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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 III

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook introduces payments reporting API, en ...
    Facebook today announced that it has launched a payments reporting API to allow developers to download daily reports of transaction data, instead of receiving that information through email. Facebook says the new system, which is available beginning today, will be more … Continue reading & ...
  • Facebook to push new code twice a day on web, ...
    As a company, Facebook goes by the saying, “Move fast and break things.” Now it’s planning to move even faster with new code pushes for Facebook.com twice a day and Android app updates every four to six weeks. The social … Continue reading →
  • Yahoo, Instagram, YouTube, WashPo and more on ...
    Yahoo! Social Bar takes the No. 1 spot on our list of top non-game Facebook apps growing by monthly active users this week, adding 1.2 million MAU. Titles on our list gained the most MAU of any non-game apps on the platform, … Continue reading →
  • Facebook prompts users to Like pages they chec ...
    Facebook appears to be testing a new mobile module that prompts users to Like a page moments after they check into a location. The module, which appears on Timeline and in News Feed, suggests the page that users just checked … Continue reading →
  • This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
    A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between July 30 and August 4. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods. Monday, July 30 Classic competitive multiplayer returns in Spy vs … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Smokey Robinson- “Quiet Storm” It’s been over a half year now of Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol Music Pick. A lot of Saturday-night listening to an eclectic selection of music here at BFP. I hope you have enjoyed my selections (and the requests) so far. This weeks pick is al ...
  • The EyeOpener- Sentient World Simulation: Meet ...
    The NSA’s illegal warrantless wiretapping programming. The building of the massive NSA data center in Utah to permanently store copies of all digital communication sent around the world. The UK government’s “Communications Data Bill” to monitor emails, instant messages an ...
  • Donald Rumsfeld Returns to Georgia
    The War-Tested & Conflict-Ready Pentagon-NATO Surrogate Army in Georgia By Rick Rozoff Only reported in English on the website of the Georgian Ministry of Defense, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld visited Georgia for a week in late June. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, NATO’s ...
  • We are Almost Back
    We were one of the unfortunate 1.5 million hit by the violent storms and still do not have our broadband service – but expect that to be corrected by tomorrow. Thank you for patience.
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – “Ohio” (1970) Kent State University Neil Young wrote and composed “Ohio” after seeing a picture of the Kent State University shootings of May 4, 1970. He performed it with his band mates David Crosby, Steven Stills and Graham Youn ...

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • World Bank Opposes Palestinian Sovereignty
    Washington controls the World Bank. Current president Jim Yong Kim formerly was Dartmouth College president.
  • Hey, Sarah Palin! Some "Marxists" Here Want a ...
    For all their hollerin', the radicals on the right can't point to a single statement by Warren and Obama that isn't objectively and literally true. Has any factory owner ever transported his goods to market on roads the rest of us didn't pay for? Hired workers the rest of us didn't educate? Of c ...
  • Marilyn Monroe: Lost Photos Recovered A Half C ...
    Over a half century later, lost photos of America's sweetheart are miraculously discovered!
  • Will the Peasants Go Medieval On Bankers?
    We have argued for years that the best way to avoid violence is to reinstate the rule of law. Will public outrage at the Libor scandal and other financial misdeeds lead to fundamental reforms of the financial sector, or will we have to wait for a 21st century peasants' revolt before seeing any r ...
  • Gore Vidal: The Last Jeffersonian
    I won't be surprised to see Vidal's posthumously published works shoot to the top of the bestseller list. That's because the power of what Vidal represented -- not the "ranting" of a Southern populist, as Lind would have it, but the sharp dissent of an American original and a literary giant, who ...

Switchboard

  • Jammin' for Salmon
    Taryn Kiekow, Staff Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California The Kenai Peninsula is beautiful. It's even more beautiful seeing Alaskans unite for a glorious cause: salmon. Over 4,500 people gathered this weekend in Ninilc ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Keep Chuckin’ Those Facts!
    Give the most useless website in the known universe this: they’re consistent. Once again, they have awarded a “pants on fire” award, in this case to Harry Reid, despite providing no evidence whatsoever that Reid lied. Here’s the problem: Many readers asked us to put Reid’ ...
  • Dear The Media,
    I understand why you’re reluctant to identify Wade Michael Page as a white supremacist, but I’m an expert in visual rhetoric and I’m here to help you out. Consider the photograph of Page you’re currently using: There are some subtle clues as to Page’s ideology hidde ...
  • Oh, Well Then
    Shorter Ann Althouse: How can a former member of a white supremacist hardcore band shooting up a Sikh temple be domestic terrorism? No Sikh was responsible for 9/11! Terrorists are always very careful about racial generalizations and the attribution of responsibility. The compound the grim hilar ...
  • The Real “Litigation Crisis”
    While discussion about the surfeit of lawsuits in the American legal system tends to focus on (frequently distorted) anecdotes about individuals suing corporations in product liability cases, most of the expenses from litigation come from businesses suing other businesses. But it’s very un ...
  • Jim Thorpe was Not a Good Baseball Player
    Argh: He turned professional, big-time, in 1913, signing with the New York Giants baseball team, the Yankees of their day. After a rocky few years playing the one sport that did not come easy to him, by 1919 he was hitting as well as Ty Cobb and Joe Jackson. Ty Cobb 1919 oWAR (offensive wins [...]

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • First Circuit bars VA staffer's retaliation claim
    Federal law doesn't allow disability bias retaliation claims against government employers when the alleged discrimination is only one of the motivating factors for the punishment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has ruled in a case of first impression.
  • ABA panel votes no on accrediting overseas law ...
    The American Bar Association won't extend its seal of approval to foreign law schools anytime soon. The ABA's Council of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar overwhelmingly voted on August 3 to withhold accreditation from law schools outside the United States.
  • Litigator sent home under house arrest to enab ...
    A federal judge has released trial attorney Pierce O'Donnell from a halfway house in Hollywood, Calif., so that he can undergo hip replacement surgery.
  • Senate confirms nominees for long-moribund pri ...
    The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board got its first members in five years, when the Senate confirmed on Aug. 2 a former federal appellate judge and three others to provide a safeguard against overzealous government intrusions on privacy during the fight against terrorism.
  • Tweet Relief
    The NLRB is aggressively protecting the use of social media by workers, even nonunion ones.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • NASA Study Quantifies Vast Amount of Dust Reac ...
    A new NASA study calculates that nearly 64 million tons of dust, pollution, and other tiny particles enter the atmosphere above North America from other continents each year, nearly as much as the 69 million tons of NASA aerosols produced domestically through natural processes and human act ...
  • Planet’s Carbon Storing Capacity Keeping Pace ...
    The earth’s oceans and lands continue to absorb more than half of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity, suggesting that the planet has not yet reached its carbon-storage capacity even as emissions continue to rise, a new study says. Writing in the journal Nature, U.S. scientists calculat ...
  • Interview: Dreaming of a Place Where the Buffa ...
    Sean Gerrity, president of the American Prairie Reserve, has been working for more than a decade to turn a 5,000-square-mile swath of Montana prairie into an American Serengeti of rolling grasslands teeming with Sean Gerrity bison, wolves, elk, and bighorn sheep. Using a combination of pri ...
  • Historic Blackouts Reveal Troubling Holes in I ...
    The historic blackouts that left more than 670 million people in India without electricity this week revealed profound problems with a power network struggling to keep pace with one of the world’s fastest growing economies, experts say. While it’s unclear what specifically triggered this week’s ...
  • New Whale Recordings Hint at Bowhead Recovery ...
    A wide array of whale songs recorded in the icy waters off Greenland indicates that populations of the endangered bowhead whale, nearly hunted to extinction in the last two centuries, may be experiencing a rebound. After Kate Stafford A bowhead whale collecting 2,144 hours of audio recordings ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

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

Not My Tribe

  • Fascism on the Colorado State Seal
    That’s Fascism on the Colorado State Seal. Seriously, not just “a” symbol of fascism but THE defining symbol, on the state ID, badges and vehicles. On the signs on state offices, parks, the arm patches of uniforms and on letterheads. Just below the gap between “OF” ...
  • Gay Marriage, Right Winger ‘Christians&# ...
  • Not so good US military man goes off totally c ...
    There’s not really too much to say about this. No doubt all the usual Right Wing idiots will be screaming for more more more guns again… Suspected Sikh temple shooter was discharged from Army after demotion And nobody but nobody hardly will mention the role the military plays in all ...
  • Descansa en paz, Chavela Vargas
    Chavela Vargas, a wonderful Mexican musician has just died. Here she is singing La Llorona in a film about the assassination of Trotsky in Mexico by Stalinist assassins… Chavela Vargas- La llorona …Check out more of her music by simply creating a station at Pandora with her name.
  • When Miss Daisy is not out pushing to create m ...
    Hillary is just too much for me! Her efforts to promote herself off to the American public constantly as being the supposed grand international womens’ advocate while simultaneousy advocating FOR more and more Pentagon wars is just even sicker than swallowing any 3 cups of poisoned koolaid ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • New 9/11 parody song
    Produced for "Stew's Conspiracy Funhouse" podcast. Dark humor for paranoid people. Subscribe for free on iTunes or listen from source. Enjoy!: http://conspiracyfunhouse.libsyn.com/
  • Cowardly AIA Panders to Political Correctness
    One thing I have absolutely zero respect for is when people critique a book or documentary film without even reading or watching it. A recent article in Architect Magazine seems like a clear example of this, except the author supposedly did watch the film he's critiquing. You wouldn't think it t ...
  • Reply: Gage's Architects & Engineers for 9/11 ...
    Published on Jul 20, 2012 by RepresentativePress Reply: Photographs and video footage have vindicated Gage, as they show the same phenomenon of negative low air pressure occurred with WTC 1 after the collapse of WTC 2 making it appear as if the entire building was on fire. Skip to 10:2 ...
  • FAQ #8: What Is Nanothermite? Could It Have Be ...
    Written by Adam Taylor In order to understand what nanothermite is, we first must understand what ordinary commercial thermite is. Thermite is a mixture of a metal and the oxide of another metal, usually aluminum (Al) and iron oxide (Fe2O3), in a granular or powder form. When ignited, the ener ...
  • The DC 9/11 Truth 4th of July Parade
    DC 9/11 Truth in the 2012 Takoma Park 4th of July Parade For more information on the parade see www.TakomaPark4th.org Here is a report on some of their past events. 9/11 Truth Float in 4th of July Parade 9/11 Blogger | July 7, 2008 dc911truth.org first participated in the Takoma Park Mary ...

Fooducate

  • High-Fiber Bars: The Agony and the Ecstasy
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Carol Harvey, Director of food/nutrition labeling and product development at Palate Works. How does a nutrition/energy bar compete with 100+ other brands in ...
  • Dear Chick-Fil-A, Straight or Gay, this Ingred ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! The recent Chick-fil-A controversy has overlooked an important matter. Though chicken is slightly healthier than beef, fast food chicken is no health food. Here’s the ...
  • Obesity as an Investing Megatrend
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Merrill Lynch, a subsidiary of Bank of America, released a new report – Globesity — The Global Fight Against Obesity – looking at the growing problem throu ...
  • Only 10% of Americans Get Enough Fiber. Will A ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! You’d think that with the cereal category being so saturated, manufacturers would focus their energy elsewhere. But no, new products are coming out all the time. We re ...
  • Ten Hilarious Watermelon Pictures to Celebrate ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Watermelons are a wonderful summertime treat. When you pick a winner, nothing beats the sweet juicy taste of cold, red, watermelon bites. With only 25 calories per serving o ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Guarani Indians to take demands to Inter-Ameri ...
    Brazil's Guarani are demanding that the government protects their land © Survival Brazil’s Guarani Indians have announced that they will take their government to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, over its failure to protect their land. The Guarani said in a statement that they ...
  • Victory for Indians as court blocks oil project
    Sarayaku President José Gualinga speaks before the Inter-American Court © Inter-American Court of Human Rights The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled in favour of Ecuador’s Kichwa Indians in a case against a controversial oil project that has destroyed parts of their land. Sara ...
  • Judge halts rail project close to Earth’s most ...
    More than 30,000 people have urged Brazil’s Justice Minister to save Earth’s most threatened tribe. © D Pugliese/ Survival A judge has ordered Brazil’s largest mining company to suspend plans to double a controversial railway track, which would have put the livelihoods of Earth’s most threa ...
  • Revealed: secret agenda of ranchers to steal u ...
    Ranching firms are destroying the land of Paraguay's uncontacted tribes. © GAT / Survival The secret agenda of a huge ranching firm in Paraguay has been exposed by satellite photos showing a newly-constructed reservoir. The reservoir reveals the firm’s intention to clear nearby ...
  • Train terror as mining giant endangers Earth’s ...
    The lives of Earth’s most threatened tribe will be in immediate danger if Vale’s new project succeeds. © Survival Plans by a giant mining company to expand a controversial railway line that has already opened up parts of Brazil’s Amazon to invaders, are now putting Earth’s most threatened t ...

Greg Palast

  • 7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Bandits
    Print me out, use me, spread me around! 7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Bandits 1. Don’t Don’t DON’T Mail In Your Ballot For those of you who mailed in your ballot, please tell me, what happened to it? You don’t know, do you? I can tell you that in the last election, half a million absentee ballots ...
  • Congo Vultures Bagged
    Vulture fund's $100m DR Congo claim blocked By Meirion Jones BBC Newsnight Bid to block $100m 'vulture' debt The Privy Council has ruled that a "vulture fund" cannot collect $100m from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The award was against Congo's state-owned mining company Gecamines who su ...
  • Can we list your Group in our Election Guide?A ...
    We need you to join Operation PUSH, Rock the Vote, People for the American Way, League of United Latin American Citizens, Bobby Kennedy Jr., Thom Hartmann Show, Occupy.com and 150 other organizations.  Add your group's name to our book, website and film, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to ...
  • Fracking in Ireland and BeingDependent on Hall ...
    by Greg Palast for No Fracking Ireland No Fracking Ireland presents Greg Palast in Dublin, Today 3. July Connolly Books, Temple Bar - 1pm The Ireland Institute - 7.30pm Full info here On the 20th of April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oilrig blew out in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven men insta ...
  • Wall Street, a Farce in Three Acts
    The Medicine Show Theater presents: Wall Street, a Farce in Three Acts Written in 1819 by William Holmes NEW YORK CITY July 5th – 8th 8pm With a special guests appearance by Greg Palast on July 7th & 8th for a talk-back with the audience about the parallels between the Panic of 1819 dep ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Meet The Medical Academy of Pediatric Special ...
    Mapping the way forward, with Dr. Dan Rossignol and Shannon Kenitz On the VoiceAmerica Health & Wellness Channel AutismOne: A Conversation of Hope< Tuesday, August 7, 12 noon Eastern/9 am Pacific Listen HERE MAPS: Mapping the way forward, with Dr....
  • Suffering Stupidity
    By Natalie Palumbo I am 18 years old, and a rising senior in high school. I am the younger sister of a 21 year old brother with low verbal autism. Anthony just aged out of special education in June, and...
  • Judge in Wakefield Case Amy Clark Meachum's Hu ...
    By Jake Crosby Amy Clark Meachum, the judge who threw Dr. Andrew Wakefield's case out of district court by essentially saying that BMJ, Fiona Godlee and Brian Deer can libel him all they want since they are from the UK,...
  • Committed
    By Cathy Jameson “I’mmmmmmm baaaaack!” I had oodles of ideas swimming through my head for today’s AofA posts. In fact I had weeks to get this one ready because of some time off I had recently. I’ve been on sabbatical...
  • The Appeal Is On Dr. Wakefield District Court ...
    In a disappointing, but not unexpected ruling Travis County District Judge Amy Clark Meachum said, Texas Courts do not have jurisdiction in the defamation lawsuit Dr. Wakefield filed against the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the journal’s editor, Fiona Godlee, and...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • NASA’s Mars Rover Crashed Into a DMCA Ta ...
    Mother Board – NASA’s livestream coverage of the Curiosity rover’s landing on Mars was was practically as flawless as the landing itself, a refreshing alternative to all that troubled Olympics coverage. The broadcast – full of suspense, lucky peanut-eating, and ecstatic congratulations – w ...
  • Yemen suicide bomber kills 45 in Abyan
    BBC – The Yemeni government has blamed al-Qaeda for a suicide bombing that has killed at least 45 people in the southern province of Abyan. Dozens more were wounded in the attack on a funeral in the city of Jaar. The bomber is said to have detonated an explosive belt during the service hel ...
  • Turkish troops and Kurdish rebels ‘kille ...
    BBC – At least 19 people have died in south-east Turkey after Kurdish rebels launched an attack on a Turkish border post, according to local media. Rebels fired rocket launchers on an army post in Hakkari province just after midnight, NTV in Turkey said. Military jets are pursuing them and ...
  • FEATURE PAGE – The effects of Anthropoge ...
    We’re all doomed! Well according to the hysteria coming from the proponents of the theory of Anthropogenic Climate Change anyway. From causing Acne to causing World War Four damn this climate change is scary stuff. To find out just how scary it apparently is CLICK HERE EDITORS WARNING: DO ...
  • News Archive In Focus – Politics(5,163 articles)
    Independent news and commentary on politics from around the world. From Australia to Europe, we look at the behaviours within government, the running of state affairs, and the formulation of policy. To read our Politics news archive of 5,163 articlesCLICK HERE

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
  • Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
    In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

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

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • The Two Faces of a Police State: Sheltering Ta ...
    James Petras “There is a degree of cynicism and greed which is really quite shocking” - Lord Turner Bank of England, Financial Service Authority, “The rotten heart of finance” The Economist Introduction Never in the history of the United States have we witn ...
  • Targeting Chavez
    by Stephen Lendman Since taking office in February 1999, Chavez has been Washington's number one Latin American enemy. He worries US officials for good reason. He's a powerful threat. He represents a good example. Venezuela's social democracy shames America's. Bolivarianism works. So d ...
  • Day of Infamy at General Assembly
    by Stephen Lendman On August 3, The General Assembly ignored rule of law principles. Member states are sworn to uphold them. It passed a non-binding Syrian resolution 133 - 12. Thirty-one nations abstained. Cowardice defines their failure to do the right thing. Saudi Arabia drafted ...
  • Mad Dog Leaders Threaten Humanity
    by Stephen Lendman A common thread defines Obama and Netanyahu. Their agenda threatens humanity. Both head modern-day Spartas. Israel is very much involved in Washington's war on Syria. At issue is destroying another independent state, murdering thousands, planning more wars, and threate ...
  • Ordinary citizens: the silent victims of anti- ...
    Kourosh Ziabari While the United States and European Union are vehemently competing with each other in the seemingly endless race of imposing sanctions on Iran, the ordinary Iranian citizens are experiencing the most breathtaking, agonizing impacts of the crippling embargoes. On July 31, the A ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Tuesday
    RUSSIAN ‘PUSSY’ PROSECUTORS ASK FOR 3 YEARS IN PUNK CASE MOSCOW (AP) — Russian prosecutors on Tuesday asked for a three-year sentence for each member of a feminist punk band who performed a stunt against Vladimir Putin in Moscow’s main cathedral. The hooliganism charges t ...
  • Matt Lauer To Meredith Vieira: ‘Don&#821 ...
    Money for Nothing! Over paid Corporate Media Toadies.They laugh as they bring down news reporting to the level of a playground rumor. By ICTMN Staff,indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com - Matt Lauer recently joined Kris Jenner in the ranks of celebrities who use derogatory terms toward Native Amer ...
  • The Science of Genocide
    By Chris Hedges,Truthdig - 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 Nagasaki, it exploded an atomic device that was t ...
  • Music Digest Monday” Madonna exhibition, ...
    Madonna 13305 from joe mcevoy on Vimeo. Dubai shopping mall holds Madonna exhibition The BurJuman shopping mall in Dubai hosts a “Simply Madonna” exhibition devoted to the pop legend’s career, spanning three decades. Music festival experience By Alex McClung,statenews.com - I have never re ...
  • News News Everywhere, BUT
    By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE – I had an eye opening conversation with a close friend today. He was confused about a something that had been on the television news and in the paper all week. At first I thought he must have been on Mars for the last seven days but when I questioned him a [...]

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • 3 Weird Problems With Your Seafood
    The seafood aisle can work for you or against you. The right fish can do wonders for your health, while the wrong type could slowly be poisoning you. By now, you've probably heard that mercury-tainted fish is a no-no…but what about seafood hopped up on caffeine? Scientists are figuring out that ...
  • Are Your Office Lights Giving You Skin Cancer?
    You probably never thought you'd have to worry about getting skin cancer while sitting inside all day…but guess again! Scientists from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, have just published a study suggesting that those ubiquitous energy-efficient compact-fluorescent (CFL) bulbs cou ...
  • The Food Companies Spending the Most to Hide t ...
    Surveys repeatedly show that more than 90 percent of Americans want genetically modified (GM) foods labeled. That overwhelming majority of the public wants to know if it's eating ingredients derived from lab-created plants that have been genetically modified to resist (and sometime even create ...
  • 7 Crazy Things Pesticides Are Doing to Your Body
    Pesticides are designed to kill, although the mode of action they use to put the stranglehold on pests varies. Whether it's nerve gas–like neurological disruption, the unbalancing of key hormones, or the stunting of a plant's ability to absorb life-sustaining trace minerals from the soil, none ...
  • The World's First 100% Organic Nation?
    The tiny Himalayan country of Bhutan serves as home to just 738,000 people—about the population of Alaska. But this tiny landlocked nation is on track to make one of the biggest pro-organic moves in the world. At the June 2012 Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, the kingdom's prime m ...

big think

  • How World of Warcraft Could Save Your Business ...
    What’s the Big Idea? The rapid growth of technology has created a yawning culture chasm between the Millenial Generation and its elders (Generation X and the Baby Boomers), and possibly even between the Millenials and the digital natives to come, those born with an iPhone in one hand and ...
  • Embrace the Cringe
    You might have had an experience like this: You’re cruising down the highway, with nothing in particular on your mind, when, suddenly, you let out an audible groan, remembering one of those cringe moments of your life—something you said or did, even years or decades earlier, that still produces ...
  • Tell the Truth, and Live Longer. (No Lie!)
         Want to live a longer healthier life? Chill out. And stop lying. For the same reason. Stress is really REALLY bad for your health.               Chronic stress is bad for your health in a lot of ways. (“Chronic” means the kind you don’t get used to – like the hassles of dail ...
  • Conservative Liberal Education?
    One reason I can’t buy the claim that conservative intellectual has become an oxymoron is that on our campuses it's so often the conservatives who defend “liberal education.”  I’m going to sketch out the understanding of “liberal education” or “general education” shared by me and many of my fell ...
  • The Great Revival of the Islamists
    Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell What’s the Latest Development? After a meeting between Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and the new Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, it was reportedly declared that Egypt is committed to “putting into place a democratic government.” Mo ...

Information Liberation

  • The Cannibal Warlords of Liberia (Another Smas ...
    "The Cannibal Warlords of Liberia" is a pretty insane film by VICE. It's a journey through war-torn Liberia, showing the extreme poverty the people suffer under in this one time proxy colonialist U.S. state. All I could think watching this do...
  • Rand Paul Tries to Get Journalist Fired and Ar ...
    An RT reporter was threatened by capitol police and the Senate Relations Committee after asking Rand Paul about his endorsement of Mitt Romney. *The police threatened to remove all of RT*s press passes for all of their reporters and arrest the jour...
  • 65 year old woman hero uses gun to defeat 5 ar ...
    A Garden Grove, California, jewelry store owner thwarted an armed robbery with a handgun on Sunday and sent masked robbers scurrying for their lives. A surveillance video shows the gutsy 65-year-old woman with gun in hand chasing the would-be robbers...
  • Ron Paul vs. the Murderous Evil of Sanctions A ...
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  • Did You Know That Professional Writing Is Dyin ...
    Another day, another article written on behalf of the disrupted, bemoaning the way things are, romanticizing the way things were and recoiling in horror from the touch of the "masses." This one's a particular treat, though, seeing as it's written by ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Dr Who. It’s for kids…
    …as Al Murray would have it…but that doesn’t mean us big kids cannot watch it and run behind the sofa crying for Mummy all over again when the Daleks appear! The Guardian describes the five new episodes that will air before Christmas 2012 as the big finale to Steven Moffat&#821 ...
  • Dr Who. It’s for kids…
    …as Al Murray would have it…but that doesn’t mean us big kids cannot watch it and run behind the sofa crying for Mummy all over again when the Daleks appear! The Guardian describes the five new episodes that will air before Christmas 2012 as the big finale to Steven Moffat&#821 ...
  • Damaged electronic goods
    Electronic devices are susceptible to damage from radiation, potentially cosmic radiation and even ultraviolet radiation. A study using spectroscopy reveals that the amount of optical damage, as opposed to structural damage, that can be caused may be more than ten times greater than studies sugg ...
  • Damaged electronic goods
    Electronic devices are susceptible to damage from radiation, potentially cosmic radiation and even ultraviolet radiation. A study using spectroscopy reveals that the amount of optical damage, as opposed to structural damage, that can be caused may be more than ten times greater than studies sugg ...
  • Muse, Telstar and electronic keyboards
    As many Sciencebase readers will known Telstar was a generic name given to a range of communications satellites (the idea for which was first posited by author Arthur C Clarke). The first two Telstar satellites were experimental. Telstar 1 was launched atop a Thor-Delta rocket on July 10, 1962 a ...

RFF Library

  • Directional Climate Change and Potential Rever ...
    Global Change Biology (January 2012)v18, n1, p51–163 / by Debra P. C. Peters, Jin Yao, Osvaldo E. Sala and John P. Anderson (open access) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02498.x/pdf [From a Climate Wire article by Tiffany Stecker, sub. req.]  Climate change may help t ...
  • The Carbon Price and the Property and Construc ...
    Davis Logan (unit of AECOM Australia Pty Ltd) http://bit.ly/Nf7zKC [From Architecture and Design] A report from Davis Langdon has found that the impact of Australia’s carbon pricing on construction costs is less than 0.5 per cent, after considering industry compensation in the first year of the ...
  • Future Transportation Fuels Study
    National Petroleum Council http://www.npc.org/FTF-80112.html [NY Times Green blog] The internal-combustion engine, propelling U.S. automobiles since before the Model T Ford, will remain the dominant power source for cars until at least 2050, according to a study by a panel advising the Energy De ...
  • When It Rains, It Pours: Global Warming and th ...
    Environment America http://www.environmentamerica.org/reports/ame/when-it-rains-it-pours [From Press Release] …a new Environment America Research & Policy Center report confirms that extreme rainstorms and snowstorms are happening 30 percent more frequently on average nationwide since ...
  • In It Together: a How-To Reference for Buildin ...
    Willamette Partnership | Pinchot Institute for Conservation and World Resources Institute for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Environmental Markets http://willamettepartnership.org/in-it-together/ [From Website] Watersheds across the United States have used different forms of ...

Scientific American - News

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Hurricane Emera
    Industrial exodus, hotels half full, Grand Bahamians with power bills the size of mortgages. Something's wrong here. Freeport, Grand Bahama - Walking the streets of Grand Bahama, and especially after leaving the tourist enclave of Port ...
  • "You Don't Treat People Like Animals. Especial ...
    CEWU president fears that Emera will kill the union in Grand Bahama by November 2012 Freeport, Grand Bahama – It would appear that the Commonwealth Electrical Workers Union (CEWU), representing an ever-dwindling membership at Emera&#3 ...
  • LE PAVÉ : RETOUR À L’ANORMALE
    L’État s’est accaparé le monopole de la démocratie. Et cette vision s’est répandue jusque dans les cercles bien pensants de la gauche, récupérateurs en chef de la grève étudiante et de la tension sociale qui en a résultée ...
  • LE PAVÉ : Journal révolutionnaire contre la ré ...
    UN PIED DANS L’URNE Le problème ce n'est pas tant les élections que la signification qu'on prétend leur donner. Ne visent-elles pas à ménager une sortie de « crise » en pacifiant la lutte ? Mais de ...
  • LE PAVÉ: LEURS LOIS, SPÉCIALES OU PAS, ON S'EN ...
    Sans surprise, on constate qu'une nouvelle échéance électorale s'annonce. Voilà une stratégie d'envergure de l'État pour récupérer la grève, parce qu’elle pourrait devenir de plus en plus féroce, voire révolutionnaire ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • No, Barack Obama Isn't Trying to Undermine Mil ...
    Today's Outrage of the Day™ is Mitt Romney's contention that Barack Obama hates our men and women in uniform and wants to prevent them from voting. Here is Katie Biber, legal counsel for the Romney campaign: We disagree with the basic premise that it is "arbitrary" and unconstitutiona ...
  • Quote of the Day: You Need to Let Your Kids Fail
    From Madeline Levine, offering some advice on overparenting: If you can’t stand to see your child unhappy, you are in the wrong business. The rest of the piece is equally sensible. For that reason, I expect it will get very little attention.
  • Chart of the Day: Algobot Wars Now Rule Wall S ...
    Felix Salmon passes along this animation that shows the remarkably chaotic growth of high-frequency trading on all of America's various stock exchanges over the past five years (this includes the three exchanges you've heard of plus the dozen others you probably haven't). The basic idea behind ...
  • Maybe, Just Maybe, the Economy Is Starting to ...
    Is the economy finally getting better? A friend writes in with some anecdotal evidence: his father, who declared bankruptcy two years ago, got cold called by Bank of America offering him a refi deal. What's more, his brother finally got evicted from his foreclosed house in Riverside. "I've tol ...
  • Mitt Romney Not Such a Great Real Estate Investor
    The LA Times reports that although Mitt Romney may be pretty good at making money in the private equity biz, he's apparently not so good at the real estate investment biz. His La Jolla mansion, the one with the car garages, hasn't worked out so well for him: After paying cash for the M ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 339: Niggalympics
    Topics: Folks taking things out of hand Did anyone really make fun of Gabby Douglas’ hair? Serena crip walking Rick Ross’ food rapping Cupcake ATM Evander Holyfield broke Fuck the Paterno family The Niggalympics Stabbed over Xbox Share with your friends:
  • IC 338: God is an Asshole (with a Special App ...
    Topics: The Chick Fil-A situation is getting out of hand Stop playing 6 Degrees of Separation with where your money is going X-Men First Class Sequel = Days of Future Past? Can Fox make a clean break? Fuck the Total Recall remake Snoop Dogg proves that too much weed isn’t good for you Weez ...
  • IC 337: But He Smoked Crack
    Topics: Bigotry is delicious Being a nerdy isn’t trendy Comic Book Fans going too hard? “But He smoked crack…” Having Kristen Stewart Cheat on you Jerry Sandusky is creepy Penis thieves Share with your friends:
  • IC 336: Bad Parenting 101
    Topics: The Dark Knight Rises was awesome The Cunt Muffins who spoil movies on opening weekend Calling an Avengers Initiative on The Dark Knight Rises Politicizing Tragedies Gun control laws won’t stop evil people Regulation is a safety net and deterrent for for the casuals Kriss gives an ...
  • IC 335: Homophobia Tastes Like Chicken
    Topics: *Bonus* The first 15 minis is the pre-show with Kriss & Rod talking about the George Zimmerman/Sean Hannity Interview*Bonus* Kev Sees Spider-Man 2 Marvel wins San Diego Comic Con Nerds Ruin Everything Trolling The Dark Knight Rises Critics don’t love watching movies anymore Ru ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Researchers peek at the early evolution of sex ...
    Two new studies offer insight into sex chromosome evolution by focusing on papaya, a multimillion dollar crop plant with a sexual problem (as far as growers are concerned) and a complicated past. The findings are described in two papers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. re ...
  • Researchers find evidence of ritual use of 'bl ...
    People living 700 to 900 years ago in Cahokia, a massive settlement near the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, ritually used a caffeinated brew made from the leaves of a holly tree that grew hundreds of miles away, researchers report. read more
  • Generic language helps fuel stereotypes, NYU, ...
    Hearing generic language to describe a category of people, such as "boys have short hair," can lead children to endorse a range of other stereotypes about the category, a study by researchers at New York University and Princeton University has found. Their research, which appears in th ...
  • New genetic study defines the genetic map of t ...
    A new genetic analysis focusing on Jews from North Africa has provided an overall genetic map of the Jewish Diasporas. The findings support the historical record of Middle Eastern Jews settling in North Africa during Classical Antiquity, proselytizing and marrying local populations, and, in the ...
  • Seafood, wild or farmed? The answer may be both
    Most people think of seafood as either wild or farmed, but in fact both categories may apply to the fish you pick up from your grocery store. In recent years, for example, as much as 40 percent of the Alaskan salmon catch originated in fish hatcheries, although it may be labeled "all wild, ...

unEarthed

  • Winning The Debate On Fracking
    The law and the facts are on our side Earthjustice attorney Deborah Goldberg came out victorious in a recent Intelligence Squared debate over whether the natural ...
  • What It Means To Be A Resource Colony
    Will the eco-conscious Pacific Northwest become a coal-shipping hub? Author Wendell Berry has examined the relationship of rural America with the nation’s urban centers. ...
  • The Wild West Targets Wolves Again
    Wyoming wants gray wolves off the endangered species list The anti-wolf crowd in Wyoming has this irrational fear of wolves, and no amount of evidence can calm ...
  • Earth’s Great Storyteller -- Water
    Cousteau legacy aids fight against mountaintop removal mining Alexandra Cousteau. One of the biggest threats to water in Appalachia is mountaintop removal. En ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: A Dangerous Trojan Horse
    Despite appearances, the new bill is an attack on public health This bill is worse than no action at all. (Henri Motte) Today, Sens. Hoeven (R-SD), Conrad (D- ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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  • Pushed aside, the Israeli gay rights movement ...
    It is not as severe as Iran’s nuclear program, not as consensual as the movement calling for a universal draft, and not as hip as the growing fight for social justice. The gay struggle just can’t seem to find its place. By Amnon Brownfield Stein There wasn’t much pride in the J ...
  • Lethal Sinai attack is connected to the Gaza b ...
    The lethal attack on an Egyptian military outpost, in an attempted incursion into Israel, is another reminder of the terrorist infrastructure in the Sinai Peninsula. This infrastructure was built in part on the basis of the Gaza-Egypt-Israel smuggling industry, which is fueled by the massive res ...
  • WATCH: Olive trees destroyed by settlers in So ...
    Ta’ayush activists found 10 mature olive trees mangled on Saturday in an olive grove belonging to Palestinians from the village of at-Tuwani, in the South Hebron Hills. The settlers are from the illegal outpost of Havat Maon, a place known for settler violence and harassment. This 3-minute ...
  • Exclusive: Obama’s response to Romney&#8 ...
    +972 has managed to get its hands onto a draft plan of President Barack Obama’s next campaign move,  hitting back at Mitt Romney after the latter unilaterally elevated the U.S. relationship with Israel from “special” to “cherished.” According to the leaked document, ...
  • Divided society, divided protests
    Two separate protests were held Saturday night in Tel Aviv, in a bizarre drama that split the ritual Saturday evening demonstrations into two ragged parts, with each group claiming to represent the true social justice movement. Both struggled to generate their own energy as if the other didn&#82 ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Millionaire Buys EVERY Foreclosed Home In A Co ...
    MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. –  A Michigan millionaire decided to go into the real estate business with a bang last week by buying every tax foreclosed property offered at a recent county auction. MyFoxDetroit.com reports Bill McMachen, a businessman and former yacht dealer, paid about $4.8 billion for ...
  • Another SCRA, Soldier Abuse Story…Capito ...
    (It’s a great story, but I have yet to find a single soldier who has taken any real benefit…) WASHINGTON — Capital One has agreed to pay $12 million to resolve allegations the bank violated special consumer protections in federal law for members of the military, the Justice Dep ...
  • MORE ON BANK BREAK INS….WHEN WILL IT EVE ...
    14· · · ·Q.· ·Okay.· And has Ms. Roberts directed you to 15· ·take care of, maintain, and watch over the property? 16· · · ·A.· ·She asked me to, yes. 17· · · ·Q.· ·And have you done so over a period of years? 18· · · ·A.· ·Yes, I have. 19· · · [...]
  • WELLS FARGO V. MCKENNA, The Bank Bullies Are W ...
      GLENN RUSSELL LAW BLOG Scridb filter
  • Counting Cards, Cheating And The Federal Reser ...
    From Chink in The Armor: Anyone involved in the Casino industry will tell you that people will go to extraordinary lengths to “game the system”.  Counting cards,  while not illegal,  is highly frowned upon and casino security are trained to spot the card counters.  Once spotted,  the counter is ...

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The Parallel Parliament

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

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
    Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
  • Basic research and personal responsibility
    Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
  • Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
    Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • “Project Corner Store:” Youth Make Muscle Broccoli
    Just another day in the office? We wish!
  • The 2012 Farm Bill: Evolution or Devolution?
    With no agreement between the two branches of Congress, farmers suffering from the severe drought will not receive the aid they desperately need any time soon. And, with Congress officially away on summer recess, no further forward momentum will occur until they return in September. And so, we c ...
  • An Interesting Eggs-perience
    I thought it was particularly intriguing that the discussion in the hearing, while under the guise of improving animal welfare standards, focused primarily on the complex economics of egg production.
  • Why Must the USDA Flip-Flop on Meatless Monday?
    The really sobering piece is the hypocrisy. Within the last two years, USDA issued a very clear set of recommendations for a healthy diet. These dietary guidelines suggest increasing the amount of fruits and vegetables in a weekly diet, and the guidelines are designed to improve public health an ...
  • Disappointment with USDA’s Decision on Meatles ...
    From a statement issued today by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. On Friday, Michael J. Klag, MD, MPH, dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, wrote to Secretary Vilsack of USDA to express his disappointment with his agency’s recent retraction of a Meatle ...

k2p blog

  • AGW – “a monopoly that clings to o ...
    "For constructive critics, this is the problem with modern climate science. They don't think it's a conspiracy theory, but a monopoly that clings to one hypothesis (that carbon dioxide will cause dangerous global warming) and brooks less and less dissent. Again and again, climate skeptics are to ...
  • The Luddite shades of Green
    The Green movement has become the cloak under which modern Luddites can hide and operate.
  • Reported 1979-2008 U.S. temperature trends are ...
    The new improved assessment, for the years 1979 to 2008, yields a trend of +0.155C per decade from the high quality sites, a +0.248 C per decade trend for poorly sited locations, and a trend of +0.309 C per decade after NOAA adjusts the data.
  • Olympics: OBS coverage is amateur and cycling ...
    OBS - provides all pictures from the Olympics to broadcasters around the world. Of course, OBS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the International Olympic Committee and hosts the broadcasting operation for several major sporting events. The coverage of Day 1 of the London Olympics was amateur rath ...
  • Olympics have started – blogging will be ...
    The Beijing opening ceremony was far more spectacular but humourless. Some of the London themes were far more "socialist" than at Beijing. The ceremony had some humour - but some of which fell flat. The raising of the rings in London though will stick in my memory. Beijing was trying to hide its ...

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • McDonald’s Tries To Open Up The Elusive ...
    I do most of my writing between 2 A.M. and 5 A.M. Even if I wanted to, I couldn't drive over to the nearest 24-hour McDonald's and order up an Egg McMuffin or a breakfast burrito right now. Breakfast food in the most wee hours of the morning? Who could imagine such a wondrous thing? [...]
  • Are You Overdosing On Supermarket Loyalty Cards?
    Just about anyone who has been into a chain grocery store in the last decade is familiar with loyalty programs -- and the little barcode cards that can quickly clog up your wallet and/or key chain. But one Consumerist reader thinks it's time for supermarkets to rethink these programs and just pa ...
  • Ebay Partnering Up With Target, Best Buy & Oth ...
    While you might not be able to get your mitts on that pair of burnished silver cufflinks in the shape of Robert Pattinson's face* from a seller living in Pocatello, Idaho on the same day you win them on eBay, the company is testing out same-day delivery in cooperation with major retailers like T ...
  • Reminder: Even If Michael Phelps Says He Pees ...
    It turns out Michael Phelps is one of those 20% of adults who pees in the pool — but that doesn't mean you should go relieving yourself at the public swimming facilities on your way to emulating Olympic legends. After all, you probably aren't on the road to athletic glory and can probably find t ...
  • Citi Has Some Very Strange Ideas On How I Plan ...
    Is there no limit to what banking rewards programs will cover these days? Flights, hotel rooms, rental cars, electronics, women. Wait -- what? Consumerist reader F. is a member of Citi's Extra Cash rewards program and saw they could earn 100 points just for taking this survey. But when F. got to ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • More Coverage of the USDA's Unsafe Chicken Pla ...
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Playing Chicken on Food Safety? Summary: More coverage on the concerns regarding USDA's plan to speed up poultry production lines and replace most government inspectors with plant workers – changes already in place under a controversial pilot program known as ...
  • GAP Responds to Critique of United Nations Eth ...
    It has come to GAP's attention that lawyers from the United Nations have questioned statistics that we compiled regarding the record of the UN Ethics Office, which is charged with reviewing retaliation complaints and safeguarding the interests of UN whistleblowers. Specifically, in the Responden ...
  • New Senate Bill to Punish Whistleblowing?: Dai ...
    ProPublica: Washington’s War on Leaks, Explained Summary: This article explains the new Senate bill that has been proclaimed to be aimed at preventing "leaks," but which has been denounced by open government groups (like GAP) for hindering whistleblowing and attacking truth-tellers. The b ...
  • UBS Whistleblower Birkenfeld Released from Prison
    Yesterday marked the end of Bradley Birkenfeld’s prison term for conspiracy to defraud the United States. However, what he actually did was save taxpayers billions of dollars after exposing the secret corruption of UBS, the largest bank in Switzerland. UBS conducted a tax evasion scandal, allowi ...
  • NSA Whistleblower Sues Agency: Daily Whistlebl ...
    Wired: Whistleblower, Suspected of Leaking Warrantless Spying Program, Sues NSA Summary: NSA whistleblower Diane Roark – who the federal government suspected of exposing the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program – has filed suit against the agency for failing to return her ...

UK Progressive

  • Transnational Capitalism
    by Robert Hunziker The world’s epicenter of capitalism is the United States, and its reach/power/influence circumnavigates the globe. The elites of the capitalist class are no longer tied to territoriality or driven by national competition. “U.S. capitalism has expanded its reach by morphing int ...
  • The Monday Line: The Frog in Warming Water: Ha ...
    by Denis G. Campbell Mitt Romney’s a frog in a pot of water. It’s slowly being warmed and he can’t jump out to save himself. We’re all watching him slowly boil. Harry Reid is the US Senate Majority Leader, a Democrat who is a very quiet man. He spent last weekend being demonised by the [...]
  • Does Cybercrime Really Cost $1 Trillion?
    by Peter Maass and Megha Rajagopalan ProPublica, Gen. Keith Alexander is the director of the National Security Agency and oversees U.S. Cyber Command, which means he leads the government’s effort to protect America from cyberattacks. Due to the secretive nature of his job, he maintains a relativ ...
  • Suddenly Homeless – Homeless LGBT Face Even Gr ...
    By Charley James A few weeks ago, I wrote about Mark Twombley and Craig Richardson, a committed gay couple who found themselves homeless after Mark became injured on his job and Craig getting laid off from a middle management position. Mark and Craig are luckier than many homeless gays, lesbians ...
  • I Owe Mitt an Apology
    by Tina Dupuy Presumptive nominee Mitt Romney is seemingly fixated on apologies. He’s obsessed with apologies like Bristol Palin is obsessed with teen abstinence—like BP is obsessed with clean energy—Marcus Bachmann with curing homosexual men … Mitt’s book is titled No Apology. He’s convinced th ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Don’t mention the Peer Review! New Zeala ...
    The Australians must have said something awful. In the never ending quest to hide information that the taxpayer paid for, the New Zealand trial of skeptics vs alarmists is rising to new heights. This is a legal case asking for discovery of documents, which is much harder to dodge than a simple F ...
  • Site Hacked
    Well well. It is confirmed, this site was hacked at about 11am EST Australia this morning (9pm NY Time). We do not know what the motive was. It appears to be an XSS (Cross Site Script) type hack — for those who are interested. There are many log files to go through. News was posted on WUWT ...
  • August 4th Weekend Unthreaded
    For all those thoughts that don’t fit somewhere else… - Rating: 10.0/10 (2 votes cast) Rating: 10.0/10 (2 votes cast)
  • Victory of the Denialists! says Robert Manne i ...
    Firstly — No one wins anything while the people who slag off at scientists get their denigrating name-calling on the front cover of magazines. That said, I’m smiling. Beaming. The man who doesn’t know what science is, admits his team is failing. That has to be good. Real scien ...
  • Major Australian dailies disappear the Muller ...
    It appears skeptics are getting to the Fairfax press (finally!) The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age both ran with Muller’s claims of being a converted skeptic who found the world was warming (and the preposterous leap that “therefore” we were to blame). “I saw past the ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Aussie Bunker in the News
    In the last couple of days most Australian newspapers have run this story: A 2012 doomsday group is charging $5000 for admission to a survival bunker in the northern NSW hills. Massive earthquakes, shifts in the Earth’s poles and devastating solar flares will be among events faced by the ...
  • Grid Vulnerability Warnings Continue
    Just over a year ago I summarized a Scientific American article that pointed out how at risk the U.S. power grids are, regardless of what the Sun might do: Every facet of the modern electrical grid is controlled by computers. It is our greatest example of physical infrastructure interlinked wit ...
  • Zahi Hawass and the future of Egyptian Tourism
    With the ousting of the Mubarak regime last year, so went Zahi Hawass, Minister of Antiquities, and the face of ancient Egypt. An article at the Huffington Post looks into what happened to Hawass since (not much, seems like he is sitting around hoping to be reinstated…), and it provides s ...
  • Could Eta Carinae Harm Us?
    I’ve just been reading Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku. He is very skilled at making complex topics easy to follow. And that helps me to generate ideas rather than just trying to keep up. This is from page 126: Gamma Ray Bursters… releasing within seconds the entire energy output of o ...
  • Survival Seed Buckets – Some Advice
    There are many businesses flourishing right now because they supply preppers. It is hard to be a prepper without buying survival supplies… Consequently there are some products that might cost extra because they are targeting preppers. I don’t own any Bear Grylls products, so I’ ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

  • Israel cancels NAM Palestine meet in Ramallah; ...
    India has objected to Israel for not allowing the entry of diplomats of five countries to attend a meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah.The meeting of Non Aligned Movements Palestine Committee on Aug 4-5 was cancelled at the last minute. Reported by All India Radio 1 hour ago
  • Curfew re-imposed in Kokrajhar;NHRC team to vi ...
    In Assam, curfew was re-imposed in Kokrajhar district this morning after unidentified miscreants killed 3 people and injured two others, at Raanijuli area last night.The injured people have been admitted in Guwahati Medical College Hospital. Reported by All India Radio 1 hour ago
  • Assam violence: Death toll 65, locals block NH 31
    4 more fell victim to the violence in lower Assam districts, triggering protest by locals who blocked NH 31 at Beltoli on the Kokrajhar-Dhubri border. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
  • Don't listen to 'demoralising' Advani, I will ...
    Advani's musings were demoralising, Thackeray said and asked NDA 'not to lose heart'. Reported by DNA 1 hour ago
  • Educating Indians: There’s something about Mar ...
    It perhaps takes an occasional Olympic hero to impart a few home truths to us. What Mary Kom, the pint-sized pugilist, teaches us... Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Drugs An Instrument of Global Policy
    In the wake of World War II, the US and British political elites were confronted with a threat of socialism on a global scale. Fearing that a question mark might be hanging over their own future, they reacted by mobilizing resources – those on public display and deeply hidden – to implement a Ro ...
  • NATO Preparing Vast Disinformation Campaign
    Syrians wanting to watch their national TV stations will probably see them replaced on their screens by TV programs created by the CIA. Studio-shot images will show massacres that are blamed on the Syrian Government, people demonstrating, ministers and generals resigning from their posts, Presid ...
  • The SCO 2012 Shanghai Summit – on the Way to N ...
    The 12th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit took place in Beijing on June 6-7, 2012. The annual event brought together the heads of states to review and gauge the importance of the SCO in global affairs. China hosted the summit for the third time since its inception. The organization ...
  • Turkey: Taking a Risk With the U.S. In Syria
    In late 2011 Frederic C. Hof, one of the State Department`s point man on Syrian policy, equaled the Assad regime to ‘a dead man walking’. At the end of December, 2011, Hof joined a special secret committee set up by the Obama administration to discuss possible scenarios of Syrian intervention. T ...
  • Antidote to Fundamentalism and Terrorism
    In international politics, relations of trade and commerce among nations are known, but what about spiritual cooperation? This is in fact the central call of religious leaders at Astana in Kazakhstan. While speaking at the 4th Conference of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, held on 30t ...

BlogHer

  • New Ways to Earn Money From Your Influence: Wi ...
    At the closing keynote of the BlogHer '12 conference Saturday, Elisa, Jory (in absentia) and I announced that from 2009 to 2011, BlogHer Inc. has paid out $17 million to 4,250 women—and men!—who write blogs and are influential in social media. We are so proud to have been able to make a real dif ...
  • After the Sikh Temple Shooting: Can We Talk Ab ...
    [Editor's Note: On Sunday morning, a white man opened fire at a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people before he was killed by police. This is less than three weeks after another gunman killed 12 in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater. Zuzu at Feministe asks, aren't these two trag ...
  • How to Make Basilcello
    [Editor's Note: Though I've had plenty of limoncello in my day, I've never had this particular rendition of the digestion-aiding after-dinner liqueur: basilcello. This is a fantastic way to use up the abundant basil available right now, and to enjoy it into the cold months. --Genie] Basilcello, ...
  • Facebook Makes Photos Bigger and Better
    Facebook is rolling out changes to the photo size in Timeline. Cool Mom Tech shares the details about how it will look and when to expect the changes. The next time you hop on Facebook, you may be delighted to see that the photo of your friend's beautiful new baby is displayed prominently across ...
  • What's Your Favorite Comfort Food?
    I know from many past surveys that healthy eating is important to the BlogHer community. Organic, vegan, and gluten-free food options are enormously popular, and we see posts about them regularly.But one cannot live on grilled veggies alone. There comes a time when we all suddenly crave our most ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Are we headed for a coal policy train wreck?
    Over the weekend, there was certainly an interesting collection of news and commentary that, taken together, raises lots of questions about the future of the coal industry in our region. First, there was the bombshell new study from climate scientist James Hansen, as described by the great AP sc ...
  • Remembering the Crandall Canyon Mine Disaster
    Five years ago today, the first in a series of coal-mine “bumps” occurred at Murray Energy’s Crandall Canyon Mine out in Utah. Before the disaster was over, six miners and three would-be rescue workers were dead. Peg McEntee, columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune, wrote about the ...
  • Coal Association upset with the tone of the de ...
    Ry Rivard over at the Daily Mail has a fascinating story out this morning: Members of the West Virginia Coal Association say Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Raese acted inappropriately during an exchange with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., at an industry-sponsored event on Saturday. Raese caug ...
  • Friday roundup, Aug. 3, 2012
    Zeo Blake, 18 months, daughter of Justin and Geneva Blake, wearis a T-shirt of her grandfather, mining victim Rex Mullins, during the unveiling of the 48-foot-long granite Upper Big Branch Miners monument Friday, July 27, 2012 in Whitesville, W.Va. (AP Photo/The Register-Herald, Rick Barbero) Th ...
  • Talking coal: What about things we have in common?
    This week, I’ve had the opportunity to spend some time on the phone with a few West Virginians who made it very clear they aren’t very happy with the way I cover the coal industry, and with coverage of mountaintop removal in particular. Out of maybe a half-dozen callers in what they ...

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Tuesday
    RUSSIAN ‘PUSSY’ PROSECUTORS ASK FOR 3 YEARS IN PUNK CASE MOSCOW (AP) — Russian prosecutors on Tuesday asked for a three-year sentence for each member of a feminist punk band who performed a stunt against Vladimir Putin in Moscow’s main cathedral. The hooliganism charges t ...
  • Matt Lauer To Meredith Vieira: ‘Don&#821 ...
    Money for Nothing! Over paid Corporate Media Toadies.They laugh as they bring down news reporting to the level of a playground rumor. By ICTMN Staff,indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com - Matt Lauer recently joined Kris Jenner in the ranks of celebrities who use derogatory terms toward Native Amer ...
  • The Science of Genocide
    By Chris Hedges,Truthdig - 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 Nagasaki, it exploded an atomic device that was t ...
  • Music Digest Monday” Madonna exhibition, ...
    Madonna 13305 from joe mcevoy on Vimeo. Dubai shopping mall holds Madonna exhibition The BurJuman shopping mall in Dubai hosts a “Simply Madonna” exhibition devoted to the pop legend’s career, spanning three decades. Music festival experience By Alex McClung,statenews.com - I have never re ...
  • News News Everywhere, BUT
    By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE – I had an eye opening conversation with a close friend today. He was confused about a something that had been on the television news and in the paper all week. At first I thought he must have been on Mars for the last seven days but when I questioned him a [...]

reference frame

  • Pakistani water car
    During the weekend, I was informed by a Facebook contact of mine who lives on the Indian subcontinent that Pakistan is excited by the invention by Agha Waqar Ahmad, an engineer, who has "managed, by the grace of Allah, to produce a car that runs on water". While doing so, he was allegedly ins ...
  • Curiosity rover and excitement in NASA
    I just spent two hours by watching NASA TV that covered the landing of the Curiosity Rover on Mars. The landing maneuvers (those "7 minutes of terror": diagram) were unbelievably sophisticated (more than any other previous landing procedure); watch the video above (it looks like fr ...
  • Polar bears may have been around for 4-5M years
    Three days ago, we discussed the claim about palm trees in the Antarctica aproximately 52-53 million years ago. There's one more paper about a similar topic that was published in recent two weeks. The New York Times wrote the following story about it: How Brown and Polar Bears Split Up, but ...
  • Why stringy enhanced symmetries are natural, i ...
    A TRF reader expressed the following sentiment: I would have liked to see the gauge symmetries of standard model emerging purely from the 10-dim geometry.In other words, he would have liked if string theory were nothing more than the Kaluza-Klein theory (general relativity with extra dimens ...
  • UAH, first 7 months: 2012 was 6th warmest
    In July 2012, the UAH global temperature anomaly was 0.09 °C cooler than in June 2012, at 0.28 °C. The June 2012 anomaly was, much like the July 2011 anomaly one year earlier, at 0.37 °C. This month-on-month cooling occurred despite the apparently emerging 2012-2013 El Niño. T ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Vandalism halts trains’ comeback
    Another summer of major train service disruption in the Oslo area ended on Monday, when the rails re-opened on schedule after six weeks of repairs and improvements. One of the main lines north of Oslo, however, came to a screeching halt almost immediately because of vandalism that could have led ...
  • Hundreds join search for missing teen
    An estimated 500 residents of the Oslo area had joined the search late Monday for a 16-year-old girl missing since Saturday night. Sigrid Giskegjerde Schjetne was last heard from just after midnight, and failed to return as agreed to her family’s home near Østensjø on  the city’s eas ...
  • The ‘High North’ is riding high
    MESSAGE TO OUR READERS: If there’s one area of Norway that keeps grabbing attention, both locally and internationally, it’s the far northern regions of Troms and Finnmark. So, at the end of a relatively busy summer news season in the southern areas of the country, we decided it was h ...
  • Rise in car sales signals continued confidence
    Norwegians bought more cars last month than they did in July of last year. Economists view the rise as a sign  that consumer confidence remains high despite some government warnings that tougher times may be in store. A total of 50,846 cars were purchased in July, 11,920 of them brand new and 38 ...
  • Students face housing squeeze
    Norwegian media carry stories every August about how difficult it is for college students to find housing, especially in Oslo. This year, real estate experts and student housing authorities agree that the housing shortage is acute, with a lot of poor accommodation offered at record high prices. ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • How to Attract Beneficial Predators & Pollinators
    It was recently reported in a research study conducted by Michigan University that predatory insect attracting plants saved American farmers “an estimated $4.6 billion last year on insecticides.” Let us hope they continue to up their creativity in their predatory insect attractant pl ...
  • Solar Power: Is it Convenient for You?
    Trying to live more sustainably and save a buck or two…. Sustainability and economics Almost every time, more sustainable systems are far more expensive than our regular way of doing things. This may be the most difficult obstacle to overcome when converting. However, this observation onl ...
  • Join the Permaculture Revolution
    What permaculturalists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet. We don’t know what the details of a truly sustainable future are going to be like, but we need options, we need people experimenting in all kinds of ways and permaculturalists are on ...
  • Creating Change in Communities and NGO’s in Ta ...
    During June this year Tanzania hosted its second ever permaculture design course. Twenty-eight participants from around the globe gathered in the bustling northern town of Arusha for 11 wonderful days of learning and sharing. The Australian based non-government organization (NGO) FoodWaterShelte ...
  • How to Germinate Your Seeds
    by Restoration Seeds Germinating Your Seeds is Fun and Easy. Methods vary by plant type. Seeds of annual plants have a shallow dormancy and do not need a winter to germinate, they only live one season. Annuals generally are buried to a depth equal to the size of the seed in moist well drained s ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • New Policy at Charter School in Delhi Louisian ...
    From our friends at the ACLU of Louisiana: The ACLU issued a letter today to the administration at Delhi Charter School in Delhi, Louisiana in response to its Student Pregnancy Policy. The policy requires female students even suspected of being pregnant to submit to a pregnancy exam – and if ...
  • Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute C ...
    Urban Bush Women have returned to New Orleans for another of their legendary Summer Leadership Institutes. This summer's theme is centered around the question, "Why are people poor?" You can catch some of their work this Saturday at a series of performances they are hosting. Below are the detail ...
  • Community Profile: Brenda Williams of VOTE
    After attending an “outstanding” presentation that VOTE sponsored at Ashé Cultural Arts Center in Central City, Miss Brenda Williams was inspired to get “involved to make a difference in the lives of those who suffer injustice at the hands of lawmakers, judges and others involved in the criminal ...
  • Creating Excellent Schools is not the Same as ...
    Republished from Diane Ravitch's blog: Charter schools that perform better by recruiting and retaining better students don’t exist in a vacuum: skimming the best and most profitable students affects other schools, though it is hard to detect in systems with few charters.  The systemic ef ...
  • Homelessness, Displacement, Evictions . . . Th ...
    There are a number of obvious parallels between housing needs in New Orleans after the 2005 hurricanes and housing needs in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. In both disasters, large regions lost the majority of their affordable housing stock, resulting in massive spikes in homelessness and ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Fuck AJ's boyStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:42 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Christopher Marlowe, I'll concede that unbiasedness is not an elegant word. As for Hitler, I think it is inconclusive that Hitler had the same motivations for opposing Jewry as most of us do. Therefore, one can only make a safe assessment of his character and motives based on the evidence. Unfor ...
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    The real reason for the Nazi sacking of Hirschfeld's Institute for Sex Research On May 6, 1933, Nemesis arrived at the doors of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft wearing a brown uniform. Magnus Hirschfeld was not there to receive him; he watched the newsreel version of the Nazi's sacking of ...
  • Gun Talk • Re: TEENS REACT TO FPS RUSSIA
    Thanks for exposing FPSRussia. It's all J-Tribe all the time from out Russia. I should have realized it a long time ago.Statistics: Posted by CrackSmokeRepublican — Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:29 pm
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    The show starts at about 5 minutes in --- sometimes the interviewer has a few bad questions: iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JcVktqMjqY iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_RbiSvOVNUStatistics: Posted by CrackSmokeRepublican — Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:00 pm

TVNZ

environment 360

  • NASA Study Quantifies Vast Amount of Dust Reac ...
    A new NASA study calculates that nearly 64 million tons of dust, pollution, and other tiny particles enter the atmosphere above North America from other continents each year, nearly as much as the 69 million tons of NASA aerosols produced domestically through natural processes and human act ...
  • Planet’s Carbon Storing Capacity Keeping Pace ...
    The earth’s oceans and lands continue to absorb more than half of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity, suggesting that the planet has not yet reached its carbon-storage capacity even as emissions continue to rise, a new study says. Writing in the journal Nature, U.S. scientists calculat ...
  • Interview: Dreaming of a Place Where the Buffa ...
    Sean Gerrity, president of the American Prairie Reserve, has been working for more than a decade to turn a 5,000-square-mile swath of Montana prairie into an American Serengeti of rolling grasslands teeming with Sean Gerrity bison, wolves, elk, and bighorn sheep. Using a combination of pri ...
  • Historic Blackouts Reveal Troubling Holes in I ...
    The historic blackouts that left more than 670 million people in India without electricity this week revealed profound problems with a power network struggling to keep pace with one of the world’s fastest growing economies, experts say. While it’s unclear what specifically triggered this week’s ...
  • New Whale Recordings Hint at Bowhead Recovery ...
    A wide array of whale songs recorded in the icy waters off Greenland indicates that populations of the endangered bowhead whale, nearly hunted to extinction in the last two centuries, may be experiencing a rebound. After Kate Stafford A bowhead whale collecting 2,144 hours of audio recordings ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

  • The Creepy ‘Hate Music’ Scene
    Chris Lee on the racist rockers who jam at a ‘weird bar in rural Georgia.’
  • Personhood Pins Hopes on Colorado
    The pro-life movement says it has collected enough signatures to make the state ballot. By Abigail Pesta.
  • The Number Games: Answers
    Throughout the London 2012 Olympics we've asked you various questions, ranging from hours in traffic to the cost of a bottle of water. As we compile your answers, we'll be displaying them here.
  • Patriotic Gore
    Vidal was running against Jerry Brown. Robert Chandler recalls his time as the campaign’s copywriter.
  • Did Your College Make the Cut?
    Our annual ranking of the rowdiest, happiest, most beautiful, most stressful (and more) colleges is out—and now we want to hear from you! NewsBeast’s social media editor offers a quick guide to submitting your thoughts.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • For nikkei immigrants in Japan, it does ...
    As Beto awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his futon into a gigantic cockroach. "What's happened to me?" he thought. In his native land down south, he had been a person — if at times underprivileged due to his nikkei status. So, years ago, he "repatriat ...
  • Lack of crisis information regretted
    A former Cabinet aide to ex-Prime Minister Naoto Kan expresses regret in his soon-to-be-published book over the lack of information provided by the government immediately after the start of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis. Tetsuro Fukuyama, an Upper House lawmaker of the ruling Democra ...
  • Import car sales log 16.2% surge
    Sales in Japan of new imported vehicles, including those built abroad by Japanese companies, jumped 16.2 percent in July from a year earlier to 24,867 vehicles, an industry body said Monday. Sales of foreign-brand cars, trucks and buses surged by 21.8 percent to 17,273 vehicles, according to t ...
  • Kikuchi indicted for '95 bomb
    Tokyo prosecutors on Monday indicted captured Aum Shinrikyo fugitive Naoko Kikuchi over her alleged role in a May 1995 parcel bombing at Tokyo City Hall that seriously wounded a civil servant. Kikuchi, 40, was charged with aiding and abetting an attempted murder and creating and mailing the pa ...
  • Foster-Hylton crashes out in hurdles heat
    Defending Olympic champion Dawn Harper, American teammate Lolo Jones and world champion Sally Pearson cruised into the semifinals of the women's 100-meter hurdles Monday, then found themselves trying to console a longtime rival. Jones and Pearson won their respective heats, while Harper eased ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Arctic mega mining — a better future for Baffi ...
    A huge iron ore development at Mary River on northern Baffin Island is about to change an ancient landscape. Baffinland Mary River is majority owned by ArcelorMittal, which was ranked 70th on the Fortune Global 500 largest corporations in 2012. The project consists of a massive iron ore deposit ...
  • Agrium Halves Potash Royalties
    Agrium reports that it paid half as much to the people of Saskatchewan in the second quarter as it had in the same quarter of last year. The company’s quarterly “potash profit and capital tax” payment dropped to $8 million from $15 million a year ago. Agrium’s only potash mine is in Saskatchewan ...
  • Saskatchewan’s Rising Cost of Living
    Today’s Consumer Price Index provides further evidence of Saskatchewan’s rising cost of living. Among the provinces, Saskatchewan is tied for the second-highest annual inflation rate: 2.0%. Consumer prices decreased in June from May in nine provinces (all except Alberta). But Saskatchewan was ti ...
  • Baskin-Robbins and the Walmartization of Ice Cream
    It’s been an unusually hot summer, and soaring temperatures have boosted sales of that quintessential summer food, ice cream. But Baskin-Robbins has decided to shut its production facility in Peterborough, Ont., and lay off 80 workers because of…wait for it… increased demand! F ...
  • Labour Losing to Capital
    The just-released OECD Employment Outlook – full text not available on line – has an interesting chapter on the sharp decline of labour’s share of national income in virtually all OECD countries over the past 30 years, and especially the last twenty years. The median labour sha ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

  • Graphene offers clear window on liquids
    BBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...
  • Rival teams shared in Nobel celebration
    Science: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
  • No title
    Talking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
  • Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sector
    Earth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
  • Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...
    Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • Zimbabwe: Water Chemicals, Just Politics At Play
    “Water has always been one of the biggest problems besetting the City of Harare. Not only is money unavailable to ensure enough chemicals are bought to purify our water and to repair the dilapidated infrastructure, but also there has never been an interest on the part of the authorities to ...
  • Brazil Opens Indigenous Lands to Dams, Mining, ...
    “A directive signed Monday by Brazil’s Solicitor-General could hamper the efforts of indigenous tribes to win government recognition of their traditional lands, reports Survival International, a human rights group focused on native peoples. The directive “opens up all indigenous areas to m ...
  • Animal Waste, Waterways, and Drinking Water
    “A growing body of evidence indicates that CAFO-generated contaminants are ending up in the waters that we depend on for commerce, recreation, and perhaps most importantly, drinking. Spills that occur during manure transport or when storage facilities fail can lead to easily discernible, s ...
  • Mexican Communities Fight Mini-Dams
    “Small-scale hydroelectric dams with a capacity of under 30 MW are seen by the authorities in Mexico as an important alternative for generating energy. But local communities reject them on the argument that they would cause social, economic and environmental damages. On the front line of t ...
  • A 12 Step Program to Stopping Drought and Dese ...
    “Soaring temperatures and low precipitation could not occur at a worse time for many farmers in the United States, and around the world. Intensifying drought conditions are affecting corn and soybean crops throughout the Midwest, raising grain prices as well as concerns about future food p ...

D. Kucinich

  • Cell Phones and Brain Cancer? Until We Know fo ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has introduced H.R. 6358, the Cell Phone Right to Know Act, a bill to grant a consumer’s right-to-know by providing for warning labels on cell phones. It would also create a new national research program to study cell phones and health and require the Environme ...
  • Syria and Lessons Learned
    We don’t know who they are, but we know that we are for them. And it is possible that we are helping people that we have claimed to be against. As we strongly condemn violence wrought in support of the Assad government, recent allegations of war crimes committed in the name of rebellion shoul ...
  • Kucinich and Paul Tag Team Floor Debate on “Ob ...
    Congressmen Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Ron Paul (R-TX) took to the House Floor to stand in bipartisan opposition to legislation that would expand broad and indiscriminate sanctions on Iran. Congressman Paul called the House “obsessed” with a weapon that doesn’t exist, while Congressman Kucinich ...
  • Congress Pushing Postal Service into “Manufact ...
    Today, the United States Postal Service (USPS) will default on a payment that it should have never been required to pay. Legislation passed by Congress in 2006 requires the USPS to prefund retirement benefits up to 75 years in advance. On the House Floor, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) calle ...
  • Kucinich Mourns the Passing of Gore Vidal
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement. “America has lost a man of singular brilliance, a towering intellectual figure of immense heart and wit whose mere passing will revive the power and integrity of the adjective in the English language. “Gore Vidal was a ...

Authentically Wired

  • THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT
    I WILL NOT BE POSTING AGAIN UNTIL 10 AUGUST …. I TRUST EVERYHONE HAS A MOST ENJOYABLE SUMMER … THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT … RESPECTFULY, PAUL F MILLER Filed under: Blogroll
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  • you will eat what we tell you to eat
    …Mon$anto Creed … you will eat what we tell you to eat … got it … and besides our stuff is USDA sanctioned and tested by academic institution we own … Hey Monsanto — I Want My Tomatoes From Nature, Not Your Labs   The biotech industry is willing to tamper with our food supply, [...]
  • WHO ARE ARIZONA’S WATER WISEMEN
    … Rattle your cage … a perspective from outside in …         WHO ARE ARIZONA’S WATER WISEMEN …?     A brilliant sun pierces what moments earlier hosted a dim Arizona landscape of soaring mountains, towering Ponderosa pines, exquisite configurations of Saguaro c ...
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Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • Tongariro eruption: Threat has passed - Ministry
    The Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management says the threat from Mt Tongariro has passed, after it erupted last night.However, it was too early to predict the next series of events, and GNS Science expected heightened...
  • Tongariro eruption: All you need to know
    Mt Tongariro rumbled to life for the first time in more than a century this morning, spewing a giant ash cloud as far as Napier.Dr Thomas Wilson, a disaster management lecturer at Canterbury University, explains all you need to...
  • 18th century mummies aid medical research
    One wears a prim white bonnet. Another sticks out its tongue, hands resting over abdomen. A third clutches at its chest, mouth seemingly frozen in a scream. They are faces from the past, trapped in the appearance they bore when laid...
  • Mars: Six big wheels for mankind
    The robot explorer Curiosity yesterday blazed through the pink skies of Mars to a gentle landing inside a giant crater for the most ambitious dig yet into the red planet's past.A chorus of cheers and applause echoed through the...
  • Latest updates: Tongariro erupts
    5:43am - The Civil Aviation Authority's Meterology Manager Peter Lechner says there will be a new advisory issued to aircraft just after 6am. He said the ash cloud was affecting a zone of airspace stretching as far as from Tongariro...

The Bovine

  • “Where’s the real conspiracy?&#822 ...
    From David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “…It would be nice if such matters were a subject for public discussion. But in Canada and the U.S., the regulator approach is brutally simple:  We know best and we’ll decide what to do … Continue reading →
  • Conspiracy theory the basis for threat of 14 y ...
    News release via Globe Newswire: Ontario, CA, Aug. 6, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On August 2 2012 the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) raided the farms of Ontario farmer Michael Schmidt and Montana Jones in connection with the disappearance of … Continue reading →
  • “Real Police” a hit with the kids ...
    From Michael Schmidt: Lets be like Children Today once again we faced the reality of another search and seizure action by Government agents and Police. To make it very clear, this time NOT because of milk like most people thought, … Continue reading →
  • Raid today on Michael Schmidt’s farm lin ...
    From David E. Gumpert on The Complete Patient blog: “A raiding party of twenty agents from three different agencies descended on Michael Schmidt’s Ontario Farm  at 7 this morning with a simple message: he could be looking at 14 years … Continue reading →
  • August 2, 2012 police raid on Michael Schmidt& ...
    That’s what Michael Schmidt is reporting today on Facebook, along with this pictures:

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Unemployment Rates at Various Demographic Labo ...
    Fed chairman Ben Bernanke estimated it takes about 125,000 jobs per month to keep up with birthrate and immigration. I think because of boomer retirements, the number is much lower, say 75,000 jobs a month. However, there has been almost no increase in the labor pool for the past four year ...
  • Ponzi Financing in Poway California Based on M ...
    Poway California, population 47,811 as of 2010, has placed an enormous bet on rising home prices and tax revenues. Poway borrowed $105 million but will not start to pay that amount back until 2033 at which time they will owe $877 million in interest. Clearly this would be fiscal insanity an ...
  • Reader Questions: Who is "Not in Labor Force"? ...
    Reader Denise wants to know precise definition of who is not in the labor force. That's easy enough. The answer is found straight from the list of BLS frequently asked questions. Who is not in the labor force? Labor force measures are based on the civilian noninstitutional population 1 ...
  • Crash in Spanish 2-Year Bond Yield; Monti Call ...
    Yield on 10-year Spanish bonds remains stubbornly high near 7%, but yield on 2-year bonds is in the midst of a breathtaking crash. click on any chart for sharper image Spain 10-Year Government Bond Yield Spain 2-Year Government Bond Yield Of the two charts, the s ...
  • Four Different Viewpoints on Employment; Refle ...
    The latest jobs report showing a Gain of 163,000 on the Establishment Survey, But a Loss of 195,000 Jobs on the Household Survey got me to thinking about trends in employment. Much depends on your frame of reference. I can easily make numbers look good or bad, depending on how I want to pre ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Barack Obama, His Mother, and the CIA
    So Why the Omission? William Blum In his autobiography, Dreams From My Fathers, Barack Obama writes of taking a job at some point after graduating from Columbia University in 1983. He describes his employer as “a consulting house to multinational corporations” in New York City, and h ...
  • Donald Rumsfeld Returns to Georgia
    The War-Tested & Conflict-Ready Pentagon-NATO Surrogate Army in Georgia By Rick Rozoff Only reported in English on the website of the Georgian Ministry of Defense, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld visited Georgia for a week in late June. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, NATO’s ...
  • We are Almost Back
    We were one of the unfortunate 1.5 million hit by the violent storms and still do not have our broadband service – but expect that to be corrected by tomorrow. Thank you for patience.
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – “Ohio” (1970) Kent State University Neil Young wrote and composed “Ohio” after seeing a picture of the Kent State University shootings of May 4, 1970. He performed it with his band mates David Crosby, Steven Stills and Graham Youn ...
  • Classified Woman at FireDogLake Book Salon Tonight
    I will be at FireDogLake Book Salon this evening (Saturday, June 30, 2012). The two-hour session will be hosted and moderated by Kevin Gosztola. We’ll be discussing and taking your questions and comments on my memoir Classified Woman, the persecution and prosecution of government whistleblowers, ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • No Slowdown in Sight for Deepwater Rigs, Keppe ...
    SINGAPORE–Keppel Corp. Ltd. (BN4.SG) Tuesday said it has firmed up contracts to build five additional semisubmersible drilling rigs for Sete Brasil Participacoes SA for US$4.1 billion. The five rigs will [...]
  • Challenges Facing the U.S. Private Maritime Se ...
    Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA), a Marine combat veteran and member for the House Armed Services Committee, met with senior executives at Skye Maritime, an up and coming California based, veteran [...]
  • Sea Shepherd’s New Ship – M/V Bart Simpson (al ...
    A spiffy Razzle Dazzle paint scheme is not the only thing new over at Sea Shepherd, the controversial anti-whaling organization run by maritime fugitive Paul Watson. The organization also has a new ship, the M/V [...]
  • Legos, Science and Underwater Robots
      A (semi) secret government operation quietly wrapped up in April to build what some are calling the US Navy’s coolest structure, a research facility for the development of autonomous [...]
  • American Ships Barred From Indian Scrap Yards ...
    Faced with a petition from ToxicsWatch Alliance, an environmental organization in India, the Supreme Court ruled last week that end-of-life ships containing hazardous materials, such as asbestos or PCBs, must [...]

Press TV

  • UK Labour attacks increase in tax bill
    British Labours Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary Hilary Benn has criticized the Tory-led government’s Local Government Finance Bill for leading millions of people in low-income households across England and Wales to face hikes in their council tax.
  • 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.
  • Roadside mine kills nine west of Kabul
    Explosion of a remotely-controlled mine has killed and injured more than a dozen passengers riding a minibus carrying civilians in the Paghman district, 20 kilometers west of Kabul, Press TV reports.

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Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

Nick Turse

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    kateoplis: Mulberry Street, Little Italy, NYC, 1905
  • Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Dr. Ma ...
    Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Mathew Ahmann, Executive Director of the National Catholic Conference for Interrracial Justice, in a crowd.]: 08/28/1963 (NARA)
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    nickturse: By the mid-1970s,Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s time-sharing system, Octopus, was the world’s most powerful research computer facility. It included four CDC 7600s (each with the power of 5,000 UNIVACs, about 10 million operations per second) and two CDC STARs. The computer ...
  • theweekmagazine:People aren’t the only anima ...
    theweekmagazine: People aren’t the only animals susceptible to the nasty effects of too much ultraviolet light. According to new research published in the journal PLoS One, scientists in Australia have discovered that 15 percent of the trout swimming in the Great Barrier Reef have a visible fo ...
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    thedailywhat: Jack Kerouac Original of the Day: Jack Kerouac began shopping his second novel, On the Road, in 1952, complete with a cover he designed himself. Publisher A.A. Wyn received the sketch with a little note typed at the very top: Dear Mr. Wyn: I submit this as my idea of an appealin ...

Wayne Madsen

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