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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 II

FRS

  • California Prisoners Make Historic Call for Pe ...
    For Immediate Release—September 12, 2012 Press Contact:  Isaac Ontiveros, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity, 510.444.0484 Oakland—Prisoners in Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit (SHU) have announced a push to end all hostilities between racial groups within California’s prisons and ...
  • AFP: Crackdown on China workers’ rights ...
    Agence France-Presse, 10 September 2012 Around 10 groups that offer help to the millions of migrant workers living  and working in Shenzhen have suffered random inspections and evictions, some of  which turned violent, said the letter seen by AFP on Monday. “Police have failed to prevent labour ...
  • AFP: Crackdown on China workers’ rights ...
    Agence France-Presse, 10 September 2012 Around 10 groups that offer help to the millions of migrant workers living  and working in Shenzhen have suffered random inspections and evictions, some of  which turned violent, said the letter seen by AFP on Monday. “Police have failed to prevent labour ...
  • Nepal: The pacified so-called “Maoist&#8 ...
    [Mao Zedong, the great revolutionary leader of the 1949 Chinese revolution, speaking on May 26, 1939, stated:  "I hold that it is bad as far as we are concerned if a person, a political party, an army or a school is not attacked by the enemy, for in that case it would definitely mean that [...]
  • Nepal: The pacified so-called “Maoist&#8 ...
    [Mao Zedong, the great revolutionary leader of the 1949 Chinese revolution, speaking on May 26, 1939, stated:  "I hold that it is bad as far as we are concerned if a person, a political party, an army or a school is not attacked by the enemy, for in that case it would definitely mean that [...]

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Social Security's Need for Bullets Odd but Logical
    Social Security Administration's need for ammunition starts rumors and provides an opportunity for giving information to the public.Contributor: Susan Graybeal Published: Sep 04, 2012
  • Obama Shows Good Tactics by Openly Supporting ...
    As the Democratic National Convention is set to begin the president has chosen to confirm his support for health care reform. To win, Obama must stick to firm policy while highlighting that the Republicans have provided no details for their own policies.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Sep 03 ...
  • Furor Over SEAL Bin Laden Mission Highlights H ...
    A Navy SEAL who was part of the mission that ended the life of al Quada terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden has written a book, "No Easy Day," of his team's exploits. While critics and admirers abound, who remains silent speaks volumes.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Sep 03, 2012
  • Mr. President, Sometimes Older Ideas are Better
    One of the more irritating lines coming out of the Democratic Party is the notion that their opponents, the Republicans, advocate ancient and therefore obsolete ideas from the past that have outlived their usefulness on the modern world.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Sep 03, 2012
  • Harvard Cheating Scandal Makes Case Against Ho ...
    I have begun teaching my first Advanced Placement classes this fall, presiding over three sections of AP Microeconomics. The high school seniors in my classes will be heading to college next fall. Advice given to me? Don't take homework for a grade.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Aug 31, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • Alzheimer's May Be Caused By Poor Diet
    A mounting body of evidence suggests that Alzheimer's is a metabolic disease, prompting some doctors to refer to it as "type 3 diabetes." The root causes of Alzheimer’s disease are still a scientific uncertainty, though there’s no lack of suggestions and opinions circulating in the biomedical c ...
  • FYI: Why Are Teenagers So Dangerous on the Road?
    Young drivers tend to have excellent vision and quick reflexes, yet they’re involved in many more fatal accidents per mile than older drivers. (One study found a threefold higher risk.) Many explanations have been put forward: Teenagers tend to have cheaper, smaller cars, for example, and they ...
  • Russia is Building the World's Largest Nuclear ...
    As global warming softens ice in the arctic, Russia hopes to carve new sea lanes with the biggest 'universal' nuclear powered icebreaker the world has ever seen. Russia already has a huge fleet of both diesel-powered and even nuclear icebreakers, but it recently penned an order for something th ...
  • The Labs That Go Boom: The Shock Compression L ...
    Crashing celestial bodies, without the collateral damage This month, as part of our special on the future of education, PopSci presents 10 labs where students do serious research (and career training) by blowing stuff up. Lab: Shock Compression Laboratory at Harvard University Career: Mechani ...
  • Full Higgs Boson Results Officially Published
    The most important papers to come from the world's biggest physics lab Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider announced their Higgs boson likely-discovery on July 4, but now it's (a little) more official: The first scientific papers describing the new Higgs-like boson have been set in ink. Th ...

Veterans Today

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Global temperature update
    Global temperatures in August were 0.34C above the 30 year running average, according to the UAH satellite measure, showing a small increase on the previous month, shown below. It's the 3rd warmest August in this particular satellite data set which began in 1979. Using the more standard ...
  • Summer 2012 - 2nd wettest on record
    The Met Office have said that summer 2012 will be the second wettest (summer is June, July and August combined for statistical purposes) on record across England and the UK as a whole, using rainfall data back to 1910. So far 367mm of rain has fallen, compared with 384mm which was recorded in ...
  • Arctic sea ice now lowest on satellite record
    The extent of sea ice in the Arctic region has dropped sharply in the last few months. Only in April, Arctic sea ice had staged an impressive recovery and was close to the 1979-2012 average, reaching levels not seen in April for over 10 years. But yesterday, the National Snow and Ice data ce ...
  • Jet stream set to spoil summer again
    After a fine and warm weekend across much of the country, temperatures today have reached 80 degrees Fahrenheit in Bridlington in East Yorkshire for the first time this summer - although similar values were reached in places for a time during late May. It's certainly come as a welcome relief af ...
  • What's causing our extreme weather? Is it unpr ...
    The awful weather which continues to affect the UK led yesterday to the Great Yorkshire show being cancelled (because of the weather) for the first time in its 154 year history. And on Monday, serious flash flooding devastated parts of the Calder valley for the second time in as many weeks. ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Jobless USA: Industry Training vs College Educ ...
    Ho hum, another month, another jobs disaster Stateside as less than 100,000 jobs were created --a pace which only prolongs what is already the most protracted recovery from job losses suffered from a recession. While the unemployment rate "dipped," this artifactual occurrence is largely down to ...
  • Patrice Lumumba Friendship University Revisited
    Younger readers probably don't know what the USSR's Patrice Lumumba Friendship University was, so a short introduction is required. Having spent a while in Western academic circles, I can assure you that although many instructors have leftist sympathies--they know their Antonio Gramsci and Karl ...
  • CSR: From 'Blood Diamonds' to 'Conflict Minerals'
    In 2006, there was a movie entitled "Blood Diamonds" starring Leonardo DiCaprio (before he became blubberized and American-sized) that brought popular attention to the titular cause. For those of you covering corporate social responsibility (CSR), the issues should be familiar: Repressive govern ...
  • Peddling Geo-Influence: PRC/Cambodia, US/Egypt
    Geopolitics may have gone somewhat out of fashion after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but they've never become truly unfashionable. With the US nosediving in terms of global competitiveness and so many other things, various parts of the world are literally up for grabs to those displaying enough ...
  • Thailand Still Dreams About an 'OPEC of Rice'
    I guess there are few truly novel ideas in international political economy. Since the formation of OPEC, developing nations have envied its perceived success in buoying oil prices. As such, there have been any number of cartels for other commodities which have been mooted or even made. Bauxite, ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Heartless Hart at it Again
    Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart just cannot stop insulting victims every time he opens his mouth. He wrote another letter this week, in conjunction with his fellow Victorian bishops and leaders of religious orders, which reached its intended audience, the news media, yesterday. He even started o ...
  • True meaning of the word “CATHOLIC”
    C – Callous A – Arrogant T – Totalitarian H – Hierarchy O – Obstinately L – Lying about I – Indecent assaults against C – Children
  • Pope’s butler faces jail, unlike rapists ...
    In yet a further example of pernicious Vatican hypocrisy, the Pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, faces trial and very likely jail for the crime of revealing the truth about the corruption and infighting endemic amongst the ‘holy’ men who inhabit the Vatican. It is indeed encouragin ...
  • Vale John Pirona
    John Pirona was farewelled yesterday in a moving, uplifting and beautiful ceremony. A huge number of family, friends, colleagues and well wishers spilled out of the building, filling the surrounds with a sea of people who fervently wished they could somehow undo the events which led to this day. ...
  • Letter to politicians demanding Royal Commissi ...
    In my previous post I called on everyone to write to politicians to demand action to ensure that John Pirona’s tragic death is the last one. I am happy to help make this important job easier. Here’s a draft letter if you don’t have time to write your own. Or use it as a start [...]

WL Central

  • 2012-08-13 WikiLeaks: 'We're ready to rumble'
    After being offline since 3 August, wikileaks.org came back tonight under the protection of CloudFlare. The donations channels are again open. read more
  • 2012-08-12 WLC News Update: Sustained DDoS, Tr ...
    The WikiLeaks Collateral Murder website is now http://collateralmurder.org and is being protected by CloudFlare. The TrapWire surveillance technology revealed in the Global Intelligence Files continues to make headlines. read more
  • 2012-08-11 Brazil Torn in Different Directions
    By Nikolas Kozloff. Due to competing interests, the emerging world power's foreign policy is being pulled between pragmatism and idealism. read more
  • 2012-08-11 WLC News Update: DDoS continues, Tr ...
    WikiLeaks News WikiLeaks and related sites continue battling a massive DDoS attack. WL Central provides the latest information on the attack. The WikiLeaks GI Files have revealed the secret, widespread surveillance system TrapWire. Ben Doernberg offers a thorough explanation of what TrapWire is ...
  • 2012-08-10 WikiLeaks: Paraguay's "Quasi-Coup" ...
    By Nikolas Kozloff. In the wake of Paraguay's suspicious impeachment of President Fernando Lugo, which observers have likened to a kind of "quasi-coup," some may wonder whether underhanded corporate forces may have played a role in the political crisis. Such suspicions were heightened recently w ...

U N News

  • US must work to advance reconciliation with in ...
    The United States must adopt new measures to advance a reconciliation process with its indigenous peoples and address historical wrongs that have stopped them from fully realizing their rights, a United Nations independent expert said today.
  • Top UN official urges Venezuela to reconsider ...
    A United Nations senior official today urged Venezuela to reconsider its decision to withdraw from the American Convention of Human rights, warning that doing so would represent a serious setback for human rights protection in the Latin American country and the region as a whole.
  • UN expert calls on Honduras to step up efforts ...
    A United Nations independent expert today called on Honduras to increase its efforts to protect children from sexual exploitation, adding that the country still faces many challenges to ensure they are not victims of prostitution, pornography and abuse.
  • UN-backed commission presents plan to fight im ...
    A United Nations-backed commission today presented a strategic work plan at the world body's Headquarters in New York outlining efforts to combat impunity in Guatemala and support the country's justice system.
  • UN report urges joint action to ensure all ch ...
    Over 22 million boys, girls and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean are not in school or are at serious risk of dropping out, according to a new United Nations report, which calls for a joint effort across sectors to ensure that all children can complete their education.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Aurora Batman Shooting – Many Coincidences
    The trailer for Gangster Squad (shown before the movie) shows a theatre full of people being shot by numerous gunmen. This Batman comic "The Dark Knight Returns" depicts a Batman inspired shooting at a movie theatre.
  • CIA Agent Warns: “Never Watch the TV, the Grea ...
    He'll never give anything away whatsoever, except one bit of advice. He said, never watch the television. Never watch the television. It's the greatest scientific indoctrination tool ever devised.
  • The Magic Weed
    Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
  • Blood Coltan
    Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
  • CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
    Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.

Rewilding Institute

  • Progressives to Launch an Environmental Impact ...
    (September 4, 2012)  The DC-based group Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR) recently announced a major new project: an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on U.S. immigration policy.  PFIR has also unveiled the website for the new project, and invites public comments on the proper scope ...
  • Prairie Dog Preservation & Black-footed Ferret ...
    Published on Aug 17, 2012 by NewMexicoPBS Why is it important for prairie dogs to be restored to their native habitat? Biologist Dr. Ana Davidson and Petunia (Gunnison’s prairie dog) join us to share insights about the ecology of New Mexico’s grasslands and the importance of reestabl ...
  • Upcoming Public Meetings About the Village at ...
    Please attend these important public meetings about the Village at Wolf Creek access project - The Wolf Creek and Alberta Park – Rio Grande National Forest Land Swap DEIS Comment Period ends September 28th and the Forest Service seems poised to give Leavell-McCombs Joint Venture (LMJV) 204 ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Natural ...
    Natural History:  the Ground Upon Which Conservation Rests ©2012 Dave Foreman It is a few months later than I would have liked, but the next Rewilding Institute book, Take Back Conservation, is at last with Raven’s Eye Press in Durango.  It will roll off the press in time for Yule gifts (hint, h ...
  • The Politics of Climate Change
    Originally published in CounterPunch – Weekend Edition August 3-5, 2012 The Age of Unsustainable Problems The Politics of Climate Change by Dr. BRIAN MILLER and GEORGE WUERTHNER Politics cloud the issue of climate change.  We have a global economy driven by fossil fuels.  Whoever controls ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Beware the 11th of September
    Eleven years ago, two planes hit the Twin Towers in New York City, and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. exploded, presumptively in a terror attack by a foreign enemy. There is importance in the date of the event, as the number eleven itself has importance in occult lore. read more
  • 9/11... THE FALLING MAN
    9/11 was one of the most pivotal events in world history. Its impact will be felt for years to come. You owe it to yourself to go beyond the sound bites and the simplified official story... This film is still not released in the United States. ~ Documentary  read more
  • 9/11 Was An Inside Job... The ‘False Flag’ Att ...
    Intelligence Expert John Moore gives his expert opinion on what ‘really happened’ on 9/11/2001. In addition, John explains that the Prophecies of Revelations are now coming true as the Earth enters the end of it’s 3,600 year cycle bringing disaster and Earth changes around the world. ~ Audio ...
  • The Obamas Already Preparing For Move To Hawai ...
    Iolani Palace is no doubt where Barack and Michelle Obama would like to live, but it's not available to them as it's a museum now. Instead, the Obamas are using Chicago proxy-buyers to purchase a $35 million oceanfront estate for them in the most posh area of Oahu, where they coincidentally ...
  • 5 Weeks Away From Martial Law And Collapse!... ...
    John Moore Show... Chinese troops are ready and waiting in Mexico, ”Continuity of Government Plans are a go”... ALL U.S. governmental departments are preparing for ‘Pole Shift’ and oceans coming out of their basins… ~ Audio read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Advantages of the Dakota Fire Hole
    A Dakota Fire Hole is simply a method of building a fire that utilizes a number of advantages over other methods. First though, here is how to build a Dakota fire pit…   How to Dig a hole about  a foot in diameter and a foot deep. It is helpful to enlarge the bottom of [...]
  • 12 Tips For Movement During Evasion
    1. A moving object is easy to spot. I repeat. A moving object is easy to spot. This is probably the most important thing to remember if you are trying to remain undetected, for whatever reason. 2. Mask yourself with natural cover. Apart from wearing a Ghillie suit, this includes the choice of cl ...
  • Carolina Food Storage
    msb-note From a new sponsor with MSB, Carolina Food Storage.com, a member with Shelf Reliance, For years my husband has wanted to start a food storage system. We really didn’t know where to start and what to buy. We stocked up on various canned foods that we never seemed to want to eat on ...
  • Olive Oil Bar Soap Recipe
    Regarding preparedness supplies and/or general self-sufficient living, one item that will be important to you is soap. Most people today have no idea where soap comes from (except from ‘the store’). You could choose to stock up with plenty of extra soap, or you might want to know how ...
  • What Is Preparedness?
    Since we cannot know for sure what is to come or what is in store for us in the future, he who takes responsibility for himself, expects the unexpected and prepares accordingly, will be better prepared than the rest. One difference between a prepper and non-prepper is that we know we are at risk ...

Fast Company

  • YouTube Bans Anti-Islam Video In Egypt, Libya
    YouTube has blocked a controversial American anti-Islam video in Egypt and Libya. The (badly produced) movie trailer, Innocence of Muslims, sparked angry riots in Libya and Egypt that resulted in the storming of the American Embassy in Cairo and the death of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher ...
  • Amazon Launches Cloud Marketplace
    Amazon has quietly created a marketplace for customers to resell AWS cloud server time--earning Amazon a hefty commission in the process. The new project, awkwardly titled the Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace, allows Amazon's cloud customers to resell compute capacity to interested third ...
  • Exit Through The GIF Shop: Banksy Gets Animated
    Digital artist ABVH has reinterpreted several well-known works by subversive graffiti artist Banksy by turning them into animated GIFs.
  • The Best Of Apple's iPhone 5 Announcement
    Shortcuts: iPhone 5, iOS 6, iTunes, iPod Nano and Touch, EarPods. What you missed: Not much that you didn't already know about if you've been following Apple news and rumors lately. Yes, there is an iPhone 5 coming out on September 21, but the improvements are incremental. If you need a new p ...
  • 6 Poker Lessons For The Executive Table
    When poker pro Phil Gordon was skyping with my Strategic Decision Making class, a student asked him what his favorite hand to play was. Phil’s reply: “Any hand I’m playing against Charley.” There’s a big difference between good and great. I am a good poker player. Phil is great. Phil has ma ...

Jadaliyya

  • Libyan Humiliation a Driving Force for Anti-Am ...
    Al-Nass (The People), and other television channels of “Satellite Salafism,” broadcast news of a year old mediocre film trailer about the life of the Prophet Mohammad, made by an Israeli-Californian and championed by a Florida-based Christian pastor. Across the waters, radicals spurred each ...
  • J'ai vu condamner des innocents
    Le sentiment déchirant de ne pouvoir rien d’autre faire qu’apporter un témoignage sur une injustice en plus. Samir Bradley, Tariq Rochdi, Abderrahman Assal  ont été condamnés à  10 mois ferme. Youssef Oubella, Nour Essalam Kartachi ont été condamnés à   8 mois ferme. Laila Nass ...
  • New Texts Out Now: Julie Carlson and Elisabeth ...
    Julie Carlson and Elisabeth Weber, editors. Speaking about Torture. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What made you put together this collection? Julie Carlson (JC) and Elisabeth Weber (EW): This is the first book to take up the issue of torture from the array of approa ...
  • September 11th, Islamophobia, and the ‘Persecu ...
    In one of the last pieces he published at Salon before moving to The Guardian, the American columnist Glenn Greenwald mounted a devastating critique of what he labeled, in the article’s title, “The Sham ‘Terrorism Expert’ Industry.” In his inimitable style, Greenwald proceeded to discuss the wor ...
  • Roundtable on Occupation Law: Part of the Conf ...
    [The following series of articles is part of a Jadaliyya roundtable on Occupation Law. It features contributions by Noura Erakat, Lisa Hajjar, Dena Qaddumi and  Ahmed Barclay, Asli Bali, Nimer Sultany, and Darryl Li. The roundtable was first published ...

mediagazer

  • For next editor of 'T' magazine, 'Times' makes ...
    Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: For next editor of ‘T’ magazine, ‘Times’ makes an offer to Deborah Needleman of ‘WSJ.’  —  Two weeks after the abrupt departure of Sally Singer, The New York Times has found the person it wants to be the new edit ...
  • A Sneak Peek at Roll Call's New Name Plate (Be ...
    Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC: A Sneak Peek at Roll Call's New Name Plate  —  Leaked to FishbowlDC: a picture of the new nameplate for Roll Call that come November will combine Roll Call and and CQ Today and an internal memo laying out more details about it.  The NYT broke t ...
  • Hillsborough report: why the Mirror refused to ...
    Roy Greenslade / Guardian: Hillsborough report: why the Mirror refused to accept police spin  —  In October last year I wrote a blog item headlined The Sun's Hillsborough source has never been a secret - it was the police.  So today's confirmation came as little surprise.&n ...
  • Roll Call editor leaving for NPR (Mackenzie We ...
    Mackenzie Weinger / Politico: Roll Call editor leaving for NPR  —  Roll Call editor Scott Montgomery is leaving the company and heading to NPR Digital, CQ Roll Call announced on Wednesday.  —  CQ Roll Call Executive vice president and managing director Keith Whit ...
  • The Kernel sued by former contributors (Charle ...
    Charles Arthur / Guardian: The Kernel sued by former contributors  —  The London-based blog about the tech startup scene, the Kernel, is being sued through an employment tribunal for non-payment of thousands of pounds by two of its former contributors, and is said to owe thousan ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Keep off cigarettes if you want to be a d ...
    Wilma Stassen Men considering fatherhood should steer away from nicotine – and not only in cigarettes, but nicotine-replacement products, such as gum or patches, should also be avoided. This is according to new research by the University of Stellenbosch, revealing that nicotine harms s ...
  • Peugeot needs urgent restructuring
    PARIS, France - FRENCH auto giant PSA Peugeot Citroen was warned it must restructure urgently yesterday, and tie up with a global group after posting sweeping losses due to strategic errors over two decades. A damning government-sponsored report said Europe's second-biggest automaker after t ...
  • Army goes soft as riders flout helmet rul ...
    Although the local military authority (LMA) announced the compulsory helmet rule on army roads in Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) 10 days ago, the enforcement is still lacklustre as two-wheeler riders can still be seen on without helmets. According to the officers,...
  • Challenging the bailout: German court dec ...
    The panel of eight judges, resplendent in red robes and hats, have to decide on one of the biggest cases in post-war German history, not only in the number of plaintiffs but also in the importance of the decision. Thirty-seven thousand people signed a petition to the court against the way th ...
  • Scientists find a link between smoking an ...
    Tweet Adding to the hazards of smoking scientists have hinted at a link between smoking and ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed gynecological cancer in Australia with a five-year survival rate of only 40 percent. Andy Lee and Colin Binns, both professors from ...

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Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
  • News of the World staff shocked at closure
    Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

  • 9/12/12 - 41 Federal Capital Offenses
    deathpenalty.procon.org  - 41 Federal Capital Offenses – See all 41 federal capital offenses from espionage to murder by use of a weapon of mass destruction. Links to full text of the codes also provided.
  • 9/12/12 - State Death Penalty Laws
    deathpenalty.procon.org 09/12/12 - State Death Penalty Laws, Get the legal status, a brief state history, and links to state laws for the death penalty in all 34 states where the death penalty is legal and the 16 states and DC where capital punishment is illegal. Also highlighted are states ...
  • 9/7/12 - NEW: US and State Prostitution Arrest ...
    prostitution.procon.org - NEW: US and State Prostitution Arrests, 2001-2010 -  Learn which 10 states had the most prostitution arrests by percentage of population (Nevada was number one with 0.1384%) and number of arrests (California was number one with 11,334). See prostitution arrest numb ...
  • 9/5/12 - 105 Peer-Reviewed Studies on Marijuana
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - 105 Peer-Reviewed Studies on Marijuana - One new study (#79) found that women who used marijuana regularly up to the point of conception have a "significant and strong" risk of spontaneous preterm birth. Another new study (#78) found that marijuana may help to im ...
  • 8/28/12 - Vegetarianism Needed to Stem Drought ...
    vegetarian.procon.org - Vegetarianism Needed to Stem Drought-Related Food Crisis, Scientists Say

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Once Upon a Time
    The lure of the fairy tale. Joan Acocella Once upon a time there was a stubborn child who never did what his mother told him to do. The dear Lord, therefore, did not look kindly upon him, and let him become sick. No doctor could cure him and in a short time he lay on … Read more
  • Violence as a way of life
    Humanity has hardly produced a more destructive version of itself than the new breed of terrorists, who are convinced that they have been chosen to show mankind the way to utopia. Helene Lööw The scenes and testimonies of the disaster in Norway make it difficult to justify. Pictures of children ...
  • You’ll never be Chinese
    Mark Kitto Death and taxes. You know how the saying goes. I’d like to add a third certainty: you’ll never become Chinese, no matter how hard you try, or want to, or think you ought to. I wanted to be Chinese, once. I don’t mean I wanted to wear a silk jacket and cotton slippers, … Rea ...
  • Psychiatry’s Crisis
    Andrew Scull ABOUT 40 YEARS AGO, American psychiatry faced an escalating crisis of legitimacy. All sorts of evidence suggested that, when confronted with a particular patient, psychiatrists could not reliably agree as to what, if anything, was wrong. To be sure, the diagnostic process in all are ...
  • CONFLICT RESOLUTION
    Rebecca Saxe The advantage of neuroscience is being able to look under the hood and see the mechanisms that actually create the thoughts and the behaviors that create and perpetuate conflict. Seems like it ought to be useful. That’s the question that I’m asking myself right now, can ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Lasers can cure long-sightedness too
    LONDON - Laser surgery, presently used to treat short-sightedness, is being tested as a cure for presbyopia, or long-sightedness that develops with age, as well. If successful, it could dramatically reduce the need for reading glasses. The deterioration results from the stiffening of the eye ...
  • Protests over pension reform cripple life in F ...
    PARIS - The protests by French labour unions against President Nocolas Sarkozy’s pension overhaul plan entered its second week Wednesday, thwarting fuel and other supplies and disrupting normal life across the country. Sarkozy has proposed increasing the standard, minimum retirement age ...
  • Clenching fists can help ease painful moments
    LONDON - People facing unpleasant tasks can ease their painful moments by simply tensing their muscles, a study says. The study also found that clenching fists temporarily boosts self-control and willpower. Iris Hung from the National University of Singapore and Aparna Labroo from the Univers ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Free speech in Australia under threat - Part 1
    DISCLAIMER: This article is NOT an advertisement for "black salve", nor should it be construed as promoting the use of "black salve". We tend to believe that in Australia, despite excessive taxation, nanny state legislation, over-regulation and a spiralling cost of living, we at least have fre ...
  • Celebrating year zero of the eco-technic dicta ...
    To mark the introduction into Australia of the most barbaric, pointless and deceptive tax ever conjured up by a phony democracy, we bring you a replay of an interview with Christopher Monckton which dates back to January 2010. At that time Lord Monckton was touring Australia to talk about clim ...
  • World Roundup with George Georgios - Part 2
    Part 2 of World Roundup with George Georgios
  • World Roundup with George Georgios - Part 1
    Today we bring you a show which covers a wide range of stories from around the world, including news on all the latest annoying Nanny State measures which our listeners have come to expect from TNRA. Some topics covered include the introduction of high tech surveillance drones in Queensland, f ...
  • News roundup and an interview with Frank Legge
    NOTE: Due to major commitments, I am currently unable to remove ads from TNRA podcasts. I welcome any offers of assistance in this regard. In this week's show we begin with a roundup of breaking news within Australia and around the world. Some of the topics covered include Julian Assange's b ...

Beacon

  • EU Set to Vote on Shark Finning Ban
    Oceana/LX The European Parliament Is set to vote next week on a complete ban of shark finning for the EU fishing fleet. EU fishermen currently span the globe fishing for sharks, from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, to the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean, ranking second in shark catch glob ...
  • Infographic: Leaping Sharks
    We found an amazing set of infographics provided by the people at Project AWARE, an underwater conservation group founded by SCUBA divers. Turns out shortfin makos have unbelievable aerial skills, matched only by the sperm whale's ability to plumb the depths. Check out the whole set on Pinterest ...
  • Hungry Sea Otters Fight Climate Change
    Humans have an unlikely ally in the fight against global warming: sea otters. According to a new study out of the University of California Santa Cruz, the playful, foraging mammals play a vital role in managing kelp forests, which in turn are capable of absorbing large amounts of carbon dioxi ...
  • Guest Post: Live from the Seafood Summit
    ©Wikimedia Commons Editor's note: This is a guest post by Simone Lewis-Koskinen, Program Assistant at SeaWeb, reporting from the Seafood Summit in Hong Kong. Oceana is a sponsor of the summit.  After many months and several thousand emails, phone calls and meetings, the Seafood Sum ...
  • Victory: Power Plant Defeated in Chile
    Seagrass near where the power plant would have been built. © Oceana/Eduardo Sorensen  Great news from Chile: A planned coal-fired plant, located dangerously close to several biodiverse marine habitats, was shot down by the Chilean Supreme Court on Tuesday. Coal-powered thermoelectric po ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Did You Know That The Chinese Have A Space Sta ...
      The Tiangong-1 is the Chinese Nation’s first space station. The name means Heavenly Palace 1. It was launched on September 20th, 2011, on a Long March 2 F/G rocket. The idea is to use the space station as a training regimen for docking and living and working in zero gravity for a new gene ...
  • This 9/11 Let’s Look At What Four Promin ...
        Several Science Fiction writers were asked in 1987 what life would be like in America 25 years from then.  A few of them are remarkable. Absolutely remarkable. Here are five prominent Science Fiction Writers predictions:       “Assuming we haven’t destroyed ou ...
  • World War II. The Numbers
      The thing about World War II that just fascinates me the most are the numbers involved. The sheer magnitude of the effort boggles the mind. The number who moved across the world to deadly bloody battle, the numbers who died, the numbers who survived, the numbers of POWS. That said, here a ...
  • Code Breakers Knew About The Ardennes Offensiv ...
    By the middle of 1944, the Germans were retreating on all fronts. In the East, the Russians were in Poland, as far as the border of Germany, caviling away at the Wehrmacht. In the West the English, Americans, Free French and the Canadians were moving the Nazis into their original borders. Natura ...
  • The Mendeleev Super Heavy Tank.
      The Russian Mendeleev Super Heavy Tank looked more like a reprisal of a train car than a main battle tank. Thirty feet long and 15 feet high, it carried a single 120mm main naval cannon mounted inelegantly sprouting forth from the front of the train car like tank. This behemoth would have ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Saluting Christopher Stevens, a Brother of Jam ...
    “I had the honor to serve as the US envoy to the Libyan opposition during the revolution, was thrilled to watch the Libyan people demand their rights. Now I am excited to return to Libya to continue the great work we started.” – Christopher Stevens WE RIGHTLY SALUTE and celebra ...
  • Obama on Romney: “Shoot First and Aim Later”
    “There’s a broader lesson to be learned here,” Mr. Obama told “60 Minutes” correspondent Steve Kroft at the White House. “And I — you know, Governor Romney seems to have a tendency to shoot first and aim later. And as president, one of the things I&#8217 ...
  • Obama, Romney Respond to Question About Povert ...
    This afternoon Sojourners released Obama, Romney Answer Faith Leaders’ Call to Address Poverty in Election. Christian leaders asked, and the presidential nominees answered. The poverty rate in America is still at a staggering 15 percent and 46.2 million Americans remain in poverty — what is your ...
  • Pres. Obama’s Remarks on Libya
    TRANSCRIPT of the President’s remarks: THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Every day, all across the world, American diplomats and civilians work tirelessly to advance the interests and values of our nation. Often, they are away from their families. Sometimes, they brave great danger. Yesterday, ...
  • Census Bureau Findings: Poverty Rate Holds at ...
    UPDATE: Released this afternoon, from Sojourners, “VIDEO: Obama, Romney Answer Faith Leaders’ Call to Address Poverty in Election.” See videos of Obama and Romney answering the question “what is your plan to address the problem” of poverty at the link, or in the related post here at TM. To ...

Hudson New York

  • Help! Israel Is Trying to Defend Itself
    The Palestinians' two illegitimate governments have once again denounced Israeli "aggression" against the "helpless" residents of the Gaza Strip. Such denunciations always come after the Israel Defense Forces succeed in foiling a terror attack from the
  • Unrecorded Muslim Marriages, Bigamy, and Polygamy
    The same week that Republican convention delegates unanimously voted for a platform provision stating that judges should not consult foreign law or customs to guide them in interpreting American law, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled on the
  • Terrorism and Palestinian Statehood
    As the Palestinian Authority continues to seek recognition by the United Nations as a "state," the world should consider the implications. If the U.N. now recognizes Palestine as a state without requiring its leaders to negotiate a compromise peace with
  • How Muslim Men Are "Helping" Syrian Refugees
    Syrian female refugees aged 14 and 15 who fled their country to Jordan and Iraq are being forced into "pleasure marriages" [Nikah al-Mut'ah] -- a pre-Islamic custom allowing men to marry for a limited period. Apart from being a cover for legalized
  • Spain: Muslim War on Meter Maids
    Muslim immigrants in Palma de Mallorca, the capital of the Balearic Islands in Spain, have succeeded in forcing the expulsion of all female parking meter enforcement officers from a city neighborhood that is home to a growing Muslim population. The move

Urban Survival

  • What Day Is This?
    Economics in a sec… Yes…it is 11-years after 9/11…and this morning’s lead story is about how events oddly “cluster” or “clump” ion this day.  Reader Edwin in The Hague sent in this curious report: “Hi George,   The Hague, Nethe ...
  • Coping: With Theories to Explain WuJo
    Last week, I think it was, I hit upon the idea that as Earth goes through the galactic ecliptic late 2012-ish, we could encounter modes of space-time being that might account for a lot of irrational phenomena people have been … Continue reading →
  • Sleep in ‘Til Wednesday
    Hardly any point is getting out of bed this morning.  The Fed decision Wednesday will likely keep markets moving in a flattish way, and other than the usual morning’s worth of bombings in the Middle East, there’s just not too … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Book Announcement!
    Remember back in July when Elaine and I went up to the Pacific Northwest on our “halfway around America” trip?  It really was all work and no play for the majority of the trip because my long-time friend Gaye Levy … Continue reading →
  • Nice Bounce–Gobs of Jobs?
    Nice bounce in the markets yesterday, perhaps because there has been some evidence that the end of the world isn’t here yet…and we may just muddle through this mess, after all.  Latest grist is in this morning’s jobs report just … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • EXPO CHICAGO - A River Ran Through It
    Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois Sometimes you need a new perspective on things to see them clearly, as if for the first time. Take the Chicago River. Many of us interact with the waterway on a daily basis, but in ...
  • New poll finds that people hate traffic, love ...
    Rob Perks, Transportation Advocacy Director, Washington, D.C. Three out of four Americans are frustrated with the lack of transportation options that forces them to drive more than they would prefer, according to a new nationwide public opinion ...
  • Major League Sports Show Americans--and Lawmak ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City Last week I stood on Safeco Field, the home of the Seattle Mariners, and watched Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig receive an award for his leadership in greening sports. He told the crow ...
  • How pro sports are helping to green cities
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC     Lincoln Financial Field, the nation's greenest stadium Solar panels and recycling bins are becoming as common as hot dog vendors for professional sports teams and thei ...
  • Reading the Tea Leaves on China's Nuclear View ...
    Matthew McKinzie, Senior Scientist, Nuclear Program and Lands and Wildlife Program, Washington, D.C. On September 11, 2012, the homepage of the English version of China's People’s Daily Online featured a link to an article titled “China ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 8 stories of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, September 11, 2012: Albemarle, North Carolina: Investigators are probing the police department over allegations that a former drug detective may have taken evidence from crime scenes. bit.ly/REr2uw St. Louis, … Continue readi ...
  • Corrupt Police Department in Florida
    From the Miami Herald: When the FBI launched a sting at the notorious drug den, and later tied its players to a fatal 2010 armored car heist, they discovered to their surprise that one of the alleged operatives at the … Continue reading →Corrupt Police Department in Florida is a post ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Saturday, September 8 to Monday September 10, 2012: New York, New York: An officer was fired for ticketing dead people. He says he did it to meet the NYPD’s supposedly … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct NewsFee ...
  • Police Shoot Dog, Family and Neighbors Wonder Why
    WNEM TV 5 More here.Police Shoot Dog, Family and Neighbors Wonder Why is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, September 7, 2012: Bexar County, Texas: Sheriff’s deputy on administrative leave after she was arrested on charge of driving while intoxicated. http://bit.ly/RqFbFQ Salt Lake City, Utah: The son of … Continue reading &# ...

Total Collapse

  • Russian attack submarine sailed in Gulf of Mex ...
    A Russian nuclear-powered attack submarine armed with long-range cruise missiles operated undetected in the Gulf of Mexico for several weeks and its travel in strategic U.S. waters was only confirmed after it left the region, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. It is only the second time sin ...
  • Russian warships hold drills in Mediterranean
    A Russian joint naval task force on a training mission in the Mediterranean has conducted two-day tactical exercises with live-firing drills, the defense ministry said. The task force comprises three large amphibious assault ships, two Neustrashimy class frigates, an Udaloy class destroyer and t ...
  • 6.6 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Iran
    At least 87 people have been killed and 600 others injured in magnitude 6.4 earthquake and subsequent aftershocks that rocked Iran’s northwestern provinces. On Saturday, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck the city of Ahar, near East Azerbaijan’s provincial capital Tabriz at 15:53 loca ...
  • 87 dead and hundreds injured after two quakes ...
    Two strong quakes have shaken Iran’s northwest, leaving 87 people dead and over 400 injured, according to the country’s state television. The quakes have also disrupted communications, complicating rescue efforts. The quakes, measuring 6.4 and 6.3 on the Richter scale, struck near th ...
  • The US Civil War of 2016
    U.S. military officers are told to plan to fight Americans Imagine Tea Party extremists seizing control of a South Carolina town and the Army being sent in to crush the rebellion. This farcical vision is now part of the discussion in professional military circles. At issue is an article in the r ...

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Paid Contractor Position: Development and Rela ...
    Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) is a community and volunteer-based climate and renewable energy think-tank. A small team of contracted coordinators enable hundreds of volunteers to actively engage and deliver Beyond Zero Emissions' objective of moving Australia from a 19th century fossil fuel-based ...
  • Adelaide, SA: Repowering Port Augusta, Rally f ...
    When: SUNDAY September 30th Time: 1.pm Location: Rundle Park, Adelaide (next to Rymill Park opposite the corner of East/North tce) Want help to make SA the solar state? We know we need to move away from ancient fossil fuel technology, to clean renewable energy – now is our chance! Port August ...
  • Zero emissions homes: save the climate and mon ...
    If you aim for a zero-emissions house, you can live in comfort, while saving money and the climate. That’s the message from research and practice, according to climate and renewable energy think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. Members of th ...
  • Trigeneration: Sydney's white elephant
    Matt Wright The City of Sydney is comparing apples with oranges when it promotes its Trigeneration Master Plan (designed in partnership with Origin Energy and subsidiary Cogent Energy) as cleaner than burning coal in centralised power plants. Beyond Zero Emissions’ fundamental criticism of the ...
  • Gas industry in denial over carbon emissions
    MEDIA RELEASE 4th September 2012 Industry talk of developing an industry in “low emissions” coal-seam gas is a fantasy, according to renewable energy and climate think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE). Yesterday, the Committee for Economic Development Australia (CEDA) released their  Austra ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Remarkable new monkey discovered in remote Con ...
    In a massive, wildlife-rich, and largely unexplored rainforest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), researchers have made an astounding discovery: a new monkey species, known to locals as the 'lesula'. The new primate, which is described in a paper in the open access PLoS ONE journal, ...
  • Pictures: Bolivian park may have the world's h ...
    With over 90 species of bat, 50 species of snake, 300 fish, 12,000 plants, and 11 percent of the world's bird species, Madidi National Park in Bolivia may be the world's most biodiverse place, according to new surveys by the the Bolivian Park Service (SERNAP) with aid from the Wildlife Conservat ...
  • NASA image shows why San Francisco is foggy
    The short answer to why San Francisco, California is foggy? The Pacific Ocean's marine layer. A new image by NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite shows the marine layer—cool, heavy air produced by a colder ocean surface meeting warmer air—encroaching on the metropolis. Western winds pu ...
  • Vote for the world's seven wonders of vanishin ...
    The seven wonders of the world is an ancient tradition going back to the 2nd Century BCE. But where those first lists focused on manmade marvels, many 'seven wonders' today also take note of the natural world. Now, a new program by the Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) hopes to use the 'seven w ...
  • Survivors say gold miners in helicopter massac ...
    Up to 80 people have been massacred by gold miners in the remote Venezuelan Amazon, according to reports received by the indigenous-rights group, Survival International. According to Reuters, the reports have prompted the Venezuelan government to investigate the alleged murders of the Yanomami i ...

Sierra Express

  • Is the President aware?
    The hue and cry over spilt milk in the award of party symbols to the ‘wrong’ choices has become insipid on the ears of the common man. The two main political parties in the country have lately been subjected to public scorn and in very many instances aggrieved supporters have threatened to withh ...
  • Sports Minister Exposes …
    • Rodney Michael Bribed appeals committee • Dissolve S.L.F.A • Banned Elective Congress, But J.S. Keifala insists election must go on this Weekend This week the controversial Youth and Sports Minister, Paul Kamara revealed to Eagle Radio 91.3 and C.T.N Radio 107.3 that his ban slammed on one of ...
  • Police Brutalize Suspect
    A suspect by the name of Edward Kawa Jr. on Friday, September 7th, was arbitrarily arrested and brutalized by officers of the Operation Support Division at the New England Police Division (OSD), at Dillet Street Junction, Brookfield, Freetown. The arrest was carried out by over twelve senior and ...
  • UN Workers Threaten Strike Action
    Sources close to the United Nations office in Sierra Leone (UN) have revealed that on Wednesday September 12th, staff of the UN will stage a peaceful protest action over what they describe as ‘discriminatory conditions of service.’ According to reliable sources, the conditions of service for Nat ...
  • Vacancy Announcement – Humam Resources
    Living Water International (LWI) is a global non-governmental organization that exists to demonstrate the love of God by helping communities acquire desperately needed clean water, and to experience “living water” — the gospel of Jesus Christ — which alone satisfies the deepest thirs ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Meet Fonterra's big cheese
    Surprisingly little is known about Fonterra's chief executive, Theo Spierings, considering he holds down New Zealand's top corporate job.Like his predecessor, Andrew Ferrier, he isn't much of one for the corporate limelight.But...
  • Co-op's TAF scheme on track to start this year
    The Government has postponed the share market float for Mighty River Power, but the other big equity event - Fonterra's trading among farmers (TAF) scheme - is on track for introduction before year's end, says Fonterra chief executive...
  • Fonterra NZ Dairies purchase approved
    The Commerce Commission said it had cleared Fonterra to acquire the dairy processing assets of New Zealand Dairies, which is in receivership.NZ Dairies processes raw milk at its Studholme factory near Waimate, in the South Island.The...
  • Dairy prices recovering from slump - Fonterra
    Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings says the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction shows that the market is recovering after prices slumped in May and June.Spierings, commenting on the 6 per cent lift in prices at the latest GlobalDairyTrade...
  • Maori leaders eager to win Chinese investment
    A group of Maori business leaders will travel to China next month to talk to Shanghai Pengxin about potential investment opportunities. The group will be led by the Maori Trustee, Jamie Tuuta.The trip follows a hush-hush visit to...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • The Last U.S. Ambassadors to Die in the Line o ...
    Media reports about the killing of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya in Benghazi mention it’s the first death of a U.S. ambassador in the line of duty in more than two decades. The last U.S. ambassador to die in the line of duty was Arnold Raphel, the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, who pe ...
  • Dutch Election a Good Result For the Two Main ...
    The Dutch went to the polls today, and exit polls indicate that the center-right VVD will win 41 seats, just ahead Labour who are expected to win 40. Although the election comes during an important time in euro crisis negotiations it looks like euroscepticism has been rejected, wi ...
  • Does the Anti-Mohammed Film Exist? Does the Pr ...
    Apparently I'm not the only one who finds the film Innocence of Muslims a little too bad to be true. It's unclear that the film — which was the cover for apparently coordinated attacks on the U.S. embassies in Egypt and Libya that left four peope dead, including Ambassador J. ...
  • How Romney Understands Foreign Policy: Like a ...
    Aside from vague calls for strength, resolve, and ensuring America’s permanent spot at the top of the global dog pile, Mitt Romney hasn’t offered much insight into his foreign policy views. One way to understand his approach to foreign policy is that it’s all political pandering: H ...
  • Embassy Assault Fallout, Illegal Drink Names, ...
    So who is the guy behind the Ed Wood-esque anti-Muslim movie that led to the deadly assault on America’s embassy in Libya? His name is allegedly Sam Bacile, but now there’s questions about who he actually is. A Libyan doctor who attempted to treat U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens ...

Mercury Rising

  • Thanks for all the help, Israel. You’re ...
    It’s not fair to blame an entire nation for one man. But Sam Bacile, in the film he made with Terry Jones, the “pastor” who planned to burn Korans purely to inflame Muslim opinion, is sadly representative of a strain of thinking in the Israeli right. Amy Goodman, quoting the AP ...
  • What Was That Again About Republicans Being Go ...
    As was noted yesterday, Kurt Eichenwald explains in a recent NYT opinion-section piece that the reason George W. Bush blew off the repeated warnings about Al-Qaeda from the CIA as well as from the outgoing Clinton Administration’s national security team is because the neocon PNAC Platoonie ...
  • Voter ID is no problem–if you’re a ...
    Thanks to Rachel Maddow for bringing this to attention. Jim Cramer is a well-known CNBC celebrity, the host of Mad Money: But suppose Jim Cramer’s Dad didn’t have a multimillionaire celebrity son. Think that he would have been allowed to get his ID? I wonder if this can make the issu ...
  • 9/11 Happened Because Bush Trusted PNAC Over T ...
    We know from Ron Suskind’s The One Percent Doctrine that George W. Bush contemptuously dismissed any and all attempts by the CIA to warn him about the threat posed by Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, culminating with his curt dismissal to the CIA agents who came out to his Potemkin ranch in t ...
  • Support Don Siegelman
    Andrew Gumbel, The Guardian: The magazine of the American Trial Lawyers Association has described him as “America’s No 1 political prisoner”, and his well-connected friends and supporters include more than 100 former state attorneys general and former Democratic presidential ca ...

Reality Sandwich

  • We All Should Work Less
    There is a paradox in today's economy. Some people who have jobs are over-worked, putting in many hours a week of overtime, while others have no job at all. One solution is fewer working hours for everyone. This would not only allow for more people to be employed, but would also create a h ...
  • Tribalism in the Twenty-First Century
      Erin Sullivan will be a special guest for "Galactic Alignments: Charting the Soul's Journey Through Astrology," a live interactive video course hosted by Adam Elenbaas. It starts on September 16. For more information, click here. The Global Picture read more
  • This Week in Psychedelics
    Mounting evidence demonstrates cannabinoids slow cancer growth, a new procedure detects the presence of mescaline in hair samples, and Oliver Sacks describes how drugs increased in insight and empathy in this week's psychedelic news.   read more
  • Let Magic Happen: Transforming Symptoms and th ...
      Why is it that the most urgent question asked in the national healthcare debate is, "How will we pay for all the drugs for our aging population?" Instead we might ask, "Do our elderly really need all these drugs?" Unfortunately, the focus is on the suppression of sym ...
  • Ten Strikes You're Out
    [Action Alert] • The latest proposition threatening the way information is shared on the internet is the "Ten Strikes bill," a bill that proposes to redefine the the criminal acts of copyright violation by targeting streaming media, and establishes criminal penalties for copyright vi ...

Desertification

  • China Puts Up a Green Shield Against Sandstorms
    The setting sun is still streaming in through the poplars along the shelter belts, but Horquin Lianjun is done with farm work for the day. The desert wind has turned bone chilling. Lianjun’s half hectare of farmland sports neat spaced-out rows of maize crops, as in that of Hua Limei, his neighbo ...
  • Kashmir’s Melting Glaciers May Cut Ice With Sc ...
    Jowhar Ahmed, an air-conditioner dealer in Srinagar, is pleased at a spurt in business this summer caused by temperatures soaring over 35 degrees Celsius – unusual in this alpine valley ringed by snow-capped mountains. “I sold more than 70 air-conditioners in just one month,” Ahmed, who ru ...
  • Whose Timber is it Anyway?
    With Pakistan’s last major stands of deodar (cedar) threatened by a ‘timber mafia’, the local people in the Chitral district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are resorting to direct action to stop the denudation of their picturesque alpine homeland. Since April, the community in Ayun town has been ...
  • Q&A: Water and Food Security Are Inseparable
    IPS U.N. Bureau Chief Thalif Deen interviews PER BERTILSSON, acting executive director of the Stockholm International Water Institute
  • Food Activists See Portents of New and Deeper ...
    Food rights activists from around the world will descend on the coastal U.S. state of Florida next week to protest homelessness and hunger facing millions of people in the United States and across the globe. The Aug. 20-26 protests in Tampa were organised to draw attention to the Republican Part ...

Blogging Canadians

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Press TV - Middle East

  • Syrian army kills insurgents in Aleppo
    The Syrian Army forces have killed a number of foreign-backed insurgents in the suburbs of the country’s largest city of Aleppo as clashes continue in the northern city.
  • Hezbollah blasts anti-Islam US film
    Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah has strongly condemned a US film insulting Islam as an attack on religious belief which it said reflected US and Zionist policies.
  • Palestinians burn US flag over movie
    Palestinians have burned the US flag in front of the United Nations headquarters in Gaza City during a demonstration against a movie insulting Islam.
  • ‘Netanyahu trying to overthrow Obama’
    Israeli opposition leader Shaul Mofaz has accused the regime’s premier of trying to overthrow the government of US President Barack Obama because of a dispute over Iran's nuclear energy program.
  • 'Israel disrupting Jordan N-program'
    Jordanian King Abdullah II has accused Israel of disrupting the country’s nuclear program to meet its dire energy needs.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Your Thoughts Become Your Reality
    The power of positive thinking; if you can believe it, you can achieve it; walk by faith, not by sight; what you think about, you bring about; keep your eyes on the prize… All these sayings and mantras are what millions of people repeat and live by every day. All stem from the law of attra ...
  • Meet Our New Academic Director, Ellen Shakespeare
    Please join us in welcoming our new Academic Director for the Health Information Management program, Ellen Shakespeare. Ellen joined CUNY School of Professional Studies in August from her last position as a faculty member and the program coordinator for the health information technology programs ...
  • Alumni Spotlight
    Alumni Spotlight Nelson Franco The Alumni Spotlight feature highlights one of SPS’s proud graduates. We asked Nelson Franco (B.A. Communication and Culture, Class of 2012) five questions about his experiences before, during, and after SPS. 1. What was your background prior to coming to SPS? I ha ...
  • I Really Want to Fall in Love
    Before a run, I wake up—excited… Usually it’s about 4 a.m. and I begin forcing myself to eat some oatmeal and a spoonful of peanut butter. I am anxious to leave the house, but I take my time filling up my water bottle, eating my breakfast and dressing for my big run. My mind wonders [...]
  • Search the Sky
    Recently, I a friend told me that we were moving into the ‘Age of Aquarius” and I should be on the lookout for major positive changes in my life. Only vaguely aware of the concepts behind astrology and the planetary sign under which I was born, I simply laughed her statement away and asked if [...]

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

  • The Third Building Which Collapsed on 9/11 Was ...
    Numerous structural engineers – the people who know the most about office building vulnerabilities and accidents – say that the official explanation of why building 7 at the World Trade Center collapsed on 9/11 is “impossible”, “defies common logic” and “violates the law of physics”: Two prof ...
  • The Third Building Which Collapsed on 9/11 Was ...
    Numerous structural engineers – the people who know the most about office building vulnerabilities and accidents – say that the official explanation of why building 7 at the World Trade Center collapsed on 9/11 is “impossible”, “defies common logic” and “violates the law of physics”: Two prof ...
  • FBI begins installation of $1 billion face rec ...
    Birthmarks, be damned: the FBI has officially started rolling out a state-of-the-art face recognition project that will assist in their effort to accumulate and archive information about each and every American at a cost of a billion dollars. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reached a ...
  • FBI begins installation of $1 billion face rec ...
    Birthmarks, be damned: the FBI has officially started rolling out a state-of-the-art face recognition project that will assist in their effort to accumulate and archive information about each and every American at a cost of a billion dollars. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reached a ...
  • Gray State Film: The Systematic Abolishment of ...
      [WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT] Tagged: gray State, movie trailers, movies, new films, new movie releases, tyranny

Wayne Madsen

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Poll Shows Overwhelming US Opposition to Attac ...
    Summary: A new poll conducted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs shows an overwhelming opposition to the idea of attacking Iran among American voters, with 70 percent saying they are opposed to the idea of a unilateral US attack on Iran. source: antiwar.comread more
  • Iran develops ‘economy of resistance’
    Summary: Iran is reducing its dependence on oil by developing an “economy of resistance” to circumvent international sanctions over its nuclear programme, according to a senior regime adviser. source: FTread more
  • Iran’s Strategic Diplomatic Victory over the W ...
    Summary: Iran chaired, hosted and led the recently rejuvenated Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Teheran, attended by delegates from 120 countries, including 31 heads of state and 29 foreign secretaries of state. Even the United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon, notorious mouthpiece ...
  • IAEA Modality Should Observe Iran's Security
    Summary: Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says Tehran will agree on a new modality with the UN nuclear body if the latter observes the Islamic Republic’s national security and submits solid documents on alleged studies. source: Iran Reviewread more
  • Israeli and Iranian Decision-Making
    Summary: Asked about the prospects for a unilateral Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear targets, perhaps even before the U.S. presidential election on November 6, Flynt argues that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is compelled to deal with two significant constraints on his decision-ma ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Dark Energy is Real: There's Now Clear Evide ...
    "Dark energy is one of the great scientific mysteries of our time, so it isn't surprising that so many researchers question its existence. But now, according to a team of astronomers at the University of Portsmouth and LMU University Munich,...
  • Image of the Day: The Spectacular Vela Superno ...
    The Pencil Nebula is pictured in a new image from ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile. This peculiar cloud of glowing gas is part of a huge ring of wreckage left over after a supernova explosion that took place about...
  • NASA Will Live Stream Curiosity Mars' Mission ...
    NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) tomorrow (Wednesday, Sept. 12), to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater.*The Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft is more than one month...
  • Spectacular Cloud of a Doomed Planet Found Plu ...
    At first glance, the center of the Milky Way seems like a very inhospitable place to try to form a planet. Stars crowd each other as they whiz through space like cars on a rush-hour freeway. Supernova explosions blast out...
  • The Perseus Cluster: One of the Most Massive O ...
    An accumulation of 270 hours of Chandra observations of the central regions of the Perseus galaxy cluster reveals evidence of the turmoil that has wracked the cluster for hundreds of millions of years. One of the most massive objects in...

Natural News

  • Milk fats demonstrated as a trigger for bowel ...
    Researchers from the University of Chicago are investigating the relationship between aspects of the contemporary Western diet, and certain kinds of disease which arise in the absence of a properly functioning immune system. Disease that corresponds to changing dietsOne...
  • Sickening sweet sodas
    Back away from the soda drink and no one gets arrested. That is, unless it is properly poisoned with officially sanctioned artificial sweetener. Then - go ahead, tank up because New York City Mayor, Mike Bloomberg is now pushing to outlaw all sugar sweetened drinks over...
  • CDC pushing yet more disease paranoia over han ...
    The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning that as many as 10,000 people who stayed in tent cabins at Yosemite National Park over the summer could be at risk for contracting a deadly rodent-borne hantavirus. In response to the exposure, the CDC...
  • The radiation cleansing properties of Bentonit ...
    (NaturalNews)Bentonite clay is known for many things, namely as a treatment for various mineral deficiencies, infections and even gangrene, but it's also becoming widely popular as an aid against various kinds of radioactive damage and conditions. In its general uses, it can be used...
  • Are your body care products safe enough to "eat"?
    You are what you eat...

Threat Level

  • Smart Meter Causes Dumb Fire
    Self-combusting smart meters have cause fires in at least four homes in Illinois and Pennsylvania.
  • Five Epic Hacks That Never Happened
    There are hacks and then there are epic hacks. And then there's the epic hacks that well, just weren't actually hacks, despite the news stories.
  • Twitter Ordered to Release OWS Protester’s Dat ...
    Twitter has lost its appeal against a court order demanding it turn over user data related to an Occupy Wall Street protester.
  • Pirate Bay Co-Founder Arrested at Airport on H ...
    The Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm was flown from Cambodia, where he was detained last week, to Sweden on Tuesday to face charges unrelated to his pending one-year prison sentence for running the world's most notorious and illicit file-sharing service.
  • After Three Trials, Court Restores Original $2 ...
    A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered infamous file-sharer Jammie Thomas-Rasset to pay the recording industry $222,000 for downloading and sharing two dozen copyrighted songs on the now-defunct file-sharing service Kazaa.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Failed Bush Team Marks 9/11 by Slandering Obama
    That former Bush speechwriter and current torture enthusiast Mark Thiessen would accuse President Obama of skipping daily intelligence briefings should come as no surprise. That he, along with Dick Cheney, would do so to mark the solemn anniversary of the September 11 attacks is not just a nati ...
  • In Defense of Red State Socialism
    For most liberals, the Constitution's aspirational goal for "We the people" to "form a more perfect Union" is a guiding statement of American national purpose. Nevertheless, these days many blue staters are growing exasperated with their red state brothers and sisters. After all, the "Southerni ...
  • Mitt Romney's Indefensible Defense Budget
    Mitt Romney has a national defense problem. Or more accurately, a series of problems. After all, the same man who five years ago said that "it's not worth moving heaven and earth" to get Osama Bin Laden forgot to mention America's war in Afghanistan and the men and women still fighting it durin ...
  • Clinton Paints GOP Threat to Medicaid by the N ...
    Bill Clinton's address to the Democratic National Convention accomplished a good many things for his party. Among them was shining a spotlight on one of the least reported but potentially most far-reaching proposals Mitt Romney and his Republican Party have promised to pursue. While all eyes h ...
  • Clinton at DNC as GOP Uses 1993 Talking Points ...
    As Bill Clinton prepares to take center stage at the 2012 Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night, Republicans have mounted a blistering attack on the President's economic plan. His proposal, the GOP warned, was "class warfare" and a "job killer" which will "kill the current recovery ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Federal Court In New York Just Ruled Indefinit ...
    Dandelion Salad http://act.demandprogress.org Sept. 12, 2012 We Won! Tell Obama: Don’t Appeal NDAA Court Ruling We did it! But now we need your help putting pressure on Obama. A federal court in New York just ruled indefinite detention UNCONSTITUTIONAL and issued a permanent injunction aga ...
  • Congress Expands Spying On Americans + Nadler: ...
    Dandelion Salad Sep 12, 2012 by RTAmerica On Wednesday, the US House of Representatives will vote on whether or not to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. If passed, FISA will essentially extend the powers of the government and give the authorization to wiretap Americans witho ...
  • Chicago Teachers Strike Rooted in Community St ...
    Chicago teachers fighting bipartisan consensus over "corporate" education reform
  • Does Obama Economic Policy "Just Need More Time"?
    Jerry Epstien: The basic policies must change or recession and high unemployment will continue
  • Whistleblower Brad Birkenfeld Rewarded Record ...
    The IRS has announced a record $104 million reward to a whistleblower who exposed the largest tax evasion scheme in U.S. history. Former UBS AG banker Brad Birkenfeld first reported in 2007 that he and his colleagues had encouraged rich Americans to store more than $20 billion in offshore Swiss ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • The Cosmic Origins of Silver
    The cosmic origin of silver, which had until now remained something of a mystery, has finally been established, silver can only have created during the explosion of a very specific type of star. “These are different from the kind of stars producing gold when they explode. The evidence for ...
  • China Continues to Dominate Global Renewable E ...
      Ernst & Young released late August their quarterly global Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Indices report which showed that China is set to continue it domination of the global renewable energy market, as US elections and political support in Europe prevent other countries from ...
  • Water on Mars? New Theory Brings Up New Questions
    After observing clay material on the surface of Mars many times during the last ten years of exploration, astronomers had begun forming a rough consensus that early Mars once had large bodies of water on its the surface. But now new research is suggesting that magma may have the the agent of for ...
  • Hadley Crater Is Providing Deep Insight Into M ...
    Evidence of possible subterranean water ice on Mars has been found in the ejecta of impact craters located with the larger Hadley Crater. ESA’s Mars Express is currently researching and analyzing the diverse geology and atmosphere of Mars while in orbit around the alien planet. “Earl ...
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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Mitt Romney: not a decisive leader, just a des ...
    By @BGinKC You know what I hate? Waking up to the news that an ambassador has been killed in a country we helped to liberate. But there is an object lesson contained therein -- namely that when a tyrant is overthrown, the power vacuum will be filled and how it is filled is not for us to decide ...
  • Losing GOP in denial on own failures
    By @TedFrier If we learned tomorrow that George W. Bush needed a teleprompter for even his one-on-one encounters in the Oval Office, I feel quite certain that the very next day Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and the entire Right Wing Noise Machine would be busily churning out sarcastic lamentations abo ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC @PaulRyanVP isn't too sure about Mittens' chances, apparently. It's one thing for him to stay on the ballot for his house seat. It's another entirely for him to run tv ads to try to keep it. A voting rights victory in Colorado, where Secretary of State Scott Gessler won't pursue ...
  • Mitt's Big Pitch
  • Eleven years ago today...
    By @BGinKC It was a beautiful clear day, very much like today, but it would turn out to be a day like no other. I know exactly where I was. Every detail of that day is tattooed on my memory. Two weeks earlier our oldest child had moved out of the house and into a dorm down the street at Rock ...

Care 2

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    Its a small victory for environmentalists around the world Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • At Universities, Fracking Research Funded by O ...
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  • The Bush Administration and Responsibility for ...
    Could the 9/11 attack have been stopped, had the Bush team reacted with urgency to the warnings contained in all of those daily briefs? We cant ever know. And that may be the most agonizing reality of all. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it! & ...
  • In Texas, Dont Even Mention Abortion
    It is impossible to overstate the callousness of the state regulation and the harm it will inflict. The program serves more than 100,000 uninsured, low-income women, with the federal government paying 90 percent of the roughly $40 million that it costs. Submitted by Nancy C. to Health & Wellness ...
  • CONGO: WHEN PYGMIES COME TO TOWN: FORCED ...
    Pygmies have been increasingly forced out of the forest and into towns and villages. The arrival of the minority in more populated areas has provoked discrimination and prejudice, though attitudes are beginning to change for the better. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |  &nbsp ...

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No Quarter

  • Barack Obama, SURRENDER MONKEY
    Barack Obama once again revealed himself to be a totally callow, self-absorbed, inept President by completely mishandling the response to the coordinated attacks on US citizens on the anniversary of 9-11. American diplomats and marines are dead and who does Barack Obama attack verbally? Mitt Rom ...
  • Romney v. Obama official statements on murders ...
    Don’t miss Sarah Palin’s terrific come-back to the MSM (below the fold, in the Chuck Todd report): Read Mitt Romney’s full remarks at his site. NOTE how Obama “phones it in” and relies on TOTUS and notes: Of course Romney had to defend his first statement yesterday: ...
  • Obama Bows To Extremism
    The attacks on the US diplomats and US facilities in Egypt and Libya is a complete and total failure of U.S. foreign policy. The blame for this ultimately rests with Barack Obama, who has indulged the naive fantasy that the Arab spring is a harbinger of democracy in the the Middle East. Well, yo ...
  • Breaking News: U.S. Ambassador to Libya killed ...
    J. Christopher Stevens, U.S. Ambassador to Libya, was killed in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, eastern Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012. (State Department)[/caption]The Associated Press and Reuters have confirmed Ambassador Stevens’ death along with four other U.S. diplomats, reports ...
  • “Mark Owen”: The SEAL who helped capture bin Laden
    CBS News has posted four parts of the interview with “Mark Owen,” the disguised author of No Easy Day, “a first-hand account of the raid that killed the world’s most wanted terrorist from one of the Navy SEALS who pulled the trigger.” There are FOUR parts to the air ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Chris Hedges and Larry Gibson: Days of Destruc ...
    The Nation. (blog) Chris Hedges and Larry Gibson: Days of Destruction | The Nation The Nation. (blog) Today, the campaign to end mountaintop removal, or MTR, has gained national attention, forcing the Obama Administration's EPA to issue new rules for protecting mountain streams. Those rules ...
  • Larry Gibson: Appalachia's Lorax - Earth Islan ...
    Earth Island Journal Larry Gibson: Appalachia's Lorax Earth Island Journal Mountaintop removal mining tore something out of him, too, but he found a way to fight back. And in the process, Larry Gibson became something unexpected, a unique species of Appalachian Lorax, a small man in bib over ...
  • Stand With Appalachia Solidarity Day – Washing ...
    Climate Science Watch Stand With Appalachia Solidarity Day – Washington, DC, Thursday, September 13 Climate Science Watch Join with Appalachian citizens and Mountain Heroes, community groups, environmental organizations, clean water defenders, faith community leaders, and voices for social justi ...
  • Hero For Those "Who Don't Have A Say" - unEART ...
    Hero For Those "Who Don't Have A Say" unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) The fight to end mountaintop removal will not stop until mountaintop removal stops, but yesterday we lost one of the most beloved heroes and leaders of the movement. Larry Gibson, the Keeper of the Mountains, ...
  • West Virginia anti-mining crusader Larry Gibso ...
    The Guardian West Virginia anti-mining crusader Larry Gibson dead at 66 The Guardian Gibson suffered a heart attack on Kayford mountain, land that had been in his family for generations and that he turned into a prime exhibit of the highly destructive practice of mountaintop removal. He was 66, ...

Memeorandum

  • EXCLUSIVE: NO RECORD OF INTEL BRIEFINGS FOR OB ...
    Wynton Hall / BREITBART.COM: EXCLUSIVE: NO RECORD OF INTEL BRIEFINGS FOR OBAMA WEEK BEFORE EMBASSY ATTACKS  —  According to the White House calendar, there is no public record of President Barack Obama attending his daily intelligence briefing—known as the Presidential Dai ...
  • ISLAMISTS DRAG DEAD BODY OF US AMBASSADOR THRO ...
    Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: ISLAMISTS DRAG DEAD BODY OF US AMBASSADOR THROUGH THE STREETS OF BENGHAZI!  (Updated) ...Another Photo!  —  Islamists dragged the dead body of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens from the embassy after he was murdered last night.  —&n ...
  • Filmmaker Sam Bacile in hiding after anti-Musl ...
    Associated Press: Filmmaker Sam Bacile in hiding after anti-Muslim film sparks violence in which American diplomat was killed  —  An Israeli filmmaker based in California went into hiding Tuesday after his movie attacking Islam's Prophet Muhammad sparked angry assaults by ultra- ...
  • Here's a Timeline of the Confusing Statements ...
    Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online: Here's a Timeline of the Confusing Statements on Libya and Egypt  —  If you weren't following this story closely as it developed over the past day and woke to news of the murder of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya and a group of swirling ch ...
  • Mike Barnicle Suggests Prosecuting Pastor Terr ...
    Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org blogs: Mike Barnicle Suggests Prosecuting Pastor Terry Jones In American Ambassador's Death  —  Mike Barnicle has suggested that the Department of Justice consider prosecuting Florida pastor Terry Jones in the death of the American ambassador t ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.2, Solomon Islands
    Wednesday, September 12, 2012 11:27:51 UTC Wednesday, September 12, 2012 10:27:51 PM at epicenterDepth: 87.40 km (54.31 mi)
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    Wednesday, September 12, 2012 04:28:14 UTC Wednesday, September 12, 2012 02:28:14 PM at epicenterDepth: 65.70 km (40.82 mi)
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    Wednesday, September 12, 2012 03:27:45 UTC Wednesday, September 12, 2012 06:27:45 AM at epicenterDepth: 27.40 km (17.03 mi)
  • M 5.0, Southwest Indian Ridge
    Wednesday, September 12, 2012 02:57:26 UTC Wednesday, September 12, 2012 05:57:26 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.0, south of the Mariana Islands
    Tuesday, September 11, 2012 20:52:06 UTC Wednesday, September 12, 2012 06:52:06 AM at epicenterDepth: 20.80 km (12.92 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Should China bail out its solar PV industry?
    China’s solar PV industry is stuck in an expansion crisis from which it is hard to extricate itself. Chinese renewable expert Li Junfeng tells Gao Yang some companies are likely to go bankrupt.Gao Yang：What’s the main obstacle holding back development of the solar PV industry ...
  • China's clean energy boom driven by "private f ...
    Rapid growth in new energy sector has made China an intermediary between developed and developing countries, says Asian Development Bank’s Cui Yongping.Cui Yongping is chair of the energy committee at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a financing and aid body which has invested heavily in ...
  • What are the ecological costs of China’s ...
    China’s growing agribusinesses and demand for soybeans and meat is bringing intensive farming and the risk of further deforestation in Brazil and beyond. Tom Levitt reports.The dynamics of Chinese agriculture are changing. While it may still be largely self-sufficient in food, th ...
  • The damaging truth about Chinese fertiliser an ...
    Excessive and inappropriate use of fertilisers and pesticides is causing agricultural and rural pollution, as well as food safety problems. What’s more, Chinese agriculture has now become reliant on these chemicals. Yang Meng reports.“If China used one half of the fertiliser it used ...
  • Chinese fear price hikes after electricity reforms
    As growth slows in China, the time is ripe to reform water, electricity and fuel pricing. But balancing development and household interests is a tricky game, writes Cui Bin.This summer, Chinese people have been thinking twice before turning on their air conditioners. In July, tiered electri ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • The Deadly Rocket Attack in Libya and Romney's ...
    A rocket attack reportedly carried out by Islamist extremists killed the American ambassador to Libya yesterday, along with three other Americans also at the US embassy in Benghazi.The attack came after angry protests broke out in Cairo, Egypt and Benghazi, Libya over an Islamophobic film prod ...
  • Why Does America Love Gossiping About Young, D ...
    Beauty writer and self-proclaimed party girl Cat Marnell doesn’t give a shit. At least, that was the headline of a recent Vice magazine article about the “troubled drug-addicted beauty-queen.” A former beauty and health editor at the women’s lifestyle Web site xoJan ...
  • Why Are Some of the Most Popular Organic Brand ...
    Inside the battle over California’s ballot initiative for labeling of genetically engineered foods, Prop 37, is another battle for money. It’s no surprise that more than $14 million of the over $26 million raised to defeat the “Right to Know” labeling initiative is ...
  • Stand Against Rahm! The Chicago Teachers' Stri ...
     CHICAGO — I was awoken by honking car horns yesterday morning, and couldn’t have been happier for the fact. Chicago’s public schoolteachers are on strike against the city government and Mayor Rahm Emanuel. And while no one likes the budget crisis that forms the strik ...
  • Sick Money: How Mitt Romney's Bain Investments ...
    Few individuals or organizations have been as influential as Mitt Romney and Bain Capital in worsening our runaway healthcare costs, causing unnecessary suffering, or accelerating our government's long-term deficit problem. Their highly leveraged investment strategy puts healthcare companies u ...

Threat Level

  • Smart Meter Causes Dumb Fire
    Self-combusting smart meters have cause fires in at least four homes in Illinois and Pennsylvania.
  • Five Epic Hacks That Never Happened
    There are hacks and then there are epic hacks. And then there's the epic hacks that well, just weren't actually hacks, despite the news stories.
  • Twitter Ordered to Release OWS Protester’s Dat ...
    Twitter has lost its appeal against a court order demanding it turn over user data related to an Occupy Wall Street protester.
  • Pirate Bay Co-Founder Arrested at Airport on H ...
    The Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm was flown from Cambodia, where he was detained last week, to Sweden on Tuesday to face charges unrelated to his pending one-year prison sentence for running the world's most notorious and illicit file-sharing service.
  • After Three Trials, Court Restores Original $2 ...
    A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered infamous file-sharer Jammie Thomas-Rasset to pay the recording industry $222,000 for downloading and sharing two dozen copyrighted songs on the now-defunct file-sharing service Kazaa.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Pink Slime (a.k.a., lean finely textured beef ...
    This gem just dropped into my inbox: MEDIA ADVISORY BPI to Announce Major Lawsuit at Press Conference What: Beef Products, Inc., BPI Technology, Inc. and Freezing Machines, Inc. (collectively, “BPI”)... Continue Reading
  • Imported Forever Cheese Sickens 14, killing 3, ...
    The CDC reports as of September 11, 2012, a total of 14 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Listeria monocytogenes have been reported from 11 states and the District... Continue Reading
  • Marler Clark, Milk, Cheese and E. coli, Lister ...
    Late last night Forever Cheese recalled all Ricotta Salata Frescolina brand, Forever Cheese lot # T9425 and/or production code 441202, from one specific production date due to possible Listeria Monocytogenes... Continue Reading
  • Forever Cheese Recalls Ricotta Salata Frescoli ...
    Forever Cheese Inc. is recalling all Ricotta Salata Frescolina brand, Forever Cheese lot # T9425 and/or production code 441202, from one specific production date due to possible Listeria Monocytogenes contamination,... Continue Reading
  • Well Done Schnucks – Recalls Chamberlain Farms ...
    Chamberlain Farms of Owensville, Ind. has expanded its original recall of cantaloupes to include watermelons distributed over this past growing season could have been contaminated with Salmonella newport. The cantaloupe... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • Official: Renault donates all-electric Popemob ...
    Filed under: Minivan/Van, Etc., Europe, Renault, Electric Popes know how to travel in style, as the long list of iconic Popemobiles can attest to. In recent years, His Holiness Benedict XVI - aka the "Green Pope" - has been trying to clean up those bubbly vehicles with alternative powertrains ...
  • Exclusive: In deep with Tesla CEO Elon Musk: F ...
    Filed under: Etc., Tesla Tesla Motors Elon Musk spends about half his working life - i.e., almost all of his waking hours - in his office at SpaceX in Los Angeles. The automotive CEO is, after all, also in charge of the rocket company, which means that he's thinking about a lot more than just ...
  • Exclusive: Elon Musk: 'The credit for saving T ...
    Filed under: Earnings/Financials, Tesla, Electric Back in 2009, the plug-in vehicle world was surprised to learn that Daimler had invested $50 million in Tesla Motors. What we didn't know at the time was that the money came deus ex machina style just before the EV startup reaper was about to ...
  • Report: GM will sell 2,500 Chevy Volts in Augu ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Sedan, Chevrolet, GM, Electric We should be getting August's official sales numbers early next week, but The Detroit Free Press is already reporting that General Motors will have something to be proud of in the announcement: 2,500 Chevrolet Volt sales, the car's best ...
  • Official: New CAFE rules officially finalized; ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal Increasing the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for model year 2017-2025 cars to 54.5 miles per gallon was first proposed in July 2011. Since then, there has been a lot of back and forth, a lot of positive and negative responses, and, lately, a delay for ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Wednesday: Attorney for Banking Whistleblower ...
    As news comes that the IRS will award whistleblower Brad Birkenfeld $1.4 million—the largest individual federal payout in U.S. history for exposing exposing the biggest tax evasion scheme in U.S. history—we will speak with one of his attorneys, Stephen Kohn, executive director of ...
  • Read an Excerpt from "500 Days: Secrets and Li ...
    Read an excerpt below from the newly published book, 500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars, Kurt Eichenwald, who will be a guest Wednesday, Sept. 12, on Democracy Now! He reports that newly disclosed documents from before the 9/11 attacks provide further evidence the Bush administra ...
  • The 9/11 Decade: Timeline of Voices of Dissent ...
    At the time of the September 11th attacks, Democracy Now!’s War and Peace Report, hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, was one of the few media outlets reporting on the voices of peace and dissent as the country went to war, suspended civil liberties, spied on diss ...
  • The 9/11 Decade: Voices of Dissent on Democrac ...
    At the time of the September 11th attacks, Democracy Now!’s War and Peace Report, hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, was one of the few media outlets reporting on the voices of peace and dissent as the country went to war, suspended civil liberties, spied on diss ...
  • No Papers, No Fear at the Democratic Convention
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan CHARLOTTE , N.C.—As the Democratic National Convention was gaveled into session Tuesday, outside in the rain, in the paramilitarized heart of Charlotte, democracy in its finest form found expression. Democracy, that is, if you believe that it’s built on ...

Suzie-Q

  • Barack Obama Speech Text: Read The President&# ...
    Huff Post Posted: 09/06/2012 10:26 pm President Barack Obama delivered his Democratic National Convention speech at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C. on Thursday night. Below, his prepared remarks as prepared for delivery. Michelle, I love you. The other night, I think the entire co ...
  • Bill Clinton’s 2012 DNC Speech – FULL TE ...
    Being Liberal 9/5/12 Here is the  text of President Bill Clinton’s speech to the Democratic National Convention as prepared for delivery and released by the convention’s press office: We’re here to nominate a President, and I’ve got one in mind. I want to nominate a man whose own life has known ...
  • This Seat’s Taken…
    This seat’s taken. OFA.BO/c2gbfi, twitter.com/BarackObama/st… — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 31, 2012  
  • Paul Ryan Address: Convention Speech Built On ...
    Huff Post Ryan Grim Posted: 08/30/2012 12:29 am Updated: 08/30/2012 11:52 am TAMPA, Fla. — Paul Ryan pledged Wednesday that if he and his running mate Mitt Romney were elected president, they would usher in an ethic of responsibility. The Wisconsin congressman and GOP vice presidential can ...
  • Paul Ryan Fails — The Truth
    The Washington Post By Jonathan Bernstein Posted at 11:56 PM ET, 08/29/2012 It was, by any reasonable standards, a staggering, staggering lie. Here’s Paul Ryan about Barack Obama: He created a bipartisan debt commission. They came back with an urgent report.  He thanked them, sent them on their ...

Solari

  • Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Tha ...
    By Steven Levy Had Narrative Science — a company that trains computers to write news stories—created this piece, it probably would not mention that the company’s Chicago headquarters lie only a long baseball toss from the Tribune newspaper building. Nor would it dwell on the fact that this [...]
  • Did Citigroup Defraud Billions from US Ally Ab ...
    By Pam Martens Adding to those seemingly insurmountable headwinds, Sheikh Ahmed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Managing Director of ADIA, would not be able to give first hand testimony to the tribunal as to what Robert Rubin and other Citigroup executives had promised him. In the same month, March 2010, ...
  • At a Glance: German Court Ruling on Bailout Fund
    By Harriet Torry Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe is set to rule Wednesday at 8 a.m. GMT on whether the European Stability Mechanism — the euro zone’s permanent bailout fund aimed at stemming the sovereign debt crisis — and the fiscal pact on states’ budget limits are in keep ...
  • Potential for a Mining Boom Splits Factions in ...
    [CAF Note: Note that the expenses of stealing these assets are on budget for the federal government and households. However, when it comes to their trillions of value, that is off budget - one of the many budget games that is contriving the "fiscal cliff."] By Graham Bowley If there is [...]
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Choose your team: our election is a conflict b ...
    Summary:  Philosophy has always been a driver of social and political evolution in western civilization. Especially at inflection points, like today. Here we look at two formerly obscure philosophers who have been brought to life by the unassailable power of money. Their theories both fight for ...
  • Hidden history about Madrid 1995: a look at th ...
    Summary:  Today we have an excerpt from a longer work describing one of the key global diplomatic meetings shaping the early 21st century world, our equivalent of the Congress of Vienna in 1815.  In the era of 4GW State-to-State wars are replaced by global conferences setting policy about curren ...
  • How bad is our bloat of generals? How does it ...
    Summary:  As a followup to yesterday’s rant by Richard A Pawloski (Captain, USMC, retired) about our bloated corps of senior generals, today we look at the actual numbers.  They show that if anything Pawloski understated the situation, and that only many more rants can reform our military. ...
  • Do we need so many and such well-paid generals ...
    Summary: In today’s post guest author Richard A Pawloski (Captain, USMC, retired) asks some hard questions about the senior ranks of the US officer corps.  The military is the most trusted institution in America, and so has successfully resisted most efforts to reform it — or even sl ...
  • A mystery about a possible domestic hit by the ...
    Summary:  Many odd stories mark the evolution of America-that-once-was into the New America.  Dark and mysterious stories, often about the uses of government power for private ends. Today we look at the death of Sunny Sheu, and the cover-up of the death of this anti-corruption whistleblower by n ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • No German Pledge on Nuclear-Capable Aircraft M ...
    The Büchel military base in southern Germany where some U.S. tactical nuclear weapons are stored. On September 5 the Berliner Zeitung reported that at the May 2012 NATO summit Germany had silently reneged on its goal to advocate withdrawal of U.S. nuclear weapons from Germany and committed to s ...
  • Picking up the Pieces and Honoring Ambassador ...
    The violent attack on the US consulate in Benghazi and the tragic deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other American embassy staff should provoke a thorough reassessment of priorities by the Libyan and the US governments. The Libyan government initially alleged that Qaddafi loyalists we ...
  • Foreign Policy to the Fore: Is Romney Below th ...
    U.S. Consulate in Benghazi 9/12/2012 I heard Dan Drezner in the car on NPR yesterday talking about whether foreign policy might matter in this election. And, last night and today, with the events in Egypt and Libya, he may be more right than even he anticipated. We may have an inciden ...
  • Team Romney Doubles-Down on its Terrible Reaction
    It appears that Team Romney is hardening its stance on the protests in Egypt and the attack in Libya. In a press conference this morning, Romney repeated the message of his initial press release, saying that “The administration was wrong to stand by a statement sympathizing with those who had br ...
  • After the Libya and Egypt Attacks, Fearing for ...
    It is not unreasonable to think that the riots which claimed the lives of four American diplomats in Libya will spread elsewhere, and that Americans will not be the only targets of mob violence.   I am particularly concerned for what maybe coming down the road for the UN in Afghanistan. In April ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Mitt Romney Responds to Libyan Crisis in Worst ...
    Last night, an armed mob—angry over an American-made video denigrating the Prophet Muhammad—attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, killing Ambassador Christopher Stevens, along with three of his staff members. This came after a similar uprising in Egypt, where protesters climbed the wa ...
  • Rebellion in Ramallah?
    Thousands of Palestinians take to the streets. In Hebron, demonstrators burn an effigy. In Tul Karm, Ramallah, and other cities, they block streets and set tires ablaze. Teens hurl stones. All of the West Bank's bus, truck, and taxi drivers go on strike for a day. In Bethlehem, truckers park si ...
  • Rahm's Wedge
    Put aside for a moment the particulars of the Chicago teachers’ strike and look at the broader picture. Rahm Emanuel is only one of a number of Democratic mayors and governors who are going after public-employee unions. In Los Angeles, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is also at loggerheads with the ...
  • Ladies to Watch
    I've mentioned here before that I'm an enormous fan of rising young editor Ann Friedman, whom I met when she was both an editor here at the Prospect and was involved in WAM! (Women, Action, and Media). Several people told me she was going to change the world, and I have come to believe it. She ...
  • Mitt Romney's Character Problem
    (Flickr/Vectorportal) “Character” is a word that Republicans used a lot in the 1990s, by which they meant President Bill Clinton’s sexual behavior. “At least,” my Republican mother said pointedly upon the election of George W. Bush, “he’s a man of character,” unlike the previous guy ge ...

Buzzflash

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

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • 7 billion people, 70 million chemicals
    Humanity reached a developmental waymarker of sorts with the population reaching 7 billion some time in 2012. Now, the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) is estimating that it will register the 70 millionth organic or inorganic substance in its database some time in the next few months, possibly t ...
  • Edible panties – where lust and gluttony intersect
    Jessica Hagy did an enneagram a while back that hooked together pairs of the seven deadly sins. She kindly let me publish a few years back and also answered a few of my questions about it. Check out where lust and gluttony meet (edible undies), greed and sloth (get rich quick schemes), gluttony ...
  • Galaxy Zoo: the font of galactic knowledge
    Earlier, I mentioned GalaxyZoo, the crowdsourced galaxy categorisation site, what I forgot to mention is the fact that there are galaxies to match every letter of the alphabet, which means there is a truly galactic font out there and the site’s creators have developed an app to let you wri ...
  • Free apps for musos
    ‘Sonic Visualizer’ is a music visualization app, SlowMP3 can slow and transpose MP3s and help identify chords in a song, BPMinus will let you change pitch and tempo and perform BPM analysis, ‘GBK Music’ can help find chords and scales for guitar, bass and keyboards, and finally ‘Pitch Ear Traine ...
  • Top 100 endangered species we don’t exploit
    A new list of the 100 species most likely to become extinct soon is the result of many years work by 8000 scientists. Sadly, the list is filled with flora and fauna that humans apparently have no use for. Will we save them or do we as a species only really care about those organisms [...]Top 100 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • SEIU: Chicago's Public School Students Deserve ...
    Following is a statement by Mary Kay Henry, President of SEIU, in support of the Chicago Teachers Union's tough decision to strike. The working men and women of SEIU and all working families want stable schools, smaller class sizes, additional professional development, teacher training and f ...
  • Connecticut Calls for Constitutional Amendment ...
    Connecticut has taken a stand against the corporate takeover of elections, calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and related decisions, which allow corporations and wealthy individuals to spend unlimited a ...
  • PFAW Commends Senate Hearing on Citizens Unite ...
    People For the American Way today commended the Senate Judiciary Committee for holding an important hearing on the tremendous impact the Supreme Court will have on whether the American people will be allowed to retain control of our own democracy. Today’s hearing will focus on the Court&rs ...
  • CREW Names the 12 Most Corrupt Members of Cong ...
    Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released its annual Most Corrupt Members of Congress report, which takes a bipartisan look at Washington’s worst.  Members on this year’s list engaged in misconduct ranging from misusing congressional staff to or ...
  • Italy’s Roma Still Segregated and Without Pros ...
    Discriminatory laws, policies and practices which marginalize Italy’s Roma must be urgently changed, Amnesty international said in a briefing published today. On the edge: Roma, forced evictions and segregation in Italy, exposes the continuing systematic failure of Italian authorities t ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Larry Gibson, Chris Hedges, and Days of Destru ...
    Laura Flanders Larry Gibson. (Portrait by Robert Shetterly / AmericansWhoTellTruth.org)Larry Gibson, the West Virginia activist who built a movement from his will to save a mountain, died Sunday from a heart attack while working on his home ...
  • Obama’s Campaign Duplicities Rival Romney’s an ...
    John R. MacArthur Like other liberals, I’ve been inundated with e-mails attacking the “lies” lately retailed by the Republican Party and the two candidates leading its national ticket.President Barack Obama and Republican ...
  • A Tale of Two Healhcare Plans
    David Cay Johnston No issue affecting taxes so clearly divides the two parties in the U.S. election as healthcare. The two parties, in their platforms, describe very different approaches to healthcare economics. Both use political plastic ...
  • The Tragic Consulate Killings in Libya and Ame ...
    Glenn Greenwald Protesters attacked the US consulate in Bengazi, Libya on Tuesday night and killed four Americans, including the US ambassador, Chris Stevens.read more
  • Farmworker Wage Theft: As Common as Dirt
    Paula Crossfield In the latest report by the Food & Environment Reporting Network, “As Common as Dirt,” produced in collaboration with The American Prospect magazine, reporter Tracie McMillan investigates how farm labor cont ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Kenya: Kenya's Water Wars Kill Scores
    [IPS]Nairobi -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, the situation will escalate, governance experts and environmentalist ...
  • Future Water Wars?
    Growing populations, climate change, and diminishing water resources are combining to make water the oil of the 21st century.
  • Uzbekistan Leader Warns of Water Wars in Centr ...
    President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan has upped his rhetoric against neighboring Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, warning that their efforts to build hydroelectric power stations on rivers upstream could spark war. Speaking during an official visit to Astana on September 7, Karimov launched a broadsid ...
  • Attorney General Olens Talks Water
    Attorney General Sam Olens was in Albany today and talked about many issues, including the water wars between Georgia, Florida and Alabama.
  • Water Wars: North Rhea Utility District demand ...
    After the Town of Spring City began providing water to a business in the North Rhea Utility District [NRUD] earlier this year, NRUD President Doug MacEwen called the move an “invasion.”

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • How Drilling Could Threaten Our National Parks
    by Jessica Goad America’s national parks are undoubtedly some of our “best ideas.” They are unique places across our country where public lands are preserved for their natural, cultural, or historic value, as well as for the unique contributions they provide to local and regional economies and o ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Bush Homeland Security Secretary Di ...
    WASHINGTON, DC — In an interview with ThinkProgress today, former Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge criticized the charge, made by Mitt Romney, that President Obama “sympathizes” with those who attacked and killed four Americans in Libya. Romney said in a press release last ...
  • Santorum: ‘If You’re A Thug, Call The U.S. An ...
    Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum (R) backed Mitt Romney’s claims that President Obama’s policies are responsible for the killing of four Americans in Libya. During an interview Wednesday afternoon on the Scott Hennen Show, Santorum charged that Obama has “showed that w ...
  • Why Aren’t There More Black Sportswriters?
    I found Ta-Nehisi Coates’ recent post on the lack of diversity in long-form journalism interesting, and it reignited in my mind the separate but similar issue about the lack of African-American sports writers. I covered a prominent college athletics program, one that drew regular attention ...
  • Florida Agrees To Partial Settlement In Purge Case
    The state of Florida reached a partial settlement with a coalition of civil rights groups who sued alleging that Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) failed voter purge discriminated against minority voters. Under the agreement, the state agrees to restore to the rolls any voter it identified as “p ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Ontario Liberals
    A while ago, I made the hard decision to extend credit where it was due. I don't like conceding things to my enemies but I don't think we should refuse to acknowledge and reward good behaviour either. So, I credited the McGuinty Liberals for finally taking over their responsibilities over the p ...
  • Making it Official
    For the record, I shan't be commenting at Dawg's Blog anymore. I still admire and read the guy, but it royally irked me to be treated as being somehow the equal of a moral defective like Peter1. Then there was the double-standard of having my pseudonym used as a term of generic mockery while hav ...
  • Learn From Japan
    Yeah, I know. The right-wing are braying like the jackasses they are saying that THEIR favourite politicians should be able to engage in any conflict of interest with no penalties, and that the RCMP is pulling private airplanes out of the sky because they are pulling banners that offend his maje ...
  • Malnutrition in Afghanistan
    It's "shockingly" high say UN officials: "What's shocking is that [the malnutrition statistics are] very high by global standards," Michael Keating, deputy head of the UN mission in Afghanistan, told the Guardian. "This is the kind of malnutrition you associate with Africa and some of the mo ...
  • Following Ford's Testimony Re: Conflict of Int ...
    Rob Ford is a fucking dunce.

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Ontario teachers: pay frozen, benefits cut and ...
    Teachers in Hamilton, Ontario, are wearing black to protest new legislation that freezes their pay for two years, cuts sick days in half (and ends their ability to bank sick days) and bans strikes for two years.
  • Canada: College tuition increases five percent
    Canadian undergraduate college students will pay an additional five percent in tuition over last year, according to Statistics Canada. The agency stated the average tuition bill last year was $5,313, but this year students are paying $5,581.
  • Brother duo play old and young Pip in 'Great E ...
    Charles Dickens enthusiasts got to meet and greet with the cast of another remake of 'Great Expectations,' at its red carpet debut, in time for the Toronto International Film Festival.
  • Spring Breakers a sexy violent mess but Korine ...
    If you look past the crotch shots, rib-thumping dubstep and ultra-violence perfect for a Clockwork Orange sequel, Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers is a fun movie destined to be a cult classic.
  • United Nations says Afghan Taliban 2011 income ...
    A new report from the United Nations shows that the Taliban in Afghanistan generated an income of approximately $400 million last year. The sources of revenue were donations, taxing local economies and extorting aid groups and drug dealers.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Ask Alex Jones #9
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrisonplanet.com Aug 11, 2012 Alex answers Planet Infowars members’ questions.Check out all the best #altnews at DarkPolitricks.com
  • Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan to be Mitt Romney’s V ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com Following information that former Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) would announce his choice for Vice President outside the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Virgina, sources have confirmed that the nominee will be Rep. ...
  • American Values
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy William Blum The United States and its comrade-in-arms, Al Qaeda. And other tales of an empire gone mad. Afghanistan in the 1980s and 90s … Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990 ...
  • U.S. Army tests football field-sized super spy ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com The U.S. Army’s Long-Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) — a high-tech robotic spy blimp — was launched for its 90-minute maiden voyage on Tuesday from a military base in Lakehurst, ...
  • Historic Hypocrisy: UN-Backed Rogue States Pla ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Felicity Arbuthnot The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy. ” Former US Attorney General, Ramsey Clark On May 4th, 2012, UN Secretary General ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Federal Court In New York Just Ruled Indefinit ...
    Dandelion Salad http://act.demandprogress.org Sept. 12, 2012 We Won! Tell Obama: Don’t Appeal NDAA Court Ruling We did it! But now we need your help putting pressure on Obama. A federal court in New York just ruled indefinite detention UNCONSTITUTIONAL and issued a permanent injunction aga ...
  • Congress Expands Spying On Americans + Nadler: ...
    Dandelion Salad Sep 12, 2012 by RTAmerica On Wednesday, the US House of Representatives will vote on whether or not to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. If passed, FISA will essentially extend the powers of the government and give the authorization to wiretap Americans witho ...
  • Chris Hedges: The teacher strike in Chicago is ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad September 11, 2012 Sep 11, 2012 by democracynow DemocracyNow.org As the Chicago public school teachers’ strike enters its second day, we’re joined by the journalist and author Chris Hedges. “The teacher strike in Chicago is argu ...
  • 9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak ...
    Dandelion Salad Sep 6, 2012 by ae911truth This is the 1-hour version of our 1 ½ hour groundbreaking documentary 9/11: Explosive Evidence — Experts Speak Out which is available for purchase as a DVD in our online store at http://www.AE911Truth.org or as a download or video-on-demand at http ...
  • The Collision Course Is Set by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig September 10, 2012 The ceaseless expansion of economic exploitation, the engine of global capitalism, has come to an end. The futile and myopic effort to resurrect this expansion—a fallacy embraced by most economists—means that we respond ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    Only A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent : It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the king-makers to the pol ...
  • No title
    Julian Assange, 2012: They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
  • No title
    This man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
  • No title
    Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
  • No title
    Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.

Wired - 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jonathan Cook: US love affair with Israel mask ...
    Politicians may prefer to express admiration of Israel, and hand over billions of dollars in aid, but the US security establishment has - at least in private - always regarded Israel as an... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Israeli Defense Minister rumo ...
    According to local press, the Israeli leadership has been "climbing down from the tree" this week with a distinct change in tone from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding attacking Iran. The... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Israel Denies Food and Entry ...
    Israel's anti-refugee policy reached a new peak this week when on Tuesday the Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported that a group of 20 asylum seekers was being denied entry and was stuck in the fenced area... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Why America and Israel are the g ...
    Like its patron, Israel resorts to violence at will. It persists in illegal settlement in occupied territory, some annexed, all in brazen defiance of international law and the U.N. Security Council.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Yuval Ginbar: Double standard on torture
    Recently, the [Israeli] High Court of Justice also made a contribution that helps perpetuate torture among the Shin Bet: It approved a mechanism that was apparently created to ensure that no... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...

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