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SAN FRANCISCO - OCTOBER 08: US Senator Barbara Boxer (left) speaks with the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi during the Atlanta Braves game against the San Francisco Giants in game 2 of the NLDS at AT&T Park on October 8, 2010 in San Francisco, California. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

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Dark Politricks

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

Dandelion Salad

• 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 ...
• White House Appeals NDAA Indefinite Detention ...
  Dandelion Salad Sep 13, 2012 by RTAmerica On Thursday, a Federal judge made permanent an injunction barring the indefinite detention of Americans without charge under the National Defense Authorization Act. The group of plaintiffs in this case comprised of seven journalists claiming this piece o ...
• Federal Court In New York Just Ruled Indefinit ...
  Dandelion Salad http://act.demandprogress.org Sept. 12, 2012 We Won! Tell Obama: Don’t Appeal NDAA Court Ruling We did it! But now we need your help putting pressure on Obama. A federal court in New York just ruled indefinite detention UNCONSTITUTIONAL and issued a permanent injunction aga ...
• Congress Expands Spying On Americans + Nadler: ...
  Dandelion Salad Sep 12, 2012 by RTAmerica On Wednesday, the US House of Representatives will vote on whether or not to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. If passed, FISA will essentially extend the powers of the government and give the authorization to wiretap Americans witho ...
• Chris Hedges: The teacher strike in Chicago is ...
  with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad September 11, 2012 Sep 11, 2012 by democracynow DemocracyNow.org As the Chicago public school teachers’ strike enters its second day, we’re joined by the journalist and author Chris Hedges. “The teacher strike in Chicago is argu ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

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

Israeli Occupation Archive

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

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russian Navy Plans to Revamp Its Fleet of Auxi ...
  The Russian Navy is planning to receive over 100 new auxiliary ships by 2020 to satisfy the need for logistics support of its expanding combat fleet, Deputy Defense Minister Gen. Dmitry Bulgakov said.
• Russian Army Mistakes School for Militant Base ...
  An army unit that pelted a Dagestani school with mortar rounds was aiming for insurgents hiding elsewhere in the area, the Investigative Committee said on Friday.
• Russia, Central Asian States to Hold Air Defen ...
  Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan will conduct joint command-and-staff air defense drills on October 5-16, the Kyrgyz Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
• U.S. Sends Two Warships to Libyan Coast - Fox News
  Two U.S. Navy guided missile destroyers were sent toward the coast of Libya following the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three consulate employees, Fox News reported citing unnamed military officials.
• Russian Strategic Bombers Carry out North Patrols
  Two Russian Tu-95MS Bear-H strategic bombers have successfully completed a routine patrol mission over the Barents, North and Norwegian seas, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

NewsWise

• CF Patients of Low SES Are Less Likely to Rece ...
  Adult cystic fibrosis (CF) patients of low socioeconomic status (SES) have a greater chance of not being accepted for lung transplant after undergoing initial evaluation, according to a new study.
• Breaking News Experts Needed: 1) Anti-Islam Fi ...
• Water Quality Study Shows Need for Testing at ...
  The drinking water at one-third of migrant farmworker camps in eastern North Carolina failed to meet state quality standards, according to a new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
• Negative Cross-Resistance Helps Scientists Out ...
  Kochia, a weed that is rapidly becoming more abundant across southern Canadian prairies and the Great Plains of the United States, can reduce crop yields by up to 60 percent. Fighting this weed has become difficult because more than 90 percent of kochia populations are now resistant to acetolact ...
• Stress Breaks Loops That Hold Short-Term Memor ...
  Stress has long been pegged as the enemy of attention, disrupting focus and doing substantial damage to working memory -- the short-term juggling of information that allows us to do all the little things that make us productive.

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Libya Killings and Speech Labels: The First Am ...
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro At risk of dipping back into this touchy subject, there’s this interesting development as reported in today’s NY Times: Google has blocked the film that has provoked embassy (and now KFC) attacks from youTube sites in Libya and Egypt: Google said it de ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Friday, September 14, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey  As turmoil continues to spread in the Middle East, Google has temporarily blocked access in Libya and Egypt to the inflammatory anti-Muslim video, invoking exceptional circumstances but not relying on its guidelines prohibiting hate speech. It will not come ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, September 13, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi has begun his first European tour as president and will visit Brussels to discuss economic support, agriculture, job creation and investment in the Egyptian private sector, among other topics. Despite President Mursi’s call f ...
• U.S. Dispatches Military to “Hunt” Militants i ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Here it comes: President Obama is exercising his Commander-in-Chief powers, a la Durand v. Hollins: The U.S. responded to the assault by dispatching two Navy destroyers, dozens of Marines, federal investigators and intelligence assets to Libya to protect Americans and ...
• US Envoy Killing Bolsters Case for Hate Speech Ban
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro The deplorable killing of Chris Stevens in Libya suggests a foreign relations law rationale for banning hate speech. Remember, the Benghazi protests were prompted by this film depicting the prophet Mohammed in not very flattering terms. The equation from the prote ...

Public News Service

• Westerners Back Impact Fees for Renewable Ener ...
  Westerners Back Impact Fees for Renewable Energy on Public Lands PHOENIX – In western states, including Arizona, party lines practically disappear in a new poll about balancing renewable energy development with protection for public lands. Nearly three out of four voters in 11 states said ...
• Food Fight? Expert Weighs In on Benefits of Or ...
  Food Fight? Expert Weighs In on Benefits of Organic PHOENIX - Much media attention has been given to the recent release of a Stanford University study that found little evidence of additional health benefits from organic foods. But other experts, including Joe Pedretti, an organic-education spec ...
• New Poll Shows Strong Support for Food Stamps, ...
  New Poll Shows Strong Support for Food Stamps, Opposition to Cuts PHOENIX, Ariz. - Three-quarters of Americans say cutting billions from the food stamp program is the wrong way to reduce federal spending. That's the result of a new survey from the Washington, D.C.-based Food Research and Action ...
• AZ Tax Backers Seize on New School Spending Report
  AZ Tax Backers Seize on New School Spending Report PHOENIX - Arizona has made the deepest cuts to elementary and secondary education of any state in the nation during the past five years, according to a new report from the Washington, D.C.-based Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Report co ...
• Campaign Money “Arms Race” Goes Nu ...
  Campaign Money “Arms Race” Goes Nuclear TAMPA, Fla. - The people watching money in politics say the fundraising arms race has gone nuclear. Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, was an observer at the Republican National Convention. ...(Read More)

Center for Food Safety

• Center for Food Safety Calls Dow, SOCC Backroo ...
  Today, Center for Food Safety issued a response to a joint statement by The Save Our Crop Coalition (SOCC) and Dow Chemical announcing SOCC has dropped its opposition to 2,4-D resistant “Agent Orange” crops. This backroom agreement was made prior to any approval of 2,4-D resistant crops by the U ...
• Stanford Research on Organics Hits the Stats, ...
  By Lisa J. Bunin, Ph.D, Organic Policy Coordinator, Center for Food Safety “Are Organic Foods Safer or Healthier than Conventional Alternatives?” Stanford University researchers attempted to answer this question in their recently released analysis of published literature on the health, nutrition ...
• Environmental, Public Interest Groups Ready fo ...
  Longstanding violation of Endangered Species Act provisions highlights Sixty-Day Notice filing Today, the Center for Food Safety, Beyond Pesticides and the Sierra Club, along with affected citizens from around the country, filed a Sixty-Day Notice letter with the Environmental Protection Agency ...
• Oregon Court of Appeals Grants Stay, Canola Pl ...
  Groups and producers pleased with court ruling, damage to local growers temporarily averted The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) failed to provide adequate justification for a temporary rule issued earlier this month that would have allowed the un ...
• Center for Food Safety Lawsuit Targets FDA, OM ...
  Food Safety and Modernization Act rules unlawfully delayed as risks increase, public health threatened The Center for Food Safety (“The Center”) today filed suit in federal court against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for their failure to im ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

• Apple’s Superiors Jumped the Gun?
  Maybe Apple should have waited to announce iOS6 at the same time with the iPhone 5 launch, or announced the iPhone 5 sooner. Opinions about the new iPhone vary from “evolutionary” to “boring”. iOS6 on the other hand, is definitely more atractive. If Apple had chosen to co ...
• O Ridiculous Fortune
  O fortuna! Velut luna, statu variabilis! Semper crecis et decrecis, vita detestabilis! (Carmina Burana) O fortune! Like the moon you are ever-changing: Always increasing and decreasing, making life detestable!(Rough translation) Whenever I’m feeling depressed, laughter is often the way out ...
• Where’s the switch?
  I’ve been somber for two days in a row, which isn’t very common in me anymore. It feels as if someone turned off the light. I suspect that in the chemicals of my brain, this is not too far from the truth. Lately I haven’t had to make an effort to feel well. I could [...] Relate ...
• Older and Wiser
  I had feared my coworkers would forget my birthday this morning, since even one of my closest friends saw me this morning and apparently forgot. But they didn’t! This reminds me of past birthdays in Mexico, and shows me that the people at Kansas City Southern, Mexico are classier than any ...
• Disney-Pixar Pollution
  For a movie titled “Brave” Pixar are behaving like cowards. I knew it the moment Princess Merida rode her horse out of her castle. A character song. A musical cue. Suddenly I wasn’t watching a Pixar movie, I was watching Mulan or Pocahontas. The very thought of another Disney princess is bad eno ...

Green Times

• Kangaroo cull
  Last week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
• Environmental News 01/06/2012
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
• Green Capital Australia
  Today is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
• Environmental News 31/05/2012
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
• Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...
  Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Vitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claims
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• The Vitamin D Briefing
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• New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife p ...
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• Vitamin D – the new book that could save your ...
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• Chemical linked to low IQ found in sunscreens
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Hiroshima Survivors to Visit Israel
  The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project is a unique, civil society initiative that enables Hibakusha (survivors of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki) to participate in around-the-world voyages to give personal testimonies about the effects of the atomic bomb ...
• Military and Settler Vandalism Escalates as Co ...
  We continue to follow, report and support the struggle of the Palestinian residents of the West Bank’s southernmost region, to continue living on their ancestral lands which they legally own. One would think that in an enlightened society such a simple request would be guaranteed beyond do ...
• A New Bio-Gas System in Palestinian Susya
  in May 2010, the Bio-Gas project was launched to install systems for producing gas from sheep and goat dung for the domestic energy needs of the Palestinian hamlet of Susya (Susiya). This project was the initiative of Yair Teller, together with The Villages Group and Arava Institute. The first s ...
• Susya
  June 22, 2012: Susya I doubt if Palestinian Susya has ever seen so many people. Some 500, maybe more, have arrived from Jerusalem (including a large Palestinian delegation from East Jerusalem), Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva, and various sites in the occupied territories: Beit Umar, Mufagara, and the ...
• My Home is Everything: the People of Susiya Sp ...
  Dear Friends and supporters, The latest news from Qamar, the lawyer from Rabbis for Human Rights representing Palestinian Susiya: the occupation’s “Civil Administration” agreed to extend the period for the submission of the juridical objections to the demolition orders issued f ...

Politics in the Zeros

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

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

• The Jack Blood Show – August 15 2012
  Chris Maple joins us to discuss his documentary film series “THE GREAT CULLING” www.thegreatculling.org – the first edition is about our poison water (Fluoride)! Facts fly like crazy in this 60 min interview. The same director made “What in the world are the Spraying&#822 ...
• Gunman Opens Fire At Conservative Family Resea ...
  What were we saying about Civil war? Sectarian violence is way up in 2012!     The conservative Family Research Council was the site of a shooting by someone who obviously demonstrates the “radical hatred” of the left. The gunman entered the lobby of the Chinatown headquart ...
• More Federal Agencies Caught Ordering Huge Amo ...
  What does the Social Security Administration National weather service need with this kind of ammo? It appears our calculation a few months back could be right after all. Getting ammo off the market before it is banned or highly restricted  / regulated.  By the time regular folks find out it will ...
• “The Great Culling” Official Water ...
  Chris Maple will be our guest ON “The Jack Blood Show” Wednesday August 15th 2012 (find it in our archives) SHARE THIS!!!!!!! “The Great Culling” Official Water Trailer 2 Donate Today! http://www.thegreatculling.org Hello Everyone - Chris and Paul here, we just wanted to ...
• Gen Wesley Clarke hosts Military meets d list ...
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The Air Vent

• Lewandowsky’s Bodge
  The term “conspiracy” is one of the most overused words in climate jargon. Just using the word conspiracy with a person has become a popular way to discredit those who question any of the facts presented by an official body. With so much information available there is only enough tim ...
• The Lewandowsky Incident
  I have avoided critique of Lewandowsky’s paper because I am still awaiting a reply from Lewandowsky on my demand for removal of a false citation. He has agreed in part that the citation was inaccurate but due to some minor sophistry in his reply there is delay in finalizing the issue. It s ...
• The Blaze
  Anthony Watts and Lucia were cited today at the Blaze for their parts in pressing Lewandowsky to release the hidden data in his study. It is great to see that reasonable people still have some media backing in the face of extremist character attacks. I am beginning to wonder just how far this cy ...
• Proof and Genius
  I know you guys missed me, Real Climate sure did. Eric Steig has written a letter to “The Guardian” (booming voice) in response to a Nic Lewis letter patiently explaining problems in an article written by yet-another-know-nothing with a keyboard.  Unfortunately for us, the article it ...
• Simulated Universe
  Calculated galactic formation. This is just way too good to miss: http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/17/scientists-create-universe-simulation/ http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/research/movingmeshcosmology/index.html

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• Facebook roundup: Blackberry update, patent su ...
  New Facebook for Blackberry app available – RIM released a new version of Facebook for Blackberry this week, including improvement for event management, birthdays and navigation. The new app includes event information and RSVP functionality. Users can integrate birthdays into … Conti ...
• Facebook platform industry hires: Identified, ...
  If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please let us know. Email mail (at) insidefacebook (dot) com, and we’ll get it into our next post. Also, please note that information about most new hires, below, … Continue reading →
• This week’s updates to the Facebook Marketing ...
  Facebook’s increased focus on mobile advertising is something to take into consideration when planning for Facebook marketing. Mobile ads have more prominence and have so far shown to be more engaging than right column ads on desktop. Looking to tackle … Continue reading →
• China’s Renren social network copies Facebook ...
  Chinese social network Renren is rolling out a new profile that clearly copies the design and features of Facebook Timeline. Since launching in 2005, Renren has always maintained a close look and feel to Facebook, from News Feed to profiles to … Continue reading →
• Farmville 2, Chase Community Giving, Ustream a ...
  Zynga’s FarmVille 2 topped our list of emerging applications by monthly active users this week after launching on Sept. 5. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past week. This week’s top apps grew from … Continue read ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: General’s Defense on Afghan Ho ...
  truthout: General’s Defense on Afghan Hospital Scandal Ducks Key Evidence http://t.co/LQxngu9V @GarethPorter @ipsnews #Afghanistan
• truthout: RT @thisisjorge: BREAKING: Wisconsin ...
  truthout: RT @thisisjorge: BREAKING: Wisconsin Judge Strikes Down Gov. Walker's Law Ending Most Collective Bargaining http://t.co/QKTzqgpE
• truthout: Uncle Sam Is Watching You: Stop #FIS ...
  truthout: Uncle Sam Is Watching You: Stop #FISA Renewal http://t.co/O7JIOxQy @Sheeyahshee #NDA #spying #surveillance
• truthout: #Occupy Wall Street Prepares to Cele ...
  truthout: #Occupy Wall Street Prepares to Celebrate Where It All Began http://t.co/OQITKRk0 #S17 #ows @OccupyWallSt @OccupyWallStNYC
• truthout: Judge Blocks #NDAA Indefinite Detent ...
  truthout: Judge Blocks #NDAA Indefinite Detention Clause, Truthout FOIA Cited in Testimony http://t.co/6MiMMHzw @jasonleopold @carwinb

ReDress News

• Protest in Ramallah - an ominous sign for the ...
  Uri Avnery argues that foreign aid and Israeli handouts from stolen Palestinian tax revenue provide only temporary relief from Israel's economic strangulation of the Palestinians, and that a "Palestinian Spring" targeted at the occupation may come sooner rather than later.
• Netanyahu and the Zionist lobby: a threat to t ...
  Alan Hart argues that the attempts by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Israel's American lobbyists to push the United States into war with Iran is driving a wedge into the US-Israeli special relationship.
• An Israeli film-maker, Jewish donors and their ...
  Nureddin Sabir considers the possible motives of the Israeli creator and Jewish financiers of the film, "Innocence of Muslims", which gratuitously insults the Prophet Muhammad and Islam and has sparked riots in Egypt and Libya, resulting in the killing of four American diplomats at the US consul ...
• US democracy takes a hit
  Lawrence Davidson argues that the Obama camp's obsession with pre-empting attacks from domestic Israel flag-waving fos through appeasement is now such that they are no longer concerned with the damage this does to their natural allies.
• Forget Iran, it's Israel’s nuclear gun pointed ...
  Jonathan Cook argues that behind the facade of shared values and interests between the US and Israel lie betrayal and mistrust, and that the special relationship between the two countries is underpinned by "the formidably intimidating tactics of the pro-Israel lobby in Washington" and Israeli nu ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Dagestan—‘Syria comes to Russia…’
  Part I: Syria comes to the Russian Caucasus On August 28 Sheikh Said Afandi, acknowledged spiritual leader of the Autonomous Russian Republic of Dagestan, was assassinated. A jihadist female suicide bomber managed to enter his house and detonate an explosive device. The murder target had been ca ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Iran’s Strategic Diplomatic Victory over the W ...
  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 of Washingto ...
• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  The Public Relations of Political Awakening The modern industrial democracy requires modern techniques of propaganda in order to function. This was the belief – both articulated and implemented – by the elite in the early 20th century. Out of this belief grew the functions of modern ...

Afro Spear

• The Spiritual Reality of Black Unity
  “I do have a job but I have to work tons of overtime just to be able to afford food, shelter & clothing. My father made it a point to teach me African American History. I was reading Langston Hughes and W.E.B. DuBois as a child. However no matter how knowledgeable I become about regard ...
• Unity: To A Color Or A Principle?!
  Since treachery comes in every shade, who can I trust? Well, what do I stand for? What vision do I have for myself, for my community, for the world around me? One could ask: Do I have a community of people who SHARE my vision? Or am I a lone wolf? I am a lone [...]
• The Shock Doctrine
  A documentary adaptation Naomi Klein’s 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine. An investigation of disaster capitalism, based on Naomi Klein’s proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance. Based on breakthrough historical resear ...
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• Hating on Love: The Fallacy of Black Unity
  “It’s so amazing to me that so many of us speak of unity, yet we are to assume we know what is meant by unity and unification. The word is never clearly defined by the user. In the between time, there is a mean spirited tone to the discussion that should be avoided if we [...]

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• Today is September 12, 1984
  9 11 changed everything, worst of all, the collective mentality of the U.S.A.
• What's it All About, Bibi?
  So there was one Danny Danon, a Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset and leading member of the leading Right-Wing Israeli political party, Likud, on "Morning Joe" on Sept. 12, 2012, stating that what the United States (!) had to do with Iran was "draw a red line" in reference to their nuclear d ...
• "Non-Citizen" CO Voters Not Actually Non-Citiz ...
  It is absolutely shameful what the Republican Party is attempting to do to undermine the core American value of democracy in this country this year. Respectable Republicans, if there are any who have not yet been run out of the party, ought to be raising holy hell with their party leadership abo ...
• 7 Groups the FBI and Corporations Have Classif ...
  Today you'll hear the annual chorus of "we will never forget." But we have forgotten. We have forgotten the uproar against the Patriot Act, which was passed in the middle of the night. We have forgotten that Guantanamo Bay was once treated as an aberration, which Obama promised to close. And we ...
• Meet the TPP: A Worldwide Corporate Power Grab ...
  The corporate cabal behind a new trade agreement including Cargill, Pfizer, Nike and WalMart, has done an exceptional job of maintaining an almost total lack of transparency as they literally design the future we will all inhabit.

Switchboard

• Summertime Frugal Feasts - on a boat!
  Sasha Lyutse, Policy Analyst, New York As the summer officially draws to a close, I couldn’t let the season end without giving proper due to the great Frugal Feasts we enjoyed. Our July Feast was hosted by my friend, Scott, who graciously offe ...
• Is Dimock's Water Really Safe? One Federal He ...
  Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney, New York City It looks like the federal government is still concerned about the water in Dimock, PA.  Although it’s been a few months since the EPA declared Dimock drinking water “safe” despite p ...
• Poll Says Americans Support Transit Investment ...
  Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City On average, Americans spend more than 100 hours commuting to work every year. That means we spend more time on the road, trying to get to work, than we do on a standard two-week (80-hour) vacation. And ...
• How creative entrepreneurs are enlivening Miam ...
  Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   I think something special may be happening in Little Havana, the neighborhood that serves as the social and cultural heart of Miami’s Cuban-American community.  I a ...
• SHELL FLEES FROM FLOES
  Chuck Clusen, Director, National Parks and Alaska Projects, Washington, DC After nearly two months of delays, Shell began exploratory drilling of the Chukchi Sea floor in the pre-dawn hours of Sunday morning. By noon on Monday, encroaching sea ice h ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Kristof Likes Saving Workers Superhero-Style, ...
  Nicholas Kristof is all about protecting workers–if they can fulfill his white man fantasies of swooping into Cambodian brothels to save women of color from the sex trade. Given the nature of such a fantasy, one wonders how much of it cannot be written in the New York Times, particularly t ...
• Walter White is no White Savior
  Malcolm Harris is convinced that Breaking Bad‘s Walter White is yet another example of the White Savior, i.e. The white guy who enters a world supposedly beneath him where he doesn’t belong yet nonetheless triumphs over the inhabitants is older than talkies. TV Tropes calls it “Mighty Whit ...
• A Blow Against the Arbitrary Detention Regime
  I have a piece on this week’s NDAA ruling up. The optimistic title isn’t mine — alas, I suspect that as in most cases where the legislative and executive branches are united on military policy, the judiciary will ultimately let them go on their unconstitutional way. But I hope ...
• Suckers!
  More from Mitt: And: And: And: I couldn’t resist coining the phrase “tragedy bump,” but I should’ve. That said, I’m sure I missed some from the previous thread, so feel free to elevate those I missed or come up with more. I’m enjoying this intensely even if it ...
• New Coalitions
  Interesting article on India, Indian-Americans, and the GOP: Take a close look at the draft platform that Politico discovered on the Republican National Committee’s website on Friday, and you’ll see that the Republican party arguably lavishes more praise on India than on any country ...

Desert Research Institute

• 2012 Tahoe Summit Report
  The Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno have worked together for decades to provide comprehensive studies that have led to a better understanding of threats to Lake Tahoe’s air and water quality and the health of the forest.
• DRI Demonstrates Lake Tahoe Research to Senato ...
  The 2012 Lake Tahoe Summit provided an opportunity for Desert Research Institute (DRI) reaseachers to demonstrate to Sen. Dean Heller methods used to study changes in water clarity and invasive species.
• DRI Works Toward Sustainability with Renewable ...
  Significant progress has been made on two renewable energy projects that is not only cost effective, but ultimately will contribute to the long-term efforts in sustainability by reducing the amount of electricity the Desert Research Institute needs from the utility grid.
• DRI attaining renewable energy power sources f ...
  Significant progress has been made on two renewable energy projects that is not only cost effective, but ultimately will contribute to the long-term efforts in sustainability by reducing the amount of electricity the Desert Research Institute needs from the utility grid.
• Hallar Named Regents' Rising Researcher
  The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents presented Gannet Hallar, Ph.D. of the Desert Research Institute (DRI) with the 2012 Rising Researcher Award in acknowledgment of her contributions to the field of atmospheric science and her potential for future accomplishments.  

Earth Techling

• Lockheed Martin Aims To Cut Resource Use By 2020
• How Social Media Is Helping Plant 1 Million Tr ...
• Wind Power Has Its Limits, But It’s Not the Sky
• GOP Makes A Statement With Solyndra Bill
• Jatropha, Wonder Biofuel, Crashing & Burning I ...

National Law Journal | U.S.

• THE CONNECTED LAWYER: Who is visiting your web ...
  The next time you get that feeling that someone is watching you online, you can smile a little bit to yourself, knowing that you are watching back.
• First Circuit finds appeal of fees timely, dee ...
  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has deepened a circuit split on the deadline for filing civil appeals involving attorney fees. On September 12, in a case involving a collective bargaining dispute at a landscape supply company, a unanimous panel ruled that an appeal was timely. Th ...
• Villanova hires attorney/agent/TV analyst to r ...
  The director of Villanova University School of Law's new Sports Law Center may look familiar to football fans. The school has tapped ESPN football analyst and attorney Andrew Brandt to run its Jeffrey S. Moorad Center for Sports Law.
• Patent litigation surged to all-time high in 2011
  The number of patent infringement filings shot up by 22 percent during 2011 compared with the year before, reaching the highest level ever recorded, according to a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
• The Equity Gap: A Special Report on Women in t ...
  Are big firms committed to promoting women into the equity partnership? Our study of the largest U.S. firms shows that women represent just 15 percent of equity partners. At just five firms surveyed, women make up more than 25 percent of equity partners.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• US Wildlife Service Faces Lawsuit for Not Prot ...
  The black rail is a shy bird that, like Florida's human 'snowbird' population, winters in South Florida but spends the rest of the year farther north on the Atlantic seaboard.
• 28 Journalists Killed in Syrian Violence
  With the ongoing violence engulfing Syria, the head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today voiced grave concern over the death of 28 local and international journalists this year in Syria.
• Trans-Tasman Indigenous Domestic Violence Conf ...
  The conference may save your organization time, money and manpower, but the event guarantees the opportunity to enlarge your network and information base.
• US Mourns Death of Personnel in Benghazi
  Today at Washington DC, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reported that a 21 year veteran of the Foreign Service, Ambassador Stevens died last night from injuries he sustained in the attack on US office in Benghazi.
• Switzerland Hailed as Champion of Human Rights
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Swiss Parliament that the country's devotion to the relief of poverty and suffering around the world is so powerful that it has been incorporated into the Federal Constitution,' he continued.

environment 360

• Japanese Set Goal To Phase Out Nuclear Power ...
  The Japanese government says it will seek to phase out all nuclear power plants by 2040, although officials suggested that the target remains flexible. The new energy strategy, which places a 40-year lifespan on nuclear reactors and limits construction of new plants, would continue a national sh ...
• New Monkey Species Identified in Remote Region ...
  A team of scientists has identified a new species of monkey in a remote area in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a discovery that researchers say confirms the remote African region as a biodiversity hotbed. After Click to enlarge Photo by Maurice Emetshu The lesula encountering one of ...
• In Himalaya Mountains, A Mixed Picture of Gla ...
  A new study says that glaciers in the Himalayas are reacting to climate change in different ways, with glaciers in the eastern and central Himalayas retreating at accelerating rates, while glaciers in the western Himalaya and Hindu Kush region are more stable and possibly even growing in places. ...
• Beyond Big Dams: Turning to Grass Roots Soluti ...
  Mega-dams and massive government-run irrigation projects are not the key to meeting world’s water needs, a growing number of experts now say. For developing nations, the answer may lie in small-scale measures such as inexpensive water pumps and other readily available equipment. BY FRED PEARCE
• Big-Box Retail Stores in U.S. Lead Surge in So ...
  A growing number of major U.S. companies, led by the nation’s largest big-box retailers, are installing rooftop solar power systems to help cut energy costs and increase profits, a new report says. According to the report, released by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and the Vote S ...

Red Ice Creations

• France Opens Yasser Arafat Murder Inquiry
  French prosecutors have launched an official inquiry into the 2004 murder of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, after his family claimed he had been poisoned. ­Arafat’s family initiated legal action in France last month over claims the Palestinian leader died of radioactive polonium poisoning. Hi ...
• Trotsky’s grandson recalls ice pick killing
  It’s 75 years since Trotsky, already expelled from the Soviet Communist Party and exiled, went to start a new life in Mexico. But he was hunted down in Mexico City by Stalinist assassins, as his grandson, who was living with him when he died, recalls. To some people Leon Trotsky was the true her ...
• Scientists find the oldest bugs trapped in amb ...
  Researchers working in Italy have found the oldest specimens of bugs trapped in amber. The critters are a whopping 230 million years old, which puts them in the late Triassic period. The team found one fly and two mites in droplets of amber less than 6 millimeters long. These three specimens are ...
• Rachel Corrie death: Israel rejects all blame
  The US activist Rachel Corrie, whose death beneath an Israeli military bulldozer made her an international symbol of Palestinian resistance, bore sole responsibility for the incident that killed her, a court in Israel ruled. The parents of Corrie fought back tears as a judge fully absolved the I ...
• What To Believe? : Bin Laden book ’contradicts ...
  A new book has been released entitled ’No Easy Day’, written by a former Navy SEAL. It "reveals bin Laden was unarmed and already dead when troops rushed into his room in the Abottabad, Pakistan compound." The BBC reports: The book says Bin Laden was shot dead as soon as he looked out of his bed ...

Russia Today

• Georgian pro-Pussy Riot vandals spark public o ...
  Supporters of the controversial punk-protest group Pussy Riot have vandalized a church in the center of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. Read Full Article at RT.com
• ‘US has never been straight with its people ab ...
  Jere Van Dyk is a former TV correspondent and Taliban expert (and was once held captive by them). He believes the Taliban is poorly understood in the West, but that better understanding is key for US foreign policy. He... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Three killed, 29 injured as Tunisian protester ...
  At least three people have been killed and 29 wounded near the US embassy in Tunis as protesters attacked the compound, climbing the gates of the diplomatic complex and tearing down the US flag. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Protester killed as violent demonstrations res ...
  A protester has been killed during a clash with police near the US embassy in Cairo during the third day of anti-American protests in the Egyptian capital. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Three protesters killed as crowds attempt to s ...
  Three protesters have been killed in front of the US embassy in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum after being run over by police vehicles, according to Al Jazeera. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• KFC’s fire touched chicken
  Yum, Love that American fast food!
• Opposition forces kill US Ambassador Chris Ste ...
  Maybe it could have happened to a more deserving operative, but that’s splitting hairs. Obviously we can’t call the late ambassador Chris Stevens the “mastermind” of the US covert destabilization of Libya. However, he was Our Man in Benghazi, essentially the NO. 1 in char ...
• What the persecution and continued prosecution ...
  Let’s admit it- we live in one of the nuttiest cities of a crazy sick and sad society called the US of A. Nothing locally illustrates this anything more than the total idiocy of city officials regarding one of the city’s ex-cops, Joshua Carrier, who in an abuse of local policing auth ...
• Don’t let the racist Democratic Party po ...
  Black Agenda Report supports the Chicago Teachers Union. Their website published this film today- Standing Up For The People: Chicago Teachers Union Strikes, 1969 – 1987
• US Schools are becoming more and more like a j ...
  One sickening thing about the US is how parents and kids alike are being now treated like they are suspect criminals and fined and jailed constantly by police and school authorities. See United States "Truancy Courts" collect $millions from the working class.

Debunking the Debunkers

• National Swindle of the World Trade Center now ...
  Dr. Crockett Grabbe's ebook National Swindle of the World Trade Center is now available on Amazon.com for the Kindle. Purchase the ebook here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0098JOSJS Related info: Dr. Crockett Grabbe-National Swindle on the World Trade Center
• Would 2Pac Have Been a 9/11 Truther?
  On this day in 1996 Tupac Amaru Shakur died from gunshot wounds he suffered 6 days prior. Rolling Stone Magazine named him the 86th Greatest Artist of All Time and I don't think he would have been a 9/11 debunker. RIP. Published on Apr 26, 2012 by Aware Awake Tupac Shakur breaks down the tru ...
• 911 Truth and the Mainstream Media's Failure t ...
  The mainstream media has never been any good at explaining the nature of the War on Terror to the public. Their superficial, 'official talking-point' based stories almost always omit important documented facts that could provide real context to the 'war' and point to evidence showing that 911 wa ...
• RECAP: Fake al-Qaeda> Anwar Al Awlaki PLUS Ada ...
  The following videos are posted in light of recent media reports about the death of the "international terrorist leader" Anwar Al Awlaki in Yemen. Please note that Al Awlaki was also reported dead, killed in 2009 by a US air strike. Dead or alive, names like Al Awlaki, Zarqawi, and others will ...
• Go To New York 9-11 2012
  A shout out to the Infowarriors and WeAreChange chapters from WeAreChangeColorado! For Derek and the boys at Houston Free Thinkers. Get to New York! Related: The goal of this website is to hopefully encourage activists, politicians, celebrities, whistleblowers, alternative media, truthers ...

Fooducate

• Fooducate’s Great Peanut Butter Scan – Survey ...
• The Obesity Epidemic – of Pets
• Brown Sugar, White Sugar – Which is Healthier?
• 37 Reasons to Vote for Prop. 37 (Mandatory GMO ...
• What to Eat When You’ve Got Diabetes? There’s ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

• “Why Obama Is Likely to Lose in 2012”
  Greg Palast, The Nation of Change An excerpt from Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps “Why Obama Is Likely to Lose in 2012” is the title of a column Karl Rove wrote in the Wall Street Journal in June 2011. It’s not Rove’s prediction: this is his plan [...]
• The Worst Teacher in Chicago
  by Greg Palast | For the Occupied Chicago Tribune This is a true story. CHICAGO.  In a school with some of the poorest kids in Chicago, one English teacher–I won't use her name–who'd been cemented into the school system for over a decade, wouldn't do a damn thing to lift test scores, yet ha ...
• Cartoon Car-JackerGives $1 Million to Romney PAC
  by Greg Palast for Truthout An excerpt from Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps. Greg Palast investigates Karl Rove, the Koch Gang and their Buck Buddies. Includes a comic book by Ted Rall and an introduction by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Charles Manson can’t ...
• FireDogLake Book Salon: Billionaires & Ballot ...
  Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps book chat at FireDogLake starting at 5pm EST Today- Click here to join the chat. Read the first chapter before you chat 'Colonels in Mirrored Sunglasses' Host Watertiger (Dependable Renegade) Because Americans aren’t anx ...
• Colonels in Mirrored Sunglasses
  An excerpt from Greg Palast's  Billionaires & Ballot Bandits  Here are the facts, ma'am: In the 2008 election, no less than: 767,023 provisional ballots were cast and not counted;
 1,451,116 ballots were "spoiled," not counted;
 488,136 absentee ballots were mailed in, but not counted. ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I “reuse” fresh eggs that ...
  (Hi! Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...
• How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
  Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
• How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
  Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle large (catering siz ...
  Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods. Now that they’re empty, they are open on one end, with no plastic lid to [...]
• She recycled that! Upcycling novelty hats into ...
  Last September, Karen emailed us about the vast collection of novelty jester hats that her boyfriend had collected at various carnivals and festivals over the years. She wanted to know how she could reuse or recycle them as she hadn’t had much success giving them away. Lots of people made ...

Age of Autism

• Action Alert: Federal IACC Autism Committee is ...
  Please take a few moments today to tell your legislators in Washington, DC the ugly truth about the massive waste of taxpayer dollars by the federal Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) that’s more interested in covering up the causes of...
• Letter to the TwinCities.com Editor: Take Seri ...
  Note: Below is a thoughtful letter to the editor in TwinCities.com - in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. Thank you, Jerri this rational discussion of vaccine risk, reward and safety in place of the panic and fear put forth by mainstream doctors...
• Help Needed to Collect Data on the New DSM-5 A ...
  Please support this data collection effort (www.dsm5asdsurvey.org) by SafeMinds and The Holland Center. EBCALA is very concerned about the proposed DSM 5 redefinition of autism. The ramifications of a new autism definition are far reaching and could be devastating. Everything...
• Chantal Sicile-Kira to Speak at Beacon Day Sch ...
  Beacon Distinguished Speaker Series WHERE: Beacon Day School for Students with Autism and Related Disorders 24 Centerpointe Drive, LaPalma, California 90623 WHO: Chantal Sicile-Kira WHEN: Saturday, September 22, 11 a.m. (11:00-1:30) 2-hour lecture followed by a 30-minute Q&A session with...
• Childhood American Style
  By Brooke Potthast Many Aof A readers may be too young to remember the very popular, classic 70’s television show called Love American Style. This show made Friday night sleepovers more thrilling than you can possibly imagine! These were the...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

• Yosemite notifies 230,000 park guests of hanta ...
  CBS – Yosemite National Park has extended its hantavirus warnings to more than 230,000 people who stayed at the park overnight since early June. Last week, the park had announced three guests had died and five others were infected with by the rodent-borne illness that may cause potentially ...
• Are you getting the most out of Open Your Eyes ...
  Open Your Eyes News has been created with two key intentions in mind: - To provide the big picture of world news 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; - To be an easy to use repository of news articles for researchers in all fields. Read our simple guide on how to most effectively [...]
• Wave of Strikes Over Austerity Start to Hit Greece
  GreekReporter – Municipal services across Greece will be closed on Sept. 12-13 after workers called a 48-hour strike to protest budget cuts, joining teachers, judges, doctors, military staff and others who walked off the job, with more set to come. The country’s two biggest labor unions, r ...
• Gold Will Top $2,000 in Next Year: Barrick CEO
  CNBC – With more Federal Reserve stimulus coming and central banks around the world turning into buyers, gold prices have room to run higher, Barrick Gold CEO Jamie Sokalsky told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” on Tuesday. The new CEO of the world’s largest precious metals miner is optimisti ...
• Gold passes $US1775 after QE3 announcement
  Sydney Morning Herald – Gold climbed to a six-month high, set for a fourth weekly advance in the best run since January, after the Federal Reserve took extra steps to bolster the economy, lifting demand for the metal as a store of value. Platinum topped $US1700 an ounce for the first time ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

• Water Changes Lives: VIDEO
  Access to clean water or a safe toilet doesn't just make people healthier, it affords women time to learn a trade, and allows them to spend more time caring for their families. Change ten lives by taking our challenge, and you will be entered to win a trip to visit our work in the field!*
• Change Ten Lives
  It seems like with each passing day, our lives become busier with work, school, raising our families, and a little entertainment thrown in for good measure. As the calendar turns, our good intentions to make a difference can give way to the obligations we’ve made and remain unrealized.
• Recognition for Impact in Social Innovation
  Gary White, Water.org CEO and Co-founder, has been honored by the Schwab Foundation as a 2012 Social Entrepreneur. Each year, the Foundation identifies the world’s leading social entrepreneurs from around the globe for its Social Entrepreneur award. Awardees are selected for implementing innovat ...
• Stop the Crisis, Share our Stories!
  Subscribe to the official Water.org YouTube channel to be among the first to see our weekly videos. These shorts, which provide a glimpse of life in the heart of the water crisis, can help give a face to a world-wide struggle.
• A Promise to Haiti
  Join co-founders Matt Damon and Gary White on a recent visit to Haiti following up on our promise to help 50,000 people get safe water. The video ends with Matt, along with his father and brother, celebrating the opening of a new well with a community in the Central Plateau.

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
• ‘I’ve been forward to Shen Yun for years!’ Say ...
• Arkansas Storms: Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Across ...
• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
  arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
• "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
  Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
  Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
• Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
  In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...
• Seizure of Springs by Settlers Greatly Limits ...
  Palestinians have increasingly lost access to water sources in the West Bank as a result of the takeover of springs by Israeli settlers, who have used threats, intimidation and fences to ensure control of water points closed to tne settlements, Submitted by Naoko I. to World  |  &nbs ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• Bill Gates' Latest Tech Development: Turning C ...
  Part of the Cal Tech team demonstrates how the solar toilet operates. The flush toilet so many of us know ...
• Bill Gates' Latest Tech Development: Turning C ...
  Part of the Cal Tech team demonstrates how the solar toilet operates. The flush toilet so many of us know so well is in fac ...
• Canadian Solar, Inc. Purchases First American ...
  Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again.  Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. read more
• Canadian Solar, Inc. Purchases First American ...
  Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again.  Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. ...
• Potentia and Canadian Solar Sign Supply Agreem ...
  Canadian Solar, Inc. has signed a 17-megawatt supply agreement with Potentia Solar, Inc.  The solar panels will be used to develop more than 100 rooftop solar projects in Ontario. read more

News Blaze

• US Wildlife Service Faces Lawsuit for Not Prot ...
  The black rail is a shy bird that, like Florida's human 'snowbird' population, winters in South Florida but spends the rest of the year farther north on the Atlantic seaboard.
• 28 Journalists Killed in Syrian Violence
  With the ongoing violence engulfing Syria, the head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today voiced grave concern over the death of 28 local and international journalists this year in Syria.
• Trans-Tasman Indigenous Domestic Violence Conf ...
  The conference may save your organization time, money and manpower, but the event guarantees the opportunity to enlarge your network and information base.
• US Mourns Death of Personnel in Benghazi
  Today at Washington DC, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reported that a 21 year veteran of the Foreign Service, Ambassador Stevens died last night from injuries he sustained in the attack on US office in Benghazi.
• Switzerland Hailed as Champion of Human Rights
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Swiss Parliament that the country's devotion to the relief of poverty and suffering around the world is so powerful that it has been incorporated into the Federal Constitution,' he continued.

Worldnews

• 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

• Recently Completed National Craniofacial Aware ...
  The Consumer Justice Foundation, a for-profit corporation whose mission is to bring about awareness regarding the potential dangers regarding the use of certain prescription medications, has a Web...(PRWeb September 12, 2012)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/9/prweb987847 ...
• Stop gag on NHS whitleblowers - MP
  NHS lawyers should not be able to gag whistleblowers from revealing damning information in the public interest, an MP has said. (Source: HSJ)
• End to epic African flora survey
  The complete flora of tropical East Africa has been recorded by scientists, 60 years after the project first began.
• [Articles] Stem-cell-based, tissue engineered ...
  Follow-up of the first paediatric, stem-cell-based, tissue-engineered transplant shows potential for this technology but also highlights the need for further research.
• A3997-20 SINGLE SHOT EPIDURAL 20G TUOHY () Kit ...
  Updated Date: Sep 12, 2012 EST

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Chief Rabbi slams atheist Ric ...
  ExamineReligion: Chief Rabbi slams atheist Richard Dawkins for 'anti-semitic' remarks http://t.co/fhXT75T0
• ExamineReligion: Don't put your identity in ot ...
  ExamineReligion: Don't put your identity in others http://t.co/2tC7Ev6N
• ExamineReligion: Creationists can still drink ...
  ExamineReligion: Creationists can still drink Dr. Pepper http://t.co/wjIpuyKQ
• ExamineReligion: Turn Your Back or Reconcile ? ...
  ExamineReligion: Turn Your Back or Reconcile ? http://t.co/zsx8ptUD
• ExamineReligion: Dr. Pepper’s ‘Evo ...
  ExamineReligion: Dr. Pepper’s ‘Evolution of Flavor’ angers Christian creationists http://t.co/47sVbUvm

Energy Collective

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

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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• Hangover Cure: Warner Bros. Settles Copyright ...
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• This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...
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• App Backwards: Lodsys, Texas Troll, Targeted i ...
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• Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft in i4i Case
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Peoples Voice

• Anti-Muslim Hate Film Incites Violence
  by Stephen Lendman Post-9/11, Washington declared war on Islam. Islamophobia facilitates war on terror policy. Muslims became public enemy number one. Imperial wars followed. Endless direct and proxy ones continue. Others are planned. Dehumanizing Islam violates core US beliefs about rel ...
• Firing in Flood: Muslims to THINK Again
  Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. World is not as it is sensationalized on the media screen, Arabs or Muslims are not the “terrorists” and all the Western leaders are not the individualistically insane “warmongers. There is truth and facts of life outside the news media’s box and ...
• Israel, The Day After
  By Gilad Atzmon Last week, an interesting article by Daniel Gordis appeared on Tablemag.com. Gordis, a committed Zionist intellectual, is concerned about the inevitable collapse of the Jewish state and its impact on world Jewry in general and American Jews in particular. Although it’s re ...
• Chicago: America's Epicenter of Resistance
  by Stephen Lendman Public education is on the chopping block for elimination. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants it commodified into another business profit center. At issue is saving it. Education isn't a product. It's a fundamental right. It's a societal bedrock. In Chicago and across Ameri ...
• Blowback
  By Timothy V. Gatto I’m as upset and angry as anyone when I heard about the bombing of the United States Consulate in Libya. I also mourn the deaths of the Americans who worked there. The Ambassador seemed like a man who genuinely cared about the area and knew the people there and America ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• The New Saskatchewan or Oklahoma North?
  Of the litany of proposed changes contained in the Saskatchewan government’s Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation in Saskatchewan, the most pernicious is the suggestion that employees be allowed to opt out of paying union dues, yet still recieve the full benefits o ...
• How affordable is a university education in yo ...
  A new report from the CCPA’s Education Project tracks the affordability of university education across Canadian provinces. The study looks at trends in tuition and compulsory fees in Canada since 1990, projects fees for each province for the next four years, and examines the impact on affordabil ...
• A Sustainable Vision for Our Community: Altern ...
  A Sustainable Vision for our Community: Alternative Municipal Budget for the Halifax Regional Municipality is the culmination of a collaborative effort involving more than 20 individuals from academia, the non-profit sector and labour organizations. The Alternative Budget contains 65 action item ...
• Next Up: Calling young leaders in Vancouver, E ...
  Next Up taking applications for 2012/13 programs in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Saskatoon Next Up -- A leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice Next Up is an amazing, intensive and transformative program for young social change activists between the ...
• Bargaining Power and Job Quality in the United ...
  The age and educational attainment of the US workforce have increased significantly since 1979.  Since older and better educated workers generally have higher pay and better benefits, one might expect a greater share of workers to be in good jobs today compared to 30 years ago. In a Center ...

World Wide Hippies

• Rebuilding my stairway to heaven?
  By Woodstock WWH/CJE -… if I really wanted to ‘wonder about a bit on the stairs to the world that I once knew’, as he poetically called it, ‘the best way to be sure about what to consume is of course to grow your own magic mushrooms.’ The good old days and Magic Mushrooms (Psilocybin) [...]
• WWH/CJE SoapBox: The Chimera of Anarchism (Video)
  Albuquerque (NM) citizen/journalist John (“Dr. Woody”) Konopak attempts to dispel some unreasonable expectations which folks seem to harbor who advocate for “Anarchism” to replace the current compromised, corrupted electoral system. For the assertions about the extents of ...
• WWH/CJE Friday News Briefs
  Revealed: inside story of US envoy’s assassination America ‘was warned of embassy attack but did nothing’ (Watch the spin on this one.Can we all say America dominance of north africa?) The killings of the US ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were likely to have been th ...
• NDAA: Judge Strikes Down Indefinite Detention ...
  Judge Strikes Indefinite Military Detention Law by TheYoungTurks -”A federal judge on Wednesday permanently blocked the U.S. military from enforcing a law allowing it to indefinitely detain anyone accused of aiding or participating in terrorism. In May, U.S. District Judge Katherine Forres ...
• 9/11: Facts, Fiction and Censorship | Global R ...
  By Julie Lévesque,Global Research – Whoever dares raise questions about the official 9/11 narrative, will be excluded from both the mainstream and  “progressive” media, dismissed as a mentally disturbed individual, lost in delirium, harboring wild conspiracy theories. In reality, the gover ...

FourWinds10

• Massive oyster die-offs in Chesapeake Bay leav ...
  (NaturalNews) Tack it on to the growing list of mysterious animal die-offs. Watermen working the oyster fishing business in the Maryland portion of Chesapeake Bay say the massive die-off of oysters in the area this year is due to recent hurricanes and tropical storms that have swept fresh water ...
• TEXAS GULF ALERT TO SAY AWAY, 4.2 MILLION POIS ...
• Busted! Fracking Chemical Found in Wyoming Wat ...
• TAR SANDS: PROTECTING THE SACRED , Josh Fox's ...
• MONTEZUMA WELL UNDER ATTACK AGAIN! PLEASE SIG ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Mitigating the Long Recession; and CNG Vehicle ...
  In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer two viewer questions. The first question is whether I believe that nuclear energy or hydraulic fracturing will offset the impacts of my “Long Recession” scenario. The second is about the EPA licensing requirements for comp ...
• Responses to Thorium Reactor Story
  Following last week’s R-Squared Energy TV episode that discussed thorium nuclear reactors, there were a number of comments and emails from readers that added a lot of clarity to the discussion. I want to highlight some of those comments, because as I had indicated that was definitely outsi ...
• Are Democrats More Likely to Release Strategic ...
  If the Obama Administration orders a release, it would be the 2nd time the administration had tapped the SPR. In 2011 the Obama Administration ordered a release of 30 million barrels of oil in conjunction with a 30 million barrel release from other members of the International Energy Agency.
• 4 Reasons Why Gas Prices Are About to Fall Rapidly
  While U.S. gasoline prices have been on the rise for the past two months -- and are presently $0.15/gallon higher than they were a year ago -- Robert Rapier expects that gasoline prices will start to fall rapidly in the weeks ahead.
• Carbon Trading & Thorium Reactors
  In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer two viewer questions. The first is on California’s upcoming carbon trading markets, which includes a discussion on resource shuffling. The second question is on the potential of thorium nuclear reactors. Readers who have specifi ...

Discovery Educator Network

• Caine's Arcade 2: The Global Cardboard Challen ...
  Tags: arcade, cardboard, challenge, imagination, foundation, youtubeby: John Evans
• NBC Learn Offers Free 2012 Election Materials ...
  Tags: election, materials, education, nbc, Education Worldby: Dean Mantz
• ThingLink
  Comments:This site lets users create informative, web-based graphics using images and "tags", which function much like people tags in Facebook. Thinglink has the advantage, however, of allowing tags to contain links, media, etc. - Randy RodgersTags: interactive, image, photos, web2.0, Tagging, ...
• Salute to Teachers
  Comments:The GLOBE Program (http://www.globe.gov) is taking this opportunity to salute teachers everywhere----for all of the things you do----for inspiring your students and cultivating the love of learning. Teachers are the backbone of our educational system. They encourage, inspire and challe ...
• GroupMap
  Comments:Collaborative tool for creating group mindmaps/webs/brainstorms. Very easy to use, but requires either Safari or Chrome. Free signup.  - Randy RodgersTags: collaboration, brainstorming, semantic, web, mindmapping, mind_mappingby: Randy Rodgers

Rodale News

• Meat Industry Sues ABC Over "Pink Slime"
  The meat industry is suing ABC for $1.2 billion in a pink slime lawsuit, claiming the news network's coverage of the meat industry's "pink slime" (otherwise known as "lean finely textured beef") product was untrue, costing the industry hundreds of millions in profits. The defamation lawsuit fi ...
• The 15 Worst Things In Your Lunch Bag
  what to eat for lunch "Convenience" Foods That Aren't The healthiest lunch you can eat is the one you make for yourself. It'll also save you a bundle over restaurant food, and the landfills will thank you for leaving all the disposable wrapp ...
• Pesticide Company Fined Millions for Poisoning ...
  A well-known pesticide, chemical fertilizer, and lawn and garden products company faces $12.5 million in fines after pleading guilty to illegally applying toxic insecticides to its own wild birdseed products. Scotts Miracle-Gro's toxic birdseed scandal came to light during a Scotts bird food la ...
• America's Top 20 Farmer's Markets: 2012
  Big or small, farmer's markets attract a devoted following of foodies and locavores, whether they operate year-round or just a few months in the summer. And, as it does every year about this time, the American Farmland Trust has just revealed which ones get the most love from those diehard shop ...
• 4 Reasons You Need to Eat More Kale
  Like water? Who doesn't? But if you really like it, you might want to also start liking lentils, kale, nuts, and bread—and pretty much anything that doesn't come from an animal. A new report from the Stockholm International Water Institute suggests that the world's limited supply of fresh water ...

big think

• Most YA Book Buyers -- And Readers -- Aren't YA
  Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? Fifty-five percent of books classified as being for "young adults" (ages 12-17) are purchased by adults, according to a biannual study on children's book publishing. This in itself isn't all that surprising ...
• I'm A Facebook User...And I Vote. So Should You.
  Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? More evidence that social networks influence the behavior of millions comes from a new study showing that posting election-day information on Facebook -- pictures of friends who voted as well as messages en ...
• Big Think Responds on Satoshi Kanazawa
  The Big Think editors have written an official reply to my post criticizing their decision to hire Satoshi Kanazawa. Whatever else I may think of that choice, I appreciate that they took my concerns seriously enough to write this lengthy explanation of their reasoning. I encourage you to go and ...
• In Defense of Lust (An Essay, and Polemic)
  I was working on an essay not long ago and came across a comment from Twilight author Stephenie Meyer that in her novels she wanted to write about “love, not lust.” At first I barely registered the line, probably because it’s so pro forma. I’ve heard that exact phrase or its gist asserte ...
• Exile In Guyland
  What’s the Big Idea? Today, young adults are taking a decade longer to complete the transition to adulthood than did their parents and grandparents. A phase that once consisted of a few awkward years has evolved into a whole new developmental stage of its own: adultolescence. Thi ...

Information Liberation

• Ron Paul: "Country Should Panic Over Fed's Dec ...
  What took Ben Bernanke sixty minutes of mumbling about tools, word-twisting, and data-manipulating to kinda-sorta admit - that in fact he is lost; Ron Paul eloquently expresses in 25 seconds in this Bloomberg TV clip. Noting that "we are creating mon...
• The Fed's Balance At The End Of 2013: $4 Trillion
  What happens next: Imminently, the Fed's Open Markets Operations desk will commence buying $40 billion in MBS per month, or about $10 billion each week. Concurrently, the Fed which is continuing Operation Twist, will still purchase $45 billion in ...
• Why Vote?
  With the U.S. presidential election right around the corner, Americans are getting themselves all in a tizzy to go to the voting booth and remind the holders of public office who they work for.* Because it's a presidential election, the stakes are lo...
• Obama Lists His Five Criteria for Death by Drone
  President Obama is tearing the shroud of secrecy off his once hush-hush death-by-drone program. From his interview with Ben Swann, host of Fox 19's*Reality Check, to his sit-down with CNN's chief White House correspondent Jessica Yellin, the kill-...
• Liquid, Liquid Everywhere, But Not a Drop To D ...
  Who*s more obsessed with the fluids we ingest, Mayor Mike "Nanny" Bloomberg or the TSA? New York City*s Board of Health, whose members Nanny appoints, will vote this week to restrict the quantity of soda consenting adults may sell and ot...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• The Rainbow Connection
  Last Thursday, Tasmania’s Lower House of parliament passed a bill which, if ratified by the Upper House next month, will make the Apple Isle the first state of Australia to legalize gay marriage. It’s not going to happen: for one … Continue reading →
• Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VII – Th ...
  Well, it’s happened at last. The festering stink of corruption within the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s is now front-page news on every paper in the country. This is despite the best efforts of Gillard and others to shut … Continue reading →
• One More Five-Ring Circus
  The Games of the XXX Olympiad kick off in a few hours, and I for one won’t be watching. In another age, another millemium, the Modern Olympic Games were conceived by an aristocratic Frenchman, Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, … Continue reading →
• More Of The Shiny Stuff
  A few random jottings on gold while I’m out on the road; back in a week. The other day, I came across this article in the Mises Daily, taken from Joseph T. Salerno’s testimony submitted to the U.S. House Subcommittee … Continue reading →
• Meet The Asylum’s New Management
  The iron ore town of Whyalla on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is one of the places most threatened by Labor’s Carbon Tax – the tax that Gillard promised before the last Federal election she would never introduce, and which came … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

RFF Library

• Sustaining Tennessee in the Face of Climate Ch ...
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory |  Vanderbilt University | University of Tennessee at Knoxville | University of Memphis | Tennessee Department of Health http://sustainabletennessee.org/ http://sustainabletennessee.org/download-report/ (register) From Climate Change Impacts: Pro ...
• Climate Change, Carbon Markets and the CDM: a ...
  U.N. High-Level Panel on the Clean Development Mechanism http://www.cdmpolicydialogue.org/ [From a Climate Wire story by Colin Sullivan, sub. req'd] The U.N. body in charge of the world’s largest carbon offset market has acknowledged widespread problems with its system in a report…To ...
• Building a Climate-Ready Regulatory System
  Water Research Foundation | American Water Works Foundation / by Jonathan Gledhill, Chad Seidel and Jeff Oxenford http://www.waterrf.org/Pages/Projects.aspx?PID=4239 Water utilities will face steeper electricity costs after climate change legislation is  passed in the US. This reports &#822 ...
• State Clean Energy Finance Banks: New Investme ...
  Brookings Institution / by Ken Berlin, Reed Hundt, Mark Muro, and Devashree Saha http://bit.ly/ScvyLE (website) http://bit.ly/O0eDAE (PDF) [From Summary] …a number of states are now exploring a variety of ways to leverage scarce public resources with sophisticated banking and finance mecha ...
• Geophysical Limits to Global Wind Power
  Nature Climate Change (2012) doi:10.1038/nclimate1683 / by Kate Marvel, Ben Kravitz and Ken Caldeira http://bit.ly/S1sty7 [Abstract] There is enough power in Earth’s winds to be a primary source of near-zero-emission electric power as the global economy continues to grow through the twenty-first ...

Scientific American - News

• Tunnel Vision: Subterranean Park to Stay Sunny ...
  More than a decade ago a group of New York City residents launched an ambitious experiment to build a park atop an expanse of abandoned elevated freight train tracks. Today the High Line , which opened in 2009, provides locals, commuters and tourists with more than a kilometer of green space se ...
• Birds Sound the Alarm on West Nile Virus
  By Amy Maxmen of Nature magazine [More]
• Trio of Genome-Sequencing Studies Offer a Broa ...
  From Nature magazine [More]
• How to Boil Water without Bubbles
  By Katharine Sanderson of Nature magazine [More]
• Human Embryonic Stem Cells Restore Gerbil Hearing
  By Virginia Gewin of Nature magazine [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• Abdelrazik: justice, survival and music
  Monday, September 17, 18h Kaza Maza 4629 Avenue du Parc Montréal, Québec (facebook event) In the context of the recent release of Duets for Abdelrazik, a musical project expressing solidarity with Abousfian Abdelrazik, the Howl! Arts Collective and CKUT invite you to join us for a panel discussi ...
• Mi'kmaq to Obstruct Traffic to Fight Oil and G ...
  First Nations call for a complete halt to drilling in Cape Breton AULD'S COVE, Nova Scotia -- Mi’kmaq people from Cape Breton and the Nova Scotia mainland are preparing to set up a “partial blockade” of the Trans-Canad ...
• Les audiences de Mohammed Mahjoub
  Chronique des Apatrides Anonymes Chronique des Apatrides Anonymes sur les audiences de Mohammed Mahjoub qui vit sous un certificat de sécurité depuis 2000. Pour plus d'informations: http://www.peoplescommission.org/fr/mahjoub/
• cops, courts, censorship: support Julian and Dan!
  Mandy blogs from Vanier on november 14, 2011, Julian Ichim published a blog post about his experience as the target of an undercover cop in the lead up to the G20 Summit in Toronto in 2010.  you can read the post here.  the follo ...
• Mi'kmaq Community to Demonstrate at Canso Causeway
  Protest follows government decision to allow test oil well drilling at Lake Ainslie A demonstration will be set up by members of the Mi'kmaq community at the Canso Causeway this morning in opposition to oil drilling near Lake Ainslie, C ...

David Seaton's News Links

• 9/11... on the record
  ”fae ghosties & ghoulies & lang-legged beasties & things that go bump in the nicht...guid lord, deliver us” (traditional scottish prayer)David Seaton's News Links Today is the anniversary... a time to remember where you were, and what happened that day.September eleventh, 2001, at 9A ...
• Democrats and the vanishing American middle class
  It seems that the Democrats have had the modicum of mother wit to make the middle class the framework and theme of their 2012 campaign. We know that the Democrats can't really walk the walk, but it is nice to hear somebody at least talk the talk for a change. For the sad truth is that the Am ...
• Clint Eastwood and his contempt for America
  "This is a perfect representation of the campaign: an old white man arguing with an imaginary Barack Obama." @jabouie tweet re Eastwood's speech (ht Doonesbury)Clint Eastwood’s performance was the most decadent, self indulgent thing I have ever seen. Watching him wank for 12 minutes to wild ap ...
• Mooned... with aplogies to Neil Armstrong
  Mother of tidesThe great white kiteFloats gently cross the breathless nightGiant leaps are soon forgotten. David Seaton
• Meditations on Republican craziness
  At the center of all the nuttiness of today’s Republicans is their bankrollers’ fear of regulation… The ceaseless culture warfare is merely a tactic to simultaneously attract and confuse a sufficient number of the ignorant to enable the “one-percenters” to paralyze the political process.Examined ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Friday Cat Blogging - 14 September 2012
  This is Domino doing her best Queen of Sheba pose. She's been quite perky lately, which Marian and I both appreciate except when she decides to become perky at 4 am. That seems to be settling down a bit, though. Today she waited until 6:30 to leap on my stomach. You probably want an update on ...
• The Man Behind Ben Bernanke's Policy Announcem ...
  Yesterday the Fed announced an open-ended commitment to monetary easing. That is, they didn't announce a specific amount of easing, they announced that they would buy $40 billion in mortgage-backed bonds every month for an indefinite period until the labor market showed signs of recovery. This ...
• Quote of the Day: Romney Still Not Making Sens ...
  From Mitt Romney, explaining his tax plan: So number one, [] don’t raise taxes on middle-income people, lower them. Number two, don’t reduce the share of taxes paid by the wealthiest. The top 5% will still pay the same share of taxes they pay today. Hold on. The top 5% will p ...
• Mitt Romney Needs to Provide Us With More Than ...
  On a more serious note than I ended with last night, it's worth a moment to do a little more than just mock Richard Williamson, the Romney advisor who insisted that if Mitt Romney were president, we'd be in a "different situation" in the Middle East. Those riots in Egypt? They wouldn't have ha ...
• #RomneyStrength: The Birth of a Meme
  Here's how Twitter memes are born. First, one of Mitt Romney's advisors said this to the Washington Post: “There’s a pretty compelling story that if you had a President Romney, you’d be in a different situation,” Richard Williamson, a top Romney foreign policy adviser, ...

Insanity Report

• IC 348: Random
  Topics: This show is more random than usual. We jump from continuing the Heaven conversation from last show to Comic Books to Monica Lewinsky (And Kev’s ridiculously funny Bill Clinton impersonation) to Rush Limbaugh’s absolutely ridiculous theory on Al Qaeda and President Obama. Sha ...
• IC 347: 21st Century Heaven
  Topics: Redskins back? Baltimore ComicCon and real nerds You gotta workout if you are gonna wear a superhero costume WB/DC and making the Justice League Ex-OJ Simpson Prosecutor can’t let it go A Joe Paterno/Penn State scandal movie? President Obama got jokes Mitt Romney needs to be more B ...
• IC 346: Complacent Ass Nigga #1
  Topics: Working for a job with no passion Being complacent is awesome Fuck School NBA 2k13 and the worst collector’s edition ever Marvel gets sued & tells the plaintiffs to go fuck themselves It’s just a movie, its not realistic The Democratic party has never been liberal You&#8 ...
• IC 345: Black Unicorn
  Topics: Avengers tops $1.5 Billion Michael Bay tries to distance himself from the Ninja Turtles Script Your opinion represents the minority I know my opinion is fucked up, you don’t have to tell me Kev goes to the Red Light District in Amsterdam The RNC & DNC The media isn’t inf ...
• IC 344: Fuck France
  Topics: Kriss officially loses empathy Expendables 2 Michael Bay and the Ninja Turtle script WAS that bad Part 1 of Kev’s Europe Trip recap Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

• Sun loses grip on Earth’s temperature changes
  Patterns in the heat we feel stopped being caused by the Sun since the 1970s, mathematical tests done by Antonello Pasini from the Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research in Rome and his teammates show, with greenhouse gases and other human influences likely to be drowning its influence out.
• More bird flu over the horseshoe crabs’ nests?
  Climate-driven timing changes and human pressures on their favoured horseshoe crab egg food could make ruddy turnstones more of a bird flu carrier than they already are, say Pej Rohani and Vicki Brown at the University of Michigan
• Finding nature’s part in Arctic ice loss puts ...
  With Arctic ice heading for reaching its smallest area yet, Jonny Day from the University of Reading, UK and his colleagues have found an ocean circulation pattern could be responsible for up to three-tenths of the ice loss since the 1970s – but that humans remain most responsible.
• Temperature rises could hamper developing worl ...
  Annual variations show every 1°C temperature increase shaves 1.3 percent off a poor country’s growth, over the course of a given year, according to MIT economist Ben Olken.
• CO2-focused breeding can arm crops for food fight
  Higher CO2 levels could ensure we have enough food in the face of other climate and population changes, says Lewis Ziska from the US Department of Agriculture, if crop breeding programs tailored to take advantage get enough support

e!Science News

• Met Office model to better predict extreme winters
  Severe UK winters, like the 'big freeze' of 2009/10, can now be better forecast months in advance using the Met Office's latest model, new research suggests. read more
• Should I marry him?
  Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one. -- Voltaire read more
• Home sweet lab: Computerized house to generate ...
  In a ribbon-cutting ceremony today, the U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) unveiled a new laboratory designed to demonstrate that a typical-looking suburban home for a family of four can generate as much energy as it uses in a year. Following an init ...
• Parental divorce linked to stroke in males
  Men with divorced parents are significantly more likely to suffer a stroke than men from intact families, shows a new study from the University of Toronto. read more
• World's hottest temperature cools a bit
  If you think this summer was hot, it's nothing compared to the summer of 1913, when the hottest temperature ever recorded was a searing 134 degrees Fahrenheit in Death Valley, Calif. But while that reading was made 99 years ago, it is only being recognized today by the World Meteorological Organ ...

unEarthed

• Massive Ice Sheets Halt Arctic Ocean Drilling
  Shell Oil forced to move drill ship off site Chukchi Sea, Alaska. (Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com) Shell’s vice president of Alaska operations wa ...
• Sugar Industry Seeks To Use Everglades As Toilet
  It's an old story, but 'Sugar Daddy' governor offers new hope National Park Service Photo For decades, U.S. sugar barons have been dumping thei ...
• Groups Across U.S. Unite Against Coal Ash Bill
  Legislation would prevent EPA from protecting Americans Seeking protection from unsafe dumping practices, more than 300 public interest groups from 43 states, re ...
• Taking Wyoming Wolf Hunting To Court
  Earthjustice files notice of intent to sue The loss of federal protection for the wolves is a death sentence for at least 56 wolves now occupying areas of the state are now a shoot-on-sight ...
• Stand With Appalachia Solidarity Day
  Live updates from Washington, D.C. Today's the day that we deliver our Mountain Heroes photo petition to the Obama administration! This massive photo petition is ...

Brave New Climate

• Critique of Lovins book ‘Reinventing Fir ...
  The following is a critique, by Ted Trainer, of the energy chapters in Amory Lovins’ new book, Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era. Ted is seeking feedback, so please head over to the BNC Discussion forum and leave your comments — on his appraisal, or on ...
• 21st century nuclear… for beginners
  SACOME has put published a glossy portfolio edition of the 6-part series (9 pages in total) was done by me and Ben Heard for the SA Mines & Energy Journal – you may find this useful for family and friends! (some of these individual articles were already published on BNC and DecarboniseSA). T ...
• Two books on sustainable nuclear energy
  This is a short post to alert BNC readers to a couple of important things. First, Tom Blees has now generously released the full text of his book “Prescription for the Planet” — it is available for free download here (or click image). So, if you own an iPad or other tablet, or ...
• Talking turkey on nuclear $$ costs
  This the final article in the SA Mines & Energy Journal series on nuclear energy (issue 24, pg 34), about the economic bottom line for nuclear. Ben Heard, my co-author, has also blogged about this on DecarboniseSA. And if you want a second opinion on, read what Columbia University’s Je ...
• Fit-for-service low-carbon electricity technol ...
  This article (by Barry Brook) was originally published on The Conversation website until the title: “Low-carbon electricity must be fit-for-service (and nuclear power is)“. You can wade through the 224 comments over there (if you dare…) See also the comment here by Keith Orchis ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

• Republican Voters in Ohio Think Romney Should ...
  Now I know Republicans may not be all that smart, but I couldn’t believe this poll. PPP Poll Results That’s right. 15% of Republican voters in Ohio polled think Romney killed Osama Bin Laden. I think using the word brainwashed would mean a person may actually have a brain. This 15% w ...
• Priebus Upset That Ted Kennedy Is Still Suppor ...
  Whaaaaa. Priebus is upset that the Democrats used video of the late Ted Kennedy to remind Americans that Teddy supported Obama, even in the primaries, and that showing a video of him just isn’t fair. By the way, there has been one whole day of convention speakers, and I haven’t heard ...
• Republicans And The Truth
  Of the many things that bother me about Republicans, is the fact that they don’t care if they are being lied to. All facts support my positions, and I am never wrong about anything. Numbers matter. Facts matter. The truth is the truth whether it fits my ideology or not. All of my statement ...
• New Republican Attack Strategy
  “Are you better off” is all you are going to hear from Republicans the next few days, or weeks. It seems they have been sabotaging our recovery for 3 1/2 years just so they can use this line of attack. Republicans have done everything they possibly could to make sure President Obama ...
• Romney “I Wish President Obama Had Succe ...
  So Mitt in his convention speech claimed he wanted President Obama to succeed. Sure you did Mitt. And President Obama was going to have an easy time succeeding with the full support of Republican Senators right? Republican Senators making sure he is not successful in any way, and filibustering a ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

• Palestinian teen assaulted by soldiers detaine ...
  Comments from IDF Spokesperson regarding the Hebron incident proven false. Last month, Mairav Zonszein posted a video showing a young Palestinian being assaulted and detained by a group of soldiers, most of them in civilian clothing. The incident happened at checkpoint 56 in the Tel Rumeida neig ...
• A letter to the IDF soldiers at Sabra and Shatila
  On the 30th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, a Jewish American nurse who provided humanitarian aid in a Beirut hospital recalls her first encounter with IDF soldiers. Today, she asks them to take a few moments during the Jewish New Year to remember. To the IDF soldiers who were at ...
• Christopher Stevens was neither killed by a fi ...
  The U.S. Ambassador to Libya was killed by Islamic anti-American fanaticism. By now there’s no need to point out the right-wing, anti-Muslim bad guys in the story surrounding Tuesday’s attack in Libya that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. Mitt Romney i ...
• Collapse of local media gives Foreign Minister ...
  Nana 10 news reporter Omri Nahmias posted this picture to his Instagram account, of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. During a briefing for journalists ahead of the Jewish New Year,  a reporter jokingly asked the minister what he thought about the current crisis the Israeli media is going thro ...
• What happened to the refugees while the state ...
  How the state lied to the highest court in the land, how the court lapped it up, and who is really guilty here. Last Thursday, says Adv. Omer Shatz of the Anu Plitim (We Are Refugees) NGO, he showed up at the Supreme Court with his colleague, Adv. Yiftah Cohen, to ask for an injunction [...]

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• $4 million to support a national hydrologic mo ...
  Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, Senator Don Farrell, today announced that the Gillard Government would provide almost $4 million to support the adoption of the eWater 'Source' platform to aid water planning and management across Australia.
• Blue whale samples approved for legitimate sci ...
  Environment Minister Tony Burke has approved Flinders University to import six samples of blue whale tissue for genetic research to improve conservation of the species.
• Revised draft Basin Plan presented to water mi ...
  Water Minister Tony Burke today welcomed the release of the revised draft Murray-Darling Basin Plan which has been formally provided to State and Territory water ministers for consideration.
• Protecting the Ningaloo Coast World Heritage Area
  The Gillard Government will establish a community advisory committee to help protect the iconic Ningaloo Reef - home to the world's largest fish, the whale shark.
• Operation to protect migrating whales
  The Gillard Government, in partnership with state agencies and the New Zealand Government, has activated an operation to protect whales as they migrate across our coast.

Matt Weidner Blog

• Foreclosure Crisis 101- April Charney And Matt ...
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• Foreclosures and Deficiency Judgments, The Ban ...
  Florida’s Courts Are Funded With Less Than 1% of The State Budget The banks pay a $900 filing fee for a foreclosure case, then with that one case they can choke and clog up our courts for years.  The courts are fighting against their incompetence and bungling, managing their filings and th ...
• Section 1021 of the NDAA- Barack Obama WANTS T ...
  If you don’t know exactly what the NDAA is, shame on you.  The National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 is a terrifying law that allows the federal government to kick down my door, drag me away, take me to a prison or gulag anywhere on the planet, torture me, never charge me with a crime ...
• A Most Amazing Video….THAT NO ONE IN THE ...
  WOW…..DO NOT WATCH THIS….. 911 BEST VIDEO Scridb filter
• WATCHOUT! The GMAC Bankruptcy Claims Bar Date ...
  IF YOU ARE A HOMEOWNER WITH A GMAC FORECLOSURE YOU NEED TO PAY CAREFUL ATTENTION TO THE RAPIDLY APPROACHING GMAC CLAIMS BAR DATE. Claims not filed by November 9 are forever lost! A key group of advocates led by attorney Robert Brown and Paula Rush are working hard to ensure borrowers have a seat ...

abelard - news

• french government lowers fuel prices | driving ...
  With vehicle fuel prices rising precipitely, the government offers some temporary relief.
• increasing tax damages recovery, reducing expe ...
  Results from 17 OECD countries demonstrate that from which socialists hide or dismiss.
• cathedrals 9: saint-bertrand-de-comminges - th ...
  Unusually, a fortified cathedral, and for good reason through the ages, built high in the Pyrenees.
• euro meltdown continues | economics news at ab ...
  Spain fears being subjugated to Germany, Germany worries about subsidising the south, and the euro creaks.
• 'democrats' are lying, about gdp, about 'recov ...
  Playing on the innumeracy, on the lack of political and financial sophistication, on gullibility of the faithful.

The Parallel Parliament

• A Dance For the Generations
  Today’s the big day, as I head in shortly for the six-hour operation to have half of my stomach removed. …Continue reading »
• Dog Gone
  Sometimes, big things in our lives come in threes. That was my experience in the last couple of weeks. First …Continue reading »
• How Politics Changes Us (3)
  It set us back for a minute. The email message had come in from someone in the riding that I …Continue reading »
• On the Queen and Colonels
  Every discipline carries its own recognition and rewards. Business, sports, the arts, educational institutions, and many more – all these …Continue reading »
• How Politics Changes Us (2)
  Seth Godin writes a blog. It’s always short and terse but carries nuggets within it. Here’s what he put out …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

• Find A Compassionate Doctor To Help You Preven ...
  August 28, 2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Ever since the first vaccines – smallpox and rabies vaccines - one of the most serious complications of vaccination has been brain inflammation.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Brain inflammation can cause convulsions, also known as seizures.[8] Continuing seizures can ...
• Doctors Slam Parents for Vaccine Choices & FDA ...
  Posted: 6/26/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was published in Pediatrics, a medical journal owned by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).[1 ...
• Americans Fight for Vaccine Choices
  Posted: 5/14/2012 Philosophical Exemption To Vaccination Saved in Vermont! by Barbara Loe Fisher “I never thought this would turn into the mess it turned into.” – State Senator Kevin Mullin (R-Rutland), co-sponsor of a failed bill to eliminate philosophical exemption to vaccinat ...
• The Vaccine Injured: Where Has Compassion Gone?
  Posted 12/08/2011 By Barbara Loe Fisher During this season of remembrance and thanksgiving, I am grateful for the blessings that I have had in my life, including the hard times, when I learned that faith and hope can overcome fear and doubt. Adversity can make us stronger but it is also an opp ...
• Vermont Parents Fight to Save Philosophical Ex ...
  Posted: 2/21/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Informed consent to medical risk taking is a human right.[1] You have the right to be fully informed about the benefits and risks of pharmaceutical products – like vaccines - and be allowed to make a voluntary choice about whether or to take the risk ...

2020 Science

• Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
  Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
• Risk Science – A personal perspective
  As Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?”  What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer.  Which is why I decided to spend ...
• Emerging technologies at the World Economic Fo ...
  In an interconnected world, global issues demand integrative solutions.  It’s a statement that many people would agree with – in systems where associations between cause and effect are complex, you ignore synergistic inter-relationships between factors at your peril. But when it come ...
• Lost in the Maize
  As you’ll have gathered from last week’s Lost in the Maize, I’ve been on the road this week.  In fact, I am writing this on the plane back to Detroit, looking forward to a quick wash, shave, sleep, and catch-up with family, before heading off to the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting in Sa ...
• Small gods and the art of technology innovation
  There’s something rather liberating about being asked to give a no-holds talk on your perspective on life, the universe and everything.  So when the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center asked if I would speak as part of their “Where do we go from here?” series, I jumped at it. N ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

• A.J. Muste Peace Mural Dedication
  By Sachio Ko-yin*One Painter. One pacifist folk hero. And location location location.These were among the ingredients of a remarkable gathering on Thursday, August 9, the unveiling and dedication of the A.J. Muste Peace Mural by artist Christopher Cardinale.The subject of the … Continue re ...
• The Québec Strike Continues and Defense Techno ...
  “On the fourth of May 2012, in Victoriaville, Québec during the congress of the corrupted Liberal party of Jean Charest, several dozens of gas bombs were thrown on families, activists, old people, and students that were protesting against high tuition … Continue reading →
• The Unfinished Story of Iraq’s Oil Law: ...
  [Originally published on July 24th, 2012 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa “No Blood For Oil” was a slogan featured on many a sign in demonstrations during the run up to the US-led invasion of Iraq, and throughout the early years … Continue reading →
• Saying No To Tear Gas
  [An excerpt from an article of the same name by Frida Berrigan, originally published on Waging Nonviolence, June 22nd, 2012.] I have an assignment for you. Have you ever been tear gassed? I have not. It does not sound like … Continue reading →
• Peace and Global Justice Groups: “End St ...
  On Father’s Day, June 17th , Peace and Global Justice groups walk together with New Yorkers in a Silent March to End Stop & Frisk We are a diverse gathering of groups working for global justice and peace around the … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

• New paper – “Warming since 1850 is ...
  If "warming since 1850 is mainly the result of natural climatic variations" then it just confirms that the theory that anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions are responsible for global warming remains in the realm of speculation.
• World population by latitude >>the world of un ...
  While looking for data on the distribution of world population by latitude I was led into the wonderful world of Waldo Tobler's Unusual Map Projections....
• 2012 Nobel prize speculations begin
  Every year around this time with about a month to go before the awards are announced the predictions and speculation begin about potential Nobel prize laureates.
• Global temperature dependence on CO2 concentra ...
  Over the last 16 years global temperatures have been pretty flat (actually the trend is very slightly downwards). During this same time the atmospheric mean CO2 concentration has continued its increasing trend of between 1.5 and 2.5 ppm /year.
• “Greenpeace’s crime against humani ...
  Moore: 'Greenpeace and its allies have successfully blocked the introduction of golden rice for over a decade' -- WHO says 'between 250,000 to 500,000 children become blind every year due to vitamin A deficiency, half of whom die within a year of becoming blind'.

Left Foot Forward

• Spain: Rubalcaba gets irresponsible
  Tom Gill  is a London-based writer who blogs at www.revolting-europe.com  on European affairs from a radical left perspective. The Spanish socialists have ditched ‘responsible opposition’. But have they got enough fight to stop Rajoy?  ‘Responsible opposition’ has been the watchword of Spain’s s ...
• The Mental Health Bill is an improvement
  Currently, legislation is going through parliament to ensure that those who have had mental health problems will be able to stand for parliament. This is a sign of how attitudes towards mental health issues are improving over time. However it is still important to recognise that proposed cuts in ...
• Who is going to pay for new fire engines?
  Written by Jenny Jones, Member of the London Assembly The Chair of the Fire Authority, James Cleverly, seemed remarkably confident and bullish about the success of privatisation when I questioned him on Wednesday. I found this surprising as the £1.5m a month maintenance contract for the entire L ...
• The consequences of the tuition fee rise: more ...
  With a week until the deadline for students to submit their application for university, a third of Britain’s universities still have places to fill, supporting the prediction that a massive hike in tuition fees would deter students from going to University. In the Russell Group, made up of 24 of ...
• ANDREWS HINTS AT SEPARATE EXAMS SYSTEM FOR WALES
  Wales Education Minister has dropped a heavy hint that Wales could establish its own examination system in the wake of the GCSE marking fiasco. Speaking just days after he ordered the Welsh based exam board, WJEC to remark all English language papers sat in Wales over the summer; Leighton Andrew ...

Consumerist

• Time Warner Cable Saps Patrick Stewart’s ...
  If you've ever thought that being a celebrity entitles you to a hotline that instantly fixes all those annoying problems that bother the rest of us, Sir Patrick Stewart has news for you. The actor, best known for managing to look authoritative in that silly outfit from Star Trek: The Next Genera ...
• Man Spends $20,000 To Clean Up Vacant Lot, Cit ...
  During the past few years, a Philadelphia developer and business owner says he's been fined for un-shoveled snow, trash and other violations for a vacant lot (pictured, left) adjoining one of his properties -- a vacant lot he doesn't even own. But after he decided to spend his own money and time ...
• Canadian Mint Decides It Doesn’t Really ...
  While there are many opponents of the lowly penny, including a store in Vermont and soon, the entire country of Canada, one musician was about to be punished by the Canadian mint for his love of the little guys. The folk singer featured a photo of pennies scattered on a counter as well as a [...]
• What’s The Best Way To Deal With Obnoxio ...
  With movie ticket prices continuing to increase -- and the home theater experience getting less expensive and more immersive -- you can understand why consumers would get upset if their night out at the cinema is spoiled by some mouthy jerk, or by that person three seats over who can't seem to s ...
• Perhaps Grocery Store Should Reconsider This S ...
  After all the mislabeled, unfortunately worded, bad math-y and otherwise plain wrong signs we've seen, we're convinced that all retail establishments should hire an official Sign Executive dedicated to making sure these slip-ups don't happen. If such a position existed, surely someone would've r ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Sign GAP's Petition to Pass the WPEA!: Daily W ...
  Sign GAP's Whistleblower Rights Petition to Protect Federal Employees! Tell Congress to Pass WPEA! Summary: GAP has started a petition urging Congress to finally pass the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) before lawmakers adjourn to go campaigning. The WPEA would fix significant ...
• Despite Whistleblowers' Explosive Disclosures, ...
  Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted to re-authorize the 2008 FISA Amendments Act (FAA). The FAA Re-authorization represents the normalization of a domestic surveillance state. The FAA was bad enough in 2008, when it "legalized" parts of the Bush warrantless wiretapping ...
• Sign Whistleblower Rights Petition! Tell Congr ...
  Now is the time. Your voice is desperately needed to help restore protections for federal whistleblowers! Please sign our petition and tell your representatives to pass the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) before they adjourn from Washington to go campaigning! Over the past two d ...
• The Unfair Prosecution of John Kiriakou: Daily ...
  TomDispatch: The Persecution of John Kiriakou Summary: In this blog piece, State Department whistleblower/GAP client Peter Van Buren blasts the federal government for its prosecution of CIA torture whistleblower/GAP client John Kiriakou under the Espionage Act. Van Buren writes that Kiriakou i ...
• Government Missed Opportunities in UBS Whistle ...
  UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld voluntarily came forward as a whistleblower and handed the government the biggest tax fraud scandal in history on a silver platter. As I wrote yesterday, it is fitting that the most important tax whistleblower in history, who shattered 75 years of Swiss ...

UK Progressive

• How the Gov’t Talks About a Drone Program it W ...
  by Cora Currier ProPublica Related Interactive: Stacking Up the Adminstration’s Drone Claims Drones have become the go-to weapon of the U.S.’s counter-terrorism strategy, with strikes in Yemen in particular increasing steadily. U.S. drones reportedly killedtwenty-nine people in Yemen recen ...
• Moody’s in a Mood
  by Robert Reich The rating agencies are at it again. Moody’s Investors Services says it’s likely to downgrade U.S. government bonds if Congress and the White House don’t reach a budget deal before we go over the so-called “fiscal cliff” on January 2, when $1.2 trillion in spending cuts and tax i ...
• What’s Happening in Libya: A Guide to the Best ...
  by ProPublica.org staff Here’s the best reporting we’ve found not only on the killings but also on post-war Libya. THE ATTACK: ITS ORIGINS AND VICTIMS U.S. Suspects Libya Attack Was Planned, New York Times The connection between an anti-Islam film that reportedly sparked this week’s protests in ...
• Unbuttoning Mitt Romney
  by Charley James There are lots of disturbing things about Mitt Romney, from the unconscionable manner in which he built a great fortune to his abject refusal to unveil any more details about his proposed programs than he is about his tax returns. It has nothing to do with his outlandish – dista ...
• Finders Weepers: Early Bain Disputes Cast New ...
  by Jesse Eisinger ProPublica It was one of the “quickest big hits in Wall Street history,” as the Wall Street Journal put it at the time. In 1996, an investment group including Bain Capital, the firm then run by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, sold the consumer credit ...

NewsAlert

• Analysts see GOP holding House
  The Washington Times
• Judge strikes down Wis. law limiting union rights
  The Chicago Tribune reports: A Wisconsin judge on Friday struck down nearly all of the state law championed by Gov. Scott Walker that effectively ended collective bargaining rights for most public workers. There's more:the law violates the equal protection clause by creating separate classes of ...
• Wealthy base helped Emanuel take on Chicago te ...
  Reuters reports:Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel received far more money in campaign donations from wealthy financiers and entrepreneurs backing school reform than from unions, leaving him freer to confront the city's teachers than some fellow Democrats, an examination of donations to his 2011 campaig ...
• Surprise! Oversampling Dems Puts Obama in Lead
  Big Government reports:Obama's convention bounce seems to have evaporated. Rasmussen today has Romney up 3 points. Today's Gallup tracking poll had Obama up 5, a loss of 2 points over two days. Gallup uses a 7 day rolling average, so expect this number to continue to come down over the next seve ...
• Schieffer Touts 'Best Polling News That the Pr ...
  Newsbusters on the fantasies of the Obama Regime media.

JoNova

• Lewandowsky gets $1.7m of taxpayer funds to de ...
  Stephan Lewandowsky, Gilles Gignac, Klaus Oberauer Stephen Lewandowsky’s paper, soon to be published in Psychological Science, appears to be drawn from one or two grants from the Australian Research Council that total nearly a million dollars (though it’s not entirely clear which gra ...
• Climate Models: 100% right except for rain, dr ...
  Yet more observations from the planet show that modelers misunderstand the water based part of the climate – on our water based planet. Modelers thought that dry ground would decrease afternoon storms and rainfall over those frazzled parched lands (though I don’t remember many headli ...
• There goes the biofuels $21 billion dollar ind ...
• Lewandowsky does “science” by taun ...
  Stephan Lewandowsky is rattled. Not surprisingly. Right now, his blog has gone from a steady run of zero-to-three-comment-posts up to 200, and the skeptics are armed with cutting questions. But the more he writes, the worse it gets. Skeptics have picked apart his methods, his data, his transpare ...
• Steve McIntyre finds Lewandowsky’s paper ...
  Steve McIntyre audited Stephan Lewandowsky’s data to weed out the obvious fake responses. That people would “game” the test was predictable given the clumsy nature of the survey, the one-sided nature of the conspiracies investigated, the virulently anti-skeptic sites where it w ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• Man Builds Stolen Truck Bunker
  There are many lessons to be learned from this, although I presume that nobody reading this would be so foolish and ignorant… A conspiracy theorist ‘preparing for the worst’ stole a truck and trailer to build a doomsday bunker in his garden. Police tracked down a stolen food truck to the ...
• A David Wilcock Fact Checker
  I saw David Wilcock give a long talk promoting his new book The Source Field Investigations. During that talk he proudly mentioned how many references his book had – linking his ideas to legitimate scientific studies and news items. His talk was good, but some of the scientific studies he ...
• Mammoth Clone Slightly More Likely
  Many catastrophists would love to see the resurrection of the mammoth – if only so we could witness its failure to survive in Siberia (too cold). We’ve been teased over the years regarding the possibility, and here’s the latest (via The Guardian): The North-Eastern Federal Univ ...
• 7 Reasons for Being Cautious About 2012
  The question of a 2012 doomsday throws up numerous responses, but typically: It’s all Mumbo jumbo If I die, I die, whatever… My religion doesn’t factor in such a thing I’m too old to care I’d be embarrassed to be connected to a movement that failed The reality is ...
• Prepper Refuses To Eat Iguana For TV
  There’s no doubting that Doomsday Preppers is a popular and useful TV series. With what might prove to be perfect timing it is surely inspiring thousands of people to prepare for the worst. For that, we should be thankful. For the preppers who appear on the show it means five minutes of fa ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

• India not to let Pak panel to cross-examine 26 ...
  India may not allow Pakistani judicial commission to visit Mumbai for cross-examining witnesses of the 26/11 case until Islamabad gives it an assurance over the status of the bilateral agreement. Reported by IndiaTimes 2 hours ago
• Kudankulam row: Protester succumbs to injuries
  In Idinthakarai, a 42 year old protester who fell down and got injured while protesting died in Nagercoil private hospital today.Police sources said that he fell down because of high BP and got admitted yesterday afternoon. Reported by All India Radio 2 hours ago
• 50 arrested by Chennai police for attempting t ...
  In Chennai, Fifty persons were arrested by the City police while attempting to gate crash the US Consulate this evening.Activists of the Tamil Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam conducted a road roko against the film by a US based film maker. Reported by All India Radio 2 hours ago
• Revealed: The 7 darkest secrets of entrepreneurs
  Think you know entrepreneurs well enough? Ha! Think again! These are seven dark secrets that they will never reveal about themselves. Reported by Rediff.com 2 hours ago
• Wall St Week Ahead: A comedown may be waiting ...
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comparing the Federal Reserve to a rehab clinic offering addicted investors a synthetic high has been a favorite of Wall Street wags ever since the first round of Fed stimulus nearly four years ago. Reported by Firstpost 3 hours ago

Global Research TV

• Libya's Destabilization Serves Western Politic ...
• Kosovo Still Semi-Colony, "Independence" is Me ...
• If There Was a War Prize, Obama Would Top the List
• 9/11 Explosive Evidence: Experts Speak Out
• Dirty War on Syria: How the FSA Massacred Citi ...

Daily Tech

• Famed Apple Device Hacker Charlie Miller Enlis ...
  Miller reportedly will be functioning as full time pen-tester for Twitter
• Can U.S. Citizen Shoot Down Domestic Spy Drone ...
  Three bills look to limit use amid concerns that government is prepping for massive spy drone rollout
• Energy-Efficient House Creates As Much Energy ...
  Researchers will conduct a year-long experiment to see how well energy-efficient technologies work in a suburban home
• BMW Reveals FWD-based Concept Active Tourer Pl ...
  The Concept Active Tourer will be presented at the 2012 Paris Motor Show
• UCSD is "Printing" Blood Vessels in Seconds
  It's alive! Breakthrough holds great promise for tissue engineering

Oriental Review

• Secrets Behind September 11
  Surveys conducted across the US show that the majority of Americans, including senior citizens old enough to remember the US entry into World War II, regard the September, 11, 2001 drama as exceeding in historical importance the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. Speaking of the latter, these days it is ...
• 9/11 Mastermind Osama bin Laden: America’s Ant ...
  “On September 11, 2012, let us not only renew our efforts to expose the truth, but also take our awareness a step further to understand that the wars launched since that fateful autumn day in 2001 – in the bitterly ironic name of “justice” and supposedly to combat “terrorism” – conti ...
• Non-Aligned Movement Re-Energized
  It was a given from the outset that the conference of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) which convened late August in Tehran would grab the headlines internationally. In an epoch that never sank into oblivion, the organization founded as an alliance of 120 countries by the charismatic trio of Josip ...
• Turkey Headed for Trouble
  Recent developments in the Middle East had a considerable impact on the standing of Turkey, a country deeply involved in the unfolding Syrian tragedy. It currently appears that Turkey’s neighbors – Iran and Iraq – are growing allergic to the attempts made by Ankara to establish itself as t ...
• Lessons of World War II
  On September 2, 1945, Japan, Nazi Germany’s last remaining ally, signed the act of unconditional surrender, putting the last dot in the history of the Second World War. The bloodiest war ever fought, it lasted 6 years, affected 40 countries and claimed 55 million lives. The historic signing cere ...

BlogHer

• What's for Dinner Tonight?
  What are you cooking for dinner tonight? Me? I'm making this yummy autumn soup. What about you? Are you cooking tonight? What are you making? I want to know!
• Anti-Pasta Salad
  [Editor's Note: What is it people really like about pasta salad? I'd argue it's not the pasta, but everything else that comes along with it: the dressing, the vegetables, and, if you're so inclined, the meats and/or cheeses. So why hasn't it ever occurred to me to make this brilliant variation . ...
• Homemade Toothpaste
  Leah claims to make her own toothpaste because she's "super cheap", but her frugal efforts also cuts down on packaging waste, not to mention additional unwanted chemicals in the body or bodies. I believe this is what they call a win-win:"I kept seeing toothpaste recipes with xylitol as the sweet ...
• A Cardiac Exam with a Cell Phone
  Catherine Wong figured the world could use a way to give a cardiac exam using a cell phone. She invented a way to do just that and entered the Google Science Fair, where she was a finalist. Did I mention she was 16 at the time? Jill Pantozzi from The Mary Sue tells the whole inspiring story. Cat ...
• BlogHer Conference Update - - September 14, 2012
  Happy weekend and for our friends celebrating, Happy Rosh Hashanah! It's been a very busy week here for the BlogHer Conferences team and we have lots to share. BlogHer, bloggers and television: Our very own Elisa Camahort Page appeared on The Ricki Lake Show Wednesday, September 12 to discuss ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• 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 ...
• What Happens to Your Body After You Drink a So ...
  Sugar-rushes and caffeine-highs followed by a depressing energy crash are what happens to your body within an hour of drinking a coke, but plenty of Blisstree readers actually seem to be okay with that. Some of ...
• What Happens To Your Body Within An Hour Of Dr ...
  Soda, pop, cola, soft drink — whatever you call it, it is one of the worst beverages that you could be drinking for your health. As the debate for whether to put a tax on ...
• 15 Houseplants For Improving Indoor Air Qualit ...
  Our space program has led the way to a fascinating and important discovery about the role of houseplants indoors. NASA has been researching methods of cleansing the atmosphere in future space stations to keep them ...
• Fukushima Fish Carrying 258 Times the ‘S ...
  A pair of fish captured near Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have shown to be carrying record levels of radiation. The pair of greenlings are contaminated with 258 times the level government deems safe for ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• UMWA: “If it’s not safe, don&#8217 ...
  United Mine Workers of America International President Cecil Roberts addresses the recent bankruptcy filing by Patriot Coal,  at the 17th annual Labor Day Picnic sponsored by the Marion County AFL-CIO, the Marion County Democrat Party and the UMWA, Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012 at Hough Park in Manningt ...
• CONSOL cited in Virginia mining death
  Just a day after Thursday’s death of a worker at CONSOL Energy’s Blacksville No. 2 Mine in West Virginia, federal investigators have issued their report on the January death of a worker at CONSOL’s Buchanan Mine over in Virginia. Here’s what happened in that incident: At ...
• WVU paper provides more on MTR, health links
  We’ve talked before on this blog about West Virginia University research that found rats exposed to dust from mountaintop removal communities showed changes in the diameter of blood vessels, which could in turn reduce blood flow. The research is among the work going on now that aims to exp ...
• Another W.Va. miner dies on the job
  Right on the heels of a death earlier this week at a Drummond Mining Co. operation in Alabama, we reported this news last evening in the Gazette: A miner was killed Thursday afternoon in a rock fall at a Consol Energy operation in Monongalia County, state officials confirmed. The incident occurr ...
• Will production decline bring more coal jobs?
  The good folks over at the West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy have just posted a fascinating piece by Sean O’Leary that looks at how the coming decline in Appalachian coal production might affect jobs in the industry. Here’s how it starts: The projected decline of Central App ...

Daniel Miessler

• The Merits of Admitting When You’re Wrong | Aa ...
  When Oprah started defending fabulist James Frey, she was savaged by the press. So she invited her critics on the show and apologized, saying “You were right, I was wrong.” It didn’t destroy her reputation; it rescued it. When the space shuttle Columbia exploded, launch manager Wayne Hale took f ...
• On Cognitive Dissonance | Arronsw
  We all know people don’t like to hear bad news about themselves. Indeed, we go out of our way to avoid it — and when we do confront it, we try to downplay it or explain it away. Cognitive dissonance psychologists have proven it in dozens of experiments: Force students through an embarrassing ini ...
• Fixies vs. Grothers | Aaronsw
  Fixed-mindset people feel smart when they don’t make mistakes, growth-mindset people feel smart when they struggle with something for a long time and then finally figure it out. Fixies try to blame the world when things go bad, growthers look to see what they can change about themselves. Fixies ...
• Perhaps the Most Important Element of Success ...
  The difference, Dweck discovered, was one of mindset. Dweck had always thought “human qualities were carved in stone. You were smart or you weren’t, and failure meant you weren’t.” That was why the helpless kids couldn’t take it when they started failing. It just reminded them they sucked (they ...
• iPhone 5 Carrier Option Comparison
  via mgalligan.com Great collection of information. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentAndroid vs. iPhone Support LifecyclesThe iPhone is the World’s #1 CameraTry a BookHow to Nap | Boston GlobeThe Chart That Should Accompany All Discussions of the ...

Fitwatch

• Extremism cop covered up at Hillsborough
  This man, Norman Bettison headed up the liaison unit responsible for orchestrating the lies and black propaganda that was the police response to the deaths of 96 people at Hillsborough. Attempting to cover up the police's role in causing the tragedy, the liaison unit perpetuated false stories of ...
• Police Liaison Officers – the new FIT
  Police Liaison Officers are everywhere these days, constantly hanging around ‘engaging’ with protesters. They are being hailed as a new invention, but the role they carry out is not new at all. It’s just that it used to be done by cops in blue bibs called ‘FIT teams’ Back before FIT got a bad na ...
• Police use anti-terror powers to detain anarch ...
  The following article is reproduced from Statewatch British counter-terrorist police at Heathrow airport last week (13 August) detained two anarchists returning from a conference in Switzerland, asked them a number of "inflammatory, irrelevant and offensive questions," and copied information fro ...
• Spycops practices circumvent the law says Surv ...
  The Surveillance Commissioner has attacked police for circumventing the law on covert surveillance by building personal profiles of targets from ‘open’ internet sources. In a report published last month, the Surveillance Commission said that the increasingly used practice of processing internet ...
• Welcome to the Future, Today.
  For those of us who have watched London 2012 with a keen eye from its inception, we have been alarmed by the extent to which it appeared to be just a 'festival of social control'. Yesterday's heavy-handed policing of the monthly Critical Mass bike ride  was a chilling confirmation of this. Cycli ...

Worldwide Hippies

• Rebuilding my stairway to heaven?
  By Woodstock WWH/CJE -… if I really wanted to ‘wonder about a bit on the stairs to the world that I once knew’, as he poetically called it, ‘the best way to be sure about what to consume is of course to grow your own magic mushrooms.’ The good old days and Magic Mushrooms (Psilocybin) [...]
• WWH/CJE SoapBox: The Chimera of Anarchism (Video)
  Albuquerque (NM) citizen/journalist John (“Dr. Woody”) Konopak attempts to dispel some unreasonable expectations which folks seem to harbor who advocate for “Anarchism” to replace the current compromised, corrupted electoral system. For the assertions about the extents of ...
• WWH/CJE Friday News Briefs
  Revealed: inside story of US envoy’s assassination America ‘was warned of embassy attack but did nothing’ (Watch the spin on this one.Can we all say America dominance of north africa?) The killings of the US ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were likely to have been th ...
• NDAA: Judge Strikes Down Indefinite Detention ...
  Judge Strikes Indefinite Military Detention Law by TheYoungTurks -”A federal judge on Wednesday permanently blocked the U.S. military from enforcing a law allowing it to indefinitely detain anyone accused of aiding or participating in terrorism. In May, U.S. District Judge Katherine Forres ...
• 9/11: Facts, Fiction and Censorship | Global R ...
  By Julie Lévesque,Global Research – Whoever dares raise questions about the official 9/11 narrative, will be excluded from both the mainstream and  “progressive” media, dismissed as a mentally disturbed individual, lost in delirium, harboring wild conspiracy theories. In reality, the gover ...

reference frame

• Innocence of Muslims: watch HD here
  Off-topic: Czech government imposed a full prohibition of beverages with 20 or more percent of alcohol, after 19 people died by methanol poisoning in recent days. Well, I think the prohibition is counterproductive. Millions of Muslims – including the Iranian mullah-in-chief and the offic ...
• Japanese guy may have proved the \(abc\) conje ...
  Up to a few exceptions to be proved separately, a strengthening of Fermat's Last Theorem Four days ago, Nature described a potentially exciting development in mathematics, namely number theory: Proof claimed for deep connection between primes Shinichi Mochizuki of Kyoto divided the s ...
• Vafa's new 4D string theory
  First, another new paper. Those people who conjectured that Edward Witten may stop doing physics after having won the $3 million Milner Prize may face a problem with their belief system today. Witten just revealed his new Notes On Super Riemann Surfaces And Their Moduli which h ...
• Barroso wants a European Federation
  The chieftain of the self-described European Commission, José Manuel Barroso (PT), gave a speech in Strasbourg in which he declared his intent to transform the European Union to a federation. Barroso, claiming that "Europe needs a new sinking" (haven't we seen enough sinking of our ...
• Official Iranian media promote truthism
  One of the conspiracy theories studied in the Stephan Lewandowsky's fraudulent paper claiming to establish that the climate skepticism is correlated with the belief in conspiracy theories was the so-called truthism, i.e. the belief system that the U.S. government was behind the 9/11 attacks. ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Persian Empire…..Think About It…
  The red stars represent embassy protests (attacks) What are the implications? Im not sure. Iran has supported the Muslim Brotherhood, is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad trying to… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: Troops Deploying to Persian Gulf ahead of schedule Tuesd ...
• Text message costs prompt suit against Bell, R ...
  The watchdog that enforces open competition in Canadian business is taking on Bell, Rogers, Telus and the industry group that represents them in a lawsuit targeting misleading costs for premium text messages. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Quebec Liberals complain to police over ro ...
• Top Secret Royal Visit Continues
  Top Secret Royal Visit Continues   Prince Edward, who was sent to Canada on September 11, 2012, shortly after the murder / execution of Justice Carolyn Layden-Stevenson became a public issue, has commenced his series of top secret private imeetings that wi ...
• Breaking: Massive Nuclear Secret Uncovered In ...
  The Infowars crew investigates a nuclear secret buried in Austin, Texas. A nuclear reactor is hidden beneath the monolith of the LBJ Library on the University of Texas campus and nuclear waste an insider said is sealed in limestone caves located in the Texas capitol. www.infowars.com www.prisonp ...
• Happy Days Are Here Again: Stock Market Approa ...
  by Mac Slavo, SHTFPlan: The Federal Reserve has officially begun its long awaited monetary stimulus, and the world has breathed a sigh of relief – for a week or two at least. The stock market staged a huge rally Thursday after investors got the aggressive economic help they wanted from the Feder ...

Truth About Our World

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

Bloomberg

• Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
  Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
• Grading Back-to-School Stocks
  Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
• Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
  The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
• At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
  CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation
• IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
  The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?

Enviroblog

• EWG's Guide to Healthy Cleaning: How did we do it?
  By Rebecca Sutton, Ph.D., EWG Senior Scientist What's in those bottles on top of my washing machine and under my sink? We've been asked that question thousands of times - especially by fans of EWG's Skin Deep Cosmetics Database, who... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
• Sunscreen - Lessons Learned From a Trip to the ...
  By Jason Rano, Director of Government AffairsIt's fair to say that I'm not a beach person.  My hair is pale blonde and my skin is the color of a marshmallow, if it had freckles.  I have nightmarish memories of being... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website fo ...
• Water- The New Inconvenient Truth
  By Heather White, Environmental Working Group chief of staff Guaranteeing a clean and ample supply of water should be at the core of our energy policy. Sometimes Washington seems to have forgotten that. But a recent survey shows that the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websit ...
• EWG, NRDC Sue California for Failing to Act on ...
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• Johnson & Johnson Takes a Big Step in the Righ ...
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Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• Primary fallout, O'Malley makes a Cuomo comparison
• Eugene Mirman and friends play it weird at his ...
• Short of taxi revenue, Bloomberg asks for big cuts
• Anti-gay-marriage reverend says Cuomo would ha ...
• Elizabeth Warren returns to New York for progr ...

Views & News from Norway

• Mobile phones pose few risks
  Norwegian and Swedish researchers have determined that there’s little if any danger that modern mobile telephones and wireless networks pose a health risk.  The study was done for the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (Folkehelseinstituttet) and concluded that there’s no scientifi ...
• Tuition looms for foreign students
  Norwegian universities have been hit by a wave of applications from foreign students lately, and some politicians suspect it’s because they’re still tuition-free for foreign citizens as well as Norwegians. That may change, if a growing bloc of politicians get their way. The Christian ...
• Plans for ‘New Utøya’ meet opposition
  The Labour Party’s youth organization AUF is running into strong opposition to its plans to redevelop the island where 69 persons were killed and scores of others wounded at last year’s AUF summer camp. Debate has also flared up again over AUF leader Eskil Pedersen’s decision t ...
• New Ahus hospital caught in crisis
  Akershus University Hospital, better known as Ahus in Lørenskog  just northeast of Oslo, was supposed to be Norway’s most modern and largest acute-care hospital when it opened four years ago. Politicians and administrators, however, failed to provide for adequate staffing and now a high-pr ...
• Drillo lands in media glare
  Egil “Drillo” Olsen should be basking in the glow of his national football team’s victory over Slovenia on Tuesday, but instead the 70-year-old coach has had to tackle all kinds of problems from badly behaved players to claims of tricks on the field and a half-empty stadium. Th ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Reflections on Dryland Water Management in Por ...
  A reflection following a great time finding solutions for dryland water management in Portugal by Richard Perkins I’m enjoying working on a job connecting up extensive irrigation in the mountains of Extremadura, Spain, and relaxing for a couple of days after a successful and effective Dr ...
• Grant Opportunity to Bring Permaculture Soluti ...
  Sri Lankan household Photo © Craig Mackintosh The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has, of course, a lot of resources at its disposal. Unfortunately it’s been shown that those resources have not always been utilised in ways that actually assist the people they purport to want to h ...
• Fernglade Farm – Early Spring (September) 2012 ...
  Writing the series about Food Forests has made me aware of how much interest there is in them and how they can vary from region to region, but it also highlighted to me just how difficult it may be for people to actually visit a food forest. However, thanks to the wonders [...]
• Learning What Works in Community Sustainabilit ...
  An Ecological Model for Whole Community Sustainability Education Nicole Foss and Raul Ilargi Meijer at our home in April In the last five months, our small city in New Zealand has had the privilege of hosting two of the most outspoken voices [...]
• Please Support Marda Permaculture Farm (West B ...
  Murad Alkufash Photo © Craig Mackintosh This is an urgent call for support of the Marda Permaculture Farm, which is in dire need of financial support to bring it beyond day-to-day survival into a thriving, ecologically and economically sustainable farm and training center. At this time, i ...

Pointman's

• The decline of the environmental lobby’s ...
  Political influence is obvious, when you see it being exercised. It’s normally exerted by politicians, who’ve been elected by the people, and are simply changing policy in line with the promises they’ve made to their electorate. Depending on their political persuasion, and your ...
• An assessment of current alarmist propaganda.
  It’s been obvious for some time, that the science behind the most alarming claims about the effects of any putative global warming, is not only unsustainable but indefensible. We still of course get the occasional paper, trying to resurrect an old scare, which has already been demolished, ...
• Time to cull the prat nominations.
  I think it’s time to close off the first round of voting, since the viable candidates are by now obvious. People have really stuck to the letter of the law and voted for prats who’ve been very active this year. The front-runner, polling twice as many votes as anyone else, is Peter Gl ...
• The repair man.
  He repaired people. He used a little bit of human insight but mostly patience and kindness. He was good at it, so all the bad cases nobody wanted to touch or didn’t quite know how to handle, were referred to him in the end and he patched them up. Mostly, he got the ugly sex … Re ...
• Butt wiggling and the science of uncertainty.
  Being a climate realist, I’m used to a certain underdog status. I’ve learnt that it’s our advantage. We don’t have many of those, so you learn to work them hard. While they yap a lot, we get told to shut up but we watch them carefully while they’re yapping. We don&# ...

Journalists' Toolkit

• Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery
  There are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
• Baby Steps in Data Journalism
  This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
• The best video export options
  How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
• Video Resources updated
  The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...
• Flash Journalism updates
  I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Lolis Eric Elie And The Connections That Link ...
  This article has been reprinted from Bev Bell at Other Worlds: The Things That Are The Richest Are The Least Valued: New Orleans And Haiti, Post-Catastrophe Lolis Eric Elie, Interviewed by Beverly Bell August 28, 2012 Tomorrow, seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina dodged New Orlean ...
• Seven Years After Katrina, A Divided City, By ...
  A version of this article originally appeared on TruthOut.org.   Seven years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has become a national laboratory for government reforms. But the process through which those experiments have been carried out rarely has been transparent or democratic. The ...
• Katrina Pain Index 2012: 7 Years After, By Bil ...
  1          Rank of New Orleans in fastest growing US cities between 2010 and 2011.  Source: Census Bureau. 1          Rank of New Orleans, Louisiana in world prison rate.  Louisiana imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of ...
• Is It Time For The Bounce Vote?
  New Orleans hip-hop artist Tenth Ward Buck, a legendary New Orleans bounce music artist, announced today that he has qualified for a spot on the ballot for the city council election in District B, the seat formerly held by Stacy Head. He is one of several candidates who have declared their inten ...
• Unprecedented, Massive Cuts Devastate Universi ...
  While barely covered in the local media, the University of New Orleans is facing another round of brutal and devastating cuts, quickly transforming an already-under-resourced school into a shadow of its former self. Below is a letter from UNO President Peter Fos outlining some of the cuts. While ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  somebody 'pushed' this film out there to incite and spread hatred and rage in the Middle East on September 11th, and the identity of the person or organization behind this plot should be exposed and held accountable." It was Morris Sadek, an ardent Zionist hatemonger. Egyptian Copt at C ...
• Social Engineering • Fifty Shades of Grey - mo ...
  Erika Leonard James, a willing dupe of the Jewish psycho-sexual social engineering agenda. Does the title, Fifty Shades of Grey, indicate that James is an initiated witch?Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:31 pm
• Law, Security, and Other Lies to Endslave Us • ...
  The Noahide Deception iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3W1tbvqGYk iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LYYv74qBTU iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s9-U3Pxx_w iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BymoPWd8tnU iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpSErLzCFMkStatistics ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Israeli vandals target Catholic church http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/wo ... 6465256614 VANDALS have burnt the door of a Catholic monastery west of Jerusalem and scrawled anti-Christian graffiti in an apparent "price tag" hate crime, police and witnesses said, putting pressure ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  found these links over at rense. Kind of makes me sick to see people of LIbya holding signs apologizing to America, when we're the satanic, psychopathic, zio-controlled nation that killed their leader and 50,000 of their people, and destroyed their country. The world has obviously gone mad. 15 ...

TVNZ

• Striking South African miners reject Lonmin pa ...
  Wilcat strikers at Lonmin's Marikana mine have rejected a pay offer.
• Duchess "saddened" by magazine's topless photos
  Catherine is "disappointed" by a magazine's decision to publish topless photos of her.
• Pope visits Lebanon amid Syria war, Libya protest
  Pope Benedict has arrived in Lebanon to bring a message of peace.
• New York first city to ban super-sized sugary ...
  New York City has passed the first US ban of oversized sugary drinks.
• China surveillance ships near disputed islands
  Six Chinese surveillance ships have entered waters near disputed islands claimed by Tokyo and Beijing.

environment 360

• Japanese Set Goal To Phase Out Nuclear Power ...
  The Japanese government says it will seek to phase out all nuclear power plants by 2040, although officials suggested that the target remains flexible. The new energy strategy, which places a 40-year lifespan on nuclear reactors and limits construction of new plants, would continue a national sh ...
• New Monkey Species Identified in Remote Region ...
  A team of scientists has identified a new species of monkey in a remote area in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a discovery that researchers say confirms the remote African region as a biodiversity hotbed. After Click to enlarge Photo by Maurice Emetshu The lesula encountering one of ...
• In Himalaya Mountains, A Mixed Picture of Gla ...
  A new study says that glaciers in the Himalayas are reacting to climate change in different ways, with glaciers in the eastern and central Himalayas retreating at accelerating rates, while glaciers in the western Himalaya and Hindu Kush region are more stable and possibly even growing in places. ...
• Beyond Big Dams: Turning to Grass Roots Soluti ...
  Mega-dams and massive government-run irrigation projects are not the key to meeting world’s water needs, a growing number of experts now say. For developing nations, the answer may lie in small-scale measures such as inexpensive water pumps and other readily available equipment. BY FRED PEARCE
• Big-Box Retail Stores in U.S. Lead Surge in So ...
  A growing number of major U.S. companies, led by the nation’s largest big-box retailers, are installing rooftop solar power systems to help cut energy costs and increase profits, a new report says. According to the report, released by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and the Vote S ...

oldephartte/Diigo

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• OpenMedia.ca | Engage, Educate, Empower
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• Exposing lies about Climate Change, Big Brothe ...
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• Darker Net | Linking frontline news-gatherers ...
  Ecuador embassy siege: more evidence it was a raid called off at last moment Tags: frontline data underground web
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backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

• 12 ‘Gangnam Style’ Parodies
  Britney Spears horses around, Miss Korea contestants get down, and more parodies of the viral hit.
• The Seneca Tartan?
  The Daily Pic: Marie Watt rethinks America's blankets.
• The Super PAC Watchdog on Your Lap
  Who made that campaign ad—and is it true? With the SuperPACApp, technology helps voters follow the money.
• Ryan Breaks Abortion Omerta
  At today’s Values Voter Summit, Romney’s VP showed it really isn’t all about jobs. By Michelle Goldberg.
• Cairo Violence Angers Salafists
  Salafists outside the U.S. Embassy tell Mike Giglio that all the fighting has distorted their message.

Loonwatch

• Inside the strange Hollywood scam that spread ...
  A group of rightwing extremists aimed to destabilize post-Mubarak Egypt and roil US politicians. They got their wish.
• Abenob Nakoula Bassely, the Man Behind the Muh ...
  A staff member who worked on the film told CNN that an entirely different name was filed on the paperwork for the Screen Actors Guild: Abenob Nakoula Bassely.
• Libyans Protest and Condemn Attack on US Consu ...
  Libyans take to the street to condemn the killing of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and his colleagues.
• Just Because You Love Jesus Doesn’t Mean ...
  To be a strong Christian does not mean you have to have a strong antipathy toward other faiths and their leaders.
• The tragic consulate killings in Libya and Ame ...
  The murder of American staff over a hate film is an unmitigated wrong. But so are deaths caused by the US that go unremarked.

Energy News

• Nuclear Engineer on Unit 3 Photos: “I hate to ...
• Scientists: Radioactive cesium at 10 times abo ...
• Watch: Fukushima worker films at plant — I was ...
• Gov’t to End Nuclear in Japan? “It’s trickery ...
• Fukushima Worker Tweets: No progress has been ...

Japan Times

• Kotooshu exits basho with injury
  As Bulgarian Kotooshu became the latest ozeki injury casualty to pull out of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament, Harumafuji stood tall for sumo's second rank Friday, delivering another convincing win to stay unbeaten on the sixth day of action in Tokyo. Back on the yokozuna promotion trail follo ...
• Victims dissatisfied with Tepco compensation
  Tokyo Electric Power Co. has paid out some ¥1.2 trillion in compensation to individuals and businesses affected by the Fukushima nuclear crisis, out of the ¥2.5 trillion it estimated in April that it will have to pay. Tepco has asked for some ¥2.4 trillion in assistance from the ...
• No-nuke plan official, quick to draw flak
  Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's Cabinet on Friday officially adopted a new long-term energy strategy that calls for elimination of nuclear power dependency by the end of the 2030s, but the new goal quickly came under fire from experts, antinuclear activists and lobbying groups. Critics said th ...
• Japan, Israel tied up after first day of David ...
  Japan and Israel are deadlocked 1-1 following the opening day of play in their Davis Cup World Group playoff at Ariake Colosseum on Friday. Japan No. 2 Go Soeda beat Israel No. 1 Dudi Sela in four sets 6-2, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 in the opening match, while Israel No. 2 Amir Weintraub downed Japan No. ...
• Utility to raise cash for safety fix
  Chubu Electric Power Co. said Thursday it will issue debt in Japan to raise ¥20 billion mainly to finance safety measures at its suspended nuclear power plant and debt redemption. The five-year note issue will be placed on Sept. 21, representing the firm's first debt issuance in nearly tw ...

Alexander Higgins

• Urgent Cry For Help After FSA Massacres 245 Ci ...
  Syria is blamed for 'the largest massacre to date' by the media when numerous interviews show residents crying for help saying it was the terrorists.
• America’s Secret Deal with the Mexican Drug Ca ...
  Independent sources, including a diplomats, cartel leaders, and intelligence operatives corroborate claims of a secret US partnership with the Mexican Drug Cartels.
• Obama Preparing To Seize Internet With CISPA B ...
  President Obama is circulating draft legislation of CISPA legislation he will sign into law through executive order after Congress failed to pass it.
• TSA Agent Admits Detaining People Is Not Reall ...
  A TSA agent admits to detaining and keeping a passenger of a flight for finishing their drink instead of allowing the TSA to test it for explosives.
• Not Seen On TV: 20 Minutes Of Graphic Syria Te ...
  20 Minutes video documenting the crimes of the Free Syrian Army. You don't need to know Arabic to understand the cruelty and terror of such group.

Macleans - Central

• Are we in for another doctor exodus to the U.S.?
  Science-ish looks at the evidence on what it takes for a Canadian MD to leave
• ‘We cannot be selective about which basi ...
  In a speech in Montreal, John Baird lays out the Harper government’s international agenda...
• ‘Not telling the truth’
  NDP MP Irene Mathyssen responds to the letter three Conservative MPs sent to the...
• Balancing the economy
  Thomas Mulcair talks to the Toronto Star. “We’re always going to have a resource-based...
• Canada donates fitness videos to DC schools
  Childhood obesity is the signature cause of First Lady Michelle Obama. P90X is the...

Making It Count - CCPA

• What’s Next for BC’s Carbon Tax?
  The Minister leading up BC’s Carbon Tax Review, Kevin Falcon, may be gone – his departure came just as the deadline for submissions was closing – but the carbon tax lives on. For now. Back in 2008 when the carbon tax was announced, it was scheduled to rise from an initial level of $10 per ...
• Support to Jeffrey Mine: Asbestos, Myopia and ...
  Quebec’s Liberal government announced last June a $58 million loan to Mine Jeffrey Inc. for the revival of its chrysotile asbestos extraction project. This loan was conditional on the financial involvement of up to $25 million in the project of Balcorp Ltd, a Montreal-based international t ...
• The End of Men?
  The Globe and Mail on Saturday devoted two pages of its Focus section to a discussion of Hanna Rosin’s book, The End of Men. There are a few interesting anecdotes on changing sex roles, but there are no facts cited to substantiate the argument that North America is seeing the rise of a mat ...
• Unionization and Labour Market Performance
  Further to my earlier post on the “own goal” scored by the Fraser Institute report on North American labour markets, the Table below shows the rankings of the Canadian provinces – out of 60 states and provinces – for (1) labour market performance, 2007-11 and (2) the unio ...
• More Dead Money
  The sector and financial-flow accounts released with today’s GDP figures indicate an expansion of the pool of dead money flagged by this blog and by Mark Carney. The National Balance Sheet Accounts have not yet been released for the second quarter, so we cannot update the accumulated total of $5 ...

ReDress

• Protest in Ramallah - an ominous sign for the ...
  Uri Avnery argues that foreign aid and Israeli handouts from stolen Palestinian tax revenue provide only temporary relief from Israel's economic strangulation of the Palestinians, and that a "Palestinian Spring" targeted at the occupation may come sooner rather than later.
• Netanyahu and the Zionist lobby: a threat to t ...
  Alan Hart argues that the attempts by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Israel's American lobbyists to push the United States into war with Iran is driving a wedge into the US-Israeli special relationship.
• An Israeli film-maker, Jewish donors and their ...
  Nureddin Sabir considers the possible motives of the Israeli creator and Jewish financiers of the film, "Innocence of Muslims", which gratuitously insults the Prophet Muhammad and Islam and has sparked riots in Egypt and Libya, resulting in the killing of four American diplomats at the US consul ...
• US democracy takes a hit
  Lawrence Davidson argues that the Obama camp's obsession with pre-empting attacks from domestic Israel flag-waving fos through appeasement is now such that they are no longer concerned with the damage this does to their natural allies.
• Forget Iran, it's Israel’s nuclear gun pointed ...
  Jonathan Cook argues that behind the facade of shared values and interests between the US and Israel lie betrayal and mistrust, and that the special relationship between the two countries is underpinned by "the formidably intimidating tactics of the pro-Israel lobby in Washington" and Israeli nu ...

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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• The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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Peakwater

• Beyond Big Dams: Turning to Grass Roots Soluti ...
  “Cheap pumps and new ways of powering them are transforming farming and boosting income all over Africa and Asia,” says Meredith Giordano, lead author of a three-year research project looking at how smallholder farmers are turning their backs on governments and finding their own solutions to wat ...
• Vietnam warns of water conflicts
  “Tensions over water resources are threatening economic growth in many countries and presenting a source of conflict especially given the efforts of all countries to step up economic development. “Dam construction and stream adjustment by some countries in upstream rivers represents ...
• Restore Hetch Hetchy Valley
  “In November, San Franciscans will vote on looking into alternatives to capturing water at the Hetch Hetchy reservoir site, which could lead to restoring the fabled valley in Yosemite National Park. While this modest step faces opposition, the vote is important in the evolution of thinking ...
• Suez Starts ‘Social’ Water Rates in Northern F ...
  “Suez Environnement (SEV), the second- biggest waste and water utility, will begin charging residents of the northern French city of Dunkirk variable water rates that depend on income, size of household and usage. “Starting next month, residents’ water rates will be based on how much ...
• Asia Risks Water Scarcity Amid Coal-Fired Powe ...
  “Inner Mongolia’s rivers are feeding China’s coal industry, turning grasslands into desert. In India, thousands of farmers have protested diverting water to coal- fired power plants, some committing suicide. The struggle to control the world’s water is intensifying around energy supply. Ch ...

D. Kucinich

• “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. See video h ...
• Kucinich Defends Struggling Americans, Opposes ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a staunch defender of working class people, today objected to attempts to abuse the legislative processes in a committee of the House of Representatives for political purposes. The Education and Workforce Committee today considered a two sentence bill expres ...
• Kucinich Calls for Calm in Wake of Deadly Attacks
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement following the attack on our embassies in Cairo and Benghazi. “One day after September 11, 2012, Americans woke to images of our embassy in Benghazi burning, and with news that our Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, alon ...
• Kucinich Opposes Blanket Reauthorization of La ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke on the House floor opposing H.R. 5949, the FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2012. See video here. Congressman Kucinich’s full remarks follow. “To my friends on the other side of the aisle who have expressed passion about passing this, you're ...
• Kucinich Releases His Remarks from September 1 ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released remarks he delivered to Congress when the House of Representatives reconvened following the attacks on September 11, 2001: “America grieves this day for the victims of these terrorist attacks, and for their families and friends. Our prayers are ...

Authentically Wired

• Is this now appropriate behavior for those cho ...
  … Is this now appropriate behavior for those choosing … “to serve and to protect” … Texas Police Chief Approves of Officer Dragging 77-year Old Woman Out of Car on Camera 09-13-2012  •  Photography Is Not a Crime …  Read Full Story   Despite wearing a camera on his unif ...
• subject of the drug trade
  A Jaw-Dropping Explanation of How Governments Are Complicit in the Illegal Drug Trade   The drug war is far, far more than just simply criminals at work, says scholar Oliver Villar. READ COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE … September 10, 2012 …http://www.alternet.org/drugs/jaw-dropping-explanation- ...
• cannot condone any government agency telling A ...
  … As badly as I personally believe Americans have become addicted to high fructose corn syrup (sugar) … I cannot condone any government agency telling Americans what they can choose voluntarily to put into their bodies …   AGENDA 21 MENTALITY at WORK: NEW YORK CITY SODA BAN made by UNELECTE ...
• You didn’t really expect these clown$ we ...
  … You didn’t really expect these clown$ were going to miss a paycheck did you …? House passes stopgap funding bill to keep government open until after election 09-13-2012  •  Washington Post The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a six-month stopgap government funding bill on a ...
• dissect … digest … determine for y ...
  … Eliminate the hyperbole … dissect … digest … determine for yourself if using this device still fits in your life …   Is This Common Kitchen Appliance Harming Your Health?   Posted: 08/25/10 08:00 AM ET … http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mercola/microwave-cancer_b_684662.html?utm_sour ...

Popular Technology

• Skeptical Science: "Ding dong, the witch is dead"
  In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums hacked and the contents posted online. In these it is revealed their lack of humanity for the death of a political adversary. In a forum thread titled, "Conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart is dead at 43" fre ...
• Skeptical Science: The Censorship of Poptech
  "The impact of that ban on PopTech was to silence him." - Sphaerica (Bob Lacatena) [Skeptical Science] In March of 2012, the same computer illiterates at Skeptical Science who do not know how to use Google Scholar had their forums hacked and the contents posted online. In these I am mentioned i ...
• The Truth about Richard Muller
  "I was never a skeptic" - Richard Muller, 2011 Richard Muller has never been a skeptic, at best he had a moment of intellectual honesty towards skeptics when he acknowledged Steve McIntyre's debunking of Mann's Hockey Stick, only to later dismiss this as irrelevant to the global warming debate ...
• The Truth about Judith Curry
  Judith Curry is not a skeptic but a hurricane alarmist who had an alleged epiphany after Climategate and now seeks to be some sort of arbiter of scientific integrity. Her history of trust building includes accusing world leading hurricane expert, Dr. William Gray of "brain fossilization" and t ...
• The Truth about Skeptical Science
  Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• An interview with conservation writer David Qu ...
  David Quammen has done consistent and conscientious reporting from the trenches of ecological and evolutionary research for over thirty years now. Few in the world can claim as intimate and broad an understanding of conservation biology as he can. His books such as The Song of the Dodo and Mons ...
• Indigenous groups in Panama wait for UN REDD t ...
  A dispute over the implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) in Panama has pitted the United Nations (UN) against the nation's diverse and large indigenous groups. Represented by the National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples in Panama (COONAPIP), indigenous ...
• Private reserve safeguards newly discovered fr ...
  Although it covers only 430 hectares (1,063 acres) of the little-known Chocó forest in Ecuador, the private reserve las Gralarias in Ecuador is home to an incredible explosion of life. Long known as a birder's paradise, the Reserva las Gralarias is now making a name for itself as a hotspot ...
• Belo Monte mega-dam halted again by high Brazi ...
  A high federal court in Brazil has ruled that work on the Belo Monte dam in the Brazilian Amazon be immediately suspended. Finding that the government failed to properly consult indigenous people on the dam, the ruling is the latest in innumerable twists and turns regarding the massive dam, whic ...
• Chart: Forest loss in Latin America
  Latin America lost nearly 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 square miles) of forest — an area larger than the state of Oregon — between 2001 and 2010, finds a new study that is the first to assess both net forest loss and regrowth across the Caribbean, Central and South America. The ...

Science - NZ Herald

• NZ scientists' role in CFC ban profound, says ...
  A worldwide treaty banning aerosols 25 years ago averted a global catastrophe, New Zealand ozone layer scientists said yesterday.Niwa scientists played a major role in creating the Montreal Protocol, signed a quarter of a century...
• Stem cells cure deaf gerbils
  Scientists tout major implications for treatment of humans with world-first study Scientists have made a major breakthrough in the cure for deafness by restoring the hearing of deaf gerbils using human stem cells.The techniqu...
• Debate: Should NZ grow genetically modified crops?
  Yes: Holding back science is robbing us of gains There's no doubt that New Zealand will one day grow GM food. The only question is when.It won't be any time soon because New Zealand has rules so tight that no one is allowed to...
• GM crop link to liver failure
  Scientists have linked the risk of liver failure and death to wheat being genetically modified in Australian tests.The claims of New Zealand genetics lecturer Jack Heinemann and biochemist Dr Judy Carman, of Flinders University...
• Chris de Freitas: Global warming: Court no sub ...
  One assumes scientific analysis is objective, so it may come as a surprise that this was challenged in a New Zealand High Court case, the results of which were released last week.The New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust (NZCSET)...

The Bovine

• Lifestock “Call to Farms” Sept. 30th
  From Montana Jones:
• Another reason to avoid GMO wheat
  From Mike Adams in Natural News: “(NaturalNews) Genetically engineered wheat contains an enzyme suppressor that, when consumed by humans, could cause permanent liver failure (and death). That’s the warning issued today by molecular biologist Jack Heinemann of the University of Canter ...
• Where happy cows make healthy food
  From Nicholas Kristof, in the NY Times: “…For Bob, a crucial step came when he switched to organic production eight years ago. A Stanford study has cast doubt on whether organic food is more nutritious, but it affirms that organic food does … Continue reading →
• “Milk and our children’s future&#8 ...
  On the coattails of the right to appeal the case for raw milk, Cow Share Canada presents the 4th International Raw Milk Symposium, sponsored in part by the Weston A. Price Foundation. We welcome everyone – whether you have an … Continue reading →
• Packing heat — arming the FDA
  From David E. Gumpert on The Complete Patient blog: “Last May, Sen. Rand Paul proposed an amendment to a spending bill for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reduce the agency’s police powers. He was especially concerned about “sending armed FDA … Continue reading & ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• ECRI's Lakshman Achuthan Says US in Recession ...
  Lakshman Achuthan, CEO of ECRI says the US recession started in June. Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Lakshman Achuthan, chief operations officer of the Economic Cycle Research Institute, talks about the U.S. economy. Achuthan speaks with Tom Keene and Sara Eisen on Bloomberg Television's "Surveill ...
• House Approves Sweeping, Warrantless Electroni ...
  Is the government watching your emails? They are probably watching mine. The House just approved extending an eavesdropping bill another five years. The National Security Agency is collecting a staggering amount of Americans’ conversations, but only examining a small slice of them, or so th ...
• Reader Comments on Italy's Insane Labor Rules
  In response to Why OMT Cannot Possibly Solve Anything; Italy's Insane Labor Rules, I received a nice email from reader Andrea who is from Italy but now lives in France. Hi Mish, I read with great interest your post on this topic and as you can imagine (probably expect) I have some comments ...
• Panic!
  In my previous post Desperation Bazooka Tactics; Gold Soars Following Huge Headfake, I mentioned "This seems like desperation bazooka tactics. Specifically, the Fed is in a panic state over jobs." I am not the only one to come to that conclusion. Saxo Bank economist Steen Jakobsen sent out ...
• Desperation Bazooka Tactics; Gold Soars Follow ...
  The Fed came out blazing today with desperation bazooka tactics, not that it will matter one iota to jobs or housing (because it won't). Specifically, the Fed announced it would ... Increase Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) at Pace of $40 Billion Per Month Extend Operation Twist In ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  Understanding Social Movements No matter your specific ideological stance, beliefs, hopes, passions or activism, there is a need to better our understanding of each other and different social movements, a need to adopt a more adaptive and accepting discourse and method of communication, not desi ...
• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  Yoshida Brothers- “Cherry Blossoms in Winter” This week’s Jamiol/BFP music pick features the Yoshida Brothers performing their song Fuyu no Sakura or “Cherry Blossoms in Winter.” The Yoshida Brothers have mastered the traditional Japanese music style of Tsugaru-jamisen which or ...
• Choosing Hegemony: Turkey, NATO & the Path to War
  As the destabilization of Syria has evolved over the course of the last year and a half, what has become apparent to political observers is the seeming incongruity of Turkey’s role in the region. While Ankara has attempted in recent years to establish itself as a force for political and economic ...
• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  Riots, Rebellion, and the Spanish Miners In anti-austerity protests around the world, over the past several years, we often hear of ‘riots’ breaking out, when bank windows are smashed or rocks are thrown at cops. The violence exists, but the imagery of a ‘riot’ evokes the ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 31, ...
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bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• Lessons Learned: What Isaac Taught Us About Hu ...
  (Bloomberg) — The power of hurricanes to drive up oil prices is diminishing as the proportion of U.S. crude coming from the Gulf of Mexico falls to a 14-year low [...]
• ClassNK: World’s Largest Class Society Shows N ...
  With more than 200 million registered gross tons, Nippon Kaiji Kyokai, perhaps better known as ClassNK, is the world’s largest classification society and is showing no signs of stopping or [...]
• West Africa Has a SERIOUS Piracy Problem
  Piracy along Africa’s Atlantic coast is threatening to raise costs for the vast amount of seaborne trade that passes through the region, as the activity spreads from Nigeria into the poorly-patrolled [...]
• MV Amsterdam Bridge Fire [INCIDENT PHOTOS]
  Here is a collection of photos sent in to us from the scene of the MV Amsterdam Bridge fire near Mumbai.  As gCaptain has reported, the 4,380 TEU containership caught fire [...]
• Nam Cheong Gains $59 Million Accommodation Wor ...
  In early September, Nam Cheong Limited, Malaysia’s largest Offshore Support Vessel shipbuilder announced that it had won two contracts for the construction of two Accommodation Work Barges worth a total [...]

Press TV

• Protesters storm US Embassy in London
  British Muslims have staged a protest rally outside the US Embassy in London against the US-made film which insults Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
• 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.
• Bomb threats evacuate US universities
  The University of Texas at Austin and North Dakota State University have ordered evacuation of all campus buildings after receiving bomb threats.
• 3 Killed in Tunisia US Embassy attack
  At least three people have been killed and 28 others injured in an attack on the United States Embassy in Tunis by angry demonstrators protesting the production of an anti-Islamic movie in the US.
• Nigerian troops attack protesters
  Nigerian troops have fired shots to disperse angry demonstrators protesting near a mosque in country's central city of Jos over a blasphemous anti-Islam movie produced by an Israeli-American in the United States.

SciDev.net

• 'Urgent action' needed on Clean Development Me ...
  A report urges focus on development priorities in more nations as part of a plan to bolster the UN's faltering carbon-trading scheme.
• Few African farmers benefit from carbon credit ...
  Too few African farmers in Africa benefit from selling carbon credits because they cannot access information about it, says a researcher.
• Asia–Pacific to boost integration of education ...
  Asia–Pacific economies have agreed to boost collaboration in education exchanges, and partnerships on science, technology and innovation.
• Sri Lanka’s anti-malaria drives pay off
  Thanks to sustained public health campaigns, Sri Lanka may succeed in eradicating malaria by 2014.
• What might Red Sea mining bring to Saudi Arabi ...
  Deep-sea mining in the Red Sea may bring in jobs for scientists. But how will any benefits be shared and what will it do to biodiversity? Paula Park investigates.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

• Knocking epilepsy on the head, electrically
  Electrical brain stimulation triggered by the impending onset of a seizure could be used to prevent epileptic attacks, scientists have shown. Epileptic seizures are caused by intermitten bursts of a...
• Artifical protein scaffold props up heart repair
  Using short, self-assembling bio-degradable protein nanofibres impregnated with a blood-vessel growth factor, scientists have been able to prevent some of the negative changes that occur in the heart ...
• The violent histories of hot Jupiters
  A paper published in Nature last week has discovered that planetary systems containing so-called hot Jupiters are likely to have had violent pasts. The evidence stems from a difference in the way th...
• Black holes, as revealed by X-rays
  This week, the journal Science have produced a special issue dedicated to the subject of black hole research, and Rob Fender of the University of Southampton reviewed what we know about the X-ray emi...
• Do elephants purr?
  The way elephants make the low-frequency rumbles they use to communicate over long distances has been revealed by scientists in Austria. Humans and other mammals use sound extensively; whales and elep...

Nick Turse

• picturedept:BEAUTIFUL BROOKLYNA great photo ...
  picturedept: BEAUTIFUL BROOKLYN A great photo essay from this week’s Newsweek International. Photographers Gaia Light and Alessandro Cosmelli moved to Brooklyn from Italy in 2007, immersing themself in the American experience by traveling through the city by bus. In ...
• Coming in January 2013…Kill Anything That Mov ...
  Coming in January 2013… Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling and sure to be controversial history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians. Americans have long been taught that events such as the not ...
• A basket factory. Girls making melon baskets. ...
  A basket factory. Girls making melon baskets. Evansville, Ind.: 10/1908 (NARA)
• "U.S. military documents tell the story vividl ...
  “U.S. military documents tell the story vividly. In the Gulf of Guinea, off the coast of West...
• Monopolizing War? What America Knows How to Do ...
  It’s pop-quiz time when it comes to the American way of war: three questions, torn from the latest...