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Thomas Paine

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

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

18 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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homelessness is killing people
( Remember Iraq. It was estimated between 4 to 5 million were `ìnternally displaced`years ago. NATO routinely raids and bombs homes in Afghanistan. )

 US Attack on Pakistan : calculated move or blunder
30 Nov 2011

U.S. Military being used as Government-paid Missionaries
15 June 2012
Are US forces trying to convert Afghans to Christianity 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSvnyNDsbBk
Americans have burnt Qur`an in Afghanistan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJXHM4_B-CY
`Jesus Rifles` - Christian Crusade in the 21st Century
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1ecAWXRgcE

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Personal & Noted

Scoop - NZ

  • Hayden: Obama's Libya Adventure to Blame for A ...
    Violent protests in Libya that claimed the life of the U.S. ambassador were the result of President Obama’s decision to intervene in the Libyan revolt without a “deep appreciation” for what would follow, former CIA Director Michael Hayden tells Newsmax. Hayden, a former four-star Air Force ge ...
  • Comprehensive survey of Antarctic sea-ice starts
    A TOP international team of polar experts will deploy an array of hi-tech sensors to carry out the most thorough survey ever of Antarctic sea ice thickness. The Australian Antarctic Division's first scientific expedition of the 2012/13 season will use under-ice and airborne vehicles to invest ...
  • Assange to get Aboriginal passport
    WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has been offered an Aboriginal Nations passport in an inner-city Sydney ceremony after he was "abandoned" by Australian authorities. His father, John Shipton, accepted the document at a celebration at Darlington. He said his son had been jilted by the Austr ...
  • Questions surround the 'Muslim Innocence" movie
    Think about it. Who the hell is going to loan Nakoula — a guy guilty of freakin’ bank fraud — the sum of five million dollars? Even if the actual budget was $50,000, how would this jailbird scrape up the dough? He was sent to prison for 21 months in 2010; how did he secure an early release? Y ...
  • Audacious Raid Shows Taliban’s Reach
    An audacious Taliban attack on a heavily fortified base in southern Afghanistan did far more damage than initially reported, destroying or severely damaging eight attack jets in the most destructive single strike on Western matériel in the 11-year war, military officials said Sunday. While ot ...

Independent - London

  • British property dealer accused of smuggling c ...
    A British property dealer accused of involvement in a failed attempt to smuggle £1.6m worth of cocaine has been told by a court in Indonesia that he faces up to 20 years in jail if he is convicted. He will not, however, face the death sentence.Related StoriesPolice officer fails to beat clubs w ...
  • Hamas-run court gives Palestinian men life sen ...
    A Hamas-run court has sentenced two Palestinian men who are members of a radical Islamist group to life imprisonment for the murder of an Italian peace activist in the Gaza Strip eighteen months ago.Related StoriesIran's Revolutionary Guard commander Mohammad Ali Jafari warns Israel against mil ...
  • Panda beats odds to give birth at US zoo
    A giant panda at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington has given birth – after five pseudopregnancies since 2007.
  • El Salvador in battle against tide of climate ...
    The forest of towering, dead mangrove trees stretches along the beach as far as the eye can see. As the crashing waves rise and fall, short stumps emerge and vanish beneath the Pacific Ocean. Climate change has come early to the Bajo Lempa region of western El Salvador.
  • US and China exchange fire over duties
    Beijing and Washington both filed trade complaints against each other yesterday in a tit-for-tat exchange after the US said it would launch a case against China's unfair support for its car industry. Related StoriesDoubts push Spanish borrowing costs back up

Rogue Government.com

  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
    For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Nasa Curiosity Rover Begins Mars Science Missi ...
    Let the science begin! Curiosity begins its quest to determine whether Mars was once habitable, metre by metre, rock by rock This is the moment the scientists have been waiting for. Nasa's Mars Curiosity rover will begin driving today in search of the first rock to analyse with its robot arm. A ...
  • World's Most Powerful Digital Camera Opens Eye ...
    Eight billion years ago, rays of light from distant galaxies began their long journey to Earth. That ancient starlight has now found its way to a mountaintop in Chile, where the newly-constructed Dark Energy Camera, the most powerful sky-mapping machine ever created, has captured and recorded it ...
  • Scientists Discover Mutations Associated With ...
    A Chinese research team, led by Anhui Medical University and BGI, has found strong genetic evidence of a link between mutations of the mevalonate kinase gene (MVK) and disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis (DSAP). It is a major step toward discovering the genetic pathogenesis of DSAP, a ...
  • Behavior Issues Are a Bigger Headache for Chil ...
    Kids who get migraine headaches are much more likely than other children to also have behavioral difficulties, including social and attention issues, and anxiety and depression. The more frequent the headaches, the greater the effect, according to research out now in the journal Cephalagia, publ ...
  • Prenatal Damage from Dioxin Shown to Involve m ...
    Research carried out at the University of South Carolina has identified novel mechanisms through which dioxin, a well-known environmental contaminant, can alter physiological functions, according to a study published online in the journal PLOS ONE. The research team, which included Narendra Sin ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Common denominators
    I sometimes look at The Atlantic's In Focus section. The photos are compelling and represent a random snap shot of the world as it is and was. This week there's a spread of photos on the protests in the Muslim world over that American nutter's video. There's also a collection of photos o ...
  • The power of simplicity . . .
    SOMETIMES, REALLY SIMPLE THINGS can change the world. Esther Inglis-Arkell has a fascinating article on io9, "How a Simple Glass Case Terraformed the Entire World" that is worthy of contemplation. How do you keep an orchid alive on a ship that exposes it to salt spray, blazing sun, tr ...
  • Thanks, Mikey . . .
    HARPER GRAPHICS BY MIKEY! A delightful compendium indeed. H/T — Scanner
  • Children's games
    When I was a child, my younger brother often pulled a trick to get me in trouble. He'd come up to me as I was playing or doing something else and smack the toy out of my hand, push me, or mess-up whatever I was doing, and run off. When I gave chase, he would beeline for mum, the teacher, or what ...
  • Mammaries in the news
    Breasts are in the news today. The Duchess of York has a pair as a scandal-rag perilously confirms. Across the Atlantic, a professor who nursed her baby in - of all things - a gender and sexuality class, is causing conniptions among people who struggle to understand basic human biological ne ...

Media Matters for America

  • 9 Obama Administration Actions Fox News Has De ...
    In the past four years, Fox News has routinely declared the Obama administration's initiatives unconstitutional, including immigration and deportation policy changes and the Affordable Care Act.Obama Administration Announced Welfare Waiver Provision... HHS Announced "Secretary's Willingnes ...
  • Krauthammer Whitewashes Bush's History To Bash ...
    On Fox News, Charles Krauthammer suggested that "under other presidents, particularly Bush," there was "no storming of the U.S. embassy in Cairo." In fact, there were seven attacks on U.S. embassies and consulates during the Bush years, and numerous other such attacks have happened under recent ...
  • WSJ Misrepresents Fed's Actions To Attack Obam ...
    The Wall Street Journal claimed the Federal Reserve's recent actions are a tacit admission that Obama's economic policies have failed. In fact, the Fed's own analysis of the economy found that the economy is growing, and experts credit Obama's policies with creating growth.Federal Reserve Announ ...
  • Even As Experts, GOP Figures Criticize Romney' ...
    Right-wing pundits jumped to blame "the media" after Mitt Romney was criticized for his statement and remarks following the attacks on the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, and the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Yet foreign policy experts and even conservative officials and media figures have be ...
  • Fox Distorts Reagan's Record On Iranian Hostag ...
    Fox is attacking President Obama's response to the death of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and unrest in Egypt, Libya, and elsewhere by suggesting he should have acted more like Ronald Reagan during the Iranian hostage crisis. In fact, Reagan said the U.S. should agree to most of Iran's demands, a ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

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

  • Photo essay: Palestinians protest high prices, ...
    A wave of protests in the occupied Palestinian territories against the high cost of living has raised the obvious question as to whether the 'Arab Spring' has arrived in Palestine.
  • When a Courtyard Becomes a Border (Pierre Klo ...
    Filistin Hamdallah looks disoriented, walking without purpose amidst the furniture strewn in the courtyard, as if she was moving home. Only the fresh laundry hanging on wires indicates ...
  • Palestinian man assaulted by Israeli soldiers ...
    A man was assaulted by Israeli soldiers on Sunday in the south Hebron hills, a peace group said. "On the morning of September 16, around 8:00 a.m. nearby the Palestinian village of Maja ...
  • FACT SHEET: The Sabra & Shatila Massacre: 30 Y ...
    Yesterday marked 30 years since Christian Lebanese militiamen allied to Israel entered the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila and the adjacent neighborhood of Sabra in Beirut under the ...
  • Sabra and Shatila: Thirty Years On (Hasan Khi ...
    The 16th of September marked the 30th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre in which hundreds of defenseless Palestinian refugees were slaughtered by Lebanese right-wing militias under the cover of the Israeli military. Al-Akhbar published an account of the events by a Palestinian surviv ...

Water - AlterNet

  • Why Tree Plantations Are the Problem, Not the ...
     Have you ever clicked on a 'plant a tree' button on some website? I have been an environmentalist my whole life. I would strongly urge you to plant your own tree instead of paying for one in a distant plantation.In the fifty years since the publication of Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring' book – ...
  • An Inside Look at the First Village Forced to ...
     For the most part, many people still experience climate change on an academic rather than a personal level. But for the villagers of Vunidogoloa on Vanua Levu, Fiji’s second largest island, climate change has become a daily intrusion on every day life. The villagers of Vunidogoloa are current ...
  • Is Your Fish Safe to Eat? Why Warnings May Not ...
    MADISON, Wis.–Trey Mackey expertly baits his fishing hook with a live worm, sits down on a folding chair and casts a line into the waters of Monona Bay. He’s driven up from Chicago for a day of fishing that could provide a fresh, tasty dinner of blue gill.But unbeknownst to Mackey, consuming f ...
  • Is Your Fish Safe to Eat? Why Warnings May Not ...
    MADISON, Wis.–Trey Mackey expertly baits his fishing hook with a live worm, sits down on a folding chair and casts a line into the waters of Monona Bay. He’s driven up from Chicago for a day of fishing that could provide a fresh, tasty dinner of blue gill.But unbeknownst to ...
  • Free Market Economics Are Failing World’s Dwin ...
    UXBRIDGE, Canada, Sep 13 2012 (IPS) - Growing water shortages in many countries are a major threat to global security and development and should be a top priority at the U.N. Security Council, a panel of experts said in a new report.However, that report ignores the biggest threat to water secu ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Texas Perched at Top of Vast Renewable Energy ...
    Orbach: $1 billion for energy storage research could launch state’s next energy era Watch for the University of Texas at Austin to soon make a $1 billion pitch to lawmakers aimed at unleashing the state’s vast potential to lead the nation and even the world in renewable energy production. Ray Or ...
  • Clean Energy Works for Texas Urges Action on N ...
    Yesterday, Clean Energy Works for Texas – a coalition consisting of Public Citizen, Sierra Club, Texas BlueGreen Apollo Alliance, Progress Texas, Clean Water Action, Environment Texas, North Texas Renewable Energy Group, North Texas Renewable Energy Inc., SEED Coalition, Solar Austin, Solar San ...
  • The fight against a foreign company taking Tex ...
    UPDATE:  While Judge Rugg expressed regret for the lack of clarity from the higher courts. “I’m left with no guidance from Denbury,” he said.  He, nevertheless promised to rule by Sept. 24th.  We will let you know as soon as we hear about the ruling. KEYSTONE PIPELINE V. TEXAS RICE FARMERS SET F ...
  • During a high power use emergency the cost of ...
    Did you know that your retail electric provider may be working behind the scenes to drive up energy prices? A review of filings at the PUC show that several Texas retail electric providers are pushing hard for the approval of super high wholesale energy price caps and for a very expensive capaci ...
  • EHF – a bad bet and a big bluff
    Back in March, the Dallas Observer reported about the chance that Energy Future Holdings (EFH – formerly TXU) the state’s largest power generator, was verging on bankruptcy,  Our question then was – are Texas ratepayers going to have to pay for EHF’s bad bet? Before and since then, there h ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • World's first color video footage unveiled
    The earliest ever known color film footage has been rediscovered after more than 100 years. The footage was found in the archives of the National Medi...
  • 'Tooth patch' developed in Japan
    Japanese scientists have invented a tooth coating that could revolutionize many aspects of dentistry. The 'tooth patch' consists of a microscopically ...
  • Could spacecraft build themselves ?
    NASA is exploring the possibility of using 3D printing technology to help build spacecraft. NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts program has awarded $1...
  • 55-year-old parrot offers one last 'cheerio'
    One of the world's oldest domestic parrots, Tabu, has died after uttering 'cheerio' as his last word. The African Grey had belonged to 89-year-old Nin...
  • Mystery spheres photographed on Mars
    The Opportunity rover has snapped a picture of strange spherules that has experts scratching their heads. Curiosity might have been hitting the headli...

Grassroots

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

Climate

  • Antarctic Ozone Hole Smaller Than in 2011, Rec ...
    (Reuters) The hole in the ozone layer, the earth's protective shield against ultraviolet rays, is expected to be smaller this year over the Antarctic than last, showing how a ban on harmful substances has stopped its depletion, the Uni ...
  • Shell Delays Arctic Drilling Plan Scheduled fo ...
    (Wall Street Journal) Oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell
  • The Most Solar Company in the U.S. Is ... Walmart?
    (Scientific American) Walmart's sustainability initiatives are often criticized, with progress dismissed as slow and modest. But there’s one fact that Walmart’s detractors can’t ignore: the big box chain has more installed solar capaci ...
  • Primus Green Energy Nears NatGas Fuel Deal Wit ...
    (Bloomberg) Primus Green Energy Inc., a biofuel company backed by Israel Corp., expects to sign a deal this month to sell natural gas-based jet fuel to a global airline. The agreement will help Primus raise private debt and equity to ...
  • Chance of Saving Most Coral Reefs Is Dwindling ...
    (Reuters) The chance to save the world's coral reefs from damage caused by climate change is dwindling as man-made greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, scientists said in a study released on Sunday. Around 70 percent of corals a ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • State of the Campaign
    The Romney campaign has done some internal soul-searching after realizing that they were on a trajectory for certain defeat. This week, they are prepared to roll out a forward-looking message that focuses on a five-point plan, including a promise of energy independence by 2020 and the creation ...
  • Romney Developed Bad Habits
    My theory on the Romney campaign is that they developed bad habits during the primaries that they found it impossible to kick when the general election season started. I don't mean the record they compiled, because that created a different set of problems. The Etch A Sketch issue was particular ...
  • No Apology Means No Character
    Long Island Representative Peter King may not care about fact checking, but I have a different question. Let's say, for the sake of argument, that President Obama did start his presidency with a global Apology Tour. Isn't that standard public relations? After British Petroleum leaked a metric ...
  • The 47% Video
    …And if you thought the Romney campaign would be allowed to reset their campaign in a vacuum, you were mistaken. Romney has been knocked not just off-message but off the Earth's axis by videos obtained by Mother Jones. Here is the one that will prove most damning: In the interest of st ...
  • Stuart Stevens? Who Dat?
    Do you know who Stuart Stevens is? Do you know his face? Have you seen him quoted or watched him on teevee? Apparently, the guy is the equivalent to Barack Obama's David Axelrod. And, apparently, he's going to take the fall for Mitt Romney's horrible no-good lame adventure of a campaign. He ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Cutest Baby Animals of the Desert
    Sometimes the best things can come from the harshest environments - so here are some pictures of baby animals of the desert we think are just too adorable! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Exploring the Abandoned Island of Drug Lord Pa ...
    Scattered around small islands off Colombia's Caribbean coast, these crumbling homes were once the playground of powerful drug lords – not least Pablo Escobar. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Alien Looking Desert Landscapes As Seen From Above
    Although deserts are known as dry, dusty and desolate places, these pictures of desert landscapes taken from the air show that they can also be stunningly beautiful. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Is Coal an Attractive Option?
    As a new park counteracts the impact of a surface coal mine, it's interesting to note that coal remains popular despite its disadvantages. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Inside Auschwitz: Haunting Mementos of the Naz ...
    The Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz is notorious for its gas chambers and human experiments. Today, it still has tremendous power to elicit horror and sadness. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...
    Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
  • William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...
    Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
  • No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...
    Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal ch...
  • No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...
    Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal ch...
  • Climate Change Poses Food Distribution Risks, ...
    * Bridges, roads could be washed away, hitting harvest transport * "High degree of confidence" weather extremes linked to climate change * Enough food, but problem is distribution - professor By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Downpours and heatwaves caused ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Belgian intelligence chief says Brussels is wo ...
    The head of Belgium’s counterintelligence service has said in an interview that Brussels, which hosts the head offices of several international organizations, is home to more spies than any other city in the world.
  • News you may have missed #793
    Britain recruits tech start-ups for spy gadgets. French investigators to exhume Arafat's remains. Panetta speaks out against book on bin Laden killing.
  • CBS re-broadcasts Iran comments by former Moss ...
    In November of 2010, Meir Dagan stepped down from his post as the head of the Mossad after having led the agency for over eight years —the longest tenure of any Mossad director in history. Soon afterwards, he admonished calls by Netanyahu’s people to bomb Iran as “the stupidest idea” he had ever ...
  • News you may have missed #792 (US diplomatic a ...
    Attack on US diplomats 'was intelligence failure'. Attack on consulate in Libya 'may have been planned'. What happened in Benghazi was a battle.
  • Proposed Afghan spy chief divides Western, Afg ...
    Last month we reported Afghan President Hamid Karzai's plan to appoint one of his most trusted advisors, Assadullah Khaled, to lead the country's intelligence agency. There appears to be a slight problem with this proposal: Khaled is known as a fierce character in Afghan politics, who has been a ...

War is a Crime.org

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • The Monster Shake n Bake Machine
    By Visible I have rarely seen an article with more misspellings and other errors than in this one. There was a guy in the Lone Star State who was pretty bad about this and also didn’t want to hear about it but I haven’t come across him in awhile. It almost looks like some dysfunction ...
  • Riding a Water Buffalo into Parts Unknown
    B y Visible I’m not fan of violence. In my own case, it has happened, on those rare occasions, when all other avenues fail. For some people, violence is the whole point. A lot of articles are coming out, which also are there for one point only; to put the blame for the film on [...]
  • There may be no anti-Islamic movie at all
    By Dan Murphy, Staff writer / September 12, 2012 As I finished this post, I came across an interview with an actress who appears in some of the footage given to Gawker. It goes a long way to clearing up some of the mystery, though not entirely. Cindy Lee Garcia tells the website that she [...]
  • Marijuana Compound Found Superior To Drugs For ...
    Sayer Ji, Contributor Activist Post Could the active ingredient in marijuana, responsible for its characteristic “high,” help turn the tide against the accelerating Alzheimer’s epidemic? A remarkable study published in the journal Molecular Pharmacology in 2006, found that this ...
  • Antibiotics for Strep Throat Completely Worthl ...
    Lisa Garber Activist Post Millions of Americans visit their doctors and receive antibiotics for a sore throat annually. According to the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 70 percent of people receive antibiotics. Antibiotics, however, do not target viruses, which cause the majority of sore ...

Global Insights

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

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

Inhabitat

  • Team Japan’s Omotenashi Solar Decathlon House ...
    Read the rest of Team Japan’s Omotenashi Solar Decathlon House Bridges the Gap Between Tradition and Modernity Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", Chiba University, madrid, Omotenashi House, paddy field, photovoltaics, renewable energy, So ...
  • Artist Duncan MacAskill Creates Painterly Port ...
    Read the rest of Artist Duncan MacAskill Creates Painterly Portraits From Thousands of Thumbtacks! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Ally Capellino, Creative Reuse, Duncan MacAskill, eco design, eco-art, local production, london artist, sustainable art, thumbtacks
  • Veilige Veste is a Former Office Building Tran ...
    Read the rest of Veilige Veste is a Former Office Building Transformed into a Women’s Shelter in The Netherlands Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: architects, Friesland, Human Trafficking, KAW, Leeuwarden, passive house, Safe Fortress, the netherlands, Veilige Veste
  • Washit: A Washer That Washes Your Clothes Whil ...
    Four Turkish university students have developed Washit, a shower unit that collects and filters used water for washing clothes or showering. Ahmet Burak Aktas, Adem Onalan, Salih Berk Ilhan and Burak Soylemez first started Washit as a university assignment, but they recently brought their projec ...
  • Visit the LEED Gold Lorry Graduate School of B ...
    Read the rest of Visit the LEED Gold Lorry Graduate School of Business on the 2012 Greenbuild Conference Tour Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 2012, Architecture, BCJ, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, campus, green building tours, Greenbuild Conference & Expo, Lorry I Lokey ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Dark-Energy Camera Starts Taking Pictures
    The latest, greatest hunt for dark energy has begun, with a massive camera installed on a Chilean mountaintop returning the first of millions of photographs that should help astronomers learn more about the strange forces driving our universe's evolution
  • Curiosity Rover Captures Martian Eclipse
    NASA's Curiosity rover snapped an elegant sequence of images showing Mars' moon, Phobos, passing in front of the sun on Sept. 13. Because the tiny moon moves so fast through the Martian sky, the alien eclipse lasted only a few seconds.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Gravitat ...
    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 ...
  • Arctic Sea Ice Melt May Trigger Extreme Europe ...
    The record loss of Arctic sea ice this summer may mean a cold winter for the UK and northern Europe. The region has been prone to bad winters after summers with very low sea ice, such as 2011 and 2007, said Jennifer Francis, a researcher at Rutgers University.
  • UK Report Says Thorium Nuke Power Potential ‘O ...
    A report into the much-touted nuclear fuel alternative thorium has concluded that many of its supposed benefits are “overstated.” The report, which was compiled for the Department for Energy and Climate Change by the UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory, notes that thorium has “theoretical advantage ...

PakAlert

  • Iran Responds to Massive U.S. Armada Gathering ...
    Following a story published in The Telegraph reporting an armada of U.S. and British ships amassing in the Persian Gulf, a top commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard warned Sunday that “nothing will remain” of Israel if his country is attacked. “Our response to Israel is clear: I think no ...
  • Netanyahu On US Embassy Attacks: ‘You Want The ...
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is using this week's rioting against U.S. embassies as evidence for why the U.S. needs to draw a red line with Iran over its nuclear weapons program. In an interview with Meet The Press set to air Sunday, Netanyahu warned American lawmakers that Iran' ...
  • How to avoid getting trapped in FEMA camps
    I wrote a news story recently called “How technology will send you to hell in the FEMA camps” It was wildly popular and raised the question in my mind, “How do I prevent my family from going to the camps?” The first thing is to know what to expect before hand. While people think about the ...
  • Video: Watch This Only if You Can Handle the Truth
    What price Freedom? WE must take up Arms in Defense of the Innocent. This Evil Cabal, which includes DC, intends to destroy you, me and everything beautiful and sacred thing left on this planet! If you think that the 2012 election is the answer then, you are still completely asleep. If you think ...
  • Mayor Bloomberg’s soda ban will cause New York ...
    Ah, the hilarity of the nanny state knows no bounds, it seems. Especially not in New York City, where Mayor Bloomberg oversaw a large-sized soda ban that just became law. The really hilarious part of the law? It does not apply to aspartame-laced "diet sodas" which, by any honest measure, are far ...

Andy Worthington

  • On Occupy’s First Anniversary, We Are St ...
    Exactly one year ago today, on September 17, 2011, activists began camping out in New York’s Zuccotti Park, the spearhead of a new movement that soon spread around the world. Known as Occupy Wall Street, and inspiring a movement that became known as the Occupy movement, the New York encamp ...
  • Please Help Me Raise $2500 to Support My Work ...
    Please support my work! It’s that time of year again when I ask you, my friends, readers and supporters, to help me to continue my work exposing the ongoing injustices at Guantánamo as an independent freelance journalist. I put out a call for support every three months, and the last appeal ...
  • Retail Frenzy: Photos of Oxford Street on a Sa ...
    Retail Frenzy: Oxford Street on a Saturday, a set on Flickr. As part of my project to photograph the whole of London by bike, which I began in May — and which I still don’t have an official title for, or any funding — I have been making almost daily bike trips around London, ac ...
  • Obama, the Courts and Congress Are All Respons ...
    I felt sick when I heard the news: that the man who died at Guantánamo last weekend was Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, a Yemeni. I had been aware of his case for six years, and had followed it closely. He had been cleared for release under President Bush (in December 2006) and under President Obama [...]
  • A Photographic Journey around Fitzrovia, Centr ...
    A Journey around Fitzrovia, Central London’s Former Bohemia, a set on Flickr. On August 31, 2012, after I took part in a demonstration against the involvement of the multinational corporation Atos Healthcare in the government’s disgraceful disability reviews, designed to find disable ...

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

SPL Center

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

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • The Hunger Grains: Oxfam says Biofuels Push Is ...
    As part of its ongoing GROW campaign to fight the global food crisis, Oxfam warns that Europe’s growing appetite for biofuels is pushing up global food prices and driving people off their land, resulting in deeper hunger and malnutrition in poor countries. ...
  • 65 Years of Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Created R ...
    A new study by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service, which reviewed nearly 65 years of US tax policy and its impact on the overall economy, has found that though cutting the effective tax rate for the nation's wealthiest is a great way to increase undesireable economic inequality, ...
  • US Deploys More Troops as New Anti-US Protests ...
    Afghan protesters in Kabul September 17, 2012 (Photo: Reuters/Omar Sobhani)The US defense department deployed additional troops to US embassies and other diplomatic compounds on Monday to "protect personnel and property," ahead of what experts say could be many more day ...
  • As Climate Change Crisis Looms, Presidential C ...
    CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It was just six words, but when President Barack Obama gave a shout-out to global warming in his acceptance speech this month, he reintroduced an issue that had all but disappeared from the political debate. "Climate change is not a hoax," Obama said, an asserti ...
  • Arctic Sea Ice Will Reach 'Final Collapse' Wit ...
    Arctic waters will be completely ice free within four years, according to leading Arctic ice expert Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University. This "final collapse" of Arctic sea ice in summer months could occur by 2015, solidifying a "global disaster," which has arrive ...

Lifehacker

  • Vertical Storage, Save Shortcuts, and Washing ...
    Readers offer their best tips for storing tea in the office, keeping yourself from saving over your work, and keeping your dishes clean. More »
  • Remains of the Day: Amazon Is Ditching Google ...
    Amazon is creating their own maps app over Google Maps, Shazam updates with TV tagging, Google acquires Snapseed photography app creator Nik Software, and Microsoft announces pricing for Office 2013 subscriptions. More » ...
  • Easily Browse the iTunes Store by Dragging Ico ...
    We all know that iTunes and the Mac App Store are available from any web browser, but they don't exactly allow you to "browse" the store like you can in iTunes. If you want the flexibility of a tabbed web browser with the browsability of the o ...
  • What tricks do you use to breathe life back in ...
    Great discussions are nothing new here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Check out these discussions and ...
  • Make Your Dryer Safer and More Efficient by De ...
    When we think about dryer maintenance, most of us just clean out the lint filter and call it a day. However, if you really want your dryer to run efficiently—and more importantly, safely—doing a quick deep-cleaning is a must. ...

Water Privatization

  • Energy group pushes hydro privatization
    Ontario's local hydro utilities need money, and the private sector can supply it, says the Ontario Eneregy Association
  • The Louisville Film Society presents 'Flow ...
    by Allan Day The horrors of the corporate takeover of water exposed tonight at the Dreamland Film Center. It is said that our children are our most precious resource. While it's a nice analogy, I would posit that our most precious resource is actually: water. It covers most of the world and ...
  • Tribal Dispute Besets New Zealand’s IPO Plans
    New-stock listings often fall victim to choppy markets, but the ownership of water resources rarely poses a hurdle. In New Zealand, however, indigenous Maori tribes’ assertion of rights over water resources has led to the delay of what could have been the country’s biggest-ever IPO.
  • Newark to have residents vote on controversial ...
    The council voted tonight to adopt a resident-generated ordinance that would place creation of a municipal utilities authority on a referendum
  • Proposed lease doesn't guarantee state reg ...
    But, as the city learned this week, that is not necessarily the case.

Guardian

  • Mexican prisoners in mass jailbreak
    More than 130 inmates escape through tunnel from prison in Piedras Negras, sparking massive search close to US border More than 130 inmates escaped through a tunnel from a prison in northern Mexico on Monday, setting off a massive search by police and soldiers in an area close to the US border.A ...
  • Mitt Romney stands by gaffe but says case not ...
    Romney confirms authenticity of video where he calls 47% of voters government-dependent, in most damaging mishap yetMitt Romney's campaign came close to hitting the self-destruct button when he stood by a secret video recording suggesting that 47% of Americans are government-dependent scroungers ...
  • US suspends joint military operations with Afg ...
    Joint US-Afghan missions halted after Nato troops killed in an 'insider attack' on the weekendThe US military has suspended joint operations with Afghan forces because of a collapse in trust after a surge in the number of Americans and other Nato soldiers killed by the men they are fighting alon ...
  • Mitt Romney under fire after comments caught o ...
    Republican presidential candidate filmed dismissing 47% of population of the United States as government-dependentMitt Romney was caught up in a fresh and damaging secret video controversy on Monday night, only hours after his campaign team tacitly admitted it was struggling and was going to hav ...
  • Complaints about doctors' professional conduct ...
    General Medical Council report shows one in 64 doctors now face possibility of being investigated by the regulatorComplaints about the professional conduct of doctors rose by 23% last year to reach record levels, according to figures published today.The General Medical Council, which compiled th ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Of Clotheslines, Black Swans And Bad Measurements
    Back in April, in writing about Union Square Ventures' Hacking Society event, I discussed the importance of measuring the unmeasurable, in noting that we all too often seem to be evaluating information-era economics using industrial-era metrics. That's a problem. Nick Grossman, who organized t ...
  • Syrian Activist Arrested By Secret Police Mere ...
    Police and security forces around the world -- and that includes in the West -- hate being recorded when they're overstepping the mark in the execution of their duties, since it allows the public to challenge official accounts, and even to use videos to seek redress. But there's one thing worse ...
  • FBI Continues To Foil Its Own Devised Terroris ...
    It seems there's a new pattern showing itself every time I read a news report in which the FBI proudly announces it foiled a terrorist plot. That pattern goes something like this: hear that a huge explosion was averted and lives were saved, find out the plotter was an American citizen, find ...
  • University Requires Students To Pay $180 For ' ...
    Brent Ashley shares the absolutely crazy story of how his daughter, a student at OCAD University in Canada, is taking a class on "Global Visual and Material Culture: Prehistory to 1800" which has a textbook that is required for all students... which costs $180. Now, we all know that textbook pr ...
  • The Copyright Act Explicitly Says Disruptive I ...
    A few weeks back, we wrote about a proposal by Rep. Jerry Nadler, which we referred to as the RIAA Bailout Act of 2012 because it sought to change the nature of satellite radio royalties to put them on par with the absolutely ridiculous and unsustainable royalty levels for internet radio. In ca ...

VacTruth

  • “I allowed the doctor to persuade me int ...
    This question comes from Paula: “My 6 year old daughter went in for a routine physical on July 13, 2012 for Pop Warner. She was in excellent health. I allowed the doctor to persuade me into allowing them to give her the varicella vaccine. I strongly said “no” to the MMR. 7 days ...
  • A Mother Asks About Formula Options & Daughter ...
    This question comes from Brittany: “I read your article about how allergies, immune response ect cause excema. My daughter who is 4 months old has had excema since she was 2 months old. She has never been vacinnated. I know her allergy is from me consuming dairy because when I stop eating ...
  • Eczema as a Biomarker for a Genetically Suscep ...
    Did you know that you can put tetracycline in Rabies vaccine bait and when you x-ray the bones of the animals that consume it that they will fluoresce? WHAT? That Jordan dude jumps around topics like those little jitterbugs in summer on hot pavement. Maybe. Maybe not.  I did promise you in &#822 ...
  • “I like some of what you have to say&#82 ...
    This question comes from Michael: “i like some of what you have to say. is there any progress towards getting someone who is responsible to make vaccines for those who might want them? the animal and toxic ingredients in vaccines are horrible. but let’s not forget what smallpox and p ...
  • Announcing UK Government Considering Mandatory ...
    The UK Health Authorities are considering making vaccinations compulsory for newborns, vaccinating them with the MMR and DPT at birth.

BroadSnark

  • Drug War History – And So It Begins
    While I was pulling up articles for my last post, I re-read the infamous New York Times piece Negro Cocaine “Fiends” Are a New Southern Menace. The article is a very convoluted argument against prohibition. And it is made by trying to scare the crap out of  ignorant people. The docto ...
  • Victims, Villains, and Heroes
    When I first started delving into the drug war and criminal injustice system, I saw it as a process of dehumanization that I couldn’t ignore. While I had friends who were caught up in the system, as one of the least targeted people, the only connection I saw to my personal life was what I ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I have heard nothing about the killings in Kashmir. I get that I am supposed to be excited about the teacher strike. But in addition to the bullshit I wrote about a bit ago, all I am reading is how evil our schools are. Gay students have to put up with constant harassment and violence. [...]
  • All Answers Will Soon Be Revealed
    Apologies for all the unanswered blog comments and emails. I meant to reply before now. It is just that I had the loveliest, laziest labor day and it sort of carried on for a bit. But I’m back to real life now and will respond and post serious stuff soon. Until then, enjoy a little [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    My friend Mark, also one of the founders of the punk collective I’m in, wrote this article comparing the Russian government’s reaction to Pussy Riot to the reaction Positive Force got for their “Meese is a Pig” postering back in the day. I know I should say something abou ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • A universal message in the Middle East protests
    Reuters reports: Protesters enraged by a film mocking the Prophet Mohammad battled with police in several Asian cities on Monday and vented their fury against the United States, blaming it for what they see as an attack on the Muslim religion. Police fired in the air to break up a crowd marching ...
  • Video shows Libyans retrieving envoy’s body
    The New York Times reports: An amateur video that surfaced Sunday appears to show a crowd removing the motionless body of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens from a window of the American mission in Benghazi, Libya, after it was attacked last week by Islamist militants, adding new details to repor ...
  • Hezbollah leader joins calls for protests agai ...
    If there are political powers in the Middle East for whom protests against the anti-Islam film, Innocence of Muslims, have provided a useful distraction, nowhere is this more likely the case than for a resistance movement locked in the uncomfortable position of supporting the brutal military reg ...
  • Video: Daniel Levy on Netanyahu’s efforts to p ...
  • Syria: end opposition use of torture, executions
    Human Rights Watch: Armed opposition groups have subjected detainees to ill-treatment and torture and committed extrajudicial or summary executions in Aleppo, Latakia, and Idlib, Human Rights Watch said today following a visit to Aleppo governorate. Torture and extrajudicial or summary execution ...

Watts Up With That?

  • My interview with PBS Newshour, now online
    Here’s the story/transcript from Spencer Michels, along with video that follows. I have not seen the piece that will be airing nationally yet, and I don’t know how much of me they use, but this just appeared on the PBS … Continue reading →
  • I’ll be on the PBS Newshour tonight
    I just got word from the producer, that I will be on the PBS Newshour tonight. This is a long segment on climate change that will include several notable people from the climate debate, including Dr. Richard Muller among others. … Continue reading →
  • Increased tropical rainfall – seems like ...
    From MIT via press release, bear in mind this is just more model output based on estimates from observations. That said, thunderstorms and hurricanes are simply heat engines, and they transport heat from the lower atmosphere to the higher atmosphere. … Continue reading →
  • The Daily Lew – Issue 6 – drill ba ...
    LewWorld has increased its spin and is now “drilling into noise“. The resulting increased spin and precession looks to be creating dangerous wobble on LewWorld. Meanwhile while Lew is drilling for noise, McIntyre has tried to get the same results … Continue reading →
  • Climate Alarmism: Our sanity and wallets need ...
    Billions of taxpayer dollars are disrupting our politics, science, energy policies and economy Guest post by Paul Driessen Pick up any 40-year-old science textbook – on chemistry, biology, geology, physics, astronomy or medicine – and you’ll find a slew of … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Clues to the cause of male pattern baldness
    Researchers have identified a biological pathway previously unknown to have a role in male pattern hair loss. Published today in Science Translational Medicine1, the study finds that a lipid compound called prostaglandin D2 (PGD2) has a role in inhibiting hair growth. The study “is likely to lea ...
  • Potential Breakthrough in Pancreas Cancer Trea ...
    Scientists in Seattle are reporting a potential breakthrough in the treatment of pancreas cancer, a disease which stubbornly resists most therapies. Pancreas cancer tumors are resistent to chemotherapy partly because they form a biological barrier around themselves. Researchers at the Fred Hutch ...
  • Should Science Pull the Trigger on Antiviral Drugs
    There’s a moment in the history of medicine that’s so cinematic it’s a wonder no one has put it in a Hollywood film. The scene is a London laboratory. The year is 1928. Alexander Fleming, a Scottish microbiologist, is back from a vacation and is cleaning up his work space. He notices that a spec ...
  • Daily aspirin could help prevent and treat cancer
    The case for using aspirin to prevent cancer continues to build, particularly if people are at increased risk of the disease. Three new studies led by researchers at Oxford University also raise the possibility that a daily low dose of the drug could be effective, not just as a preventative meas ...
  • Nerve cells grow on nanocellulose
    Researchers from Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg have shown that nanocellulose stimulates the formation of neural networks. This is the first step toward creating a three-dimensional model of the brain. Such a model could elevate brain research to totally new levels, with regard to Alz ...

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Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Stanford Study Flawed
    A recent press release from the Stanford School of Medicine read, "Little evidence of health benefits from organic foods." The headline could just have easily read, "Despite billions spent on research and subsidies, conventional foods found more dangerous than organic."Click here to read this a ...
  • Obama Says One Thing in Spotlight, Another Be ...
    Jobs. That is the issue in the election - at least that is the issue Obama and Romney are focused on - who will create more jobs for a country in desperate need of them.Click here to read this article
  • Why Your Health Is Bigger Than Your Body
    Talking with Dr. Ted Schettler is probably unlike any conversation you have had with your physician. Raise the topic of breast cancer or diabetes or dementia, and Schettler starts talking about income disparities, industrial farming, and campaign finance reform.Click here to read this article
  • Is Alzheimers Caused By Too Much Sugar? How th ...
    Yet another reason to load up on fruit and veggies-and work to wrest federal farm policy (which encourages the production of cheap sweeteners and fats)-from the grip of agribusiness. Click here to read this article
  • International World Egg Day is October 14th!
    October 14th is International Egg Day. The egg has been esteemed for its amazing health attributes and a staple throughout the worldClick here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

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

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My Care2 Picks

  • Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies
    decoding astroturfing & malicious forum & Internet operations, trolls, sockpuppets, crapflooding & disinfo specialists Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Public Schools Use RFID Chips to Track and Pun ...
    In the San Antonio school district, the Student Locator Project (SLP) is being beta-tested at Jay High School and Jones Middle School. The SLP includes the use of radio frequency identification technology (RFID) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note- ...
  • Why Does The U.S. Government Treat Military Ve ...
    The way that the U.S. government treats military veterans is absolutely disgraceful. Men and women that have given everything for this nation are literally being treated like human garbage by their own government. After watching how vets are treated, it i Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to US P ...
  • The $6 QUADRILLION Cost Of The Climate Scam!
    U.N.s absurd climate panel had already at least tripled the true (and harmless) rate of warming to be expected from our adding CO2 to the air.Divided by 10 the true cost of effective action. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...
  • Ten-Year-Old Convinces Jamba Juice To Go Styro ...
    Now this truly is a heartwarming story that goes to show how a little effort can go a wrong way. Ten-year-old Mia Hansen, with a little help from her mother, started a Change.org petition to get Jamba Juice, a smoothie franchise, to quit styrofoam. Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle &nbsp ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Iran's newest nuclear facility struck by saboteurs
    ShareThisIran's newest nuclear facility struck by saboteurs 17 Sep 2012 Saboteurs have struck Iran's newest and most sensitive nuclear facility by blowing up its power supply cables, the head of the country's atomic energy programme disclosed. This announcement offered a rare glimpse of a long-r ...
  • US deploys extra troops overseas as protests c ...
    ShareThisUS deploys extra troops overseas as protests continue to spread --Demonstrations over Prophet film now in 20 Muslim countries and likely to persist for days 17 Sep 2012 Conceding that angry protests are likely to continue for days, the US defence department has sent extra troops to prot ...
  • Iran atomic chief says 'explosives' cut power ...
    ShareThisIran atomic chief says 'explosives' cut power at facility 17 Sep 2012 Explosive blasts destroyed power lines to Iran's underground nuclear facility at Fordo last month, the head of Iran's atomic agency said at a meeting of UN atomic agency member states Monday. "On...17th August 2012, t ...
  • Mayor Rahm Emanuel to striking Chicago teacher ...
    ShareThisMayor Rahm Emanuel to striking Chicago teachers: See you in court 16 Sep 2012 The Chicago teachers strike may not end the way they want it to: Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced plans Sunday evening to sue the union and force what he called an illegal strike to end immediately. After little o ...
  • Karzai slams US for failing to transfer of Bag ...
    ShareThisKarzai slams US for failing to transfer of Bagram inmates to Afghanistan 16 Sep 2012 Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has criticized the US for failing to transfer the control of hundreds of inmates at the Bagram Detention Center to Afghan authorities. Karzai slammed Washington for ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Killing Prince Harry: Could the Taliban do it?
    Base in Southern Afghanistan 17 September 2012 Afghan forces are infested with Taliban suicide killers. Two more “green-on-blue” attacks have occurred in the last few days, killing six more troops. Days ago, the Taliban executed an audacious attack on Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan wher ...
  • ISAF Joint Command morning operational update: ...
    UNCLASSIFIED 2012-09-S-025 For Immediate Release ISAF Joint Command morning operational update KABUL, Afghanistan (Sept. 17) – Afghan and coalition forces today confirmed the death of the Taliban insurgent behind the May 11 insider attack that killed one coalition service member. The insurge ...
  • Important from Afghanistan
    Two sources report similarly: "ALL OPERATIONS ARE CURRENTLY SUSPENDED. A 3 STAR MUST APPROVE ANY ACTIONS.  ADDITIONALLY, ALL ISAF FORCES ARE TO SEPARATE FROM THEIR AFGHAN COUNTERPARTS." END
  • ISAF Joint Command morning operational update: ...
    UNCLASSIFIED  2012-09-S-024 For Immediate Release ISAF Joint Command morning operational update KABUL, Afghanistan (Sept. 16) - An Afghan and coalition security force today arrested the Taliban leader responsible for the death of two American service members following a Sept. 5 helicopt ...
  • ISAF casualties - 16 September 2012
    UNCLASSIFIED ISAF Joint Command - Afghanistan 2012-08-C-023 For Immediate Release ISAF casualties KABUL, Afghanistan (Sept. 16) - Four International Security Assistance Force service members died today in southern Afghanistan following an insider attack suspected to involve members of the Af ...

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Burma’s ‘exile government’ dissolved
    Burma’s ‘parallel government’ in exile, the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB), announced its dissolution today in an effort to support “national reconciliation”.
  • Copper and compensation
    Villagers protested against the seizing of more than 7,800 acres of farmland for a copper mine project in Sarlingyi Township in Sagaing Division, about 450 miles northwest of Rangoon. The mine project is a joint venture between a Chinese company and Burma’s military-owned Myanmar Economic ...
  • Forced labour flourishes in post-conflict Arak ...
    Forced labour continues to be an immense problem among the Rohingya population in Arakan state and has even increased in certain areas with the influx of Burmese troops after the summer’s riots
  • Burmese refugees could return in a year: Thai ...
    About 120,000 Burmese refugees in Thailand may return home within a year, the kingdom's National Security Council said Thursday, following recent talks between the two nations
  • Council calls on groups to suspend talks with ...
    The Ethnic Nationalities Council urged armed groups currently in peace talks with the Burmese government to suspend their negotiations if government troops continue to attack the Kachin Independence Army

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Jurist - Legal Research

  • UN urges Libya to pursue transitional justice ...
    [JURIST] The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) [official website] on Monday called on Libyan authorities to implement a transitional justice strategy [UN News Centre report] in order to rebuild and reshape its decades-long history of dictatorial cruelty and last year's civil war. The report, ...
  • Second Circuit suspends Google books case pend ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [official website] on Monday suspended litigation between the Authors Guild [advocacy website] and Google [corporate website] pending an appeal of a May ruling allowing a class action lawsuit [JURIST reports] over Google's book-scanning ini ...
  • UN investigators: human rights violations in S ...
    [JURIST] UN investigators testified before the UN Human Rights Council [official website] on Monday that human rights violations in Syria committed by both sides of the conflict are growing in number and severity [press release]. Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on th ...
  • UN rights chief condemns Mali violence
    [JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] condemned [press release] human rights violations in Mali on Monday and called for international action to address the problems. Pillay stated that two militant Islamic groups, Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Afri ...
  • Myanmar announces amnesty for 514 prisoners
    [JURIST] Myanmar [JURIST news archive] officials on Monday announced amnesty for 514 prisoners. The Ministry of Information did not identify the prisoners who will be freed, but activists have identified several political detainees and foreigners slated to be released [AP report]. The release an ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

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Tikun Olam

  • Sabra, Shatilla and the Fire Next Time
    Today is the 30th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatilla massacre in which 800 Palestinians were raped and murdered by Christian Phalange militamen.  The NY Times published an illuminating op-ed by a doctoral student who found verbatim transcripts of meetings between Israeli leaders including Ari ...
  • Happy New Year
    Leonard Cohen – ‘Who by fire’ (Live in London) from Daniel Gafitescu To all my readers, I wish you a happy New Year.  As we say in Hebrew: shana tova u’metuka (“a good and sweet new year”).  We say this phrase dipping the new apples of the season into honey an ...
  • Cyberwar and the Threat to Civilization
    The American Interest published an essay, Hacking the Next War, which explores the juxtaposition between the traditional internet and the myriad benefits it’s offered to modern society, with the unplumbed destructive capacity of cyberwarfare.  The founding principles of the internet were o ...
  • Presidential Campaign: Getting it Wrong on Iran
    Tomorrow morning at 9AM Pacific, Goudarz Eghtedari, a noted Iranian peace activist in Portland, will be interviewing me about Iran on KBOO.  You may listen live (audio stream) to the interview. On Monday, September 17th, I’ll be joining Dick Blakney to speak on, Why Both Republicans and De ...
  • Moving Web Hosts
    Due to the recent hack of this site last week, I’ve moved to a new (far more expensive!) web host which promises to be far more secure and supportive of the technical needs of the site.  As a result, some of you may find errors when you click on links until the servers are aligned [...]

If Americans Knew

  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
  • Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
    Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
  • International law is clear: Israeli settlement ...
    Eric Rozenman's Dec. 11 Op-Ed article, "Israeli settlements are more than legitimate," is legal nonsense that disregards history. He is correct in his observation that Article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine permitted "close settlement by Jews on the land, including state lands and waste lands no ...
  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Love PANDA? Try csvkit to Standardize Your Data
    Now that PANDA has been out in the world for a while, we would like to suggest you also take a look at a "cousin" project of sorts: csvkit. csvkit is a suite of powertools for working with Comma-separated values (CSV) files. It's a command line toolkit, so you will need some minimal technical kn ...
  • Data Journalism Takes Center Stage at OKFestiv ...
    OKFestival, the world's largest open knowledge and data event, will take place September 17-22. We're pleased to announce that streams on three whole days of this year's festival (two festival days and a satellite event) will be dedicated to the topic of data journalism and visualization to enco ...
  • Behavio: Opening Up the Power of Mobile Sensing
    What three things do you always take with you when you leave your home? Most people would say their keys, their wallet, and their mobile phone. But what if your phone wasn't just a phone? It already isn't. At Behavio, we want to help small developers, researchers, data gatherers, and end-u ...
  • Crisis Mapping With OpenStreetMap a Big Focus ...
    OpenStreetMap, the free and editable map of the world, kicked off its international conference today in Tokyo, with the entire first day dedicated to improving disaster response and crisis mapping. With the March 2011 Tōhoku tsunami still fresh on people's minds and events like the recent Ta ...
  • Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Announces 'Code Sprint ...
    2012 has been a pretty incredible year for the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project. We received 165 applications for our 2013 Fellowships (we were expecting around 80) and are now actively interviewing semifinalists. By the end of the year, we will have sponsored at least 20 hack days around the wor ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The 2012 Vote - Obama Leads Romney in the Fina ...
    With 50 days until the 2012 election, President Obama has a small, but clear lead over Mitt Romney.Obama is ahead of Romney by a narrow margin in most national polls, and has a slightly wider lead in most swing states, giving Romney almost no room for error. Obama continues to lead Romney in per ...
  • The Edge of Terrorism - Palestinian Statehood ...
    As the Palestinian Authority continues to seek recognition by the United Nations as a "state," the world should consider the implications.If the U.N. now recognizes Palestine as a state without requiring its leaders to negotiate a compromise peace with Israel, it would send a clear message to ot ...
  • The 2012 Vote - ObamaCare's Crucial Benefits
    Politicians who are promising to repeal ObamaCare won’t find any evidence in the Kaiser Family Foundation’s analysis of health insurance costs that the law has caused premiums to skyrocket, as many of those politicians have contended.On the contrary, premiums have increased on average only 4 ...
  • Jewish Refugees from Arab Lands - Undermining ...
    If you’re looking for an online aggregator of Israel-bashing articles, you could do a great deal worse than visit Open Zion, the website edited by the darling of America’s Jewish far left, Peter Beinart. All the obsessions of today’s anti-Zionists are neatly organized there, in the form of ...
  • The Edge of Space - Planets Can Form in the Ga ...
    At first glance, the center of the Milky Way seems like a very inhospitable place to try to form a planet. Stars crowd each other as they whiz through space like cars on a rush-hour freeway. Supernova explosions blast out shock waves and bathe the region in intense radiation. Powerful gravitatio ...

High Country News

  • Great Basin scientists unleash new weapons to ...
    A trio of dedicated scientists are testing out cutting-edge ways to finally turn the tide against the Great Basin's cheatgrass invasion, as the weed continues to cause devastating fires.
  • See you in October
    HCN wins awards, new staff, visitors, a correction
  • Native plant growers face many challenges
    Growing natives for restoration is a lot harder than growing conventional crops, and the volatile market for seed makes it even more difficult for seed producers to stay in business.
  • Scientific superheroes
    A number of other researchers are also investigating new tools and tricks to help suppress invasive cheatgrass.
  • Grand Canyon floods and native fish
    Scientists thought periodic, controlled floods in the Grand Canyon might help native fish. But so far, there's little evidence they have.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Has Obama Turned America into The Weak Horse?

  • Chris Matthews: The Word "Unemployment" is RACIST!
    Dr. Tingle has Done it again.  After complaining the Romney's attack on Obama's gutting of welfare reform was racist, and any mention of Chicago Politics was racist the MSNBC host has expanded his thesaurus listing of racist terms.  According to a report by Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Mille ...
  • Was Obama's Convention Bounce Was Killed By T ...
    Most polls conducted immediately after a convention polls nonsenses. The jumps that some candidates have after their party's gathering is called a bounce for a reason--bounces have two halves up...and down. Usually there is something that breaks the euphoria causing the electorate to focus on th ...
  • HYPOCRITE! Joe Scarborough "We're Biased, But ...
    There are some things you can only see on MSNBC. They are biased with an attitude. Take for example Today's Morning Joe program. The program began with a discussion of the anti-American protests in the Middle East. Host Joe Scarborough segued into the conservative complaints with the press ...
  • Report- Obama Administration Had Two Day Warni ...
    According to a report in the UK Independent  United States State Department had credible information two days before our embassies in Libya and Egypt were attacked that American missions may be targeted but those warnings were not passed along to the foreign staffs. If a warning was passe ...

The Real Agenda

  • Chemical in Cookware Linked to Heart Disease
    By ELIZABETH RENTER | THE EXCAVATOR | SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 Further presenting non-stick cookware dangers, a new study published in this month’s Archives of Internal Medicinereveals a relation between PFOA (the chemical in Teflon, used in nonstick pans among other things) and heart diseas ...
  • Bailed out Banks continue giving risky Loans
    One of the main causes of the financial crisis is still ongoing despite promises to end it. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 The banks that were bailed out during the crisis (2008-2010) maintained risky practices in their lending operations, the same ones that hel ...
  • Trigo Transgénico podría cambiar Genoma Humano
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 16 SEPTIEMBRE 2012 Las amenazas comprobadas que los organismos transgénicos representan para el medio ambiente es interminable, pero las empresas químicas no parecen preocupadas, y continúan trabajando en la creación de productos alimenticios que co ...
  • Operação Gladio: Terrorismo de Estado na Europa
    THE REAL AGENDA | 16 SETEMBRO 2012 Operação Gladio revela o segredo da uma operação terrorista patrocinada pelo Estado apoia uma rede terrorista na Europa. Esta série da BBC mostra como um exército secreto de extrema-direita, operado pela CIA e MI6, através da OTAN, mataram húngaros e outro ...
  • Operación Gladio: Terrorismo Estatal en Europa
    THE REAL AGENDA | 16 SEPTIEMBRE 2012 Operación Gladio revela el secreto del operativo terrorista patrocinado por el Estado de una red terrorista en Europa. Esta serie de la BBC se trata de un ejército secreto de extrema derecha, operado por la CIA y el MI6 través de la OTAN, que mató húngar ...

Wind Watch

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

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From ...
    Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help v ...
    EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Fed’s Coffers Can’t Provide Certainty
    “The central banks in the world’s two largest economies, Europe and the United States, took extraordinary actions this past week. They each promised an unlimited amount of money to help restore the economy. By opening their money spigots indefinitely – essentially printing more dollars and ...
  • Chicago Teachers Still On Strike
    “School won’t be out for forever, but it’ll be out until at least Wednesday. Eight hundred union delegates deliberated for a little over two hours Sunday on whether to end the strike after union and Chicago Public School negotiators came to terms Saturday on a proposed contract. But the de ...
  • NYC Approves Ban on Sugary Drinks
    “Seeking to reduce runaway obesity rates, the New York City Board of Health on Thursday approved a ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, street carts and movie theaters, the first restriction of its kind in the country.” (NY Times) The exchange of mon ...
  • Bernanke’s Battle for Jobs Eclipses Inflation ...
    “Ben S. Bernanke for the first time pledged that the Federal Reserve will buy bonds until the economy gets closer to his goals, cementing his place as the Fed’s most innovative chairman and signaling the battle against unemployment eclipses any concerns about inflation for now. The central ...
  • Austrian Exploitation Theory
    The Austrian economist who refuted Marx’s exploitation theory had one of his own.

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Comments on the cost of Iraq
    Elevated from the comments, MarkFromIreland: Greetings Ian, Do you remember Mohammed Ibn Laith? Gorilla’s Guides » 2007 » February » 15: I am a Muslim I am Iraki maybe you believe that God told you that must turn aside when you have been struck.That is not what God tells me. What God tells me is ...
  • QE 3
    The Fed has announced its third quantitative easing program.  To state what should be obvious, the effect on the economy for ordinary people will be minimal, as with QE1 and 2.  It will help banks, financial firms most, other large corporations will also benefit.  If you work at the executive le ...
  • QE 3
    The Fed has announced its third quantitative easing program.  To state what should be obvious, the effect on the economy for ordinary people will be minimal, as with QE1 and 2.  It will help banks, financial firms most, other large corporations will also benefit.  If you work at the executive le ...
  • Respect for international law and America
    There’s been a great deal of crying about the death of an Ambassador and others in an attack on the US embassy in Libya. Now I’m a strong supporter of the inviolability of embassies but I wonder why other people should be? Embassy inviolability is part of one of the oldest strata of ...
  • Respect for international law and America
    There’s been a great deal of crying about the death of an Ambassador and others in an attack on the US embassy in Libya. Now I’m a strong supporter of the inviolability of embassies but I wonder why other people should be? Embassy inviolability is part of one of the oldest strata of ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • The Rise of Telework and What it Means
    Teleworking (also known as telecommuting) has taken flight as a global trend. During July of 2002, European Union collectively decided on a shared framework agreement on telework, which regulates issues such as employment and working conditions, health and safety, training, and the collectiv ...
  • The Changing Geography of Asian America: To Th ...
    “There’s nothing wrong with New York that a million Chinese couldn’t cure,” the urban geographer George Sternlieb once quipped. It may be an exaggeration, but rising Asian immigration has indeed been a boon to many communities and economies across the country. Over the past 30 years the number ...
  • The Answer Is Urban Consolidation – What Was T ...
    The New Zealand Green Party is perpetuating the claim that development beyond Auckland’s “city limits” imposes a high cost on ratepayers.  A spokesperson claims that the current Auckland plan, which allows for some new development outside the current urban area, &ldquo ...
  • The End of the Road for Eds and Meds
    In the last few decades, as suburbanization and deindustrialization devastated so many cities, they turned to two sectors that seemed not only immune to decline, but were actually growing: universities and hospitals. The so-called “eds and meds” sectors, often related through univ ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Zürich
    Zürich is the largest urban area in Switzerland. The core city (stadt) of Zürich is located at the northern end of Lake Zürich, which is glacial and similar to the "finger lakes" of upstate New York. Lake Zürich is approximately 25 miles/40 kilometers long and 1-2 miles/1.5-3 kilome ...

GM Watch

  • Testing the limits of credibility with GM rice
    NOTE: The author is a former researcher at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and deputy editor of a Chinese science publication. EXTRACTS: It remains unclear whether the children involved in Tufts University's transgenic rice test understood exactly what was happening. It is also strange ...
  • Claims GM corn uses less water are false
    1.Drought-Resistant Corn Is Oversold - WSJ 2.A Less Thirsty Future Through Engineered Crops? - UCS NOTE: Despite all the hype about the promise of GM drought resistant crops, it took until the end of 2011 for the first GM drought resistant crop to be approved for marketing anywhere in the world ...
  • Altered Genes, Twisted Truth - New book on bir ...
    NOTE: Below is a message from Steven Druker, a US-based public interest attorney who, in the 1990s, sued the US Food and Drug Administration over its release of GM foods onto world markets.  While he lost the case on a technicality, the lawsuit forced disclosure of FDA records that showed the a ...
  • Non-GM blight resistant spuds in danger
    NOTE: The UK's Sarvari Research Trust has a crowd funding appeal on Buzzbnk. This will help this not-for-profit research trust continue its development of non-GM blight resistant potatoes. https://www.buzzbnk.org/ProjectDetails.aspx?projectId=84 The UK's John Innes Centre has received GBP1.7 m ...
  • See new film Genetic Roulette for free / New e ...
    1. Genetic roulette: The gamble of our lives - new film 2. New educational website about GMOs and glyphosate --- --- 1. Genetic roulette: The gamble of our lives http://geneticroulettemovie.com/ Doctors, scientists, mothers, farmers, and agriculture experts speak about the dangers and problems ...

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Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • How QE3 Will Make The Wealthy Even Wealthier W ...
    The mainstream media is hailing QE3 as a great victory for the U.S. economy.  On nearly every news broadcast, the "talking heads" are declaring that Ben Bernanke's decision to pump 40 billion dollars a month into our financial system is definitely going to help solve our economic ...
  • QE3: Helicopter Ben Bernanke Unleashes An All- ...
    You can't accuse Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke of not living up to his nickname.  Back in 2002, Bernanke delivered a speech entitled "Deflation: Making Sure 'It' Doesn’t Happen Here" in which he referenced a statement by economist Milton Friedman about fighting deflation ...
  • Things Are Getting Worse: Median Household Inc ...
    New numbers that have just been released show that things are getting worse for American families.  According to the U.S. Census Bureau, median household income declined to $50,054 in 2011.  That is a 1.5 percent decline from the previous year, and median household income has now ...
  • China And Russia Are Ruthlessly Cutting The Le ...
    The mainstream media in the United States is almost totally ignoring one of the most important trends in global economics.  This trend is going to cause the value of the U.S. dollar to fall dramatically and it is going to cause the cost of living in the United States to go way up ...
  • The Student Loan Debt Bubble Is Creating Milli ...
    Every single year, millions of young adults head off to colleges and universities all over America full of hopes and dreams.  But what most of those fresh-faced youngsters do not realize is that by taking on student loan debt they are signing up for a life of debt slavery.  Stude ...

Desertification

  • Gardening systems in the drylands (Google / Th ...
    Read at : Google Alert – dryland gardening http://matronofhusbandry.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/dryland-update/ Dryland Update Dryland gardening used to be pretty common around here.  I learned to garden that way and for the bulk of our gardening we practice dryland.  It’s pretty easy for me ...
  • Desertification and small-scale farmers in Gha ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.wudpeckerresearchjournals.org/WJAR/Abstract/2012/September/Owusu.htm Farmers coping with the threat of desertification: A case study of the Upper East region, Ghana Alex Barimah Owusu Department of Geography and Resource Development, Univ ...
  • Desertification in Iraq (Google / Iraq’s ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.oneiraqidinar.com/completion-of-the-report-on-the-phenomenon-of-desertification/ Completion of the report on the phenomenon of desertification UNCCD Committee Chairman in the Cabinet Chief  Thamir Ghadhban, advisor to the Committee, compl ...
  • Thematic day on desertification (Google / The ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://global-mechanism.org/es/eventos/thematic-day-on-desertification-at-the-congo-basin-forest-partnership-meeting Jornada temática sobre la desertificación en la reunión de la Alianza Forestal de la Cuenca del Congo 19 Septiembre 2012 – 22 ...
  • anti-desertification project in Nigeria (Googl ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.afriquejet.com/nigeria-to-launch-anti-desertification-project-in-oct-2012091244801.html Nigeria to launch anti-desertification project in Oct. Lagos, Nigeria – Beset with a desert encroachment at the rate of 0.6 km per year, Nigeria ...

The Paper Trail

  • How an 82-year-old exposed security lapses at ...
    The hammering on the wall of America’s premier storage vault for nuclear-weapons grade uranium in pitch-darkness six weeks ago was loud enough to be heard by security guards. But they assumed incorrectly that workmen were making an after-hours repair, and blithely ignored it. ...
  • Mississippi town struggles with 'school to pri ...
    MERIDIAN, Miss. — Lionel Townsend will turn 14 in September. And a few months after that he will be able to return to school, ending a year of exile.Lionel admits he got into fights multiple times at Magnolia Middle School. When he was charged with vandalizing a school bus security camera, he wa ...
  • Consider the Source: Your personal election guide
    With less than two months to go before the Nov. 6th election, nearly $3 billion has been raised by all the presidential and congressional candidates, along with the parties and super PACs, a staggering figure.Here is a rough tally at this moment in time, with help from OpenSecrets.org:All super ...
  • Daily Disclosure: Planned Parenthood airs ads ...
    Planned Parenthood this week began its most extensive attack this election on Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, spending $1.8 million on a new television ad that’s part of a $3.2 million initiative.The ad, called “Mitt Romney Would Turn Back the Clock on Women’s Health,” began airing ...
  • Daily Disclosure: It's labor versus tea party ...
    It’s the tea party versus unions in the race to determine who will control Pennsylvania’s redrawn 12th Congressional District. Democratic Rep. Mark Critz, backed by union muscle, faces a challenge from attorney Keith Rothfus, a tea party favorite, in a race that has already seen $1.4 million in ...

backofthebook.ca

  • As the armadas mass in the Gulf . . .
    By Montreal Simon The other night I accused Stephen Harper of timing his decision to sever ties with Iran in order to ratchet up tensions, just before Benjamin Netanyahu went ballistic. From The Atlantic: “Why is he doing this? “My guess is that he’s saying what he’s sayi ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Striking Agreement: How one neighborhood schoo ...
    CTU.jpg A first-hand account from the Chicago Teachers Union strike, from education worker Agnieszka Karoluk. This morning at 7am I went to one of my neighborhood public schools ...
  • Mr Tommy Takes A Trip!
    berks1.jpg EDL 'leader' Mr Tommy is gadding about despite being skint. Crivvens! Jings! And Help Ma Boab! As the entire media is in a flap over a few photos of a minor ...
  • Union Busting at American Apparel Japan
    image.jpeg Management at the Jiyugaoka American Apparel Outlet in Tokyo have unfairly dismissed an employee, and are closing the store in an alleged union busting exercise. The ...
  • Walthamstow: The Return! Or Not
    berks1.jpg The EDL have vowed to return to East 17. Oh Dear! Crivvens! Jings! And Help Ma Boab! Never have the English Defence League been so humiliated than the other week at W ...
  • The Marikana Massacre: a glimpse of the men be ...
    The City Press, a mainstream newspaper in South Africa, has published short obituaries of the striking miners gunned down by the ANC government. Stelega Gadlela (50) His first name was Stelega, a word Swazi language speakers use to de ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • The REAL Reason the Israe-lies Want to Attack Iran
    The work of Dr. Keshe in “secure” research bases in Iran is causing the Rothschild Cabal sleepless nights. Imagine a world where 1. Energy is FREE 2. Food is readily available 3.  Money is obsolete. This was the situation in Libya, that is, until NATO bombs began falling and the GREE ...
  • The REAL Reason the Israe-lies Want to Attack Iran
    The work of Dr. Keshe in “secure” research bases in Iran is causing the Rothschild Cabal sleepless nights. Imagine a world where 1. Energy is FREE 2. Food is readily available 3.  Money is obsolete. This was the situation in Libya, that is, until NATO bombs began falling and the GREE ...
  • 9-11 The Ultimate Litmus Test
    This pretty much sums it up. Remember, Ron Paul parrots the official “story”   I also find this quite curious.   In 1974 the movie “Towering Inferno” is released by Khazar “Jew” Irwin Allen.   In 1975 the North Tower of the WTC has a similar fire as depic ...
  • 9-11 The Ultimate Litmus Test
    This pretty much sums it up. Remember, Ron Paul parrots the official “story”   I also find this quite curious.   In 1974 the movie “Towering Inferno” is released by Khazar “Jew” Irwin Allen.   In 1975 the North Tower of the WTC has a similar fire as depic ...
  • The Tree of Life
    The Tree of Life The Incredible Story of Sulfur (Final Chapter of the Righteous Blood Series) By A. True Ott, PhD, ND   In 1913, poet Joyce Kilmer wrote the oft-quoted, yet poignantly simple verse: I Think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.   A tree whose hungry mouth is [...]

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

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

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Iran Guard commander: Tehran’s missiles mean ‘ ...
    Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari also warned that Iran might close the Straits of Hormuz if it is attacked, withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and hit U.S. bases in the Middle East. read more
  • Iranians revive, boost fatwa for Salman Rushdie
    A semi-official religious foundation in Iran has increased a reward it had offered for the killing of British author Salman Rushdie to $3.3 million from $2.8 million, a newspaper reported, days after protests coursed through the Muslim world over alleged insults to the Prophet Muhammad.
  • Iran's Guard admits advisers in Syria
    In a rare news conference, the commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said in Tehran on Sunday that members of his elite special operations unit, the Quds Force, are present in Syria and Lebanon.
  • Photo surfaces despite his efforts to shield f ...
    Federal investigators questioned — but later released — one of the filmmakers behind the incendiary anti-Islam video that sparked violent clashes across the Middle East. Nakoula Basseley Nakoula was taken in for questioning near his Southern California home early Saturday, officials said.
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Most Revolutionary Act

  • Obama and the King of Bahrain - Part I
    (This is the first of two posts about the Obama Administration’s hypocritical policy towards Bahrain’s pro-democracy movement.) Protestors retake Pearl Roundabout Bahrain, one of the Arab Spring countries, has been in the international news recently, owing to the controversy over ...
  • Getting Rich Off Food Shortages
    Fined $450 million in the LIBOR scandal According to Britain’s Independent, Barclays Bank made more than half a billion pounds (around $810 million – their fine for the LIBOR interest-fixing scandal was $450 million) in two years from speculating on food staples such as wheat a ...
  • Countdown to Currency Collapse
    No Comments Max Keiser Below is a link to an excellent hour long interview with Max Keiser on Bonnie Faulkner’s Guns and Butter. Countdown to Currency Collapse Although Keiser, a former Wall Street broker (and fellow exp ...
  • Greece to Seek Nazi Damages from Germany
    www.davegranlund.com Recent articles in Bloomberg’s and the West Australian reveal that Greece has set up a “working group” to study historical archives and to determine how much Germany might owe in outstanding reparations for Nazi war crimes during World War II. Greece ...
  • Haiti: the New Greece
    Haiti (pre-Isaac) Aug 24, 2012 Someone has leaked to the UK Guardian an email the “troika” (consisting of the European Commission, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund) recently sent the Greek government with additional conditions they plan to impose as a ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • Israel Provides “Intelligence” That May Prompt ...
    Angelina Jolie, member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations has arrived in Syria to survey the destruction caused by the proxy war created by the US and Israel; as well as confirm that there is a need for the continued supply and support of the ...
  • The Christian Name
    For centuries the practice of naming one’s child after a saint was almost second nature. Typically, Catholics named their child after the saint on whose day he was born. Over the past few decades, however, the invasion of secularism and moral relativism has worked to undermine the family a ...
  • Europe begs Spain for a yes or no answer on ba ...
    Euro zone finance ministers want a clear cut answer from Spain whether it will seek financial support after Madrid’s borrowing costs sharply lowered following the European Central Bank decision to buy bonds last week. Will Spain ask for its bailout, so that the ECB’s unlimited bond b ...
  • Obama Turns Against The Muslim Brotherhood Aft ...
    Protests are erupting across the Middle East as demonstrators throw rocks and Molotov cocktails at police who have retaliated by shooting tear gas canisters into the crowds. The US Embassy in Cario has become a new target. On the 11th anniversary of September 11th, a US-sponsored false flag atta ...
  • Argentinians in Buenos Aires hold rally agains ...
    Argentinians have held a demonstration in the capital to protest against government policies and a recent proposal that could allow Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to run for a third consecutive term in 2015. Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in front of the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires o ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Syrian Jets Bomb Targets In Lebanon
    A general view of Arsal, northeastern Bekaa, Monday, June 18, 2012. (The Daily Star/Rakan al-Fakih) Syrian Jets Bomb Farm Fields In North Lebanon -- Daily Star BEIRUT: Two Syrian warplanes bombed farm fields belonging to a border town in northeast Lebanon Monday, high-ranking Lebanese security ...
  • Some Libyans Tried To Save Ambassador Christop ...
    Video has emerged in which Libyan citizens remove the body of Ambassador Christopher Stevens from the Embassy after it was attacked by Muslim protestors last week. Though one might be tempted to call the video disturbing, the film is better suited by calling it “tragic” when aspects of it are r ...
  • ChefVille, War Commander, Causes, Chase Commun ...
    Zynga’s  ChefVille  takes the No. 1 spot on our list of top growing Facebook apps by monthly active users this week, crossing 55.5 million players. A few other Zynga games appeared on our list, including No. 2  Zynga Slingo , No. 16  FarmVille 2  and No. 19  CastleVille . Titles on our l ...
  • Anti-Islam video protests
    Protests throughout the world continue to rage a week after they began over a crudely-produced video that mocks Islam. The internet video, produced in the United States, led to anti-American demonstrations in dozens of countries. As many as 17 people have died in the violence. American warships ...
  • no demonstration outside the U.S. Consulate in ...
    Contrary to Admin claims, there was no protest before the Consulate in Benghazi was attacked. None. It wasn't an attack that spun from an out of control demonstration. The protests and demonstrations began AFTER the attack. Fox: No demonstration before attack on US Consulate, source says An int ...

Groklaw

  • Apple, RIM get green light to intervene in Kod ...
    In a court order (pdf) posted last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. said that both Apple and RIM could intervene in the case, which centers around the alleged infringement of Kodak's patents. The decision means both companies can participate in the proc ...
  • State warned on ditching copyrighted software ...
    Last week, the Government issued a warning that in the next three years it will move its IT operations to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), a move that will reduce cost by more than half in IT expenses. Microsoft said the move is risky and bound to make Government systems more vulnerable to ...
  • On Mark Lemley's Idea on Functional Claiming - ...
    Simon Phipps ‏@webmink @marklemley Any hint of a future defendant who will use your approach? 12:09 PM - 16 Sep 12 Mark Lemley ‏@marklemley @webmink I've got my eyes out for one. - Simon Phipps, Twitter
  • Tim Bray on Mac OSX ...
    Tim Bray ‏@timbray Since Snow Leopard, hard to think of anything in OS X that actually improved my experience. - Tim Bray, Twitter
  • Ballmer trumpets Microsoft's 'epic year'
    Q: Where do you see Microsoft's position in five years, 10 years? A: First of all, I'd say: pre-eminent technology company. I think that in a back-looking view, people would say we were a software company. That's kind of how we were born. I think when you look forward, our core capability will ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Occupy Wall Street one year anniversary
    As anyone who ever spent time in Zuccotti Park during the encampment phase of Occupy knows, OWS was in disarray from day one. It continually teetered on the edge of implosion due to conflicting forces within and opposition from police and political forces without.Organized chaos (or chaotic orga ...
  • Muslim anger and Western domination
    In Iraq there is chaos. In Afghanistan there is chaos. In Libya there is chaos. In Syria there is chaos. Wherever the West intervenes, either directly or indirectly, chaos is the result. The historical charge sheet is just too long and damning to refute in this regard.The insult felt in response ...
  • Well, of course, militants took advantage of L ...
    Apparently the basic lessons contained in Organizing 101 are just now beginning to seep into the august realms of Washington DC as they ponder the Libyan protest.The attack that killed four Americans in the Libyan consulate began as a spontaneous protest against the film “The Innocence of ...
  • California’s Bay Delta Conservation Plan draws ...
    Credit: SacramentoRiverDelta.netIn a push to provide more water for agribusiness and residents of southern California, Governor Jerry Brown has proposed a pair of 40 mile tunnels to move water from the Sacramento River Delta to the town of Tracy, a project with a price tag anywhere from $24 to $ ...
  • State Department has no clue what countries ar ...
    Gosh, how convenient is that? The State Department is just gobsmacked to discover it has no idea what countries are buying drones from the US or whether they could fall into the wrong hands and thus presumably be used against us.The federal government has no way of knowing which countries have p ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Working to keep NZ GE free
    It’s been a busy few months fighting genetic engineering in New Zealand. Firstly I have been negotiating with the Minister for Food Safety to try and get GE put back into the Food Bill. I then spent a couple of weeks travelling around New Zealand with two Australian farmers talking to communitie ...
  • Buses can be sexy
    Leave it to the Danes to make the best public transport ad I have seen so far.   The ad essentially uses the same techniques ubiquitously applied to sell cars, and applies them to the bus. Given that car ads seem to be about one out of every three or four shown on television, and [...]
  • General debate, September 17, 2012
  • A fairer society is a richer society
    A new United Nations Trade and Development Report has found that reducing taxes for those who earn the most has not delivered widespread economic prosperity, as promised. In fact, the UN has found that such policies have caused developed economies to stagnate and grow increasingly unequal. The U ...
  • How you can help protect the Ross Sea
    The Ross Sea is one of the most pristine ecosystems on earth, and its vitally important we keep it that way for the health of our oceans. That’s why it was so disappointing to see that New Zealand’s proposal for an ineffective Marine Protected Area (MPA) released yesterday, which amounts to m ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

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    Renewable Fuel Standard, Ethanol Use, and Corn Prices
    Heritage.org
    Abstract: The ethanol mandate in the federal Renewable Fuel Standard increases corn prices and food prices. This harms consumers and distorts the domestic and international commodity market. While waiving the mandate would be an improvement, ...
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    Kucinich to lead 1000s anti-nuclear, pro-renewable energy Occupiers
    Examiner.com
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich is hosting a Congressional briefing, Thursday, September 20, 2012, on medical effects of radiation exposure, and health threats presented by United States nuclear power plants, nuclear fleet, and the on-going tragedy in...
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    Photos: National RenewableEnergy Lab's newest facility -- a sneak peak
    Westword (blog)
    In this week's feature, "Sun Burn," we explore the progress of Golden's National RenewableEnergy Lab, which for decades has been researching alternative energy. A central part of the lab's current expansion is the construction of the massive Energy ...
    S.F. weighing green alternative to PG&E
    San Francisco Chronicle
    The Board of Supervisors is set to consider legislation Tuesday that would allocate $19.5 million to secure a contract with Shell Energy North America to provide 100 percent renewable power to San Franciscans who want to pay a premium for it, with $2 ...
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    Forest Fire Research Questions the Wisdom of Prescribed Burns
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    Scientists are at loggerheads over whether there is an ecologicaladvantage to thinning forests and using prescribed fire to reduce fuel for subsequent fires — or whether those methods actually diminish ecological processes and biodiversity. The ...
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    Environmentalists warn of a likelyecological disaster if waste water remains ...
    Southeast European Times
    More than 90 percent of the sewage in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- or 30 million cubic meters in Republika Srpska alone -- is released in the country's rivers without being sanitised, and citizens are raising an alarm about the environmental and health ...
    Going Platinum: Cornell's HumanEcology Building Earns Top Rating For ...
    Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
    The Human Ecology Building recently became the first on campus to receive LEED Platinum certification — the highest possible ranking a building can receive for environmentally-friendly design. LEED, which stands for Leadership in Energy and ...
    USA: Ecology OKs Camas Shoreline Program Update
    Dredging Today
    Ecology's Southwest Regional Director Sally Toteff said: “This master program update marks a significant step in helping to protect quality of life, the environmental health of waters in the city, and the economic base reliant upon our waterways ...
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    Water and Sanitation Are Key to Saving Lives and Boosting Economic Growth
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    Traveling around the world to visit WaterAid's global programs I am always struck by the joy I see in children's faces when they have access to a new water source. Their happiness is well founded. Safe water and sanitation are vital pre-requisites for ...
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