18 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Vegetarian Body Builder Power Lifting champion Bill Pearl - Plant Based Protein Muscle Diet as in The China Study - Non Paleo - You were saying (Photo credit: Vegetarian-Vegan-Bodybuilding-Info)

English: Organic vegetables at a farmers' market in Argentina. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Countries which have indigenous peoples for whom Survival campaigns. This map represents about 5 million indigenous people. There are over 300 million indigenous people in the world, with an estimate over 100 uncontacted tribes. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Annals of Botany (Photo credit: AJC1)

English: Lower Barrihurst Organic Farm shop. The farm is animal based farming, the shop stocks health food as well as organic foods. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

ShabanoYanomami.jpg (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: The courtyard leading to the entrance to the Big Carrot Natural Food store, a supermarket of organic and natural foods and products. Carrot Common on Danforth Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The National Organic Program administers the Organic Seal to products that meet the requirements. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Organic food mela (Photo credit: Hari Prasad Nadig)

SOY ESTROGEN EVIL DANGER is a MYTH by MERCOLA WESTON PRICE - Non-Vegan Beef Steak has Female Synovex-S Estradiol Hormone Implants Unhealthy for Pregnancy (Photo credit: AncestralHealthSymposium)

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• The Latest Sneak Attacks in a Coordinated Effo ...
  By Dr. Mercola The featured article in the latest newsletter from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) gets straight to the point with its headline:1 Back to School – Is the Child Sitting Next to Yours Immunized? The article goes on to berate vaccine exemption options and parents who ...
• Confirmed! Flu Vaccine INCREASES Risk of Serio ...
  By Dr. Mercola The Canadian press recently broke the story that new research confirms initial findings that the flu vaccine appeared to actually increase people's risk of getting sick with H1N1, and cause more serious bouts of illness to boot. According to the Vancouver Sun:1 "Researcher ...
• Leading Energy Drink Makers Under Investigatio ...
  By Dr. Mercola They’re marketed as the fast and easy way to get unparalleled energy. Simply throw back a can of AMP Energy Drink, 5-Hour Energy or any of the other popular energy drinks on the market and instantly “give a swift kickstart to yourself” that allows you to “tackle the early morn ...
• Organic Foods are Safer and Healthier than Con ...
  By Dr. Mercola In the UK, organic food sales have been falling since 2008. The featured commentary1 discusses whether organic is going "out of style," or if people's tastes and reasoning for going organic are simply changing. "Sales of organic products have been falling since the credit c ...
• Mounting Evidence Suggests Coffee May Actually ...
  By Dr. Mercola For years, physicians have been warning about the negative health effects of drinking coffee. You may have been told that coffee will raise your blood pressure, lead to heart disease, give you an ulcer or make you diabetic. But studies continue to roll in that caste doubt on th ...

JAMA

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Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

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

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• 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 ...

CASSE

• Population and a Dose of Common Sense
  Blake Alcott navigates the mine field of population policy and manages to defuse a mine or two along the way.
• Three More Growth Fallacies
  Economists are good at making specious arguments in favor of infinite growth. Herman Daly is good at debunking them.
• The Next President’s Inaugural Speech (If Only…)
  Brent Blackwelder as head speechwriter for the next U.S. president? It sure would be a refreshing change.
• George Will, Doomsday, and the Straw-Man Sighting
  George Will's accusations are almost as far-fetched as his "facts."
• The Resilience Imperative and Civil Disobedience
  Michael Lewis, lead author of "The Resilience Imperative," advises civil disobedience as a strategy for steady staters.

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

• Today on New Scientist: 17 September 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: no-hands driving, a brief history of the human genome, cavenauts in training, and more
• Don't mess with the world's largest jellyfish
  With almost invisible tentacles up to 15 metres long and a nasty sting, a meeting with the lion's mane jellyfish is something you'll remember
• NASA Mars rover finds a crunchy 'blueberry' su ...
  Clusters of rocky spheres bubbling up from a Martian outcrop are unlike anything scientists have seen
• Today on New Scientist: 14 September 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: killer whale menopause, subconscious cues help healing, wired Chinese web, surveillance at sea, and more
• Wingardium leviosa! Wand used to make water le ...
  These drops of liquid really are floating in mid-air. An acoustic levitator that NASA originally developed is holding them in place

Tech Drive In

• 5 Best Open Source Tools to Create Scalable On ...
  While Facebook and Twitter is the core of the Internet’s social networking world, some companies and organizations may have reasons to set up their own social networking applications. For some companies, setting up their own social network is a good option because the public Internet may not b ...
• NexPhone: Futuristic Concept Smartphone Using ...
  NexPhone concept is a new kick-starter like project where the promoters intend to build a smartphone that becomes your tablet, laptop and PC, all at the same time. Might sound familiar since ASUS has a similar project called ASUS PadFone. The interesting thing about NexPhone project is that, ...
• Chrome Overtakes IE to become the World's Most ...
  The sheer pace of changes in world of technology sometimes scares me. Four years ago, Google Chrome was a nobody. After the initial surge, which helped Chrome gain nearly 1% market share quickly in the fiercely competitive browser market, things went down a bit and everyone was busy writing aw ...
• Slow or Erratic Wi-Fi in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS? Try ...
  Ever since I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Wi-Fi connection has become a pain in the neck. In my laptop, though the network-manager detects my router and easily connects to it through Wi-Fi, internet connection itself was really slow and erratic. On the other hand, Wi-Fi connection itself star ...
• Reditr - A Brilliant New Reddit Client for Des ...
  Reddit clients for Android already exists in every size and shape. But things are a little bit different for desktops, especially Linux desktops. A few Reddit apps popped up during Ubuntu App Showdown contest, but even those were not good enough. Looks like Reditr, a new Reddit client for Linu ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

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 ...

Veterans Today

• How Poor Leadership Threatens Israel
  - Is Netanyahu's Iran War Hype a National Security Threat to America
• James H. Fetzer: 9/11 IRAN REVIEW Interview
  According to Dr. Fetzer, George W. Bush and his administration officials were responsible for the atrocities which happened on September 11, 2001.
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
  SNCT dba SNC Manufacturing*, Orocovis, Puerto Rico, was awarded contract SPM1C1-12-D-1063.
• Background to Mossad Try at Egypt Civil War ov ...
  The deadly bombing of Alexandria church has shed more light on the long congested sectarian strife in Egypt. Nobody can deny that the Egyptian society has been showing symptoms of sectarianism based on religious friction between the two main religious groups in the country.
• Are Netanyahu and the Zionist lobby now a thre ...
  In her first response to the killing of the American ambassador and three others in Libya, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she had asked herself the question that many Americans were asking - how it could have happened?

electric politics

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

PR News

• Hipmunk selects Cohn & Wolfe as first AOR
  SAN FRANCISCO: Online travel company Hipmunk has selected Cohn & Wolfe as its first AOR following a competitive review that began in June.
• US Fund for UNICEF promotes Benenson
  NEW YORK: The US Fund for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has promoted Lisa Benenson to SVP of marketing and communications.
• Brazley acquires Louisville firm New West
  LOUISVILLE, KY: Carl Brazley, owner of Mo' Better Marketing, has acquired PR and advertising agency New West from Tom Howell and Becky Simpson.
• ESquared hires 5WPR
  NEW YORK: ESquared Hospitality, an international restaurant and hospitality group, has hired 5W Public Relations.
• Playmaker releases comms strategy mobile appli ...
  BETHESDA, MD: Playmaker Systems has launched a mobile app to provide guidance on communications strategy.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Jackpine Mine Expansion Project
  Organization:  Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency Initiative:  Shell Jackpine Mine Expansion Joint Review Panel ...
• Alberta Ecotrust now accepting Community Grant ...
  Deadline:  15 Oct 2012 (All day) Organization:  Alberta Ecotrust Is your nonprofit or charity wor ...
• Sixteen Years after Being “Protected,” Rumsey ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association Alberta Native Plant Council 11 Sep 2012 Sixteen years after it was officially “protected,” Rum ...
• Volunteer Opportunities with the Nature Conser ...
  Position:  Conservation volunteers Organization:  Nature Conservancy of Canada ...
• Stand up for Canada's National Parks
  Jasper Environmental Association CPAWS Northern Alberta 7 Sep 2012 - 12:00 - 16:00 In spite of recent announcements of new parks being cre ...

Stop NATO

• U.S. Inflames China-Japan Island Dispute With ...
  RT September 17, 2012 US wades into China-Japan island dispute with missile defense deal A territorial dispute between China and Japan could spark a “violent conflict,” US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said. The US also inked a missile defense deal with Tokyo likely to anger Beijing, while mass ...
• NATO Air Strike Kills Eight Afghan Females, Wo ...
  Xinhua News Agency September 16, 2012 Air strike kills 8 civilians, wounds 7 in Afghan’s Laghman province MEHTERLAM, Afghanistan: An air strike carried out by NATO-led troops in the eastern Laghman province 90 km east of capital city Kabul killed eight civilians and wounded seven others ea ...
• U.S. Navy, Allies Hold Largest-Ever War Games ...
  RT September 16, 2012 US to flex naval might in Persian Gulf war games The US Navy is leading its largest-ever war games in the Persian Gulf, with warships from 25 countries being deployed in the region. Tehran, in return, is preparing for its biggest air defense war game in the history of Islam ...
• Japan Is U.S. Pawn In Campaign To Encircle China
  China Daily September 15, 2012 Time for tough measures By Chu Zhaogen China should forget about forging Sino-Japanese economic integration and fight against Japan’s resurging militarism ==== Behind the farce of “buying” the Diaoyu Islands, Japan has a much bigger plan. Since th ...
• Globalization As Imperialism
  The News International September 14, 2012 Globalisation as imperialism Farooq Sulehria ==== The metropolitan West continues to hold exploitative sway over the peripheral rest. Here are some of the facts: Economic globalisation: There are 65,000 MNCs in the world, with 860,000 affiliates. Only 20 ...

Before It's News

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

Intel Hub

• Is DHS Preparing for False Flag Attack on Amer ...
  Susanne Posel | In Virginia and Indiana, Simon Property, owner of 393 properties worldwide, including the Town Center in Aurora, (the shopping mall located near the Century 16 Theater in Colorado) plans to partner with DHS and Janet Napolitano to participate in the See Something, Say Somet ...
• ‘The Building 7 Challenge’ with Bo ...
  theintelhub.com | Bob Tuskin hosts "The Building 7 Challenge".
• Radiation by RF in San Francisco
  theintelhub.com | Anthony J. Hilder and others talk about RF radiation in California. From cell phone towers to smart meter installations we are all being depopulated. Anthony Hilder and Dr. Ed Spencer will appear in the new film SHADE the Motion Picture.
• How to Correct the Course of America
  Sartre | Those cretins of complacency will not be concerned with civic activism or communal discourse. They are the end product of a controlled culture of mind manipulation and consumerism docility. They are robbing us blind.
• Release of SHADE Trailer #2 to Test Mettle of ...
  SHADE the Motion Picture | The films powerful presentation is intended to make global crime syndicate faultier, while testing their mettle to the fullest potential possible.

FRS

• South African Police Halt Peaceful Strikers&#8 ...
  September 16, 2012 SA police halt peaceful strikers’ march By DENIS FARRELL, Associated Press RUSTENBURG, South Africa (AP) — South African police halted a peaceful march by striking miners without violence Sunday, a day after firing rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse illegal proteste ...
• The Massacre at Sabra and Shatila, Thirty Year ...
  Counterpunch, Weekend Edition, September 16-18, 2012 A Never-Ending Horror Story by SONJA KARKAR It happened thirty years ago – 16 September 1982.  A massacre so awful that  people who know about it cannot forget it.  The photos are gruesome  reminders – charred, decapitated, indecently violated ...
• With the iPhone 5 come new accusations of Foxc ...
  September 16, 2012 The new iPhone 5 isn’t even on the shelves yet, and already Applehas seen its stock surge. The company, which became the world’s most valuable publicly listed company ever in August, said it expects to offload up to 33 million units this quarter. Analysts say supply constraint ...
• Economic and Political Weekly (India) on &#822 ...
  Vol – XLVII No. 38, September 22, 2012 With so many unfulfilled aspirations, the recent divide in the Maoist party in Nepal is depressing. Tremendous hope coupled with so many unfulfilled aspirations had drawn the Nepali people to the Maoists, but their dreams now seem to be in the process ...
• Economic and Political Weekly (India) on &#822 ...
  Vol – XLVII No. 38, September 22, 2012 With so many unfulfilled aspirations, the recent divide in the Maoist party in Nepal is depressing. Tremendous hope coupled with so many unfulfilled aspirations had drawn the Nepali people to the Maoists, but their dreams now seem to be in the process ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

• Meet The Original LOLCats [Vintage PopSci]
  This 1951 PopSci article offers a handy guide to photographing cats. I can haz clickclickclick? PopSci mastered the Internet-age art of photographing feline antics in 1951, just four millennia after the domestication of the cat and 83 years after the Kodak box camera went on sale. In this arti ...
• Today on Mars: Roving and Photo-Snapping
  Curiosity shoots some new photos after a long drive. Mars Rover Curiosity got a move on during its 38th sol hanging out on the red planet. After taking a few more self-portraits, and testing the robotic arm the rover will use to collect samples, it set off on one of its longest drives yet. Aft ...
• The Most Amazing Images of the Week, September ...
  A manmade batcave, icy transjovian volcanoes, arachnids eating Seattle, and the rest of the pictures that amazed us this week
• Images of the Week, September 10-14, 2012
• Video: Government Wizards Levitate Drugs With ...
  To create brand-new drugs, pharmaceutical researchers have turned to levitating them with blasts of ultrasonic sound. Good drugs dissolve easily in the body. Bad pharmaceutical molecules, meanwhile, lock themselves into hard-to-absorb crystals that require strong doses to work, and this overco ...

Veterans Today

• How Poor Leadership Threatens Israel
  - Is Netanyahu's Iran War Hype a National Security Threat to America
• James H. Fetzer: 9/11 IRAN REVIEW Interview
  According to Dr. Fetzer, George W. Bush and his administration officials were responsible for the atrocities which happened on September 11, 2001.
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
  SNCT dba SNC Manufacturing*, Orocovis, Puerto Rico, was awarded contract SPM1C1-12-D-1063.
• Background to Mossad Try at Egypt Civil War ov ...
  The deadly bombing of Alexandria church has shed more light on the long congested sectarian strife in Egypt. Nobody can deny that the Egyptian society has been showing symptoms of sectarianism based on religious friction between the two main religious groups in the country.
• Are Netanyahu and the Zionist lobby now a thre ...
  In her first response to the killing of the American ambassador and three others in Libya, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she had asked herself the question that many Americans were asking - how it could have happened?

War is Business

• State Lawmaker Accused Of Diverting Contract M ...
  Startling allegations against a conservative Oregon legislator who also runs a hot-zone aviation business and a military training range.
• “Surveillance Inc.”: Profit Makes ...
  Sell moral responsibility Sell moral responsibility • Read more at The Atlantic
• 2011 Not So Bad For U.S. Defense Contractors, ...
  Buy downturn insurance Buy downturn insurance • Read more at Govpro
• Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...
  Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
• Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...
  Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

• What Euro at $1.31 Says About Western Economies
  Not to my particular surprise--I too believe that the world should worry about the dollar and not the euro--the common currency went back up to $1.31 after the Federal Reserve announced QE3. Oh, the irony. Here we were supposing that old Europe had been left for dead, yet even this currency used ...
• The World's Best Central Bankers Don't Do QE3
  The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results - Albert Einstein Here in the rest of the world, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is regarded somewhere between a joke and a menace. It thus comes no surprise that the world's most infamous central b ...
• An Economic Case for Basque Independence?
  Visiting Madrid in the mid-Nineties, I remember Beretta submachine gun-toting police patrolling the streets with bomb-sniffing dogs in tow. At that time, of course, the Basque secessionists from ETA were still lodging terrorist threats against Spain. While ETA currently says it has a ceasefire i ...
• Roll Over Reagan: On Naming US EEZ After Ronnie
  Readers familiar with maritime disputes will of course know that the United States has not signed on to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) even now. While UNCLOS was introduced by the United Nations during the term of President Reagan, he was one of the leading voices against signi ...
• Jobless USA: Industry Training vs College Educ ...
  Ho hum, another month, another jobs disaster Stateside as less than 100,000 jobs were created --a pace which only prolongs what is already the most protracted recovery from job losses suffered from a recession. While the unemployment rate "dipped," this artifactual occurrence is largely down to ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Latest Issue of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed
  Despite rumors to the contrary, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed continues, as provocative and exciting as ever. We have decided to stick with...
• July 2012 Kate Sharpley Library bulletin (doub ...
  KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 70-71, July 2012 [Double issue] has just been posted on the site. July 2012 Kate Sharpley...
• Jurnal Kontinum (Indonesia) - Call For Papers
  Jurnal Kontinum, an Indonesian-based biannual anti-authoritarian journal, is seeking submissions around anti-authoritarian discourse and movemen...
• Break the Chains Blog Turns Six Years Old
  Since June 2006 to present day, the Break the Chains Blog (http://breakthechains.info) has published over 5,400 stories on government violence a...
• Fifth Estate, Summer 2012 issue, now available
  Greetings! The Summer Fifth Estate has been delivered to us by our printer and we are in the process of mailing subscriptions and shipping bulk ...

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

• Coca crop cultivation falling significantly in ...
  The cultivation of coca bushes in Bolivia decreased by around 12 per cent in 2011, according to a new survey released today by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
• Despite progress, Haiti facing challenges on j ...
  A United Nations human rights official today said that while Haiti shows encouraging signs of progress, it is still facing challenges such as justice reform and poverty, and called on the international community to support the country's long-term development.
• US must work to advance reconciliation with in ...
  The United States must adopt new measures to advance a reconciliation process with its indigenous peoples and address historical wrongs that have stopped them from fully realizing their rights, a United Nations independent expert said today.
• Top UN official urges Venezuela to reconsider ...
  A United Nations senior official today urged Venezuela to reconsider its decision to withdraw from the American Convention of Human rights, warning that doing so would represent a serious setback for human rights protection in the Latin American country and the region as a whole.
• UN expert calls on Honduras to step up efforts ...
  A United Nations independent expert today called on Honduras to increase its efforts to protect children from sexual exploitation, adding that the country still faces many challenges to ensure they are not victims of prostitution, pornography and abuse.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• Manmohan Singh responds to critics with symbol ...
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Will they have more than a symbolic effect?
• War on Journalists in India's Assam Region
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Authorities look on without taking action
• The humanitarian impact of climate change
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Nepal's bureaucracy holds up climate adaptation finance
• World Dares Another Food Crisis
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Climate change's effect grows worse
• India's New Pharma Wars
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Multinational drugmakers square off against the Indian government

We Know the Lies

• Obama and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett MUST Go
  Just because someone has the ability to do something, does not mean he or she should do it. We have two examples of such a situation before us at the moment: President Barack Obama and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett. read more
• DHS Orders More Snipper Ammunition
  .223 rifle ammo Surprise! The DHS Immigration and Customs Enforcement have requested more ammunition. However, it is the type of ammunition and not necessarily the quantity that is troubling. read more
• 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?”~ James Smith read more
• Woman Gives Birth To... A Horse?!?
  A woman purportedly gave birth to a foal (horse like) creature, otherwise known as a baby horse, on Tuesday, at the World Liberation Ministry, on the old Benin-Sapele road during the church’s prophecy programme.  read more
• What Are The Militarized Police Planning On Do ...
  Evidence the police state is gearing up for a lock-down pours in from citizen journalists and alternative media on an almost weekly basis. ~ Alexander Higgins - Photos read more

Tarpley

• Romney Campaign, CIA Mormon Mafia, John Bolton ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on Infowars Nightly News Infowars September 16, 2012 [download audio]
• October Surprise to Carterize Obama
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV September 15, 2012 In an attack designed to coincide with the protests, a Libyan death squad has assassinated the US ambassador to Libya and three of his associates. The US State Department has set up a crisis management center to monitor developments 24 hours a ...
• Bernanke’s Monetary Stimulus Helps Only ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV September 14, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
• Romney’s Top Aide Mike Leavitt Implicate ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on the Jeff Rense Program rense.com September 6, 2012 [download audio]
• Romney, Obama Plot Shredding of Social Safety ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV September 5, 2012 [download video] [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

• You Are Late To Prepping, Where To Start?
  You have recently decided that it’s in your best interest to become better prepared for disruption of your present way-of-life. The uncertainties in the geopolitical climate, the evident state of the ‘real’ economy, the gut feeling that you have… all combine together and ...
• Rumors Of War
  Can you feel it in the air? It feels like so many world events of late are leading to a crescendo of violence, chaos, or collapse. There are U.S. embassies being attacked around the world, with the latest tragic incident in Libya resulting in the death of the U.S. Ambassador and others. Israel s ...
• NOAA Weather Radio Channel List
  I have collected and compiled a list of data sourced from the National Weather Service, and have put together the following PDF file, a channel list of all the NOAA weather radio stations of the United States. It cross references the location (city, state), and channel number to set on your weat ...
• 12 Lifesaving Canning Rules
  When it’s that time of year to preserve your garden bounty, an excellent method of food preservation is ‘canning’. If done properly, it is entirely safe. However care and precaution are in order. Canning low acid food is the only preservation method that can be deadly, so with ...
• Do You Have A Water Plan?
  Here’s the thing about water that most of us already know… you can’t live long without it. In fact, ‘it’ will be your NUMBER ONE concern in any major disaster. As I’ve said before, I believe that many or most people who are actively involved in preparedness, o ...

Fast Company

• Joe Zee Makes Business Fashionable In "All On ...
  Elle creative director Joe Zee schools up-and-coming designers on how to run a successful business on season three of “All on the Line" and offers some guidelines here that transcend the fashion game.
• Everyone's Doubling Down On Photos Yet Again-- ...
  Google, Shutterfly, and Canon remind us today that there's gold in the overcrowded social photo industry. Google has agreed to acquire the German Nik Software, the company behind the cult photo-editing app Snapseed that took Apple's iPad App of the Year honor in 2011. The Verge reports that t ...
• Infographic: A Poetic Tribute To America's Bas ...
  What if a baseball stadium’s foul lines reached out into infinity? The nation might look a lot like this.
• Could A Redesign Really Rescue USA Today?
  With the help of Wolff Olins, USA Today makes its newspaper more like the web, while the website is more like an iPad app.
• Beneath The Surface, Windows President Steven ...
  September's been a busy month for product announcements: Apple, Nokia, HP, Motorola, and Amazon have all unveiled new smartphones or tablets. And HTC, Lenovo, and other hardware makers will introduce even more new gadgets in the coming weeks. But no matter how many devices flood the market th ...

Jadaliyya

• Sabra and Shatila . . . Thirty Years Later
      " لا يتبخر الدم بل يغوص في الأرض" "Blood does not evaporate. It sinks into the earth."                                               &nbsp ...
• Materialist Analysis in the Service of a Natio ...
  [This article was written as a response to a recently published two-part interview with Tariq Tell on the history of state formation in Jordan and regime-society relations in the context of the Arab uprisings. Click here to read Tariq Tell's rejoinder to this response.] Political agitation and ...
• A Rejoinder to the Response of Lama Abu Odeh: ...
  [This article was written as a rejoinder to Lama Abu Odeh's  response to the author's interview on the history of state formation in Jordan and regime-society relations in the context of the Arab uprisings. Click here to read Lama Abu Odeh's response, and click here to read the origi ...
• Notes on Inequalities in Autism Activism and C ...
  “Autistic,” “Crazy,” and Other Conflicting Categories We typically think of autism activism as awareness raising or political lobbying. These are no doubt important aspects of it, and my Moroccan friends spend much time engaged in such work. But more than anything, autism activism in Morocco is ...
• Egypt Media Roundup (September 17)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sund ...

mediagazer

• Stewart, O'Reilly to face off next month at GW ...
  Sarah Ferris / The GW Hatchet: Stewart, O'Reilly to face off next month at GW  —  Days after the nation lurches into presidential debate season, political commentators Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly will spar off at GW.  —  O'Reilly, a Fox News host, will face Com ...
• The Fight to Save The Times-Picayune (Kevin Al ...
  Kevin Allman / News, Gambit: The Fight to Save The Times-Picayune  —  There are things in your life, rightly or wrongly, you think are never going to change," says Rebecca Theim, a former Times-Picayune reporter now living in Las Vegas. “  When I come back to New Orle ...
• Exclusive: News of the World 'ordered burglary ...
  Martin Hickman / The Independent: Exclusive: News of the World ‘ordered burglary’  —  Detectives have evidence which suggests that a notorious private detective agency carried out a burglary while working for the News of the World.  In the latest twist to the ph ...
• Village Voice Appoints a Music Editor (Benjami ...
  Benjamin Sisario / Media Decoder: Village Voice Appoints a Music Editor  —  The Village Voice has named a new music editor, three days after it emerged that the weekly's editor was departing and its music editor had been fired.  —  According to a post on The Voic ...
• 'Daily News' touts gains with new national web ...
  Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: ‘Daily News’ touts gains with new national website  —  The Daily News' bid to reposition its website as a nationally-facing product appears to be paying off.  —  Since redesigning and relaunching its homepage as “D ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

• Ganeshotsav 2012: Night curbs on Pune tra ...
  The Pune police is planning to ban vehicles at night on roads in downtown parts of the city throughout the Ganesh festival. Police commissioner Gulabrao Pol said formal orders in this regard will be issued in a couple of days. Every year, these curbs on vehicles are imposed after...
• Champions League: Mourinho and Mancini re ...
  Roberto Mancini has done his best to play it all down. "This game is not Mourinho-Mancini or Mancini-Mourinho. This game is Real Madrid-Manchester City," was his response to a recent question. And yet in a Champions League tie filled with sub-plots and side stories, there is a fasc ...
• Sir Alex Ferguson hopes Powell can fill S ...
  The 18-year-old summer arrival from Crewe scored on his competitive debut for the club against Wigan on Saturday and is being backed for big things by his manager...
• Playing by the RULES
  The sports quota has turned into just an entry route for better educational institutions rather than an opportunity to enhance the sporting skills and take the sporting career ahead. The attitude is more unprofessional in the professional courses like engineering and medicine where seats are ...
• Consumer Reports on vitamin supplements
  Consumer Reports recently identified hazards that might surprise the large swath of American adults - more than 50 percent - who take vitamins, herbs or other nutritional supplements. The list of hazards was distilled from interviews with experts, published research and CR's own analysis of ...

no frakking consensus

• Intermission (And Why Bill McKibben is an Utte ...
  This blog will return in mid-September. In the meantime, here’s a video of a presentation I gave in Australia last month – and some thoughts on the bankruptcy of contemporary green analysis.
• Green Death Threats: ‘Change or Die’
  The key message of today's environmentalists is: Accept our worldview, submit to our solutions - or else. This is, let us be blunt, a death threat. It is the voice of an extortionist.
• US Official: ‘Activate Your Science’
  A senior public servant thinks scientists should be passionate, engaged activists.
• Delusions Down Under
  Concerned about climate change, coral reef experts say they can predict the future with startling precision.
• The WWF’s Supermarket Offensive
  The World Wildlife Fund is reaching into new corners of your life.

Anna's News

• Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
  Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
• 10 Best British Open Performances
  Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
• Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...
  For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |& ...
• South Sudan becomes an independent nation
  South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
• Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
  Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...

Medical Marijuana

• 9/14/12 - Should college football replace the ...
  collegefootball.procon.org - Should college football replace the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) with a playoff system? - The top pro and con quotes have been updated with a poll showing fan opinion on the four-team playoff and a quote from ESPN columnist Gene Wojciechowsk ...
• 9/14/12 - Paul Ryan
  2012election.procon.org - Paul Ryan, the Republican Party's official nominee for US vice-president, now has his pro and con positions on our issues available at 2012 Election ProCon.org.
• 9/14/12 - Joe Biden
  2012election.procon.org - Joe Biden, the Democratic Party's official nominee for US vice-president, now has his pro and con positions on our issues available at 2012 Election ProCon.org.
• 9/12/12 - 41 Federal Capital Offenses
  deathpenalty.procon.org  - 41 Federal Capital Offenses – See all 41 federal capital offenses from espionage to murder by use of a weapon of mass destruction. Links to full text of the codes also provided.
• 9/12/12 - State Death Penalty Laws
  deathpenalty.procon.org 09/12/12 - State Death Penalty Laws, Get the legal status, a brief state history, and links to state laws for the death penalty in all 34 states where the death penalty is legal and the 16 states and DC where capital punishment is illegal. Also highlighted are states ...

Truth About Our World

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

Gyrovague's Raves

• V. Bush
  Vannevar Bush This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. No ...
• The Killing of the Liberal Arts
  JOSEPH EPSTEIN In a loose definition, the “liberal arts” denote college study anchored in preponderantly Western literature, philosophy, and history, with science, mathematics, and foreign languages playing a substantial, though less central, role; in more recent times, the social science subjec ...
• Tyrants and Art
  Culture thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray. "In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin ...
• Barthes in China
  Adrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...
• Tokyo’s Katsumi
  Japan’s most volatile politician is making a splash in the South China Sea — and the Chinese are beating the drums of war. MARK MACKINNON "I do what I do because I want to," Shintaro Ishihara wrote in his 1956 novel The Punishment Room. "Do what you please, and sooner or ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

• Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
  SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
• Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
  WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
• How sex hormones influence right heart function
  WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...
• Karnataka crisis: High Court to decide rebel M ...
  BANGALORE - The Karnataka High Court will hear the petition of eleven BJP rebel MLAs after a division bench gave a split verdict on it on October 18. The rebel MLAs were disqualified by Speaker KG Bopaiah a under the provision of the anti-defection law on October 10. The two-judges bench on ...
• Fans garner signatures in support of Kings XI ...
  CHANDIGARH - Dejected over the ouster of Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) from the Indian Premier League (IPL), fans of the team here have started a signature campaign to garner public support against the decision. They have constituted a group called Fans of Kings XI Punjab, consisting of students and ...

TruthNews Australia

• Interview with Syrian Girl - Part 1
  My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is activist and vlogger Mimi Al-Laham, better known as "Syrian Girl" on youtube. Mimi has been posting videos for some time highlighting the deceptions in the mainstream media coverage of the Syrian conflict. Our conversation ranges from questions about ...
• International news and analysis with George Ge ...
  Today's show covers a variety of both local and international news with our in-studio guest Georgios. Some of the topics covered include developments in the Assange stand-off in London, and a final ruling in the protracted civil lawsuit over the death in Gaza of activist Rachel Corrie. We al ...
• Public grief over deaths of 5 Australian soldi ...
  5 Australian soldiers killed and the media/government oligarchy are engaging in a paroxysm of fake grief - really just a form of propaganda. Obama kills dozens of innocents in drone attacks every week and the media doesn't give a rat's backside. They talk about "rogue attacks" as if this is ...
• Group discussion on free speech, Wikileaks and ...
  Today's show is cram packed with discussion, analysis and interviews. In the first hour we have a four way discussion between the host, Hereward Fenton, Leon Pittard of Fair Dinkum radio and regulars John Bursill and Josh Jackson. The topic of our discussion is the current stand-off between ...
• Julian Assange in the crosshairs - Part 1
  Today's show focuses on the stand-off between Julian Assange and the British government. The news about his acceptance by Ecuador had not yet broken as we went to air. We also take a look at the science-fiction level totalitarian surveillance system known as "TrapWire", amid speculation that t ...

Beacon

• The Hidden World of the Pacific Seafloor
  In this gorgeous new Oceana video Alexandra Cousteau delves into Monterey Bay to illuminate the diversity of life at the bottom of the ocean, a crucial habitat that is under the constant threat of obliteration from bottom trawling. Using an ROV the camera captures an otherworldly scene, as scall ...
• Ice Floes Freeze Arctic Drilling
  The Arctic Sea is a forbidding place to drill for oil ©Wikimedia Commons After just one day of drilling in the Arctic, ice floes forced Shell to halt its operations in the Chukchi Sea. The problems point to the inherent danger in drilling for oil in such an unforgiving landscape. While oil sp ...
• EU Set to Vote on Shark Finning Ban
  Oceana/LX The European Parliament Is set to vote next week on a complete ban of shark finning for the EU fishing fleet. EU fishermen currently span the globe fishing for sharks, from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, to the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean, ranking second in shark catch glob ...
• Infographic: Leaping Sharks
  We found an amazing set of infographics provided by the people at Project AWARE, an underwater conservation group founded by SCUBA divers. Turns out shortfin makos have unbelievable aerial skills, matched only by the sperm whale's ability to plumb the depths. Check out the whole set on Pinterest ...
• Hungry Sea Otters Fight Climate Change
  Humans have an unlikely ally in the fight against global warming: sea otters. According to a new study out of the University of California Santa Cruz, the playful, foraging mammals play a vital role in managing kelp forests, which in turn are capable of absorbing large amounts of carbon dioxi ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• In 2005…A Comparison Of Gun Crime In The ...
    In 2005, in the United States, there were 16,740 homicides. So in 2005, every day, 46 people were killed by another person in the United States. That means that roughly every half hour, someone killed someone else.   In 2005, of the 16,740 homicides in the United States, 10,158 were ...
• The Death Match. The Widely Told Story Of An E ...
    This is one of the strangest tales ever to come out of World War II, not because it might be true, but because it probably isn’t. We all know that soccer is the number one sport played around the world and that Europeans watch soccer with a fanatical dedication we see hear only to [...]
• Three Important Independent Small Technology C ...
  InXitu InXitu is a company out of California that uses X-ray beams to identify materials. This will be part of the Curiosity Rover’s Materials Lab. Honeybee Robotics Founded by 1983 by Stephen Gorevan and Chris Chapman, the Manhattan-based Honeybee Robotics the sample manipulations system and a ...
• The German Master Spy Who Saved Gibraltar
  October 1935, Hitler marched into the Sudetenland and took 11,000 square miles of land from Czechoslovakia and added it back into German borders. People, 80% of who were German speakers or German nationals, of course occupied the Sudetenland. The rest of the 800,000 who lived there were turned i ...
• Piles Of Dead. Why The Importance Of Photograp ...
      These Photos were taken by a variety of news photographers and Army photographers, and I found most of them on theatlantic.com. They are not to be missed. Ever since Matthew Brady brought home to the American people the real horror of war with graphic black and white film to a New ...

Taylor Marsh

• Obama Campaign Responds to Secret Romney Video ...
  “It’s shocking that a candidate for President of the United States would go behind closed doors and declare to a group of wealthy donors that half the American people view themselves as ‘victims,’ entitled to handouts, and are unwilling to take ‘personal responsibility’ for their lives. It ...
• Top Story: Obama Administration Challenges Chi ...
  President Barack Obama on Monday said the United States was challenging Chinese auto and auto-parts subsidies that threatened American jobs as he campaigned in Ohio, an auto manufacturing state that could be decisive in the November presidential election. [...] “These are subsidies that di ...
• Rutgers: Women Break Records in 2012 Candidacies
  WE LOVE WOMEN!   Will Ann Romney ever live that one down? We especially love those brave female souls who are running for office this year. The latest study by Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics, Center for American Women and Politics, the press release on the news. WOMEN SURPASS HOUSE, SENA ...
• Replacement Refs, Really?
  IT’S HARD to imagine pro football looking worse, but the complaints about the replacement referees have become deafening. I grew up an avid football fan who never missed a Cardinal football (though baseball was my sport). The Washington Post‘s Tracee Hamilton takes down the NFL and t ...
• News Desk: National Zoo has New Baby Panda!
  THE GIANT PANDA Mei Xiang has given birth. It’s very big news around the Washington Beltway. From the Washington Post: The National Zoo’s female giant panda gave birth to a cub Sunday night, stunning and delighting zoo officials and sparking a new wave of panda mania in Washington seven ye ...

Hudson New York

• Mob Rule Replaces Rule of Law
  The ordeal of Rimsha Masih, a Pakistani Christian arrested on charges of blasphemy, is far from over. In Pakistan, an allegation of blasphemy can be enough to result in the accused being killed even in the absence of a trial or evidence. Masih, age
• The U.S. Dead Horse
  "When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature, they will like the strong horse," Osama Bin Laden famously said. The deceased mass murderer had a point, even if it wasn't a very original one. Sentimentalists may admire the horse that lets
• A "Palestinian Spring": A Renewed Fatah Bid to ...
  It is no secret that Fatah has long been trying to get rid of Fayyad who, its representatives argue, had been imposed on the Palestinians by the Americans and Europeans. Abbas and Fatah have been trying for years to replace Fayyad with one of their own
• How Not to Frame an Election Narrative
  How does the political left win so many arguments? More than any other cause, it seems to be that the political right ends up time and again fighting on terrain which has been set out for them to lose on. Take two recent examples, one from the US and one
• All the Islamophobia You Can Shake a Stick At
  Most Americans were introduced to the term "Islamophobia" after the Muslim massacre of thousands of people had played out in their streets, their cities and on their television screens. Just when Americans had good reason to fear Islam, they were

Urban Survival

• How Fars is Down?
  The NY Fed Empire Manufacturing report came out this morning and we notice that it was down 10.41 while only a more modest read of minus 2 was expected.  In the big scheme of things this is not the end … Continue reading →
• Coping: With 2012 World-Endings
  Has a good email from a reader named Jeana who has been following our discussion of Patrick Geryl’s earthquake expectations (later this week is the next target date).  She write: “George:   Wanted to touch base with an interesting find.  The … Continue readi ...
• 7.44% ANNUALIZED: Inflation Shows Up
  You can’t just print money hand over fist (more on that in a sec) and expect prices will sit on their ass and not go anywhere.  So, here’s a good bit of evidence that argues for a hyperinflationary blow-off now … Continue reading →
• Coping: A Call from the PTB?
  Not sure whether he is or isn’t but a third-party reality check of my latest long conversation with the fellow says he’s right on.  So that’s up on the Peoplenomics site Saturday. But the reason I wanted to mention this … Continue reading →
• “Arab Spring” Failed Framework & B ...
  Countdown to the 25th….will history rhyme? I am as sad as any American with the death of the US Ambassador to Libya this week.  And even more so because this morning we are seeing huge angry crowds in Egypt which … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• Top Iranian General Warns : "Nothing Will Rema ...
  Israel's prime minister has said the policy of... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake on Coast to C ...
  George Knapp was joined by former senior... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• The Real Reason the Middle East is Rioting
  Americans have the right to fight back against... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• 2012 The Year of The Great Euro Crash
  The world have NEVER seen a crisis like this!... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• World War 3 Predictions - Siener van Rensburg ...
  Prophecies aimed at the second term of Obama talk... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

• Los Angeles lags in female bicycle riders
  Kristin Eberhard, Legal Director, Western Energy and Climate Projects, Santa Monica Last week I attended the National Women’s Bike Summit, where speaker Cathy DeLuca shared her research on women’s participation in the political processes ...
• Sports 1, Waste Zero: Tackling Trash at Stadiu ...
  Darby Hoover, Senior Resource Specialist, San Francisco When I was an undergraduate at Stanford University, I worked at the then-student-run campus recycling center. There, I had multiple opportunities to observe people engaging in the act of discon ...
• Clean Energy Finance 3.0 - The Rise of the Sta ...
  Doug Sims, Energy Project Finance Specialist, New York Clean energy finance banks or “Green Banks” are shaping up to be the latest in clean energy finance technology, as convincingly set out in a report issued last week by the Brookings- ...
• Big Business and Big Box Go Solar
  Noah Long, Legal Director, Western Energy Project, Energy & Transportation Program; and Clean Energy Counsel, Land & Wildlife Program, San Francisco A recent report shows that some of America’s best-known companies are installing solar panels ...
• Latest news regarding health and water issues ...
  Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. It's been a while since I've blogged, and a lot of new information about fracking and its risks has surfaced during that time. I can't blog about it all to the extent it really deserve ...

Injustice Everywhere

• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, September 14, 2012: Highland Heights, Kentucky: The former police chief pleaded guilty to two felony counts in federal court. He admitted to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft by … Continue reading →National Polic ...
• Speeding to the 2d Job
  Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames.Speeding to the 2d Job is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 8 stories of Police Misconduct Tracked for Thursday, September 13, 2012: Pinellas Park, Florida: The man shot by a Florida Highway Patrol trooper Monday morning at a cemetery was the cemetery’s owner. He is a Tampa man … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct ...
• Government Installs Cameras to Monitor Speed C ...
  From the Washington Post: This is 100 percent “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” crazy. But true. It has to be true: My brain is not sophisticated enough to create something so meta and surreal from scratch. WTOP’S Ari Ashe … Continue reading →Government Instal ...
• No Time to Consider Elderly Lady’s Medical Con ...
  From ABC News: A Texas police department is defending an officer who is seen on a dashcam video pulling a 77-year-old woman out of her car during a traffic stop. Sgt. Gene Geheb, an officer from the Keene Police Department, … Continue reading →No Time to Consider Elderly Lady’s ...

Total Collapse

• China Warns World War III Being Planned To Ous ...
  A new report prepared by the Foreign Military Intelligence Main Directorate (GRU) of the General Staff of the Armed Forces for President Putin is warning today that the mysterious 5-day visit by Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie to India this past week (the first such visit to India by a h ...
• US And Britain Send Warships To The Persian Gu ...
  An armada of US and British naval power is massing in the Persian Gulf in the belief that Israel is considering a pre-emptive strike against Iran’s covert nuclear weapons programme. Battleships, aircraft carriers, minesweepers and submarines from 25 nations are converging on the strategically im ...
• Anti-JAPAN demonstrations expanded to about 50 ...
  Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has called on China to ensure the safety of Japanese people and businesses amid reports of vandalism in an intensifying territorial row between the two nations. Chinese state media reported on Saturday that angry demonstrators attempted to storm the Japanese embassy ...
• Scientists Predict That Food Riots Will Grip T ...
  A few years ago, Sir John Beddington, the UK government’s chief scientific advisor stated that with the world’s population growing, food supplies diminishing, and water supplies becoming more scarce, all of these factors would combine to form a ‘perfect storm’ in 2030 resulting in food shortages ...
• Chinese protesters storm Japanese embassy in B ...
  Anti-Japan protests have broken out across China, with thousands of people mobbing the Japanese embassy in Beijing. Tensions between the two countries have risen over a disputed chain of islands in the East China Sea. Thousands of protesters hurled rocks and bottles at the Japanese embassy in Be ...

Daily Dose

• TNW’s Daily Dose – iPhone 5 sees 2 million pre ...
  Apple’s iPhone 5 is predictably selling like hotcakes, Square closes its Series D funding round, and a report suggests that Samsung’s next flaship smartphone will emerge smack bang in the...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – Apple events, p ...
  Apple, Apple and a bit more Apple as well as patent wars and a sex party. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – Apple’s website produ ...
  Apple appears to have leaked details of what it will announce later today – via its own website search feature, and Mark Zuckerberg says what we were all thinking about...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – Nokia’s big Windows P ...
  Nokia unveils its first Windows Phone 8 handsets, the FBI says it hasn’t suffered a UDID data breach, and Twitter launches a new widget to allow your to embed a...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – Antisec leaks Apple IDs, Th ...
  Antisec leaks over a million Apple device IDs, The White House launches new Web, iOS and Android apps and Valve heads into the hardware business. It’s all in today’s Daily...

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Paid Contractor Position: Development and Rela ...
  Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) is a community and volunteer-based climate and renewable energy think-tank. A small team of contracted coordinators enable hundreds of volunteers to actively engage and deliver Beyond Zero Emissions' objective of moving Australia from a 19th century fossil fuel-based ...
• Adelaide, SA: Repowering Port Augusta, Rally f ...
  When: SUNDAY September 30th Time: 1.pm Location: Rundle Park, Adelaide (next to Rymill Park opposite the corner of East/North tce) Want help to make SA the solar state? We know we need to move away from ancient fossil fuel technology, to clean renewable energy – now is our chance! Port August ...
• Trigeneration: Sydney's white elephant
  Matt Wright The City of Sydney is comparing apples with oranges when it promotes its Trigeneration Master Plan (designed in partnership with Origin Energy and subsidiary Cogent Energy) as cleaner than burning coal in centralised power plants. Beyond Zero Emissions’ fundamental criticism of the ...
• Gas industry in denial over carbon emissions
  MEDIA RELEASE 4th September 2012 Industry talk of developing an industry in “low emissions” coal-seam gas is a fantasy, according to renewable energy and climate think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE). Yesterday, the Committee for Economic Development Australia (CEDA) released their  Austra ...
• Clouding a bright solar thermal future
  The July 31 Australian Energy Technology Assessment from the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics has been hailed by the government, and renewable energy advocates, as a step forward for Australia’s ‘clean energy future’. It is true that the estimates in the AETA are an improvement over t ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Urban sprawl could doom some biodiversity hots ...
  Projected urban expansion could consume hundreds of thousands of hectares' worth of key biodiversity hotspots over the next twenty years, triggering the release of some 5 billion tons of carbon dioxide from direct land use change and further endangering hundreds of species, warns a new study pub ...
• Turtle knowledge in Africa shows significant gaps
  Sometimes turtles fall through the cracks: a new study in the open access journal Tropical Conservation Science, has uncovered a number of 'gap species' in the turtle families inhabiting Africa. 'Gap species' are those that are recorded in one country or another, but not in adjacent countries wh ...
• Bushmeat consumption differs between communiti ...
  Bushmeat consumption depends on the make-up of individual communities, according to a new study in the open access journal Tropical Conservation Science. By interviewing indigenous groups and refugees living near two protected areas in western Tanzania, researchers found that consumption rates d ...
• Wax palm can be sustainably harvested
  The wax palm can be harvested sustainably with just a few management restrictions, according to a new study in mongabay.com's open access journal Tropical Conservation Science (TCS). Found only in the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Andes, the leaves of the wax palm (Ceroxylon echinulatum) are used to m ...
• Rare birds abound in Brazil's Acre state
  The Brazilian state of Acre has had little attention by bird-lovers and bird scientists, though it lies deep in the Amazonian rainforest. Now a new survey in mongabay.com's open access journal Tropical Conservation Science by ornithologist, John J. DeLuca, works to build a better picture of rare ...

Sierra Express

• Multiple Grammy Award winner Stephen Marley ki ...
  The eighteen city tour which began Friday at the Jomeokee Festival in Pinnacle, North Carolina includes performance dates in Aspen, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia to name a few,  will make a stop at Irving Plaza in New York City on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 for an early show ...
• Vacancy Announcement – Finance Officer
  Living Water International (LWI) is a global non-governmental organization that exists to demonstrate the love of God by helping communities acquire desperately needed clean water, and to experience “living water”—the gospel of Jesus Christ—which alone satisfies the deepest thirst. L ...
• 5th Anniversary Celebration Speech
  On this day, five years ago on 17th September 2007, your collective will made me President of our beloved country, Sierra Leone. I took an oath to deliver on my campaign promise of bringing change. Five years later the change I promised has come and it is clearly changing our beloved country. It ...
• ACC storms Mofombo community in Moyamba district
  One of the key approaches employed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is proactive intervention in communities, ministries, departments and agencies. It was on this note that the Southern Regional Office on Friday 14th.September 2012 proactively engaged the Mofombo Community and its environ ...
• AfDB President Emphasizes Guinea’s Potential i ...
  The President of the African Development Bank arrived in Conakry on Saturday CONAKRY, Guinea, September 17, 2012/ – The President of the African Development Bank (http://www.afdb.org), Donald Kaberuka, arrived in Conakry on Saturday, as part of his official tour of West Africa. The goal of ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• What's really in our milk? The added ingredien ...
  Dairy giants are coming under increasing pressure to reveal how much of a controversial "snot-like" byproduct they put in their milk.Fonterra and Goodman Fielder, which dominate the country's milk market, put permeate in their milk...
• Meet Fonterra's big cheese
  Surprisingly little is known about Fonterra's chief executive, Theo Spierings, considering he holds down New Zealand's top corporate job.Like his predecessor, Andrew Ferrier, he isn't much of one for the corporate limelight.But...
• Co-op's TAF scheme on track to start this year
  The Government has postponed the share market float for Mighty River Power, but the other big equity event - Fonterra's trading among farmers (TAF) scheme - is on track for introduction before year's end, says Fonterra chief executive...
• Fonterra NZ Dairies purchase approved
  The Commerce Commission said it had cleared Fonterra to acquire the dairy processing assets of New Zealand Dairies, which is in receivership.NZ Dairies processes raw milk at its Studholme factory near Waimate, in the South Island.The...
• Dairy prices recovering from slump - Fonterra
  Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings says the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction shows that the market is recovering after prices slumped in May and June.Spierings, commenting on the 6 per cent lift in prices at the latest GlobalDairyTrade...

Hit & Run | Reason

• Mitt Romney vs. the 47 Percent
  In which Mitt Romney complains about all those people who don't pay income taxes and who "believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That's an entitlement." Via Mother Jones, ...
• Jerry Brown Signs "Good Samaritan" Bill for Th ...
  Great news via an emailed press release from the Drug Policy Alliance, not yet online that I could find: Today, California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation seeking to reduce the number of preventable deaths resulting from accidental drug overdoses. The passage of Assemblymem ...
• Gary Johnson Speaks at Civil Rights Event In P ...
  PHILADELPHIA—Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson made a brief appeal Monday to a handful of people attending a civil rights event sponsored by the National Union of American Families at Independence Square in the heart of Philadelphia. The former New Mexico governor delive ...
• A Conservative Who Supports Gay Marriage Is St ...
  As GOP Rep. Paul Ryan prepares for his debate against incumbent Vice President Joe Biden (sneak preview: the answer to every question is “Osama is dead, and GM is alive!”), he is receiving some coaching from conservative/libertarian lawyer Ted Olson. Olson is “playing” Biden in the ...
• The Department of Justice Filed an Emergency A ...
  Last Thursday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an emergency appeal of U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest's permanent block on section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which may allow for indefinite detainment of American citizens ...

Mercury Rising

• Government? We don’t need no stinking go ...
  Via Ritholtz, an article by Dean Kuipers, LAT: One of the holy grails of solar cell technology may have been found, with researchers at UCLA announcing they have created a new organic polymer that produces electricity, is nearly transparent and is more durable and malleable than silicon. The app ...
• Government? We don’t need no stinking go ...
  Via Ritholtz, the latest insanity on privatization of public functions from Jessica Silver-Greenberg, NYT: The letters are sent by the thousands to people across the country who have written bad checks, threatening them with jail if they do not pay up. They bear the seal and signature of the loc ...
• Goodhue And Hubbard Join List Of Minnesota Cou ...
  Add Goodhue and Hubbard Counties to the list of Minnesota counties whose elections officials are worried sick about the cost and the effects of the Photo ID amendment the state GOP shoved onto the November ballot. From Goodhue County, via the Red Wing Republican Eagle — and emphases are mi ...
• Hey, Microsoft! Your Machines Wouldn’t S ...
  A few days ago we reminded Apple that they wouldn’t have to worry about certain things (such as standing helplessly by while Chinese firms cranked out clones of iPhone 5s before the iPhone 5s themselves were released) if they actually made their products here in the US. Now it’s Micr ...
• The abuse of the passive: US State Dept. on Ho ...
  Maria Otero, Undersecretary, US State Dept: Since taking office, President Lobo has demonstrated his commitment to human rights…. … The Special Victims Task Force, with the support of the U.S. government, aims to break the cycle of impunity against vulnerable groups, including journa ...

Reality Sandwich

• Sharing is Caring
  With a dwindling economy at hand, we’re now experiencing the last gasps of the gradual death of a once hyper-consumerist society. The question remains: what do we do with the piles of unused, unwanted, or unneeded stuff we’ve managed to accumulate without simply contributing to the world’s ama ...
• Re-Occupation 2.0
  What do we do next?  The question for revolutionaries in North America is to figure out how to activate the anaesthetized. But why are we anaesthetized? read more
• Dynasty Electric Hits the Road
  After just arriving home from a series of performances at Burning Man, Dynasty Electric is hitting the road and bringing their energetic live performance to a city near you. read more
• Sex in the News
    Naomi Wolf and the neuroscience behind female orgasm, Cindy Gallop's real sex campaign, number of sex partners, what fatherhood looks like, and more in this week's sex in the news.   read more
• Autumn Ascension: Uranus-Pluto PT. 2 + Equinox ...
  Join Adam Elenbaas and guest astrologers VerDarLuz, Eric Meyers, Erin Sullivan, and Ari Moshe Wolfe for the live interactive video course, "Galactic Alignments: Charting the Soul's Journey through Astrology." This Evolver Intensive starts on Sunday, September 16.  read more

Desertification

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

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Press TV - Middle East

• Syria needs a Syrian solution, Iran says
  Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has once again expressed opposition to foreign intervention in Syria and has called for a peaceful ‘Syrian solution’ to the crisis.
• Police clash with protesters in Hatay
  Turkish police in the southern province of Hatay have clashed with protesters who held a demonstration to censure Ankara for its support of armed groups fighting the Syrian government.
• US deploys 50 troops in Yemeni capital
  The Yemeni government says the United States has deployed 50 Marines in Sana’a to boost security at the US Embassy in response to the recent violent upheavals over an anti-Islam movie.
• Another day of rage across Muslim Asia
  Hundreds of thousands of Muslims have held demonstrations across Asia to condemn a recent film that disrespected Islam and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
• Turkey heightens Syria border presence
  Turkey has sent more military supplies to the southeastern province of Mardin, near the Syrian border, as Ankara continues to strengthen its military presence in the area.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

• Obama Appeals Court Ruling That Strikes Down I ...
  On Wednesday, New York federal judge Katherine Forrest issued a ruling which blocked provisions of the NDAA that could have seen American citizens kidnapped and held indefinitely without charge. In “permanently” halting the enforcement of the law, Forrest noted how the plaintiffs presented “evi ...
• Obama Appeals Court Ruling That Strikes Down I ...
  On Wednesday, New York federal judge Katherine Forrest issued a ruling which blocked provisions of the NDAA that could have seen American citizens kidnapped and held indefinitely without charge. In “permanently” halting the enforcement of the law, Forrest noted how the plaintiffs presented “evi ...
• US and China Caught Secretly Testing GMO Rice ...
  Instead of putting genetically modified foods through proper trials as consumers have been demanding for years, it appears the United States Department of Agriculture in alliance with the Chinese government have instead chosen to secretly test their latest GMO rice on young Chinese children. Wha ...
• US and China Caught Secretly Testing GMO Rice ...
  Instead of putting genetically modified foods through proper trials as consumers have been demanding for years, it appears the United States Department of Agriculture in alliance with the Chinese government have instead chosen to secretly test their latest GMO rice on young Chinese children. Wha ...
• Was U.S. Ambassador Lynched?
  Despite initial reports suggesting he died in a rocket attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, photos appear to indicate that U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was killed by a lynch mob, illustrating the disastrous consequences of the Obama administration’s military intervention in Libya ...

Wayne Madsen

• September 18-19, 2012 -- Micro-blogging from China
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• September 13-16, 2012 -- OFF-TOPIC EXTENDED WE ...

• IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Deeper CO2 Cuts Needed to Save Corals
    Limiting climate change to two degrees C won’t save most coral reefs, according to new, state-of-the-art research. About 70 percent of corals are projected to suffer from long-term degradation by 2030 with two degrees C of warming, the first comprehensive global survey reported Sunday in t ...
  • Taking Justice to the Neighbourhoods in Argentina
    The Argentine government has opened legal aid centres in slum neighbourhoods, to provide a range of services, from assistance for immigrants and victims of domestic violence to dental care services. “Many of the situations can be solved by picking up the telephone,” said Ariel Pereira, coordinat ...
  • Companies Calculate Their Debt to Planet Earth
    Since the Industrial Revolution, companies have continued to operate without putting a value on natural resources.
  • Amid Tension in Islamic World, U.N. Chief Plea ...
    Amidst growing political tensions in the Islamic world over a video caricature of the Prophet Muhammad originating in the United States, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is making an “urgent “plea for political harmony worldwide. Decrying the rising toll of civilian deaths in Syria, the killin ...
  • U.S.-Egyptian Ties Appear to Survive Crisis
    While Tuesday’s killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other U.S. officials in Benghazi dominated the headlines here last week, the larger concern for most foreign policy experts here was focused on neighbouring Egypt and specifically how the government of President Mohamed Mors ...

  My AntiWar

  • Anti-Islam Film: Thousands Protest Around Musl ...
  • US Will Go to War With Iran in 2013, Says Ex-U ...
  • US Diplomats in Beirut Burning Classified Material
  • Audacious Raid on NATO Base Shows Taliban&#821 ...
  • Syrian Jets Hit Lebanese Territory Near Border

  CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • US to flex naval might in Persian Gulf war games
    Summary: The US Navy is leading its largest-ever war games in the Persian Gulf, with warships from 25 countries being deployed in the region. Tehran, in return, is preparing for its biggest air defense war game in the history of Islamic Republic next month. source: RTread more
  • Print Iran Never Compromises its National Sec ...
    Summary: The Iranian ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says Iran is ready to cooperate with the agency as long as the Islamic Republic’s national security is not compromised. source: Iran Reviewread more
  • History repeated: Why Iran sanctions will back ...
    Summary: Iranian people are actually more “hardline” regarding their nuclear program than the Iranian regime itself. While Iranian government officials go to great lengths to deny any intention to make nuclear weapons and have repeatedly offered to accept additional restrictions on the nuclea ...
  • US media angrily marvels at the lack of Muslim ...
    Summary: One prominent strain shaping American reaction to the protests in the Muslim world is bafflement, and even anger, that those Muslims are not more grateful to the US. After all, goes this thinking, the US bestowed them with the gifts of freedom and democracy – the very rights they are ...
  • The IAEA Applies Incorrect Standards, Exceedin ...
    Summary: Pursuant to the only lawful standard for investigation and assessment by the IAEA, Iran is in full legal compliance with its safeguards agreements, as the DG confirmed once again in his 8/30/2012 report. source: Arms Controlread more

  The Daily Galaxy

  • Image of the Day: New Insights on the Supernov ...
    In 1604, a new star appeared in the night sky that was much brighter than Jupiter and dimmed over several weeks. This event was witnessed by sky watchers including the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler. Centuries later, the debris from this...
  • Gravitational Waves from Dying Black Holes Rev ...
    Black holes are regions of space where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape and so isolated black holes are truly dark objects and don't emit any form of radiation. However, black holes that get deformed, because...
  • "Eight-Billion-Year-Old Light May Solve the My ...
    Rays of light from distant galaxies that began their long journey to Earth eight billion years ago, may hold the answer to one of the biggest mysteries in physics – why the expansion of the universe is speeding up. That...
  • "Eight-Billion Year Old Light May Solve the My ...
    Rays of light from distant galaxies that began their long journey to Earth eight billion years ago, may hold the answer to one of the biggest mysteries in physics – why the expansion of the universe is speeding up. That...
  • The 'Dark Genome' -- Was It a Key to the Survi ...
    The importance of what scientists are calling the “dark genome” became apparent in 2001, when the human genome was first published. Scientists expected to find as many as 100,000 genes packed into the 3 billion bases of human DNA; they...

  Natural News

  • Why does conventional medical treatment lead t ...
    Most doctors and patients have some awareness of the concept of suppression as it applies to medicine - but what is it really and what impact does it have upon health? The average person tends to describe suppression in immunologic terms; in other words, it is believed...
  • Omega-3 fats from dietary sources lower risk o ...
    Omega-3 fats from foods including fish, chicken, nuts, and seeds are preferentially sequestered after consumption and used for critical functions to maintain optimal brain metabolism and function. These long-chain fats are used to form the highly permeable cell wall...
  • Mind-boggling report: how many drug prescripti ...
    Medical News Today reports that, in 2011, there was a modest uptick in the number of prescriptions written in the US. The increase brought the total to: 4.02 billion. Yes, in 2011, doctors wrote 4.02 billion prescriptions for drugs in America. That's an average...
  • Unraveling food industry lies - Your meat is h ...
    If you have ever ordered filet mignon, New York strip, top sirloin, or some other prime cut of steak at your local steakhouse, chances are your waiter actually brought you several smaller cuts of inferior grade meat glued together in the shape of the cut you actually...
  • Congress confirms TSA is lawless, rogue agency ...
    A new report by House Republican members of the Homeland Security Committee's subcommittee on Transportation Security essentially confirms what many Americans have known for years: The Transportation Security Administration is inept, overly burdensome to the transportation...

  Threat Level

  • Virgin Mobile Shrugs as Coder Warns Accounts A ...
    When a start-up developer told Virgin Mobile a month ago that their online account security was abysmal, he didn't expect they'd blow him off and refuse to fix the problem. But that's exactly what he says happened, and the flaws remain.
  • Comedy Ensues as Twitter Users Hijack Newsweek ...
    Newsweek hoped to start an online wave of publicity for a controversial article positing that Islam's defining characteristic is anger. Instead, Newsweek created a meme that intends to demolish the argument through a million satiric tweets.
  • Feds Urge Appeals Court to Overturn ‘Dangerous ...
    The Obama administration on Monday demanded a federal appeals court immediately halt a court ruling blocking legislation authorizing the government to indefinitely detain without trial an "individual who was part of or substantially supported" groups "engaged in hostilities against the United St ...
  • Coders Behind the Flame Malware Left Incrimina ...
    The attackers behind the nation-state espionage tool known as Flame accidentally left behind tantalizing clues that provide information about their identity and that suggest the attack began earlier and was more widespread than previously believed.
  • Twitter Reluctantly Coughs Up Occupy Protester ...
    Twitter on Friday reluctantly complied with a judge's order to divulge the tweets and account information allegedly connected to an Occupy protester. The case was being closely watched as the authorities increasingly monitor and move to access material posted on social networks. The development ...

  PERRspectives : Blog

  • You Know Mitt Romney is Out of Touch When...
    Ann Romney picked the wrong week to complain that her husband "has been demonized in many ways as being heartless." As a video released Monday from a recent big dollar donor event once again confirmed, "heartless" doesn't begin to describe Mitt Romney. After all, the same man who said last yea ...
  • Remember When Republicans Accused Greenspan of ...
    Last summer, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified that if Congress did not act to spur the sluggish economic recovery, the central bank would. Now, more than a year after fleeting GOP presidential front-runner Rick Perry (R-TX) first suggested the "treasonous" Fed chief should be lyn ...
  • Mitt Romney's Foreign Policy Kama Sutra
    Mitt Romney's foreign policy manual is a lot like the Kama Sutra. It contains virtually every possible position. As it turns out, Romney's tried them all. But he's offering no apology for being unable to maintain any of them for very long. As a quick glance shows, the Romney guide to interna ...
  • THIS JUST IN: Tax Cuts for Rich Still Don't Dr ...
    When it comes to the subject of taxes, virtually article of faith held dear by Republicans has been proven false. For example, it's not true that "tax cuts pay for themselves" or that they increase revenue. Now, two new studies cut right to the heart of the bogus conservative claim that slashin ...
  • Romney Fails the Commander-in-Chief Test. Again.
    If there were any lingering doubts about Mitt Romney's unfitness to serve as Commander-in-Chief, his shameful response to the killings of four Americans at a U.S. consulate in Libya should have put them to rest. Romney didn't know the facts. He didn't know the timeline of events. He didn't kn ...

  Blackspot News Feed

  • Chris Hedges: OWS – The Ruling Elite Is Nervou ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad September 15, 2012 Sep 17, 2012 by RTAmerica Today protesters are gathering in downtown Manhattan to mark the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street movement which kicked out a year ago in Zuccotti Park. RT’s Marina Portnaya is speaking wi ...
  • Set Up To Fail, Interview with Professor Micha ...
    by Michael Hudson and Karl Fitzgerald Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com September 17, 2012 Renegade Economists interview Sept. 5, 2012 Interview with Professor Michael Hudson by Karl Fitzgerald Listen KF: We welcome to the show Professor Michael Hudson, Distinguished Rese ...
  • A Curious Intellectual Patron
    Will Wiles, an acquaintance of this parish, wrote for Aeon today about the New Aesthetic.  This was therefore relevant to at least two of my interests, and I began to happily read it.  Until I reached: Warren Ellis, an author who occupies a curious role as intellectual patron for this ...
  • #freemollycrabapple
    So Molly Crabapple went forth into the streets of New York City early this morning, with Laurie Penny and many other people, for #s17, the anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement.  She emailed me a couple of times from the streets.  I knew NYPD would conduct a fairly quick sweep ...
  • Booklist 17sep12
    Why do I keep adding to my booklist?  It’s a sickness.  But Lili and I went shopping the other day, and… I haven’t read any Christopher Priest in ages, but I happened to meet him and his wonderful partner Nina Allan in Brighton the other week, so I decided it was time.  And you can’t [...]

  Consortium News

  • Why the Mideast Exploded, Really
  • Over-Simplifying Mideast Turmoil
  • The Constitution’s Unhappy Birthday
  • Misreading the Arab Street’s Anger
  • Congress at the Trough

  TruthOut

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

  Planetsave

  • Potentially Helpful Lakes Left Behind Melting ...
    As glaciers melt and retreat they often leave behind massive lakes of fresh water where once had been only ice. Now, a student from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland has studied the possibility of using these new lakes as possible hydroelectric power sources. Climate ch ...
  • Majority of Coral Reefs at Risk Unless Climate ...
    The current global hope regarding climate change is that we can minimize the warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, however this will not be enough if we want to save the coral reefs that are so necessary in the overall health of the oceans. Only if we look to drastically and ...
  • Reversible Epigenetic Changes Linked To Class ...
      Researchers have found the first evidence that complex, reversible behavioral patterns observed in bees (and very likely other animals, including humans) are intimately linked to epigenetic changes, reversible chemical tags that turn certain genes on and off. The researchers say that the ...
  • Atomic Bonds Discernible In New Single-Molecul ...
      Researchers from IBM in Zurich have published new images of single molecules that are so high resolution that it’s possible to see the specific types of atomic bonds between their atoms. This is the same research team that took the first single-molecule image ever captured, and also ...
  • First Planets Discovered Around Clustered Sun- ...
      Planets orbiting sun-like stars inside a crowded cluster of stars have been spotted for the first time, by researchers from NASA. This is the best evidence found yet that planets can form in dense star-filled areas. The skies of the newfound planets would have exponentially more stars, an ...

  Water Quality - WordPress

  • What Philadelphia is Not Doing
    Portland, Oregon is a great proponent of sustainable development and stormwater management through t
  • Volunteers Sought for Water Quality Monitoring
    The Kentucky Watershed Watch Program is offering free training to persons interested in learning how
  • New CEN/ISO Standard for Cyanide in Water Publ ...
    2 new standard have been published by the European Standards Organisation, CEN, on the subject of de
  • Journal Day 2 - August 5th 2012
    Salinity:  1.0245 Temp:  79.8 Degrees F Nitrates – 20ppm Ammonia – 0ppm Began adding sma
  • Water, Florida's most Precious Resource
    My job allows me to work to facilitate a bridge between policy makers and the environment. If you li

  Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

  • Chris Hedges: And It's Called Class Warfare!
    Image by Thomas Hawk via Flickr with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 3, 2012 Jul 6
  • Edgar Allan Poe's Purloined Letter and Intelli ...
    by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube c
  • To Be Or Not To Be... Subversive by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig July 9, 2012 Image by anirvan via Flickr Cu
  • Surviving Progress (2011; no longer available)
    Image by shchukin via Flickr Dandelion Salad Video no longer available. Replaced video July 9, 2012;
  • Chris Hedges: Corporate Capitalism Will Quite ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 3, 2012 Image by Blake W.B. via Flickr Jul 3,

  Axis of Logic

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

  They Gave Us a Republic

  • Harkin Steak Fry 2012 - press availability wit ...
    Previously: Harkin Steak Fry 2012 - photos (September 16, 2012) Harkin Steak Fry 2012 - Road Trip (September 16, 2012) The 35th Annual Harkin Steak Fry: Getting a Jump on 2016 (September 17, 2012) After we checked in at the media table at the Harkin Steak Fry in Indianola, Iowa on Sunday we had ...
  • Antietam: Most Important Battle in American Hi ...
    By @TedFrier Gettysburg is the most famous battle in American history. But it is not the most important - nor even the most important of the Civil War. That distinction goes to the battle fought 150 years ago today along the banks of Antietam Creek, Maryland, September 17, 1862. Known as "the bl ...
  • The 35th Annual Harkin Steak Fry: Getting a Ju ...
    By @BGinKC Sunday we made our annual trek to Indianola, IA for the 35th annual Harkin Steak Fry. Democrats from all over the state have been gathering in Warren County every September for three and a half decades, but not a single steak has ever been fried; they’re grilled (and delicious). ...
  • Harkin Steak Fry 2012 - photos
    The 35th annual Harkin Steak Fry was held at the Warren County Fairgrounds in Indianola, Iowa this afternoon. When there's a contested Democratic Party presidential primary race in the year before the quadrennial presidential election this event is the place to be for candidates and political ac ...
  • Shades of Akin

  Care 2

  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Pet Stores: Stop selling ...
    Cedar bedding is potentially toxic to any animal, from hamsters and rats, to dogs and horses. It really shouldn't be used, and is only in the store to sell to inexperienced rodent owners who do not understand the dangers Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |   Note-it!   ...
  • Save California Condors from Lead Ammunition ! ...
    California condors still face one of the same problems that nearly led to their extinction in the first place in 1987. Lead poisoning following ingestion of carcasses shot with lead ammunition. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a ...
  • Jeffrey Smith Says Americans' Poorer Health vs ...
    Founder of the Institute for Responsible Technology and one of the world's leading authorities on Genetically Engineered food, Smith has created a documentary presenting evidence associating GE foods with increased illness in America as compared to Europe Submitted by Susan V. to Health & Wellne ...
  • Don't Leave Older Foster Kids Behind
    Every year, 20,000 kids in foster care are left to care for themselves because they are too old and no longer qualify for placement with foster families. Submitted by Kelly Rogers to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Demand Cleanup of Historical Island on Delawar ...
    Burlington Island, located in the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New Jersey, is a scenic landmark incorporated into the city of Burlington itself. At one time, it was home to a vast and exciting amusement park which covered much of the island. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment   ...

  Smirking Chimp

  • The Continuing Power of Karl Rove
  • Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, Success Is for the St ...
  • The Howling: Embassy Riots Pale Next to State ...
  • Japan's Long Atomic Sayonara
  • It's Us or the Nukes

  Paul Krugman

  • The Real Romney
    A video surfaces.
  • Concord Conned, Etc.
    The strange history of the Ryan delusion.
  • The Domestic Dan Senor
    Romney turns to the fellowship of fiasco.
  • Five Points To Nowhere
    Can Romney run on his "plan"?
  • Heck, He's Abandoned the Whole Austro-Hungaria ...
    Or maybe the Holy Roman Empire.

  No Quarter

  • If its Monday, it must be empty chair day… [Op ...
    But have no fear, the media started today out with new marching orders… Yes, Obama may be AWOL, but the media is happy to shift the focus to Romney: Romney abruptly shifts strategy–Politico  Inside the CampaignHow Mitt Romney stumbled–Politico  Blogs pounce on Romney& ...
  • Obama Telephones Cairo
    Mr. Obama is delusional to think that a phone call to Cairo can turn back the cunning massive wave against America, fed by the Islamists, the jihadists, and Iran. Briefing notes that I used for the Larry Kudlow Show, CNBC. Of course we were not able to get to most of it, but the nature [...]
  • America vs. Islam
    What happens if we come to the conclusion that we, the United States and our Western allies, are under direct and indirect attack by Islam? What happens if we realize that we are at war with a “religion” that is hell-bent on destroying everything that is not Islam? America was set up ...
  • “The Department of the Uterus,” But No Departm ...
    What a line … and it comes from Townhall Daily’s “Democrats Lock Up Uterus Vote” by John Ransom: How exactly would an “ultrasound” prove what a woman is thinking? Like most liberals, I think you are confused a bit by a woman’s biology. That part doesn’t do a woman’s think ...
  • Good People
    GOOD PEOPLE: Larry Johnson has helped me for so many years, I can’t begin to list ALL the ways in which he has been generous. Larry is like Mitt Romney. He does much good and doesn’t brag. And the list of people Larry has helped is a mile long. If we happen to talk — [...]

  Futurismic

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

  Therapy News

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

  Mountaintop Removal

  • Green tires: Where the rubber meets the road - ...
    Mother Nature Network (blog) Green tires: Where the rubber meets the road Mother Nature Network (blog) And thanks to burgeoning demand, it also makes huge truck tires for tar sands oil production and mountaintop removal mining. Mon, Sep 17 2012 at 2:21 PM EST. bridgestone tire production Finishe ...
  • Larry Gibson | W.Va. mining activist, 66 - Phi ...
    Larry Gibson | W.Va. mining activist, 66 Philadelphia Inquirer Mr. Gibson, at 5-feet-2, often stood up against his state's most powerful private interests in his effort to stop mountaintop removal. It was not a popular stance to take in West Virginia. He was often confronted by miners and ot ...
  • Mountaintop Removal Activity To Continue Pendi ...
    Mountaintop Removal Activity To Continue Pending Appeal Law360 (subscription) Law360, New York (September 14, 2012, 4:45 PM ET) -- A West Virginia federal judge on Thursday refused to grant an injunction pending appeal in a suit challenging a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers mountaintop removal perm ...
  • Mourning The Death Of Coal Activist Larry Gibs ...
    ThinkProgress Mourning The Death Of Coal Activist Larry Gibson ThinkProgress Like so many others, I always got this warm greeting from Larry Gibson, followed by a big hug. Like so many others, I saw mountaintop removal coal mining with my own eyes for the first time on Larry's mountain in so ...
  • Patriot selenium deal falls through - Charlest ...
    Patriot selenium deal falls through Charleston Gazette A deal that might have helped bankrupt Patriot Coal manage its huge liability for cleaning up selenium pollution from mountaintop removal mining operations has fallen through, federal court records have revealed. Lawyers for Patriot and the ...

  Memeorandum

  • U.S. military suspends joint patrols with Afgh ...
    David Martin / CBS News: U.S. military suspends joint patrols with Afghans  —  PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO  —  (CBS News) The strategy for getting U.S. forces out of Afghanistan depends on training Afghan soldiers and police to protect the country themselves, but on Mond ...
  • CEI's Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Re ...
    Ryan Young / OpenMarket.org: CEI's Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Regulation  —  Just another week in the world of regulation:  — Last week, 76 new final rules were published, up from 51 the previous (holiday-shortened) week.  — That's the equivalent ...
  • The Return of Facebook's Winklevoss Twins (Joh ...
    John Jannarone / Wall Street Journal: The Return of Facebook's Winklevoss Twins  —  The Winklevoss twins lost the biggest social-network showdown ever when their rival, Mark Zuckerberg, walked away with Facebook.  Now they are trying again—with a social network for pr ...
  • The Magnitude of the Mess We're In - The next ...
    Wall Street Journal: The Magnitude of the Mess We're In  —  The next Treasury secretary will confront problems so daunting that even Alexander Hamilton would have trouble preserving the full faith and credit of the United States.  —  Sometimes a few facts tell im ...
  • Romney Talks Bluntly of Those Dependent on Gov ...
    Michael D. Shear / The Caucus: Romney Talks Bluntly of Those Dependent on Government  —  Mitt Romney described almost half of Americans as “dependent upon government” during a private reception with donors earlier this year and said those voters will likely support P ...

  Energy & Environment News

  • Shell Delays Arctic Oil Drilling Until 2013
    A testing mishap further delayed the company’s six-year, $4.5 billion effort to drill off the coast of Alaska, although it will not stop preliminary work on several wells in the region this year.
  • Dot Earth Blog: The 'Anthropocene' as Environm ...
    A debate builds over the notion that humans have become a geological force powerful enough to leave a permanent record.
  • Dot Earth Blog: When Journalists Are Dying to ...
    A powerful call for the world to crack down on those who would kill journalists exposing environmental problems.
  • Green Blog: On Our Radar: Nuclear Plants and F ...
    An engineer accuses federal regulators of falsely invoking security concerns in redacting parts of a report on the potential for dangerous flooding from dam failures upstream from nuclear plants.
  • Green Blog: Shell Stymied in 2012 Arctic Oil Quest
    From encroaching ice to problems with a spill containment vessel, a series of problems has derailed Shell's hopes of harvesting oil this year.

  5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.0, Vanuatu
    Monday, September 17, 2012 21:15:45 UTC Tuesday, September 18, 2012 08:15:45 AM at epicenterDepth: 146.90 km (91.28 mi)
  • M 5.4, New Britain region, Papua New Guinea
    Monday, September 17, 2012 20:07:55 UTC Tuesday, September 18, 2012 06:07:55 AM at epicenterDepth: 92.70 km (57.60 mi)
  • M 5.0, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
    Monday, September 17, 2012 19:09:30 UTC Tuesday, September 18, 2012 04:09:30 AM at epicenterDepth: 36.70 km (22.80 mi)
  • M 5.3, Philippine Islands region
    Sunday, September 16, 2012 21:46:19 UTC Monday, September 17, 2012 05:46:19 AM at epicenterDepth: 49.50 km (30.76 mi)
  • M 5.0, Tonga
    Sunday, September 16, 2012 13:02:53 UTC Monday, September 17, 2012 02:02:53 AM at epicenterDepth: 124.70 km (77.48 mi)

  China Dialogue

  • China-built projects in US stir up environment ...
    California’s new Bay Bridge is one of several major infrastructure projects across the US in which Chinese contractors play a key role. What are the environmental consequences? With an expected price tag over US$6 billion, California's new Bay Bridge will be one of the most expensive ...
  • Wealth is poor predictor of green values
    New analysis of public opinion in 80 countries challenges long-held theory that affluence breeds environmentalism. Zim Nwokora and Karen Stenner explain.Anyone who has taken even a passing interest in global climate negotiations in the past 20 years will be familiar with the strong moral argumen ...
  • One-third of China’s coal plants behind ...
    Clean energy policies and high coal prices have left Chinese investors with little appetite for fossil-fuelled power plants, writes Cui Xuan.Despite China’s ongoing electricity shortages, construction of new fossil-fuelled power plants has slowed. One-third of new projects given full appro ...
  • Should China bail out its solar PV industry?
    China’s solar PV industry is stuck in an expansion crisis from which it is hard to extricate itself. Chinese renewable expert Li Junfeng tells Gao Yang some companies are likely to go bankrupt.Gao Yang：What’s the main obstacle holding back development of the solar PV industry ...
  • China's clean energy boom driven by "private f ...
    Rapid growth in new energy sector has made China an intermediary between developed and developing countries, says Asian Development Bank’s Cui Yongping.Cui Yongping is chair of the energy committee at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a financing and aid body which has invested heavily in ...

  AlterNet Top Stories

  • 5 Reasons That Selling Off Public Assets Can P ...
    With the breakdown of the private financial industry, and with the decision by corporation sto stop meeting their tax responsibilities, and with the dramatic surge in tax haven abuse, less tax revenue is available to state and local governments. Deprived of funding, governments are forced to c ...
  • Shocking Secret Video: Romney Reveals His Cont ...
    Mother Jones has obtained exclusive video of Mitt Romney revealing  what he really thinks of Americans -- or, at least, the half who may vote for Obama. At a fundraiser earlier this year, he uttered the following words:"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matt ...
  • Netanyahu Is Trying to Influence an American E ...
    We can write irony's obituary after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went on Meet the Press to articulate his differences with the administration's approach to Iran while telling David Gregory, repeatedly, that he wasn't “going to be drawn into the American election.”Netanyahu has ins ...
  • Occupy Infiltrates Financial District with Cre ...
    There is no longer an Occupy Wall Street.That's what all the mainstream outlets are saying this week, and they're right in one way. What started as a couple hundred people in a park with no plan has turned into a decentralized, distributed network of activists, affinity groups, organizations a ...
  • Romney Campaign In Shambles, According to Insi ...
    The Romney campaign is self-destructing from within. That’s the message on Monday morning as a series of new reports based on insider glimpses of the campaign are surfacing and confirming what seasoned observers have sensed for weeks. But they are telling.The first stone was cast by Politico, ...

  Threat Level

  • Virgin Mobile Shrugs as Coder Warns Accounts A ...
    When a start-up developer told Virgin Mobile a month ago that their online account security was abysmal, he didn't expect they'd blow him off and refuse to fix the problem. But that's exactly what he says happened, and the flaws remain.
  • Comedy Ensues as Twitter Users Hijack Newsweek ...
    Newsweek hoped to start an online wave of publicity for a controversial article positing that Islam's defining characteristic is anger. Instead, Newsweek created a meme that intends to demolish the argument through a million satiric tweets.
  • Feds Urge Appeals Court to Overturn ‘Dangerous ...
    The Obama administration on Monday demanded a federal appeals court immediately halt a court ruling blocking legislation authorizing the government to indefinitely detain without trial an "individual who was part of or substantially supported" groups "engaged in hostilities against the United St ...
  • Coders Behind the Flame Malware Left Incrimina ...
    The attackers behind the nation-state espionage tool known as Flame accidentally left behind tantalizing clues that provide information about their identity and that suggest the attack began earlier and was more widespread than previously believed.
  • Twitter Reluctantly Coughs Up Occupy Protester ...
    Twitter on Friday reluctantly complied with a judge's order to divulge the tweets and account information allegedly connected to an Occupy protester. The case was being closely watched as the authorities increasingly monitor and move to access material posted on social networks. The development ...

  Equality Trust

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

  PDA AMERICA

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

  Marler Blog

  • Where the Hell did Shiga Toxin E. coli come fr ...
    How humans could have turned an obscure E. coli strain into a dangerous emerging infectious disease? The furor of “pink slime” politics and unrelenting reports of foodborne illnesses in 2012... Continue Reading
  • So, where did all the Listeria Forever Cheese ...
    Certain supermarkets, restaurants, wholesale distributors and the FDA are not saying. Whole Foods Market announced that it recalled ricotta salata sold in 21 states and Washington, D.C. that came from... Continue Reading
  • Campylobacter and Guillain-Barré syndrome
    As I said for the last few weeks, shortly after I resolved the 1996 Odwalla E. coli O157:H7 outbreak cases on behalf of five kids that suffered Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS),... Continue Reading
  • Marler Clark Retained to Prosecute Listeria Fr ...
    Collaborative investigation efforts of local, state, and federal public health and regulatory agencies indicate that imported ricotta salata cheese is the likely source of this outbreak. On September 10, 2012,... Continue Reading
  • Marler Clark Clients Step Up to Bat for Doernb ...
    Bailey and Vanessa hope to raise $20,000 to buy two 24 hour blood pressure monitors for Doernbecher. I pledge $5,000 – can I count on you to help too?  

  AutoblogGreen

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

  Rafe's Radar

  • Gesture control coming to Windows 8 computers
    PointGrab brings its TV remote-control system to the gesture-friendly Windows 8 user interface. Originally posted at ...
  • First Thunderbird, now Sparrow? We need e-mail ...
    CNET's Rafe Needleman hopes Google's acquisition of Sparrow doesn't spell the end of competition among desktop e-mai ...
  • Groupiter makes workflow as simple as Dropbox
    Tiny two-person startup brings conversations about shared files up to date. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
  • Highlight 1.2: Is it less creepy or are we jus ...
    New version of people discovery app adds social engineering tweaks. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
  • Zaarly Anywhere takes projects from blogs to r ...
    New service lets consumers see a project or product on a Web site and then find someone to make them a custom versio ...

  Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

  Democracy Now!

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

  Suzie-Q

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

  Solari

  • Pay Attention If You Are in the Real Estate Market
    By Catherine Austin Fitts I used to have a deputy who said that the FHA mortgage insurance funds were where mortgages went to die. That was, however, before the creation of MERS, derivatives and the explosion of mortgage fraud during the 1990′s which in combination with the “strong d ...
  • The School: Humanity’s New Future
    In the foothills of the highest mountain in Europe, in a valley with glacier-fed springs, surrounded by ancient megaliths and natural power spots, there lies a school where the future of humanity is now being forged. A bright future. A dream? A reality! For three decades now a Russian visionar ...
  • Enough Already
    By Chuck Gibson I have to believe you are as tired of hearing about it as I am of speaking about it but once again this week’s news was all about the FED chairman. All FED chairman news, all the time. I promise to move on to new topics next week. It looks as if [...]
  • Jeffrey M. Smith on Genetic Roulette
    By Catherine Austin Fitts This Thursday on the Solari Report, I will be talking with Jeffrey M. Smith about his excellent book Genetic Roulette, his excellent new DVD, also called Genetic Roulette, and his efforts to warn consumers and citizens about the dangers of genetically modified food. Je ...
  • Why Wood Pulp is World’s New Wonder Material
    By Will Ferguson The hottest new material in town is light, strong and conducts electricity. What’s more, it’s been around a long, long time. Nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC), which is produced by processing wood pulp, is being hailed as the latest wonder material. Japan-based Pioneer ...

  Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

  AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

  • Corporate Legal Rights Grow As Courts Block Pr ...
    Consumer activists find a 2011 Supreme Court ruling has blocked dozens of class action suits, instead forcing consumers into arbitration.
  • Woman in Jail for Shooting at Abusive Husband: ...
    There are major inconsistencies in applications of "Stand Your Ground" laws.
  • Tracked, Detained at Gunpoint? 3 Americans Ass ...
    A career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker have all been targeted by the state, despite not having been charged with a crime.
  • Supreme Court Asks Hard Questions at Oral Argu ...
    The justices signalled that this may not be the end of the fight over SB 1070.
  • Facebook and Google Turned Into Government Spi ...
    A private company doing the government’s work does not face the same privacy restrictions.

  Sideways News

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

  Fabius Maximus

  • What are the limitations of the Fed’s po ...
    Summary:  Although one of the most power agencies of the US government, obsessively discussed in the financial news, it remains one of the least well understood. Here we examine the limitations on its power.  Readers can decide for themselves if these limitations are too tight, or too loose. Cha ...
  • About the violent mobs in the Middle East. And ...
    Summary: Every large event, every fork in the road, signals the need to stop and think about our course of action. America today is defined by our refusal to do so, as we see in our reaction to the riots. Our mob psychology mirrors theirs, but we tend to reply with greater firepower. That doesn& ...
  • The voice of plutocrats yearning for dominance ...
    Summary:  The concentration of wealth and power during the past forty years continues, even accellerates. Anyone familiar with history can see how this will change America. Now we enter the next stage.  Like the plutocrats of the gilded age, they claim virtue and efficiency in addition to wealth ...
  • Today we ask the mineshaft: we know what&#8217 ...
    Summary:  Today we look at one dimension of the future of the America.  We ask the mineshaft why we have such irrational economic policies, and yet seem unable to change them.  It’s “ask the community” day, from the German “Gemeinschaft” (see Wikipedia). Post your a ...
  • What you’re not being told about the wor ...
    Summary: The secret key to the FM website’s great forecasting record is that we do only the blindingly obvious, and give no dates. Such as the long forecast of stability for the world economy, to be followed by ugliness. We revisit this again, showing that almost nothing is happening yet i ...

  Open Your Eyes News

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

  The Progressive Realist

  • Iran’s 20% Enriched Uranium Stockpile
    Iranian President Ahmadinejad looking at a fuel rod at Iran’s research reactor (Image source: The Guardian). One of the most significant and underreported developments in the August 30 report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iran’s nuclear program was the decrease in I ...
  • “Muslim Rage!” as Information Cascade
    How do we make sense of sensationalism like the “MUSLIM RAGE” headline on this week’s Newsweek cover? Here’s one idea: An availability cascade is a self-sustaining chain of events, which may start from media reports of a relatively minor event and lead up to public panic ...
  • Top of the Morning: Afghanistan Attacks; Rice ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Afghan Security Forces Once Again Turn Their Guns on International Forces as Problems for NATO Mount To date, 51 international troops have been killed by their erstwhile allies in the Afghan army or police forces. “Afghan police killed four American soldiers coming ...
  • How a Slowdown in the Chinese Economy May Affe ...
    If you have not been following Asia news recently, you may have missed out on the dramatic slowdown recently in the Chinese economy. There are many reasons for this slowdown. The most obvious of which has been the extreme unbalanced growth model that China has been on in recent year to exports ...
  • Weighing Benefits and Costs of Military Action ...
    Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel has been perfectly clear. He wants the United States to go to war with Iran on Israel’s behalf, or, failing that, to define exactly when and how we would start our third war in the Middle East since 2001. President Obama has received these blandishments w ...

  TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Pilgrims in an Unholy Land
    The Omni Shoreham hotel, in the Woodley Park neighborhood of Washington D.C., is one of those hotels with décor that makes you feel like, as Holly Golightly said of a certain iconic jewelry store in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, “nothing very bad could happen to you there.” The chandeliers are crysta ...
  • The Real (Awful) Romney
    If you thought Mitt Romney had a rotten summer—failing to project a more appealing image of himself and his policies, failing to pin the country’s economic woes on the president, failing to get even the tiniest bounce from his convention—the home stretch is shaping up even worse. Fast on the he ...
  • Mitt "Ayn Rand" Romney
    Jamelle has already blogged about the devastating video of Mitt Romney speaking to a fundraising event that Mother Jones’s invaluable David Corn posted today. For those of you who may have missed it, here’s a partial text of what Mitt said in answer to a question about Obama voters: There are 4 ...
  • Mitt Romney, Unzipped
    Mother Jones has obtained a video of Mitt Romney at a private fundraiser where he offers a candid view of the election, voters, and the people who support Barack Obama. In the case of the latter, the former Massachusetts governor sounds more like a Tea Party activist than a mainstream politicia ...
  • Romney Promises to Move the Calendar Forward
    Mitt Romney is out with a new ad that touts his economic plan. Take a look: The main problem with Romney’s “five point plan” to create jobs is that it has a tenuous relationship to actual job creation. It may or may not make sense to increase domestic drilling, crack down on China, devolve fe ...

  Buzzflash

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

  Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speech
    Muslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
  • Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga
    A series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
  • Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...
    A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
  • Celebrating the fall of a dictator
    Reports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
  • A tweet that explains everything
    The nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict

  The BiPartisan Report

  • Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
  • Nihilism 1 American People Nil
  • Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
  • Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
  • Those holier than thou Conservatives

  Sciencebase

  • Faecal matters
    One of the most trivial ethical debates raged on my Facebook page after I posted about whether one should hang a toilet roll “over” or “under”. Of course, for those with a vertical toilet roll holder, it’s a moot point. But, silliness aside, there is an important mo ...
  • Toilet paper orientation
    Whoever said Wikipedia, or Sciencebase come to that, was trivial? This is meaning-of-life stuff: Toilet paper when used with a toilet roll holder with a horizontal axle parallel to the wall has two possible orientations: the toilet paper may hang over (in front of) or under (behind) the roll. Th ...
  • Notes for a Periodic Table of Elements Songs
    Working on creating a Periodic Table of the Elements in which each entry is a song: Love is Like Oxygen – The Sweet Gold – Spandau Ballet Helium – Feeder Titanium – David Guetta Pocket full of Kryptonite?” http://t.co/dMtlfLFu Radiohead ‘My Iron Lung’? L ...
  • A blacksmith’s good heat and bad heat
    An engineer friend visited a working blacksmith on a museum and asked him about the metallurgy and heating processes. The blacksmith pointed out that coke is the best fuel for getting a good hot furnace and that a gas-fired furnace, while able to get up to the same temperature does not produce a ...
  • 7 billion people, 70 million chemicals
    Humanity reached a developmental waymarker of sorts with the population reaching 7 billion some time in 2012. Now, the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) is estimating that it will register the 70 millionth organic or inorganic substance in its database some time in the next few months, possibly t ...

  Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Robin Hood Tax Bill Introduced In Congress
    The U.S. Robin Hood Tax Campaign today applauded the introduction in Congress of a bill that would impose a tax on Wall Street speculation. Introduced by Rep. Keith Ellison, HR 6411, the Inclusive Prosperity Act, would raise up to $350 billion in annual revenues that would be used to breathe new ...
  • “Coal” Legislation Guts Basic Health, Environm ...
    The House of Representatives this week is moving forward a bill that would let big polluters increase air pollution, dump more hazardous coal ash into America’s streams and rivers and strip away fundamental health and environmental protections under the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act. T ...
  • After One Year: Future of “Occupy”
    The New York Times is reporting: “Dozens of arrests were reported on Monday, the first anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, as protesters converged near the New York Stock Exchange and tried to block access to the exchange.”read more
  • Europe’s Thirst for Biofuels Spells Hunger for ...
    Land used to power European cars with biofuels for one year could produce enough wheat and maize to feed 127 million people, Oxfam reveals ahead of today’s important EU Energy Ministers’ meeting. With the world’s poorest at greater risk of hunger as a result of spiraling food p ...
  • Study: U.S. Underestimates Costs of Carbon Pol ...
    The federal government is significantly underestimating the costs of carbon pollution because it is using a faulty analytical model, according to a new study published in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. A more appropriate accounting of costs would pave the way to cleaner, more ...

  Common Dreams-Views

  • After NATO Strike Kills 8 Afghan Women, Pundit ...
    Peter Hart The protests and violence in Egypt, Libya and Yemen have caused a notable uptick in media discussions about, as Newsweek's cover puts it, "Muslim Rage."
  • US Poised to Violate Nuclear Non-Proliferation ...
    Pat LaMarche
  • Thank You, Paul Ryan
    Robert Kuttner Two years ago, the Democrats handed the Republicans their two crown jewels -- Social Security and Medicare.read more
  • Occupy's Protest Is Not Over. It Has Barely Begun
    Frances Fox Piven A good many observers wonder, is Occupy over?read more
  • Top Myths about Iran’s Nuclear Enrichment Program
    Juan Cole 1. Iran’s civilian nuclear enrichment program is alleged by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to be a stealth nuclear weapons program. But there is no evidence at all for this allegation, and it was contradicted by N ...

  Newshoggers - AfPak

  • This Is The War That Never Ends
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  • Making Afghanistan Safe For China
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  • The Costs of War
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  • NATO to lose its supply route through Pakistan?
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  Water Wars

  • Central Asia Really Could Go To War Over Lack ...
    Earlier this week, President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan indicated that efforts by Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to build hydroelectric power stations on rivers that flowed into Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan could “spark war.”
  • The Salton Sea: Death and Politics in the Grea ...
    California's Salton Sea, created by accident in the early 1900s, is set to become the latest casualty in the water wars, and is threatening to take the American West down with it.
  • Kenya: Kenya's Water Wars Kill Scores
    [IPS]Nairobi -Water scarcity is fuelling deadly inter-ethnic wars that continue to claim lives in Kenya, according to government officials. And if nothing is done to educate communities on how to conserve the valuable resource, the situation will escalate, governance experts and environmentalist ...
  • Future Water Wars?
    Growing populations, climate change, and diminishing water resources are combining to make water the oil of the 21st century.
  • Uzbekistan Leader Warns of Water Wars in Centr ...
    President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan has upped his rhetoric against neighboring Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, warning that their efforts to build hydroelectric power stations on rivers upstream could spark war. Speaking during an official visit to Astana on September 7, Karimov launched a broadsid ...

  WordPress | Economics

  • Presentation of a new paper at the ESA in Cologne
      View this document on Scribd Paolo Crosetto was kind enough to make the above presentation on
  • Eurozone Hasn't Changed, But Perception Has
    Draghi Euro Humbles Thought Leaders Seeing End of Union – Bloomberg. There has been one change
  • Why Competition Will Not Reduce The Price Of M ...
    Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have proposed a plan to allow private firms to compete with Medicare to pr
  • Ultrasound, ultra-cheap
    Engineers at Newcastle University have developed an ultrasound pregnancy scanner which can be mass-p
  • And for an absolutely incredible bit of writing
    Go check the newest piece from LC SecondMouse over at the Rott. This is such incredibly deep thought

  Electronic Intifada

  • Interview: Israel depriving Bedouins of right ...
    Charlotte Silver San Francisco 17 September 2012 Despite an Israeli high court ruling to open a high school in a Bedouin village, students remained deprived of basic educational facilities.
  • Winning the battle of empty stomachs: hunger s ...
    Linah Alsaafin Jenin area 14 September 2012 Bilal Diab on his 77-day hunger strike in protest of administrative detention in Israeli prison.
  • Gaza engineer kidnapped from Ukraine goes on h ...
    Joe Catron Gaza Strip 14 September 2012 Dirar Abu Sisi, the deputy engineer of the only power plant in the Gaza Strip, is in solitary confinement in an Israeli prison after being kidnapped from Ukraine.
  • "Balance" prevents beginner's guide from reach ...
    Asa Winstanley 13 September 2012 Is The Palestine-Israel Conflict: A Basic Introduction a book to be recommended to those new to the topic?
  • Sharing the pain of Israeli injustice with Rac ...
    Janan Abdu Haifa 13 September 2012 No words were necessary when Janan Abdu, activist and wife of political prisoner Ameer Makhoul, met Cindy Corrie after last month’s court verdict.

  The Wonk Room

  • BREAKING: Romney Stands By Controversial Comme ...
    At a hastily arranged press conference on Monday night, Romney stood by controversial comments he made at a private fundraiser in May, saying that his remarks were “not elegantly stated” and spoken “off the cuff.” “This is something I talk about a good deal in ralli ...
  • False Balance Lives: In Worst Climate Story Of ...
    If you happened to be watching the PBS News Hour tonight, you probably thought the show had been hijacked by Fox News. At first, their climate segment seemed to be about Koch-funded former “skeptic” Richard Muller and his conversion to scientific reality. But then PBS decided that th ...
  • Paul Ryan Wants The Federal Reserve To Stop Fi ...
    Last week, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced his institution would launch a third round of quantitative easing — the monetary stimulus the Fed has used intermittently to boost the economy since 2008 — in an effort to finally fulfill the “reduce unemployment” ...
  • Romney Stands By Claim That 47% Of Americans A ...
    Responding to an undercover video showing Mitt Romney claiming that President Obama’s voters — 47% of Americans — are “dependent upon government” and “believe they are victims,” the GOP presidential candidate’s campaign stood by the former governor ...
  • Health Care Most Shared Policy Issue in Battle ...
    According to an analysis by social data sharing company ShareThis and CNN, voters living in swing states have shared more articles about health care on social media sites than any other policy issue. Of the 12 swing states considered in the report,  including Florida, Ohio, Virginia, and North C ...

  thwap's schoolyard

  • Heading Down That Road ...
      Not long ago I was talking with a group of mostly Liberals and we were all united in our loathing of stephen harper. At some point in the conversation I mentioned how debased US politics was and how the harpercons were deliberately dragging the filth and cynicism and corruption up north. ...
  • Outrage Fatigue?
    I guess the Liberals' getting away with murderous imperialism in Haiti and Afghanistan, and the harpercons' assaults on responsible government, human rights laws, free and fair elections, and etc., etc., ... and my own inability to do anything other than blog about it, has left me disoriented an ...
  • McGuinty Liberals Contemptuous of Democracy (A ...
    So, Chris Bentley used to turn a blind eye to abuses of citizens' rights as Ontario Attorney General. Now he's decided to formally cement his contempt for democracy in Ontario (and, no doubt, everywhere else) by withholding information about the costs of his government's policies: Secret documen ...
  • Rediscovering the Libyan Debacle
    The violence in Libya resulting from the sectarian clods (fundamentalist Christians and Jews) who made an anti-Islamic film (take the beams out of thine own eyes you deluded saps!) has returned the Western media's attention to that devastated country. In being forced to look at the mess, the me ...
  • The Hypocrisy of Politics Forces Me to Resist
    That's gotta be one of the biggest things, ... the hypocrisy. Obama supporters who used to condemn bush II for spying on Americans who care nothing that their hero, that Wall Street shill, has assumed the right to kill them. Or stephen harper and John Baird yammering about Iran torturing Canadi ...

  on Government Oversight

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  Digital Journal

  • Blue Jays' Yunel Escobar caught wearing homoph ...
    As if the Toronto Blue Jays' season weren't going badly enough, a photo has now emerged showing shortstop Yunel Escobar wearing eye black with a strangely homophobic message.
  • Protests coming to Washington, Toronto over an ...
    Demonstrations over the anti-Islam video that has inflamed much of the Middle East will come to Canada and the United States. The Muslim Congress announced that protests will be held this weekend in Toronto and Washington.
  • Lady vampires run rampant in Neil Jordan's Byz ...
    Director Neil Jordan returns to the blood-sucker genre eight years after Interview with the Vampire. In Byzantium, the ladies get the vampire treatment and the result is a strong showing for a horror film spiced with a philosophical subtext.
  • Alexander Ovechkin says players prepared to si ...
    Alexander Ovechkin has been one of the more outspoken players during fractured negotiations between the NHL and its players' association - and his latest quote doesn't offer much in the way of optimism for fans.
  • Western Hockey League's Vancouver Giants offer ...
    With NHL arenas expected to be dark for a while in the wake of the league locking out its players, at least one junior team is planning to take advantage of the absence of pro hockey.

  End Homelessness | Change.org

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

  Ceasefire.ca

  • Sixth Annual Ottawa Peace Festival to honour v ...
    Canadian Peace Initiative (CPI) together with Ottawa's peace and justice groups will be holding its annual Peace Festival from September 21st to October 2.
  • $188M for Arctic research station
    PM Harper announces money for Arctic research -- as long as it supports Canadian industry.
  • Return of the submarine debacle
    The navy wants brand new submarines.
  • Cleaning up after the Cold War
    Canada is still cleaning up the legacy of the Cold War in the Arctic.
  • Staples on Snowbirds spending
    The government has decided that spending three quarters of a billion dollars to give the aerobatics team new jets is important because of the "recruiting value"' that the team provides.

  Kevin Trudeau Show

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

  Armies of Liberation

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

  Dark Politricks

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

  Dandelion Salad

  • Chris Hedges: OWS – The Ruling Elite Is ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad September 15, 2012 Sep 17, 2012 by RTAmerica Today protesters are gathering in downtown Manhattan to mark the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street movement which kicked out a year ago in Zuccotti Park. RT’s Marina Portnaya is speaking wi ...
  • Set Up To Fail, Interview with Professor Micha ...
    by Michael Hudson and Karl Fitzgerald Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com September 17, 2012 Renegade Economists interview Sept. 5, 2012 Interview with Professor Michael Hudson by Karl Fitzgerald Listen KF: We welcome to the show Professor Michael Hudson, Distinguished Rese ...
  • NDAA: We Won’t Stop Fighting This by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig September 17, 2012 In January I sued President Barack Obama over Section 1021(b)(2) of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which authorized the military to detain U.S. citizens indefinitely, strip them of due process and hold th ...
  • Capitalism Is Always At War by William T. Hathaway
    by William T. Hathaway Guest Writer Dandelion Salad September 9, 2012 Vicious fanatics are trying to kill us and destroy our country. They’re blowing up our soldiers overseas. They’ve infiltrated our country. We must defend ourselves against these mad-dog berserkers before it’s ...
  • The Separate Security Interests of the United ...
    by William John Cox Guest Writer Dandelion Salad www.thevoters.org September 14, 2012 A balanced analysis of the security interests of the United States vis-a-vis Israel requires a careful review of their security interests and the history of their interaction. That review demonstrates that Isra ...

  Your New Reality

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

  Wired - Science

  • 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 ...

  Israeli Occupation Archive

  • APJP: End all demolitions in Al Bustan, Silwan ...
    Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine call upon the mayor of Jerusalem to put an end to all house demolitions in Al Bustan, Silwan, and the rest of East Jerusalem. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth deca ...
  • Jonathan Cook: US love affair with Israel mask ...
    Politicians may prefer to express admiration of Israel, and hand over billions of dollars in aid, but the US security establishment has - at least in private - always regarded Israel as an... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Israeli Defense Minister rumo ...
    According to local press, the Israeli leadership has been "climbing down from the tree" this week with a distinct change in tone from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding attacking Iran. The... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Israel Denies Food and Entry ...
    Israel's anti-refugee policy reached a new peak this week when on Tuesday the Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported that a group of 20 asylum seekers was being denied entry and was stuck in the fenced area... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Why America and Israel are the g ...
    Like its patron, Israel resorts to violence at will. It persists in illegal settlement in occupied territory, some annexed, all in brazen defiance of international law and the U.N. Security Council.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

  Ria Novosti - Military

  • Russian President Oversees Military Drills in ...
    Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived on Monday at a military training range in southern Russia to oversee the Caucasus-2012 strategic command-and-staff exercises.
  • Russia, S. Africa in Talks on Joint Weapons De ...
    Russia and South Africa are discussing the possibility of joint development of defense-related products, Russia’s state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Monday.
  • Russia Revamps Missile Defenses Around Moscow
    Russia will reactivate mothballed ballistic missile silos around Moscow as part of deep modernization of a missile defense network protecting the Russian capital, former chief of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces, Col. Gen. (Ret) Viktor Yesin said on Monday.
  • Pakistan Tests Nuclear-Capable Cruise Missile
    The Pakistan Army carried out a successful test-firing of a Hatf-7 (Babur) nuclear-capable cruise missile on Monday, DawnNews reported.
  • INS Vikramaditya Trial Malfunctions to Delay H ..

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