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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 II

Invisible Opportunity

  • 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 ...
  • IRAN LIE same as IRAQ LIE

Veterans Today

  • Gladio: How We Terrorized Ourselves (Archival)
    The original article was written several years ago. Since that time, Gladio units have reappeared in Norway with the Anders Breivik/Norwegian Police slaying of 77 and have become active across Europe under the guise of the anti-Islamic and ultra-nationalist banners. America used Libya, durin ...
  • Israeli Filmmaker Triggers a Bloody 9/11 in Be ...
    "On the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, the American ambassador to Libya got killed; the Benghazi consulate set ablaze and moreover, the Al-Qaeda flag waved over the premises of the US embassy in Cairo"
  • 9/11 Truth will out: The Vancouver Hearings II
    by Jim Fetzer   “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”― Arthur Schopenhauer The evidence that none of the “official plane crashes” actually took place is simply ov ...
  • Embassy Killings in Libya, the Stench of CIA/M ...
    - Investigations by me, published yesterday on Press TV's website, cited "Reverand" and "Doctor" Terry Jones as the source of the videos cited for instigating violence across the Middle East.
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Sept ...
    Eleven years ago today, nearly 3,000 Americans lost their lives in the September 11 attacks. As our country transformed, many Veterans have helped make 9/11 as a reason to serve their communities.

electric politics

  • Mormon Madness
    It's not enough that we have sham Christian Evangelicals trying to run things. Now a Mormon wants — or seems to want — the presidency. But do you know what Mormons believe? I thought not. And yet, ironically, it will probably be thanks to Evangelical mouth breathers that we won't be ...
  • Another Take on American Divisions
    Stipulating hypothetically that religion is the big dividing line in American life (per last week's show), it seems not unreasonable to make a case that religious divisions manifest mainly through sectional politics. Taking it a step further one might well wonder about sectional differences gene ...
  • American Divisions
    Bill Schneider says that the U.S. is more politically divided today than it has been at any time since the Civil War. I think he's right. Which is not to say that compromise is the ticket. Instead, I'd like to see some brains reclaimed by reason from among those who want His Almightiness to run ...
  • Billionaires vs. Science
    Sociopath billionaires. They cause a ton of trouble across the board but the very worst thing they do is to deny global warming. They should, in my view, be thrown in jail for subverting science. Because, however, we don't have laws yet against scientific malpractice the next best thing, the onl ...
  • Dictatorship By Filibuster
    Given the filibuster, forty one percent of the U.S. Senate can block any vote they don't like. Thus, a minority of reactionary right wing Senators gets to kill a lot of worthy legislation. In recent years abuse of the filibuster has become increasingly intolerable; even ordinary Senate business ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • China Will Not Back Down In Face Of Japanese M ...
    Global Times September 14, 2012 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 &# ...
  • Russia And China Could React Jointly To Global ...
    Russia & India Report September 13, 2012 U.S. Anti-missile plans for the Asia-Pacific Olga Gritsenko First published in Russian in Vzglyad Standard Missile-3 launch ==== Washington announced plans last spring to expand its missile defence shield and install its components not only in Europe, ...
  • China-Japan Confrontation Looms
    RT September 14, 2012 Chinese ships breach Japan’s naval border Four Chinese ships have entered Japanese waters near a group of disputed islets claimed by both Beijing and Tokyo, refusing to follow the Japanese coast guard’s orders to vacate its territorial waters. Currently, four Chinese ...
  • Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Arnold Schoenberg: Pea ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Musical selections ==== Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825-1898) Friede auf Erden Da die Hirten ihre Herde Ließen und des Engles Worte Trugen durch die niedre Pforte Zu der Mutter mit dem Kind, Fuhr das himmlische Gesind Fort im Sternenr ...
  • U.S. To Upgrade Georgia’s Air Defenses W ...
    Voice of Russia September 13, 2012 US to help Georgia modernize air defence system Artyom Kobzev ==== The situation around Iran is becoming tenser. Georgia is presenting itself as a reliable U.S. ally. To confirm this, it has sent it forces to Afghanistan. In fact, at a time when America’s NATO ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Sniper Ammunition Being Ordered By Homeland Se ...
    By James Smith theintelhub.com September 14, 2012 Surprise! The DHS Immigration and Customs Enforcement have requested more ammunition. However, it is the type of ammunition and not necessarily the quantity that is troubling. First on the agenda is the .223 rifle ammunition. Just a measly 40 mil ...
  • Nuclear Reactor Facility Evacuated In Austin
    Man with middle eastern accent claiming to be Al-Qaeda member phoned in bomb threat Infowars.com Friday, September 14, 2012 A research facility at the University of Texas in Austin that houses an active nuclear reactor has been evacuated after a man with a middle eastern accent claiming to be a ...
  • As Predicted, Bernanke Launches QE3 to Help th ...
    Washington’s Blog Sept 14, 2012 We predicted last week that Bernanke would launch QE3 this week. Today, the Fed announced that it will buy $40 billion dollars of mortgage-backed securities per month …indefinitely. This is just another bailout for the big banks. (If the government had instead giv ...
  • QE Infinity: Fed Buying More Toxic Assets From ...
    By Eric Blair Activist Post September 14, 2012 Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve announced an open-ended bailout for the banks yesterday by a new mechanism called QE Infinity where they plan to purchase $40 billion of toxic mortgage-backed securities per month “until further notice&#822 ...
  • Bernanke’s Stimulus Simply Following Global El ...
    By Susanne Posel theintelhub.com September 14, 2012 According to the Census Bureau , 15% of the US population descended into poverty in 2011. That amounts to 46 million Americans at or below the poverty threshold with an average household income of $23,200.00 annually for a family of four. Socia ...

FRS

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

Ken O'Keefe

  • Hunger Strike in Solidarity with Palestinians
    Today is day 1 of my 30-day hunger strike in solidarity with the Palestinian hunger strikers who will, within days if not hours from now, die for refusing to accept the unacceptable if we do not unite in their defense. - Ken O'Keefe
  • Coming soon – ‘The Age of Responsi ...
    'The Age of Responsibility' At what point do we as people take responsibility for the actions of the governments we outnumber tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands to one? At what point do we take responsibility for the governments we pay our blood money to in the form of taxes? At wh ...
  • Coming soon – ‘The Age of Responsi ...
    'The Age of Responsibility' At what point do we as people take responsibility for the actions of the governments we outnumber tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands to one? At what point do we take responsibility for the governments we pay our blood money to in the form of taxes? At wh ...
  • Interview with Mark Glenn on ‘The Ugly T ...
    We shall discuss this and more; “When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy…You shall destroy their alta ...
  • Interview with Mark Glenn on ‘The Ugly T ...
    We shall discuss this and more; “When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy…You shall destroy their alta ...

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Florida A&M Correct in Asserting Deceased Stud ...
    26-year-old Robert Champion, a drum major at Florida A&M University, died after being hazed by bandmates aboard a team bus. The university has asserted that it should not be held liable for the death because Champion was an adult.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Sep 11, 2012
  • Bear-Hugging the President and Why Pizza Shoul ...
    Scott Van Duzer, the owner of a Florida pizza restaurant, garnered some measure of fame when he “spontaneously” grabbed the president of the United States and lifted him off the ground. Hot Air is suggesting that he now wishes he hadn’t.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Sep 11, 2012
  • Patience Should Be a Major Deciding Factor in ...
    One can't necessarily expect a major change in the economy between presidential elections. Sometimes it's best to trust the process of the current leadership in the White House.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Sep 10, 2012
  • Romney Needs to Show Math, Not Just Principles ...
    Americans care more about performance than rhetoric and will vote for whichever politician seems like the surest bet to enhance economic prosperity. Mitt Romney has an advantage to gain control of the economic conversation but is failing to do so.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Sep 10, 2012
  • American Voters: Caught Between the Facts and ...
    Eastwood spoke to the broader point that he was attempting to make and which might have gotten lost in the rush to question, applaud, defend, or ridicule his speech at the RNC. That point? President Obama is a "hoax perpetrated on the American people."Contributor: Saul Relative Published: Sep 07 ...

Popsci - Science

  • Today on Mars: Roving and Photo-Snapping
    Curiosity shoots some new photos after a long drive. Mars Rover Curiosity got a move on during its 38th sol hanging out on the red planet. After taking a few more self-portraits, and testing the robotic arm the rover will use to collect samples, it set off on one of its longest drives yet. Aft ...
  • The Most Amazing Images of the Week, September ...
    A manmade batcave, icy transjovian volcanoes, arachnids eating Seattle, and the rest of the pictures that amazed us this week
  • Images of the Week, September 10-14, 2012
  • Video: Government Wizards Levitate Drugs With ...
    To create brand-new drugs, pharmaceutical researchers have turned to levitating them with blasts of ultrasonic sound. Good drugs dissolve easily in the body. Bad pharmaceutical molecules, meanwhile, lock themselves into hard-to-absorb crystals that require strong doses to work, and this overco ...
  • The Labs That Go Boom: The Propulsion Research ...
    Home base for some of tomorrow's great rocket scientists This month, as part of our special on the future of education, PopSci presents 10 labs where students do serious research (and career training) by blowing stuff up. Lab: Propulsion Research Center at the University of Alabama at Huntsvil ...

Veterans Today

  • Gladio: How We Terrorized Ourselves (Archival)
    The original article was written several years ago. Since that time, Gladio units have reappeared in Norway with the Anders Breivik/Norwegian Police slaying of 77 and have become active across Europe under the guise of the anti-Islamic and ultra-nationalist banners. America used Libya, durin ...
  • Israeli Filmmaker Triggers a Bloody 9/11 in Be ...
    "On the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, the American ambassador to Libya got killed; the Benghazi consulate set ablaze and moreover, the Al-Qaeda flag waved over the premises of the US embassy in Cairo"
  • 9/11 Truth will out: The Vancouver Hearings II
    by Jim Fetzer   “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”― Arthur Schopenhauer The evidence that none of the “official plane crashes” actually took place is simply ov ...
  • Embassy Killings in Libya, the Stench of CIA/M ...
    - Investigations by me, published yesterday on Press TV's website, cited "Reverand" and "Doctor" Terry Jones as the source of the videos cited for instigating violence across the Middle East.
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Sept ...
    Eleven years ago today, nearly 3,000 Americans lost their lives in the September 11 attacks. As our country transformed, many Veterans have helped make 9/11 as a reason to serve their communities.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Wet end to September raises autumn flooding co ...
    The second half of September look set to be dominated by low pressure, with little chance of a prolonged dry settled spell of weather. All computer weather models are indicating that temperatures are likely to be below normal, with rain expected at times across the UK - although there will be s ...
  • Global temperature update
    Global temperatures in August were 0.34C above the 30 year running average, according to the UAH satellite measure, showing a small increase on the previous month, shown below. It's the 3rd warmest August in this particular satellite data set which began in 1979. Using the more standard ...
  • Summer 2012 - 2nd wettest on record
    The Met Office have said that summer 2012 will be the second wettest (summer is June, July and August combined for statistical purposes) on record across England and the UK as a whole, using rainfall data back to 1910. So far 367mm of rain has fallen, compared with 384mm which was recorded in ...
  • Arctic sea ice now lowest on satellite record
    The extent of sea ice in the Arctic region has dropped sharply in the last few months. Only in April, Arctic sea ice had staged an impressive recovery and was close to the 1979-2012 average, reaching levels not seen in April for over 10 years. But yesterday, the National Snow and Ice data ce ...
  • Jet stream set to spoil summer again
    After a fine and warm weekend across much of the country, temperatures today have reached 80 degrees Fahrenheit in Bridlington in East Yorkshire for the first time this summer - although similar values were reached in places for a time during late May. It's certainly come as a welcome relief af ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • An Economic Case for Basque Independence?
    Visiting Madrid in the mid-Nineties, I remember Beretta submachine gun-toting police patrolling the streets with bomb-sniffing dogs in tow. At that time, of course, the Basque secessionists from ETA were still lodging terrorist threats against Spain. While ETA currently says it has a ceasefire i ...
  • Roll Over Reagan: On Naming US EEZ After Ronnie
    Readers familiar with maritime disputes will of course know that the United States has not signed on to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) even now. While UNCLOS was introduced by the United Nations during the term of President Reagan, he was one of the leading voices against signi ...
  • Jobless USA: Industry Training vs College Educ ...
    Ho hum, another month, another jobs disaster Stateside as less than 100,000 jobs were created --a pace which only prolongs what is already the most protracted recovery from job losses suffered from a recession. While the unemployment rate "dipped," this artifactual occurrence is largely down to ...
  • Patrice Lumumba Friendship University Revisited
    Younger readers probably don't know what the USSR's Patrice Lumumba Friendship University was, so a short introduction is required. Having spent a while in Western academic circles, I can assure you that although many instructors have leftist sympathies--they know their Antonio Gramsci and Karl ...
  • CSR: From 'Blood Diamonds' to 'Conflict Minerals'
    In 2006, there was a movie entitled "Blood Diamonds" starring Leonardo DiCaprio (before he became blubberized and American-sized) that brought popular attention to the titular cause. For those of you covering corporate social responsibility (CSR), the issues should be familiar: Repressive govern ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Exposed... Illuminati's 'All Seeing Eyes System'
    Is this the REAL reason for 9/11? Insider spills the beans! Intense video here from the man that created the largest surveillance system EVER CREATED (so powerful, it can map your entire life out based on domains you've visited). ~ Video read more
  • Obamacare Begins Child Sterilization, Without ...
    With back-to-school season in full swing across the nation, parents in Oregon have more to worry about than shopping for sweaters and purchasing pencils. In the state of Oregon, the Obamacare mandate, which went into effect on August 1, 2012, provides free sterilizations to girls as young a ...
  • Breaking.... Jesse Ventura Announces 2016 Run ...
    Jesse Ventura would run as a 100% independent and is for the abolition of the political parties.  Jesse Ventura calls the two parties "the two party dictatorship"... Video read more
  • New Study Reveals How Aluminium Promotes Cance ...
    We are all exposed to a range of cancer causing chemicals and substances unwillingly every day. One substance that the globalists and government don’t want you know about that could be causing you considerable harm and health problems is aluminium. ~ Andrew Puhanic read more
  • The Hidden ORIGINAL 13th Amendment of 1812... ...
    Proof by Certification by State Archives of N.H. that in 1812, at least 6 states had ratified the ANTI-LAWYER Amendment. Basically preventing anyone who had a BAR membership, accepted a title of Nobility form foreign King, Prince, Power from even being a US Citizen, much less holding any O ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Do You Have A Water Plan?
    Here’s the thing about water that most of us already know… you can’t live long without it. In fact, ‘it’ will be your NUMBER ONE concern in any major disaster. As I’ve said before, I believe that many or most people who are actively involved in preparedness, o ...
  • Better Prepared By Positive Thinking
    Having a positive or negative outlook is a choice. You may not recognize it as a choice, but it is. It is you that chooses the thoughts that either elevate your mood, or bring it down. Unfortunately a-lot of the preparedness community focus is on the negative. However, it is, I believe, somewhat ...
  • Advantages of the Dakota Fire Hole
    A Dakota Fire Hole is simply a method of building a fire that utilizes a number of advantages over other methods. First though, here is how to build a Dakota fire pit…   How to Dig a hole about  a foot in diameter and a foot deep. It is helpful to enlarge the bottom of [...]
  • 12 Tips For Movement During Evasion
    1. A moving object is easy to spot. I repeat. A moving object is easy to spot. This is probably the most important thing to remember if you are trying to remain undetected, for whatever reason. 2. Mask yourself with natural cover. Apart from wearing a Ghillie suit, this includes the choice of cl ...
  • Carolina Food Storage
    msb-note From a new sponsor with MSB, Carolina Food Storage.com, a member with Shelf Reliance, For years my husband has wanted to start a food storage system. We really didn’t know where to start and what to buy. We stocked up on various canned foods that we never seemed to want to eat on ...

Fast Company

  • This Week In Bots: The Pentagon Doesn't Trust ...
    Bot Vid: Big Dog Quiets Its Engine Bark Boston Dynamics' Big Dog/LS3 project is already one of the most interesting pieces of military robotics out there, and the company just revealed more info on its latest hardware iteration. The robodogs are now more agile and can step over awkward barrie ...
  • Boardwalk Empire’s Terence Winter On The Surpr ...
    Why last year’s big death was the hardest--and only--decision the "Boardwalk Empire" creator could have made.
  • How Nicholas Jarecki Hacked His Way To His Fir ...
    How Angelina Jolie, his mother, and a bootstrap approach spurred Nicholas Jarecki to a buzzed-about first film, "Arbitrage."
  • On Rapt.fm, Spit Rhymes In Freestyle Battles T ...
    Combine Turntable.fm's crowd-rated DJ setup with Chatroulette, subtract the 50,000 naked dudes, and sprinkle in some 8 Mile and you get Detroit-based Rapt.fm, a real-time platform for aspiring Eminems. On Rapt.fm you can battle with a friend or a stranger to impress an audience of avatars who ca ...
  • From ScatRoulette To Fitbitch: Developers And ...
    Baratunde Thurston produced and hosted a 36-hour hackathon where participants from both the comedy and tech communities worked together to create some future funny business.

Jadaliyya

  • الطاغية إبن الطاغية
    ‎[.إرتأت جريدة “الأخبار” ألّا  تنشر مقالة أسعد أبو خليل الأسبوعيّة وهذا هو نصّها الكامل] ‎يجثم فوق صدور العرب طغاة، ويجثم فوق صدورهم أبناء الطغاة. الطغاة يولّدون، لكن ليس إلى ما لا نهاية. الإنتفاضات العربيّة—إن دلّت على شيء—دلّت على أن أجل الطغاة محدود، حتى لو كانت أميركا وإسرائ ...
  • Of Stupid Men and Smart Machines
    It is too early to know the definitive story of what led to Tuesday’s protests at the US embassy in Cairo and the brazen attack on the US consulate in Benghazi later that night that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens. As protests threaten to spread, what emerges thro ...
  • Libya Recap: Snapshots from Social Media
    The 11 September attack on Benghazi's consulate resulted in the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens, three other U.S. officials, and ten Libyan security officials. Initial accounts suggested that spontaneous protests against Terry Jones' "anti-Islam" video initiated the violence, but suc ...
  • Maghreb Media Roundup (September 13)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@jadaliyya.c ...
  • Activism in the Coptic Diaspora: A Brief Intro ...
    With the breach of the US Embassy’s walls in Cairo and the killing of US officials in Benghazi, the attention of the international media has returned again to the aftermath of the Egyptian and Libyan uprisings. In the former case, much of the media focus has settled upon Coptic Christians, and s ...

mediagazer

  • NOLA.com, other Advance websites down for 90 m ...
    Julie Moos / Poynter: NOLA.com, other Advance websites down for 90 minutes Friday  —  Websites for Advance newspapers in New Orleans, New Jersey, Michigan, Cleveland and across the U.S. were inaccessible for about an hour and a half Friday.  Visitors to those websites recei ...
  • My epic search for a new-and-improved USA Toda ...
    Charles Apple: My epic search for a new-and-improved USA Today  —  Oh, I'm so crushed today...  My plan for Friday: 1) Get up early.  2) Just as Adam quoted me there on Facebook last night...  ...rush down to my local 7-Eleven to buy a copy of the new-and-improved ...
  • New Orleans Group Backs Away From News Site Pl ...
    Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: New Orleans Group Backs Away From News Site Plans  —  A group of New Orleans business and community leaders backed away from plans to create a new nonprofit news site that would compete with the city's newspaper, the Times-Picayune.  &mdas ...
  • AP issues correction for misidentifying direct ...
    Craig Silverman / Poynter: AP issues correction for misidentifying director of ‘Innocence of Muslims’ film  —  The Associated Press tonight issued a lengthy correction to its reporting about the person behind the controversial “Innocence of Muslims” film ...
  • Confirmed: The Director of Innocence of Muslim ...
    Adrian Chen / Gawker: Confirmed: The Director of Innocence of Muslims Is a Schlocky Softcore Porn Director Named Alan Roberts  —  The anti-Islam film that's set off a firestorm in the Middle East was directed by a 65-year-old schlock director named Alan Roberts, we've confirmed. ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Work stress 'raises heart risk'
    Having a highly demanding job, but little control over it, could be a deadly combination, UK researchers say. They analysed 13 existing European studies covering nearly 200,000 people and found "job strain" was linked to a 23% increased risk of heart attacks and deaths from coronary heart di ...
  • Inflation jumps to 7.55%;diesel price hik ...
    Overall inflation rose to 7.55% in August on account of rising prices of food items and manufactured goods and may further escalate next month as a result of the recent diesel price hike. The high inflationary expectations may prevent the Reserve Bank from cutting interest rates in its mid-q ...
  • A new solar system beckons
    Solar rays are penetrating deeper into our lives. Solar energy is making its presence felt in homes, appliances, transport services and the construction sector. Solar lanterns, heaters, street lights and cookers are passé. They were first-generation applications. Now the frontiers have exten ...
  • RMS sees insured losses from Hurricane Is ...
    The first hurricane to hit the United States this year, Isaac struck New Orleans last month, almost exactly seven years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, but it proved to be a much less damaging storm....
  • Fridge most important innovation in food ...
    Tweet London, Sep 14 (IANS) The refrigerator has pipped pasteurisation, microwaves and pots, knives and eating utensils to be named the most important innovation in the history of food and drink, The Sun reported. Pasteurisation -- the process of heating food to a specific temperature to kil ...

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Anna's News

  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
  • Green energy investment hits record global high
    Global investment in renewable energy sources grew by 32% during 2010 to reach a record level of US$211bn (£132bn), a UN study has reported.The main growth drivers were backing for wind farms in China and rooftop solar panels in Europe, it said. Submitted by Anna Smith to Green Lifestyle &nb ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 9/14/12 - Paul Ryan
    2012election.procon.org - Paul Ryan, the Republican Party's official nominee for US vice-president, now has his pro and con positions on our issues available at 2012 Election ProCon.org.
  • 9/14/12 - Joe Biden
    2012election.procon.org - Joe Biden, the Democratic Party's official nominee for US vice-president, now has his pro and con positions on our issues available at 2012 Election ProCon.org.
  • 9/12/12 - 41 Federal Capital Offenses
    deathpenalty.procon.org  - 41 Federal Capital Offenses – See all 41 federal capital offenses from espionage to murder by use of a weapon of mass destruction. Links to full text of the codes also provided.
  • 9/12/12 - State Death Penalty Laws
    deathpenalty.procon.org 09/12/12 - State Death Penalty Laws, Get the legal status, a brief state history, and links to state laws for the death penalty in all 34 states where the death penalty is legal and the 16 states and DC where capital punishment is illegal. Also highlighted are states ...
  • 9/7/12 - NEW: US and State Prostitution Arrest ...
    prostitution.procon.org - NEW: US and State Prostitution Arrests, 2001-2010 -  Learn which 10 states had the most prostitution arrests by percentage of population (Nevada was number one with 0.1384%) and number of arrests (California was number one with 11,334). See prostitution arrest numb ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Interview with Syrian Girl - Part 2
    Part 2 of Interview with Syrian Girl
  • Interview with Syrian Girl - Part 1
    My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is activist and vlogger Mimi Al-Laham, better known as "Syrian Girl" on youtube. Mimi has been posting videos for some time highlighting the deceptions in the mainstream media coverage of the Syrian conflict. Our conversation ranges from questions about ...
  • International news and analysis with George Ge ...
    Today's show covers a variety of both local and international news with our in-studio guest Georgios. Some of the topics covered include developments in the Assange stand-off in London, and a final ruling in the protracted civil lawsuit over the death in Gaza of activist Rachel Corrie. We al ...
  • Public grief over deaths of 5 Australian soldi ...
    5 Australian soldiers killed and the media/government oligarchy are engaging in a paroxysm of fake grief - really just a form of propaganda. Obama kills dozens of innocents in drone attacks every week and the media doesn't give a rat's backside. They talk about "rogue attacks" as if this is ...
  • Group discussion on free speech, Wikileaks and ...
    Part 2 of Group discussion on free speech, Wikileaks and Julian Assange

Beacon

  • Ice Floes Freeze Arctic Drilling
    The Arctic Sea is a forbidding place to drill for oil ©Wikimedia Commons After just one day of drilling in the Arctic, ice floes forced Shell to halt its operations in the Chukchi Sea. The problems point to the inherent danger in drilling for oil in such an unforgiving landscape. While oil sp ...
  • EU Set to Vote on Shark Finning Ban
    Oceana/LX The European Parliament Is set to vote next week on a complete ban of shark finning for the EU fishing fleet. EU fishermen currently span the globe fishing for sharks, from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, to the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean, ranking second in shark catch glob ...
  • Infographic: Leaping Sharks
    We found an amazing set of infographics provided by the people at Project AWARE, an underwater conservation group founded by SCUBA divers. Turns out shortfin makos have unbelievable aerial skills, matched only by the sperm whale's ability to plumb the depths. Check out the whole set on Pinterest ...
  • Hungry Sea Otters Fight Climate Change
    Humans have an unlikely ally in the fight against global warming: sea otters. According to a new study out of the University of California Santa Cruz, the playful, foraging mammals play a vital role in managing kelp forests, which in turn are capable of absorbing large amounts of carbon dioxi ...
  • Guest Post: Live from the Seafood Summit
    ©Wikimedia Commons Editor's note: This is a guest post by Simone Lewis-Koskinen, Program Assistant at SeaWeb, reporting from the Seafood Summit in Hong Kong. Oceana is a sponsor of the summit.  After many months and several thousand emails, phone calls and meetings, the Seafood Sum ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The German Master Spy Who Saved Gibraltar
    October 1935, Hitler marched into the Sudetenland and took 11,000 square miles of land from Czechoslovakia and added it back into German borders. People, 80% of who were German speakers or German nationals, of course occupied the Sudetenland. The rest of the 800,000 who lived there were turned i ...
  • Piles Of Dead. Why The Importance Of Photograp ...
        These Photos were taken by a variety of news photographers and Army photographers, and I found most of them on theatlantic.com. They are not to be missed. Ever since Matthew Brady brought home to the American people the real horror of war with graphic black and white film to a New ...
  • Did You Know That The Chinese Have A Space Sta ...
      The Tiangong-1 is the Chinese Nation’s first space station. The name means Heavenly Palace 1. It was launched on September 20th, 2011, on a Long March 2 F/G rocket. The idea is to use the space station as a training regimen for docking and living and working in zero gravity for a new gene ...
  • This 9/11 Let’s Look At What Four Promin ...
        Several Science Fiction writers were asked in 1987 what life would be like in America 25 years from then.  A few of them are remarkable. Absolutely remarkable. Here are five prominent Science Fiction Writers predictions:       “Assuming we haven’t destroyed ou ...
  • World War II. The Numbers
      The thing about World War II that just fascinates me the most are the numbers involved. The sheer magnitude of the effort boggles the mind. The number who moved across the world to deadly bloody battle, the numbers who died, the numbers who survived, the numbers of POWS. That said, here a ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Show Biz Beat: Buzz for “The Master” is Epic
    THE FILM opens today. The reviews are all over the map, but one thing they lead to is that the film simply must be seen. The rocky terrain that comes with what’s being reported as a spellbinding movie lover’s experience is a hallmark of filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson’s endeavor ...
  • Romney: “Middle Income” is $200,000 – $250,000
    Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Watch More News Videos at ABC | 2012 Presidential Election | Entertainment & Celebrity News IN AN INTERVIEW with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News, Mitt Romney argued that “middle income is $200,000 to $250,000 and less.” This wa ...
  • Queer Talk: Sen. Harkin Says Obama Should Sign ...
    On Michelangelo Signorile, at HuffPo, writes about his recent interview with Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa). … Harkin … called on President Obama once again to sign an executive order banning discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity among federal contractors. Activist ...
  • Top Story: Secretary Clinton’s Unexpected Rema ...
    IT’S NOT gotten much coverage yet, but ABC News has now picked up the remarkable exchange, which opened out into a speech on religion from Clinton. SECRETARY CLINTON: Good evening, and although I am many weeks overdue in saying it: Eid Mubarak. No matter how belated we are honoring Eid and ...
  • WoW: Duchess of Cambridge Sunbathes Topless, F ...
    “Their Royal Highnesses have been hugely saddened to learn that a French publication and a photographer have invaded their privacy in such a grotesque and totally unjustifiable manner. The incident is reminiscent of the worst excesses of the press and paparazzi during the life of Diana, Pr ...

Hudson New York

  • The U.S. Dead Horse
    "When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature, they will like the strong horse," Osama Bin Laden famously said. The deceased mass murderer had a point, even if it wasn't a very original one. Sentimentalists may admire the horse that lets
  • A "Palestinian Spring": A Renewed Fatah Bid to ...
    It is no secret that Fatah has long been trying to get rid of Fayyad who, its representatives argue, had been imposed on the Palestinians by the Americans and Europeans. Abbas and Fatah have been trying for years to replace Fayyad with one of their own
  • How Not to Frame an Election Narrative
    How does the political left win so many arguments? More than any other cause, it seems to be that the political right ends up time and again fighting on terrain which has been set out for them to lose on. Take two recent examples, one from the US and one
  • All the Islamophobia You Can Shake a Stick At
    Most Americans were introduced to the term "Islamophobia" after the Muslim massacre of thousands of people had played out in their streets, their cities and on their television screens. Just when Americans had good reason to fear Islam, they were
  • Help! Israel Is Trying to Defend Itself
    The Palestinians' two illegitimate governments have once again denounced Israeli "aggression" against the "helpless" residents of the Gaza Strip. Such denunciations always come after the Israel Defense Forces succeed in foiling a terror attack from the

Urban Survival

  • 7.44% ANNUALIZED: Inflation Shows Up
    You can’t just print money hand over fist (more on that in a sec) and expect prices will sit on their ass and not go anywhere.  So, here’s a good bit of evidence that argues for a hyperinflationary blow-off now … Continue reading →
  • Coping: A Call from the PTB?
    Not sure whether he is or isn’t but a third-party reality check of my latest long conversation with the fellow says he’s right on.  So that’s up on the Peoplenomics site Saturday. But the reason I wanted to mention this … Continue reading →
  • “Arab Spring” Failed Framework & B ...
    Countdown to the 25th….will history rhyme? I am as sad as any American with the death of the US Ambassador to Libya this week.  And even more so because this morning we are seeing huge angry crowds in Egypt which … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Broken Web Preview: Binary Viruses
    I’ve been spending unbelievably long hours in front of computer screens trying to get next week (or the week after’s) release of Broken Web: The Coming Collapse of the Internet, just right.  In the process, I’ve come across a couple … Continue reading →
  • What Day Is This?
    Economics in a sec… Yes…it is 11-years after 9/11…and this morning’s lead story is about how events oddly “cluster” or “clump” ion this day.  Reader Edwin in The Hague sent in this curious report: “Hi George,   The Hague, Nethe ...

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • We Saved the Ozone Layer. We Can Save the Climate.
    David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. Climate change is not the first planetary pollution crisis we have faced.  That distinction belongs to the depletion of the earth’s protective ozone layer. T ...
  • Food Misers Make Money
    Dana Gunders, Project Scientist, Food and Agriculture, San Francisco   Cutting losses helps maximize profits--an age old business philosophy not news to any businessperson.  So why is $47 billion worth of product going to waste in super ...
  • Saving the Ozone Layer: Lessons for Fighting C ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City Several of my friends and family members have had skin lesions biopsied in the past few years. Luckily they have been cancer-free, but these test results could have been much more alarming if the ...
  • Goliath Oil Industry's Ad Budget May Be Huge, ...
    Bob Keefe, Senior press secretary, Washington, DC To get an idea of how much the fossil fuel industry is spending to convince you that more drilling, fracking and mining is the answer for our economy, consider this: The industry has spent more on t ...
  • Bringing Public Access to the LA River
    Jessica Lass, Senior Press Secretary, Santa Monica To most Angelenos, the Los Angeles River is a concrete eyesore, but as I kayaked down it a few weeks ago, it was a river like any other you’d float across the West. No longer is the river only ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 8 stories of Police Misconduct Tracked for Thursday, September 13, 2012: Pinellas Park, Florida: The man shot by a Florida Highway Patrol trooper Monday morning at a cemetery was the cemetery’s owner. He is a Tampa man … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct ...
  • Government Installs Cameras to Monitor Speed C ...
    From the Washington Post: This is 100 percent “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” crazy. But true. It has to be true: My brain is not sophisticated enough to create something so meta and surreal from scratch. WTOP’S Ari Ashe … Continue reading →Government Instal ...
  • No Time to Consider Elderly Lady’s Medical Con ...
    From ABC News: A Texas police department is defending an officer who is seen on a dashcam video pulling a 77-year-old woman out of her car during a traffic stop. Sgt. Gene Geheb, an officer from the Keene Police Department, … Continue reading →No Time to Consider Elderly Lady’s ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 11 stories of misconduct tracked for Wednesday, September 12, 2012: Quartzite, Arizona: The police chief was fired for gross negligence and willful misconduct; he had workers run criminal background checks on people that he didn’t like. bit.ly/RFQP5t … Continue reading & ...
  • And Find Out Why Your Police Dept Destroyed Ev ...
    From the Dallas Morning News: MESQUITE — A Garland police officer is on restricted duty after authorities say he fired as many as 41 shots at an apparently unarmed man last month, killing him. Garland police also said Tuesday that … Continue reading →And Find Out Why Your Polic ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Religious fervor drives elephant slaughter
    The legal ivory trade is failing to protect elephants which are being slaughtered en mass across the African continent to meet demand for religious trinkets, argues a new investigative report published in National Geographic by Bryan Christy.
  • Talisman abandons Amazon oil development in Pe ...
    Talisman Energy (TLM) is abandoning oil exploration in a block of forest in the Peruvian Amazon, reports Amazon Watch, an activist group that has campaigned against the driller since 2004.
  • Remarkable new monkey discovered in remote Con ...
    In a massive, wildlife-rich, and largely unexplored rainforest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), researchers have made an astounding discovery: a new monkey species, known to locals as the 'lesula'. The new primate, which is described in a paper in the open access PLoS ONE journal, ...
  • Pictures: Bolivian park may have the world's h ...
    With over 90 species of bat, 50 species of snake, 300 fish, 12,000 plants, and 11 percent of the world's bird species, Madidi National Park in Bolivia may be the world's most biodiverse place, according to new surveys by the the Bolivian Park Service (SERNAP) with aid from the Wildlife Conservat ...
  • NASA image shows why San Francisco is foggy
    The short answer to why San Francisco, California is foggy? The Pacific Ocean's marine layer. A new image by NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite shows the marine layer—cool, heavy air produced by a colder ocean surface meeting warmer air—encroaching on the metropolis. Western winds pu ...

Sierra Express

  • Nomination fees of Presidential Candidates, Me ...
    By Statutory Instrument No. 13 of 2012 which came into effect on 10th September 2012, the Electoral Commission in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by Section 166 of the Public Elections Act, 2012 prescribed the under mentioned nomination fees to be paid to the national returning officer ...
  • The Battle for Bo…Former VP Joe Demby Rebukes SLPP
    Former Vice President in the Tejan Kabbah led government, Dr. Albert Joe Demby (in photo) is reported to have slammed a high profile delegation of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) headed by running mate Dr. Kadi Sesay, over the choice of Harold Tucker for the mayoral symbol for the Bo City ...
  • Resource Centre for the Blind
    Persons with disability in Sierra Leone, especially the blind, will soon be proud beneficiaries of a library, where they can read test books and other literatures that will enhance their capacity. This disclosure was made early this week by the Director of Disability–Sierra Leone (DiSiL) Mr. Ted ...
  • “Avoid Insults and Threats…” Imam Urges Muslims
    The Regional Chief Imam of the United Council of Imams in Sierra Leone in charge of the western part of Freetown, Imam Alhaji Alie Bangura, who is also the chief Imam of Masjid Ijtihaj (Congo Cross Central Mosque), has exhorted political leaders and their supporters to stop trading insults and t ...
  • Boycotting the nomination process or cash trapped?
    Another hullabaloo is brewing over who is to pay or who is not to pay the nomination fees as stipulated by the National Electoral Commission (NEC).  The commission in its wisdom has deemed it expedient to peg the range of payment as it were for the different categories of positions with an expec ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Updated: Two American Universities Receive Bom ...
    So far today there have been two bomb threats at American universities. The first threat came via a phone call to officials at the University of Texas-Austin from someone claiming to be linked to Al Qaeda. The caller claimed that bombs had been placed all across the campus. All bui ...
  • Chevy Volt is on the Road to Nowhere Fast, Say ...
    Yesterday, the Washington Post's editorial board published an tough op/ed basically mocking President Obama's pretensions (1 million all-electric vehicles on the road by 2015) about subsidizing an electric car industry into existence. The Post op/ed notes: The Energy Department ...
  • Greg Beato on Electric Bikes and the Future of ...
    Remember when our car-free future was supposed to be powered by jet packs, transporters, and family-sized flying saucers? That happy postwar vision has long since devolved from Jetsonian utopia to post–peak oil apocalypse, a new Mad Max era of economic collapse and medieval brutishne ...
  • Obama’s Highly Misleading Claim About Private ...
    Recently, President Obama has taken to claiming that “our businesses have gone back to basics and created over 4 million jobs in the last 27 months —more private sector jobs than were created during the entire seven years before this crisis — in a little over two years.” This is tec ...
  • The Obama Administration Pressures YouTube to ...
    This is what contempt for the First Amendment looks like: Obama administration officials said Thursday that they have asked YouTube to review the video [that reportedly set off the embassy attacks] and determine whether it violates the site's terms of service, according to peo ...

Mercury Rising

  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Hey, Apple! It’d Be Harder For Chinese F ...
    Apple’s iPhone 5 wasn’t even out yet before a Chinese factory had a copy on the open market: Want to get an iPhone 5 but can’t handle the wait for the Apple (AAPL) release later this month? You might consider buying a knockoff from Goophone. This little-known Chinese company has just ...
  • Student’s tsunami film brings out human ...
    Hiroshi Matsubara, Asahi Shimbun Carrying a camcorder she borrowed from her professor, Yuka Kanno returned last summer to her tsunami-ravaged hometown of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, in an emotional pilgrimage. The Yamanashi college student is hoping the film she made, which will be shown at ...
  • Rock County Star Herald: Minnesota Photo ID Am ...
    As mentioned a few days ago, for months there’s been a growing list of rural and urban Minnesota counties and their newspapers that are warning anyone who will heed them about the costs and dangers of the Republican Party of Minnesota’s photo ID ballot amendment. We can now add the R ...
  • Thanks for all the help, Israel. You’re ...
    It’s not fair to blame an entire nation for one man. But Sam Bacile, in the film he made with Terry Jones, the “pastor” who planned to burn Korans purely to inflame Muslim opinion, is sadly representative of a strain of thinking in the Israeli right. Amy Goodman, quoting the AP ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Sex in the News
      Naomi Wolf and the neuroscience behind female orgasm, Cindy Gallop's real sex campaign, number of sex partners, what fatherhood looks like, and more in this week's sex in the news.   read more
  • Autumn Ascension: Uranus-Pluto PT. 2 + Equinox ...
    Join Adam Elenbaas and guest astrologers VerDarLuz, Eric Meyers, Erin Sullivan, and Ari Moshe Wolfe for the live interactive video course, "Galactic Alignments: Charting the Soul's Journey through Astrology." This Evolver Intensive starts on Sunday, September 16.  read more
  • We Are Not Alone
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Desertification

  • Laissez-Faire Failing World’s Dwindling ...
    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 water security: neoliberal policies of the free m ...
  • China Puts Up a Green Shield Against Sandstorms
    The setting sun is still streaming in through the poplars along the shelter belts, but Horquin Lianjun is done with farm work for the day. The desert wind has turned bone chilling. Lianjun’s half hectare of farmland sports neat spaced-out rows of maize crops, as in that of Hua Limei, his neighbo ...
  • Kashmir’s Melting Glaciers May Cut Ice With Sc ...
    Jowhar Ahmed, an air-conditioner dealer in Srinagar, is pleased at a spurt in business this summer caused by temperatures soaring over 35 degrees Celsius – unusual in this alpine valley ringed by snow-capped mountains. “I sold more than 70 air-conditioners in just one month,” Ahmed, who ru ...
  • Whose Timber is it Anyway?
    With Pakistan’s last major stands of deodar (cedar) threatened by a ‘timber mafia’, the local people in the Chitral district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are resorting to direct action to stop the denudation of their picturesque alpine homeland. Since April, the community in Ayun town has been ...
  • Q&A: Water and Food Security Are Inseparable
    IPS U.N. Bureau Chief Thalif Deen interviews PER BERTILSSON, acting executive director of the Stockholm International Water Institute

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Press TV - Middle East

  • One killed in Yemen anti-US protest
    One person has been killed and many others injured after Yemeni security forces opened fire on anti-US demonstrators in the capital, Sana’a.
  • US sends troops to Yemen over film
    Washington has sent Marines to Yemen to help protect its embassy during anti-American protests sparked by an anti-Islam film produced in the US, the Pentagon said.
  • Israeli police attack Palestinians
    Israeli police have attacked Palestinians protesting against an anti-Islam film insulting the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in the occupied al-Quds (Jerusalem).
  • One killed in Lebanon anti-US protest
    One person has been killed and 25 others injured as Lebanese security forces clash with demonstrators protesting against an anti-Islam movie in the northern city of Tripoli.
  • Jordanians protest near US embassy
    Thousands of Jordanians have gathered near the US embassy in the capital, Amman, to condemn an anti-Islam film insulting the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Looking for Cowbell Cheers
    On Your Mark, Get Set…. Go!!! Last Sunday, I joined the CUNY School of Professional Studies “Race for the Cure” team comprised of students, faculty, and staff. Being with our team of over 20-strong was such an emotional high for me. All dressed in our CUNY SPS blue shirts, we (and our mascot, Le ...
  • Candidacy Phase for BS in Health Information M ...
    Great news!  Our BS in Health Information Management is now in the candidacy phase of the CAHIIM (www.cahiim.org) accreditation process.  Our students can now register as students with AHIMA (www.ahima.org)  using our SPS Educational Program Code (#159).  This will allow students to reap the ben ...
  • Your Thoughts Become Your Reality
    The power of positive thinking; if you can believe it, you can achieve it; walk by faith, not by sight; what you think about, you bring about; keep your eyes on the prize… All these sayings and mantras are what millions of people repeat and live by every day. All stem from the law of attra ...
  • Meet Our New Academic Director, Ellen Shakespeare
    Please join us in welcoming our new Academic Director for the Health Information Management program, Ellen Shakespeare. Ellen joined CUNY School of Professional Studies in August from her last position as a faculty member and the program coordinator for the health information technology programs ...
  • Alumni Spotlight
    Alumni Spotlight Nelson Franco The Alumni Spotlight feature highlights one of SPS’s proud graduates. We asked Nelson Franco (B.A. Communication and Culture, Class of 2012) five questions about his experiences before, during, and after SPS. 1. What was your background prior to coming to SPS? I ha ...

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

  • Obama Appeals Court Ruling That Strikes Down I ...
    On Wednesday, New York federal judge Katherine Forrest issued a ruling which blocked provisions of the NDAA that could have seen American citizens kidnapped and held indefinitely without charge. In “permanently” halting the enforcement of the law, Forrest noted how the plaintiffs presented “evi ...
  • US and China Caught Secretly Testing GMO Rice ...
    Instead of putting genetically modified foods through proper trials as consumers have been demanding for years, it appears the United States Department of Agriculture in alliance with the Chinese government have instead chosen to secretly test their latest GMO rice on young Chinese children. Wha ...
  • Was U.S. Ambassador Lynched?
    Despite initial reports suggesting he died in a rocket attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, photos appear to indicate that U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was killed by a lynch mob, illustrating the disastrous consequences of the Obama administration’s military intervention in Libya ...
  • The Third Building Which Collapsed on 9/11 Was ...
    Numerous structural engineers – the people who know the most about office building vulnerabilities and accidents – say that the official explanation of why building 7 at the World Trade Center collapsed on 9/11 is “impossible”, “defies common logic” and “violates the law of physics”: Two prof ...
  • The Third Building Which Collapsed on 9/11 Was ...
    Numerous structural engineers – the people who know the most about office building vulnerabilities and accidents – say that the official explanation of why building 7 at the World Trade Center collapsed on 9/11 is “impossible”, “defies common logic” and “violates the law of physics”: Two prof ...

Wayne Madsen

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • US Strike on Iran Would Spark Region-Wide War
    Summary: An extended US military strike on Iran would harm their military capabilities and marginally delay their nuclear program, but it would also prompt large-scale Iranian retaliation that would spark an uncontrollable regional war. source: antiwar.comread more
  • We Must Make a Moral Stand Against any British ...
    Summary: If reports in yesterday's Daily Mail are to be believed, Sir John Sawers was forced to make a special secret trip two weeks ago to Israel in a desperate bid to prevent this country from carrying out its most recent threats to launch a unilateral strike against Iran's nuclear targets. ...
  • Poll Shows Overwhelming US Opposition to Attac ...
    Summary: A new poll conducted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs shows an overwhelming opposition to the idea of attacking Iran among American voters, with 70 percent saying they are opposed to the idea of a unilateral US attack on Iran. source: antiwar.comread more
  • Iran develops ‘economy of resistance’
    Summary: Iran is reducing its dependence on oil by developing an “economy of resistance” to circumvent international sanctions over its nuclear programme, according to a senior regime adviser. source: FTread more
  • Iran’s Strategic Diplomatic Victory over the W ...
    Summary: Iran chaired, hosted and led the recently rejuvenated Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Teheran, attended by delegates from 120 countries, including 31 heads of state and 29 foreign secretaries of state. Even the United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon, notorious mouthpiece ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • NASA's Hunt for a Twin 'Blue Dot' "May Yield S ...
    While the Kepler Mission's hunt continues for the elusive "blue dot" -- a planet with roughly the same characteristics as Earth -- new research reveals that life might actually be able to survive on some of the many exoplanetary oddballs...
  • Galactic Camouflage --"Advanced ET Civilizatio ...
    “Evolutionary selection, acting on a cosmic scale, tends to extinguish species which conspicuously advertise themselves and their habitats,” according to Adrian Kent, Centre for Quantum Computation, University of Cambridge. The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between high estimates o ...
  • Image of the Day: Blue Spheres Found at Mars' ...
    A discovery at The University of Western Australia that microbes helped shape rare spheres of iron-oxide on Earth may aid the newly landed Curiosity Rover in its search for the first verifiable signs of extra-terrestrial life in similar rocks on...
  • Kepler Mission Finds an Entire System of Plane ...
    NASA's Kepler Mission has just discovered an entire system of planets orbiting a double star. The star system, known as Kepler-47, is located 4,900 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. Two stars orbit one another at the center of...
  • Evolutionary Marker? --Robot to Take the Unive ...
    Artifical intelliegence will surpass human intelligence after 2020, predicts Vernor Vinge, 62, a pioneer in AI, who in a recent interview warned about the risks and opportunities that an electronic super-intelligence would offer to mankind. Now, Fujitsu Laboratories has announced...

Natural News

  • Mayor Bloomberg's soda ban will cause New York ...
    Ah, the hilarity of the nanny state knows no bounds, it seems. Especially not in New York City, where Mayor Bloomberg oversaw a large-sized soda ban that just became law. The really hilarious part of the law? It does not apply to aspartame-laced "diet sodas" which, by...
  • Is sickness this generation's big seller?
    Advertisement is a tried and true method of selling certain product, and advertisement companies have a distinct knack for pinpointing the most effective techniques to turn a profit. From the 1950s to the 1970s, tobacco advertising was a booming industry. Since the Public...
  • Popularity of mothers' milk banks soars as mor ...
    Many mothers today are rediscovering the importance of breastfeeding, as powdered infant formulas simply cannot meet the complex nutritional needs of a growing newborn baby. But along with this resurgence in breastfeeding is a growing demand for breast milk, as many...
  • Suffer from fatigue? The causes and cure of Am ...
    The condition is so common we know it without a name: think near-constant lethargy and mental fog, occasional irritability or depression, and reliance on caffeine and sugar to get through the day. Waking up in a haze, collapsing at night and having insufficient energy...
  • Green tea catechins shown to shrink cancerous ...
    Natural health advocates have understood and demonstrated the potent antioxidant and anti-cancer properties of green tea consumption for decades. The Chinese have brewed the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant for more than 5,000 years to benefit human health. Catechins...

Threat Level

  • Twitter Reluctantly Coughs Up Occupy Protester ...
    Twitter on Friday reluctantly complied with a judge's order to divulge the tweets and account information allegedly connected to an Occupy protester. The case was being closely watched as the authorities increasingly monitor and move to access material posted on social networks. The development ...
  • Senator Seeks to Graft E-Mail Privacy Onto Net ...
    Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) is again proposing sweeping digital privacy protections requiring the government, for the first time, to get a probable-cause warrant to obtain e-mail and other content stored in the cloud. The proposal is proposed to be included in a bill authorizing Netflix subsc ...
  • Anonymous’ Barrett Brown Raided by FBI During ...
    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 his girlfriend were participating in an online chat on TinyChat with other indi ...
  • The WikiLeaks Spinoff That Wasn’t: An Exclusiv ...
    OpenLeaks, a planned successor to WikiLeaks started by disgruntled former staffers, faced a rough time at a high-profile hacker convention where it planned to show off its leaking system.
  • With Guilty Plea, University of Alabama Shoote ...
    Amy Bishop, the University of Alabama scientist who shot six colleagues, pleaded guilty this week. Bishop, the subject of a Wired feature in 2011, still faces charges that she killed her own brother in a shooting originally deemed to be an accident.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • THIS JUST IN: Tax Cuts for Rich Still Don't Dr ...
    When it comes to the subject of taxes, virtually article of faith held dear by Republicans has been proven false. For example, it's not true that "tax cuts pay for themselves" or that they increase revenue. Now, two new studies cut right to the heart of the bogus conservative claim that slashin ...
  • Romney Fails the Commander-in-Chief Test. Again.
    If there were any lingering doubts about Mitt Romney's unfitness to serve as Commander-in-Chief, his shameful response to the killings of four Americans at a U.S. consulate in Libya should have put them to rest. Romney didn't know the facts. He didn't know the timeline of events. He didn't kn ...
  • Failed Bush Team Marks 9/11 by Slandering Obama
    That former Bush speechwriter and current torture enthusiast Mark Thiessen would accuse President Obama of skipping daily intelligence briefings should come as no surprise. That he, along with Dick Cheney, would do so to mark the solemn anniversary of the September 11 attacks is not just a nati ...
  • In Defense of Red State Socialism
    For most liberals, the Constitution's aspirational goal for "We the people" to "form a more perfect Union" is a guiding statement of American national purpose. Nevertheless, these days many blue staters are growing exasperated with their red state brothers and sisters. After all, the "Southerni ...
  • Mitt Romney's Indefensible Defense Budget
    Mitt Romney has a national defense problem. Or more accurately, a series of problems. After all, the same man who five years ago said that "it's not worth moving heaven and earth" to get Osama Bin Laden forgot to mention America's war in Afghanistan and the men and women still fighting it durin ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Chris Hedges: The Assault on Civil Liberties U ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad September 14, 2012 Sep 14, 2012 by TheBigPictureRT Chris Hedges, Truthdig “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress” joins Thom Hartmann. Civil liberties advocates led by journalists and writers Chris Hedges, Danie ...
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  • Pittsburgh Ban on Natural Gas Fracking Faces C ...
    In 2010, Pittsburgh adopted a first-in-the-nation ordinance banning corporations from extracting natural gas within the city using the controversial technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," over human health and environmental concerns. However, state officials now say the ban on f ...
  • In Controversial Death Row Case, Pennsylvania ...
    Advocates for child victims of sexual abuse are calling on Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett to grant clemency to Terrance "Terry" Williams, who is scheduled to be executed on October 3. In 1986, Williams was convicted of killing Amos Norwood. What the jury in that case did not know is that Norwood ...
  • Could Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Help Romney Wi ...
    With less than two months to go before the November election, we look a new voter ID law in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. Studies have shown as many as one million eligible voters in the state do not have an acceptable identification under the new law, which requires all voters to show ...

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Arctic Crustaceans Use Deep-Water Migration To ...
    As the Arctic sea ice has been melting to record lows during the summer months, the marine animals living there have been facing very dramatic changes in their environment. Some of the crustaceans that live there, previously thought to live only on the underside of sea ice, were discovered to be ...
  • Boiling Water Without Bubbles, Special Surface ...
    Boiling water without bubbles, doesn’t sound right does it? But now, with the help of a specially engineered surface, a stable vapor cushion is created between the surface and the liquid, completely eliminating bubble formation. “We manipulated what has been known for a long, long ti ...
  • X-Rays Uncover The Mysterious Degradation Of V ...
    By doing a very sophisticated X-ray analysis researchers have finally identified why some sections of the Van Gogh painting “Flowers in a blue vase” changed their color over time. A varnish that was thought to be protective was applied to the painting after Van Gogh’s death, sl ...
  • Himalayan Glaciers Retreating at Accelerated R ...
    The consequences for the Himalayan water supply depend heavily on the region’s thousands of glaciers, that in the east and central areas of the region are retreating at accelerating rates similar to those seen in other glacier-clusters around the world, but that in the western Himalayas ar ...
  • Death Valley Takes The Record For Hottest Ever ...
    A temperature reading of 134 degrees Fahrenheit in Death Valley, California, during the summer of 1913 is now being recognized as the hottest land surface temperature ever recorded. Even though that reading was made 99 years ago, it is only just now being recognized by the World Meteorological O ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Whose "Happy Days" are here again?
    By @TedFrier If William F. Buckley once defined conservatism as that temperament which stands athwart history yelling "STOP!" the Washington Post's E.J. Dionne says what conservatives today really want is to reverse course and take us Back to the Future. Dionne put his finger on what seemed so s ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC Maybe @GOPLeader should have thought about that a year ago, back when he and his caucus were playing chicken with the debt ceiling and ended up causing the U.S. to get the first downgrade of our credit rating in our history. NOW he's worried about the sequester and the damage it will ...
  • Deeper Than Just Another Mitt #$@!up
    By TomBales1 This past couple of days has seen the Romney campaign apparently accelerating its race to the bottom as the election they're supposed to be trying to win looms ever nearer.  I say supposed to be trying to win because when you take the time to analyze some the goings on over th ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC Hooray for Pushback! When the tea-folk and their minions held a press conference in Florida to protest the appearance of the local leader of CAIR before high school students to discuss Islamic history, counterprotesters showed up and set the jerkoffs straight. Speaking into a bullhor ...
  • Schoolyard Bullies
    Mitt Romney never ceases to amaze me.  No matter how low down and hateful he is today, rest assured, he's gonna be more so tomorrow.  His response to the shootings in Libya... made without any facts on the actual circumstances and devoid of any meaningful content other than another Bas ...

Care 2

  • Release Information about Puppy Beaten in Elev ...
    Hazel, the pit pull puppy was bought to Animal Care and Control (ACC) after a relative of Brian Freeman of the Bronx, was caught on a security camera visciously beating the puppy in an elevator on Aug. 26th, 2012 Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |    ...
  • Justice for Puppy Beaten in Elevator ! PLEASE ...
    The New York City Police Department (NYPD) made an appeal to the public by releasing a video to social networks and tv news stations, hoping to arrest the man caught by a security camera beating a puppy in an elevator on Aug. 26th, 2012. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  ...
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Stop the "Dangerous Dam ...
    Representative Hastings' bill is one of the most anti-environmental pieces of legislation introduced this Congress. It would jeopardize jobs, public safety, and the outdoor recreation industry that is so critical to communities all across the nation. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment ...
  • Protect Oregon's Wildlife and Waters From Pest ...
    More than 5 billion pounds of pesticides are used each year in the United States. And these chemicals do not disappear after they're applied. They persist in our waterways and hurt wildlife as well as people: A 10-year government study revealed Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |  ...
  • Save the Elephants in Vietnam ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
    With China's demand for ivory fueling poaching of the elephant (both the Asian and the Africian elephant), elephant populations in Vietnam have plummeted from 2,000 in 1990, to only a few dozen left in 2012. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |  & ...

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No Quarter

  • Obama and Al Gore’s Man Playing Politics at CIA
    * BUMPED UP * This is very important and it is NOT receiving any attention whatsoever from the MSM. Astonishing considering what Larry and Retired’s finds mean about what Obama forced the CIA to do! Please also TWEET this to everyone you know. – Bronwyn A retired CIA buddy, who serve ...
  • Did the CIA Suffer a Heavy Blow in Libya?
    I have not been told anything official (or unofficial, for that matter), but based on the info released about the four Americans killed in the attack on the consulate in Benghazi, it appears that a CIA paramilitary team was killed. Sean Smith and the two former NAVY SEALS certainly fit the profi ...
  • Rock On! Romney Response Team Videos (and h2k ...
    Here are some of Romney’s Team videos: These videos keep getting better and better. (Great audio. Short but punchy!) (Better audio. Short yet strong.) SOMEBODY fixed the EMBED code problem. See Greg Anthony’s video. I wonder if it was Andrea Tantaros or Laura Ingraham or Karl Rove or ...
  • Barack Obama Shooting from the Lip and Hip
    Boy, the black man calling the kettle black. Too damn funny! So, yesterday Obama gets himself all wee, weed-up over Romney’s correct and appropriate criticism of the stupidity out of the US Embassy in Cairo. Obama, full of self-righteous bullshit, immediately claimed that Mitt Romney shoot ...
  • Obama Administration Denying Terrorism
    Al Qaeda is back and, despite the death of bin Laden, still viable and still capable of conducting a coordinated attack. That is what happened on 9-11 in Libya and Egypt. These were coordinated attacks. What happened in Libya, in particular, was sophisticated and required advanced planning. This ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Mountaintop Removal Activity To Continue Pendi ...
    Mountaintop Removal Activity To Continue Pending Appeal Law360 (subscription) Law360, New York (September 14, 2012, 4:45 PM ET) -- A West Virginia federal judge on Thursday refused to grant an injunction pending appeal in a suit challenging a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers mountaintop removal perm ...
  • Mourning The Death Of Coal Activist Larry Gibs ...
    ThinkProgress Mourning The Death Of Coal Activist Larry Gibson ThinkProgress Like so many others, I always got this warm greeting from Larry Gibson, followed by a big hug. Like so many others, I saw mountaintop removal coal mining with my own eyes for the first time on Larry's mountain in so ...
  • Patriot selenium deal falls through - Charlest ...
    Patriot selenium deal falls through Charleston Gazette A deal that might have helped bankrupt Patriot Coal manage its huge liability for cleaning up selenium pollution from mountaintop removal mining operations has fallen through, federal court records have revealed. Lawyers for Patriot and the ...
  • Thousands Gather In DC To Stop Mountaintop Rem ...
    De Smog Blog (blog) Thousands Gather In DC To Stop Mountaintop Removal Mining De Smog Blog (blog) Thousands of protestors descended on Washington, D.C. today to send a simple message to the Obama Administration – stop mountaintop removal coal mining (MTR). The protestors included citizens from t ...
  • Stand With Appalachia Solidarity Day - unEARTH ...
    Climate Science Watch Stand With Appalachia Solidarity Day unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) Fighting against mountaintop removal, this week we're proud to announce the support of an incredibly strong woman: writer and activist Terry Tem... by Liz Judge: Introducing Our New Mountain Heroes ...

Memeorandum

  • Obama's Great Islamist Delusion has come home ...
    William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion: Obama's Great Islamist Delusion has come home to roost  —  Well, that didn't work out so well.  —  We cast aside Hosni Mubarak on a moment's notice without taking steps to give non-Islamis ...
  • Confirmed: The Director of Innocence of Muslim ...
    Adrian Chen / Gawker: Confirmed: The Director of Innocence of Muslims Is a Schlocky Softcore Porn Director Named Alan Roberts  —  The anti-Islam film that's set off a firestorm in the Middle East was directed by a 65-year-old schlock director named Alan Roberts, we've confirmed. ...
  • Gary Bauer: Obama's Votes Come From Welfare Ch ...
    Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo: Gary Bauer: Obama's Votes Come From Welfare Checks And Voter Fraud  —  Conservative pundit Gary Bauer, the former president of the Family Research Council, which puts on the Values Voter Summit each year, told the crowd at the 2012 co ...
  • Marines arrive in Yemen after embassy attack, ...
    Fox News: Marines arrive in Yemen after embassy attack, protests spread  —  U.S. Marines are on the ground in Yemen to deal with the aftermath of an attack on the U.S. Embassy in the capital city of Sanaa, as the Obama administration warns of sustained protests outside diplomati ...
  • Romney Statement on Iran at Odds With His Fore ...
    Ashley Parker / The Caucus: Romney Statement on Iran at Odds With His Foreign Policy Advisers'  —  As the turmoil in the Middle East thrust foreign policy to the forefront of the presidential campaign, Mitt Romney found himself at odds with his own foreign policy advisers.  ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Wealth is poor predictor of green values
    New analysis of public opinion in 80 countries challenges long-held theory that affluence breeds environmentalism. Zim Nwokora and Karen Stenner explain.Anyone who has taken even a passing interest in global climate negotiations in the past 20 years will be familiar with the strong moral argumen ...
  • One-third of China’s coal plants behind ...
    Clean energy policies and high coal prices have left Chinese investors with little appetite for fossil-fuelled power plants, writes Cui Xuan.Despite China’s ongoing electricity shortages, construction of new fossil-fuelled power plants has slowed. One-third of new projects given full appro ...
  • Should China bail out its solar PV industry?
    China’s solar PV industry is stuck in an expansion crisis from which it is hard to extricate itself. Chinese renewable expert Li Junfeng tells Gao Yang some companies are likely to go bankrupt.Gao Yang：What’s the main obstacle holding back development of the solar PV industry ...
  • China's clean energy boom driven by "private f ...
    Rapid growth in new energy sector has made China an intermediary between developed and developing countries, says Asian Development Bank’s Cui Yongping.Cui Yongping is chair of the energy committee at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a financing and aid body which has invested heavily in ...
  • What are the ecological costs of China’s ...
    China’s growing agribusinesses and demand for soybeans and meat is bringing intensive farming and the risk of further deforestation in Brazil and beyond. Tom Levitt reports.The dynamics of Chinese agriculture are changing. While it may still be largely self-sufficient in food, th ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Romney Says Typical Middle-Class Homes Earn $2 ...
    Another day, another out-of-touch statement from Mitt Romney. Speaking today on ABC’s Good Morning America program, Romney said the typical middle-income household in America earned a quarter of a million dollars a year. Wouldn’t it be nice if, for once, we all lived in Romney&#x ...
  • 7 Steps to Smoke Pot and Never Get Caught
    I’ve been smoking marijuana since July 4, 1990, and it recently occurred to me that I have never been caught by law enforcement for doing so.  I don’t feel like I’ve done very much to avoid getting caught.  A quick Google search on my name will reveal more than e ...
  • Romney Continues His Absurd Attacks on Obama a ...
    President Obama’s firm and deliberative response to the Libyan crisis that caused four American deaths on 9/11 appeared to be vindicated on Thursday, when Libyan officials announced that four men had been arrested following the U.S. embassy attack.On Wednesday morning in Washington, Oba ...
  • Do Americans Harbor Childlike Delusions About ...
    "Everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the mouth." -- Mike Tyson. “That’s a pithy way of saying where our country, perhaps the developed world, is at right now,” notes author James Howard Kunstler. We’ve blown past the mileposts for global ...
  • So Is the US Going to Kill Even More Muslims N ...
    "Daddy, what is blowback?"  Here's a fable to tell our children, by the fire, in a not so-distant post-apocalyptic, dystopian future.  Once upon a time, during George "Dubya" Bush's "war on terra", the Forces of Good in Afghanistan captured - and duly tortured - one evil terrorist, ...

Threat Level

  • Twitter Reluctantly Coughs Up Occupy Protester ...
    Twitter on Friday reluctantly complied with a judge's order to divulge the tweets and account information allegedly connected to an Occupy protester. The case was being closely watched as the authorities increasingly monitor and move to access material posted on social networks. The development ...
  • Senator Seeks to Graft E-Mail Privacy Onto Net ...
    Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) is again proposing sweeping digital privacy protections requiring the government, for the first time, to get a probable-cause warrant to obtain e-mail and other content stored in the cloud. The proposal is proposed to be included in a bill authorizing Netflix subsc ...
  • Anonymous’ Barrett Brown Raided by FBI During ...
    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 his girlfriend were participating in an online chat on TinyChat with other indi ...
  • The WikiLeaks Spinoff That Wasn’t: An Exclusiv ...
    OpenLeaks, a planned successor to WikiLeaks started by disgruntled former staffers, faced a rough time at a high-profile hacker convention where it planned to show off its leaking system.
  • With Guilty Plea, University of Alabama Shoote ...
    Amy Bishop, the University of Alabama scientist who shot six colleagues, pleaded guilty this week. Bishop, the subject of a Wired feature in 2011, still faces charges that she killed her own brother in a shooting originally deemed to be an accident.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • First Listeria Cantaloupe Lawsuit Filed in Lou ...
    We filed a Listeria lawsuit today against Frontera Produce, the distributor of cantaloupes that the FDA identified as the source of a nationwide Listeria outbreak in September 2011; Primus Group,... Continue Reading
  • When Cantaloupe Kills – Again! Salmonella Out ...
    Last evening the FDA announced a recall of DFI Marketing Inc., 28,000 cartons of cantaloupe because it had the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.  The cantaloupes may have been... Continue Reading
  • Mickey Strikes Back – ABC News Statement on BP ...
    Statement from Jeffrey W. Schneider, Senior Vice President, ABC News: “The lawsuit is without merit. We will contest it vigorously.” Origin of the term “Pink Slime,”  “Meet the Man Who... Continue Reading
  • DFI Marketing Inc. Recalls Cantaloupe Because ...
    Salmonella was found on a single sample of cantaloupe during routine testing conducted at a wholesale produce distribution center (terminal market) as part of a USDA testing program. Pack/Codes: The... Continue Reading
  • BPI Sues Mickey Mouse for $1.2 Billion over “P ...
    You can buy a lot of Pink Slime for $1.2 billion. UPDATE:  Lawsuit also names:  DIANE SAWYER, JIM AVILA, DAVID KERLEY (reporters for ABC), GERALD ZIRNSTEIN, CARL CUSTER (former FSIS... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

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Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Mayor Rahm-Ney’s Attack on the Chicago Teacher ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Unions are under attack in the United States—not only from people like Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, but now, with the teachers strike in Chicago, from the very core of President Barack Obama’s inner circle, his former chief of staff and current mayor o ...
  • Wednesday: Attorney for Banking Whistleblower ...
    As news comes that the IRS will award whistleblower Brad Birkenfeld $1.4 million—the largest individual federal payout in U.S. history for exposing exposing the biggest tax evasion scheme in U.S. history—we will speak with one of his attorneys, Stephen Kohn, executive director of ...
  • Read an Excerpt from "500 Days: Secrets and Li ...
    Read an excerpt below from the newly published book, 500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars, Kurt Eichenwald, who will be a guest Wednesday, Sept. 12, on Democracy Now! He reports that newly disclosed documents from before the 9/11 attacks provide further evidence the Bush administra ...
  • The 9/11 Decade: Timeline of Voices of Dissent ...
    At the time of the September 11th attacks, Democracy Now!’s War and Peace Report, hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, was one of the few media outlets reporting on the voices of peace and dissent as the country went to war, suspended civil liberties, spied on diss ...
  • The 9/11 Decade: Voices of Dissent on Democrac ...
    At the time of the September 11th attacks, Democracy Now!’s War and Peace Report, hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, was one of the few media outlets reporting on the voices of peace and dissent as the country went to war, suspended civil liberties, spied on diss ...

Suzie-Q

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

Solari

  • Bob Dylan-Gotta Serve Somebody
  • Transcript for The Breakaway Civilization with ...
    Transcript for The Breakaway Civilization with Dr. Joseph Farrell is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: Catherine: Well, I first started to read your work on – you have several books on the Nazis and Nazi technology. So first I would like to ask you, how in the world d ...
  • Bernanke Goes All In: What It Means for You
    In an unprecedented and controversial move, the Federal Reserve today announced the initiation of an open-ended round of Quantitative Easing (QE3) and extended the period for which it will keep rates between 0 and 1/4% to mid-2015. Continue Reading Here.
  • Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Tha ...
    By Steven Levy Had Narrative Science — a company that trains computers to write news stories—created this piece, it probably would not mention that the company’s Chicago headquarters lie only a long baseball toss from the Tribune newspaper building. Nor would it dwell on the fact that this [...]
  • Did Citigroup Defraud Billions from US Ally Ab ...
    By Pam Martens Adding to those seemingly insurmountable headwinds, Sheikh Ahmed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Managing Director of ADIA, would not be able to give first hand testimony to the tribunal as to what Robert Rubin and other Citigroup executives had promised him. In the same month, March 2010, ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • What you’re not being told about the wor ...
    Summary: The secret key to the FM website’s great forecasting record is that we do only the blindingly obvious, and give no dates. Such as the long forecast of stability for the world economy, to be followed by ugliness. We revisit this again, showing that almost nothing is happening yet i ...
  • Death celebrates 9-11. Can we stop and think b ...
    Summary:  The news from Libya has produce the usual flood of American hysteria, and the natural (by now, habitual) but foolish desire to strike back. It should instead force us to stop and think. As should the attacks by our Afghanistan allies. Something has gone terribly wrong with the War on T ...
  • Choose your team: our election is a conflict b ...
    Summary:  Philosophy has always been a driver of social and political evolution in western civilization. Especially at inflection points, like today. Here we look at two formerly obscure philosophers who have been brought to life by the unassailable power of money. Their theories both fight for ...
  • Hidden history about Madrid 1995: a look at th ...
    Summary:  Today we have an excerpt from a longer work describing one of the key global diplomatic meetings shaping the early 21st century world, our equivalent of the Congress of Vienna in 1815.  In the era of 4GW State-to-State wars are replaced by global conferences setting policy about curren ...
  • How bad is our bloat of generals? How does it ...
    Summary:  As a followup to yesterday’s rant by Richard A Pawloski (Captain, USMC, retired) about our bloated corps of senior generals, today we look at the actual numbers.  They show that if anything Pawloski understated the situation, and that only many more rants can reform our military. ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Who Else Has Drones?
    The Government Accountability Office (GAO) just posted an excellent report, Nonproliferation: Agencies Could Improve Information Sharing and End-Use Monitoring on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, which I cannot recommend highly enough. A declassified version of a report provided to Congress in February ...
  • On the "Reality of Nations"
    This is a guest post by Peter S. Henne. Peter is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University. He formerly worked as a national security consultant. His research focuses on terrorism and religious conflict; he has also written on the role of faith in US foreign policy. During 2012-2013 he ...
  • Top the Morning: American Embassies Protested ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest.  US Embassies Face Protests Across the Muslim World; German Embassy in Sudan Attacked Friday is typically a big day for political protest in much of the Muslim world. Given the events of this past week, things may get hairy today. “Protesters also clashed with poli ...
  • The Two War Construct: Myths, Realities and Qu ...
    Today, Governor Romney made the beginings of a important contribution to how the presidential campaign season has so far addressed defense policy. Speaking at a Campaign event, he said:   "Ever since FDR we've had the capacity to be engaged in two conflicts at once and [President Obama] ...
  • Tactical Patience: The Perils of Rapid Response
    There’s been a lot of teeth gnashing and handwringing in the last 24 hours. Having one of your Ambassadors killed and two embassies stormed tends to get the juices flowing. But the embassy protests and consulate attack were just the opening act of a three-act play. Before Act I was finished, Mit ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Going Dutch
    The much-maligned and long-drawn-out project to save the euro faced two crucial tests on Wednesday. The first bit of good news for those who do not want to see the euro area break up came in the morning, when Germany’s constitutional court gave the green light for the operation of the European ...
  • Today in Obama Trutherism
    On the heels of the conspiracy theory about the liberal media and pollsters “inventing” President Obama's post-convention bump—which has turned out to be quite reality-based—the wingers have a brand-new fractured fairy tale. This one features the former George W. Bush adviser and appointee, Fed ...
  • The Simple Question That Never Gets Asked
    Yesterday, conservatives got all outraged because a microphone picked up a few journalists discussing with each other what questions they would ask Mitt Romney at what turned out to be his disastrous press conference on the events in Cairo and Benghazi. Aha! they shouted; Michelle Malkin told t ...
  • Today in Chutzpah
    Speaking of that Mitt Romney interview with George Stephanopoulos, it contained this hilarious bit of chutzpah: Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, whom Democrats have charged is too loose with his facts, predicted that President Obama would lie in the October debates. “I think he’s go ...
  • Both Romney and Obama Are Wrong about Who Is " ...
    If Mitt Romney began this week with a misstep over foreign policy—accusing President Barack Obama of “sympathizing” with the people who attacked the American embassy in Cairo—then he has ended it with a misstep over class. In an interview with Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos, he sa ...

Buzzflash

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

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Toilet paper orientation
    Whoever said Wikipedia, or Sciencebase come to that, was trivial? This is meaning-of-life stuff: Toilet paper when used with a toilet roll holder with a horizontal axle parallel to the wall has two possible orientations: the toilet paper may hang over (in front of) or under (behind) the roll. Th ...
  • Notes for a Periodic Table of Elements Songs
    Working on creating a Periodic Table of the Elements in which each entry is a song: Love is Like Oxygen – The Sweet Gold – Spandau Ballet Helium – Feeder Titanium – David Guetta Pocket full of Kryptonite?” http://t.co/dMtlfLFu Radiohead ‘My Iron Lung’? L ...
  • A blacksmith’s good heat and bad heat
    An engineer friend visited a working blacksmith on a museum and asked him about the metallurgy and heating processes. The blacksmith pointed out that coke is the best fuel for getting a good hot furnace and that a gas-fired furnace, while able to get up to the same temperature does not produce a ...
  • 7 billion people, 70 million chemicals
    Humanity reached a developmental waymarker of sorts with the population reaching 7 billion some time in 2012. Now, the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) is estimating that it will register the 70 millionth organic or inorganic substance in its database some time in the next few months, possibly t ...
  • Edible panties – where lust and gluttony intersect
    Jessica Hagy did an enneagram a while back that hooked together pairs of the seven deadly sins. She kindly let me publish a few years back and also answered a few of my questions about it. Check out where lust and gluttony meet (edible undies), greed and sloth (get rich quick schemes), gluttony ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Speaking at Values Voter Summit, Paul Ryan Giv ...
    People For the American Way today challenged the Romney campaign for its decision to send vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan to speak today at the Values Voter Summit, an event organized by groups that regularly push false and demeaning smears about gays and lesbians, Muslim-Americans and oth ...
  • Court Rules Against Detention; Congress Double ...
    Charlie Savage of the New York Times reports today: “A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the government from enforcing a controversial statute about the indefinite detention without trial of terrorism suspects. Congress enacted the measure last year as part of the National Defense Authori ...
  • Court Rules Against Detention; Congress Double ...
    Charlie Savage of the New York Times reports today: “A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the government from enforcing a controversial statute about the indefinite detention without trial of terrorism suspects. Congress enacted the measure last year as part of the National Defense Authori ...
  • “No More War. No More Business as Usual,” Says ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke out against bloated Pentagon spending and hundreds of billions of U.S. taxpayer money wasted on unnecessary wars. Kucinich vowed to vote against the “Continuing Resolution” which will fund the federal government for another six months. S ...
  • “No More War. No More Business as Usual,” Says ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke out against bloated Pentagon spending and hundreds of billions of U.S. taxpayer money wasted on unnecessary wars. Kucinich vowed to vote against the “Continuing Resolution” which will fund the federal government for another six months. S ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Romney’s Jaw-Dropping Incoherence
    Robert Parry For all his supposed business competence, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is running a campaign of jaw-dropping incoherence, mixing some of the most dishonest rants from right-wing talk radio with focus-group worrie ...
  • Standardized Tests for All Elected Officials
    Carl Gibson Rahm Emanuel wants to cheapen education to make it conform to a standardized testing model. So how about we come up with standardized testing models to see how our do-nothing politicians measure up?read more
  • Living Up to 'The New Deal': Half the Nation I ...
    Susan Feiner President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his fourth and final State of the Union Address in 1944. Because the defeat of fascism in Europe was in sight, FDR could frame a peacetime vision for the nation. He saw that the full rea ...
  • The Global Food System Casino
    Vandana Shiva Food is our nourishment. It is the source of life. Growing food, processing, transforming and distributing it involves 70 per cent of humanity. Eating food involves all of us. Yet, it is not the culture or human rights that ar ...
  • Is There Even Less Arctic Sea Ice Than the Sat ...
    John Vidal Where is the ice? We are now at 83.20N which is very close to the north pole yet still there is no continuous ice cover (head here for more on my journey through the Arctic).read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • 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.
  • Kenya: Kenya's Water Wars Kill Scores
    [IPS]Nairobi -Water scarcity is fuelling deadly inter-ethnic wars that continue to claim lives in Kenya, according to government officials. And if nothing is done to educate communities on how to conserve the valuable resource, the situation will escalate, governance experts and environmentalist ...
  • Future Water Wars?
    Growing populations, climate change, and diminishing water resources are combining to make water the oil of the 21st century.
  • Uzbekistan Leader Warns of Water Wars in Centr ...
    President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan has upped his rhetoric against neighboring Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, warning that their efforts to build hydroelectric power stations on rivers upstream could spark war. Speaking during an official visit to Astana on September 7, Karimov launched a broadsid ...
  • Attorney General Olens Talks Water
    Attorney General Sam Olens was in Albany today and talked about many issues, including the water wars between Georgia, Florida and Alabama.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • House Republicans Plan Two Month Vacation, Lea ...
    House Republican Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) announced Friday that after next week, the House will stand in recess until November 13. His plan for a nearly two month vacation will undoubtedly allow more time for campaigning, but will leave several vital bills awaiting action. Among the important l ...
  • Court Strikes Down Wisconsin Union-Busting Law
    Wisconsin Judge Juan Colas ruled that Governor Scott Walker’s (R-WI) law eliminating collective bargaining rights for public-sector unions was unconstitutional under both the Wisconsin and United States constitutions. The law, which does not save the state any money but crushes the politic ...
  • Former Wall Street Executive: Complexity Of To ...
    Back in July, former Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill — who is largely credited with convincing lawmakers in Washington to shatter the Depression-era regulations separating commercial banks from risky investment banks — said that the nation’s biggest banks should be broken up. This le ...
  • McCain Fights With Sean Hannity On Foreign Pol ...
    Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Fox News host Sean Hannity got into a bit of a spat last night after Hannity pushed a set of right-wing talking points on President Obama’s foreign policy that even McCain thought went to far. Hannity said Obama “apologized” for the attackers that ki ...
  • Corporate Law Firms Now Paying $280,000 Signin ...
    Major corporate law firms are now paying recent Supreme Court clerks, many of whom are only two years out of law school and can be as young as 28 years old, a $280,000 signing bonus simply for showing up to their first day of work. That’s in addition to base salaries around $185,000 for th ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Rediscovering the Libyan Debacle
    The violence in Libya resulting from the sectarian clods (fundamentalist Christians and Jews) who made an anti-Islamic film (take the beams out of thine own eyes you deluded saps!) has returned the Western media's attention to that devastated country. In being forced to look at the mess, the me ...
  • The Hypocrisy of Politics Forces Me to Resist
    That's gotta be one of the biggest things, ... the hypocrisy. Obama supporters who used to condemn bush II for spying on Americans who care nothing that their hero, that Wall Street shill, has assumed the right to kill them. Or stephen harper and John Baird yammering about Iran torturing Canadi ...
  • Mulcair's Zionism is Showing
    Argh! So, Thomas Mulcair decides to publicly embarrass Paul Dewar for his infinitely reasonable comments on harper's imbecilic termination of diplomatic relations with Iran. Mulcair, babbling like an idiot, says that harper might have important information to justify his decision. Oh right. Top ...
  • Ontario Liberals
    A while ago, I made the hard decision to extend credit where it was due. I don't like conceding things to my enemies but I don't think we should refuse to acknowledge and reward good behaviour either. So, I credited the McGuinty Liberals for finally taking over their responsibilities over the p ...
  • Making it Official
    For the record, I shan't be commenting at Dawg's Blog anymore. I still admire and read the guy, but it royally irked me to be treated as being somehow the equal of a moral defective like Peter1. Then there was the double-standard of having my pseudonym used as a term of generic mockery while hav ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Photo: Vancouver 'Drunk Baby' passport photo g ...
    A passport photo of the five-month-old baby of a Vancouver Reddit user, Jorge Churano, has gone viral online. The adorable baby looks sort of "laid back" in the photo, or more frankly, groggy and slack-jawed in a tipsy-looking manner.
  • Shane Doan signs four-year deal to remain with ...
    Despite being one of the most sought-after unrestricted free agents on the market, Shane Doan made it clear he never really wanted to leave the Phoenix Coyotes - and now he doesn't have to.
  • 'Men against sexual trafficking' organize walk ...
    A walk across Ontario is being organized to raise awareness on sexual trafficking. A Facebook Group has also been set up.
  • How detailed should school dress codes be?
    Across the globe many educational institutions impose dress codes, some more restrictive than others. Whatever a district decides, administrators and decision makers should make clear, not unlike any other policies, what they expect.
  • Players already on the move as NHL CBA nears e ...
    With the NHL's collective bargaining agreement set to expire midnight Saturday, several players have reportedly made arrangements to join other teams - and in some cases, they'll be suiting up immediately.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Congress Gets Rough Treatment At Supreme Court
    April 2, 2012 Associated Press By AP “Even the Supreme Court thinks Congress is lame.” –KTRN The Supreme Court left little doubt during last week’s marathon arguments over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul that it has scant faith in Congress’ abili ...
  • Japan’s Okinawa Island – The Healthiest Place ...
    April 2, 2012 Oddity Central By Sumitra “It’s really not that odd. The people living on Okinawa eat real food and have no stress – thus they live long lives. We can all learn a lot by studying the people living on this island.” –KTRN I used to think that there were ...
  • Secrets of Prometheus Film Leaked!
    April 2, 2012 Info Wars By Info Wars “According to Alex Jones, the new film Prometheus has a hidden global elite agenda.”  –KTRN No, we’re not going to give away any SPOILERS here; instead we will reveal the agenda behind Prometheus, the new film by legendary director Ridley Sc ...
  • FDA Discounts More Than a Million Signatures O ...
    April 2, 2012 Info Wars By Kurt Nimmo “So apparently more than a million signatures is not enough for the FDA.” –KTRN The FDA is with Monsanto and agribusiness. They don’t want you to know what’s in the food you eat. On Tuesday, the FDA reached a deadline for the “Just Label It ...
  • Junk Food, Fast Food Proven to Cause Depression
    April 2, 2012 Natural Society By Mike Barrett “If you already don’t have enough reasons to stop eating garbage, here is another one.” –KTRN According to recent research conducted by scientists from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the University of Granada ...

Armies of Liberation

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