18 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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Micrograph of usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP). UIP most often represents idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. H&E stain. Autopsy specimen. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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NewsWise

• Thalidomide Relieves Disabling Cough and Impro ...
  In the first clinical trial to demonstrate an effective treatment for constant, disabling cough among people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine found that taking thalidomide significantly reduced the cough and improved quality ...
• Researchers Reveal Underlying Mechanism of Pow ...
  The power of taxane-based chemotherapy drugs are misunderstood and potentially underestimated, according to researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in the September 15 issue of the journal Cancer Research.
• NYU Langone Recognized As Top 10 Academic Medi ...
  NYU Langone Medical Center ranked 8th among the top academic medical centers in the country for patient safety and quality on the University HealthSystem Consortium's (UHC) "2012 Quality and Accountability Performance Scorecard." In addition to receiving the "UHC Quality Leadership Award" for it ...
• Hope on the Horizon for Asthma Sufferers
  A new study that identifies ways to reduce the factors that lead to an asthma attack gives hope to asthma sufferers. A UCSF researcher and his colleagues believe they have found a way to help asthma sufferers by impeding the two most significant biological responses that lead to an asthma attack.
• Harris Health System, UTHealth Name Dr. Carmel ...
  Dr. Carmel B. Dyer has been named chief of staff for Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, part of the Harris Health System. Dyer, professor and director, Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine and associate dean, Harris County Programs for The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ( ...

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Libya’s Prosecution of Buzeid Dorda — and My M ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller A few weeks ago, I wrote a long post explaining the one way in which the absence of due process in a national prosecution could make a case admissible before the ICC.  The post drew a distinction between two different kinds of national prosecutions: (1) ...
• In Free Trade Move, Honduras Privatizes Three ...
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Story here: Investors can begin construction in six months on three privately run cities in Honduras that will have their own police, laws, government and tax systems now that the government has signed a memorandum of agreement approving the project. . . . The &#8 ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Monday, September 17, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The UN’s High Commissioner on Human Rights, Navi Pillay, urged an end to the violence brought about by the anti-Islam film released last week, while Hezbollah’s leader called for a week of protests. Myanmar’s Aung Sun Suu Kyi has begun her ...
• Upcoming Events: September 16, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Upcoming Events On October 1-2, 2012, Leiden University and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam will host the Second Annual Expert Seminar on Foreign Investment Law, entitled: Foreign investment in the energy sector: Balancing private and public interests at Le ...
• Does “Egging” an Embassy Violate VCDR Article 22?
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku While U.S. embassies around the Middle East continue to face angry mobs, the Japanese Embassy in Beijing also faced its own angry (but less violent) mob today.  As China blogger Sinostand reports, hundreds of Chinese citizens threw eggs and rocks at the Japanese Embas ...

Public News Service

• What You May Not Know About Your Red Plastic G ...
  What You May Not Know About Your Red Plastic Gas Can PHOENIX - Every year, dozens of people, many of them children, are severely burned or killed when plastic gas cans explode. Attorney Diane Breneman represents several victims of such explosions, and says these tragedies could easily be prevent ...
• The $90,000 Lesson: Protecting Elders from Fin ...
  The $90,000 Lesson: Protecting Elders from Financial Abuse PHOENIX - The son of a woman bilked out of $90,000 has advice for other grown children concerned about their aging parents: Get involved sooner rather than later. At his mother's house in Oregon, John Fread noticed a credit card stateme ...
• Put on the Blue Jeans and Help Fight Breast Cancer
  Put on the Blue Jeans and Help Fight Breast Cancer PHOENIX - Arizonans can get a bit casual at the office next month as part of a national fundraiser for the fight against breast cancer. The effort, Lee National Denim Day, has workers paying $5 or more to be able to wear jeans one day on the job ...
• 50,000 AZ Jobs at Stake as Fiscal Cliff Approaches
  50,000 AZ Jobs at Stake as Fiscal Cliff Approaches PHOENIX - A budget battle is looming in Washington this fall, a fight which could cost Arizona nearly 50,000 jobs because of reduced federal funding. Congress has until the end of the year to come to an agreement on a plan to reduce the federal ...
• Experts Say Arizonans' Health Riding on Strong ...
  Experts Say Arizonans' Health Riding on Strong Soot Rules PHOENIX - After collecting around 400,000 comments from people concerned about soot pollution, the Environmental Protection Agency is in the final stages of crafting new rules to curb the amount of soot in the air we breathe. The move get ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Berlusconi’s fingerprints on Kate Middleton’s ...
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• Vitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claims
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• The Vitamin D Briefing
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• New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife p ...
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• Vitamin D – the new book that could save your ...
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

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

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

• SKS Behind the Scenes – On Deaf Ears
  The below discussion was passed to me by email. It is apparently from the hacked SKS background discussions. I found it revealing to see the kind of thinking which went on behind the scenes during the release of the corrected Antarctic temperature trends. 2011-02-09 04:45:30 Antarctic Temperatur ...
• Lewandowsky’s Bodge
  The term “conspiracy” is one of the most overused words in climate jargon. Just using the word conspiracy with a person has become a popular way to discredit those who question any of the facts presented by an official body. With so much information available there is only enough tim ...
• The Lewandowsky Incident
  I have avoided critique of Lewandowsky’s paper because I am still awaiting a reply from Lewandowsky on my demand for removal of a false citation. He has agreed in part that the citation was inaccurate but due to some minor sophistry in his reply there is delay in finalizing the issue. It s ...
• The Blaze
  Anthony Watts and Lucia were cited today at the Blaze for their parts in pressing Lewandowsky to release the hidden data in his study. It is great to see that reasonable people still have some media backing in the face of extremist character attacks. I am beginning to wonder just how far this cy ...
• Proof and Genius
  I know you guys missed me, Real Climate sure did. Eric Steig has written a letter to “The Guardian” (booming voice) in response to a Nic Lewis letter patiently explaining problems in an article written by yet-another-know-nothing with a keyboard.  Unfortunately for us, the article it ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• ChefVille, War Commander, Causes, Chase Commun ...
  Zynga’s ChefVille takes the No. 1 spot on our list of top growing Facebook apps by monthly active users this week, crossing 55.5 million players. A few other Zynga games appeared on our list, including No. 2 Zynga Slingo, No. 16 FarmVille 2 and No. 19 CastleVille. … Continue reading ...
• Facebook roundup: Blackberry update, patent su ...
  New Facebook for Blackberry app available – RIM released a new version of Facebook for Blackberry this week, including improvement for event management, birthdays and navigation. The new app includes event information and RSVP functionality. Users can integrate birthdays into … Conti ...
• Facebook platform industry hires: Identified, ...
  If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please let us know. Email mail (at) insidefacebook (dot) com, and we’ll get it into our next post. Also, please note that information about most new hires, below, … Continue reading →
• This week’s updates to the Facebook Marketing ...
  Facebook’s increased focus on mobile advertising is something to take into consideration when planning for Facebook marketing. Mobile ads have more prominence and have so far shown to be more engaging than right column ads on desktop. Looking to tackle … Continue reading →
• China’s Renren social network copies Facebook ...
  Chinese social network Renren is rolling out a new profile that clearly copies the design and features of Facebook Timeline. Since launching in 2005, Renren has always maintained a close look and feel to Facebook, from News Feed to profiles to … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Investigative Journalist Craig Unger ...
  truthout: Investigative Journalist Craig Unger on the Continuing Power of Karl #Rove http://t.co/Qkr0FTkk @billmoyers #p2
• truthout: Could Pennsylvania #VoterID Law Help ...
  truthout: Could Pennsylvania #VoterID Law Help Romney Win Race? Up to 1 Million Voters Face Disenfranchisement http://t.co/G24dYVEt
• truthout: Truthout contributor arrested today. ...
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• truthout: Lessons From the New Book “Car ...
  truthout: Lessons From the New Book “Carbon Democracy” http://t.co/GeXPsyeS #coal #BigOil @matthewstoller
• truthout: #GOP #FarmBill Obstruction Could Def ...
  truthout: #GOP #FarmBill Obstruction Could Defund 90 Percent of Department of Agriculture http://t.co/fpUqFBGo @zackbeauchamp

ReDress News

• Israel and Jewish identity and power
  Gilad Atzmon considers the implication of Zionist intellectual Daniel Gordis's view that Israel is intrinsically linked to Jewish identity and that the demise of the Zionist entity would spell disaster for Jewish power globally, especially in the United States and Europe.
• Protest in Ramallah - an ominous sign for the ...
  Uri Avnery argues that foreign aid and Israeli handouts from stolen Palestinian tax revenue provide only temporary relief from Israel's economic strangulation of the Palestinians, and that a "Palestinian Spring" targeted at the occupation may come sooner rather than later.
• Netanyahu and the Zionist lobby: a threat to t ...
  Alan Hart argues that the attempts by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Israel's American lobbyists to push the United States into war with Iran is driving a wedge into the US-Israeli special relationship.
• An Israeli film-maker, Jewish donors and their ...
  Nureddin Sabir considers the possible motives of the Israeli creator and Jewish financiers of the film, "Innocence of Muslims", which gratuitously insults the Prophet Muhammad and Islam and has sparked riots in Egypt and Libya, resulting in the killing of four American diplomats at the US consul ...
• US democracy takes a hit
  Lawrence Davidson argues that the Obama camp's obsession with pre-empting attacks from domestic Israel flag-waving fos through appeasement is now such that they are no longer concerned with the damage this does to their natural allies.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• We are Almost Back
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- August 9 ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  Understanding Social Movements No matter your specific ideological stance, beliefs, hopes, passions or activism, there is a need to better our understanding of each other and different social movements, a need to adopt a more adaptive and accepting discourse and method of communication, not desi ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- August 7 ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• The EyeOpener- Violation of Consent: Fluoridat ...
  Ever since Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 cinematic classic “Dr. Strangelove” was released, it has become fashionable for those who have wished to avoid the debate over the fluoridation of the water supply to engage in the rhetorical equivalent of stuffing their fingers into their ears and singing ...

Afro Spear

• A MOMENT OF SILENCE, BEFORE I START THIS POEM
  By EMMANUEL ORTIZ Before I start this poem, I’d like to ask you to join me In a moment of silence In honor of those who died in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon last September 11th. I would also like to ask you To offer up a moment of silence For all of those [...]
• The Spiritual Reality of Black Unity
  “I do have a job but I have to work tons of overtime just to be able to afford food, shelter & clothing. My father made it a point to teach me African American History. I was reading Langston Hughes and W.E.B. DuBois as a child. However no matter how knowledgeable I become about regard ...
• Unity: To A Color Or A Principle?!
  Since treachery comes in every shade, who can I trust? Well, what do I stand for? What vision do I have for myself, for my community, for the world around me? One could ask: Do I have a community of people who SHARE my vision? Or am I a lone wolf? I am a lone [...]
• The Shock Doctrine
  A documentary adaptation Naomi Klein’s 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine. An investigation of disaster capitalism, based on Naomi Klein’s proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance. Based on breakthrough historical resear ...
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Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• Protest in Ramallah
  Donor nations can give some money to the Palestinian Authority to keep it alive, but they cannot change the situation. Neither would the abolition of the Paris Protocol, as demanded by the demonstrators, change much. As long as the occupation is in place, any progress -- if there is any -- is co ...
• The Future is a Fantasy: A 100YSS Presentation*
  Why bother with space travel? Because, quite simply, the stars light the way to a brighter future. Space travel paved the way to Kennedy's New Frontier in the 1960s. If the US remains committed to accomplishing ever greater feats in the future, then we should look to the stars to light our way. ...
• Grass Roots Democracy
  Some leading Republicans are so opposed to government serving the needs of working families that they actually believe that Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the minimum wage are "unconstitutional." They want to move this country into an oligarchic form of society in which a handful of ver ...
• Libya Is In Play
  London paper says US was warned ahead of attack in Libya but did nothing -- and bases the claim on a single anonymous source.
• America and the Muslims
  the latest details on who created the movie that set off outrage in the Arab streets, with commentary on how unevenly first amendment rights to free speech are treated for Muslims and for those attacking Islam

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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Covering the Coverage, Part II
  In our first installment, we learned that conservatives will just ignore any issue that shines a positive light on Obama. In today’s installment, we learn that conservatives will also ignore any issue that shines a light white-hot-like-the-surface-of-the-sun on Romney:   Hot Air can b ...
• Too clever by half
  I have a piece in Salon on Rick Santorum’s observation this weekend that “the smart people” aren’t going to vote for the GOP.
• Breaking Bad: “Gliding Over All” I ...
  Someone asked if I’d published the final post in my wrap-up of the mid-season finale and I mentioned that I had—on Saturday evening when 90 percent of our readers aren’t reading. So here’s a convenient wrap-up of my posts on the subject: Part I: In which we learn the value of s ...
• I’ve found the Michelle Obama “Whi ...
  It stars Mitt Romney! He sure loves all Americans: There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsib ...
• McRib Surprise?
  Huh: If you’re counting the days until your next McDonald’s McRib fix, there is some bad news: fans of the cult favorite will need to wait until late December this year, according to a leaked memo. The pork sandwich was originally expected to be sold from Oct. 22 through Nov. 11, but ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Is This The Most Sustainable House In The World?
• iPhone 5 Could Mean Billions For E-Waste Recyc ...
• Texas Wind Boom Threatened By Expiring Tax Credit
• 2013 Toyota Highlander Hybrid Gets Bells, Whistles
• Wind, Sun, Water: Getting Past The Geography O ...

National Law Journal | U.S.

• ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY: Study to rate computer-a ...
  Electronic Discovery Institute's goal is to evaluate multiple human and technology-assisted systems.
• LSC announces new vice president for grants ma ...
  Amid continuing tough times for the Legal Services Corp., the group has announced Lynn Jennings as their new vice president. In a written statement, President James Sandman of the LSC called Jennings "a strong addition to our team."
• Kansas voters lose challenge to judge selectio ...
  A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to the judicial selection process in Kansas brought by a group of voters who claim that attorneys have too much say in state court appointments.
• Jail sentence affirmed for protestor submittin ...
  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has affirmed a two-year prison sentence for a man who falsely made oil and gas lease bids at a government auction to protest the environmental impact of drilling.
• Professor wrote the book on reasons to avoid l ...
  Paul Campos, the University of Colorado Law School professor who writes the incendiary Inside the Law School Scam blog, is back at it, with a new book of advice for would-be law students.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Somalia Inaugurates New President
  The inauguration ceremony was reportedly participated by prominent regional leaders including the PM of Ethiopia and president of Djibouti.
• Female Khmer Rouge Leader Unfit for Trial
  Reports say the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), a mixed court set up under a 2003 agreement signed by the UN and the Government, ruled that Ieng Thirith be released.
• US Determined to Prevent Iran From Acquiring a ...
  The US government welcomes the resolve of the international community to make clear the onus is on Iran to abide by its international obligations, honor its commitments to the IAEA, and prove that its intentions are peaceful.
• Anti-Islamic Film Sparks Protests in Countries ...
  According to media reports, demonstrations against the film first cited in Egypt on Tuesday which reportedly left more than 200 people injured. Islamist protesters attacked the US embassy walls in Cairo and replaced the US flag with an Islamic one.
• Niger Floods Kill 81
  To respond to the humanitarian needs of the Niger citizens, the United Nations humanitarian agencies are supporting flood victims in Niger.

environment 360

• Most Coral Reefs At Risk Even if Warming Limit ...
  Most of the world’s coral reefs will likely be subject to long-term degradation even if global warming is limited to 2 degrees Celsius, and as much as one-third of coral reef systems will likely be vulnerable to threats even under the most optimistic climate projections, a new study says. In an ...
• Forest Mortality in U.S. Declines as Beetles R ...
  Tree deaths caused by insect infestation and disease in the western U.S. declined significantly last year, largely because mountain pine beetles have devoured so many iStockA mountain pine beetle forests that they are running out of food, according to a report by the U.S. Forest Service. Researc ...
• Japanese Set Goal To Phase Out Nuclear Power ...
  The Japanese government says it will seek to phase out all nuclear power plants by 2040, although officials suggested that the target remains flexible. The new energy strategy, which places a 40-year lifespan on nuclear reactors and limits construction of new plants, would continue a national sh ...
• New Monkey Species Identified in Remote Region ...
  A team of scientists has identified a new species of monkey in a remote area in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a discovery that researchers say confirms the remote African region as a biodiversity hotbed. After Click to enlarge Photo by Maurice Emetshu The lesula encountering one of ...
• In Himalaya Mountains, A Mixed Picture of Gla ...
  A new study says that glaciers in the Himalayas are reacting to climate change in different ways, with glaciers in the eastern and central Himalayas retreating at accelerating rates, while glaciers in the western Himalaya and Hindu Kush region are more stable and possibly even growing in places. ...

Red Ice Creations

• Fifteen years holed up in an embassy
  Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has said he may remain in the Ecuadorean embassy in London for up to a year - but even that would leave him far short of the record holder, a Hungarian cardinal who spent 15 years in the US embassy in Budapest. The Cold War drama began in the cold pre-dawn of 4 N ...
• Democrats reinstate ‘God-given’ and Jerusalem ...
  Facing unhappy pro-Israel groups amid a Republican-led outcry, Democrats gathered Wednesday at their presidential nominating convention made 11th-hour changes to the party platform to reinstate a reference to God and a declaration that "undivided" Jerusalem is Israel’s capital. There was widespr ...
• Hackers AntiSec claim FBI is collecting Apple ...
  The story is that AntiSec, a hacking group related to Anonymous, obtained 12 million records of Apple users, supposedly from the laptop of an FBI agent. Those who use Apple products will be aware of the type of information provided to Apple on purchase of their products. This is fairly basic stu ...
• Iran LIE same as the Iraq LIE
  The ’Iranian nuclear threat’ claims as made by the military, government, and press are examined.
• Kickstarter Project Makes Spectrometers Afford ...
  Citizen scientists can test local bodies of water, soil and household products for contaminants with a new breed of spectrometers. Spectrometers are widely used by astronomers and chemists to identify unknown materials. By making the tool more accessible, an open-research community called Public ...

Russia Today

• French PM maintains ban on GM crops
  France will uphold a ban on genetically modified crops as President Francois Hollande pushes his plan to put the environment back at the top of the international agenda. Read Full Article at RT.com
• IAEA infiltrated with terrorists – Iran
  The Iranian nuclear chief has said that the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is infiltrated with terrorists and saboteurs who are trying to derail his country’s nuclear program. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Child with ‘beheading’ sign at Sydney protest: ...
  On Monday, an Australian politician demanded a government inquiry into the identity of the mother photographing her child holding a sign calling for ‘beheadings’ at a protest in Sydney on Saturday over an anti-Islamic... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Controversial ‘naked’ scanners scrapped at Man ...
  Airports across the European Union will reportedly abandon the use of X-ray scanners, as health concerns led bureaucrats to deny approval for their widespread use. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Pakistan orders YouTube shutdown over 'blasphe ...
  Pakistan's prime minister has ordered YouTube's suspension in the country over the "blasphemous" anti-Islam film as the country has become gripped by violent protests in response to the video. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• Prince Harry the Hedonist shows war for what i ...
  A young prince who can do anything he wants, might go to war for some noble cause, if he hadn’t already exposed his and its deeply immoral character. After his Vegas binge, Prince Harry has returned to Afghanistan, at his request, to be a gunner on an attack helicopter in the UK squad with ...
• We all hate bad teachers, and so do teachers. ...
  No one hates bad teachers more than fellow teachers. What a vile media construct to assert the Chicago Teachers Strike wants to force bad teachers on the public school system. The strike is a bid to strengthen the union and public education. Who better to fight privatization, standardized testin ...
• KFC’s fire touched chicken
  Yum, Love that American fast food!
• Opposition forces kill US Ambassador Chris Ste ...
  Maybe it could have happened to a more deserving operative, but that’s splitting hairs. Obviously we can’t call the late ambassador Chris Stevens the “mastermind” of the US covert destabilization of Libya. However, he was Our Man in Benghazi, essentially the NO. 1 in char ...
• What the persecution and continued prosecution ...
  Let’s admit it- we live in one of the nuttiest cities of a crazy sick and sad society called the US of A. Nothing locally illustrates this anything more than the total idiocy of city officials regarding one of the city’s ex-cops, Joshua Carrier, who in an abuse of local policing auth ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

• Top Fruits by Water Content
• Honey or Sugar – Which is Healthier?
• NY Soft Drink Limitations Approved – An Import ...
• Fooducate’s Great Peanut Butter Scan – Survey ...
• The Obesity Epidemic – of Pets

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

• This is it, folks...
  A personal request from Greg Palast Saturday, September 16, 2012 Today, our foundation releases my investigation/comic book, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps. I am asking you to order it today, right now, on Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble or Indiebound. ...
• “Why Obama Is Likely to Lose in 2012”
  Greg Palast, The Nation of Change An excerpt from Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps “Why Obama Is Likely to Lose in 2012” is the title of a column Karl Rove wrote in the Wall Street Journal in June 2011. It’s not Rove’s prediction: this is his plan [...]
• The Worst Teacher in Chicago
  by Greg Palast | For the Occupied Chicago Tribune This is a true story. CHICAGO.  In a school with some of the poorest kids in Chicago, one English teacher–I won't use her name–who'd been cemented into the school system for over a decade, wouldn't do a damn thing to lift test scores, yet ha ...
• Cartoon Car-JackerGives $1 Million to Romney PAC
  by Greg Palast for Truthout An excerpt from Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps. Greg Palast investigates Karl Rove, the Koch Gang and their Buck Buddies. Includes a comic book by Ted Rall and an introduction by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Charles Manson can’t ...
• FireDogLake Book Salon: Billionaires & Ballot ...
  Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps book chat at FireDogLake starting at 5pm EST Today- Click here to join the chat. Read the first chapter before you chat 'Colonels in Mirrored Sunglasses' Host Watertiger (Dependable Renegade) Because Americans aren’t anx ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Bachmann Was Right: Government Database Contai ...
  By Beth Clay The United States’ Election Day 2012 is less than 60 days away. The Republicans and the Democrats have selected their candidates and platform. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden (Democrats) are in a dead heat...
• Forgive and Forget?
  By Cathy Jameson Forgiveness. It isn’t possible when negative emotions stick around and cloud my thoughts. Forgiveness. It can’t be doled out quickly when constant reminders of an offense surround me. Forgiveness. As many times as I’ve thought about how...
• Age of Autism Weekly Wrap: All Apologies
  By Dan Olmsted Apologies are in the air this week. There's the presidential campaign battle over who if anyone apologized, or should have, or should now, or should not, for what. Then there's the apology the thalidomide manufacturer proffered 50...
• Action Alert: Federal IACC Autism Committee is ...
  Please take a few moments today to tell your legislators in Washington, DC the ugly truth about the massive waste of taxpayer dollars by the federal Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) that’s more interested in covering up the causes of...
• Letter to the TwinCities.com Editor: Take Seri ...
  Note: Below is a thoughtful letter to the editor in TwinCities.com - in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. Thank you, Jerri this rational discussion of vaccine risk, reward and safety in place of the panic and fear put forth by mainstream doctors...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

• The Missing Piece in the Chemtrail Puzzle?
  Contrails, Chemtrails, and Artificial Clouds is a 30-minute documentary that may supply a previously missing piece in the chemtrail puzzle.
• Watch Jeffrey Smith’s Groundbreaking Movie Gen ...
  Jeffrey Smith’s new documentary Genetic Roulette—The Gamble of Our Lives is turning out to be a life-changer, and you can watch it for free online from September 15-22
• Consciousness Beyond Chemtrails – No Money for ...
  Zero proceeds have gone to the Morgellons Research Group, and evidently, none will be forthcoming.
• Cloning Camels with Human Genes for Big Pharma
  The Middle East is getting into the genetic engineering action with GMO camels. If all goes well, camels genetically modified with human genes will be cloned for Big Pharma drugs.
• Islands at Risk: GMO in Hawaii
  When the biotech industry decides to use the lands and people of Hawaii as its test guinea pig, local farmers, activists, researchers, and others speak out.

Open Your Eyes News

• Unlikely NZ bees have CCD
  Voxy – The National Beekeepers’ Association of New Zealand’s co-chief executive, Daniel Paul, doubts New Zealand is seeing the first signs of CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder). Mr Paul was commenting on a NZ Herald article that indicated CCD may be occurring in NZ. Read article
• Wipeout threat for NZ bees
  NZ Herald – Beekeeper fears devastating colony collapse disorder may have arrived. An Auckland beekeeper who has set up 300 hives around the region says his insects have started dying at an alarming rate. He believes a phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder (CCD), which has wiped out ...
• UK: GPs are given cash ‘bribes’ no ...
  Daily Mail – Doctors are to be offered cash ‘bribes’ to slash the number of patients they send to hospital. GPs have been promised financial incentives of up to £26,000 for their surgery if they take certain measures to reduce referrals. Every time a doctor sends a patient to hospital for ...
• Condom used as evidence in Assange sex case &# ...
  DailyMail – Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange have revealed that a key piece of evidence does not contain his DNA. A torn condom given to Swedish police by one of the alleged victims was examined by staff at two forensic laboratories but they could not find any conclusive eviden ...
• Bombardment in Syria
  Reuters – Amateur video purports to show aerial bombardment and immediate aftermath in Syrian town near the Iraqi border. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Before It's News

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
  arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
• What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
  uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
  Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
• Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
  Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
• Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
  In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

• Somalia Inaugurates New President
  The inauguration ceremony was reportedly participated by prominent regional leaders including the PM of Ethiopia and president of Djibouti.
• Female Khmer Rouge Leader Unfit for Trial
  Reports say the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), a mixed court set up under a 2003 agreement signed by the UN and the Government, ruled that Ieng Thirith be released.
• US Determined to Prevent Iran From Acquiring a ...
  The US government welcomes the resolve of the international community to make clear the onus is on Iran to abide by its international obligations, honor its commitments to the IAEA, and prove that its intentions are peaceful.
• Anti-Islamic Film Sparks Protests in Countries ...
  According to media reports, demonstrations against the film first cited in Egypt on Tuesday which reportedly left more than 200 people injured. Islamist protesters attacked the US embassy walls in Cairo and replaced the US flag with an Islamic one.
• Niger Floods Kill 81
  To respond to the humanitarian needs of the Niger citizens, the United Nations humanitarian agencies are supporting flood victims in Niger.

Worldnews

• 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

• Cancer as a chronic condition: Be proactive
  Recurrent cancer often can be kept under control with treatment. Make sure to set goals, and explore options.
• Amateur Astronomers Spot A Jupiter Explosion
  Earlier this week, two amateur astronomers observing Jupiter reported a flash of light in the planet's atmosphere. Astronomer Tony Phillips, of spaceweather.com, describes what astronomers know about the explosion, and whether an asteroid or a comet might be to blame.» E-Mail This &#16 ...
• Massage’s First Issue: Man or Woman Ther ...
  Most women ask for female massage therapists, spa managers say, and the same goes for men. But culture and nationality also play a role. (Source: NYT Health) MedWorm Sponsor Message: Have a look at The Psychology Daily, the new psychology portal powered by MedWorm, with all ...
• The astronomical unit gets fixed
  Earth–Sun distance changes from slippery equation to single number.
• Obama leads in latest polls
  News outlets report that President Barack Obama fared well in several battleground states after the political conventions, posing a challenge for GOP nominee Mitt Romney.

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Christianophobia: those tryin ...
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• ExamineReligion: America has 'literally slappe ...
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Energy Collective

• Two Prerequisites for Unlocking Energy Innovation
  While you cannot predict what kinds of technology innovation will occur, policies must be in place to make it worth innovators while to invest in risky propositions. This has to happen on two levels.
• Is there a nuclear energy squeeze play in Japa ...
  Political expediency seems to be the motivation in Japan, but the picture is less clear in France
• Duke Energy Merger: Big Changes for Energy Eff ...
  Duke and Progress agreed to develop new energy efficiency programs that would more than double their impacts over the next decade.
• Russia’s plan to dominate energy markets
• Why do Nordic countries top Global cleantech i ...
  What are the underlying factors and can others learn from the Vikings of the North?

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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Peoples Voice

• Money Printing Madness
  by Stephen Lendman According to an ancient proverb, "Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad." Perhaps it had central bankers in mind. In fall 2007, economic crisis conditions erupted. Counterproductive policies followed. Resolution is nowhere in sight. Responsible measur ...
• Capitulation in Chicago?
  by Stephen Lendman By the time this article circulates, it may be all over but the shouting, finger-pointing, and bitterness among rank-and-file loyalists over another union sellout. As this is written, it looks that way. It won't surprise. Across America, union bosses keep prioritizing ...
• Obama v. Netanyahu
  by Stephen Lendman Much has been made about an Obama/Netanyahu rift. At times, it's hard separating rhetoric from reality. Nonetheless, neither leader, it appears, particularly likes the other. Disagreement between them is palpable. It's over Iranian red lines and deadlines. Former IDF C ...
• The New American Reality
  By Timothy V. Gatto Gee. Once again the American people are offered the choice between two lousy candidates that honestly, nobody really wants. There, I said it. Nobody really wants Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. Maybe there are a few deluded Democrats and deluded Republicans that are solidly beh ...
• The Prophet: The Ultimate red line
  By Khalid Amayreh* in Occupied Jerusalem "You shall certainly be tried and tested in your wealth and in your persons, and you shall certainly hear much abuse from those who received the Scripture before you (Jews and Christians) , and from the idolaters but if you persevere patiently, and obs ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Time for Ontario to go public with child care
  The Ontario government is in a consultation phase over how to modernize the province's child care system. Child care expert Martha Friendly and CCPA Ontario Director Trish Hennessy have co-authored a primer on child care in Ontario, making the case for the government to take leadership and commi ...
• The New Saskatchewan or Oklahoma North?
  Of the litany of proposed changes contained in the Saskatchewan government’s Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation in Saskatchewan, the most pernicious is the suggestion that employees be allowed to opt out of paying union dues, yet still recieve the full benefits o ...
• How affordable is a university education in yo ...
  A new report from the CCPA’s Education Project tracks the affordability of university education across Canadian provinces. The study looks at trends in tuition and compulsory fees in Canada since 1990, projects fees for each province for the next four years, and examines the impact on affordabil ...
• A Sustainable Vision for Our Community: Altern ...
  A Sustainable Vision for our Community: Alternative Municipal Budget for the Halifax Regional Municipality is the culmination of a collaborative effort involving more than 20 individuals from academia, the non-profit sector and labour organizations. The Alternative Budget contains 65 action item ...
• Next Up: Calling young leaders in Vancouver, E ...
  Next Up taking applications for 2012/13 programs in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Saskatoon Next Up -- A leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice Next Up is an amazing, intensive and transformative program for young social change activists between the ...

World Wide Hippies

• Boy Scouts helped child molesters cover their ...
  By Kim Christensen And Jason Felch| Los Angeles Times – WWH/CJE How many politicians were Boy Scouts?  Los Angeles • Over two decades, the Boy Scouts of America failed to report hundreds of alleged child molesters to police and often hid the allegations from parents and the public. A ...
• Better housing for poor to be tested in South ...
  By Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade,scidev.net – [SÃO PAULO] Prototypes of affordable, sustainable housing for impoverished communities are scheduled to be built and tested in Brazil and Ecuador by a UK­–Latin America engineering collaboration. This follows the successful testing of a house pro ...
• From corrupt,lying and perverted Justice Thoma ...
  By ADAM LIPTAK (shit reporter) / The New York Times (The news paper that brought you weapons of mass destruction and the death of Occupy Wall Street) WASHINGTON — Justice Clarence Thomas has not asked a question from the bench in more than six years, and he seldom appears in public in Wash ...
• Everything and Nothing
  By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE – I’m wondering about those two words and what they really mean in my life, in anyone’s life. Think about it. Everything and nothing, as in, I have everything I need and nothing else is needed. I do have everything I need, really need but as to the nothing els ...
• The hidden victims of a lock ‘em up culture
  From independent.co.uk – Lock ‘em up and throw away the key is, sad to say, not only the right-wing populist attitude to crime and criminal justice, it sums up the attitude of much of the country. The number of people in Britain’s prisons is at an all-time high, it is announced ...

FourWinds10

• Climate 'science' gone wild: UK researchers to ...
  (NaturalNews) Deniers of geo-engineering, or man-made weather manipulation, truly are the real conspiracy theorists, as climate "scientists" have once again openly admitted that they have the technology to alter weather at will. And a recent piece in Scientific American highlights a ne ...
• Is crude oil still gushing in the Gulf? New te ...
• What The Frack?
• Too Dirty to Fail
    mericans must once again stand up for their right to clean air and clean water. Since the beginning of this year, Republicans in the House have averaged roughly a vote every day the chamber has been in session to undermine the Environmental Protection Agency and our nation's environme ...
• Millions of tons of Fukushima debris expected ...
  (NaturalNews) The 9.0+ mega earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan back in March caused millions of tons of debris to wash into the Pacific Ocean. And for the first time, some of that debris has been spotted drifting between Russia and Hawaii, where officials expect it to hit Hawaiian shores m ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Gasoline Prices Doubled Under Obama: True or F ...
  The Claim: President Obama Has Doubled Gasoline Prices During the Republican primaries, a number of candidates made a claim that at first glance seems improbable: That under President Obama, gasoline prices have doubled. A current advertising campaign by the American Energy Alliance repeats that ...
• Mitigating the Long Recession; and CNG Vehicle ...
  In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer two viewer questions. The first question is whether I believe that nuclear energy or hydraulic fracturing will offset the impacts of my “Long Recession” scenario. The second is about the EPA licensing requirements for comp ...
• Responses to Thorium Reactor Story
  Following last week’s R-Squared Energy TV episode that discussed thorium nuclear reactors, there were a number of comments and emails from readers that added a lot of clarity to the discussion. I want to highlight some of those comments, because as I had indicated that was definitely outsi ...
• Are Democrats More Likely to Release Strategic ...
  If the Obama Administration orders a release, it would be the 2nd time the administration had tapped the SPR. In 2011 the Obama Administration ordered a release of 30 million barrels of oil in conjunction with a 30 million barrel release from other members of the International Energy Agency.
• 4 Reasons Why Gas Prices Are About to Fall Rapidly
  While U.S. gasoline prices have been on the rise for the past two months -- and are presently $0.15/gallon higher than they were a year ago -- Robert Rapier expects that gasoline prices will start to fall rapidly in the weeks ahead.

Discovery Educator Network

• PowToon : Create Animated Presentations Online
  Tags: presentations, animation, web2.0, tools, cartoon, technologyby: Dean Mantz
• Integrity - Mac OSX app - free website link ch ...
  Tags: mac, weblinks, integrity, websiteevaluation, webdesignby: Dean Mantz
• Interview | Chris Lehmann and the New Playbook ...
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• K-12 iPad Deployment Checklist «
  Tags: ipad, deployment, checklist, education, ipadimplementation, technologyby: Dean Mantz
• 5 Great infographic Creation Tools for Teachers
  Tags: infographics, web2.0by: Carolyn Rains

Rodale News

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

big think

• India to Wal-Mart, Other Foreign Investors: Co ...
  Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? India recently announced reforms that will allow up to 51 percent of federal direct investment (FDI) in local ventures by foreign big-box chains like Wal-Mart. It also eased regulations for single-brand for ...
• Proposed Visa Program Prioritizes STEM Grads, ...
  Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? Foreign-born graduates of American universities will get a chance to stay in the US if they have the right degree, thanks to a bill recently introduced in the House that proposes granting 55,000 visas a yea ...
• Diamonds -- Lots Of Them -- Are Russia's Best ...
  Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? Technically, the discovery itself is not new: Back in the 1970s, a huge diamond field was found beneath a 62-mile-diameter crater in Siberia. What's new is that, after years of keeping this information secr ...
• Thoughts on the Embassy Attacks
  As you've no doubt already heard, American embassies throughout the Middle East have been attacked by violent mobs in the last few days, ostensibly due to outrage over a YouTube video called "Innocence of Muslims" that lampoons the Prophet Mohammed as a blundering, deceitful fraud. At least one ...
• Wanted: Long-Haul Truck Drivers (in Europe)
  Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? Europe is having a hard time recruiting long-haul truck drivers despite rising unemployment and an economy that still depends heavily on transporting goods by road. In response, some truck makers are unveil ...

Information Liberation

• VIDEO: Deputy Shoots Fleeing Jaywalker Six Tim ...
  A deputy intent on citing a group of men for jaywalking shot a suspect who fled the scene in the back six times, then stood over him and executed him with what his family's lawyer described as "a coup de grace kill shot." The deputy claimed in...
• Cops Punch, Tase, Handcuff Man Then Smash His ...
  Jefferson Parish, Louisiana Sheriff Deputies turned on Sean Warren last week simply for recording the questionable treatment meted out to his brother, Casey Warren. The police beat him, tased him, handcuffed him and smashed his cell phone after treat...
• Mass. Crime Lab Accused Of Altering Results to ...
  Some 34,000 eastern Massachusetts drug cases could go up in smoke in the wake of a still unfolding scandal around a state laboratory analyst who resigned under fire earlier this year. State Police have notified prosecutors that some 64,000 drug sampl...
• Ron Paul: "Country Should Panic Over Fed's Dec ...
  What took Ben Bernanke sixty minutes of mumbling about tools, word-twisting, and data-manipulating to kinda-sorta admit - that in fact he is lost; Ron Paul eloquently expresses in 25 seconds in this Bloomberg TV clip. Noting that "we are creating mon...
• The Fed's Balance At The End Of 2013: $4 Trillion
  What happens next: Imminently, the Fed's Open Markets Operations desk will commence buying $40 billion in MBS per month, or about $10 billion each week. Concurrently, the Fed which is continuing Operation Twist, will still purchase $45 billion in ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Violence An Inch Beneath The Surface
  What are we to make of this lot? A comically amateurish anti-Islam propaganda film, made by some bloke in America who claimed to be Jewish and have financial backing from the Jewish business community, but who in fact turned out … Continue reading →
• The Rainbow Connection
  Last Thursday, Tasmania’s Lower House of parliament passed a bill which, if ratified by the Upper House next month, will make the Apple Isle the first state of Australia to legalize gay marriage. It’s not going to happen: for one … Continue reading →
• Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VII – Th ...
  Well, it’s happened at last. The festering stink of corruption within the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s is now front-page news on every paper in the country. This is despite the best efforts of Gillard and others to shut … Continue reading →
• One More Five-Ring Circus
  The Games of the XXX Olympiad kick off in a few hours, and I for one won’t be watching. In another age, another millemium, the Modern Olympic Games were conceived by an aristocratic Frenchman, Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, … Continue reading →
• More Of The Shiny Stuff
  A few random jottings on gold while I’m out on the road; back in a week. The other day, I came across this article in the Mises Daily, taken from Joseph T. Salerno’s testimony submitted to the U.S. House Subcommittee … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

RFF Library

• Supporting Renewables while Saving Taxpayers Money
  Climate Policy Initiative http://bit.ly/PlILn0 …This report shows the federal government could sustain support for wind and solar at much lower cost to taxpayers by replacing current tax credits with cash incentives. For example, a taxable cash incentive for wind energy could deliver the s ...
• The Social Cost of Carbon in U.S. : Regulatory ...
  Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences (Published online: Sept. 12, 2012) by Laurie T. Johnson & Chris Hope http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13412-012-0087-7 [From Press Release]  The U.S. federal government is significantly underestimating the costs of carbon pollution because it is using ...
• Worldwide Governance Indicators
  Brookings Institution | World Bank http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/index.asp http://bit.ly/Ps3xRT (Brookings site which also has an article on methodology and analytical issues.) [From a blog posting by Daniel Kaufmann] …the six core indicators of governance measured by the W ...
• Sustaining Tennessee in the Face of Climate Ch ...
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory |  Vanderbilt University | University of Tennessee at Knoxville | University of Memphis | Tennessee Department of Health http://sustainabletennessee.org/ http://sustainabletennessee.org/download-report/ (register) From Climate Change Impacts: Pro ...
• Climate Change, Carbon Markets and the CDM: a ...
  U.N. High-Level Panel on the Clean Development Mechanism http://www.cdmpolicydialogue.org/ [From a Climate Wire story by Colin Sullivan, sub. req'd] The U.N. body in charge of the world’s largest carbon offset market has acknowledged widespread problems with its system in a report…To ...

Scientific American - News

• Warm Currents: Graphite Powder Stirs Up Hints ...
  A recent discovery in a study of room-temperature superconductivity, if borne out, could make the dream of super-efficient long-distance electricity transmission and levitating trains a little closer to reality. [More]
• Where the Presidential Candidates Stand on Med ...
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• Tandem Satellite Mission Reveals a Thinner Lun ...
  By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine [More]
• Did the Reign of Dinosaurs Begin, as Well as E ...
  STOCKTON, N.J.-- A huge meteorite strike may have helped the dinosaurs rise as well as fall. That's what a small crew of mud-spattered researchers who drilled down hundreds of feet in New Jersey this summer wanted to discover. [More]
• Farmers Warned to Watch for Livestock Carcinog ...
  Continuing heat and drought are withering corn crops across the Midwest, creating prime conditions for a fungus that produces a toxic carcinogen causing health problems in livestock, according to Purdue University researchers. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• Last Little Mountain Residents Fight Eviction
  VANCOUVER - The remaining residents of Vancouver's first social housing co-op gathered today in a last ditch effort to save their Little Mountain home. A decision is expected tomorrow on whether BC Housing can kick the residents out to make way for 1,600 luxury condos and about 225 social ho ...
• Preserve Your Backyard Harvest, Maximize Your ...
  Have you ever wondered how you can make more out of your own garden vegetables and fruit or take advantage of the cheaper produce at local supermarkets during peak harvest periods? With rising food prices, especially for fruit this year due to the severe drought and abnormal spring weather, loca ...
• The activities of the Activist/Protester Liaso ...
  Most of the time, when we talk about the RCMP activities during the Olympics, we refer to the Joint Intelligence Groups, spun off of the Special O units, and are the clear antagonists prior to the days of the protest. However, there was another group that wasn't meant to be as sinister as th ...
• Occupy Toronto Saved City of Toronto $83,440
  TMC Crunches the Numbers Toronto - Occupy Toronto saved the City of Toronto approximately $83,440 according to estimations of services provided by facilitators and organizers within the camp.   With the anniversary of Occupy Toronto co ...
• Awakening the Dragon
  A shamanic grandmother on the power of shamanism for today's world “There is an opportunity for us in the twenty-first century, with our industrial ills, diseases, mental unrest and wars, to re-harmonize ourselves with the planet ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Joint U.S.-Afghan Military Operations Suspended
  Jim Miklaszewski, NBC's Pentagon correspondent, reports that in the aftermath of the insider attacks that killed six NATO troops yesterday, all joint U.S.-Afghan military operations have been suspended: “We’re to the point now where we can’t trust these people,” ...
• Why the Poor Pay No Federal Income Tax: A Wee ...
  Is it true, as Mitt Romney says, that 47% of Americans don't pay federal income tax? Yes! That's mostly because they're either poor, elderly, or take advantage of tax credits for low-income workers. Details here. But why do these people pay no income tax? Ezra Klein breaks it down into Twitter ...
• Quote of the Day: Obama Voters Are All a Bunch ...
  Here is Mitt Romney speaking at a private fundraiser recently. At least, it was a fundraiser he thought was private. Turned out somebody had a camera rolling and caught him explaining what really animates Obama supporters: There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president n ...
• The Remarkable Martyrization of Nakoula Bassel ...
  Over at Power Line, Steven Hayward says the picture on the right "ought to cost Obama this election." In case you haven't been following events in wingnut land, this is a picture of LA sheriff's deputies taking in Nakoula Basseley Nakoula for questioning a few days ago. Nakoula is the guy ...
• Romney Hits Obama for Following Romney Trade P ...
  The Washington Post reports today on dueling trade complaints between China and the U.S. Here's the American side: U.S. officials accuse China of giving subsidies to its auto parts industry, and the Obama administration has steadily amped up enforcement actions against China at the WTO thro ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

• Could pollution be stopping warming’s impact o ...
  Considering both space and time in climate records shows predictions for how rainfall will change are wrong, say Michael Roderick and his teammates from Australian National University, Canberra, who speculate that atmospheric aerosols are to blame.
• Sun loses grip on Earth’s temperature changes
  Patterns in the heat we feel stopped being caused by the Sun since the 1970s, mathematical tests done by Antonello Pasini from the Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research in Rome and his teammates show, with greenhouse gases and other human influences likely to be drowning its influence out.
• More bird flu over the horseshoe crabs’ nests?
  Climate-driven timing changes and human pressures on their favoured horseshoe crab egg food could make ruddy turnstones more of a bird flu carrier than they already are, say Pej Rohani and Vicki Brown at the University of Michigan
• Finding nature’s part in Arctic ice loss puts ...
  With Arctic ice heading for reaching its smallest area yet, Jonny Day from the University of Reading, UK and his colleagues have found an ocean circulation pattern could be responsible for up to three-tenths of the ice loss since the 1970s – but that humans remain most responsible.
• Temperature rises could hamper developing worl ...
  Annual variations show every 1°C temperature increase shaves 1.3 percent off a poor country’s growth, over the course of a given year, according to MIT economist Ben Olken.

e!Science News

• Newly demonstrated capabilities of low-powered ...
  Using ultra-low input power densities, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated for the first time how low-power "optical nanotweezers" can be used to trap, manipulate, and probe nanoparticles, including fragile biological samples. read more
• New research presents most extensive pictures ...
  Biologists and informaticists at Indiana University have produced one of the most extensive pictures ever of mutation processes in the DNA sequence of an organism, elucidating important new evolutionary information about the molecular nature of mutations and how fast those heritable changes occu ...
• Rapid urban expansion threatens biodiversity
  A brief window of opportunity exists to shape the development of cities globally before a boom in infrastructure construction transforms urban land cover, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. read more
• Only half of adults say schools should take ac ...
  U.S. adults repeatedly rate bullying as a major health problem for U.S. children. But a new poll from the University of Michigan shows adults have different views about what bullying behaviors should prompt schools to take action. read more
• Sex matters: Guys recognize cars and women rec ...
  Women are better than men at recognizing living things and men are better than women at recognizing vehicles. read more

unEarthed

• The Earth Needs YOU This Election Season
  Your voice can help put the environment on the political agenda After the summer we have had, my mind is on climate change, what more Earthjustice can do about it, and what’s at stake in this election. I experienced the effe ...
• Shell's "Happy" Mood Smashed By Ice
  Mass of sea ice forces drilling to halt, raises doubts about spill cleanup Chukchi Sea, Alaska. (Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com) Shell’s vice pre ...
• Massive Ice Sheets Halt Arctic Ocean Drilling
  Shell Oil forced to move drill ship off site Chukchi Sea, Alaska. (Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com) Shell’s vice president of Alaska operations wa ...
• Sugar Industry Seeks To Use Everglades As Toilet
  It's an old story, but 'Sugar Daddy' governor offers new hope National Park Service Photo For decades, U.S. sugar barons have been dumping thei ...
• Groups Across U.S. Unite Against Coal Ash Bill
  Legislation would prevent EPA from protecting Americans Seeking protection from unsafe dumping practices, more than 300 public interest groups from 43 states, re ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

• Just Called The Family Research Council
  I asked the very nice people at the Family Research Council, hosts of the Values Voters Summit, why they support Republicans when Republicans ignore everything Jesus taught. You know, taking care of the least among us, feeding the hungry, healing the sick etc. Why do most “faith based&#822 ...
• It’s Not The Leadership It’s The F ...
  davidfrum ‏@davidfrum (6) The problem isn’t the campaign leadership; it’s the party’s followership
• Ryan Wants Congress To Reform Tax Rates
  Paul Ryan doesn’t want to tell anyone what tax policies he would change, except for the fact that he will close loopholes that let the wealthy pay less than regular folks. – Ryan Tax Plan Interview – Of course he wouldn’t name any loopholes he favors closing. He wants the ...
• Republicans Cost Me Thousands Personally
  I own my own business, and have a huge payroll, and a bunch of employees. President Obama’s jobs act was going to give my business a break on my share of the withholding tax. Since the Republicans stopped it I didn’t get over $20,000 dollars worth of tax cuts. I am now $20k farther i ...
• Santorum Is Correct For The First Time In His ...
  I agree completely Mr. Ass Juice. For the first time in his life Mr. Fake Christian uttered something that wasn’t laughable. Santorum: “We will never have the elite, smart people on our side” Mr. Ass Juice, have you ever asked yourself why intelligent people would never support ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

• Photo essay: Palestinians protest high prices, ...
  A wave of protests in the occupied Palestinian territories against the high cost of living has raised the obvious question as to whether the ‘Arab Spring’ has arrived in Palestine. Since demonstrations started in the first week of September, Palestinians have regularly blocked roads ...
• Violent protests are the true insult to Islam
  The real challenge facing the Muslim world today is how to stop violent protesters from becoming the face of the religion. In order to do that, we need more Muslims to get rid of their indifference and speak against the misrepresentation of Islam.  Research shows that the people behind “In ...
• Wife of Vice PM: ‘I need ten minutes wit ...
  Judy Shalom Nir Mozes is a rich woman. So rich that her marriage to former Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom has made him the richest politician in Israel, according to Forbes Magazine. But alas, Silvan is not as important a Likudnik as he used to be (although he is still a cabinet minister). The t ...
• MK Ben-Ari: My Man of the Year is ‘rifle ...
  Michael Ben-Ari (National Union), the extreme right wing MK who makes Jean-Marie Le Pen look like a baguette with no joie de vivre, waited for the Sabbath to end and finally get onto his Facebook page to post this gem of a status. Just a day before Rosh Hashana, he chooses his Man of the [...]
• Iranian analyst: For a fair offer, Iran will c ...
  By Eyal Clyne (From Hebrew: Ofer Neiman) “The Iranian government is so heavily invested in the nuclear project, that if it were to give up this flag, it would mean nothing less than political suicide […] Iranian leaders have publicly chained themselves to this issue, to the extent that now ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Murray-Darling to benefit from environmental w ...
  The Murray-Darling Basin rivers and wetlands and its thousands of animals and plants will benefit from as much as 1,449 gigalitres of Commonwealth environmental water in the coming year.
• Free TV and computer recycling scheme for Victoria
  Senator Don Farrell, Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, today launched a free television and computer recycling service in Melbourne, as part of the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme.
• Global community celebrates 25 years of ozone ...
  The Gillard Government has today recognised Australian leadership in protecting the world from depletion of the ozone layer.
• Gillard Labor Government Acts to Stop Super Tr ...
  Environment Minister, Tony Burke, has announced plans to legislate to extend his legal powers over the super trawler FV Abel Tasman, (formerly FV Margiris), to prevent the vessel fishing in Australian waters.
• Groundwater Atlas goes online
  Senator Don Farrell, Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, today launched a new online Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems Atlas.

Matt Weidner Blog

• The 2008 Finanical Crash Cost Taxpayers $13 Tr ...
  Four Years Since The Crash….and no reason to believe any lessons have been learnt… It’s been one year since the Occupy Wall Street movement and its calls for income equality, Wall Street reform and less money in politics swept the nation and forever changed the national discour ...
• A Most Bizarre Foreclosure Motion….Plain ...
  One of the most important questions we still do not have the answer to even after years and years of foreclosure…. Who Is The Real Party in Interest? Who Takes Responsibility For Foreclosures? Who Is Responsible For Throwing Americans Out In The Street Through Foreclosure? These questions ...
• URGENT! THE GMAC/RESCAP MORTGAGE BANKRUPTCY PR ...
  The bankruptcy of the mortgage lending arms of GMAC/Residential Capital is one of the most significant bankruptcy filings ever to impact American consumers.  With this filing, the rights of millions of Americans will be dramatically impacted.  Perhaps the worst thing about the entire process is ...
• Sequestration Demands That The US Must Make Ma ...
  We all remember the drill, right?  US govt on the brink of collapse when we were unable to agree on across the board budget cuts.  And so Congress and The President signed legislation that mandated dramatic military spending cuts if no other compromise was reached.  Guess what folks…..none ...
• Why Is The UPDATE…THE NDAA APPEAL… ...
  Nothing Says, Land of The Free! Quite Like Indefinite Detention Without Trial! Have you heard of the NDAA? It was voted into law by US Senators and Representatives and quietly went into force on January 1, 2012, a day when all of Amerika was too busy nursing hangovers to realize the most stagger ...

abelard - news

• photographing molecules and bonds | science an ...
  Seeing inside an atom is now possible - amazing, and pretty.
• on schiffe video | politics usa / economics ne ...
  Attacking the wrong scapegoat is led by political expediency, rather than an any understanding of the economic problem.
• french government lowers fuel prices | driving ...
  With vehicle fuel prices rising precipitely, the government offers some temporary relief.
• increasing tax damages recovery, reducing expe ...
  Results from 17 OECD countries demonstrate that from which socialists hide or dismiss.
• cathedrals 9: saint-bertrand-de-comminges - th ...
  Unusually, a fortified cathedral, and for good reason through the ages, built high in the Pyrenees.

The Parallel Parliament

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

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

• In-flight electronics ban is based on fears &# ...
  There is no evidence whatsoever that using electronic devices on flights - whether during take-off and landing or while cruising - has any deleterious effects navigation or any other technical operations during the flight. But getting rid of an existing regulation even when there is no evidence ...
• Belgium introduces euthanasia for prisoners
  Belgium allows euthanasia under very stringent conditions and now permits prisoners also to choose euthanasia.
• New paper – “Warming since 1850 is ...
  If "warming since 1850 is mainly the result of natural climatic variations" then it just confirms that the theory that anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions are responsible for global warming remains in the realm of speculation.
• World population by latitude >>the world of un ...
  While looking for data on the distribution of world population by latitude I was led into the wonderful world of Waldo Tobler's Unusual Map Projections....
• 2012 Nobel prize speculations begin
  Every year around this time with about a month to go before the awards are announced the predictions and speculation begin about potential Nobel prize laureates.

Left Foot Forward

• Ashcroft on Aid: ‘We can’t afford ...
  During the recent reshuffle the government shifted rightwards in both tone and substance . Cameron has long aimed to stop the Tory party from being known as the ‘nasty party’, but he is undoubtedly failing. This was reaffirmed today by the comments of the infamous Tory donor Lord Ash ...
• When will the Police learn to admit their mist ...
  In a week in which the truth behind Hillsborough has been revealed and apologised for, the police has a lot to make up for. Yet this week begins with the fact that PC Simon Harwood has admitted to ‘discrediting’ the Met police and conceded that he tried to resign over the issue twice but his [...]
• To defend politics we need to change how we do ...
  Rt. Hon. David Blunkett MP, Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough Faith in democratic institutions, the media and broader political processes has fallen to dangerously low levels. The 2012 Audit of Political Engagement by the Hansard Society revealed the proportion of th ...
• SNP GOVERNMENT HAS DONE LITTLE FOR CAUSE OF IN ...
  Whilst the experience of an SNP Government in Scotland has seemingly depressed support for Scottish independence, a majority of Scots feel that Holyrood should have responsibility for most domestic affairs. That’s the key findings of results contained today within the British Social Attitudes Su ...
• US election campaign digest: embassy attacks, ...
  Embassy attacks roil election Violent attacks on American interests sparked by an anti-Muslim film have rocked the Middle East and North Africa, with both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney coming under intense pressure as foreign policy moves to the forefront of the presidential election. In the most ...

Consumerist

• Best Of Comments: Money To Burn And Oblivion Guy
  SirWired: Any home cook who uses anything other than a standard porcelain-topped range (or cooktop) is a poseur. Restaurant kitchens use stainless steel appliances because their stuff gets scrubbed down several times a day with a ScotchBrite and Comet. Unless you seriously do that in your kitche ...
• Walmart Customer Says Store Stuck Her With Bog ...
  Here's a nice companion piece to this morning's story about the Walmart employee who allegedly tore up two legitimate $100 bills claiming they were counterfeit. This afternoon's tale is from a Walmart customer in Michigan who says the store gave her a bogus $100 bill and refused to take it back. ...
• Electrolux Introduces $100K Kitchen Range Beca ...
  The next time you feel like burning some money, you could just grab a wad of cash and light it on fire. Or you could get super fancy about it and fork over $100,000 for a new deluxe kitchen range from Electrolux. Yep, a stovetop and oven for more money than some of the priciest luxury [...]
• Drop In MBA Applicants A Sign Of Economic Reco ...
  "Maybe I should finally get my MBA," is a thought that went through the heads of many an out-of-work or underemployed college graduate during the last few years. But the allure of becoming a master of business administration has faded in the last year, as the number of business school applicants ...
• Not To Dash Your Hopes & Dreams Or Anything, B ...
  Anyone out there looking at the calendar and salivating at that special time of year between late October and early November, the time when the McRib returns to McDonald's, might need to sit down for a second. According to reportedly leaked internal memo, McDonald's wants to score a home run in ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Nuclear Facilities Vulnerable to Floods?: Dail ...
  Huffington Post: Flood Threat to Nuclear Plants Covered Up By Regulators, NRC Whistleblower Claims Image of Oconee Nuclear Station in Seneca, S.C. (Courtesy of wikimedia user KudzuVine) A whistleblowing engineer has sent a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, accusing federal personnel ...
• Indefinite Detention: WaPo = Wrong; Judge Forr ...
  The Washington Post has a dangerously misguided editorial strongly defending the Executive's right to indefinitely detain even U.S. citizens under the Section 1021(b)(2) of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and criticizing Judge Katharine Forrest's recent opinion in Hedges v. Obama, ...
• BPI Sues ABC, Former GAP Client Kit Foshee: Da ...
  Associated Press: Beef Products Sues ABC News for Defamation in Coverage of Meat Product Called ‘Pink Slime’ Summary: Yesterday, former GAP client Kit Foshee was named as a defendant in a defamation lawsuit filed by Beef Products, Inc (BPI). Also named as defendants were ABC New ...
• Sign GAP's Petition to Pass the WPEA!: Daily W ...
  Sign GAP's Whistleblower Rights Petition to Protect Federal Employees! Tell Congress to Pass WPEA! Summary: GAP has started a petition urging Congress to finally pass the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) before lawmakers adjourn to go campaigning. The WPEA would fix significant ...
• Despite Whistleblowers' Explosive Disclosures, ...
  Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted to re-authorize the 2008 FISA Amendments Act (FAA). The FAA Re-authorization represents the normalization of a domestic surveillance state. The FAA was bad enough in 2008, when it "legalized" parts of the Bush warrantless wiretapping ...

UK Progressive

• US Homeless To Go Hungry As Food Stamps Are Cut
  By Charley James In 15 days, food stamp benefits will be cut by some 20-percent, thanks to Republicans in Congress who tossed this mean-spirited gem into one of GOP’s hostage bills that Pres. Obama was forced to sign because a veto would result in the government shutting down, or the US re ...
• The Wrong Way to Save Money on Health Care
  by Robert Reich Employer outlays for workers’ health insurance slowed from a 9 percent jump last year to less than half that — 4 percent — this year, according to a new survey from the Kaiser Foundation. Good news? Our political class believes it is. The Obama administration attributes the drop ...
• The Monday Line: WWASW? (What Would Aaron Sork ...
  by Denis G. Campbell From The Newsroom to The West Wing, Sports Night to A Few Good Men, The Social Network to Studio 60, Moneyball and Charlie Wilson’s War… one man has shaped our view of the backstage inner workings of so many aspects of life we see through our television and movie screens. Aa ...
• The Bill Clinton Mega-Bounce
  by Brent Budowsky The Hill Magazine I feel the pain of Republican partisans and their media friends who adore pieces attacking the evil liberal media, which of course is the last refuge of conservatives and Republicans who believe they are losing. The liberal media refuses to report Democrats wh ...
• The GOP And Our Damaged American Psyche
  By Charley James A few nights ago, I was reading something about the late British thinker, novelist and screenwriter best known as Dresden James. A line of his that I came across brought into sharp focus for me why the Republican Party generally and Mitt Romney specifically – although he’s ...

NewsAlert

• Enrollment down at Illinois colleges
  The AP reports: Enrollment is down this fall at most of Illinois’ public universities, and administrators and experts say the sluggish economy, rising tuition and dwindling financial aid all are likely to blame. At least eight of Illinois’ 12 public universities saw their enrollments drop this ...
• Freddie Mac Customer Service: Disabled WW2 Ve ...
  The Vail Spot
• Can You Top This? CBS/NYT Poll Weights Registe ...
  Newsbusters on the wacky polling at CBS/NYT.
• U.S. Constitution Day
  Today is Constitution Day. We'll quote the very politically incorrect Article 7:The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same. done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States ...
• Outside groups make up almost half of all pres ...
  NBC News

JoNova

• Lewandowksy, Oberauer, Gignac – Is the p ...
  Stephan Lewandowsky, Gilles Gignac, Klaus Oberauer The scathing blog posts are popping up everywhere. From William Briggs we get a sense of the historical importance of the Lewandowsky et al effort. One day a terrific psychological study is going to be written on the madness and mass lunacy whi ...
• Government burn $70 billion a year subsidizing ...
  When activists protest about “fossil fuel” subsidies, it is a case of extreme-wordsmithing. Like chinese-whispers, the truth gets turned 180 degrees. It takes a string of half truths stacked in a series to come up with something which is so completely counter to reality it is meaning ...
• Global Carbon Trading System Has “Essentially ...
  When is a free market not free? When it doesn’t do what the bureaucrats wanted it to “freely do”. There is a message from this-pale-shadow-of-a-global-carbon-free-market and it’s telling us that carbon (dioxide) should be free, as in $0, no cost, no fee, no tax. CDM&#8217 ...
• Lewandowsky gets $1.7m of taxpayer funds to de ...
  Stephan Lewandowsky, Gilles Gignac, Klaus Oberauer Stephen Lewandowsky’s paper, soon to be published in Psychological Science, appears to be drawn from one or two grants from the Australian Research Council that total nearly a million dollars (though it’s not entirely clear which gra ...
• Climate Models: 100% right except for rain, dr ...
  Yet more observations from the planet show that modelers misunderstand the water based part of the climate – on our water based planet. Modelers thought that dry ground would decrease afternoon storms and rainfall over those frazzled parched lands (though I don’t remember many headli ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• Is This A Real Dragon?
  This image is doing the rounds. It doesn’t look photoshopped (check out what the puppy is doing…), but it could be a model. But if it is real, well I’m glad it is so small! Source: http://tt.mop.com/read_12716265_1_0.html Your're reading Is This A Real Dragon? by Robert Bast, ...
• How Easy Could It Be: Start World War 3
  One of my key concerns regarding Dec 21, 2012 is that some crazy religious leader might believe it is a good time for Armageddon to occur. A Biblical apocalypse involves all sorts of strife, but especially wars – lots of wars. A third World War kicking off in the Middle East could be the b ...
• Man Builds Stolen Truck Bunker
  There are many lessons to be learned from this, although I presume that nobody reading this would be so foolish and ignorant… A conspiracy theorist ‘preparing for the worst’ stole a truck and trailer to build a doomsday bunker in his garden. Police tracked down a stolen food truck to the ...
• A David Wilcock Fact Checker
  I saw David Wilcock give a long talk promoting his new book The Source Field Investigations. During that talk he proudly mentioned how many references his book had – linking his ideas to legitimate scientific studies and news items. His talk was good, but some of the scientific studies he ...
• Mammoth Clone Slightly More Likely
  Many catastrophists would love to see the resurrection of the mammoth – if only so we could witness its failure to survive in Siberia (too cold). We’ve been teased over the years regarding the possibility, and here’s the latest (via The Guardian): The North-Eastern Federal Univ ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

• Amrita Pritam’s son was active in porn industry?
  The investigation into the murder of Navraj Kwatra, the 65-year-old son of late Punjabi writer Amrita Pritam, took an unexpected turn after the police recovered pornographic CDs from his house. Reported by Zee News 45 minutes ago
• Myanmar frees prisoners in amnesty, dissidents ...
  YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar pardoned more than 500 prisoners on Monday in an amnesty that included at least 80 political detainees, according to activists, a step that could strengthen the former military state's growing bonds with Washington. Reported by Reuters India 1 hour ago
• 4 tips to make the most of your Linkedin account
  Professional networking site LinkedIn has over 135 million members, and counting. Sunder Ramachandran shares a beginner's guide to making meaningful connections for career growth. Reported by Rediff.com 1 hour ago
• Aguero has a chance to play against Madrid: Ma ...
  The Argentina international was carried off on a stretcher early in the first half of City's 3-2 win against promoted Southampton on the opening day of the Premier League season and has not played since. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
• Can’t worry about those who think they are ‘vi ...
  Republican Mitt Romney, confronted a new headache after a video surfaced showing him telling wealthy donors that almost half of all Americans 'believe they are victims' entitled to extensive government support. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago

Global Research TV

• US Could Drone Libya to Death
• Arab Autumn: Reaping the Grapes of Wrath
• Libya's Destabilization Serves Western Politic ...
• Kosovo Still Semi-Colony, "Independence" is Me ...
• If There Was a War Prize, Obama Would Top the List

Daily Tech

• High/Low Frequency Ultrasound Waves Boost Tran ...
  Skin treated with the ultrasound waves was able to absorb glucose 10 times better, and inulin four times better
• Ryan Peterson Resigns as OCZ CEO, Alex Mei to ...
  Alex Mei has been with OCZ for 8 years
• Oil Company Loses Radioactive Tool; Could be D ...
  Halliburton lost a 7-inch radioactive cylinder used for hydraulic fracturing
• Quick Note: Cyan Lumia 920 Incoming, Possibly ...
  Video from Nokia leaks hitherto unseen variant
• Tech Executives Agree U.S. Copyright Law is Ma ...
  30 CEOs and other top executives in a new report sound off about how nonsensical copyright law is progress

Oriental Review

• Libya: Permanent Chaos a.k.a. Permanent Revolution
  In Libya, the US consulate in Benghazi came under attack which took the lives of the US ambassador and other mission staff. While the unrest was immediately sparked by the release of an anti-Muslim film on YouTube, an overview of the developments during the past several months should place the c ...
• Secrets Behind September 11
  Surveys conducted across the US show that the majority of Americans, including senior citizens old enough to remember the US entry into World War II, regard the September, 11, 2001 drama as exceeding in historical importance the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. Speaking of the latter, these days it is ...
• 9/11 Mastermind Osama bin Laden: America’s Ant ...
  “On September 11, 2012, let us not only renew our efforts to expose the truth, but also take our awareness a step further to understand that the wars launched since that fateful autumn day in 2001 – in the bitterly ironic name of “justice” and supposedly to combat “terrorism” – conti ...
• Non-Aligned Movement Re-Energized
  It was a given from the outset that the conference of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) which convened late August in Tehran would grab the headlines internationally. In an epoch that never sank into oblivion, the organization founded as an alliance of 120 countries by the charismatic trio of Josip ...
• Turkey Headed for Trouble
  Recent developments in the Middle East had a considerable impact on the standing of Turkey, a country deeply involved in the unfolding Syrian tragedy. It currently appears that Turkey’s neighbors – Iran and Iraq – are growing allergic to the attempts made by Ankara to establish itself as t ...

BlogHer

• How My Mom Encouraged Me to See My Successes a ...
  [Editor's Note: You know those kinds of days when the laundry is piled up and dinner was a flop and the kids' homework isn't done and siblings are arguing and you're just... spent? And you wonder if you're doing this mothering thing right at all or if you're just failing? Ann Marie at Household ...
• Air Fresheners: Not So Fresh
  Upon closer inspection, many of the market claims that air fresheners make turn out to be a farce - a very tricky, dangerous one at that. This nugget of info is just the beginning..."Air fresheners almost never 'freshen' the air. They just mask odors, either with synthetic fragrance or by interf ...
• The Secret to Business Success? Love
  I love to write, talk, and coach about success. Because it looks different for different people. That said, I think this post breaks it down to a nice simple premise that works for everyone. Falling in love with what you do. There are endless opinions on the secret to success. In fact, whol ...
• The Last Jar of Grape Jam
  This week I finished the last jar of grape jam. Let me explain why that is significant. Before moving to Connecticut, I lived in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. When I bought my house there, it came with a broken down, overgrown grape arbor.During my first year in the house, my free time was ...
• What is a 365 Project? Should You Participate?
  Michele at Scraps of My Geek Life has found some apps that can help you commit to a 365 project. Let her explain the project and the apps. I have participated in a Project 365 for over 5 years. I am not fanatical about it. If I miss a day or two, that’s ok. It has become such a natural part of ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Sri Lanka: Kidney Ailment Linked to Farm Chemicals
  Thousands of people in the Asian island nation of Sri Lanka have been struck by a mysterious and deadly form of kidney disease. A new study points to a likely cause: pesticides and fertilizers. This ...
• How Green Tea Boosts Memory and Special Awareness
  What can’t green tea do? It seems that with each passing month, scientists find new and wonderful benefits of this age old beverage. Now, researchers in China have determined the elixir may help with memory and special ...
• Vitamin C and Beta-carotene Might Protect Agai ...
  Study examines the influence of antioxidants on the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s Disease Forgetfulness, lack of orientation, cognitive decline… about 700, 000 Germans suffer from Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Now researchers from the University of Ulm, among them ...
• 10 Snapshots You Should Keep in Your Phone&#82 ...
  Have you ever forgotten the name of a prescription? What about the measurements of your air filter? Thanks to the ubiquitous nature of smartphone cameras, it’s now possible to carry around your entire life (well, ...
• Coconut Oil Could Combat Tooth Decay
  Digested coconut oil is able to attack the bacteria that cause tooth decay. It is a natural antibiotic that could be incorporated into commercial dental care products, say scientists presenting their work at the Society ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Sen. Rockefeller to Patriot Coal CEO: Strippin ...
  In this Wednesday Aug. 3, 2011 file photo, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., gestures during a committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) Finally, another of our state’s elected officials has stepped forward to exp ...
• Friday roundup, Sept. 14, 2012
  In this image made out of film “Comrade Kim Goes Flying” released by Another Dimension of An Idea/Koryo Group, Comrade Kim Yong Mi played by Han Jong Sim smiles as she wears a coal miner’s helmet. It’s a classic tale of a small town girl who follows her dreams to the big ...
• UMWA: “If it’s not safe, don&#8217 ...
  United Mine Workers of America International President Cecil Roberts addresses the recent bankruptcy filing by Patriot Coal,  at the 17th annual Labor Day Picnic sponsored by the Marion County AFL-CIO, the Marion County Democrat Party and the UMWA, Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012 at Hough Park in Manningt ...
• CONSOL cited in Virginia mining death
  Just a day after Thursday’s death of a worker at CONSOL Energy’s Blacksville No. 2 Mine in West Virginia, federal investigators have issued their report on the January death of a worker at CONSOL’s Buchanan Mine over in Virginia. Here’s what happened in that incident: At ...
• WVU paper provides more on MTR, health links
  We’ve talked before on this blog about West Virginia University research that found rats exposed to dust from mountaintop removal communities showed changes in the diameter of blood vessels, which could in turn reduce blood flow. The research is among the work going on now that aims to exp ...

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• The hidden victims of a lock ‘em up culture
  From independent.co.uk – Lock ‘em up and throw away the key is, sad to say, not only the right-wing populist attitude to crime and criminal justice, it sums up the attitude of much of the country. The number of people in Britain’s prisons is at an all-time high, it is announced ...
• De-Mystifying Cancer
  By Cindi Silva,WWH/CJE-I haven’t been around much lately, but I’ve been thinking about all of you. I always do. Over the summer I had a new diagnosis of breast cancer. This was an unexpected and of course highly unpleasant surprise for me although in a way I think I may have somehow known. There ...
• Revolution 99% Updates: Just another manic mon ...
  Violent anti-U.S. protests continue in Pakistan (AP) KARACHI, Pakistan – Hundreds of Pakistanis protesting an anti-Islam film broke through a barricade near the U.S. Consulate in the southern city of Karachi on Sunday, sparking clashes with police in which one demonstrator was killed and m ...
• WWH/CJE Monday News Briefs
  CHICAGO TEACHERS STRIKE ENTERS 2ND WEEK  Obama Silent as friend offers up Chicago’s children to austerity and corporate owners. CHICAGO (AP) — (Corrupt Corporate tool) Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is turning to the courts ( Will they be the same corrupt judges that illegally allowed Ra ...
• What Do You Stand For? (Redux) We still don&#8 ...
  By Diana May-Waldman,WWH - I was having a conversation with someone this week about Julian Assange. He told me he was against Assange and told me the reason was because he felt Assange was endangering our country. I listened to him and, while listening, couldn’t help ask myself what this p ...

reference frame

• Smileys: 30 years
  On Wednesday, it will have been 30 years since the birth of the smiley emoticons. You probably don't know who invented them. Well, here is the original e-mail from its creator: 19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-) From: Scott E Fahlman
• Stringy boundary conditions and D-branes
  In general, strings in string theory may be open or closed. Open strings are topologically line intervals with two endpoints; closed strings are topologically circles. The fields defined on the strings may be periodic as a function of \(\sigma\), the spatial coordinate along the s ...
• Michio Kaku: physicists invented everything
  This 42-minute Big Think video by the string field theory pioneer called "The Universe in the Nutshell" (yes, Stephen Hawking should feel plagiarized) is exactly one month old right now and while it is of a somewhat lighter genre, I found its slightly over-the-edge claims amusing: ...
• Innocence of Muslims: watch HD here
  Off-topic: Czech government imposed a full prohibition of beverages with 20 or more percent of alcohol, after 19 people died by methanol poisoning in recent days. Well, I think the prohibition is counterproductive. Millions of Muslims – including the Iranian mullah-in-chief and the offic ...
• Japanese guy may have proved the \(abc\) conje ...
  Up to a few exceptions to be proved separately, a strengthening of Fermat's Last Theorem Four days ago, Nature described a potentially exciting development in mathematics, namely number theory: Proof claimed for deep connection between primes Shinichi Mochizuki of Kyoto divided the s ...

Tatumba 2.0

• So Today A Friend Asked..
  What does it mean when someone in your family who is in the military tells you that they received orders to get on a plane in a few weeks from 9/16/2012 and they could not know where… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: September 14th in images. Today was a go ...
• CAW close to deal with Ford, Lewenza says
  The Canadian Auto Workers union says negotiations with Ford Motor Co. have taken a positive turn, and the two sides are close to a deal. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: NHL lockout all but set with no talks planned With just hours remaining on the collective bargaining agreement, de ...
• The Biggest Mortgage Fraud in History Exposed!
  On the Friday, August 10 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex talks with Dave Krieger in-studio. Mr. Krieger is a former radio news reporter, news director, television news reporter and anchorman and investigative journalist who won national and state news awards from Associated Press Broadcaste ...
• As The World Burns
  from TF Metals Report: Another week is off and running. What will it hold? Will we all still be here come Friday? Seriously, I’m starting to wonder. Maybe I’m beginning to get immunized somewhat to all of this craziness but don’t things seem a bit out of hand? Maybe the world h ...
• China prepares for a possible war with Japan
  Due to a raging dispute with Japan over islands in the East China Sea, the Chinese army has heightened its military exercises on all fronts, including aerial drills by its air force… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: Russia China agree to back Iran resolutio ...

Truth About Our World

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

Bloomberg

• Can't Stop the Big Mo
  Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
• No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
  The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
• Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
  Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
• Grading Back-to-School Stocks
  Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
• Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
  The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either

Enviroblog

• Cleaning Industry: Simple Steps to Improve You ...
  By Ken Cook President, The Environmental Working Group Since we released the new online EWG's Guide to Healthy Cleaning, with ratings of more than 2,000 different products, many consumers and several companies have asked us why some products get... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit m ...
• EWG's Guide to Healthy Cleaning: How did we do it?
  By Rebecca Sutton, Ph.D., EWG Senior Scientist What's in those bottles on top of my washing machine and under my sink? We've been asked that question thousands of times - especially by fans of EWG's Skin Deep Cosmetics Database, who... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
• Sunscreen - Lessons Learned From a Trip to the ...
  By Jason Rano, Director of Government AffairsIt's fair to say that I'm not a beach person.  My hair is pale blonde and my skin is the color of a marshmallow, if it had freckles.  I have nightmarish memories of being... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website fo ...
• Water- The New Inconvenient Truth
  By Heather White, Environmental Working Group chief of staff Guaranteeing a clean and ample supply of water should be at the core of our energy policy. Sometimes Washington seems to have forgotten that. But a recent survey shows that the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websit ...
• EWG, NRDC Sue California for Failing to Act on ...
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Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• In 'The Master,' P.T. Anderson investigates sp ...
• No Labels! Manchin, Corker, and Angus King rai ...
• Romney talks to donors about the 47 percent, t ...
• Joe Ricketts hosts a Manhattan fund-raiser wit ...
• The stunning chance-made visual art of John Ca ...

Views & News from Norway

• Oslo still most expensive, but residents not r ...
  Norway’s capital has once again won the dubious distinction of being the world’s most expensive city in which to live, but Oslo residents don’t have the highest degree of purchasing power. Pay levels in Oslo ranked fourth highest. Residents of Zurich grabbed the top spot for pu ...
• Stavanger opens new concert house
  Norway’s oil capital of Stavanger celebrated its new concert house over the weekend with a royal opening and gala performance that filled its roughly 4,000 seats. Now the challenge will be to keep them filled. The ambitious project cost NOK 1.23 billion with nearly 10 percent of the amount ...
• Oil Minister set to bow out, for now
  It wasn’t too long ago that bullish Oil Minister Ola Borten Moe of the Center Party seemed keen on becoming prime minister some day. On Monday he said he wouldn’t be standing for re-election to Parliament and wanted to get some experience from outside politics. His announcement caugh ...
• Diplomatic shuffle may include Solheim
  Two of Norway’s most important ambassador posts, in Washington DC and Moscow, will be opening up this summer as part of routine moves within the Norwegian diplomatic corps. Former government minister Erik Solheim is among those likely to have another stab at an overseas posting, when 14 ne ...
• Diplomatic shuffle may include Solheim
  Two of Norway’s most important ambassador posts, in Washington DC and Moscow, will be opening up this summer as part of routine moves within the Norwegian diplomatic corps. Former government minister Erik Solheim is among those likely to have another stab at an overseas posting, when 14 ne ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Farmageddon – The Truth About the Food and Dai ...
  Americans’ right to access fresh, healthy foods of their choice is under attack. Farmageddon tells the story of small, family farms that were providing safe, healthy foods to their communities and were forced to stop, sometimes through violent action, by agents of misguided governmen ...
• Castles in the Air: The Spanish State, Public ...
  by Carbon Trade Watch Castles in the Air English (740kb PDF) Spanish (760kb PDF) The report “Castles in the Air: The Spanish State, public funds and the EU-ETS” from Carbon Trade Watch [...]
• Heat and Drought Ravage U.S. Crop Prospects – ...
  by Janet Larson, Earth Policy Institute September estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) show 2012 U.S. corn yields at 123 bushels per acre, down by a fourth from the 2009 high of 165 bushels per acre. Yields are the lowest since 1995 and well below the average of the last 30 y ...
• Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course: ...
  This 13-day practical and demonstrative PDC will take place in Konso, south Ethiopia, from December 3rd – 15th, 2012, at Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge. It will have a special focus on the application of permaculture to communities in the developing world. It will involve practical demonstrat ...
• Reflections on Dryland Water Management in Por ...
  A reflection following a great time finding solutions for dryland water management in Portugal by Richard Perkins I’m enjoying working on a job connecting up extensive irrigation in the mountains of Extremadura, Spain, and relaxing for a couple of days after a successful and effective Dr ...

Pointman's

• The decline of the environmental lobby’s ...
  Political influence is obvious, when you see it being exercised. It’s normally exerted by politicians, who’ve been elected by the people, and are simply changing policy in line with the promises they’ve made to their electorate. Depending on their political persuasion, and your ...
• The decline of the environmental lobby’s ...
  Political influence is obvious, when you see it being exercised. It’s normally exerted by politicians, who’ve been elected by the people, and are simply changing policy in line with the promises they’ve made to their electorate. Depending on their political persuasion, and your ...
• An assessment of current alarmist propaganda.
  It’s been obvious for some time, that the science behind the most alarming claims about the effects of any putative global warming, is not only unsustainable but indefensible. We still of course get the occasional paper, trying to resurrect an old scare, which has already been demolished, ...
• An assessment of current alarmist propaganda.
  It’s been obvious for some time, that the science behind the most alarming claims about the effects of any putative global warming, is not only unsustainable but indefensible. We still of course get the occasional paper, trying to resurrect an old scare, which has already been demolished, ...
• Time to cull the prat nominations.
  I think it’s time to close off the first round of voting, since the viable candidates are by now obvious. People have really stuck to the letter of the law and voted for prats who’ve been very active this year. The front-runner, polling twice as many votes as anyone else, is Peter Gl ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Aramark Uses Hurricane Isaac to Loot the City ...
  From a press release by SEIU Local 21LA: On August 29, Hurricane Isaac swept through New Orleans and surrounding areas with raging winds and torrential rains causing widespread flooding and epic power outages that lasted in some cases as long as a week. Businesses and schools were closed for up ...
• Lolis Eric Elie And The Connections That Link ...
  This article has been reprinted from Bev Bell at Other Worlds: The Things That Are The Richest Are The Least Valued: New Orleans And Haiti, Post-Catastrophe Lolis Eric Elie, Interviewed by Beverly Bell August 28, 2012 Tomorrow, seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina dodged New Orlean ...
• Seven Years After Katrina, A Divided City, By ...
  A version of this article originally appeared on TruthOut.org.   Seven years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has become a national laboratory for government reforms. But the process through which those experiments have been carried out rarely has been transparent or democratic. The ...
• Katrina Pain Index 2012: 7 Years After, By Bil ...
  1          Rank of New Orleans in fastest growing US cities between 2010 and 2011.  Source: Census Bureau. 1          Rank of New Orleans, Louisiana in world prison rate.  Louisiana imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of ...
• Is It Time For The Bounce Vote?
  New Orleans hip-hop artist Tenth Ward Buck, a legendary New Orleans bounce music artist, announced today that he has qualified for a spot on the ballot for the city council election in District B, the seat formerly held by Stacy Head. He is one of several candidates who have declared their inten ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Shocking admissions. israel did 9/11. israel is trying to start WWIII. israel uses the "holocaust" for political purposes. Pieczenik was also starting to say that thee were over a hundred thousand Jews in Hitler's army when fatboy cut him off. I don't know if it is the impending WWI ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  With Friends Like Israel, Who Needs Enemies? An edited version of this article by Jonathan Cook, with pictures, captions and comments by Lasha Darkmoon http://www.darkmoon.me/2012/with-friend ... s-enemies/ (interesting comments)Statistics: Posted by Amanda — Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:43 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Jone$ and Pieczenik are trying to save Israel from Benjewman Nuttyahoo. There is no way that Nuttyahoo will go it alone but if his (Pieczenik) timeframe for an Iran attack is correct, look for yet another supremacist jew false flag. iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1TdMBbS02kStatistics: ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Shlomo_Shloppy wrote: Why doesn't that two bit punk known as 'ZCF' identify himself? He's ready to call Alex Jones a liar but he is an unknown little 'National Socialist' runt who just came across Zundel and the swastika. He's got a bunch of retarded white supremacist hicksters on his site. No i ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Why doesn't that two bit punk known as 'ZCF' identify himself? He's ready to call Alex Jones a liar but he is an unknown little 'National Socialist' runt who just came across Zundel and the swastika. He's got a bunch of retarded white supremacist hicksters on his site. No intelligent people out ...

TVNZ

• Kate 'pretty amazing' in coping with topless p ...
  The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been described as "amazing" in the way they have coped with the topless photos scandal.
• Iran says saboteurs cut power to nuclear plant
  Iran says power lines to its most controversial nuclear enrichment plant were blown up.
• UN expands list of Syrian war crimes suspects
  UN investigators have added more names to a secret list of Syrians suspected of committing war crimes.
• Hezbollah warns US about Prophet film
  Hezbollah's leader told the United States it would face more anger.
• Iran to 'track down' makers of anti-Islam film
  Iran's government will go after those responsible who mocked the Prophet Mohammad.

environment 360

• Most Coral Reefs At Risk Even if Warming Limit ...
  Most of the world’s coral reefs will likely be subject to long-term degradation even if global warming is limited to 2 degrees Celsius, and as much as one-third of coral reef systems will likely be vulnerable to threats even under the most optimistic climate projections, a new study says. In an ...
• Forest Mortality in U.S. Declines as Beetles R ...
  Tree deaths caused by insect infestation and disease in the western U.S. declined significantly last year, largely because mountain pine beetles have devoured so many iStockA mountain pine beetle forests that they are running out of food, according to a report by the U.S. Forest Service. Researc ...
• Japanese Set Goal To Phase Out Nuclear Power ...
  The Japanese government says it will seek to phase out all nuclear power plants by 2040, although officials suggested that the target remains flexible. The new energy strategy, which places a 40-year lifespan on nuclear reactors and limits construction of new plants, would continue a national sh ...
• New Monkey Species Identified in Remote Region ...
  A team of scientists has identified a new species of monkey in a remote area in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a discovery that researchers say confirms the remote African region as a biodiversity hotbed. After Click to enlarge Photo by Maurice Emetshu The lesula encountering one of ...
• In Himalaya Mountains, A Mixed Picture of Gla ...
  A new study says that glaciers in the Himalayas are reacting to climate change in different ways, with glaciers in the eastern and central Himalayas retreating at accelerating rates, while glaciers in the western Himalaya and Hindu Kush region are more stable and possibly even growing in places. ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• The Next Web - International technology news, ...
  Tags: website research science academic technology news
• Dr. Mark Sircus' Blog | IMVA
  Tags: health
• OpenMedia.ca | Engage, Educate, Empower
  Tags: media canada netneutrality isp crtc
• Exposing lies about Climate Change, Big Brothe ...
  Tags: lies climate change government
• Darker Net | Linking frontline news-gatherers ...
  Ecuador embassy siege: more evidence it was a raid called off at last moment Tags: frontline data underground web

backofthebook

• As the armadas mass in the Gulf . . .
  By Montreal Simon The other night I accused Stephen Harper of timing his decision to sever ties with Iran in order to ratchet up tensions, just before Benjamin Netanyahu went ballistic. From The Atlantic: “Why is he doing this? “My guess is that he’s saying what he’s sayi ...
• Peter Lougheed delivered
  By Frank Moher To young people living in Alberta in 1971, Peter Lougheed, who died on Thursday, offered the promise that we were not living in a provincial backwater after all. What is astonishing, even now, is the extent to which he delivered on that promise. Lougheed was elected that year not ...
• Open season on critics
  By Zoe Grams Fringe, film fest and publishing season is upon us – a time when the smell of suntan lotion lingers as we push into theatres. But it’s the critics, not just the performers, who are making headlines. With 76 events in the Vancouver Fringe, more than 100 in the Toronto International F ...
• A Modest Opinion – The Art of Getting By
  By Nathaniel Moher I’m sure most of you have heard about the madman Lynden Dorval, an Edmonton schoolteacher who thought it was okay to give students a zero on assignments they failed to turn in. Don’t bother checking your eyes, you read that right! These poor students received a zero out of 100 ...
• Jason Kenney exiles 3100 citizens
  By David@Sixthestate.net “Ottawa’s crackdown on residency fraud is a timely reminder that a Canadian passport is something to be earned.” That’s the general tenure of the positive media coverage the Harper regime has earned from the announcement this week that several thousand more C ...

Daily Beast

• Escape from Iran
  The true story behind the new movie “Argo” about how CIA operatives posing as a Hollywood production rescued 6 Americans hiding in Iran during the 1979 embassy crisis.
• Another Blown Play for the Cubs
  Billionaire Joe Ricketts is going all in on his super-PAC campaign to attack Obama. It could hurt the president. But it’s sure to annoy his kids—and fans of baseball’s beloved Wrigley Field.
• Will Newark Use Zuckerberg Money to Buy Out Ba ...
  The Newark school system may use part of a massive donation get rid of its worst teachers go away. Aren't there better uses for that kind of money?
• Randian Romneys Don't Win Elections
  Mother Jones' David Corn published a devastating story today: video of Mitt Romney explaining his belief that all America's poor and working class citizens will reflexively vote for Barack Obama. As my headline suggests, the language was Randian, and the political sensibility vacant.
• Apparently "Frumian" is a Word
  I was not aware of this until I ran across Reihan Salam's article on the newly developing "fault lines" in the conservative movement.

Loonwatch

• 13 Powerful Images of Muslim Rage
  Rage-filled Muslims will strike a chill into your heart.
• Virginia mosques vandalized; area Muslim leade ...
  Worshipers were shocked when they arrived at the mosque to find graffiti scrawled on the building, including obscene and racial insults against “Irakis” and a warning: “This is America,” followed by another slur.
• Newsweek Publishes Islamophobic ‘Muslim Rage’ ...
  Anti-Islam rhetoric in the United States has heated up this week in the wake of the violent protests in the Middle East.
• EDL to screen anti-Islam film in East London
  The English Defence League are planning to screen the ‘Innocence of Muslims’ film trailer in East London next month.
• Newsweek Goes for Broke with ‘Muslim Rag ...
  Thoughtfulness has flown out the window at Newsweek this week, as Tina Brown traded in a little bit of integrity and placed her bets on Islamophobia being a big seller with the magazine's screaming "Muslim Rage" cover.

Energy News

• Blueberries almost 6 times legal limit detecte ...
• NRC Engineers Charge Gov’t Coverup — Reactor m ...
• Part II: Fukushima girls have 3 times more thy ...
• Fukushima girls have 3 times more thyroid CYST ...
• Expert: “Sharp” shaking rattles sinkhole area ...

Japan Times

• Honda plans India engine factory
  Honda Motor Co. is planning to build a plant for diesel engines in India with the goal of bringing it online in 2013, according to corporate sources. Amid burgeoning demand for diesel-powered cars in India, Honda plans to invest about ¥30 billion to build the engine plant at its existing ...
• Chinese back more steps over Senkakus
  Nearly 90 percent of Chinese favor taking measures against Japan over its nationalization of the Senkaku Islands, according to a survey published Monday in the Global Times, an influential state-controlled tabloid. The survey showed that 89.7 percent of the respondents believe China should tak ...
• Kaohame
  Dear Alice, I travel a lot within Japan, and often come across a dated sort of tourist attraction that I don't know quite how to describe. They are wooden façades, often hand-painted and rather amateurish, depicting a person or persons with a hole where the head should be. A passing tourist c ...
• Japan blamed for damage inflicted by violent C ...
  China on Monday blamed Japan for the damage Japanese companies took from vandals during a weekend of protests in the country. The "illegal purchase" of the Senkaku Islands "is exerting an increasingly prominent bad impact, and the Japanese side should bear relevant responsibility," Foreign Min ...
• China warns anti-Japanese demonstrators agains ...
  State Chinese media warned people to avoid violence and a Chinese city outlawed "illegal" protests in some areas as anger over the Senkaku territorial dispute prompted attacks on Japanese companies and demands from Japan that its citizens be protected. The protests have further strained ties b ...

Alexander Higgins

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

Macleans - Central

• Charbonneau commission, fall session: Day 1
  All eyes on Laval's Gilles Vaillancourt and Montreal's Gérald Tremblay
• ‘It does so by establishing a price on c ...
  To this discussion, you can add this speech, Jim Prentice announcing “Canada’s Offset System...
• Your new deputy speaker
  The NDP’s Joe Comartin has been named deputy speaker, replacing Denise Savoie....
• Overhead in QP: ‘Will we see #NHL back-t ...
  Locked out employees + an essential service to Canadians + MPs back on Parliament Hill = non-stop hilarity in the House:
• Told you so
  Stephane Dion chides the Conservatives on news that the Harper government will be referring...

Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

• Israel and Jewish identity and power
  Gilad Atzmon considers the implication of Zionist intellectual Daniel Gordis's view that Israel is intrinsically linked to Jewish identity and that the demise of the Zionist entity would spell disaster for Jewish power globally, especially in the United States and Europe.
• Protest in Ramallah - an ominous sign for the ...
  Uri Avnery argues that foreign aid and Israeli handouts from stolen Palestinian tax revenue provide only temporary relief from Israel's economic strangulation of the Palestinians, and that a "Palestinian Spring" targeted at the occupation may come sooner rather than later.
• Netanyahu and the Zionist lobby: a threat to t ...
  Alan Hart argues that the attempts by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Israel's American lobbyists to push the United States into war with Iran is driving a wedge into the US-Israeli special relationship.
• An Israeli film-maker, Jewish donors and their ...
  Nureddin Sabir considers the possible motives of the Israeli creator and Jewish financiers of the film, "Innocence of Muslims", which gratuitously insults the Prophet Muhammad and Islam and has sparked riots in Egypt and Libya, resulting in the killing of four American diplomats at the US consul ...
• US democracy takes a hit
  Lawrence Davidson argues that the Obama camp's obsession with pre-empting attacks from domestic Israel flag-waving fos through appeasement is now such that they are no longer concerned with the damage this does to their natural allies.

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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• The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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• New debt ceiling deal
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Peakwater

• Water deficit leads to consumption of dirty water
  “Local residents in Kupang, Timor Tengah Selatan and Timor Tengah Utara, are reportedly consuming unhygienic fecal-contaminated water from nearby dikes, as sources of fresh water have dried up in the last few weeks. “We’re using dirty water from a dike for drinking water. We have no choice ...
• Vanishing Arctic Ice Is the Planet’s Whi ...
  “In 2007, a new record was set for the minimum summer sea ice cover in the Arctic had halved. This furious flag waving attracted attention. That year, the world’s scientists declared the end of any doubt that our addiction to burning fossil fuels was changing the face of the planet. ...
• Free Market Economics Are Failing World’s Dwin ...
  “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 t ...
• Beyond Big Dams: Turning to Grass Roots Soluti ...
  “Cheap pumps and new ways of powering them are transforming farming and boosting income all over Africa and Asia,” says Meredith Giordano, lead author of a three-year research project looking at how smallholder farmers are turning their backs on governments and finding their own solutions to wat ...
• Vietnam warns of water conflicts
  “Tensions over water resources are threatening economic growth in many countries and presenting a source of conflict especially given the efforts of all countries to step up economic development. “Dam construction and stream adjustment by some countries in upstream rivers represents ...

D. Kucinich

• “No More War. No More Business as Usual,” Says ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke out against bloated Pentagon spending and hundreds of billions of U.S. taxpayer money wasted on unnecessary wars. Kucinich vowed to vote against the “Continuing Resolution” which will fund the federal government for another six months. See video h ...
• Kucinich Defends Struggling Americans, Opposes ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a staunch defender of working class people, today objected to attempts to abuse the legislative processes in a committee of the House of Representatives for political purposes. The Education and Workforce Committee today considered a two sentence bill expres ...
• Kucinich Calls for Calm in Wake of Deadly Attacks
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement following the attack on our embassies in Cairo and Benghazi. “One day after September 11, 2012, Americans woke to images of our embassy in Benghazi burning, and with news that our Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, alon ...
• Kucinich Opposes Blanket Reauthorization of La ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke on the House floor opposing H.R. 5949, the FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2012. See video here. Congressman Kucinich’s full remarks follow. “To my friends on the other side of the aisle who have expressed passion about passing this, you're ...
• Kucinich Releases His Remarks from September 1 ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released remarks he delivered to Congress when the House of Representatives reconvened following the attacks on September 11, 2001: “America grieves this day for the victims of these terrorist attacks, and for their families and friends. Our prayers are ...

Authentically Wired

• but it will be interesting
  … Not to be a smart-ass Mr. Robb, but every action has consequences … it appears your assessment of the consequences you raise is fostered in the belief there is some clear difference between the current versions of the Republican and Democratic political parties in Arizona…?    T ...
• I ask when, where & of whom did the Arizona Re ...
  … The author of this letter to the editor raises a number of valid questions about the leadership demonstrated by Fife Symington when he served at the standard bearer & GOP Governor of Arizona … … Arizona is still reeling from the repercussions under his tutelage … … I stand to ask when, whe ...
• does not warrant any credibility
  … Any leader who continues to allow and thwart the law from taking action against 2,000 years of sanctioned pedophilia does not warrant any credibility to speak about freedom of religion anywhere on planet Earth … Filed under: Blogroll
• sends a message of being fair …
  … It certainly seems reasonable to me in light of economic conditions felt by most Arizona citizens those “we” chose as leaders would demonstrate some semblance of fairness and equity …   … is it not possible to give all city employees the same percentage increase even if it’s merely a toke ...
• WOW … an absolute “no brainer”
  … WOW … an absolute “no brainer” … Why an Unstable Middle East Could Mean an Environmental and Economic Catastrophe As the Arab Spring gives way to heated conflict, look for high gas prices and more pollution.  READ MORE»  … By Marshall Auerback / AlterNet … CAN  YOU  SPELL&# ...

Popular Technology

• Skeptical Science: From Al Gore to Al Jazeera
  In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums hacked and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "From Al Gore to Al Jazeera" John Cook proudly posted, "Al Jazeera want to feature SkS as the Site of the Week... Am sending them some info and pics ...
• Skeptical Science: "[W]e're all a bunch of lef ...
  In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums hacked and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "Political Compass" frequent Skeptical Science commentators and moderators took a political quiz revealing (much to their surprise) they all share t ...
• Skeptical Science: "Ding dong, the witch is dead"
  In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums hacked and the contents posted online. In these it is revealed their lack of humanity for the death of a political adversary. In a forum thread titled, "Conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart is dead at 43" fre ...
• Skeptical Science: The Censorship of Poptech
  "The impact of that ban on PopTech was to silence him." - Sphaerica (Bob Lacatena) [Skeptical Science] In March of 2012, the same computer illiterates at Skeptical Science who do not know how to use Google Scholar had their forums hacked and the contents posted online. In these I am mentioned i ...
• 1100+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skeptic ...
  WARNING: Do not accept any criticisms of this list without first reading the rebuttals or emailing, populartechnology (at) gmail (dot) com Table of Contents: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Preface Disclaimer Counting Method Criteria for Inclusio ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• Private reserve safeguards newly discovered fr ...
  Although it covers only 430 hectares (1,063 acres) of the little-known Chocó forest in Ecuador, the private reserve las Gralarias in Ecuador is home to an incredible explosion of life. Long known as a birder's paradise, the Reserva las Gralarias is now making a name for itself as a hotspot ...
• Indigenous groups in Panama wait for UN REDD t ...
  A dispute over the implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) in Panama has pitted the United Nations (UN) against the nation's diverse and large indigenous groups. Represented by the National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples in Panama (COONAPIP), indigenous ...
• WWF: Asia Pulp & Paper misleads public about i ...
  Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) continues to mislead the public about its role in destroying rainforests and critical tiger habitat across the Indonesian island of Sumatra, alleges a new report from Eyes on the Forest, a coalition of Indonesian environmental groups including WWF-Indonesia. The report, t ...
• The dark side of new species discovery
  Scientists and the public usually rejoice when a new species is discovered. But biologist Bryan Stuart has learned the hard way that the discovery of new species, especially when that species is commercially valuable, has a dark side-one that could potentially wipe out the new species before pro ...
• The rarest rhino's last stand
  Trekking through deep mud and sawgrass we find a stinking wallow. The elite rangers, dressed completely in black despite the tropical heat, mark the site with the GPS unit, measure the mucky puddle's depth, and move on. This is the first sign of one of the planet's rarest animals—the Javan ...

Science - NZ Herald

• 'God particle': Pays to ask questions
  "It's unique, like finding a unicorn. You can't explain how it got there, you're just amazed that it has."Actually, David Krofcheck's take on the discovery of the strangest piece in the tiniest jigsaw in the universe makes a fair...
• Massive diamond find in Russian crater
  Russian scientists are claiming that a gigantic deposit of industrial diamonds found in a huge Siberian meteorite crater during Soviet times could revolutionise industry.The Siberian branch of Russian Academy of Sciences said that...
• Editorial: Judge's ruling in climate case refr ...
  A year ago, James Hansen, one of the world's top climate scientists, conceded that climate sceptics were winning the argument with the public over global warming. This, he said, was occurring even as climate science itself was showing...
• Discovery gives Congo monkeys a new relative
  A team of scientists has identified a new species of central African monkey that had been known to the locals simply as lesula.Lesula is a medium-sized, slender animal that looks similar to an owl-faced monkey already known to scientists.In...
• NZ scientists' role in CFC ban profound, says ...
  A worldwide treaty banning aerosols 25 years ago averted a global catastrophe, New Zealand ozone layer scientists said yesterday.Niwa scientists played a major role in creating the Montreal Protocol, signed a quarter of a century...

The Bovine

• Romney’s role in Monsanto’s rise
  From Tom Philpott in Mother Jones: Today, Monsanto looms over the global ag landscape like a colossus. It is the globe’s largest seed purveyor—and its dominant vendor of genetically modified traits. How dominant? Here’s NPR on the company’s mastery over the US GMO … Conti ...
• Swimmer is powered by raw milk!
  From Kimberly Hartke: “Here’s a video I plan to share at the International Raw Milk Symposium! This sports and fitness buff, explains his enthusiasm for adding raw milk to the diet. If you swim competitively, here is one more valuable … Continue reading →
• Lifestock “Call to Farms” Sept. 30th
  From Montana Jones:
• Another reason to avoid GMO wheat
  From Mike Adams in Natural News: “(NaturalNews) Genetically engineered wheat contains an enzyme suppressor that, when consumed by humans, could cause permanent liver failure (and death). That’s the warning issued today by molecular biologist Jack Heinemann of the University of Canter ...
• Where happy cows make healthy food
  From Nicholas Kristof, in the NY Times: “…For Bob, a crucial step came when he switched to organic production eight years ago. A Stanford study has cast doubt on whether organic food is more nutritious, but it affirms that organic food does … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Farage Fined €3,000 for Saying President of Eu ...
  If you are seeking an amusing yet disconcerting diversion from QE talk, please consider Lawmaker fined about $4,000 for insulting EU chief. How much does it cost to tell the one of the EU's top officials he has "the charisma of a damp rag?" About €3,000, or close to $4,000, as a European ...
• Infinite QE; Central Bank Balance Sheets as Pe ...
  Here are a few very interesting charts from Steen Jakobsen, chief economist at Saxo Bank in Denmark. click on any chart for sharper image Central Bank Balance Sheets Demand Deposits Capital flight from Spain, at least in terms of demand deposits, has stabilized ev ...
• Battle Between Germany and France Over Spain B ...
  France has encouraged Spain to apply for aid as soon as possible. In Germany, Wolfgang Schäuble wants anything but a timely application. Note that unless a country requests a bailout, and agrees to terms set by the IMF (something Spain does not want to do), the entire OMT plan of Draghi is ...
• Email From Lead Analyst, Weekly Petroleum Supp ...
  In response to Petroleum And Gasoline Usage Charts for June, July, August; Unemployment vs. Gasoline Usage Analysis, a post based on weekly petroleum stats from reader Tim Wallace, I received a very nice email including a superb set of charts from James Beck, Lead Analyst, Weekly Petroleum Suppl ...
• Austria Central Bank, Germany Place Conditions ...
  The head of Austria's central bank, Ewald Nowotny, and German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble have both made statements over this weekend that affect bailout options for Spain. In particular, Nowotny says Spain must seek help before ECB buys bonds. Spain would have to apply for a rescu ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  Soft Lipa- “Ain’t So Easy” We’ve covered a lot of styles of music here at the BFP/Jamiol Soothing the Beast. We have yet to present any hip hop/rap. While there are a few rap artists I do like, a lot of it registers in my older brain as harsh, loud and repetitive. So this week [...]
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Dagestan—‘Syria comes to Russia…’
  Part I: Syria comes to the Russian Caucasus On August 28 Sheikh Said Afandi, acknowledged spiritual leader of the Autonomous Russian Republic of Dagestan, was assassinated. A jihadist female suicide bomber managed to enter his house and detonate an explosive device. The murder target had been ca ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• Greenpeace Declares Victory Over Shell’s Arcti ...
  There were a number of factors that contributed to today’s decision by Shell to pull the plug on finding oil in the Arctic waters of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas [...]
• Listing General Cargo Ship Abandoned Off Taiwa ...
  The Captain of a Hong Kong-flagged general cargo ship loaded with logs went missing on Saturday after his vessel began to list dangerously and lost power in high winds and [...]
• Jensen Hires Naval Architect Scott Ward for Ne ...
  Scott Ward has joined Jensen Maritime Consultants as a naval architect in the company’s new office in the New Orleans business district reporting to Jensen General Manager Sergio Fifi. Ward comes to [...]
• No Finger Pointing After Shell’s Arctic Drilli ...
  WASHINGTON–A months-long saga wrapped up Monday as Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA.LN, RDSA) said it would not be able to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean this summer, citing damage [...]
• General Dynamics to Plan Restoration of USS Mi ...
  The U.S. Navy said Monday that it has awarded General Dynamics Electric Boat a $94 million contract to begin planning the restoration of the nuclear attack submarine USS Miami that [...]

Press TV

• Pakistan blocks YouTube over hate film
  Pakistan has blocked access to the video-sharing website YouTube over a recent film made in the US that disrespects Islam and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
• ECOWAS mulls troop deployment to Mali
  West African defense and foreign ministers have held a meeting in the Ivoirian capital, Abdijan, to discuss the possible deployment of regional troops to northern Mali.
• Afghans anti-US protests enter day 4
  Afghan protesters have taken to the streets for the fourth consecutive day to condemn a blasphemous anti-Islam film produced by an Israeli-American in the United States.
• Unilateral bans hinder Iran talks: Russia
  The Russian deputy foreign minister says illegal US-engineered unilateral sanctions against Iran over its nuclear energy program undermine the negotiating process between Tehran and the six major world powers (P5+1).
• 'Iran doesn't seek enrichment over 20%'
  Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereydoun Abbasi says Iran has no intention of enriching uranium above the 20 percent level.

SciDev.net

• Kenya poised for major science commitment
  Kenya's government has set its sights on spending two per cent of GDP on science in a bid to meet its Vision 2030 development blueprint.
• Blood disorder could offer clues for malaria v ...
  An inherited blood disorder in South-East Asia defends people against malaria — and could provide clues for a future vaccine.
• Spelling errors may harm rankings of Iran's un ...
  Iran's universities may be ranked lower than deserved in global ranking systems because university names are not translated consistently.
• Costa Rica: ‘High appreciation’ for science
  A survey on perceptions of science in Costa Rica has revealed a low association with social wellbeing, but high appreciation for the profession.
• 'Urgent action' needed on Clean Development Me ...
  A report urges focus on development priorities in more nations as part of a plan to bolster the UN's faltering carbon-trading scheme.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

• Robotic router
  Have you have ever spent ages carefully sawing out a complex shape in a piece of wood only to find it was slightly too big, or worse slightly too small? This happened to Alec Rivers an electronics Ph...
• Flexible batteries
  One of the big reasons that mobile phones and other personal gadgetry are still simple cuboids, and not more interesting shapes, is that they need a lot of energy storage, and batteries are simple cub...
• Resistance is fertile: soil bacteria to blame
  Soil-dwelling bacteria are the source of the antibiotic resistance genes that are making many infections hard to treat, researchers have shown this week. Writing in Science, Washington University St...
• Gait expectations: genetic basis of horse dres ...
  A gene responsible for affecting how the majority of mammals move has been revealed by studying a group of Icelandic horses with weird walking patterns. Although all horses can walk, trot and gallo...
• Nanoparticles poison soil
  Nanoparticles in cosmetics and exhaust fumes can accumulate in plants and stunt growth, scientists have warned. In a paper published this week in PNAS, UC Santa Barbara soil microbiologist Patricia ...

Nick Turse

• strandbooks:Underlined passage, Shadow-line ...
  strandbooks: Underlined passage, Shadow-line by Joseph Conrad.
• nwkarchivist:OWS One-Year AnniversaryNewswe ...
  nwkarchivist: OWS One-Year Anniversary Newsweek October 24, 2011
• simonbooks:(via Flavorwire » Vintage Photogr ...
  simonbooks: (via Flavorwire » Vintage Photographs From Inside 10 Famous Libraries)
• fotojournalismus:Masked Bahraini youths set ...
  fotojournalismus: Masked Bahraini youths set up roadblocks after an anti-government march passes by to slow riot police vehicles should they arrive to disperse the demonstrators in Bilad al-Qadeem, Bahrain, on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. Demonstrators, who marched without incident, were demandin ...
• L.A. Times report: Hundreds of cases of allege ...
  shortformblog: 500+ the number of cases of alleged sexual molestation, between the years of 1970...

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