9 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Ceasefire.ca

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

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

• Will Smith on 75% Tax in France: ‘God Bless Am ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMichael W. Chapman CNS News Thursday, August 9, 2012 (CNSNews.com)Check out all the best #altnews at DarkPolitricks.com
• Coulter: Obama’s base is ‘stupid single women’
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Conservative columnist Ann Coulter on Wednesday said that President Barack Obama was campaigning with women’s rights activist Sandra Fluke because his base was “stupid single women.” At ...
• Rape Victim Traumatized By “Horrific” TSA Expe ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comWoman told by screener her genitals would be groped Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, August 9, 2012 A woman who was the victim of a brutal rape underwent a “horrific” experience at the hands of ...
• Olympics closing ceremony ‘camp and cheesy,’ s ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com The London Olympics closing ceremony on Sunday will be a “beautiful, cheeky, cheesy, camp, silly and thrilling” journey through British pop history, its musical director promised. David Arnold, c ...
• Threatened shark species turning up in U.S. re ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   WASHINGTON ” Threatened shark species are being used to make shark fin soup, a delicacy in Chinese cuisine, in several US cities, according to an unprecedented study based on DNA testing. Thirty-th ...

Dandelion Salad

• Chris Hedges: When Empires Emplode + Update on ...
  with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad August 9, 2012 Aug 7, 2012 by wilrodx1 Guest host Sam Sacks discusses the world food crisis and corporate capitalism with journalist and author Chris Hedges. Hartmann Chris Hedges *** [Full show with better quality of the above video.] Aug 7, 201 ...
• Cindy Sheehan: Nobody Wants Their Children To ...
  with Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox August 7, 2012 Aug 7, 2012 by GordonSturrock Cindy Sheehan speaks at Ground Zero Center for Non-violence event “Inconvenient Truth” on August 5, 2012. Sheehan was detained with 15 ...
• Cindy Sheehan: Nobody Wants Their Children To ...
  with Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox August 7, 2012 Aug 7, 2012 by GordonSturrock Cindy Sheehan speaks at Ground Zero Center for Non-violence event “Inconvenient Truth” on August 5, 2012. Sheehan was detained with 15 ...
• The Future Does Not Look Good for Iran by Mich ...
  by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org August 5, 2012 Occasionally individuals complain that I fail to address one subject or another. One Berkeley denizen got in my face and announced: “You leftists ought to become aware of the ecological ...
• Marcellus Earth First! Anti-fracking Activists ...
  Dandelion Salad http://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com July 8, 2012 Aug 5, 2012 by alexhiggins732 Full Story: http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/08/06/momentum-builds-fracking-truth-da… As anti-fracking momentum grows nationwide with word being spread the practice permanently destroys wate ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

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

Israeli Occupation Archive

• IDF raids Hebron-area village; residents fear ...
  An unusual operation by the Israel Defense Forces in the South Hebron Hills region has intensified suspicions among Palestinian residents that Israel is moving forward with its plan to demolish... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Moshé Machover: Netanyahu seeks war with Iran ...
  All the problems in this region stem from the way that the imperial powers France and Britain divided the region after the First World War, to serve their purposes... Syria, Lebanon, and a country... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
• Moshé Machover: Netanyahu seeks war with Iran ...
  All the problems in this region stem from the way that the imperial powers France and Britain divided the region after the First World War, to serve their purposes... Syria, Lebanon, and a country... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
• Jonathan Cook: Welcome to Nazareth
  Jonathan Cook tells the story of Nazareth, a Palestinian town that survived the Nakba only to be subjected to massive land confiscations, economic strangulation, and systematic discrimination by all... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
• Israel has 30 days to find solution for reside ...
  Zanuta, like other small Palestinian villages in the area, existed as a cave-settlement before the West Bank was occupied by Israel. Archaeological findings reveal that Zanuta had been inhabited... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• India Test-Fires Agni-2 Missile
  India successfully test-fired an Agni-2 nuclear-capable ballistic missile on Thursday for the third time, Times of India reported, quoting Defense Ministry sources.
• Indonesia Says ‘No, Thanks’ to More Sukhoi Fig ...
  Indonesia will buy no more Sukhoi fighter jets from Russia, opting instead for U.S. F-16s, Air Marshal Eris Herryanto told Flightglobal aviation news portal on Thursday.
• Medvedev Defends His Georgia Attack Decision i ...
  Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that his decision to repel the Georgian attack on South Ossetia in August 2008 was timely and efficient despite criticism expressed by some Russian generals.
• First Borey Class Subs to be Deployed in Pacific
  Russia’s first two Borey class strategic submarines will be ultimately deployed with the Pacific Fleet, First Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Sukhorukov said on Wednesday.
• Russian Military May Receive New Tank for Test ...
  The Russian military may receive a prototype of a new main battle tank (MBT) for field testing almost a year earlier than scheduled, First Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Sukhorukov said on Wednesday.

NewsWise

• Source of Conflict: Study Finds Factors That C ...
  The type of relationship a woman has with her ex-partner is a factor in how the couple shares custody of children, according to a Kansas State University expert on postdivorce and co-parenting relationships.
• Consumer Tech for Academic Success
  A listing of the best tech tools to achieve academic success this fall.
• Coben Available to Discuss WVU ICRC's Grant Fr ...
  Jeff Coben, M.D., director of the West Virginia University Injury Control Research Center, is available today and tomorrow to discuss the Center's $4.1-million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue as one of 11 such federally funded centers of excellence for injur ...
• $4.7 Million in Gifts Help Flight Nurses Soa ...
  The wings of Dorothy Ebersbach's drive to help others stretched even wider as the trustees of her estate announced a second $2 million commitment to support flight nursing at Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. The decision brings her total gifts to the scho ...
• WVU Injury Control Research Center Receives $4 ...
  The West Virginia University Injury Control Research Center has just been awarded a five-year grant totaling $4.1 million to continue as one of 11 such federally funded centers of excellence for injury prevention research, education and outreach in the nation, according to the funding agency, th ...

Natural Health News

• The Evolution of Bird Flu and the Race to Keep Up
  Bird Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to manipulate the vi ...
• 2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Was 15 Times Deadlier: ...
  A new study based on computer statistical models shows that the swine flu of 2009 killed 284,500 people, or 15 times more than health officials originally estimated.
• NY Law Gives Women More Information about Mamm ...
  A New York state law that has yet to be signed by the governor would mandate that women be given information on their breast density.
• Common Diabetes Drugs Associated with Increase ...
  A new analysis introduced to the most recent meeting of the Endocrine Society shows that three widely used drugs for diabetes are associated with an increased risk of death.
• Study Says More Vitamin D = Less Lbs
  If you're a woman over age 65 and you're deficient in vitamin D, research shows that you're probably more likely not only to weigh more, but to gain more weight.

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• How Do You Know the Libyan Government is Lying ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I honestly believed that the Libyan government couldn’t make a public claim more ridiculous than the one about the Swatch with a hidden camera and GPS locator.  Silly me for my lack of imagination!  Mark Kersten, whose Justice in Conflict blog shou ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, August 8, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Oxfam reports that hundreds are being raped and killed in Eastern Congo as the army’s deployment to fight rebels has created a security vacuum. The International Criminal Court announced its decision on providing reparations to victims in the case of T ...
• Evening Wear Accoutrement Can Be So Destabilizing
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller For you, dear reader, I risked life and limb to obtain the schematics of the video/GPS Swatch that the OPCD’s interpreter used to undermine Libya’s national security.  After assuming deep cover, prowling some of the world’s most dangero ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, August 7, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Hijab has defected from what he terms the “terrorist regime” of President Bashar al-Assad, while violence rages on in Aleppo. IPS offers an insight into what these high-level defections mean for Syria’s future. S ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, August 7, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Hijab has defected from what he terms the “terrorist regime” of President Bashar al-Assad, while violence rages on in Aleppo. IPS offers an insight into what these high-level defections mean for Syria’s future. S ...

Public News Service

• Could My Child Have Lead Poisoning?
  Could My Child Have Lead Poisoning? PHOENIX - More Arizona children could be at risk from lead poisoning. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently cut in half the level of exposure deemed to be a health risk. In the meantime, Congress allocated only $2 million for lead-poisoning ...
• Blowing in the Wind: Tax Credit for Alternativ ...
  Blowing in the Wind: Tax Credit for Alternative Energy PHOENIX - In a possible boost for wind-energy production in Arizona, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee has voted to renew a tax credit for wind power, with several Republicans joining Democrats in support of extending the credit for one more ...
• Healthcare Reform to Increase Domestic Violenc ...
  Healthcare Reform to Increase Domestic Violence Screenings PHOENIX - Screening for domestic violence is one of the eight preventive-care tests patients can get at no cost under the part of health-care reform that went into effect last week. Advocates say that will improve women's health and save ...
• Monsoon Heat and Humidity Can Be A Hindrance t ...
  Monsoon Heat and Humidity Can Be A Hindrance to Heart Health PHOENIX – The hot and humid conditions during Arizona's summer monsoon make it difficult to get outside and keep an active, heart-healthy lifestyle. But Chrissy Spoo, an educator with the American Heart Association says there are ...
• Who Really Benefits from Higher Defense Spending?
  Who Really Benefits from Higher Defense Spending? PHOENIX - Arizona's John McCain and two other Republican U.S. senators this week went on a multi-state tour to rally support for sparing the Defense Department from budget cuts. The cuts are set to kick in next year because the congressional "su ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife p ...
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

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

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

• Taxpayers Billed $100 Billion For “Corpo ...
  Also See: Obama: “Let’s Repeat Auto Bailout with Every Industry”   Corporate welfare programs instituted by the Obama administration are costing American taxpayers billions of dollars and they are getting nothing in return, except the bill. According to the CATO Institute ...
• (Wash. Times) – The Civil War of 2016 U. ...
  Hypothetical? War games? As we attempt to form the “OCCUTEA” party… The FEDS are working night and day to foment a sectarian civil war. DON’T LET THEM WIN! Freedom is the answer… What’s the question?   Imagine Tea Party extremists seizing control of a Sou ...
• Introducing the Gulf State Despots: 10 Facts a ...
    Astounding hypocrisy, self-censorship, and complicity by the West regarding one of the most regressive regimes on Earth. by Tony Cartalucci August 9, 2012 -  The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) comprises of 6 nations, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, the Uni ...
• “Mental Health”, Gun CONTROL and t ...
  This was passed by both houses and signed into law by George W Bush. We (Deadlinelive.info) were able to get both the McCain and Obama campaigns on the record in 2007 – they BOTH supported the legislation.   9-26-2007 Jack Blood confronts NRA spokeswoman Rachel Parsons 29:00 – 4 ...
• (Please “Boycott” me) Papa John’s ...
    WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — Papa John’s warns it will have to raise the price of its pizzas due to President Obama’s health care law. John Schnatter, CEO and founder of Papa John’s, said pizza will cost up to 14 cents more when the Affordable Care Act goes into effect in 2014.  “We’re not suppor ...

The Air Vent

• NH Sea Ice Heading for Record Minimum?
  From Cryosphere Today: Seeing the yellow line drop so far below the historic curves with much of the melt season ahead of us means we are probably on the way to a new record minimum for the Northern hemisphere.   Correspondingly, NH Sea ice anomaly is approaching the second lowest value in histo ...
• Surface Stations Project Hits Paydirt
  It seems as always, I don’t have much time.   I have been waiting for this to break for a long time now, holding my tongue through a lot of critique from the usual advocate trolls.  This extraordinary moment in climate science is FAR to important not to call attention to and I will absolut ...
• Surface Stations Project Hits Paydirt
  It seems as always, I don’t have much time.   I have been waiting for this to break for a long time now, holding my tongue through a lot of critique from the usual advocate trolls.  This extraordinary moment in climate science is FAR to important not to call attention to and I will absolut ...
• CG File Date Timeline
  An interesting Climategate timeline discussion has started in a recent Blackboard thread.
• CG Filedate Timeline
  An interesting Climategate timeline discussion has started in a recent Blackboard thread.

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• Facebook looks to drive app installs with ‘sen ...
  Facebook is testing a “send to mobile” button in the hover card that appears when users mouse over app stories in News Feed. The feature, which initially launched as part of App Center, helps users discover mobile apps while browsing … Continue reading →
• Facebook redesigns self-serve ad tool to simpl ...
  Facebook is testing a new design for its self-serve ad tool that simplifies ad creation and recommends a combination of ad types that are most likely to achieve an advertiser’s objective. The new design and user flow gives users clear … Continue reading →
• New Facebook platform industry hires: FreshBuz ...
  If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please let us know. Email mail (at) insidefacebook (dot) com, and we’ll get it into our next post. Also, please note that information about most new hires, below, … Continue reading →
• Facebook design manager leaving to help lead a ...
  Facebook design manager Ben Blumenfeld is leaving the company to co-direct Designer Fund, an angel fund of designers, TechCrunch reports. Blumenfeld, who started working at Facebook in 2007, has been on sabbatical since December, so this doesn’t come as much … Continue reading →
• Facebook subscription payments come out of bet ...
  Facebook today announced that subscription payments are now available to all developers with apps on the site. The company originally announced the program in beta with Zynga, Playdom and Kixeye as partners in June. Now any developer can offer subscriptions for … Continue reading →

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ReDress News

• Mitt Romney: conduct unbecoming of a president ...
  Stuart Littlewood explores the propaganda of US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's "special adviser" on foreign policy, Dan Senor, an apprentice of the Israel lobby AIPAC and organizer of Romney's recent trip to Israel during which he indulged in a spectacular display of racism and ignorance abo ...
• Jewish secularism - the defining framework of ...
  In a critique of an analysis by former Israeli parliament speaker Avraham Burg of how the Israeli-US relationship has evolved, Gilad Atzmon argues that Jewish secularism, not Judaism, should be credited with Israel's most salient characteristics: racism, narcissism and exploitation.
• Palestinian history on a billboard versus Isra ...
  Lawrence Davidson pits the facts of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict - Israel's dispossession of the Palestinian people and theft of Palestinian land, as displayed recently in a New York billboard - against the arguments of the Zionist apologists for colonization and ethnic cleansing. He argues ...
• Assad's "anti-imperialist" pretenders make the ...
  The UN General Assembly has overwhelmingly denounced the Syrian regime's crackdown on the people's revolution. The resolution, passed today by 133 in favour, with 12 against and 31 abstentions, says "the first step in the cessation of violence has to be made by the Syrian authorities"... Mean ...
• US politicians prostitute their country for Is ...
  Jamal Kanj argues that, in their eagerness for Israel lobby election campaign funds and Jewish votes, US politicians have put Israeli interests ahead of those of the American people, displaying rare unity in doling out more US taxpayer money for Israel at a time of economic recession, possibly v ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  Understanding Social Movements No matter your specific ideological stance, beliefs, hopes, passions or activism, there is a need to better our understanding of each other and different social movements, a need to adopt a more adaptive and accepting discourse and method of communication, not desi ...
• Turkey: NATO’s Neo-Ottoman Spearhead in the Mi ...
  Turkey already has troops in Syria and has threatened military action to protect the site they guard. A 1921 agreement between Ottoman Turkey and France (the Treaty of Ankara), the latter at the time the colonial administrator of Syria, guaranteed Turkey the right to station military personnel a ...
• Jamiol Presents
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- August 7 ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• The EyeOpener- Violation of Consent: Fluoridat ...
  Ever since Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 cinematic classic “Dr. Strangelove” was released, it has become fashionable for those who have wished to avoid the debate over the fluoridation of the water supply to engage in the rhetorical equivalent of stuffing their fingers into their ears and singing ...

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• Finally, Some Good Financial Advice
  It is hard to know who to listen to for financial advice
• Mitt Romney's healthcare heaven
  Romney may have stumbled upon the key to solving America's healthcare conundrum.
• Euro-US far-right groups anti-Muslim rally aga ...
  On August 4, far-right anti-Islam fringe but vocal groups from across Europe and the United States staged a rally in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, which attracted only 200 people, according to Reuters news agency while the Associated Press put the numbers to 100 only.
• Being Seen in a Negative Light
  Many of us are encumbered with an emotional attachment to the feeling of being seen in a negative light. This problem stems from an unresolved inner conflict. In our conscious mind, we want to be liked, admired, and respected. However, in our unconscious mind where our irrational emotions are ro ...
• Mitt Romney's Core Values
  It has been said, or at least implied, that Mitt Romney doesn't have any core values. However, he does. Only they are not concerning with the policy issues facing the US people for this election. They are far deeper than tht. And it is about them that we need to be deeply concerned.

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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Court Tells FDA: Don't Delay on Protecting Peo ...
  Avinash Kar, Staff Attorney, San Francisco In a decision earlier today, a federal court in New York ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cannot delay regulatory proceedings for penicillin and tetracyclines use in livestock – two k ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Adventures in Cultural Anthropology
  SEK is always to be having fun in a supermarkets. Today he is standing in the checkout line. In front of him is a very large, very genial black WOMAN unloading eighteen loaves of white bread and half a dozen cases of Coke onto the conveyor belt. WOMAN: (singing under her breath) Breakdown, uh ta ...
• How to edit an interview (Romney standards edi ...
  Businessweek‘s exclusive interview with Romney is far too long. Here’s what you need to know: Much of the case you make to voters is that you’re a successful entrepreneur and a successful executive, and thus you’ll make a successful president. Why were you so successful as a business ...
• Foreign Entanglements: Watching the Election f ...
  Among other things, Taylor Fravel and I chatted about Chinese views of the election:
• The Vote Fraud Fraud Reaches New Lows
  I would have thought it was impossible for the vote fraud fraud to get any more cynical, and yet here we have the Romney campaign asserting that the Obama administration wants to stop members of the military from voting, when in fact what they want it for early voting privileges to be extended t ...
• Weak Persuader
  These accusations of sexual harassment against deposed Oxford American Marc Smirnoff seem pretty clear-cut: The gathering, Marc Smirnoff said, was intended as a morale-boosting retreat for his staff at The Oxford American magazine, a July 4 overnight party at a mountain cabin that would fuel the ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• 3 Wearable Technologies That Could Make Us Hea ...
• Renting Electric, Hybrid And Green Cars: What ...
• Walmart Puts Big Onsite Wind Power To Test
• This Iconic New York High-Rise Breathes Easy
• Dr Pepper Pays To Protect Precious Water Supplies

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Ex-intern loses appeal over injuries from Kimi ...
  A former intern at a chimpanzee sanctuary who claimed that the organization was liable for injuries she suffered during an attack by a chimp named Kimie has lost an appeal.
• Full Federal Circuit to consider two questions ...
  Should patent litigants be able to appeal an infringement liability ruling before a damages trial? Before willfulness is decided? Those are the questions the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit wants to consider in a case about windshield wiper blades.
• False Claims Act covers contract underbidding, ...
  A federal appeals court has ruled that a whistleblower can pursue allegations under the U.S. False Claims Act that his former employer, Lockheed Martin Corp., underbid on a $900 million contract.
• One more task force on the legal profession's ...
  The 18-member Task Force on the Future of Legal Education plans to spend two years examining how well law schools are meeting the needs of the profession.
• Federal Circuit: Drug testing falls under safe ...
  In a split ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has overturned a preliminary injunction against generic drug maker Amphastar Pharmaceuticals in a patent infringement suit brought by Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Meghalaya Road Mishap Kills 32
  The accident took place at Tamseng village in East Jayantia hills district of Meghalaya on the wee hours of Wednesday, when a passenger bus fell into deep gorge.
• US and South Africa Strengthen Bilateral Ties
  According to Ms. Clinton, both countris are building a partnership that adds value -- saving and improving lives, spreading opportunity and sparking economic growth, and strengthening the institutions of democracy.
• Laila Tyabji Preserves Traditional Handmade Wo ...
  Today, even as she continues with her endeavour to link 21st century India with its centuries old handicrafts tradition, her new mission is to make this sector financially attractive to entrepreneurs.
• New Novel Documents Stories of Women's Repress ...
  'The Taliban Cricket Club' thus aptly reflects Rukhsana the rebel's desire to break free from the shackles of an inhuman existence and an oppressive regime under which women make news only when they are tortured or given the death sentence.
• Ernesto Re-Emerges Over The Southwestern Gulf ...
  AccuWeather.com reports after Ernesto re-emerges over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico, it will make landfall near Veracruz, Mexico, and will push inland unleashing torrential rain and flooding.

environment 360

• Overuse of Groundwater Threatens Global Suppli ...
  A new study finds that nearly one-quarter of the world’s population lives in regions where water is being used faster than it can be replenished. Using computer models of global groundwater resources and water use data, scientists from Canada and the Netherlands calculated that the planet’s “gro ...
• New Atmospheric Compound Tied to Human Health ...
  An international team of researchers says it has discovered a new atmospheric compound that reacts with sulfur dioxide to form sulfuric acid, which produces acid rain, has negative respiratory effects on humans, and causes increased cloud formation. Reporting in Nature, the scientists from the U ...
• Easing The Collateral Damage That Fisheries In ...
  Two recent studies highlight the harm that industrial fisheries are doing to the world’s seabirds, either by overharvesting the birds’ favorite prey or by drowning birds hooked on longlines. But tighter regulations and innovative technologies are starting to significantly reduce seabird “bycatch ...
• Aging, Diseased Trees a Large Source of Methan ...
  Aging and diseased trees emit significant amounts of methane into the atmosphere, a phenomenon that may be contributing to global climate change, a new study says. In samples collected from a forest in northeastern Connecticut, researchers at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies f ...
• New Bird Species Discovered in Cloud Forest of ...
  A team of researchers says it has identified a new bird species, a barbet marked by its colorful scarlet breast and black mask, in the eastern Andes of Peru. The bird, which scientists named the Sira barbet (Capito fitzpatricki), was discovered during a 2008 expedition, Click to enlarge Co ...

Red Ice Creations

• "Hunt for Assange on, Sweden a tool of US"
  "Swedish authorities have declined Ecuador’s invitation to question Julian Assange in its London embassy - without any meaningful explanation, according to Wikileaks’ twitter feed. The whistleblower has been holed-up in the Latin American country’s diplomatic mission for over six weeks now, seek ...
• The Alchemical Secrets of Glastonbury Tor
  Since its starring role in Danny Boyle’s Olympic opening ceremony, friends have been asking me about the magical significance of Glastonbury Tor. Well, I don’t profess to know everything about the Tor. I doubt there are many that do. But I do live here in Glastonbury and, as a shaman, when I wal ...
• The Recently Revealed Mayan Alien Artifacts - ...
  Recently there has been a substantial amount of skeptical interest in what appears to be full disclosure from the Mexican government in regards to never before seen Mayan artifacts clearly depicting aliens and spacecraft. I immediately started to do some digging because on the surface this seeme ...
• Ancient Hunter-Gatherers Burned Same Amount of ...
  Results from a new study reveal that there is no difference between the energy expenditure of modern hunter-gatherers and Westerners, challenging the widely accepted theory that today’s sedentary lifestyle in Western countries is the reason for rising obesity levels. It is surprising because mod ...
• Warrior king statue discovered in ancient Medi ...
  It guarded upper citadel of a Neo-Hittite kingdom’s capital about 738 B.C. in Turkey A newly discovered statue of a curly haired man gripping a spear and a sheath of wheat once guarded the upper citadel of an ancient kingdom’s capital. The enormous sculpture, which is intact from about the waist ...

Russia Today

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

Not My Tribe

• Global Warming is real and capitalism is destr ...
  We all deep down know what’s going on, yet the overwhelming majority of us Americans continue to play stupid here. July 2012 was hottest US month since records began Nothing can be done about the problem as long as we continue to let the capitalists (business community) run amok.
• Dancing US imperialism in Africa
• Caravan for Peace begins crossing the US with ...
  How sad it is that we have to have imported a Peace Movement demanding that the US government stop its terroristic ‘drug war’ internationally. But we do, and this Sunday the Caravan for Peace begins to cross the US with the message to us USA based dolts. END THE ‘DRUG WAR&#8217 ...
• US nuns should expel Pope Rat out of their chu ...
  The nuns are meeting in St Louis this week trying to decide how to respond to the attacks of the Pope and his horde of pedophile priests? After blistering Vatican report, nuns gather to weigh response ‘In an interview with NPR in July, Franciscan Sister Pat Farrell, president of the Leader ...
• Fascism on the Colorado State Seal
  That’s Fascism on the Colorado State Seal. Seriously, not just “a” symbol of fascism but THE defining symbol, on the state ID, badges and vehicles. On the signs on state offices, parks, the arm patches of uniforms and on letterheads. Just below the gap between “OF” ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Noam Chomsky debunked on 9/11 Truth!
  Far too often I've had people tell me that they refuse to discuss 9/11 Truth because Noam Chomsky rejects it. So here is my rebuttal to Chomsky's misinformed, fallacious, and downright bizarre statements about 9/11 conspiracies.
• New York City 9/11/2012
  The goal of this website is to hopefully encourage activists, politicians, celebrities, whistleblowers, alternative media, truthers, infowarriors, and anyone that believes we need a new investigation into the events surrounding September 11th, 2001 to come to New York this coming September. ...
• New 9/11 parody song
  Produced for "Stew's Conspiracy Funhouse" podcast. Dark humor for paranoid people. Subscribe for free on iTunes or listen from source. Enjoy!: http://conspiracyfunhouse.libsyn.com/
• Cowardly AIA Panders to Political Correctness
  One thing I have absolutely zero respect for is when people critique a book or documentary film without even reading or watching it. A recent article in Architect Magazine seems like a clear example of this, except the author supposedly did watch the film he's critiquing. You wouldn't think it t ...
• Reply: Gage's Architects & Engineers for 9/11 ...
  Published on Jul 20, 2012 by RepresentativePress Reply: Photographs and video footage have vindicated Gage, as they show the same phenomenon of negative low air pressure occurred with WTC 1 after the collapse of WTC 2 making it appear as if the entire building was on fire. Skip to 10:2 ...

Fooducate

• Neat Trick to Get Your Kids to Eat More Veggies
  New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Here’s a neat trick to get your kids to eat more vegetables during a meal. Instead of offering a side of just carrots, offer a variety, for example carrots, broccoli, ...
• Will Sodium & Fat Reduction Efforts Lead to a ...
  New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! A very interesting article published in the New York Times earlier this week goes into a detailed description of the efforts undertaken by the dairy industry to improve the ...
• Why Manufacturers DON’T Want Nutrition Labels ...
  New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! For years, we have been proponents of improved nutrition labeling on food products. There are various loopholes and tricks manufacturers use to embellish the nutritional value of their ...
• High-Fiber Bars: The Agony and the Ecstasy
  New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest blog post by Carol Harvey, Director of food/nutrition labeling and product development at Palate Works. How does a nutrition/energy bar compete with 100+ other brands in ...
• Dear Chick-Fil-A, Straight or Gay, this Ingred ...
  New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! The recent Chick-fil-A controversy has overlooked an important matter. Though chicken is slightly healthier than beef, fast food chicken is no health food. Here’s the ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• New audio slideshow of ‘Tribes from the air’ m ...
  Aerial photographs of uncontacted Indians in Brazil caught the world’s imagination.© Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/SurvivalSurvival has published an aerial photographic gallery of tribes and their lands to mark the 18th UN International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. In a unique collaboration o ...
• Guarani Indians to take demands to Inter-Ameri ...
  Brazil's Guarani are demanding that the government protects their land © Survival Brazil’s Guarani Indians have announced that they will take their government to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, over its failure to protect their land. The Guarani said in a statement that they ...
• Victory for Indians as court blocks oil project
  Sarayaku President José Gualinga speaks before the Inter-American Court © Inter-American Court of Human Rights The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled in favour of Ecuador’s Kichwa Indians in a case against a controversial oil project that has destroyed parts of their land. Sara ...
• Judge halts rail project close to Earth’s most ...
  More than 30,000 people have urged Brazil’s Justice Minister to save Earth’s most threatened tribe. © D Pugliese/ Survival A judge has ordered Brazil’s largest mining company to suspend plans to double a controversial railway track, which would have put the livelihoods of Earth’s most threa ...
• Revealed: secret agenda of ranchers to steal u ...
  Ranching firms are destroying the land of Paraguay's uncontacted tribes. © GAT / Survival The secret agenda of a huge ranching firm in Paraguay has been exposed by satellite photos showing a newly-constructed reservoir. The reservoir reveals the firm’s intention to clear nearby ...

Greg Palast

• Why We Occupy - Greg Palast Live!
  Get the DVD of Greg Palast LIVE from the Vultures' Picnic speaking tour. Undercover at the Vultures' Picnic, Greg Palast rips the sheets off the One Percent. Palast shows you the documents marked "secret" and "confidential" from the files of Chevron, Goldman Sachs, Koch Industries, the IMF, WTO ...
• 7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Bandits
  Print me out, use me, spread me around! 7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Bandits 1. Don’t Don’t DON’T Mail In Your Ballot For those of you who mailed in your ballot, please tell me, what happened to it? You don’t know, do you? I can tell you that in the last election, half a million absentee ballots ...
• Congo Vultures Bagged
  Vulture fund's $100m DR Congo claim blocked By Meirion Jones BBC Newsnight Bid to block $100m 'vulture' debt The Privy Council has ruled that a "vulture fund" cannot collect $100m from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The award was against Congo's state-owned mining company Gecamines who su ...
• Can we list your Group in our Election Guide?A ...
  We need you to join Operation PUSH, Rock the Vote, People for the American Way, League of United Latin American Citizens, Bobby Kennedy Jr., Thom Hartmann Show, Occupy.com and 150 other organizations.  Add your group's name to our book, website and film, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to ...
• Fracking in Ireland and BeingDependent on Hall ...
  by Greg Palast for No Fracking Ireland No Fracking Ireland presents Greg Palast in Dublin, Today 3. July Connolly Books, Temple Bar - 1pm The Ireland Institute - 7.30pm Full info here On the 20th of April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oilrig blew out in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven men insta ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Seth Mnookin Censors CDC, Tries Schmoozing Rob ...
  By Jake Crosby Believe it or not, vaccine industry spokesman Seth Mnookin blocked me on Twitter from responding to his tweets, not for citing anything from Age of Autism, but for citing – of all sources – the CDC. Linking...
• Anti-NMDA-Receptor Encephalitis Added to DSM A ...
  By Teresa Conrick It was last year that I reported on Anti-NMDA-Receptor Encephalitis and a connection to Autism. My daughter had some prominent symptoms and I was looking into the dynamics of this increasing medical condition. Meg tested negative and...
• Dr. Peter Harvey: In Memoriam
  As a consultant neurologist at the Royal Free Hospital, London, Peter Harvey was one of thirteen authors on the 1998 Lancet paper that first drew attention to the link between autism and bowel disease. Not once in all the time...
• Training Everyone to Deal With Autism
  By Anne Dachel August 2, 2012 Pasco, WA CBS 19 Mom: Autistic son denied haircut at Kennewick JC Penney HERE A Richland mom tells KEPR her son was denied a free haircut at the JC Penney salon because he has...
• Become a Champion for Safeminds
  Safeminds was founded to raise awareness, support research, change policy and focus national attention on the growing evidence of a link between mercury and neurological disorders like autism, attention deficit disorder, language delay and learning difficulties. We need your help!...

Global BDS Movement

• G4S loses its contract with the European Parli ...
  Campaigners had raised concerns about the role the company plays in equipping Israeli prisons in which Palestinian political prisoners are held in violation of international law
• Palestinian civil society and human rights org ...
  Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S, supplier to Israeli prisons at which political prisoners are detained
• BDS roundup: Los Angeles activists urge city t ...
  In this week’s BDS roundup from the Electronic Intifada, LA activists, international campaign urges Yves Béhar, university students in Pennsylvania protest, boycott activists, and more
• Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should ...
  The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been a significant instrument in the campaign to tear down Israel's democratic facade
• Scottish govt. helps Israeli company deal with BDS
  Documents obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government

Farm Wars

• Monsanto Capitalizes on Drought and Enslaves F ...
  Monsanto is by far one of the greatest disaster capitalists around. Not only does this paraiah of a company manufacture and sell genetically engineered crops (GMOs) that actually increase drought conditions, but it is now poised to capitalize on the very same conditions that it helps to cause.
• WHY in the World Are They Spraying? Lifts Veil ...
  Recently I had the opportunity to review a screener copy of the soon to be released film “WHY in the World Are They Spraying?.” In my opinion, this film is by far the most in-depth analysis of the chemtrail/geo-engineering issue that I have seen to date, clearly outlining the motives behind this ...
• The Lost American Dream: Living Off The Land
  Barb and Tink have found a way to survive and minimize all of their expenses by growing their own food, bartering with neighbors and extreme budgeting with their small income.
• WHY in the World are They Spraying? Video Cont ...
  WHY in the World are They Spraying? Video contest in which the winner will receive $1000.00 via Paypal or if in the United States, airfare, Hotel, and a free 3 day pass to the premier and Consciousness Beyond Chemtrails event up to $1000 in value.
• The Day ‘Our America with Lisa Ling’ Came to F ...
  I am happy to announce that an opportunity to extend the Farm Wars food independence and survival message to a wider audience came when Darcy Dennett contacted me about filming an episode of Our America with Lisa Ling titled Lost American Dream on the OWN network. Well, that’s right up our alley ...

Open Your Eyes News

• NYPD Unveils Crime- And Terror-Fighting ‘Domai ...
  CBS – A dramatic new way to track criminals and potential terrorists was unveiled Wednesday by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly. It melds cameras, computers and data bases capable of nabbing bad guys before they even know they’re under suspicion. Read Article
• Are you getting the most out of Open Your Eyes ...
  Open Your Eyes News has been created with two key intentions in mind: - To provide the big picture of world news 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; - To be an easy to use repository of news articles for researchers in all fields. Read our simple guide on how to most effectively [...]
• Bo Xilai scandal: Gu Kailai on trial for Neil ...
  BBC – The first day of the trial of the wife of former high-flying Chinese lawmaker Bo Xilai on charges of murdering UK businessman Neil Heywood has ended. Gu Kailai is accused of poisoning Mr Heywood in 2011 in Chongqing, where her husband was the Communist party head. State media has cal ...
• Prosecutors seek jail for Russian punks
  AAP – Prosecutors want three years’ jail for members of a feminist punk band who performed an anti-Vladimir Putin stunt in Moscow’s main cathedral. Prosecutors have called for three-year sentences for the members of a feminist punk band who performed an anti-Vladimir Putin stun ...
• High Bicarbonate Tied to Lower Diabetes Risk
  MedPage Today – Women with high plasma levels of bicarbonate were at decreased risk for developing type 2 diabetes, a nested case-control study showed. Those whose plasma bicarbonate exceeded the median level of 22.4 mmol/L at baseline were less likely to develop diabetes over a period of ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

• Community Latrines in India
  Many slum communities in India have this type of shared, public latrine, which, while helpful when brand new, can deteriorate within a couple of years.
• An Empowered 6th Grader
  Parchurjya Bairagi was elected by his classmates to learn about good hygiene and sanitation, and to share what he'd learned with others. The results have reached far beyond his school walls.
• A Lighter Load in Ethiopia
  Letebrehan Gerezgiher is 24 years old and has three kids; Maytsada village is living in this small village. She says,”I used to travel two hours in the dry season in search of water and then, without taking a rest, prepare food for my children and husband, clean the house yard, and wash the chil ...
• Collecting Water in Majidpur
  A family collects drinking water from a newly installed submersible pump water supply system in the Majidpur slum of Savar in India. The water system was installed through the assistance of DSK and Water.org's WaterCredit program. At present, 19 poor households are using this water system.
• Learning About Sanitation
  Mrs. Bhagya Shrinivas is a resident of Karthikere village & panchayath Chikamagaluru district in India. She has recently married Mr. Shrinivas who is a small businessman with a small petty shop in Karthikere. They have their own house and live there alone.

Before It's News

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
  arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
• "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
  Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
  uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
  Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
• Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
  In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

• Meghalaya Road Mishap Kills 32
  The accident took place at Tamseng village in East Jayantia hills district of Meghalaya on the wee hours of Wednesday, when a passenger bus fell into deep gorge.
• US and South Africa Strengthen Bilateral Ties
  According to Ms. Clinton, both countris are building a partnership that adds value -- saving and improving lives, spreading opportunity and sparking economic growth, and strengthening the institutions of democracy.
• Laila Tyabji Preserves Traditional Handmade Wo ...
  Today, even as she continues with her endeavour to link 21st century India with its centuries old handicrafts tradition, her new mission is to make this sector financially attractive to entrepreneurs.
• New Novel Documents Stories of Women's Repress ...
  'The Taliban Cricket Club' thus aptly reflects Rukhsana the rebel's desire to break free from the shackles of an inhuman existence and an oppressive regime under which women make news only when they are tortured or given the death sentence.
• Ernesto Re-Emerges Over The Southwestern Gulf ...
  AccuWeather.com reports after Ernesto re-emerges over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico, it will make landfall near Veracruz, Mexico, and will push inland unleashing torrential rain and flooding.

Worldnews

• 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...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)
  Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.
• Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?
  With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.
• U.S. Troops ‘Killing for Sport’ in Afghanistan ...
  Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.

MY Daily Apple

• Our Genes Are Not Yet Ready For So Many Wheat- ...
  According to an expert in digestive disorders, the current rise in dietary problems related to gluten could be due to over reliance on wheat-based products...
• Programs Launched To Develop Medical Counterme ...
  Concerns about terrorist attacks, the prospect of a rogue nation using nuclear weapons and the Fukushima power plant accident in Japan are fostering efforts to develop a new family of drugs that everyone hopes will never be used, according to an article in the current edition of Chemical & Engin ...
• ScienceShot: Magnetic Tornadoes Rage on the Sun
  Pervasive swirling vortexes may heat the solar corona
• Eating Vegetables May Protect Pancreas, Study ...
  4 servings a day cut risk of acute pancreatitis by 44% compared to 1 helping, researchers say Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Nutrition, Pancreatitis
• Phylogeny: Rewriting evolution
  Tiny molecules called microRNAs are tearing apart traditional ideas about the animal family tree.

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Examine Religion - Tweets

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• ExamineReligion: Joplin mosque raises half its ...
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• ExamineReligion: The Christian life: Running t ...
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Energy Collective

• Will the Green Button Report Real Time Power U ...
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• South Pacific nations making big moves in solar PV
  When you have been in solar pv for twenty years, your enthusiasm starts to rub off on family and friends who get terribly excited and think of you every time they see a solar pathlight . Bless them.
• The rebound effect: the ACEEE strikes back
  The significance of the “rebound effect”  remains a matter of some debate. (The rebound effect is the frequently observed tendency for energy efficiency improvements to increase consumer use of the now more efficient good or service).
• Advancing Wind Power
• Are Films the Answer to Understanding Energy's ...

Green House - USA Today

• Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...
  How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
• What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...
  What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
• U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...
  Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
• Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers
  Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
• Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hike
  President Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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Peoples Voice

• Mitt Romney's gaffes abroad show that his numb ...
  By Mamoon Alabbasi US presidential candidate Mitt Romney ended a three-country world tour of Britain, Israel and Poland without appearing to have learned much from his overseas trip. Even in his attempts to water-down the impact of some of his gaffes, following an influx of negative press, he s ...
• 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 much not the case. Primakov said: "Mercenaries and volunteers from other s ...
• Obama's War on Humanity
  by Stephen Lendman Obama targets humanity at home and abroad. Illinoisans paying attention knew long ago. He served as senator for the state's 13th district. He sold out straightaway. Real estate interests had their man. Gentrification demolitions rewarded them. Poor folks were driven ...
• Thinking the Unthinkable in Turkey - What if A ...
  If saying it were so could make it so, the Syrian government would have toppled by now. United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has called for Assad to leave Syria at nearly every stop on her not so diplomatic missions of late. She and the NATO countries support the Syrian rebels. A ...
• To War or Not to War
  by Stephen Lendman Will Obama wage more wars or won't he? He's already fighting multiple direct and proxy ones. November elections approach. Electoral priorities dictate policy. On the one hand, Americans are fed up with wars. More risks offending supporters who want current ones ended. ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Next Up: Calling young leaders in Vancouver, E ...
  Next Up taking applications for 2012/13 programs in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Saskatoon Next Up -- A leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice Next Up is an amazing, intensive and transformative program for young social change activists between the ...
• Bargaining Power and Job Quality in the United ...
  The age and educational attainment of the US workforce have increased significantly since 1979.  Since older and better educated workers generally have higher pay and better benefits, one might expect a greater share of workers to be in good jobs today compared to 30 years ago. In a Center ...
• Crime and Declining Unionization
  In an article entitled "Crime and the Decline of Unions," economics professors Robert Baumann and Bryan Engelhardt of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts estimate the elasticity of crime with respect to union membership.  They contend that the drop in US union membersh ...
• Final Report Released on CAW-CEP New Union Project
  The final report of the proposal committee for a new union combining the CAW and CEP contains many intriguing ideas, not least being the 5 regional councils, funded by a separate per capita levy, that give the new union the feel of a labour central.  All local unions in each region will be ...
• Low-income residents face housing challenges i ...
  In addition to the usual challenges of finding affordable, good quality housing that meets their needs, many low-income tenants have trouble maintaining their housing, often because their rents increase sharply or their units are converted to condominiums.  To learn more ...

World Wide Hippies

• Revolution 99 Updates: “Can we talk&#822 ...
  Occupy Coachella Valley trial begins RIVERSIDE — Testimony got under way Tuesday in the trial of four Palm Desert residents accused of unlawful activity connected with last fall’s Occupy Coachella Valley protests. Stephen Mark Finger, 59, Jack Lee Noftsger, 28, Dustin David Powell, 32, and ...
• Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Thursday
  US STARTS LANDMARK AGENT ORANGE CLEANUP IN VIETNAM DANANG, Vietnam (AP) — The United States on Thursday began a landmark project to clean up a dangerous chemical left from the defoliant Agent Orange – 50 years after it was first sprayed by American planes on Vietnam’s jungles t ...
• Polarizing the Continuum
  By Phil Polizatto,WWH – The divisiveness in this country is almost palpable. Why is that? The mainstream media and cable TV’s political pundits must laugh in their studios as they watch us, expecting us to crawl to our respective polar corners. They want us to come out fighting. They need ...
• Silly Dictator Story #14: No Donkeys At The Well
  From rferl.org/ - When Tajik President Emomali Rahmon ventures from Dushanbe, it’s always a big deal. The streets are cleaned, the poems and songs of praise are practiced, and now, at least in the city of Kulob, people’s water-toting donkeys will be kept at home. In preparation for President Rah ...
• Of Mice And Men: The Execution of Marvin Wilson
  By ANDREW COHEN,theatlantic.com - At 6:26 p.m local time last night, an hour or so after the last appeal was denied, Texas executed a mentally retarded black man named Marvin Wilson, a man who could not handle money or navigate a phone book, a man who sucked his thumb and could not always tell t ...

FourWinds10

• Oil Pipeline Breaks on Blackfeet Reservation; ...
  Blackfeet Oil Ravine.m4v http://youtu.be/VG6eJvq0UI8   Tuesday, July 19, 2011 Oil Pipeline Breaks on Blackfeet Reservation; Significant Volume of Oil Floods Cut Bank River, Montana (Video) Destini Vaile and Reed Perry http://www.activistpost.com/2011/07/oil-pipeline-breaks-on-blackfeet.
• INSIDE Your Home: The Ugly Invaders Which Can ...
• Photos: Oil At BP's Deepwater Horizon Gulf Spi ...
• Windsor abuzz with mystery hum rocking neighbo ...
  105 Comments Purchase Image The Canadian ministry of environment set up seismic monitors, but there has been no answer for the noise people have heard for months. / ANDRE J. JACKSON/Detroit Free Pres WINDSOR -- Windsor attorney David Robins first heard the low rumbling while he was watching the ...
• MONTEZUMA WELL UNDER ATTACK AGAIN! PLEASE SIG ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Climate Change and Developing Countries
  This post continues a theme I covered in my book Power Plays. Part 1 covered the impact on oil price and supply in Petroleum Demand in Developing Countries. Here I discuss some of the climate change implications. Climate Change Implications Regardless of one’s beliefs on climate change, it ...
• Why China is Getting Their Feet Wet in the Oil ...
  In last week’s Energy Trends Insider our featured stories were Why China is Dipping Their Feet in the Canadian Oil Sands, CNOOC’s Purchase of Nexen May Signal New Wave of Consolidation, and Subscriber Questions on Lanzatech and Butanol. As we have done previously, we would like to sh ...
• Petroleum Demand in Developing Countries
  Note: I am still traveling, and my posting schedule won’t return to normal until after August 11th. This article was originally written for World Business Magazine in Singapore, and explores one of the themes I covered in my book Power Plays. I am breaking it up into two parts. The first d ...
• Analyzing Coskata’s Major Strategy Shift
  In last week’s Energy Trends Insider our featured stories were How to Make Money in Solar as Every Solar Manufacturer Goes Bankrupt, Analyzing Coskata’s Major Strategy Shift, and Rough Road For Biobutanol. As we have done previously, we would like to share one of those stories with r ...
• The Facts About Canada’s Oil Sands and Climate ...
  Misinformation is hard to stamp out, because it tends to be repeated - so Robert Rapier goes in depth to examine Climate Change claims around the Keystone XL pipeline.

Discovery Educator Network

• Grazing for Digital Natives - Infographics
  Comments:The great (former DEN Genius) Jennifer Dorman has developed thiis fantastic resource regarding infographics.   - Dean MantzTags: infographic, infographics, digitalfootprint, JenniferDorman, Cliotech, wikispacesby: Dean Mantz
• QR Codes in the Classroom | TeachBytes
  Tags: qr codes, classroom, web2.0, tools, resourcesby: Carolyn Rains
• MY RESEARCH AND TOP 10 WEB 2.0 TOOLS IN XXI CE ...
  Comments:Proud to be Leader in Cop2 organized in SMILE :) project  managed by European Schoolnet . I tried to describe here my top 10 Social Media Curation tools to develop a PLN . Please add your feed-back and add comments with your  favorite startups to build a PLN here http://bitly.com/collab ...
• 50 resources for iPad use in the classroom | ZDNet
  Tags: ipad, resources, apps, classroom, edtech, ipads, ios, educationby: Fred Delventhal
• Assignments - MrRoughton.com
  Tags: choice, menu, differentiated, instructionby: Jackie Gerstein

Rodale News

• The Nickel Pincher: Have the Easiest, Most Del ...
  Every championship griller will tell you the same thing: The secret to good barbecue is all in the sauce—or the rub. Your grocer's shelves are lined with spice blend recipes dreamed up by celebrity chefs (if you believe the labels) sure to wow any barbecue fanatic. But they're also loaded down ...
• Your Supplement's False Promises
  Ever since the invention of the Flintstones vitamin, savvy marketers have successfully convinced Americans that the best way to stay healthy is with a tiny Dino-shaped, candy-flavored pill. And why not? We're told every day of the benefits of this vitamin or that supplement and given to think t ...
• 3 Weird Problems With Your Seafood
  The seafood aisle can work for you or against you. The right fish can do wonders for your health, while the wrong type could slowly be poisoning you. By now, you've probably heard that mercury-tainted fish is a no-no…but what about seafood hopped up on caffeine? Scientists are figuring out that ...
• Are Your Office Lights Giving You Skin Cancer?
  You probably never thought you'd have to worry about getting skin cancer while sitting inside all day…but guess again! Scientists from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, have just published a study suggesting that those ubiquitous energy-efficient compact-fluorescent (CFL) bulbs cou ...
• The Food Companies Spending the Most to Hide t ...
  Surveys repeatedly show that more than 90 percent of Americans want genetically modified (GM) foods labeled. That overwhelming majority of the public wants to know if it's eating ingredients derived from lab-created plants that have been genetically modified to resist (and sometime even create ...

big think

• New Software Helps Employers Read Your Emotion ...
  What's the Latest Development? New software developed for Microsoft's workplace social network, Yammer, can gauge the emotions of employees using the network by analyzing the messages they sent through it. Once the software is activated on a company's Yammer network, "it offers managers ...
• New Battery Set to Be a Boom for Green Industries
  What's the Latest Development? Advances in renewable energy technologies, which have occurred rapidly over the last decade, remain somewhat mitigated by the difficulty in storing the energy they produce. But a new water-based sodium-ion battery, developed at Murdoch’s School of Chemical ...
• How Soon Until Robots Teach Elementary School?
  What's the Latest Development? Any widespread adoption of robots into society will depend on their ability to interact subtly with humans, reading our gestures and emotional cues accurately and responding appropriately. Currently, a National Science Foundation project aims to "develop ro ...
• How Will the South China Sea Disputes Be Resolved?
  There’s growing concern that tensions over territorial disputes in the South China Sea could escalate into a military confrontation between China and its neighbors—a confrontation, many argue, that would inexorably draw in the United States.  Bonnie Glaser, a leading figure on U.S.-China relatio ...
• Re-Adjusting My Sexy Goggles
  Female Olympians are rightly angry that their bodies have been criticized in petty ways. The Brazilian soccer team was called “a bit chubby,” and weightlifters have been called “fat” and criticized for looking like “blokes.” Twitter twitted over gold medal gymnast Gabby Douglas’…ponytail. “What’ ...

Information Liberation

• Cop Detains Woman, Allegedly Takes Her To Dark ...
  Juan Senabre, a six-year veteran police officer with the Homestead police in Florida, allegedly has a unique way of getting his jollies. After arresting a woman for having a suspended licence, he allegedly drove her to a dark alley, turned his ligh...
• Video: Police Raid On The Mansion Of Megauploa ...
  For more than six months there have been claims and counterclaims about what happened in January when New Zealand police raided the mansion of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom. Now video of the event has been released to the public and it includes h...
• Neocon Attack Ad Says Ron Paul Supports Slaver ...
  David Carlson, a neocon Republican party primary candidate for the U. S. Senate in Minnesota releases quite possibly the most ridiculous attack ad ever. ...
• Police Raid Wrong House, Kill Family Dog & Mak ...
  There are times when, despite the potential seriousness of a crime, a little compassion is in order for those and their families, for children cannot be held responsible for the crimes of their parents. They especially should not be made to suffer...
• Should Police & Military Be Blamed For Their C ...
  Are police and military to blame for their criminal actions, or does the ultimate responsibility for their crimes fall on their leaders? AnCapper Ben Lowrey clarifies the issue. - Chris, InfoLib...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• 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 ...
• Dr Who. It’s for kids…
  …as Al Murray would have it…but that doesn’t mean us big kids cannot watch it and run behind the sofa crying for Mummy all over again when the Daleks appear! The Guardian describes the five new episodes that will air before Christmas 2012 as the big finale to Steven Moffat&#821 ...
• Damaged electronic goods
  Electronic devices are susceptible to damage from radiation, potentially cosmic radiation and even ultraviolet radiation. A study using spectroscopy reveals that the amount of optical damage, as opposed to structural damage, that can be caused may be more than ten times greater than studies sugg ...
• Damaged electronic goods
  Electronic devices are susceptible to damage from radiation, potentially cosmic radiation and even ultraviolet radiation. A study using spectroscopy reveals that the amount of optical damage, as opposed to structural damage, that can be caused may be more than ten times greater than studies sugg ...

RFF Library

• Toxic Power: How Power Plants Contaminate Our ...
  Natural Resources Defense Council http://docs.nrdc.org/air/air_11072001.asp [From Press Release]  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 C ...
• Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles: Made for E ...
  International Transport Forum http://bit.ly/Jf66jR (discussion paper) http://bit.ly/N7bMi4 (policy brief) …In a paper looking at the potential of Smart Grids and electric vehicles to change and improve electricity systems worldwide, the International Transport Forum found that: ► Smart Gri ...
• Medium-Term Gas Market Report 2012
  International Energy Agency (available to RFFers on OECD iLibrary; username and password on library landing page) http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/content/book/9789264177987-en The  IEA Medium-Term Gas Market Report 2012 reviews how gas markets managed the challenges of 2011, from the consequences o ...
• Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for Citie ...
  National Wildlife Federation http://bit.ly/S3cakP (click on “NWF’s Community-Based Work”) [Website] NWF is working with a set of communities to better understand their adaptation needs, challenges, and to generate early examples of successful nature-based adaptation approaches. ...
• The Rebound Effect: Large or Small?
  American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy/ by Steven Nadel http://aceee.org/white-paper/rebound-effect-large-or-small [Website] As the energy efficiency of products, homes, and businesses improves, it becomes less expensive to operate them. The rebound effect is a postulate that people in ...

Scientific American - News

• Heaven on Earth: Cosmic Particles and Extrater ...
  Soon, the jeep-size rover Curiosity will trace its first six-wheeled tracks over the Martian surface. Over the next 23 months, Curiosity will scoop dust and drill into rocks for clues to the Red Planet's past. Although those samples won't make it back to Earth, some Martian rocks are a ...
• Do Criminal Trials Help Us Heal from Mass Shoo ...
  Americans know mass shootings like the Ancient Greeks knew tragedy. It’s a narrative, played out in stereotyped acts. Confusion begets horror. Rescue teams arrive. We tally the dead. Reporters introduce us to the face of evil. And in a final, protracted scene, a dazed killer sits subdued b ...
• Avatar Officer Installed at Arizona-Mexico Bor ...
  People crossing the Mexican border into Nogales, Ariz., this week will have a chance to meet U.S. Customs and Border Protection's newest officer--a polite yet no-nonsense bilingual gatekeeper with a thick shock of black hair and a striped gray tie. He may not have a name or join his fellow ...
• NASA's Curiosity Rover Lands Safely on Mars
  The seven minutes of terror are over. [More]
• Can Facebook Show How to Reduce the Growing En ...
  More than 750 million users, 532 million kilowatt-hours of energy consumption and the attendant 285,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide : those are Facebook's numbers for 2011. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois démissionne.
  Sortie honorable. Superbe sortie de scène de Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois. Dernière salve virulente envers le voleur de bien commun national : Jean Charest. Après plus de six mois au centre de l'attention médiatique GND laisse sa marque au sei ...
• Growth in HRM: How to Do It Right?
  The Halifax Regional Municipality is growing. The HRM's population grew 4.7% between 2006 and 2011, with most of that growth taking place in the municipality's suburbs.  Just how Halifax should grow has become an iss ...
• Unistoten Action Camp
  Beginning on August 5th, the Unistoten, a clan of the Wet'suwet'en Nation, have established a checkpoint located on the bridge over the Morice River. The checkpoint is in the path of the proposed Pacific Trails Pipeline south of Smithers in Northern British Columbia. It is being implemen ...
• Faces of Resistance to Corporate Sludge in Dun ...
  Do you want your food growing in sludge? Do you want sludge poisoning two rivers?   The government is promoting the recycling of poisons into the food chain. There is a dangerous project to build a new sewage treatment (&lsq ...
• The Co-op Covers Council
  Aug. 7: Ferry service downsized, HRM residents speak their minds, and the Metro Centre gets another looking-over Tuesday’s Halifax Regional Council meeting got off to a late start — well, for the public, that is. Shortly after c ...

David Seaton's News Links

• A dream called “hope” in the potter’s field
  I’m on vacation and among the books I’m reading is “It’s the Middle Class, Stupid!” by James Carvillle and Stan Greenberg, a book I strongly recommend to anyone of any political leaning, anywhere, who is interested in where the world’s greatest economy is headed and what that journey to has mean ...
• Bibi Netanyahu and Israel's primal fallacy
  David Seaton's News Links (David Grossman) said he feared that Netanyahu and Barak would bomb Iran partly out of a perceived strategic need to back up their threats with action, but also because of what he sees as Netanyahu’s sense of historic responsibility to save the “people of eternity.” ...
• Thomas Friedman attacks Adelson, Netanyahu, AI ...
  David Seaton's News LinksCertain people have more credibility than others when talking about certain subjects. For example, if Warren Buffet says that rich people should pay more taxes, nobody would accuse him of fomenting "class warfare". That is because he will be the one that ends up pay ...
• The pain in Spain and America's iron jaw
  David Seaton's News LinksThis remobilisation of Spanish society, lulled into comfort and complacency during the boom years, in some senses recalls the fevered political and street activity of the transition to democracy after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco in 1975. Yet it is more amo ...
• James Holmes: a budding neuroscientist runs amok
  David Seaton's News Links So this is just what one of America's many faces is going to be a bitterly divided, hatefully cynical country where insane people have easy access to semi-automatic weapons, and occasionally use them to commit senseless atrocities. We will continue to see more and mo ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Mitt Romney Sure Does Lie a Lot, Doesn't He?
  Paul Waldman has done a lot of academic research on political ads. In fact, he says, he has personally watched "every single presidential general election campaign ad ever aired since the first ones in 1952." So what does he think of Mitt Romney's new ad that claims President Obama has a plan f ...
• Unemployment Claims Continue to be Stubbornly High
  Steve Benen put up his weekly chart of initial unemployment claims today, and I thought it might be useful to put up a slightly different version of the chart. This one is a 4-week moving average, so it removes a bit of noise from the figures, and it starts in January, so it shows us only how t ...
• Mitt Romney is the Only Conservative Left Who ...
  The conservative blathering class went bananas yesterday when Mitt Romney's press secretary pushed back against an ad implying that Romney was responsible for the death of a woman whose husband was laid off from a company that went bankrupt under Bain Capital. Nobody minded the pushback. What t ...
• Kevin Drum Smackdown Watch: I Was Wrong About ...
  Given my earlier whining about the whiners who don't like NBC's tape-delayed coverage of the Olympics, Matt Bruenig tweets that I should be interested in a new Gallup poll on this subject. And I am! But maybe not for the reason he thinks. Here are the results: First of all: why do people ...
• The Great HFC-23 Scam
  A few years ago, Congress passed a tax credit for companies that agree to mix some kind of alternative fuel into their fossil fuels. In theory, this reduces greenhouse gas emissions and is good for the environment. But the paper industry found a loophole: they already use an alternative fuel c ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

• CO2-focused breeding can arm crops for food fight
  Higher CO2 levels could ensure we have enough food in the face of other climate and population changes, says Lewis Ziska from the US Department of Agriculture, if crop breeding programs tailored to take advantage get enough support
• Continued emission growth promises US megadroughts
  2000-2004 western US drought was worst in 800 years, but will become normal in future, reversing the region’s absorption of CO2 and worsening climate change, says Christopher Schwalm from Northern Arizona University
• Developed countries duck warming responsibility
  Rich countries have emitted 2/3 of CO2 through history but their pledges are set to result in just 1/3 of any future warming slowdown, says a study that combines climate, social, economic and ecological science by Xuefeng Cui and John Moore from Beijing Normal University and their colleagues.
• Society must respond 50 times faster to meet l ...
  Using climate-society feedbacks Andrew Jarvis and colleagues from Lancaster University, UK, predict that the world is on course for 6°C of warming, but this could be much lower with even a slightly stronger response, if we make it quickly
• Rich versus poor obstructs climate progress
  Though the 45,000 strong international Rio+20 meeting last month seemingly did little for climate change and the environment, social and economic issues must be resolved for such negotiations to be successful in future.

e!Science News

• The difference between a mole and shrew is in ...
  The family of small insectivores, Talpidae, includes the moles, shrew moles, and aquatic desmans. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal EvoDevo has found that the enlargement of moles' digging front paws, compared to their feet, is controlled by altered timing of express ...
• Drivers of marine biodiversity: Tiny, freeload ...
  What mechanisms control the generation and maintenance of biological diversity on the planet? read more
• UF researchers discover earliest use of Mexica ...
  A new University of Florida study shows the turkey, one of the most widely consumed birds worldwide, was domesticated more than 1,000 years earlier than previously believed. read more
• Hyenas that think outside the box solve proble ...
  Innovative problem solving requires trying many different solutions. That's true for humans, and now Michigan State University researchers show that it's true for hyenas, too. read more
• Oh, my stars and hexagons! DNA code shapes gol ...
  DNA holds the genetic code for all sorts of biological molecules and traits. But University of Illinois researchers have found that DNA's code can similarly shape metallic structures. read more

unEarthed

• Kayford Mountain, Prettiest Lady I've Ever Seen
  Some love stories captured on video She said, “Do you cheat on me?” He said, “Sure I do.” “Do I know her?" “Sure yo ...
• Winning The Debate On Fracking
  The law and the facts are on our side Earthjustice attorney Deborah Goldberg came out victorious in a recent Intelligence Squared debate over whether the natural ...
• What It Means To Be A Resource Colony
  Will the eco-conscious Pacific Northwest become a coal-shipping hub? Author Wendell Berry has examined the relationship of rural America with the nation’s urban centers. ...
• The Wild West Targets Wolves Again
  Wyoming wants gray wolves off the endangered species list The anti-wolf crowd in Wyoming has this irrational fear of wolves, and no amount of evidence can calm ...
• Earth’s Great Storyteller -- Water
  Cousteau legacy aids fight against mountaintop removal mining Alexandra Cousteau. One of the biggest threats to water in Appalachia is mountaintop removal. En ...

Brave New Climate

• Fit-for-service low-carbon electricity technol ...
  This article (by Barry Brook) was originally published on The Conversation website until the title: “Low-carbon electricity must be fit-for-service (and nuclear power is)“. You can wade through the 224 comments over there (if you dare…) See also the comment here by Keith Orchis ...
• No easy substitutes for fossil fuels
  The following guest post is republished (with permission from the author) from Opinion Online. Tom Biegler, who wrote this piece, worked with Martin Nicholson and me on our 2010 Energy paper, How carbon pricing changes the relative competitiveness of low-carbon baseload generating technologies. ...
• Is the Olympic Dam mine a special case?
  Here is an Op Ed published by Geoff Russell and me in the The Adelaide Advertiser newspaper this week. It was in response to this piece by Jim Green. ———— OLYMPIC Dam uranium can power Australia four times over and close all our coal mines, write Geoff Russell and Barry B ...
• Does energy efficiency reduce emissions and pe ...
  Guest Post by Graham Palmer. Graham is an industrial engineer and energy commenter from Melbourne. For another BNC post featuring his work, see Coal dependence and the renewables paradox. This post summarises the findings of a paper just published in the peer-reviewed journal Sustainability by G ...
• Radio debate on nuclear power for addressing c ...
  Yesterday I debated nuclear energy and climate change on 891 ABC radio with Greens Senator Scott Ludlum, on the afternoon show hosted by Sonya Feldhoff. (It was a studio interview, so the audio quality is quite good.) We had a decent amount of time to cover off on issues, including answering cal ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

• As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
  By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
• The Evolution of the Butterfly
  Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
• After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
  This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:
• Fault Lines: History of an Occupation
• Wall Street Pirates – Shepard Fairey & J ...
  Shepard Fairey and Jamie Reid print collaboration.

+972

• Does the left unfairly single out Israel? A re ...
  The one-state solution is anti-Semitic? In response to a piece recently published in the Forward, Jerry Haber takes down, one by one, criticisms of the left we’ve heard time and time again.  By Jeremiah Haber Recently, Forward contributing editor Jay Michaelson wrote a long piece challengi ...
• The problem with Netanyahu’s judgment, when it ...
  Why was a paragraph removed from a Haaretz op-ed concerning an attack on Iran? Dr. Avner Cohen, the unofficial historian of the Israeli nuclear program, noticed today that a paragraph that appeared in the Hebrew print edition of a Haaretz op-ed by Sefi Rachlevski revealed for the first time a fe ...
• High Court upholds flawed procedure on torture ...
  The High Court of Justice upheld the procedure regarding complaints of torture against Shin Bet agents, despite the fact that this procedure resulted in no investigations after nearly 600 complaints The High Court of Justice has upheld a controversial procedure governing investigations into alle ...
• Racial profiling on Tel Aviv beaches: A shared ...
  Inspectors in Tel Aviv once responsible for keeping beaches clean can now stop people they suspect of illegally residing in Israel. Like Arizona’s notorious S.B.1070 law, this could result in gross violations of the rights of both Israeli citizens and immigrants. Is this what politicians m ...
• Bloggingheads: The U.S. election and the fate ...
  Mitt Romney sparked controversy during his visit to Jerusalem last week, thanks to a series of comments he made about Jews and Palestinians. Naturally, his comments about Palestinian culture being inferior to Jewish culture, and God’s unfavorable bias against Palestinians, angered many Pal ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Funding for study into South Australian irriga ...
  The Gillard Government will provide up to $1.2 million to explore new proposals to improve irrigation efficiency in South Australia.
• Statement on Shark Attacks in Western Australia
  The recent tragedies in Western Australian waters are an awful loss. My thoughts are with the families and friends of those people who have been attacked.
• Manly Golf Course receives stormwater boost
  Manly Golf Course will save water and enhance its playing surfaces following the completion of its stormwater harvesting and reuse project.
• Final consultation on Commonwealth marine rese ...
  The final round of public comment on the Gillard Government's plans to create the world's biggest network of marine reserves begins today.
• Australia's largest land conservation area - ever
  A huge new reserve has been declared in Central Australia, becoming Australia's largest ever land conservation zone and creating a major link in the Trans-Australia Eco-link corridor.

Matt Weidner Blog

• More Foreclosures Are Not The Answer to The Fo ...
  More Foreclosures Will Not Solve The Foreclosure Problem. What’s that they say about doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result?  Well, we’ve been  doing the foreclosure Kabuki dance in this country for a little bit longer than a few days now and no one, not anyone ...
• The Fascists on Parade, Florida’s Attorn ...
  TALLAHASSEE — Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is quietly feuding with the GOP-controlled Legislature over who should have a say over more than $300 million intended to help homeowners. Florida is directly receiving $334 million as part of its share of a national $25 billion settlement with fi ...
• Rick Scott’s Old Firm Faces New Federal ...
  Florida’s Overlord Rick Scott can spin it all he wants to, but the reality is he made his personal fortune, in part, by bilking the federal government from hundreds of millions of dollars.  In doing so, he ripped health care away from  old people and children.  Elderly people and children ...
• Millionaire Buys EVERY Foreclosed Home In A Co ...
  MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. –  A Michigan millionaire decided to go into the real estate business with a bang last week by buying every tax foreclosed property offered at a recent county auction. MyFoxDetroit.com reports Bill McMachen, a businessman and former yacht dealer, paid about $4.8 billion for ...
• Another SCRA, Soldier Abuse Story…Capito ...
  (It’s a great story, but I have yet to find a single soldier who has taken any real benefit…) WASHINGTON — Capital One has agreed to pay $12 million to resolve allegations the bank violated special consumer protections in federal law for members of the military, the Justice Dep ...

abelard - news

• the lost playing fields of england - still mor ...
  Of course, they aren't lost - it's more socialist disinformation.
• on keeping to the coalition agreement and lord ...
  Clegg has misconstrued the Coalition Agreement in his fervour to trash the House of Lords.
• a report commissioned by sarkozy - gdp | econo ...
  A book that could help clarify such conundrums as GDP going up while quality of life is going down.
• updated: current fuel prices in france | franc ...
  Despite falling crude prices, fuel prices are rising, this time because of the euro continuing to weaken (meaning more euros needed to buy each barrel of oil).
• gross domestic product | economics zone at abe ...
  What this much-bandied about term means in fact, and what politicians claim it means.

The Parallel Parliament

• The Human Code (2) – Let’s All Be ...
  As humans, it can be a dangerous thing to permit ourselves to be divided into divisive camps. One of the …Continue reading »
• The Human Code
  I was honoured to host two soldiers who had just returned from Afghanistan. One asked if they could view Question …Continue reading »
• Humanity – “Is George Clooney Ther ...
  “Is George Clooney right there, with you? Can you see if we can get an interview with him?” This wasn’t …Continue reading »
• Humanity – The Revenge of the Id
  These last few days have provided a bit of a revelation. I decided, unprompted, to monitor just how many times …Continue reading »
• Humanity – It’s Indifference
  One of modernism’s great paradoxes has been its inability to solve its own problems. It sounds counter-intuitive but that’s the …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

• By the grace of Allah – a water-powered car!
  TALK-SHOW hosts feted it. Politicians rode in it. Cabinet ministers discussed it. Well-known scientists backed it.
• AGW – “a monopoly that clings to o ...
  "For constructive critics, this is the problem with modern climate science. They don't think it's a conspiracy theory, but a monopoly that clings to one hypothesis (that carbon dioxide will cause dangerous global warming) and brooks less and less dissent. Again and again, climate skeptics are to ...
• The Luddite shades of Green
  The Green movement has become the cloak under which modern Luddites can hide and operate.
• Reported 1979-2008 U.S. temperature trends are ...
  The new improved assessment, for the years 1979 to 2008, yields a trend of +0.155C per decade from the high quality sites, a +0.248 C per decade trend for poorly sited locations, and a trend of +0.309 C per decade after NOAA adjusts the data.
• Olympics: OBS coverage is amateur and cycling ...
  OBS - provides all pictures from the Olympics to broadcasters around the world. Of course, OBS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the International Olympic Committee and hosts the broadcasting operation for several major sporting events. The coverage of Day 1 of the London Olympics was amateur rath ...

Left Foot Forward

• Comment: Olympics sexism still rife amongst tw ...
  John Millington looks at the sexist attitude of some Tweeters towards female athletes during the London 2012 Olympic Games.
• Natalie du Toit: The South African swimming se ...
  Winner of 10 gold Paralympic medals, Natalie du Toit intends to retire after her expected success at London 2012
• 0% growth forecast highlights need for stimulu ...
  The Bank of England’s latest warning that the economy has hit the buffers and will come grinding to a screeching halt later this year comes as no surprise.
• Olympic stars hit back at Cameron and Gove ove ...
  A raft of Olympic stars past and present have warned the government against cutbacks to school sport and the slashing of elite sport funding.
• Cameron blames teachers over school sport &#82 ...
  David Cameron has criticised state school teachers for not doing their bit for school sport.

Consumerist

• AT&T Offers Me A Discount On Wireless Service ...
  For the month of August, consumer advocate Christopher Elliott will occasionally be sharing some of the questions and problems he receives from readers. In this week's case, Pam's job entitles her to a discount on AT&T wireless service -- a discount she'd been promised would be applied to a ...
• If We Have To Deal With Increased Airline Fees ...
  It might seem too good to be true, but it isn't: The airline industry is in the midst of its best performance in regards to on-time flight arrivals since 1988. Cold comfort for the next time you're watching the clock tick your life away waiting to take off on a congested runway during the holida ...
• Over 1 Million GE Dishwashers Recalled As Flam ...
  If it's too hot, sure, you need to get out of the kitchen. But it shouldn't be literally too hot because your dishwasher is on fire. To that end, GE is recalling around 1.3 million of its dishwashers due to a possibility for the heating elements to fail and cause fires. The Consumer Product Safe ...
• Copyright Infringement Universe Collapses In O ...
  So here's a copyright infringement lawsuit involving the makers of Monster Energy Drink in which they are the ones being sued and not the ones claiming ownership of an incredibly common word. Instead, the beverage company is the target of a lawsuit brought by the Beastie Boys, who claim Monster ...
• NYC Shuts Down Trojan’s Roving Vibrator ...
  Any New Yorkers looking for a free buzz will be left frustrated, as the city shut down Trojan's roaming pleasure carts bearing free vibrators yesterday after crowds at the carts grew too large, causing the city to shut it all down. Time to go drown your sorrows in two smaller sized sodas instead ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Hitting the "Like" Button is Free Speech
  The Washington Post has an article today on how Daniel Carter Jr. was fired  for "liking" a page on Facebook. This was not a pornographic, racist, or other prohibited website – it was a Facebook page for a candidate who was challenging his boss. This is just the tip of ...
• GAP Lauds DOJ Whistleblower Ombudsman Position
  The Government Accountability Project praised the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Inspector General (OIG) for today's announcement of a new Whistleblower Ombudsman position. The job will include monitoring of whistleblowing disclosures and retaliation claims, communications with whist ...
• Fast & Furious Whistleblower Settles Retaliati ...
  NPR: Fast and Furious Whistle-blower Reaches Agreement Over Retaliation Claims Peter Forcelli, a GAP client and one of the whistleblowers involved in the 'Fast & Furious' scandal at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF), has settled his retaliation case with the ...
• GAP's Radack & Drake on The Daily Show: Daily ...
  GAP’s Radack & NSA Whistleblower Drake Appear on The Daily Show Summary: Last night, GAP National Security & Human Rights Director and NSA whistleblower/GAP client Thomas Drake appeared on The Daily Show, talking about Drake’s case – how he was charged under the Espionage Act for ...
• GAP's Radack & NSA Whistleblower Drake Appear ...
  We here at GAP are big fans of both whistleblower rights and funny things, though, for better or worse, they don't often cross paths. Until now! We were unimaginably delighted when The Daily Show with Jon Stewart aired a segment on whistleblowers last night. GAP National Security & ...

UK Progressive

• Romney To Push Elderly Into Poverty, Homelessness
  By Charley James There is a group of Americans who don’t have jobs, and are chronically short of money and assets but, unless they have been on the street for a long time because of an ongoing addiction problem or mental illness, do not suffer homelessness like the rest of the population: ...
• Editorial: Where’s My Father’s Republican Party?
  Dad passed of emphysema in February of 2003. He literally suffocated because of the cigarettes he would smoke one-by-one by placing his oxygen nose pieces on the back of the chair whilst using precious breaths to inhale the addictive smoke. Speak to him of regulating the cancer sticks that were ...
• Olympic Gymnast Gabby Douglas and That Other N ...
  Rev. Irene Monroe Gabrielle Christina Victoria “Gabby” Douglas is one of this year’s Olympic darlings. As a member of the U.S. Women’s Gymnastics team, Gabby is the first African American gymnast and woman of color, in Olympic history, to win gold medals in the individual ...
• If Harry Reid’s a ‘Dirty Liar’ Where’s John?
  “Attention John McCain, please pick up a white courtesy phone for a message.” John, you could seriously harm and perhaps derail the Romney Taxgate controversy with one simple statement… “Harry is lying. Mitt paid a large amount of taxes.” You, besides Mitt himself r ...
• Romney Fails in Overseas Trip
  by Brent Budowsky Adm. William McRaven, commander of Special Ops, recently offered President Obama high praise for his courage, preparation and decisiveness in ordering the mission that led to the death of Osama bin Laden. Mitt Romney, who has campaigned for the presidency of a nation at war for ...

NewsAlert

• Romney to Win in Landslide
  Ricochet
• SEC drops probe into Goldman Sachs' role in se ...
  The New York Post reports:The Securities and Exchange Commission has dropped an investigation into Goldman Sachs Group Inc's role in selling $1.3 billion worth of subprime mortgage securities, the investment bank said in a regulatory filing on Thursday. In February Goldman received a so-called ...
• Amtrak offering gay passengers a ‘ride with pride’
  The Hill
• 70% Off: Investor snaps up failed condo projec ...
  Crain's Chicago Real Estate reports:An opportunistic investor has spent just over $5 million for a failed 15-unit condominium development east of the United Center, where the challenge now is likely to be finding top-quality tenants for the first-floor retail space. A venture led by Elizabeth “ ...
• The U.S. Cities Getting Smarter The Fastest
  New Geography reports:It’s a commonplace among pundits and economic developers that smart people flock to “smart” places like sparrows to Capistrano. Reflecting the conventional wisdom, The New York Times recently opined that “college graduates gravitate to places with many other college graduat ...

JoNova

• Oreskes, the Queen of Climate Smear, Ignores t ...
  You’d expect a professor to have done the basic research. Naomi Oreskes is famous (of sorts) for the book: Merchants of Doubt — it seeds doubts about skeptics by saying that skeptic’s “seed doubts” about climate change. The skeptics seed doubts by questioning the e ...
• Ray Evans reviews The Denialist Victory
  Ray Evans writes a review below of Robert Manne’s essay in The Monthly entitled A Dark Victory: How vested interests defeated climate science. (Forgive me Ray for slipping in one or two thoughts of my own below). Ray Evans is the secretary of The Lavoisier Group one of the first original skeptic ...
• Don’t mention the Peer Review! New Zeala ...
  The Australians must have said something awful. In the never ending quest to hide information that the taxpayer paid for, the New Zealand trial of skeptics vs alarmists is rising to new heights. This is a legal case asking for discovery of documents, which is much harder to dodge than a simple F ...
• Site Hacked
  Well well. It is confirmed, this site was hacked at about 11am EST Australia this morning (9pm NY Time). We do not know what the motive was. It appears to be an XSS (Cross Site Script) type hack — for those who are interested. There are many log files to go through. News was posted on WUWT ...
• August 4th Weekend Unthreaded
  For all those thoughts that don’t fit somewhere else… - Rating: 10.0/10 (2 votes cast) Rating: 10.0/10 (2 votes cast)

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• Boise, Idaho – An Example of Bunker Options
  This is a short but useful video. A lot of people in Boise would know some or all of these locations, but perhaps not consider them should disaster strike. If you keep survival in the back of your mind, there are likely to be many places in your neighborhood you can discover that are safer than ...
• First Man-Made Species
  This would be of special interest to those who believe that humans are a hybrid species created by aliens (not me…). Moreno genetically modified the fruit flyDrosophila melanogaster so that this new species Drosophila synthetica cannot reproduce with the naturally occurring species of frui ...
• Aussie Bunker in the News
  In the last couple of days most Australian newspapers have run this story: A 2012 doomsday group is charging $5000 for admission to a survival bunker in the northern NSW hills. Massive earthquakes, shifts in the Earth’s poles and devastating solar flares will be among events faced by the ...
• Grid Vulnerability Warnings Continue
  Just over a year ago I summarized a Scientific American article that pointed out how at risk the U.S. power grids are, regardless of what the Sun might do: Every facet of the modern electrical grid is controlled by computers. It is our greatest example of physical infrastructure interlinked wit ...
• Zahi Hawass and the future of Egyptian Tourism
  With the ousting of the Mubarak regime last year, so went Zahi Hawass, Minister of Antiquities, and the face of ancient Egypt. An article at the Huffington Post looks into what happened to Hawass since (not much, seems like he is sitting around hoping to be reinstated…), and it provides s ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

• Afghan civilian casualties fall 1st time in 5 yrs
  NATO figures show that Taliban attacks between April and June this year were 11 percent higher than the same quarter in 2011. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
• Pak terrorist attacks killed at least 3,898 in ...
  At least 3,898 people have lost their lives in terrorist violence in Pakistan during the first seven months of the year. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
• Blast targets CRPF vehicle in Goalpara; none hurt
  Suspected ULFA militants detonated an IED targeting a CRPF team in Assam`s Goalpara district on Thursday, but none was hurt. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
• Geetika suicide: Former Haryana minister Gopal ...
  Former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda’s anticipatory bail was rejected by a Delhi District and Sessions court on Thursday. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
• Madness of Maoists: Why they feed on tribal people
  Naxalites are targeting a successful model of tribal self-rule and community forest rights because they want to recuit the tribals for their 'class war'. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago

Global Research TV

• West Attempts to Destabilize Syrian Government
• We are the Media Revolution: The Battle for Tr ...
• Putting a Stop to Radiation Exposure Practices
• Big Money Buys US Elections and Elected Officials
• CIA and Mossad on Syria Front Line

Daily Tech

• NOAA: July 2012 Warmest on Record in U.S.
  The first seven months of 2012 (January to July) were also the warmest of any on record since 1895
• Long Standing Evolutionary Mystery Solved, Man ...
  Path of human evolution continues to be enriched and elucidated by growing trove of fossil evidence
• Curiosity's Camera Project Manager Explains Wh ...
  Reasons included the amount of data produced, the fact that they had to meet the needs of different cameras, and the team's familiarity with these sensors
• Quick Note: Sony Xperia Tablet Images Leaked
  The leaks continue for Sony's new tablet
• $147.2M Verdict Against RIM Tossed Due to Mfor ...
  Judge rules that the jury decision was made based on inaccurate information; Mformation left with nothing

Oriental Review

• Afghan’s Narco-Jihad and Pentagon’ ...
  Curious information surfaced in the media last month – based on space reconnaissance, the US Department of Defense put together a map of Afghanistan showing in detail the country’s mineral riches which, as it transpired, may be quite impressive. The fact that Afghanistan sits on lucrative ...
• Syria: Splendour and Misery of Western Diplomacy
  The situation in and around Syria is still one of the most important issues being in focus of international events. This is the case when diplomacy equals military operations in importance. The failure of the UN Security Council resolution of July 19 to great extent spurred the diplomatic and mi ...
• Drugs An Instrument of Global Policy
  In the wake of World War II, the US and British political elites were confronted with a threat of socialism on a global scale. Fearing that a question mark might be hanging over their own future, they reacted by mobilizing resources – those on public display and deeply hidden – to implement a Ro ...
• NATO Preparing Vast Disinformation Campaign
  Syrians wanting to watch their national TV stations will probably see them replaced on their screens by TV programs created by the CIA. Studio-shot images will show massacres that are blamed on the Syrian Government, people demonstrating, ministers and generals resigning from their posts, Presid ...
• The SCO 2012 Shanghai Summit – on the Way to N ...
  The 12th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit took place in Beijing on June 6-7, 2012. The annual event brought together the heads of states to review and gauge the importance of the SCO in global affairs. China hosted the summit for the third time since its inception. The organization ...

BlogHer

• A Box Turtle Love Story
  Whether or not you have a box turtle in your childhood past, you will adore this story of a family's emotional dramas involving their turtle, Franklin. I'm not sure which is more fun to read, this post or its hilarious update, but either way, we always appreciate a rollicking near-death pet stor ...
• Grilled Steak Bruschetta
  I don't know about you, but there are a few specific things I look forward to every summer. Sure there is the sun, warm weather, blue skies, picnics, family vacations, and swimming. But you know me. I'm all about food, so it's no surprise that it's the main thing that I look forward to this seas ...
• How to Go Over Your Boss's Head to Get a Raise
  You've asked for a raise (several times). You've done the research, made your pitch about how it benefits both the company and you to receive and increase, and then....crickets... You don't hear a thing. Here's what to do if you need to go over your boss's head in order to get a raise. You’ ...
• Brandied Cherries for Desserts and Cocktails
  Face facts, people. It’s August. That means a few things. First, it’s going to be hotter than ever for the next few weeks, with everyone setting their sights on September and its (hopefully) cool, autumn relief. Second, it means that summer’s bounty of juicy fruits and fresh vegetables is c ...
• Taking the Harder Road of Parenting
  As our kids get older, I find I'm hearing Rob say a lot, "Let's try to make this into a teaching moment too," when something, or usually, someone, gets into a little bit of hot water. I guess sometimes my instinct is to just get mad, and then dish out the consequences and let the pieces fall wh ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Coal job numbers: Looking to the future
  Gazette photo by Chip Ellis If you missed it, we had a story in this morning’s Gazette (posted online last night) that provides the first glimpse at government data reflecting the jobs impact on the layoffs various coal operators have announced since the first of the year. Here’s a b ...
• PATH power line appears dead – again
  Here’s the announcement from PJM, the folks who manage the grid: The PJM transmission planning staff will recommend to the PJM Board that the Potomac Appalachian Transmission Highline (PATH) and the Mid Atlantic Power Pathway (MAPP) lines be removed from PJM’s regional transmission plans. ...
• Alpha records $2 billion – with a B &#82 ...
  Here’s the big coal-related financial news out early this morning: Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE: ANR), a leading U.S. coal producer, reported a second quarter loss of $2.2 billion or $10.14 per diluted share, compared with a loss of $50 million or $0.32 per diluted share in the seco ...
• Does this sound at all like West Virginia?
  Ted Boettner over at the West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy pointed out a commentary called “From Resource Curse to Blessing,” by Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics. For those not familiar with the term “resource curse,” there’s actually a dec ...
• ‘Clean coal’: What is Rep. Capito ...
  The press office for Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., was kind enough yesterday to send around an email message alerting we in the media to a recent appearance by Rep. Capito on FoxNews: On Friday, Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., joined a panel of experts for a one-hour special o ...

Daniel Miessler

• Always Dominate Monday | Nerd Fitness
  You dominated your Monday workout, setting the tone for workout domination for the whole week.  “This week I am going to hit new records with my workouts. I already kicked ass on Monday, let’s keep it up!” You dominated your Monday with healthy food choices and meals, setting the tone ...
• Learning About Learning | Raganwald
  But the business of “affecting the way you think about programs” strikes me as being something else than learning the implications of Scheme’s design. It’s something more than just extending your conscious knowledge of facts. It’s a change in you, a change in the wa ...
• All By Himself
  via i.imgur.com Signs of a dumbass. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentDon’t Be a Cryptic AssHipster HawkingThe Sriracha Spray BottlePolitical Perspective NeededEarth vs. Google Earth
• Go Through Your Address Book and Contact Every ...
  Brad failing to not smile I’ll try to avoid cliché, but for this post it’ll be an uphill battle. I have a friend named Brad. I met him in my first job out of college where we both started on the same infosec team at a credit card processing company. He was starting as a [...]
• Friends in Vegas
  I already did a post on my recent Vegas trip, but there’s a piece of it that I didn’t mention. Working in my current job I have had the privilege to be able to hire many of my friends, and going to Vegas this time (our team meeting) I was able to see it for [...]

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• Revolution 99 Updates: “Can we talk&#822 ...
  Occupy Coachella Valley trial begins RIVERSIDE — Testimony got under way Tuesday in the trial of four Palm Desert residents accused of unlawful activity connected with last fall’s Occupy Coachella Valley protests. Stephen Mark Finger, 59, Jack Lee Noftsger, 28, Dustin David Powell, 32, and ...
• Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Thursday
  US STARTS LANDMARK AGENT ORANGE CLEANUP IN VIETNAM DANANG, Vietnam (AP) — The United States on Thursday began a landmark project to clean up a dangerous chemical left from the defoliant Agent Orange – 50 years after it was first sprayed by American planes on Vietnam’s jungles t ...
• Polarizing the Continuum
  By Phil Polizatto,WWH – The divisiveness in this country is almost palpable. Why is that? The mainstream media and cable TV’s political pundits must laugh in their studios as they watch us, expecting us to crawl to our respective polar corners. They want us to come out fighting. They need ...
• Silly Dictator Story #14: No Donkeys At The Well
  From rferl.org/ - When Tajik President Emomali Rahmon ventures from Dushanbe, it’s always a big deal. The streets are cleaned, the poems and songs of praise are practiced, and now, at least in the city of Kulob, people’s water-toting donkeys will be kept at home. In preparation for President Rah ...
• Of Mice And Men: The Execution of Marvin Wilson
  By ANDREW COHEN,theatlantic.com - At 6:26 p.m local time last night, an hour or so after the last appeal was denied, Texas executed a mentally retarded black man named Marvin Wilson, a man who could not handle money or navigate a phone book, a man who sucked his thumb and could not always tell t ...

reference frame

• Nancy Pelosi spoke to ghosts of Susan B. Antho ...
  NASA may have been communicating with a vehicle on Mars but NASA is an apolitical organization so its science and its communication technologies can't possibly be as advanced as those of the self-described owners of science, the leftwingers. In the video above, former spokeswoman o ...
• President Klaus vetoes an insane bill on energ ...
  This fast translation from klaus.cz shows what kind of legislative junk is flowing from Brussels to Czechia these days... Click the picture for an older (2010) TRF article on EU bans of heated houses. President vetoed a bill on energy performance of buildings Dear Ms Spok ...
• Degree of climate skepticism in Czechia
  The www.idnes.cz server, a center-right outlet that I consider the most powerful one on the Czech Internet news market and that almost certainly belongs to the top 3, published a controversial "main story" today in the morning: Dry springs, flooded summers: extreme weather will become ...
• Dirac, Lawrence, Mott, Penrose: anniversaries
  Today, on August 8th, we celebrate anniversaries related to three British and one American scientist. (Thanks to Gene for his reminder about the calendar.) Ernest Orlando Lawrence was born in South Dakota in 1901, i.e. 111 years ago, to a family with Norwegian roots. He studied in South ...
• Olympic medals per capita, GDP, team size
  The Data Blog at the Guardian's sport section has printed interesting tables of Olympic medals that take the nations' population or GDP or team size into account. Just to be sure, the table of unadjusted gold+silver+bronze medal scores at the Summer Olympics is led by China (34+21+ ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

• Ham and Cheese Again? Revamp your Lunch, Rethi ...
  By Altelisha Taylor, EWG food and nutrition intern Let me guess. You, like most Americans, usually have a sandwich for lunch. Or maybe it's a panini or a wrap, if you want to get technical. Regardless, it's what you eat... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...
• Always Faithful: President Signs Bill Expandin ...
  "Times New Roman"">By Heather White, Chief of Staff We walked up to the White House Appointments Desk at 17th Street and State Place NW, headed for the West Wing. The security officer examined Jerry Ensminger's military... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...
• Why I decided to cut back on processed meat, g ...
  By Altelisha Taylor, EWG food and nutrition intern As a kid, I was taught that a decent meal has carbs, veggies and meat. Tacos and burgers were my favorites. I have absolutely no interest in becoming a vegetarian. I'm pretty... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full l ...
• BPA substitute found on store receipts
  By Paul Pestano, EWG research analyst Nearly two years after EWG published a study documenting high concentrations of the toxic plastics chemical bisphenol A in cash register receipts, scientists are finding that manufacturers have substituted bisphenol... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• Study shows fracking can pollute
  By Alex Formuzis, VP for Media Relations A new water quality study near gas drilling operations in northeastern Pennsylvania counters natural gas industry claims that gas and hydraulic fracturing chemicals can't seep into the drinking water of nearby... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• Woody Johnson does a halftime dance for Team R ...
• In London's 'Taxi of Tomorrow,' wheelchair-use ...
• How many goalies can the Red Bulls collect?
• How some upstate environmentalists came to emb ...
• Founding editor of 'Oxford American' gets the ...

Views & News from Norway

• ‘Handball girls’ win another OL medal
  Norway’s national women’s handball team, popularly known as håndballjentene (the handball girls), assured themselves at least a silver medal at the Olympics in London on Thursday, after trouncing South Korea by a score of 31 to 25. From Kautokeino in the north to Oslo in the south, N ...
• Parliament to re-open more securely
  Norway’s Parliament building in Oslo has been boarded up most of the summer, undergoing what posted signs describe as general renovation. In fact, the construction work has involved some major security enhancements deemed necessary after last year’s terrorist attacks. When politician ...
• Norway’s emerging Arctic capital
  Norway’s northern city of Tromsø has been called “The Paris of the North” for years, but now it’s taking on entirely new significance as the “Capital of the Arctic.” The country’s venerable coastal shipping line still calls twice a day like clockwork, an ...
• Search for missing teen pared down
  Police in Oslo pared down their massive search for a missing 16-year-old girl on Wednesday, and shifted their attention to a criminal investigation into her disappearance. There was still no sign of Sigrid Schetne, who never returned home after visiting a girlfriend Saturday night. Around 150 vo ...
• Buskerud storm was worst in 50 years
  Extreme weather that battered southern Buskerud County early Tuesday was the worst weather in the area in 50 years. It came as a surprise, and resulted in flash flooding and major damage. At least 20 families were cut off and scores of homes around Eikeren were all but destroyed. Some residents ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Get Into Farming (video)
  The upsidedownness of our world really gets to me. The people doing the most critical work (like producing food and clothing) get paid the least, and the people busy producing crap we don’t really need at all get paid much more, and by an order of magnitude. Worse, the people who produce ...
• The Money Myth Exploded
  1. Shipwreck survivors An explosion had blown their ship apart. Each one grasped the first bit of wreckage that came to hand. And when it was over, there were five left, five huddled on a raft which the waves carried along at their will. As for the other victims of the disaster, there was no sig ...
• Why Australia Needs a “Peoples Food Plan”
  by Richard Widows We are in the early stages of a global food crisis, the likes of which has never previously been seen. Nearly 1 billion people (or 1 in 7) experience chronic hunger and another 1 billion are faced with serious nutritional deficiencies. Meanwhile, reports suggest that nearly 2 ...
• Degrowth, Expensive Oil, and the New Economics ...
  by Dr Samuel Alexander, co-director of the Simplicity Institute and a lecturer with the Office for Environmental Programs, University of Melbourne. Our understandings and expectations of the world have been shaped by our experience of economic growth. The dynamic stability of that growth has ...
• Due Diligence: Four O’Clock Plants
  by Stephanie Ladwig-Cooper Four O’Clock plants have a long history of cultivation and use around the world as well as serve many useful functions, with more to experiment with — like as a dye and dynamic accumulator. Our family lives in a historic neighborhood of Chico, California ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Coalition of Black and Latina Women, Women fro ...
  From our friends at the Congress of Day Laborers: A delegation of undocumented women from Arizona will join local immigrants and civil rights leaders from Women United for Justice, in demanding that Sheriff Gusman stop holding undocumented immigrants for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (IC ...
• New Policy at Charter School in Delhi Louisian ...
  From our friends at the ACLU of Louisiana: The ACLU issued a letter today to the administration at Delhi Charter School in Delhi, Louisiana in response to its Student Pregnancy Policy. The policy requires female students even suspected of being pregnant to submit to a pregnancy exam – and if ...
• Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute C ...
  Urban Bush Women have returned to New Orleans for another of their legendary Summer Leadership Institutes. This summer's theme is centered around the question, "Why are people poor?" You can catch some of their work this Saturday at a series of performances they are hosting. Below are the detail ...
• Community Profile: Brenda Williams of VOTE
  After attending an “outstanding” presentation that VOTE sponsored at Ashé Cultural Arts Center in Central City, Miss Brenda Williams was inspired to get “involved to make a difference in the lives of those who suffer injustice at the hands of lawmakers, judges and others involved in the criminal ...
• Creating Excellent Schools is not the Same as ...
  Republished from Diane Ravitch's blog: Charter schools that perform better by recruiting and retaining better students don’t exist in a vacuum: skimming the best and most profitable students affects other schools, though it is hard to detect in systems with few charters.  The systemic ef ...

Information Underground

• Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
  CSR, were the Nazis immune to sexual immorality?Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Thu Aug 09, 2012 3:15 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  CrackSmokeRepublican wrote: Tim, do you seriously think Nazi Germany was "Jewish"? Is everything always so black and white to you, CSR? There are only Nazis and Jews on the planet?Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Thu Aug 09, 2012 3:11 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Here are the links for the Spingola interview with Rodney Martin: Hour 1: http://wvfoundations.org/sitebuildercon ... t_hour.mp3 and Hour 2: http://wvfoundations.org/sitebuildercon ... d_hour.mp3Statistics: Posted by Christopher Marlowe — Thu Aug 09, 2012 2:14 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Welcome Spiritpatriot, I think those are all good observations about the paradoxical nature of what George Orwell might have called "blackwhite".Statistics: Posted by Michael K. — Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:48 pm
• Zionist Influence/Power • Re: David Irving - S ...
  A great speech. I always forget what an entertaining speaker Irving is. It is unfortunate that the Lipstadt trial worked out the way it did. At this point Irving is confident of success, and strangely ignorant of the Jewish control of the courts. Irving lost his libel suit and had to pay $2 mi ...

TVNZ

• Bomb kills eight Somali soldiers in Mogadishu
  Government troops have been killed after a remote-controlled bomb hit their vehicle in Mogadishu.
• Potential grows for food crisis as prices surg ...
  The world could face a food crisis similar to 2007/08, the UN Food Agency has warned.
• Suspected Kurd militants attack military bus i ...
  Several wounded in attack on army bus en route to a naval base in the western province of Izmir.
• Bin Laden film 'not politically motivated'
  Screenwriter denies the film is an attempt to boost Obama's re-election campaign.
• China opens murder trial of ousted leader's wife
  The trial of Gu Kailai, wife of ousted Politburo member Bo Xilai, begins in China.

environment 360

• Overuse of Groundwater Threatens Global Suppli ...
  A new study finds that nearly one-quarter of the world’s population lives in regions where water is being used faster than it can be replenished. Using computer models of global groundwater resources and water use data, scientists from Canada and the Netherlands calculated that the planet’s “gro ...
• New Atmospheric Compound Tied to Human Health ...
  An international team of researchers says it has discovered a new atmospheric compound that reacts with sulfur dioxide to form sulfuric acid, which produces acid rain, has negative respiratory effects on humans, and causes increased cloud formation. Reporting in Nature, the scientists from the U ...
• Easing The Collateral Damage That Fisheries In ...
  Two recent studies highlight the harm that industrial fisheries are doing to the world’s seabirds, either by overharvesting the birds’ favorite prey or by drowning birds hooked on longlines. But tighter regulations and innovative technologies are starting to significantly reduce seabird “bycatch ...
• Aging, Diseased Trees a Large Source of Methan ...
  Aging and diseased trees emit significant amounts of methane into the atmosphere, a phenomenon that may be contributing to global climate change, a new study says. In samples collected from a forest in northeastern Connecticut, researchers at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies f ...
• New Bird Species Discovered in Cloud Forest of ...
  A team of researchers says it has identified a new bird species, a barbet marked by its colorful scarlet breast and black mask, in the eastern Andes of Peru. The bird, which scientists named the Sira barbet (Capito fitzpatricki), was discovered during a 2008 expedition, Click to enlarge Co ...

oldephartte/Diigo

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backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

• The Olympics’ Most Colorful Trend
  If you watched beach volleyball this week, you probably wondered: what’s with all the neon war paint? Turns out it is Kinesio tape, a stretchy cotton tape designed by a Japanese chiropractor to support injured muscles. But unlike hard tape, its site says, Kinesio is designed to mimic a “texture ...
• Denigrating Jewish Refugees
  For Lara Friedman, a lobbyist for Americans for Peace Now, the sun was not shining last week. Jews from Arab countries are being cynically exploited, she claimed on Open Zion, by a two-pronged drive that seeks to abolish the hereditary status of Palestinian refugees, while pushing for the rights ...
• Trade Deficit Declines
  More foreign tourism and cheaper gas means a smaller trade deficit for June, and maybe an economy doing better than we thought, Matthew Zeitlin reports.
• If You're Not Angry, You're a RINO!
  Ben Adler takes a look at Mike Huckabee's new radio show in The Nation. Two things stand out. First, that Huckabee has more class and manners than many other talk radio hosts:
• Take That, Boy Scouts
  Eagle Scout Aaron Becker on why he’s renouncing his rank.

Loonwatch

• RightWingWatch: Romney Met Thursday with Top A ...
  Romney met privately on Thursday evening in Denver with a select group of right-wing activists. Of the four participants named by Politico, three are outspoken proponents of Bachmann’s witch hunt.
• Rep. Joe Walsh: Muslims “trying to kill Americans”
  U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh went on another anti-Islam tirade Wednesday.
• Rhode Island Muslims ask for FBI, Police Secur ...
  Members of Rhode Island's Muslim community have asked to meet with police and the FBI to request heightened security at their places of worship after the sign for a mosque in North Smithfield was vandalized.
• Temecula: Islamic Center Groundbreaking Set fo ...
  A mosque that saw a groundswell of bigotry and Islamophobia directed against is due to break ground in September.
• Publisher’s Attack on Muslims Provokes B ...
  An article on illegal boat people by the publisher of Australia's main Jewish newspaper has ignited a storm of protest, with some critics savaging it for "vilifying Muslims" and promoting "xenophobic, Islamophobic and heartless sentiments."

Energy News

• AP: Video shows plant officials ‘freaked out’ ...
• NHK broadcasts warnings about internal radiati ...
• Fukushima Plant Chief after 3/11: “Reactor 3, ...
• Off the Chart: University researchers film whi ...
• Report: “Global public sentiment is still vehe ...

Japan Times

• Murray safely through in Toronto
  Olympic champion Andy Murray won his opening match in the Rogers Cup on Wednesday, beating Italy's Flavio Cipolla 6-1, 6-3. Murray, the second-seeded Briton who beat Roger Federer on Sunday in London for the gold medal, set up a third-round match against Canada's Milos Raonic. Raonic advanced ...
• BOJ stays course at pair's first Policy Board ...
  The Bank of Japan refrained from loosening monetary policy at the first meeting attended by its two new board members, despite the effect on the economy of the appreciating yen and Europe's debt woes. The central bank kept its asset purchase fund at ¥45 trillion and its lending facility a ...
• Jeter defends relationship with agent
  Shortly after winning her second Olympic medal in two days, Carmelita Jeter found herself defending her relationship with an agent who was suspended as part of the BALCO investigation. Jeter said she considers Mark Block "a close friend" during a news conference after she won the 200-meter bro ...
• China's Liu needs operation after fall
  Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang will require an operation on his right Achilles tendon. The 2004 Olympic champion was injured Tuesday during the 110-meter hurdle heats at the London Olympics.
• Real routs Milan at Yankee Stadium
  Kaka showed why AC Milan wants him back from Real Madrid. Kaka had three assists against his former team, Cristiano Ronaldo scored a pair of second-half goals and Real Madrid routed Milan 5-1 at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday night in an exhibition between two of Europe's most successful clubs. ...

Alexander Higgins

• Local AZ Judge Ignores State’s ‘We ...
  An Arizona county judge continues to defying a State Appeals court which overturned a vote fraud case dismissal based on the county's 'We Only Cheated Once' argument.
• Kate Johnson: Is the Carbon Tax the death of D ...
  Kate Johnson explains how she bought into the global elitists agenda for so all so long and upon researching for herself discovered the fraud.
• Global Move Your Money Week: October 1-7, 2012
  Its time for all of us, the entire world, stand up and say, “We’re tired of your bullshit, your crimes, your greed and your insolence. F*** you bank scum!”
• Blackwater Changed Its Name, Not Habits
  As Blackwater avoids war crimes prosecution, by paying a $7.5 million deferred prosecution bribe and promising they've changed, the only thing that's changed is their name.
• Our ‘Broke’ US Postal Service Givi ...
  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.

Macleans - Central

• Cord-cutting is no myth
  New numbers reveal that Pay TV is in trouble
• The not-so-predictable Duchesneau effect
  Which way will Quebec voters stampede?
• A Science-ish guide to searching health info o ...
  Dr. Google needn't scare you for nothing
• Wanting to be at the end of the Trans-Canada
  Duncan, British Columbia – Day 56 Trans-Canada distance: 7,250 km Actual distance driven: 15,144 ...
• Legault’s formidable Duchesneau weapon
  The former Montreal police chief is basically immune to criticism -- and he's a federalist

Making It Count - CCPA

• Canada’s Emissions Deception
  The federal government released an updated Canada’s Emission Trends 2012 report today. In a remarkable shift in federal rhetoric just this past week, the Harperites now appear to be more sensitive to concerns about the Enbridge pipeline and climate change more generally. But appearances ca ...
• “Right to Work” Laws and Jobs
  Ontario Conservative leader Tim Hudak claims that passage of an anti union “right to work” (RTW) law (making mandatory union dues illegal) would create jobs, especially in hard-hit manufacturing. With companies like Caterpillar moving to get ever cheaper labour, it seems semi plausib ...
• “Gotta Spend Money to Make Money”… or is it “M ...
  “Young people want to retire early and spend, too”. That’s the main finding of a survey commissioned by the Bank of Montreal, released last week in newspapers across the country. The coverage of the survey report is problematic on its own. For instance, although 1000 Canadians aged 18 and over w ...
• Arctic mega mining — a better future for Baffi ...
  A huge iron ore development at Mary River on northern Baffin Island is about to change an ancient landscape. Baffinland Mary River is majority owned by ArcelorMittal, which was ranked 70th on the Fortune Global 500 largest corporations in 2012. The project consists of a massive iron ore deposit ...
• Agrium Halves Potash Royalties
  Agrium reports that it paid half as much to the people of Saskatchewan in the second quarter as it had in the same quarter of last year. The company’s quarterly “potash profit and capital tax” payment dropped to $8 million from $15 million a year ago. Agrium’s only potash mine is in Saskatchewan ...

ReDress

• Mitt Romney: conduct unbecoming of a president ...
  Stuart Littlewood explores the propaganda of US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's "special adviser" on foreign policy, Dan Senor, an apprentice of the Israel lobby AIPAC and organizer of Romney's recent trip to Israel during which he indulged in a spectacular display of racism and ignorance abo ...
• Jewish secularism - the defining framework of ...
  In a critique of an analysis by former Israeli parliament speaker Avraham Burg of how the Israeli-US relationship has evolved, Gilad Atzmon argues that Jewish secularism, not Judaism, should be credited with Israel's most salient characteristics: racism, narcissism and exploitation.
• Palestinian history on a billboard versus Isra ...
  Lawrence Davidson pits the facts of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict - Israel's dispossession of the Palestinian people and theft of Palestinian land, as displayed recently in a New York billboard - against the arguments of the Zionist apologists for colonization and ethnic cleansing. He argues ...
• Assad's "anti-imperialist" pretenders make the ...
  The UN General Assembly has overwhelmingly denounced the Syrian regime's crackdown on the people's revolution. The resolution, passed today by 133 in favour, with 12 against and 31 abstentions, says "the first step in the cessation of violence has to be made by the Syrian authorities"... Mean ...
• US politicians prostitute their country for Is ...
  Jamal Kanj argues that, in their eagerness for Israel lobby election campaign funds and Jewish votes, US politicians have put Israeli interests ahead of those of the American people, displaying rare unity in doling out more US taxpayer money for Israel at a time of economic recession, possibly v ...

Physics Today

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

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Peakwater

• Floods submerge most of Philippine capital
  “Tens of thousands of people are being evacuated from the capital of the Philippines as floods devastate the city. About 80 per cent of Manila, a sprawling metropolis of about 12 million people, remained inundated on Wednesday, Benito Ramos, head of the national disaster agency, told Reute ...
• Rare-earth mining in China comes at a heavy co ...
  “From the air it looks like a huge lake, fed by many tributaries, but on the ground it turns out to be a murky expanse of water, in which no fish or algae can survive. The shore is coated with a black crust, so thick you can walk on it. Into this huge, 10 sq [...]
• Surprising Effects of the U.S. Drought
  Suspended Fracking “Drought has dropped stream flows and groundwater levels so low that the use of water for natural gas “fracking” by drillers like these at work in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, has been suspended in many parts of the Keystone State. Permits to pull water fro ...
• Water shortages driving growing thefts, confli ...
  “As droughts become more frequent and water shortages worsen, Kenya is seeing an increase in water thefts and other water-related crime, police records show. The most common crimes are theft, muggings and illegal disconnections of water pipes by thieves who collect and sell the water. Many ...
• Zimbabwe: Water Chemicals, Just Politics At Play
  “Water has always been one of the biggest problems besetting the City of Harare. Not only is money unavailable to ensure enough chemicals are bought to purify our water and to repair the dilapidated infrastructure, but also there has never been an interest on the part of the authorities to ...

D. Kucinich

• Kucinich Announces Legislation to Protect Cong ...
  Washington D.C. (August 9, 2012) – Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution grants Congress the sole authority to authorize or declare war. Yet, instead of getting authorization from Congress, Presidents of late have preferred to get “authorization” from the United Nations or other ...
• Press Conference Before Davis-Besse Safety Hearing
  Cleveland, Ohio (August 8, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has led the effort to investigate the safety of the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant, will join representatives from several groups opposed to the twenty-year extension of the operating license for Davis-Besse at a press c ...
• NRC to Suspend Nuclear Plant Licensing; Kucini ...
  Washington D.C.(August 8, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) who has led the effort in Congress to ensure the safety of nuclear power plants, today issued the following statement after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced it will suspend licensing and relicensing of nuclear power ...
• Letters Exchanged with the DNI (Director Clapp ...
  Letter signed by seven Members of Congress expressing concern that a CIA operation undermined our commitment to global health security. LINK Response from the Director of National Intelligence  LINK Congressman Kucinich's response to Director Clapper LINK
• Kucinich to Participate in Public Questioning ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) announced today that he will participate in a public hearing to discuss cracking in the wall of the shield building at FirstEnergy’s Davis-Besse nuclear power plant on Thursday, August 9, 2012. The hearing is being sponsored by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ...

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• The Truth about Richard Muller
  "I was never a skeptic" - Richard Muller, 2011 Richard Muller has never been a skeptic, at best he had a moment of intellectual honesty towards skeptics when he acknowledged Steve McIntyre's debunking of Mann's Hockey Stick, only to later dismiss this as irrelevant to the global warming debate ...
• The Truth about Judith Curry
  Judith Curry is not a skeptic but a hurricane alarmist who had an alleged epiphany after Climategate and now seeks to be some sort of arbiter of scientific integrity. Her history of trust building includes accusing world leading hurricane expert, Dr. William Gray of "brain fossilization" and t ...
• The Truth about Skeptical Science
  Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
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Monga Bay ( Articles )

• Indonesia revises moratorium map; makes contes ...
  Indonesia is making 'encouraging' progress on its push to reduce deforestation by improving governance over its forests and peatlands, but still needs to do more to enforce environmental laws, said the head of the country's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) task force ...
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  Last year researchers took the first ever publicly-released video of an African golden cat (Profelis aurata) in a Gabon rainforest. This beautiful, but elusive, feline was filmed sitting docilely for the camera and chasing a bat. The least-known of Africa's wild cat species, the African golden c ...
• The month in environmental news for April 2012
  Mongabay.com provides a quick review of forest-related news for April 2012.
• Does the Tasmanian tiger exist? Is the saola e ...
  The use of remote camera traps, which photograph animals as they pass, has revolutionized research on endangered and cryptic species. The tool has even allowed scientists to document animals new to science or feared extinct. But as important as camera traps have become, they are still prohibitiv ...
• New reptile discovered in world's strangest ar ...
  Few people have ever heard of the Socotra Archipelago even though, biologically-speaking, it is among the world's most wondrous set of islands. Over one third of Socotra's plants are found no-where else on Earth, i.e. endemic, while 90 percent of its reptiles are also endemic. Adding to its list ...

Science - NZ Herald

• John Clarke on the Olympics - 'Freakishly gift ...
  In 1998, Kiwi comedian and writer John Clarke created The Games, a spoof of the Sydney Games. It was spookily prescient. The boy from Palmerston North now lives in Melbourne, where he is working on a screenplay. 1. Which O
• Daring Antarctic rescue begins
  A rescue team with New Zealand assistance swooped into Antarctica today to evacuate an American experiencing a medical emergency at a US scientific base in a rare midwinter rescue from the frozen continent.The specialist medical...
• 'Spectacular' Mars pictures from Curiosity
  Nasa's latest adventure to Mars has given the world more than just glimpses of a new alien landscape.It opened a window into the trip itself, from video footage of the landing to a photo of the rover hanging by a parachute to a...
• Fuzzy view from Mars 'most beautiful pictures' ...
  Nasa's Curiosity rover yesterday transmitted a low-resolution video of the last two and a half minutes of its white-knuckle dive through the Mars atmosphere, giving Earthlings a sneak peek at a spacecraft landing on another world.As...
• Authorities defend volcano response
  Locals have criticised the response to last night's Tongariro eruption as too slow but authorities have defended their procedures, saying they quickly established there was no immediate risk and put plans in place.The hydrothermal...

The Bovine

• Abducted sheep case grows woolier as Michael S ...
  A roundup of coverage from several mainstream media outlets: From Adrian Morrow in the Globe and Mail: “A flock of a rare breed of sheep is ordered destroyed after one of its members tests positive for a deadly disease. Before … Continue reading →
• Holy Cow — War on milk patterned after t ...
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Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Camden NJ, Population 77,344 Fires Entire Poli ...
  In an effort to rein in costs, the city of Camden NJ will fire its entire 270 member police force and instead will use Camden County officers. Mayor Dana Redd and Police Chief Scott Thomson noted that for the same price, Camden can have 400 county officers on staff. That is nearly a 50% in ...
• News Anchors Fired in Spain For Asking Frank Q ...
  One way to control news reporting in these trying times is to get rid of news anchors the state does not like, replaced by news anchors willing to be media puppets of the government. Spain has done precisely that, forcing out popular news anchors for asking pointed questions. The Financial ...
• Complete Absurdity in Greece: ECB Prints Euros ...
  No entity is willing to stand up and say the obvious, that Greece is insolvent and cannot and will not pay back its debts. Moreover, in spite of an ECB mandate that  prohibits direct financing of governments, the ECB is doing just that. Simply put, the ECB is printing euros, to g ...
• Tax Hike Indigestion in France
  French president Francois Hollande wants to set the top tax rate in France at 75%, for those who make over €1,000,000 a year. As a result "Les Riches" Have Tax Indigestion and are looking to move outside France. “We’re getting a lot of calls from high earners who are asking whether they ...
• French Central Bank Admits the Obvious: France ...
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Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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• Turkey: NATO’s Neo-Ottoman Spearhead in the Mi ...
  Turkey already has troops in Syria and has threatened military action to protect the site they guard. A 1921 agreement between Ottoman Turkey and France (the Treaty of Ankara), the latter at the time the colonial administrator of Syria, guaranteed Turkey the right to station military personnel a ...
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• The EyeOpener- Violation of Consent: Fluoridat ...
  Ever since Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 cinematic classic “Dr. Strangelove” was released, it has become fashionable for those who have wished to avoid the debate over the fluoridation of the water supply to engage in the rhetorical equivalent of stuffing their fingers into their ears and singing ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• Pedestrians Get Quite a Show as Maersk Contain ...
  The Arnold Maersk, no doubt named after Arnold Schwarzenegger because it’s so friggen HUGE, passes underneath the Bayonne Bridge. This ship is 352 meters (1155 feet) in length with a [...]
• Is The USCG Ready for an Arctic Oil Spill?
  The US Coast Guard recently issued a press release commending participants on the success of last week’s oil spill recovery equipment exercise off the coast of Barrow, Alaska. The three-day joint operation was the [...]
• Inside Look at USS Iowa’s Final Tow
  Now I don’t know why this video took so long to pop up on the internet, but it offers a good insiders perspective on the USS Iowa’s final tow from [...]
• Students Develop Concept Arctic Spill Response ...
  DNV’s summer students this week presented the results of seven weeks of intense and targeted work to develop a realistic and suitable concept for a year-round Arctic oil spill response [...]
• Somali Pirates Sentenced to 20 Years in Kenyan ...
  On Tuesday 7 August 2012 seven Somali men were found guilty by a Kenyan court of attempting to commit an act of piracy against a French fishing vessel, MV Captain [...]

Press TV

• 'European banks technically bankrupt'
  A financial analyst says big European banks are actually bankrupt and "are making deals with governments in order to take their debts off their balance sheets," Press TV reports.
• ‘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.
• Iran to hold carpet photography biennial
  Iran is planning to hold the third Biennial Competition of Iranian Handmade Carpet Photography in the capital city of Tehran.
• Pakistan forces foil terror plot
  Pakistani security forces have foiled a terror plot in the country’s southwestern Balochistan Province after recovering a vehicle loaded with explosives, Press TV reports.
• ‘US liable for abduction of Iran pilgrims’
  The US will have to face up to severe consequences for its its refusal to offer collaboration for releasing the abducted Iranian pilgrims in Syria, a senior Iranian lawmaker says.

SciDev.net

• Islam Analysis: It's time to innovate for the poor
  Muslim countries can show little impact of science on the ‘bottom of the pyramid'. But there are good models to follow, says Athar Osama.
• Microchip 'could improve detection of substand ...
  US scientists have designed a microchip which they say is a cheap, portable solution to detection of substandard drugs in the developing world.
• Texting boosts health responses to Philippine ...
  A new mobile text messaging service has expanded the Philippines' capacity to respond to health emergencies connected to natural disasters.
• Simple construction system 'offers quake prote ...
  Researchers in Peru and Spain claim to have developed a truss system for constructing buildings that protects them against earthquakes.
• Egyptian foundation proposes overhauling scien ...
  A review of Egypt's science and industry laws aims to galvanise the government to remove regulations that are restricting innovation.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

• Life's building blocks found in a ring around ...
  Complex carbon-based molecules, including many that are important for life on Earth, could have formed in the early solar system. That's according to a paper by Fred Ciesla and Scott Sandford in this ...
• Pint sized rocket
  A rocket has been developed that could get a spaceprobe to the moon on just 100g of fuel Some tasks can only be done by a large satellite, but there are many others which can be done as well if not b...
• Seeing Around the Corner
  Using a laser, a super fast camera and a clever algorithm, researchers at MIT have developed the ability to see, in 3D, around a corner. Writing in the journal Nature Communications, Andreas Velten a...
• Drugs in sewage
  Drug use in populations, both legal and illegal, is important to know about for health and law and order reasons. Whilst it is relatively easy to keep tabs on the amount of legal drug use by asking ph...
• Messages from Mercury
  The MESSENGER spacecraft completed one Earth year of orbiting Mercury this month, and two papers published in the journal Science highlight some of the surprising scientific results from our solar sys...

Nick Turse

• INSI: Arab Spring fuels bleak winter for news ...
  INSI: Arab Spring fuels bleak winter for news media in 2012: At least 70 journalists and support...
• "I ended up running for my life, barefoot and ...
  “I ended up running for my life, barefoot and handcuffed, while British jihadists — young men...
• "Until recently, most scientists were reluctan ...
  “Until recently, most scientists were reluctant to blame particular storms or droughts on...
• Photo
• pinoytumblr:In Focus: Monsoon Rain Floods Ma ...
  pinoytumblr: In Focus: Monsoon Rain Floods Manila  Images: Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images, AP Photo/Aaron Favila, Jay Directo/AFP/Getty Images The capital city of the Philippines has been drenched by heavy, deadly rainfall for 11 days now, beginning with the arrival of Typhoon Saola las ...

Wayne Madsen

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• August 9-10, 2012 -- Indonesian Subud cult may ...
  Was Obama's mother a secret worshiper of an Indonesian farting dwarf god?
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