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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.

Friday, September 14, 2012

14 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

Personal & Noted

Scoop - NZ

  • Avnery: The March of Folly
    Nothing could be more scary than the thought that this duo – Binyamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak – is in a position to start a war, the dimensions and outcome of which are incalculable.  It’s scary not only because of their ideological fixations and mental outlook, but also because of the level ...
  • McCarten: Key, the gambler, folds them.
    Prime Minister Key's reputation as a sharp operator collapsed on Monday. His admission of defeat by postponing any asset sales until next year is a disaster. Key's handling of the asset sales programme has been incompetent for months. This was a long way from where he was at last year's elect ...
  • China launches £94bn infrastructure stimulus p ...
    China's central government is to launch a $150bn (£94bn) spending package on roads and infrastructure projects, joining the country's regions in a blitz of stimulus to keep flagging growth alive.
  • Mining cuts deepen Australian job losses
    Job shedding is gathering pace in the Australian mining industry, adding a new dimension to wholesale job losses that have been occurring across the country for the past 18 months. The collapse of the mining boom—the only high growth area of the economy since the global financial crisis began in ...
  • Eu: Young worst hit by unemployment
    Young people are bearing the brunt of the jobs crisis, with 22.6 per cent of young people in the euro area unemployed, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In Spain, Italy and the Slovak Republic, the unemployment rate for people aged 15-24 continued ...

Independent - London

  • Former ally criticises Putin’s repressive path
    One of Vladimir Putin's former political allies says that Russia has embarked on the “worst-case scenario” since Mr Putin returned to the presidency in May.  Related StoriesNo good Samaritan: Sweden in shock as brazen thief steals valuables from drunk man who fell on tracks, leaving him to be hi ...
  • British, German and US embassies targeted as p ...
    British, German and US embassies have been targeted today as protests against an anti-Islam film continued to spread.Related StoriesRevealed: inside story of US envoy's assassinationBritish, German and US embassies targeted as protests against anti-Islam film continue to spread
  • British, German and US embassies targeted as p ...
    British, German and US embassies have been targetted today as protests against an anti-Islam film continued to spread.Related StoriesRevealed: inside story of US envoy's assassinationBritish, German and US embassies targeted as protests against anti-Islam film continue to spread throughout Musl ...
  • Stop! Phil Lynott's widow orders Mitt Romney n ...
    The US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has a fight on his hands if he wants to keep using Thin Lizzy music to back his campaign. Related StoriesSearch for mystery director leads to Egyptian fraudsterUS defends itself to world – but back home it's warMexico: 'El Coss' won't need jewels nowRevea ...
  • Mob in Guatemala burns man to death in a schoo ...
    Authorities in Guatemala say an angry mob has killed a man inside a school for allegedly killing two children by cutting their throats with a machete.Related StoriesSearch for mystery director leads to Egyptian fraudsterUS defends itself to world – but back home it's warMexico: 'El Coss' won't ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Topless Tempest: Kate Photos Spark Palace Fury
    London - Paparazzi, French media and a British royal: The publication of topless photos of Prince William's wife Kate has reunited the same players whose clash ended with the untimely death of his mother, Princess Diana, in a Parisian car crash. William, who has long harbored a grudge against t ...
  • CIA, Mossad Team Up to Insult Islamic Values
    He calls himself a religious leader, a "preacher," this Terry Jones, the man responsible for blaspheming the prophet Mohammed. He has made threats before, burned the Holy Quran, spouted obscenities, demanded attention and has acted with demonic intent. This week, Jones released a streaming vide ...
  • Salem Man Arrested After Flying Powered Paragl ...
    Patrick Tarmey calls his airborne toy a "powered paraglider." But on September 11th of this year, some people in Salem thought his quirky-looking glider may have posed some kind of threat. "I was flying it over the harbor just practicing doing some 360s and some spins," Tarmey said. Tarmey ow ...
  • All-Clears After Bomb Threats Evacuate Campuse ...
    Austin, Texas - Tens of thousands of people streamed off university campuses in Texas and North Dakota on Friday after telephoned bomb threats prompted officials to warn students and faculty to get away as quickly as possible. Both campuses eventually were deemed safe and reopened by early after ...
  • British Muslims Storm US Embassy Over Anti-Isl ...
    British Muslims have staged a protest rally outside the US Embassy in London against the US-made film which insults Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Some 150 demonstrators chanted anti-US slogans and burnt a US flag outside the embassy in Grosvenor Square, on Friday. The rally had been organized by Mu ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Children's games
    When I was a child, my younger brother often pulled a trick to get me in trouble. He'd come up to me as I was playing or doing something else and smack the toy out of my hand, push me, or mess-up whatever I was doing, and run off. When I gave chase, he would beeline for mum, the teacher, or what ...
  • Mammaries in the news
    Breasts are in the news today. The Duchess of York has a pair as a scandal-rag perilously confirms. Across the Atlantic, a professor who nursed her baby in - of all things - a gender and sexuality class, is causing conniptions among people who struggle to understand basic human biological ne ...
  • Easy Rider . . .
    WHILE THE ISLAMIC WORLD shows us that they don't like crappy cinema (unlike The Message, with Anthony Quinn), here's something really neat to check out, created by RYNO Motors. If it doesn't snow very much where you live . . .
  • In your future . . .
    WHILE THE POLITICAL LUNACY continues, scientific and technological progress continues. It's easy to be oblivious to what's going on, but according to io9's article by George Dvorsky, "9 Overlooked Technologies That Could Transform The World", there are developments that could be as important a ...
  • Wink at the moon
    crea Created by some close friends of mine for one of humankind's greatest heroes.

Media Matters for America

  • Krauthammer Whitewashes Bush's History To Bash ...
    On Fox News, Charles Krauthammer suggested that "under other presidents, particularly Bush," there was "no storming of the U.S. embassy in Cairo." In fact, there were seven attacks on U.S. embassies and consulates during the Bush years, and numerous other such attacks have happened under recent ...
  • Even As Experts, GOP Figures Criticize Romney' ...
    Right-wing pundits jumped to blame "the media" after Mitt Romney was criticized for his statement and remarks following the attacks on the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, and the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Yet foreign policy experts and even conservative officials and media figures have be ...
  • Fox Distorts Reagan's Record On Iranian Hostag ...
    Fox is attacking President Obama's response to the death of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and unrest in Egypt, Libya, and elsewhere by suggesting he should have acted more like Ronald Reagan during the Iranian hostage crisis. In fact, Reagan said the U.S. should agree to most of Iran's demands, a ...
  • Fox Rallies Around Romney For Widely Criticize ...
    Fox News came to Mitt Romney's defense after his response to the attack on American diplomats in Libya was seen by many as an "attempt to score political points" and widely condemned, even by fellow Republicans.Romney: Obama Administration "Sympathize[d] With Those Who Waged The Attacks" Romney ...
  • Right-Wing Media Point Fingers At Obama For Li ...
    Right-wing media have responded to the attacks in Libya and Egypt by pointing fingers at President Obama, saying his policies are to blame. Conservative media figures are also amplifying blame by harping on the accusation that Obama does not attend daily intelligence briefings in person; in fact ...

Global Research.ca

  • US Ambassador’s Death: Fruits of US Fore ...
    US-Backed Terrorists in Syria Responsible for Ambassador’s Death in Libya. The US has sworn to “make pay” those responsible for the death of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens. In reality, those responsible for Stevens’ death are fully armed, funded, trained, and coordinat ...
  • GRTV: The Euro Crisis: Origins and Consequences
    …
  • China Will Not Back Down In Face Of Japanese M ...
    Backing off not an option for China A total of six Chinese surveillance ships carried out a patrol and law enforcement mission in waters around the Diaoyu Islands and its affiliated islets Friday. The move marks China’s disdain for Tokyo’s so-called “control” over the isl ...
  • The US-NATO “New Great Game” In Ce ...
    [W]hatever objectives it started with, now it has become their objective to continue the conflict. And because of that they will keep on looking for new enemies and new threats. It was Osama bin Laden then, it is Taliban now, it is nukes somewhere else or “rogues” like Iran.…
  • 9/11: The Mysterious Collapse of WTC Buildling ...
    The Bush administration – as part of its political cover-up of negligence before and on 9/11 – pretended that the building collapsed due to “natural causes”

TPM Cafe

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

Water - AlterNet

  • Is Your Fish Safe to Eat? Why Warnings May Not ...
    Fri, 09/14/2012 - 11:39
  • Free Market Economics Are Failing World’s Dwin ...
    UXBRIDGE, Canada, Sep 13 2012 (IPS) - Growing water shortages in many countries are a major threat to global security and development and should be a top priority at the U.N. Security Council, a panel of experts said in a new report.However, that report ignores the biggest threat to ...
  • On Environment: How Would Jesus Vote?
     If there’s one trait politicians of all stripes share, it’s that they all roll out the Good Book when it suits their purposes. For a few election cycles, the GOP claimed to be the Lord’s standard-bearer, but recently people of faith across the aisle rallied their tro ...
  • 10 Water Commons Principles
     Through our co-creative fieldwork, On the Commons seeks to transform society’s decisionmaking about water toward participatory, democratic, community-centered systems that value equity and sustainability as core values. Our work is based on the following ten water commons pri ...
  • Arctic Strikes Back: Why Nature May Thwart She ...
    Last week as Shell was getting ready to poke the first hole in the Chukchi Sea floor in Arctic Alaska to begin exploratory drilling, I was getting ready to give two talks in Alaska—the concluding lecture of the Next North Symposium at the Anchorage Museum on 9/8, and one at th ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Clean Energy Works for Texas Urges Action on N ...
    Yesterday, Clean Energy Works for Texas – a coalition consisting of Public Citizen, Sierra Club, Texas BlueGreen Apollo Alliance, Progress Texas, Clean Water Action, Environment Texas, North Texas Renewable Energy Group, North Texas Renewable Energy Inc., SEED Coalition, Solar Austin, Solar San ...
  • The fight against a foreign company taking Tex ...
    UPDATE:  While Judge Rugg expressed regret for the lack of clarity from the higher courts. “I’m left with no guidance from Denbury,” he said.  He, nevertheless promised to rule by Sept. 24th.  We will let you know as soon as we hear about the ruling. KEYSTONE PIPELINE V. TEXAS RICE FARMERS SET F ...
  • During a high power use emergency the cost of ...
    Did you know that your retail electric provider may be working behind the scenes to drive up energy prices? A review of filings at the PUC show that several Texas retail electric providers are pushing hard for the approval of super high wholesale energy price caps and for a very expensive capaci ...
  • EHF – a bad bet and a big bluff
    Back in March, the Dallas Observer reported about the chance that Energy Future Holdings (EFH – formerly TXU) the state’s largest power generator, was verging on bankruptcy,  Our question then was – are Texas ratepayers going to have to pay for EHF’s bad bet? Before and since then, there h ...
  • BREAKING! 3 Blockaders Locked to Equipment to ...
    At 7AM this morning, three landowner advocates and climate justice organizers locked themselves to equipment used for clearing large trees in the path of the Keystone XL pipeline.  Shortly thereafter, seven trucks with 20-25 workers showed up at the site to meet their foreman only to be turned a ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Great Dane declared world's tallest dog
    A Great Dane called Zeus has entered the Guinness Book of Records as the tallest dog ever recorded. Three-year-old Zeus towers over most dogs at a sta...
  • New species of monkey discovered
    A completely new species of monkey has been discovered in Democratic Republic of Congo. The lesula is only the second new species of monkey discovered...
  • US missile test sparks UFO reports
    Hundreds of witnesses reported seeing a large glowing multi-colored contrail across the Southwest. TV stations across the region were inundated with c...
  • Did 16th-century priest have 'superpowers' ?
    Catholic priest Pedro Ruiz Calderón was put on trial in Mexico City for practicing black magic. Records of the trial that took place in the year 1540 ...
  • Is Curiosity carrying Earth bacteria ?
    NASA's Mars rover may have inadvertantly carried bacteria from Earth on to Mars in its drillbits. Reports have suggested that a NASA engineer may have...

Grassroots

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

Climate

  • Everest Sherpas Angry Over Glacial Lake Studies
    (BBC News) The Mount Everest region's Sherpas have said they are angry at the way studies of glaciers and glacial lakes have been conducted in recent years. They say the studies do not involve them and that results are often spread th ...
  • Arctic Sea Ice Melt 'May Mean Harsh Winter for ...
    (The Guardian) The record loss of Arctic sea ice this summer may mean a cold winter for the UK and northern Europe. The region has been prone to bad winters after summers with very low sea ice, such as 2011 and 2007, said Jennifer Fran ...
  • Japan Aims to Abandon Nuclear Power by 2030s
    (Reuters) Japan's government said it intends to stop using nuclear power by the 2030s, marking a major shift from policy goals set before last year's Fukushima disaster that sought to increase the share of atomic energy to more than ha ...
  • Enbridge Using Eminent Domain for Michigan Pip ...
    (Lansing State Journal) More than 70 homeowners in Ingham and Livingston counties have been taken to court by Enbridge Energy — the Canadian-based oil transportation company responsible for the July 2010 oil spill in the Kalamazoo Rive ...
  • Hoeven Amendment Would Greenlight Keystone XL
    (The Hill) Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) tacked an amendment onto a veterans bill Thursday that would let Congress approve the northern portion of the Keystone XL pipeline. TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL pipeline would bring Canadian oil ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • More Proof the Senate is Broken
    Because I largely ignore right-wing media, I was slow to get to this story. Apparently, the right-wing's latest obsession is the fate of Shakil Afridi, a man who cooperated with the United States in their search for Usama bin-Laden by running a vaccination program in Abbottabad. He has since b ...
  • What's Middle Income?
    Here's some information from the U.S. Census Bureau: Real median household income in the United States in 2011 was $50,054, a 1.5 percent decline from the 2010 median and the second consecutive annual drop. The nation's official poverty rate in 2011 was 15.0 percent, with 46.2 million peop ...
  • Debates Could, But Don't Usually Matter
    In my experience, presidential debates don't matter. By normal standards, the Democrats tend to win these debates, but it doesn't seem to matter. Did Al Gore wipe the floor with George W. Bush? Yes, almost as decisively as John Kerry did four years later. Neither of them saw any benefit in t ...
  • Talking Smack is a Tool
    Markos has never really fancied himself an analyst. He makes predictions, but not in any kind of methodical way. He gets a feel for things and then he lets it rip. And that's fine. That's why he can talk so much smack without fear that his career will be negatively impacted if he's wrong. T ...
  • Get Over It, Bob
    It bums me out that Bob Dylan is so angry. Here he is responding to critics who think he lifted lyrics from a writer and a poet without attribution: "Wussies and pussies complain about that stuff. It's an old thing it's part of the tradition. It goes way back. These are the same people that ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Exploring the Abandoned Island of Drug Lord Pa ...
    Scattered around small islands off Colombia's Caribbean coast, these crumbling homes were once the playground of powerful drug lords – not least Pablo Escobar. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Alien Looking Desert Landscapes As Seen From Above
    Although deserts are known as dry, dusty and desolate places, these pictures of desert landscapes taken from the air show that they can also be stunningly beautiful. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Is Coal an Attractive Option?
    As a new park counteracts the impact of a surface coal mine, it's interesting to note that coal remains popular despite its disadvantages. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Inside Auschwitz: Haunting Mementos of the Naz ...
    The Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz is notorious for its gas chambers and human experiments. Today, it still has tremendous power to elicit horror and sadness. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Worst High-Rise Building Collapses in History
    In recent times, various towering buildings have come crashing down to earth, with often devastating consequences... The 10 Worst High-Rise Building Collapses in History. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

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

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Proposed Afghan spy chief divides Western, Afg ...
    Last month we reported Afghan President Hamid Karzai's plan to appoint one of his most trusted advisors, Assadullah Khaled, to lead the country's intelligence agency. There appears to be a slight problem with this proposal: Khaled is known as a fierce character in Afghan politics, who has been a ...
  • MI6 chief paid ‘extremely rare’ secret visit t ...
    The Director of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, widely known as MI6, visited Israel in secret in late August in an effort to convince the Israelis not to launch military strikes on Iran, according to a British newspaper.
  • News you may have missed #791
    India sees espionage behind Chinese cash payments to Indian pilots. NSA says foreign cyberattacks increasingly reckless. Taliban 'using Facebook to lure Australian soldiers'.
  • Why did Canada suddenly suspend all diplomatic ...
    On Friday September 7, 2012, John Baird, Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced that Canada was suspending all diplomatic relations with Iran and was expelling Iranian diplomats from the country, effective immediately. What was it that caused the final rupture in Canadian-Iranian relati ...
  • Prominent Syrian defector thanks “French intel ...
    A senior Syrian military commander, whose public defection to the rebel side last summer made news headlines around the world, has thanked the French intelligence services for helping him defect.

War is a Crime.org

  • Syria News - Sep 15
        Pope says import of arms to Syria a grave sin - Reuters VATICAN RADIO: Pope press conference on flight to Beirut - YouTube VIDEO (in French): Pope's Speech At Airport - YouTube Hezbollah hails Pope's Lebanon visit as 'extraordinary and historic' - The Independent ------------------ ...
  • September: Drones Protests and Resistance Acti ...
    From No Drones Network ILLINOIS - Occupy Obama drew attention to Barack Obama's drone victims with a funeral procession in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention (DNC), which ended up at Obama 2012 Campaign HQ. (Coffins were marked "hope" and "change.") Anti-drone activity has conti ...
  • Failing the Test: Obama and Pennsylvania Gov. ...
      By Dave Lindorff Just because someone has the ability to do something, does not mean he or she should do it. read more
  • General’s Defence on Afghan Scandal Ducks Key ...
    By Gareth Porter, IPS WASHINGTON, Sep 13 2012 (IPS) - Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell, the former commander of NATO’s training mission in Afghanistan, denied to a U.S. Congressional panel Wednesday that he had cited the impact on Congressional elections in opposing the timing of a request for an in ...
  • Rocky Anderson's Response to Tom Hayden's Obam ...
    Paul Loeb recommended Tom Hayden's latest pro-Obama article to Rocky Anderson. Rocky wrote this response and gave us permission to publish it: Dear Paul - I read Tom Hayden's piece several days ago and think it is so beneath him -- particularly the "white liberal-left" and "white blindness" raci ...

Grist - News

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

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  • The Comings and Goings in the Land of the Temp ...
    By Visible Well now, there is a lot of talk about Obama’s falling out with Israel being a stage managed disinfo spectacle. As with so many things, I don’t know. So many things now appear to be lies, lies piled on top of lies. It’s an incredible growth industry, like the private ...
  • Was U.S. Ambassador To Libya Lynched? Media Ca ...
    by Alexander Higgins Earlier today the US ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens was killed by the same terrorist he helped put into power. Following the initial reports that he and 3 other Americans on his staff were murdered when terrorists fired Rocket Propelled Grenades on his vehicles the ...
  • UNPRECEDENTED: EU OFFICIALS CALL ON COUNTRIES ...
    by Chip Yes. Give up control of their banks. What could possibly go wrong? In a proposal that represents one the most significant surrenders of national sovereignty since the creation of the euro in 1999, the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, proposed Wednesday to make the European Ce ...
  • Is The Tide Shifting? Are We Witnessing A Sea ...
    The very recent rebuff of the Israeli Prime Minister, Netanyahu, in which Mr. Obama refused to meet him in person exploded like a bomb shell over the news media. Mr. Netanyahu had earlier lambasted the American administration for refusing to obey his demands to specify clear redlines for Iran, w ...
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Global Insights

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

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

Inhabitat

  • The European Solar Decathlon Starts Today!
    This morning marked the start of the 2012 European Solar Decathlon in Madrid, Spain – and Inhabitat is on the scene to bring you this year’s crop of stunning solar-powered homes! Nineteen collegiate teams from around the world descended upon Madrid’s Villa Solar just weeks ago, ...
  • LowLine Underground Park Full-Scale Model Unve ...
    We’ve been eagerly following the development of the NYC’s LowLine underground park as it gains momentum and edges closer to reality – and the amazing adaptive reuse project recently took a big step towards fruition as a full-scale model was unveiled in Manhattan’s Lower E ...
  • Announcing the TOP 40 Finalists In the HP Ultr ...
    And then there were 40! After a week of intense judging, Inhabitat and HP are excited to announce the top 40 finalists in the HP Ultrabook Bag Design Competition! We received nearly 400 entries from designers, crafters and creatives across the US, and we’re thrilled to put these incredible ...
  • Japan Announces Plans to Completely Abandon Nu ...
    Today the government of Japan announced plans to completely abolish nuclear power by as soon as 2030.  The declaration was spurred by last year’s Fukushima disaster, which caused officials to reconsider the country’s power sources. Japan will follow in the footsteps of Germany and Swi ...
  • Guerrilla Grafters Secretly Graft Fruit-Bearin ...
    We’ve heard of guerrilla gardening, and we’ve heard of grafting plants — but guerrilla grafting? That’s new to us. For the past two years, a group that calls themselves Guerrilla Grafters have been secretly grafting fruit-bearing scions onto ornamental, non-fruiting trees ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Mickey o ...
    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 ...
  • Adult Killer Whales Need Their Mamas, Too
    Despite their fierce name, killer whales are really mama's boys. For good reason: A study of almost 600 orcas, also known as killer whales, shows that having mom nearby significantly increases a son's chances for survival. The evolutionary benefit of keeping watch over her descendants may help e ...
  • The Salton Sea: Death and Politics in the Grea ...
    California's Salton Sea, created by accident in the early 1900s, is set to become the latest casualty in the water wars, and is threatening to take the American West down with it.
  • Watch Live as a Skyscraper-Sized Asteroid Flie ...
    An enormous chunk of space rock will be whizzing right past the Earth tonight and you can watch it live during a Slooh Space Camera show, starting at 4 p.m. Pacific/7 p.m. Eastern.
  • Video: Levitating Drugs in Zero-G Could Make T ...
    It almost looks like CG but the floating drops in this video are quite real and potentially life-saving.

PakAlert

  • 4 Examples that Proves of How America is turni ...
    The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailers, constables, posse comitatus, etc. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgement or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on ...
  • Israeli Sponsored Film Sparks False Flag Attac ...
    The US ambassador to Libya, John Christopher Stevens, and three embassy staff employees were killed in a bombing of the Benghazi consulate. Based on alleged outrage concerning a Zionist-sponsored film, Islamic gunmen stormed the embassy and set fire to the consulate. US officials are assertin ...
  • GMO alert: Eating GM wheat may destroy your li ...
    Genetically engineered wheat contains an enzyme suppressor that, when consumed by humans, could cause permanent liver failure (and death). That's the warning issued today by molecular biologist Jack Heinemann of the University of Canterbury in Australia. Heinemann has published an eye-opening ...
  • Is Latest ‘Zombie Cannibal’ Attack A Prophetic ...
    The day after the Department of Homeland Security had issued their latest strange ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ warning to Americans on Thursday, September 6th, America had it’s latest ‘Zombie Cannibal’ attack in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. A man by the name of Richard Ciminio was arrested after gnawing ...
  • US Totalitarianism Loses Major Battle As Judge ...
    Back in January, Pulitzer winning journalist Chris Hedges sued President Obama and the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act, specifically challenging the legality of the Authorization for Use of Military Force or, the provision that authorizes military detention for people deemed t ...

Andy Worthington

  • A Photographic Journey around Fitzrovia, Centr ...
    A Journey around Fitzrovia, Central London’s Former Bohemia, a set on Flickr. On August 31, 2012, after I took part in a demonstration against the involvement of the multinational corporation Atos Healthcare in the government’s disgraceful disability reviews, designed to find disable ...
  • A Premonition of Death at Guantánamo: Adnan La ...
    Note: This image was produced by Amnesty International as part of their letter-writing campaign for this December, featuring Adnan Latif (on the left), a Yemeni prisoner who died at Guantánamo last weekend, and Hussein Almerfedi, another Yemeni who, like Latif, won his habeas corpus petition, bu ...
  • Visiting Abruzzo: Photos of a Journey by Train ...
    Visiting Abruzzo: A Journey by Train from Rome, the Valle Peligna and Torre dei Nolfi, a set on Flickr. Last month — although it now seems like an eternity ago, and a distant dream — I visited Italy for a two-week holiday, spending the first week in Rome and the second in Abruzzo, a ...
  • Lawyers for Adnan Latif, the Latest Prisoner t ...
    This article was published simultaneously here, and on the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates ...
  • A Call for 90 Men to be Freed from Guantánamo ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...

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drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Values Voter Speakers Mostly Avoid Incendiary ...
    For the social conservatives who gathered in Washington, D.C., today for this year’s Values Voter Summit, the first day’s speeches must have been a bit disappointing. There was hardly a peep about the LGBT people who are so often the target of vicious rhetoric and false propaganda used by the su ...
  • Klein Cultivated Ties With Copts to Advance An ...
    Steve Klein, the California ex-marine identified as a consultant for the anti-Islam film that apparently triggered violent protests in northern Africa and the Middle East, is finally seeing the fruits of his labor. For years, Klein has been cultivating relationships with Middle Eastern Christ ...
  • Newly Contrite Neo-Nazi Bill White Headed Back ...
    A Virginia judge sentenced notorious neo-Nazi and convicted felon Bill White to 10 more months in prison yesterday for violating his parole and fleeing to Mexico after posting an Internet rant against the U.S. government. He had indicated on his Facebook page that he was in Tehran, but was arres ...
  • Values Voter Summit Provides Forum for Rabid I ...
    Yesterday, we posted a run-down of some of the anti-LGBT speakers who are appearing at this year’s Values Voter Summit (VVS), a gathering of social conservatives that begins tomorrow in Washington, D.C., and is attracting a number of high-level public officials from the GOP, including House Majo ...
  • Meet Steve Klein, the Hate Group Leader Who ‘C ...
    Steve Klein, the leader of a California hate group, says that Islam is a “penis-driven religion” whose followers have “no choice but to hunt Jews and Christians down, torture us and murder us.” Klein of Hemet, Calif., who has a long history of ties to militant Christian organizations, has bee ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Protesters Speak Out at Ryan's Speech: ‘Corpor ...
    As GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan gave a speech the Value Voters Summit on Friday, two protesters consecutively interrupted the representative, yelling 'Corporations are not people!' Both of the protesters were dragged out of the building by security. "Corporations are no ...
  • Romney: "Middle Income" in the US is $250,000
    How does GOP presidential hopeful and multi-millionaire Mitt Romney define 'middle class' in the United States? According to his response to a question about whether or not he considers "middle class" income for Americans to be somewhere around "$100,000" by ABC's ...
  • 'Tentative' Deal Struck in Chicago Teachers Strike
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  • Twitter Hands Over Occupy Tweets to New York Judge
    Twitter was forced to hand over Occupy protester tweets to a New York criminal judge on Friday, following an ongoing battle between prosecutors and the social media site over the privacy of the data. The tweets in question were posted by Occupy protestor Malcolm Harris, one of many arrested duri ...
  • NYT: Fossil Fuel Industry Pumping Millions In ...
    An analysis from the New York Times published Friday shows that fossil fuel industry has been pumping millions into television ads to defeat President Obama. Eric Lipton and Clifford Krauss write in their report that $153 million has been spent this year on television ads that promote fossil fue ...

Lifehacker

  • TwoFingerScroll Dramatically Improves Windows ...
    Windows: More often than not, the touchpads on Windows laptops frankly suck. They tend to be unresponsive and clumsy. TwoFingerScroll greatly improves the Windows touchpad experience, with new features such as three-finger swiping and horizont ...
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  • What Is Markdown, and Why Is It Better for My ...
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  • Make Fluffier, Souffle-Like Pancakes [Food Hacks]
    The secret to extra airy and fluffy pancakes? According to an executive chef at a restaurant in Baltimore's Four Seasons Hotel, it's all about the eggs—and lots of them. More »
  • Sleeping in on the Weekend Will Not Help You C ...
    Sorry folks, even though sleeping later on the weekends feels good, it doesn't help you catch up on sleep you've lost during the week. In fact, it can actually make you even sleepier next week. More »

Water Privatization

  • The Louisville Film Society presents 'Flow ...
    by Allan Day The horrors of the corporate takeover of water exposed tonight at the Dreamland Film Center. It is said that our children are our most precious resource. While it's a nice analogy, I would posit that our most precious resource is actually: water. It covers most of the world and ...
  • Tribal Dispute Besets New Zealand’s IPO Plans
    New-stock listings often fall victim to choppy markets, but the ownership of water resources rarely poses a hurdle. In New Zealand, however, indigenous Maori tribes’ assertion of rights over water resources has led to the delay of what could have been the country’s biggest-ever IPO.
  • Newark to have residents vote on controversial ...
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  • Proposed lease doesn't guarantee state reg ...
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  • Nine assets set for sale by next year
    Greece’s privatization fund plans to complete the sale of nine assets next year, Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras said on Thursday.

Guardian

  • Protests spread against US over anti-Islamic f ...
    Follow live updates as Friday protests against 'the Innocence of Muslims' film occur in Jordan, Iraq, Kashmir, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Egypt, Yemen and several other countriesMatthew WeaverTom McCarthyBrian Whitaker
  • Eurozone crisis live: Markets rally after QE3, ...
    Shares have surged in Asia following the new round of quantitative easing announced by the Federal Reserve last night.Graeme Wearden
  • Arctic sea ice shrinks to smallest extent ever ...
    Rate of summer ice melt smashes two previous record lows and prompts warnings of accelerated climate changeSea ice in the Arctic has shrunk to its smallest extent ever recorded, smashing the previous record minimum and prompting warnings of accelerated climate change.Satellite images show that t ...
  • Police chief Norman Bettison fights for job af ...
    Nick Clegg says West Yorkshire chief constable's remarks about fans' behaviour on day of disaster were insensitive and ill-judgedThe senior police officer under pressure to resign over his role in the Hillsborough operation was fighting to hold on to his job on Friday, apologising for further up ...
  • Japan plans to end reliance on nuclear power w ...
    The historic policy shift was prompted by triple meltdown at the country's Fukushima nuclear power plant in March 2011Japan has announced plans to end its reliance on nuclear power within 30 years, in a historic policy shift prompted by the triple meltdown at the Fukushima power plant.The move t ...

McClatchey

  • White House: Looming federal budget cuts would ...
    President Barack Obama warned Friday that the federal government will face dire budget cuts ? nearly 10 percent of the nation?s defense and domestic spending ? unless Congress acts later…Click to Continue »
  • U.S. push to put diplomats in danger zones cha ...
    The Bush administration called it ?transformational diplomacy,? an initiative that sent U.S. diplomats into war zones and other trouble spots to promote democracy and U.S. interests. But this week?s attacks…Click to Continue »
  • Obama mourns Libya victims: They lived the Ame ...
    Their American flag-draped coffins behind him, a solemn President Barack Obama on Friday hailed the service of four Americans killed during the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya, pledging…Click to Continue »
  • Paul Ryan tosses red meat to eager conservativ ...
    Paul Ryan gave a cheering, on-its-feet crowd the kind of passionate political oratory it craved Friday as he branded President Barack Obama a weak, failed leader ?skilled at striking heroic…Click to Continue »
  • Fed’s new moves aside, tough economic sle ...
    Once Wall Streets sugar high wears off from the additional measures the Federal Reserve announced this week, a harsh reality remains: Several economic indicators are flashing worrisome signals, and a…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • IRS whistleblower program offers a bright futu ...
    Attorney Dean Zerbe (pictured) published an article in Forbes magazine explaining how recent events in the IRS whistleblower program give reasons for whistleblowers to see an even brighter future. Since 2006, federal law has had a reward system for those who blow the whistle on tax fraud. The p ...
  • Ry Cooder writes song for Dr. Marsha Coleman-A ...
    Singer-Songwriter Ry Cooder has written and recorded a song honoring environmental whistleblower Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo.  Called "Kool-Aid," the song is featured in Cooder's new album, "Election Special." Cooder (pictured in this photo by Dani Canto) felt inspired t ...
  • Birkenfeld's Attorney to Speak Tonight at DC L ...
    You may have read about him in the Washington Post Style section today, heard him on NPR, or listened to him on Democracy Now! Tonight you can see Stephen M. Kohn in person at the West End Library in Washington, DC. The event begins at 7pm, and it is completely free and open to the public. Call ...
  • Brad Birkenfeld receives $104 million IRS whis ...
    The National Whistleblowers Center announced this morning that UBS banking whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld received a tax whistleblower award of $104 million.  The IRS made the award for Birkenfeld's contributions in providing the U.S. Government with insider information on UBS’ ill ...
  • Birkenfeld Press Conference
    Live starting at 10:00am ET

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • U Of Alabama Wants To Have Its Cake And Sue Yo ...
    We've talked a few times recently about the insanity created by over-aggressive intellectual property enforcement when it comes to universities, and the University of Alabama really is a prime example. After all, this is the school that sued a local artist for painting (very popular) commemorat ...
  • 10 Lessons That Made Dimeword's Kickstarter Ca ...
    As of this writing, my Dimeword campaign to fund public domain literature has more than doubled its funding goal and is still rising. 10 hours from the publishing of this article, the Dimeword campaign will end and I can finally start writing 100 stories for the public domain. Boat drinks! I ...
  • Will ACTA Ever Be A Real Treaty?
    With the EU Parliament rejecting ACTA over the summer, and the Japanese legislature doing a drive-by ratification, there are some legitimate questions as to whether or not ACTA will ever become a real, valid international treaty. Without the EU's support, it's a hell of a lot less likely, certa ...
  • House Approves Bill To Spy On Americans By Mis ...
    We recently talked about how the House voted to approve the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) by a pretty wide margin, and noted some of the more bizarre and inaccurate statements that Representatives made in support of the renewal. Julian Sanchez has put together a nice summary of some of the more out ...
  • Demanding A Student's Facebook Password A Viol ...
    For some strange reason, a large number of schools adhere to the notion that their students are not actually citizens of the United States and therefore, not granted the same rights as the "grownups." The rationale for the limitation of these rights usually involves the word "safety," a word tha ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Victims, Villains, and Heroes
    When I first started delving into the drug war and criminal injustice system, I saw it as a process of dehumanization that I couldn’t ignore. While I had friends who were caught up in the system, as one of the least targeted people, the only connection I saw to my personal life was what I ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I have heard nothing about the killings in Kashmir. I get that I am supposed to be excited about the teacher strike. But in addition to the bullshit I wrote about a bit ago, all I am reading is how evil our schools are. Gay students have to put up with constant harassment and violence. [...]
  • All Answers Will Soon Be Revealed
    Apologies for all the unanswered blog comments and emails. I meant to reply before now. It is just that I had the loveliest, laziest labor day and it sort of carried on for a bit. But I’m back to real life now and will respond and post serious stuff soon. Until then, enjoy a little [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    My friend Mark, also one of the founders of the punk collective I’m in, wrote this article comparing the Russian government’s reaction to Pussy Riot to the reaction Positive Force got for their “Meese is a Pig” postering back in the day. I know I should say something abou ...
  • Obey or Pay…Unless
    I came across this truancy scare video the other day. The video talks about how truancy leads to dropping out and how dropping out leads to a “lifelong inability to find gainful employment (and) make a meaningful life.” It has kids talking about how they were rebellious (the horror). ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Benghazi airspace closed for several hours to ...
    As attacks on U.S. embassies around the region proliferate, President Obama is under increasing domestic political pressure to make some kind of demonstration of American strength. He’s in serious jeopardy of following in the footsteps of Bill Clinton and authorizing a drone strike that &# ...
  • Ansar Al-Sharia to be disbanded ‘by force if n ...
    The Libya Herald reports: Ansar Al-Sharia, the militant group believed to be behind Tuesday’s fatal attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi, is to be disbanded, by force if necessary, a reliable source close to Prime Minister-elect Mustafa Abushagur has told the Libya Herald. “We are negotiating ...
  • The sacred, the profane — and the meaningless
    Mahmoud Elbarasi writes: The murder of Ambassador Stevens will forever be a stain on the annals of post-Qaddafi Libyan history. For the first time in my life, I can not pass on a Libyan tragedy of this magnitude directly to the “brother leader”. Libya is our responsibility now. In taking this re ...
  • Slain U.S. envoy ‘understood Palestinian situa ...
    Ma’an news agency reports: Palestinian negotiators on Thursday remembered US ambassador Christopher Stevens as fair-minded and described his death in Libya as a major loss for American foreign policy. Stevens, who was killed with three colleagues late Tuesday in an attack on US institution ...
  • What was really behind the Benghazi attack?
    Hisham Matar writes: Were the attacks on the United States Consulate in Benghazi, which killed the American Ambassador and three other diplomats, motivated by the film that the assailants, and many news networks, claim was their motive? Was it really religious outrage that made a few young men l ...

Watts Up With That?

  • The Lewandowsky participation census, re-booted
    Steve McIntyre provides this update: The purpose of this post is to take a census of all skeptics who participated in the Lewandosky survey in 2010. If you participated in the Lewandowsky survey in 2010, please comment below using your … Continue reading →
  • The Lewandowsky participation question
    UPDATE: There are so many respondents (thank you) and since it is clear that about 97% of WUWT readers hadn’t seen/participated in 2010 Lewandowsky survey, that we’ve added a second thread to get the most important part of the data. … Continue reading →
  • The Daily Lew – Issue 4
    LewWorld still has no comment of substance, and in the ‘Skeptical Science’ style, is furiously deleting inconvenient comments that ask questions like “What are you going to do now that the removal of the fake responses shows a conclusion reverse … Continue reading →
  • Friday funny bonus – ‘Madlands&#82 ...
    Alek O. Komarnitsky writes: Anna Rose’s “Madlands – A Journey to Change the Mind of a Climate Sceptic” got featured on Photoshop Disasters.  (After looking at the cover, it is easy to see why- Anthony) At least they don’t have … Continue reading →
  • Friday Funny – Guardian publishes a stor ...
    Fortunately, the Internet has a memory.  Here’s some excerpts from the story by Damian Carrington. After reading it, I can see why they disappeared it. Vanishing Arctic ice is the planet’s white flag of surrender | Damian Carrington Posted on … Continue reading →

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Ria Novosti Online News

  • Closing in on Deal to End Chicago Teachers Strike
    An estimated 350,000 public school students in Chicago got another day off from school Friday and a first-hand lesson in tough contract negotiations, as more than 25,000 striking teachers and school system administrators made progress on an agreement for a new contract.
  • Thousands More Warned about Deadly Virus at U. ...
    Yosemite National Park in Northern California is warning another 230,000 recent overnight visitors about the deadly hantavirus, after a ninth person was confirmed to have contracted the disease, which has killed three people.
  • Main News of September 14
    A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
  • Main News of September 14
    A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
  • White House Denies Prior Knowledge of Libyan A ...
    On Friday the White House denied rumors circulated in the media that the Barack Obama administration had “actionable intelligence” of the recent attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya, which killed four American diplomats including the U.S. ambassador.

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Pruning Shears

  • Communities rally against toxic fracking waste
    On Wednesday communities held Freedom From Toxic Fracking Waste rallies to raise awareness on one of the largest environmental risks from fracking: dealing with the waste it produces. In the best case scenario the toxic stew - of unknown composition due to the Halliburton Loophole - is removed ...
  • ODNR official: we'll let the public know what' ...
    The fracking industry has dramatically increased its activity in Portage county recently. In some cases the activity is unmistakably tangible (more on that next week), but the real action at the moment seems to be preparing the ground for the deluge. The paperwork is coming in fast and furious ...
  • Hey - hand me that wrench over there, willya?
    I’m working under the hood this week.  I’m looking into moving the site to a new architecture, so I’ve got a test site underway.  If I can get it looking right, I’ll cut over.  Otherwise it will stay the same and I’ll just have some wasted time to sho ...
  • How the decline in CO2 emissions is like NAFTA
    The quality of reporting on fracking in large outlets has been of varying quality. Day-to-day coverage of the latest developments is usually pretty good, but bigger picture trend pieces have a tendency to be positively fawning towards the industry. A couple of recent articles in the New York T ...
  • Rallying for Aramark Laundry Workers
    The Immigrant Workers Union (UTI) Local 229 held a rally at an Aramark uniform service facility in Madison to bring to light the abuses being committed by management against the laundry workers they employ.     The workers, formerly organized under UNITE, are now organized under the& ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Meet the Scientific "Experts" Claiming GMO Fo ...
    Now, the No on 37 campaign (ironically named the "Stop the Deceptive Labeling Scheme") is putting up alleged scientific experts to do its bidding, once again taking a page from the tobacco industry playbook. Click here to read this article
  • What Is a GMO?
    Nutiva is an innovative leader in the health food industry. Since 1999 we have operated as a values-driven company dedicated to nourishing people and planet. Click here to read this article
  • Mitt Romney, Monsanto Man
    Though Mitt Romney has been campaigning for president since 2006, it's alarming how little is known about critical chapters of his business biography. Nothing spells that out more clearly than his ties to Monsanto-the current target of a mid-September Occupy nationwide action-whose dark history ...
  • Prop 37: Iconic Organic Industry Giants Missin ...
    Sacramento, CA - Major players in the organic food market have been conspicuously silent in what has become the food fight of the decade. This November, voters in California will have the opportunity to approve a ballot initiative (Proposition 37) that would require the labeling of all food pro ...
  • California Pits Organic Brands vs. Corporate P ...
    Giant bioengineering companies like Monsanto and DuPont are spending millions of dollars to fight a California ballot initiative aimed at requiring the labeling of genetically modified foods. Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Rally Calls for Farm Bill Now
    Congress’ inability to pass a new five-year farm bill has only compounded the difficulties faced by farmers and ranchers.
  • Swine Flu Update: H3N2v Now Spreading Among Humans
    To reduce the probability of an influenza pandemic, we should reconsider the industrial model by which the majority of food animals in this country are produced.
  • Policy expert Mark Winne has watched food move ...
    Long-time food policy expert Mark Winne has seen this nation’s food movement follow a path that mirrors his own professional journey. More and more advocates are delving into policy to get support for the hands-on projects that were their first forays into food issues. As a result of this shift ...
  • The Question at Smithsonian: Shrimp and Safety
    The emerging common concern was about imported shrimp.
  • Multi-Drug Resistant Infections at the NIH Hos ...
    Last Wednesday, The Washington Post reported on an outbreak of multi-drug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center in Bethesda.  (The Post was covering an interesting report by NIH investigators in Science Translational Medicine.)  Initially, the ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

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

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • US Federal Reserve extends unlimited support t ...
    ShareThisUS Federal Reserve extends unlimited support to financial markets 14 Sep 2012 It is a measure of the deepening crisis of global capitalism that on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers, the US Federal Reserve has decided to pump still more ...
  • Anonymous's Barrett Brown Raided by FBI During ...
    ShareThisAnonymous's Barrett Brown Raided by FBI During Online Chat 13 Sep 2012 For the second time this year, self-proclaimed Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown was raided by the FBI. The latest dramatic incident occurred late Wednesday evening while Brown and another woman identified by some as ...
  • Oil contracts 'gone missing' from consulate in ...
    ShareThisOil contracts 'gone missing' from consulate in Benghazi --America 'was warned of embassy attack but did nothing' 14 Sep 2012 The killings of the US ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were likely to have been the result of a serious and continuing security breach, The Independent ...
  • Entergy sued over lax security at NY nuclear plant
    ShareThisEntergy sued over lax security at NY nuclear plant 13 Sep 2012 A security guard at the Indian Point nuclear power plant in New York state sued the facility's owner, Entergy Corp, for more than $1.5 billion for emotional distress, claiming lax security at the plant. Clifton Travis, who h ...
  • Second Belgian nuclear reactor has indications ...
    ShareThisSecond Belgian nuclear reactor has indications of cracks on core tank 13 Sep 2012 A second nuclear reactor in Belgium has indications of cracks in its core tank, the nuclear regulator said on Thursday. Preliminary results of tests being carried out at Tihange 2, a reactor operated by GD ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • ISAF Joint Command morning operational update: ...
    UNCLASSIFIED 2012-09-S-016 For Immediate Release ISAF Joint Command morning operational update KABUL, Afghanistan (Sept. 13) – Afghan and coalition forces conducted a security operation resulting in the death of an armed insurgent in Mota Khan district, Paktika province, Wednesday. During th ...
  • ISAF Joint Command morning operational update: ...
    UNCLASSIFIED 2012-09-S-015 For Immediate Release ISAF Joint Command morning operational update KABUL, Afghanistan (Sept. 12) – Afghan and coalition security forces confirmed today the arrest of a senior Taliban facilitator in Talah wa Barfak district, Baghlan province, which occurred Tuesday. ...
  • ISAF Joint Command morning operational update: ...
    UNCLASSIFIED 2012-09-S-014 For Immediate Release ISAF Joint Command morning operational update KABUL, Afghanistan (Sept. 11) – Afghan and coalition forces today confirmed the death of two senior Taliban leaders, including the suspected mastermind of the August 2008 ambush which left numerous ...
  • ISAF Joint Command morning operational update: ...
    UNCLASSIFIED 2012-09-S-013 For Immediate Release ISAF Joint Command morning operational update KABUL, Afghanistan (Sept. 10) – An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Taliban attack coordinator during an operation in Kandahar district, Kandahar province, Sunday. The attack coordina ...
  • 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade pilots killed in ...
    Release date: 09 September 2012 Release # 12-09-001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade pilots killed in eastern Afghanistan FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Two pilots from the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, died Sept. 5 when their OH-58D Kiowa Warrior went down in L ...

The Killing Train

  • The "Innocence of Muslims" video
    A few notes on the video that has sparked ongoing mayhem in West Asia. * The production values are very poor - it seems to me that no film professionals were used in the making of this film. read more
  • Two small outrages
    While these aren't the worst things in the world, a couple of things from the world of information and journalism that were surprising enough to me, even though I think I ought to be pretty hardened to these things by now. (1) Through Wikileaks' twitter feed, I saw this story about one of the fo ...
  • Haiti's New Dictatorship - Book Tour in November
    Hi everyone, In case you didn't notice the new tab above, my first book, Haiti's New Dictatorship, is set to come out at the end of October. I will be doing talks about the book all over Canada and probably in NYC in the US as well. Check the book tab for updates on the book tour. It's in the p ...
  • Paraguay: Weaving Peoples Resistance Against C ...
    Hello friends. We at En Camino put this together and it has gathered signatures since the coup. We are hoping to work together to find ways to support FDD in the coming weeks and months. -Justin ------- The undersigning organizations, collectives and individuals working towards a coordinated ini ...
  • The International Organization for a Participa ...
    I joined the International Organization for a Participatory Society. read more

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Burmese refugees could return in a year: Thai ...
    About 120,000 Burmese refugees in Thailand may return home within a year, the kingdom's National Security Council said Thursday, following recent talks between the two nations
  • Council calls on groups to suspend talks with ...
    The Ethnic Nationalities Council urged armed groups currently in peace talks with the Burmese government to suspend their negotiations if government troops continue to attack the Kachin Independence Army
  • Aung Min: ‘We will take full responsibility’
    Following Thein Sein’s recent cabinet reshuffle, former Railway Minister and peace mediator Aung Min was transferred to a new post within the President’s Office as the Minister of Ethnic Affairs. He has been tasked with overseeing issues concerning the country’s ethnic nationalities. DVB’s Aye C ...
  • Thein Sein set for first US trip as president
    Burmese leader Thein Sein is set to visit the US for the first time as president of the fast-reforming nation, officials said Wednesday, after Washington waived visa restrictions
  • Freed copper mine protesters assaulted by police
    Nine out of 12 female farmers, arrested for protesting against a copper mine in Monywa in Sagaing Division earlier this week, claim to have been beaten by the police before being released from jail on Tuesday

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National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Russia Supreme Court: gay pride parades not 'p ...
    [JURIST] The Supreme Court of Russia [official website, in Russian] upheld the Arkhangelsk region's ban on "gay propaganda" on Thursday, but ruled that gay pride parades and other demonstrations in support of gay rights are legal. According to the court, the ban applies only to direct appeals to ...
  • Apple wins injunction against Motorola in Germ ...
    [JURIST] Apple [corporate website; Bloomberg backgrounder] won an injunction against Motorola Mobility [corporate website; Bloomberg backgrounder] on Thursday in a German court due to patent infringement in Motorola's smart phones and tablets. The patent at issue, EP2126788 [text; European Paten ...
  • Norway court upholds tobacco display ban
    [JURIST] A Norwegian court on Friday upheld a the country's display ban [text, in Norwegian] on tobacco products. The law prevents stores from displaying tobacco products or their logos anywhere in a store, requiring the products to be stored in cabinets or otherwise hidden from sight. Philip Mo ...
  • Rights groups appeal to stop enforcement of Ar ...
    [JURIST] A coalition of rights groups in Arizona filed an emergency motion on Thursday asking a court to block a controversial provision of Arizona's immigration law [SB 1070, PDF] until an appeal can be heard on the issue. The contested provision requires law enforcement officials to check the ...
  • DOJ appeals injunction of indefinite detention law
    [JURIST] The US Department of Justice [official website] on Friday filed an appeal of this week's order by the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] that permanently enjoined [opinion, PDF; JURIST report] a law allowing US authorities to detain indefinitely a ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

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Tikun Olam

  • Presidential Campaign: Getting it Wrong on Iran
    Tomorrow morning at 9AM Pacific, Goudarz Eghtedari, a noted Iranian peace activist in Portland, will be interviewing me about Iran on KBOO.  You may listen live (audio stream) to the interview. On Monday, September 17th, I’ll be joining Dick Blakney to speak on, Why Both Republicans and De ...
  • Moving Web Hosts
    Due to the recent hack of this site last week, I’ve moved to a new (far more expensive!) web host which promises to be far more secure and supportive of the technical needs of the site.  As a result, some of you may find errors when you click on links until the servers are aligned [...]
  • Bibi’s Bilious Rebuke of Obama for Abandoning ...
    Today’s development in which Bibi Netanyahu harshly and publicly rebuked the Obama administration for refusing to draw red lines and set a deadline by which it would attack Iran if it didn’t renounce its nuclear program, represents a new nadir in Israel-U.S. relations: Prime Minister ...
  • Anti-Jihadi Video, Textbook Case for Destroyin ...
    While the murder of four U.S. embassy personnel in Libya is a heinous act, the lead-up to the act and what promises to be a grisly response to it offers a textbook example of how NOT to conduct relations between the west and Muslim nations.  First, a bunch of lunkhead idiot anti-jihadis (you jus ...
  • Ben Gurion, Maariv and Israel’s Dying Democracy
    Two deeply disturbing developments today that confirm the decline of what little is left of Israeli democracy.  The first is the demise of Israel’s venerable Maariv daily newspaper.  It is the second-most widely read paper in the country.  The common man’s paper.  Something like USA ...

If Americans Knew

  • Beware of the BBC
    Stuart Littlewood highlights the BBC's chronic pro-Israel bias, from allowing untruths about Israel's onslaught on Gaza in 2008-09 to go unchallenged, to its failure to provide accurate context about the Israeli township of Sderot, to its routine willingness to give disproportionate airtime to I ...
  • Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
    And there is another aspect of Israel's growing high tech sector that he understandably chose to ignore because it is extremely sleazy. That is the significant advantage that Israel has gained by systematically stealing American technology with both military and civilian applications. The US dev ...
  • New Booklet: Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
    International security and counterterrorism expert Philip Giraldi argues that Israel's flourishing high tech industry is built on widespread theft of American research. This has undermined American companies and endangered American security.
  • How to Contact the US Government and Media
    Contact information for the U.S. government and media.
  • Remember Rachel Corrie
    On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie was killed by Israeli soldiers driving a bulldozer. Please help us keep Rachel's memory and message alive! Order materials to distribute to your friends, family, neighbors, and community.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Obama and Egypt - Egypt Kicks Sand in Obama's ...
    Rather than expose the phony excuse for the demonstration and condemn the Egyptian government’s behavior, the U.S. government groveled. It issued statements in English apologizing for the fact that someone had exercised his right of free speech within its country. The tweets it sent out in Ara ...
  • Palestine on the Edge - Gaza Prepares to Decla ...
    It's no secret that Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist faction that controls Gaza, has long considered exchanging its underground smuggling tunnels to Egypt for a policy of above-board trade. What has only recently begun to register is that Hamas may be contemplating a bolder political gambit still ...
  • The Nuclear Edge - Will Egypt Go Nuclear?
    Though Egypt does not currently have a nuclear energy program, that reality could soon change. Newly elected President Mohammed Mursi made clear that Egypt wishes to create a civilian nuclear energy program. Also of concern are statements made by leaders of Mursi’s party, the Muslim Brotherhoo ...
  • The Obama Edge - Hillary Clinton and American ...
    In an effort to protect the delicate sensibilities of Egyptian rioters who invaded the American Embassy and tore down the American flag, Secretary of State Clinton accepted at face value the claim that the rioters were just so outraged and horrified by an anti-Muslim movie that they couldn't con ...
  • The U.S. and Libya - Could Obama Have Prevente ...
    On September 11, the New York Times chose to run an op-ed attacking President Bush for not preventing the attacks of September 11 charging that Bush had intelligence about Al Qaeda’s intentions that should have led him to act. The same question should now be asked about Obama in the wake of th ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Was Obama's Convention Bounce Was Killed By T ...
    Most polls conducted immediately after a convention polls nonsenses. The jumps that some candidates have after their party's gathering is called a bounce for a reason--bounces have two halves up...and down. Usually there is something that breaks the euphoria causing the electorate to focus on th ...
  • HYPOCRITE! Joe Scarborough "We're Biased, But ...
    There are some things you can only see on MSNBC. They are biased with an attitude. Take for example Today's Morning Joe program. The program began with a discussion of the anti-American protests in the Middle East. Host Joe Scarborough segued into the conservative complaints with the press ...
  • Report- Obama Administration Had Two Day Warni ...
    According to a report in the UK Independent  United States State Department had credible information two days before our embassies in Libya and Egypt were attacked that American missions may be targeted but those warnings were not passed along to the foreign staffs. If a warning was passe ...
  • The Jewish High Holidays Are The Antithesis of ...
    With the setting of the sun on Sunday,  Jews across the world will begin the observance of the Yomim Noraim (Days of Awe), a ten day period book-ended by the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.  This year’s High Holiday period comes at an interesting time for America ...
  • Ohio Democratic Senator Using Antisemitism To ...
    “From time immemorial…the Jews have known better than any others how falsehood and calumny can be exploited. Is not their very existence founded on one big lie? -Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf Josh Mandel, The Candidate of the Big Lie- Sherrod Brown Democratic Candidate For Senator from Ohio ...

The Real Agenda

  • CSIRO GM Wheat Could Potentially change Human ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTEMBER 14, 2012 The proven threats that GMO organisms pose to the environment is endless, but chemical companies don’t seem to care, and instead continue to work with and put out food products that contain such genetically modified threats. ...
  • Lesson not Learned: The Fed Floods the Market ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTEMBER 14, 2012 Quantitative Easing is no longer an option for the private Federal Reserve and neither for the US. QE1 and QE2 did not avoid the fall of the United States, so QE3 did not make sense. Instead, Ben Bernanke has implanted a new fiat m ...
  • Do away with Reserve Currencies and Centralize ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 For way too many years, the United States has enjoyed an unfair advantage with respect to the rest of the world: most international commerce is conducted in US dollars. Both friends and foes of the US have had to purchase raw mater ...
  • The American Wars that Kill Americans
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 Although the killing of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya might be a direct response to an offensive film produced in the United States, the truth is that the real reason for the violence in Libya is not the film itself, but the United ...
  • All Power to Brussels and the European Central ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 A great complement to the decision to enable the European Stability Mechanism could materialize if the government in Brussels gets its way. The European government is now proposing that the European Central Bank should control all ...

Wind Watch

  • Electricity rate among highest in state
    In 2011, Princeton residents’ electric rates were 36 percent higher than the average rate in Massachusetts. The average PMLD customer using approximately 800 kilowatts per hour of energy a month paid $516 more for electricity in 2011 than the average Massachusetts customer paid. In 2011, the ...
  • County votes to oppose ’25 by 25′
    The Huron County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to oppose Michigan Ballot Proposal 3, more commonly known as “25 by 25.” The proposal would amend the state constitution to require utilities to generate at least 25 percent of all electricity from renewable resources by 2025. The ...
  • Town leaders resolve to delay wind
    CLARENDON – Two municipal boards support a temporary halt on wind projects throughout the region until more studies can be completed on potential impacts of large scale turbines. The Clarendon Select Board has joined town planners in requesting the Rutland Regional Planning Commission executive ...
  • Air Force: training missions would be impacted ...
    Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, located in Goldsboro, N.C., has released its analysis on the impact of nearby wind energy projects to its low-altitude flight training programs. The result of that analysis was that turbines would create hazards to the training missions. * Seymour Johnson AFB is t ...
  • Carroll will develop windmill ordinance for review
    Following a motion by David Hutchins, the Carroll County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Monday for County Attorney Jim Cornwell to develop a draft ordinance for review by January to protect the county’s ridgetops. Windmills became a hot topic in Carroll County during an April 9 meeting w ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • NYC Approves Ban on Sugary Drinks
    “Seeking to reduce runaway obesity rates, the New York City Board of Health on Thursday approved a ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, street carts and movie theaters, the first restriction of its kind in the country.” (NY Times) The exchange of mon ...
  • Bernanke’s Battle for Jobs Eclipses Inflation ...
    “Ben S. Bernanke for the first time pledged that the Federal Reserve will buy bonds until the economy gets closer to his goals, cementing his place as the Fed’s most innovative chairman and signaling the battle against unemployment eclipses any concerns about inflation for now. The central ...
  • Austrian Exploitation Theory
    The Austrian economist who refuted Marx’s exploitation theory had one of his own.
  • More Americans Opting Out of Banking System
    “In the aftermath of one of the worst recessions in history, more Americans have limited or no interaction with banks, instead relying on check cashers and payday lenders to manage their finances, according to a new federal report. Not only are these Americans more vulnerable to high fees and in ...
  • As Low Rates Depress Savers, Governments Reap ...
    “Of course, any economic policy will produce winners and losers, and it seems unlikely that policy makers are deliberately sacrificing retirees either to stimulate the economy or to grind down government debt. More likely, older Americans and other savers are just unintended casualties of polici ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • VOICES: Union rights should be civil rights
    It's time to take the conversation about union rights out of the technical and often confusing arena of labor law and into the realm of civil rights, which has a moral grounding that resonates with a far greater number of Americans than just those in unions. read more
  • On Appalachia Solidarity Day, remembering a mo ...
    Larry Gibson, a leader in the campaign to end mountaintop removal coal mining, died Sunday on the West Virginia mountain he fought so hard to protect. Today, his fellow activists will gather at the White House to remember him and to call for an end to the destruction of Appalachia. read more
  • Stronger state protections needed to prevent v ...
    Florida, North Carolina, Texas and Virginia are among the states that could do a better job of protecting voters from "bullies at the ballot box," according to a new report from voting rights watchdogs. read more
  • NC isn't a swing state? Somebody tell the Big ...
    Some pundits say North Carolina's no longer a lead swing state in the 2012 elections. Big Money contributors don't seem to agree. read more
  • Poultry giant reports gains as workers protest ...
    Sanderson Farms of Mississippi just posted a 22 percent jump in revenue and announced plans to build a new plant in North Carolina. Meanwhile, workers at its Hazelhurt, Miss. plant are protesting poor working conditions. read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • QE 3
    The Fed has announced its third quantitative easing program.  To state what should be obvious, the effect on the economy for ordinary people will be minimal, as with QE1 and 2.  It will help banks, financial firms most, other large corporations will also benefit.  If you work at the executive le ...
  • Respect for international law and America
    There’s been a great deal of crying about the death of an Ambassador and others in an attack on the US embassy in Libya. Now I’m a strong supporter of the inviolability of embassies but I wonder why other people should be? Embassy inviolability is part of one of the oldest strata of ...
  • Leadership in organizations people believe in
    The assassination strategy the US pursues is interesting, not in what it says about the US’s foes, but what it says about the US’s leaders.  Al-Qaeda’s “#2″ man has been “killed” so often that it’s a running joke, and Taliban leadership is regularl ...
  • Bleg
    Ok, my google-fu is failing me, so I’m asking for help. What I need is a list of perceived risk vs. real risk.  Well, more perceived risk, I can easily find the real risk numbers.  So, how likely do Americans think they are to die of terrorism or being in a plane and so on, [...]
  • The DNC
    People really, really, really want to be lied to.  And most progressive and liberal pundits are either so brain dead stupid they don’t remember the lies of the 08 convention and how Dems and Obama actually governed or are corrupt. Evil?  Or Stupid? A question not just for Republicans any more.

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • The Changing Geography of Asian America: To Th ...
    “There’s nothing wrong with New York that a million Chinese couldn’t cure,” the urban geographer George Sternlieb once quipped. It may be an exaggeration, but rising Asian immigration has indeed been a boon to many communities and economies across the country. Over the past 30 years the number ...
  • The Answer Is Urban Consolidation – What Was T ...
    The New Zealand Green Party is perpetuating the claim that development beyond Auckland’s “city limits” imposes a high cost on ratepayers.  A spokesperson claims that the current Auckland plan, which allows for some new development outside the current urban area, &ldquo ...
  • The End of the Road for Eds and Meds
    In the last few decades, as suburbanization and deindustrialization devastated so many cities, they turned to two sectors that seemed not only immune to decline, but were actually growing: universities and hospitals. The so-called “eds and meds” sectors, often related through univ ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Zürich
    Zürich is the largest urban area in Switzerland. The core city (stadt) of Zürich is located at the northern end of Lake Zürich, which is glacial and similar to the "finger lakes" of upstate New York. Lake Zürich is approximately 25 miles/40 kilometers long and 1-2 miles/1.5-3 kilome ...
  • The State of Economy in the Swing States
    I was living in Pennsylvania, voting in my second presidential election when my mom asked me that question in the months leading up to Ronald Reagan’s defeat of Jimmy Carter: “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” Four-year-ago comparisons are tricky when ...

GM Watch

  • Government rejects tighter controls on GM
    1.Government Rejects Environmental Audit Committee Call for Tighter GM Controls - GM Freeze 2.Government rejects Environmental Audit recommendations on GM - GM Free Cymru --- --- 1.Government Rejects Environmental Audit Committee Call for Tighter GM Controls GM Freeze, 12 September 2012 The Gov ...
  • GM protest against death of good food
    NOTE: New website about the Irish GM potato campaign http://gmspud.com/ Some photos of the protest rally http://on.fb.me/QPGjsF The death of "good food"? Protest over GM potato field study The Irish Times, September 13 2012 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0913/1224323959881. ...
  • Monsanto seed distribution facility blockaded
    NOTE: More info and videos at http://occupy-monsanto.com. Also nice pic of the ptrotest vehicle with this news report: http://www.vcstar.com/news/2012/sep/12/anti-genetic-foods-protesters-block-ca-seed/ Occupy Monsanto blockades Monsanto seed distribution facility, shuts it down Occupy Monsa ...
  • U.S. protesters set sights on GMOs
    U.S. protesters set sights on GMOs, close Calif. facility Reuters, September 12 2012 http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/09/12/usa-gmo-protests-idINL1E8KC7BA20120912 OXNARD, Calif./KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Opponents of genetically engineered foods on Wednesday blocked shipments and deliveries at Monsa ...
  • Are we being told the full truth about GM mosq ...
    ANALYSIS: Are we being told the full truth about GM mosquitoes? Helen Wallace The Ecologist, 13 September 2012 http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/1587127/analysis_are_we_being_told_the_full_truth_about_gm_mosquitoes.html *Promotion of GM mosquitoes as a way to tackle a tropical dise ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • QE3: Helicopter Ben Bernanke Unleashes An All- ...
    You can't accuse Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke of not living up to his nickname.  Back in 2002, Bernanke delivered a speech entitled "Deflation: Making Sure 'It' Doesn’t Happen Here" in which he referenced a statement by economist Milton Friedman about fighting deflation ...
  • Things Are Getting Worse: Median Household Inc ...
    New numbers that have just been released show that things are getting worse for American families.  According to the U.S. Census Bureau, median household income declined to $50,054 in 2011.  That is a 1.5 percent decline from the previous year, and median household income has now ...
  • 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 ...

Desertification

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

The Paper Trail

  • Daily Disclosure: Planned Parenthood airs ads ...
    Planned Parenthood this week began its most extensive attack this election on Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, spending $1.8 million on a new television ad that’s part of a $3.2 million initiative.The ad, called “Mitt Romney Would Turn Back the Clock on Women’s Health,” began airing ...
  • Daily Disclosure: It's labor versus tea party ...
    It’s the tea party versus unions in the race to determine who will control Pennsylvania’s redrawn 12th Congressional District. Democratic Rep. Mark Critz, backed by union muscle, faces a challenge from attorney Keith Rothfus, a tea party favorite, in a race that has already seen $1.4 million in ...
  • Consider the Source: Your personal election guide
    With less than two months to go before the Nov. 6th election, nearly $3 billion has been raised by all the presidential and congressional candidates, along with the parties and super PACs, a staggering figure.Here is a rough tally at this moment in time, with help from OpenSecrets.org:All super ...
  • Transparency grade:
    Read how we came up with this grade.
  • Transparency test: Grading the super PACs
    Throughout the course of the 2012 election, the Consider the Source team will continue to write profiles about the major super PACs and nonprofits that are spending heavily on political advertising.In addition to providing basic information about the origin of the organizations and their spendin ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Peter Lougheed delivered
    By Frank Moher To young people living in Alberta in 1971, Peter Lougheed, who died on Thursday, offered the promise that we were not living in a provincial backwater after all. What is astonishing, even now, is the extent to which he delivered on that promise. Lougheed was elected that year not ...
  • Open season on critics
    By Zoe Grams Fringe, film fest and publishing season is upon us – a time when the smell of suntan lotion lingers as we push into theatres. But it’s the critics, not just the performers, who are making headlines. With 76 events in the Vancouver Fringe, more than 100 in the Toronto International F ...
  • A Modest Opinion – The Art of Getting By
    By Nathaniel Moher I’m sure most of you have heard about the madman Lynden Dorval, an Edmonton schoolteacher who thought it was okay to give students a zero on assignments they failed to turn in. Don’t bother checking your eyes, you read that right! These poor students received a zero out of 100 ...
  • Jason Kenney exiles 3100 citizens
    By David@Sixthestate.net “Ottawa’s crackdown on residency fraud is a timely reminder that a Canadian passport is something to be earned.” That’s the general tenure of the positive media coverage the Harper regime has earned from the announcement this week that several thousand more C ...
  • Quebec ducks Ottawa’s long guns
    By Montreal Simon The Long-Gun Registry Lives!!!!! At least in Québec. From The Globe and Mail: “The federal government’s plan to destroy all data from its long-gun registry is unconstitutional, a judge has ruled, giving Ottawa 30 days to hand to Quebec records collected from the province’ ...

libcom

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

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Ken Dryden, NHL Hall of Famer (Jan 7, 2012)
    Hockey and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the present, takes on tho ...
  • Malcolm Gladwell (Dec 31, 2011)
    Renowned author wraps the critical events of 2011.
  • The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
    Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.
  • NAGUIB SAWIRIS
    Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
  • Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...
    In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Countdown to Currency Collapse
    No Comments Max Keiser Below is a link to an excellent hour long interview with Max Keiser on Bonnie Faulkner’s Guns and Butter. Countdown to Currency Collapse Although Keiser, a former Wall Street broker (and fellow exp ...
  • Greece to Seek Nazi Damages from Germany
    www.davegranlund.com Recent articles in Bloomberg’s and the West Australian reveal that Greece has set up a “working group” to study historical archives and to determine how much Germany might owe in outstanding reparations for Nazi war crimes during World War II. Greece ...
  • Haiti: the New Greece
    Haiti (pre-Isaac) Aug 24, 2012 Someone has leaked to the UK Guardian an email the “troika” (consisting of the European Commission, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund) recently sent the Greek government with additional conditions they plan to impose as a ...
  • Robert Fisk Exposes Western Media Lies in Syria
    Robert Fisk Legendary Middle East reporter Robert Fisk, the first western eyewitness to enter the massacre town of Daraya, writes in the Independent about eye witness reports that Syrian rebels, not government forces, are responsible for the mass killing of 245 Darayan men, women and chil ...
  • The Corporations Opposing Prop 37
        On November 6th, California voters will have the opportunity to pass into law a “right-to-know” initiative that would make it mandatory for all genetically modified (GMO) foods to be so labeled. Proposition 37 would also ban the fraudulent, but highly lucrative pr ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Activists Cheer Court's Ruling Against Indefin ...
    StopNSAA.org New York - Judge Katherine Forrest today ruled that the so-called "indefinite detention" provision of the fiscal 2012 National Defense Authorization Act violates the Constitution and issued a permanent injunction against its use. The law would have allowed the military to indefini ...
  • UK Threatens to Violate Ecuadoran Embassy Grou ...
    Reuters, August 15th, 2012: Ecuador said on Wednesday the British government had threatened to raid its embassy in London if WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is not handed over, and that Quito would make its decision on his asylum request on Thursday. "Today we've received a threat by the Un ...
  • FLASHBACK: Ann Coulter Says Rage Against the M ...
    New York Times, April 29, 2012: WASHINGTON — Representative Paul D. Ryan strolls the halls of Capitol Hill with the anarchist band Rage Against the Machine pounding through his earbuds. Daily Beast, August 11, 2012: Ryan seems to have a taste for hard-rock bands like Rage Against ...
  • WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE: WikiLeaks opens path ...
    After almost two years of fighting an unlawful banking blockade by US financial giants VISA and MasterCard, WikiLeaks has announced it is back open for donations. After WikiLeaks' publications revealing US war crimes and statecraft in 2010, US financial institutions erected a banking blockade a ...
  • 'No Going Back': Michael Moore on the Last Wor ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Let’s Not Let L, N and G Spell “Stupid”
    My journalist daughter always reminds me “Don’t bury your leads”, so here goes:  we are not just ill-advised, but downright foolish to expand the export of liquefied natural gas (LNG). There are several reasons why.
  • NRDC Studies: U.S. Wind Economy is Rich and Ge ...
    Two new reports published by the environmental advocacy group the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) show just how vital the wind industry is to America's economy.
  • Energy Risk & the End of Coal?
    This Tuesday, we featured a fascinating panel discussing the risk of closing down several megawatts of coal fired power plants and instead relying on natural gas as a source for baseload power.Please enjoy this webinar replay in both audio and video format.
  • Duke Energy Merger: Big Changes for Energy Eff ...
    Several weeks ago, I wrote about how the struggle for the future of utilities is reflected in the continuing drama of the Duke – Progress utility merger. I wrote on the occasion of a North Carolina investigation into the closure of the merger.
  • Green R&D: Companies Betting Big On Green Inno ...
    The Green Transition Scoreboard reports that $241 billion was recently invested in green R&D by large multinationals like Samsung, General Electric, and Nissan and smaller companies like Owens Corning, Cree, and First Solar. Companies around the world are recognizing a tremendous opport ...

EU Times

  • Chinese activists protest against Japan island ...
    Chinese activists have protested against Japan’s recent purchase of a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea from their private owners. Tens of Chinese protesters have gathered in front of the Japanese embassy in Beijing, chanting anti-Tokyo slogans. The protesters accused Washington of ...
  • 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 ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • 2 dead, 29 injured at US embassy protest in Tunis
    TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) â Violent protests outside the U.S. embassy in Tunis were met with tear gas and gunshots Friday, leaving two people dead, 29 others injured and waves of black smoke wafting over the city. Several dozen protesters briefly stormed the U.S. Embassy compound in Tunisia's capital ...
  • Microsoft opens new London studio (for Windows ...
    Microsoft is opening a new studio in London, the company has announced. The studio will be lead by Lee Schuneman , formerly production director at Rare. The studio's focus "will be to develop a long-term business with Entertainment as a Service at its core," specifically in regard to Windows 8 ...
  • Bomb threat at University of Texas leads to ev ...
    Fox News: Bomb threats led to evacuations on Friday at the University of Texas and North Dakota State University, authorities said. Itâs unclear whether the two threats were related. An alert posted at about 10 a.m. local time at the University of Texas told people on campus to immediately evac ...
  • MASSIVE CLOUD of Black Smoke Streams from US E ...
    On Friday’s Day of Rage, a massive cloud of black smoke streamed from the US Embassy in Tunisia today. It’s still not clear what happened at the embassy but Islamists were protesting at the embassy earlier. Protesters scaled the walls surrounding the embassy today. USA Today reported: Rioters h ...
  • Romney: Obama Sends âConfusing Messageâ on Israel
    Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney kept up his criticism of President Barack Obama on foreign policy Friday, saying Mr. Obama should have planned to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later this month in New York. “I thought the president’s decision not to meet with ...

Groklaw

  • In China, iPhone Fights to Stay Cool
    The iPhone's market share "just shows if you have the same product without differentiating it, it doesn't take much for the competition to come and take some of it," he said....The iPhone accounted for 38% of second-quarter Chinese sales of smartphones that cost more than 3,000 yuan ($475), ...
  • Kodak's Patent Auction Falters
    Eastman Kodak Co. said a crucial patent auction may fail, as the company runs into difficulties reaching a deal with a wide-ranging group of prospective buyers. In a bankruptcy court filing Friday, the company said it would delay a conclusion to the auction indefinitely and explore other altern ...
  • Nokia confirms poor judgment; shares jump
    Nokia Corp. saw its U.S.-listed shares jump more than 6% to $3.11 on Friday morning. Prior to the opening bell, the company issued a statement regarding a video used in its marketing materials for the soon-to-be launched Lumia 920 Windows-based smartphone. The video in question was intended ...
  • Ears-On: Apples New EarPods Are Worth Listen ...
    The EarPods, Apple's new headphones announced alongside the iPhone 5 on Wednesday, rectify nearly every complaint I've had with Apple's white earbuds over the last decade. And while they won't convert those spending hundreds of dollars on luxurious over-the-ear models, these new in-ear headphone ...
  • With Google Fiber, Search Giant Issues Public ...
    Google's goal, by building the fastest city-wide broadband network in the country, is not to compete with the giant national cable and telecom firms. Rather, it's to shame these legacy giants, including Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Verizon, AT&T, and others into improving U.S. Internet perfor ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • What happens if both California tax-hike propo ...
    Credit: umich.eduConventional wisdom says if voters approve both California tax-hike propositions in November, then the proposition with the highest number of votes wins and nullifies the other. However, under one scenario, if Propositions 30 and 38, which aim to fund education, both pass then n ...
  • Is the US doing any damage control on Nakoula ...
    Credit” independent.co.ukThe Nakoula movie protests are in multiple countries. Has anyone in DC pointblank condemned the deliberately offensive movie? Maybe it’s time they did.And maybe it’s time to arrest Nakoula on hate crime charges.PS America ‘was warned of embassy at ...
  • Italian Supreme Court head calls for 9/11 inquiry
    Fernando Imposimato, the President of the Italian Supreme Court, calls for a 9/11 inquiry saying the US knew an attack was coming and did nothing so it could then invade Iraq and Afghanistan.“The 9/11 attacks were a global state terror operation permitted by the administration of the USA, ...
  • Rule of Law is just so old school
    One of the clearest signs that the United States has become irredeemably corrupt is the way that elite-favored entities receive light prosecution when they violate laws that would result in severe penalties for ordinary members of society. A good example of this is the treatment of a famous priv ...
  • Peregrine CEO who stole $200 million released ...
    Just because millions of dollars that Peregine CEO Russell Wasendorf stole is still missing is no reason whatsoever to think he would be any kind of a flight risk.So, he shall be released from jail while awaiting trial and will be staying in the home of an Iowa minister who most certainly will b ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • A fairer society is a richer society
    A new United Nations Trade and Development Report has found that reducing taxes for those who earn the most has not delivered widespread economic prosperity, as promised. In fact, the UN has found that such policies have caused developed economies to stagnate and grow increasingly unequal. The U ...
  • How you can help protect the Ross Sea
    The Ross Sea is one of the most pristine ecosystems on earth, and its vitally important we keep it that way for the health of our oceans. That’s why it was so disappointing to see that New Zealand’s proposal for an ineffective Marine Protected Area (MPA) released yesterday, which amounts to m ...
  • Legislating to save face over John Banks scandal
    Yesterday the Government announced proposed changes to the Local Electoral Act around campaign financing to come into force in time for next year’s local body elections. This move is a clear admission from the Government that John Banks should have been sacked from Cabinet because of his actions ...
  • The Rights of the Child and the Government’s l ...
      The Government has announced it plans to sanction parents, this means cut their benefit by 50%, who do not meet their ascribed parenting standards of enrol them in 15 hours per week of ECE from 3 years of age, enrol in a PHO, complete all the well child checks, ensure children are enrolled in ...
  • Vacuuming the ocean
    New Zealand must urgently follow the Australian Government’s decision to introduce law banning super trawlers operating in their fishery. The 142m super trawler Abel Tasman, licensed to take 18,000 tonnes of mackerel and bait fish using 600-meter nets, is capable of wiping out entire local ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • The Short, Miserable Life of American Prosperity
    History is not always progressive; there have been many instances of extensive regression. Immoral institutions can more easily become worse than better. When the Capitalists have accumulated all the wealth there is and have the means to take away any that is subsequently created, what will ...
  • SCOTUS and the Rule of Flaw
    The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution that has failed in every possible way. It is notorious for having issued iniquitous opinions; it has not only failed to resolve but has exacerbated conflicts; and it has consistently negated the ideals the founding fathers wrote into t ...
  • How the Economy Works: The Necessity of Crime
    The economy is merely a sum of money, not practices that sustain the oikos, and the money that makes up the sum is equally valued whether it results from virtuous or vicious, good or bad, constructive or destructive, humane or inhumane, legal or illegal, beneficent or malevolent practices. A ...
  • Governments Exist to Further the Interests of ...
    Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored group.
  • The History of Knowledge: Darkness in the Acadamy
    Knowledge does not always prevail or even endure. When the Roman Empire fell, the Justinian Code was replaced by Canon Law. The augustness of knowledge was transformed into heresy and mankind's curiosity was virtually extinguished. The age became dark. In the 11th century, people began to st ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Massive Fund Attack on GMO Labeling Proposal i ...
    By Dr. Mercola Just how much is it worth to chemical giants like Monsanto to make Proposition 37 – a bill that would require labeling of genetically engineered food – go away? Enough to contribute $4.2 million so far to a campaign to defeat it, that's how much. Monsanto's not the only maj ...
  • The Most Epic Drug Failure. Ever.
    By Dr. Mercola Only a week after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advised all U.S. baby boomers to get tested for hepatitis C because it’s suspected that millions may be infected with it, a drug company with a hepatitis C treatment in the pipeline has suddenly aba ...
  • How the Chicken Conquered the World
    By Dr. Mercola For at least 10,000 years, from Rome to Egypt to China to your dinner plate today, the now lowly – but historically revered – chicken has been a part of folklore, history, meal traditions, and even religion. How it got to where it is today is a fascinating tale that the Smith ...
  • Astaxanthin for Heart Health and Chronic Pain
    By Dr. Mercola I first met Dr. Robert Corish last year, at the annual Natural Health Expo West in Los Angeles. While trained as an anesthesiologist, and board-certified in pain management and clinical metal toxicology, Dr. Corish believes in the power of a healthy lifestyle to prevent healt ...
  • CDC Preparing for New Swine Flu – Should You?
    By Dr. Mercola According to the featured report by US News Health1, a new influenza A variant strain of swine flu, H3N2v, has been identified in children and adults recently in direct contact with pigs at country fairs. The CDC case count of detected human infections in the US with the H3N2-v ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Victory: Vedanta to close Orissa refinery
    The Dongria Kondh have fought a David and Goliath battle against Vedanta© Lewis Davids/SurvivalSupporters of India’s Dongria Kondh tribe are celebrating after controversial British mining company Vedanta Resources declared it will close its bauxite refinery in the state of Orissa, this December. ...
  • Alleged Yanomami massacre: Survival's reaction
    Illegal goldmining threatens Yanomami communities in both Brazil and Venezuela.© SurvivalSurvival International has been accused of a ‘climbdown’ over its announcement that, apparently contrary to earlier reports, a Yanomami settlement in Venezuela has not been destroyed in an attack by goldmine ...
  • Venezuela: miners' invasion continues, but no ...
    Illegal goldminers have been occupying the Yanomami territory for years.© SurvivalHaving received its own testimony from confidential sources, Survival now believes there was no attack by miners on the Yanomami community of Irotatheri. Yanomami from the area – in which many illegal gold miners a ...
  • Countdown: Brazil has three months to evict in ...
    Brazil has three months to evict illegal loggers from Awá land.© SurvivalBrazil has just three months to evict illegal loggers from land belonging to Earth’s most threatened tribe before it will be in breach of a court order, but Survival International can reveal that logging is still rife insid ...
  • Survival denounces Venezuela’s 'whitewash' of ...
    The Yanomami way of life is threatened by illegal goldmining in the Amazon.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalSurvival has denounced the Venezuelan government’s repeated denials of a massacre against Yanomami Indians, calling on President Chávez to evict all illegal goldminers from indigenous territory and ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • #Video: The Truth About The Health Care Crisis
    from realecontv.com: You can watch TV news all day and read every newspaper and you'll never get the real reason behind the US health care crisis. First the standard view and then the reality behind the curtain... Quality goes down, prices go up. What's going on? You can watch the news for month ...
  • Food Fraud: Something Fishy Is Going On
    from therealfoodchannel.com: There aren't many things you have immediate control over. But one thing you do have control over is what you put in your mouth. The challenge is cutting through all the fraud in the food business... Seafood eaters, this one's for you. Ten million pounds of fish sold ...
  • ACLU of Oregon Won't Take A Stand On Portland ...
    Last week, I wrote to the ACLU of Oregon to basically ask if we can sue the city council members over the lack of a public vote on the fluoridation of public water. They wrote me back Monday night, here is their response: The ACLU of Oregon has not taken a position on the pros or cons of fl ...
  • Portland City Council Approves Adding Fluoride ...
    #PDXfluoride opponents vow to launch citizen referendum 'within the hour'* from oregonlive.com: The Portland City Council voted 5-0 during a raucous public meeting on Wednesday to add fluoride to Portland's drinking water. The vote follows a nearly seven-hour public meeting last week in ...
  • #Audio: Portland Fluoride Protest - September ...
    @CassieCohn reports from City Hall in Portland, Oregon on September 6, 2012 at the public hearing concerning the fluoridation of public water. MP3/Feed\Archive

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • QE3: Helicopter Ben Bernanke Unleashes An All- ...
    You can't accuse Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke of not living up to his nickname.  Back in 2002, Bernanke delivered a speech entitled "Deflation: Making Sure 'It' Doesn’t Happen Here" in which he referenced a statement by economist Milton Friedman about fighting deflation ...
  • Things Are Getting Worse: Median Household Inc ...
    New numbers that have just been released show that things are getting worse for American families.  According to the U.S. Census Bureau, median household income declined to $50,054 in 2011.  That is a 1.5 percent decline from the previous year, and median household income has now ...
  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • VOICES: Union rights should be civil rights
    It's time to take the conversation about union rights out of the technical and often confusing arena of labor law and into the realm of civil rights, which has a moral grounding that resonates with a far greater number of Americans than just those in unions. read more
  • On Appalachia Solidarity Day, remembering a mo ...
    Larry Gibson, a leader in the campaign to end mountaintop removal coal mining, died Sunday on the West Virginia mountain he fought so hard to protect. Today, his fellow activists will gather at the White House to remember him and to call for an end to the destruction of Appalachia. read more
  • Stronger state protections needed to prevent v ...
    Florida, North Carolina, Texas and Virginia are among the states that could do a better job of protecting voters from "bullies at the ballot box," according to a new report from voting rights watchdogs. read more
  • NC isn't a swing state? Somebody tell the Big ...
    Some pundits say North Carolina's no longer a lead swing state in the 2012 elections. Big Money contributors don't seem to agree. read more
  • Poultry giant reports gains as workers protest ...
    Sanderson Farms of Mississippi just posted a 22 percent jump in revenue and announced plans to build a new plant in North Carolina. Meanwhile, workers at its Hazelhurt, Miss. plant are protesting poor working conditions. read more

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

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