (IMF) turned down an appe Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World &n ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • A moment
    Day tuned into night, and everyone wept. At such times, it seems impossible to believe, but as these photos demonstrate, there is much more good than bad in people. After all, it was a person who created the hummingbird you see in the last image below the fold.
  • Obama Is An Alien From Another Galaxy!
    Is Barack Obama an alien invader from another galaxy?  Well, as Harry Reid might say, the idea is out there that he is an alien invader, and now it’s up to him to prove otherwise! More on this breaking story below the fold! ********************************** I lost a friend recently.  She ...
  • Romney Unleashes Two Blistering Ads Today + hk ...
    The two new ads are targeting EIGHT battleground states … Mitt Romney is getting more and more specific … Israel’s capital is Jerusalem, and Obama has failed to honor our two nations’ “cherished relationship” … President Mitt Romney’s administratio ...
  • The Jobs Drought of Today and the Okies of Tom ...
    Bronwyn’s Note: “Dirty Harry” shows up — below the fold. BATCHELOR’s VIDEO CAPTION: “Crops and cattle have been devastated across Kansas and Missouri, and experts predict there will be up to a 35 percent decrease in total corn crop production this year. Fellow ...
  • “Focus” — on Florida * hk2′s tgif open thread
    This Romney TV ad is running in Florida: If you follow the link, you find yourself at Mark Halperin’s “The Page” for Time magazine. Yeah, but his site is handy for catching the latest ads and scripts (this one’s below). As I grabbed the video code, I noticed this headline ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Becky Park: Appalachia's future depends on lis ...
    Becky Park: Appalachia's future depends on listening to our neighbors Charleston Gazette He reported that before a mountaintop removal protest turned into a deadlock of loud opposition, the mining supporters and those who want an end to mountaintop removal had some "healthy, civil dialo ...
  • Earth's Great Storyteller -- Water - unEARTHED ...
    Earth's Great Storyteller -- Water unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) Mountaintop removal has gained notoriety for contaminating precious water resources. Mountain Hero Junior Walk has talked about how the blasting of mountains contaminated his family's water; we also saw Amber Whitting ...
  • Escalating the Resistance to Mountain-top Remo ...
    OpEdNews Escalating the Resistance to Mountain-top Removal Coal Mining OpEdNews Fifty mountain defenders quickly exited the cars, taking by surprise the lone woman worker standing outside the guard shack at one of the largest mountain-top removal coal mining operations in Appalachia. The nonviol ...
  • Activists demand police brutality probe in W.V ...
    Activists demand police brutality probe in W.Va. San Francisco Chronicle (AP) — Environmental activists demanded a federal investigation Thursday into the alleged beating of a mountaintop removal mining protester by West Virginia State Police. Several groups issued a statement asking the U.S. At ...
  • Two Activists Speak Out Against Mountaintop Re ...
    Two Activists Speak Out Against Mountaintop Removal Mining Care2.com (blog) As part of honoring America's mountains, Iraq war veteran Jonathan Gensler, a former officer and native of West Virginia, speaks out against mountaintop removal mining and reconnects the history of America to its mou ...

Memeorandum

  • What Did Lolo Jones Ever Do To The New York Ti ...
    Isaac Rauch / Deadspin: What Did Lolo Jones Ever Do To The New York Times?  —  This morning's New York Times sports section has an article about Lolo Jones, the virgin hurdler you're probably somewhat aware of (if not, see here), titled, “For Lolo Jones, Everything Is Imag ...
  • Sikh temple shooting: Gunman had been on inves ...
    Brian Bennett / Los Angeles Times: Sikh temple shooting: Gunman had been on investigators' radar  —  Authorities Tracked Gunman In Sikh Temple Shooting For More Than A Decade  —  WASHINGTON — Federal investigators had “looked at” Sikh temple gun ...
  • The Prideful, Arrogant President of Chick-fil- ...
    Jesse Bering / Slate: The Prideful, Arrogant President of Chick-fil-A  —  Why ignorance of human sexuality is dangerous.  —  Eduardo Cisneros (L) and Luke Montgomery (R) kiss in front of a Chick-fil-A fast-food restaurant in Hollywood on Aug. 3, 2012.  Gays ...
  • Meet The Blowtorch-Carrying Gay Marriage Oppon ...
    Jjesselli / The Smoking Gun: Meet The Blowtorch-Carrying Gay Marriage Opponent Who Set That General Mills Lawn On Fire  —  Buster  —  The gay marriage opponent seen in a viral video accidentally setting a fire outside the General Mills headquarters is a Minnesota ...
  • As Libor Fault-Finding Grows, It Is Now Every ...
    DealBook: As Libor Fault-Finding Grows, It Is Now Every Bank for Itself  —  Major banks, which often band together when facing government scrutiny, are now turning on one another as an international investigation into the manipulation of interest rates gains momentum.

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.2, Atacama, Chile
    Tuesday, August 7, 2012 00:39:05 UTC Monday, August 6, 2012 08:39:05 PM at epicenterDepth: 64.30 km (39.95 mi)
  • M 5.4, Halmahera, Indonesia
    Monday, August 6, 2012 18:55:13 UTC Tuesday, August 7, 2012 03:55:13 AM at epicenterDepth: 216.20 km (134.34 mi)
  • M 5.1, southwest of Africa
    Monday, August 6, 2012 12:20:45 UTC Monday, August 6, 2012 01:20:45 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.10 km (6.28 mi)
  • M 5.0, southwest of Africa
    Monday, August 6, 2012 11:49:14 UTC Monday, August 6, 2012 12:49:14 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.0, Ryukyu Islands, Japan
    Monday, August 6, 2012 05:30:20 UTC Monday, August 6, 2012 02:30:20 PM at epicenterDepth: 38.00 km (23.61 mi)

China Dialogue

  • The coming DIY revolution
    At the margins of the current order, a new breed of innovators has stopped waiting for big business and big government to fix our problems, writes John Elkington.Standing next to me in the baggage line at Heathrow a few weeks ago was Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple computer back in 1976. But ...
  • Food in China: a chemical age
    Why are toxic chemicals and additives so widely misused in Chinese food production? Gong Jing, Cui Zheng and Wang Qingfeng investigate.China’s food industry has rapidly industrialised over the last decade, bringing many benefits to the country’s consumers. But techniques originating ...
  • A decade of food safety in China
    Ten years of scares have ingrained a sense of crisis in the public psyche. Solving the problem will mean looking again at industrial food production, writes Xu Nan. From 2009 to 2010, following a decade of scares, China made a concerted attempt to tackle the problem posed to human health by ...
  • Eco pilots find habits hard to change
    China’s low-carbon city programmes are doing well on public awareness, but an NGO survey finds little evidence of greener habits. Zhang Chun and Wang Haotong report.Only a small proportion of people in China’s low-carbon pilot cities are living “low-carbon lives” in spite ...
  • China in Europe: buying clean-tech
    A string of green energy acquisitions in crisis-stricken Europe have been hyped as a sign of China’s growing financial clout. So, asks Xie Dan, has the age of "owned-by-China" arrived?Since Hanenergy announced that it was buying a subsidiary of German solar firm Q-cells, the Chin ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My ...
    On Friday, Wired staff writer Mat Honan got hacked hard, his phone and computer wiped, his Gmail emptied and his Twitter hijacked. Here's what happened and how, thanks to AIM chats with the culprits.
  • Proposed Privacy Law Demands Court Warrants fo ...
    Two Democratic congressmen are proposing sweeping changes to a U.S. privacy law that would always require the government to obtain a probable-cause warrant to access data stored in the cloud.
  • Attaché Company Attacks Marvel, Alleging Aveng ...
    German luxury travel-case maker Rimowa claims in a federal lawsuit that the forthcoming Blu-ray box set of the Marvel Entertainment hit movie Avengers infringes on its Topas attaché case. The "Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One -- Avengers Assembled Box Set"comes in a briefcase that looks lik ...
  • Judge Skeptical of Facebook ‘Sponsored Stories ...
    A San Francisco federal judge declined Thursday to approve a Facebook legal settlement concerning the social-networking site's "Sponsored Stories" advertising program, saying he was concerned that the $10 million payout might not be big enough.
  • Legislation Seeks to Limit Warrantless Wiretap ...
    An Oregon senator wants the government's eavesdropping program to be more respectful of Americans' privacy rights, and introduced a bill Thursday to change the law. Unfortunately, the current program is all but re-authorized, without changes, by Congress.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • I settled 70 Shigella lawsuits against Subway ...
    The Dupage County Health Department confirmed that at least 140 people have been culture confirmed with Shigella sonnei infections contracted at a Chicago-area Subway restaurant in March of 2010. Ten were hospitalized. Health authorities closed the restaurant at 1009 E. Roosevelt in Lombard and ...
  • Homegrown E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak Headed to T ...
    Twenty-three “confirmed” and “probable cases,” and forty-one “suspect cases.” Most of the time I am traveling the country – I have done E. coli cases in most states – So, it is good to have one within driving distance. Snohomish County Health Dis ...
  • The Dirty Top 40 - Annual Disease Burden of Al ...
    I love the folks at the University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute for keeping track of all the data of foodborne illness burden and publishing it last month in the Journal of Food Protection.  The top ten alone cost us over $8,000,000,0000 yearly.  Here is the Top 40 List by n ...
  • Salmonella Beef from Cargill Illnesses Hit 40
    The number of ill persons identified in each state is now as follows: Maine (1), Massachusetts (3), New Hampshire (2), New York (18), Rhode Island (2), Vermont (11), Virginia (2), and West Virginia (1) according to the CDC. Eleven ill persons have been hospitalized, and no deaths have been repo ...
  • Sunday Night Listeria Recall of Beef and Chick ...
    Reichel Foods, a Rochester, Minnesota establishment, is recalling approximately 15,880 pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The ...

AutoblogGreen

  • First Drive: 2013 Toyota RAV4 EV [w/video]
    Filed under: Crossover, Toyota, First Drives, Tesla, ElectricTesla-Hearted Toyota Offers Real Sport And Utility The 2013 Toyota RAV4 EV is the most advanced Alpha prototype electric vehicle we've ever driven. Or maybe it's a poster child for the 21st Century automotive industry where all ...
  • Video: Toyota Prius Solution: When you're dead ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Videos, Hatchback, Toyota, Humor Let's make this clear from the get-go: we know this is satire, courtesy of The Onion. Of course, like all good comedy, the idea for the new, fictional Toyota Prius Solution model contains a grain of truth. After all, if you aren't alive, y ...
  • Report: London's hydrogen buses grounded durin ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal, UK Is hydrogen a dangerous substance? It is, during the London Olympics, at least. That's why the fleet of five H2 buses that usually carries passengers between Covent Garden and Tower Gateway have been sent out to pasture for the duration of the games. Standard ...
  • Official: Ford C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid pri ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Minivan/Van, Hatchback, Ford The U.S. federal tax credit for plug-in vehicles maxes out at $7,500 for cars with batteries that are 16 kWh or larger. The Ford C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid doesn't have that big of a pack, so the most the feds will grant you for b ...
  • Official: Honda delivers first Fit EV in Calif ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Hatchback, Honda, Electric Honda has made good on its promise to deliver its first Fit EV, and that delivery took place in California on Friday. Matt and Becky Walton, of Ventura County, can now claim they have the first example of Honda's all-electric car, which cost ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Ten Years After 9/11, Little-Known Sikh Commun ...
    In the aftermath of the Sikh Temple shooting in Wisconsin, we revisit a Sept. 12, 2011 report by Democracy Now’s Jaisal Noor about how Sikh Americans have been targets of violence and harassment. Click here to see our coverage of the issue of gun control in the United States. No ...
  • The Obama Administration Torpedoes the Arms Tr ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Quick: What is more heavily regulated, global trade of bananas or battleships? In late June, activists gathered in New York’s Times Square to make the absurd point, that, unbelievably, “there are more rules governing your ability to trade a banana from one ...
  • Part 2: Barlett and Steele on Media, Govt. Fai ...
    In part two of our interview with the investigative duo, James Steele and Don Barlett they talk about the media’s failure to hold Wall Street or politicians accountable for financial crimes and mismanagement — topics covered in their new book, The Betrayal of the American Dream. ...
  • DREAM Activist Speaks From Broward Detention C ...
    In a Democracy Now! exclusive, producer Renée Feltz speaks with Viridiana Martinez, a DREAM activist detained about a week ago who is being held in the Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach, Florida. Click here to listen. Martinez is one of a group of undocumented immigrant acti ...
  • Matt Taibbi Explains Wall Street's "License to ...
    In part two of our interview with Matt Taibbi , he describes recent Wall Street scandals — including a decade-long Wall Street scandal that drained money from every county and state in the United States — and notes not a single bank executive has faced individual consequences. He a ...

Suzie-Q

  • Obama Camp Slams Romney’s Claim About Oh ...
    Charges that the president aims to undermine service members’ rights are called ‘shameful.’ By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times August 6, 2012, 6:02 a.m. CHICAGO — A top advisor to President Obama‘s campaign lashed out at Mitt Romney on Sunday, arguing that the presumptive ...
  • Las Vegas Sands Target Of U.S. Money-Launderin ...
    Reuters | Posted: 08/04/2012  1:25 pm Updated: 08/04/2012  2:55 pm CHICAGO, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Las Vegas Sands Corp,  controlled by billionaire Republican donor Sheldon Adelson, is  the target of a federal investigation into possible violations  of U.S. money-laundering laws, the Wall ...
  • Mitt Romney Comments At Fundraiser Outrage Pal ...
    By KASIE HUNT and KARIN LAUB  07/30/12 11:18 AM ET JERUSALEM — Mitt Romney told Jewish donors Monday that their culture is part of what has allowed them to be more economically successful than the Palestinians, outraging Palestinian leaders who suggested his comments were racist and out of touch ...
  • Romney-Bain Contacts Outlasted Exit
    By STEPHEN BRAUN and JACK GILLUM Associated Press Jul 25, 8:19 AM EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has said he had no active role in Bain Capital, the private equity firm he founded, after he exited in February 1999 to take over Salt Lake City’s Win ...
  • James Holmes Identified As Alleged Aurora, Col ...
    AP |     By THOMAS PEIPERT and P. SOLOMON BANDA Posted: 07/20/2012  8:36 am Updated: 07/20/2012  4:00 pm AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Police say 71 people were shot in a suburban Denver movie theater early Friday during midnight shows of the new Batman movie. Twelve people were killed, ten of ...

Solari

  • Talk to Me, One Machine Said to the Other
    By Kevin J. O’Brien Ocado, an online grocery store in England, prides itself on its delivery of refrigerated foods: When the company says the goods will arrive at a certain temperature, they mean it. The promise is more than a marketing boast. Aided by microchip transmitters, heat sensor ...
  • Quote du Jour
  • Rover Curiosity Lands Safely: ‘Wheels do ...
    By Scott Gold Curiosity, the largest and most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet, stuck its extraordinary landing Sunday night in triumphant and flawless fashion, and is poised to begin its pioneering, two-year hunt for the building blocks of life — signs that Earth’s creatur ...
  • HNC’s Military-Industrial Context
    By Phyllis D. James of Synthetic Thinking James Eagen Holmes’ interest in synthetic thinking, more commonly known as artificial intelligence, was handed down to him by his father, Robert Milton Holmes, Jr., who worked for HNC Software, a company which went public in 1995. HNC was acquired ...
  • Precious Metals Market Report – 8.9.12
    By Catherine Austin Fitts It’s time for the Precious Metals Market Report. I will be speaking to you from the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute in Wisconsin and Franklin will be “on the farm” in Tennessee. We will review recent developments in the gold and silver markets, includ ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • COINistas point to Kenya as a COIN success. In ...
    Summary:  The British empire, in the words of historian John Seeley, “was acquired in a fit of absence of mind”. Unlike the lucrative British version, our mad unprofitable empire was acquired though years of careful work by like-minded people (as John Robb has said, open-source movem ...
  • Hidden history of our first step into the Afgh ...
    Summary:  Here we examine one of our key steps into the Afghanistan War, in 1979.  It’s bitterly ironic, but beyond that it’s still important for us today as an example of one of the great themes on the FM website: both Left and Right guide their followers by blinkering their vision, ...
  • Remember the old days, when the GOP and Dems a ...
    Summary:  The evolution from the America-that-once-was to the New America so far occurs without much notice. But it’s apparent if we step back and see the discontinuities in our politics, which foreshadow greater changes to come. Today we look at one such, the Democrats adopting GOP views. ...
  • Mission Failure: Afghanistan
    Summary: The very first articles articles at DNI, in 2003, expressed skepticism about the Afghanistan War.  By 2009 it was clear that we could achieve nothing useful from the war. But our military exists to feed itself, disconnected from any rational national goals, and only after ten years has ...
  • Good news about jobs! Bad news about jobs! Th ...
    Summary:  Looking at today’s employment report (PDF here) we can draw one big conclusion. The economy continues to growth more slowly than we’d hope given the massive on-going monetary and fiscal stimulus programs (which cannot be continued forever). Oddly enough, this is not obvious ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Can Syrian Defections Sway Diplomacy?
    Al Jazeera has put together a stunning interactive infographic of high level defections from the Syrian regime.  Here’s a screen grab, but do click over for a better view. The red dots you see are top officials who’ve defected; the gray dots are those still in government. According ...
  • Bracing for a Hit from Europe
    It may be the peak of vacation season in Europe, but the continent’s fiscal crisis has not taken a break. Last week, Wolfgang Schäuble, the powerful German finance minister, took time out from his holiday to have a sit-down with his American counterpart, Tim Geithner, in the North Sea island of ...
  • Military Capabilities: A Revionist Metric
     Phil Arena has been playing around with alternative measures of military power. He begins with the straightforward observation that one current and popular measure of military power, the CINC scores in the Correlates of War project, list the United States as having fallen behind the People ...
  • Is India Creating a Problem for Itself?
    This isn't actually new, but it's worth talking about: Taking a cue from its first indigenous aircraft carrier programme, India is now envisaging construction of its largest warship yet – a 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier named INS Vishal (literally meaning ‘huge’) with the latest fighter jets an ...
  • Top of the Morning: Syrian Prime Minister Defe ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Syrian Prime Minister Defects There is word that Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab has defected to Jordan. This would be the most high profile defection to date, and further sign of Assad’s tenuous grip on power. “I announce today my defection from the killing ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Voting Rights Act: A 20th Century American ...
    Today is the 47th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, passed in 1965 by a bipartisan (if sectional) majority of Congress, and signed by President Lyndon Johnson. With the fight over who deserves to vote having been reignited by the partisan push for voter identification, and with conservative ...
  • The Opposite of American
    The Sikh temple shooting, which left seven dead including the shooter, has left me feeling more shaky than the shooting in Colorado, which seemed more random.  I write that even though we the skeleton of these stories is roughly the same. One man with a grudge takes semi-automatic weapons and o ...
  • Other NASA Firsts
      Slideshow Other NASA Firsts At 10:32 PM PST last night, NASA announced that the Curiosity Rover had safely landed in the Gale Crater on Mars. Here's a slide show of great photos from NASA history, from one taken by the first Lunar Orbiter to a picture of Mars's surface sent back from th ...
  • Bracing for a Hit from Europe
    It may be the peak of vacation season in Europe, but the continent’s fiscal crisis has not taken a break. Last week, Wolfgang Schäuble, the powerful German finance minister, took time out from his holiday to have a sit-down with his American counterpart, Tim Geithner, in the North Sea island of ...
  • Will We Ever Get to See Romney's 2011 Tax Return?
    I don't know about you, but this year I filed my taxes just before the April 15 deadline. Most people do. But if you need to, you can file for an extension from the IRS. That's what Mitt Romney did. And if you look around the discussion about his taxes, you'll find that everyone keeps referring ...

Buzzflash

  • Five Adjectives That Scream "Don't Vote Republ ...
    PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There are more than five, of course, and voting Democrat may not be much of an improvement, but attaching these adjectives to the comically contemptible GOP seems more than appropriate. Obstructionist In 2010 Mitch McConnell said: "The single most importa ...
  • Mitt Romney's Most Unexcellent Adventure
    WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Mitt Romney has to be more relieved than an Iowa corn farmer in the middle of a thunderstorm to be back on home soil. Arms wide. Head back. Wet face. Smile. Podium steps. National Anthem. The American electorate may harbor an ambivalent attitude towards the ...
  • BuzzFlash Commentary Will Soon Be Posted on Tr ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In a day or two, BuzzFlash Commentary (formerly known as the BuzzFlash blog) will move to the actual Truthout site. It is an exciting step in the continued integration of BuzzFlash into Truthout. Not only will there be the physical move of the site ( ...
  • We Wrecked Iraq, We Pulled Out, We Redeployed ...
    ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT We wrecked Iraq, we pulled out, we redeployed in Anaheim. This ain't working, guys- I mean, firing rubber bullets into anguished crowds, siccing attack dogs on moms and children. I mean, inventing enemies, going to war, unleashing state-of-the-art fire ...
  • The Massive Voter Fraud of the GOP
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Isn't it voter fraud to deny US citizens the right to vote? That is what the Republican Party is engaged in its campaign to place onerous requirements on the poor, infirm and destitute seniors, the homeless, students and others to vote. Politico recen ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

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

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • 100,000-Plus Signatures Gathered to Support Co ...
    Coloradans are fed up with corruption and have chosen to fight back. Today, more than 100,000 signatures are being turned in to state officials from citizens who support a statewide ballot initiative. Initiative 82 calls for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United v. Federal Elect ...
  • EWG Responds to Report that New York is About ...
    Environmental Working Group Senior Counsel Dusty Horwitt issued the following statement on the Albany Times-Union’s Aug. 4, 2012 report that the Cuomo administration will soon approve hydraulic fracturing for shale gas in New York state:read more
  • The Vast Potential for Renewable Energy in the ...
    Today, on the eve of the National Clean Energy Summit 5.0 in Las Vegas, the Center for American Progress released “The Vast Potential for Renewable Energy in the American West,” an analysis projecting that the federal lands in six western states—Arizona, California, Colorado, N ...
  • ACLU Challenges Louisiana School Policy That F ...
    The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Louisiana issued a letter today to Delhi Charter School in Delhi, Louisiana in response to a policy that requires female students even suspected of being pregnant to submit to a pregnancy exam and forces them out of school if they are pregnant o ...
  • Violence Policy Center Statement on Shooting a ...
    Following the second gun massacre in a little over two weeks, this time at a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin leaving six victims dead and others critically wounded, the Violence Policy Center, a national non-profit educational organization working to stop gun death and injury, issued the following stat ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Science of Genocide
    Chris Hedges On this day in 1945 the United States demonstrated that it was as morally bankrupt as the Nazi machine it had recently vanquished and the Soviet regime with which it was allied. Over Hiroshima, and three days later over Nagasak ...
  • Tragedy in Wisconsin and Our Out-of-Control Gu ...
    Ruth Conniff The shooting rampage Sunday at the Wisconsin Sikh Temple outside Milwaukee has got to prompt serious soul-searching about our out-of-control gun policies in this country.read more
  • Tragedy in Wisconsin and Our Out-of-Control Gu ...
    Ruth Conniff The shooting rampage Sunday at the Wisconsin Sikh Temple outside Milwaukee has got to prompt serious soul-searching about our out-of-control gun policies in this country.read more
  • US Medicine: We Can Do Better Than This
    Dave Dvorak, MD How much will this cost?” he asks. It’s the question at the heart of any business transaction: Is this new car, this plane ticket, this iPad worth the asking price? But the man sitting before me is not a customer ...
  • US Medicine: We Can Do Better Than This
    Dave Dvorak, MD How much will this cost?” he asks. It’s the question at the heart of any business transaction: Is this new car, this plane ticket, this iPad worth the asking price? But the man sitting before me is not a customer ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

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

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • School "buddies" raise awareness about Palesti ...
    Asa Winstanley London 6 August 2012 During regular school exchange visits, youth from Palestine have the opportunity to educate and share their experiences with British youth in the West Bank and in the UK.
  • Bubble in aid-dependent West Bank bound to bur ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Ramallah 6 August 2012 The economic bubble in the West Bank will burst, and instead of working to remove Israeli restrictions, the Palestinian Authority continues to push for investments in the private sector.
  • Month in Pictures: July 2012
    3 August 2012 A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine.
  • Child malnutrition remains high in West Bank a ...
    Jerusalem 3 August 2012 Food insecurity for Palestinians living in refugee camps, the Gaza Strip and in Area C of the West Bank is rising, despite international aid agency reports to the contrary.
  • Gaza left in the dark at Ramadan
    Mohammed Omer Gaza City 3 August 2012 The only power plant in Gaza is currently operating at about a third of its capacity, or has been completely shut down by severe fuel shortages since February.

The Wonk Room

  • New Jersey GOP Senate Candidate Won’t Si ...
    Another Republican candidate has refused to sign the radical anti-tax pledge authored by activist Grover Norquist and pushed by his group, Americans for Tax Reform. The pledge has played a major role in the GOP’s tax intransigence over the last several years. Republicans who disavow the pl ...
  • Federal Judge Allows Military Groups To Interv ...
    U.S. District Judge Peter C. Economus granted a motion on Monday allowing 15 military groups to intervene in the Obama campaign’s early voting lawsuit, which seeks to restore the ability of all Ohio voters to vote in-person during the three day period leading up to election day. While Ohio ...
  • Missouri Supreme Court Approves Ballot Initiat ...
    The Missouri Supreme Court last week approved a ballot initiative that, if passed, would place a cap on payday lending rates. The ruling is a victory for fair lending groups and consumers in a state that has some of the loosest payday lending regulations in the country. The law would cap rates a ...
  • New House Bill Tries To Save Medical Marijuana ...
    In 2009, the Justice Department formally announced that it would not direct its limited resources towards medical marijuana dispensaries acting in full compliance with state law. According to a memo from then-Deputy Attorney General David Ogden, federal prosecutors “should not focus federa ...
  • France’s Catholic Church Revives ‘ ...
    In symbolic opposition to same-sex adoption, the French Catholic Church plans to revive the “15 August Prayer for the Assumption” later this month, a custom originally decreed by Louis XIII in 1638. The prayer — which fell out of favor after World War II — asks God to to ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Why I Don't Like to be Moderated
    I suppose that my skin is thin in places. But it's pretty fucking thick in other places. What I hate is the inability of some people to put things into some sort of context. Here's an imaginary scenario: Troll who showed up two days ago: "I say, kill as many camel-fuckers as possible. And if to ...
  • A Touching Story
    I shouldn't always be so depressed and cynical. Here's a story about genuine love between two guys, thrown together by life, to be father and son ...
  • A Salute to "Champagne Socialists"
    "Champagne Socialists" or "Limousine Liberals" are political epithets that used to mean people who advocated for policies that they had no intention or danger of having to follow themselves. Today though, it is often used in a mindless way to condemn anyone of privilege who supports collectivist ...
  • Great, GREAT Review of "Heist"
    I hadn't heard of this film, or its reviewer before, but I agree with almost every darned statement made in the review. (Except for basing the relative intelligence of Mexicans and US-Americans on the quality of conversations with each country's cab-drivers.) (Especially since a lot of US cab-dr ...
  • But Where Am I Running To?
    There's no place to go!

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • US Womens Soccer Team Dramatic Win Over Canada
    It took two extra time periods and more then 120 minutes, but the United States women’s soccer team pulled out a dramatic victory over Canada, advancing to the gold medal round.
  • Canada's Women's boxing star down and out
    Canada suffers upset in the boxing ring. Today the women strapped on the 8 oz gloves. in the 75 KG weight class. Online the line for the winner was the possibility of medals.
  • Rogers challenges Canada's Competition Act
    Rogers Communications, a Canadian media corporation, thinks its right to freedom of expression is more important than its responsibility to provide truth in advertising.
  • U.S. movie ticket prices rise 1.1% in 2012 ami ...
    Is going to the movie theatre still one of the cheapest entertainment options around? According to recently published data, watching a motion picture at your local cinema is getting more expensive due to a slight rise in ticket prices.
  • The Arctic: The world’s next hot spot?
    As long as it was frozen, forbidding, and relatively valueless, disputes over the Arctic were akin to bickering over who owned the frost in the freezer.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Arms spending adds to Greek woes
    Critics argue that high military spending (as a percentage of GDP) contributes to Greece's inability to pay its bills.
  • Activists infiltrate nuclear facility
    In late July, three American anti-nuclear-weapons activists sneaked into the high security “Y-12 Facility”, where the US’s bomb grade uranium is stored, to raise awareness about the danger posed by nuclear weapons on the eve of Hiroshima Day (Frank Munger, “Wrap-up on Y-1 ...
  • CSE to keep more secrets
    The Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s electronic spy agency, is further limiting the already scant details of its activities that are made public. The information technology security and foreign signals intelligence organization, which last year became a stand-alone agency of ...
  • Parliamentary outreach program canned
    The Canadian Forces outreach program that invited Senators and Members of Parliament to military units and bases has been discontinued.
  • Louder than the bomb: write your letter to the ...
    To commemorate both Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day, we are partnering with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) so our voices can be louder than the bomb. Write a letter to the editor of the newspaper of your choice, and explain why you want nuclear weapons to be abolished. ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Jon Stewart calls out Judy Miller for hypocris ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   The irony of former NY Times reporter Judith Miller using her perch at Fox News to castigate the Obama administration for recent national security leaks was not lost on The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart ...
  • HUNDREDS of Tanks Moving Through Burbank, Cali ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comHUNDREDS of Tanks Moving Through Burbank, California … Without Desert Camouflage By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com This was filmed today (keep watching as they roll on and on): It is possible that they are bein ...
  • Maddow mocks Wheaton College over contraceptio ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Monday mocked Wheaton College, located in a Chicago suburb, for challenging the contraception mandate while providing emergency contraception. The new Health & Human Serv ...
  • Swimming, Flag-Waving, and Wretched Excess
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy David Macaray Was it just me, or was the Olympic swimming program both numbingly redundant and annoyingly nationalistic? By the end of the second day, not only had the events ...
  • Nuclear Industry Routinely Forces Workers to D ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comNuclear Industry Routinely Forces Workers to Disable their Radiation Detectors By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Criminal Fraud in the Nuclear Industry One of Japan’s leading newspapers – Asahi – re ...

Dandelion Salad

  • The Future Does Not Look Good for Iran by Mich ...
    by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org August 5, 2012 Occasionally individuals complain that I fail to address one subject or another. One Berkeley denizen got in my face and announced: “You leftists ought to become aware of the ecological ...
  • Marcellus Earth First! Anti-fracking Activists ...
    Dandelion Salad http://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com July 8, 2012 Aug 5, 2012 by alexhiggins732 Full Story: http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/08/06/momentum-builds-fracking-truth-da… As anti-fracking momentum grows nationwide with word being spread the practice permanently destroys wate ...
  • Marcellus Earth First! Anti-fracking Activists ...
    Dandelion Salad http://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com July 8, 2012 Aug 5, 2012 by alexhiggins732 Full Story: http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/08/06/momentum-builds-fracking-truth-da… As anti-fracking momentum grows nationwide with word being spread the practice permanently destroys wate ...
  • The Science of Genocide by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig August 6, 2012 On this day in 1945 the United States demonstrated that it was as morally bankrupt as the Nazi machine it had recently vanquished and the Soviet regime with which it was allied. Over Hiroshima, and three days later over Naga ...
  • Elation At Mission Control As Mars Rover Curio ...
    Dandelion Salad Congratulations to NASA! Aug 5, 2012 by MOXNEWSd0tC0M August 05, 2012 KIRO News Elation At Mission Control As Mars Rover Curiosity Successfully Lands On *** Jul 2, 2012 by WSJDigitalNetwork NASA’s one-ton mobile rover, called Curiosity, is expected to touch down on the Red ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

Israeli Occupation Archive

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

Ria Novosti - Military

  • Russia, India Start Joint Anti-Terrorism Drills
    Russia and India will hold on Tuesday an official opening of joint INDRA-2012 anti-terrorism military exercises in the Siberian republic of Buryatia, a spokesman for Russia’s Eastern Military District said.
  • Russia to Set Up Naval Infrastructure in Arcti ...
    Russia will create several infrastructure hubs along the Northern Sea Route in the Arctic to be used as temporary stations for Russian warships and border guard vessels, Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev said on Monday.
  • Russia’s Baltic Fleet to Hold Large-Scale Dril ...
    Russia’s Baltic Fleet battleships and combat aircraft will take part in large-scale tactical drills in the country’s westernmost exclave of Kaliningrad on August 8 to land marines in rough terrain, the press office of the Western Military District reported.
  • Russian-Indian INDRA Military Drills to Begin ...
    Russia and India will begin joint INDRA-2012 anti-terrorism military exercises in the Siberian republic of Buryatia on Sunday, a spokesman for Russia’s Eastern Military District said.
  • Iran Successfully Tests Upgraded Short-Range M ...
    Iran has successfully test-fired an upgraded version of a short-range ballistic missile, Iranian Defense Minister Brig.-Gen. Ahmad Vahidi said Saturday.

NewsWise

  • Birds Do Better in 'Agroforests' Than on Farms
    Compared with open farmland, wooded "shade" plantations that produce coffee and chocolate promote greater bird diversity, although a new University of Utah study says forests remain the best habitat for tropical birds.
  • Forged for Infamy: 2012 the Hottest Year on Re ...
    New data released by the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University shows the Northeast's seven-month average (January through July) of 49.9 degrees was the warmest such period since 1895, the year such record keeping began.
  • Differences in Diabetes Diagnostic Thresholds ...
    Healthcare providers should take into account differences among racial groups when using hemoglobin A1C levels to diagnose and monitor diabetes, new research from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center suggests.
  • Nationwide Children's Hospital Tests, Trains S ...
    Many children with severe allergies carry injectable epinephrine (EpiPens) - syringes filled with epinephrine to delay an allergic reaction - but the EpiPens sometimes require the help of an adult to dispense. School nurses are often the only school officials authorized to handle medications, le ...
  • Critically Ill Uninsured Americans Still at Ri ...
    Despite a twenty-five year old law that bans "patient dumping" the practice continues to put uninsured Americans at risk, according to a national team of researchers led by a professor at the George Washington School of Public Health and Health Services. Patient dumping is the practice of turni ...

Natural Health News

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • The ICC’s Chickens Come Home to Roost
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller At Justice in Conflict, Mark Kersten calls attention to a recent motion filed by the Libyan government asking for more time — read: stalling — to reply to the OPCD’s response to its admissibility challenge.  The government doesn’t ...
  • Mauritania Will Not Extradite al-Senussi to Libya
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller In my previous post, I noted that Libya’s admissibility challenge should fail regarding Saif Gaddafi because the government cannot demonstrate that it is able to obtain him from the Zintan militia that is holding him.  It’s now clear that the ...
  • Mauritania Will Not Extradite al-Senussi to Libya
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller In my previous post, I noted that Libya’s admissibility challenge should fail regarding Saif Gaddafi because the government cannot demonstrate that it is able to obtain him from the Zintan militia that is holding him.  It’s now clear that the ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Monday, August 6, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Rebels have reported that they are coming under heavy attacks in Syria’s Aleppo. Chinese media have told the United States to “shut up” about the dispute in the South China Sea and accusing the US of exacerbating tensions in the region. 19 ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Monday, August 6, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Rebels have reported that they are coming under heavy attacks in Syria’s Aleppo. Chinese media have told the United States to “shut up” about the dispute in the South China Sea and accusing the US of exacerbating tensions in the region. 19 ...

Public News Service

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

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • EXCLUSIVE: Wisconsin Sikh Massacre Suspect “Wa ...
      Accused Wisconsin Sikh Temple shooter “Wade Michael Page”, AKA “Wade Vanbuskirk”, had some strange connections to Littleton Colorado and the Columbine Massacre.  Due to his multiple names I will refer to him as Wade henceforth. After Wade was discharged from the US ...
  • The Jack Blood Show – August 6 2012
    Jack Blood plunges deep down the rabbit hole while conducting a LIVE investigation into the Wisconsin massacre… We were the first to break several parts of the story… some of it since scrubbed from the web – ALL of it at www.deadlinelive.info – 2nd hour we are joined by f ...
  • Paul not given role at Republican Convention
    In a political move that defies logic, CNN is reporting that presidential challenger Ron Paul has not been asked to speak at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Instead, the Romney team has invited Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez and South ...
  • Jack Blood on Mancow (07-30-12)
    Jack Blood joins Mancow on his nationally syndicated talk show www.mancow.com to discuss the Batman Massacre in full detail. Bravo Mancow for having the guts to air this!
  • This Day In History – August 7
    1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart. 1789 – The United States Department of War is established. 1794 – U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 179 ...

The Air Vent

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