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Thomas Paine

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Sunday, September 2, 2012

2 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Personal & Noted

Scoop - NZ

  • A sense of possibility in Alice Springs
    Alice Springs, or Mparntwe, as the place is known by its traditional owners, the Arrernte people, is at the continent’s centre. As you fly towards Alice, the reptilian spine of the MacDonnell Ranges rises out of the plains. According to the Arrernte, the ranges were created by ancestral beings – ...
  • AEP: China’s fears grow over eurozone crisis
    Premier Wen Jiabao told German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Europe must "strike a balance" between fiscal tightening and measures to promote growth. "Europe's debt crisis has continued to worsen, giving rise to serious concerns in the international community. Frankly, I am also worried," he sai ...
  • Obama camp rips into Romney’s RNC speech
    President Barack Obama’s team ripped into Republican Mitt Romney’s big convention speech Friday, complaining it lacked a governing vision and disguised plans to punish the middle class.
  • Nixon-Whitlam tapes shed new light
    .. major Australian companies, especially the mining giants, now rely heavily on exports to China and other China-dependent Asian economies, and these markets are threatened by the Obama administration’s all-out diplomatic and economic operation throughout the region to undercut China, and to li ...
  • Fisk: "Rebel Army ? A Gang of Foreigners !"
    Our writer hears the Syrian forces' justification for a battle that is tearing apart one of the world's oldest cities

Independent - London

  • Thousands attend state funeral of Meles Zenawi
    Thousands of mourners gathered near a public square in Ethiopia's capital today to pay their final respects to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who was praised for lifting many out of poverty but vilified by some for restricting freedoms. Related StoriesCall for nationalisation of South African reso ...
  • South Africa to withdraw murder charges agains ...
    South Africa's top prosecutor announced today that she is withdrawing controversial murder charges against 270 miners for the killings of 34 striking co-workers shot dead by police.Related StoriesCall for nationalisation of South African resourcesSouth Africa: Minister objects to mass miners ch ...
  • Man and boy drown off the coast of Majorca
    A man and a boy have drowned off the coast of Majorca, the Foreign Office said today.Related StoriesBritish expat dies as wildfire hits Spanish resortsBritish couple expecting child after using Indian 'baby factory'Man and boy drowned off the coast of Majorca
  • Man and boy drowned off the coast of Majorca
    A man and a boy have drowned off the coast of Majorca, the Foreign Office said today.Related StoriesBritish expat dies as wildfire hits Spanish resortsBritish couple expecting child after using Indian 'baby factory'Man and boy drown off the coast of Majorca
  • Palestinian refugee camp car bomb kills dozens ...
    A car bomb near a Palestinian refugee camp in a suburb of Damascus has killed at least 15 people, according to Syria's state news agency.Related StoriesSyrian activists claim rebels downed government planeMohamed Morsi's slap in the face brings Mahmoud Ahmedinejad back to square one

Rogue Government.com

  • ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...
    The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
  • EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...
    European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.
  • Geo-engineering: green versus greed in the ra ...
    The alert on the Climate Ark website in January 2009 was marked urgent: "Take action: A rogue science ship is poised to carry out risky experimental fertilisation of the Southern Ocean. This is likely [to be] the first of many coming attempts to begin geo-engineering the biosphere as a solution ...

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Lightning kills three in Himalaya
    Three persons on Saturday were killed by lightning strike in Sunsari and Nawalparasi districts. Laxmi Khadka (36) and Ganga Khadka (18) died when the lightning struck them at Bharaul VDC-6 of Sunsari where they were working in the field. Meanwhile, Jamuna Khadka (18), who was critically injured, ...
  • Police State: Second Minnesota police officer ...
    The St. Paul police chief has placed a second officer on leave amid an investigation prompted by a video that shows a suspect being kicked while on the ground and then slammed onto the hood of a squad car, police said Friday, Aug. 31. Officer Matthew Gorans has been disciplined in the past fo ...
  • Teen struck by lightning in Weber County expec ...
    A 13-year-old boy who was struck by lightning while hunting Saturday is expected to recover. Weber County sheriff's deputies said the teen was alert and talking to family Sunday in a hospital room at Primary Children's Medical Center. The teen and a 25-year-old relative were hunting doves on a ...
  • 3 from Texas survive California lightning strike
    An Austin man and two companions survived a lightning strike that scorched the poles of their tent and left smoke wisping from their mouths. Joshua White, 32, of Austin, his brother Colton Connelly, 23, and friend Ian Richmond, 26, both of San Antonio, were backpacking along the John Muir Trail ...
  • Police State: Five LAPD under investigation ov ...
    The Los Angeles Police Department has placed no fewer than five of its officers under investigation as law enforcement officials search for answers in the mysterious death of a 35-year-old black mother who died last month while being detained. The LAPD has opened a probe to see what role, if an ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Gopper gynecology . . .
    TOM THE DANCING BUG checks in on Todd's ignorance, for our edification.
  • The hole gets deeper . . .
    AND THE D.E.A. JUST KEEPS ON DIGGING. The US Drug Enforcement Administration has grown from its creation by Nixon on July 1, 1973. According to Wiki, DEA's headquarters is located in Arlington, Virginia across from the Pentagon. It maintains its own DEA Academy located on the United ...
  • Comparisons . . .
  • Shine the lights of freedom . . .
     — Know Thy Enemy — THE TRAPWIRE surveillance system has connected state and federal law enforcement agencies with a vast intelligence infrastructure, that is scary to contemplate. RT is a Russian site that proclaims itself  to be operated by Autonomous Nonprofit Organization “TV-N ...
  • Naval nightmare . . .
    x 3 = 270,000 tons of diplomacy in a small place IT SEEMS THAT we narrowly avoided a war off the coast of Iran back in 2007, thanks to the timely action by a top political adviser to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, Gwenyth Todd. According to Jeff Stein at The Washington Post, in an article, "W ...

Media Matters for America

  • Michelle Malkin Smears Fuel Economy Standards ...
    In her syndicated column, Michelle Malkin depicted newly finalized fuel economy standards as dangerous to consumers. But in fact, standards have been reformed to remove incentives for smaller, potentially less safe cars, and technological improvements have made many smaller cars just as safe as ...
  • Media Ignore Romney's Double Standard On Busin ...
    In his speech at the Republican National Convention, Mitt Romney suggested that Barack Obama was unqualified to be president because he didn't have enough experience working in a business. In reporting this claim, media outlets have not noted that Romney selected a vice presidential candidate, P ...
  • They Built It: The Right-Wing Media Crafted Th ...
    Mitt Romney's nomination acceptance speech contained numerous falsehoods that originated in the right-wing media. Right-wing media have also echoed some of Romney's other dubious claims that were part of the speech.Romney Falsehood That Obama Has Apologized For America Comes Straight From The Ri ...
  • In Lockstep: Conservative Media Turn To Attack ...
    In an attempt to shield Mitt Romney's campaign from criticism that many of its claims against the Obama administration are based on falsehoods, conservative media have resorted to attacking fact-checkers, accusing them of liberal bias or of "shilling" for the Obama campaign. This is in keeping w ...
  • Fox Disregarded Numerous Falsehoods To Lavish ...
    Fox cheered Congressman Paul Ryan following his speech at the Republican National Convention, calling it "cogent," "coherent," and a "lethal shot" against President Obama. However, the speech was laden with numerous falsehoods that Fox patently ignored.Fox Lauded Ryan Speech As "Cogent," "A Tour ...

Global Research.ca

  • The Truth on 9/11 and the US/NATO War Agenda
    For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
  • BBC Scrubs Video Of US Backed Syria Rebels Com ...
    The BBC and NY Times scrub their own video and news story showing Syrian terrorists forcing a tortured prisoners to become a suicide bomber. Government censors have apparently ordered the BBC and the NY Times to delete videos and an…
  • US Justice Department closes CIA probe with no ...
      On Thursday US Attorney General Eric Holder shut down a more than three-year investigation into CIA torture and murder of detainees, with no charges being brought against anyone. This final ignominious chapter in the Obama administration’s protection of those…
  • Putin Is Demonized While Democracy Fails In Am ...
    The latest “rights group” to jump on Russia’s President Putin about Pussy Riot is RootsAction.  Following the propaganda line that Washington has established, RootsAction’s appeal for money and petition signers states that the three Russian women were sentenced to two…
  • Fake photos with dead bodies in media reports ...
      Usage of misleading photos of Tibetan monks in media reports on Myanmar conflict August 14, 2012 2:46 pm Press Release 14 August 2012 The Central Tibetan Administration based in Dharamsala is deeply disturbed and concerned over the circulation of…

TPM Cafe

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

Water - AlterNet

  • A One-Two Punch in the Fight For Clean Water
     It has been a week of good news in the fight for stronger protections against coal ash pollution. A court settlement in South Carolina and a major decision regarding the 2008 TVA Kingston coal ash spill make for a one-two punch against the poorly regulated toxic waste.A federal court foun ...
  • Pledge to Resist Fracking: Writer-Biologist Sa ...
     The following was a speech given by Sandra Steingraber for the Don’t Frack New York Rally in Albany, August 27, 2012.On this day, 53 years ago, a pregnant college student walked into a hospital in rural Illinois and gave birth to a child.And then she walked out. By herself.The bab ...
  • The Climate Breakdown Is Right Here, Right Now
     There are no comparisons to be made. This is not like war or plague or a stockmarket crash. We are ill-equipped, historically and psychologically, to understand it, which is one of the reasons why so many refuse to accept that it is happening.What we are seeing, here and now, is the tran ...
  • Don't Want to Be a Vegetarian? You May Not Hav ...
     Leading water scientists have issued one of the sternest warnings yet about global food supplies, saying that the world's population may have to switch almost completely to a vegetarian diet over the next 40 years to avoid catastrophic shortages.Humans deriv ...
  • Are the Water Wars Coming?
    The author Mark Twain once remarked that "whisky is for drinking; water is for fighting over" and a series of reports from intelligence agencies and research groups indicate the prospect of a water war is becoming increasingly likely. In March, a report from the office of the US Director ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • No new nuclear plants for Texas any time soon
    Excelon at Victoria, TX Earlier this week, Exelon Generation announced plans to withdraw its Early Site Permit application for an 11,500-acre tract of land southeast of Victoria, TX. The company said the decision was based mainly on economics and sited current market conditions that make it impo ...
  • State Employee Charitable Campaign up for Suns ...
    In 1993, the state legislature created the State Employee Charitable Campaign (SECC) to provide a new benefit for state workers.  The ability to make tax-deductible contributions to a wide range of charities through their paychecks has giving state employees an easy way to donate to charities of ...
  • BREAKING – 4 Blockaders are Locked to Truck Ca ...
    4 Tar Sands Blockaders are Locked to Truck Carrying Keystone XL Pipeline in Livingston, TX, bringing construction on the Keystone XL pipeline to a stop!! Follow the action right now on the Tar Sands Blockade LIVE BLOG and tell the world about it. Just minutes ago four landowner advocates and cli ...
  • OMG! East Texas Judge rules foreign company ca ...
    Wednesday evening, Lamar County Court at Law Judge Bill Harris sent an email from his iPhone (complete with new internet slang – MSJ and NEMSJ) ruling in favor of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, allowing them to act as common carrier and giving them to right to condemn land for use ...
  • TVA found liable for toxin ladened coal ash spill
    Finally a positive ruling for those adversely affected by coal power plants.  Today a federal judge ruled that the Tennessee Valley Authority is liable for a huge spill of toxin-laden sludge in 2008 in Tennessee when containment dike at TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant burst. About 5 million cu ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • UFO reported over Osaka, Japan
    Multiple witnesses reported seeing a multicolored object hovering over the city on August 30th. The sightings created a significant buzz on Twitter wi...
  • Invertebrates at risk of extinction
    One fifth of the world's population of spineless creatures are believed to be at risk of going extinct. Species that perform vital tasks such as bees ...
  • Nixon-era cheese to sell for $10 an ounce
    Edward Zahn discovered blocks of cheese up to 40 years old at the back of his cheese shop's cooler. The cheese was stored in wooden boxes that had bee...
  • Mars One mission receives first funding
    A company planning to send humans to Mars by 2023 has received its first funding from sponsors. Mars One is a Dutch company with plans to not only sen...
  • Skydiver survives after parachute fails
    A skydiver miraculously survived after his parachute failed to open during a 13,000ft fall. 35-year-old Liam Dunne had jumped from a plane and deploye...

Grassroots

  • The Struggle for Justice Continues for Rachel ...
    rachel.jpg Today, a civil court in Israel issued a verdict in the 2003 death of Rachel Corrie. Judge Oded Gershon of Haifa District Court concluded that Rachel’s death was not caused by the negligence of the Israeli state or army. Rachel, a ...
  • “Land, water and food are part of our existenc ...
    honduras201204-41.jpg They left San Vicente searching for a peaceful place to live, free of the oppressive British colonial powers. Three thousand women, men and children sailing atop the blue waters of the Caribbean Sea were thirsty and hu ...
  • Supporting Indigenous Peoples' Struggle for Ri ...
    conic-2009.jpg Today [August 9] is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People. The United Nations pronounced this day to promote and protect the rights of the world’s indigenous population. Today also gives us an opportunity to ...
  • Traveling to Brazil, but not 'that' Brazil
    brazil_delegation_2012.jpg This summer, a group of Grassroots International supporters and allies participated in a delegation to Pernambuco, Brazil. There they saw first-hand the resilient and powerful work of the Landless Workers Movement ...
  • Campaign for Permanent Housing Solutions in Haiti
    4752570635_3dfd8c7f7b_m.jpg Article 22 of Haiti’s 1987 Constitution guarantees adequate housing to all Haitians, yet hundreds of thousands of Haitians are languishing in makeshift tents two and a half years after the January 2010 earthqu ...

Climate

  • Road Builders: Higher Emission Rules will Drai ...
    (The Hill) The America Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) said Thursday that higher gas mileage requirements for cars enacted this week by the Obama administration will make less fuel tax money available to pay for co ...
  • Retrofit Chicago: Is Energy Efficiency Plan Wo ...
    (Midwest Energy News) Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is known for letting hardly a week go by without the announcement of a major new initiative. One of the most prominent and more controversial plans has been his $1.7 billion Infrastruct ...
  • Fracking Supporters, Foes Prepare Legal Next Steps
    (North Country Public Radio) Albany, NY— New York State is poised to issue its plans for hydrofracking. The decision could come any time after Labor Day. But there's no guarantee the controversy will die down, and both opponents and su ...
  • Enbridge Pipeline Exempt from Local Ordinance
    (Livingston Daily) Thirteen years ago today, an exhaustive Howell Township ordinance took effect requiring pipeline companies to pay tens of thousands of dollars in fees and produce voluminous safety-and-environmental paperwork before ...
  • Shell Receives Permit to Drill in Alaska's Chu ...
    (AP) Royal Dutch Shell has been given a permit to begin preparation work at exploratory drilling sites in the Arctic while it awaits certification for its oil spill response barge, US interior secretary, Ken Salazar, announced onThursd ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Stealing the Election
    Ohio is a crucial state in the November election. And Romney isn't doing well enough there to win. The following analysis may have come from Karl Rove: On the eve of the Republican convention, a senior strategist with a Republican super PAC, who would share the groups strategic thinking onl ...
  • Internet Killed the Convention Bounce
    If video killed the radio star, it appears that the internet killed the political convention bounce. Between 1968 and 1992, the only challenger not to get a double digit bounce out of his convention was George McGovern, and he still got a bounce bigger than Bush in 2000, Kerry in 2004, or Obama ...
  • Paul Ryan is Dishonest
    Paul Ryan cannot even be honest about how fast he can run. To be more accurate, Paul Ryan lied about how fast he could run twenty years ago. In fact, his own brother called him out on his lie and mocked him relentlessly. Ryan had claimed that he once ran a 26 mile marathon in under three hours ...
  • How Much Fail?
    If your house is literally under water, don't worry, Mitt Romney is here to help. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney launched the final leg of his quest for the White House by visiting storm-battered Louisiana on Friday. He drove through a town that was flooded by Hurricane Isaac i ...
  • Can We Get Better Media?
    To the degree that The Hill's Alexander Bolton and Peter Schroeder are just reporting what Republicans are saying, their article is fine. But what about this? But it was [Paul] Ryans Wednesday night speech that was widely acclaimed as a home run and showed he can perform confidently on the ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Tallest Concrete Dams as Seen From Above
    They generate power, withstand enormous pressure, and when viewed from above are enough give anyone vertigo. Prepare for the 10 Tallest Concrete Dams as Seen From Above. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Stuck in the Mud: Camel Gets Rescued from Stic ...
    The endangered Kharai breed of camels are unique in their ability to swim. But only a human rescue team can help this one out of it's muddy trap. Humph! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Beautiful Bamboo Forest of Kyoto
    The giant grass of Kyoto's bamboo forest is not only a captivating part of Japanese culture; it can also help us in our efforts to make our planet a greener place. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Mysteries and Tragedy of Russia's Bottomle ...
    Like a deep blue gemstone nestled in the Caucasus Mountains, this karst lake, one of the largest and deepest on Earth, guards dark and mysterious secrets in its depths. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Future Cities: Where Will America's Growing Po ...
    Immigration and births have set US population on a rising trajectory. Fortunately, creative thinkers are coming up with housing solutions for a more populous planet. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • State Considering Studying Health Impacts of F ...
    Environmental groups are pressing New York to conduct a study of the health effects of hydraulic fracturing before the state makes its final determination on whether to allow the drilling process.
  • Unraveling the Nuclear Renaissance
    A proposed twin-reactor plant in Texas and another planned project in Maryland, with a French connection, have become victims of tough economic and regulatory times.
  • An Unlikely Welcome Wagon, Back in Suburbia
    In her final Year in the Woods post for the Green Blog, Susannah Leisher talks about what she has learned and seen since resuming her old life in the wilds of suburbia.
  • East Coast National Parks at Risk From Sea Lev ...
    A new report on popular coastal retreats say these areas are some of the most susceptible to the effects of climate change and may look very different, very soon.
  • What Will It Take?
    In this presidential election season, mum is the word on all issues related to climate change.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • UPDATE: Govt Sites appear OK right now // Earl ...
    UPDATE: August 12 7AM: via two different DNS services it looks like the sites are looking up correctly now. My net connection's pretty dodgy at the moment but I think they are loading correctly now. It could have been a temporary glitch - strange since other lookups were working correctly on a t ...
  • BREAKING: Feds / IIR.COM apparently SCRUBBING ...
    BREAKING NEWS PEOPLE - apparent #trapwire gov coverup in realtime!! it looks like the government is scrubbing Suspicious Activity Report related GOV sites and dumping their DNS entries. However the boxes are STILL ONLINE, if you use /etc/hosts on osx/unix you can STILL get in and mirror the file ...
  • Security culture danger as closed Occupy Homes ...
    Troublesome assumptions about security culture arrangements for closed Occupy Homes national gathering sessions starting tomorrow at the Neighbors Organizing for Change MN (NOC Office) around noon put participants at risk. I feel everyone involved means well, but a bunch of particularly 'toxic' ...
  • Plans for closed door Occupy Homes national me ...
    ///// 1AM August 7th update: http://hongpong.com/archives/2012/08/07/security-culture-danger-closed-o... ///// ///// 1:40PM Sat August 4 update and correction below ///// Many Twin Cities activists working with the Occupy Homes MN group were surprised to hear that a national gathering committe ...
  • Plans for closed door Occupy Homes national me ...
    Many Twin Cities activists working with the Occupy Homes MN group were surprised to hear that a national gathering committee, with two representatives from their group, had decided to restrict open access to most (but not all) of the sessions of that national gathering, scheduled around August 7 ...

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...
    Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
  • No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...
    Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal ch...
  • Climate Change Poses Food Distribution Risks, ...
    * Bridges, roads could be washed away, hitting harvest transport * "High degree of confidence" weather extremes linked to climate change * Enough food, but problem is distribution - professor By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Downpours and heatwaves caused ...
  • Paul Ryan: Quiet But Far-Right On Social Issues
    Rep. Paul Ryan is considered a single-issue candidate -- someone who bolsters Mitt Romney's argument that this election is about the economy and only the economy.Ryan hasn't dedicated much time to social issues. But the Wisconsinite, best understood as an anti-tax, anti-spending purist, has tak ...
  • Assange will be refused safe passage even if E ...
    Source: RT The UK will do everything in its power to block Assange’s passage to Ecuador even if he is granted asylum by the nation’s government, officials said, claiming a legal obligation to extradite the WikiLeaks founder to Sweden. UK authorities sparked a minor scandal when ...

Institute for Policy Studies

  • Mining for Gold: A Pact With the Devil?
    The economic crisis - and the rising price of gold - have spurred North American firms to reopen mines and attack environmental regulations. Here's what we can learn from El Salvador's moratorium on new mining permits.
  • Korea and the U.S. Elections
    When it comes to foreign policy, significant transformation is as unlikely in Washington as it is in Pyongyang.
  • IPS Salutes a Golf Win
    The end of Augusta's men-only membership marked a victory for IPS associate fellow Martha Burk.
  • A Move to Free the Cuban Five
    We visited Gerardo Hernandez at a maximum-security prison in Victorville, CA - as new court filings show the U.S. government paid Miami-based journalists to file negative stories about the Cuban Five.
  • Labor Day Special: Week of August 27-September ...
    This week, OtherWords is featuring a wide range of commentaries addressing worker rights.

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #788
    US spy planes violated Israeli airspace in 1950s. US guard pleads guilty to espionage. CIA torture probe ends without any charges.
  • Afghan President replaces spy chief with contr ...
    The office of the Afghan President announced yesterday the dismissal of the country’s intelligence chief and his replacement with a controversial official accused by Canadian and British sources of using torture to implement his policies.
  • France opens murder inquiry into death of Pale ...
    French prosecutors have opened an official murder inquiry into the 2004 death of Palestinian statesman Yasser Arafat, following allegations that he may have been poisoned.
  • News you may have missed #786
    US Pentagon wants to share intel with Egypt. Researcher disputes Aoki was FBI informant. Russian intelligence to monitor blogosphere.
  • Cuban Vice President’s daughter defects to the ...
    The daughter of one of Cuba’s most senior government officials secretly defected to the United States earlier this month and is now living in Tampa, Florida, according to a Spanish-language newspaper.

War is a Crime.org

  • Syria News - Sep 2
        Biden: Romney wants war with Syria, Iran - Businessweek UN Envoy Brahimi Rules Out Arab Military Intervention in Syrian Civil War - Novinite.com VIDEO: Mass demonstrations in Antioch condemning Erdogan policy on Syria - YouTube VIDEO: Newly-Supplied Russian Pantsir-S1 Anti-Air Miss ...
  • Iran War Weekly - September 2, 2012
    Iran War Weekly September 2, 2012   Hello All – A report this week on Iran’s nuclear program re-charged the debate on whether Israel should or would attack Iran before the US presidential election in November.  The quarterly report of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ...
  • Farzana, ‘2 Million Friends’ and a Ceasefire i ...
    by Hakim and Kathy Kelly “Stop fighting,” suggests Farzana, a brave 22 year old Afghan stage actress. Significantly, her statement is in sharp contrast to what seems to be the democratic world’s unquestioned modus operandi of today, exemplified by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s pet-ph ...
  • Global Peace Radio
    Here's audio of David Swanson and Jason Liosatos: mp3. read more
  • Vets prepare for pro-Bradley Manning actions a ...
    Bradley Manning Support Network  http://bradleymanning.org   If Obama fails to respond to request, vets will occupy campaign offices Veterans arrested during a sit-in on August 16 for PFC Bradley Manning at President Obama’s Oakland, CA campaign headquarters are callin ...

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

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    By Patrick B. Pexton, Published: August 31 Readers periodically ask me some variation on this question: “Why does the press follow every jot and tittle of Iran’s nuclear program, but we never see any stories about Israel’s nuclear weapons capability?” It’s a fair question. Going back 10 years in ...
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    Elizabeth Renter Activist Post Just a few decades ago, it was completely common to go to the dentist with a cavity or two and leave with several silver-colored fillings. And while these fillings were frequently referred to as “silver,” dental professionals were referring to the color, and certai ...
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    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is currently engaged in a massive fear mongering campaign that would have everyone in America believe that the so-called West Nile virus (WNv) is spreading uncontrollably like wildfire. Though ...
  • 75 Year Old Grandmother Held Down At Gunpoint ...
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  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • The Sustainable Disaster Recovery Conference C ...
    Natural disasters are physically, socially, and psychologically devastating to a town.  It can be extremely difficult to rebuild civic infrastructures and restore the lives of residents.  Where do individuals, families, organizations and governments begin to look for help?  Are there processes, ...
  • Green-Roofed Shopping Mall in China is Topped ...
    While New York is making strides in promoting the installation of green roofs throughout NYC, the city of Zhuzhou in Hunan, China is taking the idea of green roofs to new heights with a shopping mall topped with a lush living roof and a four-villa development! China Daily reports that the houses ...
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    Little boy with apple image via Shutterstock Apples are great and all, but if you want to make sure your kids maintains good eating habits while at school, you’re going to have to send them packing with more than just apples. Finding snacks that are organic, healthy, and also delicious eno ...
  • The Haute Lunch: Jil Sander’s “Vasari” Bag Mak ...
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  • Eco Fashion Designer M Patmos Talks About Her ...
    Marcia Patmos, the brains behind the much-loved M Patmos eco fashion line, applies her eco-conscious mindset to everything she does. When we saw the designer during fashion week, she mentioned her newly-upgraded Brooklyn apartment, which she sustainably revamped with the help of architect and de ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Fantastic New Video Shows Huge Eruption on the Sun
    A spectacular new video by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captures a dramatic filament eruption on the sun on Aug. 31.
  • Watch Live: Amazing Images of Blue Moon and a ...
    Tonight's blue moon will dazzle viewers all over the world. But for a truly unique experience, watch this live Slooh Space Camera show to get incredible telescopic close-ups of the lunar surface and a special tribute to Neil Armstrong starting at 3 p.m. PDT/6 p.m. EDT.
  • High-Res Interactive Panorama Lets You Stand o ...
    Zoom in on every pebble and stone around the Curiosity rover in this amazing high-resolution interactive panorama taken on Mars.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Big Star ...
    If you're like us, you could look at photos of galaxies, planets, moons and nebulas all day. But you don't have all day, so let Wired Science bring you the most intriguing, beautiful or mysterious view of space we can find. We promise they will be mind-blowing and tempt you to replace your deskt ...
  • Genome Brings Ancient Girl to Life
    In a stunning technical feat, an international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of an archaic Siberian girl 31 times over, using a new method that amplifies single strands of DNA. The sequencing is so complete that researchers have as sharp a picture of this ancient genome as they wou ...

PakAlert

  • What Is The Best Place To Live In America? Pro ...
    If you could live in any state in America, where would you go? During troubled times like these, what is the best place in the United States to live? A lot of people are asking these kinds of questions these days. Our economy is on the verge of collapse, natural disasters are becoming more fr ...
  • Warning! Do Not Buy This Walmart Product
    It’s not bad enough they are poisoning and dumbing down Americans throughout our whole country by adding fluoride to roughly 70% of the countries tap water.Now I just found out from a friend who sent me these pictures he had taken while in a Walmart store.Walmart doing their part in poising infa ...
  • FEMA Needs Another 1 Million MRE’s Today, Over ...
    Due to Hurricane Isaac’s landfall and subsequent stalling, the Department of Homeland Security finds that they need 1,100,000 low sodium MRE’s to cope with the sudden demand
  • There Was A Secret Ruling Against The NSA For ...
    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is suing the Justice Department for details of last month's ruling by a secretive U.S. court that National Security Agency's domestic spying program violated the U.S. Constitution, Jon Brodkin of arstechnicareports
  • Neil Armstrong’s UFO Secret
    Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, passed away this weekend at age 82. Many have asked if Armstrong took with him the secrets of what really happened during the famed 1969 Lunar Landing. Well, yes- and no

Andy Worthington

  • Photos of the Paralympics Demonstration Agains ...
    The Paralympics Demonstration Against Atos Healthcare in London, a set on Flickr. Yesterday, Friday August 31, was the last day of the Atos Games, a week of events organised by Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) and UK Uncut against the jaw-dropping hypocrisy involved in Atos Healthcare, the Fr ...
  • Photos of Lewisham: Hills, Rivers, Secret Corn ...
    Lewisham: Hills, Rivers, Secret Corners and Blatant Skyscrapers, a set on Flickr. For most of the last 16 years I have lived in the London Borough of Lewisham — first in Forest Hill, London SE23, and, since November 1999, in Brockley, London SE4, which overlooks Lewisham town centre, the c ...
  • Photos of the Olympics: In Search of the Paral ...
    The Olympics: In Search of the Paralympic Torch, a set on Flickr. With the main Olympic Games now a memory, the focus, for the next 11 days, is on the Paralympic Games, before Britain returns to the gloom of life under the crushing yoke of a myopic Tory-led government. While the Games were a gre ...
  • Glass, Light and Fantasies: Photos of the City ...
    Glass, Light and Fantasies: The City of London At Night, a set on Flickr. This latest photo set, on Flickr, from my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike — the 23rd instalment in what will be at least a year-long project — follows up on a previous set, Parks, Wate ...
  • Echoes of Ancient Rome: Photos of the Roman Fo ...
    Echoes of Ancient Rome: The Roman Forum, the Colosseum and the Palatine Hill, a set on Flickr. My two-week family holiday in Italy is at an end, and I am now back in London, slightly cold and pining for the heat, the cooking, the fresh fruit, the culture of Rome and the mountains and lakes [...]

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

SPL Center

  • Anti-LGBT Zealots Target Fox and Bill O’Reilly
    Leave it to extreme elements of the anti-LGBT right to make Fox News look almost “fair and balanced” after all. Frequently the target of left-leaning criticism, the cable news network and its most popular host, Bill O’Reilly, are now coming under fire for “helping violent homosexuals to kill Chr ...
  • Conspiracy Theorists: Isaac Caused by God, Gov ...
    Hurricane Isaac has inconvenienced a lot of people. Many thousands of Gulf Coast residents have boarded up windows and sought shelter inland. And many others are now facing the prospect of cleaning up and rebuilding flooded homes and businesses. But the inconvenienced people we’ve been hearing a ...
  • Two ‘Sovereigns’ Plead Guilty in Alaska Murder ...
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  • If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...
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  • Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...
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  • Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...
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  • 16 pilot whales die in Scottish cove
    Rescuers refloat another 10 stranded whales but say their chances of survival are 50-50Sixteen pilot whales, including four calves, have died in a mass stranding on the coast of Fife in Scotland as rescuers fought a desperate battle to save others.The pod of 26 was discovered in a cove at the ba ...
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  • Vince Cable defends Nick Clegg as more Lib Dem ...
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  • Police conduct search for couple missing in th ...
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Afghanistan Sun

  • US suspends Afghan police recruit training
    AFP © Soldiers of the 2nd Kandak, 2nd Brigade, 201st corps of the Afghan National Army stand in line at the Camp Joyce base in Kunar province on August 18. US special forces in ...
  • Karzai nominates new Afghan Cabinet members
    An Afghan government spokesman says President Hamid Karzai has officially nominated four people to Cabinet positions proposed last week but so far held back from the rumored wider ...
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  • US halts some Afghan forces training after attacks
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  • Obama Romney campaigns spar over issues about ...
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Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • AILA amicus brief urges protection for interna ...
    Last week, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) filed an amicus brief with the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) urging the Board to restore a broad interpretation of "members of a particular social group." The "social group" status is important because those ...
  • Happy Birthday! Lloyd-La Follette Act
    Today is the 100th anniversary of the Lloyd-La Follette Act, a milestone in our nation's protections for government whistleblowers and a watershed in the balance of power between Congress and the President.  In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt issued an executive order prohibiting all fed ...
  • NWC Applauds First SEC Whistleblower Award
    Under a new program championed by the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) to reduce securities fraud, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today announced its first whistleblower award of nearly $50,000. The SEC's announcement is the mark of success for its new Whistleblower Program, w ...
  • Why Retaliation is a Company "Felony"
    By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash (and former chief compliance and ethics officer at two leading multinationals). Follow her on Twitter @DonnaCBoehme. “One way or another, I'm gonna find ya' I'm g ...
  • Blood Medicine tells the story of Mark Duxbury ...
    Kathleen Sharp's book about pharmaceutical whistleblower Mark Duxbury will be released in paperback on September 1, 2012. It is Blood Medicine: Blowing the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever. I had the pleasure of interviewing journalist Kathleen Sharp on November 15, 2011.& ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
    This week, one topic proved to be a magnet for insight and comedy: the Apple/Samsung verdict, and the ensuing comments from the jurors. Three of our four top-voted comments this week come from posts about that fiasco, starting with Most Insightful winner Yakko Warner (I assume not actually the i ...
  • Nospacesorspecialcharacters's Favorite Techdir ...
    Alright, here's a play-by-play of the posts that caught my attention between bashing the keyboard, drinking copious amounts of coffee and munching the odd cheese and pickle sandwich. Last week saw the end of the biggest patent trial in history so far and the result wasn't in favor of innova ...
  • Piracy Is A Cultural Opportunity; Embrace It
    Piracy has become a force of nature in the entertainment world. No matter what you make or how you release it, there are pirates waiting around the corner to try to get it for free. No matter what you try to stop this from happening, you just can't -- much like a storm, you have no control over ...
  • Common Sense For School Internet Safety Policies
    We talk quite a bit here about the growing pains of various institutions when faced with upstarts like the internet and social media. The usual suspects like the recording industry and newpapers come to mind first, but one of our oldest institutions continues to painfully stumble its way into th ...
  • As Feds Drop Bogus Domain Seizure Cases, Anoth ...
    While the cases of Dajaz1 and Rojadirecta have shown that the US government wants nothing to do with lawsuits around domain seizures when those sites lawyer up with strong legal teams, it has continued to railroad those with less-than-stellar legal support. We saw it with NinjaVideo where it wa ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    My friend Mark, also one of the founders of the punk collective I’m in, wrote this article comparing the Russian government’s reaction to Pussy Riot to the reaction Positive Force got for their “Meese is a Pig” postering back in the day. I know I should say something abou ...
  • Obey or Pay…Unless
    I came across this truancy scare video the other day. The video talks about how truancy leads to dropping out and how dropping out leads to a “lifelong inability to find gainful employment (and) make a meaningful life.” It has kids talking about how they were rebellious (the horror). ...
  • Beware of Strange Men on Airplanes
    It seems that Virgin airlines has a policy that unaccompanied children cannot sit next to men on their airplanes. An Australian man, who was assigned a seat next to two boys he did not know, was asked to switch seats with a woman. Pissed off about being treated like a presumed predator, he blogg ...
  • Big Tents, Little Bridges, Vested Interests
    This piece over at Cubik’s Rube reminded me of something I have been wanting to write about for a while. James is worried that the atheism+ idea that Blag Hag wrote about, and that I linked to on Wed, will be just one more divide in a movement that already has plenty of “splits, schi ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Sorry I dropped out for a few days. I was at the beach having the greatest shit show on earth. I actually brought my laptop. But who the hell was I kidding? Shane Thayer is having a contest. Writing a blog post that links to his artwork enters you in a contest for a free [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Is the GOP becoming less invested in war?
    The Associated Press reports: With America embroiled in its longest armed conflict, Mitt Romney became the first Republican since 1952 to accept his party’s nomination without mentioning war. Three election cycles after the 2001 terrorist attacks, neither Romney nor his running mate, Rep. Paul R ...
  • Not all Republicans are Islamophobes but all I ...
    Faheem Younus writes: The straw man of the famous post-Sept. 11 slogan, “Not every Muslim is a terrorist but every terrorist is a Muslim” was debunked by a 2005 FBI report. It showed that only 6 percent of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil from 1980 to 2005 were carried out by extremist ...
  • Muslim cleric arrested for framing Christian g ...
    The Guardian reports: The mullah at the centre of the furore surrounding a young Pakistani Christian girl facing a death sentence for blasphemy has been accused of deliberately framing her by planting burnt Islamic texts. In an extraordinary development in the case, which has attracted internati ...
  • What about Israel’s nuclear weapons?
    The Washington Post‘s ombudsman, Patrick B. Pexton, writes: Readers periodically ask me some variation on this question: “Why does the press follow every jot and tittle of Iran’s nuclear program, but we never see any stories about Israel’s nuclear weapons capability?” It’s a fair question. ...
  • Video: Inside Syria — Buffer zone raises tough ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Sea Ice Page Upgrades, Observations and Questions
    By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” In making a couple upgrades to the Sea Ice Page, I made a few observations, and a few questions arose. Firstly, several weeks ago the following exchange occurred on a Sea Ice News thread: … Continue reading →
  • WUWT web retooling – comments welcome
    After 2.5 years with the same design, I’m looking to do an upgrade to WUWT to give it more modern features. I’ve got some professional help involved to do this. It will be a complete rework from the ground up … Continue reading →
  • Quote of the week – I guess we’re ...
    Here’s the QOTW, a comment left on a YouTube video: Very well done. Except, unfortunately, history will show that climate denialists are worse than nazis. What prompted that? This: I suppose it was only a matter of time before the … Continue reading →
  • WUWT is the focus of a seminar at the Universi ...
    Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. sends word of this via email. I’m a bit amused, but not surprised, as we know WUWT has been pushing the traditional media envelope, and we often tackle subjects they can’t or won’t. I liked this … Continue reading →
  • Paging Dr. Stephan Lewandowsky – show yo ...
    From the “free the metadata” department, we have this gem. Dr. Stephan Lewandowsky of the University of Western Australia’s Cognitive Science Department devised some sort of survey where he supposedly contacted skeptical climate blogs to ask we post a link to … Continue r ...

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Biosingularity

  • Coffee drinkers have lower risk of death, stud ...
    Older adults who drank coffee — caffeinated or decaffeinated — had a lower risk of death overall than others who did not drink coffee, according a study by researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and AARP. Coffee drinkers were ...
  • All cancer cells are not created equal
    A study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers suggests that specific populations of tumor cells have different roles in the process by which tumors make new copies of themselves and grow.  In their report in the May 15 issue of Cancer Cell, researchers identify a tumor-propagatin ...
  • How the worm knows where its nose is
    For decades, scientists have studied Caenorhabditis elegans – tiny, transparent worms – to glean clues about how neurons develop and function. A new Harvard study suggests that the worms’ nervous system is much more capable and complex than previously thought, and has a way to monitor its ...
  • Mystery gene reveals new mechanism for anxiety ...
    A novel mechanism for anxiety behaviors, including a previously unrecognized inhibitory brain signal, may inspire new strategies for treating psychiatric disorders, University of Chicago researchers report. By testing the controversial role of a gene called Glo1 in anxiety, scientists uncovered ...
  • Researchers crack part of common cancer mutati ...
    Researchers have identified a compound that could correct a mutation and stop cancer from spreading — a development that could eventually be used to treat tens of thousands of cancer patients in the United States each year. In a study published today in the journal Cancer Cell, four scientists f ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Hey - hand me that wrench over there, willya?
    I’m working under the hood this week.  I’m looking into moving the site to a new architecture, so I’ve got a test site underway.  If I can get it looking right, I’ll cut over.  Otherwise it will stay the same and I’ll just have some wasted time to sho ...
  • How the decline in CO2 emissions is like NAFTA
    The quality of reporting on fracking in large outlets has been of varying quality. Day-to-day coverage of the latest developments is usually pretty good, but bigger picture trend pieces have a tendency to be positively fawning towards the industry. A couple of recent articles in the New York T ...
  • Rallying for Aramark Laundry Workers
    The Immigrant Workers Union (UTI) Local 229 held a rally at an Aramark uniform service facility in Madison to bring to light the abuses being committed by management against the laundry workers they employ.     The workers, formerly organized under UNITE, are now organized under the& ...
  • Fighting fracking: introverts edition
    One of the biggest threats fracking poses to the environment is the way it endangers the water supply. It does so in several ways, one of which has large-scale implications. Global impact like that is a little unusual; environmental issues are more likely to be local. Whether it’s frack ...
  • Hiram residents attempt to ask questions about ...
    Thursday’s post on Hiram’s public fracking meeting mainly covered residents’ interaction with local officials. The bigger part of the meeting, though, featured two speakers with ties to the oil and gas industry. A representative from the company Mountaineer Keystone (MK) made ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • What Is Organic?
    Jim Riddle is the Organic Outreach Coordinator for UMN - Southwest Research and Outreach Center. He met with Market host Jill Jones to answer the question: "What does it mean when produce and meat products are labeled organic?" Click here to read this article
  • Got Sewage?
    St. Louis Composting's Patrick Geraty hooks up with a national syndicate that peddles sewage. Click here to read this article
  • Brazil Fines Monsanto $250,000 for Misleading Ad
    A Brazilian court fined US biotech giant Monsanto $250,000 on Wednesday for what a judge said was the company's misleading advertising concerning GM soy.Click here to read this article
  • The Last Antibiotic: Drug Companies Run Out of ...
    The age of antibiotics is over. It's history. There are no more patented chemical antibiotics in the pipeline. The drug companies have all but abandoned antibiotics research, leaving humanity to suffer the fate of a wave of drug-resistant bacteria -- superbugs -- that the drug companies actually ...
  • Fluoridated Water: Chinese Industrial Fluoride ...
    Fluoride-pushing doctors and dentists who try to contaminate your water supply with fluoride are promoting their deadly agenda with a clever lie... a lie you will see obediently repeated in every fluoride push. Here's how it sounds:Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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 ...
  • New Orleans Groups Awarded Grants for New Farm ...
    I want to congratulate my friends at the Recirculating Farms Coalition who were recently awarded two grants to construct an Urban Farming and Food Center in downtown New Orleans.   The center will be home to a community garden, fruit trees, aquaponics and hydroponics.  These last two are methods ...
  • How Industrialized Farming Could Facilitate Pa ...
    With cases of H3N2v influenza on the rise, a look at where we stand and the key role of our system of food animal production in strengthening viruses
  • How FDA Can Improve the Safety of Fruits and V ...
    Fruits and vegetables are some of the foods in need of protection—but FDA has yet to publish a regulation for how to make good on that mandate for produce safety. So what are the best ways to protect fruits and vegetables grown on farms?

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

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

Angry Indian News

  • How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA Courses
    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Online High School Programs Help Troubled Students
    As the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Higher Education Opportunities for Everyone
    Higher education is something that many people would like to achieve, but that not all people believe is in their reach. You may think of higher education as limited to universities and colleges with... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Distance Learning Online Degree - A Great Way ...
    For those individuals who are working, it would be a reasonable assumption that going back to school is the last thing on your mind. Most people that have full time jobs work because they have to,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • International Programs For University Students
    One of the most popular actions of the European Union (EU) is the setting up of university exchange programs. University exchange programs are programs organized by specific universities and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • DNC security rules trigger free speech worries
    ShareThisHoly fascist police state, Batman! DNC security rules trigger free speech worries --The new rules have already been used for events before the convention and will remain on the books after it's over. 01 Sep 2012 Starting Saturday, someone walking through Charlotte's central business dis ...
  • Central banks debate limits of power at Jackso ...
    ShareThisCentral banks debate limits of power at Jackson Hole --The annual Jackson Hole gathering came to a close on Saturday. 01 Sep 2012 Central bankers who traveled to the wilds of Wyoming to figure out if more policy action was needed to curb stubbornly high unemployment heard powerful argum ...
  • Karzai slams US for civilian killings in Afgha ...
    ShareThisKarzai slams US for civilian killings in Afghanistan 01 Sep 2012 Afghan President Hamid Karzai has strongly condemned the killing of two civilians in an attack carried out by US-led troops in southern Afghanistan. Karzai strongly denounced the US-led night raid, saying it violated a sec ...
  • Huge blast near NATO base in Afghanistan kills 12
    ShareThisHuge blast near NATO base in Afghanistan kills 12 01 Sep 2012 A militant bomb attack near the US-led NATO forces' base in the eastern Afghan province of Wardak has left 12 people killed, including 10 civilians, Press TV reports. The incident occurred when a bomb-laden truck exploded nea ...
  • US Troops Build 'Alamos' Against Insider Attacks
    ShareThisUS Troops Build 'Alamos' Against Insider Attacks 30 Aug 2012 U.S. military units have resorted to building hardened safe rooms, or what they call "Alamos," to protect themselves from potential attacks from the soldiers and police officers they are training, according to a report from St ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • US FORCES AFGHANISTAN STATEMENT ON TRAINING O ...
    USFOR-A PUBLIC AFFAIRS 2012-09-US-002 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE US FORCES AFGHANISTAN STATEMENT ON TRAINING OF AFGHAN LOCAL POLICE KABUL, Afghanistan (September 2, 2012) — "Special Operations Forces has a strong and trusted relationship with its Afghan partners that has endured more than a decade ...
  • ISAF Joint Command morning operational update: ...
    UNCLASSIFIED 2012-09-S-002 For Immediate Release ISAF Joint Command morning operational update KABUL, Afghanistan (Sept. 2) – Afghan and coalition forces confirmed the Aug. 30 arrest of a Taliban insurgent during an operation in Hisarak district, Nangarhar province. The insurgent is accused ...
  • The Paper - Afghanistan: Cut Losses
    01 September 2012
  • Apache Apocalypse: Real Faces of War
    01 September 2012 http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=f213b73d647e People who are uncomfortable with methodically killing the enemy have no place in combat units.  People who are uncomfortable with the idea of being blown to pieces should not go to war. This combat video is only a small t ...
  • ISAF Joint Command morning operational update: ...
    UNCLASSIFIED 2012-09-S-001 For Immediate Release ISAF Joint Command morning operational update KABUL, Afghanistan (Sept. 1) – Afghan and coalition forces confirmed the death of al-Qaeda senior leader Abu Walid during an operation which occurred Aug. 3 in Watahpur district, Kunar province. Ab ...

The Killing Train

  • Haiti's New Dictatorship - Book Tour in November
    Hi everyone, In case you didn't notice the new tab above, my first book, Haiti's New Dictatorship, is set to come out at the end of October. I will be doing talks about the book all over Canada and probably in NYC in the US as well. Check the book tab for updates on the book tour. It's in the p ...
  • Paraguay: Weaving Peoples Resistance Against C ...
    Hello friends. We at En Camino put this together and it has gathered signatures since the coup. We are hoping to work together to find ways to support FDD in the coming weeks and months. -Justin ------- The undersigning organizations, collectives and individuals working towards a coordinated ini ...
  • The International Organization for a Participa ...
    I joined the International Organization for a Participatory Society. read more
  • Curuguaty and the Paraguay Coup
    When the landless peasants of the Carperos Campesino Movement moved on to the 70,000 hectare ranch in Curuguaty registered to Blas Riquelme, they would have known that they were risking their lives. Using the same successful methods as elsewhere in Latin America, perhaps most famously by the Lan ...
  • Help that hurts: An interview with Tim Schwart ...
    First published on ZNet, March 18, 2012 Tim Schwartz is an anthropologist with extensive experience in the foreign aid sector in Haiti. He is the author of the book, Travesty in Haiti, and of an upcoming book studying the nature and problems of the ways nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) opera ...

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Firm steps needed to protect children from mil ...
    The government's effective implementation of a joint action plan to put an end to the recruitment of children by the country's military will be the true test of the agreement's significance
  • Amid the deluge
    More than 700 villages and over 200,000 acres (80,940 hectares) of rice fields have been flooded across Burma as seasonal rains overwhelm the country’s fragile infrastructure.
  • Burma’s farmers fight copper mine over e ...
    The construction of a government-backed copper mine in Northern Burma has led to the forced relocation of farmers and families in Sagaing division. Testing their new-found freedom of expression, the Burmese farmers are speaking out. The NGO Asian Legal Resources Centre reported that Burma is at ...
  • Exiled activist handed prison sentence after r ...
    A political activist and lawyer, who recently returned home after years in exile, was sentenced to six months in prison for charges of contempt of court on Wednesday
  • A pressing truth
    How the fourth estate can help fight racism, ethnic violence and intolerance in Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Brazil judge agrees to first war crimes trial ...
    [JURIST] A Brazilian federal judge in Para on Friday agreed to conduct the first trial against members of its former dictatorship for alleged crimes during the military's rule from 1964-1985. The defendants [AP report] are two retired army reserve members, Colonel Sebastiao de Moura and Major Li ...
  • Supreme Court adds 2 cases to next term
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Friday added two new cases [order list, PDF] to its docket for next term. The first case, The Standard Fire Insurance Co. v. Knowles [docket; cert. petition, PDF], involves the procedural issue of whether a class action can be removed to federa ...
  • Federal judge orders Ohio to allow early votin ...
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio [official website] issued a preliminary injunction on Friday that will prevent Ohio Secretary of State John Husted [official website] from limiting early election voting in the three days preceding the election to membe ...
  • Ivory Coast opposition member imprisoned for s ...
    [JURIST] The secretary general of a leading Ivory Coast opposition party was sentenced on Friday to six months of imprisonment. Laurent Akoun of the Ivorian Popular Front, the party of former president Laurent Gbagbo [BBC profile], was sentenced [AFP report] after being convicted of disturbing p ...
  • UN rights expert denounces executions in Iraq
    [JURIST] A UN human rights expert on Thursday condemned [press release] Iraq for the executions 21 people on Monday and five more people on Wednesday. UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Chistof Heyns [academic profile] urged the government of Iraq to halt all ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Navy SEALs Assassinated Bin Laden
    In the aftermath of the assassination of Osama bin Laden, amid the contradictory reports from the Obama administration about the event, I came to believe that the Isalmist was likely assassinated deliberately. The stories about resistance put up by Bin Laden made little sense since they were imm ...
  • Nahum Barnea: Settlers Have Won, Two States ar ...
    Nahum Barnea is Israel’s most respected daily columnist.  He is something akin to Tom Friedman.  Everyone reads him and his columns are a barometer of where centrist-mainstream political sentiment lies.  He provokes both the right and the left with his coverage and always comes down somewh ...
  • Israeli Attack on Iran: Driving Off a Cliff
  • Rachel Corrie Among First in Long Line of Fore ...
    The list below was compiled by the Institute for Middle East Understanding and lists foreign peace activists brutally maimed or murdered by the IDF over the past nine years.  It’s a list of ignominy.  It should also be noted that hundreds of Palestinian activists have been similarly maimed ...
  • Israeli Court Blames Rachel Corrie for Own Dea ...
    An Israeli court ruled in the past hour or so that neither the State nor the IDF is responsible for the death of Rachel Corrie.  In fact, the judge claims that she herself was responsible.  This is a case brought by Corrie’s parents, Craig and Cindy, in which they sought damages from the I ...

If Americans Knew

  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...
  • Ethan Bronner's Conflict With Impartiality
    Ethan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Israel-Palestine. It is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesn't; what goes in a story and what gets cut.
  • Beware of the BBC
    Stuart Littlewood highlights the BBC's chronic pro-Israel bias, from allowing untruths about Israel's onslaught on Gaza in 2008-09 to go unchallenged, to its failure to provide accurate context about the Israeli township of Sderot, to its routine willingness to give disproportionate airtime to I ...
  • Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
    And there is another aspect of Israel's growing high tech sector that he understandably chose to ignore because it is extremely sleazy. That is the significant advantage that Israel has gained by systematically stealing American technology with both military and civilian applications. The US dev ...
  • New Booklet: Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
    International security and counterterrorism expert Philip Giraldi argues that Israel's flourishing high tech industry is built on widespread theft of American research. This has undermined American companies and endangered American security.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • The Unheard Millions: A New Audience Joins Glo ...
    The field of journalism has faced a number of technology-driven changes in the past decade, including the advent of blogs, the generating and sharing of news via social media, and the tentative move by many governments to provide open data. So many elements of news have evolved that many exp ...
  • PANDA Development Wraps Up
    September 6 will be both the PANDA Project's one-year anniversary, as well as my last day as a full-time developer. The PANDA project aims to make basic data analysis quick and easy for news organizations, and make data sharing simple. To celebrate the end of primary development, we've spent ...
  • Mapping the Rise of Violence Against Journalis ...
    New reports gathered by Internews and their on-the-ground partner Nai show that 2011 had the most incidents of violence against journalists in Afghanistan yet, with local news and TV networks experiencing the worst of it. Last year there were 72 cases of violence against journalists, with Kabul ...
  • The State Decoded, Now Solr-Powered
    The State Decoded project is putting U.S. state laws online, making them easy to search, understand and navigate. Our laws are organized badly, but The State Decoded is reorganizing them automatically, connecting people with the legal information they need with the ease of a Google search. In ...
  • How Wikipedia Manages Sources for Breaking News
    Almost a year ago, I was hired by Ushahidi to work as an ethnographic researcher on a project to understand how Wikipedians managed sources during breaking news events. Ushahidi cares a great deal about this kind of work because of a new project called SwiftRiver that seeks to collect and en ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Edge of Food - Can We raise Abundant Crops ...
    Can we have enough to eat and a healthy environment, too? Yes—if we’re smart about it, suggests a study by a team of researchers from the University of Minnesota and McGill University in Montreal.Global demand for food is expected to double by 2050 due to population growth and increased stan ...
  • The Edge of Justice - DOJ Drops Criminal Inves ...
    After more than three years, agents from the Central Intelligence Agency are discovering that they can breathe easier after Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama Justice Department dropped their far-reaching investigation of CIA interrogators who aggressively questioned terrorist detainees ...
  • South Africa on Edge - South Africa Drops Murd ...
    A top South African official says a court has provisionally dropped murder charges against 270 miners charged under an little-used law, after police shot dead 34 of their colleagues. South Africa’s decision to charge 270 striking miners with murder prompted a storm of criticism. The ...
  • Obama and Israel - U.S. Scales Back Plans for ...
    The mood is darkening in Jerusalem.As the United Nation's nuclear watchdog agency reports that Iran is significantly increasing its nuclear enrichment activities, the United States is backing away from a fight, signaling to Israel that it will significantly scale back a joint military exercise s ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Obama’s Regulatory Agenda Go ...
    Throughout President Obama’s tenure, the number and cost of major regulations has approached record levels—exceeding $46 billion in new annual costs during his first three years. The impact has been economically crippling, of course, notwithstanding the administration’s boasts of regulator ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Ten Most Blatant Examples of Biased Reporting ...
    (Note: if you don't see five videos in the post below, Please click here) A few weeks ago when the press questioned the Obama commercial accusing Mitt Romney of causing the death of a steelworker’s wife, I really believed there was hope for the media. After reading the accounts/watching the ...
  • The 30 Best Quotes From The 2012 Republican C ...
    For those of you who read these pages regularly, you know that my friend John Hawkins is the master of the list post.  And after watching the convention from gavel to gavel, he has come up with his picks for the 30 best quotes from the convention. Some of them include: 27) “(My father) ...
  • Paul Ryan Answers the "Fact Checkers" Charges
    This morning I received an email from Obama's campaign manager Jim Messina, telling me that Paul Ryan "lied" his convention speech  He lied about Medicare. He lied about the Recovery Act. He lied about the deficit and debt. He even dishonestly attacked Barack Obama for the closing of a G ...
  • Did Romney Do What He Had To? (Plus full Trans ...
    Mitt Romney had three Jobs tonight, he had to show that he was indeed human, that he had a vision and a plan for America's future and he had to do it in a way that would appeal to the discouraged Obama vote. It was and it wasn't.  This was a very straight forward, workman-like speech.& ...
  • Text of Marco Rubio's GREAT RNC Speech!
    In 1980, I watched my first Republican convention with my grandfather. He was born to a farming family in rural Cuba. Childhood polio left him permanently disabled. Because he couldn't work the farm, his family sent him to school, and he became the only one in the family who could rea ...

The Real Agenda

  • Europe to End Sales of Incandescent Bulbs Tomorrow
    Bulbs will be substituted by toxic fluorescent light bulbs filled with mercury. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 31, 2012 The European Union (EU) will officially stop the sale of the traditional incandescent bulbs, whose creation is credited to Thomas Edison. The move is supp ...
  • Darpa and Homeland Security working on Next Ge ...
    Forget about those old, defective, useless, dangerous airport body scanners in which governments spent millions of dollars. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 31, 2012 It took how long?… Hmmm… Let’s see… 5 years for the U.S. Department of Homeland Securi ...
  • Americans shot in Mexico are CIA Agents
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 30, 2012 Two U.S. agents were wounded on Friday during a shooting with the Mexican Federal Police work for the CIA. This was reported by then The New York Times, adding that the employees of the Central Intelligence Agency, riding on a vehicle ...
  • The World’s Debt is China’s Wealth
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 30, 2012 Debt is never seen as a positive outcome, however there are times when someone’s incapacity to handle finances becomes wealth for others. A clear example is the current state of economics in both the developed and developing wor ...
  • Homeland Security Insider Warns about False-Fl ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 29, 2012 Douglas J. Hagmann, the founder of the Northeast Intelligence Network appeared on the Alex Jones Show yesterday recounting what a source of his, who works inside the Department of Homeland Security, has told him regarding the potentia ...

Wind Watch

  • Hopes of slashing greenhouse emissions just bl ...
    Alongside the politics of the carbon tax, a floor price, a linking to Europe or whether a direct investment scheme would be better than a market-based scheme, the bottom line surely must be whether any carbon emissions actually are being saved. The early signs are that a $23 carbon tax has displ ...
  • Proposed North Carolina wind farm on collision ...
    Troubles keep mounting for a proposed wind farm in Eastern North Carolina that already faces questions about whether it will harm the local bald eagle population. In the latest round of complications for the Pantego Wind Energy Project, U.S. military officials in Wayne County have disclosed that ...
  • Cozumel wind farm blown off course
    Plans for a Cozumel wind farm were denied by the Mexican government’s environmental department, Semarnat, this month, but the company behind them said they won’t give up. Today, in an exclusive interview with This is Cozumel, John Prock, General Director at Mexico Power Group, said t ...
  • Wind power poses problems
    CARROLL TOWNSHIP –While the number of small, residential wind turbines in Ottawa County is rising, large commercial-use wind turbines are still few and far between, and it appears commercial wind farms will not be on the horizon anytime soon. “Our first rule in siting when it comes t ...
  • Windham to state: Stop wind project
    WINDHAM — Commercial wind power is “expressly forbidden” in Windham, and the state should block a developer’s plans to erect test towers in the area, town officials wrote this week in a letter to the Vermont Public Service Board. The letter comes as Windham officials prepare to ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help v ...
    EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Two survivors of human trafficking share their ...
    She fiddles with her cell phone. In mid conversation, she holds it out, showing off whos on the screen. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Why Did Aggie Boys Buy Sex at the Chicken Ranch?
    The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the Texas A&M football team celebrates a win with a visit to their local brothel, the Chicken Ranch. The Aggie Boys are f Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • New Jobs Don’t Pay Well
    “While a majority of jobs lost during the downturn were in the middle range of wages, a majority of those added during the recovery have been low paying, according to a new report from the National Employment Law Project.” (New York Times) Botched “recovery.” FEE Timely Classic &#822 ...
  • A Novel about “Guttiness” and Inde ...
    In accounting, “book value” is the term used to describe the estimated value of an asset that has been held for a long time and has depreciated over the years. It seemed an ideal title for this new book review column, which will revisit favorite old works and rediscover unjustly neglected works ...
  • Individualism, Collectivism, and Other Murky L ...
    It behooves us to make sure our labels communicate clearly. Otherwise we will never bring the mass of people to the cause of liberty.
  • Economy Muddles Along, Data Show
    “Government data released Wednesday suggested the economy continued to muddle along at a subdued pace, highlighting the pressure on Ben S. Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, to come up with bolder policy prescriptions Friday when he delivers a widely anticipated speech in Jacks ...
  • Consumers Picked Up Pace in July
    “Americans spent at the fastest pace in five months in July after earning a little more. The increase in income and consumer spending could help boost subpar growth.” (Washington Times) So, Keynesians, lack of demand isn’t what’s holding things back. FEE Timely Classic “Consume ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Using Storify to share links and videos
    In a graduate-level course, like many educators, I require students to make presentations to the class. A while back, I forbade the use of PowerPoint — or any other slides — during the presentation. However, students must find, show and discuss some websites and videos as part of th ...
  • A few thoughts about MOOCs: Massive Open Onlin ...
    Educators are talking about the phenomenon of large-enrollment free online courses offered by very reputable professors and universities. Now the University of Texas “is in negotiations with Coursera and edX, two of the most prominent companies engaged in the mass distribution of course c ...
  • Managing research: Your personal library, online
    As a university professor, I not only teach — I also need to keep up-to-date with the literature in my field. This is so much easier now than it was when I was a graduate student long ago — now I can download PDFs of relevant articles and catalog them in folders on my hard drive, so ...
  • Most viewed posts
    Here’s a lazy update: To find any post in the image below, just type the title (or keywords) into the search box at left. I like running these stats from time to time to see which posts here are most popular.
  • Plagiarism and journalism students
    When students plagiarize, they take a risk. I guess they tell themselves nothing very bad will happen to them. When journalism students plagiarize, the risk is pretty damned big. For example, you lose your chance to work as a journalist. Ever. I’m going to omit the name of the former stu ...

Facing South

  • UAW vs. Nissan in Mississippi: Operation Dixie ...
    When the CIO launched a campaign to organize Southern workers in 1946, the region's elite fought back by exploiting fears about race and communism -- and fear remains the biggest obstacle to organizing today, as the UAW's campaign to unionize Nissan's Canton, Miss. plant shows. read more
  • Will Latino voters fully flex their voting pow ...
    Latinos are a fast-growing electoral force -- but will they realize their political potential in November? read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The party conventions' extrao ...
    In light of planned protests, the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. and Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. will be taking unprecedented security measures. read more
  • Mysterious environmental disaster unfolding in ...
    Bayou Corne in Assumption Parish has been evacuated after a massive sinkhole opened up last week following months of mysterious bubbling, rumblings and a strong diesel smell. The community sits atop an old salt mine where companies including Chevron and Dow Chemical store gas products, and the s ...
  • Lawsuit seeks better regulation of oil spill d ...
    The unprecedented use of chemical dispersants following BP's Gulf disaster led to complaints of health problems among cleanup workers and local residents. A coalition of groups is now suing the EPA in hopes of spurring regulatory action. read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Arthur Silber could use some help
    If you haven’t read Arthur, you should.  He doesn’t write often, but it’s powerful stuff when he does.  The right hand column has links to the articles he considers his best. The donation link is on the top right of the blog.  The beg post is worth reading, as it’s more t ...
  • To say that people must never revolt violently ...
    The question is not if it is ever justified.  The question is when. The credible threat of revolt was understood by America’s founders to be necessary for liberty to exist, just as they understood that standing armies were a great threat to liberty and that eternal war is the graveyard of ...
  • Horse to water
    People need to be taught by cops, with tazers and billy clubs, pepper spray and tear gas, rubber bullets and lead.  By bailiffs and homelessness, hunger and fear, humiliation and misery, and by the loss of their dreams. The political system is broken, the legal system is a farce. The descent int ...
  • Assange and Wikileaks: the basics
    Sigh, read the actual accusations.  They have been translated into English.  The accusation would not amount to rape in Britain, Canada or the US.  They best wording I can think of is “sexual misconduct”.  They are also, straight up, he said, she said, and rest entirely on credibilit ...
  • Pinochet had women raped by dogs and Britain w ...
    Yes, he did. So I don’t want to hear anything from Britain about how important extradition is to them or how important rape accusations are.

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Travel Bans: Do No-Go Lists Fight Freedom?
    Had the 1789 constitutional amendments protected travel alongside the rights to freedom of the press, religion, and assembly, the United States might be a less xenophobic country. It might be less prone to treat arriving tourists as terror suspects, and more encouraging to those of its own citi ...
  • Livable China
    Recently, the McKinsey Global Institute published its report 'The Most Dynamic Cities in 2025' in Foreign Policy, a highly respected US journal. On this list, 27 mainland Chinese cities as well as Hong Kong took top spots alongside Shanghai and Beijing, leaving many other world-renowned met ...
  • The Unseen Class War That Could Decide The Pre ...
    Much is said about class warfare in contemporary America, and there’s justifiable anger at the impoverishment of much of the middle and working classes. The Pew Research Center recently dubbed the 2000s a “lost decade” for middle-income earners — some 85% of Americans in th ...
  • Evolving Urban Form: São Paulo
    São Paulo is Brazil's largest urban area and ranks among the top 10 most populous in the world. Between 1950 and 1975, São Paulo was also among the globe’s fastest growing urban areas. For two decades starting in 1980 São Paulo ranked fourth in population among the world's urban areas, ...
  • New Setbacks for the Beleaguered California Bu ...
    A proposal by Senator Michael Rubio (SB 317) to loosen California's landmark environmental protection law commonly known as CEQA, has been shelved. The proposed legislation was intended to exempt the Central Valley rail construction project from CEQA requirements, thereby removing ...

GM Watch

  • In a surprising contradiction, Nestle official ...
    In a surprising contradiction, Nestle official says GMOs aren't necessary Though the corporate giant has donated more than $1M to fight GMO labeling, a senior exec says we don't need modified foods By Clare Leschin-Hoar TakePart.com August 30, 2012 http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/08/30/nest ...
  • Alteration of the living: New biotechnology te ...
    Alteration of the living: New techniques explained to the layman (just published) Inf'OGM http://www.infogm.org/spip.php?article5191 31 August 2012 Inf'OGM published in October 2011 a report (in French) on the new techniques of biotechnology. In summer 2012, Inf'OGM decided to provide the Europ ...
  • Monsanto's point of no return: The truth about ...
    NOTE: Here's a remarkably perceptive article about what happens to farmer and consumer choice once Monsanto achieves the required degree of penetration in the seed market. It simply disappears, because Monsanto ensures that only GM seeds are available to farmers.  This trend lends ironic confir ...
  • Occupy protests to target Monsanto
    At least 60 Protests to Target Makers of Genetically Engineered Foods on Anniversary of Occupy Movement Occupy-Monsanto.com, August 27 2012 http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/27/4760978/at-least-60-protests-to-target.html ST. LOUIS - An expanding network of concerned individuals known as Occupy Mons ...
  • Alarm at US-backed GM food trial on Chinese ch ...
    Greenpeace alarmed at US-backed GE food trial on Chinese children Greenpeace International, 29 August 2012 http://www.greenpeace-magazin.de/tagesthemen/einzelansicht/artikel/2012/08/30/greenpeace-alarmed-at-us-backed-ge-food-trial-on-chinese-children/ Beijing  – Greenpeace International has exp ...

spiked

  • A Capital offence against literature
    John Lanchester has been compared to Dickens for his sweeping novel about late-Noughties London. But he gives us ciphers not characters, and prejudice rather than plot.
  • ‘The velodrome is beautiful’
    Tim Abrahams fascinating essay on the London Olympics stadium shows us that grander, premeditated political narratives will always be eclipsed by sport.
  • The London Underground: a wonder of the modern ...
    Andrew Martin does a fine job in celebrating the history and experience of the Tube, a pioneering railway that embodies all the characteristics - good and bad - of our capital city.
  • How the degradation of education went global
    Alex Standish persuasively argues that ‘global education’, promoted by Western elites as a way of dealing with their own loss of meaning, has undermined the central role of education: intellectual development.
  • How did Martin Amis become so bad?
    With Lionel Asbo: State of England, Amis has produced a truly terrible novel, dripping with snobbish contempt and written with a tin ear for detail.

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Economic Failure: 58 Percent Of The Jobs Being ...
    Are you good at flipping burgers , waiting tables or stocking shelves?  Are you proficient with a cash register?  Do you enjoy doing mindless work for very low pay?  If you answered yes to any of those questions, then you are probably going to fit in very well in the new U.S. eco ...
  • What Is The Best Place To Live In America? Pro ...
    If you could live in any state in America, where would you go?  During troubled times like these, what is the best place in the United States to live?  A lot of people are asking these kinds of questions these days.  Our economy is on the verge of collapse, natural disasters are ...
  • Obama Has Stolen $5.3 Trillion From Our Childr ...
    Barack Obama has destroyed the future of America in order to improve his chances of winning the next election.  Under Obama, 5.3 trillion dollars has been ruthlessly stolen from our children and our grandchildren.  That money has been used to pump up the debt-fueled false prosper ...
  • Is There Going To Be A Stock Market Crash In T ...
    Is the stock market going to crash by the end of this year?  Are we on the verge of major financial chaos on a global scale? Well, this is the time of the year when investors start getting nervous.  We all remember what happened during the fall of 1929, the fall of 1987 and the [...]
  • It Is Not Just Your Imagination – Americ ...
    Did you know that median household income in the United States is lower today than it was when the last recession supposedly ended?  If we are in the middle of an "economic recovery", how can this possibly be happening?  Stunning new statistics compiled by Sentier Research show t ...

Desertification

  • AFRICAN CITIES MUST IMPLEMENT GREEN MEASURES T ...
    New York, Aug 30 2012  1:05PM Policymakers in African cities must implement green measures to make sure that growing urban areas can meet the increasing demand for food, according to a report released today by the United Nations Food and … Continue reading →
  • IN MALI, UN OFFICIAL URGES DONOR SUPPORT TO ST ...
    New York, Aug 30 2012  7:05PM The top United Nations relief official <”http://bit.ly/PBMJea”>said today that humanitarian efforts to alleviate the devastating food crisis affecting Mali have begun to yield results, but warned that much still remains to be done and … Con ...
  • Unpredictable rains and poor harvests in Malaw ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96205/MALAWI-Need-for-food-aid-outpaces-response MALAWI: Need for food aid outpaces response BLANTYRE, 30 August 2012 (IRIN) – Prolonged dry spells followed by poor harvests in Malawi’s maize-growing central and southern regions have created widespr ...
  • Trendy seedlings of green vegetables and herbs ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120829131634.htm Many Trendy ‘Microgreens’ Are More Nutritious Than Their Mature Counterparts ScienceDaily (Aug. 29, 2012) — The first scientific analysis of nutrient levels in edible microgreens has found that many of those tren ...
  • Can we have enough to eat and a healthy enviro ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120829151241.htm Hope of Greater Global Food Output, Less Environmental Impact of Agriculture ScienceDaily (Aug. 29, 2012) — Can we have enough to eat and a healthy environment, too? Yes — if we’re smart about it, suggests a &#82 ...

The Paper Trail

  • Daily Disclosure: DCCC runs ads in heartland H ...
    New ads in Illinois and Wisconsin mark what the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says is its first foray into those states with independent television advertising, Federal Election Commission reports show.Three ads will air in congressional districts in those states aiming to convince ...
  • GOP platform at odds with public on defense sp ...
    In May, the Center for Public Integrity and the Stimson Center unveiled the results of a major poll on defense spending. Our poll found wide consensus among the public and across party lines that the defense budget could use some trimming — around three-quarters of those polled thought there sho ...
  • PAC profile: Club for Growth Action
    Type of organization: Super PACSupports candidate: ConservativeFounded: Aug. 9, 2010Website: http://www.clubforgrowth.org/action/Social media: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook (all accounts jointly operated with Club for Growth Inc.)Principals:Chris Chocola (treasurer, president): Chocola runs the Clu ...
  • Nonprofit profile: Club for Growth Inc.
    Type of organization: 501 (c)(4)Supports candidate: ConservativeLocation: Washington, D.C.Founded: 1999Website: http://www.clubforgrowth.org/Social media: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook (all accounts jointly operated with Club for Growth Action)Finances (calendar year 2009):Total Revenue: $5.8 milli ...
  • Georgia's ethics commission: A sad tale of dys ...
    Perhaps no state illustrates the political perils of ethics enforcement better than Georgia, where the ethics commission has been the nexus of more infighting, vitriol and litigation than a Univision novella.Keeping track of all the resignations, firings, accusations and countercharges there has ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Dieppe and the Lost Myth
    By Montreal Simon It was good to see that some of the soldiers who took part in the Dieppe Raid were able to make it back to that bloody beach today. And that so many people in the town turned out to greet them like heroes. I’m also glad that we may finally know the [...]
  • That’s Canada Shop
    We’re delighted to introduce backofthebook.ca‘s new That’s Canada Shop, featuring Canadian books and music in all categories, with more products on their way. Get your Canada on, while you support independent journalism.
  • The Plan, Part Deux
    By Frank Moher Previously on The Plan, I explained why, despite the depredations of the current federal government, the Canadian political universe is unfolding as it should — or at least as I’d hoped it might when I was a young journalist lost in the conservative wilderness in the 1 ...
  • The Plan
    By Frank Moher As we enjoy, if that’s the word, the second summer of the Harper majority, I’m pleased to say The Plan is working. The Plan, of course, is the one I hatched back when I was working at Alberta Report in the 1980s. AR, some of you will know, was the conservative newsweek ...
  • McDonald’s: Some secrets should be kept
    By Mark Leiren-Young Did McDonald’s have to tell us what they put in their special sauce? Couldn’t they have just said, “May contain nuts, chlorine and anything else that may set off your allergies” and keep us guessing? Unless someone posted the recipe on Wikileaks, did they have to tell us abo ...

libcom

  • Support Pussy Riot by all means. But support t ...
    kazakh-oil-1.jpg A campaign is building to free oil worker activists jailed in Kazakhstan, where last year's strike culminated in a massacre that left at least 16 dead and 64 wounded ...
  • The Marikana Massacre: Details of deliberate p ...
    This article is from the mainstream media in South Africa but has invaluable details on what actually happened when the police left 35 strikers dead and another 78 injured. The murder fields of Marikana. The cold murder fields of Mari ...
  • Syrian embassy invites Polish Fascists to demo ...
    balanga falangi.JPG Short news about protest which changed into Fascist event. 26th of August in front of the Syrian embassy two demonstrations took place. The first one was org ...
  • Italian miners barricade themselves undergroun ...
    100 Sardinian workers in Italy's only coal mine have barricaded themselves into the Carbosulcis mine overnight, with 350kg of company explosives. The occupation comes ahead of a government meeting to decide the future of the pit. ...
  • Russian writer and antifascist Pjotr Silajev i ...
    Silajev had been granted a political asylum in Finland early this year. The Finnish embassy in Madrid has said that Silajev can be kept arrested for 40 days! The Spanish police arrested Silajev in Granada because of request from Interpol on the 21st of augu ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Why I am a Christian
    I simply stand amazed at the incredible evidence that proves to my mind the fact that everything in this universe was indeed created! The lie of evolution is tied to the hopelessness of lack of faith in not only a loving Creator/God, but also in ignorance of His divine Rescue Plan. Christ was/is ...
  • Why I am a Christian
    I simply stand amazed at the incredible evidence that proves to my mind the fact that everything in this universe was indeed created! The lie of evolution is tied to the hopelessness of lack of faith in not only a loving Creator/God, but also in ignorance of His divine Rescue Plan. Christ was/is ...
  • Update on the IRS Rebate to Aliens Scandal
    The followup to this story is even more “shocking” not so much “disappointing”. In a simple nutshell, the IRS is absolutely not necessary if the U.S. Treasury printed and circulated  our currency freely and WITHOUT USURY (aka Plunder) as the Founding Fathers outlined in t ...
  • Update on the IRS Rebate to Aliens Scandal
    The followup to this story is even more “shocking” not so much “disappointing”. In a simple nutshell, the IRS is absolutely not necessary if the U.S. Treasury printed and circulated  our currency freely and WITHOUT USURY (aka Plunder) as the Founding Fathers outlined in t ...
  • The PRIVATE (for Profit) Corporation Called th ...
    This is an incredible video series, friends.  A MUST WATCH!!  As you view this wonderful expose of the IRS by Indiana’s Eyewitness News team, keep the following FACTS in mind: 1. The Federal Reserve is a private  corporation consisting of 13 families – the majority of which are not e ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • هشدار وزارت اطلاعات درباره احتمال بروز شورش اج ...
    اتمام ذخاير ارزی و کسری بودجه شديد در ماههای آينده/ � افزايش کسری بودجه دولت، کاهش شديد ذخاير ارزی و نگرانی دستگاه امنيتی از شورش گرسنگان، آخرين گزارش هايی است که در هفته های اخير در اختيار مقام های عالی نظام قرار گرفته است تا با توجه به آنها در خصوص روند آتی کشور تصميم گيری شود.
  • Report: US downsizes military drill with Israel
    Curbing strike aspirations The official explanation was budget restrictions; however, the decision coincided with growing tensions between the Obama Administration and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government on Israel’s persistent threats attack Iran.
  • Tutu calls for Blair, Bush to face Hague trial
    The Nobel laureate, writing in Britain's Observer, accused the pair of lying about weapons of mass destruction and said the invasion left the world more destabilised and divided "than any other conflict in history". read more
  • بحرین خواستار عذرخواهی ایران به دلیل «تحریف» س ...
    وزارت امور خارجه بحرین با احضار کاردار سفارت ایران در منامه، نسبت به «تحریف» سخنان محمد مرسی رئیس جمهور مصر و ذکر نام «بحرین» به جای «سوریه» توسط مترجم صدا و سیمارسما اعتراض کرد و خواستار عذرخواهی تهران به خاطر این رخداد شد. read more
  • ژیلا بنی‌یعقوب برای گذراندن دوران محکومیت به ز ...
    ژیلا بنی یعقوب، روزنامه نگار ایرانی، امروز یکشنبه ۱۲ شهریورماه برای اجرای حکم یک سال حبس تعزیری خود به زندان اوین رفت. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Demise of "Current Affairs"
        I have recently returned from a week in Australia, where I was pleasantly surprised by the extensive coverage of “current” (government) affairs on mainstream TV and in the major newspapers. Current affairs programming is very much lacking in New Zealand, as in Ca ...
  • Wall Street's $270 Million Loss
    Wall Street Volume at 10 Year Low Another worrying article on Zero Hedge raises concerns about the declining health of the US economy. An 8/16/12 post by Tyler Durden points out that Wall Street has lost hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth over the past two years. Durden cites data ...
  • It Can't Happen Here - US Troops Plot to Overt ...
    FEAR members arrested The website Newser has an update on the four soldiers arrested in Georgia yesterday for plotting to overthrow the government and assassinate President Obama. According the initial report on MSN , they formed an “anarchist” militia within the military, tho ...
  • The Tipton 3 vs the CIA
      The Road to Guantanomo (Free download – 2006 Directed by Morgan Spurlock)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HCw-5Qnm8c Film Review The Road to Guantanomo is docudrama about the Tipton 3, three British Muslims who were captured along with dozens of civilian refugees when ...
  • Former Black Panther Slams Obama
    Ex-Panther Larry Pinkney In an scorching indictment of Obama’s first four years as president, Black Panther veteran Larry Pinkney (former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa) weighs in on the betrayal of African Americans by Obama and the black “intelligentia.& ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • UK Threatens to Violate Ecuadoran Embassy Grou ...
    Reuters, August 15th, 2012: Ecuador said on Wednesday the British government had threatened to raid its embassy in London if WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is not handed over, and that Quito would make its decision on his asylum request on Thursday. "Today we've received a threat by the Un ...
  • FLASHBACK: Ann Coulter Says Rage Against the M ...
    New York Times, April 29, 2012: WASHINGTON — Representative Paul D. Ryan strolls the halls of Capitol Hill with the anarchist band Rage Against the Machine pounding through his earbuds. Daily Beast, August 11, 2012: Ryan seems to have a taste for hard-rock bands like Rage Against ...
  • WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE: WikiLeaks opens path ...
    After almost two years of fighting an unlawful banking blockade by US financial giants VISA and MasterCard, WikiLeaks has announced it is back open for donations. After WikiLeaks' publications revealing US war crimes and statecraft in 2010, US financial institutions erected a banking blockade a ...
  • 'No Going Back': Michael Moore on the Last Wor ...
  • Letter From Prominent Americans, Delivered to ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 25, 2012 Media Contacts: (London) Robert Naiman, US 217-979-2857 (US) Megan Iorio, US 908-400-9480 Letter signed by Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Wolf, Daniel Ellsberg, Danny Glover, Oliver Stone, Patch Adams, MD, Mark Weisbrot and other promine ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • The Obama Energy Plan: A Progress Report Critique
    This is an overview of the Obama Energy Plan released in March 2011 as a Blue Print for a Secure Energy Future.  A year later, the White House released a progress report highlighting their accomplishments. My commentary is designed to compare and contrast President Obama’s stated energy str ...
  • Energy Independence and Electricity Storage
    At the end of 16 years, of course, you have a problem. Either you have discovered a lot more technically recoverable domestic petroleum or you are right back to where you started—but this time having used up all your reserves. While past experience may support the assumption that more recovera ...
  • Why We Shouldn’t Call the Climate Debate a “Cu ...
    For months, I’ve been reading posts from environmental news sources saying that belief in the existence of climate change has become a “culture war.” Framing the issue this way is destructive because it draws a line in the sand, further polarizing an already divided community.
  • Electrical Generation Capacity from Renewable ...
  • New sensible efforts are raising the bar for s ...
    The ‘voices’ in the moderate center that have been drowned out in the increasingly inflammatory debate over the hydraulic fracturing of shale natural gas are getting a growing cadre of credible allies. And with them may come a sensible way to prudently capitalize on the enormous deposits of shal ...

EU Times

  • Western culture turns people into monsters
    Nicolas Bonnal speaks about the destructive power of the Western culture. According to him, the culture of the West is aimed against humans and their ability to think and feel. This culture is connected with the training of people; it has vile goals and global plans. The USSR, among other things ...
  • Chinese man builds replica of $1.5 million Lam ...
    For many, a supercar is the purchase of a lifetime. But very few of us have hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend on a Ferrari or Lamborghini. A Chinese farmer found a way to make his dream come true by building a Lambo on his own. Avid mechanic Wang Jian, the 28-year-old son of [...]
  • EU and China on verge of solar energy price war?
    German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for a frank assessment of a solar panel trade dispute with China. The EU is mulling an anti-dumping inquiry into China after the US took similar action in one of the world’s fastest-developing markets. “I suggest the European Commission and China ...
  • Europe turns into sea of Sodom
    A few days ago, Germany’s Ministry of Justice exposed the draft amendments to the legislation to legalize gay marriage in the country. In fact, sexual minorities enjoy complete freedom in the country. In 2001, their freedom became official: their relationship was called a “civil part ...
  • Armenia cuts all diplomatic relations with Hungary
    Armenia has announced that it is cutting all its diplomatic relations with Hungary after Budapest released an Azeri soldier convicted of killing an Armenian officer. Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan said in a statement posted on his website on Friday that “Hungarian authorities should understa ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Joint Chiefs Chairman: An Israeli Attack On Ir ...
    General Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff, said in a speech that  an Israeli attack on Iran would not end Iran’s nuclear program and would likely lead to a wider war: An Israeli attack on Iran would delay but probably not stop its nuclear programme, the most senior US mi ...
  • Touche’ to Governor McDonnell, Anything O’Mall ...
    Virginia Gov. McDonnell to campaign in Charlotte during Democratic convention Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell will be running interference during next week’s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. The Republican leader will spend Wednesday and Thursday in neighboring North Carolina near ...
  • The Church of Scientology May Have Tried to Tu ...
    When extraterrestrial acting android Tom Cruise split from Nicole Kidman in 2001, the Church of Scientology made every effort to ensure that its most photogenic saint didn't end up marrying some threesome-having, snaggle-toothed, flaxen-haired floozy — church officials were going to orchestrate ...
  • Inside the Bizarre Worlds of Suri Cruise and S ...
    Photo credit:  Splash News They may be worlds apart in terms of style and family life, but superstar 6-year-olds Suri Cruise and Shiloh Jolie-Pitt have more in common than meets the eye. Sure, Suri’s a sheltered fashion maven with only nannies for friends, while Shiloh is a rough-and-tumble tom ...
  • Liverpool 0, Arsenal 2: Not Nearly Good Enough ...
    Liverpool's early season struggles continue as they produce their poorest display yet, dropping all three points at Anfield to Arsenal . It was roundly disappointing and, on the heels of Friday's debacle, the worst possible performance. The football might be changing and the personnel are somew ...

Groklaw

  • Apple Targets Galaxy S III, Note in Latest Leg ...
    Devices added to a complaint Apple filed against Samsung in February were the Galaxy S III and its special Verizon edition; Galaxy Note; Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet; and the Galaxy S II in both its basic and carrier-independent forms. ...Meanwhile, the threat of such a ban appears to be making the m ...
  • South Korea Reassesses Its Great Imitator
    Indeed, Samsung appeared to consider the legal trouble a necessary cost of squeezing out a giant in yet another field it is fast dominating. Samsung's smartphone sales in the second quarter grew 150 percent to 50.5 million units, or a record 35 percent of the market, according to the research fi ...
  • Open WebOS Beta is Here
    Today's release provides- not one- but two build environments. Our desktop build provides the ideal development environment for enhancing the webOS user experience with new features and integrating state of the art open source technologies. Developers can now use all their desktop tools on powe ...
  • Apple v. Samsung jury foreman: only the 'court ...
    We recently spoke with the 67-year-old engineer, who described his time participating in the trial as a personal high point - while also cautioning that those who were unhappy with the US patent system should look to public debate to change the situation, not a jury. "Except for my family, it w ...
  • An Overview of the "Patent Trolls" Debate
    According to commentators, several conditions in the IT sector make it economically and/or practically infeasible or irrational for manufacturers to find and clear all patents incorporated in a given product. They report that, as a result, in most cases, "the first notice of the patent [is] the ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Renewable energy policy too partisan says sola ...
    Renewable energy tax breaks are not permanent yet oil and gas credits never expire. This is unfair says Joel Cannon, CEO of a solar panel company in Minnesota. We need to change our renewable energy policy.That could change under a bill supported by Minnesota’s two U.S. senators. It would ...
  • Electric motorcycle: not cheap, kicks ass
    Gas 2.0 has more on the $38,000 Lightning Motorcycles’ barely street legal electric beast capable of 218 mph.Motorcycle.com gave one of its writer/riders a chance to take the Lightning for a spin. His review can be summed up in six words; “Oh my god that is so fast!”
  • Priest blames child sex victims for seducing t ...
    Here’s what the good priest, Father Benedict Groeschel, had to say on National Catholic Register about child sex victims before they took down the article and apologized profusely after the predictable storm of outrage. But yet to be explained is why it was published at all.A lot of the ca ...
  • I remember when the blogosphere had people in it
    From Gaping Void Art!
  • Mia Love: Black woman speaker at RNC has Wikip ...
    Mia Love, a black woman and mayor of Saratoga Springs UT, spoke at the RNC. Her Wikipedia page was then filled with racist, misogynistic slurs.The hard right has been on the story, using it as a way to attack the left. But without excusing the attack, it wasn’t The Left that did it [...]

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • General debate, September 1, 2012
    Beautiful Spring day in Wellington!
  • 3 way voting on alcohol purchase age more demo ...
    in the wake of the parliamentary vote on alcohol purchase age there are some people (the ones I have seen are people who favoured 20) who are suggesting that the voting procedure used led to a perverse outcome. I disagree completely. This is not a post about the merits or otherwise of the variou ...
  • Faith, hope, and charity in the nuclear age &# ...
    Back in ‘91 a younger President Nursultan Nazarbayev faced a dilemma.  Along with independence just attained from the USSR, he had inherited 112 ICBMs sporting 1,200 nuclear warheads. A gift from heaven as it were, or from hell, depending on the level of your transcendentalism. Twenty years late ...
  • The risks of outsourcing conservation
    The problem with outsourcing conservation funding to business has been highlighted. The Tiwai Point Aluminim smelter has pulled the plug on funding for the Kakapo Recovery Programme. Even if it is tied to their contract negotiations for cheap electricity from Meridian it still shows that relying ...
  • The “Black Drain” Bill passes First Reading!
    Last night was a great night at Parliament for several reasons. Not the least was the one vote majority that sent my “Black Drain” Bill through First Reading to the Local Government and Environment Select Committee. Act. The Greens are celebrating because it is very hard to get Bills through the ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • SCOTUS and the Rule of Flaw
    The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution that has failed in every possible way. It is notorious for having issued iniquitous opinions; it has not only failed to resolve but has exacerbated conflicts; and it has consistently negated the ideals the founding fathers wrote into t ...
  • How the Economy Works: The Necessity of Crime
    The economy is merely a sum of money, not practices that sustain the oikos, and the money that makes up the sum is equally valued whether it results from virtuous or vicious, good or bad, constructive or destructive, humane or inhumane, legal or illegal, beneficent or malevolent practices. A ...
  • Governments Exist to Further the Interests of ...
    Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored group.
  • The History of Knowledge: Darkness in the Acadamy
    Knowledge does not always prevail or even endure. When the Roman Empire fell, the Justinian Code was replaced by Canon Law. The augustness of knowledge was transformed into heresy and mankind's curiosity was virtually extinguished. The age became dark. In the 11th century, people began to st ...
  • Vendor ArithmeticUnderhanded Capitalism
    Why does the nation exist? The truth is revealed when one realizes that merchant theft is protected by the legal system whose justices have enshrined an economic bias into law, having subverted the Constitution from the goals the founding fathers wrote into it to the almost exclusive promoti ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Why Half of America May Have Impaired Brain Fu ...
    By Dr. Mercola It's a fact that excess dietary fructose can harm your body by setting up the conditions for diabetes, obesity, and fatty liver, but what does it do to your brain? Studies have not addressed this question—until now. A new UCLA study1 is the first to show how a steady diet high ...
  • The ‘Selfish’ Reason to Donate Your Blood
    By Dr. Mercola It seems like everywhere you look on food shelves today, from the baby food aisle to the dairy case, just about everything is fortified with iron. But is that really a good thing? When most people think about dietary iron, they wonder if they're getting enough. This is an i ...
  • Documentary Investigates Our Current Food Syst ...
    By Dr. Mercola Simon Cunich's documentary film Growing Change: A Journey Inside Venezuela's Food Revolution investigates our current food system as he tries to understand why hundreds of millions of people go hungry each day. Is it true that there's simply not enough to go around? And as th ...
  • Why have Antipsychotic Prescriptions in Childr ...
    By Dr. Mercola Thanks to aggressive marketing techniques, pharmaceutical companies are raking in profits from atypical antipsychotic medications – drugs originally approved for mental illnesses that are as serious as they are rare. It's no surprise then that a major portion of the sales of ...
  • An Urgent Message from Ronnie Cummins
    By Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association If you think you should have the same right to know what’s in your food as consumers in nearly 50 other countries, please help us pass this country’s first GMO labeling law – Proposition 37, the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Yanomami Indians 'massacred' by goldminers in ...
    Survivors of Brazil's 1993 Haximu massacre hold urns containing the ashes of their relatives. Goldminers killed 16 Yanomami in the attack.© C Zacquini/ SurvivalGoldminers in Venezuela have carried out a ‘massacre’ of isolated Yanomami Indians, according to reports received by Su ...
  • Dongria's message to Vedanta ahead of AGM: "We ...
    The Dongria Kondh have vowed to defend their sacred mountain from being mined for bauxite. © Lewis Davids/SurvivalAhead of the AGM of Vedanta Resources in London today, India’s Dongria Kondh tribe has sent a strong message to the company’s chairman Anil Agarwal. ‘Even if Anil ...
  • Paraguay’s government confirms Spanish tycoon’ ...
    Jacinto Rey González is President of a ranching firm which has been illegally destroying the Ayoreo's land.© AnonAccusations that a ranching company owned by one of Spain’s richest men illegally bulldozed forest inhabited by uncontacted Indians have been upheld by the Paraguayan authorities ...
  • Nasa spiritual leader shot dead at point blank ...
    Nasa Indians in Colombia have been caught in the violent crossfire of Colombia's military and illegal armed groups© Francisco PedroA 74-year-old Nasa Indian leader has been shot dead following protests against the militarization of his land in Cauca, south-west Colombia. Lisandro Tenorio, ...
  • Proof ‘Death Road’ will destroy Peru’s unconta ...
    Tomas was contacted over ten years ago. He lives close to the proposed ‘Road of Death.’© David Hill/SurvivalControversial plans to build a ‘Road of Death’ through Peru’s Amazon have been dealt a severe blow after authorities confirmed uncontacted tribes do live along its proposed route. This la ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • Why Does Canada Have a Strategic Maple Syrup R ...
    from theatlantic.com: Oh, Canada. On Friday, news broke that thieves had stolen stole $30 million dollars worth of Quebec's strategic maple syrup reserves. Yes, you read correctly. Much as the United States keeps a stock of extra oil buried in underground salt caverns to use in case of a geop ...
  • Why Half of America May Have Impaired Brain Fu ...
    from mercola.com: A new UCLA study is the first to show how a steady diet high in fructose can damage your memory and learning. The study was published in the Journal of Physiology. Researchers investigated the effects of high-fructose syrup, similar to high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a chea ...
  • #BingeAndPurge: Weather Wars, Steroids, Nugget ...
    #Geoengineering Could Turn Skies White: Scientific American* Video: Isaac Hammers Key West, Florida Social Spotlight* Video: CNN on Isaac + Cholera 400,000 Haitians At Risk* Bat Lyssavirus Fears At Bat House in Cape Tribulation* USADA strips Lance Armstrong of Tour De France titles, ...
  • Why have Antipsychotic Prescriptions in Childr ...
    from mercola.com: Most of the atypical antipsychotics were approved in the 1990's, at which time they were reserved for a very small minority of serious mental illnesses; primarily schizophrenia and bipolar disorder – diseases afflicting an estimated three percent of Americans. More recently, ...
  • Michael Mann gets four minutes for high-sticking
    from sunnewsnetwork.ca: Marc Morano discusses Michael Mann’s ‘hockey stick’ hyperbole and his threats to sue Mark Steyn for calling him a climate fraud. Related: The Climate Change Racket: Finally a 'day in court'?*New blockbuster paper finds man-made CO2 is not the driver of global warmin ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Economic Failure: 58 Percent Of The Jobs Being ...
    Are you good at flipping burgers , waiting tables or stocking shelves?  Are you proficient with a cash register?  Do you enjoy doing mindless work for very low pay?  If you answered yes to any of those questions, then you are probably going to fit in very well in the new U.S. eco ...
  • What Is The Best Place To Live In America? Pro ...
    If you could live in any state in America, where would you go?  During troubled times like these, what is the best place in the United States to live?  A lot of people are asking these kinds of questions these days.  Our economy is on the verge of collapse, natural disasters are ...
  • Obama Has Stolen $5.3 Trillion From Our Childr ...
    Barack Obama has destroyed the future of America in order to improve his chances of winning the next election.  Under Obama, 5.3 trillion dollars has been ruthlessly stolen from our children and our grandchildren.  That money has been used to pump up the debt-fueled false prosper ...
  • Is There Going To Be A Stock Market Crash In T ...
    Is the stock market going to crash by the end of this year?  Are we on the verge of major financial chaos on a global scale? Well, this is the time of the year when investors start getting nervous.  We all remember what happened during the fall of 1929, the fall of 1987 and the [...]
  • It Is Not Just Your Imagination – Americ ...
    Did you know that median household income in the United States is lower today than it was when the last recession supposedly ended?  If we are in the middle of an "economic recovery", how can this possibly be happening?  Stunning new statistics compiled by Sentier Research show t ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • The People's Memorial: 15th Anniversary Tribut ...
    As is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death. Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click on the th ...
  • Lloyds TSB running scared of lawful rebels?
    We have in our possession a letter written by Lloyds TSB, emailed in by a correspondent who claims that no enforceable agreement exists between him/her and Lloyds TSB - nor has it ever done. Neither, our correspondent tells us, does any contract exist. Despite this and despite our corresponde ...
  • 15 years on... we still miss you dreadfully, Diana
    Fifteen years ago today, our Princess - Diana - was stolen away from us; unlawfully killed in Paris. As each year passes, the external displays of grieving for someone we thought of as a friend diminish but this does not displace the internal melancholy at her increasingly noticeable absence ...
  • Quote of the Day: 29th August 2012
    "It seems that appeasing the childish tit-for-tat approach to politics that is the entire Liberal Democrat mindset has dominated [David Cameron's] thoughts for far too long. The country needs a full-time Prime Minister and not a chamber-maid for a marginal, irrelevant pressure group who have got ...
  • Discussion Thread: What is "English law"..?
    Sparked by a conversation on Twitter with our good friend gruffdiver, we would like to invite your thoughts on the following. We know that the Bill Of Rights is the benchmark of what is known as "English law". We also know that Scotland has, in many areas, differing laws and policies from ...

Facing South

  • UAW vs. Nissan in Mississippi: Operation Dixie ...
    When the CIO launched a campaign to organize Southern workers in 1946, the region's elite fought back by exploiting fears about race and communism -- and fear remains the biggest obstacle to organizing today, as the UAW's campaign to unionize Nissan's Canton, Miss. plant shows. read more
  • Will Latino voters fully flex their voting pow ...
    Latinos are a fast-growing electoral force -- but will they realize their political potential in November? read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The party conventions' extrao ...
    In light of planned protests, the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. and Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. will be taking unprecedented security measures. read more
  • Mysterious environmental disaster unfolding in ...
    Bayou Corne in Assumption Parish has been evacuated after a massive sinkhole opened up last week following months of mysterious bubbling, rumblings and a strong diesel smell. The community sits atop an old salt mine where companies including Chevron and Dow Chemical store gas products, and the s ...
  • Lawsuit seeks better regulation of oil spill d ...
    The unprecedented use of chemical dispersants following BP's Gulf disaster led to complaints of health problems among cleanup workers and local residents. A coalition of groups is now suing the EPA in hopes of spurring regulatory action. read more

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Google Not Only Uses Goobuntu, It Actually is ...
    Rumors about the use of Ubuntu inside Google is not new. Some say Google has their own version of Ubuntu called Goobuntu and they have it deployed in large numbers inside Google campuses. All such rumors can finally be laid to rest. Thomas Bushnell, the tech lead of the group that distrib ...
  • 20 Most Exciting Linux Games for 2012
    In terms of stability and flexibility, Linux blew away its proprietary counterparts a long time ago. What it sorely lacks is developer interest, especially in the gaming department. But there are signs of a major revival. To the delight of Linux gaming enthusiasts, EA started publishing games ...
  • How to Disable 'System Program Problem Detecte ...
    Ever since I upgraded to latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, this issue has been bugging me a lot. Every now and then, a notification pops up saying "Ubuntu 12.04 has experienced and internal error" or "System Program Problem Detected" without actually causing any real troubles. I believe this has everyt ...
  • Ubuntu App Showdown: 15 Hot Apps to Watch
    Ubuntu App Showdown contest was introduced more than a month ago by Canonical to encourage application development for Ubuntu in a big way. And the initiative is showing results already. More than 150 applications were submitted out of which, 133 has been qualified and made it to the final l ...
  • How to Upgrade to Fireox 14.0.1 in Ubuntu 12.0 ...
    Firefox 14.0.1 has just been released and since it is a major release, updates will be coming to official Ubuntu repositories soon. But for the impatient folks among you, here is how you upgrade to Firefox 14.0.1 from Firefox 13.0.1 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin". Insta ...



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