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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.

Thursday, August 9, 2012

9 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt I



TO DO

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Obama knocks Romney onrenewable energy, tax shelter
Chicago Tribune
PUEBLO, Colorado (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, trying to blunt rival Mitt Romney's attacks on his economic record, accused the Republican on Thursday of promoting policies that would hurtrenewable energy and cost jobs in important political ...
COLUMN-Nuclear, renewables to test German grid: Gerard Wynn
Reuters
(The author is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own.) By Gerard Wynn. LONDON Aug 9 (Reuters) - Germany will have to deploy a range of technologies and strategies to protect its grid from a continuing power supply overhaul, after ...
Obama Fast-Tracks Renewables on Military Bases, Public Lands
Environment News Service
“Developing renewable energy is the right thing to do for national security as well as for the environment and our economy,” said Secretary Panetta. “Renewable energy projects built on these lands will provide reliable, local sources of power for ...
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Renewable Fuels Standard, Biofuels Continue to Take Hits
Farm Futures
In response to separate statements from the American Petroleum Institute and the International Food Policy Research Institute discrediting biofuels' impacts on the environment and markets, Growth Energy and the GlobalRenewable Fuels Alliance are ...
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HUMAN HABITAT

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Ecology ready to start cleanup work at old Irondale smelter site
Access Washington
Jefferson County bought the site in 2001 and developed it into the Irondale Beach Park. In 2005, a park visitor reported an oil residue on the beach to the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology). Since then, Ecology has led cleanup investigation ...
Ecology considering comments on Dungeness Water Rule
Sequim Gazette
Ecology officials Bob Barwin and Ann Wessel explained the map, saying it shows in green the areas "where we anticipate mitigation projects can successfully offset the impacts of most types of new uses. It also shows areas (yellow) where we expect it to ...
Ecology researchers will dye the Stillaguamish red at Arlington
Access Washington
OLYMPIA – A Department ofEcology (Ecology) research team will place red dye into the Stillaguamish River on Wednesday evening, Aug. 15, 2012, at Haller Park in Arlington as part of a larger water quality study. Researchers will pour the fluorescent ...
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Ecology seeks comment on review of former Weyerhaeuser site cleanup
Access Washington
Ecology seeks public comment on the review and recommendations through Sept. 10, 2012. The 72-acre former wood products manufacturing complex operated from 1915 until about 1980. The Port of Everett currently owns most of the site. Weyerhaeuser ...
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WATER POWER

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Maggie Steffens, 19, leads US to 1st women's water polo gold on father's request
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
LONDON — Before Maggie Steffens could help the U.S. women's water polo team to its greatest Olympic victory, she had to experience one of its most crushing defeats. In the 2008 Beijing games, the Americans lost the gold medal match to the Netherlands ...
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An Open-Water Test for Swimmers
New York Times (blog)
The 10-kilometer marathon open-water swim is perhaps the most arduous swimming event at the London Olympics, and it takes a special athlete to undertake its challenges. There will be no temperature-controlled poolwater, lanes or starting blocks.
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Obama Hits Romney on Wind,Water Policy in Colorado
ABC News (blog)
President Obama today used the issues of wind energy and waterpurity to draw stark contrasts with Mitt Romney, and attempt to lure some of this state's environmentally-conscious swing voters to his side. Speaking inside the Palace of Agriculture on ...
Asia, US plains facing waterextraction crisis
New York Daily News
Many places are rapidly pumping out "fossil" water, or water that was laid down sometimes thousands of years ago and cannot be replaced on a human timescale. Seeking a yardstick of sustainability, the study creates a measure called the groundwater ...
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Scoop - NZ

  • R.I.P. Gore Vidal
    If you haven’t been paying attention to Gore Vidal—and even if you have…. Here’s Gore, a towering figure who went where others dared not, with a portion of one typically bracing presentation (from the Key West Literary Seminar, 2009)… You will be missed, Gore.
  • New translation of Darius inscriptions
    The inscription is written in three languages. The oldest is an Elamite text referring to legends describing the king and the rebellions. This is followed by a Babylonian version of similar legends. The last phase of the inscription is particularly important, as it is here that Darius introduced ...
  • Syria: New militias displacing FSA
    American intelligence analysts keeping watch on Syria warned Saturday, Aug. 4, that if the proliferation of fighting militias taking part in the conflict goes on, Syria will soon have more than a hundred mini-armies, some of them Christian and Druze. In no time they will be fighting each other.
  • London's Olympics and the social crisis
    The image of rows of empty seats continues to be a feature. At least 275,000 tickets remain unsold, including 200,000 soccer tickets. This is because many working people have been priced out of an event that has been dedicated instead to corporate junketing—including £2,012 tickets for the openi ...
  • British Jihadists in Syria
    A British photographer who was held hostage in Syria for a week said Sunday that his captors were international jihadists who included several Britons. Freelance photographer John Cantile and his Dutch colleague Jeroen Oerlemans were kidnapped in northern Syria on July 19 and freed a week lat ...

Independent - London

  • Syrian president appoints Wael Nader al-Halq a ...
    Syrian President Bashar Assad has appointed a new prime minister to replace one who defected this week to neighbouring Jordan. Related StoriesAssad appears on TV to send a message to doubters: I'm still hereSyria: Five children killed by air strike in Bustan al-Qasar as Assad regime steps up bom ...
  • Gu Kailai trial ends after just one day
    The woman at the centre of China's most politically explosive trial in three decades did not contest charges of murder today in a hearing that lasted just seven hours and could determine the fate of former Politburo member Bo Xilai.Related StoriesHalf of Manila submerged after delugeMumbai's Bo ...
  • Postcard From...Baalbek
    The mighty Roman ruins of Baalbek jut dramatically out of the fertile plains of Lebanon's Bekaa valley. They have drawn visitors for centuries, as chronicled in the graffiti of ancient travellers scrawled into the vast limestone walls and columns.Related StoriesPostcard From...MumbaiPostcard Fro ...
  • Artist Peaches films video in support of Pussy ...
    About 400 people joined Canadian electro-pop performance artist Peaches in a Berlin park to show support for the members of a feminist band on trial in Russia for performing a "punk prayer" against President Vladimir Putin.Related StoriesRobert Hughes: People's critic, renaissance man
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    Libya's ruling council handed over power to a newly elected national assembly yesterday in the North African country's first peaceful transition of power in its modern history but which comes amid heightened violence. Related StoriesMan accused of murdering Anni Dewani admits murderMan jailed f ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • 27 World Countries Attending Tehran Conference ...
    Representatives of 27 world and regional states as well as the UN envoy to Tehran are participating in the international consultative conference on the developments in Syria, which started work here in Tehran on Thursday. At the beginning of the Tehran conference on Syria, Iranian Foreign Minis ...
  • The Perseids: Meteors Born From A Comet That C ...
    This weekend, the Perseid meteor shower will be at its peak. While this year's light show probably won't match the 2009 shower, when watchers could see up to 173 shooting stars an hour, the Perseids are a celestial spectacle well worth packing off to somewhere away from the glare of city lights. ...
  • Grandfather killed protecting grandchildren on ...
    Detroit grandfather dies protecting grandchildren A 62-year-old grandfather and decorated Vietnam Veteran was killed Wednesday night on his front porch, taking a bullet to protect his granddaughter. Police sources tell Local 4 John Villneff died from several gunshot wounds that came from a man ...
  • Psychopathy Disinformation Alert! Use Twitter ...
    People's nasty traits have a way of revealing themselves on social networks: in writing. Or rather in how they write. That means an analysis of how someone tweets could reveal whether he or she is narcissistic, Machiavellian, or psychopathic, according to researchers who plan to present their fi ...
  • Thought-Crime Police Arrest Parkinson's suffer ...
    A man arrested during the Olympic cycling road race says he was detained for "not smiling". Martial arts trainer Mark Worsfold, 54, was arrested shortly before cyclists passed through Leatherhead on July 28 due to "his manner, his state of dress and his proximity to the course", according to po ...

The Galloping Beaver

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

Media Matters for America

  • Right-Wing Media: The Tax Policy Center Is Non ...
    Right-wing media are accusing the Tax Policy Center of bias following its analysis that Mitt Romney's tax plan would cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans while raising them for lower- and middle-income Americans. But conservative media previously touted TPC as nonpartisan and experts agree tha ...
  • Right-Wing Media: The Tax Policy Center Is Non ...
    Right-wing media are accusing the Tax Policy Center of bias following its analysis that Mitt Romney's tax plan would cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans while raising them for lower- and middle-income Americans. But conservative media previously touted TPC as nonpartisan and experts agree th ...
  • The Las Vegas Review-Journal's "Pet" ...
    The Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial board attacked the "Democratic Senate" for giving "tax breaks for pet businesses," including green energy producers. However, many Republicans support giving the wind industry the type of economic certainty that the oil industry has enjoyed for decades -- a ...
  • The Las Vegas Review-Journal's "Pet" ...
    The Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial board attacked the "Democratic Senate" for giving "tax breaks for pet businesses," including green energy producers. However, many Republicans support giving the wind industry the type of economic certainty that the oil industry has enjoyed for decades -- ...
  • Fox Muddles The Truth About Romney's T ...
    Fox News is trying to cover up the fact that Mitt Romney's tax plan would disproportionately benefit the rich and harm the middle class, as the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center has concluded. The Center found that Romney's plan would "provide large tax cuts to high-income households, and increase t ...

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  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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  • Fayyad raps Israeli plan to evict Palestinian ...
    An Israeli plan to evict 12 shepherd communities in the occupied West Bank to make way for army training zones was condemned by the Palestinian Authority premier on Wednesday as a move ...
  • EU: We expect Israel to cancel demolition orde ...
    The European Union is searching for new ways to express its opposition to Israeli policy in Area C of the West Bank, regions under Israeli security and civil control. The EU's fundament ...
  • Imprisoned Palestinian Children Must Be Treate ...
    "UK ready to take on Israel over fate of children clapped in irons," read the headline in a leading UK newspaper the morning after the latest report on the treatment of Palestinian chil ...
  • III Freedom Flotilla; The Estelle is sailing t ...
    Estelle, a beautiful sailing ship, is going to play a key role in Freedom Flotilla's renewed attempt to break the blockade on Gaza. This summer we will be launching an entirely new project. This time, we are going to sail from Umea [in northern Sweden] to Gaza, stopping on the way at ports in th ...
  • Swiss experts asked to conduct Arafat autopsy ...
    Swiss experts have been invited to the West Bank to test Yasser Arafat's remains for possible poisoning, the chief investigator looking into the 2004 death of the Palestinian leader has ...

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

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

Unexplained Mysteries

  • University receives $5M to study afterlife
    Professor John Martin Fischer will be heading a research initiative called 'The Immortality Project'. Fischer's work will involve investigating topics...
  • Seaweed rains down over UK street
    Berkeley residents were left perplexed when large amounts of seaweed started to rain down from the sky. Weather experts believe that a freak twister w...
  • Company produces cards from elephant dung
    A company in India is enjoying success with its own unique take on the traditional greetings card. Ijender Shekhawat's "Elephant Stamp" business produ...
  • Roswell - were there two crashes ?
    Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Richard French has claimed that there were two crashes at Roswell in 1947. Conspiracy theories have surrounded the controve...
  • Sheep to send text messages about wolves
    Sheep in Switzerland could soon be able to raise the alert via text message when attacked by wolves. The system works by placing a collar on the sheep...

Grassroots

Climate

  • Obama to Slam Romney on Wind Energy Tax Credit
    (The Hill) President Obama is directly attacking rival Mitt Romney over the GOP White House hopeful's view that tax credits for wind energy projects should be allowed to expire at year's end. Obama's comments, to be delivered late ...
  • Dams and Water Reservoirs Are New Global Warmi ...
    (Business Standard) American researchers have found that fluctuating water levels in dams and reservoirs emit large amount of greenhouse gases, the main culprits of global warming. Researchers at Washington State University-Vancouver ...
  • China's New Target: Electric Car Batteries
    (Wall Street Journal) A company that two years ago was one of the most promising U.S. innovators in the clean-fuel auto industry was rescued from collapse Wednesday. Its buyer: A Chinese auto-parts company. Wanxiang Group Corp., one o ...
  • Minnesota Considers Two More Coal Plant Retire ...
    (Midwest Energy News) Is it time to pull the plug a pair of aging, coal-fired power plants in northern Minnesota? The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission today will consider the fate of two power plants in the state’s scenic northea ...
  • Rockefeller Keeps Heat on Coal Industry
    (The Hill) Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) announced new plans Wednesday to craft carbon capture and sequestration legislation as part of a wider push to hold the coal and power industries more accountable to concerns about climate chan ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

  • Weeding Out the Crazy
    Mitt Romney won the Republican nomination simply because every one of his opponents demonstrated that they were unstable in some way. The only exception was Jon Huntsman, and he didn't appeal to the party base. That makes it difficult for Romney to choose advocates to speak at the convention. ...
  • Young Republicans
    This article on college-age Republicans has some encouraging news. The younger generation appears to be open-minded about gay marriage; they think interracial marriage is a positive development; they either support abortion rights or they just aren't interested in discussing them; and some of t ...
  • Nothing to Commend Him
    From the end of Steve Erickson's dispatch from the Heartland: Whatever else was true of him, no one doubted Richard Nixon was a man of ability. Whatever else was true of him, no one doubted Barry Goldwater was a man of conviction. No one doubted that Gerald Ford was a man of integrity, or th ...
  • Liberty for Deadbeats
    People who lose their jobs in Massachusetts are unlikely to find themselves permanently uninsured. That's because they have RomneyCare. Somehow, though, it is a grotesque miscarriage of justice to do on the federal level what they've done in Massachusetts. It's supposedly a states' rights thi ...
  • Ignore the Pearl Clutchers, But...
    I recognize a cheap shot when I see one. That's why my post about the latest ad from Priorities USA was entitled Have a Groin Shot. But I also pointed out that Mitt Romney wouldn't have done a thing to help that man get cancer treatment for his wife even if he had been directly responsible for ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Animal Remains of Anderlecht's Creepy Aban ...
    Most abandoned buildings are a little creepy, but this particular place in Brussels – a former veterinary school – has some especially unexpected and macabre contents. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Awesome Facts About Elephant Shrews!
    Learn about the furry little African mammals that are elephant shrews. Amongst other things, they mate for life and try to scare off black mambas by stamping their feet! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Cryptids More Terrifying than the Mongolian ...
    You may have heard of the Mongolian Death Worm, which is said to terrorize travelers in the Gobi Desert, but we think these cryptids are even more frightening! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Venezuela's Everlasting Lightning Storm
    The Catatumbo Delta in Venezuela experiences more lightning than anywhere else on Earth; indeed, thunderstorms rage here continually, practically every night of the year. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 10 Greatest FBI Agents In History
    The FBI has a fascinating history, but what of the individuals who've stood out due to their heroics or innovations? Learn about the 10 Greatest FBI Agents in History. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

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Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Security culture danger as closed Occupy Homes ...
    Troublesome assumptions about security culture arrangements for closed Occupy Homes national gathering sessions starting tomorrow at the Neighbors Organizing for Change MN (NOC Office) around noon put participants at risk. I feel everyone involved means well, but a bunch of particularly 'toxic' ...
  • Plans for closed door Occupy Homes national me ...
    ///// 1AM August 7th update: http://hongpong.com/archives/2012/08/07/security-culture-danger-closed-o... ///// ///// 1:40PM Sat August 4 update and correction below ///// Many Twin Cities activists working with the Occupy Homes MN group were surprised to hear that a national gathering committe ...
  • Plans for closed door Occupy Homes national me ...
    Many Twin Cities activists working with the Occupy Homes MN group were surprised to hear that a national gathering committee, with two representatives from their group, had decided to restrict open access to most (but not all) of the sessions of that national gathering, scheduled around August 7 ...
  • #FreeHammond - 23 July 2012 statement from acc ...
    Worth throwing up there as an example of how to keep perspective when they try to throw the book at you. Things like this crystallize the hypocrisy of conspiracy charges, cyber-fear-blather, terrorism and of course the laundering of drug money through the banking system. Till the walls tumble, J ...
  • The Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies - for ...
    Reposting this as it's a much more handy summary than I could give. Neato! I think we're seeing this get more and more privatized as well -- I have a couple flagrant sockpuppets I know and love, they are like a handy little COINTELPRO weathervane. When talking Information Operations (not to ment ...

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IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #776
    US Army critiques its own intel collection system. Russian lawyer exposes wiretap find on Tweeter. Volkswagen victim of Chinese industrial espionage?
  • News you may have missed #775
    Israel arrests man for allegedly spying for Syria. German NATO employee charged with spying. Aussie spy agency looking for locksmith.
  • Blackwater/Academy settles weapons-smuggling c ...
    In the eyes of many, the United States-based security firm formerly known as Blackwater is synonymous with ‘scandal’. The company, now renamed to Academi LLC, has for years been the subject of several investigations by US authorities for a host of criminal offences, ranging from selling secret p ...
  • News you may have missed #774 (lawsuit edition)
    NSA whistleblower sues over property seized in leak raid. Lawsuit forces US agency to disclose CIA files. Syrian spy tried to infiltrate German intelligence.
  • Comment: Are US Authorities Ignoring Far-Right ...
    last Sunday’s mass shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, which left seven people dead and three injured, including a police officer, poses a long-overdue opportunity for reflection. The attacker has been identified as Wade Michael Page, was a committed neo-Nazi, who had an active ro ...

War is a Crime.org

  • Kucinich Announces Legislation to Protect Cong ...
    Washington D.C. (August 9, 2012) – Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution grants Congress the sole authority to authorize or declare war. Yet, instead of getting authorization from Congress, Presidents of late have preferred to get “authorization” from the United Nations or other ...
  • Blackwater Illegally Training Canadians to Kil ...
    Canadian troops and police were trained for two years by the international security contractor formerly known as Blackwater without the permission of the U.S. State Department. The revelation is contained in U.S. federal court records, unsealed in North Carolina as part of a $7.5-million settlem ...
  • Gallup TSA poll biased?
    You want statistics? I've got statistics. Even though most people's eyes glaze over, empirical evidence is still important and always will be. Here's another of Bill Fisher's typically solid, evidence-based, statistics-laden posts on the TSA and its never-ending propaganda machine. READ THE REST ...
  • US Leadership Increasingly Just Serves Big Cor ...
      By Dave Lindorff This article originally appeared on the website of PressTV read more
  • Full-Scale War in Syria
      Full-Scale War in Syria   by Stephen Lendman   Former Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov calls it "full-scale civil war." It's full-scale but not civil.   read more

Grist - News

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

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  • Our ‘Broke’ US Postal Service Givi ...
    By Alexander Higgins As United States Postal Service faces the dire threat of bankruptcy due to lack of profitability in reality it is giving billions in profits to private companies. UPS just delivered two packages on my doorstep. The first box was a UPS package. The second package is a United ...
  • Super Rich Holding $21 Trillion Overseas to Av ...
    By Alex Oberley At a time when the gap between the ultra-rich and the rest of us is reaching historic heights across the globe, at least $21 trillion (with a “t”) in unreported private financial wealth was recently discovered sitting in secret tax havens. While it can be difficult to ...
  • Why Is the U.S. Government Funding Islamic Ter ...
    By Alexander Higgins Very few Americans realize the US is funding Islamic Terrorists who are killing Christians to overthrow governments that protect them. Most Americans are Christians. But few know that the acts of our American government are leading to the persecution of Christians in numerou ...
  • The Wonderland of the Subconscious
    By Visible The resonance here is no mystery to me. We’re all the same person, underneath the patina of the personality. Oh sure, we are as individual as a snowflake but there is a pervasive commonality and it accounts for why certain thoughts will have a wide ranging impact on diverse bein ...
  • BREAKING: 4 man team carried out Sikh massacre ...
    by Jacque Fresco UPDATE: A separate source has corroborated the other eyewitness claim – a family member whose parents were victims of the shooting said his parents told him there were “multiple shooters” involved in a “coordinated” attack. An eyewitness to the Sikh temple shooting in Wisconsin ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Elaine Tong’s Air-Purifying Filtration Blocks ...
    Read the rest of Elaine Tong’s Air-Purifying Filtration Blocks Detoxify Indoor Spaces with Plants Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: air pollution, air purifier, Elaine Tong, Filtration Block, green design, micro-greenhouse, modular design, prototype, responsive, Responsi ...
  • Blind LED Handrails Make the Lowly Stairwell t ...
    Read the rest of Blind LED Handrails Make the Lowly Stairwell the Most Interesting Room Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: LED handrail, LED safety rail, LED stair, stairwell lighting, tron light, Zoran Sunjic
  • Voltaic’s Spark Tablet Case Charges iPads with ...
    iPads and other tablets have revolutionized the world of portable computing, but it’s a real drag when your device runs out of juice halfway through your novel or while browsing the net. To solve the problem Voltaic Systems has designed a super cool carrier called the Spark Tablet Case tha ...
  • Alex Vermeulen’s Floating Solar Panel Installa ...
    Read the rest of Alex Vermeulen’s Floating Solar Panel Installation in Eindhoven is Designed To Lift a Levitating Buddha Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "energy efficiency", Alex Vermeulen, Art, Buddha, Eindhoven, energy self-sufficient, floating eggs, Floating S ...
  • Mayor of Paris Bans Traffic From the Banks of ...
    Ah, Paris: the Eiffel Tower, The Arc de Triomphe, and the appalling traffic jams all throughout the city. However, if Mayor Bertrand Delanoë has anything to say about it, car traffic will soon be limited from at least one of the cit’s major attractions. Following a battle with Nicolas Sark ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Curiosity’s Newest Panorama of Mars Is in Glor ...
    This excellent panoramic image is the first color photo showing the landscape and distant Mount Sharp sitting in front of the Curiosity rover. It is the first photo taken with the probe's MastCams, the main workhorse cameras that sit high atop its head.
  • New Fossils Put Face on Mysterious Human Ancestor
    After 40 years of searching, researchers can finally put a new face on a mysterious human ancestor whose skull was discovered 40 years ago in Kenya. The find shows that several species of Homo lived 1.78 million to 2.03 million years ago in the Rift Valley of Africa, and that they probably had ...
  • The Hidden Power of Whale Poop
    The largest animals ever to have lived on Earth, blue whales are colossal in every respect -- including, it must be said, the scatological. When a blue whale goes, it goes big, and the ecological consequences could help the aquatic world go round.
  • Mars Orbiter Spots Scar From Curiosity’s Balla ...
    This latest image shows off a before and after shot from space of where the Curiosity rover's entry ballast masses impacted the ground.
  • ESO’s Very Large Telescope Will Aim Where Vote ...
    To celebrate its 50th anniversary on Oct. 5, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is hosting two competitions for its Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile: one that lets you choose what the telescope observes, and the other, a chance to come to Chile and help with th ...

PakAlert

  • DHS and US Military Make Final Preparations Be ...
    Informants and military personnel are coming forth anonymously to confirm that martial law “is right around the corner.” However, right now we are under a silent martial law and citizens are reporting strange and unexplainable activity from the US armed forces and multiple federal agencies that ...
  • Chemtrails: Aerosol and Electromagnetic Weapon ...
    North America is now suffering its seventh year of conspicuous and dangerous aerosol and electromagnetic operations conducted by the U.S. government under the guise of national security. Concerned citizens watch in fear as military tankers discolor the skies with toxic chemicals that morph into ...
  • Federal Court Upholds the Herding of Demonstra ...
    There was once a group of men who established a fundamental law of the land that allowed the people of their new found country to peaceably assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances. These founding fathers of that Great nation even went so far as to declare that the gove ...
  • Anglo-American 1957 Secret Plan to Assassinate ...
    At a time when the British press was still "reporting the truth", London's Guardian (27 September 2003) published a detailed report of a 1957 Anglo-American assassination plot directed against the Syrian president, with a view to implementing "regime change". The similarity to today's war on Syr ...
  • 14 Questions People Ask About How To Prepare F ...
    How in the world is someone supposed to actually prepare for an economic collapse? What should you do with your money? How can you make sure that your family is going to be okay? How can you prepare if your resources are extremely limited? These are the kinds of questions people ask me all t ...

Andy Worthington

  • Photos of a Journey Across the Thames on the O ...
    A Journey Across the Thames on the Olympics Cable Car, a set on Flickr. On August 6, as I explained in a previous article, Jamaican Independence and a Giant Tent: Photos of a Visit to the Olympic Site at the O2, featuring photos and commentary, I cycled along the river from Deptford to Greenwich ...
  • Where is the Shame and Anger as the UK Governm ...
    What has happened to my country? I grew up in a Christian household — my father was Church of England, my mother Methodist — and both believed in Christian charity; in other words, the need for people of faith to look after those less fortunate than themselves. In the case of my Meth ...
  • Close Guantánamo: A Reminder of Why We Demand ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...
  • Jamaican Independence and a Giant Tent: Photos ...
    Jamaican Independence and a Giant Tent: A Visit to the Olympic Site at the O2, a set on Flickr. As Olympics fever continues to grip the UK, I can just about about cope with the competitiveness of the Games on an individual level, and have admiration for athletes’ self-discipline and determ ...
  • Union Jack Summer: Photos of the Queen’s ...
    Union Jack Summer: The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics, a set on Flickr. I have no great love for either the Royal Family or the Olympics, and on this latter point, my articles should make clear where I stand — Our Olympic Hell: A Militarised, Corporate, Jingoistic Disgrace, ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Neo-Nazi Killer Wade Page was Member of Hammer ...
    Wade Michael Page, the racist skinhead who killed six people last weekend at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin before turning the gun on himself, was a “patched” member of the Northern Hammerskins, a regional chapter of the larger Hammerskin Nation, the Southern Poverty Law Center has learned. Page bec ...
  • Judge Orders Neo-Nazi Bill White to Undergo Ps ...
    A Virginia judge has ordered Bill White, the Virginia neo-Nazi and convicted felon who faces federal charges for violating the terms of his supervised release, to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, The Roanoke Times reports. White, 35, is a notorious Internet gossip who was released in April 2011 ...
  • Bulletin: Alleged Sikh Temple Shooter Member o ...
    The man who allegedly murdered six people at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee yesterday, identified in media reports as Wade Michael Page, is a former member of a racist skinhead band. The Southern Poverty Law Center has evidence that Page in 2010 was the leader of a skinhead band based in Fa ...
  • Racist Decapitation Murder Shakes Small North ...
    The small North Dakota town of Cooperstown has been forever changed by its first murder in 80 years – a brutal decapitation-killing carried out by a racist, a state’s attorney says. “There are doors locked now that weren’t locked before, said Marina Spahr, the assistant state’s attorney for Grig ...
  • Men’s Rights Activists Disdain Men’s Sacrifice ...
    For most Americans, the recent mass murder in Aurora, Colo., was an unspeakable human tragedy; if the story had any political dimension at all, it was guns and gun control (or the lack thereof). But for a vocal few in the misogynistic online world of “men’s rights” — and no, not all men’s rights ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Clashes Erupt in Chile in Latest Protest for E ...
    Clashes erupted Wednesday between police and protesters in the Chilean capital of Santiago resulting in the arrest of 75, the latest in ongoing demonstrations for education reform. read more
  • US to Begin Part of Agent Orange Cleanup in Vi ...
    Fifty-one years after beginning a ten-year campaign of spraying Agent Orange in Vietnam, the U.S. announced Thursday it will begin a cleanup for the first time of just one of the 28 "hotspots" where the Dow- and Monsanto-made toxic chemical was stored. ...
  • NYPD to Launch Expansive For-Profit Surveillan ...
    The NYPD launched a new citywide surveillance system on Wednesday that officials say will "revolutionize law enforcement." The system will also be packaged and sold across the country for a profit. read more
  • Group Exposes Practice of Adding Synthetic Pre ...
    A non-profit consumer advocacy and research organization has filed a formal legal complaint with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) against several infant formula manufacturers it says are adding synthetic preservatives to certified organic infant formula. ...
  • Top Obama Advisor Embraces Use of Drones in Yemen
    John Brennan, President Obama's adviser on homeland security and counterterrorism, lauded the increasing use of drone strikes on Yemen saying that they were "part of the solution" to deal with Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). ...

Lifehacker

  • Avoid Getting Redirected to Country-Specific V ...
    When you're in another country, Google.com usually redirects to a local version of the Google page—like Google.fr for France, or Google.de for Germany. Here's how to easily visit the regular Google.com in another country. More & ...
  • Three Ways to Teach Yourself Something New [Ed ...
    If you look closely at people who are succeeding in this new digital world of work, you'll notice they have something in common: they're fast learners and they're willing to adapt. If you want to grow as a person and a worker and if you want t ...
  • BattSaver Automates Settings on Jailbroken iPh ...
    iOS (Jailbreak): If you're an iPhone power-user, then you know the battery isn't exactly long lasting. BattSaver is a jailbreak app that automatically toggles radio signals, Wi-Fi, and more to save juice. More » ...
  • ToutApp Comes to Outlook, Brings Its Message T ...
    Windows: ToutApp, one of our favorite tools to keep your Gmail inbox under control unveiled an Outlook plugin today that offers many of the same features for those of you who choose to (or are forced by your employer to) use Microsoft Outlook ...
  • Stop Trusting Your Oven and Learn to Tell When ...
    It's easy to simply follow the directions on recipes. You heat up your oven to a certain temperature, pop in your food, and walk away. However, as Slate points out, oven temperatures are not an exact science. In fact, they're usually well off ...

Water Privatization

  • American States Water Company Announces Notice ...
    American States Water Company today announced that its Golden State Water Company subsidiary has issued a notice of redemption of its $8,000,000, 7.55% Medium-
  • City to submit position paper on privatization
    ZAMBOANGA City Mayor Celso Lobregat has expressed reservations on some provisions of the bill that seeks to privatize water districts in the country, as he said that the City Government is currently preparing its position for submission to the bill’s sponsor. Lobregat said on Thursday that the C ...
  • American States Water Company Announces Earnin ...
    American States Water Company today reported net income from continuing operations of $15.1 million, or $0.79 per basic and fully diluted share for the quarter ended June 30, 2012, as compared to net income from continuing operations of $12.7 million, or $0.68 per basic and fully diluted share f ...
  • Anti-privatization suit dismissed
    DETROIT A freakish car crash Friday evening on Belle Isle -- in which a vehicle flipped, caught fire and pinned the driver inside -- tied up traffic on the island park while firefighters extricated a 67-year-old man from his burning vehicle, Detroit police said.
  • Water Authority Outlines Future Plans to Tackl ...
    JEDDAH, 8 October 2006 — Desalination, which currently supplies 60 percent of the Kingdom’s water, is Saudi Arabia’s strategic option, according to Fehaid Al-Sharief, governor of Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC).

Guardian

  • Syrian rebels withdraw fighters from Aleppo st ...
    Free Syrian Army orders main fighting units to leave suburb of Salahedin after intensive shelling from regime planes and tanksThe Free Syrian Army has withdrawn all its main fighting units from its stronghold in the war-ravaged suburb of Salahedin in southern Aleppo.The withdrawal was ordered ju ...
  • Russian Islamist sect kept children undergroun ...
    Children from sect led by self-proclaimed prophet Faizrakhman Satarov found by police investigating murder of moderate clericA self-proclaimed prophet had a vision from God. He would build an Islamic caliphate under the earth.The digging began about a decade ago, and 70 followers soon moved into ...
  • Tia Sharp: Shannon Matthews police join search ...
    Force that found nine-year-old who was kidnapped by her mother help detectives looking for young LondonerThe police force that investigated the kidnapping of Shannon Matthews has been drafted in to help with the search for schoolgirl Tia Sharp, who has been missing since Friday, Scotland Yard ha ...
  • London 2012 Olympic Games: 9 August - afternoo ...
    Usain Bolt in the 200m final and Kerri-Anne Payne out in the open • Live blog – all the action from day 13THE DAY'S ACTION SO FARPlease note all times are in BST (EDT+5)Taekwondo: 9.15am at the ExCelBritons Martin Stamper and Jade Jones won their opening bouts to progress to the quarter-finals ...
  • Magistrates banned from standing in police com ...
    Judge's ruling that serving magistrates cannot be PCCs is expected to hit a fifth of official Tory candidatesPlans for the first police commissioner elections this autumn have been thrown into fresh disarray with the disclosure that magistrates – who make up a significant number of the candidate ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

  • Civilian Deaths Drop in Afghanistan
    ISAF It’s one of the most important measurements of the Afghanistan war’s progress: how many civilians die from the conflict. And for the first time in years, that number has dropped, a ...
  • Combined Force Arrests Taliban-affiliated Insu ...
    Compiled from International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Releases WASHINGTON, Aug. 9, 2012 In the Andar district of Afghanistan's Ghazni province, an Afghan and coalition ...
  • Taliban to debate Pakistani cricket stars protest
    July 5, 2012: Pakistani former cricket star-turn-politician Imran Khan condemns the movement of NATO supplies to Afghanistan through Pakistan at a rally in Gujranwala near Lahore, ...
  • Taliban Might Not Try To Kill Pakistani Presid ...
    Pakistan 's popular cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, even though both liberals and radical Islamists agree that the U.S. policy on drone strikes in the country's tribal areas is a ...
  • Afghan Soldier Killed After Firing on NATO Troops
    NATO troops have killed an Afghan soldier who tried to gun down coalition service members at a military base in eastern Afghanistan. A NATO spokesman says no coalition troops were killed in the ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • The Daily Show's Awesome Re-imagining Of How W ...
    We've written plenty about the ridiculous government case against whistleblower Thomas Drake, who exposed waste and fraud at the NSA, only to find himself charged under the Espionage Act as a spy, because he had kept a few documents on his computer that shouldn't have been there. While the gove ...
  • Traditional Publisher Ebook Pricing Harming Au ...
    We've covered a number of stories dealing with ebooks and their disruption of normal publishing. There have been a lot of growing pains in the industry as the ebook market continues to expand, replacing physical sales (and their associated margins and intentional bottlenecks) and knocking do ...
  • Is Trolling Just A Form Of Practical Jokes?
    As the news of 4chan hitting 1 billion posts has come out, it only seems appropriate that the Surprisingly Free podcast has a fascinating discussion with Stefan Krappitz, the author of the book Troll Culture: A Comprehensive Guide, in which Krappitz tries to suggest that the common view of troll ...
  • Judge Overturns $147.2 Million Jury Award Agai ...
    Just a few weeks ago, we wrote about RIM getting hit with yet another crazy patent infringement award, after a jury sided with Mformation and told RIM to pay $147.2 million. However, as often happens in these kinds of cases, RIM then sought a judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) -- effectively a ...
  • Malaysian Government Backing Away From TPP Sup ...
    As the secretive Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations move forward, it appears that some more members are expressing concerns. In the past, we'd noted that politicians in Chile were questioning what benefit there was to being locked into the US's rules. And, now, another TPP negotiatin ...

VacTruth

  • Breaking News – Gardasil Vaccine rDNA In ...
    According to testimony presented before a coroner’s inquest, “residual HPV DNA fragments from the viral gene or plasmid injected with Gardasil®” have been found six months after that vaccination (series) was given to a teenager who died in her sleep of unknown and unexplained causes.
  • The Games Grown Men Play
    Why is government protecting Big Pharma and vaccine makers instead of innocent children?
  • To Hide in the Pig Sty
    The first thing that one has to ask is: Who, in the consuming community, complained about pig stink when cooking? There had to be a market pressure for industry to respond before a huge industry would respond with a costly intervention. That is where the illusion breaks down.
  • Your Child May Get This Deadly Allergy After B ...
    Millions of children worldwide are being injected with this allergen over and over again in connection with vaccination schedules, often starting with the Hepatitis B vaccine when babies are only a few hours old. Is it any wonder that this specific allergy affects millions and that the numbers a ...
  • Vaccines: What Your Doctors Know and Don’t Know
    Do you ever wonder what doctors know about the dozens of vaccines they inject into your children? The answer may surprise you.

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I can’t believe they are still kicking girls out of school for being pregnant. Do they think it is contagious? Do we need some sex ed for school administration? A map tracking unarmed people of color killed by authority figures. Interesting that the Western states have no killings. I reali ...
  • Is the Media Liberal?
    A friend of mine just posted this nifty graphic showing how much more often the media quotes the GOP. But I’m not sure that it says much. If conservative is defined as wanting to live by religious doctrine or being anti-abortion, then the media is not particularly conservative. If conserva ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Occupy our Homes DC has a new petition up to try and save Deborah Harris’s house.  They are only a few signatures away from their goal, so if you would be so kind… I was watching this video of James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Sidney Poitier, and Joseph ...
  • Some Thoughts on the GA Prisoner Strike
    Sadly, most people don’t seem to be paying much attention to all the prisoner strikes that have been happening across the country. In Georgia, two prisoners went without food for more than 47 days. You really need to watch this video. One of the things that struck me about that interview w ...
  • Activism and the Unbearable Dissonance
    I’ve been thinking a lot about why more people don’t get involved in activism. Which means I have been thinking a lot about what compelled me to get involved. I’ve known that things were fucked up since I was a tween. I may have more data and a different analysis now, but the s ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • An Iranian view of Syria
    Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran’s foreign minister, writes: We humans often make the mistake of not learning from history, even when it is recent. Civil war in the Levant is not a thing of the distant past. With Syria descending into worsening violence, the 15-year Lebanese civil war should provide ...
  • For the record, Russia and China failed Syria
    Ian Black writes: Kofi Annan has just three weeks left to serve out his time as the UN envoy for Syria. Understandably disappointed at the failure of what others had called “mission impossible” – a description he came to agree with – he lamented two aspects of the crisis: its increas ...
  • Syria rebels claim upper hand as battle for Al ...
    Martin Chulov reports from Aleppo: All the might that the forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad can muster is now camped just over a large bank of land to the east of Salahedin, the suburb of Aleppo that has become the focal point of the conflict. All the men the guerrilla force can assemble are holed ...
  • Toronto mother Thwaiba Kanafani — female face ...
    BBC News reports: Just a few months ago, Thwaiba Kanafani was leading a normal life with her husband, six-year-old son and three-year-old daughter in Canada. An engineer by training, she had been working in the oil industry. But now she has left all that behind. When we met up in the city of Ada ...
  • Syria rebels see future fight with foreign rad ...
    Reuters reports: Abu Bakr, a Syrian rebel commander on the outskirts of Aleppo, is a devoted Islamist determined to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. But the radical allies that have joined the rebels in recent months alarm even him. “Let me be clear. I am an Islamist, my fighters are I ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Cliff Mass pans Hansen’s PNAS paper
    Cliff writes to me to tell me about this essay: Climate Distortion. I’m happy to draw attention to it. He writes: This week, with great fanfare,  NASA scientist James Hansen and associates released a paper “The Perception of Climate Change“  … Continue reading →
  • A fascinating new interview with Prof Richard ...
    Guest Post by Barry Woods The Progressive Radio Network website had a fascinating interview with Prof Richard Muller last week following his ‘man of the moment’ opinion piece - ”The Conversion of a Climate Change Sceptic” in the New York Times … Continue reading →
  • Not Quite Friday Funny – Hansen’s ...
    Josh is in fine form today, saying: “New Hansen cartoon.. a bit of a mix a whole load of news stories together and see what happens cartoon.”
  • An ‘inconvenient result’ – J ...
    I decided to do myself something that so far NOAA has refused to do: give a CONUS average temperature for the United States from the new ‘state of the art’ United States Climate Reference Network (USCRN). After spending millions of … Continue reading →
  • Dear NOAA and Seth, which 1930′s were yo ...
    The press release is out, and the usual serial bloviators are rushing to trumpet the news. July 2012 was the hottest ever on record! “Yikes! We’re gonna roast! Global Warming!” they wail on Twitter and blogs. The driver of this … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Clues to the cause of male pattern baldness
    Researchers have identified a biological pathway previously unknown to have a role in male pattern hair loss. Published today in Science Translational Medicine1, the study finds that a lipid compound called prostaglandin D2 (PGD2) has a role in inhibiting hair growth. The study “is likely to lea ...
  • Potential Breakthrough in Pancreas Cancer Trea ...
    Scientists in Seattle are reporting a potential breakthrough in the treatment of pancreas cancer, a disease which stubbornly resists most therapies. Pancreas cancer tumors are resistent to chemotherapy partly because they form a biological barrier around themselves. Researchers at the Fred Hutch ...
  • Should Science Pull the Trigger on Antiviral Drugs
    There’s a moment in the history of medicine that’s so cinematic it’s a wonder no one has put it in a Hollywood film. The scene is a London laboratory. The year is 1928. Alexander Fleming, a Scottish microbiologist, is back from a vacation and is cleaning up his work space. He notices that a spec ...
  • Daily aspirin could help prevent and treat cancer
    The case for using aspirin to prevent cancer continues to build, particularly if people are at increased risk of the disease. Three new studies led by researchers at Oxford University also raise the possibility that a daily low dose of the drug could be effective, not just as a preventative meas ...
  • Nerve cells grow on nanocellulose
    Researchers from Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg have shown that nanocellulose stimulates the formation of neural networks. This is the first step toward creating a three-dimensional model of the brain. Such a model could elevate brain research to totally new levels, with regard to Alz ...

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Pruning Shears

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

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Center for a Livable Future

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

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My Care2 Picks

  • The future may well be electric for COMCAR fleet
    THE FEDERAL government will consider using electric cars for MPs, following COMCAR's two-week trial of vehicles supplied by Melbourne-based consortium EV Engineering. Submitted by John Farnham to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Trailer Trashing As South Africa Considers Out ...
    Although they are low tech, the trailers are skilfully designed and often neibourhood-manufactured, have two wheels and are attached to the bicycle via a hitch of behind the saddle. Submitted by Naoko I. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • New leaked TPP text puts fair use at risk
    United States Trade Representative (USTR) is putting Fair Use at risk with restrictive language in the Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement (TPP). The US and Australia are both proposing very restrictive text, and Peru is willing to accommodate the bad language Submitted by John Farnham to Society &am ...
  • Why We ALL Have Psychic Powers: How Thought Pr ...
    Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D. is one of the world's most innovative biologists, and is best known for his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance, which leads to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory. Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat  |  ...
  • CIA Manages Drug Trade, Mexican Official Says
    The Central Intelligence Agencys involvement in drug trafficking is back in the media spotlight after a spokesman for the violence-plagued Mexican state of Chihuahua became the latest high-profile individual to accuse the CIA, which has been linked to na Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to US Po ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Monsanto Capitalizes on Drought and Enslaves F ...
    Monsanto is by far one of the greatest disaster capitalists around. Not only does this paraiah of a company manufacture and sell genetically engineered crops (GMOs) that actually increase drought conditions, but it is now poised to capitalize on the very same conditions that it helps to cause.
  • 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 ...

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Appeals court tosses warrantless wiretapping suit
    ShareThisAppeals court tosses warrantless wiretapping suit 07 Aug 2012 A federal appeals court has overturned a court decision awarding $40,800 in damages and $2.5 million in legal fees to an Islamic charity's lawyers who claimed they were illegally surveilled under President [sic] George W. Bus ...
  • Witness: 4 Men Dressed in Black Opened Fire on ...
    ShareThisWitness: 4 Men Dressed in Black Opened Fire on Congregation Posted by sharlenemusiclover 05 Aug 2012 An eyewitness to the Sikh temple shooting in Wisconsin says that a team of four men, "four white males dressed darkly" carried out the massacre, contradicting the official narrative that ...
  • New York Times complains to police over treatm ...
    ShareThisNew York Times complains to police over treatment of photographer 06 Aug 2012 The New York Times has complained to the city's police department after one of its photographers said he was assaulted by officers who arrested him on Saturday. Robert Stolarik, a freelance photographer, claim ...
  • Blackwater trained Canadian soldiers without U ...
    ShareThisBlackwater trained Canadian soldiers without U.S. permission 08 Aug 2012 U.S. court documents reveal that members of the Canadian armed forces and police were trained for two years by the international security company formerly known as Blackwater without the permission of the U.S. Stat ...
  • NYPD Unveils Crime- and Terror-Fighting 'Domai ...
    ShareThisNYPD Unveils Crime- and Terror-Fighting 'Domain Awareness System' 08 Aug 2012 A dramatic new way to track criminals and potential terrorists [facilitate false flags] was unveiled Wednesday by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly. It melds cameras, computers and data b ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

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The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

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

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Jurist - Legal Research

  • Thailand court delays bail verdict for red shi ...
    [JURIST] A Thai court on Thursday postponed its verdict in the case against leaders of the "red shirt" [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] movement for violating terms of their bail. The Criminal Court in Bangkok pushed back the date for the verdict [WP report] to August 22, stating that it ...
  • Libya interim council transfers power to newly ...
    [JURIST] The National Transitional Council of Libya (NTC) [official website, in Arabic; JURIST news archive] on Wednesday transferred its power to the newly elected interim legislature. The transfer took place minutes after the 200 congress members were sworn in. With the end of the NTC and the ...
  • DOJ argues continued attorney access at Guanta ...
    [JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] on Tuesday filed a brief [text, PDF] with the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] asserting that the government should decide when a Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder; JURIST news archive] prisoner is ...
  • Germany constitutional court grants equal tax ...
    [JURIST] The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany [official website, in German] on Wednesday ruled that homosexual couples in a civil union [JURIST news archive] should receive the same tax benefits as heterosexual married couples. The court held [Deutsche Welle report] that with regard to la ...
  • Blackwater agrees to settle federal criminal c ...
    [JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] announced on Tuesday that private security contractors Blackwater [JURIST news archive], now known as Academi [corporate website], agreed to settle [agreement, PDF] several federal criminal charges dealing with export and firearm vio ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

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Tikun Olam

  • Tom Waits Anti-War “Hell Broke Luce”
    Tom Waits has just released a new video of his song, Hell Broke Luce, from his last album, Bad As Me. A reader, John Lewis Dickerson, sent me the words with a recommendation, saying it was a powerful anti-war song. After reading the lyrics, I couldn’t tell whether I’d like the song o ...
  • Adelson Sues Jewish Democrats for Circulating ...
    Sheldon Adelson announced a $60 million lawsuit against the National Jewish Democratic Council for circulating a petition which contained allegations by a former employee that the gambling magnate allowed prostitution in his Macao hotel properties.  As someone who’s been unsuccessfully sue ...
  • France’s Embassy in Israel Prepares Secret Pla ...
    There have been new signs of a possible looming Israeli attack against Iran in recent days.  Nana (Channel 10) reports (Hebrew) that the French government has devised contingency plans for a mass evacuation of French citizens living in Israel in the event of war.  They would gather at the Jaffa ...
  • Haaretz: Adelson’s Billions in Service of U.S. ...
    A Haaretz reporter has just published a fascinating theory (and English) in which Bibi Netanyahu, with the connivance of Sheldon Adelson, is provoking not just war with Iran, but a U.S. war with Iran. Sefi Rachlevsky writes that Netanyahu believes that if he attacks Iran a few weeks before the e ...
  • Barak Confidant: Israel Has Decided to Attack
    Former Labor party minister, Uzi Baram, wrote a column in Yisrael HaYom today that urges Israel’s leadership to tell the people clearly what lies in store when they execute an expected attack on Iran.  What is most striking about the article is this: Recently, I’ve come to believe th ...

If Americans Knew

  • A History Lesson for Obama: Eisenhower's Example
    With President Obama's Middle East peace plans so completely -- and humiliatingly -- shipwrecked on the rocks of Israeli intransigence, it's time for him to consider a new approach, at least if he's serious about his announced objectives. In the spirit of bipartisanship that he's so dedicated to ...
  • The First Intifada
    It's interesting to find myself a small factor in the California race for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. But before I get to that, it's necessary to take a look at the campaigns themselves, and the system in which they're running.
  • My "Relationship" With Tom Campbell: A Wrench ...
    The First Intifada was a grassroots uprising against Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Intifada is an Arabic word for "civil uprising" that literally means "shaking off."
  • AIPAC: We'll take over Cal's student governmen ...
    "How are we going to beat back the anti-Israel divestment resolution at Berkeley? We're going to make certain that pro-Israel students take over the student government and reverse the vote. That is how AIPAC operates in our nation's capitol. This is how AIPAC must operate on our nation's campuses."
  • VIDEO: AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Acti ...
    Janet McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across America? Why don't any claim affiliation to their creator or use descriptive names? Shouldn't the ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • How User-Centered Design Powers FrontlineSMS, ...
    I'm going to be honest: When I first joined FrontlineSMS, I had no idea how much goes into the design of software. Every screen, every button and every function has principled thought behind it. In 2011, we worked alongside Gabriel White, a user experience designer from Small Surfaces, ...
  • How the Knight Lab's Babl App Helped Lollapalo ...
    This post was written by Jordan Young of the Knight News Innovation Lab. This past weekend marked the annual music carnival known as Lollapalooza" held in Chicago's Grant Park. As you'd expect, close to 100,000 people attending a large event can generate a lot of hot conversations on soci ...
  • From Japan to Burning Man, LocalWiki Heats Up ...
    We want to let you know about some really fantastic stuff that's happened in the LocalWiki world over the past month. Tallahassee, Fla. The folks spearheading the TallahasseeWiki project held their first two in-person CampWiki workshops. The idea behind the workshops is to introduce commu ...
  • Stable at Last, PANDA Reaches 1.0!
    Eleven months ago, we began prototyping PANDA. The PANDA project aims to make basic data analysis quick and easy for news organizations, and make data sharing simple. I hacked for a month on an experimental version, verified that our technology choices worked, and then threw it out and started o ...
  • Can Google Maps + Fusion Tables Beat OpenBlock?
    WRAL.com, North Carolina's most widely read online news site, recently published a tool that allows you to search concealed weapons permits down to the street level. It didn't use OpenBlock to do so. Why? Or, if you're like many journalistically and technically savvy people I've spoken over the ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The 2012 Vote - Adelson Fights Back
    Billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson has had enough, and he let the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) know that Wednesday in a $60 million libel suit against the political organization, reports JTA. In an article on its Web site, the NJDC alleged that Adelson approved of prostituti ...
  • The Edge of Space - “Cryâ€� of a Shredded St ...
    Last year, astronomers discovered a quiescent black hole in a distant galaxy that erupted after shredding and consuming a passing star. Now researchers have identified a distinctive X-ray signal observed in the days following the outburst that comes from matter on the verge of falling into the b ...
  • The Edge of Space - Vaporizing the (Super-)Earth
    In science fiction, evil overlords and hostile aliens often threaten to vaporize the Earth. At the beginning of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the officiously bureaucratic aliens called Vogons, authors of the third-worst poetry in the universe, actually follow through on the threat, destro ...
  • The Battle for Syria - The Looming War for Syr ...
    Syria’s vast arsenal of operational-level chemical and biological weapons, based on lethal and incapacitating agents, is diverse by any standard. Syria also possesses many sophisticated launch platforms and dispersion equipment, including missiles, rockets, aircraft, artillery shells, cluster ...
  • The Battle for Syria - Syrian Government Assau ...
    Syrian government jets and helicopters bombed targets in the besieged northern city of Aleppo on August 8 as tanks launched a ground assault on the rebel-held district of Salaheddin. There were reports of fierce battles with Syrian state television saying rebels were being overrun. Leaders of th ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • National Jewish Democratic Council's "Un-Jewis ...
    GOOD FOR HIM! Yesterday it was announced that casino magnate and major Republican donor, Sheldon Adelson is suing the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) for defamation.  Two months ago the NJDC and the DCCC each accused Adelson of condoning prostitution at his properties in China ...
  • Obama Team LIED About Not Knowing Commercial's ...
    Can't anyone in the Obama Administration or the Committee to Reelect the President (CREEP) tell the truth? Of course not! To tell the truth this progressive administration would need some respect for the citizens of America, instead we are considered their pawns to be shaped and manipulated in ...
  • The True Meaning of the Egypt-Israel Cross-Bor ...
    By Barry Rubin A 35-man seemingly bedouin terrorist team invaded an Egyptian army base in eastern Sinai, stole a truck and armored personnel carrier, and tried to crash the Israel border gate. They killed about 16 Egyptian soldiers but those who tried to cross the border — at least five — were ...
  • Guy In Obama Commercial is LYING About His Wif ...
    This is really low, Joe Soptic appears in a pro-Obama ad and blames Mitt Romney for the cancer death of his wife--and he's lying.  While it's true that the his wife died from cancer, it happened, seven years after Romney left the company, five years after Bain closed the unsuccessful plant. ...
  • The History Lesson ABC's Brian Ross Never Had
    ABC "journalist" Brian Ross must have failed World History or perhaps was absent the days they talked about fascism, the Nazis and the second world war.  Appearing on Good Morning America, Ross this morning, Ross misled America about history and about the sicko who shot up the Sikh Tem ...

The Real Agenda

  • Europe to experience economic contraction in 2 ...
    A new report issued by the European Central Bank forecasts a downward trend in growth and similar inflation. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 9, 2012 The “let’s do the same thing and expect better results” crowd is getting what they wanted in the Euro zone. ...
  • Why is the US Army Mobilizing Troops and Equip ...
    BY SUSAN POSSEL | OCCUPY CORPORATISM | AUGUST 8, 2012 Informants and military personnel are coming forth anonymously to confirm that martial law “is right around the corner.” However, right now we are under a silent martial law and citizens are reporting strange and unexplainable activ ...
  • Almost Half of Immigrants to the U.S. – ...
    That is the result of big government-sponsored culture of dependency — give it and they will come — and that is why Obama intends to legalize all illegals as soon as possible. By STEPHEN DINAN| THE WASHINGTON TIMES | AUGUST 8, 2012 Immigrants lag behind native-born American ...
  • France To Raise Top Tax Rate To Shocking 75%
    By SAMUEL BLACKSTONE | BUSINESS INSIDER | AUGUST 8, 2012 Francois Hollande, the newly elected socialist president of France, looks set to achieve one of his main campaign goals and will impose a 75 percent tax rate on people earning more than $1.23 million per year, reports the Washing ...
  • Pfizer Settles Bribery case and will pay $ 60 ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 8, 2012 Another bribery case has been settled by a pharmaceutical giant. This time it was Pfizer’s turn to admit to buying off doctors, regulators and other government officials in countries like Russia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kazakhstan, Se ...

Wind Watch

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

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Mortgage-Backed Securities Make Big Bucks for ...
    “Banks make their money from taking the mortgages and bundling them into bonds that they then sell to investors, like pensions and mutual funds. ” (New York Times) But if the government is guaranteeing the mortgages, haven’t we been down this road before? FEE Timely Classic “Na ...
  • UN Warns Against Food Export Limits
    “The world could face a food crisis of the kind seen in 2007/08 if countries restrict exports on concerns about a drought-fuelled grain price rally, the U.N.’s food agency warned on Thursday, after reporting a surge in global food prices in July.” (Associated Press) Free trade ...
  • Remembering Heroes of Darker Days
    It is understandable how many, particularly younger, classical liberals could think this is the worst of times. It is not.
  • Mexico Memorial to Drug War Victims Inspires D ...
    “The erection of memorials is often controversial. Citizens, survivors and families of the dead argued passionately over the design, scope and placement of the memorials marking the Vietnam War and the Sept. 11 attacks. But in those cases, the commemorations came long after the bloodshed was ove ...
  • Standard Chartered Probe By New York State Dep ...
    “The U.S. Treasury Department and Federal Reserve were blindsided and angered by New York’s banking regulator’s decision to launch an explosive attack on Standard Chartered Plc over $250 billion in alleged money laundering transactions tied to Iran, sources familiar with the situatio ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Lawsuit seeks better regulation of oil spill d ...
    The unprecedented use of chemical dispersants following BP's Gulf disaster led to complaints of health problems among cleanup workers and local residents. A coalition of groups is now suing the EPA in hopes of spurring regulatory action. read more
  • Lacking contracts, New Orleans teachers use ol ...
    After Katrina, New Orleans fired all 7,500 of its teachers. The firings were recently ruled illegal, but teachers won't get their jobs back. Instead, the union is fighting for teachers and students through a grassroots, social justice approach. read more
  • Southern leaders fiddle while coasts threatene ...
    As sea levels rise due to global warming, politicians across the hard-hit South are blocking efforts to address the problem. read more
  • Sikh temple shooter was an Army veteran, white ...
    Reportedly a psy ops specialist, Wade Michael Page was also a frustrated neo-Nazi and the leader of a racist white-power band based in North Carolina. read more
  • The risks of being employed
    The number of workplaces with egregiously bad safety records has doubled in the past year. OSHA's effort to focus on these employers is laudable -- but is it enough? read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Why I Don’t Live In Indianapolis
    It’s no secret that Indianapolis has been a huge focus of my blog over the years. One of the biggest criticisms I get here, especially when I ding some other city, is that I’m nothing more than a mindless booster for Indy. While I like to think I’ve given the city a lot of tough love over the ye ...
  • Evolving Urban Form: Dhaka
    A few weeks ago, we suggested that Hong Kong was the "smart growth" ideal, for having the highest urban population density in the high income world. But, if you expand the universe to the poorer, developing countries, Hong Kong barely holds a candle to Dhaka. Dhaka's 14.6 million p ...
  • Swing State Geography: The I-4 Corridor
    Overheated presidential politics have done few favors to Florida, except to put 132 miles of hot asphalt on everyone’s lips:  Interstate 4.  Completed in the late 1960s, this interstate (in fact, the only interstate highway to be entirely contained within one state) is known by million ...
  • Characteristics of the Self-Employed
    With EMSI’s new data categories, we can now more closely parse data on the major classes of workers in the labor market. This is a significant shift in how we present employment data, and one of the valuable applications is being able to track and analyze self-employed workers — th ...
  • The Uncertain Future of the California Bullet ...
    On July 18, at a site pregnant with symbolism — the future location of what HSR advocates hope will become San Francisco’s terminus of the state’s bullet train — California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill to fund construction of the first section of the high-speed line. Earlier in the day, Br ...

GM Watch

  • Controversial Dutch trial opens to public
    1.Dutch GM potato field trial will open to public 2.GM potato courtcase and citizen inspection  NOTE: Looks like the opening to the public of this trial is a PR response to the situation exposed by ASEED in item 2, where there has been a shying away from open 'dialogue' and 'discussion' with ci ...
  • Controversial Dutch trial opens to public
    1.Dutch GM potato field trial will open to public 2.GM potato courtcase and citizen inspection  NOTE: Looks like the opening to the public of this trial is a PR response to the situation exposed by ASEED in item 2, where there has been a shying away from open 'dialogue' and 'discussion' with ci ...
  • GM corn backfiring
    EXTRACT: Potter told them the genetically modified corn is basically backfiring. "Instead of making things easier, we've just made corn rootworm management harder and a heck of a lot more expensive," Potter said. --- --- Corn farmers struggle to cope with rootworm resistance Mark Steil Minnesot ...
  • GM corn backfiring
    EXTRACT: Potter told them the genetically modified corn is basically backfiring. "Instead of making things easier, we've just made corn rootworm management harder and a heck of a lot more expensive," Potter said. --- --- Corn farmers struggle to cope with rootworm resistance Mark Steil Minnesot ...
  • Labeling GM foods: Whose side are you on?
    EXTRACT: The question before voters could not be more stark: Do you side with anti-worker, pro-polluter forces epitomized by the GMA and deceptive corporate front groups, or do you side with 90% of California voters, the California Labor Federation, family farmers, the Consumer Federation of Ame ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Sobering Reality Of What Life Is Like In R ...
    What do you do when the city where you live is dying?  All over the United States formerly great cities are crumbling, but some are definitely in worse shape than others.  One reader recently wrote to me about what she sees happening all around her in Reno, Nevada.  The unemploym ...
  • 14 Questions People Ask About How To Prepare F ...
    How in the world is someone supposed to actually prepare for an economic collapse?  What should you do with your money?  How can you make sure that your family is going to be okay?  How can you prepare if your resources are extremely limited?  These are the kinds of questions peo ...
  • Dead Crops, Extreme Drought And Endless Wildfi ...
    As you read this, the United States is experiencing the worst drought it has seen since the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s.  As you read this, nearly half of all corn crops in the United States are in "poor" or "very poor" condition.  As you read this, 38 major wildfires are ripping ...
  • The Employment Rate In The United States Is Lo ...
    Did you know that a smaller percentage of Americans are working today than when the last recession supposedly ended?  But you won't hear about this on the mainstream news.  Instead, the mainstream media obsesses over the highly politicized and highly manipulated "unemployment rat ...
  • Spain And Italy Are Toast Unless Germany Allow ...
    The financial chess game in Europe is still being played out, but in the end it is going to boil down to one very fundamental decision.  Is Germany going to allow the ECB to print up trillions of euros and use those euros to buy up the sovereign debt of troubled eurozone members ...

Desertification

  • WFP moving away from food donations for over 4 ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96065/UGANDA-Weaning-Karamoja-off-food-aid UGANDA: Weaning Karamoja off food aid KAMPALA, 9 August 2012 (IRIN) – Uganda’s arid northeastern Karamoja region has been dependent on food aid for decades, but new programmes by the government and it ...
  • The movement toward local food is creating a v ...
    Read at : http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/02/us/small-scale-farmers-creating-a-new-profit-model.html?_r=1&smid=fb-share Small Farmers Creating a New Business Model as Agriculture Goes Local By KIRK JOHNSON SEATTLE — The cultivated rusticity of a farmers’ market, where dirt-dusted beets are st ...
  • Reading between the lines : every family shoul ...
    Reading attentively the UN-message of my former posting UN AGENCY CALLS FOR ACTION TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DIETS AND FOOD BIODIVERSITY New York, Aug  8 2012  5:05PM my conclusion can only be that all international and national aid organizations should  step … Continue reading →
  • UN AGENCY CALLS FOR ACTION TO PROMOTE SUSTAINA ...
    New York, Aug  8 2012  5:05PM Countries must take immediate action to promote sustainable diets and food biodiversity to improve the health of their citizens, the United Nations food agency states in a new book, jointly published with Bioversity International, … Continue reading →
  • To turn desert areas into arable land to boost ...
    Read at : http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/05/17/us-gulf-farmland-idUSTRE64G4SU20100517?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FscienceNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Science%29 Gulf looks to science to turn desert to farm ...

The Paper Trail

  • Clean Water Case targets wetlands protection i ...
    A federal court has directed that North Carolina’s Waccamaw River watershed receive $1 million in environmental preservation projects, one piece of a broader federal effort to protect wetlands and enforce the Clean Water Act.The new case centers on Freedman Farms Inc., a corporate hog farm in Co ...
  • Akin wins Missouri Senate primary, Dems get th ...
    Rep. Todd Akin, a six-term lawmaker and evangelical Christian with the support of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, won a hotly contested Republican U.S. Senate primary in Missouri, meaning he will face incumbent Claire McCaskill, a Democrat the GOP considers beatable.Unlike his two main ...
  • Most eligible for Obama undocumented program a ...
    One of the nation’s top immigration think tanks estimates that 1.76 million undocumented people could attempt to benefit from an Obama administration decision to shield them from deportation, temporarily, and grant them two-year work permits. Moreover, the Migration Policy Institute in Washingto ...
  • Senators suggest new penalties in Chinese heli ...
    Two senior members of the Senate Armed Services Committee called on Monday for the Defense Department to consider suspending or blocking its ties to a major weapons contractor that admitted illegally helping China develop a new attack helicopter.Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the committee chairman, ...
  • Outside groups spend $2.2 million in Missouri ...
    Super PACs and nonprofits have spent more than $2.2 million in the race for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in Missouri, with nearly 90 percent of the total going toward negative ads, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis.Businessman John Brunner and former state treasurer Sarah ...

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Mass Media Mind Control – the Strongest ...
    “——  God shall send them STRONG DELUSION, that they should BELIEVE A LIE.”   —-  2 Thessalonians 2:11 – The Holy Bible. “In the Big Lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted ...
  • The “Star of David” – Learn ...
    It is the symbol of modern day Zionism – and the Luciferian signature of the Khazars masquerading as “God’s Chosen People” – the terrorist nation of “Israel”. It is the HEX-agram, the 6 pointed triangles forming the number 666. It is the ancient logo of ...
  • The “Star of David” – Learn ...
    It is the symbol of modern day Zionism – and the Luciferian signature of the Khazars masquerading as “God’s Chosen People” – the terrorist nation of “Israel”. It is the HEX-agram, the 6 pointed triangles forming the number 666. It is the ancient logo of ...
  • The Culture of Reverence – The Louis Fre ...
    The Culture of Reverence America’s Pedophilia Hypocrisy By A. True Ott, Phd The “Freeh Report” is concluded.  Released to public eyes Thursday, July 12, 2012, the 267-page report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh and his select team of investigators has exposed in a most accurate manner, what i ...
  • The Culture of Reverence – The Louis Fre ...
    The Culture of Reverence America’s Pedophilia Hypocrisy By A. True Ott, Phd The “Freeh Report” is concluded.  Released to public eyes Thursday, July 12, 2012, the 267-page report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh and his select team of investigators has exposed in a most accurate manner, what i ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Sanctions Will Kill Tens of Thousands of Iranians
    An area that has been particularly hit hard is the pharmaceutical sector. Although Iran produces a large part of the medications and drugs that its population needs, based on the generic versions of brand-name pharmaceuticals, it is unable to produce the most advanced drugs that have come to the ...
  • Taking the lead on Syria
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  • Plots Are Tied to Shadow War of Israel and Iran
    A magnetic bomb detonated on a diplomatic car in New Delhi. The police uncovered a cache of explosives at a golf course in the Kenyan city of Mombasa. Five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver were killed in an attack outside the airport in the Black Sea coastal city of Burgas. read more
  • Iranian state goes offline to dodge cyber-attacks
    Iran is to move key ministries and state bodies off the worldwide internet next month in an effort to shield them behind a secure computer wall from disruptive cyber attacks like the Stuxnet and Flame viruses.
  • گفتند "یا علی" و مملکت را تعطیل کردند!
    ایران در ماه رمضان، همه کارهای اداری اش تق و لق بود. دیشب حضرت امیر در مسجد کوفه، هنگام نماز صبح با ضربه شمشیر ابن ملجم ترور شد. امروز در حال نقاهت است و فردا چشم بر جهان می بندد. این سه شب، شب های قدر است و بر سر گیری قرآن در مساجد شیعه. بنابراین چهارشنبه و پنجشنبه و جمعه تق و لقی ماه رمضان با ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • States Save Billions by Downsizing Prisons
    Carton credit California Political Review   Owing to candidates tripping over each other to be tough on immigrants and crime, the crisis of massive prison overcrowding is an issue that receives scant attention in an election year. Although federal candidates, including Obama and Romn ...
  • Suckering Liberals into Supporting Foreign Wars
    Scene from "The Humanitarian War in Libya" by Julien Teil George Washington has written a great post – Why Do Progressive Liberals Fall for Humanitarian War? – on Zero Hedge. It’s quite an an interesting site dedicated to “widening the scope of information available ...
  • Police Taser a 12 Year Old Girl While Arrestin ...
    Dejamon Baker (NBC) — A 12-year-old girl has wounds in her chest and stomach after she was tased by a police officer inside a St. Louis Victoria’s Secret Wednesday afternoon. Authorities speaking to the New York Daily News say the girl “physically interceded” as a St. Lo ...
  • Julian Assange Hires Pinochet’s Nemesis
    Baltazar Garzon In June Wikileaks founder Julian Assange sought refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to prevent his extradition to Sweden for questioning on sexual assault allegations. His big fear is that the US will attempt to extradite him from Sweden and either detain him indefinitely ...
  • How to Tell Where Your Food Comes From
    Barcode indicating US or Canadian origin Consumers in North America and Europe are consciously opting for nationally – or better still locally – grown foods as a way of reducing fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide emissions. Increasing concern over “food miles” (i.e. the ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • NYPD, Microsoft launch all-seeing “Domain Awar ...
    The New York Police Department is embracing online surveillance in a wide-eyed way. Representatives from Microsoft and the NYPD announced the launch of their new Domain Awareness System (DAS) at a Lower Manhattan press conference Wednesday. Using DAS, police are able to monitor thousands of CCTV ...
  • Viagra-maker Pfizer fined $60mn for bribing ov ...
    The US leading drug maker Pfizer Inc. will pay total $60.2 million to settle a federal investigation on alleged bribing overseas doctors and other health officials to prescribe medicines. The US Securities and Exchange Commission announced that the company will pay a $45 million fine to resolve ...
  • North Korea unleashing its officials
    Observers are talking about the changes in the political and economic course of the DPRK. The new leader removed military from the country’s leadership and is trying to unleash the reserved officials. Innovation trickled to the cultural life of the country as well. Frivolous to the North K ...
  • Libya power transition: Who can stop the chaos?
    The interim authorities in Libya have handed over power to a nationally-elected assembly. But as numerous rival armed groups control most of Libya, the escalation of violence continues against a background of an increasingly divided nation. During a ceremony late on Wednesday in Tripoli, NTC chi ...
  • Elderly woman set herself on fire in Israel
    An elderly Israeli woman has set herself on fire, becoming the fourth person to self-immolate in the country over the past month. The woman, believed to be around 80, set herself on fire on Wednesday afternoon at her home in the city of Jerusalem, Xinhua reported. The elderly woman has been hosp ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Stephen Strasburg Beans Marco Scutaro, Win Str ...
    On Monday, the Washington Nationals opened a four-game set against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. The Nats had ace Stephen Strasburg on the hill gunning for his 10th win of the season and his seventh straight start ending with a "W" next to his name. Unfortunately, Washington was unable t ...
  • Liriano, Twins top White Sox 4-1 in Youkilis debut
    MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â Francisco Liriano faced runners at the corners with only one out in the seventh. This was precisely the type of situation where he's faltered so many times before, but Twins manager Ron Gardenhire didn't budge. "I just have a lot of confidence in him," Gardenhire said
  • Netanyahu says Russia and Israel on same page ...
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said he and visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin see eye to eye on the dangers of Iranâs nuclear weapons program. The two leaders met for over an hour in Jerusalem and discussed Iran, Syria, Egypt and bilateral ties. âWe agree that nuclear weapon ...
  • Apple, Microsoft, now Google: I/O 2012 closes ...
    First Apple , then Microsoft , and now it’s Google ‘s turn: three weeks of back-to-back mobile strategy with each of the big three companies laying out their stalls for smartphones and tablets. It’s arguably never been such an interesting time in mobility, but nor has there ever been so much at ...
  • Google appears to aim low with new 7-inch Andr ...
    If the rumors are true, Google's Nexus 7 tablet will compete with the low-end Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire, not Apple's iPad. If the stories from Gizmodo Australia are true, Google and Asus will be releasing a new 7-inch Android-powered tablet, Nexus 7 , at this week’s Google I/O Conference. We ...

Groklaw

  • Anonymous donors bring Hollywood production va ...
    A video accusing the American government of selling out to Hollywood has made a splash after being featured on the front page of the Pirate Bay, where it has garnered over 10 million views. Anti-Hollywood sentiment is nothing new, especially on The Pirate Bay, but what sets this video apart is i ...
  • A belt and suspenders for your cloud storage
    No matter whose cloud you are depending on it will be subject to attack. Bigger targets get more attacks and something as big as DropBox, say, is a mighty big target, while that spare hard drive attached to a PC at your house (or my preference - the house of a friend) is generally a target too s ...
  • Judge Orders Google, Oracle to Reveal Media Pa ...
    Reaction to the decision was mixed. The Electronic Frontier Foundation -- a leading advocate of digital freedoms had no compunctions with the order. Its intellectual property attorney Julie Samuels told Reuters, "The court has really wide discretion in granting a remedy to fix any kind of wron ...
  • Inside Scoop: Apple and Samsung Duke it Out
    Get the latest dish on the "patent trial of the century" as CNET's Charles Cooper chats with Josh Lowensohn, who's been covering the epic courtroom battle. - CNET TV
  • If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented ...
    Inside Google, Jeff Dean is regarded with awe. Outside the company, few even know his name. But they should. Dean is part of a small group of Google engineers who designed the fundamental software and hardware that underpinned the company's rise to the web's most dominant force, and these creati ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • EPA urged to cut ethanol mandates due to drought
    Credit: CraneStation on FlickrThe drought and increased use of corn for ethanol is driving up the price of corn. That means meat and food prices will go up too because corn is fed to livestock and is in many, many foods. Twenty five senators are asking the EPA to reconsider its Renewable Fuels [ ...
  • 3D printer makes burritos
    It does what all 3D printers do: It adds layer upon layer of material onto a base (the tortilla). Instead of liquid plastic, the Burritob0t squirts out melted cheese, beans, salsa, guacamole and sour cream, in amounts set by the user on iPhone or iPad app.The post 3D printer makes burritos appea ...
  • Sarcastic Rover from Mars
    Finally ready to start the day! Looking forward to staring at f–king dirt for the next two years!— SarcasticRover (@SarcasticRover) August 6, 2012The post Sarcastic Rover from Mars appeared first on Politics in the Zeros.
  • Where is the US, ask Syrian rebels?
    Syrian rebels want no-fly zones, just like the Libya rebels got. But the US remains unhelpful, stumbling about, clueless about what to do. We supported the Assad thugs for decades and seem odddly unconcerned about the coming possible destruction of Syria’s largest city.“America will ...
  • Starbucks to allow payments with Square mobile
    Square just dropped a bomb on the retail payments industry, in one of those Godfather-dead-horse-in-your-bed epic move moments.— Aaron Levie (@levie) August 8, 2012Soon you will be able to pay for a Starbucks purchase with the Square mobile app.This fall, Square will begin processing all c ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Crafar farms decision disappointing
    The decision by the Court of Appeal regarding the Crafar farms is disappointing. The Court of Appeal has concluded that Shanghai Pengxin has sufficient business experience and acumen to run the farming business. In reality New Zealand state owned enterprise Landcorp will be running the Crafar fa ...
  • Victory over Pokie Machines for the Victory Co ...
    Last week’s win for the community of Victory, who finally rid themselves of pokies in their local bar, is an example of what can be achieved when a community takes action. The Victory community is a lower socio-economic area of Nelson but is a community development success story with activities ...
  • GE not the answer to farming’s problems
    I was interested to hear Landcorp Chief Executive Chris Kelly’s thoughts on National Radio last week about how they get the best out of their farms. The genetic gains that have been made (without genetic engineering I might add) in breeding means that production rates keep improving. He very cle ...
  • Sharing some facts about the lobbying bill
    With all of the attention that my lobbying bill has been receiving recently, I’ve noticed some confusion and misconception out there about some of the parts of the bill. For example, Labour leader David Shearer was asked about the issue on a radio interview yesterday and got a couple of things w ...
  • A new organising framework – re-imaginin ...
    In the first two post-Rio reflections, I advanced two main propositions: That the international community needs to declare a global Ecological Crisis and undertake global executive action, rather than wallow in ineffective international legislative negotiations; That the interface between scienc ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Unplug! Too Much Light at Night May Lead to De ...
    By Dr. Mercola When you climb into bed for the night, is your bedroom “littered” with dim light from streetlights, passing traffic, a computer, night-light or television set? Even if the light is so dim that you can easily sleep through it, light pollution can prompt biological changes t ...
  • Artificial Sweeteners May Be Worse than Sugar ...
    By Dr. Mercola Diet foods and drinks are promoted to help you lose weight but compelling evidence shows that artificial sweeteners like aspartame cause weight gain rater than weight loss. That’s right, aspartame―which was once hailed as a wonder chemical because it tastes like sugar without t ...
  • City Officials Are Waging a War on Gardens
    By Dr. Mercola It’s hard to imagine what could be controversial or even illegal about planting a couple of rows of tomato plants, green peppers and a cucumber vine … but depending on where those vegetables are planted, they have been the subject of great debate – even prosecution. Acro ...
  • European Commission Report Recommends Phasing ...
    By Dr. Mercola A European Commission report by the BIO Intelligence Service (BIOS)1 recommending the phase-out of dental amalgam and mercury in button cell batteries has many wondering if the whole of Europe will eliminate the use of dental mercury by 2018. It’s about time, and hopeful ...
  • Harvard Study Finds Fluoride Lowers IQ
    By Dr. Mercola Fluoride is added to 70 percent of U.S. public drinking water supplies to aid in the prevention of cavities. This benefit is dubious at best, as there is practically no difference in tooth decay rates between fluoridated and non-fluoridated countries, and no difference be ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • New audio slideshow of ‘Tribes from the air’ m ...
    Aerial photographs of uncontacted Indians in Brazil caught the world’s imagination.© Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/SurvivalSurvival has published an aerial photographic gallery of tribes and their lands to mark the 18th UN International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. In a unique collaboration o ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • City Officials Are Waging a War on Gardens
    from mercola.com: It’s hard to imagine what could be controversial or even illegal about planting a couple of rows of tomato plants, green peppers and a cucumber vine … but depending on where those vegetables are planted, they have been the subject of great debate – even prosecution. Across t ...
  • Rare snowfall stuns much of South Africa
    from ap.org: JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- People slowly came outside despite the cold wind Tuesday across South Africa, pointed their mobile phone cameras to the sky and opened their mouths to taste a rare snowfall that fell on much of the country. The snow began Tuesday morning, part of an extreme ...
  • Decade-Long Feeding Study Reveals Significant ...
    from mercola.com: Scientists in Norway have released results from experimental feeding studies carried out over a 10-year period, and the verdict is in: If you want to avoid obesity, then avoid eating genetically engineered (GE) corn, corn-based products, and animals that are fed a diet of GE ...
  • How the Drug War Fuels a New Racial Caste Syst ...
    from alternet.org: A racial caste system is alive and well in America. For reasons that have stunningly little to do with crime or crime rates, we, as a nation, have chosen to lock up more than two million people behind bars. Millions more are on probation or parole, or branded felons for life ...
  • Calcium supplementation linked to heart attack ...
    from therealfoodchannel.com: Real food is your best source of calcium. For many years we've been sold the lie that we need mega-doses of calcium for strong bones. Foods such as orange juice have been supplemented with types of calcium that the body can't absorb. And now there is evidence linkin ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Sobering Reality Of What Life Is Like In R ...
    What do you do when the city where you live is dying?  All over the United States formerly great cities are crumbling, but some are definitely in worse shape than others.  One reader recently wrote to me about what she sees happening all around her in Reno, Nevada.  The unemploym ...
  • 14 Questions People Ask About How To Prepare F ...
    How in the world is someone supposed to actually prepare for an economic collapse?  What should you do with your money?  How can you make sure that your family is going to be okay?  How can you prepare if your resources are extremely limited?  These are the kinds of questions peo ...
  • Dead Crops, Extreme Drought And Endless Wildfi ...
    As you read this, the United States is experiencing the worst drought it has seen since the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s.  As you read this, nearly half of all corn crops in the United States are in "poor" or "very poor" condition.  As you read this, 38 major wildfires are ripping ...
  • The Employment Rate In The United States Is Lo ...
    Did you know that a smaller percentage of Americans are working today than when the last recession supposedly ended?  But you won't hear about this on the mainstream news.  Instead, the mainstream media obsesses over the highly politicized and highly manipulated "unemployment rat ...
  • Spain And Italy Are Toast Unless Germany Allow ...
    The financial chess game in Europe is still being played out, but in the end it is going to boil down to one very fundamental decision.  Is Germany going to allow the ECB to print up trillions of euros and use those euros to buy up the sovereign debt of troubled eurozone members ...

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The Talking Clock

  • Cameron defends letting British cancer suffere ...
    Keep British cancer sufferers alive through giving them the treatment they need... or send £11bn abroad for "international aid" projects? Your promises, Prime Minister. Yours, Labours, and the United Nations. Not our promises. We didn't instruct you to let anyone in Britain die while ...
  • So, did Nick Clegg deliberately mislead Parlia ...
    Despite every Conservative activist seemingly actually demonstrating on Twitter that boundary changes were never linked in any "contract" or "agreement" with the LibDems over House of Lords reform, by now, many of us have seen or read Nick Clegg's sombre toned statement on the matter. Step fo ...
  • Cweggy Cwying in the Rose Garden
    Poor Nick Clegg. His mission, for his few years sabbatical from serving his EU masters, was to tear up the constitution of this country as much as possible and tinker with our electoral systems as much as possible to ensure the irrelevant LibDems would play 'kingmaker' for the rest of all et ...
  • Anyone Mensch--ioned Boris yet?
    With the breaking news that Louise Mensch is to step down as MP for Corby and East Northamptonshire, the questions for this morning are... One: Will she still be 'sharing' her pearls of 'wisdom' with us all on Twitter? Two: How long will it take for the clamour for Boris Johnson to reach s ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 5th August 2012
    Conservative MP Dominic Raab - currently on a negative score in our 'MP Watch' - is on hand in the Telegraph to write a passionate piece justifying the Conservative Party's policy of EU appeasement. He believes the Government should: "offer the public a referendum sandwich: the first providin ...

Facing South

  • Lawsuit seeks better regulation of oil spill d ...
    The unprecedented use of chemical dispersants following BP's Gulf disaster led to complaints of health problems among cleanup workers and local residents. A coalition of groups is now suing the EPA in hopes of spurring regulatory action. read more
  • Lacking contracts, New Orleans teachers use ol ...
    After Katrina, New Orleans fired all 7,500 of its teachers. The firings were recently ruled illegal, but teachers won't get their jobs back. Instead, the union is fighting for teachers and students through a grassroots, social justice approach. read more
  • Southern leaders fiddle while coasts threatene ...
    As sea levels rise due to global warming, politicians across the hard-hit South are blocking efforts to address the problem. read more
  • Sikh temple shooter was an Army veteran, white ...
    Reportedly a psy ops specialist, Wade Michael Page was also a frustrated neo-Nazi and the leader of a racist white-power band based in North Carolina. read more
  • The risks of being employed
    The number of workplaces with egregiously bad safety records has doubled in the past year. OSHA's effort to focus on these employers is laudable -- but is it enough? read more

CenterLine

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