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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 II


Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • How to Disable 'System Program Problem Detecte ...
    Ever since I upgraded to latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, this issue has been bugging me a lot. Every now and then, a notification pops up saying "Ubuntu 12.04 has experienced and internal error" or "System Program Problem Detected" without actually causing any real troubles. I believe this has everyt ...
  • Ubuntu App Showdown: 15 Hot Apps to Watch
    Ubuntu App Showdown contest was introduced more than a month ago by Canonical to encourage application development for Ubuntu in a big way. And the initiative is showing results already. More than 150 applications were submitted out of which, 133 has been qualified and made it to the final l ...
  • How to Upgrade to Fireox 14.0.1 in Ubuntu 12.0 ...
    Firefox 14.0.1 has just been released and since it is a major release, updates will be coming to official Ubuntu repositories soon. But for the impatient folks among you, here is how you upgrade to Firefox 14.0.1 from Firefox 13.0.1 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin". Insta ...
  • Xubuntu 12.04 LTS Review: Perfect Alternative ...
    Negative publicity around Ubuntu Unity and GNOME Shell is proving to be a real blessing in disguise for a bunch of smaller, lightweight distros like Xubuntu, Lubuntu et al. As much as I like Unity and GNOME Shell, they are not really the ideal choice for under-powered devices like netbooks. ...
  • 25 Things I did After Installing Ubuntu 12.04 ...
    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" is proving everyone wrong. It is perhaps the most loved Ubuntu release since "Lucid Lynx". Unity is now an almost-finished product. The rock solid nature of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS along with bold moves such as the introduction of features like HUD is winning the h ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Stauffenberg in the Wolf’s Lair: Read th ...
    At a time of  crisis, terror and tyranny, Claus von Stauffenberg seized the initiative and tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime in a coup in July, 1944. As such, he is an example to us all today. The mass impoverishment of people by the fractional reserve banking scam ...
  • FRANK STRONACH: WHY DID THE MAGNA CHIEF RING T ...
    *Frank Stronach, CEO of Magna, rings solicitor handling the proceeds of the sale of my flat and offers him job as justice minister and chauffeur-driven car *Phone call happens almost immediately after I sign the contract *Bizarre call comes to light after I return to sign a second document: Schw ...
  • Letter confirming my complaint against Baxter ...
    Here it is again: a pdf copy of a letter from the Austrian Health Ministry dated May 2009 confirming that I had made a complaint against Baxter and Avir and that state prosecutors had started an investigation into the incident involving the contamination of 72 kilos of seasonal flu vaccine with ...
  • New French pandemic plan targets internet
    The role information circulating on the internet played in persuading people in France not to take the pandemic vaccine in 2009 is confirmed by the country’s new pandemic plan. The plan states that number of French people willing to take the pandemic vaccine dropped from 65% at the end of August ...
  • Dr Carley’s radio show on Poland, Olympi ...
    Dr Rebecca Carley and I talked about Poland, forced vaccination and the Olympics on a radio show last Thursday. Check out the link here: http://www.reversingvaccineinduceddiseases.com/page/415061574

Invisible Opportunity

  • 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 ...

Veterans Today

  • Los Angeles VA Fails Again!
    Following is an e-mail sent to VA Secretary Eric Shinseki last evening following the VA's an incredulous handling of a homeless Veteran right outside the Los Angeles VA.
  • Employers Court Troops, Spouses, Vets at Job Fairs
    Transitioning service members, military spouses and veterans attending hundreds of job fairs around the country like one held here Aug. 2 are finding themselves on the proverbial red carpet as employers pack arenas to add those closest to the armed forces to their payrolls.
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Augu ...
    Army veteran Lester Groff thought his wife, Nancy, would be taken care of after he died. But 3 1/2 years after he passed away, Nancy Groff is homeless.
  • Death Squad Atrocities in Syria
    Since early 2011, Washington waged proxy war on Syria. Daily it continues down and dirty. Targeting civilians is policy. So are atrocities grave enough to make some despots blush.
  • US Army Psy-Ops Behind Wisconsin Massacre?
    Are the American people being conditioned to accept World War III by a wave of false-flag massacres?

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Syria, Gore Vidal and the Lame Left
    The Taylor Report August 6, 2012 Applying Vidal lessons to Syria, noting the Euro-American feckless “left” Phil Taylor With the passing of Gore Vidal, the matter of Syria comes to mind. It was Vidal’s thesis that the urge to be an empire eclipsed the democratic and egalitarian ...
  • U.S. Drone Strikes Prompt Pakistan To Strength ...
    Voice of Russia August 9, 2012 US drones strikes prompt Pakistan to strengthen ties with Russia Jared DeLuna As anti-American sentiment grows in Pakistan, one retired Pakistani General believes it is time for Pakistan and Russia to build stronger ties. With the war in Afghanistan spilling into P ...
  • Full-Scale War In Syria
    SteveLendmanBlog August 9, 2012 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. Syria’s been invaded. Civil war implies two internal warring sides. That’s very ...
  • Turkish Foreign Minister May Be Victim Of Anti ...
    Al Bawaba (Jordan) August 8, 2012 Turkish foreign minister’s fate is in the hands of Assad ==== [M]any cite the Turkish stance on Libya, where Erdogan had strongly opposed intervention by NATO and the West, and said that Turkey would not stand for it. But a week later, the prime minister r ...
  • U.S. Missile Shield To Protect Persian Gulf &# ...
    Voice of Russia August 9, 2012 US missile shield will protect Persian Gulf democracies Boris Volkhonsky ==== [P]ublicity surrounding the US anti-missile plans in Europe has one particular objective in mind – that is persuading everyone that the shield is not what it really is, and that it is dir ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

FRS

  • The Gendered Violence of Stop-and-Frisk
    ["Stop and Frisk" is the name of the New York Police Department program of Racial Profiling--of stalking and harassing communities which have been targeted.  In 2011, 87% of those stopped and frisked were black and brown--(41% were black and brown youth)--and hounded many other people of color, ...
  • The Gendered Violence of Stop-and-Frisk
    ["Stop and Frisk" is the name of the New York Police Department program of Racial Profiling--of stalking and harassing communities which have been targeted.  In 2011, 87% of those stopped and frisked were black and brown--(41% were black and brown youth)--and hounded many other people of color, ...
  • The Times of India: “Maoists run paralle ...
    [An interesting report from the India bourgeois newspaper, The Time of India, on recent developments in the Andhra-Orissa Border region -- (as yet unconfirmed by other sources). -- Frontlines ed.] —————————————- Siva G ...
  • The Times of India: “Maoists run paralle ...
    [An interesting report from the India bourgeois newspaper, The Time of India, on recent developments in the Andhra-Orissa Border region -- (as yet unconfirmed by other sources). -- Frontlines ed.] —————————————- Siva G ...
  • Athens, Greece: Racist police operation in th ...
    [The world-wide economic crisis has brought extreme repression and mass suffering to every region. Often, mass unemployment is coupled with intensified exploitation in slave-like conditions of migrants, who also face attacks by racist, xenophobic gangs.  The following statement, from the Communi ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Zimmerman Surrenders to Authorities
    George Zimmerman is back behind bars.Contributor: T.J. Larson Published: Jun 03, 2012
  • Why Does Florida Have Repeated Election Problems?
    Florida is having voter controversies this year and the general election isn't even here yet.Contributor: William Browning Published: Jun 03, 2012
  • Texas Teacher of the Year Arrested for Sexting ...
    John McDaniel, 32, days after being named Teacher of the Year, is arrested for inappropriate relationship with student. Recent cases like this have prompted Texas to re-examine its policy on social media.Contributor: Dori Starnes Published: Jun 01, 2012
  • Hold onto Your Fountain Drinks, New Yorkers!
    Bloomberg's administration propose a ban on sugary drinks in order to combat rising obesity in NYC.Contributor: Brianna Peterson Published: May 31, 2012
  • Defense of Marriage Act Ruled Unconstitutional ...
    The Defense of Marriage Act (DoMA) has been ruled unconstitutional yet again. Coming on the heels of two California federal judges ruling DoMA unconstitutional, the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals has now also issued a rulingContributor: Christopher Beheler Published: May 31, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • Protein With Liquid Built In Could Be Key to L ...
    For all our attempts to find it on other worlds, water may not be the most essential molecule for life, a new study suggests. A protein that brings oxygen to muscle can function without it, using a synthetic polymer in its place. A study in the Journal of the American Chemical Society addresses ...
  • FYI: Does Training at High Altitudes Help Olym ...
    After decades of research we (mostly) know the answer It's widely assumed that training on top of a mountain will give an athlete a major leg-up when competing closer to sea level. But it turns out it's not quite that simple, and in fact, athletes are discouraged from conducting training exclus ...
  • Video: A Japanese Company Will Scan and Print ...
    The perfect gift for any occasion What you might not expect when you’re expecting: a company that wants to 3-D print a statuette of your unborn child. Japanese engineering outfit Fasotec will gladly take an MRI scan of an expecting mother’s fetus and using its BioTexture modeling software to ca ...
  • Ten Amazing Photos From Mars Rover Curiosity's ...
    NASA's reaction, a Times Square viewing, and Curiosity's first images from the Red Planet More than just a scientific mission, Mars rover Curiosity's final, frightening descent stirred up plenty of emotions, from both the engineers who piloted it and from spectators around the world. We all hel ...
  • How A Sundial Lets Curiosity See Mars in Livin ...
    Is that rock brick-red, ochre or salmon-colored? PASADENA, Calif. -- We've seen a brief sample of the full-color environment at Gale Crater on Mars, but before the Mars rover Curiosity can beam back full-size versions, its cameras need a checkup. Scientists want to be sure they're seeing Mars a ...

Veterans Today

  • Los Angeles VA Fails Again!
    Following is an e-mail sent to VA Secretary Eric Shinseki last evening following the VA's an incredulous handling of a homeless Veteran right outside the Los Angeles VA.
  • Employers Court Troops, Spouses, Vets at Job Fairs
    Transitioning service members, military spouses and veterans attending hundreds of job fairs around the country like one held here Aug. 2 are finding themselves on the proverbial red carpet as employers pack arenas to add those closest to the armed forces to their payrolls.
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Augu ...
    Army veteran Lester Groff thought his wife, Nancy, would be taken care of after he died. But 3 1/2 years after he passed away, Nancy Groff is homeless.
  • Death Squad Atrocities in Syria
    Since early 2011, Washington waged proxy war on Syria. Daily it continues down and dirty. Targeting civilians is policy. So are atrocities grave enough to make some despots blush.
  • US Army Psy-Ops Behind Wisconsin Massacre?
    Are the American people being conditioned to accept World War III by a wave of false-flag massacres?

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • M Yunus on Why Japan (!) Needs Microfinance
    Alike the north of Great Britain or the American rust belt, there are any number of stagnant towns in northern Japan whose difficulties have been magnified by the tsunami's wake. And, just as the UK and the US are mired in a prolonged funk despite having had zero interest rate policies (ZIRP) fo ...
  • Stateless People: Independent Olympic Athletes
    My heart naturally goes out to the stateless people of the world. In our part of the globe there are those frequent headline-grabbers the Rohingya in western Burma. Unfortunately, they are far from alone in their persecution by nation-states who think they do not belong and have not been shy abo ...
  • Serbia Tells EU to Shove Central Bank Independence
    It was not so long ago that I offered to help improve Serbia's chances of EU accession by going on a Soldier of Fortune-inspired "Ratko Hunt 2010." Just when you thought that Serbia's path to EU membership has been smoothed out by the capture (or death) of the "Big Three" war criminals Slobodan ...
  • It's the Economy, Stupid, Egypt & IMF Edition
    Mirror, mirror on the wall Who's the most conditionality-laden of them all? (That's not my cartoon, by the way)  Americans enjoy fairy tales where everyone lives happily ever after: Cinderella. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Unfortunately, many of these Americans in positions of power ...
  • EU Political Economy, France v GB Olympic Ed'n
    In case you missed it, the Socialist French Prime Minister Francois Hollande yukked it up with his British counterpart David Cameron at the London Games. In particular, he took a swipe at Cameron's assertion that Britain stands ready to welcome tax exiles if the French government charges tax rat ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Vale John Pirona
    John Pirona was farewelled yesterday in a moving, uplifting and beautiful ceremony. A huge number of family, friends, colleagues and well wishers spilled out of the building, filling the surrounds with a sea of people who fervently wished they could somehow undo the events which led to this day. ...
  • Letter to politicians demanding Royal Commissi ...
    In my previous post I called on everyone to write to politicians to demand action to ensure that John Pirona’s tragic death is the last one. I am happy to help make this important job easier. Here’s a draft letter if you don’t have time to write your own. Or use it as a start [...]
  • Callous church leaders kill another victim
    The suicide death of clergy sex abuse victim John Pirona has devastated an entire community in the Hunter region of NSW, and saddened and enraged his fellow victims around the country. The news was made all the more tragic because John disappeared nearly a week before his body was found, leaving ...
  • Lynn sentenced to jail for his crimes. Now, wh ...
    At last. A church leader has been sentenced to jail for participating in the worldwide catholic church conspiracy to cover up child sex crimes. A conspiracy which has endangered countless millions of children. And ruined hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of lives. And directly led to the ...
  • Unholy Silence of Church leaders
    Last week a documentary titled Unholy Silence was aired in Australia. It detailed Australian church leaders covering up child sex offences by their priests, and examined two suicides resulting directly from a priest’s abuse, and the callous re-abuse of his victims by church leaders. The Australi ...

WL Central

  • 2012-08-08 WikiLeaks battles ongoing DDoS attack
    UPDATED BELOW WikiLeaks has been under sustained DDoS attacks for five days now. The first notice came on August 3, 2012, with the following tweet: WikiLeaks.org is down for unknown reasons. We are investigating. wikileaks.org is still up. — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 3, 2012 read more
  • 2012-08-04 WikiLeaks News Update: New WikiLeak ...
    WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 609 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 606 days. - 46 days at the Ecuadorian Embassy. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 803 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without ...
  • 2012-08-02 Christine Assange Meets The Preside ...
    Ecuador's President Rafael Correa yesterday met with the mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Quito's Palacio Carondelet. read more
  • 2012-08-01 WikiLeaks News Update: New coverage ...
    WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 605 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 603 days. - 43 days at the Ecuadorian Embassy. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 800 days. A secret Grand Jury has been active in the U.S. without ...
  • 2012-07-31 Christine Assange Meets Ecuador's F ...
    UPDATE BELOW: In the Ecuadorian capital of Quito today, Christine Assange struggled to hold back tears after a meeting with Ricardo Patiño, Ecuador's Minister for Foreign Relations, Business and Integration. While WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remains trapped in Ecuador's London embassy, his ...

U N News

  • UN expert calls on Colombia to further dialogu ...
    A United Nations independent expert today called on the Government of Colombia to advance the dialogue process with indigenous authorities in the state of Cauca to find a solution to the recent military presence in their territory and other related matters.
  • Caribbean countries encouraged to use UN progr ...
    A regional Caribbean body today encouraged its member countries to adopt a United Nations programme which would help them streamline trade and increase transparency in business procedures.
  • UN envoy calls for repatriation of last child ...
    A top United Nations official has renewed her call on Canada and the United States to transfer Omar Khadr, who has spent a decade at Guantánamo Bay as of today and is the last child soldier still being held at the US detention facility.
  • Overall picture of coca cultivation in Colombi ...
    The area used to cultivate coca in Colombia has risen three per cent in 2011 over the previous year, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which added that the overall picture remained stable for the raw material used to produce the illegal drug cocaine.
  • UN expert urges US authorities to stop executi ...
    An independent United Nations human rights expert has urged United States authorities to stop the execution of two people with psychosocial disabilities who are scheduled to be put to death tomorrow in the states of Georgia and Texas.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Meet Barack Obama's REAL Siblings
    Filmmaker Joel Gilbert, producer of “Dreams from My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception,” has obtained photographs of the children of Barack Obama mentor Frank Marshall Davis that bear striking resemblance to the president. Jerome Corsi read more
  • CO Massacre... Evidence Hidden From Public of ...
    Obama is smack dab in the middle of this cover up! ~ Video read more
  • 'There Is A Reason Obama Refuses To Release Hi ...
    An Obama classmate from Columbia University called him out this week for stirring up a bogus smear campaign against Romney over his taxes, insisting that Obama’s motive is not only to distract voters from the worst economic recovery in post-WWII history, but also to avoid a far more scandalous a ...
  • Firearm Laws For Each State
    Know the firearm laws for your state ~ PDF read more
  • DHS Orders Over a Half Ton of High Density Exp ...
    A solicitation placed today at the Government marketplace shows that the Department of Homeland Security, via the Transportation Safety Administration has requested 700 pounds of High Density Ammonium Nitrate and 700 pounds of A-5 Flake RDX, with a deliver date by 31 August 2012. ~ James Smit ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Executive Order Being Considered For CyberSecurity
    This is the stuff that is scary. That is, the fact that the current sitting president has been, and evidently will continue to, enact Executive Orders which circumvent the congressional process of legislation. In this most recent case, since the Senate did not pass a recent cyber-security infras ...
  • Temperature Versus Food Storage Shelf Life
    Temperature is the most important factor having to do with general food storage shelf life. The following chart shows the correlation between temperature and storage life. Not to be confused with actual rated shelf life, the chart simply shows the relationship… (numbers are rounded) 40 deg ...
  • Basic Disaster Supplies Emergency Survival Kit
    Having a basic emergency kit, is a first step towards responsible self preservation. The basic survival kit should be geared towards the most common or likely disaster or collapse scenarios that could occur in your area. The purpose of a basic kit is to better deal with the outcome and effects t ...
  • Bug-Out-Bag Papers and Documents
    A bug-out bag or kit should include more than just some food and supplies, it should also contain important papers and documents which would make your life easier should you need to refer to them later. If your home has been wiped out by disaster or whatever circumstance… you could potenti ...
  • Survival Cash For After The Disaster
    After a disaster or a deflationary economic collapse, CASH will be King… for awhile. During an inflationary economic collapse (which would be runaway hyperinflation), GOLD and SILVER and other commodities will be King. Well, actually either way, Gold and Silver holds its value with respect ...

Fast Company

  • Meet The Research Scientist Who Is Turning You ...
    When Louis-Philippe Morency was teaching his first course in analyzing human behavior at University of Southern California, he was scrounging to find good videos of people talking to each other and expressing their opinions. Then he had a lightbulb moment: YouTube. Suddenly “millions of examp ...
  • Can Mindy Kaling's 1.8 Million Twitter Followe ...
    Photo by Jeff Minton The Office was, until he left, Steve Carell's show. And he maintains an A-list career. Mindy Kaling, who writes for the show and plays Kelly, may not have the same star power--but on Twitter, where she's far more active than Carell, she's rewarded in kind: She has tri ...
  • The Rules of Social Media
    If all you do is respond to complaints, that's all people will send you.@lebrun Tweet This Stop & Ask: Would an ACTUAL person talk that way?@heyitsnoah Tweet This Everyone says they don't want to be marketed to. Really, they just don't want to be talked down to.@Starzan Twe ...
  • The Rules of Social Media
    "If all you do is respond to complaints, that's all people will send you."@lebrun Tweet This "Stop & Ask: Would an ACTUAL person talk that way?"@heyitsnoah Tweet This "Everyone says they don't want to be marketed to. Really, they just don't want to be talked down to."@Starz ...
  • Your brand is as defined by the consumers you ...
    Your brand is as defined by the consumers you want as it is by the consumers you don't want. Attribution:  Commenter, "Why Your Brand Should Piss Someone Off"

Jadaliyya

  • Cinematic Occupation
    Kamal Aljafari, Port of Memory. France/Germany/UAE/Palestine, 2009. In the state of siege, time becomes place Fossilized in its eternity In the state of siege, place becomes time Lagging behind its yesterday and its tomorrow —Mahmoud Darwish, “State of Siege” Kamal Aljafari’s film Port ...
  • تأمّلات في بنيان درويشي: سرير الغريبة
    عندما أعلن محمود درويش في سرير غريبته نيته اعتلاء البداهة الإنسانية في صورها الأكثر بدائية ، وهي أن "يحب" أياً كانت مضامين دروعه البطولية والشعرية الفلسطينية و العربية التي أُسبغت عليه حصراً و أحيانا كثيرة قيداً، حينها حُملَّ –درويش- هزائمنا وهزائم الآخرين المهدرة، وتناسى الكثيرون ، مر ...
  • Pinkwatching And Pinkwashing: Interpenetration ...
    Over the past year, we have been carefully observing and participating in the rise of anti-pinkwashing queer activism in the United States and Europe, which has followed a similar, though not equivalent trajectory to activism in the Middle East. Pinkwashing—the process by which the Israeli state ...
  • Syria Media Roundup (August 9)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to syria@jadaliyya.com by Mond ...
  • Mahmoud Darwish: At the Station of a Train Whi ...
      At the Station of a Train Which Fell Off the Map   Mahmoud Darwish (March 13, 1941 - August 9, 2008)   Grass, dry air, thorns, and cactus on the tracks There, the shape of the object in the absurdity of non-shape is chewing its own shadow There is nothingness there, ti ...

mediagazer

  • Pulse Comes To The Web (With A Little Help Fro ...
    Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Pulse Comes To The Web (With A Little Help From Microsoft)  —  Pulse, the popular news reading app for iOS and Android, is finally available on the web.  The service, which launched two years ago and now has over 15 million users, only focus ...
  • The Wall Street Journal Beats NBC Sports Olymp ...
    Andy Plesser / Beet.TV: The Wall Street Journal Beats NBC Sports Olympics Coverage with Puppet Show  —  With television rights to the London 2012 Olympics,including video highlights for news outlets severely restricted by the IOC and by NBC Sports in the U.S., one news organizat ...
  • Americans, Viewers Want Top Olympics Events Te ...
    Lymari Morales / Gallup: Americans, Viewers Want Top Olympics Events Televised Live  —  More educated, higher-income Americans watching the most, want more live coverage  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans who say they are watching the Olympics “a lot&rd ...
  • Aaron Sorkin Doesn't Think We Can Handle The T ...
    Vulture: Aaron Sorkin Doesn't Think We Can Handle The Truth About The Newsroom ‘Firings’  —  If we've learned anything from The Newsroom, it's that hindsight is 20/20.  (And that the Japanese words for four and seven totally sound the same!)  So, if we had ...
  • Lolo Jones Article Is Too Harsh (Arthur S. Bri ...
    Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times: Lolo Jones Article Is Too Harsh  —  Readers have weighed in to complain about The New York Times's Aug. 5 piece on U.S. Olympics hurdler Lolo Jones.  Below is the response I have sent to those who emailed me about this:

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Ferguson admits bid for Van Persie
    Japan call up Kagawa for Venezuela friendly England 1 hours ago Ferguson admits bid for Van Persie England Today, 03:58 Rio offers to help Bolt fulfil Man United dream England Yesterday, 20:18 Brazil move step nearer to elusive gold England Yesterday, 00:38 Mexico end Japan dreams of footbal ...
  • What Romney's lies are trying to hide
    - Romney's campaign is so deeply rooted in lying about Obama that his campaign book, No Apologies, takes its title from the false accusation that Obama has apologised for the US. What Obama has actually done is repudiate Bush's Romney-like arrogance (while simultaneously criticising anti-Ame ...
  • UN warns rise in prices could trigger foo ...
    The world could face a food crisis of the kind seen in 2007/08, the UN's food agency warned on Thursday, after reporting a surge in global food prices in July. Concern about extreme hot and dry weather in the US Midwest sent corn and soybean prices to record highs Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Im ...
  • Syria crisis: Rebels lose key district of ...
    Syrian rebel commanders say they have lost control of the strategic Salah al-Din district in the northern city of Aleppo after a government offensive. The city has come under fresh bombardment, as the government attempts to recapture areas seized by rebel fighters. The fighting comes as Iran ...
  • Sensex down 40pts, Nifty by 15 pts at clo ...
    The Sensex today washed out its 100-point gain on lower-than-expected drop in June industrial production data and closed 40 points lower at 17,560.87 amid selling in Bharti Airtel, SBI, HDFC and RIL. The BSE benchmark index, which had gained 102 points after...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
  • Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
    Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...

Medical Marijuana

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • The intelligent textbook
    Want to know more about your subject? Type in your own question and artificially intelligent software will construct a new page to answer your query Michael Reilly The aim of Inquire is to provide students with the world’s first intelligent textbook, says its creator David Gunning of Seatt ...
  • Korea: Number One!
    Clyde Prestowitz The South Koreans have long been confident that anything the Japanese can do, they can do better, but now they’re proving it. In the 1970s-80s, the likes of Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, Toshiba, Hitache, NEC, and Fujitsu killed off RCA, Motorola, and the rest of the American co ...
  • Israel’s Pork Problem
    What a change to one of the most controversial laws in Israeli history could mean for the country’s Christian Arabs. Jeffrey Yoskowitz On the eve of Israel’s independence in 1948, as the new nation faced the challenge of building a country in the midst of war, early leaders debated many hot-butt ...
  • Does poverty breed terrorism?
    Joshua Keating One counterrorism strategy that both George W. Bush and Barack Obama agree on — not to mention Desmond Tutu, Colin Powell, Kofi Annan and many more — is that there’s a link between extreme poverty and support for violent extremism. But some new data from Pakistan ...
  • The Fundamental Nature of Consciousness
    Neuroscientist Giulio Tononi’s PHI: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul takes the reader on an imaginative tour in which Galileo tries to discover an explanation for our conscious selves. … Read More>> Filed under: Neuroscience, Philosophy Tagged: Consciousness

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Fans garner signatures in support of Kings XI ...
    CHANDIGARH - Dejected over the ouster of Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) from the Indian Premier League (IPL), fans of the team here have started a signature campaign to garner public support against the decision. They have constituted a group called Fans of Kings XI Punjab, consisting of students and ...
  • Even turtles and wasps need a little play time
    WASHINGTON - Watching kids and dogs play is not an alien sight. However, what about a turtle or even a wasp? Well, it seems they play, too. Gordon Burghardt, a psychology professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has discovered that many animals-not just dogs, cats, and monkeys-need ...
  • Oz PM Gillard says trade union official?s 9/11 ...
    CANBERRA - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed as “stupid and wrong” a senior union official’s belief that the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy, but refused to discipline him. Kevin Bracken, the president of the Victorian Trades Hall and secretary of the Mari ...
  • Turmeric boosts effect of chemo drug in head a ...
    WASHINGTON - Researchers with UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center have found that curcumin, the major component in the spice turmeric, when combined with the drug Cisplatin enhances the chemotherapy’s suppression of head and neck cancer cell growth. In India, women for years have been usi ...
  • Pakistan panel to review criminal case rulings ...
    ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is going to set up a commission that will allow people to file appeals on cases decided by courts since 1947, the year the country was born. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will announce the setting up of the commission which will review criminal cases and determine poss ...

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Shell Gets Green Light to Harass Marine Mammals
    Bowhead whales would be affected by Shell's drilling. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Shell now has the green light from the government to harass marine mammals and put them at risk of a major oil spill in the region. The Arctic Ocean is home to an abundance of wildlife. In the spring, consiste ...
  • How to Hunt a Lionfish
    Success! Bagging these invasive species is good for the reef habitat ©Michael Stephens One fish is rapidly becoming one of the biggest problems facing the fragile food web of coral reefs in the U.S.: the lionfish. Lionfish are native to the Indo-Pacific region, but are an invasive species in ...
  • Skin Cancer Appears in Australian Fish
    The black spots on this coral trout are melanomas. © Michael Sweet/Newcastle University  Strange lesions are showing up in coral trout in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. In a new paper in the journal PloS One researchers found that 15% of reef fish tested showed signs of melan ...
  • A Big Win for Offshore Wind
    © Oceana Big news for offshore wind in Congress today! The Senate Finance committee just voted on a tax package that includes a one-year extension of the investment tax credit (ITC) for offshore wind. We’ve been working on this for a long time, so it’s very satisfying that the ITC was includ ...
  • Canary Islands Threatened by Oil Prospecting Plans
    Yellow gorgonia coral  and red sea fan in the Canary Islands.  © Oceana/Carlos Minguell The Canary Islands are in the oil industry’s crosshairs, and that spells danger for the area’s marine habitats and wildlife. In a new report, Oceana has denounced oil prospecting plans in the Ca ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Brilliantly Funny Review Of Chow In Kabul Mili ...
      June 14, 2012, 12:57 pm   I’ve risked my life in Afghanistan for a plate of French cheese. While not as arduous as serving in rural Afghanistan, the prison like conditions on Kabul bases — no family, long hours, repetitive food and confined spaces — often drive service members to ext ...
  • Someone In Uniform Is Asking “Was This A ...
        Great debate in the New York Times about a discussion that few of us can even have outside of West Point without being accused of treason. By the time this article posts, two months will have passed. But this debate is timeless and I am encouraged that someone in uniform is asking ...
  • Must See Video As NASA Puts A Car Sized Robot ...
    Go to 3:30 And watch as they learn the Rover is on MARS.  
  • Cheng I Sao, A Widowed Prostitute Who Ran The ...
      In the early 19th century, pirates thrummed through the intricate waterways from the South China Seas to the Sulu Sea and west as far as the Bay of Bengal. A successful pirateer known as Cheng, also Zheng Yi, married a beautiful young Cantonese prostitute known as Ching Shih. It was an un ...
  • A Project To Track Every Bomb We Have Ever Dro ...
      MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. — Six years ago it seemed a zany idea when Lieutenant Colonel Jenns Robertson , 45, a bespectacled Minnesota native with an outsized gee-whiz quality even by military standards, began a rather unusual hobby: documenting a century of US air power — bomb by bomb ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Karl Rove Super PAC Skirts 30-Day Election Law ...
    The outrageous ad by Priorities USA Action, the Obama Super PAC–the one that accuses Mitt Romney of being responsible for a woman’s death from cancer, apparently on the theory that Romney was personally responsible for providing health insurance and health care services to family members of anyo ...
  • Pictures of Our Planet from the International ...
    From high above the Earth, the International Space Station (ISS) provides a unique vantage point to view our home planet. Stunning time-lapse photography of cities, aurora, lightning and other sights are seen from orbit. Famed astronomer Galileo imagined these views from space and now through th ...
  • Al Gore to Anchor Convention Coverage for Curr ...
    AL GORE will not be going to Charlotte, or Tampa for that matter, but he will be covering both conventions from New York, along with Jennifer Granholm, Eliot Spitzer, as well as Cenk Uygur, and Gavin Newsom. Vice President Al Gore will be leading Current TV’s coverage of the Republican and Democ ...
  • Susan G. Komen Founder Nancy Brinker to Get ‘N ...
    THE WALL STREET JOURNAL is reporting that the Komen Foundation is finally shaking the rot from its leadership that led to the catastrophic image collapse when politics became more important to the organization than the women they’re supposed to be helping. Susan G. Komen for the Cure shook ...
  • News Desk: Egypt Moves on Sinai Extremists Aft ...
    Deploying its air force for the first time in nearly 40 years, the Egyptian military launched an air offensive in the unruly Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday, three days after Islamists killed 16 Egyptian soldiers in an attack that threatened both the Egyptian-Israeli border and the political standi ...

Hudson New York

  • Shut Down Iran's Embassy in Canada
    As a tight network of Iranian terrorists expands as a "fifth column" In Canada, there have been calls to shut down the Iranian embassy there. Iranian Canadian activists Shadi Paveh and Shabnam Assadollahi have translated an interview with Hamid
  • David Plouffe's IRGC ATM
    As a journalist who has written articles supportive of President Obama, and as a US citizen who voted for Obama in the 2008 general election (I voted for Hillary Clinton in the primaries), I was aghast to read that David Plouffe, a member of the
  • Saudis to Muslim Brotherhood: Drop Dead
    "The uneasy modus vivendi between the Muslim Brotherhood and the military most likely will fail, and probably sooner than later," I argued July 9, and the aftermath of the terrorist execution of sixteen Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai peninsula supports
  • Is a Palestinian State Today Economically Viable?
    Over the last year Palestinian authorities have spent a great deal of time calling for a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state while refusing to resume peace negotiations with Israel. Although they garnered political support for this in the UN
  • Is the Syrian Civil War Hindering a Strike on ...
    Is an Israeli or American strike on Iran's nuclear weapons program being held up by the raging Syrian war, and the unstable status of Syria's chemical weapons? Syria possesses the Middle East's largest stockpiles of chemical weapons, which include deadly

Urban Survival

  • The Unbroken Drought
    There was a very interesting article in USA Today Wednesday which is a must-read, since global warming is going fast and furious with July being the hottest month every on record.   What makes the drought records so interesting, from … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Advances in Time Engineering
    This is one of the coolest papers I have seen in years.  And one that we have to pass on to Dr. Rob, the genius eye surgeon because we’ve had many fine exchanges on the topic of Light and how … Continue reading →
  • Software Update
    Be a couple of minutes late posting this morning while we go through a quickie (ha!) software update.  Should be up by 8:30 Texas time (stand up when I say Texas, ya’ll?)
  • Gun Control Whine
    President Obama is making the familiar pitch for gun control, again, pointing to Aurora and most recently the Sikh temple shootings as “reasons.”   In case no one has reminded you lately, criminals don’t care about gun laws.  Places that … Continue reading →
  • Coping: A Call for Line Laws
    (Las Vegas, NV)  As we wander back toward the land of living cheaply, from the land of living large, one of our “experiences” was to take in a semi-famous Las Vegas buffet,  Not the one as Caesar’s which will put … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Which "Toxic 20" States Would Get Olympic Meda ...
    Pete Altman, Climate and Clean Air Campaign Director, Washington, D.C. Maybe I’ve been watching way too much TV from London over the last few days, but it occurs to me that if they held a power plant pollution Olympics and states “won&rd ...
  • Building a mega freeway in LA: What's the cost?
    Adrian Martinez, Staff Attorney, Environmental Justice, Santa Monica, California Yesterday, I attended a public hearing on the I-710 expansion in Long Beach.  Just to refresh everyone’s memory, this project plans to expand the approximate ...
  • Science Panel Hears an Earful on Pebble Mine
    Taryn Kiekow, Staff Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) convened a panel of independent scientists in Anchorage, Alaska to review its draft Bristol Bay Watershed As ...
  • Philadelphia's lively new park-in-phases creat ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   If you care about green cities, you have to like a lot of what’s happening in Philadelphia lately, from land use planning to watershed management to the greening of vaca ...
  • China Environmental News Alert
    Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental governance and public participation, and green ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, August 8, 2012: Phoenix, AZ: A police officer was arrested on suspicion of sexual misconduct with two teenagers. He was accused of 10 felony counts of sexual assault against … Continue reading →National Police Miscond ...
  • FBI in New Zealand: The Dotcom Raid
    Early morning raid.  Special paramilitary units with automatic weapons.  Helicopters.  Dogs.  Illegal search warrant. The New Zealand reporters, sadly, but accurately, observe that all this seems  “American.”   We are then informed that the FBI was indee ...
  • Arrested on suspicion of maybe, possibly, abou ...
    News item from Great Britain: A PARKINSON’S sufferer who was arrested during the Olympic cycle races in Surrey has questioned why he was dragged to the ground for “not smiling”. Mark Worsfold, 54, was sat on a wall in Leatherhead … Continue reading →Arrested on susp ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 6 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, August 7, 2012: New Orleans, LA: An ex-police officer was sentenced to two years in prison on a felony count of theft. http://goo.gl/s7TTr  DeLand, FL: A police officer is … Continue reading →National Police Miscon ...
  • Crooked Cops in Dekalb County
    From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Since January, nearly a dozen officers have been arrested or fired or have resigned in lieu of termination as a result of probes into wrongdoing or serious policy violations. “We take allegations of misconduct very serious … Continue reading &#8 ...

Total Collapse

  • Turkish military forces enter Syrian town of J ...
    Turkish military forces have briefly crossed the border with a Kurdish region in Syria with the backing of armored vehicles and helicopters. More than 100 Turkish troops armed with thermal rockets and sophisticated weaponry on Tuesday entered the town of Cerablos in the Kurdish region of Kobani. ...
  • Polish president says US missile deployment a ...
    Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski has described as “a political mistake” his country’s agreement to let the deployment of US missile system on its territory by 2018. “Our mistake was that while accepting the US proposal, we have not taken into account a political risk related to the change o ...
  • Chinese warships start 4-day “visit” to Turkey
    Two Chinese warships, including a guided missile destroyer, started a four-day visit to Turkey after they arrived in Istanbul on Sunday. The Chinese warships and navy officers were greeted by Chinese ambassador to Turkey, Gong Xiaosheng, Turkish navy officers, and representatives from Chinese fi ...
  • False Flag Sikh Massacre In US Shocks Top Russ ...
    A grim report prepared by Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov on the latest “false flag” massacre in America is warning today that Russia should be prepared for “unprecedented and potentially catastrophic” rapid changes to occur in the United States within the next few months as the forces ba ...
  • Egyptian Air Force Deploys Fighter Jets To The ...
    Egyptian Air Force deployed fighter jets in the Sinai Peninsula on Monday in the wake of the Kerem Shalom attack, for the first time since the Egypt-Israel peace treaty was signed in 1979, Egyptian news agencies reported. Two fighter jets, armed with attack missiles, arrived in El Arish early Mo ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Google boosts s ...
    Google announces a raft of search improvements, Facebook launches a new anti-phishing drive, Pinterest is (finally) open to all without an invite, and OUYA raises a total of over $8.5m...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Square’s ...
    Square has entered into a major partnership with Starbucks, Apple suspends password resets over the telephone after Mat Honan’s epic hack and Google’s self-driving cars pass a major milestone. It’s...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Apple ditches Y ...
    Apple ditches YouTube from iOS6, and picks up a new lawsuit in China. Nasdaq takes the wraps of Market Steam and Facebook offers gambling game to UK adults. It’s all...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Chrome grabs a ...
    Google Chrome now has a third of global browser market share according to StatCounter, Baidu fires staff for deleting forum posts in return for money, and Pandora’s still growing fast....
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – World of Warcra ...
    Blizzard and World of Warcraft are bleeding subscribers. Samsung can’t reference 2001: A Space Odyssey with its patent suit against Apple. Facebook drops below $20 per share. You can catch...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Gillard misses the real opportunities to reduc ...
    August 8, 2012 If Gillard wants to support households against price-gouging by electricity companies, she should look closer at renewable energy and energy efficiency, according to think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE). Electricity retailers accused of over-investing in grid infrastructure (l ...
  • Laggard to Leader - Report Launch Melbourne Sy ...
        Are you sick of hearing? Australia is only a small part of the climate problem We shouldn’t act before the rest of the world Our actions won’t make a difference, anyway BZE’s new report, Laggard to Leader, will challenge these excuses, expose the true extent of Australia’s ...
  • Germany’s solar panels would provide 25% of Au ...
    If you took all the solar panels in Germany and put them in Australia, they would supply a quarter of our electricity demand. In the first six months of 2012, 4.5% of total electricity demand in Germany was met by solar power. Put ...
  • Half-price Stationary Energy Plans now on sale
    Beyond Zero Emissions' award-winning Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan is now on sale for $15 + postage. That's 50% off! Perfect for showing your friends, family and workmates how Australia can get to 100% renewable energy within a decade. To order your copy email our General Manager ...
  • Solar Thermal Models Built
    Another four of our famous solar thermal models have been built in NSW, thanks to the efforts of Beyond Zero Emissions volunteers, the Paramatta Climate Action Network, and the Granville Men’s Shed. The models are of a concentrated solar thermal plant with a molten salt storage (CST+) power stat ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Scientists discover beautiful new insect speci ...
    Scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of lacewing insect after stumbling upon a series of photos posted on Flickr®, according to a paper published in the journal ZooKeys.
  • July 2012: hottest month in U.S. history
    Last month was not only the hottest July in U.S. weather history, but the hottest month ever recorded in the contiguous U.S, besting a record struck in July 1936 during the Dust Bowl, according to new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The average temperature l ...
  • A new tool for taking on elephant poaching: DN ...
    One of the difficulties plaguing law enforcement and authorities when it comes to tackling elephant poaching is determining where the ivory originates. Now, research published in the journal Evolutionary Applications, has found a new way of tracking ivory back to wild elephants populations: fore ...
  • Featured video: restoring rivers in the Tongas ...
    A new video highlights recent efforts to restore rivers in the Tongass Forest, the world's largest intact temperate rainforest. Industrial logging in vital watersheds have hurt salmon populations and other wildlife in the region, an issue the government, along with several partners, are now tryi ...
  • Hundreds of hotspots burn Tesso Nilo National ...
    From June to July, hundreds of fires spread in Tesso Nilo National Park in Indonesia. Based on the data from World Wide Fund for Wildlife (WWF) Program-Riau, fire hotspots reached their peak in the third week of June. As of early July, fires, which were triggered a month earlier, could not be to ...

Sierra Express

  • Germany Lauds Sierra Leone’s Developmental Strides
    Freetown: The Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dirk Niebel has commended the laudable efforts of the government of President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma for making steady progress since the assumption of office in 2007. He made this statement during a ...
  • Sierra Leone’s Ola Sesay failed to qualify to ...
    One of Sierra Leone’s hopefuls in this year’s London 2012 Olympic Games, Ola Sesay, on Tuesday evening August 7th failed to qualify to the final of the women’s long jump when she was ranked 12th in her group with a jump of 6.22 meters. In the overall ranking Ola Sesay was placed 23 o ...
  • Tribute to the Late Hon. Hindolu S. Trye
    With an unexpected sadness, death has come again in my midst.  Hindolo Trye has silently closed the door of life and departed from us never again to return.  Three years ago my cousin, Mohamed Daudis Koroma, the former Deputy Minister of Health and Sanitation also died in active service. (Photo: ...
  • IG Offers Amnesty to ‘Offending’Police Officers
    On the recommendations of international police consultants, Sierra Leone’s Inspector General of Police has offered a 30 day amnesty to police officers in the SLP who have illegally obtained additional educational qualifications without going through the official study leave process. This amnesty ...
  • Radiation safety inspections at iron ore loadi ...
    The Radiation Protection Board Secretariat has continued its routine safety Assessment Inspection at the Pepel loading site of African Minerals and Thofeyim loading site of London Mining Limited.  (Photo: Derrick Dunn and Umar Bun-Tejan) Radiation Safety inspection is one of the main activities ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Racism, Nannyism, and the Politics of Gun Control
    We've heard a lot of calls for new gun control laws this year, but Daniel McCarthy doesn't think any legislation is on the way: Restrictions on Second Amendment rights were politically viable for about 20 years as a response to rising urban violence (the big cities still, for the ...
  • Myriad Vague and Selectively Enforced Laws Are ...
    Yesterday evening I appeared on The Blaze’s RealNews discussing how government’s expansive scope leads to arbitrary and selective enforcement of myriad vague laws. We discussed the example of Gibson Guitars, previously reported by ReasonTV’s Anthony Fisher. Dressed in swat team g ...
  • Why Color Atom Bomb Footage of Hiroshima & ...
    Back in October 2005, I wrote up an "Artifact" for Reason magazine (for the uninitiated, we call our feature on the last page of each issue Artifact; it consists of an image and a short text). Called "War's Nightmare Landscape," it's worth recalling today especially: This horri ...
  • News Junkie Obama Rejects "false balance" of M ...
    Here's an interesting New York Times article about President Barack Obama's voracious media diet, his stubborn (and I think inaccurate) belief that his political troubles are significantly attributable to his failure "to tell a story to the American people," and his familiar lef ...
  • Another Spectacular Example of the Failure of ...
    Today's New York Times has a nice front page story about how factories in developing countries that produce coolants have been cashing in on the carbon markets in Europe. As the Times explains: Greenhouse gases were rated based on their power to warm the atmosphere. The more d ...

Mercury Rising

  • SLAPP-Happy Sheldon Adelson Sues NJDC For Ment ...
    Speaking of Sheldon Adelson, in case you were wondering whether discussion of the burgeoning Macau scandal was starting to hurt him, here’s your answer: Sheldon Adelson is suing the National Jewish Democratic Council for defamation. Lawyers for Adelson, the casino magnate and major Republi ...
  • Sheldon Adelson and the Mexican drug lord
    Is narcotrafficking money being laundered into US elections? It is alleged to have been done in Mexican elections… and not just the recent ones. As far back as 2007, we noted that Zhenli Ye Gon, who was accused of being a major importer of drugs used to make meth, had been accused of provi ...
  • Fraudulent historian David Barton called out b ...
    David Barton has long been a thorn in the side of any honest person who regards themselves as a Christian. To put it very simply, he makes stuff up and, worse, these lies get spread far and wide without contradiction by eventheNewYorkTimes and other putative guardians of the truth. Then these li ...
  • Mitt Romney’s Blood Money: Bain Profited ...
    Okay folks, this could be the game-changer: In 1983, Bill Bain asked Mitt Romney to launch Bain Capital, a private equity offshoot of the successful consulting firm Bain & Company. After some initial reluctance, Romney agreed. The new job came with a stipulation: Romney couldn’t raise ...
  • More politicians like this, please…
    Yani Kunichoff, truthout: Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein spent Wednesday night in a Philadelphia jail after being arrested at an Occupy protest against Fannie Mae…. If you want to be a leader, the people who sacrifice time and treasure on your behalf expect you to take your ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Richard Dawkins on Psychedelics
    In this video, alternative historian and Reality Sandwich contributor Graham Hancock asks Richard Dawkins, famous anti-mystic and author of The God Delusion, about the possibility of psychedelics changing his view of reality. Dawkins responds thoughtfully about the prospect of trying LSD or mesc ...
  • Soul as a Dimension of Experience
      The following is excerpted from Toward a Spiritual Psychotherapy: Soul as a Dimension of Experience, published by North Atlantic Books.   read more
  • Discover the Roots of Love at Rootwire Festival
    Evolver Indianapolis Sporeganizers are providing you with all of the steps you need to enhance the sacred connection you have created in your partnership at their workshop The Future of Love: From Sex to Superconsciousness at the Rootwire Festival August 16 - 19 in Logan, OH. read more
  • A Field Guide to the Playa
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  • Pranayama Medicine for Health
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Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

  • Prince William, Kate Middleton: More Than $80, ...
    The average British working household income is less than $40,000 U.S. That is why I have no use for those who are so privileged by birth. It is sickening. Probably Kate and William rented the whole airplane. Read more here. Kate Middleton: The gold-digger. Interesting video.
  • Canada Day and #DenounceHarper
    “#DenounceHarper is trending on Twitter in Canada, just behind #HappyCanadaDay. Users are using the hashtag to voice dissatisfaction with the Harper government, or just the man himself.” Read more about #DenounceHarper
  • TVO's The Agenda: The New McCarthyism
    There is no worse cancer in a free society than the thuggish impulse to equate dissent as disloyalty... The greatest patriot is the person with the courage to be the lone voice in the crowd crying out that the Emperor has no clothes. The test of our society's democratic nature is our instinct ...
  • Harper's Canada Day message loudly booed at Ja ...
  • U.S. Healthcare Legislation
    Fuxs News’ take on the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on Healthcare. Repugs are apparently very upset by the decision. Repugs spin machine is going hard at it. Sarah Palin gives her gyrations. “Obama lies, freedom dies” Sarah Palin. Watch the latest video at Press TV - Middle East
  • ‘Turkey digging own grave in Syria’
    A prominent political analyst says Turkey’s attempts aimed at bringing about the collapse of the Syrian government will rebound on Ankara itself.
  • France sends troops to Syria border
    France has sent troops to the Syrian border with Jordan amid reports of escalating foreign support for the insurgents fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
  • Syria's Assad appoints new premier
    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has appointed former Health Minister Wael al-Halqi to take office as the country's new prime minister.
  • Insurgents kill more civilians in Syria
    Insurgents have killed more civilians in Syria as they suffer heavy losses in their foreign-backed armed struggle against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
  • Syria kills, pushes out more insurgents
    Tens of insurgents have been killed in the Hanano neighborhood in Aleppo as the Syrian army clears more areas in the restive northwestern city of the foreign-backed armed men.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • SPS Joins the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure
    On Sunday, September 9th, we at CUNY School of Professional Studies will participate in our first Komen Greater NYC Race for the Cure in Central Park. We are honored to run and walk among over 21,000 breast cancer survivors and supporters to build awareness for this very important cause. To prep ...
  • Life, Liberty and Your Individual Pursuit of H ...
    “Live Your Best Life”… is what Oprah says and everybody knows that when Oprah speaks, we listen, intently! What happens when we aren’t necessarily happy with our best lives? We think we’d be better off with our co-worker’s best and our neighbor’s best because their best seems so much ...
  • What did I do on my summer vacation…?
    I remember, just before returning to school every fall, thinking for weeks and weeks how I would answer that question. Would I tell my classmates about a trip to the beach, or attending sleep-away camp, or a summer job? Since my birthday is at the end of August it was fun talking to my classmate ...
  • Reflections on Project Rwanda
    For the past three years, faculty and students in the M.A. in Applied Theatre program at CUNY’s School of Professional Studies have traveled to Rwanda to implement the project “Drama and Theatre Education in Schools for Reconciliation and Development in Rwanda.” The twin goals of Project R ...
  • Are We Becoming Flattened by Technology?
    Are you an optimist or pessimist? There’s only one way to find out. I find it amazing that so much has progressed in our society—medical, education, economics, and even in technology.  The experience I’ve had thus far has surprisingly helped me.  I say surprisingly because with knowl ...

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

  • JORDAN PAGE (LIBERTY MUSIC VIDEO – Direc ...
    Tagged: Bill of Rights, constitution, corrupt government, freedom, jordan page liberty song, Politics, revolution, the united states of america
  • For The First Time, Cannibal Victim Speaks
    Two months after he was viciously attacked on the MacArthur Causeway by the so-called Miami Zombie, Ronald Poppo succinctly summed up the events that captured the country's attention.
  • The Dispossessed Majority
    The driver was obviously not affluent. Yet, despite all the news about mega-trillion dollar bankster bailouts, mega-million dollar bonuses for financial crooks, and unimaginable compensation packages for corporate CEOs who have moved middle class jobs out of America, something made the down-and- ...
  • The Full Spectrum of Evil: Secrets of Global D ...
    Alex Jones spells it out for those interested in the secrets of Global Domination
  • 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 ...

Yeti Betty

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

    IPS - Inter Press Services

    • Waste Issue Halts U.S. Nuclear Reactor Licensing
      The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which oversees commercial nuclear power enterprises, has halted the issuance of all new nuclear reactor licensing decisions after a court ruling citing the failure of industry and government to identify an acceptable solution for the long-term storage of n ...
    • Amid Rise in Piracy, U.N. Backs Summit on Mari ...
      When the United Nations advocates the protection of the world’s oceans, its political agenda transcends the battle against marine pollution, global warming, overfishing, greenhouse gases and sea-level rise. “We are also talking of high seas piracy and growing conflicts over maritime ...
    • Mauritian Fishers Want EU Vessels Out of Their ...
      “Look out there, the blue one…. that is a European Union fishing vessel that is threatening our livelihood,” says Lallmamode Mohamedally, a Mauritian fisherman, as he points to a boat offloading its catch at the Les Salines port, close to the country’s capital Port Louis. He is one of the fisher ...
    • Q&A: Microcredit Bank “Incorporates Women in t ...
      Estrella Gutiérrez interviews NORA CASTAÑEDA, president of Banmujer
    • Is the Staggering Rise of the South Sustainable?
      Growth in developing economies (DEs) has accelerated significantly in the new millennium. Whereas in the 1980s and 1990s their average growth was barely higher than that of advanced economies (AEs), from the early years of the 2000s until the global crisis, the difference shot up to five percent ...

    My AntiWar

    CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

    • S.Korea to resume buying Iranian crude in Sept ...
      Summary: South Korean refiners plan to resume buying crude from Iran in September after a two-month hiatus due to a European Union embargo that made shipping the oil difficult, government and refining sources said on Wednesday. source: Reutersread more
    • Sanctions: Diplomacy’s Weapon of Mass Murder
      Summary: In 1945, the United States of America dropped two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki immediately killing 120,000 civilians. The final death toll of the horrendous bombings has been conservatively estimated at well over 200,000 men, women, and children. To this day, ...
    • Obama, Romney Are Reckless on Iran
      Summary: You will strain your eyes looking for a significant difference between President Obama’s and Mitt Romney’s positions on Iran and the prospects of an Israeli attack on the Islamic republic. Both say “all options are on the table.” All. That includes a full-scale military attack with e ...
    • Reports Citing Intelligence on Iran Weapons Pr ...
      Summary: The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Tuesday that new intelligence information indicates “Iran has made greater progress on developing components for its nuclear weapons program than the West had previously realized,” although it offered almost no evidence for this anonymous cla ...
    • Criticism of David Crist's book Twilight War
      Summary: Having perused the much-lauded book by David Crist, I can't help but notice that it is not only light on citations but the material on Iran, and Iran's nuclear program in particular, is either flat wrong or merely a reinforcement of conventional wisdom, doused in a good bit of innuen ...

    The Daily Galaxy

    • Curiosity to Begin Climb Up Mount Sharp --"Som ...
      NASA rover Curiosity's second day on Mars went "flawlessly," NASA said, confirming the antennas, communication links and generator on the $2.5 billion robot are all working well. "We feel very confident we have a lot of data capacity now, that...
    • "Evidence of Dark Matter Will be Found Near th ...
      "We are 99% confident that there is dark matter near the Sun," says the lead author Silvia Garbari of the University of Zurich. "This could be the first evidence for a "disc" of dark matter in our Galaxy, as recently...
    • Curiosity's First Long-Range & Panoramic Images
      First full-resolution (1024 by 1024 pixels) long-range image of the Martian surface from one of the Navigation cameras on NASA’s Curiosity rover, which are located on the rover’s “head” or mast. The rim of Gale Crater can be seen in...
    • 'Curiosity' Snaps a Self-Portrait...
      The images from Curiosity's just-activated navigation cameras, or Navcams, include the rover's first self-portrait, looking down at its deck from above. Another Navcam image set, in lower-resolution thumbnails, is the first 360-degree view of Curiosity's new home in Gale Crater....
    • Huge 3-D Map of Universe's Massive Galaxies & ...
      The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) has released the largest three-dimensional map of massive galaxies and distant black holes ever created. The new map pinpoints the locations and distances of over a million galaxies. It covers a total volume...

    Natural News

    • Batman murders: what lies ahead for James Homes?
      (NaturalNews)There is much speculation that James Holmes' lawyer will initially go for an insanity plea. If Holmes is, in fact, the patsy here, who was not in the theater at all; or if he was a shooter driven to kill by violence-inducing psychiatric drugs; or if he was specifically...
    • Fukushima's TEPCO nationalized by Japanese gov ...
      Shareholders in Tokyo Electric Power Co., owner of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi complex, have approved what amounts to the nationalization of the utility, ahead of what most likely would have been bankruptcy without government funding to handle a massive amount...
    • How now black and white cow? A glass of morphi ...
      We have the wrong cows! Black and white milk cows produce milk that contains a portion of protein called beta casein type A1, which behaves like an opiate. Studies implicate this bad-for-human protein in heart disease, cancer, Type I diabetes, autism and schizophrenia...
    • America's infrastructure crumbling, says Ameri ...
      They say the integrity of a nation's infrastructure is a direct reflection of its overall moral, social, economic, and political health. If this is true, then the United States is in some very serious trouble, as the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), America's...
    • Determine your risk for cancer without the use ...
      Here's the truth - even if conventional oncology doesn't want you to hear it - you can objectively determine your risk for cancer without the use of harmful radiation devices, like mammography. Thermography, sometimes called "thermal imaging", is particularly useful...

    Threat Level

    • Goldman Sachs Programmer Back in Court on New ...
      Just when he thought his troubles were over, a former programmer for Goldman Sachs who downloaded source code for the investment firm’s high-speed trading system from the company’s computers is back in court on new charges that he unlawfully duplicated and used the company's proprietary code.
    • FTC Dings Google $22.5M in Safari Cookie Flap
      Google has agreed to pay a record $22.5 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges it intentionally circumvented the default privacy settings of Apple's Safari browser, using a backdoor to set cookies on browsers set to reject them.
    • Flame and Stuxnet Cousin Targets Lebanese Bank ...
      A newly uncovered espionage tool, apparently designed by the same people behind the state-sponsored Flame malware that infected machines in Iran, has been found infecting systems in other countries in the Middle East, according to researchers.
    • Detailed Parking Tickets Breach Personal Priva ...
      A federal appeals court is reinstating a class-action privacy suit, ruling that police departments who put too much private data on parking citations are breaching federal privacy law. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the police department of Pallantine Village, a Chicago subu ...
    • Man Orders TV Through Amazon, Gets Assault Rifle
      Seth Horvitz just wanted a TV that he could use as a monitor, too. But after buying it online through Amazon, Horvitz instead received an assault rifle. Call it epic mail fail.

    PERRspectives : Blog

    • Romney-Ryan Plan IS the Ticket for Republicans
      With the Romney campaign having alerted users of its mobile VP app to "turn on your push notifications," GOP vice presidential frenzy is reaching a fever pitch. But while New York Times statistician extraordinaire Nate Silver is running simulations to reveal which potential Romney running mate ...
    • Romney Throws Wife and Father under the Bus
      By most accounts, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is a devoted father, dedicated family man and committed church leader. But as his record sadly shows, Romney's family values often take a back seat to his presidential ambitions. Just last week, he cast aside his father George Romne ...
    • Romney's Financial Ties to Iran, China Back in ...
      Conservatives on Monday were predictably orgasmic in response to the Washington Post report that Obama campaign adviser David Plouffe earned $100,000 in speaking fees from a firm which did business with Tehran. As it turns out, the Republicans accusing the President of being "soft on Iran" are ...
    • Romney Proposes $80 Million Tax Cut for His Family
      The U.S. tax code may be difficult to grasp, but understanding the presidential candidates' plans for it doesn't have to be. President Obama wants to raise his own taxes, while Mitt Romney wants to dramatically reduce the already small slice he pays to Uncle Sam. Of course, that simplificatio ...
    • Mitt Romney's Meth Labs of Democracy
      Few phrases pepper the rhetoric of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney more frequently than variations of Justice Brandeis' famous quote that the states may "serve as a laboratory" for the rest of the nation. "Before imposing a one-size-fits-all federal program," Romney wrote in 2009, " ...

    Blackspot News Feed

    • Military Police Checkpoints Attacked After Bor ...
      Tension remains high in northern Sinai after armed assailants attacked five military checkpoints
    • Former DHS Analyst Daryl Johnson on How He Was ...
      While many were shocked by the massacre at the Sikh temple, our guest, Daryl Johnson, had warned years ago that such an attack was imminent. While working as a senior analyst in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2009, Johnson authored a report warning about the increasing dangers of vi ...
    • GUN MACHINE Sold To TV
      The news popped yesterday evening, while I was at dinner. This is one of the things I’ve been working on for the last few months, and it eventually all happened last week (and then I took a long weekend to rest). Deadline.com has the press release: Fox Buys Thriller From Chernin’s Co ...
    • Author: Sikh Temple Massacre is the Outgrowth ...
      Wisconsin Sikh temple shooter Wade Michael Page was open about his neo-Nazi views when he served in the U.S. military from 1992 to 1998. We speak to journalist Matt Kennard, who details the rise of the far-right radicals in the armed forces in his forthcoming book, "Irregular Army: How the U.S. ...
    • Academic Who Knew Sikh Shooter Wade Michael Pa ...
      Years ago, University of Nebraska Professor Pete Simi met and interviewed a white power musician who had served in the military specializing in psychological operations. On Sunday, it was that same man -- Wade Michael Page -- who attacked a Sikh temple in Wisconsin killing six worshippers. Page, ...

    Consortium News

    TruthOut

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

    Planetsave

    • Snowball Earth Saw Dynamic Ice Sheets
      The snowball Earth hypothesis suggests that at some point approximately 715 million years ago our planet’s surface was totally – or as close as can be – covered in ice. Scientists had assumed that the glaciers covering the surface of the planet were stable, acting as a like for ...
    • Elephant Communication, Mechanisms Behind Call ...
      African elephants are known as some of the greatest communicators in the animal kingdom, they can converse with “extremely low-pitched vocalizations, known as infrasounds, over a distance of miles.” The “infrasounds” they make occupy a very low frequency range. At fewer t ...
    • Deep-Sea Squid Jettison Arms To Escape Predators
      A never-before-seen defensive strategy has been observed being used by a small species of deep-sea squid, the squid counter-attacks a predator and then leaves the tips of its arms attached to the predator as a distraction. Researcher Stephanie Bush said that “when the foot-long octopus squ ...
    • Death Cry Of Star Being Destroyed By Black Hol ...
      Astronomers recently discovered a quiescent black hole in a distant galaxy that erupted after shredding and devouring a passing star. And now in a new finding, researchers have identified a distinctive X-ray signal observed in the days following the outburst that comes from matter on the verge o ...
    • Rhino Crisis Round Up: U.S. Antiques Dealer Pl ...
      In the United States, antiques dealer David Hausman has pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and creating false records in relation to rhino horn trafficking. The Manhattan antiques dealer is one of the suspects arrested in February 2012 as part of “Operation Crash“. Hausman admi ...

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    Axis of Logic

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

    They Gave Us a Republic

    • Just How Corrupt IS California?
      By @TomBales1 As California wends it's sorry way toward financial oblivion, several heretofore unreported situations have arisen that makes one wonder just how far the malignancy of corruption has spread through the numerous bureaucracies involved in governing a state that would make a fair siz ...
    • Rich Have Offshored Their Wealth -- Scumney, Too?
      We live in a time in which ordinary people are being told to expect far, far less. Social Security isn't even a given, nor is Medicare. And yet, now we hear this: Super Rich Holding $21 Trillion Overseas to Avoid Taxation Here's the link. That number is "conservative" -- the actual one could run ...
    • The Nightowl Newswrap
      By @BGinKC For a sitting Congressman, @SteveKingIA doesn't know very  much about how the government works. The always entertaining -- in a horror-film kind of way -- fringe lunatic from the Iowa Fifth is absolutely certain that President Obama is going to be defeated soundly and the dayn t ...
    • Sen. Claire McCaskill at Standard Sheet Metal ...
      By @MBersin Previously: Sen. Claire McCaskill at Standard Sheet Metal in Kansas City - 8/8/12 (August 8, 2012) After her opening remarks this morning at Standard Sheet Metal in Kansas City Senator Claire McCaskill (D) took questions from the media. Senator Claire McCaskill (D) speaking on the sh ...
    • Sen. Claire McCaskill at Standard Sheet Metal ...
      By @MBersin This morning Senator Claire McCaskill (D) held a campaign kickoff at Standard Sheet Metal in Kansas City. She spoke to a crowd of supporters, media, and plant workers with the backdrop of the shop and ongoing work continuing in the background. Senator Claire McCaskill (D) speaking on ...

    Care 2

    • TAKE ACTION NOW! TELL THE GOVERNOR OF GEORG ...
      Mr. Jerry Mason put his dog in the back of a u haul and the dog died as a result of heat stroke. A witness saw Mason "yanking" on Scottie's leg and he was so shocked, he physically stopped Mason "from pulling the dog's paw off." Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |   Note-it ...
    • Egypt targets Islamist extremists in Sinai wit ...
      Egyptian troops and helicopter gunships killed about 20 suspected Islamic extremists Wednesday after militants ambushed a string of army checkpoints overnight in the northern Sinai peninsula near the Israeli border, according to the government. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |  ...
    • Composer Marvin Hamlisch dies at 68
      The film and Broadway communities suffered an unexpected blow on Tuesday, when Marvin Hamlisch, one of their most prolific and enduringly popular composers, died at 68, after a brief, unspecified illness. Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |  ...
    • Papua New Guinea seabed drilling an environmen ...
      A controversy is brewing off the coast of Papua New Guinea, and a Canadian mining firm is in the hot seat. Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • Amazing Green Technology Used In Automotive Ma ...
      Once upon a time, automotive manufactures like Ford Motor Company were lambasted for building environmentally damaging, gas guzzling behemoths of steel that destroyed the environment (anyone remember the Ford Excursion)? Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it! &nbsp ...

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    No Quarter

    • Obama’s Campaign Goes Stupid
      It is one thing to produce a hard hitting ad that presents factual information in an unflattering light. That is hard ball politics. It is an entirely different cat to lie your ass off and then get caught lying and not have the smarts to concede you overstepped. That summarizes the state of the ...
    • Be Not Afraid
      From an August 9th memo from Romney’s campaign to reporters: Today, Romney for President and the Republican National Committee released a new coordinated television advertisement, “Be Not Afraid.” President Obama has declared war on religion by forcing religious institutions to go against ...
    • The scurrilous ad defaming Mitt Romney (Part I)
      Talk about “keepin’ them honest.” Anderson Cooper continues his efforts to tell it like it is: CNN Newsroom joins in: KEILAR: The Romney campaign is blasting the ad. A spokeswoman saying President Obama’s allies continue to use discredited and dishonest attacks in a conte ...
    • They’re just a couple of kids
      But, if these kids are in any way representative of the level of parenting practiced among members of the Sikh community, our nation may be fortunate that Sikhs have come to this country: Their lack of modesty cracked me up! However. Yes, those two children have healthy egos. My one concern is t ...
    • Stubborn white voters * hk2′s open thread
      Obama needs Colorado more than in ’08. But what a difference a failed presidency makes. Even the Old Gray Lady and the geriatric stiffs at CBS (Bob Shieffer) must admit that Romney leads Obama 50% to 45% in Colorado. That’s because … HA! Those geezers commissioned the poll from ...

    Futurismic

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

    Therapy News

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

    Mountaintop Removal

    • Stars Help End Mountaintop Removal - Look To T ...
      Look To The Stars Stars Help End Mountaintop Removal Look To The Stars These four celebrities have joined award-winning environmental activists, writers, musicians, and others in taking a stand against one of the most worst environmental travesties of our time: mountaintop removal coal mining. Y ...
    • Obama Administration Can Still Protect Streams ...
      Obama Administration Can Still Protect Streams from Mountaintop Removal ... Huffington Post Nor did the court challenge the overwhelming evidence by scientists, health professionals, and the findings of EPA's independent Science Advisory Panel that mountaintop removal mining has disastrous i ...
    • Becky Park: Appalachia's future depends on lis ...
      Becky Park: Appalachia's future depends on listening to our neighbors Charleston Gazette He reported that before a mountaintop removal protest turned into a deadlock of loud opposition, the mining supporters and those who want an end to mountaintop removal had some "healthy, civil dialo ...
    • Earth's Great Storyteller -- Water - unEARTHED ...
      Earth's Great Storyteller -- Water unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) Mountaintop removal has gained notoriety for contaminating precious water resources. Mountain Hero Junior Walk has talked about how the blasting of mountains contaminated his family's water; we also saw Amber Whitting ...
    • Escalating the Resistance to Mountain-top Remo ...
      OpEdNews Escalating the Resistance to Mountain-top Removal Coal Mining OpEdNews Fifty mountain defenders quickly exited the cars, taking by surprise the lone woman worker standing outside the guard shack at one of the largest mountain-top removal coal mining operations in Appalachia. The nonviol ...

    Memeorandum

    • Southwestern Dems push for DREAM Act in party ...
      Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box: Southwestern Dems push for DREAM Act in party platform  —  Three Democratic Senate candidates from the Southwest are pushing for their party to include a commitment to the DREAM Act in their party's platform, in a move to appeal to Hispanic voters.&n ...
    • Shouldn't Mitt Romney be ahead by now? (Roger ...
      Roger Simon / Reuters: Shouldn't Mitt Romney be ahead by now?  —  Mitt Romney was speaking in a slow, measured cadence from a packed and steamy auditorium at Des Moines Central Campus High School on Wednesday.  “We're worried about the drought,” Romney said, &ld ...
    • Pro-Obama super PAC defends controversial ad (CNN)
      CNN: Pro-Obama super PAC defends controversial ad  —  (CNN) - Bill Burton, the co-founder of the pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action, said Wednesday he “absolutely” stood by an ad tying Mitt Romney to the loss of insurance and eventual death of a laid off steel ...
    • Trump Declines Prime Time GOP Convention Speec ...
      Jim Meyers / NewsMax.com: Trump Declines Prime Time GOP Convention Speech  —  More ways to share...  Mixx  —  Stumbled  —  LinkedIn  —  Vine  —  Buzzflash  —  Newstrust  —  Techn ...
    • Timing of Grimm's Report on Expense-Paid Cypru ...
      New York Times: Timing of Grimm's Report on Expense-Paid Cyprus Trip Questioned  —  When Representative Michael G. Grimm, a first-term Staten Island Republican, went on a fact-finding trip abroad last year, he widely publicized his first stop, Israel, sending off a stream of mes ...

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    China Dialogue

    • Data gaps hobble carbon trading
      Seven Chinese regions are due to launch trial emissions-trading schemes next year. They will struggle to do so, write Liu Shuang and Xu Nan.Late last October, China’s top economic planning body – the National Development and Reform Commission – instructed the cities of Beijing, ...
    • Letting in the light
      While many were disappointed by Rio+20, European Environment Agency chief Jacqueline McGlade hails a breakthrough in data sharing. Here she speaks to Isabel Hilton about the lessons for Asia.The closing declaration of the Rio+20 conference in June was greeted with almost universal disappointment ...
    • The coming DIY revolution
      At the margins of the current order, a new breed of innovators has stopped waiting for big business and big government to fix our problems, writes John Elkington.Standing next to me in the baggage line at Heathrow a few weeks ago was Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple computer back in 1976. But ...
    • Doomed toilet scheme was “valuable exper ...
      Last week, chinadialogue published a report about the demise of the world’s biggest urban eco-toilet project. Here, its Swedish collaborator – the Stockholm Environment Institute – gives its side of the story.This article is a response to “Eco-toilet project ends in failu ...
    • Food in China: a chemical age
      Why are toxic chemicals and additives so widely misused in Chinese food production? Gong Jing, Cui Zheng and Wang Qingfeng investigate.China’s food industry has rapidly industrialised over the last decade, bringing many benefits to the country’s consumers. But techniques originating ...

    AlterNet Top Stories

    • Is Karl Rove Still the GOP's Puppet Master?
        Hot off the press at Vanity Fair, Craig Unger has written a must-read analysis of the real landscape of 2012 presidential election--and, indeed, all upcoming elections, presidential or otherwise. According to Unger, the new political landscape can be boiled down to a single equatio ...
    • GOP Voter Fraud Hucksters Latest Lie: Felons M ...
      Right-wingers are in a tizzy over excerpts from a new book by two of the GOP’s leading voter-fraud hucksters alleging that Minnesota’s Democratic Senator Al Franken would not have won a statewide recount in 2009 were it not for ex-felons voting illegally.They are jumping to the f ...
    • Religious Extremist: Kidnap Children of Same-S ...
      The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer has sunk to a new, disturbing low with his anti-gay statements. In two separate tweets last night, he called for an “Underground Railroad to deliver innocent children from same-sex households.” In one twee ...
    • How the CIA's LSD Mind-Control Experiments Des ...
      Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from From Healing to Hell, a memoir in which oral surgeon and inventor W. Henry Wall, Jr. explores how a mind-control experiment destroyed his father, former Georgia senator and mental health advocate, Dr. W. Henry Wall, Sr. "Daddy" became a ...
    • Time to REBEL! 5 Ways We Can Break the Big Ban ...
      Let’s be honest. Many people are feeling a little hopeless and cynical about whether anything can change how Wall Street banks run roughshod over the economy and our democracy. We’ve marched, rallied, sat-in and thousands have been arrested--and yet bankers have remained unrepent ...

    Threat Level

    • Goldman Sachs Programmer Back in Court on New ...
      Just when he thought his troubles were over, a former programmer for Goldman Sachs who downloaded source code for the investment firm’s high-speed trading system from the company’s computers is back in court on new charges that he unlawfully duplicated and used the company's proprietary code.
    • FTC Dings Google $22.5M in Safari Cookie Flap
      Google has agreed to pay a record $22.5 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges it intentionally circumvented the default privacy settings of Apple's Safari browser, using a backdoor to set cookies on browsers set to reject them.
    • Flame and Stuxnet Cousin Targets Lebanese Bank ...
      A newly uncovered espionage tool, apparently designed by the same people behind the state-sponsored Flame malware that infected machines in Iran, has been found infecting systems in other countries in the Middle East, according to researchers.
    • Detailed Parking Tickets Breach Personal Priva ...
      A federal appeals court is reinstating a class-action privacy suit, ruling that police departments who put too much private data on parking citations are breaching federal privacy law. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the police department of Pallantine Village, a Chicago subu ...
    • Man Orders TV Through Amazon, Gets Assault Rifle
      Seth Horvitz just wanted a TV that he could use as a monitor, too. But after buying it online through Amazon, Horvitz instead received an assault rifle. Call it epic mail fail.

    Equality Trust

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

    PDA AMERICA

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

    Marler Blog

    • Microbiological Data Program to the rescue aga ...
      Menno Beachy of Cresco, Iowa, is recalling one pint containers of Certified Organic Grape Tomatoes because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail, or elderly people, and others with w ...
    • Minnesota's Reichel Foods Recalls more food du ...
      Today the FDA posted a press release from Reichel Foods of Rochester, Minnesota that it is recalling a limited amount of Dippin’ Stix Sliced Apples & Caramel with Peanuts and Armour Active Packs Cheese Pizza Lunch Kits because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria mo ...
    • I settled 70 Shigella lawsuits against Subway ...
      The Dupage County Health Department confirmed that at least 140 people have been culture confirmed with Shigella sonnei infections contracted at a Chicago-area Subway restaurant in March of 2010. Ten were hospitalized. Health authorities closed the restaurant at 1009 E. Roosevelt in Lombard and ...
    • Homegrown E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak Headed to T ...
      Twenty-three “confirmed” and “probable cases,” and forty-one “suspect cases.” Most of the time I am traveling the country – I have done E. coli cases in most states – So, it is good to have one within driving distance. Snohomish County Health Dis ...
    • The Dirty Top 40 - Annual Disease Burden of Al ...
      I love the folks at the University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute for keeping track of all the data of foodborne illness burden and publishing it last month in the Journal of Food Protection.  The top ten alone cost us over $8,000,000,0000 yearly.  Here is the Top 40 List by n ...

    AutoblogGreen

    • Official: Ford C-Max Hybrid officially gets 47 ...
      Filed under: Hybrid, Minivan/Van, Ford, Electric Two new announcements about Ford and its upcoming C-Max line of vehicles arrived today, emphasizing the vehicles' efficiency and electric performance. For the C-Max Hybrid, the previously predicted miles per gallon rating of 47 mpg is now of ...
    • First Drive: 2013 Toyota RAV4 EV [w/video]
      Filed under: Crossover, Toyota, First Drives, Tesla, ElectricTesla-Hearted Toyota Offers Real Sport And Utility The 2013 Toyota RAV4 EV is the most advanced Alpha prototype electric vehicle we've ever driven. Or maybe it's a poster child for the 21st Century automotive industry where all ...
    • Video: Toyota Prius Solution: When you're dead ...
      Filed under: Hybrid, Videos, Hatchback, Toyota, Humor Let's make this clear from the get-go: we know this is satire, courtesy of The Onion. Of course, like all good comedy, the idea for the new, fictional Toyota Prius Solution model contains a grain of truth. After all, if you aren't alive, y ...
    • Report: London's hydrogen buses grounded durin ...
      Filed under: Government/Legal, UK Is hydrogen a dangerous substance? It is, during the London Olympics, at least. That's why the fleet of five H2 buses that usually carries passengers between Covent Garden and Tower Gateway have been sent out to pasture for the duration of the games. Standard ...
    • Official: Ford C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid pri ...
      Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Minivan/Van, Hatchback, Ford The U.S. federal tax credit for plug-in vehicles maxes out at $7,500 for cars with batteries that are 16 kWh or larger. The Ford C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid doesn't have that big of a pack, so the most the feds will grant you for b ...

    Rafe's Radar

    Camera Obscura

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

    Democracy Now!

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

    Suzie-Q

    • Obama Super PAC Waiting To Unload On Mitt Romn ...
      Huff Post Jon Ward Posted: 08/07/2012 10:21 am Updated: 08/07/2012 10:54 am Bill Kristol and Stephen Hayes caused a stir this week when they encouraged Mitt Romney to pick Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) or Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) as his running mate. The conservative Weekly Standard authors based the ...
    • Obama Camp Slams Romney’s Claim About Oh ...
      Charges that the president aims to undermine service members’ rights are called ‘shameful.’ By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times August 6, 2012, 6:02 a.m. CHICAGO — A top advisor to President Obama‘s campaign lashed out at Mitt Romney on Sunday, arguing that the presumptive ...
    • Las Vegas Sands Target Of U.S. Money-Launderin ...
      Reuters | Posted: 08/04/2012  1:25 pm Updated: 08/04/2012  2:55 pm CHICAGO, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Las Vegas Sands Corp,  controlled by billionaire Republican donor Sheldon Adelson, is  the target of a federal investigation into possible violations  of U.S. money-laundering laws, the Wall ...
    • Mitt Romney Comments At Fundraiser Outrage Pal ...
      By KASIE HUNT and KARIN LAUB  07/30/12 11:18 AM ET JERUSALEM — Mitt Romney told Jewish donors Monday that their culture is part of what has allowed them to be more economically successful than the Palestinians, outraging Palestinian leaders who suggested his comments were racist and out of touch ...
    • Romney-Bain Contacts Outlasted Exit
      By STEPHEN BRAUN and JACK GILLUM Associated Press Jul 25, 8:19 AM EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has said he had no active role in Bain Capital, the private equity firm he founded, after he exited in February 1999 to take over Salt Lake City’s Win ...

    Solari

    • Brutal July Heat A New U.S. Record
      By The CNN Wire Staff The July heat wave that wilted crops, shriveled rivers and fueled wildfires officially went into the books Wednesday as the hottest single month on record for the continental United States. The average temperature across the Lower 48 was 77.6 degrees Fahrenheit, 3.3 degree ...
    • Please Join Me in Support of Congresswoman Kaptur
      By Catherine Austin Fitts One of the most important things we can each do is to support excellent leaders. I have made a campaign contribution to Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur’s (D-Ohio) campaign this election season and will be speaking on her behalf in Port Clinton, Ohio on August 25th. Co ...
    • Transcript of Catherine’s Interview of Nick Br ...
      A transcript of Catherine’s 8.02.12 interview of Nick Bryant author of The Franklin Scandal is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: Let’s turn to our interview. Let me start first with an introduction about why I wanted to have Nick join us and why I wanted to talk ...
    • NYSE in Talks with SEC to Settle Data Probe
      [Note from CAF: What are the private contractors who manage information and payments systems for the SEC and NYSE? It is not clear to me that any agreement between the two will solve the leakage, especially if they still have those systems outsourced to defense contractors.] By Sarah N. Lynch an ...
    • House Passes Bill Eliminating Senate Approval ...
      Written by Joe Wolverton, II By a vote of 261-116, the House of Representatives passed a bill rewriting Article II of the Constitution and divesting the Senate of the power to accept or reject the appointment of many presidential nominees. Last year, the Senate passed the measure [...]

    Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

    AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

    Sideways News

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

    Fabius Maximus

    • Parsing Cyberwar – Part 1: The Battlefield
      Summary of this post by Marcus Ranum: This series is based on a lecture I presented at RSA Conference in March 2012. In it, I will attempt to isolate some of the strategic elements of the “cyber” battlefield so that we can better understand the inner dynamics of its components. This is important ...
    • How warm was the world in July, amidst the his ...
      Summary:  The most accurate source of global temperature data comes from satellites, with their full coverage and more standard sensors. Thanks to the internet we need not rely on secondary sources; we can see the data for ourselves. For analysis, of course, we must rely on scientists. Today we ...
    • COINistas point to Kenya as a COIN success. In ...
      Summary:  The British empire, in the words of historian John Seeley, “was acquired in a fit of absence of mind”. Unlike the lucrative British version, our mad unprofitable empire was acquired though years of careful work by like-minded people (as John Robb has said, open-source movem ...
    • Hidden history of our first step into the Afgh ...
      Summary:  Here we examine one of our key steps into the Afghanistan War, in 1979.  It’s bitterly ironic, but beyond that it’s still important for us today as an example of one of the great themes on the FM website: both Left and Right guide their followers by blinkering their vision, ...
    • Remember the old days, when the GOP and Dems a ...
      Summary:  The evolution from the America-that-once-was to the New America so far occurs without much notice. But it’s apparent if we step back and see the discontinuities in our politics, which foreshadow greater changes to come. Today we look at one such, the Democrats adopting GOP views. ...

    Open Your Eyes News

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

    The Progressive Realist

    • Sudans Reach Agreement on Oil: But It’s Just a ...
      Sudan and South Sudan reached an interim agreement on the exploitation of oil and oil payments this weekend. The issue has been a major challenge since the South’s independence in July 2011, when negotiations that had been ongoing for nearly a year failed to result in an agreement. Negotiations ...
    • Infrastructure Alarm Sounds
      Last week, three events should have sounded deafening alarms and issued unmistakable warnings about the vulnerabilities facing mankind. And a fourth was further frosting on this rather explosive cake. None did and complacency still reigns. In India in the midst of an especially long, hot summer, ...
    • Just When I Thought I Was Out... They Pull Me ...
      It has been a while since I have posted here. But there is nothing like an op-ed by Sens. McCain, Graham and Lieberman to pull me back in. In the column, the Senators called for greater action in Syria, saying the Obama administration’s “hands-off approach” is not working. Specifically they ca ...
    • In Mali, Slow Progress Amidst Crisis
      Reuters reports: “Burkina Faso Foreign Minister Djibril Bassole, the [ECOWAS] mediator, met the leaders of Ansar Dine, which has links to al Qaeda, in Kidal on Tuesday. He also stopped in Gao but did not meet leaders of MUJWA, the Islamist group occupying the town, residents said.” ...
    • Do Battle Droids Dream of Electric Medals?
       One of the more interesting issues raised informally during the time I spent at the Lincoln Center's Emerging Technologies Workshop was the relative likelihood of developments in lethal autonomous robotics leading to fully autonomous armies: that is, eliminating the human presence from battle-s ...

    TAPPED - The American Prospect

    • Thrown Away for Being Gay
      Over at ThinkProgress, Zack Ford quotes and verifies a letter from a father disowning his son for being gay. Here’s an excerpt: Don’t expect any further conversations with me. No communications at all. I will not come to visit, nor do I want you in my house. You’ve made your choice though wrong ...
    • Why Mitt Romney Can't Help But Flounder
      Romney’s task for this summer was to reintroduce himself to the public as a competent moderate—someone who could get the economy back into shape by sheer dint of his business experience. But since Team Obama began its savage attacks on Bain Capital, the Romney campaign has been on the defensive ...
    • Lies Are the New Truth
      Being a campaign surrogate isn't easy. You have no say in what the candidate you favor or his campaign decides to say or do, yet you're called upon to defend their words and actions. That can put you in an extremely uncomfortable position, unless you're Newt Gingrich. Yesterday, Newt went on An ...
    • Why Obama Would Love to Run Against Ryan
      As Beltway anticipation builds for Mitt Romney’s vice presidential announcement, conservative pundits have re-upped their calls for a “bold” and adventurous choice. This morning, the Wall Street Journal editorial page took the lead with a plea to add House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan to the ticke ...
    • It's Official: Vibrators Are Mainstream
        While jokes about porn and casual references to male masturbation have made their way into mainstream culture, female pleasure—and especially masturbation—has typically been a touchier subject. But August 7, 2012 might be the day that female sexuality finally became a “mundane fact of life.” ...

    Buzzflash

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

    Glenn Greenwald - Salon

    The BiPartisan Report

    Sciencebase

    • Freebie Kindle sampler of book Deceived Wisdom ...
      My publisher just released a freebie Kindle sampler for my forthcoming book, Deceived Wisdom. You can grab it on your Kindle right now. But you don’t need a Kindle, you can read it with any Kindle app on your iPad, laptop or desktop computer. Here’s how E&T describe the book on ...
    • Dr Who. It’s for kids…
      …as Al Murray would have it…but that doesn’t mean us big kids cannot watch it and run behind the sofa crying for Mummy all over again when the Daleks appear! The Guardian describes the five new episodes that will air before Christmas 2012 as the big finale to Steven Moffat&#821 ...
    • Damaged electronic goods
      Electronic devices are susceptible to damage from radiation, potentially cosmic radiation and even ultraviolet radiation. A study using spectroscopy reveals that the amount of optical damage, as opposed to structural damage, that can be caused may be more than ten times greater than studies sugg ...
    • Muse, Telstar and electronic keyboards
      As many Sciencebase readers will known Telstar was a generic name given to a range of communications satellites (the idea for which was first posited by author Arthur C Clarke). The first two Telstar satellites were experimental. Telstar 1 was launched atop a Thor-Delta rocket on July 10, 1962 a ...
    • 9 ways to avoid weirdos sitting next to you on ...
      Esther Kim has spent years observing travellers on buses and how they will go to extreme lengths to avoid anyone taking the seat next to them. Here are her top 9 “non-social transient interaction avoidance” tips. If this doesn’t win an IgNobel Prize, I will go by car next time& ...

    Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

    • Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania Have Worst Toxic ...
      Residents of Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania are exposed to more toxic air pollution from coal-fired power plants than in any other state, according to an analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). At the same time, the report found a 19 percent decrease in all air toxics emitted ...
    • Louisiana School Eliminates Policy That Forces ...
      A public charter school said today that it will eliminate a policy that required female students even suspected of being pregnant to submit to a pregnancy exam and forced them out of school if they refused or tested positive. Delhi Charter School President Albert Christman claimed that the polic ...
    • Corporations Sneak Synthetic Preservatives int ...
      The Cornucopia Institute, a not-for-profit policy research organization based in Wisconsin, filed a formal legal complaint with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) against several infant formula manufacturers that are adding two synthetic preservatives to certified organic infant ...
    • Food & Water Watch and Former BP Contractor Tu ...
      What could be so wrong with BP’s Atlantis oil and gas facility that the company is willing to sacrifice profits and many thousands of barrels of oil a day to shut it down? This question lies at the heart of a letter filed this week by Kenneth Abbott and Food & Water Watch regardin ...
    • Food & Water Watch and Former BP Contractor Tu ...
      What could be so wrong with BP’s Atlantis oil and gas facility that the company is willing to sacrifice profits and many thousands of barrels of oil a day to shut it down? This question lies at the heart of a letter filed this week by Kenneth Abbott and Food & Water Watch regardin ...

    Common Dreams-Views

    • Combating Islamophobic Violence
      Glenn Greenwald Shortly after the Islamic Society of Joplin opened a mosque in 2007 in Joplin, a small town in Southwest Missouri, the sign in front was set on fire, an act determined to be arson.read more
    • Raise the Minimum Wage: The Democratic Party S ...
      Ralph Nader Calling Obama, Pelosi, Reid and the rest of the Democratic Party, elected officials, political operatives and labor’s leader Richard Trumka. Thirty million American workers want and need a federal minimum wage of $10 per h ...
    • On the 'US-Israel Enhanced Security Act'
      Renee Parsons The day before Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney began his recent 36-hour swing through Israel with Sheldon Adelson at his side, President Obama was signing the U.S.-Israel Enhanced Security Act (S 2165) in the Ova ...
    • UN Should Get Rid of Cholera Epidemic That It ...
      Mark Weisbrot Haitians have had a long and arduous struggle just to achieve the rights that most people in the rest of the hemisphere have enjoyed. From the revolution of Haitian slaves that won independence from the French in 1804, through ...
    • On Gun Laws, It’s Bipartisan Consensus Not Gri ...
      Amy Goodman Another mass murder, another shooting spree, leaving bodies bullet-riddled by a legally obtained weapon.Wade Michael Page, the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooter. (Photograph: Reuters)read more

    Newshoggers - AfPak

    Water Wars

    • California Water Wars: Will Thirsty Interests ...
      Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Now: California's water wars are back, as the state struggles to transfer a vital resource from where it falls to where it's needed. NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the area south of Sa ...
    • Will New Water Delivery System End San Diego’s ...
      The $14 billion plan involves a 37-mile twin-tunnel system to carry water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to farmlands and cities.
    • Water Wars: Gov Proposes Huge Underground Tunn ...
      Click here to view the full photogallery. Governor Jerry Brown and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar yesterday announced details of an expensive plan to ensure the future of Southern California's water supply (specifically, the supply shipped from Northern California)....
    • Calif. unveils $24B water tunnel plan
      Polarizing plan aiming to end Golden State's water wars still burdened by unanswered questions, hurdles
    • California, federal officials reveal plan to e ...
      SACRAMENTO -- California's ambitious $24 billion plan for ending the state's water wars was unveiled Wednesday, but standing in its way are unanswered questions and hurdles that will take years to surmount -- if that's even possible.

    WordPress | Economics

    Electronic Intifada

    The Wonk Room

    • Ohio And Florida Public Schools Lock Mentally ...
      To discipline misbehaving students, public schools in Ohio and Florida regularly send children to “seclusion” — isolation in a locked cell-like room, old office, or closet, NPR’s State Impact reports. Many of these children are special needs students and their parents are ...
    • The Climate Is Changing, But The U.S. Position ...
      by Andrew Light and Adam James This past Tuesday, Todd Stern, America’s top climate diplomat at the Department of State, was compelled to clarify comments he made last week at Dartmouth College on the global goal of limiting temperature increase caused by climate change to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 ...
    • Undocumented Immigrants Worry Being Uninsured ...
      The Affordable Care Act aims to expand access to health care by requiring all U.S. citizens and permanent residents to have health insurance. The health care reform law provides an expansion of Medicaid and state exchanges where people can buy affordable private insurance to increase the availab ...
    • Construction Sign In Utah Flashes ‘God H ...
      Someone recently hacked a construction sign in Provo, Utah to flash “God Hates Gays.” Provo is best known as the town where prominent Mormon college Brigham Young University is located. A YouTube video uploaded today captures the flashing message, alternating that phrase with “ ...
    • New Jersey Will Start Issuing Medical Marijuan ...
      More than two years after New Jersey legislators approved a medical marijuana law in the state, residents will now be able to register for identification cards with the state’s Department of Health, the first step in the process to obtaining a medical prescription for cannabis. The ID card ...

    thwap's schoolyard

    • Garbage Pick-up Woes
      Yes! I've finally got the time to talk in detail about the pressing political-economic issues of today. Or something. Whatever. Actually, I'll just be snotty. That's all an unhinged moonbat leftist such as myself is capable of anyway. So, the first day of private garbage collection in Toronto ...
    • Last Bash of Religion For a While
      I've got a hankering to write something about any number of recent political atrocities, but no time today. So instead I thought I'd take one more bash on the useless stupidity of religion. A lot of religion's half-baked defenders stupidly argue that religion is just a vehicle by which inevitab ...
    • Why I Don't Like to be Moderated
      I suppose that my skin is thin in places. But it's pretty fucking thick in other places. What I hate is the inability of some people to put things into some sort of context. Here's an imaginary scenario: Troll who showed up two days ago: "I say, kill as many camel-fuckers as possible. And if to ...
    • A Touching Story
      I shouldn't always be so depressed and cynical. Here's a story about genuine love between two guys, thrown together by life, to be father and son ...
    • A Salute to "Champagne Socialists"
      "Champagne Socialists" or "Limousine Liberals" are political epithets that used to mean people who advocated for policies that they had no intention or danger of having to follow themselves. Today though, it is often used in a mindless way to condemn anyone of privilege who supports collectivist ...

    on Government Oversight

    Digital Journal

    • Romney misrepresents Obama on issue of work re ...
      Republican nominee for president Mitt Romney remains on the campaign trail and in a speech in Iowa Wednesday falsely accused President Obama on welfare reform. Romney claimed that an Obama plan has “removed the requirement of work from welfare."
    • Good news for Democrats as Romney slips in sep ...
      The national lead U.S. President Barack Obama had on Mitt Romney in polls last month has widened this month and at the same time Romney's popularity has dropped further. While the GOP nominee flounders the good news is the election is months away.
    • Visiting US cop ridiculed for pro-gun letter t ...
      A vacationing American police officer's letter to a Canadian newspaper lamenting that country's strict gun controls has made him the laughing stock of Canada.
    • Canadian military to spend one billion dollar ...
      The Canadian military intends to spend about one billion dollars on armed drones. The military claims that the drones will enable Canadian Forces to fill critical deficiencies and are needed in the Arctic.
    • Mint candy consumer avoids catastrophic consum ...
      A Canadian teen receives a shocking surprise during the time of a church service after eating a breath mint containing an element of metal.

    End Homelessness | Change.org

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