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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

12 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

Personal & Noted

Scoop - NZ

  • Rinehart’s fortune could have dropped by $9 bi ...
    A report in The Australian Financial Review last week claimed the economics of the $13 billion project relied on an iron ore price of at least $US100 a tonne. But this week, Morgan Stanley tipped spot prices to fall as low as $US83 a tonne, sending further shudders through the industry. The p ...
  • End of the Australian mining boom signalled by ...
    The Australian government was in disarray yesterday after BHP Billiton shelved its $20 billion Olympic Dam mine expansion plans in South Australia and announced an almost 35 percent fall in annual profit. The huge copper, gold and uranium project is the largest yet mothballed—a clear signal that ...
  • Aust. “liberal” press joins persecution of Assange
    In late 2010, more than two dozen senior editors and news directors from Australia’s mainstream media—print, radio and television—issued an open letter criticising claims by Prime Minister Julia Gillard that WikiLeaks’ publication of secret US diplomatic cables was “illegal.” The signatories dec ...
  • Privacy Commissioner wary of Govt data in 'cloud'
    Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff has highlighted risks around "cloud computing" just days after the Government announced it would push ahead with a "cloud computing strategy" to improve services and cut costs. The strategy may see personal information about New Zealanders gathered by the Gover ...
  • Naomi Wolf: Swedish rape suspects seldom inves ...
    It is difficult for me, as an advocate against rape and other forms of violence against women, to fathom the laziness and willful ignorance that characterize so much of the media coverage of the sexual-assault allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. To report that we are simply ...

Independent - London

  • The dictator who turned his wrath on death row
    In the next two weeks, all of the Gambia's death row prisoners could be dead. When the country's President, Yahya Jammeh, announced last month that all 47 detainees would be put to death by mid-September – the nation's first executions since 1985 – the international community responded with outr ...
  • New Somali President escapes bomb attack on hotel
    Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the new Somali President, and the visiting Kenyan Foreign Minister escaped an apparent suicide bomb attack yesterday on a Mogadishu hotel where they were holding a news conference. At least eight people were killed.Related StoriesUS ambassador Chris Stevens and three staff ...
  • Obama deploys his 'secret weapon' again as Cli ...
    "Let me say this…" "Let me just walk you through this…" These were the admonitions that former President Bill Clinton uttered over and over as he rallied a crowd of 2,400 in a Miami-area university on Tuesday evening embracing the role first conferred on him at the Democratic Convention last wee ...
  • NBC criticised for neglecting to honour 9/11
    NBC's Today show has been condemned by viewers and rivals for choosing to screen an interview with Kim Kardashian's mother rather than observing a moment of silence marking the 9/11 attacks.
  • Upbeat Gulf Keystone's high hopes of Shaikan
    Gulf Keystone Petroleum has offered upbeat news on its latest scheme, the development of the Shaikan oilfield in Iraqi Kurdistan. It reckons that the field could be pumping 150,000 barrels of oil by 2015 if all goes well.Related StoriesStrikes force Amplats to halt South African platinum operations

Rogue Government.com

  • Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
    Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
  • ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...
    The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
  • EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...
    European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.
  • China aims high with space program ambitions
    As the U.S. winds down its space shuttle program, and with the International Space Station set to shut down in 2020, eyes are turning to China and its ambitious yet mysterious plans for the final frontier.
  • Geo-engineering: green versus greed in the ra ...
    The alert on the Climate Ark website in January 2009 was marked urgent: "Take action: A rogue science ship is poised to carry out risky experimental fertilisation of the Southern Ocean. This is likely [to be] the first of many coming attempts to begin geo-engineering the biosphere as a solution ...

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Gitmo Prisoner who Died September 8 First Clea ...
    During then nearly 11 years that Guantanamo Bay has held prisoners of the war on terror, nine people have died there - six of which were ostensibly suicides. The ninth man who died on September 8 doesn't seem to have left the planet by his own hand, though the official cause of death has not b ...
  • Statement by Lawyers for Adnan Latif, the Late ...
    This article was published simultaneously here, and on the "Close Guantánamo" website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us - just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to rec ...
  • Cure Worse than the Illlness? Side Effects of ...
    Antibiotics are important drugs, often restoring health and even saving lives. But like all drugs, they can have unwanted and serious side effects, some of which may not become apparent until many thousands of patients have been treated. Such is the case with an important class of antibiotics k ...
  • A carefully scheduled high-fat diet resets met ...
    New research from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows that a carefully scheduled high-fat diet can lead to a reduction in body weight and a unique metabolism in which ingested fats are not stored, but rather used for energy at times when no food is available. The research was conducted by ...
  • Study examines thoughts and feelings that fost ...
    The musician Paul Simon came to fame collaborating with his childhood friend Art Garfunkel, yet launched another chapter with his Graceland album, collaborating with musicians from Soweto. Ratan Tata made his name expanding his family's firms in India, yet in recent decades has reached even grea ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Arrowneous
    Lesser Defence Minister Bernard Valcourt's rationale for not pursuing Bourdeau Industries' proposal to rehabilitate the Avro Arrow: "The proposal to develop, test and manufacture what would effectively be a brand new aircraft is risky, and would take too long and cost too much to meet Can ...
  • A military politics
    Am just glancing through the CBC bits on the change of senior leadership in the Canadian Forces as the last of the Afghanistan era Chiefs of the Defence staff retires. But the outgoing chief of the defence staff says he is most distressed by DND's inability to properly come to grip with the ...
  • Follow the money . . .
    OWEN GRAY'S NORTHERN REFLECTIONS has a post you should ponder, with links to a disturbing article by the Toronto Star's Richard Gwyn, and the Tax Justice Network. An important and quite stunning study has just been published by an organization called the Tax Justice Network. It has su ...
  • What what? Arrow you say?
    OK, this a is most intriguing bit of fun in the F-35 drama. A Canadian company is seeking to go back in time to help fly Canada's air force into the future.Documents obtained by Global News indicate an update to the storied CF-105 Avro Arrow was put forward as an alternative to the purch ...
  • Quick note on Canada and Iran
    I've been really put off commenting on these affairs lately. Fools commit foolish actions on all sides and there's not much to say about that. The bombs may fall or they may not. That stated I'll add my quick tuppence to the nonsense of closing diplomatic mission in Iran. By removing our very ...

Media Matters for America

  • Media Misses The Flaws In Discredited U.S. Cha ...
    Some media outlets have accepted uncritically a U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform survey on "state lawsuit climates" for businesses, even though the survey is wholly based on interviews with lawyers and executives for large corporations. Experts have for years critiqued the sur ...
  • Fox's Four-Year Campaign To Make Obama A One-T ...
    Since the election of President Obama in 2008, Fox News has engaged in an ongoing and escalating campaign to prevent him from winning a second term. At all levels, the network has continued to violate ethical standards by promoting any and all causes that further its goal of making Obama a one-t ...
  • Fox Revives Widely Discredited Research To Att ...
    Fox & Friends has revived a report prepared by outside researchers for the Small Business Administration that has been criticized for using flawed methodology to claim the cost of regulations under President Obama is $1.7 trillion. Moreover, a recent report by the Office of Management and Bu ...
  • You Didn't Say That: How Fox Helps Romney By D ...
    Over the past year, Fox News has repeatedly taken President Obama's remarks out of context or distorted his words in order to attack him. The Romney campaign has amplified several of these attacks, and in turn, Fox News has at times hyped those attacks.Fox Manufactured Distortion Of Obama's "You ...
  • Research Backs Up Voter Suppression Claims, Bu ...
    The media is applying false balance to its coverage of Republican-sponsored laws that make voting more difficult. But that approach is undermined by the growing body of evidence from nonpartisan researchers showing that disenfranchisement due to new voter ID laws and restrictions on early voting ...

Global Research.ca

  • Libya: Washington reaps what it sowed
    Media Reports on the Tragic Assassination of  US Ambassador  J. Christopher Stephens New York Times September 12, 2012 J. Christopher Stevens arrived in Benghazi, Libya, in April 2011 aboard a Greek cargo ship carrying a dozen American diplomats and guards…
  • GRTV: Libya’s Destabilization Serves Wes ...
    …
  • 9/11: Facts, Fiction and Censorship
    Whoever dares raise questions about the official 9/11 narrative, will be excluded from both the mainstream and  “progressive” media, dismissed as a mentally disturbed individual, lost in delirium, harboring wild conspiracy theories. In reality, the governmental spoon-fed 9/11 myth crumbles…
  • GRTV: Kosovo Still Semi-Colony, “Indepen ...
    …
  • Al-Qaeda Now a US Ally in Syria
    While we reflect on the 11th anniversary of the al Qaeda attacks on American soil, there is a blinding light that may obscure our view: this sworn enemy now fights hand in hand with the US against the Syrian regime.…

TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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Water - AlterNet

  • TransCanada Attempts to Reroute Keystone XL Pi ...
     Those meddling blockaders are at it again. Three environmental activists chained themselves to a TransCanada feller buncher last week in Saltillo, Texas, stalling the project as construction workers and police abandoned the site for the day. A feller buncher is used i ...
  • Peak Water Surpassed as Patagonian Glaciers Me ...
    Ice fields in southern South America are rapidly losing volume and in most cases thinning at even the highest elevations, contributing to sea-level rise at "substantially higher" rates than observed from the 1970s through the 1990s, according to a study published Wednesday.The rapid melting, b ...
  • The Great Riches of Our Seas Have Been Deplete ...
     Researching the history of ecosystems, it is not long before you make an arresting discovery. Great abundance of the kind that exists in the tropics - or existed until recently - was once almost universal.With a very few exceptions, every major ecosystem had a megafauna; every major ecos ...
  • A $2,167.02 Water Bill? How a Water Company Fo ...
    The notion of a profit-driven multinational corporation controlling the supply of water to our homes (yes, the water we as humans rely on daily to drink, bathe and live) seems odd to many. Perhaps as odd as the notion of a corporation controlling (and charging us for) the sunshine we enjoy, or ...
  • Meet the 13-Year-Old Girl Taking on Bottled Water
     In the last year, municipalities across Ontario and the rest of the country have begun taking a much-needed stand to protect local water sources. Since World Water Day in 2011, nine municipalities across Canada have become Blue Communities with many well on their way.Blue Commu ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • During a high power use emergency the cost of ...
    Did you know that your retail electric provider may be working behind the scenes to drive up energy prices? A review of filings at the PUC show that several Texas retail electric providers are pushing hard for the approval of super high wholesale energy price caps and for a very expensive capaci ...
  • EHF – a bad bet and a big bluff
    Back in March, the Dallas Observer reported about the chance that Energy Future Holdings (EFH – formerly TXU) the state’s largest power generator, was verging on bankruptcy,  Our question then was – are Texas ratepayers going to have to pay for EHF’s bad bet? Before and since then, there h ...
  • BREAKING! 3 Blockaders Locked to Equipment to ...
    At 7AM this morning, three landowner advocates and climate justice organizers locked themselves to equipment used for clearing large trees in the path of the Keystone XL pipeline.  Shortly thereafter, seven trucks with 20-25 workers showed up at the site to meet their foreman only to be turned a ...
  • No new nuclear plants for Texas any time soon
    Excelon at Victoria, TX Earlier this week, Exelon Generation announced plans to withdraw its Early Site Permit application for an 11,500-acre tract of land southeast of Victoria, TX. The company said the decision was based mainly on economics and sited current market conditions that make it impo ...
  • State Employee Charitable Campaign up for Suns ...
    In 1993, the state legislature created the State Employee Charitable Campaign (SECC) to provide a new benefit for state workers.  The ability to make tax-deductible contributions to a wide range of charities through their paychecks has giving state employees an easy way to donate to charities of ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Exorcism magazine launches in Poland
    Exorcisms have become so common in Poland that Catholic priests have launched their own magazine. Believed to be the first exorcism magazine in histor...
  • Do all species have an equal right to exist ?
    Dr Sarah Chan is challenging the belief that every species on the planet should be preserved. Her comments have stemmed from a recent report by the Zo...
  • Is it possible to implant memories ?
    Researchers have succeeded in storing short term memories within segments of isolated brain tissue. Professor Ben W. Strowbridge and student Robert A....
  • Could a nuclear 'binge' solve global warming?
    Professor Peter Wadhams is concerned that the world hasn't been doing enough to tackle climate change. With carbon dioxide levels increasing at an ala...
  • UFO conference held in Maine
    The 'Experiencers Speak' conference in Gorham featured talks from several well known abductees. The event was set up by Audrey and Debbie Hewins who s...

Grassroots

  • Will the U.S. Drought and Tropical Storm Isaac ...
    g-6522.jpg The United States is facing its worst drought in nearly 50 years. Not alone in its extreme weather, parts of Africa, Australia, Europe, Asia (especially India) and South America are in the same boat. And while the drought certain ...
  • Nicaragua Withdraws from US School of the Americas
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  • Between the Buffer Zone and the Bluest Sea
    4421062392_e1abd0ec3c_m.jpg Before I arrived at Grassroots International (nearly a year ago), I thought I understood the hardships imposed on Gaza. I knew about the imposed siege, had read and heard of the Turkish flotilla of 2010 and other ...
  • The Struggle for Justice Continues for Rachel ...
    rachel.jpg Today, a civil court in Israel issued a verdict in the 2003 death of Rachel Corrie. Judge Oded Gershon of Haifa District Court concluded that Rachel’s death was not caused by the negligence of the Israeli state or army. Rachel, a ...
  • “Land, water and food are part of our existenc ...
    honduras201204-41.jpg They left San Vicente searching for a peaceful place to live, free of the oppressive British colonial powers. Three thousand women, men and children sailing atop the blue waters of the Caribbean Sea were thirsty and hu ...

Climate

  • Kenya’s Water Wars Kill Scores
    (Inter Press Service) Water scarcity is fuelling deadly inter-ethnic wars that continue to claim lives in Kenya, according to government officials. And if nothing is done to educate communities on how to conserve the valuable resource, ...
  • Utah Senate Leader Rages at Lax Nuke Waste Ove ...
    (Salt Lake Tribune) A Senate leader Tuesday raised the possibility of disbanding the Department of Environmental Quality and firing Utah’s top radiation-control official after auditors raised numerous concerns about the state’s oversig ...
  • Wyoming Governor to Interior: Back Off on Frac ...
    (AP) Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead has asked the Interior Department to scale back — or abandon altogether — proposed rules that would require petroleum companies to disclose the chemicals they inject down well bores during hydraulic fracturi ...
  • Board: Chevron Failed to Check Pipe that Ruptu ...
    (San Francisco Chronicle) There is no evidence that Chevron conducted a crucial inspection last year of the segment of the pipe that later ruptured at its Richmond refinery, leading to a fire that destroyed part of the plant, federal i ...
  • Texas Farmers Challenge TransCanada's Land Rights
    (AP) HOUSTON -- A group of Texas rice farmers is challenging a Canadian company's right to condemn land to build a pipeline to carry crude from Alberta to the Gulf Coast. The Texas Rice Land Partners will appear before a judge in Beau ...

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Duly Noted

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

  • Romney's Presser
    Did any of you see Mitt Romney's little press conference? He seriously decided to insult the staff of the Cairo Embassy and attack the president, rather than sticking to expressing his condolences for the lives lost and the mourning family members and State Department employees. It's the bigge ...
  • Romney Trashes the Place
    Disappointed over President Clinton's dalliance with a White House intern, the Dean of the Washington Press Crop famously quipped, He came in here and he trashed the place, and its not his place. Most of us shared at least most of Mr. Broder's disappointment, but we laughed at him nevertheless. ...
  • Ranking the Bastards
    Sequence of Events 1. Gaddafi says he'll hunt down the terrorists of Benghazi like rats. 2. The United Nations intervenes, led by NATO. 3. Benghazi is saved and Gaddafi is hunted down like a rat. 4. Some fruit-loop makes a stupid YouTube about Mohammed. 5. The Embassy in Cairo ...
  • Elephant Becoming a Dinosaur
    Since 1988, the Republicans have won the popular vote exactly once. That was in 2004 when, aided by a deficit of voting machines in Democratic strongholds in Ohio, President Bush was reelected with a three million vote national advantage. In Ohio, he won by 118,000 votes. That's 60,000 people ...
  • Romney Unpopular Abroad
    Here's a surprise. People in other countries hate Mitt Romney and will think less favorably towards America if we elect him president. Who could have guessed it? Over in Britain, they are particularly disdainful of the Mittster (only 3% want to see him elected). And they only perceive three a ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Is Coal an Attractive Option?
    As a new park counteracts the impact of a surface coal mine, it's interesting to note that coal remains popular despite its disadvantages. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Inside Auschwitz: Haunting Mementos of the Naz ...
    The Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz is notorious for its gas chambers and human experiments. Today, it still has tremendous power to elicit horror and sadness. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Worst High-Rise Building Collapses in History
    In recent times, various towering buildings have come crashing down to earth, with often devastating consequences... The 10 Worst High-Rise Building Collapses in History. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 12 Worst Invasive Fish on Earth
    Invasive fish, starting either as released pets, or as attempts to control mosquitoes or provide food are wrecking havoc on native ecosystems. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Exotic Beauty of Hummingbird Clearwing Moths
    Clearwing moths are bugs that act suspiciously like birds. Not only do they zip around like our speedy, feathered friends; they also drink nectar, just like hummingbirds! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

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Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • A time to run around and a time to think
    For better or worse (and mostly better) for these six weeks or so I've got to do what the developers call 'refactoring' on a bunch of stuff in my life & won't be able to churn out posts at a good clip until probably early October. For more frequent updates see https://twitter.com/hongpong - ...
  • UPDATE: Govt Sites appear OK right now // Earl ...
    UPDATE: August 12 7AM: via two different DNS services it looks like the sites are looking up correctly now. My net connection's pretty dodgy at the moment but I think they are loading correctly now. It could have been a temporary glitch - strange since other lookups were working correctly on a t ...
  • BREAKING: Feds / IIR.COM apparently SCRUBBING ...
    BREAKING NEWS PEOPLE - apparent #trapwire gov coverup in realtime!! it looks like the government is scrubbing Suspicious Activity Report related GOV sites and dumping their DNS entries. However the boxes are STILL ONLINE, if you use /etc/hosts on osx/unix you can STILL get in and mirror the file ...
  • Security culture danger as closed Occupy Homes ...
    Troublesome assumptions about security culture arrangements for closed Occupy Homes national gathering sessions starting tomorrow at the Neighbors Organizing for Change MN (NOC Office) around noon put participants at risk. I feel everyone involved means well, but a bunch of particularly 'toxic' ...
  • Plans for closed door Occupy Homes national me ...
    ///// 1AM August 7th update: http://hongpong.com/archives/2012/08/07/security-culture-danger-closed-o... ///// ///// 1:40PM Sat August 4 update and correction below ///// Many Twin Cities activists working with the Occupy Homes MN group were surprised to hear that a national gathering committe ...

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  • William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...
    Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
  • No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...
    Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal ch...
  • Climate Change Poses Food Distribution Risks, ...
    * Bridges, roads could be washed away, hitting harvest transport * "High degree of confidence" weather extremes linked to climate change * Enough food, but problem is distribution - professor By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Downpours and heatwaves caused ...
  • Paul Ryan: Quiet But Far-Right On Social Issues
    Rep. Paul Ryan is considered a single-issue candidate -- someone who bolsters Mitt Romney's argument that this election is about the economy and only the economy.Ryan hasn't dedicated much time to social issues. But the Wisconsinite, best understood as an anti-tax, anti-spending purist, has tak ...
  • Assange will be refused safe passage even if E ...
    Source: RT The UK will do everything in its power to block Assange’s passage to Ecuador even if he is granted asylum by the nation’s government, officials said, claiming a legal obligation to extradite the WikiLeaks founder to Sweden. UK authorities sparked a minor scandal when ...

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IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #791
    India sees espionage behind Chinese cash payments to Indian pilots. NSA says foreign cyberattacks increasingly reckless. Taliban 'using Facebook to lure Australian soldiers'.
  • Why did Canada suddenly suspend all diplomatic ...
    On Friday September 7, 2012, John Baird, Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced that Canada was suspending all diplomatic relations with Iran and was expelling Iranian diplomats from the country, effective immediately. What was it that caused the final rupture in Canadian-Iranian relati ...
  • Prominent Syrian defector thanks “French intel ...
    A senior Syrian military commander, whose public defection to the rebel side last summer made news headlines around the world, has thanked the French intelligence services for helping him defect.
  • News you may have missed #790
    New report reopens CIA torture allegations. What does Gaddafi's ex-spy chief know about Lockerbie? Chinese hardware manufacturer denies spying allegations.
  • CIA declassifies internal review on Iraq ‘inte ...
    An internal report on the alleged failure of the Central Intelligence Agency to accurately read the intentions of the Iraqi regime in the run-up to the 2003 invasion by the United States, has been declassified.

War is a Crime.org

  • Funding Teachers Doesn't Get Embassies Attacked
    We're not out of money. We've stopped taxing billionaires and corporations, and we're funding war-preparation so generously that we're sparking a global arms race that will eventually generate some enemies with which to justify the war preparation . . .  which will make sense to students wh ...
  • Ray McGovern on 9/11 plus 11
  • Talk Nation Radio: The Risks and Benefits of P ...
    The Freedom Theater in the Jenin Refugee Camp in the West Bank produces politically engaged theater and is under assault by both the Israeli military and the Palestinian Authority.  We speak about theater as therapy and theater as an alternative to violence with Gary English and Laura Wilso ...
  • The Environmental Antiwar Movement
    Events in South Korea are putting U.S. and international environmental groups into coalition with antiwar groups, and in rare opposition to one of the most environmentally destructive forces on earth: the military industrial complex.  Normally, this doesn't happen.  Typically, civil li ...
  • WBAI on 9-11 Audio
    David Swanson presents a 2012 analysis of how US policy made the military "cure" of "9/11" worse than the original crime, even more under Barack Obama; Steve Ben-Israel contemplates the memory; and Amy Goodman, Dennis Bernstein and Robert Knight provide live details from the scene of the c ...

Grist - News

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

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  • The 9/11 Plug-Ugly Circle Jerk Blues
    By Visible Seven come 9/11. Yes! Israel did 9/11. Yes, the government put in this ridiculous 9/11 monument. They think if they set something in stone that that legitimizes it. Bullshit! Israel did 9/11, along with the Bushligula criminals. A tip of the hat to the commenter who came up with the n ...
  • Planned war on Iran and the General who said No!
    By Gordon Duff Today, General Dempsey, Chairman of America’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, the man who flew to Tel Aviv and informed Netanyahu that America wanted no part of his scheming against Iran was the subject of an assassination attempt in Afghanistan. This wasn’t an act of terrorism or Taliban ...
  • Cleveland State University wind turbines at Pr ...
    By Karen Farkas, The Plain Dealer Thomas Ondrey, The Plain Dealer The spiral wind turbine system perched above the southeast corner of Progressive Field is performing better than expected and also attracts attention from fans, especially when it is lit at night. The wind turbines attached to tha ...
  • Study Finds Chemotherapy Makes Cancer Far Worse
    Woops! Study Accidentally Finds Chemotherapy Makes Cancer Far Worse Anthony Gucciardi NaturalSociety August 6, 2012 http://naturalsociety.com/chemotherapy-makes-cancer-far-worse/ A team of researchers looking into why cancer cells are so resilient accidentally stumbled upon a far more important ...
  • Fragments of foreign DNA and other substances ...
    by Christina England September 5, 2012 This week an important paper by Leslie Carol Botha hit the Internet by storm. This revolutionary paper titled Unveiling the Culprit – Is Foreign DNA Contamination the Autistic Villain behind Biologic Vaccine Injuries, is one of the first papers to dis ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Nissan’s New Hydrogen Fuel Cell-Powered Terra ...
    Nissan just unveiled its new Terra Concept – a fuel cell-powered SUV that will have its world debut at the 2012 Paris Motor Show on September 27th. The Terra SUV concept is described as a zero emissions, zero limits SUV that takes sustainability off-road with its all-wheel-drive hydrogen-e ...
  • X-Studio’s Lightweave Palm Observatory is Made ...
    Read the rest of X-Studio’s Lightweave Palm Observatory is Made Entirely From Palm Leaves Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: All Saints Bay Brazil, Green Building, Itaparica Brazil, Iván Juárez, Lightweave Palm Observatory, natural architecture, natural building, Pa ...
  • Take a Tour of Blu Homes’ First Prefab in Josh ...
    Read the rest of Take a Tour of Blu Homes’ First Prefab in Joshua Springs This Weekend Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", blu homes, desert architecture, desert home, eco design, eco home, green architecture, Green Building, green design, ...
  • Daniel Libeskind to Transform Maze Prison in W ...
    We may think of Ireland as the origin of Guinness and St. Patrick’s Day, but the country’s history is far darker than many Americans realize. For centuries, Nationalists who believe Ireland should be completely independent from the United Kingdom have been in constant conflict with U ...
  • New Newport Beach Civic Center and Park Aiming ...
    Read the rest of New Newport Beach Civic Center and Park Aiming for LEED Silver Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Architecture, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, City Hall, Civic Center and Park, leed silver, library, Newport Beach, park, parking garage, planning, Sustainable

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Curiosity Close-Ups: The Rover’s Detailed Phot ...
    NASA's Curiosity rover hasn't been doing much roving lately. Instead, it's been sitting pretty on Mars for the last week or so, waving its robotic arm all over the place. Here we take a look at some shots from the detailed inspection that the rover has given itself during the past week.
  • Watch Live: Astronauts, Scientists, and Engine ...
    Join astronauts, scientists, and NASA officials as they discuss the U.S. space agency's history and its plans for the future, during a Google+ hangout starting at 12 p.m. Pacific/3 p.m. Eastern.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Witch’s ...
    If you're like us, you could look at photos of galaxies, planets, moons and nebulas all day. But you don't have all day, so let Wired Science bring you the most intriguing, beautiful or mysterious view of space we can find. We promise they will be mind-blowing and tempt you to replace your deskt ...
  • Watch Live: NASA Airs Kennedy’s 1962 Moon Spee ...
    On Sept. 12, 1962, exactly 50 years ago today, President John F. Kennedy stood before an audience at Rice University in Houston, Texas and proclaimed that the U.S. did great things, like safely land men on the moon, "not because they are easy, but because they are hard." In honor of this anniver ...
  • Greenland Lemmings’ Collapse Pushes Predators ...
    Lemmings don't commit suicide by running blindly off cliffs—that's a myth. But lemming populations in their Arctic tundra home can rise and fall dramatically in just a few short years. And the sudden collapse of a lemming population can mean hard times—or even extinction—for their predators, a n ...

PakAlert

  • The 11th Anniversary of 9/11
    Paul Craig Roberts In order to understand the improbability of the government’s explanation of 9/11, it is not necessary to know anything about what force or forces brought down the three World Trade Center buildings, what hit the Pentagon or caused the explosion, the flying skills or lack there ...
  • Video: 9/11 Conspiracy Explained in Less Than ...
    Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes.   In French In German In Spanish In Italian In Portuguese Sub Incoming search terms: 9/11 conspiracy explained in less than 5 minutes (1)
  • Building 7 – Still The Smoking Gun
    Infowars What’s been told, or rather sold, to us on TV by news pundits, presidents and lawmakers are all complete and blatant lies. Anyone who’s tried to wake someone else up – with evidence of squibs, sub-basement explosions, knowledge of past false-flags perpetrated by our government, and the ...
  • U.S. has no right to block Israel on Iran: Net ...
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said the United States had forfeited its moral right to stop Israel taking action against Iran's nuclear program because it had refused to be firm with Tehran itself. In comments which appeared to bring the possibility of an Israeli attack ...
  • Constitutionalists Labeled as Terrorists for S ...
    In August, Brian Loftus, commercial fisherman and member of Oathkeepers, was harassed by local police for purchasing “a few boxes of ammunition.” The local shop keeper contact the police because he was concerned Loftus “wasn’t going to do something crazy” with the ammunition. Without probable ...

Andy Worthington

  • Lawyers for Adnan Latif, the Latest Prisoner t ...
    This article was published simultaneously here, and on the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates ...
  • A Call for 90 Men to be Freed from Guantánamo ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses Bagram on the BBC W ...
    This week the legacy of George W. Bush’s “war on terror” is under the spotlight, as is the response to it of his successor, Barack Obama. Tomorrow is the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that first prompted George W. Bush and his administration to discard all domestic and i ...
  • Prisons and Abandoned Factories: Photos of a J ...
    Prisons and Abandoned Factories: A Journey from Belmarsh to Plumstead, a set on Flickr. On July 11, 2012, as part of my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike (or see here), I cycled east from Greenwich, intending to travel to the Thames Barrier, on the border of Charlton and ...
  • Eleven Years After 9/11, Guantánamo Is A Polit ...
    Eleven years since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the majority of the remaining 168 men in Guantánamo are not held because they constitute an active threat to the United States, but because of inertia, political opportunism and an institutional desire to hide evidence of torture by ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Meet Steve Klein, the Hate Group Leader Who ‘C ...
    Steve Klein, the leader of a California hate group, says that Islam is a “penis-driven religion” whose followers have “no choice but to hunt Jews and Christians down, torture us and murder us.” Klein of Hemet, Calif., who has a long history of ties to militant Christian organizations, has bee ...
  • Consultant for Anti-Muslim Film Provided Comba ...
    Steve Klein, who served as a consultant for the Islam-bashing film that sparked the deadly assault on a U.S. Consulate in Libya, is a longtime religious-right activist who has helped train paramilitary militias at a secretive church in California. Four American citizens, including U.S. Ambassado ...
  • Public Officials to Rub Shoulders with Anti-LG ...
    This weekend, Tony Perkins and his gay-bashing Family Research Council (FRC) are hosting the annual Values Voter Summit, a Washington, D.C., gathering of right-wing religious activists that typically attracts a number of high-ranking, conservative public officials. Among those scheduled to speak ...
  • Five More Suspects Indicted in FEAR Militia Te ...
    Three former U.S. Army soldiers are among five additional suspects indicted Tuesday in Georgia for their alleged roles in a secret militia plot that led, allegedly, to a double homicide. The group, calling itself the FEAR Militia, was secretly formed by soldiers stationed at Fort Stewart. Its me ...
  • SPLC Urges Public Figures Not to Attend Values ...
    The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and a coalition of human rights groups have written to several public figures, including House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, asking them not to speak at this weekend’s Values Voter Summit in Washington. The event is hosted by the Fami ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Strikes, Protests Build as Greece Negotiates A ...
    Public workers in Greece took to the streets again on Wednesday to protest ongoing talks between the Greek government and European leaders of the 'Troika', who are working to finalize the country's latest round of large scale austerity measures. 2,000 teachers, hospital doctors and m ...
  • US Grows An Industrial Complex Along The Border
    The United States' southern border bristles with technology and manpower designed to catch illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. Since 1986, the government has spent hundreds of billions of dollars on fences, aircraft, detention centers and agents. But even as federal budgets shrink and ill ...
  • Foreclosure Fail: Study Pins Blame on Big Banks
    Over the past several years, we've reported extensively on the big banks' foreclosure failings. As a result of banks' disorganization and understaffing — particularly at the peak of the crisis in 2009 and 2010 — homeowners were often forced to run a gauntlet of confusion, ...
  • Hundreds Killed in Pakistan Factory Fires
    Factory fires took the lives of over 300 people in Pakistan's two largest cities on Tuesday, inciting condemnation over the industry's lax regulations regarding fire safety. Barred windows, locked fire exits, poor ventilation, and faulty building design were blamed for the mass deaths. ...
  • Jimmy Carter Slams Citizens United as Threat t ...
    Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter issued scathing remarks on the impacts of Citizens United, slamming the "financial corruption" and "excessive influx of money" that is making the U.S. electoral process "one of the worst in the world." Carter made the comments spea ...

Lifehacker

  • Fix Perpetually Curling Shirt Collars with Iro ...
    It may seem silly, but shirt collars that constantly curl upwards can be really annoying. Reader Chip Barron shows us his DIy fix, using a $1.50 pack of iron-on patches. More »
  • How do you put new types of content in front o ...
    Great discussions are nothing new here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Check out these discussions and ...
  • I'm Maria Popova, and This Is How I Work [How ...
    Maria Popova is the mind behind Brain Pickings, a highly influential and addictive curation of the best content from the web and beyond. As she describes it, Brain Pickings is "your LEGO treasure chest, full of pieces across art, design, scien ...
  • Privacy Manager Puts Every Privacy Setting at ...
    Chrome: If you tweak Chrome's privacy settings pretty often (like cookies, autofill, history, and others), Privacy Manager puts every single on of those settings in a simple dropdown, with on/off toggles for each one. More » ...
  • Challenge: Northern vs. Southern California [S ...
    Daniel Russell knows how to find the answers to questions you can't get to with a simple Google query. In his weekly Search Research column, Russell issues a search challenge, then follows up later in the week with his solution—using wha ...

Water Privatization

  • Tribal Dispute Besets New Zealand’s IPO Plans
    New-stock listings often fall victim to choppy markets, but the ownership of water resources rarely poses a hurdle. In New Zealand, however, indigenous Maori tribes’ assertion of rights over water resources has led to the delay of what could have been the country’s biggest-ever IPO.
  • Newark to have residents vote on controversial ...
    The council voted tonight to adopt a resident-generated ordinance that would place creation of a municipal utilities authority on a referendum
  • Proposed lease doesn't guarantee state reg ...
    But, as the city learned this week, that is not necessarily the case.
  • Nine assets set for sale by next year
    Greece’s privatization fund plans to complete the sale of nine assets next year, Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras said on Thursday.
  • City's tab for water sewer study tops $200,000
    Citizens group petitions for independent council investigation Allentown City Council learned Wednesday that the city has already spent $237,000 planning and studying Mayor Ed Pawlowski's proposal to lease the city's water and sewer systems to a private operator to head-off a pensions-fu ...

Guardian

  • Energy minister's adviser copied into £5m cont ...
    New disclosure adds to pressure on Greg Barker as Cameron admits relationship had caused concerns Greg Barker, the climate change minister, is under further pressure after it emerged that the adviser at the heart of a row over access to ministers was copied in to internal emails discussing the ...
  • French Alps shooting: investigators pursue thr ...
    French prosecutor says crucial clues could be found in UK as financial dispute, profession, and Iraqi origin become focusInvestigators attempting to piece together why a British family was murdered in the French Alps last week say they are now pursuing three main leads, as relatives who said the ...
  • Apple unveils iPhone 5 – faster, thinner, and ...
    Company unveils handset with a taller 4-inch screen and thinner body capable of running on superfast 4G mobile networksApple has unveiled the iPhone 5, describing it as the "thinnest, lightest and fastest" handset yet as the brand behind today's personal computing revolution sets out to prove th ...
  • Broadcaster Derek Jameson dies at 82
    He edited the Daily Express, Daily Star and News of the World and was a popular presenter on BBC Radio 2The veteran broadcaster Derek Jameson has died. His wife, Ellen, said the 82-year-old, who edited three national newspapers, had a heart attack at his home.Jameson edited the Daily Express, th ...
  • Free Pussy Riot, urges Medvedev
    Russian prime minister condemns anti-Putin stunt by feminist punk group but says prolonging imprisonment is 'unproductive'Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian prime minister, has called for the three jailed members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot to be freed.But Pussy Riot's supporters quickly dism ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Birkenfeld's Attorney to Speak Tonight at DC L ...
    You may have read about him in the Washington Post Style section today, heard him on NPR, or listened to him on Democracy Now! Tonight you can see Stephen M. Kohn in person at the West End Library in Washington, DC. The event begins at 7pm, and it is completely free and open to the public. Call ...
  • Brad Birkenfeld receives $104 million IRS whis ...
    The National Whistleblowers Center announced this morning that UBS banking whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld received a tax whistleblower award of $104 million.  The IRS made the award for Birkenfeld's contributions in providing the U.S. Government with insider information on UBS’ ill ...
  • Birkenfeld Press Conference
    Live starting at 10:00am ET
  • NWC announces press conference tomorrow on IRS ...
    The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued a decision in the whistleblower case of former UBS banker Bradley C. Birkenfeld. Mr. Birkenfeld's brother, Douglas Birkenfeld, and his attorneys, Stephen M. Kohn and Dean A. Zerbe, will make statements at a National Whistleblowers Center press confe ...
  • Fall Interns arrive ready to advance the whist ...
    We are pleased to welcome the Fall 2012 class of interns who are arriving today to help us serve whistleblowers and their cause. Pictured here are (standing) Pia, Chioma, Chad, Karima, Ricardo, Carolyn, Carson and Nick, and (seated) Megan, Ashley, Garrett and Naomi. Thank you all for dedicat ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • DailyDirt: Making Four Eyes Better Than Two
    Wearing glasses can be annoying at times -- especially when wearing them in inclement weather as they fog up or get wet. But it's also nice to see clearly. Sure, contact lenses and LASIK (and other eye surgeries) can correct a lot of vision deficiencies, but for some people, wearing glasses is t ...
  • Judge Disqualified From Case Because He's 'Fac ...
    A few years back, we noted an ethics opinion in Florida that stated that judges cannot be Facebook friends with lawyers who may appear before them in court. As we noted at the time, this seemed to go pretty far, as Facebook friends didn't mean "personal" friends, and there are lots of people wh ...
  • House Approves Rep. Lamar Smith's Bill To Keep ...
    As was expected, despite not knowing the details of how the feds interpret the FISA Amendmens Act, which grants massive spying and surveillance power to the feds -- in fact, while proactively stopping any efforts to find out more about the interpretation, the House of Representatives today appro ...
  • Google Drops 'Bisexual' From Its Taboo Words List
    While I just wrote about the difficulty Google has put itself in with its selective enforcement of banning autocomplete terms, the search company also recently removed one such term from its oft-referred to "dirty words" list, which de-prioritizes results in its search algorithm. The Advoca ...
  • TSA Still Not Taking Comments On Naked Scanner ...
    If you needed proof of politicians’ sensitivity to, and encouragement of, persistent terrorism fears, look no further than today’s hearing in the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation Security. It’s called “Eleven Years After 9/11 Can TSA Evolve To Meet t ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • All Answers Will Soon Be Revealed
    Apologies for all the unanswered blog comments and emails. I meant to reply before now. It is just that I had the loveliest, laziest labor day and it sort of carried on for a bit. But I’m back to real life now and will respond and post serious stuff soon. Until then, enjoy a little [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    My friend Mark, also one of the founders of the punk collective I’m in, wrote this article comparing the Russian government’s reaction to Pussy Riot to the reaction Positive Force got for their “Meese is a Pig” postering back in the day. I know I should say something abou ...
  • Obey or Pay…Unless
    I came across this truancy scare video the other day. The video talks about how truancy leads to dropping out and how dropping out leads to a “lifelong inability to find gainful employment (and) make a meaningful life.” It has kids talking about how they were rebellious (the horror). ...
  • Beware of Strange Men on Airplanes
    It seems that Virgin airlines has a policy that unaccompanied children cannot sit next to men on their airplanes. An Australian man, who was assigned a seat next to two boys he did not know, was asked to switch seats with a woman. Pissed off about being treated like a presumed predator, he blogg ...
  • Big Tents, Little Bridges, Vested Interests
    This piece over at Cubik’s Rube reminded me of something I have been wanting to write about for a while. James is worried that the atheism+ idea that Blag Hag wrote about, and that I linked to on Wed, will be just one more divide in a movement that already has plenty of “splits, schi ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Meet the right-wing extremist behind anti-Musl ...
    Max Blumenthal reports: The US Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three US diplomats were killed in attacks and rioting provoked by an obscure, low-budget anti-Muslim film called “The Innocence of Muslims.” The producer of the film is a real estate developer supposedly named “Sam Bacile” wh ...
  • Foreign policy hands voice disbelief at Romney ...
    BuzzFeed reports: Mitt Romney’s sharply-worded attack on President Obama over a pair of deadly riots in Muslim countries last night has backfired badly among foreign policy hands of both parties, who cast it as hasty and off-key, released before the facts were clear at what has become a mo ...
  • Actors were duped into making anti-Islamic film
    Sarah Abdurrahman writes: One thing that is immediately evident from watching the nearly 14-minute long trailer for the film is how low the production quality is. I mean really, it is unbelievable that this movie could have cost anywhere near the reported $5 million that it took to make it. Beca ...
  • The trail from California to North Africa
    The connection between an atrociously made anti-Islamic video and the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi remains open to question. Still, Julian Borger fills in a number of the missing links. The long fuse that led to the explosion of violence that ultimately killed Stevens was lit last summ ...
  • The attack on the U.S. consulate was a planned ...
    Quilliam, a counter-extremism think tank in London with strong ties to Libya, issued the following press release this afternoon: The military assault against the US Consulate in Benghazi should not be seen as part of a protest against a low budget film which was insulting Islam – there were just ...

Watts Up With That?

  • The Daily Lew – Issue 2
    More noise in Stephan Lewandowsky’s LewWorld. This time, Steve McIntyre finds a statement by Lewandowsky that effectively hoists him by his own petard. Apparently, data integrity only applied to others, not the inhabitants of LewWorld. Steve writes: Lewandowsky has stated … Continue ...
  • Remember those tarballs that washed ashore dur ...
    I’m sure you’ve seen the picture of tarballs on the beach splashed all over the MSM after hurricane Isaac came ashore in Louisiana. The left leaning website Think Progress (parent of Joe Romm’s Climate Progress) framed it this way: A … Continue reading →
  • Quote of the week – Rutan rocks
    Like the Apollo astronauts who have walked on the moon and the NASA staff that discount the severity of the global warming alarm (Dr. Stephan Lewandowsky, please take note of this for your moon landing conspiracy theories), another prominent aerospace … Continue reading →
  • A review of the seminar ‘The contrarian ...
    Guest post by W. Jackson Davis (who attended the seminar today as listed below) The contrarian discourse in the blogosphere–what are blogs good for anyway? Franziska Hollender, Institute for Social Studies of Science, University of Vienna CSTPR Conference Room, 1333 … Continue readin ...
  • Is there a doctor in the house?
    A friend overseas needs some medical advice, stat. Given the vast readership of WUWT I’m hoping I can send help his way. Over at the Reference Frame, physicist Luboš Motl thinks he may have a serious disease. Since he’s been … Continue reading →

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Ria Novosti Online News

  • Ligress-Lion Hybrid Born at Novosibirsk Zoo
    A hybrid cub has been born to a female ligress, itself a hybrid, and a male lion at the Novosibirsk Zoo. The baby is named Kyara.
  • Russia to Develop Space Debris Removal System
    Russia’s space agency Roscosmos is planning to develop a system to remove hazardous debris from orbit, the agency’s Deputy Chief Sergei Savelyev said on Wednesday.
  • Putin Defends New Media Censorship Law
    Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that he is against any ideological censorship, but considers the protection of children from harmful information a key task for the government.
  • Hulk, Witsel Set for Friday Zenit Debuts
    New signings Hulk and Axel Witsel may make their Zenit St. Petersburg debuts against Terek Grozny in the Russian league on Friday, coach Luciano Spalletti said Wednesday.
  • Japanese Freighter Undocks From Space Station
    A Japanese cargo freighter undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, successfully ending its resupply mission, a spokesman for Russian Mission Control said.

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Pruning Shears

  • ODNR official: we'll let the public know what' ...
    The fracking industry has dramatically increased its activity in Portage county recently. In some cases the activity is unmistakably tangible (more on that next week), but the real action at the moment seems to be preparing the ground for the deluge. The paperwork is coming in fast and furious ...
  • Hey - hand me that wrench over there, willya?
    I’m working under the hood this week.  I’m looking into moving the site to a new architecture, so I’ve got a test site underway.  If I can get it looking right, I’ll cut over.  Otherwise it will stay the same and I’ll just have some wasted time to sho ...
  • How the decline in CO2 emissions is like NAFTA
    The quality of reporting on fracking in large outlets has been of varying quality. Day-to-day coverage of the latest developments is usually pretty good, but bigger picture trend pieces have a tendency to be positively fawning towards the industry. A couple of recent articles in the New York T ...
  • Rallying for Aramark Laundry Workers
    The Immigrant Workers Union (UTI) Local 229 held a rally at an Aramark uniform service facility in Madison to bring to light the abuses being committed by management against the laundry workers they employ.     The workers, formerly organized under UNITE, are now organized under the& ...
  • Fighting fracking: introverts edition
    One of the biggest threats fracking poses to the environment is the way it endangers the water supply. It does so in several ways, one of which has large-scale implications. Global impact like that is a little unusual; environmental issues are more likely to be local. Whether it’s frack ...

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Center for a Livable Future

  • Swine Flu Update: H3N2v Now Spreading Among Humans
    To reduce the probability of an influenza pandemic, we should reconsider the industrial model by which the majority of food animals in this country are produced.
  • Policy expert Mark Winne has watched food move ...
    Long-time food policy expert Mark Winne has seen this nation’s food movement follow a path that mirrors his own professional journey. More and more advocates are delving into policy to get support for the hands-on projects that were their first forays into food issues. As a result of this shift ...
  • The Question at Smithsonian: Shrimp and Safety
    The emerging common concern was about imported shrimp.
  • Multi-Drug Resistant Infections at the NIH Hos ...
    Last Wednesday, The Washington Post reported on an outbreak of multi-drug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center in Bethesda.  (The Post was covering an interesting report by NIH investigators in Science Translational Medicine.)  Initially, the ...
  • New Orleans Groups Awarded Grants for New Farm ...
    I want to congratulate my friends at the Recirculating Farms Coalition who were recently awarded two grants to construct an Urban Farming and Food Center in downtown New Orleans.   The center will be home to a community garden, fruit trees, aquaponics and hydroponics.  These last two are methods ...

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My Care2 Picks

  • Beefing up security on skeptical blogs
    If you ever thought 'debate' occurred on a 'level playing field'....Heads Up ! Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Syria And Iran Dominos Lead To World War
    Recomended article about the attention in Syria and Iran, I would like to read your comment here on Care2, let it kick start by saying: War is a problem to everyone but to the exception of minority top wealthy inhabitants of the earth. Submitted by Marco Da Silva to World  |   N ...
  • The Peculiar Stability of Instability
    We actually deal with the Mideast, Latin America, the Atlantic Region, Eastern Europe, NE Asia, and SE Asia as if we were still living in the WW-II era : we deal with the Mideast, Latin America, the Atlantic Region, Eastern Europe, NE Asia, separately Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics &a ...
  • The Rape of Society
    I had just been told that my daughter was raped. I glance toward the door. I feel drunk, as if my legs cant hold my weight. I grasp the window sill and push my forehead against the window. I need air. I gasp, choking on the silent scream that sticks Submitted by joseph m. to Society & Cult ...
  • Intermission (And Why Bill McKibben is an Utte ...
    In a recent interview prominent green activist Bill McKibben declared that fossil fuel barons are taking away the future and must therefore be stopped Those of us who regard affordable energy as a golden ticket out of drudgery marvel Submitted by John Farnham to Green Lifestyle  |  &n ...

Angry Indian News

  • Excellent Service to Solve Your Fluid Mechanics
    <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Home insurance and the dilemma of replacement ...
    When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Sushi - Trend and Tradition
    Today sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA Courses
    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Online High School Programs Help Troubled Students
    As the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Cloning Camels with Human Genes for Big Pharma
    The Middle East is getting into the genetic engineering action with GMO camels. If all goes well, camels genetically modified with human genes will be cloned for Big Pharma drugs.
  • Islands at Risk: GMO in Hawaii
    When the biotech industry decides to use the lands and people of Hawaii as its test guinea pig, local farmers, activists, researchers, and others speak out.
  • Poisoned Horses – Fluoridation Kills
    Justus's horses are found to be suffering from chronic fluoride poisoning from drinking fluoridated water. Study published in peer reviewed scientific literature.
  • Seeds of Monopoly – Monsanto and Goldman Sachs
    All species that feed off of others want a monopoly, and Monsanto and Goldman Sachs are no different. They don’t like to share their food supply, and we are on the table, dressed up like Thanksgiving turkeys. They feed off our ignorance, and if we do not recognize the deceptions they use, we can ...
  • These Brands Want To Defeat GMO Labeling In Ca ...
    Want to know the latest anti-labeling contributors fighting our right to know about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our food? Thanks to Jon Abrahamson, here is the latest info.

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • 5 more charged in Ga. military militia case
    ShareThis5 more charged in Ga. military militia case 11 Sep 2012 Four former Army soldiers and a civilian have been charged in new indictments for connections to an anti-government militia that authorities say was led by Fort Stewart troops who stockpiled weapons and talked of ultimately overthr ...
  • 4 Americans, Including US Ambassador, Killed i ...
    ShareThis4 Americans, Including US Ambassador, Killed in Libya Attack 12 Sep 2012 President Barack Obama is condemning in the "strongest possible terms" an attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya that killed four Americans, including the American ambassador. Obama on Wednesday said the U.S. will w ...
  • NATO Copter Destroyed by Taliban at Base
    ShareThisNATO Copter Destroyed by Taliban at Base 12 Sep 2012 A coalition heavy-transport helicopter [allegedly] parked inside the sprawling Bagram Air Base was hit and destroyed by insurgent fire late Monday, killing three Afghan service members who were on board, NATO said Tuesday. NATO servic ...
  • US Marine anti-terrorism team heads to Libya: ...
    ShareThisUS Marine anti-terrorism team heads to Libya: official 12 Sep 2012 The United States is deploying a US Marine anti-terrorism team [roughly 50-member unit] to Libya to bolster security after a deadly attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, a US defense official said Wednesday. "The ...
  • Anti-terror Marine team heading to Libya to re ...
    ShareThisAnti-terror Marine team heading to Libya to respond to terroism threats, reinforce security 12 Sep 2012 Some 50 U.S. Marines headed to Libya on Wednesday to reinforce security at U.S. diplomatic facilities in the aftermath of an attack in the eastern city of Benghazi that killed the U.S ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • ISAF Joint Command morning operational update: ...
    UNCLASSIFIED 2012-09-S-015 For Immediate Release ISAF Joint Command morning operational update KABUL, Afghanistan (Sept. 12) – Afghan and coalition security forces confirmed today the arrest of a senior Taliban facilitator in Talah wa Barfak district, Baghlan province, which occurred Tuesday. ...
  • ISAF Joint Command morning operational update: ...
    UNCLASSIFIED 2012-09-S-014 For Immediate Release ISAF Joint Command morning operational update KABUL, Afghanistan (Sept. 11) – Afghan and coalition forces today confirmed the death of two senior Taliban leaders, including the suspected mastermind of the August 2008 ambush which left numerous ...
  • ISAF Joint Command morning operational update: ...
    UNCLASSIFIED 2012-09-S-013 For Immediate Release ISAF Joint Command morning operational update KABUL, Afghanistan (Sept. 10) – An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Taliban attack coordinator during an operation in Kandahar district, Kandahar province, Sunday. The attack coordina ...
  • 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade pilots killed in ...
    Release date: 09 September 2012 Release # 12-09-001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade pilots killed in eastern Afghanistan FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Two pilots from the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, died Sept. 5 when their OH-58D Kiowa Warrior went down in L ...
  • Ground Sign Awareness: What is this about?
    Emplacing "IED" at night. It was dark but the sensitive camera got the moment. 08 September 2012 The first week of Ground Sign Awareness (GSA) training with the Norwegian Army is finished.  One more week to go.  We are not actually learning combat tracking, but GSA.  GSA is like ...

The Killing Train

  • Two small outrages
    While these aren't the worst things in the world, a couple of things from the world of information and journalism that were surprising enough to me, even though I think I ought to be pretty hardened to these things by now. (1) Through Wikileaks' twitter feed, I saw this story about one of the fo ...
  • Haiti's New Dictatorship - Book Tour in November
    Hi everyone, In case you didn't notice the new tab above, my first book, Haiti's New Dictatorship, is set to come out at the end of October. I will be doing talks about the book all over Canada and probably in NYC in the US as well. Check the book tab for updates on the book tour. It's in the p ...
  • Paraguay: Weaving Peoples Resistance Against C ...
    Hello friends. We at En Camino put this together and it has gathered signatures since the coup. We are hoping to work together to find ways to support FDD in the coming weeks and months. -Justin ------- The undersigning organizations, collectives and individuals working towards a coordinated ini ...
  • The International Organization for a Participa ...
    I joined the International Organization for a Participatory Society. read more
  • Curuguaty and the Paraguay Coup
    When the landless peasants of the Carperos Campesino Movement moved on to the 70,000 hectare ranch in Curuguaty registered to Blas Riquelme, they would have known that they were risking their lives. Using the same successful methods as elsewhere in Latin America, perhaps most famously by the Lan ...

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Jurist - Legal Research

  • Montana Supreme Court finds no constitutional ...
    [JURIST] The Montana Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Tuesday that there is no constitutional right to the cultivation, distribution and use of medical marijuana [JURIST news archive]. The plaintiffs in the case sought to prevent the enactment and enforcement of a 2011 law [ ...
  • UN rights expert urges Egypt to ban use of evi ...
    [JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on torture Juan Mendez [official website] on Wednesday called on the Egyptian government and courts to stop permitting evidence acquired through torture [press release] to be admitted in any legal proceedings including military trials. The announcement comes after ...
  • Italy still discriminating against Roma: AI
    [JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] on Wednesday urged Italy to change its discriminatory policies against the country's Roma [AI backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. In its report [text, PDF], AI revealed that in the 10 months after the "Nomad Emergency" was deemed unlawful by ...
  • UN expert urges new Somalia leaders to respect ...
    [JURIST] The UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia Shamsul Bari on Wednesday welcomed [press release] the elections of the new president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud [BBC profile] and the new Speaker of the Parliament Mohamed Sheikh Osman Jawaari, urging them to respect the ...
  • Germany Constitutional Court supports, caps eu ...
    [JURIST] The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany [official website, in German] on Wednesday rejected a preliminary injunction [judgment, in German; press release, in German] to halt the implementation of the the 500 billion euro (USD $632 billion) European Stability Mechanism (ESM) [text, PD ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

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Tikun Olam

  • Ben Gurion, Maariv and Israel’s Dying Democracy
    Two deeply disturbing developments today that confirm the decline of what little is left of Israeli democracy.  The first is the demise of Israel’s venerable Maariv daily newspaper.  It is the second-most widely read paper in the country.  The common man’s paper.  Something like USA ...
  • Akiva Eldar Trashes Israeli “Binational State”
    Akiva Eldar is hands-down one of the finest columnists writing for Israeli newspapers today.  Along with Amira Hass, Gideon Levy, Alex Fishman and a few others, he shines light into places many Israelis would prefer not to look.  He is a national journalistic treasure, though one that few Israel ...
  • Kidnapped Palestinian Engineer, Abusisi, Appea ...
    Like Martin Luther King Letter from Birmingham Jail and Oscar Wilde’s Ballad of Reading Gaol, Dirar Abusisi has written an appeal to the world concerning his continued detention without trial in Israeli prisons.  The Gaza engineer kidnapped by Israel’s Mossad in collaboration with Uk ...
  • IDF Chief Censor Disses Tikun Olam
    At last month’s Digit2012 conference on Israeli digital journalism, the IDF chief censor participated in a panel about conflict between censorship on the one hand and the freewheeling social media networks and freedom of the press on the other.  I’m of two minds about the entire disc ...
  • Israeli Cyberwarfare Campaign Strikes Tikun Olam
    In this space, I’ve written often about Israeli cyberwar attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities and personnel.  Now, I have a story to tell about Israel’s cyberwar activists writ small.  Yesterday, this site was attacked by an Israeli hacker.  He hijacked the site’s main pa ...

If Americans Knew

  • Remember Rachel Corrie
    On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie was killed by Israeli soldiers driving a bulldozer. Please help us keep Rachel's memory and message alive! Order materials to distribute to your friends, family, neighbors, and community.
  • US Media and Israeli Military: All in the Family
    Recent exposes revealing that Ethan Bronner, the New York Times Israel-Palestine bureau chief, has a son in the Israeli military have caused a storm of controversy that continues to swirl and generate further revelations.
  • A History Lesson for Obama: Eisenhower's Example
    With President Obama's Middle East peace plans so completely -- and humiliatingly -- shipwrecked on the rocks of Israeli intransigence, it's time for him to consider a new approach, at least if he's serious about his announced objectives. In the spirit of bipartisanship that he's so dedicated to ...
  • The First Intifada
    It's interesting to find myself a small factor in the California race for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. But before I get to that, it's necessary to take a look at the campaigns themselves, and the system in which they're running.
  • My "Relationship" With Tom Campbell: A Wrench ...
    The First Intifada was a grassroots uprising against Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Intifada is an Arabic word for "civil uprising" that literally means "shaking off."

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Data Journalism Takes Center Stage at OKFestiv ...
    OKFestival, the world's largest open knowledge and data event, will take place September 17-22. We're pleased to announce that streams on three whole days of this year's festival (two festival days and a satellite event) will be dedicated to the topic of data journalism and visualization to enco ...
  • Behavio: Opening Up the Power of Mobile Sensing
    What three things do you always take with you when you leave your home? Most people would say their keys, their wallet, and their mobile phone. But what if your phone wasn't just a phone? It already isn't. At Behavio, we want to help small developers, researchers, data gatherers, and end-u ...
  • Crisis Mapping With OpenStreetMap a Big Focus ...
    OpenStreetMap, the free and editable map of the world, kicked off its international conference today in Tokyo, with the entire first day dedicated to improving disaster response and crisis mapping. With the March 2011 Tōhoku tsunami still fresh on people's minds and events like the recent Ta ...
  • Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Announces 'Code Sprint ...
    2012 has been a pretty incredible year for the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project. We received 165 applications for our 2013 Fellowships (we were expecting around 80) and are now actively interviewing semifinalists. By the end of the year, we will have sponsored at least 20 hack days around the wor ...
  • Tor Project Offers a Secure, Anonymous Journal ...
    "On condition of anonymity" is one of the most important phrases in journalism. At Tor, we are working on making that more than a promise. The good news: The Internet has made it possible for journalists to talk to sources, gather video and photos from citizens, and to publish despite ef ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The New Libya - Slain American Ambassador Drag ...
    Photographs of what is purportedly the body of slain American ambassador John Christopher Stevens have emerged on the Internet. Ambassador Stevens was at the U.S. consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi, when the consulate's security detail engaged in a firefight with gunmen armed with small ar ...
  • Destination Arizona - Southwest Focuses on Inn ...
    In the waning days of summer, southern Arizona will become the hot spot for food. Convened by the Southwest Marketing Network, the upcoming Border Food Summit is meant to attract people from across the region for three days of farm tours, presentations, workshops, discussions and, of course, tra ...
  • The Nano Edge - Mercury in Water, Fish Detecte ...
    When mercury is dumped into rivers and lakes, the toxic heavy metal can end up in the fish we eat and the water we drink. To help protect consumers from the diseases and conditions associated with mercury, researchers at Northwestern University in collaboration with colleagues at Ecole Polytechn ...
  • The New Middle East - Is the Middle East Bette ...
    Our embassies in Libya and Egypt have been ruthlessly stormed--on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, no less. Four Americans, including the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, are dead, victims of what appears to be not some spontaneous protest but a well-coordinated, pre-meditated assassination by Islamic ter ...
  • South Africa on Edge - South Africa Mining Unr ...
    Labor unrest is threatening to spread across South Africa's mining sector after a firebrand youth leader called for workers across the nation to make the mines "ungovernable." At the Lonmin platinum mine where the strikes started, workers' attendance has plunged to its lowest level yet. Jus ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Breaking: John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi and Harry R ...
    The press tried skewer Mitt Romney for his statements about the President's handling of the attacks on our Egyptian and Libyan embassies: “I also believe the Administration was wrong to stand by a statement sympathizing with those who had breached our embassy in Egypt instead of condemning t ...
  • Obama To Israel: DROP DEAD!
    Much of the big news on the anniversary of 9-11 came from the Middle East. There was the attack on the US Embassies in Egypt and Libya and the reports of Obama's refusal to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu when he comes to the United States at the end of September. An Israeli offi ...
  • Chuck Schumer is a Sick Puppy
    I don't know what I can add to the Item below except its hard to believe that this guy is a United States Senator. Even worse, he's MY United States Senator: At a Sunday press conference calling for stricter rules on concentrated laundry detergent pod packaging that some children have mista ...
  • Newsbusted: Clint Eastwood Compares Obama To G ...
    After that Chrysler commercial during the Super Bowl who would have thought that Clint Eastwood would become such a major Republican weapon in the Presidential campaign. First there was his now famous "empty chair speech" during the RNC Convention in Tampa and now he has doubled-down on his atta ...
  • 9/11 Eleven Years Later: That Horrible Stench ...
    Everyone remembers where they were when they found out about the attacks on 9/11. I remember driving into the city and thinking that it was a particularly clear day, not a cloud in the sky. Three hours after leaving my house, I was sitting in my office at Nickelodeon (I was the publishe ...

The Real Agenda

  • All Power to Brussels and the European Central ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 A great complement to the decision to enable the European Stability Mechanism could materialize if the government in Brussels gets its way. The European government is now proposing that the European Central Bank should control all ...
  • German Court Greelights European Stability Mec ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 The constitutional court in Karlsruhe has decided that the German participation in the permanent mechanism for bailing out European nations is totally legitimate, but that their participation is limited to 190,000 million euros. As ...
  • 9/11: The Controlled Demolition of America
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 While remembering those who lost their lives on 9/11, their families and anyone who directly suffered from the terrible events of that day, I realized that the attacks went far beyond demolishing 3 buildings. They demolished a whol ...
  • Operation Gladio: State-sponsored Terrorism in ...
    THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 Operation Gladio reveals Gladio, the secret state-sponsored terror network operating in Europe. This BBC series is about a far-right secret army, operated by the CIA and MI6 through NATO, which killed hundreds of innocent Europeans and attempted to blame ...
  • Flu Shot Linked to H1N1 Pandemic
    By HELEN BRANSWELL | CANADIAN PRESS | SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 A strange vaccine-related phenomenon spotted in Canada at the start of the 2009 flu pandemic may well have been real, a new study suggests. Researchers, led by Vancouver’s Dr. Danuta Skowronski, an influenza expert at the B ...

Wind Watch

  • Sheboygan County wind farm: Grothman to introd ...
    State Sen. Glenn Grothman said Monday that he plans to introduce a bill in January that would freeze renewable energy requirements for Wisconsin utilities at 2012 levels in an effort to stop wind farm development throughout the state. The announcement comes as a Hubertus-based developer is looki ...
  • Dutch wind farm in trouble in Mexico
    Dutch pension fund PGGM is the under fire in Mexico because of its plans for a wind farm in the south of the country. Furious local farmers and fishermen are demanding that the project be abandoned. The conflict centres on the Marena Renovables project, a wind farm under construction near the In ...
  • Ontario couple seeks injunction to stop wind-f ...
    A rural Ontario couple is heading to court to halt development of a large wind farm near the shores of Lake Huron – at least until Health Canada completes a new two-year study on the potential risks of living next to industrial wind turbines. Lawyers for Shawn and Trish Drennan sent notice Monda ...
  • Ecogen properties up for taxes in Steuben County
    Bath, NY — Wind developer Ecogen is now in a long list of Steuben County property owners who failed to pay their taxes this year. According to a notice of pendency filed Thursday, Ecogen owes more than $32,000 in unpaid taxes on the 18 parcels it owns in the Town of Prattsburgh. The notice is pa ...
  • “Dying of agony”
    Medical experts have told a Haunton resident he is ‘dying of agony’. Steve Smith is suffering from an extraordinarily rare condition that causes him to experience sound as excruciating pain. Anxiety also adds to the appalling symptoms for which he has to take continuous doses of morphine. Crushe ...

Tippers News

  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From ...
    Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help v ...
    EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Dr. Thomas Szasz, Psychiatrist Who Led Movemen ...
    “‘The goal is to assume more responsibility and therefore gain more liberty and more control over one’s own life,’ he said of talk therapy in an interview in 2000 with the Web site Psychotherapy.net. ‘The issues or questions for the patient become to what extent is he willing to recognize his ev ...
  • Amazon, Forced to Collect a Tax, Is Adding Roots
    “The company seems to be surrendering on the tax issue mostly in those states where it sees strategic value in new warehouses. Company officials say they hoped to see a national sales tax law in place that will supersede state laws.” (New York Times) But Big Business is supposed to be the nemesi ...
  • Chicago Teachers Strike Heads Into Second Day
    “‘There is a lot of anger,’ said Vicki Turbov, an English teacher at North-Grand High School in Humboldt Park who has two children attending district high schools. ‘This is about big stakes, the future of education in our country. This is not about a 2 percent increase.’ Attendance was light at ...
  • GM Losing up to $49,000 per Volt
    “‘It wasn’t conceived as a way to make tons of money,’ he said. ‘It was a big dip in the technology pool for GM. We’ve learned a boatload of stuff that we’re deploying on other models,’ Parks said. Those include the Cruze and such future cars as the 2014 Cadillac ELR hybrid. Th ...
  • A Hayekian Love Story
    What gets Adam and Jenny out of the fix in which they find themselves, and what brings them to the happiest ending possible for a couple brought together in such unpromising fashion, is F. A. Hayek.

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Plagiarism lessons and examples
    I’m catching up on some of the (many) things that have been written about the recent Jonah Lehrer ethics case, and I’d like to highlight this article for its breakdown and descriptions of some serious transgressions: Jonah Lehrer’s Journalistic Misdeeds at Wired.com I think one thi ...
  • Use Instapaper to capture, read blog posts
    I’ve been using Instapaper, a free on- and off-line reading tool, for a while, maybe more than a year. Mostly I use it for its most common purpose — to capture very long articles from a Web page and read them later. Often I read them on my Kindle when I’m not connected to wi-fi ...
  • Using Storify to share links and videos
    In a graduate-level course, like many educators, I require students to make presentations to the class. A while back, I forbade the use of PowerPoint — or any other slides — during the presentation. However, students must find, show and discuss some websites and videos as part of th ...
  • A few thoughts about MOOCs: Massive Open Onlin ...
    Educators are talking about the phenomenon of large-enrollment free online courses offered by very reputable professors and universities. Now the University of Texas “is in negotiations with Coursera and edX, two of the most prominent companies engaged in the mass distribution of course c ...
  • Managing research: Your personal library, online
    As a university professor, I not only teach — I also need to keep up-to-date with the literature in my field. This is so much easier now than it was when I was a graduate student long ago — now I can download PDFs of relevant articles and catalog them in folders on my hard drive, so ...

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Leadership in organizations people believe in
    The assassination strategy the US pursues is interesting, not in what it says about the US’s foes, but what it says about the US’s leaders.  Al-Qaeda’s “#2″ man has been “killed” so often that it’s a running joke, and Taliban leadership is regularl ...
  • Bleg
    Ok, my google-fu is failing me, so I’m asking for help. What I need is a list of perceived risk vs. real risk.  Well, more perceived risk, I can easily find the real risk numbers.  So, how likely do Americans think they are to die of terrorism or being in a plane and so on, [...]
  • The DNC
    People really, really, really want to be lied to.  And most progressive and liberal pundits are either so brain dead stupid they don’t remember the lies of the 08 convention and how Dems and Obama actually governed or are corrupt. Evil?  Or Stupid? A question not just for Republicans any more.
  • Some basics on the economy
    1) the majority of new jobs are bad. 2) the economy has still not recovered all lost jobs, either in absolute #s or as a percentage of the population 3) so there are fewer jobs, and what new jobs have been created are worse. They pay worse. 4) The upper middle class job market has [...]
  • Some basics on the economy
    1) the majority of new jobs are bad. 2) the economy has still not recovered all lost jobs, either in absolute #s or as a percentage of the population 3) so there are less jobs, and what new jobs have been created are worse. They pay worse. 4) The upper middle class job market has [...]

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • The End of the Road for Eds and Meds
    In the last few decades, as suburbanization and deindustrialization devastated so many cities, they turned to two sectors that seemed not only immune to decline, but were actually growing: universities and hospitals. The so-called “eds and meds” sectors, often related through univ ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Zürich
    Zürich is the largest urban area in Switzerland. The core city (stadt) of Zürich is located at the northern end of Lake Zürich, which is glacial and similar to the "finger lakes" of upstate New York. Lake Zürich is approximately 25 miles/40 kilometers long and 1-2 miles/1.5-3 kilome ...
  • The State of Economy in the Swing States
    I was living in Pennsylvania, voting in my second presidential election when my mom asked me that question in the months leading up to Ronald Reagan’s defeat of Jimmy Carter: “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” Four-year-ago comparisons are tricky when ...
  • Brewster and Me: Photo Essay Exploring One of ...
    This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Brewster-Douglass housing projects of Detroit Michigan and there is nothing to celebrate. More accurately, there is no one to celebrate. For several years now this section of the city, already infamous for its vacancy, has been completely aband ...
  • Carmel, IN Named Best Small City in America to ...
    Money Magazine just named the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel as the top small city in America to live in. Fishers, another Indianapolis suburb, ranked #12. Any ranking survey, and particularly one done by a magazine, needs to be taken with a grain of salt. However, Carmel and Fishers (along w ...

GM Watch

  • GM contamination spreading in Switzerland - ne ...
    1.GM canola (colza - rapeseed) contamination in Switzerland via the railways 2.Illegal GM canola found growing in Swiss port area NOTE: This new study (item 1) of GM contamination via Switzerland's railway system confirms once again (see item 2) that GM contamination is happening in a country t ...
  • GM wheat health dangers - full details
    1.SCIENTISTS WARN OF GM WHEAT HEALTH DANGERS 2.CSIRO: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - a profile RESOURCES  VIDEO of the press conference launching the report, with Safe Food Foundation Director, Scott Kinnear, University of Canterbury Professor, Jack Heinemann, an ...
  • Scientists warn of GM wheat threat
    1.GM crop could cause liver failure: scientist 2.Scientists wary of CSIRO GM crop 3.World Scientists Warn on GM Wheat Threat 4.Opposition calls for rethink on GM wheat trial --- --- 1.GM crop could cause liver failure: scientist Sean Cowan The West Australian, September 11 2012 http://au.news.ya ...
  • GM rice test researcher suspended
    1.China investigates whether children used in GMO "golden rice" trial 2.GM rice test researcher suspended from work EXTRACT: China CDC [Center For Disease Control And Prevention] reported the latest progress of the investigation, saying its fellow researcher Yin Shi'an, the third author of the ...
  • GM mosquito results pour cold water on claimed ...
    GM mosquito trial results in Cayman pour cold water on claimed benefits GeneWatch UK, 10 September 2012 http://www.genewatch.org/article.shtml?als[cid]=567356&als[itemid]=571139 GM insect company Oxitec today published results of its trials of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes in the Cay ...

spiked

Cryptogon

  • Skilled Work, Without the Worker
    Via: New York Times: The next generation of robots for manufacturing will be more flexible and easier to train. Witness the factory of Tesla Motors, which recently began manufacturing the Tesla S, a luxury sedan, in Fremont, Calif., on the edge of Silicon Valley. More than half of the building i ...
  • Suicide of Deloitte Partner Daniel Pirron Link ...
    Via: Telegraph: The family of a senior partner at Deloitte has called for answers after he apparently committed suicide days after the auditing firm was linked to the Standard Chartered Iran dollar trades scandal. Daniel Pirron, a partner in Delloite’s key General Counsel’s office in New York, w ...
  • Water Shortages Hit U.S. Power Supply
    Via: New Scientist: As the United States’ extended heat wave and drought threaten to raise global food prices, energy production is also feeling the pressure. Across the nation, power plants are becoming overheated and shutting down or running at lower capacity; drilling operations struggl ...
  • Genetically Engineering ‘Ethical’ ...
    Via: Telegraph: Professor Julian Savulescu said that creating so-called designer babies could be considered a “moral obligation” as it makes them grow up into “ethically better children”. The expert in practical ethics said that we should actively give parents the choice ...
  • Cows Eating Second Hand Candy During the Drought
    Via: WPRI: Ranchers have struggled with skyrocketing corn prices, because the drought has made feeding their livestock very expensive. But one rancher has turned to a very sweet solution. At Mayfield’s United Livestock Commodities, owner Joseph Watson is tweaking the recipe for success. &# ...

The Economic Collapse

  • China And Russia Are Ruthlessly Cutting The Le ...
    The mainstream media in the United States is almost totally ignoring one of the most important trends in global economics.  This trend is going to cause the value of the U.S. dollar to fall dramatically and it is going to cause the cost of living in the United States to go way up ...
  • The Student Loan Debt Bubble Is Creating Milli ...
    Every single year, millions of young adults head off to colleges and universities all over America full of hopes and dreams.  But what most of those fresh-faced youngsters do not realize is that by taking on student loan debt they are signing up for a life of debt slavery.  Stude ...
  • The Real Unemployment Numbers Are Worse Than Y ...
    According to the Obama administration, the unemployment rate in the United States has been slowly coming down over the past couple of years.  But is that actually true?  When you take a closer look at the data you quickly realize that the real unemployment numbers are much worse ...
  • Are You Better Off? 40 Statistics That Will Ab ...
    Are you better off today than you were four years ago?  This is a question that comes up nearly every election.  This year the Romney campaign has even created a Twitter hashtag for it: #AreYouBetterOff.  The Democrats are making lots of speeches claiming that we are better off, ...
  • $83,046 For A 3 Hour Hospital Visit – Wh ...
    The fastest way to go broke in America is to go to the hospital.  These days it seems like almost everyone has an outrageous hospital bill story to share.  It is getting to the point where most people are deathly afraid to go to the hospital.  All the financial progress that you ...

Desertification

  • The Great Green Wall of Africa (allAfrica)
    Read at : http://allafrica.com/stories/201202100963.html Africa: Imagining the Great Green Wall of Africa By Timothy Walker Despite the United Nation’s recent declaration that the deadly Horn of Africa famine of 2011 has finally ended, it remains an obvious and inescapable certainty &#8230 ...
  • The causes of desertification and finding new ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/su nday/2012-09/09/content_15745354.htm First to the Outback, then back to Xinjiang By Xu Jingxi in Guangzhou (China Daily)   An expedition of 26 members from China, Australia, New Zealand and Japan has completed a ...
  • Seed Freedom (YOU TUBE)
    AN EXTRAORDINARY VIDEO http://youtu.be/naVPxPqAbgU Act for Seed Freedom: 2-16 October 2012 Join ‘The Fortnight For Seed Freedom’. This video is available in multiple languages. Please visit the Seed Freedom video channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/occupytheseed.
  • Structural coloration in an African plant (Smi ...
    Read at : blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/09/this-african-fruit-produces-the-worlds-most-intense-natural-color/ This African Fruit Produces the World’s Most Intense Natural Color The tiny, rock-hard fruits of Pollia condensata, a wild plant that grows in the forests of Ethiopia, Mozambique ...
  • Conserving and sustainably managing drylands f ...
    Read at : http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/ecosystem_management/about_work_global_prog_ecos_dry/ IUCN Global Drylands Initiative   Drylands cover more than 41% of the world’s land surface and are home to some of the most unique biological and cultural diversity on the planet. They ...

The Paper Trail

  • Daily Disclosure: Crossroads GPS makes $2.5 mi ...
    The anonymously funded Crossroads GPS released four new ads on Tuesday going after Senate seats in Nevada, Ohio and Virginia with ad buys worth $2.5 million, according to Federal Election Commission reports."Laughable," in Nevada, calls Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley “desperate.” Berkley is try ...
  • How an 82-year old exposed security lapses at ...
    The hammering on the wall of America’s premier storage vault for nuclear-weapons grade uranium in pitch-darkness six weeks ago was loud enough to be heard by security guards. But they assumed incorrectly that workmen were making an after-hours repair, and blithely ignored it. ...
  • Daily Disclosure: Public employee union opens ...
    The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees joins the political spending spree with more than $2.8 million in new ads, Federal Election Commission reports show.While the union itself has already made a handful of ad buys this election, Thursday’s buy represents the firs ...
  • IMPACT: Pentagon, Congress probe tissue contracts
    The Pentagon has announced a new program to better oversee human cadaver tissue used in Defense Department hospitals around the world and is investigating allegations that some tissue-based medical implants provided to service members may have been obtained improperly, military officials said We ...
  • Daily Disclosure: Ads by anonymous political g ...
    Conservative outside spending groups are welcoming President Barack Obama to Charlotte, N.C., with a barrage of attack ads.At least three conservative nonprofits and the Republican National Committee are running television and print ads as Obama prepares to give his acceptance speech for the pre ...

backofthebook.ca

  • A Modest Opinion – The Art of Getting By
    By Nathaniel Moher I’m sure most of you have heard about the madman Lynden Dorval, an Edmonton schoolteacher who thought it was okay to give students a zero on assignments they failed to turn in. Don’t bother checking your eyes, you read that right! These poor students received a zero out of 100 ...
  • Jason Kenney exiles 3100 citizens
    By David@Sixthestate.net “Ottawa’s crackdown on residency fraud is a timely reminder that a Canadian passport is something to be earned.” That’s the general tenure of the positive media coverage the Harper regime has earned from the announcement this week that several thousand more C ...
  • Quebec ducks Ottawa’s long guns
    By Montreal Simon The Long-Gun Registry Lives!!!!! At least in Québec. From The Globe and Mail: “The federal government’s plan to destroy all data from its long-gun registry is unconstitutional, a judge has ruled, giving Ottawa 30 days to hand to Quebec records collected from the province’ ...
  • Why was the Iran Embassy Closed?
    By David@Sixthestate.net When Peter MacKay’s outspoken wife Nazanin Afshin-jam announced in July that Canada should shut down the Iranian embassy in Ottawa, on the nebulous charge that it was using cultural events to distribute propaganda (something which Canadian embassies have traditionally al ...
  • The Giller Prize deserves an award
    By Frank Moher A bunch of years ago now, I wrote an article for Saturday Night magazine decrying the fact that the Giller Prize was a captive of big name publishers and authors. On the basis of the long list for the 2012 Giller that was released last week, as well as the one from [...]

libcom

  • Union Busting at American Apparel Japan
    image.jpeg Management at the Jiyugaoka American Apparel Outlet in Tokyo have unfairly dismissed an employee, and are closing the store in an alleged union busting exercise. The ...
  • Walthamstow: The Return! Or Not
    berks1.jpg The EDL have vowed to return to East 17. Oh Dear! Crivvens! Jings! And Help Ma Boab! Never have the English Defence League been so humiliated than the other week at W ...
  • The Marikana Massacre: a glimpse of the men be ...
    The City Press, a mainstream newspaper in South Africa, has published short obituaries of the striking miners gunned down by the ANC government. Stelega Gadlela (50) His first name was Stelega, a word Swazi language speakers use to de ...
  • Wildcat Strike in Antep, Turkey: “We Want to L ...
    antep.jpeg The textile workers in the organised industrial zone of Antep, a city on the border of the Kurdish area of Turkey, recently went on a strike against their working conditions, low wages and ...
  • Support Pussy Riot by all means. But support t ...
    kazakh-oil-1.jpg A campaign is building to free oil worker activists jailed in Kazakhstan, where last year's strike culminated in a massacre that left at least 16 dead and 64 wounded ...

Free Range International

  • The Last Post
    This will be the last post I write for the FRI blog.  If this is the first time you have seen this blog stop reading this right now and go back to October 2011 in the archives section because those are some of the best posts I ever wrote about Afghanistan.  Or go to the [...]
  • How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?
    Our little posse made it out of Afghanistan without any dramas.  My brother Tim left with me because The Bot had made it perfectly clear that his IED hit from the year before had made him completely unstable and a big pain in his ass.  We went to London again and both my brother and [...]
  • Vision Quest
    Editors note: Be sure to start this series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) so it makes sense.  We will try to get more posts up sooner than we have been lately but Dalton is, to be honest, not doing as well as we hoped .  Baba Tim is also banged up again and [...]
  • Band On The Run
    Editors Note:  It is important for first time readers to start this story from the beginning.  This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother, Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to living a normal life back in the states.   Any donations received by the FRI bl ...
  • Dead Man Walking
    Dalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change.  Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton.  For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can&#8217 ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • 9-11 The Ultimate Litmus Test
    This pretty much sums it up. Remember, Ron Paul parrots the official “story”   I also find this quite curious.   In 1974 the movie “Towering Inferno” is released by Khazar “Jew” Irwin Allen.   In 1975 the North Tower of the WTC has a similar fire as depic ...
  • The Tree of Life
    The Tree of Life The Incredible Story of Sulfur (Final Chapter of the Righteous Blood Series) By A. True Ott, PhD, ND   In 1913, poet Joyce Kilmer wrote the oft-quoted, yet poignantly simple verse: I Think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.   A tree whose hungry mouth is [...]
  • Why I am a Christian
    I simply stand amazed at the incredible evidence that proves to my mind the fact that everything in this universe was indeed created! The lie of evolution is tied to the hopelessness of lack of faith in not only a loving Creator/God, but also in ignorance of His divine Rescue Plan. Christ was/is ...
  • Why I am a Christian
    I simply stand amazed at the incredible evidence that proves to my mind the fact that everything in this universe was indeed created! The lie of evolution is tied to the hopelessness of lack of faith in not only a loving Creator/God, but also in ignorance of His divine Rescue Plan. Christ was/is ...
  • Update on the IRS Rebate to Aliens Scandal
    The followup to this story is even more “shocking” not so much “disappointing”. In a simple nutshell, the IRS is absolutely not necessary if the U.S. Treasury printed and circulated  our currency freely and WITHOUT USURY (aka Plunder) as the Founding Fathers outlined in t ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • افشاگر کهريزک و راز سه سال مقاومت او
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  • Iran’s enemies destroying the clouds, causing ...
    DUBAI- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused his country’s enemies of enacting a sinister plan to create a drought by somehow destroying the rain clouds before they reach Iran, several Iranian websites reported on Tuesday. Well-known for his anti-American and anti-Israeli rhetoric, ...
  • Israeli Leader Sharpens Call on U.S. to Set Li ...
    JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel harshly criticized the Obama administration on Tuesday over recent statements that the United States would not set deadlines or draw “red lines” for Iran over its disputed uranium enrichment activities, calling such comments a signal to the ...
  • Iran Lowers Oil Prices Relative to Saudi Arabi ...
    ran lowered the price of its oil to customers in Asia compared with Saudi Arabian grades for next month, bringing down the relative cost of its light grade to the lowest level in more than five years. read more
  • Canada’s Diplomatic Disaster
    On 7 September, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird announced that Canada is suspending all diplomatic relations with Iran...Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast suggested that the real reason for Harper’s latest targeting of Iran was because of Iran’s successful hosting of the ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Greece to Seek Nazi Damages from Germany
    www.davegranlund.com Recent articles in Bloomberg’s and the West Australian reveal that Greece has set up a “working group” to study historical archives and to determine how much Germany might owe in outstanding reparations for Nazi war crimes during World War II. Greece ...
  • Haiti: the New Greece
    Haiti (pre-Isaac) Aug 24, 2012 Someone has leaked to the UK Guardian an email the “troika” (consisting of the European Commission, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund) recently sent the Greek government with additional conditions they plan to impose as a ...
  • Robert Fisk Exposes Western Media Lies in Syria
    Robert Fisk Legendary Middle East reporter Robert Fisk, the first western eyewitness to enter the massacre town of Daraya, writes in the Independent about eye witness reports that Syrian rebels, not government forces, are responsible for the mass killing of 245 Darayan men, women and chil ...
  • The Corporations Opposing Prop 37
        On November 6th, California voters will have the opportunity to pass into law a “right-to-know” initiative that would make it mandatory for all genetically modified (GMO) foods to be so labeled. Proposition 37 would also ban the fraudulent, but highly lucrative pr ...
  • Cities Go After America's Biggest Slumlords
    According to the Los Angeles city attorney, the two biggest slumlords in California are US Bank and Deutsche Bank. US Bank (aka US Bancorp) is the fifth largest bank in the US and Deutsche Bank the fourth largest bank in the world. Both acquired thousands of foreclosed properties in the 20 ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • UK Threatens to Violate Ecuadoran Embassy Grou ...
    Reuters, August 15th, 2012: Ecuador said on Wednesday the British government had threatened to raid its embassy in London if WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is not handed over, and that Quito would make its decision on his asylum request on Thursday. "Today we've received a threat by the Un ...
  • FLASHBACK: Ann Coulter Says Rage Against the M ...
    New York Times, April 29, 2012: WASHINGTON — Representative Paul D. Ryan strolls the halls of Capitol Hill with the anarchist band Rage Against the Machine pounding through his earbuds. Daily Beast, August 11, 2012: Ryan seems to have a taste for hard-rock bands like Rage Against ...
  • WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE: WikiLeaks opens path ...
    After almost two years of fighting an unlawful banking blockade by US financial giants VISA and MasterCard, WikiLeaks has announced it is back open for donations. After WikiLeaks' publications revealing US war crimes and statecraft in 2010, US financial institutions erected a banking blockade a ...
  • 'No Going Back': Michael Moore on the Last Wor ...
  • Letter From Prominent Americans, Delivered to ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 25, 2012 Media Contacts: (London) Robert Naiman, US 217-979-2857 (US) Megan Iorio, US 908-400-9480 Letter signed by Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Wolf, Daniel Ellsberg, Danny Glover, Oliver Stone, Patch Adams, MD, Mark Weisbrot and other promine ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Banking on the States
    With Washington embroiled in unproductive energy arguments this fall it’s a great time to look elsewhere in America for smart, constructive problem-solving.Specifically, it’s a great time—in the realm of energy policy--to look at what’s going on in U.S. states, many of which have been at the for ...
  • Plutonium power for the people
  • Arctic Death Spiral: The Video
    Last week, I reported that leading scientific experts were warning we could see a “near ice-free Arctic in summer” in a decade — if volume trends continue.Here’s a short video showing those ominous trends from 1979 through early September 2012:
  • Technology transforms the utility business model
    In my first two blogs for The Energy Collective I talked about how utilities should deploy automation via sensors and controls on the distribution grid to maximize efficiency and reliability instead of relying solely on customers to stop using electricity anytime that they want based on complex ...
  • The Energy Holy Grail 12.0: Is Our Quest At I ...
    I’ve been working with new energy inventions and their creators for almost 15 years now.  I don’t know how many times I’ve heard a new technology described as “the Holy Grail”:  solving all of the world’s problems forever.Well, here’s the newest one using the Holy Grail cliche: a suppo ...

EU Times

  • Over 46 million US citizens live in poverty
    New official data show that the US government has failed to reduce the level of poverty in the country amid weak economic growth. The US Census Bureau said in an annual report on Wednesday that 46.2 million Americans are still living below the poverty line. The overall poverty rate stood at 15 p ...
  • Greece demands Billions of Euros for German WW ...
    Greece has threatened to hit Germany with a bill for tens of billions of pounds in outstanding reparations for Nazi war crimes during the Second World War. The move is an indication of growing outrage in Athens at the strictures being placed on the Greek economy by EU paymasters led by Germany. ...
  • Chinese Vice President Missing for 11 Days
    China’s leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping has set off a storm of rumours after cancelling several meetings and failing to turn up at scheduled public events for over a week. A source close to the Beijing leadership now claim 59-year-old Vice President Xi is ‘unwell’ after hurting his back during his ...
  • US Ambassador to Libya killed in attack, Obama ...
    U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens is confirmed to have died in Tuesday’s conflict in the U.S. consulate building in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi, Libyan officials said on Wednesday. Marine unit dispatched to secure U.S. consulate in Benghazi after deadly attacks. Hundr ...
  • Top German Court Approves €500 Billion Eurozon ...
    Germany’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the €500-billion bailout is legal under German law. The verdict comes as Greece’s coalition government hesitates on the further austerity cuts required by its creditors. The verdict ruled that the German government will not be liable for sums over 19 ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Newsroomâs Alison Pill Accidentally Tweets Nud ...
    What’s worse than taking a nude picture and texting it to the wrong contact? Actress Alison Pill can tell you it’s taking a nude picture and then tweeting it by accident to the whole Twitterverse. The “Newsroom” actress was understandably horrified and sorrowful when she realized that a nude ph ...
  • Apple announces iPhone5
    Today’s Slaw post : Apple just announced the new iPhone 5. Some of the features Apple is touting: Thinner and lighter â apparently the worldâs thinnest smartphone. A bit taller than before, which give a bigger screen (close to 16:9)and better colour. Apps designed for the current screen size wi ...
  • Christina Aguilera rocks Houston jewelry for L ...
    I love it when Houston designers get their shine nationally. Check out the October issue of Lucky magazine. It features singer Christina Aguilera wearing a blue sapphire ring ($900) and white sapphire necklace ($1,500) designed by local jeweler DeVille Fine Jewelry, which is owned by Liz Glanvi ...
  • Interview: Phil Schiller on Why the iPhone 5 H ...
    While Apple managed to pack a bunch of new technologies into the iPhone 5 , the company opted not to include the wireless charging found on Nokia’s Lumia 920 or the near field communications technology found in the Galaxy S III. Though some saw Apple’s Passbook feature as a perfect companion to ...
  • Predictification - NFL Regular Season Week 2 Picks
    LAST WEEK: 8-8 COLTS PREDICTIONS: 1-0 Last week was, what we call in the Predictification business, a mixed bag. Hit on some, missed on others... and just plain whiffed on a couple. 68 of you beat me in the Stampede Blue Yahoo! League (League ID 34464, Password: AndrewLuck) so congratulations t ...

Groklaw

  • NY judge strikes down terror law scholars fear
    An anti-terrorism law was struck down Wednesday by a federal judge who said she saw legitimate fears in claims by journalists, scholars and political activists that they could face indefinite detention for exercising First Amendment rights. U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan sai ...
  • Apple Special Event Sept. 12, 2012 (St ...
    Watch streaming video from the special event. - Apple
  • University builds cheap supercomputer with Ra ...
    Inspired by the low-cost computing power of the Raspberry Pi, a team at the University of Southampton has used the ARM-based Linux computer-on-a-board as a building block for a low-cost supercomputer-racked and stacked using Lego blocks. And they've published a step-by-step guide for anyone inte ...
  • Microsoft and Google Take $4 Billion Patent Di ...
    Microsoft v. Motorola, 12-35352, featured two of the country's leading appellate advocates arguing for two of the world's largest technology companies. At issue were a demand for $4 billion in royalties, a U.S. court's authority to block a German court's injunction and - the likely dispositi ...
  • Power Searching with Google - Another live ses ...
    Another live session of Power Searching with Google begins on September 24! Register now to complete the course alongside a community of global participants and when the course begins you'll receive: Access to community discussion forum; The opportunity to put your new skills to tes ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Thugs and killers responsible for Benghazi attack
    The Benghazi attack may have been planned with the movie used as a pretext to enrage the populace.This was a coordinated attack, more of a commando-style event,” Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., told CBS News. “It had both coordinated fire — direct fire and indirect fire. There appea ...
  • Stand with the Pacific Northwest Grand Jury Re ...
    Leah-Lynn Plante, grand jury resister, needs your support.Stand in solidarity with the Seattle’s Grand Jury Resisters on Thursday. It seems very likely that two of the people subpoenaed to the Grand Jury in Seattle will be jailed for their resistance. We are calling on all our supports to ...
  • Robot horses and robot cheetahs
    The robot horse and cheetah are designed and built by Boston Dynamics with funding from DARPA. The cheetah is tethered and has an external battery pack. However, a mobile version will be testing next year.The horse can carry 400 lbs and follow a leader on uneven terrain for twenty miles without ...
  • Understanding Obama
    I am sad to say that all the things I predicted about the Obama presidency four years ago have come true. I was, like all goodhearted people everywhere, delighted to think of an African American winning the White House. But I became more and more suspicious during the 2008 campaign. It seemed [...]
  • CT Judge to be cross-examined in Mary Badaracc ...
    A sitting Superior Court judge from Goshen CT will face cross-examination as a criminal complainant in the upcoming trial of Dominic Badaracco, identified as a prime suspect in one of Connecticut’s longest-running missing persons cases.Mr. Badaracco, 76, stands accused of bribing Judge Robert Br ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • News from the negotiated transition in Burma/M ...
    I've recently been devouring Evan Osnos's brilliant piece of reporting in The New Yorker, on the exciting, now-underway, negotiated transition to much greater democracy in Myanmar/Burma. Huge kudos to Osnos for doing this great research and reporting, and to The New Yorker for, presumably, fund ...
  • Two observations on the tragedy in Syria
    1. War always inflicts grave rights abuses on residents of the war zone. Additionally, its fog allows-- and its passions encourage-- the commission of a large variety of atrocities such as are very rarely committed in times of peace. Hence, actions tending toward the exacerbation of tensions can ...
  • 'New' Egypt and the Camp David accords
    Despite many setbacks and roadblocks along the way in Egypt, the political situation there is still one of the most hopeful-- and certainly, the most momentous-- phenomena in the region. Egypt, remember, really does carry the strategic ballast of the whole Arab world. How things turn out there i ...
  • July 2006, lest we forget
    In these days six years ago, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert and his team were battering much of Lebanon to smithereens in the "Dahiyeh War"-- designed, as we remember, to break Hizbullah once and for all, primarily by battering Lebanese civilians and their infrastructure so harshly that they would turn ...
  • Sarajevo, 1914; Damascus 2012?
    The killing, in Damascus today, of at least three powerful members of the Baathist regime in Syria, will almost certainly plunge that whole country-- and quite likely also much of the rest of the Greater Middle East-- into a maelstrom of inter-group violence far worse than any it has seen until ...

frogblog

  • The Rights of the Child and the Government’s l ...
      The Government has announced it plans to sanction parents, this means cut their benefit by 50%, who do not meet their ascribed parenting standards of enrol them in 15 hours per week of ECE from 3 years of age, enrol in a PHO, complete all the well child checks, ensure children are enrolled in ...
  • Vacuuming the ocean
    New Zealand must urgently follow the Australian Government’s decision to introduce law banning super trawlers operating in their fishery. The 142m super trawler Abel Tasman, licensed to take 18,000 tonnes of mackerel and bait fish using 600-meter nets, is capable of wiping out entire local ...
  • EU warns against fracking while NZ oil lobbyis ...
    Last week three new reports commissioned by the European Union about fracking were released, which voiced strong concerns around fracking for shale gas, the unconventional gas sector and the lack of sufficient regulation in place to deal with the shale gas boom.
  • Joyce shows Government foolish on biofuels
    Anyone else nearly choke on their Weet-Bix this morning listening to Steven Joyce on Morning Report?
  • One Plan decision
    Rivers and sustainable agriculture had a win this week with the Environment Court’s interim decisions on the Manawatu-Wanganui Regional Council’s One Plan. Media coverage included TV3’s Firstline and News. As the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has said we want fertile soils, not ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • SCOTUS and the Rule of Flaw
    The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution that has failed in every possible way. It is notorious for having issued iniquitous opinions; it has not only failed to resolve but has exacerbated conflicts; and it has consistently negated the ideals the founding fathers wrote into t ...
  • How the Economy Works: The Necessity of Crime
    The economy is merely a sum of money, not practices that sustain the oikos, and the money that makes up the sum is equally valued whether it results from virtuous or vicious, good or bad, constructive or destructive, humane or inhumane, legal or illegal, beneficent or malevolent practices. A ...
  • Governments Exist to Further the Interests of ...
    Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored group.
  • The History of Knowledge: Darkness in the Acadamy
    Knowledge does not always prevail or even endure. When the Roman Empire fell, the Justinian Code was replaced by Canon Law. The augustness of knowledge was transformed into heresy and mankind's curiosity was virtually extinguished. The age became dark. In the 11th century, people began to st ...
  • Vendor ArithmeticUnderhanded Capitalism
    Why does the nation exist? The truth is revealed when one realizes that merchant theft is protected by the legal system whose justices have enshrined an economic bias into law, having subverted the Constitution from the goals the founding fathers wrote into it to the almost exclusive promoti ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • How the Chicken Conquered the World
    By Dr. Mercola For at least 10,000 years, from Rome to Egypt to China to your dinner plate today, the now lowly – but historically revered – chicken has been a part of folklore, history, meal traditions, and even religion. How it got to where it is today is a fascinating tale that the Smith ...
  • Astaxanthin for Heart Health and Chronic Pain
    By Dr. Mercola I first met Dr. Robert Corish last year, at the annual Natural Health Expo West in Los Angeles. While trained as an anesthesiologist, and board-certified in pain management and clinical metal toxicology, Dr. Corish believes in the power of a healthy lifestyle to prevent healt ...
  • CDC Preparing for New Swine Flu – Should You?
    By Dr. Mercola According to the featured report by US News Health1, a new influenza A variant strain of swine flu, H3N2v, has been identified in children and adults recently in direct contact with pigs at country fairs. The CDC case count of detected human infections in the US with the H3N2-v ...
  • Find a Compassionate Doctor to Help You Preven ...
    By Barbara Loe Fisher Ever since the first vaccines – smallpox and rabies vaccines – one of the most serious complications of vaccination has been brain inflammation.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Brain inflammation can cause convulsions, also known as seizures.8 Continuing seizures can permanently dama ...
  • New and Improved – My Nutrition Plan has Recei ...
    By Dr. Mercola I've been passionate about food and nutrition to optimize my own health for over three decades. The last 15 years I have also been sharing what I learn with you through this newsletter. Diet is clearly the foundational strategy of Taking Control of Your Health. You can have a ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Alleged Yanomami massacre: Survival's reaction
    Illegal goldmining threatens Yanomami communities in both Brazil and Venezuela.© SurvivalSurvival International has been accused of a ‘climbdown’ over its announcement that, apparently contrary to earlier reports, a Yanomami settlement in Venezuela has not been destroyed in an attack by goldmine ...
  • Venezuela: miners' invasion continues, but no ...
    Illegal goldminers have been occupying the Yanomami territory for years.© SurvivalHaving received its own testimony from confidential sources, Survival now believes there was no attack by miners on the Yanomami community of Irotatheri. Yanomami from the area – in which many illegal gold miners a ...
  • Countdown: Brazil has three months to evict in ...
    Brazil has three months to evict illegal loggers from Awá land.© SurvivalBrazil has just three months to evict illegal loggers from land belonging to Earth’s most threatened tribe before it will be in breach of a court order, but Survival International can reveal that logging is still rife insid ...
  • Survival denounces Venezuela’s 'whitewash' of ...
    The Yanomami way of life is threatened by illegal goldmining in the Amazon.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalSurvival has denounced the Venezuelan government’s repeated denials of a massacre against Yanomami Indians, calling on President Chávez to evict all illegal goldminers from indigenous territory and ...
  • Campaigners target Rio 2016 exhibition over ‘E ...
    Visitors to the Rio 2016 exhibition in London read leaflets about threats to Brazil’s Awá.© SurvivalTribal rights campaigners today targeted a London exhibition celebrating Brazil’s cultural heritage ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympics, to highlight the plight of ‘Earth’s most threatened tribe.’ Vis ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...
    The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.
  • Plateau letter draws reaction pro and con
    The July 23 Letter of the Day ("An administration that's sucking the life out of the Plateau," July 23) from Plateau Mont Royal resident Marion Bialek, and a response from Projet Montréal vouncillor Alex Norris drew lots of comment from readers at montrealgazette.com/opinion.
  • Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...
    The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.
  • Letter of the Day: You want change? Start with ...
    You've got a problem with the world today? Don't scream, protest or demonstrate about it; do something to change your own ways first.
  • Conrad Black: the man who took on a bad law, a ...
    Conrad Black left a U.S. federal prison Friday. For a moment, set aside whatever opinion you might have about Lord Black's business practices. There's no doubt about one point: businesspeople in the United States owe a very large debt of thanks to Black for his almost improbable challenge of the ...

Food World Order

  • #Audio: Portland Fluoride Protest - September ...
    @CassieCohn reports from City Hall in Portland, Oregon on September 6, 2012 at the public hearing concerning the fluoridation of public water. MP3/Feed\Archive
  • Flawed Organic Foods Study Really Just A Media ...
    from naturalnews.com: If you read the mainstream news headlines today, you might be shocked to see headlines that say things like, "Organic foods no healthier than conventional foods" or "Organic foods may not be healthier for you." You'll see these headlines all across the usual disinfo outlets ...
  • The War Against GMO Labeling
    from therealfoodchannel.com: Voters in California have an opportunity to insist on labeling of genetically modified foods this November. Big chemical and GMO powerhouses Monsanto and DuPont are spending millions to convince voters that this is a bad idea. Why should you care if you don't live in ...
  • 2012 Arctic Ice Melt Claims Distorted And Inac ...
    from drtimball.com: Recently I identified a counterattack trying to defend the failed anthropogenic global warming (AGW) hypothesis. Claims about Arctic ice melt this summer (2012) are another example. Data and analysis are wrong, but they need to scare a disinterested public. I know about ar ...
  • Why Does Canada Have a Strategic Maple Syrup R ...
    from theatlantic.com: Oh, Canada. On Friday, news broke that thieves had stolen stole $30 million dollars worth of Quebec's strategic maple syrup reserves. Yes, you read correctly. Much as the United States keeps a stock of extra oil buried in underground salt caverns to use in case of a geop ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • China And Russia Are Ruthlessly Cutting The Le ...
    The mainstream media in the United States is almost totally ignoring one of the most important trends in global economics.  This trend is going to cause the value of the U.S. dollar to fall dramatically and it is going to cause the cost of living in the United States to go way up ...
  • The Student Loan Debt Bubble Is Creating Milli ...
    Every single year, millions of young adults head off to colleges and universities all over America full of hopes and dreams.  But what most of those fresh-faced youngsters do not realize is that by taking on student loan debt they are signing up for a life of debt slavery.  Stude ...
  • The Real Unemployment Numbers Are Worse Than Y ...
    According to the Obama administration, the unemployment rate in the United States has been slowly coming down over the past couple of years.  But is that actually true?  When you take a closer look at the data you quickly realize that the real unemployment numbers are much worse ...
  • Are You Better Off? 40 Statistics That Will Ab ...
    Are you better off today than you were four years ago?  This is a question that comes up nearly every election.  This year the Romney campaign has even created a Twitter hashtag for it: #AreYouBetterOff.  The Democrats are making lots of speeches claiming that we are better off, ...
  • $83,046 For A 3 Hour Hospital Visit – Wh ...
    The fastest way to go broke in America is to go to the hospital.  These days it seems like almost everyone has an outrageous hospital bill story to share.  It is getting to the point where most people are deathly afraid to go to the hospital.  All the financial progress that you ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Every end is a new beginning...
    Just remember that death is not the end... So, whilst The Talking Clock is - for now at least - mothballed, the many friends and regular readers who are "awake" might want to join me in my little sidestep venture: http://conspiracywatch.blogspot.co.uk/ Blogrolls need to be added and the ...
  • Okay Captain Ranty... this blogger resigns fro ...
    On the day that the BEST blogger in the blogosphere - Captain Ranty - has posted to announce 'end of transmission' (though not for the first time)... ...having mulled over what Captain Ranty has to say, rather than replying to the above linked blogpost in comments or via 140 characters on Twi ...
  • European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment D ...
    Here are the highlights of the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Bill, Second Reading debate which took place in the House of Commons yesterday. Bill Cash MP Plainly, the implosion in Europe does affect us, and this failed attempt to put a sticking plaster on an increasi ...
  • Nothing Tutu Hide, Nothing Tutu Fear, Mr. Bliar
    Archbishop Desmond Tutu is all over the world's media for boldly coming out in public with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to stand trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Part of Tutu's thinking ...
  • The People's Memorial: 15th Anniversary Tribut ...
    As is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death. Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click on the th ...

Facing South

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • NexPhone: Futuristic Concept Smartphone Using ...
    NexPhone concept is a new kick-starter like project where the promoters intend to build a smartphone that becomes your tablet, laptop and PC, all at the same time. Might sound familiar since ASUS has a similar project called ASUS PadFone. The interesting thing about NexPhone project is that, ...
  • Chrome Overtakes IE to become the World's Most ...
    The sheer pace of changes in world of technology sometimes scares me. Four years ago, Google Chrome was a nobody. After the initial surge, which helped Chrome gain nearly 1% market share quickly in the fiercely competitive browser market, things went down a bit and everyone was busy writing aw ...
  • Slow or Erratic Wi-Fi in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS? Try ...
    Ever since I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Wi-Fi connection has become a pain in the neck. In my laptop, though the network-manager detects my router and easily connects to it through Wi-Fi, internet connection itself was really slow and erratic. On the other hand, Wi-Fi connection itself star ...
  • Reditr - A Brilliant New Reddit Client for Des ...
    Reddit clients for Android already exists in every size and shape. But things are a little bit different for desktops, especially Linux desktops. A few Reddit apps popped up during Ubuntu App Showdown contest, but even those were not good enough. Looks like Reditr, a new Reddit client for Linu ...
  • Google Not Only Uses Goobuntu, It Actually is ...
    Rumors about the use of Ubuntu inside Google is not new. Some say Google has their own version of Ubuntu called Goobuntu and they have it deployed in large numbers inside Google campuses. All such rumors can finally be laid to rest. Thomas Bushnell, the tech lead of the group that distrib ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...
    Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours  mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...
  • Stronach’s new “false flag” ...
    You read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“ opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as Justice Minister. ...
  • Stauffenberg in the Wolf’s Lair: Read th ...
    At a time of  crisis, terror and tyranny, Claus von Stauffenberg seized the initiative and tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime in a coup in July, 1944. As such, he is an example to us all today. The mass impoverishment of people by the fractional reserve banking scam ...
  • FRANK STRONACH: WHY DID THE MAGNA CHIEF RING T ...
    *Frank Stronach, CEO of Magna, rings solicitor handling the proceeds of the sale of my flat and offers him job as justice minister and chauffeur-driven car *Phone call happens almost immediately after I sign the contract *Bizarre call comes to light after I return to sign a second document: Schw ...
  • Letter confirming my complaint against Baxter ...
    Here it is again: a pdf copy of a letter from the Austrian Health Ministry dated May 2009 confirming that I had made a complaint against Baxter and Avir and that state prosecutors had started an investigation into the incident involving the contamination of 72 kilos of seasonal flu vaccine with ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • The 9/11 Plug-Ugly Circle Jerk Blues
    By Visible Seven come 9/11. Yes! Israel did 9/11. Yes, the government put in this ridiculous 9/11 monument. They think if they set something in stone that that legitimizes it. Bullshit! Israel did 9/11, along with the Bushligula criminals. A tip of the hat to the commenter who came up with the n ...
  • Planned war on Iran and the General who said No!
    By Gordon Duff Today, General Dempsey, Chairman of America’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, the man who flew to Tel Aviv and informed Netanyahu that America wanted no part of his scheming against Iran was the subject of an assassination attempt in Afghanistan. This wasn’t an act of terrorism or Taliban ...
  • Cleveland State University wind turbines at Pr ...
    By Karen Farkas, The Plain Dealer Thomas Ondrey, The Plain Dealer The spiral wind turbine system perched above the southeast corner of Progressive Field is performing better than expected and also attracts attention from fans, especially when it is lit at night. The wind turbines attached to tha ...
  • Study Finds Chemotherapy Makes Cancer Far Worse
    Woops! Study Accidentally Finds Chemotherapy Makes Cancer Far Worse Anthony Gucciardi NaturalSociety August 6, 2012 http://naturalsociety.com/chemotherapy-makes-cancer-far-worse/ A team of researchers looking into why cancer cells are so resilient accidentally stumbled upon a far more important ...
  • Fragments of foreign DNA and other substances ...
    by Christina England September 5, 2012 This week an important paper by Leslie Carol Botha hit the Internet by storm. This revolutionary paper titled Unveiling the Culprit – Is Foreign DNA Contamination the Autistic Villain behind Biologic Vaccine Injuries, is one of the first papers to dis ...

Veterans Today

electric politics

  • Another Take on American Divisions
    Stipulating hypothetically that religion is the big dividing line in American life (per last week's show), it seems not unreasonable to make a case that religious divisions manifest mainly through sectional politics. Taking it a step further one might well wonder about sectional differences gene ...
  • American Divisions
    Bill Schneider says that the U.S. is more politically divided today than it has been at any time since the Civil War. I think he's right. Which is not to say that compromise is the ticket. Instead, I'd like to see some brains reclaimed by reason from among those who want His Almightiness to run ...
  • Billionaires vs. Science
    Sociopath billionaires. They cause a ton of trouble across the board but the very worst thing they do is to deny global warming. They should, in my view, be thrown in jail for subverting science. Because, however, we don't have laws yet against scientific malpractice the next best thing, the onl ...
  • Dictatorship By Filibuster
    Given the filibuster, forty one percent of the U.S. Senate can block any vote they don't like. Thus, a minority of reactionary right wing Senators gets to kill a lot of worthy legislation. In recent years abuse of the filibuster has become increasingly intolerable; even ordinary Senate business ...
  • Contact
    It stands to reason, though remains as yet unproven, that advanced civilizations exist elsewhere in our galaxy, in other galaxies, and indeed throughout the entire universe. The prudent thing is to plan ahead for contact, not to wait until we know for sure. But it's complicated. To get a sense o ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Libya: Washington reaps what it sowed
    New York Times September 12, 2012 J. Christopher Stevens arrived in Benghazi, Libya, in April 2011 aboard a Greek cargo ship carrying a dozen American diplomats and guards and enough vehicles and equipment to set up a diplomatic beachhead in the middle of an armed rebellion. **** Washington Post ...
  • Congo: Rwandan Army Withdrawal A Farce
    The Southern Times September 10, 2012 Rwanda army withdrawal a farce Felix Njini ==== The Information Minister…slammed the UK for lifting an aid freeze on Rwanda, hinting that the international forces, which have previously benefitted from the internal strife in the DRC through laundered m ...
  • Chinese Army: Inciting Wars Will Only Bring Di ...
    Xinhua News Agency September 12, 2012 “Absolutely no concession” on Diaoyu Islands: PLA Daily               BEIJING: The PLA Daily, the flagship newspaper of China’s armed forces, carried a commentary Wednesday protesting against the Japa ...
  • Chinese-Japanese Conflict Heats Up
    Xinhua News Agency September 11, 2012 Japanese PM orders Self-Defense Forces fully prepared for emergency ==== Noda said the uncertainties over Japan’s peripheral security environment rose to the highest level as the military activity of surrounding countries, including Democratic People&# ...
  • Repost from two years ago: U.S. Supports Japan ...
    Stop NATO November 4, 2010 U.S. Supports Japan, Confronts China And Russia Over Island Disputes Rick Rozoff In a six-day span the U.S. State Department has bluntly affirmed unequivocal backing for Japanese territorial claims against both Russia and China, even invoking a defense treaty provision ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • It’s the Occupation, Stupid
    By Stephen Lendman, Contributor theintelhub.com September 12, 2012 Haaretz contributor Amira Hass is right saying so. Current headlines highlight thousands of West Bank protesters. Palestinians took to the streets against unaffordable rising prices. In some areas, things got violent. Demonstrato ...
  • Chicago: America’s Epicenter of Resistance
    By Stephen Lendman, Contributor theintelhub.com September 12, 2012 Public education is on the chopping block for elimination. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants it commodified into another business profit center. At issue is saving it. Education isn’t a product. It’s a fundamental righ ...
  • 9/11 Terror Attacks In Pictures
    theintelhub.com September 11, 2012 Pictures at and around Ground Zero on 09/11/01, taken by a iron worker I know. http://www.federaljack.com/?p=175754 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZJ3rcXNQpA
  • On Sept 10, 2001 Army’s School of Advanced Mil ...
    theintelhub.com September 11, 2012 Contributed by 12160.info Just 24 hours after this story appeared, the Pentagon was hit and the Arabs were being blamed. From The Washington Times: An elite U.S. Army study center has devised a plan for enforcing a major Israeli-Palestinian peace accord that wo ...
  • Flashback: Huffington Post Censors Jesse Ventu ...
    By Alex Thomas theintelhub.com September 11, 2012 Originally published Febuaray 7th, 2011 The popular mainstream news site, The Huffington Post, has been sold to AOL. On the day that Arianna Huffington sold her website for 315 million to internet giant AOL, it is even more important to remember ...
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